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Evening star., 1941-03-04
Bondy Relays Bill
On Child Placement
To Commissioners
Asks Early Consideration
So Congress Cun Act on
Adoption Procedure

A bill to regulate placement Of
children in family homes, designed
to prevent the careless placement
of babies for adoption without ade-
quate consideration of the interests
of parents and the children, was be-
fore the Commissioners today, bear
ing the stamp of approval of We'll
fare Director Robert E. Bondy.
The proposed legislation was sub
mitted to the city heads by Mr..
Bondy with a recommendation that
it be given prompt consideration so
that the bill may be introduced and
acted on by the present Congress.
Provides for Licensing.
The welfare director explained
the purpose of the proposed act is
to regulate placement of children in
family homes for care or adoption
by persons other than parents,
guardians or relatives within the
second degree, or by firms, corpora
tions or agencies, unless such per-
sons or agencies are licensed by the
District Commissioners"
1t provides that licenses shall be
issued by the Commissioners on rec
ommendation of the Public Welfare
Board after the board has made
proper investigation.
To Set Up Standards.
"The act" said Mr.. Bondy, "pro-
vides that the standards of care and
service for children to which all
child-placing agencies shall con-
form shall be set up by committee
made up of one member of the
Board of Public Welfare, one men,
ber of the staff of the board, one
representative of the Health De-
partment and one representative of
each of five charitable organizations
having an organized program for
placing children in family homes.
The standards set up by the
committee shall be subject to the
approval of the Commissioners and
when so approved shall have the
force of rules and regulations"
The welfare director said the bill
was formulated about a year ago
by the Child Welfare Legislation
Committee of the Council of Social
Agencies. The proposed draft sub
mitted to the Commissioners has
the approval of the Welfare Board
and the Council of Social Agencies,
he said.
Evening star., 1941-03-04

have been clocked at better than
40 miles an hour. The record for
such boats is about "a miles an hour
First prize in this class went to
Jack Buckley, second to Frank
Bailey and third to B. j. George.
In the sailboat class. Maj A. w.
Greely's graceful model yacht won
first; second went to j. j. Martin
and third to Jack Edwards, jr.
The flying model airplanes ex-
hibit was topped, in the judges
opinion, by a model entered by C..
Bernard, with second to William
Mayo and third to Bill Skelly. These
little ships are capable of long
fiights-one having landed on the
deck of an ocean liner $50 miles at
sea.
Howard Kunn's model of an Army
trainer took first place for scale
model planes, with Ray Pennoyer's s
model second.
The show will be open through
Sunday.
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Band Concerts

BY the United States Marine
Band Symphony Orchestra in the
Marine Barracks auditorium at 8:15
pm. tomorrow. Capt. William F.
Santelmann, conductor.
Program.
Overture, THE Ruins of Athens"
Beethoven
"Adagio," opus IL Barber
Valse de concert, Invitation to
the Dance" Weber Weingartner
"Wotan's Farewell" and Magic
Fire Music" from "The VAL
kyre" --------------W Wagner
Concerto for oboe and orchestra,
Goosens
Musician Earl Schuster, soloist.
Suite, Scenes Alsaciennes,"
Massenet
Scenes from Boris Godounow,"
Moussorgsky
"The Star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Scouts See Induction
OF 100 New Citizens
In Court Here
Two Catholic Sisters
Also Attend Session
On Naturalization

Justice F. Dickinson Let's, in Dis
trict Court today, admitted 100 new
citizens "a new record for the COURT
and pointed to the privileges the
United States bestows on them as
well as the obligations.
A feature of today's Naturalization
Court was the appearance as visitors
of 10 Boy Scouts and two sisters
from st. Joseph's Home and School,
Eastern avenue and Bunker Hill
road NE, in conjunction with a
civic merit badge examination
scheduled March Is before a Scout
board. Visiting a court session was
considered an important step in
the Scouting program.
Justice Let's addressed the Scouts
briefly and said he hoped that see
ing the new citizens inducted would
inspire them to become better
citizens.
Sister Mary Andrea and Sister
Mary Alberto accompanied the boys
to the courthouse. The group is
known as Troop 95.
One of the new citizens admitted
was Miss Jane Matthews, 80, of 1901
Twenty first street NV, a native
of Dublin, Ireland, who has been
in the United States since 1898,
most of it in Washington. Here
she formerly worked for the Italian
Embassy.
Bedecked with medals in his
snappy Marine Corps uniform, First
Sergt. Thomas Patrick Brennan of
the Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va.
who is scheduled to shove off"
soon for duty in the Bahamas, was
likewise admitted today to citizen
ship. A native of Middlesborough,
Yorkshire, England. Sergt. Brennan
said that his home town is now
being bombed by Hitler" and to-
morrow will be his birthday. At the
age of 16 he participated in the
Irish revolution and was later in the
British Navy and in 1919 he came
to the United States and Joined the
United States Marine Corps. Ashore
and afoot he has served in various
parts of the world and wears World
War, Marine Corps Expeditionary
Medal, Nicaraguan, China Revolu-
ton and good conduct ribbons. He
is now on his sixth enlistment.
In the Philippine Islands Sergt.
Brennan was on the police force.
He said today that ne has three
brothers in the British Army, one
in the Canadian Army and one in
the Irish Free State Army.
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Naming of PiIkerton
AS Auditor Seen Soon

Arthur r. Pilkerton is slated to
be promoted to the post of District
auditor within the next week or so,
it was indicated today at the Dis
trict Building.
Both Commissioner Hazen and
Engineer Commissioner David Nc
Coach, jr., said they felt Mr.. Pilker-
ton should get the promotion
However, they said they would not
take any action on the matter until
Commissioner John Russell Young
returns from a vacation. Mr.. Young,
who is in Florida, is expected back
March 13.
Mr.. Pilkerton has been serving
as acting auditor since the death of
Maj. Daniel j. Donovan last october
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Capital Hobby Show Features
Amazing Array of Models
Prizes Awarded for Miniature Vessels,
Truns, Power Boots and Planes

A couple of hundred basement
workshops, where men work hard in
the spare time to forget how hard
they work on Office time, have
yielded up their secrets.
This is to say that the first Wash
ington Hobby Show opened today at
the Wardman Park Hotel, revealing
for public view all the amazing
gadgets and gimcracks which are
turned out in spare hours by all
kinds OF WaShingtonianS, from mail
carriers to financial wizards.
The show includes everything from
model automobiles, capable of speeds
up to about 80 miles an hour, to an
amazing railroad system, with all
manner of automatic controls.
This is the first time that the men
who make model boats, automobiles,
trains, airplanes, ETC., have had a
chance to put on an exhibit here.
The show is sponsored by the Metro
politan Society of Model Engineers
and the Association of Model Rail-
road Manufacturers.
sFrigate Takes Top Prize.
The outstanding exhibit in the
show, lobbyists believe, is the model
of a British ship of the line of the
period of 1700. This work, which is
not yet complete, was done by Har-
old j. Cook of Temple Hills, Md, a
Navy Department craftsman.
Built from plans furnished by the
British Admiralty, this tiny model
is valued at several thousand dollars.
Mr.. Cook began work on it in 1880,
and has spent 1900 hours on it so
far. Every plank and rib of the
original man O. war is duplicated to
scale, even down to the sea chests.
This was awarded first prize in
the model ship exhibit, with second
prize going to a flashy reproduction
of the Queen Mary, made by c. A.
Swanteson.. This ship has an en-
gine, which will drive it at II knots,
and is complete down to the deck
tennis courts and dog kennels.
Third prize went to H. j. Linn.
The Washington Model Racing
Car Association has brought out the
best of it's tiny racing cars for the
show. First prize in this exhibit
went to Lurdy Dull; second to w. H.
Carter, and third to Bob Kirwan.
Many of the cars are built by hand
every step of the way. When they
race, cables are attached to the
tiny speedsters and they go around
a circular track. The local club
races on a track near Annapolis.
Included in their exhibit is a
model of a track they hope to build
somewhere In Rock Greek Park.
Elaborate Rail Exhibit.
The most elaborate railroad ex-
hibit is the model of the Cumber-
land division of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad. This layout of track
is owned by the B. g. o., but many
of the cars and pieces of equipment
were made by lobbyists.
1t takes several days TO get the
track set up and j. w. Sakers, B
81 o. electrician, is one of the few
men who know enough about Its
complicated system of switches to
run it.
In the model railroad exhibit, first
prize went to Hugh G. Boutell, for
his narrow gauge model. Second
prize went to James w. Palmer and
third to T. E. Mills of Alexandria
for 20" gauge trains. These models
run by live steam, burning coal or
alcohol.
The exhibit of model power boats
includes some xspeedsters which
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Bond Denied Man Accused
As Paper Bag Bandit

Charles R. Vanderhuff, 26, charged
with being Washington's paper
bag bandit" was held for the grand
jury without bond today when
arraigned before Judge George D.
Nelson in the United States Branch
of Police Court.
Vanderhuff, who gave Silox, Tenn,
as his address, was accused at ar
raignment of a So robbery of a
Highs ice cream store in the 1900
block of Fourth street S.W., where
he was captured the night of
February 81. A number of other
robbery charges against him will be
presented to the grand jury.
The method of the "paper-bag
bandit" has been to carry a toy
pistol in paper bag, and to use
the bag for victims to drop money
In as he held them UP.
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Seven Boys From D. c.
Excel in Studies

Seven Washington students at
Randolph Macon Academy, Front
Royal, Va, have been named by the
principal, Col. John G. Boggs, for
excellence in scholarship during the
first semester, it was announced
today.
They include Burton Glenn,
Woodruff Morgan, Robert Rosecrans,
Gilbert Slocum, Julian Snow, Robert
Vickery and George Webster.
Virginia students cited include
William Apgar and William Kitchen,
Front Royal; Donald Buckley, VIM
chester, and David Orser, Qnley, Va,
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Youth Held on Bond
In Robbery Inquiry

Lewis A. Ericsson, 10, of the 4l00
block of Emery place NV, was held
under $4,000 bond yesterday for
grand jury action when arraigned in
Police Court on a charge of robbing
Monta Bahre of SIS in a cleaning
establishment in the 1900 block of
Wisconsin avenue NV, February "a.
Ericsson was arrested after he was
said to have been named by two
men and an 18-year-old youth, who
are held by Arlington County police.
The trio in Arlington were said to
have confessed to holding up Wash
ington grocery and liquor stores, the
Washington Golf and Country Club
and the Public Small Loan Co. in
Rosslyn.
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Hearing Is Advanced
In Auto Death Case

At the request of defense counsel,
a hearing for DR.. Mark o. Davis, go,
Washington dentist, charged with
manslaughter, has been advanced to
Monday at 2:3O pm. before Trial
Magistrate James c. Christopher in
Bethesda, States Attorney Ben Will
kinson announced today.
DR.. Davis was as-released under $4,000
cash bond to appear at preliminary
hearing in the death of John Adair,
jr., 28-year-old Chevy Chase fire.
man, who was killed by an automo-
bile at the scene of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School fire last
Wednesday. The hearing had pre-
viously been set for March 20.
Evening star., 1941-03-04
DR.. PoIemon to Speak
At Library of Congress

DR.. Horace I. Poleman, director OF
Indie studies at the Library of Con-
gress, who recently completed an
eight-month survey of India, will
lecture tomorrow night in the
Coolidge auditorium at the Library
Motion pictures never before shown
to the public will be explained by the
speaker. The public is invited.
DR.. Poleman was an active MEM
ber of the American Council OF
Learned Societies until 1888, and
made many contributions to Indian
lore.
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Graves TO Head Drive

Harold Graves, assistant to the
Secretary of the Treasury, was
named yesterday to head the forth
coming drive to sell billions of dol
lars worth of saving stamps, certifi-
Gates and bonds to the public to
finance the defense program. !,
Evening star., 1941-03-04
D. G. Firm Wins Contract

The Public Buildings Administra-
tion awarded a $129, 900 contract to-
day to Jeffress-Buyer, Inc, Wash
ington, for construction of 35 hous-
ing units for enlisted Army per-
sonnel at Arlington Cantonment in
Arlington, Va. The contractors fee
was fixed at $6,750.
Evening star., 1941-03-04

In March, Beware OF:
1. Crossing a street at a point
other than a crosswalk. -Four
pedestrians were killed doing
this in March, 1910. Three of
these were over IS years of age.
2. Standing in the street. A
93-year-old man lost his life do
ing this in March of last year.
The sixth traffic victim during
March, 1910, was a passenger on
a truck who was crushed be-
meath a spool of cable when the
truck overturned.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
WIcomlco Prisoner Dies
From Wood Alcohol
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALISBURY, Md, Dec. 27.-One
Wicomico County Jail inmate was
dead and another was critically III
today. the outcome of Christmas
Day celebration in which disinfec-
tant was substituted for holiday
spirits. '
DR.. L. A. Rademaker, Wlcomico
deputy medical examiner. said Rob
ert Disharoon, AZ, of Salisbury, died
in Peninsula General Hospital from
wood alcohol poisoning.
Robert Shanks, 38. of Bluefield
w. Va, was in a critical condition
He was given a good chance to re-
cover although his vision was i'm
paired.
DR.. Rademaker issued technical
verdict Of suicide in the case OF
Disharoon. He said his investiga-
ton showed the two men, TRUSTEES in
the Wicomico County jail, drank a
disinfectant after first pouring some
on the floor to test it for alcohol by
burning it.
Two Federal prisoners held in the
county jail died December IA last
year from drinking the same type of
disinfectant.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
Central Alumni Give Awards
To Somerve|| and 3 Others

Brig. Gen Brehon Somervell, as
sistant chief of staff in charge of
the supply division of the War De-
partment general staff, was awarded
a certificate of distinction by the
Central High School Alumni Asso-
citation at its 33d annual reunion
last night in the school,
Before more than 100 returning
alumni. the following awards were
made by George. Raymond Pruett,
president of the association:
Brig Gen. Somervell, in the field
of military service and engineering;
Appleton P. Clark, jr.. in. the field
of architecture; Mrs. Elizabeth M
Cox, president of the Women's Bar
Association. in the field of law. and
the Rev. DR.. John Bailey Kelly. in
the fields of religious education and
social service.
Preceding the awarding of certlfi-
Gates, former students at Central
watched an athletic and musical
program. A basket ball game be-
tween the team currently repre-
senting Central and team made
up of alumni and swimming meet
between alumni and the cur
rent boys team we're held in the
athletic centers at the school. A
program Of music followed. headed
by Miss Jeanette Bittner. Miss
Reba VIII, Mrs. Mary Middleton
Porter. Miss Kathryn Latimer and
Eugene Kressin Dancing and re-
freShments followed the affair.
officers of the association include:
Mr.. Pruett, president; Miss Thel-
ma M. Castle. Rolston Lyon, Charles
E. Smoot and Robert G. Halle, vice
presidents; Lawrence G.. Hoover,
Miss Helen M. Coolidge and Lynn
Evening star., 1941-12-27
Filipino Sought in Killing
OF California Japanese
BY the Associated Pres

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKTON. Calf, Dec. 81
Long -smoldering i'll feeling between
japanese and Filipino colonies Of
celery field workers, which has in
tenSified since the japanese inva-
sion Of the Philippines. was be-
lieved to have led to the killing of a
japanese garage attendant yester-
day.
Jungo Kino, So, was slain by SIN
gle shot fired through an open
door of his garage office Police said
the aSsailant. now sought, was an
unidentified Filipino.
The trouble between the two racial
groups began two years ago after
Filipino celery field workers went
on strike. japanese took up the
work where the FilipinoS left off
Before that virtually all celery field
workers we're Filipinos. Now about
half Of them are japanese.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
British Report Jap Moves
In Gilbert Islands
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 27.-The British
Colonial Office announced today
that japanese forces recently have
been operating in the northern Gill
bert Islands" roughly midway be-
tween Australia and Hawaii.
The announcement expressed fears
that some European residents of the
little chain of Is coral atoll islands
might have been taken prisoner.
The population of the islands, just
south of the japanese inundated
Marshall group was 26,523 in 1881.
There was no immediate informa-
ton what proportion of these were
Europeans. some of whom, the an
nouncement said have been re-
moved recently.
The Colonial Office did not specify
whether the japanese actually had
seized the islands.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
Conferences Held
On Greyhound Strike
Ry the Assnciafed Pres

BY me Associated Press.
Union and company representa-
tives conferred with officials Of the
United States Cancellation S~r,.ce
yesterday in an effort TO settle a
strike involving approximately 1850
employees of the Central Greyhound
Co.
The workers are on strike in
number Of Midwest and Eastern
cities including Chicago ToI0I0,
Cleveland, Buffalo, Syracuse, Bos-
ton and New York City.
The dispute centers around
union demand that women coach
cleaners be paid the same scale as
men when they perform mems
work
Evening star., 1941-12-27
It will cost money to defeat

1t will cost money to defeat
the Axis. Your Government
calls on you to help now.
Buy defense bonds or stamps
today. Buy them every day,
If you can. But buy them on
a regular basis.
Bonds cost as little as $18.75,
stamps come as low as 10
cents. Defense bonds and
stamps can be bought at all
banks and post offices, and
stamps can also be purchased
at retail stores and from your
newspaper carrier boy.
Support your Government
with your dollars.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
CustOm-tailOred
Suits of Character
$3.50 Were $40 to 500

Take this savings opportunity to outfit yourself in clothing that
BELTS your walk in life, compliments your personality reflects
your good toste Custooored by Woodward Lothrop to
your measurements Of fine fabrics from the best mills of
America and Britain Fine worsted soxones Harris and Irish
Evening star., 1941-12-27
Utah Soldiers May Get
Feast of Park Venison

By the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 27.-Utah
men in Army camps may have q
feast of vension.
Mark Anderson, Utah fish and
game director. said that through an
arrangement with the National Park
Service some excess deer will be re-
moved from Zion National Park.
If the deer are found to be in
good condition, about 125 will be
sent to officers and men in one camp
and about rs to those in another.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
Seret. Wright to Join
Marine Stuff Here

Staff Sergt Richard T. Wright
of the Marine Corps has been or
dered to report to duty Monday
with the local recruiting Office. He
has been in the Philadelphia office.
Sergt. Wright, son of w. B. Wright,
1882 Seventeenth street, North, Ar
hngton, Va, formerly was en-
ployed by Philadelphia newspapers.
He enlisted in the Marine Corps in
August, and took preliminary train
ing at Paris Island, S. c. He was
promoted to staff sergeant just be-
fore his orders to transfer to WASH
inPtOn
Evening star., 1941-12-27
20O-Inch Telescope
To Pierce Sky Twice
As Far as Expected
Photo Improvements
Expand Scope Of
Greet Heavenly Eye

ev Wide World News
PASADENA, Calf, Dec. 26.-The
2OO-inch eye of the worlds greatest
telescope, now nearing completion,
probably will photograph stars
which are 100000 to 100000 times
fainter than can be seen with the
naked eve. instead of $4,000 times
fainter. as was expected when it
was designed.
1t will see the Spectroscopic rain
bows in space twice as far away
as believed possible when first cast.
The rainboWs will be formed by
the great telescopes spectroscope,
which reveals the atomic structure
of stars and nebulae.
Improvements in Photographic
plates and other receiving instru-
ments are the reason for the tre-
mendOuS increase in the telescopes
expected performances.
Milton l.. Humason of the 100
inch telescope here, present worlds
largest says: I'VE now hope to
obtain spectra of nebulae so far
away that light from them would
require 500 100000 years to reach
the earth. The limit when the new
mirror was designed would have
been about 5OOOOOOO light years.
Improvements have enabled us
to obtain the Spectra of nebulae
that far away with the 100-inch
telescope at Mount Wilson"
Right Up to Moons Surface.
He and DR.. Edwin Hubble, as
tronomer who works with the 100
inch, agree that under ideal con-
ditions photographs of the moon
may be obtained with twice the
definition with the 200-inch as with
the 100-inch.
IF" said DR.. Hubble, two lights
800 yards apart on the moon could
be seen as two mot merged as one)
with the l00-inch mirror, We should
be able to see them as two with
the 200-inch if they were only $50
yards apart"
They emphasized. however. that
under ordinary seeing conditions
there would be little difference be-
tween the two telescopes in observ-
Ing the moon or the planets.
One of the most astonishing
things" said DR.. Humason, about
gains in observing technique is that
they are so often quite inexpensive
and simple in application.
This is shown by the remarkable
results recently obtained with new
fast red sensitive plates Because
red light is affected less by particles
of dust the red sensitive plates
penetrate farther into space and
show more sharply defined detail
than those taken in blue light.
Center of Universe Photographed.
With red sensitive plates DR..
Walter Baade has made a photo
graph which shows for the first
time the nuclear region around
which our galactic system rotates."
This photo is Of the so-called
center of the local universe, the
place, much obscured by dust and
gas. around which the entire milky
way revolves.
Another valuable advance" DR..
HumaSOn went on, rs coating OF
lenses and prisms with a film such
as calcium or lithium f1uorideS.
The film acts in quite a different
way from dust and grease on glass
that usually impair the perform
anCe of a lens. BY making the
metallic films only a millionth of an
inch thick the light, instead of /
being PARTIALLY reflected from the .
glass surface. is almost 100 per cent .
transmitted"
These films at Mount Wilson +.
Observatory have reduced the loss
of light by surface reflection from
25 to l or per cent.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
Building Permits Drop
Below 40 Level Again
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The total valuation Of building
permits in the United States dropped
% per cent in November from the
same month a year ago, Secretary OF
Labor Perkins announced today.
This was the second consecutive
month that valuations were below
corresponding month Of 1910.
Non residential construction fell
off As per cent in permit valuations
during November. l941. while resi-
Dental building declined 6 per cent.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
D. c. Generals Cash,
Gems Restored by Cobbie
Ry the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 27.-
John Hardy. 28-year-old taxi driv-
er, got the thanks of an Army gen.
eral and a $40 reward as one of his
Christmas presents.
Mai. Gen. William Haskell of
Washington, former commanding Of
ficer of the 9th Division at Fort
Mcclellan, Ala, and Mrs. Haskell
left money and jewelry worth about
81 600 in his cab while spending
Christmas here.
Mr., Hardy promptly returned the
valuableS.