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Evening star., 1942-12-16
City Manager Defend!
Alexandra Council
On Detention Issue
Sees Foster Home Plan
Solution to Problem
Of Youth Facilities

Replying to charge by the Rev
Ernest A. de Bordenave that the
Alexandria City Council had failed
to take promised action to remedy
the city's juvenile detention facil-
tiles, City Manager Carl BudWesky
today said the council had taken no
action in August, 1910, because the
need did not then exist"
Mr.. de Bordenave, chairman of a
committee of the Council of Social
Agencies which is investigating
juvenile detention, made his charges
in an open letter yesterday.
Cites waiting Period"
Claiming that the present concern
over juvenile delinquency is a re-
suit of wartime conditions in the
city, Mr. Budwesky, in his answer
to Mr de Bordenave, said the 900
Juvenile detention days mentioned
could easily have been cut to 400
or less if..the Juvenile Court had
made prompt disposition. Of iu-
veniles in its custody instead Of wait
ing for their families or for officials
of the State Reformatory at Rich
mond to call for them.
The probation officer has been au-
thorized to ask for city funds to pay
transportation costs of juveniles,
Mr. BudWeskv said, and added that
he considered this a less expensive
and more intelligent solution to
the problem than to maintain a
separate detention home.
Calls Home System Logical.
In isolated cases, where the deten-
ton of juveniles for several days is
required, he said, the foster home
system is the most logical. He said
several of these homes are now in
the process of being investigated.
Readily admitting that the facili-
ties for the dtention of juveniles are
inadequate" and unsatisfactory.
Mr.. BudWeskv said the first step to
remedy the situation is to cut doWr
the number Of detention days.
Il believe the foster home system
will solve the juvenile problem with
out the unnecessary expense of op-
Grating a separate juvenile detention
home he said.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
q Accepted for woes
By Virginia Officials
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 16.-Twen-
ty-three men yesterday were accept
ed to attend volunteer officer candi-
date schools, State selective service
headquarters announced.
The group included
Paul A. Herfurth, Alexandria; Al
exander Nuta, Arlington; Elmo L
Vaughan, Alexandria; Charles M
Marsh, Arlington; Burr Latta, jr.
Arlington: Zedoc w. Crawford, Ar
lington; Harry w. Penn, Hyattsville
Md: Daniel c. Bigvee, Arlington
William s. Brown, Washington;
Michael j. Munley, Arlington; !;
Thomas A. Sullivan. Arlington; Eu-
gene o. Mcdowell, Arlington;
George Warren Wells, Arlington and
Walter B. Burns, Burke.
Evening star., 1942-12-16

Davis as register of wills.
Following the ceremonies, the
commissioners held an organization
meeting at which Mr.. Carson was
reelected chairman of the board,
while Linden Briscoe and Waldo
Burnside were reappointed clerk
and attorney, respectively, to the
board.
Other employees of the board. all
of whom were reappointed, are Miss
Catherine A. Ridgely, secretary to
Mr.. Briscoe; Mrs. Connie Hyde,
stenographer; Miss M. Agnes Duvall
county social worker and DR.. James
G.. Sasscer, physician to the county
Jail.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Maryland Afraid Tests
Postponed Over Holidays
BY the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, Dec. 16. Col.
Henry S. Barrett. State AFRAID pre-
cautions director, has given Christ
mas greetings to Marylanders by
announcing that all blackouts have
been called off until after January
because of the danger to crowds
in Maryland cities"
Col. Barrett warned, however, that
all residents were expected to ''be
on the job and cooperating if an
actual raid comes"
He said he was fearful" of what
surprise test might do to the
larger towns and especially Balti-
more.
This is not like any other year
In Maryland, since thousands of
additional residents have come into
The State" Col. Barrett said.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Butter Rationing Seen
Probable in Cumberland
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Dec. 16.-This
city faces the probability of butter
rationing in the near future, says
H. L. Mccormick of Baltimore, State
director of the OPA.
The current scarcity of butter
worst of all shortages here-is the
result Of heavy service demands and
lease-lend requirements, Mr.. Nc
Cormick explained in an address
before the Rotary Club.
The situation has been complicat-
ed futher, he said, by boarding and
difficulties of transportation.
Rationing would distribute the
remaining butter supply equitably
he told the Rotarians.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Deputies Urged
IoProbeCounty
Fire Hazards
Prince Georges Asks
Action by Stote
Insurance Head

The Prince Georges County (Md J
commissioners have requested State
insurance Commissioner John B.
Gontrum to appoint sufficient"
number of deputies to investigate
possible fire hazards in establish
ments throughout the county.
Ihls was revealed yesterday at a
meeting of the commissioners at
upper Marlboro at which a letter
written by. Linden Briscoe, clerk to
the board, to Mr.. Centrum was
made public.
Since the commissioners have no
legislative authority over fire pre-
Vention, the letter was written in
an attempt to obtain Mr.. Centrum s
aid In inquiring Into the safety
from causes of fire in places open
TO public entertainment or gather
tngs."
Unincorporated Areas.
While incorporated towns in the
county generally have authority
under their charters to enact regu-
aations for fire prevention, Mr.. Bris-
coe wrote, jurisdiction in such mat
tefs in unincorporated areas rests
In MIR. Gontrum's Office with en-
forcement being in the hands of
deputies appointed by him.
I'm the past" the letter said, "the
relation between State headquarters
and local deputies or other local
authorities has not always been of
the best, and enforcement attempts
often have broken down"
Declaring that there are a num-
Der Of specific establishments" as
well as general conditions that could
be investigated and regulated, Mr..
Briscoe assured the insurance COM
missioner that his deputies would
have the full support of the county
commissioners and other county au-
thorities in the enforcement of Mr..
Gontrum's orders.
Taxi Regulation Urged.
After Chief of Police Arthur NJ
Hepburn urged the commissioners
to pass legislation regulating taxi
cabs in the county, the board in
structed its attorney. Waldo Burn
side, to present a copy of the Dis
trict taXicab laws at its next meet
ang.
Chief Hepburn declared that many
motorists merely place signs on their
cars identifying them as taxicabs
and recommended establishment of
a licensing system, inacluding COM
pulSory insurance, proper identifica-
tion of drivers, etc.
The commissioners took under
consideration another request by
Chief Hepburn for the enactment of
legislation compelling hotels and
tourist homes in the county to keep
registers of their guests He also
recommended the licensing Of
tourist homes.
Rezoning Petitions.
A petition by Charles Beyer,
owner. for the reclassiication from
residential A to commercial D of lot
13, block c, Wines subdivision,
Hyattsville, was approved.
The group also approved a petit
ton by John Ridley Shields, owner,
for rezoning from residential A to C
of lot 4, Jacquet's subdivision, East
Hyattsville.
The board denied request by
John T. Baltzell, owner, for the re-
Classification from residential A to
commercial D of parcel A, Williams
subdivision near Berwyn.
Trial Magistrate Walter L. Green
reported that he had collected a
total of $l,57575 in fines and costs
during November Of this amount
$457 IS goes to the county.
Substitute Trial Magistrate Henry
H. ONeill reported collection of
S6l995 in fines and costs last month,
of which $26650 goes tc the county.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Child Health Purley

A child health conference will be
held at the Silver Spring Health
Center on Old Bladensburg road be-
ginning at 9 am. tomorrow. Mrs.
Katherine johnson, county public
health nurse, will be in charge of
the clinic, assisted by Mrs. Frank
Smith, who will act for the Silver
Spring Public Health Lay Commit
tee
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Retiring Worker Honored

Mrs. Nellie Rae Saxton, who re-
tired from the Veterans Admin
istration this week, has been given
farewell parties and gifts by her
friends in the chief clerks division,
where she worked. Mrs. Saxton,
who has been with the Veterans
Administration since June, 1918, will
continue to make her home in
Washington.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Deuth Ruled Suicide

FAIRFAX, Va. tSpeciaD DIR r.
B. McCord, county coroner, issued
certificate of suicide yesterday in
the death of William F. Dodson of
Weyanoke, who was found near his
home Monday night with a gun
shot wound through his chest.
Evening star., 1942-12-16

were reelected
November 3, are
William A. Car
son, John How
ard Beall, DR..
Harry NJ. Bowen,
D. Leonard Dyer
and Theodore B.
Siehler.
The two other
officials sworn in
are R. E a / | e
Sher1f1, VINO sue
ceedS William E.
Clifton as sher-
if, and Mr.. Cliff
ton, W no sue
ceeds William T.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Prince Georges Officials
Sworn In at Meetinq

The Prince Georges County (Md)
Commissioners and two other county
officials were sworn into office yes
terday by Circuit Court Clerk Brice
Bowie.
The commissioners, all of whom
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Citizens to Discuss Charter

A special meeting of the Seven
Oaks Manor Citizens Association
will be held at 8 o'clock tonight at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George
w. Butler, Hamilton avenue, to con-
slider suggestions for . charter for
Montgomery County.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
MoiI Hours Heightened

ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. is (Spe-
ciaD DR. George L. Edmonds, post
master, has announced that the
Rockville Post ONCE will be open
until Q pm. daily except Sunday
until and including December a.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Rotionine in Uruguay

Motorists Of Montevideo, Uruguay,
are allowed 10 quarts OF gasoline Z
month.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-04
Canada S Production
Reported al Peak

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 GNS).-
Canada now is producing enough
war material 10 equip a new army
division every six weeks and still
is able 10 snip TO England many
tons of badly needed munitions.
Victor r. GoGgin, general manager
of Maritime Housing, Ltd of Can
ada revealed today.
Goggin said the Dominion's
aluminium industry will supply the
war needs Of both Canada and
Great Britain and also furnish
$50 100000 pounds Of the vital
metal To the United states in the
next two wears.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-04
I Suspects Face
Foe Alien Board

Hearings for Two suspected
enemy spies. the last of AZ ap-
pretended by the FBI following
the United States war declara-
tons were 10 be conducted today
by the fivc-mcmber enemy alien
board.
OF the 80 aliens tried. nine have
been released and two have been
informed for the duration. aC-
cordlng 10 United States Attorney
John &. Lehr. Recommendations
for disposition of the other rs
cases have been forwarded 10
Washington. he said.
Lehr. who commended the board
for working far into the night 10
complete the bearings. said the
group would remain intact for
possible further cases Working
without pay. tho board opened the
bearings December II.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-04
Elephant Boy Sabu
I'm Detroit Tomorrow
Brings His Piemy Pet
on Tour 10 Boost
Savings for Defense

Ssha he Elephant Boy who
+, touru. the country as a De
Tense savings Minute Man
comes 20 Detroit tomorrow with
m> pigmN elephant.
~ahu j, The special guest 81 De-
tro.' newspaper carrier boys, soy
ert of whom. including Two
spec ally chosen Detroit Times car
gcT> VIII accompany hun as
guides and helpers as Sahu visits
Drtror schools and helps stimuli
.a'c sdIcS 81 Defense Stamps by
telling pupils what II means 10
hlc ln a tree country like thIS
4 convenient way 10 obtain De-
fgl~c Stamps is offered 10 Detroit
Times readers. or others. hy Times
hOmc-dCINcTy carriers who are
taking orders for stamps Each
carrier has a badge designating
hm ~ an Official Defense Stamps
Agent.
Sabu viii arrive al : 80 a m. to-
morrow 90 10 Hotel Statler for
breakfast and then visit desig-
mated schools:
Durlcc school, 10 a. m: ST.
Cecilia School, II a. m. Marshall
School, LAS p. m: Cleveland
School ! Is p m. and Highland
Park Junior High. 2;30 p. m.
At i p. IN. Sabu Will be AT the
Crowley Miner a. Co. department
store, where he will give a short
talk. put his pigmy elephant
through it's PAGES and autograph
a few photographs Of himself
At 5 D. m, Sabu'S busy day will
come 10 close with a radio
broadcast. as tho guest of Dick
OSgood'S Show World program
on Station WXYZ.
The newspaper carrier boys
chosen 10 accompany Sabu and his
elephant on the city tour will
greet Sabu al the Michigan Cen
trial Depot, escort him to the Stat
Ter where they viii breakfast with
Sahu and ms manager. and then
proceed with Sabu throughout the
daN.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-04
Defense Against Fire
To Be TrebIed Here

Detroit. one Of the 81 American
cities considered in danger Of
aerial bombing. Will have IFS fire
fighting equipment more than
trebled by congressional civilian
defense funds. the Office Of Civil
ian Defense announced today.
No mention was made whether
Detroit viii share in an ALLEGATION
Of gas masks. Only other target
cites named in the announce
ment were Cleve Ian d, Akron
Louisville and Duluth
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-04
State Pay Raises
Total I Million
Time. stan Corre.pondsnt

LANSING. Feb. a Pay raises
granted by the Civil Service
Commission will necessitate a $2,.
100000 appropriation by the legis-
lature when it meets in special
session next week, Aud. Gen.
Vernon J. Brown estimated today
This will he used up almost
entirely by state hospitals and
other institutions" he said. I'm
every other case. Increased
bugetary demands can be met
out OF the $1,000 900 defense
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-04

appropriation voted by the legis-
lature."
Governor Van Wagoner's second
call for a special legislative Ses-
sion will be for the purpose OF
llberalizing the unemployment
compensation law. When law.
makers return next Monday, they
are expected 10 find The additional
chore OF appropriating funds to
meet the pay raises.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-04
Last Lombard Film
To Be Seen March 6

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 0NS).--
The film ITO BE or Not To BE. "
the last motion picture made by
Carole Lombard before she met
death with II others in an air
plane crash in Nevada. will be re-
leased nationally on March 6 after
being premiercd in Los Angeles
on February 10, United Artists, an
nounCcd today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-04
Ask Intervention
In Steel Dispute

Intervention in threatened
strike in the Great Lakes Steel
Corporation has been asked OF
John r. Steelman. chief OF the
department az labor Cancellation
service, Orval Kincaid, regional
director of the Steel Workers
Organizing Committee (CIO), said
today.
The SWOC has filed notice oI
intent 10 strike with the state
labor mediation board, accusing
the corporation of violation OF a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-04
buy "A Bomber
Trick Gets Pair $500

Police today sought two men
who duped Andrew Smigiel. 80.
OF i726 McDougall avenue, out Of
$500 which they had demanded as
deposit OF good faith before
paying him 81, 900 for directions
10 non-existent defense plant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-04

contract signed last fall after a
strike OF several days.
Great Lakes is 100 per cent
engaged in war orders, making
one type OF steel not available "a
Armament manufacturers from
any other plant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-04
Lansing Studies
S2,66O,0OO Asked
For Defense
Time. stsa ce,r-.pondsu,


LANSING Feb 4 Ruacc' inI
rector Leo =. NoVct >ad rodu
he WOULD begin Michigan $1,000
GOO defense spending pros ann b.,
turning over e. $50 Oo1 RI depart
mental requests 10 the admins
trat.vc board defense committee
Tor lis approval or veto
The board adopted 'orra
proceed r. for departments 10 FOL
low who want a part of The 50
OOo 1o1 war appropriation.
Under this procedure requests
Will hc filed directly with the
administrative beard defense com.
n.ftoo winch is headed by ScCrc-
tar> OF state HarrN + Kelly.
Up TO ITTI BOARD
Then the fuIl board viii deter
NINE need FOR the Expenditures
Fl closed ses, on deciding each
case ou rs merits
Largest request before tho com
nlftce now j. for 81 J3- 600 from
the military department 10 expand
NJ ctiCan state Troop 10 fun
strength 81 : 500
Others include Department Of
Health $500 Oakland County
Defense Council $4,000 Ham
tramCk Defense Council 100000:
superintendent 81 capitol. $4,000.
and Western State Teachers Col
lego. $4,000.
State defense council requested
. maximum Of $4,000 for the
balance Of this fiscal year and all
Of next. but left u 10 the boards
discretion 10 pare II down. De-
Tense Administrators Harold A.
Furlong said II would be the
boards problem 10 determine how
large staff is necessary during
the war.
Evening star., 1942-01-11

men in our Amy right now. Everybody
knows" general in Washington told me
recently. that Americans are the most
machine-mind people on earth. Modern
warfare being what it is, that is just about
our greatest military asset. But tinkerng with
the family car is one thing, and understand
ing the complicated mechanism of a modern
war machine is something else. You ought to
60 see what Steve Henry is doing about
that
General Henry is the oommandant of the
Armored Force School at Fort knox, Ken
lucky. This is the school for specialists in
everything pertaining to mechanized war
fare: mechanics, motorcycle men, radio oper-
ators electricians, even the clerks and cooks
that the Amored Force must have Nowhere
~ aa-.% ;e +he,e another institution like it.
for this BGtz College is the capitalization of
Americas genius for working with machines.
1t doesn't matter what these soldiers were
doing in civil life. They have flair for
machinery. remember one group we ques-
toned as to their previous occupations The
tally showed two truck drivers, one farm
OiIC S~1FO<llC0AlICa, OIIC WOIhOI
and one youth who had just graduated from
Harvard. And they were 50 completely alb
sorbed in tank engine when the General
and walked up behind them and stood look
ing over their shoulders that not one of them
even noticed that we were there.
The General liked that. 1t made them men
after his own heart
A. II ~
generals in the Army. An erect, quick-step-
ping man with square jaw, piercing eyes
and graying military pompadour. he is very
Evening star., 1942-01-11
gUnoesAN

keep a big feet of cabs in operation; 80 he
went to a leading taxi company and made
thorough study of how it trained its drivers
and servioed it's vehicles. Then he made a
similar study of big cross country bus CON-
pany. Discussing with some fellow officers
some years ago, the problems involved in
rapid movement of bulky military outfit,
he recalled that there was circus in town -
and spent the next four days and nights with
the circus roustabouts, learning how they
managed to pack up and move from town to
town with such rapidity and precision.
When the General was called from the
command of tank battalion in the summer
of 1910 to create the Armored Force School,
the facilities he found available consisted of
an old. dilapidated summer mess hall and
lot of discouraged looking red-clay land. No
equ,pniea,., NO ulslIuclols. OiiU L,ii~se "as
to be built from scratch. And in hurry
In corner of the old mess hall the COM
mandant worked out the organization of the
school, placed orders for five million dollars
worth of equipment supervised building
operations interviewed officers and non-o CONS
who might fit into his faculty.
In November his first students arrived.
A skeleton faculty was on hand - reserve
officers who had been with the motor COM
panies and the rubber companies. who had
owned radio shops, who had taught in the
big universities; non-coms with plenty of
Army experience. Some of the new buildings
were up, but they were still without heat.
water or electricity. The men lived in tents,
and carpenters hammered over their shoul
ders in the classrooms and shops.
1t was over year later that l saw the
TW-i-l1-42
Evening star., 1942-01-11

much the soldier; but he has never been han
dicapped by stodgy, militaristic self-import-
ance. When he was captain, teaching in the
Army Tank School at Fort Meade. Maryland,
he spent one summer furlough working as
helper in garage, just for the experience.
And though he started by changing tires and
washing cars, he got promoted to shop fore
man before the management found out that
he was an Army officer. Another summer he
got jobs, successively. in the factories OF the
three big motor manufacturing companies
in Detroit. The summer after that he signed
up with General Motors as test driver
The oenssal's Secret
N/NE of his ex-students. colonel now. told
me: Steve Henry is the best instructor ever
knew in the Army. any time, anywhere"
And master sergeant VINO mas served with
him most of the time for the last 20 years
summed up the reason: He makes you like
it because he likes it 50 much himself" The
sergeant added. Il remember cold winter
afternoons at Fort Meade when one of those
old-fashioned tanks would break down.
Everybody would pitch in and work until
nine or ten at night getting it fixed up, even
though we had to be up again at four in the
morning."
General Henry was one of the little group
of Army officers completely convinced of the
overwhelming possibilities of mechanized war
fare long before events in Europe made them
obvious. And in the American genius for
organizing the use Of machines, he has found
many lessons that are adaptable to Army
use. Riding in a tsxicab one day, he began to
think about the organization required to
Evening star., 1942-01-11
TOMMY MILLER


CREATOR and boss of Tank College
IN Article Ce.plsse ea Two Pages
"W General was happy. After much red
tape he had managed to get to a vice
- president of the railroad. He had sworn
away in advance any claims to damages in
case anything happened to him. And now
80. he was being allowed to ride in the cab
Of the locomotive!
Kid stuff? Wei, Brigadier General Stephen
G. Henry does have the enthusiasm of boy.
But that ride through the night wasn't just
for the thrill. This was Diesel powered loco
motive. He had never seen one in operation
before. And General Henry is one of those
machine minded Americans who aren't con-
tent until they have wrung the innermost
secrets out of everything mechanical.
That is why ne is one of the most important
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-19
10 Graduated
As Bombdrdiers

Ten Michigan boys were gradu-
ated FROM three West Texas bonn
barber triangle schools, it was
announced today.
The list Of those who received
bombardier wings and second lieu
tenants commissions includes:
Second Its. Sidney l.. Alexander
Jr., 1884 Byron avenue mid
land): Robert j. Born. s272 Freda
avenue (San Angelo; billiard J..
Gay Jr.. 92l Junction avenue (San
Paul A. Young, 1865
Ivanlfbe avenue (Big Spring ;
John Bylund. 1925 RoXbury ave-
nue., Detroit; Harold L. Perkins,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-19
Connolly Answers

1-(a) New Hampshire; (b)
Idaho; (c) Nevada.
Tar Since 1917; tb) since
1898; (c) since 1867.
36(a) Iowa; OBJ Arizona; (c)
Oklahoma.
4(a) How still we see thee
lie; (b) That glorious song Of
old; (c) Let nothing you dis
may.
5--(a) Yes; Obi no, thaw with
extra clothing; Co no, eating
food possibly decayed.
6-ts) Ulster, tb) Fire; lc)
Iran.
Copyright. istz. ~ King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-19
New Call for Machinery

The War Production Board to-
day appealed for further aid from
DetroiterS who own construction
machinery. w. +. Bartholomae.
regional specialist, urged Detroit
ers who have not registered their
machinery to do so in his office in
the Boulevard Building.