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Evening star., 1941-03-08
Safe Found in Vacant LOT
With S1,4O0 Missing

A battered 2O0-pound safe was
found on a vacant lot near the p
Street Bridge in Georgetown early
today and identified by an employe
of the Buckingham Drug Store, 301
North Glebe road, Arlington, as one
stolen from the store last night, po-
lice reported. 1t had contained ST.
400, according to police.
About $1,000 of the money be-
longed to the drug store. employees
said, and about s400 was in post Of
fee stamps and money. The phar-
macy serves as a post office substa-
ton.
Apparently a blunt instrument had
been used to force the safe, police
said, after the thief had broken
through back window and jimmied
open the back door.
James Witt of James Witt & Co.,
wholesale meat dealers, told police
earlier that 20 hind quarters of beef
owned by the firm and valued at $500
were stolen from freight car on a
siding at Twelfth and E streets S.w.
yesterday.
In a holdup by two men at 837
Twenty-sixth street NV. Sam Stein
berg, grocery store operator, was
robbed of $65 in cash and a quantity
of cigarettes.
Mrs. Sadie Dawson, 824 Ninth
street NV, notified police that q
woman had robbed her of $50 in a
blessing swindle. The money, she
said, was sealed in an envelope and
the envelope was returned to her,
but when she opened it she found
only slips of paper.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Woman Dies as Fire
Sweeps Trailer Home
AT Seat Pleasant
Husband Badly Burned
Saving l5-Month-O Old
Son From Flames

Mrs. Maude E. Johnson, %, died
of burns and her husband and in
fant son were seriously burned in a
fire which swept through their
trailer-home this morning at Main
and Augusta streets, Seat Pleasant,
Md.
The husband, Lester Johnson, So,
a chef in Washington restaurant,
was burned when he rushed into the
blaze to rescue his 15-month-old
son, Lester, jr., f1remen said. The
father and infant were removed to
Casualty Hospital by the Bladens-
burg Rescue Squad.
Investigators said Mrs. johnson
had awakened about am. and
started fire in the drum-type stove
which heated the home. The Struc-
ture consists of an automobile
trailer, built into a single-room
house.
Mrs. johnson went back to bed
after starting the fire and ap-
parently the stove overheated, fire.
men believe Miss Theresa Fowler
who lives next door, saw the place
in flames about 8::45 am.
Her father, Leo Fowler, hurried
over to the building to awaken the
johnson family. He saw Mr.. john
son rush back into the place, which
he described as an inferno" and
emerge a few seconds later with the
child.
Mr.. johnson said he had been un-
able to arouse his wife and her
burned body was found in bed. Prince
Georges County Medical Examiner
James I. Boyd certified that death
was due to burns and suffocation.
Firemen from Seat Pleasant, Cap.
| itol Heights and Boulevard Heights
responded to the alarm and put out
the fire after it had destroyed the
interior of the home.
The condition of both the father
and child was described at the hos
pital as ''quite serious" The father
suffered first and second degree
| burns over most of his body.
Evening star., 1941-03-08

week end from the nearby military
establishments.
Need Found for 661 Extra.
Baxter Smith, chairman of the
Federation of Citizens Associations
Safety Committee. reported that in
comparison with other cities of COM
parable size. the District, to be prop
erly pohced, should have an addi-
tional force of 66l men. The cost
of such an increase in personnel
would approximate s1,713,34l4 A, the
report stated.
Recognizing, however, that such
an increase lis not practical at this
time" the Safety Committee recon-
mended that the Federation adopt
resolution approving an increase
of at least 100 men.
In a comparison with IS other
cities with population over 100000,
the District was found to be eleventh
in population, but recent increases
probably would put the city in tenth
place. Other comparisons showed
that Washington was first in the
group with the number of cars reg
istered per mile of city street-with
a figure of 1895 per mile of street,
more than 25 cars above the near
est city
AT the same time. it was shown
that Washington was seventh in
number of police per mile of street,
and eleventh in number of police
per square mile of area.
Browns Estimate Slashed.
Maj. Brown estimated that his de-
partment should have S4,l79,3 1923 for
the 1912 fiscal year. The Commits
SionerS gave an estimate of So ,391,-
245, and the Budget Bureaus esti-
mate was S3.390,345.
The budget provides $1,000 fo1
two-way radio communication in
20 scout cars, and Maj. Brown had
asked for funds for equipment for
35 cars.
Mai. Brown pointed out that an
other problem which required solu-
OAoiA VIC PLOPOodA tAAS
Eleventh Precinct, and to build a
new station on city property in the
vicinity of Forty-sixth street and
Benning road NE.
He said the precinct covers al
the territory east of the Anacostia
River, and some citizens must drive
more than six miles to get to the
station house. The request for funds
to build the new station was not
granted.
1t is thought by some civic leaders
that. were Congress to approve the
Overton plan to fix the Fedora
share in District expenses by the
ratio of Government-owned land tt
the total area of the District, the
Police Department might be one o1
those which might secure additiona
funds by the approximate $4,000 ,OO(
increase in the lump sum that the
Overton plan would provide.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Ambulance Driver
Fined in Traffic Case

Alfred J. Payton, 10, colored,
driver of an ambulance for Casualty
Hospital, was fined $25 in traffic
branch of Police Court yesterday by
Judge Hobart Newman for failing
to stop at stop sign on Fourteenth
street NE. Tuesday.
The ambulance, according to po-
lice, was struck by an automobile
going east on Monroe street NE.
after the hospital vehicle had failed
to stop at the sign.
Under regulations, it was pointed
out at court, hospital ambulances,
the Fire Rescue Squad ambulance
and police vehicles are required to
come to complete stops for red
lights or stop signs and then pro-
ceed across an intersection only if
it is safe for them to do so.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Delta Thetu Alumni
To Mark Anniversary

The Washington Alumni Club of
Phi Delta Theta will hold a found
ers' day banquet at 7:30 pm. Thurs
day, at the Carlton Hotel.
Members of the active chapter at
the University of Maryland will at
tend in body. The occasion is the
93d anniversary.
Washington alumni include former
Supreme Court Justice James C..
McReynolds, Chief Justice D. Law
renee Groner of the United States
Court of Appeals for the District,
Associate Justice Fred M. Vinson,
Secretary of Interior Ickes, Maj.
Gen. Edwin M. Watson of the White
House secretariat and several men,
bers of Congress.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Volunteer Dances
To Be Registered
This Afternoon
Government Girls to
Attend First Teu Dance
AT Contonment Today

Registration of woman Govern
ment employees who will volunteer
to dance with men in military serv-
ice in or near Washington was to
begin shortly after noon today at
the District Building. as part of
the District Defense Councils rec
reational program.
Movie cameras, sound reels and
newspaper photographers were ex-
pected to be on hand to record the
occasion, marking the first major
step in program to provide whole
some recreation for service men on
leave.
Meanwhile quiz show was
planned for April l at the depart
mental auditorium in which Sc
lectees would be pitted against a
group of Federal employees. Ar
rangements for this event are being
perfected by Archie Edwards, head
of a subcommittee of the Welfare
and Consumer Interest of the Dis
trict Defense Council.
Girls who are selected from the
Government pools of volunteers at
the noon session today, or at least
the first 100 of them, were to be
invited to tea dance at the Arling-
ton Cantonment this afternoon.
The volunteer dancers from the
Government pay roll are to be given
numbers, and their claSsihcations
are to be recorded on a punch card
system. The girls are to be drawn
for service according to their
residence in various sections of the
District for affairs held here, but
for dances held at the nearby
camps. certain group will be called
by number for each event, a diff
ferent numbered group for each
succeeding dance. The numbers
will be called in rotation in the
same manner that men we're Sc
lected for service.
Mr.. Edwards announced the first
OF a series of concerts for trainees
and defense workers would be helc
at the departmental auditorium
March Is, at $3.50 pm. The pro-
gram will be presented by the Agri-
culture Department Orchestra anc
Symphonic Choir.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Gray Ladies Graduated
Al Mount Alto HOSPITAL

Graduation exercises for IL new
members of the Gray Ladies who
have just finished an intensive two
month course were held yesterday at
Mount Alto Hospital.
The certificates were handed the
dozen new volunteer workers by DR..
Lewis G. Beardsley, hospital man.
ager, who complimented the organi-
zation on its work in looking after
the comforts of the institution S
patients.
The graduates joined Mrs. Albert
Baggs, chairman of the District Red
Gross Gray Ladies Service, in re-
peating the organizations pledge.
Miss Mabel T. Boardman, chairman
of the Volunteer Special Services of
the Red Gross, outlined their respon-
siblities to the hospital.
Graduates were Mrs. Harry
Zehner, Mrs. Louis Reinken, Mrs.
Wilson Beale, Mrs. Alf Berguson,
Mrs. Adolf Torovsky, Mrs. Henry
Crommelin, Mrs. William Crowell,
Mrs. Harry Richardson, Mrs. Har-
rison Stanton, Mrs. L. E. Dale, Mrs.
Charles e. Fairman and Mrs. A. j.
GEM.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
D. {. Tax Exemption
Urged by Schultz on
State Levy Affidavit
Indiana Representative
Backs Overton Formula
For Federal Share

An amendment to the District in
come tax law is to be proposed in
the House Monday by Representa-
tive Schultz, Democrat, of Indiana
to exempt from the levy all persons
who file an affidavit that they have
paid an income tax in one of the
States.
Mr.. Schultz also intends to an
nounce at that time his support of
the Overton formula to determine
the Federal payment toward sup
port of the Capital by the ratio of
Government-owned land to the total
area of the District. In effect, this
would increase the Federal share
from S6,000,000 to 100000. Mr..
Schultz said he believes the House
will accept the formula.
He said that since my amend
ment would favor the States they
should in all fairness contribute a
larger amount toward providing rev.
enues for the city which We run"
He said further that he drafted
the income tax amendment, believ-
ing it to be "just to all" " because he
believes that no one should be re-
quired to pay two income taxes, or
to file income tax returns in two
Jurisdictions.
The affidavit which he would re-
quire would be simple Mr.. Schultz
said. ct will require only state
ment that an income tax has been
paid in the home State, and will not
disclose the amount or other de-
tails"
Emphasizing his expectation that
the House will agree to the form
ula" sponsored by Senator Overton,
Democrat, of Louisiana, Mr.. Schultz
said: The House can be reasoned
with if the membership is not pro-
voked."
On Monday, which is the second
District day this session in the
House, Representative Hunter,
Democrat, of Ohio expects to call
up amendments which would re-
quire persons paying income taxes
in the States and living in the Dis
trict of Columbia to also file a tax
return here accompanied by tax
receipt. If the tax paid in the State
is higher than the levy here, no
income tax payment here would be
required.
For the protection of constituents
who work here in the Capital, but
vote and pay taxes back home" "
a spirited fight is expected in the
House on this amendment.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Roosevelt Signature Eases
Excess Profits Tax Law
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Corporations subject to the excess
profits tax law can get to work on
their returns today.
President Roosevelt signed late
yesterday legislation designed to
eliminate hardships in the law which
was enacted last year and applied to
1910 income.
The Senate and House had rushed
the legislation through to give cor
porations time to make out their re-
turns according to the revisions and
still meet the March Is income tax
deadline.
No changes were made in the ex-
cess profits tax rates, but several
notifications were effected in the
methods of computing the amount
of income to which the tax applies.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Mon Dies in Flames
Of BURNING Home

James Bell, 81, colored, was burned
to death last night when a two-story
frame house in which he lived, in
the 1000 block of Eighth street
south, Arlington, Va, was wrecked
by fire.
The Arlington, Jefferson and
Clarendon fire departments fought
the blaze for more than an hour.
No one else was in the house at the
time, firemen said Origin of the
fire was not determined.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
4D. c. Naval Reservists
Named Aviution Cadets

-Four Naval Reserve seamen from
Washington have been selected for
appointment as aviation cadets and
ordered to the Naval Air Station,
Pensacola, Fla, for flight training, it
was announced today by the Navy
Department. They are Herbert Sid
ney Bonn, 5906 Thirteenth street
NV; Edmund Julius Mansueto,
1927 I street NV; Harry Andrew
March, jr., 1911 Monroe street NE.
and John Pierpont Woods, 3014 N
street NV.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Ladies' of Charity Open
Drive for Milk Fund

The annual drive of the City-wide
Group, Ladies of Charity, to raise
funds for milk for undernourished
children got under way yesterday
with the sale of the first tickets to
the groups annual variety show to
be held at the Mayf1ower Hotel at
$3.50 pm, March 81.
Senator Reynolds of North Caro-
lima and Representative Randolph
of West Virginia bought the first
tickets from the Misses Mary Jane
Moran, $500 Newark street NV, and
Betty Ryder, 1924 Jonquil street
NV. Among the entertainers on
the program will be the Friendly
Sons of st. Patrick.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Rubuut Will Address
Catholic Mems Meetino

Representative Rabaut, Demo-
crat, of Michigan, will speak at the
fourth annual communion break
fast of the Holy Name Society of
st. Michael's Catholic Church, Sill
yer Spring, Md, at 9:15 am. tornor-
row at the Silver Spring Hotel.
At am. members of the society
will receive communion at the
church. The Rev John CzyZ, spirit
ual director, will say the mass.
Trudpert A. Kunz is chairman of ar
rangements.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
4-to-12-Yeur Sentence
Is Melted in SIuyino

A 4-to-12-year sentence was i'm
posed yesterday in District Court
by Justice r. Dickinson Let's on
Henry c. Fagan. 43. found guilty of
manslaughter.
Pagan was indicted on a charge
Of second degree murder in the
death Of French G. Miller, so. last
July 8. Miller died after knife
fight.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
In March, Beware Of:
Toll in Previous Months.

In March, Beware OF:
/. Crossing a street at point
other than a crosswalk. Four
pedestrians were 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.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Brown DeIuys Vocation

Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superin-
tendent of police, who was scheduled
to leave this morning for a two-week
vacation at st. Petersburg, Fla, post
poned his trip pending a report on
road conditions farther South. He
was preceded to Florida Thursday
by Inspector William Stott, who also
has gone there on vacation.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Federal Jobs Open
For Storekeepers

b Storekeepers with two years ex-
periei,ce in handling supplies In
warehouse or storeroom are wanted
by the Government.
Announcing an examination today,
the Civil Service Commission said
certain educational qualifications
would be accepted in lieu of expert
ence.
Appointments are to be made in
the District. Maryland, the Virginias
and North Carolina.
Applications will be received until
April 4.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Christening Rites Today
For Procope Infant

The 7-week-old baby of Minister
Hjalmar Procope of Finland and
Mrs. Procope will be christened
Johan Fredrik today at the Finnish
Legation, 3l10 Woodland drive NV.
The ceremony will be private.
The Rev. Yrjo Joki of the Evan
gelical Church, New York, will Of
ficiate. The baby will wear a robe
presented for the occasion by Mrs.
Evalyn Walsh Mclean.
The baby was born January Is.
His mother is the former Miss Mar
garet Katherine Mary Shaw OF
Yorkshire, England.
Evening star., 1941-03-08

The balance OF $50 men is taken
up by Administrative Headquarters,
the Detective Bureau, the Women's
Bureau, the harbor precinct, details
at Police Court, the corporation
counSers Office, special duty details
other than patrol work, annual
leave, sick leave and days off.
Mai. Brown pointed out that the
Women's Bureau has not had an in
crease in personnel since it was or
ganized in 1921. In that year there
were % policewomen, he said. There
are still %.
Increase of 25 Granted.
To help meet Washington's police
needs, Maj. Brown requested funds
to provide for 100 additional police
men for the 1912 fiscal year begin
ming July l, 1941. The Commission
ers and Budget Bureau have ap-
proved an increase of 25 men--five
of whom would be civilian clerks to
relieve policemen now engaged in
clerical duties.
1T seems difficult for people to
realize the problem we have" Maj
Brown said today. I'm view of the
unusual increase in Washington S
population, and the greater increase
which may be expected because of
defense work, we certainly need
more men than I first recon-
mended."
At the time he asked for 100 ad-
ditional men. Maj. Brown estimated
that the department should receive
282 new policemen if the ratio of
population in 1880 were to be main
tanned. Unless the department gets
them, he said, then it will be diff
cult if not impossible to provide
prompt and efficient police service.
And now. Maj. Brown points out.
the situation appears worse than
when the estimate was made that
282 were needed.
Population Since Increased.
That figure, he said, was based on
the 1910 census of approximately
663 900 persons in Washington. Since
then, he estimated, the population
has increased in the city to at least
100000, so that even the denied re-
quest for 282 men has been outdated.
Washington has many special
problems not present in many
cities" Maj. Brown added.
For example. he said, the dedi-
cation of the National Gallery of
Art on March II will require the de-
failing of from so to rs men away
from their regular duties. This situ-
alton, he pointed out, occurs all too
regularly in the District.
In addition, he said, the expert
enced force of men has been de-
pleted to some extent because of the
demand for capable officers to be
transferred to the forces at the
White House and the Capitol.
One more factor which promises
to keep the police on their toes, he
said, is the expected influx of ap-
proximately $4,000 soldiers each
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Bradbury Heights Rites

The Rev. Richard D. Ames, pastor
of the Bradbury Heights Methodist
Church, will speak at IL am. tomor-
row on "The Words of My Mouth
and the Meditations of My Heart"
Rev. Thomas B. Ehlers will preach
at the 8 pra. service.
Evening star., 1941-03-08

Lewis Brown. 80. coiored, or 455
DelaU are averue Sw was struck
by an automobile while crossing sths, =
street at New Jersey avenue and =
street Sc. - He was treated for
minor injuries at Providence Hos
pital and released
Truck Driver Hurt.
FIELDS Hash of Beltsville, Nd, was
treated for shoulder injuries and
shock by a private physician and
later removed to Casualty Hospital
after he had been hurt in a colli-
sion between two trucks on the
Washington Baltimore boulevard
near University Park yesterday aft
ernoon.
Police said the accident appar-
emily was unavoidable, due to the
slippery highway. but a charge of
reckless driving was placed against
the driver of the other truck, John
Franklin Davis of Charlotte, N. c..
pending the outcome of Mr.. Hash'S
injuries
Alexandria, Va, had an excellent
traffic record despite the snow
storm. Police said that not even
minor collision had been reported
there since midnight.
In Arlington, Va, yesterday Judge
B. M. Hedrick eXonerated William F.
Young, 81, of 1907 North Seventeenth
street in the traffic death of Henry
C. Burgess, so, of 1926 North Vance
street on March 2. The court ruled
there was not sufficient evidence for
issuance of a warrant.
RICHMOND, Va, March 8 C45-
State police headquarters reported
here that William Neal Auton, 80, Of
Silver Spring, Md. Route 2, was
killed yesterday afternoon on the
Petersburg -Hopewell road in a head
on collision of a car and truck. He
was employed at Camp Lee.
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Defense Influx Accentuutes
Inodequocy of Police Force
Moj Browns Estimate Of Need of 282
More Men Faces Revision Upward

This a problems District
the nfur of national defense
Washngtons policing poblen-serious last when
Mai police superintendent asked for
the city fills with additional
defense workers.
There 1437 District policemen OF these only 857
average 24hou patrol force according
report compiled the Safety Committee Of the
Federation help
Evening star., 1941-03-08
Icy Highways
Cost One Life;
Many Injured
New Yorker Is Killed
And Wife Hurt
Near Accotink

One man was killed and several
others injured in a series Of traf6e
accidents in Washington and vicin.
ity as streets and highways became
glazed with ice and snow. Most Of
the accidents were caused by skid
ding.
Ernest Evictoreen, 10, OF Gold
Springs Harbor, Long Island. N. Y.
lost his life in a collision Of an auto
mobile and truck on U. S. Highway
No. l near Accotink yesterday after
noon. Fairfax County police said
the truck, driven by Joseph Taylor
of Richmond, went out of control on
an icy hill.
Mr.. Evictoreen's wife, Mrs. Ann
Evictoreen, go, is in Alexandria Hos
pital with leg and head injuries.
Hospital attaches said her condition
is fair"
Mr.. Taylor, who was not injured,
was held under $500 bond by Fair
fax County police on a charge OF
reckless driving.
A Washington police radio dis
patcher, Charles E. Riley, 81, OF
Arlington, Va, suffered abdominal
injuries when his car skidded and
crashed with another at Fifth and
D streets Sc. He was taken TO
Casualty Hospital. The driver OF
the other automobile, reported by
police to be Edward Crosthwait. so,
of 1445 East Capitol street, was
charged with failing TO yield ths
right of way.
Hit Light Pole.
Nathan R. Wolfsheimer, 81, o.
Baltimore was treated at Walter
Reed Hospital for decorations Of the
head and face after his car skidded
and struck a light pole in the $500
block of Georgia avenue NV. Wal
ter Stowe, 20. colored, of 1888 STAN
ton road Sc, a passenger in the
car, was treated for lacerations on
his forehead.
In a similar accident on the New
Jersey Avenue Bridge at E street
Sc, Henry G. West, 80, of 308 z
street SW.. was injured about the
chest and was treated at Providence
Hospital.
A collision of streetcar and auto
mobile at Ninth and C streets NE.
resulted in minor injuries to Ever
ard H. Hughes. 18, colored, of 81 r
street NV, and a companion, John
De Vine, 20, colored. of 1921 Morris
road Sc. They were treated at
Casualty Hospital.
John H Mill. As, of AL East Capt.
tol street, received hip and rib in
juries when his car skidded through
a stop sign at Third and E streets
NV and collided with truck. He
also was treated at Casualty Hos
pital. - -f-szs
Evening star., 1941-03-08

week end from the nearby military
establishments.