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Evening star., 1944-01-21
Alexandra Chamber Asks
Annexation Of Fairfax Area

Presentation to the Virginia Cen
eral Assembly this week Of a bill to
prohibit annexation Of territory
without the consent OF the majority
Of voters in the affected territory
coincided with q request by the
Alexandria Chamber Of Commerce
that the City Council institute i'm
mediate annexation proceedings be-
fore the legislation is approved.
The Chamber Of Commerce has
favored annexation of sections Of
Fairfax County for some time, and
Robert Whitton, former president
Of the chamber, and Martin Greene,
business manager, recently appeared
before the City Council to request
prompt action.
The council now is making q sur
vey to determine to what extent
annexation should be considered.
City Manager Carl Budwesky said
he felt that an exhaustive study
should be made to determine what
benefits the city would derive and
what burden would be placed on its
facilities by such additions.
Both Mr.. Budwesky and Common
wealth's Attorney Albert v. Bryan
have expressed belief the proposed
legislation Il not likely to b passed,
and that there is therefore no need
to r,,sh proceedings.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Capt. Wilson 10 Talk
Al War Bond Rally
Torowo Veteran to Toke
Place Of 1t. lucos

Capt. Earl P. Wilson, Marine Corps
combat correspondent, who took
part In the capture of Tarawa, will
speak at a War bond rally at 8
O'Clock tonight at Leland Junior
High School, Chevy Chase, Md, in
stead of 1t. Jim Lucas. Capt. VIII
son, formerly was a reporter for the
Post.
The change was announced yes
terday by w. Prescott Allen, general
chairman, who said Navy Depart
ment transfer orders prevent 1t.
Lucas from attending.
Another feature of the rally, which
is given under auspices of the Civi-
tan Club OF Bethesda in cooperation
with the Western District Bond
Committee of Montgomery County,
will be the showing of the techni-
color film of the Back the Attack
show in the last bond campaign.
Doors will open at 7 pm, when
an exhibit Of equipment by the mo-
bile force of the military district of
Washington will begin in the school
gymnasium.
The program will include auction
ing OF dozen captured German he'll
NETS. Former Police Inspector Rich
ard Mansfield, we'll ll-known cartoon
ist. will give chalk talk and the
Army will present a display of equip
ment and training on the stage.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Three Die, Six Injured
In School Bus-Auto Crash
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOWLING GREEN, KY, Jan. II
Three persons were killed and siz
injured near here yesterday in thu
head-on crash Of = school bus and
an automobile.
r. L. Massey, farmer, who saw the
Aviation Consolidated School bu.
and the automobile collide said the
bus, carrying approximately is stu
dents, rolled over once and landed
upright in q ditch. The auto was
demolished.
The dead: Lloyd Byers, "a, OF
Boyce, and his father, Abner, occu-
pants of the automobile, and Mar
shall Wayne Cosby, 10, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Rommer Cosby Of Aviation,
occupant Of the bus,
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Federal Employment
Almost Unchanged
Here in November
Total Jobs in Nation
Is Put at 2,952,6s2,
Gain Of $50 in Month

Federal employment in the Wash
ington Metropolitan Area at the end
of November remained practically
unchanged, a decrease of only 299
employees being recorded as COM
pared with the October 81 totals.
OF the 265 ,287 paid employees in the
District area, 257, 1883 were employed
full time on a salaried of wage basis
as Of November 30.
A slight increase in total Federal
employment was shown by figures
made public today by the Civil
Service Commission. The total was
1882, ,6S2 compared with 2,952,0l3 at
the end of November. a gain of $50.
The November increase, even If
small, stopped the downward en-
ployment trend set In motion in
June, 1943, when the total Federal
roll showed 3,002, ,453 employees in the
continental United States, excluding
Alaska and the Panama Canal Zone.
The full-time employment in June,
ls43, was only 2,793,15s.
AS Of November 30 there were
1,684,511 men and 968 8,251 women in
full-time employment for Uncle
Sam within the continental United
States. The bulk Of these were
hired by the War and Navy Depart
ments, War having 1,208.942 and
Navy 625 1856 civilian employees. The
chief change was the dropping of
4,2lo employees by the War Depart
ment in November while the Navy
was adding 6,328 to It's rolls.
Agencies showing reductions In
November compared with October
were: Tennessee Valley Authority
1,l3s; Agriculture, 1.e22; War Man
power Commission. 40; Interior,
SAT; Labor, 16e, and Federal &c
|curity Agency. ia. The Treasury
Department added l.4l8 employees
and the growing Veterans Admins
tration took On 3S2 additional
workers,
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Truck Helper Killed
Under Trailer Wheels,
Years Fourth Fatality
Four Others Injured
In Traffic Accidents
In District Area

Falling beneath the wheels Of q
heavy trailer truck when he slipped
from the running board of the We
hicle, James L. Middleton, 81, COL
ored. 10l7 Seventh street Sc, was
killed instantly early today. 1t was
the fourth traffic fatality of the year
as compared with seven on this
date last year.
According to Wilbur w. Peake, %,
'of 1906 Georgia avenue, Silver
Spring, Md, driver of the truck,
Middleton was attempting to board
the vehicle as it pulled away from
a warehouse at Fourth and c streets
S.W., but slipped and fell to the
pavement.
Police said that the victim was
employed as part-time helper on
the truck, but had been told he
was not to report for work this
morning.
A physician from Casualty Hos
pital summoned to the scene of the
accident pronounced the man dead,
and police booked the driver for
appearance at a coroner's inquest.
Struck by Taxi.
Paul Leadwell, SO, of AIT Sixth
street NV. was seriously injured
last night when struck by taxi at
Fifth and H streets NV. He was
treated at Emergency Hospital for
face injuries and is being held for
observation for possible skull frac-
ture.
The driver of the cab, police re-
ported, was John N. Scribner, %, of
423 Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Treated at Garfield Hospital for
minor injuries last night and later
discharged were Marie Walford, "a,
and Fannie Deskin, 81. both Of
Riverdale, Nd. They were pas
sengers In . car driven by walden
Mcintyre, 20, Of 1903 Fifth street
NV. when 1t collided with another
at Thirteenth street and Columbia
road NV. The driver Of the other
car was Alger K. Doland Of Rock
away, N. J. Neither driver was in
jured.
Seek Victims Address.
Police reported that they were as
yet unable to learn the address of
Hugh Du Coates. 7s, who is in Emer-
gency Hospital suffering from a
fractured skull received when he was
struck by Capital Transit Co,
streetcar in the 1900 block of New
York avenue Wednesday morning.
The man lapsed into unconscious
ness shortly after he gave police his
name and is in q serious condition.
The operator Of the streetcar,
Walter L. McVearry, 80, Of the 100
block Of Thirty-sixth street NE,
told police that the man had stepped
from behind a tree adjacent to the
car tracks just as the car ap-
preached.
When the cab he was driving
crashed into light pole in the TOO
block Of Bladensburg road early
yesterday morning, Leonard D.
Hankin, 36, of 7737 Emerson road,
West Lanham, Md, was thrown
against the windshield and received
minor injuries. He was treated at
Casualty Hospital and sent home.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Youthful Bandits Rob
Two Women in Home

Two Alexandria women were
robbed last night Of two watches and
$40 by three youthful bandits who
entered their home at 512 Duke
street, Alexandra police reported to-
day.
Mrs. George Fitchett told police
that she answered q ring ct the
door, thinking it was q friend, and
that the three boys entered. She
said they were carrying pistols and
announced that this is a holdup."
Mrs. Fitchett said she and Miss
Charlotte Taylor, who lives at the
Fftchett house, were held up while
the youths searched the first floor
Mrs. Elizabeth Ross, who occupies
the second floor, locked her door.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
From Yesterdays Late Editions. }

trIOHt CStcIUuy LutS EutLIOUS./
Mrs. William o. Douglas, wife OF
the Supreme Court Justice, pitched
in to help relieve the shortage OF
District School teachers today, tax
ing over Latin class in Powell
Junior High School after hearing OF
the serious shortage of teacher per-
sonnel from her 14-year-old daugh-
ter.
Mrs. Douglas was Joined by an
other parent, Mrs. Roy Frank. in
offering her services to Principal
Thomas F. Ferry of the Paul Junior
High School.
Today Mrs. Douglas got a call
from a high school principal-she
thought at the Paul Junior-to re-
port at once to fill the place of Mrs.
Helen Craig, Latin teacher, who
had gone home i'll. Mrs. Douglas
rushed to the Paul, to find that it
was the Powell Junior High School,
Hiatt place and Lamont street NV,
where she was needed. Mr.. Ferry
had passed her name on to Principal
Lester Walter Of Powell Junior High
School.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Senate Unit to Consider
Virginia Judge Naming
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Chairman Van Nuys of the Sem
ate Judiciary Committee yesterday
named a three-man subcommittee
to consider the nomination Of
Sterling Hutcheson to be Judge Of
the Eastern Virginia District Court,
succeeding the late Judge Luther
B. Way.
Senators Kilgore, Democrat, West
Virginia; Andrews, Democrat,
Florida, and Austin, Republican,
Vermont. were named to the group.
At the same time formal requests
for expressions on the nomination
were sent by the committee to the
two Virginia senators.
Under committee rules, the SUBJ
committee will call a meeting q
week hence to act on the nomina- j.
ten and give an opportunity for
any one interested to be heard
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Citizenship Granted
To 33 in Rockville
- Are. Residents
Of Montgomery County
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SpeClal Dlspatcn 10 Inc star.
ROCKVILLE, Md Jan. 90
Thirty three foreign-borp persons
all but four of them residents OF
Montgomery County. were admitted
to United States citizenship in cere-
monies before Judge Stedman Pres
colt in the Circuit Court here this
week.
Those admitted, their native coun-
tries and present places of residence
follow:
Austria, Hildegarde Clevering, Sill
yer Spring; Bolivia. Nellie Barrau
de Everett, Silver Spring: Greece
Helen zuran, Silver Spring; Hol-
land, Peter Aris DeVries, Silver
Spring: Ireland, Hanorah Mary
Casey, Bethesda; Russia, Betty Gre
ber. Takoma Park.
Lithuania, Mary Homer, Bethes-
da; Switzerland, Andree Canova
Norbeck; Turkey, Ibrahim Nebril
Muntaz (name changed to Nevil
Montgomery, Chevy Chase; Czech
oslovakia. Betty Smerda Groome
Bethesda; Italy, Josephine Branchi
Macarthur boulevard: Hungary
Mary Cipri Nugent, Takoma Park
Clara Grunspan Feldman, Bethesda
Germany, Richard Schiff, WASH
ington: Elsie Agnes Rietz, Silver
Spring; Kate Coblenz, Takoma
Park; Rose Gertrud Weile, Takoma
Park; Eric Israel Weile, Takoma
Park; Herbert William Griesert, Sell
man.
Great Britain or British posses
sionS, Roma Monica Benser, WASH
ington; Joseph Adams, Glen Echo
Heights; Anna Mishler. Bethesda !;
Lorna Linn. Silver Spring: Harold
Irwin Dover, Takoma Park; Her
bert Hunter Norton, Rockville; Al
bert Romaine Wood, Georgetown,
Ind; George Gilbert Chadwick,
Silver Spring; Eileen Anne Howell,
Washington; Beatrice Elizabeth
Thomas Pinoe, Rockville; Jessie
Gardner McPhail, Silver Spring:
Margaret Nakomieczny, Chevy
Chase; Albert Eccles Kay, Takoma
Park; Violet Amanda Murphy, Ia
koma Park.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Save This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
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.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Medical Society Raps
Selection Of Staff for
Arlington Hospital
County Group Urges
lurger Number, Chosen
From Physieions in Area

The Arlington County Medical So
ciety was on record today as ap-
proving only a STAFF for the new
county hospital containing a dem
ocratic and wide" representation of
physicians practicing in the county.
At a meeting last night the soci-
ETY. pointed out that the hospital,
constructed with Federal funds, is a
public institution and should have
a large staff representing every
phase Of medicine in the county.
Members said that while the So
ciety was in no way criticizing the
hospital board, which on December
~ named an eight-member staff
composed almost entirely of WASH
ington doctors, it felt that the best
interest OF the county could be
served by large rather than small
staff Of physicians.
Earlier, Charles H. Dabbs, hos
pital administrator, announced that
Gilbert L. Han. president of the
Arlington County Hospital Associa-
ton, has formally accepted the hos
pital. at 5129 North eentK4street,
from the Federal Works Agency.
& An open house for Arlington
.Coanty residents will, be held 1t the
hospital February IL and 13, and
the institution viii open to receive
patients shortly thereafter. Mr.,
Dahbs said.
He said workmen are stu on the
premises and new equipment Is be-
ing received every day. Mr.. Dabbs
said an iron lung has been given by
the Rotary Club, and an oxygen tent
by the Lions Club. He added that
hospital officials hope other service
clubs will sponsor a gift to the hos
pital Of a blood and plasma bank.
Mr.. Dabbs said 10 per cent of the
hospital beds have been endowed,
and at the time of opening a full
stan Of nurses will be on hand. The
institution is 10n-hed hoepifsl
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Transit Unions Give
WLB 3O-Day Notice
Of Strike Today
Refusal Of Increases
To Capitol and A.. B.&W
Men Brings Warning

Thirty-day strike notices will be
given the War Labor Board today by
unions representing employees Of the
Capital Transit Co. and the Alexan-
dria, Bancroft q Washington Trans
portation Co., following refusal OF
the WLB to grant company and
union requests for a scent wage in
crease.
Offlcials of both locals, afYiliates
of the AFL Amalgamated Associa-
tion Of Street, Electric Railway and
Motor Coach Operators of America
said while the strike notices, required
by the Anti-Strike Act, were being
given, strike votes will not be taken
during this period unless ut is alb
solutely necessary"
In refusing requests for the s.
cent raise the WLB suggested that
bonus payments be made employees
as compensation for abnormal work
and as incentive during the emer-
gency, and conferences were to con-
tinue today between union and
company officials in an attempt to
reach an agreement on bonus pay
ments.
Arnold Men Confer.
Meanwhile, officials of the union
local, representing employees of the
Arnold-Operated Bus Lines, said the
Arnold union will "go along" in de-
mands for bonus payments. They
said a conference with company
officials has been scheduled today.
Arnold-Operated employees were
granted a straight 7-cent-an-hour
raise by WLB, which will raise one
year operators from II to 70 cents
an hour and men with more than q
years experience from 81 to SO
cents an hour. The union had de-
manded q straight 14-cent wage
boost.
Public to Be Advised.
William H. jackson, president of
the A. B. & w. local, said drivers
agreed at meetings yesterday that
the public would be given due
notice" of any strike He added
that every effort" is being made
to work out an amicable solution to
the problem
Jonathan G. Bigelow, head of the
Capital Transit Co. local, said that
while no definite agreement was
reached at meeting with COM
pany ofiicials yesterday. progress is
being made toward a solution of the
bonus problem.
He said union officials are subject
to a call today for further confer
ences and auditors are now at work
on the matter.
Mr.. Bigelow said any agreements
reached will be presented to union
members at meetings at 8 pm.
Monday and at 10:30 am. Tuesday
at the Labor Hall, 525 New Jersey
avenue NV.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
lowyer Plans to Appeal
81 Purkino Fine Here

After being fined 81 on a parking
charge, Samuel w. McCart, SO, of
the 900 block of Fifteenth street
NV, a lawyer, yesterday told Traf-
nc Court Judge Nathan d. Margold
he would appeal the case.
McCar, charged with parking in
q restricted area on Fourteenth and
L streets NV, admitted seeing the
sign prohibiting parking at any
time, but he pleaded not guilty on
the ground that trafic conditions
IN the area did not warrant the re-
striction.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Student Leader Wins 4.
Roosevelt School Medal

Robert Madison Brown, president
OF Roosevelt High School Student
Council, yesterday received the Gen.
eral Efficiency Medal, the schools
highest honor.
The presentation was made at an
assembly by William w. Rogers, as
sistant principal. School Better
ment" awards were given to Susie
Bell Waple and Theodore Lerner.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Legislators Study
Measure 10 Combat !.
Road Fund Diversion
Virsinio House Proposal
Seeks Explanation Of
School Fund Gronts
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Jan. 21.-Tne Gen.
efal Assembly would 60 on record
as opposing diversion Of highway
funds under provisions Of q Joint
resolution expected to come up for
consideration today at a meeting
Of the Senate Finance Committee.
The resolution was offered by
Senator Aubrey G. Weaver, Front
Royal. He was sponsor at the 1910
session of resolution calling for q
constitutional amendment to pro-
hibit diversion Of special road funds.
The resolution passed the Senate,
but was voted down, 37-62, In the
House.
The 1912 session adopted . reso-
luton similar to the ono offered ut
this session.
The new resolution provides tiat
1T Is the sense Of the General As
semhly Of Virginia that all revenue
derived from excess taxes imposed
on motor fuels and from motor
vehicle registration fees and licenses
shall, after certain expenses and
obligations are taken care Of, "bs
used solely and exclusively" for
construction. maintenance and other
work Of the Highway Department.
Governors Power Unchanged.
1t is provided further that moth.
ing in the resolution shall be con-
strued as limiting the wartime
powers conferred on the Governor.
Under a House resolution, the
State Department of Education IL
directed to supply detailed informa-
ton on the method used In dis.
tributing school funds. Delegate L.
Preston Collins, Smyth, in offer
ing the resolution, said some infor-
nation involved in the formula was
the most elusive, fantastic and
preposterous thing you ever saw
an invisible and intangible thing"
Both the Senate and House ar.
ranged to meet at II am. today, an
hour earlier than usual, in order to
allow members to leave the city
earlier for the week end.
Two bills were reported out by the
Finance Committee. One provides
for repeal Of sections of chapter
64. acts of the Assembly of 1888,
which provide refunds for gasoline
dealers not exceeding 2 cents a
gallon in areas adjacent to States
or the District. The provision had
been declared unconstitutional.
Would Change College Name.
Delegate Edward o. McCue, r.,
Charlottesville, introduced In the
House bill changing the designa-
ton Of Mary Washington College
at Fredericksburg as recommended
by Gov. Darden.
Under the bill the name would be
changed to Mary Washington COL
lege Of the University of Virginia
and the Board of Visitors of the
university would be given jurisdic-
tion over its properties.
The measure also provides that
the university president would be-
come chancellor Of Mary Washing
ton College.
The resolution against diversion
iof highway funds was offered only
q short time after the House Roads
| Committee had heard State high
way ofncials assert Virginia will
have to spend l03,000, 900 to meet
present needs Of the primary road
system.
Gen. James A. Anderson, State
highway commissioner, said the de-
partment Is faced with q grave
problem in safeguarding the States
investment in roads. The need is
increasing at the rate of $6,000, 900
year, he added.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Maj. Shower Named

Maj. John c. Shower, 1906 North
Edison street, Arlington, former per.
sonnel director of the National
Labor Relations Board, has been
appointed deputy director OF the
Sd Service Commands Civilian Per-
sonnel Division by Brig. Gen. Philip
Hayes, according to an Associated
Press dispatch from Baltimore.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Mrs. Roosevelt Tours
Housing Areas Once
Available 10 Co|ored
Coils Bradbury Heights
Normal Place to Expond
MuItipIe-FomiIy Units
BY MARION WADE DOYLE.

ny MARION WADE DOYLE.
Mrs. Roosevelt toured Northwest
and Southeast Washington, George
town and Arlington. Va, yesterday
to study constant restriction Of
space for colored housing by ex-
pansion Of white housing In areas
once available to colored."
She inspected the Congress
Heights-Bradbury Heights area,
where petitions recently filed with
the Zoning Commission for partial
rezoning Of the area would have the
immediate effect of blocking multi
family housing construction there
The Congress Heights appeal was
denied and the Bradbury Heights
appeal is still pending.
Normal Place for Expansion"
This Is natural, normal place
for expansion of colored housing, !"
Mrs. Roosevelt exclaimed when she
saw the Bradbury Heights area.
She declared that II the Zoning
Commission acts to permit building
OF multi-family housing in that
area, undeveloped sites lying be-
tween colored and white settlements
should 60 to the colored because,
In her opinion, their need is greater
Contemplated construction of 800
units for colored there, Mrs. Roose-
velt believes, will relieve some OF
the pressure on overcrowded colored
residential districts elsewhere.
Mrs. Roosevelt emphasized that
she wanted. housing for colored par
ticularly in areas where it could be
constructed at low cost to allow low
rents.
Mrs. Roosevelt explained she hopes
that her "fact-finding" tours will
turn the attention Of real estate and
housing ofhcials to the need.
Her guides, Mrs. Pauline Coggs of
the Washington Urban League and
Franklin Thorne of the National
Capital Housing Authority, took her
first to Sixteenth street and Military
road NV, where IA colored fam
lilies on Vinegar Hill'' are all that
remain Of large colored settle
ment that was built after the Civil
War around Fort Stevens.
Similar expansion of white hous-
ing into former colored area was
shown to Mrs. Roosevelt at Ne
braska avenue and Davenport
street NV, where a few houses
and colored church still stand be-
tween the Alice Deal Junior High
School and Woodrow Wilson High
School.
"Vanishing Neighborhoods."
vanishing neighborhoods," Mrs.
Coggs described the settlements. Gar
field, close by Congress Heights area,
she said. had been exclusively COL
ored when President Garfield set it
aside for freed Negroes OF WASH
ington. '-f
In Arlington, Va, Mrs. Roosevelt
saw two trailer camps, of six acres
and nine acres, respectively, where
about 200 colored families moved
after their homes Were demolished
In construction of highways around
new Army and Navy buildings there,
Many Of these families came to the
District to try to find homes, Mrs.
Coggs said, when little other hous-
ing was made available to them in
Virginia.
Mrs. Roosevelt also rode through
Georgetown and down Chain Bridge
road near Foxhall road to see rem
nants OF Negro housing.
She plans to take another tour
with John Ihlder, executive director
OF National Capital Housing Au-
thority, as her guide.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Irving Greene Reporter, Dies

OMAHA. Jan. 81 R.-IrvinR
Greene, 36, reporter on the Omaha
World Herald, died at . hospital to-
day. He underwent major opera
ton at the Mayo Clinic last July,
returned TO work for . short time,
then suffered . relapse.
Evening star., 1944-01-21

| executive staf1 and several of Mr.
Noyes' associates on The Washing.
ton Star.
A scroll was presented to Mr.
Noyes. It read:
"You are one of the three mer
who contributed most to the creation
and development of the organiza.
ton. The debt to you of those who
believe in an honest. thorough and
unbiased news report as the corner.
stone Of free press is beyond cal.
culation"