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Evening star., 1941-12-07
Business Groups
Nine Associations
Plan Meetings

Nine businessmen associations
have meetings scheduled for next
week. They are:
Monday.
Brookland Woodbridge - Regular
meeting. 2OO4 Rhode Island avenue
NE. $50 pm.
Cleveland Park-Regular meeting.
Connecticut avenue branch Of City
Bank, 3401 Connecticut avenue NV,
BIS pm.
Southeast-Regular meeting, 314
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. BIS pm.
District Hairdressers - Regular
meeting. Mayhower Hotel. Connecti-
cut avenue and De Sales street NV,
9;15 pm.
Tuesday.
Connecticut Avenue - Regular
meeting, Mayfower Hotel. $50 pm.
Columbia Heights-Luncheon and
regular meeting. Sholl's Cafe, 1927
Fourteenth street NV. noon.
Wednesday.
Chevy Chase-Regular meeting.
Ho-Toy Restaurant, 5522 Connecti-
cut avenue NV. pm.
Thursday.
Northeast-LuncheOn, Continental
Hotel, North Capitol between D and
E streets, 1890 pm.
Central-Luncheon New Colonial
Hotel. Fifteenth and M streets NV,
1915 pm.
CALENDAR NOTES.
Conservation for national defense
and the difficulty of obtaining ma
terials seem to be the main reasons
none of the disbursements groups
are undertaking elaborate lighting
and decorating of the streets in the
various business sections throughout
the city for the coming Christmas
season Each group. however. is en-
couraging individual action and sew
eral have other projects under way.
Cleveland Park, under the leader
ship of Dave Sherman, is sponsoring
q Yuletide booth in front of the
Connecticut avenue branch of the
City Bank, 3401 Connecticut avenue
NV. This is being done in CO.
operation with radio station WINK
At the house, toys and other dona-
tions will be collected for the needy
and a continuous program of Christ
mas music will be presented. The
dedication and formal opening OF
the booth will take place during the
coming week
M. j. Blanke, president of Brook
land Woodbridge. is offering a $40
prize for the best window in his area
To be eligible for the award mer-
chants must have their display In
place before December 13.
Southeast will erect a number OF
Christmas trees in their business
district, according to Art Hartung
president, but, following the general
trend, will not attempt the elaborate
| setup Of past years.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Six Groups Aid
Christmas Drive
For Children

Eager to participate in The
Star National Broadcasting
Co. Warner Brothers Christmas
Campaign, which starts today,
six civic groups last week vot-
ed their support to the an
nual campaign to bring Christ
mas into the homes of children
whose parents cannot provide
it for them.
Acting before the actual start
of the campaign were the Asso-
citation of the Oldest Inhabi-
tants of the District of Colum-
bia and the Chillum Heights
and Manor Park Citizens As
sociations, all of which voted IS,
and Forest Hills. Randle High
lands and Washington High
lands Citizens Associa tions
which urged their members to
contribute.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Civic Problems, Civic Bodies
Utilities Teamwork Now in Prospect;
Zonins Restrictions Modified
By JESSE {. SUTFR.

The groups very busy past
with meetings Civilian defense
feature of of these This said indicate despite
the charge of apathy lack enthusiasm that there
siderable effort being
The Federation of Citizens Associations held regular
ing of which appears elsewhere The Star
today
The President signed the Control Act Tuesday and
1912 becomes the duty Of the
District Commissioners appoint the $500 administrator
The Commissioners expected act within
They claim have made commitments and are now
interviewing the candidates for the
regular District the House OF Repre-
sentaveS Chairman Randolph will try to obtain consd-
o bills the calendar.
S expected authorize of the Dis
through of 100000 from the contingent
the
Considerable difficulty being experienced in getting men to
positions the Metropolitan Police Department
recently authorized there Is
Competition defense industries makes difficult
available then the needed Investigations and ex
The required training which must
appointment will delay for months operation OF the
department full strength.
Evening star., 1941-12-07

bright lights section, patronlZed
by Youths and civilians during the
week and by uniformed men at week
ends. But each section has its
quota. A high police official said
the number of machines operating
in the Capital may run over 5000.
Many cases of children breaking
into parking meters were laid to the
lure of slot machines by Judge Fay
Bentley of Juvenile Court. In an
investigation she conducted some
time ago. she said she found the
chief motive of children brought be-
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Shepherds Of Bethlehem

Loyalty Lodge will meet at 7
Fourth street NE Monday at pm.
Second nomination of officers will
be held.
Trinity Lodge will meet Tuesday
in the same hall for second nomina-
ton of officers.
Justice Lodge will meet at 935 G
place NV. on Wednesday at 8 pm.
for nomination of officers.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Pinball and Slot Machine
Probe Started by Protests
Regulations Subcommittee and
District Attorney Conducting
Double. .Barreled Inquiry
By JERRY OLEARY, Jr.

baed investigation Of pnba and Otmachne devices IN
the Regulations Committee of the Commissioners
district ohehas resulted
number of protests against the
Socaled pennylandS Children
spending
schools Sometimes found
mid
Washington.
Largest concentration Of the machines the
Evening star., 1941-12-07
RoyoI Neiqhbors of America

Myra B. Enright Camp will meet
Wednesday at 92l PENNSYLVANIA ave-
nue. Sc. at 8 pm. This date has
been changed due to Christmas hol-
iday.
FldellS Camp will meet December
l8 at pm. at the Thomas Circle
Club.
There will be election Of officers
for each camp.
Evening star., 1941-12-07

in the work of the Washington High
lands Association.
Mrs. ingalls, proudly points out
that her husband was an outstand-
ing athlete while at college. having
been captain of the track team and
holder Of the 220-yard dash record
Upon leaving Billings Institute, he
assumed the responsibility from 1898
to 1889 of editing and publishing a
weekly newspaper, the Tribune, in
MeIette. S. Oak. In January, 1899,
Mr.. and Mrs. ingalls, moved to
Washington. where Mr.. ingalls, is
employed as a clerk in the Govern
ment Printing Office. The ingalls,
family now includes a baby girl,
Karen, a year and a half old.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
House DC. Committee
Reorganization in
Prospect Next Week
Meeting Scheduled Monday
Called OFF Because
Of Traffic Hearings

A reorganization of the House
District Committee is in prospect
next week. Chairman Randolph an
nounced today that the committee
meeting scheduled for Monday had
been postponed.
Representative Randolph said the
meeting had been postponed be-
cause of the hearings which will
be held during the week by the
Traffic Subcommittee The traffic
group is expected to prepare report
Immediately.
The District Committee will meet
February IT. and Mr. Randolph said
ne hopes by that time the traffic
report will be available for consider
alton.
Tax Group Head to Be Named.
The committee reorganization will
include the appointment of two Re-
publicans to fill vacancies. the nam
ing of a new chairman for the Sub
committee on District Taxes and
other subcommittee assignments.
Representative McGehee, Demo-
crat of Mississippi. will have first
chance at appointment to the chair
manship of the tax subcommittee.
The post was vacated by Represen-
tative Nichols. Democrat of Okla
homa, who accepted assignment to
the House Rules Committee.
Mr.. McGehee is row chairman of
the District subcommittee on the
judiciary. 1t is expected that he
will be given the choice of the two
posts but it is not known whether
he will accept the chairmanship of
the tax group.
Chairman Randolph returned to
work yesterday, having been in Flor
ida to recuperate from an illness
which has kept him away from his
Office for some time.
Three Bills Offered.
On his return, Mr.. Randolph in
troduced in the House three bills
recommended by the District Com
miSsioners. One would amend the
income tax law to include all per-
sons who reside here for six months
or more
Another would permit the I'M
limited installation of parking
meters. The third provides for con-
solidation of the Police and Munich
pal Courts into one court. Thus.
the present bench of nine judges
in the two courts would be utilized
to bring the Police Court abreast
of its jury trial docket.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
ELISA Landi Presents
Series Of Sketches

ELISA Landi. late of HOLLYWOOD
and Broadway yesterday opened the
Friday morning Town Hall series by
demonstrating her dramatic versa
tility in a series of sketches rang
ing from one showing the differ
ence between stage and screen act
ing to one portraying a boat load
of refugees.
The principal difference between
stage, according to her sketch, lies
in the fact that a two-word line
of stage dialogue requires 80 seconds
while the same line in movie making
takes 20 minutes.
A note of tragedy was introduced
in an impersonation of a German
refugee whose husband had been
killed in a concentration camp. Pre-
tending to enter the United States
sfter fleeing war-torn Europe,
refugee Landi cried out, Here one
is still free; here people still smile
and here there are no secret police.
THE progress of maidenly
modesty was shown in a playlet por-
traying a girl in love in 1000, 1860,
1913 and the present day.
From shock at the thought of a
kiss. a girl 300 years later demands
them.
The Italian-born actress will next
present her dramatic sketches at
Duke University on Monday, On
February Is she will appear on the
Il Am an American" program spon-
sored by the immigration and
Naturalization Service of the Justice
Department.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Grocer Robbed Of SIS
By Armed Bandits

Samuel Gotkin. groceryman of
1856 Third street NV, reported to
police that two armed colored men,
one with a handkerchief over his
face and a red feather in his cap,
held him up as he prepared to
close his store shortly after 10 o'clock
last night and took s75 in bills and
change from the cash register
The bandits, Mr.. Gotkin also
told police. took five packages of
cigarettes and warned him not to
follow them. The grocer had been
cautioned by a neighbor, Mrs. Ger
trude Kinloch. 1551A Third street
NV, who came in few minutes
earlier to make a purchase, that
two men were lettering near side
door.
James Herrod. 420 K street NV,
informed police he was held up by
two colored men near his home last
night and robbed of S18 in cash.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
U. s. Education Specialist
To Survey Britain S Methods

Robert w. Handbook, senior spe-
cialist in trade and industrial edu-
cation in the Federal Office of Edu-
cation, will fly from New York
Tuesday for three-month study
of educational conditions in Eng
land. The results of his findings
may affect the vocational courses
now being offered under the defense
training program here
DR.. Handbook outlined his pro-
gram of study at press conference
at the Interior Department yester-
day.
II want to find out what they are
doing and what they are facing
over there" he declared. You
can't simulate actual war conditions
over here"
British training of labor for de-
fense will be investigated particu-
larly and, he said, a continuous
stream of reports to United States
Commissioner of Education John w.
Studebaker will be made.
Training for fire protection, po-
lice service and nursing are on his
agenda for study as we'll as the
British system for carrying on pub
lie works and utilities. health service,
recreation, evacuation and other &C
tivitieS under fire.
Born in England. he has been
with the Office of Education for IA
years and has specialized in avia-
ton education.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Households Rise 1861
As Population Gains 7%
B, the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
Americas households increased
1876 per cent between 1880 and 1910,
while the population increased only
70 per cent.
The Census Bureau explained that
while the Nations total population
increased during the decade, the size
of the average family decreased from
Al to 38 persons. More homes or
apartments thus became necessary.
The canvassers listed 1886, 800
dwelling units" in the United
States. Of these 1,884O16 we're va
can't and for sale or rent. Sum-
mer homes and other places vacant
only for seasonal reasons were not
counted as vacancies. Vacancies
generally were more numerous in
rural than in urban territories, and
higher along the East and West
coasts than in the Middle West and
South.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Stellar Radio Program
To Open Fund Drive
For Greek Civilians
Broadcast onieht Storts
$4,000. 900 Compoisn;
CopitoI's Share Sl00, 900

A countrywide campaign to raise
sl0,000,0O0 for medicines, bomb
shelters and food for the civilians Of
Greece will be opened tonight with
one of the most elaborate radio pro-
grams yet to emanate from Holly
wood.
Washington quota in the cam
paign is 100000. and Stations VOL
and WRC will be the local outlets
for the entertainment program
which begins at 11:15 pm. and
continues for an hour and a half,
with Hollywood's brightest stars
participating.
Mrs. Beale Honorary Chairman.
Mrs. Truxtun Beale is honorary
chairman of the Washington Com
mittee for the Greek Relief Fund,
and the membership includes Mrs
Randall Hagner and many other
women prominent in the social and
civic life of the Capital.
Brief "cutins" will be made on
the radio program in Washington
to announce that local headquarters
for the committee have been estab-
lished at the Mayflower Hotel.
Leaders of the campaign pointed
out that the victories of Greeks in
the field against the Italians have
received more publicity than the
fact that the civil population is
suffering from the effects of nu-
merous air raids and shortages of
essential materials.
Colony Raises Over $50, 1000.
The comparatively small Greek
American colony in Washington,
estimated at about 1000 adults. al
ready has raised more than $50 900
for the cause. with contributions
coming from small restaurant men,
taxicab drivers, and peddlers, as
we'll as from more prosperous men,
bers of the colony
The America Calling" broad
cast will originate in the Chinese
Theater in Hollywood with Jack
Benny and Bob Hope as masters of
ceremony.
The entertainers will include Ann
Rutherford. George Burns and
Oracle Allen, Madeleine Carroll,
Bette Davis. Clark Gable. Charles
Laughton. Carole Lombard, Myrna
10y, Groucho Marx, Shirley Tenn
pile, Spencer Tracy and numerous
others.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Economist Loses Documents
At Aid Bill Hearing

Capitol police searched today for
documents and notes on world
revitalization plan which DR.. Wall
ter M. Kraus, New York author
and economist, reported had disap-
peared from beneath the chair in
which he was sitting at a session
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee last night.
DR.. Kraus. who came to WASH
ington to attend the hearings on
the lease-lend bill. said the papers
weres in a large manila envelope
and that one of the documents bore
at the top the address of a hotel
at which he had stopped when he
first arrived in the city. He is stay
ing now at 1922 N street NV.
The plan outlined in the papers,
he explained, is designed to ad-
just the worlds economic disorders
resulting from the present war. He
had hoped to outline it to the COM
mittee and said he had a copy OF
the principal document. but not Of
certain notes inclosed with II.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Photography Exhibit
Honors Are Shared

Harold Levy and John P Harris
shared top honors in the fourth
annual art and photography exhibit
of the employees of the Civil Service
Commission. it was announced to-
day.
Mr.. Levy won first prize in the
art division. Second prize will be
awarded to Richard E. Scneder,
third to Fred S. Kesiah. and honor
able mention to Miss Dorothy
Madert and M. Folstein. First prize
in the Photographic division will go
to Mr.. Harris. Robert T. Frank, jr.,
will receive the second prize, Mrs.
Lucy Hohenschutz, third prize, and
Mary Nelms, Marilla Smith. Will
liam A. Jorgensen, and Ismar
Baruch, honorable mention. The
Evening Star cup will go this year
to the winner of the third award in
the Photographic contest, Mrs. Ho-
henschutz. Other prizes have not
yet been announced.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Witness Draws Fine
AIonq With Defendant

A defendant and his principal wit
ness, who had appeared only to
testify. were sentenced yesterday in
Police Court by Judge Walter j.
Casey.
Calvin Chew, colored, the defend
ant, was found guilty on disorderly
conduct charge involving profanity.
Alphonso T. Edwards. colored,
Chew's witness, was found in con-
tempt of court for giving false
testimony in the case and sentenced
to pay a $40 fine or serve 20 days in
Jail. The sentence against Edwards
followed an investigation which
allegedly showed he was not on the
scene where Chew was arrested
after he had claimed he was there
and that Chew had not used profane
language.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Anne Lindbergh's
Book to Be Reviewed

The first of a series of book re-
views will open the Critics Forum
winter season at $50 pm. Monday
at the Mayf1ower Hotel. The Very
Rev. Ignatius Smith. dean of the
School of Philosophy at Catholic
University, will give review of
Anne Lindbergh's book, THE Wave
of the Future"
Representative Boland of Penn
sylvania will act as chairman at
Mondays meeting.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Pedestrian Hit
In Safety Zone
14th Fatality
Victim of Collision
On Baltimore Rood
Also Dies Here

Two more traffic deaths IN wAeh-
ington and vicinity, including ths
1<th for the District 20 far this
year, were recorded as a pedestrian
and victim Of an automobile soa-
lision succumbed 10 injuries carly
today.
The pedestrian. Harold p. John
son 81, OF Brooklyn, N. Y died IN
Georgetown Hospital at sos Of M
juries received when he was struck
by an automobile as he stood In .
safety zone at Twenty sixth street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV. Last
night In Casualty Hospital, Frank
Donaldson, IS, injured In q crash
on Baltimore Boulevard near Ber-
wyn, Md. yesterday afternoon, died
at $50 am.
Mr.. Johnsons death was the hTsh
that had occurred from traftc Ia
the District since January "a Only
five had been recorded at this Pc.
riod last year.
Herrell benson. as, OF Arlington.
Va, reported by police to have been
driving the car which struck Mr..
johnson, was held at third precinct
for the coroner.
Eight Hurt IN Collision.
Mr.. Donaldson, a fireman attached
to No. 13 Truck Company. was one
of eight persons injured, three seri-
ously, when two cars, one loaded
with eolored workmen from Fort
Meade, Md, collided head-on at
Stewarts Curve on Baltimore boule-
ward. His wife, Dorothy, "a, and
Wilson Payne. colored. of 81 Fenton
street NE. remained in a grave
condition at Casualty Hospital
Those less seriously injured were
Lila Lee Donaldson, year-and-a-
half-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
bruises; Eddie Sigh, %, colored. OF
1918 Ninth street NV; Artie How
ard. 80, colored of 935 R street NV:
Wilson Payne, Al, colored, of 81
Fenton street NV, and Roscoe
James. colored, of 593 Columbia
road NV.
Sigh. driver of the car loaded
with workmen, was taken TO Hyatts-
vile Jail and held under $500 bond
on charge of reckless driving.
Struck in Safety Zone.
Struck while standing in a safety
zone at Georgia avenue and Ken
nedy street NV, Stanley Lacey, 26.
of 5524 Eighth street NV. was
treated at Emergency Hospital last
night for leg and head injuries.
William A Bailey, 40. of 100 Madison
street NV. was booked at Sixth
Precinct Station on a charge OF
drunken driving.
Betty Ann Emerson. 10. OF Arling-
ton, Va, was struck by an automo-
bile as she alighted from a bus.
Police said the car was driven by
Mrs. Loren Pope, who was released
on her personal bond without charge.
The child was treated at Emergency
Hospital for skull injuries and
bruises.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Alexander Irving Dies;
Wilson Naval Aide

GREENVILLE Del. Feb. 8-Alex-
ander Duer Irving 81. retired Sec
retary of the Phoenix Assurance Co.
of London and naval aide to Pres
ident Wilson during the Peace Con-
ference at Versailles, died last night
at his home.
He was son of the late A, Duer
Irving and Ellen du Pont Irving Of
Irvington on the Hudson. N Y.
and great-great-nephew of WASH
ington Irving.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Catherine Cooper of New
York, two brothers and a sister.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Stranger Kills Man and
FIees; Motive Mystery

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. "a man
approached a West Fortieth street
warehouse platform last night and
asked which of four men unloading
a truck was Joseph Moran, Is.
II am" one said.
The stranger drew a revolver,
shot Moran in the head, killing him,
and then fled.
Detectives said they knew Of no
motive.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
RooseveIts' Failure
To Address Youth
AssaiIed
HitIer's Slogan Adopted
By This Administration,
Keynote Speaker Says

President and Mrs. Roosevelt and
National Youth Administrator Au-
brey Williams were criticized by
Jack McMichael, chairman of the
American Youth Congress, in his
keynote speech at Turner's Arena
today because they did not accept
invitations to address the youth
group as they did last year
He charged that the administra-
ton has adopted Hitler's slogan,
cannon instead of butter"
Four million American youths are
still out of work though in des-
perate search for jobs" he said
80 they take us away from what
jobs we have by putting us in con-
scription camps at s2l a month" 4"
Mr.. McMichael declared the
health of the conscriptive youth
'is seriously menaced by lack of
wholesome recreation. the organi-
zation of vice and prostitution
rings and the resulting spread of
Venereal disease"
Parade Planned Today.
Linking the entire administra-
ton with this trend, he suggested
that Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton agents in disguise" were the
only representative of the admin
istration attending sessions.
Objector Shouted Down.
The congress was thrown into a
quarter hour of turmoil at the
morning session by the continued
shouted protest of Joseph Lash,
past executive secretary OF the
American Student Union. and a
member of the congress cabinet. He
repeatedly demanded to be recog-
nized to present his objections to
the keynote address of Chairman
McMichael.
He told reporters he was a sup
porter of the lease lend bill, which
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Capital Hiking Club
To Visit Gold Mine

The Capital Hiking Club will visit
the ruins of old gold mines around
Great Falls. Md, tomorrow. A four
mile hike will begin at Sandy Land
ing Road, visit the abandoned mines
and end with campfire at Great
Falls.
Special buses will leave 14l6 p
street NV. at 9 am, and will re-
turn IN time for supper.