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Evening star., 1941-04-03
| School Board Is Asked
| For Auditorium With
| Afraid Shelter

The Board of. Education yes
terday received what is believed
to be its first request for an
AFRAID shelter.
A request was transmitted
from the Woodbridge Parent
Teacher Association for an
auditorium unit to include an
afraid shelter. The building
would be constructed only if
the third floor cannot be re-
modelled for auditorium pur-
poses.
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Spring Plays Turn Schools
Into Beehives of Excitement
Many Students Find Thrill Of q Lifetime
As Momentory 'Stors' and Stogehonds
By C. A. MATHISEN.

Tryouts for the spring will begin at BIS pm tomorrow
in the auditorium"
hundreds Washington high school students posting Of
this notice the bulletin board signals of
the years exciting periods and fully important to
baseball field hockey practice to other
temples of education least
of it's precinema lead" in the spring
continues to be much-sought plum
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Veterans to Dance

The Veterans Club of Washington
will give q dance Saturday night at
its headquarters, 3l35 x street NV.
Evening star., 1941-04-03

on the professional stage, and still
fewer boy stagehands and cleo
tricians go on to posts in the wings
of legitimate or film-and-vaudeville
theaters. The lure of grease paint
and the banks of light switches and
curtain controls continue to be ire
sistible for many in their teens,
| however
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Wheeler Demands
Senate Probe Of
U-Boat Reports
U. S. Subs Moneuverinq
At Three Points Off
Atlantic Coast

By The Associated Press.
The reported threat of German
U-boat operations off the North
Atlantic coast brought call today
for Senate investigation and kept
a controversy going on the question
of American conveys.
Pooh-poohing the submarine re-
port as British propaganda" Sena-
tor Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana
said the Senate should authorize
special committee to look into the
source of such information.
IF something should happen to
some American vessel" he told re-
porters, 'it would Immediately be
claimed that it was this German
submarine that caused the trouble" +"
He said it was extremely signifi-
cant" that the administration fa-
vored investigating all foreign prop
aganda, except British.
Conveys Urged if Necessary.
The convoy controversy found the
Committee to Defend America by
Aiding the Allies, advocating that
American naval vessels convoy ships,
if necessary, to assure safe passage
of supply ships.
The American First Committees
New York chapter reported that
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Contract Awarded
For25Cargo 5hips;;-
Work 10 Be Rushed
Negotiations Started
For Work on Us Others
In Emergency Program

A contract for construction of IS
of the proposed 200 emergency car
go ships has been awarded to the
North Carolina Shipbuilding Co.,
Wilmington, the Maritime Com
mission announced yesterday.
This is the first contract under
the emergency order, and the first
ship under It is expected to be de-
nvered in nine months and II days
from the date of the contract. The
whole group is scheduled for de-
livery in two years, six months and
81 days.
In order to speed up the program,
the commission announced that the
contract to the North Carolina firm
had been anticipated to the extent
that the company has already begun
construction on a ix-ship-way yard,
at a cost of 81, $4,000, and tools and
equipment already purchased. The
contract price for the ships is $751;
100000.
The commission also announced
that contracts for the other ITS
ships are being negotiated. Pre-
liminary construction work has also
gone forward, it Is said. Many Of
the subcontracts already have been
negotiated.
The contract for this group, the
commission said, includes an un-
usual provision for encouraging
early deliveries at low costs. The
contract is on the basis of cost
plus a fixed fee with penalty and
bonus. The penalty is applied If
the contractor exceeds the estimated
time of delivery and if construction
costs are higher than estimated.
The bonus is applied for beating
anticipated delivery schedules and
for reducing costs below those esti-
mated.
Evening star., 1941-03-19

conveys would be "the final prelude
to an American expeditionary force. I"
1t also charged that the Committee
to Defend America by Aiding the
Allies was used to "Send up the trial
balloon" whenever the administra-
ton "is preparing some new forward
movement to war;"
Official quarters here have con-
sistently declined to discuss the
question Of conveys on the ground
that 1t was hypothetical. However,
when attempts were made to in
clude a provision in the lease-lend
bill categorically banning Conveys,
administration forces defeated them,
contending that such a restriction
was undesirable.
U. S. Subs Staging Drills.
Meantime, the Navy Department
announced it had issued a routine
warning to shipping that United
states submarines were maneuver-
ing this week at three points off the
Atlantic coast
Asked whether these maneuvers
had any connection with the reports
from London that German naval
craft were operating against British
shipping on the American side of
the Atlantic, naval spokesman
said, Absolutely not"
The maneuvers are taking place
In outer Long Island Sound and
Block Island Sound off the New
York coast, of the Virginia Capes,
and in the straits of Florida.
In the Florida maneuvers the sub
marines are escorted by destroyers.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Japanese Army Backs
Konoye's Organization
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, March 19.-The Japanese
Army group today offered definite
support to the Imperial Rule As
sistance Association, cabinet advis-
ory organization dedicated to build
ing "a new domestic structure for
the country"
Army cooperation was offered by
Col. Kenryo Sato, newly appointed
director of the War Offices military
affairs section, who instructed regi-
mental commanders from all parts
of Japan to urge former service men
to join in the associations work
and become its 'propelling force"
The newspaper Asahi comment
ed, For the first time the army
has requested positive cooperation
and has come forward to strength
en- the Imperial Rule Association" ."
Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Is head of the association, now said
to be undergoing drastic reorgan-
ization, with those members enter
tanning radical theories being re-
placed by others more in sympathy
with totalitarian policies similar to
those of Italy and Germany.
Evening star., 1941-03-19

shelter in which the only survivor
was 12-month -old baby.
Ambulances jolted through narrow
streets strewn with wreckage. Munic-
ipal authorities opened six COM
munity centers to feed and shelter
the homeless.
The raid began with dropping of
few bombs in the early evening.
Then came lull of three hours. The
attacks full fury struck shortly after
midnight, when bombs rained down
with such intensity it seemed the
entire city would be blasted apart.
This continued several hours with
out letup.
A communique today said the
Luftwaffe's main effort during the
night was concentrated on a town
on the northeast coast" and added,
"the attack was on a heavy scale"
The government later permitted
Identification of the town as Hull,
the target of a sharp Nazi raid only
last Thursday.
Numerous fires were started by
incendiary bombs and explosives
showered down, but all were reported
''extinguished by daybreak."
The attack was continuous for
hours, the raiders roaring over in
waves. except for the one short lull.
Incendiaries fell on hospital. A
theater and dance hall were hit.
Two persons were killed when row
of small houses was destroyed.
Rescuers, some times tearing aside
bricks and debris with their bare
hands, struggled to reach many vic
Tins feared trapped.
One German bomber was shot
down off the Norfolk coast after
daybreak by an R. A. F. fighter
plane, which watchers saw race sea-
ward for an air fight in which can
non and machine-gun fire was heard.
Homes were demolished and some
persons trapped, too, in the early
morning bombing of London, mostly
by planes attacking singly through
an intense anti-aircraft barrage.
An all-clear came at dawn, ending
an alarm started shortly after II
pm.-London's longest this year,
though hours shorter than some of
last falls dusk-to-dawn attacks.
Raiders also were reported over
south and southeast coast towns,
but the communique said damage
was not heavy at any of these points,
nor were casualties numerous"
The authorities permitted pub
lication today of the fact that these
institutions had been damaged in
recent German air raids:
In Glasgow, the university and
Garscadden Hospital.
In Liverpool, the cotton exchange
and commercial exchange.
In Leeds, the town hall and Kirk
gate market.
Evening star., 1941-03-19

pleaded guilty yesterday to charges
of embezzling $500 from q bank.
The Judge polled 26 courtroom
spectators and members Of a jury
which had deliberated in another
case as to their recommendation
in the embezzlement case.
Several spectators suggested pro-
baton. but a majority and a e-to-3
vote of the Jurors held a year and q
day in Federal penitentiary, which
Judge Johnson promptly imposed
on Glenn L. Baer, AZ. Baer was
formerly employed by the First Ma.
tional Bank of Shickshinny.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
u. 5. Is Reported
Sending New Navy
Experts 10 Orient
Observers Also Ordered
To Australia and
New Zealand
By the Associated Press.


BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies,
March 19.-The United States today
was reported increasing its staff
OF naval experts in the Far East
and the South Pacific.
Two officials were being stationed
In Singapore, in Darwin, in Sydney,
in Auckland and other points, in
addition to those regularly at
tached to the United States Lega-
tions in Canberra and Bangkok, 1t
was said.
They were described as "ob-
servers" and not members Of the
American diplomatic or consular
services.
Interest in Training Cruise.
At the same time, there was
great interest here in the training
cruise of American warships which
currently puts total of four
cruisers and nine destroyers of the
United States Navy in Australian
and New Zealand waters.
tTwo United States cruisers
and four destroyers are anchored
in Auckland Harbor, and two
cruisers and five destroyers
reached Sydney today, the Navy
Department announced in WASH
ington)
Australian Navy Minister w.
M. Hughes, in a statement today
in Sydney, said the visit there
was further sign to Australia
of United States goodwill and
encouragement to the common
wealth. A school holiday was
declared for the occasion)
Reports continued to circulate, de-
spite any support from official quar-
ters, that Singapore, Britain's great
naval base in the Orient, would be
available to the United States fleet
If Japan should move southwark.
Australia Increases Air Force.
At present only the barest skele-
ton Of a British naval squadron is
stationed at Singapore. Australian
air forces, however, are being in
creased steadily.
Similarly, the Netherlands Indies
lacks capital ships and would de-
pend mainly upon submarines and
fast torpedo boats for resistance
against any naval attack.
Observers here say that, as a re-
suit, they believe the United States
fleet will undertake "the heavy
work" If Japan moves the main body
OF her capital ships against Singa-
pore, or the East Indies, and the
United States enters the conflict.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Contribution Of S34
Increases Jon Francis
Fund 10 S410
Clerk Wounded While
Aiding Police Well on
Rood to Recovery

A contribution of $34 from the
18th session of the National Police
Academy at the Federal Bureau of
Investigation swelled the fund raised
by readers of The Star for Jon
Francis to $4l095 today.
Jon, young baggage clerk who was
wounded last month while aiding
police in pursuit of man who ran
amok with gun in the downtown
area, is now well on the road to
recovery.
The money contributed by Star
readers will be turned over to Mai.
Ernest w. Brown, superintendent of
police, to be added to other money
raised by police and private citizens.
The sum will help defray the cost
of medical expenses incidental to
the youths recovery. He has been
promised a job in the District gov
ernment when he RECEIVERS.
Maj. Brown started the subscrip-
ton fund for the youth, calling on
members Of the Police Department
to make contributions. From men
in uniform as well as private citizens
have come several hundred dona-
tions.
The Star has received the follow
ing contributions in the last few
daVS.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Robert L. EutzIer Rites
Tomorrow at Edinburq
py the Associated Press.

4y the Associated Press.
EDINBURG, Va, March 49,
Funeral services were held at st.
johns Church here this morn
ing for the Rev. Robert Lee Eutzler,
72-year-old retired Methodist min
lister, who died Monday.
A graduate of Randolph Macon
College, he was ordained an elder
in the Baltimore Conference in 1901
and his pastorates included Hamil-
ton, Manassas and Roanoke.
He was co-founder of the Balti-
more Conferences Benevolent So
ciety.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Miss Lillian Zepp of Freder-
lex County; three daughters and
four sons.
The children include Daniel
Eutzler of Manassas, Mark Eutzler
of Berryville and Mrs. j. e. De Costa
of Washington.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
First Day Of Spring
Arrives Tomorrow;
Cold Wave Nears End
2S Degrees Expected
Tonight; q Recorded
Here Yesterday

Spring arrives at 7:21 pm tomor-
row-and with it will come warmer
weather.
The Weather Bureau, sighting the
end of the cold wave which hit
Washington earlier this week, said
tomorrow would be cloudy and
warmer. Tonight's lowest tempera-
ture will be % degrees-and the
winds will be moderate"
Both the temperature and the
wind moderated considerably early
today as compared with yesterday
which was the coldest and one of
the windiest days of the year.
The low for today was established
at l am, when the mercury went
to %. At am, it had risen to
28 degrees. Winds were whipping
across town in gusts that reached
Is miles an hour this morning, but
did not compare to the 42-mile-an-
hour winds of yesterday.
Four-Score Dead.
The low yesterday was Is de-
grees, which was the record for the
winter Only four times in the his
tory of the Weather Bureau has
the low temperature for the winter
been recorded in March-and this
was the latest date in March on
which such a record had ever been
established.
The cold which hit Washington
was part of storm which swept
down over the United States from
the northwest, leaving trail of
four score dead.
The lowest temperature recorded
In these parts yesterday was the 4
below zero at Mount Savage, Garrett
County, Md. The South felt the
chill yesterday alSo-With snow and
sleet reported in such places as New
Orleans and Biloxi.
Denies Governors Charge.
The charge made by Gov. Harold
Stassen of Minnesota that the
Weather Bureau had given citizens
of that State insufficient warning of
the blizzard was denied here by F.
w. Reichelderfer, chief of the bu-
reau
He said that the forecast of the
storm had been unusually accurate
and that at II am. Saturday
farmers of the Northwest had been
warned that the blizzard was COM
ing. This warning was issued "a to
36 hours before the storm struck, he
said.
THE problem is one of communi-
cation, of getting the information to
the people who don't read the news
papers or listen to the radio" he
said.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Stationary Engineers Part
In Fire Fighting Sketched

The part to be played by station
ary power engineers in fire pre-
vention and the fighting of fires in
public buildings and power plants
was discussed last night by members
of the National Association of Pow
er Engineers.
Raymond c. Roberts of the Dis
trict fire marshal's Office explained
comparative efficiencies of existing
fire-fighting equipment and empha-
sized the need for preventive meas
ures. The meeting was sponsored
by the associations Education Com
mittee as part of a program to fit
power engineers and their stats to
act as auxiliary fire fighters in case
of emergency.
The need to plan for such a pro-
gram, to furnish the same service
as that supplied by civilians in
bombed cities of Europe, was point
ed out by William c. Strickler, Sec
retary of the associations National
Defense Committee.
Power engineers play an i'm
pOrtanC part IN ngnClnS HreS IN
London and other European cities,
and they will play big part here
If they are needed" Mr.. Roberts
agreed. He explained that instruc-
ton in tactics and methods was
being considered and would be start
ed If an emergency threatened.
The associations Defense Com
mittee has sponsored bill to re-
quire the licensing of stationary
power engineers ito protect the ma
tional defense program" by elimi-
mating ANY disloyal and incompe-
tent engineers from the operation
of our large interstate power sta
tions as we'll as from the independ-
ent power plants operating in our
defense industries"
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Wutchmun Is Found
Unconscious From Blow

Mystery today surrounded an at
tack on N. K. Hall Of 1925 Half
street S.W., 78-year-old night
watchman for the Wilmoth Paving
Co., found unconscious shortly after
midnight in yard near the firms
Offices at First and P streets Sc.
G.. F. Hooks, secretary-treasurer
of the company, reported that the
watchman was discovered by Roy
Cameron, Wilmoth employe who
resides at Mr. Halls home. He had
been hit on the head with a blunt
instrument, but there was no evi-
dence that the assailant intended
robbery, Mr.. Hooks said.
Mr.. Hall was treated for Scalp
lacerations and later transferred to
Gallinger Hospital.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
BuoIer Who Sounded End
Of Civil War Dies
By the Associated Press.

by Gne AeSOCldLcu ficSss
WORCESTER, N. Y, March 19.-
Seth M. Flint, SO, generally credited
with sounding the bugle call that
announced the end of the Civil War,
died last night of heart attack.
A bugler with Gen. U. S. Grant
throughout the final year of the
war, Mr.. Flint was with the Union
leader at Appomattox when Gen.
Robert E. Lee surrendered. He
claimed to have sounded the call
telling both armies the war was
over.
Born October 7, 1847, in Berne,
N. Y, Mr.. Flint spent most of his
life In the real estate business in
Worcester. The last Civil War vet
eran in Otsego County, he enlisted
in the Northern armies June IL,
1862. when not quite Is years old.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Baltimore Womun, IS,
Wins Partial Divorce
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March Am 85-
year-old Baltimore woman who
withheld her specific address be-
cause she said she was afraid Of
her 70-year-old husband, was
awarded partial divorce decree
here yesterday.
Judge Eli Frank signed the de-
cree after hearing testimony that
Mrs. Caroline Jacobsen had married
her third husband, Robert Jacob
sen, on July %, 1881, and that she
was forced to leave him last Au-
gust because of his allegedly cruel
conduct.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
C.l. 0. Chiefs Agree
To Resume Par|eys
Today in Bus Strike
Murray and Ia Guordiu
Confer for Hour in
Reaching Decision
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March &c. I. O
leaders and Mayor La Guardia
reached an agreement today whereby
the Transport Workers Union will
resume negotiations with Manhat-
tan's two major bus companies in an
attempt to settle the 10-day-old bus
strike.
Philip Murray, c. I. o. president,
made the announcement after an
hours conference with the Mayor
The direct negotiations, broken of
after attempts to agree on disputed
points failed, will resume at City
Hall today.
So far as he knew, Mr.. Murray
said, there would be no mediator or
third party at the conference. There
was no indication the strikers would
return to work before a settlement
was reached.
Workers Return Demanded.
In calling yesterday on the disput-
ants to accept arbitration, the Mayor
demanded that the $500 strikers re-
turn to work at once pending a set
tlement.
Before the shutdown the union
demanded increased wages and
shorter hours, among other things,
while the companies countered with
proposals to reduce contract benefits.
"Mr. Haywood (Allan S. Haywood,
national G. I. o. organizeD and I
called on the Mayor this morning
for the purpose of securing clarifi-
cation of the paper which he sub
mitted to the union and companies
yesterday afternoon" Mr.. Murray
said.
LAS a result of our conversation
this morning it was agreed that
there should be a resumption OF
negotiations - at 2 o'clock this
afternoon"
Both Parties Agree.
Shortly before this apparent break
in the deadlock, Mayor La Guardia
announced he had selected a three
man fact-finding board to inquire
into the strike and make public the
issues involved-a move he had said
he would take If the opposing sides
did not agree to submit the dispute
to arbitration.
The bus companies, operating ~
lines and carrying 100000 riders
daily, had agreed to the arbitration
r,ropoSal Mr. M,Irray'c ctotomnpt
was the unions answer, and it meant
that Mr.. La Guardia would with
hold formal appointment of the
board at this time.
Direct negotiations broke down
two weeks ago and attempts by the
Mayor and the head of the States
Mediation Board to bring settle
ment subsequently were unsuc-
cessful.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Silver Teu Tomorrow

The Edmonds-Maury Parent
Teacher Association will hold a sill
yer tea for benefit of the kitchen
fund and the student aid from 1:30
pm. to $3.50 pm. tomorrow at the
home Of Mrs: Ethel Mullin, HOT
Park place NE.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Church Conference TONIGHT

PENDER, Va, March 10 (Spe-
ciaD The Second Quarterly Con-
ference of Fairfax Methodist cir
cult will be held at Pender Church,
at 8 o'clock tonight. DR.. A. r. VIII
iams, district superintendent, will
preach the conference sermon.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Nichols to Speok

Philip Nichols, attorney IN the
Lands Division of the Justice De-
partment, will discuss "The Federal
Power of Eminent Domain" tomor-
row during a luncheon of the Fed
eral Bar Association beginning at
1890 pm. in the Harrington Hotel.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Quits Commerce Post

Allan Miller, acting chief Of the
Commerce Departments division of
current information, has resigned to
become assistant director of the
Clear Channel Broadcasting Service,
1t was announced today.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Meditation to Be Topic

Meditation" will be the topic Of
the Rev. Granville Mercer williams,
superior Of the Society of st. John
the Evangelist, at q prayer service
at st. Agnes Episcopal Church, 46 q
street NV, at 8 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Spectators Aid Judge
In Imposing Sentence

By the Associated Press.
SCRANTON, Pa, March 19.-
Federal Judge Albert w. johnson
adopted an unusual procedure in
sentencing a former bank teller who
Evening star., 1941-03-19
Raids

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-26
Attached Garages
Add Convenience

There should be a definite rela-
tionship between the garage and
the house. Attached garages add
to the convenience OF use and i'm
prove accessibility between the
house and the garage When the
garage is near the street the
driveway is short and It's cost Is
reduced
Placing the garage near the
house also permits better use of
the rear yard and makes the small
house appear larger because of the
increase in size Of the combined
buildings. In two-story houses. by
building the garage with the house
an additional second-story bed
room may be feasible