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Evening star., 1941-02-23
State CounciID. of 4
Schedules Special
Meeting March, 5
New Members initiated
Into Several Units;
Calendar Is Given

The State Council. Daughters of
America. will hold a special meet
ing March at Northeast Masonic
Temple to make arrangements for
a class initiation and rally night
in April. The drill teams from each
of the 27 councils will participate in
the program:
At recent meeting of Anaeos-
tia Council new members were ini-
tiated for Loyalty Council. Barbara
Frietchie Council and Mayfower
Council. Refreshments were served
At the last meeting Of Esther
Council a tribute was paid to Abra-
ham Lincoln in a reading by Mrs
Mary Walker. The newly installed
officers are Mrs. Nellie Kelley. 18-
month trustee; Mrs. Gladys Phillips,
assistant recording secretary; Mrs
Viola Henley and Mrs. Catherine
Skinner. flag bearers.
Golden Rule Council is planning
a membership drive in honor of Ma
tional Deputy Mrs. Ollie Montgom-
cry The 49th wedding anniversary
If Mrs. Amo Brown was celebrated.
Activities are:
Tomorrow-State deputies meet
ing, pm; Old Glory Council and
Independent Council. all at North
east Masonic Temple.
Tuesday-Fidelity Council, 8O8
street NV; Martha cambridge
Council, Northeast Masonic Temple;
Kenilworth Council. Community
Hall; Unity Council. 24O7 Mime
sofa avenue NV.
Wednesday - Loyalty Council
Northeast Masonic Temple; Anacos-
tia Council. Masonic Temple. Four
teenth and U streets Sc: Virginia
Dare Council, 8O8 I street NV;
Esther Council, Wisconsin avenue
and Window place NV.
Thursday - Brookland Council
1901 Twelfth street NE; Goodwill
Council. 808 I street NV; Progress
sive Council. 419 Seventh street NE;
Triumph Council and Pride of Wash
ington Council, both at Northeast
Masonic Temple
Friday-Mizpah Council, Friend
ship Hall, Twentieth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV; Friend
ship Council, 808 I street NV;
Golden Rule Council, Northeast Ma
sonic Temple.
March 5-Betsy Ross Council visi-
tation, Northeast Masonic Temple.
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Rainbow Division Veterans

According to National Honorary
President Elmer Francis Neagle, Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter, informa-
ton has been received that Gen.
Henri Gouraud, who in 1918 COM
manded with distinction the 4th
French Army of which the 42d
Rainbow Division, A. E. F., was a
part, is now residing at Avegne,
France.
Gen. Gouraud is one of the two
permanent honorary presidents of
the Rainbow Division Veterans, ma
tional organization, the other be-
ing Lt.-Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
U. S. A., its former commanding
general, now serving as the Military
Advisor. Commonwealth of the
Philippine Islands.
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Knights to St. John
Ladies' Auxiliary

Mrs. Isabelle Gilroy was elected
to direct the Holy Name Junior
Auxiliary, who will meet perma-
nently in the Holy Name School
Hall on the first Fridays of each
month. New officers: President,
Joan Long: past president, Mar
garet Panzer; first vice president,
Mary Gilroy; second vice president,
Frances Gilroy; recording secre-
tary, Julia ODonovan; messenger,
Lois Davis: sentinel, Geraldine RoS-
sitter; guard, Eleanor Gilroy.
The following have been elected
to membership: Joane King, Leona
Ouigley, Shirley Nelson, Julia
ODonovan. Helen Dodsen, Jean
King, Rosemary Messink, Elizabeth
johnson, Clara O'Connor, Elizabeth
McAllister. Helen McAllister, Theresa
Stirling and Patricia Meighan.
The Holy Name Senior Auxiliary
held a card and patsy party for the
benefit of the good of the order on
Thursday at the home of President
Mrs. Emma Panzer. with Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Linthicum making the ar
yangements.
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treeIand Will Install
Mckinley Camp Officers

Past Department Commander
James B. Freeland. Sons ofVeterans
of the Spanish-American War Or
ganization Committee. plans install
lation of officers of the President
William Mckinley Camp. in March.
President Pauline 4 Thompson.
department auxiliary; the Daughters
O. 9G; dc'e2ations from all local
camr7 and auXiliaries. and from
Plil9Celphia. Baltimore and Alex
andria Will participate.
Meetings this week are: Tuesday,
Col. James L. Petit Camp at de-
partment headquarters, buffet lunch.
Friday, Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp
and Miles Auxiliary at Pythian
Temple. Georke w. Puff's Victorian
Qusrtette Will sing patriotic airs.
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Meetings This Week.
Monday: Tank Corps Post,
1015 L street NV; Internal

Monday: rank corps POST,
1015 L street NV; Internal
Revenue Post, the Hayloft.
Tuesday: James Reese Eu-
rope Post, Fifteenth and Q
streets NV; National Cathe-
dral Post, Reno-ESther Hall,
Wisconsin avenue and Window
place NV; Washington Gas
Light Post, card party, All
Tenth street NV.
Wednesday: Kenneth H. Nash
Post, 209 Pennsylvania avenue
Sc; Henry c. Spengler Post,
1926 Massachusetts, avenue
NV.
Thursday: Department Ex-
ecutive Committee, District
Building, 8 pm; James E.
Walker Post, 1916 Twelfth
street NV.
Friday: Stephen P. Nc
Groarty Post, blood and serum
bank benefit party, Knights Of
Columbus Club, Clarendon,
Va; Sergt. Jasper Post, blood
and serum bank party, 14O7
Webster street NV; G. P. o.
Post, movie for blood and Sc
rum bank, Harding Hall.
Saturday: I'd Division Post,
dance. New Colonial; Washing
ton Police and Fire Post, card
party for blood and serum bank
at Odd Fellows Hall: Bunker
Hill Post, card party for blood
and serum bank, 807 Monroe
street NE.
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so District Officers
Are Named on 0. R. T..
Examining Board
Col. Lester D. Baker,
Executive Officer of
District, Is President

Approximately 50 officers of the
District of Columbia have been de-
tailed to serve on a new board here
to examine those appearing before
the board to determine their fitness
for appointment in the Officers
Reserve Corps, and to conduct the
practical test Of such local reserve
officers to determine their fitness
for certificate Of capacity for
promotion. The president of the
board is Col. Lest D R7Ee-
eXecrtlve officer Of the Washing
ton Military Disly.c, The other
members, all reserve officers. include
Col. jess B. Eennctt, 1t. Col. Harry
Slaughter, Maj. Raymond W. Short,
Ma. Roswell r. Boyer Capt, John
w. Faines, Capt, Robert w. Castle
and First Ii. Alfred S. DeAgro.
The Board of Officers, appointed
to meet nere on December II. 1889,
has been dissolved; and all unfln-
ished business before that board
has been turned over to the new
beard.
The following District reserve
officers have been detailed as addi-
tional officers of the board, and
they are, with their branch of serv-
ice indicated as fellows:
Infantry-Col. Paul B. Parker,
1t. Col. Albert L. Barrow, Maj.
Edmund w. NJ. Malczewski and
Capt. Clifford L. Johnson. Field Ar
tincry-Lt. Col. Edwin s. Bettcl-
helm COas. Artillery-Col. James
B. Bentley and Capt. Joseph H.
Church. Air Corps-Lt Col. Roy
E. Withheld ana Capt. Brintnall
+. Merchant. CavaIry-L-. 81.
Earo.d H Jacobs and Capt. Walter
E. Gleason. Corps of Engineer
Col. Harrison Brand, jr; 1t. Col
Luther 7. Maddox. Maj. Henry S.
Sec, Maj. Norman c. Seewal,. Cept.
Gordon Y. Durr. Capt. George A.
Johnston and Capt. Walter Pinkus.
Chemical Warfare Seryicc-Col. H2r-
rison E. Howe. Maj. Hcrrold E
Brooks. Maj, George F. Wohlge-
muth, Capt Arthur W. CrosS.ey and
Capt William G. Wiles.
Signal Corps-Lt, Col. Willis R.
Lansford, 1t. Col. Edwin L. White,
Mai. George H. Foster, Maj. Leslie
A. NickersOn and Capt. Robert E.
Needs. Finance department-Lt.
Col John E. Heathcote, Maj. Lewis
6. Friedman. Capt. Cloyd T. Cald-
we'll, Capt William E. johnson and
Capt. Kenneth T. Wright.
Adjutant generals department.
Il. Col. Augustus S. Goodyear and
Capt. Carroll Gray. Judge advocate
generals Departmental. Col, He
her H. Rice, Maj, James F, Hanley,
Mai. Walter H. E. Jaeger and Capt.
Ebert M. Barron. Military intelli-
gence Departmental. Col. Joseph
D. Stout, Capt. Gustave A. Ring.
Capt. Joseph G. Mayton and Capt.
Harry L. Smith.
Ordnance departmental. Col.
Raymond c. Eliason, 1t. Col Sam
uel G. Green and Capt. Ephraim j.
Almquist.
Quartermaster Corps-Col. Frank
C. Starr, 1t Col Thomas j. Frailey,
1t. Col. Frederick j. Ritter, Capt.
Raymond C. Goodhart, Capt. David
E. McRae and Capt. Jean K Stacy.
Specialist-Col. Edward G. Bliss
and 1t. Col. Earle P. Doyle.
Corps of Chaplains-Lt. Col. How
ard E. Snyder. Maj. Howard S. Will
kinSon and Capt. Carl Stanley.
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Naval Reserve
Officers May Enter
Regular Service
Only Two Groups
Eligible Now
For Transfer

Graduates of the Naval Reserve
officers Training Corps and naval
aviation cadets, for the present, will
be the only officers who will be given
an opportunity for entering the reg
ular service, according to officials Of
the Navy Department. Others, who
are being taken in from civil life
and who have been members of the
Reserve for years, it was indicated,
will have to wait until Congress
makes some provision for their
transfer if conditions develop to
make it necessary for the country
to continue to maintain and operate
a large feet, such as now is being
built.
1t was pointed out that the Naval
Reserve officers Training Corps
men are those who during the regu-
lar courses at colleges took a special
naval course under instructors as
signed by the Navy Department.
Upon receiving their degrees, they
also receive commissions as Naval
Reserve ensigns. 1t is expected that
a large number of the younger off,
GERS will be taken from the new
forced draft" classes which are be-
ing instructed at the three schools
maintained by the Navy. They en-
tered the service as Seamen last
summer and made a 30-day cruise.
They now are attending the special
schools which will result in their
becoming ensigns in the Naval Re-
ceSsfully.
However. in the first group of this
class it was explained the require
ments were only that the candidates
have at least two years Of college
credits. It has been found how
ever, that a good number Of these
men did not have sufficient mathe-
mates to master the Navy'S celestial
navigation course. and it was indi-
Gated that for the classes which will
be sought for Cruis nc next summer
probably will have to have a college
degree and also must show that
ttov have had considerable mathe-
ma-ical work in the college courses
which they selected
It was reported many of the Naval
Reserve officers who have been
called to active duty direct from
civil life without any Of the back
ground OF N R. o. T. c. training
have indicated some interest IN be-
ing permitted to remain in the naval
establishment However. regular
officers indicated that action on
these cases depends entirely on
legislation, and the latter depends,
of course, on the world conditions.
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Forty and Eight

A card party, under the joint
sponsorship of Grande Voiture No.
TIA and the local salon of the Eight
and Forty, will be held March
at the Veterans Club, 1925 K street
NV. 1t is for the benefit of the
blood bank of the Children's Hos
pital. Tickets, including refresh
ments, will be 81.
A delegation of local Voyageurs
will go to Hagerstown, Md, on Feb
ruary % to participate in a wreck"
being held by the Maryland Vol
ture Voyageur Hal O'Brien is ar
ranging for bus transportation.
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Thompson were admitted to mem
bership.

Thompson were admitted to mem
bership.
Special Agent H. B. Juden, Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, Will
address James E. Walker Post on
February 27 at the Twelfth Street
Branch, Y. M. G. A.
The post held party on Satur-
day, the proceeds to be donated to
the Children'S Hospital Blood Bank.
Col. West A. Hamilton, past COM
mander and member of the Board Of
Education, will be rendered testi-
monial banquet by the post on Feb
ruary % at the Whitelaw Hotel. Col.
Hamilton will leave on March 4 for
Camp Devons. Mass. where he will
have command of the 366th Infan-
try.
Department of Labor Post will
hold its midwinter ball at the
Mayhower H1el tomorrow evening
Procure tickets at the door, or
contact the chairman Robert L.
Duvan. FIR. 2977, for reservations.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
National Association
OF Regulars

Past Department Comdr. Charles
Fritsch of the District Of COLUMBIA
Department. Disabled American
Veterans. was the principal speak
er at the social meeting Of National
Defense Post Monday in the Sol
diers. Sailors and Marines Club.
Comdr John Arthur Shaw an
nounced this meeting would be the
last to be held in this club, at least
until after the present emergency,
during which the club will be used
to take care Of men now in the serv-
icp
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Jr. 0. U. A. M. News

Council meetings this week are
Monday, Anacostia, 7:3O pm. CVisi.
tation); Wednesday, Benning
Thursday, Edward J. Ross; Friday
Star Spangled Banner, and Satur-
day, Liberty Bell
Visitation for Group No 2, Mon
day, 8 pm; Anacostia, Benning
Washington and Independent. a
2407 Minnesota avenue Sc.
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Regular Veterans
Associction

At a meeting Of the Gen. Nalin
Craig Post on February II at 1903
Fourteenth street NV. tentative
pans for the establishment Of a
home defense guard was made sub
ject to reorgo onization when def
mite plans are made by tce District
Commissioners Walter Rockwell,
Michael 2,esce. Evans Thompson.
Albert Ewers end Paul Black were
initiated in a ceremony led by
Ccmdr. Walter Boehm.
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Local Guard Inougurotes
Gigantic improvement Program
Rifle Range at Congress Heights. D. c.,
To Get Much New Construction

months. Plans also are being made
to set up an elaborate motor shop.
Alexander Thill, former sergeant
in the guard, has been appointed
as superintendent of the range, and
will largely supervise the new prof.
ects under the direction of Maj. Just
c. Jensen. ordnance officer.
The local headquarters is con-
cerneo with getting another out
fit, the Headquarters Company of
the 372d Infantry, ready for field
service Word mas heen received
from the War Department that this
organization will be modified on
March TO-
This organization, although desig-
mated as a motor rifle regiment,
does not have any automotive
equipment. At least, the unit Of
it, stationed here, is without such
equipment. although it was said to
be probable that the equipment will
be III the field wnen it gets there.
1t is commanded by Capt. Sylvester
BLACKWELL.
In the absence of its regular au-
tomotive equipment. it was indi-
Gated that this organiZa lion would
be sent to Fort Dix by train.
Washington still has another out =
fit in the making, the 121st Obser-
vation Squadron, an aeroplane or
ganization While its personnel has
been obtained, it was said that as
yet ro word has been received from
The War Department to muster il
for Federal recognition.
officers at the local headquarters
were of the opinion that it would
be o'oered for muster just as soor
as some definite steps were made
in the direction of constructing {
hangar for the organization on tht
Department of Agriculture proper.
w at BeltsVille, Md
Evening star., 1941-02-23

Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Post met February IA. The candi-
dacy of Haywood Saunders for de-
partment commander was indorsed.
Comdr. Ernest Dwyer presided. A
donation of $40 was made for the
Police Boys Club.
Evening star., 1941-02-23

A meeting of the department EX-
ecutive Committee will be held at
8 pm, February q, in the District
Building.
The next objective is February q
when it is hoped all membership
cards on hand in the posts will be
transmitted to department head
quarters. Housing accommodations
at the Milwaukee convention are
determined by the membership as
of March l.
Evening star., 1941-02-23

Internal Revenue Post will meet
February "a at 1926 Massachusetts
avenue NV. with Comdr Russell
S. Jeffreys presiding, Every men,
Der is asked to bring a prospective
member. There will be a gift to
every one There will also be en-
tertainment and refreshments.
Evening star., 1941-06-18
Suburban Zonino

In response to public demand, Off
cials of Washington's suburban coun-
ties are finding it necessary to use a
maximum of foresight in dealing
with zoning and building problems.
In every county surrounding the Dis
trict of Columbia moves are under
way to curb developments which may
prove harmful.
Probably the most drastic action
has been taken in Montgomery
County, Maryland, where the county
commissioners have declared mora
torium on the establishment of new
zoning areas pending the development
of master plan for the suburban
area in cooperation with a nation
ally known city planning authority.
While this step undoubtedly was
necessary for the public good, the
moratorium, if too prolonged, could
cause hardships to individuals there
by prevented from developing their
property. Indications are that fully
normal zoning operations will be
resumed in the fall.
In Prince Georges County, where
the zoning problem Is similar to that
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Member of the Associated Press.
Crime ChuIIenqe

The brutal Staying of Miss Jessie
Elizabeth Strieff, War Department
stenographer, brings to three the
number of murders which have oc-
Cured in the same general area
during a period of little more than
three months. On March 8 Mrs.
Rose Abramowitz, young bride, was
strangled to death in her apartment
at 1900 Sixteenth street. On May 6
DR.. Heinrich Simon, German refugee,
was bludgeoned fatally near his home
at 1916 New Hampshire avenue.
These crimes remain unsolved, like
q number of other murder mysteries
dating back to the notorious Mary
Baker case.
The task Of the police in attempt
ing to solve murders in which-as
was the case in these recent Slay-
tngs-the clues are meager is not an
easy one. But a community out
ragged by a succession of unsolved
homicides and fearful of further
criminal outbreaks is apt to grow
impatient with law enforcement au-
thorities over delays in bringing
the guilty to justice. The public
Judges the efficiency of a police
department by its record in solving
crimes and arresting the perpetra-
tors, and repeated failures in this
field will inevitably result in public
demand for replacement of those in
authority. The murder of Miss
Strieff is challenge to the Metro
politan Police Force that calls for
the exercise of it's every facility and
all of its ingenuity. The shocked
citizens of Washington will not be
content until they are certain that
the investigation of this case has
exhausted every resource Of the
police force and of any other law
enforcement agency whose services
may be available.
Evening star., 1941-06-18
A Better Bill

The plant seizure legislation unani-
mouSly approved by the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee has been
improved in several important re-
spects since leaving the Senate.
In its present form the legislation
still gives the President broad powers
to deal with defense strikes, but the
House committee has made a careful
effort to facilitate the use of these
powers against the real obstruction
iSts-subversive or irresponsible ele-
ments in the ranks of either labor
or employerS-and to erect maximum
safeguards against any injury to
innocent parties.
AS it passed the Senate, the legis-
lation authorized the Government to
seize strike-bound defense plants
whenever mediation failed. The
House group, feeling that this was
too drastic and that it failed to reach
the real root of the trouble, adopted
a modification providing that the
President, in event of a strike, may
order resumption of production and
that he may take over and police"
any plant in which such an order is
not obeyed
This, as Chairman May pointed
out, meets objections which have
been raised to actual Government
ownership of plants, while enabling
the President to use armed forces to
protect workmen desiring to return
to their jobs. Any attempt to use
force or threats to prevent a return
to work would be treated as sabotage.
Other important House committee
provisions stipulate that workers,
even in plants which have been taken
over, continue to be employees of the
private contractor and not of the
Government, and that those who re-
fuse to work for subversive reasons
shall have no claim to back pay.
The committees version Of the
legislation makes but one provision
for actual seizure of plants-when an
employer refuses to utilize Govern
ment mediation and conciliation Of
f1cials. 1t was pointed out, however,
that this does not mean that an
employer must accept any recon-
mendationS of mediation or concilia-
ton agencies, the force of public
opinion remaining as the only in
strument of compulsion to be used
against either employers or labor.
When the legislation, in this re-
viSed form, goes to conference, there
is no doubt thatsthe conferees will
find themselves apart on several of
these provisions, but there is good
reason to believe that the efforts of
the House committee will result ulti-
mately in the enactment of improved
legislation.
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w. P. A. and Defense

The report that Federal officials
have ordered fifty per cent cut in
the Districts Work Projects Admin
istration quota seems to involve
serious injustices in at least two
respects.
At present there are some 5000
persons on the local W. P. A. rolls.
OF these, some 5000 are working on
projects which have been certified
by the War and Navy Departments
as necessary to national defense.
This, in practical effect, means that
If the fifty per cent cut becomes
effective, the 1000 to be dropped
would have to be selected from among
the 1900 white-collar and other
workers engaged on a variety of nom
defense but none-the-less important
projects. To do otherwise would re-
quire the local w. P. A. officials to
abandon the certified defense prof.
ects.
Included among the latter are
projects at Boiling Field, the new
airport, the Bureau of Standards, the
Naval Air Station, Fort Myer and
Camp Simnls. If these projects were
not completed with w. P. A. labor,
provision would have to be made for
them out of some other appropria-
ton. That being the case, it would
seem to be most unfair to continue
using relief funds for work of this
character If the result is to be the
dismissal of wholly diSproportionate
number of white-collar employees,
many of whom would be faced with
severe hardships by reason of their
inability to do manual labor-for
which there is genuine demand.
Certainly the Government ought to
be able to pay for necessary work
out Of some other fund than the
w. p. A. appropriation.
A second injustice lies in singing
the District out for a fifty per cent
cut, when the reduction for the Ma
ton as a whole is estimated at only
twenty-nine per cent. No reasons
have been advanced for this reported
discrimination against the District,
where it would work an unusual
hardship in view of the fact that
there is no provision here for direct
relief for employables, in contrast to
the situation prevailing in many
other cities.
This, on its face, is situation in
which the Commissioners would be
fully justified in lodging a vigorous
protest with national w. P. A. off,
cials, and it is to be hoped that they
will not hesitate to do so.