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Evening star., 1944-12-07
Fairfax Jim Crow Case
May Go 10 Supreme Court

A Supreme Court test OF the vir-
ginia Jim Grow" law was in pros
pect today following the conviction
of four colored girls in Fairfax
County Circuit Court yesterday on
charges of refusing to sit in the
rear section Of bus operating be-
tween Virginia and the District.
The girls, Emma D. McLemore
Ruth Powell, Marianne Musgrave
and Anglia l.. Jones. all Howard
University students at the time of
their arrests. waived a jury trial
and were fined IS each by Judge
Paul e. Brown. The defendants of =
fered no testimony and an appeal
was noted following their convic-
ton.
Following the presentation of the
States case, which included testi-
mony by Mitchell B. Lee, Arnold
Operated bus driver, that the girls
entered his bus last summer in
Vienna, Va, and refused to take q
seat in the rear section reserved for
colored people, Leon A. Ransom
representative of the National Asso-
ciation for the Advancement OF
Colored People and counsel for the
defendants, moved that the evidence
be stricken from the record on
grounds that the State law violates
article /, section 8, clause 3 Of the
Constitution. The motion was de.
MED by Judge Brown.
The trial yesteeiay was an ap.
peal from trial justice court con.
viction last June 2, when the de.
PENDANTS were fined $40 and cost.
each. a.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Silver Spring Group
Elects Mrs. Collier

Mrs. Charlotte Collier was elected
president of the Business and Pro.
fessional Women's Club of Silver
Spring Tuesday night at a dinner
meeting at the Indian Spring Coun-
try Club. A constitution and BY
laws were adopted and it was de-
cided to meet monthly.
Other officers of the newly Or
ganized club are Miss Katherine
Lydell, vice president; Mrs. Helen
Hayden, recording secretary; Mrs
Geneva B. Olds, corresponding sec
retary; Mrs. Lucille Fitzcharles
treasurer; Mrs. Glen Mahar and
Mrs. Kenneth Clark, auditors, and
Mrs. Betty McDevitt, parliamen-
tartan.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
0DT Bars Chicken Hauling
From Set-Aside Areas

(From Yesterdays Late Edition)
By the Associated Press.
Trucking of live chickens out oi
the Delmarva Peninsula and Shen-
andoah Valley areas will be pro-
hibited beginning December II un-
less authorized by the War Food
Administration.
The order. issued today by the
Office of Defense Transportation
supplements action already taken by
WFA.to assure adequate supplies OF
chickens for the armed forces.
The order applies to the trans
portation of live chickens by COM
mon, contract or private carrier ir
the areas affected by the set-aside
requirementes of VIA.
The order does not apply to local
producers when transporting live
chickens within, but not from the
areas, and does not apply to poul-
try other than chickens.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Maryland Area Group
Urges Buses 10 D. T.,

Overwhelming testimony favorins
two applications by the Washington,
Marlboro g. Annapolis Motor Lines,
Inc, for permission to establish bus
service from Allentown and Temple
Hills in Maryland to Washington.
by way of Silver Hill, was before an
Interstate Commerce Commission
examiner today following a hearing
yesterday in the Labor Department
auditorium, attended by more than
300 residents of the Maryland area.
In two applications to the ICC.
the bus company asked permission
to establish line from Allentown
to Silver Hill, and a line from
Temple Hills to Silver Hill, where
both lines would connect with ex-
lsting lines to Washington.
The company held that bus facil-
tiles are needed from the two Mary
land communities in order to pro-
vide transportation in that area for
employees at the Camp Spring Army
Air Base and the Census Bureau at
Suitland.
The only opposition expressed at
yesterdays hearing was from Sam.
uel Gouldman, operator of a bus
line from Oak Lawn to Silver Hill.
Mr.. Gouldman maintained that his
service is adequate and the estab-
hshment of another line would re.
suit in unnecessary" competition.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Electrical Code Hearing
Will Be Held Tomorrow

Public hearings will be held at
10 am. tomorrow by the Commits
sioners on proposed changes in the
building and electrical codes.
Under the egress law of Decem.
ber, 1942, the Commissioners were
given authority to promulgate reg
ulations regarding exits. The new
regulations were based on recon-.
mendations of the National Asso-
citation of Fire Underwriters after
the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire
in Boston.
Changes, which cover q mimeo.
graphed pages, are designed te
tighten up exit regulations and pro.
vide additional protection against
fire hazards" District officials said.
One major change would define
a place of public assembly as every
place having seating capacity OF
so or more in one room, whether
or not seats be provided" In the
past, only rooms with a seating
capacity of 200 or more were con-
sidered places of public assembly.
A rooming house association has
estimated that the proposed regu-
lations would cost District builders
5000, 600. District officials, how
ever, said they do not regard the
changes as sweeping.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Man, II, Given Life
For Staying, Freed

Julius Ralph De Marcos, n, who
in 1884 was convicted of killing a
man in Canada and sentenced to
life imprisonment. yesterday became
a free man. His release was Or
dered by Justice T. Alan Colds
borough Of District Court, who found
him sane following a habeas cor
pus proceeding.
1t was De Marcos fifth attempt
to gain his freedom here through
habeas corpus proceeding, all o1
the others having proved unsuc.
cessful, a representative of the
United States attorneys office said
De Marcos was found of unsounc
mind in Canada in 1896. Then, a.
result of a treaty agreement be.
tween this Nation and Canada, h,
finally was returned. to this countr,
in 1899 as an insane American citi.
zen. In 1910 he was given a lunac,
hearing here and found insane ant
since then had been in St. Eliza.
beth's Hospital.
De Marcos was allowed to question
witnesses during the habeas corpu.
proceeding.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
HyatfsviIIe Post Office
To Add 36 Employees
For Christmas Rush

In an effort to meet what is ex-
pected to be the greatest Christmas
business in its history, the Hyatts-
vile Post Once will add 80 tenn
porary city carriers, / temporary
rural carrier and temporary clerks
during the holiday period, Post
master Egbert F. Tingley announced
today.
The 36 additional employees will
bring to approximately rs the num-
Der of workers at the Hyattsville
office. More than 10000 persons
live within the delivery limits OF
the Office.
Beginning Monday and contin-
uing through December % parce
post and stamp windows will be
open from 7:30 am. to 10 pm. This
Sunday the service windows will be
open from 9 I'M. to pm. and next
Sunday from m. to 10 pm. The
closing hour Christmas eve will be
4 pm. There will be general win
dow service, except for money or.
ders, from 8:15 to 1915 I'm. Christ
mas Day. No deliveries will be
made by carriers on Christmas Day
with the exception of special de.
livery mail
T. Raymond Burch, Berwyn post.
master, announced the following
holiday schedule at the Berwyr
post ONCE:
From Monday through December
% the office will be open from
am. to 8 pm. daily and from II
am. to pm. Sunday.
On Christmas morning the Office
will open from to 9 am. for tn,
delivery OF parcels and special mail
Evening star., 1944-12-07
IS 900 Copies of Stars YuIe
Carols Go to Fighting Forces

He asked The Star about it. The
Star obtained permission from E. P.
Dutton & Co., publishers, to repro
duce the most popular of the carols
from their book, Sing For Christ
mas" arranged by Opal Wheeler.
Eight carols selected by Alice Evers-
man, The Stars music critic, were
printed on two sides of single sheet
of newsprint - light enough for
mailing.
The Navy sent 5000 copies Of the
carols to the feet, the Marine Corps
and the Seabees in the Pacific. The
General Commission on Army and
Navy Chaplains sent 5000 by air
mail to all chaplains overseas.
Washington churches received
quantities Of the carols to send to
their young men and women in the
camps and in the theaters of war.
But most of the $4,000 copies were
obtained one by one at the business
counter Of The Star by readers who
felt that the troops overseas would
welcome this bit Of Christmas
Remembrance,
Evening star., 1944-12-07
War Prisoner Camp Advocated
In Montgomery to Aid Farmers
Need Is Cited to Meet increased
Production Schedules Next Spring

Plagued by steady decrease in
farm labor and difficulties in trans
porting prisoners of war from Fort
Meade, Montgomery County farmer,
have requested that a prisoner of
war camp be located in the county
to meet stepped-up farm production
schedules for next spring.
Largest hurdle in obtaining the
camp, farm officials said, was the
Army policy against permitting
prisoners-of-war camps in the Mill
tary District of Washington.
The farmers request was referred
to the Sd Service Command and
VINO officials month ago. Paul
E. Nystrom of the Maryland Exten-
sion Service, who is also in charge
of the States farm labor program
said the request is still under dis
cusSion.
Negotiations for the camp also in
wolves a question of financing, one
farm official pointed out.
Suggested Last Summer.
The camp idea, Mr.. Nystrom said
was suggested last summer but at
that time there was difficulty even
in getting the Army's consent to
use prisoners of war in the county.
Then, there were fewer POWs
available for work in the area. BY
the time the Army received addi-
tional POWs and they were ready
to work, the season was too far ad-
vanced to 60 into the camp ques-
ton, Mr.. Nystrom said.
Arrangements were made to
transport the prisoners in three
buses borrowed from county schools
and 80 prisoners could be trans
ported until the schools needed two
of the buses, o. w. Anderson, Mont
gomery County farm agent. said.
That limited the number of pris-
oners who could be brought into
the county to 80. Meanwhile, Mr..
Anderson went on, the bus itself
was in such bad condition that it
had to be patched up daily.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Funds Granted 10 Enlarge
Warm Springs Hospital

By the Associated Press.
The Federal Works Administra-
ton yesterday announced presi-
dental approval Of grant of s171,-
$50 for an addition to the Warm
Springs (Ga0 Foundation Hospital
for treatment of servicemen suf-
fering from infantile paralysis and
spinal injuries.
Maj Gen. Philip B. Fleming. Fed
eral Works administrator, said the
grant, plus sl7l,579 to be supplied
by the foundation, would equip as
well as build the addition. The
grant was made in response to a
request from the Army. Navy ano
Marine Corps for additional bed
space at Warm Springs for treat
ment of service connected cases.
The announcement said the addi-
tion-two stories and partial base
ment-would provide room for sc
beds.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Duckett to Support
County Bond Issue

T. Howard Duckett, Prince Georges
County Sanitary Commission on
clal, will speak in favor of a large
bond issue in Prince Georges County
for improvements in the Metropoli-
tan Area of the county at O'Clock
tonight at meeting of the Prince
Georges Federation of Business
mems Associations in the Hyatts-
vile County Service Building.
The establishment OF a 12-year
school system in the county and an
increase in the county police force
are expected to be asked by the fed
Grafton.
Luis Granados, chairman of the
County Affairs Committee, will
speak on the proposal by residents
of Colmar Manor and Cottage City
to ban the sale of whisky in the
two towns.
Other proposals are expected to
include the appointment of sealer
of weights and measures, appoint
ment OF county engineer and par
ticipation of the special improve
ment districts in the income tax
refund.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
7 Appellate Judges Named
To MARYLAND Circuit Bench
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS. Md, Dec. Judges
Levin Claude Bailey and Walter C.
Capper of the Maryland Court of
Appeals will leave the Appellate
Court January l and become asso-
ciate circuit court jurists.
Both are members of the States
highest tribunal through guberna-
torial appointment Their retire.
ment is mandatory under the bond
commission amendment to the State
constitution reorganizing the court.
Judge Bailey will serve in the first
judicial circuit and Judge Capper in
the fourth circuit.
In announcing the appointments
last night, Gov. O'Conor said: 1T
seems both logical and desirable,
from every standpoint, to retain the
valuable services of Judges Bailey
and Capper in the judiciary of the
State. Their work on the
bench has been of the high
est order.
Evening star., 1944-12-07

With the issuance of the IS ,000th
copy yesterday the distribution of
The Evening Stars selection of
Christmas carols was brought to a
close. No more will be printed be-
cause 1t is too late to mail them
overseas with any assurance they
will arrive before Christmas.
The demand for the carols shows
how strong the Christmas spirit is
in time of war. The $4,000 copies
grew out of the request of a young
man from Washington serving as a
medical corpsman in a hospital in
the Southwest Pacific. He wrote his
pastor asking for old copies of the
carols for hospital choir to use in
bringing the spirit of the season
to the wounded men there.
The pastor, the Rev. J. Herbert
Garner of the Sixth Presbyterian
Church, was at a loss as to how to
get the carols to this far-removed
member of his congregation. Hymn
books would be too heavy to air mail
and only air mail could get the
carols there in time.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Man Granted Jury Trial
In Bogus Police Fund Case

Donald Williams, 80, OF the 800
block Of Bryant street NE, who
was charged with having solicited
money for a nonexistent police
fund, was granted a jury trial, set
for January S, by Judge John Nc
Mahon in Municipal Court yester-
day.
Williams was arrested Tuesday
near a drugstore at Twelfth and
Monroe streets NV. Police said
he ha,. been making a phone call to
a firm with whom he was arrang-
ing to pick up q donation of $25.
The firm called police to find out
if there was such a fund, and De-
tective Sergts. David Higgins and
John r. Luskey were sent to meet
the solicitor.
The defendant told business firms
he was police sergeant on sick
leave, police said, and asked for
money for a Christmas fund for
po6r children. williams, charged
with false pretenses, was released
under $500 bond.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Gifts for Young, Old and Needy
Asked for Holiday Exchange

One hundred untitled Christmas
opportunities" for aiding needy per-
sons in Montgomery County remain
on the Holiday Exchange" books of
the County Social Welfare Council,
Mrs. Edwina Ricketts,, executive sec
retary of the Social Service Ex-
change, announced today.
Furnishing a washable toy animal
and size sweater for a year-old
boy whose father was killed while
working in a war job and whose
mother is i'll and cannot care for
him is one sample opportunity cited
by the exchange. The child is in
q foster home.
Another is the need of 4 battery
radio set for . 43-year-old man
paraly8ed and bedridden from In
Evening star., 1944-12-07

juries received in a hit-and-run
accident. While the man is well
cared for in boarding home, his
entertainment is limited because he
cannot hold book or newspaper
and has no radio.
A girls magazine subscription,
books. pocketbook and clothes would
make happier an 11-year-old girl
whose mother is in an institution
and her father is dead, the exchange
revealed.
These and other certified cases
may be aided by interested persons
or organizations through the Holi-
day Exchange. Details may be OBJ
tanned by calling Mrs. Ricketts,,
Rockville $50. Mrs. B. Peyton
Whalen of Bethesda. Is chairman
Of the exchange.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
AMG Gives Germans PIedqe
OF Religious Freedom
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Religious and racial freedom will
be restored to Germany and all
Nazi laws and agencies contrary
to this principle will be abolished
by the Allied Military Government,
the German people were told today
In proclamation broadcast to them
in the name of Gen. Eisenhower,
Fourth of series of broadcasts
to Germany to explain the princi-
Piles under which the AMG will
act, the proclamation declared all
places of religious worship would
be reopened and their claims for
restoration of property stolen by
the Nazis would be recognized, the
Odice Of War Information reported.
ut Is for you to preserve the
sanctity of religious worship by pre-
venting the abuse OF this natural
right" the German people were
told. "You will forfeit it if you
allow religious gatherings to be mis-
used for political purposes"
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Ii. Gen. Styer Heads
List Of 81 Promotions
Confirmed by Senate
BY the Associated Press,

by tne ASSOCIATED preSS.
The Senate yesterday confirmed
the promotions of 81 Army officers
headed by William Delp Styer, who
was elevated to the temporary rank
of lieutenant general. Gen. Styer
is deputy chief of the Army Service
Forces.
The combinations include promo
tions to the temporary rank OF maj
general for 23 officers and to that of
brigadier general for 70 others.
The action followed Military Al
fairs Committee approval Tuesday
of promotions for 36 of the officers
now serving in this country. Sena-
tor Gurney, Republican, of South
Dakota had held up temporarily the
approval of promotions for 81 others
serving overseas because of what he
said was discrimination against
those serving in this country through
no desire of their own.
The 36, it developed, either have
served overseas, are awaiting over
seas assignments or are being held
to vital posts at home.
Among those elevated to brigade,
general was David Sarnoff, forme,
president OF the Radio Corp. O,
America.
Raised to major general were:
James Maurice Gavin, Clarence
Ames Martin, Orvin Arson Anderson
Robert Morris Webster, Harry Brigg.
Vaughan, Arthur Arnim White, Viii
liam Howard Arnold, Royal Bertran.
Lord, James Award Van Fleet ane
William Joseph Donovan.
John Y. York, jr.; Kenneth Bon.
ner Wolfe, Leo Donovan, Willard
Gordon Wyman, Wilton Burtor
Persons. James Edmund Parker
Frank Emil Stoner, Russell Burtor
Reynolds. Julian Somerville Hatcher
Clyde Lloyd Hyssong, Carl Adolphu
Hardigg, William Richard Arnole
and Otto Lauren Nelson, jr.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Plan Chority Dance

The Kenna-Main American Lee
gion Post and st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital personnel will hold their seventh
annual Christmas dance Saturday
night for the benefit of needy Dis
trict children. The dance will bs
held in Hitchcock Hall at st. Eliza.
beth's from 9 pm. to IL. Admission
will be by donation only and there
will be the usual door prizes.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
CIO Call to Boost Wages
ReIoyed to White House
Nv the Associated pr.s.

BY the Associated Press.
CIO President Phillip Murray last
night relayed to President Roosevelt
the CIO conventions demand that
present wage ceilings be removed.
by a unanimous vote" he said
in letter, "the delegates there as
sembled, representing millions OF
war workers, determined that, in
equity and in the interest of cur
war effort, there must be an i'm
mediate upward revision of the
Little Steel formula in order that
wages may be brought in line with
prevailing wartime living costs"
Mr.. Murray referred to the Chiea-
60 convention, which ended Novem-
Der a..
Evening star., 1944-12-07
|WPB Official to Speak
To Engineers Society

Holland Batcheller, chief of oper-
ations, War Production Board, will
talk on "Reconversion After Vic
tory" at the annual executives
night of the Potomac Chapter
American Society of Tool Engineers
at $50 O'Clock tonight in the May
flower Hotel.
Mr.. Batcheller formerly was di-
rector of WPB Iron and Steel Di-
vision and president Of the Ludlum
Steel Co. He also serves on the
Civilian Advisory Committee of the
Army Navy Munitions Board.
G. v. Briner, vice president of the
society, will act as toastmaster,
Evening star., 1944-12-07
PoIond's Boundary
To Be PuneI Subject

Nine. Rulka LANCER, Polish jour-
nalist, author of THE Mermaid and
the Messerschmitt" and translator
of Blessed Are the Meek" will dis
cuss Poland's boundary and ma
tional claims in panel on RUS
sia's Frontiers and the Peace of
Europe" at Sis pm. tomorrow in
the Mayflower Hotel grand ballroom.
The panel is part of the Charles
Carroll Forum OF Washington. open
to the public.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Ii. Ever|y Elected Head
Of Alexandra Police Grour

1t. George F. Everly was elected
president of the Alexandria Police
Association at its meeting last night
He succeeds Capt. Edgar Sims, chief
of police, who has served for the last
10 years.
1t Everly is chairman of the an
nual police ball, which will be held
tomorrow night at the Club Night
ingale, on the Richmond highway.
Other officers who were elected
and will be installed January 2 are
Sergt Henry Grimm, reelected vice
president; Detective ]. Cleveland
Shaw, secretary; Corpl. Robert
Brenner, treasurer, and Pvt. Thomas
Wood, trustee
The association also voted to pur-
chase a $500 War Bond during the
Sixth War Loan drive.
Evening star., 1944-12-07
Committee Studies
Fairfax Courthouse
Heating Problem
County Gronts Same Oil
Allotment Thot Coused
Hardship Lost Winter

How to obtain fuel oil to heat the
Fairfax County Courthouse and ad-
jacent buildings adequately-a prob
lem that remained unsolved last
winter "at the expense of the health
Of county workers"-was under con-
sideration today by a special COM
mittee of the County Board Of Su-
pervisors.
r. M. Loughborough, county pur-
chasing agent, told the board yester-
day that the County Rationing
Board had granted the same fuel
oil allotment this winter as last. He
pointed out that last season appeals
for additional oil, which subsequent
ly went to the regional Office of Price
Administration at Atlanta, were re-
fused.
County Treasurer Lewis M. Coy
ner told the board that the court
house had been kept so cold last
winter as to "jeopardize the health
of county employees. He said sew
eral employees were made sick by
being forced to work in cold ofIices
conversion Question Brought Up.
The fuel oil question was brought
up yesterday through a letter to the
board from Frank Slingluff, chair
man OF the Ration Boards fuel oil
panel, inquiring if the county Jail
had been converted to coal.
Mr.. Slingluff said coupons for
$500 gallons of oil were issued
August 8 for the Jail, and If 'it is
true that the Jail is now heated by
coal, then the application for fuel
oil was placed erroneously," and 1t
is requested that these coupons be
returned to the rationing board.
Mr.. Loughborough explained the
Jail had been converted to coal, but
at the time the application was
made coal was scarce and it was
not known whether oil or coal would
be used. He pointed out that the
OPA had ordered that public build
ings converted to coal could again
be changed to oil.
Board Chairman G. Wallace Car
per named Herbert Blunt and Burns
N. Gibson to the committee to in
vestigate the oil allowance, and the
board voted to return the coupons
that had been issued for the Jail
Convict Labor Program Ends.
Lawrence Greene, county agricul-
tural agent, reported that the con-
vict farm labor program ended last
month in the county, and suggested
that the board consider a labor pro-
gram for next summer, possibly look
ing toward the use Of war prisoners
Mr.. Greene said the convict labor
program had been a success, despite
the fact that many farmers have not
gotten all of their corn shucked. He
was instructed by the board to pre-
pare letter to Gov. Darden thank
ing him for his cooperation in OBJ
tanning emergency labor for the
county.
Miss Mary Anne Pearson, CHIEF
clerk of the County Selective Serv-
ice Board, was allowed S35 for dam.
ages to her Car by rotten link
which fell from tree in the court.
house lawn. The board authorized
the removal of four trees and in.
spection Of other trees on the court.
house grounds.
Trial Justice Harry L. Carrice
reported $1,3l775 as the county.
share of receipts from his court
Salaries and bills in the amount o.
$14 1928 were allowed.