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Evening star., 1941-12-04
Fairfax Teacher Leave
Asked by Association
Special Dispa tch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, Dec. A reso-
luton asking the County School
Board to amend its regulations rela-
tive to sick leave granted teachers
to include absence from school be-
cause of death in the immediate
family of the teacher, has been
adopted by the Fairfax County Edu-
cation Association.
The association also, for the first
time, set up department of class
room teachers. The group will be
headed by Miss Audrey Snodgrass Of
Falls Church. as chairman; Miss
Clara Mergler of Fairfax High
School, secretary, and Miss Elma
Besley of Burke, treasurer.
A subsidiary committee consist
ing Of three vice chairmen was
named, including Carl Levin Of
Fairfax. from the high school group:
Miss Elizabeth Reid of Forestville.
from the elementary group, and Miss
Helen Buckley of Fairfax, from the
primary group. Miss Mary Burgess
of Fairfax, Mrs. Virginia Clapp Of
Woodlawn and Miss Lottie Swope
of Herndon were named secretaries
for the sub groups. Mrs. Lula Tan
ner of Vienna was appointed to
sponsor the three point educational
program Of the State Educational
Association.
Evening star., 1941-12-04
Weaver to Defend Both
Youths in LoveIess Case
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to Ths Star.
LEESBURG, Va, Dec. 4.-State
Senator Aubrey Weaver of Front
Royal will represent both youths
charged with the murder of Ward
Loveless, Washington attorney, it
was learned today.
Mr.. Weaver was retained as coun-
sci for Herbert Buck Porter, one of
the youths, on the day after the
alleged slayers were arrested in Ap-
palachia, Va, last week. Disclosure
that he also would defend Paul
Bernard Hoback, the other youth,
came after Mr.. and Mrs. H. r.
Hoback, Bluef1eld, w. Va, the
parents, visited their son in the
Leesburg jail earlier in the week.
The case against the pair is ex-
pected to be presented to the grand
jury soon after 1t meets for . new
term next Monday.
Evening star., 1941-12-04
zoners Permit
A Paying Guests
In Homes
Lift Rooming and
Boarding House Bon
In Restricted Areas

Subject to certain stipulations,
boarding and rooming houses for as
many as four guests per dwelling
will be permitted in restricted resi-
dental districts under plan ap-
proved yesterday by the District
Zoning Commission, to be effective
probably tomorrow or Saturday.
The emergency plan to relieve the
housing problem for the flood of
new defense workers is to be aban-
doned at the end of the national
emergency proclaimed by President
Roosevelt Or by December 81, 1945,
whichever is reached first.
1t was adopted after determined
opposition had been voiced at a
public hearing by spokesmen for
some civic groups. The plan also
had been termed vicious" pro-
posal by Harland Bartholomew, con-
sultant of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission,
whose views were accepted in gen.
eral by that agency. He maintained
that TO open the doors of restricted
residential areas to boarding and
rooming houses created hazard
of permanently blighting those
areas for single family dwelling use.
Requires Special Certificate.
In response to some protests, ap-
parently, the commission wrote into
the new rule limitation that not
more than four guests may be
housed in single family dwelling
in a restricted zone. The original
plan had no limit.
To be legal, the operation OF
boarding and rooming houses in
restricted residential zones also is
subject to stipulations that the
owner Or lessee must apply to and
obtain from the District InSpec-
ton Department a special certificate
of occupancy, and the applicant
must give an unconditional state
ment that at the end of the emer-
gency period or by December 81.
l945, the boarding and rooming
house use in restricted residential
zones will cease.
The commission had heard argu-
ments at the hearing that no struc-
| tural alterations should be per-
mitted which would permanently
change the appearance of buildings.
Offcials explained that a S5a-
year boarding and rooming house
| license would be required only II
10 or more persons were housed in
building. and that fire escapes
would be required only if there were
sleeping accommodations for 10 or
more persons above the first floor.
I The commission also approved a
zoning amendment to permit, sub
ject to certain restrictions, the es-
tablishment of passenger stations
or bus or streetcar urn-arounds in
residential districts.
They also approved another
change to permit. subject to a series
Of conditions, the operation Of Of
fees of trade associations, physicians
and other professional persons in
buildings in the Residential &C" and
ID" area districts.
The commission made another
change TO permit off street park
ing facilities in any zoning district.
if the project is approved by the
zoning Commission, but it was
stipulated the commission must give
public notice and a public hearing.
The fringe parking bill, pending in
Congress, merely requires approval
by the Zoning Commission. but does
not require public hearings. The
commission voluntarily added the
extra requirement.
Evening star., 1941-12-04

mond. already has reported total
gifts of $l7,431, or 7747 per cent of
its $22 500 quota. Prince Georges
County, under the chairmanship of
DR.. H. c. Byrd, has reported SLABS
or 94.63 per cent Of a $4,000 quota
reported thus far.
The following committee chair
men have exceeded their quotas and
their groups are still working:
Prince Georges County: Mrs.
Norman Collins, J. Frank Dent Mrs.
Henry c. Kuhl, Arthur c. Keefer, A.
H. Smith and DR.. T. B. Symons.
Montgomery County: Mrs. Wal
ter A. Brown, Donald Bowie, jr.:
Mrs. Douglas Diamond, Mrs. william
j. Norf1eet, Mrs. Howell L. LaMotte,
Mrs. Jerome Barnard, Mrs. Albert C.
Walker, Mrs. Thomas Creighton,
jr.: Mrs. Fred Stohlman, Mrs. Hunt
er Davidson, Mrs. Thomas C. Kel-
ley, Rodney McCathran, Mrs. Dom
aid Roberts, Mrs. Alfred Moran,
Mrs. Arthur Ringland. Miss Erma
Kile, Mrs. T. Stanley Holland. Mrs.
A. r. Ginsburg and Mrs. James l..
Thomas.
Evening star., 1941-12-04
Arlington Sells $3.50
In Seuls in 10 Duys

In the first 10 days of its Christ
mas seal campaign the Arlington
County tuberculosis Association has
received S2.16070
Mrs. Charles P. Cake, publicity
chairman. said this amount ie
slightly higher thor = "a, total
~. ...o saline period, but this years. s
quota exceeds last years by $2,l00
The goal Is 5000. Mrs. j. Blaine
Gwin is chairman Of the seal sale.
Evening star., 1941-12-04
Quartermaster Depot
Completion Expected
About March 81
Project Near Alexandria
Delayed Approximately
; Months by Shift

The Army's Quartermaster Depot
delayed when plans for the new War
Department Building in Arlington
County, Va, required it to move te
another site, will be completed about
March 81, it was learned today.
The depot is now being con-
structed on il7-acre tract lr
Fairfax County on Duke street ex-
tended, 81 miles from the Alexan-
dria city limits.
Mai. Eben S. Longfellow of the
constructing quartermaster's Office
of the War Department. said about
s65 900 had been spent at the origi-
nal site of the depot on Columbia
pike in Arlington when the decision
to locate the War Department there
forced the relocation of the depot.
Most Of the money had been spent
for temporary Office buildings and
grading of land, he said.
The Army engineer also disclosed
that the transfer Of the site from
the Columbia pike area has delayed
construction about three months.
The original completion date had
been set at about January l, he
said.
Costs About $4,000, 900.
At its present location the new
project will be known officially
as the Alexandria Guartermaster
Depot. It's cost will be about So
10000. for four warehouses, 720
feet long by 1873 feet wide. The
buildings are to be Of brick and glass
brick. the latter placed in a wide
border near the ceilings of the one
story structures to permit diffused
daylight to enter the interiors.
About 500 civilian employees. under
Army supervision. will be employed
at the depot when completed, Maj.
Longfellow said
The tract on which the four build
ings are now being erected con-
tains sufficient room for eight
similar buildings. A central heat
ing plant will be installed in a
separate building with provision for
coal to be used as fuel.
The War Department will lay an
8-inch water main between the
project and Alexandria, which
will, roughly, parallel Duke street.
Because 1t will be Government
owned. no private tapping will be
permitted on the line.
Emergency Tanks Planned.
While the pipe would supply
sufficient water for all normal pur-
poses. the project includes the erec-
ton of a 100000 steel storage tank
for emergency supply use and also
as a precaution against fire, Maj
Longfellow disclosed.
One of the factors governing the
selection of the site is its location
adjacent to the main lines of the
Southern Railroad and other rail-
way lines. Railroad spurs into the
depot grounds are now about IS per
cent completed.
Maj. Longfellow said work would
have been about three-fourths COM
pleted had it been allowed to pro-
gress at the Arlington County site
The depot will not confine its service
to only one area but will contain
supplies for military areas through
out the Nation, he said. The sup
plies will be mostly records and
forms. he said, and no military
equipment is expected to be stored
in the depot. The nearest similar
depot is at Richmond. 1t also is
nearing completion.
Evening star., 1941-12-04
/. E. Rubbitt Buried

BETHESDA, Md, Dec. 4 (SpeciaD ..
Funeral services for Irwin E. Rab-
bitt, SO, native and former long
time resident of the Rockville
neighborhood, who died on Tuesday
in a Washington hospital, were
held today at the funeral home of
w. Reuben Pumphrey, Bethesda
Burial was in the cemetery adjoin-
ing St. Mary's Church. Mr.. Rab-
bitt, who was son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Rabbit, is
survived BY five sisters and three
brothers.
Evening star., 1941-12-04
Workers Head to Speak

Willard S. Townsend. interna-
tional president Of the United
Transport Service Employees Of
America, will discuss the background
of the organization of this group Of
workers and will give their current
employment problems on the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People program
over Station WINK ut $50 pm.
Sunday.
Evening star., 1941-12-04
GIee Club to Sinq

The Women's Glee Club of How
ard University, directed by Carolyn
v. Grant, will give recital at $50
pm. tomorrow at the Zion Baptist
Church, 337 r street S.W, for the
benefit of missions.
Evening star., 1941-12-04
Toll In Previous Months.

In December, Beware Of:
l. The hours between 5 and
10 pm. Ten of the l3 traffic
victims in December last year
were killed within this five
hour period.
2. Crossing a street at some
point other than a crossWalk.
Three pedestrians lost their
lives in December, 1910, while
doing this.
Evening star., 1941-12-04
Waste Paper Campaign Yields
Big First-Doy Collection
Paper Collections
for 7 omorrow

BeloW is the list OF schools and
the order OF collection in the
PIT. A.-Erening Star paper SAL
Udge program tomorroU.
District No. S.
Burrville Madison
Deanwood Taylor
KenilWorth Blair
Benning Hayes
Smothers Ludlow
Phelps Vocational Logan
Browne Junior Stuart Junior
High High
Young Carbery
Blow Hilton
Webb Peabody
Pierce Gales
Kingsman Seaton
Eliot Junior High Walker
Eastern High Jones
Maurv Douglas -Simmon!
Lovejoy Blake
Edmonds
Evening star., 1941-12-04
Halt the Toll
Every blot is a District traffic
death. Stop the December toll.
December, l94l
Dec. z
December, 1910

Dec. 2IDec. ! Dec. l3 Dec. a Dec. Is
. . . . .
Dec. 20 Dec II Dec. q Dec. Is Dec. 26
. . ooO . .
Dec. u
q
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02
Prisoner Faces
Fugitive Charge

A complaint charging Tom
Tilley Waller, 26 year old, colored,
with being a fugitive from justice
was filed in East Phoenix Precinct
Justice Court Friday, July Is, by
Lon Jordan, Sheriff Waller, in a
petition filed in superior Court
Thursday, asked for a writ of hab-
cas- corpus to release him from the
county Jail where he is being held
Tor Caldwell, Texas, officers on a
reported charge of attempted mur-
der
The hearing on the writ was held
Saturday morning and was denied
by Superior Judge Arthur T. La
Parade. The suspect was immediate
ly returned to the justice court
where he denied the complaint. His
attorney told the court that this
was a "peonage" case and that a
certain white man in Texas wons
thousands of acres of land, and
wanted to have Waller framed and
brought back to Texas for the
purpose of making him work as a
slave on his farm.
His bond was fixed at $4,000.
pending the arrival of the Texas
office. Waller plans to fight extri-
dition.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02

Simultaneous with the holding of
the services word cropped out for
the first time that when DR.. Hug
gins coat was found on the George
washington bridge the day follow
ing his disappearance, a set of chill
dren's toys were also discovered.
There were no children born to the
couple during their years of mar
rage and in light of this discov-
cry speculation has already started
over the circumstances of these
toys.
He is known to have had $500 in
MS pocket when he took his life,
and 1t is rumored that he was an
Xlous to get another 5000. Being
already we'll in debt to personal
friends, his failure to have been
able to raise this extra sum is
oelng viewed with much coniec-
lure, possibly as a cause for sui
cloe, fact that is attested to by
Two notes he wrote before commit
Clng the act, one to his wife and
another to Claudius P. Sterrett, his
friend the burying undertaken.
question also persists as to why he
might have wanted this sum of
money. Sufficient evidence has not
yet been uncovered to answer this
chaln are eagerly being sought.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02
Disclose Plans To Use 92,846 Race Officers
And Men In 7welue Branches Of IT, S. Army
Nab Burglary
Threat Suspect

A 32-year-old colored cook was
arrested Saturday morning, July
26, on charges of burglarizing a
local barbecue stand and mailing
letter assertedly threatening
the life of the proprietor's son.
Chief of Detectives R "A. Graham
said the cook was taken into GUS
tody by Detective Ira O'Neal and
that confession has been obtain
ed. The man was turned over to
the FBI for prosecution.
The cook, according to Graham,
admitted posting letter in which
the son of E. j. Hodge, colored, op-
orator of a barbecue stand at l015
East Washington street, was threat
ened. Graham quoted the note as
reading, "Your boy must leave town
or be killed"
At the bottom of the letter was
a crudely-pG inted skull and cross
bones and the word, Death"
Charles B. Arnold, police hand
writing expert, said sample print
ing made by the cook corresponded
with the threat letter.
The cook, Graham added, also
admitted breaking into the stand
about l o'clock Saturday morning
and stealing cash register con-
tanning Sc. The register was re-
covered in a canal near the Tovrea
Packing company. Detectives E.A.
Edwards and D. G. klvaradO. as
sisted in solving the case.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02
Scott Is Army's
Youngest Officer

FORT BRAGG, N. C.-(S N 81
From recruit to First Sergeant
IN less than II months this is the
military history Of First Sergeant
Le2nder H. Scott, Jr, 10 years old
who is believed the youngest first
sergeant in the Army.
Sergeant Scott, whose home Is
IN Ferida, La, enlisted in the Armv
on August 19, 1910 and came to
Fort Bragg to be assigned to the
4lst Engineers, colored regiment.
Before entering the Military Serv.
Ice, Scott was attending the T. j.
Harris Senior high school in Meri-
DIAN, Miss. He had completed
three years at the school, but de-
c1ded to join the Army and make
some money to- enable him to go
to college and study Civil Enei-
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02
Tenn. Teacher
Is Found Dead
In Her Bathtub
Suicide
Theory Is
Being Studied

MEMPHIS, Tenn.-(SNS)-
Mrs. Emma Broughton Jones, 64
year-cld grammar school teacher
whose mother was noted for year
in home and foreign missionar,
work cf the National Baptis
Convention, Inc, was found deat
in a partly filled bathtub of wa
ter in her home late Tuesday
morning.
Although neighbors strongly
limited suicide, police officers who
investigated circumstances sur
rounding the case intimated thai
Mrs. Jones most likely drowned in
the bath tub as the result OF ar
accident. A cripple in one OF hel
legs. Mrs. Jones, according TO the
theory advanced by the police, mcg
have fallen into the tub accident
ally and could not free herself.
Her body was discovered in the
tub by neighbors. She had been
dead about 24 hours, it was re-
ported.
The WORLD was informed tha:
one of Mrs. Jones' neighbors was
called by Mrs, Sykes to find out II
anything was wrong with he1
sister.
II went to the rear door of Mrs.
Jones home where ! found the
lattice porch door unlocked but
closed, the ineighbor, WHO refused
to reveal her name, said. "I enter
ed the porch and proceeded to the
next door leading into the house.
1t too was unlocked by closed.
AS I pushed the door open, saw
the remains of Mrs. Jones lying
face down in the bath tub. She
was unclad and there was water
on the floor that had a pink tint
A WORLD reporter, while at
the scene, observed small bits OF
charred cloth and burned news"
paper in the heater of the bed
room of Mrs. jones home. This
paper is believed 10 nave contained
some kind of liquid from the way
it had burned
Mrs. Jones had been teacher at
Klondyke School for more than &c
years. She came from an illus.
triouS family background. Hel
was one of the first grad
yates of Fisk University and sang
with the famous Fisk Jubilee Sing
ers when they toured England and
countries of Continental Europe
For many years, Mrs. Broughton
was one of the leading women
workers of the National Baptis,
Convention, having served her
church in Africa under the late
Dr.. East Of philadelphia, secretary
of Foreign Mission.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02

neering. Now that ne is in the
Army, and has made such sue
cess of himself, he has decided to
make it his life's work.
When the Seth Engineer Batta-
lion was activated at Fort Bragg On
May Is, 1941, Scott was transfer
red to the new unit as a psrt of
the cadre. In just a month he was
advanced to the grade of Staff
Sergeant, and fifteen days later he
was made First Sergeant His Or
ganlzatlon is Company B and he
has 253 men serving under him,
most OF whom are older than he.
Sergeant Scott now receives $84
per month, plus his food, clothing
and housing. He worked his way
through high school by serving as
Janltor in an elementary school
for $35 per month.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02
CONTINUED on Back Page,
Finds JailS Made
For Car SpeederS

A few nights ago an employee Of
the Arizona Club, in his usual way
of going home after work, seemed to
have felt that he had only one
minute to make the trip. He was
arrested by two traffic officers and
Immediately began to talk. Man
I never was arrested in my life, and
I amt never been in jail; know
all the leading white folks here,
Mr. r. and Mr. and I been
here for years"
"Oh!-so you amt never been in
jail?" replied the cops, well that's
all right about who you know; you
will go to jail for while"
So the good brother was locked up
in the city Jail but was released
10 minutes later. It isn't who you
know, but it's what you do and
how you do it.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02
H0LLEY SAYS
HE'LL ANSWER
RACECRITICS
Praises Governor
Talmadge for His
School Defense
ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
Governor 1'almadge told
newspapermen Monday he
had received a letter from j.
W. Holley, president of Geor
gia Normal AND Agricultural
College at Albany. He said
President Hollet praised him
for his magnificent de-
fense" of separate education
al programs for colored and
white students in this state.
In the letter, President
Holly said:
81 will answer fully and eff
fectivelv the adverse criti-
cism that comes from my
own people in Atlanta and
the northern papers and
magazines
Governor Talmadge said
he replied by inviting the AL
bany educator to attend the
next Board of Regents meet
ing at Tifton, August II.
In his reply, Governor told Pres
ident Holley:
'T want them members of the
board Ito hear from you"
Prof. Holley came into the pic
tire after Gov. Talmadge and his
r4vamped Board of Regents oust-
I'd two prominent white educators
from their state teaching posts. II
was alleged that the fired white
men had advocated social equality
Of the two races.
Ir his radio address last Friday
night, Governor Talmadge stated
his position on the Negro educa
ton question in Georgia by quot
ing a speech delivered by Presi.
cent Holley before the State Board
OF Regents in 1885.
Holley was quoted by the Gov
ernor as saying:
''The Negro (educationaD units
have no place in the University
System the background OF
the Negro is vastly different from
the white man, his environment is
unlike that of the white man, and
his future outlook so different, that
It will be impossible to orientate
or fuse both races in one educa-
tiona1 system Those Negro
units should be set apart by them
selves under special commission
Give us separate schools from
the elementary grades through the
graduate schools and we will give
TO the state a Negro citizenship
that will contribute it's full quota
&c the sum total Of all that makes
for happv ami prosperous COM
nonthwealth."
Following the address, many
Georgians expressed themselves as
opposing Holleys contentious.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02

West Virginia; Gilbert F.. Joseph
Of the Virgin Islands; Edward j.
Reese, Jr., of Railway, New Jersey;
and Andsew Naples. Jr., of Orange
Va.
One Hampton coed, Mildred I.
Curtis of Washington, D. c., was in
the group of seven that received
their certificates. The others are
George E. Bell of Altoona, Pennsyl-
vania; Vernon Haywood of Raleigh
North Carolina; Henry A. Holmes
of Petersburgh, Virginia; John L.
Jones of Red Bank, New Jersey;
and Hollis Terrell of Jones Store,
Va.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02
PhOenician Killed
In Auto Accident

An automobile swerved from the
highway and overturned 13 miles
east of Quartzsite, Arizona, Satur-
day, July 26, killing Mr.. Ollie SyaS
26 years old, formerly of Phoenix
His father, Mr. John Syas, who
resides on West Tonto ST., in Pheo-
nix, accompanied by his other son,
Alvin and others left Sunday for
Blythe, California where the body
was taken. Quartzsite is little
town east of the Arizona -Califor-
mia State line.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02
BOXING INSPECTOR

DETROIT - CAMP - Rol1o S.
Vest, prominent newspaperman
here, last week received his Gre
dentials as boxing inspector
making him the first Michigan
Negro ever to serve in that capaci-
ty. The appointment for an indefi-
mite period, was confirmed by a
unanimous vote of the Athletic
Board of Control upon the recon-
mendation of Boxing Commission
er Petry Fisher Mr.. Vest will
maintain his newspaper connec-
tionS.
The Phoenix index., 1941-08-02
Dr. Willis N. Higgins
Final Rites Attended Bv
Only Relatives, Friends

NEW YORK. CAMP "A select
group of 125 close friends and rela-
tlves attended the final rites We'd
nesday afternoon of DR.. Willis N.
HugginS, noted historian and edu-
Gator, whose mysterious disappear
ance two days before last Xmas
was solved last week when his de-
composed body was dragged from
the Hudson river and taken to the
city morgue. DR.. j. w. Sampson,
the dentist who had done work for
him for eight years, identified the
body by the bridgeWork.
Not more than Is minutes we're
required to hear one solo by Mrs.
Alice Williams, a brief prayer by
the Rev. Thomas j. B. Harris of
Randall Memorial, and the main
eulogy and prayer by Rev. DR.. o.
Clay Maxwell, pastor of Mt. Olive
Baptist Church.
Beautiful floral tributes sur
grounded the casket. They had
been sent by friends, student
groups and others who had known
and worked with the late educa-
tor.
Mrs. Rosetta Higgins, his wife,
was the chief mourner.
The body was inferred at Mt.
Olivet cemetery on Long Island.
The honorary pallbearers were
John w. Walker, James Eggert
Allen, Capres Gunther, Edgar L.
and other questions but links in the
Ross, Henry Siegel, DIR. James
Thornton, Richard Warner and
Ellsworth Roberts.