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Evening star., 1941-10-21
Hearing Called Thursday
In Browning Staying
BY the Associated Press.


BEL AIR, Md, Oct. 21.-Three
Virginia young people will be given
a preliminary hearing at 10 am.
Thursday on charges of Staying
Granger G. Browning, 40, and may
be taken to the scene of the killing
The hearing will be held before
Magistrate Stanley S. Spencer.
Hartford County Sheriff Walter
Bennington said the hearing had
been requested by Defense Counsel
Hanserd K. Presley, Washington.
Sheriff Bennington said the ac-
cused trio might be taken into the
area where Mr.. Browning's body was
found last Thursday.
I'VE intend to obtain permission
Of the court to take the boy and the
girls to this location and re-enact
the shooting tomorrow or the next
day" the sheriff said
The three Alexandria Va) stu
dents, who said Mr.. Browning had
offered them a ride, we're kept,
meanwhile, at the Bel Air Jail, and
no visitors were admitted. The three
are Herbert H. Cox, jr., 16; Ada May,
Price, Is, and Leona Ellen Cunning
ham, IA.
They were brought back from
Portland, Me-where they had
driven in Mr.. Brownings car-after
warrants charging them with the
Staying were issued in Hartford
County.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Argentine Deputies
Entertained Here as
Guests Of House
Lawmakers Watch
Congress in Action;
Will Attend Concert

Twelve members of the Argentine
/ Chamber of Deputies were given a
/ f1rst-hand view of workings of the
/ United States Government on q
good neighbor" visit here today.
1 The Argentine legislators, here as
official guests of the House of Rep
resentatives, planned to watch Con-
/ gress in sessions after calls on Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Secretary of State
Hull and luncheon with Speaker
Rayburn.
The first full day of their three
day stay here was rounded out by
visits TO the Library of Congress, the
Supreme Court, the National Art
Gallery and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and concert at
Constitution Hall tonight. The Dep
uties will be guests of the State
Department at the Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra concert.
Headed by Speaker Cantilo, the
Argentine lawmakers and their
wives arrived at Union Station late
yesterday. They were greeted by
Speaker Rayburn, Chairman Bloom
of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee and Representatives of the
State Department and Pan-Amer-
ican Union.
The visitors met most of WASH
ington officialdom at a reception
given by Speaker Rayburn at the
Pan-American Union last night.
The group included Raul Da-
monte Taborda, head of the cham
ber committee investigating anti
Argentine activities, who said he was
looking forward to comforting with
Chairman Dies of the House Com
mittee Investigating Un-American
Activities.
The visit here comes "at a most
opportune time to consolidate cul-
tural and economic relations be-
tween the United States and Argen-
tina" Mr. Taborda was quoted by
the Associated Press as saying on
arrival in this country. He de-
scribed the reciprocal trade agree
ment recently signed as beginning
"a new policy for closer relations. .
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Senate Committee
To Consider Rider
For 100 More Police
DisopprovoI Would
Still Leove Way
Open for Action

The proposal to add 100 men to
the District police force as an
amendment to the new lease-lend
bill goes before the Senate Appro-
priations Committee for action to-
day, with reliable reports indicating
the subcommittee in charge of the
measure has gone on record against
the police amendment.
Even if the Senate rejects the in
crease in the size Of the police force
however, the question would still be
subject to final settlement in con-
ference. since the House put the
provision in the lease-lend bill
The House about two months age
passed a separate bill for the 1O0
additional bluecoats, and that bill
is still pending before the Senate
Subcommittee on Defciencies-the
same subcommittee handling the
lease-lend bill.
There was reported some reason
to believe today that the police item
may be taken up in this separate
bill If House and Senate conferees
finally agree to leave it out OF the
lease-lend measure.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Mt. Rainier Boy Recovering
After Shooting Self in Lea

Four-year-ol Walter James An
derSon, son of Walter S. Anderson,
3401 Thirty street, Mount
Rainier Md, who shot himself with
his fathers .38-caliber pistol yes
terday, was reported recovering in
Sibley Hospital today.
Attendants said the bullet frac-
tured the thigh bone near the hip
but that his condition was good
He was brought to the hospital
after his aunt, Mrs. Norma Ander-
son, found him on the second floor
of the Anderson home.
While his mother was at the gro
cery store and his father, a night
watchman for the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission. slept
in a second-f1oor bedroom, the boy
found the pistol in a cupboard. po-
lice said. He was playing with it
on the sidewalk in front of the
home when it went off. He man.
aged to crawl upstairs before he COL
lapsed. His aunt summoned the
ambulance.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Mrs. Mary Fowler Wins
Sculpture Competition

Mrs. Mary Blackford Fowler of
Washington has been judged winner
In a competition to select sculpture
reliefs to decorate the Newport
News (VaD Post Office, Court House
and Custom House, the Fine Arts
Section of the Public Buildings Ad-
n1inistration announced today.
Mrs. Fowlers five reliefs will be
executed in unglazed terra Gotta
They symbolic early and present
day industries.
Mrs. Fowler studied at the Cor
eoran Gallery of Art here, where
she since has exhibited, as we'll as
at the Maryland Institute. She is
a member of the Society of Wash
ington Artists.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
145 Woman Volunteers Join
In Test of Motor Conveys
Ninety Autos Rush to Six Positions
In Stimulation Of Emergency Work

Of their problem only few seconds
before their cars pulled away from
the Connecticut avenue headquar-
ters. The conveys began moving at
7:30 pm.
Miss Alice Fowler, director of the
A. w. v. S. night unit. and Miss
Nancy Long, in charge of the night
motor corps unit, hurried from one
car to another, aiding Mr.. Gould in
issuing instructions. Mrs. Raymond
Lee. director of the Washington
group, was in one of the conveys.
Tests to Eyaluate Workers.
I'VE want to know just what this
organization has 10 offer in the way
of emergency workers when the time
comes Mr.. Gould commented.
This problem tonight is one of a
series We have planned to eliminate
poor drivers and aides and evaluate
the potentialities of our efficient
workers"
The participants. made up for the
most part of women who work in
the Government and elsewhere dur
ing the day. seemed to enjoy the
surprise problem They diligently
made out detailed reports of their
speedy tour through the city and
relaxed at headquarters after the
problems were over to compare
notes. More than one of the woman
/ drivers remarked:
Wasn't it great to run through
red lights with a policeman in front
of YOU rather than behind?"
The A. w. v. S. was founded In
January, 1910. in New York by Mrs
Alice T. Mclean. 1t now has more
than 80 900 members in lib units in
26 States, the Canal Zone ano
Alaska
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Six motor convoys of women vol

Six motor conveys of women VOL
unteers sped through the city with
police escorts last night in a timed
stimulation of emergency evacuation
work.
More than 145 women. members
of the Washington unit of the
American Women's Voluntary Serv-
ices, participated in the maneuvers.
In the conveys were more than 80
automobiles. kept in readiness by
the members for emergecy work.
One convoy dashed to Gallinger
Hospital from the organization's S
headquarters at l640 Connecticut
avenue NV. and returned in an
overall time of II minutes. Accord
ing to the report filed by the convoy
commander. the trip to the hospital
was made in four minutes.
Little Warning Given.
Other conveys were sent TO Walter
Reed, St. Elizabeth's and Garfield
Hospitals. the National Airport and
the Army War College. Six men,
bers of the Chevy Chase First Aid
Corps accompanied the St. Eliza
beth's convoy in their ambulance.
The problem was a part OF the
A. w. V. S. training in motor corps
and evacuation work, and was ar
ranged under the direction of Sidney
Raymond Gould, director of safety
education for the Washington or
ganization. Purpose of the problem
was to see how quickly motor corps
members and aides could be sum-
money for emergency work. and how
speedily they could reach assign
ment points.
Participants were summoned after
S pm. yesterday and were informed
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Patriotic Order Opens
Annual Session Here

White-clad women. bearing flags
and banners. marched into the ball
room of the Willard Hotel today to
usher in the 45th annual session of
the Patriotic Order of Americans.
The women in white were the
national officers and committees,
and their ceremonious entry, pre-
ceded by a color guard, was made in
files of two, to the rhythm of a
musical accompaniment. The seated
delegates rose, and the national
president. Mrs. Mary Rineer Of
Pennsylvania, called the closed
business meetings to order.
The white-garbed patrols num-
bered $50. Altogether more than 40C
delegates were present from camps
scattered all over the country. Five
camps of the District and one in
Alexandria, Va, were literally
represented.
The annual banquet, open to the
public, will be held at the hotel to-
night. The principal speaker will be
Alexander F. Jones, managing editor
of the Washington Post. Mrs. Rineer
and Mrs. Minnetta Bowker of New
Jersey, national secretary, will
respond.
A public reception was held yes
terday. The national president
placed a wreath on the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier and a wreath was
left at the tomb of Washington at
Mount Vernon by the national vice
president, Mrs. Ethel Murray OF New
Jersey.
Resolutions will be taken up and
officers elected at sessions tomorrow
The Washington Committee on Ar
rangements is headed by Mrs. Emma
NJ. Buell., Mrs. Lillian M. Chestnut
and Mrs. Ethel Stone. T.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Claim Against Army
For Ruincouts Rejected

District Court Justice David A.
Pine yesterday refused to order Maj.
Gen. H. K. Loughry, chief of finance,
War Department, to pay the Gable
Raincoat Co. of Boston $32, 2,248 for
some raincoats assertedly furnished
to the department.
The company had sought man.
datory injunction against Gen.
Loughry and Controller General
Lindsay C. Warren, who had or
dered payment of the money halted.
Assistant United States Attorney
Bernard j. Long argued on behalf
of the Government that the firm
has its remedy in the Court of
Claims, but cannot proceed legally
through a mandatory injunction.
He also said the War Department
has counterclaim pending against
the company.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
10. p. M. to Send
| Special Trains
| After Contracts
By the Associated Press.


Three special trains painted red,
white and blue will carry Govern
ment defense officials on a tour Of
the country beginning November 10
to make sure. in the words of the
ONCE of Production Management,
that no qualified manufacturer
misses an opportunity to get a de-
fense contract for lack of informa =
ton"
The trains. each made up of eight
cars, will pull out of Washington
simultaneously. One will go to points
along the Eastern Seaboard, another
to the Mid West and the third to
the West Coast, returning via the
South.
Officials of the Army, Navy,
Maritime Commission and the o.
p M. will be aboard. They hope to
interview 10000 small manufacturers
during the stops at principal cities.
The tour is expected to take a
month.
Floyd B. Odlum, director of the
Contract Distribution Division, an
nounced the tour today He said
the trains would contain exhibits
Of needed defense equipment and
parts, as well as blueprints and
specifications.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
zoning Commission
Discusses PARKING,
But Delays Decision
Action Also Deferred
On Petition TO Build
500, 900 Apartment

Problems of a downtown parking
ban and off street parking facilities
in new construction in outer areas
were discussed yesterday by the
Zoning Commission in executive
session, but no decisions were made.
Although downtown parking
ban is desirable, it was indicated,
commission members felt it could not
be made effective until provision is
made for of street parking.
Inquiry vii be made into the pos
sibility of interesting private capital
in off-street parking projects by
providing for a parking ban to be-
come effective at some future date.
If assured the ban would be in
voked, it was thought, private in
vestors might to be induced TO pro-
vide spaces and garages.
Petition Is Referred.
Actually. however, the authority
of the Zoning Commission IN the
traffic problem enters only the pro-
posal made at recent hearings al
the Capital to require new con-
struction to provide off street park
ing. it was pointed out.
The commission also deferred act.
ing on a petition to construct a s70O,-
600 apartment house at Sixteenth
and Shepherd streets NV. pending
the return of Commissioner John
Russell Young, who has been i'll.
While deferring action on the Six
teenth and Shepherd streets apart
ment project, the commission ap-
proved nine other proposals ano
rejected seven considered at the
public hearing October 8.
Those approved included the fol-
lowing;
Change to residential A semi-re
stricted, property at Brandywine
street, River road and Forty-secono
street NV.
Change to residential A semi-re-
stricted. property on the northern
side of Cortland place between
Twenty eighth and Twenty-ninth
streets NV.
Change to First Commercial.
Change to first commercial, prop
erty on the west side of Connecticut
avenue south of Idaho avenue NV
Change to second commercial
property adjacent to the right OF
way of the Metropolitan branch Of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad al
Spring place, Takoma, D. c.
Change to first commercial, prop
erty on the west side of Bladens'
burg road south of Montana ave-
nue. NE.
Change to first commercial. prop
erty on either side of Pennsylvania
avenue at Fairlawn avenue Sc.
Change to residential A area
property bounded by Perry. Oti:
and Twelfth streets and Michigan
avenue NE.
Change TO Residential.
Change to residential 90-foot c
area, property on the south side Of
K between Twenty fifth and TWen-
ty-sixth streets NV.
Change to residential A area
property on Naylor road anc
Twenty fifth street south OF R
street Sc.
The commission denied proposal,
to permit a first commercial use oi
lots on the west side of Connecticut
avenue between Newark and Ma.
comb streets NV, to permit apart
ment house use for property on the
north side Of Irving street between
Eighteenth and Twentieth streets
NE, and to permit first CONNER
cial use for a chain grocery on the
east side of Fourteenth between
Jefferson and Kennedy streets NV
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Deputies TO Receive
Voters Declarations

Deputy clerks OF Montgomery
County Circuit Court will sit in the
county buildings at Silver Spring
and Bethesda from pm. to $50
pm. tomorrow, Thursday and Fri
day to receive declarations of inten-
tions to vote from residents of those
areas, it was announced today by
Clayton K. Watkins, Circuit Court
clerk.
Mr.. Watkins explained that new
residents of Maryland wishing to
vote must swear they have lived in
the county for more than a year be-
fore they are permitted to register.
Hitherto. he said, these declarations
were made before him only in Rock
vile. The new set-up is designed
to afford greater convenience for
those who are unable to get to the
county seat during the day.
The deadline for receiving such
declarations is November l.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Standardized Test
Urged 10 Aid Children
With Impaired Ears
Hard of Hearing Society
Vice President Opens
Observance of Week

An understanding by the public
OF the problems of the deaf and
compulsory hearing tests for chill
dren are the two goals to be attained
by the hard of hearing, Conrad G
Selvig, vice president of the Amer
lean Society for the Hard of Hear
ing. said last night at the opening
observance of National Hearing
Week here.
Speaking before the Washington
Society for the Hard Of Hearing. Mr.
Selvig emphasized that children
with impaired hearing could be
crippled" even though they had no
orthopedic ailments. Hearing tests
must be standardized before these
children can be fully helped, he
pointed out.
Stressing the fuller life that can
come to those who will exert them
selves" Mr.. Selvig urged the men,
bers of the Washington group TO
help increase the membership of the
national organization from 1000 to
10000"
Mrs. James F. Norris, past presi-
dent of the American Society,
outlined a history of the organiza-
ton and mentioned the strides
which have been made in improving
hearing aids recently.
An exhibit of hearing aids will be
displayed at the groups headquar-
ters. 243l Fourteenth street NV.
on Wednesday as part of the OBJ
servance of National Hearing Week
A film on lip-reading will be shown
at 8 pm. A talk on hobbies for the
day will be given Saturday by Mrs.
St. Julien Cullum.
Federal Security Agency Admin
istrator McNutt will speak over VOL
Wednesday at l1:l5 pm. on Federal
Aid for the Hard of Hearing"
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Everett to Address
Jewish Center

Ray Everett, director of the Social
Hygiene Society, will address the
Jewish Community Center Institute
at $3.50 pm. tomorrow on Marriage
and the Family" He will be the
first speaker in a series of weekly
discussions on the subject of mar
riage, during which outstanding
physicians and social workers will
be heard. Simon Hirshman, chair
man of the Educational Committee
of the center. will preside.
At $50 O'Clock Thursday night the
center will inaugurate its weekly
Town Hall discussion program. The
subject is. will Land, Air or Sea
Power Win This War;" Benjamin
Prayer is chairman OF tiae group.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Congress kGiven
Baby Broker Bill 10
Regulate Adoptions
Commissioners Coll
For Prompt Enactment
Of Placement Measure

The long awaited bill to regulate
so-called baby brokers" in the Dis
trict through licensing by the Com
missioners and development Of child
placement standards was at the
Capitol today with the recommends
ton of the city heads for prompt
enactment.
Approved by the Budget Bureau,
the measure would give the Capital
a law similar to those in most States
covering the practice of child place
ment in foster homes, it was stated.
The bill was drawn by a commit
tee representing the Council of So
cial Agencies, the United States
Children's Bureau and the Board Of
Public Welfare.
Under its provisions. each agency
dealing with child placement must
be licensed by the Commissioners
and a committee would be named by
the city heads to set up suitable
Standards Penalty for violation of
the act or regulations drawn under
it would be $500 or 80 days in Jail.
The measure covers children un-
der Is who are placed in foster
homes for care or adoption. One Of
the most important effects seen in
the passage of the bill, the Commis-
sioners said, would be prevention OF
careless placement Of babies for
adoption without adequate consid-
Grafton of the interests of the par
ents, the children and the foster
parents.
Effective date of the measure
would be four months after sigma
ture by the President for all sec
tions except that covering creation
of the Standards Committee The
committee would be set up imme-
diately on enactment.
The bill was approved by the
Board of Public Welfare last Feb
ruary and had the support of nu-
merous social workers.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Three More British Ships
In U. S. for Repairs

The Navy Department announced
today the names of three additional
British warships in United States
ports, presumably for repairs. To-
days announcement brings the total
number in American ports to IS,
unless some have left without an
nouncement having been made.
The three latest ships are the
auxiliary minelayer Agamemnon, at
the Maryland Dry Dock Co., in Bal
timore; the armed auxiliary cruiser
Cathay, in New York, and the cor
svette Candy Tuft, also in New YQtk.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Order of Serpent Head
Will Visit Capital

Rex G. Post of Massachusetts,,
supreme thrice of the Military Or
der of the Serpent, will make an
official visit to the District of Co.
lumbia Lair at 935 G place NV.
at 7:30 pm. Thursday.
He will arrive here tomorrow with
his wife and daughter and will be
escorted to the Continental Hotel
by local delegation.
A large class of new members will
be initiated Thursday night. Many
United Spanish War Veterans are
expected to attend.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Girl Scout Convention
Honors Miss Durrett

Miss Eleanor Durrett, director OF
the Girl Scouts of Washington, has
been elected vice president of the
National Association of Girl Scout
Executives, in convention at Dallas
Tex, the Associated Press reported
yesterday.
Miss Durrett has been head OF
the local Girl Scout organization
two years, formerly having engaged
in the work in the Panama Canal
Zone. A native of West Virginia,
she makes her home at 1900 Six
teenth street NV.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Christian Endeuvor
Plans Annual Service

The Golden Rule Christian En-
deavor Union of the District will
hold its annual fall vesper service
at pm. Sunday at the Nineteenth
Street Baptist Church, of which the
Rev. Walter H. Brooks is pastor.
The guest speakers will be Miss
Pauline Shoemaker. associate presi-
dent of the Interna tional Society of
Christian Endeavor, and Arch J
McQuilkin. vice president in charge
of the Middle Atlantic Regional
Conference. E. w. Freeman, presi-
dent of the union, will preside.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Dr.. ConneII to Speak

The Rev. DR.. Francis Connell,
c. S. S. R., will speak on The
Spirit of Catholicism" at 8:l5 o'clock
tonight at the Study Guild Catholic
Library, 1725 Rhode Island avenue
NV, in the first of a series of lee.
lures to be given at the library each
Tuesday night.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Totals to date

Totals to date SIS "A
In October, Beware Of:
/. The hours between mid
night and am. Three persons
were killed within this two-hour
period in October last year.
2. Crossing a street at some
point other than q crosswalk.
Two pedestrians met death in
october, 1910, while doing this.
One Of the two ran out from
between parked cars.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Granted Scholarship

Theodore A. Searle. 800 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, has been
granted a partial scholarship at
Hamilton College. Clinton. N. "
where he Is a member of the Junior
class.
Evening star., 1941-10-21
Ouontico Postmaster Named

The Senate yesterday confirmed
the nomination Of o. NJ Sisson to
be postmaster ut Quantico, Va.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-03
MORMON CHURCH BOOK SOON TO BE
 AVAILABLE HERE

Through the newly adopted mis- sionary system of the Mormon Church, the residents of Juneau will soon have the opportunity of read ing the book that is said to have deeply affected the lives of millions s,ince it's publication. Known throughout the world, the Book of Mormon" has been printed in IT different languages and annually sells over 85,00O copies after 1l0 years its publication. The effect that the book has had on the lives of many people reads as a story book. Shortly after its publication and introduction into Europe, thou sands migrated to America that they might be closer to this religion. Many were killed because of their belief in the book, including the American Prophet" Joseph Smith, who translated the book from an- cient records left by deceased race of people on the western hemi- sphere.
 It was because of the beliefs set forth in this book that thousands of Latter-Day Saints followed Brig ham Young across the plains in the epic making Mormon migration to the West, and there in the wilder ness set forth to build up civiliza- ton that would respect their re- ligious beliefs.
 The contents of the book is an ancient record containing the story of civilization on the western hemisphere before the discovery of America by Columbus, recording the events of their religious and tenn poral activities.