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Evening star., 1944-04-05
Darden Says Fund Boost
Aids Decentralization
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va, April 5.-Gov
Darden told the League of Virginia
Counties today that the General
Assembly of 1914 took Significant
step in the direction Of decentral-
ization" of government in Virginia
when it provided increased amounts
to the localities for public health
welfare and schools.
During round-table discussion
the Governor said that "the local
governments have a great opportu-
nifty with the help being given to
demonstrate their capacity In the
field Of public administration"
The Governor said $5,544,4o0 has
been added for teachers salaries for
the coming biennium, for total ap-
preparation of $25,215,40 for this
purpose, and in addition approx
mately $5,600,o0Q had been allotted
the localities directly.
Evening star., 1944-04-05

manding the marine forces on Roi,
raised 1t over his headquarters while
a regimental band played the
marine hymn.
The band could not play the "Star
Spangled Banner" since that is to
be played only when the first flag
is raised after the capture of an
area. The 4th Marine Division
headquarters the day before had
raised a flag on nearby Namur
Island, also part of Kwajalein.
When Capt. Miller left Kwajalein
he took the flag with him and sent
1t to his son. The boy said today
that 1t has not yet arrived.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Arlington Federation
Postwar Committee
Headed by VIC. Hull
Mrs. Simpson Named
Chairman Of Legislative
And Legal Action Group

William G. Hull, executive secre-
tary OF the Civil Service Commits
sion, was named chairman of the
newly formed Postwar Planning
Committee of the Arlington County
Civic Federation last night.
DR.. Victor Meyers, chairman of
the Parks, Planning and Zoning
Committee; s. A. Wood, chairman
of the Public Utilities Committee: j:
William G. Watt, chairman OF the
Schools Committee. Glenn Wall,
Roads and Streets Committee chair
man, and Miss Cornelia Rose, SAM
tation Committee chairman, will be
members.
Mrs. Ruby Simpson, delegate
from the Organized Women Voters.
was named to head the Legislative
and Legal Action Committee for
merly headed by Albert A. Carretta
recently inducted into the Navy. S.
w. Keesee was named vice chair
man.
The federation moved to request
the County Board to fill a vacancy
on the Arlington Public Utilities
Commission and to ask Circuit
Court Judge Walter T. Mccarthy to
I'LL a vacancy on the School Elec-
toral Board which has existed for
almost year.
DR., Meyers, Executive Committee
chairman, urged full attendance al
the county budget hearing, to be
held at 8 O'Clock tonight at the
courthouse. He also asked that fed.
GRAFTON delegates attend the mass
meeting to discuss parks and play.
grounds which the County Boarc
has called for 8 pm. Tuesday at the
Thomas Jefferson Junior High
School, 816 South Fillmore street
State Senator William D. Medic,
addressed the federation on genera
State legislation passed in the last
session of the General Assembly
Delegate j. Maynard Magruder dis.
cussed 80 bills introduced by Arling-
ton Delegates.
Mrs. Dorothy Dunn, member Of
the Advisory Council to the Juvenile
Court, spoke on delinquency prob
lens. DR.. lie Roy Dunn, member o1
the County tuberculosis Association
urged participation in the early
diagnosis campaign which begins
next week.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Darden Pocket Veto }
Kills Auto Seizure Bill
Signs Measure Licensing
Cor Dealers, SoIesmen
By the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, April 5.-Gov. Dar-
den left unsigned on his desk yes
terday-the last day for signing bills
OF the 1914 General Assembly-a
measure providing for seizure Of mo-
tor vehicles without search warrants
when such vehicles are suspected of
being used in the unlawful trans
portation Of liquor.
1t was the only measure passed
by the Assembly to receive the
pocket veto" treatment.
The last two Of the 412 bills laid
before the Governor-the huge
omnibus appropriation bill and the
Massenburg measure providing fol
the licensing and regulation of auto
mobile dealers and salesmen-were
signed several hours before the
deadline at midnight last night.
The Governor approved the Mas
senburg bill, although expressing
some doubt as to its constitu-
tionality.
A statement from the Office of the
Automotive Trade Association OF
Virginia said State automobile
dealers are so much elated over the
Governors action that plans are
underway for a mass meeting OF
dealers to express appreciation tc
the Governor and the members OF
the General Assembly.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
HuIfish Beats
in Upset
In Alexandria
Ewuld and HeIImuth
Also Nominated
For Council Posts

Thomas A. Hulfsh, I'd, a new
conner in Alexandria politics, scorec
a political upset in the city's Demo.
cratic primary yesterday by defeat.
ing Councilman John Matter, 28(
to 1871. for the nomination to the
City Council from the first ward
Mr.. Matter has been councilman
for 10 years.
In the third ward Councilman
John Ewald retained his seat by
defeating former Councilman Ernest
L. Mankin by a vote of 227 to 72.
An unusual situation in the fifth
ward, where Joseph Collins, ST., with
drew as an opponent to the incum-
bent councilman, 1t. Col. Everett A
Hellmuth, but was forced to run be-
cause the ballots had already been
printed, resulted in 158 votes for Col
Hellmuth and II for Mr.. Collins. The
Democratic Committee had declared
Col. Hellmuth the official candidate
after Mr.. Collins withdrawal, but
ruled that the primary must be
held.
Mr. Hulfish, native of Alexan-
dria, is 80 years old and lives at 200
Duke street. He was educated IN
Washington, and is vice president OF
Commercial Service Bankers OF
Mount Rainier, Md. He is married
and is the father of two children.
In announcing his platform be-
fore the primary, Mr.. Hulfish ex-
pressed himself in favor of an i'm
proved school system, better parks
and Fairgrounds, and the immediate
of an ordinance to COM
bat the smoke and SCOT nuisance in
the city.
The results of yesterdays primary
will be void if a proposed council
at-large plan is approved at the
April Is referendum.
At present, the City Council con-
sists of nine members, one from
each Of the six wards and three
chosen at large. Under the pro-
posed new plan, the council would
be composed Of seven members
elected at large, four of whom would
be chosen in June for two-year
terms. The remaining three men,
bers at large were elected last Sep
tember for three-year terms.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
All Stray Dogs
Ordered Shot in
Prince Georges
Commissioners Act
After Report From
State Livestock Chief

All law enforcement officials in
Prince Georges County today were
under orders to shoot any dogs seen
at large in drive to compel OBJ
servance of the county wide dog
quarantine.
The order was issued by the
county commissioners at their meet
ing yesterday in Upper Marlboro
after they received a letter from
DR.. A. l.. Brueckner, acting direc-
tor OF the State Livestock Sanitary
Service, extending the ban to June
Is.
In announcing that policemen in
incorporated towns will cooperate
with county policemen in enforcing
the ban, the commissioners said they
also will ask county trial magistrates
not to give suspended fines to per-
sons convicted of violating the quar-
antine. The fine for such VIOLA
ton is $50. ,.-
Action Called Necessary.
County Police Chief Brown de-
clared that drastic action is neces-
sary because of the failure of county
residents to comply with the ban.
He recalled that police were Or
dered to shoot stray dogs when the
quarantine was first put into effect
last summer. After many COM
plants had been received, he said.
the order was modified and police
were instructed merely to help the
County Animal Rescue League pick
up dogs.
I'VE stopped shooting stray dogs"
Chief Brown asserted, because we
thought people would cooperate
with us. Since they have failed to
do so, we are forced to resume the
shooting of all dogs seen at large"
The commissioners received a let
ter from the Brentwood Mayor and
Town Council protesting the boards
statement about two weeks ago that
incorporated towns in the county
have failed to cooperate in en-
forcement Of the quarantine.
20 Picked Up in Brentwood.
The Town Council pointed out that
the Brentwood Police Department
has picked up 20 dogs and has had
others destroyed.
The board ordered that no taxes
be levied this year on a one-half-
acre tract on Ager road owned by
the Ager Road Methodist Church.
The commissioners also ordered
that hearing be held at II am.
April Is in Upper Marlboro on a
petition by residents of Carmody
Hills for street Improvements. The
board last week approved a petit
tion by residents of the area for
street lights and garbage collection.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Extra Gas Given Drivers
To Reach Far-0ff Gardens

Persons cultivating Victory gar
dens at a distance from their homes
may apply to their ration boards for
an extra allotment of gasoline
amounting to about 20 gallons be-
ginning today, according to the Dis
trict Office of Price Administration
Requirements are the same as last
year: The applicant must be cuti-
waiting a garden at least the size of
the standard Victory garden plot,
so by 80 feet; he must make a ride
sharing arrangement with other
gardeners or show that is impossi-
BILE; total extra ration for person
or group will not exceed 300 miles,
and the gardener must show that
no alternative adequate means of
transportation is available.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Hoir-Dyeing Stunt
Confines Students

By the Associated Press.
CHATHAM. Va, April 5.-Har-
grave Military School students who
recently dyed their hair. in what
was described as a Hollywood stunt,
have been confined to barracks
until the natural state of their
locks has been restored. Some have
succeeded in restoration through
paronage at local beauty parlors
and hence qualify for more normal
activity.
A photographer who sought per-
mission to take views of the campus
bound yungsters was denied the
privilege yesterday. Said Col. A. H.
Camden, commandant of the school
we don't like that sort Of pub
licity."
Evening star., 1944-04-05

have no time for complex and
lengthy systems of mental analysis.
They cannot waste weeks probing
for buried childhood memories
which may have played a part in
the development of the neurosis. So
Capt. Howard M. Kelley is working
with system which he describes rs
a combination of the conditioned
response psychology Of the great
Russian physiologist Pavlov, which
is the foundation of behavioristic
psychology; the concepts OF DR..
Adolph Meyer Of Johns Hopkins
University and the semanatics OF
Count Korbyski.
And the system is working-some-
times almost unbelievably well-in
breaking the tensions of these bat
tle-strained nervous systems.
Magician Before Psychiatrist.
The introduction of the Korbyski
concepts has. come about in q
curious way. Capt. Kelley, before
he became a psychiatrist, was a
magician. He was an expert in the
art of deception, in muddling up the
evidence of the five senses, in max
ing things seem what they are not
and where they are not. Now the
condition of some of these patients
may not be basically different, al
though the deception is on a far
greater scale, than that of theater
audience which sees objects vanish
into thin air before its eyes.
Naturally, DR.. Kelley became in
terested in the underlying phychol-
ogy of this. Some of its phases, he
found, were best explained by the
work of Count Korbyski. Semantics
fundamentally is a method by which
folks can be assured that what they
see, hear, etc., is actuality and not
fantasy.
"It is." says Capt. Kelley, "a bet
ter presentation of the scientific
method, way to avoid jumping at
conclusions, of building up conclu-
sions on false premises"
Mankind Errs.
In the Korbyski concept, mankind
as a whole builds up its conclusions
on false premises, much the same as
does the neurotic, much the same
as does the theater audience, much
the same as does, in q more fan
tastic way, the person who is def
nitely insane, such as the men and
women with whom he worked at
st. Elizabeth's.
What is the concept? haven't
the slightest idea, although I have
tried to read several of the counts
papers. But it is proving Of prac-
tical value in the war.
And got a real shock when, on
the train returning from this hos
pital. I met an Australian Army
nurse who said: There are two
types of things on earth-the reali-
ties and the seemings. II only there
was some way Of distinguishing be-
tween them
did you ever hear Of Count Kor-
byski?" I asked.
who the devil is Count Kor-
byski?" she responded.
But apparently two persons on
earth have reached the same con-
clusions Independently both
IN hospitals for the mentally i'll.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Hearing Set Tonight
On Arlinqton BUDGET

A public hearing of the Arlington
County 1944-5 budget will be held
at 8 o'clock tonight in the County
Courthouse.
Presented by County Manager
Frank c. Hanrahan, the budget
calls for an increase of $575, ,6O5.1
over last year. The $2.70 tax rate
would remain unchanged.
Mr.. Hanrahan said he believed
the proposed budget would give the
county "about the same type of
service now being rendered +"
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Rotion Board Sponsors
School Poster Contest

The price ceiling panel of the
Alexandria Ration Board is spon-
soring a poster contest in the city
schools and is offering two IS prizes
to high school students or pupils
of the sixth and seventh grades
The subject is Ceiling Prices and
What They Mean"
All posters submitted will be dis
played, and the name, age, grade
and school of the artist must be
printed on the back of each poster.
All posters must be taken to the
ration board Office, 219 North Co.
lumbus street, before pm. April %
Additional information may be
obtained by calling Mrs. Leroy Pea
body at Alexandria 4918.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Two Face Court Today
In Staying of Collector
BY the Associated Press.

by tHt hksoclateG PFekk.
BALTIMORE, April 5.-Calvin w.
Watkins and Romezes r. Smythe,
colored, were held for arraignment
today on charges of robbing and
numbering an instalment collector
They were indicted by the grand
jury yesterday in connection with
the bludgeon Staying Saturday of
Joseph j. Stewart In West Balti-
more. Police said Mr.. Stewart was
robbed of approximately 5000.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
First American F|uq on Roi
Is on Way to MARYLAND Boy

The first American flag to be
landed on Roi Island in the KWaja-
lein Atoll of the Marshalls Is on
its way to l2-year-old James r. Mil
Ter, jr.. lis South Adams street,
According to dispatch from the
South Pacific by Staff Sergt. Frank
Acosta, jr., of Washington, a Ma
rine Corps combat correspondent,
the flag was taken ashore with first
assault waves Of Marines by the
boys father. Capt. James r. Miller.
On the third day Of fighting, Col.
Louis r. Jones, Pittsburgh. COM
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Suburban Schools Close
For Easter Holiday

Schools closed for the Easter holi-
days today in Alexandria City,
Prince Georges and Montgomery
Counties. Arlington County schools
will close tomorrow.
Arlington County schools will re-
open Monday morning. Wednesday
is the opening day for Alexandria,
Prince Georges and Montgomery
schools.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Silver Spring Office
OF Defense Council
To Close al Noon
Montgomery Roises
Compensation Given
Mrs. Ernest F.. KIinqe

the Montgomery County Commis-
sioners yesterday voted that the
Civilian Defense Council Ofice at
Silver Spring be kept open only from
8 am. to noon daily instead of from
Gam. to 5 pm. The action was taken
at the suggestion of Albert e. Brault,
director of civilian defense for the
county because the work of the Office
has decreased.
The board eliminated the position
OF assistant secretary to the council,
from which Miss Devona Dows re-
Gently resigned. The compensation
OF Mrs. Ernest F. Klinge, in charge
Of the Silver Spring Victory Garden
office, was raised to $100 a month
from April through October and SIS
a month from November through
March.
The board appointed Henry Ken
nedy, Comus, and Howard P. Crist,
Garrett Park, emergency policemen
for night guard duty at Montgomery
Blair High School, Silver Spring,
and Leland Junior High School, Be-
thesda, respectively. Each will re-
ceive $l25 month.
To fill vacancies, the following
other emergency policemen were
named and their salaries fixed at
SITS a month each: Harry Wright
Burtonsville; John William Forbes
Chevy Chase; Richard Burdette,
Germantown; Carl c. Mann
Gaithersburg; Thomas D. Bradshaw
Silver Spring, and Raymond Porter
Howes, kensington View.
To meet the expenses of the Mont
gomery County Welfare Board dur
ing April the commissioners appro-
priated $6,825. According to Mrs
Dorothy M. Kurtz, executive secre-
tary OF the welfare organization
the money will be needed as follows
Old-age assistance, 81 1884; aid to de-
pendent children, $1,295; aid to
needy blind, SIP; general public as
sistance, 81, 400; boarding home care
for children, sl,8l7; administration
$817.
The board granted to the Glen
Echo Amusement Co. a permit to
operate its park during the season
which starts Saturday. The COM
pany paid the fee of $1,000.
In compliance with a request OF
DR.. v. L. Ellicott, county health
officer, 1t was voted that the county
join with the State Department OF
Health In f1ve-year lease of the
health center at Poolesville. DR.
Ellicott said the State department Is
spending $4,000 in equipping the
center
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Morbury Takes Oath
As Appeals Chief Jurist
BY the Associated Press.

% eue AeeOCldleo FTeSS.
ANNAPOLIS, April Judge
Ogle Marbury, newly appointed
chief jurist of the Maryland Court
OF Appeals, was sworn in by Gov,
OConor yesterday in a short, for
NAL ceremony at the executive Of
fees In the State House prior to the
opening Of the April term of court.
The 61-year-old new chief judge
succeeded Judge D. Lindley Sloan,
Cumberland, who reached the re-
tirement age of 10 Monday.
Judge Marbury, Upper Marlboro,
is the first chief judge from South
ern Maryland ever to serve on the
States highest tribunal.
Evening star., 1944-04-05

IN Middle western city. He was
wandering about aimlessly. He pro-
tested that he did not know who or
where he was.
s Brought back to Washington, how
ever, there was no difficulty in estab-
hshing his complete innocence of
any connection with the death of
his wife. She had taken her own
life. But what appeared to be a
weird vista was opened into affairs
at the hospital and the world first
heard Of Count Alfred Korbyski and
his strange "anthropometer," a ma
chine that looked like an extremely
complex telephone switchboard.
Had Original Ideas.
Count Korbyski was the pro-
FOUNDER Of some highly original
ideas on the mechanism of human
thinking. He had convinced one of
the most broad minded scientists of
his generation, the late DR.. william
A. White, that his concepts at least
lnerited q fair trial and he had been
given quarters for his work and
equipment at st. Elizabeth's.
DR.. White had become fascinated
and had spent much of his spare
time assisting Count Korbyski. The
counts wife also had been interested.
There was popular impression, at
least, that this interest was respon-
sible for their difficulties. It had
landed one OF them in the Anacostia
River, the other in a condition
known as "fugue" which occasionally
is encountered in soldiers here.
The Polish nobleman became for
. time rather sinister character
and found the searchlight of pub
ncity turned on him. He had little
comprehension of American news
paper methods. Angrily he told re-
porters who besieged his laboratory
that they had ruined the work of
q lifetime. DR.. White was critized
for aiding him. The great psychia-
trist defended his right to foster q
promising idea, but admitted that
he himself did not quite under
stand Count Korbyski's concepts.
Pursued Research Elsewhere.
Shortly afterward the count left
st. Elizabeths and lone of the
reporters who had experienced his
quite justified wrath-never expect
ed to hear Of him again. But off
and on through the years papers
have been read at meetings of the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science which were
difficult to comprehend by laymen
and even scientists In closely allied
fields.
These papers have dealt with a
so-called science Of "semantics"-the
word being used in sense quite
different from that in which it is
understood by anthropologists and
students OF language origins. One
hardly could imagine anything more
remote from the practical aspects
Of war.
Yet here I find that Count Korby-
skis work, in the hands of one Of
the few men who thoroughly un-
derstands 1t, is one of the three
foundation stones Of the psyche
therapy applied to victims of war
neuroses who come on 1t. Col. Err
nest Parsons mind repair assembly
line" o.
The doctors must work fast. They
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Darden Says Assembly
Has Taken Vital Step
In Decentralization
Added Assistance Gives
Localities Chonce to Show
Administrative Ability
~ the Associated Press,


ROANOKE, Va, April 5.-Gov.
Darden told the League Of Virginia
Counties today that the General
Assembly Of 1914 took a significant
step In the direction of decentraliza-
ton" of government IN Virginia
when it provided increased amounts
to the localities for public health,
welfare and schols.
During a round table discussion.
the Governor said that "the local
governments have a great oppor-
tunity with the help being given to
demonstrate their capacity in the
field Of public administration"
The Governor said $5,544, 400 has
been added for teachers salaries for
the coming biennium, for a total ap-
preparation of SOS, ,215, 400 for this
purpose, and in addition approx
mately s., ,600, 900 had been allotted
the localities directly.
Hopes Education Aided.
"In 1928 40 counties failed to
meet the statutory provision which
requires them to contribute sum
equal to 80 per cent of the amount
contributed by the State for instruc-
tion," the Governor said. IT very
much hope that the funds made
available will first be used to over
come the deficiency and that as
much as possible Of the amount re-
manning will be devoted to public
education because it is the most
important function of the Govern
The Governor asserted that it is
a fact that the localities are not
participating as "they should in the
government of our own State and
all Of us are poorer because of this.
There are probably a number of
reasons why this is true. One of
them is that the people themselves
do not take the interest that they
should In local affairs. This may
arise out Of the fact that local affairs
are not so important as they once
were now that the State govern
ment has assumed so many of the
functions of government heretofore
discharged by the localities.
Wants State Partnership.
Whatever the reason, I am con-
vinced that what is happening is not
in the best interest of Virginia and
I want to see well thought out steps
taken to bring our local govern
ments more and more into real part
nership with the State. K.
"It appears to me that we should
adopt the simple rule of doing
locally all those things which can be
done locally, leaving to the State
and Federal authorities the tasks
which are beyond the scope of local
government. There are three the
aters OF action wherein the local
authorities can do excellent work.
public health, public welfare and
public education"
The Governor said every county
in Virginia should have a public
health unit.
THE large number who have been
found physically unfit for service in
the armed forces testify to this
need" he said.
The Governor said it sis most i'm
portant that there be local control
and local interest in the public
school system. Nothing could be
more unfortunate than for us to
centralize in Richmond the direc-
ton of our schools. OF course. In
this case too, funds must be forth
coming because the localities are
not able to carry on alone"
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Will Dedicate School

PRINCE FREDERICK, Nd, April
5 (SpeciaD Representative Sasscer,
Democrat, of Maryland and State
Senator J. Frank Parran will be the
dedication speakers at the opening
of the new elementary school at
Huntingtown at 8 o'clock tonight.