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Evening star., 1943-07-20
Fpirfux Woman Found
Dead of Bullet Wound

The body of Mrs. Harold K. Howe
with a bullet through her temple
was found last night in a vestibule
at her home near Burke, Fairfax
County police reported today. A
% caliber rifle was found by her
side.
Police said the dead woman S
mother-in-la law. Mrs. w. H. Howe
reported she was in the living room
of her home when she heard shot
and found her daughter in law
dead.
DR.. T. B. McCord, county coroner,
said he would issue verdict today.
Mrs. Howe is survived by her hus-
band, a shell tester for California
munitions firm. now in Cincinnati,
and two children, Bruce, 8, and Will
liam, 2.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Nursery School Meal Planning
Beset by Rotioning Problems

Operating nursery school for
children whose mothers are en-
ployed in war industries has its
compensation in a feeling of doing
something to help the war effort"
but it has its headaches, too, accord
ing to Mrs. Leroy D. Bonbrest, l144
Branch avenue Sc.
The mother of Betty Gay Bon
brest. who scaled delicate 26
ounces at birth almost two years
ago, Mrs. Bonbrest has Is young
sters under her care during the
week, and getting wholesome, appe-
tizing food for them has become
no small problem. Three request
for additional ration coupons were
denied by Mrs. Bonbrest's local ra-
ton board, and not until last week
when the matter was called to the
attention of District OPA headquar-
tiers, was she permitted even to file
an application.
Planning Ahead Is Futile.
Her local board, located in Ket-
cham School, had told her it would
be useless to file an applica tion since
1t was necessary to have at least so
children enrolled before her school
could be granted additional supplies.
Fresh fruits, vegetables and meat
whenever available. have kept her
charges healthy and happy. but with
fresh produce none too plentiful. and
increasingly expensive, Mrs Bon
brest is bounded by meal-planning
problems. The District recommends
menus for children in nursery
schools, she says, and while schools
are expected to follow them, the
food situation makes it dicult.
She has found it impossible to
Evening star., 1943-07-20

plan meals ahead, not knowing
whether items scheduled would be
available. The use of canned foods
to augment meals would eliminate
much of the trouble, she says, and
also make it possible for parents
to balance the childrens' diet at
home. Under present conditions
this is impossible.
Can't Get Children's Books.
Mrs. Bonbrest's personal supply
of coupons isn't large enough to
permit spending them on the chill
dren, although she has done it,
Childrens ration books can not
legally be turned over to her for
food purchases and parents do not
have enough coupons over and
above their own needs to give much
assistance. Some have come through
with welcome contributions from
time to time, but not enough to
bring permanent relief.
Mrs. Bonbrest filed the necessary
forms for additional supplies at
Ketcham School Saturday, despite
the boards continued protests of
the futility of the action. She SAID
she was instructed to do so by the
executive board and is now await
ing action from the higher au-
thority.
I. Cohen. of OPA's food rationing
section, said the application would
receive full consideration this week,
although it probably would not be
received at headquarters before
Wednesday: He added that the
local board was only supposed to
receive the applications and that
the merit of the case would be de-
cided at headquarters.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Peruvian Official Studies
Highway Post Office
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press,
HARRISONBURG, Va. July 20
Or. Ernesto Caceres, chief of the
Peruvian Department of Interna-
tional Postal, Telegraph and Radio
Service, yesterday made the round
trip with the highway post Office
which operates daily between Wash
ington and Harrisonburg.
DR.. Caceres is spending 80 days iri
the United States studying the postal
system, being particularly interested
in the highway post office. He said
service of that type could be used to
deliver the mail along the Peruvian
coast from Lima and also serve the
interior
The new Pan-Ameiican Highway
he said, is ideal for service of this
kind.
The Peruvian Minister was the
guest of Postmaster G.. Fred Switzer
in Harrisonburg. He was accom-
panied from Washington by Homer
N. Link. assistant supervisor of the
third postal district.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Meik|ejohn, Van Doren
On Board Of St. Johns
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, July 20.-Alexander
Meiklejohn, educator and lecturer,
and Mark Van Doren. author and
literary critic, have been elected
members of the Board of Visitors
and Governors at st. Johns Col
lege, officials announced yesterday.
President Stringfellov Barr said
the two noted educators and two
faculty members - John Spangler
Kieffer and Richard Scofeld-were
elected to the board to strengthen
it as a whole"
Mr. Meiklejohn regularly spends
five or six weeks at the Annapolis
institution each winter to deliver a
series of lectures. Mr.. Van Doren,
through course which he conduct
ed at Columbia University in the
l920's. helped to set the pattern for
the St. Johns new program cur
riculum established in 1888, DR..
Barr said.
Evening star., 1943-07-20

A short time later he was trans
ferred to passenger train service,
first on Washington Baltimore
local, until through seniority he won
coveted assignments on the B. & O.'s
famous trains, the National Limited,
the Capital Limited, and finally 10
years ago on the Royal Blue.
His retirement. he said, was due
entirely to i'll health.
Except for that, he said. he would
stay on the job, but under the
circumstances I think I am playing
fair with myself. the company and
the public by getting out while I've
still got a clean record"
Washington Terminal workers
waved farewell as Uncle Bill"
took his locomotive to the round
house for his last trip.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
lsWRahoniinq
@SRemiinderso

Blue coupons, Book 2-Stamps let
tered N, P and @ are valid until
August 7.
Those lettered r, S and T will be
valid from August through Sep
tember 7.
Red coupons, Book 2-These can be
exchanged for meats, fats, etc.
Stamps lettered P, @, R and S
are valid now, will be good until
the end of July.
Sugar-For regular allowances Of
sugar for general use coupon No.
13 in book is good for pounds
through August IS.
Stamps Nos. Is and 16 in ra-
ton book No. l may be used to
obtain sugar for home canning.
Each will be good for pounds
through October 81.
Families needing more than 10
pounds of sugar per person for
home canning must make appli-
cation to their ration boards for
all over this amount.
Coffee-Stamp No. 81 is good for /
pound but expires at midnight
tomorrow "wednesday, July 81.
Stamp No. % will be good from
July % to August II.
Gasoline-No. A coupons, good for
3 gallons each, expire at midnight
tomorrow.
No. 6 A coupons become good
next Thursday for 3 gallons each
but must then last until Novem-
ber 81.
Pleasure driving is forbidden to
holders of all types of gasoline
rations.
Existing "T" allowances of gaso-
line expire after next Sunday.
B and G coupons, good for 2h
gallons each, expire on dates in
dicated in individual books.
Shoes-Stamp No. 1s is good for ono
pair through october 81.
Fuel Oil-Period No. / coupons in
new fuel oil rations became good
July and are valid for 10 gallons
per unit through next January 4.
Period No. coupons of last
seasons ration are valid for 10
gallons per unit through Septem-
ber 30.
Each coupon is good for the
number of units marked in large
numbers on its face.
Applications f." this seasons
rations should /, IA out proper
~ and returi' 4 to local boards
Immediately.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Virginia Convict Gonqs
Will Work on Farms

RICHMOND, Va, July 20 (R.-
Details OF program to make avail
able prisoners from the State con-
yict road force to help solve the
farm labor shortage were worked
out here yesterday by representa-
tlves OF the State Highway Depart
ment, the State Department of Cor
rections and the State Agricultural
Extension Service.
In general, the program calls for
agreements to be made by local
county agricultural extension agents,
who have charge of the counties
farm labor procurement, and the
superintendents Of the convict road
camps, for the use of prisoners in
groups of 7 to 10 men per gang" on
farms where the demand and need
is most acute
The farmers will pay certain labor,
transportation and supervision
charges, levels for which were out
lined by the conference.
DR.. John r. Hutcheson, extension
service director. said, The program
in its present form is experimental" !"
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Darden Defines Issue
For Child Welfare Study
BY the Associated pres,

BY the Associated Pres.
RICHMOND. July 20.-Gov. Dar-
den said yesterday the juvenile de-
llnquency problem to be studied by
Maj. Charles r. Fenwick, member
OF the General Assembly from Ar
lington, is chiefly a matter of over
tapping authority of the State De-
partment of Public Welfars and the
State Parole Board.
The State parole and probation
system already has some 300 juve-
nile wards, turned over to that
agency by the judges of State courts.
The Governor said he felt that
Maj. Fenwick, who is chairman of
the Virginia Advisory Legislative
Councils Committee on Child We'll
fare and member of the State De-
partment of Public Welfare, was the
ideal man to direct the study.
Maj. Fenwick is now in the
Army, serving at Wright Field, Ohio,
but there are indications, the Gov
ernor said. that the Army would
allow him time to carry out the new
assignment.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Virginia Reports 1,415
Forest Fires This Year
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, July 20.-State For
ester Fred c. Peterson reported yes
terday that 1,415 forest fires were
recorded in Virginia during the first
six months of 1943.
These fires burned $4,000 acres of
privately-owned land and caused
damages to timber and second
growth estimated at $500,000.
This, however, was an improve
ment over the first six months of
1912 when 2,549 fires-or 1,134 more
than in the similar period this year
burned 230. 800 acres-three times
as much devastated acreage as this
years fires caused.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Alexandria Woman
To Aid in Luunchino

Mrs. Nancy T. Wright, 2427 Davis
avenue, Alexandria, will be matron
of honor to the sponsor of the new
destroyer escort Craig, which is to
be launched at the Charleston Navy
Yard Thursday, the Navy announced
today.
Mrs. Wright, who is the wife of
Comdr. w. L. Wright, served as a
sponsor for the submarine Hackle-
back, which was launched at
Charleston In June.
The destroyer escort Craig, which
will be sponsored by Mrs. Eleanor
Arden Craig, is named after her
husband, 1t. Comdr. James Edwin
Craig, who was killed at Pearl Har-
Dor. He was damage control officer
Of the battleship Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Fish Black Market
Encouraged by 0PA,
Wholesalers Charue
Maryland Dealers Soy
Controls Are Forcing
Fishermen to Quit
By the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, July 20.-In the
opinion of Maryland seafood whole
salers, Office of Price Administra-
ton regulations have encouraged
development of a "black market
that threatens to make the poultry
black market look small"
"Hucksters by the hundreds" i"
members of the Wholesale Seafood
Dealers Association charged, "are
going direct to fishermen for sea-
food. buying with cash and refrain
ing from keeping any records. The
result: Legitimate dealers are
forced to do business at loss"
Association members aired the
problems of the industry at meet
ing yesterday. called to consider
strict controls over markups between
fishermen and consumer to become
effective shortly The meeting was
attended by OPA officials.
Halt in Industry Feared.
George Harrison, member OF the
TideWater Fisheries Commission
told representatives of the seafood
industry that commercial fishing in
Chesapeake Bay would virtually
cease next year if the OPA were to
set ceiling prices on all fish COM
parable to those set on herring.
"OPA's fish ceiling prices for
tunately cover only one specie taken
in quantity in the Chesapeake and
that is the herring" Mr.. Harrison
said. The present ceiling is Sc a
thousand, whereas we paid fisher
men sl2 to s14 last year for herring
and thought we had done WELL
Mr.. Harrison maintained that
OPA controls of seafood prices
already had resulted in many fish
ermen quitting the business in local
waters.
The number of species of fish
found in the bay is not large as
compared with the catch for the
Nation, and it is. therefore, my sug-
gestion that OPA keep price CELL
ings off our CATCH Mr.. Harrison de-
clared.
Counsel Hits OPA.
The way to increase production
OF fish is to ease controls" he added
William Hilgenburg, association
president, explained that the diff
culties of Baltimore dealers grew out
OF practices followed by Boston and
New York distributors who have
graded themselves so high unde.
OPA rules that all profits are about
to be squeezed out of us here"
Assurances from OPA officials
that the Government agency was
attempting to eliminate squeezes
brought comment from Hugh
Frampton, Washington counsel fo,
the seafood industry.
What is wrong is that the blinc
are leading the blind" Frampton
declared.
Evening star., 1943-07-20

BY the Associated Press.
WE. Uncle BilD Blizzard brought
the Royal Blue" crack Baltimore
g. Ohio passenger train, into Wash
ington from Jersey City yesterday
afternoon, stepped down from the
engine cab and closed out 80 years
of railroading.
He announced he was going to
Ocean City, Md, where he has
bought "a little place." sit down
and hist my heels and rest"
Uncle Bill" said he began rail-
roading for the B. & o. in January,
1904, when he was "a years old, at
the B. & o, terminals in Balti-
more. His first assignment was
firing freights, and later he was
made a freight engineer.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Virginia Doctor Pena|ized
For Pleasure DRIVING
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va, July 20.-In the
first case of a physician charged
with violating the nonessential driv-
ing ban, the hearing panel of the
Roanoke Ration Board yesterday
assessed a penalty of two A cou-
pons and two C coupons.
The physician was DR.. Paul Da-
Wis of the Lewis Gale Hospital staff,
who was not present at the hearing
because of previous appointments,
but who sent a letter of protest
against the pleasure driving ban
regulations and declared that with
the shortage of doctors in Roanoke,
those remaining are heavily bur-
dened with work and need relaxa-
ton. DR.. Davis was accused of be-
ing at the country club June 80.
Two members of the panel point
ed out they had seen other doctors
riding bus to the country club.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
{. ]. Robb 10 Seek Seat
In Virginia State Senate
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HERNDON, Va, July 2O-Clarke
T. Robb. Socialist candidate for the
House last year, said yesterday he
would seek election as a Socialist to
the State Senate from the 29th
Senatorial District.
"As candidate for the State Sen
ate" he stated, II shall work to re-
move the payment of the poll tax
as a requisite to voting. If elected
I shall strive to improve the educa-
tional standards of this State. I
favor as good schools for Negroes
as for whites and the best for both"
Mr.. Robb is a graduate of George
Washington University.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
WPB Defers Pavinq
On Columbia Pike
Widening Planned to Serve
As Access to Pentuqon

The War Production Board today
ordered deferred until after the war
the paving of two lanes of the four
lane highway on Columbia pike, in
Arlington County.
Columbia pike was to be w'idened
to serve as an access road from new
housing developments in nearby Vir-
ginia to the Pentagon Building and
downtown Washington.
The original project was spon-
sored by the Public Roads Admins
tration. 1t called for construction
of 212 miles of divided four-lane
highway, with high-type surfacing
of four major bridges and over
passes. Preference ratings were re-
voked by WPB for the paving of
half of the new highway.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Herndon Youth Gets
Years in Burglary
Justice Juckson's Wife
Was q Victim of Thief

Ralph w. Adams. 10, colored,
Herndon, Va, charged with house
breaking, in which Mrs. Robert H.
Jackson, wife of the Supreme Court
justice, lost pocketbopk, yesterday
was given u f1ve-yeafS apenitentiary
sentence by Judge Walter T. Nc
Carthy after pleading guilty to an
indictment by a Fairfax County
grand jury.
According to police, the theft oc-
CURED Sunday night at the Langley
home of Douglas S. Mackan. real
estate man, where Justice and Mrs
Jackson were guests at dinner
party. A purse belonging to Mrs.
Wallace Fulton, wife of the secre-
tary of theInvestment Bankers As
sociation, who was a guest at the
party. also was reported stolen.
Police said Adams was arrested
about mile from the Mackall home
and was charged with housebreak-
ing. They said both purses were re-
covered, but that an undetermined"
amount of money had been taken
from each.
Other indictments returned by
the grand jury at the opening ses-
sion of the July term of Circuit
Court we're against Henry L. Bush
rod, on charges of felonious wound
ing; Willard Harry Young and
Elton Earl Hayes, robbery, and Re-
becca Ann Turner, abortion.
Young entered plea of not guilty
when arraigned and date for trial
was set for July 30. Hayes will be
tried on the same date.
Bushlod entered a plea of not
guilty and his trial was set for July
g. No date was set for the trial
of Mrs. Turner.
Several appeal cases from the
Trial Justice Court and number
of civil cases we're set for trial dur
ing the term by Judge Walter T.
Mccarthy
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Maryland Welfare
Payments Again Decline

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 90 Mary
lands expenditures for all types of
public assistance declined again last
month, bringing the amount of pay
ments down to s589,318, or 1913 per
cent lower than in June, 1912, Public
Welfare Director J. Milton Patter-
son said yesterday.
All categories of public assistance
except foster home payments
showed drop for the past month,
continuing an almost uninterrupted
decline that began early in 1910,
Mr.. Patterson's June report showed.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Work-or-Fight
Registration SET
In Wicomico
Enrolment Begins
Tomorrow at
Courthouse
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
SALISBURY, Md, July 20-Regis-
tration of all able bodied unem-
ployed men between the ages of 18
and 60 will be conducted this week
on orders of the War Manpower
Board of Wicomico County as the
first step toward enforcement Of a
new work or fight" law.
Registration has been set for to-
morrow, Thursday and Friday in
the court house, and those who are
not gainfully employed face assign
ment to jobs on farms or in in
dustries.
The county work or fight law,
which was approved by the 1943
Maryland General Assembly, is not
a vagrancy law. 1t applies to all
able bodies men regardless of wealth,
private income. or those able to
support themselves by reason of the
ownership Of property.
Students Excluded.
Students and those fitting them
selves to engage in trade or in
dustrial pursuits are excluded from
the provisions of the act
Those who lack jobs and fail to
register are subject to an arrest and
fine in Peoples Court of not more
than $50. They will be registered by
the board and assigned to work at
prevailing wages.
The act states that persons fall
ing or refusing to do or continue
to do work. assigned shall be fined
not more than $500 or be imprisoned
not more than six months" or both.
To prevent delay by legal pro-
cedure, the act specifies that any
appeal from the lower court shall
be heard by the circuit court within
Is days.
Checkup Required.
Members of the War Manpower
Board are Josiah v. McGrath, chief
Judge of the Orphans Court; ]. Will
liam Slemons, clerk of the Circuit
Court, and Asbury Holloway, register
of wills. The act specifies that those
three officials shall constitute the
board
State, county and municipal au-
thorities are charged in the act to
seek diligently the names and
places of residence of able bodied
male persons with their respective
jurisdiction, between the ages afore-
said, who have failed to register"
The last State Legislature also ap-
proved another work or fight law.
somewhat less stringent, for IA other
counties in the State, including
Montgomery County.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Picnic Is Scheduled
At Chevy Chase Center

The Chevy Chase Terrace Com
munity Association will hold a pic
mic at 2 pm. Sunoay at the Chevy
Chase Recreational Center, it was
announced today.
The afternoon program, which will
include softball games and races,
will feature an exhibit of Victory
gardens. Prizes will be awarded to
growers and Gamers of the best
vegetables. Community singing will
be held at s pm, followed by a
picnic supper.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Barnes Heads Spotter Unit

LA PLATA, Md, July 20 (Spe-
ciaD.-E r. Barnes has been named
director of the air-spotter station at
Rison, Charles County, 1T was an
nounced today. Homer Gatewood
was appointed observer.
Another air-spotter school for vol
unteers is now being organized by
Mr.. Barnes.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Studying
New Restaurant
Price Moves
Survey to Determine
Any Need for Action
After RoIIbuck

CnaracteflZlng the OPA freeze
order on food and beverage prices
IN Washington as only the first step
in price control here, Robert K,
Thompson, director of District OPA,
today announced survey" already
was under way to determine
whether further action" will be
necessary. a
Mr.. Thompson's statement fol-
lowed an order to roll back cafe
prices to the April 4 to 10 level,
issued by the regional office in New
York yesterday.
The order itself did not reach
local OPA Offices until late last
night, despite the fact that it was
signed early yesterday morning by
Sylvan L. Joseph, OPA regional di-
rector in New York The order af-
fects the District, Maryland, Della
ware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
New York, but not Virginia.
Statement Issued.
Mr. Thompson's warning that the
freeze order may be followed by
further action came in an official
statement issued by local OPA head
quarters this morning.
1t read:
Freeze of restaurant price levels
charged for the seven-day period of
April to 10 by the OPA is the first
step in the control of restaurant
prices.
"A survey is being made and as
soon as this is completed we will
be in position to recommend fur
ther action if found necessary in
the light of such survey.
"The restaurant freeze order was
unanimously recommended by the
Restaurant Advisory Committee of
the District of Columbia Office of
Price Administration"
Far-reaching scope of the rollback
order was indicated in a summary
of the high lights of the order, as
received by the local OPA.
Summary of High Lights.
The summary reads as follows:
rant, hotel, bar-cafe, club, delicates-
sen, soda fountain, boarding house,
or any eating and drinking place,
you must not offer to sell any food
item including any BEVERAGE or
meal at prices higher than the base
period April to April 10.
ANY proprietor who has Gus
tomarily, in the regular course of his
business, charged higher prices for
food items or meals on holidays,
such as New Years eve, Thanksgiv-
ing, Christmas, etc, may continue
to maintain the customary differen-
tial.
Restaurants are prohibited from
dropping food items from meals,
deteriorating quality, or reducing
quantity, without making appro-
pirate reductions in price.
May Eliminate Catsup.
Restaurants may limit customer
to one cup of coffee a meal, and to
one pat of butter. Also they may
reduce the quantity or eliminate
altogether condiments tsuch as
catsup, chile sauce, etc. which may
have been customarily placed at the
disposal of customers, and which
now are, or may be, subject to any
rationing order, or rationing regula-
ton of the OPA.
Menu must have clearly and
cleanly written on, or attached to
it, the following statement:
All prices are our ceiling prices
or below. BY OPA regulation our
ceilings are based on our highest
prices from April to 10, 1943. Our
menus or price lists for that week
are available for your inspection.
IF menus are not used, then the
operator must post a statement at
place where it can easily be read"