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Evening star., 1944-11-04

farce entitled, Heavenly Days"
From the cast we gathered the pic
ture was meant to be funny, in a
few places anyhow, and we had
been hoping there might even be a
plot. but were disappointed in both.
A poor excuse for a Mr.. MCGEE
Goes to Washington sort of thing,
the picture is interspersed with pam
oramic scenes Of the Nations Capital
and an overdose of civics. There's
an argument for abolition of the poll
tax, full voting rights for all people,
a preachment for more active par
ticipation in government and for
better understanding among ma
tional groups, all OF which adds up
to an absolute paucity of humor
and major confusion in the story
department. About the only thing Of
any certainty is that Fibber MCGEE
and Molly are in it. If that's enough
60 ahead.
Evening star., 1944-11-04

not imperiously, haughtily or terri
fyingly, but merely as a statement
of fact.
And suddenly the old terror was
silly.
Next time you come to Washing
ton. may we see your" we asked.
Certainly" said Miss Barrymore.
you should have done it before. /"
I'VE cerainly should" we shouted
in reproof to ourself just as the cur
tain started to rise, almost catching
us in the middle Of her stage for the
opening of an Ethel Barrymore play.
Evening star., 1944-11-04

That was Ethel Barrymore, under
a huge picture of whom, we have
worked for many years in our office
In The Star Building.
Miss Barrymore's press agents
through the year would ask peri
odically If we did not want to meet
her. We would always say yes, but
when 1t came to fix an hour, the
old fear would come back and we
would wiggle out of a meeting.
In subSenuent moments ~ so,f-
Evening star., 1944-11-04
osty Diet

CHEYENNE, Wyo. lP.-Rock
chucks In the Big Horn Mountains
like nothing better than a diet of
reflector posts treated with such
chemicals as sodium f1uoride, potas-
SUM bichromate, sodium arsenate
and gum arabic.
Evening star., 1944-11-04
After 2 Decades of Sheer Awe
Miss B. Proves Just Charming
NEW YORK.
BY JAY CARMODY,
Drama Editor OF The Star.

than reviewing
snu IN ne Gays 81 our years such we have met lot Of people assoc
meet dd not because inaccessible
Evening star., 1944-01-12
@ Hyattsvi||e Men
|nducfed in Services

Forty-nine men in the Hyattsville
area, including 10 pre-Pearl Harbor
fathers, will report soon for duty
with the armed forces after being
inducted last Friday by Prince
Georges County Draft Board No. !
at Hyattsville.
The fathers inducted are: Ernest
G. McClenahan, Edward T. Ma
gruder, Bernard G. Lockwood
Thomas ]. Weaver, Joseph P. Gowen,
Walter c. Eanes, Joseph F. Reed
George F. Funk, George l.. Weld
man, Adrian w. Bourgondien, Will
liam j. Abdalla, Lyle E. Gross,
Henry F. Schallenkamp, Raymond
A. Outlaw, Tony Borich, Roger B.
Cross, Norman L. Edwards and Cliff
ton Ross.
The other 81 are: Richard j. Grif-
fin, Frank E. Tate, Raymond j.
Thomas, Edmond S. Hageage
Charles w. Allen, Don D. Miller
Amile D. Bishoff, jr., Francis w.
Baumann, David F. Bladen, Charles
B. Pinskney, Philip G. Crook, Arthur
T. Banks, Martin Burless, John w.
Pugh, jr., Ronald M. MCGOWAN, Ray
mond E. Ward, jr., Samuel J. Rolph,
Jr., Frederick K. Ford, jr., Carl N.
Thomas, Robert A. Shipley, Thomas
G. Sanders, Walter P. Herman, Will
liam B, Armstrong, Robert K.
Schuetrum, Ulrich Haupt, Edward
B. Burgess, Lloyd r. Coates, Owen
H. Cubbage, John L. Prince, Walter
B. Moore and Adon c. Taft,
Evening star., 1944-01-12
Appeal Court Upho|ds
Mannix Sentence
By the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 12.-The
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals yes
terday upheld judgment of the
United States District Court at
Baltimore which convicted and SEN
fenced to Imprisonment Charles
Joseph Mannix on a charge of at
tempted criminal assault on a
WAVE.
Mannix was charged with attempted
criminal assault and with striking
and beating the WAVE on May q
on the grounds of the United States
Public Health Service in Bethesda,
Md. He appealed the lower courts
Judgment on charge that alleged
improper, prejudicial and infam-
atory questions were asked on his
cross examination, and also ap-
pealed the charge of the court con-
corning testimony as to his good
character.
The WAVE testified Mannix offered
her ride in his automobile to her
office at the Medical Center of the
Public Health Service and that en-
route he had driven off the road
and there attempted to assault her.
Her screams brought help from
others, who also testified.
In affirming the lower courts
judgment, the Circuit Court ruled
there was ample evidence to con-
vict, the defendant had a fair trial
and the judgment of the lower
court should be and is afdrmed."S
Evening star., 1944-01-12
laWRshonmig
@RemmideryR

Canned and Frozen Foods, Etc
Book No. 4, green stamps D, E and
F valid through January 20.
Stamps G, H and j valid through
February 20.
Meats, Fats, Etc. Book No. 8,
brown stamps R, S and T valid
through January %. Book No. 4,
spare stamp No. 2 good for five
points of fresh pork and sausage
through January Is.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay you two ration points for
every pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in
Sugar-Stamp % in Book No. 4 good
for 5 pounds through January Is.
Stamp 80 valid for 5 pounds jan
uary 16.
Shoes-Stamp No. 18 in Book No. I
and stamp l on the "airplane"
sheet of Book No. 3 valid now for
an indefinite period.
Gasoline-No. 8 A coupons good for
3 gallons each until February 8.
B, B-1, c and -C-1 coupons good
for 2 gallons each. These coupons
will expire on date indicated on
individual books. b. and ca
coupons in books issued since De-
cember / are good for 5 gallons
each.
Tire Inspection Deadlines-For A
coupon holders, March 81.
Fuel Oil-Period No. 2 coupons, valid
now, expire February 8. Period
No. coupons, valid now, remain
valid through March IA. No. 2
and 8 coupons good for 10 gallons
per unit. According to the Dis
trict OPA, consumers in this area
should not have used more than
43 per cent of their total yearly
fuel oil ration as of January 10.
Evening star., 1944-01-12
Fairfax Names Heads
Of Paralysis Drive
Ball on January 81 to
CIimox Fund Cumpuiqn

Preliminary plans for Fairfax
County participation in the 1914
campaign for funds to fight infan-
tile paralysis were announced this
week by the committee in charge.
Heading the Fairfax County drive
this year are Thomas p Chapman,
jr., and James E. Bauserman, CO.
chairmen, with w. Frank Goodine
and Bennett w. King, campaign sec
retary and treasurer, respectively
Miss Mary Alice AnkerS, teacher of
homebound children, is chairman of
the woman's division.
The drive-the 18th annual ap-
peal for funds-will begin January
IT, and reach its climax on January
81, the day after the 62d birthday
anniversary of President Roosevelt.
1t is planned to conclude the
local drive with a ball at Fairfax
High School, and a committee in
Guiding Mr.. King and Cecil E.
Brown of the police department
has been appointed to handle ar
rangements.
Initial arrangements to form a
permanent county chapter of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis are also under way.
Among other things, If a local
chapter is established, it is planned
to have some one give instruction
in the Kenny method for treating
the disease.
Half Of the founds collected In
the campaign are turned over to
the locality, while the other part
is set apart for the foundation to
cover its work in preventing and
treating infantile paralysis.
Approximately $4,000 was con-
tributed to the fund by Virginia
residents last year.
Evening star., 1944-01-12
0'Conor Proposes
S272,4OO in Additions
To oCheItenham School
Sl25, 900 Educational
Building Is Included
In Governors Plans
By the Associated Press,


ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 12.-The pro-
posed addition of several buildings
including a $125,000 educational
building, at the Cheltenham School,
for Boys was announced yesterday
by Gov. O'Conor.
AT Gov. O'Conor's request, officials
of the institution will confer this
week with architects assigned by
the Board of Public Works to pro-
ceed with drawings for the new
structures and other improvements
at Cheltenham.
The Governor said that the cost
OF the projects would be in excess of
S272 400.
Additional construction, under the
postwar program for Cheltenham
will add new units totaling $685., 300
and Architects Ross & Walton OF
Hyattsville have been recommended
by the Governor to handle the blue
printing for the program.
The State Controllers office in
formed the Governor that $50, ,142
is available from a 1941 bond issue
of Sl31 900 authorized by the State
Legislature.
ut is most important" Gov
O'Conor stated, that improvements
be made at Cheltenham so that
this institution be raised nearer the
level of the other State institutions
which are now functioning so salts
factorily.
During recent weeks . Off
cials of the State and of the insti-
tuition, as we'll as private organ
izations, have met together in a
laudable effort to solve the problem
and I am gratified to report that
considerable progress has been
made"
Evening star., 1944-01-12
Fire Officers Elected
At Upper Marlboro

Fred w. Wilson has been re-
elected president of the Upper Marl-
boro (MdD Volunteer Fire Depart
ment. Other officers are:
C. Earl Wyvill, vice president; r
H. Sothoron, secretary; M. T. Wyvill
treasurer; James H. Richards, chief
LIE Roy Plotts, assistant chief; o. E
Sherbert, captain and engineer
Henry Cooper, first lieutenant; Roy
Hutchinson, second lieutenant; Ir-
win Buck, sergeant; Joseph Flynn,
fire marshal; Charles Binger, assist
ant engineer; DR.. James G. Sasscer,
surgeon, and Owen Center, sergeant
at arms.
Directors are Mr.. Wilson, c. Earl
Wyvill, M. T. Wyvill, Mr.. Sotho-
ron, S. M. Wyvill, T. Van Clagett
and Albert Calm.
Evening star., 1944-01-12
CoImar Manor-Countv
Assessment Fight
Settled
Education Bourd Tells
Delegation Item Will Be
Included in New BUDGET

The six-year-old controversy be-
tween Colmar Manor and the Prince
Georges County Board of Education
over payment of a S2,364.50 town
assessment for improvement of the
street in front of the Colmar Manor
School appeared settled today.
After delegation from the town
headed by Mayor John N. Torvestad
appeared before the board at its
meeting yesterday in Upper Marl-
boro, board officials said they woulc
include the item in the 1944-5 schoo
budget, to be presented to the county
commissioners in March.
Penalties Waived.
In expressing satisfaction with the
boards decision, Mr.. Torvestad saic
the figure agreed on included inter
est but that penalties for nonpay-
ment had been waived.
The street involved was con-
structed in 1887, and the board hac
been billed for the tax each veal
since. In letter to the board last
week, Mayor Torvestad warned that
legal action would be taken unless
the assessment was paid.
Last May, the Mayor and Town
Council threatened to sell the school,
for taxes in order to compel the
board to pay. At the time, Mayor
Torvestad charged that the board
by paying similar taxes to other
communities, was discriminating
against Colmar Manor.
No Agreement Found.
In a letter to town officials last
March, Nicholas Orem, then super
intendent of schools, said the Board
of Education had no legal authority
to pay for school improvements. He
contended that the board had pur-
chased the land for the school and
had decided a part of the land to the
town with the provision that the lat
ter construct a street. A search of
board records at yesterdays meet
ing, however, failed to disclose such
an agreement.
MIR. Torvestad also presented a
resolution by the Cottage City-Col-
mar Manor Mems Club urging the
board to increase teacher salaries
in order to prevent wholesale" res
ignations. The matter was taken
under consideration.
Evening star., 1944-01-12
6 Army Nurses Arrive
Here on Leave After
Year on Hospital Ship
Building Up Morale
Of Relatives Held
Major War Problem

After more than a year aboard
an Army hospital ship in the Med
1terranean area, six Army nurses,
now home on leave, agree that an
important war problem is not build
ing the soldiers morale but rather
that of relatives at home.
The wounded soldiers are eager
to start all over again at something
new, the~nurses declared at a press
conference Yesterday However,
their recovery is hampered severely
by d1Sheartening letters from home
asking how serious their injuries
are and if there is any disfguration
Made IL Crossings.
The nurses who have made -
crossings of the Atlantic aboard
the Acadia, suggested that women
more than 16 should visit hos
pital wards as possible prepara-
tion OF civilians for sights you are
going to see."
The nurses lauded the treatment
OF wounded at emergency hospital
and flrst-aid field units stationed at
the front lines. The patients are in
a much better condition when taken
on the hospital ship than is pos
sible to believe, and "ours is only
a secondary treatment they as
serted.
The Acadia operates alone and
fully lighted, it was explained. The
ship has never been fired on, though
on two occasions enemy submarines
emerged to look us over"
The ship returned to this coun-
try last week with 776 patients.
Il don't think I ever saw a hap
pier group of men, First 1t. Muriel
M. Westover, chief nurse, Auburn,
N. Y, declared Il was elated at
the joy of those boys. They were
Icracking jokes and brought stretch
ers on the deck so some of the more
seriously injured could see the shore
line"
As Nurses on Staff.
The hospital-ship staff, which in
cludes As nurses, eight doctors, two
dentists and large number of
corpsmen, has a complete line of
medical equipment. During the
initial Sicilian and Italian invasions
the ship operated just off the coast
evacuating wounded men.
On one occasion, when anchored
just off Salerno, the ship was noti-
fled that a Navy boat had IS sur
vivors from torpedo attack. Two
nurses, 1t. Maryanna S. Schaller,
Springfield, Mo. and 1t. Dorothy j..
Christison, Medford, Mimi, were
sent with three corpsmen in small
Navy ship to tend the wounded
until they could be transferred to
the Acadia.
"They were severely burned" 1t.
Schaller said, land we Immediately
gave them plasma and morphine
because they were in great pain.
The boat was about mile away
from the Acadia and we were there
about an hour before the patients
were transferred"
The other nurses present at the
conference were Its. Helen M.
Fleming, Brooklyn; Marion L. Fran
chere, North Adams, Mass, and
Gladys K. Meister.
Evening star., 1944-01-12
Smoke Measure
Hearing Put Off.
In Alexandria
Citizens Awaiting
Bureau of Mines
Ordinance Druft

The Alexandria City Council last
night postponed fixing a date for a
public hearing on smoke control
ordinance until representative of
the Bureau Of Mines can assist the
city attorney and the city manager
IN preparing the measure.
Members of a citizens committee
that has been urging adoption of a
smoke ordinance did not appear at
the meeting, and will doubtless delay
further activity until the ordinance
is prepared. Members of the council
expressed themselves as aware of the
need for a comprehensive measure.
City Manager Carl Budwesky said
general paragraph could be in
serted in the city code, but that
would leave the matter of interpre-
tation and enforcement up to the
courts.
Urges Educational Program.
Mr.. Budwesky said an educational
program will be necessary before
such an ordinance can be adopted
and enforced, and that it will affect
great number of business and
manufacturing firms as well as
private individuals.
The council passed on its second
and third readings an ordinance
to amend the city license code,
which, in addition to altering
slightly the license fees of hotels
and restaurants, increases the fee
paid by the Alexandria Amusement
Corp. for the license of the Reed
Theater, the only theater in the
city seating more than 1000 persons.
Before its amendment, the Ii
cense code provided for a weekly
fee OF SO for theaters seating less
than 500, and a IS fee for theaters
seating over 500 The new ordi-
nance provides for So a week for
under 500, S. for 5O0-1,O $3.50
for 1,000-1 500 and $40 a week for
theaters seating over 1,500. The
Reed Theater has a seating capacity
OF approximately 1900.
Mrs. William Warne, president of
the PTA Council, presented a reso-
luton of that group asking the City
Council to support a move for
separation of the Juvenile Court
from the Civil and Police Court.
The council was asked to recon-
mend that such legislation be pro-
posed in the State Assembly.
City's Growth Cited.
Growth of the city and the fact
that the drafting of fathers is
likely to increase the problems of
juveniles were cited in the resolu-
ton which was accepted and ac-
knowledged by the City Council
The request of j. W. and Hattie L.
McMenamin to rezone 1918 Duke
street to ca residential was granted
and the application of Dr. Robert
Hightower to rezone 20l North Wash
ington street to D-l commercial, and
of the owner of 1877 South Fairfax
street to rezone that property to D-l
commercial we're voted advertised
and set for hearing at the first regu-
lar meeting in February. r.F
In presenting his application, DR.
Hightower stated that he was un-
aware that he was violating the zon-
ing ordinance by having his Office
at 20l North Washington street when
his home is at another address. He
stated that the condition has existed
since April, 194l, when he first
opened his office in the house, but
was not drawn to his attention until
recently.
Evening star., 1944-01-12
EIkton's Marriage BIIboords'
FIoyed and Defended in Court
Appellate Bench Hears Arguments
On Validity of Law Banning Signs
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 12.-The Court
of Appeals heard arguments yes
terday on the constitutionality of
a State law which prohibits the use
of billboards or display advertising
to aid in the solicitation or per-
formance of marriages.
The case originated in a Cecil
County magistrates court when
Anna L. Clay was charged with
erecting a sign contrary to the law.
The action was moved to the
Circuit Court, from which the ap-
peal questioning the constitutional
ity of the law was taken to the ap-
pellate bench.
Attorney General Walsh, who ap-
peared for the State, told the court
the statute represented a continual
ton of the effort to prohibit "the
unsavory practices in connection
with performance of marriages be-
ing carried on by certain persons in
ElktOn.
Contending that the act was un-
constitutional, William j. Bratton
counsel for the woman, declared:
The constitutional validity of the
statute must be determined by what
may be done under it's authority;
the statute is not valid exercise of
the police power, and the statute
circumscribes the conduct of a law
full occupation and invades the free
use of property"
He said that the statute went be-
yond signs of solicitation" and
covered structures erected or main
tanned with intent to aid in the
solicitation or performance of mar
riages. Also, the sign of minister,
he continued, cannot affect ad-
Evening star., 1944-01-12

versely the public order, health,
safety or morals.
Mr.. Bratton further contended
that where an occupation is not un-
lawful, its conduct may not be cir
cumscribed, unless the public health,
safety, order or morals are ad-
versely affected.
Concluding, he stated that every
man had the constitutional right to
use his own property as he saw fit,
and to follow his occupation in such
manner as he may choose, provided
he doessnot thereby harm his neigh
Dor or the public.
Defending validity of the statute,
Attorney General Walsh declared
the State had a direct interest in
marriage.
Both in this country and else
where throughout the world" he
asserted, "the state has always con-
trolled and regulated marriage, and
the marriage relationship, and its
right to do so is unquestioned."
Mr.. Walsh said that no person had
any vested interest in the financial
emoluments derived from the per-
formance of the marriage ceremony
or in similar rewards derived from
aiding persons who wish to be
married.
And he stated further that the
sentiment of the Empire State, as
demonstrated by repeated actions of
the Legislature, was opposed to the
practice OF persons using the mar
riage of others as a principal means
OF earning their livelihood.
Certainly no person authorized to
perform marriages in Maryland is
engaged in a business, the emolu-
ments of which are protected by
constitutional guarantees" Mr..
Walsh declared.
Evening star., 1944-01-12
Montgomery Red Cross
Gets New Headquarters

Montgomery County Red Cross
officials announced today that the
"Jeep House" at 7012 Wisconsin ave-
nue. has obtained a new chapter
headquarters.
Chapter officials urged persons
having Office furniture not in use to
donate it for equipping the new
headquarters.
Evening star., 1944-01-12
5 MoryIonders in House
Oppose Dry Era Return
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Five of the six Maryland Repre-
sentatives in the House expressed
opposition yesterday to any legisla-
tion which would bring prohibition
to this country during the war.
Representative Ward, Democrat,
of the 1st district refused to commit
himself on the question.
Thomas d'Alesandro, jr., Demo-
crat; H. Street Baldwin, Democrat;
Daniel Ellison, Republican; Lans-
dale G. Sasscer, Democrat, and J..
Glenn Beall, Republican, each said
he was opposed to further trial of
prohibition, especially while millions
OF men and women in the armed
services were absent from the
country.
Evening star., 1944-01-12
Carmen Tribe Walks JoyfuIIy
After Cure at Warm Sprinqs
Colombian Proteee
Of American Official
Awoits Return Home

Carmen Uribe, a pretty, brown
eyed 13-year-old from Colombia
has an eye toward glamour now
that her right foot has been
strengthened after four months oi
treatment at the Infantile Paralysis
Foundation in Warm Springs, Ga.
Stopping here until a travelling
companion can be found to accom-
pany her to Colombia, Carmen
walks with only a slight limp. She
wears lipstick and pearl earrings
fastens ribbons In her curly dark
hair and looks and acts like any
other teen-age girl.
One of II children of a chicken
farmer of Charala, Colombia, Car
men was stricken with infantile
paralysis when she was 2 years old.
Walter E. Hammond, mineral ex-
pert OF the Tariff Commission, found
her last summer during a trip to
Colombia and arranged for her to
come to- Warm Springs for treat
ment. The State Department will
aid in returning her to her home
Spoke No English.
When she arrived in this country
Carmen spoke no English. Now she
speaks 1t well and understands 1t
better.
Il want to go ice skating" she
said with sparkling eyes, "and study
English and play"
Asked if she could run, she quickly
replied, mo"
If we would run at Warm
Springs, they would put us back to
bed for from three to five days.
she said, laughing. Garments pres
ent slight limp is likely to be only
temporary, and after some con-
valescense it is expected she will be
able to run and dance.
Warm Springs was fun, Carmen
conflded, with movies three times a
week and Spanish-speaking teach
er, who taught her English. She
made many friends there, she said,
and yesterday sent cards from the
National Art Gallery to five of her
roommates and a birthday present
to one of her nurses.
Visits District Family.
Here since Saturday, Carmen is
staying with Mr.. and Mrs. William
Duffus, 5618 Ninth street NV. Mr..
Evening star., 1944-01-12
Cor-Shoring Program
Directory Published

The Washington Regional Com
mittee of Defense Transportation
Administrators announced today the
publication of its new directory, to
be used in its car-sharing program,
giving the names, addresses, tele-
phone numbers of transportation
officers and mileage administrators
in public and private Offices.
F.. w. Lovejoy, executive secretary,
said so far as he was aware this is
'the first instance in the country
where car-sharing in Metropolitan
Area has been organized regionally,
extending across State lines into
two adjoining States"
Evening star., 1944-01-12
PTA Books Shown

A selection of new books, pur-
chased by the Stonewall Jackson
Parent Teacher Association of Ar
lington County, was displayed Mon
day at meeting of the organiza-
ton, at the school. A color movie
of South America ves shown.