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Evening star., 1941-05-13
Council
Approves Beatty as
Clerk and Attorney
Reroutine of Buses
By Way Of Arundel
Avenue Sought

Appointment of w. Carroll Beatty,
former town clerk of Hyattsville,
Md, to the joint Office of clerk and
attorney, with a combined salary of
$1,000 a year, was approved by the
new Mayor and Council as they
took Office last night.
The two posts formerly carried
salaries totaling approximately $3.50.
In his new capacity, Mr.. Beatty will
continue as clerk and will take over
the additional duties of the town
attorney, an Office formerly held by
Waldo Burnside, attorney to the
county commissioners, who was not
a candidate for reelection.
Howard Holmes was appointed
town policeman at a salary of 1900
a year, plus the cost of equipment
needed in his work, and Ernest
Davis again was named custodian of
machinery for the Fire Department
at S135 a month. 50.
Other Appointments.
William H. Brown was renamed
town service man at $50 month.
James w. Bradley was continued
as auditor at $25 a month against
a previous salary of $40 a month:
D. Leonard Hays was renamed
health officer at $75 year, and
Albert E. Pohmer was reappointed
city engineer on a fee basis.
Council voted to ask the Capital
Transit Co. to reroute its buses by
way of Arundel avenue.
Mr.. Beatty was asked to prepare
an ordinance to prohibit storage of
cars one streets. There has been
much complaint by residents.
Mr.. Beatty also was asked to re-
quest the State Roads Commission
to reconsider the question of in
stalling an automatic traffic light at
Guy avenue and the boulevard. This
light would have push-button
hookup for pedestrians.
Fountain to Be Dedicated.
The drinking fountain recently
donated to Magruder Park, Hyatts-
villes recreation center, by the
Women's Christian Temperance
Union, will be dedicated Sunday at
$50 pm.
A street sweeper costing 1884
was ordered purchased.
After Mayor E. Murray Cover had
been sworn in by County Circuit
Clerk Brice Bowie, and the four new
councilmen elected with Mr.. Cover
on May 5 were inducted by the
Mayor, the council organized by
electing Robert T. Pitt as president,
a post he formerly held before re-
signing because of the Hatch Act.
Council Committee chairmen were
named as follows:
Police, Thomas E. Arnold: health,
Thomas E. Hume; light and library,
Mr.. Pitt; election and garbage and
trash collection, H. Wilson Spick-
nall; fire department, Walter L.
Alexander; finance, Caesar L. Aiello;
roads, William M Miller, and parks,
H. A. Harris.
Evening star., 1941-05-13
Zimmerman Named
By Alexandria Court
By g Staff Correspondent of The Star

By Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 13.--
Judge James r. Duncan today an
nounced appointment of Robert
Marvin Zimmerman as clerk of Civil,
Police, Juvenile and Domestic Rela-
tionS Court.
Mr.. Zimmerman succeeds Douglas
w. Stanton, jr., who was indicted
into the Army last week. He was
born in Alexandria, educated at the
old George Mason High School and
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He is
former science teacher at George
Washington High School here and
was an instructor at Fork Union
Military Academy.
Mr.. Zimmerman Is married ana
lives at $500 Dewitt avenue.
Evening star., 1941-05-13
Group Is Selected
To Draw Bylaws
For Potomac Body
Executive Committee
Also Will Be Formed
On Basin Project

A three-man subcommittee has
been appointed by the Interstate
Commission on the Potomac River
Basin to draw up set of bylaws to
govern the procedure of the newly
formed organization, it was an
nounced yesterday.
Members of the subcommittee are
Dr. Abel Wolman of Johns Hopkins
University, a representative Of the
Federal Government on the commits
sion; Assistant Corporation Counsel
Oliver Gasch, representing the Dis
trict of Columbia, and John A. K.
Donovan, representing Virginia.
An Executive Committee of the
commission also is in the process of
formation. 1t will include a repre-
sentative from each of the jurisdic-
tions included in the commissions S
scope of actiyities--Virginia, Mary
land, West Virginia, Pennsylvania
and the District, as well as the Fed
erai Government.
----W Will Name Representative.
The Commissioners are expected
to appoint their Executive Commit
tee member within the next day or
so after they receive recommended
ton from the three municipal Off
cials who attended the commits
sion's first meeting last Saturday.
Gov. Herbert r. O'Conor of Mary
land, who was elected chairman of
the organization, also will serve as
Maryland's representative on the
Executive Committee. Hugh Pom
eroy, director of the Virginia State
Planning Board, has been named as
the Virginia member of the Execu-
tive Committee and State Senator
George H. Williams as West Vu-
ginia's representative. Mr.. Pomeroy
is vice chairman of the commission.
The commission, whose main OBJ
Jective is the abatement of the
pollution nuisance in the Potomac
River and its tributaries, has its
temporary headquarters in the office
of Frank Bane, director of the
Division of State and Local Co.
operation of the National Defense
Commission.
Will Establish Headquarters.
AS soon as the membership of
the Executive Committee has been
completed, permanent headquarters
will be established, it was said.
The commission plans first of all
to collect and analyze data on pol
luton and related water and land
use problems which has been OBJ
tanned in surveys by the Agriculture
Department, National Resources
Planning Board, Army Engineers
and State Health Departments
The material will be used as q
basis on which to build the COM
mission program
Establishment of the commission
long has been recommended by
the Washington Board of Trade
and by various Federal and State
agencies. Recent ratification of an
Interstate agreement approving
the commission by the West Vir-
ginia Legislature paved the way for
the formal organization. Previously,
the agreement had been approved
by Maryland, Virginia, the District
Government and Congress. A bill
ratifying the commission is pending
in the Pennsylvania Legislature.
Evening star., 1941-05-13
Probe Of Alexandra
Assessment Setup
Begun by Citizens
North Ridge Association
Also Investigating
Electoral Procedure
Special DISPATCH to The Star.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 13.-1n-
vestigations into the city's assess
ment setup and electoral procedure
we're initiated by the North Ridge
Citizens Association last night at
its meeting in the George Mason
School.
r. Clifford Hall was named chair
man of group to determine the
factual basis for reports the city is
being deprived of tax revenues by
outdated assessments of properties
selling today for many times their
assessed values. Other members
of the committee are c. F. Sarle,
Paul E. Malone, Charles M. Stump,
A. j. S. Weaver, z. c. johnson, and
Ted Walker.
Another committee was author
lied to inquire into need for changes
in the electoral procedure of the
city. brought about by the recent
rapid expansion in some sections
and by the action of the United
States Civil Service Commission in
authorizing Federal employees to
participate in local civic affairs only
when independent of political party
sponsorship. A report of the asso-
cations Hatch Act Committee in
dicated that the Federal employe
population of the city is rapidly in
creasing and has passed IS per cent
in some sections.
Vice President G.. Gordon Draper
reported that new zoning problems
arising in the section between Brad
dock road and Duke street had re-
suited in the formation of a group to
be known probably as the West End
Citizens Association. The steering
committee for that proposed associa-
ton. which is expected to organize
within the next week, includes James
Sherier, chairman; Leon Eddington
William K. Coakley. Theodore P
Kraft, w. F. Jennings, Mrs. Anna
Meeks, Mrs. John j. NOEL and Mrs
O'Flaherty. The North Ridge group
adopted a resolution opposing rental
apartments and cheap detached
homes in the A-Zone area between
Russell road and Duke street.
The association voted to become a
paying member of the Council OF
Social Agencies and to continue its
support of the Community Chest.
Evening star., 1941-05-13
Friendship Heights
Reflects Committee

Six members of the Citizens Com
mittee of the special taxing area of
Friendship Heights. Md, whose
terms expired this year, were re-
elected last night at the biennial
election of the area.
Elected to succeed themselves for
two-year terms were Emory H.
Bogley, j. A. P. Farnham, Henry w.
Offutt, A. G. Richmond, J. C. Dulin,
jr.;;: Mrs j. Sullivan Ross Mark M.
Shoemaker, who was appointed dur
ing the winter to serve out the un-
expired term of w. j. Kurtz. who
resigned. was elected to the Office
The committee will select its own
chairman and secretary at a meet
ing next month.
Evening star., 1941-05-13
By the Associated Press.

by Vic AoSOSihtc0 EicsS.
ELKRIDGE, Md, May 13.-Fifty
young men from seven Eastern
States form the initial contingent of
conscientious objectors to enter the
first Of Uncle Sans experiments in
humane treatment of those who
have sincere and deep-seated scru-
piles against war.
In a hand-me down camp in
peaceful Patapsco State Forest,
about II miles from downtown Bal
timore, these so men will spend q
year at work instead of being thrown
into prison as were the &C. O.'s" in
World War days.
Called under the Selective Service
Act, they were exempted from actual
military duty and sent to this camp,
supervised by the NatsQnal Service
Evening star., 1941-05-13
Ten U. of M. Co-eds
Tapped for Mortar Bourd

Ten University of Maryland CO.
eds we're tapped for Mortar Board.
national leadership society, follow
ing the annual May Day ceremonies
on the university campus yesterday.
They were Katherine Barker,
Washington; Ruth Dashiel, Cam
bridge; Elizabeth Funk, Hagers-
town: Caroline Lacey, Chevy Chase:
Doris Mcfarland. Cumberland;
Mary Powell, Hagerstown; Ruth Lee
Thompson, Cumberland; Mary
Frances Tuttle, College Park: Char
lotte White. Dickerson, and Florence
White, Poolesville.
Evening star., 1941-05-13
so R. 0. T. c. Students
Guests at Army Comp

Sixty R. o. T. C. students from
the University of Maryland will be
guests of officers at the Arlington
cantonment today to witness DEM
onstrations of infantry weapons,
communications and tactics.
The r. o. T. C. group will dine
with the various companies of the
regiment, Maj. A. j. Dombrowsky,
post adjutant, announced.
Evening star., 1941-05-13
P|umer Again
Named Chief
AT Mi. Rainier
New Town Council
Restores Ousted
Officer to Post

Eugene B. Plumer, who was ousted
as police chief of Mount Rainier,
Nd, last summer in a stormy con-
troversy, was restored to his post
at the first meeting of the newly
elected Town Council which saw a
shake-up Of almost the entire town
government.
The small Town Hall was filled to
overfowing as Mayor -elect Floyd
M. Matthias, the two new council
men, Warren w. James, second ward,
and Chauncey D. Glasscock, fourth
ward, and Arthur J. Bates, third
ward, who was reelected. took the
oath administered by Clerk Brice
Bowie of the Prince Georges Circuit
Court.
Mayor Norman A. Pruitt and the
two defeated councilmen, John T.
Duever and Carl E. Herberger, in
relinquishing their posts after the
hotly contested campaign, wished
their successors good luck and
retired while the new Council pre-
pared to announce its slate of ap-
pointments.
Mr.. James was elected president
of the Council and the new ap-
pointees were approved with only
one dissenting vote, that Of Mr..
Bates.
Suter Remains Fire Marshal.
Theodore Hough, Charles Callow
and Rexford Worley, the latter two
new appointees, were named
auditors, and Bert e. Sager was ap-
pointed corporation counsel to sue
ceed Bird H Dolby. John T. Suter
will remain fire marshal, but Robert
H. Middleton was named building
inspector to replace Bernard Miles
and Leo r. Mcmahon was appointed
electrical inspector, new post
created by a reorganization of the
building inspectors Office.
While Richard Baker was elected
clerk-treasurer. L. w. Gordon, whom
he succeeds, will remain until the
audit is completed, it was announced
Mayor Matthias. a resident of
Mount Rainier for l8 years and an
aspirant for the mayoralty post five
times, stood beside his son, Council
man Robert B. Matthias, of the Sd
ward, whose term does not expire
until next year, in making his ac-
ceptance speech. He pledged efforts
to beautify the Mount Rainier sec
ton, to establish additional recrea-
tional facilities, and the, enforce
ment of more stringent sanitary
regulations in the town. and de-
nounced ''yes-man counciis.'tg de4
clarfig he wanted fighting, pro-
gressive council behind him"
Defends Reappointment.
He said that neither he nor the
Council will favor groups or COM
binations of groups in local legisla-
ton"
Mayor Matthias defended the re-
appointment of Mr.. Plumer as chief
Of police. Mr.. Plumer resigned last
July at the request of ex-Mayor
Pruitt, who charged him with con-
duct unbecoming an officer on duty.
Letters urging and opposing the
reappointment of Mr.. Plumer were
read last night and ordered filed.
In an answer to those voicing dis
approval of Mr. Plumer Mr.. Matthias
said:
His many years of experience can
be valuable to the town. He made
mistake and he admits it. I pro-
pose to give him another chance
and I want the people of Mount
Rainier to do so, too"
Evening star., 1941-05-13
Divorce Suit Filed

ROCKVILLE, Md, May 13 (Spe-
ciaD Charging desertion. Mrs. Lot
tie L. Magers of Rockville has filed
suit in the Circuit Court here for a
limited divorce from William r.
Magers, also of Rockville. They were
married at Alexsndria, Va.
Evening star., 1941-05-13
Toll In Previous Months.
In May, Beware OF:

LII Way, beware Of:
1. 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
were 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.
Evening star., 1941-05-13
Citizens Will Elect

Officers will be elected at a meet
ing of the Silver Spring Citizens
Association tonight at the Dispen-
sary Building. Silver Spring.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-07
by Peter Edison =.
The Inside Track in washinqfon

money on defense projects.
He went on form there to un-
cover abuses in the letting OF con-
tracts for defense manufacture in
the Kansas City and ST. Louis
areas, and in commissions for buy
ing land in the acquisition of sites,
for army posts. The more he dug,
the more he found, and the in
vestigation resulted.
=, AS a Missouri county judge. Tru-
man supervised the letting of $50
million worth of road contracts
He has been in Washington for six
years, where he has distinguished
himself by making speeches only
when he had something to say,
which was only once or twice a
year. He gets to his office at
in the morning and works late at
night, mostly studying. Last Con-
gress, he belonged to a $50 Ev-
cry Thursday luncheon club of
senators, where the check had to
be just that, and one man paid it,
but the club hasn't been revived
this year. He doesn't take exer-
else, doesn't play cards and goes
out only when Mrs. Truman and his
17-year-old daughter, Mary Mar
garet, make him.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-07
by Willis Thornton
Something TO Worry About

Do you suppose people would
really like it if they had nothing
to worry about?
Probably not. The fathers and
grandfathers of the fellows who go
around these days with their chin
down to here. worried just the same.
The fellow who means continually
about how things are going TO the
demnition boW-woWs is only carry
ing on a very old and very human
custom.
You think grandfather or dad
had nothing to worry about? Well,
they did. Let's stop worrying about
our own worries for a moment, and
worry with dad:
Wonder whether I'd better put
those savings into the bank and
get only per cent when that slick
feller offers per cent on his gilt
edged bonds?
Wonder whether there's really
anything to this fool agitation for
the eight-hour day?
Wonder whether doctors are
really going to increase their
charges? Great Jehoshaphatl They
are charging 81 for an office call
now, and 50 if they come TO the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 3l83S
Estate of III. A. Sewers Deceas

Estate of H. A. Sewers, Deceased
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, Millard c.. Sewers, as
the Administrator of the estate of
H. A. Sewers, Deceased, to the credi-
tors of and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, that
within six months after the first
publication of this notice, they eth
er file them with the necessary
vouchers in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the County
of Imperial, or present them with
the necessary vouchers to the said
Millard G.. Sewers at his place of
business to-wit, 80 Security Bank
Bldg, San Diego, California
Signed, MILLARD c.. Sewers.
Administrator of the estate of
II. A. Sewers, deceased.
Dated at Ell Centre this 14th dav
of March, 1941.
Charles E. Burch, Jr.
Attorney for said Administrator
ADD
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-07

house
Wonder what's come over that
fellow, Ford? Must have a radical
streak in him somewhere! just
think of S. a day wages, when
everybody knows 81 a day Is ala
mans worth!
Wonder if those darn-fool women
suffragets are going to keep on
until they get the vote? Ruin the
country, that's what
Wonder if there's really any
chance of that income tax thing
being adopted? Plain socialism.
that's What Think of the govern
ment taking per cent of all a
fellow makes, just like that
Wonder if that horseless carriage
thing is really here to stay?
Dad or granddad, worked up a
really first rate worry about things
like those. incredible as it seems
to us today.
First point is, they DID worry.
Second point is, they needn't have.
Think of that the next time you
get all bowed down with your own
worries. Most of the generalities we
worry about don't happen. and if
they do, they turn out better than
the crepe-hangers expected.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-07
THE kEESLING PLAN

For many years, individual voices in
California have been raised against the
ever increasing number of state bureaus,
departments and agencies of all kinds
draining the taxpayers pocketbook need
lessly to finance overlapping and cum
bersome duties
Now, after a five-year study of the
state government, the Keesling commit
tee has handed down an exhaustive re-
port recommending specific consolida-
tions, economies and improved practices
state in government Under the Keesling
plan, millions of dollars would be saved
to taxpayers by doing away with need
less bureaus and departments.
The trouble is that there would not be
as many political jobs to be filled if the
reports recommendations were carried
out. The legislature, which has scoffed
at good reorganization plans in the past,
might balk at that prospect. That is
where the people should take a hand.
1t is our money they spend. We must
demand that they spend it as wisely as
possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-07
Did You Know?

The earth and Venus are almost
identical in size, the latter being
only 327 miles smaller in diameter
A lump of fresh burnt lime in
the drawer or case in which steel
articles are kept will preserve them
from rust.
Airplanes are forbidden by all
regulations to fly over federal and
state prisons at an altitude of less
than 1000 feet
There are 243,857 miles of rail-
ways in the United States.
The earliest type of air condi-
tioning and cooling in busses and
trucks was a system employing ice.
The first rubber tire was pat
tented by Charles Goodyear in 1874.
Alligators grow very slowly. at
Is years of age, they are only two
feet long.
In the month of January, 1911,
rack, Calf.
Mosquitoes were unknown in Ha-
waii until sailing ships from the
United States carried them there in
water barrels.
Whooping cough may occur be-
tween the ages of one day and 90
years.
Telescopes do not make objects
such as the moon and planets
brighter.
The antennae, or "feelers" Of
butterflies are thread-like, with en-
larged club-like ends; those of
moths resemble small plumes.
During prehistoric times, horned
gophers lived on earth.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-07
Uranium Crackers
Double Entendre


Everyday words often wind up
with strange meanings in the world
of sport when used in scoring or
playing. Can you name the sport
with which each of the following
words is associated and also give
another definition for the word
not connected with sports?
l. Bat and puck.
2. Bunting and punt.
g. Stretch and fly.
4. Net and basket.
S. Love and court.
l. Bat is a winged mammal; is
the club used in baseball Pucl;
is a sprite of fairy; is the rubber
disk used in ice hockey.
2. Bunting is cloth used IN
making flags; is type of soft hit
in baseball. Punt is a flat -bottomed
boat; is type of kick in football.
g. Stretch is to reach out; is one
of the straight sides of a racetrack.
Fly is to soar in the air: is an
aerial ball hit in baseball.
q. Net is clear profit; is stretched
between courts in tennis, badmin-
ton, etc, or used to snare fish in
fishing. Basket is a vessel made of
twigs, etc: is the goal in basket
ball.
5. Love is affection: is zero score
in tennis. Court is to WOO; is the
playing field in tennis. badminton
hadball etc.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-07
by Paul Harrison :.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

and another car-carrying Ginger
Rogers and George Murphy--parks.
just as they are in the middle
OF some tender phrases and going
into a clinch, an ice cream vendor
sticks his head in the window and
says jovially Good evening! Va
nilla, chaWklit, strawberry. banana,
black walnut and peppermint
stick.
you left one OUT, admonishes
Miss Rogers sourly. Rid OF him at
last. they work up to the clinch
agaln, come out Of their corner at
the sound Of the ice cream mans
bicycle bell
You We're right, lady he says
humbly. 4" I forgot pistachio,'
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-07
ICE CREAM
AND LOVE

That Wooflingi,lg, incidentally,
ought to get appreciative chuckles
rom fans under 80. The scene
opens with the unmistakable sound
of sharp slap, then the camera
moves in on a girl, rather dishevel-
ed and quite Indignant, jumping
out of a car. As she stalks away,
the car backs out and follows her
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 3197
N u II L q Il


In the Matter of the Petition of
FRANK HOWARD MADDOX.
Notice is hereby given that FRANK
HOWARD MADDOX, has filed in
this court Petition to Establish
Birth, the hearing of which has
been fixed by said Court for Friday,
the 18th day of April, 1941, at 2
O'Clock pm, at the Court room
thereof, at the court house in said
County of Imperial, and all persons
interested in said estate are noti-
fled then and there to appear and
show cause. if any there be, why
the said Petition should not be
heard and order made.
Dated March 28th, 1941.
w. j. McCLELLAND.
County Clerk.
BY G.. O. KENYON,
Deputy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-07
MAY LEAD
TO PROSECUTIONS

The idea is that the committee
shall report is finds back to the
Senate. but as dirt is uncovered
it may be turned over to the De-
partment of Justice for prosecu-
ton. If the investigation strikes
pay dirt, there is no question but
that the Senate will grant it ad-
ditional funds TO keep going.
Senator Truman. VINO comes
from Independence, Mo, was
field artillery officer in the 3sth
division during the war. and is
now a colonel of filed artillery re-
serve, as is his secretary, Colonel
Vaughn, Of st. Louis. Trumans
interest IN military affairs has
stuck with him, and his observ-
ance of the sloppy way in which
contracts were let and handled for
the construction of FIT. Leonard
Wood, the seventh corps area
training center near Rolla, Mo
was one Of the things that first
got him Interested in waste OF