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Evening star., 1944-10-24
-Four Hurt as Truck
Hits Group on Road

Three Washington women and a
College Park (Md) motorist were in
Leland Memorial Hospital, River
dale, today with injuries received
last night when they were struck by
a truck that left the Baltimore
boulevard in University Park, Prince
Georges County police reported.
Police said the women were stand
ing near a small sedan at the cor
ner of Baltimore boulevard and Un-
derwood road when the seven ton
trailer truck went out of control
and plowed into them.
They were identified by police as
Mrs. Annie Mills, 48, fractured ankle
and knee; Mrs. Alma Gibson, As,
both legs broken, and her daughter,
Miss Ella Gibson, 20, broken leg
and wrist. All live at 5213 Kansas
avenue NV. The motorist, Charles
E. Prince, A, College Park, who
was sitting in his auto, suffered a
brain conclusion, police said. Hos
pital attendants described their
condition as satisfactory
Police said the driver of the truck,
Alvin j. Fink, %, of Roanoke, Va,
was charged with reckless driving
and released on $500 bond pending a
Police Court hearing.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Alexandra COP to PIun
Headquarters Opening

Plans for opening Alexandria Re.
publican headquarters until the
election will be discussed at meet
ing of the Alexandria Republican
Committee at Gadsby's Tavern al
g pm. tomorrow, according to F
Clinton Knight, chairman.
A location for headquarters has
been obtained, Mr.. Knight said, ano
he is hopeful that volunteers will
sign up at. tomorrow's meeting te
keep the Office open until election
day.
Volunteer workers to help get out
the vote on November 7 will be
named.
Mr.. Knight said application fol
gasoline coupons for private cars
used on election day will be made
to the ration board as soon as the
owners names and license numbers
Of the cars are obtained.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Income Tax Levy
Up IS Pei. in Virginia
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va. Oct. 24.-A
sharp increase in Virginia's income
ta.. assessments this year as COM
pared with 1943 has been revealed
by figures made public by Henry
G. Gilmer, the State controller.
The overall increase amounts to
nearly $4,000, 900, Mr.. Gilmer said
representing a jump of approx
mately IS per cent Total assess
ments for this year amount to ST.
755, ,7542l, as compared with an ag-
gregate assessment of S., ,992, BAT 80
in 1943.
The "a cities in the State turned
in total assessments of $4,212,618.62,
as compared with an assessment of
So, 800, 80 for 1943. The 100 coun-
ties, including towns, reported s3,-
543, ,135 SO, as compared with $2,601, =
992 for 1943.
FauQuier County showed the
greatest increase in the county-town
list, from $131 ,68916 in 1943 to $246,-
455.40 in 1914. Arlington County
was second in the group with an
assessment of $616,933.11, compared
with 1943 assessment of $454, 1886 so.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
BY the Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Va. Oct. 24.-The har-
vesting of "a very large apple crop"
will prevent Senator Byrd from ad-
dressing a public mass meeting on
behalf Of the four-term candidacy of
President Roosevelt here October 81.
Simon Sonnenberg, head of the
Holt Street Independent Voters
League, sponsors of the Roose-
velt- -Truman-Daughton rally, last
night made public a note he had
received from Senator Byrd in reply
to his invitation to speak here for
Mr.. Roosevelt at such a time as
suited his convenience. 1t read:
In answer to your telegram, I
regret to advise you that conditions
are such here (Winchester) in con-
nection with the harvesting of a
very large apple crop that I am
unable to accept your invitation
My three boys are in the service,
and the burden of the work here
has fallen entirely OH me-"
Mr.. Sonnenberg said: Il feel that
Senator Byrd is a great American
and great Virginian whose loyalty
Is unquestioned, but his action in
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Bratcher Trial Set
For November II

Band Leader Everett M
c'Washie") Bratcher entered a plea
of not guilty after waving formal
arraignment on charges of draft
evasion in Federal District Court in
Alexandria yesterday.
Judge Robert N. Pollard set No
vember 81 and % for Bratcher's
trial before a jury on charges Of
taking benzedrine and giving false
information to examiners.
He was indicted June S, but ar
raignment was postponed pending a
ruling by Judge Pollard on a motion
by his attorneys. Leslie Garnett and
T. Edward O'Connell, to suppress
evidence obtained by Army exami-
ners. The motion was recently
overruled.
Fifteen of II defendants in similar
cases waived arraignment and
entered pleas of not guilty. Thomas
Crane will be arraigned November
2 to give him time to employ an
attorney, and Charles Montgomery.
colored, not present yesterday, will
be arraigned November 2.
Attorneys for the IS men signed
stipulations agreeing to Judge Pol
lard's decision to overrule motions
similar to that filed in the Bratcher
case. These. defendants are Eugene
Slravo, Alveo di Lorenzo Clinton R.
Tucker, jr.; Boyd Mccall, Charles
Blaine, Eugene Turner, Wendell
Paris, James Leftwich, William
Knox, Albert Brooks, John A. Ware,
William L. Sneed, John j. Hunter.
Charles Baucom and Watson
Parsons.
Judge Pollard indicated their
trials would be some time in jan
uary.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Falls Church and Herndon
To Receive Wine Act Funds

Falls Church and Herndon, a.
school districts set up for repre-
sensation on the County Schoo
Board, will receive funds for distri-
button under the Stuart-Long Wine
Act, according to a ruling yesterday
by Attorney General Abram P
Staples.
In an opinion given in answer to a
question by DR.. Dabney S. Lancas-
ter, State superintendent of public in
struction, Mr.. Staples ruled that all
towns constituting separate school
districts, whether or not these dis
tricts are set up only for representa-
ton on county school boards, are to
share in the funds.
This is no assurance, however
that the funds will be turned over
to the schools, officials pointed out
While it was the Governors wish
and the intent of the General AS.
sembly" that these funds be given
to schools, officials pointed out that
the act carries no provisions ear
marking the funds.
The wine tax bill raised the tax or
wine from Is to so cents a gallon
and revenues of $2,00000O a year
were anticipated. These funds are
to be distributed on a per capita
basis to communities.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
No Politics Involved :
In Plan 10 Reoreanize
Courts, Soper Says
By the Associated Press.

oy Inc AsSOCldteQ fTeSS.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 24.-Judge
Morris A. Soper Of the Fourth Cir
cult Court of Appeals said last night
there were no politics involved and
mo selfish interest will be served"
by the passage of the proposed
amendment to reorganize the State s
judicial system.
Judge Soper was the first of six
speakers scheduled to broadcast in
favor of the Bond plan for the
reorganization of Maryland's tribu-
mails.
Citing seven surprises" In the
present arrangement of the Mary
land courts, the judge declared they
all lead up to one question-why
was this thing not done long ago?"
No Change in II Years.
Among the surprises" were ::
There had been no change in the
Court of Appeals since it's organi-
zation n years ago; the Court of
Appeals is composed Of eight judges,
ia larger number than that which
composes the highest court of any
State of the size or population of
Maryland and larger number than
most States have, and that although
Baltimore City has so per cent of
the population of the State and rs
per cent of the lawyers of the State
and sends up 81 per cent of all
the cases heard by the Court of
Appeals, the city is limited to one
judge on the court.
Judge Soper also said that al
though the appellate court lays
down the law for the whole State,
the judges are not chosen from the
State at large, but one each from
the eight circuits. Some OF the
county circuits have fewer than 100
lawyers and their law business is
limited as to quantity and variety,
which makes 1t difficult at times to
fill judicial vacancy with an ex-
perienced man, he continued.
Other "Surprises' Listed.
The other surprises" listed by
the judge included: The judges of
the Court of Appeals not only have
to keep abreast of the vast litera-
ture of the law and write opinions
but must also help with the work
of the trial courts in the county
circuits; each of the present circuits
lis surrounded by an impossible
wall, so to speak, so that no judge
in one circuit can sit in any court
in any other circuit, even though
it may be an adjoining county"
and none of the trial judges is re-
sponsible to the Court of Appeals
or to any other higher official for
the conduct of his court.
The Bond PLAN gives the chief
judge of the appellate court and his
associates authority to require trial
Judges to make reports of their
business.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
RiverdoIe Post Office
To Open New Bronch

A. Franklin Bowers, Riverdale
(Mdo postmaster, announced to-
day that branch post office will
be opened November at 56l8
Edmonston avenue.
The branch will be under the
direction OF Sanford T. Saunders.
and will be open each day from 8
am. to, pm. It will transact
postal and money order business,
but will not handle postal savings
accounts, Mr.. Bowers said.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Democratic Official
Says Byrd Aids COP

RICHMOND, Oct. "a GP,.-Charles
M. Wallace, Richmond City Demo-
cratic chairman, said last night
that Senator Byrd is silently, mega
lively aiding the candidacy of the
Republican nominees in the presi-
Dental campaigns" by refusing to
announce stand in support of the
Democratic nominees The Senator
he said, is not displaying the party
loyalty" he has asked in his own
campaigns.
Mr.. Wallace described as 'legiti-
mate and timely" Ashton Dovell's
attack on unidentified Virginia Dem
ocratic leaders for what the former
Speaker Of the House said was their
hostile opposition" to Mr.. Roose-
welt.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
BiddIe Terms Dewey
Slick Prosecutor al
Silver Spring Rally
Address by Sinotro
TeIephoned to Meeting
Attended by ! 500 Person.

Attorney General Biddle last night
called Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Re.
publican presidential nominee, &
slick prosecuting attorney" who ha.
not yet realized that "it is important
to give all of the facts"
Mr.. Biddle addressed more thar
1900 Montgomery County voters al
a rally at the Silver Spring Armory
replacing Orson Welles, author
actor and producer, whose visit here
was cancelled yesterday because o1
a throat infection.
During his address, which wa.
broadcast, Mr.. Biddle was frequent.
ly interrupted by applause.
In reviewing the Roosevelt ad.
ministration, Mr. Biddle called at.
tention to the gains made by labol
during the last IL years. In 1882
Mr.. Biddle said. the total strength
OF organized labor was not ovel
100000. Today organized labor
counts 13,500,000 members. he said.
Sinatra Address Telephoned In.
In drawing a comparison between
the Roosevelt years and the IL Re.
publican years Immediately preced-
ing, or what you might call the
normalcy years." Mr.. Biddle sale
that lit pays to be little skeptical
at election time about a lot OF
things. ="
The Attorney General cited the
progress in the war made under
Mr.. Roosevelt and called attention
to the fact that the Republicans
voted against lifting the arms en-
barge, against selective service
against lease-lend. ".s
And yet" he continued, "Mr
Dewey has the nerve to blame Pres
ident Roosevelt for not preparing
the country for war"
AS surprise feature of last
nights rally, Frank Sinatra, radio
singer, addressed the voters BY
means of a special telephone hook
up from the Paramount Theater in
New York. Mr.. Sinatra said the
American youth of today are entitled
to the peace of tomorrow. He said
this peace will depend on their
parents votes on November T."
McMullen, Hildreth Speak.
Daniel F. McMullen, Cumberland
past commander of the Maryland
American Legion and candidate fol-
the House from the 9Th district
said that even the bitterest oppo.
nents of the administration have
conceded that the war is being
brilliantly waged." He said that
to put an untried man in this re-
sponsible position now would only
prolong the conflict"
Melvin Hildreth, secretary of the
National Independent Committee
for Roosevelt and Truman, referred
to the dream of Woodrow Wilson tc
make the world safe for democ-
racy." Let it be the achievement
of Franklin Roosevelt to save de-
for the world" Mr., Hildreth
said. = III
Both Mr.. Hildreth and Eugene
Casey, special assistant to President
Roosevelt, lauded the courageous
stand" made yesterday by Senate,
Ball, Republican, of Minnesota ir
his Endorsement Of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Roosevelt and Dewey
Neck and Neck in
ArIinqton Straw Poll

President Roosevelt and Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, Republican
presidential nominee, are run
ming meek and neck" In a straw
vote being taken by the Arling-
ton County treasurer.
John Locke Green, county
treasurer, said the first count
OF ballots deposited in a ballot
box outside his Office in the
courthouse gave Mr.. Roosevelt
28 votes to ~ for Gov. Dewey.
Any one whose name appears
on the list of registered voters
can cast q straw vote.
Mr.. Green said the ballots will
be counted again October 81
and November Z.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
1913 War Veterans
Are Taking Courses
AT Maryland Colleges
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 24.-Three
hundred and thirty-eight Maryland
veterans of this war enrolled in %
schools and colleges throughout the
State are training to be virtually
everything from aeronautical en-
gineers to concert violinists, an AS
sociated Press survey showed today
These ex-service men and women
have taken advantage of the Gov
ernment- financed educational pro-
gram included in the "GI bill OF
rights"
Sixty of the 338 Marylanders are
disabled as result of service
incurred injuries.
Michael j. Keating Of the voca-
tional and educational rehabilita-
ton service division of the Veterans
Administration Maryland headquar-
tiers In Baltimore, said today that
more than IS per cent Of the
applications filed by former men,
bers Of the armed forces for, educa-
ton in approved Free State institu-
tions had been granted.
Select Own COD e<e.
The men and women may select
their own course at any educational
institution which accepts them as
qualified, provided the school is on
the list approved by the Veterans
Administration, he explained.
The discharged service personnel
have registered for widely divergent
courses. Twenty-Five have enrolled
at the Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore and six at the Johns Hop
kins Medical School.
The University of Maryland has
the largest number total of 100.
Fifty-nine of this number have en-
tered at College Park, where a dis
charged servicewoman has listed her
major as bacteriology. The remain
der have registered at the medical,
law, dentistry and pharmacy de-
partments of the university in
Baltimore.
Two Study for Ministry.
Other colleges where service peo-
pie have enrolled include Loyola,
Baltimore, 5; Morgan State Teachers
College, Baltimore, 6; University of
Baltimore, IL; Washington College,
Chestertown, /, and Western Mary
land College, Westminster, 2.
Two of the veterans-one at West
ern Maryland and another at Johns
Hopkins-have begun studying to
be ministers. Five have started art
courses at the Maryland Institute
here. At the Peabody Conservatory
of Music here, five former service
men are registered.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
WestmoreIond Citizens
lndorse Charter Plan

The WeStmoreland (Md.) Citizens
Association voted last night to in
dorse the proposed charter for
Montgomery County at a meeting at
the Westbrook School at Westgate.
Maurice j. Mccarthy, president of
the organization, said it is not GUS
tomary to have political discussions,
but the resolution was adopted be-
cause Of its nonpartisan nature.
DR.. Fred Bushmeyer, minister of
the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church, discussed plans for the new
church his congregation plans to
ouild at Westmoreland Circle as soon
as materials can be obtained.
Evening star., 1944-10-24

Il1S IS one OF series OF
articles describing some of the
major changes proposed in the
city's transportation and traffic
systems to ouercome congestion
and aid in the solution OF park
ing problems. The oDerall plan
1Das prepared for the Commits
sioners By the consulting engi-
neer firms OF J. E. Grei1er Co.,
Baltimore, and De LeuD, Gather
& Co., Chicago.
The motorist, the streetcar USE
and the pedestrian of tomorrow
would find themselves segregated a
Union Station Plaza and Dupon
Circle instead of in conflict as a
present under the new plans pro.
posed by engineer experts.
If the plans are carried out
streetcars would be in the Connect.
cut avenue-G street subway ane
automobiles no longer would bt
criss-crossing their way through
them. Pedestrians would no Longer
have TO cross Union Station Plaza
with It's numerous walk" and don
walk" signals, for they would be
provided with underground tunnels
Passengers arriving at the sta
ton by streetcar would go to the
waiting room by escalators and en-
frances to the subway station would
also provide underground connec-
tions between Union Station and
two points south of the Plaza.
Traffic Channelizing.
In channelization of traffic at the
Plaza, engineers propose to utilize
existing roadways and islands "for
the most part" Station traffic
would use the outside lane, south OF
the Plaza, while through traffic
could use the roadway adjacent to
the front of the Plaza, with traf-
f1c signals controlling the points at
which the streams cross.
Taxicabs and private automobiles
are provided with platforms In
front of the station and passengers
from cabs or cars using the lane
closest to the station would 60 d.
rectly into the waiting room al
ground level. Passengers alightine
on the other platforms would &c
down ramps into the pedestrian
tunnel leading from the subway
station to the escalators emerging in
the waiting room.
Thus, it would be unnecessary fol-
pedestrians to cross the Plaza. One
of the passageways south of the
Plaza would serve patrons of east
bound buses and there would also be
entrances to the west end of the
subway station on both sides o1
Massachusetts, avenue, west of the
Plaza. A pedestrian passageway
would lead from the mezzanine level
at the east end of the subway sta
ton to escalators going to the sta
ton.
The platforms In front of the
stations would be protected from the
weather by glazed canopies which
would harmonic artistically with
the Union Station" Persons alight-
ing on the platforms would walk
down ramps at the west end leading
to the pedestrian passageway. Taxi
cabs would wait for incoming trains
west of the platforms, in the area
used for this purpose at present
Loading would also take place at the
present place.
The report by consulting en-
gineers proposes notifications in the
plans which have already been
drawn for the Dupont Circle under
paSs.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Roanoke Refuses Funds
For Armistice Program
BY the Associated Press,

BY Ine ASsoclated Press,
ROANOKE, Va, Oct. 24.-Declar-
ing they feel that the significance
of Armistice Day no longer exists,
City Council today reftsed to ap-
propriate funds for a scheduled
celebration and considered a move
to strike Armistice Day from the
list of holidays observed by munich
pal employees.
Action to amend the holidays ord
nance was deferred, pending infor-
nation on whether State employees
will observe the holiday. Three Of
the five members are war veterans.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Subway Seen Ending Congestion
At Union Station, Dupont Circle
Traffic Chonne|ing Plan Explained
In Survey Prepared by Engineers

The principal notifications are
that the new plans provide for seq
regation of underground vehicular
traffic from street cars of the Con-
necticut avenue-G street subway
and that thev call for a station un-
der the circle. Under plans drawn
by the Highway Department there
would be no segregation of the two
types of traffic and no station be-
tween r and N streets.
Tandem Portals.
by the device of tandem portals
wide grade separation can be built
IN Connecticut avenue at Dupont
Circle without too great reduction
in the width of surface roadways,' u
the report stated. Rail and free
wheel traffic will be completely seq
regated, to their mutual advantage,
"A streetcar subway station at Du-
pont, Circle will serve the imme-
diate neighborhood and provide
transfer connections for bus lines
passing this point. Pedestrian pas
sageways will make the station ac-
cessible from several directions
without vehicular interference.
The roadway around Dupont Cir
Gle will be divided by concentric
center fin, with openings at only two
points. Credit is due the director
of highways Capt. H. C. White
hurst for having originated this
plan to expedite and safeguard
through traffic on Massachusetts,
avenue, This movement will be the
predominant one, after Connecticut
avenue traffic is provided with an
underpass. and is properly spared
local interference at four secondary
intersections on each side of the
circle"
Subway Entrance.
The streetcars would enter the
subway, going southbound, between
s and r streets, with one track 60
ing to the west side of the under
ground project and one track going
to the east side. Vehicular ramps
would start by Hillyer place and
just south Of the circle, with the
vehicular tunnel sandwiched between
the east and west street subways.
The subway platforms would be
300 feet in length and there would
be entrances and exits in the circle
on the east and west side of Massa-
chusetts avenue at the circle and on
the north and south side of Nine
teenth street at Dupont Circle
Safety islands are proposed at all
streets, as they enter the circle.
At present, the engineers declared
that Dupont Circle was "a serious
bottleneck in both private and pub
lie transportation systems of Wash
ington."
Evening star., 1944-10-24
ContreII Will Address
RolIy in SuitIond

Joseph A. Cantrell, chairman OF
the Roosevelt-for- President Club o1
Montgomery County, will be the
principal speaker at 8 pm. tomor-
row at the Suitland Community
Hall at rally sponsored by the
Young Democratic Clubs of South
ern Maryland.
Other speakers will include Rep
resentative Sasscer, Democrat, of
Maryland; John S. White, speaker
OF the Maryland House of Delegates,
and State Senator L. Harold Soth-
oron.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Trustees Will Sell
Barbara Frietchie
Home and Museum
3: the Associated Press.

B: the Associated Press.
FREDERICK, Md, Oct. "a
A public sale of the Barbara
Frietchie home and museum, in
cluding furniture, fixtures, rel
les and other personal property
here will be held November 13,
the trustees have announced.
The present reproduction of
the home of Barbara Frietchie
on the original site was COM
pleted. in. 1927. Thousands Of
tourists have visited the mu-
scum and home since.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Card Party Scheduled

The Blessed Virgin Sodalty of st.
Agnes Church, Arlington, will hold
card party at o'clock tonight at
the church following the novena
service. Proceeds will 60 to the
school building fund.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Pomona Grange to Meet

The Montgomery County Pomona
Grange viii meet at 7:30 O'Clock
tonight at Burtonsville, Nd, with
the Liberty Grove Grange as host,
it was announced by Pearl E. Mar
low, secretary Of the Pomona
Grange.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
PTA to Hold Supper

The Fairview Parent-Teacher
Association will hold benefit oyster
and chicken supper at $50 pm.
Saturday in the school auditorium
at Fairfax Station.
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Apple Crop to Prevent Byrd
From Talking at Roosevelt Rally

not supporting Roosevelt is not
keeping up with the times. In these
days of great conflict statesman
must have full vision of the future
which apparently Mr.. Byrd hasn't
onf . az
Evening star., 1944-10-24
Vienna Fire Benefit PIunned

The Vienna Volunteer Fire De-
partment Will sponsor . benefit
party ut . pm. tomorrow In the
Vienna Town Hall.
Evening star., 1944-10-24

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