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Evening star., 1944-05-18
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Canned Foods, Etc.-Book No. 4.
blue stamps AS through Q-8 good
indefinitely. Each stamp worth 10
points.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-All meats except
beef steaks and roast beef now
point free. Red stamps AS
through T-8 continue good indefi-
nitely for 10 points each. Until
further notice, three red stamps
will be validated every four weeks
instead of every two weeks.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for each
pound of waste kitchen fats you
turn in. The fact that lard, short
ening and cooking oils have been
removed from the ration list does
not mean fat collection is less
essential.
Shoes-Airplane stamps 1 and 2 in
Book No. 8 good indefinitely for
one pair Of shoes each.
Sugar-Book No. 4 stamps 80 and 81
valid for s pounds indefinitely.
Book No. 4, stamp 40 good Tor 3
pounds for home canning through
February 28. l945.
Gasoline-No. 10-A coupons now
good for 8 gallons each through
August 8. B-2, ca, B-3 and C-3
coupons good for gallons each.
Fuel Oil-Periods No. 4 and 5 cou.
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through August 81. Consum.
ers in this area should not have
used more than 81 per cent Of
their total yearly fuel oil ration 40
of May ].
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Alexandra Group Plans
Quiz Program Toniqht

The monthly meeting of the Alex
andria Council of Social Agencies
VIII be held at 8 O'Clock tonight in
the auditorium of the Vii ginia Public
Service Building. A panel Of eight
members will participate in an IN
formation Please" quiz with j. Paul
Tribes, Community Chest executive
secretary, as quizmaster.
On the panel are T. c. Graham,
president OF the council; Mrs. Elias
Butler Grove, executive secretary;
Mrs. Myron Pawlej. Miss Mary
Carne, Edward j. Weiners, Aaron
Mckinney, Mrs. James l.. Scott and
L: Gilmer Hoge. The public is in
Vited.
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6 Million AIIocated
For Virginia Roads
Fund for Improvement
Increased Million for Yea
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, May 1s.-Six
million dollars have been allocated
for maintenance and improvement
of Virginia highways, beginning July
/, Gen. James A. Anderson, State
highway commissioner, announced
yesterday. The ALLEGATION is an in
crease of $1,oOo,000 over the last
fiscal year, but the commissioner ex-
planned that improvements were not
included in the program in 1943.
OF the total amount, S350,0O0 is set
aside for the revolving bridge fund
and adjustment, and $5,650,OO0 for
maintenance and improvements.
Distribution among the eight dis
tricts is as follows
Bristol, $879 ,997; Salem, S847,O5
Lynchburg, $777,86o; Richmond
s7oS,545; Fredericksburg. 1886 ,634;
Suffolk, s795, 1872; Culpeper, SITS, ,445,
and Staunton, $744,693
ALLEGATION was made to the 81
counties in the secondhand system on
the same basis of vehicle miles, rural
population in 1910, rural area and
rural secondary road mileage. Coun-
ties receiving the largest ALLEGATION
Of funds for maintenance and i'm
provements are Pittsylvania, $189, 9,218,
and Augusta, $140911. King George
and Middlesex receive the smallest
amounts, $40 0,227 each.
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War Housing Center
Sunday Hours Ended

The Alexandria War Housing Cen
ter has discontinued Its Sunday
hours and will be open from 8 am.
to 7 pm. Monday through Satur-
day, according to Miss Barbara X.
Watkins, director. She explained
that most applicants are interested
in apartments and housing projects
that are not open for inspection on
Sundays.
Contrary to popular belief, the de-
mand for dwelling units in Alexan-
dria far exceeds the supply, Miss
Watkins said, and residents are
urged to list all available apart
ments and houses.
Several months ago oficials of
the National Housing Agency ex-
pressed the belief that the supply
Of dwelling units in Alexandria
would be adequate to meet the de-
mand for some months, and builders
Of new apartments were fearful that
they would not be fully occupied,
Miss Watkins said.
However, the center has an
average Of rs applicants a day,
mostly for family units, and there
are almost none available. The sit
uation Is expected to remain critical
until the opening of some new
apartments now under construction.
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2 Jurists Stage
Jumping Contest
On Court Lawn

Two prominent District jurists got
away from thoughts of their judicial
duties yesterday long enough to
stage an impromptu standing broad
jumping contest on the lawn near
the Court of Appeals building, while
a third justice looked on.
The subject of jumping having
come up while the trio was en- route
to lunch. Justice Justin Miller of
the Court of Appeals volunteered to
give demonstration, marked off a
spot and jumped to it.
Justice James w. Morris of Dis
trict Court also jumped, but readily
admitted that Justice Miller had
jumped farther.
Justice Bolitha j Laws of District
Court, who also is judge in the
Emergency Court Of Appeals, was an
onlooker.
The distance-it wasn't measured.
We were kind enough to ourselves
not to do that" Justice Morris ex-
planned when asked if the distance
had been measured. Justice Morris
added that he had told Justice Mil
ler, a former high school pole-vault-
ing star, that it was the first time
he had jumped since the World War.
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Virginians Call
Sanaforium Meetino
Officials Will Report
On Site and Costs.

Plans for a municipal tuberculosis
sanatorium to serve Northern vir-
ginia will be discussed at a meeting
OF Alexandria, Arlington and Fair
fax officials, and members of the
three tuberculosis associations at 8
pm. tomorrow at the Arlington
Health Center.
DR.. Charles p. Cake, president of
the Arlington tuberculosis Associa-
ton and chairman of the joint COM
mittee, said that the meeting is ex-
pected to hear a report from COM
mittee named to select a site. and
also to discuss possible costs of con-
struction and maintenance of the
sanitorium.
Members of the governing bodies,
who will represent their boards at
the meeting, are Basil M. De Lash
mutt, F. Freeland Chew and Edmund
D Campbell of the Arlington Board
OF Supervisors; Maurice w. Fox,
John T Blinco and Burns N. Gibson
of the Fairfax Board of Supervisors;
Mayor William T. Wilkins of Alex
andria, Councilman Charles Burgess
and G. Luckett Watkins, city en-
gineer and acting city manager, who
will represent City Manager Carl
Budwesky who was appointed to the
committee but Is i'll.
At the same time it was an
nounced that Alexandria and Ar
lington tuberculosis Associations
were represented at the 40th an
nual conference of the national as
sociation and the 3lst annual South
ern conference held in Chicago May
9 to IL, at which tuberculosis work
was discussed in medical and public
health sessions.
Arlington was represented by DR..
Cake, Mrs. Jane Moody, executive
secretary of the association, and
DR.. Ivan Booker, while the Alex
andria association was represented
by its president, Dr. John Sims, and
Mrs. Doris Tompkins. executive Sec
retary
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Fairfax Board Acts
10 Rezone Tract for
Use as Dog Pound
June 7 Set for Heurina:
Surprise Move Follows
Defect on Permit

Blocked In their efforts to obtain
. permit for establishment of a dog
pound and Potters' Field on a IS
acre tract near Fairfax, the Fairfax
County Board Of Supervisors yes
terday, in surprise move, adopted
a resolution to rezone the tract from
rural residential to industrial. june
7 was set as the date for public
hearing.
The board was blocked temporar-
lily when the Board of Zoning Ap-
peals recorded a tie vote on the SUI
pervisors' application for permit,
as required under the zoning ordi-
nance.
The vote was taken after public
hearing on the application. A num-
Der Of persons living adjacent to or
owning property near the proposed
pound, appeared and objected to
approval of the application. John
w. Brookfield and D. S. Makley
voted to deny the application, and
Chairman S. Cooper Dawson and
Thomas I. Piggott, voting for it.
The motion to rezone the tract fol
industrial use was offered by Super
visor Maurice w. Fox. It was car.
ried by vote of 3 to /, Supervisors
Fox, G. Wallace Carper and John r
Blincoe favoring the measure, ano
Supervisor Herbert Blunt opposing
1t. Supervisor D. w. Buckley re-
fused to vote and Supervisor Burns
N. Gibson was absent.
Members of the delegation SAID
the pound and potter's field in its
present location would tend to lower
property values.
An ordinance and schedule OF
rates governing establishment of a
water and sewer system in Accotink
Village was adopted by the board
after a public hearing at which
approximately half the property
owners in the district appeared.
The board Endorsed a request TO,
a grant of Lanham Act funds to
erect a 26-bed contagious disease
annex to Alexandria Hospital. Fair
fax, Arlington, Loudoun and Prince
William Counties and Alexandria
would be permitted to send patients
Beds would be allocated on the basis
|of population. DR.. Nelson Poldonick
county health director, presented
the question.
B. B. Iden, chairman of the
County Electoral Board, requested
the board to appoint county regis
trar, as provided for under an act
OF the last session of the General
Assembly. Two measures were con-
sidered. One would abolish all pre-
cinct registrars and set up a central
registrars Office at Fairfax. Under
the other. a county registrar would
be named and present registrars
would be retained. The request was
held over until the second meeting
in June for further study.
The board was informed the State
Highway Commission has allocated
$135 ,243.60 for secondary highways
in the county for the 1944-45 fiscal
year, which is approximately $38, 900
more than allotted for the current
fiscal year.
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tobacco Sales
10 Be Resumed
In Maryland
oPA Lifts Ceiling:
Eight Warehouses
Reopen Tomorrow

Southern Maryland's eight tobacco
warehouses will reopen for sales to-
morrow following an once of Price
Administration order increasing the
ceiling price for the 1914 crop.
Action to reopen the markets was
taken yesterday by the Maryland
Tobacco Growers Association pend.
ing oficial notification Of the OPA
order increasing the ceiling price
from . 52-cent-a-pound average to
top OF 50 cents . pound. Tobacco
sellers were informed Of the increase
by Senator Tydings ard Representa-
tive Sasscer Of Maryland, who had
requested the price change.
Under the new ceiling price ar
rangement, which has been ap.
proved by Sterilization Director
Fred M. Vinson, growers may receive
up to 81 cents a poup6 for their to-
bacco and buyers are not required
to show a 52-cent average on the
overall crop as was stipulated In
the original ceiling regulation.
Buyers Were Restricted.
Buyers pointed out that their
companies had ordered them not Ia
allow their averages to pass the So.
cent mark for the season. They said
under the average ceiling regulation
they could pay as high prices as
necessary to bid In top grades of
tobacco as long as these prices were
balanced with lower priced grades
to keep the 52-cent average.
The difficulty with the average
ceiling regulation, it was explained.
was that buyers for cigarette COM
panies require only the top grades
and could not buy low quality leaf.
which Is unusable in cigarettes, lust
to maintain an average.
A War Food Administration ON
cial said that while growers had
not been notified officially OF the
revised ceiling, they had asred to
reopen the markets II the details Of
the order were satisfactory.
Growers Faced Loss.
Prior to the announcement of thu
new ceiling price, the growers asso-
ciation asserted 1t would send q
delegation to Washington to protest
the 52-cent price unless some ad-
justment was reached by the end
OF the week. Growers protested
that since the quality Of this years
estimated 1850, ,000-pound crop is
below par, 1t could not be sold
within the average without financial
loss.
Two Of MarlboroS three ware
houses closed soon after sales
opened May 8. and the markets at
Waldorf, La Plata and Hughesville
closed at the regular closing hours
that day. The third Marlboro ware
house did not open.
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Parents Given Custody
Of Boys in Cab Theft

Two Washington youths, who
were arrested yesterday by Mont
gomery County police after they
robbed District taxicab driver OF
SO and his cab, have been placed in
the custody of their parents pending
a District Juvenile Court hearing
police reported today.
District police said the cab driver
Harry Becraft, "a, of 31O4 Flower
Mill road, Kensington, Md, was
robbed and thrown from his cab by
the two at Forty-eighth and Upton
streets NV.
Mr.. Becraft, treated for head
lacerations at Georgetown Hospital,
told police he picked up the youths
at Fourteenth and F streets NV.
The youths gave their ages as is
and II years.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
1ydings Seeks
Faster Payment
of AIIotments
Sees Delegates
Of Montgomery I.
Service Aid Group

I Senator Tydings, Democrat, OF
Maryland today pushed plans te
speed up the payment of dependency
allotments to servicemeus families
after conference yesterday at his
Office with delegation from the
Service Aid Council of Montgomery
County Draft Board No. 2 in Silver
Spring.
Also attending the meeting were
Senator Radcliffe, Democrat, and
Representative Beall, Republican,
both Of Maryland, and Mai. c. S.
Solit, iaison officer for the ONCE of
Dependency Benefits at Newark
N. j. The delegation met earlier
with Representative Sasscer, Demo-
crat, Of Maryland, who assured the
group of his cooperation.
Headed by william F. Carlin,
president of the Service Aid Coun-
Gil, the delegation presented a three
point program aimed at cutting red
tape in the disbursement of allot-
ment checks to dependents of serv-
icemen.
Cites Long Delays.
Declaring that cases have been
reported to the council In which
there have been delays Of two to
seven months in the payment of de-
allotments, Mr.. Carlin
urged:
l. More care and better SUPER
vision in compiling correct infor-
nation at induction centers.
2. A Tightening up" of methods
used by War Department employees
at the Newark ONCE of Dependency
Benefits in transferring necessary
information to cards for classifica-
tion machines.
8. An increase in the original
allotment checks sent from induc-
tion centers ito allow for any delay
caused by error in forwarding the
dependency applications to Newark" /"
together with statement to de-
pendents giving the period of time
covered by each check and the ap-
proximate date when the next check
should be received.
Would Speed Investigations.
Members of the group also asked
that methods of handling depend
ents' complaints be changed in the
Newark Office SO as to expedite the
investigation and correction of in
dividual cases. In addition, it was
said. an acknowledgment of each
complaint should b. sent imme-
diately to the person involved, alone
with an explanation Of what might
reasonably be expected"
In emphasizing the desire of the
ONCE OF Dependency Benefits u
prevent any unnecessary hardship
to servicemen,s families, Mai. Solit
pointed out that the principal cause
of delay in sending out allotment
checks IS lack Of information in
application reaching Newark.
., A similar observation was made bv
Senator Tydings, who said that the
Once Of Dependency Benefits is
doing q tremendous job" and that
most Of the delay In receiving aIlot-
ments occurs before dependency
applications are sent to Newark,
He told the group, however, that
he would get in touch with military
authorities in an attempt to correct
the condition.
Besides Mr.. Carlin, the delegation
Capt. Ronald L. Mcdonald,
J. II. Mes, Mayor o. w. Youngblood
OF Takoma Park and P. M. William
son.
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6rovst. BeaII, 50, Dies;
Farmer in Montgomery

Grover @. Beall, go, prominent
Maryland farmer, died Tuesday In
the Montgomery County General
Hospital, Sandy Spring, after . long
illness.
A native Of Montgomery County.
Mr.. Beall was the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. william v. Beall. For the last
two years he operated a farm in
Anne Arundel County and before
that had operated farm for 2S
years IN Howard County.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Blanche Beall, and four children.
Funeral services were to be held at
2 pm. today at Clarksville, Nd,
with burial in Zion Cemetery there.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Legislative Council
Will Hear Officials
OF A Agencies Today
New System on Tuxotion
Of Maryland Utility
Property Proposed
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, May 18.-Ofncials
OF the Controllers Office, the State
Planning Commission, PEOPLES
Court and the Board of sLiouor
License Commissioners were invited
to appear before the Legislative
Council today in the concluding
session of two-day meeting.
The council session will be de-
voted to hearing proposals for legis-
lation to be considered by the l945
General Assembly.
During yesterdays meeting State
TAX commission Chairman Robert
l. France asked that the law relat-
ing TO taxation of tangible personal
property of domestic utilities be
changed so that taxes on such
utilities would be distributed to
Maryland counties and cities in
proportion to the tangible personal
property OF the utility located in
each.
Mr.. France, who described his
proposal as controversial, said the
present law provides that the as
sessment Is allocated to the coun-
Ties andf0r cities in which the
stockholders reside and not to the
place in which the tangible personal
property is located and protected. !"
The council took action, later in
the day. to revise the system of local
legislation in Maryland and DR..
Horace E. Flack, council secretary.
was requested to draw up a bill de-
nning the local laws not recurring
General Assembly approval; prohib-
iting the Assembly from passing on
matters defined by it as purely To-
cal, and instituting . deadlineuf 20
Gays before the Legislature adjourns
Tor the introduction OF bills as COM
pared with a Today limitation now
in effect.
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Goucher Scholarship

BALTIMORE, May 18 P.-Presi-
dent David A. Robertson of Goucher
College announced today that Alice
Magruder, 1912 Concord avenue
NV, Washington, has been award
ed one of six regional scholarships
for l944-5. The scholarships cover
ing tuition are awarded high school
graduates on the basis of academic
standing and personality. 6
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Protestant Sessions
Hear. Churches Must
Aid Postwar Plans
Veterans to Serve as
Economic Shot in Arm,
Brig Gen. Hines soys !.
sy the Asses1Ss pre...

By the Asssssc Press.
BAET1MoRE. May ls.-Churches
should contrilDute to community
pianning ~ other local programs
in o. 6ostear world, \ i sproul
told the National Conference ol the
Ministry Of the Church to Return
ing Service Men and Women today.
!. Mr.. Sproul, program executive OF
the National Council Of the YMCA,
made the opening address on the
second day of the two-day confer
ence attended by approximately $50
Protestant leaders.
The conference Is being sponsored
by four interdenominational organ
izations and Is the first of series
to be held throughout the country.
Mr.. Sproul spoke on "The Rela-
ton Of the Church to Community
Planning for Returning Service Men
and Women" He told the church
leaders they could not expect to be
part of community programs with
out taking on jobs very close to their
purposes.
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, ad-
ministrator of retraining and re-
employment of the Office of War
Mobilization, told the conference
last night the Government had
made extensive and detailed plans
to assure that Generalization which
followed the World War would not
be repeated.
Instead of being a problem as
they were after the last war our
returning servicemen and women
should be a shot in the arm to our
economic civilization" Gen. Hines
said.
Representative Voorhis, Democrat,
OF California told the session "ah
the laws We pass on the subject of
opportunities for vet
Grams will not be effective unless
there Is a will on the part of the
employer to make the jobs available
for them. 1t is the part of the
church to inspire this will so it will
be possible for our returning SOL
diers to have the kind of oppor-
tunities for which they are fight
ing"
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Montgomery Charter Unit
Elects Mrs. J. H. Werner

Mrs. John H. Werner, 6807 Forty
fifth street, Chevy Chase, has been
named executive secretary of the
Montgomery County Charter Com
mittee in the campaign for a coun-
ty charter to be voted on in the
fall elections, Allen H. Gardner.
committee president, announced
today.
Mrs. Werner, executive secretary
of the group during the 1912 cam
paign when the county charter
board was elected, will have charge
of the charter headquarters estab-
lished last week at 7240 Wisconsin
avenue, Bethesda.
The new headquarters will pro-
vide information on the proposed
county charter. Office hours will
be from 8 am. to 6 pm. daily.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Montgomery Fund Units
Sent BUDGET Blanks

Budget blanks for member agen-
cies Of the Montgomery County
Community Chest have been mailed
with the request they be completed
and returned to Rockville by June
7, Miss Mary E. Lucas, executive
secretary, has announced.
Since these budgets must be re-
viewed by the county Budget Com
mittee before they are sent by June
80 to the Office of the Community
War Fund, it is important that indi-
vidual agency budgets be submitted
early in June and not later than
June T." Miss Lucas stated,
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Olson Paintings on Exhibit

COLLEGE PARK, Md, May 18.-
The practical arts department of
the University of Maryland opened
yesterday an exhibit of the work
of Henry Olson, Washington artist,
to continue through May 81.
Twenty-three of his pictures, in
cluding several prize winning water
colors, are on display.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
T. B. Harrington Named
To Maryland Legal Post
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 18.-T. Barton
Harrington has been designated to
become an assistant attorney gen.
eral of Maryland on July l, sue
ceeding D. Hayward Hamilton, jr.
Mr.. Hamilton, who held the po-
sition for two years, resigned to
enter private law firm.
Attorney General William C..
Walsh last night announced the
appointment of Mr.. Harrington, for
mer Speaker of the House of Dele
gates and for the last 10 years
an assistant United States attorney.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Club to Meet Mondoy

The postponed meeting of the
Wonlen's Club of Lyon Village will
be held at 8 pm. next Monday at
the home of Mrs. William G. Watt,
2600 North Sixteenth street, Arling-
ton. Films on Mexico and an ex-
hibit OF Mexican articles will be
shown.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
D. of A. Elects Officers

ROANOKE, Va, May l8 CP.-
Mrs. Carrie Lyons of Arlington was
elected State inside sentinel in the
only contested Office voted on at the
closing session of the 32d annual
convention of the Virginia State
Council, Daughters of America. Mrs.
Estelle Morris of Alexandria was
elected State outside sentinel. .,
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Military Personnel Escape
Virqinia Income Tax
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Military personnel who lived In
Virginia in 1943 only because they
were assigned to duty there have
been notified by the War Depart.
ment that they are not subject to
the Virginia income tax and are
not required to file Virginia income
tax returns.
However, the department also no.
titled them that they are liable to
the personal property tax on any
tangible personal property they had
In Virginia on January / Of any
year.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Berwyn PTA PIuns Dance

The Parent-Teacher Association
Of Berwyn School will hold its last
dance and card party of the season
at $50 pm. Saturday in the school
auditorium. A floor show will be
given during the intermission. Mrs.
C. w. Dwiggins, ways and means
chairman, is in charge.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Save This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
1or Army and Navy supplies
snipped 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., 1944-05-18
PTA Plans Dance Recital

The East Silver Spring School
Parent Teacher Association will
present It's annual dance recital at
8 pm. tomorrow and Saturday in
the school auditorium.