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Evening star., 1942-12-09
lrby Clinton Henry Dies;
Government ATTORNEY

1rby Clinton Henry, for 20 years
a Government attorney, died yes
terday after a heart attack at his
home, 205 Birch street Alexandria,
Va.
Since 1884 Mr.. Henry served as
an attorney for the Justice Depart
ment. He was graduate of George
town University, where he received
his A. B. in 1914 and his LII. B. in
1916. Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Thela S. Henry, and a daughter,
Thela Lynne Henry.
Funeral services will be held at
4 pm. tomorrow at the Methodist
Episcopal Church, 100 South Wash
ington street. Alexandria. Burial
will be in Willow Springs, Mo.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
.0renn Asks Cash
For New School
In Suit|and Area
ESQ More Students
Expected us Families
Move Into Housing

Nicholas Orem, superintendent Of
Prince Georges County (Md.)
schools, today pushed plans to OBJ
tain funds for the construction Of
a high school in the Suitland area.
In accordance with instructions
issued yesterday by the County
Board of Education at its meeting
in Upper Marlboro, Mr.. Orem said
he would inquire into the possi-
bility of getting the necessary funds
from the Government under the
Lanham Act.
An estimated 200 pupils in the
area are now being transported by
bus to the Oxon Hill, Surrattsville
and Maryland Park High Schools.
More Students Expected.
An additional $50 high school
pupils are expected to, be brought
into the area this winter by families
moving into the various housing
projects at Spitland, MIR. Oem de-
clared.
THE Oxon Hill, Surrattsville and
Maryland Park High Schools are
overcrowded already" he added,
"and we can't get buses to trans
port any more children. Unless a
new school is built these additional
pupils will be without high school
facilities"
If funds are obtained, Mr.. Orem
explained, it is proposed to con-
struct a high school to accommo-
date $50 pupils. The type of school
to be built will not require any
critical materials, he said.
The board yesterday completed
arrangements for the transfer of
the Meadows School to the Gov
ernment to make way for the new
Army airfield in the Meadows Camp
Springs area.
Bus Trips CurtaiIed.
The $4,000 which the board re-
ceived for the school will be invest
ed in War bonds, since, as Mr..
Orem explained, the money cannot
be used to build another school.
The 30 white pupils at the school
have been transferred to the For
estville School, while the is colored
pupils have been assigned to the
Clinton School.
In compliance with the Office of
Defense Transportation request to
conserve tires, gasoline and motor
equipment the board ordered school
buses to eliminate Is side trips of
their main routes. The order af-
fects approximately 1876 children.
In addition. bus transportation
Will be provided only for students
who otherwise would have ito walk
more than miles to school or
more than a mile and half to a
school bus route,
Evening star., 1942-12-09

seven miles to the Cross Roads to
witness it.
Nearly 100000 infantry, cavalry
and artillery troops took part in
the parade.
Away from the review that day
came a woman who suddenly had
seemed to hear a call from the
thousands of distressed mothers OF
the boys who had paraded in one OF
the last demonstrations by the
Army of the Potomac before it went
out to resume bloody fighting. Back
at the old Willard Hotel, Mrs. Howe
wrote her stirring poem.
The old Bailey home once was q
much more spacious home than the
five chimneys left standing by the
flames indicated. Beside 1t in for
mer years stood "The Inn," q
smaller structure moved there from
the Cross Roads after the Civil
War and later moved back and con-
verted into the present home OF
Charles F. Miller, Washington at
torney.
Land on which the original home
was located has come down from 4
patent that dates back to the time
OF King George II. On April Is
1843, 1t was decided by Machaliah
Bailey to Lewis Bailey, and it i,
presumed that soon after this the
dwelling was erected. On July II
1897, the homestead was sold tc
Millard J. Moore of washington
father Of the present owners.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Fire Destroys Virginia House
Where Lincoln Reviewed Armv

A house at Baileys Cross Roads,
Va, where Abraham Lincoln held
grand review" in 1861 and Julia
Ward Howe got the inspiration for
her Battle Hymn of the Repub-
lic," was destroyed late last night
by fire of undetermined origin
The rambling old frame house,
under whose roof Lewis Bailey, the
man from whom the cross roads
got its name once slept. had been
vacant for the last eight years. 1t
was owned by the Misses Mildred
and Ardala Moore Of 1922 Upshur
street NV
Both the Annandale and Falls
Church fire departments responded
to calls sent out after the house
was discovered in flames. BY the
time they arrived the fire, burning
rapidly in the dry timbers, was too
far advanced to be controlled.
While it burned, q handful of
residents of the neighborhood
standing in snow flurries after a
trample through muddy fields,
watched and recalled what they
knew about its history.
It was over those fields that Gen.
McClellan's revived Army of the
Potomac, smarting from the defeat
1t met at the hands Of the Confed-
crates during the summer, staged
the grand review" for President
Lincoln on November 20, 1851.
Twenty thousand Washingtonians
spent half . day traversing the
Evening star., 1942-12-09
LansdaIe Named 10 Post
In Defense Report Center

Montgomery County Commissioner
Richard H. Lansdale has been ap-
pointed deputy chief for the Sandy
Spring report center, it was an
nounced yesterday by Walter c. De
Groot, chief of emergency services
for county civilian defense.
Mr.. De Groot inducted % canteen
workers from Bethesda and Chevy
Chase into the services of civilian
defense at exercises at the Bethesda
Red Cross Chapter House today.
Judge Albert E. Brault, county di-
rector of civilian defense. announced
yesterday that the organization now
has 4,428 trained workers, 1850 in
training and 70 awaiting training
Thirteen fully equipped casualty
stations have been set up in the
county and there are 100 mobile first
aid units.
A child care program has been
started with two day-care centers al
ready established as well as a child
care counseling service.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Maryland Grange
May Oppose Revision
OF State Income Tax
Property Levy Reduction
Proposed Through Use
Of Treasury Surplus
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Dec "a recon-
mendation that State income tax
rates and provisions be left un-
changed and another that the State
surplus at the END of each year be
dedicated to reduction of the
property tax were before the Mary
land State Grange today.
The Joint Tax Committee of the
Grange presented the proposals at
the 10th annual meeting of the ag-
ricultural organization, urging also
that State finances not be changed
I'm any manner which will result In
an increased load upon local gov
ernment."
Should Use Surplus.
THE present accumulated State
surplus, less a necessary working
fund or reserve. should be utilized in
a way which will protect the future
financial security of the State" the
committee said, especially as re-
lated to postwar obligations.
The group also recommended that
more attention be given to the
equitable assessment of property
and to uniformity of property tax
exemptions.
The committee commented that
the existing State surplus should
not be used in a piecemeal fashion
to reduce any taxes over a period OF
two or more years in the future, be-
cause such a procedure would result
in the States having considerable
cash balance for two more years in
addition to the current surplus"
Suggestions for use of the sur
plus included reduction of property
taxes, liquidation or debts, setting
up reserve fund to meet postwar
emergencies, allocate such funds tc
local governments and thereby re-
duce the local property tax.
Farmers Can't Compete.
Thomas Roy Brookes, grange mas.
ter, told the delegates at the OPEN
ing session of the two-day meeting
that existing low price ceilings
which prevent farmers from COM
peting with industry for labor never
will bring maximum production.
What the farmer wants is parity
not charity" said Mr.. Brookes, a res
ident of Bel Air He added that "in.
flation can be cured or cursed by ar
abundance of production. %
Other speakers of the day included
Leo H. Mccormick, director of the
Maryland ONCE of Price Admins
tratiG.
The sixth degree was conferred
upon officers Of the grange tonight
and regalia presented. Afterwart
awards were made In the grange
achievement contest.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Heavy Artillery Fire,
Begun al Fort Meade

By the Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md,
Dec. 9.-For the first time since the
World War the heavy artillery has
begun booming again at Fort Meade.
It's strictly a matter of practice
for gun crews and for most of them
it was their first experience at firing
the big stuff" After the first day,
however, officers said the lack Of
Wincing and handling of shells like
eggs demonstrated the worst was
over.
The practice was made possible
by construction of a new firing
range with an impact area of $50
acres. All of the impact area had
to be cleared of timber, which would
have hidden the targets and made
accurate checking of fire impossible.
The range even had slit trenches
and foxholes at the observation
point to teach officers and men
how to use the protective devices.
Three 105-mm. howitzer batterys
of the 355th Field Artillery Battalion
participated in the first days firing,
shooting at targets 5000 yards away.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Upper Marlboro Seeks
More Rotioninq Services

Plans for more rationing services
for Upper Marlboro, Md, will be
discussed tomorrow at a mass meet
ing of citizens of southern Prince
Georges County, it was announced
today. At present the Marlboro
board handles only sugar and gaso-
line.
The meeting, to which all organ
lied civic groups in the southern
section of the county have been
invited, will be held at 8 pm. at
the Surrattsville High School.
Other projects to be discussed will
be the formation of an auxiliary
police unit, the passage of a weights
and measures law for the county,
the local liquor situation, and the
need for more teachers for Prince
Georges County schools.
Evening star., 1942-12-09

Col. Lee. Democratic leader in
the county who was defeated for
Congress last month by j. Glenn
Beall, a Republican, will succeed
Lacy Shaw, who became chairman
of the Montgomery Commissioners
yesterday.
May Get County Post.
1t also was reported that Col
Lee would be selected by the COM
missioners as park commissioner for
Montgomery County, position
which pays $4100 a year.
A former member of the Mary
land House of Delegates and for
mer member of the State Roads
Commission, Col. Lee now COM
mands battalion of Maryland State
Guard.
Wide Inspection Planned.
AS result of action by the COM
missioners in compliance with a re-
quest from John B. Centrum, State
insurance inspector, an early in
spection of all Montgomery County
buildings of a public Or semi-public
nature is expected.
Inspection of fire hazards in the
county was referred to the county
building inspectors. the chief en-
gineer of the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion and the Montgomery County
engineer for study.
Upon recommendation of Mont
gomery County Chief of Police An
drew NJ. Newman the commissioners
appointed Fielding +. Sheriff., Eu-
gene E. Brown. Leo @. Hill, Robert
L. Cosgrage, John Douglas Lowe, jr.:
Clarence B. Crown and Franklin E.
Fisher as emergency policemen at
monthly salaries of $3.50, and Homer
Rayman to emergency school guard
duty at $125 per month.
Evening star., 1942-12-09

A professor of English literature
who came back from Honolulu with
story for America lay at the Red
Cross Blood Donor Center at Twen-
ty-third and c streets NV. and for
the third time in six months gave
pint of his blood.
Blake Clark's contributions to the
blood bank were influenced by what
he saw and heard at Pearl Harbor
a year ago. And that is his story
f1rst-hand account of what hap
pened when the Japs attacked.
He told it first in Remember
Pearl Harbor,' the book published
last May, condensed in Reader S
Digest Of June, dramatized on the
radios Treasury Star Parade and
soon to be brought up to date and
republished.
He tells it in "Never Shoot an
Hawaiian. More Than Twice" an
epic included in the current issue
of Readers Digest.
Remembers Role of Blood.
He told it again while he lay in
bed at the Red Cross center Mon
day-December land waited for
his blood to trickle into a tiny glass
jar
There were many things running
through the mind of this 34-year-
old, slim, affable young man who
taught at the University of Hawaii
and now lives at 1927 Massachusetts
avenue NV. He thought of the
machine gunner aboard ship at
Pearl Harbor who continued to fire
while a bomb silver was pulled from
the flesh of his leg. He recalled
the men on the ship Solace who
shielded ammunition on deck with
their bodies to keep it from ex-
ploding under the severe heat from
the Arizona, burning alongside.
But the thing that stood out in
his mind was the psrt blood plasma
played in rectifying the damage
done by the enemy. A majority of
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Nine AIexundriuns Fined
As BIockout VioIutors

Nine violators of last weeks black
out were fined $40 and costs in a
special session of Alexandria Police
Court last night.
Those ordered to pay fines by Judge
James R. Duncan were: Clyde Lee
Talbot, r. F. D. No. l, for lights
left burning on his car; J. c. Hooker
Is West Maple avenue; w. P. Byers,
SOL East Alexandria avenue; Edward
Enright, 438 East Nelson avenue;
Phil C. S. Turner, 26O7 Davis ave-
nue.; Ludrick McCarthen, 276 Ham
mond court; Mrs. Pauline Gorham
26O7 Ridge road drive; Earl Leake
43l East Luray avenue, and Walter
Wilson. lat Chinquapin Village.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Montgomery Schools
Give 1ypewriters
To Government
Appraisers to Fix Price;
Doubling Up Planned
For Glasses

Montgomery County public schools
today were making plans to turn
over to the Federal Government
approximately 20 per cent of all
typeWriters now in use by students
This action, taken by the Board
of Education yesterday after an
urgent request by Government off,
cials, is not expected to hinder stu
dents now taking courses which re-
quire the use of typewriters, DR..
Edwin w. Broome, county superin-
tendent of schools, said.
DR.. Broome said the loss of 20
per cent of the typewriters would
necessitate only a rearrangement of
schedules. Hours will be staggered,
he said, so all students will have
the use of machines when needed.
Appraisers to Fix Price.
The county will be paid for the
machines, it was said, at prices to
be fixed by appraisers.
A series of meetings with school
trustees and parent-teacher associa-
tions was authorized by the board
to study ways of reducing unneces-
sary mileage of school buses in
compliance with a communication
from the Office of Defense Trans
portation.
Through these meetings, officials
said, it is hoped that ways of re-
ducing school bus mileage may be
worked out through the extension
of walking distances to bus stops
and reduction In the number 81
stops.
School Changes Announced.
Mrs. Bruce w. Waring and Clar-
ence L. Buck were appointed trustees
of the Garrett Park Elementary
School and the board granted mill
tary leave of absence to E. Guy
Jewell, principal of Kensington
Junior High School. and maternity
leave to Mrs. Eileen Henderson
of the faculty Of the Woodside Ele-
mentary School.
The following designations of fac
ulty members were accepted: Julia
C. Ardayne and Arthur L. Green
wood, Silver Spring intermediate
School; Louise Watkins, Montgom-
cry Blair School, and Margaret L.
Thornton, Kensington.
The following faculty appoint
ments were announced: Rebeckah
Du Bois, Laurine C. Decker, Mrs.
Adalene Adams and Mrs. Flora S.
Hill, Silver Spring Intermediate
School; w. Norris Weis, principal,
Kensington Junior High School;
Clarke Freeman, Potomac School;
Mrs. Bette Jane MacRae, Glen
mont School; Mrs. Naomi Wheeler.
Woodside School. and Phyllis F.
Travis, Rockville Elementary School
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Gas Rate Case
In Court Soon
For Argument
Answers of PUG
To Appeal by OPA
Are Presented

Arguments on the 100000 rate
increase granted the Washington
Gas Light Co. by the Public Utilities
Commission are expected to be
heard soon in District Court, follow
ing the filing yesterday of dissent
ing PUG answers to an appeal of
the Office of Price Administration
that the court grant a stay in the
rate increase.
The court previously had refused
to halt the, rate increase until both
sides represented in the argument
had filed petitions listing their
grievances.
PUC's answer yesterday, filed by
James H. Flanagan and C. w. Kutz,
constituting commission major
ity, was countered by a dissenting
answer from Gregory Hankin, COM
mission member, who upheld the
position OF the price-regulating
agencies and the various civic
groups involved in the legal action.
The motion of the price-regulat-
ing groups, representing Price Ad-
ministrator Henderson and Eco
nomic Stabilization Director Byrnes,
charged that the PUG issued it's
order lin complete and utter dis
regard of the Governments pro-
gram to control imitation and to
stabilize the cost of living by pre-
venting all future and avoidable
increases"
Seek to Check Costs.
The purpose of the appeal, the
motion declared, is ito save the con-
suming public from this increase in
the cost of living" Such purposes,
the motion continued, would be null
lifted if the company were allowed
Ito demand and receive such in
creased rates and the con-
suming public would suffer a sub
stantial and irreparable property
loss if they were required to pay
such increased charges"
Among the arguments with which
the PUG countered the OPA motion
were the following:
l. Establishment in 1885 of
Sliding scale" plan in computing
rates and charges resulted in a re-
duction of approximately $500 900
in revenue to the company. Under
the terms and provisions of the
plan the operating experience of the
company for the test year, July /,
194l, to June 80, 1912, required an
increase in the rates and charges
for gas service in the District.
2. Between July l, 194l, and June
30, 1912, the company had q wage
rate increase OF approximately
$3.50, 900, an increase alone approx
mately $l80,000 greater than the
increased rates authorized by the
PUG.
=. Cites Average Per Customer.
3. The cost of gas constitutes only
LIT per cent of the cost of living in
the District and the increase in
rates is only an average OF cents
per month per customer.
4. A factor in the PUG decision
granting the increase Eas the ability
of the company to obtain capital
economically for expanding its plant
to meet war demands.
The lengthy PUG answer ran to
13 pages, but Mr.. Hankin's answer.
admitting "all allegations" con-
tanned in the OPA appeals. dis
posed of the dissenting opinion in
less than two pages.
Mr.. Hankin's answer asked that
the relief sought by the petitioners
be granted, that the orders of the
commission increasing rates be set
aside and that the argument be re-
manded to the commission for fur
ther proceedings.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
los, 1000 idle Tires
Collected in Virginia

BY the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 9.-Andrew
H. Graham, manager of the Defense
Supplies Corps Office here. said the
Railway Express Agency has so far
picked up los. 900 idle tires" in vir-
ginia.
It estimated that when all such
tires have been collected in the
State they should total Ia, 5,060.
Evening star., 1942-12-09

Velopment. The
deaths came as
a result. of leaky
gas pipes.
The appoint
ment of 1t. Col.
E. Brooke Lee
of Silver Spring,
Md, to the
Maryland = Ma
tional Capital
Park and Plan
ming Commits
sion by Gov.
OConof w a S
confirmed YES
terdav by the
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Funeral Services Today
For Mrs. Mary Beun
Special Dispatch to The Star.


ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. 9.-The
funeral of Mrs. Mary G. Bean, 80,
who died of pneumonia at her home
here Friday, was to be held this
afternoon at the funeral home of
w. Reuben Pumphrey, Rockville.
The Rev. Herbert o. Cooper Of the
Rockville Baptist Church was to Of
f1ciate and burial was to be in
Rockville Union Cemetery.
Mrs. Bean was a lifelong resident
Of Montgomery County and for II
years had lived In or near Rockville,
Three sons, Dorsey r., Washington:
Eugene g.. Gaithersburg, and Roger
B., Rockville; II grandchildren and
5 Observation-Disclosures survive.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Close inspection
Of Glenhaven
Ordered
{. Brooke Lee Given
4,100 Park Post
In Montgomery

A careful inspection of construc-
ton OF the Glenhaven housing
project for non commissioned off,
Ger personnel of Walter Reed Hos
pital, located on the former Window
tract near Wheaton, Md, was or
dered yesterday by the Montgom-
cry County Board of Commissioners
Commissioners said the order was
the result of the death several weeks
ago of an entire family who occu-
pied one Of the houses in the de-
Evening star., 1942-12-09

Want to send note to Hitler?
Save waste kitchen fats to make
explosives.
Milford chronicle., 1942-03-06

visited their parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Al
I bert f. Parsons one day last week.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Grant F. Wilker anC
son. lWilliam of Beverly Hills, Pa.
were recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Topp NJ. Heath and Mrs. Howard.
Vernon o. Murray is suffering witt
throat infection at his home or
| Thatcher street.
Capt William d. Hudson, who has
been seriously i'll for some time at his
home here, celebrated his SSth birth
day last Friday.
4. F. Parsons suffered a severe at
tack of neuralgia at his home on Knox
street last week.
Mrs: Harvey Kirk. who has beer
spending some time in Wilmington
returned on Friday to the home OF
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George w
Horsey on Clayton avenue after a
weekend visit here. Mrs. Kirk will 60
back to the city for while.
The Frankford Chapter of the Red
Cross has turned out great amount
OF knitting and serving. Ladies are
urged to come out every Wednesday
as. usual and continue the good work.
The Junior class of the John NJ. Clay
ton High School wishes to thank all
who in any way contributed to the
great success of their chicken dinner,
the serving of which to the multitude
on Saturday evening" February 81, net
ted the class treasury approximately
5000. to defray their senior year ex-
penses. The diners pronounced the oc-
casion a astronomical success.
c. Grise McCabe, manager of the
Frankford warehouse and Francis NJ.
Gum. 3rd. manager of the Laurel
warehouse. were among the group of
executives who spent the first part of
last week at the headquarters of the
Eastern States Cooperative Farmers
Exchange i'm Springfield. Mass.
Lieutenant G. Massey Gum has been
transferred from Fort dupont to Fort
Slocum. N. Y. about 16 miles out Of
New York City.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Society held
a covered dish luncheon at the home of
Mrs. John A. Tingle at l p. m. on
Tuesday
Mrs. Raymond Poole Long left her
home, Long Acres, on Thatcher street.
Saturday to 90 to Philadelphia where
she will spend several weeks.
The Frankford New Century Club
will hold its regular monthly meeting
on Friday afternoon. Mrs. Clarence t.
Esham will he the hostess and the
program on Health will he efficiently;
sponsored by Mrs. William +. Monroe.
The speaker will he Miss Helen Mac
Donald. our state nutrition specialist.