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Evening star., 1942-05-07
New Mental Health
Law for D. T.. Tested
In Appeals Court
Hobeos Corpus Writ
To Transfer Person
Ruled Insone Is Issue

In a test OF the Districts new
mental health law, the United States
Court of Appeals today was asked to
decide whether a person adjudged
insane by District Court can employ
a habeas corpus writ requiring au-
thorities here to transfer him to the
State where he has legal residence.
The case involves Jerome Howard,
charged with killing his mother here
in March, 1910. The District grand
jury declined to indict Howard, and
District Court, on recommendation
Of the Commission on Mental
Health. adjudged him to be of un-
sound mind and committed him to
st. Elizabeth's Hospital in August,
1910.
Last August Howard filed habeas
corpus petition in District Court,
claiming he was sane, was not
citizen Of the District, but a resident
of Ell Paso County. Colorado. The
court of Ell Paso County found that
Howard and his mother had come
to the District and established resi-
dence, and ordered that he should
not be returned to Colorado. Sub
sequently District Court DISCHARGED
the habeas corpus petition, and
Howard appealed.
Through United States Attorney
Edward M. Curran and Assistant
United States Attorneys Charles q.
Murray and Bernard Margolius. the
Government argued that the case
brings to the fore the issue whether
a finding Of residence by District
Court at the time the appellant was
adJudged insane can be reconsid-
cred by habeas corpus proceedings.
TO transfer him to another iuris-
diction which is unwilling to ac-
cept him and thereby grant him his
liberty would be contrary to public
policy" Mr.. Margolius declared in
oral arguments before the Court of
Appeals yesterday.
Attorney Philip Kane, represent
ing Howard, contended that Colo
RADIO can be forced to take his client
Tor treatment. since Congress has
established a policy for the District
and that policy is binding on every
State.
Evening star., 1942-05-07
Pearl Harbor Raid Witness
Speaks at Baptist Farley

The Rev. DR.. Charles E. Maddry
who witnessed the Pear Harbor
bombing, declared last night that
the war is the dark before the
dawn" for the cause of Christianity
He hailed the valor with which
missionaries are holding their posts
in the battle areas.
DR.. Maddry, secretary of the For
eign Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention, spoke at the
midyear meeting OF the District
Baptist Convention, celebrating its
65th year of organization. 1t was
convened yesterday at Fountain Me-
mortal Baptist Church, Naylor road
and @ streets Sc
Booming population Of the WASH
ington area in wartime has made it
a Christian mission field" said the
Rev. M. G. Stith, pastor of the
Brookland Baptist Church, at the
same session.
The Rev. John Compton Ball,
pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist
Church, offlciated at opening de-
votions. The welcome was delivered
by the Rev. W. Bertram King, pas
tor of the Fountain congregation.
Later, Miss Janet Mckay, secre-
tary of the Womens American
Baptist Foreign Mission Society,
Northern Baptist convention, ad-
dressed more than $50 persons at
the convention.
The Rev. Rufus w. Weaver gave
a summary of the work of the
convention. which was founded on
May 7. 1877 He addressed the con-
gregation on Our Past, Present
and Future" Benediction was said
by the Rev. F. w. Johnson.
Evening star., 1942-05-07
DR.. BaIIou Is Appointed
To Recreation Board

The Board of Education yester
day named Supt. Frank w. Ballou
as its representative for year on
the newly created District Recrea-
ton Board
At the same time the members
specified that he would confer on
matters of policy with c. Melvin
Sharpe, chairman of the committee
on community use OF buildings,
Mr.. Sharpe was nominated for
the post but Withdrew after DR. Bal
lou was nominated and Board Mem
having to make selection between
the superintendent and a fellow
board member in a public session.
DR.. Ballou was nominated by Mrs.
Philip Sidney Smith.
DR.. Ballou StreSs.d the great i'm
portance of the position both to
the school system whose facilities
would be largely used by the board
and TO recreation itself.
He joins Irving c. Root. super
intendent of National Capital Parks
as an Official member of the seven
member board. The designation
of a Commissioner-probably Com
missioner Guy Mason-will COM
plete the ofiicial quota and leave
four citizens to be appointed by
the Commissioners for staggered
terms
Evening star., 1942-05-07
Canal Barge
Trips to Begin
On Saturday

If you want to save gasoline and
tires, why not ride q canal boat?
Horse-drawn barge trips on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal will begin
Saturday, the Office of National
Capital Parks announced today.
At 10 a m. the barge, accommo-
dating so persons, will pull away
from the canal bank at Thirty sixth
and M streets NV, near Key
Bridge. 1t will travel 712 pic
turesque and historic miles to Cabin
John. Md, through three old locks
which increase the elevation ap-
proXimately 25 feet.
Passengers will be put ashore at
Cabin John at l: 80 pm. and may re-
turn by streetcar. At 2 pm. an
other group of passengers, brought
to the scene by trolley, will board
the canal boat and make the return
trip, ending in Georgetown at $50
pm.
Lore and luster of the old canal
will be related by park naturalists
and historians on each trip.
The same schedule win be repeated
on Sunday, and each Saturday and
Sunday through, the summer.
Tickets may be purchased at the
special bus department of the Capt.
tai Transit Co., l4l6 F street NV,
and information will be given by
phone. Reservations may be neces-
sary.
Evening star., 1942-05-07
Civilian Defense Fund
Accounting Asked
From Commissioners
Choirmon Randolph
Wants Detailed Report
On 81 ,000, 900 Fund

Chairman Randolph of the House
District Committee today sent let
ter to the Commissioners request
ing a detailed report on the DISPOSE
ton of the 1000 900 civilian defense
fund appropriated for the District.
He incluosed a copy of the speech
made in the House yesterday by
Representative Rich, Republican, Of
Pennsylvania, who stated that he
had received reports that portions
Of the defense fund had been di-
yerted to other agencies.
Minor portions of the Districts S
81 100000 blackout fund were spent
for operations of the District Ra-
tioning Board and the District Rent
Control Administration, the Com
missioners stated yesterday.
Defends Expenditures.
The Commissioners and District
Budget Officer Walter l.. Fowler
maintained that these expenditures
were proper under the circumstances
and said they would be glad to
show their figures to anyone who
wished to see the whole picture.
They fatty denied the declaration
by Mr.. Rich that some of the black
out money had been spent for the
District Boxing Commission. That
agency, they said, is financed out
Of returns it gets from licensed ex-
hibitions.
Mr.. Fowler presented figures to
show that between December %
and February l8 the Commission
ers had allocated sl5,56O for en-
ployment of help for the Ration
ing Board, that s3,326 had been
expended by March 81, when the
personnel was transferred to the
Federal payroll. Up to May the
District spent S2,733 for office fur
niture
S9.050 for Rent Board.
For the rent administration the
District allocated S9,050 for per-
sonal services, permitting the en-
ployment of 10 workers paid be-
tween s1,260 and $4,000 a year, and
this and other expenses of the rent
control Office are to be transferred
to the regular District payroll
July !.
Mr.. Fowler said: "Rationing and
rent control were emergency jobs
created by the war. They had to
be done, and promptly. We felt
we were justified in making use
of a portion OF the blackout fund
for these purposes until the Fed
eral administration and Congress
could pass upon permanent hnanc-
ing"
Evening star., 1942-05-07
Housing Group Protests
Agencies 'Baihfub Sittino'

British. Russian and United
States Government agencies are
sitting in too many bathtubs, the
Washington Housing Association
decided yesterday.
The association reported that
1000 or more" dwelling units
equipped with bathrooms exist in
apartment houses taken over by
the governments.
There is no point in having this
many idle" protested the associa-
ton in a formal statement which
demanded the baths be 'immedi-
ately returned to their proper use"
As for the British, Russian and
American agencies, there are many
large old houses with one or two
bathrooms, that would be suitable
for ONCE buildings for the dura-
tton."
Evening star., 1942-05-07
Girl Falls Three Floors;
Is Hurt Only SLIGHTLY

A 17-year-old girl fell three floors
and escaped with only a few broken
ribs yesterday when she climbed out
a window at her home, 1116 F Street
NE, to avoid being questioned bv
policewoman seeking two esca aped
inmates of the National Training
School for Girls. police reported.
Police gave the girls name as
Margaret English. Policewoman
Dorothy Douglas, who wanted to in
terview her, said the girl was An
acquaintance of the missing girls.
She was trying to climb from Q
bedroom window to the window of
another room when she fell. police
reported. She was taken to Casual.
ty Hospital. where her condition
was reported as satisfactory"
Evening star., 1942-05-07
Ward CIubWonts
To Pay zoe D. G.
Fare in Dispute
3. the Associated Press.

By the Assoc ated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. May THE
Bind Ward Democratic Club, in
the interests of harmony" today
offered TO reimburse Representa-
tive Sheridan, Philadelphia Demo-
crat, for 20 cents he claims he was
overcharged by a Washington taxi
cab driver.
The dispute, now in the hands
of the Washington Hackers Board
OF Review, concerns whether Rep
resentative Sheridan took three
estimate this estimate) or IA min
utes tCabbie Howard Strickland s
estimate) to say good-by to a COM
panion. Strickland said the extra
20 cents was for waiting time.
The club said in resolution it
was "in sympathy with our good
Congressman" but wanted ito save
Strickland from losing his license. +"
Evening star., 1942-05-07

But that means the equivalent of
the purchase price of a $50 War
Savings Bond. Our Army likes the
pyramidal tent which provides space
for five cots comfortably. Set on
modern tent floors, water repellent,
they are equipped with small stoves.
You'll rest better tonight If you
know our troops are sheltered. Buy
United States War Bonds every
payday.
Evening star., 1942-05-07
Star Staff Photo.
School Officials Push
Gasoline Rationinq
Registration Plans
BoIIou Designotes
Directors for Program
Slated Next Week

School officials today were push
ing plans for the organization of
gasoline rationing registration in
the schools next Tuesday. Wednes-
day and Thursday as the corps of
weary teachers settled down to the
final days registration for sugar.
Under authorization given yester-
day by the Board of Education,
Supt. Of Schools Frank w. Ballou
has designated Assistant Supt. Law
son j. Cantrel and First Assistant
Supt. Garnet c. Wilkinson, who
have been directing the sugar reg
istration, to undertake the gasoline
phase.
He also asked them to name cer-
tain school officials in the field to
be broken in" on the rationipg reg
istration procedure on the assump-
ton that still other commodities will
have to be rationed and that the
schools will be asked to handle the
signing up.
Mrs. Doyle Lauds Workers.
First Assistant Supt. Carroll r.
Reed has also been asked to work
with Mr.. Cantrell and DR.. Wilkin-
son to learn the job. DR.. Reed is in
charge of the curriculum revision
program. IL t....
Meanwhile, DR.. Ballou announced
that five OF six sugar board locations
have been determined. They will
be at the Oyster School the Mount
Pleasant Branch Library, the Hayes
School, the Jefferson Junior High
branch library and the Ketcham
School. Dr.. Ballou has suggested
the Henry School, recently turned
over to the Commissioners, for the
sixth location.
The board indicated some effort
would be made to ease the pressure
on the school teachers In connection
with the gas rationing, but did not
say what 1t would be. The members
also adopted a statement by Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle. president Of
the board, to the 1000 employees of
the school system, congratulating
them on their loyal service in the
various registrations and in the
civilian defense activities in which
many are enrolled.
Budget Farley Planned.
The gas rationing program will
have its effect even on the final
cadet company competitive drills at
Griffith Stadium Tuesday and We'd
nesday, the time of the brigade re-
view having to be moved up to lis
pm. on Wednesday.
The old jefferson Junior High
School was turned over to the Com
who are expected to turn
1t over to the Federal Works Agency
for Federal use.
A date for the annual meeting Of
school officers with the representa-
tives Of the civic organizations with
a view to obtaining civic recon-
for the 1914 school
budget will be set some time between
May Is and June l.
Evening star., 1942-05-07
Montgomery Registering
For Gas 10 Start Tuesday

Montgomery County motorists
will register from 2 to pm. during
the three-day period beginning
Tuesday at all elementary schools
in the county for gasoline rationing,
the County Rationing Board an
nounced yesterday.
The registration will be carried on
In much the same manner as the
sugar rationing, officials said.
Owners Of passenger cars, motor
cycles and inboard motorboats must
register, the board said.
Evening star., 1942-05-07
District Prisoner Dies
While Awuitino TrjoI

Oscar L. Bond, ST. of the 800 block
OF Sixth street NV. died today in
the basement cell block at Police
Court, where he was waiting to ap-
pear in court on a drunkenness
charge. He suddenly fell over while
seated. and death was believed to
have been due to a heart ailment.
He was said to have been a painter.
Evening star., 1942-05-07
Soviet Attuche to Speak

Vsevolod V. Pastoyev. Attache OF
the Soviet Embassy, will speak on
Russia and the war at Mount Yer
non Seminary at $50 o'clock to-
night. He will be introduced by
Mrs. JosephSE. Davies, wife Of the
former Unit States Ambassador
Evening star., 1942-05-07
To Present Puntomime

Presentation Of an original panto-
mime, Mother Woodside and Her
Daughters" written by Mrs. V. C.
Bowser, will be a feature OF the an
nual mother-daughter banquet Of
the Woodside Methodist Church at
$50 pm. tomorrow at the church.
Evening star., 1942-05-07
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WAR Bond?

Tents have been essential equip
ment of armies since biblical days.
United States troops may need
more than a million of them. They
are comparatively inexpensive, since
one tent costs about $3.50.
Evening star., 1942-09-18

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Evening star., 1942-09-18
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buy clothes like fashions something hot add what We
really contribute personality and that's why
completely sold The ech Co fashion shops
really find clothes that do job for the girl with ob Third
Street, Building, The Hecht Co.
Evening star., 1942-09-18

u like oo|ofuI hos that make my eyes shine and my
cheeks eow like hats that make pretter than orn!'
Here they ore girls rodonty new softly lusrous
color sohenne veveteens in eectrfyng shades Of blue
set oquo purple American Beouty and Burberry bring the
sporkle TO his eye, we'll your New Millinery Salo.
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The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14
Ohio g Bool l<nnobiIes

lected in their childhood because library books have neUer before been auailable. Although Ohio leads the nation in h- brary actiuity, 100000 residents of the state still haue no library facilities.
 It's great day at rural schools in Clark county rohen the Warder public library bookmobile from Springfield ar- riues with 5000 uoIumes.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14

Forty-fve million Americans are toith- out library serrice. In Ohio. assisted by WPA, community libraries are fighting tl.is situation icith branch stations. One Is in c.t clen coop, others in schools, priuate homes and general stores, uhere 30 10 10 books are left periodically tor filo conimmityS enjoyment.
 But ho most uFluSlal method IS book
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14

mobile" distribution, norU pseI by II Ohio libraries aad soon 10 be adopted by ...t:crs. Ohio did mol in- uauf fhe tool.mobile; this deutce dates back to Hagorstowa, Hd.. 'eltere f.'.e E cs!,i7g,on county Ehrcry began Hs,ng Il m IC0t.
 EPA rrorkors handling t?ct d:str,5a,ion are rn,czod 10 hear tuH-gro,cn r.cn cEd wonlen ask for i7cther Goose stories, neg
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14
StaR. Dust 4 Coy Beauty Queen # Summer Football
 < Ginger's Mas Career
By Virginia Vale

TIMES certainly have \ changed. Miss Vera Dick ems of Lynchburg, Va, was May Queen at Randolph-Ma- con college, and as a result pictures of her appeared in the news reels.
 Whereupon Metro offered her screen test, and possibly contract.
 But she wasn't at all sure that she'd accept; said that she wasn't particularly interested in a movie career.
 At Universal they're sort of out on a limb. When they sold the Madame Curie" story rights to Metro. they made a deal which
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14

woman way ba ok in the Texas days when Ginger was just a youngster W h o d i d t h Q Charleston awful ly well. She has
 always stood be-
 hind her talented daughter, helping her along and ging her.
 Now, she feels that it's time for her to make a life for herself. Ginger doesn't
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14

Virginia Payne, the star of the popular radio serial, Ma Perkins," has all plans made for her vaca- ton. She wants to go to Alaska and she wants Mrs. Patia Power, Tyrone Powers mother, to go with her. Mrs. Power has agreed to go. The only difficulty is that Miss Payne, after elabOrately making plans, may have to stay home. She's not like those lucky radio stars who write their own material, and can just write themselves out of a sketch for a few weeks when they want to go away.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14

need her now, she says. So she packed up and went to New York, with play, Funny Man." that needed a producer. She also, though that wasn't generally known, was on hunt for new talent for the screen.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14

ODDS AND ENDS-JeGn Arthur has been shopping for collar for q cat, and then haUing 10 explain to the sdIeSpeOple that she really iOGntS it for q baby ynx-the "WiLd Bill Hickok" company brought the Lynx back from Otdh, and Jean tOdntS to keep it for q pet :. Lionel Barrymore spends his spare lime in the studio designing yacht compass And James Steuoart has l6 mm. moUie camera, tOith Uhich he's been Snapping everybody in You Can't Take IL With You" John BeaL IS breaking in netO neerschaum pipe, tue gift of EdtUard Robinson.
 @ Western Newspaper Union.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14

There are a lot of radio stars who believe that it's the second profession that you follow, not the first one, that brings success.
 Jack Benny began as violinist. Burns and Allen were tap dancers. Lum and Abner were blackface comedians before they adopted the characters of rural storekeepers. Phil Baker was a musician, and Fred Allen was a juggler way back in the beginning.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14

gave them the services of Robert Montgomery, James Stewart and Robert Young, when they had the right stories for these three young men. And time passes, and they don't seem to have yet found the right stories.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14

Ginger Rogers mother has stepped out. She was newspaper
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14

Maybe you think it's summer, but the football season is already under way in Hollywood. Paramount is filming it's yearly football picture, Touchdown, Army" with prac- tically the same cast that last year did Hold 'Em, Navy" Taking one college a year, they can keep going forever at that rate.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-14

Paulette Goddard is taking her career seriously at the moment. She plans to go to the Cape Playhouse, on Cape Cod, in time to appear in French Without Tears" and it's said that Charlie Chaplin will coach her. And of course, if the plan should be a great success and be done in New York, with her still in the cast, she wouldn't be at all annoyed.
Evening star., 1942-04-26

nations shrine and placed q wreath
on flower -decked Remembrance
Rock
A card with the wreath was In
scribed: To Anxzc forces from their
comrades IN arms Of yesterday,
today and tomorrow.
Several thousand persons who
began gathering before daybresk
stood silent with barred heads. Criss-
crossing the grounds where the
spectators stood in fearful tribute
TO the men who storned Gallipoli
n years ago were the newly dug air.
raid shelter trenches In reminder Of
the present hour of trial.
Gen. Macarthur made no speech.
He stood at the shrine, head barred
and bowed in prayer, for only q
few moments.
Customary Parade Missing
Missing from the ceremony this
war year was the customary parade
of the veterans. They held their
observance at the shrine quietly,
before dawn. Missing. too, because
Of wartime precautions, was the
usual children's mass meeting at
the shrine. 1t was replaced yester-
day by nationwide broadcast con-
cfuded with the playing Of the Aus
tralian anthem and "The Star
Spangled Banner"
Allied headquarters announced a
Evening star., 1942-04-26
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON D. C., APRIL 26

new exchange Of blows In the aerial
battle for control of the island bar
rier north of Australia.
A coutmunique said fighter planes
defending Port Moresby success
fully intercepted in sanguinary
combat" seven japanese navy fight
ers which struck at the New Guinea
port yesterday.
Allied bonbers. 1t said, rsided the
airfield at Japanese-held Lac on the
northeast coast Of New Guinea.
No details of the operations were
disclosed.
Japw Intensity Air Efforts
Unofncial sources. however. said
the Japanese apparently were in
tensifying their aerial efforts TO
loosen the Allied hold on Port
Moresby, 400 miles across the coral
sea from the northeast Australian
mainland
The raiders were described as
concentrating more on fighter
sweeps than on the high level bomb
ing OF earlier attacks.
These sources said raids on Port
Moresby Thursday were the heaviest
In a month with three navy fighters
opening the days operations in a
low-fiying attack on Port Moresby
airf1eld.
Half an hour later fighter planes
we're reported back again. this time
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Scientists Seek New Means
To Locate Petroleum Deposits
Industry Attacks Problem of
Preventing Exhaustion of Reserves

ferrous geological period when the
coal beds were formed or, a few
hundred million years later, In the
tertiary period when the great
dinosaurs were in their heyday. In
the interim no substantial amount
OF oil was produced.
First the discovery Of an oil well
was almost entirely matter of
chance. Sometimes 1t was found
seeping through the ground, dis
coloring nearby bodies of water.
Then geologists found that certain
minute fossils were usually asso-
ciated with petroleum. This did not
mean, however, that oil was certain
where the fossils were found. 1t
only meant that it was unlikely TO
be where they we're not found.
A few years ago were developed
the far more certain methods of
sending electric shocks or sound
waves through the earth and meas
uring the time changes due to the
difference in resistances of different
strata. These are effective, however,
only where conditions are favorable
The new methods. 1t is hoped, will
locate deposits everywhere they
exist.