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Evening star., 1943-10-24
Darden 10 Dedicate
Service Plaque in
airfax Ceremonies

Gov Darden will be the principal
speaker at the service plaque dedi-
cation to be held October 81 at
l 80 pm. in Fairfax, Cecil E. Brown,
chairman of the committee in
charge, announced yesterday.
The guest speaker will be intro
duced by Commissioner of Revenue
James U. Kincheloe, a member of
the committee The dedication will
be preceded by parade, beginning
at pm. at the Fairfax High School
grounds, with military, fraternal,
school and civic groups participat-
ing. The parade will march on
Chain Bridge road, past the review
ing stand on the courthouse green.
5000 Names Listed.
The service plaque, to be located
on the courthouse green, will list
names Of approximately 5000 Fair
lax County men and women who
have served in the armed forces
since the war began. Provision is
made to add names.
10 hnance the cost of the plaque.
contributions are being sought by
the committee. and they may be
sent to Mr.. Brown at county police
headquarters.
Because there are many county
residents in the service who are not
listed with local officials, Mr.. Brown
has asked all persons in the county
to send him the names of relatives
IN the service at once, in order that
they may be listed.
Committee Officials.
Mr.. Kincheloe and G. Wallace
Carper, chairman of the county
board of supervisors, will act as
masters Of ceremonies. Capt. Joseph
Bennett, county civilian defense CO.
ordinator, will be assistant marshal
OF the parade, with Mr.. Brown as
chief marshal.
Other members of the committee
include former State Senator John
w. Rust, Capt. John NJ Gait, Falls
Church, department commander of
the American Legion in Virginia ::
Thomas P Chapman, jr., Capt. Carl
r. Mcintosh, chief Of police, and
Mayor Robert D. Graham, Fairfax
Evening star., 1943-10-24
DR.. Diffendorfer 10 Speak
AT Methodist Union RaIly

DR.. Ralph E. Diffendorfer, exec
utive secretary of the Division of
Foreign Missions of the Methodist
Church, will speak on I'VE Pre-
pare to Return" at the fall rally
Of the Methodist Union at pm.
Wednesday in the Francis Asbury
Methodist Church. Sixteenth and
Lamont streets NV.
o. o. Thomen, Silver Spring, presi-
dent of the union, will preside Mrs.
Joy Elmer Morgan, president of the
Baltimore Conference Woman's So
ciety of Christian Service, will offer
the evening prayer, while the Scrip
ture lesson will be read by c. Will
lard Harvey of the Brookeville
Md Methodist Church.
The program also will include a
talk by Paul B. Cromelin, former
president of the District Bar As
sociation, on the work of the union.
DR.. Robin Gould. pastor of Asbury
Methodist Church, will pronounce
the benediction.
The union comprises about 1000
members and covers the territory
from Frederick to Solomons Island
and from Laurel to Leonardtown.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Leesburg Pastor Accepts
Call in Alexandra

The Rev Clifford R. johnson
Leesburg, Va. has accepted a call
by the Westminster Presbyterian
Church of Alexandra, it was learned
yesterday.
Organized December Is, 1910. by
the Home Mission Committee of the
Potomac Presbytery, the West
minister Church moved into its new
building on Cameron Mills road in
February. 194l The Rev. Frederick
w. HaVerkamp served as pastor un-
til recently, when he was called by
the Home Mission Committee to
start a new church in Westover, Ar
llngton County.
Plans are now being made for
the installation of the Rev. Mr.
Johnson November 7. He is a native
of Columbus. Ga, and was gradu-
ated from Presbyterian College In
Clinton, S. c.. in 1886 He also at
tended Union Theological Seminary
in Richmond. For the last It
months, he has been pastor of the
Leesburg Presbyterian Church.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Man Given $500 Fine
In Assault Charge

Herman Blohm. 2305 South Inge
street, charged with assault during
the last air-raid test. yesterday was
fined $500 and costs by Judge B. M
Hedrick in Arlington County Police
Court. An appeal in the case is be-
ing taken to Circuit Court.
Mr.. Blohm according to the testi-
mony Of Charles Phipard. refused
to turn off his lights and told the
warden to get off his property. The
warden testified that he had his
own sector under control shortly
after the red signal and went to
another sector to help out.
He said that several people turned
their lights off at his request. but
when he approached Mr.. Blohm' S
house he was refused.
MI, Phipard attempted to get the
number of the house. Whereupon Mr..
Blohm struck him on the head with
the small end of a billiard cue, the
court was told
The defendant said he was on the
way in to turn the lights out, but
the warden insisted on forcing his
way into the house.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Prince Georges Gets
Registration Schedule

Brice Bowie, Prince Georges
County Circuit Court, announced
yesterday that he or one of his
deputies will accept declarations of
intention to become citizens of the
State from new county residents at
the following places:
Model House, Landover Hills. 8
pm. Thursday: Mount Rainier
Town Hall. 7 pm Wednesday; Cot
tage City Firehouse. $50 pm.
Wednesday; Watkins home, Rogers
Heights, 7 pm. Thursday; Hilltop
Manor, Bladensburg, $50 pm.
Thursday; Evos Tavern, Defense
highway and Landover road, pm.
Friday; Clinton Firehouse, 7 pm.
Friday; Walls Store, Mayhem road.
Suitland, 7 pm. Friday.
P. w Marshall home, 3O9 Wash
ngton boulevard, District Heights.
$50 pm. Friday; Seat Pleasant
Firehouse, 7:30 pm. Friday: County
Service Building, Hyattsville, 7 pm.
November /; Riverdale Firehouse,
$50 pm. November /.
Office of Justice Of the Peace
George S Phillips, Berwyn, 7:30 pm.
November 2: Phair's Garage, Laurel,
7 pm. November 3; Kennedy Simms
store, Beltville, $50 pm. November
I3; Capitol Heights Firehouse. 7:30
pm. November 5, and Stephens Cit
liens Association Hall, East River
Gale, 7;3O pm, November 4.
Mr.. Bowie emphasized that new
residents must file their declarations
of intent before November 6 in
order to be eligible to vote in the
1914 elections.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Mt. Vernon School Leads
Bond Sales for Week

The Mount Vernon School led the
Alexandria public schools in War
bond and stamp sales for the last
week with total of S773.20. while
the George Washington High School
l.. DIS in total sales for the term
with figure of S3O,385 go, school Of
flcials said yesterday.
Last weeks totals Tor the city's
schools are as follows: George Wash
lrgton High School. S7O9.95: Jeffer-
son, Sl94.20 Maury. $139.50. Lee,
Sll8.55, George Mason. Sl13.35
Washington, $3.50; Douglas Mac
Arthur, $3.50: Lyles Crouch. S31. 80:
Parker Gray, $500, and Seminary,
$3.50.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Fairfax, Alexandra
This Week
For Ration Book 4

Registration for No. 4 ration
books will be held this week in Alex
andria and Fairfax County.
Fairfax County, Ration Board
officials said books will be issued
from 4 to 9 pm. Tuesday and
Wednesday at all white schools,
with the exception of Fairfax High
and jefferson High in Falls Church.
Two colored schools, the Vienna
and Falls Church, will be used for
the distribution of books.
Alexandria Schools Listed.
In Alexandria, the new books viii!
be issued from l to 9 pm. Thurs
day and Friday at the following
city schools:
Washington, jefferson, Mount Ver-
non, Lee, Maury, George Mason.
Lyles Crouch. Parker Gray and
Seminary. Residents of Cameron
Valley and Chlnquapin Village will
be issued books at the community
buildings in the two developments.
The George Washington High
School and the Douglas Macarthur
School, serving Cameron Valley and
Chinquapin Village, will not be used
in the registration.
James S. Douglas, chief clerk of
the Alexandria board, said persons
who fail to register for new books
during the two-day period must wait
until after November Is and apply
at the board.
No. Book Needed.
All persons applying for No. 4
books must present their No. books,
1t was stated. Those who do not
have No. books may receive them
at the Alexandria and Fairfax board
headquarters before the registration
period. One member of a family
may register for all members of
that family unit.
Meanwhile, Arlington County
ration officials said approximately
$1,000 No books were issued last
week, and Montgomery County Of
ficials estimated from 100000 to
100000 books were issued in the
county. No figures were available
last night on the number of books
issued in Prince Georges County.
The new books were issued in the
one Virginia and two Maryland
counties Thursday and Friday at
county schools.
Evening star., 1943-10-24

Lucketts, and Waterford Schools;
Wednesday, Bluemont. Hamilton,
Purcellville, Round Hill. and Unison
Bloomfield; Thursday, Aldie, Arcola.
and Middleburg; Friday, Ashburn.
The schools will be open from $50
am. to 900 pm.
LOudoun Group Second.
Loundoun County group, COM
posed of Peggy Anne Benedum, Lin
coin; Mae Hummer, Round Hill, and
George Miller, Lincoln, placed sec
ond to Fauquier County in the milk
ing contest held on the Clemens
Farm, near Leesburg The winning
team had score of 269s4.
Ward Transferred.
Aviation Student George E. Ward,
jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Ward of Leesburg, has completed his
training at Texas Tech, Lubbock,
Tex, and has now been transferred
to the Western Training Command
of the 4th Air Force at Santa Anna,
Calf. Ward graduated from Lees
burg High School in June.
Blood Donor Unit at Middleburg.
The mobile unit of the Red Cross
Blood Donor Center will come to
Middleburg November l6 The quota
for this visit will again be 100 pints
|of blood. Mrs. R. L. Booth will be
chairman, assisted by Mrs. Algernon
IS. Day. Mrs. Oliver Iselin, jr., and
Miss Laura Sprague.
Celebrate Golden Anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas H. Bell will
celebrate their fiftieth wedding an
niversary tomorrow when members
of their family will be present for
a dinner party. The Bells are ma
tives of Louooun County and Mrs.
Bell. before her marriage, was Miss
Leslie Amy French. They were
married at the Waterford Baptist
Church by the late Rev. Charles T.
Herndon. They have children. II
grandchildren and l great-grand-
child. All will be present at the
celebration except a grandson who is
overseas.
Card Party Scheduled.
The LeeSburg Parent Teacher As
ISOLATION will hold a card party at
the school auditorium at 8 pm
Thursday There will be refresh
Iments and prizes.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Great Naval raining Station
Rises From Mud at Boinbridqe
BY The Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
BAINBRIDGE, Md, Oct. 23.-It
was not uncommon a year ago to
see Navy men striding about the
site of the Bainbridge Naval Train
ing Station with yellow mud on
their trousers hip-high.
Today on those same broad acres,
where the first recruits saw little
but few barracks and bulldozers
hard at the job of clearing the
land there spreads one of the
worlds greatest naval training sta
tions.
Already graduates of Bainbridge s
recruit regiments are present wher-
ever the fleet sails and Bainbridge
men have distinguished themselves
in virtually every theater of war.
Despite the transition from mud
to military Smartness there won't
be any celebration Bainbridge is
too busy with the job OF training
men.
Sixty Recruits Arrive.
1t was on October 81, 1912, that
the first so bewildered recruits ar
rived at Bainbridge and were "piped
aboard" by the band.
There were no happy hours
(the Navy's No l entertainment
and get together for PERSONNEL, the
movies were few and far between,
not to mention of ancient vintage,
and everywhere there was mud.
BY mld-November. however, build
ings had been constructed so rapidly
by the civilian workmen that almost
5000 men were aboard Balm
bridge was on its way.
1t is now the equivalent of a triv-
ing small city, and not SO small at
that
The more than 500 buildings cover
about 1000 acres Among them are
SIX huge mess halls, each capable Of
feeding $500 men, The station has
a huge amphitheatre which can seat
$4,000 for shows during good
weather.
Four Great Halls.
There are four great halls where
the men can see movies, drill. or en-
gage in any number of athletic ac-
tivities.
Although the exact number of men
at cambridge comes under the
heading of military secrets, it is well
known that there are six units at
Evening star., 1943-10-24
5 Soldiers 10 Exhibit
In Nearby Art Show

Five soldiers from Fort BelvOir
will be among the exhibitors at an
art show in the Alexandria Library
November l to 7. sponsored by the
Artists Professional League as a
feature Of American Art Week
Mrs. Harrison Thornton, chair
man of the committee in charge
said the men who will show their
work are Well-knoWn artists now
doing technical work at Fort Belvoir.
They include Technical Sergt
Frederico Castellon, a native Of
Spain. winner of a Guggenheim
fellowship, who has exhibited in
Paris and Madrid and whose work
is in the collections Of the Chicago
Art Institute, the Philadelphia and
Whitney Museums; Corpl. Ralph
Harrison, Windsor, Ontario, Chi
Cago Art Institute student special
iZing in illustrations and water
colorS Sergt. Paul Galdone, Buda-
pest. whose work is on exhibit in
several New York galleries and who
has done muralS for the Army and
vi n 4ii5o 4OI ain, Vic 1Illl1 puU-
lication.
Also exhibiting will be Corpl.
Roger T. Peterson. bird painter, who
was education director and staff
artists for the National Audubon
Society. and Sergt. Chad Groth-
kopf, a Chicago Art Institute stu
dent who does a syndicated strip
called Moments of History"
Alexandria artists who will show
their work include Mrs. Charles
Norton Nager, Mrs. Mary Ballard
Snow, Mrs. Bertha Dougherty, Ho-
race Hunter. Mr.. and Mrs. John P.
Roche, Charles Coe. Paul Arlt Mrs.
Laurance Thompson. Mrs. E. L.
Akerly, Mr.. and Mrs Olaf Saug-
stadt, Mr.. ana Mrs. Sigsbee Gilham,
Miss Harriet Hill and Miss Frances
Holmes.
Mrs. Thornton is being assisted
by Mrs. Harvey Luce Mrs. Arlt and
Mrs James L. Scott, librarian of the
Alexandria Public Library.
A special showing and tea will be
held from to 5 pm. next Sunday
to open the exhibit.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Alexandria USO Club
Gets Program Director

The appointment of Edward j.
Ronsheim, ST., to the staff of the
Alexandria USO Club, 1905 Cameron
street, as program director, has been
announced by the Rev. John H.
Blakemore, chairman of the Operat-
ing Committee of the club.
Mr.. Ronsheim comes to Alexandria
from Anderson, Ind, where he has
been city supervisor of recreation
since 1890 He was granted a leave
of absence.
Mr.. Ronsheim has had 80 years
experience in YMCA, Boy Scout
and other organized groups, special
lzlng in program development and
personnel training. He also served
for a time as editor of the An
derson Herald.
Evening star., 1943-10-24

Bainbridge. Two of these are re-
cruit units where the novice seaman
is put through his boot" training
Here he learns that floor is a
deck, walls are bulkheads, and stair
ways are ladders as we'll as how to
tie knots, drill and the hundreds of
other things a sailor must know.
Still another unit is made up of
the steward mates school. where
colored men are trained to be naval
stewards.
A fourth is devoted to a service
school where men, selected after
boot" training, get specialized in
struction in signal work, radio, gun
merry and any one of dozen other
Specialties.
The fifth unit is known as the
outgoing group. Here are the men
who have been selected for duty at
sea or at other land bases, waiting
to be sent out
Sixth Is Ships Company.
The sixth is the ships company
where enlisted personnel assigned
to the station for working duties
are housed, fed and entertained.
cambridge also is host to the
Navy's physical instructors school.
Viz selectees back from the fleet
and other Eastern bases for re-
fresher courses before going to COL
lege for training, and the new naval
preparatory school where men from
the fleet brush up on academic
studies for the Annapolis entrance
examinations.
Bainbridge has its own 1,00O-b bed
naval hospital, in addition to SICK
bays; laundry, bake shop, tailor and
cObbling shops. ships stores, COM
missary for groceries and such, the
finest movies available, personal ap-
pearances by stage and screen stars,
and even its own neWspaper-wrlt-
ten, edited and printed by Balm
bridge men.
The Mainsheet, which is issued
every Saturday. is undoubtedly the
staunchest supporter of the football
team, the Bainbridge Commodores
and with good reason. The eleven
has racked up three consecutive vic
tories and is studded with stars from
professional and amateur ranks.
Outside the reservation proper lie
housing facilities for $50 families
to accommodate civilians working
at the station
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Thursday Is DeodIine
For Absentee Ballots

j. Maynard Magruder, chairman
OF the Arlington County Democratic
Executive Committee, warned yes
terday that Thursday is the last
day application can be made for
absentee ballots.
Persons temporarily absent from
the county or physically unable to
go to the polls should make appli-
cation to the registrar of the pre-
elnct where they live, he said
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Tin Salvage Wednesday
In Prince Georqes

The next regular collection Of tin
cans in Prince Georges County will
be made Wednesday, Mrs. Ruth P.
Keane. chairman Of Civilian War;
Services Of the County Defense
Council, announced yesterday.
The campaign. which was inau-
gurated last month calls for similar
collections the last Wednesday Of
each month.
All county residents are urged TO
deposit their scrap tins outside their
homes before 8 am. Special con-
tainers have been placed in central
locations in rural areas ANY ad-
ditional information may be OBJ
tanned by calling Mrs. Keane at
Union 1924.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Montgomery Firemen
To Study Broadening
Of Membership Rule,
Bylaws Change Would
Alter Name and
Admit Bethesda Unit

Plans to change the bylaws o.
the Montgomery County Association
of Volunteer Firemen to include al
flre-fighting organizations in tht
county will be placed before tht
November meeting of the Executive
Committee. it was learned last night
A recommendation, presented by
the Glen Echo department at al
Executive Committee meeting Fri.
day night, would change The name
of the associate to the Montgom-
cry County Firemens Association
The change would allow the Be-
thesda Fire Department. the only
paid organization in the county. tt
become a member OF the associa-
ton.
Better Understanding Sought.
Representatives of the volunteer
units pointed out that the change
will bring about more harmonious
working conditions among Depart
mentS in the county and will create
a better understanding among all
organizations.
The recommendation will be voted
on by the u member organizations
and will be presented TO the EXecu-
tive Committee for final action Nc
vember 26 II will be voted on by
the association at a meeting Decem-
ber 10.
The association also is expected to
consider at It's next meeting a rec
ommendation by Henry Marschalk
of the Takoma Park department
that ciSternS be constructed to pro-
vide more adequate fire protection
in rural centerS.
Spencer Brown. former chief of
the Sandy Spring department, point
ed out that Sandy Springs ciStern
water supply had proved effective in
recent years, and representatives OF
other rural departments advocated
that the construction of CiSternS be
made a winter project. 1t was point
ed out that approximately 80 per
cent of the rural section of the
country is without sufficient water
1ol IRE IlSIlIlllg.
Committee Heads Named.
Bradley C. Riggs of the KenSing-
ton department, president of the
association, appointed the following
committee chairmen:
Fire training, Chief John Gibson.
Silver Spring; fire prevention, Victor
Bender. Silver Spring; civilian de-
fense, Assistant Chief Robert Dun
lop, Chevy Chase; first aid training,
Harold Hirst. Takoma Park; legiS-
lative, Irving w. johnson, Glen
Echo; rural fire fighting, Chief
Valentine Wilson, Rockville; audit
ing, Norman Jones, Takoma Park:
statistics, William Wilding, lillian
dale; inspections and standards,
John Cole, Silver Spring; technical
engineering, William Hammond
Glen Echo; entertainment, John
Wilton, Chevy Chase; sick visitation,
Edward Wilks, Kensington; ways
and means. Chief Joseph Clam
matteo, Glen Echo: fire alarm,
Charles Deffinbaugh, Silver Spring;
mutual aid, Chief Herman Dig,
Hillandale; public relations, Mr..
Marschalk; resolutions, Chief A. D.
Farquhar, Sandy Spring, and pen
sions, Hiram Musgrove, Bethesda.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Registration This Week
For Spanish Course

Registration for a class in begin
ming Spanish will be held between
7:30 and 8 pm. tomorrow through
Thursday at Bethesda-Chevy Chase
High School on EaSt-West highway
in Bethesda. Mrs. Katharine Rodri-
guez will be the instructor.
Glasses also are available in inter-
mediate and advanced Spanish, typ
ing shorthand. machine shop, cleo
tric welding, acetylene Welding and
brazing.
Those unable to register at the
school should call Wisconsin GIGS
between 7 pm. and midnight any
night.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Arlington County PUG:
Threatens Breakdown
In Bus Line Fight

The Arlington County Public Util-
tiles Commission will file objections :
to alleged authorization operation
of A. B. and w. Bus Co. buses in Z,
darlington If the line continues TO-
oppose the Alington-Fairfax motor .
Transportation Co.'S application for =.
cross-county bus route, 1t was
learned yesterday.
j. Maynard Magruder, chairman
OF the utilities commission, said he
had endeavored to avoid an i'm. :
passe in negotiations for a one :
and-one- -flfth-mile extension to get
Arlington Fairfax lines in Fairlins-'
ton, but that action of the A. B. =
and w. Co. may force US to file
objections with the State Corpora
ton Commission" =
He said the State Commission
either lacks the authority to issue,
or has established the custom of not :
issuing, temporary permits such as
the Arlington Fairfax line seeks;
The A. B. and w. line now furnishes
interstate service between Fair
lington and the District under an /.
emergency order of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. =
However, Mr.. Magruder said, it is
also engaged in intrastate business
IN carrying passengers from Fair
lington to Alexandria. This opera
ton, Mr.. Magruder said, Is carried
on without State Corporation
Commission permit.
Judge Lester Hooker, chairman
of the Corporation Commission: G..
A. Seibert, examiner for the COM
mission; Arlington State Senator
William D. Medley, E. L. Usilton.
president of the county Chamber
of Commerce, and 1t. J. J. Scott
OF the county police department
made survey of the proposed route
last week with Mr.. Magruder.
Pointing out the immediate need
for public transportation to Fair
lington, Mr.. Magruder said he was
confident that Commissioner Hook
er would understand the needs Of
the county, and upon withdrawal Of
the A. B. & w. objections would
not interpose an obstacle to the
Arlington Fairfax line institutine
service as a public convenience.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Two From Alexandria
To Take Motor Course

Mrs. Edward Rowley and Mrs.
Warner Rodiman will represent the
Alexandria Red Cross Motor Corps
at a special motor maintenance
course to be given for Red Cross
instructors by the District division
of the American Automobile Asso-
citation this week. Mrs. RoWley and
Mrs. Rodiman will organize Motor
Corps class at the Alexandria chap
ter house after they finish the
course.
This class is planned to start
about November 8 and any one in
terested in joining the Motor Corps
and taking advantage of the train
ing is invited to call Alexandria
1852 or to see Mrs. Dillon at the
chapter house, AIT Duke street, from
1:30 to pm. any Tuesday.
Evening star., 1943-10-24
Homemukers Elect Officers

Mrs. Donald Roberts, Bethesda,
has been elected president of the
Montgomery County Council of
Homemakers. Others elected are ::
Mrs. George Nicholson, Comus Club,
first vice president; Mrs. Wilbur
Nash, Olney- Sunshine Club, second
vice president; Mrs. Hale Sehorn,
Silver Spring Club, secretary, and
Mrs. Carlton Browning, Upper
Montgomery, treasurer.