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Evening star., 1943-02-06
Railroads Right Of Way
May Be Victory Gardens
BY the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Feb. GA plan to
transform the right-of- on each
side of the New York Central Rail-
roads 1000 miles of tracks into
a string of employe-cultivated Vic
tory gardens has been announced by
Raymond D. Starbuck, executive
vice president of the railroad.
Following Mr.. Starbuck's an
nouncement, E. j. Leenbouts, as
sistant agricultural agent for the
railroad, said he envisioned the sys-
TENS trains running this summer
through belt OF growing green
groceries starting in New York State
and extending through the seven
States and two Canadian provinces
the New York Central traverses.
Mr.. Starbuck said the right-of-
way land will be made available for
cultivation on a first-come, first
served basis to the company's 128, 900
employees.
He explained that the plan was
given a short trial in the World War
and last month was revived by the
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul e.
Pacific and the Illinois Central
Railroads.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Work Resumed
AS WPB 0kays
Fairgrounds
Stop Orders Lifted on
Areas Replacing Sites
Taken for Buildings

Work on IA District recreational
areas was resumed today after the
War Production Board announced
late yesterday that 1t had lifted its
ban on that many of the "a play
grounds on which work was ordered
halted last December.
Stop orders were lifted only on
those Fairgrounds which are replac-
ing recreational facilities now being
used as sites for emergency war
building.
while We cannot now provide ad-
ditional recreation for war workers
in suddenly overcrowded areas"
said Recreation Superintendent
Milo F. christensen, I'VE are being
permitted to replace the areas we
lost through war building"
Commissioners Appealed.
The stop orders were withdrawn
after the District Commissioners
and the Recreation Board joined
forces in pleading with WPB's Fa-
cility Review Committee to grant a
hearing. The hearing was held
January % and then three more in
formal meetings were held with Dis
trict officials early this week.
Mr.. Christensen believes that the
IA areas can be completed by early
summer, when they will be needed
most"
1T has been hard struggle" he
said, but we think that this is a
fair and conSiderate proposal"
Areas involved are Langston,
Stadium Site, Fort Dupont. Fort
Greble, Congress Heights. Hillcrest,
Oxon Run, Jefferson, Randall.
Bundy. Phoebe Hearst, Buchanan,
Barry Farms and East Potomac.
Others Definitely Stopped.
Those definitely stopped are
Rudolph, Eastern High School. Ana
costa, Mckinley lexington, Powell,
Francis, Turkey Thicket, Coolidge,
Stevens and Stoddert.
The stop orders were shock to
District officials, who had already
gotten permission of the Army, Navy
and Federal Works Agency to start
construction. Three of the play
grounds were half completed and
work had to be done to protect the
partially-completed grading.
Contractors working on the job
received the news of continuance
with relief yesterday because we
need the work." they said. Despite
claims of the Facility Review Com
mittee that the men apd equipment
used on the Fairgrounds could be
better used in other war work, two
Of the three contractors involved
said they had no other Jobs to give
their men.
Evening star., 1943-02-06

pull with a hooked stick. Mrs.
Smiths idea of keeping the light
cords away from the children will
be followed in all new schools, he
decided, which are forced to use the
direct method of lighting rather
than the wall-button, indirect type.
The school officers also were forced
to install direct heat from radiators
rather than the usual system o1
heating through floor and wall ven
tilators. The building has no regu-
lar basement, only small compart-
ment under the floor to house the
boiler.
Frame Of Lumber.
The outside of the Davis, at Forty.
fourth place and H street Sc, i.
Of asbestos material. The frame 1.
of lumber and the walls are of wall
board. The drinking fountains have
steel nozzles instead of chromium
plated glass. There are small wooder
boxes and long wooden closets fol
books and coats instead of the usua
steel lockers.
Another temporary building, the
Patterson. is also being constructed
mainly of wood. said Col. j. d. Ar
thur, director of construction .or the
District. But third school soon to
be started, the Benning, will be
made OF brick because that is now
easier to obtain than lumber.
The Davis school will open a week
from Monday. About SAC, 900 and sis
months OF time have been spent BY
school oficers and contractors tc
complete 1t within wartime material
restrictions. ut feels as though II
took two years." laughed Mr.. Hutson
as he recalled the ingenuity and
worry that went into the Job. The
school nestles at the foot OF a hill
in the heavily-populated Bradbury
Heights area.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Missing Persons

IhoSe haU1ng information
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
tDith the Public Relations SQUAD
of the Police Department, Ma
ttonal 1000. /
James Mcconnell, IA, S feet 8
inches, l40 pounds, blue eyes, red
hair, wearing blue tweed suit, brown
hat, tan shoes, blue plaid scarf;
missing from 726 Quebec place NV
since Thursday
jamie Frye. Is, 5 feet 2 inches,
brown eyes, dark brown hair, wear
ing blue suit, pink sweater, dark
blue coat with two white buttons.
tan shoes, blue pocketbook; missing
from YWCA since Thursday.
Alice Vickers, 48, S feet 4 inches.
100 pounds. dark brown eyes, black
hair; missing from 4429 South Da-
kota avenue NE. since Thursday.
Calvert Rickter, 81, S feet 9 inches,
lib pounds, wearing brown-and-
white checkered suit. light gray cap,
black shoes, tan-and-gray reversible
raincoat; missing from 2l17 I street
NV. since yesterday.
Judge Hargr0ve, 81, colored, 5 feet
3 inches, $50 pounds, bald. wearing
gray hat. blue denim jacket over
leather jacket, old work trousers,
black shoes; missing from Myrtle
street NE. since Wednesday.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Canned Milk Rationinq
To Start in ; Months
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Rationing of canned milk, it was
learned today, will begin in about
three months.
Shortages of evaporated milk
have appeared in many localities.
due partly to large demands of the
armed services and lease lend, and
rationing has been regarded here as
inevitable. Food Administrator
Wickard already has assigned pow
ers for the task to the Office Of
Price Administration.
Mechanics of the ra.ioning have
not been worked out yet, but they
probably will provide more liberal
allotments for infants and small
children than for adults.
One reason for waiting about
three months, it is understood. is
that the Government wants to see
how the point system" for ration
ing canned fruits and vegetables
works. Perhaps the same coupons
will be used, though new ration
books will be available by then. if
needed.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Change in Pedestrian
Regulations Opposed
By Federation Board
Joywolkine Bon Would Be
Too Hard to Enforce,
Commissioners Told

After setting forth its opposition
to a proposed regulation to make 1t
illegal for pedestrians to cross
streets between controlled intersec-
tions except at marked crosswalks,
the Executive Board OF the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations yes
terday sent to the Commissioners a
traffic program which included de-
mand that more policemen be as
signed to traffic work.
The recommendations were con-
tanned in a letter written by Baxter
Smith, chairman Of the Safety Com
mittee of the federation. Other
points in the program were:
A traffic safety program designed
to reach the age group of Is years and
under and IS years and over; strict
enforcement of present pedestrian
trafiic regulations and of pedestrian
right of way; insistence by District
officials supervising police work that
all members Of the Police Depart
ment, not just those assigned to the
Traf1c Division, are responsible for
proper enforcement Of traffic regu-
lations," and should concentrate on
enforcement against moving traffic
violations. pafF'a 80
Mr.. Smith told the Commissioners
that the federation based its oppo-
sition to the proposed pedestrian
regulation on the following grounds:
l. Present regulations, If properly
enforced, adequately cover the type
OF pedestrian violation intended to
be covered by the proposed regula-
tion.
2. The proposed addition to the
regulations. If in effect during 1912
and enforced 100 per cent, would
have prevented 10 per cent of the
pedestrian deaths and would not have
affected the 1922 per cent of the
totaD pedestrian deaths that oc-
CURED between intersections not
controlled by traffic lights"
3. In every instance last year when.
due to mounting pedestrian casualties
concerted effort was made to en-
force the existing traffic regulations,
both as they apply to the pedestrian
and to the motorist, pedestrian cas-
ualties took decided drop in the
precinct asking the drive"
4. The Executive Board believes
that the proposed regulation would
prove to be even more difficult to
enforce than the present regulations
and sees no point in establishing
regulations that have very little If
any chance Of being enforced"
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Clothes Exchange Opens
In Falls Church School

An experiment in community liv-
ing Is being tried by some OF, the
parents of children in the Falls
Church schools. Deploring the
habit school children have of out
growing their clothes, the parents
have established a clothing ex-
change at Madison School which is
open from $50 to 1880 am. Tues
days and 2 to pm. Fridays.
All sorts of apparel, from caps to
ice skates, may be brought to the
school and exchanged, at the time
or later, for other articles of ap-
proximately the same value. Even
odd gloves and rubbers may be con-
tributed. The only stipulation made
is that all clothes be thoroughly
laundered or dry cleaned. Light
mending when necessary will be
done by volunteers among the
mothers.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
New School, Priority Pinched,
Needs OId-Fushioned Bell
D. c. and Education Officials Inspect
Temporary Structure Ready for Pupils

School officials are in the market
for a big clapper bell.
They have new five-room tenn
porary school in the southeast Sec
ton, with plenty of desks and COM
position blackboards and 200 chill
dren ready to take possession. But
due to wartime restrictions they
have no clocks on the walls and no
automatic clock system to ring bells
for beginning Of classes.
So Assistant Superintendent of
Schools Jere j. Crane has been
looking around for a big bell to
swing at class time and lunch time.
All the District officers and school
officials who inspected the new
Davis School yesterday remembered
that type of bell during their own
early school days but they could not
suggest where to find one.
Mr.. Crane is going to install
round "wind-up" clocks taken from
old school buildings years ago and
stored away for just such an emer-
gency. Lots of monitors will be re-
quired among the students to wind
the clocks, open the windows and
ring the bell
Light Cord Snaps.
One Of the long light cords hang
ing from ceiling fixtures broke easily
yesterday when it was pulled by
Municipal Architect Nathan C.
Wyeth. Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith,
school board member inspecting the
Davis, objected at once to the cords.
They hang too near the children's
hands, she declared, and If they
break easily they would be out OF
kilter all the time.
So Deputy Construction Director
Archie G. Hutson promised that the
cords would be shortened and loops
put in the ends for the teacher to
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Fairfax Rally 10 Be Told
OF Plans for Evacuees

Julian A. Brooks of Richmond,
head of the Virginia State Evacua-
ton Authority. will attend meeting
Of representatives of the Red Cross,
welfare department. public schools
and other organizations at Fairfax,
Wednesday, it was announced today
by Robert B. Walker, county OCD
director.
Mr.. Brooks is expected to discuss
plans for caring for evacuees from
the metropolitan area in the event
Of enemy bombing.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
4,750, 900 Cos Company
Bond Issue Approved

Approval has been given by the
Public Utilities Commission to an
application by the Washington Gas
Light Co. for new bond issue of
s4.75O,O00, at an interest rate of
3.75 per cent. due, in 1865.
OF the total issue. $2,500 900 is to
cover unsecured bank notes. and
$2,240,000 to redeem 4.25 per cent
bonds due in 1856. OF this amount
$l60,000 principal amount is to be
redeemed by March /, 1943, without
premium and the remaining 81
080,000 to be redeemed las soon as
practicable" at the redemption price
OF los per cent of the principal
amount.
The order Is to take effect i'm
mediately and will remain in force
until otherwise ordered by the COM
mission.
Evening star., 1943-02-06

ClluUcU 10 cdTIIl. 5AaS. NoOke'
An Associated Press dispatch
identified the plane as light
bomber and said that it had been
missing since Thursday. Maj.
Cooke was stationed at Indiantown
Gap, Pa. He was on a flight from
the New Cumberland Air Base near
Harrisburg, Pa, to point in Maine
Attended School Here.
Maj. Cooke was graduate of Nc
Kinley High School and the Uni
versity of Maryland, where he was
a member of the class of 1887. At
the university he was prominent in
athletics and campus life.
For three years he was member
of the universitys lacrosse team and
also played one year as a guard on
the football team. He was student
manager of the football team in his
senior year.
At the university he was a men,
ber of Sigma Phi Sigma, social fra
ternity; Omicron Delta Kappa Fra
ternity. Scabbord and Blade, mill
tary fraternity, and of the Ross
bourgh Dance Club.
Was ROTC Member.
Maj. Cooke was member of the
Reserve Officers Training Corps at
the university. He entered the
Army in February, 1941, as a first
lieutenant and reached the grade OF
major last January g. Prior to en-
tering the service he was employed
by the Stanford Paper Co. here
Active in church and Sunday
school work, he was member OF
the Vaughn Glass at Calvary Bap-
tist Church
Maj. Cookies widow, Mrs. Dorothy
V. Cooke. lives at 523 Kentucky
avenue Sc. He is survived also by
his mother, Mrs. Bertha G. Cooke
brother, John H. Cooke, and 9
sister, Miss Viola H. Cooke.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Work
In Alexandria
To Start Soon
Building to Begin in
Two Weeks; Will Be
Reody by September

Construction Of Alexandria Hos.
pitfalls new 75-bed wing will be
started within the next 10 days or
two weeks under building schedule
designed to have 1t ready for occu-
pancy by September l. Robert G.
Whitton, hospital administrator.
announced today.
Final approval Of the project was
reported by the War Production
Board yesterday. reversing q former
decision based on a belief that tho
addition was not seriously enough
needed to warrant diverting criti-
cal war materials to its construc.
ton.
Also scheduled for occupancy by
September is the old St. Mary's
Academy Building. to be used as a
nurses training school. and an So
bed nurses home. This structure
stands on land adjacent to the hos
pital which was acquired at the time
the expansion program was plan-
ned.
To Cost $62o.o
The new wing and the renovated
academy building Is estimated to
involve an expenditure Of 100000
Included in this sum Is the 500 900
purchase price of the academy prop
erty.
Were all set to co." Mr.. Whitton
said yesterday when notified OF the
WPB's approval.
Already on hand are 100 tons Of
reinforcing bars contributed for
hospital expansion by the city Of
! Alexandria. Excavation work on
the foundation is expected to require
three to four weeks, after which
actual construction details will get
under way.
The new wing will be to the rear,
or on the north side. of the main
building. Original plans called for
another wing on the east, but this
was rejected by the WPB, a move
explained by its hospital consult
ants to conserve $4,000 worth Of
critical war materials.
Increases Capacity to 1T Beds.
The additional IS beds will In
crease the capacity Of the hospital
to 1T beds. Mr.. Whitton reported
that the increase would enable the
institution to meet virtually all Of
its wartime demands and to ease
situation that rapidly was becom-
ing critical.
Speaking not only for the hos
pital and the staff. but for the peo-
pie of Alexandria" the adrninistra-
tor said, I'VE are deeply appreciative
Of the assistance we received from
the War Production Board in recon-
sidering our project and giving 1t
their approval"
The Alexandria project increases
to 1880 the number of new beds
scheduled to be supplied in the
Metropolitan Area under the re-
vised expansion program. OF these,
$50 will be obtained through new
construction and 627 by placing
beds in existing space.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Boost for D. {. and j. ).
Niqht Workers Asked

Representative Randolph OF West
Virginia, member of the House Civil
Service Committee, yesterday in
troduced a bill providing an in
crease Of Is per cent in salary for
Federal and District employees doing
night work.
Charles I. Stengle of the Amer
lean Federation of Government EN-
ployes, at whose request this meas
ure was introduced. explained that
his organization desired to have
such a proposal considered when the
Civil Service Committee conducts
hearings on pay increase legisla-
ton.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
County Meetings Called
On New Afraid Rules

All air-raid wardens. auxiliary
police and auxiliary firemen of
Montgomery County are requested
10 attend area meetings next week
to discuss the new regulations and
signals promulgated by the Eastern
Defense Command and 1st Army
1t was announced today by Judge
Albert E. Brault, county civilian de-
fense director.
Civilian defense personnel of the
eastern suburban area of the county
will meet at pm. Tuesday at the
Woodside School The meeting for
the western suburban area has been
called for pm. Wednesday at the
Bethesda Elementary School on Will
son lane, and the session for the
upper section of the country has
been set for 8 pm, Thursday at the
Rockville Courthouse.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
D. c. Lobor Group Urges
Probe of Steuurt Custer

Price Administrator Prentiss M.
Brown has been asked by the WASH
ington Central Labor Union (AFL)
ITO carefully examine" the reasons
leading up to the dismissal of l.. p.
Steuart as chief rationing officer
for the District, the union an
nounced today.
In a resolution, the central labor
body protested the handed
manner used In the dismissal of Mr..
Steuart" and said 1t believes In the
right of every American citizen
to a public hearing before q SEN
tence is passed."
Evening star., 1943-02-06

hedTUey SCTeet
NE, said to-
day.
Mr.. Cook c
said he had
been Informed
that his sons
body was found
in the wreckage
Of the plane
along with that
of the pilot
Two other pas.
sengers in the
plane have no
been found ane
may have para
chuted to earth
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Air Shipments Increase

Shipments by air between Venezuela
and the United States have greatly
increased in the last year, and three
airplanes have just been added to
the service.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
District Army Officer
Dies in Plane Crash
In Massachusetts
Maj. Charles Cooke, rs,
Was Prominent in
Athletics at Maryland Y.

Mai. Charles Harvey Cooke, 26, OF
Washington was killed Thursday in
a plane crash near Cape Cod, Mass,
his father, Charles H. Cooke, zoos
Evening star., 1943-07-11
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Doing very good business. excellent. op-
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20 RMS, $135 RENT.
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Evening star., 1943-07-11

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DUNE, Attorney. 6o4 H st. ne. AT. $500
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end stocked; doing S1Q0 day business,
Price. $3.50; terms, Box 311-R. Star.
GROCERY STORE, small, for sale cheap
Gall between and IL am, 1869 L st. Sc
Evening star., 1943-07-11

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Evening star., 1943-07-11

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Evening star., 1943-07-11

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