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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-30

changed my mind, i was to tell
you so. I've changed my mind"
"Oh, you wonderful girl"
Jason said. when will you
marry me ."
Doris married Bill, who wasn't
good enough for Janet, anyway
Janet had brains. She's an iror
hand in a velvet glove.
THE END
Tomorrow's short story, "Ex-
President" by Alma and Paul
EIlerbe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-30
OFFICE YEARBOOK

If offices went in for yearbooks,
they'd have put Janet down as
the Young Woman Most Likely
TO Succeed. With her looks. she
could have married into millions.
With her brains, she could have
become a big woman executive,
one of those ladies with big
-hosun1y and iron laws that no
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-30

She was strictly business in and
nensentimental out of working
hours. The force from Mr.. Haw-
Inns, the office manager, down to
Ernst Plank the office boy, had
ideas embroidered with hearts and
fiowers whenever they came near
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-30

suggestions. Like Doris had, but
with more force in them.
"Bill, darling. don't you think
you drink little too much? 1t
really isn't necessary Is it,"
bill, did any one ever explain
TO you the percentages against
you when you bet on one horse
or even three In n six-horse race.
THEY'RE tremendous"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-30
Daily Short Story
a Certain Young Woman
Ry CHARLES MeGUIRK

TIIE iron hand in the velvet
Il glove. That was Janet Vale
And. IL the pressure got strong
enough, the velvet peeled of
leaving the naked metal claw For
Janet was a positive voting woman
There was a lot Of reasons why
she should be certain about every
thing. She had what IT takes.
She was a curvey blonde With
big blue eyes and small thick
mouth and strong chin and nice
tecth-ahd brains.
The rest OF the things got her
whatever else she wanted. but II
was the brains that made her sec
rotary 10 the boss.
Don't let anybody tell you any
thing different.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-30
NOT A TUMBLE

her.
NOT A TUMBLE
But she never gave any OF them
a tumble. The word got around
that she was an iceberg.
Only one man ever got any
where with her. That was Jason
Drabell Jr., the old mans son.
And you couldn't blame Janet for
that. Jason was the junior
partner.
And then Bill Dumphey came to
work for ]. d. He had been a
crack salesman for Doolittle &
Blink and in his spare time he
went around with Doris Blenheim.
Doris was a stenographer in j.
DIS outer office. She was little
mouse of a girl with heart as big
as boiler. And she loved Bill
Dumphey.
There was no reason why she or
any woman should. Bill had no
future. He was a crack salesman
because he was big and well-built
and good-looking in a coarse way.
He had deep voice and shoulders
Hike a stevedore's and tight curly
hair.
He was as full Of weaknesses as
an invalid. He drank too much
and he was a sucker for horses.
And he didn't care particularly for
women. Maybe that's why they
liked him.
STEERING HIM
Doris never tried to tell Bill
what 10 do. She was steering him
toward marriage. But gently, so
as not TO scare him. She suggested.
She suggested. for instance, that
there was a bigger future in J. D. IS
organization than there was in
Doolittle a. Blink.
Bat the oaf couldn't see il until
she, arranged that j. d. should
pay him $40 more a week than he
was getting. So he came over to
j. DIS.
And Janet fell for him. On sight.
Like an avalanche. She found out
overnight that she was all wrong
when she told Jason Drabell that
she couldn't care for anybody that
way.
For a long while Bill thought
Janet was the greatest thing he
had ever run across. She was
regular girl. She did what he told
her and she followed his sugges-
tons.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-30
By Walt Disney
The Battle of Spuds

TERE is pleasant game that will
every day. a numerical puzzle designed to spell out
your fortune your first the number
of letters or more the number Is less than
8 number Start at the left
and check Of your key
numbers right read the the letters under
the checked figures give you 1870
copyrsbt Is ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-30

Anything Can Happen In
Training Camp. Read OF the IA
Year-Old Boy Who Became His
Outfits Best Machine Gunner,
How Cavalrymen Now Eat
"Armored Cows" and Many
Other Astonishing Oddities That
Pop Up In Army Records. A
Timely Feature illustrated by
o. Soglow. Creator Of 1.-THE Lit
tie King" In The American
Weekly, the Magazine Dis
tributed with This Sundays is
sue of The Detroit Sunday
Times.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Girl, Found on Curb, Stripped
Of Clothes, Reports Ring Theft

Queen Elizabeth never needed Sir
Walter Raleigh's cloak half as badly
as a 2l-year-old girl needed the
robe of a passing motorist at Wis
consin avenue and Woodley road
NV. early today.
The motorist found the girl sit
ting on the curb quite innocent Of
clothing, he said. In fact, she dis
covered later, she wasn't even wear
ing her engagement ring. He halted
his car, gave her covering and she
climbed into the tonneau while he
went in search of assistance.
Meanwhile, police had been nou-
fed that a nude woman" was on the
street. Two officers hurried to the
scene from No. precinct in scout
car. They found assistance already
had arrived.
The girl. after explaining she
wanted very badly to 60 home, at
first gave an assumed name, police
reported, and denied she knew the
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Capt. Becker TO Retire
From Fire Department

Capt Otto Arthur Becker, 81, a
veteran of 81 years service in the
District Fire Department, who has
won a number of concentrations
and honors for rescue work, will be
retired Monday. The Commissioner
nave approved his request for VOL
untary retirement under the new
provisions which permits voluntary
retirement at the age of SIS when
the applicant has had Is years
service
During the past 10 years. Capt.
Becker who has been assigned at
Engine Company "a, has served as
acting battalion chief for the 4th
Battalion
Capt. Becker was awarded rib
bon decoration for rescue work fol-
lowing the collapse of the roof Of
the Knickerbocked Theater January
%, 1922. He also was commended
by the fire chief for rescue work in
Southeast Washington during a
1923. The Commissioners COM
men6ed him for services at the
Kanr warehouse fire. January l3.
1925. and he was awarded honorable
mention in the Commissioners off,
cial awards for meritorious service
in 1924.
Capt. Becker entered the depart
ment August /, 1910, was promoted
to sergeant eight wears later. to leu
tenart in 1925 and has served a.
captain since 1929 He resides in
Silver Spring, Md
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Rock Creek Civic Group
Backs 0verton Bill

Approval of the Overton- Hunter
bill fixing the amount of the Fed
eral share of District expenses on
the ratio of the land owned by the
Federal Government to the total
area of the District was voiced last
night by the Rock Creek Civic Asso-
citation.
The association also adopted q
resolution urging enactment of a
general sales tax for the District,
exempting foodstuffs. DR.. c. Her
bert Marshall. who sponsored the
resolution. said the loss of income
tax revenue by the District because
of people claiming domicile in the
States makes it imperative for Dis
trict finances to be supplemented by
the sales tax.
The association went on record in
favor of the municipal assembly
and also requested additional help
for the Rose Park Playground.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Police Hunt Specialists
In HoIdups Of I Stores

Police today intensified their
search for Washington specialists in
drug and liquor store holdups, fol-
lowing two business" calls last
night, believed to have been made
by the same pair.
Ralph S. Kiefer, 40, proprietor Of
drugstore at 1911 Foxhall road
NV, reported he had been held up
in the establishment by two men,
who took $50 from the cash register,
50 from his wallet, his ring and a
dozen cartons of cigarettes.
1t was a familiar routine for Mr..
Kiefer. He recognized the holdup
men as those who worked in the
same manner in January and again
last month
Two thugs of the same general
description visited a liquor store at
2449 Good Hope road Sc. last night,
tying up the proprietor, Alfred E.
Hurwitz, %. and his colored deliv-
eryman, Anthony washington. They
made off with 5000 from the cash
register, SIT from Mr.. Hurwitz' s
billfold and s28 from the delivery
mans pockets.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
8-Week Course at Fort BeIvoir
Turns Recruits Into Soldiers
Proficiency in Engineer Activity Shown
On Graduation in Bosic Training

now developed, are so odorless and
colorless that little warning can be
given The reason for the nine
second speed minimum requirement
needs no explanation to most men.
Some Slow at Packing.
Getting that 65-pound pack in
shape is more trouble than bayonet
drill. In yesterdays exhibition, the
$50 men spread the entire contents
of their packs on the ground. set
up pup tents. Then, at a given
signal, they furiously began to pack
up again, Stimulating actual con-
ditions of hurried order to march.
Some of the boys could do the job
in five minutes, others in IS. One
recruit, with the aid of four SER
geants, q corporal and three fellow
privates, managed to get his packed
before nightfall.
Strtngtng barbed wire is one Of
the many things IN which the en-
gineers must be adept. These eight
week soldiers unrolled the wire,
hammered iron fence posts into the
ground and strung their barriers in
matter of minutes.
The Army equips engineers with
heavy. rawhide gloves for this work
One recruit slashed his face work
ing too fast with the tricky wire.
Stakes Serve as Guide.
During the last war men on patrol
in no mans land sometimes lost
their sense of direction. crawled to
the wrong trenches. They could
always tell whether they were right
or not by the wire stakes. Germans
used iron, the Allies used wood
This time Americans use all iron
stakes.
A parade marked the close of the
activities. 1t. Col. Raymond G
Moss, regimental commander, was
the reviewing officer. 1t. Col. Roy M
McCutcheon. commanding officer of
the lst Battalion of the regiment,
was in charge of the intercompany
competition.
Evening star., 1941-03-27

identity of a man she said had
forcibly disrobed her and left her on
the corner.
The young woman later said she
had been engaged for three years
to the man who abandoned her on
the corner Police took her to an
address she furnished and advised
her to swear out warrant If she
wished to prosecute.
An hour later a woman, presum-
abby the same girl, telephoned po-
lice and asked to report the larceny
of her diamond engagement ring.
Four hours later the girls mother
telephoned from her home in No.
precinct and asked to see an ofiicer
She reported the affair to the
officer and demanded the young
man be arrested.
The policeman advised mother
and daughter to obtain a warrant
at Police Court If they wished to
prosecute the case.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
New$5,000,000
Apartments for
Mount Rainier
Work to Sturt Soon
On 48-Acre Troct on
Eastern Avenue
BY JOHN ID. LEONARD.

Construction of S. 100000 apart
ment project to provide homes for
families with incomes between
$4,000 and $500 will start about
May l on a 43-acre tract on East
ern avenue between Bunker Hill
and Queens Chapel Roads in Mount
Rainier, Md, it was revealed to-
day.
A. S. Kay, Washington real es-
tate man who is developer of the
project, said $50 of the 1,000-unit
project were expected to be rea5v
for occupancy by November, with
the remainder available in the
spring or early summer of 1912.
The project. of English colonial
design and of brick construction,
will contain a shopping center. out-
door and indoor recreational facili-
ties as we'll as a central community
building.
The project, it is understood, is
being privately financed.
The proposed project was disclosed
this morning at Upper Marlboro
Md, when George P. and John n
Hoover, Washington attorneys, rel
quested the Prince Georges County
Commissioner to rezone the larger
part of the tract from residential
"a" to residential &C." and a smaller
portion to commercial ID" the latter
to provide for the shopping center
The commissioners approved the re-
quest.
The Hoovers are owners of the
tract and are selling the land To
Mr.. Kay. Mr.. Kay also is owner
and builder of Indian Club Estates
in nearby Silver Spring.
Alan B. Mills, Washington archi-
tect, has drawn the plans for the
project. Mr.. Mills from 1884 tC
1887 was executive assistant to the
supervising architect of the Treasury
Department.
The site for the project is located
directly across from Barnard Park
in the District, and also is adjacent
to the proposed Fort Drive.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Fire Waste Council
Committees Convene

Members of standing committees
of the National Fire Waste Council
were meeting todav in the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States
in preparation for the general ses-
soon that opens at 10 pm. tomor-
row.
General theme of the sessions will
be Fire Prevention for National
Defense" Speakers will include
George Booth, chief engineer of the
National Board of Fire Underwrit-
ers; r. E. Wilson, assistant manager
of the Insurance Committee for
Protection of American Industrial
Plants; E. B. Coffey of the Federal
Bureau of Education and Franz
Lloyd Emo of the staff of the Na-
tional Defense Advisory Commits
sion.
The meeting will be opened by
j. S. Kemper, president of the
chamber. Announcement of winners
of the interchamber fire waste con-
test will be made.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Chest Is Surveying Value
OF Recreation Facilities

Surveys aimed at appraisal of the
"use value" of existing recreational
facilities have been inaugurated in
the Northwest and Southwest sec
tions of Washington with Com
munity Chest funds, it was revealed
at meeting of the Chest Budget
Committee yesterday.
Raymond Mulligan, who recently
made a study of recreational oppor-
tunities in the Bowery area of New
York City, has been added to the
staff of the Juanita kaufman Nye
Council House. Chest-supported set
tlement. to organize new group ac-
tivities for boys and observe facilities
throughout the Southwest.
Charles Day. formerly engaged in
group work with boys in the Cleve-
land Detention Home, has joined
the staff Of Georgetown Children's
House for duties similar to those of
Mr.. Mulligan.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Civil Service Girl Gets
Fox Screen Test

Miss Marguerite Sharpe, 22-year-
old Navy Department stenographer,
may be headed for the movies.
Featured by Life two weeks ago
as "the typical civil service girl"
Miss Sharpe has received an in
formal screen test by local repre-
sentatives of the Fox Film Co. and
has been given a 30-day option
on her services.
"It all depends" whether she'll
accept q movie contract, If offered,
she said today.
She is appearing on Tommy Dor
sey's radio program over WMAL at
$3.50 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Eastern High Senior
Unanimous Victor
In 0ratoricaI Test
Robert {. WiIIenborq
Wins, Refugee Second
In Briehtwood Zone

. An l8-year-old Eastern High
School senior was the unanimous
choice of judges last night in Roose-
welt High School, where the first of
four semifinals of the Districts
participation in the $4,000 National
Oratorical Contest, sponsored by the
American Legion, was held.
A l0-minute, stirring Grafton on
The Benefits of Being an American
Citizen" gave the Brightwood zone
contest to Robert E. Willenborg, 9l4
C street Sc, who stressed the
feeling of security in our daily life
untouched by bombardments.'
Tells Of Possibilities.
Stressing our educational opportu-
mites. the young orator spoke of the
wonderful possibilities still offered
American youth today" and the
privilege Of "worshipping God &C
cording to our own conscience"
Robert shifted to discussion o1
the international scene and declared
When we pick fruit and find it rot.
ten in the core. we put it in the
garbage pail. History will pu
the men who are rotten at the cors
in the same place"
Runnerup in last nights ORATOR
was 16-year-old Leo Jacobs of Cen.
trail High School, son of Rabbi Al.
fred Jacobs and refugee from Ger
many. The youth, who came to thi
country with his parents two year!
ago, spoke forcefully on The Ad
vantages of Democracy"
Judges were William Kehoe. at.
torney in the Veterans Administra
ton: Harvey o. Craver. vice presi.
dent of the Petworth Citizens Asso.
citation, and Horace j. Phelps.
Finals in Anacostia.
Anacostia zone finals were sched.
uled for this afternoon in the Jeffer.
son Junior High School, while the
central zone elirninations were to be
held tonight in the Garnet-Patter-
son Junior High School. Fourth and
final zone contest, Tenleytown. will
be staged tomorrow at 8 pm. in
legion headquarters, 1903 K street
NV.
Four winners of the semifinals will
repeat their orations for the District
title April in the Museum of
Natural History auditorium, and the
mi, Of
gional finals at Roanoke, Va.
April Is.
The $4,000 national prize, donated
by Eddie Cantor. stage and screen
star, carries with it a four-year
scholarship to anv college of tht
winners choice. The national con-
test will be held late next month.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Commission Weiqhs
plan for Patuxent
Wafer Supply Dam
Approval May Mean
Stort on Construction
Next Summer
Construction work on a project to

Construction work on a project to
harness the Patuxent River as a
source of water supply will begin
some time next summer if the plan
is approved by the Maryland Water
Resources Commission.
This was revealed by Harry R.
Hall. chief engineer of the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Commission,
during a public hearing yesterday
before the water commission at the
County Service Building in Hyatts-
vile. The project as planned by
the Sanitary Commission would in
ciude construction of an impounding
dam and reservoir in Montgomery
and Howard Counties near Brighton
an intake pumping station and filter
plant near Laurel and pipelines
connecting to the water system OF
the commission in Prince Georges
County.
At the same time G. Bowie Nc
Ceney, town attorney for Laurel, eX-
pressed concern as to whether the
project will allow an adequate flow
of the Patuxent River to provide fol
proper operation of the towns sew
age disposal plant The commission
assured Mr.. McCeney that this mat
ter would be taken into considera-
| ton.
Facilities Overtaxed.
| After outlining details of the prof
ect. Mr. Hall declared the population
in the sanitary district has reached
a point where his commission
| facilities are overtaxed He sale
that at present the commission il
providing 100000 gallons of water
daily to a population of about 105..
900 people in the district. With the
population expected to grow to l50,'
600 within the next 10 years. devel'
opment of the project must ge
under way as soon as possible.
| Mr.. Hall admitted that even the
proposed project will probably have
| to be enlarged ultimately though it
is designed to provide adequate
water supply until about 1860. when
the population should be nearly
257 7,CG0. However, in view of de-
velopments, such as the recently
announced Federal City project at
Suitland, the project may ultimately
be enlarged to connect the main
Patuxent and little Patuxent Rivers
and Seneca Creek, which combined
woulc provide about l50,000000 gall
Ions of water per day to popula-
ton of 100000.
Restrictions Forecast.
During the hearing, P. G. Ligon,
owner of property site on the reser-
vor, asked the resources commits
sion il the proposed reservoir would
be available for fishing, boating and
swimming and if the surrounding
land would be developed for residen-
tial purposes. He was told the USE
of the reservoir and land would
probably be subject to restrictions
w. F. Wilson of Brookville told
the commission he has property just
above the dam site and house on
a nearby hill. He declared he did
not wish to move and would fight
any move to force him to do so. He
was told that the sanitary COM
mission would probably have to
ACQUIRE his property.
Frank L. Bentz of the Maryland
State Game and Fish Commission
told the commission the law requires
that Q fish ladder be provided on the
dam in order to allow fish to move
upstream.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
T Telephone Pioneers
Hold Dance TONIGHT

More than $50 members of Alex
ander Graham Bell Chapter, No.
Is, Telephone Pioneers, are expect
ed to attend a buffet supper and
dance tonight at Hotel 2400 Six
teenth Street.
The organization is restricted to
persons having 81 or more years
of experience in the telephone in
dustry.
Evening star., 1941-03-27

office have approved this plan, it
was understood, and a committee
appointed by President Roosevelt is
awaiting School Board action be-
fore making the final draft of the
proposed legislation.
In his opposition to control other
than by the Board of Education,
Mr.. Quinn said the cooperative
system had not been given a fair
trial and that G. Marshall Finnan.
former superintendent of National
Capital Parks, was for school board
control Of supervised play.
Evening star., 1941-03-27
By q Staff Correspondent Of The Star

FORT BELVOIR, Va. March 81
Raw recruits become trained soldiers
in eight weeks in the rejuvenated
United States Army.
A detachment of $50 bank clerks,
farmers, truck drivers, salesmen and
schoolboys. mostly from Western
Pennsylvania, were given the COM
mon identity of 18th Engineers,
U. S. A." in graduation ceremonies
held yesterday at this Army post on
the completion of an eight-week
initial training period
Men in khaki donned gas masks
in nine seconds. threw down pup
tents in two minutes, packed for
march in five minutes, assembled
and operated heavy machine-guns
in three minutes, strung mazes Of
barbed wire in rapid order. and gen.
orally displayed what they know
about soldering.
Proficient With BayonetS.
The good soldier of 194l must be
an expert with the bayonet. Sea-
soned sergeants put the men
through the elements of bayonet
drill. They now know how to stab
an enemy without getting the bay
onet stuck.
IF the thrust is done according
to regulation and the bayonet still
sticks" a sergeant was heard to
tell his squad, there is one certain
way to free your weapon. Just press
the trigger and push with your
foot"
Parrying is also an art in the
Army. You have to know how to
knock the enemy's rifle aside, be-
cause he was taught the same thing
by sergeants in his army, too.
Gas masks, or smoke helmets
as the boys call them, must be
donned in nine seconds. Some SOL
diers can loosen their masks, whip
of their caps, strap on the mask
in seven seconds. 1t was explained
that certain forms of poison gas,
Evening star., 1941-03-27
Drill Corps Dance Set

Columbia Commanders Drill
Corps and Ladies Auxiliary will
hold its 18th annual dinner dance
at the Continental Hotel at 6 pm.
Saturday.
Evening star., 1941-03-27

In March, Beware OF:
/. Crossing a street at a point
other than a crosswalk. -Four
pedestrians we're killed doing
this in March, 1910 Three of
these were over 55 years of age.
2 Standing in the street. A
93-year-old man lost his life do
ing this in March of last year
The sixth traffic victim during
March, 1910. was a passenger on
a truck who was crushed be-
meath a spool of cable when the
truck overturned.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-29
LEGAL ADVERTISING
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-29

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