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Evening star., 1943-12-22
Navy Realizes This Is War
OF Initiative, Bard Says
By the Associated Press.

.
ANNAPOLIS. Dec. 22.-Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Ralph A..
Bard told the class of reserve mid
shipmen commissioned at the Naval
Academy yesterday that leach day
We are coming to realize more and
more that this is war Of i'm
provisation: that we cannot win bat
ties by strategy based on tradition. :"
"Today's Navy, you will find. is
not regulated by tradition he said.
In my opinion. the outstanding
evidence of superiority over the Japs
is the superior intelligence. quick
thinking and initiative of our pilots,
our officers and our men"
Rear Admiral j. r. Beardall,
superintendent of the academy, told
the 281 graduates who were COM
missioned ensigns in the Naval Re-
serve that leadership, discipline and
loyalty had been emphasized in the
development Of their naval training.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Montgomery Weighs
Postwar Plans Group
Proposal Is Offered
By Civic Federation

Proposed appointment Of a spe-
cial committee to assist in planning
postwar projects was being studied
today by the Montgomery County
Commissioners.
The proposal was presented at the
boards meeting yesterday in Rock
vile by the County Civic Federation.
which Endorsed appointment Of a
County Development Committee at
its meeting December 6.
Members Of such a committee, to
serve without pay, would include
representatives of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission and County
Board of Education.
Also represented would be the
County Civic Federation, County
Federation Of Women's Clubs
League of Women Voters, Bethesda
Chamber of Commerce, Silver
Spring Board of Trade, Farm Bu-
reau, County Medical Society and
Federated Parent Teachers Associ-
alton.
The commissioners awarded to the
Contee Sand &, Gravel Co.. Laurel
a S2,078.25 contract for constructing
approximately $40 feet of concrete
curb and gutter on Moves drive. also
known as C street, Silver Spring
The bid was the lowest OF Ave.
The report of Alvie A. Moxley
county inspector OF weights and
measures. showed that from Sen.
tenlber Is to December Is he in.
spected 44s pumps and found "a
correct. is over and 8 short, and thu
of 437 scales inspected. 43o wer,
correct and short. All except 1.
OF the pumps and scales inspected
have been reinspected since and ap.
proved.
The board appointed Smith All.
mutt an emergency policeman il
place of George Price, resigned, ane
Fred johnson to serve in place O,
Robert Edward Kuster. regular
policemen, who is to report for mill.
tary duty Monday.
All county employees who can bs
spared will be granted a holiday
Friday and Saturday.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Dealers Urge Pairing
In Use Of Anthracite

Washington coal merchants yes
terday requested their customers tt
reduce the use OF anthracite by one.
eighth and, if necessary, use soft
coal to supplement their fuel supply
This came as result Of notif1ca-
ton by the Solid Fuels Administra-
tion for War to the Coal Division oil
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association that, because of sub
stantial losses" it will be necessary
to limit consumers to 87.5 per cent
of their annual consumption of an
thracite.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
County Is Divided
Into 5 Districts to
Facilitate Undertokino

In 4 move to equalize and bring
up to date the assessment Of pro-
perty in Prince Georges County, the
county commissioners yesterday ap-
pointed five men to work under
Chief Assessor Thomas w. Baxter
IN reviewing property assessments
over q fiye-year period.
At the same time, Mr.. Baxter an
nounced that the county has been
divided into five districts, with the
property in each district to be re-
assessed at least once every five
years.
The appointments were made in
compliance with an act passed at
the last session Of the State Legis-
lature, which authorized establish
ment OF continuous assessment pro-
grams throughout the State.
Appointees Listed.
Those named, each of whom will
receive $2.40o a year and 5000 for
travelling expenses, are:
William H. Lusby, Brandywine;
Headley F. Gasch, Bladensburg;
Thomas P. Britain, University
Park; Herndon Peach, Michellville.
and william E.. Hutchinson,
Riverdale.
Mr.. Lusby has been a local asses
sor OF new construction since 1927,
while Mr.. Peach, and MI. Britain
have worked as local assessors since
1889. Mr.. Gasch is a contractor,
and Mr.. Hutchinson is employed as
an engineer with the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission.
Mr.. Hutchinson's principal duties
will be to make plats of property in
the rural areas, although he also
will act as county. assessor. All
except Mr.. Britain are lifelong
residents Of the county. Mr.. Brit
tain, a retired Army officer. has lived
In the county for the last seven
years.
Work Begins Soon.
The first area to be reassessed,
beginning January !, 1914, includes
the following districts:
Marlboro. Nottingham, Phcata-
way, Queen Anne. AQuasco, Surratts,
Brandywine and Mellwood..
The Seat Pleasant, Spaulding and
Oxon Hill districts are scheduled to
be reviewed during l945. In 1916.
property in the Hyattsvile, River
dale and Bladensburg districts will
be reviewed. while Berwyn, Lanham
and Chillum will be reassessed in
1947. Evansville, Laurel, Kent and
Bowie districts will be checked In
l948.
Mr.. Baxter emphasized. however,
that this lchedule is only tentative
and can Be changed with the ap-
proval Of the State Tax Commission
He added that the new program will
not necessarily" increase all as
sessments but may even result in
reductions in many eases.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
WLB Unit Proposes
|9-Cent-an.Hour Raise
For Arnold Drivers
.-. ;
Boost Would Provide
80 Cents an Hour for
Men Serving Over Yeor

A 9-cents-an-hour wage IN.
crease for employees Of the Arnold
Operated Bus Line has been rec.
commended to the War Labor Board
by a special WLB panel that last
month heard testimony in dispute
between the company and members
Of Local 1919 of the AFL ANAL
gamated Association of Street, Elec-
trio Railway and Motor Coach EN-
ployes of America.
The WLB reported that B. J.
Shave. member of the panel rep
resenting labor, dissented, recon-
mending a 12-cent increase Other
members of the panel are DR.. Paul
Douglass, president OF American
University, representing the public.
and John Twohy, Norfolk, Va, rep
resenting industry.
The recommended increase, which
Is S cents under the unions de-
mands and cents above an offer
made by the company, would in
crease hourly wages of bus operators
to 80 cents for the first year and
to 30 cents thereafter.
Other Recommenda tions.
The WLB said the panel was
unanimous in its recommended tions
on all issues except the wage dis
pute. These recommendations in
clude:
Payment of time-and- a half for
drivers on split shifts after IA hours
from the time of reporting. time
and-a-half after hours for straight
runs and time -and-a-haH after
40 hours for shop workers. The
contract formerly provided for
time -and-a-half after 48 hours a
week for shop workers and after
9 hours day, as now called for,
for drivers on straight runs.
The panel also recommended that
the contract provide for appoint
mnt by the conciliation service
of third member to any arbitra-
ton committee when the company
and the union cannot agree on .
choice.
Combined Hearing Held.
The WLB last week held a COM
bined public hearing on voluntary
requests for wage increases by the
Capital Transit Co. and the Alex
andria. Bancroft d. Washington
Transit Co. and on the wage dispute
between Arnold officials and the
union. Officials of the Arlington &
Fairfax Motor Transportation Co..
which now has before a conciliation
board request by employees for q
20-cent wage increase, were OBJ
servers.
Experienced drivers for the Capt.
tai Transit Co. now receive 95 cents
; an hour and would receive 81 an
hour if their request for a Scent
increase Is granted. A. B. & w
Z experienced employees receive o:
tcents an hour and would be boosted
Ito 81 cents IL their request wer,
5 sfyranted. ~
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Funeral Held for Boy
Killed by Shotgun BIost
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEoNARDTOWN, Md, Dec. a.
Funeral services for Joseph D.
Hurry, Sd, IL, son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph D. Hurry, jr., Clements, Md.
who was killed Friday when q shot
gun he was cleaning was acci-
dentally discharged, were held yes
terday at st. Joseph's Catholic
Church, Morganza. Burial was in
the church cemetery.
He is survived by his parents, a
brother. LIE Roy Hurry; a sister,
Donna Marie Hurry, and his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Hurry, ST
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Postwar Planning Vital to D. c.,
Gen. Grant Tells Trade Board

What is needed is to plan only one
area, not a separate National Capt.
tai area and separate District
Of Columbia area"
Postwar planning by business
men is dependent first on a rea-
sonably accurate estimate of Gov
eminent employment and the pop
ulation here, asserted Charles A.
Robinson, chairman of the Board
of Trades Postwar Planning Com
mittee and vice-president of Chesa-
peake g. Potomac Telephone Co.
Mr.. Robinson said committee
studies indicated a postwar low
of about 100000 population will
be reached here in l947, with a
high of l,480,000 expected by 1855.
QUESTIONABLE Planned.
A questionnaire to be sent each
business firm. he said, would relate
to present employment, estimated
employment at the wars end. in
formation as to any deferred build
ing maintenance. modernization
projects. additions to present build
ings or any new buildings. Each
firm, he emphasized. should desig-
nate some one who will be respon-
sible for formulating Its postwar
plans"
The fact that Federal and Dis
trict agencies will contribute to the
postwar construction work here
should not be considered as mini.
MIXING in any sense the respon.
sibility of the business interests ir
the community to do their part,
Mr.. Robinson stated.
Col. Joseph D. Arthur, assistan
engineer commissioner, appearing
for Commissioner c. w. KutZ. out
lined a program Of roads, sewer,
schools and other public project
totaling s45,0O0 900 for which plan
are completed or nearing compile
ton. AS soon as funds are avail
able, he said a construction pro
gram absorbing a large volume o
unemployment could be launche,
without delay.
Projects Surveyed.
Another $4,000, 900 will be spen
by Federal agencies in improving
the Potomac River channel an,
making other improvements, if Con
gress authorizes the funds, 1t wa
pointed out.
Surveys MADE by the War De
partment's District engineer on tn,
Potomac River Basin, Col. Arthu
added, indicate economically JUS
tiflable projects for food control
power, recreation. pollution abate
ment and water supply A com
prehensive report will be completed
in the near future. it was said.
President Granville Guide callet
on Trade Board members to hel,
strengthen private enterprise b,
taking the lead in postwar commu
nifty planning.
Among distinguished guests intro
duced by President Guide was Brie
Gen. George j. Richards, budget ON
Ger Of the War Department. He ha
charge Of handling the return by tn
War Department of some $l3, 900 900
600 to a special reserve.
DR.. John F. Fennelly. executiv,
director of the National Committe,
for Economic Development, urge,
each community to stand on its owl
feet before "embarking on a pro
gram Of public works" adding tina
we think it desperately importan
that the trek to Washington TO
handouts be checked"
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Latham Gets Stute Post

Appointment of Lucius L. Latham,
$500 Livingston road Sc. as forest
warden for Prince Georges County,
Md, was announced today by Gov.
O'Conor, according to an Associated
Press dispatch from Annapolis. Mr..
Latham is one of seven forest war
dens named in five Maryland coun-
ties.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Alexandra Inductees
Include No Fathers

No pre-Pearl Harbor fathers are
included in the group Of IS Alex
andria men accepted for induction
in the armed forces on December is,
and none are included in a call
sent out for Monday, Miss Virginia
Jefferson, clerk Of the board, said
today.
The majority Of registrants in
Quoted this month, when the board
had four calls for white men. were
youths who had just become 18, or
men whose deferments have ex-
pired or who have been reclassified
Five colored men were indicted
from Alexandria Friday. The e>oup
included some fathers.
The following men were accepted
for service:
snmlaI sarsii1, Louis si,. H. Harris. Robert 2;
Romani, John A. Mankin, James W.
Kidd. Robert E Collins, Augustus
kkomani; ko1.. wiSi;s Mienael n, e Herman Herman Samuel
King, Alfred H.
Morse, Edward J. Curtis, George A.
Nash. Chas. L., ir Donald Lewis A. yr.
Peter. Earl X Parkinson Walter y,
Penn, Carl A.. Masiello, Joseph A.
Sellow John z Hile John c
Hennage VIM H. Bolt Kennard C,
MARINE CORPS.
SlsSon. Manuel T. Claee Elmer q
Bennett, Paul B.
Colored men accepted Friday
were.
ARMY.
Calhoun. James P. Stewart. Vernon c.
Jones, Alonzo
Hutrhipson rred f-hirn lava.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Fairfax AAA Names
5 to Farm Rotion Unit

The Fairfax County Agricultural
Adjustment Administration has
named five farmers to serve on the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
Reception Work
Ends at Custer

tests, innoculation against dis
ease they might confront in the
soldiers life 10 follow. and long
rows of quartermaster stores,
to emerge ready for entrain-
ment 10 whatever post they
seemed best fitted for.
Now the hurly-burly Of this
activity is over. and the fort
will be the home exclusively Of
the Military Police Training
Center until the wars end.
For the duration, Michigan
men will be sent to Fort Sheri-
dan. Ill, for processing.
Once the war is over, how
ever. Fort Custer will stage a
reversal of the process IL has
specialized in for three years.
When, peace comes. 10 is be-
icved that the fort will be the
army discharge center for
Michigan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01

FORT CUSTER, Nov. The
Fort Custer Reception center,
which offered the first taste of
military life to thousands of
civilians. is no more. The recep-
ton center quietly closed shop
over the weekend after process
ing two Battle Creek rockies.
Robert c. Watts and Allen II.
DoXtator were the last to 60
through the well-grooved rou-
tine that changed them 10
khaki-clad recruits. Doxtator
having the honor Of being the
final inductee 10 be proceSSed.
nearly three years since
the center opened to bring
about the difficult shift from
civilian 10 soldier status. Since
its inception i'm December, 1910,
more than $4,000 men of all
sizes and varied walks of life
have milled through aptitude
Evening star., 1943-02-18
Defense Area Surveys
Show Low Vacancies

Residential vacancies were below
the 2 per cent critical level in nearly
seven-tenths of the Nations defense
areas, including the District, when
the latest 1912 surveys we're made
by the Census Bureau. it was an
nounced today. The District vacancy
rate in August, at the time of the
last survey, was OF per cent,
The surveys, made at the request
OF the National Housing Agency,
showed that one-fourth of the 2l8
defense areas had gross vacancy
rates under l per cent, and that all
but three had rates below the
normal" level of per cent. These
three were Huntsville, Ala; Topeka,
Kans., and Lexington, KY.
Evening star., 1943-02-18

for trade and industrial education
for the board. In 1887 he was
named to the position of executive
assistant in vocational education.
A native of Syracuse. N. Y, Mr.
Ellington received a bachelor Of
science degree in mechanical engi-
neering at the University of Col
orado Later he did graduate work
in industrial education at the Col
orado State College and at Amer
lean University here. He served In
the Army during the World War
MI. Ellington was member of
the Masonic Fraternity and belonged
to Columbia Commandery, knights
Templar. He also belonged to the
Acacia Fraternity, the American
Vocational Association and the
American Academy of Political and
Social Science
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Mary Carman Ellington, and three
daughters, Miss Carmen Ellington,
Miss Ruth Ellington and Miss Ma
rian Ellington, all of Arlington, and
his mother, Mrs Marian V. Billing
ton of Denver, Colo
Evening star., 1943-02-18
Air-Borne Command
Needs Transports for
Training Schools
Parachute Infantry and
Slider Program Coils
For 100, 900 Men
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star STAFF Correspondent

FORT BRAGG, N. c., Feb. 10
More and more transport planes
for training purposes are being
needed daily in the rapidly expand
Ing Army air-borne schooling opera
TONS, and as is to be expected, the
Alr-borne Command lis experiencing
some difficulty in having its needs
fully satisfied.
Within a few months the para
chute infantry and glider program
Will be enlarged to about 100000 men
In training Or of veteran status
with the center of the operations
located in North Carolina, not faI
from the Pinehurst- Aberdeen area.
Every one realizes that transport
planes are vital to the success of
a campaign such as that in North
Africa" said an officer of the Air
borne Command. Consequently
more and more planes for our train
ing program are a constant need
Standard Types Used.
Transport planes of the DC-3 type,
made by Douglas, formerly in wide
use in civilian air transport, are the
standard types used by the Air
borne Command in training opera
tions. They are called CATS or
C-53s, the distinction being in the
type of door opening One type
has a larger and wider door for
transportation Of motorized equip
ment and heavy guns. Many are
fitted for glider use, with the rope
release attachment.
Planes and pilots are furnished by
the Troop Carrier Command, one of
the busiest of the Air Corps out
fits.
Lawson Field, at Fort Benning,
Is the place where the parachute
infantry soldiers get the thrill of the
first free jump from a plane. Here
the big transports shuttle up and
down the length of the field, packed
with paratroopers to be dropped over
designated areas. They come to
Benning from Toccoa, Ga, one of
the primary parachute infantry
schools; from Camp Blanding, Fal,
or from Fort Bragg, N. c., for their
jump training.
Many Glider Schools.
A big airfeld, near the border of
North and South Carolina is the
spot where many glider pilots and
troops are trained but this isn't the
only one. Glider schools are scat
tered at many places throughout
the country, and to carry on train
ing in the tricky technique of glider
opera ton many transport planes
are necessary.
Air-borne Command has been ex-
perimenting for months with de-
vice to pick up a glider on the
ground by a plane already air-borne.
It's big and expanding program
ahead, and officers of Air borne
Command realize that training
planes ever will be pressing need,
But they are confident the need
must be, and will be, met,
Evening star., 1943-02-18
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Evening star., 1943-02-18
Madame Adele StiefeI,
Concert Pianist, Dies
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-Madame
Adele Lewing Stiefel 81. concert
pianist and composer of the Song
Without Words" died Tuesday.
Born in Hanover, Germany, she
studied at Leipzig Conservatory. On
one occasion she was soloist at the
birthday celebration of the King OF
Saxony.
She appeared in recitals in many
large cities in the United States and
played in concerts with the Kneisel
Quartet. the Detroit Philharmonic
Club and the Chicago String
Quartet.
Evening star., 1943-02-18
Harry c. BuIkIey Dies;
ChrysIer Chief Counsel
pvthe Associsted pres,

BY the Associated Press
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb 15.-Har-
ry Conant Bulkley, u, head of the
law firm of Bulkley, Dickinson.
Wright a. Sarvis and chief legal
counsel for Chrysler Corp, died here
yesterday.
Mr.. Bulklev was considered one of
the first leaders of the bar to in
terpret and emphasize the intimate
functional connection between COM
merce and law.
Born in Monroe, Mich, Mr.. Bulk
ley was graduated from the Uni
versity of Michigan Law School in
1895 and later received the hon.
orary master of arts degree in 1921
and honorary doctor of laws in 1890,
He served as member OF the Board
of Regents of the University of
Michigan from 1911 to 1918.
Evening star., 1943-02-18
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Evening star., 1943-02-18
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Evening star., 1943-02-18
Dr.. J. D. Freeman Dies;
Retired Professor
Nv the Associated Press.

Bv he hsSocIated Press.
MACON. Ga, Feb. 18.-Dr. John
D. Freeman, emeritus professor OF
Christianity at Mercer University
and pastor of the Mount Zion Bap-
tist Church at Lorene, died yester
day after a long illness.
He had been retired from uni
versity work since August. 1899
after more than 16 years as profess
sor of theology.
DR.. Freeman had held pastorates
in Canada, England and many parts
of the United States before com
ing to Mercer. He once was pas
tor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist
Church in Cleveland.
Evening star., 1943-02-18

nedTL dCldCk at
his home, 1901
North Danville
S t r e e t, Arling-
ton, Va.
Mr.. Ellington
began in Gov
ernment service
in 1925 as a staff
member Of the
vocational re-
habitat ton serv-
ice of the Fed
eral Board for
Vocat tional Edu-
cation. Subse-
OuentlV he was
regional agent