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Evening star., 1944-01-30
Arlington Safety Council
Urges Boiler Insnection

The Arlington County Safety
Council adopted a resolution at a
meeting last week indorsing State
legislation to control inspection. in
stallation and operation of boilers
and other pressure equipment. A
bill making such inspection COM
pulsory has been introduced in the
General Assembly by Delegate j.
Maynard Magruder.
The council also adopted a reso-
luton opposing diversion of gasoline
and auto license taxes for any pur-
pose other than general highway
use.
AS the county entered it's 288th
day without traffic fatality, the
council announced that Marcy
Bros. Dairy is leading in the large
fleet operators safe-driving contest.
Operators of that firm have driven
208,640 miles without accident.
All 18 contestants, with 27s We
hicles, have travelled 2,O79,873 miles
in eight months with total of %
accidents and three injuries.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Arlington Will Give
Free Blood Tests
Three-Doy Schedule
At Centers Announced

The Arlington County Health De-
partment, in cooperation with the
Red Cross and local physicians, will
offer free blood tests Wednesday
Thursday and Friday at centers in
various sections of the county, ii
was announced last night.
= Tests will be given at the follow
ing centers:
Wednesday - Clarendon Health
Center, 9 am. to S pm; Carver
Homes, 8 to and to 10 p.m.;
Virginia Highlands Health Center
4 to 8 pm, and the Jeb Stuart
and Early Homes, to 8 pm.
Thursday-Arna Valley Homes
II am. to noon, and 7::3O to 8:3C
pm; Arlington Village, 1::3O to 2:3C
and $50 to pm; Buckingham
Apartments, 2 to and to pm.
and the Henry G. Shirley Homes
6 to pm.
Friday-Bancroft Apartments,
to 3 and 7 to $50 pm, and the
Picket Homes, 7 to 8 pm.
Tests also will be given from 2 tc
8 and $50 to pm. the following
Monday at Lee Gardens and
Colonial Village.
Officials emphasized that all tests
will be free and results will be
given only to individuals taking
them.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
1000 Citizens Want
I Doctors Deferred
Bethesdo-C Chevy Chase
Area Fears Shortage

Faced with severe shortage of
physicians because of inductions in
the armed forces, more than 1000
residents of the Bethesda Chevy
Chase area have signed a petition
asking that seven doctors in the
area be deferred.
The move was precipitated by a
report that two of the seven doctors
have been ordered to report for
physical examinations. The seven
are: Drs. Bruce Benjamin, Leo I.
Donovan, Emil G. Bauersfeld, Paul
D. Cantor, E. A. A. Dunn, w. o.
Huff and F. A. Martinez.
The petition declares that although
the United States Public Health
Service recommends minimum re-
quirement of one doctor for every
5000 persons, at present there is only
one doctor for every 5000 persons in
the two nearby Maryland commune
ties.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
virginiians
Face 'Physicals'
In Next 50 Days
Droft Heads Seek
To Gauge Number
Of Available Men
~ the Associated Press,

by the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Jan. 29.-Pre- -induc-
ton physical examinations will be
given in Virginia to q comparatively
large number in the next so days
to determine how many are avail
able for service and to build up
a backlog Of registrants, Col. Mills
F. Neal. State selective service d.
rector, announced today.
Persons receiving these examina-
tions will have a minimum of q
days before being ordered for induc-
ton and this period will be ex-
tended gradually up to As days.
the State director said. The ar
rangement gives definite prelimi-
nary information to an individual
whether or not he will be indicted
and thus allow both employer and
employe to make more definite
plans.
Col. Neal said the work of the
Seiective Service would tighten con-
siderably after the next six months
when 1t Is expected the armed serv-
Ices Will have recruited their full
strength and work will become
largely a matter of replacements.
Clarifying what he termed com
siderable misunderstanding" of the
new regulations concerning the
relationship between preinduction
examinations and appeals, Col. Neal
explained that appeals for defer
ment are forwarded but will not be
acted on until after the preinduc-
ton examination. Should the in
dividual fail to pass the examina-
tion the appeal is automatically
concluded, he said If the registrant
passes the examination, the appeal
will be considered.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Arlington Mass Meeting
10 Discuss Nursery Need

A mass meeting to discuss the
need for public nursery schools in
Arlington County will be held next
Sunday at the St. Thomas More
Church, North Thomas street near
Lee boulevard, it was announced
last night by the Arlington Citizens
Committee for Nursery Schools. The
time of the meeting and speakers
will be announced later.
The committee said the county
school board has been requested to
make immediate application for
Lanham Act funds to aid in estab-
fishing nursery schools and to de-
termine in what areas such schools
will be located and to provide the
necessary housing. to procure neces-
Isary furniture and equipment and to
make available in the courthouse
and at schools facilities for working
mothers to register for nursery care
for children.
The committee said the drive for
nursery schools in the county has
been conducted for almost a year by
the committee as we'll as by other
organizations and individual groups
Evening star., 1944-01-30

QuC II W NC DA' AeseE ASsshs'
taught at the university. It is be-
lieved that the University of Mary
land is the only college in the Wash
ington area in which such a course
Is taught to undergraduates.
There are several possible meth
DDS to stop delinquency among boys
and girls, he said Among these are
placement in foster homes, super
vised recreation, analysis of school
problems of children and psyche
analytical treatment Only as last
resort should delinquents be sent to
correctional institutions, he added.
Present Steps Inadequate.
AT present, he explained, the only
methods which can be used in the
absence of q juvenile court are a
supervised recreational program and
the admission Of delinquents to in
stitutions.
While he termed . recreational
program very good" Dr.. Lejins
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Recreation Program
To Begin This Week
AT Arlington Center :
Sewing Glasses, Doncing
Entertainment Slated at
Wilson Boulevard Site
Miss Marion Timberlake. director

Miss Marion Timberlake, director
OF war recreation in Arlington
County, announced yesterday that
the seven-day-a-week program of
the Recreation Center, $3.50 boule-
ward, will begin this week.
Activities, open to all county resi-
dents of all ages. are scheduled as
follows:
Community singing every fourth
Tuesday of each month; junior and
senior high school student activity
from 4 to 6 pm. every Monday and
Wednesday; Girl Scout meetings
the first Monday of each month
the Arlington Women's Choral So
ciety, under direction of Nation
Boyce, 8 pm. every third Tuesday
There will be cooking and sewing
classes from to pm. each Tues
day. Mrs. William Graham will
hold a storytelling class for pre-
school children during that period
so women with small children will
be free to attend.
The second Wednesday night OF
each month will be devoted to county
men and women war workers. Once
a month servicemen from Arlington
Hall will use the Center.
From to 9 pm each Friday. the
Girl Reserves will meet and from
9 to midnight Fridays the Junior
Recreation Club will hold dance.
for junior and senior high schoo
students.
Dancing classes will be held from
4 to pm. every Thursday for high
school students and war workers
Dancing classes will be held fol
children between and 8 years ole
from 9 to 10 am. each SATURDAY.
From 10 until IL am. classes are
offered children between the ages
of and IL.
On week ends, the center is de-
voted entirely to entertainment of
servicemen and servicewomen. The
hours are from pm. until mid
night Saturdays and from / to 10
pm. Sundays.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Smooth Senate Path
Seen for Bill BOOSTING
Virginia Workers Pay
House Due to Take Hp
SaIes Tax Proposal
For Study Monday
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Richmond, Jan. 29.-The bonu.
bill, subject of much discussion ir
committee, will meet with no "seri-
GUS opposition" when it is consid-
cred by the Virginia Senate mex,
week, ChairrSan Aubrey G.. Weaver
of the Finance Committee predicted
today.
Opposition to the bill developed
during consideration by the Finance
Committee on the grounds that il
did not provide sufficient increases
for some of the lower paid State
workers. M
The measure was reported without
major amendment, but the pro-
ponents of boost in the percentage
increase won an opening for study
OF starvation wages" which Senator
Ralph H. Daughton said were being
paid some State employees.
Provides Is Pct. Raise.
The bonus bill provides for a Is
per cent increase on the first $4,000
OF income provided the increase
does not raise the total salary past
$500.
The Spiers resolution, calling for
study of general sales tax. NAV
reach the floor of the House Mon
day. The House Rules Committee
to which the resolution was refer
red, meets Monday morning before
the convening of the two houses
at noon.
Delegate John B. Spiers, Radford
said today he had heard much
favorable comment and no adverse
comment on his proposal for the
Legislative Advisory Council to
study the advisability of a sales tax
for the twofold purpose of raising
additional revenue and relieving the
burden of local real estate taxation
Mr.. Spiers expressed belief that
the proposal for a sales tax, without
accompanying information as to
the rate and purpose, would almost
certainly be defeated" by a vote OF
the people in a referendum.
Would Study Distribution.
Under his resolution, he added. the
council would report a year or more
before the next assembly session
and prior to the time for a refer
endum date, which could be fixed by
this General Assembly.
The council would study "a method
for distribution of the proceeds from
such tax as between the common
wealth and the localities, and for
the application of the share of the
localities from such tax, or the ma ajor
part thereof, to reductions of the
existing tax on real estate, and
especially to the property of small
home owners"
A bill calling for a 3 per cent sales
tax is now pending in the Senate.
The measure, sponsored by Senator
Y. Melvin Hodges, would provide
that the revenue from the tax be
earmarked for the public schools. \
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Prisoners Would Pa,
For Board Until Trial
Under Virginia Plan
Bills Would Be Charged
As Port Of Court Costs;
Other Changes Urged
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Jan. 29.-Recom-
mendation, designed to effect a
number of important changes in
the penal system in Virginia, have
been handed to Gov. Darden in a
report by State Auditor of Public
Accounts L. Mccarthy Downs.
Among Mr.. Downs recommenda-
tions, as released today, were:
That jail prisoners be charged a
fiat rate of IS cents a day as board
during the period they are held
awaiting trial. Board would not be
charged to prisoners serving jail
sentences.
Board bills of the prisoners would
be taxed as a part of the costs as
sessed by the courts in their cases
when they are tried and will stand
as part Of the judgments against
them.
Would Include Police Fees.
The State auditor also recon-
mended that fees for the services
of State police officers also be taxed
against defendants as part of the
costs. but that such fees, If and
when paid, be turned into the State
treasury.
State police officers would not
retain the fees so assessed as part
of their compensation, in as much
as they, like sheriffs and city SER
eeants, are now on a salary basis
under the legislative act of 1850.
A number Of observations were
made on operation of the salary
law 'as it affected the sheriffs ard
sergeants during the first 10 months
of 1943.
"a Filed Appeals.
Twenty-four sheriffs and SER
geants appealed from orders of the
State Compensation Board fixing
their salaries and asked the courts
Tor review of the boards edicts.
Mr.. Downs said the board was up-
held in full in only one case in the
"a appeals.
A consolidation of all cost items
connected with the operations of the
sherif1s which come under jurisdic-
ton OF the Compensation Board
showed that actual expenditures for
the first 10 months Of 1943 totalled
$588, 8,981 25. Actual cost of main
tanning the sergeants, their deputies
and their employees was reported at
$l84 PILOT and 1t was estimated the
figure might reach $220958.45 for
the full year.
1910 System Compared.
In 1910, under the fee system. net
income and costs for the 100 sheriffs
amounted to $586,271.15, and for the
1S city sergeants, $204 ,36383.
Revenues collected by the State
from the collection of fees by the
sheriffs during the 10 months COW
cred by the survey were reported at
$45, ,692.98. Fee collections from the
sereeants amounted to $12,469.67.
MIR. Downs concluded from these
figures that the commonwealth
would receive $104,692.77 for 1943.
which, he pointed out, represents
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Planning Commission
To Offer Postwar Plans

Postwar plans of the Maryland.
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission will be presented at 6
meeting of the Prince Georges
Chamber of Commerce at pm to.
morrow in the Hyattsville Ele-
mentary School.
Subjects to be discussed will in.
clude master plan for the regional
districts of Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties, development oi
the Anacostia Parkway, flood con-
troll, zoning regulations and the
reservation of land for parks, play
grounds and recreational areas.
Fred w. Tuemmler and Irwin ]
Kaplan, director of planning anc
chief engineer, respectively, of the
commission, will lead the discussion
with Robert NJ Watkins, Prince
Georges County member of the
commission and president of the
chamber.
The chamber also will honor c. D
Anderson, who recently resigned as
secretary after 10 years of service.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

pointed out that no agency has au-
thor1ty to force children to partici-
pate In such program.
If the child's parents work dur
ing the day." he asserted, "the
child either can go to a playground
If one is available, or spend his or
her time playing on the street. A
juvenile court, however, could COM
pei the child to participate in a rec
reation program and remove any
opportunity he might have to be-
come delinquent"
Under the present system. chill
dren arrested for lawbreaking often
are held in jail pending trial and
are thrown into contact" with har-
dened criminals, he said.
If a juvenile court existed, how
ever, he pointed out, the child could
be brought to trial promptly.
Trained Judge Needed.
Declaring that any measures tax.
en- to curb juvenile delinquency are
virtually useless" without a iu.
venile court, DR.. Lejins emphasized
that such court must have ade.
quate facilities in order to be effec.
tive.
To be really" effective, a juvenile
court should have a Judge trained
in dealing with children, one or two
probation officers and adequate sec.
retarial help.
A native of Moscow, DR.. Lejin.
was educated at the University o1
Latyia and at the Sorbonne in Paris
After receiving his doctor ot
philosophy degree in 1887 at the
University of Chicago, he returned
to Latvia, where he held the chail
Of criminal law at the university
there.
He came to the United States ir
1910 and obtained position with
the University Of Maryland soor
afterward. He became q citizen o1
this country about q week ago.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

of employing a full-time director.
An expenditure during the first
year of at least $4,000 probably will
be required to obtain services of a
competent director and to finance
an expanded program. he said. He
believed, however, that the benefits
would outweigh the costs.
May Change Two Agencies.
He reported that a special COM
mittee has instituted action to turn
over the financing of the Public
Welfare and Social Hygiene Boards
to the County Board.
THE services of these two public
agencies, now financed by the Chest,
are Of such nature that is is now
appropriate that the Arlington
County government assume full
responsibility for the services" Mr..
Stovall said.
In reporting the $4,000 raised in
the county during last year toward
a $54, 800 budget, Mr.. Stoval paid
tribute to r. Wade Pearson who.
he said, had bought 1900 volunteer
workers into line.
The money obtained by our solici-
tors is not indicative OF the amount
which Arlingtonians actually have
contributed" he said. The best
information we can obtain indicates
that county residents contribute
almost 100000 in Arlington and
Washington.
Recommends Merger Study.
Mr.. Stovall recommended that the
Arlington Chest consult with repre-
sentatives of the Fairfax organiza-
ton to study possible joint or uni
fled services to both counties.
Community welfare services Of
these two counties may become so
interviewer that it may be wise to
merge the activities of the two
chests now serving in the areas. If
the time should come, Arlington
Chest officials must be prepared to
act intelligently on such proposal"
he said. !. Se
Othef officers re-elected for the
coming year include Mrs. Ruby
Simpson, vice president; A. r. Lund-
berg, secretary; Elmer F. Newell,
treasurer, and j. Harold Stehman,
assistant treasurer.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Charles P. Toft to Talk
To Falls Church Group

Charles P. Taft, director of War;
time Economic Affairs in the State
Department, will be the speaker at
the first meeting of The Falls
Churchmen, a mems group of The
Falls Episcopal Church, at 8 pm.
Tuesday at the Parish Hall on East
Broad street, Falls Church.
Mr.. Taft, a prominent lay worker
of the Episcopal Church, was one
of the founders of the Cincinnati
charter-city manager form of gov
ernment. Men members of the
church are invited to come and
bring their friends to the meeting.
which will be a smoker
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Sales Tax Hit
As Disastrous
In Arlington
Reece Puts Cost
In Alexandra at
Million q Yeur

A 8 per cent sales tax now, as
proposed in the Virginia General
Assembly by Senator Y. Melvin
Hodges, would cost the people Of
Alexandria 100000 a year and
would prove disastrous" to Arling-
ton County merchants and property
owners, business leaders In the two
nearby communities asserted last
night.
H. c. Reece, president Of the
Alexandria Retail Merchants As
sociation, said Alexandria retail
sales, which amounted to $24,152,817
In 1912, are now over $25, 900, 900 a
year. A straight per cent tax
would cost the people s750,00o a
year, and the fact that many sales
are less.than one dollar would bring
the amount to at least $1,000 600.
he added.
Appropriation Voted.
Asserting that the tax would prova
disastrous to business, the Execu-
tive Committee of the Arlington
Chamber of Commerce adopted
Friday a resolution opposing the
measure and voted an appropriation
to carry on a publicity campaign
against the tax. A chamber dele
CATION also will oppose the measure
before the Senate Finance Com
mittee.
Mr.. Reece said other retail mer.
chants associations throughout the
State also have indicated opposition
to the tax and plans are being made
for wide advertising campaign"
to bring the measure before the
people.
Mr.. Reece said businessmen fear
that additional appropriations to
schools from the sales tax would
not offset the cost of the tax. He
said that taxpayers would taus
carry an unfair burden in view Of
the amount already paid in taxes
to support schools and of the sur
plus in the State treasury.
Border Cities Vehement.
Other border cities in Virginia, he
said, are strongest in opposing the
tax. Cities bordering Tennessee.
where no sales tax exists. fear loss
OF business to that State, while
cities bordering North Carolina.
where a sales tax is in force, would
lose business they now are getting
from that State, he pointed out.
The Arlington Chamber of Com.
merce also requested the county
board to adopt resolution oppos-
ing the tax at its meeting yester-
day. and the Alexandria Chamber
OF Commerce is expected to back
tne Retail Merchants Association
IN its opposition to the measure.
The Arlington Board of Trade,
which also has appropriated funds
to fight the tax, will hold a mass
meeting of county residents at a
pm. Tuesday at the Washington-Lee
High, School to direct its ~ fight
against the measure.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

only two-thirds of the fees actually
collected. since one third is retained
by the cities and counties under the
Salary Act.
The auditor also reported that
local jails, lockups, etc. were in
deplorable condition, and generally
very poorly operated"
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Montgomery
Gets Hospital,
Nursery Funds
FWA AIIocutes
S55,l4l and $31,372
To County Agencies

Additional Federal assistance for
maintenance and operation OF the
Suburban Hospital at Bethesda and
, for expansion of child care facilities
In Montgomery County was ap-
proved yesterday by Maj Gen.
Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works
administrator.
Gen. Fleming said an increase Of
$55,141 was granted to a previous
allotment of $68,850 for operation
and maintenance of the hospital.
and funds for child care aid were
raised from $24.162 to $55,534, an
increase of $31, ,372.
While virtually all funds ap-
propriated under the Lanham Act
for community facilities elsewhere
have been allocated, Gen. Fleming
said, there still remains a balance
in the appropriation which Con-
gress made specifically for projects
in the Washington Metropolitan
area.
An increase in the number of
Montgomery County women who
have become employed has neces-
STATED the expansion of the child
care service to five war nurseries
for $50 preschool children, and 10
child care centers for 400 school
children, it was said.
DR.. Edwin w. Broome, superin-
tendent of Montgomery County
schools, said child care centers will
be located in the metropolitan area
as the need arises. He said nursery
schools are in operation at Takoma
Park, Glen Echo and Cabin John.
The War and Navy Departments,
the Maryland State Department of
Education and the United States
Office of Education have Endorsed
expansion of the child care program,
Gen. Fleming said.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Dr.. Walls to Address
Montgomery Gardeners

DR.. E. P. Walls of the University
OF Maryland will give a talk on
Harvesting and Storing Victory
Garden Crops" at 8 pm. Thursday
at the dispensary building in Silver
Spring.
The lecture is one of a series of
Victory garden talks being presented
by the Montgomery Victory Garden
Committee for the eastern suburban
area Of the county. All interested
persons are invited.