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Evening star., 1941-12-05
Court Fight Indicated
By Reserve Board on
D. T.. Tax Bill
$3,500,000 Structure
Listed for Auction Sole
In Effort to Collect

A court fight over efforts OF the
District Government to collect real
estate taxes on the monumental
Constitution avenue headquarters OF
the Federal Reserve Bank Board
was indicated last night by state
ments of officials of the Federal
agency.
For the first time in the several
years of controversy over the tax
issue, the Commissioners this year
have placed the s3,50O,OO0 structure
in the list for the "tax certificate"
auction sale scheduled to begin jan
uary 6. Decision revolves around the
question of whether the Reserve
Bank Board is, in the meaning of
the law, an exempt Federal agency.
Spokesman for the Federal board
said an injunction would be sought
by Mariner S. Eccles, Governor of
the Federal Reserve Board, or some
representative of the agency before
the so-called auction sale begins
January g.
The District has levied a bill of
S3l5,0l8 against the board for back
taxes and penalties. The property,
formerly in Federal title, was placed
in the name of the Federal Reserve
Board in 1897.
Evening star., 1941-12-05
independence Avenue
Extension Drawings
Contract Awarded
Controversy Still
In Progress Over Question
Of Bridge or Cousewoy

An official start on the extension
of Independence avenue S.W. be-
tween Fourteenth street and the
Lincoln Memorial was made today
by the Commissioner when they an
nounced an award of contract to
the firm of Modjeski and Masters
to prepare engineering drawings
and architectural sketches for the
project.
While the contract calls for a
bridge to complete the traffic artery,
District engineers said today a con-
troversy Is still in progress as to
whether a bridge or causeWay will
best suit all requirements. Compile
ton of the highway is regarded as
urgent to provide access roads to
the huge new War Department
Building under construction across
the Potomac in Virginia.
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission and the Ma
tional Commission of Fine Arts favor
a causeway. largely because of its
aesthetic value On the other hand
the engineers contend that bridge
would be more practical because 1t
would not need a large fill and would
not interfere with the utility func-
ton of the Tidal Basin in flushing
the Potomac Channel.
A. E. Demaray, acting director OF
the National Park Service. has ad-
vised engineer Commissioner
Charles w. Kutz the extension of
the avenue win neceSsitate removal
of the National Capital Parks con-
struction shops, propagating gar
oens and the White House green
houses from their present locations
in the Washington Monument
Grounds. Mr.. Demaray said a
careful study had indicated replace
ment of these facilities would cost
approximately 100000
The Federal official said operation
of these facilities was essential, that
the necessity for their removal and
replacement resulted directly from
plans for extending Independence
avenue and construction of connect
ing roads, and he requested funds
necessary for their replacement be
included in the estimate for the ave-
nue. extension.
To this, Gen. Kutz replied that 1t
was not feasible to include such costs
in the construction estimate. He
suggested the question be presented
to the Federal Budget Bureau.
Evening star., 1941-12-05

newspapers and magazines which
has been destroyed despite oppor-
tunities for their sale.
An instance of unsolicited CO.
operation was action of the Com
munity Chest publicity department
in turning over large stack Of
newspapers to Thomson School pu-
pills yesterday for collection when
the truck visits their school early
next week.
Miss Beatrice HodgSon. publicity
director of the Chest. said her de-
partment accumulated large guam
titles of newspapers from which per-
tinent articles had been clipped. 1t
was thought that these could be put
back to work through the campaign
as easily as they could be destroyed.
Separate Stacks Asked.
Here is how the plan works:
Children are asked to bring the
waste paper to school tied in
bundleS-newspapers and cardboard
separated from magazines, csta-
logueS and books. When the truck
calls on the day of the week speci-
fed fol a particular school. the
accumulation is weighed and receipts
given 70 representatives of the par
tlcipating associations. At the end
of each month. payment will be
made at the prevailing rates of
80 cents per hundred pounds for
newspapers and cardboard or 90
cents per hundred pounds of mag
azines and similar material
The proceeds will be used by the
associations for worthy projects.
Save waste paper for national de-
tense" is the keynote of the drive.
Shipping of defense materials re-
quires an enormous quantity Of
cardboard boxes and has caused a
shortage of waste paper. used largely
in their manufacture. The situation
in Great Britain is more acute, so
paper gathered in the present cam
palgn Will be used in the making of
boxes for shipments to Britain.
thereby permitting reuse of the
material there.
The waste can be reprocessed into
the much-needed containers within
70 hours.
Evening star., 1941-12-05

Final figures on yesterdays COL
lection of waste paper showed 300
per cent increase over the preceding
day and early reports on today's COL
lection indicate a still further gain,
it was revealed this afternoon.
Directors of the drive. carried on
under sponsorship of parent-teacher
and home and school associations. in
cooperation with The Star, were
pleased with the rising poundage
of material designed to relieve the
present paper shortage in the United
States.
Many families without children
in school have shown a willingness
to aid in the campaign Telephone
calls have been received by public
schools and The Star from a number
of childless residents anxious to
know how they could join in the
effort.
Those in charge of the continuing
drive announced today that a call
to any school building in the neigh
borhood is the answer Arrange
ments will be made for pupils to
call at the home or place of busi-
ness and bring the contributions to
their schools. There, it will be
placed with bundles brought by the
children from their own homes or
obtained through after-class solici-
tation from neighbors.
A dealers truck. equipped with
scale, was making the rounds of 80
schools in Division today, COM
pleting the first phase Of activity
in the campaign. Collections will
begin again Monday in Division /.
Sponsors expressed satisfaction
with early results, but were looking
forward to resumption of collec-
tions, knowing that parent teacher
and home and school units still were
in the process Of perfecting organi-
Zation-
Not a Competing Effort.
1t was emphasized again that this
effort is not intended to compete or
otherwise interfere with established
waste-paper salvage work. The
sponsors hope to reclaim a large
share Of the 80 to 95 per cent of old
Evening star., 1941-12-05
Artist Helen Durston to Sketch
CAPITAL Scenes for The Star
First Of Weekly
Drawings Will
Appear Tomorrow

Have you ever really seen Wash
ington-old city. new city, with the
pulse of life?
Helen Catch Durston. an artist
who lived here once as a high school
girl, has returned with a sketching
crayon in her hand. Tomorrow The
Star will print the first in a series
of her drawings to be published each
Saturday. They will portray drowsy
corners that you have perhaps never
noticed-and streets at rush hour,
as you have never taken time to see
them.
Mrs. Durston has come from Buff
falo, n. Y. where in two years she
became a familiar figure to-among
others-the police. This was be-
cause she would wander through a
neighborhood for days at time.
hunting for intriguing buildings and
views. An alarmed citizen would
call for investigation Of this "sus-
picious" behavior.
Station Wagon Is Studio.
She never was required to post
bond, because she was quickly rec
ognized as the artist who made
weekly pictures for the Buffalo Eve
ming News. Sketching from the
street during warm days, and from
the window of barber shop or a
cleaning establishment when it was
bitter cold, she revealed nearly every
corner Of that city, working quickly
at times to beat her headlines.
In the Capital, a station wagon
is Mrs. Durston's studio. She drives
till she finds her subject. then moves
to specially constructed seat, and
sketches what she sees from the
rear and side windows. She holds
paper in her lap. and works with
lithograph crayon. about the size
Of an ordinary pencil. If her crayon
should slip, knife must be used to
erase the mark.
Maybe you think nobody has worse
parking trouble than you do. Well,
Mrs. Durston has Satisfied with
nothing less than the curb spot that
will give her a perfect view, she
waits hours sometimes before it Is
vacated and she moves in. Her car
Is equipped with a heater. which
she turns on while she draws, and
a radio, which she turns of.
Native Of Iowa.
The artist was born in Des Moines,
Iowa, and moved to Boston when
she was 4. She came to Washing
ton to enter Central High School,
where she took art lessons for four
years, somewhat against her will
Her father was determined she
should be an artist and, later. she
shared the ambition. She studied
with the Art Students League, New
York, then probed architecture and
architectural decoration in Paris.
She sketched in English galleries.
For the last seven years she has
been drawing the American scene,
discovering the character of build
ings, landscapes and human figures
through the East and in such South
ern cities as Savannah and Charles
ton. Last summer she Sketched up
per New York and Canada along
the Niagara frontier. She is col
lector" of old houses, continually on
the search for those whose historical
interest or architectural dignity she
may preserve in her sketch book.
Her home here is at 2035 H street
NV.
Evening star., 1941-12-05
.HouseUnit 0.K.s
Bill 10 License
Fund Solicitors
Stefon's Measure Lets
City Heads Control
Charity Campaigns

The House District Committee to-
day ordered a favorable report on a
bill giving the Commissioners au-
thority to license and control organ
izations or individuals engaged in
solicitation of funds for charitable
purposes.
Action was taken after Represent
ative Stefan, Republican, Of Ne
braska, sponsor Of the legislation,
told the committee it is needed ito
protect the public against charitable
racketeering."
The Commissioners gave their un-
qualified Endorsement to the bill and
pointed out in letter 1t would fill
a long-felt need"
Young Supports Plan.
Commissioner John Russell Young
personally added that no person or
organization with charitable pur-
pose" could object to the plan set
up in the measure for controlling
charity solicitations.
Il have received many complaints
that Washington is filled with peo-
pie exploiting charity declared Mr..
Stefan.
The general public has very little
information about their activities.
1 could cite many illustrations of
charity rackets here, and cases in
which charity promoters left other
cities to come here because of laxity
In present laws.
Annual Fee Set at S..
Il believe Washington should set
some standard to govern collections
for charity. and believe my bill will
do that, and also place a safeguard
around the public against such
racketeering."
Before approving the bill the
committee, at the insistence Of Rep
resentative d'Alesandro. Democrat,
of Maryland. adopted an amend
ment fixing the license fee OF Or
carnations and individuals author
lied to solicit funds for charity at
IS year. The bill in its original
form provided an annual fee OF S25.
Evening star., 1941-12-05
Police Ordered to Fire
On Window-Peepers
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER. Va, Dec 5.-Police
Chief C. w. Hollis has posted orders
for patrolmen to use their guns on
window peppers or men molesting
women on the street, if arrests can
not be made otherwise.
Complaints have been received
over a long period. police said.
Il assume responsibility for this
order and expect it to be carried out
implicitly" said Chief Hollis of his
shooting instructions.
Evening star., 1941-12-05
Three Hurt, One Seriously,
In Nearby Traffic Mishaps

Three persons were injured, one
seriously. in traffic accidents in near
by Maryland and Virginia yesterday
and early today.
Most seriously injured was Harold
A. Gardner. 18, of 423 Newcomb
street Sc. who was taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital by the Bladensburg
Rescue Squad after an accident in
College Park. Md, early today. He
was suffering from a fractured leg,
possibly a fractured skull and severe
cuts and bruises. Prince Georges
County police were investigating the
accident.
Nine-year- old Daniel Westland of
Capitol View, Md. was taken to
Washington Sanitarium in Takoma
Park, Md. yesterday by the Silver
Spring Rescue Squad after he was
struck by bicycle on Georgia
avenue near the Woodside Meth
odist Church. He sustained broken
right leg.
H. H. Moore, Al. of the first block
of Third street Sc, was injured
when a car in which he was riding
with w. R. Wilbon, %, of Alexandria,
Va, was in collision with n truck
operated by r. w. Ballard, ID, OF
Arlington, at King and Henry
streets, Alexandria. today, police re-
ported. He was taken to Alexandria
Hospital. where his condition was
mt helieved serious
Police listed the driver OF the au-
tomobile as Walter H. Johnson, Is,
of 40 H street S.W.
Another woman pedestrian was
injured today when car skidded on
wet pavement in the 300 block OF
New Jersey avenue, police reported.
Miss Florence G. Plummer 54, col
ored, of 4340 Douglas street NE,
suffered abrasions when the car
struck her.
The driver was listed as John R.
Gould of KensingtOn, Md.
Evening star., 1941-12-05
-Four Big Road Jobs
Will Be Under WAY
Here by Early Spring
Access TO Virginia
War and Navy Buildings
To Be Facilitated

Work on four local highway prof.
ects to handle traffic TO and from
the new War Department Building
in Arlington County will be fully
under way by early spring, District
Highway Director H. C. Whitehurst
revealed today
The four are the s2,20O000 ele-
vated "freeway' along K street NV,
between Rock Greek and Key
Bridge: the huge grade separa-
tion structure at Fourteenth street
and Maine avenue S.W: widening
Of Twenty third street NV, and
widening and extension of Inde-
pendence avenue SW. from Four
teenth street TO Lincoln Memorial
Circle.
Easily the most important of the
four, the "freeWay' is scheduled to
be completed by December of next
year. Preliminary plans, first draw
ings on which were released last
night. show a gently-curving sky
road" along the water front on X
street.
To Run Under 18th Bridge.
Capt. Whitehurst said the struc-
ture will be of masonary and steel
and will be of a design similar to
other modern highway construc-
ton in Washington. Its east end
will begin at the new span across
Rock Creek at Potomac Parkway
originally designed to become part
of the elevated. Road surfacing
will be of concrete.
K street traffic will be enabled
to bypass congested streets in
Georgetown by using the 'freeWay.' >
which will pass under Key Bridge,
with ramps affording access TO the
bridge or TO travel either east or
west along M street.
All indications are that the ele-
waited will be regarded as Federal
aid project, with at least major
proportion of the cost financed by
the Public Roads Administration.
Projects Speeded Up.
With the Navy Department
Office building across the river
already completed and the War De-
partment structures rapidly rising,
plans on the four highway projects
have been hastened. All are de-
signed to help eliminate traffic jams
at the bridges affording access to
the new buildings.
Crews already are at work on
certain details of the grade-separa-
tion structure at Fourteenth street
and Maine avenue. Capt White
hurst said he hoped all the four
projects would be at full speed by
March or early April.
Evening star., 1941-12-05

tary of the Board of Trade, pointed
out that at a previous hearing the
organization suggested limiting the
tax exemption for outside buses to
20 days, explaining the board did
not want to discourage tourist travel,
to place District sightseeing opera
tors at a disadvantage in taxation.
He said the board had not passed
on the new suggestion to limit the
exemption to school children, but he
thought it would be acceptable.
Senator Burton took the issues
under advisement.
Evening star., 1941-12-05
Wotson to Be Speaker

RICHMOND, Va. Dec 5 tP.-
Maj. Gen. Edwin M Watson, mill
tary aide and secretary to President
Roosevelt, will be the speaker at
the Bill Of Rights sesquicentennial
celebration at the State Capitol De-
cember Is.
Evening star., 1941-12-05
Toll in Previous Months.

In December, Beware Of:
/. The hours between S and
10 pm. Ten Of the 13 traffic
victims in December last year
were killed within this five-
hour period.
2. Crossing a street at some
point other than q croSswalk.
Three pedestrians lost their
lives in December, 1910, while
doing this.
Evening star., 1941-12-05
American Dies in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Dec. (P).-Felix
P. Donnelly Of Akron, Ohio, manager
OF the Goodyear Rubber Co.'S Singa-
pore branch. died last night of in
ternal injuries suffered in fall in
his home.
Evening star., 1941-12-05
PIT. A. to Sponsor Show

The Parent-Teacher Association
OF Stonewall Jackson School will
sponsor a minstrel show at the
Claude A. Swanson Junior High
School, $500 North Washington
boulevard, Arlington, Va, at o'clock
tonight.
Evening star., 1941-12-05

Phyllis Ctrnbaum 6yearod pupil at the Thomson School,
will need than to take this pile of
her classroom they be included the waste
paper collection campaign They turned her
terday by the Community Chest through Mrs. Rita Robins
gh secretary Of the Chest publicity department. who had
clipped from them all stories the annual welfare drive
Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1941-12-05

Belfast, Northern Ireland, recently
held a Blood TRANSMISSION Week.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-06-05
College Park
Special
By Elsie White Haines

Well girls, though it is not quite
time to get on board, it is time to
buy your tickets for the Rural
Women's Short Courses at College
Park! You must register with
your County Home Demonstration
Agent this week if you don't want
to be left behind.
Of course most OF you have
heard of this wonderful week rural
women may have at the University
of Maryland, June 16 to 20, inclu-
sive, week of classes, community
sings, lectures, social and recrea-
tional events, and, best of all, the
incest of meals" without a
thought as to what you are to
have = or who is to wash the
dishes!
Last year there were over nine
hundred women there for the week,
with all the counties of the State
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represented. We were SO impressed
with their happy, smiling faces,
and loved the friendly way they
asked "What County are YOU
FROM"
For many of us it was our
freshman" year. We met some
of you in public speaking and
clothing classes. We smiled to-
gether when little Miss Rooney
1--WE hoped her name was Annie
but she said it was Minnie) told us
she was from Cecil County, was a
hair dresser, had listened to women
talk for fifteen years, and now
wanted to learn how to do some
talking herself.
How we enjoyed the women in
that class, especially ten ones from
Howard, Baltimore, Carroll and
Montgomery counties. They al
ways have so much in common.
Remember Fiesta night? How
We watched together, with fears in
our eyes and lump in our throats
that just could not be swallowed.
while the various County groups
portrayed England, France, the
1
low Countries" then being in
vaded. While Hartford County was
doing the Wooden Shoe Dance to
the tune of Clippity Clop, Howard
represented England and did the
Morris Dance gracefully. Mrs.
Margaret Rossing's solo, ia Pa
loma," for Baltimore County; the
Montgomery women selling ice
cream and shivering in the cold
night breezes.
Remember, too, how we sang
America, The Beautiful" and "God
Bless America" every time we got
together, and how poor Mr.. Ran
dali worked to get us to put the
proper "pep" in "The More We Get
Together? Did you know that
Mr.. Randall loves pickle? We
bribed him to come to Montgomery
for our spring meeting. with the
promise of a jar of mustard pickle
and bit of old-time watermelon
rind!
Which reminds us that the foods
and nutrition classes are sure to
be popular this year. Women's
Clubs, women in all walks of life.
are going in strongly for Defense,
with nutrition as the first line.
Nutrition talks and the prepara-
ton of low cost meals are not new
to rural women. With their Coun-
lty Home Demonstration Agents
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combination as the answer to low
income and relief problems" But
how to get those folks on bit of
land - and how to persuade them
to work it - is something he left
for us to work out.
We almost forgot to tell you
that the short course week was es-
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tabhshed 20 years ago; that Miss
Venia M. Kellar, assistant direc-
tor of the extension service has
headed it all these years; that last
year there were present six women
who had attended every year,
three of them were from Mont
gomery.
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the old water mills went out of
action. Lots of old-time foods are
coming back. We hear that even
the lowly "pot Ticker" is due for a
revival.
By the way, we recently heard
DR.. McCollom say, Nothing can
beat the cow, sow, hen, garden
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they have studied the subjects for
years. This year, under the sched-
ule of DIR. E. v. McCoHom, they
have learned to use the wheat germ
for that vital and hard-to-get vita
min B1. Used as a breakfast ce-
real or added to bread, it gives
something we have not had since
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Modern Me With tn eeaseless hurry
md worry. irregular habits, improper
seting and drinking, exposure. ecntagiou
Evening star., 1941-01-19
Units in Inaugural Parade
Procession Will Stort From Capitol Grounds
At las O'Clock Tomorrow Afternoon

The inaugural parade will leave the Capitol grounds at las I'm
right
Fifteenth thence Pennsylvania
Seventeenth
Units in the order of march which according to Army oa will
@ have been follows
Metropolitan police
Grand marshal section: Grand marshal Gen George Marshall
chief Army: Brig N.
Cox District National Guard Capt Jules James N Col Pedro
Del Vale Col Claude M Adams. u A Wil
the chief United bugler and ordere
escort for grand marshal; cavalry detachment G H Q
irst
Marshas section Marshal Melvin c. Hazen Commissioner the
Columbia Chairman Governors Committee Max
Gardner; Walker U.
Morgan, civilian aide
Army
Commissioners Columbia
parties ratification of by
Second Division
Marshal Henry c. U. A.
A, Col Augustus M
G. John ondrck adedecamp Major generals
flag Buger and two orderlies
coors ranks each.
guard the right of each color
Corps
Battalion, Corps Cadets.
Battalion of midshipmen United Naval Academy.
Battalion United States Coast Guard Cadets.
Band Sd Cavalry mounted 1st Squadron Sd Cavalry Battery
c. 55h Field Artillery
Band 18th Infantry Composite infantry
18th Infantry One rifle 44h Division rife company
Infantry
One provisional battalion, United Corps
battalion of bluejackes. United States Navy.
United landing beach
apparatus.
National Administrations company. Youth
Administration.
Company Civilian Conservation Corps
Company Works Progress Administration.
Third Division
bat, alion
lst Amoed Regiment battery 9th Division l55
howitzer battery. 2l3th Coast Artillery (AN Regiment