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Evening star., 1941-04-08

Three weeks ago the room that is
now the library was the Office of the
principal, Mrs. Mary Mills Teach
ers and pupils worked at top speed
to get it in shape for the opening.
Care and maintenance of the
library will be the responsibility of
third and fourth graders, who are
forming library service club. 1t
will be up to them to straighten out
books on the shelves, repair them
and keep the room neat and attrac-
tive.
On the library walls are nursery
rhyme murals executed by students
in the upper grades.
The books for the most part be-
long to the Prince Georges County
Board of Education, though a num-
ber of them were the contributions
from parents and the parent
teacher association The library
room includes wash basin with the
hint printed above it, 'Clean hands
for clean books"
Donna Harvey, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. William Harvey of 3612
Dewey street, Brentwood, will be in
charge of the library except when
she is busy with her classes, when
an assistant will substitute The
library is to be run entirely by stu
dents, with teachers acting in an
advisory capacity.
Evening star., 1941-04-08

The Brentwood Md Elementary
Schools primary library was opened
for business yesterday, and when
its librarian, 9-year-old Donna Fay
Harvey, closed her books for the day
everybody knew the venture was a
huge success.
1t isn't the ordinary sort of Ii
brary, because you can borrow toys
as we'll as books. 1t was reliably re-
ported that the first grade had ap-
parently gotten corner on the toy
market, for in the late afternoon
only an occasional doll and drum
stood on the depleted shelves.
Donna's record showed that out
of the library's stock of almost 400
books, 140 were out of the stacks, all
drawn during between 9 am. and
$3.50 pm.
The new library, which had it's
formal opening Friday, serves only
pupils in the first, second, third and
fourth grades. The school has an
other library for pupils in the other
grades.
Toys are loaned out on the same
basis as books, that is, for a week at
time, and pupils are fined a penny
each day for overtime use. There
are mechanical toys, dolls, puzzles
and musical instruments. Books
range from Mother Goose rhymes to
science and the social studies.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Assembly, Passage
OF Beer Curb Bill
Hit in Chevy Chase
C.E Dawson Named Head
Of Unit in Citizens
Association

The citizens association of sec
tion 4, Chevy Chase, Md, last night
adopted a resolution condemning
passage by the Maryland Assembly
of a bill restricting the wholesale
beer business in Montgomery County
to the county dispensary system.
The bill, now awaiting Gov.
O'Conor's signature, would exempt
the county from the Statewide
Beer Wholesalers License Act of
1899. The associations resolution
said the bills main purpose sis to
secure revenue" and not to regulate
the sale of beer.
Clarence E. Dawson was elected
president of the association, to sue
ceed Elmer Pusey. Edgar B. Young
was named vice president and Mrs.
r. N. Denham was reelected sec
retary- The association
reelected as delegates to the Mont
gomery County Civic Federation,
H. T. Wensel, Wilton R. Eyer and
Mr.. Young, and as alternates, Clay
L. Jennison, Burr G. Williams and
James H. Defandorf.
The association opposed the pro-
posed rezoning of tract south of
Bradley boulevard, extending from
Wisconsin avenue to the B. & o.
Railroad tracks, to permit the erec-
ton of an apartment development.
The association indorsed the ac-
ton of the Dreamer Forest Citizens
Association in recommending the
appointment of properly qualified
recreational director for Rock Creek
Park unit No. l.
The association voted to request
owners of delivery trucks to caution
drivers against speeding out of
driveways onto the highways, to
solicit the assistance of County
Supt of Schools E. w. Broome in
obtaining police protection for
school children who must cross the
street at Rosemary street and Con-
necticut avenue. and left to the
decision of the Education Commit
tee the matter of recommending a
person to fill a vacancy on the
Montgomery County Board of Ed
ucation.
Evening star., 1941-04-08

By the Associated Press.
WINCHESTER, Va, April g.
Queen of the 18th annual Shenan-
doah Apple Blossom Festival, May
1-2, will be Miss Mollie Foulkes Lee,
18-year-old New Yorker whose
father, Robert c. Lee, is executive
vice president of the Moore-Mc-
Cormack Steamship Lines.
Tom Baldridge, director general
of the festival, announced her selec-
ton.
Miss Lee, said the festival ofnce,
has written some popular songs,
including II Can't Believe Your
Eyes," and is interested in naviga-
ton. Her maternal grandfather was
former United States Senator Will
liam E. Walder of New York.
She attends Packer Collegiate In
stitute in New York. -
She will come here in the late
afternoon of April 80, following a
party in her honor In Washington,
and will be crowned Queen Shenan-
doah 18th or the afternoon of May /
at Handley High School Stadium
The coronation will follow a pageant
in which hundreds Of sadents will
participate.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
100000 Gas Masks
Available for Civil
Use in Emergency
Army Also Hos New Type
For Soldiers, Plus Stocks
Of World War Variety

The Army has more than 1000 900
training gas masks available for
emergency use of Americas civilian
population, it was learned yester-
day.
In addition to millions of leftover
World War Masks each man in
the United States Army is equipped
with neW-type mask, now being
manufactured in quantity at the
Army's Edgewood tMdD Arsenal.
The new masks will purify air up
to six hours in heavy concentrations
of gas, but are not protective
against all the latest types of lethal
mixtures. Capt. Donald Patterson,
an instructor in the Chemical War
fare School at the Arlington (Va)
Cantonment, said yesterday the new
masks were inferior to the old World
War type
He declared thousands of these
old masks were being rejuvenated
at the arsenal for reissuance to the
Army. The old type carries a large
chemical canister and will operate
Indefinitely. The new Universal
type has no tube, carrying small
chemical canisteS on the end of a
rubberized Snout.
The Army is careful of the quality
of these training masks. Capt. Pat
terson said more than so per cent
of the masks made at the Edge
wood Arsenal are rejected for regu-
1or r-in
tests are made on both new and old
masks before they are issued to
troops.
In case of internal riots or enemy
air raids, Capt. Patterson declared,
the 100000 training masks could
be issued to civilians in affected
areas. The United States manu-
factures no masks for civilians at
present.
Although Arlington Cantonment
Is an infantry post, garrisoned by
the 18th Presidents Own" Infantry
Regiment, large class of men, under
the supervision of Maj William H.
Schildroth, acting post chemical
officer, engage in intensive training
OF Chemlcal warfare.
-Four day a week, a special squad
is taught the elements of laying
gas barrages, anti-gas activities,
smoke screen operations and many
other aspects of scientific war.
Troops at the cantonment dem
onstrated their efficiency in smoke
screen fighting yesterday, charging
through billowing smoke over rough
terrain. Strategically posted smoke
pots with which the Army is plenti-
fully equipped can shroud any given
area in smoke in few minutes.
In yesterdays tests, no actual
gas was used because of the high
wind and proximity of nearby
dwellings of soldiers families.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Additional 100000
OF Funds Of W. P. A.
Approved for Airport
Work Also Begins Today
On $568, ,4o8 Defense
AirfieId at BeItsviIIe

ALLEGATION of an additional S400,-
900 of Work Projects Administration
funds to complete work at Washing
ton National Airport, Gravelly
Point, has been approved by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, it was announced
today
At the same time, Paul Edwards,
District of Columbia w. P. A. ad-
ministrator. announced that work
on the S568, ,498 defense airport at
Beltsville, Md. will begin today.
The Beltsville field, located on land
controlled by the National Agricul-
tural Research Center about three
miles west of Laurel, near the Balti-
more-Washington pike, will be for
use of the District of Columbia Ma
tional Guard and Naval Aviation
Reserve flying units.
Defense for Capital.
The Beltsville project is being un-
dertaken in connection with planes
"for the girding of the Nations
Capital with a series of airports de-
signed to insure adequate defense" +"
Mr.. Edwards said. The construction
is sponsored by the Civil Aeronautics
Authority, which will contribute
$125,000, the remaining SAB, ,468 be-
ing w. p A. funds.
The money will be spent at Belts
vile for clearing, grubbing, grad
ing, draining, construction of run
ways, seeding, installation of light
ing facilities and incidental work" I"
w. P. A. labor from the District will
be used and approximately 200 men
were to start work today.
S238,S78 for Hangers.
Construction of hangers is to be
started soon at Beltsville. They will
cost S238, ,878, of which the District
National Guard, as sponsor, will
contribute approximately 100000.
The 100000 additional ALLEGATION
for Washington National Airport
brings the w. p. A. total there to
$3,987 900 The funds will be used
in completing number of w. P. A..
jobs, including paving, installation
of service mains, conduits, etc.,
grading, work on the relocated Sec
ton of the Mount Vernon Highway
and landscaping. Total cost of the
Gravelly Point project is more than
$4,000, 900, with II Federal agencies
participating In design and con-
struction work. The airport is to be
ready for airline occupancy before
the end of the month and for formal
dedication next month.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
William 5. Marvel Heads
Commissioners Group
By the Associated Press.

by Ine hSSCCldIeQ RTtSS.
PRINCESS ANNE, Md, April g.
William S. Marvel, president of the
Board of Talbot County Commits
sioners, is the new president of the
Eastern Shore County Commission
ers' Association.
Mr.. Marvel. who had served as vice
president the last year, was elevated
to the presidency at the association S
spring meeting here yesterday.
Asserting the shore sis not getting
its fair share of defense industries"
Representative Ward, Democrat, of
Maryland, urged the commissioners
to make surveys in their respective
communities to determine the capa-
city for handling defense projects.
State Senator Davis of Caroline
County told the commissioners they
lacked unity of purpose.
Luncheon speakers in addition to
Mr.. Ward, included DR.. H. C. Byrd,
president of the University of Mary
land. State Controller j. Millard
Tawes was toastmaster.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Scientific Society
Honors ; Students

Two students from Washington
and one from nearby Virginia are
among those who have been elected
members and associates of Sigma
XII, national honorary scientific So
ciety at the University of Virginia
according to an announcement by
DR.. James E. Kindred, professor OF
anatomy at the university's medical
school.
James Alexander Bradley of Wash
ington was elected a member, and
George Ray Boyd of Washington
and Mary Jane Cox of Manassas
Va, were elected associates.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Bethesda Chamber
To Give Kuhn Cup
To 0ffutt Brothers
John L. Imirie Elected
New President of
Organization

The Oliver Owen Kuhn Cup
awarded annually by the Bethesda
Chamber of Commerce for outstand-
ing service and contribution to the
community, will be presented this
wear to the Offutt brothers, M
Wilson Offutt and the late Windsor
Offutt, it was announced last night
The trophy. named in honor OF
the late Mr. Kuhn, managing editor
of The Evening Star and one OF
the founders of the chamber, will be
presented to Mr.. Offutt at the an
nual dinner of the chamber May
at the Kenwood Country Club. B
M. McKelway, managing editor OF
The Star, will make the presenta-
tion
. Thomas Jacocks, chairman of the
Award Committee, said the award
will be in recognition of the brothers
contribution to the Bethesda COM
munity in construction of the
Bradley Terrace Apartments.
John L. Imirie was elected presi-
dent of the chamber at last night S
meeting.
Others elected were: Clarence C.
Keiser, first vice president; Ralph
D. Terhune. second vice president:
Lawrence M. Richard executive
secretary; S. E. Everhart, first as
sistant secretary; Hugo Brooks, sec
ond assistant secretary, and John
r. Reeves, treasurer.
The following directors we're
elected: John S. Fulks, Harry L.
Golladay, G. w. Imirie, j. Henry
Hiser, Thomas B. Jacocks, Frank
Loria, ]. Phillip Schaeffer and Roy
w. Tomlinson.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Army Cadet Found Dead
With Rifle Beside Body

Frederic G. Rita, jr, 20, West
Point cadet, was found shot through
the temple in the bedroom of his
home at East Lenox street, Chevy
Chase. Md, yesterday by his par
snts, who had been waiting in front
of the house to take him for a ride
In their car. DR.. c. E. Hawks, Mont
gomery County medical examiner,
issued a certificate of suicide.
Rita, son of Department of
Justice attorney, had been sent
home for treatment at Walter Reed
Hospital for nervous condition,
police said. A .22-caliber rifle was
found beside him
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow at 10 am. in the Shrine of
the Most Blessed Sacrament, Chevy
Chase. Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Educutor to Be Honored

\. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, April
,tE9.-Arthur Fickenscher, who is re-
firing from the faculty of the Uni
versity of Virginia after more than
40 years as head of the division of
music, will be honored tonight at
q festival by the combined glee clubs
OF the University of Virginia, Wash
ington and Lee University, Hollins
College and Madison College.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
April, l94l
Toll In Previous Months.

In April. Beware OF:
Stepping out between parked
cars to cross a street at a point
other than a crosswalk. 1t was
this action, at 7 pm. of a rainy
day that led to the death of the
35-year-old pedestrian who vas
the Districts only trafic victim
in April, 1880.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Legislature 'Shokedown'
CHARGES Given Jury
BY the Associated Press.

BY Cne ASSOcldueu PleSS,
BALTIMORE, April 8.-State's At
torney J. Bernard Wells said yester-
day information relating to re-
ported "shakedown" attempts at the
recent legislative session had been
turned over to the grand jury.
Mr.. Wells presented to the jury
part of the testimony taken by the
Senate Temperance Committee in
its investigation of reports officials
of a drug store chain had been ap-
preached with an offer to kill a
liquor license bill for $2,500.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Hobby Show at Fuirfux

FAIRFAX, Va, April (SpeciaD -
A hobby exhibit will be shown by
pupils of Fairfax elementary school
tomorrow at pm. in connection
with the April meeting of the Parent
Teacher Association.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Freioht Car DeruiIed Nearby

FREDERICK, Md, April 8 tP.-
A freight car was derailed on the
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad bridge at
Harpers Ferry, w. Va, yesterday,
blacking rail spd motor trafic for
more than fou4hours.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
School Plans Operettu

OCCOQUAN, Va, April (Spe-
ciaD.-An operetta I'm Old Louisi-
ana" will be presented by the glee
club of the Occoquan High School
tomorrow at pm. in the high
school. Miss Martha Keller Is di-
recting the performance.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Students to Give PIuy

The children of the Chesterbrook
School will give a play, "Snickerty
Nick and the Giant" at pm. to-
morrow In the 1bchool. East Falls
Church, Va.
Evening star., 1941-04-08
Prince Georges
Gels Call for
40 Se|ectees
Board No. z List
For April Is Named !;
Virginia Quote

Prince Georges County CMd) Sc
lective Service Board No. 2 today
announced it had received a call
for 40 white selectees to be fur
niShed between May 5 and 10, a
requisition representing its share of
Maryland's contribution of 938 men
to the first May Sd Corps Area call
for total of $3.50 trainees.
Board No. has been instructed
to supply So white men for induc-
tion April 20. Yesterday it dis
patched 13 white and S colored re-
placements to Baltimore, as Board
No. l sent a single white replace
ment.
A revised list of selectees to be in
Quoted April 16 was made public
yesterday by Board No. 2.
Alexandria Sends Seven.
Seven white selectees named by
the Alexandria board left this morn
ing for Baltimore for induction with
the 29th Division at Fort MeadN
An eighth selectee, Walter Francis
Hodges, jr., %, of 7l9 Tinderbranch
drive, Alexandria, was to have &C
companied the group, but had en-
listed in the Army and will be
replaced by Lindwood Thurman Raj
ford, jr., %, of 2401 Terrett avenue,
Alexandria, who will leave Friday,
board officials announced.
In the initial May Sd Corps Area
call, as reported by the Associated
Press, Virginia will supply 1000
white and 78 colored selectees, and
Pennsylvania will send 2.002 white
men. A quota for the District of
l32 was announced here yesterday.
Two more calls will be made for
the month, and the grand total may
exceed the more than $4,000 requi-
sitioned for April, officers at corps
area headquarters in Baltimore indi-
Gated. The majority of the men
indicted during May will be sent to
Fort Meade.
Selectees Are Listed.
The list released yesterday bv
Prince Georges County Board No.
2 follows:
Evening star., 1941-08-28
Matters of General Interest Women Washington and Vicinity

word, making like you're getting off
at the next stop, but merely finding
. convenient standing place scme-
where else. Or you can say Wont
you take this seat? I'm getting off
soon." This will usually forestall
those embarrassing refusals from
belligerently independent females.
And you can avoid giving your
seat to glamour girls who are OBJ
viously just as sound Of wind and
strong of limb as you are. un-
cidentally, we saw just such a girl
give her seat to an old lady the
other day, and we were proud Of
herr Or, If you do give a seat to
a tasty dish, you can move away a
few steps, instead of standing right
beside her. This will keep her
from thinking that you have a deep
ulterior motive in making your
courteous gesture.
While we're on the subject of bus
and streetcar manners, we want to
mention one or two additional points
which apply to girls as well as to
men, or even more so.
Have your fare ready when you
board the vehicle, instead Of stop
ping Just inside the door to tumble
In the depths of your l0-gallon
Evening star., 1941-08-28

N1OW it's possible-a much
~ quicker, easier washday.
just tumble dry clothes into the
washer-out they come snowy
clean, spic and span, and ready
to rinse, the Oxydol way.
Yes, with today's Oxydol you
just don't need to soak before.
hand-exeept some stain or un-
Evening star., 1941-08-28
Rr Barbara Bell

With one glance at Pattern No.
1455-B you can see it is a classic
frock of special charm. 1t scores
a high fashion rating for its smart
yoke front, which gives fullness
through the bosom and frames the
attractive deep neckline with Its
face-flattering white collar. It's a
dress which you'll wear proudly
through the first days of fall-and
straight through the seasons which
follow.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 1455-B
is designed for sizes IL, IA, 16, Ia
and 20. Corresponding bust meas
urements, 80, 80, "a, 36 and 38. Size
IA (32), with short sleeves, requires
Az yards 39-inch material, Il yard
| contrast fabric for collar.
Send Is cents for the new Fashion
Book of fall and winter styles at
once for further ideas for school
WardrobeS.
Evening star., 1941-08-28
Should a Man Relinquish
Seat on Bus or Car to
'Able>Bodied Woman!
Rule Must Be Altered to Fit
Individual Circumstances;
Be Courteous Always
By Kay CaldweH and Alden Harrison


gentleman would shudder
remaining seated while standing
OF the riding street and these
Modern and particularly young have different slant
question feminine
enough etiquette authorities
Today gentleman sitting q
whom he old ill., crippled
with bundles He'd crippled
side that he'd feel that
ter how many swayng the straps
We these will the fellows
have been suffering agnes of ndecison whether should
feet
all the seated
know just how e remain seated you'll fighting
conscience all the your stop you offer lady your
will feel conspicuous On Of that there's good chance that she'll
refuse to take the seat making feel like a
Or she founce into it without
Evening star., 1941-08-28

pocketbook, looking for an elusive
token, while other people trying 70
board the car are stymied on the
steps. If you want to ask the con-
ductor about stop or a transfer,
step aside and let the other people
pay their fares first. Don't hold
up the whole line.
And don't try to beat everybody
else on or of the car when it stops
to pick UP or discharge passengers.
This is one place where a boy should
remember the ladies first" rule.
Also, let disembarking passengers
out of the car before you barge
into 1t.
Don't sprawl all over a seat, TAX
ing more than your share of the
room. Don't jam your elbows into
your seatmate's ribs when you shift
gears on your newspaper. Try to
jostle other passengers as little as
possible when you push past them
in a crowded aisle and murmur
Excuse me- or I'm sorry" when
such an apology is called for.
Don't stare at other passengers,
make remarks about them to your
companion, or read their news
paper over their shoulder. Avoid
the juvenile horse play with which
Evening star., 1941-08-28
Gets Those "Sfvbborn Spots"

Have been doing lot of hard rubbing grmy places1
You needn't with Oxydol For those Stubborn spo"
just wet work in little Oxydol before you
into the washer Then how Oxydol gets wornin dirt
how whole wash snowy clean fbouf yn6bingi