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Evening star., 1941-06-30
Report for Last 4S Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 90, at 3:45 pm. yesterday.
Lowest, "a at 5 am. today. Year
ago, co.
highest, o.. on May 2s.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Lowest, g. on March Is.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday 20 noon today.O
Highest. IS per cent. at 4:30 am. today.
Lowest, As per cent, at $3.50 pm. yes
terday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy at
Great Fails today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United states Coast and
(yeOdetic EllrVey.l
Evening star., 1941-06-30
Liquor

Continued From First Paee)
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Rutland Asks Public
ToAid in Program
OF RAT Radiance
Discovery Of Case Of
Typhus Spurs Campaign
For Control in D. 6.

Health Officer George C. Rutland
today asked the public and District
government agencies to cooperate
in a rat control program, which
he planned yesterday as the result
of discovery of one case OF typhus
in the District.
DR.. James G. Cumming, head of
the Preventable Disease Bureau OF
the Health Department. is expects
ed to be designated to head the
campaign. Others listed to serve
on the Rat Control Committee in
clude DR.. Norman H. Topping of
the National Institute of Health at
Bethesda, Md, who would be asked
to be in charge of rodent and virus
investigations; DR.. R. r. Ashworth
of the Districts food inspection
service, Claude F. Browning. sani-
tary engineer of the Health De-
partment, and Melvin P. Isaminger,
in charge of public health instruc-
ton.
The program, DR.. Rutland indi-
Gated, would include trapping and
poisoning of rats, rat proofing OF
new buildings and a city clean
up. Householders and restaurants
are asked to keep garbage in COW
cred containers.
Several civic groups during the
past year urged adoption of pro-
grams for rat riddance and volun-
teered to cooperate with the agency
in charge.
Typhus is caused by the bite Of
feas infected with typhus from rats.
Virus infected fleas were found on
rats taken in a Northeast area, it
was said.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Reynolds Calls Meeting
OF District Committee

Chairman Reynolds has called an
executive meeting of the Senate Dis
trlct Committee tomorrow morning
at 10 O'Clock. Confirmation of the
appointment of Senator Burton of
Ohio as chairman of the traffic sub
committee will be considered. Other
subcommittees will be appointed.
Five bills are waiting action three
being sponsored by Senator Capper.
OF Kansas, ranking minority mem
Der. One of these provides for Dis
trict primaries by the election of
delegates to political conventions.
The other two are credit unions in
the District and the other would
put all such organization under the
supervision of the superintendent of
of insurance.
Two pending bills we're introduced
by Senator Tydings of Maryland.
One provides for the refund of as
sessments as we'll as taxes and the
other proposes to exempt the prop
erty of the Colonial Danes of
America from taxation.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Special Troops
Leave for Duty
At Fort Meade
Guurdsmen From
Two Nearby Areas
Receiving Tests

Approximately 140 officers and
men of the 29th Division Special
Troops left the District for Fort
George G. Meade, Md, shortly after
10 o'clock today-a few hours before
the scheduled departure Of an addl-
tional $50 National Guardsmen
making up the 1st Battalion, l04th
Quartermaster Regiment.
In command of Maj. Louis M.
Gosorn, the special troops left IN
"a cargo trucks, two trailers and
two reconnaissance trucks. Most OF
their heavy equipment and baggage
was transported to Fort Meade late
yesterday.
The quartermaster troops, who
will join the special unit in making
last minute preparations at Meade
for arrival of the bulk of the 10000
Guardsmen in the 29th Division.
was scheduled to leave the Penn
sylvania avenue armory at 2.30
o'clock this afternoon.
12lst Under stand BY" Orders.
Most of the quartermaster bag
gage was piled into trucks of the
special troops this morning so all
transportation space possible Wou1o
be made available for the men this
| afternoon.
With the exception of few men
! in its headquarters company. the
! l2lst Engineers, lone District Guard
unit remaining in the city after to-
day will be kept under stand by
orders until the latter part Of next
week. This regiment numbers more
than 500 officers and men. Maj.
Gen. Milton A. Reckord. command
| ing officer of the 29th Division. or
dered the unit held back when it
became apparent construction OF
housing and hospital facilities at
Fort Meade for the division was
tagging. Ten men of the Head
quarters and Service Company of
the regiment, however, went to the
post yesterday to receive instruc-
ton in operation of the heating
and r-conditioning plants attached
to the new buildings which will
house the division officers said
these District Guardsmen later will
be charged with teaching others as
they arrive details of the system.
Nearby Group Gets Tests.
Examination facilities at the
armory today were used for tests on
Guardsmen from Silver Spring. Md, ID,
and Alexandria, Va. The Mary
landers are members of the 1l5th
Infantry. They were to be trans
ported to the armory in trucks,
which later were to be used to pick
! up the Alexandria unit. Company
I, 1st Infantry.
On completion of examinations
of these nearby men. tests will be-
gin for the bulk of the local quar-
termaster troops. officers said ex-
aminations for this unit probably
would require three days. A num-
Der of the quartermaster troops are
quartered in the armory, but the
majority have been given permls-
sion to live at home until the regi-
ment departs for Fort Meade.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Seven Pedestrians
Hurt in District
Traffic Mishdps
Boy, 9, Hit by One Car
And Thrown in Path
Of Second Auto

Seven pedestrians were injured IN
Washington traffic mishaps yester-
day.
driven by Barbara Scott, "a. colored,
of the 100 block of Sixteenth street
NV, after a collision with another
car operated by John Henry Park
hurst, 43. of Friendship Station. Md,
on Second street near L street,
swerved against the curb, knocking
down Helen Green, colored, 30, of
Ill L street S.W.
The pedestrian was treated at
Providence Hospital for cerebral
conclusion. possible skull fracture
and abrasions. The Scott woman
was treated for facial cuts Mr..
Parkhurst was charged with reckless
driving.
Boy, 9. Hit by Two Cars.
Richard Ballard, 9, colored. of 2609
o street NV, was struck last night
in the 1900 block of Twenty seventh
street NV. by an automobile police
said was driven by Arthur G.. Jack
son. %. of 4808 Fifteenth street NV.
The child was knocked into the path
of another car driven by America
Fazzarini, 80, of 1889 Vermont ave-
nue. NV.
At Georgetown. the child was
treated for a fractured arm, frac-
tured pelvis and cuts and bruises. He
was transferred to Gallinger Hospi-
tai. Jackson was charged with oper-
ating a car with an obstructed
windshield
Jeff o. Hicks, 35, of Springfield,
Va, was struck while opening the
left front door of his parked car in
front of 1125 Seventh street NV,
| by a truck operated, police said. by
Robert L. Pitts, colored, 20. of 1902
Georgia avenue. He was treated at
Casualty Hospital for possible frac-
ture of the ribs and back.
Reginald Singleton, g. colored, OF
II C street Sc, was hit while run
ming across the street near his home
by an automobile operated, police
said. by William Carter. 26, colored.
of 157 Hickman street Sc. He was
treated at Providence Hospital for
a fracture of the right leg and
cerebral conclusion.
Girl, 6, Run Down.
Police reported Dorothy Mae Leg
gett. 6, colored, of 1919 Church
street NV, ran in front of an auto
mobile operated by Charles j. Hen
aghan, 40, of Seattle, Wash, in front
of her home and received fracture
of the left leg and lacerations of the
| head
Arthur C. Pearson, As. of 1920
Fuller street NV. fell from street.
car loading platform on the east
side of Fourteenth street NV, at
New York avenue, into the path
of an autmobile driven by Charles
M. johnson, At, of Silver Spring,
Mo. He was able to walk to George
Washington Hospital where he was
treated for cuts and bruises.
Frank Nowlin, 6, of Alb Fourth
street NV. was knocked down by
a hit-and-run car bearing Mary
land license tags while running
across the street to school at Third
and K streets NV. today. He
was treated at the school, accord
ing to Miss A. M. Woodson, princi-
pal.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Retirement System Cost
Rising, Federal Club Told

The cost Of the Government re-
tirement system is increasing and
employees must be prepared to pay
a larger share if annuities are to
continue on their present basis,
Chairman Ramspeck of the House
Civil Service Committee told the
Federal Club last night.
Pointing out that the Govern
ment now is contributing 100000
900 annually for retirement, Mr..
Ramspeck said this figure might be
doubled because of the increase of
personnel. When the cost reaches
s20O,O00000, he added, 1T will be
getting into pretty big money"
DR.. C. w. Warburton, deputy gov
ernor of the Farm Credit Admins
tration, and president of the club, di-
rected a committee to make study
of the question for the guidance Of
the club The meeting was held at
the Roosevelt Hotel.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Chevy Chase Women Make
500 'BIackout' Curtains

Three hundred pairs of "black-
out" curtains for use in the pre-
fabricated hospitals made in Ameri-
ca for England have been produced
by church units of the American
Red Cross in Chevy Chase, it was
announced today.
Led by the Red Cross unit at
All Saints Episcopal Church. men,
bers of the Blessed Sacrament
Catholic Church and churches of
several other denominations made
neighhorhood project of the cur
tains, under the chairmanship of
Mrs. John D. Northrop.
Twenty-Five hospital buildings
will be set up, completely equipped
and ready for use two days after
their arrival in England. Set
feet inside each door will be the
blackout curtains so arranged as
DO permit stretcher to be brought
through the outer entrance without
allowing a ray of light to escape.
The curtains we're treated with A
chemical de-lighting process.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Make February Safer
In February Beware OF:

/. Crossing streets carelessly
in rainy weather, particularly at
night. The four pedestrians
killed in February, 1910, were
struck in wet weather, three
after dark.
2. Crossing a street at point
other than a crosswalk or cross
ing against a red light. The
former cost two lives in Febru-
ary, 1910; the latter, one. The
fourth pedestrian was struck by
a hit-run motorist at an uncon-
trolled intersection.
Of the four pedestrians, three
were so years of age or older.
The fifth February victim was a
truck driver killed in a collision
with an automobile.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Hanrahan Hits Plan
For Defense HOUSING
Units in Arlington
County Manager Says
Adequate Provision Made
By Private Developers

A recommendation to President
Roosevelt that nearby Virginia be
considered favorably as site for
1000 family dwelling units for the
Washington area was opposed today
by County Manager Frank c. Han
rahan of Arlington County.
Pa He said the lack of large amount
of heavy industry in this area makes
it unnecessary for the Government
to construct loW-cost housing units
in Arlington to care for laborers on
a large scale.
President Roosevelt received a
proposed program this week from C.
F. Palmer, defense housing CO.
ordinator. which would provide for
the building of 14,375 housing units
in "a cities in the United States,
Alaska and Puerto Rico. The cities
listed in the program are engaged in
defense activities and were said to
have IAN acute shortage" of housing
facilities.
One thousand of the units we're
recommended for the Washington
area and while their exact location
was not disclosed, it was indicated
nearby Virginia is being considered
Il have never regarded Arlington
as a community for this type of
housing project" Mr.. Hanrahan
said. I'VE have no Navy yards or
great amount of heavy industrial
plants that would require the hous-
ing of laborers on large scale"
He pointed to the several thou
sand apartment units now available
in the county's private housing pro-
iects and said the employees of this
area are best served by such facilities
He also revealed that there are plans
now in progress by several private
developers for the construction of
hundreds of more apartment units
in Arlington during 194l.
Il believe if private interests in
other communities were doing what
private individuals are doing in
Arlington" he said, "there would be
no need for the Government to step
in and provide housing"
Evening star., 1941-02-05

her room, pausing to call a geeting
to other patients.
AS photographers adjusted their
cameras. she started to write note
of thanks to Mrs. Roosevelt with
paper and pencil supplied by her
mother, asking the group for assist
ance in spelling Dear" Mrs" and
Roosevelt" Carolyn then began
to draw, announcing:
I've already started a real one;
this is just a fake"
The books from the White House
"Scamper" and "Scampers Christ
mas" by Mrs. John Boettiger-were
accompanied by Mrs Roosevelt's S
card. on which she had written:
My daughter wrote these for her
children when they were here, so
I hope you will like them"
Evening star., 1941-02-05

Carolyn Lee, 5-year-old film starlet
who missed the Presidents Birthday
Ball after being stricken with a
bronchial ailment on her arrival in
the Capital, held an informal recep-
ton for press photographers today
in Childrens Hospital and proudly
exhibited two books and a bouquet
of roses sent her by Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
The child actress appeared today
well on the way to recovery. Her
mother, Mrs Warren Copp, said they
expected to leave for Miami by the
end of the week. although Carolyn's
physician had not given permission.
The talented 5-year-old insisted
on propelling the wheel-chair herself
as she came down a corridor from
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Navy Craftsman Found
Dead in Car GARAGE

Louis A. Van Loock. 51-year-old
craftsman in the Navy Department,
was found dead last night in an au-
tomobile in the garage behind his
home at 6213 Thirty first street NV.
by his wife, Mrs. Pauline M. Van
Loock.
Police said the switch key of the
machine was turned on, the car
doors propped open and the garage
doors closed. A fire rescue squad
was summoned to the scene and
administered first aid, but the
craftsman was pronounced dead by
DR.. Robert Havell of 5516 Nebraska
avenue NV. at $3.50 pm A certifi-
cate fsuicide was issued by Coroner
A. Magruder Macdonald.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Finch Receives Award
As Outstanding Citizen

Wilbur S. Finch, president of the
District of Columbia Suffrage Asso-
citation, last night received the l941
WINK award as the local citizen
who has rendered the most out
standing service to the community
of Washington in the past year"
The presentation was made by Law
renee J. Heller, owner of the radio
station, on the Between the Head
lines Program"
In addition to being president of
the Suffrage Association, Mr.. Finch
is chairman of the local Suffrage
Committee of the Federation of
Citizens Associations and chairman
of the federation's Committee on
Reorganization of the District Gov
ernment.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Company 10 Answer
Express BusPIed
AT Hearing Today
Upper Sixteenth Street
Residents Argue for
Foster Service

Officials of the Capital Transit Co.
are scheduled to present this after
noon to the Public Utilities Com
mission the company views on de-
mands of resident of the far-North
Sixteenth street area for establish
ment of an express service from
Eastern avenue to Constitution
avenue.
S. R. Bowen. company attorney
made clear during yesterdays four
hour initial session, however, that
the company feels a l0-cent cash
fare should be charged if express
service is ordered; and that local"
service at token fare should be con-
tinued to permit a choice to pas
sengers.
He voiced belief also that if ex-
press bus service were ordered at
regular fare it would set up discrimi-
nation against those areas which do
not have express service at the token
fare.
Express Partly Local.
The proposed express buses would
run local from Sixteenth street
and Eastern avenue to Sixteenth
and Madison streets NV, then ex-
press down Thirteenth street to
Massachusetts avenue, and local
from there to Ninth street and Con-
stitution avenue NV.
Ten witnesses were put on the
stand yesterday by the Sixteenth
Street Heights Citizens Associa-
ton, sponsor of the movement for
express buses, to protest that present
local bus service was too slow and
otherwise unsatisfactory. When Mr..
Bowen asked them If they would be
willing to pay 10 cents cash for ex-
press service, most witnesses said
they would if they were convinced
the express service would cost more
to operate.
Harry C. Hensley. an economist
with the Farm Credit Administra-
ton. charged that the regular fare
Takoma express buses constituted
a discrimination. He also pro-
tested that other lines have better
equipment than that used on the
North Sixteenth street buses. A
test run for the proposed express
lire, he said showed the present
local service takes 28.8 per cent
more time.
Cites Loss to Passengers.
In a novel argument, Mr.. Hens
ley said it had been figured that
a bus load of go passengers from
his section, if the average wages
of the group was so cents an hour,
lose" $3,407 a year because Of the
extra transit time now required;
that if the average earnings were
at the rate of 81 an hour. the "loss"
for a year on this time valuation
basis would be $27, ,343.
Various witnesses argued that If
express bus service were provided
many persons now driving their
own automobiles would use the
buses. The case for the association
was presented by Michael J. Cairns.
Other witnesses were Frank P. Ca
hill, valuation engineer of the In
| terstate Commerce Commission, who
argued that to encourage bus riding
would reduce use of private cars
for transit to and from work and
thereby reduce traffic congestion;
Royal j. Haskell of the Agriculture
Department, Robert MacWilliams of
the Farm Credit Administration,
Ted Englehardt, j. Preston Swecker,
an attorney; G. Mallett Provost,
Kelsey Gardner, an economist; John
J. Geary, resident manager Of the
Falkland Apartments. and T. A.
Kunz, an architectural engineer.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
tuberculosis Society
Report 10 Be Ready Soon

DR.. Kendall Emerson, managing
director of the National tuberculosis
Association, conferred yesterday
with a special committee of the
District of Columbia tuberculosis
Association, which is making an in
vestigation of the local associations
affairs, with view to its reorganl-
zation.
Ross Garrett, head of the Health
Security Administration, and treas
urer of the local tuberculosis group,
who is chairman of the special COM
mittee, announced the group had
called into consultation representa-
tives of the national association.
"A full report in detail of the
findings and recommendations of
the committee" said Mr. Garrett
will be presented in short time.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Chest Will Hold
Annual Meetinq
13
24O New Trustees
Will Be Elected:
120 Nominated

The annual meeting of the Com
munity Chest of Washington will be
held at $50 pm, February 13, in
the United States Chamber of Com
merce Auditorium.
Contributors will be represented by
120 of the trustees, and the 60
agencies served by the Chest will
have q similar number. Newbold
Noyes, chairman of the Nominating
Committee, has announced the
names of the 100 to represent the
contributors on the board, in ac-
cordance with provision of the by
laws specifying that such list
should be made available for pub
lication to the contributors at least
seven days in advance OF the annual
meeting.
Since every one of our 2l6,0OO
contributors automatically becomes
a voting member of the Chest, dur
ing the year for which his gift is
made, such membership auto
matically entities each of them to
attend the annual meeting and
participate in the election Of trustees
nominated to represent contrib
utors," Mr.. Noyes announced.
1t also was pointed out that under
the Chest bylaws contributors have
the privilege of making nominations
in addition to those submitted by the
Nominating Committee.
Persons being nominated to
represent contributors are:
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Patent Man to Lecture

Robert A. OLeary of the United
States Patent Office will deliver an
illustrated lecture on Mechanical
Refrigeration at pm. tomorrow
at the Commerce Department audi
torium. A graduate of Georgetown
University law school. Mr.. OJeary
is assistant chief of Division 46
of the Patent Office.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Four More Pneumonia
Deaths Reported Here

Four more pneumonia deaths were
reported today to the District Health
Department, making total of 78
for the year. There were six more
cases. bringing the total to 281. The
Health Department also reported
"a additional influenza cases, making
the total for the year 664.
Evening star., 1941-02-05

Wheeler. william W
White. Mrs. Mastin G.
wilkinson, Or. H. A,
Wilmer, Richard
Wilson. Lloyd B
Wilson Robert w.
Wise. Bert H.
Kaufman, Joseph d.
Kilby. Edwin L.
Kittle, Mrs. William
Kolb. DR.. Lawrence
Kuehl, Frank W.
Langford, Mack l.
Latimer, J. Austin
La wson. B. ". jr.
Luchs. Frank J.
LYON. DR.. J. A.
Lyon. Richard X.
Marsh. Mrs H N.
Martin. Reed F.
McConihe. F. Moran
McGrew, John L.
Mcnamara. Most Rev
Meyer, Eugene
Mitchell. william L.
Morgan, T. p. jr.
Morrill,, Chester
Morris. z. K.
Murray. william NJ.
Ma sh, Earl A.
Neal. Alfred G.
Nichols, Mrs. H. G
Ollphant, Mrs. A. c.
O'Rourke. John T.
OverholSer. DR.. W.
Parker. Maj. c. G. jr
Patterson. Mrs. z.
Peet. w. c.. jr
. Pinkett, John r.
Rapp, Paul L.
Reed. Mrs. Stanley
, Reilly. John A.
i Richberg Mrs. D. r.
Rigean. Mrs. c. J.
Robinson. Charles A
Roper. Daniel c.
Rust, H. l., jr.
Saul, John
Srhnurr. Miss Mae A
Shaw. G. Eowland
Shorb, Paul e.
simon. Morris
Slade. Mrs. W. A,
Sleeper, Paul D.
Sperry. Marcy L.
stevens. Raymond 3
Sturtevant- Mrs. w.
Suter. Jesse c.
Swofford. Mrs. Jewel.
Taylor. Wayne c.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Nye to Address Grunqe

Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota will address the meeting of
Potomac Grange, No. l, tonight at 8
o'clock in the All Souls Unitarian
Church, Sixteenth and Harvard
streets NV, on National Defense
and the Lease-Lend Bill"
Evening star., 1941-02-05

Allen. Bruce r.
Altemus, Mrs. F E.
Anderson, Judge 7.
Aspinwall. Mrs. c. A.
BaIIou. DR.. F. w
Banfield. Paul L
Bentley. Judge Fay L.
Berkeley, Kenneth H
Berry. c. oscar
Birgfeld. Frank A.
Bliss, R. w.
Bowen. william c.
Bradley. F. M.
Brown. Mai z. w.
Butler. Lee D.
Cafritz. Morris
Carr. Wilbur J.
Carusi. Ugo
Choate. H. Lawrence
Colpoys, John B.
Conan. Miss Jean
Compton. Mrs. w. NJ
Davis, Mrs. D. F.
Davis, Mrs. Simon M
de Lashmutt. L. o.
Dickman, J. B. ST.
Dotter. Harold
Draper. Ernest G.
Emerson. G. c.
Faneborner. H. D.
Faulkner. Mrs. w.
Fickel. Mrs. M. G.
Fleming, Robert v
Fletcher. Col. r. H.
Folser, J. Clifford
Foster, Ben s.
Frailey. 1t. Col. T j.
Garman. Cameron G
Gerstenfeld, Rabbi
Glenn, Rev. c. Leslie
Goldnamer. Marc c
Goldsmith, Mrs. C. A
Goodacre. Col. S.
Gorrell. J. S.
Ha u. Albin w.
HELEN Arthur
:. .Hoadley Prank M.
Houghteling. Mrs. J.
Hudson Minor
Jelleff. Frank r.
Jennings. Coleman
Jones. Miss Cecil L.
Thornett. G. M.
Thoron, B. W.
Thrift, Hugh A.
Tufts. Col. W. o.
Upa. John z.
Vandergrift. John L.
Victory. John ?.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Prom Purty PIonned

The Washington Club of Mount
st. Mary's College, Emmitsburg,
Md, will hold its annual prom
party at $50 pm. Friday at 1906
Rhode Island avenue NE, The af-
fair will be open to the public.