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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-24
Really Safe
Drives Truck I.45O,O 900
Miles Without Scratch

The worlds safest driver, who
pilots a large semi-trailer truck
1000 miles weekly and then drives
his own car 1900 miles a year on
busman's holiday. today received
a medal from Harold q. Jones of
the Star Drivers Club.
The safest driver is Ed South
wick. 30. of 205l1 Heating avenue,
who has driven his truck 1,450. 900
miles without a fender scratch
since he started hauling produce
rs years ago. He was awarded a
certificate in 1888 as Michigan's
safest driver, and in 1889 won a
national award from the National
Safety Council.
Other safety awards presented
by Jones went 10 John Dudek,
.115.000 miles; August RoSeman,
5000 miles, and Fred We're.
$50. 600 miles. The three all drive
for the Railway Express Company.
Southwick drives for Automobile
Shippers of 97G0 Van Dyke ave-
nue..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-24

On the basis of a 10-day-old
"lost" telegram, the housing COM
mission today was to confer with
- representative of Starrett Broth
Is Inc, of Chicago the latest
contracting firm to- get close 10 an
award of the HermanS Gardens
housing project contract
The Starrett firms bid for com
pletion Of the $1,000 COO project
was too high by $4,000 and pro-
ceedlng got under way 10 let the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-24

The Detroit Times brings its
readers FAR MORE famous
features than any other Detroit
newspaper.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-24
Salary Raises
Appear Doomed

With a 10-cent pay increase for
all municipal hourly workers
clinched by Mayor Jeffries, rival
CLIO and ALL unions Wed with
each other today in demanding
similar increases for about 10000
Salaried city employees.
The Go is asking for big raises
among the lowest paid group to
bring them up TO "a living wage"
while the ALL wants a blanket
rs per cent increase for all receiv-
ing less than $1,000 a year. with
smaller increases for those re-
Iceiving up 10 $500.
However, unless Common Coun-
'cil weakenS under the various
strike threats which are pending
the salaried group will probably
have 10 take pot luck with few
unimportant upward adjustments.
MAYORS OPPOSITION
Mayor Jeffries put himself on
record yesterday as opposed TO
any blanket increases for salaried
workers in an eleventh hour warn
ing TO the council about the city's
finances.
"We don't want TO wreck the
treasury. so please don't pull all
the hoops off the barrel" the
mayor declared.
The mayor holds the whip hand
over the six-man council as he
has only to secure the support Of
one member in order TO make any
veto action stick.
The city's bankers are likewise
browning on the increase for the
salaried group. which would cost
over S2.500,000 and destroy the
program for reducing the SD 900. =
900 operating deficit which was
rolled UP in depression years and
which is now down TO $1,000 900.
POLICEWOMEN'S RAISES
In the meantime, at a hearing
on the work Of the city'S reclassi-
fication committee, council bowed
20 the wishes Of over 20 women 81
organizations and agreed tenta-
lively 10 give SergeantS and leu
tenants in the notice women'S di-
vision the same increases that
were granted on the mems side Of
the department.
Earlier the Reconsideration re-
port took such a lambasting fromI
union leaders and from councilI
itself that even the members of
he Reconsideration committed
grew discouraged about their ef-
forts.
Council will meet Thursday with
of skilled buildingl
trades employees who are also ask
ing for raises.
Evening star., 1941-06-09
Jewish Center Makes Plans
For Bringing Home to Soldiers
u S. O. Campaign to Provide Funds
To Cory Out Program

seeing She will direct them to the
Center auditorium where a dance
will be in progress, to the gymna-
SUM, the swimming pool, to socials
within the building. She will also
arrange with synagogues and tenn
plies to take care of the youths for
religious observances that fall on
week ends.
What the Money Will Do.
The allotment from the United
Service Organizations campaign
will pay for dance orchestras, buy
refreshments and generally help the
Center expand its facilities all along
the line.
The Center has its own room reg
istry service to help defense workers
fiocking to Washington. Also for
defense workers is a lounge run by
the Center's Service Council, where
strangers can make friends, listen to
the radio, dance. play cards and
read. Defense workers can join in
the specialized activities under the
club department, which includes
choral groups, music appreciation,
dramatics, photography, club hiking
and even a class in shorthand.
Limited like the other agencies
on Community Chest budgets, the
U. S. o. allotment would allow the
Center to plan for the boys of its
own and other faiths. The Center is
affiliated with the Jewish Welfare
Board, one Of the six national groups
of the U. S. o.
Evening star., 1941-06-09

W. w. Sylvester. st. Mary's Church;
and the Rev. B. R. Mark, Smith
vile.
Othcer Appointments.
Besides the appointment Of the
Rev. Mr.. Ford to Ridgeville, others
named in the Gaithersburg area
were: The Rev. j. H. Haley, Ep-
worth Church; the Rev. Charles
Lanham, Poolesville;;; the Rev. A. R.
Werner, Walkersville, and the Rev
A. o. OSteen, Winfield.
In the Cumberland region those
named included: The Rev. Edward
Lewis, supply pastor, Davis Memorial
Church, the Rev. A. w. Simms,
Eckhart, and the Rev. E. L. Thomp-
son, Flintstone.
Those named in the Martinsburg
region were; The Rev. H. M. Wat
ters, Mount Savage; Warfordsburg
and Morgan to be supplied.
Special appointments: Bert Con-
stance, general secretary, Lords Day
Alliance of Maryland; j. S. Nagle.
assistant director National Proba-
ton Association E. C. Powers, chap
lain, U. S. Army: r. w. Cooke,
chaplain, C. c. c. camps; Paul F.
Warner. professor, Westminster
Theological Seminary; F. C. Rey-
nolds, chaplain, U. S. Army; j. R.
Esaias, chaplain, U. S. Army; H. C.
Lambdin, chaplain, U. S. Navy.
Bertinius Oakland, Missionary
Seamans Bethel Foundation.
Evening star., 1941-06-09
ourPersons Killed
In District Area
Traffic Crashes
Rockville Youth Dies
While TRANSMISSION Is
Being Rushed at Hospital

Four persons were killed in traffic
accidents in the Washington area
over the week end.
Paul Anthony Miles, 81, colored,
of the 1900 block of Walter street
Sc, died yesterday in ST. Marys
County Hospital, Leonardtown, Md.
He was injured when car in which
he was riding with several others
overturned on a curve, State police
reported.
Other persons fatally injured in
cluded a Rockville youth. who died
in washington hospital yesterday
of injuries received Saturday and a
Washington couple who died in a
s-automobile crash on the Balti-
more boulevard at Muirkirk.
Others who were injured in the
Leonardtown accident were still
being treated at the hospital. They
are Warren Herbert. Al, of Maddox,
who suffered a broken leg; George
Scriber, SIS. of Brushwood, slight con-
cussion; John Herbert. also of Mad
doX, undetermined condition; How
ard Miles, 2502 E street NE. Another
man who has not yet been identified
by police. remains unconscious.
Thomas Conway Burriss, Is. the
son of C. Earl Burriss of Rockville,
Md, died in Georgetown Hospital
yesterday from internal injuries
suffered when he was thrown from
the rumbleseat of an auto in which
he was riding on Avery road near
Rockville Saturday afternoon. The
car, driven by another youth,
crashed into tree.
After young Burriss had been
taken to his home, it was discov-
cred his injuries were serious and
he was removed to the hospital
where a blood TRANSMISSION was or
dered at once. Members of the
Rockville Volunteer Fire Depart
ment, headed by Chief w. Valentine
Wilson, hurried to the hospital to
act as blood donors but the youth
died while pint of blood was being
drawn from Fireman Thomas
Weedle.
Meanwhile. Harry Miller. 80, driver
of the bus which figured in the bus
$4,000 bond for hearing June % at
Hyattsville. Carl L. owens, 80, a
Navy Department employe living in
the 1900 block of F. street NE, and
his bride-to-be, Miss Inez Monnett,
who lived in the same block, were
burned to death and several Fort
Meade soldiers were injured when
the bus and the auto collided.
Earl Crismond. 81, of Marbury,
Md. was in fair condition at Provi-
dence Hospital today after his arm
was torn off in an accident at Mar
bury.
Mr.. Crismond is the son of E.
M. Crismond, justice of the peace
at Marbury.
Evening star., 1941-06-09
Youth, Given 4-Yeor Term, Set
School Fire to Be Hero to Girl

former boy friend in Canada and
that he had "a mood and set fire
at an unoccupied dwelling in
Bethesda. He also told how he at
tempted to set fire to a Bethesda
hardware store, where he was EN-
ployed Saturdays.
State Senator Robert Peter, de-
fense counsel, called DR.. John E.
Lynn, in charge of the criminally
insane division of ST. Elizabeth's
Hospital. who testified he made a
psychiatric test of the defendant.
1T appears that the boy has al
ways had an abnormal interest in
fires" DR.. Lynn said, but added that
the defendant was not of unsound
mind
Senator Peter asked for a sus-
pended sentence in view of the cir
cumstances attributed to the love
affair
States Attorney Ben G. Wilkinson
called Principal Thomas w. PYLE
who said Everhart was an average
student with nothing unusual about
his conduct until the time of his
arrest.
Paul j. Voight, 22-year-old former
member of the Bethesda Volunteer
Fire Department, pleaded guilty to
an indictment charging him with
setting brush fire on March IA in
a field at Wisconsin and Dorset ave-
nues and was sentenced to the House
of Correction for six months. He
had no attorney and declared he
did not care to make a statement.
Evening star., 1941-06-09

On Sundays the boys in uniform
think of home and the family dinner
table.
Home is too far awav for most of
them to 60, but the Jewish Com
munity Center, with its allotment
from the United Service Organiza-
tions campaign, will try to bring
home to the boys.
Washington has been asked to
raise $250000 in the U. S. o. cam
paign. OF this amount, s145,000
will 60 toward the national fund
goal of s10,765, 900 to help operate
more than 800 service clubs located
near Army camps. The remaining
$105 900 will be divided among nine
local agencies with one objective-to
make a home away from home for
the young soldiers.
Hostess to Be Provided.
The allotment to the Jewish Com
munity Center will provide, among
other things for a part-time hostess.
She will get in touch with families,
ask them to invite soldiers to Sunday
dinner and to i've private parties
for them in their homes.
The hostess will have many jobs.
When the youths come into the
Center on Saturday afternoons to
ask where they can go. what they
can do. what's going on-as they do
now-she will have everything all
arranged
She will have enlisted q corps Of
private cars to take the boys sight
Evening star., 1941-06-09
Akers Will Receive
Evening Star Cup
AT Civic Banquet
Montgomery Federation
Will Present Award
For Outstanding Service

Richard H. Akers, president Of
the Edgemoor Citizens Association.
will be presented with The Evening
Star Cup for outstanding civic serv-
ice to the community at the eighth
annual banquet of the Montgomery
County Civic Federation Wednes-
day night.
Mr.. Akers, United States Court of
Claims commissioner, is chairman
of the federations Membership
Committee and has been a member
of the organization for many years.
Tonight the federation will elect
officers at it's June meeting in the
Bethesda Elementary School.
Four members of the Nominating
Committee. Herbert N. Eaton, Wash
ington I. Cleveland. Allen H. Gard
ner and H. S. Yohe, have placed
Mr.. Akers in nomination, while a
minority report to be submitted by
Richard B. Barker. Stephen James
and Frederic P. Lee will place Joseph
B. Matre of Silver Spring in NOM
ination.
The Eaton partisans will nominate
Mr.. Barker for vice president, but
Mr.. Barker, joining with Mr.. James
and Mr.. Lee, will propose Mr.. Akers
for vice president.
DR.. Harold G. Moulton, president
of the Brookings Institution. which
recently completed a survey of
Montgomery County government,
will speak at the banquet. which
will be held at National Park Col
lege, Forest Glen.
Dinner music will be furnished
by string ensemble from the Be
thesda-Chevy Chase High School
under direction of Kenneth Fris-
bic. The Banquet Committee is
composed of Rhees E. Burkett,
chairman, of Linden; Raymond B.
Leavitt of Westmoreland Hills,
Theodore G. Parkman of Hillandale,
Edward r. Talbot of Green Acres,
Mrs. N. M. Burgess of Potomac
Valley and James Sweet of East
Sligo Valley.
Evening star., 1941-06-09
Group Named 10 Work Out
Staggered D. {. Paydays

The Commissioners today ap-
pointed a special committee to work
out plans to inaugurate a stag
gered payday system for municipal
government employees.
Named to the committee were
Auditor A. R. Pilkerton, chairman;
Budget Director Walter L. Fowler,
and Maj. James R. Lusby, District
disbursing officer.
The Board of Commissioners al
ready is on record in favor of the
idea. but Commissioner Young ex-
planned that there we're numerous
details to be worked out before 1t
can be put in effect.
The city heads expect the COM
mittee to draft a workable plan
quickly.
Evening star., 1941-06-09
S400 Bid for Last
Paper Assets Of
Seventh Street Bank
Notes, Judgments and
Overdrufts Included
But Not Realty

Rudolph B. Behrend of this city,
with an offer of s400 was high bid
der for all remaining paper assets
of the closed Seventh Street Saw
ings Bank at an auction sale con-
Quoted this morning by Receiver
Justus S. Wardell at his Office, 1929
I street N. w.
There were eight bidders. The
second high offer of 1915 was pre-
sented by Bernard L. Hef1er of this
city.
Mr.. Behrend's offer must be ap-
proved by District Court before it
can be accepted finally by the re-
ceiver. The assets included notes,
judgments. oyerdrafts and others,
totaling about 125 items.
The receivership of the Seventh
Street Savings Bank is one of sew
eral to be closed up this year under
orders of the Controller of the Cur
rency. Receiver Frederick j. Young
was to sell remaining assets of the
Commercial National Bank this
afternoon.
In the auction this morning the
only remaining piece of real estate
was not put up for sale 1t is the
building formerly occupied by the
bank. but now used by the Hamil-
ton National Bank. which took over
the best assets of the Seventh Street
institution, that the first dividend
of so per cent was made available
to depositorS.
The building at Seventh and N
streets, now rented by the Hamil-
ton. is for sale by the receiver.
With view to settling the $780,
600 stock assessment, which has
been levied by the receiver against
1913 stockholders, a compromise Of
fer has been made by the stock
holders, through counsel, it was
learned today. Some stockholders
have paid on their assessment, while
others have not.
When liquidation of the Seventh
street assets has been completed,
another dividend will be paid to the
$500 depositors.
Evening star., 1941-06-09
~ a staff Correspondent of The star.

~ Stau correspondent OF Inc star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, June 9.-Wil-
son E. Everhart. 19-year-old Be
thesda- Chevy Chase High School
senior drew four-year House of
Correction sentence today after tell
ing the Montgomery County Circuit
Court he set fire to that school in
an attempt to appear as a hero to
his coed sweetheart.
The youth pleaded guilty to an
indictment charging him with set
ting fire to the school the night of
February %. He was accompanied
in the courtroom by his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel E. Everhart of
Bethesda.
On the stand Everhart told the
court he started going with a girl
student at the school about a year
ago, but broke off the relationship
about Christmas at the insistence
of her parents.
He joined the Bethesda Volunteer
Fire Department because 1T took
my mind of of her" he testified.
Il decided to set the (schooD fire,
thinking she would be there and 1
would become a hero" the youth
told the court.
During the school fire a member
of the Chevy Chase Fire Depart
ment was killed by passing auto
mobile as he attended a pumping
engine at the scene.
After the school fire. Everhart said
he learned the girl was writing a
Evening star., 1941-06-09

contact with the dock and other
yachts by a strong wind. Fire
Sergt. c. r. Bassette. in charge Of
the fireboat, declared that power
full streams of water prevented
damage to other craft, however.
Feared Gasoline Blast.
Firemen feared that 1100 gall
Ions of gasoline aboard the Nava-
10 would explode.
"It was a can of dynamite, and
if the tanks had blown up, YOU
couldn't have found any fireboat
or waterfront property afterward,"
Sergt. BaSSette said.
With the fire quenched, the Nava-
jo was in danger of sinking. so
the ireboat towed it about one and
and a half miles to the marine
railway adjacent to the Capital
Yacht Club, where it was beached.
Yacht club officials said the boat
would have to be rebuilt. 1t was
purchased by Mr.. Ray about three
years ago.
Mr.. Cissel, who lived at 3700
Massachusetts, avenue NV, was a
native of this area, being born in
Wheaton, Md During the World
War he served in the Naval Aviation
Corps. He lived for time in New
York City. where he married Mrs.
Cissel, native of Colorado Springs.
For many years he had been active
in real estate business here with
Harry Wardman. Inc, and the w.
C. and A. N. Miller Development
Co. before entering the Hagner firm.
Surviving are three children.
Vivian, IA; John, 18, and Susan, 20.
Three sisters of Mr.. CisSel also live
here: Mrs. Earl Wakeman, Mrs.
Hilda R. Cissel and Mrs. c. Arthur
Slater.
Mrs. Cissel's mother, Mrs. Henry
Rafael of New York, was expected
to arrive here today.
Funeral services for Mr.. Cissel
will be held at 10 am. tomorrow
in st. AIMS Catholic Church. 4400
avenue NV, followed by
burial in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
River mishaps imperiled four other
persons yesterday. When their sail
boat capsized off Hams Point. Rich
ard Daley, 3155 Jocelyn street NV:
James Livesey, 1347 East Capitol
street, and William Walker. 504
Fourth street S.W., were rescued by
harbor police. A swimmer, Herbert
Gardner. "a, of 1884 Nineteenth
street NV. was rescued after he
became exhausted in the Anacostia
River.
Evening star., 1941-06-09
Rea|tor Dies
After Rescuing
WifeFromY Yacht
Strain Is FutuI
To }. Floyd CisseI;
Vessel Burns

Overstralned by the rescue of his
seriously burned wife after an eX-
plosion and fire on the yacht Navajo,
j. Floyd Cissell, So, prominent
Washington real estate operator,
died from a heart attack Yesterday.
The 75-foot craft, valued at SIS
600, burst into flame as it was about
to pull away from the pier of the
Corinthian Yacht Club at 30 pm.
yesterday Mrs. Vivian Cissel, AZ,
was trapped in cabin aft, her hair
and clothing ablaze.
At the sound OF the explosion,
heard some distance ashore, her
husband was the first to dash along
the deck. He battered open the
cabin door and pulled out his wife.
A sufferer for three years from
serious coronary condition. he died
four hours later in Emergency Hos
pital, having accompanied her there
in a police wagon.
The couple told their story to DR..
Roy Adams, their physician. While
under treatment, MI. CisSel seemed
dliNOIlbC4 4lCb ONtl lAlo NOIlulllDllt dch-
ing constantly about his wife.
Mrs. Cissel was in such serious
condition, with burns about face.
back and legs, that DR.. Adams said
she could not be informed of her
husbands death for at least one or
two days
The Cissels were starting on
Sunday outing with their close
friend, George N. Ray. owner Of the
boat and president of Randall H.
Hagner e. Co., the firm of which
Mr.. CisSel was an assistant man.
ager in the mortgage loan depart
ment.
The explosion was apparently set
off by spark from an electrically
operated toilet, flremen said.
Corinthian Yacht Club members
heard the explosion and immedi-
ately called the fire department.
Firemen laid one third mile of hose
to reach the blaze, while club mem
bers stood off the flames with eX-
tinguishers. The fire boat pulled
in and threw water from two tur-
ret pipes and a hand line.
Gasoline was pouring from the
craft, laying a sheet of flame on
the water which was driven into
Evening star., 1941-06-09
$40 Scholarships Wait
MARYLAND All Girls

Five $40 scholarships will be given
again this year by the Associated
Women of the Maryland Farm Bu-
reau Federation to girls of the
Senior Council All Club of Mary
land who plan to attend club week
at the University of Maryland in
August, Miss Dorothy Emerson,
girls club agent, announced today.
Applicants for scholarships must
be members of Senior All Club
Councils, is years of age or older
and unmarried, have record of
achievement in club work, COM
munity and home service, and be
able to speak publicly.
Evening star., 1941-06-09
Methodist Church
Announces Changes
In Pastors for Area
Dr.. John R. Edwards
And DR.. Horace Cromer
Superintendents Here

The Rev. DR.. John R. Edwards
of Washington was named superin-
tendent of the West Washington
District of the Baltimore Conference
of the Methodist Church in pastoral
appointments announced last night
in Baltimore by Bishop Adna Wright
Leonard. DR.. Edwards, who served
as district superintendent here for
the conference under the old Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. succeeds the
late Rev. DIR. c. Ellis Williams.
DR.. Horace E. Cromer of Emory
Methodist Church here was named
superintendent of the East Wash
ington district, to succeed DR.. Edgar
c. Beery, who was appointed pastor
of Emory Church.
The Rev. r. K Nevitt. pastor of
Mount Rainier Methodist Church,
was named to the Brightwood Park
Church. The pulpit of Gorsuch
Church will be filled by the Rev.
L. S. Rudasill of Poolesville, Md.
The Rev. George H. Bennett, pastor
of Wilson Memorial Church here,
was named to Lincoln Road Church,
and the Rev. Chesteen Smith. supply
pastor, to Marvin Church. The Rev.
C. F. Phillips of st. Paul's Methodist
Church was named to McKendree,
while the Rev. S. E. Rose of Nc
Kendree was appointed to Waugh
Church. The Rev. c. c. Day of
Baltimore was named to Wilson
Memorial Church and the Rev. E. A
Wilche rof Laurel to the North
Carolina Avenue Church.
Chevy Chase Change.
The Rev. G. H. Richmond of
Baltimore will go to Chevy Chase,
while the Rev. E. G. Latch of Chevy
Chase will 60 to the Metropolitan
Memorial Church. The Rev. Arthur
c. Day of Baltimore was appointed
to the pulpit at Mount Tabor
Church; the Rev. w. Pierpont of the
Calvary Church at Annapolis, to ST.
Paul's; the Rev. S. K. Cockrell of
Baltimore, to Union Church, and the
Rev. C. E. Wise of Baltimore, to
Wesley Church.
The Rev. J. Luther Neff, pastor
Wesley Church, will go to Calvary
Church in Annapolis. while the Rev.
Eddy L. Ford. director of religious
education at Foundry Methodist
Church. will become pastor of the
Ridgeville Md Church. The Rev.
B. I. Barnes of the North Carolina
Avenue Church will go to Charles
ton.
The Maryland appointments in
cluded
Chesapeake, the Rev. G. H. Field
ing; Huntington Emmanuel, the
Rev Mr.. Lineweaver; the Rev. M
T. Tabler, Laurel; the Rev. G. N
Naylor, Leonardtown: the Rev. o. E.
Osborne, Mount Oak; the Rev. C. r
Banes, Mount Rainier; the Rev. G
D. Sampson, Prince Frederick; the
Rev. M. A. Baker, Savage; the Rev
Evening star., 1941-06-09

The Commissioners today trans
mitted to Congress the draft of a
bill to clarity and enlarge their
powers in regulating fire escapes
and equipment in buildings, and
urged passage at this session.
In letter to Speaker Rayburn
accompanying the bill, the city
heads heads declared they believed
the existing law has many am
biguities and is inadequate to safe
guard the public"
The bill would require owners Of
commercial buildings three or more
stories in height or more than 80