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Evening star., 1941-08-14
Arlington Board
Sets DeadIine
For Zone Plan
Jacob l. Crane, Jr.,
Named ConsuItont,
To Report by Feb. ]

Steps to speed completion Of .
master zoning plan for Arlington
County, were taken by the County
Board today, when 1t voted to retain
Jacob l.. Crane, jr., planning and
coming consultant, to work with the
County Planning Department.
Mr.. Crane, who will participate
in the project with his stafi, ex-
poets to have the master zoning
plan completed by February at the
latest. He Is assistant co-ordinator
of the Defense Housing Committee,
consultant to the Chicago Planning
Commission and delegate to the
Inter American Congress Of Munich
palities. which will meet in Santiago.
Chile, next month.
Mr.. Crane is a member and past
president of the American Institute
of Planners. Formerly he was con-
sultant to the National Resources
Planning Board. the suburban divi-
sion of the Resettlement Admins
tration and the State Planning
Board OF Michigan. Illinois and Wis
consin. He was also the assistant
administrator of the United States
Housing Authority.
Project Long Awaited.
BY setting February ! as the dead
line. the board expects to complete
project which has long been awaited
by county residents and planning
officials of Virginia and the District
Of Columbia
An appropriation Of s2,400 was
authorized today to pay Mr.. Crane
and his staff for the consultations
in which they will participate.
Mr.. Cranes appointment was rec
commended by County Manager
Frank C. Hanrahan and the County
Planning Commission, which met
last night
In letter to Mr.. Hanrahan. the
planning consultant enumerated
some of the problems which have
vet to be met before the master
plan is evolved.
Perhaps the most important of
all" Mr.. Crane said. "is the process
of hearing various conflicting opin-
ions and trying to evolve them into
an acceptable policy and program"
Growth Survey Important.
Also listed among the important
features Of the study is a survey OF
population growth matched against
the population capacity OF the
county and what part of the metro
politan population it should and can
accommodate. Mr. Crane will fur
ther consider the conflicting desires
and ambitions. rtpresented by ySsnale-
family residence ana apartment
projects. zoning adjustments, along
the county boundaries, including a
possible revision of some boundaries,
such as Falls Church, must also be
studied.
Mr.. Crane said that the work al
ready done by County Planning
Engineer Frank L. Dieter makes it
possible for the remaining work to
be completed rapidly.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Trio Of Old Foes
Buries Hatchet
With BrookeLee
IF You Cont Lick EN-,
Join En- One Says
Of Montgomery Pact

Montgomery County Democrats
launched their 1912 political cam
paign last night with announcement
of harmony" pact with three
long time "antis" and drive to step
up registration before the Novem-
Der deadline for declaring inten-
tions.
County Chairman Thomas E.
Hampton announced the harmony
agreement with Albert M. Bouic,,
Rockville attorney; George Peter,
and j. VinSon Peter, Rockville real
estate operator, at a caucus meet-
ing of the United Democratic Or
ganlZation, as the E. Brooke Lee,
majority faction of the party is
officially designated, in the Bethesda
County Building last night.
Immediately afterward the caucus.
ndorsed recommendation to ap-t
point George Peter to a vacancy in
the county treaSurer's Office left by
the recent death of Carter Clagett
OF Rockville. He was formerly in,
the Farmers Banking & Trust Co..
and Montgomery County National
Bank in Rockville and is now with,
the Maryland State Roads Commits,
sion office at Gaithersburg.
Some May Be Surprised.
Both the Messrs Peter and Mr..
Boulc have belonged to the anti
organization faction of the party for
many years. the latter and Vinson
Peter among the most active. Mr..
Boulc admitted that some of his
friends might be surprised, but
added:
If you can't lick EN-, Join 'em,
I've oeen hghtlng the organization
for more than 20 years. r
Seriously, though, I believe the
organizations policy of using the
increased county revenues for lioui--
dating Indebtedness and getting on
pay-aS-you-go basis is sound and
that we are getting as good govern
ment as possible in the county to-
day.
District Groups Reorganized.
The Caucus Committee also re-
organized the county district groups
INTO smaller units to conduct inten-
slVe drives during the next two
months to have new residents de-
clare their intentions on the coun-7
ty records. Persons who declare
their intentions a year before the
general election in November, 1912.
are eligible to vote in the primaries
IN September of that year, Mr.,
Hampton explained.
i sTRe creation of new voting pre-
4 dncts to bring the number of voters
down to the State requirement of
y about 800 to a precinct was urged
the committee in a resolution.
Some of the precincts in Bethesda
and Silver Spring have as many as
1900 voters registered.
The special committees were set
up to take charge of new voters in
the suburban area: Western district.
DR.. Benjamin c. Perry and Mr..
Hampton, Bethesda; Joseph A. Can.
trel and j. Curtis Walker, Chevy
Chase; Royal H. Carlock, Glen Echo:
Cabin John and Brookmont. and
Albert H. Walker. Massachusetts
avenue extended; eastern district,
F. Byrne Austin and Joseph B,
Simpson. jr., Takoma Park; Julius
P. Stadler and Mr.. Lee. Silver
Spring; Richard F. Green, Kensing.
ton, and Lacy Shaw. Colesville. :
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Roland P. Cheyney Rites
To Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services will be held to-
morrow for Roland P. Cheyney, 80,
senior physical science aide at the
Bureau of Standards, who was found
shot to death on the grave of his
stepnother in the Columbia Gar
dens Cemetery yesterday. Services
will be at 2:30 pm. in the Ives fu-
neral home, 2847 Wilson boulevard.
Arlington, and burial in the family
plot at Columbia Gardens Cemetery.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Barbara Smith Cheyney; his father,
A. r. Cheyney; a sister, Miss F..
Leonell Cheyney, and three brothers.
the Rev. Harold E. Cheyney, who
lives in New Jersey, and william J..
and Jesse S. Cheyney of Arlington.
His home was at $3.50 North Pershing
drive.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Congress Requested
To Divert 100000
To Suit|and Project
Switch of U. S. Funds
Hinges on Arlington
Getting War Building

If the proposed $35,0OO,0O0 War
Department building is erected in
Arlington, Va, w. E. Reynolds,
Public Buildings Administration
commissioner, has asked Congress
for authority to divert 5000 900 of
funds originally appropriated for
temporary Office buildings to Suit
land, Md, where the Government
is acquiring 430 acres for permanent
Offices.
Mr.. Reynolds, it was learned to-
day, has told Congress he feels allo-
cation of the money is necessary
because p. B. A. has not been able
to get construction bids on the
building for the Suitland site low
enough to fit the appropriation for
that work.
A great part of the $4,000, 900
Suitland appropriation. he .ex-
planned, is being used to buy the
necessary land. The lowest bid he
has been able to get from a con-
tractor for construction of a perma-
LlcllG OlllCC builuulS OllCl e Id SZ.JOO,.
600. This, he pointed out, is about
$500 900 more than he will have left
after purchasing the 430 acres.
He has told Congress he now has
81 900 900, originally earmarked for
temporary buildings, explaining
that a War Department building in
Arlington for 10000 employees would
obviate the necessity for these
temporary structures. He also has
told the legislators that the War
building is planned for the same
site on which his agency was going
to put up three temporary Offices,
the cost of which would be very
close to the 100000 he has asked
to be allowed to divert.
Though no specific agency has
been assigned to the Suitland build
ing proposed, officials explained the
structure would be made available
for agencies now expanding beyond
their present housing facilities. The
building will be known as General
Federal Once Building No. 8 and
be similar in design to the tempo
rary buildings for Arlington County,
it was said.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Rites for Fire Victims
Are Attended by 200

More than 200 neighbors and
friends of the Seek family attended
the funeral services yesterday for
Alice May Seek, 5, and her sister.
Katherine Irene, 4, who were burned
to death Monday in a wooden bin
filled with old paper in the rear of
their home, at lilo Flower avenue,
Takoma Park, Md, while looking for
their pet kitten.
Bringing messages of sympathy to
the parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Seek,
were county officials and civic lead.
ers of Takoma Park and Silver
Spring. Mr. Seek is an employe of
the county road department.
The Rev. Richard A. Barrow. pas.
tor of Our Lady of Sorrows Church,
ofticiated at the ceremony in the
Warner E. Pumphrey funeral home
in Silver Spring. The sisters were
buried in a single coffin in st. Johns
Catholic Cemetery at Forest Glen.
Montgomery County police at Sill
yer Spring announced that a fund
being collected for the family by
Police and Fire Departments and
businessmen in the Metropolitan
Area had reached about S400.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Takoma Park Grocer
Held on Charge Of
zoning Violation
Arrested After Complaint:
Thut Establishment
Attracted Ruts

The second alleged zoning viola
ton to be carried to the courts
since F. Byrne Austin was appointed
Zoning administrator for the Mary
land National Capital Park and
Planning Commission in Mont
gomer County, was announced to-
day.
Mr.. Austin sWore out warrant
charging Arthur L. Caring with
operating a business in a residential
B zone situated in the rear Of 405
Flower avenue and in the rear of
408 Greenwood avenue, Takoma
Park. The warrant charged Mr..
Caring with maintaining market
and grocery business there in viola
ton of the county zoning ordinance.
Released on $3.50 Bond.
Mr.. CARING was arrested by coun-
ty police and was released under
$3.50 bond for hearing before Trial
Magistrate Ralph G. Shure in Silver
Spring Tuesday.
Mr.. Austin said the entire COM
munity complained that the busi-
ness has attracted a large number
of rats and that offensive odors come
from The establishment. .4~gs,
Meanwhile, the first case taken
to the courts since Mr.. Austin's
appointment was continued from
yesterday until September 10. In
this case Town Marshall J. E.
Cooperider of Kensington, swore
out warrant charging Orrice l..
Murdoch and Michael A. Anselmo
trading as the Kensington Realty
Co., with violating zoning regula-
tions by operating real estate busi-
ness in a residential A zone.
Hearing Set September Is.
The case was set to be heard yes
terday before Judge James C..
Christopher in Bethesda, but was
continued because of pending petit
tion before the County Commits
sioners to re-Zone the tract from
residential A to commercial D. The
tract involved is situated on Con-
necticut avenue at the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad overpass in Ken
sington.
The re-zoning petition will be
given public hearing by the Coun-
ty Commissioners at 4:30 pm. Sep
tember 18 in Silver Spring. De-
fense Attorney James H. Pugh asked
for the continuance of the hearing
from yesterday, calling attention to
the fact that the petition to re-zone
the property was filed five days
prior to the date the warrant was
sworn out by Mr.. Cooperider. The
property is occupied by real estate
Office which has the outward ap-
pearance of a bungalow, Mr.. Pugh
said.
Evening star., 1941-08-14

on the Virginia side to cross
those four narrow ribbons, or
should all of the workers in
Washington and Maryland be
bottlenecked into those narrow
passages twice each day?
The bridge problem of connect
ing Virginia and the District is
already acute. Why should Con-.
gresS approve a proposal which
would aggravate an already crit
ical situation?
After looking at the map above
and usually interpreting the size
of the circles in terms of thou
sands OF War Department en-
ployes one can easily understand
why Washington planners are
amazed that the plan to locate
the building across the river
should have ever been fostered.
More exact figures on the resi-
dence areas of War Department
employees were furnished the
Senate Subcommittee on Appro-
priations recently by the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission. From a traffic survey
made in the fall of 1889 by the
commission and the director of
vehicles and traffic it was learned
74.8 per cent of War Department
employees lived in Washington
and an additional lit per cent
lived in Metropolitan Maryland.
That is, 1854 per cent of War
Department employees lived in
Washington and Metropolitan
Maryland compared with only
l2.5 per cent who lived in Vir-
glnla. The other IL per cent
lived in outlying sections.
Park and Planning Commission
officials say this same ratio exists
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Architects Chapter
Opposes War Building
On Arlington Site
Senate Subcommittee
Asked to Give Plan
More Consideration

The Washington Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects has
added its voice to the groups oppos-
ing location of the new S35, 900 900
War Department building on the old
experimental farm in Arlington
County, it was learned today.
Their reasons were made known in
letter to the Senate Subcommittee
on Deficiency Appropriations, which
on Tuesday reported favorably the
supplemental military appropriation
bill containing the War Department
item.
The letter, signed by Leon Chate-
lain, jr., president of the local unit
of architects, said:
This chapter, in the past, has
made searching studies into the
planning problems developing from
the ever-increasing concentration of
people, buildings and traffic in the
Metropolitan Area of the Nations
Capital. Experience shows that So
called temporary structures, erected
for the duration of an emergency,
carry their essential planning COM
promises far into the future, with
telling effect upon the welfare of the
general interests. Now such compro-
misses appear to be considered for a
permanent structure of such magni-
tude as to house twice as many
people as are contained in the entire
Federal Triangle.
I'VE find the following specific OBJ
jectionS to<the proposed project:
Il. The location of this building
would of necessity congest the al
ready overburdened traffic arteries
to and in nearby Virginia.
q. The character of the ensuing
traffic stream, with its service trucks
and buses would prevent access to
the Mall Monuments, existing Fed
eral Triangle buildings, and compro-
mise the park atmosphere of the
Mall as well as the approach to
Arlington Cemetery, thereby vitiat-
ing 20 years of work by the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission.
"3. Construction of necessary
bridges and highways to make this
site accessible would entail expendi-
lures of sums of money far in excess
of those required to purchase a more
suitable site.
a. Careful studies by the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission of a convenient and acces-
sible site in the Northwest Rectangle
have been abandoned without cause.
This is the site also approved by
Maj. Gilmore Clark, chairman of
the Commission of Fine Arts.
! With the above objections in
mind, the Washington, D. c., Chap
ter of the American Institute of
Architects, through its Executive
Committee, urges the Senate SUBJ
Committee Of Deficiency Appropria-
tions give further consideration to
the placing Of the proposed War
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Seal Sole Chairman
Named in Fuirfox
Special Dispatch to The Star.


FAIRFAX, Va, Aug. 14.-James
E. Bauserman, chairman of the
Fairfax County tuberculosis As
sociation, announced that Mrs.
Stanley p. Stewart of Vienna,
former president of the County
Federation of School and Civic
Associations and Parent-Teacher
Associations, has been named chair
man for the 1941 seal sale.
Mr.. Bauserman said proceeds
from the 1910 sale under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Hunter of Mclean,
totaled $1,827.33.
The local association has spent
$275.95 on X-rays, and 1884 for
sanitorium board this year. Three
white and two colored patients are
now being boarded in a sanitorium.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
CnsfieId Rallies
As Vigiontes
Nail ProwIer
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
CRISFIELD, Md, Aug. 14.-Citi-
zens here are calmer since town au-
thorities have fixed identity of a
"Peeping Tom" who has terrorized
the community.
The situation was so bad that
women hesitated to go out at night
Special deputies were sworn in to
capture a vague figure seen and
heard at windows during hours of
darkness.
Local police and a force of volun-
teer citizens armed with revolvers
and sticks solved the mystery when
an urgent call for help came in. The
intrepid party surrounded an object
moving in the gloom.
1t was a cow-with a fondness for
eating flowers from window boxes.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Town to Codify Lows

Mayor Floyd B. Matthias of Mount
Rainier, Md. has appointed a COM
mittee for the codification of the
towns ordinances A volume of the
laws will be printed when they are
codifled. AS the ordinances now
stand, Implications are often found
Members of the committee are John
Dressed, Miss Mildred Gohwen and
Miss Bernadine Unit.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Maryland Auto Gain
5O,31O in Lost Year

81 the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Aug. 14-Mary-
land had 496,254 automobiles and
trucks registered on July 81, the
fiscal year end, an increase of So
310 over July 81, 1910, Auditor Owen
r. E. McGeeney reported yester-
day to Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles w. Lee Elgin.
Revenues of the commissioners
Office were s7,352,817 as of July 81
or s1,332,986 more than last year.
There were 248,062 automobile
sales in 10 months of this fiscal
year. compared with 187,549 sales
in the corresponding period last
year.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Arlington, Alexandra
Recreation Centers
For Troops Opened
Dedicutory Programs
Held; Army Officers
Inspect New Clubs

Arlington and Alexandria for
mally opened two recreation CEN
ters for men in the armed forces
yesterday as officers from nearby
Army posts. city and county Off
cials and representatives of local
and Northern Virginia Defense
Councils joined in dedicatory pro-
grams.
County Manager Frank C. Han
rahan of Arlington gave the address
of welcome yesterday afternoon in
the Clarendon Methodist Church.
Fifth and North Irving streets, to
start the program in Arlington.
Mrs. Laura .. Boldin, chairman
of the County Recreation Commit
tee, presided at luncheon after
wards
Church Lends Building.
The group, consisting of officers
from the Arlington Cantonment
and the Washington Recreational
Center as well as officials of the
local Entertainment Committee of
the Defense Council. inspected the
center. located in the old Claren-
don Methodist Church at Tenth
and North Irving streets The
church has been converted into a
model soldiers club through the
efforts of the committee and the
church, which lent the building
rent free Mrs. Pearle Sharpe was
in charge Of arrangements for the
program.
Although Alexandria Defense
Council leaders threw open the
doors of the City Armory, now con-
verted into a service mems club.
yesterday, the formal opening was
held last night.
More than $4,000 was spent to
improve the armopy in the past
six weeks. Prior to the program of
entertainment, Brig. Gen. E. H.
Marks, commandant of Fort Bel
voir, and Mayor William T. Wilkins
of Alexandria took part in dedica-
tory ceremonies.
Meador to Direct Program.
The recreation program at the
club will be directed by M. Cecil
Meador of Roanoke, Va, an expert
on Y. M. c. A. activities, who has
been in Alexandria for the past
two weeks to assist local defense
units in preparing for the opening
The club will be open daily from
9 am. to II pm, except Mondays,
when the Alexandria unit of the
Virginia Protective Force drills
from 6 pm. to II pm.
Included in the building are q
large central social room, COM
pletely furnished and equipped with
music box and piano; reading and
writing rooms, a CAMERON, a can
teen and shower and lavatory IA
cilities. Dances will probably be
held twice a week with about 100
young women already signed as
volunteer hosteSSeS.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
CornivoI Opens Tomorrow

ROCKVILLE, Md, Aug. IA (Spe-
ciaD The ninth annual carnival of
the Rockville Volunteer Fire De-
partment will open at the old fair
grounds here tomorrow. w. Valen-
tine Wilson is head of the Commit
tee on Arrangements. The event
Is one of the departments principal
sources Of income. It will close
August 23.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Funeral Services Held
For Boy Who Drowned
ipecial Dispatch tn The Star

SpcNAd' DAopdLSh 70 Lie oLdT.
DAWSONVILLE, Md, Aug. IA
The funeral of Rodney o. Costello,
jr., 17-year- -old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rodney o. Costello living near
Jacksonville, who drowned in the
Potomac River, near Seneca, Sum-
day afternoon, took place yester-
day at the home. Services were
conducted by the Rev. Claude A.
Brubaker, pastor of Mount Zion
Baptist Church, near Bethesda, and
burial was in Forest Oak Cemetery,
Gaithersburg.
Besides his parents, the youth is
survived by two sisters and a
brother. He was a Gaithersburg
High School student and an athlete,
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Carnival Is Reudy

ROCKVILLE. Md, Aug. IA (Spe-
ciaD Everything is in readiness
for the ninth annual carnival of the
Rockville Volunteer Fire Depart
ment, which begins at the old fair
grounds here tomorrow evening to
continue nightly, except Saturday,
through August 23 w. Valentine
Wilson, chief of the department,
heads the Arrangements Committee.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Accepts Appointment

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. IA P).-
DR.. Isaiah Bowman. president Of
the Johns Hopkins University, has
accepted appointment to the Mary
land Board of Natural Resources,
Gov. O'Conor said yesterday. The
board will work for the co-ordina-
ton of the States conservation
agencies.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Attorney Found Dead

BALTIMORE, Aug. IA tP.-Boyd
G. Chatham, 38, son of City Con-
troller R. Walter Graham, was found
dead at his home yesterday. DR..
Manfred S. Guttmacher said death
apparently was due to a cerebral
hemorrhage Mr.. Graham was q
member of the law firm of Marbury.
Gosnell & Williams.
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Democrats Pick Wright

WINCHESTER, Va, Aug. IA (Spe-
ciaD Young Democrats of Win
chester and Frederick Counties have
indicated Richard S. Wright, jr, of
Strasburg as their preference for
State chairman, ..
Evening star., 1941-08-14

Department building in relation to
it's effect on the plan of the Metro
politan area. Special attention
should be given to the Northwest
Rectangle site selected by the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission, if the emergency 70.
quires the Subcommittee to make
an immediate choice"
Evening star., 1941-08-14
Quontico Pilot Escapes
Death in Crosh Lundinq
Special Dispatch to The Star.

QUANTICO, Va, Aug. 14-Staff
Sergt. Pharon C. Cooke, Marine
Corps pilot, narrowly escaped death
yesterday when he pancaked his dis
abled plane into the Potomac.
When his landing gear failed, the
marine flew in large circles to ex-
haust his fuel, while crash boats
and an ambulance stood by. Sergt
Cooke jumped just as his plane
struck the water and was fished out
uninjured.
Evening star., 1941-08-14

In August, Beware OF:
/. Crossing a street at some
point other than a crosswalk.
Three of the five pedestrians
killed in traffic in August, 1910.
were fatally injured while COM
mitting this unsafe act.
2. The hours between 5 and
. pm. Four persons met death
within this four-hour period
in August last year.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
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Evening star., 1941-09-14

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any meal-makes SOUP salad and cheese taste much
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