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Evening star., 1941-01-08
D. T.. Job Placements
During 1910 Reach
New High Level
Employment Center Says
1873 Per Cent More Got
Positions Than in 1899

Placements by the District of Co.
lumbia Employment Center reached
a new high in 1910, pushing 1873
per cent ahead of 1889, Director
Edwin w. Jones announced today.
A total of 1902 jobs were filled dur
ing the year, as against 40,656 during
the preceding 12-month period, Mr..
Jones reported.
The placement figure for each
month of 1910 was ahead of the cor
responding figure for 1899, and De-
cember marked the twenty-eight
consecutive month in which such a
comparative increase was registered.
Placements of 1852 persons last
month represented an increase of
1876 per cent over December, 1899.
Greatest gain over the correspond
ing month of 1889 was made by the
Industrial and Building Trades Divi-
sion, which placed 1,470, a boost Of
76.5 per cent. Hotel and restaurant
placements were up 434 per cent
to 555; domestic and service place
ments increased 27.2 per cent to
1868, and commercial and profess
sional jobs found numbered 669, a
boost of 1O.9 per cent.
The active file of men and women
seeking employment reached the
lowest figure in several years in
December-23, ,834-as compared with
34.170 during December, 1899.
Mr.. Jones predicted that unem-
ployment would continue to drop
here during 1941. and urged all job
seekers to register. He pointed out
that shortages of skilled workers in
various trades exist. Jobs for auto
mobile mechanics, glazers. soda
fountain workers and domestics are
being made available frequently at
this time. he added.
New applications filed during De-
cember totaled 1929. as against
2,796 in December, 1899, and 1858
applications we're renewed, as COM
pared with 5,621 during the same
month of the preceding year.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
o-operation Pledged
Senator Reynolds as
DC. Chairman
Columbia Heights Unit
Names Committee for
Prospective Open Forums

Full support and cooperation OF
the Columbai Heights Citizens As
sociation was pledged Senator Rey-
nolds, prospective chairman of the
Senate District Committee.
Showing its approval of Senator
Reynolds plan to hold "open forum
in the Senate District Committee
each month to hear the District
citizens, the association voted last
night to create a congressional
committee to represent the aSso-
citation before the Senate committee
Col. Luther R. Maddox, president
appointed as a committee George H
Brown, chairman; Mrs. Margaret H
Worrell, vice chairman; Mrs. Ernest
w. Howard. Capt. Jefferson D.
Wright, Frank B. Hoffman, Col. G.
B. Young, Alexander Cruickshanks
and himself.
On a motion of Mrs. Howard, the
association voted to ask the District
Commissioners and officials of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
to act Immediately on the recently
proposed % amendments in regula-
tionS.
MIR. Brown protested the number
of January traffic deaths as COM
pared to last year. He said a heavy
penalty should be imposed on q
drunken driver who ''unknowingly
runs over a pedestrian"
T. V. Regan, president of the Con-
duit Road Citizens Association
spoke.
Robert Dugan of the Capitol
Transit Co., presented a half-hour
sound picture, 'Transits in the
Larger Cities of the United States"
Evening star., 1941-01-08

Miss Leila Mechlin, art critic OF
The Star, today was presented a
water color by Edward Bruce, chief
of the Federal Works Agency's
Section of Fine Arts, in recognition
for having picked group OF pictures
from which the most sales were
made during the recent Washington
Art Critics Water Color Show.
Five groups were selected for the
show, which closed January l, from
among several thousand water colors
remaining after jury of nationally
known artists had chosen 300 for
purchase by the Government as
marine hospital decorations. APP
proximately 5000 originally were
submitted in the competition
sponsored by the Section of Fine
Arts.
At the presentation today, Mr..
Bruce offered Miss Mechlin a work
which he described as "one Of my
favorites," and then added, with q
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Safer Driving
Appeal Issued
By Van Duzer
City's 1941 Traffic
Fatalities EquoI
Jonuory, 1910, Toll

Confronted with a fatal traffic
rate so far this year equal to the
entire toll of January, 1910, Traffic
Director William "A. Van Duzer to-
day warned both motorists and
pedestrians that they must be more
careful"
At the same time he noted that
yesterday passed without any serious
accidents, following the deaths early
in the morning of the fourth and
fifth traffic victims from previous
accident. In nearby Maryland and
Virginia late yesterday, however,
five persons were injured, one Sc
riously.
I'VE are doing everything we pos
sibly can," Mr.. Van Duzer said, but
it is up to the individual to prevent
accidents. think the accidents have
shown that carelessness is fault
equally Of the pedestrian and the
motorist."
Safety Proposal Offered.
Pointing to the fact that the city Is
now in the midst of one of the
three worst traffic months
Der, January and February-he said
that accidents in this period can be
decreased If some method is found
to combat the dangers from the long
hours of darkness.
People wear dark clothes in win
ter" the traffic head declared, "and
are difficult for drivers to see. If
they carried some white object in
their hands, such as a newspaper,
their chances of being struck would
be far less. Those who live in the
country have always made a prac-
tice of carrying a newspaper or
anything which reflects light when
walking at night"
Mr.. Van Duzer said much research
remains to be done toward an i'm
proved street lighting. No one
seems to know just what to do to
make artificial light approximate
daylight, he declared.
The best lighting in Washington,
he pointed out, is in the special ex-
perimental project for about six
blocks of Rock Creek Ford road in
the vicinity of Military road.
The only consolation he could
find in the death rate for this
month was that "often a bad start
means good ending"
Woman Struck by Bus.
Seriously injured when struck by
a bus on Columbia pike in Ar
lington County yesterday was Min
ME Ramsey. 50, Of 1923 D street
Sc. She was taken to Emergency
Hospital, where it was found she
had possible skull fracture, frac-
tured leg and chest injuries.
Three members of one family
were injured when their car and a
truck were in collision near Dun
kirk, Md, on the Marlboro pike.
They were Charles Drury, S. who
received chest injuries; his two sis
ters, Mabel. 81, a broken leg, and
Violet, 50, chest injuries. All are
from Dunkirk. Casualty Hospital
physicians described their condi-
ton as fair.
Morris Wilkerson, 20, of Aquasco,
Md. was taken b Providence Hos
pital from an accident at Aquasco,
Md, suffering with conclusion and
possible skull fracture.
Two inquests into the traffic
deaths of Olive Edwards. Al, of
1927 Fifteenth street NE. and
Marie Schwarthner, 10, of 200 Rhode
Island avenue NE, were to be held
at the District Morgue today.
An inquest into the death OF
Andrew T. Dent. jrr, 81, of 1872
Buchanan street NV, will be held
tomorrow. Inquests will be held in
the deaths of Boyd Unkle, 70, OF
TOO Tenth street Sc. and John
Jordan, 10, Of TOT Newton street
NV.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
New World Security
Will Be Discussed
By Panel Groups
Inter-Americun Center
At 6. w. U. Sponsors
Sessions Next Week

| Two panel discussions on New
World Security: Military, Economic
and Cultural Defense of the West
ern Hemisphere" will be held under
the auspices of the Inter-American
Center of George Washington Uni
versity next Monday and Tuesday.
Distinguished speakers will par
ticipate in the discussions, to be
held at pm. each night in the
auditorium of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States, 1915 H
street NV. The occasion is the
centers fourth annual Pan-Amer-
ican Conference, and George How
land Cox, director of the Inter-
American Center, will be the gen.
eral chairman.
DIR. Marvin Is Chairman.
Dr.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president
of George Washington University,
will be chairman of the Monday
night session. Speakers and their
subjects will be: John I. B. McCul-
loch, associate in Latin-American
affairs, Foreign Policy Association,
Inc, editor of the Pan-American
News and co-founder and editor of
the American Quarterly, New
Trends on the Pan-American
Front; Harry Warner Frantz, news
writer with the United Press foreign
department. Canada and the Pan
American Movement" and William
Crane JohnStone, jr., dean of the
junior college of George Washington
University and professor of political
science, Latin America and Japan's
New Order"
Members of the panel for Monday
night will be Kendric Nichols Mar
shall, president of Chevy Chase
Junior College; William Cabell Van
Week, dean of the George Wash
ington University law school; Rus
sell Singer, general manager Of the
American Automobile Association,
Washington, and Frederick Morris
Feiker, dean of the George Wash
ington University school of engi-
neering.
Speakers on Tuesday.
At Tuesdays meeting, at which
Robert Lincoln O'Brien, former
chairman of the United States Tariff
Commission, will be chairman, the
following will speak: Robert Gran
vile Caldwell, former Minister to
Portugal and Bolivia, dean of hu-
manities at the Institute of Tech
nology, and chairman of the cul-
tural relations program for the
co-ordinator of commercial and cul-
tural relations between the Ameri-
can Republics, Council of Defense,
whose subject will be 'The Signifi-
canoe of Pan Americanism Today"
George Elliott Quisenberry, vice
president and director of the Busi-
ness Publishers International Corp,
New Commercial Geography of
Latin America" and Gen. George
c. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff,
THE Armed Defenses of the New
World"
Then panel will consist of Howard
Sanderson Leroy, attorney; Robert
Whitney Bowel, professor of Ameri-
can literature, George Washington
University; Alan Thomas Deibert
associate professor of romance Ian
guages at George Washington Uni
versity, and Henry Grattan Doyle
dean of Columbian College at the
university.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Society of War Of 1872
To Have Jackson Dinner

Former Representative Maurice H.
Thatcher of Kentucky will be princi-
pal speaker at the Jackson Day
dinner of the Society of the War
of 1912, at 7 pm. tonight, at the
Army and Navy Club.
Mr.. Thatcher, a former Governor
of the Canal Zone, will discuss the
military career of Andrew Jackson
as it was reflected in the politics
of the period. He also will give a
lecture on the Canal Zone, illustrat-
ed by colored slides made during
his stay there.
Frank B. Steele, president of the
society, is to preside, and Maj. Harry
A. Davis, treasurer, is in charge of
arrangements.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Fleming Will Discuss
40-Hour Week Tonight

Col. Philip B. Fleming, admin
istrator of the wage and hour
division, will discuss the effect OF
the 40-hour week in the rearmament
effort in radio speech tonight.
hits topic has been much discussed
by both labor and industry.
Col Fleming is expected to reply
to arguments that the standard
work-week should be heightened
as means of speeding the produc-
ton of war materials. His talk.
"The Wage-Hour Law and National
Defense" will be broadcast locally
over Station WMAL.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
D. T.. Draft Officials
Push Plan 10 Build
Glass | Reservoir
QuestionnoIres to Go
To 5000 Registronts
Immediately

Anticipating increasingly large de-
mands for selective service recruits
within the next few months, WASH
ington's Is draft boards today pre-
pared to mail out more than 5000
questionnaires to registrants to
build up large reservoir of Glass /
men.
Mailing of the additional forms,
expected to be completed within a
week, will double the total number
of queStionnaires sent out to regi-
strants since Inauguration of the
selective service program in Novem-
ber.
Registrants were warned they
must return the papers within five
days from the mailing date. under
regulations of the National Selective
Service organization.
Although no further calls are eX-
pected until next month, District
draft officials said classification OF
an ample reserve of Selectees Is
highly desirable at this time tc
prevent a bottleneck in operations
at the time of the next quota an
nouncement.
May Rush Physical Tests.
Many of the subsequent Glass
registrants may be given physica
examinations to determine theil
subclassif1cation prior to receipt o
the actual call, it was understood
Heretofore, physicals have been helC
over until final orders for selectee
were received from Sd Corps Are;
headquarters.
The January quota of 210 mel
will be completed the first of mex
week. when A colored selectees vii
be named for Army induction Jan
uary IT. Names of 166 men, to b.
inducted In Baltimore Saturday AM
Monday, were announced yesterday
Two registrants named on tn
original list yesterday were replacet
later when it was learned they hat
filed appeals from rulings Of thei
local draft boards.
| Two Are Replaced
They were Howard N. WoodSide
1910 Perry street NE, and Alfret
de Francesca, 316 A street Sc, O
Local Boards 20 and %, respectively
AS the Board of Appeals has nc
ruled in their cases, they receiveu
replacements on the Saturday in
duction list.
Joseph Gallow, 2419 Second stree
NE, was called on to replace MI
Woodside, and Roland Shull Kunkle
2915 M street Sc, was substitute
for Mr.. de Francesca. Should tn,
appeals board uphold the locs
boards ruling in the cases, the tw,
registrants would be placed at tn,
top of their lists for the next call
Otherwise, they will be dropped II
deferred classif1cations.
! Meanwhile, chief clerks of loca
draft boards made plans for a ban
quet to be held at the MayfoWe
Hotel within the next two week
to discuss problems of board clerica
management. Walter L. Perlev
chief clerk at Board No. 3, who i
IN charge of arrangements for tn,
dinner, said DR.. Clarence Dykstra
national selective service director
Brig. Gen. L. Cox, executive Office
OF the District organization, ant
chalrmen of the local boards woul
be among special guests invited.
Evening star., 1941-01-08

street, West Virginia avenue to
Trinidad avenue, S17,300; Simms
place, Montello avenue to Trinidad
avenue, $10,70O; Central avenue,
Carlton avenue to Clinton avenue,
$3,4O0; Shepherd street, Bunker Hill
road to Twenty-fourth street, 81 400;
Twenty-second street, Bunker Hill
road to Upshur street, SO, ZOO; Third
street, T street to concrete south of
V street, $4,000; U street, Third
street to Fourth street, $4700; Todd
place, Third street to Fourth street,
$4,000; Kennedy street, North Capt.
tol street to First street, $4,000;
Longfellow street, New Hampshire
avenue to First street, $500; Third
street, M street to Florida avenue.
$13,600.
Southwest.
Nichols avenue, South Capitol
street to Chesapeake street, $36 900
Southeast.
Pennsylvania avenue, Alabama
avenue to Fort Davis street, $4,000;
East Capitol street, Central avenue
to Fifty-fifth street, $4,000; East
Capitol street, Eighteenth street to
Nineteenth street, $4,000: Naylor
road, r street to Twenty-flfth street
81, 100; Thirty-first street, Alabama
avenue to w place, $4,000; Thirty
fourth street, Alabama avenue te
Bangor street, $1,000; Fort Davis
street, PENNSYLVANIA avenue to alley
north of r street, and r street, For
Davis street to Alabama avenue
$4,000; Fifty-third street, East Cap.
itol street to Central avenue, $l2 200
Twenty seventh street, Pennsylvania
avenue to Minnesota avenue, Sc, 800
Twenty-eighth street, Pennsylvania
avenue to Minnesota avenue, $ll 300
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Mrs. Agnes Mason Gets
New A. B. c. Board Term

Mrs. Agnes K. Mason, vice chair
man of the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board and one, of its original
members, today was reappointed by
the Commissioners for a new term
of four years, beginning February g.
1t will be her third term. She was
appointed first in 1884 for three
year term, and reappointed n 1887
for four years.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Named on Council

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 8 P).-
Gov: O'Conor yesterday appointed
w. B. Galloway, general passenger
agent OF the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road, and Charles H. Robson, jr.,
president Of the Central Fire In
surance Co., as members of the
Maryland Council of Defense and
Resources.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Bund Concert

BY the United States Marine Band
Symphony Orchestra, in the band
auditorium of Marine Barracks, to-
day at BIS pm. Capt. William F.
Santelmann, leader; Henry Weber,
second leader.
Evening star., 1941-01-08

In January, Beware Of:
1. Crossing a street at a point
other than a crosswalk. Three
persons were killed doing so in
January 1910.
2. Crossing q street at an un-
controlled intersection. This
took one life in January last
year.
All four pedestrians killed last
January were over so years of
age, two being 10 or over. The
fifth death was that of a motor
cycle policeman killed in COL
lision while pursuing speeding
car.
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Red Cross Advances
Drive 10 M,329 as
Pace Is Stepped Up
140, 900 EnroIIees
Needed to Reach Goal
In Remoining II Days

The annual District Red Gross Roll
Call total, showing a comparatively
large increase for the second sue
cessive day. advanced yesterday to
60,329 with the addition of 1891 new
members.
While the pace of the annual drive
has been stepped up noticeably since
the meeting Monday to determine
the cause of lag in enrollments as
compared to last years total at this
period, Chairman Edgar Morris
pointed out that nearly 100000 en-
rollees must be obtained during the
remaining IL days of the campaign
if the goal of 100000 memberships is
to be reached.
Noticeable among yesterdays re-
ports was one from the Government
Printing Office in which were in
cluded $3.50 memberships. Other
Government departments d d
fewer than 500.
825 in One Firm Enroll.
For the fourth consecutive year,
the Palais Royal store qualified yes
terday for a place on the list of firms
with 100 per cent Red Cross men,
bership. All of its 825 employees sub
scribed to the roll call, it was report
ed, and the entire group Of enroll
ments were turned in at one time
through the general business group,
headed by David E. Mccoy, chair
man. This was the first large busi-
ness organization in the city to en-
roll all of its personnel. A partial
return of more than 800 member
ships was received from Frank r..
Jellef, Inc.
At a tea at the Sulgrave Club
yesterday afternoon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Morris entertained approximately
500 Roll Call workers. During the
entertainment, Mr. Morris was pre-
sented with a Red Gross volunteer
service badge by Brig. Gen. Frank
r. Keefer, chairman OF the District
Red Cross Chapter, in return for his
long service with the Red Cross.
In a talk over Station WMAL,
DR.. John j. Fitzpatrick, dean OF
the Columbus University Law
School, reminded Washington resi-
dents that, in their comfort and
contented living, they have diff
Guilty in realizing the suffering, the
despair and the horror which pre-
vail In SO many parts of the world.
Danger in Delaying.
$50 it is that, at this time" he
added, "the District Chapter of the
American Red Cross sounds to us
peculiarly appealing note when
it goes into our streets and avenues
seeking 100000 supporting members
But there is danger, in these times
when so many of us are working
under pressure, that we will put of
too long or delay unwisely taking
the simple step which will place u.
in the Red Cross ranks. I therefore
feel it necessary to urge that the
righteous cause of the Red Gross
be expedited and that each OF. u
no longer delay or postpone cul
enrolment" ~ f&
A luncheon meeting OF the genera
business group has BEEN; called bs
I its chairman, David E. Mccoy, Il
be held at the penthouse of the
telephone company building at 1873
pm. Monday. ~ &
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Evening star., 1941-10-09
Plans 10 Deliver Supplies
To Greece Being Made
8y the Associated Press

BY the associated Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Dean
Alfange, director of the Greek War
Relief Association. disclosed yester-
day that plans for delivery of war
relief supplies to Axis-occupied
Greece through the Mediterranean
from Turkey were being made in the
United States and in Ankara.
Mr.. Alfange said the British gov
eminent had given its consent for
shipments and that distribution
would be under supervision of the
Greek and international Red Cross
organizations.
A program was being worked out
by the American Ambassador and
the Greek and British Ministers at
Ankara, Mr.. Alfange continued, with
assurance from Germany that the
supplies would not be confscated by
occupation forces. About 1900, 900,
still unexpended from the $1,000 900
fund raised by the association, is
available for relief from this coun-
try, he said.
Evening star., 1941-10-09

end Of her service had arrived. As
the Roll Call date neared. however,
she told them she was ready.
In all her long period as a Red
Cross canvasser, she never has used
pressure in enlisting enrollees-ex-
cept in her own home. where even
the cook wears a button.
Just look sweet" Is her advice
for encouraging people to contribute.
Mrs. Ettinger was born on Ground
hog Day, and that's almost as far
as she will 60 toward revealing her
age.
I'm past 66 and I'm not 80, but
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Johnny RevoIto's Sister,
Husband Found Slain
b. the Associated Press.

B, the Associated Press.
OSHKOSH, Wis, Oct. 9.-The
bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Earl E. Nor
gan were found yesterday in their
apartment above the restaurant they
operated here.
Police Capt. Fred Zelda said Nor
gan, SO. apparently shot his wife
Marie, IS. and then committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the head
Mrs. Morgan was the former Marie
Revolta, a sister of Johnny Revolta
nationally known golf professional
of Evanston, Ill.
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Jury in Graft Trial Of IS
Named After Quiz Of 619
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Oct. 9.-After exami-
nation Of 619 persons, a jury was
selected yesterday to try former
Mayor Richard w. Reading and "a
others on graft conspiracy charges.
Testimony was to begin today.
Chester P. O'Hara, special prose-
cutor. told the jurors the State
would show that Mr.. Reading ac-
cepted $4,000 in graft from num-
bers racket operators. The prose-
cution charged that all of the de-
PENDANTS had been enriched" in
various ways.
The State charges that the de-
PENDANTS conspired in operation of
numbers and policy games estimated
Evening star., 1941-10-09
BY PAT JONES.

BY PAT JONES.
A Washington resident who will
not tell how far past 66 extends her
age took cognizance this fall of her
25th consecutive year as a District
Red Cross Roll Call worker by per-
mitting for the first time a news
paper photographer to take her pic
ture.
America was on the verge of war
in 1916 when Mrs. R. L. Ettinger.
3110 Cathedral avenue NV, first
took up her post at the Red Cross
booth at Woodward g. Lothrop's.
And now, a quarter of century
later. the Nation again is on the
verge of war and Mrs. Ettinger still
is on duty at the store.
So long has Mrs. Ettinger directed
the Woodward e. Lothrop booth,
sponsored by the Calvary Baptist
Church, that Red Cross enrollees
have learned to look for her each
year, and some hold their contribu-
tions exclusively for her.
Illness Fails to Stop Her.
A woman once remarked at the
opening of Roll Call drive that she
had been trying for days to catch
the veteran worker at the booth.
To this Mrs. Ettinger remarked that
the potential enrollee must have got
her dates mixed, because the Roll
Call had not been in progress for
days. Never in the 25 years of the
Red Cross, she recalled, has there
been q time when some one has not
been on duty at the booth between
the hours of $3.50 am. and $50 pm.
Year after year Mrs. Ettinger has
worked for the Red Cross. She be-
gan as assistant at the booth and
later was made its director. Five
years ago she was stricken by illness
from which she never has recovered
fully, but she has not permitted even
such a setback to stop her annual
participation in the Roll Call drive
1t seemed this year, when she
tried to stand on her legs. that the
Evening star., 1941-10-09

to have yielded q gross of sl0,000,-
900 annually in violation of law.
Ten women and four men are on
the jury for the trial, described as
the biggest in Michigan criminal
history in number of defendants.
Evening star., 1941-10-09

Manila hemp is considered the
most satisfactory material for ma
rine cordage, according to the De-
partment of Commerce.