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Evening star., 1943-07-12
Woodside Club Elects
Mrs. Benedict President

Mrs. James E. Benedict has been
elected president of the Current
Comment Club, Woodside, Md.
Other officers are Mrs. William w.
Dudley. vice president; Miss Olive
Kinsman, corresponding secretary:
Mrs. George L. Clark, recording Sec
retary; Mrs. Hugh L. Buckingham,
treasurer: Mrs. Charles Prettyman,
director: Miss Ethel Barber, parlia-
mentarian; Miss Eleanor Traylor,
historian.
Committee chairmen named to
serve for the coming year are pub
lie welfare, Mrs. Charles Hopkins;
membership, Mrs. Rhees Burket:
Silver Spring Library representa-
tive, Mrs. Edward Lee; fine arts,
Mrs. George Menke; resolutions,
Miss Jane Page: American home,
Mrs Leonard Shuttig: program,
Mrs. Prettyman, and publicity, Mrs.
Mcdonald.
The group plans to continue to
meet at the Woodside Methodist
Church every other Wednesday
night and roll bandages for the Red
Cross.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Chouncey G. Parker, 78, Dies;
Former Shipping Board Counsel
Funeral Services Set
For 3 PM. Wednesday
At St. Johns Church

Chauncey Goodrich Parker, rs,
former general counsel of the
United States Shipping Board. died
at his home, 1898 Massachusetts,
avenue NV. early yesterday after
long illness.
Member of a distinguished early
family descended from Elisha Park
er of Barnstable, Mass, Judge"
Parker as he was generally known,
had been prominent in public life
both in New Jersey and in Wash
ington. He had been engaged in
the private practice of law here for
the last several years in the firm of
Parker & Wyatt.
Funeral services will be held at
st. Johns Church, Sixteenth and H
streets NV. at 3 pm. Wednesday,
with the Rev DR.. John Magee, act
ing rector, officiating Burial will
be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Attended Geneva Parley.
AS general counselefor the Ship
ping Board from 1922 to 1888, Judge
Parker had control and direction OF
it's litigated cases throughout the
United States, and also supervision
Of claims presented to the board.
He had been special legal expert
with the old War Risk Insurance
Bureau here in 1918.
He attended the General Confer
ence of Nations on Communications
and Transit, at Geneva, Switzer-
land in 1927. rs an adviser to the
American minister at Berne, who
represented the United States.
Born in Newark, New Jersey,
Judge Parker was prominent in that
state before coming to Washington.
He was attorney for the Newark
Board of Health. member of the
council for New Jersey in a boun-
dairy controversy with Delaware, and
commissioner to settle that dispute
He was receiver of the International
Mercantile Marine and Rock Island
Co. in 1918. He was member of
the New Jersey National Guard for
10 years.
Came Here in 1921.
Coming to washington With the
Shipping Board in 1921, he became
general counsel of the board the
next year. He was an active men,
Der of the District of Columbia Bar
Association.
Judge Parker's family has been
prominent in both local and ma
tional affairs here His son, Col
Chauncey G. Parker, jr., banker and
broker, who has been active in Com
munity Chest work here, now is on
duty as a Marine Corps officer as
deputy director of the United States
Selective Service System. He is a
partner in the firm of Auchincloss,
Parker & Redpath.
Another Son Is Ma jor.
A younger son. Edward Cortlandt
Parker. who formerly was as
sociated with his father in the
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Battle Of Fort Stevens
Described by Proctor

The 18th anniversary of Gen.
Jubal Early's unsuccessful attack on
Washington in 1864 was observed by
the Ladies of the Grand Army of
the Republic yesterday at Fort
Stevens Park.
John Clagett Proctor, member of
the Sons of Union Veterans, de-
scribed the Battle of Fort Stevens
to the audience gathered at the site
on Rittenhouse street between
Georgia avenue and Thirteenth
street NV. President Lincoln stood
on the hill to watch the battle, he
said, and had to be ordered to cover
by Gen. Horatio Wright, commander
of the 9Th Army Corps defending
the city.
Capt. Everett F. Warner presided.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
BIanford Says AAA
Will Cut Personnel
2O9b in Maryland
Programs in Counties
Will Not Be Hindered,
Stote Choirmon Declares

Joseph H. Blandford, chairman
of the Maryland State Office of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration, said today the agency will
make a 20 per cent reduction in per-
sonnel in compliance with the econ
omy policies of the Federal Gov
ernment and of Norris E. Dodd, ma
tional director of AAA.
Mr.. Blandford said the cut will
involve seven or eight employees in
the State AAA Offices. He said a
subcommittee would meet today to
decide the number of employees that
could be dispensed with in county
offices throughout the State. This
report will be acted on by the State
committee within 10 days or two
weeks, he said.
The personnel of the AAA has
been serving a dual capacity as
staff for the Maryland Agriculture
War Board. Mr.. Blandford said.
He added that since the war the
work of the State Office has multi
piled several times and the reduc-
ton in personnel will make neces-
sary the simplif1cation of the AAA
program of war food production and
soil conservation and of War Board
and AAA procedure.
Mr.. Blandford said the reduction
in personnel will not hinder the
AAA programs in the counties. He
said recent conference at Blacks
burg, Va, studied means of achiev-
ing economy and adopted a plan to
reduce the number of contacts by
AAA agents with farmers.
Under the new program, Mr..
Blandford said, farmers will be
asked to come into the county AAA
offices to outline their crop plans,
and instead of checks by AAA per-
sonnel on all participating farms,
spot checks involving perhaps one
farm out of Is will be made.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Price Panel Advisers
Added in Arlington
Merchant Representative.
In Sit In ON Sessions
To Sit In on Sessions

The price panel of the Arlington
County Ration Board has been ex-
panded by the appointment of II
panel advisers. each a specialist on
commodities and services covered by
price regulations, who will sit in
an advisory capacity with the panel
each week, it was announced yes
terday
Three merchants will represent
food distributors. They are Samuel
Edlow and Ernest M. Shreve from
independent stores and Earle
Young from the chain-store group.
Sam Cohen will advise on apparel
problems, George Yeatman, hare
ware. DR.. G. H. Kerfoot. drugs:
Clifford Magruder, dry cleaning and
laundry services: J. Bayard Evans,
restaurants; David Collins. automo-
tive services, and Ray Miller, gen.
eral merchandise j. V. Turner will
remain as general advisory member
In order to relieve the pressure of
work on the original panel a sec
ond price. panel is being formed
This also will eliminate delay for
merchants who come before the
group for price and point informa-
ton. The panels will continue to
meet Monday afternoons and a
night session will be instituted, it
was said.
Price panel assistants are being
enlisted through the county to work
with the price division in helping
merchants observe OPA regulations.
Any persons interested in volun-
teering as assistants are urged to
get in touch with the local price
division. Mrs. Beulah Friess will be
in charge of a meeting Tuesday
night at the board Offices. when in
structions will be given to the new
group.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Crop Acreage
Up5Pct. Over
AZ in Virginia
Fruit Prospects Poor.
Wheat at Record
Low, However
By the Associated Press.

by tDe hSSOCfdteQ efeS8.
RICHMOND, Va, July 12.-The
State Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service announced yesterday that
the Virginia agriculture picture at
the halfway mark of 1943 showed a
total crop acreage for harvest about
S per cent above that of last year.
but that there were wide variations
in the conditions of the individual
crops.
Fruit prospects, however, as lnul-
Gated in previous months Of 1943,
are very poor, the service said, with
the expected yield OF apples less
than half of last year and the peach
crop only a tenth of the 1912 yield.
Pears were reported extremely Ignt
and grapes also are down in produc-
tion prospects but still relatively
good in comparison to the tree fruit
crops.
The heavy freezes of the spring
played havoc with fruit prospects,
but the Winesaps and York varieties
OF apples nave reasonably gooo
prospects. The apple crop forecast
was put at 81 per cent. compared
to last years 81 per cent.
Tobacco Yield Will Be Light.
Tobacco, among Virginia's other
cash crops, is up about per cent in
acreage, but because of lighter yield
indications the crop will be on about
per cent from 1912.
The livestock reports show Vir-
ginia with the biggest spring pig
crop on record-24 per cent above
last springs record crop. Milk pro-
duction for the period from jan
uary through June was up 2 per
cent and milk up S per cent These
increases, the service noted, were
due to the larger number Of cows
and hens rather than from in
creased production per cow or hen.
Hatchery output of chicks in Vir-
ginia continued to break all records,
but farmers are having feed prob
lens and there were reports from
dairymen that they were unable to
buy concentrates for days at a time.
Wheat Acreage at Record Low.
| Wheat acreage will be the smallest
In the services II years of reporting,
while soybean production is up 25
per cent for record. Corn is l per
cent above last year, oats, Is per
cent up, but barley down per cent.
Virginia farmers" the crop re-
porting service said, ARE doing
their best to raise as much farm
produce as possible, but they are
doing it with the smallest supply
of farm labor on record. The ex-
treme shortage of labor is being off,
set to such extent as is possible by
working longer hours. A recent sur
vey made by the service showed
that on June 1 farm operators were
averaging over 12.5 hours per day,
hired workers over 10 hours. I"
Farm wages were about Is per cent
higher than on that date June II
a year ago and the highest of rec
ord"
Evening star., 1943-07-12
4O% Of Grocers
Seen Squeezed
InMary|and
Have Closed Doors
Or Will Do So,
Wholesaler Soys
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, July 12.-Approxi-
mately 40 per cent OF Maryland's
5000 retail grocers either have gone
out OF business or are planning to
do SO because of OPA price and ra-
tioning restrictions. Walter A. Frey,
a Baltimore wholesale grocer, esti-
mated yesterday.
Failure of OPA to establish ceiling
prices at the producer, or grower
level, according to Mr.. Frey. Is the
principal reason why grocers are go
ing out of business.
THE little grocers, who are re-
quired to operate on their 1941 price
scales. are being caught in the
squeeze between producers. who yir-
tually name their own prices, and
OPA ceilings" he explained
"Grocers today are doing enor-
nous business. but their profits are
lower than they were in prewar
years"
Other causes cited by Mr.. Frey for
the large number of casualties
among grocers were changing ceiling
prices and labor and supply short
ages.
A combination Of these factors,
Mr. Frey stated. has resulted in IS
per cent mortality among grocers in
one heavily populated war-worker
district in Sparrows Point.
Two Of Four Closed.
OF the four grocers operating in
this district before the war, two
have gone out of business, one is
preparing to do so, and the fourth is
so busy that he closes his store two
days week because Of his inability
to obtain merchandise.
To eliminate such shutdowns, Mr..
Frey advocated the establishment of
a firm price system from farm to
dinner table" and an OPA ALLEGATION
program based on sectional de-
mands for certain types of food.
Under such a program, local OPA
ondces would submit reports to
Washington, indicating the products
used in their respective territories
and to what extent they are used.
The national OPA organization
would then allocate the merchandise
for distribution by the local OPA
ONCE.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
laWRshoniing
1Remiinders@

Blue coupons, Book !Stamps let
tered N. P and @ are valid until
August 7.
Red coupons, Book 2-These can be
exchanged for meats, fats, etc.
Stamps lettered P, @ and r are
valid now, will be good until the
end of July. S stamps will be valid
July 10 through July 81.
Sugar-Stamps Nos. Is and 16 in ra-
ton book No. 1 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 appli-
cation to their ration boards for
all over this amount.
For regular allowances Of sugar
for general use coupon No. l3 in
book is good for S pounds
through August Is.
Coffee-Stamp No. 81 will be good
for / pound until July 81. Stamp
No. % will be good from July % to
August II.
Gasoline-Pleasure driving is forbid
den to holders of all types of gaso-
line rations.
Existing "T" allowances Of gaso-
line must last their holders
through July Is.
No. S A coupons are good for
gallons each through July 81.
B and C coupons, good for "a
gallons each, expire on dates in
dicated in individual books.
Shoes-Stamp No. 18 is good for one
pair through october 81.
Fuel Oil-Each coupon is good for
the number of units marked In
large numbers on its face.
Period No. 5 coupons of last
seasons ration are valid for 10
gallons per unit through Septem-
Der 80.
Period No. 1 coupons in new
fuel oil rations became good July
l and are valid for 10 gallons per
unit through next January 4.
Applications for this seasons
rations should be filled out proper
ly and returned to local boards
Immediately.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
-Four Persons Drowned
Sunday in Nearby States
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
One drowning was reported in
Maryland yesterday and three in
Northern West Virginia near the
Maryland border.
The Maryland fatality was that of
James M. Blanton of Baltimore. who
drowned in the Patapsco River off
Westport where he had been SWIM
ming.
A teen age boy and an elderly
man were drowned near Harpers
Ferry, w. Va.
James Ainsworth, jr., IL, was
drowned in the Potomac River, and
Charles Kidwell, 70, lost his life
in the Shenandoah. Both we're
from Harpers Ferry.
Eleanor Mae Dawson, IS. was
drowned in Patterson's Creek, near
Keyser, w. Va, while bathing.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Hearing Opens Today
Al Richmond on
Small Loan Bill
Proposed Low Is Bosed
On Model Statute;
Lenders to Testify
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, July 12.-The
Small Loan Study Committee of the
Virginia Advisory Legislative Council
planned a public hearing here today
on the tentative draft of bill de-
signed to improve the regulation of
the small loan business in Virginia.
The bill, drafted by the State
Corporation Commission on the basis
of model laws recommended by the
Russell Sage Foundation. would
vest the corporation commission
with broad powers to make rules
and regulations to govern small loan
companies.
About six weeks ago the proposed
legislation was submitted to a COM
mittee hearing Generally. it fol-
lows the line urged by spokesmen
for the Virginia Association of
Small Loan Companies at the earlier
hearing. The spokesmen are ex-
pected to be on hand at today's ses-
sion to give their final views on
the bill.
The bill would make the issuance
of licenses to conduct small loan
business largely discretionary for the
regulating body Applicants for op-
Grating licenses would have to show
financial responsibility, character
and fitness, convenience and ad-
vantage to the community and have
a minimum capital of $4,000. Pres
ent law allows the issuance of a
license merely on payment of the
license fee and furnishing bond in
the sum of $1,000
1t also suggests that split rates of
interest be adopted-higher rates for
smaller loans and lower rates for
bigger loans instead of the present
general maximum rate of per cent
month. The rate question will not
be discussed at the hearing, which
will occupy itself only with regula-
tory matters.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Navy's LittIe-Used
Parking LOT Still Held
From Recreation
Department Declines to
Follow Lead of Army,
Which Cove Up Plot

The Navy is still clinging to its
little-used parking lot in West Po-
tomac Park.
Sought by recreation officials to
complete the reconversion of the
polo field from an Army Navy park
ing lot, the Navy. these officials
say. has declined to relinquish its
portion as the Army did some
months ago. The former Army
parking lot has been remade into a
field for four softball diamonds.
The Navy press section says, how
ever, that no change was contem-
plated in the immediate future" in
it's lot.
The Navy area. constructed at
the northern end of the once we'll
known polo field, cost 100000 and
provides space for 1900 cars An
attendant, who said that he had
been there for the past seven
months, reported Friday that the
daily number of cars averaged
around $50 to 200.
Sometimes a Few Dozen.
1T has been slim since gasoline
rationing" he observed
Even last year. it was said that
not more than 800 cars had ever
been seen in the area. and in July
of that year the Navy announced
that space behind temporary build
ings on Constitution avenue near
the Washington Monument would
provide space for more than 400 cars
When visited by a reporter al
1870 am. on weekday last week
it had pproximately 100 private
cars and nine trucks and jeeps OF
the Navy. Recreation officials say
they have received reports that al
times during the day there are az
few as two or three dozen cars.
A number of vacant parking places
on the roadway around the fielo
were observed, including places or
the road nearest the Navy buildings
The only parking signs in sigh,
warned motorists not to park in The
gutter or on the lawn No tint
limitations were on the signs.
Army Space Cleared.
The work of removing asphalt
form the Army parking area. super
vised by the Army Engineers Office
here was completed four months
ago. A small portion of the paving
has been left on the southern enc
and may be used for tennis courts
If demand 6eyelons
The Army field will come in
handy Supt, Milo F. Christensen
of the Recreation Department, says
I'VE would like the other half
though
After the removal of the gravel
base and asphalt, the lot was filled
in with soil from the excavation
work at the West Potomac Park
duration halls" and another nearby
project, thus reducing the cost OF
conversion to the labor involved.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
| New Hours Set
By Ration Board
In Arlington

Offlcials of the Arlington County
Rationing Board today announced
that all sections of the board with
the exception of the price control
Office will be open to the public from
9 am. to $3.50 pm. on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, and from
7 to 10 o'clock each Wednesday night
Under the new system, it was ex-
planned, Arlington residents may
conduct all rationing business at the
board Offices during these days. For
merly the tire and gasoline sections
we're open on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays and the fuel Oil and
food sections on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays.
Officials said the price control sec
tion of the board will not be affected
by the new hours. This section will
remain open every day with the ex-
ceptions of Saturdays and Wednes-
day night.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Guard at Agriculture
Dies of Fall Injuries

Albert J. Schuster, 70, of 1446 Fair
mont street NV. died Saturday
night at Providence Hospital as a
result OF injuries received in a fall
April Z at the Agriculture Depart
ment, where he was employed as a
guard.
A native of belmont, Pa, Mr..
Schuster had worked at the Agri-
culture Department for about six
months. He is survived by a sister,
Miss Minnie Schuster of belmont.
Funeral services and burial will be
at belmont.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Policemen Release
Boy From Chair Frame

BY the Associated Press.
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Mrs. A. Bloz
asked police to release her son.
Patrolmen Lee Stewart and Walter
Hutt found the 11-year-old boy
wedged in the frame of a chair in
which he had plopped down too
vigorously.
They held the chair upside down
and shook it.
The boy came out.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Defective Wiring Causes
Raid Siren to Sound

Defective wiring caused an air.
raid siren on the new War Depart
ment Building at Twenty street
and Virginia avenue NV. to sound
about o'clock this morning, &C
cording to the District Fire Board.
The siren was quickly repaired by
the Fire Department.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Congress Forces
|OWI to Limit
Book Digests
BY the Associated Press.

Those free digests Of leading
books, which Government officials
liked for their terseness, just barely
survived congressional cuts in funds
for the Office of War Information.
This report came yesterday from
Chester Kerr, chief of the Owls
book section, who said that the cir
culation list is being pruned to
make sure the digests go for busi-
ness purposes and not for bedtime
relaxation" They have been going
to 500 Subscribers"
The IS volumes digested in the
last six months all were non-fiction
books dealing with war subjects.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
X X
NAotHo~R~4WiA
WAR BONDS
Finding Secrets

During World War I. divers did
much in our battle against the
U-boats by locating destroyed subs
and taking from them secret Ger
man codes and other vital informa-
tion. We are using thousands for
the same purpose in this war. Many
War bonds must be bought to pay
for diving outfits as they cost up to
$2,500.
Evening star., 1943-07-12

There is no secret to the War bond
campaign. The more War bonds
you buy the more you will save,
and the more all of us save the bet
ter are our chances of victory in the
battle for freedom and against in
flation.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Businessmen TO Meet

The Southeast Business Mems As
sociation will meet at $50 o'clock
tonight at the Donohoe real estate
of1ce, 314 Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Alexandria |nductee
Groups 10 Report
81 TO Go on Active
Duty Next Week

The names of 54 Alexandria men
who were accepted for induction at
5he Richmond induction center July
5 and 7, will report for active duty
next week.
The following men will return
July 19 after their furlough:
Army.
Mallon, John j. Powell r. C. III
Kleinfelder, j. J.
Navy.
Petty. H. F. Jewell WI
Those who will report on July 81
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
$4,000 Gardens

The entire program is so ire
mendous, it seemed sensible to
ask just how many gardens
would be included under the
committees supervision.
The answer was that $4,000
gardens are expected in Greater
Boston. When one looks at and
thinks of this number, il is
easy TO understand how an as
sistant garden director and 10
supervisors will have a full-time
Job giving practical advice.
The committee very cleverly
includes such key people as the
president of the Real Estate En-
change, the custodian of fore
closed real estate for the city
of Boston, the park commits
sioner, the president of the Adj
vertising Club of Boston, the
manager of flower shows for
the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society, the assistant director
of schools and the assistant di-
rector of manual arts in the
schools. With the knowledge
and contacts that these folks
have, Boston should be able TO
90 a long way towards growing
her own food.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
Cherry Mullins

One cake compressed yeast,
= cup lukewarm water, u tea
spoon sugar, cup Scalded
milk, u teaspoon salt, 4 table,
spoons sugar, 2 cups slfted all
purpose enriched flour ! egg,
we'll beaten, 4 tablespoons
melted butter or other shorten
ing. q cup candied cherries,
quartered.
Soften yeast in lukewarm
water. add \. teaspoon sugar,
stir and let stand about 5 min
utes. Put the Scaldcd milk, salt
and remaining sugar into mixing
bowl and cool Until lukewarm.
When milk Is sufficiently cool.
add yeast and -four. mixing until
smooth.
Stir in beaten ccC and melted
not hot. shortening and mir
again. Last, mix in qudrtercd
cherries which have been lightly
busted with -four. Pour imme-
diately into creased muffin pans,
filling only half fun. Let rise
in slightly warmed oven fs2
degrees until about doubled in
bulk Bake % 10 . minutes
in moderately hot oven 1875 de-
greesl.