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Evening star., 1944-12-19
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Canned Goods, Etc.-Book No. 4,
blue stamps A-8 through Z-s; AS
through rs and Az and B-2
good indefinitely for 10 points
each. Next stamps to be validated
January /.
Meats, Fats. Etc.-Red stamps AS
through z-8 and AS through SIS
good indefinitely for 10 points
each. Next stamps to be validated
December 81.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
each pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Book No. stamps 80 through
"a valid for S pounds indefinitely.
Book No. 4 stamp 40 good for
pounds for home canning through
February %, 1945.
Gasoline-A-13 coupons good for 4
gallons each through midnight
Thursday. Ala coupons valid for
4 gallons each Friday. B-4, CA,
BIS and C-5 coupons good for 5
gallons each.
ShOes-Airplane stamps /, 2 and 3
In Book No. good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods one and two cou-
pons good for 10 gallons each
through heating year. Period three
coupons valid January Is. Old
period four and five coupons from
last winter good through year.
Consumers in this area should not
have used more than 80 per cent
OF their ration as Of December 1S.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Man Fined in Shooting
Of Marine; Notes Appeal

John A. Abernethy, So, of the
Shady Grove Tourist Cabins at Ber-
wyn. Md, was find $3.50 by Trial
Magistrate Henry H. O'Neill in Hy-
attsville Police Court yesterday on
a charge of assault with dangerous
weapon. He was released on $500
bond on an appeal to the Prince
Georges County Circuit Court.
Police testified that Abernethy
shot marine, Thomas Perkins, now
a patient at the Bethesda Naval
Medical Center, when the marine
went to his cabin to collect Sc that
had been paid for a cabin. Perkins,
another marine and two women
companions had been asked to
leave the cabin because of noise
they had been making, it was testi-
fed
Both Perkins and Sergt. George
Walzcak, contended that Abernethy
fired at Perkins before the marine
reached the cabin porch. The shoot
ing took place August 5.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Plea for Priorities
For Hotel in Bethesda
Endorsed by Chamber
By MRS. ]. REED BRADLEY.

The suggestion that Government
authorities be requested to grant
priorities for immediate erection of
a privately financed hotel in Be-
thesda to take care of Naval Hos
pital personnel and visiting relatives
Of hospital patients was made to the
Bethesda Chamber of Commerce
last night by Representative Beall.
Republican, of the 9th Maryland
district
A committee of three chamber
members will be appointed to work
with Mr.. Beall in carrying out his
suggestion.
10 v. Morgan, representing the
War Recreation Services of Mont
gomery County, appealed for cham
ber support in drive to make more
private rooms and apartments avail
able at reasonable price to service
men and their families.
1t was pointed out the Federal
Government placed the Naval Hos
pital in Bethesda without planning
hotel or apartment accommodations
to take care of the resulting increase
in population. Building in the area
has been at a stahdstill for two
years. it was further explained, and
it has been impossible for private
homes to take care of the situation
adequately.
The chamber indorsed the State
educational program outlined by
Gov. O'Conor and urged members
of the county delegation to support
it. The groups approval was given
following report by Thomas w.
Pyle, chairman of the Welfare and
Education Committee.
Unanimous approval was voted
the following recommendations of
the Postwar Planning Committee,
headed by G. Wadie Imirie: IN
dorsement of the location OF the
proposed Northwest freeway, with
the suggestion that the Federal
Government, the State or the county
build connecting road from Rock
vile pike to the freeway; that
East-West highway be widened
and where feasible curves elimi-
mated; that Rockville pike be
widened to six lanes north of the
Bank of Bethesda to the proposed
lnter-county metropolitan free
way; that two connecting links of
like width be constructed from the
northwest freeway and from north
ern parkway to the Rockville pike
at the inter-county metropolitan
freeway intersection.
Final approval was granted for a
permanent chamber office in
RethaSdo
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not see them. I do not even see my
wife, although I know where she is
sitting.
Sometimes you must think Of the
music. A passage repeats itself
except for one last note. You must
be careful you do not go on the
wrong track like a train coming to
switch"
do you ever do that?" some one
asked.
"Oh no." he said. Years ago vio-
linists sometimes did that in recital.
Then the accompanist would make
out he had to turn page and make
believe it was he who made the mis-
take. But you can't do that with
an orchestra.
That was something else to think
about. He gave it thought. Then
he said, in a perish-the- thought
tone, That would be awful"
Evening star., 1944-12-19
100 Hot Plates Barred
By Electrical Code

w. Edward Dunn, Alexandra
electrical inspector, said yesterday
that approximately 100 electric hot
plates, offered for sale at Standard
Oil Co, filling stations, had beer
recalled by company salesman wher
he had been informed that they
did not meet the standards of the
city's electrical code.
The plates, priced at 1898, were
discovered accidently by Mr.. Dunn
when he drove into a station te
buy gas. He said they were packed
in plain boxes with no manufac-
turer's name and did not bear either
the voltage or amperage required
There was no mark to show that
they had been approved by the
board of underwriters, he said, and
the cords were loose in the box fol
the purchasers to attach.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Maryland Fruternities
Top 5D.C. Area Students

Five Washington area students
at the University of Maryland have
been tapped for membership in uni
versity fraternities, it was an
nounced at the institution today.
Selma Hem, Gill Forty fourth
avenue, Riverdale, Md, and Jean
Rowley of Takoma Park have been
tapped for membership in Mortar
Board. Arthur Ballard, Forty first
avenue, Hyattsville. has been tapped
by Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary
mems leadership society, and An
toinette r. Call, 1914 Allison street
NV, and Louise Owings, 7D13 Wake
Forest drive, College Park, have
been chosen for membership in
Alpha Psi Omega, honorary dra-
matte society.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Veteran Jailed, but Child
Still Can Have Christmas
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md, Dec. 1e.-
Associate Judge William A. Hustler
of Circuit Court, yesterday sentenced
parole violator to the county Jail
rather than to a State prison in
order that Christmas plans the pris-
oner had made for his child might
not be interrupted.
Howard Franklin Powers, 30. dis
abled by malaria and a stomach all
ment while serving in the Army,
explained to the court that to be
confined in Federal or State
prison would automatically halt his
s11S monthly pension from the Gov
eminent as a disabled veteran.
A month ago Powers pleaded
guilty to the charge of taking a
watch from woman's pocketbook
and was paroled. 1t was for viola
ton of his parole that the six-month
Jail sentence was pronounced yes
terday.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Proposed Route
For Parkway
is Opposed
Scoring Population
Of Silver Spring
Forecast at Meetino

Predicting a tremendous increase
in the population of Silver Spring
within the next decade, officials of
the Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission last night
told of the commissions plan to
meet traffic and zoning problems at
the first of series of community
meetings at the Silver Spring
Armory.
Disapproval of the proposed
routing of the Northern Parkway
through Anson street and Alton
Parkway was expressed by a ma
iority of nearly 400 persons attend-
ing.
Most of the speakers were in favor
of an alternate route which would
bypass Silver Spring on the west
side of the Baltimore g. Ohio Rail-
road north of Rosemary Hills, cut
ting in through Forest Glen back
of Carroll Springs Inn, where it
would connect with a through high
way going North and with a north
east route going to Baltimore.
Route Studied for Years.
Commission officials said this route
has been studied for some years and
is not considered as advantageous
as the proposed Anson street route
because of distance and construction
cost.
Emphasizing the necessity for
construction of an express highway,
Fred w. Tuemmler. director of plan
ming for the Park and Planning
Commission. said statistics indicate
that by 1865 there will be 10000
persons living in the Metropolitan
area of Montgomery County.
! The proposed Northern Parkway
would provide express passenger
connections with downtown Wash
ington for this population increase
and also serve as connection with
the superhighway coming from
Baltimore as far as White Oak, he
asserted.
| Hazard to Children Seen.
| Residents of the Woodside area
pointed out that plans for the Anson
street route call for a depressed
highway with 30-foot embankment.
Besides depreciating property values
IN that section, they contended, it
would prove hazard to children
attending Woodside School, which is
only Is feet from the proposed
| project.
Objection was also voiced by home
owners IN Woodside Park, where the
new parkway would be routed
through Alton parkway. Ten houses
and about Is lots would have to be
acquired If this route is chosen.
Extension of Sixteenth street or
Columbia boulevard, or widening of
Colesvllle road, are not feasible as
alternative proposals, Mr.. Tuemmler
said. He explained that it would be
cheaper TO build new highway
than to modernize Colesville road
and said extension of the other
roads would not handle the great
amount of traffic foreseen for this
area. He added that these roads
would have to cross a humber of
intersecting streets.
/ 1t. Col. E. Brooke Lee outlined
the proposed general or master
zoning plan for the Silver Spring
business section. He also told of
plans for locating a general COM
munity building on the site in the
rear of the Silver Spring Armory
and of proposals for the acquisition
and operation of public parking lots.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Two 5-Year Terms Given
In HOUSEKEEPING Case

David A. Griffin, colored, yester-
day was sentenced by Judge Walter
T. Mccarthy in Arlington County
Circuit Court to serve five years con-
currently on two counts of house
breaking. Griffin pleaded guilty.
This was one of three cases in which
true bills were returned on the open
ing day of the December term.
Ralph w. Myers was indicted on
an illegal operation charge and his
trial set for January 20. John F.
Slaughter was charged with house.
breaking and his trial ives set for
January 30
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Army Will |nduct
$4,000 Men a Month
Through February
BY MIRIAM OTTENBERG.

! The War Department has put
teeth in the frightened draft
regulations by announcing that
calls for January and February
will be stepped up by a third,
from $4,000 to 10000 men each
month.
The War Department announce
ment came after earlier warnings
from selective service that higher
casualties would result in increased
draft calls to provide combat re-
placements.
! A few hours before announcing
the stepped-up call, the War De-
partment reported that invasion
operations in France, the Lowlands
and the German border region cost
the Army Ground Forces casualties
totaling 258,l24 up to December /,
not including Air Force casualties.
57,775 Casualties in November.
! The total included 44,143 killed,
l89, ,118 wounded and 24,863 missing.
Casualties reported in November
alone totaled SITS, the War De-
partment said, adding that this
figure might include some casualties
from previous months.
The stepped-up Army call now
brings the total drawn from the Ma
tlon's manpower pool each month
through selective service to more
than 100 900, including menefor the
NAVY and Marine Corps. Addi-
tlonal thousands are sworn into the
Navy eacn month before they
turn 18.
The War Department said that
since last july it has asked seIective
service for fewer men than the esti-
mated requirements. The deficits
were made up by combing Army
units to obtain. men for field service.
Bv this method, the department
explained. draft calls had been held
to $4,000 men month, adding that
it is now necessary to step up the
calls by 10000 month. 1t will be
determined later, the War Depart
ment said. whether it will be neces-
sary to continue the increased rate
OF withdrawal in March and April.
New Examinations Planned.
Meanwhile. Selective service an
nounced that all men under 80 who
had been rejected for military serv-
Ice since last February /, except
those with obvious physical defects
Will be re-eXamined in 1945
Selective service said the Army
agreed to re-eXamine the men to
determine whether some Of the
"borderline" cases might be avail
able for general duty. The Army
| agreement came after selective
service pointed out that a sub
stantial number of men found fit
| for service on their induction
examination were rejected when
they reported for induction.
We're going to work over the
4-F boys-not just to scare them
into war work but because we need
the men, "a selective service official
explained. we prefer to take the
younger men as long as we can get
them even if they're not quite as
good physical specimens as some of
the men taken earlier"
In addition to AIS, draft officials
made it clear that men over 80 who
leave industry without draft board
permission under the new draft
regulations can be almost certain of
being inducted now that the Army
has increased its call.
After a conference among draft
officials last night, it was decided to
call men in this order: Volunteers,
delinquents, nonfathers who Jump
agricultural and war plant jobs, IA
theirs who Jump these jobs, non-
fathers who would come up for in
duction in the normal course of
events and finally other fathers.
Evening star., 1944-12-19

man makes a gesture of throwing
something down in disgust.
Il throw it in my suitcase. I
say when am / ever going to get
this suit clean?"
His wife, beautiful Partisan and
a former concert violinist, was
laughing by this time and so was
every one else.
Encouraged, M. Francescatti con-
tinued:
Il look at my shirts. There must
be no starch. That is something to
think about. Laundry people are
always nice. They say, oh, yes, no
starch. But sometimes there is
starch anyway. Once 1 played a
recital-tWo hours-with a starched
collar. I was bleeding.
Then my, what do you call
them?" he asked, turning to his
wife and inserting q thumb under
Evening star., 1944-12-19

his suSpenderS. "Oh, yes, SuS-
pendairs! The elastic does not last.
If I am playing long and begin to
perspire they stretch. / have a
sensation am losing my trousers.
That is not good.
There is so much to think of
when I am playing. I must work
hard and get a big tone from
my little instrument to be heard
above the orchestra. They must
work hard, too. 1t is easy for an or
chestra to play fortissimo. 1t is
hard for them to play piano-but
they do it.
The fingers they think for them
selves. And it is well to let them
do it. (The fingers Of his left hand
were wrigglingD There is so much
to think of. The conductor, the
orchestra and the audience. You
know the audience Is there. You do
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Jane Owen, Virginia Brie
Win Seal Speech Contest

Jane Owen and Virginia Brie were
judged first and second place win
ners, respectively. in the Christmas
seal speech contest sponsored by
the Junior Board of the. Alexandria
tuberculosis Association at the
George Washington High School.
Katherine Newton, junior board
president. reported seal sales of
nearly $50 with returns still being
received.
The program of education against
tuberculosis is carried on in the
high school by the junior board
through committees on publicity,
speech contest, seal sales. poster
displays and tubercuhn testing.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
BY GEORGE KENNEDY.

Zinc Francescatti, who will play
Beethoven's Violin Concerto in o
Major" with the National SYM
|phony Orchestra tomorrow night
had parties at adjoining tables
listening in yesterday when he began
to talk shop at the Raleigh bar.
There is so much to think about, .
he said, and finger went up to
his temple.
Il am just back from Havana, ;
he said. Il look at my violin. A
string has broken. I must make
another string. Then l must make
all the other strings-so they are in
tune.
Il have time for nothing I can
only wear this suit. My other suit
has spots"
With two hands the lively French
Evening star., 1944-12-19
State Funds Urged
For New Buildings al
Hopkins, Maryland U.
BY the Associated Press.

I
BALTIMORE. Dec. 19.-Allocation
OF State funds for planning two
buildings at Johns Hopkins Univer-
slty and for construction totahng
more than 81 900, 900 for seven State
establishments carried the approval
of the Maryland Commission on
Postwar Planning today. University
OF Maryland projects would cost $4,-
274, 900 Of the total
Commission members who recon-
mended the expenditures to the
Board Of Public Works yesterday,
said they understood that Hopkins
officials would ask the General As
sembly for funds for the construc-
tion of the two engineering build
lngs, estimated to cost s1.250,0O0
Chairman E. Brooke Lee of the
Committee on Public Activities said
the commissions action on the Hop
kins buildings was taken at a meet
ing called by Gov. O'Conor. The
recommendation was the first made
by the commission for the use of
State planning funds on any but a
strictly public Institution.
Training School for Negro Boys.
The commission also approved
establishment of a new Maryland
Training School for Negro Boys,
estimated to cost $500 900; build
ings at Morgan College, 1857, 900;
Maryland Training School for Boys,
sl66 500; Montrose School for Girls,
S161 ,820; Maryland State police
$3.50, 500, and the Women's Prison
s21,5O0
Col. Lee said he had been advised
by Attorney General William c.
Walsh that the Hopkins project
could be financed by legislative ac-
tion probably along the same lines
1 that were followed when the 1917
lsession made 5000 600 avail
able for the construction of the
present buildings at the engine erine
schools at Hopkins.
DR.. Isaiah Bowman, Hopkins pres
ident, told the meeting that the
average number of engineering
school graduates from both Johns
| Hopkins and the University oi
Maryland in 1899, 1910 and 194l
was so per cent lower than the
number annually graduated in the
State as compared to the national
average
Projects at Maryland.
! Proposals for the University ot
Maryland included a S75000O build
ing for engineering, chemistry and
physics. general classrooms. an agri-
culture building, building for wom-
ems activities and five dormitories
all at College Park.
! At the university,s Baltimore
plant, approved proposals included
a psychopathic hospital, additions
to the dental building and nurses
home and various other construc-
ton.
University of Maryland construc-
tion at Princess Anne would in
clude dormitory, faculty cottages
and apartment house, recondition-
ing OF the agriculture building. an
athletic field and dining hall and
kitchen.
The proposed new school for
Negroes would accommodate norm
al boys now sent to Cheltenham
from juvenile courts. Cheltenham
would be maintained for mental
| deficients.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Musicians Union Elects

New officers to serve during the
coming year were elected by the
Musicians Protective Union of
Washington at the organization s
annual election Sunday. Officers
are: Paul j. Schwarz, president: AL
fred Manning, secretary; Dorothy C.
Coe, treasurer, and Michael A. Fera,
Alfred Yurdin, Marin Emerson, Ray
Peters and Donald Wade, directors.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Interfederation Asks
Survey Of Area for
Charter Government

Demand that survey be made of
charter form OF government for
the five units composing the Metro
politan Area was voiced last night by
the Interfederation Conference in a
resolution presented by Stephen
James from the Montgomery County
Federation.
The resolution called for a COM
mittee to be appointed by the con-
ference to study and report on the
feasibility and desirability of launch
ing simultaneous charter campaigns
in Prince Georges, Montgomery and
Fairfax Counties and the District to
establish individual council manager
forms of government in these areas.
1t was pointed out that Arlington
County already has such a charter.
The group unanimously passed
this resolution and the committee
was named, with Stephen James as
chairman. Other members are Will
bur S. Finch for the District, DanieI
Green for Prince Georges, R. E
Denny for Fairfax and DR.. Victor
Meyers serving in an advisory ca
pacity from Arlington County.
Closer Cooperation Aim.
Wilbur S. Finch. president Of the
Districts federation, stated that
each unit having similar govern
ment, and officers would afford a
closer cooperation between them
and such problems as the reciprocal
medical license dispute now pending
could more easily be avoided.
Fred w. Cast. representing Prince
Georges County. reported that the
last meeting of their civic federation
was devoted mainly to proposed
bills TO be presented to the State
Legislature, which is soon to meet
Chief among these bills were those
concerning the county police force
voters registration. various school,
and teacher problems, especially
that of the 6-3-3 plan for elemen-
tary schools, Junior and senior high
schools now used in most of the
States. A bill also was introduced
he said, to create a position OF
county engineer to supervise the
building of highways and bridges.
Report for the District Federation
was presented by Mrs. Franklin G
Sartwell and Wilbur S. Finch. Mr.
Finch told of a Postwar Planning
Committee just appointed and ex-
pressed a belief that real we'll
rounded, well-financed program for
postwar Washington" would come
from the studies of this group.
Credentials Committee.
A Membership and Credentials
Committee was also named, he said,
and they are on the way to making
civic interest something real. here
in the District.
Fred w. Cast, chairman of the
Flood Control Committee of the
conference, told of a flood warning
system he is working on in connec-
tion with the War Department. Un-
der this plan, the Weather Bureau
would inform proper organizations
at such times when they expected
rainfall enough to cause flood con-
ditions.
Harry N. Stull. chairman of the
conference, announced that cleo
tions are due at the January meet
ing, and appointed a Nominating
Committee to compose a slate by
that time. This committee will be
headed by William G. Copley, with
Richard H. Akers and Mrs. Franklin
G Sartweu as the other members.
The. meeting, held in the Board of
Trade conference room in The Eve
ming Star Building. was presided
over by Harry N. Stull.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Father Given Silver Star
For MISSING Laurel FLYER

A Laurel tMdJ airman was hon
ored for gallantry in action at cere-
monies at Baltimore, when his faith
er was presented the Silver Star BY
Maj. Gen. Philip Hayes. commander
of the Sd Service Command.
John w. BranZell, Montgomery
road, Laurel, received the medal
with one Oak Leaf Cluster, for his
son. 1t. George r. Branzell, now re-
ported missing in action.
1t. Branzell was decorated for par
ticipating in a co-ordinated strike
against what was at that time the
larges japanese airdrome in the
Pacific. but despite a burning engine
he continued on the mission ano
downed number of Jap aircraft
1t. Branzell has been missing since
that operation.
Evening star., 1944-12-19
School Honors Chemist

DR.. Charles Lathrop Parsons, n,
for 81 years secretary of the Amer
lean Chemical Society and former
chief chemist of the United States
Bureau of Mines, on Sunday re-
ceived the honorary degree of doctor
of science from the University OF
New Hampshire, where he was pro-
fessor OF chemistry from 1892 tc
1911. He resides at the Cosmos
Club, Madison place and H street
NV.
Evening star., 1944-12-19

1t. Col. L oy
Hodges, Sc, for
mer State con-
troller and direc-
tor of the budget,
who died yester-
day at the Med
ical = College of
Virginia Hospi-
tai here.
He had been
in poor health
for some time,
suffering from
leukemia, a n d
was taken to the
hospital a b 0 u t
two weeks apo
Evening star., 1944-12-19
Collect Victory Bonuses

Over 40 Essex villages in England
are collecting victory money bon
uses" to be presented to local serv-
ice men and women on their return
home