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Evening star., 1943-12-15
Alexandria Council
Limits Number Of
Taxicabs in Civ

The number of taxicabs in Alex
andria was frozen when the City
Council passed an ordinance last
night prohibiting the licensing of
any taxicabs or other for-hire We
hicles until proposed taxicabs reg
ulations are adopted.
Joseph M. Pancoast, city attor-
ney, presented the proposed ordi-
nance, the first of its kind to 60 on
the city books, to the Council men,
bers last night for their considera-
tion before public hearing is held.
City Manager Carl Budwesky ad-
vlsed the Council that since copies
would be made available to taxicab
operators, he considered it wise to
freeze cabs at their present number
until the ordinance is adopted.
He explained that since there is
now no ordinance regulating the
number of cabs permitted in the city
or governing their operation, read
ing of the proposed provisions might
induce persons to take out addi-
tional licenses which the Council
would not have the power to revoke
after the adoption of the ordinance
The Council granted the request
OF Paul Delaney to rezone 13l North
washington street from Al to D-l
commercial to permit operation Of
a tearoom. The property was re-
zoned despite opposition from the
Rey. Edward Randolph Welles,
rector of Christ, Church, Who wrote
the Council that he felt further
commercialization of North Wash
ington street would detract from its
interest to sight-seers going from
Washington to Mount Vernon.
Mr.. Delaney expressed the opinion
that Christ Church itself hasbeen
commercialized by being opened to
paying, visitors and by being made
a stop for sightseeing buses.
The council also granted the re-
quest OF Mrs. Caroline r. Butler to
rezone 1920 Duke street from C-l
to CO residential to permit CONVEX
sion into apartments for war work
ers, and to J. W. McMenamin to re-
zone 1918 Duke street from C-1 to
CO residential to permit its use for
apartments.
The request of Frank G. Jones
to rezone 420 North Fayette street
to D-l commercial for use as a real
estate Office was granted.
The request of Gladney Motor Co.
to build and operate a repair shop
at l406 King street was denied.
On notification by Edward Dunn,
city electrical inspector. that the
terms of the members of the elec-
trical board will expire December 81,
the council reappointed the members
Of the board for another three-year
term.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Irksome Monkies Get
Cooled Off by Buddies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. The inhabit-
ants of Monkey Island at Audubon
Park Zoo have system for water
cooling hotheads which seems an
advancement over most human
theories on the subject.
Whenever a particular monkey
begins spelling for a fight, gouging
and nipping at his fellows, some
party gives him the hip, bowling
him into the moat surrounding the
island.
His buddies then form a circle
around the rim of the island and
take turns stepping on his head
when he tries to climb out.
They don't allow him to rejoin
them until he is too weary and
water-logged to be cantankerous.
Evening star., 1943-12-15

collection. The children of those
schools hope to set record for COL
lection during the week between
Christmas and New Years Day.
Shaw Junior students, who lead
the city with 74,202 pounds, are
planning to make a special drive
during the holidays, but the paper
will be held in the students homes
and will be taken to the school
when school is resumed.
A number of other large producing
schools are planning to collect dur
ing the last week of the year and
will take the paper to the school
on the regular collection days in
order that there shall be no break
in the flow Of paper during the holi-
days.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Photographers Bring
Hollywood Touch
On First Day

Quiet returned to the American
University campus today as Made
leine Carroll, screen actress, became
just one of SO students in "class 99'
who are training to be Red Cross
hospital staff aides for duty over
seas.
Miss Carroll, registered for the
four-week course Monday as Mrs
Madeleine Hamilton and held her
flrst-and she hopes last-press
conference yesterday as q Red Cross
worker in what turned out to be a
field day for news photographers
and newsreel men.
The cameramen and their flood
lights moved in in force and kept
Miss Carroll on the move for hours
as she enacted all over again her
first day at the university. In fact,
Red Cross officials just managed to
sandwich in press conference.
She said afterwards that she
hadn't had day like it since Holly
wood, which she forsook at the out
break of the war in order to de-
vote her time to war work.
Miss Carroll told reporters that
the incest thing about her new role
it pays $40 a month until she
goes aboard, then $150-was the
dormitory life. She shares a room
with two feminine students who
are smokers like herself, she
pointed out. 1t is her first expert
ence living on campus as she was
schooled by tutors.
She said she was deeply impressed
with the fact that everyone here
has a sense of complete dedication
and pride in the organization and
a deep humility"
Miss Carroll came here from New
York, where she was active in the
United Seamen's Service. She said
that now that recognition of the
seamens needs had been achieved
she was anxious to devote "110 per
cent of my time and energy to the
Red Cross.
Her husband. 1t John Hamilton,
U. S. M. c., who was Hollywood
star under the name of Sterling
Hayden, does not know of her
decision to work for the Red Cross.
He is somewhere overseas, she does
not know where. The couple recent
ly had their names changed by
court order.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
District Health Office
Confident Influenza
Has Passed lis Peak
Expects Steady Decline
In Number Of New Coses
Million Victims in Motor

Belief that the peak of the in
fluenza epidemic has been passed
here and the number of cases will
diminish steadily was expressed to-
day at the District Health Depart
ment.
Several large companies-includ-
ing the Capital Transit Co. and the
Chesapeake e. Potomac Telephone
Co.-reported fewer employees sick
and similar encouragement came
from some Federal agencies. School
absences showed a slight decline
yesterday
Meanwhile, more than 1000 ,OOO
persons ill from respiratory ailments
in various sections of the country
were reported by the Associated
Press. Absences from war plants
offices and schools continued to
mount in many States, but deaths
were few and the malady, diagnosed
generally as form of influenza,
continued in mild form.
Flu Ravaging Germany.
With England suffering from a
more virulent type of the disease
and numerous fatalities resulting, it
was reported by the Associated
Press today from Madrid that Ger
many was ravaged by an epidemic of
influenza comparable to or greater
than that prevalent in Britain"
From Richmond, the State De-
partment of Health reported the
disease had reached epidemic pro-
portions in Virginia, with 1,649 cases
reported last Week-more than twice
the 651 recorded the previous week.
Estimates of the number of cases
in Washington ranged from 10 to Is
per cent of the population. Some
physicians disagreed with the Health
Department in believing the peak
had been reached.
An officer of the Health Depart
ment said there were no indications
that the malady was taking a more
severe form. Normally at this time
of year, he said, there is an average
of around three deaths a day from
pneumonia, and the fatalities from
this disease-often complication
of serious influenza-had not in
creased.
New Survey Near Completion.
The Health Department has been
engaged for several days in making
new survey of illness in Govern
ment agencies and private business
and hoped to have the results COM
piled some time today.
Recreation Department personnel
said they had noticed decrease in
attendance at Fairgrounds since the
start of the epidemic. In addition
to the children actually sick, it was
explained. others have been kept
home by their parents to avoid con-
tagion.
The United States Public Health
Service was taking a poll of all the
State health services to determine
how far the sickness had spread
over the country The Associated
Press reported that it had reached
the Southern States in the last few
days and was epidemic in Missis-
sippi In Ohio 10 per cent of the
was Ill. The Far West
was affected for the first time, with
Arizona and California reporting
large numbers of cases. Eastern
cities continued to be the hardest
hit.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
White House
Reveals YuIe
7 rec Plans

The Recreation Department today
issued the following instructions to
school children wishing to con-
contribute decorations to the annual
Community Christmas Tree on the
White House lawn.
l. Pick as many ball or star orna-
ments as you like.
2. Attach to each a white slip OF
paper. not more than inches
long to l inch wide, bearing the
name of some one in the armed
services to which the decoration Is
to be dedicated.
3. Bring the balls or stars to your
school Friday morning or to your
neighborhood playground by noon
Saturday.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Mexico City Excovotors
Uneurth so Skeletons

More than so human skeletons.
some OF them of women and chill
dren, were unearthed by workmen
excavating for a building in Mexico
City. They are believed to be the
skeletons of those who perished in
the reign Of terror of February, 1913,
when rival revolutionary groups
fought it out all over the city.
The relics were found is feet be-
low the surface of the streets. Most
of the skeletons are those of a COM
pany OF soldiers who held out to the
last man and whose bodies, togther
with those of the women and chill
dren, were thrown into a well.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Henry Continues Fast
At Jail Infirmory

Jeffries Henry. 36. formers police
man. today continued his hunger
strike into the fifth day at District
Jail infirmary, where he is con-
fined awaiting sentence for the kill
ing Of his wife. He was convicted
by District Court jury on a sec
ond-degree murder charge.
No one is alarmed over his con-
dition, according to Ray l.. Huff
director of District public welfare
The prisoner has taken no food
since Friday and has drunk only a
little water.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Mrs. HuIburt Named
Girl Scout Official

Mrs. Edward o. Hulburt was
named Alexandria Girl Scout COM
missioner for 1914 by the Nomi-
mating Committee which reported
to the Girl Scout council yesterday
Mrs. Hulburt will succeed Mrs
Chandler Robbins, II, who was
named first deputy commissioner
Other officers named were Mrs
Frank Bowles. second deputy; Mrs
Arthur S. Parsons, treasurer; Mrs
Henry Rau. jr, secretary, and Mrs
Hobart Gale, registrar.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Man Wounded in Lea
In Shooting in Store

Otis Rowe, %, colored, 1913 Thir-
teenth street Sc, was in Casualty
Hospital today for treatment of
gunshot wounds in his left leg re-
celved last night in an alteration
with the proprietor of a confection-
cry store. He was shot, police said,
by Markos Koumanelis, SO, opera
tor of a store at ITO H street NV.
Rowe's condition was not serious,
according to police. They said Kou-
manelis was taken into custody and
later released for appearance be-
fore the district attorney,
Evening star., 1943-12-15

More and more our armies are
landing our fighting troops by para
chute, disrupting enemy lines, en-
elny communications, but paying a
heavy price in casualties.
Silken flneries and their substi-
tutes are fast passing from the mar
ket to provide safe landings for our
distant fighting men. We can still
buy silk and nylon for them with
War bonds and stamps.
United States Treasury Department.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Corn Whisky Scarce,
Price Now SIS q Case
Nv the Associated press

BY the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 15.-
There's scant supply, and white
corn whisky is selling at s75 to $50
per case of II fruit jars, ABC off,
cials said here yesterday.
John A. MILAN, Federal Alcohol
Tax Unit chief at Norfolk, report
ed that moonshine was selling there
from SIS to 500 per 5-gallon jug, or
$3.75 to IS per quart.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Teachers Ask Ruise

More than 200 members of the
Charles A. Stewart Parent Teacher
Association, East Falls Church, Va,
went on record yesterday as favor
ing an immediate increase in teach
ers' salaries. The association will
ask the county's three members of
the General Assembly to support
their action.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Annual Birthday Ball
Drive Plans Drawn
By Committee Here
President in Message
Demands No Armistice
With the CrippIer'

General plans for the President
Birthday Ball next month, includ-
Ing the Mile o. Dimes and the othe.
events IN the annual drive to raiso
funds to combat infantile paralysis
were drawn yesterday at a meetinf
OF the Executive Committee at tho
office OF Commissioner John Rus,
sell Young, general chairman.
AS the District group was maxim
its plans, Basil O'Connor, presiden,
of the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis, released a state
ment OF President Roosevelt declar-
ing that there can be no armistic
with the crippler. Surrender on til
nome front must also be uncondi.
tional."
Starts Here January Is.
The local drive, which last yea
netted approximately $4,000 herr
Will start January Is with the Mi
o Dimes stand in front of the Cap
tol Theater. The stand last yee
accounted for more than $4,000 { .
the amount raised.
Following the general pattern e.
past years, there will be a comman
performance at the National Thee
ter January %. That will be fol
lowed by dinner reception at til
Mayf1ower Hotel January % for til
theatrical stars invited to the ar
nual event and the midnight show
at Loew's Capitol, Warner Bros
Earle and Lichtman,s Howar
Theater.
On Saturday, January 29-the de
before the Presidents birthday-th
custmary dances and dinner-dancs
WILL be held at various hotels an
the Lincoln Colonnade. The tradi J.
tional cutting of the birthday cak
will be observed, although the hote
In which it will take place has nc
been designated. AS last year, ticket
for dances will be good only at tn
hotel for which they are purchased
thus eliminating the travelling abor
from one hotel to another.
Commissioners Charles w. Kut
Guy Mason and former Commis.
sion George E. Allen are co-chair-
men.
Eleventh Annual Appeal.
January's campaign will be tn
llth annual appeal for funds an
will be conducted nationally be
tween January IA and 80, climaxe
with the Nationwide celebrations O,
the Presidents birthday.
Mr.. OConnor said that NOR
money than ever will be needed
hight the epidemic that is expecte''
in 1914, adding that no one can tel
just where it will strike and tha
epldemics may be expected at leas
so long as there is wartime crowdin
and mass movements of people. Tn
lnfantile paralysis epidemic thi-
Iyear OF almost 10000 cases was tn
third worst in the history of tn
United States.
Latest methods of treatment fo,
infantile paralysis victims are ex
pensive," Mr.. O'Connor said. "an,
research to discover the cause am
cure OF infantile paralysis must e,
on unrelentingly."
One-half OF the money raised dur
ing the annual appeal remains will
the National Foundations chapters
and the other half goes to the foun.
cations program of research, epi
demic aid and education. Chairman
for Maryland is Senator George L
Radcliffe and for Virginia, G. Jetei
Jones of Richmond.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Sailor Models for PAINTINGS

Sailors cannot complain that the
figure In the painting adorning the
movie house walls aboard the H. M
S. Renown is unseamanlike. When
A. Mason Trotter, famed Scottish
artist, needed model a Royal Navy
sailor was assigned to him.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Alexandria Bur to Dine

The Alexandria Bar Association
will hold its annual gridiron dinner
tomorrow night at the Belle Haven
Country Club. The dinner will be
along the lines of Gridiron Club af-
fairs, with skits. presented and
prominent citizens made the subject
of verbal caricatures.
Evening star., 1943-12-15

She brushed aside any discus
sion of her career after the war
with the comment that she was
only interested in helping win the
war. Miss Carroll also seemed re-
luctant to talk about Hollywood and
stressed that she had not made a
picture since the Pearl Harbor at
tack.
AS a hospital staff aide, she will
assist in providing recreation for
convalescent soldiers and will aid
them in their correspondence home.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Chinese Refuse WAGES

Chinese mine workers in Aus
tralia staged an original strike over
income tax deductions by continuing
to work but refusing to take their
wages.
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Paper Collection
In Schools Tomorrow

The following is the schedule
for the collection of newspa-
pers, magazines and cardboard
in schools in the fourth dis
trict of The Evening Star-PTA
Salvage for Victory program
tomorrow together with the five
leaders in the district and their
DOundape to date.
Evening star., 1943-08-30

from behind the Big Hickory Tree
and there swallowing the little fish,
as Peter so often had seen him do,
he turned and flew back down the
Laughing Brook with it.
Peter scratched his head thought
fully. Il wonder" thought he, IF
that means that he has some
babies at home and is taking that
little fish to them. I wonder"
The more he wondered the more
likely 1t seemed. He was still Won
dering when he heard that harsh
rattle again, and there was Rattles
the Kingfisher flying straight to-
ward him. With a final rattle he
perched in the Big Hickory Tree
where he could see all over the
Smiling Pool There he waited and
watched. Peter, behind big
hickory tree, waited and watched.
Presently Rattles darted out and
down, hung another little fish. Just
as before, he paused for a moment
In midair and flew away down the
Laughing Brook. Peters heels
fairly ltched to follow along the
bank but he waited and tried to
be patient. After while back came
Rattles and did the same thing all
over again.
The last doubt in Peters mind
vanished. Rattles was taking those
fish to his children just as Welcome
Robin takes worms to his children,
and those children were somewhere
down the Laughing Brook, and not
so very far Judging by the short
time it took Rattles to go and come.
He, Peter, would go down the
Laughing Brook a little way and
hide where he could watch Rattles
as he passed back and forth. He
would find out that secret from
Rattles himself. So the next time
Rattles disappeared with little
fish Peter kicked up his heels and
scampered along the bank down the
Laughing Brook to look for a new
hiding place.
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Evening star., 1943-08-30
Take Ny Word for 1t
Rv FRANK COLBY.
BY FRANK COLBY.
Vienna.

Vienna.
(Sixth of a new series. Clip for
referenceD
Vienna, once the gayest and one
of the most cultured and romantic
capitals of Europe, is not known
by that name in Austria or Ger
many. The correct name of the
city is WIEN. Since the Germanic
"w" is always pronounced like the
English "v" and since the digraph
lie" has the sound of "e" as in
"seen," the name Wien is correctly
pronounced: veen.
Would you believe that the ubiq-
uitous hot dog, or "wienie," as 1t is
sometimes called. is related to the
Austrian city which we call Vi
emma? Unlikely as it seems, there
is a strong kinship between the
two, for the correct name of the
toothsome linked sausage is
wienerwurst, "the sausage of Wien
(Vienna)." Thus we see that the
word wiener" does not mean
sausage 1t means "of or from
Wien" Therefore, native of Aus
Evening star., 1943-08-30

Lnst-minute changes in radio pro-
grams sometimes reach The Star
too late tor correction that dat.
Evening star., 1943-08-30
Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON W. BURGESS.
What you don't think of, others may,
So lend a heedful ear
The thing that most perplexes you


Stupid, stupid, stupid" exclaim-
ed Peter Rabbit as he watched jim
my Skunk out of sight. He didn't
mean Jimmy; he meant himself
here I have been running my legs
off trying to find the hole of Rattles
the Kingflsher without once stop
ping to think that I never have seen
him near the place where I have
been looking. Jimmy Skunk is right.
He certainly Is. The place to look
for Rattles is near water. No one
sees him anywhere else except when
he is flying across from one body of
water to another. OF course If he
lives around the water he must have
his home near 1t. That means it is
somewhere along the Laughing
Brook OF near the Smiling Pool or
over by the Big River. I wonder
which place to visit first. Let me
think! Let me think l most often
see him at or near the Smiling Pool.
If his home was over near the Big
River I don't believe he would be
at the Smiling Pool so much. Prob
ably his home isn't far from there
think I'll visit the Smiling Pool
and do little watching. There Is
nothing like watching If you want
to find out things about other peo-
PIE. I ought to have stayed there
in the first place when I asked
Grandfather Frog about Rattles and
he refused to tell me anything,
except that it is true that Rattles
makes his home in the ground.
So Peter headed for the Smiling
Pool once more. When he got there
he sat down behind the Big Hickory
Tree where Grandfather Frog could
not see him. Somehow he didn't
want Grandfather Frog to see him.
He knew that Grandfather Frog
was sharp enough to guess Just why
he was there, and after what Grand
father Frog had said about minding
his own business, Peter didn't feel
just like being seen. So he kept
out Of sight of the big lily-pad on
which Grandfather Frog spends
much of his time. 1t wasn't long
before he heard the harsh rafting
noise that Rattles the Kingfisher
makes. He was coming up the
Laughing Brook from below the
Smiling Pool. Peter peeped out
Evening star., 1943-08-30

spade trick, he cannot be beaten
West continues spades, and South
wins, leading the club queen. East
can win this but when he does he has
no spades to return. Vests spade
suit cannot be established in time,
and all the defenders take is one
spade, two clubs and a heart.
Of course, South could have made
his contract without using the safe
ty play by winning the first spade
trick and leading heart at once.
But this would have been a guess,
for if East had held the heart ace
and West had held both the high
clubs, South would have gone down.
Saturday you were Howard
Schenken's partner and, with both
sides vulnerable, you dealt and held !:
AJAX OTIS
%
8 A is
= 3
Answer: One spade. Many play
ers make the mistake of starting
with three or four spades on such
a hand, but there is no reason to
shut your partner out of the bid
ding, while you are not greatly in
terested in shutting out your op-
ponents. With your spade suit, you
can always outbid them.
Score 100 per cent for one spade,
30 per cent for three or four spades,
Question No. 1,476.
Today you hold the same hand
and the bidding continues:
You. Jacohy. Schenken. Lightner.
IA Pass 20 Pass
CD
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow.
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Evening star., 1943-08-30

Curious word origins. Because
English Is a composite language,
made up Of gleanings from almost
every known tongue, the origins of
the most familiar words are often
so extraordinary, so strange as to
be incredible. Did you know that
glamour is corruption of gram
mar, that scrupulous man has
pebbles in his shoe, that pedigree
is cranes foot?
Released by the Bell Syndicate Incl
Evening star., 1943-08-30

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Wpc, E00-Warino's Or. Musical salute 10
Navy aviation on lis 30ih anniversary
WT0P. S:00-Vox Pop: From the Naval Air
Station al Pensacola. Fla. for a salute to
Navy aviation.
WRc, 8:00-cawlcade Of America Alfred
Evening star., 1943-08-30

heard first-hand the reactions of fly
ersjust back from bombing Germany,
was himself a witness to the bomb
ing of Rome. Don't miss Raymond
Clapper's authoritative, accurate
analysis of the news tonight and
every Monday and Thursday night.