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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Mrs. J. Reed Bradley Starts
New Bethesda PAPER

Mrs. ]. Reed Bradley, former
editor and publisher of the Bethesda
Md Journal today announced
establishment of the Record, new
weekly newspaper for the Bethesda
Chevy Chase community. The first
issue of the new paper will be pub
lished January 7.
Mrs. Bradley, who has been con-
nected with the journal since its
organization in 1885. resigned re-
Gently when she said she discovered
she did not have a 40 per cent
interest in the paper. She said that
under an arrangement with the
owner of the paper, J. M. Hickerson
Of New York, she was to have re-
celved an interest in the paper as
soon as profits warranted it.
An attempt on the part of a group
OF Bethesda businessmen to arrange
meeting last week between Mrs
Bradley and Mr.. Hickerson did not
succeed. Mr.. Hickerson said he had
named H. R. Daniel, Wood Acres, as
publisher of the Journal.
Mrs. Bradley said editorial Offices
of the Record will be at 724O Wis
consin avenue, in the same building
occupied by the Journal She said
10000 copies of the first issue will
be distributed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Alexandria Nurse Shortage
Discussed With REGISTRY

A committee from the Alexandria
Hospital Board of Directors, med
ical staff, nurses alumnae and adj
ministrative staff met with repre-
sentatives from the city's nurses
registry at Carter Hall this week
to discuss the growing shortage of
nurses.
Robert G.. Whitton, hospital ad-
ministrator, said that the shortage
in Alexandria has been growing
more acute daily, and the dearth of
special duty nurses has added a
burden to the already overtaxed
general duty staff at the hospital.
Mr.. Wilton said that the hos
pital normally averaged II special
duty nurses at a time, while now
there is daily average of only four,
making it necessary for the general
duty nurses to add the care of
those patients who would normally
have special nurses to their duties.
Mrs. Inez Roszel, superintendent
of nurses at the hospital, told the
meeting that an appeal is being
made for all graduate nurses in the
community to register for part
time duty If they are unable to
work full eight-hour day or six
day week.
She said the solution to the prob
lem is up to the members of the
nursing profession, who must be
made to feel that nursing on the
home front is as much a part of
wartime duty as nursing with the
armed forces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Huge Maryland Mosquitoes
Win Liars Title for Soldier

gas, but it was all to no avail. w,
did, however, kill a few by shootinl
80 caliber rifle bullets at them. The,
were mean, those mosquitoes, ane
it made them mad to have to ge
out of the way of those bullets. 81
they'd snap at 'em as they Wen
by, and before. they could let q
Of that lead-it would jar off then
heads"
The judges gave honorary mention
to the following yarn, submitted by
Mrs. George Heise of Sedro Woolley
Wash:
THE authorities are fussy abou
fishing along the creeks of tn,
watershed of the city water supply
where I live. Everything must bt
sanitary and you can't use bait fol
fishing.
Il was fishing with a dry-fy
one day, wading in a creek when
stopped to take a 'chaw' of tobacco
AS I cut it, a few slivers fell into
the creek.
Three fish took the slivers anc
started to chew them. After thai
lit was easy as pie to catch those
fish.
Those fish knew the sanitation
rules of the watershed. They came
up on the bank to spit"
Then there is the "quickie" en-
tered by H. B. Clark, jr., of New
Orleans that the judges liked.
He wrote:
Il spent l hour and so minutes
the other night trying to convince
my mother-in-law that was drunk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Funeral Services Today
For Lille Wood Meow
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispa tch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, Dec. 81
Rites of the Catholic Church will be
held today at Berryville for Mrs.
Lille Wood Mccoy, 81, widow of
James Mccoy, Riverton, Va, who
died Wednesday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. c. Digges at White Post
Burial will be at White Post. No
near relatives survive.
Mrs. Mccoy had taught for many
years in Indian schools in the West
for the Interior Department. and
had charge of Indian exhibits at
worlds fairs in Philadelphia, Chi
cago, st. Louis and other cities. She
was regarded as an authority on
Indian affairs.
She was a daughter OF the late
Phineas Tanning Wood and Mary
Eliza Clements Wood, Washington
where she was born in October, 1861
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Teachers in Virginia
Face Heavier Loads,
Dr.. Newman Declares
Lost 5 Months of School
Year Will See Wartime
Strains Increase, He Says
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Dec. 31.-Virginia
public schools are facing during the
last five months of the school year
an increasing wartime strain &C
centuated by heavier teaching loads,
DR.. Walter S. Newman, assistant
superintendent of bile instruction
said today.
The schools, as il The case of other
activities, DR.. Newman said, are
feeling the stress of operating under
wartime conditions and at the same
time meeting calls for additional
service.
This is part of the school Job, of
course, but it has meant heavier
loads and the strain increases" he
said. Another factor affecting the
schools is the. increased sense, of
strain in the homes"
School attendance, as was the case
this fall, will be main problem. DR..
Newman said. Complaining factors
are farm and business needs, afford
ing temptation to some students
to leave school or miss some days
The recent epidemic of influenza ac-
centuated the problem during the
fall term. No State figures have yet
been compiled on the attendance up
to the Christmas holidays.
Regarding the teacher problem
during the next five months. DR.
Newman said he believed teachers
would complete their contracts, al
though there would be some losses
among those teaching under local, or
emergency, permits. Wives of serv-
lcemen who now teach may be lost
If their husbands are moved.
DR.. Newman said there is no telling
where requirements could be OBJ
tanned.
The next five months also will
see a growing problem in keeping
school buses in operation, he added
Il believe the majority of the
counties will be able to make it all
right, but there are some counties
jhard-put now. Some buses in opera
ton would not be considered for
operation in normal times. but they
are made as safe as possible"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Six Hurt in Traffic
In Nearby Area

Six persons were injured, one
seriously, in accidents today in
nearby Maryland and Virginia.
Lawrence Reed. Camden, S. c..
one of five passengers in an auto
mobile which collided with a trailer
truck on the Baltimore boulevard
near Berwyn, was taken to Casualty
Hospital suffering from a fractured
skull, crushed chest and fractured
leg. His condition was described as
critical.
Also taken to Casualty Hospital
was Elizabeth Bennett, also of Cam
den, who suffered possible fractures
of both knees.
Others injured in the Maryland
accident were John Bennett, 81,
Camden, S. c., identified by Prince
Georges County police as the driver
of the car, possible crushed chest
. Thomas Kelley, Glenrock, S. c., con-
cussion, and Pearl Lee Kelley, also
of Glenrock, decorations on the face
All were taken to Leland Memorial
Hospital in Riverdale.
Dull N1A DCilllCle dlio buIllCl
Lane, "a, Bristol, Va, who police
said was driving the trailer truck
were charged with reckless driving
Mr.. Lane was uninjured.
In Alexandria, Miss Anne Mine
gerode, Ct, of SOB Queen street was
injured when she was struck by a
car at Queen and Fifth streets
police reported. She was admitted
to the Alexandria Hospital, suffer
ing from a fractured hip, bruises
and shock.
Police listed the driver of the
automobile as Lonnie Miller, 30
colored, 500 South st. Asaph street
Alexandria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Annexation Statute
Proposed
By Advisory Council
Virginia Body Would
Alter Tax Sections,
Revise Judges Choice
Ey the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Dec. 31.-Change.
In annexation laws, including a re.
quirement that judges of annexation
courts be drawn from territories out.
side the areas involved, are rec.
commended to the General Assembly
IN report of the Virginia Advisory
Legislative Council made public yes.
terday.
The council also proposed change
in the wording of the present law
to avoid confusion in the applica.
ton Of tax rates after annexation
The recommended change calls fol
the phraseology of "the tax rate
upon the land" to be changed tc
the taxes upon the land" This
relates to the provision against in
creasing the tax rate for a period
Of five years after annexation.
The application of tax rates after
annexation, the report said, has
caused considerable confusion. II
is contended that the provision
fixing the tax rate is ineffective
since the assessment may be
changed and thus the provision pro.
hibiting increase in rate may be
nullified. BY prohibiting increase
in the amount of tax that car
be levied upon the land no such
manipulation will operate to enable
the protective feature of the statute
to be evaded."
The report, compiled by special
committee of the council, also
recommends that the basic princi-
Piles of general law and judicia
determination be followed in an.
nexation cases and that there
should be no fundamental changes
in the laws governing annexation.
Annexation courts, under existing
law, are made up of the judge of
the Circuit Court of the county
from which territory is to be taken
by annexation. the judge of the
Circuit Court of the city seeking
to annex territory and a judge from
an adjoining jurisdiction appointed
by the Governor
Concerning its reason for the rec
commended change the council said
In most of the cases the local judge
presides and is property owner in
one of the areas affected. He neces-
sarily will have some personal inter-
est in the outcome, which would put
him in the undesirable position of
having a personal interest in the de-
cision. This situation might result
in embarrassment or criticism OF
both s"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Virginia Industry Expects
Easy Postwar Problem
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Dec. 31.-Because
only small part of her diversified
industry has been converted to war
production, Virginia will be in a
comparatively favorable position
when peace comes, according to a
survey released yesterday by the
State Chamber of Commerce.
Most major Virginia industries
tobacco and food manufacture, tex
tiles, the woodworking industries.
rayons. paper, pulp, chemicals and
railway repair-will continue to pro-
duce in peace as in war time without
the need for any major adjustments
or the vast reconversions such as
will confront many other States,
chamber officials believe.
Temporary shortages Of. raw ma
terials from some of the industries
may be factor, however, and the
financing of expansions and recon-
version will be a consideration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Maryland Ready
For New Tax System
Counties Divided for
Continuous Assessment
By the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, Dec. 31.-Plans
have been completed in each of the
States % counties for the Inaugural.
ton of the new continuous assess.
ment plan tomorrow, Albert w
Ward said today.
Mr.. Ward, secretary of the State
Tax Commission, announced the di-
vision of each of the counties into
flve portions and the selection OF
boards of permanent assessors ir
those counties requiring them.
The continuous Assessment Act
one OF the most controversial meas
ures approved by the last Genera
Assembly, provides for the division
of each county into five geographical
or other sections All the property
in one district will be re-assesseo
every five years.
The assessor, appointed by county
commissioners after the Tax Com
mission graded lists of applicants
submitted by the counties, will serve
for life. They may be discharged
only after nearing before the COM
mission. Their salaries vary in the
different counties.
Montgomery County, having a
tax finality date of June 80, has
been operating under the new law
since July l, Mr.. Ward said, and
already has completed approximate
ly 10 per cent of the current years
work.
Sixteen of the counties have De-
cember 81 as the tax closing date
Mr. Ward said, six others besides
Montgomery having other finality
dates. They are Anne Arundel, Oc-
tober /; Baltimore County, October
IS; Hartford. November l or 2; How
ard, November /; Queen Annes, June
l, and Worcester, April 1.
A plan similar to the new State
wide law has been in effect in Bal
timore City since 1900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Virginia Council Asks
Higher Interest Rate
On Small Loans
; Pet. Monthly chorse
On $50 or Less Urged
In Legislative Report
81 the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Dec. 31.-An increass
VI maximum rates which small loan
companies may charge for unpaid
balances Of $3.50 and less Is recon-
mended by the Virginia Legislative
Council in a report prepared for the
Governor and the General Assembly,
The Council, which recommended
also broadening of regulations gov.
erning the small loan business, pro-
posed that graduated scale of rates
be employed to allow for an increase
from 2 to 3 per cent month in the
charge on unpaid balances of $3.50
and less.
The present rate of 2 per cent
would be retained for any amount
of unpaid balance in excess of $3.50
and up to the permissible maximum
of $500.
The proposed increase in rate,
coming after the 1912 General As
sembly reduced the charge from 31z
a month to 2 per cent, was based on
the opinion arrived at by the council
that the small loan companies did
not adequately serve the borrower in
the lower brackets because the rate
OF charge is not sufficient to make
such loans profitable.
Sharp Decline Noted.
Investigation revealed, the coun-
Gil reported, that the number Of
loans to borrowers of $25 or less
had declined from 1882 in 1e41 to
5,625 in 1912 and to l,4l9 in the
first six months of 1913. A similar
decline, though not so large, &C.
Cured in the case of loans from s25
to $50, and from $50 to $500.
The council also cited reports Of
the Bureau of Banking showing
that the per cent of net earnings
on assets used and useful in the
small loan business, before payment
of interest on borrowed funds, had
declined from 9.82 per cent in l94l
to 5.76 per cent in 1912 and to
1896 for the first six months OF
1943 amounting on this basis to
1877 per cent if projected for the
full year of 1943).
Licenses Decrease.
This sharp decline in earnings
during the first six months of le43
under the new rate of charges, the
council stated, has resulted in so
small return On the assets now
used in the small loan business as
to raise the question whether or not
the remaining companies can con-
tinue in business"
The number of licensees decreased
from l03 on January l, 1912, to Sc on
August 80. l943, a decrease of 45.6
per cent as compared with a decline
throughout the country of only ia
per cent
In its recommendation for amend
ing the regulations governing the
small loan business, the council
largely adopted the proposed law
offered by the State Corporation
Commission.
These proposed changes included
recommendation that the powers Of
the commission to make investiga-
tons for the discovery of violation
OF the act be materially broadened
and extended, with proper safe
guards, to non-licensees, and that
the commission have greater power
to revoke licenses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Montgomery Grants
a Rezoning Requests
Despite Opposition
Planning Commission
Is OverruIed Except
In One instance

The Montgomery County Com
missioners yesterday granted four
requests to rezone property in the
Bethesda area despite recommen-
dations by the INSTRUMENTATION
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission that they be denied. A fifth
request, opposed by the planning
body was denied.
Reversing recommendation from
the Park and Planning Commission,
the commissioners rezoned from
residential A to residential c two
lots belonging to Ralph S. Morrison
and Abraham Morrison located on
Edgemoor lane in the Edgemoor
subdivision.
A second request by Mr.. Morrison
for the rezoning from residential A
to commercial D of the east half of
a lot in the same subdivision was
denied, but the commissioners re-
classified this lot from residential
A to residential C.
Petition Denied.
In its recommendations the Park
and Planning Commission said land
in this section should not be re-
classified until the master land use
plan and master plan of highways
and studies of probable population
trends in the area are distributed.
The commissioners denied a pc
tition of Charles F. Miller to rezone
from residential A to commercial D
a 234-foot tract of land on Elm
street, east of Arlington road, but
granted a second request by Mr.
Miller to rezone from residential A
to commercial D tract of land
bounded by the south line of the
Miller tract and the Arlington road
The Park and Planning Commits
sion had recommended that both
petitions for rezoning these tracts
be denied.
Blair Request Approved.
Other petitions granted included
A petition by the Blair Manage
ment Corp. to reZone from resi-
dental c to industrial E a part OF
the Blair property fronting 1,16O
feet on the north side of the East
West highway at the intersection
of that road and the Colesville road
and petition by Marshall Lehman
and his wife, Ethel D. Lehman, to
reclassify from residential A to in
dustrial E part of the acreage
known as parcel 2 of the Albert
Stewart tract near Linden.
The Park and Planning Commits
sion had recommended that both
these requests be granted.
The commissioners denied petit
ton by Charles S. Moore and wife,
Mary r. Moore, to rezone from
residential A to commercial D a lot
in Chevy Chase located north of
Walsh street and east of Wisconsin
avenue. The planning body had
asked denial OF the request.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Other Housebreakinqs
Laid 10 Men Caught
While Cracking Safe
Police Hompered by Quick
Arroignment Necessary
Under McNubb Rule

Five or six recent housebreakings
and safe robberies may have been
solved by the arrest of three men
Wednesday night as they were work.
ing on safe in the Lord Baltimore
Service Station at $500 Pennsylvania
avenue Sc, Inspector Robert j
Barrett, chief of detectives, said to-
day.
The men, Elmer H. Day, Is, of the
TOO block of G street Sc; Joseph G
Isenberg, %, of the 1900 block OF
Eleventh street NV, and John F.
Mockabee, %, of the TOO block OF
Eighth street Sc, were arraigned
on HOUSEKEEPING charges yesterday
before United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage.
They were placed under bond OF
$4,000 each after pleading not
guilty. The hearing was continued
until January II to permit them to
obtain counsel
Other Thefts Charged.
Inspector Barrett said that be-
sides admitting breaking into Mil
ler's Furniture Store, Eighth street
and Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
earlier in the evening before visit
ing the filling station, the men also
told police they had cracked safes
at three other establishments. Ac-
cording to police reports, nearly
$1,000 in cash was missing from the
safes.
The other housebreakings, police
said, occurred at Breyer Ice Cream
Co, 1880 Bladensburg road NE;
Colonial Ice Cream Co., South Capt.
toll and E streets, and the Tieman
Paper Co., lib M street Sc.
Inspector Barrett said that i'm
mediate arraignment of the three
men, made necessary by the Nc
Nabb decision, already had ham,
pered police from making a COM
plete investigation.
Boy Arrested.
Meanwhile the arrest of a It.
year-old colored boy who allegedly
smashed the window of the Boston
Shoe Market, 403 Seventh street
NV, was reported by police.
The youth was chased and caught
by Pvt. M. H. Weber of the first
precinct, after the officer saw him
break the store window and scoop
up handful of shoes. During the
chase, the youth who cut his hand
while reaching into the window
dropped his loot. police said.
Placed in custody of juvenile au-
thorities. the boy was being ques-
toned today about the recent
smashing of two other windows in
the same neighborhood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
State COP Wont Back
.Wi||kie, Green Says

John Locke Green, Arlington
County treasurer and a Virginia
delegate to the Republican National
Convention, today in an open letter
informed Wendell Willkie that he
would have only one delegate from
Virginia and that one representa-
tive of a utility company"
In his letter Mr.. Green recalled q
recent telephone conversation with
the Republican leader during which
he said that people had lost con-
fidence in Mr.. Willkie because of his
yes man" attitude toward the ad-
miniStration.
Answering what he termed Mr.
WILKES surprise at such a state
ment, Mr.. Green said you are
relying on information from people
who are out of touch with ordinary
people. Your chief cronies are Wal
Street men and international bank
erS."
Mr.. Green said that Mr.. Willkie
never would have received the l94C
nomination if delegates had known
of a pre-Pearl Harbor dinner party
given by Mrs. Ogden Reid, when
certain international bankers were
present and where the whole topic
of conversation was what could be
done to involve America in the war.
1T all comes to light now why
you conducted your campaign in
the manner and method you did,
Mr.. Green said, and why you
sought, in a yelled way, to lead the
people to believe that the election
of Roosevelt meant war while yours
meant peace. At no time during
the whole campaign were you spe-
cific on this subject
Mr.. Green concluded the letter
which he said today would be mailed
to all Republican national delegates
by asking that Mr.. Willkie tell us
exactly where YOU stand. if YOU can