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Evening star., 1944-07-06
Couple, Doctors for so Years,
To Be Honored at Sonitorium
Kresses Recalled
To Medical Duties
Because of War

DR.. Daniel H. Kress and DR.
Lauretta Kress, affectionately callee
DR.. D. H. and DR.. Lauretta by theil
friends, will mark their Goth wed.
ding anniversary Sunday at . party
arranged in their honor at tn.
Washington Sanitarium and Hos.
pital, Takoma Park, where DR.. D. H
served as medical director for more
than 80 years.
1t really will be q two-fold cele.
bration, since it follows only 18 day,
the 5Oth anniversary of their grad.
uation from medical college and thu
beginning of a joint career that wa.
to bring them wide recognition.
Still vigorous in their early Dos
these two Seventh-day Adventists
were recalled from retirement to re-
place younger physicians entering
the armed services. For the last
year they have not missed day al
their offices at the Florida Sani-
tarium, the Adventist institution al
Orlando, where they had settlec
down to live out the remainder o1
their lives.
Hope to Go to India.
DR.. D. H., 81, laughinglys ex.
plains that they may yet accomplish
what they set out to do. I'VE trainee
for service in India" he said. wv,
never did get there, but you CAM
tell, there Is time still"
DIR. Lauretta describes their live:
as race. Six months her husband.
junior. she says that she has never
quite managed to catch up with him
You see, each year just as woulc
reach him. he would have another
birthday, and I would remain SIX
months behind"
Soon after their marriage. al
Flint, Mich, in 1884, DR.. D. H. en-.
tered the Baptist ministry. Later
however, he became interested ir
the Seventh-day Adventist faith
and he and his wife decided to be.
come medical missionaries.
After their graduation In 1s91
from the University of Michigan
Medical College they served first a
the Battle Greek sanitarirm, vher,
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Mrs. Mary Bennett, SO,
To Be Buried Today
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG,. Va, July 6.-Funeral
services for Mrs. Mary Emmett
Bennett, 90, one of Leesburg's oldest
residents. will be held at 3 pm. to-
day at the Slack funeral home.
The Rev. c. w. Caulkins will
oficiate, assisted by Elder H. H.
Lefferts. Burial will be in the Lees
burg Union Cemetery.
Mrs. Bennett died Tuesday at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Hattie Titus
in Leesburg.
A native of Loudoun County. she
was the daughter of the late James
and Anne Poulton White. Her hus-
band, Clagett Bennett, died A years
ago
Mrs. Bennett is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Titus and Mrs. Cecilia
Brabham, both of Leesburg, and two
nieces, Mrs. G. D. Carneal of Lees
burg, and Mrs. Frank Fling,
Hamilton.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Fairfax County
Adds $4,000
For Schools
$4,000 Eormorked
For Ookton BUILDING;
Cost Near $l55,0 900

The Fairfax County Board OF
Supervisors yesterday made a sup
Elemental appropriation of $4,000
for two county school projects fol-
lowing a request from a special COM
mittee representing the county
school board.
OF this $4,000 was earmarked for
a new school building at Oakton to
replace the one destroyed by fire
last January. The final cost of the
new structure is expected to be
$l55 900. The balance will be met
by 100000 grant from the State
literary fund and insurance on the
building.
Plans for the new building now
are being revised by the State school
architects office in order to bring
the cost in line with the estimate
Recently the school board rejected
all bids for the school as the lowest
bid received amounted to $166 900
The new building will contain nine
classrooms and an assembly room
School board members indicated
that the contract will be let on 9
cost-plus basis.
The board also appropriated thu
sum Of 5000 towards q shop build.
Ing at Mount Vernon High School
which is estimated to cost approx.
mately $4,000. The remainder will,
be obtained from the literary fund
At the request OF Miss Julia Gum
chairman of the local cancer fund
campaign, the board appropriated
$500 to the Virginia Cancer Founda.
ton to care for INDECENT patients.
The board appointed w. F.P. Reio
OF Groveton and L. S. Travers OF
Dranesville district to vacancies or
the County Public Utilities Commis.
sion. The other member of the
commission is Capt. John Bethune
of Falls Church.
Capt. Carl r. Mcintosh. chief OF
police. reported that 10 dogs were
picked up last month by the doe
pound truck and confined in the
county pound. OF these six were
reclaimed by their owners and the
remainder destroyed.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Invasion Casualty
Handling System for
This Area Announced
Meade and Lee Hospital.
Included in Facilities
For Speedy Treatment
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, July 6.-An inva-
sion casualty handling system call
ing for general care at one hospital
and specialized treatment at three
others in the three-State ThirC
Service Command was disclosed
yesterday by Army officials.
The setup announced by the Army
Service Forces headquarters here
which administers affairs in Penn
sylvania, Virginia and Maryland
designated the new MCGUIRE Gen.
eral Hospital at Richmond as thu
first stop for casualties from the
European and Mediterranean the
aters of operation.
Deshon General Hospital. three
miles northwest of Butler, Pa, has
been set up as a center for soldiers
deafened on the battlefield.
Use Staunton Hospital.
Valley Forge General Hospital
three miles from Phoenixville, Pa.
makes the rehabilitation Of blind
soldiers its speciality, while woodrow
Wilson Hospital at Staunton, Va.
was given its place as a center for
neuro- o-psychiatric cases. If it spe-
cializes in anything" The final de-
cision regarding Woodrow Wilson
has not yet been made.
In connection with the release o!
the Sd Service Commands system
for handling casualties, the Army
issued statement in which it said
Invasion casualties will be
brought back - from the Nor
mandy beachhead through the
swiftest and most flexible patient
evacuation system ever used in war. >
Use Nearby Facilities.
To help make room in the general
hospitals, Army station hospitals at
Fort George G. Meade, Md, and
Camp Lee, Va, have been chosen
as regional hospitals for the Army
Service Forces. Maj. Gen. Philip
Hayes, commanding general, Sd
Service Command, said they would
perform the same services as gen.
eral hospitals but would treat men
assigned to the zone of the interior,
i.e., posts in this country.
The principal function OF the
Meade and Lee hospitals will be to
absorb gradually all patients now at
general hospitals who were not war
casualties. However, the Lee hos
pital may receive any overflow OF
evacuees from MCGUIRE Hospital at
Richmond, in case McGuire's 1900
bed capacity should be exceeded.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Johns Hopkins al Capacity
Despite Nurse Shortage
By the Associa ted Press

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 6.-Dr. Win
ford Smith, Johns Hopkins Hospital
superintendent, says the institution
does not plan to close any beds de-
spite a shortage of IS to 100 nurses
and approximately 200 helpers.
DIR. Smith said yesterday that the
hospital doubled enrolment in its
nursing school, increased the num-
ber of nurses classes and instituted
use Of pupils to do yeoman nursing
work long before the Cadet Nurse
Corps program was inaugurated.
Hopkins will limit its nursing
school enrolment to college gradu-
ates beginning this fall.
DR.. Smith said high school stu
dents, neighborhood women, church
groups and volunteer nurses aides
had aided in alleviating the helper
shortage.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Bethesda Nurses Aides
To Be CAPPED Sunday

Gaping ceremonies for II nurses
aides, the third group to complete
the training course at the Suburban
Hospital at Bethesda, will be held at
8 pm. Sunday at the hospital.
Addresses will be made by Mai.
L. l.. Dye, Montgomery County Red
Cross chairman. and Mrs. E. H.
Helmuth, chairman of volunteer
services. The caps will be presented
by Miss Dorothy E. Glynn, super
intendent of nurses.
Those who will receive their caps
are:
BerRelt, Mrs; Edwin Jameson, Mrs. Jos,
blnns, MIS- ~ Morse, Mrs. John w.
Sryant' mrs. =. e., lr. MoLgey, Mrs. J. r.
Sotton, Mrs, J. II. Nugent, Mrs. John
Snamor " MRS: 4: ;. Trump, Mrs. c. A.
duncan, Mrs. K w. ZWArt, Mrs. c. M.
EMS, MIS-: H. 8. Grieves, Mrs H.
Hewitt, Mrs. John p. Reid, Miss r a.
Hunter Mrs D. ".
Evening star., 1944-07-06
IS AIexandrians Leave
For Duty in Services

Thirteen Alexandria men left to.
day for service in the armed forces
the first group to come under the
new regulations of pooling Army
and Navy inductees. This group il
the only induction of white mer
scheduled for July. One call fol
colored men is scheduled for July 81
Those who left follow:
Fathers.
Rudderforth, Edwin M. Goines George c,
Eenfathers.
Tousley. Clayton r. Ransdell Charles ".
Newton. Frank A. Sanford, Walter T., jY
Penn, Harry l.. Sprouse, Ed4ar J,
Merrick, Charles j. Catlett, DWy
McClary, Jack \, Mcfarland, p T., n,
Campbell. william ".
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Prince Georges
Will Get Wafer
From New Plant
Sanitary Commission
To Double Output
Of Laurel Works

The Washington Suburban SAM
tary Commission is about to delive
water from its new filtration plan
at Laurel into the Prince Georges
County area, Chief Engineer Harr!
r. Hall announced today.
The announcement marks tn,
completion of the commissions $2,'
100000 project to double its watel
supply and make unnecessary stric
conservation regulations during
drought periods in metropolitan
Prince Georges and Montgomery
Counties.
Change to Be Gradual.
Mr.. Hall explained that tn,
change over from the present sys.
tenn, under which water for botf
areas is supplied from the Burn
Mills filter plant, will be done gradu.
ally in order to create as little dis.
turbance as possible. 1t may bt
several days before the change i!
completed, he added.
Since the water will be brought
into the commissions supply sys.
tenn from a different direction, Mr.
Hall said, changes in pressure ane
in the direction of flow in the
mains may cause the water to be.
come cloudy and taste differently.
He emphasized, however, that
these changes will disappear as soor
rs normal conditions have beer
established on the new system and
that the water as delivered will be
entirely safe for use.
10000 Gallons Daily.
The project, comprising dam
across the Patuxent River neal
Brighton, a pumping station farther
down the river near Laurel and the
Alter plant. was conceived by COM
mission engineers several years age
to relieve present facilities, over
taxed through the rapid population
rise in the suburban Maryland
area.
The new system will send 10000
600 gallons of water a day into
Prince Georges County homes and
business establishments. supply
equal to that of the Burnt Mills
station which will continue to serve
Montgomery County.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Child, 4, Found Injured
Al EIkton Dies; Man Held

By the Associated Press.
HARRISONBURG, Va. July g.
Guy Putnam, 4-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. B. c. Putnam of Elkton
who. was found seriously injured
Tuesday night at the Elkton High
School, died last night in Harrison
burg hospital.
The child had been unconscious
since arrival at the hospital where
his injuries were diagnosed as q
fractured skull.
State Trooper E. E. Kiser said he
had arrested railroad section en-
ploye in connection with the case
No charges have been placed against
him.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Rites for Clarence Hayes
Will Be Held Tomorrow

Clarence Hayes, SO. World War
veteran, who died Tuesday at the
home OF his sister. Mrs. John F.
Quinn, 1921 Girard street NE. will
be buried with military rites in
Arlington Cemetery following fu-
neral services at 10 am tomorrow at
st. Aloysius Church, North Capitol
and I streets.
A native of Washington, Mr.. Hayes
was a guard at the Government
Printing Office for 16 years. He was
a member of GPO Post, No. SO,
American Legion.
Mr.. Hayes is survived also by q
brother. Edward Hayes, who lives
near Marlboro, Md.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Stray Dog Roundup
On in Prince Georges;
Twill Use Prisoners
Police to Shoot Conines
Thot EIude Capture;
Cots Also to Be Seized

Prince Georges County authorities
today launched a drive to rid the
county of stray dogs in conjunction
with their program providing for
the free vaccination of all dogs
against rabies.
Under the plan, adopted by the
county commissioners at their meet
ing yesterday in Upper Marlboro,
two prisoners from the Upper Marl-
boro jail will be assigned to a coun-
ty-owned truck as dog catchers
They will be accompanied by a
policeman, who will drive the truck
and will shoot dogs which cannot
be caught. The prisoners will be
paid rs cents for each dog they pick
up.
Will Pick Up Cats, Too.
After being picked up. the ami
mails will be taken to the county
pound, located at the Aims House,
Ritchie. If unclaimed after three
days, they will be destroyed. A 81
fee will be charged for each dog
claimed. 1t was pointed out that
stray cats also will be picked up.
Police Chief Ralph w. Brown en-
phasized that dogs inoculate ted
against rabies must be kept tied or
confined for 80 days after the vac
|cination program ends July IA.
Animals not vaccinated must be
kept confined for the duration of
the present quarantine, scheduled
to end September Is, or during any
future ban.
DR.. A. L. Brueckner, acting direc-
tor of the State Livestock Sanitary
Service, said that 81 rabid animals
have been reported in the county
during the first six months of this
year. They include three foxes and
one COW.
Approve Street Contract.
The board approved $51 ,425 bid
by the Contee Sand g. Gravel Co.,
Laurel, for the construction of con-
crete streets. curbs. cutters and side
walks in Villa Heights.
An $1,000 bid by E. R. P. Smith,
Hyattsville contractor. for street i'm
provements in Queens Chapel Ma
nor also was approved.
The commissioners went on rec
ord as approving efforts by River
dale residents to eliminate the grade
crossing in the town.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
loureI Sued for $4,000
In Open Drain Accident

A suit for 5000 damages against
the town of Laurel has been filed
by Ruth P. Mitchell, also of Laurel,
in Prince Georges County Circuit
Court at Upper Marlboro.
The plaintiff, through her attor-
ney. Jerome A. Loughran, Ellicott
City, claims that she was injured
when she fell into an open drain on
a Laurel street July 3. l94l. She
contends that there were no guards
or warning lights around the drain
at the time.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Post Proposed
For Darden al
StateConvention
Governor May Head
Resolutions Group at
Roanoke Meeting
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, July GA move
to have Gov Darden named chair
man Of the Resolutions Committee
at the State Democratic Convention
in Roanoke Saturday was expected
when 1t was learned his name
would be placed in nomination az
one Of three members to. the COM
mittee from the second district.
1t Is proposed to have q 27-mem-
Der resolution committee to draw
up the State Democratic platform.
Members will be named at mass
meetings of VARIOUS districts Just
before the State convention is called
to order.
Senator Glass served for years
as chairman of the Resolutions
Committee but he will be unable
to act in this capacity this year
because Of illness.
Deans to Nominate Darden.
Col. Parke p. Deans, member of
the Industrial Commission and
chairman of the Second District
Democratic Committee, yesterday
said he would nominate the Gov
ernor as one Of the representatives
from his district. Each of the nine
districts will name three represent
atives to the committee, which will
60 into session Immediately after
the mass meetings to draw up the
platform.
Interest in the convention is cen
tered largely upon the possibility OF
a hight over Endorsement of the
Roosevelt administration. Leaders
IN the State organization headed by
Senator Byrd are said to be in
favor of an uninstructed delegation,
while the Committee of One Hun
dred for the Reelection of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the Advance
ment of Progressive Democratic
Principles" may seek an expression
from the convention indorsing the
record Of the Roosevelt administra-
ton for the past three terms, If not
asking Endorsement of fourth
term.
Keynoter Named.
Temporary chairman and keynote
speaker will be L. Preston Collins
OF Marion, long q leader in the
Byrd organization. The permanent
chairman will be Thomas B. Stanley
Of Henry If the custom is followed
In naming the speaker of the House
Of Delegates.
The convention will name "A dele
gates to the national convention. q
State chairman, national commit
teeman and national committee
woman. This year there will be six
delegates at large named instead
OF four. since Virginia was given a
bonus for going Democratic in 1910
Evening star., 1944-07-06
|Virginio Meeting Set
IOn Veterans Jobs
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
| RICHMOND, Va, July 6.-The
State Planning Board will meet
July IL at Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute to discuss with local officials
and planning commissions the ques-
ton Of obtaining employment for
returning servicemen.
The conference will be the first
OF three such sessions, it was an
nounced yesterday by Raymond
Long, director of the planning board.
The second will be held July Is at
Farmville Courthouse and the third
the next day at Charlottesville.
Representatives from Federal,
State and local agencies will b
present at the three meetings. Nj.
ILonR said.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
75% MoreSeek
Jobs Under
New Rules
Employers Slow
To Take Advantage
Of ReferroI Plan

The number Of workers applying
to the United States Employment
Service for jobs under the new pri-
ority referral plan is running moro
than Is per cent over comparable
periods last month, but employers
are slow to take advantage of this
supply, Ernest v. Connolly, acting
washington area war manpower d.
rector. reported today.
employers, Mr.. Connolly ex.
plalned, are not sending in enough
JOB orders to meet the increased
supply of workers although there
nave been complaints for months
ABOUT the shortage of workers. The
USES, he said, can't refer workers to
JOBS when there are no Job openings
on nle which they are qualified to
Mr.. Connolly had expected the
number of job applicants to be low
around the holiday, but on Monday
! 200 workers applied at the office at
DUB K street and 800 applied at the
one at 1922 Fifteenth street. This
was a rs per cent increase over the
NUMBER OF job applicants during the
average May Monday at the K street
once and 73 per cent increase for
tne white collar" Office, he said.
Some Lack Statements.
OF the total applying at K street.
4S1 were referred to Jobs and of the
Total at the Fifteenth street ONCE.
zoo were referred. Referral fell far
behind job applicants, Mr.. Connolly
explained, because some of the
workers lacked statements of avail
aolllty allowing them to change
Joos. some were reluctant to take
the jobs offered them and in manv
cases no orders were on file meeting
tne qualltlcations of the job appli.
cants.
Yesterday, lO16 job applicants
mad visited the K street office by 3
pm, and more than 81 per cent had
been referred to jobs. OF the 325
applying to the white collar" Of
nee, 81 per cent were referred to iobs
yesterday.
MOST OF the workers at both offices
are being sent to essential and 10.
cauy needed work, Mr., Connolly
reported. Less than IL per cent
OF the workers referred Monday
from both offices were sent to less
essential work. Yesterday 8 per cent
OF those referred by the K street
ONCE were sent to less essential
work. while 20 per cent of those re-
| ferred by the Fifteenth street oA6c>
went to less essential jobs.
Employers Ask for 22O.
On the employer side 22O orders
were received by both Offices Mon.
day. including Ais openings in es-
sentlal and locally needed estab-
llshments and 95 openings in less
essential establishments. Yesterday
l83 orders were received, including
17O job openings in essential and
locally needed activities and 1873 in
less essential work.
Mr.. Connolly also announced ths
Irst nnlng arrangement made in
washington under the priority re-
1erral plan. The arrangement.
whereby workers are channeled to
JOBS without going through the
USES. was concluded with the
washington Master Builders Asso.
clatlon and the Washington Build.
ing and Construction Trades Coun.
Gil. Nonunion building employees.
however, will have to be channeled
to jobs through the USES. the area
director said.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Women Fly for Nuzis

A UNITED STATES BOMBER
BASE IN ENGLAND, July 6 (R.-
The Germans are using women in
their bombing planes, 1t. Robert
Nelson, Danville, ILL.,, said yesterday
on his return from the shuttle mis-
sion to Russia and italy. He said
he saw two men and two women
parachute out Of JU-68 which had
been shot down.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Sove This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack Of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for Army and Navy supplies
shipped overseas. Every pound
Of old newspapers and maga-
zines Is needed. Telephone your
nearest school or notify some
school child In your block TO
have your paper picked up.
Evening star., 1944-07-06
$500 Offered in Prizes

Frank Phillips, chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Phillips
Petroleum Co., has offered a tota]
OF $500 in prizes to employees living
In this area who have the best Vic
tory gardens and produce the best
canned food.
Evening star., 1944-07-06

suSIleu FlyLng
Cross for 145
missions in the
China Burma -
India theater.
Now stationed
at r os e era n S
Field, st. Joseph,
Mo-, he was cited
for "extraordi-
n a ry achieve
ment" in more
than 300 hours
OF operational
transporting of
S u p phi e S and
personnel over
[ he A s s a m =
Evening star., 1944-07-06

China air routes. Capt. PETER was
overseas for IS months.
In addition to the DFC, he wears
the Presidential Unit citation and
the Air Medal His wife, the for.
mer Miss Lois Kuhn, is the daugh.
ter of the late Oliver Owen Kuhn,
managing editor of The Star. Mrs.
PETER is at Rosecrans Field with her
husband.
Evening star., 1944-07-06

to and to home Of peace and
quiet"
Mrs. cit. COLI Pearson c. Conlyn,
30l2 Dumbarton avenue NV, whose
husband is executive officer of the
airborne training center in Sicily, is
president of the club which dimes on
the first Wednesday of each month.
Today the members are writing "
mail to their husbands on the news
Iof their old comrades at
the Sixth street armory picked up
at the wives dinner"
Evening star., 1944-07-06
Capt. Paul R. PETER Gets
DIE for Chinese FIiahts

Capt. Paul R. PETER, veteran pilot
OF the Air Transport Command, for
merly OF 5420 Connecticut avenue
NV, has been awarded the Distin.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-12-22

1t is estimated thai ono ei,.L
an ue Wo[Id $ running fresh waite,
Evening star., 1944-08-14
Homes for Aged Questioned

Homes for Aged Questioned
To the Editor Of The Star:
What is the main purpose of the
homes for the aged? Are they not
meant to be real homes, to give peace
and security to those well advanced in
years?
But, they seem to cater to only a
privileged few who are not so old
many of whom might still be engaged
in some useful employment judging
from my personal experience, and the
following letter I received from one
OF the homes" where had gone for
information regarding my eligibility,
while 1 was still employed in an "es-
sential industry, at the age of II, but
felt I should be making some plans for
my future old age:
Il regret to inform you that the
Board of Trustees is unable to make
an exception with regard to your being
unable to meet the age requirement.
The Board feels that the average age
OF the members already in the home is
higher than at present desired and
therefore in the future only younger
applicants will be considered"
Does it not stand to reason that the
younger they are, the longer they will
be cared for? The older should be the
ones considered first, except in special
cases, of course. What are we older
ones expected to do? What can we do
those of US who have no homes and
whose resources are limited?
RESIDENT OF WASHINGTON.