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Evening star., 1941-08-23
Draft Board Rejects
9 Of II Pleas for
Redistribution
Four Cuses Held Over:
Petitioners Must Stoy
In IA Category

The District Selective Service
Board of Appeals yesterday released
its findings in II deferment cases
in which nine appeals for reclas-
sification were denied and retained
in IA and four were held over for
future action.
Thomas Gaetano Ponsalle. %.
registered with Board /, asked
for shift to class IA as an en-
ploye of the Remington Arms Co..
but was turned down by 60 vote
of the board. Likewise, Samuel
Henry Root, 26, Board 3, an
assistant clerk in the Navy Depart
ment, was held in his original Glass
IA category.
Others similarly retained in Glass
Ia were: Leonard L. Fishman, %,
Board 8, clerk in the Census Bureau:
Frank James Arrotta, jr., 26, Board
10, budget clerk in Agriculture De-
partment, and Clarence Leroy
Dixon, 26, Board II, sheet metal
worker for A. j. Auth.
Sidney Hyman Levy, Is. Board IA,
Junior inspector for the Labor De-
partment, asked for Glass ga but
was retained in the first group, as
was Oscar H. Smith, jr., Is, Board
IT, statistical clerk for the Home
Owners Loan Corp; James Arthur
Deal, "a, Board 10. laborer for the
Safeway Grocery Co., and Herman
Norman Avent, %. Board "a, laborer
for Washington Gaslight Co.
Two men asked deferment to
Glass IA and were so placed: Barry
Mohun, jr., rs, Board 2, reservation
control for Eastern Air Lines, and
John William Stevens, %, Board 3,
an installer of switchboards for
Western Electric Co.
Abraham Buchalter, "a, Board 6,
an assistant clerk in the War De-
partment, and John Starke Hunter,
Is, Board IA, machinist for Emsco
Derrick & Equipment Co., were
given ga classification.
Others who asked 3-A classifica-
ton from the first class and whose
cases have been continued are
Anthony John Aloi, "a, Board 10,
joint owner of a farm; Thomas Leo
Chappelear. "a, Board Is. National
Institute of Health; Frank Thomas
Yannuci. Is, Board IA, junior clerk
for Public Roads Administration,
and John Jasper Hawse, 26, Board 20.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Duke Alumni to Hold
Breakfast Session

The District Chapter of the Duke
University Alumni Association will
meet tomorrow at 10 am. at .
breakfast session at the Mayflower
Hotel, it was announced today by
Charles s. Rhyme, president of the
association. More than 100 alumni
are expected to attend the meeting.
A committee headed by James S.
Heizer will report or the program
scheduled for the Duke-Maryland
football game on October IL. Rec
concentrations will also be made as
to the program for the annual BAN
quet on November 8, honoring DR..
r. L. Flowers, president of the uni
versity. Members of Mr.. Heizer's
committee are Miss Virginia Dueh-
ring, Mrs. Elizabeth Dew, DR.. c.
Willard Camalier, jr, and ONeal
Bryan.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Tariff No Help
To Maryland
Seofood Dealers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 23.-The Fed
eral Governments action in increas-
ing the tariff on japanese crab
meat by so per cent failed to excite
Maryland seafood interests today:
The move might have helped the
Maryland industry several years
ago, but the supply Of crabs now Is
SO depleted that tariffs have vir-
tually no effect on prices.
Edwin Warfield, jr., State con-
servation commissioner, asserted
that until Chesapeake Bays crab
supply is increased, Marylanders
will be in no position to benefit from
the order. He said the condition
added emphasis to the conserva-
ton program sponsored by the de-
partment.
Earl Dize, Crisfield seafood packer.
said present production was not
sufficient to meet the demand, al
though the season in Sinepuxent
Bay had been the best in several
years.
Other sources said that japanese
crab meat never had been serious
competitor Of the Maryland product.
The taste and flavor of the two
meats are quite different. they ST..
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Recording of London Air Raid
Makes The Wookey' Realistic
Noises Are More Than Stage Effects
To Several of Brtish-Born Cost

localize the sound. What has been
missing in realism has been COW
cred up IN descriptive dialogue.
In this play, the technicians spot
the sound where it occurs. For in
stance, when the shell comes
through the window into Mr.. Woo
keys castle" the only points from
which the sound comes are the win
dow and the floor as the shell strikes.
The sound of the alert comes from
all sides of the stage but when the
bombing starts, the sound follows
the action.
Lights Realistic, Too.
The battery of lights, too, are used
singlv instead of in gangs" as is
usually done. The lighting effects,
as when an incendiary bomb ex-
plodes, are as close to the real thing
as you can get without calling in
the fire department.
1t is with these sights and sounds
that the cast of THE Wookey" has
been rehearsing.
There's Edmund Gwenn. All that
remains of his real London home
is the old fireplace. He had lived
there 80 years, among the souvenirs,
the pictures and playbills from his
years with Sir Henry Irving and
the other great of the English
stage All that has gone
And there's Norah Howard, who
came to America during the war
and says, Ones grateful to know
they are only sounds" And Heather
Angel with a sister and little niece
in London. There is, finally, the
little Cockney who brought his bit
of pipe to America with him. His
relatives are on the London firing
line. too.
For all of them, what is happen
ing on the National stage in the
final days of rehearsal, is very real.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
United Federal Workers
To Help Conserve Gas

The United Federal Workers of
America, c. I. o. affiliate, today has
under way a program for its 500 900
membership to cooperate with the
Government drive to conserve gaso-
line. A special committee was named
yesterday to establish transports-
tion plan to curtail gasoline con-
sumption.
The union estimates there are
10000 Government employees here
and that 200 of its locals are in the
eastern seaboard area threatened
by the gasoline shortage.
Its Local II Petroleum Conserva-
ton Committee yesterday wrote
Petroleum Co-ordinator Ickes end
Maj. Beverley C. Snow, chairman
of the District Conservation Com
mittee, telling of its plans and ask
ing Mr.. Ickes for stickers to dis
tribute among the Labor Depart
ment members.
Arrangements are under way to
perfect a system whereby several
employees may 60 to and from work
in the same automobile. Labor De-
partment officials will be asked for
permission to erect booth for reg
istrations.
Evening star., 1941-08-23

A bomb crashes through the win
dow and explodes in the floor. A
woman lies dead IN the wreck OF a
Cockney home. The East End OF
London has been bombed again.
You hear separate sounds-the
scream of the alert, the whistle OF
the bomb, the rending, smashing
explosion. 1t all happens on the
stage. but to the British-born cast
of The Wookey" it is very real.
They know it is what their rela-
tives don't tell about in their letters
to America, what they mean when
they mention, very casually. "A
bomb struck near here last night.
The British Ministry of Informa-
ton and Hollywood combined to
make the stage presentations real.
In England, the sounds of the alert
and the all-clear, the drone of
planes and the noise of bombing
were recorded on sound film.
Airmailed to the West Coast. the
films were made into records. When
the play opens Monday at the Ma
tlonal Theater, a tecnnlclan Will Slt
before a great switchboard pushing
buttons. Spotted behind the stage.
at each side and above it are AZ
horns, amplifying the sounds OF
London.
Sound Spotted for Realism.
The idea behind all the machinery,
which also includes four turntables
and approximately triples the cost
of production, is realism. The tech
nicians will attempt to reproduce
the sound on the basis OF what Is
actually going on at the time.
Audiences are familiar with "off-
stage noises" Usually, you can hear
the rumble of firing in the distance,
if it is a war play, but the sound
is merely put on records and played
backstage. Little effort is made to
Evening star., 1941-08-23
D. G. Official Honored

Hugh C. Rivers, executive secre-
tary OF the Board of Pardons and
Paroles here, yesterday was elected
secretary-treasurer of the American
Parole Association at a meeting in
San Francisco. Sanford Bates, COM
missioner of the New York State
Board Of Parole, was named presi-
dent and Mrs. Edwina Mitchell.
Montgomery. Ala. was elected vice
president.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Hospital OfficioIs
To Attend Convention

Deaconess Anna E. Macdonald,
superintendent of Episcopal Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital, and Dea-
coness Margaret E. Bateman, su-
perintendent of nurses at the hos
pital, will attend the forty-third an
nual convention of the American
Hospital Association, to be held
September Is through 10 at Atlantic
City, N. j.
Matters of policy will be discussed
by more than 1000 delegates rep
resenting hospitals in the United
States and Canada, and reports will
be received from six administrative
councils and over 40 working COM
mitteeS.
The protection of hospitals
against air raids, sabotage and other
possible disasters will be reported on
by q special committee.
Evening star., 1941-08-23

the United States Fleet. At one
time he was director of Naval In
telligence. He was awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal for
World War service with the SUBJ
marine chaser base in Ireland. He
Is a native of Pennsylvania.
Rear Admiral Williams was born
in Hagerstown, Md, and was ap-
pointed to the Naval Academy in
1894 after attending Johns Hopkins
University two years. He returned
to Annapolis for postgraduate work
in engineering and also studied at
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Two Fined for Posing
Stop Sign on Bicycles

Two colored youths yesterday
were fined IS each for passing q
stop sign on their bicycles in July,
when q third rider, who police said
was their companion, was fatally
injured when his bicycle crashed
into q truck on Pomeroy road Sc.
Those fined were James A. Mar
shall, 10, and Alonzo Lacey, 81. In
imposing the fines Judge George D.
Nelson of Police Court suggested
that the two had learned lesson
as to the danger Of the violations
through the. fatal injury Of their
companion. Walter Turner, 50, col
ored, Of the 2600 block Of Siegel
place Sc. Turner died the day
after the accident.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
14FIee 10 Safety
From Firejn
Rooming House
Two Women Rescued
By Ladder; Three
Children Carried Out

picture on Page A-2.)

Flames sweeping through a ROOM
Ing house at 1725 Kilbourne place
NV. early today forced IA people
to flee in their night clothes. Fire
men rescued two women by ladder
after they were trapped on sec
ond-hoor porch, and three small
children were carried from the blaz-
ing structure.
Returning to the deserted three
story brick building after daybreak,
many of the residents found nearly
all their clothing and other possess
sions destroyed.
Terrier Rouses Mistress.
Hero of the disaster was fox
terrier, Boots, whose frantic barking
aWoke his mistress, Mrs. Joseph
Reed, and other upper-f1oor room
ers. Mrs. Reed and Mrs. Susanna
Sobel, 70, found the stairs cut of
by fire as they tried to get out.
Shouting for help from the rear
porch, they attracted attention of
firemen, who first lifted them to an
adjoining house and then carried
them down a ladder.
Almost completely destroyed by
flames was the flrst-floor apartment
of C. r. Wright, jr., restaurant
worker. Mrs. Wright an employe
at the Senate ONCE Building, woke
up coughing, and saw flames outside
her window, springing up from the
basement. She and her husband
grabbed their children, Lenna Fran
ces, 6, and Peggy, 81, and carried
them out-stooping close to the
floor to avoid the thickest smoke
Mrs. Norma Brooks, in another
first-f1oor apartment, carried out
her 6-year-old son, Mark.
Two Alarms Turned In.
Screams of the children awoke a
neighbor, Mike Bartos, 1929 Kill
bourne place, who phoned the Fire
Department. Two alarms eventually
were turned in, bringing eight
engine companies, three truck COM
panies, two fire chiefs, the rescue
squad and the chief engineer to
the scene.
Flames apparently broke out in
the basement. and some firemen said
they seemed to have centereo
around a gas meter, although the
origin of the fire could not be de-
termined Immediately. Firemer
listed the owner as Martha N
Brooks, an occupant of the building
Evening star., 1941-08-23
La Guurdiu Aide Named

Miss Eloise Dawson, director Of
the Home Institute Of the New York
Herald Tribune, yesterday was
named an assistant to Civilian De-
fense Director La Guardia. A ma
tive of Ohio, she will handle volurl-
teer activities in the civilian defense
program, including the enrolment
Of women a. air raid wardens,
nurses aides and motor corps
members.
Evening star., 1941-08-23

decided to place
more rank in
the public rela-
ms section,
had been COM
mandant of the
18th naval dis
trict, San Fran
cisco. He was
chairman of a
board appointed
in 1888 to study
the need Tor ad-
ditional national
defense bases,
and also had
been cOmman-
dor In chiof NJ
Evening star., 1941-08-23
D. c. Buyers to Roze
Hotel Rennert
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 23-The de-
funct Hotel Rennert, official State
and city headquarters of the Demo-
cratic party for more than 40 years,
Is to be razed.
The property was first sold to the
city for unpaid taxes and later was
purchased by Washington real es-
tate interests. A permit issued by
the municipal buildings engineer will
allow the owners to start demolish-
ing the building Monday.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Admira|s Hepburn
And Williams 10 Stay
On Active Duty 81
Veteran Naval Officers
To Be Retained Despite
Retirement Dotes

The Navy Department announced
today that Rear Admiral Arthur j.
Hepburn, director OF the Bureau Of
Public Relations, and Rear Admiral
Henry Williams, administrative Off
Ger in the office of the Secretary
of the Navy, would be retained on
active duty when their retirement
dates occur this fall.
Rear Admiral Hepburn, who came
Evening star., 1941-08-23

struction and Repair in 1887. Fol-
lowing that he was head of the ad-
ministration division of the Bureau
of Ships, and then was made ad-
ministrative officer in the Secre-
tary's Office.
He is president of the American
Society of Naval Engineers and a
member of other scientific societies.
He holds the Spanish Campaign
Medal, the Sampson Medal and the
Victory Medal.
Evening star., 1941-08-23

. e I v j Z e SOu-
mission, succeed
ing Joseph Sher-
bow, who re-
Gently was ele-
waited to be gen.
eral counsel of
the commission.
Mr.. Dorse y,
named to the
"a 500 a = year
post b y G ov.
O'Conor yester-
day, becomes the
second S t q t e
Senator within
recent weeks to
bo oppojptad IN
Evening star., 1941-08-23

Ecole du Genie
M a r tim e in
Paris
He W a S ap-
pointed assistant
naval construc-
tor in 1900 and
later was made
supervising con-
structor at the
Newport News
Shipbuilding Co.
He h a S b e e n
manager of sew
ehl navy yards
and was made
assistant to the
Chief of the Bu-
r
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Dorsey Named
Tokary|and
|P. 5. {. Post
New Peoples Counsel
Succeeds Sherbow,
Recently Promoted
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 23.-State SEN
ator Philip H. Dorsey, jr., st. Marys
County Democrat, is the new peo-
pies counsel to the Maryland Public
Evening star., 1941-08-23

Totals to date --45 81
In August, Beware OF:
/. Crossing q street at some
point other than . crosswalk.
Three of the five pedestrians
killed in traf1c in August, 1910.
were fatally injured while COM
mitting this unsafe act.
2. The hours between 5 and
9 pm. Four persons met death
within this four-hour period
In August last year.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Make August Safer

Toll In Previous Months.
Evening star., 1941-08-04

OF supplies. The parents we'll know
that three or four babies can con-
sumo a powerful number of small
insects.
The nest is substantial structure,
built of weed stalks, slender twigs,
grass and roots. There are also to
be seen some bits of down and wool,
well combined and methodically ar
ranged ON the upper edge of the
nest. The interior walls are lined
with feathers, horsehair, fine root
let's and, when obtainable, wool.
The eggs deposited in this carefully
built bassinet are pale pink, with
bright spots of chestnut and brown
on them.
Kingbirds court their mates and
build their homes from Southern
British Columbia, Southern Mac
kenzie, Southern Keewatin, North
ern Ontario, Central Quebec and
Newfoundland, south to Central
Oregon, Northern New Mexico. Gen.
trail Texas and Central Florida
The winters are spent in Southern
Mexico to Colombia, British Guiana
Peru, Bolivia and occasionally Cuba
The gray cousin occupies the States
in between, and the Arkansas king
bird enjoys Western North America
and is known also in New York, New
Jersey and Maryland. The three
winsome and fearless cousins are all
friends and true American cOnser-
vationists.
Evening star., 1941-08-04
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.

Here is the bird all Americans
admire when once they have made
his acquaintance. Everywhere the
kingbird is known for courage and
persistence. His gallant attacks
on the crow and hawk, much
larger neighbors, and his determi-
nation to send them about their
business, mark him as one of the
outstanding birds of this group.
The gray kingbird and the Arkan-
sas cousin also fight battles and
come out victorious. 1t is not un-
usual to see kingbird warrior In
hot pursuit of a hawk, even rid
ing on his back while he deals
dangerous blows with his bill, and
screaming wildly as the two speed
through the air. The name king
Is well-deserved, for while other
birds will and do attack these two
enemies of smaller birds, they do
not continue the fight as long as the
kingbirds.
If a neighbor shows any un-
toward act toward his brooding
mate, the kingbird does not hesi-
tate to chase the intruder, though
this is no cause for giving the
devoted husband the name of
tyrant.
We find these bird neighbors
are very industrious. Their food
consists of IS per cent insects.
most of them harmful to our prop
erty. They are fond of the rose
chafer or rosebug, and they love
blister beetles! Once in a while
kingbird will relish a honey bee,
and somehow they seem to prefer
drones to the busy nectar seeking
sisters. Robber flies are devoured
by the thousands. These are, as
you know, dreaded foes of bees.
Grasshoppers and crickets, cut
worms and bugs form the meat for
the menu, with fruit and a few
weed seeds to make up the re-
mainder.
AS these birds are such skillfu
flyers and eager to feast as many
times as they can through the day.
light hours, they are, indeed, friend.
Evening star., 1941-08-04

reservoir of 1866, ,400-acre feet runs
more than So miles with a 380-mile
shoreline, draining $500 square miles
of East Tennessee In addition, the
reservoir land had to be cleared of
trees and buildings. Seventy miles
Of highways had to be relocated.
Mr.. Warren and his aides point
toward the concreting, the excavat-
ing and the cofferdam construction
as the high spots of the job. In
April 10000 cubic yards of con-
crete sped on three dinky trains
from the huge automatic mixer to
three long armed cranes stretching
above the forms of the dam proper.
That, says Mr.. Warren, was record
performance. The dam will require
a total of 1000 cubic yards of
concrete.
Mechanical elephants" Used.
Excavating has been at top speed
all the while, with self-loading car
rying scrapers-called elephants
and bottom dump trailers shutting
back and forth, either getting earth
out of the damsite or depositing it
for the fills.
Within six weeks the cofferdams,
requiring $4,000 logs, we're thrown
up to divert the river where the en-
gineerS wanted it.
Said David E. Lilienthal, Authority
director, recently when he escorted
a delegation of Latin American dip
lomats to the Cherokee Dam:
Gentlemen, this is democracy al
work"
Evening star., 1941-08-04
EgMADE UP TO KILLgEs
who could have done
by Kelley Roos,

Then -. who could have done
it, Carol?"
She shook her head. "Haila, I
don't know. Mr. Peterson says it
was some one in the company, some
one who knew the play. And I've
been trying to think >. taking each
person :. every one, separately, and
trying to remember every word that
ever passed between us. But it's nc
good. l don't know why any one
should hate me enough to kill me,
or even hate me at all. They've all
been so good to me, from Mr.. Bowers
to D.. to Nick the doorman. I
thought they all. well, liked me-"
She looked straight at me and the
puzzled expression on my face made
her cry, "Haila, you don't believe
mel"
Yes, I do. OF course. I do.
But -"
"What?" ~
well -. :" Then I blurted 1t
out. "You knew something was 60
Lag ~ iidIPcilt uiuil youE tOu
were afraid to 60 to the theater
last night, you -"
Her eyebrows drew together and
bewilderment filled the lovely blue
eyes beneath them. "Afraid?"
Weren't you afraid of something?
Isn't that why =. :" stopped,
flustered. ;-
go on, Haila, please"
Carol, when I heard that you
had been poisoned I thought that
was why you lost your voice. that
you only pretended you were sick
so you could stay away from the
theater. I don't blame you, darling,
only you should have stayed away.
You shouldn't have gone at all >. !"
My words died in my throat as I saw
her bewilderment change to sudden
comprehension. She turned from
me and leaned against the window.
II see"
Evening star., 1941-08-04
1.V. A. Lops Months
From Cherokee Dam
Building Schedule
Hopes to Finish Project
On Tennessee River
Before Jonuury
Ehe Stars Special News Service.

Fhe Stars Special News Service.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn, Aug.
4.-The first war baby of the Ten
nesee Valley Authority-the $4O,-
100000 Cherokee Dam-is one year
old, and before the years end,
engineers predict, this first national
defense power project will take its
place as the eighth completed dam
in the authority's 15-dam system.
Cherokee is located a few miles
from here on the HolSton River.
feeder of the mighty Tennessee,
and the construction crews are over
the hump on their schedule.
If the engineers predictions come
TO pass and the reservoir begins
TO fill before January, the T. V. A.
will have done more than fulfill
promise made to Congress last
summer.
20 Months First Estimate.
When industry cried out for more
power and appealed to Congress,
this body turned Immediately to
the r. V. A. and asked:
How long will it take you fel-
lows to build another dam and in
crease your production of electric
power?"
The r. v. A. replied: Twenty
months, under tight schedule"
"Okay," said Congress.
"Okay," said President Roosevelt
on July 81.
"Okay," answered T. v. A. work.
men on August as they reached
the dam site.
The 20-month schedule, however,
was shortened soon after the job
was underway. Instead the engi-
neers predicted completion in II
months-by December 81, 1941.
Now, the talk is about looping one,
maybe two, months off the revised
schedule.
A 10-dam man, Lee Warren, has
been the Mr.. Big on this job. AS
project manager he instituted
three-shift, six and seven day work
week. At one time he had 1900
men on the payroll.
men experienced within and with
out the T. V. A. Unskilled labor
was recruited from surrounding
counties.
Labor Trouble Absent.
Shifts vie with one another in
moving earth, building forms, pour
ing concrete. They seek to outdo
each other and their past per-
formances. There has been no labor
trouble.
Statistically, the job was to build
q barrier $500 feet long and 2l2
feet high. 1900 feet of its length
concrete and the remainder earth
and stone. The power plant was
to include three generators capable
Of producing 10000 kilowatts of
energy.
Above the massive structure, the
Evening star., 1941-08-04
Natures Children
Kingbird
(Tyrannus tyrannus)

Of ours, and have considerable
economic Importance.
The kingbird's crown and sides of
head. with the exception of the
cheeks, are black and slightly glossy.
The crown has a large patch Of
orange-red, sometimes yellow, edg-
ing the feathers. The hind neck is
slaty black, shading into the plain
slate colors found on the sides of the
neck, shoulders and lesser wing
coverts The black tail is margined
with white. The under parts are
grayish white.
Usually the nest is built in the
orchard, sometimes in the higher
branches of the sycamores, close to
streams. 1t is always near the base