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Evening star., 1941-02-23
.S3O5,OO0 Federal Aid
For Arlington Schools
Is Estimated Need
Superintendent Kemp
Figures Increase
Due to Defense Program

Disclosure of education needs in
Virginia attributed to national de-
fense projects today led to an
nouncements by school officials of
Arlington of the anticipated require
ments for that locality when the fall
semester begins in September.
Dr.. Sidney B. Hall, State superin-
tendent of public instruction, an
nounced the results of a survey in
dicating national defense projects
in three major areas will require an
additional outlay of $4,639 ,906 for
public school facilities for children
of defense worker families. North
ern Virginia needs would cost
81, 1888, ,470.
School Supt. Fletcher Kemp of
Arlington County said DR.. Hall had
requested his department to submit
an estimate of the number of addi-
tional school children who will be
added to the education system in
excess of the normal growth.
He estimated there would be one
school-age child for each new fam
lily added to the community for ma
tional defense purposes. He figured
that 225 new families will live on
Federal reservations and $50 outside
of Federal reservations, resulting in
an estimated increase in school pop
ulation, attributed solely to the de-
fense effort, of LOTS.
Mr.. Kemp has anticipated Federal
aid will be needed to finance addi-
tional facilities amounting to $685.
900. He estimated $3.50, 900 would be
needed for new buildings, $50 1000 for
additions and $45,000 for equipment.
An additional $500 is estimated
needed for % new teachers to care
for the extra school population.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Bar Body Asks Meeting
On Procedure Revision
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 22-Com-
mittees of the State Bar Association
and the American Bar Association
studying proposals for the revision
of procedure in civil suits, approved
a suggestion today that rule-making
powers in civil actions be vested in
the Virginia Supreme Court Of
Appeals instead of in the General
Assembly.
Another resolution was adopted
by the conference asking the State
Supreme Court to invite judges of
courts of record in Virginia to meet
for consideration of the recon-
mendation of this committee with
respect to the revision of practice
and procedure in Virginia, and for
such other matters as the Supreme
Court of Appeals may deem appro-
pirate"
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Baltimore Strikers
Prevent Collection
OF City Garbage
Trush Trucks Driven
OFF Streets II Times
Despite Police Guard
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Feb. 22.-Strikine
members of the Bureau of Street
Cleaning kept police protected
trucks from collecting trash anc
garbage here today, driving them
off the streets II times.
A few bottles and stones were
thrown, but strikers succeeded ir
frightening truck crews by Shout
ing threats rather than reSortine
to force
In several instances crews de-
serted the vehicles and were SaiC
to have joined the strikers, who
walked off their jobs this week fol
the third time in four months when
their union leader, Owen Finnegan
was dismissed as a district super
visor.
The 1,100 strikers kept picket
lines at city equipment centers and
400 police reserves were at station
houses ready for emergency duty
A private contractor hired by the
city made numerous attempts to
operate trucks during the strikes
fourth day. but city officials aban-
doned efforts to collect garbage on
trash late in the afternoon.
Police were asked to guard the
home of one of the truck owners.
The first arrest since the strike
began came when motorcycle police
accompanying garbage truck
picked up a man accused of striking
member of a truck crew.
More than 100 laborers at the
Mount Royal pumping station
walked off their jobs during the day.
A spokesman for this group said
employees of the water department
would use the strike to campaign
for a pay increase and more work.
ing hours per week.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Women Will Observe
World Day of Prayer

srecial Dispatch to The Star.
GAITHERSBURG, Md, Feb %.
Women from several Protestant
Churches in upper Montgomery
County will observe World Day Of
Prayer in Epworth Church here
Friday at 2:3O pm
Mrs. William Elliot Of Grace
Church, Gaithersburg, will lead the
service.
Participating churches will include
denominations from Laytonsville,
HyattStown, Clarksburg, Washing
ton Grove, Germantown, Boyds,
Darnestown, Poolesville, Brooke
vile and Olney.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Jefferson High PIT. A.
To Heur DR.. Zerun

DR.. Franklin r.. zeran, specialist
in occupational information and
guidance of the United States Oce
of Education, will speak at the Feb
ruary meeting of the Parent
Teacher Association of the Thomas
Jefferson Junior High School, Ar
hngton, tomorrow at pm. at the
school.
DR.. Zeran will discuss "The Role
of Parents in Vocational Guidance
of Junior High School Boys and
Girls"
Past presidents of the organiza-
ton will be special guests in observ-
ance Of founders day.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Make February Safer
In February Beware Of:

In February Beware Of:
l. Crossing streets carelessly
in rainy weather, particularly at
night. The four pedestrians
killed in February, 1910, were
struck in wet weather, three
after dark.
2. Crossing a street at a point
other than a crosswalk or cross
ing against a red light. The
former cost two lives in Febru-
ary, 1910; the latter, one. The
fourth pedestrian was struck by
a hit-run motorist at an uncon-
trolled intersection.
Of the four pedestrians, three
were go years of age or older.
The fifth February victim was a
truck driver killed in collision
with an automobile.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Old Soldier, "a, Slain; Pal, 78,
Cut, Found With Knife in Hand

An 84-year-old resident of Soldiers
Home was found in a semi-conscious
condition in his room early today
with blood streaming from numer-
GUS lacerations of the face and neck
He died less than two hours later
in the home hospital.
His roommate. cut on the throat
and neck, remained alive, but was
unable to tell what had happened
The dead man is John Campbell,
who lived in Grant Building on the
reservation. First Sergt. Joel Ander-
son, another resident of the building,
reported hearing disturbance in the
room occupied by Mr.. Campbell and
Alfred F. Lynch, 78.
Special Policeman L. A. Grubb
arrived to find the roommates on
their beds, bleeding. Mr.. Grubb told
metropolitan police the room showed
signs of a struggle, including broken
earthenware. The special policeman
said he took a blood-stained two
Evening star., 1941-10-21
| Irish Sailor Gets
| Ships Grenodes
To Discipline Bar
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Oct. 21.-A 3l-year-
old Irish petty officer accused Of
threatening to blow up with hand
grenades a Brooklyn bar in which
he had lost his cap was held today
on charges of illegal possession OF
weapons.
The story as told by Mrs. Mary
Chansen, bartender's wife, to po-
lice:
Torrance OrNein, petty officer on
the British Dutch freighter LEX
haven, after several drinks at the
bar found his hat missing and said:
Either I get that hat back or
blow the place up"
Then he left. The customers wers
still laughing when he came back
carrying three grenades from his
ships store. The bar emptied i'm
mediately. Bartender Chansen ran
for police while his wife poured
ONeiu a drink to divert him from
carrying out his threat.
When police arrived O'Neill, molli-
fed. had left. They traced him to
a nearby shipyard-the grenades
were still in his pockets-and gin
gerly arrested him.
Said Torrance:
IT can take a joke as well as the
next guy, but when they steal q
petty officers hat. that's no joke"
The hat is still missing.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Roosevelt Recalls
Hartman for Second
Conference on Soviet
announcement on Aid
To Russio Expected Todoy;
Neutrality PorIey Held
By JOHN G. HENRY.

President Roosevelt called w.
Averell Hartman. head of the
special Russian-aid mission, back to
the White House today for a second
flrst-hand consultation on i'm
mediate needs of the hare. .pressed
Soviet armies
Mr.. Hartman. who conferred for
more than two hours with the Chief
Executive at Hyde Park yesterday
flew here directly after this meeting
to discuss the military situation and
availability of supplies with defense
officials here. He was scheduled to
see Mr.. Roosevelt at the White
House shortly before o'clock this
afternoon.
Meanwhile, expectations that there
would be a public pronouncement
OF this Governments intention
toward further aid to Russia were
strengthened when Stephen T.
Early, secretary to the President,
told reporters that Mr.. Roosevelt
might have some news on this mat
ter at his press conference this
afternoon.
Labor Condition Report.
A report that defense labor con-
ditions on the West Coast are
currently very satisfactory" was
presented the President by Sidney
Hillman, associate director of the
ONCE of Production Management,
who has recently returned from a
survey trip across the country.
Mr.. Hillman told reporters he had
visited shipyard and aircraft plants
in the Western area and found pro-
duction moving along to schedule.
COnfers With Hull.
Back from long week end at his
home in Hyde Park. N. Y, the Presi-
dent conferred with Secretary of
State Hull and congressional leaders
this morning on the subject of
Neutrality Act revisions now pend
ing before the Senate.
Later he was to receive a delega-
ton of members of the Argentine
Chamber Of Deputies. accompanied
by members of their families.
William L. Chennery, editor of
Golfers Magazine. was to be a
luncheon guest and an afternoon ap-
pointment was scheduled with
Chairman William H. Davis of the
Defense Mediation Board.
Also scheduled to see the Chief
Executive during the day were Col.
William J. Donovan, co-ordinator
of information, and Richard J.
Reynolds, Democratic party finance
offer.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
District Jury Indicts
18 as Members Of
Bootleg Syndicate
Maryland Ring Defrouded
U. S. Of $50, 900 Toxes,
Prosecutor Says

In one of the biggest cases of its
kind in recent years. 18 persons were
accused today by the District grand
jury of conspiracy to violate the
Bureau of Internal Revenue laws by
illegally operating II whisky distil-
leries in various parts of Maryland
and finding a big market for their
wares in Washington.
Those named as defendants are
Joseph w. Hill, Alvey D. Gamble,
jr.: Emory L. Bowie. Charles w
Gamble. Hyman Wolf, Edward G.
CoghiI, William Allison Wenk. Gar
vim LIE Roy Miller, Mary Josephine
Jackson, Daniel L. Riley, Curtis
Maurice Taylor, James John Haw-
kins, Warren Hunter Walker,
George Leonard Matthews. John
Samuel Matthews, John Spencer
Dorsey, Samuel Butler and Walter
Thompson.
Assistant United States Attorney
Allen J. Krouse, who is handling the
case for the Government, said the
COCi al 1ONCI1illlC lldS U6cIl Oe-
frauded out of more than 100000
from the manufacture and distribu-
ton of whisky on which no taxes
were paid.
The smallest capacity of dis
tillery under control of the group,
Mr.. Krouse declared. was 500 GAL
Ions day. while the largest had q
capacity of 1850 gallons. The Or
ganization maintained an average
daily output of 125 gallons. he add
ed. They had an elaborate deliv-
cry system and brought on an av-
erage of about 100 gallons a day into
the District, the prosecutor as
serted.
Interstate Syndicate Charged.
The Alcohol Tax Unit of the
Treasury Department worked on
the case. Taking a leading role in
the investigation were Special In
vestigators Edward P. Gill and Will
liam G. Harding. The Government
charges that the group maintained
an interstate manufacturing and
distributing syndicate since 1888
Mr.. Krouse said the stills were To-
(See INDICTMENTS, Page A-10D
Evening star., 1941-10-21
White House Bars Set Parties
For Winter Because of Crisis

because the President will only be
able to spare meal times for some OF
the people he must see.
Mrs. Roosevelt will limit her en-
tertainment to the groups who come
here with definite purpose and
want to see her for some specific
reason.
The decision to cancel the White
House social season was a personal
one between herself and the Presi-
dent, she explained, and was not
suggested by the State Department.
Emphasizing that no purely social
events will be held. she said that
even the informal entertaining
must have some reason. Even the
women on selected list who ord
inarily leave their cards at the
White House for the so-called card
teas will not be automatically re-
ceived.
Major events which will be elimi-
(see WHITE HOUSE, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Nozis Execute
4 More After
HoItz Staying
3y the Associated Press.

by tne hSSOClaleo P1eSS.
VICHY, Unoccupied France, Oct.
21.-The Germans announced the
execution of four more Frenchmen
today following the assassination
yesterday of German Gendarmerle
Gen. HoltZ at Nantes.
At the same time, the arrest for
questioning and later release of
Prefect Silibert Dupard of the Loire
Inferieure Department, of which
Nantes is the capital, was an
nounced
The executions raised to 81 the
firing squad deaths by Germans.
AS Dupard was arrested and re-
leased. Vice Premier Jean Darlan
departed hurriedly for Paris.
The Germans have insisted that
the Paris police force is riddled with
Communists, but the arrest of
Dupard was the first time they had
laid hands on a French administra-
tive official.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
10000 Are Made Idle
As Alabama WaIkouts
Close Defense Plants
BIost Furnace Strike
Shuts orr Cos Supply;
Plane Truce Sought
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Iron and steel fabricating ALA
bama) plants. many with defense
orders, were closing in the Birming-
ham area today as strike at an
industrial gas plant cut of fuel sup
plies.
Industrial sources estimated ap-
proximately 10000 workmen in the
district were idle due to strikes and
shutdowns brought by the industrial
gas curtailment Other plants faced
closing due to a coal shortage. un-
less strike of C. l. o. United Mine
Workers of America is settled with
in two weeks.
Shortage of industrial gas which
followed the strike of 300 Sloss-
Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. furnace
and by-products plant employees
forced the Birmingham Gas Co. to
shut off mains supplying more
than score of industries. includ-
ing plants making shells and nu-
merous ordnance items.
Hearing Is Set.
William H. Ivey, State labor COM
missioner, said there was no imme-
ate prospect of settlement of either
the strike at Sloss Sheffield or of
the coal mine walkout. Mr. Ivey
said the closed shop was a princi-
pal issue in the SloSs- -Sheffleld
strike. The Defense Mediation
Board ordered a hearing here Oc-
tober % on the controversy.
At the same time the Councilia-
ton Service arranged a conference
at Buffalo. N Y. in an effort to
avert a threatened walkout at Bell
Aircraft Corp. S two warplane plants.
About 1000 men were thrown out
of work when the mine workers
called a strike which close six large
Alabama coal mines.
The miners, whose oasic pay was
81 in May to $3.50 a day, now are
asking 40 cents more daily, vacation
pay and a change in the methods of
computing weight loss through
washing operations.
Bell Aircraft Talks.
Thomas M. Finn, Federal concili-
ator. arranged a conference today
with representatives of the c. 1. o.
United Automobile Workers and the
management of the Bell Aircraft
Corp, which operates warplane fac
tories at Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
The company produces the formi-
dable Airacobra pursuit planes, and
Mr.. Finn declared a work stoppage
would be calamity.
The union, which claims 80 per
cent of the firms l0.500 workers,
has authorized a strike. but has
agreed to withhold action pending
efforts to arbitrate.
The union has demanded a blan-
ket wage increase of 20 cents an
hour. a hike in the minimum pay
from so to rs cents an hour, a union
shop and the checkoff system. The
union reported the company had
offered a scent general increase
and a 1O-eent boost in minimum
pay.
Two hundred A. F. L. operating
engineers returned to work on the
s17,00O.000 Camp Cooke project for
armored divisions, their demands
for wage increases granted.
The engineers, who operate cranes
and similar devices, were raised
from s137l2 to sl50 an hour.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
By MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

No formal parties will be given at
the White House this winter, Mrs.
Roosevelt announced at her press
conference today.
1T has been decided she said.
that conditions are so serious and
the President is so busy that We will
give no formal parties this winter
at all"
Except for short periods of mourn
ing. it will be the first time the
White House has eliminated state
affairs since the first World War.
Mrs. Roosevelt herself made the
comparison and recalled that in the
Wilson administration the parties
were not Cancelled until after war
was declared.
Instead of the purely social oc-
casions, there will be constant in
formal entertaining, more than is
usual on the White House schedule
These informal parties will be held
Evening star., 1941-10-21
BY JAMES FREE.

Not even the Army and Navy will
be allowed to pile up excess stocks
of scarce materials, Priorities Di-
rector Donald M. Nelson made it
clear today.
On the heels of a drastic order
issued last night in which the Gov
ernment prohibited the use of copper
in non-defense construction after
November /, except for electric
wiring, and virtually banned its use
in manufacture of more than 100
common civilian articles after jan
uary l, 1912, Mr.. Nelson approved
a statement revealing for the first
time that
inventories - both governmental
and private-are being checked to
prevent overstocking and boarding"
1t had been known that the Supply
Priorities and ALLEGATIONS Board
of which Mr.. Nelson is executive di-
Evening star., 1941-10-21

bladed penknife from the hand of
the 78-year-old man.
Records at the home listed Mr..
Campbell as a native of Washington.
He served a five-year enlistment in
Battery A of the I'd Artillery, begin
ming in 1881. Having seen no war
service and being without pension,
he entered the home in 1928. He left
for a time but was admitted again
in 1881 and lived there continuously
since then.
Mr.. Campbell was widower and
was understood to have daughter
living in California.
His roommate served a total OF
eight years and three months on two
enlistments in Company H of the
5th Infantry. He is native OF st.
Joseph, Mo, and is in the same
status at the home as that of Mr.,
Campbell. He lived there for a
period beginning in 1928, left and
returned. His present stay at the
home began in 1882.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
DC. Heads Back
Lifting Roonning
House zoning
Young and Mason
To Ask Authority
In Emergency

Congress will be asked soon 10
for the period of the national emer-
gency-District zoning laws and
regulations against operation of
boarding and rooming houses in re-
stricted residential zones, under
plan agreed on today by Commits
sioners Mason and Young.
The idea is to relieve the housing
shortage for the increasing number
of Federal workers coming TO WASH
ington by permitting property own
ers IN the A-reStricted and the A.
semi-restricted areas to take in
roomers and boarders subject only
to building fire safety regulations,
and the obtaining of annual Ii
censes where necessary.
Keech to Draft Bill.
Commissioner Mason today dis
cussed the question with Chairman
Randolph of the House District
Committee and reported later the
Representative promised support
and anticipated congressional ap-
proval. A bill to this effect is to bs
drawn up shortly by Corporation
Counsel Richmond B. Keech.
District officials recently had been
wondering what to do about num-
Der of reported violations of exist
ing rules. Some thought that po-
lice might be told not to enforce
present bans on boarding and room
ing houses in restricted zones, but
this was thrown aside as bad ad-
ministration. Another group thought
the Zoning regulations should be
changed for such properties, but
this was deemed bad Zoning. The
city heads then determined that leg
islation was the best move and that
it should clearly be limited 10 the
period of the national emergency.
No Change in Basic Law.
Early this year the zoning COM
missioners modified the old rule to
permit as many as two roomers or
boarders to be housed in dwellings
in the A-restricted or the A-semi-
restricted areas. However, there
were reports Of increasing viola
tions.
Oncials explained the proposed
change in procedure, if adopted,
would not constitute a change in
the basic zoning law and therefore
would not mean that apartment
houses could be erected in restricted
residential zones.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Catoe's Confession
In Abramowitz Case
Presented 10 Jury
Panel Entitled TO Hear
Statement to Police,
Justice Morris Rules

Jarvis R. Catoe's confession to
criminaliy assaulting, strangling and
robbing Mrs. Rose AbramoWitz in
her Sixteenth street apartment
March was presented to the jury
this morning after the defense lost a
ard-fought battle to exclude the
prisoners statements TO detectives.
Justice James w. Morris ruled that
the jury was entitled to hear Catoe' S
reputed confession and decide for
itself if the statements were volun-
tary or the result of protracted ques-
tioning, threats and violence, as
claimed by the defense.
This morning the jury which had
heard only a few minor witnesses
since the trial opened the middle of
last week, was recalled TO the box
while details of the prisoners verbal
confession were related by Detective
Sergt. John Wise and 1t Aubrey Toll
son, both of the homicide squad. Ths
officers gave identical versions of
what. they said, Catoe voluntarily
confessed TO them early on the morn
ing of August 29, some II hours after
his arrest.
Detectives Tell Story.
Their version of Catoe's statement
was substantially as follows:
The prisoner at first volunteered
the information that he had at
tackled a woman at Sixteenth and
T streets NV" The officers testi-
fed they offered Catoe no threats
or promises to continue his story.
Catoe told them, they said, that one
Saturday morning after big
snow" he was passing along T street
on the way to a Chinese laundry at
Fourteenth and T streets NV.
At the northeast corner of Six
teenth and T he passed a young
woman standing in the entrance of
an apartment. She told Catoe she
could not find the janitor of her
apartment and asked if he could do
some work for her. Catoe said he
followed the young woman upstairs
to her apartment. In the kitchen,
she asked him if he could wax floors,
explaining her husband was a. work
and would not be home until 1:30
pm. Catoe was said to have replied
he had other work to do that after
noon.
AS the young woman turned to-
ward the sink. it was said, Catoe
grabbed her about the neck from
behind. He choked her and carried
her to a day bed in the living room.
where the criminal assault occurred
and where the body of the bride of
a few weeks was found by the huS-
band. Barney AbramoWitZ, on his
(See CATOE, Page A-15)