davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Mrs. Coburn Joins
Church Council Bourd

Mrs. F. r. Coburn of Edmonston,
Md, has been elected a director
of the State Board of the Mary
land Delaware Council of Church.
women. She formerly served three
years as a vice president of the
organization.
After serving several terms Mrs.
Coburn has retired as president of
the Hyattsville Council of Federated
Churchwomen, and Mrs. Louis
Dashiell has been elected to sue
ceed her. Mrs. w. Clark Main has
been chosen vice president; Mrs.
Glenwood w. Rouse, secretary, and
Mrs. Frank H. Spencer, treasurer,
succeeding Mrs. George P. Conner,
who retired after long service.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Sponsors Unite
On Bill 70 Grant
School Bus Aid
Virginia Governor
Hasn't Bored Stund
On Stute Fund Use
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 7.-Gov.
Darden's legislative program has
had the right Of way so far in the
1912 session Of the General, As
sembly and probably will hold the
limelight right through, but other
proposals may offer some rivalry
shortly.
Specifically, compromise bill de-
signed to tap State funds for aid
to counties in operating school buses
Is being evolved from one Senate
and four House bills, whose spon-
sors seek the same objective and
are now reaching agreement on a
formula.
Details Not Disclosed.
Details of the compromise bill be-
ing drafted by a subcommittee of
the House Committee on Schools
and Colleges have not been revealed,
but the measure is understood to
call for a $685. ALLEGATION by the
State
Gov. Darden has not announced
his attitude toward the proposal, but
1t was not among his inaugural rec
concentrations.
Sentiment seemed to be growing
among rural representatives to seek
bus subsidies. instead of free text
books if choice has to be made
for fiscal reasons. However, a COM
promise may be made on the free
textbooks by. supporting bill in
troduced by Delegate Charles R.
Fenwick of Arlington to appropriate
S50.000 year to supply school books
to INDECENT children.
Slot Machine Ban Due.
One Of the few remaining Darden
proposals yet to come before the
Legislature is his demand that slot
machines be outlawed. A bill for
that purpose is expected shortly.
The Governor today signed the
first bills to become law in his ad-
ministration, but all but one were
of local or minor nature.
Meanwhile, bills introduced in the
Legislature exceed the number at
the same stage of the 1898 and 1910
sessions, and the flow continues
Through Friday 266 House and 16l
Senate bills had been offered for
total Of 427, compared with 324 in
1910 and 40 In 1898.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Virginians Urged TO Back
Drive for Rail Service
tn The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
VIENNA, Va, Feb. 7.-Persons in
terested in a resumption of pas
senger service by the Washington
g. Old Dominion Railroad were re-
quested today by officials of the
Committee for Emergency Trans
portation for Northern Virginia to
write before the end of next week to
C. Reed Thomas, secretary of the
committee.
Already a large number Of letters
have been received and the commit
tee is anxious to assemble its data
to be presented to the State Cor
poration Commission.
Mr.. Thomas said form letters have
been prepared and distributed
throughout communities along the
railroad between Purcellville and
Rosslyn for signature. Persons de-
string the forms may obtain them
either from committee officers or
local workers.
John S. Brookes, jr., OF Vienna,
former utilities official, is chairman
of the local committee.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Gov. 0'Conor Praises
Mary|and's S Civilian
Defense Progress
Volunteers Now III, ,289;
Montgomery Enrolment
Is Second Highest
b. the Associated Press.

D. liIt hSSuSldtcu 1850
BALTIMORE, Feb. 7.-Marylands
Civilian Defense Organization now
totals 1929 volunteer workers, or
one for every IA persons in the State,
Gov. OConor announced today in
releasing a report made at his re-
quest by the Maryland Council of
Defense.
OF the total, which includes air.
raid wardens and spoilers, auxiliary
flremen and police and medical and
other protective service personnel,
6l,255 were enrolled in Baltimore
city and the rest in the counties.
Il feel that in being able to an
nounce such a satisfactory total
throughout the entire State, we are
assured of the greatest possible pro-
lection for every section" the Gov
ernor said.
1T is particularly noteworthy
that of the county volunteers, 7lh
per cent are listed as assigned to
training or duty in protective
services.
StdtC ls DCICuSC SOhSSiVuS'
my defense tours in the counties
have made it very plain that the
State as a whole is thoroughly de-
fense conscious"
The report, submitted by Isaac
S. George. executive director of the
State Defense Council, said the
totals were not final and that COM
plete tabulations from some coun-
ties would raise the number of VOL
unteers considerably.
Of those listed in the % counties,
the report said 1850 had been as
signed as AFRAID wardens, 1858 as
auxiliary firemen, 3.618 as auxiliary
police, 5,608 for medical personnel,
other prospective services, 1871,
and community service, 4,537.
In Baltimore City the number as
signed to actual duty or training
was much smaller, the report dis
closed. Baltimore has but $3.50 as
signed, including $500 air raid ward
ems. 200 auxiliary fremen and $50
medical personnel.
1T is encouraging to note the
progress made in the enrolment and
training of volunteers said Mr..
George.
Jap Attack Stimulus.
ut must be obvious that all those
communities which had done little
or anything before Pearl Harbor
have been stirring themselves
nightly during the intervening per-
iod.
Many counties are ready today
for air attack. Others are rapidly
completing their organizations OF
protection services"
The report disclosed that Balti-
more County had the largest vol
unteer enrolment outside Balti-
more city, with 11,772. Montgomery
County was second with 1900, fol-
lowed in order by Dorchester. 6,763;
Washington, $500; Kent, 4.911;
Prince Georges, 4,l61; Worcester,
3,974, and Allegany, 5000.
The other counties and their VOL
unteer enrolment include Anne
Arundel, 1920; Calvert, $50; Carroll,
420; Charles, 1,61i; Frederick, 1902
Howard, $40, and st. Marys, 436.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Maryland 10 Hold
Two Institutes on
Victory Gardens
Courses at Rockville
And Upper Marlboro
Scheduled Friday

Victory garden schools will be
held all day Friday at Rockville and
Upper Marlboro as Maryland ex-
tension officials open a drive for
the cultivation of home gardens to
assist in the war effort.
Agriculture specialists from the
University of Maryland will lecture
at both institutes, which will be
held in the courthouses of the two
cities.
Specialists to Speak.
DR.. C. H. Mahoney, head of the
horticulture department of the uni
versity, and w. R. Ballard, special
ist in vegetable gardening, will give
practical points on planning gar
dens of various >sizes and outline
general cultivation practices.
How to get the most in the way
of quantity and quality from home
fruit gardens will be the topic Of A.
F. Vierheller, specialist in horti-
culture, while Edgar P. Walls will
give pointers on methods OF reduc-
ing disease damage to garden crops.
The Rockville school will open
with an address by Circuit Judge
Charles w. Woodward. Mrs. Cliff
ton Stanley. agricultural chairman
of the women's division of the coun-
ty Council of Defense, will preside.
Forum Also Planned.
Other talks are to be given at
Rockville by Miss Edythe M. Tur-
ner, home demonstration agent, who
will discuss homegrown foods for
health, and County Agent o. w.
Anderson, who will discuss garden
soils and fertilizers. A forum titled
Where Do We Go from Here?"
will be led by Mrs. Dorothy Kurtz,
Mrs. Philip Watkins, Mrs. George
Lechlider, Mrs. Ward Fulton,
Thomas Darby and Allen Messer.
County Agent P. E. Clark and
Home Demonstration Agent Ethel
M. Regan will participate in the
Marlboro school, which opens at
10 am. The school at Rockville
will begin at $3.50 am.
The schools are sponsored by the
State extension service and are
part of a Nationwide campaign
for growing of victory gardens in
rural areas.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Montgomery Players
To Offer Boothe Pluy

The Montgomery Players of
Chevy Chase, Md, will present
Margin for Error" by Clare Booth,
at $3.50 pm. Saturday at the Leland
Junior High School. The play will
be third in the current season s
offerings by the group. 1t is being
directed by Miss Jane Plummer
Rice.
Those in the cast include Leland
G.. Dewey, Frederick M. Kerby, Fred
Nixon, Miss Margaret Buckley, Har-
rison Hathaway, Jack Ferguson,
Miss Barbara Mildram, Edmund
Soper and Ed Wilkinson.
Tryouts for the casting of "Mr.
and Mrs. North" will be held at $3.50
pm. February 18 at the Somerset
School, in Chevy Chase.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
HyottsviIIe !. 0. O. F.
Officers Installed

F. w. Waigand, ST., has been in
stalled as the new noble grand
of Oriole Lodge, No. Al, I. o. o.
F., of Hyattsville.
Among other new officers are
Charles A. Matthews, vice grand;
Thomas E. Morris, recording secre-
tary; George Fenwick, financial
secretary; George w. Quick, treas
urer; Calvin Brincefield, warden,
and Charles w. Conquest, conduc-
tor.
Mr.. Fenwick has been reelected
trustee for three years. Town Coun-
Gilman H. Wilson Spicknall of Hy-
attsville and A. Eugene Burgess
are fold-over trustees.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
1okomu Park to Show
London Air-Ruid Film

"An Air Raid Over London" is the
title of the latest of a series OF mo-
ton pictures sponsored by the Visual
Education Committee of the Mont
gomery County Civilian Defense
Council, which will be shown in the
auditorium of the Washington Mis-
sionary College in Takoma Park at
8 pm. tomorrow.
The motion pictures are shown
free to the public as part of the
councils educational campaign.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
0'Conor Urges
Ending State
Tax on Realty
Source Should Be Left
To Subdivisions,
Governor Says
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 1.-THE State
tax on real estate can be and should
be eliminated altogether" Gov.
O'Conor told the Real Estate
Boards banquet tonight.
To "avoid duplication Of taxa
tion," Gov. O'Conor said, this
source of revenue should be left
for the subdivisions of the State"
Such step would go long way
toward solving the problem OF the
dependency of local governments
upon the State government for
partial support" he asserted.
Gov. O'Conor said that since
taxpayers will be burdened SO
heavily with Federal imposts, 1t is
our obligation to pare down taxes
wherever possible"
Tax Now at 81-Year Low.
Cut 40 per cent for this year and
1943, the State real estate levy
today "is the lowest in 81 years in
Maryland, but further reductions
should be made" the Governor said.
Our States bonded Indebtedness
in 1899 was $48, 900. BY Septem-
Der of next year it will have been
reduced to S31, TBS 900. This is a
reduction in the outstanding bonded
Indebtedness of approximately 33
per cent.
1T will, be entirely possible to
have the State function on a pay
as-you-go basis so that real estate
taxation will not be necessary to
meet carrying charges or for
amortization"
Gov. OConor said it was timely
and fitting" that the proposed aboh-
ton be mentioned to the Real Es-
tate Board, since it was to the same
group in 1941 that he proposed the
plan to vest legal authority in the
Board of Public Works to reduce
real estate taxes when the State
surplus justifies it. The aw vas
passed by the last Legislature, and
the 40 per cent cut effected through
it.
Realty Owners Disadvantaged.
1T seems clear the owners Of real
estate are entitled to this consider
ation,' the Governor continued.
While owners of personal property
have not been compelled, in many
instances, to pay taxes unless their
securities were income-produclng,
the owners of real estate have been
compelled to continue to pay axes
on producing property. In ad-
dition, real estate owners have been
compelled to pay many other kinds
of taxes which the average citizen
has not had to bear"
Gov. O'Conor added that in fair
ness to the local subdivisions, as well
as to the State, system should be
| devised whereby they do not have
to depend on the State government
/ for any revenue.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
By STAFF Correspondent of The Star

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 7.-Per-
haps Judge James Harrison May
of the Staunton Corporation Court
will not be too disappointed when
he learns why his reelection yes
terday by the House of Delegates
was just short of unanimous.
The record of the vote of Delegate
Charles R. Fenwick of Arlington
County was inadvertently left un-
recorded by the antics of Janice
Medley. 31a-year-old daughter Of
Senator William D. Medley of Ar
nngton. While sitting on Mr.. Fen
wick's desk she began playing with
the electric voting machine button.
When the time came for members
to vote on Judge Mays reelection
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Film on Mass to Be Shown

The Sodality of st. Michaels
Church., Silver Spring, Md, will
sponsor the showing of a motion
picture exposition Of the mass, "The
Perpetual Sacrifice" Tuesday at St.
Michaels School. A program for
the children will be given at las
pm. and the evening performance
for the adults will be at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Virginia Bus Lines
To Increase Fares

Ey the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 7.-Al
major bus lines operating in Vir-
ginia, except Richmond Greyhound
have filed notice of a 10 per cent in
crease in fares with the State Cor
poration Commission.
The increases will become effec.
tive February 10.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
81 900 for Paralysis Fund

STAUNTON, Va, Feb. 7. (SpeciaD
The Augusta county, Staunton,
and Waynesboro committee for the
celebration of the Presidents birth
day and infantile paralysis fund
campaign reported today 1t cleared
$1,000.l6 this year.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
PIT. A. PIuns Observance

Founders Day will be observed
by the Thomas Nelson Page School
Parent Teacher Association at 8
pm. Tuesday with the presentation
Of q pageant, The Lighting Of the
Candles"
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Chinese Diplomat to Speak

Victor Kwong, second secretary
of the Chinese Embassy, will speak
on Chinese-American relationship
at a meeting Of the Silver Spring
Md Rotary Club at 1915 pm.
Wednesday at the Indian Spring
Country Club.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Chesterbrook PIT. A.

The Chesterbrook Va) Parent
Teacher Association will hold an
assorted games party at 8 pm.
Tuesday at the school, Mrs. H. A.
Chittick, publicity chairman, an
nounced.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Show to Be Presented
By Woodside P.-T. A.

Bill Coyle, radio director Of The
Star staff, will act as master Of
ceremonies at a variety show to be
presented by the Woodside CMd)
Parent-Teacher Association Febru-
ary II for the benefit of the schools
defense fund.
Included among the entertainers
will be Justin Lawrie, singer; Miss
Thelma HERMAN and Miss Lor-
raine Magneson, dancers; Miss
Evening star., 1942-02-08

Joyce Reeside an
Candlish, pianistd
FARRELL who vii
Glory" A one-a'
be presented.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
Sugar Rotioning Program
for County is Outlined
County Clerk Details PIons
for Registration Of all FomiIies

beekeepers, grocers and the like
will register May % and 20
at the nearest high schools
Hours will be from a. m. I'M
til ) p. m.
SCHOOLS TO CLOSE
The general public will be
registered at the nearest school
either ward or grade - on
May 4 TO May z inclusive.
egistrationS will be a X n
from 8 a. m. until p. m. and
from 2 until 8 p. m. and all
schools will close, Brown said.
One person may register for
all members of his family pro-
vided he is at least &c years of
age, Brown said, in pointing
out that boarders must register
for themselves.
POUND-STAMPS
Household consumers will be
entitled to purchase one pound
of sugar with each of the first
four stamps in war ration book
No. /. The first stamp is valid
May 5-18. the second May IL
See SUGAR-Page 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
Damage Suit
Asks $4,000
Excavation Bosis
of Claim

In suit filed in circuit court
Fred Greider, president of the
Greider Machine Tool company
of Bowling Green, Ohio, asks
damages in the amount Of S10,-
900 from Glenn ID. Curtiss, Tony
Bruce, George Auch and the
Michigan Tool Co, alleging that
by eXcavating on property as
sertedly belonging to him they
have damaged him to that ex-
tent.
The property, located in War
rem township, was allegedly sold
TO the Greider Machine Tool
Company by Curtiss. The tool
company later sold the property
TO Greider. Greider came to
inspect the property and discov-
cred that Curtiss, Auch, Tony
Bruce and the Michigan Tool
Company had dug an excava-
ton some IL feet deep and long
and wide upon his property.
He claims they had no right
to do ii and asks relief from the
court.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
FDR Halls
War Output
Once 'Fontostic'
Program Nay Now
be Expanded

WASHINGTON, April "a -
up - President Roosevelt de-
clared today that the war pro-
duction program was working
out extremely wei. and limited
that another might be piled on
top of the program, which was
called fantastic last January.
In his annual message to Con-
gress on January 6, the Presi-
dent So Ssrth a schedule calling
for a production in 1912 and
1913 of $4,000 p aneS, 10000
tanks, $4,000 ainti-aircraft guns
and 100000 tons of CONNER
cial shipping.
The intimation that these ire
mendous goals might be expand
ed to assure united nations
victory came when he was asked
at press conference whether
he thought steel plants now be-
ing built or expanded would
raise capacity sufficiently to
meet all requirements.
NEW PROGRAM
No, he replied, he couldn't
say that because there might be
another program by the time
the expansions and new plants
are completed.
The chief executive expressed
a personal view that there still
was too great civilian use of
steel, but that War Production
Board officials had taken a con-
trary position. He said that this
is being checked on now.
To an inquiry as to whether
anything was being done to re
vitalize shipbuil d i n G, MIR.
Roosevelt said that everybody
was working on that at the pre-
sent time. Referring to the diff
Guilty of obtaining enough steel,
he added that you can't make
bread without flour.
He was informed that the
Ship Construction program was
regarded generally as the only
portion of his January produc-
ton plan which was aging ser
iously behind.
And he was reminded that
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land,
defense shipping administrator,
had testified on Capitol Hill
that there was too damned
much loafing" in shipyards on
the part of both labor and man.
agement.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
Invaders Drive
within 100
Miles Of City
British, Chinese
Forced Back in
Heavy Assaults

NEW DELHI, India, April -
- (P - The japanese are with
in 100 miles of the important
Burma city of Mandalay, 1t was
disclosed today by a British
communique which said new at
tacks were developing in the
Taunggyi area.
1t was not clear whether the
advance was from Loikaw,
which fell Tuesday, or from the
Thailand border in a westward
thanking action.
Chinese forces directed by
Lieut., Gen. joseph y. Stilwell,
U.S:A., are holding that part Of
the allied front.
Fighting attacks were devel-
oping in the east front vicinity
of Shwenyaung and Taunggyi,"
said the British communiQue.
Reports Of both engagements
were meager but matters appear
to be progressing satisfactorily"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
Corsets, Phones, Fishing
Curted by u.
Five New Restrictions Ordered
TO Conserve VitoI War Materials

mileage by IS per cent as COM
pared with CORES pon d | n &
months last year. In the inter-
city trucking industry, all
trucks must loaded to ca
pacity on outgoing trips and TO
at least IS per cent capacity on
return trips, with carriers pool
ing tn ir facilities wherever
necessary.
TELEPHONES - Hereafter
new telephones may not be in
stalled except 70" persons en-
gagged i'm direct war work or in
occupations essential to public
welfare, or unless existing ex-
change lines capacity can han
die them without disrupting
essential services. The Bell sys-
tenn estimated this would result
in denial of about 100000 ap-
plications this year for residen-
tial telephone service. Preferred
categories include armed serv-
ices. government agencies, med
ical and dental service, newspa-
pers, press associations, COM
See RESTRICTIONS-Page :
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
Gas Rationinq
10 CUT Deep
50 Per Cent
SIosh Predicted

WASHINGTON, April "a -
up --- Government sources indi-
Gated today thot gas line COS
sumptNh in the East and proba-
bly, the Pacific Northwest would
be cut to SO per cent of normal
on May l by limiting supplies to
filling stations. This compares
with the present curtai ment of
third.
Such an increased reduction,
which might mean go per cent
less gasoline for non-essential
vehicles, would be effective for
two weeks until May Is, when
the rigid card rationing program
becomes effective in the East by
order of Price Administrator
Leon Henderson.
A 60 per cent cut for passen-
ger automobiles probably would
provide about 25 gallons month
y for each vehicle, oil circles
estimated.
An authoritative source said
the first restrictions of the card
rationing program also would
limit non-es Sential automobiles
to around rs gallons d month. 1t
was explained that the first card
curtaiiment might be more Sc
we're than later restrictions,
since eastward transportation
services now are engaged IN
building up industrial fuel OF.
supplies.
Meanwhile, the populous East
coast began to wonder how 1T
would be to live IN a "gaso. inc
age" with precious little gaso-
line.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
Russians Take
.Go|den-Ranqe.
Crush Menocing
Maxi Stronghold
By EDDY GILMORE

KUIBYSHEV, Russia, April
"a - (P) - Red Star said today
Russian forces had captured
"the golden range" a menacing
German stronghold in t n e
Crimea, but there were reports
that some Firms had moved
south to bolster Nazi divisions
on the Kalinin front.
The golden range, not spe-
officially located in the Soviet
account, was said to have been
taken after four days of sharp
fighting. The Germans lost 800
killed, several big guns, so ma
chimes guns, and dozens of trench
mortars, said Red Star, the Rus
sian army newspaper.
ROUT REDS
The Germans were said to
have routed the Russians once
from freshly captured positions
before finally captivating.
With the main sectors of the
German Russian front still
slushy, fighting flared spasmod-
ically in the deep south and the
north, where the battlefields
were respectively dry and still
frozen.
Russian advices said the Red
Army broke through sector of
the Finnish front before Lenin-
grad last week and knitted
through the Finnish lines in
Karelia this week. There has
been nothing here since to indi-
cate lessening of the Soviet
drives.
On the southwest front Red
See Wharfage 2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
Nazis Ship
Teachers to
Work Camps

STOCKHOLM, April "a -
(P-- The Oslo correspondent OF
the newspaper Social Demokra-
ten reported today that 500 Nor
wegian schol teachers, jammed
below decks on a small steam
err designed to accommodate
half that number. had been ship
ped to)a Nazi work camp In the
Arctic zone under circumstanc-
es so bad that some became In
sane.
The correspondent estimated
LOO teachers have been ar-
rested for their revolt aSainse
the Nazi-spor.sored regime q
Prime Minister Major vkdkim
Quisling and shipped - laooe
camps in the far north, whGro
they presumably are being tore'
ed TO work on Man detenoo. IN
stallations.
The dispa4eh ~ Dpltes ''est.
ed brutslty' n le6nn9 III lat~
est contingent aboard sAlp c.
Trondhcim. While os,es t1n6oe
way the teachers suffered 3yU1
hopelessly inadequate wneoR