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Evening star., 1941-06-05
U.S. Officials Budget Dollars
To Fit Service Mems Needs
Dormtories, Recreation Facilities and Meals
Among Items to Be Provided With Funds

You see them on street corners
watching the people go by. Back
home, they knew everybody. Here
everybody is a stranger.
They left their homes to serve
their country and that was all right
They don't mind the hours in camp.
It's the time on leave when there's
no place to go, nobody to talk to,
that makes them remember what it
was like back home
That was the problem the United
Service Organizations started out to
tackle. How the agencies of the U.
S. o. plan to work it out here was
disclosed today by a U. S. o. official
in sketching where the dollars con-
tributed to the U. S. O. campaign
here will go.
Nine Agencies Here.
Each agency, and there are nine of
them to whom eallotments will go,
submitted budget before the cam
paign got under way yesterday. For
funds to keep buildings open week
ends, funds to expand already ex-
isting services. Others will start
service clubs where the men can go
to play ping pong. write letters
home, read, dance. watch boxing
matches and meet people.
Some of the agencies, operating on
minimum budgets from the Com
munity Chest. couldn't afford the
custodial service or the supervision
to keep their services running on
Sundays. With additional funds,
one of them will be able to open its
swimming pool on Sunday. That en-
tails, besides janitor service, money
for soap, towels, more hot water for
showers.
One of the agencies will install
cots in its assembly hall Housing
the men over week ends has been
one of the most serious problems.
Several of them will take on workers
to run q housing service. Another
agency is making over its garage
into dormitory with recreation
rooms.
Equipment runs up into money.
There are games to be bought. bad
minton sets, phonograph records,
books, ping-pong tables. stationery.
Funds have to be provided to buy
refreshments, to rent movies, to
provide transportation, to hire extra
help.
Each agency has its own plans.
One of them needs a supervisor to
train volunteers so they can give
information to boys when they ar
rive at Union Station and the bus
terminal Some one has to find a
place for them to stay when they
arrive late at night, to see that they
have enough to eat.
Several of them are planning
Evening star., 1941-06-05

weekly socials and dances, variety
shows and even dancing lessons.
One of them, particularly concerned
with women defense workers who
also may be young and away from
home for the first time, wants to
get personal counselor.
S105, 200 Local Fund.
For the amount they hope to do,
for what they want to give the
boys in uniform and defense work
ers called from their homes, their
individual budgets are slim. Among
the nine agencies, the s105,000 to
be spent locally will be divided
Washington's goal is $3.50, 900. The
remaining s145,000 is to go to the
national fund to help operate the
proposed $50 recrea ton centers' out
side camps Since several of these
are planned for camps near Wash
ington, the city is expected to ben
eft far beyond the s145 600 it sends
to the national fund.
The nine local agencies to whom
the boys look for home life far
from their own homes are the Dis
trict Defense Council, the Y. M. c.
A, Y. w. c. A., Jewish Community
Center, National Catholic Com
munity Service, Phyllis Wheatley Y
w. c. A., Travellers Aid Society,
Salvation Army and Soldiers, Sailors
and Marines Club.
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Night Of Thrills Pageant
Participants Announced

Participants in a pageant fea-
turing the 1941 Night Of Thrills" to
be held at 73O pm. tomorrow in
Griffith Stadium for benefit of the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home
were announced today by Thomas
o. VALENTINE, general chairman.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, District
selective service director, will be
grand marshal, assisted by Lit. Col.
Edwin S. Bethlehem, jr.; 1t. Col.
Peyton G. hewitt, 1t. Col. Walter
S. Welsh, 1t. Col. William T. Roy
and Maj. Fletcher F. BernSdorff.
Military units will come from
Fort Meade, Md.
In addition to the pageant the
program will include a baseball
game preceding the main program
at 430 pm, the crowning of Miss
Dorothy E. Clair as queen, a con-
cert by the Chevy Chase Band and
q four-ring circus, officials said.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Police Patrols Reduced
To One Officer Per Car

Acting under direction of the
Commissioners, Police Chief Ernest
w. Brown yesterday ordered that
only one policeman instead of two
be assigned to each patrol car in
nine precincts for an experimental"
period. The one-man patrols will be
operated in the residential areas.
and downtown precincts were ex-
cluded-Nos. l, 2, 3, 4 and 10.
The Commissioners instructed
Maj. Brown to select carefully a
good man in each case because it is
thought there are men who can sue
cessfully do this work alone and
others who cannot" The expert
ment will cover both day and night
shifts.
The purpose of reducing the men
in the patrol cars from two to one
is to make more patrolmen available
for foot duty, it was said. The cars
have been manned by a pair of pa
trolmen since the motor system was
organized.
The one-man method was tried
out briefly last summer, and a single
car manned by one patrolman has
been IN operation on the George
town water front.
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EkIund Defense Plans
To Offer BaIIistic
Tests as Evidence
Counsel Says He Will Show
/, Suspect Wus at Home
At Time Of Staying

A plan to use the same ballistic
tests employed by the prosecution,
plus additional ones, to show that
John Eugene Eklund was not the
owner of the gun used in the snip
er Staying" of Hylan McClaine. II,
colored, was revealedby the defense
in Eklund's murder trial in District
Court today.
Another victim in the chain of
"sniper" shootings, Percy McKin-
ME, colored, 1900 block of Sixth
street NV, testified he was shot
in the jaw and shoulder by a man
he believed to be another colored
man and, the defense contends. the
bullets from McKinnie's body match
the ones taken from McClaine' S
body.
Defense Counsel James Kirkland
promised the Jury that ballistic
tests by the Governments own ex-
pert, Capt. John Fowler, would re-
veal that all these bullets were
fired from the same .38-caliber
revolver.
Was at Home, Defense to Contend.
Mr.. Kirkland in his opening state
ment also told the jury the defense
would show that Eklund was at
home practicing on a stenotpye ma
chine the night of October IA, when
McClaine was slain.
McKinnie told the jury he was
shot on the night of September %
while sitting in car with his wife
in front of 1865 Twenty fifth
street NV.
Eklund himself is expected to take
the stand before adjournment this
afternoon.
Mr.. Kirkland saw the possibility
of the defense finishing its case to-
day.
Government Closes Case.
The Government closed It's case
yesterday following testimony by
two ballistic experts that purports
to be the final link in testimony
designed to send Eklund to the cleo
trio chair.
Capt. Fowler and Inspector j.
Harry Fitzgerald of the Colt
Arms Manufacturing Co. were the
two who said they tested bullets
the two who said they tested bullets
assertedly taken from Mechanics
body and from a tree near a restau-
rant where Eklund was formerly
employed.
The markings on the four bullets
indicated they were fired from the
same gun, the witnesses testified
Previously, testimony had been given
that Eklund had fired into the tree
while engaged in target practice.
Fowler Is Positive.
Il made a microscopic eXamina-
ton of all four bullets and I am
positive they were fired through the
same revolver" he stated.
Are you positive of that?" asked
Assistant United States Attorney
John Fihelly for emphasis.
Il am" the witness replied.
Mr.. FITZGERALD corroborated much
of Capt. Fowler's testimony, assert
ing he was equally as certain the
bullets were fired from the same gun.
Mr.. Kirkland cross examined both
witnesses closely in an attempt to
bring out flaws in the science of
ballistics. He also elected from
Capt. Fowler the assertion no gun
was ever turned over to him for ex-
animation that appeared to be the
gun from which the four bullets had
been fired.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Federal Assent
On 1-Cenf
Milk Awaited
Tentative List of 80
Schools Drawn for
Proposed Program

School officials today were await
Ing word from the Surplus Market
ing Division of the Agriculture De-
partment on plans to establish a l.
cent milk program for needy chill
dren in certain schools.
A tentative list of 80 schools in
low-income areas has been prepared
by school authorities, but Supt
Frank W. Ballou urged the appoint
ment of a representative committee
to decide where the low-cost milk
should be made available.
DR.. Ballou told the members of
the Board of Education yesterday
that similar programs are in effect
in New York and Chicago and
pointed out that the board would
have to be a party to any program
here.
$4,000 Suggested.
Under the suggested plan, $40 900
would be allotted from District
budget fund for sponsors contribu-
tions to W. P A. projects to cover the
expense of the milk. 1t is from this
fund that milk is now purchased in
the free school lunches to needy
pupils program. At l cent half
pint, DR.. Ballou pointed out that this
would mean 100000 half pints, or,
on the basis of school days per year,
about $4,000 bottles day.
The superintendent said the ad-
vantage OF the program proposed
over the present system was that it
Increased the number of pupils to
get the milk without increasing the
cost Of operating the project.
All children in the selected schools
would be eligible for the milk, it
was said.
Schools suggested by the school
officers as being in low-income areas
and therefore suitable for the pro-
gram are Addison Curtis Hyde. Cor
coran, Henry-Polk, Thomson, Gales,
Seaton, S. j. Bowen, Cranch-
Tyler, Brent, Fairbrother, Green
leaf. Lenox- French -Wallach, Briggs,
Military Road, Deanwood, Burrville,
Montgomery, Garfield, Smothers,
Syphax, Van Ness, Payne, Small
wood, Phillips, Reno, Stevens, Sum-
ners, Wormley, Walker. Birney,
Crummen, Jones, Morse. Mott,
Slater. Twining, Ambush, Bell and
Anthony Bowen.
A. d. A. May Be Represented.
1t was thought likely that a rep
resentative of the Alley Dwelling
Authority might be asked to be on
the representative committee which
would finally determine the schools
at which the project would be in
operation. The A. D. A. has made
study of low-income areas, it was
pointed out.
At present, milk is purchased for
school lunches at around cents a
pint, 1t was explained, so that the
same $4,000 now used for the milk
purchase will buy three times as
much under the proposed program.
1t was learned that Auditor A. R.
Pilkerton has been asked for an
opinion as to whether the sponsors
contribution fund can be used for
this project, since it specified w. P
A. projects. and special projects are
named. School officials were in
clined to believe that it could be
done, since milk is being bought
now under the school lunch pro-
gram, but in case there is doubt,
1t has been suggested that Congress
earmark the $4,000 for the 1-cent
milk program.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Conference Of Methodists
Holds Business Session
BY the hssocis ted Press

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, June 5.-The first
business session of the annual Bal
timore Conference of Methodist
Churches opened this morning with
the reading of reports by district
superintendents.
Business meetings of the confer
ence, at which more than TOO clergy
and lay representatives are reg
istered, will continue through next
Monday. At that time, changes in
pastoral appointments will be an
nounced.
The conference was called to order
yesterday by Bishop Adna Wright
Leonard of Washington.
At an earlier session; the Rev. DR..
Robin Gould of Francis Asbury
Church, Washington, delivered the
memorial address for conference
members who died during the year
Evening star., 1941-06-05
House Slated 10 Get
S55,OOO,O00 D. {.
Bill Next Week
Report Is Expected to
Reveal Little Change
In Array Of Items

! The 1912 District appropriation
bill, calling for approximately S55,-
100000 TO support the municipal
| government in the coming fiscal
year beginning July I, will be re-
I ported to the House either Wednes-
day or Thursday of next week, it
was announced today by Chairman
Mahon of the subcommittee in
! charge of the measure.
The subcommittee will meet to-
morrow to mark up the bill and
put it in shape for House consid-
Grafton.
! Hearings on the 1912 budget esti-
/ mates-estimate that are expected
to go into the bill without material
change-were completed by the sub
committee late yesterday after 1t
heard the testimony of the last of
/ so witnesses representing civic, busi-
ness, parent-teacher. automobile
and Government employe organiza-
tionS
Impressed by Testimony.
Subcommittee members said they
! had been impressed by the testi-
mony of the organization repre-
sentatives. and probably would ap-
/ prove some of the requests made
for Improvements not provided in
the original budget.
AS the hearings closed. Chairman
Mahon reiterated that the bill would
provide for continuation of the
present $4,000 900 annual lump-sum
Federal payment toward District
expenses, despite efforts made to
have the amount increased.
"Of course" he explained, 'the
amount can be changed in either
the House or Senate"
Mr., Mahon also repeated that the
bill would not necessitate any in
crease. in existing taxes. Figures
given the subcommittee, he said,
show the District can support a
s55 100000 budget on the basis of
anticipated revenue, even though it
would be the largest budget in his
tory.
Items "Merit0ri0us."
Subcommittee members agreed
when the hearing closed that the
1912 budget had been well con-
sidered" by both the Commissioners
and the Budget Bureau, and that
most" of the items in 1t were
'meritorious."
The subcommittee, it was said,
was particularly impressed with an
item of $4,000 for the acquisition
of site and the preparation of
plans for a health center in the
Northwest section. ut is a very
worthy item" declared one of the
members
Although requests were made that
funds be provided for 100 additional
policemen, no indication was given
that the subcommittee would ap-
prove such an increase. Estimates
considered by the subcommittee
called for so additional officers.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Bund Concerts

BY the Marine Band at the
Veterans Hospital, Mount Alto, at
O'Clock tonight Capt. William F.
Santelmann. leader; Henry Weber,
second leader
| BY the Navy Band at Walter Reed
Hospital at $50 pm. tomorrow. 1t,
Charles Benter, leader.
BY the Army Band at the Capitol
at 7:30 pm. tomorrow. Capt
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub
| ner, assistant.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Vanguard Of Convoy
From Dix Arrives
In Caroline County
Moneuvers to Sturt at
PM. Today; Mystery
Is Port of Muneuvers
BY PAT JONES,

BOWLING GREEN, Va, June s.
First units of motor convoy OF
$1,000 New York and New Jersey
troops from Camp Dix reached the
Armys new military reservation in
Caroline County near here early to-
day for a week end of maneuvers on
the ground where many of their
grandfathers fought with Lee and
Grant in 1864.
This Army. comprising the entire
44th Division, came in over rain
soaked roads after an all-night ride
in combat cars, trucks and other
vehicles. The first unit arrived at
Z am. and others we're moving in at
regular intervals on schedule that
will bring the last by S pm.
Soldiers of the l74th Infantry, first
unit to reach the destination, de-
trucked on the right of Highway II
at the northern edge of the training
area; halted for breakfast and, at
$50 am. advanced to the south on
foot over mud roads, ignoring
threatening clouds and occasional
rain.
Element of Mystery.
At division headquarters near
Mica, Va, officers said orders CIV
ing the general situation will be
handed the commanders of the two
opposing forces at pm and that
the maneuvers officially will get un-
der way at that hour.
Mystery surrounding their move
ments after that hour. it was ex-
planned, is a part of the game. A
conference of umpires, comprised
largely of officers from the 29th Di-
vision at Fort Meade and the 28th
Division at Indiantown Gap. Pa.
was held at 1 pm. yesterday at
Fort Meade.
The potential enemy of these
troops from the north is known hy
them to be somewhere in the area
1t is their information that 400
cavalrymen from Fort Myer, shad-
owing their movements with secrecy,
slipped into nearby Fredericksburg
Tuesday afternoon, stopped over
night and then scattered into the
cover of the reservation. They car
ried special weapons and field artil-
lery and from them was expected to
come the surprise element in the
Army games.
Convoy From Fort Bragg.
Meanwhile, the same afternoon.
from Fort Bragg. N. c., there moved
into the reservation a motor convoy
OF TOO vehicles. While the plans of
these troops were veiled in mystery,
1t was understood they would team
with the Fort Myer cavalrymen to
stage the enemy assault on the New
York and New Jersey soldiers.
Adding another element of uncer-
tainty as to just what maneuvers
are to be expected, the troops from
Fort Dix arrived on the scene with
only small arms and a few light field
pieces
AS these Northern soldiers poured
into the area, they found the train
ing ground only partly ready for
their reception. All but few homes
had been vacated but we're still
standing, ready to be filed with
soldiers.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
In June, Beware Of:

In June, Beware OF:
I. Crossing a street at point
other than a crosswalk. Two
pedestrians met death by this
action in June last year.
2. Crossing an intersection
against the proper signal. Two
pedestrians were killed while
committing this act during
June, 1910. =
The seven other traffic vic
tins were fatally injured while
either crossing a street at an
uncontrolled intersection, at
tempting to hitch a ride on a
moving vehicle, playing in the
gutter, riding in a truck or driv-
ing an automobile.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
To Graduate at u. of Va.

James Mercer Moss of Arlington,
Va, is among the 54 University of
Virginia students who will receive
the degree of doctor of medicine at
graduation exercises Monday, 1t was
announced today.
Evening star., 1941-04-20

to become "the greatest world
power" not be lost through the
stupid, mistaken idealism" that
characterized our policy after the
last world conflict.
Mr.. Mas, ranking Republican
member of the House Naval Affairs
Committee, told the delegates the
United States Is ''in the war al
ready but doesn't know what to do
about it,"
Whether or not we come to actual
military participation, he said, we
must see to IL that this country
emerges as the dominant power
among nations. The way to insure
this is to become the foremost mill
tary power, Mr.. Mas said.
He recommended taking control
Of every strategic island in the West
ern Hemisphere, building up a gi-
gantic two-ocean navy and institu-
ton of universal military conscrip-
ton.
Asks World Leadership.
lIlC OllllCO obdJCo, Wy vi
it's democracy and ideals. is the only
nation fit to assume the role OF
world leadership, he said. adding:
IF we throw away this opportunity
civilization will be destroyed"
Mrs. Good presided. DR.. Robert
Lee Kincaid. vice president OF Lin
coin Memorial University, gave the
invocation. and Mrs. Harrison Smith,
national junior vice president. led
in the pledge of allegiance and read
the preamble to the Constitution.
Among the guests were Maj. Gen.
Malvern Hill Barnum. commander
in-chief .of the Military Order OF
the Loyal Legion, and Mrs. Harriet
V. Rigdon, honorary national pres
ident of the Danes of the Loyal
Legion.
In another resolution adopted yes
terday the organization urged es-
tablishment of a commission to plan
erection here Q a memorial build
ing for veterans of the Civil War
where all the records and relics
of that great struggle may be pre-
served" The purchase of "the his
toric property known as Temple
Heights" was urged for site.
President Good asked local So
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Loyal Legion Charges
Lincoln House Is Now
A Dime Museum
Women Protest 10-Cent
Fee to Shrine Charged
By Interior Department

Amid expressions of hostility to-
ward Secretary OF Interior Ickes, the
Danes of the Loyal Legion of the
United States of America yesterday
protested against the 10-cent ad-
mission fee charged by his depart
ment at the little red house, SIG
Tenth street NV, where Abraham
Lincoln died.
"Undignified, unnecessary and un-
patriotic were the terms applied to
the admission charge, in a resolution
which was unanimously adopted by
the legion in national session at the
Mayflower Hotel.
What the resolution says applies
directly to Mr.. Ickes. should
think" commented Mrs. David
Evening star., 1941-04-20

School, Tamassee, S. c.; Mrs. Albert
E. Jenner, jr.. Chicago, Ill; Mrs.
Reuben Knight, Alliance, Neb.; Mrs.
Richard N. Grammer, Fort Worth.
Tex; Mrs. Frank E. Andrews, Sante
Fe, N. Mex; Mrs. Howard P. Arrest,
Portland, Greg, and Mrs. H. B.
Gardner of New Rochelle, N. Y.
Mrs Frank S. Ray, 426 Pershing
drive, Silver Spring, Md, was chosen
honorary national vice president,
and Mrs. Kerr made honorary ma
tional president.
During presentation of the work of
Flag, Red Cross. Mountain School
and Publication Committees yester-
day afternoon, the part of George
Washington was played in a short
historical skit by William Penn, 1920
Sixteenth street NV, a direct de-
scendant of the founder of Pennsyl-
vania and now employed by the Fed
eral Power Commission.
Flag Goes to New York.
A flag for transferring the most
members of c. A R. to the D. A. r.
was presented to Charles Messner
of Buffalo, N. Y, representing the
New York State c. A. R., by Mrs.
George D. Schermerhorn, retiring
organizing secretary general of the
D. A. R. A similar flag was pre-
sented late in the afternoon to Miss
Marianne Waite of the Connecti-
cut Society by DR.. Clifton P. Clark,
past State president of the District
Sons of the American Revolution.
Delegates were assured that their
morals were even higher than those
of their fathers by Wade Ellis, who
was installed last night as State
president of the District S. A. r.
Col. Granville Munson, president of
the District Sons of the Revolution,
also spoke yesterday afternoon.
Hundreds of orange leis were
passed out to delegates as greeting
from Mrs. Clifton S. Goodnight
State president of Hawaii.
Reports were made on the fur
nishing Of room in the Moore
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Britain 10 Develop Oil
Below Venezuelan Gulf
b. the ASsociated Presk.

by the ASSoclated Fres-
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,
April lS.-An agreement between
Great Britain and Venezuela to
make possible the development of
vast oil fields some geologists be-
lieve lie below 1000 square miles
of water in the Gulf of Paria will
be signed soon, 1t was announced
today.
A second agreement would pro-
vide for the cession by Britain to
Venezuela of Patos Island in the
gulf. which separates this island
from Venezuela. Such an agree
ment would end century -old dis
pute between the two countries
over the sovereignty OF Patos Island.
In return Venezuela will recon-
cile British sovereignty over unin-
habited Soldado Rock at the SOUTH
ern entrance OF the Gulf of Paria.
Evening star., 1941-04-20

cieties Of the Legion to keep in mind
possibilities Of combating "subver-
sive demonstrations by Communists
on May Day" She advocated as
a counter-move the production Of
May baskets and dancing around
May poles. for children, and adults,
II possible"
Evening star., 1941-04-20

about 10 years ago. She declared
private patriotic organizations had
even taken care of cleaning the house
until about two years ago. Miss
Downing protested against the
cheap little white sign" now out
side the building.
Climax of the session was last
nights banquet at the Mayfiower
Hotel, during which Representative
Mas. Republican, of Minnesota
urged that the opportunity being
given the United States in this war
Evening star., 1941-04-20

House, Yorktown, N. Y, by Mrs
John Francis Weinmann, retiring
historian. The greetings of the Girl
Scouts we're presented by Georgia
Glenn, daughter of Mrs. c. Leslie
Glenn. Scout leader who also ad-
dressed the group.
Tomorrow the reports of State
chairmen will be concluded, and a
new program outlined by Mr.. Ber-
ner. The convention, which began
Friday, will close tomorrow after
noon.