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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-02-14
l941 Council Drive Starts TONIGHT
Week In Review
By MILTON sRoWN. JI.A.
OVERSEAS RELIEF


The dire plight of the Jews
road has been brought home to
American Jews in recent
eeks in a way Americans can
hderstand tin dollars and cents
with the launching of campaigns
sums tOtalling roughly $780,
5000 for 1941.
The United Palestine Appeal
IS set a quota of $12,000,OOO and
e Joint Distribution Committee
st week announced a goal of
1,25O,OO0. The National Refugee
ervice has stated its minimum
eeds to be $4,340,0O0. In addition
these three former constitu-
hts of the United Jewish APP
BAL, the American ORT Fedora
pn has launched a drive for ST.
10000 and the Hebrew Immi-
'ant Aid Society is seeking ST.
10000.
Even these sums, large as they
e, could not completely solve
wish relief problems abroad. AS
hartman Paul BaerwaId of the
pc pointed out 'sUnless there
radical, fundamental change
Europe, we may reasonably an
Cipate that requirements for the
st six months Of 1871 win be at
asst equal to $12, 6OO,0 900. How
Fer -. it recognizes that $685.
PO,OOO is not realizable in the
ght of the many other obIiga-
pms, domestic and foreign, that
ewish communities face"
The obligations of the American
ewish community were consid-
red at the recent general assem-
~ Of the Council of Jewish Fed
fations and Welfare Funds in At
|nta. Major controversial issue
'as the devising of some system
maintain order in ALLEGATIONS
blowing the dissolution of the
nlted Jewish Appeal.
The councils board of directors
pprOved a plan to establish a ma
Onal advisory budgeting service
assist local communities in al
eating funds to national and Ov-
seas agencies. The plan will be
omitted to a referendum OF the
IS local agencies in 1877 cities,
'gether with a majority report
the councils Committee on Ma
Onal Budgeting Proposals favor
. the plan and a minority re-
ort in opposition.
Meanwhile, it was announced at
le assembly the JDC, UPA and
7S nave given assurances that
icy will not undertake independ-
~ campaigns in welfare fund
ties in 1871.
while the American Jewish
immunity was coping with the
'oDlem of relief, the factors that
cate this problem continued to
intensified in Hitler's Europe.
III Rumania, thousands of Jews
'ce death throughI starvation fol-
wing the recent savage pogrom
'ac accompanied the Iron Guard
volt. In Bucharest, at least TO-
~ Jews are wandering in the
reefs, dependent upon the mea-
II Charity that the Jewish COM
unity, itself victim of the ter
= may be able to provide. What
~ .l.. Ine Rumanian Jews hope for?
Enough the Greenshirt massa-
: mas ended" cabIed Correspond
: Leigh White, ''the best they
N nope for in the future is that
remler AntOnescu win see the
|" adhered to in further appIica-
- OF Rurnania's merciless anti
'mitic code.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-02-14
MOnsky and Davis to Speak Sunday,
Feb. 16, on COast-tO-C Coast Network

Birth for "duty, achievement and
honor" The program is being
picked up in New York by Sta
ton WOR.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Arlington Democrats
LIST Registrars for
November Election
Warning Issued Poll Tax
Must Be Paid to
Vote in Primary

The Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Arlington County an
nounced today list of II registrars
for the November 4 general election
in the county.
In order to vote in the Democratic
primary in August, the committee
announced. a poll tax of $3.50 must
be paid at the tax collectors Office
before May g. In order to partici-
pate in the Democratic primary, it
was pointed out, voters must pre-
sent their poll-tax payment receipts
to any of the following registrars:
Arlington precinct, Mrs S. Muriel
Dye, 2811 North Thirteenth street.
Ballston precinct, Mrs. Elizabeth
Summers, 1904 North Vernon street.
Carne precinct, Mrs. Fred N.
Windridge, 4744 North Forty-second
street.
Cherrydale precinct, Mrs. Fred H.
Doe, 2019 North Pollard street.
Clarendon No. l precinct, Mrs.
Clara L. Nevin, 712 North Jackson
street.
Clarendon No. precinct, Mrs. Azile
M. Haley, 1913 North Fillmore street.
East Falls Church precinct, Mrs.
Ruth Marcy, 2250 North Lexington
street.
Glencarlyn precinct, Mrs. Helen v.
Haller, 406 N. Remington street.
Lyon Park precinct, Mrs. Lillian
johnson. Sic North Irving street.
Rosslyn precinct, Mrs. ThereSe
Rees, 1887 North Seventeenth street.
Virginia Highlands precinct, Mrs.
Monica Flaherty, 633 South Twen-
tieth street.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Girl Seeks New Trial
In Killing Of Marine
srecial Dispatch to The Star.

erecial Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, April 23-Mrs.
Helen Schuier. 21-year-old Guam
tico waitress, today sought a new
trial after a Prince William County
jury found her guilty of the fatel
stabbing of Marine Pvt. Aubrey N.
Heyl of Warrenton in a Quantico
rooming house April r.
A new trial was asked by Defense
Counsel Ralph Bethel of Richmond
because a spectator allegedly made
remarks heard in the courtroom.
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy of the
County Circuit Court imposed SEN
tence of three and half years after
a jury, which deliberated for two
hours, yesterday brought in verdict
of voluntary manslaughter. Com
monwealth's Attorney William Hill
Brown, jr., had sought a conviction
for first-degree murder, which car
ries death penalty
Judge Mccarthy will hear argu-
ments on a motion for a new trial
June l. Mrs. Schuler was returned
to Jail pending that hearing
Mrs. Schuler, who formerly lived
in Washington, pleaded self-defense
and claimed she believed Pvt. Heyl
threatened to strike her The killing
was unintentional, the defense
claimed.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Rites 10 Be Held Today
For Louis F. Barqamin

Funeral services for Louis F, Bar
gsmin. g. civil engineer and founder
of the fingerprint division of the
Alexandria (Va) Police Department,
were to be held at 8 o'clock this
afternoon at his home, l12 South
Patrick street, Alexandria, with
burial in Union Cemetery. Mr.. Bar
gamin died Sunday at Walter Reed
Hospital.
A native of Richmond, Mr.. Bar
gamin first came to Alexandria in
1906 as a civil engineer with the
Richmond, Fredericksburg g. Po-
tomac Railroad to work on conStruc-
tion of the Potomac Yards there.
In 1917 he entered the Navy De-
partment, where he attained the
rank of chief yeoman and was as
signed to the fingerprint division of
the Navy's intelligence unit in
Washington He was awarded the
Victory Medal at the close of the
war
Later he established the finger
print system of the Alexandria
Police Department and headed it
until his retirement several years
ago.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Lucie Luckett Bargamin two BROTH
ers, Russell Bargamin of the Farm
Credit Administration and Edmund
M. Bareamin of Crozet, Va, and two
sisters, Nellie B. apd Laura M. Bar
gamin, also of Creket.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Nominating Meetings
Scheduled in MARYLAND
B. the Associated Press,

B. the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 23.-Formal
nomination of candidates for the
seat of the late William D. Byron,
Maryland sixth district Democratic
Representative, will be made at
forthcoming meetings here by State
Central Committees of both major
parties.
Democrats will meet at 2 pm. Fri
day, at the Emerson Hotel while Re-
publican committeeman have sched-
uled their meeting for 1890 pm.
Tuesday at the Southern Hotel.
Sixth district Democrats have
designated Mr.. Byron's widow, Mrs.
Katherine Byron of Williamsport, as
their candidate. She will be opposed
by A. Charles Stewart of Frostburg
named by the G. o. P. District Com
mitteemen.
Formal nomination of both can
didates at the Baltimore meetings
was assured, leaders of both parties
said yesterday. Gov. O'Conor has
set May 81 as the election date.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Maryland u. Girl Named Queen
Of Bride Clubs Fete Saturday

Doris Thompson, 17-year-old Uni
versity of Maryland sophomore, was
named queen of the annual fitting
and showing contest to be staged by
the univerSity's Block and Bride
Club from 9 am. to B pm. Satur-
day at the university barn.
Miss Thompson, who lives in Ca
louisville, is a member Of the Alpha
Omicron Pi Sorority and was chosen
from group Of 10 girl students rep
resenting various sororities and uni
versity dormitories.
RunnerSup to Miss Thompson
were Miss Eleanor Bergeron, II, Of
Rutland, Mass, a member of Kappa
Delta Sorority, and Miss Betty Bond,
II. of 250l Fourteenth street NV,
who represented Anne Arundel Dor
mitory.
Features of next Saturdays pro-
gram will include an intersorority
milking" contest and interfrater-
nifty creased pig" contest and a
sheep-shearing competition.
There will also be a fitting con-
test for sheep, beef, dairy cattle,
horses and hogs. Winners in the
different cattle breeds contests will
compete for the grand prize in the
dairy cattle division.
Winners in the sheep, horses and
hogs competition will compete for
the animal husbandry grand prize.
The contest is open to all students.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Rising Virginia Highway Toll
Blamed on Indifference

squad If "a per cent of 1876
motorists are guilty of minor infrac-
tions of the law when they know a
State police squad is going to check
their car, what would the percentage
have been If we had not put out the
sign to notify motorists of the squad
working?"
Col. Battle said that on one occa-
sion two persons were riding in a
car and "the minute they saw the
police sign they changed places
without slowing down. The vehicle
was clocked as travelling Is miles
per hour and there was a baby
riding in the car" State police
gained a conviction on a reckless
driving charge when the driver was
arraigned in court, he added.
The checking squad will work
other main highways in the State
during the spring and summer
months, 1t was said.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Project
Fought by Citizens
OF Six Communities
Rezonine Of 60-Aere
Truct on Massachusetts
Avenue Extended Opposed

Vigorous opposition to a proposed
rezoning on Massachusetts, avenue
extended to permit construction of
a large apartment project was voiced
last night by citizens of six commu-
mites at meeting in the Westbrook
School
Representatives of Woodacres,
Westhaven, Greenacres, Westmore-
land Hills, Somerset and Brookdale
adopted a resolution declaring the
proposed change would destroy the
character of an area devoted en-
tirely to single-family homes.
The group elected a Steering Com
mittee to fight the application of
Scott B. Appleby to rezone the CO.
acre tract on Massachusetts, ave-
nue. extended adjacent to the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad. 1t is report
ed the developers are planning con-
struction of a $5,000,00O apartment
house.
Robert G. Beers was named chair
man of the committee. The other
o4C W. v" AboOCy,
M. Garrison, Irving Day, Arthur B.
Focke, Edward r. Talbot, Karl E.
Lohse. Albert W. Walker, w. B.
Armstrong, George D. Branson and
T. F. Robinson.
The Montgomery County Board
yesterday postponed the hearing on
the rezoning application set for
May Is. A technical defect in the
advertisement will require that
new hearing date be set.
Mr.. Beers said the Steering Com
mittee plans to testify at the hearing
in opposition to the suggested zoning
change.
The Montgomery County Civic
Federation already is on record
against the proposal.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Prince Georges
Schools Seek
S1,4zz,500
U. S. Funds Asked
To Help Finance
Building Program

The Prince Georges County CMd)
Board of Education has requested
the Federal Government to pro-
vide $1,422, 500 from the $l50,0O0.- :
900 special facilities bill now pend
ing in Congress for Sl,922 500
building program, it was learned
today.
Already the board has been au-
thorized by a law enacted at the
recent session of the State Legis-
lature to issue $50O,000 worth of
bonds for that part of the build
ing program which Is considered
most urgent and has already been
approved by the county commits
Sioners.
County School Supt. Nicholas
Orem declared that defense activi-
ties in Washington have increased
the county school population
through the influx of Government
workers into low cost homes. plac-
ing an unusually large financial
burden on the county.
only nope IOT unuS.
Mr.. Orem declared an appropria-
ton from the special facilities bill
is his only hope for obtaining funds
to carry out the complete program.
Mr.. Orem felt that since it is the
Government which is responsible
for the sharp increase in the coln-
tvs population it should bear a
large cost of providing education for
children of Government workers
Moreover, he pointed out that the
Federal Housing Administration has
been inSuring a large number of
private low-cost housing projects
which, he said, do not provide suf-
ficient revenue for county services
provided to those who occupy the
structures.
The Board of Education's request
was accompanied by an extensive
survey of county educational facility
needs. Some of them are already
contained in the building program
which was approved by the commits
Sioners.
Items in Estimate.
Items listed in the estimate sent
to the Government are:
Riverdale Elementary School, new
six-room building. s62 600; Lanham
Elementary School, eight-room new
building, $103, 900; Forestville Ele-
mentary School, eight-room new
building, 100000; Hyattsville High
School, 40-room new building,
$40, 900.
Greenbelt High School, 10-room
addition, $230,000; Oxon Hill Ele-
and High School, four-room
addition, $4,000; Silver Hill High
School, l6-room new building, $3l5,-
900; Takoma Park Elementary
School, four-room addition, $4,000;
Heights Elementary
six-room addition, So, 1000.
Landover Hills Elementary School,
new building, 100000;
Suitland Elementary School, eight
room addition, s93, 500, and a new
eightroom elementary school on
Agar road, $103,000.
Also included in the request is a
four room addition to the Fsirmont
Heights Colored Elementary School
at a cost of $51 500 and a four-room
addition to the Highland Park Col
ored High School at cost of
SAL 500
The cost would also include con-
struction of auditoriums and other
building facilities not mentioned,
the survey says.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
"a Men and Women
Face Court Today
On Numbers CHARGES
Score of Alexandra
Officers Take Part in
Concerted Raids
B, a Staff Correspondent of The Star.

By Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. April 23.-
Fourteen men and women were to
be arraigned today before Police
Court Judge James r. Duncan fol-
lowing their arrest yesterday by
Alexandria police and detectives in
a series of six raids on numbers
operating establishments.
Eighteen policemen in plain
clothes, led by Detectives James
Baber and Russell Hswes, took sta
tions yesterday in or near the ese-
Establishments. Promptly at 11:10 a m,
they closed in and made their
arrests
So swiftly were the raids carried
out that one unidentified runner.
telephoning in a list of numbers
bets, continued to speak for 10 min
utes after Detective Baber seized the
phone from the hands of the inside
man.
Watched for Some Time.
Detective Edgar Sims said the es-
surveillance for some time.
Police said they seized evidence.
including numbers slips, money and
records, and will produce it in
court today when the arrested men
and women will be arraigned be-
fore Judge Duncan.
Convicted violators of the offense
may be sentenced to three months
in prison and $500 fines by city law
and a year in prison under State
law.
Most of the prisoners were al
liberty late yesterday under bond
Those Arrested.
Those booked at Police Headquar-
tiers were Henry Schlichting. II. OF
l23 South Fairfax street, a grocer
charged with operating a numbers
game; Richard Henry, 81, 610 South
Lee street, charged with operating
a numbers game; Herbert Clark, 81
Wagner Apartments, charged with
operating a numbers game; Frank
A. Newton, "a. 101 South Fairfax
street. charged with operating a
numbers game; Leslie beavers, Al. of
919 Orinoco street. charged with
operating a numbers game: Ola
Ramsey, "a, colored, 316 South Co
lumbus street. charged with operat-
ing numbers game; Bernice
Stearns, %, of Landover. Md,
charged with operating a numbers
game: Edna A. Padgett, 46, of 919
Orinoco street, charged with operat-
ing numbers game. second offense;
John M. Jones, SO, l23 South Fair
fax street, charged with operating
a numbers game: Gladys Fawcett,
18, of 208 Wolf street, charged with
possession of numbers slips; Azilee
Harris, 81, colored, of 3l4 North
Henry street, charged with operating
a numbers game, second offense;
Martha Harris, colored, 18, of 314
North Henry street, charged with
operating a numbers game; Ruth
Boyle, 40. of Woodbridge, Va.
charged with possession of numbers
slips. and Vernon Hewitt, colored,
40, of 1915 Cameron street, charged
with possession of numbers slips.
Also taken into custody were two
small girls. one colored and one
white, who, police said, were running
the slips. They were released in
custody of their parents
Evening star., 1941-04-23
R. {. A. Lends S325,000
To Manassas Cooperative
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The Rural Electrification Admin
istration announced yesterday loan
OF 1926, 900 to new Virginia CO.
operative to take over, rehabilitate
and expand the system of the Bull
Run Power Co. of Manassas.
The new organization will be
known as the Prince William Elec-
trio Cooperative, with headquarters
at Manassas.
The new cooperative assumes
earlier obligations of the old COM
pany to the r. E. A, totaling
1903 900.
The r. E. A. announced $50, ,307 10
will be used for acquiring the elec-
trio distribution system of the Bull
Run Power Co. constructed before
the earlier r. E. A. loan. Also $4,000
will be used for rehabilitating these
original lines; $4,000 to acquire the
original 155-kilowatt Diesel and So
kilowatt hydro electric generating
plants of the company; S54,650 to
complete the generating facilities for
which earlier loans have been made
and $160,04281 to construct new
lines to add short extensions to
existing lines.
The new co-operative's system will
comprise 387 miles of power lines,
serving 1,248 members in Fairfax,
Prince william, Stafford and
Fauquier Counties.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
b. the Associated Press.

B, the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, April 23.-Col.
M. S. Battle, director of the State
Division of Motor Vehicles, yester-
day reprimanded Virginia motorists
for their apparent utter disregard
for traffic laws and safety rules" and
attributed an increasing motor vehi-
Gle death toll to such an attitude Of
indifference.
The directors comment came after
the results of a State police check
ing squad working in Southwest Vir-
ginia were tabulated, showing that
"A per cent of the drivers of the
1876 vehicles stopped had to be
issued a written warning. In addi-
ton, Col Battle said, 431 of these
drivers were brought into court.
1T is discouraging," Col. Battle
said, "in view of the fact that these
drivers passed through road which
was marked State police checking
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Prince Georges Plans
Protest 10 F. H. A.
On Low-Cost Projects
School Bourd Also Hits
Growth Of inexpensive
Housing in County
B, a Staff Correspondent of The Star

BY q Stdf1 correspondent Oh ne SUR
UPPER MARLBORO. Md. April
23-The Prince Georges County
commissioners and the county's
Board of Education at their meet
ings here yesterday decided to pro-
test to the Federal Housing Admin
istration against its insuring of pri-
vate low-cost housing projects in
the county.
The decision of the two county
agencies grew out of plea of Mrs.
Margaret Mattingly of Riverdale to
take some steps toward curtailment
of the growth of private low-cost
housing in the county. Only re-
Gently Mrs. Mattingly appeared
with a delegation beforeNhe county
commissioners to protest against a
proposed low-cost housing project
in East Riverdale.
Failure to Pay Share Cited.
The county commissioners, through
their chairman, William A. Carson,
drafted a letter to H. 10y Anderson,
director of the r. H. A. district in
suring Office, in which it was con-
tended that private low-cost housing
projects fail to pay proportionate
shares in the cost of county gov
ernment.
Moreover, it was pointed out that
the county's school facilities are
inadequate at present and with the
present rate of growth of housing
in the county they will be made
quate in the future unless county
real estate taxes are considerably
increased.
The letter also requested that F.
H. A. provide copies of any low-cost
housing project plans before the
projects are insured.
The Board of Education's letter
will carry a protest against low-cost
housing and will seek to have the
Federal Government provide school
facilities for low-cost homeowners
if F. H. A. continues to insure private
low-cost homes.
5000 Projects Proposed.
The letter to be prepared by
Nicholas Orem, school superintend-
ent, will point out that at the pres
ent time projects are under way or
consideration for about 5000 low
cost homes in the county in each of
which there will be one child. Ad-
mitting that some of these are not
F. H. A. financed, the letter will
point out that low-coSt homeowners
fail to provide sufficient revenue to
carry a proportionate share in the
cost OF educating the chi1d.
Mrs. Mattingly, who already heads
a committee to enlist public senti-
ment against low-cost housing, OBJ
tained promise from the commits
sioners to appear with her and other
officials at the offices of Mr.. Ander-
son for a conference.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Women to Help Furnish
Meade Recreation Room

Efforts to collect furnishings for
the recreational center at Fort
Meade, Md, were announced today
by the Bladensburg District Wom-
ans Democratic Club following a
meeting last night at the home of
Mrs. John S. White, at Colmar
Manor.
A recent visit by some of the
members brought to light the alb
sence of sufficient writing desks,
tables, chairs and other lounging
room furniture, it was said. A COM
mittee was named to collect dona-
tions. Those appointed are Mrs
Rolf Kennard of Cheverley, Miss
Nina Campbell, Cottage City; Mrs.
Clarrine Lehman, Bladensburg; Mrs.
Dorothy Staples, Decatur Heights,
sxsd Mrs. Mary Tate, Colnar Manor.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Judge DisquoIifies Self

WINCHESTER, Va, April % Up.-
Judge Philip Williams of Winchester
Corporation Court yesterday dis
qualified himself from presiding in
the trial of former Trial Justice
Donald Weems, who was indicted on
charges of irregularities in his Of
nclal accounts. The trial is set for
April 30.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Democrats Plan OUTING

Members of the Young Mems
Democratic Club of Southern Mary
land will hold an oyster roast from
2 to s pm. Sunday at Griffiths
Farms on the Marlboro Pike, it was
announced today. Elmer Lee
Pumphrey is in charge of arrange
ments. Representative Lansdale
G. Sasscer, State Senator Charles
Marbury and members of the Prince
Georges County legislative dele
CATION are expected to attend.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
Maryland Has More
Formers, Virginia Less

Marylands farm population has
increased 81 per cent since 1880
while Virginia's fell off 2.6 per cent,
according to preliminary census
estimates released yesterday. Fig
ures for the country as whole show
an increase of a tenth of l per cent.
The largest farm increase was in
Connecticut-19.8 per cent, and
South Dakota showed the greatest
decrease, 2l.1.
Maryland's total farm population
was 244,900 in 1910 and 237, ,456 in
1880. virginia's was 926, 6,280 last year
and 950,757 in 1880.
Evening star., 1941-04-23
CheverIy Registration
Dates Are Scheduled

Mrs. Donald Wells, secretary of
the Cheverly MD Board of Elec-
tion Supervisors, announced today
that registration of voters for the
town election, May S. will be held
April rs and May 8.
Registrations will be conducted
In the Cheverly- Tuxedo School from
2 to S pm each day. In addition,
voters will be registered on election
day, as has been the custom in past
years, according to Mrs. Wells.
Any resident of Cheverly may
register, she explained, but in order
to vote citizen has to be on the
registration books year.
Mayor J. Raymond Fletcher is
Rnopposed for reelection and the
only town contest is in the third
ward where three candidates have
filed.