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Evening star., 1941-05-20
Mount Rainier Mayor
Announces Personnel
OF 12Committees
New Group Is Named
To Direct Playground
And Recreation

Appointment of II committees, In
| Guiding a new group to direct play
ground and recreation, was an.
nounced by Floyd M. Matthias, re.
cently-elec mayor of Mount
Rainier, Md, at meeting of the
Town Council last night.
The mayor explained that changes
in the committees would be made
whenever they were found necessary
His appointments follow:
PurchaSing-W. w. James, A. j
Bates and Chauncey D. Glasscock
Fairgrounds and recreation-Rob.
ert B. Matthias, Gerald Bell ano
Earl McKeown.
Town hall-A. j. Bates, w. w
James and Chauncey D. Glasscock
Electrical - Chauncey D. Glass
cock, w. w. James and Leo r. Nc
Mahon.
Building-A. ]. Bates, w. w
James, Bernard Myles, Roy T
Fowkes, Ralph Aiken and Robert H
Middleton.
=. Finance-Robert B. Matthias. A. j
Bates, Chauncey D. Glasscock ano
w. w. James.
Budget-John H. Hall, A. R. Gill
D. j. Orcutt, B. R. Sherwood, Philip
H. Crook, Norman A Pruitt, Clar-
ence Collett, R. B. Matthias, A. j
Bates, w. w. James and Chauncey
D. Glasscock.
Roads-Floyd M. Matthias, R. B
Matthias, Roy T. Fowkes A. j. Bates
w. W. James and Chauncey D
Glasscock.
Traffic-W. w. James, w. w
James, jr; William Keys, Paul
Johnson and r. B. Matthias.
Memorial-Chauncey D. Glass.
cock, Mrs. Dora Weber, Mrs. Mary
Vanneman, Mrs. w. E. Rider. Mrs
Fred Negus, A. J. Bates and w. w
James.
Health and sanitation-Chauncey
D. Glasscock, Eugene Plumer
Charles B. Wilcox, A. r. Gill, jr.;
John H. Suter. Ralph Aiken. w. w
James, A. j. Bates and r. B. Ma
thias.
Safety - Karl Young. Donald
Phipps, w. F. Sampselle, Charles B
Wilcox, A. J. Bates and Chauncey D
Glasscock.
During the council meeting. petit
ton was presented by a group OF
citizens asking that tWo-Way park
ing, with parking on only one side
be permitted along Perry street, a
thoroughfare restricted under new
ordinance to one-way traffic going
west. but with parking on both sides
The matter was referred to the
Traffic Committee.
The mayor announced that
Michael Picchioni, new bailiff, will
be on duty during the early morning
hours, a period during which there
heretofore has been no police pro-
lection. and that Richard Baker
new town clerk, would be in the town
hall during the day to receive calls
in event the one-man police force
was absent on another call.
In the future, it was announced
council meetings will be held on the
first and third Mondays of each
month at 7:30 pm.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
McCurdy Reflection
Expected at Labor
Federation Farley
MoryIond-D. c. Meeting
To Nominate Officer
Today; O'Conor Talks
By the Associated Press.

HAGERSTOWN. Nd. May 90
Joseph P. McCurdy, president, is eX-
pected to meet with no opposition
for reelection when delegates to the
annual convention of the State and
District of Columbia Federation OF
Labor nominate officers today.
Elections will be held tomorrow
final day of the three-day meeting
Gov. O'Conor told delegates yes
terday he believed labor was the
most faithful patriotic group in the
country and more concerned with
the welfare of the country than any
other movement"
He said labor as a group would be
true TO the country in any contin-
gency because the things being
fought for are essential to labor"
Gov. O'Conor told the delegation
that Maryland has the most liberal
unemployment compensation laws of
any State in the Middle Atlantic
area, adding that in the field OF
compensation for industrial acci-
dents and diseases Maryland workers
fare decidedly better than in most
States of the country"
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Spring
.Se|ectees Elect
Own Leader
Old Custom Revived:
Rockville Announces
81 New Names

A custom that obtained in Amer.
lea up to the Civil War period wa.
followed today in the naming of 9
leader for 13 men who were in.
Quoted by the Montgomery County
Selective Service Board No. 2 al
Silver Spring, Md
For the first time since it has
been calling on men to serve a years
military training, the board permit
ted the selectees to elect their own
leader-an officer formerly appoint
ed among the members of each con-
tingent.
Chairman Stephen James of the
board said that, III Colonial America
and through the Civil War, various
militia units elected their officers.
Dougles H. Sayer. %, of 18 Lin
coin avenue, KensingtOn, an en-
ploye of the Justice Department. was
elected by the 13 selectees. Fourteen
men were to fill today's quota. but
one had already joined the Army
Air Corps, it was announced.
The men boarded train at the
Silver Spring station and left for the
induction center at Baltimore.
81 Chosen at Rockville.
Meanwhile, Montgomery County
Board No. 3 at Rockville, announced
the names of 81 selectees for induc-
ton next Tuesday and the resigna-
ton of a member of Prince Georges
County Board No. was forwarded
to Gov. O'Conor
Adrian P. Fisher said he had sent
his resignation as member of the
Prince Georges Board because of
the press of private business, ex-
planning that the work of the board
in classifying the 4,076 registrants
was nearly completed. His resigna-
ton was effective today.
The Rockville boards selectees
were as follows:
Junior Kuykendall, Norman Get
tings, Henry Clark, jr.: John Duvall,
Howard Sheeler, all volunteers, and
Raymond Green, Norman Duvall,
Emmerson Woodward, Thomas Per-
rell, Arthur Howes, Charles Orton
Edmonston, Micheal Burkett, Ray
Gallagher. William Wootton, James
Walker. Charles Clayton, William
Howard, jr.: Douglas GLAND, William
Metz, James Leonard, Blaine Reaves,
Melvin Kidwell, Benjamin Roberts,
Raymond Riley, jr.; David Stang,
Robert Riggs. Gordon Souder,
Charles Veirs, jr: Maurice Thomp-
son, Charles Barber, William DAN
lei, ir.
Some are Transferred.
The following registrants who at
the time of registration were under
the jurisdiction of the Rockville
board have since moved to other
local board areas and are trans
ferred to their respective areas for
induction on the same date: Will
liam Carter, Greenville, Tenn: Oscar
Seal, Sneedville, Tenn; Thomas
Waddell, Beaver, w. Va: Paul Hill,
johnson City. Tenn.
Arlington County Selective Service
Board No. 2 today issued names of
18 colored draftees who will be in
Quoted into the Army at Richmond,
Va. on May %.
Part of the 18th draft call, the
men are:
Lucius Royster, Wilson Jones,
Winston w. Reed, Robert A. Reed,
Louis J. Warner. Anatole A. Hender-
son. Henry D. GLADDEN., Booker T.
Bawl, Herman T. Jones, Leonard j..
Harris, Curtis A. Foster, Ernest Hall.
Horace E. Dabney, Isaac Brundage,
Connie Butler. Earl T. Moore, Robert
Draper and Cleopher Cannon. jr.
Evening star., 1941-05-20

By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, May
20.-The championship Marlboro
soccer team and the Old Fireside
baseball team have been pretty we'll
disorganized by the Selective Service
Act since two of the Wells boys have
been inducted into service and the
third will go next month.
They are sons of Joseph A. Wells,
town councilman of Seat Pleasant,
and were employed at the F. l..
Watkins Lumber & Fuel Co.. where
he has been superintendent for the
last IA years.
John Ambrose Wells, IS, is the
oldest and was captain of the Marl-
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Virginia A. F. L. Pledges
Support of Defense

NORFOLK, Va, May 20 lPN.-The
Virginia Federation of Labor. by
action on 10 resolutions. yesterday
expressed its whole support Of the
defense program and its determi-
nation to retain gains already made
by labor
The resolutions were the first to be
acted on from among a mass Of pro-
poSals considered by the Resolutions
Committee as the federation moved
through the first day of its annual
convention.
They set forth the federation s
allegiance to the defense program
and asserted that the A. F. L. and
its affiliates. notably the metal
trades and building and contractors
union, had attempted to prevent
strikes which would hinder defense
production.
They also urged that buyers call
for the union label that equal pay
be given for equal work, regardless OF
sex. and that there be no modiflca-
ton of the social security tax on
employers.
BY one resolution, the 1nterna-
tional typographical Union was
invited to reaffiliate with the A. F. l..
I. M. Ornburn, secretary of the
national organizations union label
trades department, attacked anti
violence legislation recently enacted
by the Texas Legislature under the
sponsorship of Gov. ODaniel of that
State. saying it was an anti-strike
measure.
He said union men should watch
for the vote on the Vinson bill, as
every member of Congress who votes
for that bill will be subscribing to
the O'Daniel policy"
I'VE must not delegate to any leg
islative body the right to fix wages or
hours of employment" Mr.. Ornburn
said What one Congress can do,
another can undo"
Evening star., 1941-05-20

boro team which won the WASH
ington area championship of the
Maryland-District of Columbia Soc
Ger Association this year. He was
inducted March 16 and went to
Camp Lee. He is graduate of
Marlboro High School.
Maurice Roland Wells is % and
until he was inducted last week was
one of the mainstays of the Old
Fireside baseball team of T. B. and
Waldorf. He was sent to Camp Lee
and yesterday was transferred to
Camp Pine, N. Y.
The third brother, Leo Joseph
Wells, 81, is expecting to be called
In the June quota and II he Is
not called expects to volunteer. He
Evening star., 1941-05-20

played on the championship soccer
Old Fireside baseball team with
Maurice.
The soccer team was almost a
family affair. The team roster in
cluded two cousins of the Wells
brothers, Melvin and Arthur Buck
and two of the latters' cousins, Harry
and Louis Buck, and one of the
latters' cousins, Cleveland Buck
Then there were Gilbert and Wal
bert Parker. Another member and
one of the few non-relatives, James
Morris, also has been inducted ano
is stationed at Fort Meade.
Mr.. Wells has four more children
all girls.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Mccormack to Address
Rally for Mrs. Byron

House Majority Leader McCor-
mack will speak at a Democratic
rally at pm. tonight in Glen Echo
Md. to support the candidacy OF
Mrs. Katharine Byron for Congress
from the sixth Maryland congress
sional district.
The rally will be at the fire house
Representative Bryson, Democrat
of South Carolina, also will speak.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
$4,000 Set Aside for Probe
OF Maryland 'Shakedown'
N the Associated Press


ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 20-Gov
OConor said yesterday $4,000 had
been made available by the Board
Of Public Works for special in
vestigator of alleged shakedown ac-
tivities at the recent legislative ses-
sion.
The Governor said the fund was
Set aside contingent only on the de-
cision of the present grand jury to
continue the investigation begun by
the assembly itself
States Attorney J. Bernard Wells,
working with the last grand jury
and the present one, has repeatedly
emphasized the need for a special
investigator and appeared before the
Board of Public Works to ask for
help.
Mr.. Wells said he would appoint
special investigator Immediately if
the present grand jury decides to
continue the investigation.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
PIT. A. Council to Meet

The annual meeting of the Ar
hngton County (VaD Council Of
Parent-Teacher Associations will be
held tonight at 8 o'clock at the
Claude A. Swanson Junior High
School, $500 North Washington
Boulevard. Election and installa-
ton of officers and committee and
officers report are on the program.
Walter Reed School PIT. A. will
serve as host.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Church GuiId Dinner

Sponsored by the Women's Guile
of the Episcopal Church of the AS
cension, ham and lamb dinner will
be served at the parish hall on
Sligo avenue, Silver Spring, Md.
from 5 to pm. tomorrow. Mrs
John r. Crawford and Mrs. William
r. Lonsway head the Arrangements
Committee.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Silver Spring Red Cross
Seeks More Workers

A plea for additional workers in
the Silver Spring branch of the
Montgomery County Chapter, Amer
ican Red Cross, was made today by
Mrs. Joseph B. Matre.
The group is particularly in need
of knitters and women who can
sew in order to meet the heavy
quota of the production unit which
is under the direction of Mrs.
George Cramer.
Mrs. Wayne Birdsell. chairman of
surgical dressings, has asked for
additional help on her work
Evening star., 1941-05-20
PIT. A. Elects Officers

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md, May
20 (SpeciaD Mrs. Everard Briscoe
of Prince Frederick, Md is the
newly elected president of the Prince
Frederick PIT. A. for 1941-42. The
other officers are: Perry G. Bowen,
vice president; Mrs. Allen Dorsey,
secretary, and Mrs. Boyd Hardesty,
treasurer.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Two Bodies Recovered

PETERSBURG, Va, May 20 (P).-
From the Appomattox River search
ers yesterday recovered the bodies
of two Petersburg residents, Goode
Harrison and Edward Emory,
drowned while fishing on that
stream near its junction with Swift
Greek Saturday.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Man Dies in Bridge Leup

HAGERSTOWN, Md. May 20 ~.
John K. Wallace. jr., 35, of Elkins,
w. Va, leaped from the bridge
across the Potomac River at Ham
cock yesterday and was killed in
stantly. Deputy Sheriff Robert Mil
Ter quoted Mrs. Wallace as saying
her husband had been In all health
and was despondent.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Bourd Member Installed

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md, May
10 (SpeciaD George Ward of Lower
Marlboro has been installed a men,
ber of the Calvert County School
Board of Education, having received
his appointment from Gov. O'Conor.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Foirview Body InstuIIs

LEONARDTOWN, Md, May &c
(SpeciaD New officers of the Fair
view PIT. A. have just been in
stalled with Joseph Gibson as pres
ident. Other officers are: Mrs
Walter Mihadi, vice president; Mrs
William Kratz. secretary, and Mrs
Thomas Bourne, treasurer.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Divorce Granted

ROCKVILLE, Md, May 20 (Spe-
ciaD Judge Charles w. Woodward
has signed a decree in the Circuit
Court at Rockville granting to Gill
bert Vernon Klos of Garrett Park.
formerly of Baltimore, an absolute
divorce from Mrs Mary Fredericka
Hughes Klos of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
In May, Beware OF:

l. Careless walking at night.
Six Of the eight persons killed
in traffic during May. 1910.
were struck after dark.
2. Crossing a street at a point
other than a croSswalk. Two
pedestrians met death by this
action in May last year.
The six other traffic victims
we're injured while either cross
ing a street against a proper
signal, attempting TO jump onto
a moving vehicle, attempting to
stop stampeding horses. stand
ing in a button safety zone.
crossing at an uncontrolled IN
tersection or riding in an auto
mobile.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Water Is More Precious Than Gold

AT daylight, received cup of water to wash my
teeth proud because used only half of it. for water
precious here than gold and much harder to get
than whisky
flew here yesterday from Cairo in transport plane
carrying Royal Air Force pilots and army officers. From
the noisy crowded and frivolous city passed suddenly
to the most empty landscape have
The battle of Cyrenaca is taking place terrain which
to have been invented expressly for modern warfare
for tremendous match between armies of tanks and
planes
The a hundreds squar,
miles Men and trucks the only fairly
good speed and slower tempo in the open country Planes
land take off almost place which
immense airdrome
There is nothing stand the way great
between the Axis and Great Britain No houses villages
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Dismiss 6 More
In Graft Trial,
Reading, Al Left

Grand jury graft charges were
dismissed today by Judge Earl c.
Pugsley against six more defend
ants. leaving former Mayor Rich
ard w. Reading and al still on
trial. Cases against 10 others were
dismissed last week.
Those freed today:
Suspended Policemen Harry
Bess and Edward Krumm: Charles
Bueker. a telegTapher formerly
employed by the Detroit News;
Thomas Turner. an employe of
Everett l. Watson, a defendant
and alleged policy house operator;
Ida Watson. wife of Watson, and
Grace koSiba. wife of defendant
Pete koSiba, alias Pete Kelly.
The diSmiSsals were made on
motions of defense attorneys. Spe-
cial Prosecutor Chester p. O'Hara
made only perfunctory objections
to the diSmisSalS as evidence had
faileds TO link them concluSively
with the allegea~conspiracy to per-
nit gambling houses to operate.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Internnllonal Sow, s.r,icr cnhle

LONDON, Nov. 26.-Two Ger
man airmen who escaped from a
British prison camp. stole an Raj
bomber. and tried TO fly home
have been recaptured. British
authorities announced today.
The Nazi filters were Seiz, 1
after they were forced 10 land
near a British airdrome more than
100 miles from their take-off
point.
fffHe prisoners, posing as Dutch
men. told the airport intelligence
officer at the airdrome where they
landed the bomber that they were
en- route TO bomb ships off the
Dutch coast.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Steal Raj Bomber
Captive Maxi Airmen Escape From British Camp,
Grab Plane but Are Forced Down 100 Miles Away

r. However, the intelligence Off
GERS were NOT satisfied and sug-
gested the two airmen have a
meal and bath while the plane
was made ready for them TO take
off again.
The Germans were reluctant to
take off their flying coats and
when they did so it was found
some of their buttons had been
carved from wood and covered
with tinfoil TO resemble regula-
tion Raj uniform buttons.
They were placed under arrest
Immediately and returned TO the
prison camp under an armed
guard.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
BY EVE CURIE
battle-ground.
Copyright 1871, ny the New York Herald TrouD.

THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH
AFRICA, Nov. 24.-(deayed)-lt is Z o'clock in the
the morning Everybody is waking up at the adj
vanced headquarters of the Sth Army in the western
desert where | am now.
Fighter planes have been taking off at the
nearby ardrome since dawn to disappear in the
direction Of battle.
The roaring of the planes as they took off
awakened us all, where sleeping: on the
ground, in little trenches under small bivouac
tents. Ny own shelter against the incredible cold
of the night was in the back seat of an army car
into which | crawled and made myself comfortable
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Medical Genius
Gets Court Job

.Reputed- to be-the most pre-
cociouS student of modern medical
history DR.. Howard r. White. %.
after II years of study and teach
ing. today was appointed a PSYCHE
ARTIST of Recorders Court al a
salary OF $500 . year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Gene Mako 10 Wed
In New York Today

NEW YORK. Nov 26.-GNS) -
CINS) Gene Mako, the big blond
California tennis star, and Laura
Mae Church, daughter of a Balti-
more Judge and stage protegee of
Helen Hayes, planned TO marry
today in 81. lgnatiuS Loyola
Church.
Genes doubles partner Don
Bulge, will act as best man and
Helen Hayes husband. Charles
Macarthur, will give the bride
away.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Eve Curie Writes
Eve Curie Writes
Desert Wastes
Broken Only by
ScurryinsArnieS

Eve Curie. daughter and biographer of the
discoverer of radium, is the only woman at the
Libyan front Deprived of her French citizenship
by the Hiehy government Miss Curie overcame
passport difficulties in her trip to the war zone
through the intervention of President Roosevelt.
In the following dispatch she describes the desert
battle-ground.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Ndzis Checked
Near Moscow,
Russians Claim
International New. seryie. Cable

KUIBYSHEV, Nov. 26.-Ger-
man forces have been checked
south OF Moscow but are advanc-
ing on the northern sectors of the
capital, according to dispatches
today.
The Com mum Isl newspaper
Pravda said that south of the city
the German offensive against the
main Moscow-Tula highway has
been halted and that the NaZlS
there have suffered great losses. -
COUNTER ATTACK
But in the direction of Kiln on
the city's northwestern defense
sector. Pravda said. the Germans
are advancing northeast and have
captured several more villages.
Pravda said, however. that a
Soviet counter-attack succeeded in
recapturing five of these small
towns.
All enemy attacks due west of
Moscow were declared to have
been beaten off
Far below Moscow. where a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Continued on Page Eighty
Inez Robb, ms Writer
Leaves for England

NEW YORK. Nov. 26.=tfNSt-
Bound for England TO write war
stories. Inez Robb. International
News Service correspondent. left
for Lisbon today aboard the
Yankee Clipper.
Lady Edwina Mountbatten was
also aboard.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
The Natural Man
Young Die Maker Dscards Shoes and Processec
Foods Because They're Against Nature

To Russell Allen. 26-year-old die
maker, shoes are only the dictates
of dignity.
Nightly Allen can he seen. lead
ing a pack of curious onlookers.
walking down Detroits thorough
fares-sans shoes. When asked
why. he will reply:
1--WE been doing IL for years,
it's natural 10 20 barefoOted.
Shoes aren't natural"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
IN THE
NEWS
ER. vow WIEGAND
N says that wars are

sdAS i1dl WITS are
won by armies and
, not by propaganda.
Mr.. Won Wiegand is a very
able and experienced war cor
respondent, and probably
knows more about wars and
the causes of wars and the
deciding factors of wars than
most folk.
But your coIumnist begs to
believe-even if wars are won
by armies-that armies are
built by propaganda, and the
war spirit is engendered by
propaganda, and nations are
inflamed to fight by prOpa-
ganda.
Fierce hatreds and undying
enmities are used BY
propaganda, and finally whole
nations, with their armies
and their navies and their
splendid youth, and their
sOberer men and women Of
maturer age, are propelled
and plunged into the vortex
of war with which they might
not be in any way actually
eoncerned-by persistent and
insistent propaganda.
So your columnist stub
bornly maintains that in the
last analysis it Is propaganda
which wins wars and that
armies are the incidental and
inevitable result of prOpa-
ganda.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26

Then he will explain that as
recently as two years ago he was
a Sickly specimen and so pro-
nounced by physicians
II told them that i could be
healthy by being natural" Allen
said. IL began eating foods that
hadn't been prOcessed-just nat
ural fruits and vegetables.
Pasteurized milk isn't natural,
so 1 gave that up.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
NEVER SICK SINCE

Declaring that he has not had
a sick day since he started his
unique way of living. Allen said
it no longer worries him when
people cast questioning looks or
whisper to each other when they
see him ShoeleSs.
I'm getting used TO it," he
shrugged. "Why, I go into res
taurants. picture shows and
everywhere 1 can in my bare
feet"
Allen, who lives at the Down
town Y. NJ c. A., said his wife in
Flint is the first of many members
he hopes TO mobilize into his
interchangeable club"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
HUGE TANK LOSSES

Rome's official radio. scoHing at
British reports that Axis divisions
have been trapped in the Libyan
desert. today asserted ION the
contrary, great part of the
British armored forces are encir-
cled and on the verge of being
annihilated.
The daily official communique
added that "as a result of bitter
fighting, the enemy suffered many
casualties and lost many tanks
and much war material" but the
bulletin admitted that Italian
losses are also considerable.