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Evening star., 1942-07-15
BY THE FOUR ACES

west opened the queen OF SPACES,
South winning with the ace. South
then drew two rounds of trump,
ending in the dummy. and flnessed
the ten of clubs. West won with
the club queen and led the ten of
spades, East winning with the king.
East returned the queen of dia-
monds, and South's contract went
then and there, with the loss of two
diamonds, spade and a club.
Do you see what bridge crime
South committed? Try to spot it
for yourself before you read on.
South's crime consisted in win
ming the first spade trick! Correct
play was to let West hold the first
trick with the spade queen to pre-
vent East from ever gaining the
lead. Regardless of what West did
next, South could easily gain the
lead, draw two rounds of trump and
f1nesse the club ten so as to make
sure of keeping East out of the
lead in that suit, too.
Although this club finesse would
lose to Vests club queen, West
would be unable to give his partner
the lead. If West began the dia-
monds, Souths king would make
trick. And if West led anything
else, South would be able to discard
diamond on dummy's fourth club.
It should have been obvious to
South that he would make his con-
tract If he could keep East out of
the lead; whereas If East gained the
lead the contract would depend on
the location of the diamond ace.
Since one spade trick had to be lost
in any case, South should have made
sure that he lost it to the non-
dangerous opponent.
Yesterday you were Howard Schen-
ken's partner and, with neither side
vulnerable, you held:
AQ73
V85
$50
KJ104
The bidding:
Schenken Jacoby You Lightner
IL Pass IA Pass
"a Pass CD
Answer-Bid three clubs. Your
hand is good enough for another try
toward game, but your spade suit is
too weak to bid three spades. Your
partner may well have raised on
three to the king, and you must
allow him chance to wriggle out
Score 100 per cent for three clubs,
50 per cent for three spades, 80 per
cent for pass.
Question No. 1,125.
Today you hold the same hand,
but the bidding is different:
Schenken---I2cohx You LiShtuer-
II A.Pass. ;.1A.. :. PASS
"a Pass az a.,
What do you bid? (Answer to-
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Evening star., 1942-04-01
Prince Georges Board
Adopts Countrywide
BIackout Ordinance
Commissioners Retuin
RIGHT to Pass on Civil
Defense Appointments

The Prince Georges County
Civilian Defense Council was Of
ficially recognized by the county
Board Of Commissioners yesterday
in its enactment of countrywide
blackout ordinance.
According to the ordinance, ap-
pointments made to the council by
j. Robert Sherwood, director and
chief of protective services, are sub
ject to the approval of the commits
sioners.
The ordinance was passed to curb
violation in unincorporated parts of
the county where there is no existing
ordinance concerning blackouts.
The ordinance provides that We
hicles travelling in the street at the
time of an air raid or blackout alarm
shall pull to the curb and remain
there until the an-clear is sounded
The regulation also affects trains.
Lights in homes must be turned
of or screened and doors cannot be
opened If a light will show. Signs
are included in this regulation.
Traffic and street lights may be
dimmed or hooded.
No person may leave an outside
light burning between sunset and
sunrise unless some provision is
made to have the light extinguished
in case of an AFRAID or blackout.
The ordinance also provides that
authorization must be had from the
director Of defense council to wear
defense insignis or to sound an air
raid or blackouG alarm.
Evening star., 1942-04-01
Name
) New Employees in
County
Miss LiIIiun Gurdiner
To Fill Post as
Supervising Nurse
~ . staff CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

BY . Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Nd, April Three
Montgomery County employees were
appointed at yesterdays meeting Of
the county commissioners here.
Miss Lillian Gardiner was named
supervising nurse in the Health De-
partment at salary of s2,400 a
year. Effective June Is, she replaces
Miss Elizabeth Hanson, who re-
signed.
Miss Mildred Small was named
clerk-stenographer in the office of
the Juvenile Court at $1,140 to re-
place Miss Anna Beall, resigned.
The commissioners also appointed
Thomas Mulligan as janitor at
the Silver Spring County Building
at a salary of $500 annually.
H. G. Thielfcher, an employe of
the Potomac Electric Power Co..
was appointed by the commissioners
to membership on the Executive
Committee of the County Civilian
Defense Council, to act as iaison
officer between Pepco and the
council.
Leonard B. Schloss, vice president
and general manager of Glen Echo
Park, was granted a permit to open
the amusement park Saturday. 1t
will close September Is. No protests
against granting the permit were
heard.
John T. Bonifant, assistant &C.
countant in the county controllers
Office, was granted a leave of alb
sence to report for military service
April II. The leave will be effective
as long as he remains In the service.
The commissioners received a
letter from the Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad stating that the railroad
is considering the possibility of in
stalling f1ashlight signals at the
Halpine road crossing below Rock
vile. A request for the signals had
been made recently by the COM
missioners.
Due to the emergency, all county
offices will be open on Good Friday.
Evening star., 1942-04-01
Virginia Using April ! DeodIine
For Residents With D. G. Taos

Motorists who have moved to Ar
lington County, Va, within the past
year and have continued to use 1941
District. of Columbia tags on their
automobiles, will be subject to
prosecution beginning today, when
the deadline for old licenses is i'm
posed in Washington, County Police
Chief Harry woodward announced.
eve will observe the same rules as
are imposed by the Washington po-
hce," Chief woodward said. The
deadline for obtaining new District
plates expired at midnight last night
and the Washington Police Depart
ment said prosecutions would be
made after 8 am. today.
Chief woodward said several hun
dred District residents move to Ar
hngton County each year, but fail
to obtain Virginia tags Immediately.
Throughout the State generally, po-
lice departments, including the State
police, have tolerated out-of-State
tags on automobiles more during the
Evening star., 1942-04-01

past year than at any previous time
because of the large number of de-
tense workers coming into Virginia.
New Virginia residents can now
purchase and install the 1912 Vir-
ginia tags which will be valid until
April Is. 1943. About two years ago
the Virginia tag season was changed
with. the result that District motor
lists moving to Virginia would no
longer have to undergo the hard
ship Of purchasing a license plate
good only for q few weeks before
new tags were issued.
Chief woodward warned that con-
victions for using expired tags will
cost the motorists S. and costs In
penalties plus the necessity of ap-
pearing in court on two days. Vio-
lators are usually summoned to
court for the offense and then the
case is continued until the motorist
has purchased Virginia tags, at
which time he again Is summoned to
court and Is fined for the original
charge.
Evening star., 1942-04-01
CongressCommittee
To Inspect Housing
In Montgomery
Commuter Transportation
And Utilities Also
To Be Examined

A congressional party Is scheduled
to inspect transportation facilities
and new housing developments in
Montgomery County this afternoon,
Representative Byron, Democrat,
of Maryland invited members of
the House Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds to make the
tour. The committee is considering
legislation to supplement funds al
ready appropriated for public utili-
ties and housing in defense areas.
The group will go by train to
Rockville to show the House mem
bers areas adjacent to IA passenger
stations on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad which have Communication
service to Washington.
At the Rockville courthouse the
group was to be greeted by Circuit
Judges Charles w. Woodward and
Stedman Prescott. members of the
Board of County Commissioners and
other officials.
From there, the party will motor
to Derwood and through the Bethes-
da business district to the site of a
new p. H. A. financed apartment
project for 200 families at the inter-
section of Bradley boulevard and the
B. G. o. freight line and then to
Rock Greek Park and the old Ken
sington business district.
From there they will go to the site
of 800 temporary detached homes
planned by the Alley Dwelling Au-
thority for war workers near Ken
sington and Garrett Park; thence to
the Takoma Park site of a 2000-unit
apartment development announced
by Defense Homes, Inc, subsidiary of
the r. F. c., for which commission
ers of Prince Georges and Montgom-
cry Counties recently voted to create
200 acres of apartment zoned land.
They will proceed through Sligo VAL
ley Park to Georgia avenue to an
other area suggested for a defense
housing development and past homes
south of Wheaton for non-commis-
stoned officers at Walter Reed Hos
pital and the site of apartment zon-
ing approved last week.
The tour will continue to the Olney
Inn, where the Commissioners will
entertain the congressional commit
tee at dinner.
Evening star., 1942-04-01

Two victims of recent accidents
on Federal highway No. south of
Alexandria died early today in Alex
andria Hospital.
They were Mrs. Frances Blair, 81,
of 1919 King street, Alexandria, in
jured fatally on the night of March
20 when two automobiles collided
head-on, and Edward Holleman, 20,
colored, of 412 Eighth street S.W,
Washington, hurt in wreck on the
highway two days ago.
Mrs. Blair's husband, Hubert, 26,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry L. Halt,
r. F. D. No. 2, Alexandria, passen-
gers in the same automobile, also
were injured in the March 20 acci-
dent. Mr.. Blair has been discharged
from the hospital, but Mr.. and Mrs.
Holt are still there.
James L. Mullin, Is, of 1047 Quebec
street NV. was struck by an auto
mobile early today while walking
along the Washington Baltimore
boulevard at Oakcrest, Md, police
reported. He was brought to
Casualty Hospital by the Branch
vile Rescue Squad and treated for
head and leg injuries.
Evening star., 1942-04-01
Rent Control Bill
Is Among 80 Signed
.ByGoV. Darden
TO Additional Measures
Passed by Assembly
Await Action
BY the Associated Press,

RICHMOND, Va, April 1.-Thir-
ty-nine new laws went on the
statute books yesterday with the sig
nature of Gov. Darden, who has
seven more days to act on ITO addi-
tional measures passed by the 1912
General Assembly. Unless they are
signed by April 7, they will die by
pocket veto"
One of thosenewly signed was the
Fenwick House bill authorizing the
Governor to appoint rent control
boards in defense areas, and Mr..
consideration to the situation in the
Hampton Roads area, where there
have been complaints of sharply
boosted rentals. The bill carried an
emergency clause and became ef-
fective Immediately.
The retirement bill, which pro-
vides for an income up to 81, 900 a
year for school teachers and State
employees retiring from service, also
received the Governors signature.
1t becomes effective July /.
Another bill, by Senator Charles
w. Crowder of Richmond, was ap-
proved to make it g. misdemeanor
for a purchaser of used tires, unless
through rationing boards, to fail to
report the purchase to local police
authorities with a description of the
tires, the name, race and address Of
the seller.
Others signed included: The Bat
tie Senate bill raising the minimum
weekly compensation under the un-
employment compensation law from
So to 81 and reducing the waiting
period from two weeks to one; the
Spiers House bill abohshing the
Office of constable in 1943 and
transferring duties of constables to
county sheriffs; Fenwick House bill
authorizing central registrar for
Arlington County; House bill re-
quiring motor vehicles to come to
a full stop for school buses taking
on or discharging passengers, and
the Harrison Senate bill relieving
owners of motor vehicles used ex-
clusively for agricultural and horti-
cultural purposes from the motor
vehicle. license fees and gasoline
taxes.
Evening star., 1942-04-01
| St. Morys Gets
| Afraid Call in
| IS Minutes

An afraid warning to Southern
Maryland county seats may take
from As seconds to As minutes, a
test conducted last night from
Hyattsville revealed.
The difficulty in transmitting the
warning arises from the fact that
there is no trunk line from Balti-
more, where the signal originates,
to Southern Maryland. Therefore,
it must go from Baltimore to WASH
ington to Hyattsville, back to Wash
ington and thence to Southern
Maryland
In last nights test call to La
Plata was completed in As seconds,
and a Prince Frederick call in 81
minutes. Forty-five minutes were
required to get through to Leonard
town, E. F. Zalesak, chief AFRAID
warden in Prince Georges County,
said. Slow service to Leonardtown
might have been caused by tele-
phone wires put out of commission
by Sundays heavy snowstorm, he
said.
Evening star., 1942-04-01
War Priorities Bar New Buses
For Prince Georges County
Authorities Declare Overcrowdinq Creutes
Desperate Transportation Problem

Overloaded school buses and pri-
ority classifications have combined
to form a complicated situation in
Prince Georges County.
A county request for three more
buses on the ground that school
transportation is nearly Is per cent
heavier than last year has been re-
jected by the Offlce of Defense
Transportation, it was learned to-
day, although funds for the pur-
chase Of at least one bus have been
made available to the county by
another Federal agency.
This has given a grave slant to a
growing problem In view Of the fact
that a majority of the Prince
Georges school population goes to
school by bus. Records show that
568 more children now are riding
the buses than were handled last
June.
Thirty eight buses are in opera
ton at present. So greatly are they
overtaxed. school officials report.
that some buses with a capacity of
10 passengers are carrying more
than 80.
Parents Rebel at Crowding.
Some parents have rebelled and
are forbidding their children to use
the buses, it is reported. In one area
police reported that they had stopped
a bus because it was so heavily
loaded as to be unsafe.
Through the Lanham Act the
county superintendent of schools
obtained in February a grant of
funds for an additional bus. Two
more were requested and assur-
ance was given that they also would
be approved.
But purchase of the buses hinged
on authorization from the ONCE of
Defense Transportation, division of
Evening star., 1942-04-01
Single Women Find
Difficulty in Getting
Rooms in Alexandra
Couples With Children
Also Hard to Place,
Records Indicate
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, April l.
Single women constitute the group
for which it is most difficult to OBJ
tain housing facilities, records at the
Alexandria Defense Homes Regis
tration ONCE indicate.
Mrs. Ellen v. Harper, registration
Office director, said the class of
tenant found to be next most difficult
to place IN apartments or homes is
made up Of married couples with
small children.
: Landlords who register quarters
with her Office for placement Of
tenants seem to prefer childless
couples IN which the man and wife
are both employed, or single men.
so Dwellings Rented.
For the month ended March 20.
the registration Office had a total
Of 1853 dwellings and ass rooms listed
with it for rental purposes. Sixty of
the dwellings were rented through
her Office, while 63 others were filled
either through her Office and not
reported, or for other reasons. OF
the rooms registered, 10 were re-
ported rented through her Office,
while lis were either not reported
filled through her Office or for other
reasons.
There were IS active vacancies
listed for individual dwellings and
233 rooms available at the end of
the period.
In some instances. applicants for
rooms or houses doubled up so that
two or more applicants lived in the
same unit. There were 239 requests
for dwellings and 238 for rooms re-
ceived during the month, bringing
to 446 and 301 the total number of
requests for dwellings and rooms.
respectively, on file during the
month. OF this number 65 appli-
cants were placed in dwellings and
l40 in rooms. Also, Mrs. Harper said
l06 of the dwelling applicants were
removed from the files because of
finding accommodations outside the
registration Office and 60 applicants
for rooms were removed from the
files for similar reason.
Complaints Of High Rentals.
Rentals are increasing in all
ranges, she said. Many complaints
of high rentals are filed with her
Office and all such complaints are
filed with City Manager Carl Bud
wesky. civilian defense co-ordinator
for Alexandria.
Mrs. Harper explained no positive
action can be taken on high rent
complaints because Alexandria mas
not been declared a rent control
area by the Federal or State gov
ernments. Mr.. Budwesky reports all
complaints of excessive rents to the
Office of Price Administrator Leon
Henderson, she said.
The director said her Office had
declined to accept for registration
dwellings and rooms for which the
rental scale is obviously out of line
with facilities offered.
She appealed to owners of build
ings with unused rooms or attics
which might be converted for
housing purposes to report to her
Office, where information may be OBJ
tanned for Federal assistance in
renovating such quarters. There is
great need for rooms, apartments
and dwellings along or near trans
portation lines, she said.
Evening star., 1942-04-01
Churchmon, 81,
Gets License to
Wed Widow,72

Elder william G. Young, 81, of the
Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Ia
koma Park, Md, and Mrs. Sadie
Rhoda Town, 72, also Of Takoma
Park, obtained a marriage license
at Rockville yesterday.
The elder, a widower, is assistant
pastor of the church's headquarters
in Takoma Park, and Mrs. Town,
widow, is a member of the congre-
cation.
Elder Young, who lives at 6 Manor
circle, Takoma, said today the mar
riage would take place at private
ceremony, the time of which would
not be disclosed.
: Mrs. Town, widow OF N. z. Town.
HIVES at log Lincoln avenue.
Evening star., 1942-04-01

Here's the score so far on the
fightin' Gibson family of Falls
Church, Va:
John, 20, is a Marine.
Brother Paul, IS, Is in the Royal
Canadian Air Force.
Brother Lytton, 26, is in Uncle
Sans Army.
Their father, Paul, will soon leave
the United States for civilian service
in a war zone with an Army en-
gineering unit.
There's only mother 1eft-and she's
doing her patriotic duty as deputy
clerk of Falls Church.
Evening star., 1942-04-01
Movie HoIts Showing
OfLew Ayres Film

By the Associated Press.
HACKENSACK, N. J., April l.
'Dr. Kildare's Victory" latest pic
ture starring Lew Ayres, who left
California yesterday for con-
scientious objectors' camp in Oregon,
was withdrawn from a double bill
at the Fox Theater last night.
Richard Carnegie, manager, said
public demand was so great had
no alternative. He received more
than 100 telephone calls from per-
sons threatening. to boycott the
theater If the film was not removed
from the program. Mr.. Carnegie
said. It was to have continued
through today.
Evening star., 1942-04-01
New Licenses
Cut Bus Service
.ToAIexandria
Public Vehicles Using
Memorial Highway
Must Poy Fees

A new schedule of licenses for
buses operating over the Mourt Ver-
non Memorial highway, effective to-
day, Will result in less service and
longer travelling time for thousands
of nearby Virginia commuters and
will add to the traffic congestion on
U. S. Route No. l between Alex
andria and Washington and at
Maine avenue and Fourteenth
street S.W., bus firm officials claim.
The new license fees were ordered
by Secretary of the Interior Ickes
and were approved by President
Roosevelt last September for all
vehicles carrying passengers for hire
between the south end of Memorial
Bridge and Mount Vernon.
The one major transit firm
affected is the A. B. & w. Transit
Co. OF Alexandria, which operates
schedules over the affected route.
A company spokesman said to-
day that 10 transferable licenses
have been obtained SO that not more
than that number of vehicles with
passengers may be operated on the
highway at one time. All other
buses now using the route must
come into Washington over U. S.
Route No. I, which for the last sew
eral years has been heavily con-
geSted with traffic between Alex
andria and Washington.
Annual Fee Of So.
"If the company properly certifl-
Gated all of its buses so as to con-
tinue service previously rendered it
would cost us about $11,000," the
official said.
On special plea of the A. B. & w.
firm, the National Capital Parks Of
flee yesterday agreed to permit
empty buses to return from Wash
ington after the morning rush hour
and travel to Washington before
the afternoon period without the
payment of licenses.
For all vehicles carrying pas
sengers, however, the annual license
fee is So for each seat and the
quartely license fee is rs cents for
each seat. A 81 license covering
an entire bus will be issued by the
United States Park Police for char
ter trips.
The A. B. & w. official said one
half hour service between Alexan-
dria and Washington by way Of
the National Airport will be con-
tinued, but that it will be impossible
to bring into service additional
vehicles between these points or to
augment the regular schedule south
OF Alexandra to Mount Vernon
when the service demands. All
buses in excess Of 10 operating on
Memorial highway must now travel
over United States Route No. and
through the traffic bottleneck at
Maine avenue and Fourteenth street
NV, where a grade separation
project is now under construction.
Two Lines Not Affected.
Until today, it was said, buses
coming from Alexandria on the Me-
mortal highway approached the
Fourteenth Street Bridge and if
traffic was seen to be backed up, the
driver would continue to Memorial
Bridge and come into Washington
by way of Constitution avenue.
officials of the Arlington Fairfax
Motor Transportation Co. and of the
Arnold-operated Bus Lines in Ar
lington County said they would not
be affected by the new licensing ar
rangement because the only portion
Of the Memorial highway used by
them is between Arlington Ridge
road and Memorial Bridge, which is
exempt from the regulation. Both
firms have discontinued special
charter trips to Mount Vernon.
Evening star., 1942-04-01

John enlisted in November, 1910.
Less than year later Paul enlisted
in the r. C. A. r. and has won his
flying wings. Lytton, drafted last
November, soon will be flying
cadet at Maxwell Field, Ala.
Proud of his three sons in the
service, Mr.. Gibson welcomed the
opportunity to accompany an ex-
pedition slated for service in a war
zone.
The three Gibson boys are honor
graduates Of Jefferson High School,
Falls Church, and were active in
baseball circles. Their uncle, Burns
N. Gibson, Is Mayor of Falls Church.