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Evening star., 1941-07-07
Soap Box Derby
Facts in Brief

What: A coaster car race
for boys from II to Is years of
age, inclusive, sponsored by
The Star. In cooperation with
the District of Columbia De-
partment, American Legion,
and Chevrolet dealers. More
than 200 boys will compete for
scores of awards, topped by
the M. E. Coyle Trophy and
chance to represent Washing
ton in the national finals, Au-
gust II, in Akron, Ohio.
When: Saturday, beginning at
10 am. with a band concert
and short parade. Racing will
continue through the afternoon
after a noontime intermission.
Where: Pennsylvania avenue
Sc, over a 1,000-foot course
between Texas avenue and Car
penter street.
Spectators: Public telephones,
refreshment stands. comfort
stations and first-aid facilities
will be provided. There will be
ample parking space on streets
near the course. Nearby park
areas will be suitable for picnic
lunches during intermission.
The limited supply of grand
stand tickets will be exhausted
by allotments to families of
contestants, but plenty of
standing room along the course
will be available.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Police Seek Firebuq
After Two BIazes
In Montgomery
$1,000 Damage Caused
To Residence; Fire at
Store Extinguished

Montgomery County police are
seeking a frebug believed to be re-
sponsible for at least one and per-
haps two fires in the Alta Vista area
near Old Georgetown road last
night.
A blaze which broke out in the
basement of the home of S. r.
Moore, 107 Roosevelt street, shortly
before II pm. caused damage esti-
mated at about $1,000 before it was
brought under control by the Be-
thesda Fire Department. The cause
was undetermined.
Less than half an hour later, John
L. Imirie of 1903 Old Georgetown
road, while driving past Browns S
store at Old Georgetown road and
Cedar lane, noticed smoke coming
from beneath the front porch. He
stopped and pulled out bundle OF
papers and rags which was just
bursting into fame After eXtin-
gushing the fire. he notified police
Sergt. Joseph Nolte said both fires
were being Investigated today. Sew
eral fires have occurred in the same
neighborhood during the last few
months, one in a house still under
construction causing damage esti-
mated at more than $1,000. Other
fires of incendiary origin in the Be-
thesda area have resulted in large
losses. a blaze in the Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School last February
causing damage of more than
$4,000. Two former volunteer fire.
men have been sentenced on arson
charges.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Capital Looks QuestionngIy at Daylight Saving Time
Are That Washington Will Aid Defense
Nationally; Conditioning Becomes New Factor Electricity

principal industry was Government
and nearly all Federal workers were
through work by 4:3O pm, leaving
them plenty of daylight in the
summer months. This argument
has been upset, to an extent, by
the stagger system recently started,
which keeps many Government en-
ployes on the job considerably later.
Theater interests also have objected
to the change, contending that it
injured their business by upsetting
movie patrons habits.
The principal objection, nation
ally, has come from the farmers.
They have explained that it does
them no good to start work an hour
earlier during the summer, because
the heavy dew on the crops makes
it impossible to get anything done
until the sun is high enough to dry
off the fields.
One of the chief arguments
against daylight time, in the Dis
trict and elsewhere, when it has
been proposed regionally, Is the
confusion resulting froEp standard
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Exercises Begin Tonight
At Monastery Chapel

Devotions of solemn annual
novena in honor of Our Lady Of
Mount Carmel, accompanied with a
series of short sermans on "Mary's
Sacrament-the Brown Scapular," "
will begin at 8 o'clock tonight in
the Monastery chapel of the Dis
calced Carmelite Fathers, 1921 Lin
coin road NE.
The exercises, which will include
Carmelite prayers to Our Lady of
the Scapular" for the petitions of
those attending the novena, will
continue daily until July is, feast
of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and
the patronal feast of the Carme-
lite Order.
Evening star., 1941-07-07

time in some places and daylight IN
others. 1t was pointed out, when
bill was up several years ago to
place the District on summer time'
that nearby points in Virginia and
Maryland would have different
time, with utter confusion resulting.
Other Cities Agreeable.
This contention. of course, Is
nullifled by a Nationwide change
in time. Indeed, most community
interests, here and in other cities,
have expressed willingness to nave
daylight time throughout the coun-
try if those directing defense pro-
duction feel that it would hasten
the day when America is fully pre-
pared
Several bills requiring all CLOCKS
to be moved ahead an hour during
the months of greatest daylight are
pending in Congress. Secretary
Ickes thinks it should be accom-
plished by congressional mandate
and doubts that 1t will be done by
executive order. Most ofhcials ~
Evening star., 1941-07-07

were given permission to turn in
their coaster cars tomorrow night
or Wednesday night, instead OF
today They were told they would
be obliged to bring the racers di-
rectly tc the Randle Highlands
School, rather than to the dealer
with whom they registered, how
ever.
Two Committees Named.
Mr.. Hamilton announced the per-
sonnel of two committees today, the
engineering and finish line groups.
All members were drawn from the
ranks of the American Legion,
which, together with the Chevrolet
dealers, is associated with The Star
in sponsorship of the Derby.
Vincent Orlando heads the En-
gineering Committee, which is re-
sponsible for the many physical ar
rangements at the course, Pennsyl-
Vania avenue Sc, between Texas
avenue and Carpenter street. His
assistants are Louis Bon, Rudy
Blick, J. F. Sturgis. George Wilson
o. G. Merrell, Dillon Flattery
James Judge, Christian Scheible
and George Lands.
E. Mack Clarke again is chair
man of the Finish Line Committee,
which handles tagging and certifi-
cation of heat winners for prizes
Other members are: Ed Donaldson,
James Clarke, r. T. Haugh, John
Long, Albert Gazelle, Miles Bell
Ed B. Ditto, Herbert Audas, Ed
Zuranski. William Kelson. John
Dudley, C. T. Milne, A. L. Thomas
A. G. Powell, Robert Snow, Mr.
Blick. Albert Hildreth. Joe Abrams
George D. Nuhnel. William D. Null
key, w. E. Terrell, Frank Elvidge
Guy Dodson. Lloyd B. Fields, James
Tinnons, James Brent, W. T. Wells
B. F. Oliver, David Kisluck and
Ollie Schrierer.
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Evening star., 1941-07-07
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.

With Nationwide daylight saving
time in the offing as defense con-
servation measure, Washington citi-
zens are weighing again the argu-
ments for and against tampering
with the clock and are recalling the
Capitals only experience with time
changing, which occurred during
the previous war.
Daylight time saves electric power
needed so urgently in the defense
emergency. This is the No. l argu-
ment advanced for enforcing it
throughout the country. The Fed
eral Power Commission and Secre-
tary of the Interior Ickes, who also
is defense oil conservator, are urg-
ing the measure, and legislation
making it mandatory everywhere is
pending in Congress.
Opposition to the plan is not SO
definite and co-ordinated, but has
been none the less vocal and in
sistent every time it has been pro-
posed in Congress to give the Dis
trict . special daylight savings law
Here. it was pointed put. the
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Civil JuYCases
Get Faster Action
In District Court
But Little Progress
Is Made in Speeding
Non-Jury Actions

Jury trials in civil cases have
been speeded up seven months, but
non-jury cases have made no prog
ress shortening time between place
nent on the calendar and actual
trial, District Court officials an
nounced today in surveying the
court year just ended. Altogether,
1925 civil cases were disposed Of,
new record.
Last October /, 18 months would
elapse between the time a jury case
was put on the trial calendar and
the actual trial date. On June 80,
through winnowing cases down to
their essentials by the Pre-Trial
Court, presided over by Justice Os-
car R. Luhring. and the co-opera-
tion of the jurists sitting in the
civil branch of District Court, this
time was cut to IL months. But
non-jury cases are still II months
behind
A total of 3,701 cases were on the
civil calendar ready for final trial
during the court year from July l,
1910, to June 30 and, of these,
776. were awaiting trial when the
year closed. OF the total, 1877
were disposed of by actual trial,
while settlements out of court were
reached in 1,128-a total of 1925.
OF these, 2059 were non-jury ac-
tons and 866 jury actions. Divorce
and patent cases make up the bulk
of the non-jury cases. while jury
actions are largely taken up with
damage cases arising from claimed
injuries. Cases are placed on the
trial calendar, awaiting final dis
position, when all preliminary ma
neuvers are out of the way and the
issue is clear cut.
Because of cases disposed of,
officials anticipate that the. new
l941 civil calendar will be shortened,
inasmuch as a total of Ais cases
was finally adjudicated that pre-
WClC dOdCd W liiC
calendar. In this category, At jury
actions went off the calendar and
329 non-jury actions and 80 con-
tested will cases, as well. These
included cases deemed urgent and
advanced.
Handling the civil business of the
court were Chief Justice Alfred A.
Wheat, Justices Jennings Bailey
Luhring, Jesse C. Adkins, Daniel w
O'Donoghue, Bolitha j. Laws, T
Alan Goldsborough, James w
Morris and David A. Pine. In the
criminal division were Justices
James M. Proctor and F. Dickinson
Let's. Justice Goldsborough also
has been serving in that division
Disposition of 2,925 civil cases ir
the court year just closed contrasts
with 2,655 wiped off the calendar in
the previous year. On February 3
supplement of LIST cases wa,
added to the regular calendar, be-
cause of the speedy progress made
Evening star., 1941-07-07

the Office of Production Manage
ment are believed to favor the
change.
England, which already had day.
light time, went in for it in big
way this season by advancing its
clocks two hours. The two-hour
advance went into effect May and
will remain until August 8, when
timepieces will be turned back one
hour.
Mr.. Ickes said he had heard no
official talk of anything so drastic
in this country. Apparently it is
felt that a one-hour advance will
save most of Americas available
daylight. It is pointed out, too,
that England, lying farther north
than most of the United States, has
longer twinghts and can make bet
ter use of a second conserved hour.
While Washington, along with
every other city, would save sub
stantial amounts of current through
the later arrival of darkness, off,
eials Of the Potomac Electric Power
CONTINUED on Page B-s. Column j.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
First Derby Racers
Will Be Weighed In
And Checked Toniqht
Cars Will Be Gathered
At II Chevrolet Dealers;
DeodIine Is 6 PM.

The first group of Soap Box Derby
entrants to be weighed in for the
fourth annual coaster race for boys
to be held Saturday, will report at
730 o'clock tonight to Weighmaster
V. V. Radionof in the Randle High
lands School, Thirtieth street and
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. near the
course. The scales crew will check
cars and drivers against the Derby
limit of $50 pounds for both and 1875
pounds for racer alone.
A section of the 5U-man Inspection
Committee will begin examining the
cars after the weighing. Edwin r.
Thomas, chairman of the committee,
will supervise the work. The in
spectors will determine whether all
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Red Cross Home Nursing
Glasses Scheduled

Glasses in Red Gross home nurs-
ing will begin at 10 am. tomorrow
and at 7:3O pm. Wednesday, the
District Red Cross announced to-
day.
Each calls will have a maximum
of 20 students under supervision of
Miss Caroline E. Thomson, director
of instruction. Registration for the
classes will be accepted tomorrow
and Wednesday at the chapter
house, 1870 E street NV.
Evening star., 1941-07-07

N w, Mrs. Mr.. 6ammsrino'
George T. Wilson, 7l3 Eighth street
NE, and Lawrence Marlino, %.
Brooklyn. died in a head-on COLI
sion miles south of Bel Air, Nd.
Washington's latest traffic victim,
Jean Lincoln, 81, of 1927 Fairmont
street NV, died yesterday from
injuries received late Saturday
night when the bantam car in
which he was riding and sedan
collided at Seventh and P streets
NV His death carried the fatality
total for this year five ahead of
that for the same period in 1910.
Others Killed in Accidents.
Other traffic deaths during the
week end were those of Howard D.
Norwood, II, Montgomery County.
Nd, injured in an accident near
Clarksburg, Md, and Louis Dent,
IS, colored. Riverdale, Nd, who died
in Casualty Hospital Yesterday
afternoon following an accident in
Riverdale.
Buford Raines, 36. of Merrifeld.
Fairfax County, Va. died in a
Fredericksburg hospital yesterday
OF injuries received in an auto-truck
accident on route / Friday night,
the Associated Press reported
The drowning victim was Albert
N. Bond, Al, Baltimore, who Jumped
into the PatuXent River from row.
boat to recover an oar early yester-
day and disappeared. Two COM
panlons reported that the incident
happened during rainStorm shortly
after midnight and that Mr.. Bond
yelled to them that he had found
the oar, but could not find the boat
in the dark. Matches lighted by
the two men failed to guide him.
In the crash near Bel Air, State
Trooper Thomas Ward. who investi-
gated the accident with Sergt. j.
T. Knight, said Mr.. Gammarinos
northbound automobile skidded on
wet pavement and collided with
a car driven by George T. Wilson,
husband of the fatally injured wom-
an, who is in Union Memorial Hos
pital at Bel Air with a fractured
knee and decorations.
DR.. j. H. Ramsey. Hartford County
medical examiner, pronounced Mrs.
Wilson and Mr.. Gammarino dead
at the scene of the accident. while
Mr.. Marlino was pronounced dead
on arrival at the hospital with Mr..
Wilson.
Zoo Restaurant Cashier.
Mr.. Lincoln had been employed
as a cashier at the Zoo restaurant.
His companion at the time of the
accident was William Voskell, "a,
Of 1855 Fairmont street NV, who
also was injured. The sedan involved
in the collision with the bantam
car, according to police. was driven
by Policeman A. B. Hit, who re-
ported he was on his way to begin
duty at his precinct.
John White, %, of 923 G. street
Sc, was injured when a rim flew
from wheel of an automobile while
he was repairing a tire in the 17OO
block of New York avenue NE. He
was treated at Casualty Hospital for
lacerations, conclusion and possible
fracture of the skull.
Joseph Bedard, "A, of 1914 K
street NV, injured in an automo-
bile accident on New York avenue
NV, June l, according to police,
died in Emergency Hospital last
night. An autopsy will be held to
determine the cause of death. He
was admitted to the hospital June q.
John o. Byrd, 27, colored. 75s
| Hobart street NV. was held ar
ninth precinct on two charges Of
leaving after colliding and one each
OF failing to give right of way,
speeding and driving without per-
NIT following a three-car collision
at Fourth and I streets NV.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Roosevelt, Jr., Treated
For Leg Infection
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
BEVERLY, Mass, July En-
sign Franklin D. Roosevelt. jr., son
of the President, is a patient at
Beverly Hospital, which he entered
yesterday for treatment of slight
leg infection ascribed to a bruise
Stationed at Boston Navy Yard
he has a summer home at Beverly
Farms, a North Shore resort.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Man Stabbed by ProwIer

Alfred Hess. 80, was treated at
Garfield Hospital today for a knife
wound in the thigh inflicted when
he caught a colored man who had
peered in the window of his home
at 24l0 Twentieth street NV. The
man fed.
Evening star., 1941-07-07

4<lobA Az oAlA
cinity during a
holiday W e 6 k
end made more
hazardous b y
slippery high
ways.
Six of the
deaths resulted
from traffic ac-
cidents and one
from drowning.
Three of the
automobile VIC
times, Umbato
Gammarino, 54,
of 1708 @ street
Evening star., 1941-07-07
July, le4l

In July, Beware Of:
/. The hours between $3.50
and $50 pm. All four of the
persons killed in traffic in July,
1910, were fatally injured within
this three-hour period.
2. Crossing a street at a point
other than a crosswalk. Two
pedestrians met death by this
action in July last year.
The two other traffic victims
were fatally hurt while either
crossing a street at an uncon-
trolled intersection or driving
an automobile.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
u. S. Leeds in Ruyon

The United States was the worlds
leading producer of rayon filament
yarn last year, accounting for "a
per cent Of the total supply. with
Germany next. "a per cent, and
Japan third, 20 per cent.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Bond Concerts

BY the Army Band at the District
World War Memorial at 7:30 O'Clock
tonight. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy,
leader; Karl Hubner, assistant.
BY the Navy Band, at the east
front of the Capitol at 7:3O O'Clock
tonight. 1t. Charles Benter, leader;
Bandmaster Charles Brendler, as
siStant.
BY the Marine Band, at the band
stand of the Marine Barracks, at 8
o'clock tonight. Capt. William r.
Santelmann, leader; Henry Weber,
assistant.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
Accidents Take
Lives Of Eight
Over Week End
Seven Persons Die in
Traffic Mishops;
One Drowned

Seven violent deaths. including
Washington's 42nd traffic fatality
of the year, were recorded in the
Evening star., 1941-07-07

Nearly every family in Paraguay
that can afford an electric refrig-
orator has bought one.
Evening star., 1941-07-07
QUIET Please!

IS YOUR RADIO A BANSHEE?
If your radio howls too loudly for
the peace of the neighborhood, 1t
may foretell your i'll fortune just as
surely as the screams of a genuine
banshee. Remember that police
have orders to enforce noise-control
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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-06-20

she loves both parents, but that a
Joan is madly in love with Daddy
and Daddy with Joan, and a. no
body's happy under the present ar
rangement why not break It all up
and try the new one? When I cry
about this, and can't help crying,
she says. oh, now, Mother, men
hate women to cry! Brace up. tn
all come out right. You wouldn't
want to hold Daddy Il he wanted to
be free, would your
II don't know what want.
Shame and pain and memories Of
the days when my babies and hus-
band loved and needed me are 80
mixed up in my heart that I seem
hah-crazy. Will you tell me what
to do? Must I surrender everything
these years have meant to me to
play the game'?"
The Path to Follow.
My dear Emily, playing the game
in this case means continuing in
your own home and your own life,
ignoring what you can of insult or
hurt, enduring the rest, keeping your
self as calm and friendly as if none
OF these storms was raging over
you, and showing to an ungrateful
man the patience and kindness that
may be obtained in only one way:
the way of constant prayer.
What Tom is doing, thinking, ask
md Y,1onnir1 &c
date concern. What YOU do, think
and plan most emphatically is. See
that you make the most of yourself
in every way. Even a middle-aged
woman can be a pleasant sight, il
She is freshly and appropriately
dressed; even gray hair is charming
II it is brushed to silky brightness
and trinity braided or curled. Your
interest in books, current events,
radio programs, gardens and flower
arrangements, the supervision Of
meals, the details of club or hos
pital, prison or charity or orphan
age responsibilities, will reflect it.
self in brighter outlook on your
own fortunate life. Brush aside the
absurdity of man of So embarking
upon a new love adventure, tell
Aida you will not discuss it, and
assume once and for all the dignity
to which your useful and beloved
years entitle you.
Years Of Harvest Time Ahead.
By all means visit the married
daughter and welcome the grand
child. Make it long visit. Make
much Of Toms grandfatherhood;
perhaps they will name the baby |
for Tom. Write Tom reports, ask
Aida for news of the household
in short, proceed as nearly as you
can along normal lines. Another |
few months or a year at most will |
see your physical and mental crisis
ended, and you will be in for years
Of health and activity and high
spirits. The fifties are wonderful
years; to a woman like yourself,
who has earned the right to spend
her leisure in the ways she likes
best, they are golden harvest time.
But to weather this particular
time, you must steel yourself to
bear your husbands selfish incon-
siderateness. He will come back,
and you will forgive him. And il
the crystal vase of those early years
Of trust and devotion has been bro
ken, it is for you to show the world
that the cracks weren't very seri-
Gus, that they could be mended, and
that you meant it when you said.
way back in 1914, 'tfor better OF
for worse"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-06-20

IN ONE pattern, sunsuit, frock
4 and bonnet are all included.
Even II she's only two, she can
put On the front-button frock all
BY herself; the plain neckline and
rudiy wing sleeves will b cool
and comfy, all summer long. This
TITO u sweet in percale, gingham,
linen, seersucker.
Patta1 No. ss7l Il designed In an st1es
. y ysarA Size >, yards 36-inch ma.
tsstal without nap: 81 yards braid. For
~ attractive pattern. send your order 70:
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waited by the patient hs1sbandmaa3
he would have them laid waste By
sword and FIRE. It would be his
shame to 60 by a way already
opened.-Lucan.
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MERRY-GO-ROUND

Supporting the plan of Chief of
Staff Marshall to lower the age of
army commanders, war department
officials quote the late Justice Oil
yer Wendell Holmes, who fought in
the Civil war. To Lady Pollock,
during the Spanish-American war,
he wrote: "A general of As and a
private Of 80 are old men,"
The commerce department has
set up separate British empire
unit, headed by w. Walton Butter
worth, former state department Off
cial in London. His job is to estab-
ish closer commercial ties with
British dominions and colonies.
After Gen. Allen Gullion, the
army's efficient judge advocate
general, appeared in the comic strip
Hap Hopper" he received a let
ter from an old boyhood chum say
ing: Il have been wondering where
you were for 40 years, and now at
last I've located you through the
funny papers,"
Twenty-six years ago Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy Franklin
Roosevelt toted a friends baby son
around the old Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Savings bank, much to the anuse.
ment Of Judge John E. Mack, who
later nominated FDR for President.
The other day, on the anniversary
Of the incident, the baby-Charles
Durant Names Of Flint, Mich.-was
indicted into the army.
Rural Electrihcation Administra-
tor Harry Slattery il proud of hav-
ing strung up wires in Alaska and
the Virgin Islands. Also, he Il max
ing . survey IN Puerto Rico.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-06-20

Conscience and Passions
Conscience is the voice Of the
soul, the passions are the voice Of
the body.-Rousseau.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-06-20

Cruel Conquefof
The conqueror is not 80 much
pleased by entering into open
gates as by forcing his way. He
desires not the fields to be cult
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-29
R005EvELT BIRTHDAY USE 10
 FIGHT pApALYSI5

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-For the ninth consecutive year President Roosevelt has authorized the use of his birthday as an occasion for raising funds throughout the na- tion to fight infantile paralysis.
 The President will be GO years old January 30, 1942, and the com mittee for the celebration of the Presidents birthday announced the date had been declared his dia- mond jubilee birthday celebration.
 In a letter to Keith Morgan, na- tional chairman of the committee, MT. Roosevelt called attention to the fact there had been epidemics of infantile paralysis during the summer months and that these have again proved the necessity for continuing this work and re- neWing it on an even larger scale"