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Evening star., 1944-03-14
Budget Hearing Slated
In Fairfax Tomorrow
Proposal Coils for
'$1,288,888 OutIoy

A public hearing on the tentative
county budget for the 1944-5 fiscal
year beginning July / will be held
at 10 am. tomorrow by the Fair
fax County Board of Supervisors
In the courthouse at Fairfax.
The proposed budget calls for
expenditures of approximately ST.
288, 1888, exclusive of payments to
retire road bonds in certain dis
tricts. OF this amount, approx
mately $982,207 is earmarked for
county schools, $22o,293 for the
county fund, s60,66 for the school
debt and capital outlay fund and
the remainder for various other
funds.
Should the budget be approved as
advertised. the total county tax rate
will be approximately $2.12 per
500 valuation. The rate will be
slightly higher in the Mount Ver-
non and Dranesville districts. where
a levy will be imposed for road
bond Indebtedness.
Delegations from parent-teacher
associations and other school groups
are expected to attend the hearing
and urge supervisors to maintain
the present tax rate of S2.26 to
create fund for additional school
buildings and improvements. The
tentative budget calls for a reduc-
ton Of IL cents in the tax rate.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
1t. Dyer Of Glen Echo
Missing in italian Action

1t. Olin L. Dyer, 80, of 6429 Tus-
carawas road, Glen Echo Heights,
Nd, has been reported missing In
action in Italy since January 81, the
War Department has informed his
family.
The son OF Mrs. Laura v. Dyer
and the husband Of Mrs. Helen M
Dyer, both of the above address, 1t
Dyer had been overseas a year, serv-
ing with a tank outfit. He was
associated with an Oil burner concern
here before entering the service in
June. 1912. The following January
he was commissioned from officer
candidate school at Fort Knox, KY
Born in Washington, 1t. Dyer at.
tended high school in Silver Spring
Md, and was a member of the Ma.
tional Guard in Silver Spring 70,
four years. He has two children
Joan, IL, and Olin, jr., 6.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
Arlington Hospital
10 Open Tomorrow
$6W, 900 Project Built
With Lunhom Act Funds

The 1oo-bed Arlington Hospital
will open tomorrow for both medical
and surgical cases, with two operat-
ing and several maternity cases ex-
pected to be admitted.
The project, which cost approx
mately $500. 900 and includes a So
bed nurses home, was financed by
Lanham Act funds Hospital Ad-
rninistrator Charles H. Dabbs said
that In addition to the 100 beds and
40 bassinets, the hospital can be ex-
panded by IA adult beds.
OF frame construction with a
masonry exterior, the hospital con-
sists Of six wings extending from
. central corridor. Glass-inclosed
solariums are at the end of each
wing and ramps lead into adjoining
gardens.
Approximately 100 physicians al
ready have been appointed to the
medical staff of the hospital, which
also has its full quota of nurses. In
addition, Mr.. Dabbs said, go nurses
aides have completed their training
and will be assigned to duty shortly.
Many county residents have volun-
teered their services at the hospital,
he added.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
a Reports Submitted
On Richmond Fire
10 of Il Persons Hurt
Still Are in Hospital
BY the Associated Press.

Ds lIe AsSOCldLeC HreSS.
RICHMOND, Mar. 14.-Four sep
arate reports on the fire which
damaged the Hotel Jefferson early
Saturday, causing the deaths of six
persons and injury to 81 others, will
be submitted today to Mayor Cor
don B. Amber.
The Police and Fire Departments,
the Bureau of Building Inspection
and the city's master mechanic
turned over their reports yesterday
to Director Of Public Safety M. D.
Baroff
Col. Baroff said the city attorneys
Office had been asked to provide in
formation on the Fire Departments
authority over the installation, in
spection and replacement of in
terror fire control equipment in
large buildings in the city.
Only 10 Of the 81 persons injured
still were hospitalized. Alfred Della
penta, Buffalo, N. Y, was released
from the Medical College Hospital
and Corpl. Edward S. Farmer. 26,
OF Joplin, Mo, was released from the
Richmond Army Air Base Hospital.
The official cause OF death Of the
six victims, who included State Sem
ator Aubrey G. Weaver, Front Royal,
and Mrs. James H. Price, widow of
the former Governor of Virginia
was "suffocation" The others who
died were j. Winston Ross, attached
to the Seabee base at Camp Peary;
Jean Manfredi, Irvington, N. j.;
Miss Ruth Andrews. Richmond, and
Miss Dorothy Gam, Newark, N. J.
Chief of Detectives O. D. Carton
said 6 of l6 theft cases reported
occurring in hotel rooms during the
fire had been cleared up
Evening star., 1944-03-14
President Nominates
Holt as j. ). Attorney
Judges Had Named Him
For Vacancy Temporarily

President Roosevelt today nomi-
mated Harry H. Holt, jr., of Hamp-
ton, Va, to be United States at
torney for the Eastern district of
Virginia, which includes Northern
Virginia.
Mr.. Holt already has assumed
the Office, however, having been
named Saturday by Judges Robert
N. Pollard and Sterling Hutcheson
of Federal District Court at Rich
mond to fill the vacancy until the
President could make a nomination.
The vacancy was created when
Judge Hutcheson resigned as dis
trict attorney last week to 90 on
the bench as successor to the late
Judge Luther B. Way.
Mr.. Holt was sworn in yesterday.
He is a graduate Of Virginia Mill
tary Institute, and he studied law
at the University of Virginia. He
was member OF the firm of Mon
tague & Holt at Hampton. He
served for time as assistant United
States Attorney General in charge
of land condemnation cases in that
district.
The White House said his ap-
pointment was recommended by
Senators Glass and Byrd and in
dorsed by numerous members of the
Virginia bar.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
By WALTER McCALlUM,
Star Star Cnrresnnndent

Iof his fight companions. He was
high enough to come out of the
dive, and he wasn't smoking. We
hope he got out all right. Probably
he did, but we don't know. We
sure hope he made it all right
The command expects him to turn
up. just as did captain of the
same squadron few days ago
when word came back through un-
official channels that his wife had
received postcard from him dated
from a prison camp in Germany
Jerry Is Unwilling.
Sometimes the boys in this squad
ron fly 40, so or even so operational
sorties over Germany, spelling for
a fight. They look all over the sky
for a pugnacious German without
finding Jerry willing to mix it.
Take the case, for instance, Of
|28-year-old Col. Joseph L. Mason,
one of the youngest full colonels in
the European theater. An Air Force
veteran and pilot Of surprising
skill, Col. Joe was plenty Drowned
|off, as they say here. because he
couldn't get a Jerry in his sights.
Jerry just refused to stand and fight.
The colonel had led more than two
score sorties over Europe and still
he hadn't warmed his guns. Proud
|of the record of his group, which
had knocked down around 60 Jer-
ries, he personally never had shot
at German.
Then one day recently he was
leading flight of PATS over Ger
many and Holland on an escort mis-
sion, marshaling a fight of Bits
heading for Schweinfurt and the
ME ball-bearing plants deep in
Southern Germany.
At $4,000 feet the colonel waggled
his wings and peeled off. Down he
swooped, hot on the tail OF a Jerry
fighter, who tried 10 run away and
fight another day. The PAT dives
fast. He caught the Jerry around
5000 feet and gave him a squirt.
Jerry kept on going down for the
deck, as the pilots call the ground,
or just above it. The colonel kept
right on his tail. They few over
a town in Western Germany. The
colonels guns spat death right down
the main street Of the town.
Nazi Scattered Half Mile.
Just across the western edge the
colonel got the fleeing Jerry fighter
in his deadly cone of fire and the
Jerry plane tipped over and hit
the ground.
There were flaming pieces scat
tered for half mile" said Col. Joe.
mo, I didn't feel 1 was killing a
man. l was shooting at an air
plane"
They all feel that way. There's
nothing personal in these air duels.
1t is battle OF flying and fighting
skill. The human element is for
gotten. It's a duel of DETECTION
shots, which are plenty tough, or of
so maneuvering a plane that you
get on the tail of the enemy and
give him two-second burst. If
you hold the trigger down too long
your guns get hot. But a .50-caliber
gun, and there are eight of them
In all, spurts lot of stuff in two
seconds.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
Prince Georges Extension
OF Dog Quarantine Urqed

A request that the Prince Georges
County dog quarantine be extended
for 80 days will be placed before the
county commissioners at their meet
ing today in Upper Marlboro by DR..
A. L. Bruecker. acting director of
the State Livestock Sanitary Service
The commissioners are expected to
approve the request. The quarantine
otherwise would expire today.
DR.. Brueckner pointed out that
three Seat Pleasant boys were bit
ten by a rabid dog Saturday and
that the bodies of two rabid foxes
were found recently in the Green
belt area.
County police said the boys bitten
are Franklin Dehart, 10; George
Heararth, 8, and Jack Kearney, IL.
They added that James Kearney,
father OF one of the boys. owned the
dog and has been charged with vio-
lating the quarantine by permitting
it to run at large. A hearing on the
case will be held at 10 am. Friday
in Upper Marlboro Police Court.
Disclosing that the bodies of two
other rabid foxes were found re-
Gently in Anne Arundel County, DR..
Brueckner said it probably will be
necessary to extend the quarantine,
which now affects only the southern
part of that county.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
T. E. McDonough Elected
By Fuirfux Rotary

Thomas E. McDonough was elect
ed president of the Fairfax Rotary
Club at the annual meeting yes
terday. Mr. McDonough, superin-
tendent OF the Fairfax division of
the Virginia Public Service Co., sue
ceeds Hugh B. Marsh, Fairfax at
torney.
Other officers include Mr.. Marsh,
vice president; Harry L. Carrico,
treasurer, and Bennett King, sec
retary. Members of the Board OF
Directors are Thomas P. Chapman,
jr.; Paul Kincheloe, James E. Bau-
serman, President-elect McDonough
and Mr.. Marsh. The new officers will
be installed at the first meeting in
.HllV
Evening star., 1944-03-14
Civilian War Services Division
ToBe Cited for Draft Aid Center
Unit Here Has Become Model for Nation;
900 Seectees, FomiIies Aided in First Month

Housed in the information build
ing at Fourteenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue NV, the Draft
Aid Center grew out Of an idea
suggested to The Star by young
father about to be drafted.
He suggested an advisory service
where other fathers In the same
position could 60 for information
about allotments, medical care for
their dependents, and what to do
about legal questions arising from
mortgages, insurance and payments
on the home.
Launched Last Month.
The Star took the idea to Civilian
War Services and District Selective
Service, volunteers were trained as
consultants, prospective selectees
were told about the center at 4
mass meeting and the center was
officially launched last month.
The OCD citation, established
about eight months ago, has been
given to 23 groups out of the hun
dreds of defense councils through
out the country. 1t Is awarded for
specific outstanding jobs on the
home front:
st. Louis was cited for its block
organization, which in the Third
War Loan drive resulted in more
than 100 blocks in which every resi-
dent bought bonds and stamps and
for the action of Its defense corps
in the 1943 Mississippi flood. Chi
cago was cited for the excellence Of
its camouflage and blackout plans
prepared by technical committee
of its defense council.
1t. Gen. William N. Haskell, newly
appointed OCD director, will pre-
sent the citation.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
lsNRshonm;g
&Remmiders@o

Canned and Frozen Foods, ETC.
Book No. 4, green stamps K, L. and
M valid through March 20 and
retain old values of 8, 5, 2 and
points. Book No. 4, blue stamps
A-8, B-8, C-8, D-8 and E-8 valid
through May 20 and worth 10
points each. Blue stamps F-8,
G-8. H-8, J-8 and K-8 valid April
through June 80. Blue tokens
and green 1-point stamps may be
used as change.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book No. 3,
brown stamps Y and 2 valid
through March 20 and retain old
values of 8, S, and points. Book
No. 4, red stamps A-8, B-8, C-8,
D-8, E-8 and F-8 good through
May 20 and worth 10 points each.
Red stamps G-8. H-8 and J-8
good March rs. Red tokens and
brown l-point stamps may be used
as change.
Sugar-Book No. 4. stamp 80 valid
for S pounds indefinitely. Book
No. 4, stamp 40 good for 5
for home canning through Febru-
ary 28, 1945.
ga coupons good for
gallons through May 8. b.,
ca, B-3 and C-3 coupons good
for 5 gallons each.
Fuel Oil-Period No. coupons valid
through September 80. Period No.
coupons valid through Septem-
Der 80. All good for 10 gallons per
unit. Consumers in this area
should not have used more than
81 per cent of their total yearly
fuel oil rations as of March 13.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
Veterans Poy Forms
Available in Fuirfux

Applications for veterans muster
tng-out payments now are available
at the Office of the Fairfax County
Selective Service Board, officials an
nounced today
Any veteran Of this war living in
the county who has not filed an
application for the mastering out
payments, whether registrants of the
local board or not, are requested to
call at the board Office in the County
once Building and obtain the
forms. The ONCE is open from 8 80
am. to pm. Monday through Fri
day, and from $50 am. to / pm.
Saturdays.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
Montgomery County
Has 1000 Tax-Free
Properties Listed
Naval Medical Center
And Wilson Estute Are
Largest, Sims Says

Montgomery County has 1000
parcels of tax-exempt property. the
County Civic Federation was told
last night at meeting in Bethesda
Elementary School,
Biggest Federal property on the
list. according to Lewis B. Sims,
chairman of the Public Finance and
Budget Committee. who made the
report, is the 265-acre Naval Medi-
cal Center at Bethesda. The list
also includes county, municipal, re-
ligious and charitable institutions.
Another large tax-exempt tract,
he said, is the 94-acre Luke Wilson
estate, which is willed on 99-year
lease to the National Cancer Insti-
tute and the National Institute Of
Health. Most of the county and
municipal real estate consist of par
GELS held for delinquent taxes.
No Report on Legality.
Mr.. Sims report was made to clear
his committees agenda of a resolu-
tion that had been pending since
June, 1899. The resolution had
asked for list of tax-exempt prop
critics and designation of those
illegally exempted. Sims reported
that the committee believed itself
to be in no position to pass on the
legality of exempted property.
The federation's Civilian Defense
Committee is now working on a
detailed statement of County Civil
ian Defense Council expenditures
and will make report at the April
meeting of the federation, Capt,
F. o. Smith reported.
Royal H. Carlock, county member
of the Maryland House of Delegates,
reviewed the 18 laws passed at the
recent session of the assembly.
Mr.. Carlock also introduced a
resolution urging the federation to
make study of the methods used
by Maryland counties to comply
with the requirements for sharing
in the State equalization fund for
school aid.
Garden Committee Praised.
The Montgomery County Victory
Garden Committee was commended
for its work in a report by George
Schultze after a study by the In
ternal County improvement Com
mittee. Mr.. Schultze'S study fol-
lowed an announcement in January
by the Board of County Com
missioners that certain victory gar
den executives had been placed on
paid basis.
The possibility of 81 per month
service charge in the future by the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission for the collection of
trash and garbage, instead of the
$3.50 monthly charge now in ef-
feet, was reported by DR.. Herbert
Eaton, chairman of the Sanitation
and Health Committee, following a
conference with the commission
The costs to date are $1.15 per unit,
DR.. Eaton said. His committee, at
the invitation of the commission.
will make q further study of the
costs, H
The federation approved a resolu-
ton introduced by Samuel Stone
braker expressing opposition to the
proposed construction OF power
dams in the Potomac River gorge.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
Army Cites Fire Chief
Who Rescued Worker
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Mar. 14.-The War
Departments highest civilian award
was presented yesterday to a Balti-
more Army Air Base fire chief who
rescued a fellow worker from a
flaming testing field in September
after the mans asbestos suit caught
fire.
Maj. Gen. Philip Hayes, COM
manding general, made the presen-
tation to Howard J. Gordon at cere-
monies in Sd Service Command
headquarters
The citation said that Mr.. Gordon
although he had partially removed
his own safety suit, leaped into the
flames without regard for his own
personal safety" and dragged his
associate out of danger. The men
had been testing new asbestos suits
on ground that had been soaked
with gasoline and ignited.
Evening star., 1944-03-14

The National Once Of Civilian
Defense will award a Citation for
Merit to the Civilian War Services
Division Of the District specifically
for the Draft Aid Center and the
War Hospitality Committee, It wal
learned today.
National OCD said the Draft Aid
Center, jointly sponsored by District
Selective Service and Civilian War
Services and operated by the latter,
had become a model for the country,
On the basis of its operation here
service to more than 1000 selec-
tees and their families in its first
month of operation-National OCD
has recommended the establishment
of similar centers to State and local
defense councils throughout the
country, using the experience here
as a guide.
Other Centers Set Up. .
A National OCD spokesman re-
ported that centers had already been
set up as result Of the OCD recon-
mendation in several cities, includ-
ing Philadelphia and Portland,
Greg, and others are being organ
lied.
The War Hospitality Committee,
which is relatively much older, CO.
ordinates recreation services, home
hospitality and lodging services for
men and women In uniform, puts
on 100 camp shows a month, sends
hostesses to camp dances, stats
canteens with volunteers, operates
the United Nations Service Center
and generally makes life more pleas
ant for servicemen visiting Wash
ington or stationed at nearby camps.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
Mad Dog Bites Six
In Long Race Through
Alexandra Streets
, Blow With Baseball Bot
Stops Animal After Four
r Pistol Bullets FoiIed

Five shots and ablowwith a base
ball bat were needed to kill a mad
dog that raced through Alexandria
for an hour yesterday afternoon,
biting three adults and three chill
,dren.
Police were first notified at $50
pm, when Clyde Burnley, 5, of 213
Commerce street was bitten on the
right ear, the back of the head and
under the chin while walking at
Commerce and West streets.
During the chase Policemen James
Smith and Frank Mason shot at
the dog twice and followed him to
Princess and Royal streets, where
he ran into the house of James
Diggs. They shot him twice in the
house and after Mr.. Diggs hit him
on the head with a bat the police
men dragged him outside and
killed him with a shot between the
eyes.
Victims Treated at Hospital.
The other victims, all of whom
were treated at the Alexandria Hos
pital and notified to report to the
Health Department for further
treatment were: Elizabeth M. Hill, 4,
of 1916 King street, bitten on her
forehead at Commerce and West
streets; Ralph E. West, 5, of 208
South Henry street, bitten in the
right arm and left cheek in the 200
block of North Henry street; Miss
Henricka Stebbins, a teacher living
at st. Agnes School, bitten in the
left leg while boarding q bus in the
TOO block of King street; A. w. Hol-
Ter, of 401 Prince street, bitten in the
lest leg, also in the TOO block of
King street, and Harry Davis, COL
ored, Of TIC Wolfe street, a cripple
who was bitten in the left arm while
in his wheel chair in the 1900 block
OF King street.
Dogs Head to Be Tested.
DR.. w. A. Browne, city health
officer, said the dogs head will be
sent to the laboratory today for ex-
although it Is too badly
by shots for a satisfactory
examination. However, he said, the
indication Of rabies is so strong that
the victims have been advised to
start treatment at once. He said
that others who may also have been
bitten, but did not go to the hos
pital, should report to the health
at once. The dog was
black mongrel.
Only two cases of rabies have
been reported in Alexandria since
January /, DR.. Browne said, a de-
cided drop from last year, when nine
cases were reported in December.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
Two Seized on Gaming
Charges to Fuce TriuI

Two Washington colored men will
be tried at 10 am. Thursday in
Hyattsville Police Court on charges
of possessing lottery slips, trans
porting gambling equipment and
trespassing following their arrest
Sunday on an abandoned road by
Greenbelt Policeman r. A. Dodge,
assisted by Prince Georges County
Policeman Richard A. Pearson.
The men are Henry McDaniels,
of the l400 block of V street NV,
and Edward Spearman, 1900 block
of Eleventh street NV. They were
released under 81 1000 bond each.
Policeman Dodge said the car in
which the two men were found con-
tanned 80 pair of dice and several
numbers cards and lottery books.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
Darden Signs Legislation
To Regulate Chiropractors
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Mar. 14.-Gov. Dar-
den yesterday signed House bill
49," thereby apparently ending the
States age-old controversy over
legislation to regulate and license
chiropractors and naturopaths, a
bone of contention in almost every
Assembly since the turn of the
century.
The Governor also signed the
Daugherty bill, diverting about
81, 1866 annually from the States
initial take" Of net profits from
the ABC system and II measures in
the series of "Spiers bills" reor-
ganizing the various State examin-
ing boards.
Eleven other measures, all of a
minor or local nature, also were
approved by the Governor.
Evening star., 1944-03-14
Red Cross Solicitors
Report SN,&5 in
Alexandra Drive
Field Director Tells
RoIIy Of Fighting Mems
Appreciation Of Work

A total Of $20,S45.18 has been
raised in the Alexandria Red Cross
War Fund campaign, III was re-
ported at rally last night in the
Norton Memorial Hall OF st. Paul's
Church. The quota is $45, 800.
Dow Sweeney. a Red Cross field
director just returned from IA
months in the South Pacific, told of
the soldiers appreciation for the
work OF the Red Cross clubmobile
girls an6nurses, and Of the need for
further help and more supplies.
In praising the workers for their
splendid cooperation, Campaign
Chairman Glenn U. Richard warned
that the amount turned in to date
was the easy money" and that COL
lections from now on will be more
din1cult. He stressed the fact that
more than last years fund is needed
for Red Cross work in 1874. and
asked that every one contribute ac-
cordingly.
Reports were as follows: Special
gifts, division chairman, D. C. Book;
committee chairmen, Mrs. F. M. Dill
lard and Gardner Boothe, $5,975;
residential canvass, division chair
man, Mrs. Marvin Parler; first ward.
Mrs. Edward Hulburt, $2,l30.33; sec
ond ward, Mrs. Sylvern .Laupheimer,
$564.25: third ward, Mrs. H. A. Stew
art, $369.75; fourth ward, Mrs. James
T. House. $1.l45.55; fifth ward, Mrs.
John j. Noel, $1,371.1l; sixth ward,
Mrs. Edward Kelly, $3,87295.
Headquarters division, Mrs. Albert
Miller, division chairman, assisted
by Mrs. Barksdale Hamlet, Mrs.
Donald King and Mrs. Charles
Homer, jr., $346.70; firm and organi-
zation personnel, division chairman,
Frank Jones; business personnel,
Wilbur Baggett, $1,034.25; city gov
ernment personnel, Cecil Cross, s407.
Federal and State offlce personnel,
Mrs. Benjamin Hatsell, $126. so; mis-
cellaneous organizations personnel.
Robert Whitton, $3,500.29; lawyers,
r. r. Nevette. $81; civic and frater-
nal division, Edward Hit, chairman,
$50.
1t was announced that the chapter
house at AIT Duke street will be open
until 8 o'clock every night for the
convenience of workers who cannot
turn in their money during the day.