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Evening star., 1943-07-23
Luxury Tax on Beer
Probed by Officials
Lodge and Tax Collector
took Into CompIuints >.

Chairman Thomas E. Lodge of
the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board and District Tax Collector
Guy Pearson today launched a Joint
investigation into reports that sev<
eral local liquor dealers are fcharg-
ing q. luxury tax" .on sales OF beer
by the case or half case. s..
The District imposes a tax of so
cents a barrel on beer and there
is Federal tax of 81 a barrel, but
these taxes are collected from deal
ers through stamps and there is no
such thing as luxury tax.
Mr.. Lodge received a letter which
related that the writer recently was
charged cents tax on a $1.20
purchase of dozen bottles of beer
at local liquor store. He said he
protested that he had not been
obliged to pay such tax at other
stores
In another complaint to Mr..
Lodge. it was charged that the
storekeeper had attempted to charge
8 cents for a full case, claiming
it was luxury tax. The clerk, on
questioning, said he was turning it
in to the Treasury Department.
Mr.. Pearson said he was making
the investigation because under the
law his Office is charged with COL
lection of local taxes.
Il don't like that kind of compe-
tition," Mr.. Pearson said last night,
when asked about the investigation
Both stores involved are in the
northeast section of the city, ac-
cording to Mr.. Lodge.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
RaiIey Baby's Death
Not Due 10 Poison,
Examination Shows
Bacterial inflammation
Of lntestines Blamed
By DR.. J. |. Boyd

DR., James l. Boyd. deputy medi-
cal examiner for Prince Georges
County, today announced that "nu-
merous" tests made by pathologists
on the contents of the stomach of
16-month-old Stanley Railey, who
died July II in the arms of his
aunt while being taken to a Dis
trict hospital, had failed to reveal
any trace of poisoning
Dog food, which the child was re-
ported to have eaten after his g.
year-old sister had prepared the
food for some puppies, was thought
to have caused the child's death. Dr.
Boyd said, however, that samples of
the suspected food had been tested
with animals and they remained in
healthy condition after eating it,
The child FIRST became i'll on July
IL and was taken to a Washington
hospital. He was returned home
after the doctors failed to. find any
symptoms of poisoning, but became
i'll again the following day
and died while being taken to the
hospital. The child's mother. Mrs.
Bailey, of 1904 Fifty-fourth
street. Hillside, Md, is expecting an
other child.
DR.. Boyd said tests disclosed that
the child died from acute gastro-
inflammation of the intesti-
nal tract lining. He said this prob
ably" was caused by a bacterial con-
dition.
The county medical examiner said
he would notify States Attorney
Gwynn Bowie today of the results of
the tests.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Awards Are Planned
ByMontgomeN0CD

Service bars and other special
awards will be presented to men,
bers of the Montgomery County
Civilian Defense forces under a plan
announced yesterday by Judge AL
bert E. Brault, civilian defense
director.
Rear Admiral Harry G.. Hamlet,
retired Coast Guard commandant,
chief AFRAID warden for the county,
has been named president of a
board of awards to pass on the
eligibility of candidates for awards.
Others on the board are Chief of
Police H Leslie Carlin. who will act
as vice president. and Mrs. Irene
Brungart, who will be recorder. Mrs.
Brungart is executive secretary of
the county civilian defense and
Chief Carlin is chief of the auxiliary
police for the OCD.
Also serving on the board are
Joseph Giammatteo, chief of Aux
iliary Fire Service; Walter C. De
Groot, chief of Emergency Welfare
Service; DR. Howard S. Mason. chief
of the Anti-Gas Service; William
H. Blair, chief of the War Emer-
gency Radio Service, and Controller
Fred w. Tuemmler.
Ribbon service bars will be
awarded to persons who have served
500, 1000, 1000. 5000, 1000 and
5000 hours in civilian defense. Time
given in training and meetings will
be counted.
Application NAV be made by the
candidates to their superior officers
Judge Brault directed that all
services begin keeping records of
the time served by members.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Stanley King Appointed
j, ), Commissioner

Stanley King. Al, Alexandria at
torney, yesterday was appointed
United States commissioner for the
Eastern district of Virginia to sue
ceed Joseph Pancoast, who resigned
to become Alexandria city attorney.
Mr.. King, who will take Office
August l, said he had resigned as
referee in bankruptcy, post he has
held for the last four years.
The new commissioner is presi-
dent of the Alexandria Rotary Club
and member of the Board of Trus-
tees of the Community Chest. He
was educated at the Alexandria
High School and at William and
Mary College and received his law
degree from George Washington
University.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Driver Questions
0PA'sRightto
.'Confiscate' Gas
District Man Holds
Inspectors Action
Was Unconstitutional

The OPA's right to "confiscate"
gasoline rations for violations of the
pleasure driving ban was challenged
last night by one of the 20 motorists
who appeared for hearings at 1740
Massachusetts, avenue NV, before
the District OPA's special trial panel.
Charged with driving his car to
the Army and Navy Country Club
last Sunday, Ernest w. Williams,
1921 Kalorama road NV, read
members Of the panel q prepared
statement, in which he contended
the OPA's action was unconstltu-
tional.
Sees Privacy Invaded.
Mr.. Williams maintained the OPA
was created by Congress as dis
tributing and alloting agency and
not as police organization. OPA
inspectors were invading the privacy
Of. the privately-owned Army and
Navy Club when they came there to
cite motorists for pleasure driving,
he charged.
Overruling the plea, the panel
ordered Mr.. Williams to surrender
one A coupon from his gasoline ra-
ton book.
In other cases before the special
panel last night, eight out of 10
motorists were fined for pleasure
driving. Eight of the suspects were
high-ranking Army and Navy Of
flcers, including three colonelS, one
major, two lieutenant commanders
and one captain.
One of the officers, 1t. 'Comdr.
Onnie P. Lattu, agreed with the
panel that he was guilty of pleasure
driving. The board suspended pen
atty in his case, however, when it
was learned he had been held for
five months as prisoner of war in
Berlin.
Others Fined by Board.
Those fined by the board were:
John Rich, 1881 D street S E., one
A coupon; Capt. Fred r. Tansill,
1926 Twenty-e eighth street NV.
two B coupons; Col. S. R. Stribling,
6616 Barnaby street NV, one week
of c rations; 1t. w. r. Powell, 1909
Twentieth street NV, one week of
B rations; Elsie Parsons, 5124 Sew
enth street NV, one A and seven
G coupons
Col. Ebert Kimball, 1850 Harvard
street NV, two B coupons; Maj
Thomas B. Jordan, 1929 Columbia
road NV. one week of C rations,
and Fenella H. Wahl, 2701 Con-
necticut avenue NV, one A coupon.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Virginia War Fund Drive
Organizes by Districts
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, July 23.-Organizs.
ton of the State by districts in the
October campaign to raise ST 1886 900
for the Virginia War Fund has been
completed and the next step will
involve the perfection of Campaign
machinery in cities and counties Of
the State.
The organization into districts
was completed yesterday at a meet
ing in the Office of Gov. Darden,
who said he was encouraged by pros
poets for the campaign which will
be held as Virginia's part of Ma
tion-wide effort to raise s125 900. 900
for war relief work carried on by
various organizations approved by
the Federal Government.
The Governor announced the ap-
pointment of T. L. Farrar, Chrr-
lottesville, to head the eighth dis
trict drive. The campaign districts
coincide with the congressional dis
tricts.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
0PA
10
Seize Poultry
Seeks Permission
To Act if Truckers
Divert Supplies
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, July 23.-The Mary
land Office of Price Administration
prepared today to seek permission
to requisition poultry in the State If
truckers divert supplies here in an
effort to avoid Delaware police.
Clarence w. Sturm, OPA food Of
fetal, said the order would have to
come from the War Food Admin
istration, given authority over food
distribution by the Second War
Powers Act.
The War Department announced
IN Washington yesterday that it
would requisition about one-fourth
OF the Delmarva poultry supply
until poultry returns to regular pur-
Chasing channels from black market
operations.
approximately 100000 pounds of
poultry will be needed weekly by
the Army from Delaware, Virginia
and Maryland, the department said.
Mr.. Sturm said the Army had
been unable to buy poultry in large
quantities for the last four months
because of the black market.
Yesterday the Army requisitioned
II 10 Is truckloads in Delaware.
President Harvey H. Rieck of the
Maryland Poultry Council said he
thought growers who operated legit-
imately would not object to the
Army's price, which is l cent higher
than the Gve-poultry ceiling.
Mr.. Rieck predicted that Army
requisitioning would eliminate the
black market at the production end.
but that black-market retailers
would continue to overcharge.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Montgomery 10 Elect
Chest Officers at
Meeting Tonight
Agencies to Present
Proposed 1914 Budgets;
Incorporation Completed

Election of permanent officers of
the recently organized Montgomery
County Community Chest and pres
entation of the budgets of the agen-
cies desiring to participate will take
place at a meeting of the Board of
Trustees at 8 o'clock tonight in the
Liquor Control Board Room, Silver
Spring
Fred L. Lutes, chairman of the
Budget Committee, will present the
budgets of the agencies and the
amounts tentatively approved for
1914. A slate of proposed officers, to
serve until the first annual meeting
in January, will be presented by
Miss Layinia Engle,r chairman of the
Nominating Committee.
Incorporation of the chest has
been completed and will be reported
on by William Morreu, chairman.
Lacy Shaw, president of the COM
missioners, this week received let
ter from Ralph Blanchard, exeeu-
tive director of the national organ
ization, Community Chests and
Councils, Inc, which said in part:
May we add our congratulations
to those which you have received.
1t seems to US that this is very
forward looking move which you
have made and we are sure that
it will mean great deal to your
country.
"As we view the situation, these
are days when communities should
do everything in their power so to
organize their local affairs that they
can go about the job intelligently
of studying their local problems and
doing something about them. Not
only is this important to the total
war effort of the Nation, but we
believe it will be even more i'm
portant in the postwar period. Your
county has now joined the group
of local communities which have
announced their determination to
do everything in their power to
solve their local problems.
1--WE hope that you and your new
organization will keep us closely in
touch with developments and that
you will let us know wherever you
think we can be of assistance"
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Maryland 10 Establish
ChiId-Care Unit Soon
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July ga child
care division of the State Depart
ment of Public Welfare will be Or
ganized Immediately after selection
of division director in merit-sys-
tenn examinations, State Director j.
Milton Patterson said yesterday,
Creation of the division to take
over a number of duties previously
assigned to other State agencies was
provided by the 1943 General Assem-
bly, as was expansion of the Board
Of Public Welfare from seven to
nine members.
Two additional members of the
board, named yesterday by Gov
O'Conor, were James M. Hepbron,
Baltimore, and Ernest o. Wheatley,
Salisbury.
Evening star., 1943-07-23

Robert and Charles Matson, iden-
tical twins of 10 years, now students
in the Army specialized training
program at Georgetown University,
looked enough alike before their in
duction into the Army. The uniform
completed the similarity. Now no
on ecan tell them apart.
The twins say their parents, a
few intimate friends and close rela-
tives could tell them apart in
Houghton, Mich, their home But
none of their officers can tell one
from the other from the time the
twins fall in at reveille until taps
sends them to adjoining hunks in
the same squad room.
In the Army, where uniformity Of
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Taxicab Assault Case
To Go 10 Grand Jury

Cecil Coleman, 80, colored Rock
vile taxi driver, faces grand jury
action on a charge of attempted
criminal assault on a 27-year-old
white woman July Is.
Coleman was released under s., 900
bond after preliminary hearing
yesterday before Trial Magistrate
Donald A. De Lashmutt in Rock
vile Police Court.
According to police, the attempted
assault took place. in Coleman's cab
on the Rockville pike while he was
driving, the woman from Rockville
to Bethesda. Police said the woman
also lives in Rockville.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Board Denies Mrs. Tawes
Asked Gas for Family Car
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CRISFIELD. Md, July 23.-A
spokesman for the Crisfield Ration
Board said today that Mrs. Helen
Avalynne Tawes, wife of j. Millard
Tawes, Maryland controller, had not
applied for a gasoline ration for the
Tawes personal automobile which
her husband transferred to her
name.
w. Lee Elgin, head of the State
Department of Motor Vehicles, said
in Baltimore yesterday that Mr..
Tawes had transferred the auto to
his wife on July /, less than a month
after his personal gasoline ration
had been suspended for year.
Mr.. Tawes lost both his personal
and official gasoline ration books
after he Admitted misusing G ration
gasoline to drive State-owned auto
to Georgia to attend his sons we'd
ding. He was later granted a new
ofhcial ration for. essential driving
of the Statc-owned car which Is
assigned to his use.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
DsWRahoniinq
.E9Reminders@0
Blue coupons, Book 2-Stamps let

Blue coupons, Book 2-Stamps let
tered N, P and @ are valid until
August 7.
Those lettered r, S and T will be
valid from August l through Sep
tenher Z.
Red coupons, Book 2-These can be
exchanged for meats, fats. etc.
Stamps lettered P, Q, r and
are valid now, will be good until
the end of July.
Sugar-For regular allowances Of
sugar for general use coupon No.
13 in book / is good for 5 pounds
through August IS.
Stamps Nos. Is and 16 in ra-
ton book No. l may be used to
obtain sugar for home canning.
Each will be good for pounds
through October 81.
Families needing more than 10
pounds of sugar per person for
home canning must make appii-
cation to their ration boards for
all over this amount.
Coffee-Stamp No. % is good for /
pound until August IL.
Gasoline-No. A coupons, good for
3 gallons each, are good through
November 81.
Pleasure driving is forbidden to
holders of all types of gasoline
rations.
Existing "T" allowances of gaso-
line expire after next Sunday.
B and G coupons, good for ~
gallons each, expire on dates in
dicated in individual books.
Holders Of all types Of gasoline
rations except the E and r classes
now must write the license number
and State of registration of their
vehicle on the front of all their
gas coupons.
Shoes-Stamp No. 10 is good for ons
pair through October 81.
Fuel Oil-Period No. coupons in
new fuel oil rations became good
July and are valid for 10 gallons
per unit through next January 4.
Period No. S coupons of last
seasons ration are valid for 10
gallons per unit through Septem-
ber 30. ..
Each coupon is good for the
number of units marked in large
numbers on its face.
Applications for this seasons
rations should be filled out proper
ly and returned to local boards
Immediately.
Evening star., 1943-07-23

Estep, jr, of $40 Grain highway,
Glen Burne, Md. He was just back
the other day from a straflng mis-
sion over the neighborhood Of CAL
tanissetta, where his flight had got
convoy of Is trucks loaded with
italian soldiers on hill road and
smashed all of them except an am
bulance.
Hills Blot Sound.
The fighter plane is not ordinarily
thought of as an ambush weapon.
1t must, one would suppose, always
be seen and heard a few seconds
before it begins its rain of death.
This is not so with the hill jumpers.
The method, as 1t. Estep explains it,
is to spot convoy on valley road,
fly just over the treetops and way
below the level of the hilltops up
the next valley, and suddenly leap"
over the hill when the neighborhood
of the convoy is reached. The thick
ness of the hill shuts out the sound
of the motors and they cannot be
seen over the hill crests. The first
GllIlS tllS lllS1l Ill lllc COilNOy hllUN,
there is a sudden roar, like that of
the leaping tiger, and the planes
are a few feet over their heads.
Usually each plane can discharge
about 80 rounds as it goes over and
the utmost confusion usually re-
suits.
1t. Estep is the pilot of an A-36
Mustang fighter. A graduate of
Glen Burnie High School in 1886,
for two years he attended Johns
Hopkins University night school. He
first joined the Army Signal Corps
in May, 1941, and in January, 1912,
transferred to the Air Forces be-
cause he wanted a job with more
action. He underwent training at
Parks Air College, St. Louis, Mo-,
and Enid. Okla, and on September
received his wings and bars at
Brooks Field. Tex.
His tour of overseas duty began
late in April of this year. His
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert c.
Estep, hear from him regularly
every week, as does his wife, the
former Miss Ellen M. Mittler of
Columbus, Ohio.
Among the pilots of the recon-
naissance squadron of the Tactical
Air Force here is 1t. George M. Tol-
bert, ir., nephew of j. O. Tolbert,
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Vacancies Are Announced
For Air Cadet Trainees
BY the Associated Press.

6s the ASsoCldted Press.
BALTIMORE, July %. - Third
Service Command headquarters an
nounced yesterday that men be-
tween 18 and 26 who have not yet
been called for induction under the
Selective Service System still may
apply for aviation cadet training
with an opportunity for commits
sions in the Army Air Forces.
Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord,
commanding general, said repre-
sentatives of the command aviation
cadet examining board would visit
towns in Maryland, Pennsylvania
and Virginia within the next few
months to interview applicants and
conduct the preliminary mental ex-
aminations.
Candidates accepted may volun-
teer for induction through their
draft boards and be assigned to
aviation training, the announcement
said.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Salisbury Adds Workers
To Meet Garbage Crisis
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALISBURY, Md, July 23.-Sal-
isbury city officials put emergency
garbage collection measures into
effect today in an effort to overcome
what they described as showdown
by regular workers who were denied
pay increases.
City Engineer Clarke Gardner said
men were being transferred from
other departments and added that
additional equipment would be used
if necessary.
One of the six garbage collectors
quit work when the Mayor and City
Council announced that the city's
budget would not provide any pay
raises for the remainder of the year.
Evening star., 1943-07-23

appearance is a disideratum rather
than drawback, there is nothing
serious or even inconvenient about
this. AS the boys are always to-
gether-they are taking the same
course-one cannot substitute for
another. There wouldn't be much
point to it anyway as far as cxami-
nations go. Charles led Robert by
six points in the general test. In
the psychological test Robert was
six points ahead of Charles.
The twins arrived at Georgetown
last week from Fort Belvoir, Va.
They had been in the enlisted re-
serve corps at Michigan College of
Mining and Technology at Hough-
ton, where their father teaches.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Housing Project Seeks
Land at Leonurdtown
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assoclated Press.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, July 23.-
United States housing officials in
Washington have asked the Leon
ardtoWn commissioners for 80 acres
in the town on which to construct a
30-unit housing development for
colored workers employed on the
naval project at Cedar Point. The
units will consist of two houses each.
A number of citizens protested the
action, declaring that no land was
available in Leonardtown and urging
that the project be located nearer to
Cedar Point.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Mobile Unit to Visit
Alexandra Wednesday,

The Red Cross mobile blood unit
will visit Christ Church at Alexan-
dria from 8:45 am. to pm. next
Wednesday, it was announced today
by Mrs. r. N. Reamy, chairman OF
the blood donor service.
Mrs. Reamy said volunteer donors
should call the Alexandria Chapter
House, Alexandria 5952, for appoint
ments. Those wishing to make ap-
pointments at night may call Mrs.
Reamy at Temple 1872. The chapter
quota has been set at $50 pints of
blood.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Girl Injured in Leop
At CrisfieId Fire

BY the Associated Press.
CRISFIELD, Md, July %. - The
home of James Daugherty in the
Jacksonville section was destroyed
yesterday by fire resulting from an
explosion said to have occurred
when kerosene was poured into a
stove.
miss Caroline Dougherty received
hospital treatment for injuries re-
ceived when she jumped through a
window to escape the flames.
Firemen were hampered in their
efforts to extinguish the blaze by a
scarcity of water, which had to be
pumped from a creek more than a
quarter of a mile away.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Attorney to Open Office
Special Dispatch to The Star.

WARRENTON, Va, July 23.-J.
Ray Larcombe, assistant cashier of
the Peoples National Bank here, has
resigned that position to begin the
practice of law. He will open law
Offices here August Is. A native of
Maryland, Mr.. Larcombe attended
Randolph Macon College at Ashland,
Va, and received his law degree from
George Washington University at
Washington.
Evening star., 1943-07-23

M d iterranean Ii. G. M. Tolbert. Jr.
just as the sun was rising and in
the strange, dim light below us the
sea was black with ships"
A native of Iowa, 1t. Tolbert was
graduated from East High School
in Des Moines, where his wife and
parents now reside. He joined the
Air Forces in the fall of 1912 and,
after training in Louisiana. won his
wings and bars, with later assign
ment in Florida.
In another nearby Tactical Air
Force Squadron whose job is to
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Red Cross Workers Needed

Additional volunteer workers are
needed by the Silver Spring branch
of the Red Cross to aid in it's rapidly
expanding program, it was an
nounced today by Mrs. Olivier E.
Ragonnet, acting chairman. Sur
gical dressing classes are open for
workers from 10 am. to pm. and
from 7 pm. to 10 pm each Wednes-
day at the Woodside Methodist
Church. Persons who desire to do
volunteer work are asked to call
local headquarters at Sligo 1888.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
K X
WAotHo~R~1MiM
WAR Bonds
Rood Builders

That there is no easy road to Ber-
lin or to Toxic, all OF. us must real
ize and to aid in the long push our
strategists are. shipping hundreds
and hundreds Of road building units
to help build the big road to. De-
mocracy. .-.
Your part is to assist in this en-
deavor by steady and increasing
purchase of War bonds.