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Evening star., 1941-04-20
Mrs. Hervey 5. Knight, ST.,
Funeral Tomorrow
.t.cial Dispatch to The Star.

SLSclll DlSpAlCn W 3uc oI6i.
LEONARDTOWN. Nd, April ls.
Funeral services will be held here
Monday for Mrs. Annie Wilson
knight, wife of Hervey S. knight,
ST., and mother of Wilson H.
knight, Washington patent attor-
ney. She died suddenly yesterday
at her country home, Rosebank, on
Breton Bay.
The services will be held at II
am. at st. Peters Episcopal Church.
Burial will be at Oak Hill Gene
terry, Washington, at 1:30 pm.
Mrs. Knight had been active for
years in D. A. r. and Southern
Women Educational Alliance cir
cles in Washington and Evanston,
Ill.
Born in Washington, the daugh-
ter of Philander and Mary Wilson.
she was educated at Martha WASH
ington Seminary. She and Mr..
Knight celebrated their golden wed.
ding anniversary two years ago.
Additional survivors include
another son, Hervey S. Knight, jr.,
and one granddaughter. Carol Ann
Knight, both of Chicago; another
granddaughter, Suzanne Knight OF
Leonardtown; one grandson, Robert
H. Knight, and one great-erandson.
Robert Duvall Knight, both OF
Washington.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Hundreds Visit
Historic Edifices
In Alexandra
Godsby's Tavern Is
Most Popular Of
Structures on Tour
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. April ls-
Hundreds of persons visited old edi-
fees here today on the annual tour
of historic homes staged for the
preservation of interest in early
American life.
Such buildings as the Stabler-
Leadbeater Apothecary Shop. estab-
lished i'll 1892: Gadsby's Tavern.
where George Washington recruited
his first military command in 1854,
and the home of Supreme Court
Justice Hugo Black. added to the
city in 1765, were on the visiting lists
yesterday.
The eighth annual tour was spon-
sored by the Alexandria Association,
in line with the groups program to
preserve the historic buildings, an.
tiquities and records.
Visitors inspected the home of Col.
and Mrs. w. H. Peek. at Ala Franklin
street, originally one OF the most
famous taverns here when Alexan-
dria was busy river port.
The public also visited the old
Presbyterian Meeting House at 32l
South Fairfax street, built in l774 by
John Carlyle and destroyed in 1885
by fire. Side walls. part of the gal
lery and the badly damaged organ
are part OF the original church. A
tower, still standing, was added to
the structure in 1853 Tradition
says, and Alexandrians are quick to
affirm, that the building was a gath
ering place of patriots in the critical
periods of the American Revolution.
Z At the home of Mr.: and Mrs.
Charles A. Thompson at 209 Prince
street, visitors saw the residence of
DR.. James Craik, to whom George
Washington left his chair, desk and
fishing tackle.
The surgeon general of the Conti-
mental Army, in Revolutionary days,
lived in the house now occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Tolley at 2l2
South Fairfax street, one OF the
homes of the tour list.
Perhaps the high spot Of the tour,
and the most popular, was Gadsby's
Tavern, at the corner of Royal and
Cameron streets. Gen. Washington
dined often in its spacious rooms.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Why Must They Die? No. Is Dot: Oos Los. ' Y.o,~1 "-i

The place: Upshur street NV.
between Eighth and Ninth streets.
The accident: A 45-year-old Chi
nese was fatally injured when he
stepped between parked cars and
collided with the right fender and
hood of an automobile. He was
carried IL feet while the car Skidded
to stop. Taken to Garfield Hos
pital with a fractured skull, he
died about as hours later, on
April l6.
The time: 9:45 pm, April Is.
The weather: Clear.
The street: Dry, straight, level.
The vehicle: A 1897 sedan. Driver
reported speed at between 20 and
25; police said length of skid marks
agreed. Brakes and lights were
satisfactory.
The driver: A 23-year-old white
man who had driven for l1a years.
He testified he had one glass of
wine before the accident, but police
said he did not appear affected.
Driver said he saw nothing but a
shadow" appear from between
parked cars an instant before i'm
pact: that he applied brakes in.
stantly.
Coroner jury's verdict: Accidental
death, due to carelessness on part
Of deceased.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Half Of Flying Applicants
Accepted in Maryland
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 19.-Fffty per
cent of Maryland men who applied
for appointment as flying cadets In
the Army Air Corps this week were
accepted after passing an excep-
tionally rigid physical test, Sd Corps
Area officials said today.
Flying Cadet Week ended today.
A special board Of examiners was
in Baltimore to receive applications.
Hereafter, Maryland applicants may
report at Boiling Field, washington,
for examination.
Oficers said 40 per cent accept
ance was the average.
RICHMOND, Va, April 10 P.-
Incomplete reports showed today
that approximately IS Virginians
applied for appointments as flying
cadets during Flying Cadet Week" :"
1t. Col. Leland w. Skaggs, district
recruiting officer for Virginia, said
that the previous weekly average
of applications had been about 80.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Maryland House Tour
To Donate Part Of.
Proceeds 10 British
Seven Homes and Two
Historic Churches on
List for May Z Visit

The eighth annual MARYLAND
House and Garden Tour, which will
swing through nine historic Prince
Georges County sites OF May 2, will
devote portion of its proceeds to
British war relief, it was announced
yesterday by Mrs. Harold o. Knapp.
county chairman.
The British cause will receive all
proflts above the amount reserved
for maintenance of the old HAM
mond-H -Harwood house in Annapolis.
it was stated.
The tour will visit seven homes
and two Colonial churches. Motor
lists may follow markers bearing
green arrows by starting either at
the District line on route 224 or at
the Peace Cross in Bladensburg.
These places will be seen:
Belair, with its stables and box
gardens. Mr.. and Mrs. William
Woodward. owners.
st. Barnabas Church, built in l774.
Woodlawn, an imposing Greek re-
vival house. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Zantzinger.
Mt. Lubentia, built with a graceful
wide staircase before the Revolution.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bean Bowie.
Beall's Pleasure. constructed by
Benjamin Stoddard, first Secretary
of the Navy. Mr.. and Mrs. Brice
Clagett.
st. Johns Church, Broad Greek,
with a pew where Washington wor-
shipped.
Harmony Hall, where Washington
frequently visited. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles w. Collins. ~-.-,~ --,-. -
Oxon Hill Manor, a Georgian man.
sion with formal gardens overlook
ing the Potomac. Undersecretary of
State Sumner Welles and Mrs.
Welles. Gardens onlyD
Salubria, with family heirlooms
DR.. and Mrs. J. Breckenridge Bayne
Tickets will be so cents for each
place or $3.50 for all, and may be
obtained with guide books at the
Mayflower Hotel, American Automo-
bile Association, Washington, or at
any Of the houses visited.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Army Calling Decreased
Numbers From Nearby

Breakdowns for the latest nearby
Maryland and Virginia May draft
quotas show a decreasing number of
men being called from nearby
boards.
Baltimore city has been requested
to furnish almost two-thirds of the
SIG Marylanders who will be in
Quoted between May IL and Is. The
city will send 356 men.
Prince Georges County will pro-
vide 70 men and Montgomery Is.
In Prince Georges, Draft Board
No. will provide 13 selectees; No.
2, 40 and No. 3, 20. No colored Sc
lectees have been requested from
Prince Georges in the May call.
In Montgomery County, Draft
Board No. l has been asked to send
Is colored selectees.
In Northern Virginia, Arlington
County Draft Board No. will send
two se1ectees: No. 2, S; Alex
andria, s; Culpeper, 4; Fairfax, g.;
Fauquier, 8; Loudoun, S: Prince Will
liam, 3; Frederick. /; and Warren, /.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Silver Spring Doctor
Given Health Post
3, tht Associated Press.


CHARLESTON, w. Va, April 19-
Health Commissioner c. F. McChntic
announced today the appointment
of DR.. G. E Waller of Silver Spring,
Nd. as co-ordinator of the Charles
ton City and Kanawha County
Health Departments under an ex-
panded defense setup.
Dr.. Waller. who retired two years
ago as assistant surgeon general in
charge of States relation work of the
United States Public Health Service,
will report for duty Monday.
DR.. McClintic said Dr. Waller will
seek adequate health protection for
workers during mushrooming
growth caused by heavy building
program, expansion of the South
Charleston naval ordnance plant,
and the Kanawha Valleys vital
chemical industries.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Gifts From Notables
Will Be Sold for
Aid Of British
Auction to Be Feature
OF Garden Club Week at
Fredericksburq
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, April
ls,---(iifts from notables nre to be
sold during the revival of Frede-
rickburg's ancient Market Square
auction, which is to be a feature of
Virginia Garden Week, April % to
May 8, for the benefit of Bundles
for Britain.
Among the gifts are an auto
sraphed copy OF This Is My Story"
from Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a
small statue of Winston Churchill
from Gertrude Lawrence, with an
attached brass plate inscribed with
her name as donor, an autographed
copy of MY Memoirs" from Mrs
woodrow Wilson, a doll model of
herself from Miriam Hopkins and
from Basil Rathbone fencing glove
which he used in production of THE
Mark Of Zorro" and Robin Hood"
Daily Auctions.
! George Washington recorded max
ing a donation for building a mar
ket house in Fredericksburg. Later
his expense accounts show the pur-
chase OF a small article at "the auc-
zion in the Market Square at Frede-
rcksburg."
1 An auction by the Town Crier"
Is to be daily feature of the gar
den week event. Another feature
will be a revival of "Sukey Living
stone's Coffee Shop"
4 Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife of
the Vice President, is to be the
suest OF honor at a luncheon here
On May and will visit the various
4hrines and gardens
Duchess to Be Visitor.
/ Another visitor is to be the
grand duchess Of Luxembourg, who
will receive the keys of the city as
she passes through en- route to
Stratford, the Robert z. Lee BIRTH
place, in Westmoreland County
At Kenmore, historic mansion
here where Betty Washington Lewis,
sister of George Warrington and
wife of Col. Fielding Lewis of Revo-
futionary War fame, lived, the diff
ferent periods in the history of
Fredericksburg will be depicted by
costumed Mary Washington Col
lege students
On three afternoons young women
OF the National Dance Association
In Washington will perform the
ninuet on the Kenmore lawn.
Evening star., 1941-04-20

basement OF the Chevy Chase
womens Club Building at Connecti-
cut avenue and Dunlop street and
is open Wednesdays from 0 am. TO
noon. Persons able TO donate time
each week at the club or at home
are urged to volunteer.
Mrs. Edward G. Adams has been
elected secretary OF the club TO sue
ceed Mrs. T. Stanley Holland, who
resigned recently.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Chevy Chase Red Cross
Appeals for Workers

The Chevy Chase CMd) branch
OF the Montgomery County Chapter
American Red Cross, yesterday
issued a call for additional volun-
teer workers to aid in fulfilling
an enlarged workroom production
quota.
Mrs. E. Burton Corning and Mrs.
Alfred J. Steffen, who are in charge
of production, stressed that workers
need not be members OF the Red
Cross and that the only require
ment is that volunteers be able TO
sew or knit.
|, The branch workroom Is In the
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Marcantonio Cheered
In Urging Defense
OF Communist Party
New York Representative
Addresses 200 Delegates
Of Liberties Federation

An appeal to defend the existence
of the Communist party" and every
other minority party by Representa-
tive Vito Marcantonio, American
Labor, of New York was applauded
yesterday by 200 delegates to the
National Action Conference" of the
National Federation for Constitu-
tional Liberties.
The Representative told the white
and colored delegates that Mussolini
and Hitler rode to power" by per-
scouting the Communists and that
similar tendencies toward Fascism
are developing in this country" as
proved by the fact that only six
votes were cast against the resolu-
ton to continue the work OF the
Dies Committee.
Day by day" he declared. I'VE
are proceeding in this country to-
ward the establishment of single
political party. The Republican
party mas ceased 10 DC an OppOSltlOn
party"
Rights Held Disregarded.
The declaration that the rights
of Government employees are being
completely and utterly disregarded"
was made by Edward Scheunemann,
a Federal employe. chairman of the
Committee on Rights Of Govern
ment Workers. He denounced star
chamber proceedings" under which
a worker, he said, can be dismissed
on mere suspicion ofsdisloyalty. and
called the investigation of employees
records, instituted as part Of the de-
fense program. a witch hunt"
The charge that Henry Ford and
his agents are seeking to foment
race riot in Detroit to discredit
labor unions was made before the
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Arlington Civic Group
To Go on Air Weekly

President A. D. Adams Of the
Arlington County CVa.) Civic Fed
Grafton yesterday announced ac-
ceptance Of the invitation of Radio
Station WINK to put on weekly
broadcasts each Monday and the
appointment of Robert Plymale as
chairman of special committee to
conduct the broadcaSts.
Mr.. Adams will assist Mr.. Ply
male with the first of the pro-
grams, scheduled for tbs to 7:30
pm. tomorrow. The programs will
60 on the air at the same time each
Monday, Mr.. Adams said.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Grounds improvement
Campaign Set in Vienna
sn,cial niSnatch Ia The Star

Special Dispatch 70 Int otar.
VIENNA, Va, April 19.-Ayr Hill
Garden Club will sponsor q grounds
improvement campaign from April
% through April 80, with a prize
to be awarded the person showing
the greatest improvement in grounds
during the period.
Those desiring to enter the con-
test have been asked to get in touch
with Miss Helene Affleck. Members
of the committee besides Miss At
fieck include Mrs. Harold Anthony,
Mrs Albert Bird and Mrs. En-
NETT Miller.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Form Bureou Meeting.

Members OF the Prince George.
County MD Farm Bureau will
meet st 730 pm, Tuesday al ths
Upper Marlboro High School.
Joseph II. Blandford will discuss a
plan under which the Federal
Government will buy vegetables
direct from the producers for
troops at Fort Meade, Fort Belvoir
and Aberdeen
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Pupils to Give Operettu

A two-act operetta, "Penitent
Pirates" will be given by the pu-
pills of Thomas jefferson Junior
High School, Arlington, Va, Thurs.
day and Friday at sis pm. in the
school auditorium.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Manassas Gorden Club

MANASSAS. Va, April 19 (Spe-
ciaD .-Oficers will be elected At q
meeting of the Manassas Garden
Club Tuesday afternoon at the home
OF Mrs. Marshall Hayden.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
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Evening star., 1941-12-30
Arnold Studies
lLindbergh Plea
Active Duty

Air corps officials maintained
silence today on what action would
be taken on the application Of
Charles A. Lindbergh to be placed
on active service with the Army
air forces.
1t. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief
of the air forces and deputy chief
of staff, confirmed a report he had
received the application from Mr..
Lindbergh. who resigned has COM
mission as colonel in the Air Corps
Reserves last April after he was
criticized by President Roosevelt for
his isolationist views.
"Col. Lindbergh's action indicates
a definite change from his isola-
zionist stand" Gen. Arnold said,
"and expresses deep desire TO help
the country along lines in which he
trained himself for many years"
The request, it was learned, was
made in a brief personal note to
Gen. Arnold and did not follow the
routine procedure outlined for ap-
plications for commissions in the
Army or Navy. Officials explained.
however, that it was not unusual
for former Reserve officers to write
friends in the service of their
willingness to serve. II their serv-
ices are needed. application is made
formally to the Adjutant Generals
Office.
Evening star., 1941-12-30
Agendo Announced
For Ministers Meeting

RIO DE JANE1RO, Dec. 80 LPl.-
Mauricio Nabuco, Brazilian Foreign
Office spokesman, said today that
American foreign ministers. who
will meet January Is, will consider
first how to preserve the sovereignty
and territorial integrity Of the Amer
lean republics.
The agenda. he said will include
the following topics:
Examination of measures against
activities of foreigners which en-
dangered peace and security; ex-
change Of information on undesir-
able foreigners; study of measures
which can be taken now by the
American republics and which en-
visage attainment of common OBJ
jectives in reconstructing the world
order.
The second part of the agenda,
which concerns measures to
strengthen the economic solidarity
of the American republics, includes
the following subjects:
Control of exports Of basic and
strategic materials; agreements to
increase the production of strategic
materials; agreements to supply each
country with the imports essential
to the maintenance of its domestic
economy; maintenance of adequate
maritime transportation; control Of
the commercial activities of for
eigners.
Evening star., 1941-12-30
Envoy Called Home,
Argentina May Clarity
Stand Toward Reich
Meeting Of Cabinet Is
Expected to Decide
On Nations Position
By the Associated Press.


BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 30.-Clari-
fication of Argentina's somewhat
strained relations with Germany
may follow summons from the
Foreign Office here to Ambassador
Ricardo Olivera in Berlin to re-
turn to Buenos Aires, Argentines
said today.
Mr.. Olivera IVES suddenly called
home last night on the eve of a
cabinet session which is expected
to fix the position Argentina will
take at a Pan-Amer1can meeting
in Rio de Janeiro next month.
The Argentine government has
sought to maintain neutral status
in the war, but was accorded the
United States the rights Of nom
belligerent. involving especially per-
mission to refuge warships and
planes in Argentina without a time
limit.
Baron Edmund Won Thermann,
German Ambassador 10 Argentina,
has been the target of congressional
condemnation for alleged pro-Nazi
subversive activities. but a govern
ment spokesman declined to say
whether he, too, might be with
drawn.
It was not stated whether Mr..
Olivera, who, the spokesman said
was called Ito give an account Of
some phases of his mission" was
being called home permanently.
Evening star., 1941-12-30
Ten Men, Two Women
Indicted in New York
As German Spies
Two Former Army
Officers Among Those
Accused as PIotters
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30,-Six men
and a woman, including a former
German army major now interned
at Ellis Island, were named today in
an indictment charging conspiracy
to violate the Federal espionage law.
Five others, including one woman,
were named as co-conspirators- The
indictment was returned to Federal
Judge Henry w. Goddard
Those named were Kurt Frederick
Ludwig, Rene c. Froehlich, former
private in the United States Army
Medical Corps, stationed at Gov
ernorS Island: Hans Helmut Pagel
and Frederick Edward Schlosser,
both of Brooklyn; Mrs. Helen Pau
line Mayer, Karl Victor Mueller, a
naturalized citizen and machinlst,
and Paul T. Borchardt. former Ger
man Army major, a director OF the
German Institute of Egyptology
and an instructor at the Geographic
Military Seminary at Munich.
All except Mueller and Borchardt
had been indicted previously as
members of a spy ring of which
Ludwig allegedly was the master
mind. They we're awaiting trial set
for January IA.
Named as co-consplratOrs were
Lucy Rita Boehmler. 18; Carl Her
man Schroeder, a Miami, Fla, fish,
ing boat captain, both of whom
pleaded guilty to the first indict-
ment; Heinrich William Ernest Au-
gust Hillebrecht, now residing In
Germany. but who in the early 1930s
was an organizer of walking club
which was a predecessor of the
German-American Bund; Walter
Kurt Mayer, husband of Mrs. Mayer,
who left this country several months
ago for Germany via Japan, and
Ulrich Won Der Osten, former cap
tain in the German Military In
telligence Corps, who was killed by
a taxicab in the Times Square area
last spring.
The Indictment also named as CO.
conspirators unidentified persons in
Spain, Portugal, Shanghai and Ar
gentina, as well as unnamed officers
and agents of the German Reich.
Evening star., 1941-12-30

Another page In the history OF
the Pearl Harbor attack was made
public today when the Navy re-
leased extracts from the log of a
United States destroyer which shot
down six japanese planes during
the surprise raid.
The log reveals that the fourth
plane in the attacking formation
was struck by the destroyer and
others were obliged to drop their
torpedoes in locations where they
did no damage. The log entry was
timed at 1853 am, Honolulu time,
and the extracts released by the
Navy follow.
observed torpedo plane come in
from direction of Merry Point be-
tween navy yard and Kauhua Is
land, 80 or 40 feet altitude, headed
for battleship. About two or
three hundred yards from battle
ship, dropped its torpedo and hit
the battleship amidships.
Attackers Shot Down.
Sounded general quarters and
commenced firing.
Hit fourth plane coming In. which
Evening star., 1941-12-30
Winant Calls on Eden
To Hear His Account
Of Trip 10 Moscow
Observers Hint Briton
Is Convinced Nuzis Are
In Acute Difficulties

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec 30.-United States
Ambassador John G. Winant called
on Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
tonight to hear about his trip to
Moscow, the results of which some
sources regarded as so important
that a secret session of Parliament
might be called to hear them.
Some even hinted that the For
eign Secretary's observations in Rus
sia had led him to the conviction
which may be impaired to Parlia-
ment-that the German war ma
chine is in acute difficulties while
still facing the three severest
months of the Russian winter.
Mr.. Eden was expected to dis
close some of his conclusions In
broadcast next Sunday night (3:15
pm, Washington time).
Informed sources were convinced
that Mr.. Eden had brought home
good news from his conferences with
Joseph Stain and observations be-
hind Russias lines on the eastern
front.
They said the two leaders talks
were "of the frankest possible ma
ture," concerning the production of
munitions and equipping of Russias
reserve man power from a potential
big Allied pool
On leaving Moscow. Mr. Eden sent
Stain a message expressing his
conviction that the conversations
were ''of so far-reaching character
that they will strengthen our COM
mon war effort and so bring nearer
the day of final victory"
Evening star., 1941-12-30
U.S.. Worship Bogged 6 Planes
Durinq Pearl Hurbor Attack

was seen to crash in channel OF
Officers Club landing.
Machine gun fire on eighth plane
made it swerve to left, causing tor
pedo to drop and explode in bank
about 80 feet ahead of this ship.
No. l machine gun downed plane in
navy yard channel.
Third torpedo plane which was
hit was observed headed for two
cruisers astern. Plane went out of
control, dropped its torpedo. This
was about the 18th plane to come in.
Dive Bomber Bagged.
Next plane hit came over dock,
but was downed with short burst.
Torpedo dropped in lumber pile
and plane believed to have crashed
on dock.
Fifth plane brought down came
down on starboard side, nosed d.
rectly into air and spun into crash,
loosing its torpedo.
Sixth plane brought down was
q dive bomber during second phase
of attack and after torpedo attack.
This plane was shot down by anti
aircraft gun and those from other
ships"