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Evening star., 1942-03-20
Recruiting 10 Begin
For New Maryland Unit

Recruiting for NEW engineering
unit of the Maryland Reserve Mill
tia will start at / pm. tomorrow
Harry B. Shaw. deputy chief en-
gineer of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, appointed by
Gov. O'Conor to obtain members for
the unit, announced today.
Mr.. Shaw said men from both
Prince Georges and Montgomery
Counties are being sought.
Men in the following trades, either
with dependents or above draft age,
are asked by Mr.. Shaw to come to
the Hyattsville Armory tomorrow or
any night next week: Carpenters,
laborers, mechanics. seamen, lines
men, blacksmiths, electricians, rig
gers and miners Mr.. Shaw said
he also hoped to obtain the services
of men skilled in handling explo-
sives.
A plan is to be worked out, he
said, so that every man in the unit
will have a strategic position to
watch in case of an emergency.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
Mrs. Hattie N. 6iIpin, 81,
Dies at Winchester Home
3, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WINCHESTER, Va, March 20
Services tentatively have been ar
ranged for 3 pm. tomorrow for
Mrs. Hattie N. Gilpin, 81, mother
of Kenneth N. Gilpin, member of
the State Highway Commission.
Plans were for Bishop Henry St.
George Tucker, presiding bishop
of the Episcopal Church in the
United States, to off1ciate at the
services in Christ Episcopal Church
at Wildwood.
Mrs. Gilpin. native of Baltimore
and the widow of Henry B. Gilpin,
for many years president of the
Gilpin Drug Co., Baltimore, manu-
featuring druggists, built and
equipped the first nurses home Of
Winchester Memorial Hospital, fit
ted the hospitals pediatric ward
for children. built the parish hall
of Emmanuel Episcopal Chapel at
Boyce. Clarke County. and Christ
Church rectory at Millwood and
contributed to the maintenance of
Christ Church, Winchester
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Lewis M. Allen of winchester. and
two sons, Kenneth of Clarke Coun-
ty and Donald N. Gilpin OF Colo
RADIO Springs, Colo.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
Milk Price Boost Opposed
Al Front Royal Hearing
Hy The Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
=. FRONT ROYAL, Va, March 90
Mark Turner of Herndon, member
of the State Milk Commission, pre-
sided yesterday at a hearing here
on the request of producers for an
increase in the price of milk on the
local market. He was the only COM
missioner at the hearing.
WILDER McCann, representing the
Maryland Virginia Milk Producers
Association which furnishes the bulk
of the milk for the Front Royal Mar
ket, asked an increase of % cents
hundred weight, equivalent to 2
cents a quart.
H. %. Fritts and George w. Wines,
local independent producer-distribu-
tors, testified they were not asking
an increase. L. E. Clare and Lloyd
A. Barnes, distributors, said the re-
quested boost was too high.
w. c. Armstrong, jr, representing
consumers, said the hearing was il
legal because a quorum of the COM
mission was not present and because
Mr. McCann was not competent to
testify for absent producers.
Mr.. Turner san the commission
would consider all the testimony.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
BOARD NO. ..
Hunt, David M.
Wives Are Told Husbands
Soon May Be Drafted

BALTIMORE. March 20 (F.-
Women we're told yesterday that
dependency of wives won't continue
to protect their husbands from the
draft much longer.
That warning was made coinei-
dent with announcement Of q mass
meeting Wednesday under spon-
sorship of the Women's College
Alumnae Clubs of Baltimore to dis
cuss the urgent need for women
in war industries and show them
what your efforts can mean to
assembly lines and output"
David L. B. Fringer, director Of
the State employment service, and
Maj. Ernest Culligan Of Selective
Service headquarters, Washington.
said 1900 women were needed IN
local war industries.
They said it was "unpatriotie
foolishness" for working wives to
quit jobs or pass up positions In
war industries in the belief they
could thus protect their husbands
from being drafted.
AN employable wife. whether or
not she is working, will not long
serve as a reason for deferment, ~
said Maj. Culligan. referring to .
pending bill to provide allotments
and allowances for dependents Of
servicemen.
This bill will eliminate de-
pendents as q cause Of defernaent,"
he said.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
Number of Cars
On MoryIond's
| Roads Declines
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. March 20.-Traffic
officials said today the number OF
cars on Maryland highways was
declining.
Traffic counts taken by the State
Roads Commission showed only ac-
cess roads to defense plants buster in
February and March than a year
ago
Checks in January. officials said.
showed an 85 per cent increase over
the l94l traffic, a smaller increase
than noted the previous year.
The February figures showed the
first decrease Last year a Is per
cent traffic increase over February.
1910. was noted. This year traffic
dropped 8.4 per cent on the roads
checked.
Baltimore boulevard figures for
March. taken at Elkridge. indicated
a lO9 per cent decrease. Even traffic
to Fort Meade showed 3.5 per cent
decrease.
The sharpest decline was shown on
the Baltimore to Bel Air road in
February, a 179 per cent decrease
over the figures for the correspond
ing period a year ago.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
Lands Warns Plants
Are Unable 10 Receive
Raid Signals Quickly
Industry Must Be Ready
For Attack; No General
BIockouts Planned
Rythe Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK. March 20.-If air.
raid warning signals should fash in
district warning centers, there would
be no rapid transmission to the
great defense plants in some impor-
tant cities. James NJ Lands, director
of the Office of Civilian Defense, said
yesterday.
Addressing a meeting of the Com
merce and Industry Association of
New York, Mr.. Lands said that
delay along this line is the delay
that spells Pearl Harbor to the vital
industrial nerve centers of our
economy"
Control centers must be set up
by plant managers, he said, for
without communications industry
is helpless and caught unaware"
No General Blackout.
Mr.. Lands said present plans call
for no general blackout In the
United States. as opposed to the
British practice.
The cost of doing so against the
danger of attack" he said, SIS too
excessive, both from the standpoint
of the expense involved by blackout
installations and the more serious
cost of slowing down production
from 80 to so per cent by the neces-
sity of operating under blackout
conditions"
But "it Is no secret that we must
now be prepared for attack" and the
motto for industry should be damn
the, torpedoss apd produce"
Camouflage Recommended.
Blackouts will be maintained only
when and as long as danger threat
ems and installations should be made
so industries which cannot halt pro-
duction-such as. plastics-can be
maintained uninterrupted, he said.
Mr.. Lands also recommended that
industries consider camouf1aging
their plants as the need for repaint-
ing recurred.
I'VE must remember that what
ever our defenses. may be If the
enemy chooses to attack, some OF
his bombers will get through. And
as they get through men and
women will be killed and property
destroyed This cannot be avoided.
So the problem of protection is one
of minimizing Mese casualties and
this destruction and at the same
time maintaining production at the
highest possible level"
Evening star., 1942-03-20
| Maryland Asks
To Use 81 Idle
|C.C.C. Trucks
By the Associated Press.

by tne Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 2O.-The
State Forestry Service told the
United States Forest Service today
1t could use 81 idle c. c. C. trucks
stored in abandoned Maryland
camps to transport fire-f1ghters this
spring.
Assistant State Forester Karl E..
Pfeiffer said Federal rules prevented
transfer of such equipment to State
agencies. but that under the Clarke
McNary law idle c. c. c. equipment
could be allotted to the United
States Forest Service, which in turn
could lend or lease it to State
agencies.
Mr.. Pfeif1er wrote of Meryland's
needs in reply to a letter from the
National Forestry Service explaining
that possibility.
An 8-inch deficit in rainfall has
created a critical situation in the
State We have asked for the equip
ment to meet the demand for fire.
fighters this spring." he said
With a great deal of our man
power now in the armed forces or
in defense industries, we are left
shorthanded. Those who are left
don't want to take their own equip
ment out to fight fires when there is
a good chance of damaging what
tires they may have"
Evening star., 1942-03-20
BY the Associated rress.

by tHt hsSOCldtcu fIcss
RICHMOND, Va, March 20-Gov
Darden said yesterday every effort
should be made to provide safe and
economical transportation for rural
school children.
The statement was in comment
on a report of the Division Of Motor
Vehicles on inspections of school
buses in operation in 80 of Virginia S
100 counties.
Unfortunately, I have not had an
opportunity to make study of the
recent report submitted by Col.
Marion S. Battle, director of motor
vehicles, covering the Statewide in
spection of school buses the Gov
ernor said. "A cursory examination
shows that 3l.3 per cent of the 2,342
vehicles in operation last fall were
classified aN.unsafe. To this item,
first of all, attention must, be given,
We cannot afford to permit vehicles
of this type to be used in the trans
pOrtation of school children.
Aid to Local Officials.
Now that the State has been
called upon to make direct and
substantial contribution to the trans
portation of school children, it is
incumbent upon us to see that the
local officials are aided in every
possible way in dealing with this
problem
The 1912 General Assembly ap-
Evening star., 1942-03-20
Virginia D. A. R. Selects
Roanoke for '43 Session
Py II q Associated Press.

LYNCHBURG. Va, March 90
An invitation to meet in 1943 in
Roanoke was accepted by the Vir-
ginia Chapter. National Society of
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. as the final action of the 46th
annual State conference ended yes
terday.
Resolutions were passed Urging
required military training in educa-
tional institutions, the maintenance
of an Army and Navy consistent
with our responsibilities and the re-
fusal of this country to agree to de-
struction of equipment and ships in
any peace agreement.
Action was taken also to eliminate
as far as possible records which
would consume unnecessary amounts
of paper, a factor in the postpone
ment of revision of bylaws sched-
uled for this conference.
Washington Lewis Chapter, Fred
ericksburg. proposed resolution for
an endowment fund for the main
tenance of Kenmore. at F'redericks-
burg, in memory Of Mrs. Vivian
Minor Fleming. founder of the Ken
more Foundation, which was in
dorsed.
Mrs. C. A. Swami Sinclair of Alex
sndria. past State regent, was elected
honorary State regent.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
Darden Signs Measure
Offering Solution
To Boundary Row
Fenwick Act Parallels
One introduced in
Congress by Randolph
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, March 2e;-The
Fenwick bill offering a solrtior to-
the boundary dispute between Vir-
ginia and the District of Columbia
was on the statute books today with
the signature of Gov. Darden.
The measure was among 81 signed
by the executive yesterday and
brought to 274 the total signed to
date. That leaves 230 more to come,
but many of them will not reach
him until after the March % con-
structive" session when they are to
be signed by the Speaker of the
House and Lieutenant Governor.
Fenwick Testifies at Hearing.
The FenWick bill would accept the
boundary proposed in the bill pend
ing in Congress by Representative
Randolph, Democrat. of West Vir-
ginia and place the Washington Air
port within the Old Dominion with
the status of Federal reservation.
Virginias gasoline tax and liquor
laws would be applicable to the air
field
Delegate Charles r. Fenwick of
Arlington County, patron of the
boundry bill. in the General As
sembly, appeared before the House
District Committee earlier this week
to urge passage by Congress Of the
Randolph bill.
The Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee
of the House District Committee
conducted hearing Wednesday at
which arguments were heard for the
Randolph. bill and also another
measure by Representative Nichols,
Democrat, of Oklahoma. which
would establish the boundary at the
present high water mark of the Po-
tomas River. but would place the
airport entirely within the Dis
trict. The subcommittee will re-
port to the District Committee soon.
Speed Limit Bill Signed
Another bill signed was the House
measure cutting speed limits, 30
days from yesterday, to As miles an
hour for. autos and buses and 40
miles for trucks. with an additional
provision authorizing the Governor
to lower all vehicles to 10 miles an
hour if he deems it necessary for
the conservation of rubber
The group signed by the Governor
included House bills requiring addi-
tional notice to boards of supervisors
of certain highway hearings; vail
dating the recordation of certain
deeds, wills and other Instruments;
requiring annual printing of State
reports, and Senate bills providing
new method of appointing School
Board members, and authorizing
persons and corporations doing busi-
ness under State laws to act as is
suing agents for the sale and issue
of obligations of the United States
on designation of the Secretary of
the Treasury.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
Budget Of S308,000
In Prince William
Calls for TaxCut
County Rote Reduction
Of 5 Cents Proposed
Despite OutIoy Boosts
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispa tch TO The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, March 20.-Call-
ing for a scent reduction in the
county tax rate. a tentative budget
Of s3O8 900 for the coming fiscal year
was before the Prince William
County Board of Supervisors today.
The tentative budget was pre-
sented by a Budget Committee COM
posed of Wheatley M johnson and
V. A. Abel at a special meeting Of
the supervisors yesterday.
, If the budget is adopted, the
county tax rate will be cut from 81 so
to sl45.
Mr.. johnson announced that the
estimates included a S36 900 appro-
priation for county welfare, s183 900
for the school fund, and about S90.-
900 for county expenditures. The
total represents an increase of $22.-
900 over last years budget for county
outlays and $1,000 increase in the
school budget. The welfare figures
remain about the same, Mr.. John
son said.
Special items in the new budget
include an allowance of $4,000 for
emergency fire fighting apparatus,
$500 for a photostatic recording
machine in the clerks office. and
$4,000 for an Office for the county
defense oo-ordinator
A $4,000 item was also included for
the county Jail fund At present a
committee composed of C. B. Fitz-
water, c. B. Roland and G.. C. Rus
SELL appointed by the board. is in
vestigating conditions of the Ma
nasSas Jail, and will report at the
April meeting when proposal to
establish a Jail farm near here will
be considered. In case such a farm
is placed in the vicinity, the local
Jail will be abolished. Mr.. johnson
said. The board also has under con-
sideration the addition of two or
three full-time deputies to the
sheriff. force.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
Men IS 10 IS
To Register
On April II
Won't Be Liable
For Army; Inventory
Of SkiIIs Planned

For the fourth time in ls months,
American men will register under
the Selective Service Act on April ~.
Included in the Presidents proc
lamation yesterday are men who had
reached their 45th birthday by the
last registration day, February Is.
and who are not yet IS years old
Since the men who are to register
are above military age and there.
fore not liable for Army service, the
registration will be an inventory Of
skills and aptitudes to determine If
the older men are doing necessary
work and whether they can be used
to replace younger men in essential
industries who otherwise would be
liable for service.
No Lottery Planned.
The older men are registered un-
der selective service but the alloca-
ton of this new source of man power
may or may not be in the hands Of
the selective service system. The
President is expected to name an
administrator to allocate the older
men on the basis Of their answers
to an industrial and occupational
questionnaire.
Not included in this registration
are youths of 18 and 19 who also
can be called on to register at any
time fixed by the President but are
not liable for military service until
they reach 20.
The registration will be held be-
tween the hours Of am. and 8 pm.
The President, in his proclamation,
urged all employers and Govern
ment agencies to give their employees
sufficient time off to register.
1t was not expected that lottery
would follow the registration, since
this is not a question Of the order
in which men are called for military
service but an inventory Of man
power.
$4,000 Expected to Register.
Immediately on learning that the
fourth registration had been pro-
claimed, local selective service head
quarters started making plans. 1t
was not thought that it would be
necessary to open more school regis
tration centers than were used last
Evening star., 1942-03-20
PrinceGeorges
Urged 10 Drop
222cP Park Tax
Move Recommended
During War to Offset
New Defense Levy

The Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission has
recommended that the Prince
Georges County Board of Commits
sioners suspend the o. cent levy for
park purposes for the duration OF
the war to relieve the tax burden of
county residents, it was announced
today.
The tentative budget for the
1923 fiscal year for Prince Georges
County calls for tax of slightly
more than 2ls cents for defense pur-
poses and suspending the park tax
as recommended by the commission
would lessen net increase in taxes.
Wartime Needs Cited.
A resolution of the park and PLAN
ming group notes that the Federal
Government must of necessity levy
heavy taxes on the people to raise
large sums of money for the success
full prosecution of the war and, like
wise, local governments are required
to raise funds for defense
The resolution also states that
"there are sufficient funds in the d.
cent Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission park
Improvement fund to carry forward
essential park maintenance for
some time. In view of these facts
the commission requests the county
commissioners to suspend the levy of
the 212 cent park improvement tax
for the duration of the war or until
further notice from this commits
sion"
AnacoStia Lands Acquired.
In a letter to the county COM
missioners the commission said
100000 allowed the commission by
the Federal Government under the
Capper -Cramton Act is being spent
to purchase park lands in the Ana
costa River Valley. OF this sum
100000 was an outright grant by
the Government and the remaining
portion does not begin to bear in
terest until eight years after the
date of the bonds.
The commission expects to 60 on
with a definite park improvement
plan to make large part of our
parks available to the public but we
feel that this plan can be safely and
sensibly curtailed under existing
conditions and still provide ample
recreational facilities for the metro
politan area the letter said.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
Place at Peace Table
Requested for Women
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
FREDERICK, Md, March 90
Women are going to be called to
serve their country in ways they
never expected, Miss Venia NJ
Kellar. assistant director of the
University of Maryland Extension
Service, declared yesterday, but
added that as their reward. women
also should be represented at the
peace tables to help dictate an
equitable peace"
Addressing members of the Fred
erick County Federation of Rural
Women's Clubs, Miss Kellar said
women should study nutrition be-
cause in that field they would be
expected to excel.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
Maryland Youth Goes
On Trial Tor Assault
Al Rockville March 81
james A. Anthony, ",
Charged With Attack
On Federal Worker
P, Staff Correspondent of The Star.

Ps Staff Correspondent OF The star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. March 90
Seventeen-year- -old James Anthony
Anderson of Sycamore Hills. Md,
will be tried here March 81 on an in
dictment charging him with criminal
assault on a 36-year-old Government
workeTtn her Sycamore Hills home
near Glen Echo last month. The
death penaltyA possible forethe o.
fense under Maryland law
Anderson was arraigned yesterday
before Circuit Judges Charles w.
Woodward and Stedman Prescott.
His attorneys, Walter w. Dawson and
John Reeves, entered a plea of not
guilty.
The arraignment followed the re-
turn by the grand jury of 26 indict-
ments out of 80 presentments placed
before it bv States Attorney Ben
G. wilkinson
Anderson also had been charged
with assault with intent to kill Police
man D. D. Padgett the night of the
alleged criminal attack, but he was
not indicted on this count.
Indictment Charges Lottery.
Richard C. Musser. editor and
publisher of the combined Silver
Spring Standard and the Montgom-
cry County Independent. and Thur
man r. Rigdon, 40, of Lexington,
KY, were indicted on charges of
conducting lottery. Attorney Har-
old Smith. who represents Rigdon,
and Attorney Reeves, who represents
Musser, entered pleas of not guilty
for their clients, who will be tried
next Friday.
The grand jury ignored similar
charges against Harry Duncan, 1888
Connecticut avenue NV: Samuel
John Rankin. %. of the Burlington
Hotel, Washington, and James
Townsend, 2l08 Sixteenth street NV.
Rigdon allegedly sponsored the
placing of l8 coin collection boxes
in various stores and restaurants
in Montgomery County.
The boxes, according to police,
we're provided with envelopes con-
tanning the names and addresses of
contributors. Police said signs on
the boxes stated that drawings would
be held from them and Defense
bonds would be given those persons
whose names were drawn.
Musser, according to police. had
inserted advertising on the alleged
lottery in his newspaper.
Other Indictments.
Others indicted we're:
Melvin S. johnson, cOlOred, a
morals charge: Samuel Junior Davis,
colored, perjury; Thomas Martin,
colored, assault with intent to kill;
William Turner Jones, housebreak-
ing and larceny.
Wilbur E. Morrow, bookmaking
Bernard Frampton. selling numbersj
Richard Genius and Thomas Henry.
both colored, assaulting a police
man: Arthur Ward, desertion and
non support: Harry Campbell. COL
ored, violation of arson statute:
Boyd w. Sonnifrank and James
Hardin. larceny and receiving stolen
goods: DR.. Webster Sewell. colored,
manslaughter and illegal operation.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
80 Students to Speak
In American u. Contest

An extempore speaking contest on
inter-American affairs will be held
at $3.50 pm. tomorrow at American
University, with. 30 students from
seven colleges participating The
event is sponsored by the Office of
Co-ordinator of Inter American
Affairs.
Guest of honor will be Senor Don
Rodolfo Michels. Chilean Ambassa-
dor. DR.. Paul F. Douglass, president
of American University, will be
moderator.
Contestants will represent George
town University, George Washington
University, American University. the
University of Maryland, Washington
College, Goucher College and the
University of Delaware.
Evening star., 1942-03-20
Maryland Gourmets
Plan Simple Banquet

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. March 2O-Les
Amis DEscoffler, an organization of
Maryland gourmets. will make a
astronomical sacrifice to war at
their annual banquet March 81.
Arthur H. Deute. chief potato
peeler," said that as a patriotic ges-
ture, Les Amis would wine and dine
in simple fashion instead of indulg-
ing in the fancy feasting of former
years.
The drinks won't be fine wines"
he said. They will be Maryland
rye, Maryland beer, water and cof-
fee"
AS for the food. it will be a study
in simple Maryland country fare"
chesapeake Bay oysters, Eastern
Shore fish stew, chicken, ham, corn
pone and spoon bread.