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Evening star., 1942-05-29
William J. Mi|ehom Is Named
Chief Afraid Warden for DC.
Asks Assurances
On Authority, Funds
And Personnel

William j. Mileham, now deputy
warden for the midcity area, today
was named by Metropolitan De-
fenSe Co-ordinator Young as sue
cessor to Battalion Chief Clement
Murphy as chief AFRAID warden.
The selection was announced after
brief conference today at the Dis
trict Building between Mr. Mileham
and Commissioner Young. Mr..
Mileham asked for certain "assur-
ances' as to his authorities and re-
sponsibilities, personnel, equipment
and funds for development of the
warden service. 1t is expected these
will be given when the two meet
again Monday.
Mr.. Mileham, 81. stands feet Az
inches and tips the scales at 225
pounds. He is the manager of the
Shade Shop and lives on Foxcroft
road. Bell Haven, Fairfax County.
He is president of the Federation of
Businessmenis Associations, is ma
tional president of the Reciprocity
Clubs and is past president of the
Washington Reciprocity Club.
Mr.. Mileham is a graduate of the
Stevens Institute of Technology,
where he took a degree in mechani-
cal engineering, and also was a stu
dent at the Harvard Graduate Busi-
ness School.
Among assurances sought by Mr..
Mileham from Commissioner Young
was one that as chief AFRAID
warden he would have the right to
select subordinates in the warden
service for appointment by Co
ordinator Young. He spoke also of
the need for getting equipment
needed by the warden posts, of a
sufficient staff and equipment for
afraid warden headquarters and
suggested it might be desirable to
engage number of paid organizers
to enable quick organization of the
warden services in sectors where the
machinery has not yet been COM
pleted.
Mr.. Mileham headed a delegation
Of deputy wardens who recently
petitioned Commissioner Young to
persuade Battalion Chief Murphy
to continue as chief AFRAID warden.
Chief Murphy suggested Mr.. Mile
ham as his successor. in response
to a request from Commissioner
Young for a nomination.
Evening star., 1942-05-29
Citizens Want
Honor Roll Tablet
In Post Offices

A patriotic problem has been
dumped in the lap of Postmaster
Vincent C. Burke involving a prece-
dent that will apply to all branch
post Offices in the District.
The Citizens Association of Chevy
Chase, D. c., wants to erect two
wooden tablets in the Chevy Chase
branch post Office in honor of all
Chevy Chase area residents serving
in the armed forces. One tablet
would be headed In Memoriam,
the other Honor Roll" The cost
would be borne by the association,
which believes the tablets would
inspire our citizens with the high
ideals of national defense"
If the war is long drawn out
considerable wall space would be
required to list all persons killed as
we'll as all men in the service from
various areas of the District, Post
master Burke was advised. If per-
mission is given to the Chevy Chase
group a precedent will be estab-
lished as a guide for similar re-
quests, it is said.
The postmaster said he is study
ing the matter and will reach no
decision until he has conferred with
Post Office Department officials.
Friends say Postmaster Burke is
ION the spot" inasmuch as the
District post Office walls are already
adorned by plaque honoring en-
ployes who served in the First World
War.
Evening star., 1942-05-29
Montgomery Expects
To Retain Tax Rate
At $3.50 for 1943
Additional Income Will
Cover S2S5, 900 Boost
In Budget, Officials Soy

Despite plans for additional ap-
preparations of more than S285 900
the tax levy of $3.50 per 500 of
assessed valuation in Montgomery
County will remain the same in
1943, it was predicted by officials
today.
Increased income will be avail
worth of new construction in the
county during the last year.
The Board Of County Commits
sioners also is considering trans
ferring funds derived from sale Of
beer by the county liquor dispen-
sary, and the county share of State
income tax money, both Of which
are usually used for highway pur-
poses, to the general fund. High
way construction this year is fore
stalled by priorities on tar and other
road materials
The County Board of Education is
seeking approximately 100000 ad-
ditional this year for support and
expansion of the county school sys-
tenn. This sum also provides, for
salary increases amounting to s66, 900
for school teachers.
Approximately s16O,Ooo is re-
quested for civilian defense pur-
poses. 1t is planned to provide for
these expenses by a contingent fund
County bonds amounting to $780,
900 will come due in 1912 and must
be provided for in the budget, hear
ings on which will begin Monday.
County officials said the commits
sioners would continue the ''pay-as-
you-go" system of county financing,
which has been in operation since
1899. A surplus of about $4,000 is
anticipated this year.
A separate levy for civilian de-
fense purposes in addition to the
present tax levy was suggested some
time ago, it was said. Additional
income sources probably will make
the separate levy unnecessary, &C
cording to present estimates.
Evening star., 1942-05-29
| Virginia Plans
|AN-Night Test
| BIockout June II
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, May 29.-State
civilian defense officials announced
yesterday the selection of the night
of June II for Virginia's first all
night test blackout.
All of Virginia, except possibly the
counties west of Bristol, will be in
cluded in the test.
j. H. Wyse, State defense CO.
ordinator, and John j. Howard, chief
of AFRAID precautions, made the
announcement after final plans had
been worked out in accordance with
a suggestion from the 1st Inter-
ceptor Command.
Some time during the night, at an
hour not to be announced in ad-
vance, there will be an air-raid test,
during which a complete blackout
will be enforced except for certain
essential industries, including the
railroads. During the rest of the
night traffic will be permitted to
move with dimmed lights.
Evening star., 1942-05-29
Spiritual Leadership
For u. 5. Envisaged
By Howard President
DR.. Johnson and Three
Others Participate in
Town Meeting Of Air

Here at the crossroads of history,
when every decision may be an act
of destiny. this beloved Nation to
which we belong could possibly be-
come the spiritual leader of the
entire human race" DR.. Mordecai
w. johnson. president of Howard
University, declared last night in
the first Washington broadcast of
Americas Town Meeting OF the
Air.
Speaking over radio station
WMAL of the Blue Network from
Andrew Rankin Chapel, DR.. john
son and Doxey A. Wilkerson, assist
ant professor in the department OF
education, took the Affirmative side
in a discussion of rs There a Basis
for Spiritual Unity in the World
Today?" Taking the negative were
Alain Locke, professor of philos-
ophy, and Leon A. Ransom. acting
dean of the law school, both OF
Howard University.
Basis for Spiritual Unity.
Tracing "the development on this
earth of a consenting community
of human beings with a world
embracing radius" DR.. johnson
argued that lin the course of his
tory this community has grown by
leaps and bounds He declared
that the existence of such a COM
munity was the basis for spiritual
unity.
Pointing to the spirit OF radical
reverence for the individual human
life" that is imbedded in our Hebrew
and Christian communities and the
political traditions of this country,
DR.. johnson said that the United
States was the most favorable place
for this orld-embracing movement
to capture the will of modern
state"
Prof. Locke, however, said that we
confront formidable obstacles in the
actual world-selflsh, sufficient
nationalismS, rampant racialism,
stubborn and narrow cultural allie
giances-a plague of tribalisms
which will be hard to uproot. ."
He declared that "a vast amount OF
spiritual and theological unreadiness
still stands "'' between us and the
realization of that unification which
the affirmative finds so desirable but
which we find so problematic."
Forging Peoples" Peace.
Mr.. Wilkerson replied that In the
process of what Lord Halifax (the
British Ambassador to the United
States) has aptly called a Peoples
War we are forging those very in
struments of cooperation with
which to build truly Peoples
Peace History Is moving in the
direction of the common man. 1t
is laying, today. very substantial
basis for unity among the peoples Of
the world"
On the other hand, DR.. Ransom
declared that "the strongest force in
the world today is nationalism." To
achieve spiritual unity today, he
said, it would be necessary for our
present society to reverse its present
trend of thought "and lay aside in
stincts acquired throughout the
ages"
He said the predominant instinct
Of modern society is the passion of
Evening star., 1942-05-29
Line of March
Units in Parade
Tomorrow Listed

The Memorial Day parade will
start at pm. from New Jersey
| avenue and B streets Sc. and
move north across the Capitol
Grounds, then west along Consti-
tuition avenue past the reviewing
stand, to Seventeenth street.
Brig. Gen. John T. Lewis, COM
manding general of the Military
District of Washington, will be
grand marshal of the parade, and
with his staff, will head the line of
march, preceded by platoon OF
Metropolitan motorcycle police.
Included in Gen. Lewis party will
be six automobiles of representatives
of the G. A. R. Memorial Day Corp.
of Patriotic Organizations. These
will include the only local survivors
of the Union Army of the Civil War
available and able to participate.
They are Col. John M. Kline. De-
partment Commander of the G. A.
R.. and William F. Dorsey, both of
this city.
Line of March.
The line of march VIII then pro-
ceed as follows:
Cavalry escort, Fort Myer.
Commanding general of troops
(Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox) and staff
Army Band.
Battalion of parachute infantry.
Infantry band.
Infantry battalion.
Field artillery battalion.
Combat team of infantry regiment
and field artillery battalion 105-
nm. HoWitzeD plus battery of field
artillery 055-mm. Howitzer).
Band from Engineer Replacement
Training Center.
One battalion of Negro troops,
Engineer Replacement Training
Center.
Company of Negro infantry.
Marine Band.
Marine Barracks (Quantico) bat
talon.
Navy Band.
One company of bluejackets.
-Four companies of Coast Guard.
Motorized exhibit-Nine vehicles,
Coast Artillery; six engineer vehicles
and equipment; six ordnance Vehl-
cles and equipment; six quarter
master vehicles and equipment.
Tank battalion Qight.
Air Force Band and Provisional
Squadron. air base, Boiling Field.
Officials to Review Parade.
The parade will be reviewed by
high Government officials and naval
and military officials of the United
Nations, from the reviewing stand
at Constitution avenue and Six
teenth street.
Seats have been provided for 1900
spectators. The Army Emergency
Relief will receive 40 per cent of the
proceeds from the sale of these seats
to be used for the relief of soldiers
families in distress. Grandstand
seats facing the reviewing stand will
be rs cents and $125, while bleacher
seats will be Is cents for children
and so cents for adults. Tickets are
available at the headquarters of the
American Automobile Association
and the Keystone Automobile Club.
Evening star., 1942-05-29
Daylight Raid
Drill Is Cut
To IS Minutes
Emergency Vehicles
Permitted to TruveI
At Normal Speed

The Washington Metropolitan
Areas first weekday daylight air
raid drill, to be staged next Tuesday
some time between 10 and II am,
will last Is minutes instead of 30
minutes as announced earlier, it
was learned today.
1t was also revealed that IN
Washington, at least, emergency
vehicles-the only ones to be per-
mltted to operate during the test
will be permitted to travel at normal
speeds as governed by traffic regula-
tions, instead of the 15-mile-per-
hour limit which prevails during
nighttime drills or blackouts.
These revised plans were an
nounced as officials of the District
Civilian Defense Ohice disclosed that
Washington business establishments
will be open to persons caught on the
streets during the drill for use as
refugees" until the an-clear is
SoNAAANNs
The Commissioners have asked
Congress to pass a new "blackout"
measure giving them authority to
compel the public to obey instruc-
tions. The Commissioners lack this
authority under existing legislation,
1T was emphasized.
Proclamation Issued.
For this reason, it was said, the
Commissioners issued a proclama-
ton calling on all persons in the
District to comply with all rules and
directions for the drill Tuesday is
sued under the authority of Defense
Co-ordinator Young, and with direc-
tions of all members Of the civilian
defense organization insofar as
such rules and directions are not
contrary to existing law
The proclamation has no penalty
provision, however.
The proclamation states lit is
recognized that devastating air
raids are not confined to the night
time. but are as likely to occur dur
ing the hours of the daylight as
during the hours of darkness" 1t
states further that preparation of
the community requires the training
Of the private citizen and of all
members of the various civilian de-
fense units and organizations under
daylight conditions
Since all but officials Of the pro-
tective services are expected to
leave the streets and sidewalks for
places of shelter, visitors will be
welcomed into stores and Offices and
directed to specified points within
such buildings, the o. c. D. said.
Guards to Be on Hand.
Customers within stores when the
sirens sound will be asked to enter
into the spirit of the war game and
not 60 outside until the all-clear is
heard. Guards will be on hand to
control movements of the crowds.
Commissioner Young voiced con-
fidence that the test will find busi-
ness and industrial establishments
generally we'll prepared" to protect
employees and customers alike.
Protective arrangements as rec
commended by the Federal o. c. D.
have been followed by stores and
plants, with minor variations to fit
peculisrities and special needs Of
Washington establishments, it Is ex-
planned by John j. Hasley, head of
the group of business leaders in
charge of civilian defense arrange
ments in such buildings.
Far from objecting to the daylight
practice, business and industrial
leaders welcome the opportunity to
test the working of their plans" Mr.
Hasley said.
Evening star., 1942-05-29
Punumuniun Awarded
Pediotrics Fellowship

DR.. Hugh S. Cumming, director
OF the Pan-American Sanitary Bu-
reau, announced yesterday the
American Academy of Pediatrics
has awarded a fellowship to DR..
Leopoldo Luis Benedetti of Panama,
who was graduated from George
town College in 1888 and from
Georgetown Medical School in 1886.
DR.. Benedetti will train under
his fellowship at the University Of
Cincinnati. He has been working
for the Panama Public Health
Service.
Evening star., 1942-05-29

We need many of these powerful,
fast little boats to cope with the
treacherous submarine type of naval
warfare fostered by our enemies.
Everybody can help pay for more
sub chasers by putting at least 10
per cent of his income into War
bonds. Buy bonds and stamps every
pay day. Buy them from your bank,
your post Office, or from your Office
or factory through the payroll saw
ings plan.
United states Treasury Qepartment
Evening star., 1942-05-29
Young Names BeochIey
Assistant Liuison Officer

DR.. Ralph G. Beachley, Arlington
County public health officer, has
been named assistant chief medical
and Ilaison officer for the Metro
politan Area by Civilian Defense Co.
ordinator John Russell Young.
The chief medical and liaison Of
icer. DR.. John A. Reed, recon-
mended the appointment. Dr. Beach
ley was selected to succeed the late
DR.. William B. King of Arlington.
Evening star., 1942-05-29
Lincoln Civic Association
Plans Dinner Tonight

The Lincoln Civic Association will
hold its annual dinner at 8:15 o'clock
tonight in the Francis Junior High
School, Twenty fourth and N streets
NV.
Speakers will be Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Herbert B. Pain
and Mrs. R. H. Galloway, superin-
tendent of the National Training
School for Girls. DR.. E. F. Harris,
association president and president
of the Federation of Civic Associa-
tions, will preside. Mrs. Alice Mar
shall is chairman of arrangements.
Evening star., 1942-05-29
Aviution Expert to Be Feted

DR.. Robert W. Handbook Of WASH
ington, executive secretary of the
National Model Aircraft Project
Committee, was to be guest of honor
at a dinner to be given tonight by
the Exchange Clubs of Toledo, Ohio.
Nationally known as an authority
on aviation education, DR.. Ham
brook is senior specialist. trade and
industrial education, Of the United
States Office of Education.
Evening star., 1942-05-29
LID. Decree

George McCorkle, who for many
years was director of the Federal
trade practice conference in the
Federal Trade Commission until his
retirement two years ago, has re-
ceived the honorary degree of doc
tor of laws from Catawba College
at Salisbury, N. c.
Evening star., 1942-05-29
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WAR BONDS

Aside from the 60-mile- hour
mosquito torpedo boats, the sub
chasers are the speedsters of our
Navy. Light and fast, they are the
eyes of the fleet on the water They
displace approximately $500 tons
and cost about s2,400,000 each.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
Riverdale Women
TOHear InwOOd

Louis R. Inwood, who has been
with the aircraft branch of the Of
flee of Emergency Management, will
be the guest speaker of the Wom-
ans Club of Riverdale at meeting
at 8 pm. Tuesday at the home of
the president, Mrs. w. j. Vaught.
6sos Pineway, College Heights, Md.
The program is in charge Of the
clubs department Of aeronautics,
with Mrs. Robert 1nwood as chair
man.
The hostess will be assisted by
Mrs. E. B. Dunford, Mrs. T. z.
Woodward, Mrs. K. r. Warner, Mrs.
c. F.. Orton, Mrs. Brice Bowie and
Mrs. H. B. Mar.s.
The Executive Board will hold its
monthly meeting before the regular
meeting.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
State Society Ball

The Pennsylvania State Society
will hold a grand ball at the Shore
ham Hotel Tuesday, February 3.
The entire Congressional delegation
of Pennsylvania has been invited
to be honor guests.
The society has established a
precedent of entertaining men In
the service as its guests. This will
apply to every social function of the
State society during the year.
The president of the society is
Mr.. David H. Deibler, 4 Leland
street, and the secretary is Mrs.
Ray Whitney, 1882 North Tuckahoe
street, Arlington.
Evening star., 1942-01-25
OF Personal Note Here
Mr.. and Mrs. Gompers to
- Mark Golden Anniversary
-Harris-Eping Photo.

will celebrate their golden wedding
evening home from to 10 o'clock in their
North Capitol street Assisting Mrs Gompe will be her
William Mackays daughter and
Shirley Calvin Mackay Mr. Gompers brother
York for the party.
Mr. and Harry Sherry Cleveland q weeks visit with
Evening star., 1942-01-25

tnelr son ana QaugnCeT-ln-IaW, MI.
and Mrs. Dan Sherry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry King are
spending several weeks at Miami
Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel S. kaufman
are in New York for a short visit.
Mrs. Ralph Dombrower
Visiting Her Parents.
Mrs. Ralph Dombrower Of Rich
mond is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin Rosenfeld, at their
apartment in Woodley Park Towers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Friend have
visiting them Mrs. Friends mother,
Mrs. Fannie Doctor of Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Lewis left
Thursday for Miami Beach, where
Mrs. Lewis will remain until March.
Mr.. Lewis will return to Washington
in two weeks.
Mrs Paul Broida of Parkersburg,
w. Va, is spending the week with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. David
Sanger of Cathedral Mansions.
Mrs. Richard Bonwit has returned
from a visit to her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar c.
Stromberg, in Albany, N. Y, and has
taken an apartment at 2800 Woodley
road.
Mrs. Philip Garfinkle has gone
south to visit her sister, Mrs. M.
Zimmerman.
Miss Helen Marx
Is Guest Here.
Mrs. Samuel Greenbaum has as
her guest Miss Helen Marx Of Los
Angeles. Miss Marx is the fiancee Of
Mrs. Greenbaum's son, Mr.. Samuel
Greenbaum, jr.
Mrs. B. Stern is here from the
South and Is visiting her brother
in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Goldsmith, in their West
chester apartment.
Mrs. Sol Meyer has Joined Mr..
Meyer in their Takoma Park home
after visiting her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Kron-
heimer, in Newport News, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Herbert Hahn
entertained at dinner last evening.
The Home for the Aged at 1125
Spring road will celebrate the Presi-
dents birthday anniversary Thurs
day night with a party. Guests at
the home whose birthdays were in
December or this month will be hon
ored, and will receive gifts from the
hostesses.
Evening star., 1942-05-15

Rivermen, while awaiting fur
ther clarification, interpreted the
order to include all manner OF
vessels-from rowboat to stream
lined yacht. The order specific
ally referred to all boats under
100 feet in length and applied to
Great Lakes channels.
Affected thus were thousands
of fishermen and yachtsmen who
for years have made the Detroit
River a picturesque scene under
a summer sun, not to mention
boy and girl friend who make
a motorboat date or city worker
seeking a sun tan.
Pleasure boats in the Detroit
area, estimated to be valued at
$2o,o00,000 presumably will have
to be tied up much Of the time,
some owners said.
Nor will there be any more
random fishing. in the opinion
of 1t. Henry G. Meyer Of the
Coast Guard, captain of the port
of Detroit.
my belief is" Meyer said,
"that a fisherman would be re-
quired to specify the course he
would take, the place he is to
fish, the return route, and the
amount of time to be taken by
the trip"
Commodore Charles Beck Of
Evening star., 1942-05-15

Job in educating the "baby-snatch-
ers" by returning all but few Of
the largest. But will the supply last
long enough?
Counted as so much meat, these
7 and 8 inch striped bass hardly. are
worth cleaning. Those catching
them unfailingly are out for an
afternoons fun and probably do not
know there Is q minimum size limit
in the police regulations. A limit,
by the way, that just is about half
what is required in Maryland, one
Of the most backward States, so far
as protection of the bass is con-
cerned, along the Atlantic Coast.
Something should be done about
this minimum size limit because it
allows the sale OF these small fish
in the markets where both Mary
land and Virginia send their under
sized catches.
1t could be accomplished by such
organizations as the chapters of the
Izaak Walton League taking the
matter to the District Commits
Sioners
New Drone on Market.
The well-known Huntington
drone is not being made noW-to
the regret Of anglers everywhere.
Last March in the Florida Ever
glades we saw guides rig them up
as though they were so much fine
gold, with heavy wire leaders and
to be used only on heavy lines be-
cause stores in that section were
sold out.
Now there is another Marylander
making a similar spoon, which we
believe ably will take the place Of
the Huntington and, because it is
variable in size, prove more ver-
satile. This new in l has, so far
as we can see, exactly the same
action. Because 1t is made of STAIN
less steel keeping it bright is a SIM
pie matter and for stripers it should
be a killer-diller.
Striped Bass Make Appearance.
Striped bass have been caught in
the Patuxent in the Solomons
Island area. Capt. Ed Bowen has
been getting shore shrimp for a
cumming trip and it will not be
long until Capt. Rhode Langley
passes the word around that it is
time to try for the big fellows in
the rip above Point Patience via
the soft crab on a f1oatline.
Cumming has been tried at