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Evening star., 1942-03-31
District Woman Dies
In Richmond Hospital
OF Traffic Injuries
Mrs. EorI B. Chewing,
Husband Hurt Sunday;
Bus Hits Girl Here
D. G. Traffic Toll
Killed in 1912 ---- 80
Killed in same period Of 194l 81
Toll for all of 1941 1- 95

A Washington woman died yester-
day in Richmond of injuries received
Sunday in a traffic accident 2 miles
north of that city, the Associated
Press reported.
The victim was Mrs Earl B
Chewing, 81, of 1923 N street NV.
She died in the Virginia Medical
College Hospital, where her husband
also was under treatment for in
juries received in the two-car crash.
Mrs. Elizabeth Branzelle, 81. Of
Petersburg, Va, was injured fatally
in the same accident and also died
yesterday in the Richmond Hos
pital.
Funeral services for Mrs. Chewn-
ing will be held in Richmond to-
morrow, and burial will be in River
view Cemetery there.
Miss Teresa La Rusaw, 10. of 1904
Otis place NV, suffered foot and
leg injuries yesterday when struck
by bus at Fifteenth and I streets
NV, according to police report.
She was admitted to Emergency
Hospital after receiving first-aid at
the Veterans Administration Build
ing.
Police listed B. T. Scrivener, Is,
of 1912 Neal street NE, as driver
of the bus.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Hundreds Join
.Last.DaY Rush
For Auto Tags
License DeudIine
Won't Be Extended,
Bureau Announces.

Washington's Automobile License
Bureau will close at the customary
hour of 4:45 o'clock this afternoon
and there will be no extension of
the time in which car owners are
permitted to obtain their new tags,
William A. Van Duzer, District traf-
fic director, announced this morn
ing. The deadline for operation OF
vehicles without renewal of license
is midnight tonight.
The Police Department., however
said no arrests would be made before
8 am. tomorrow.
A last-day rush was in evidence
at the license headquarters in the
Municipal Center. 800 Indiana ave-
nue. NV, from an early hour. The
waiting line was more than block
long before 9 am. and increasing
rapidly. Unless they were among
the first to arrive, applicants who
had delayed were forced to stand IN
the rain until their turn came to
move inside the building.
5000 Less Than Last Year.
Total licenses issued thus far were
nearly 5000 behind the number Tor
last year, Mr.. Van Duzer reported.
He added that this had been antlcl-
pated and that he actually had ex-
pected even a larger decrease, due
to the curb on gasoline and automo-
bile tires brought about by the war.
Approximately $500 automobile
owners applied for their licenses yes
terday. They represented the larg-
est number for any one day this
year, but were 500 or more behind
the estimated total which can be
issued by the clerical force on duty
during a full working day.
A part of the decrease in auto
tag applications was caused by the
taxicab situation, according to John
H. Rover. president of the Premier
Cab Co. and of the District Asso-
citation of Taxicab Owners. He es-
timated that the number OF taxi
cabs on Washington's streets will
drop 20 per cent after tonight.
Sees 1000 Cabs Lost.
Many of the drivers are not 60
ing to buy licenses this year be-
cause Of the shortage of tires" he
explained. Il doubt that there will
be more than 1000 cabs on the
streets after the deadline. and that
represents drop of nearly 600"
One move to relieve the situation
will be put into effect Friday. Mr..
Roger added At that time the Ar
row, Bell, Checker, Premier and
Yellow taxicab companies will oper-
ate their 1,700 cabs from their IS
dispatching stations under a con-
solidated system, a step expected
to eliminate many empty return
trips.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Mrs. George Ross Dies;
Active in Church Work

Mrs. George A. Ross, president Of
the Washington Council Of Church
women, died yesterday at Emer-
gency Hospital.
Funeral services will be held at 8
o'clock tonight at Hysong'S funeral
home, 1900 N street NV, with the
Rev. Clarence w. Crawford, pastor,
and the Rev. Edwin H. Tuller, as
sitsant pastor Of the Calvary Baptist
Church officiating The body will
be taken to Mexico, Mo-, for burial.
Mrs. Ross, an active church work.
er for 36 years. was member Of the
Calvary Church, where she taught
the Baker Glass. She was a past
president of the Northwest w. c. T.
o., the Baptist Woman's Society for
the District, Women's Society of
Calvary Church and the District
Sunshine and Community Society.
Mrs. Ross is survived by her hus-
band, 4 retired Central High School
teacher, and q brother, Fred Hath
away. She was born in Ohio and
went to Missouri with her family
when q girl. Mr.. and Mrs. Ross
were married when they both were
teaching at Harding College, Searcy,
Ark.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Caro|e Lands Flies
To Capital 10 Wed
Comdr. Gene Markey
Blond Screen Actress
Keeps Exoct Time Of
Ceremony q Secret

Two Hollywood luminaries may
be married in Washington soon
-Carole Lands, blond actress
of the films, and the screen
writer-producer, Gene Markey,
now a lieutenant commander in
the Navy.
Miss Lands surprised Hollywood
studio officials late yesterday. ac-
cording to the Associated Press
when she announced just before
boarding an airliner that she was
headed for the Capital with the in
tention of marrying Comdr. Markey
Miss Lands was nom committal
on when the marriage would take
place. but said she had to be back
at work next week At that time
she will start a picture with George
Montgomery, who last week an
nounced his engagement to Hedy
Lamar, one of Comdr. Markey S
former wives. Comdr. Markey, who
is 46, also was the husband of Joan
Bennett.
Miss Lands has been married
twice. for Is days in 1884 to Irving
Wheeler, writer. and for two
months in 1910 to Willis Hunt, jr.
yachtsman.
Navy officials here said that
Comdr. Markey was stationed at q
post some 1000 miles away from
Washington" but that he was er
route here.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Bootleg Tire Buyer as Guilty
As Seller, Declares Leory

Leary said that 40 to As per cent
of automobiles now on the streets
would be out of operation by next
spring.
1t will be about five years before
either sufficient rubber or synthetic
rubber will be available to supply
the ordinary demand for tires, he
estimated. There is no relief in
sight," commented Mr.. Leary.
Mr. Leary said that the tire short
age already had made itself felt in
the traffic situation, with automobile
registrations now about 1000 behind
what they are normally.
Formerly administrator only Of
tires, Mr.. Leary now has under his
authority retreads, cars. sugar and
typewriters.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Main Thoroughfares
Involved in New
Parking Restrictions
Changes on II Streets
Given Approval by
Commissioners

Parking changes on II streets
were approved yesterday by the
Commissioners at the request of
Traffic Director william A. Van
DuZer.
Some of the changes or major
thoroughfares, Mr.. Van Duzer in
dicated, were to eliminate bottle
necks in traffic Many OF the neigh
borhood changes were recommended
by civic groups in the areas. in
cluding the Connecticut Avenue,
Friendship, Burroughs and Anacos-
tia Citizens Associations.
In addition to Mr.. Van Duzer's
sanction, the proposals have been
approved by the Traffic Advisory
Council. the corporation counsels
Office, the Public Utilities Commis-
sion and the Police Department.
The changes. which become effec-
tive in about two weeks, are:
Northwest.
Adams Mill road between Calvert
street and Columbia road on the
west side, no parking at any time.
Connecticut avenue from Wood
ley road to Twenty-fourth street, on
the west side, no parking at any
time; from Porter street to Wood
ley road, on west side, no parking
7 to $50 am, one-hour parking
$50 am. to 6 pm.
Massachusetts, avenue from Thir-
tieth to Thirty-fourth streets, on
north side, no parking at any time.
Wisconsin avenue from Grant
road north to the driveway along
side the branch public library, on
east side, one-hour parking 7 am.
to pm. no parking to $50 pm:
from the driveway to Brandywine
street. no parking at any time.
Second street from Laurel to
Whittier streets, on west side, no
parking at any time.
Thirty-ninth street from the Pepco
pole No. 221638 to Tunlaw road. on
north and east sides, no parking
at any time
Fortieth street from Albemarle to
Chesapeake streets, no parking at
any time on the east side.
Northeast.
First street from H street to a
point 220 feet south, on the east
side no parking at any time.
Eighteenth street from Irving
street to Queens Chapel road, no
parking at any time on the east side.
Southwest.
First street between Canal street
and Wonder court, on east side, no
parking at any time.
Southeast.
Maple View place from Nichols
avenue east to the first alley on the
north side, no parking at any time.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
.Ou0rterm0ster
Buildings in Use
Near Alexandra

Four warehouses at the Army's
new Quartermaster Depot near Al
exandria, Va, have been completed,
and two of them already are being
used, Maj. Eben S. Longfellow Of
the Constructing Quartermaster's
Office said today.
Four additional warehouses. au-
thorized recently. now are under
construction, along with the ad-
ministration building and central
heating plant included in the origi-
nal authorization for the depot, Maj
Longfellow said.
The depot is being built on H.
acre tract in Fairfax County on
Duke street extended. about 81 miles
from the Alexandria City limits.
Originally it was planned for the
site in Arlington County on which
the new War Department Building
now is being built.
Maj. Longfellow said he expected
completion of the administration
building and the heating plant by
June / and added that the newly
authorized additions to the depot
probably would be ready by Au-
gust /.
Transfer of the depot site from
the Columbia pike area delayed
construction about three months.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Youth Held in Attack Case
Granted Chance Of Venue
By = stafY Correspondent Of The Star

BY Staif Correspondent Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. March 81
James A. Anderson. II. of Sycamore
Hills, Md, who was to have been
tried here today on a charge Of
criminally attacking a 36-year -old
Government worker February 81,
will be tried instead in Washington
County, under the terms of an order
signed today by Circuit Judge Sted-
man Prescott.
A petition for change of venue
from Montgomery County was filed
last week by John Reeves and WAL
ter Dawson, attorneys for Ander-
son. The trial probably will be held
in Hagerstown during the May term
of court.
Anderson was indicted by the
Montgomery County grand jury ON
charge of criminally attacking the
woman in her Sycamore Hills home.
near Glen Echo, after he had fired
several shots at Montgomery
County policemen.
He was arrested the same night
at a drive-in restaurant in Arling-
ton County at the south end of
Highway Bridge.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Service Pay Increase,
Approved by Senate,
Faces Delay in House
Committee Hearings
Not Expected TO Stort
Before April IS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Things are looking up for the
proposal to boost soldiers pay to S42
a month.
The Senate voted yesterday to
double the month basic pay OF
Army buck privates, but at least
two weeks and possibly much longer
will elapse before the House begins
action on the legislation.
The House is in what virtually
amounts to an Easter recess and
there appeared little likelihood to-
day that the Military Affairs Com
mittee would start hearings on the
pay increase bill before April 13 at
the earliest.
AS passed in the Senate by vote
of 70 to o yesterday, the measure
would make the first basic change
in the Army pay scale in 20 years.
In addition to doubling the ini-
tial rate for privates, the bill pro-
poses increases all along the line for
enlisted men in both the Army and
Navy. In the Army master SER
geant, the highest non-commissioned
classification, would receive S138 a
month instead of s126 Chief petty
officers in the NAVY would receive
similar increases.
The measure, sponsored by Sen
ator Johnson. Democrat, of Colo
RADIO also would raise the basic pay
of second lieutenants and Navy
ensigns from $1500 to $1,000 an
nually and adjust allowances for
other personnel in the Army, Navy,
Marine Corps, Coast Guard. Geo.
detic Survey and Public Health
Service.
The additional cost to the Govern
ment, based on the size of the Army
at the start of the year, was eSti-
mated by Senator johnson at $685.
412,000. Majority Leader Barkley
said the cost might rise much higher
however, as the armed forces grow
The Senate also passed and sent
to the House bill increasing the
pay of the Philippine Common
wealth Army and the Philippine
Scouts to the same level as that OF
the United States Army troops with
whom they are now fighting shoul-
der to shoulder on Bataan.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Two From D. c. Area
Made Army Officers

Two men from nearby Maryland
and Virginia have completed their
training in Army schools and re-
ceived their commissions, 1t was
announced today.
Mayo Sturdevant Stuntz, Vienna,
Va, was graduated from the Army
Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kans.
Aviation Cadet Albert w. Dieffen-
bach, Garrett Park, Md, was COM
missioned second lieutenant and
given his wings as an aerial bonn
bardier at the Air Corps Advanced
Flying School. Albuquerque. N. Mex.
He is a former student at the Uni.
versity Of Maryland.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Rear Admiral BIukeIy
Funeral Tomorrow

Funeral services for Rear Admiral
j. r. Y. Blakely. U. S. NJ, retired,
who died following a fall from a
Denver hospital window on Satur-
day, will be held at l o'clock tomor-
row afternoon at Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery. He will be buried
with simple military honors.
Chaplain r. D. Workman will Of
f1ciate, and honorary pallbearers will
be Rear Admiral w. r. Sexton, re-
tired; Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs,
Rear Admiral J. D. Beuret, Con-
struction Corps. retired; Capt. E.
S. Kellog, retired; Capt. G. S. Mack
lin, United States Naval Reserve,
and Capt. B. B. Mccormick, re-
tired
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Officer Quota
For .3-A Men
Isl a Month
Army Fixes District
Limit on Application
Of Volunteers
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

Dy UkANxhN1 vi
The District will be allowed to
include seven volunteer oflcer can
didate applicants in Its regular quota
for induction each month, 1t was
learned today.
The number of 3-A registrantS in
the Sd Corps Area. of which the
District is q part, who may be in
Quoted on regular quotas to seek
appointment to ofdcer candidate
schools is ITS, it was understood.
Maryland will be allowed 10, Vir-
sinia 80 and Pennsylvania lit, al
though these quotas are subject to
change at any time.
Although many of the local boards
have been taking applications of
men with dependents who want to
try for appointment to officer can
didate schools, the District has not
yet been notified to which military
station to send them. it was said.
Facilities Limited.
A number of men in the District,
according to local selective service
headquarters, have shown interest in
the opportunity offered by the Army
TO qualified men between the ages
Of 18 and As to seek oficer training.
An Army official explained that
the quotas merely put a limit on
the number of men who can seek
such training. that the Army isn't
trying to recruit officers by this
means, but only extending an Op-
portunity. Since facilities for train
ing are limited, the Army can
handle just so many Of these men.
Here's how the arrangement
works:
The Army notifies selective serv-
ice headquarters of the quotas.
Applicants, men deferred only be-
cause OF dependents, 60 to their local
boards, where they fill out appli-
cations to volunteer, sign waivers
of dependency and undergo the local
board preliminary physical exam
ination.
Go Before Board.
II they pass this examination they
are authorized by their local boards
10 present. IuculSclNcS dG GIlc HILL
tary station designated for the
qualifying examination. There they
undergo the Army physical, take
the Army general classification test
and 90 before a board of officers.
The qualified men are inducted
under the regular quota and go to
an Army reception center, from
which they are transferred to an
Army replacement training center
where they undergo basic training
along with the IA men who have
been inducted. While taking their
basic training they make application
to attend an officer training school.
At the end of four months of
basic training, if they are accepted.
they go to an officer training school
for three months and, if they grad
uate, they are commissioned as sec
ond heutenants
Those who fail along the line are
given the choice Of returning to
civilian life to await the call Of
men in their group or of remaining
in the Army.
Evening star., 1942-03-31

Rationing boards consider the
purchaser "just as guilty" as the
seller of bootleg tires and tubes.
Whitney Leary, State rationing ad-
for the District, de-
clared yesterday at a meeting Of
the WASHINGTON Board of Trade
Traffic Committee.
The rationing official added that
check is effective, due to the
fact that in order for a dealer
to obtain additional tires he must
show certificates for those tires
which he had sold Endorsed by the
authorized purchaser"
Predicting that the tire shortage
would have a marked influence on
Washington's traffic problems, Mr..
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Missing Persons

Those hGDtn9 fnJOTWQttOn
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
,oith the Public Relations Squad
OF the Police Department, Na-
tional 1000.
Jeanette Kershner, Is; feet 2
inches, 120 pounds, brown eyes and
hair; wearing green skirt, green vel
vet jacket; missing from 1888 War
der street NV. since Friday.
Betty O'Neill Evers, %; S feet 4
inches, 120 pounds, dark brown hair
and eyes; wearing tan coat, tan
waitress uniform trimmed IN brown
and green; missing from At Second
street NV. since Wednesday.
Donald Gray, Is; feet 8 inches,
l25 pounds. pimply face; wearing
brown checked suit. patch on left
knee; missing from 2l11 Eighteenth
street NV. since Friday.
Eveline Ailstock Davis. %, colored;
5 feet l inch, SO pounds; missing
from 912 Nineteenth street NE.
since yesterday.
Walter Boone, Il, colored; brown
eyes; wearing blue trousers, blue
striped shirt, gray lumberjack, green
cap, brown shoes; missing from 438
Franklin street NV. since yester-
day.
Lavinia Murphy, rs, colored; 5
feet, 140 pounds, light brown com
plexion; wearing blue pin-striped
maternity dress. missing from 1921
Corcoran street NV. since Satur-
day.
Vera Mae Watkins, II, colored; 5
feet / inch, l20 pounds, brown eyes
and hair, light brown complexion;
wearing tan camels-hair coat,
brown shoes, light tan dress, dark
blue hat; carrying blue umbrella;
missing from 3o4 @ street NV. since
Sunday.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Memorial Rites Tonight
For Comdr. Hickox

Memorial services will be held at
8 o'clock tonight at the Metropolitan
Baptist Church, Sixth and A streets
N. E., for 1t. Comdr. Ralph Hickox,
who lost his life when the destroyer
Truxtun ran aground in February
of the coast of Newfoundland dur
ing gale.
Comdr. Hickox is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Dorcas Louise Barker
Hickox, and a daughter. Dorcas
Ann, who heard that her father was
reported lost while at her grand
mothers house for her birthday
party.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
25-M.P.H. Limit Put
On War COLLEGE Roods

Responding to President Roose-
velt's request for lower speed limits
as a rubber conservation measure,
Post Commander Col. Thomas F.
Bresnahan today announced 25-
mile an hour speed limit for all
private and Government passenger
cars operating on the roads of the
Army War College.
Trucks and delivery vehicles will
not be permitted to travel faster
than 20 miles an hour.
Only civilian visitors on official
business. visiting officers and officers
and enlisted men on duty on the
post are now being admitted by
gate guards, Col. Bresnahan said.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Examination Announced
For IS New Policemen

Preparing for the appointment of
rs policemen in accordance with new
legislation increasing the metropol-
itan force. the Civil Service Commis-
sion today announced an examina-
ton and said that maximum age
limits for applicants had been raised
from 81 to 35 years.
The initial pay rate is $1,000, and
500 increases are given annually for
the first six years service.
Applicants must live within a
radius of IL miles from the Capitol
Building.
Residents of Alexandria, Arlington
and Fairfax living outside the 12-
mile zone may take the examination
for service on the Mount Vernon
Highway Patrol.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Curtin Halls Creation
OF Pacific War Council
By the Associated Press.

BY thE ASSOclated PreS8-
MELBOURNE, March 3l.-Prime
Minister John Curtin hailed the
creation of the Pacific War Council
in Washington yesterday, saying the
decision was "a source OF deep salts
faction"
Australia now will have q voice
in the higher direction OF the war
in the Pacific" he declared.
He said the decision was the cll-
mination Of long efforts by the Aus
tralian government.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Commentator to Speak

Eric SEVERED, former correspond
ent of the Columbia Broadcasting
System in Paris and now a Wash
ington commentator for c. B. S.,
will be guest speaker at meeting
of the Advertising Club Of Wash
ington at 1890 pm. tomorrow at
the Raleigh Hotel.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
RoiIwuy Official Promoted

Peter J. Schardt, assistant to the
vice president of the Southern Rail-
way System here, has been pro-
NOTED to assistant vice president in
charge of mail and express traffic.
it was announced today. He has
been with the system since 1928
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Five D. 6. SeIectees
To Be Inducted Today

Completing its regular March
quota, local selective service head
quarters today announced that five
men from Board No. would be
indicted today at Camp Lee, Va.
The men are Harry Goldberg,
Yantis Robert Jessee, Norman Lang
ford, Louis Reznek and Samuel
Montgomery Schollenbarger.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Bill Fuvors Veterans

Representative Sasscer, Democrat,
of Maryland introduced yesterday a
bill which would give World War
veterans serving in the present war
the highest rank. grade or rating
held by them in the last war.
Evening star., 1942-03-31
Rites for Mrs. Kuufmun

WINCHESTER, Va. March 81
(SpeciaD Lutheran Church serv-
ices were conducted today for Mrs.
Caroline D. Kaufman, "a, widow of
John B. kaufman, who died Sunday.
Her husband served as a courier for
Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-27
WHIRLY MUST WIN
 ONE-HORSE RACE
Alsab's Owner and Eight Others Duck the Issue
 at PimlicO

Baltimore. Md. Oct. 27-(UP)- The $10,O0O Pinlico special-flrst one-horse race in the long history of the sport in Maryland and larg- est "Walkover" purse ever = will send the earnings of Calmuet farms whirlaway to $528,000 tomorrow.
 The race was to have been run as the feature of the Maryland Jockey Clubs opening-day program, but became a one-horse affair when Alsab was withdrawn. Jockey George Woolf will merely trot Whirly around the track and collect the purse.
 Declines
 Al Sabth of Chicago explained that any further purses Alsab might win would be absorbed by taxes ard the possibility of his colt winning failed to justify bringing him here
 The special is open to winners of one or more of 24 selected races throughout the country. Alsab, Whirlaway and eight others won lal the events.
 Owners of the other eight, how ever, refused to run them aginst nightly Whirlaway because no handicap is provided and the horses are weighted on age only. Then, too, the special is winner-take-al with no show or place money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-27
Brown Leaves Hub Garden For Army

Boston. Oct. 27-tUP)-Walter A. Brown enters the First Service Com mand as a major in charge of pulp licity today and his post as general manager of the Boston Garden Arena corporation fall to Thomas J. Randy of Melrose.
 Brown, recently commissioned in the U. s. Army, was granted leave of absence at a meeting of the cor poration's executive committee yes- terday.
 Randy, immediately named his successor, formerly was athletic di- rector of the Boston Athletic asso- citation and for 25 years has been associated with amateur and pro- fessional sports.
 He has been for many years an executive in charge of the annual Boston A. A. Marathon on Patriots day and is vice-president of the New England A. A. A. U.