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Evening star., 1942-12-12

DAVID BURNES FARM LANDIn 1896 the United States
moners wrote tart Landowner Burnes asking
him not to include Pennsylvania when planted
his farm lands lying between the presidents
the Capitol They serious they sad making this
marshy strip into broad suitable parades
OF potentate and asset to the Capital City years
later Mr. Burne had stopped planting seed there but
Avenue still all winter long,
BY 1884, however, the Avenue had been paved
later the first street lamps in Washington
been set along both sides the between
and the Capitol In 1850 pipes laid gas
Evening star., 1942-12-12

lamps began appear the
thoroughfares as well as Pennsylvania
Helen Catch Durston has sketched of the Avenue
looking from the southwest
past the offices of the Justice Department
Bureau of Investigation the old street.
Now occupied by store the
Ha be rising above the trees
Mark Twain reading there in the 1860s.
street from the Federal Bureau of Investigation section the
Justice Department stood the Old Marsh or Mash"
Market used for by the farmers and fishermen Mary
land and Virginia to sell their wares.
Evening star., 1942-12-12

WASPS BEGIN POLICE TRAINING-Twenty-s candidates
started woweek training at State police headquarters
near Richmond Va this week for the Woens Auxiliary
Police Service Above p c. Bowery Miss
Thompson OF Richmond of the candidates. for uniform
while Examiner l. De 1ord r makes note Of the
ments. ts4sss@t< ~ "A. p. Photo
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Virginia Drivers
To Find Speeding
Too Expensive
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va. May 16.-Gov.
Darden promised today to make
hard the way of the highway
speeder.
The one way to stop speeding, he
said. was through Iron enforce
ment" of the 4o-mile-an-hour speed
law. All types of motor vehicle
drivers must comply with the law or
else they will find speeding too ex-
pensive to pay for"
The Governor said he would use
plainclothes patrolmen whenever
necessary to control speeding.
I'VE don't propose to make a
speed trap of Virginia" Gov. Dar-
den said, "but we propose to en-
force this 40-mile speed limit SO
vigorously that tourists and other
motor vehicle drivers will know
what to expect il they violate the
speed limit in Virginia"
The Governor said he planned to
discuss both speed law enforcement
and the law requiring the dimming
of car lights when meeting traffic at
night during the State wide safety
conferences here. He will recon-
mend, he said. that where q driver is
arraigned In court for the second
and third odense Of speeding that
the operators permit be suspended
Evening star., 1942-05-17
District Heights Hospital
Organizers Meet Today

Organizers of the District Heights
School field hospital, the first of two
Prince Georges County emergency
units to near completion. will meet
at the school at 2 o'clock this after
noon, it was announced by DR..
James /. Boyd. chairman OF the
medical personnel.
One of the principal matters to be
discussed, he said, is an expansion
of the hospitals blood bank, which
he described as already in a posi-
ton to supply blood if the necessity
arises"
DR.. Boyd stated. however, that
increased blood reserves and addi-
tional volunteer donors were being
sought.
At recent nurses meeting Mrs.
Hazel Dyson was elected chairman
and Miss Jennie Hartman, vice
chairman. New recruits are being
sought to staff the field hospital.
Former Judge Joseph c. Mat
tingly is chairman of the Hospital
Administrative Committee.
Evening star., 1942-05-17

partment of Education for a de-
ciSion.
do you mean that all our work
for the past two and half months
has been futile?" he asked. He
was told that it was.
Mr.. Michaelis then wrote the De-
partment of Education for new
forms to fill out. He was informed
the department had no such forms
yet, but was promised "as soon as
the blanks are received they will
be sent to you" That's the last
he has heard from them.
"Just between you and me-" Mr..
Michaelis confided, II think they're
trying to confuse the enemy as to
where these chassis are going. And
believe me, the enemy must be con-
fused"
Evening star., 1942-05-17
By THOMAS G. BUCHANAN.

Since February, the Prince Georges
County Board Of Education has been
trying to get three new school buses
to accommodate 568 extra children
attending the county's schools this
year, acting Assistant Superintend-
ent of Schools John U. Michaelis
said yesterday.
School officials have gone from
one Government agency to another,
used considerable writing paper,
made scores Of telephone calls and
driven back and forth to Baltimore
and Washington-all to no avail, he
said.
None of the agencies has told
them definitely they could not OBJ
tain the buses and none has told
them that they could, he added.
+ Meanwhile, he pointed out, child
rem are being jammed into buses,
jeopardizing health and safety and
damaging existing bus equipment
through overlooking. In the Fort
Washington area, a large heavy
duty Army transport is being used
to take children to the Oxon Hill
School, limiting the trucks military
service to this extent.
IL Suggestions Made.
Various agencies have submitted
about II different plans for obtain
ing the buses, he estimated. He
first went to the automotive division
of the War Production Board, which
told him the board would authorize
school officials to obtain the buses
if they could find the chassis.
After a search the chassis were
found, but Mr.. Michaelis was now
told they could not be released by
the w. P. B. until the proper form
had been filled out. After this was
sent in he received word it would
be necessary to make separate ap-
plications for each bus.
BY the time these forms were
sent in the w. p. B. announced q
new change in procedure, requiring
. different form to be dlled out. A
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Hearing Will Study
New War BuiIdinq
Transit Problems
Utilities Commission to
Consider Facilities,
Fares and Routes

Available transportation facilities.
routes and fares for travel within
the District to lines connecting with
the new War Department Building
in Arlington County will be con-
sidered at a public hearing before
the District Public Utilities Com
mission set for 10 am. May Is in
the boardroom of the District Build
ing.
In calling the hearing. the COM
mission said adequate transporta-
ton must be provided for workers
and others who must go to and
from the building and that determi-
nations should be made as to fares,
terms and conditions of service.
The District agency has no con-
troll over service beyond the District
boundaries except with regard to
connections at the District lines
The motive of this hearing has
been given to the Capital Transit
Co., the Alexandria, Bancroft and
Washington Transit Co., the Arling-
ton & Fairfax Motor Transporta-
ton Co., the Washington, Virginia
and Maryland Coach Co., the War
and Navy Departments and the
general public.
The commission also has called
a public hearing for 10 am. Mv
% on the issue of whether taxi
connections at Union Station, the
Washington and Norfolk steamboat
wharf. the airport and certain ho-
tells and other places are in the
public interest" Among those
listed as parties to this case are
the Independent Taxi Owners AS
ISOLATION, operators of Diamond
cabs, who are opposing the commits
sion's emergency rush-hour 20-cent
taxi pickup service: the Washing
ton Terminal Co., Washington Prop
critics, Inc; Shoreham Hotel Corp.
Norfolk & Washington Steamboat
Co., Greyhound Terminal. Inc;
Catholic University. Westchester
Apartments, Inc: the Broadmoor
Apartments owners. the Civil Aero
nautics Authority, the Klingle Corp.
the Ell Kay Building Investment
Corp. and those having interests
in the concessions operated by
Airport Transport. Inc, and the
Bell Cab Association.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
By HENRY GEMMILL.

Mrs. David Meade Lea confesses
she loves her electric auto-the last
OF its species operating in the Capt.
tai, she believeS-and her emotion
is deeper than satisfaction from
motoring free as the wind without
gas ration card.
Thirty years ago yesterday Mrs.
Lea bought her first electric car
riage. Her present Detroit Electric
is the fourth in its line and she
has owned it during the greater
part Of time elapsed since its manu-
facture in 1919.
Gasoline automobiles have not
satisfied her since their inception.
The first such vehicles were too
broad for narrow roads. The mod
ern gas auto. manufactured in
quantity through the early 1940s
but now also bound toward extinc-
ton, was so poorly designed that
its passengers were cramped in a
low-slung body and its tenders pre-
vented the driver from seeing his
road, she declares.
Il have perfect vision Of the
street" says Mrs. Lea, "and every
body gets very good vision of me" ;"
Curiosity to Crowds.
The vision of Mrs. Lea and her
electric auto causes heads to turn
as she fits silently by at an average
speed Of 20 miles per hour. When
she stops, small crowds gather.
Mrs. Lea will answer any question
that is not rude.
How much will you take for
'er?" youth yelled at her last
year.
Ten million dollars" she called
back. He guffawed and jeered
Today Mrs. Lea has the last laugh.
What other motorist cannot be
frightened by all this city's gas ra-
tioners? She waters the batteries
and of she spins.
Tires, of course, she must have
Recognizing that Mrs. Lea is presi.
dent Of the board of the Episcopa
Home for Children, and a member o.
three Episcopal Hospital boards, tht
rationers have given her certificate
emitting her to four new tires.
As the rationers might have sus.
pected. she has, SO far, been unable
to find any tires to buy. Her car!
kind are no longer created.
Motor Easier on Tires.
Her present set will last for years
though, if she shifts the right from
to the right rear. she believes. Al
electric car is easy on rubber. 1t il
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Summer Roundup Slated
At Silver Spring School

Sponsored by its Parent-Teacher
Association, the East Silver Spring
School will hold its summer roundup
Tuesday at the school.
Parents are urged to bring chill
dren who plan to enter kinder
garten next fall. Registration will
be conducted in the morning and
afternoon, and a physician will give
physical examinations, vaccinations
and diphtheria inoculations in the
morning.
The registration and examina-
tions will be for children who will
be years old by next December.
Mrs. A. r. Thompson heads the
committee in charge.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Mrs. Lea, in Electric Auto,
Laughs at Gas Rotioninq
Sedote BotteY-Powered Car, Capital
Curiosity, Moves Into Practical Class

: powered not by explosions but by
gentle, eager, internal willpower.
One who rides in an electric car
| for the first time has the sensation
of boating on a calm lake. Steering
is accomplished not by wheel but
with a tiller. Speed is regulated by
another bar at the hand. There are
three speeds for starting, one for
cruising, and a fifth for gliding up
hill. Reverse motion is effected
through foot pedal. The car bears
no speedometer, but velocity is at
no time likely to become excessive.
The electric auto is unique in that
two passengers may sit in front of
the driver, facing and chatting with
her. Mrs. Lea. who frequently
braves traffic Of nearby Dupont
Circle, says tLis is no handicap. She
has had six persons aboard at a
time.
Used to Have Horses.
Mrs. Lea, a charming, friendly lady
of 72, was active in society until the
| death of her husband, a decade ago.
AS young couple. she and Mr.. Lea
were transported about Washington
| in an English drag trap, drawn by
matched bays, Bob and Dexter,
whose black names tossed behind
white starred foreheads.
Behind Mrs. Lea's red brick house,
2t12 Massachusetts, avenue NV, is
barn which is tightly locked, partly
because six Kentucky hams hang
from the roof This is the home of
the Detroit Electric.
Here its mistress recharges its
batteries, about once week. The
juice is taken from the public power
system, piped into the rear of her
car But it must be Transformed
in a spectacular manner-by an arc
light rectifier.
AZ Cells to Water.
Mrs. Lea steps up to a switchboard
beside her car; she throws levers and
closes switches-and is suddenly en-
veloped in a weird blue glare. Arti-
flcial lightning leaps and crackles;
the scene inspires awe.
Next Mrs. Lea waters the auto bat
teries. This Is a calm but not q
hasty task, since AZ cells, fore and
aft, must be tended. The AZ shoppers
are unscrewed by Robert, a colorec
helper now in his 40S, who ha!
performed this job since his teens
Mrs. Lea, personally, doles water
with a small cup through a funnel
into the cells. Any surplus is with
drawn with the hydrometer. Robert
screws the shoppers on again.
Then off she goes.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
West Pointers See
New Weapons on
Aberdeen Visit
Mobility Is Emphasized
As Cadets Are Shown
Guns and Tanks
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ABERDEEN, Md, May 16.-West
Points first claSSmen got a first
hand look today at the weapons
they've studied on paper for four
years.
The 364 cadets-to be commits
stoned this month-came for the
annual tour of the Aberdeen Prov
ing Ground-heart of Army ord
nance. In peacetime, the tour took
three days. This first West Point
class of World War II covered the
ground in one. Their day began
at 5:45 am. and didn't end until
after pm.
Brig. Gen. ROLAND w. Case, COM
manding general at Aberdeen, told
the cadets they were to see the
latest things in the Army arsenal
some weapons fresh from expert
mental courses and some contain
ing unpleasant surprises for the
enemy.
He promised the future officers
Army ordnance would do its ut
most to see that weapons were ready
for them when they were ready for
the weapons, or sooner.
Emphasis on Mobility. J
The lecturers. putting emphasis
on mobility, showed the cadets:
A 37-mm. gun splitting shells from
a 55-mile an hour jeep
A hard-hitting 155-mm. rifle fired
from mobile carriage emplaced in
one minute fiat.
A 9O-mm. anti-aircraft gun pour
ing shells into the skies.
The Army's biggest field piece, q
24o-mm. gun. throwing huge pro-
jectiles for miles.
And having been shown hitting
power. the cadets slogged to the
test course to learn how the Arrny
gets its guns where they're needed
They saw a 30-ton tank slosh
through test-course mud at 25 miles
per hour and drop into water
trap. 1t was under water for a
second but it came snorting through
Another tank skittered into the all
from a ramp. jouncing roughly but
safely on the other side.
Cadets Visit Laboratories.
An amphibian monster which took
to water like duck ploughed along
behind a multi-wheeled truck big
enough to cary Bottom tank along
the slippery road-and doing it.
From the field the cadets went
to laboratories where the weapons
are devised and tested. They clam
bered aboard a test model of the
M-3 tank and fingered the business
end OF twin machine gun.
They saw a mechanical brain
which computes firing tables-vital
to artillery-in four hours, a jot
which once took four men a week
to figure. They saw night aircraft
and defense weapons.
AS one future officer said as he
poked his head through the open
turret of a tank:
boy, this isn't a text book, this
is the business"
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Pre-SchooI Children
To Get Physical Tests

The Public Health Department Of
Prince Georges County, Md, is hold
ing the physical examination and
immunizations against diphtheria
and smallpox required of children
who will enter school for the first
time next fall.
The schedule for the rest of the
month follows: May 18, Bladens-
burg Primary School, May 10, Bowie
Elementary School; May 20, morn
ing, Surrattsville Elementary School,
Clinton group; afternoon, Camp
Springs group; May 2l, Fairmont
Heights (eolored); May %, Brandy
wine Elementary School; May Is,
Bradbury Heights Elementary
School: May 27,> Upper Marlboro;
May 20, Beltsville.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Town Officials Named
At Mount Ruinier

Mayor FLOYD B. Matthias of Mount
Rainier yesterday announced the
appointment of the following town
officials:
Burt E. Sager, counsel; Harry L.
Baker, clerk-treasurer; John H.
Suter, fire marshal; Eugene Plumer,
police chief; Mrs. Nancy Bartilini,
health officer, and Roy T. Fowkes,
engineer.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Prince Georges Group
To Hold Conference
On transportation
Delegation Will Meet
With Stote Boord in
Baltimore Thursday

A Prince Georges County (Md)
delegation will complete plans early
this week to appear before the Mary
land Public Service Commission at
10 an. Thursday in Baltimore when
proposed new bus and streetcar
routes in the Hyattsville, Riverdale
and Berwyn areas will be discussed.
The Capital Transit Co. proposes
to break down two existing bus
routes leading from downtown
Washington into outlying areas so
that its terminal station at Thirty
fourth street and Rhode Island ave-
nue. in Mount Rainier will become
a transfer point for a majority Of
users. An existing streetcar line
also would be broken at the ter
minal, under the plan. Some buses
would continue directly into Wash
ington.
The changes were to have become
effective April 10, but after pro-
tests from civic groups, the Prince
Georges County Civil Federation
and assistance given by Representa-
tive Sasscer, Democrat, Of Maryland,
the commission ordered the changes
held in allegiance until after Thurs
days hearing.
The civic federation will be rep
resented at the hearing by its presi-
dent, Walter F. Mulligan. and Louis
Day. chairman of a special Trans
portation Committee.
They will be accompanied by an
other special committee, headed by
Louis Grenados. which was named
at a mass meeting. Other members
of the delegation include c. D. An
derson of the Hyattsville Chamber
of Commerce; Fred w. Cast of
Cheverly Citizen MS Association; :;
Charles E. Bently and Mrs. N. G.
Tayman, both of Cheverly; Charles
Sayre of Berwyn; Daniel Greene
of Avondale; Edward Miller of
Clearwood, and g. w. Moon Of the
Queens Chapel Citizens Association.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
100 Maryland Prisoners
Will Help Harvest Crops
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. May 10
Between 100 and $50 inmates of the
Maryland Penal Farm at Roxbury
will be available this summer for
the harvesting of crops for Wash
ington County farmers within six
mile radius of the penal institution.
D. Pasl Shilling, farm placement
representative of the local United
States Employment Service, has an
nounced that the inmates engaged
in the farm labor would receive no
pay. However. he explained the
penal farm would receive at the
end of each day farm commodities
valued at market prices equivalent
of each mans labor at the rate of
20 cents an hour.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Workmen' S Compensation
Extended 10 $4,000
BY the Associated Press.

oy LII hSSOCluLeu ETGSos
RICHMOND, Va, May 16.-
Amendments by the last General
Assembly to the Workmen's Com
pensation Act will bring within its
provisions an estimated 5000 addi-
tional employers, with about $4,000
to $4,000 employees, Chairman w. H.
Nichels. jr.. of the State Industrial
Commission said today.
The amended act. becoming effec-
tive June 26. extends coverage to
employers of eight or more compared
with the present II or more.
The law now covers nearly $4,000
employers, with approximately 50O.-
900 workers. During l941 there we're
nearly 10000 injuries by accident
among this group reported to the
Industrial Commission.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Prince Georges Chamber
Will Hear Tydinqs

Senator Tydings, Democrat, OF
Maryland, will be the principal
speaker at a meeting of the Prince
Georges Chamber of Commerce at
pm. May Is, in the Agriculture
Building auditorium at the Univer-
sity of Maryland. His topic will be-
Economy in Government"
r. M. Watkins, chamber vice
president, Is in charge of the pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Mixups in u. S. offices Keep
Schools F rom Getting Buses
Prince Georges Boards Months Of Effort
Stymied by Agenies' Confusion

search of six different Offices by
Mr.. Michaelis failed to locate any
one who knew where the new form
could be obtained.
Returning to the w. p. B., Mr.
Michaelis was informed there had
been another change in procedure.
He was now to apply to the Office
of Defense Transportation in Wash
ington.
the Washington o. D. T.. how
ever, referred him to the Interstate
Commerce Commission office in
Baltimore, where he was to contact
the ALLEGATION officer.
This official, while recognizing the
need for school buses in Prince
Georges County, as other agencies
previously had done, said the w
P. B. had prohibited the release OF
any bus chassis to schools and ad-
vised him to take the matter to q
new appeal board which, he said,
was to be set up shortly in Balti-
more to review urgent transporta-
ton cases.
Appeal Is Prepared.
Mr.. Michaelis and his colleagues
prepared their case to be submitted
to this board, but on their return
to Baltimore found that the appeal
board had not yet been set up. They
were advised to take their case to
the Washington appeal board for
a hearing.
Reaching Washington, they found
the board could neither see them
personally or speak to them by
phone. They left their data with
the board, however, and in letter
dated April % were notified their
application had been forwarded
to the ONCE Of Defense Transpor-
tation in Washington for immediate
action"
After delay, Mr.. Michaelis called
back to fird when the buses could
be delivered. He was told o new
procedure had been established, and
that 1t would now be necessary tc
send the appeal to tho State De.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Phi DeItu Kappa Chapter
To Be Set Up at U. Of IA.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 16. - John
Studebaker, United States Commis-
sioner of Education, will be prin-
cipal speaker here next Friday night
at ceremonies marking the install
lation of a new chapter of Phi Delta
Kappa at the University of Mary
land, College Park.
Guests will include DR.. H. C..
Byrd, university president; the
State and Baltimore superintendents
of schools and officials OF the ma
tional fraternity.
Forty persons, engaged in educa-
tional work at College Park, will be
indicted into the fraternity by the
Johns Hopkins Chapter. The cere-
monies will be held at the Emerson
Hotel
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Silver Spring School Plans
Children Summer Day Camp

A summer day camp, providing a
recreational program for children
of school age, will be held at the
Parkside School. Silver Spring, Md.
from June Is to August Is, Mrs.
William H. Mcpherson, chairman
of the committee in charge, an
nounced yesterday.
Sufficient children have already
registered for the project, Mrs. Nc
Pherson said, but additional regis
trations are desired, and children
who will enter kindergarten next
year will be considered eligible.
The program will include games.
gardening, sports, nature study,
dramatics, arts and crafts. There
will be no lessons except by individ-
ual arrangement. and the program
will be conducted as informally as
possible.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Montgomery Teachers
Praised for Rution Work

srecial Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, May 16.-The
Montgomery County Board oSEdu-
cation adopted at its May meeting
a resolution expressing "its highest
appreciation" to the teachers, chill
dren and volunteer workers help
ing in the draft registration. and
sugar and gasoline rationing.
The resolution said in part:
"The high efficiency and faithful
performance of this patriotic obli-
cation without compensation on the
part of the teachers and others Is
felt to be an outstanding service
rendered by the schools"
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Postmusters Nominated

President Roosevelt has sent to
the Senate the following nomina-
tions for Maryland postmasters:
Charles s. Moxley, Brentwood. and
Helene r. ouyther, Mechanicsville