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Evening star., 1941-07-04
Four Killed, 6 Injured
In Traffic Accidents
On Nearby Highways
Brother and Sister
Die Changing Tire;
z From D. c. Hurt

The first holiday weekend traf-
fic fatalities were recorded in Mary
land and Virginia today as four
deaths were reported in two auto
mobile accidents. Two Washing
tonians were among those injured
in the crashes.
Two men were killed in a head
on collision on the Baltimore boule-
ward about mile north of Savage,
Md. A brother and sister were
killed by a truck on the Richmond
highway about 9 miles north of
Fredericksburg, Va, as they were
changing a tire on their automo-
bile, State police reported.
The dead:
Thomas Craven Hall. 35, Rich
mond, Va: Samuel Russell Young
Emporia, Va, both killed in the
Maryland accident; Joseph Schultz,
Is. and his sister, Bernicc, "a, both
of st. Petersburg, Fla, killed in
the Virginia accident.
Two Taken to Hospital.
1NC -. NC, Va illC
Argyle Terrace, and Miss Mary Ke-
kenen, %, also of Washington, were
taken to University Hospital in Bal
timore from the Maryland crash,
the Associated Press reported. Miss
Kekenen was unconscious and was
reported in serious condition. Also
injured in the crash was Walter
Wick, IS, Richmond, Va, who was
taken to St. Agnes Hospital in Bal
timore with compound fractures of
both legs and severe lacerations.
Maryland State Trooper L. N.
Brown said witnesses reported that
both cars skidded on hill near a
curve known as "the death trap"
and crashed head-on. The impact
hurled Mr.. Hall, Mr.. Young and
Miss Kekenen from their vehicles.
The others were cut by flying glass.
The men were pronounced dead at
the scene by DR.. George E. Burdorf,
Howard County medical examiner.
More than two miles of holiday
traffic was held up while the wreck
age was cleared.
Mother and Father Injured.
In the Virginia accident, Mrs.
Annie Schultz, A, mother of the
children who we're killed, suffered q
foot injury and the father, Robert
Schultz, SO, escaped with slight cut
on the nose.
Police said the Schultz car had
pulled off the roadway and the boy
and girl were repairing the tire VIXEN
the truck struck them.
State police reported the truck
driver was w. B. Weaver, %, of
Chapel Hill, N. c., and said ne told
them something seemed to have
happened to the steering gear and
he was unable to avoid the accident.
Robert Summers of Route 3, Alex
andria, Va, was admitted to Alex
andria Hospital last night with frac-
tured ribs and abrasions about the
face and nose, received in an auto
mobile accident on the Richmond
highway below Alexandria, hospital
attendants reported.
Evening star., 1941-07-04

The Bramblebushes are much too
polite to tell him they have con-
suited the regularly edited sheet
published by the War Department
to list the vacancies.
The Major and his wife visit the
Senator Maj. Bramblebush met at
the MacSweeneys. His is different
story. He leaves the whole matter
of selection to a committee in his
home state
Mrs. Bramblebush calls her best
friends, her acquaintances, every
body she has ever exchanged a
"howdydo" with.
How well do you know Repre-
sentative?" she asks.
Getting Desperate.
With the time for West Point
examinations drawing near, the
Bramblebushes get desperate. They
start wandering up one corridor and
down another in the Senate
and House Office Buildings. They
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Apartment zoning
Hearing Moved Up
To August "a
Commissioners Grant
Request Of Owner
For Earlier Decision

A public hearing on the proposed
establishment of an apartment zone
on about 60 acres of land on Massa-
chusetts avenue extended has been
advanced from September to August
IA by the Montgomery County Md
Board of Commissioners, it was an
nounced today.
The request is made by Scott B.
Appleby, owner, through Norman B.
Frost, agent, to change from resi-
dental A to residential C the tract
which lies west of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad overpass and north
of Massachusetts, avenue.
The request to advance the date
of the hearing from September was
made by Mr. Appleby's attorney in a
letter to the commissioners this week.
1t was pointed out that the commits
sioners have rescinded a zoning
moratorium resolution in which
they had decided to withhold con-
sideration of such petitions until
after a master zoning plan has been
drawn up. The commissioners agreed
to advance the hearing because the
moratorium had been lifted.
The hearing is to be held in the
Bethesda County Building at 1880
pm. on August IA.
Meanwhile, it was announced that
a public hearing will be held August
7 at 7:3O pm. in the Bethesda
County Building on the request of
Edward A. Keys, owner, to change
from residential A to commercial D,
a tract on the southwest side of Old
Georgetown road and on the east
side of Del Ray avenue in Battery
Park. The tract is now situated
adjacent to property now zoned for
commercial purposes, the petitioner
states.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
MARYLAND Saves S652,550
In Eiqhf-Month Period
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. July A saving
of s652,55 from legislative appro-
priations was effected by Maryland
State departments and institutions
during the first eight months OF the
fiscal year ended May 81.
This was disclosed last night by
Walter N. Kirkman, Department OF
Budget and Procurement director,
who attributed the economy to rigid
control exercised by his department
over expenditures of the State
agencies.
Operation of State departments
and institutions cost Maryland
s7.846.56 during the eight-month
period, Mr.. Kirkman SAID, although
they were allotted $8,499,118 on the
basis of a total appropriation OF
sl2,748.677 for the entire year.
A total of $373,430 of this saving
was in the Department of Public
Welfare.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Holm Hall Estate
Al Alexandria Sold
To Merle Thorpe
Editor Buys Mansion
And 81 Acres; Rest
To Be Auctioned July 8
"A. P. Wirephoto.

Holm Hall, historic Virginia
estate 3 miles south of Alexandria,
yesterday was sold to Merle Thorpe,
editor of Nations Business. The
sale price was not divulged, but it
was said to be in six figures.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Thorpe revealed
the Norwegian Legation is nego-
tiating for the purchase of his Rock
vile pike estate as a permanent
home for Crown Prince Olaf and
Princess Martha of Norway, royal
refugees. Details of the purchase,
he said, have been settled.
Holm Hall was advertised last
week for auction July 8 along with
Little Holm Hall The estate bought
by Mr.. Thorpe includes the main
mansion and 50 acres of rolling land
Auction of the remaining 240-acre
portion of the estate will be at the
set time.
Holm Hall originally was part of
the crown land grant to George
Mason, author of the Virginia Bill
of Rights, along with Gunston Hall
For more than two decades it was
the home of the late Harley Peyton
Wilson, an executive of the local
power and traction companies and
a director Of the North Ameri-
can Co.
The original mansion house was
destroyed by fire many years ago
and the present building was con-
structed in 1920. Included in the
estate are a hot house, guest house,
cultivated gardens and swimming
pool.
OF colonial brick, the main house
has a green slate roof and over
looks historic landscape. The sale
was completed yesterday at the
Fairfax (Va) Courthouse by N. C.
Hines & Sons of this city and
Green & Magruder of Arlington, Va.
Evening star., 1941-07-04

Those middle-aged couples who
wander hand in hand down the Cap
itol corridors may not be tourists.
AS likely as not they're mothers and
fathers who reared their boys to
be West Pointers.
Take Maj. and Mrs. Bramblebush.
The Major comes from a long line
of military men, all West Pointers.
Young Algernon Bramblebush was
born virtually with a saber at his
side.
Algernon comes of West Point
age and the Bramblebushes go to
what they consider is the logical
place to discuss his future, the War
Department. They wind up in Room
1856 of the Munitions Building
where they are handed a 70-page
document entitled Information Rel
Evening star., 1941-07-04

ative to the Appointment and Ad-
mission of Cadets to the United
States Military Academy, West
Point, N. Y"
Accompanying the booklet is a
piece of advice: go to the Capitol
and get yourself a sponsor. We can't
do anything for you unless you
get sponsored by Senator or a
Representative"
The Bramblebushes, like dozens
of fellow officers and their wives
stationed here, haven't got Rep
resentative or Senator.
AS far as a parent state is con-
cerned, they're orphans.
They pause to reflect. The Major,
Evening star., 1941-07-04
|0'ConorFi||s is
Conservation
AdvisoryPo
Appointees Take
Place of Four
Old Agencies
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, July 4.-Six-
teen new appointees by Gov. O'Conor
stepped into Office today, composing
the personnel of three newly created
bureaus charged with administering
the States unified conservation
program
Gov. O'Conor. fulfilling the terms
of an act of the 1941 Legislature
yesterday named the full compile
ment of membership for the three
bodies-the Board of Natural Re-
sources, the Commission of State
Forests and Parks, and the Depart
ment of Geology, Mines and Water
Resources.
DR.. Isaiah Bowman, president of
Johns Hopkins University, and Ed
win G. Baetjer. Baltimore attorney,
were appointed to the Board of
Natural Resources. co-ordinating
bureau of all State activities in con-
nection with the conservation of
natural resources.
AS required by the law, two each
were named from the Tidewater
counties Of the Eastern and West
ern Shores. They were George T.
Harrison. Tilghmans Island, Talbot
County; Ellsworth Leary, Rock Hall,
Kent; Samuel NJ Bailey, Milestown,
St. Marys, and Norman E. Carr,
Mayo, Anne Arundel.
The following were named to the
Commission of State Forests and
Parks to supersede the Advisory
Board of Forestry:
John M. Nelson, jr.. Baltimore;
Bernard I. Gonder. Oakland; Sid
ney D. Peverly, Bel Air; j. Miles
Lankford, Pocomoke City; J. Will
son Lord. Ellicott City.
Gov. O'Conor appointed the fol-
lowing to the Department of Geol-
ogy, Mines and Water Resources:
Holmes D. Baker, Frederick.
Harry R. Hall HyatLsville: John B.
Gray. jr, Prince Frederick; Arthur
B. Stuart, Baltimore; DR.. L. B
Broughton, College Park.
They will take over the func-
tions of the present State Geologi-
cal and Economic Survey Advisory
Commission, the Bureau of Mines
the Waterfront Commission. and
the Water Resources Commission
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Maryland Gasoline Tax
Collections Set Record

B. the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, July 4.-Maryland
collected 81 ,274,6 in gasoline taxes
in May, largest amount for any one
month in the States history.
Collections for the first nine
months of this fiscal year were
s1,156,O37 higher than the yield dur
ing comparable period of 1910.
The figures are those of Joseph
O'C. McCusker, deputy State con-
t1oller. On the basis of this revenue,
he predicted that gasoline tax col
lections for the 1941 fiscal year will
break all records If "gasless Sun
days" are avoided this summer.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Manassas School
Building Infirmury
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NptCIdI DISpdlCll 20 ne Stdr.
MANASSAS, Va, July 4.-Con-
struction has begun on a new in
firmary and an Office building for
the Manassas State Vocational
School. The infirmary, to cost
$4,000, will include a reception room,
nurses quarters, clinic and a 20
bed ward.
Evening star., 1941-07-04

buttonhole legislators in the Capitol.
They learn all the ways a congress
sional secretary can say mo
vacancies"
Mrs. Bramblebush starts getting
discouraged, but not so the major.
They decide to go back to Room
1856 of the Munitions Building.
They find a dozen other mothers
and fathers there, too. They over
hear a colleague telling a mother
who had travelled halfway across
the country to get her son an ap-
pointment that her Representative
had q vacancy.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
QU|ETRease!

PUBLIC RASCAL NO. O.
Here is Jerome. one of the city's
most unpleasant gang leaders.
His gang chases to all weddings,
and after each ceremony pur-
sues the couple for miles in a
trail of blaring autos. This not
only tends to reduce the marriage
rate but skaters nerves o. IN
nocent bystanders.
A gold medal is offered to the
citizen who suggests the best
desert island on which to ma
room Jerome.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Held on Numbers CHARGE

ALEXANDRIA, Va. July tSpe-
ciaD Willie Williams. "a, colored,
400 block of North Henry street, was
arrested last night by Alexandria
polide and charged with operating
numbers game in violation of a
city ordinance.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Finishes Junior Hiqh at IS

JERICHO, Ark. July CPl.-D. w.
Wallace, rs, has double reason to
celebrate Independence Day this
year. He has just completed his
Junior high school work and re-
ceived a diploma.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
July, le4l
Toll in Previous Months.
In July, Beware OF:

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., 1941-07-04
Specia|Deputies
Enforce State
Fireworks Ban
Maryland Officials
To Get Hospitals Aid
In Finding VioIotors

AS Maryland celebrated indie.
pendence Day for the first time with
a State ban on fireworks, specia
investigators were named in Mont
gomery and Prince Georges Counties
to look into all violations
The regulations were promulgated
by State Insurance Commissioner
John B. Centrum. who was upheld
in his ban on explosive-type fire.
works in ruling by a Baltimore
Circuit Court judge recently.
Special deputy fire marShalS have
been assigned to each county by the
insurance commissioner. In Prince
Georges County, William J. Tierney
of Hillside was deputized, and Irv-
ing johnson of Takoma Park will
enforce the regulations in Mont
gomery County.
Both of these officials have ar
ranged with hospitals here to re-
port any treatments administered
for fireworks injuries. They will in
terview those treated to try to learn
where the explosives were purchased
and will prosecute where violations
are found.
Since issuance of the regulations,
loopholes have been found and are
being utilized in several Prince
Georges County communities. The
loopholes make the bans inapplica-
bic in communities that have other
wise regulated explosive fireworks
sales.
Fire Departments Cooperate.
Charles R. Stallings, jr., of Pixies
vile, who will work with Mr.. Cont
rum today at Baltimore. declared
some Prince Georges County fire
departments have shown complete
cooperation" with the commits
sioner.
He especially cited the Hillside and
Cottage City Fire Departments.
A State police patrol has been
established today between the Dis
trict line and Colmar Manor to en-
force the regulations, according to
Mr.. Stallings.
Police Chief Andrew NJ Newman
has written notices to all subStation
commanders in Montgomery County
calling attention to Commissioner
Gontrum'S regulations and instruct
ing full enforcement.
Many persons from Washington
and nearby Virginia were going to
Fairfax County today to purchase
and set off fireworks. This is the
nearest area in Virginia where their
use and sale is permitted by law.
Caution Urged on Parents.
Mr.. Centrum appealed to parents
10 exercise the utmost care in al
lowing children to play with legal"
pyrotechnics.
Mr.. Centrum cautioned that
sparklers and certain types of foun-
tains, ruled legal by the courts as
non-explosive, can cause accidents
if used by children without super
vision. Tabulations of the Mary
land Society for the Prevention of
Blindness show that fireworks ac-
NANNAASS 'doO yCdA Ill uI Gu OU0 DST-
sons. 1874 of them under the age
of Is.
Meanwhile Mr.. Gontrum's office
announced that 55 permits for pub
lie displays had been issued. The
permits, according to the insurance
commissioners regulations, were is
sued only where the displays were
to be set off by competent persons.
Included in such local celebra-
tions are those to be staged in Ia
koma Park tonight and at several
of the nearby Maryland country
clubs.
In Arlington County, Va, police
arrested 21year-old soldier for al
legedly setting off drecrackers at
1890 am. today. on the complaint
of residents in the Clarendon area.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-23
OLD ORCHARD HAS
 DISASTROUS FIRE
Entire Block Of Amuse- ment Area Wiped Out
 By Flames

Old Orchard Beach, Me, July 23 -UP)-Nearly an entire block in the amusement area of this beach resort was wiped out by fire early today with damage estimated at about $50,000 by police.
 Starting near the Old Mill of the Charles Usen amusements, the flames spread quickly through the wooden structures occupied by con- cessionaires, including a wax mu- scum, and leaped to 8 roller coast CT.
 Aided by Biddeford and Saco de- partments, firemen controlled the blaze after battle of nearly two hours. For a time the fire threat ened to spread into the business section. but firemen, favored by absence of any wind, confined it to the one block.
 The fire was the most serious here since Sept i5. 1929. when the Forest Pier hotel and several other buildings were destroyed with loss of eiEo.O00. It recalled 6 fire which broke out Aug. IS, 1907, and ragged for four days. destroying m any large hotels and more than 100 cot- tages.
 The roller coaster, built ever . skating rink, did not fall but the flames produced q spectacular sight % they crept up the skeleton ol tho structure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-23
CHEAP HYBRID SEED IS SEEN
May Result From Experi. ment Station Work
 With Squash

Not only does Yankee Hybrid, prize winning squash of 1940, get to market three to ten days ahead of commercial varieties in Connecticut but squash from the seed of this hybrid is making a similar record, according to Dr. Lawrence c. Curtis of the Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion at New Haven.
 Dr. Curtis introduced Yankee Hy- brid last year as an extra early, high yielding, quality fruit, the first hybrid squash on the market. Since hybrid seed is expensive, he tried planting some of the seed of Yan- kee Hybrid, known as the second generation cross, in his experiment. al plots at Mount Carmel. Fruits from this much cheaper seed were as early and plentiful as those on the parent plant. Total yield and uniformity were not as good and pr. Curtis will continue hybridizing plants with the idea of obtaining cheaper second generation seed with all of the good qualities of the first generation hybrid.
 Hybrid vigor has been noted in such vegetables as tomatoes, cu- cumbers, peppers, asparagus, egg plant and onions. Plant breeders have not exploited this knowledge because the cost of producing first general hybrid seed is very high. It has been generally believed that seed of the hybrid would not retain the desirable characteristics of the original cross. In corn, for example, the second generation loses vigor, quality and uniformity. Tn fact, plants produce the various kinds of ears that made up It's al.It-..J.
 Tn squash, however, and in some other plants which are eaten before the fruits mature, or which bear over long period, uniformity is not of first importance. The fruit of the second generatoin squash may not be identical in size, color and shape, as Yankee Hybrid is, but 1t is sufficiently uniform to be of market value. Moreover, 1t re- tains the vigor, high yield and earl- ness of the first cross.
 Although two farmers in the vi- cinity of New Haven have had some success with the second gen. eration hybrid seed, Dr. Curtis does not recommend it for general use yet. He believes that the time will come when this seed, as well as the second generation seed of other vegetables, will be popular. Breed CTS of hybrid vegetables will make crosses of inbreds with the second, rather than the first, generation fruit in mind. The result should be the cheaper production of earlier, more prolific, more uniform quality fruits and vegetables for the Amer ican table.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-23
Defend America Unit
 Opens New Campaign
Battle Of The Atlantic Week" To Witness Series Of
 Public Meetings In Interest Of Allies

of war, Hitler's chief menace to America must be met by winning the Battle of the Atlantic.
 4. The Gallup Poll shows that the American people by 3 to 1, feel that president Roosevelt has been about right or has not gone far enough in aiding Britain.
 5. That, therefore, such steps should be taken at once.
 The local Committee endorses the "V' Victory campaign, which is be- ing waged throughout the captive nations.
 The Defend America Committee says that now is the time for the United Stltes to help Britain in clearing the Atlantic of German submarines and raiders which are out to destroy the American-B British life line.
 MT. Cook states that if Germany succeeds in conquering Russia, she would not only gain unlimited food supplies, oil and other materials, but compl=.e defeat of Russia would mean the possibility of Nazi base in SibeTia, making our United States west coast vulnerable to at- tack. Therefore, now is the time, while Germany is engaged with Rus sia, for the Democracies to win this war through winning the Battle of the Atlantic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-23
INGLIS TO HEAR
 UNUSUAL CLAIM
State Employe Asks COn- necticut To Pay Him
 Salary While In Service
(NEA Radiophoto)

Judge Ernest A. Tnglis, presiding jurist at the Waterbury conspiracy trial, will decide whether the state must pay its employees, who have been inducted into the army, the difference between their military service pay, and their earnings as employees of the state.
 The Middletown superior court judge was named yesterday by Chief Justice William M. Maltbie of the supreme court of errors, af- ter conference with attorneys in the case.
 The action specifically involves the suit filed by Emil Bsullak, Tor rington, former junior interviewer in the Waterbury branch of the state employment service, against State Controller John M. Dove. As- cording to the claim of Bsullak, a 1889 state statute entities him to the difference between the $54 per month he receives as corporal stationed at Fort Preble, Portland Harbor, Maine, and the $130 he was paid monthly while employed here.
 In the answer of Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy of Hartford, counsel for Dove, 1t is maintained that the General Assembly has made no specific appropriation" for this purpose, and that the controller is not authorized to withdraw funds without the existence of such an appropriation.
 It is further contended that food, lodging and clothing supplied in se- lective service training camps are indeterminate quantities received by draftees beyond their regular pay. More than 140 state employees now in the army or navy, would be affected by the ruling in the case.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-23

Waterville, July 23.--Court Welch softball team will go to Plainville tonight, for game with members of Court No. 136, of that place. Charles Woidloski, manager of the local team wishes all members at be at the Waterville park at 6 o. clock, and those not able to make the trip, are kindly asked to turn in their uniforms, so that others may take their places on the team.
 A meeting of Court Welch, will be held tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock, in connection with emergency work. The committee in charge of the plan, would- like all members in- terested in this work to be present tomorrow night, when an instruc- tor will be present.
 A social hour will follow, when cards will be played and refresh ments served. Arnold Keith wiAl be in charge.
 The local court has received an invitation to go to Bristol, Thurs day evening, September 4th, to en- ter into setback and pinochle tournament with Court Ever-Wel- come.
 A committee of John Humphrwey, chairman, Robert wright, Maynard Buxton and Ted Bristow has been named to make plans for the an- niversary outing to be held during the month of August and William Dunlavey has been chosen as the