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Evening star., 1941-07-31
Sunset Symphony
On Radio onioht

A half hour of the last of this
season. S Sunset Symphonies by
the National Symphony OrcheS-
ira at the Water Gate tonight
will be broadcast over Station
WMAL. beginning at $50 pm.
DR.. Hans Kinder will return to
conduct this concert.
In arranging these broad
casts. the National Broadcast
ing Co. and The Star are CO.
operating with the Summer
Concerts Committee of the
Symphony Orchestra in an ef-
fort to further appreciation and
support of the orchestra in its
contribution to the musical life
of Washington. The broadcasts
are for those who cannot take
advantage of this opportunity
to attend concerts in a pleas
mtly cool setting.
Early announcement will be
made over Stations WMAL ana
WRC if inclement weather
forces postponement OF the
concert.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
South Will Prosper
After War, Virginia
Rural Group Told
Editor Tells Institute
Area Will Become
Heart of Hemisphere
By the Associated Press.

BY ltlt SSSbN4c ttu lt'S'
BLACKSBURG, Va, July 3l-
Having debated in some detail prob
lens of the war as they affect
Americas foreign markets, the In
stitute of Rural Affairs was told last
night that the end of the conflict
should see the South busy as the
heart of a hemisphere.
There are reasons to believe. >
said John Temple Graves, ID, Bir-
mingham editor, that the future
may be very much ours of the South
when this war is won right.
The an-AmericaniSm which IS
resulting from present history and
which is sure to result more and
more in the hemispherical econ
omy of years to come, is going 10
change dramatically the geography
of the South
We are going to be no longer
the shank of a continent but the
heart of hemisphere with a sea-
coast land surface and latitude serv-
ing the hemisphere commerce by
ship and plane, with chemistry null
tiplying here the great uses and by
products of our raw materials =,
with industry balancing agriculture
at accelerated pace to serve both
the Americas at once ="
DR.. Eric Englund of the United
States Department of Agriculture
will address the concluding session
of the institute tonight on the i'm
pact OF the defense program on
agriculture.
Carol Hickman of Strasburg won
the first prize of S25 in a sheep
shearing contest which was fea-
ture of the institute. He bested six
other contestants.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
N. Y. A. Rolls Will Be Cut
50 Pei. in Montgomery

Rolls of National Youth Admins
tration projects workers in Mont
eomerv County. Md, are to be cut
from 80 to AS by the end of this
week, it was disclosed today.
The cut was included in a general
order for so per cent reductions of
young people engaged on N Y. A.
projects throughout the Western
Maryland district.
A reduction in N. Y. A. enroll
ment has been ordered throughout
several States and the District of
Columbia due TO a reduction in
available funds.
Miss Bertha Katz. 1871 Holly
street NV. who had been retained
several months ago as N. Y. A
projects director for the county. re-
ceived word today she is being re-
tanned as supervisor of the project
in Montgomery County.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Arlington COP,
Nomiinates CIay
For Delegate
w. c. Ayers Chosen
As Candidate for
County Board

Arlington County Republicans
last night named Henry c. Clay,
attorney, to oppose Delegate Charles
r. FenWick. Democratic incumbent,
in the general election this fall.
At the county convention in the
Lyon Park Community Center, Will
liam c. AyreS was chosen against
Basil De Lashmutt, Democrat, the
only member of the Arlington
County Board who comes up for
reelection this year.
Mr.. Clay is native of Kentucky
years. Mr.. Ayres is traffic manager
of the Washington & Old Dominion
Railroad and has been active in
the Arlington Chamber of Com
merce.
Delegates were elected to the
State Republican convention August
% in Roanoke
Representative DirkSen. Repub-
hcan. Of Illinois spoke at the meet
ing, over which Lawrence Michael,
Republican county chairman, pre-
sided
Democrats Campaign Closing.
Meanwhile, the Democratic pri-
mary fight entered final stages with
indications of a light vote of from
10000 10 l75.000 in the Statewide
election.
Delegate Francis PickenS Miller,
candidate for denomination from
Fairfax County, issued a statement
last night reiterating his earlier
charge that his opponent, Charles
Pickett, intended, if elected, to in
troduce legislation to legalize pari-
mutuel betting in the State, a charge
that Mr.. Pickett has denied. Mr.
Miller claimed Mr.. Pickett had made
the statement in the presence of
John A K. Donovan, attorney for
the town of Falls Church, and for
mer chairman of the Young Demo-
cratic Clubs of the eighth Virginia
district, that he intended to intro
duce such legislation.
Moss w. Plunkett of Roanoke.
candidate for lieutenant governor
was scheduled to speak at 8 o'clock
tonight in the auditorium of the
Virginia Public Service Co. in Alex
andria He is campaigning on a
platform of abolishing the State
poll tax. enlargement of the public
school program and issuance of free
textbooks.
GOvernOrship Race Lively.
The three gubernatorial candi-
dates centered the activities for the
Tuesday primary in the 9th dis
trict. the scene of many warm po-
litlcal campaigns.
Senator Vivian L. Page of Norfolk
issued statement denying that he
was an organization" man when he
opposed Gov. Price for the nomina-
ton in 1887
Colgate w. Darden. jr.. also of
Norfolk and one of candidate trio.
was quoted at Martinsville last night
as saying we stood together four
years ago when Vivian Page was a
candidate for Governor and Page
was great organization man
Senator Hunsdon Cary of Henrico,
whose exchanges with Senator Har-
ry F. Byrd have enlivened the cam
paign during the past few days.
travelled TO Bluefield for a radio
address tonight.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Firemen S PAY
In Arlington
Raised $40
Action Retroactive
To July /; Board
Acts on Rezoninq

The Arlington County tVao
Board yesterday authorized a salary
increase of SO a month for the
county's paid fremen. on the rec
ommendatlon of County Manager
Frank c. Hanrahan.
The raise will give the firefghters
sl10. retroactive to July l.
The mems services have been
highly satisfactory, the county
manager declared and the Volun-
teer spirit has been maintained l
am glad to recommend that the
board increase their salaries
Is Men on Force.
On the Arlington County staff of
paid firemen are IS men who are
stationed, three each, at six fire
houses. Mr. Hanrahan added that
the county Fire Department is able
10 keep pace with the rapidly
growing population of Arlington.
The county board made the fol-
lowing coming adjustments:
Granted a request 10 change
property i'll the 900 block of North
Fillmore street from residential A
to local business Another request
in the 900 block of North CARRIED
street from residential A to resi-
dental B was carried over for so
davS.
Granted a request of George A.
DOWdtiI ana Mary l. DoWGen TO re-
zone property at 1850 Wilson boule-
ward from residential A to local
business: carried over for so DAYS
a request of William Z. Wolff to
change property in the 1900 block of
North Rhodes street from reSiden-
tlal A to residential B.
Neitch Street Ruling.
Granted a request by T. S.
Wilcher to rezone premises in the
500 block of South Veitch street
from residential A to residential B
granted a request by B. M. and
Howard w. Smith to rezone prop
erty in the 100 block of South
EdgeWoOd street from residential A
to general business.
Granted request for zoning
change from residential A to resi-
Dental B in the 220O block Of South
Twenty sixth street, excepting a
l-acre portion, which has been set
aside for an elementary school. and
zoned "a acres located in the vicinity
of South TWenty-siXth street and
South Glebe road residential B.
Three additional acres from this
tract already were designated resi-
dental B, where a new housing
project is being erected
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Committees Are Selected
By Montgomery Teachers
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

SpeIldl DISpdlIH " l Ilc DUAL
ROCKVILLE, Md. July BE.
Guy Jewell president. has an
nounced that the officers of the
Montgomery County Teachers ASso-
citation have selected committees for
the next two years.
The chairman of the Loan Fund
Committee is Miss Lillian Brown
and its members are Mrs. Gladys
Day and Mrs. Angela Darby. This
committee will have charge of the
loan fund. now approximately $1,000.
Other committees named are:
Civic-Owen Knight, chairman;
Harry S. Beall, Miss Wilma Wat
kins, Miss Maude Duvall. Miss Lyn-
da Carver, C. Merrick Wilson and
Miss Hazel Cough
Defense-E. NJ Douglas, chair
man: Raymond Dugan, Miss Ara
Lee Hicks. Mrs. Ruth Cue. Miss
Grace Alder and Mrs. Fern D.
Schneider.
Group insurance.. H. Evans,
chairman; Mrs. Ruth Clapp, Miss
Mary Fisher. Mrs. Dorothy Bur-
dette, Mrs. Antoinette McKeever,
Mrs. Dorothea Green and Miss
Dorothy West.
economic-ThomaS w, Pyle,
chairman: Maxwell Burdette, E. M.
Douglas. C, c. Cummings. Mrs. Mil
dred Smoot, Mrs. Helen Lyons, Miss
M. Morningstar, Mrs. Ruth Sessions
and Mrs. Mary Elgin.
Retired teachers-Miss Ravenell
Monred, chairman; Lester J. Welch.
Miss Grace E Roberts. Miss Virginia
Karn, M. Talbot Riggs and Miss
Helen Horton.
High school William
B. Marks. chairman.
Ele m en- tary principals-Mrs.
Louise Walker, chairman. and mem
bership, Mrs. Anna Rose, chairman
Evening star., 1941-07-31
20 Groups Ask Space
At GreenbeIt Fair

Harry w Rhodes has been named
chairman of the Planning Commit
tee for the third annual Green
belt Md town fair, which will
be held August %. 90 and 80.
More than 20 organizations al
ready have filed requests for ex-
hibit space at the fair.
Members of the Planning Com
mittee, in addition to Mr.. Rhodes,
are Francis Fosnight. Les Sanders.
c. j. Van Camp and C. R. Van
Leuven.
Special committee chairmen
named by the Planning Committee
are Don Kern. space; Bernard
Jones, finance: L. M. Pittman, deco
rationS: Donald H. Cooper. publ
city; Rolfe Sauls. entertainment.
Thomas r. Freeman, reception: J.
g Brown. contests and exhibits.
and Lyman Woodman, program.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Arlington Awards
Hioh School Contract

The Arlington County Vao School
Board has awarded a contract of
not more than S184,000 to c. E.
Nuckols Co. of Richmond for con-
struction of various additions to the
Washington and Lee High School.
1t was announced the contract
was awarded on a coSt-pluS-5-per
cent basis. The construction will
add three claSsroomS, a shop, a cafe
terra and a library, and alterations
to several locker rooms.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Legion Seeks Members
For GreenbeIt Corps

A drive to recruit members of the
Greenbelt Md Observation Corps
is being conducted under the aus
pices of the community's unit of
the American Legion.
DR.. James w. McCarl. commander
of the post, is heading the organi-
rational work, while George Pana-
goulis, safety director, is RESPONSE
BILE for personnel selection. Tenn
porary headquarters for the OBJ
servation post are located at the
firehouSe.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Rotary Affirms Support
OF University Institute

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, July 81 lPl .
-RotarianS of the 18th district of
the organization voted yesterday to
continue their support of the Rotary
round table at the University of
Virginia Institute of Public Affairs.
Speaking at a closing session of
the assembly of Rotary leaders from
Eastern Virginia, Virginius Dabney.
Richmond editor, said the institute
was a living expression of the
democratic ideal" for free discussion
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Connecticut Avenue
Paving Bid Rejected
BY the associated Press.

By the associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 31.-The State
Roads Commission announced to-
day it had rejected the only bid
received on a contract calling for
construction of a dual-lane concrete
highway along Connecticut avenue
between Chevy Chase Lake and
Jones Mill road.
The firm of P Reddington 81
Sons. Baltimore, submitted the only
bid, opened July % at the commits
Sions Offices
Commission Chief Engineer Will
son T. Ballard said today the COM
mission would re-adVertise for bids.
probably revising the specifications.
The project is O44 mile long.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Virginia S Draft Quota
For September Set
AT 1904 Men
Maryland Boards Post
Lists of 81 SeIectees
For August Coils

Virginia Selective service quotas
for September totaling 1,084 men
were announced in Richmond today
as local boards in Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties posted
lists of - Selectees who will report
for induction in August.
The Virginia quota for Septem-
Der will be ISL white and 1888 colored
men, but no notice of the dates on
which they will be inducted was
given. The States net quota will
be COL white and 233 colored Sc
lectees. but the larger figure was
set in order to allow for the inevi-
table percentage of reflections at
induction centers, it was explained.
With the September acquisitions,
procedure will be changed. The
Secretary of War will make a call
for certain number of men, after
which national selective service
headquarters will apportion quotas
to the States. Heretofore. the calls
have come from the various corps
area headquarters. In August. Vir-
ginia will supply 1856 white and l.
02l Colored men.
Health Officer Registers.
AT HyattSVllle. Nd, Dr.. John NJ.
ByerS, Prince Georges County health
officer, registered yesterday for Sc
lectlve service with Board No. /.
DR.. ByerS holds a commission as a
first lieutenant in the Officers Re-
serve Corps, but has been deferred
from active DUTY because "of his
position and is expecting to be
placed on the inactive list in the
near future. Since reserve officers
on the inactive list are required
TO register, he anticipated the situa-
ton by registering in advance. He
is married and has two children and
will be placed on deferred status
with the local board.
Meantime the county's Draft
Board No. , announced the names
of one white and II colored men
who will make up the boards first
August call.
The white selectee is Joseph w.
Vincent Bladensburg who will be
lnducted in Baltimore on August 7.
August IL Quota.
Colored Selectees who will be in
Quoted on August y are Bernard L.
Campbell, Jerome n Johnson. Cor
don D. Blake. Charles E. Contee,
Milton S. Jones. Kermit E Matthews.
William A Smith. Clarence L.
Fletcher Worthington McC. Mills,
Robert Selvin Butler and Joseph B.
MyleS.
Montgomery County Board No l
at Rockville listed the names of 20
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Dean to Take New Post

WAYNESBORO, Va. July 81
(SpeciaD Miss Elizabeth Brooke
Cochran, dean of Fairfax Hall Jun
ior College for four years, tomorrow
will assume new duties as alumnae
secretary and director of placements
at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass.
She Is a graduate of Wheaton.
Evening star., 1941-07-31

This is the saga of Jocko. sea-
going monkey whose love of free
dom was so great it nearly cost him
his life on the storm-sWept Potomac
River Yesterday.
Jocko is back in his prison today.
the United States Public Health
Service laboratory. slowing recover
ing from exhaustion and submersion
after three days of joyous freedom
among the sWaying willow trees of
East Potomac Park.
There wasn't a coconut in sight
anywhere, but still there was that
freedom which he fought so
gloriously to gain yesterday after
noon.
Ever since Jocko escaped from
the laboratory Sunday by pushing
out a screen, park police had been
getting calls of monkeys at large
on Hains Point Police didn't really
take these rumors seriously until
shortly after noon yesterday when
Officer Arthur Cook spied Jocko
swinging happily from the largest
willow tree in the park.
Leaps Foiled Capture.
Then the trouble began-trouble
not only for Jocko but for Officer
Cook. half dozen employees of the
Health Service and National Capt.
tai Parks and two young boatmen
who were on their way home from
a short cruise,
Three colored employees of the
Health Service who have become
adept at sharing escaped monkeys
from the laboratory took. turns
climbing the willow and shaking
long sticks in Jocko'S grinning face
Every time one of them thought
he had Jocko cornered, he'd leap
for another limb, and the chase
would begin again.
Then some one brought two 49,
foot bamboo poles from the golf
course and it appeared Jocko
wouldn't be able to jump clear this
time. But his eventual captors lit
tie knew how much Jocko valued
his newfound freedom.
After an hour of this, all hands
took time out for a breathing spell
All except Jocko who. in two bounds,
and a leap reached the ground and
made a perfect swan dive into
Georgetown Channel.
Jocko Treads Water.
Some one in the crowd, which by
this time had grown large, cried:
Save him, monkeys can't swim"
Well. Jocko not only proved that
monkeys can swim mean breast
stroke but can submerge and swim
under water in the best Weismuller
style Treading water well out of
the reach of three nets welded by
the Health Service men, Jocko was
causing a rift in the crowd.
There was one section of the spec
tators-lovers of freedom, too-that
urged him to set out for the Virginia
shore and a new life. Another in
sisted he should be apprehended at
all costs and returned to the labora-
tory for the sake of science.
Four times Jocko returned to the
seawall for a breathing spell and
each time he leaped again into the
channel when nets were swung over
him.
Officer Cook, with the assistance
of the crowd-those who were for
science-finally tagged down a
small speedboat under command of
Kenneth Phillips, Is. of Arlington.
Va. One of the Health Service
men went aboard armed with a
net. 1t looked bad for Jocko and
freedom.
But every time the boat ap-
preached Jocko and the man made
Evening star., 1941-07-31
A. V. Bryon Appointed
Mt. Vernon Visitor

BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va. July 31-Al-
bert " Bryan, Alexandria Common
wealth's attorney, has been notified
of his appointment by Gov. Price
to the Board of Visitors of Mount
Vernon.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
New Street Names
For HyattsviIIe Go
To Town Officials
-A,-
Changes Submitted
To Mayor and Council
By Planning Boord

Tentative new street names for
Hyattsville. Md, have been submit
ted by the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission of Mary
land for approval by the Hyatts-
vile Mayor and Council.
Last week new street names for
several other Prince Georges COM
munitieS were announced by the
Park and Planning Commission.
The tentative new street names
submitted for HyattSville are:
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Two Divorce Suits Filed

ROCKVILLE, Md, July 81 tSpe-
ciaD Lawrence A Gloyd has filed
divorce suit here against Mrs
Jessie E. Gloyd, asking custody of
their two children. In another suit
Mrs. Pearl Josephine Carlin asked
a divorce from Francis Gilbert Gar
lin and custody of their four chill
dren
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Missing Child Found

WAYNESBORO. Va, July 81
'SpeciaD Missing more than 20
hours IN the Blue Ridge Mountains,
the 18-month-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Saylor Halter of near
Sherando was found yesterday two
miles from her home.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
July, 1910
July s July l7IJuIy Is July %
Q . . .
In July. Beware Of:

In July, Beware Ut:
l. The hours between $3.50
and $50 pm. All four of the
persons killed in traffic in July.
1910, we're fatally injured within
this three-hour period.
2. Crossing a street at point
other than crossWalk Two
pedestrians met death by this
action III July last year.
The two other traffic victims
were fatally hurt while either
crossing a street at an uncon-
trolled intersection or driving
an automobile
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Named Reserve Officer

The War Department announced
today that Frank Bertram Essex,
jr, Silver Spring, Md, had accepted
appointment as second lieutenant of
the Quartermaster Reserves.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Club Chooses Chuirmon

LEONARDTOWN. Md. July 81
(SpeciaD Mrs. Clarence Bell of
Medley's Neck has been named
chairman of the Cedar Point Rural
Womens Club.
Evening star., 1941-07-31

Robinson. Paul H.
volunteer
Campbell. John H.
lvolunteer.I
Hug hes. Charles
King. Albert
Orange Reuben Mex
Thomas. Irwin S.
Hill. Robert j.
Joppy. Rhode NICK.
Joppey. Walter F.
Evening star., 1941-07-31

Hill Wilmore L.
Brown. Samuel o.
Dickerson. Charlie J
Willis. Harold S.
Genius. Adolph w.
Neal, William T.
Gibbs, Steven
Frazer. Arthur ].
Gather. Wilbur
p liner, Leroy A.
Martin. Richard E.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
Make July Sofer

Every blot is a District traffic
death. The toll thus far ex-
ceedS that reported here during
the same period last year. Keep
the July calendar clear.
Evening star., 1941-07-31
July, l94l

July 3 July s JuIy9 JuIyll July l3
July "A July 2o
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-26
Debt Costs Increase

Debt service charges are SEIZED.
uIed 10 increase from SIS, 309 00C
'his year TO Sl9.32l. 600 five years
from now.
Pension tt1StS arc due 10 increase
from 1853. 600 next year 10
S3s20.000 five years from now
according TO the bureau. However.
the cliy's pension experts say the
increase IN this item will be much
sleeper.
Finally the report points out
that the city has been eating up
a big back log of delinquent tax
payments during recent years
which accumulated during the
depression.
Current tax collections are ap-
proXlmately 81 per cent Of the
total levy 50 that during the next
five years the annual intake from
hack tax payments will drop off
from thep rsetn figure Of S7,i00.-
900 to $500, 600.
During the 1925 Detroit pre-
pared annual budgets with little
regard for the future. expecting
that growth of population and
wealth would answer all finan-
cial questions" the report states.
Spent Unpaid Taxes
During the 1905 II WAS ap-
parent that the expected growth
not only did not materialize but
dispersion of population in
creased the costs of government.
However,. the city continued to
spend its reserve of some $751;
10000 delinquent taNes with rare
abandon. accommodating by 1889 a
deficit of SI2, O00, 900.
Wi 1.-THE 1905 continue the
sequence-spending and then
wondering how expenditures can
be met:
The financial future of De-
troit indicates that only by care
full administration and constant
exercise of economy and good
judgment will 1t be possible to
operate the city government
without a burdensome tax rate.
THE prospects are none too
bright" a.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-26

More than 10000 March of Dimes
cards with slots for 81 in dimes
have been mailed out TO DetTolterS
Fifty per cent of the money
raised is retained in the county
where it was given. with the re.
mainder going TO the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
Abner +. Larned. chairman oil
the Presidents Birthday Ball com.
mittee in Michigan. predicted the
amount raised in the state thi,
year will be double the S55.124
given by Michiganders last year
I'm appealing to every in
dividual in Michigan to give to
this cause" Larned said. give
anything from a dime up.
Remember that LEO persons
In Michigan. mostly children,
were stricken with poliomyeliiis
last year in the worst epidemic
this state has known.
Perhaps with the aid of your
gift science this year will be
able to solve the mystery of
infantile paralysis and discover
some way to combat the Grip
pling virus"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-26
Ex-Lieut.-G
Stebbins Dies
Time. star Correspondent,

IONA. Jan. 25.-Allen (. Steb-
bins, who was acknowledgement
during the administration of Gov.
William A. Comstock. died in a
Grand Rapids hospital today after
long illness. He was 68 years
old.
He had brief but eventful two
years IN the limelight at Lansing.
serving during the hectic period of
bank holidays. mortgage morato-
RUINS and hunger strikes. With
the defeat of Comstock in 1884,
StebbinS Withdrew from the inner
councils OF the Democratic Party.
Stebbins entered politics in 1881
when he was elected mayor of
Ionia.
= Elected lieutenant governor in
the first Roosevelt landslide. Steb-
bins resigned the local mayoralty.
He served several terms on the
Ionia School Board.
The former acknowledgement
was an undertaken. He started
business here in 1921, moving from
Sheridan. Mich. where he also
was postmaster during the adj
mlniStration of President Wilson.
Funeral services probably will
be here Tuesday afternoon. Steb-
bins is survived by his widow.
Mrs. Myrtle Stebbins; six sons and
a daughter.