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Evening star., 1942-02-10
Silver Spring.,
ChevyChase
GET Raid Sirens
Montgomery Also Will
Use Auto Warnings
Through Upper County

Afraid warning sirens for the
Silver Spring and Chevy Chase
areas were received yesterday and
will be installed shortly, it was an
nounced at a meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee Of the Montgomery
County Civilian Defense Council
last night at the Dispensary Build
Ing In Silver Spring, Md.
A number Of small sirens, to be
placed on automobiles for use as
afraid warning signals in the up
per section Of the county, have also
been received, Albert E. Brault,
executive director, reported. Yes
terday's shipments included q 7h
horsepower siren, which will be In
stalled on the Silver Spring fire
house and a 5-horsepower siren for
the Chevy Chase Fire Department
building.
Steam, Air Horns Studied.
Meantime, investigation will be
continued on the feasibility of using
steam operated or compressed air
horns as an auxiliary to the electric
sirens. A subcommittee to make
specific recommendation on this
phase Of the alarm system will re-
port at the Executive Committees
meeting next Tuesday in Silver
Spring.
Several establishments in the
county have steam available "a hours
daily and have offered their places
for the installation of sirens, 1t
was reported.
The committee also voted to re-
quest the Board of County Commis-
sioners to appropriate funds to es-
tablish IL additional first aid sta
tions in the county and furnish
medical equipment for these sta
tions Dr. Dexter w. Bullard, chief
Of the medical service. requested the
appropriation. estimating that ap-
proximately 81 900 will be needed.
Switchboard Service.
The Commissioners also will be
asked to employ telephone operators
to maintain the switchboard serv-
ice Of the report and control CEN
ters during the night.
Mr.. Brault was authorized to
spend approximately $25 for installa-
ton of a manually operated switch
for turning of street lights in Rock
vile in event Of an air raid.
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committee of the General Laws
Committee for study.
IndOrSed by Callahan,

AhuoA SCu Wy OdhdAAShs
Charles H. Callahan, commits
sioner of revenue for Alexandria.
has written Senator Medley indors-
ing the proposed law and has asked
that 1t apply to cities as well as
counties. Senator Medley said pro-
vision has been made for general
application throughout the State.
Mr.. Callahan declared the problem
Of large members Of new residents
moving to the metropolitan area of
Washington makes the law desir-
able as a means of checking on per-
sons subject to taxation.
Mr.. McCandlish recently an
nounced plans to introduce a bill
to exempt gasoline used in Fairfax
County police cars from State tax
alton. He said it will be unneces-
sary to sponsor this measure be-
cause q general bill applicable to
all counties and cities has been in
troduced by Delegates William Fer
guson Of Newport News and I. N.
Coleman of Dinwiddie County. He
will support this bill, he said.
A bill by Delegate Maurice D.
Rosenberg Of Alexandria was in
troduced yesterday to provide for
the establishment of permanent
assessing officers In that city. An
other general law for the same pur-
pose is already before the General
Assembly, but Mr.. Rosenberg will
press for passage Of his local bill If
the general bill is killed, he said.
Evening star., 1942-02-10
Fewer Tax DeIinquencies
Seen as Sales Are Upheld

A reduction in tax delinquencies
on Maryland property was seen to-
day as the chief result of the
Maryland Court Of Appeals decision
sustaining Chief Judge Ogle Mar
bury Of the Seventh Judicial Circuit
in upholding the validity of q tax
deed.
The case involved was a suit by
Mrs. Mary E. Hickey, Washington,
against the purchaser at a tax sale
of three lots and q small bungalow
she owned at st. Clements Shore
in st. Marys County. She valued the
property at $500 and said it was sold
to satisfy delinquent taxes Of $12.36.
Her suit alleged the price was made
quate, the sale improperly conducted
and the property improperly adver-
Evening star., 1942-02-10
Falls Church-Faifax
School Merger Stirs
Town Council Debate
Annexation Proposal
Also Discussed: Suit
Planned Next Month
Star Staff Photo.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

FALLS CHURCH, Va, Feb. 10
The Falls Church Town Council last
night referred to its School Commit
tee a recent town meeting resolution
opposing a merger of the town and
Fairfax County school systems.
It also heard a progress report on
Falls Church's annexation proceed
ings and a charge that the county is
trying to obstruct the move.
Harold E. Erwin and John F. Be-
thune urged the council to drop the
pending school merger plan.
Mr.. Bethune argued that while
some sort Of merger seemed desir-
able, the town was not justified in
relinquishing control of its holdings
until the county had made definite
commitments.
Mr.. Erwin told the council that
the county apparently did not have
sufficient funds for building the high
school. This statement was contested
by members of the council and Of
the School Board.
School board members pointed out
that the town cannot provide the
proper facilities" and said there was
evidence of definite planning by the
county" Member George T. Reeves
suggested the consolidation be left
to a town referendum.
Another member, r. c. Staebner,
asserted that If the county couldn't
be trusted without a written con-
tract, it couldn't be trusted with one.
Citing overcrowding in Madison
Elementary School, Mr.. Staebner
contended 1t was defense and not
the letting in Of county pupils as
such that caused the complained Of
overload. The same condition exists
in any school in the District area,
he said.
An annexation survey is due to be
completed by February 18, Town
Attorney John A. K. Donovan told
the council. If that is the case, the
annexation suit will be taken up in
the March term of Fairfax County
Court. Mr.. Donovan told the
Council he had written to the towns S
legislature representatives. protest.
ing the county's plea for opposition
to any annexation proceedings.
Evening star., 1942-02-10

fight, or increase the ranks of men
on production lines, he said, should
hasten to qualify herself to do So"
THE selective service system" he
said, will expect gradual e:
constant substitution in industry
and agriculture of women for men
who are fit to fight"
Labor Secretary Perkins has sug-
gested q band Of farmerettes to
relieve farm labor shortage. Sem
ators Bankhead, Democrat, Of Ala
bama: Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota, and Aiken, Republican, Of
Vermont, declared last Saturday
that farmers were flooding them
with complaints of mo workers to
be had"
Each from an agricultural area,
these Senators said they feared that
unless more farm labor was found,
farm products needed for war effort
would decline.
Evening star., 1942-02-10

tised, asking the court to declare the
purchasers tax deed void.
Finding only minor discrepancies
in the tax sale, Judge Marbury up
held it, and the plaintiff took an
appeal to the States highest tri-
bunal. Justice j. johnson wrote the
decision, announced yesterday, up
holding Judge Marbury.
Tax deeds heretofore have been
regarded as questionable. The high
court decision is expected to stimu-
late payment Of delinquent taxes by
property owners, members of the
bar In Prince Georges County said.
They also are inclined to believe
title and real estate finance COM
panies will take more tax deeds into
court to establish clear titles.
Evening star., 1942-02-10
Vireinion Reports Work
On 'Deoth Roy Device
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press,
RICHMOND. Va. Feb. 10.-A re-
port on research work on the posi-
bilities of "a death ray as a military
and therapeutic agency" carried out
in a private laboratory in Virginia,
was received yesterday by Gov.
Darden.
William Harrison Lamb, editor and
publisher of the Manassas Journal,
in submitting the report as the re-
search worker, said that while no
claims whatever are made at this
time as to accomplishments so far, it
Is the honest conviction of the
present writer that this study is at
least worthy Of being noted by the
authoritative governmental agency
concerned with such investigations
as being in existence"
The Governor released the report
without comment.
Evening star., 1942-02-10
Grand Jury Indiets
Two in Leesburg Fraud
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to the Star.
LEESBURG, Va, Feb. 10.-The
grand jury yesterday opened the
February term of Loudoun County
Circuit Court by returning a true
bill against Harry c. Smith and
T. Durant Harris, alias j. o. Will
son. They are accused of obtain
ing $2,250 by false pretenses from
Edith v. Hough.
The grand jurors were N. B. Haw-
thorne, foreman; L. w. Workman,
j. H. Purcell, Roy M. Flippo, Roy
NJ Grubb and Harry E. Furr.
A light docket has been set for
the February term. The case Of
Samuel Legions, %, colored, indicted
on a charge of criminal assault
opened today. Charles Houston,
attorney. representing the National
Association for the Advancement Of
Colored People, is defending Legions.
Evening star., 1942-02-10
Given Head Hunters Reauliu

WINCHESTER, Va, Feb. 10 (Spe-
ciaD Joseph and Leo Campbell,
who live with their grandmother,
Mrs. Bessie Smith Kern, had re-
ceived today from their father, Col.
Joseph Campbell, full war gear of a
Filipino head hunter. 1t had been
presented to the officer by a chief Of
the Igorote tribe. Included were a
shield, 40x60 inches; spears 6 feet
long, axes and the kris, a knife.
Evening star., 1942-02-10
Rector Honored

HUGHESVILLE, Md, Feb. TO-
The Rev. John @. Waters, rector
of the Trinity Episcopal Church of
Hughesville, is the newly elected
president of the Glorious OF the
Southern Maryland Convocation.
The Rev. Robert F. Henry is the
new secretary treasurer.
Evening star., 1942-02-10
Church Dinner Tomorrow

The Ladies' Bible Glass of Wilson
Memorial Methodist Church, 754
Eleventh street Sc, will serve q
roast beef and roast pork dinner
tomorrow from 4:30 to pm.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
|Corby Estate Leased
AS Residence for
President Quezon
Philippine Leader
And Family to Move
In This Month

President Manuel Quezon OF the
Philippines has leased the Charles
I. Corby estate on the Rockville
pike north OF Bethesda, Md, and
he and his family will reside there
while IN the United States, 1t was
learned today.
The family will give up Belmont,
historic estate OF Brig. Gen. and Mrs.
Patrick j. Hurley, near Leesburg,
Va. The Quezons occupied Belmont
June 10. They will move to the
Maryland estate this month, possibly
next week
The Quezons' new home was pur-
chased by the late Mr.. Corby in
1916 from Capt. James F. Oyster
1t consists of large brick man
sion house of Georgian architecture,
several outbuildings and $50 acres
of land.
1t is situated on the Rockville
pike at Garrett Park and Kensing-
ton roads opposite Georgetown
Preparatory School, where President
Quezon's son, Manual, jr., will &c
to school in the fall.
The family took the mansion
furnished for an undisclosed term
The lease was negotiated by Story
g. Co., through H. L. Rust Co., which
acted as trutees for the estate. Mrs
Corby died last October.
President Quezon arrived May 13
to establish temporary Philippine
government headquarters here. He
was accompanied by his wife, son
and two daughters, Miss Maria
Aurora 6uezon and Miss Zenaida
Quezon
Evening star., 1942-07-16

Improvement I've noticed"
Mr.. Harland, born In Elizabeth
port, N. j., in 1872, was chief engi-
neer of the New York, Ontario and
Western Railroad from 1904 to 1914
and came to Washington in 1914 as
staf engineer for the Bureau OF
Valuation, Interstate Commerce
Commission. He was later trans
ferred to the ICC Bureau of Safety
as chief engineer.
He became director Of traffic for
the District in 1927. under the Po-
lice Department, and July l, 1881,
when the Department Of Vehicles
and Traffic was created he served
as assistant director for time be-
fore being made senior engineering
aide.
Mr.. Harland Is married and lives
at 1402 Perry place NV. His re-
tirement becomes effective october
l, but he Is leaving Office to take
accumulated leave.
Evening star., 1942-07-16

Though Miss Byrne's half-inch
natural eyelashes and l2o-pound,
5-foot-6 figure are easily dupli-
Gated In Government offices. every
thing else about her qualifications
for the Government workers role
are authentic. She had to hurry
from her press interview at the
Carlton Hotel yesterday because she
was "on her lunch hour" Her
fingernails are cut short so she can
keep up her 65-words-a-minute on
the typewriter.
She lives in a single room at 2310
Ashmead place NV. In preparing
to fly to Hollywood tonight after
she quits work this afternoon, she
had to "farm out" her bicycle, IRON
ing board, "whatnot" cupboard fun
of toy dogs and elephants, and her
full-length, mirror.
Miss Byrne wired her parents In
Dallas this morning Of her good
luck. She attended Southern Meth
odist College before she came here
q year ago to work first In the JUS
tice Department, then as night
club singer, now In OPA.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
'NYA to Aid 107, 900
Students This Year
Fy the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
Its funds cut, in half by Congress,
the National Youth Administration
announced yesterday its program
for the 1923 school year would
assist 107 900 college and high school
students, compared with 282, 400 in
the last School year.
The agency said it had set aside
So 100000 for its school program
IS, 900 900 to aid 10000 college stu
dents and 100000 for $1,000 in
high school,
Rolls of the agency's out-of-school
training program now are being cut
from 10000 to 10000.
The NYA spent approximately
$123 200, 900 for all operations in
the last fiscal year, but Congress
provided only $6000O,O00 for the
IL months beginning July /.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Arlington Rotion Board
Lists Its Office Hours

Officials of Arlington County s
Rationing Board announced the
Office would be open from $50 to
9 pm. today, tomorrow and Satur-
day for registration of trucks and
buses. Gasoline books also will be
issued.
1t was announced also that the
board will be open until 10 pm
July 81 to register dealers whose
stations close at pm. and from
$50 am. to pm. July % for regis
tration of dealers whose stations
close later than pm.
No supplemental gasoline coupons
will be issued until July "a, board
offlcials said, asking Arlington mo-
torists to watch the papers for an
nouncement of the time.
Board officials said they would
meet with dealers and intermediate
distributors to explain the program
and to answer questions At $50 p m
Sunday in the county court room.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Byrd Files Bill 10 Halt
Henry Estate Seizure
Hy the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, OF Vir-
ginia introduced bill yesterday to
repeal law authorizing acquisition
of the estate of Patrick Henry in
Charlotte County, Va, and estab-
lishment of a monument on the
land. Money appropriated for the
program would revert to the
Treasury.
The bill was introduced by Sena-
tor Byrd on behalf of his colleague,
Senator Glass, who is. at his home
in Lynchburg.
Aides of Senator Glass said the
purpose of the legislation was to
put stop to "high-handed and
arbitrary efforts by the National
Park Service to acquire the prop
erty at much below it's true value.
The estate, known as Red Hill,"
Is now owned by Mrs. Lucy Gray
Harrison.
A fund of 100000 was appro-
priated for the purpose, but aides
of Senator Glass said the Park
Service offered only $25, 900, which
the owner refused because she had
standing offer Of $65 900 from 4
private bidder. AS a result, the
Park Service instituted condemna-
ton proceedings.
Evening star., 1942-07-16

dispatcher Immediately sent word
that the AFRAID test had begun. A
few minutes later the control center
called in the blue" signal to police
headquarters and the original order
to policemen was countermanded
over the county radio.
Then, when. the official red"
signal came through few minutes
later, police again were informed of
the air raid test. The "all clear"
was signaled without a hitch, how
ever.
Officer Fined for Speeding.
Another incident in the Prince
Georges blackout was the fin-
ing Of an Army lieutenant 1910
for speeding 81 miles an hour on
the Bsltimore boulevard when a
25-mile-an-hour speed limit was in
effect.
The rate of speed was described
by Pvt. Lloyd Hamilton of the
Hyattsville police, in testimony be-
fore Justice of the Peace Henry
O'Neil. He said the speeding car
had been stopped and its driver
warned at Laurel, but the machine
sped OF again.
The name of the driver was listed
as Harvey M. Spear of Providence,
r. l., and that of Q passenger as 1t.
H. v. Joslin Of the Wardman Park
Hotel.
Conflict in Mount Rainier.
In Mount Rainier. conflict among
defense personnel developed when,
during the air raid test, auxiliary
police stopped automobiles con-
verted as ambulances which were
responding to simulated bombing in
cidents, according to Percy Wolfe,
chief OF the transportation and
evacuation services. .
The vehicles were stopped, Mr..
Wolfe said, and the operators made
to show their driving licenses de-
spite the fact official stickers and
triangular civilian defense flags were
displayed.
A group of demolition workers re-
spending to simulated emergency
in Berwyn were stopped by man
wearing clothes resembling a SOL
dier's uniform and carrying a flash
light, Deputy Chief Air Raid War
den Thomas F. Rosewag said. The
stranger, who bore no official arm
band, called several of the demoli-
ton workers by name and then told
them to proceed without giving any
reason why he had halted them.
Ambulances Delayed.
A 45-minute delay was encoun-
tered in summoning an ambulance
to the simulated bombing of the
Holy Redeemer School in BerWyn.
The bombing was reported at $50
pm and after efforts were made
to dispatch ambulances from Col
lege Park and Greenbelt, one was
finally obtained at Branchville, two
miles from the scene. The ambu-
lances at College Park and Green
belt already had been dispatched on
other calls, 1t was learned later.
At the casualty station in the
Hyattsville Elementary School, first
aid workers were told by air raid
wardens they would not be permitted
to drive during the air raid test
Evening star., 1942-07-16

without ofi1cial flags or stickers.
The first aid workers travel in
officially marked ambulances ex-
cept when there are none available
to respond to emergency calls.
DR.. John M. Byers, Prince Georges
health officer and chief of the medi-
cal services of the civilian defense
organization. arrived at the scene
and settled the dispute.
During the half-hour period OF
total darkness about 10 Friendship
Heights streetcars on Wisconsin ave-
nue. were held up by auxiliary po-
licemen at the District line. The
cars had only to 60 few feet
on the Maryland side to negotiate a
loop so they could be driven back
into Washington. ssl
Mayor E. Murray Grover ee
attsville went to one mans home to
tell him a window in his pl1,Mh31es
shop in the 500 block Of Hhdl4e ~.
land avenue was casting light all the
way across the street.
Auto Hits Motorcyclist.
An accident was reported to
the Montgomery County control
center in Silver Spring after the
air raid test. Vehicles travelled
about the streets with parking lights
and a car knocked a motorcycle
rider to the pavement at Eastern
avenue and Juniper street. Robert
Edmison, 10, colored. of Chestnut
Ridge, the cyclist, was treated by
the Silver Spring Rescue Squad for
cuts about the face.
The air raid siren at Spencervine
failed to function when the red
signal was received there. A pre-
cinct warden whose car was
equipped with siren sounded the
alarm.
Georgia Avenue Dark.
No bombing tests were practiced
in Montgomery County during the
"air raid" Judge Albert E. Brault,
head OF the County Defense Council,
said this was because the last test
on June II. showed the commune
cations system had not been per-
fected. The system is now being
changed and the control center
moved into new quarters.
Georgia avenue was totally dark
from the District line to the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad underpass
throughout the night while street
lights burned further north in Sill
yer Spring. District auxiliary and
regular policemen guarded all roads
leading into Maryland, warning
motorists to proceed at IS miles an
hour and dim their lights.
Judge Brault said he had heard
many complaints because the Dis
trict failed to hold blackout last
night in view of the nearby Mary
land areas cooperation in previous
District tests.
"The District officials tell me,
however, they had a very good rea-
son for not doing so and I am will
ing to accept this explanation from
them," Judge Brault said.
The Metropolitan Area will par
ticipate in the surprise" blackout
ordered for the District sometime
within the next flve days, Judge
Brault said.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Axis Trying 10 Create
j, S.-british Friction
y, the Associated Press.

., the Associated Press.
An American military observer
just returned from the Middle East
said yesterday that Axis agents
abroad were conducting an organ
tied campaign to damage the morale
Of factory workers in the United
States with stories that the British
were careless with American equip
ment.
In a statement made public by
the War Department, Col. Demas
Craw, an air officer who has been
in the Middle East for nearly two
years, asserted that. on the con-
trary, the British have been most
cooperative.
In every city of the Near East, he
said, Axis agents were working over
time to create bad feeling between
the Americans and the British,
spreading their propaganda among
transport pilots, workers, soldiers
and any one who might bring Il
back to the United States.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Smith Reelected Head
OfLoudoun School Bourd
Dpscial Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, Va, July 16-W. T.
Smith Of Mount Gilead district has
been reelected chairman of the
Loudoun County School Board
Charles j. Ford of Round Hill again
is vice chairman, Miss Ruth Emer-
lex, clerk, and o. L. limerick, deputy
clerk.
The resignation of Miss Kathryn
Everhart as commercial teacher at
Leesburg High School was accepted
and Miss Gladys Holthausen was ap-
pointed to the position.
Other teachers appointed: Aldie
High School, English and Latin
Miss Sarah Love; Leesburg, grades
six and seven, Miss Anna A. Agnew;
Round Hill, grades four and five,
Miss Ruth Warner; Lincoln, agri-
culture, Charles @. Beard; Douglass
High School, English, Miss Carrie E
Stone, and Middleburg colored school
principal, Miss Florence E. Clark.