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Evening star., 1944-05-17
Army Weapons Show
To Feature Jap Ration,
Gun
Service Forces Display
Will Open on Monday
In West Potomac Park

The Arny's new "stratosphere"
gun, the beach tractor" most re-
Gently developed combat vehicle of
the Engineers Corps, and captured
Japanese combat rations are among
the exhibits which will be displayed
at the Army Service Forces
weapons of War" show scheduled
to open Monday in West Potomac
Park.
The stratosphere gun, 120-mm.
antiaircraft gun, said to be one of
the most powerful new American
weapons, can fire a projectile 20,-
900 feet higher than any other
known antiaircraft weapon and is
used primarily against the highest
flying bombers.
The beach tractor, weighing more
than 81 tons, is designed as the
basic tool of the Engineer Shore
Regiments, the men whose job is to
get ashore first to help every one
else ashore and to cover.
1t will be displayed beside the
small 2h-ton airborne bulldozer,
both of which will be operated by
soldiers during the seven-day show.
The sample Japanese combat ra-
tons consist principally of COM
pressed barley biscuits with three
or four Jumps of sugar, two tablets
Of compressed dried fish and one
tablet OF compressed dried picked
plum. The ration has a caloric
value OF 775.8. compared with the
American *" ration of more than
5000 calories.
The Japanese emergency ration
contains no soy bean or rice prod
ucts, and, according to Army
analysts, is markedly deficient in
vitamin A, vitamin c and calcium.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Maryland Roads Body
Presses Plans 10 Use
Prisoners Of War
County Commissioners
Approve Proposal;
Fairgrounds Planned

The Maryland State Roads Com
mission today pushed plans to en-
ploy prisoners of war as laborers on
Prince Georges County roads after
the county commissioners approved
the plan at their meeting yesterday
in Upper Marlboro.
The action was taken after the
War Manpower Commission wrote
the board that German war prison.
ers will be available for use under
military police guard.
Joseph CLANCY, district engineer
of the State Roads Commission, said
the prisoners will be paid the pre-
vailing wage for laborers-50 cents
an hour-and will be taken to
Camp Meade, where they are now
confined, every evening. He said
employment of war prisoners Is
necessary because Of the commits
sion's inability to obtain workers.
The prisoners, however, will re-
ceive only a part Of the wage. The
War Department will render the
Roads Commission a daily bill, fig
ured at so cents an hour per prison.
er. The department will then pay
the prisoners the wage stipulated by
international convention. The Gov
ernment keeps the remainder.
Principal in Charge.
C. Paul Barnhart. principal of the
Greenbelt High School, who will be
in charge of the summer recrea-
tional program in the county, told
the commissioners that plans have
been made to establish % white and
five colored Fairgrounds. The
white Fairgrounds are tentatively
scheduled to be set up at the fol-
lowing schools:
Laurel, Bowie, Hyattsville Elemen-
tary, Edmonston, Brentwood Mount
Rainier, Ager Road, j. Enos Ray,
Riverdale, University Park, Calvert
Homes, Lanham, Berwyn, Beltsville,
Cheverly-Tuxedo, Bladensburg, Cot
tage City, Greenbelt, Capitol Heights,
ISuitland, Seat Pleasant, Bradbury
Heights and College Park.
The five colored Fairgrounds will
be located at the Bladensburg, Fair
mont Heights, Lakeland, Laurel and
North Brentwood Schools.
Will Open July 5.
The Fairgrounds will open July 5
and close September /. The hours
at each playground will be from 8
am. to noon and from l 80 to $50
pm. Monday through Friday
The $4,000 appropriated by the
commissioners to operate the play
grounds will be used to employ per-
sonnel. Each community in which
a playground will be located is ex-
pected to furnish its own equipment,
Mr.. Barnhart said. While most of
The necessary personnel already have
been hired Mr.. Barnhart said OPEN
ings still exist for about six white
leaders.
The County Animal Rescue League
reported that its two trucks have
picked up lat dogs and 81 cats be-
tween May 2 and May 10.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Three Hurt as Auto and Bus
Collide in Alexandria

Three persons were injured last
night when the automobile in which
they were riding collided with ar
A, B. g. w bus at King and st
ASaph streets, Alexandria.
Those injured were Miss Pear
Stewart, 35, and Miss Masia Whita
ker, 81, of the 400 block of North
Columbus street, Alexandria, ano
Miss Elizabeth Bayliss, 20, of the
400 block Of North Columbus street
All were admitted to Alexandria
Hospital suffering from cuts, bruises
and shock.
Police said the bus was driven BY
Stephen M. Satterwhite, 80, r. F. D
4, Alexandria, and the automobile
by Aubrey A. Phair, 4s, of the 4O(
block OF North Columbus street
Both were charged with reckless
driving and were ordered to appear
at a hearing Friday IN Alexandra
Police Court,
Evening star., 1944-05-17

Government worker April 8 on Gen.
trail avenue near Largo.
In addition to the conspiracy
charges, the men are charged with
assault and battery on Paul Fitz-
hugh of the HOO block of Eleventh
street NV, the woman's COM
panion, who, police said, was forced
from their car before the alleged
attack. 1t is believed that the con-
spiracv charges are the first to be
brought in such a case in Maryland
Although declaring the new
charges do not constitute double
jeopardy, since they are entirely
different" from the original charge
Mr.. Bowie refused to comment when
asked why the two men were re-
arrested in connection with the
same case.
1t was recalled. however, that a
few days after the trial, Judge
Charles c. Marbury sharply criti-
cized the jury for generating the
two men ''in the face of undisputed
evidence to the contrary"
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Protestant Sessions
On Aid 10 Veterans
Open in Baltimore
Conference to Hear of
Federal Plans and How
Church Can Help
By the Associated Press,

BALTIMO ORE, May 1.-THE
church's responsibility to returning
servicemen and servicewomen will
be considered by $50 Protestant lead
ers at a two-day conference begin
ming today with Government officials
and experts on education, social
work. psychiatry and mental health
The meeting, sponsored by four
national iu1ron ominational bo1ies
is expected t6 set the pattern for
local alendregional sessions OF sim
liar. character all over the country.
Conferences already are being ar
ranged for Los Angeles, New York
and Chicago.
The churchmen will devote today
to reports on the plans of the Gov
ernment and other agencies for re-
habiitation and refrigeration into
community life of returning service
personnel and how the church car
supplement these plans. There also
will be discussions Of the attitudes
and needs of service personnel ir
relation to religion and the church
to social and recreational life, anc
to employment and education.
Will Take Up Local Work.
Tomorrow the conference will cen.
ter its discussions around the rela.
tion OF the church to communit,
planning and programs of the loca
parish churches. E,
DR.. William Barrow Pugh. Phila.
delphia, stated clerk of the Genera,
Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States, will
preside.
The Rev. Marion Creegar, execu.
tive secretary of the Christian
Commission on Camp and Defense
Communities and chairman OF thu
Conference Steering Committee
said the primary purpose of the
meeting was to determine the ma.
ture and extent of the church's
share Of the national responsibilit,
toward the returning men anc
women and to guide church leaders
In carrying out the program.
Sponsoring Groups.
1nterdenominational commission.
sponsoring the meeting are tn.
Christian Commission for Camp ane
Defense Communities, the Genera
Commission on Army and Nav,
Chaplains, the commission on Re.
ligion and Health of the Fedora
Council of Churches and the Service
Mems Christian League.
Conference leaders include Brig
Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of tn,
Veterans Administration, Washing
ton; 1t. Col. Colgate Hoyt of tn,
Veterans Personnel Division of tn,
Selective Service System, Washing
ton; Ensign Esther o johnson, rep
resenting Capt. Mildred McAfee
director of the WAVES, and Repre-
sentative Voorhis, Democrat, O
California.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Potomac Yards Worker
Killed Beneath Boxcar

w. E. Baldock, 46, of Lynchburg
Va, was killed instantly today when
he fell beneath a boxcar at the Po-
tomac Yards. Alexandria, officials
reported. This was his first day at
work in the yards.
According to yard officials Mr.
Baldock, employed as a brakeman
was knocked from a car he was rid
ing when another series of cars
bumped into his car. Officials said
he was cut in two by the car wheels
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Over There With Men From Here
D. G.. PILOT IS AMONG BEST
IN NEW DIVING BUZZSAWS

The British DFC, in addition te
the American, has just been awarded
to Col. Herbert B. Thatcher, West
Irving street, Chevy Chase, Md. for
his work in developing and leader
ship of the medium bomber COM
mand here. He is one Of the first
three men to fly the Marauder. He
took the group here in the fall OF
1912 and has had big part in de-
veloping tactics. Now tactical wing
commander, Col. Thatcher flies
regularly on preinvasion targets. He
has the Purple Heart for the Pas de
Calais mission. He got fax in his
leg, but couldn't leave his seat to
make place for the co-pilot, and
brought his craft back, though
bleeding and in great pain.
Capt. Dunn, "a, is a native of st.
Paul, Mimi, his wife, the former
Barbara Phillips, who lives at the
Thirtieth place address, said. He was
home last Christmas and again in
March.
A brother, Pfc. Victor Dunn, radio
gunner in the air forces, is sta
toned at Sioux Falls, S. Oak. The
parents of the two brothers are Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Dunn, st. Paul.
Has Many Citations.
Capt. Dunn wears the Air Medal
with three Oaf Leaf Clusters, the
Distinguished Flying Cross, the de-
tense ribbon and the North African
and European campaign ribbons.
Sergt. Bartlett, 20, attended the
High School here, ac-
cording to his mother, Mrs. F. I.
Bartlett. Overseas since March, he
Is gunner on an A-20.
His wife. formerly Miss Gladys
Reed of Washington, lives at 1919
Sixteenth street S. E., with her
parents. She is attending Wilson
Teachers College and will graduate
in June. The sergeant's father is
dentist here.
Col. Thatcher, "a, also has been
awarded the Silver Star, according
to his wife, Mrs Thatcher.
A West Point graduate, Col.
Thatcher has been in the Army
more than IA years. He was sent
overseas in April, 1912.
His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Thatcher,
and two children, Peter, 2, and Eliza
beth, 5, live at the Chevy Chase ad-
dress.
The Star was unable to reach any
relatives Of 1t. Vaughan.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Z Soldiers Flee Police
After Five-Mi|e Chase
Pursuit Follows Coll Thot
Tovern Was Broken Into

Two soldiers, believed to be armed
and to have tried to break into q
Brentwood (Md) tavern, led Dis
trict, military and Prince Georges
County police on a smile chase
through Brentwood, Mount Rainie,
and Northeast Washington early to-
day before making their escape al
Eastern avenue and Bladensbure
road.
Prince Georges County Policeman
j. H. Burgess said he and Police
man r. Austin received a call about
2 am. that two soldiers had smashed
a window Of a tavern owned BY
Benny Bass at Thirty eighth anc
Perry streets in Brentwood and were
being pursued by Mr.. Bass.
The two policemen said they were
told by Mr.. Bass that the two sol.
diers had run in to an alley between
Thirty-third and Perry streets ir
Mount Rainier. Policeman Burgess
said he and Policeman Austin
Joined Mr.. Bass in the chase on foot
AS they ran up the alley, Officer
Burgess said, they saw the two mer
jump over a 5-foot fence and escape
About an hour later, the policeman
said, he and Policeman Austin re.
ceived call that some one hac
broken into house at 2800 Rhode
Island avenue NE.
Believing that the intruders were
the same two soldiers, the two count,
policemen called District police
Three scout cars, a headquarter.
cruiser, two motorcycle policemen
and patrol wagon responded. A
few minutes later a jeep occupied
by several military policemen
pulled up.
After combing the area, thu
searchers picked up the trail of thu
two fugitives and pursued them tt
the District line at Eastern avenue
where the two made their escape.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
|WNC Seek
Doctors for
Glenn Dale
DR.. Dickens Moves
To ForestuII Action
In Personnel Shortage

DR.. Paul F. Dickens, chairman of
procurement and assignment of
physicians in the District for the
War Manpower Commission, will
consult with tuberculosis doctors
Immediately in an effort to forestall
the threatened closing of one of the
wards Of Glenn Dale Sanitarium,
because Of personnel shortage.
At a special meeting yesterday
afternoon the Board OF Commission
ers authorized Commissioner Guy
Mason to go ahead with plans for
buying or leasing bus to transport
the needed personnel to and from
Glenn Dale. Doctors will be asked
about a plan for visiting patients
there If additional gasoline can be
secured or transportation provided.
To Seek Bus Cost Figures.
Mr.. Mason planned to confer to-
day with Fred A. Sager, chief engi-
neer OF the Public Utilities Com
mission, on the cost of leasing or
purchasing bus for the District.
AS soon as the figures are obtained,
Mr.. Mason said he would 20 before
the House and Senate Appropria-
tions Committees to impress on them
the seriousness of the problem.
The possibility that a ward NAV
have to be closed became known
yesterday when Commissioner Ma
son made public correspondence of
Health Oficer George c. Rutland
and DR.. D. L. Finacune, superin-
tendent Of Glenn Dale. Although
authorized to have IA doctors, the
institution has only six, including
the superintendent and assistant
superintendent.
Another step to bolster person.
mel at the sanatorium was taken
Yesterday afternoon by Harold A.
McAllister, secretary Of the District
Personnel Board, and Paul Keen.
administrative assistant to DR.. FL
nacune, who visited the United
States Employment Office for the
District at SOL K street NV.
Search for Workers.
Mr.. McAllister said that repre-
sentative of the District govern
ment, probably Mr.. Keen, would
stay at the employment Office three
days a week, searching for such
workers as cooks, gardeners, fire.
men and engineers. He said they
had been assured that Glenn Dale
would receive preference If such
workers became available.
DR.. Finacune has emphasized the
problem OF obtaining personnel be-
cause OF the difficulties In reaching
Glenn Dale. At present, the only
interstate bus line goes only within
three-quarters OF q mile OF Glenn
Dale and the hours Of operation are
inconvenient. The superintendent
also has urged higher pay for en-
ployes because Of the heSitancy to
work at atubeFcular institution.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Prisoner Walks Away
From Arlington Gonq

Charles Hatfield, a prisoner with
a State road gang. escaped today
while at work on North Washington
boulevard, between Clarendon ano
Falls Church, Arlington County
police reported.
Police said the prisoner appar.
emily Just walked of" while the
men were at work on the road
Police did not know what Hatfield
had been convicted of.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
'0ver-29ers'
Win Draft Stay
By New Rules
120 Who Lost Cases
Month Ago Eligible
For Job Deferment

Almost all of the 120 older men
who lost their draft appeal cases
less than a month ago now will
be eligible for job deferment under
the broader draft regulations, a
check of District Board of Appeals
actions revealed today.
Although these lover 29ers" have
already gone through the appeal
board, the local boards will have
to reconsider their cases under the
new draft policy.
Since these cases were acted on
during the two-week period ending
April "a, when men over Is were not
being inducted here, few If any Of
these men have been drafted.
U. s. Employees in Group.
Included in the group denied de-
ferment month ago were a number
OF Government employees in the 80
and over group, who are now eligi-
BILE for deferment under the new
Government policy of submitting
evidence for deferment in the cases
OF all Federal employees 80 and over.
Among the 120 were 80 denied
hardship deferments by the appeal
board. Most of these men also will
be eligible for occupational defer
ment now because of their work.
Under the old regulations, the 100
men would not have been eligible
for deferment either because no
authorized Government request was
filed for them or because they were
not considered necessary men" in
private industry. Men 80 and over
no longer have to be necessary
men" but only regularly engaged in
jobs in the national health, safety
and interest"
Many Types Affected.
In addition to the Government
men-some of them high-ranking
omcials-the men who were refused
deferment by the appeal board last
month INCLUDE butchers, bakers, auto
mechanics, undertakers, union off,
cials, printers, newspapermen, bus
and streetcar operators, restaurant
employees, telegraph company en-
ployes, poultrymen, shoe repakmen,
hotel and apartment house employees
and many others in jobs which the
draft boards may consider are in the
national health, safety and in
terest."
In n cases, the men lost their de-
ferments as a result of the appeal
boards review. If the local boards
IN other areas where these men are
registered defer them again, as they
can under the new regulations, the
appeal board here will have to 70
over the cases q second time.
In all, the appeal board acted on
326 appeals from Ia and "A job de-
ferment reviews during the two
week period. The board granted SO
appeals for occupational deferment
and denied 179. It granted five hard
ship deferments and denied So. One
registrant who asked classification
in 4-E as a conscientious objector
was put in lao for noncombatant
duty in the armed forces.
On the review cases, the appeal
board approved rs occupational de-
ferments and disapproved 40.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Budget Filed
ForS3523,405
lin Montgomery
PROPOSED Holds
Existing Tax Rote
Of $3.50 Per 500

A proposed budget of $685. ,405.14
for Montgomery County which will
maintain the cotIntys present tax
rate Of $50 for each 500 of as
sessed property valuation was sub
mitted to the county commissioners
yesterday by Alexander K. Hancock,
county controller, and j. Forest
Walker, clerk to the commissioners.
The commissioners said q public
hearing on the budget, which would
become effective July /, will be called
before final action is taken. The
board said it is likely no further
changes will be made.
A proposal that the county estab-
lish an emergency ambulance service
for the Bethesda community was re-
fused by the commissioners on the
ground such service could best be
provided by hospitals in the area.
Proposal Followed Mishap.
The commissioners said the pro-
posal was made as a result of an
automobile accident May /. The
child, Dorothy Myers, 10-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
Myers, 230 Prospect street, was
struck by truck as she alighted
from a bus at Wisconsin avenue and
Langdon lane, and, according to her
mother, had to wait 80 minutes be-
fore an ambulance could be located.
The commissioners pointed out IL
emergency ambulance service were
established in the Bethesda area. it
also would be demanded in other
areas throughout the county. This,
they said. would result in a large
and continuing expense which the
County Commissioners do not feel
justified at this time in undertake
ing"
I'VE consequently suggest" the
board added, that this is a problem
that should be worked out by the
active hospital organizations of the
county or by paid and volunteer fire
departments, the latter of which al
ready are equipped as far as vehicles
are concerned to render such serv-
ice."
Two Banks Get Awards.
The commissioners awarded
$45o,000 issue of tax anticipation
certificates equally to the Suburban
National Bank of Silver Spring and
the Farmers Banking and Trust Co.
OF Rockville. The certificates, which
Will bear b of l per cent interest,
will run for four months from yes
terday.
Simms Moxley, Damascus, was
ordered transferred from night clerk
at the Rockville police station to
assistant radio dispatcher at Rock
vile, to succeed Mrs. Josephine D.
lWootton, Rockville, resigned. Doug
las Dosh, Gaithersburg, was made
might clerk to succeed Mr.. Moxley.
ION Recommendation of DR.. v. L.
tEllicott, county health officer, the
ooard appointed Miss Margaret
Ainsworth, Olney, a clerk In the
Health Department office at Rock
willie to replace Miss Alverna Fighter,
resigned
The commissioners announced
that hearing to permit property
owners to protest tax valuations
placed on new construction III the
county will be held at Rockville
June 27.
James w. Gill, attorney for Emory
H. Bogley, notified the commission
ers that the application for rezoning
the Bogley tract on Old Georgetown
road, Bethesda, has peen withdrawn
pending a study of land use In the
Bethesda area and a possible adop-
ton of master land use plan for
that area.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,


NINTH AIR FORCE BASE IN
ENGLAND, May II (by Wireless) -
Diving buzzsaws are the new A-20s
combined bombers and heavy fight.
ers which have just been introduced
into this theater. They now are
dropping three-quarter-to bomb
loads on the French coast several
times day. Faster and more ma
neuverable than medium bombers
they are used for altitude bombing
but are best adapted for skip bomb
ing at almost treetop levels, now
perilous due to fax defenses.
Two-engined craft, they carry two
50-caliber machine guns in the nose
which the crews claim are capable
of cutting destroyer in half like a
log before a saw. Two machine guns
in the upper turret have just been
added. 1t can fire a total of 1000
rounds.
These planes, with crews of three,
dive through intense fax barrages
and make marvellous returns to Eng
land full of holes. An all-purpose
plane, 1t can be used for any role,
helping ground forces when the in
vasion starts, especially straf1ng
enemy troops.
Among Best Pilots.
Among the best pilots is Capt.
Douglas Dunn, 5429 Tnirtieth place
NV, who voluntarily went to Eng
land for a second tour of duty after
returning to the United States from
Africa a year ago.
He was q bombardier- navigator
in the first American squadron in
England in the summer of 1912,
where he few Bostons, rather
primitive edition of the present 20s
without great fire power. After the
perilous LIE Havre and Abbeville
raids, he went to Africa on the first
invasion and few support missions
for the British ground troops
throughout the Tunisian campaign.
He found Bizerte the toughest
target.
Capt. Dunn returned from a re-
cent French coast mission with his
gas tank fax punctured. 1t. Russell
L. Vaughan, 1859 North Pershing
drive, Arlington, has just finished
nine missions in his ship. He has
been hit several times badly. Sergt.
Fred Bartlett, 2316 High street Sc,
has finished six missions.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Youth Hurt in Fall

Charles Ford, II, of 4807 Baltimore
avenue, Hyattsville, was injured yes
terday when he lost his balance and
fell Is feet from tree he was prun-
ing at the home of Representative
Vinson, Democrat, of Georgia, at 4
Primrose street, Chevy Chase, police
reported today. He was treated at
Suburban Hospital at Bethesda for
a back injury.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Baltimore Woman Killed
On Park Speedway Racer
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May ia young
Baltimore woman fell to her death
last night on the Mountain Speed
way" racer dips at Carlin's Park
flung out of speeding car.
She was identified by a girl com
panion as Mrs. Margaret Ruth
Kirby, %. Police said witnesses ir
the three-car train told them Mrs
Kirby apparently stood up to enjoy
better the dash down the highest
incline on the speedway, and top.
pied out as the cars gathered speed
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Save This Newspaper

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ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for 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.