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of 1t. Keyes and the pilot to prevent
the plane from crashing.
He earned the DFC In low Level
attack on shipping at Rabaul last
November, when he scored a direct
hit on a merchant vessel and a near
miss on heavy cruiser. The Clus-
ter and Purple Heart were awarded
for 1t. Keyes' part in a raid on anti
aircraft positions near Boran
Though his plane was heavily dam
aged before he went over the target
he made a successful strike and then
crash-landed.
1t. Keyes has flown AZ combat
missions in 13 months overseas.
Col. Walter E. Todd, 1549 Mount
Eagle place, Alexandria, has been
awarded the Distinguished Service
Medal for services as chief Of the
New Hebrides-Solomon Islands Sec
ton, Southwest Pacific theater, the
War Department announced today
From March, 1912, to May, 1914, -
the citation accompanying the
medal said, "Col. Todd co-ordinated
the organization, assembly and
equipping of the New Hebrides
forces. His rapid and accurate anal.
ysis Of combat requirements anc
his sound Judgment on operationa
and policy matters had a marked
contribution to the formulation o1
strategic plans and policies adopted
by the joint and combined chiefs Of
staff"
A native of Texas, Col. Todd was
graduated from West Point In
1928 and is now serving overseas
His wife and two daughters have
lived In nearby Virginia for the last
two years. =
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Fairfax 10 Take Over
New 2O-MiIe Sewer
System Wednesday
Contract Providing for
Leose to Sonitory
District Signed

Operation of a new 20-mile sewer
system in Fairfax County, built by
the Federal Works Agency to serve
new housing developments in the
area. will be taken over Wednesday
by the County Board of Supervisors,
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Fed
eral Works administrator announced
over the week end.
Under a contract signed Saturday
the system will be leased to the
county's Sanitary District No. 1 and
will be under the direct supervision
OF James j. Corbalis, chief engineer
for the district.
Project Cost 81 900, 900.
The system, constructed at a cost
of approximately $1,900,000, consists
OF 1872 miles of trunk sewers, with
7.8 miles of lateral, or connecting
lines within the various housing de-
velopments, Gen. Fleming said.
The administrator pointed out
that the system will Serve the dual
purpose of removing bad sanitary
conditions arising from septic tank
operation, and of supplying sewage
disposal facilities for various areas
in the county.
The system extends from the
Falls Church section to a point 500
feet off shore in the Potomac River
near New Alexandria, with the
trunk lines following the courses
of Cameron Run, Trips Run and
Holmes Run from their origin near
Falls Church.
| Disposal Plant Deferred.
At the upper end the system Is
divided into two sections, with one
line serving Falls Church and the
other line serving developments
west of that town. A sewage dis
posal plant, originally planned with
the system, was deferred because
of the scarcity of materials.
In addition to serving Falls
Church and the Washington Quar-
termaster Depot, other sections con-
nected to the system include Hill
wood, Hillwood Square, fremont
Gardens, Greenway Downs, Lee
Boulevard Heights, Belle Haven,
Fairhaven and both divisions of the
City Park housing development.
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District Faces Slim
Supply Of turkeys
For Thanksgiving
Stocks Already Low
Due to Army Buying;
No Improvement Seen

Poultry dealers here predicted only
slim" supply of turkeys in time
for Thanksgiving after a check
showed the city virtually without
supplies.
Joseph B. Danzansky, attorney
for the wholesale poultry division
OF the Merchants g. Manufacturers
Association, said turkey prospects for
the holiday were practically nil"
The War Food Administration ear
lier had announced that its order
freezing birds in the major turkey
producing States would have to be
continued for an undetermined Pc
riod-until Army requirements had
been met.
Troops in U. S. Short.
The Army has bought sufficient
supplies to give every fighting man
overseas turkey for the Thanksgiv-
ing, Christmas and New Year Day,
but only about SIS per cent of its
requirements for troops in the United
States has been reached to date,
according to the VIA.
Dealers say several weeks would
be required between the lifting Of
the ban and Thanksgiving to pro-
vide enough birds for civilians. The
bulk of turkeys consumed here are
shipped from the West. Only Is
to 20 per cent of the supply comes
from nearby areas.
Some dealers frankly admit they
could procure supplies If they were
willing to pay farmers above-ceiling
prices. The current premium" for
such sales is 4 cents a pound, they
report.
Farmers May Make Sales.
John L. Laskey, chief enforce
ment attorney for the District OPA,
warned that regardless of the sup
ply situation, ceiling prices on tur-
keys will be enforced" He said he
had called on the regional and ma
tional OPA Offices to see that SIM
liar controls are effected in other
large cities in order to avoid a
diversion.
Mr.. Laskey said his agency had
received splendid" co operation
from poultry dealers in their re-
fusal to buy or sell poultry over
ceiling prices.
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Mrs. Jumieson to Speak
At PTA Book Exhibit

Mrs. George S. Jameson, Chevy
Chase, will speak on "Children's
Books from kindergarten Through
the Sixth Grade" at a book exhi-
bition to be held by the Lynnbrook
(Md) Parent Teacher Association at
2:15 pm. November at the school.
Those purchasing books by Cor
nelia Spencer, sister of Pearl Buck,
can have them autographed by the
author.
Sketches of children will be made
by Mrs. Ora B. Edwards, illustrator
OF one of the books in the exhibit.
A carnival party, featuring bingo,
square dancing and other games will
be held at $3.50 pm, November 10,
by the association. A turkey will be
awarded as door prize. -
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altarpiece, now one of the glories OF
the Uffizi Gallery in Florence"
The gift includes Botticelli's "Ma-
donna and Child; Bonfigil's MA
donna and Child Enthroned"; Bar
onzio's Madonna and Child with
Angels; a Madonna by Giovanni
Bellini. Coronation of the Virgin
by Filipino Lippi and an "Annun-
citation" by Fra Filippo Lippi.
The only work in America o!
Melozzo da Forli, whose paintings
of music-making angels in the Va
tican are well known to tourists
| is represented in the donation by
two panels of the same subject.
OF a Later Period.
OF a later period there is Dosso
Dossi's "Circe and Her Lovers in a
Landscape" and view of the "EX-
terror of the Pantheon" by Panini,
which will form pendant to the
Interior of the Pantheon" by the
same artist, already donated by Mr..
Kress.
The works of sculpture in the
donation bring the representation of
Florentine Renaissance sculpture in
the gallery to place among the
four or five greatest collections in
the world, gallery officials declared.
Mr.. Walker described as par
ticularly noteworthy Ghiberti's re-
lief of the Madonna in painted
terra Gotta, once in Santo Spirito,
Florence, and the earliest piece of
Florentine sculpture in the new
collection; Benedetto's marble ton
do, Madonna and Child" and Ver-
rocchio's monumental bust of "Lo-
renzo the Magnificent" The gallery
already possesses Verrocchio's bust
of "Giuliano de- Medici," younger
brother of Lorenzo.
The gift brings about the re-
uniting in America of the two
marble busts from the Vanchetoni
chapel in Florence, Desiderio's
Christ Child and Rossellino's S
"Giovannino"
Other notable pieces are the
Saint John" by Donatello; the
marble bust of Saint Catherine
of Siena" ascribed to Mino da
Fiesole; Bust of a Warrior" by
Antonio Pollaiuolo, and Portrait
of Florentine Statesman" by Ben
! detto da Maiano,
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fare, Signal and (2uartermaSter, the
citation said.
Now in France, Col. Reed went
overseas in May, 1912. He was grad
uated from West Point in 1881.
Col. Reed is the son of Senator
Clyde M. Reed, Republican, of
Kansas.
Col. Reed came to Washington in
1910. Until 1912 he was assistant
engineer procurement officer under
Gen. Somervell.
His wife, Mrs. Caye Reed, and two
children, Sherwood, IL. and Anne.
II, live at the Thirty-seventh street
address.
Col. Todd Gets DSM.
Col. Walter E. Todd, 1549 Mount
Eagle place, Alexandria, Va, has
been awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal for services in the
Southwest Pacific theater from
March, 1912, to May, 1914, when he
served as chief of the New Hebrides-
Solomon Islands section.
He was later task officer and
deputy chief of operations in the
Southwest Pacific and at another
time served as deputy chief of the
Operations Divisions strategy and
policy group.
The citation accompanying his
award said he made marked
contribution to the harmony be-
tween the Army, Navy and British
staff planners, and helped formulate
strategic plans and policies adopted
by the combined chiefs of staff"
Col. Alfred r. Maxwell, 1910 Six
teenth street NV, has been awarded
the Legion of Merit for his part in
the development of bombardment
aircraft while on duty at Army Air
Force headquarters here.
Col. Maxwell was chief of the ma
terial and equipment section in the
former Directorate of Bombardment,
and later assistant chief of opera
tions Of the commitments and re-
quirements section, between March
"a, 1912, and February l6, 1914.
His citation credits him with
timely introduction of automatic
flight control equipment, the en-
ployment of which, as bombing aids,
contributed largely to the combat
successes Of the AAF."
First 1t. Woody H. Keyes, jr., son
OF Mrs. na Mae Keyes, 1916 F street
NV. was decorated with the Silver
Star, the Distinguished Flying Gross,
an Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of q
second DFC, the Air Medal and the
Purple Heart at recent 5th Air
Force ceremony in the Southwest
Pacific.
Member of the Grim Reapers'
attack unit, 1t. Keyes won the Sill
yer Star for gallantry as co-pilot
in a strike on Rapapo Airdrome a
year ago. When his flight was in
tercepted by 20 to 80 Japanese fight
ers, his plane was so severely dam
aged 1t took the combiped efforts
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Is in Arlington Get
Home Nurse Certificate

Red Cross home nursing certifi-
Gates have been awarded to l6
members Of the Henry G. Shirley
Homes class in closing exercises,
according to Mrs. James D. Pope,
home nursing chairman of the Ar.
lington chapter.
Those who received certificates
were: Mrs. 1. B. Benson, Mrs. Sher.
man B. Brown, Mrs. R. S. Conley
Mrs. B. j. Dolan, Mrs. F. A. Evans
Mrs. L. Gallegos, Mrs. D. l.. Groner,
Mrs. j. w. Grubic, Mrs. Ray Hell
man, Mrs. E. C. Knoderer. Mrs. Roy
Morris, Mrs. A. w. McClung, Mrs
j. F. Pizzinski, Mrs. James Rourke,
Mrs. E. j. Stolark and Mrs. Betty
Thompson.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
DR.. S. n. De Vault Named
Farm Census Adviser

DR.. S. H. De Vault, head of the
University of Marylands agri-
cultural economics and market
ing department, has been named
chairman of a State Agricultural
Advisory Committee for the 1945
national census, DR.. T. B. Symons.
director Of the university extern
sion service, announced today.
DR.. Symons said he had been
requested by National Extension Di-
rector M. L. Wilson of the War Food
Administration to arrange for State
and county committees in Mary
land to serve in an advisory capacity
on census matters.
DR.. Symons reported these COM
mittees had been appointed by
county agricultural agents in most
Maryland counties.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
'Anti-Chorter

Our committee is not opposed to
the principle of civil service. A num-
ber of the active members of our
committee are under civil service in
the Federal and District govern
ments. We are, however, opposed to
providing a $4,000 a year county
manager, who will be appointed by
an unpaid county council, with
constitutional power to appoint for
life terms, under regulations to be
adopted with force and effect of
law by an unpaid county personnel
board, department heads and policy
determining administrative officials.
Under our present plan of gov
ernment these officials are subject
to removal by the voters themselves,
but under the proposed charter they
could only be removed for miscon-
duct in office or similar violations of
regulations. -==--- .~~
Thel-yery purpose of civil service
is to create life tenure, and that is
the result of the Federal. District
and Marylad civil service systems
Should charter win, life tenure
would obviously be given to the
following department heads and
policy determining officials:
A director of the Department of
Finance. a director of the Depart
ment of Public Works, and such
other policy and ad-
nlinistrative officials as administer
the county road and street system
and the county public buildings, as
well as the heads of the new county
Department of Education, the new
county Department of Health, the
new county Department of Welfare
and the new Department of Safety.
as well as two assistant directors in
the Safety Department, one to be in
charge of the county police and the
other to be in charge of the county
fire departments, volunteer or paid.
The county attorney can also be
given life tenure under the terms of
the charter.
IT the charter wins, all of these
important life tenure positions, as
well as routine places, will be filed
while 1000 service men and women
are away from Montgomery County.
automatically excluding the service
men and women from consideration.
Civil service for 120 county en-
ployes is single chance which in
itself does not justify or require the
scrapping of an entire form of gov
ernment.
A civil service system or any other
change may now be enacted into
law at any time that the State SEN
ator and four out of six of the Dele
gates, elected by the people of Mont
gomery County, support such a law.
Any change can be accomplished as
easily and as certainly under the
present plan as under the proposed
charter.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Pro Charter

Pro Charter
The nonelective county boss is the
one who has really governed Mont
gomery County for the last rs years
He has in all reality life tenure
Through control of caucuses and
primaries under the county's pres
ent system of government he also
provides life tenures for his lieu
tenants. The proposed Montgomery
County charter and its nonpartisan
ballot and nominating machinery
make it possible to abolish life ten
ures.
Those who really govern under
charter are the elective council
members with four-year terms. The
charter provides no life tenures fol-
any one. The county manager car
be fired by the council on 30 days
notice. Three department heads
the boards Of education and well
fare and the health oficer-have si1
and four year terms under State
law. r.. &
The charter provides a merit sys.
tenn for the other three department
heads, finance, public works am
safety, and for all other employees
They are removable under rules o.
the personnel board for inefficiency
or other proper cause, but not fol
political reasons. The politicians cal
this life tenure. They want to bold
on to the old spoils system.
In its survey of Montgomery
County government made in 1941 or
request of the county commissioners
the Brookings Institution said re-
garding county personnel:
Duties which require specialized
knowledge - are intrusted to per-
sons without the necessary qualifica-
tions. Many employees have
been selected mainly If not ex-
clusively for political reasons
Some positions that are unnecessary
have been created =" to pro-
vide a place on the public payroll
for party workers. "s' Much parti-
san work Is done during official
working hours. In some instances
the evidence suggests that official
duties are largely incidental and that
the salary paid from the county
treasury is mainly compensation for
partisan or factional activity"
Brookings adds that under such a
personnel certain citizens may be
particularly favored at public ex-
pense whereas =" decisions with
respect to assessments, highways
purchasing of supplies, zoning
and so on, should be made OBJ
jectively with judicial impartiality.
There was no surprise when the
county machine repudiated the
SurVey,
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Homemukers' Club
Council Meetinu CuIIed

The annual meeting of the Mont
gomery County Council of Home
makers Clubs will be held Friday in
the high school auditorium al
Gaithersburg.
The program will comprise reports
OF the work accomplished by the zoe
club members of the county, an ad-
dress by DR.. Jesse Sprowls of the
University of Maryland, who will
talk on "The Family and the Return
ing Veteran and a playlette by
students Of the University of Mary
land.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Home Service Glasses Set

The Fairfax County Red Cross
Chapter will begin a series of classes
for home service workers at pm.
November at the Falls Church
headquarters. Women who can de-
vote two days each week to this
work are urged to volunteer. Addi-
tional information may be obtained
by calling Falls Church 1855.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Convicted Slayer Given
Life Term in Maryland

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 30.-How-
ard Hubbard, ST., colored, of Pres
ton, convicted by an Anne Arundel
County Circuit Court jury of the
first-degree murder of James Davis,
Preston restaurant owner, Septem-
ber 81, was sentenced today to life
imprisonment in the Maryland pen
itenHary.
A plea by Hubbard's attorneys, w.
Brewster Deem ad George B. WoeI-
fel, for new trial or an overruling
of the jury's verdict was denied by
Associate Judge James Clark.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Parade PIunned

A Halloween parade will be
staged by the Landover Hills (Md.)
Citizens Association at F.30 pm. to-
morrow. The parade will form at
the top OF Upper Varnum street and
march to Seventy-first and Allison
streets, where costumes will be
judged and prizes awarded.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Sothoron to Speak

State Senator L. Harold Sothoron
will address the Greenbelt (Md.)
Citizens Association at $3.50 o'clock
tonight at the elementary school
auditorium. Previous speakers have
included Blanchard Randall, Repub-
hcan candidate for United States
Senate, and Thomas Conner, Mary
land director of the Political Action
Committee.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Petty Officer Club Sets
.Openinq for Wednesday

The Petty Officers Club will be
opened Wednesday night at the
Burlington Hotel, 1120 Vermont
avenue NV. Members and their
guests will be admitted free to the
opening dance.
Chief Petty Officer George Wiltse
Is chairman of the Board Of Di-
rectors. Other officers are Miss
Anita Cullom, vice president, and
Mike Patchan, secretary treasurer.
Evening star., 1944-10-30

supply anu SET W
ices of the Air
Transport Com
mand in h e
Africa - Middle
East Wing and
for the Central
African w in G,
t h e War De-
p a r tment an
nounced today.
He took over
t h e S ervice e
Command activ-
tiles, including
those of Ord
nance, Engineer,
Chemical War
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Jewish Group to Meet

The darlington -Parkfairfax Jew
ish Community Association will
meet at pm. tomorrow at the
Episcopal Chapel, Seminary road
and Thirty third street, Alexandria
A wiener roast will feature the eve
ning's entertainment.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
PTA to Meet Thursday

The Takoma Park (Md.) Ele-
mentary School Parent Teacher AS
ISOLATION will meet at 8 pm. Thurs
day at the school. Mrs. Earl Rock
wood, principal, will discuss the
planning and working OF . school
building program. =
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Roost Beef Dinner PIonned

A roast beef dinner will be served
at st. Michael's Parish School, Sill
yer Spring at S pm. Wednesday
under the auspices of st. Michaels
Sodality. Mrs. John Hunter and
Mrs. Richard Thibadeau are In
charge of arrangements.
Evening star., 1944-10-30
School Group to Meet

The Altivista (Md.) School Associ.
alton will meet at 8 o'clock tonight
at the school near Bethesda. Miss
Matilda Young, director Of the Chill.
dren's Museum. will speak
Evening star., 1944-10-30
Montgomery Charter Debate

This the second OF series sir articles presenting state
1ents by both sides raised the debate
posed Montgomery County charter The affirmative statements
made by the Charter Committee Negative
Committee to Defeat Charter The question is:
Would the merit system that the really tn
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emergency Conference
(Oemtidamerifaniide Notiall.
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THIS AND rHx1
Gas Saving Hints

Fifty percents of motorists
throw away nearly half the fuel
they pour in their gas tanks, !" says
Austin Elmore, nationally known
test engineer, who averaged 33.3
miles per gallon on an economy
run from Los Angeles to San
Francisco in his stock eight-cy-
Under car. when you want to
make quick getaway. Elmore ex-
plains TO those who complain Of
poor milage, "you press the trot-
lie clear down to the floor, giving
the engine more gasoline than it
needs for maximum power. But
the engine develops just as much
power and runs nearly twice as
long at half throttle.
Another thing, you drive the
car as fast as it can be driven in
the lower gears, while shift into
second gear at 10 miles an hour
and into high at rs miles an hour.
That allows me to save 50 cubic
Icentimenters of gasoline on one
start.
"Also. you try to beat the nor
NAL flow of traffic. Speeding fas-
ter than the regular traffic flow
necessitates an excessive use of
the brakes and you throw away
most of the gasoline that was
used to get your car up to the
speed.
Last of all, don't race the mo-
tor while standing still, or try to
make high-speed getaways"
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