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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-29
Keefer Is Reelected
District Red Cross
Chapter Chairman
Victor Deyber Chosen
First Vice Choirmon;
Sl53,854 Budget Set

Brig. Gen. F. r. Keefer was re-
elected chairman of the District
Chapter, American Red Cross, at
the annual meeting of the Executive
Committee yesterday in the chapter
house, 1870 E street NV.
Other officers elected for the year
are:
Victor M Deyber, first vice chair
man: Miss Mabel T. Boardman,
second vice chairman; Frederick
P. H. Siddons, treasurer: Mrs. Mar
garet H. Robbins, assistant secretary
treasurer, and J. Spalding Flannery,
counselor.
Committee Chairmen Named.
The following committee chair
men were appointed
Edgar Morris, roll call; Col. Philip
w. Huntington, home service; DR..
Roy Lyman Sexton, first aid and
life saving; Capt. Florence BlanCh-
field, Army Nurse Corps, nursing
activities; Mrs. G. Rowland Chase
home hygiene and care of the sick:
Mrs. William S. Anderson. food and
nutrition: John F. Brougher and
Mrs. Ora w. Spivey. Junior Red
Cross: Earl A. Nash. public relations;
Miss Boardman, Mrs. Raymond C.
Mackay and Mrs. Paulus P Powell,
volunteer special services, and Mrs.
Hugo Huettig, jr.. staff assistants
Also Mrs. j. H Fishback, garment
production; Miss Grace E. Wright.
surgical dressing production, routine;
Mrs. Wallace Lind, surgical dressing
production, war relief; Mrs. John E.
Ewell, Braille, Mrs. William S.
Spencer, Canteen Corps; Mrs. L. E.
Harris. Motor Corps: Mrs. Chris
topher M jerks 1acting). nurses
aide Mrs. William A. Walters, Home
Service Corps: Mrs. Albert N. Bags.
Hospital and Recreation Corps, and
Rear Admiral Charles Conard,
U. S. N, retired, finance.
Budget Set at S153,854.
Rear Admiral Conard, reporting
for the Finance Committee, revealed
that the budget for the year had
been set at s153,854.36, including
$37,4757O raised last summer for
war relief production work.
In pointing out that expansion of
every chapter activity is contem-
plated. Admiral Conard told the
Executive Committee that a con-
tingency fund of Sill 400 had been
established to care for additional
home service work for men in the
armed services and their families.
An amount of $4,000 was allocated
for increased production of COM
fort articles for patients in Army
and Navy hospitals, he added.
Chapter Manager Otto S. Lund
reported that 1920 yards of ma
terial and 312 tons of yarn had
been ordered for a new quota of
garments to be produced under the
chapters war relief program and
that 511,400 surgical dressings
would be made from 100000 yards
Of gauze also on order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-29
Hearing on Te|evision
Broadcasting Called

Standardization of television en-
cheering standards and a decision
as to when visual radio programs
may be placed on a commercial
basis will be considered at Federal
Communications Commission hear
ings beginning March 20.
Chairman James Lawrence FLY of
the commission set the date yester-
day following an informal con-
ference during which recommended
lions as to transmission technique
were presented by the National
Television Systems Committee, an
agency sponsored by the Radio
Manufacturers Association with
F. c. c. approval.
The committee informed the
Federal regulatory body that, in its
opinion, television in color is not
ready for Standardization and COM
liberalization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-29
1Yonsit SUIT Attacks
DisopproovI of Conversions

The battle over whether the Cap
ital Transit Co. should be permitted
to convert Is two-man street cars
to the one-man type for economy's
sake was resting in District Court
today in the form of a suit asking
the order of the Public Utilities
Commission preventing the CONVEX
sion be set aside as unlawful and
unreasonable"
The Public Utilities Commission
was expected to file an answer to the
suit, filed by the transit company
late yesterday, within 20 days. Pend
ing final hearing of the suit, the
transit firm asked the commission
be enjoined from enforcing the Or
der, issued October II, 1910.
The transit company told the
court that unless the economies re-
sulting from the conversion were
effected, 1t would lose $4,000 an
nually in net income.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-29
Denied Jail at First,
Man Finally Gets There

Judge Casey of Police Court SEN
fenced Samuel L. Rhodes to $50 fine
or so days in Jail today on a charge
that Policeman Francis Leer of the
9Th precinct said the defendant
manufactured after he had pleaded
to be jailed because he was cold
and hungry and had no place to 60
The policeman reported that
Rhodes approached him yesterday
at Fifteenth and H streets NE. and
asked to be locked up, but was told
he could not be placed in Jail with
out charge. Later in the day, the
defendant was arrested at the same
location In q drunken condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-29

Committee, and hearings are con-
templated shortly.
The average clause" which Gov
eminent workers have opposed I'M
successfully for years, holds the
average of the total salaries paid to
personnel within grade to the
average of the rates specified for
that particular grade by the CLASH
fication Act.
The independent Offices bill car
ried s7.975 900 for administrative ex-
penses of the Civil Service Commits
sion, which includes 100000 for
national defense activities. The
Appropriations Subcommittee which
handled the bill said this is actually
s151, l04 less than the amount avail
able to the commission this year, but
points out that the current fund
includes $3,250,000 of emergency
money.
s100.0O0,O00 for Retirement.
The civil service appropriation
also carries $100,911 ,562 for the re-
tirement fund, which is an increase
in excess of $l0,O00,000 over the
current year.
Cut from the commissions fund
was $4,000 of the 100000 recon-
mended for Hatch Act enforcement.
The committee said no extra pro-
vision was made for the work that
will be put on the commission by
reason of the Ramspeck Act, which
will extend civil service to approx
mately lbs 5000 positions that are
now exempt. In this connection, the
committee commented that the
duties the commission will carry this
year will place burden on the
entire personnel which will test its
efficiency to the limit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-29
Town Councilman Freed
In Stolen Goods Case

A Circuit Court jury yesterday
acquitted Donald Canada, 38, a town
councilman of Glen Echo, Md, of
charges of receiving stolen goods
He was indicted bv the grand
jury two weeks ago, when it was
alleged he bought an ice box valued
at $3.50 from Cora Mae Rodano, %,
and Joseph Witt, 81, both of Silver
Spring. Police said the box was
stolen from a model home.
Mr.. Canada testified yesterday in
Rockville that he did not know the
property was stolen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-29

In January, Beware Of:
l. Crossing street at a point
other than a crossWalk. Three
persons were killed doing so in
January, 1910.
2. Crossing a street at an I'M
controlled intersection. This
took one life in January last
year.
All four pedestrians killed last
January were over so years of
age. two being 10 or over. The
fifth death was that of motor
cycle policeman killed in a COL
lision while pursuing a speeding
car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-29
Hoqerstown Election Set

HAGERSTOWN, Md. Jan. 20
R.-Mayor Richard H. Sweeney,
Democrat, and former State Senator
Ernest w. Miller, Republican, will
be opposing candidates for the
mayora1ty in the municipal election
March Is. They were nominated in
the primary election yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-29
HoIIett to Speak

Ralph Hallett of the Maritime
Commission will discuss Regulation
of Water Carriers at the weekly
luncheon of the Federal Bar Asso-
citation tomorrow at 1890 pm. at
the Harrington Hotel
Evening star., 1941-02-02
New Big Victories
Now in Prospect,
Greeks Predict
TepeIeni, Gripped on ;
Sides, With Only VoIono
Rood Open, They Declare
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATHENS, Feb. l.-Greek occupa-
ton of the key Albanian town of
Tepeleni was said tonight to await
only cleaning up operations and dis
patches from the front reported re-
cent gains have put the Greeks on
the threshold of new big victories" |"
Tepeleni, the dispatches said, has
been inclosed on three sides, leaving
open to the italian defenders only
the road toward Valona and the
FaScists were reported retreating
toward that seaport, the next major
goal of the Greek counter-invasion.
Tepeleni and KliSura, which al
ready is in Greek hands, control
Southern Albanian roads leading
to the Italian-held harbor.
Important gains were reported
both north of Klisura and in the
coastal sector, where counter-at-
tacks were said to have been crush
ed with heavy italian losses.
Two Attacks Repelled.
Despite repeated failures" a
Greek spokesman said, the Italians
attempted to launch two counter
attacks in order to recapture posi-
tions lost in previous battles but
were repelled with heavy losses"
In some instances, he said, Fascist
units lost 40 per cent of their
forces" Besides costly Italian losses
in dead and wounded, the spokes-
man said, 1S0 more Italian prisoners
have been taken.
The Greek submarine Papanicolis,
recently listed as having sunk three
italian supply ships totalling 10000
tons in a heavily escorted convoy in
the Bay of Valona, was credited by
the Ministry of Marine with having
sunk another l0000-ton loaded ves-
sci in the Brindisi area on the night
of January %.
The ministry said "the enemy ves-
sel' was escorted by warship when
torpedo from the French-built
Papanicolis found its mark.
Trenches Protect Forts.
The high command described
italian mountain positions captured
near Tepeleni as the best fortiflca-
tions in Albania and of great i'm
portance." Besides permanent gun
emplacements and machine gun
nests, they were said to be pro-
tected by a trench system and a
maze of barbed wire.
A communique of the Royal Air
Force said British flyers. backing up
the Greek ground offensive, bombed
"an important military camp and
buildings" yesterday southwest of
Tepeleni, setting fire to one build
ing and machine-gunning Italian
soldiers as they emerged from their
tents.
The fighting in the central sector
was described as one of the major
battles of the hree-month-old
conflict.
Evening star., 1941-02-02
January Set Record
Low for kazi Air
Attacks on Britain
II Germun Planes Shot
Down at Night, II
During Daytime
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON.

January weather over England
proved so inhospitable to German
bombers, by and large, that the
month goes down on the score sheet
as record low for Nazi air activity
in the battle of Britain.
There were numerous January
nights as we'll as days when few
if any bombs fell on London, Dover,
the Midlands industrial area or any
other favorite German target.
London reports, nevertheless, that
more than a dozen German night
raiding planes were brought down
within that month. That compares
with only II Germna daytime sky
raiders, by British reports, gunned
down in the same period.
No Major Daylight Attack.
The importance of those claims
lies in what light they throw on
the effectiveness of the new British
technique and equipment to deal
with night raiders. British spokes-
men have expressed confidence that
an increasingly heavy toll of Ger
man ships would be taken in the
darkness as time passed.
A dozen enemy planes knocked
down at night tends to support that
British claim. 1t is sizable bag,
all the more so because there were
few if any German planes available
to work on quite number of nights
last month.
There were no major daylight at
tacks in January. Lone wolf Nazi
daylight raiders were frequent jan
uary visitors over England on what
Berlin termed "audacious" one-plane
exploits, but it is not clear that
they were doing more than looking
the ground over, coupled with a
little enemy harrassment. They
were gone usually before British
fighters could reach them.
Aerial Blind Mans Buff.
Night air fighting, except under
unusual visibility conditions, such
as very bright moonlight and cloud
less skies, has been a deadly game
of aerial blind mans buff up to now.
If the British night fighter special
lists already have taken enough of the
guesswork out of it to bag a dozen
Nazi planes in the dark within a
Evening star., 1941-02-02

tween Sicily and North Africa
within the zone of war operations.
The islands are Pantelleria, site
of a strong Italian air base, and
the three Pelage islands, Linosa,
Lampedusa and Lampione.
Evening star., 1941-02-02

The islands are in the area of the
Sicilian Strait, scene of recent axis
air-naval operations against the
British fleet and close to the Tuni-
sian shore of North Africa, In the
direction of which British forces
are driving across Libya.
Evening star., 1941-02-02

because he preferred to be captured
by the British to living under the
Fascist flag.
Children Play With Stolen Toys.
Native children amused themselves
with stolen toys, while some women
added newer and gayer ornaments
to their normal assortment " with
bracelets hanging from their ears,
wrists and neckS. The more prac-
tical went in for household fur
nishings.
One fellow, whose green turban
bore evidence that he had made his
pilgrimage to Mecca, was pushing
a piano through the street.
The natives saluted the British
soldiers joyously, asserting that they
hated the Italians and regarded the
newcomers as deliverers. Some
sought British favor by trampling
Italian flags and pictures of Mus
solini in the dust.
Derna's native quarter is we'll
constructed. clean, and populated BY
mixture of African, Arab, Egyp-
tian, Hebrew and Berber. These,
wearing endless varieties OF head
dress and costume in bright colors,
would present an unusual sigh: rn-
der any circumstances. But, as the
denizens of the quarter miiied ex-
citedly through the bazaar, chatter
ing, quarreling and laughing, it was
a spectacle.
Jews Remain Indoors.
Derna also has a little ghetto
street on which a score of Oriental
Jews live Most of these people kept
indoors to avoid trouble during the
pillaging.
This was the first community with
any considerable civil population the
British have taken in their desert
offensive and the administration of
the populace offers new problem,
though it promises to be much easier
than the handling of the tens of
thousands of Italian prisoners taken
in the other battles. Derna normal
ly had population of 1000 italians
and 10000 natives.
The road into Derna from the
West descends 700-fooJ embank-
ment by tortrous route with Z
halrpin turns. Last Monday the
Italians blew up this dizzy trail with
a charge of INT that. blasted 3 tiers
of roadway, sent thousands OF tons
OF rock rolling down the slopes and
filled the air with rock dust that
drifted for miles and hung over the
region for hours.
Australian engineers are rapidly
repairing this damage.
Evening star., 1941-02-02
Farm Loan Meetino

MANASSAS, Va, Feb. (SpeciaD
The Prince William County Ma
tional Farm Loan Association will
hold its annual meeting at 10 am.
Friday in the courthouse. j. J.
Conner, president, will preside and
there will be several speakers from
the Federal Loan Bank in Balti-
more.
Evening star., 1941-02-02

month, they also have taken long
stride toward forcing another re-
vision of German air strategy.
Just how definite an answer to
night bombing has been found can
only be conjectured, lacking detailed
information on each incident. Some
cases might have been due to chance
meetings between attacking and de-
Tending planes.
What counts is whether in all of
the cases reported from London OF
German bombers brought down at
night it was the new British night
fighter equipment and training that
turned the trick. No matter how
Evening star., 1941-02-02
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because he preferred to be captured
by the British to living under the
Fascist flag.
Evening star., 1941-02-02
Woodbridge Gurden Club

B. Y. Morrison, president of the
American Horticultural Society and
head of the Division of Plant Ex-
ploration and Introduction of the
Agriculture Department, will speak
at the annual dinner of the Wood
ridge Garden Club at $50 pm. to-
morrow in Sherwood Hall, Twenty
second street and Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE.
Evening star., 1941-02-02

many or how few German planes
were active at night over England
in January, if dozen or so of them
were shot down due to the new
night fighter technique, it was at
the very least an encouraging prac-
tical test of the system.
Evening star., 1941-02-02
Italy Declares Islands
Within Zone of War

| BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Feb. 1.-The official
gazette published an order today
including the Italian islands be-
Evening star., 1941-02-12
In Mrmnrtant
BFALL, WILLIAM NJ. In Ia

BEALL, WILLIAM NJ. In loving remem-
brqnce of our beloved husband and father.
life ten years ago today. February IL,
HIS DEVOTED WIFE AND CHILDREN. L.
BECHTOLD. JOHN EDWARD In MEM
DRY of our beloved husband and devoted
father, JOHN EDWARD BECHTOLD, who
departed this life one year ago today Feb
A year has passed since you went away
To the land where there is no pain:
Only God knows how much we miss you,
LOVING WIFE, MARY BECHTOLD. AND
DAUGHTERS, ELIZABETH B. GEIGER
AND EMMA B. USSERY.
BROOKS, ROSA c. In sad but loving
RosA G A BRooKsi @ Who hs departed @ ted this life
six six years ago today February g.o. II; ,o 1885
IN these years gone by.
Though you're gone, you're not forgotten
And your place, can never be, filled;
HER. LOVING HUsBAND AND CHILDREN,
GEORGE s.; COURTNEY F" G. DO
ory of my beloved husband. BENJAMIN F..
BROWN, who died two years ago. Febru-
What would I give to clasp his hand.
His happy face to see,
To hear his voice and see his smile,
DEVorEb Hele5 MeaR9 WIFE f mfse fRRNE e BRowN
CORY, JAMES ROBERT. To the mem
ory of my dad, JAMES ROBERT CORY,
who left this life sixteen years ago to-
day, February Il, 1925.
HIS SON, ROBERT.
EDWARDS, GRACE HUTTON. A ,trib-,
ute of love to the memory of my beloved
daughter, GRACE HUTTON EDWARDS.
who departed this life twenty-four years
ago today, February -, 1917.
At the end Of the ROAD there lies
A gate to gardens falr;
A place of rest and happiness,
With sunshine everywhere.
Where hearts at last are free from pain
And sorrows crushing load.
And where our loved ones wait for US
In peace at the end of the road.
May her soul rest in peace.
| DEVOTED MOTHER, LULU HUTTON
HUNT.
Evening star., 1941-02-12

appointment OF Eric Nicol as his sd-
ministrative assistant.
Mr.. Nicol, formerly with the Bu-
reau of the Budget, will coordinate
activities of Mr.. Hillman's ONCE
with others in o. P M. and with
the staff heads within the labor
division of the National Defense
Advisory Commission.
He has been serving as admlnls-
trative consultant to the division
of administration management at
the Budget Bureau. Previous 10
that he was industrial relations and
personnel adviser to business con-
Germs in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
Evening star., 1941-02-12

rectory. which, together with the
church, is heavily draped in black.
Priests at the church announced
that callers may view the body
today.
About $50 pm. today the casket
will be removed to the church,
where it will lie in state until the
funeral. Until about $50 pm, Holy
Name men of st. Patrick's will
maintain guard of honor at the
bier.
At $50 am. tomorrow the Right
Rev. MSgr. Lawrence J. Sheehan of
st. Patrick's will officiate at a mass
for the children of the church school
Evening star., 1941-02-12

of Mercy, stationed at Mt Wash
ington, and Miss Corneia Thomas
of Baltimore, both of whom were at
his bedside when he died, and Mrs.
Noah Walker of Baltimore: and a
nephew, 1t Ignatius Thomas, U. S.
A., who is in Honolulu.
Evening star., 1941-02-12
Rites Are Set FRIDAY
For Msgr. Thomas
OF ST. Patrick's
Bishop McNomoro TO
Pontificote at Mass;
Body to Lie in Stute

The Most Rev. John M. Nc
Namara, Auxiliary Bishop of the
Archdiocese of Washington, will
pontificate at a mass of requiem at
1890 am. Friday for the Right Rev.
Msgr. Cornelius F. Thomas, 81,
pastor of st. Patrick's Church, who
died yesterday at Georgetown Hos
pital.
Burial will follow at Mount Olivet
Cemetery.
1t was explained today at st.
Patrickis, of which Msgr. Thomas
had been pastor for the last "a
years, that Archbishop Curley of
Evening star., 1941-02-12

and OF St. Vincent's and st. Josephs
Homes and Schools.
Honor Guard to Keep Vigil.
Following the mass a guard of
honor composed of Fourth Degree
knights of Columbus will keep vigil,
four men at time, beside the casket
until night. The watch will be re-
sumed early Friday until the time
of the pontifical mass.
Msgr. Thomas at one time was
secretary to the late James Cardinal
Gibbons of Baltimore and a rector
of the Baltimore Cathedral. He IS
survived by three nieces, Mother
Placide, provincial of the Sisters
Evening star., 1941-02-12
NicoI Is Named Aide
To Sidney HiIImun

Sidney Hillman, associate director
general of the Office of Production
Management, today announced the
Evening star., 1941-02-12
Garh nf Chunks

BEUCHERT. WILLIAM. l wish to ex-
press nv sincere thanks and appreciation
10 my many friends, neighbOrS and rela-
tiyeS for their kindness, floral tributes and
expressions OF sympathy a the passing of
my beloved husband WILLIAM BEUCHERT.
EMMA EWALD BEUCHERT
Evening star., 1941-02-12

Baltimore, close friend OF Msgr
Thomas, would be unable TO attend
the services because of illness. He
is in Florida suffering from the
grippe.
Last night the body of Msgr.
Thomas was taken to the church
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-22
VICAR SELECTED
 AS ARBITRATOR
Chase Company EmplOye Appointed to American
 Assn. Panel

New York, Dec. 22 .- The Ainer- ican Arbitration Association has ape pointed Benjamin II. Mc0ar of Wa. terbury, Conn, to the National Panel of Arbitrators, 1t was an. nounced here today by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, president Of the Association.
 MT. Mecar, an expert in the field of chemical metallurgy, holds the position of Chief Chemist and As- sistant Director of Research with the Chase Brass and Copper Com. pary.
 In accepting membership on the National Panel, MT. Mcoar then makes himself available to the Ar- bitration Association to act as iiI1- partial arbitrator in commercial dlss putes involving war material pros auction. The Association, c flon- profit organization, has just an- nounced that it's arbitration facili. ties in thirty.one cities and It's Nd. tional Panel of over eight thousand qualified arbitrators in mere than sixteen hundred cities throughout the nation are available oil Q twen. ty-four hour basis for the if1medis ate settlement of any type of cors troversy which might directly or in- directly interfere with ali.out war efforts by the nation, it was said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-22

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 A typical farm home Ideally fitted for small surroundings and Q small Income, but for growing family is the L-Fi-S Illustrated.
 This home has large living and work porches and generous room sizes, including on exceptionally large kitchen, oil with Q minimum Of interior partitioning.
 Tho kitchen work space is located away from traffic. There ss ade- Quate space for clipboards on tho wall nexS to tho bath aEad for 6 table with chairs by thn rear window.
 4 circulating h eater can be i0- cated in tho kitchen. The rear p0rch is equipped with two closets, for work clothes and storage. 4 part or full basement, reached by an out side bulkhead doorway, would faclll- tate space for fruit and vegetable storage.
 The exterior design combines economy with trim, neat appearance Co produce c small rural home that anyone would De proud to own.
 Two Answer Books on home build. ing will be sent upr postcard re- quest to the Northeastern Homes Foundation, e2 St. Paul Street, 10. chester, New York.