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Evening star., 1942-04-16
Fairfax A. D. A.
Project 10 Hold
ToStandards
Area Can Be Used
As Subdivision
After War
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX. Va. April l6.-Regu-
lations governing the layout of sub
divisions in Fairfax County will be
followed by the Alley Dwelling Au-
thority in construction of a de-
mountable housing project on Tele-
graph and Burgundy roads, 1t was
announced today.
Following a conference between
county and State planning officials
and John Ihlder. A D. A. director
H. c. Moore, technican of the
County Planning Commission, said
that adherence to the regulations
would permit use of the land for
single family dwellings when the
emergency ends.
Mr.. Moore said the A. D. A. is
preparing to build 800 to $50 tenn
porary family units on the 1853 acres
recently acquired by the Federal
Government. The houses will be
multiple dwellings and are to con-
tain four to six units each.
Will Sell After War.
After the war. A. D. A. officials
will sell the houses with the under
standing they are to be removed.
1t is intended that a subdivision
of permanent single family units
shall supplant the project.
Mr.. Moore said the A. D, A. is
revising its general plans to fit in
with the master plan for that sec
ton of the county. Construction is
expected to start soon.
Although planning officials do not
favor such projects, it was said no
opposition will be offered because
of the emergency. The land is un-
developed and it is expected the
project may bring another develop
ment to that area.
Must Work Out School Plans.
One of the major items yet to be
worked out is school to serve the
families. 1t is anticipated the Gov
eminent will work out a payment to
the county in lieu of taxes to finance
a school.
The project will be located west of
Telegraph road and south of Cam
eron Run, short distance from
Belle Haven and the Lord Fairfax
Country Club.
Meanwhile. the Fairfax County
Board of Supervisors, meeting yes
terday. approved a recommendation
from the planning commission that
the present coming ordinance not be
amended Mrthe1~' to permit. more
'man' IL family units per acre for
multiple. housing projects. ae.,
sEThe repost Of the planning eornA
mission expressed the belief that the
present artificially high demand for
apartments will disappear when
war ends.
When the emergency ends, the re-
port declared, apartment houses in
Fairfax County will be first to suffer,
since they will not be able to COM
pete with similar structures in Alex
andria and Arlington, and the best
plan to anticipate the problem is low
density in conjunction with a master
plan.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Police Investigate Fire
That Burned Used Tires

Montgomery County police are in
vestigating fire in Silver Spring in
which about 600 used tires were de-
stroyed yesterday.
Reuben Solar, owner of the junk
yard in the rear of the Silver Spring
Garage and Wrecking Co, 82l6
Georgia avenue, said he had asked
for police investigation,
Volumes of black smoke from the
burning rubber attracted throngs
of onlookers, The fire started at
pm, and cars were backed up for
several blocks along Georgia ave-
nue.. Firemen kept the flames away
from nearby buildings. The loss
was estimated at $500.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Prince Georges to Open
School Equipment Bids

Bids on $4,000 of equipment for
seven new school buildings in Prince
Georges County will be opened at
2 pm. tomorrow in the Board of
Education Offices at Upper Marl-
boro, John Michaelis, acting assist
ant superintendent of schools, an
nounced today.
The equipment includes folding
chairs, desks, school room furniture,
filing cabinets, window shades and
pianos.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Arlington Scout Troop
To Give Annual Show

Arlington Boy Scouts of Troop liz,
Robert E. Lee School, will give their
second annual variety show at the
school auditorium at S:l5 pm. to-
morrow.
A string band, harmonica duet, a
play by one of the patrols, dane
ing girl act, a blackface skit con-
tortionist act and a campfire scene
are on the program.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Increase in Diseases
Reported in Virginia
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, April l6.-The
State Health Department, IN its an
nual report on communicable dis
eases, pointed out yesterday that ty-
phoid fever. diphtheria, whooping
cough. tularemia. malaria and scar
let fever showed a decline in the To-
year period. l932-l94l.
The measles rate per 100000 pop
ulation was many times higher in
le4l than in 1892 Also above the
1882 levels were influenza, tuber-
culosis and poliomyelitis. Although
the polio rate more than doubled
there were only 50 cases IN 1882 and
i55 In le4i. -
Evening star., 1942-04-16
w. P. B. Doesn't Want
Old Maryland Spon
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, April 16.-Gov.
O'Conor announced yesterday the
War Production Board had with
drawn its request that the old
double decker bridge across the
Susquehanna River at Havre de
Grace be junked for scrap metal.
The Governor resisted efforts to
have the structure dismantled, con-
tending it might be of value in the
transportation of troops in an emer-
gency.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
N. 7. A. Student Chosen

MANASSAS, Va, April l6 (Spe-
ciaD. Erwin r. Simmons, student
Welder at the Manassas State Voca-
uonal School, has been selected by
Virginia National Youth Admins
tration headquarters as one of the
10 N. Y, A. students whose work
was adjudged most valuable to war
production. the Associated Press re-
ported from Richmond. One of the
10 will be chosen for the State title
to compete against other N. Y. A.
winners for the title of most val
liable youth to war production In
the United Stoes."
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Maryland Minute Men
Recruiting Booms

BY the Associated Press.
Maryland Minute Men officials
said today an increasing rush Of
volunteers had brought the Minute
Mems strength to $3.50.
Minute Men officers reported to
Gov. O'Conor, organizer of the home
guard force, that enlistments had
increased particularly in the last
10 days. One official estimated the
Minute Men would be 10000 strong
within a few weeks.
The force has not yet been organ
lied into units which will consist Of
so men. commanded by captain
and two lieutenants. Gov. O'Conor
is expected to announce the forma-
ton of the individual units within
a few days.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
.FairfaxCitizens
Urge $4,000
Defense Fund
Sum Less Than Thot
Asked by Several
Is Approved
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

special DiSpatch 70 The star,
FAIRFAX, Va, April l6.-a rec
ommendation that about $4,000 be
appropriated for the county emer-
gency defense program has been
given the County Board of Super
visitors by the Fairfax County Citi-
zenS' Advisory Committee on Civil
ian Defense.
At meeting of the advisory COM
mittee last night in which subcom-
mittees presented the needs of the
defense program for the county, the
group approved a sum somewhat
less than that originally asked by
the several defense heads.
The Board of Supervisors, meet
ing yesterday. did not take any
action on the budget or defense APP
preparations.
The Citizens Advisory COMMITTEES
was named by the supervisors TO
study defense needs and make an
appropriation recommendation, be-
cause board members felt II would
be impossible for them TO study
all phases of the matter in the short
time before the next county budget
must be adopted.
Final Action Wednesday.
1t Is expected the recommends
tions will be submitted to the super
visorS in time for their meeting
Wednesday when final action on the
budget will be taken.
Walter Karig of Seminary de-
clared that he had been informed
by an Army offlcial that the area
between Norfolk and Washington
is the most likely to suffer bomb
ing attack and all precautions
should be taken to protect the
county.
Lawrence M. Proctor of Falls
Church. In charge of air raid service
in the county. expressed similar
view, stating Fairfax County Is
located in "the No. l target area"
Many strategic military obJectives
are in the area, he said,
A previous estimate of $15.500 for
communications. made by Ray Hun.
was indorsed by the subcommittee
headed by John w. Brookfleld Of
Springfield and was adopted by the
committee. Among other things,
it is proposed to provide two
way radio equipment for police cars.
Earl D. Sanders of Mclean re-
ported his committee urged pur-
chase of nine additional fire units
for the county at 5000 each but
a total Of about $4,000 COM
mended by the committee.
sFirst-Aid Item Inderscd.
MISS Edith Rogers sl4p headed
the subcommittee dH Emergency
Medicine, reported her group In
dorsed the proposal Of DR.. q. n.
Carpenter, county medical director.
for sl3,720 for first-aid and casualty
stations and other similar emer-
gency needs.
Another recommendation approved
included $4,000 for air~raid warden
service, a reduction of 5000 under
the amount suggested by the sub
committee headed by Walter I. Fox
of Vale. For auxiliary police service
81 500 was approved, as previously
listed by Capt. Carl r. Mcintosh
chief of the county police depart-
ment.
Mrs. Mildred L. Finks, member
of the County School Board, chair
man of a committee to study pos
sible overlapping of various agen-
cies in defense work, reported her
group had found no evidence OF
duplication.
While a pooling of defense effort
among nearby areas in any serious
emergency has been arranged. Paul
Mills announced that, following con-
ferences with other localities, the
feeling was each should have its own
defense setup.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Scot Pleasant Droft Unit
To Help Registronts

The Advisory Board to Prince
Georges County Selective Service
Board No. will meet at the Seat
Pleasant Md Firehouse from 7
pm. to pm. Monday through
Friday, it was announced today.
The members will help men who
registered in the February is regis
tration I'LL out their questionnaires.
The Advisory Board members are
Fabian Augustine. chairman; l.. z.
Seipp, H. G. Hacksaw. Herbert Davis.
Norman Howe and Irwin Flick. n
Evening star., 1942-04-16
PIT. A. Hears Educator

DR.. Floyd Cromwell, supervisor of
child guidance for Maryland, spoke
on work experience programs for
high school students at a meeting
of the Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School Parent-Teacher Association
last night. Two sound motion pic
lures on civilian defense were ex-
hibited,
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Minute Men to Meet

The Maryland Minute Men of the
18th district will meet at 8 80 o'clock
tonight at the Seat Pleasant School
for their organization meeting. The
group is mastering men to organize
a complete military unit. of which
Preston Tate is captain and Mayor
George Fowler of Seat Pleasant is
lieutenant.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Kennedy Enters Race
In Fourth District
BY the Associated Press.

By me ASSOCIdItU FItes.
ANNAPOLIS, April l6.-Former
Representative Kennedy yesterday
filed his certificate of candidacy
for the Democratic congressional
nomination in the 4th district.
Mr.. Kennedy, defeated two years
ago in a Democratic primary by
Representative Meyer, is the third
candidate to file. Joseph M Wyatt.
attorney and former Traffic Court
magistrate in Baltimore, and w
Frank Just. Baltimore businessman,
previously filed
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Trout Placed in Creeks

ROCKVILLE. Md, April l6.-Un-
der direction of w. Carroll Waters,
chief deputy game warden for Mont
gomery County, members of the
Rockville IZaak Walton League
Chapter have stocked approximately
500 brook, brown and rainbow trout
in Mill Greek and the north fork
of Rock Greek.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
Arlington Wins Prize

ROANOKE, Va. April l6-The
Lyon Village Woman's Club Of Ar
lington was awarded second prize
IN the scrapbook contest at the con-
vention Of the Virginia Federation
of womens Clubs here yesterday.
First place went to the Roanoke
J Woman's Club.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
SPINNING Wheel Revived

Women of Osborne. New Zealand.
are reviving the old spinning wheel
to spin wool donated by sheep
growers into clothing for soldiers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-15
JUDGE LORD MARRIES
TWO COUPLES MONDAY

County Judge Raymond r
Lord performed two marriages
yesterday afternoon, and in
each case the groom is a soldier
in the army stationed in Key
West, and in each his hometown
sweetheart came here to marry
him.
The home of Ralph R. Coker,
%, is Pensacola. and it is the
home also of Miss Bernice Ruth
erford, 81, who came here to be-
come his wife.
Joe B. Butler, %, and Frankye
Juanita McCawthown, %, are
residents of Jacksonville and
she made the trip here from
that city to be married yester-
day afternoon.
Marriage licenses were issued
yesterday by Judge Lord to Ell
dred c. Howard, %, of Tampa,
and Mildred Kennedy, 81, OF
Lakeland; Joseph Frank Powell,
%, ad Henrietta Carey, II, both
of Key West; Roger M. Wernicke,
Is, Gulfport, Fla, and Julia S.
Conderman, "a, New Bern, N. c.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-15
FISHING PERMITTED
IN INLAND WATERS
OF STATE ANY TIME

Fishing in inland rivers and
lakes of the seventh naval dis
trict, which includes all of Flor
ida except Duval and Nassau
counties and an eight-county area
situated west of the Apalachicola
river, will be permitted at all
times of day. and night, according
to an amendment to original navy
restrictions dated October IA.
Captain H. H. ]. Benson, chief
of staff, has informed Captain j.
M. Whitbeck, district coast guard
officer, inland fishing in waters
which are not contiguous to the
waters of the coastline of that
part of the State of Florida which
is located in the seventh naval dis
trict" now has full navy ap-
prevail.
Coast guard captains of the
ports have been instructed to tenn
per their enforcement according
to this latest of four amendments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-15

MIR. KETTANEH OPENS: II should
be remembered that the roads to
war and hell are paved with good
intentions. Americans today are fred
with the best Of intentions but my
first hand knowledge of the hopes and
aspirations of most nations prompts
me !, sound q warning note.
Total victory win bring unlimited
opportunities coupled with unescapa-
BILE responsibilities to help police the
world and wean the oncoming totah-
tarion generations from the doctrine
of subservience TO the state. The
American way of life cannot be i'm
posed by decree; 1t must grow natu-
rally through the free exchange OF
ideas, ideals, goods and services
World solidarity requires nations &c
surrender some sovereign rights to
make international justice enforce
able and create democratic interna-
tional control Of finance, banking
communication, transportation, tariffs
However, trade and commerce mus
remain In private hands operating
within the framework of the above
controls. Americans should beware
of making a WPA project of the in
ternational economy lest their inten-
tons be again misconstrued.
We are fighting to destroy totaH-
tartan controls of trade and produc-
ton. Government control is not only
wasteful, ridden. and cumber-
some. il is a constant source of in
ternational irritation and iil-will-
the forerunner of all wars
MIR. STRAIGHT CHALLENGES:
Evidently MIR. Kettaneh agrees with
much of my argument. But / ques-
ton his statement about the hopes
and aspirations of nations. China and
Russia have already indicated that
their foreign trade, and heavy indus
try. will remain q state monopoly.
Britain, like most other nations, is
determined to maintain her wartime
controls. Like it or not, government
is going to operate industry and trade
over a great part Of the world. In
this world Of government operation
old controls, designed to regulate pri-
vate operation, will lose their mean
ing. We need new controls over gov
eminent, world controls.
MIR. KETTANEH REPLIES: MIR
Straight infers that State controls,
considered reprehensible when prac-
ticed by Fascist bureaucrats. be-
comes virtuous when operated by
bureaucrats in democracies, but the
universal dissatisfaction with present
arbitrary trade controls. demon
strates that Government control i!
clumsy, wasteful, irritating and JUS
fed only by total war.
MIR. Straight's panacea is an age'
| old fallacy. II would be tragic il
Americans unwittingly enabled Goeb
bells to accuse the Observation-Disclosures
Anglo-Saxon plutocracies" of impe'
REALISTIC designs on world trade. Ev
cry thoughtful reader will inevitably
conclude that an economy operated
by buck-passing. responsibility-dodg
ling bureaucrats cannot be eficien
nor conductive to international gooe
will
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-15

MIR. STRAIGHT OPENS: There
have always been controls over in
ternational trade. In the 30s, there
were tariffs, exchange controls. bar
ter arrangements and the secret
agreements of international cartels
that moved 20Go of the worlds trade.
If international trade promotes peace,
then this system fails. World trade
in 1887 was 20% below 1929 The
world of the 30's led to unernploy-
ment, Fascisn and war.
Today world trade is governed by
direct controls. Government moves
the trade of Britain. China. Russia
and America. Between these coun-
tries trade is directed by the joint
boards of the United Nations.
These controls have arisen in an
swer to the pressing problems OF
war. But the problems Of war do
not end with the Armistice: The de-
struction and the shortages caused
by war, the urgent need for relief
supplies will continue for at least
four years Since the problems Of
the relief period are similar to those
of the war, it is altogether logical
that the wartime machinery should
be maintained to meet them.
Beyond the relief period believe
that the old restrictive controls can
be abolished and the world trade
moved in part by private enterprise
restored only if the wartime ma
chinery regulates world trade in pri-
mary produce and finances world
reconstruction.
MIR. KETTANEH CHALLENGES:
Fallacy number one: The evils OF the
3O's were the evils Of government
control which took the place OF the
free trade policy of the British EN-
pire of the 18th century, period
of phenomenal peace and prosperity.
Fallacy number two: The controls
which Mr.. Straight now suggests are
the very controls which the democ-
racies condemned when Germany
employed them.
Fallacy number three: These are
the controls which anger nations and
provoke wars as evidenced by the
fact that the democracies ignored
the massacre Of Chinese and Abys-
sinians, but fought when the, free
flow Of international trade became
obstructed by totalitarian controls.
MIR. STRAIGHT REPLIES: Mr.
Kettaneh confuses democratic and
Fascist government and asserts that
all state controls are evil We might
as well say that because the Nazis
walk and breathe, it is evil to walk
and breathe.
Russia, China, Britain and America
should join now in relief and re.
construction council. They should
create a United Nations Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation to finance
world reconstruction. World produc.
ton should continue to be controlled
by the present joint board machinery
of the United Nations. To minimize
ornaments, air transportation ano
shipping should be kept under WORLD
management. This machinery under
the United States could guarantees
permanent peace.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-15
RETURNS FROM TRIP

Gene Sands, Marathon bust
ness man, returned last week
from New York, where he had
been spending a vacation of
several weeks with relatives.
While there he attended several
World Series games.
Mrs. Sands will return to
Marathon on January TO- Her
friends in Key West will be
pleased to know that she is rap
idly recovering from a major
operation which she recently un-
derwent in New York hospital.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-15
SAN CARLOS SCHOOL
TO HAVE CHRISTMAS
PROGRAM ON FRIDAY

San Carlos School will hold its
annual Christmas Program next
Friday, December 10, at 10 am,
under the direction of Miss
Benildes Remond and Miss Elva
Esquinaldo.
The program will consist OF
plays, songs, Christmas saluta-
tations and poems. The num-
bers will be in both Spanish and
English.
Pupils in the leading roles in
cude: Gloria Watson, Otilia Val
DEE, Rene Rodriguez, Dalia AL
varez, Yolanda Villalonga, Mar
tin Leon and some others.
Children will receive Christ
mas presents given by the Insti-
tuition. Refreshments will be
served at the end of the program
and the faculty of the school
says that the public is cordially
invited to attend.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-15
FIVE BUCKS BRING
THESE HUNTERS ONE
(By Associated PresSI

PIERRE, S. D., Dec. 15.-Buy-
ing a SIS license was almost tanta-
mount to getting an antelope dur
ing the special four-day season
prescribed by the South Dakota
Game Commission. II
OF 487 licenses to report on their
hunt, 468 said they bagged game.
The commission issued the Ii
censes to Gull old bucks from
herds which an airplane census
showed numbered more than TO-
600 animals.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-15
BLIND AUTHOR SEES
THE WORLD; 1T SPINS
AROUND HIS FINGERS
BY JOHN SELBY
AP Arts Editor

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-The
hotel room is small, high up
with a good view of East Side
back yards and alley cat hang
outs. You sit at the window
facing the door. Next to the
door is closet, next to that the
bed. On your right is a writing
table, on your left a chest of
drawers.
1t is Karsten Ohnstad's room
and you are waiting for him. In
a moment the key is inserted in
the lock, the door opens, and
Ohnstad says, Hello.
He takes off his top coat and
hangs it quickly in the closet.
How are your" he asks, walking
easily down the room. He shakes
hands briskly, takes out pack
of cigarettes, and says, "Have
one?" You do, and he seats him
self i'm the chair by the window.
1t happens so naturally you
forget that it's most miracle.
For Ohnstad has been blind since
he was seventeen. and he has
been in the hotel only few
hours.
Author Of Bright Book
Ohnstad's book, "The World at
My Fingertips", made quite a
stir. It's bright book, gay in
spots, in which he tells just what
happened to him and why, and
how he has managed to over
come one handicap after another,
and even to find a few advant-
ages in his sightless state.
For example, a friend taught
him to tell from echoes the size
and shape of things along the
sidewalk hedge six inches
high makes a difference.
He can mark cards inconspic-
uously, and play good bridge,
and knows by the sounds he
hears when other skaters ap-
preach. He admits that he
avoids crowded ice rinks-but so
do sighted people.
Went Through College
He can locate curbs, partly by
hearing and partly by the con-
tour of the paving, and quite
often he has been asked direc-
tons by people who saw him
striding along and thought he
could see. He went through a
sighted" college, made a frater-
nifty, earned much of his own
keep and had a good time out
of it. y
Oddly, he accepts all these
things and a great many moro
as perfectly natural. He asks no
quarter from anyone.
'The difficulty with too many
sightless people," he says, "is
that they have given themselves
an inferiority complex. You can
sit on your rear end in a room
for lifetime, worrying about
crossing that wide street down
stairs.
eff you can once realize your
own capabilities, the rest isn't
difficult. You may have lost your
sight-but you are still a capable
person. Useful too, if you
want"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-15
RETURN TO CITY

Mrs. Alfred Baker and two
grandchildren, Charles and STAN
ley Peterson, have returned from
Jacksonville, where they visited
with Mrs. Bakers sister. Mrs.
Benjamin Grosvenor.
Enroute home, Mrs. Baker
visited her sister, Mrs. George
Manson in Miami, and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. John Henson, and son,
Willard Peterson of Coconut
Grove.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-15
CALM WOMAN

SEATTLE, Dec. IA. - When a
man enteed a women's clothing
store and declared, This is hold
up" Mrs. Arthur H. Bewell. an
employee, calmly said. Il don't
believe it," walked to the tele-
phone and called police. The Wis
itor left.