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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
District Escapes
As Mishaps Kill
159 in Nation
Holiday Accidents
Injure Several in
D. c. Area, However

Washington and nearby Maryland
and Virginia escaped without a Me-
mortal Day traffic fatality while 159
lives were lost throughout the Ma
ton, ITO of them in traffic accidents.
Gordon D. Drummer, 26, of 1419 E
street Sc. was the most seriously
injured of several persons treated at
hospitals here. He lost control of
his car early today while driving
through the Soldiers Home grounds
and struck tree. He was taken
to Casualty Hospital with a head
injury, possibly a fractured skull,
a fractured jaw and compound
fracture of the right knee. His con-
dition was reported critical.
James Perry, 81. colored. 5000 Lee
street NE, injured in an accident
on highway No. mile south of
Alexandria, Va. was treated in
Alexandria Hospital and later re-
moved to Freedmen's Hospital. He
was suffering from head injury,
but his condition was not believed
serious. Two passengers in the car
with him escaped with minor cuts.
FL Deaths in California.
California, with 81 deaths, report
ed the greatest number of traffic
casualties, according to an Associ-
ated Press compilation. Indiana's 10
was the only other report in double
figures. In addition to the traffic
losses, drowning claimed 26 lives and
persons died in, train accidents.
Miscellaneous causes accounted for
Is deaths. this category including a
man killed by mine car in Nevada,
a flash flood death in New Mexico,
and other deaths in plane crashes,
accidental shootings and suicides.
-Four men died in one wreck in
Connecticut. Their automobile hit
a tree on a highway paralleling the
Housatonic River at Seymour.
Three children were killed at
Waynesburg, Pa. when a truck
plunged down a 30-foot enbank-
ment.
Six Youths Die in Crash.
Six young people were burned to
death last night when the automo-
bile in which they we're riding burst
into flames following a three-car
collision near Kalamazoo, Mich.
The victims were Wells Wood, 10,
driver of the car; Dallas Holdbrook,
IT: Charles Williams, IT; Frances
Milan, ID, and Mary Jane Babillo,
Is, all of Kalamazoo. and Falcia
Guidice, 16, of jackson, Mich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Religious Education
Meeting Set Tomorrow
,necial Di,patch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, May 31.-Reli-
gious workers from all parts of
Montgomery County are expected to
attend a meeting in the Presbyte-
rian Church here tomorrow night.
The conference is sponsored by the
Observation-Disclosures Council of Re-
ligious Education. :
One purpose of the meeting will
be to acquaint those attending with
the aims of the bi-State- organiza-
ton. Plans for the annual daily
vacation Bible schools will be dis
cussed and the feasibility of provid-
ing entertainment for Montgomery
County boys in the military services
home on leave will be considered.
The meeting will be conducted by
Wilbur F. Nash, jr., Of Brookeville,
president for the area of which
Montgomery County Is a part. The
principal speaker will be DR.. j. W.
Harms of Baltimore, general secre-
tary OF the council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Junior Trade Body
Decries Maryland
Truck Weight Law
Official Says Increase in
Axle Loods Makes State
Road Damage Guinea Pig
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 31.-A new
truck weight law recently signed
by Gov. O'Conor will make Mary
land a guinea pig" to show the
extent of highway damage from
trucks, Junior Association of Com
merce official asserted today.
Julian de Bruyn Hops, chairman
of the associations Traffic Control
and Safety Committee, said the law
increases the maximum axle load
for trucks from 10000 pounds to
22,400 pounds and raises the gross
weight of heavy tractor semi-trailer
trucks from 81 to "a tons"
The law was signed by Gov. O'Con-
or after Ezra B. Whitman, State
Roads Commission chairman, had
said under prior law truck combi-
nations as heavy as $4,000 pounds
could operate on Maryland high
ways. The new law, he said, makes
the maximum weight of such COM
binations 62,250 pounds and limits
them to IS feet in length.
Mr. Hops declared Mr.. Whitman
approved the bill although he ad-
mitted that the maximum axle loads
would be increased beyond the limits
permitted by Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Delaware, West Virginia and Ohio,
and although he specifically disap-
proved the increase of gross weight
allowed the heavy tractor semi
trailer combination.
1.-The Governor has chosen the
dangerous expedient of permitting
the increases as an experiment, -"
Mr.. Hops said. Our roads become
testing or proving grounds for the
heavy trucks"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Gen. Haushofer's Arrest
Confirmed, British Say
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 31.-The ar
rest of Maj. Gen. Haushofer, the
Munich professor who has been a
close adviser of Adolf Hitler in the
war, has been confirmed in reports
reaching London, the British radio
said today.
In a broadcast heard here by c.
B. S., the B. B. c. said Gen. Haus-
hofer's scheduled lecture May "a at
Strasbourg had been Cancelled and
that in recent editions of maya
zine he edited che made yelled ref
erences to the dangers which are
threatening Germany in the east
Gen. Haushofer," the radio said,
"who was introduced to Hitler in
1922 by Rudolf Hess, has been until
very recently the closest adviser of
the Feuhrer in questions of geo.
policy. Hudolf Hess, who is now
prisoner of war in Great Britain,
had shared Haushofer's fears for the
future of Germany"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
0'Conor Declares People
Will Do Utmost for Defense
By the Associated Press.

Gov. O'Conor keynoted Mary
lands Memorial Day services by de-
claring at Taneytown that I'VE will
assume every burden, every RESPONSE
bility that American defense entails
and we shall not be deferred until
once again the beacon of American
democracy shines undimmed and
unthreatened before all the world"
Pledging ones self to the goal of
thorough and immediate prepared
ness" he said, SIS the most crafty
ing tribute our dead could exact
from u.s."
Speaking at the Civil War battle
field of Antietam, Representative
Van Zandt, Republican, of Pennsyl-
vania declared that if the United
States ever needed unity 'it is at
this critical period in world history"
The same gathering was told by
James B. Fitzgerald, Chevy Chase,
past national vice commander of the
American Legion, that I'VE must
sacrifice personal selfishness for our
country or we will sacrifice our
country for personal selfishness."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Pre-SchooI Roundup
Scheduled in Bethesda

The summer roundup and regis
tration of children who will attend
the Bethesda Elementary School
next September will be held at the
school at am. Monday.
Children who will be 5 years old
by next February will be eligible
to register, it was stated. Ofhcials
asked that those in the first half
OF the alphabet come in the morn
ing and the rest during the early
afternoon. The registration closes
at 2 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Seq Reoping Heavy
Harvest in Lost Linqs

Many bathing resorts near Cape
town, South Africa, report that the
sea is reaping an unusually heavy
harvest of lost gold, diamonds and
platinum.
Some of the lost rings have been
recovered, but most of them will
never be seen again by their owners.
At Nuremberg more than 60 rings,
some of them very valuable, are lost
each week. The bathing superin-
tendent there explains that it is
easy to lose a ring in the water be-
cause the fingers contract, and the
ring slips off.
Recently woman bather walking
along the beach found a diamond
engagement ring and returned it
to the owner who had lost it three
days earlier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31

In May, Beware OF:
/. Careless walking at night.
Six Of the eight persons killed
in traffic during May, 1910.
were struck after dark.
2. Crossing a street at a point
other than a crosswalk. Two
pedestrians met death by this
action In May last year.
The six other traffic victims
were injured while either cross
ing a street against a proper
signal, attempting to jump onto
a moving vehicle, attempting to
stop stampeding horses. stand
ing In a button safety zone,
crossing. at an uncontrolled In
tersectioh or riding in an auto
mobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Montgomery Asks Bids
For County Building
Special Dispatch to The Star.

oPeSAd4 OiopdtCl W me SldE.
ROCKVILLE, Nd. May 31.-A
county Office building to cost ap-
proximately $4,000 is expected soon
to occupy portion of the site of
Richard Montgomery High School
here, a large part of which was de-
stroyed by fire last year.
1t is planned to recondition the
rear of the school building, which
was not badly damaged, and to
build on the site of the center of the
school, which was ruined. Bids
have been asked by Frank 1. Davis,
supervisor of Montgomery County
public school property. They will
be received at the office of the
County Board of Education here
until pm. June 6.
The reconstructed building is eX-
pected to house the County Board
of Education, the County Health
Department, the County Welfare
Board, the County Home Demon
stration Department and the Mont
gomery County Farm Bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Gen. Marshall to Address
William and Mary Class

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, May 81
Pl.-Gen. George C. Marshall,
Army chief of staff, will make the
commencement address at the Col
lege of William and Mary on
June 8.
Honorary degrees will be con-
ferred on Gen. Marshall and sew
eral others.
The Alumni Association will hold
its annual meeting at 1890 am. on
June 7. An hour later, a portrait
OF Senator Glass will be presented
to the college from the New York
State Bankers Association. Ber-
nard M. Baruch will make the
presentation with President John
Stewart Bryan delivering the &C
ceptance speech.
There are 221 applicants for
degrees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31

was at Mica, largest community III
the tract.
$4,000 Firm Is Sold.
The ent-TeGcher Association
at Mica had a little money in the
treasury and this was used to
finance party for the community.
The associations ownership in half
of the chairs in the school audi
forum and in a piano was trans
ferred to the Ruritan Club at Bowl
ing Green.
The nearby sweet potato curing
plant of the Caroline County Co.
operative Sweet Potato Association,
Inc, a $4,000 investment shared
between 80 members, was put up on
the block. The sale, marking the
end of the largest industry in the
area, concern that did a $4,000
business each year, was held on the
plant site 1t distributed to the
highest bidder 10000 potato curing
crates, IS pickle brine tanks, a po-
tato grader, hammer mill and other
equipment.
Liberty Church, the historic old
house of worship near Mica, organ
lied in 1911, will hold it's last meet
ing tomorrow. 1t will be an all-day
gathering, with dinner on the
grounds. The high light will come
in the farewell sermon of DR.. T
Ryland Sanford of Fredericksburg
the regular supply pastor. AS usual
because arthritis has disabled him
he will preach from a chair on the
roStrum.
Some structures in the area will
be used for storage by the Army
but most buildings will be de-
moliShed.
Ponds Drained of Fish.
From the area also will disappear
its only physician-Dr. John Ran
dolph Travis, member of the Army
Medical Corps during the World
War and a graduate of the old Uni
versity College of Medicine at Rich
mond. He will take with him to
Fredericksburg as much of his
country practice as will follow.
Today the northern third of Caro-
line County rapidly is being emptied.
Houses stand vacant for the first
time in their existence, and ponds
have been drained of fish. AS people
have gone out, soldiers have come
in. 1t. Col. R. M. McCutchen ar
rived this week with part of the 5th
Regiment of Engineers from Fort
Belvolr, whose task it will be to get
the training ground ready for the
first troops when they are sent there
Tor maneuvers June 8.
The speed with which the en-
glneers have taken over was noted
particularly by G. L. Broadus, one
OF the most prosperous farmers of
the area. Preparing to move, he cut
his barley and raked it into little
piles to dry. One day he drove to
town, remarking to himself as he
left that he would hurry back and
finish up his harvesting. But when
he returned, after rushing through
his business chores, he found his
hay field full of soldiers and trucks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Andrude to Receive
Meyer Medal Monday
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GLENN DALE, Md, May 31.-Dr.
Edmundo Navarro de Andrade,
noted Brazilian forest conservation
list, Monday will be presented the
Meyer Medal for distinguished serv-
ices in plant introduction at the
United States plant introduction
station.
He has spent SO years in study
ing and developed use of eucalyp-
tus trees as fuel and timber in Bra
iii since he introduced the species
in Sac Paulo State in 1908. Scarcity
of coal at that time had caused
vast inroads on forest lands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
80 of 96 Graduates
To Enter Armed Forces
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GETTYSBURG, Pa, May 81
Within a month after commence
ment Monday, SO of So men gradual
ing from Gettysburg College will be
with Uncle Sans armed forces.
Fifteen will receive commissions in
the Army, Is will enter the Army as
selectees, five have already been as
signed to the Air Corps and three
will Join the Marines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Insurance Men Elect

RICHMOND, Va, May 81 P.-
The Industrial Insurers Conference
reelected H. T. Dobbs of Atlanta,
yesterday as president and chose
F. F. Leith of Washington vice
president and Caswell Ellis, Green
vile, S. G. secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Flower Advancement Lecture

A lecture on flower arrangement
will be given by Mrs. Mathilde
Kolb Bartlett at meeting of the
Silver Spring Garden Club this
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Armand Lavaute. 1908 Greenock
road, Silver Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
200 Years q Naval Base

The City of Alexandria, Egypt,
became a naval base more than
1900 years ago when Alexander
the Great founded 1t to aid In his
campaign against Persia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
$4,000 Firm Is Sold.

was at Mica, largest community Il
the tract.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-01-27
Me9thoo


FOR NOUIU CAROLINA.
Mostly ciuudV and slightly
cooler tonight preceded by light
rain or fog in extreme north
cast portion Tuesday somewhat
loud and ta-.tl; colder.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-01-27

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Evening star., 1941-01-02
The Federal Reserve Plan

In the report made puDllc yeSLer-
day, the Federal Reserve System has
offered comprehensive plan to pre-
vent the imitation that might result
from the vast expenditures under the
defense program, If no steps are
taken to forestall it. Because infla-
ton, and the accompanying rise in
prices, would retard and increase
the cost OF rearmament and impose
hardships on millions of thrifty
Americans, the recommendations in
the report, which have the unani-
nous approval of the Reserve Board
members, the presidents of the twelve
Federal Reserve banks, and the Fed
eral Advisory Council, merit the
careful consideration of Congress.
AS part of its plan to protect the
country against imitation, the Fed
eral Reserve System has recon-
mended the termination of the
Presidents power to change the
value of the dollar, and the repeal
of the authority now vested in the
Treasury to print $3,000,000,00 of
"greenback" money and issue money
against purchases of foreign silver.
The Presidents dollar valuation
powers, renewed last year after a
bitter congressional fight, will lapse
on June 80, unless extended again.
The Federal Reserve group believes
that a curtailment of the admin
istration's monetary powers is in the
public interest. This was the posi-
ton taken last year by those men,
bers of Congress in both parties who
opposed further extension of these,
powers.
To prevent excessive loans by
banks with the $7,O00,000,000 idle
money now in their possession, the
report recommends that Congress
increase the deposit reserve require
ments of all member banks, that it
authorize the Federal Reserve Board,
if necessary, to double these require
ments in the future, that it make
all banks, whether chartered by the
Federal Government, or by the
States, subject to the boards deposit
reserve rules. These are sound
recommendations, designed to
strengthen the existing machinery
of credit control.
In the proposal that taxes be
gradually increased until the Gov
ernment achieves balanced budget,
the report by implication, carries a
warning that the Nations finances
must be placed in better order if in
flation is to be avoided. One of the
major issues facing the Seventy
seventh Congress is that of the Ma
tons finances. To achieve a bal
anced budget, an increase in taxes
is necessary, but Congress also should
insist on a substantial reduction in
defense appropriations.
AS the Federal Reserve report
points out, the vast expenditures for
defense have created additional
problems which make 1t necessary
! Ito review our existing monetary ma
Evening star., 1941-01-02
Chance for Sufety

In spite OF Washington's unimpres-
sive showing in reducing traffic
deaths during 1910 (the record show
ing eighty fatalities as compared
with eighty-five in 1880, the oppor-
tunity exists for establishing a new
low mark in tragedy in the coming
year. Every effort still must be
exerted to save the lives of pedes-
trians. OF the eighty persons killed
on the streets, flfty-eight were afoot
and twenty-five of these were at
tempting to cross streets between
intersections. This one point indi-
Gates one of the weaknesses of the
present pedestrian protection regula-
tions. These rules were drawn
literally with a view to their probable
enforceability. The suggestion that
pedestrians be prohibited from cross
ing at any point other than an
intersection was vigorously opposed.
Instead, the regulation was made to
permit crossing in the middle of the
block if no vehicular traffic is ap-
preaching in either direction. Such
restriction on crossing is meaning
less except in the heavily policed
downtown section, where not
single fatal accident from this cause
occurred in 1910.
During the year there was con-
siderable improvement both in en-
forcement and in observance Of
traffic rules. Pedestrians, where
facilities are available to assist them,
have shown greater consideration for
their own safety, but there still is
noticeable disregard for common
sense safety rules in outlying sec
tions, particularly near neighborhood
shopping centers. And failure Of
motorists to yield right of way to
walkers continues to be a serious
problem.
Effects of the modernization OF
accident investigation methods are
shown in the record of coroner's jury
findings during recent months. But
these Improvements, and increased
educational efforts alone, will not
suffice. Only individual observance
Of regulations, both by drivers and
walkers, with the exercise of caution
even when one believes he is in, the
right, will stamp out the tragedy
which otherwise is bound to stalk
into numerous Washington homes in
1941
Evening star., 1941-01-02
New Maryland Judge

One effect of the rapid growth of
nearby Maryland has been marked
increase in the business which the
courts must handle. In order to
keep pace with this growth, the
number of judges in various juris-
dictions has slowly been increased.
The latest addition to the bench has
been made in Prince Georges County
where, for years, Circuit Court
Judge Joseph C. Mattingly has been
handling an extraordinary volume
of litigation.
Last November the Maryland elec-
torate approved constitutional
amendment authorizing an addi-
tional jurist in Prince Georges and
Governor O'Conor has made popular
choice In selecting Ogle Marbury Of
Evening star., 1941-01-02

Laurel to f1ll the post. His candidacy
had been indorsed unanimously by
members Of the county bar. MIR.
Marbury will bring to the import
ant position wide experience
gained through extensive private
practice and numerous public offices.
He has been an assistant attorney
general of Maryland, chairman of
the Board of Prison Control, at
torney to bank receivers, counsel to
the Prince Georges County Board of
Education and the County Commits
sioners and vice president of the
State Bar Association. He is a men,
Der of family long prominent in
Maryland. AS the first incumbent in
long-needed Office, Mr.. Marbury
can be expected to preserve the high
standards of the judiciary Of Mary
land,
Evening star., 1941-01-02
Feminine Aesop

She set her wondering street agog
With that strange little way she had
OF greeting every cat and dog
They sometimes thought her mildly
mad
For dogs were dogs; . eat. q eat:
She knew no titled favorite,
And alley or aristocrat
The greeting varied not q whit
To those who likewise greeted her
With cat and dog punctiliouness:
With dignity and friendly purr,
Exuberant canine caress,
And quite forgetting for the nonce
Their own eternal enmity,
They made q prompt polite response
To one so courteous as she,
Nor knew how high she rated them,
And pordered often in her mind
Old Aesop's ancient theorem:
How like they were to human kindi
MARION n. ADDINGToN.