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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-16
Games Party

A PUBLIC GAMES PARTY
will be sponsored by Clemens
Mothers Club at the school We'd
nesday night at o'clock.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
New Jersey House kembe,
Marries His Secretary

Representative Charles A. VOL
verton, 50, Republican, of New Jer-
sey, and his secretary. Mrs. Ezetta
B. Polk. 1912 Rittenhouse street
NV, were married in Salt Lake
City Christmas Day, it was learned
here.
The ceremony was performed at
the First Presbyterian Church in
the Utah capital. Maj. Donnell K.
Wolverton, who is sta ationed at Fort
Douglas, Utah, acted as best man
Tor his father at the ceremony.
Representative Wolverton is serv-
ing his ninth term in Congress. He
was first elected in 1926. The bride
is the widow of James L. Polk, for
mer Philadelphia newspaperman.
whom she married in 1898. Since
coming to Washington several years
ago she has made her home with a
sister, Mrs. O. V. Faatz, at the Rit-
tenhouse address.
The couple will live at the Fairfax
Hotel.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
lsWRahoniinq
.s6sRemmidersm
Canned and Frozen Foods, Etc

Canned and Frozen Foods, Etc
Book No. 4, green stamps D. E and
F valid through January 20.
Meats, Fats, Etc. - Book No. 3,
stamps L, M. N, P and @ valid
through January l, Stamp R good
through January %.
Stamp No. l, in Book 4. good for
five points in pork through Janu-
airy /.
Sugar-Stamp % in Book No good
for S pounds through January Is.
Shoes-Stamp No. 18 in Book No.
and stamp l on the "airplane"
sheet of Book No. valid now for
an indefinite period.
Gasoline-No. 8 A coupons good for
3 gallons each until February 8.
B and c coupons good for 2 GAL
Ions each. B-2 and CO coupons
in books issued after December
are good for gallons each.
Tire Inspection Deadlines-For A
coupon holders, March 81.
Fuel Oil-Period No. coupons, good
for 10 gallons a unit, valid now,
expire January 3. Period No. 2
coupons, valid now. expire Febru-
ary 8. Period No. 3 coupons be-
come valid January 4, remain valid
through March IA. According to
the District OPA, consumers in
this area should not have used
more than 80 per cent Of their
total yearly fuel oil ration as Of
December ~.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Workman Christens
Overeoger Barge
As 1t Slips to Sea
BY The Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
SAVANNAH, Ga. Dec. %
When a concrete barge started
Shipping down the ways ahead
of schedule yesterday, Lofts
man Robert Ennis raced TO the
launching ceremony platform.
grabbed the champagne bottle
and smashed it on the boats
side.
The official launching party
watched the impromptu chris
tenlng from an office window
several hundred yards away.
The party was Just preparing
to go to the platform. Work
men were finishing the Gus
tomary preliminary removal of
sole plates. The ship started
shifting. Rather than risk an
uneven launching. the work.
men cut away all the plates to
let the barge go.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Refuse Department
Burns 10000 UnsoId
Christmas Trees
200 TruckIoods, Hauled
To Dump, Viewed as
Only HoIf of GIut

Thousands of unsold Christmas
trees came 10 an inglorlous end to-
day on the city dump.
Refuse division officials ordered
them burned to tidy up after the
holiday There was an estimated
10000 trees in the lot that Clifford
Ball, dump superintendent, set afre.
Looking on was William A. Xanten,
head of the city refuse division, who
wondered if next weeks collection of
used trees would reach its customary
level of $4,000.
Canadian spruce that had not
even been united. were thrown in
haphazard bundles on the huge and
continually growing pile. They
mingled with the more familiar
Maryland and Virginia pine. with
long branches of graceful foX-tail
pine, holly with glistening red ber-
ries and laurel leaves.
Approximately 200 truckloads had
been hauled to the dump by noon
today and officials estimated that
as many more trees remained at
markets and on corner lots through
out the city Almost as many more
were seen at the market at Fifth
street and Florida avenue NE. and
other large markets had not vet sent
in their leftoverS.
Mr. Ball said one dealer brought
IN trailer-truckload of 5000 trees
tightly packed together. Others ar
rived IN sWaying, stake body trucks
with towering greens piled several
hundred deep. One dealer brought
III 700 trees, the remainder of 2lOO
which he disposed of wholesale. He
sold the 1,400 for 25 cents each. he
said
Whether Or not the huge surplus
was evidence of public resentment
and boycott against the dealers
W0ulu not be known until next week.
Mr.. Hanten said. when city trucks
make their regular home-to- home
collection. Trash collectors will pick
up small trees feet tall or under,
while special trucks will be required
to get the larger ones.
The actual loss to dealers is esti-
mated at several thousand dollars,
ngurlng labor and Transportation
costs
Evening star., 1943-12-29
.zupnik Liquor Firm
Cited by Tax Unit

Edward Zupnik & Sons, 1907
Fourth street NV, has been ordered
to appear at an Internal Revenue
Bureau hearing January IA at BsIti-
more OH charges of the Illegal sale
OF approximately 10000 gallons Of
alconolic beverages, it was learned
today.
Representatives of the firm said
the charges were brought after
representative OF the Alcoholic Tax
Unit visited the store Friday and
discovered that a Federal basic LIQUOR
permit had not been transferred
when the name OF the firm was
changed last July.
Officials of the firm quoted the
inspector as saving he would 60 10
Baltimore and ''straighten the thing
out. They said they were informed
Monday that the charges had been
brought instead.
Representative of the firm said
Mr.. Zupnik. who had been operat-
ing as a corporation. Edward Zup-
nix q Sons. Inc. changed his firm
last July to Edward Zupnik & Sons,
an individual trader. All permits
were changed at this time. it was
explained except the basic Federal
alcoholic permit.
K. E. Tuttle, district supervisor of
the Alcoholic Tax Unit at Balti-
more, said he had investigated the
charges and did not believe the firm
mad any intention of violating the
law.
Mr., Tuttle said when firm
changes its name the basic permit
automatically becomes void. He
said the firm apparently did not
know this. and added that he
thought no criminal charges would
be filed against the firm at the
hearing
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Woman, Boy Injured
In Traffic Accidents:
7 CIeared-in Deaths

Mrs. Alma NJ. Magee. ST. of 80
Hawaii avenue NE, was admitted
to Garfield Hospital for observation
last night after being struck by an
automobile on Fourteenth street
near Park road NV.
Operator of the car was identified
by police as Edith F.. BOLT, %. of
l484 Newton street NV. Mrs. Magee
received cuts and bruises on the face
and head and possible leg injury.
Joseph Butler. II, of 1851 S street
S E. was in an undetermined condi-
ton today at Casualty Hospital after
the playWagon in which he was
riding in the 17O0 block of Fortieth
street Sc. ran into the side of a
truck yesterday. Police listed the
driver of the truck as Arthur Mckee
33, of 400 Third street NV. The
boy received a possible cerebral
conclusion.
Meanwhile, operators of cars in
VOWED IN two accidents resulting in
the fatal injury of Mrs. Frances
Waters. 62-year-old Census Bureau
employe, and John KoWalskv. Ct.
last week end. were eXonerated yes
terday at coroners inquest.
Mrs. NJ Blanche Allen, SO, of 1901
North Herndon street, Arlington
was driving the car in which Mrs.
Waters was riding when it skidded
on Memorial Bridge and crashed in
to a car operated by Capt William
Burlingame, 36, of I'LL G street
NV. early Monday morning.
Roger Thomas. 16, 1900 Connec-
ticut avenue NV. was the opera tor
of the machine that struck Mr.. Ko-
WalSky at Wisconsin avenue and
Jenifer street NV. Christmas eve.
Witnesses testified the street was
poorly lighted and that Mr. koWal-
sky was out of the crosswalk at the
time of the accident.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
.0CD Aides Warned
On '0verzeaIousness'
As Guard Is Expelled

Civilian Defense workers in the
Washington area were advised today
not to be overzealous" after an
inquiry last night into false raid
warnings Christmas night in the
North Randle Heights area resulted
in the expulsion of David w. Clarke.
q, a zone fire guard.
Acting Chief Warden Max E.
Schwartz, who presided over the
inquiry held at District Civilian De-
fense headquarters. 134l Maryland
avenue NE, pointed out today that
Civilian Defense is here to avoid
panic rather than create it" He
added that wsrdens should be
doubly cautious on duty.
Mr.. Clarke. who lives in the first
block of Anacostia road Sc. was
ordered expelled after IA persons
appeared at the inquiry last night
to relate that the North Randle
area was made to stand alert in
expectancy of bombing by the
japanese. Harry Goodman, assist
ant deputy warden. said Mr.. Clarke
admitted to him that he had given
an alert to II fire guards and two
messengers. with the admonition to
remain on duty for 48 hours.
Two 16-year-old girl messengers
told the inquiry that Mr.. Clarke
had sent them to warn residents
that japanese carrier was sighted
off the coast and that the city might
be bombed within "a hours. Other
witnesses said Mr.. Clarke told them
he had heard by radio that New
York had an alert.
A carpenters helper. MI. Clarke
sent word to the meeting that he
had to work and could not be pres
ent, Mir. Schwartz said Clarke an
parently misinterpreted normal or
ders sent out by civilian defense
headquarters for warders to be on
the alert during the Christmas holi-
day. The acting chief warden in
formed Deputy Warden Walter
Murphy of area 50 to cancel Mr.
Clarke's civilian defense card.
While Mi. Clarke was not avail
able today. his wife said, NO one
worked harder han my husband,
and it seems to me he has gotten
no credit for what he did"
Mrs. Clarke said her husband
was surprised at the action taken.
adding that he had called to say he
couldn't attend the inquiry. He
did what he was told to do" she
said
When her husbands civilian de-
tense superior told him of the alert,
Mrs. Clarke said. Mr.. Clarke sent
the two messengers to inform the
fire guards. She said the girls then
went from door to door and told
residents of the neighborhood, thus
causing anxiety.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Snowstorm Delays Rites
For Mrs. Amos ChiIcott

Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza
beth Huddleston Chilcott. so. wife of
Amos A. Chilcott, Fairfax County
orchardiSt, who died Christmas
Day IN Phoenix, AriZ. after a long
illness, have been postponed until
8 pm. tomorrow because a snow
storm has delayed transportation
IN the Midwest, it was announced
today. The services had been sched-
uled at 3 pm. today at the home
of James E. Nickel, Fairfax.
Mrs Chilcott was well known
throughout Fairfax County. where
she took an active interest in civic
affairs. She was a former president
OF the Fairfax Garden Club and one
OF the original members of the Fair
lax County Planning Commission.
She was the daughter of the late
DR.. F. M. Huddleson, former coun-
ty treasurer, and for a number of
years served as deputy county treas
urer. resigning in 1887.
Active pallbearers will include
James M, King, Ralph Chilcott. Mai,
Roger Ellis, E, Mack Wiley. Fred
erlck D. Richardson and Mr.. Nickel
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Death Certificate Awaits
Probe Of Pentaqon Fatality

A permanent certificate in the
death of Sergt. David B. Livingstone,
%, who jumped or fell from fifth
floor window in the Pentagon Build
ing Monday, will be issued as soon
as military authorities have COM
pleted an investigation, DR.. Fred
erick c. Smith, medical director of
the Pentagon Building, said today.
DR.. Smith, deputy registrar of
the Virginia Bureau of Vital Sta
tistics, said he issued a temporary
death certificate Monday and also
issued a certificate to allow removal
OF the body to Walter Reed Hospital
where an autopsy was to be per-
formed.
Sergt. Livingstone, who was at
tached to the 17th Signal Service
Company, part of the Washington
military district, was the son of Mrs.
Lea Livingstone of Cambridge, Mass.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
RooferFinds
| RecIuse Dead
In Baltimore
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 29.-Police
summoned by a roofer yesterday
found the body of a man, a recluse
for 10 years, surrounded by thou
sands OF empty jars, hundreds of
bread wrappers, newspapers dating
back as much as a decade and
thousands of partially burned
matches in house which contained
$3.50 in cash and $4,000 in War
Bonds.
The officers identified him as
Claudius E. Bange, about SO, and
said the money and bonds were
scattered about the Uttered rooms
of a large, dilapidated house in
which he had lived alone since his
mother died, decade ago.
Neighbors said Bange rarely left
his home except for occasional trips
to buy food and never permitted
any one to enter the house.
His body, slumped in a chair, was
noticed by the roofer, who had been
hired to do some repair work. He
made his discovery when he looked
in a window after he got no an
swer to his knocks.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
School Board
Will Supervise
Child Care
Reorganization Plan
To Cut Costs 30 Pct,
Officials Estimote

The Commissioners today ap-
proved a recommendation of the
Nursery School Advisory Committee
directing the Board of Education
to assume administrative control and
of child care activities.
School officers estimate that a
saving of approximately 30 per cent
OF the present overhead expenses
will be effected by the proposed re-
organization" Supt of Schools Rob-
ert L. Haycock. chairman Of the
Advisory Committee, reported to the
Commissioners.
The Advisory Committee met Mon
day after the Commissioners had
received a letter from Henry j.
Sullivan. assistant regional director
Of the Federal Works Agency, urging
that study be made of the present
organlzational plans and costs.
MI. Haycock's report to the Com
mlSSlOners said that 1t was agreed
that the Board of Education assume
administrative control and SUPER
vision of this activity nursery
schools including the responsible
lty for its financial direction. thus
becoming the operating sponsor OF
the Extended School Services and
Nursery Schools
Mr.. Haycock's report said the Ad-
viSory Committee would suggest that
the Board Of Education give con-
sideration to the desirabllitv of rec
ommending TO the Commissioners a
differently constituted Advisory
Committee and that the present
advisory group would continue 10
function until a new committee is
appointed and authority for the
administration Of the activity is
transferred"
At the present time the Advisory
Committee is made up Of Mr..
Haycock, Recreation Supt. Milo F.
christensen, Welfare Director Raw
L. Huff and Health Officer George
c. Rutland. Miss Dorothy D. Pearss
Is director Of the schools.
The FWA already has made sew
eral grants Of Lanham Act funds
to the support of the schools.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Share-Home Phase
OF Draft Aid Center
Service Is Mapped
Details Worked Out
At First Meeting Of
Steering Committee

Details of the share the home
phase OF the Draft Aid Center
service to the families of drafted
fathers were announced by the
Steering Committee of the service
today.
At the center, two lists will be
posted. One will contain the names
addresses, telephone numbers and
available rooms of wives who have
home or apartment they want to
share after the head of their family
goes to war.
The other list Will contain similar
Information about the families who
want to move in with other families
"for the duration"
Wives of Servicemen can consult
the two lists. choose the likely pros
poets and visit them themselves,
doing their own interviewing" and
making their own financial arrange
ments, with the Draft Aid Center"
operating as the clearing house.
Subcommittee Appointed.
That was one of the arrangements
worked out yesterday at the first
meeting of the Steering Committee
on the assistance the Draft Aid
Center can give to families.
The committee also appointed a
subcommittee to interview the care
fully selected group of volunteer
aides who will staff the center. 1t
was expected that about SO aides
will be selected with three aides for
each tour of duty at the center
Other details decided at the meet
Ing were the time and place for the
institute at which the volunteers
Will be trained fol- the task ahead of
them. The institute meetings will
be held January II, 19 and q from
Z to 4:3O pm. at the United States
Chamber of Commerce. The sessions
VIII be repeated from 7 to $50 pm.
for those who cannot attend the
afternoon meetings
Will Be Instructed in Technioues.
At the institute the aides not only
Will get factual information on the
services available here for the fami-
lies of drafted fathers, but will be
instructed in the techniques of in
terVieWing the families to find out in
what ways the Draft Aid Center
can assist them. Another subcom-
mlttee is working out the details of
the institute and preparing written
material to guide the volunteers.
1t was anticipated that the mass
meeting for prospective Servicemen
and their wives. at which the details
Of the service to drafted fathers will
be explained, can be held during the
last week in January. Immediately
before the opening of the center.
Civilian War Services and the Dis
trlcts Selective Service System are
sponsoring the service to families of
drafted fathers. Miss Josephine
Brown. chairman of the CWS Family
Security Committee. and Mrs. Henry
P. Chandler, chairman of the CWS
Child Care and Protection Commit
tee, presided at the meeting yester-
day.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Heodkeeper BIockburne to Quit
After 53-Ye0r Service at Zoo
Now 81, He Decides
It's Time to Give
Job to Younger Man

William H. Blackburne is calling
it day after nearly SO years of serv-
ice as headkeeper of the Washing
ton Zoo.
At 81, Mr.. Blackburne feels it's
about time he took things easy and
intruSted the job to a younger man,
some one more able physically to
keep up with the citizens of the Zoo.
He plans to retire at the end of this
week.
In his Office in the cupola of the
lion house, with the roar of the
jungle chorus forever in his ears,
Mr.. Blackburne can look back over
half century spent with wild an
imals, and he regards it as a pleas
ant association. The years have
taught him that all living creatures,
humans or beasts. can be handled
more successfully by kindliness and
bit of diplomacy than by force
and brutality.
At Zoo Since 1891.
Mr.. Blackburne assumed his po-
sition here February /. 1891, a
husky circus trainer, wise in the
ways of animals. He already had
served more than a decade under
the big top of Barnum e. Bailey
as keeper, assistant chief of the
menagerie and exhibitor.
Back in 1891 a sulphur crested
cockatoo, a few parrots, four bears
three wolves, one puma. some prairie
dogs and four or five monkeys COM
posed the menagerie that Mr.. Black
burne shepherded to Rock Greek
Park from the back yard of the
Smithsonian Institution
He became keeper and watched
the collection of animals grow tC
include some 5000 birds, reptiles and
mammals.
The years he has spent at the
Zoo have brought their adventures
and their stories Almost daily he
has had to meet emergencies. many
OF which brought unexpected dan
ger.
One of the favorite stories around
the Zoo concerning Mr.. Black
burne involves the manicuring oi
a yak. The feet of hoofed animals
in captivity frequently become elon-
gated, causing severe pain. Usually
the hoofs are clipped after the ami
NAL has been roped and thrown tc
the ground. This practice involves
risk for the animals since shoulders
or hip bones may be broken or dis
located When the yak begar
showing signs Of this trouble. Mr.
Blackburne conceived the idea OF
building a narrow cement walk the
length of the paddock
Filed Own HoOfs.
The yak did the rest. Day by day
as he paced back and forth i'm
patiently waiting for feeding time
he filed his own hoofs on the rough
cement walk. Later this same
method worked with a troublesome
mountain zebra and an African
antelope.
Another story involves a tempera-
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Draft Stay for Dads
In i. 5. Jobs Expected
To End January IS

The stay of induction which has
given fathers in the Federal service
year-end breathing space prob
ably will end around January IS.
That was the prediction yesterday
of a selective service official who
estimated that the Federal agency
committees will be able to notify
draft boards of the fathers they
want deferred by that time.
Although the stay of induction
will run for nearly a month, the
selective service spokesman said
that other fathers will not be
rushed in ahead Of time to substi-
tute for fathers in the Federal serv-
ice who had been scheduled for in
duction. The boards, particularly
in the District. simply will fail to
meet their calls. he said, since other
fathers cannot be ''processed" in
time
Study 1921 Job Stay Ban.
In other developments on the
draft front, the Selective Service
official said VINO and Selective
Service were still discussing the pos
sibility of limiting occupational de-
fermentS of men in the l8-through-
81 age group, although it may not
be as sweeping ban as was indi-
Gated previously.
The cruX of the argument over
the deferment ban, he said. was
whether age and dependents or
Skllls alone should be cause for oc-
cupatiOnal deferment Although the
War Department has stopped re-
queSting deferments for its younger
civilian workers, the ban has not
been spread to other agencies or
private employers.
Stricter on Deferments.
The Selective Service official ad-
mitted there has been pressure from
draft boards, still reluctant to call
fathers who would like to see all the
younger men in uniform. He said
such boards, while having received
no order. were being increasingly
'ei iiSO ia 81 diieiilS OClSlHlSlltS W llltIl
under %.
Although the draft measure signed
by the President early this month
provided that men facing induction
could be given a preliminary physi-
cal examination to determine
whether they will be acceptable, the
Selective Service official said his
agency and the Army and Navy had
not yet worked out details of the
pre-induction physical. He said
many knotty problems had to be
untangled before the new program
could be announced.
The pre-induction physical exam
ination was advocated on Capitol
Hill as method of letting family
heads know whether to wind up
their affairs, by giving them some
idea in advance whether they will
be rejected when they report for in
| ductiOn
Evening star., 1943-12-29

mental lady hippopotamus. Her
favorite pastime was to tear long
gashes in the tough hide of Mr..
Hippo, her patient but suffering
husband each time they disagreed
Mr.. Blackburn fixed Mrs. Hippo
He tied open her huge mouth and
filed of the sharp points of her
teeth.
Oddly enough, his favorite story
doesn't have for its hero a lordly
lion, tiger, or a leopard, but a
plain ordinary cat.
A domestic house cat. the proud
mother of two kittens. was wander
ing lelsurely past the black leopard's S
cage. She turned just in time to
see both her kittens slip inquisitively
through the bars that held a leop-
ard, the meanest animal in the
Zoo"
Without moments hesitation,
the little mother leaped through the
bars. straight onto the back of the
stalking leopard From this stra-
tegic point she set up a frantic hiss
ing. splitting and scratching while
her alarmed kittens scampered out
OF the cage. Before the disconnected
leopard could decide what to do, the
cat made another flying leap to the
farthest side of the cage and
escaped
Mr., Blackburne prefers not to
name his favorite in the Zoo colony.
But some of his friends say it was
"Cocky," a sulpher crested cockatoo.
which greeted him when he first be-
came keeper. Cocky died several
years ago
Whenever Mr.. Blackburne s birth
day arrived and the newspaper
photographers came around. he
would invariably choose "Cocky" to
pose with him.
Mr.. Blackburne was asked how he
would spend his time after retire
ment.
Il guess I'll just take things easv,"
he said. Then, with smile. "Of
course, for recreation III visit the
Zoo"