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Evening star., 1944-03-10

can voice and it gave him a sense
of contact with security. He told
me that he still was at an altitude
of 5000 feet. A few minutes later
he had landed safely and the plane
and perhaps all the crew were
saved. This is the sort of thing
that goes on at all control towers. -
"Talk Planes Down."
Sometimes it is necessary to "talk
a plane down" when the field is
covered with fog. Ordinarily it
would be directed to another field.
but sometimes there are none open
in this part of England. Also the
craft may be disabled, or short of
gas. 1t is possible to bring him
down, if conditions are not too bad.
by a combination of voice and pyro-
technics.
The anxious moment of the day in
the control tower comes when the
ships are returning from a mission.
The approximate time of their re-
turn is known, provided everything
has gone according to schedule.
From the time the can of the first
bomber is picked up until
the last has been accounted for is
a nerve-racking period-and the
control tower is the first to know of
those which will not return.
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Rockville Soldier Gets
Five-Year Jail Term
Raymond Mills Convicted
On JoiIbreok, Theft Counts
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press
FREDERICK, Md, Mar. 10.-Pvt.
Raymond Lee Mills, Rockville, who
escaped from the Frederick jail
Christmas Eve and eluded State po-
lice for more than a week. was
sentenced yesterday in Circuit
Court to five years in the House of
Correction.
Convicted on two indictments
charging Jail breaking, theft from
Ridgeville garage and stealing
automobiles, the 22-year-old Mills
testified freely about the escapades.
The soldier told Associate Judge
Patrick M. Schnauffer that he left
an East Coast embarkation point
when he was refused sufficient leave
to visit his wife and child before
leaving.
At hearing January 7 before
Trial Magistrate Alton Y. Bennett,
Mills pleaded guilty to charges of
stealing SAB from a Ridgeville ga
rage December 81, and to the theft
of an automobile in Frederick De-
cember "a, the day of his escape
from Jail.
He was captured by State police
January after 28-mile chase
which ended only when troopers
wrecked the car Mills was driving.
Judge Schnaffer in pronouncing
sentence, remarked that to "over-
look a situation of this nature would
place premium on desertion from
the Army"
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Arlington Renews Talks
With fWA on Incinerafor

HWith only seven or eight more
months of trash dumping possible
atilthe Four-Mile Run dump, Frank
C,i Hanrahan, Arlington County
manager, said today that negotia-
npns still were in progress with the
Ffderal Works Agency for construc-
ton Of a county incinerator.
Refuse collection figures regularly
are turned over to agency officials
70 establish the county's need for a
large incarceration project, he said.
Garbage from Arlington County
Is sold to Fairfax hog farms, but
Mr. Hanrahan said this practice was
not permanent.
Several months ago FWA offered
to build an incinerator as a Gov
ernment project TO be leased to the
county, but the terms were found
unsuitable by the county board
The board asked FWA to reconsider
the proposal and instructed Mr..
Hanrahan to investigate costs for
biulding an incinerator through pfi-
yHte bids.
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lsWRatoniinq
&Remmidery@

Canned and Frozen Foods, Etc
Book No. 4, green stamps K, L, and
M valid through March 20 and
retain old values of 8, 5, 2 and l
points. Book No. 4, blue stamps
A-8, B-8, C-8, D-8 and E-8 valid
through May 20 and worth 10
points each. Blue tokens and
green 1-point stamps may be used
as change.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book No. 3.
brown stamps Y and z valid
through March 20 and retain old
values of 8, S, Q and l points. Book
No. 4, red stamps A-8, B-8 and C-8
good through May 20 and worth
10 points each. Red tokens and
brown 1-point stamps may be used
as change: Red Stamps D-8, E-8
and F-8, become valid Sunday and
are good for 10 points each
through May 20.
No. 4, Stamp 80 valid
for 5 pounds indefinitely. Book
No. 4, stamp 40 good for 5
for home canning through Febru-
ary 28, l945.
Gasoline-No. ga coupons good for
3 gallons through May 8. b.,
CO, B-3 and C-3 coupons good
for gallons each.
18 in ration book
No. l good for one pair through
April 30. Airplane stamp / in
book No. 3 good indefinitely.
Fuel Oil-Period No. 3 coupons good
through March 13. Period No.
coupons valid through September
30. Nos. 3 and 4 coupons good for
10 gallons per unit. Consumers in
this area should not have used
more than 78 per cent of their to-
tai yearly fuel oil rations as of
March 6.
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|CIatterbuck Plea Denied
By Virginia High Court
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Mar. 10.-The Vir-
ginia Supreme Court of Appeals has
refused an appeal sought by Thomas
William Clatterbuck on a petition
for a writ of error from the death
sentence imposed on him in Sep
tember by the Loudoun County Cir
cult Court.
Clatterbuck's execution date is set
for May S.
Justice George L. Browning of the
State Supreme Court had taken the
petition under advisement following
an oral appeal made February % by
Maj. r. A. Mcintyre, counsel for the
condemned man.
Clatterbuck was indicted for the
June l killing of A. Morris Love,
prominent Loudoun County farmer
Mrs. Love, their son James, Walter
Russell, tenant farmer, and Mrs.
Russell on the Love farm. He was
tried only for the murder of Mr..
Russell.
In his appeal. Maj. Mcintyre
sought writ on two principal
grounds-that a confession signed
by Clatterbuck was Improperly OBJ
tanned and improperly admitted as
evidence and that the 33-year-old
quarry workers defense of insanity
should have been sustained.
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Service League Assists
909 in Prince Georges

A total of 909 persons were as
sisted in 1943 by the Prince Georges
County Social Service League, ac-
cording to TIE annual report of Miss
Marion H. Wagstaff, executive di-
rector. The league, a Washington
Community Chest agency. recently
moved to new headquarters at 472O
Baltimore avenue, Hyattsville.
Increasing use of the agency by
white collar" workers was indicat-
ed in Miss Wagstaff's report. Only
one case of employment maladjust-
ment was handled during the past
year, she said.
League officers elected this week
include William Duvan, president;
c. D. Anderson, first vice president;
Bert H. Wise, second vice president;
Mrs. Charles James, secretary; G..
Hodges Carr, treasurer; DR.. H. j.
Patterson, finance chairman, and
Mrs. William Breen, membership
chairman.
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washington, D. G. Capt. Magruder,
former chief of the publications
section of the Federal Security
Agency, was an enthusiastic anna
teur flyer in Washington and owned
his own cub before he joined the
air forces two and a half years ago.
He not only is a lighthouse
keeper" but a traffic control officer
whose job becomes of increasing
Importance as larger and larger
fleets of bombers leave British bases
almost daily. His job is to get the
planes off the ground safely in
order to get them back on the run
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Capt. King Writes "a Letters
To Families of "a Marines

his command. Some of them fought
with him on Guadalcana..
There is little 1 can do for the
loved ones of those men of mine
who went west, except give them
my condolences" he said But I
thought the boys would have liked
me to write their families and tell
them how it was here. I wanted
each family to know that their boy
was given decent burial, that our
chaplains conducted services at the
graves, and that those graves will
always be neat and honored.
1T is little consolation to tell those
families that five japanese died for
every one of our men who lost his
life, but I thought the men would
have liked me to tell them that,
too.
They are all buried together in
little plot of land overlooking The
sea. The men visit there frequently
to spend few moments with their
buddieS.
4 told them that, too"
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Fannon Firm Answers
0PA Fuel Oil Charqes

Insufficient Office help, confusion
over fuel oil ration periods and
the desire to serve the public were
the reasons for alleged rationing
violations with which the firm of
Thomas j. Fannon & Sons of Duke
and Henry streets, Alexandria, is
charged, according to its president,
Francis H. Fannon.
Mr.. Fannon and his brother,
Chester, have been ordered to ap-
pear in Federal District Court in
Alexandria. March 20, to reply to
OPA injunction proceedings seek
ing to restrain them from detaching
fuel oil coupons from consumer ra-
ton sheets before the valid date
of the coupons; detaching coupons
prior to the transfer of the fuel oil
to the customer and not in amounts
equal to the gallonage value of the
oil delivered; depositing fuel oil
coupons in a ration banking &C
count prior to their validity date.
and for which oil has not as vet
been delivered; delivering oil with
out receiving coupons from the GUS
toner.
OPA investigators claimed in the
action that the Fannon firm had
customers with oil during
period 4 when they no longer had
any period 4 coupons.
Mr.. Fannon said that in the early
part of the winter, the clerk in
charge of ration accounts was SO
busy with coal orders that she was
not always able to check customers
coupon sheets before ordering the
oil delivered.
Mr.. Fannon said when he real
lied the situation, he engaged an
other clerk to straighten out the
records, and Immediately sent let
ters to more than 100 customers
telling them that they were over
drawn and could not receive oil
until the next period coupons, then
4. came due
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Larger Red Cross Gifts
SOUGHT in Silver Sprina

Scattered returns from the Red
Gross War Fund drive in the Silver
Spring area indicate that a num-
ber of persons are measuring their
contributions by peacetime stand
ards, according to Charles w. Hop
klns, chairman of the drive. Others,
however, he reported, realize they
must give more literally than ever
before" because of the expansion of
Red Cross services to our armed
forces.
Mr.. Hopkins announced that Mrs.
L. B. Cook of Piney Branch Apart
ments and c. E. Bradbury, 628 Ray
drive, have volunteered to serve at
war fund headquarters, 1903 Geor-
gia avenue. Both are experienced
secretaries. Headquarters will be
open daily from 10 am. to 5 pm
and from 7 to pm. except Satur-
days and Sundays.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
County
Artists Give Works =.
To Suburban Hospital
Other Paintings Loaned
In Drive to Beoutify
New Institution

Paintings by a group of Mont
gomery County artists have been
contributed or loaned to the SUBJ
urban Hospital at Bethesda and
now are on display there, it was an
nounced today.
"Old Mill" by Mrs. Iona Miller
Keplinger, Battery Park, has been
donated to the hospital and is hung
in the doctors lounge. AS a men,
ber of the Hospital Picture Commit
tee, Mrs. Keplinger had charge of
assembling and hanging of local
artists works for the hospitals
opening.
In the children's ward is "Still
Life" by Mrs. Leo M. Bellerose, Be-
thesda, loaned for an indefinite
period. Two other paintings
white Birches" and Herb Gar
den," by Mrs. Margaret Scully zim-
nell, Kenwood, have been placed in
the clinic lobby.
!. Other paintings on exhibit are
Vermont Village" by Garnet Jex;
I'Kenwood," by Gladys Nelson
Smith; "Peonies," by Grace Merrill
|Ruckman; Gloucester Harbor," by
Mrs. Keplinger; Spring Flowers,
by Florence Morgan; apollo ane
Venus" by Frances H. Coombsi
@Snow Scene" by Minor Jameson
and several water colors by Peter
and Rose Wagner.
Mrs.. william Mohler, chairman
Of pictures of the hospitals Wom-
ems Auxiliary, said she hopes to
make the corridor to the hospital
rooms a gallery for exhibiting local
artists works. All loans or gifts of
paintings are subject to the ap-
proval of the hospitals Decorating
Committee, she added.
A $500 contribution for the spon-
sorship of a four-bed ward in men,
ory of her mother, Johanna c. Lar
man, has been made by Mrs. Frank
C. Ebaugh, Woodhaven, according
to Mrs. Walter E. Perry, president
of the Women's Auxiliary.
The Chevy Chase Methodist
Church also has given $500 for the
sponsorship of a room at the hos
pital The Westboro Victory Club
has donated 500 for the purchase
of a Bartholomew labor bed. Mrs.
William w. Friel is president of the
club.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Understanding Of Germans
Leads Shirer Peace Plan
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
William L. Shirer, radio COM
mentator and author of Berlin
Diary" propounded eight points for
"a successful peace yesterday, all to
be prefaced by understanding of
the German people"
mo prospects for peace or decency
in the world after this war exist so
long as the German problem is un-
solved" Mr. Shirer admonished
Army trainees and University of
Maryland faculty members.
Two myths about the German
people must be exploded Mr.. Shirer
maintained, before real peace is
possible. The first myth is that the
majority of the German people are
"veryq nice and are victims of Nazi
leadership" The second, that the
German people have never been re-
sponsible for the counrtyS out
rageous regimes"
The eight points included uncon-
dltlonal surrender and occupation of
the Reich; its military and economic
disarmament, punishment of war
criminals, reparations for rebuilding
devastated cities, restoration of loot
and re-education of the German
people.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
District Bride Dies
With Husband as Car
Hits Georgia Bridge

Hugh Brent, 40, of 1901 North
Pollard street, Arlington, Va, and
his bride Of less than a week, the
former Mrs. Violet Anderson, 3437
Eads street NE, were instantly
killed yesterday in an automobile
accident near Athens, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brent were married
last Friday at Arlington and were
en- route from Marietta, Ca, to
Burlington, N. c., where Mr.. Brent
was to assume new post to which
he had been assigned as a Govern
Iment inspector of aircraft, members
of his family said today.
Details of the crash were meager,
relatives said. 1t is known that
their auto struck bridge. Bodies
of the couple are at an Athens, Ca,
funeral establishment and will be
brought here for burial.
Mr.. Brent is survived by his
mother, Mrs. L. D. Brent, with
whom he lived before his marriage
last week. Two sisters. Mrs. George
A. Patrick and Mrs. Howell Bell, of
the same address, also survive him
as do three brothers, Warren of
Newark, N. j.; Murray, Hagerstown,
Md, and Lawrence, who lives in
Warrenton, Va.
Mrs. Brent, who was Mrs Violet
Anderson before her marriage last
week, formerly lived with her father,
Joseph G. Mandley, 3437 Eads street
NE. She was a native Washing
ingtonian. Surviving her, in addi-
ton to her father, are two sisters,
Mrs. Gilbert E. Hyatt, jr., of the
same address, and Mrs. Louis I.
Obergh, 1865 Denver street NE, and
a brother, 1t. Comdr. George C.
Mandley, Westchester Apartments
Mr.. Brent was born at The
Plains, Fauquier County, Va, and
attended Central High School in
the District.
Evening star., 1944-03-10

ways again when they return in the
early winter darkness with a thick
white sheet of low-lying mist COW
ering the field. Some may be down
to their last gallon of gasoline.
Some may be carrying red lights
to indicate that there are wounded
aboard.
Dramatic Moments.
The control tower has charge of
air traffic over a radius of several
thousand feet, but its influence
often extends far beyond this area
when a ship is in distress. The
bombers are monitored from it after
their take-off, when they have
probably taken their positions in
the air armada about to start east
ward. They are monitored again
before they return.
There are dramatic moments in
the control tower. The other eve
ming, for example, Capt. Magruder
picked up a distress call from a
plane belonging to another base.
The craft had "wind-milling en-
gine" 1t was still miles from the
English coast. The pilot was pre-
pared to ditch his ship in the
North Sea and trust the lives of his
crew to rubber life RATS. He was
Evening star., 1944-03-10
1870 in Maryland Fail
To Sign Auto Cos Books
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Mar. 10.-Tifteen
per cent Of approximately 400 motor
lists interviewed in Maryland had
not indorsed their gasoline ration
coupons with their license numbers,
State Office of Price Administration
investigators disclosed yesterday.
The report was made in the
course of drive to eliminate illegal
traffic in gasoline coupons.
Incomplete records filed with the
OPA disclosed so motorists had been
given notices to appear at their local
ration boards within 10 days and
show their coupons properly in
dorsed.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Second Rubid Fox Found
In Anne Arundel Area

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 10.-Dr. Will
liam j. French reported yesterday
the second attack by rabid fox on
Anne Arundel County residents
within the last few weeks.
The county health director said
that Frank Graziano, a bus driver
was bitten Sunday as he walked
from his home to report for duty
Examinations of the animals head
at Baltimore and Annapolis labor
atorieS showed that the fox was dis
eaSed, DR.. French stated.
Martin Beck, a DavidSonville
farmer, was reported attacked by
a rabid fox February %.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Assemb|yS
ToFinish Work
In Maryland
Burns Midnight Oil
To Meet Program
Drawn by Governor
BY the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS, Mar 10.-Adjourn-
ment some time today Of the ex-
traordinary session of the General
Assembly was considered certain
after the House. working into the
early morning hours, completed ac-
tion on the administration program
by approving the teacher bonus bill
without dissenting vote.
Only odds and ends remained to
be completed at sessions called for
1890 pm. in the House and pm.
in the Senate.
House approval of the teacher
bonus measure shortly before / am.
completed action on the principal
aims of the session-the soldier vot-
ing bills, the State employees bonus
and the teacher bonus.
Bonus Amendment Beaten.
The Delegates rejected on a voice
vote the attempt of Delegate JOS
eph w. A. Evans. Democrat, of
Queen Annes to amend the bonus
bill to place the entire financial
burden on the State. The approved
bill puts responsibility for rs per
cent of the cost of the 5000 per
teacher bonus on the State, the re-
mainder on the counties.
Suspending the rules, the House
enacted legislation liberalizing the
States soldier voting laws after re-
jecting, 1924, a renewal of the
attempt to tack on an amendment
to repeal the declaration of tnten-
tions act. Minority Leader j. Mil
ton Dick sought to attach the re-
pealer as a rider.
An effort to bring Senate action
on the controversial proposal to
repeal the declaration act resulted
in Senate President James J. Lind
say. jr, taking the floor to kill
the attempt.
Bill Up Second Time.
1t was the second time the repeal
was brought up in the Senate, both
times by Allegany County Repub-
lican Senator Robert B. Kimble.
The first bill finally enacted by
both Houses was an amendment de-
signed to clarity the law governing
commitment of insane persons. It
originated in the House, and was
approved under suspension of the
rules by the Senate last night.
The upper chamber gave its unan.
imous approval to the soldier vote
and bonus bills
Although the vote was unanimous,
two Republican Senators declared
| they were afraid that the soldier
vote bills provisions might be en-
Iployed In furtherance OF a fourth
| term for President Roosevelt.
Senator James w. Hughes, Repub-
lican, Of Cecil said he believed the
| State ballot provisions had been
j worked out as carefully as it was
possible, but he objected to a pro-
vision which would validate the So
called Federal ballot for any soldier
or sailor not able to receive tho
State one.
II am afraid this Federal ballot
was designed not to afford an op-
portunity to the soldiers to vote"
Mr.. Hughes declared, 'but to afford
an opportunity to vote the soldiers.
am afraid this will be abused"
Mr.. Hughes asserted that Federal
officials, in distributing ballots to
servicemen, might not be so prompt
with deliveries of State ballots, thus
forcing servicemen to employ the
Federal ballot or not vote at all.
II am afraid that the Federal
ballot was devised to afford an op-
portunity for the servicemen to vote
for one whose devotion to America
is so great that he is determined
to make ruling her his life work"
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losing altitude at a rate of about
200 feet a minute.
Capt. Magruder quickly sized up
the situation. The pilot, shaken
after hard battle, was a little
panicky and his situation might not
be as desperate as he thought. The
first move was to get his exact posi-
ton from the British observer
service.
From then on" says Capt. Ma
gruder, all I did was talk with
him, but 1 think that was all he
needed. He could hear an Ameri-
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Hutcheson Takes Oath
As Federal Judqe
By The Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
BOYDTON, Va, Mar 10-Ster-
ling Hutcheson, for the past 10 years
United States attorney for the
Eastern District of Virginia, was
sworn in as Federal judge for that
district in ceremonies here yes
terday.
The oath was administered by his
brother, Nathaniel G.. Hutcheson,
clerk of the Mecklenburg County
Circuit Court, in the circuit court
room where the new judges father
served as clerk for nearly IS years.
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ing IN action
over Italy on
January %, is a
prisoner of war
of the Germans,
his father, Rob-
ert N. Legg of
the White House
police force, has
b e e n advised.
The family lives
on Holmes Run
r o a d, F a ii S
Church, Va.
1t. Legg, %, is
a fighter plane
pilot. He is a
forpoor = trooL
Evening star., 1944-03-10
g From D. c. Area Win
Honors at Army School

-Four Washingtonians and two men
from Alexandria were among those
who received certificates of merit
yesterday as graduates of the Army
Administration School, postal unit,
at Camp Lee, Va.
Those from Washington are: Earl
V. Barnett. 831 Florida avenue NE:
James l., Lock, ST., 1909 Taylor street
NE; John w. Lewis, 1178 Morse
street NE, and Joseph F. Pitts, 93l
Fifth street NE.
The two Alexandria men are John
8. Russell and Paul T. Cation.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Fire DAMAGES Home

A fire early today in the home OF
Mr., and Mrs. Henry j. Lucey, 46O4
Langdrum lane, Cheve Chase, forced
occupants to shiver in below-freez-
ing temperature for almost two
hours until the blaze was extin-
guished by the Bethesda Fire De-
partment. Damage was estimated
at $4,000.
Evening star., 1944-03-10
HpspituI Group to Meet

Infection of officers and adoption
OF constitution will feature a
meeting Of the newly organized
Silver Spring Hospital Association
at $50 O'Clock tonight in the hear
tng room Of the Montgomery County
DaspenSary Building, Colesville road.
Evening star., 1944-03-10

HILL By Stdf Sergt. Jeremiah A.
iID'Leary OF 1922 Quincy street
nN.Ep, Washington, D. c., Ma
EIrine Corps combat correspondent
hnnd former reporter on The Star.
iilCAPE GLOUCESTER, New Brit
ain Delayed .-Twenty-four days
Licompany spent in the front lines
from the historic day when the
marines invaded New Britain, and
M.marines Of L company died here
tiTwenty-four letters were flown
out of this zone yesterday, letters
written by Marine Capt. William j
King, Of Annapolis, Md, L com
panys commanding officer, to "a
families he doesn't know.
ITO "a American families, from San
Francisco to New York, those letters
will be treasured possessions. They
are the saddest letters Capt. King
will ever write.
iCapt, King knew each of the "a
boys who died while fighting under
Evening star., 1944-03-10

star of Washington-Lee High School
IN Arlington County, which he
represented in competition in 1887,
1888 and 1899. He also is former
student of the college of William
and Mary. He joined the Army in
February, 1912
Evening star., 1944-03-10
Save This Newspaper

u Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
Tor 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.