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Evening star., 1941-06-17
HyattsviIle Raises
Town Tax Rate 10
45Cents Per S1OO
Increase Of 5 Cents
Required to Pay for
New Fire Equipment

A town tax rate of 45 cents per
500. 5 cents more than the current
rate. was authorized by the Mayor
and Council of Hyattsville last night.
The Council set the rate upon
recommendation of the Finance
Committee, headed by Councilman
Caesar L. Aiello. The scent in
crease was required to pay for a
new combination ladder truck and
pumper for the fire department,
purchase of which was authorized by
the voters last month.
The levy will be made on an as
sessable basis of S9.2l57 745, an in
crease of 1884 AGA over the basis for
the current year. The new levy be-
comes effective for the fiscal year
starting July l.
The budget calls for an estimated
town income of S45l16.49 and esti-
mated expenditures of S44 $40. leav-
ing a potential balance of S246. 40
However. Sn item of $500 is included
for unforeseen expenses. 1t is esti-
mated the town will start the new
fiscal year with balance of IS 1862
E. R. P. Smith of Hyattsville was
awarded a contract for construction
of storm sewer on Phillips avenue
on his low bid of s2,807. Instead
of using 36-inch pipe. as originally
planned. the council decided to use
54-inch pipe.
An ordinance was adopted max
ing it unlawful for an automobile
sales or service concern to store or
service an automobile or vehicle of
any kind on streets. The ordinance
becomes effective Immediately.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Bethesda Board Orders
20 TO Report for Induction

Selective Service Board No. 3 at
Bethesda. Nd. today announced the
names of 20 registrants who have
been ordered to report for induction
on June 25 and 26 from Montgom-
cry County.
Montgomery will be called on to
furnish 95 men and Prince Georges
County IS of the States July quota
of 1.73O, State headquarters has an
nounced. OF the total, 1925 will be
white and 4O5 colored
Other county quotas for the pc
riod between July and 81 include
Frederick, 81; Anne Arundel and
Washington, so each: St. Marys and
Garrett, 80 each.
The Bethesda area registrants. are
to report at 7:45 am. at the Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase Recreation
Center and will leave by bus for
Baltimore on both days.
Ten white men will leave the first
day. They are Henri j. Bernard.
Harold Hayiss Balkansky. Winston
Post Dalrymple, Edward Foster
Campbell, Tarlton Evanden Willett,
Robert Emmett O'Connell, Basis
Illarion Mishtowt. William Edward
Lucas Sumner Joshua Maletz and
Alfred John CoXeter.
Ten colored men will leave the
following day. They are William
Henry Washington. Lionel James
Allen Cleveland Clipper. Charles
Swami. Harry William Turner. Syl-
vester High, Clarence Windell Bates.
Ralph Archia Windear, Rapley
Thomas Henry and Judge Lee
Snapp.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
1000 Officers 10 Study
Adjutant Generals Work

The War Department will open
an adjutant generals school at Ar
llngton Cantonment. Va, about
July 81, with 1000 officers expected
to take a six-week course in groups
of 200 each.
A group of buildings to be used
exclusively by the school will be
reconditioned, the War Department
said.
Besides those to be trained at the
cantonment. an additional 1000 Off
GERS and 5000 key non-commissioned
men will receive instructions at their
respective stations in adjutant gen.
erals work.
The adjutant generals department
has keenly felt the lack of a branch
school for such training, especially
since the Army expansion program
began it was said. Since August,
1910, the department has been using
limited facilities at the Army War
College.
Corps area commanders, COM
manders of the field forces, the Air
Corps and the armored forces will
select students on quota basis, it
was said.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Lengthy Soldier
| Sleeps Again in
lone Bed at Time
By the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md,
June 17-Pvt. Robert F. Minke is
glad to be sleeping again in one bed
at time
Pvt Minke, stationed at Camp
Holabird, was brought to the Fort
Meade Station Hospital last week
for an emergency appendectomy.
Then came the real predetermined
ing ped big enough for Pvt. Minke,
who is 6 feet 61a inches tall and
weighs 235 pounds.
This was solved by placing three
beds side by side and depositing
the soldier on them crosswise. Now
he feels we'll enough to lie in one
bed in the orthodox manner, ex-
cept that occasionally, when he
stretches, an unWary attendant may
collide with pair Of feet extending
into the aisle.
Pvt. Minke, a native of Cumber-
land, has four brothers, two OF
whom are about my size" and the
other two "runts." measuring only
6 feet 31a. q
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Mrs. W. L. Lloyd Heads
Manassas Red Cross

MANASSAS, Va, June 1.-THE
Prince William Chapter, American
Red Cross, announces the election of
the following officers: Mrs. w. l..
Lloyd. chairman; the Rev. A. Stuart
Gibson, honorary chairman; Miss
Loretta McGill first vice chairman;
the Rev. John Shumate, second vice
chairman; Mrs. E. H. Marstellar,
secretary: o. D. Waters. treasurer.
Two members from each magiste-
rial district were appointed to the
Executive Board. They are Mrs.
Carvel Hall, Mrs. O. M. Douglas,
Gainesville; Mrs. o. D. Waters, Mr..
G. R. Ratcliffe, Manassas; Mrs. N.
N. Free, the Rev. j. R. Cooke,
Brentsville; William Ellicott, the
Rev. j. Murray Taylor. Coles; Miss
Elizabeth Brawner, Mrs. A. B. Per-
sons, Dumfries; Mrs. John Powell,
Mrs. E. K. Garner, Occoquan.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
HoyIe Elected Knight
By Rockville K. of 6.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, June 17.-Roy
c. Hoyle Of Silver Spring was made
grand knight at the annual election
of officers here of Montgomery
Council, No. 1928, knights of Co.
lumbuS.
Other officers chosen were Norbert
E. Norris, deputy grand knight;
Clements Gloyd, chancellor: Harold
Hershey, recorder; E. Clagett Jones.
treasurer: Robert Stout, financial
secretary: Charles A. Gartner, ad-
vocate: Arthur Hoyle, warden; J.
Hampton Jones. jr., inside guard;
Crescent j. Bride, outside guard;
j. Paul Brunett, trustee.
Charles A. Gartner was named
chairman of a committee to ar
range the councils goth anniversary
celebration in November. At the
celebration, the third degree, to be
known as the Father Cuddy Degree,
will be given in memory of priest
who was killed at a grade crossing
while pastor of ST. Martins Church,
Gaithersburg.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Narbury Sworn in as New
Chief Judge in Maryland
q, the Assnciated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, June II. Judge
Ogle Marbury of Laurel, newly ap-
pointed chief judge of the seventh
judicial circuit, was sworn in yes
terday by Gov. O'Conor at the eX-
ecutive offices.
Judge Marbury. formerly an as
sociate judge in the circuit. was ac-
companied by his wife and a party
of friends.
AS chief judge of the circuit,
composed of Prince Georges,
Charles, Calvert and st. Marys
Counties, Judge Marbury also will
be a member of the Court of APP
peals. His new post pays s11,500 a
year.
He succeeds Judge Walter J.
Mitchell of La Plata. Judge Mitch
ell retired several weeks ago.
Associate Judge Joseph C. Mat
tingly of Upper Marlboro will reach
the retirement age of 10 next month,
and the Governor must name asso-
ciateS to succeed him and Judge
Marbury.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
81 500 Raised for Britain
In Montgomery County

Nearly $1,000 was raised by the
various units of the Montgomery
County Branch of Bundles for Brit
ain, Inc, during the past month,
it was announced today by Mrs.
E. Brooks Lee, chairman.
This amount does not include
funds raised at the country fair at
Langley Park, Mrs. Lee said, as
returns will not be available until
the Maryland British War Relief
Society. co-sponsor of the affair,
makes its report.
The $500 was raised by benefits.
In addition a number of knitted
garments were sent to New York for
shipment to England.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Mi. Rainier Seeks
Share in S800,000
County Bond Issue
Money Is Requested
For Construction
Of Storm Sewers

The Mayor and Council Of Mount
Rainier, Md, last night filed a re-
quest for part of the 100000 county
bond issue for Improvements in
Prince Georges.
The town suggested that the
money be used for the installation
of storm sewers. especially at the
intersections of Rhode Island ave-
nue.. Thirty third street, Thirty
seventh street and Valley avenue.
The Council made official its ac-
ceptance of the Prince Georges
County School Board $4,000 settle
ment OH the Reed Baker estate.
School officials intend to use the
property for a new grade school.
The School Board will deed back
to the town that part of the estate
which is useless to them.
An ordinance was passed at the
recommendation of the Traffic
Committee to correct the Perry
street traffic problem. Effective
June Is Perry street will be two
way with two-hour parking on the
north side only between the hours
of am. and pm. A stop sign
for Southbound traffic will be in
stalled on Thirty-first street at its
intersection with Perry street.
A levy, effective July IS, 1941, was
made for the Improvements on
Twenty eighth street, Twenty ninth
street and Thirty-fifth street based
on front foot ratio for the total
cost to abutting properties. Pay
ment can be made in 10 annual in
stallments.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of
Prince Georges County are granted
a permit to hold a carnival from
July to II.
The Council authorized the pur-
chase of night sticks and a COM
plete Maryland auto tag listing for
the police force.
A special meeting will be held at
7:30 pm. July 18 to hear citizens
on the question of changing the
zoning of the Thirty-sixth street
and Bunker Hill area from resi-
dental A to residential c. The
proposed zoning would allow the
erection of apartment houses.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Bids on Two Maryland
Road Projects Asked

A call for bids on project which
provides resurfacing of a five-mile
stretch on Observation-Disclosures
boulevard between Muirkirk and
Hyattsville, Md, has been issued by
the Maryland State Roads Commits
sion.
The bids will be received until
June "a at the commission offices
in Baltimore.
The commission also called for
bids. with the same deadline date,
on a project providing for the gravel
surfacing of a stretch of nearly 3
miles on the Loveville- Three Notch
road from route No. near Love-
vile, st. Marys County.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
4.H Members
Arriving for
.Enedmpment
Program, Opening
Tomorrow, Includes
Address by Wickord

Members of the All Club today
began arriving for the 18th an
nual encampment on the Monu-
ment Grounds, to last from tomor-
row through June 25 Agriculture
Department officials said at least 173
delegates would attend the meeting.
Temporarily the All members will
use the tent city on the Mall.
This year the weeks program
will include talks by Secretary Of
Agriculture Wickard Assistant Sec
retary Hill, Miss Graciela Manda-
jano, director of information for
the Chilean Ministry of Agrlcul-
ture; DR.. Russell NJ. Wilder, chair
man of the Food and Nutrition
Committee Of the National Research
Council and Representative Pat
man, Democrat, of Texas.
Another high light OF the program
will be the citizenship ceremony to
be held before the Lincoln Memorial
in honor of those members who have
reached voting age.
From AZ States.
The delegates from Maryland In
clude Lucinda Holloway, Hurlock;
Ann Lee Upton, Dickerson. and j.
Paul Duke, jr.. Clinton. The Vir-
ginia group includes Oralena Rob-
inson. Glade Spring: Louise Rash,
CreWe; ]. Bryan Alvis, jr~ Rich
mond, and Taylor Grizzard, Skip
pers.
The All Club BOYS and girls come
from 43 States and Territories as
representatives Of 100000 clubsters.
The general theme of the confer
ence will be rural youths response
bility in the present crisis.
In connection with the meeting,
an exhibit has been put on display
in the Agriculture Department
building, including dresses, hats and
general wearing apparel
The department expects to have
a display of a All cooperative
market showing products raised by
club members. All of the items were
used for educational funds and also
to depict farm scene showing
activities in canning and meat
raising.
States Contribute to Campfire.
The program opens tomorrow with
a campfire made of fagots brought
from each State represented at the
camp. New York Colorado and
/ Nebraska delegates will of1ciate at
the fag-raising ceremonies Thurs
day.
/ Following the talk of Mr.. Hill the
group will take a tour Of the
National Research Center in Belts
vile. Md Friday the group will
have a conference on rural youths
responsibilities during the present
crisis on the farm and in the home.
Later the group will make tour
of the White House and the Library
/ Of Congress.
/ The Saturday session will have
/ Edward B. Rowan. assistant chief Of
the section of fine arts of the Public
| Buildings Administration, as the
main speaker. after which the grouD
will make an inspection Of the
Folger Library Sunday a wreath
will be placed on the Tomb Of the
Unknown Soldier and the following
day further discussions will be held
on youth responsibilities.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Bills Exceeding $500
For Flood Damage
Presented at Takoma
Irute Citizens Protest
To Council on Lack Of
Storm Sewers

Heavy rainStorms over the week
end led to a heated session of the
Town Council of rakoma Park, Md,
last night as bills totaling more than
$500 were submitted by irate citizens
for property damage blamed on the
lack of storm sewers.
The citizens claimed waters
flooded their cellars, and aSsailed
the authorities for not providing
storm sewers years ago.
Benjamin C. Stevens of 3l5 Cedar
avenue concluded his protest by
filing a bill for S3083O for damages
to his home, including charges for
reconditioning a 194l automobile.
replacing garage doors and the cost
of antitoXin incubation.
Bills Referred to Counsel.
Davis M. Agey of BIT Cedar avenue
also submitted bill for damages to
a popcorn machine. several thousand
bags, 80 pounds Of popcorn. glass for
garage doors and ruined clothes
amounting to s296.61.
Citizens reported considerable
damage on Westmoreland, Allepheny
and Cookerille avenues, which they
claimed would not have resulted If
the town was provided with a proper
storm sewer system. A petition ask
ing the town to accord some mod
ern. civilized protection against
future flood depradations, which
NAV threaten our health and prop
ertv." was submitted by 81 citizens.
The bills for damages were re-
ferred to the corporation counsel
for an opinion.
Supt. of Public Works William F.
Fischer was reappointed, as were
Electrical Inspector E. Brook Fetty,
Building Inspector Roy P. Fry
Town Clerk and Treasurer j. Will
son Dodd, Corporation Counsel
Donald D. Lamond, Police Sergt.
Earl Thomas and Pvts. Charles
Seek, George Altman, William
Whalen and Harry Ourand. The
appointments are for one year from
July l.
ResubdivisiOn Approved.
Ordinances were adopted provld-
ing Tor the resubdivision of land
owned by Harvey A. and Vera E.
Morrison, Clinton j. Coon and
Edith Eliza Cook, between Hudson,
Flower and Wabash avenues and
Sligo Creek parkway, and property
on Elm avenue represented by Ben
jamin G.. Wilkinson, jr.; w. c. Grif-
fin and the P. & B. Engineering &
Construction Co.
Crescent J. Bride was reap
pointed supervisor of the Takoma
municipal Fairgrounds, with the
following as directors, effective June
%: Fred M Dunn, Harold w.
Evans, Mary Pailthorpe and Lester
Welch.
The Council appropriated 5000 for
purchase of suction pump for the
Volunteer Fire Department. A re-
port on a civilian defense fire pro-
gram was given by Fire Chief
Irving w. Johnson. who made an
appeal for volunteers for an aux
iliary unit.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Traffic Crashes
Fatal 10 Three
In Maryland
Father and Child Die
As Truck Hits Car;
Man Burns to Death
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, June 17.-Three
Baltimoreans were killed in traffic
accidents outside the city last night
two on the Baltimore boulevard
and the third in st. Marys County.
Meanwhile, the Maryland Traffic
Safety Committee reported that 40
persons were killed on Maryland
highways during May, an increase
of over April and the same num-
Der over May, 1910.
In the boulevard crash man and
child died instantly as an auto
mobile and truck collided a mile
south of Elkridge.
State Trooper L. N. Brown said
heavy truck hit the rear OF an
automobile it was following on a
slight curve.
Wife Is Injured.
The dead were Godfrey w. Stivers,
jr., 81, of Baltimore and his 5-year-
old daughter Joan. Mrs. Stivers,
also a passenger in the automobile,
suffered multiple abrasions.
Robert L. Shipley, SO, of Baltimore
was burned to death near Loveville
in ST. Marys County when he was
pinned beneath a sound truck in
which he was riding.
The truck, used in demonstrations
by a brewing company, overturned
when it struck a ditch at a curve
in the road. and Mr.. Shipley was
caught underneath it, Arthur White,
sales manager who was driving be-
hind the truck, told police.
Residents from the town attempted
to lift the truck, but the fire drove
them back. The fire was eXtin-
guished by the Leonardtown Volun-
teer Fire Department.
Traffic Deaths Rise.
Traffic deaths for the first five
Maryland. against l66 during the
corresponding period last year ac-
cording to a report issued by the
Traffic Safety Committee
Pedestrian accidents accounted
for 81 of the 20 deaths in May, an
increase of 40 per cent over last year.
The pedestrian fatalities for the
first five months of the year were
ITO. or so per cent of the total.
Injured in traffic accidents were
987 persons, 622 in Baltimore City.
Kent and Dorchester Counties had
no deaths or injuries and no deaths
were reported the first five month
in Calvert, Charles, Garrett, st.
Mary,s, Somerset, Talbot and Wi
comico counties.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Fairfax Board Grants
7 zoning Exceptions
Special Dispatch to The Star.

FAIRFAX. Va. June 1.-THE
Fairfax County Board OF Zoning
Appeals yesterday approved seven
applications for exceptions under
the county zoning ordinance; re-
jected one. and deferred another
pending further study
An application of George T. Ben
nett to permit erection of a gas
station on a corner lot at the inter-
section of Guinea road and Little
River pike, between Annandale and
Fairfax. was held for further study,
and an application of John Neibert
to erect six tourist cabins and
restaurant with less setbacks than
provided under the ordinance on
route 211 east of Centreville, was
rejected.
Applications approved we're those
of John w. Taylor, Helen Rubin,
Marion Oliver Perry, jr.; Charles N.
Cockrell Jack H Bryan, j. A. Vetter
and A L. Colbert.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Mt. Rainier Mans Trial
On Assault Charge Set

Herschel A. Todd, %, of Mount
Rainer is due to be tried in Hy-
attsville Police Court Monday on
charges of assault on three Mount
Rainier policemen which grew out
of an alteration in tavern in the
5000 block of Rhode Island avenue
early Sunday morning.
The policemen are Chief Eugene
B. Plumer, who received head and
body bruises, and Benjamin Johns
and William Abdalla, neither of
whom was injured.
According to Chief Plumer the
assault occurred after Mr.. Abdalla
arrested two men in the tavern on
disorderly conduct charges.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Baptist Home
House Mother
Weds Tonight

Wards of the Baptist Children's
Home at Bethesda, Md, will serve
as bridesmaids and ushers at the
marriage of one of their house
mothers at 7 o'clock tonight.
Miss Pauline Sheriff, girls home
mother at the institution, is to be
married to the Rev. Stephen P.
Jackson of Clayton, Ga, in the
National Baptist Memorial Church,
Sixteenth street and Columbia road
NV.
The bride and bridegroom have
each been accepted for missionary
services by the Southern Baptist
Board. They will sail for Brazil in
August.
Six girls will serve as bridesmaids
and four boys will serve as uShers.
They are of high school age.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Rule Of Thumb Counts
115th's Maneuver Losses
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOWLING GREEN, Va, June IT..
The 115th combat team Of the
29th Division worked out an attack
problem today on the rule of
thumb" system in counting losses.
Faced by only an imaginary foe,
the $500 Maryland men suffered
losses" of 10 per cent if caught in
area under artilltry fire and 3 per
cent if within 10 yards of tank.
Col. D. John Markey, command
ing officer, said a night shuttle
movement in trucks and afoot was
in prospect for tonight.
The troops arrived yesterday and
set up pyramidal tents, their quar-
ters until their return Friday to
Fort George G. Meade, Md. Head
quarters was established in an
abandoned farmhouse.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Miss Mary E. Speiser
Funeral Tomorrow

Funeral services for Miss Mary
Elizabeth Speiser, "a, retired Gov
eminent Printing Office employe
who died Sunday at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Margaret Dorrelle
46 johnson avenue, Hyattsville, Md,
will be held at 10 am. tomorrow
at the home. Burial will be in Con-
gressional Cemetery.
Miss Speiser, who was born in
Washington, was with the G. P. o.
for 50 years. She had lived IN
Hyattsville for about % years.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Chevy Chase Woman
Churqes Desertion
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Nd, June 17.-Mrs.
Betty Radcliffe Long of Chevy
Chase has filed suit in the Circuit
Court here for an absolute divorce
from David Trent Long of Colmar
Manor, Md, charging desertion Sep
tember Is, 1899. The petition states
that the Longs were married at An
napolis April 20, 1885, and have no
children
Desertion also is charged in a suit
for an absolute divorce filed here by
Mrs Marjorie Oden Bolton of Beth
esda against Kenneth Henry Bolton.
The plaintiff also asks the court to
award her custody of the couples
only child, Wayne Bolton.
Evening star., 1941-06-17

In June, Beware OF:
1. Crossing a street at point
other than a crosswalk. Two
pedestrians met death by this
actiop in June last year.
2. Crossing an intersection
against the proper signal. Two
pedestrians were killed while
committing this act during
June, 1910.
The seven other traffic vic
tins were fatally injured while
either crossing a street at an
uncontrolled intersection, at
tempting to hitch a ride on
moving vehicle, playing in the
gutter. riding in truck or driv-
ing an automobile.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
in Cuve-in

Carado Strabono, 49-year- r-old la
borer of the 600 block of Florence
avenue NE, was recovering at Gar
field Hospital today of injuries he
received when 6-foot ditch caved
in on him at the new Naval Hos
pital in Bethesda, Md, yesterday.
The Bethesda Fire Department
Rescue Squad joined workmen at
the project in digging him out.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Virginia to Add IS Men
To State Police Force

R> the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va. June 17.-Gov.
Price gave formal authorization yes
terday for the addition of 35 men
to the State police force.
The new members, 10 of whom are
expected to be assigned to duties as
examiners, will bring the total force
to 200 men. 4
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Two Indicted in SIuyinq

CULPEPER, Va, June II (Spe-
ciaD Alton Carpenter, 80, and Earl
Smith, 81, both of Culpeper, were
indicted yesterday in the Staying
June 8 of James Beasley, colored, of
Ruckersville, Va. Both men pleaded
not guilty to a charge of felony.
Trial is set for June 26.
Evening star., 1941-06-17
Berwyn Man Suicide

A certificate of suicide has been
issued by DR.. James 1. Boyd, Prince
Georges County coroner. in the
death of Henry Nicoll Wightmap.
%. of the first block of Edmonston
road, Berwyn, Md, whom police said
was found hanging by rope In the
bedroom of his home Sunday.