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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Rabid Dog Bite Fatal
To Woman After
Near|yFive Months
Mrs. Kirby Was Taken
To'HospitoI Weeks After
Apparent Recovery

A woman who was bitten by a
rabid dog in front of the Shoreham
Hotel in October died 10 days ago in
Gallinger Hospital it was learned to-
day.
She was Mrs. Estelle Kirby, IS, of
1884 Twenty eighth street NV. Mrs.
Kirby, who then lived in Arlington,
was knocked down by large pointer
dog, which leaped on her in front
of the Shoreham on October 10. The
dog bit Mrs. Kirby on her head sew
eral times.
Mrs. Robert D. Conrad, wife of a
naval officer, struck the dog with
a stone and it ran down Connecticut
avenue, biting other persons before
it was killed.
Mrs. Kirby was given extensive
pasteur treatment DR.. Melvin P.
Isaminger, Health Department off,
Gals, said.
He said the case was an unusual
one, because of the time lag of al
most five months before her death
Mrs. Kirby apparently had recovered
from the experience.
A little over two weeks ago she
was taken to the hospital. Six DAYS
later she died. Microscopic exam
nation Of her brain indicated death
resulted from the dog bite, DR.. Isam-
niger said.
The department is awaiting results
of the incubation of mice with It's
sue from Mrs. Kirby's brain, he said.
1t takes about two weeks for the
rabies virus to take effect, he ex-
planned.
Mrs. Kirby was the second person
in the District to die from dog bites
since last summer. The first victim
was Sergt. Harold L. Whitman, an
MP at the Army War College.
Mrs. Kirby was widow, mother
OF two sons and a daughter, William
G.. and Marion L. Kirby. She was
buried in GlenWood Cemetery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Arguments
On Bus Fare Order
Start in DistrictCourt
Transit Attorney Says
ice Without
Authority to Act

Closing arguments began in Dis
trict Court today before a three
judge tribunal to determine the va
lidity of the Interstate Commerce
Commission order directing four
Washington area bus companies to
reduce bus fares to Government
buildings in Arlington County.
E. Barrett Prettyman, counsel for
Capital Transit Co., led off with
arguments for the respondents with
a claim that the ICC was prohibited
by the Motor Carrier Act from pre-
scribing any service in connection
with intra-State fares.
In addition, the ICC is without
power to extend the District fare to
the Virginia area, as local rates are
fixed by the Public Utilities Com
mission, the attorney told Justices
Justin Miller. Jennings Bailey and
F. Dickinson Let's. Capital Transit
he pointed out, cannot include oper-
alton expenses incurred by any of
its services outside the District in
setting up local fares.
Mr.. Prettyman, recalling that War
and Navy Department testimony
has shown the present fares are a
hardship on low-salaried employees,
asserted, IF these employees are I'M
derpaid, there is no legal basis for
forcing" the transit companies to
operate trans-Potomac schedules at
loss.
Charging that the ICC order is
discriminatory, Robert E. Quirk,
counsel for the Alexandria, Bancroft
& Washington Transit Co., ex-
pressed the opinion that the firm
could not compete with Capital
Transit under the proposed rates,
which set up an 81s-cent cash fare
for Capital Transit and a 13h-cent
cash fare for the Virginia compa-
MES, for service to the Pentagon.s
Other companies to be heard are
Arlington & Fairfax Transportation
Co. and the Washington g. Mary
land Coach Co. The companies are
to stay the ICC order, which
has directed them to establish new
fares by April %.
The order affects approximately
$4,000 District residents employed
in the Pentagon Building, the Navy
Department Annex and the Army
Air Forces Annex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27

The bomber group commanded by
the youthful colonel, consisting of
four squadrons, has been here year
and has flown Sc missions over Ger
many and occupied Europe. Col,
Vandevanter himself has participate
ed in IL raids In this theater and
always makes sure that he picks the
toughest ones.
Col. Vandevanter's wife, the for
mer Mis- Carol Lathrop, is remem-
bered for the international incident
in which she was the central figure
In July. 1887, when she was kicked
by a Japanese sentry at Peiping,
China. The affair brought about an
exchange of notes between the
American and Japanese govern
ments. eliminating in a diplomatic
apology from the latter.
Mrs. Vandevanter and her daugh-
ter now live at the Florida avenue
address.
A little more than two years ago
Col. Vandevanter was a first lieu
tenant, plotting Flying Fortress of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Public Complying Well
With New Mail Rates

The vast majority of Washington
mans have promptly swung into line
on the new postal rates because of
the wide publicity they have re-
ceived, Vincent c. Burke, District
postmaster, said today.
A surprisingly small" number of
local letters showed up at the Post
Office this morning which did not
bear the 3-cent stamp required by
the new regulations. Mr.. Burke said
Nor did many people forget that do
nestle airmail now costs 8 cents
although letters may be sent tc
troops overseas at the old Scent
rate.
Airmail letters bearing insufficient
postage, Mr.. Burke said, are being
sent on by train in accordance with
regulations. But persons failing tt
put enough postage on local letter!
will have them returned, providing
they bear return address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Newest Chain Letter Promises
Luck of London to Writers

The old chain letter has had a
current revival.
This time it is the luck of Lon
don" that is being passed around
the world by superstitious people who
promise good fortune to those who
keep the chain intact, but warn
those who break it that bad luck"
awaits.
The letter, which is said to have
been started by an American Army
officer in London and passed around
the world four times, has been re-
ceived by a number of Washington
citizens. Apparently the disease is
epidemic in the services. One such
letter received here bears the adj
dress: ~. S. S. Convoy 1901, A. p.
O., San Francisco"
Recipients are told that 50 power
full is the charm of the letter for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Passenger Is Killed
By Train al Lanham

Jack Lynch, At, of 1922 Seven
tenth street NV, was killed in
stantly at Lanham, Md, early today
when he fell beneath a northbound
Pennsylvania Railroad train on
which he was a passenger, Prince
Georges County police reported.
Police believed that Mr.. Lynch,
who was employed by the Empire
Restaurant, 1912 New York avenue
NV, was thrown from the three
car Washington-to-Baltimore local
when he tried to go from one car
to another They said there is
curve in the track near where the
body was found.
Mrs. Mabel Jones, manager of a
rooming house where Mr.. Lynch
lived, said she believed the dead
mans home was in New York,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Preinduction Talks
To Be Given 1900
Students Here April a
Military, Draft Officials
To Address 17-Yeor-OIds
At Three Schools

More than 1900 public high school
boys now II years old will be given
a full day of preinduction oriental
ton lectures on April by repre-
sentatives of draft boards and the
Army and Navy, DR.. Chester w.
Holmes, assistant superintendent in
charge of senior high schools, an
nounced today.
He said he had long felt the need
to get all the boys facing induction
together with military and draft
board officials. Such a preinduction
queStion-and-answer period for high
school boys on a city-wide scale has
never been attempted before, ex-
cept by Kansas City public schools,
DR.. Holmes said.
The large group of odds
more, DR.. Holmes added than he had
realized were in school-will be d.
vided between the auditoriums at
Mckinley, Roosevelt and Woodrow
Wilson High Schools. More than
800 boys will assemble at Mckinley,
Roosevelt will handle about 500. in
Guiding students from Coolidge and
Central. About 400 Western High
School students will go to Wilson.
The speakers, to be rotated by au-
tomoblle between the high schools,
will discuss relations with draft
boards; preinduction examinations
and classification of men at induc-
ton; branches of the Army, and
day-to-day life in both the Army
and Navy. Their names will be
announced within a few days, DR..
Holmes said. The question and
answer period will be from $50 am.
to $3.50 pm, a regular school day.
Most of the details about induc-
ton into the Navy will be handled
by one officer, DR.. Holmes added,
while the Army will send two Of
Ulcers to discuss induction and the
branches of the Army, and a nom
commissioned officer will describe
daily life. Three movies will be
shown: Bombing of Pearl Harbor,"
classification of Men" and He
roes," short subject stressing ODE
dlence to regulations.
If successful, DR.. Holmes conclud-
ed, the preinduction conference may
be scheduled for next years group
of 17-year-olds. He believes that
colored high school students may be
given the same program when DR..
Garnet c. Wilkinson, assistant SUI
perintendent in charge of divisions
10 to IS, returns from an illness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27

him who mails five copies of it to
friends within "a hours that Oracle
Fields won $4,000 four days after
following the magic formula. A Ger
tain DIR. Ambrose" the letter says,
did even better, winning $780," but
then broke the chain" and lost
it all.
The present virus of the disease,
which has had periodic outbreaks for
centuries, seems harmless enough.
No money is asked from those who
receive the letter. They are merely
let in on good thing" provided
they keep the chain unbroken.
But these magic chains, as the
Post Once Department often has
pointed out in the past, are a head
ache to postal authorities and may
become q serious drain on letter.
carrier manpower In time of war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27

N . w >, I r o m
drowning in a
fish pond in the
physicians back
y d yesterday
afternoon.
Curly = haired
Janet and blond,
blue = eyed Bar
b a r a A n n e
Beelar, the doc
tors daughter,
were playing to-
gether in the
yard. Later DR..
Beelar noticed
Barbara Anne
in the street and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
10 Pass
Tax On
ToConsumers
Dinner-Doncine
To Depend on
PubIic's Reaction

The Hotel Association of WASH
ington, representing virtually all
the city's major hostelries, has de-
cided to recommend to members
that they add the new liquor taxes
to the price of their drinks rather
than absorb the amount themselves,
it was learned today.
Most hotels, survey indicated,
will continue to provide dinner
dancing and, in some cases, enter
tainment. despite the new 80 per
cent tax on cabarets, although some
are making provision for early
diners to avoid the levy.
Arthur j. Harnett, executive sec
rotary of the hotel association, ex-
pressed the opinion that the Treas
ury will find that it made a mistake
in boosting the cabaret tax sharply
from to 80 per cent. AS result Of
this and the added liquor duties, he
forecasts a falling of in patronage
for cabarets
Bottled Beer Price Unchanged.
Under the new tax schedule pre-
pared by the Office of Price Admin
istration, Mr.. Harnett said, a penny
tax will be added to the price OF
draft beer, but not to the bottled
product as OPA, in November 1912,
allowed dealers to add l cent for
tax, although the actual excise in
crease was only one-half cent. Thus,
he said the addition imposed by the
new tax bill already has been abb
sorbed.
Some hotel keepers interviewed by
The Star expressed dismay at the
complications involved in the new
OPA tax schedules, which vary from
l to cents per drink, depending
on the alcoholic content.
We'll have to keep an accountant
with a slide rule behind the bar to
figure out these taxes said one.
wryly.
Twenty-nine Washington hotels,
representing IS per cent of the total
of hotel rooms here, belong to the
association and are expected to fol-
low its recommendations in the
matter of drink prices.
A survey of leading hotels which
offer dancing and, in some cases,
floor shows, which makes them liable
to the cabaret tax, indicates that
virtually all of them will continue
this entertainment on a trial basis
Delay Music Until 9 PM.
The Hotel Association is recon-.
Intending, Mr.. Harnett said, that no
dance music be provided before 9
p m, which will enable early diners
to eat without paying the 80 per
cent tax at this hour, just before
dancing and entertainment start,
those remaining will be given special
cabaret checks.
, The Mayflower announced that
l effective April !. the date when the
! new taxes go into effect, dancing
in the lounge will be eliminated al
the cocktail hour. From 10 pm to
/. l am, however, there will be dane
,, ing.
The Shoreham management said
, it planned no changes for the pres
ent in its dinner-dancing schedule,
but would wait to see how the public
reacted to the new increased tax
before considering any changes.
The Wardman Park and Carlton,
under the same management, also
will continue dinner dancing nightly
from $50 to 80, as formerly.
/. Hotel 2400, the Raleigh and the
Cafe Caprice at the Roger Smith
! also will continue to offer dance
T music in the evenings until patron
. age has determined change In
, policy is necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Fairfax Collects S15,509
In Red Cross Campaian

Fairfax County Red Cross Off
Gals announced today that $15,-
509.38 has been collected in the Red
Cross War Fund Campaign. This
is SO per cent of the county's quota
of $4,000.
officials said last weeks collec-
tons in the drive amounted to So
781 90.
Mrs. Charles Gibson, staff assist
ants chairman, announced that a
staff assistants course will be-
gin April at the chapter house in
Falls Church. Glasses will be held
from 2 to 4 pm. each Tuesday
Persons interested in taking the
course have been requested to call
Falls Church 2885.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Red Cross Short
Million as Drive
Starts Last Lap
TotoI Expected
To Hit Two-Thirds
Of Goal Today

Beginning the final week in the
Red Cross campaign, the District
must raise more than $4,000
within the next five days If it is to
meet the s2,665, 900 quota establish
ed for the Capital
In statement. last night, Lloyd
B. Wilson, campaign chairman, and
H. L. Rust. jr., vice chairman, ex-
pressed confidence the District will
meet this years goal, but added
that redoubled efforts will be
necessary this week.
Reports today from residential,
city and nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia area divisions are expected to
boost the District subscription we'll
past the two-thirds mark. Red
Cross workers concentrated on
house-to-house canvassing in the
first fair-weather weekend of the
drive.
Receipts Stand at 81 Pct.
Overall collections to date, as re-
ported through Saturday, stand at
81 ,65l ,004. or So per cent of the goal.
Randolph G. Bishop, campaign d.
rector, pointed out that with con-
tributors to date numbering only
226, 1872, campaign workers will have
to increase efforts to reach 100000
more persons this week If they are
to equal last years total of 100000
gifts.
Meanwhile, IS booths, operated by
$500 volunteer workers, opened to-
day in department stores, banks,
hotels and other centers. This di-
vision, under the Craftsmanship of
Mrs. Alan Tappan, will function
through April and has set $25 900
as its quota.
1--WE hope that the booths will
make it possible for every person
in the Metropolitan Area to share
in the work the Red Cross is doing
in every part of the world" Mrs.
Tappan declared. Il hope that
people who so generously have given
large gifts, and people who have
given at their door, will feel there
is still another dollar they can
spare"
international Booths Set Up.
This division has set up two inter-
national booths In the Statler and
Carlton Hotels under direction of
Mrs. w. D. Whittemore. Embassy
and legation representatives will
preside.
Lady Halifax, wife of the British
Ambassador, was scheduled to be
at the Statler booth today from IL
to pm, and Nine. Wei Lao Ming,
wife Of the Chinese Ambassador, at
the Carlton during the same period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Two Men Killed
In Crash Of Bus
And Taxicab
Streeteor Injuries
FotoI to Woman;
Second Dies of Hurts

Two men were killed instantly
early today near Gum Spring
Va, when a taxicab in which
they were riding was struck and
demolished by an A. B. 81 w.
bus, police reported.
The accident occurred when the
cab swung from the driveway of q
roadside inn into the path of the
bus on Route /.
The dead were listed by Fairfax
County police as Arthur Lee Mudd
"a, of 102 South Fayette street and
Earl z. Robertson, 40, of 145l Duke
street, both Of Alexandria, Va.
Police said the bus was en- route
from Fort Belvoir to Alexandria and
was carrying no passengers at the
time. The driver, James Roland
Smith, 81, of CAB I street Sc. was
released under $500 bond pending an
investigation of the crash.
Streetcar Kills Woman.
In Washington, 63-year-old
woman was killed yesterday when
hit by a streetcar and another
woman died today from injuries re-
ceived in an automobile accident
earlier this month, raising to % the
total deaths in the District this
year attributable to traffic mishaps.
Miss Mary Schultz, So, of 3114
Mount Pleasant street NV, was in
stantly killed yesterday when struck
by a streetcar as she crossed the
street almost in front of her home,
police reported.
The operator of the car was listed
by police as Thomas N. Henderson
46, of 1446 Newton street NV. He
will appear before a coroner's in
quest to be called later. police said.
Fourth Streetcar Victim.
According to the Department of
Vehicles and Traffic, Miss Schultz
was the fourth person to die as a
result of being hit by streetcars in
the District this year, while 81 have
been injured in the same manner.
Miss Schultz was a retired en-
ploye of the johnson & Wimsatt
Lumber Co., having been employed
there in a clerical capacity for the
past 80 years, it was said at her
home. She is survived by brother,
Charles Schultz, 40 Taylor street.
Chevy Chase, Md.
Miss Helen Banks, %, of 308 Six
tenth street NE, injured in an
automobile accident March 8, in
which her sister, Lena, 81, was
killed, died early today in Gallinger
Hospital, police reported.
The accident which proved fatal
to Miss Banks and her sister &C.
CURED at Seventeenth and A streets
Sc, when a car in which they were
riding collided with another driven
by Elmer E. johnson, IS, of 1921
Twentieth street NE.
Last Wednesday coroner's Jury
johnson held for grand jury
action on charge of manslaughter.
He also faces charge of reckless
driving police asserted.
Injured when a car he was driving
struck a pole at Indianhead, Md,
yesterday, William Bowman, 20, COL
ored, Pisgah, Md, was admitted to
Freedmen's Hospital suffering from
a fractured jaw and face decorations,
police said.
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Is Injured
In Fall From Horse

Miss Shirley Martin, 81, of 1909
Sixteenth street NV, was admitted
to Emergency Hospital yesterday
after she fell from a horse in West
Potomac Park.
The accident occurred near the
polo field and Miss Martin was taken
to the hospital in a Park Police au-
tomobile. Hospital attaches said to-
day she was suffering from posi-
BILE skull fracture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
School to Hold Open House

Open house will be held at 8
o'clock tonight at George Washing
ton High School, Alexandria, to pro-
mote better understanding and CO.
operation between the community
and teachers. The program will in
clude a talk by H. R. Richardson,
school principal, and an exhibition
Of work done by students. Refresh
ments will be served.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27

I often find myself longing" Col.
Vandevanter says, "for the early
days in the Pacific when you slept
under wing and were lucky If
you got one meal day There
wasn't SO much tc worry about"
The Germans, he points out, con-
stantly are turning to new tech
niques and tactics and plans con-
stantly must be modified to meet
these. Lately, for example, they
have changed radically the distri-
button of their fighters, and rocket
guns must be reckoned with, al
though, he says, these apparently
are far from perfected and it is
almost impossible to hit a rapidly
moving object from rapidly NOV
ing platform.
Col. Vandevanter, son of Col. and
Mrs. Elliott Vandevanter, sr., at
tended Episcopal High School in
Alexandria, Va. He is a 1889 grad
uate of West Point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Showers Forecast Today;
Mild Weather 10 Continue

Occasional thunder showers end
ing late tonight were predicted to-
day after balmy spring Sunday
sent Westinghouse outdoors to
parks and other recreation spots.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and
mild, the forecaster said.
The first Sunday of spring was
marked by sunny skies and temper
atures ranging from So shortly be-
fore S am. to SIS at pm.
Pedestrians and bicycle riders pre-
dominated in the parks, with auto
mobile traffic reported light.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27

comparatively ancient model in
the Manila area. When the Jap
anese raided the Manila airdrome,
he took to the air and thereby saved
the only plane to survive that devas-
tating attack. He toured the ocean
for few hours and later came back
to take off some of the pilots whose
own ships had been smashed.
Today Col Vandevanter longs to
get back to the Pacific for another
crack at the Japs. He has 10 mis-
sions to his credit in the Pacific
theater, holds the Distinguished
Flying Gross and the Silver Star. He
participated in operations in the
Philippines, Australia and Java as
member of the old 10Th Bombard-
ment Group. He came here year
ago as a captain and his advances
ment since then has been about as
rapid as that of any one in the
Army.
To Col. Vandeyanter TODAY the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Dimond's Son Wounded
In South Pacific
BY the Associate; Press.

by the Associated Press.
Delegate Dimond of Alaska re-
ceived notification today his son 1t.
John H Dimond, rs, Army En-
gineer, had been wounded while in
the South Pacific. A letter from the
son said he had been told he would
be in q hospital for some time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Guild Plans Food Sole

The Women's Guild of st. Johns
Episcopal Church, Bethesda, will
sponsor bake and food sale from
9 am. to $50 pm. Thursday in the
Singer Sewing Machine Store, ,7217
Wisconsin avenue, Mrs. Alfred Bis
|sett, president, announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,


MaThe record for the lowest of
bomber operating from the British Isles probably
26yearoh Col Elliott Vandevanter 2129 Florida
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Mother Saves Child
Drowning in Pool

Quick action by her mother and
DR.. Virginia Beelar, next-door
neighbor, saved l9-month- old Janet
Gallagher, 5053 Sedgewick street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-27
Over There With Men From Here
DC. COLONEL KEEPS DOWN
BOMBER GROUPS LOSSES
With Men From Here

This Is OF series OF stories by Star correspondent
District Maryland and Virginia soldiers taking
OF Germany