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Evening star., 1941-08-11
procope Says Films Fight
Russia in SeIf-Defense
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
PURCELLVILLE, Va. Aug. IL
Hjalmar j. Procope, Minister of
Finland to the United States. de-
clared yesterday Finland is fighting
against Russia only and is no party
to the main European struggle.
Speaking at a community meeting
in the Purcellville Library he blamed
Russia for starting the second Russo
Finnish war and said the Soviets
bombed Finnish territory only few
hours after the Germans invaded
Russia. Despite that fact, he said,
Finland did not take up arms then.
He declared the Firms resisted only
after an all-out attack by Red
forces.
The Minister claimed that all Of
Finland's efforts after the armistice
with Russia in 1910 were for recon-
struction and rehabilitation, not for
revenge. Describing Finland's policy
before the Finnish Russian war of
1939-40 as one of neutrality, he said
her present stand was one Of self
defense.
"It is now known to all the world
that Molotov RUSSIAN Foreign
Minister) last November announced
to Germany the Russian Communist
governments wish to strike a final
blow at Finland and liquidate us"
he concluded.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Democratic Farley
Iqnores Local Affairs
To Back j. ). Policies
Most Resolutions Voted
At Charlottesville Center
On National Defense
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Aug.
ll.-Evidence that the Young Dem
ocratic clubs of the 9th District of
Virginia stand solidly behind the
administrators foreign policy and
defense program was the high light
of the district convention that closed
Saturday night.
Aside from single resolution in
dorsing the candidates. of all Demo-
cratic nominees for State or county
Offices, all other resolutions were
concerned with some phase of de-
fense or foreign policy.
One resolution expressed conven-
ton Endorsement of the foreign
policy of the Government; another
approved conveying of vessels car
rying war material to countries op-
posing the Axis; one offered the fa-
cilitieS of the organization to the
program of the Northern Virginia
Defense Council. and another voiced
strong approval of the administra-
tions effort for solidarity among the
republics of this hemisphere.
In both the keynote speech of
the afternoon session by Delegate
Charles r. Fenwick of Arlington and
the evening address by Representa-
tive Smith, the need for complete
unity was emphasized.
The convention was marked by
the absence of discussion of matters
of State or local nature of the type
that have held the spotlight in
previous district sessions.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Montgomery Girl, 7,
Dies Of Spotted Fever

A victim of Rocky Mountain
spotted fever, Dorothy Ann Lewis,
7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Philip Lewis. Old George
town road, near Bethesda, Md, died
Saturday at the Montgomery County
General Hospital.
The child was a pupil at Alta
Vista School, Besides her parents,
she is survived by two sisters, Edna
May and Ethel Marie, and a brother,
Philip Elmer.
Funeral services will be held at
1890 pm. tomorrow at the Warner
E. Pumphrey funeral home, 8434
Georgia avenue, Silver Spring, Md.
Burial will be in Lignum, Va.
DR.. v. L. Ellicott, county health
officer, said the death was the second
reported from spotted fever in the
county this year. A third victim
of the disease was reported recently,
but is believed recovering, he said
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Alexandra Preparing
For leqion Convention
B. a Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Aug. 1.-THE
Convention Committee of the Alex
andria American Legion Post "a will
meet tonight at Gadsby's Tavern to
complete final plans for the annual
convention of the Virginia State
American Legion. to be held there
August Is through August 20.
approximately $500 members of
the Legion and its affiliated organi-
cations are expected to attend the
conclave and an elaborate business
and entertainment program is being
drafted by F. Clinton Knight, gen.
eral chairman of the convention.
A musical and military competi-
ton at the George Washington High
School stadium is expected to draw
more than 10000 spectators next
Monday.
The Virginia Department of the
Legion Auxiliary and the Society
of the Forty and Eight will hold
separate business meetings. Joint
entertainment programs have been
planned, however.
On Tuesday afternoon all units
will participate in parade through
the streets of Alexandria. Business
sessions will continue through
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Edward F. Pierce, Jr.,
Dies in ARLINGTON

Edward Franklin Pierce, jr., 43,
of 3340 Chesterbrook road. Airing
ton, manager of the Noland Plumb
ing g. Heating Co., died yesterday
at his home.
He was born in Melrose, Mass,
and was graduated from the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology in
1919. He was a member of Theta
Xi Fraternity, and was a Shriner,
32d degree Mason, member of the
Washington Golf and Country Club
and of the First Congregational
Church in Washington.
He leaves his wife, Mrs Barbara
Wilder Pierce; two daughters, Nancy
and Polly Pierce, and a sister, Mrs.
Lewis H. Keith of Boston.
Funeral services will be held at
1890 am tomorrow at the Hines
funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV. He will be buried in
Boston Wednesday.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
| % Wives Take
ThenAnnuoIT Tnp
Minus Husbands
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Aug 11.-If a wan
dering or perhaps lonesome hubby
wants to break up the annual sum-
mer excursion or the Put Your
Husband in His Place" Club he'll
have to travel all the way to Miami.
Thirty-three gayly attired wives
left here yesterday for Miami on
their annual get away from the
old man" trip after putting on an
impromptu entertainment and mu-
sical program at the railroad sta
ton for the husbands they left
behind.
For IA years they had been going
each summer to Atlantic City for
a Today trip. One year, however,
one of the husbands blew in on the
party and broke up the celebration.
Atlantic City is too close to Balti-
more, the wives decided-thus it's
been Miami the last couple of years.
The women were attired in cos
TUNES of the gay COS or any old odds
and ends they could drag out of
closets and attics when they boarded
the train yesterday.
The train finally pulled out five
minutes late to the tune of Hail,
Hail, the Gangs All Here"
Evening star., 1941-08-11
29th Division Inspection
BEGUN al Fort Meade
Ry the Associated Press.

BY tDe hSSOClAteQ fTeSS.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE. Md,
Aug. n.-Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reck-
ord, commander of the 29th Division,
and a committee of five staff off,
GERS set out today to determine just
how far the division has progressed
toward military perfection since its
induction into Federal service.
An inspection in the most minute
detail for virtually every divisional
unit received the careful attention
of Gen. Reckord and his staff. They
do not expect to complete their task
until late tomorrow.
The examination was not merely a
routine inspection of equipment and
quarters, but extended even to sur
prise maneuvers. Infantry regi-
ments, heavy weapons companies,
medical detachments, truck main
,tenance units and such service
groups as quartermasters and cooks
demonstrated their efficiency.
Warehouses we're examined and
mess officers brought out their books
and records.
One unit escaped the going-over
That is the 10th Field Artillery,
formerly of Pikesville, which is on
the range in Pennsylvania for prac-
tice with service ammunition.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
-Four Drown
In Accidents
.NearCapita|
Father, Z Children
Lose Lives as
Boat Hits Log

Drowning took the lives Of four
victims in the Washington subur-
ban area yesterday-a father and
his two children in Occoquan Run
near Manassas, Va, and a 17-year-
old youth in the Potomac River
near Seneca, Md.
The father was Francis Leroy
Sayre, SO, of 20 East Walnut street,
Alexandria, Va, service manager at
Gladney Motor Co. there, who was
drowned while attempting to rescue
his daughter, 10 Ann, S, and son,
Francis Leroy, jr.. aged 8, after
their boat struck submerged log
and sank about a mile from Davis
Ford Bridge, 5 miles east Of
Manassas.
The only survivor of the family
outing was the mother, Mrs. Lillian
Sayre. who clung to a log and was
rescued by a fisherman in another
boat.
Canoe Turns Over.
The youth was Rodney Costello,
jr, IT. student at Gaithersburg
High School, who was lost after the
canoe overturned in which he and
a friend, Clifford Howard, jr., II,
son of a former Montgomery Coun-
ty sheriff, were on a Sunday out
ing.
Prince William County Police
man r. L. Vetter said the Sayres
had only been out in the run for
about Is minutes when submerged
log struck the boat and it sank
rapidly. Calling to his wife. who
could not swim, to cling to near
by log, Mr.. Sayre grasped the two
children and was swimming toward
the shore, less than so yards away,
when his strength gave out only
few yards from shallow water.
Mrs. Sayre was in a hysterical
condition when she was rescued by
a fisherman who had witnessed the
tragedy from the bank and who
brought her to shore in an outboard
motorboat. A rescue party made up
of members of the Manassas and
Occoquan fire departments sue
ceeded in recovering all three bodies
by nightfall. They were removed
to the Hall Undertaking Co. in
Manassas pending completion of
funeral arrangements.
Mr.. Sayre had been employed by
the Gladney firm for the past five
years and formerly was service man
ager for motor company in Wash
ington, where he had been employed
for Is years.
Rescue Attempt Fails.
The accident which took the life.
of Mr. Costello. a star athlete at
Gaithersburg High School and a
we'll known amateur baseball player
in the county, occurred shoraly after
noon Yesterday while he was SWIM
ming beside the canoe which his
companion was padding.
The Howard youth told Corpl. G.
w. Linthicum and Policeman Ma
son Gray that the canoe overturned
and he grabbed his friend three
upset craft, but that each time he
had been unable to hold on.
The body was recovered in the
middle of the river about an hour
later by Lorenzo Sager of Seneca
and Howard Roberts of Darnestown.
Efforts by the Rockville Rescue
Squad to revive Mr.. Costello with
artificial respiration were vain. DR..
c. E. Hawks, Montgomery County
medical examiner, issued certif1-
cate of accidental drowning.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Virginia Officers Named
By Jewish War Veterans
81 the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 11.-Sam
R. Heller of Norfolk was elected de-
partment commander of the Depart
ment of Virginia, Jewish War Vet
Grams of the United States, meeting
yesterday in its first annual conven-
ton.
The department also laid plans for
enlarging and further developing ac-
tivities of the new State body, Or
ganized six months ago with posts
in Richmond, Norfolk and Roanoke.
Other officers named we're William
A. London of Richmond, senior vice
commander; Morris Massinter of
Roanoke, Junior vice commander,
and Meyer Becker of Roanoke, quar-
termaster. Other officers will be
appointed by the department COM
mander.
A special committee will select
the time and place for the next
convention.
Among guests at the convention
were National Comdr. Fred S. Har-
ris of Meriden, Conn; Emmett War
riner of Lawrenceville, Virginia
department commander of the
American Legion, and w. Glenn
Elliott of Richmond, state American
Legion adjutant.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Crop Failures Face
Maryland Farmers if
Drought Continues
Shortage Of Water
Becoming Acute in
Many Ports Of State
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Maryland water supplies were run
ming dangerously low today and
farmers hoped for quick and heavy
rains to save late crops that are
rapidly burning due to lack OF mois-
ture in the last month.
The situation was most serious in
the western and northern sections.
At Hagerstown. officials said that
unless heavy rains came by today 1t
would be necessary to pump ex-
clusively from the Potomac River
for that citys water supplies.
Adding to the Frederick County
situation, where sprinkling and other
water consumption restrictions have
been in effect for two weeks. was the
report that similar prohibitions
probably would be ordered in En-
mitsburg and other northern parts
Of the county this week unless the
drought is broken Immediately.
Crop Failure Threatened.
Water users on the OToole line at
Mount Savage also face possibility
of a shortage due to lack of rains
and dryness of springs. while late
crops in other parts of Allegany
County have suffered from the ex-
treme dry weather, a report from
Cumberland said.
Phillip c. Turner, State Farm
Bureau Federation manager, de-
clared that unless rains came soon
the corn crop in Frederick. Carroll,
Hartford and Northern Baltimore
County faces possible failure.
Henry r. Shoemaker, Frederick
County agent, said the corn is scar
ing and that pastures and garden
crops are brown from lack of
moisture.
Baltimore city officials reported a
daily water consumption of 166, ,200,-
600 gallons as of August l, approx
mately II per cent above a COM
parable period a year ago. Leon
Small, head of the city's bureau Of
water supply. said the situation is
not acute. but could become serious
if the drought is of any great dura-
ton.
Fire Peril Increases.
Meanwhile, the threat of fall for
est fires increased. Wardens in
Washington and Frederick Counties
have urged the State Forestry De-
partment to reopen lookout towers
in some sections.
District Warden Sheldon Burns at
Gambrill State Park, Frederick
County, has asked that the lookout
towers at Lambs Knoll and Sala-
mander be reopened. Campers and
picnickers in all areas have been
asked to use every precaution to
guard against a repetition of the
serious fires that swept many parts
of Maryland last spring during the
dry spell.
Weather and crop surveys indicate
the condition on the lower Eastern
Shore and in Southern Maryland is
not as bad as in other sections, al
though Manager Charles E. HAM
mond of the Anne Arundel County
Farmers Association said pretty
severe drought" existed in this
county.
Many early Maryland crops were
damaged and curtailed by dry
weather in April, May and the first
part of June, but good rainfall in
late June and early July saved the
States wheat and barley crops, Mr.. |
Turner said.
Evening star., 1941-08-11

Held Launched
ByGov. 0'Conor
Second-Term Drive
Reported Begun at
Party Conference
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Aug 1.-THE Balti-
more Sun said today that Gov.
O'Conor's campaign for a second
term was launched officially at
the annual summer conference of
Maryland United Democratic Wom-
ems Clubs, Eastern Shore division,
in Ocean City yesterday.
"Of course, there was no an
nouncement that he would be
candidate to succeed himself next
year." the Sun said, but the Gov
ernor as well as those responsible
for creating the occasion, tacitly
agreed that this was the second
term campaigns beginning"
The paper reported Clarence w.
Miles. who managed the Governors
campaign three years ago, as saying
lit looks to me like O'Conor without
fight
The story said other members of
the administration-Sta Controller
j. Millard Tawes and Attorney Gen.
eral William C. Walsh-have been
sounded out on the proposition and,
to date. have voiced no opposition.
Democratic leaders from all parts
of the State attended the conference
which included a reception in honor
of Gov. and Mrs. O'Conor and State
and national party leaders.
Mrs. .Mayne A. Collins of Crisfield
was re-nominated for division chair
man yesterday at the conference.
Gov. O'Conor gave the welcoming
address, and the principal talk at a
banquet was delivered by Miss Vir-
ginia Rishel OF Washington, editor
of the Democratic Digest.
Others who were guests of honor
at the reception included Mrs. Mary
Duvall, president Of the Maryland
Democratic Women's Clubs, and
other club officials, Senator Rad
clif1e and Representative Ward of
Maryland.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Maryland Highways Cost
S4,995,107 in ; Months

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 11.-Ezra B
Whitman, chairman of the State
Roads Commission, said today in a
report submitted to Gov. O'Conor
that construction work on Mary
lands highways and bridges is pro-
ceeding according to schedule.
Mr.. Whitman's report covered the
three-month period from May / to
July 81 In it he listed State and
county projects totaling $4,995, lot IL.
which have been let by contract
since the period began.
Total State expenditures were $4,-
SOS, ,705.15, while the remaining
$338, ,40l .96 covered county work.
The three-month expenditure
brought to approximately $1,000, 900
the amount put out in contracts by
the roads commission since the first
Of the year, the commissioner said.
Mr.. Whitman also advised Gov
O'Conor that the State already had
let contracts for over $500,000 in
connection with work to relieve traf-
fic around the Glenn L. Martin
plant at Middle liver.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Maryland Club Wins
National Trophy

The Newman Club at the Univer-
sity of Maryland, Catholic stu
dent organization, has been awarded
the Lawrence K. Brennan Memorial
Cup, q national award given an
nually to the Newman Club spon-
soring the best program in relation
to its size.
The trophy is awarded by the
Newman Club Federation.
Officers of the Maryland club are
Patrick j. Quinn of Towson, Md,
president; Edward j. Waring, jr., of
Leonardtown, Nd, first vice presi-
dent, and Martha E. Bowling OF
Hughesville, Md, second vice presi-
dent. The club is under direction of
the Very Rev. Leonard Walsh, o.
F. NJ, commissary general, COM
missariat of the Holy Land. Fran
ciscan Monastery, Washington.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Virginia Valves Drivers
Permit for Soldiers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, Aug. 11.-Col.
Marion S. Battle, director of the
division of motor vehicles, has in
formed policemen and trial justices
that a nonresident holding a valid
out-of-State drivers operator license
need not hold a Virginia license
while he remains a legal nom
resident.
The statement was in a memo
randum issued to clarity the auto
driving status of soldiers, defense
workers and new residents now
stationed in Virginia.
Commissioned and enlisted men
Of the armed forces and persons en-
gagged in national defense will be
considered as non-residents, Col.
Battle said.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
CheverIy Gets Door.to.Do
Delivery Of Mail

The Hyattsville CMd) postmaster
has been authorized by the Post
Office Department to establish a
contract branch Office at Cheverly
and to make door -to-door deliveries
in that area, it was learned today.
This action follows the recent
establishment of similar service in
the Hyattsville and Bladensburg
areas.
Cheverly citizens, working with
the aid of Representative Sasscer.
Democrat, of Maryland, urged the
Post Office Department to establish
the new service,
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Funeral Planned Today
For Thomas A. Hort, 80

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, Aug. IL
Funeral rites were to be held today
for Thomas Abner Hart, 80, retired
farmer, who died at his home in
Frederick County of heart attack.
Burial will be at Berryville
Surviving are his widow, Mrs Jane
Wiley Hart, formerly of Bluemont,
Va; four sons and two daughters.
The children are Conrad, william,
Stanley and Hammond Hart, Mrs.
Randolph Page Russell, all of Fred
erick County. and Mrs. George Pap
pas of Strasburg.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
B. G. StrickIer Dies at IS

LURAY, Va, Aug. II [P)-Benton
c. Strickler, rs, former Page County
Republican chairman, surveyor and
auctioneer, died at his home here
Saturday night after long illness.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Bunting Named by O. P. M.

Earl Bunting of Winchester. Va,
has been appointed by the once
of Production Management to the
Rubber Defense Industry Advisory
Committee. 4
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Toll in Previous Months.
OtaIs to date :

In August, Beware OF:
l. Crossing a street at some
point other than a crosswalk.
Three of the five pedestrians
killed in traffic in August, 1910,
were fatally injured while COM
mitting this unsafe act.
2. The hours between 5 and
9 pm. Four persons met death
within this four-hour period
in August last year.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
August, l94l

August, 1910
Aug. I Aug. I Aug. 3 Aug. Il! !Aus. 10
. . . . .
Aug. IS Aug. II Aug. 81
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
IS. ASSISTING IN
 PLACING YOUTHS
Civil Service Examinations
 Open to Apprentices in M Defense Plants

The U. s. civil service is offering an opportunity for boys between 16 and under 9 to start as mechanic apprentices at a pay of $3.20 day an plants working on munition con- tracts for the army, 1t was an- nounced by Mrs. Lucy Leonard, sec- retary of the local civil service board. Applications must be in by June 20, which is the closing date. Time for the examination to be tak- en will be announced later.
 The work of apprentice will be as assisting in the beginners stage, me- chanics of higher grade in the per- formance of miscellaneous manu- facture, inspection, testing and re- pairing work.
 The examination which will be held later will include problems in epatial relations, aritsmetic and sim- pie mechanics. Applicants will be graded on the basis of a mcehan- teal aptitude test on scale of 100.
 Physical requirements are that applicants be in sound health and capable of performing hard duty. The examination will require three and 0ne-half hours and appoint- ments will be in plants in Water bury. New Haven and Bridgeport.
 Applications may be obtained in room 1oG at the post office building.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
By WiIl Donch

remember that fisherman's dltty you were asking about that night in California? The ono about the fog2 Well, the rest of it's just come to me, Altogether, 1t goes something like this;
 "'Tll fated is that which comes
 out of the fog,
 For in the end 1t must return
 whence 1t came.
 And never can 1t come again
 unless 1t Is drawn by Q spell Which neither Heaven nor earth
 nor all the power of dark
 ness may breakv"
 She went out, a little secret smile upon her lips.
 So your little friend thinks I'm Q dangerous character?" Stephan said. After this, when she Is around, I must take care to look as dead- pot as possible-but mol" he broke off at Deborah's involuntary giggle q see that 'dead-pot' Is not the correct usage. I fear I shall never learn." He was laughing; but his laughter was not entirely spontaneous. |. So Angie had got under his skin. On the dinner table were can dles in tho great branching can- dlesticks which had been wed- ding gift to Deborah's great grandmother, set on the lace cloth which Bridgie produced only on state occasions, and the cherished old Lovett china-all for "the Cap. tain"
 Yet 1t was through Bridgie that dinner almost ended in social dis- aster.
 ITO Bo Continuedl