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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-04
TRIM IN PRISON DRESS

sad about Christmas.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
| 5000 Watch
Laurel Rider
| Win at Joust

j. Letter Aitcheson Of Laurel, Md,
yesterday won first place in the 47th
annual jousting tournament at Mar
shall Hall Park before q crowd Of
5000.
Four members of his family also
Joined in the triumph. A son, J.
Letter Aitcheson, jr., 13, placed
fourth among the "a contestants. A
nephew, Robert Aitcheson, placed
eighth. A niece, Miss Margaret
Aitcheson, was the only girl riding
in the tournament. In addition, Mr..
Aitcheson crowned his wife queen
Of the ball at the dance which fol-
lowed the jousting.
Second-place winner was Waldor
Bartram Of Boonsboro, Md. Third
place was won by Louis Fleury of
Baltimore County. Other winners
were H. HenneSSey Of Glen Echo.
Philip Love of Prince Georges
County and Bunky Athey of Bur-
louisville.
Russell M. Padgett of Oxon Hill
marshaled the contestants and
Rudolph A. Carrico of Bryantown
delivered the charge of chivalry.
Riding in the tournament for the
47th consecutive time yesterday was
A.. D. Langley, seating manager of
Grifith Stadium. He first entered
the contest at the age of 10.
Judges were w. w. Ware of
Hyattsville, Gilbert z. Wilson a
Aecokssk and George q. Cooper,
ll77 Shepherd street NV.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
BaItimore-D. {. Traffic
Up 70 Pct. in Five Months
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 2i.-A 20 per
cent increase in traffic over key
Baltimore Washington highways in
the first five months of 1941 COM
pared to the corresponding period
last year was reported today by the
Baltimore Evening Sun.
It's survey showed traffic had in
creased 4.47 per cent on the heavily
travelled Baltimore = Washington
boulevard, with increases ranging up
to 100 to 200 per cent on some other
roads in the area.
This comparison, the paper said,
"does not include the peak period of
vehicular traffic which all trans
portation experts agree comes in the
autumn and reaches Its pinnacle
early in october.
1T gives only a gravely signifi-
cant hint as to the extraordinary
addition to the traffic load which
may be anticipated in the next six
months and then again in the first
six months of 1912, when thousands
upon thousands of new workers will
start on national defense jobs which
have been contracted for but which
are at present still on paper. .
And the sudden and abnormal
burden comes at time when Mary
land roads are notoriously below
par"
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Unit Set Up to Help
U. S. Employees Stoy Here

The Civil Service Commission to-
day set up a central placement sec
ton to facilitate transfers locally
of employees who seek to remain
here after their agencies are shifted
elsewhere.
Approximately half of the 1000
employees of the Home Owners Loan
Corp, which goes to New York next
month, want to stay in Washington,
according to reports to the COM
mission and other decentralization
moves, which thus far are affecting
Agriculture, Treasury and Interior,
also are expected to bring applica-
tions for transfer.
The new section will be in charge
of Henry w. Rempe and will be
open from IL I'm. to pm Monday
through Friday, to receive applica-
tions. Agencies needing personnel
are cooperating.
Persons desiring transfers must
get releases from the agencies in
which they are employed.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Men WhoFaiIed
Draft Physical
Test 10 Get Aid
U. S. to Provide
Free Treatment
To Cure Defects

Approval of plans for rehabilita-
ton of selective service registrants
who fail to qualify for military serv-
ice because of remediable physical
defects was announced today by ma
tional selective service headquarters.
Arrangements for supplying data
on rejected registrants to authorized
agencies have been under study at
national headquarters for several
months and are now virtually COM
pleted. it was said.
Federal Security Administrator
Paul v. McNutt, co-ordinator of
health, welfare and related defense
activities, has been pushing the pro-
gram following findings of a high
rate of reflections of registrants for
remediable physical defects.
Care at U. S. Expense.
Mr.. McNutt recommended that
medical treatment be provided at
Government expense to all rejected
registrantS who requested it, and
whose defects could be corrected
with relatively little treatment.
Conferences with the Office of the
co-ordinator and with other Govern
ment agencies and representatives
of the medical profession on the
formulation of a rehabilitation pro-
gram were inaugurated early this
year by national headquarters of
the selective service system.
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, d.
rector of selective service. in an
address to the National Nutrition
Conference for Defense in May,
termed the physical status of Amer
ican youth as revealed by selective
service tests shameful" and pre-
dicted the general public would tire
OF having men escape military Serv-
ice because of a minor disability
that could be removed by proper
treatment.
Nine Per Cent Rejected for Teeth.
Gen. Hershey pointed out today
that although more than a third
of the men examined are rejected
as unfit for general military service,
substantial percentage of them
have defects which can be corrected.
If proper measures are taken"
he said, every registrant who has
remedial defects will be given op-
portunity fors treatment SO that he
can qualify for military training at
a time when the Nation and his
neighbors need his services"
Defects which the program is de-
signed to correct, officials said, are
primarily those of the teeth, eyes.
ear, nose and throat and venereal
diseases. One official survey dis
closed that about 9 per cent of Sc
lectees rejected had been turned
down because of teeth defects which,
it was estimated, were remedial in
80 per cent Of these cases.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Radio Firms Dissolution
Asked in Trustees Suit

A petition for dissolution of the
Capital Broadcasting Co., which op-
crates Radio Station WWDC, was
filed at District Court yesterday by
Dyke Cullum of Silver Spring, Md,
vice president and one of the three
trustees of the firm.
On May 2 Mr.. Cullum filed a COM
plant for accounting and for ap-
pointment of receiver for the firm.
Stanley H. Horner and Edwin M
Spence, the company's two other
trustees, are president and secre-
ary-treasurer, respectively.
In his petition filed yesterday Mr..
Cullum told the court that the prop
erty and effects of the company have
been 80 far reduced by wasteful ex-
penditures, losses or otherwise, that
it will not be able to pay all just de-
mands against it or offer a reason
able security to those who deal
with it."
The plaintiff said he thought 1t
would be beneficial" to the inter-
ests of the stockholders If the firm
were dissolved.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Samuel Rodgers Mullen,
Market Official, Dies

Samuel Rodgers Mullen, So, super
intendent of the New Center Mar
ket at Fifth and K streets NV, died
yesterday in Georgetown Hospital.
He had been in i'll health for four
and-a-haf years as the result of an
automobile accident.
Mr.. Mullen had served as superin-
tendent and chief engineer of the
market, formerly Convention Hall
Market, since the dealers of the Old
Center Market moved there in 1881.
The Old Center Market, located on
the present site of the Archives
Building, employed Mr.. Mullen when
he came here from Leesburg, Va, in
1902. When the Agriculture De-
partment took over the market in
1922, operating 1t until 1881, Mr..
Mullen served as chief engineer.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Bertha Fowler Mullen, and three
children by former marriage, Ed
ward and Harry Mullen and Mrs.
Lillian Curtin.
Masonic rites will be held at 2:30
pm. tomorrow at Gawler's funeral
home, with burial in Glenwood Gem
etery.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Arlington Would Get
Three Assembly
Seats Under Plan
County's Rapid Growth
Recognized in Report
- On Reopportionment

Arlington County representation
in the Virginia Legislature is in
creased from one to two delegates
in the House and the county is given
a separate senator in the Fuller
Redistricting Commission report
prepared for the 1912 General As
sembly which opens in January.
In recognition of the rapid growth
of the county since the 1880 census,
the commission proposed to sepa-
rate it from the remainder OF the
29th district and allot one senator
to Arlington and one to the other
sections, Alexandria, Fairfax and
Prince William counties.
The commissions report also rec
commended that Roanoke City be
given a separate senator and that
six seats in the House OF Dele
gates be redistributed.
The commission's plan, If adopted
by the Legislature, would reduce
the most populous senatorial dis
trict, the present 29th, frcm $4,000
to 10000, equaling the 18th, COM
posed of Buchanan, Tazewel and
Russell. The reduction would leave
as the largest population per Dele
gate the $4,000 in Henrico County
compared with the present $1,000
in Arlington County.
Legislators in the nearby Virginia
area we're agreed that additional
representation for Arlington County
was justified and probably would
not be opposed by other Senators
or Representatives. The only dam
ger to it's being enacted into law,
it was explained by political leaders
here, lay in the defeat of the en-
tire Fuller plan through political
pressure. Re,listricting is required
after each decennial census, but
the Virginia State Assembly is
limited by law to AZ Senators and
100 Delegates. Hence increased rep
resentation for one section entails
q cut in others.
Senator William D. Medley, who
now represents the entire 29th dis
trict, but lives in Arlington County,
which is allotted a separate Sena-
tor under he proposed plan, said
the final report, submitted after
hearings on preliminary report
made last March, was along lines
favored by most Of the State legis-
lators in Northern Virginia. Both
he and Delegate Charles r. Fenwick,
Arlington County's only delegate
under the present setup, believed 1t
had q pretty good" chance of being
accepted at the coming session.
Delegate Maurice D. Rosenberg
OF Alexandria agreed that Arling-
ton is entitled to larger represents
uon, but has suggested another plan
iog the new senatorial district.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
TripIed Taxes Are Foreseen
II America Enters War

Declaring the present tax struc-
ture retards new enterprise, former
Representative Pettengill, Democrat,
of Indian aasserted these taxes would
have to be doubled or tripled to meet
the cost of a foreign conflict If we
enter the war.
In an address before meeting OF
the local chapter of the America
First Committee in the Friends
Meeting House, Mr.. Pettengill said
that such a drastic rise would tend
toward destruction of the middle
class and lay the Nation open to
dictatorship.
The great danger of actual Amer
ican participation in the war, he
said, was that I'VE might never get
our Government back" Mr.. Pet
tengill called for "a cool, realistic
foreign policy" before deciding on
entering the war. He said he favored
amy course of action the American
people call for through their chosen
Representatives in Congress"
The press, radio and moving pic
lures have "a sacred duty of COM
plete truthfulness" in the present
emergency, he declared, asking equal
opportunity on the Nations forum
for both factions on the war issue.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Three Seriously Hurt
By Highway Mishaps
In Capital Area
Soldier Is Injured
As Truck Turns Over
On Curve in Maryland

Three persons were injured Serl-
ously and an Army private en- route
to the military training reservation
in Caroline County, Va, was hurt
slightly in traffic accidents in the
Washington area during the last
"a hours.
A 47-year-old colored man was
knocked down by motorcycle yes
terday afternoon while walking from
a streetcar loading zone in the $500
block of Benning road NE.
The victim, Henry Ford, Ills Fiji
tieth street NE, was admitted to
Casualty Hospital in undetermined
condition and treated for cuts,
bruises and possibly fractured leg.
Police listed Rhea H. Walker, 20, of
Benning, D. c., as the operator OF
the motorcycle.
AS a result of a collision between
two automobiles at Connecticut ave-
nue. and Tilden street yesterday
afternoon, James G. Escoe, %,
passenger in one of the vehicles, was
treated at Emergency Hospital for
scalp lacerations, hemorrhages,
shock and possibly fractured skull.
Norman v. Hough, 81, of the 1900
block of E street Sc. was treated
at Casualty Hospital for lacerations
of the face, contusions of the left
leg and undetermined chest in
juries after his car crashed into a
light pole in the 1000 block of Ala
bama avenue Sc early this morn
ing.
Pvt. Isaac lie Rue of the 28th
Division, l09th Field Artillery, was
injured when the Army field kitch-
en- truck in which he was riding
turned over on sharp curve in the
road at Seneca, Md.
The soldier was taken to Walter
Reed Hospital by the Rockville Res
cue Squad, which administered first
aid treatment to the injured man
on the roadside Pvt. La Rue
sustained an injured ankle. The
driver of the truck, which was part
of a convoy moving from Indian
town Gap, Pa. to Caroline County,
Va, was not injured.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
GreenbeIt Residents
To Fete 100 Soldiers

One hundred Fort Meade soldiers,
so from the infantry and so from
the engineers, will be entertained at
Sunday dinner and supper this
week by residents of Greenbelt, Md.
About Sc families will be hosts to
one to three soldiers at dinner, &C
cording to Abraham Chasanow,
president of the Greenbelt Citizens
Association. About IS other fam
lilies have contributed toward a day
of entertainment, which will start
with a swim in the Greenbelt pool
around $50 am, dinner, baseball
and movies in the afternoon and a
picnic supper.
The soldiers will be brought from
Fort Meade in seven trucks. Be-
tween swimming and dinner they
will attend special church services.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Program Agreed On
ByA. FL. and C.I. 0.
To Aid Silk Workers
Retroining Of Displaced
Employees ard Division Of
Substitute Yurns Asked
BY the Associated Press.

The Once of Production Manage
ment announced today that A. F.
of l.. and C. I. O. Textile Union
leaders had agreed on a four-point
program to alleviate the effects of
labor dislocations among silk in
dustry workers who face loss Of
their jobs because of the discon-
tinuance of silk production for
civilian use.
The program included adoption
of the Buffalo plan" a formula
for the training, retraining and
placement of workers applied at
the Buffalo IN. " automobile plant
which closed recently to permit
retooling for airplane production.
officials said it was the first time
that the formula had been Endorsed
jointly by A. F. of L. and C. I. o.
groups.
The program, besides the Buffalo
plan, includes;
Formulation of a national policy
for the training, retraining and
placement of labor dislocated either
by curtailment of silk supplies,
shortages of other yarns or by the
closing of plants during retooling
periods.
Regional conferences of labor, in
dustry and Government representa-
tives to discuss local problems in
particular areas.
A comprehensive study of industry
needs designed to achieve an
equitable distribution of substitute
yarns. such as nylon and rayon,
among factories.
The meeting Of union leaders was
told that the unemployment problem
among silk workers would be espe-
cially severe in the Scranton and
Wilkes-Barre Pa) areas and in the
Paterson IN. j. section. In Penn
sylvania, officials said, 1000 already
have lost their jobs.
In the Paterson area $500 will lose
their jobs within the next two weeks,
it was said, while several thousand
other workers in the dye industries
in that section also will be affected.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Sale Of Wines and Beer
On Standard Time Asked
Special Dispatch to The Star,

FAIRFAX, Va, Aug. 21.-Require-
ment that local licensees of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
operate under daylight saving time,
while the remainder of Northern
Virginia continues under Eastern
standard time, is threatening the
business of such establishments, es-
pecially night clubs, it was reported
yesterday.
Acting on the pleas of a county
night club operator that the mid
night closing hour for the sale of
light wines and beer means sus-
pending business at II pm. under
standard time, the Fairfax County
Board OF Supervisors yesterday
adopted a resolution directed to
Gov. Price and the A. B. c. Board,
asking for a modification of the
ruling for the period while daylight
saving time is in effect.
The resolution asks that this time
dinerential hardship be removed by
allowing such licensees to sell light
wines and beer between the hours
OF 5 am. and midnight, Eastern
standard time, the same hours that
were observed before daylight saw
ing time was iraugurated here.
Evening star., 1941-08-21

happen to normal traffic using roads
in the sector being revised. The
picture of several thousand already
jammed automobiles making detours
and proceeding in single file during
the 7 to 8 am. rush to work In
Washington is not a pleasant one.
Principal differences between the
road system worked out by the Park
and Planning Commission and that
submitted by the P. r. A. involve
width of roads and treatment of
intersections. Because of the an
ticipated additional traffic load of
10000 Army vehicles, P. R. A. found
1t necessary in many cases to add
one or two lanes to the width of
the roads. For the same reason,
P. r. A. thought it advisable to put
in grade separations instead of cir
cles at key intersections.
Chart Is Explained.
BY following the numerals on the
accompanying chart, some under
standing may be gotten of the main
changes and improvements, although
Evening star., 1941-08-21

this is dificult in one dimension.
They are:
l. Extending the George Washing
ton Memorial parkway beneath the
south end OF Key Bridge. This
would allow parkway traffic to pro-
ceed along the Virginia side of the
river without conflicting with Key
Bridge traffic.
2. Providing a clover leaf at the
intersection of Arlington Ridge road
and Lee boulevard in place of the
present traffic light. GA major
clover leaf costs about $100,000D
8. and f. Changing the road
pattern at the north end Of Co
lumbia Island traffic plaza and
providing a clover leaf at the south
end, as well as separating the grade
to avoid an intersection in the mid
die Of the present circle.
S.. Constructing a Six-lane dual
highway through the heart of Ar
lington Cantonment, with an un-
derpass in the center to enable the
Army to move about without danger
from traffic.
6. Making Arlington Ridge road
a four or six lane dual highway.
This would permit traffic approach
ing from the south to reach the
War Department Building, or vice
versa: to enter Rosslyn, or to cross
Key Bridge. Ridge road was elm
mated entirely in the road system
worked out by the planners.
Grade Separation Purpose.
7. Providing a double grade sepa-
ration at the main entrance to
Arlington Cemetery. Traffic on
Ridge road thus would pass over
the road entering the cemetery in
one direction and under ii In the
| opposite direction.
8. Constructing six-lane dual
highway from the south end OF
Highway Bridge past the Army
quartermaster depot buildings to
connect with the cantonment road,
Ridge road and Washington boule-
ward Gas improved. The road from
the bridge also would connect with
U. S. Route l further south. Cross
ing it, near the figure 49," would be
a heavy-duty truck road to serve
the freight needs of the War De-
partment and quartermaster depot.
9. Providing an intricate arrange
ment of intersections, circles and
grade separations south of the new
Navy Building at the point Of heav-
lest traffic impact. Much of the
land here is privately owned and
would have to be bought or con-
demned before work could begin
10. Extending Washington boule-
ward from Lee boulevard around
Fort Myer and Arlington Cemetery,
along the general line of old Mill
tary road, to join the other roads
at the curlique arrangement south
OF the Navy Building.
1t will be noted that the man
shows no direct approach roads
to the proposed $35 900 900 building.
This is because such roads are not
included in the plan drawn I'D by
the Public Roads Administration
Money for these roads is understood
to be included in the $35, ,OO0. 900 au-
thorized for the proposed building
and would not have to come out
OF any special defense appropriation
for roads.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
$4,000 Stock
Fraud Laid 10
Man Held Here
Swindle Charged
By Woman; Prisoner
Faces Grand Jury

Accused of swindling an aged
Washington woman out of s50,000 in
stock transactions, Thornley, Durant
Harris, AZ, of the Wardman Park
Hotel was arraigned at Police Court
today on charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses fol-
lowing his arrest last night by the
District attorneys special investi-
cation squad.
Assistant United States Attorney
"A. j. Mclaughlin told Judge George
D. Nelson that Mr.. Harris obtained
the money from the woman here
after similar operations in Balti-
more The prosecutor asked that
a $4,000 bond be set. The request
was granted and the defendant was
held for action Of the grand jury.
The charge filed against Mr..
Harris charged him, specifically,
with taking $11,925 from the
woman, whose name the District
attorneys Office asked be withheld.
The warrant said he represented
hlmseH as being the head of Lloyd's
Acceptance & Discount Corp, op-
Grating as a banking house in
Baltimore.
The offense allegedly occurred
August rs, 1910.
1t. Joseph Shimon, head of the
District attorneys special squad, said
Mr.. Harris has been living here
intermittently for three years.
The defendant is scheduled to
appear in Police Court tomorrow
on fugitive warrant from Balti-
more.
Mr.. Harris was arrested near his
hotel last night by A. G. Keene
and James e. Armstrong, who work
under 1t. Shimon. Mr.. Harris was
booked at No. Precinct, where he
was locked LID for the night.
Evening star., 1941-08-21

should be an integral part of the
Virginia highway system as whole
Time Question Raised.
Some engineers maintain that Is
miles of roads meeting these speci-
fications cannot be built in the Ar
lington farm area within a year
They cited these reasons:
a. A great deal of privately
owned land will have to be &C
quired, probably through con-
demnation. This takes consid-
erable time.
b. Under normal conditions.
two construction seasons" or
summers, are necessary to the
completion of Is miles of four
and six-lane highways.
c. Speeding the work means
added cost, some say as much as
5000 900 over the estimated s8.-
100000.
P. r. A. men are confident, how
ever, that the job could be done
within a year. But what they do no
like to think about is what would
Evening star., 1941-08-21
$4,000 Defense Bonds
BOUGHT by Masonic Clubs

The National League of Masonic
Clubs has purchased $4,000 in de-
fense savings bonds for its educa-
tional endowment fund, it was an
nounced yesterday. A check in pay
ment for two $4,000 Series G bonds
was presented by Charles H. Taylor,
league president, and Arvid v.
Swaningson, head OF the educational
foundation, who said further bond
investments were planned.
Since 1928 the league has con-
tributed more than 100000 in
scholarships and endowments to the
George Washington University
School of Foreign Service, with
eight scholarships and two profess
sorships currently being maintained.
The league includes Masonic clubs
in the United States and Canada.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Man Dies of Wounds
Inflicted in Stubbinq

Knife wounds inflicted in a street
fight July Z, according to police,
caused the death yesterday of Wal
ter Boiling, 40, OF the 900 block Of
Maryland avenue S.W.
Boiling died at Casualty Hospital.
Police held Raymond L. Richardson,
IS. Of the 400 block Of Sixth street
NV, On Q charge Of assault With .
dangerouS weapon.
Evening star., 1941-08-21
Moj. n.'Trott Assigned
To Duty in Chicago

Maj. Gen. Clement A. Trott will
relinquiSh command of 5th Corps
Area headquarters, Fort Hayes,
Ohio, September 80 and take up
new duties in Chicago.
Chicago is headquarters of the
6th Corps Area, but Gen. Trott's
duties there were not specified at
the War Department. The Star,
yesterday stated that he had been
ordered to his home to await retire.
ment.