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Evening star., 1941-11-18
Fish Testimony
|sPossibIea as
HouseLifts Ban
Summers Defends
Power to Protect
Members

Representative Fish. Republican.
Of New York, had the permission of
the House today to testify before
the special District grand jury in
Vestigating alien activities. but he
was away at Army maneuvers in
South Carolina, and it was doubtful
whether he would appear for 10
days or more.
Some members of the House
Judiciary Committee interpreted the
House resolution passed yesterday,
authorizing Mr. Fish to testify, as
leaving it up to him whether he
would honor the grand jury subpoena
directing him to do so. Friends of
Mr. Fish, however said he had not
tried to evade the summons. but
merely had submitted it to the House
to determine whether it was viola
ton of the privilege of members.
While the resolution was approved
without debate shortly after the
House met yesterday, the discussion
which was shut off at the time by
Speaker Rayburn because of the
parliamentary situation f1ared up
later in the day and there was pro-
longed argument over the matter.
Kefauver Disagrees.
Representative Kefauver. Demo-
crat. of Tennessee. a member of the
Judiciary Committee, to which the
summons had been referred, dis
agreed with its majority report. This
report took up position on the gen.
eral question Of whether members
should honor civil processes. but de-
clared the particular form in which
the Fish subpoena was couched did
violate the privilege of the chamber.
in that it ordered him to remain
within custody" Of the court until
relieved by the prosecutor or grand
jury.
Mr.. Kefauver contended that such
summons did not violate the i'm
munity granted members d Con-
gress from arrest during sessions He
conceded that the House privilege
would be invaded if a grand Jury
attempted to force a member to
appear when Congress was in
session.
But it is clear he added. that
Representative Fish could have
complied with the order and at the
same time have attended to his
duties"
Mr.. Kefauver held that such
civil process would violate House
privilege only if a member were
prevented from attending sessions.
Representative Michener, Repub-
lican. of Michigan asked whether
the courts and the public were to
be denied the testimony OF mem
bers.
Defended by Summers.
Chairman Summers of the Ju-
dietary Committee defend its re-
port. He maintained that it was
important for the House. rather
than the courts. to control when
and under what circumstances its
members would testify before ju-
dicial bodies
Il say that in ordinary circum-
stance member ought to testify"
he added. But when a question
Of this sort arises. somebody has
got to sit in judgment Congress
should keep that power"
A member. Mr.. Summers argued
should honor courts process ex-
cept when it would involve being
absent at a time the House was in
session.
The grand jury is in recess until
next Monday. 1t has indicted Mr..
Fish's assistant secretary, George
Hill, on charges Of perjury, and
George Sylvester Viereck, New
York publicist. for alleged viola
ton Of the alien agent registra-
ton law.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
F'|oherty Will Speak
TO ArIinqton Kiwunis

Raw Flaherty, coach of the Wash
;mgton Redskins, will speak at the
meeting of the Arlington County
K1wanis Club at 2:3O pm. tomorrow
in Evans Coffee Shop, on Lee high
wav. it was announced today by
Arthur c. Stickley, I'd, Program
Committee chairman.
Six members of the team will be
guests of the club. They are Bob
McChesney, Bob Masterson, Vic
Carroll. Clyde Shugart, Fred Davis
and KY Aldrich.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
Home Nursing Course
Set in Silver SPRING

Sponsored by the Silver Spring
Chapter, American Red Cross. a
course in home nursing will begin
at 10 am. Friday in the Silver
Spring Firehouse.
Plans for the course were an
nounced today by Mrs. Charles R.
Kruger, jr.. chairman of home
nursing, who said that it is planned
to hold classes Friday from 10 m.
until noon in the f1rehouse.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
War Building
Roads Doom
7-Mi||ion Hotel.
Site in Arlington
Slated for Use for
Two Approaches

A proposed S7000000 apartment
hotel near the new War Department
Building and Office building occu-
Arlington County appeared today
TO be doomed by Federal road plan
which provides for two main traffic
arteries passing through the site OF
the project.
A Public Roads Administration
official indicated today that the
treatment OF roads leading into the
War Department area has been
virtually agreed on by his agency
and the War Department. A plan
proposed by. Arlington County off,
cialS which would permit conStruc-
ton Of the apartment hotel has been
rejected, the P. R A. official said.
Commenting on the P. r. A de-
ciSion. County Manager Frank C.
Hanrahan declared. Il feel that this
is a most unfortunate situation. but
l still have hopes that some agree
ment can be reached with the Public
Roads Administration which would
permit the hotel TO be constructed.
From the very beginning, the
project as been plagued with a
mysterious opposition. We have
every confidence that the road plan
submitted by the county is equal to
if not superior to that which the
Federal Government proposes. 1t
appears there is a concerted effort
to block a project which would not
only be Of immense benefit to our
community. but would benefit WASH
ington as well"
Would Have 1.l00 Units.
A corporation headed BY F. j.
I Ward of Washington had planned
. to erect the structure on tract at
Columbia pike and Arlington Ridge
road. 1t would have contained APP
proximately l,l00 units.
/ An architects drawing specified
i IA stories on the east end which
would have been on slope over
looking Washington. Plans for the
hotel were opposed by the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission because of height restric-
tons placed on THIS type OF struc-
ture by county authorities.
Alternate Plan Offered.
County planners and the engi-
neering department submitted an
alternate plan of road of treatment
to the Public Roads Administration
in which it was suggested that the
two traffic arteries be moved farther
south SO as to make the apartment
hotel site available.
Although the P. R. A. and War
Department have agreed to employ
their own program in developing the
highways. the P R A. official de-
clared an attempt would be made to
hold a conference with Arlington
County officials later this week in an
attempt to reach an agreement with
the latter group.
The disclosure that the road pro-
gram has been decided on follows
by only few days the successful
completion of arrangements to OBJ
tain priorities for materials Mr..
Ward said a priorities agreement
had been reached making possible
the delivery of materials, provided
the county road plan was accepted.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
Lynchburg Man Gets
Life for Killing Mother

LYNCHBURG. Va, Nov ia
jury in Lynchburg Corporation
Court early today convicted Walter
Lee Wright, jr.. on a charge of kill
ing his mother with shotgun, and
fixed his punishment at life i'm
prisonment
Wright testified that he couldn't
remember what happened the after
noon of August "a when his mothers
body was found in her home.
Defense Attorney A. Lynch Ward,
appointed by the court, told the jury
that Wright was under the influence
of LIQUOR the day of the killing.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
Apple Packing PIunt Burns

WINCHESTER. Va, Nov. II R.-
Fire destroyed a large two-story
rambling frame building owned and
used as an apple grading and pack
ing establishment by the E. w. j.
Hearty interests here. The plant
was not operating at the time. H.
Clay Gegrane, manager, estimated
the loss at about $4,000.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
Brookinqs Discussion

James A. Cogsgrove of Bethesda,
chairman Of the Constitution and
Bylaws Committee of the Mont
gomery County Civic Federation,
will discuss the Brookings Institu-
ton report on Montgomery County
government at meeting of the Sill
yer Spring Citizens Association to.
night at the DiSpensary Building.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
Fenwick Will Speak

Delegate Charles r. Fenwick will
speak on Youth Marches On be-
fore the Charles A. Stewart School
Parent-Teacher Association OF Ar
lington. Va, at o'clock tonight at
the school.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
Stove BIust Burns Youth

Raymond Arthur. Is, colored. of
Vienna, Va, was being treated for
second-degree burns today in Emer-
gency Hospital. Police said his
clothing was ignited when an oil
stove exploded in his home last
night.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
Beer License Granted

The Montgomery County Liquor
Control Board yesterday granted a
Glass D on sale generally beer and
light wine license to the Ashby Res
taurant Corp. at 1886 Colesvile pike,
Silver Spring, Md. There was no op-
position.
Evening star., 1941-11-18

Totals to date 63 81
In November, Beware Of:
1. The hours between 4 and 6
pm. Six of the nine traffic VIC
tins in November last year were
killed within this two-hour pc
riod.
2. Crossing a street at some
point other than a crosswalk.
Three pedestrians lost their
lives in November. 1910, while
doing this.
3. Inclement weather. Three
fatal accidents occurred last
November while it was raining
or misty.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
Benefit Program at Oukton

Special Dispatch TO The Star. I
OAKTON, Va, Nov. 18.-The Oak +
ton Parent Teacher Association VIII
sponsor a benefit performance at
the school at 8 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1941-11-18

The lettuce in your salad will cost
YOU a little bit more than in 1885,
Evening star., 1941-07-13

Plans for years program OF
story telling, with emphasis on
stories showing love of country,
were made this week end by the
Program Committee OF the WASH
tngton Story League.
The committee met at the home
of Miss Mary Ellen Dashiell. 2230
California street NV. According to
Miss Dashiell. who has been presi-
dent of the local group since its
organization in 1885, the stories will
not show the kind of patriotism
rampant in time of war but will
demonstrate loyalty and love of
country at all times.
Many. of the stories by children's
authors will be told by members in
costume corresponding to the period
of the story, Miss Dashieu explained.
A Service Committee keeps track
of the steadily increasing requests
for assignment of members to ap-
pear at hospitals, neighborhood
houses, Sunday schools, homes for
invalids. children and the aged, and
at mems and women's clubs.
125 Leagues Formed.
Founded on the theory that story
telling preserved the traditions of
literature and the history of the
race" In the past, and that it can
do it again for modern children,
the l25 Story Telling Leagues all
over the country sprang from q
summer school for teachers in Knox
vile, Tenn, in 1908.
Evening star., 1941-07-13

win the Battle of Production"
Richard L. Stokes, Washington
correspondent of the St. Louis Post
Dispatch, also will speak, followed
by panel discussion on national
defense and rendition of a choral
poem, written by Mrs. Harold
Stone. legislative chairman of the
District league.
The rally will be preceded by a
Nationwide broadcast at 6:15 pm.
Tuesday by Mrs. Louise Leonard
Wright of Chicago, league foreign
policy chairman. Heard locally on
Station WJSV, Mrs. Wright will
discuss the league campaign Ito
arouse every citizen to boost the
Nations production program
Mrs. Anne HartWell Johnstone,
former program chairman of the
league. will preside over the panel
discussion. in which Mr.. Stokes,
Mrs. Raymond Clapper and Mrs.
c. S. Duncan will participate,
The panel will discuss. the role
and responsibility of the citizen in
the battle of production.
Mrs. Elinor Cox Karsten is direct
ing 40 members of the District
league in speaking Mrs. Stones
choral poem entitled, The Battle
of Production" Mrs Stone is legis-
lative chairman of the District
group.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
w. G. A. News

The flower arranging class meets
on Mondays and Thursdays from
II to II and from 7 to 8 pm.
On Tuesday at pm. there will
be program of mixed voices in a
cappella singing. New girls especial
ly are invited.
During the summer the Health
Education Department is Offering
classes in tennis on Monday, We'd
nesday and Friday mornings. For
juniors there are plunges with
coaching on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays at $50 pm. and for
adults on Wednesdays at $50 pm.
There will be an informal senior
girl reserve dance on Wednesday
at 9 pm.
The astronomy class will meet
Wednesday at $3.50 pm.
The dictation class will meet
Thursday from II to IL and from
Sis to pm.
The dressmaking class will meet
Thursday from 10 to II and from
Z to pm.
The Gregg Review will meet
Thursday at sos pm.
There will be Y. NJ c. A
Y. w. C. A. dance on Friday at
9 pm. on the roof of the Y. w. G. A.
Service men are welcome.
A trip has been planned by the
education department to Atlantic
City on July 19 and 20. The group
will go by train leaving Washington
at 8 am. on Saturday.
Evening star., 1941-07-13

Mrs. Bessie Wyman and Miss Car
RE Hart are leaving tomorrow for
Balbrook Camp. Litchfeld, Me-. to
spend the rest Of the summer.
Miss Nancy Weyl left for Pitts
burgh yesterday to spend the rest of
the summer with her mother, Mrs.
Ruth Weyl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Saks, with
their daughter. Marjorie, and son,
Samuel Saks, are at their cottage in
Ventnor, N j., for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mrs. Julian Behrend
have gone to California to spend
the next two months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Nathan and
the latter's brother, Mr. Melvin
Behrends, are leaving this week for
an adult camp in Maine to spend
the summer.
Mrs. Daniel ToOmey
Goes to New York.
Mrs. Daniel Toomey Of Jackson
vile, Fla, who has been visiting her
son-in-law and daughter. Mr.. and
Mrs. Aaron Ring, is now in New
York before returning South.
Mrs. Leah Loeb and daughter,
Miss Marian Loeb, are spending the
summer in Atlantic City. They will
visit Miss jeanette Loeb at Long
Beach, N. Y, before returning home.
Mrs. Edward Holder and son,
Skipper Holder, are visiting Mrs.
Holders mother, Mrs. Braunstein, in
Orange, N. j.
Mrs. Maurice Maser is returning
tomorrow from Burlington, VT,
where she has been visiting her
father, Mr.. Louis Colodny. Mr..
Maser will leave this week for
visit in Burlington.
Mrs. Myron Hess, accompanied by
her aunt, Mrs. Joseph Pach, left
Friday for her home in Margate, N.
j. Her mother, Mrs. Leo S. Schoen-
thai, who has been spending week
at her home, has returned.
Mrs. Cecil Kaufman. with her
sister-in-law, Mrs. EStelle Gingold,
are leaving Tuesday for Camp Wa
banaki, Me.
Mrs. Irving Weber, with her son,
Bruce, of Texarkana, Tex, is in
Washington for a month to visit her
mother, Mrs. Louis Stern, and has
taken an apartment at the Broad
moor,
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Talk on Plays
at
Arts Club
Group Will Hear
Miss Wentworth
Review Dramas

A review of this seasons best
plays will be given at the Arts Club,
2017 I street NV, at $50 o'clock to-
night by Miss Margaret Wentworth,
editor of Sign Post, a dramatic pub
lication.
A garden supper at 7 o'clock will
precede Miss Wentworth's talk, en-
titled broadway at Glance"
Mr., and Mrs. Norman T. Anderson
will be hosts.
Artists appearing at the Star
light Chamber Music Concerts at
Meridian Hill Park will be hon
ored at an Arts Club tea from 5 to
$50 pm. Wednesday. The artists
are Mr.. and Mrs. Carlos Salzedo,
harpists; Rene LIE Roy, futist, and
James ScholZ, cellist.
A program of dancing by Miss
Marion Venable and her group will
follow the weekly club dinner at
7 pm. Thursday, with Miss Marie
E. Walcott and Harold Allen Long
as hosts.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
STORYTELLING Program
Leagues Material to Emphasize
LOYALTY and Love of Country

Many of the local group are
teachers, Miss Dashiel said, improv-
ing on their classroom technique.
Many of the members are just be-
ginning to tell stories, and many,
like Miss Dashiell herself, have al
ways loved to hold an audience
spellbound.
This ancient art is badly needed
now, Miss Dashiell believes, be
cause people are so taken up with
material things"
Collects Famous Stories.
Like many of the group, Miss
Dashiell has collected a number of
famous writtep stories, especially
ones about Lincoln. Lafayette and
Chief Justice Taft, and adapted
them for recounting to audiences
about evenly divided between adults
and children.
Miss Dashiell attended the Curry
School of Elocution in Boston, and
taught at the RenshaW Speech
School here before becoming chief
clerk Of the National Cooperative
Milk Producers Federation.
President of the National Story
League is Mrs. H Lyle Campbell
of Chevy Chase, Md, and national
secretary is Miss Kate Lenoir of
Washington.
Members of the Program Commit
tee are Mrs. Ailene Burns, Mrs. Jane
Donaldson. Mrs. Roy Gilbertson,
Miss Constance Adams and Mrs. w.
H. Fairchild.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Silver Spring
Women to
Study County
Plans Made for
Club Activities
This Fall

Dozens of new residents Of Silver
Spring, Md, next fall will further
familiarize themselves with their
new home through intensive study Of
the Brookings Institution survey of
Montgomery County.
The study program will be pro-
vided by the Silver Spring Woman's
Club at the request of the out-of-
State families rapidly filling up that
area.
Mrs. Frederick J. Eckert, wife of
the Silver Spring Lutheran pastor,
is chairman of the Civics Committee,
which will direct the study, accord
ing to Mrs. c. Russell Shetterly,
president.
Describing the population increase
In the area, Mrs. Shetterly declared
that the club, which started only
two years ago, will triple its original
membership when activities start in
the fall.
Since its organization, she said
the club has established itself in
the community by maintaining a
sick room loan closet for any resi-
dent needing bed linen, crutches and
other sick room equipment. Other
community services include medical
supplies and scrapbooks given to the
Montgomery County General Hos
pital, flower show and flower ex-
change for residents and an annual
music festival.
Subdivided into six activity de-
partments, the club meets as a whole
the first Wednesday of every month,
using other Wednesdays for depart
ment meetings.
Hospital activity Of members grew
out of the welfare department,
which began enlisting members to
sew one day a month for needy
agencies. In two years more than
1000 surgical dressings, 200 gar
ments and towels and 300 Scrap
books have been prepared for local
hospitals.
An extensive horticultural library
has been started by the club. with
each member Of the home and gar
den department compiling data on
one garden specimen and filing it
with the club. The same group op-
crates a flower exchange for Silver
Spring residents in the fall and
spring and an annual flower show.
Having won the State Penny Art
Prize for the art program this year,
members of the art department next
year plan to follow the same two
Told program Of art appreciation and
actual studio work in block prints,
copper foil embossing, glass paint
Evening star., 1941-07-13


be joined by Mr.. Marks during the
week, returning here to continue
their visit with Mrs. Marks mother
Mrs. Estelle Nordlinger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Lansburgh,
with their two sons, James and Mark
Lansburgh. jr., are taking a trip
through the Canadian Rockies, stop
ping at Banfi. Lake Louise and going
through the national park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marc Goldnamer are
vacationing at New London. Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cafritz
Go to Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Cafritz, with
their three sons, left Friday for
Atlantic City. where they have taken
cottage in Chelsea for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Young and
family are at Ventnor, N. j., where
they are occupying cottage for the
summer.
Miss Phyllis Hagerdorn has joined
her mother, Mrs. Frances Hager-
dorm, at their former home in Mont
gomery, Ala.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Lansburgh,
jr., the latter formerly Miss Helen
Brylawski, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fulton Brylawski, have taken a
house at Edgemoor, Nd, which they
are now occupying.
Mrs. Helen Brylawski, with her
daughter, Mrs. Alexander Wolf, left
Friday for Atlantic City, where they
will spend the next two months at
the Ambassador.
Mrs. Sallie Weinrich is among the
Washingtonians summering at the
Ambassador, Atlantic City.
Mrs. A. Levy and her two sons of
Chicago are at the Shoreham for
the next two months.
Sidney Hechingers
Summer in Massachusetts,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Hechinger
are summering at Swampscott. Mass.
Their daughter Lois is at camp in
Maine.
Mrs. Samuel Silverstein of Charles
ton, w. Va, is the guest of her
brother and SiSter-in-laW, DR.. and
Mrs. Aubrey Fischer, and will be
joined by Mr.. Silverstein and their
two sons for the wedding of her
nephew, Mr. Greenhut Fischer, and
Miss Carol Baer.
Mrs. Sara Levy, Mrs. Bertha Loeb
Evening star., 1941-07-13
London Is Making Use
OF 90 Pct. Of Bomb Debris
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON-Almost 80 per cent Of
London's bomb debris is being re-
absorbed into production.
The steel, bricks and wood fro.
crumbled buildings are being used
for first-aid repairs to other build
ings, for air-raid shelters and other
A. r. P. work and for sleeping
hunks for shelters.
Local authorities have the first
claim on the salvaged material.
The Ministry Of Supply has second
choice, and the public has third
What's left is carted of 10 estuary
marshes and dumped.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Marjorie Mertz
To Head Delegates
Of Chi Sigma

Miss Marjorie Mertz of Washing
ton, president of the Alpha Province
of the Chi Sigma Sorority, Inc, will
lead delegates from II chapters here
to the national convention of the
sorority in Cleveland, Ohio, Thurs
day.
The delegates attending the four
day sessions will be Mrs. Estelle
Friedrichs, Alpha; Mrs. Emily Ewin,
Beta; Mrs Peggy Miller. Gamma;
Miss Kitty Taylor, Delta; Mrs. Thel-
ma Corbin, Zeta Miss Margaret
Nordby, Theta; Mrs. Lucille Mercer,
Iota; Mrs. Edna Clark, Lambda;
Miss Louise Keyer, Alpha Gamma;
Miss Carmel Reckert, Alpha zeta.
and Mrs. Ruth Foster, representing
the alumnae chapter.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Police Radio Network
Has Its Drawbacks
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES.-The widespread
police radio network here also has
its drawbacks. In addition to equip
ping patrol cars, authorities also
have given apparatus to some de-
tectives who operate on foot.
AS result, the plainclothesmen
are unusually alert to the crime
situation, but the bulk of their two
way radio-two boxes carried in
their coat pockets. an amplifier
strapped to their chests and a tiny
microphone hidden under their coat
lapels-nakes them virtually useless
in chasing a quarry.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Legal Sorority Plans
Entertainment Here
For Farley Delegates

Washington chapters of Kappa
Beta Pi, international legal sorority,
will be hostesses to sorority sisters
from all over the country August 8
to 5. The group will stop in WASH
tngton for sightseeing on their way
down to the eighth biennial con-
vention at White Sulphur Springs,
w. Va.
Washington members will also be
hostesses at the convention, which
will be in session from August 6
to 10.
Entertainment planned by the
Washington group includes break
Evening star., 1941-07-13
OF Personal Note
DR.. and Mrs. Norman Gerstenfeld
Spending Summer in Massachusetts,

The Norman Gerstend with their three children
spending the sunnymeade, Manchester, Mass
Melville given
farewell bachelor Wednesday friends
Country
daughter Baer place Wednesday
evening the Mayfower Hotel
Chevy Chase after
the Villa DeEste with friends
the of Mr.. and j. W. Greenberg at
Evening star., 1941-07-13

ing, crayon plaques, pastels and
water colors.
A music festival, organized for all
community clubs and organizations
by the music department of the
Woman's Club this year, is expected
to become an annual event.
Sixth activity of the club is
monthly book reviews and literary
discussions arranged by members
of the literature department.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Youth Drinks First Tea
At Buckingham Palace
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALAMOSA, Colo.-The first cup of
tea that Albert Strauel of Alamosa
ever drank was with King George
and Queen Elizabeth of Great
Britain.
Strauel, until recently a student
pilot at Alamosa State Teachers
College, enlisted in the r, A., F,
Writing to his mother, he reported
that he and other r. A. F.. pilots
were invited to Buckingham Palace.
Each flyer shook hands with the
King and Queen and then had tea.
Prices of human hair in China
have jumped so per cent since the
Japanese invasion.