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Evening star., 1944-02-20
STATE 10 Hire Worker; /;
To License Nurseries
Nearby Virginia Groups
Agree on Details

Plans for hiring a full time State
employe to license, investigate and
supervise foster homes for children
IN Arlington and Fairfax Counties
and Alexandria have been completed
by the State and by welfare bureaus
OF the areas concerned. it was an
nounced yesterday by Edmund D.
Campbell, chairman of the Arlington
Child Care Committee.
Qualifications for the position re-
quire that principal child welfare
worker, as defined by the Virginia
merit system, be employed, Mr..
Campbell said. Applications should
be filed with superintendents of well
fare in Arlington, Alexandria or
Fairfax
Recent recommendations by Mrs.
Hazel Moore, Arlington child care
councillor, that a central licensing
bureau be established in the area
were directed to Miss May o. Han
kins, director of the State Children's
Bureau, who arranged a regional
conference last week.
MISS EIlZabeth BAKER, child care
consultant from the State bureau,
who met with Mrs. Moore, Miss
Vivian Whiteside. Arlington welfare
superintendent; Miss Winona Ror-
hey, Fairfax welfare superintendent,
and Miss Barbara Watkins, Alexan-
dria superintendent, informed the
group that the State was willing to
place full-time worker in the area.
Details as to salary. Office space, pro
rata of time and relationship we're
agreed on
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Plans Under Way TO Set U!
Bethesda Nursery School

Plans are well under way fo1
establishment of war nursery
school for the Bethesda Chevy
Chase community under an ad-
visory committee headed by Mrs
Harold E. Francis. This committee
will function under the direction OF
Jane E. Joslin, director of Child
Care Centers, under the sponsor
ship of DR.. Edwin Broome.
A suitable location has not yet
been secured.
A lecture course will start in
March for volunteers, who will serve
as auxiliary teachers under Mrs
Morris Horowitz and her profess
sional assistants. Volunteers are in
vited to register at Central Volun-
teer Bureau. Housing Guild Build
ing. 7240 Wisconsin avenue.
Mothers interested in enrolling
their children may get information
by calling the Board of Education
Rockville TO-
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Arlington Red Cross Asks
For Nurse Aide Volunteers

Appealing for volunteers for day
nurse aide classes, Mrs Edith G
Sutton, chairman of the Nurses
Aide Committee of the Arlington
Red Cross chapter announced yes
terday that enrolment in night
classes has been closed temporarily
Sixty women already are being
trained at the Arlington Hospital
and will be graduated the middle
of March, Mrs Sutton said. Two
classes of 30 women each are sched-
uled to begin when present classes
are completed
Aides trained in the night classes
will give their services to the hos
pital at night and on Sundays. Be-
cause of the limited time they can
serve, Mrs. Sutton said, the demand
for night nurse aides already has
been satisfied.
Women interested in daytime du-
ties at the hospital are asked to
apply for information at the local
Red Gross chapter.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Alexandra Exhibit Features
Letter by George Woshinqton

A letter written by George Wash
ington at Yorktown, November 19
1871. to William Ramsay, first mayor
of Alexandria, and other residents
of the city, is included in Wash
ington's birthday exhibition at the
Alexandria Library.
The letter was loaned by Mrs
Robert M. Reese, descendant OF
Mayor Ramsay, and is timely be-
cause it was written one month after
the surrender of the British at York
town, and warns against overopti-
mism following the Yorktown sue
cess. which Washington termed
very promising
In answer to the congratulations
of his friends following the victory
Washington urged vigorous prose-
cution of that success" and warned
that "relaxations of our exertions
at this moment may cost us many
more toilsome campaigns"
The exhibition, which will be at
the. library for two weeks, was ar
ranged by William Robert Adam
Alexandria, and includes items con-
tributed by Alexandrians who are
descended from some of the city's
first residents.
An English officers dress swore
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Maryland Ordered
To Speed Draft Calls
Record Registration
Due in Two Months
By the Associated Press.

/ BALTIMORE. Feb. 10. - Col.
Henry C. Stanwood. State Selective
Service director. said today that
Maryland draft boards had been
ordered to accelerate their calls for
men for preinduction physical ex-
aminations and that a record num-
Der were expected to report during
the next two months.
l. The program was aimed at de-
termining the physical fitness and
acceptability of all registrants that
do not have specific deferments,
Col Stanwood explained
In this manner pool of physically
acceptable Ia men would be built
up by each board from which men
will be called to report for induc-
ton.
Registrants who have appeals
pending also will be ordered up for
their tests before their cases 60 be-
fore the appeal board, he stated
The re-examination order includes
many who might have been placed
in 4-F for physical defects which
might have been corrected.
The registrant will be notified at
least 10 days before he must report
and those passing the physical may
expected to be ordered to report for
induction within 81 to Is days.
Evening star., 1944-02-20

has been loaned by Mrs. j. G. Fair
child whose ancestor. Col. Sebastian
Beauman, captured it.
Mrs. Lawrence Fawcett has ex-
hibited six Eighteenth Century sill
houettes of Washington's friends
done by Charles Wilson Peale. Mrs
John Leadbeater, whose family
founded the Stabler-Leadbeate1
Apothecary Shop of which the
Washington family were customers
has loaned three hand blown flint.
glass bottles, one of which was
manufactured at the Alexandra
Glass Works.
One of the original bricks from the
Hollensburg kiln, bearing the in.
scription, Alexandria, D. c., is ex-
hibited by Mr.. Adam, while other
items include small portrait o1
Washington by Saint-Memiri, anc
the original invitation for the
George Washington birth night bal
held on February 13, 1917, both loan.
ed by Mrs. Louis Scott.
The library has placed some of it,
rare books on exhibit, and is also
showing water colors of Mount Vern.
on and Christ Church, done by 1t
Jack Bacheller, one of Fort Belvoir'.
best known artists.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Masons Will Unvei|
Bust Of Callahan
Al Alexandra Rites
Ceremony Tuesday to
Honor Historian Who
Initiated Memorial

Charles H. Callahan, founder of
the movement that resulted in con-
struction of the George Washington
Masonic National Memorial on
Shooters Hill in Alexandria, will
be honored in a public ceremony at
the memorial at 3 pm. Tuesday. A
bust of MI Callahan will be un-
veiled and presented to the Alex
andria- Washington Lodge
The bust, work of Bryan Baker
an English sculptor now in New
York, will be unveiled by Mr.. CAL
lahan'S grandsons, Charles Maclane
Caywood, jr., 8, and Anthony Joseph
Stanley, jr., 5. 1t will be presented
to the lodge by J. E. w. Timberman,
chairman of a committee appointed
in 1922 to select a suitable tribute
to Mr. Callahan. Charles Cecil Wall.
worshipful master of the lodge, will
receive the bust.
Now in seth Year.
Mr.. Callahan, now in his Seth year,
is well known as one of Alexandria s
best-informed historians and as
author of the book, washington, a
Man and Mason"
He is the Alexandria commissioner
or revenue, and while most of his
duties have been assumed by his son.
C. Aubry Callahan. he is a familiar
figure in City Hall, where all the
city employees sign an annual birth
day card to him.
The movement to build the me-
mortal was started in 1910. and the
cornerstone was laid in 1923, with
President Coolidge attending the.
ceremonies Former Gov. Price was
then grand master of Masons in
Virginia. but he invited Mr.. CAL
lahan, then deputy grand master,
to lay the cornerstone.
The Alexandria Washington
Lodge room, copy of Washing
tons original lodge, was dedicated
on February %. last year, although
the memorial probably will. not be
finished until after the war.
Annual Meeting Arranged.
The annual meeting of the Me-
mortal Association will be held at
the memorial Tuesday morning,
with the president, DR.. Elmer R.
Arm, Dayton, Ohio, presiding.
Election of officers and of seven
members of the Board of Directors
will follow the address of welcome
by John M. Stewart, Arlington,
grand master of Masons in Virginia
and the response by Scott S. Leiby
of Harrisburg, grand master of Ma
sons in Pennsylvania.
The reports of the grand lodges
will be given, and contributions dur
ing the last year are expected to
exceed $65,00O
At last years meeting a repre-
sentative from each Of the 40
lodges attended.
After the meeting, luncheon will
be served in the memorial, and a
committee of members will go to
Mount Vernon to lay wreath on
Washington tomb.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Youth Is Fined $35
After Automobile Chase

Joseph Natoli, 1S, of 1921 @ street
NV. was fined s35 and costs in
Arlington Police Court yesterday or
charges of speeding and reckless
driving as the aftermath of ar
automobile chase that started Fri
day night in Arlington and con-
tinued into Georgetown, where Ma.
toll attempted to escape on foot.
Police said the youth had beer
stopped for speeding at Lee high.
way and Oak street in Arlington
AS they approached his car, police
said, Natoli started up again anc
headed for Key Bridge.
He was stopped again at Thirty.
fourth and o streets in Georgetown
where he jumped out of his car anc
started running up the Thirty fifth
street hill. The youth led police
around Georgetown Hospital three
times before he was finally seized
it was said,
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Sidney Lust Named in Suit
For 0vercharqed Rental

A suit charging Sidney Lust of
Woodley Park Towers, owner of a
chain of theaters in nearby Mary
land, with violation of rent con-
troll regulations, has been filed in
Hyattsville Police Court by C. B.
Martin, Greenbelt.
Through his attorney, Mayor
John N Torvestad of Colmar Manor
Mr.. Martin claims he rented a
house in Beltsville from Mr.. Lust
for three months in 1912 at $75 a
month.
After he had moved out, Mr..
Martin states in his suit, he dis
covered that the dwelling previously
had been rented for $50 month
and that the, area Rent Control
Board had set that figure as the
ceiling.
Although he has asked Mr.. Lust
to refund the $75 overcharge, Mr..
Martin asserts, "the defendant has
failed and refused to make such a
refund" The plaintiff is seeking to
recover triple the amount of the
alleged overcharge or $225, as pro-
vided in OPA regulations. Mr.. Lust
was out of town last night and
could not be reached for comment.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Dispute Over Schedule
On ". & 0. D. Concluded

Approval last week by the State
Corporation Commission of a sched
ule OF three passenger trains daily
except Sunday on the Washington &
Old Dominion Railroad ends a fight
begun in 1910 to keep passenger
service on the line Two of the
trains operate from Rosslyn to Pur-
cellville and the other goes only tc
Leosburr.
Passenger service was first re-
sumed last March when the w. &
o. D. established one daily round
trip between Rosslyn and Leesburg
Two additional daily passenger trips
were added recently when the line
placed in operation a combination
passenger, mail and baggage train
The additional passenger service
was added voluntarily by the rail-
road after commission hearings were
held in Leesburg and Fairfax on re-
quests by Northern Virginia resi-
dents for additional passenger serv.
ice. While some residents hac
sought Sunday service also, the
passenger trains now operate only
on weekdays.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Youth Held for Jury
In Four MARYLAND Fires
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
FERNDALE, Md, Feb. 19.-Police
Magistrate David B. bunker Or
dered today that Gilbert. Felts, IS
of Glen Burnie be held without
bond for grand jury action on
charges Of setting four fires in the
Anne Arundel County town.
Police 1t. Wilbur C. Wade said
one of the fires disrupted the Glen
Burnie telephone service for a day
and a half and resulted in damage
OF approximately $4,000.
The blazes were in the Catholic
Church, the high school, grocery
store and lumber yard.
1t. Wade said the youth had
signed confession and would be
held in the county Jail at Annapolis
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Alexandra Schools
Top 'Buy-P|ane' Goal
Director Thinks Pupils
Will Open New Drive

Alexandria public school pupils
have gone over the top" in the
first month of their buy a plane
War Bond campaign by raising
Isl 10 $50 .05 since the drive started
January IT.
Goal of the drive, originally
scheduled to end May 26, was sllO.-
600 to be used for the purchase OF
a Douglas CAT ambulance plane.
Bond sales in Alexandria through
February IA totaled sl,954 ,075.5O. or
1875 per cent of the S2,365 900 quota
Sale Of E bonds totaled s6l3,425. or
Toll per cent of the 1915 900 E bond
quota.
E. T. Moore, Alexandria chairman
Iof the Fourth War Loan drive. said
a campaign for large individual pur-
.chases of E bonds will be launched
Tuesday.
Miss Nena De Berry, Alexandria
supervisor of elementary education
and head cf the school War Bond
campaign. said that since the goal
OF the drive already has Eeen
achieved, the students probably will
launch campaign to purchase an
other plane before May 26.
A feature of the schools partici-
patton in the Fourth War Loan
campaign is a treasure hunt for un-
filled War Stamp books, and the
proceeds from the hunt will count
IN the Buy Plane" campaign.
The children are being urged to
search their homes for untitled
stamp albums and to get their own
ers to turn them in for bonds. All
the schools have been organized for
this cleanup" campaign, with s3O.-
600 by Friday set as the goal.
The schools sales .of War Bonds
for the last week ard for the spring
semester are as follows: George
Washington High School. s56, ,12o 80.
s86.023.l5; Mount Vernon. 1880,
s7,003.l5; George Mason, s1.12e40,
S3,61a75: Washington, s8sO.O5, So
544.O5; Charles D. Barrett. s452 90,
81 ,984.05; Jefferson. $443.95, ST. ITO. 10:
Maury, $3.50, s2,65870; Lee, s16O SIS.
Sl,782.45; Douglas Macarthur.
s130.85, $s32.70; Parker Gray. sl2s SIS.
S359.85; Lyles Crouch. S1O2 10.
S905.lO, and Seminary, S22 40. S76 40
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Bishop opConnon
Seeks Sponsors
For Dry Bill
Ry the Associate { Press.

RICHMOND, Feb. 1e.-Bishop
James Cannon of the Methodist
Church, veteran prohibition leader
who led the successful drive in Vir-
ginia almost 80 years ago, has ap-
preached some members of the
present General Assembly seeking
sponsors for bill designed to pro-
vide referendum on whether pro-
hibition shall return to the Old
Dominion.
Whether sponsors have been found
could not be ascertained today, but
it was learned that the proposed
bill has been SO drawn as to pro-
vide a referendum on petition of a
number equal to 80 per cent of the
voters in the previous presidential
election. This would means about
l04 900 names on the petition.
If the bill is introduced it will
have to be dropped into the legis-
lative hopper by Monday. No such
bill may be introduced after Feb
ruary 81 without unanimous consent
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Prince Georges Women
To Attend Rifle Class

A rifle class for Prince Georges
County women will be held at pm
tomorrow at Tech High School here
under the sponsorship of Prince
Georges Company 938, Maryland
Minute Men, it was announced last
night by Capt. Louis A. Day.
Capt. Day said a dance to raise
funds for the program will be held
Saturday at the Bladensburg High
School.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Virginia Senate Unit
Considers Funds for
Fighting Delinquency
$400, 900 Appropriation
Asked to Administer
Stote Welfare Lows
BY the Associated Press.

bS tIle ASSOClated PRESS.
RICHMOND, Va. Feb. l9.-The
Senate Finance Committee had
under advisement today requests
for funds to help solve the problem
of Juvenile delinquency
Maj. Charles R. Fenwick, Airing
ton, a mmber of the House of Dele
gates, asked the committee for an
of slightly more than
100000 to administer the State S
child welfare laws, and for an al
ternate appropriation of approx
mately $l50000 less. which would
allow the Department of Public
Welfare to use its surplus funds for
child welfare work,
Maj. FenWick estimated that dur
ing the year ending June 80 more
than 10000 children were accused
of delinquency charges. During the
same period, he said, more than
5000 were 'incarcerated in Vir-
ginia jails."
More Young Offenders.
He said that whereas a few years
ooo VAC d6C SAouP SoiAeoAiiilS ti'o
largest number of criminals was
about l8 or 10, the predominant
criminal elements age group has
gotten down now to 15.'
He said that although the war is
not the whole cause of juvenile de-
llinquency. "the present conditions
ARE aggiavating the situation"
Job cknl
tion of $500 for each year of the
biennium to pay for a co-ordinator
to assist localities in connection with
detention homes and case work.
For the establishment of at least
two more child study centers-he
said only one. in Richmond, is in
operation in the State-the House
member asked appropriations of
S79.450 the first year of the bien-
mum and s69,450 the second year.
Increase Foster Homes.
For the ablishment of addi-
tional foster homes to which delin-
quents would be sent, he asked S75.-
900 the first year and $4,000 the
second.
For the support of children, men
tally deficient and awaiting admis-
sion to hospital for the insane, he
asked $l7,500 each year.
Speaking in support of Maj. Fen
wick were DR.. W. H. Stauffer, COM
missioner of public welfare, and
Vaughan Gary, Richmond attorney
and former member of the House
of Delegates.
Mr.. Gary said the State needs
four child study centers, at Norfolk,
Roanoke, Danville and Arlington,
but that he knew" it could pay
for only two at this time. He said
that establishment of such centers
would permit the State to do much
to return delinquent children to nor
NAL, productive lives.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Arlington Girl Scouts Elect

AT meeting yesterday of Arling-
ton County Girl Scouts, officers were
elected to head the six-week money!
raising campaign for the Juliette
Low World Friendship Fund. Jac-
quelyn Kelly, Troop 81, was named
president; Dorothy Clark, Troop 8,
vice president: Kathryn Hull, Troop
Al, corresponding secretary; Darrell
High, Troop %, recording secretary,
and Mackal Bruin. Troop 9,
treasurer.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
H. M. Wilson Elected

H. M. Wilson, Gaithersburg, Md,
yesterday was elected fourth vice
president of the National Methodist
Association of Hospitals at the or
ganizations convention in Indian
apolis. The Rev. Hubert T.. john
son, superintendent of the Metho-
dist Home for Children, Waco, Tex,
was named president and T. I. Nc
Allen, Richmond. Va, first vice
president.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Zone ChangesG Granted
10 Two Applicants
In Arlington County
Moncure Is Named
New PUG Member;
Three Reoppointed

The Arlington County Board yes
terday approved spot zoning changes
for an established business concern
and one prospective concern on rec
concentrations of the county man.
ager. Frank c. Hanrahan, and Zon-
ing Commissioner Don Locke.
Irwin Siegal, proprietor of the
Jefferson Cleaners & Dyers, was
granted change from general busi-
ness zoning now covering his estab-
lishment at Twenty third and South
Eads streets. Arlington, to light
manufacturing zoning. This allows
Mr.. Siegal to enlarge present
accommodations and to employ addi-
tional help on the northerly so feet
at the rear of his establishment
The request of Philip Greenwell,
entered by Warwick Montgomery
agent, for change from residential
apartment zoning to local CONNER
cial on property in the 5100 block OF
Lee highway also was granted. A
drugstore is proposed for the site
which under Federal Housing Agency
deed restrictions cannot be used foi
residential building.
Edmund D. Campbell dissentec
from majority opinions granting tn,
zoning changes, saying such hap
hazard" zoning led to encroachmen
of the county's master zoning plan
- Request Is Deferred.
The zoning request of w. S. Hog
to have % acres in the 2700 blocl
of South Seminary road rezonet
from neutrality-suspicious. to Igh
manufacturing was deferred unit
March 18 for further study by {
committee appointed by the Plan.
ming Commission A county survey
of prospective manufacturing area.
is to be conducted by the committee
in conjunction with the Hoge re.
quest.
At the request of William P
Woolls, trustee, by John N. Camp
bell. jr.. an area on Nauck Hill was
changed from single-family zonine
to two-family and semidetached
allowing construction of so homes
for colored persons. This property
adjoins that of Buckley and Lind
vile, Florida builders, who plan con-
struction of large colored medium
rental project.
The board granted use permit
to the Shirlington Business Center
entered by j. c. Robertson, treasur-
er, for a gas station to be erected
at 2817 South Quincy street.
PUG Appointments Made.
Reappointment of the county
Public Utility Commission was made
by County Board Chairman Leo C
Lloyd. Reappointed were Harry
A. Grant, w. Glen Bixler and Mil
ton E. Diehl. while R. c. L. Moncure
local realty dealer, was appointed
to the commission. J. Maynard Ma
gruder. delegate to the General AS
sembly, had requested that he be
not renamed, Mr.. Lloyd said, and
one vacancy was left to be filled
later.
A motion by Edmund D. Camp
bell that the PUG be requested to
investigate the fixing of interstate
taxlcab fares in the light of recent
action by the District PUG, was
unanimously approved by the board
The ordinance quarantining dogs
was extended by the board at the
request of DR.. Ralph G. Beachley
county health officer, with ar
amendment to the original ordi-
nance which provides that dogs
must now be confined to owners
premises. No figures were given or
rabies cases in the county.
Expenses totaling $53,805 80, OF
which $31 ,625.37 was for payroll
were approved by the board.
Evening star., 1944-02-20
Day Of Prayer Services
Scheduled in ARLINGTON

World day of prayer observances
will be held in many churches in
Arlington County Friday under the
auspices of the Arlington Council
of Church Women.
Services are scheduled at the Will
son Boulevard Christian Church
1850 Wilson boulevard, at 10 am;
Calvary Methodist Church, Twenty
third and South Grant streets, and
Westover Baptist Church. $500 NORTH
Washington boulevard, at 1:30 pm.;
Cherrydale Methodist Churc
Twentieth and Monroe streets:
st. Georges Episcopal Church
Ninth and Nelson streets, and Ar
lington Baptist Church, Eighth and
Monroe streets, south, at 2 p.m.,
and at Central Methodist Church
North Fairfax drive and Stafford
street, at 8 pm.