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Evening star., 1941-03-05

Sitting behind a stack Of mail
large enough to stock village post
Office, Garrett WhiteSide began his
35th year as congressional secre-
tary yesterday by commenting that
it wasn't like this in the old days.
In the first decade of the Goth
century, constituents wrote their
Representatives requesting garden
seed. Occasionally, they asked for a
pension, said Mr.. Whiteside
Now the only way he can file the
letters is to spread them in little
heaps on the floor around his desk
in Senator Caraway's Office.
They write:
Dear Senator Caraway,
IT am for (against) the lease-lend
bill and I wanted to tell you
about it."
Requests Varied.
They pour their troubles onto Mr..
Whiteside's desk. They want a
N. Y. A. project, or a P. w. A. or a
w. P. A. project. They want a de-
fense plant built in their backyard.
They know a poor woman who is
having a baby without benefit of
layette.
Mr.. Whiteside has been assigned
to buy a layette more than once. He
doesn't mind, having a 3-year -old
granddaughter of his own.
And then there are the visitors,
war mothers, girl threatening
suicide, people wanting something.
Thirty-four years on Capitol Hill
has made diplomat of the tall
Arkansan.
The crusading mothers came in
wanting to fight, said Mr.. Whiteside.
II know you ladies are sincere, -
Evening star., 1941-03-05

he says, and they leave, he contends,
with a different look in their eyes.
Reads People BY Eyes.
The veteran secretary is a great
judge of eyes.
ut gives me a good line on their
attitude" he explained.
Then he told about the girl who
came to see the late Senator Cara
way, the present Senator's husband.
She looked funny" around the eyes,
he said.
When she started talking suicide
and fumbled in her bag for the gun
she said she had there, Mr.. White
side says he told her:
IF you insist on this, would you
mind going out in the hall. We have
a new green rug and it's much easier
to clean blood off marble"
The girl relaxed.
High point of Mr.. Whiteside's
career is the night Representative
Flood of Virginia dictated the dec
laration of war to him in 1917. He
still regrets he didn't make a copy
for himself, perhaps with the auto
graphs of the Virginia legislator
and Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice,
then British Ambassador, who stood
at his shoulder while Mr.. Flood
dictated the resolution that put the
United States into war.
Knew Many Presidents.
Mr.. Whiteside has had his small
triumphs. AS clerk of the Commit
tee on Enrolled Bills first in the
House and now in the Senate, he
has known every President since
Theodore Roosevelt. And in his
home town of Nashville, Ark, the
school gymnasium bears his name.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
McCurrun Heads
Hunkin Subcommittee

Senator McCarran, Democrat, of
Nevada, was named chairman of a
subcommittee today to inquire into
the nomination of Gregory Hankin
to fill one of the two vacancies on
the District Public Utilities Commits
sion.
In designating Senator McCarran
for the task, Chairman Reynolds of
the Senate District Committee said
he deems it right and proper" that
the people of the District have an
opportunity to ascertain the qualifl-
cations of the appointee for the
utility post. Mr.. Hankin has been
serving as an attorney for the Fed
eral Power Commission.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Baltimore Iurist
Will Aid in Work
OF District Court
Judge Chestnut Is Second
To Accept Invitation
. For Temporary Duty

Federal Judge w. Calvin Chestnut
of Baltimore has accepted an in
vitation to temporary duty on the
bench of the local District Court
it was learned today.
1t is expected that the Maryland
jurist will come to Washington be-
fore the end of March to assist in
relieving the congested civil calen-
dar of the local court.
Federal Judge Alfred D. Barks-
dale of the Western District of Vir-
ginia is scheduled to come on duty
at District Court next Monday and
will be here for about month.
The invitation to both out-of-
town jurists to preside over the local
courts was extended by Chief JUS
tice D. Lawrence Groner of the
United States Court of Appeals, who
is the senior judge dealing with 10
cal cases.
Tentative plans call for Justice
Chestnut to have his courtroom and
chambers in the new Police Court
Building. He will be assigned to
jury actions, it is believed.
Judge Barksdale is slated to oc-
cupy the chambers of former JUS
tice Peyton Gordon, who retired re-
Gently, and may hear non-jury cases,
formerly called equity actions
Awaiting trial at District Court now
are 1888 civil cases, 80 of them
jury actions and 1923 non-jury
About rs per cent of the non-jury
cases are divorce actions, while most
of the jury cases are damage suits
Judge Chestnut is remembered as
having presided at the trial of for
mer Federal Judge Martin T. Man
ton, who was convicted and is now
serving time on charges of irregu-
laritieS in the conduct of his Office
President Roosevelt has not yet
sent to the Senate a nomination for
a successor to Justice Gordon.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Government Needs
Junior Engineers

Reporting an increasing need for
Junior engineers, the Civil Service
Commission announced today that
applications would be received until
December 81. and passed upon i'm
mediately.
The salary is $4,000, and while
completion of a college engineering
course ordinarily is required, senior
students will be accepted under cer-
tain conditions.
Other positions advertised today
by the comission include:
Inspectors for aeronautical engi-
neering materials, at $1,620 to $4,000;
male attendants for Walter Reed,
Mount Alto and Freedmen's Hospi-
tails, $1,000 to $1,000; wood calkers
for the Coast Guard Depot at Curtis
May, Md. $7.12 to $8.08 per day, and
highway machine operators in Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and North
Carolina.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Major Son Tells Of Beating
By San Francisco Police

Mai. C. V. Allan said today his son.
Don, 18, sociology student at STAN
ford University. had wired him he
was recovering from brutal beat
ing, which the boy and a companion
charged was given them by San
Francisco police in the water front
district early Sunday.
Maj. Allan, who is attached to the
War Department here, said his son
telegraphed that he and his COM
panion, Carter Barber, 18, of Chi
cago, were getting along all right"
and that his own injuries were slight.
The boys, according to the As
sociated Press, were arrested while
they were making an educational
Summing tour of "Skid Row." a
tough water front district. They
said they didn't mind being jailed,
but that the beating was something
they hadn't counted on.
In statements to Police Capt.
Arthur L. Christensen of San Fran
cisco, the students said they were
dubbed and beaten with fists in a
police station after officers had
picked them up as vagrants.
Dressed in old clothes and un-
shaven, Allan and Barber said they
wandered through the tough" part
of San Francisco Saturday night,
mingling with the men on skid
Row" to talk with those men about
their problems.
"At no time did we give cause for
brutal treatment" they said.
All nine officers who were on duty
at the station house at the time filed
blanket denials with Capt. Chris
tiansen that the boys were abused
or beaten at the station.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Mrs. Roosevelt Says
CoIored Schools
Need More Funds
Expresses Concern Over
Shortage Of Teachers
At Press Conference

The colored divisions of Washing
tons school system are not getting
their proportionate share of the
school budget, Mrs. Roosevelt told a
press conference today.
She said the great increase in
population in certain areas of the
city had created problems for the
white schools but that conditions
were far worse in the colored schools.
Mrs. Roosevelt said she was in
formed there was great teacher
shortage in the colored schools and
that some of the classes had enroll
ments Of more than go pupils, which,
she said, lis impossible to consider
proper education"
Referring to recent requests of
the Board of Education for supple
mental appropriations for new
schools, she said the approximately
100000 sought for the colored
schools was not enough in propor-
ton to the requests of more than
81 100000 for the white schools.
Warns of Oversize Glasses.
She warned that the oversize
classes should be a subject of special
concern since it might result in de
crease in the intelligence of the
future population"
She also voiced criticism of the
present provisions in the 1912 school
budget now before Congress. in which
requests of the School Board for ad-
dltlonal teachers for the colored
schools were virtually ignored.
Mrs. Roosevelt also suggested at
her press conference that the selec-
tive service law be amended to take
care of the questions that have come
up in the first six months of the
draft.
Rent Bill Discussed.
Asked to comment on the bill in
troduced by Senator Reynolds to re-
vive the rent commission here, Mrs
Roosevelt said she hoped that what
ever was going to be done would be
based on the mistakes and exper-
fences Of the past. She said she
thought it would be well to examine
what was wrong with the past law
and try to get better one. Prepar-
ing to leave for a Florida vacation
tomorrow, Mrs. Roosevelt announced
she was mot going to do one single
thing" while at Golden Beach, Fla
She will limit herself beyond he1
column and mail to swimming and
lying in the sun, she said.
If she goes beyond the walls of her
home there. she said, she was going
to do what she wanted ''by myself
and on my own"
She also denied rumors that the
Duchess of Windsor would visit hel
in Florida.
Mrs. Roosevelt said she had found
Alexander Woollcott, star of THE
Man Who Came to Dinner" a very
entertaining house guest. She re-
ported that when she came back tc
Washington yesterday Mr.. Woollcott
was at the White House door to greet
her and asked her ito come right in
and make yourself at home. You car
visit us any time you want"
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Prospective N. P.'s
Receive Practical
Training for Duties
y Non-Coms Studying
At War College Get
Assignments for Day

Twenty-Five non commissioned
officers of the Army today were en-
gagged in a days program OF prac-
tical training for military police
duties which they may assume in
the Capital when nearby military
reservations near their peak ca
pacity and thousands of soldiers
begin converging on the city in
search of recreation.
The "non-comS," mostly ser
geants, were being conducted about
the city by detectives of the va
rious Police Detective Bureau
squads following assignments made
this morning by Chief of Detec-
tives Bernard w. Thompson. The
detectives were pointing out po-
tential trouble spots to the pros
pective M. P.s as means of sup
plementing with specific advice the
instruction received by them dur
ing a months training under Maj.
Garland Williams, Army War Col
lege instructor.
1llC AlulJ AlC1t WCIC III NlfAl1d1l
clothes when they reported to police
headquarters and were accompanied
by Maj. Williams.
Another group, composed of %
men, will make a similar round of
Washington with local detectives
tomorrow.
The weekend influx may total
$4,000 men by June or July, it has
been estimated, but no definite an
nouncement as to assignment of
military police here has been made.
The noncoms on training duty
today and tomorrow are to be held
in readiness for details if and when
police and Army authorities decide
they are needed to assist the local
law enforcerS.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Two Pedestrians Hurt
In Traffic Accidents

John P. Overman, SO, of 316 Ninth
street NV, was in Casualty Hos
pital today suffering from frac-
ture of the right collarbone and
possible brain conclusion received
when he stepped off a loading plat
form in the 1900 block of Benning
road NE. and was struck by an
automobile yesterday.
A 5-year-old pedestrian, Karl G..
McCormac, jr., of 1888 Varnum
street NE, struck by an automo-
bile in the 4400 block of Fourteenth
street NE, was treated at Casualty
Hospital for possible fracture of the
jaw and other injuries.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Band Concerts

BY the United States Marine Band
In the band auditorium at the bar
racks tomorrow at 2:30 pm. Capt.
William F. Santelmann, leader;
Henry Weber, second leader.
Program.
March, 1.-THE Vermonter" Carpenter
Overture, "Iphigenia in Aulis" -Gluck
Euphonium solo. "Berceuse"
from "Jocelyn" GODDARD
Musician John Burroughs.
Entr'acte and valse, "Coppelia,"
Delibes
THE Moonlight Sonata" Beethoven
March, Spirit of Progress"
Slowitsky
Hymn
"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"
"The Star Spangled Banner"
By the Soldiers Home Band-Or-
chestra in Stanley Hall at the home
at $50 pm. tomorrow. John S. M.
Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton
Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, 1.-THE United States
Forever" kazZe
Overture, "Benvenuto Cellini,"
Berlioz
Entr'acte, (a) "Musica Preibida,"
Gastaldon
(b) "Menuetto" ------ Beethoven
Melange, Songs of the Old
Folks" Lake
Popular numbers, THE Voodoo,"
Aspiagu
1.-TWO Smiling Eyes" Magnes
ValSe Espagnole, Mercedes" Miro
Finale, Defend America" Hadley
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Mrs. Wiley to Speak
On Goodwill Tour

Mrs. Harvey Wiley, chairman OF
the National Women's Party and
past president of the District of
Columbia Federation of Women's
Clubs, will address the international
relations department of the Prince
Georges County (Md0 Federation
of Women's Clubs at 2 pm. tomor-
row in the old library at the Uni
versity of Maryland.
Her speech, open to the public,
will deal with her goodwill tour
of Latin America last summer spon-
sored by the General Federation
of Women's Clubs.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Nutrition Class to Open

A nutrition class for adults will
be opened tomorrow at LAS pm. at
the Glen Echo-Cabin John School
on Conduit road under the leader
ship of Mrs. Laura McCune, nu-
tritionist at the National Child
Research Center. There will be on
charge for the course.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
X-Ruy Experts to Meet

The District of Columbia Society
of X-ray Technicians will hold its
monthly meeting in the X-ray de-
partment of Georgetown Hospital,
Thirty fifth and N streets NV, at
8 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Opportunity House Dinner

Joseph D. kaufman will speak
at a report dinner of Opportunity
for Service at $50 pm. Friday at
Opportunity House, 78 street NV.
Students of the Civic Theater
School will provide entertainment.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Anocostiu Hiqh Recital

Art Brown, organist and master
of ceremonies, will give a special
performance for Anacostia Junior
Senior High School students on the
schools newly-installed organ Fri
day at II am.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
In March, Beware OF:

In MARCH, Beware VI:
1. Crossing a street at point
other than a crosswalk. -Four
pedestrians were killed doing
this in March, 1910. Three OF
these were over SIS 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 passenger on
a truck who was crushed be-
meath a spool of cable when the
truck overturned.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
D. T.. Sends 14O
More SeIectees
To Baltimore
Will Be Assigned
To Duty With 260th
At Fort Bliss

Approximately 140 selectees we're
scheduled to leave today for Army
induction in Baltimore, the third
selective service contingent of more
than 100 men to depart In as many
days.
After passing the rigid Army
physical examination and taking the
oath, the men were to be sent this
afternoon to Camp Lee, Va, for
classification and assignment prepa-
ratory to joining the 260th Coast
Artillery, District of Columbia anti
aircraft regiment, now on active
duty at Fort Bliss, Tex.
Selective service officials today
were faced with the necessity of
naming a number of replacements
for selectees rejected at the Balti-
more induction station already this
week. More than 10 per cent of the
men chosen here for the service
have been turned back in three
days at Baltimore. The selectee
requisition of the 260th, designed
to round out the regiment to war
strength, calls for LOO men to be
indicted by next week.
Col Burns Br0adcasts.
The commanding officer Of the
regiment, Col. Walter w. Burns, now
in Washington to lend a personal
hand in the Army Initiation" of his
recruits, last night assured relatives
and friends of Washingtonians al
ready with the regiment and those
who will join it in the near future
that the morale of the District men
is second to none at the Texas post.
In message broadcast over Sta
ton WMAL, Col. Burns described
the varied recreation program
mapped for members of the 260th,
stressing particularly the large num-
bers of men engaged in athletic
activities.
He also pointed out that the citi-
zenS of El Paso have made the Dis
trict men feel right at home" and
frequently have invited them to
their homes for dinner. Col. Burns
outlined word picture of the camp
site, noting the arrangement of
buildings and the surrounding ter
rain.
Names of 148 More Announced.
Selective service officials last night
announced the names of 148 addi-
tional men who will be sent to Balti-
more tomorrow morning for induc-
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Names of 148 More Announced.

Selective service officials last night
announced the names of 148 addi-
tional men who will be sent to Balti-
more tomorrow morning for induc-
ton. The men are:
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Make March Safer

Every blot is a traffic death.
Keep the March calendar clear.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
March,, l94l
March, 1910

Mar. 5 Mor.7 Nor. Il Nor. 10
. ses| .
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Board No. 4.
Board No. 5.
Board No. 6.
Board No. 8.

bOdTU NO. Z.
Ok, Daniel J. Fenton William r.
To
Evening star., 1941-11-05
By BILL DISMER, Jr.

A team which must win to pre-
serve its Eastern title chances but
which can relax to a certain ex-
tent for three weeks afterward,
against an eleven which needs vic
tory only slightly less and which
must stay keyed up for a month.
That's the setup of Sundays cru
cial game in Brooklyn in which the
still-contending Dodgers can go 'all
out" against the pace-setting Red
skins, who must hold something in
reserve for even more arduous
games ahead
There's little doubt that the re-
mainder of the Redskins and
Dodgers schedules presents the ex-
tremes in opposition. For WASH
ington must face the four toughest
teams of the league in succession,
while two of Brooklvn's remaining
four games are with the Pitts
burgh Steelers. with an of Sunday
in between. But If the Dodgers don't
whip the Redskins four days hence
they virtually can kiss good-by their
sectional championship. The Red
skins won't be out of the running
If they lose. but it'll be just twice
as hard to stick in the race.
Makes 1t Tough for Skins.
Frankly. that Green Bay victory
over the Bears last Sunday was the
worst thing that could have hap
pened from a Redskin standpoint
Scheduled to meet them both in
the next four weeks. both of the
Vests powerhouses must turn back
the Indians to maintain their own
divisional hopes. It's bad enough to
meet the Packers and Bears when
nothing serious is at stake. When
playoff chances depend on Packer
or Bear victories, it's playing with
dynamite
But if the Redskins turn back the
Dodgers in Brooklyn, they could
lose to both the Bears and Packers
and still assure themselves of nn
worse than a tie for the Eastern
championship bv whipping the
Giants in New York on November
Evening star., 1941-11-05
Bv LARRY LAWRENCE.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
New York, Nov. 5.-With pomp and
circumstance and all the traditional
trappings, plus some new ones. the
National Horse Show will have its
formal opening here tonight, and
continue through next Wednesday.
Fit and ready to take part in
the first days classes of the cOun-
trys greatest equine classic are
some so or more hunters and Jump
ers from the District Maryland
Virginia hunt country. for all stables
reported that their steeds yanned
we'll to the Garden.
IN The air-conditioned basement
of the huge amusement place
enough horses are quartered to
remount squadron of cavalry.
1t. Col Arturo Arevalo, the head
of the Peruvian team, reported that
every horse on his team was in good
condition for the military competi-
ton. They are capable looking
lot of fencers and rumor is that
these newcomers TO the 56th annual
national have shown enough in
training to worry both the Cuban
and the United States Army teams,
who will oppose them.
Dinger Too Ill to Show.
Capt. Rene Chipi, leader of the
Cuban Army team. had their
Mamma Inez COndesa. Ciriolllo,
Marques and the great Habana
Club led out. and by the way they
shape up we feel the Cubans will
take their share of ribbons i'll the
international jumping contests.
Capt. Frank S. Henry said Dinger.
one of the veterans OF the Army
team, was very sick horse and could
not be shown and that one of the
new members of the team, Fitzota,
would not be in condition to COM
pete. The other jumpers. the vet
eran Dakota, the brilliant Democrat,
Maj. McClelland's Smacko from
Fort Myer, Reno Knight, Ethel D.
and Autumn Mark are in excellent
condition.
Local hunters and jumpers will
get plenty of action on the opener
today. The hunters will be kept
warmed up competing in the light
weight under saddle, not to jump:
3-year-olds suitable to become hunt
ers: lightweight green hunters: green
hunters. heavyweight and middle
weight; thoroughbred hunters; mid
Evening star., 1941-11-05

Clarke Hinkle and Frank F'llchOck
appear to be the only players pre-
pared to challenge Manders at this
point, with five weeks left. Manders
has been the leader all season. At
one time he had an edge in yards
gained of 43. but this slumped off
until two weeks ago he was in front
by only a 16-yard margin. His lead
now is 36 yards.
In pass throwing and catching it's
not so much matter of who will
win as by how much the present
leaders finish. Cecil Isbell of Green
Bay, leading in completed passes
with 86 for 1923 yards. is scarcely
concerned with Tommy Thompson
of Philadelphia. who has completed
so for 578 yards.
In aerial receptions Green Bays
Don Hutson has shared 40 for 490
yards. Nearest is the Chicago Car
dinals' Bill Dewell with 81 caught
for 285 yards.
And old faithful-toe Clarke Hinkle
of Green Bay continues ahead IN
field goals. He has booted five, and
the next best is three, by the New
York Giants Ward Cuff.
Evening star., 1941-11-05
Pollock Will Start
In 6. W. Backfie|d
In Furman Game
PIoy Against Clemson
Gets Him Recognition;
Victory Chance Seen

Johnny Pollock, one of the few
shining lights in George Washing
tons attack last week against
Clemson. may be given a starting
assignment for the first time in his
college career on Saturday when the
Colonials visit Furman for the lat
ter's homecoming celebration at
Greenville, S. c.
A bench warmer most OF the time,
Pollack was inserted against Glenn
son last week and spanked the
fourth-perlod attack which moved
from G.. W's 80 to within 7 yards
of a touchdown. Coach Bill Rein
hart realizes the need for scoring
punch in the Colonial setup-they
have had succession of 20 score
less periods now. The backfield
starters will be Wait Fedora. Bur-
nell Martinson and Jim Graham.
q Reports from Greenville indicate
Furman will toss razzle- dazzle at
tack at the Colonials with Paul
Sizemore slated 10 do most of the
passing A trio of good receivers is
available in Dewey Proctor, Billy
Seel and Double-O Webster. The
last named, incidentally, is a sopho-
more flash who already this sea-
son has pulled down two heaves for
touchdown gallops.
Furman reports numerous IN
juries. claiming as high as seven
players will be missing-but Coach
A. P Mcleod has plenty of reserves
available TO fill the gaps.
For the first time since the OPEN
ing game against Mount ST. Mary's.
however, the Colonials will rule
even choices. The Purple Hurri-
canes sport a record of two wins,
two defeats and two ties.