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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
273 new MEN
Are SIGNED UP

A total of 273 men registered in the
local district last week, with SO nom
residents who signed up reducing the
number Of local registrants to 221.
Serial numbers will be assigned the
group July 20. Draft order numbers
will also be assigned, but there will be
no national lottery and no master list
prepared. The registrants will be in
Quoted in order of their age, but men
below 20 years are not Immediately
liable for military service.
The number registering at the var
ious points in the district follows:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09

Defense Bonds Mean Victory
Evening star., 1942-09-20

Rode and Rongers to tonkmen porooopers and lust
M po'n 'nfo"t the Yonk tough and getting tougher
have proved the somon the Roneers Deppe our tonk
fighters hove been poison to the Noz Egypt But as hond
tonond Killers experts every trick Of the knife the oun butt
ono s'omoon9 hondlne the picked Mone Roder bot
toons ore something speeo They big hordened roined
mornes before they picked Roder SpecioI skIs and
how T' 'o"
Evening star., 1942-09-20

A .specioI kind Of exter-
minotor is Seret. Kenneth
Elder Of the tonk destroyer
troops troinin9 at Comp
Joseph T. Robinson, Ark. If
an enemy crowls out of his
smashed tank he's reody for
him.
Evening star., 1942-05-13

agreed today that last nights black
out was "the best we have had
so far"
I'VE have ironed out all of our
previous mistakes, Mr.. Padgett said.
Our communications worked faster
last night than they have previ-
ously. Also, the blackout itself was
carried out very efficiently"
There were 80 test incidents in
Alexandria, according to Mr.. Padg-
EFT. He declared that he was very
pleased with the results.
Mr.. Chew said that he would in
vestigate report today that there
was a willful violation of the black
out IN Arlington. If the report is
verified, the offender will be prose-
cuted, Mr.. Chew said.
At least one of all the emergency
services in Arlington went out on a
simulated incident last night, Mr..
Chew added.
! The communications test was sat-
isfactory, according to Mr.. Chew.
He added that the II sirens now
operating in the county provided an
effective signal
3,014 on Job in County.
There were 3,0l4 members of the
civilian defense organization in
Prince Georges County, Md, par
ticipating in last nights blackout,
according to j. Robert Sherwood,
county defense director.
The new control center located in
the County Service Building in
Hyattsville worked perfectly" Mr..
Sherwood said. Only delay noted
last night was in the operation of
the nine report centers located
throughout the county. Board op-
orators have not had enough ex-
perience to work them without a
hitch" Mr.. Sherwood explained.
About rs violations were reported
last night, Mr.. Sherwood declared,
Of which four appeared to be de-
liberate. Two Of the violations were
in brentwood, he said.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Hearing Set on Plea
For Passenger Service
On W. 90. D. RAILWAY
Virginia Commission Aide
Will Take Testimony
At Foirfox Nay n

The Committee for Emergency
Transportation for Northern Vir-
ginia, seeking restoration Of pas
senger service on the Washington &
Old Dominion Railroad, announced
today that the Virginia Corporation
Commission had agreed to hold a
general hearing at the Fairfax Court
House May 81.
A commission representative will
open the hearing at IL am, which
will be continued through the even
ing to give Government workers an
opportunity to testify.
Meanwhile, the committee will
hold the first of three mass meet
ings, at o'clock tonight, at the
Vienna School to discuss the res
toration of service on the line from
Rosslyn to Purcellville. A meeting
will be held tomorrow night at the
Herndon School and the third meet
ing will be held in Leesburg Friday
night.
At present the railroad is only
hauling freight. All passenger cars,
with exception of a mail car that
could carry passengers, and sta
tions formerly used by the COM
pany have been destroyed, it was
said.
Members of the committee ar
ranging the mass meetings are J. S.
Brookes, jr., Vienna; Smith Bow
man, jr., Sunset Hills; T. Edgar
Reed and Reed Thomas, both of
Herndon.
Evening star., 1942-05-13

out any evaluation as to how much
or how little was needed. Full dress
performances" he declared, were on
the scene of incidents that might
have required only single piece of
equipment.
The actual posting of the in
cidents for all the staff officers Of
the various emergency services to
see and evaluate. he declared, was
so far behind the dispatching of
equipment that it was impossible
to know quickly where the equip
ment had been sent, should it have
been needed more urgently else
where.
On the control panel at the center
are two charts, one listing the serv-
ices dispatched, the other the loca-
ton, type and time of the incident.
The latter was always far behind
the former, Dean Lands said.
At the time the blackout ended,
he reported, 80 Of the simulated in
cidents had been posted, but the
controller, through whom all the
incidents flow. had numbered 130
and a stack almost a foot high of
other incidents had not been
touched.
Dean Lands pointed out that ir
case of an air raid. a fire of major
proportions at the Navy Yare
might be stalled in the untouched
stack or all the equipment might
have been sent on sometimes futile
errands before the Navy Yard firs
WAS discovered.
The only way to cut down tht
number of incidents to a poin
where they could be handled with.
out bottlenecks, he contended, is Il
cut down the area from which the,
come by having a number of con-
troll centers, each serving an ares
with its own equipment.
Although he singled out Fir
Chief Stephen T. Porter for hi
prompt dispatching of equipment
Dean Lands commented that OF
the first so calls to come to ths
control center last night the fir'
chief dispatched 26 fire companies
which the o. C. D. director thought
was a high average.
Dean Lands also noted that fol
q space Of II cases no police wer,
dispatched to the scenes and sale
that though he had been told {
oumber OF medical units had beer
Evening star., 1942-05-13
County Must Expect
Only Frame Hospital,
Suburban Group Told
Materials Delaying Aid,
Snyder Soys at Meeting;
Dr.. Porron Is Speaker

Montgomery County residents
seeking a hospital in the suburban
area may have to expect one -and-
a-half-story frame structure be-
cause of a shortage Of critical ma
terials, Baird Snyder, assistant ad-
ministrator of the Federal Works
Agency. told . mass meeting Of the
Suburban Hospital Association last
night IN the Leland Junior High
School.
Speaking for Brig. Gen. Philip b.
Fleming. r. w. A. administrator who
was unable to be present, Mr.. Snyder
declared that the Federal agency Is
anxious to provide assistance to q
great many communities, but Is
unable to do 20 because of critical
material shortages.
Paul L. Banneld, chairman of the
meeting, said association members
we're not planning on large build
Ing and had made allowances for
available materials.
DR.. Parran Speaks.
DR.. Thomas Parran, Surgeon Cen
eral of the United States Public
Health Service, commended the
association for its efforts. The hos
pital needs Of the Washington area
are already acute and are rapidly
becoming more urgent, he said.
Fortunately, health records show
no disproportionate increase In
disease" he said.
He declared that crowded con-
ditions in Washington and sur
rounding areas, aggravated by large
increases in new residents. create
an urgent need for disqualification
facilities since 1t is impossible for
persons crowded into boarding
houses and small apartments to be
treated at home.
OF the need for hospital facilities.
DR.. Parran said:
In our opinion Montgomery
County presents the most urgent
AcSo "a Vic mcLOPO1Idu area.
Bishop Outlines Steps.
Randolph G. Bishop, president Of
the association, outlined the steps
required to obtain an institution
and asserted that q site Of from
five to 80 acres would have to be
donated by individuals or purchased
by popular subscription. He said
a Federal grant of about $500, 900
was being relied upon by association
workers.
He announced the membership of
the association now exceeds 2,286
and listed the following new men,
Der Of the oBard Of Trustees: Dr..
Katherine Chapman, DR.. John G.
Ball and DR.. Charles r. L. HALEY.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Montgomery Grants
Permit for NewLjne
To Pipe Oil 10 D. {.
Tube Would Be Extension
Of Existing One Which
Supplies Baltimore

Plans to augment Washington's
gasoline supply through construc-
ton Of pipe line from the Penn
sylvania oil fields are being pushed
by the Sinclair Refining Co., it was
disclosed today.
The company yesterday obtained
. permit from the Montgomery
County Commissioners to lay an
eight-inch line from the Howard
County boundary at the Patuxent
River to the Prince Georges bound
ary near Fairland.
Charles n. Gilmore, an official of
the Sinclair Refining Co., said the
line Is an extension of q pipe now
running to the Baltimore and Pitts
burgh areas. and viii enter the Dis
trfct Of Columbia IN the Northeast
section.
He said that storage facilities
would be needed" at the Washing!
ton end Of the line.
The commissioners awarded con-
tract to the Contee Sand & Gravel
Co. OF Laurel to construct special
street improvements to Holstein
street In Takoma Park. The con-
tract was for $3,567 20.
A check for $60457 to the town
OF Rockville was paid yesterday by
County Controller Alexander K.
Hancock in compliance with in
structions of the commissioners two
weeks earlier.
Mr.. Hancock had contested the
towns claim for this amount for
water and sewer facilities and had
withheld payment until after
Judges Stedman Prescott and
Charles w. Woodward ruled the
county was liable for the debt. Jo-
seph A. Cantrel, counsel to the COM
missioners, had previously ruled
that the bill amounted to a tax
to which the county was not sub
ject.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Church Groups Aided
In Mrs. oseood's Will
Special pispatch 10 The st.,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. May 13.-The
will of Mrs. Luella B. G. Osgood Of
Bethesda, which was admitted to
probate here yesterday. hequeaths
to the American Baptist Foreign
Missionary Society, the American
Baptist Home Missionary Society
and the National Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union 81 900 each,
and to 23 relatives and friends cash
in amounts ranging from $25 to
$500.
To the Bethesda Baptist Church,
which Mrs. Osgood's husband, the
late Rev. Bertram M. Osgood,
founded, Is left $500 in trust for a
church building, provided the
church is incorporated and acquires
a building lot.
The residue Is left to Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Williams of Rockville,
who are named executors.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Reynolds Offers Measure
To Require Union Data
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press,
Chairman Reynolds of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee intro
duced yesterday a joint resolution
which would require labor unions
to file data on finances, membership
and officers.
He said he was offering his
measure as a friend of organized
labor" and that it was designed
for the benefit of labor which is
being so severely criticized now"
Under it, he said, union members
could know "just what is being done
with the monies that pass into their
respective unions by way of initia-
ton fees and dues"
The measure would bar as officers
or representatives of any labor
union persons who belong to the
Nazi Bund or Facist or Communist
party"
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Planning Board
Opposes Site
ForPower Plant
Alexandra Troct
Declared Too Close
To Mt. Vernon Road

Rezoning Of the so-called Peverill
tract In Alexandria to permit erec-
ton Of a plant by the Braddock
Light & Power Co. is opposed by
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, according to .
letter read last night at the meet
ing Of the Alexandria City Council.
The city has an agreement with
the commission not to permit COM
mercial building within 200 feet Of
Mount Vernon boulevard, the letter
said. The Braddock plant would
be within 100 feet of the boulevard
it added.
Mayor william T. wilkins said
that he does not believe that the
Braddock plant violates any agree
ment between Alexandria and the
commission.
I'VE do have an agreement with
the commission that certain type
buildings shall not be built within
200 feet Of the boulevard" he de-
ment providing that buildings shall
conform to the standard set by the
boulevard.
THE Braddock plant will not vio-
late either Of these agreements. I
think that the plant will be 1000.
rather than 100 feet from the boule-
vard."
Council took no action on the
letter. Power company officials have
said that construction on the build
ing would not begin until late in
1943.
Aims House Not for Sale.
Council turned down an offer Of
Irving Newcomb. Inc, to purchase
the Municipal Aims House. Mr..
Newcomb, who has previously at
tempted to buy the property, was
advised 1t Is not for sale. The aims
house has been suggested for use as
either an auxiliary hospital or as q
day nursery for children of defense
workers.
A request by Walter Won Herbulis,
Theodore Parreco and william Par
reco to rezone the southwest corner
of Dewitt and Mason avenues from
C-1 to CO residential was denied.
Following the recommendation Of
the city's Planning Commission,
council also denied request to va
cate vassar road between Yale drive
and Princeton boulevard.
Street to BE Improved.
An appropriation of IS 900 to cover
the cost of improving Pitt street
extended from Montgomery street to
Bashfords lane was approved. Ap-
proval also was given to an ordi-
nance providing that Community
avenue and Crestwood drive be
known henceforth Is Crestwood
drive.
The request of william Recker &
Sons to fezone southeast corner of
Prince and Fayette streets from C-1
residential to D-2 commercial was
set for hearing next month.
Council voted to inspect property
in Virginia Village in connection
with the application of Riley A.
Gym and j. Wesley Buchanan to
resubdivide the property.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Prince Georges Board
Rezoning
OF 6O-Acre Tract
Firm Petitions for Shift
From A to c, PIons
100 Apartments

The Prince Georges County Board
of Commissioners yesterday ap-
proved petition from CORN &
Horning, Inc, for reclassification
from residential A to c of so acres
at New Hampshire avenue and Uni
versity lane, running through to
Carroll avenue, except for that part
Of the property already zoned as
commercial.
The property adjoins the Defense
Homes Corp. development on the
Mccormick -Goodhart estate, and
will provide 1000 apartment units
when completed. A report on the
project from the technical staff of
the Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, dated
April %, and pointed out that none
of the plans submitted so far for
either the Mccormick Goodhart
property or this new tract shows
that any provisions are made for
either schools or recreational areas"
No Change in Petition.
The technical staff recommended
that approval of the petition be
considered only provided the ap-
plication is revised as recommended
in this report" to allow approx
mately six acres for public uses such
as those already mentioned, in view
OF the anticipated addition of 5000
apartment units and 10000 people
to the community. including both
projects.
Redistribution was granted by
the commissioners, however, with
out the requirement of a change in
the petition.
Authority Extended.
Final approval of coming regula-
tions for the Prince Georges County
regional district prepared by the
Park and Planning Commission was
granted after public hearing.
The boards action extends the
authority of the Park and Planning
Commission to areas south and east
Of the District, including such COM
munities as Suitland, Silver Hill,
Largo and Buena Vista. The text
of the ordinance was identical with
that now in operation in adjoining
areas regulated by the commission.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Dorden's Pen Slowed
As Stationery Supply
Is Almost Exhausted
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, May Is
Gov Darden said yesterday
persons who wrote him letters
might not get prompt replies
that Is, II they got them at all
because he is practically out Of
stationery.
Ordinarily he could obtain q
new supply In . day or two, but
in these wartimes orders don't
get filled on ordinary schedules.
So he doesn't know just when
he'll have the essentials for
letter writing.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Car Kills Dentist in BIockout
On Way Home With Gas Card
Dr.. CowIes Is First
Traffic Fatality During
Defense Tests Here

A 73-year-old retired dentist, re-
turning home after obtaining his
gasoline rationing card, became the
Metropolitan Areas first traffic vic
tim in a blackout during last nights
half hour of total darkness.
The victim was DR.. Allen E
Cowles of 1902 Hilton avenue, Ia
koma Park, Md, valedictorian of
the first dental class of Georgetown
University in 1902, fatally hurt when
hit by the automobile of an auxiliary
fireman reporting for blackout duty
in Washington, police said.
DR.. Cowles, with his wife, had
gone to the J. Enos Ray School on
Ray road about pm. to obtain his
gasoline rationing card, and they
both left the school about II pm,
Robert Y. Tabler, his son-in-law,
said.
Mrs. Cowles was walking a short
distance in front of her husband
when he was struck by the car, Mr.
Tabler said.
Police listed the fireman as James
r. Athos, 81, of 1118 Lancaster road,
Takoma Park, Md, and quoted him
as saying he did not see DR.. Cowles
in the road.
Mr. Athos, who was held for man
slaughter pending preliminary
hearing, said he was driving with
cowl light at the emergency vehicle
speed of Is miles an hour.
The victim died at Washington
Sanitarium, to which he was taken
by the Takoma Park Rescue Squad,
suffering from a compound fracture
Of the leg, scalp wounds and shock.
Before hearing of the traffic
death, Col. Lemuel Bolles, executive
of civilian defense for this area, had
spoken sharply last night of the
need for providing proper masking
for lights on officials cars and
emergency vehicles which had to
proceed in blackout.
TITS about time the proper au-
thorities made up their minds what's
to be used so vehicles can get a
proper type of masking" he de-
clared.
During last nights blackout some
vehicles dimmed their lights, some
used cowl lights and others we're
unable to dim their lights and pro-
ceeded with full lighting or no
lighting at all.
No Masks for Vehicles.
National civilian defense officials
explained that they had not issued
specifications on masks for vehicles
because the Army had not decided
finally on what illumination would
be least visible from the air and
still be effective, and the War Pro-
duction Board then has to pass on
materials.
DR.. Cowles was born in White
water, Wis, and same to Wash
ington in 1898 where he worked
as assistant night foreman of the
proofroom of the Government
Printing Office while attending
Georgetown Dental School. He had
practiced here until he retired in
1885,
He was a 32d degree Mason and
was active in the Scottish Rite. He
was a member of the East Gate
Lodge of Masons and was past
patron of the Cathedral Chapter
of the Order Of the Eastern Star.
For Is years Dr. Cowles was treas
urer of the Board OF Directors of
the Masonic and Eastern Star Home
and was one of the founders and
regional director of the Northeast
Building and Loan Association.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Jesse w. Cowles; son, Claude r.
Cowles, now assigned to Eglin Field,
Fla, and daughter, Mrs. Robert
Y. Talber, with whom he lived in
Takoma Park.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Communication
Jam in bIackouf
Charged,Denied
Lands and Kutz See
: DecentroIizing Need;
Friede Opposes Shift

Major changes in the Districts
control center from which equip
ment would be dispatched to the
scenes Of bombings appeared in
prospect today as a result of fur
ther check on the operations of the
center during the Metropolitan
Areas second total blackout prac-
tice last night.
Col. Charles Kutz, Engineer Com
missioner and deputy co-ordinator
of civilian defense for the area, ex-
pressed himself dissatisfied with the
single control center now in oper-
alton and backed some form of de-
centralizing so that all incidents
would not have to 60 through one
center.
Col Kutz said one plan advanced
called for establishment Of control
sub-centers at the Is police precinct
stations.
Decentralization already has been
strongly advocated by o. G. D.
Director James M. Lands, who
spent the half f-hour blackout period
at the control center and promptly
made it clear that unless the system
is broken down into smaller units
there may be q dangerous bottleneck
in dispatching already scarce de-
fense equipment to the places it
would do the most good.
Friede Backs Present System.
Col. Kutz said he believed there
were no essential differences in the
point Of view of District civilian
defense officials and the national
&C. D. on decentralization. Herbert
Friede, who is in charge of COM
munications, and Chief Afraid
Warden Clement Murphy have de-
Tended the single center on which
attention was focused after the
April blackout.
A spokesman for Mr. Friede, who
went out of town this morning, ad-
n1itted there were still "a few little
kinks" In the present setup, but said
Mr.. Friede was under the impression
the operation had proceeded smooth
ly last night.
IS AA eAACC-Qud1 tClS VI oil llOUI d1UcI
the all-clear, he declared, all the
messages received from the wardens
had been acted upon despite the fact
that some were still calling at mid
night.
With 500 calls coming in within
Is or 20 minutes, he said, it was
natural that the center would be
very busy. He also denied Dean
Lands charge that the chiefs of
services could not quickly find their
equipment to send it to another
incident.
Stin opposes Decentralizins.
He made it clear that Mr.. Friede
stir was opposed to Decentralization
Of the communications system.
Dean Lands charged last night
that equipment was being dispatched
to the scenes Of simulated incidents
called in by air-raid wardens with
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Auto Crash Kills Cleric:
Son Died on Same Rood

The Rev. William N. Clark, COL
ored, 54, of Marbury, Md, was
fatally injured early today in an
automobile crash in Livingston road
near Oxen Hill under circumstances
similar to those marking his sons
death on the same highway three
months ago, police reported.
Mr.. Clark's car struck a telegraph
pole.
The son, Robert w. Clark, met
death at about the same hour on
February when his machine hit
a culvert.
DR.. James I. Boyd issued a certi-
:ficate of accidental death in both
cases.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Montgomery Education
Board Reorqonizes
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
ROCKVILLE, Md, May 18th.
Montgomery County Board of Edu.
cation reorganized yesterday anc
elected Mrs. Daniel c. Walser Of
Chevy Chase president to succeed
Mrs. Julius C. Hall of Poolesville
whose six-year term recently ex.
pired.
Francis K. Metzger of Ashton was
elected vice president. Mrs. Helen
c. Walker of Chevy Chase, ap-
pointed by Gov. O'Conor last week
to replace Mrs. Hall, attended the
meeting.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Entry to Mint Borred
Even to Firemen
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 13.-In
answer to an alarm, fire trucks yes
terday changed up to the Philadel-
phia Mint, one of the most CLOSELY
guarded institutions In America.
While flremen argued with q
guard who barred entrance, q fore
man leaned from a window and
asserted:
You can't get in here, buddy"
But there's q fire." one of the
flremen shouted.
There Is no such thing" was the
reply before the foreman slammed
the window, but If there was, you
still couldn't get In"
They didn't.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Alexandra Apartment
Application Approved

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, May 13.-The
State Corporation Commission yes
terday approved an application of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
for authority to construct an So
500, 900 apartment building in Alex
andria.
The development, which will be
carried forward under an act of
the 1912 General Assembly author
rizing life insurance companies to
invest In such properties In the
Alexandria, Richmond and Nor
folk areas, will provide 1,700 apart
ments with TOTO rooms.