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Evening star., 1944-02-01
Silver Spring Group
Calls Meeting on
Recreation Program
Permanent Plan
To Be Studied for
Eastern Montgomery

Plans for a permanent program
designed to provide supervised
recreation for children will be made
at meeting of the newly -organized
Eastern Suburban Recreation Com
mittee Of Montgomery County at 2
pm. tomorrow at the Silver Spring
intermediate School.
The committee, headed by DR..
Fern Schneider, supervisor OF county
high schools and principal of the
Silver Spring Intermediate School,
is composed Of representatives from
churches, civic and service organi-
cations in the Silver Spring-Tako
Park area.
During the last month several
meetings have been held to study a
survey of recreational facilities
made by J. Norman Mayberry,
chairman Of the Boys and Girls
Activities Committee of the Lions
Club. Mr.. Mayberry has been a
leader in the movement.
The committee favors appoint
ment Of a full-time salaried CO.
orolnator, VINO Will be in charge OF
three centers planned for Takoma
Park, Silver Spring and -Four Cor
ners. A committee Of three will be
named at tomorrow's meeting to
select the co-ordinator.
Part Of the program, Mr.. May
berry said, will be financed BY the
Maryland National Park and Plan
ming Commission. Other funds will
be raised through contributions from
organizations and churches inter-
ested.
Mr.. Mayberry said it is expected
that the program for children from
& to IA years of age can be taken
care OF by Lanham Act funds.
The committee also is planning to
utilize public school gymnasiums
bowling alleys and other appropriate
places at which instructors will be
trained
Evening star., 1944-02-01
589 Flu Cases Reported
In Fairfax in December

Fairfax County had 652 cases of
communicable disease during De-
cember, according to the monthly
report of the County Health De-
partment, prepared by DR.. Nelson
Podolnick, health director.
OF the total 489 were influenza
cases. Pneumonia ranked second
with SO cases listed. There we're "a
births reported and % deaths.
The Sanitation Department made
80 restaurant inspections and OBJ
tanned AZ improvements. Fifteen
animal heads were submitted for
laboratory tests, of which eight were
found to be positive for rabies.
Evening star., 1944-02-01
New Hospital Board
Asked 10 File WHOLLY
Objective Reports
Standards Are Wanted
Second to None, Mason
Tells Visitors Group

Members Of the newly created
Board Of Visitors for the municipal
hospitals were asked yesterday by
Commissioner Guy Mason to "be
wholly objective" in their reports fol-
improvements in the institutions
because the Commissioners want te
make their standards second tc
none
Mr.. Mason spoke briefly before
the members of the board were
sworn in by Geoffrey Thornett, Sec
retary of the Board of Commits
sioners, in Mr.. Mason's Office.
I'VE don't want pats on the back,
declared Mr.. Mason. I'VE want tt
try and put the standards of the
hospitals second to none. You will
be untrammeled and uninfluenceo
by the Commissioners"
Food, Sanitation Report.
All reports of the board, Mr.
Mason continued, are to be made
public. He told them they were
not expected to pass on the medica
standards, but on the quality oi
food, sanitation and cleanliness al
Gallinger Hospital, Glenn Dale San.
itorium and the Upshur Street Hos
pital.
Mr.. Mason said the standards oi
the hospitals should be checked tc
see that fair treatment is accorded
to all patients, regardless of race
creed or color" He told them that
as taxpayers and residents of 6
voteless city they were entitled to 6
voice in the operation of the in.
stitution.
Rudolph Berger, head OF the We'll
fare Committee of the Variety Club
was elected chairman of the Board
Of Visitors at an organizations
meeting Immediately after the
swearing-in ceremonies.
Members OF Board.
The members of the board are
Mr.. Berger, Mrs. Stanley Reed, Mrs
Harold N. Marsh, Mrs. Willis w
Jones, Mrs. c. Ashmead Fuller, the
Rev. Edward G. Latch, the Rev
Lawrence j. Shehan, Rabbi Norman
Gerstenfeld and the Rev. E. l.
Harrison.
Commissioner John Russell
Young, president of the Board of
Commissioners, expressed conf
dence the board would do It's job
"conscientiously" Others present
at the ceremony were Engineer
Commissioner Charles w. Kutz and
Assistant Engineer Commissioner
Joseph D. Arthur, jr.
Evening star., 1944-02-01
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., 1944-02-01
Silver Spring Library
Given $8.47Q BUDGET

The Silver Spring Public Library
Association last night elected three
members to its Board of Trustees
and adopted budget Of s8,470.
Holding its annual meeting at
Jesup Blair Community House, the
association named Mrs. William
Dahl and Hugh L. Buckingham as
new members of the board and re-
elected Robert G. Watson. All will
serve three-year terms.
The two retiring members of the
board are William H. Reynolds and
Harry 8. Eikins.
Evening star., 1944-02-01
Cigarette Revenues Goin

Internal revenue receipts in vir.
ginia for cigarettes, including floor.
stock taxes, amounted to $286, ,557 ,81s
in 1912 and 1884, 1872 ,456 in 1943, the
Internal Revenue Department re.
vealed yesterday. Revenue from
chewing and smoking tobacco anc
from snuff for the two calendar
years were $4,829, ,8o3 and $4,544, ,621
Evening star., 1944-02-01
Beer License Heurino Set

A public hearing will be held at
the Silver Spring Liquor Dispensary
Building at 2 pm. Thursday on an
application of Joseph A. Moore for
transfer of license to sell beer and
wine at Wheaton. Md, issued to
Paul BouiG,
Evening star., 1944-02-01

Measure your sacrifice. Are your
burdens really heavier than those
borne by boys from this community
now fighting in far-away fox holes?
Let's al back the attack.
Evening star., 1944-02-01

BOARD OF VISITORS TAKES OATH-The newly established
Board of Visitors for the city hospitals took their oath Of
Office yesterday the Office of Commissioner Guy with
Geoey Thornett secretary the Commissioners administer
ing the oath Left to right ront the
Shehan Mrs. C. Asfmead Fuller Stanley Reed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Dewey Announces
National Tour
Maps Seven Talks

CHICAGO, Aug. 80. tUP)-Gov-
ernor Thomas E. Dewey, Republic
an presidential candidate, will make
his first campaign swing around
the country next month with a
6700-mile coaSt-to-cOaSt tour dur
ing which he will make ceven major
addresses and confer with party
leaders, Chairman Herbert Brown
ell Jr, of the COP national COM
mittee announced Wednesday.
DeWey's tour. which includes a
visit with his mother at his home
town of Owosso, Michigan, will be-
gin at Philadelphia September 7
where he will make nation wide
radio address, his first since he &C
cepted the nomination at Chicago
two months age. and will end with
his return to Albany September %.
During his tour, which will cover
81 states, the youthful COP nomi-
nee will deliver major campaign
speeches at Louisville, Seattle, Port
land, Oregon; San Francisco, Los
Angeles and Oklahoma City, in ad-
dition to the one at Philadelphia.
In addition to his addresses,
Brownell said Dewey will confer
with Republican governors as well
as individuals. agricultural and
other groups during stops in 10
states. The entire trip will be made
by train.
The party will arrive at Seattle
Continued on Pg. 6. Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Roosevelt States
Campaign Talk
Al Tobin Dinner

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. CUP)-
President Roosevelt has announced
that he will make his first outright
political speech of the current cam
paign on the night of September %
speaking to a dinner to be given in
a Washington hotel by Daniel j
Tobin, president cf the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters
(AFL).
Mr.. Roocevelt told his press and
radio conference that his address
won't be very political, but that it
may as we'll be labeled now as his
first political address of the cam
paign.
Asked whether he contemplated
making a nationwide swing before
election day. the President said no,
that he lad too much to do.
Asked whether he planned to
make other political speeches, he
said he had not gotten that far. He
reminded the reporters that after
all. it still was August
Mr.. Roosevelt said the September
% radio time would be paid for by
the Democratic national committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Forest
Fires /
Spread
Lasuna Resort
Area Center
Of Blaze Area

Still out of control, a for
est fire in Laguna mountains
which has been raging since
Monday forenoon now covers
an area of 100000 acres with
the center of danger north
east of Laguna Resort. The
fire has entered Peppermint
Valley and is spreading to
the desert.
All the area east of Laguna
Junction, which was in the danger
zone for "a hours after the start of
the blaze now is in the clear. The
danger point has passed in Live
Oaks, CaleXico Lodge ano Bank
head Springs district. Power lines
still are off and residents in these
sections are without water pumps
and lights.
So far the more than 500 weary
fighters comprised of U. S. and
state forestry men, civilian volun-
teers and men from all the service
installations in the area, have been
able to keep the blaze well away
from the resort and out of the big
trees. 1t is believed they will be able
to continue this strategy and gain
control within a matter of hours.
The fight still is handicapped by
unpredictable winds and the dry
underbrush. It is travelling north
east for the most part. Here and
there is a small blaze south of
Highway 80 and the farthest east
blaze is in the neighborhood of
Mountain Empire high school.
Observers on the grounds see
considerable headWay in combat
ting the worst and most stubborn
fire in years in the Laguna district.
Forestry officials in charge again
Wednesday assured friends and rel
atives of the safety of people living
near the burning areas anC advised
that equipment adequate for COM
plete evacuation is on hand for in
slant use.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
FL Centran's Kin
Dies in Crash
At Naval Station

Ensign Raymond II. Schmidt,
nephew of Fred C. Smith, 1865
Brighton avenue. FL Centre met
death carly Monday morning last
when a fighter plane he was flying
crashed and burned one mile north
west of the Holtville Auxiliary Naval
station. He was on a routine
flight.
Ensign Schmidt was native OF
Minneapolis, Minnesota, where his
father w. F.. Schmidt now lives.
Mr.. Smith received notice of the
fatality in a telegram from Ensign
Schmidt's father.
Ensign Schmidt had been trans
ferred from a station in Oregon,
arriving at the Holtville station
August %.
He was "a and unmarried.
The remains. accompanied by MI,
Smith were started to Minneapolis
Wednesday where funeral service
will be conducted.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
laps Lose 10000
In New Guinea

CANBERRA, Aug. 80. (UP)-Al-
lied troops have knocked out the
japanese Eighth Army and killed or
wounded more than 10000 japanese
in two months fighting around
Wewak and Aitape. New Guinea,
Prime Minister John Curtin said
in war review to the Australian
house of representatives Wednes-
day.
The enemy's Eighth Army, orig
inally $4,000 strong. has virtually
ceased to exist as an effective fight
ing force, Curtin said.
Curtin defended the government S
decision to reduce the Australian
army air fierce by $4,000 men this
year to bolster production in essen
tial industries, asserting the man
power shift was determined after
conferences with British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill and
President Roosevelt.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Powers Consider
France in New
World Peace Plan

WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. tUP)-
The United States, Great Britain
and Soviet Russia appeared Wee
nesday to be prepared Tor an early
bid from Gen. Charles de Gaulle
for a voice for France in the for
mutation of the world security or
ganization.
1t was understood also that they
are virtually agreed that France at
some as yet unspecifieo future time
shall take her place on the world
council as a permanent member
thus placing the responsibility for
keeping the peace primarily in the
hands of a big five" instead of a
big four"
De Gaulle has been emphasizing
for months that neither the peace
terms for Germany nor the future
world organization can be properly
planned without French participa-
ton. He told ParisianS after the
liberation of the French capital last
week that France has a right to
be in the first line Of great nations
who are going to organize the peace
and the life of the world"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Germans Face Punishment
For Mistredting Poles

WASHINGTON, Aug. 80. CUP)-
Germans who fail to treat soldiers
of the Polish home army according
to the rules of war Wednesday
faced trial and punishment by the
Allies as war criminals.
The United States and Great
Britain Tuesday night accused Ger
man military authorities OF failing
to treat members of the Polish
home army "in accordance with the
laws and customs of war" The state
department said in making the an
nouncement here that reprisals by
the Germans against the Polish
soldiers were a violation OF the rules
of war, but cid not specify the re-
prisals the Germans are using
On Monday of this week the Pol
ish ambassador here, Jan Ciecha-
nowski, said the Germans were at
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
WPB Cancels Ban
On Ammunition
For Hunters Use

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. CUP)-
The War Production Board has
lifted, for the remainder of 1914 its
ban en- the sale of ammunition to
hunters and increased quotas of
ammunition for farmers and ranch
erS for uce against predatory ami
mails damaging crops and killing
livestock.
The WPB order provided that
farmers, ranchers and hunters may
purchase $50 rounds of 22-caliber
rim-fire cartridges, 40 or so rounds
according to packaging-of CEN
ter-fire rifle ammunition, and 100
shotgun shells of any gauge.
WPB said the quota will not need
to be bought in a single purchase,
but may be spread over several pur-
chaseS Sellers will be required to
keep complete records of inventories
and sales of ammunition. including
certificates, for two years beginning
today
Hunters, farmers and ranchers
will be required to sign certificates
stating that they are entitled to
ammunition under WPB regula-
tionS.
WPB said 1914 ammunition pro-
duction is expected to be 62 per cent
of the prewar output.
Civilian use of ammunition for
shooting galleries, trap and skeet
loads remains banned by WPB. Of
ficials said there is no indication CT
an early removal of this ban.
Sale of ammunition for non-es-
sential hunting first was banned in
May, 1943, but the restriction was
relaxed somewhat for last years
fall hunting season. 1t was re-im-
posed in full on January l. A quota
system for sale of ammunition to
farmers and ranchers for use
against predatory animals was in
stituted in August, 1943.
The new order was announced
shortly after Chairman A. Willis
Robertson, Cd, Virginia, of the
House committee on conservation of
wild life. said that an adequate
number of rifle cartridges and mere
than 450,0000N0 standard gauge
chotgun shells would be available
for hunters this fall.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Board Refuses
Water Refund

!. Action taken by the board of di-
rectors of the Imperial Irrigation
District unreservedly denies the
right of the State Department to
negotiate contract with the MeXi-
can government OF a private con-
Germ there for delivery of water
through the All-American canal to
the Mexicali valley farmers. The
Mexican company which had paid
the district for water up to July
10 anC. which subsequent to the dis
patch of the check for approx
mately $4,000 demands its refund
was so informed in letter signed
by Chairman Evan T. Hewes,,
chairman of the board.
This action followed considera-
ton by the board of the Mexican
firms demand at meeting a week
ago.
The Mexico based its demand on
information sought from the Agri-
cultural association of Baia Cali
fornia and which advised the firm
payment could be made only to the
u. S. government through the state
department.
In connection with the boards
acton, a review was made Of letters
exchanged between Secretaries Hull
and Ickes regarding delivery of the
water necessary to save the corn
and cotton crops below the border
These letters again stressed that
the district had refused to con-
struct or permit to be constructed,
weir at lockwood Heading to
raise the river level.
AS previously made clear, the dis
trict is restrained from constructing
a weir by court order and that hac
it been permissible legally to build
the weir, it could not have been
completed in time to alleviate the
needs in the valley. 1t appears in
the correspondence that the de-
partmentS hold that the necessity
to use the canal came because the
district refused to disobey a court
order.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Hull Sees Nuzi
Peace 'FeeIerS'

department is giving constant "cCn-
sideration" to the possibility that
Adolf Hitler and his underlings
might attempt to flee Germany and
seek refuge in neutral country.
Hull recalled the request of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill to neu-
tral countries to define their atti-
tude on providing hideaways for
the German leaders.
I'VE are net unmindful of the
possibility that the Nazi dictator
and his assistants might flee Ger
many" Hull said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
D AMsl!Ne
EpoRTER
EtaOin Shrdlu
Cmfwyp Vbgkgj

Don't get excited over the above
caption. You haven't seen anything
yet. Recently the Post-Press news
papers installed a new tWo-Way
machine for exchange of news from
Ell Centre. 1t is a marvellous ma
chine as to mechanics. It's keyboard
is the same as typewriter key
board. So any typist can operate
it. Touch the key, comes the word
and the word is copied in front
of you as it is flashed across space
and reprinted on teletype at any
distance.
The account of the fire in La
guna mountains was ready for
transmission to the outside world
The teletype was opened up. but
nobody could operate 1t when every
body about the office was supposed
to be able to click it right off. From
the speediest typist in the office
to the office boy-all tried. No go.
UP stepped Paul A. jenkins. the
boss. Let me at it, quoth he. Here
is part of his Work-We can't stand
to give any more-"Brawkey tryung
lok like okay vakkey thee now
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
PIoesti
Falls
To Russ
Killers Last
War Machine
Broken Down

LONDON, Aug. 80. (UP)
The Soviet Ukrainian army
has captured Ploesti, heart
of the Romanian oil field,
Radio Moscow announced to-
day.
MOSCOW, Aug. 80. (UP)
- Russian Cossacks, tanks
and mechanical infantry,
with nearly half of eastern
Romania already in their
hands, raced pell nell
through disorganized Ger
man resistance Wednesday
within so miles of Bucharest
and 60 miles of the Bulgar-
ian border.
A series of sensational advances
ranging up to 10 miles in "a hours
toppled Constanta, main German
Black sea naval base for the raSt
three years.
HAMMER AT WARSAW
CThe German Transocean news
agency reported Wednesday that
four Soviet divisions had launched
9 major" breakthrough offensive
near Radzymin, northeast of War
saw.
In most sectors. the Russians were
sweeping forward at will. The fall
of Constanta removed the last OBJ
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. o
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Goerinq Reported
Under Eyes Of
HimmIer Killers

STOCKHOLM. Aug. 30. CUP)-
A usually reliable informant We'd
nesday confirmed recent reports
that Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer-
ing is under surveillance by the
GeStapo and his freedom of move
ment has been restricted as an aft
ermath of the unsuccessful army
plot against Adolf Hitler.
"a Blue network broadcast from
Stockholm said Goering fell out of
favor with Hitler because of his at
tempt to "hush up" the anti-Nazi
plot and the fuehrer himself or
dered his arreSt)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. CUP)-
Secretary of State Ccrdell Hull
Wednesday expressed belief that
the German high command has in
dicated desire to put out "feelers
for negotiated peace but en-
phasized that unconditional sur
render will remain the Allies only
terms.
Hull said the radio speech of
Lieutenant General Kurt Dittmar
Tuesday night indicated that the
Germans "are desirous of putting
out peace feelers"
He also revealed that the state
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Three Persons
Hurt in Crash

The driver of one car was injured
seriously and two youths in the
second car in a collision at the
outskirts of Winterhaven suffered
minor injuries Tuesday at 8 pm.
Jesse Taylor, 16, Yuma was driv-
ing a Plymouth coupe, towing an
other auto when Glen M. Sutton,
also of Yuma crashed into the
Taylor car heac-on, Highway Pa
trolmen George Shuck and Tillman
Daley. reported. Jack Taylor and
Richard Klein, Is and IA respective
ly, had slight hurts. Sutton suffered
a broken rib and punctured lung.
All were taken to Yuma hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30

neSday.
The women, YeomanS said, ARE
not ordinarily in the cannery labor
market but accept work for pa
triotic reasons only"
A. E. Bilger, business agent of the
union, denied that volunteers are
sent only to canneries where a
check off" system of collecting
dues exists.
They may pay SO cents per week
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 30.
(UP)-A Sacramento cam
merry Workers Union is re-
quiring part-time workers in
canneries, including house.
wives, to pay union dues, Will
liam E. Yeomans, secretary
of California Professors and
Growers. Inc, charged We'd
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30

Indicated the enemy had abandon
ed it almost without fight.
WIDE OPEN FOR YANKS
Sedan and the forest cf the Ard
ennes. through which the German
armies poured in 1910 to collapse
France. were wide open to the
American thrust northeast of Sois-
sons. and the forest of the Argonne
on the road to Alsace-Lorraine. was
25 miles or less from Patton's
spearheads beyond Chalons.
CA German Transocean news
agency broadcast said the Ameri-
cans had reached ST. Dizier. 85
miles from the German border, but
claimed they had been driven back
by Nazi counter-attacks)
Stiffer resistance was encounter
ed in the Seine bridgehead area
above Paris. however. and official
reports saic' the Germans were
fighting stubborn rear guard ac-
ton there.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Jap Diet Called
Into Session

LONDON, Aug. 80 UP)-Tht
German DNB agency reported In Il
Tokyo dispatch Wednesday that tn,
Japanese government had published
a decree calling a meeting of the
diet for five days beginning Sep
tember 6.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Exp xpIosion Hints
New Robot Trial

FOLkESTONE. England. Aug. 30
oUP)-The greatest explosion of the
war was set off on the French
rocket coast Tuesday night and the
British wondered If the Nazis had
made an abortive attempt to launch
their new W. rocket bomb.
The detonation was accompanied
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30

by a tremendous rushing noise
Houses on the English coast wers
shaken, crockery was sent sxiddinS
across floors and few windows
were broken. There never had been
anything comparable heard In this
area. TIL explosion seemed like an
earthquake.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
Gamers Say Union Demand
For Dues Bo9s Out put

as dues where the check-off is
used, or the regular union fee in
ether canneries, and most of them
choose the former" Bilger said
Yeomans said the union lis OBJ
structing the immense effort that
must be made if California crops
are to be saved for war anoI civilian
use. Many of the women object to
paying union fees, and we don't
think they should have to pay
them"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
bulletin

LONDON, Aug. 80. UP) A
Bulgarian peace mission arrived
openly in Cairo Wednesday night
and Allied sources said an armis-
tice agreement between Bulgaria
and the United Nations was eX-
pected to be signed Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-30
POLICE SLAY DOG

Shortly after 5 a. m. Wednesday,
a dog was shot to death by a police
detail in the vicinity of the 1900
block and Euclid Avenue. The Off
GERS traced the animal after its un-
identified owner went into the po-
lice station and asked that it be
killed.