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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-28

Point of Dispute
Whether the cultivated banana
had its native home in Asia or in
America is point of dispute.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Nursery School Arranges
Fu|I-Day Schedule

Expansion of the MONTGOMERY
Blair Nursery School in Silver
Spring, Md, to a ll-day program
beginning March l was announced
today.
This will be the first all-day pro-
gram in public school. Nurseries
now are on halliday basis.
Under the new plan the nursery
school will be open from 9 am. to
4 pm. daily Mondays through Fri
days, and special arrangements for
additional care after o'clock will be
arranged as facilities permit. Chill
dren already on a half day basis
may continue with that plan. Pref
erence will be given to children who
need all-day care.
Children from 3 to 5 years of age
are accepted. and all must be vacci-
mated before entrance For further
information parents are requested
to call at Montgomery Blair High
School, Silver Spring OO44.
Mrs. Clara Perkins and Miss Jane
Beals are the nursery school teachers
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Election Supervisors,
Magistrates Named
For Prince GEORGES
O'Conor Also Submits
Nominations for
Justices of the Peace
BY the Associated Press,

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 24.-Appoint-
ment of trial magistrates, election
supervisors and other Prince Georges
County officials were made yester-
day by Gov. O'Conor.
The following Prince Georges
County appointments were submit
ted to the Senate:
Election Observation-Disclosures L.
Buscher, Berwyn; Samuel A. Wyvill
and Roland r. Ryon, both OF Upper
Marlboro. two-year terms beginning
June 7.
Trial magistrates Walter L.
Green, Hyattsville; Allan Bowie,
Upper Marlboro, and Henry H.
O'Neill, Bladensburg, substitute at
large, for two-year terms beginning
May 3.
Board of Beer License Commits
sioners-Mrs. Mary w. Browning
Riverdale; jeremiah J. Crowley,
Landover; William H. Brooks, Up
per Marlboro, two-year terms begin
ming June /.
Justices of the Peace-Henry H.
O'Neill, Bladensburg; George H.
Morris. Marlboro; Gilbert E. Will
son, PlscataWay; Judson Creecy,
Spauldings; Charles D. Davis, Lau-
rel; w. r. C. Connick, Aquasco;
Griffith Oursler. Surrattsville; F. H.
Billingsley, Brandywine; George N.
Cox, Oxon Hill; John j. Fainter,
Hyattsville; Robert H. Palmer, Seat
Pleasant; Rutherford B. Hayes, Riv-
erdale; Louis Gundling, Lapham,
and George S. Phillips, Berwyn, two
year terms beginning May 8.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
County Heads Oppose
Bills for Bond Issues
Without Referenda
Prince Georges Board
Receives Reports on
Road and Sidewalk Jobs

The Prince Georges County Com
missioners today were on record in
opposition to any further authorize
tion by the State Legislature for the
issuance of bonds in the county un-
less provision is made for a refer
endum.
The action was taken at the COM
missioners' meeting yesterday in
Upper Marlboro and letter ex-
planning the boards attiture sent to
State Senator L. Harold Sothoron, a
member OF the county delegation to
the Legislature
Two requests for bond issues have
been made recently before the
commissioners. Supt. of Schools
Nicholas Orem has urged the board
to apprave bill authorizing it to
issue bonds up to $500 900 for the
construction OF new schools after
the war.
Road Plans to BE Made.
In addition, issuance Of $500 000
worth of bonds for postwar public
Improvements has been recon-
mended by the Advisory Board to
the commissioners. Neither group
had mentioned a referendum on the
proposals.
The board also received notice
from Wilson T. Ballard, chief engi-
neer of the State Roads Commis-
sion, stating that plans and speci-
flcations will be prepared as soon as
possible for construction of a 1900
foot road from Landover road to the
new county hospital site in Cheverly
Mr.. Ballard said the road. which
will be of bituminous- bound gravel
type, would cost about $4,000. Curbs
and cutters also will be constructed
along the road.
Sidewalk Project.
Fred w. Tuemmler, director of
planning of the Maryland National
Park and Planning Commission
told the commissioners he has di-
rected the completion of plans and
specifications for construction of a
sidewalk along the Washington
Baltimore boulevard from Queens
Chapel road in University Park to
College Park.
The board appointed Mrs. Ruth
Keane of Riverdale as chairman of
the Board of Zoning Appeals of the
county to succeed 1t Edward A.
Fuller, u. S. NJ, who has resigned,
Evening star., 1943-02-24
County Has No Salvage Chief,
But Gets Award for Collections
Inquiry on Complaints That Campaign Logs
Reveals Montgomery Directors Resignation

Inquiry concerning the alleged
breakdown Of scrap and tin can col
lection in Montgomery County dis
closed today that the county is with
out salvage chairman.
George V. Menke said he had ten
dered his resignation as county
salvage director to the Maryland
State Salvage Committee more than
two weeks ago, but had not yet re-
ceived an answer.
Although the county has no
salvage director, it has been awarded
a pennant by the State Salvage
Committee for outstanding achieve
ment" in the collecting of scrap last
year.
In letter to Mr.. Menke an
nouncing the award, H. Findlay
French, committee chairman, praised
MIR. Menke's work in directing the
drive.
The pennant was presented yes
terday to the county commissioners.
Mr.. Menke said the county had COL
lected more than 100000 pounds of
scrap in 1912, as we'll as thousands
OF pounds of rubber and waste paper.
Resigned Because of Othen Duties.
Mr.. Menke said he resigned be-
cause he could not handle the SAL
wage job efficiently, due to his duties
as director of mobile service of the
USO, Sd Service Command.
When notified of Mr.. Menke's
resignation, Judge Albert E. Brault
county civilian defense director, said
1t was news to me-"
Although he said he did not ap-
point Mr.. Menke, Judge Brault
added, he would recommend sue
cessor to the State Salvage Com
mittee as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, county residents have
complained that no collections are
being made of scrap metal and tin
cans pling up outside their homes.
Collections Being Made.
Mr.. Menke declared, however, that
collections are being made every
Saturday by Blake Merson, operator
of trash-collection service in the
suburban area of the county.
He said Mr.. Merson told him he
had sent more than $4,000 pounds
Of tin cans to Baltimore since the
drive started January 8. Mr.. Menke
urged those wishing to contribute
tin cans to call Mr. Merson, Shep-
herd 1906, and truck will be sent
to pick them up.
Mr.. Menke added that many resi-
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Prince Georges Board
Eight Books
For Pleasure DRIVING
Penalties Also PIonned
For Motorists Who
Fail to Appear

Suspension of the gasoline ration
books Of eight Prince Georges
County motorists and removal of
coupons from the A books of two of
the eight for alleged pleasure driv-
ing was ordered yesterday at hear
ing in the County Service Building
in Hyattsville.
At the same time, the special
board which heard the cases an
nounced that it will penalize alleged
pleasure driving violators who fail
to appear when notified. An addi-
toinal penalty will be imposed for
the number of days they are absent
after being ordered to surrender
their gasoline books The board
said motorists who fail to appear
Will be given three days in which
to surrender their books.
Six motorists who failed to appear
before the board yesterday had both
their supplementary and A books
suspended for Is days. They are:
Ludwig G. Rodriguez, Mount Rainier;
Aylmer S. Lucas, Berwyn; Nathan F..
Henderson, Mount Rainier; Arthur
G. Rollman, Riverdale; William P.
Frank, Lanham, and Thomas E.
Lynch, r. F. D., No S, Anacostia.
The two other motorists penalized
were:
William F. Little, Hyattsville, two
A coupons removed, and j. Rodman
Harris, Hyattsville, two A coupons
removed.
Meanwhile, j. Leonard Burch.
county rationing chairman, said that
any applicant for supplementary
gasoline book may obtain it by fill
ing out form R543 and mailing it to
his local ration board together with
his tire registration blank. Form
R543 may be obtained at the ration
board. Heretofore, applicants had
to appear in person.
Mr.. Burch also announced that
the ration board in Hyattsville is
mailing copies of Ration Book No. / |
to those who do not have them. He
said the mailing will be completed
before the end of the three e-day
registration period for Ration Book |
No. 2, which opened today.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Cent.a.Quart
Milk Price Rise
In Prospect
Amendment to Grunt
Increase to Producers
Drawn by FDA

Residents of the District area were
put on notice today of prospective
cent-a-quart increase in the price
Of milk in this area.
The Agriculture Department an
nounced that the Food Distribution
Administration has drafted proposed
amendments to the Federal milk
marketing order which would grant
the farmers rise of 40 cents hun
dred pounds in the price they re-
ceive for milk in this area.
That would mean an increase Of
slightly less than l cent quart to
consumers. The FDA..also was re-
ported to have decided to allow an
increase of 30 cents a hundred
pounds in the price of milk sold for
manufacturing uses.
All milk produced in this area,
under the proposed amendments,
would be considered Class /, to be
bottled and sold. That would assure
Washington of an adequate milk
supply, officials declared.
Limit on Glass l Now.
At present, producers are limited
In the amount of Glass l milk they
may sell. All milk over the quota
is considered Glass milk, for which
they get lower price
Public hearings were held last
month on the proposed amendments.
The FDA announced that it would
be possible to fill exceptions to the
order through March l.
The proposed new prices would
raise the cost of Glass ! fluid milk
from base price of $3,57 to $3.97.
The Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association had asked
for an increase of SO cents a hun
dred pounds.
The FDA said the increases were
expected to maintain or slightly in
crease the present level of produc-
| ton.
The proposed increases we're
viewed as justified on the basis of
testimony that wages paid here
have increased 81 per cent; feed
costs, A per cent, and everything
else purchased by farmers, Is per
cent since January, 194l.
Rise Previously Permitted.
During the same period the price
of Glass l milk has increased only
IL per cent and the average price
to farmers for all milk only rs per
cent, it was said.
The FDA said 1t was expected that
| all milk produced here would be
allocated to Glass /, with the pos
sible exception of a small amount
in May and June, the peak months
OF production.
officials said milk supplies prob
ably will be brought in from out
side the normal milkshed during 10
months of the year. During 1912,
milk was shipped into the WASH
ington market from Pennsylvania,
Ohio, New York and Wisconsin.
Normally, all milk in this area
comes from farms in Maryland and
Virginia.
After exceptions are considered
by the department, tentatively ap-
proved amendments to the order
may be submitted to farmers and
handlers for approval.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Model Store SET Up
To Explain Rationing
To Consumers Here
Point System Clarified
In Agriculture Department
Exhibit Booth

A model store to demonstrate
point rationing has been set up in
the Agriculture Departments ad-
ministration building at Fourteenth
street and Independence avenue
S.W.
Approximately 500 everyday food
items, contributed by local retail
food dealers, are on it's shelves.
Each item in the stock is marked
with a price tag and point value,
just as grocers will mark their stocks
after March /.
Besides processed foods which are
rationed, the store has fresh fruits
and vegetables and other articles
which are not rationed. Adjoining
the store, the Red Cross has set up
a booth to demonstrate how to use
foods properly to get maximum
nourishment.
The exhibition will remain open
from 8 am. to pm, daily for a
week. tT
Among the rationed foods, de-
hydrated products are given promi-
nent display. Dehydrated soup on
the shelf, equivalent to six servings,
has point value of four compared
to canned soup OF about the same
quantity, which has a point value of
six.
Everyday foods in the store, which
are not yet rationed, include meat.
dairy products, fresh fruits and
vegetables, fish, bread, canned milk,
cakes. pastries and pies. Visitors to
the store are being advised to plan
their family meals largely with these
products to conserve their ration
points for essential processed foods
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Alexandra Votes
$4,000 10 Purchase
New Playground Site
Council Also AIIots
$500 to Acquire
Rail Right Of Way

The first step toward enlarging
Alexandria's playground facilities
was taken last night when the City
Council passed on first reading a
$4,000 appropriation for purchase of
a site on the west side of Russell
road north of the Maury School
The property is owned by the
Catholic Church and negotiations
for the purchase have been under
way for some time without success.
At one time the church considered
using the site for parochial school.
The final agreement was effected
through the efforts of Vice Mayor
Eugene Simpson and City Manager
Carl Budwesky.
Buys Right of Way.
Another appropriation passed on
first reading was for $500 to buy
the right of way from the Southern
Railway for construction of a sewer
to run east of Royal street to Colum-
bus street at a point north of the
tracks on South street. The sewer
will serve the Hunting Terrace
apartment project and other de-
velopments south Of Franklin street
The Community Health Center
was granted $3.50 for the operation
of night clinic.
The council granted the applica
ton of Waverly Taylor to rezone q
parcel of ground bounded by Full
ton street, Clifford avenue and
Commonwealth avenue to d. COM
mercial, and two lots at the south
east corner of Clifford and Com
monwealth avenues to C-l residen-
tial.
Mr.. Taylor Is building a large row.
house development and plans to
put two stores for the convenience
of the tenants in the lot rezoned as
commercial.
Also granted was the application
of Mary Gunthorp to rezone 314
South Alfred street to d. COM
mercial for use as beauty shop
Considers Traffic.
A committee named to suggest
measures to improve the traffic sit
uation at the northwest corner of
King and Washington streets recon-
mended an ordinance to change the
route of Greyhound and some A., B.
g. w. buses to relieve congestion as
well as an ordinance for the control
of taxi stands on Washington street.
The Council will give the bus and
taxi companies a chance to be heard
before any action is taken.
Evening star., 1943-02-24

SENATE.
Convened at 1:33 pm.
Bills Introduced
S. B. 2S4 tBy Hampton)-To provide for
the leVylne of taxes on taxable property
in Montgomery County 10 pay for refunded
or exchanged bonds and interest thereon.
champion, Sothoron, Kimble)
Bills Passed
S B. .20s (By Altfeld)-To amend Nor
gan College law providing for the selection
OF the Board of Trustees.
S. b. 223 tBy Byrnesl-To amend law
governing the granting OF aid to dependent
children.
S. B. 1885 tBy FunD-To repeal Fred
erick County law on killing of swine
geese and poultry in New Market and
Liberty.
S. B. ls6 (By Funk)-To repeal sec
tions OF Frederick County law relating to
compensation OF judges and clerks Of
S. B. 1877 tBy Funk)--To amend Fred
erick County law on appointment OF County
Roads Commission, traffic courts and desig-
nation Of through highways.
S. B. 227 tBy Cronin)--To provide for
payment of certain costs before testa-
mentary letters are issued.
H. B. SO tBy Conlon}-To eliminate pro-
vision that reports Of marriages and di-
vorces be sent to State controller
H. B. 70 tBy Conlon)-To require a
charge for payment OF license fees to COM
missioner Of motor vehicles by bad check.
H. 3. 6s tBy Conlon)-To authorize use
H. M ~ tBy Conlon)--To provide for
Acknowledgement of conveyances for those
outside United States military service.
II. B. $50 tBy MONTGOMERY County dele
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Legislative Routine
ANNAPOLIS Feb 2Routne proceedings Legislature yes

gation)--To provide annual salary of So
4UO Tor magistrate of juvenile causes in
Montgomery County.
10 require work or fight" order for
Talbot County.
Resolutions Passed
H. j. r. (By Conlon)-To REQUEST the
congress Of the United States to suggest
me setting up of plans for federation of
Adjourned at 2:47 pm. until 1:l5
pm. today.
HOUSE.
Convened at l:50 pm.
Bills introduced.
B, $50 tBy Di Domenico and Pollack)
TO prohibit the designation of an insur-
ance agent or broker as a condition prece-
mortsage or real property. tJudciary)
H. b. 3S2 tBy Reed)-To prohibit sale
OF peer IN bottles or cans unless containers
are labeled as to alcoholic content. Judi
H. B, 391 tBy Montgomery delegationl
Relating TO the appointment duties and
compensation of assistant treasurers and
clerks in Montgomery County. tDeIega-
tion)
Resolutions Introduced
H. J. R. !3 tBy Skar and Moore)-To
request the legislative council to study the
committee system of both houses of the
General Assembly and to recommend meas
ures for modernisation. JudiciaryD
Adjourned at 2;37 pm. until u 30
pm. today.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Hoge Quits Alexandra
City Council Race

L. Gilmer Hoge, Alexandria busi-
nessman, has withdrawn as a cam
didate for the City Council.
Mr.. Hoge, who had filed his inten-
ton of running in the Democratic
primary April S, said he found the
pressure of private business would
make it impossible for him to seek
one of the three posts of councilman
at large.
His withdrawal leaves seven can
didates in the field. In addition to
the incumbents. Mayor William T.
Wilkins, Vice Mayor Eugene Simp-
son and Councilman Charles Stump.
they are former Ward Councilmen
Ernest Mankin and James Arm
strong and two political newcomers,
Donald Jameson and Robert Zin-
norman.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Tax Areas Hit Method
Of Trash Collection
Districts Not Consulted,
Maryland Groups Assert

A proposal to have the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Commission
collect trash and garbage from $3.50
homes in six Montgomery and Prince
Georges County areas was opened
yesterday in a resolution received
by the Montgomery County Com
missioners.
The resolution was adopted by
delegates representing taxing areas
l, 2, 3, 4, S and Martins Addition,
Chevy Chase.
1t said there was no objection in
principle to legislation authorizing
the collection for areas having no
local self-governing organizations
but the signatories "strenuously op-
pose inclusion of such self-governing
areas in any system of trash and
garbage collection without the con-
sent Of the areas affected"
I'VE will indorse the proposed
legislation provided inclusion of any
of these self-governing areas is con-
ditioned upon the consent of their
governing bodies being first had and
Z n
public hearing was asked.
Lacy Shaw, president of the Mont
gomery Board of Commissioners,
said he had been advised by the
county's representatives in the
Legislature that hearing would be
held at Chevy Chase.
A resolution from the Parent
Teacher Association Of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School was Of
fered requesting the County Board of
Education to prepare a plan to i'm
prove the grounds of county schools.
The commissioners appointed
Edward o. Downs, 7434 Wisconsin
avenue, Bethesda, and Lee Hurd,
Sandy Spring, special policemen for
the county, in place of William r.
De Vries and Earl Chesley, resigned,
at annual salaries of $1,000 The
appointments are effective March /.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Maryland Corrections
Chief PIuns to Quit
BY the Associated Press.

1S tFt nSSUCldbt0 f>TtbS.
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 24.-Willis r.
Jones, director Of the Department of
Correction, notified Coy. O'Conor to-
day that he would not be a candidate
to succeed himself at the present
S4000-a-year salary.
A Baltimore lawyer, Mr.. Jones was
a former deputy attorney general.
He ran against William C. walsh,
the present attorney general in the
primary
Mr.. Jones wrote Gov. O'Conor that
compensation paid the director of
the department, which operates the
States penal institutions, was insult
flcient to justify the time and effort
necessary for the work.
There was no indication today who
Gov. O'Conor would appoint.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Young Bandits Take $500
From Fairfax Restaurant

Three teenAage bandits held up
restaurant last night at Tysons
Corner In Fairfax County and
escaped with 5000, according to
Fairfax police.
Ronald r. Reeves. owner, told
police the three youths, whom he
described as about l9, walked into
the restaurant about IL pm. with
drawn revolvers.
After going through the pockets
of two customers, the bandits rif1ed
the cash register and then forced
Mr.. Reeves. the two customers and
a waitress into a back room. Police
said the youths obtained only about
80 cents from the customers, Frank
Myers and Morris Smith.
District police said three youths
answering the same description held
up store here earlier yesterday.
Evening star., 1943-02-24

dents have been taking their tin
cans to schools, where they are
picked up by county liquor trucks.
Leland Junior High, Bethesda Ele-
mentary and the Woodside School
have been used as collection CEN
ters in Bethesda and Silver Spring,
he asserted.
He also said he would ask Supt.
OF Schools Edwin w. Broome to
permit people to deposit tin cans
ON the grounds of any school.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Fire Volunteer Glasses
To Sturt in Clarendon

Regular fire training classes for
Arlington volunteer firemen will be-
gin Monday at the Clarendon Vol
unteer Fire House, it was announced
today. The classes, which will be
held at 7:30 pm. each Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, will be
under the direction of officers of
the Arlington Fire Department.
A meeting of officers of the fire
department will be held at pm.
tomorrow at the home of Sergt. Roy
Adams, 1920 North Garfield street,
and regular firemen will meet March
3 at the Clarendon fire house.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
4 X
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WAR Bonds.
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Every flyer has sworn to protect
the secret of the Norden bomb sight
with his life. When the bomb sight
is not in his possession, safely in
its canvas bag, it is under armed
guard "a hours daily. The bonn
bardier carries it to his plane. When
his successful mission is completed,
he carries it back to the guard room.