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Evening star., 1941-11-05
i. S. Urged
ToAid China
In Struggle
Washington Club
Hears Japan's
Methods AsSailed
BY GRETCHEN SMITH.

Japanese exploitation Of Chinese
labor In the occupied territories is
making sections Of China the most
colossal sweat shop In the world"
Julean Arnold, for rs years United
States Commercial Attache In
China. declared yesterday.
Mr.. Arnold, who returned from
China last year after living and
travelling in that country for over
IS years, came from his home in
New York to speak before members
of the Washington Club.
Farmers and laborers in terri
tories penetrated by the Japanese
are forced to work at starvation
wages producing rice, cotton, to-
bacco and other commodities which
are confiscated by the Japanese for
their own use, he declared. The
only solace for the overworked and
undernourished Chinese is opium,
and the japanese invaders have en-
couraged its use as part of a
Evening star., 1941-11-05
Tea Will Honor
Bride.Elect, Fiance

Mr.. and Mrs. Norman T. Ander-
son will entertain at tea Sunday for
Miss Elizabeth Rhodes Millard and
Mr.. David Lindsay Crawford, who
will be married November %. Miss
Millard is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Grenville Lewis Millard and
niece of Miss Emily Mlllard Of the
Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Assisting Mrs. Anderson will be
Mrs. Genevieve Chase, Mrs. Row.
land Lyons. Mrs. Thomas Myers and
Mrs. Alonzo Jan Peeke, the former
Miss Anne Hyde Cochrane.
Evening star., 1941-11-05
Card Party Planned

The Sunshine and Community
Society of the District will hold its
annual card party at l pm. Novem-
Der II at the Gilbert. The follow
ing are committee chairmen: Mrs
w. R. Bean and Mrs Maurice En-
erson. reception; prizes. Mrs. Ivan
Riley; cake, Mrs. H. L. Richardson;
candy. Mrs. H. F. Sawtelle.
Mrs. Bean and her members of
the society are handling reserva-
tions.
Evening star., 1941-11-05
Miss Martin Leaves
On Speaking Trip

Miss Marion E. Martin. assistant
chairman of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, left yesterday for
Il five weeks sepeaking trip in the
Middle West. She will confer with
women Republican leaders in II
States in regard to their civilian de-
fense activities.
Miss Martin will spend the
Thanksgiving week end with Mrs.
James R. Arnell former president
OF the National Federation of Wom-
ems Republican Clubs. at her home
in Colorado. She is expected to re-
turn December S.
Evening star., 1941-11-05
Y. w. Entertains
Defense Workers

An "at home" for newly arrived
defense workers assigned to night
shifts in Government agencies was
inaugurated at the Y. w. C. A.
today. The at home" will be a
weekly Wednesday morning feature
throughout the season. Miss Mabel
r. Cook, U. S. o. director at the
Evening star., 1941-11-05

tries at George Washington Uni
versity, will entertain at a tea to-
morrow at the university's Interna.
tional House.
Assisting at the tea table will be
Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin. Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, Mrs. William Crane
Johnstone, Mrs. George Rowland
Cox, Mrs. Harold G. Sutton and
Miss Gloriela Calvo, a student in the
university from Panama.
Miss Marjorie wilkins will give
q program OF piano selections.
Evening star., 1941-11-05
A. .U.Guild to Meet

AThe Problems of a University in
the Cultural Capital of the World
will be the subject of an address by
DR.. Paul F. Douglass before the
members and guests of the Junior
Women's Guild of American Univer-
sity tomorrow at pm. The meet
ing will be held in the great hall
of the women's dormitory on Amer
lean University campus.
Evening star., 1941-11-05
Pi Beta Phi Dance

A sweater swing dance will be
given by the Junior group Of the
Washington Alumnae Club of Pi
Beta Phi at pm. Saturday at
Sligo Cabin in Sligo Park. Mrs.
E. Maine Shafer is in charge of
the arrangements. Meetings of the
Junior group are held the fourth
Tuesday of each month.
Evening star., 1941-11-05
Fort Myer
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pr1ately chose navy blue dress and
small close-fitting hat, and Mrs.
Vandergrift had powder-blue dress
trimmed with gray and a matching
hat.
Mrs. Raymond F. Fowler
In Charge Of Tea Table.
Mrs. Raymond F. Fowler president
OF the Woman's Army and Navy
League. poured tea. She wore a
very becoming black dress with a
hat Of cog feathers in blue to
match her eyes and complement the
string of blue opals about her neck
and in her earrings. The table was
daintily arranged with lace table
cloth, In the center was bowl filled
with autumn flowers. In the dining
room where another tea table was
laid amber chrysanthemums filed
the center of the table. Mrs. Robert
Lovett presided at the coffee urn.
She wore beige frock with a black
hat.
Mrs. Robert Patterson
Returns for Party.
Mrs. Robert P. Patterson, wife of
the Undersecretary of War. who was
in New York, to vote, returned In
time to assist at the fete. She was
dressed in navy blue with gold
studded epaulets and a navy blue
hat trimmed in green.
Mrs. John j. McCloy, wife of the
Assistant Secretary of War, assisted
during the tea. Mrs. Leonard
Gerow, also assisting at the tea,
wore dark blue with a small round
dark blue hat and silver fox furs
about her shoulders.
Evening star., 1941-11-05

Y. w. c. A., will be the hostess.
A Tuesday evening at home"
with Miss Edith Rieger, business
and professional women's secretary,
as hostess, has been conducted for
six weeks.
Evening star., 1941-11-05
CITY of Hone Tea

The City of Hope Auxiliary of
the Los Angeles Sanatorium will
hold membership tea at 2:30 pm.
Friday at the home of Mrs. Leon
ard Som. 1922 Ingomar place NV.
Guests of honor will be Mrs Rosa
Warner Charnas Of Los Angeles and
Miss Sylvia Neulander.
Evening star., 1941-11-05
Tea at G. w. L.

Mr.. Alan T. Deibert. associate pro-
lessor of romance languages and ad-
wiser to students from foreign coun-
Evening star., 1941-10-29
Maryland Plans
| |Semi-Permonent
License Plates
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 29.-W. Lee
Elgin, commissioner of motor vehicles,
is planning semi-permanent Mary
land automobile license plates in
anticipation of a Federal order ra-
tioning steel plate now used.
Next years tags now are being
made at the Maryland Penitentiary
and a Federal order would not affect
them But if such an order comes
out in the near future tags now in
use would be turned in. baked with
enamel and the AZ" replaced
with "a"
MI. Elgin long has been an ad-
vocate of permanent tags. but the
bill for them in the last Legislature
was not considered. Motorists would
be required to turn in Old licenses
before receiving new ones The tags
turned in next spring would be con-
verted TO permanent licenses.
Under the plan each motorist
would receive metal insert denot-
ing the year at each new registration
period. Each years insert would be
a different color and registration
cards would correspond to the insert.
Permanent tags of this type are
now used BY Connecticut and Della.
ware,
Evening star., 1941-10-29

example. on power projects. and
transportation facilities, State and
local building projects, defense
housing priorities, the Bureau of
Public Roads, and the Federal
Works Agency, which is to super
wise the $3.50 100000 community
facilities program in defense areas,
as provided in the Lanham Act.
Complex Beyond Belief.
Under tentative plans, these
agencies would continue to do the
spade work and make recommended
tions. 1t would be up to Mr.. Haynes
to see that there is no overlapping
of functions, that total demands
for scarce materials are kept In
line with available supply.
The administrative difficulties in
volved in construction prlorities are
complex almost beyond belief.
Mr. Haynes still is chief of the
Division Of Civilian Suppiy's lum-
ber and building materials branch.
which is to be merged with the new
construction branch. He is also act
ing chief of the D. c. SIS plumbing
and heating branch.
He is married, has three children
and lives at 30l2 Mckinley street
NV
Evening star., 1941-10-29
0.P. NJ Aides Bribe Trial
Set Jan. 9 al Roanoke
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISONBURG. Va. Oct. 2e
Judge John Paul has set the case
of Nathaniel j. Botwin, 80. o. P. M
accountant. for trial in the United
States District Court at Roanoke
next January 9, on a 17-year-old
indictment charging Botwin with
an attempt to bribe Internal Rev.
enue agents.
William j. Hughes. jr. of Washing
ton, defense counsel, told the court
the defense would need until then to
prepare its case
Meanwhile. Botwin was held in
the Harrisonburg Jail pending post
ing of $4,000 bond
BotWin was arrested last week at
Washington where a few months ago
he joined the o. p M. staff after
having worked with the Federal
Power Commission in the investi-
cation of utilities.
A grand jury in the District Court
of Western Virginia indicted Botwin
in connection with an income tax
return prepared in 1924 for a
Staunton, Va. client. charging that
Botwin offered $3.50 to two Internal
Revenue agents.
Evening star., 1941-10-29
Farm Quotas Raised
In Prince Georges
ToAid Defense
Beef, Milk, Eggs, Grains
And Potatoes Increased
But Wheat Is Decreased
. staff correspondent- of The s.ar.

BY Staff Correspondent-of The star
UPPER MARLBORO Md. Oct
29.-Quotas for increased produc-
ton of farm products, in Prince
Georges County to aid in the de-
fense effort were set yesterday at a
meeting here of the County Agri-
culture Defense Board.
Production Of beef, milk. corn
oats, Sye. hay. snap beans. Irish
potatoes and sweet potatoes should
be increased by 10 per cent during
1912. the board decided. The in
crease in milk production is to feed
county residents properly since little
or no milk is produced for sale out
SIDE the county.
1t was recommended that farm
gardens be increased by 25 per cent
to improve the diets of farm fami-
lies and to make them self f-suffclent
Such an increase, the board said,
would give every farm a garden.
Egg Increase Approved.
Egg production should be in
creased by 25 per cent to supply
adequately the Washington market,
the board decided. Turkey pro-
duction should be increased by 5
per cent, tobacco by 8 per cent.
soy beans by 100 per cent. barley
by 20 per cent, tomatoes by per
cent, and green peas by per cent.
the board voted. Production of
wheat should be decreased by 25
per cent, it was said. since graner-
les of the United States and Britain
are already full.
S. H. Devault, head of the De-
partment of Agricultural Economics
at the University of Maryland. called
for sharp increases in foodstuffs to
help feed the population of Great
Britain.
Mr.. Devault said the Federal Gov-
ernment encourages production of
hogs, eggs, evaporated and dried
milk, cheese and chickens and guar
antees to support these products at
not less than IS per cent of parity
until December 81, 1943.
Nutrition Program Discussed.
A. A. A. county committeeman will
contact each farmer in the county
and ask what his production has
been in the past and what he will
produce next year. Cooperate ton of
the farmers in meeting the in
creased quotas will be asked.
Miss Ethel Regan, county home
demonstration agent, discussed the
nutrition program.
Other speakers included P. D.
Clark, county agent; Mrs. Howard
S. Allen, who acted as chairman of
the group; Dudley Aist, representa-
tive of the State office of the A. A. A..
and Joseph H. Blandford, prominent
dairyman.
Evening star., 1941-10-29
Maj. Daniel Is Named
To Civil Guard Post
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. Oct. 90
Maj. L. P. Daniel of Falls Church
has been elected vice chairman Of
the Civilian Protective Corps in
Fairfax County, and Franklin S.
Gicker Of Mclean has been named
secretary.
Former State Senator John w.
Rust. chairman of the corps for the
county. has announced initial plans
call for appointment of a number
OF key men TO act in case of an
emergency.
The local protective corps is a
branch Of the Northern Virginia
Regional Defense Council, headed
by Gardner L. Boothe, Alexandria
attorney.
Evening star., 1941-10-29
Reports Of Investment
SWindIe Here Probed

A rejected" paper swindle scheme
in which several Washington gam
blers and their friends have re-
ported being victimized is being in
vestigated by Detective Sergt.
Joseph Shimon. attached to the
district attorneys Office.
At least $4,000 was said to have
been invested with a former Wash
ington paper merchant who prom
ised large profits trading in paper
rejected by original consignees be-
cause of not being up to specifca-
tions. 1t was indicated a much
larger amount might be involved.
The promoter is understood to be
we'll known in gambling circles here.
The persons assertedly duped.
none of whom yet has appeared at
the district attorneys office to
make formal complaint. include a
numbers game hacker who said he
had invested $4,000. A man in the
automobile business claimed to have
received no return on a $500 in
vestment.
Evening star., 1941-10-29
Suspect in Alexandria
Woman S Staying Captured
By a staff Corresponden. Of The Sta,


: ALEXANDRIA. Va, Oct. %
Harry L. Edwards, "a. construction
workman sought in the fatal stab.
bing Of Mrs. Ethel Mahoney, "a,
mother of five children. at her home
at Skaters lane Monday night,
was arrested in Triangle last night
after brief struggle with State and
Alexandria police, they reported.
Edwards. who had been staying
at the Skaters lane address. grabbed
for the pistol of Sergt. Charles Blue
of the Virginia State police. the
sergeant said, when he was taken
in custody at the home of a friend
in Triangle. but was quickly sub
dued and brought back here by
Sergt Blue, Police Chief Edgar
Sims and Detective James w. Baber
OF the Alexandria police.
A warrant charging Edwards with
felonlous assault was changed to
murder after Mrs Mahoney died in
Alexandria Hospital Yesterday. She
had been stabbed in the back with a
butcher knife. Her husband has
been under treatment in a State
hospital for about two years.
Evening star., 1941-10-29
| Drivers Get New
Permits Free Due
To Renumberinq

New drivers licenses and regis.
tration cards are being issued free
to residents of Montgomery anc
Prince Georges Counties, Md. whose
street names and house numbers
have been changed, it was an
nounced today. Ordinarily reiSsu-
ance of these cards costs ST each.
Application blanks for new IL
censes and cards, to be mailed to
the commissioner of motor We
hicles in Baltimore. can be OBJ
tanned from police stations. In at
least two cases-Hyattsville and Be-
thesda-24-hour messenger service
Is available for 25 cents.
At Rockville it was suggested that
applicants obtain two blanks, one
to send to Baltimore and one to
keep in the car as proof that the
driver possessed license and regis
tration card. Other stations said
that registered mail receipt would
be safeguard to the driver.
1t was pointed out. however, that
Maryland police realized that
drivers bad to send their old cards
10 Baltimore along with their sp-
plications.
Evening star., 1941-10-29
D. T.. Coroner Takes
Control in Federal
AreasAcross Potomac
Acts on Ruling Of
Corporation Counsel;
Authority Test Foreseen

The District coroner's Office Is
extending its jurisdiction in line
with a recent ruling by the cor
poratlon counsel's office to feder-
ally-oWned areas across the Po-
tomac heretofore claimed by Vir-
ginia.
Coroner A Magruder Macdonald
recently conducted an inquiry into
the death of a workman killed ac-
cidentally in the construction of the
basement for the War Department S
new s35 100000 building near Ar
lington Experimental Farms and the
old Washington Airport
Dr. Macdonald said that in view
of the opinion Of Corporation Coun-
sci Richmond B. Keech. backed by
the United States attorneys Office
the jurisdiction of his Office ex-
its runWays and roadWays Parts
of Mount Vernon Memorial Boule-
ward. the coroner believes, lie in
the Districts jurisdiction.
Old Water Line.
District officials are convinced
that in the absence of a survey or a
ruling from high court, the line
of embarkation between the Dis
trict and Virginia is the high-Water
line of the Potomac on the Vir-
ginia side. This line. however.
would be the water line at the time
of Supreme Court decision handed
down before 1900
The present boundary. it is be-
Eeved here, includes in the District
of Columbia the lands on the Viz
ginia side which have been built up
from Potomac marshes and over
flow areas.
This would bring all of the Ma
tional Airport and part of the
bordering Mount Vernon highway
into the District. Some District Of
ficials are convinced the new War
Department Building is inside the
the old hlgh-Water line.
DR.. Macdonald conducted his in
quiry on the other side of the Po-
tomac after notifying Virginia au-
thorities, who do not police the area
because they obtain no taxes from it.
Test Case in Prospect.
United States park police have
jurisdiction on the highways in the
disputed area, making their cases
before United States Commissioner
John P. Strauss at Alexandria.
A case to test the District coroner's
jurisdiction on the other side of the
Potomac may come up at any time.
Any contest of the coroners right
to assume authority in such a case
may lead to an appeal to a higher
court. with the possibility that
clarifying ruling can be obtained.
In the absence of such a decision,
DR.. Macdonald is going ahead on
the line suggested by Mr.. Keech.
Evening star., 1941-10-29
Montgomery Draft Board
Ends Classification Work

Local Board, No. 3, of Montgomery
County, Md, announced today it had
virtually completed classification of
its 1859 registrants for selective
service and that 1.152 are under the
28-year age limit. which would defer
them from service. Seventy-four
per cent of the men are married.
The board already has sent for in
duction 301 men, of whom 257 were
accepted and A were rejected.
Counting those who have joined the
armed forces through channels other
than the .selective service system,
however, the area embraced by the
board now as 342 men In uniform.
The board classified 1885 regis
trantS as follows:
Glass IA, At: class 1-B, 109; class
III, So; class IA, 81: class 2-B, q;
class ga, 1889. of whom 2,316 are
married; class "A. 80: class 4-B. 3:
class &C, is; class 4-E, l; class At,
143.
Board physicians have given 744
registrants physical examinations.
Evening star., 1941-10-29
Irving ". Johnson
Heads Montgomery
Defense Firemen
Members of Civilian
Publicity Committee
Are Announced

Irving w. johnson of Takoma
Park was appointed yesterday as
chief Of the fire. e-hghting services of
the Montgomery County Md
Council of Civilian Defense, it was
announced by Albert E. Brault, ex-
ecutive director of the council.
Mr.. johnson is chief of the Ia
koma Park Volunteer Fire Depart
ment. secretary of the Montgomery
County Association and co-ordi-
nator Of the State Firemen's AsSo-
citation. Chief johnson will have
charge of organizing the county
fire department for defense needs
Director Brault previously an
nounced appointment of County Po-
lice Chief Andrew M. Newman as
chief of police services and Phillip j..
Austensen as head of public rela-
tions and information.
Mr.. Austensen yesterday an
nounced the appointment of the fol-
lowing members of his group:
w. Prescott Allen editor of the
Bethesda Chevy Chase Tribune:
Mrs. j. Reed Bradley, editor of the
Bethesda Journal; Karl Rannels,
editor of the Silver Spring Post;
John w. Coffman. editor of the Ia
koma Journal: Albert A Ady. editor
Of the Montgomery Sentinel; Miss
Helen Cooper. editor of the Mary
land News: Richard C. Musser. edi-
tor of the Silver Spring Standard:
George B. Porter, The Washington
Star: Mrs. Marion Clark of The Star,
Mrs. Betty Ruth McDevitt, Washing
ton Post; Byron Sedwick. MARYLAND
News; Arch Mcdonald. radio COM
mentator; the Rev. Virgil Lilly. pas
tor of the Rockville Christian
Church and president of the Mont
gomery County Ministerial Alliance,
and the Rev: Joseph T. Kennedy of
ST. Johns Catholic Church, Forest
Glen.
Evening star., 1941-10-29
D. c. Lawyer Tackles Job
OF Construction Priorities
Big Defense Tosk
On Shoulders of
John L. Haynes
BY JAMES FREE.

Upon the shoulders of a 39-year.
old Washingtonian, John L. Haynes
is fast being placed one of the
heaviest burdens of responsibility
in the defense program.
Mr.. Haynes, who received degrees
in civil engineering and later in
law at George Washington Uni
versity. heads the o. P. MS con-
struction branch of the Civilian
Supply Division, which has been
assigned the task of carrying out
the Governments recently an
nounced policy against new con-
struction projects not essential to
defense or to public health and
safety.
Duties of Mr.. Haynes new posi-
ton have not yet been defined, be-
cause the Supply Priorities and
ALLEGATIONS Board has not issued
the order that will put its policy
on new construction into effec.
formally. But Leon Henderson and
other defense officials have indi-
Gated that virtually all priority
problems involving construction
must be cleared through Mr..
Haynes.
Terrifically Large Order.
That's terrifically large order.
Aside from the problem of defense
and nom defense housing. it involves
construction for power plants. air,
rail and other transportation facili-
ties; community facilities near de-
fense areas; highways and roads;
rivers and harbors and flood con-
troll projects and municipal, State
and local buildings such as hos
pitfalls and schools.
The fact that Mr. Haynes would
clear all the priorities or al.oca-
ton problems does not mean that
he would have sole authority or
that his branch would have all the
or do all the work in
connection with construction sup
plies. Agencies already exist to in
vestigate and. make recommended
tions in specialized fields. There
are special O. P. NJ. divisions. for
Evening star., 1941-10-29
Mi. Rainier Rezoninq
Petition Rejected
After Protests
RecIossificution Asked
To Permit Construction
Of $50, 900 Apartment

BY staff Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO. Md. Oct
29.-Denial of a petition to rezone
property at Thirty sixth and Bunker
! Hill road. Mount Rainier, was voted
here yesterday by the Prince
Georges County Commissioners.
Forty residents of the section
protesting the rezoning crowded
the hearing room during the three
hour debate. Louis LeboWitz Of
Mount Rainier, one of the property
owners, acted as spokesman for the
group.
The petitioner. Mrs. Clara Con-
nor of Hyattsville, sought through
her attorney. Harold Sothoron. re-
zoning Of the tract for residential
A to residential C to permit erec-
ton OF tWo-story apartment house
of about 26 units at cost of APP
proXimately 100000
Denial of the petition followed
recommendations by the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, the commissions engi-
neer and the Mayor and Town
Council of Mount Rainier. Mr.. Le-
bowitz presented a petition con-
tanning the signatures of over so
property owners protesting the re-
quested rezoning.
Second Plea Presented.
Hearing on another petition call
ing for rezoning of eight lots on
Rhode Island avenue between the
Mount Rainier Town Hall and
Thirty street ended without
action being taken
Another hearing on it will be held
here November 49, The petitioner
is Sherman HollingsWorth, agent,
who petitioned for rezoning of the
lots from residential A to CONNER
cial D to allow construction of a
grocery store.
Three Petitions Approved.
Three petitions calling for re-
coming of tracts on the East-West
highway north of New Hampshire
avenue from residential A to COM
mercial D were approved by the
board. Eight stores will be built
on the property. j. Douglas Brad
shaw was the petitioner.
The commissioners set Novem-
ber 18 as the date for hearings on
designating Guides addition to Ia
koma Park and Hampshire Knolls.
section 2, as special improvement
districts. Both petitions will be
advertised and arguments heard on
the date set.