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Evening star., 1942-03-17

missioner of corrections in the re-
vised penal setup. Mai. Rice M.
Youell, superintendent of the State
penitentiary, has. been mentioned
in connection with the place.
The penal reform legislation also
provided for a parole director at
$4,000 and an assistant at $4,000.
Rumor has associated the names of
Arthur w. James, former State vel
fare commissioner, and Russell B.
Devine, State supervisor of jail ac-
counts, with those positions.
The Governor will be called on to
appoint a State superintendent of
police and a director of the Division
of Motor Vehicles after separation of
those activities with abolition of the
present Division of Motor Vehicles
in July.
He also will have authority if he
chooses to appoint a director of
personnel under the act setting up
a State personnel administration.
The State Highway Commission
will be enlarged from five to nine
members and the State Game Com
mission from seven to nine, with q
salaried executive director. also In
July. n
Evening star., 1942-03-17
10 Afraid Sirens
To Be Installed in
Upper Montgomery
Other PIons Rushed
By County civiIiun
Defense Council

Ten twu-horsepower sirens will be
installed in the upper part oil Mont
gomery County within the next few
days J. B. Morrison, in charge of
the communications service of the
County Civilian Defense Council,
announced at a meeting Of the
councils Executive Committee last
night.
The sirens will be placed at
DarnestoWn, Germantown, Pooles-
vile, Dickerson, Barnesville, Clarks-
burg, Damascus, Laytonsville, Brook
vile and the Manor Club.
All Of the SO sirens ordered by
the council have arrived and II all
ready have been installed, Mr.. Nor
rison reported. tsA
No action will be taken on the
use of air horns as auxiliaries. Ato
thG electrfcss sirens until the latter
are installed and tested, it was
decided. z.,,
DR.. Dexter W. Bullard, chief of
medical services. reported that all
casualty stations Will be equipped
by tonight, except for cots and
blankets.
Efforts of the committee to secure
300 cots and 600 blankets from the
Red Cross have been unsuccessful,
Paul L. Banfield, chief of Emer-
'gency Food and Housing Corps. an
.nounced He said he had been in
Termed that the Red Cross will not
decentralize its equipment stored in
Baltimore until there is a disaster.
The council decided to investi-
gate other means of securing cots
and blankets and also voted against
the immediate purchase of $50
stretcher units to fit in station
wagons and trucks.
Evening star., 1942-03-17

official in the Physical Fitness Di-
vision.
She said that alice, the glamour
girl of sports" had to take "an
awful beating in Hollywood getting
bulges off here and there" But she
lost IS pounds.
She mentioned with approval
program inaugurated at Temple
University in Philadelphia, where
physical fitness headquarters are To-
Gated. Girls are enrolling in courses
of ballet dancing, tap dancing,
square dancing and more prosaic ac-
tivities such as bicycling. They are
also learning to be ''aquabelles."
Miss Browne is a versatile woman.
She has been commercial dress
designer. an amateur painter and a
national women's golf competition
flnalist. Once a friend dared her to
learn to play LISTS Hungarian
Rhapsody No. 2" on the piano. She
didn't know note, but she sat down
and after 300 hours at the keyboard
she played it.
"Cramped" by Reporters.
Her style was cramped during yes
terday's speech, she told her au-
dience, because reporters were in
the auditorium. She was rushed
away from the women's fieldhouse
before the press had chance to ask
her many questions.
]. In response to one question, she
said she is paid representative OF
the Physical FITNESS Division. hui
declined TO say how much she re-
ceiyes.
Just a living wage" she said.
In published January hearings of
a House Appropriations Subcom-
mittee her name is listed imme-
diately after that of Mayris CLANCY,
a dancer who later resigned from the
agency. According to this informa-
ton, Miss Browne, like Miss CLANCY,
VISA being paid $4,000 a year.
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Bethesda Defense Unit
Plans Ladies Night

The civilian defense organization
of the twelfth precinct of Mont
gomery County, Md. will celebrate
ladies night" Friday at the Be-
thesda Elementary School, prepar-
ing for. the possibility that the wom-
en- of the precinct may have to
take over their husbands daytime
civilian defense duties in the event
of an emergency.
A business meeting designed to
acquaint the women with the gen.
eral civilian defense setup has been
scheduled for 8.45 pm, 1t was an
nounced yesterday by w. Prescott
Allen, precinct warden. A motion
picture dealing with the handling
of incendiary bombs will be shown.
G. V. Hyson will act as chairman.
The meeting will be followed by
social gathering.
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Transportation, Milk
Studies Initiated
By lnterfederation
Committees Named to
Coordinate Action on
Duiry Product Prices

The Interfederation Conference
last night appointed committees for
study of proposed increase in local
milk prices and of the transportation
problem existing between the Capt.
tai and nearby counties.
Action on the milk question fol-
lowed sharp expressions of opposi-
ton to price increase Led by DR..
Thomas Martin of the Federation OF
Fairfax County Citizens Associa-
tions, conference members voiced
the opinion that while an increase
in milk rates in the Washington
area would benefit milk distributors.
it would operate against the inter-
ests both of the consumer and the
dairy farmer.
Dairy men in the counties are
not interested in a rate increase" p"
DR.. Martin said. The increased
revenue never gets down to them.
And yet the distributors, who do
profit by the rate increase, defend it
with references to the higher cost
of production
Says Farmers Opposed.
DR.. Martin stated that farmers
are, in fact, opposed to an increase
because it would tend to reduce the
consumption ofsmilk. y
H. l.. Colman, representing the
sDistrict Federation of Citizens As
sociations, said he had noted With
interest that in no discussion of the
milk question had distributors ever
advanced an increase in the cost of
milk distribution as an argument
for a price increase.
Help the farmer is the argu-
gets nothing out of it."
Appointed to the committee to
correspond with the milk commit
tees of the federations and to CO.
ordinate whatever action the fed
efations might take on the question
were E. P. Roll of Fairfax County,
Rhees E. Burket of Montgomery
County, w. G. Copley of Prince
Georges County and Culver B.
Chamberlain of the District.
Formation of a committee to take
similar action with regard to the
problem of providing transportation
between nearby counties and the
District was prompted by Julian D.
Simpson of the Arlington Fedora
ton.
Transportation Unit Named.
Mr.. Simpson said growing trans
portation difficulties could be eased
at present only by an increase in
the bus service to nearby areas.
Bus companies cannot obtain more
vehicles because of priority re-
strictions, he said. suggesting that
the proper authorities be urged to
give bus companies priority status
in the interests of national defense.
Members of the Transportation
Committee appointed last night
were Mr. Simpson, chairman; JOS
eph B. Matre of the Montgomery
County Civic Federation, Fred w.
Cast of the Prince Georges County
Civic Federation and MIR. Colman.
DR.. Victor Meyers of Arlington
presided at the dinner meeting,
which was held at Wesley Hall, 1703
K street NV.
Evening star., 1942-03-17
State Guard to Parade
AT Baltimore Army Day

BALTIMORE, March II (P).-The
Maryland State Guard will make
its first public appearance in Balti-
more's Army Day parade April 6,
Major Gen. Milton A. Reckord, Sd
Corps Area commander and parade
director, announced today.
Gen. .Reckord said Brig. Gen.
Dwight H. Mohr, guard commander,
had arranged to send 700 to
500 fully and uniformed
guardsmen.
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Montgomery
Votes Guns for
'hinuteMen'
~
County Also to Buy
Distinctive Uniforms
For Reserve Miiitiu

ny Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, March IT,
Declaring Montgomery County faces
great danger due to its proximity
to the Eastern seaboard, the county
commissioners today unanimously
approved resolution providing for
the purchase of "a heavy-calfber
rifles and two machine guns for
every minute man" company formed
in the county.
In presenting the resolution, Com
missioner Thomas E. Hampton said
that it will be up to the newly
formed State Militia minute men"
to repel possible parachute invasion
and sabotage.
Some of the volunteers already
have their own guns" he said, but
we must see to it that those who do
not have their own guns will be
sufficiently armed so that they can
oppose any possible parachute at
tack"
In addition, the commissioners
approved the purchase of suits OF
brown .overalls and some form of
head covering" 50 that the Minute
Men" will have distinctive uniforms.
Two Companies at Rockville.
Mr.. Hampton, Joseph A. Cantrel,
attorney to the Board Of Commis-
sioners; Alexander K Hancock,
county controller; County Chief of
Police Andrew M. Newman, and It.
Col. E. Brooke Lee, commander of
the 7th Battalion of the Maryland
State Guard, comprise a committee
which will negotiate the purchase of
the guns and the overalls.
Two companies of Minute Men"
have been organized at Rockville
and an additional company is ex-
pected to complete its enlistment
within a few days in Gaithersburg,
Circuit Judge Stedman Prescott, in
charge of organizing the new State
Reserve Militia in the upper part
of Montgomery County, announced.
Other companies, including one in
the Jamestown, PooIesville and
Barnesville area and another in the
Damascus, Clarksburg and Laytons-
vile area, are expected to be formed
within a.week, Judge Prescott said.
Volunteers in Gaithersburg were
asked by Judge Prescott to get in
touch with Ira Darby, Geary Beall
or Merle Jacobs. :.,.A s,-- -. /
Half Day q Week for Drills. 49,:
Those In The Darnestown, Pooles-
vile and GAINESVILLE area were IA
structed to see Sterling Bowman or
Lloyd Jones, jr.. while residents of
the Damascus, Clarksburg and tay-s
louisville aFea were asked to COM
municate with Louis Bell, Arthur
Watkins. jr., or Willie Lloyd
Burdette.
Local commanders for the various
companies will be named by the
Governor in the near future, Judge
Prescott explained.
While there is no close -order drill
planned for the militia, Judge Pres
colt said that the men probably will
have to devote one-half day each.
week to firing practice, terrain prob
lens and similar drills. -'
Col Lee is in charge of organizing
the minute men" in the Silver
Spring area, while James Blaine
Fitzgerald has been named to olgan-
ize the militia in the Bethesda
Chevy Chase area.
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Madison to Bor Sunday Beer

MADISON, Va, March II (P.-
Madison County on April / will join
the Virginia communities which have
banned the sale of beer and wine
on Sundays. Madison viii be the
43d of the States 100 counties to
go dry on Sunday. Three cities,
Portsmouth. Charlottesville and
Staunton, also forbid Sunday beer
and wine sales. \
Evening star., 1942-03-17
FIipped Coin Sends
Pilot on FutoI Hop

BY the Associated Press
HAGERSTOWN, Md, March IT,
John Villa Of Yonkers, N. Y, and
Henry Richardson, 27, of Harrington,
Del, both wanted to be the first to
take night fight during their civil
ian pilot training.
They tipped coin. Villa lost.
That was Sunday night. Yester-
day morning. the wteckage of the
plane was found on the side of a
Martinsburg (W. Va9 mountain.
Richardson and his instructor, Or
man Stalker, 2S, of Carthage, n. Y,
were dead.
Evening star., 1942-03-17

b e en- accepted
by the Army Air
Corps as an avi-
alton cadet and
is awaiting or
derS to go into
the service.
His father,
Mayor Floyd M.
Matthias, for
merly was coun-
Gilman from the
ward the son
now represents.
The younger
Matthias was %
years old when
he was elected
Evening star., 1942-03-17

ned FRIDAY and
Saturday night
at the school
with nearly 70
students partici-
pating.
Among tn e
contestants will
b e I'm og e n e
Fletcher, a ju-
nior, who last
year won first
prize in the con-
test for aero
batic dancing.
The program in
cludes singing
a nd dancing
Evening star., 1942-03-17

10 the council IN May, 1910.
Robert Matthias is one of four
brothers, two of whom are now
serving with the Army engineers in
Panama. he was a star athlete at
Mount Rainier High School, where
he was graduated in 1893. Later
he was graduated from National
University law school, after having
played a few years in minor league
baseball. He is now employed by
the washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission.
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Fund to Be Used for Bonds

NORFOLK, Va, March II tR).-
of1cials of the Garry Me Back" Me-
mortal Association announced today
that all money contributed to the
fund to build memorial to James
A. Bland, colored COMPOSER who
wrote Garry Me Back to Old Vir-
gin1y," would be put into defense
bonds for the duration Of the war.
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Nom P. Corter Rites
Planned Tomorrow

Blythe Associs ted Press.
WINCHESTER. Va, March IT,
Mann Page Carter. 91-year-old re-
tired civil engineer and one of the
oldest graduates of Virginia Military
Institute, died Sunday. He had been
ill only for a day.
Funeral services will be held at
Christ Episcopal Church tomorrow.
He was not married and his near
est survivors are nieces. He worked
on a number of engineering jobs in
South America and other parts Of
the world.
Evening star., 1942-03-17

acts, readings and Skits and musi-
cal numbers.
Prizes will be awarded for the
best acts by the Parent Teacher As
sociation, sponsor of the show. Pro-
ceeds will be used for welfare work
in the school.
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Mount Rainier Councilman
EnIists in Army Air. Corps

Robert B. Matthias. youngest coun-
Gilman in the history of Mount
Rainier, last night informed the
Mayor and Council that he had
Evening star., 1942-03-17
Monteomery-BIoir PIons
Two-Nieht Variety Show

The fourth annual variety show
of the Montgomery Blair Senior
High School, Silver Spring, will be
Evening star., 1942-03-17
New Jersey Treasurer Dies

TRENTON, N. j., March II R.-
State Treasurer William II. Albright,
66, of Woodbury. died Unexpectedly
last night of a heart attack at the
Stacy-Trent Hotel He had just re-
turned from Florida.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-15
o SERIAL STORY
 MURDER IN FERRY COMMAND gYAw oBREN
BY A. w. O'BRIEN
COPYRIGHT, ioA2. NEA SERVICE, ING.

didn't budge. A good job had also been done on his ankles.
 There was only one thing to do play possum until a better op- portunity cropped up.
 For fully half an hour he re- mained in that position before the two men came over to him. He felt hand being pressed on his heart.
 "The dog got a good shot of juice :" said gruff voice, Johns beyond a doubt He's still out cold. The meddlesome fool, whoever he is. Grab his feet and we'll carry him into the store room. Sammy will be around with the truck some time tomorrow and we'll ship him off = he's too damn nosey to leave alive. Let's go!"
 Through scracely opened eye lids he saw he was beign car ried through the hall, up short flight of stairs and into a store room. The men dropped him on the floor with a painful thud. His injured knee screamed in protest and Dawson fought to control his facial muscles.
 Johns rasping voice came again; "Sleep tight, my clever one!"
 (TO Be COntinued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-15

"Black pins," ne read, indicate reported locations of known crashes to date"
 Other lines puzzled him - haz- fly, he recalled having seen ones like them somewhere. Then he re- membered. They had been on the charts in the meterologist's de- partment at the Ferry Command airport in Newfoundland = nests of concentric ovals in black lines were the "sobars", lines of equal barometric pressure. Across these, great curces, drawn in crayon, indicated warm and cold fronts large red covered book on the nearby desk confirmed his opinion. The book contained weather reports, from Newfound- land to Florida, dating back over the past nine months.
 Beside the book a mimeo- graphed sheet caught his eye-a publicity release from the News Bureau of Nova Scotia, with an address in New York City.
 The release stated that mo re- strictionS on off-shore fishing along the Nova Scotia coast have been suggested as yet and no h- cense cards are required and fishermen go out daily as before the war" It went on to state that unless something were unforeseen occurs no restrictions would be put on the pastime in 1942.
 Evidently the lads are interested in off-shore fishing along the Att lantic coast, Dawson noted for fu- ture consideration.
 Time was passing with danger ous rapidity but the large filing cabinet demanded brief study He tugged at the handles but all the drawers were locked. He studied the top lock carefully be- fore selecting tiny key resem- bling a twisted hairpin from his skeleton collections.
 Bending down, Dawson showed the key slowly into the key hole = uddenly he felt tingling sensa- tion followed by one of sinking 1nCO all OCedH Ol ltdlAeIS. 1Ie sound of a clanging bell came to his ears from at )ss an eternity of distance growing dinner and dinner.
 When consciousness returned Dawson found himself mentally alert although little devils seemed to be pounding at his head. Al most instantly he recalled the fil- ing cabinet and the queer sensa- [ ton = he cursed himself for hav- ing neglected to anticipate an cleo trical guard device then he realized he was bound hand ano feet and that there were people ir the room. From his position he couldn't see anybody, but two shadows on the wall were those of men.
 Almost imperceptibly, he tested the bonds holding his wrists. They
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-15

caution was needless - the room was empty. He returned to the door and laid an ear against the jamb, listening intently.
 His bold entry had evidently worked. The housekeeper clicked off the hall light and walked back along the hall.
 The room loked uninteresting obviously mans room. He de- voted only a few minutes to ex- amining it before slipping into the hall and tiptoeing to the next room. It was a girls room a photo of a couple on the wall told him it was Carole Fiske's. Beside her in the picture was Darwin Lemoy in a baseball uniform. It looked like a newspaper photo snapped at a game as Lemoy was standing beside the box seats talking to the girl.
 Working in speedy, experienced fashion, Dawson gave the room a thorough search but without re- suit. He even probed gingerly through multi-colored articles in bureau drawers with the worlorn hope of finding some letters.
 The next room lay behind a locked door. A brief inspection told Dawson skeleton keys would mt work here. From vest pocket he produced a strip of celluloid about six inches long and two and one half inches wide. Praying that the door was held only by single spring he poked into the minute opening ah, he was in luck! The lock slid back easily.
 Slowly opening the door, Daw- son explored the interior with the thin ribbon of light from his flash before turning on a switch.
 He whistled under his breath at the sight that greeted him. The rooms walls were covered with air charts and assorted diagrams and photographs. There was a large radio receiving set, two desks, an unusually big world globe, a filing cabinet, and three bookcases containing reference books.
 The air chart interested him. It took only a few minutes for him to decide what they were the charts, marked with numer- ous probable routes" dealt with the Royal Air Force Ferry Con- mand operations. Varie-colored pins were tackled on points throughout the United States and colored string ran from one to another-it was notable that most of the ones in the U. s. A. con- verged on Chicago.
 He looked above to the right = noting the courses through Mont real and up to Newfoundland. It had the right location of the sec ret take-off airport. Six black pins were situated at number of points and Dawson glanced at an index on the wall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-15
A SHOCKING" DISCOVERY
CHAPTER VII

1ndecision had never been one of Clyde Dawson's failings. Even as he washed the blood from his face and dabbed iodine on the scalp cut, his mind had gone to work on the im- mediate problem of what to do next.
 The twisted knee was swelling rapidly but Dawson found he could still walk. There was work to do, right now. He felt his would-be assassins, not knowing his fate, would hardly return to that limestone house without pausing somewhere to establish an alibi.
 And Dawson intended paying that house in Homewood an un- invited visit.
 Stopping the taxi a block from his destination, Dawson tugged at his hat brim and turned up his coat collar. As he 1imped to the 0ppoite side of the street from the house, the investigator glanced ct his wrist watch in the light of A street lamp. It was five minutes after 10.
 He inspected the lock with a yest-pocket hashlight. The third key did the trick and the door swung open and Dawson halted abruptly as he saw partly opened door at the end of long hall leading into lighted room
 Leaving the light on, Dawson walked heavily across to the stairs. Prom the lighted room same sounds of motion followed hy steps in the hall. Quickening his step, he mounted as rapidly as sching knee would allow.
 He was barely in the shadows at the top when the tall, dark housekeeper reached the bottom, looked upwards and said some thing that sounded like guttural Good night" Dawson grunted deep throatedly in reply and wheeled into the first room, whip ring out his revolver as he did so.
 Inside, he located the switch and turned on the light, jumping mizieAlg to one side. But his pre-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-15
Q SERIAL STORY
HENRY
BRINGING UP FATHER

THE STORY: A series of clever deductions have brought Clyde Dawson of the Canadian Intelligence Department, from Newfoundland, where one spy was hanged for murder, to Chi CagO, where his cOnfederates make their headquarters. The girl fin the case, who may hold the key to the spy rings opera ton, has agreed to meet Daw- son secretly, after a first meet ang i'm which Dawson knocks out her insulting companion. At the agreed meeting place, Dawson narrowly escapes hail of bull lets from a car in which the girl and two men are riding.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-08
RSkippers Die,
3D. Captured in
4Ship Sinkings

The loss of four United Nations
vessels and 81 Seamen. including
tSgo ship captains, and the capture
Of a third skipper comprised the
oil today Of four separate engage
pnents with Axis submarines IN
fhe Caribbean Sea and Gulf OF
Mexico.
The sinking OF a British mer-
chantman early in August cost the
HIVES of Capt. q. +. Sparrow oil
Marrow, England, and AZ members
Of his crew. according 10 a navy
announcement with the arrival OF
survivors at an east coast port.
Eleven members Of the crew were
ahved.
| In another action with a Ger
man submarine early in August, a
xnedium-Sized British vessel was
8unk, and the captain, Donald
HUNT, was taken aboard the sub
Inersible. All other 46 members
vere set adrift, but were rescued.
The vessel was broken in two by
tvo torpedoes, according to the
survivors.
Capt. Gjert SofuS Olsen and two
ether officers were lost when their
xnedium-Sized Norwegian vessel
2as sunk In a third submarine al
tick. The 80 other members OF
t1he crew were saved.
Survivors Of the three ships
3ere rescued by Argentine vessels.
The Mexican government mean
chile announced the torpedoing
md sinking of a Mexican tanker
| - the Gulf off Tampico with the
| lbss of 10 lives. Twenty-four men,
t3crs of the crew were burned seri-
dusty. II was the sixth Mexican
WEASEL sunk by Axis submarines.
Earlier, the navy department
announced the sinking of an Amer
|1kan merchantmen off Africa In
|yAid-August with the loss of one
HE. There were 81 survivors.