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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Rites for Mrs. FroIey
Held in LuytonsviIle
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LAYTONSVILLE, Md, May 30
Funeral services for Mrs. Lollie Bell
Fraley, 81, wife of Charles A. Fraley
who died at her home at Laytons-
vile, were held yesterday at the
funeral home of Roy w. Barber
Laytonsville.
The Rev Ralph Hershberger pas
tor of the Lutheran Church at Red
land, and the Rev. D. B. Groves
pastor of the Laytonsville Methodist
Church, officiated. Burial was In
the Laytonsville Cemetery.
Mrs. Fraley was lifelong resident
Of Montgomery County. In addi-
ton to her husband, she leaves two
daughters, Mrs. Thomas Howes
Laytonsville, and Mrs. George Miller
Takoma Park, Md; two sons, Don
aid F. and Alfred Fraley, both of
Laytonsville; two sisters, Mrs Rus
sell Allbutt, Gaithersburg, and Mrs
Harry Fraley, Redland, and a
brother, Garfield Duvall, Gathers
burg. .+
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Maryland Women's Clubs
End 1wo-Day Meeting
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated PreSS.
BALTIMORE, May 30.-Mrs.
Walter E. Kriel of Hampstead was
elected president Of the Maryland
Federation of Women's Clubs at the
concluding session of the organiza-
tons two-day meeting.
Gov. O'Conor, addressing the final
session yesterday. told the delegates
that women would be asked to take
an important part in civilian de-
Tense. In time when every effort
should be made to develop resources
and obtain needed funds for defense.
the Governor warned, wastefulness
should not be tolerated.
Mrs. Harry L. Harcum of Sails
bury, retiring State president, was
named honorary federation presi-
dent. Others elected were:
Mrs. j. C. Shaw, North Beach,
vice president; Mrs. Calvin N
Gabriel, Baltimore, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. G. w. Oldenburg, river
dale, treasurer, and Mrs. Clark o.
Clemson, Westminster, correspond
ing secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
18th Infantry Ordered
Sent From Arlington
10 Train al Fort Dix
Newly Created Police
Battalion to Replace
Woshineton's Own

Orders sending the 18th Infantry
Regiment from Arlington Canton
ment to Fort Dix, N. j.. for training
were announced yesterday by the
War Department.
The infantrymen will be sent to
New Jersey between June l and Is
and will be replaced by a newly
created unit, the 7O3d Military Po-
lice Battalion, zone of the interior,
the announcement said.
1t was disclosed that the 18th
Infantry, which now has only two
battalions, will receive third at
Fort Dix to make it full regiment.
At the expanding New Jersey post
the unit will complete advanced
training with the 44th National
Guard Division from New York and
New Jersey and other field forces.
Called "Washington's Own"
"Washington's Own" as the 18th
Infantry has become known, will
lose Col. Oswald H. Saunders June
Is. He will be succeeded by Col.
Carroll A. Bagby, now professor of
military science and tactics at the
University of Iowa.
Col. Saunders is due to be made
assistant commandant of the Com
mand and General Staff School at
Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
The War Department said the new
703d Military Police Battalion will
be formed June l. 1t will be as
signed to the Washington Provision
al Brigade and be commanded by
1t. Col. Everett M. Yon, who is now
on the staff of the Provisional
Brigade. Last year 1t Col Yon was
an assistant professor of military
science and tactics at Georgetown
University.
To Be at Full Strength.
This police battalion will have a
full strength of approximately $40
men. To accomplish this, 518 men
of the 18th Infantry will be trans
ferred to it prior to the regiments
departure for Fort Dix. An addi-
tional So men will come from the
Coast Artillery Replacement Center.
Camp Eustis, Va, as soon as they
complete Is weeks of basic training.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30

smoke of his own chimney.
These, of course, were exceptions
to the typical old colored man who
told the agricultural agent he would
be glad to move out
eff there's gwine to be shootin'
round my place, I don't want to be
there" he declared.
In every instance there is an air
of resignation-and none of it is
bitter. Residents take the evacua-
ton as inevitable, all for defense.
Their only protest is over the ma
tional labor situation.
TT don't look fair for us to have
to give up our homes, our crops and
our neighbors to aid national de-
fense," complained one veteran,
when union members walk out on
their jobs and tie up vital part of
defense just for a few more cents an
hour"
Wild Terrain Sought.
The Army's newest training camp,
to consist both of maneuvering
grounds and an artillery range, will
take out of Virginia one of its typi-
cal rural sections, an area where
families stepped into the footsteps
of their forefathers of several gen.
erations, where property is without
deed because 1t has not changed
hands since the days of the kings
land grant. 1t was near there at
Guinea Station that Stonewall Jack
son died. On its outskirts, to the
northeast, is Port Royal, once thriv-
ing tobacco port mentioned, tradi-
ton says, as a possible site for the
National Capital.
The War Department called for
land where troops could train on
terrain as near natural as possible
That is what the War Department
will get. There Is practically no
activity other than farming in this
part of Virginia. potato curing
house and a planning mill, but moth
ing else.
Bowling Green and Caroline
County both are stunned over this
thing that is about to happen to
them. They fought it. but they lost
The greatest lamentation is heard
along the corn rows and byways OF
the area to be vacated. Men come
| out of the saplings and sumac
bushes to stand at their mail boxes
the country folks street corner
and talk with the occasional passer-
by.
Hard to Find New Farms.
tits mighty hard to find q place.
they say. Farms are scarce and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
One Is Killed,
13 Injured
In Accidents
Medical Corps Major
And Daughter Hurt
When Autos Crash

One person was killed and IS 9TH
ers were injured in pre-holiday traf-
fic accidents in Washington and its
vicinity. The fatality, recorded dur
ing last nights rain, was the 34th Of
the year for the District, nine more
than at this time last year.
The victim was Edward Car
michael, 80, colored, who was run
over by an automobile on Virginia
avenue S.W., near Fourth street.
According to information furnished
police, he was lying in the street be-
fore being hit.
The accident took place almost in
front of Carmichael's home, 329 Vir-
ginia avenue, police said. He was
rushed to Casualty Hospital and
pronounced dead 40 minutes later.
Police released the driver, Robert
w. Allison, 81, of 1850 Twenty.
fourth street Sc, pending a cor
oners inquest.
Major and Daughter Hurt.
In serious condition at Walter
Reed Hospital today was 7-year-old
Betty Neale. daughter of Maj.
Claude L. Neale of the Army Medi~
cal Corps. Police said she and her
father we're injured yesterday
when the car he was driving was
in collision at Third and Hamilton
streets NV. Both received head
injuries and we're removed to WAL
ter Reed after treatment at Casu-
atty Hospital. Maj Neale, whose
home is 1869 Hamilton street NV,
has been on duty at Walter Reed.
A passenger in the second car
involved in the accident, Mrs. H. G..
Anderson. 81, of Takoma Park.
| Md, was treated by a private
physician for bruises and strains,
police said.
His motorcycle skidding on wet
Washington drive. near Twelfth
street NV, Henry Fur, 10, OF
Arlington. Va, possibly suffered a
skull fracture. He was treated at
Emergency Hospital.
Four persons were slightly injured
early today in an accident at the
3400 block of Pennsylvania avenue
Sc. They were Frank Del Vecchio,
so, of 3400 Pennsylvania avenue Sc:
Nathan Lewis. Al. Of $40 Eleventh
street Sc. and Margaret L. Cox.
90. and John L. Priest, 81, both OF
Alexandria, Va.
Accident on Defense Highway.
From an accident at Defense and
Grain highways. Robert Mayer. 81.
of Bay Ridge, Md, was rushed to
Casualty Hospital last night by the
| Glenn Dale Rescue Squad. He was
! treated for head injuries.
+ Eva Langston, 20, and 2-year-old
! Jerry Langston of 622 Massachu.
sets avenue NV. we're struck by
a truck at Third and H streets NV,
police reported They were treated
for minor cuts and bruises at Emer-
gency Hospital.
When an auto and his bicycle col
lided, 13-year-old Roy Ferrill Of
1902 Fourteenth street NV, pos
sibly suffered a shoulder fracture
and internal injuries, police report
ed. He was taken from the scene.
Fourteenth and Upshur streets, to
Emergency Hospital.
An automobile struck Hugh Skin
ner, II, of 333 Fourteenth street
NE, as he was running across Ten
nessee avenue in the 400 block, po-
lice said. He returned home after
treatment at Casualty Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
BranchviIIe Crossing
Bids Are Advertised

Bids for a Federal aid project for
the construction of a railroad grade
separation structure at Branchville,
Md, and its approaches, including
a relocation of the Branchville road
from the Edmonston- Greenbelt road
to the Baltimore-Washington boule-
ward, were advertised yesterday by
the State Road Commission.
The surface of the road is to be
concrete. Cost of construction is
estimated at S375, 900. Bids on the
project, it was announced, will be
opened at the commission offices on
June 10.
The railroad crossing at Branch
vile has been the scene OF nu-
merous .'atal accidents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
0'Conor Signs
Anti-Sabotage
Bill, 81 Others
Law Not Anti-Lobor,
Governor Asserts,
Ignoring Protests
By the Associated Press.


ANNAPOLIS, May 30.-Maryland's
statute books today contained 854
new laws-most of them effective
starting Sunday-including SO signed
yesterday by Gov. O'Conor
Among the 80 was an anti-sabotage
enactment. Gov. O'Conor yesterday
also vetoed % bills to complete action
on the 937 measures ground out by
the General Assembly at its last
session. In all, the Governor re-
jected 83 bills.
State law required his action by
June l, the date on which almost
all the measures become effective.
Anti-Sabotage Law Necessary"
Gov. OConor called the anti
sabotage law necessary for the good
of our country and as proper means
of protection against the enemies Of,
America
The measure provides penalties of
10 years Imprisonment, $4,000 fine,
or both for destroying or tampering
with property with intention to
hinder or delay "the preparation Of
the United States for defense
or for war"
The law was opposed by the C. I.
o. 1t permits labor to strike or
picket but prohibits picket lines
within any restricted zones around
defense plants. Gov. O'Conor as
serted the law was not "anti-labor"
but was directed against subversive
elements
Other major measures signed yes
terday:
Require installment sales con-
tracts to specify interest rate and
other pertinent facts to protect the
purchaser.
Judges Pensions Increased.
Increased judges pensions from
$4,000 to $4,000, depending on length
of service. with the Governor saying
he would ask the next Legislature
to correct an unfortunate omission"
in the measure which made no
provision for judges serving be-
tween 5 and 10 years Gov. O'Conor
said he would ask that any judge
"deprived of proper allowance"
Through oversight be reimbursed.
OutlaWed Shutdown strikes.
Divorced the State loan laws ad-
ministrator from jurisdiction of the
State banking commissioner.
Increased the axle load for trucks
on Maryland highways from 10000
to % 400 pounds, but limited truck
combinations to length of S. feet
and weight of $3.50 pounds.
Vetoed were the perishable food
bill to prohibit malicious inter-
ference with transportation of
perishable foodstuffs in intrastate
commerce, and a measure to give
the parole director exclusive au-
thority to grant paroles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Funeral Rites Held
For Reginald T. Darby

Special Dispatch TO Inc star.
GAINESVILLE, Md, May 80
Funeral services for James Darby,
SO, of the Auditing Division of the
Office of the Alien Property Custo-
dian, who died in Washington
Hotel after an illness of two weeks,
were held today at the funeral
home of William B. Hilton here.
The Rev. Guy Crook. rector of the
Episcopal Church at Poolesville,
conducted the services. Burial was
in Monocacy Cemetery, Beallsville,
Md.
Mr.. Darby is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Mary Hays Darby; daughter,
Mrs. Thomas r. MacLea. Towson,
Md; a son, James Darby, Forest
Glen; two sisters, Mrs. Isaac Fyffe,
PooleSville, and Mrs. William Mat
tingly, Chevy Chase, and two grand
children.
Before entering Government serv-
ice. Mr.. Darby was in the milling
business at Buck Lodge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
GreenbeIt Told
Pets Must Go
This Week
the Associated Press.

GREENBELT. Md, May 3o.-Pets
must go at this Federal housing
settlement
One week of grace was allowed by
Roy S. Braden, Greenbelt supervisor,
for the removal of pets of all kinds
brought into Greenbelt despite regu-
lations forbidding dogs, cats and
other animals.
ut has been brought to our atten-
tion," Mr.. Braden wrote all residents,
that numerous pets. such as chick
ems, ducks, rabbits, kittens and in
some cases, dogs have been brought
into Greenbelt homes since the
Easter season. We must insist
that these pets be removed from the
premises within the present week"
AS step to safeguard smaller
children, Mr.. Braden also urged that
steps be taken to prevent riding of
bicycles on sidewalks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Berwyn Referendum
Registration Is Set

The Berwyn MD District Civic
Association will hold registration
from to pm. tomorrow and Mon
day for the referendum on incor-
poration of the Berwyn area.
The registration will be held in the
Branchville Fire Hall. The refer
endum also will be held in the fire
hall from l to 9 pm. June S. The
incorporated area is bounded on the
north by Edgewood road, on the
south by Lakeland, on the east by
Berwyn. Heights and on the west by
Paint Branch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
HoIdup Man Sentenced

BALTIMORE, May 80 P.-Judge
J. Craig McLanahan yesterday SEN
fenced Harry Eyer, former convict,
to serve a total of 10 years in the
Maryland Peniteniary after convic-
ton on three charges in the holdup
of a Baltimore finance company last
month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30

VINO SUOOQ on
a street corner
in the town and
W ept openly,
too broken up
to talk. Or the
old colore d
W ON an W h o
tearfully poured
out her troubles
in the Office of
County Agricul-
tural Agent C.. E.
Lanford. Or the
suicide of the
man who rarely
had been out of
irI 1f Tho
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30

In May, Beware OF:
/. Careless walking at night.
Six of the eight persons killed
in traffic during May. 1910.
we're struck after dark.
2. Crossing a street at q point
other than a crosswalk. Two
pedestrians met death by this
action in May last wear.
The six other traffic victims
were injured while either cross
ing a street against a proper
signal, attempting TO jump onto
a moving vehicle, attempting to
stop stampeding horses. stand
ing in q button safety zone.
crossing at an uncontrolled In
tersection or riding In an auto
mobile. . -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Manassas Industrial School
Will Graduate 79 Today
Special Dispatch to The Star.


MANASSAS, Va, May 30.-The
Rev. w. H. Barnes of the Manassas
Industrial School has announced
that the following 70 students will
receive certificates of graduation at
the commencement exercises today:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
Ordered Her House Torn
Down and Burned

thereon and transported TO the
adjoining field and destroyed by
fire.
There is a law in Maine that
prevents burning dwelling
house. But there is no law in the
world against burning the lumber
of a house that has been torn
down, so long as it is done in a
safe place. Soon workmen will
start otsaking up" the fine old
Cape Cod farmhouse and heaping
the material in the adjoining
field as directed in Miss Fosters
will.
Right after the first snow
storm. to be sure the fire doesn't
spread, the match will be applied.
1t will be a big blaze for all the
materials from the great red
barn and several outbuildings are
TO be burned with the house The
whole thing is a sad blow 10
several wealthy city families who
have long wanted the place for
Summer home and were willing
TO pay a fancy price for it.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
Astonishing Evidence That Race
of Warrior Women Still Survives

entines." This man said he knew
of male babies being sent back to
their fathers. He concludes with
the prophecy that time will re-
veal the truth of the matter
Little did the Padre realize
how long that time would be!
/ venture that when the truth
does come out, it will be found
that different Amazon states diff
fered in this custom and possibly
changed in the same state, under
different Queens.
Such minor discrepancies
among many witnesses are usu-
ally a good sign that they are
all trying TO tell their version of
a general truth behind it all.
Perhaps too, when the maternal
tenderness for her boy baby be-
gan TO assert itself, even in the
fierce Amazon breast, the ruler
may have considered it high time
to take her followers on one of
those long, hardening tricks.
Though these fighting women
traversed jungles not yet pene-
trated by white men. crossed
frozen mountain passes. and
faced hostile native armies, their
New World travels become in
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giants, and indeed they did
A decade or more after Orel-
lana's unpleasant meeting with
the twelve fatal women, Noronha.
Portuguese Governor of Para,
Brazil, sent an expedition, COM
manded by Pedro de Texeira, a
man of the old bandeirista type.
With seventy Portuguese soldiers
and I 200 natives, in seventy
canoes, he travcrsed about the
. same route as did Orellana. but
m the opposite direction.
The monk. Padre dc Acuna.
was appointed chronicler Of the
expedition and knew that his ac-
count would be presented TO ell
Ecy Don Felpa III who was
then Joint King Of Portugal and
Spain knowing that his log of
the expedition would be criticized
and double-checked. would make
even a less conservative man ex-
ira cautious in what he said
For great distances along the
Amazon River, the natives as
sured him OF the existence of
these women warriors. His &C
count locates the -"Canuri" ANA
IONS about where Orellana en-
countered them but explains that
their home was far back from
the river itself He makes this
comment:
1T is not credible that a lie
could be spread throughout so
many tongues and nations, with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
7tfhoto Copyright by Brown Bros.)

such an appearance of truth. If
it were not true thsn the great
est lie in all the New World
would pass more certainly than
all the truths of history
These man-like women" he
states, dwell in great forests on
lofty hills among which is one
that rises very high above the
rest and is beaten by the winds
for its pride, with the most vio-
lence; so that it is bare of veg
citation
This mountain is called Vac
amiaba and the cordillera is
called the -Geyana The women
have their pucblos on top OF
these prodigiously high noun
tains The Amazons are women
OF great valor and have always
preserved themselves from the
ordinary intercourse with men,
even when their neighbors visit
them at the times appointed.
g.. They receive them (the
visiting mem with bows and ar
rows in their hands, which they
brandish about them for some
time: for they will not be taken
by surprise and must be sat
isfied that the Indians come with
peaceable intentions. The women
then drop their arms and 60
down to the canoes where each
one chooses the hammock Of the
man nearest her chat being the
bed on which he sleeps and then
each woman takes the hammock
to her house and hangs il up in
a place where its owner will
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

significant when we follow their
footsteps from the Old World.
Fray Gill a missioner monk of
the later part of the seventeenth
century, mentions that Indians
Of the Quagua tribe call the ANA
IONS "Aikeambenananos" or Wo-
men who live alone They are not
the only ones who use that same
word, in much the same form in
South America.
And Colonel Fawcett has pointed
out that in Sanskrit, of old Hin
dustan, there are described the
"manusa y'akcneana," women
who are, IAfaaFf+eav--
Here we have language link
between old India and new
South America.
There are indeed more tangible
though perhaps no less perisha-
BILE objects. The old Phoenicians
carried small replicas and built
bigger ones of the two pillars of
Hercules" representing the en-
trance to the Mediterranean and
believed TO be a racial memory
Of the vast eataclysm which
opened that formerly landlocked
lake to the Atlantic Ocean.
In the vicinity Of Lake Mara
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

caibo. Venezuela. now famous
as an oil region, Don Jiminez de
Quesada has recorded his aston
ishment at the ruins Of two
mighty columns Of stone whose
base covered third Of a Span
ish square league and whose
tops must have lowered to the
clouds"
He called them Furetana, in
the belief that they once carried
beacon fires. The twin pillars
were common along highways in
smaller form, apparently as road
markers. We may well wonder,
Ayith-the. -Spaniards. why they
were always double when the
same result could have been at
tanned as well with a single one,
at half the labor cost.
Behind the jungles, the noun
tains and the equally impossible
swamps Of Spanish America, l
believe still exist the descendants
Of warrior women who can tell
us that and a thousand other
things about the glory that was
woman in what may have been
the mother Of all civilizations.
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lContinucd from Page -16)-

f1Cr nc had no notion of what he
was saying
Presently the boy came round
calling "All visitors ashore.
please And he pppNed himself
to 20 and say good-by TO Sandra.
lie had just begun, stammering
ami even not managing his grin
very cIcditably, when she said
calmly oh, but you're mistaken,
Ashley. I'm not going. Did you
think was ?"
Ills chief emotion was such
overwhelming relief nc didn't
even answer her Re wanted 20
shout and throw his arms about
ner and hug her but at last he
managed Ia say weakly. % Aren't
you? heard you were
You've been misinformed
then" she said AS a matter Of
fact am taking. A position here
You arc taking a position
here ?'
YES. You sec il. Is necessary
for me to work for my living
since ! turned over my income
10 Father. l saw Sir Hugo
yesterday afternoon. l am going
to take Junc's place"
You are going to work ncre?
You arc going to type my
reports ?" He almost shouted it,
YES, but don't worry that l
won't be efficient. studied
shorthand and typewrlting. l
Thought II necessary against such
an eventuality as this"
do YOU mean TO say l am
gong to have to look at you
every day sitting behind that
blasted typewriter"
There will be no need 10 look
at me too often. You will be
getting along with your own