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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-09-08
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Rites for David f. Sanger
Will Be Held Today

David F. Sanger, 10, of 300 Con-
necticut avenue NV, former mem
hsf CT the Philipsborn g. Co. cloth
l." firm, died of pneumonia Friday
night in Parkersburg, w. Va, at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Paul
Broida. He had been i'll two weeks.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. today from the residence
OF his sister, Mrs. Rena S. Levine,
2714 Ontario road NV. Burial will
be in the Washington Hebrew Con-
gregation Cemetery.
A native of the District, Mr..
Sanger attended public schools and
the Spencerian Business College
here. He was employed at Wood
ward e. Lothrops for 10 years as
a bookkeeper, leaving to accept q
position as Office manager for the
Philipsborn Co. He retired in 1881.
He served one year as president of
the Washington Credit Mems Asso-
citation.
Mr.. Sanger is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Fannie K. Sanger; a
daughter, Mrs. Broida; a grand
daughter, Stephanie Ann Broida;
two sisters, Miss Essie j. Sanger
and Mrs. Rena Levine, both of
Washington. and a brother, Harry
r. Sanger of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Col. Lee Asks Support
Of Recreation Programs

Parent Teacher Associations.
principals of schools and service
clubs in Montgomery County are
urged to aid in promoting the
after-school- recreation pro-
grams provided by the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, in letters sent out
by Park Commissioner E. Brooke
Lee.
Col. Lee points out that the
commission has provided the pro-
gram, but that 1t is up to parents
and teachers to take advantage of
it. The recreational opportunities
now are in operation in the subur-
ban areas and at Gaithersburg, and
are available for Rockville.
The commission, Col. Lee said,
plans to continue a recreational
program for the summer of 1914, but
will operate a smaller number of
centers. In addition, it plans to
eliminate hot lunches and serve
only ice cream and milk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Higher Fees, Improvements Set
Under New Golf Links Contract
Interior Department and LeoffIer Firm
Sign New Five Year Agreement
Wide World Photo.

or all of the company's Civilizations. =
The reconditioning includes the
following items said to be prop
erly chargeable to the per cent OF
the gross receipts referred to in
the contract:
All course grounds and areas not
considered to be in first-class con-
dition as of January /, 1914.
All traps on all courses during the
1914 playing season.
At least two green's, two tees and
two fairways for each nineehole
course in operation each year.
All tees are to be reconstructed
and sodded with bluegrass during
the 1914 playing season.
Mr.. Loeff1er last night said the
work would be started as soon as
manpower and weather conditions
permit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Infant Death Rate
In District Lowest
On Record Last Year
Maternity MortoIities
Also Showed Decline,
Dr.. Rutland Reports

Washington's infant mortality
rate dropped to the lowest on
record during 1943, District Health
Officer George c. Rutland an
nounced yesterday. The maternity
death rate also dropped, from %
per cent lin 1912 to 1.8 in 1913.
The death rate for infants under
one year of age was 1874 per thou
sand, as compared to 44.8 the year
before. The national rate in 1912
was 4o.4 per cent.
DR.. Rutland is proud OF the new
showing, he said, particularly in
view of wartime demands on health
and medical services and on District
hospital accommodations.
Babies under one month of age
also had a better chance of survival
here last year, with an time low
of 25.S deaths per thousand live
births. The rate in 1912 was 30.5
and in 1941 344 per cent.
The still-birth rate dropped to
245 per cent per thousand in 1913,
as compared with 265 per cent in
1912.
Number of births totaled % 900,
more than 1900 above the year be-
fore.
Services instituted for protection
OF both mothers and children last
year included a special program for
wives and infants of enlisted gary
icemen, under which 2,100 authori-
cations for physicians and hospital
service were issued oy DR.. Ella Op-
penheimer, director of the depart
ment's bureau of material and child
welfare.
Immunization of babies against
whooping cough was also started as
part OF the regular child health serv-
ices last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Capt. R. W. Massie, IS,
Dies at lynchburg
BY the Associated Press


LYNCHBURG, Va, Jan. L.
Capt. Robert Withers Massie, IS,
president of the Board of Visitors
OF Virginia Military Institute, one
of the leading members of the Vir-
GINA Society of the Cincinnati and
at the time of his death the oldest
member of Sigma MI Fraternity,
died of pneumonia tonight at Me-
mortal Hospital.
Descendant of families which still
own land grants to their Colonial
ancestors in this section of Virginia,
Capt. Massie inherited membership
in the Society of Cincinnati from
Maj. Thomas Massie, Revolutionary
War hero and original member Of
the society. Bracketed with this
historical group in his continuous
interest were v. M. l., of which he
was board member since 1920. and
Sigma MI, which is featuring his
"reminiscences as the Oldest alun1nus
in the Forthcoming edition of its
annual.
Capt. Massie was the retired
president of Lone Jack Limestone
Co. He was founder of this concern
and OF Massie- Morrison, formerly
Massie-Pierce Lumber Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Capital Turns 10 War
Tasks After 6ayest
Celebration in Years
Thousands Observe Duy
Of Prayer While Federu
Workers Continue Jobs

Most of Washington buckled down
to work and the winning of the war
yesterday in the noisy wake of one
OF the gayest New Years eve cele-
brations in years-marked by toasts
to victory in 1914 and the hope of
many for the return of loved ones.
While stores, banks and other pri-
vate establishments closed and Dis
trict government employees took a
holiday, some 10000 Government
employees in the Metropolitan area
worked as usual.
Many persons joined in participat-
ing in the national day of prayer
proclaimed by President Roosevelt
These services followed the tradi-
tional watch night observances New
Years eve in churches of numerous
denominations
Special Church Services.
The Washington Cathedral was
among churches holding special
services yesterday. About l 400 SOL
diers of the Army's Specialized
Training Corps assembled yesterday
morning at Georgetown University
for nondenonlinational PRAYER
service in line with the Presidential
proclamation. The Rev. Edmund A.
Walsh, S. j., vice president of the
university, spoke and the Rev. James
ALT. S. j., an auxiliary Army chap
lain, lead the services.
Hotels, night clubs, servicemen's
clubs and downtown theaters were
damned with merrymakers who
chose to greet the new year the
noisy way. 1t was generally re-
garded as the biggest celebration
in years, despite various wartime
shortages.
Because of more numerous neigh
borhood parties and the gas short
age, downtown Washington streets
were not as crowded as in recent
recent years, according to police.
Street crowds were composed almost
entirely OF servicemen and women
Capt. Robert C. Pearce of the first
precinct said they were the best
behaved group he had seen III a
long time.
Hundreds Of Parties.
Thousands of service personnel
took advantage of parties staged by
the USO, churches and other groups
throughout the city.
With so many persons working
through the day. traditional New
Year dinners were served at homes
in the evening. Approximately 400
servicemen were served a turkey
dinner at Service Club No. /, 3O6
Ninth street NV, in the afternoon.
Traffic at Union Station was re-
ported fairly light. but station en-
ployes braced themselves for the
rush expected late today as service
men return to camps and civilians
to their homes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Collection Of SALVAGE
In D. {. Topped 1912
By 100000 Pounds
Wostepoper Campaign
Was Most Productive,
CollifIower Reports

Total salvage materials collected
in Washington in 1913 topped 1912
by 5000 900 pounds, James E. Col
liflower, chairman of the District
Salvage Committee, announced yes
terday. The total for the year was
1877 $685. pounds.
BY far the most productive phase
OF the local salvage program was
the collection of waste paper which
amounted to 101,60O,717 pounds.
The committee noted an increase in
waste paper collections during the
second half of 1943 and attributed
this to the extensive drive being
conducted by the committee, news
papers and radio stations.
In releasing the years totals, Mr..
Collif1ower commented:
While the total collection figures
are outstanding, it must be realized
again that it is the individuals will
to carry on every phase of the SAL
wage program day by day for the
duration or for as long as our Gov
eminent indicates an apparent need
for any type of salvage material
that makes the overall program an
outstanding success"
In scrap iron and steel. a total
OF 72,497 1896 pounds was collected,
with the Washington Terminal
leading with a contribution of 10
196,888 pounds, the report said. The
District government turned in 1,148.-
1874 pounds, while the Federal Gov
eminent. the Capital Transit Co.,
the Potomac Electric Power CO.,
the Washington Gas Light Co. and
the G. & p. Telephone Co. accounted
for about 5000, 900 pounds.
The Cherry Hill (va.) garbage
reduction plant Of the District sal
vaged a total of 1894 pounds of
fats and the household fats pro-
gram produced 6o6,859 pounds.
The total tin cans collected
amounted to 2,253,4 97 pounds, with
householders contributing 1880 POS
pounds. The local bottling industry
collected 559,392 pounds from apart
ment houses and eating places. The
committee also disclosed that Army
posts within the military district
OF Washington added 613, 900 pounds
OF prepared tin cans to the total.
Rags collection amounted to 1885,
899 pounds, and rubber collections.
298, 1888 pounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
| First ~ Babies,
Service Children,
Doing Well

The first two babies born in WASH
ington in 1914 were thriving last
night.
The two arrived at Columbia Hos
pital about one second apart, few
moments after midnight signaled
last years end. The first was a girl,
daughter Of Mrs. Esther Miller, %,
1923 sherwood street NE, whose
husband, Corpl Thomas v. Miller,
U. S. A., is now in England.
The second baby was a boy, the
son Of Mrs. Eleanor Butler, 10, of 20
T street NV. Her husband Is
Franklin Butler, seaman, first class
U. s. n, stationed here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Taxi Driver Found Dead
In Gus-FiIIed Room

Donald Clifford Sidell, AZ, taxi
cab driver, was found dead in his
apartment at 1900 Burns place Sc.
yesterday afternoon by neighbors
who smelled gas coming from his
apartment.
Mr.. Sidell was lying on a kitchen
table, with all gas burners on and
doors and windows closed when
three of his neighbors broke open
the front door, police said.
He was removed to Emergency
Hospital and pronounced dead on
arrival. Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald said certificate of suicide
would be issued.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
AImonock Says
Easter Sunday
Will Be Rainy


. HAGERSTOWN, Md, Jan. L.
Two solar eclipses were predicted
for 1914 in the new Hagerstown
Town and Country Almanack, pub
lished by descendants of the book S
originator, John Gruber.
The almanack predicted that
Easter Sunday will be very rainy,
the Fourth Of july fair and warm
and Thanksgiving very fair and
cold.
The form Of the 31-page book
has changed little since its estab-
lishment in 1871. Miss Liberty is
stih sitting by the butter churn on
the front cover, surrounded by a
border of grapes and wine glasses
and a multiplication table still
graces the back cover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
District Marine Escapes.
As Bullet Pierces Helmet

Marine Sergt. Charles w. Ogden,
%, OF 1915 Thirty-th street NV.
had q Jap bullet pierce his helmet
IN two places while fighting on
Bougainville in the South Pacific,
but he escaped without scratch.
The story was told yesterday in a
dispatch written on Puruata Island,
Bougainville, by Staff Sergt. Mil
burn Mccarthy, jr., Marine COM
bat correspondent from New York
City.
A native of Washington, Sergt.
Ogden attended Western High
School and later was employed with
q radio concern here before joining
the marines. His mother lives Ut
the Thirty third street address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Washington Ski Club
To Meet Tuesdoy

The Ski Club of Washington will
hold its regular Jnauary meeting at
BIS pm. Tuesday at the Ambas-
sador Hotel.
All persons in the city interested
in skiing are invited to attend the
meeting and the dinner which pre-
cedes it at $50 pm. Reservations
may be made by calling Mrs. Co
nant, Republic 6700, extension 74847.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Mon Files $4,000 Suit
Here Against R. f. &P.

Lee A. Tyler of Richmond, Va,
has filed suit for $3.50, 900 in District
Court against the Richmond. Fred
ericksburg g. Potomac Railroad for
injuries he said he had suffered last
March when he fell from an over
pass to a highway while walking
from locomotive toward a damaged
switch.
The plaintiff, who described him.
self as a locomotive fireman, claims
the engine had been stopped and
INSTRUCTED the overpass and that
no lights, catwalks or guard rails
had been provided to make the over
pass safe to cross.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Knutson Speaks Today
At Lincoln Ceremony

Representative Knutson, Repub-
lican, OF Minnesota, will speak on
Lincoln as President" at the 10th
anniversary celebration of the sign
ing of the Emancipation Proclama-
ton at 3 pm. today in the Shiloh
Baptist Church, Ninth and P streets
NV. The Rev. E. L. Harrison, pas
tor of the church, also will speak.
The observance is sponsored by
the United Government Employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Thrift Shop to Open

A thrift shop will be opened Sat-
urday in the Poolesville CMd.)
Health Center under the auspices
of the Poolesville Lay Council and
the Home Makers Club. The shop
will be open from to 9 pm. each
Saturday, 1t was said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Red Cross Unit to Meet

The annual meeting of the Silver
Spring branch. Montgomery Coun-
ty Chapter, American Red Cross,
will be held at pm. Friday at
branch headquarters, s511 Coles
vile road. officers for the coming
year will be elected and reports
from Mrs. Olivier E. Ragonnet,
chairman, and other officers will be
made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Stock to Speak

Edward L. Stock, jr., Montgomery
County chairman of the Victory
Garden program, will discuss the
1914 program at a meeting of the
Woodside Park Civic Association at
8 pm. Wednesday at Montgomery
Hills Junior High School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Brown Heads Bond Drive

LA PLATA, Md, January i
tSpeciaD p. D. Brown, county
agent for Charles County, has been
named county chairman for the
fourth War Bond campaign that
starts today.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-06
(Navy Photo from NEA Telephoto)

worried driver, who announced:
I'm in the center of Bishops
Stortford with a crane, and half
the telephone lines in town are
wrapped around it. What do I do
noW?" It took IL hours to get the
crane and the traffic untangled,
but that corner is by passed by
high vehicles now and it won't
happen again.
The road control team sets the
starting time from the convoy, frac-
tional times for each lap, deter
mines the speed and the route,
arranges for M. P. motorcycle es-
cort and for stops along the way.
The plan is delivered, complete,
to the unit commander and if he
follows it, he can't go wrong.
The trucks hauling big equip
ment, especially the Queen Mary"
and Queen Elizabeth" trailers that
carry airplane wings, fuselages and
center sections, are the biggest head
aches. 1t takes skillful planning,
measurements down to the inch, a
thorough knowledge of the road and
expert driving to deliver these mon
sters to their destination intact.
But it's being done, every day,
thanks to the help of DAD Traffic
Control.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-06
(Bv NEA Service)

London, March 27.-The telephone
buzzed, and Capt. Ellis j. McFadzen,
Road Traffic Branch head for a
large section Of England, answered
it. Family came the confused voice
of soldier:
Captain, sir, this II Corporal
Willie Lightning, driving a cargo
truck. Captain, where am I at?"
well, corporal, where are you
going2"
II don't know, sir"
"Wel, where are you coming
from?"
81 don't know that, either"
"Well, what unit are you from?"
~ can't tell you that over the
phone, sir; it's against regulations
All I want to know sir, is where
am I at?"
Strengthening out driver hope
lessly bewildered by Britain's
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-06
Uncle Sam Is Master Traffic Cop
AS CT Trucks Jam England's Roads

, day." says Captain McFadzen, who
handles road traffic, and who is
responsible for all Army conveys,
cargo or personnel which enter,
cross, or leave his slice of Eng
land. Before it can travel the
roads of his area, every unit must
get permission. and must be
scheduled through his office.
The system of centralizing road
control is about year old. Pre-
viously almost every driver was
on his own. The resultant situa-
ton was series of tangles. Trucks
disappeared. Conveys went hay
wire, split up and got lost. They
got hung up at crossroads waiting
for other conveys to pass. They
got stuck hopelessly at narrow or
sharp turns in the small villages
and towns.
TRAFFIC PROBLEMS GROW
But all that is changed, now that
Captain McFadzen and his crew
have taken charge. When they
first started, they handled two or
three conveys week. The week.
ly total now is well over 350.
When a unit wants to move a
convoy of vehicles, Captain Nc
Fadzen's office is notified, with
list of the number and types of We
hicles. Then the road control
gang gets to work. A check is
made with other RIOS and with
the British authorities to find out
whether other conveys plan to use
the roads, or to cross the route
chosen.
From special maps also are
checked the capacity of every
bridge along the way, the clear
ance of every underpass, the towns
that must be entered. There still
are no maps that show road widths,
sharp corners in villages, Or other
danger spots, but the crew is max
ing up it's own handbook.
! Recently they got a call from
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-06


The Jobs performed by this
organization vary from carrying
wounded Navy men to hospitals on
the mainland to carrying mail and
cargo. and operating passenger
shuttle service across the broad
expanses Of Pacific Ocean.
The Pacific division of MATS,
called, NATSPAC, is adding new
bases and further service continu-
ally as more and more islands are
wrestling from japanese hands. One
of the latest stops to be added is
In the Gilbert Islands. Guadal-
canal and New Guinea were added
earlier.
Use Land or Sea Planes
The NATSPAC can move in I'M
mediately after conquest of an
island with their big flying boats
whether there is an air strip or not.
If there is, the transport men come
in with their four-motored Doug
las Skymasters. If not, they land
in the lagoons Of recently captured
islands with four-motored Coron-
ADDS and two-motored Martin
Mariners.
An indication of the rapid ex-
pansion in the service is the 45O
per cent increase in mileage that
NATSPAC has made since last
year.,
Almost all the miles flown, in
GLIDING 11,5O0,OOO passenger miles
in addition to 3,4500O0-ton miles
month, are part of the normal
day-and-night operating schedule
which uses the timetable methods
Of commercial airlines to tie con-
tinents and islands together across
the worlds largest ocean.
In addition to their ferrying SER
vice of freight and passengers, the
NATE has new schedule of flights
for transferring Navy war casual
ties to inland hospitals with speed
and comfort.
Ambulance or BOx-car
One of the first flights trans
ferred IA patients from the Mare
Island Navy Hospital, San Fran
cisco, to the U. S. Public Health
hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.
A transport plane was fitted with
Stretchers secured to the bulkhead
In place. Seven hospital corpsmel
like double-deck hunks. The patti
ents were put aboard and strapped
in place. Seven hospital corpsmen
and a medical officer from the
hospital come aboard and were
accommodated in two banks of
seats forward.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-06

Every single person. who Is a
citizen or resident of the United
States must file Declaration of
Estimated Tax (Federal income and
victory taxes) for 1914 if he expects
to receive during the year more
than $2,7O0 equivalent to $51.92
per week or $22500 per month"; OF
wages that are subject to withhold
ing, or more than 500 from all
other sources provided his total
income Is expected to amount TO
$500 or more. The term "single per-
son" includes not only those who
have never married but also WI
dowS, widowers, divorces, and mar
ried persons separated by mutual
consent at the date prescribed for
filing the declaration. It also in
cludes taxpayer who qualities as
a head of family" for the purpose
of the personal exemption but who
is not married and living with huS-
band or wife at the filing date and
is therefore treated as single per-
son in determining whether a
declaration is required.
Every married citizen or resident
living with husband or wife at the
tim prescribed for filing the declar-
alton, must file a declaration if he
expects to receive in 1914, either
alone or together with his spouse,
more than $500 equivalent to
$3.50 per week or $291.66 per
month"; of wages that are subject
to withholding, or more than 500
from all other sources if the total
of such income for the year plus
the wages subject to withholding IS
expected to amount either to (a)
more than 1924 for this total sep
arate income, or to CD $1,000 or
more for their total combined in
come.
In addition, a declaration is re-
quired Of aliens who are residents
Of Canada or Mexico and who re-
ceive wages, subject to withholding
in this country, within any of the
groups stated above.
AS practical matter, most men,
bers Of the armed forces are not re-
quired to file declarations Service
personnel who are within the con-
tinental United States on April Is
have no specific exemption from fill
ing, but the first 1850 Of their ac-
tive service pay Is exempt from tax
and, as a consequence, only small
proportion of them will have
enough taxable income this year to
come within the filing requirements.
This $500 exclusion Is allowable
without distinction as to the rank
or marital status of the recipient o.
the pay. II q husband and wife are
both members Of the armed forces
in active service, then each Is en-
titled to exclude up to 81 500 from
his or her separate service pay be.
fore considering any amount as in
come for Federal income tax pur
poses.
Husbands and wives who are only
temporarily apart as, for example,
where one Is In the armed forces,
are considered to be living to-
gether." In determining whether a
declaration mus be filed for 1914.
taxpayers should consider their
martial status at the fling date Un-