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Evening star., 1942-02-01

cluding women, were told they
represented the first members OF
an eventual 10 degassing stations
and Is field decontamination squads
to be set up throughout the city.
Persons felled by gas will be given
first aid at the stations and sent
to hospitals if in a serious condi-
ton. It will be the job of squads
to rescue victims following q gas
attack and to take proper steps In
decontaminating stricken areas.
Capt. Walter D. Roberts. chief OF
decontamination, explained.
In time degassing squads will be
equipped with special mustard"
suits, rubber gloves and boots and
gas masks to permit them to work
in any section of the city where
gas bombs have exploded, Capt.
Roberts said.
Col. Lemuel Bolles, executive dr.
rector of civilian defense for the
District, spoke briefly. He pointed
out that volunteers had "a big job
to do" and said squad members
would face an extensive training
period.
The group sworn in last night
made arrangements to begin train
ing in gas protection and ,decon-
tamination work three nights a
week. Glasses will be under the
direction of Capt. j. w. Kay. Fire
Department expert on gases. Capt
Kay outlined the course. which is
expected to cover a period OF sew
eral weeks.
Proposed plans for the first de-
contamination station include pro-
visions for 10 men and 10 women
volunteers who will administer first
aid to gas victims, Capt. Roberts
explained. The volunteers to re-
ceive training in the initial course
| later will be appointed station and
SQUAD chiefs as additional units are
organized in various sections of the
city.
Temporary headquarters for the
first unit will be established at 224t
Cathedral avenue NV, the home
of Mrs. Anna Lansburgh, who wa!
one of the volunteers sworn in last
night.
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Curfew Sponsor Plans
Drive 10 Bolster Up
Girl Workers Morale
Wilson Hopes to Arouse
Patriotic Fervor Among
Government Typists

Spurred on by responses of women
war workers, Representative Wilson,
Republican, of Indiana, author of
the proposal to pass a curfew law
for them, plans to solicit President
Roosevelt's aid in building up ste
nographer morale.
I'VE must try to get these girls
patriotically aroused SO that two
will undertake to do the work that
three are now doing and thus relieve
Office and housing congestion" he
declared.
Frankly admitting last night he
was not sure whether his proposed
curfew bill would be introduced, the
35-year-old former school teacher
serving his first term in Congress
said he was still feeling out senti-
ment"
While he wasn't answering the
constantly ringing telephone in his
office yesterday, he was preparing
a radio speech which he hopes to
deliver tomorrow or Tuesday ito
clarity the issue"
He Plans "Fireside Chat"
The Indiana legislator plans to
make his radio speech sort of fire
side chat" with the people OF the
District.
Some OF the workers" he said
seem to feel that my suggestions
are a slap at them. I did not so
intend. want to be helpful to those
who are efficient and to warn the
inefficient. I want to arouse their
patriotic fervor to do their work
right and not to permit frivolities to
distract them from the great op-
portunity for service that is theirs
In the national defense effort. My
radio talk will pep them up to meet
this opportunity as a privilege and
not a sacrifice"
Mr.. Wilson expects to confer with
the House Public Buildings ano
Grounds Committee Tuesday to gel
support of a resolution he intends
to introduce for an independent
House investigating committee
which would VlSlt women WOIkeIS
at their Offices and check to see Il
they are earning their pay.
He also wants a special study
made of the sick leave taken by girls
in Government jobs. He said hi
had been advised by rooming house
managers that war workers hac
been indulging in sick leave to such
an extent that ut would seem Wash
ington is the sickest city In the
country"
Senator Caraway Opposes Plan.
Commenting on the curfew pro.
posal, Senator Hattie Caraway o.
| Arkansas, declared:
Il can't imagine it would work ou
very well. I do not know whether
the young women here need cur
few law because I don't get out yer!
much at night. But I do believ'
that if the girls who come here arr
old enough to be away from hom'
and work for the Government, the!
Icn. CITDEI7yXy pace Ao2(
Evening star., 1942-02-01
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES,
Star Staff Correapoudent

Star Staff Correspondent.
PEARSON, Nd, Jan. 28.-To this
fertile region of st. Marys County,
some 80 years ago. came one John
Quirk; just over from England. He
had settled in Philadelphia, but he
wanted a farm, and this level land
so close to Cedar Point on the
Chesapeake Bay, appealed to him
He bought a substantial acreage
When he went back to Philadelphia
he told his friend, Dean H. Dawson
what he had done, and Mr.. Dawson
also a Britisher, decided he would
like a farm in that peninsula, and
purchased one adjoining Mr.. Quirks S
1t turned out to be ideal land. 1t
would grow almost anything. And
creeks and inlets of the bay flowed
through over bottoms, thick with
oysters, crabs and fish.
Mr.. Quirk's son Ben succeeded
to the farm in time and then Ben's
son, George r. Quirk. Mr.. Dawson
meanwhile, had acquired fully TOO
acres. The seven Dawson children
were born there. Four Of them are
living. One of the daughters
Martha, married George Quirk, anc
they kept the farm, the third gen
Grafton. Another daughter. Mary
married E. T. Jarboe and they took
the ancestral home on the other
farm after the Dawson acres hac
bAen split among the children.
Eviction Threatened.
Today, Mr.. and Mrs. Jarboe ano
Mr.. and Mrs. Quirk ere threatened
with eviction from their land be-
cause the Navy is planning to take
perhaps 5000 acres in the Cedar
Point area as a testing ground fol
seaplanes, torpedoes and guns. An
estimated $50 families will be driven
out If the program goes through
Already Government oficials have
started appraising and taking op-
tions on the land.
Many of the other families face
hardships, but the Quirks and the
Jarboes probably have been on the
land longer than most Of them. In
this connection, it may be recalled
that st. Marys County contains
some Of the oldest estates. homes
and farms in historic Maryland
though many of them lie outside the
region which the Navy wants.
Formal protests have been made
! to Gov. O'Conor by the st. Marys
legislative delegation and to Fed
eral officials by groups Of farmers
The latest word from the Governor
is that the Navy Department has
indicated very definitely" its de-
cision to use the area.
The farmers point of view thus
was summed up by Mr.. Jarboe:
IF we thought this measure was
necessary to help win the war, We
wouldn't raise a hand against 1t
We're as patriotic down here as any
other citizens. But we feel that the
project planned by the Navy prob.
ably would not even be finished be.
fore the war was over. 1t involve.
an immense amount of work
breaking up these farms. tearing
down houses, building cement run
ways.
Land which we feel is much more
suitable and more easily adapted tC
the proposed proving ground ha.
been offered the Government a
Point Lookout, Drum Point anc
Piney Point, and it seems to us tina
this could be cleared and used NOR
quickly. Then, too, most Of th'
owners of that land made no objec.
ton, because it's not good for farm
ing, most of it."
Superlative Land.
1t should be remembered, MI
| Jarboe added, that probably the bes
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Briton to Be Speaker
At Defense MEETING

A representative of the British
government will address a defense
meeting of Kalorama road residents
at 8 pm. tomorrow at the John
Quincy Adams School.
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone
and other notables have been in
vited to hear the talk and see a
demonstration on incendiary bombs
Evening star., 1942-02-01
District Board Issues
Permits for 420 Tires
And Tubes in Week
Applicants Rush to Beat
DeodIine; Casing Quote
Cut 556 in February

With District Government de-
partments and several utilities fling
last-minute applications to get in
the January quota, the District
Rationing Board announced yes
terday issuance in the last week Of
42O certificates for truck and auto
mobile tires and tubes-far more
than were approved in the rest Of
January.
Figures on the total number Of
tires and tubes doled out in January
were not made public. If there are
any left over from the Districts al
lotment for the month, they can
not be carried over to February.
but must be returned to the national
stockpile.
February Quota Cut.
For February, the District Board
will have 46l passenger car tires
and 905 truck tires to give out, 556
fewer than we're allotted for January.
February's tube quota, however,
will be 329 above last months al
lotment, with 1886 available for pas
senger cars and 1851 for trucks.
The Metropolitan Police Depart
ment was the heaviest recipient in
last weeks rationing, obtaining GER
tificates for tires for 101 vehicles.
Other District departments to receive
certificates were the Sewer Division,
IA; Water, 10; Refuse, 6; Fire De-
partment, 40, and Highways, %.
Utilities which obtained certifi-
Gates include Capital Transit, 81;
Capitol Greyhound Lines, 18; Penn
sylvania Greyhound Lines, 3, and
the c. g. P. Telephone Co., 3.
Firms, Individuals Listed.
Other firms and individuals to
receive certificates follow:
DR.. Harry M. Kaufman, physi-
clan; DR.. E. w. Schwartze, physi-
clan; DR.. Arthur Harry Lewis,
physician; DR.. w. B. Sims, physi-
clan; Receiving Home for Children,
William King & Son. fuel distribu-
tors; Burder S. Athey, wholesale
meat: c. D. Kenny Co., wholesale
food; Washington Coal Co., Inc;
Union Coal Co.. r. S. Miller, fuel
distributors; Carlin Creamery Co.,
G. E. Beute & Sons, Inc, medical
delivery; M. I. OBoyle, fuel dis
tiibutors; S. A. Freas Co., wholesale
produce; Richard Harry Trotter,
refrigeration; Francis I. Brooke. re-
frigeration; Mike Julios, hauling
John A. Smith, wholesale meat;
John P. Agnew Co., fuel distribu-
tors; Highland Farms Dairy, Wash
ington Refrigeration Co., DR.. Martin
L. Cannon, physician; DR.. J. Rogers
Young, physician; Joseph p. Tore,
wholesale delivery.
Also Arthur j. Waller, hauling;
Goodwill Industries: y Raymond
Pyles, grocer; r. Robinson, Inc,
fuel distributor; Gichner. Inc,
governmental delivery; Morris Bres-
sler, dairy products; United Petro-
leum Products; Uline Ice Co.: Bill
Koustenis, commission merchant;
John Nichols, wholesale fruit; Union
Fuel Co.; john F. Matthews, ice
delivery; Thomas Stathopulos,
bakery; David H. Alsop, plumber;
Galiher &, Huguely. Inc, lumber
Bruce E. Burke, City Refuse De-
partment; Joseph Tucci, Inc.
plumbing contractor; Washington
Coal Co.; Washington Terminal Co.
Highland Farm Dairy: Grifiith Con.
sumers, fuel distributors; 1t. Law
renee J. Casamas, physician;
Rudolph & West, hardware; J. D.
Benn, truck contractor; Herbert B
Shor, dental supplies; James A
Messer Co., wholesale plumber.
Evening star., 1942-02-01
First D. {. Gas Squad
Is Organized; Is
Volunteers Sworn In
10 De-eossine Stotions.
And Is Decentralization
Units Will Be Set Up

Washington's first decontamina-
ton station and squad were formed
last night at a meeting Of civilian
volunteers in the District Build
ing as the Office of civilian defense
here made plans to combat enemy
air attacks of poisonous gas.
Sworn in by Chief Air Raid War
den Murphy, the Is volunteers, in
Evening star., 1942-02-01
Ode to Mr.. Wilson

(See CURFEW, Page abb
Evening star., 1942-02-01
SpecioI Defense MEETING

A special defense meeting will be
held by the Chevy Chase Elementary
School Parent-Teacher Association
at pm. Tuesday in the school.
Evening star., 1942-02-01

I read i0ith dmdzement
That failed to dmuse
Your untin,ely comment
On ,Oonen's cvtetos.
Tho I tried to be tatr
The more that I read
The more I iD1s sure
You ,Dere sadly misled.
And so I decided
'TDds only your due
That some one like me
Should broaden your Ufet0.
The incentipe to shoD
Efficiency plus
Is killed IN the struggle
To get on q bus.
Nor can / beHepe that
A 10-hour day
LedDeS GODeTnment grLS
Still ready for play.
Epen women must eat
ITS sad but It's true),
And when tpe get home,
There's cooking to do.
So hoU can you think
There Is time or ambition,
TO CAD late at night and
Get out of condition?
| AND, BESIDES
Since Washington Dom1en
Outnumber the men.
Just who Is to keep us
An out after 10?
EILEEN v. MCBRIDE.
Evening star., 1942-02-01

fThis Is the first of three drtt-
cles discussing the taxation OF
Washington hospitals. The sec.
ond ,Diu appear ton,orrotD.)
Evening star., 1942-04-07
Yanks Gain in Power,
Rookie Levy Shows
In Dodger Contest
Giant Come Final Tuner
For Indiuns' Mel Harder;
Browns Get Extra Toll
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., April Ed
Levy, the lanky first-base recruit
from Kansas City, was sent into the
New York Yankee lineup yesterday
to see what he could do against
major league pitching as dished out
by Brooklyn hurlers. He made the
most of the chance by knocking out
three singles In four attempts.
OKLAHOMA CITY.-Mel Harder,
slated to pitch the opening game
for the Cleveland Indians, was to
get his final tune-up today against
the New York Giants. Manager Lou
Boudreau sent him to the mound
with instructions to hurl the full
distance. a feat Jim Bagby accom-
plished yesterday.
DELAND, Flask pitchers and
one infielder were left here as the
st. Louis Browns started the long
trek homeward. Manager Luke Sew
ell told Pitchers John Niggelng,
Johnny Whitehead, Boots Hollings-
worth. Bill Cox. 10y Hanning and
Stan Ferrens to remain and con-
tinue their conditioning program.
Inflelder Don Heffner also stayed.
TUCUMCARI, N. Mex.-The Chi
cago White Sox insist that their
series with the Chicago Cubs should
read seven victories and two and a
half for the Cubs. The contest yes
terday was called at the end Of the
fifth because Of weather conditions
with the Cubs out in front, 6 to ,.
Evening star., 1942-04-07
Ted Williams Getting Glad Hand From Soldiers in Dixie
California Schools Hold M Angel

ex-Seattle shortstop now with
Los Angeles. is credited with
suggesting an improvement in
a machine gun plant in Buffalo
last winter that now saves a
thousand man hours q month;
now if william could only stop
jawing with the umpires, he
might accomplish the same for
baseball
One-minute sports page-Re-
ports from Florida is that Johnny
Rucker has applied for . Navy
commission. That may explain
why he didn't squawk when the
Giants denoted him to Jersey
City. Ole Olsen and Chic John
son, the comedians, laid $500
on the line for tickets for
soldiers and sailors to see their
fighter, Cleo Shans, in action
against Billy Davis last night.
Personal to Pvt. Gay D'OraNo.
Fort Bragg, NC: Louis flattened
Gus Dorazio (no apostrophe) in
two rounds at Philly last year.
Joe's title was at stake but not
In danger. Bud Forester has
resigned as Oregon State Ath.
letie Puhhcist b take . Job With
Evening star., 1942-04-07
Badminton Champions
To Defend LaureIs 1
In DC. Tourney !
Meet Opening Tomorrow
Hos Charlotte Decker,
Baker Among Entries :.

Following Today postponement.
the Districts annual closed bad
minton tournament will start TO-
morrow night at Kensington's Ma
tional Guard Armory. Originally
scheduled for the week end of March
27-29, the entire event was shelved
because of AN sir-raid warden school
going on in the armory.
Tournament Director Bill Shreye
said this morning that entries would
close with him at o'clock tonight,
but those who registered for the
original start of the tournament
would not have to do so again.
Both defending singles champions,
Joel Baker and Charlotte Decker,
are entered as are most Of the city's
other outstanding racketers. Com
petition will be in five classes
mems and women's singles and
doubles and mixed doubles.
Additional matches will be held
on Friday evening with the finals
in all events scheduled for Saturday
night. -
Evening star., 1942-04-07
... vlih.
Met Turf Heads:
4r'
Shaky, Plan No: !:
80
War Fund Aid 4: i: (:
'Ss,
Fear Effect of Turmoil
On Campaign Opening
At Jomoicu Thursdays 5
BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,

Associated Press Sports Writer. n n
NEW YORK, April New York
City's longest racing program Z m
recent years $50 days - starts
Thursday at Jamaica and how near
it comes to its scheduled finale ION
November 4 is question on whieh
not even the most ardent betscr
will hazard the customary 81. non
The metropolitan season opens
with the New York officials of the
sport warmly criticized for not ana
nouncing their plans for tieing
racing into the national war effort.
That after the sport was banned
on the opposite coast last wintercA
Racing will carry its share of the
burden, they answer, but the exact
method can not be determined until
it is known to what extent the war;
minded fans will respond-both at
the turnStileS and at the betting
windows lie
Can't Forecast Wars Effectaas
All the Florida sessions since
Pearl Harbor have shown slight de-
creases in both attendance and In
the betting handle compared with
like meetings a year ago, but the
first three days of the recently
opened 1912 card at Bowie, Mds,
show opposite results. Il
During the World War of 25 yeAfs
ago New York racing was conducted
under the oral" betting system
and at the time of the Spanish
American conflict it operated with
the Percy-Gray law, an apology for
outright wagering, in effect: 5A'
So the sports brass hats have no
way of telling how the thorough
breds and their adherents will re-
act in the modern crisis with the
mutuel laws spread on the books.
Jamaica offers eight stake races In
its spring meeting for which 4I9
horses have been entered. The de-
mand for stalls is so great that
Empire City in Yonkers may have
to be used and the animals vanned
to Jamaica for their races. 50
Paumonok Is Opening Featuressh
Opening feature is the Paumorrok
Handicap, which has been won by
charges of Sunny Jim Fitzsimmo1s
the past four years, but the mestI
ings' top race is the $25 900 Wood
Memorial on April Is which Is the
East's major Derby test.
Last years $1,000 900 improvement
program was continued through the
of season and some provisions have
been made for protection of spec
tators against possible air raids.
Club officials, however, have been
quick to point out that no barb wire
fences or shelters block the path
to the betting windows.
Evening star., 1942-04-07

Sportpourri-Claude Harmon,
Craig Woods assistant who has
won only 100 bucks on the winter
golf tour, maintains: TN the
best authority in the world on
60-cent blue plate dinners from
Florida to California" Jim Rice
has just been signed for his 50th
year as a rowing coach and will
begin work, April Is at the Ecorse
Mich) Boat Club. Izzy jan
nazzo, o hometown boy, will
be the headliner when boxing
returns to Birmingham, Ala,
April "a. Roanoke .(Va0 College
will have a baseball team after
all. The players will furnish cars
for the trips. Claude Little
Monk" Simons, the new Tulane
grid coach whose dad trains the
team, has 5-year-old son,
"Chipmonk." who already is
talking about playing football
for Tulane 5some day.
Headline headiiner-Saving a
few words, the Salem (Mass0
News headliner topped the story
for Bobo Newsom's sale to Wash
ington: Detroit passes the
Buck
Evening star., 1942-04-07

can be but one caste in our organ
ization and that is the straight and
true. Fluffs and frills and hauteur
are not part of the curriculum.
Under no circumstances must
any applicant get the idea that he
is entering a bombproof shelter for
the duration OF the war. The Navy
has launched upon serious physical
fitness program for the purpose Of
conditioning a million fighting men
whose duty it will be to uphold the
honor of our country and keep the
flag flying on the seven seas. The
particular job of the physical in
structors is to act as leaders in this
program. Tirelessly we must work
toward one purpose-that of de-
veloping 100000 men into hard
fighting, two-fisted soldier-war-
riors."
Evening star., 1942-04-07
Wood Could Lose All in Four Doys

Craig Wood older than he older Bobby
had to wade through mighty field twice the
coveted titles gohe National Starting
in both his
National
gands calling the Masters the substitute for the
be right.
didn't big scale While Hogan
dividing
Wood
Craig
chances will something interesting
Augusta when azaleas
He beating Nelson torrid
1887 had gained strokes in holes Ralph Guda to
the And 1887 Gudahl good Wood
just began look he didn't the luck
win a major
doubleeage while
the big silver bowl the winners
with headlines the
him Thereafter until
leading horrible coming
It's quite tournament and year ought better than
Evening star., 1942-04-07
A|sab Still Made
Classic c'sChoice
By Vet Expert
Weaver of Louisville
Times Also Names II
He Holds Will Sturt
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April with
the 68th running OF the Kentucky
Derby less than four weeks away,
experts have begun to check work
outs, feedbox information, reliable
sources and other data In an effort
to pick the select group which will
parade to the post at Churchill
Downs May 2.
One Of the first to climb out on
a limb was Buck" Weaver, Louis
vile Times expert, who not only
would limit the field to II colts, but
also attempted to name them.
1t generally Is conceded the
starters will be limited to 10 or u,
but the question is which 10 or II
from the list of $50 nominations
will gallop for gold and glory come
Derby day.
Alsab Rated Horse to Beat.
AS II most likely starters Weaver
chose Alsab, Requested, Sun Again,
Bless Me. Devil Diver, Apache,
Bright Willie, With Regards, Dog
patch, Shut Out, Boot and Spur and
Valdina Orphan.
Then Weaver picked . second
choice dozen as possible starters
American Wolf, First Fiddle, Sol
diers Song, jug, Gallant Laddie,
More Than Few. Clearmont, Holly
wood, Patriotic, Fair Call, Jean Fer
rante and Families.
Alsab, although still an enigma,
Is rated in Weaver's book the horse
to beat along with Requested, his
Flamingo conquerer.
The veteran turf writer said he
based his selections on news gath
cred from various action fronts,
to say nothing of workouts and
feedbox information.
Downs Packed With Hopefuls.
Weaver, who has watched Derby
winners come and 60 for years,
feels certain the starters will not
exceed II.
While he limits himself to picking
possible starters. some railbirds are
ready to name them one-two-three
but no two may agree there.
Meanwhile, stalls at the Downs
are crowded with Derby hopefuls
and ratlbirds are swarming the
track for first-hand information on
favorites. Others are quartered
at Keeneland, preparing for the
country's most glamorous racing
event.
Evening star., 1942-04-07

P. A., the A. p. subsidiary, in
San Fransisco. There weren't
any beauty contest scouts in the
audience at Newark the other
night, when the Octopus, billed
as the Masked Horror" won
from the Swedish Angel" listed
as "The Worlds Ugliest Wrest-
ler," with Tony Galento as ref
cree.
Sports sport story-Art Cohn
claims this happened in an Oak
land, Calf, gym . short time
ago: Jim Lee, big Negro heavy
weight, and his manager, Harvey
Petit, couldn't find any sparring
partners. finally Petit spotted
a big kid shadow-boxing over in
one corner and offered him a
couple of bucks to work q few
rounds. Don't worry" he
coaxed, "I'll tell Jim to take it
easy with you"
Sorry, sir" the boy stam-
mered, but I don't think I
should. My name is Connie Nor
den and I'm fighting your boy,
Lee, Wednesday"
P. g.: Norden fiattened Lee
With . couple Of punches.
Evening star., 1942-04-07
BY HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.,

Wide World Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, April Tom
Yawkey, owner Of the Red Sox,
has donated four ambulances
to the American field service.
Some baseball fans still seem to
think he should have donated
Ted Williams. But the boys in
the Southern Army camps don't
agree. They've been giving Ted
a big hand during his exhibition
appearances.
California high schools have
figured out a solution to the
transportation problem. Four
OF them recently held a remote
control track meet, each running
on its home track and exchang-
ing results by mail. New sport
ing news baseball register-300
pages of all you want to know
about your favorite players
features a swell biography Of Lou
Gehrig and Fred Leib.
Today's guest star-Leo H.
Lassen, Seattle Post : 1ntelli-
sencer: "Bill Schuster, the gabby