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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-29
Mrs. Charles Fletcher New Recording Secretary

MRS. CHARLES FLETCHER is the new recording secre-
tary... Mrs. Standish Backus is assistant.
Mrs. Stroh is corresponding secretary with Mrs
Cameron B. Waterman her assistant officer
Mrs George Black is treasurer. and Mrs. Will
liam p. Harris Jr...-. assistant treasurer
Trustees 194245. lined up in this impressive
array.
Mrs Edwin S Barbour. Mrs. Charles H. Fletcher
Mrs. William P. Harris Jr.. Mrs Henry B. Joy. Mrs
William P. Stevens and Mrs. George Black Jr...
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-29
Marks Even+fuI Epoch for Cottage Hospital

THIS PARTICULAR gathering marked an eventfl
epoch the history of Cottage Hospital the onghoped
for =. new addition. :. just about Completed.
The part will increase the capacity OF the hospital
several additional beds and cribs.
Besides housing the much needed. new H-ray equip
which made possible by the generosity of the
friends Of the hospital.
Following the meeting.
The board members and doctors lunched together,
and made further plans for the regime
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-29

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Jan. 20, I94I
General MetaXes. premier of
Greece and directly responsible
for the many Greek victories in
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Evening star., 1942-09-11
Committee Meetinq
On Nursery School
Bill Postponed
House District Unit
Scheduled to Consider
Measure Next Week

A meeting of the House District
Committee to consider Chairman
Randolph's bill to restore WPA
nursery schools in the District and
open public schools to children
under S has been postponed until
next week to await the return of
committee members.
Mr.. Randolph said that if a suf-
f1cient number have not returned
on Monday he might try to poll
them by telephone on the bill.
The measure was introduced in
the House last week and will be
among the first items presented to
the House District Committee when
it does meet, the chairman said.
Meanwhile, school officials, nursery
educators and the OCD Child Care
Committee are waiting for the bills
passage before they can go ahead
on plans to expand low-cost day
care facilities for the children of
working mothers.
The Board of Education at its
meeting yesterday pledged support
to any child-care program for Dis
trict children. An application
for a WPA nursery school prof.
ect now is going through the various
steps necessary before final ap-
proval. anticipating an early pas
sage of the bill.
WPA nursery schools were abol-
lshed in the District Appropriation
Act OF 1910. The Randolph bill
would re-establish them as well as
eliminate the 10-year ban on use
OF public school funds for children
under 5.
Evening star., 1942-09-11
.WiIhite Held Sane;
Must Stand Trial
For Woman S Death
Jury DeIiberotes for
Neurly Eight Hours
After Court Hearing

A District Court jury today found
Richard L. Wilhite, 17-year-old
youth charged with the murder of
Miss Madeline Matthes, 25, a
Jehovah's Witness worker, of sound
mind and held he must stand trial
for the crime next month.
The decision came after nearly
eight hours deliberation by jury
composed of six men and six women.
The hearing opened Tuesday and
closed late yesterday. When no de-
cision was reached by 10 o'clock last
night, Justice F. Dickinson Let's sent
the jury home The jurors reconvened
this morning after Justice Let's had
charged them to reach decision.
Wilhite is charged with the first
degree murder of Miss Matthes, who
was stabbed to death last April Is
with butcher knife when she
called at the apartment Wilhite
and his mother occupied in the
1400 block of N street NV.
Young White showed no emotion
on hearing the jury's decision today.
During the hearing the jury heard
two psychiatrists, DR.. Antonio
Schneider and DR.. Leonard Dub,
voice the opinion that the defendant
was of unsound mind. DR.. E. D.
Griffin of st. EliZabeth,s Hospita |
testified for the prosecution.
Evening star., 1942-09-11

exploding bomb, but each time es-
capped injury.
Spiked Heavy Raid.
On one occasion, Mr.. Cross said,
the japanese sent more than a score
of bombers over the base. These
planes were to be met before they
reached the base by a>fighter escort
of more than 20 pursuit planes, but
the Tigers got wind of the affair
and dispatched nearly dozen
fighters to meet the enemy pur-
suit ships.
The fighter escort, according to
Mr.. Cross, never reached the base.
Eighteen of the ships were downed
by the Tigers and the rest turned
tail and fed.
The AVG was broken up in June
and Mr. Gross left China immedi-
ately for home.
During visit to India on one
occasion, he had a chance to talk
to lot of people, he said, and he
received the definite impression that
the Indians have no love for the
Japanese.
They're not very fond of the
British, for that matter" he added,
but if the Japs ever try to invade
India, believe the Indians will fight
them with everything they've got"
Evening star., 1942-09-11
Third OF a Series.)
BY SUSAN b. ANTHONY. II


When other citizens in the United
States seek nursery schools to care
for the children of working mothers,
they can bring the pressure of the
votes on their own elected govern
ments, city councils, State Legisla-
lures and finally, the Federal Gov
ernment.
Not so with the citizens of the
District. They have only the blank
wall of an appointed city govern
ment, not responsible to them, or
they must look to members of a
war-harried Congress who are re-
sponsible to constituents in every
State and city in the Nation but
the District of Columbia.
Thus the problem of getting legis-
lative appropriations and approval
for nursery schools In the District
is more difficult than in any other
part of the United States.
Congress Holds Key.
The organized nursery school lead
ers in the OCD Child Care Commit
tee, CIO Auxiliary and in the Emer-
gency Committee decided neverthe-
less this summer that only congress
sional action would result in nursery
schools in the District. That was
because 1t was congressional action
that deprived the District of nursery
schools.
The first congressional ban on
public nursery schools in Washing
ton was imposed in the 1882 District
Appropriations Act when a rider was
introduced barring the use of public
school funds for children under 5
years old. Representative Robert
Simmons of Nebraska, chairman of
the Subcommittee on District Ap-
preparations at the time, in touring
the public schools prior to hearings
on the District budget, questioned
the expense having grade-A milk
for children under in under-age
kindergartens.
The underage kindergartens had
been established as demonstration
nursery schools where underfives
learned and played while their
AAA"eAASAo ASSCA'Sh pal COuCdLlO1l
Mr.. Simmons thought that care
for the underfives and particu-
larly grade-A milk were luxuries
He attached rider to the 1882
appropriation act which closed the
five demonstration centers then op-
Grating and prohibited the reopen
ing of nursery schools in public
schools.
WPA Nursery Schools Set Up.
In 1884 at the recommendation
Of the Board of Education of the
District, 10 WPA nursery schools
were established in the District to
provide employment for unemployed
nursery teachers and other person.
mel and to provide care for chill
dren of low-income families. The
Simmons rider was not invoked
from 1894 until 1899, the period
of the nurseries operation. The
WPA nurseries were a popular prof.
ect among school officials, nursery
Evening star., 1942-09-11
Hearing Begun on Sanity
OF Womun's SIuyer

A sanity hearing began today be-
fore q District Court jury, presided
over by Justice Jesse c. Adkins, in
the case OF William Major McAfee,
66, colored, whose death sentence
for the Staying of Miss Henrietta
Anderson in 1887 was commuted to
life imprisonment by President
Roosevelt in 1910.
The prisoner, until recently a
trusty at Lorton Reformatory, has
been under treatment at Gallinger
Hospital.
Attorneys Robert I. Miller and
Joseph A. McMenamim, who repre-
sented McAfee during earlier pro-
ceedings, appeared in his behalf
today.
Evening star., 1942-09-11
Merchants Urge Schools
Close Before Christmas

The Committee on Rules of the
Board of Education today is con-
s1dering a new proposal by the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton that, If the schools are to close
a month this winter to save fuel.
they should close from THANKSGIVING
to Christmas so students could
work In department stores during
the Christmas season.
DR.. James A. Cannon. chairman
OF the committee and the board
member who proposed Wednesday
that the schools shut down during
January, said this morning that if
fuel charts show the saving would
be the same, he would agree to the
new suggestion. He and Charles
u. Drayton, also a member of the
committee, plan to report on their
investigations to the board meeting
next Wednesday.
Nearly as much would be saved in
fuel expenditure by December
closing, according to an unofficial
estimate made by Jere Crane, assist
ant superintendent of buildings and
grounds. Mr.. Crane said he planned
to make up chart of December
heating costs today. A chart of
January costs has shown that about
$35, 600 Is spent each year for coal
and about $1,000 to heat the 13
buildings heated by oil.
According to DIR. Cannon, this
represents enough fuel to heat 1000
homes during January. He proposed
that the instruction missed during
January could be made up by hold
ing school every Saturday during
the remainder of the term.
In suggesting December as the
no-school month, Arthur J. Sundlun,
president of the Merchants and
Manufacturers, said this would give
high school students a chance to
earn money in the shops, as well as
help relieve the labor shortage for
the merchants.
Evening star., 1942-09-11
Lack of Votes Hondicops D. C..
In Quest for Nursery Funds
Congress Alone Can Renstote System
Available to Other American Cities

educators and the parents whose
children attended or who wanted
to attend.
Why the WPA nursery schools
were abolished in the 1910 District
Appropriation Act and who were
the members of Congress RESPONSE
bic for their elimination remain
something of mystery even to-
day. Sponsors contributions for the
nurseries had been allocated in the
general District Appropriation Acts
until the 1910 act. In 1889, when
that 1910 act was being considered
the Senate inserted nursery schools
and other on-construction WPA
projects in the act. The House
previously had left out any men,
ton of the schools.
Acted on in Conference.
A conference committee composed
of the Subcommittee on Appropria-
tions of the House District Com
mittee headed by Representative
Collins of Mississippi, and of Sen
ate members met to reach agree
ment on differences in the House
and Senate bills. Since those con-
ferences are not made public, II
is not known which members o1
the committee were responsible fol-
eliminating the nursery schools.
In any event, nursery schools
were eliminated. And Maj. Daniel
Donovan, late auditor of the Dis
trict, reminded WPA officials and
the Board of Education that the
Simmons rider was still in exist
ence preventing the use of school
funds for children under S.
He had not invoked the old rider
while Congress gave approval to
WPA nursery schools, but he rea-
soned that since Congress had elm
mated them the rider was in effect
and should be observed as law. The
last WPA nursery school closed in
August, 1889. Since that time there
has been no public provision fol-
pre-school children.
Today these two legislative acts
the Simmons rider and the omission
OF nursery schools from WPA spon-
sors' contributions appropriations
prevent opening of war nurseries
to care for children of working
mothers.
Funds in Other Cities.
Every city, town and village In
the United States is eligible for part
OF the $6,000,000 granted WPA for
war nurseries in July, 1912. Nursery
schools for children of working
mothers are opening every day in
the week in far flung States and
cities-except in the District of Co.
lumbia.
District Board of Education off,
cialS and the District and Federal
WPA officials repeatedly have stated
that they will cooperate in every
way to open war nurseries in Wash
lngton as soon as legal barriers are
abolished. Mrs. Florence Kerr.
charged with administering the Sec
ond source of funds for nurseries,
funds under the Lanham Act-also
has said approval would be forth
coming for Lanham fund nurseries.
AS long as the congressional bans
remain on the statute books. how
ever, neither WPA funds will be
available for District nurseries nor
will the public schools be able to
open their doors to children under S,
This Is the legislative situation
and will continue to be so unless
the Dill introduced by Representa-
1--WE Randolph last week to remove
both legal bars is passed. The Ran
oolpn Dill and Its chances for sue
cess Will be described tomorrow.
Evening star., 1942-09-11
BIockout FIoshIieht
Specifications Chonoed

Flashlights used in blackouts must
be equipped with approved orange
red filters to meet new requirements
issued today by the War Depart
ment.
The specification prepared by the
engineer board at Fort Belvoir, Va,
exempts railway inspectors lanterns
or special lighting apparatus en-
ployed in railway operations. These
are to be covered in another set of
regulations now being prepared.
Several Government agencies, in
cluding the Bureau of Standards, CO.
operated with the engineer board in
preparing the specification, together
with instructions on the use of lu-
minescent materials in blackouts.
Evening star., 1942-09-11
Federation Board
Urges Appointment
OF Defense Aide
Work Of Committees
Would Be Supervised
By Assistont to Young

Appointment of an aide to the CO.
ordinator of civilian defense to
supervise activities of all Washing
ton civilian defense committees was
urged last night at a meeting of the
Executive Board of the Federation
of Citizens Associations.
Harry S. Wender, acting president
of the Federation, said the proposed
aide would work directly, in full
time capacity, with the defense COM
mittees and would be responsible
only to Commissioner Young, Met
ropolitan Area civilian defense CO.
ordinator.
Indorse Randolph Bill.
The board also indorsed the RAN
dolph bill to provide for the resto-
ration of WPA nursery schools in
the District. The schools have not
been operated since 1899, when they
were eliminated from the District
Appropriation Act.
Reiteration of Endorsement of leg
lslation approved by the House and
now pending in the Senate which
would exempt private home owners
providing rooming accommodations
for four or less defense workers
from certain provisions of the Rent
Control Act also was voted.
One of the exemptions deals with
80
Wender estimated that $1,000 Dis
trict home owners would be willing
to accept roomers under revised pro-
visions of the bill.
Other Board Actions.
The board also acted on the re-
Gently proposed amendments to the
alcoholic beverage control law, ap-
proving all except the one providing
that the alcoholic content in bev-
erages should not be included in
advertisements.
A previously approved resolution
that the District budget for 1914
should not exceed anticipated in
come" was indorsed again. Com
mittee chairmen were instructed to
appear before the Commissioners at
public hearings on the budget to
begin at the District Building Sep
tember 81. Approval of the in
creased appropriations asked by the
District Board of Recreation for the
budget was stressed.
The board met at the Woodward
Building.
Evening star., 1942-09-11

Government Printing ONCE en-
ploye; Talmadge Smith, 20, Sibley
Hospital janitor; Isaac Sol Schecter,
81, City Post ONCE clerk; Nicholas
P. Kremser, 33, Securities and Ex-
change Commission employe in
Philadelphia; Orville r. Stewart, 40,
Government special messenger, and
Daniel j. Leahy, 38, School for
Crippled Children custodian.
William G. Bryant, Is, Wall Street
Journal reporter, who sought classi-
flcation as conscientious objector
in 4-E, was placed in lao, the class
into which are put conscientious OBJ
Jectors serving with the armed
forces. The appeal of Joseph F.
Winkler, %, under library assistant
for 4-E classification was rejected, as
was the appeal of Albert Lee Lynn
81, Washington manager of the Is
land Creek Coal Sales Co., for a
change of classification from 3-A
to 3-B, the class in which are put
men with dependents who are also
in essential work.
Evening star., 1942-09-11
Young TO Tighten
Pedestrian Control

Drastic steps" to enforce pedes-
trlan control regulations will be tax
en- by the District unless residents
evidence more willingness to pro-
tect themselves and to help curl
tne mounting fatality toll" Commits
sioner Young warned today.
While placing emphasis on acci-
dents for which pedestrians are re-
sponslble, the Commissioner said
police had been told Ito keep a care
ful eye" on motorists, with partic-
ular attention to right-of way rules
Reporting that more than 60 per
cent of traffic deaths so far this
year have involved pedestrians, Mr..
Young said "carelessness is RESPONSE
BILE for most of these accidents"
Evening star., 1942-09-11
Ground Tiger of AVG Rests Up
In Virginia for Army Task
Harvey 6. Cross
Injured Only Once
In Frequent Raids

At Least half a dozen times the
Japs nearly got Flying Tiger Har-
vey G. Cross. But he's back in
Fairfax. Va, now, spending a cou-
pie of weeks with his parents before
he sets out once more to take a
crack at the enemy.
Strictly speaking, Mr.. Gross isn't
Flying Tiger-he's just a Tiger
His job with the American Volun-
teer Group in China was to set up
radio stations and look after COM
munications. He's graduate of
the Army Air Corps Technical
School at Chanute Field, Ill, and
he did a four-year hitch with the
Army before he was released year
ago last June to join the Tigers.
After year of service, he ar
rived at the Fairfax home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey M
Cross, Monday to rest up for a
couple of weeks before he rejoins
the Army to do whatever job the
service may have for him.
Pounded Installations.
The last days of the Tigers in
China, with the Japs concentrat-
ing on wiping out the AVG, were
hectic and dangerous ones, Mr.. Cross
comedies. The Japs never were a
match for the Tigers in the air,
he said proudly, but the enemy did
its best to wipe out ground install
lations and every once. in a while
they succeeded.
At one base, for example, the
Tigers counted 154 bomb craters
after a particularly heavy raid.
They didn't try to do any patching
but simply moved on to a new base.
The Japs tried hard to put the
Tigers out of business and they
killed 1000 Chinese civilians in the
area of the base in the course of
their bombings.
Mr.. Cross was hit only once by
flying shrapnel. 1t landed on his
back as he was lying in ditch dur
ing a particularly hot session and
burned through his clothing, leaving
a painful burn. A few other times
Mr.. Cross was within 30 feet of an
Evening star., 1942-09-11
Aircraft Welding Class
For Women Planned

Registration for special aircraft
welding class for women to be offered
at the Montgomery Blair High
School in Silver Spring, Md, will be
held between 10 am. and 3 pm.
Monday at the school shop.
This class will meet at am. for
four hours day, Monday through
Friday, for IL weeks.
Instruction is free for women over
II years and 9 months. This course
is under the direction of the Mont
gomery County Board of Education.
Evening star., 1942-09-11
Sun Cab Treasurer Given
Three Years in Tax Case
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 11.-Edward
c. Ostrow, co-owner and treasurer
OF the Sun Cab Co., was sentenced
yesterday by Judge w. Calvin Ches-
nut to three years in prison and
fined $15,001 for income tax viola
tions.
The Government contended that
Ostrow. who pleaded guilty, had
evaded payment of $115.S87 in in
come taxes over five-year period.
Herbert Glassman. Ostrows part
ner. was sentenced on a similar
charge several months ago.
Evening star., 1942-09-11
Hogerstown Reports
Population Increase

HAGERSTOWN, Md. Sept. II
P1.-The newly issued 1942-43
Hagerstown directory places the
city's population at approximately
10000 persons. The population in
the 1910 census was placed at 80, ,446.
Evening star., 1942-09-11
Furniture Sole Brisk

Many newlyweds and brides be
bid for furniture sold by the Duke of
Connaught at his home in Surrey,
England.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-20
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Combat Insignia stamp
No. 3. bearing the insignia
Of Bombing Squadron NB-S.
BOMBING SQUADRON VB-S
Majestic. and at once ter
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panther on the loose. This
squadron Of black panthers
II all that its symbol implies.
Springing skyward from their
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