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Evening star., 1944-10-02
Alexandra Riding Glasses
will Beqin Saturday

Glasses in riding offered under the
joint sponsorship of the Alexandria
Recreation Department and the
Alexandria Girls Club will start
Saturday at the Viarwood Riding
Academy
Instruction in all classes will be
given by Mrs. Dorothy Hughes, Ar
lington, who has taught in Oakland,
Calf, and more recently at the
Canter Club in Atlanta.
The classes are scheduled for IL
am, pm. and BIS pm. every
Saturday. The size of the classes
will be limited to insure the best in
Struction. If the demand is heavy.
additional groups will be formed.
The registration for the 2 pm.
class has been closed, but there is
still room in the childrens' class
at II a I'm. and in the teen-age or
adult class at 3:l5. Any one inter-
ested may call Mrs. W. S. Reid at
the city recreation office, Alex
andria 1896
Evening star., 1944-10-02
$500 in Kensington
Dedicate Honor Roll

Tribute to the more than 430
Kensington Md men and women
in the armed forces was paid by
speakers yesterday in ceremonies
marking the dedication of the honor
roll at the intersection of Lincoln
and Connecticut avenues.
Approximately $500 persons at
tended the exercises, which were
sponsored by Arnold Wilbur Post.
No. 80, American Legion, and the
Kensington Volunteer Fire Depart
ment Bradley c. Riggs, president
of the department, was master Of
ceremonies.
Representative Beall, Republican,
of Maryland paraphrased Lincoln's
Gettysburg address. Others who
spoke were Judge Charles w. Wood
ward. who presented the honor roll
to Col. c. v. Sayer. Mayor of Kens-
ington; Judge Stedman Prescott,
Philip Ryan, president of the Mary
land State Firemen's Association,
and Martin Iverson, president of
the Montgomery County Council,
American Legion.
The Rev. Clarence Jones. pastor
of the Kensington Baptist Church,
gave the invocation and the bene-
diction was pronounced by Rev. J. E.
Malloy, assistant pastor of St. Johns
Church, Forest Glen.
The exercises opened with the
raising of an American flag and
closed with the firing of volleys and
sounding of taps by members of
Company E of the Maryland State
Guard, commanded by 1t. william
S. ParkinS.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
q D. 6. Area Men Named
By Fleet Reserve Group

Four Washington area men were
elected to national Office in the
Fleet Reserve Association, which
closed its annual convention in
Chicago yesterday.
They are 1t. Comdr. Charles E.
Lofgren, 3001 Legation street NV,
secretary; 1t. q. g. Clarence A.
fudge, 9908 Norwood lane, Silver
Spring. financial secretary: Philip
G. Cronan, 4911 Arkansas avenue
NV, treasurer, and Warrant OFF,
Ger John w. Kirsch, 1926 Twenty
first place Sc, regional vice presi-
dent. Mr.. Cronan is employed at
the Navy Department.
The organization elected James
H. Van Slycke, Yonkers. N. Y,
president.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Cause Of Vienna Blaze
Fatal 10 7 Still Unknown

Two persons died early yesterday
in fire that burned their home at
Vienna, Va. trapping them in the
second story Police and firemen
today could not determine the cause
of the blaze.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stottlemyer
50 and SO. both teachers at the
Potomac Conference School of
Seventh Day Adventists, apparently
awakened by smoke at 1890 am,
were trapped by flames on the stair
way, according to police. Their
charred bodies were discovered
by Detective 1t. Henry Magarity of
Fairfax County police.
Mrs. Beulah Harkness, owner of
the house, who slept on the first
floor, escaped.
1t, Magarity said the fire appeared
to have started in the back of the
building, and was fed by oil stored
on a rear porch. Fire companies
from Vienna, Dunn Loring, Fairfax,
Mclean and Falls Church answered
the alarm.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Stottle-
myer knew of one survivor, F. H.
Stottlemyer, brother. The bodies
were taken to the Money and King
mortuary in Vienna to await funeral
arrangements.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
ST. Pau|'s Episcopal
Calls New Pastor

The Rev. Thomas A. Fraser, jr.,
has accepted call to become the
rector of st. Paul's Episcopal Church
In Alexandria, it was announced at
yesterdays morning service. He will
succeed the Rev. Ernest A. De Bor-
denave, who resigned in January
l943, to become a Navy chaplain.
Since that time the Rev. Albert T.
Mollegen, a member of the faculty
of the Virginia Theological Sem
mary has been acting rector of the
church.
The Rev. Mr.. Fraser, who will
take over his duties November 5, is
assistant rector of St. Georges
Church in New York City. He is
native of New York and is mar
ried.
A graduate of Hobart College, he
attended the University of Jena in
Germany, and received his degree
of bachelor of divinity from the
Virginia Theological Seminary. He
is a member of Tau Kappa Alpha
and Sigma Chi fraternities.
Before going to St. Georges
Church the Rev Mr.. Fraser was
missionary clergyman as we'll as Sec
retary and chaplain to the Bishop
of the Diocese of Long Island. He
is a member Of the department of
Christian education on Long Island
and chairman of youth work for
the Queens Federation of Churches
on Long Island.
He is adviser to the Student
Christian Association of City Col
lege, New York; vice president of
the 1nterracial Fellowship of New
York, chairman of the Co-ordinating
Council for the Prevention of Ju-
venile Delinquency and a member
of the Federal Council of Churches
Mission on World Order.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Montgomery Charter
Discussion Planned

The Montgomery County charter
will be discussed at a mass meeting
OF civic organizations in the Mont
gomery-Blair High School gymna-
SUM at S:l5 pm. Wednesday.
Dean James j. Hayden of Column
bus Law School will speak in favor
of the charter and George K. Bro
beck, attorney, will represent the
Citizens Committee to Defeat the
Charter
The forum Is sponsored by COM
mittee of the Sligo-Bganview Com
munity of Silver Spring. So that Cit
izens Of the area might study the
charter form of government ques.
ton by public discussion, civic
groups of the Park Hills, Parkside
Silver Spring, Woodmoor. Woodside
Park, Woodside Knobs, Indian
Spring, Clifton Park, Seven Oaks
-Four Corners, Long Branch anc
Northwood Park communities were
invited.
Nelson M. Brown, president of the
sponsoring organization, said mos
OF the groups accepted the invita-.
tion and declared he noted marked
interest in Silver Spring residents il
the charter issue.
/ We feel that this town meeting
of nonpolitical citizens association.
will be helpful to the voters WHIT
will decide their future form O
county government in November,
he said. The pubns is invited, ane
we hope many people will partici
| pate"
Evening star., 1944-10-02
". 6. Wi|ding Heads
Montgomery Firemen

Election of William G. Wilding
Hillandale, assistant budget officer
for the District, as president of the
Montgomery Volunteer Firemen's
Association at its annual convention
Saturday night in Silver Spring was
announced today Victor H. Bender,
Silver Spring, was reelected treas
urer.
approximately 125 visiting iremen
attended the convention, at which
Chief Petty Officer Leo Bender, Ma
val Reserve, former president of the
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire De-
partment. was master of ceremonies.
Speakers included Phil Ryan.
Mount Rainier, president of the
Maryland State Firemans Associa-
ton, who outlined tentative plans
Tor the new year, and Judge Albert
E. Brault, civilian defense director
who commended the firemen for
their part in civilian defense work.
James w. Just, director of fire ex-
tension training at the University of
Maryland, spoke of the high position
Maryland holds in State fire train
ing. and said he believed a building
to house the fire training school at
the university would be constructed
soon
Henry Marschalk, Takoma Park.
chairman of the Historical and Ar
chlves Committee of the State as
soclation, presented history of fire
hghting and outlined possible future
developments in methods of control.
The f1remen discussed the new
water fog method of firefghting,
and voted to obtain special motion
pictures showing tests of the appa-
ratus.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Henry OBJ. Cooper Heads
Alexandra Ration Board

Henry O'Bannon Cooper. FOG
Llovds lane. Alexandria, has been
appointed chairman OF. the Alex
andria Ration Board, the Roanoke
district Office of Price Administra-
ton has announced. He will sue
ceed Irwin NJ Hufford, 1907 King
Street road, who has served as
chairman since April 49,
Mr.. Hufford, who was chairman
Of the price panel before his ap-
pointment as chairman. has served
on the board for more than a year.
Pressure of business has made it
impossible for him to continue in
the post. He submitted his resig-
nation in August, but agreed to
serve until the appointment of a
new chairman.
Mr.. Cooper, before his retirement,
was attorney for the Southern Rail-
way System. He served on the
Alexandria City Council from 1882
to 1910 as representative from the
fifth ward. Last month he was
appointed a member of the boards
transportation panel.
Mr.. Cooper becomes the boards
fourth chairman. The first was
Charles M. Jones, who resigned be-
cause of the press of his duties with
the Virginia Electric g. Power Co.
He was succeeded by Judge William
S. Snow, and Mr.. Hufford became
chairman when Judge Snow left
because of i'll health,
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Master Highway Plan
will Be Discussed

Fred w. Tuemmler, planning di-
rector of the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion, will discuss the proposed mas
ter plan of highways for Prince
Georges and Montgomery Counties
at the first fall meeting of the
Prince Georges County Federation
of Citizens Associations at pm
Thursday in the County Service
Building, Hyattsville.
Walter F. Mulligan, president Of
the federation, announced he hopes
to have DR.. John M. Byers, county
health officer, address the group on
the recent polio epidemic.
A proposal that the Greenbelt bus
line be rerouted so as to provide
bus service between Colmar Manor
Cottage City, Bladensburg and
Hyattsville will be presented by Al
fred Bailey, first president of the
federation, which is observing its
21st anniversary.
Mr.. Bailey also is expected to urge
more adequate railway express serv-
ice in the metropolitan area of the
county.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
D. {. 'lawIess Element
Feared by Prince GEORGES

Chief Judge Ogle Marbury of the
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court today instruo ed a 23-man
grand jury, sworn il for the Octo-
Der term, to pay particular heed to
"a lawless element which may come
into the county from Washington"
Judge Marbury told the jury they
must keep in mind that Prince
Georges County bo ders on the Dis
trict and that r.less precautions
are taken there IS danger of an in
crease in crime in the thickly pop
ulated sections of the county from
a lawless element from Washington.
Sworn in as grand jury members
were Harry w. McNamee, foreman:
Allie o. Beall. Walter Whitaker,
James N. Pfeiffer, Jesse James,
Preston H. Thomas, Thomas H.
Early, William G. Keys. Paul Boyer,
Guy R. Seger. Allen Spencer, Spen-
Ger E. G. Vermillion. Lee White,
Charles E. Owen. Hiram j. Soaper,
Charles J. Hall. Harry w. Blundon,
Joseph Perrie. jr.; Alexander D.
Pleitner, Guy M. Baden, D. F.
Brown, Edgar C. Bayne, jr:, and
j. c. Van Wagner.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Burton and Sporkmon
To Speak in FoIis Church

Senator Burton, Republican, of
Ohio, and Representative Spark
man, Democrat, of Alabama, will
discuss the major issues of the Re-
publican and Democratic campaigns
at 8:l5 pm. Thursday at public
forum of the Fairfax County Voters
League at Madison School, Falls
Church.
Dean Alexander c. Zabriskie of
the Virginia Theological Seminary,
Alexandria. will preside. Discussions
from the floor will follow the two
Sreeches. -.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Soldiers Dance on Plastic Leqs,
Give Wounded Faith in Future
Walter Reed Amputotion Patients
View Demonstration by ConvoIescents

dances, swinging his legs. Watch
how those toes flex," he instructed
the boys who hadn't yet got their
new legs. 1T bends at the ankle,
bends at the toes-and another
good thing: When your partner
steps on your feet it doesn't hurt
but half the time"
The spectators were interested.
A gray-haired lady watched closely,
patting her foot to the music Every
few minutes she turned away from
the dance to smile broadly at her
son who lay on the bed beside her.
His left trouser leg was empty from
the knee down.
One patient whose right leg was
missing grinned at the girl visiting
him. Next time you come, I'll ask
you for a dance" he said.
When the show was over, one of
the dancers turned to the men in
bed and grinned, Pretty good
huh?"
The answer came back, with
laughter, Plenty good"
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Second Harvest Show
Draws 1000 Exhibits
OF Produce, Flowers
Visitors Throne Gymnasium
Of Bethesda Chevy Chase
High to See Display

More than 1000 exhibits of flow-
ers, fruits, vegetables and orna-
mental gourds were on display yes
terday at the second annual Harvest
Show held in the Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School gymnasium.
The hall was packed with visitors
from the time the show opened at
2 pm. until it closed at 10 pm.
Highlight of the afternoon was
the awarding of prizes for the best
Victory gardens in the area. Grand
prizes for the best community gar
den went to Earl Carlin as leader
Of the Edgemoor gardens; for the
best community garden plot, to j.
Francis Moore, Kirkside gardens,
and to Mrs. l.. M. Essex, Chevy
Chase, for the best backyard garden.
Prizes were War Savings Stamps.
Several Sweepstakes Awarded.
Mrs. Fred B. Lang, Kensington,
carried off sweepstakes in two
classes-artistic arrangements and
garden flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward Matteosian won sweepstakes
for fruits and vegetables, Mrs. Nor
man Topping for canned fruits and
vegetables, Mrs Colin E. Ross for
dahlias and George Graft for roses.
Mrs. Arnold Burr had the best rose
in the show and E. r. Phillips the
best dahlia.
Awards Of merit were presented
to Bethesda Public Library and the
University of Maryland for educa-
tional exhibits, and to Peoples Drug
Stores, Dorothy Mathews Kitchen,
Ed Stock Nurseries. Bolgianos and
the Bethesda Record for commercial
exhibits.
Outstanding among the canning
displays, were those exhibited by
men. Or. J. H. Hibben showed 20
plnts OF fruits and vegetables he
had grown and canned Charles G.
Morgan displayed II jars of vege-
tables and fruits he had put up. He
carried away three blue ribbons.
Shady Lawn Display.
A miniature display of plants for
snady lawns by the Garden Club OF
Chevy Chase, Nd, drew a special
award of merit.
Ernest G. Moore of the Agricul-
ture Department made a short talk.
j. Morton Franklin, chairman of
the District Victory Garden Com
mittee, outlined the high lights of
the show at the evening session
There was an exhibition of square
dancing followed by educational
movies.
Held under the sponsorship of the
Victory Garden Committee and six
garden clubs of the area, the show
was directed by T. Ritchie Edmon-
ston and Mrs. Helen Baldwin. Ed
Stock was in charge of commercial
exhibits.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
RiverduIe Man Charged
With EmbezzIinq $500

Leroy c. Dillon, 35, of the 5000
block of Riverdale road, Riverdale,
Md, was free under 1900 bond to-
day following his arrest by Prince
Georges County police Saturday
night on a charge of embezzlement
Police charged Dillon took $500
from his employer, Hoffman's Home
Appliance Co., Hyattsville, where he
had worked as a mechanic for six
years.
c, H. Hoffman. manager of the
store, said Dillon accepted money
from customers which he never
credited on the books.
A hearing was set for October 8
in Hyattsville Police Court.
Evening star., 1944-10-02

WHO is SHE?-At the re-
quest of Metropolitan Police,
The Star prints the above
sketch of the unidentified
woman who plunged to her
death last Tuesday from CAL
vert Street Bridge. The sketch
was prepared by a Star staff
artist from material supplied
by the police, and any one
recognizing the woman Is re-
quested to communicate with
the Missing Persons Bureau at
the Police Department. Two
women on Saturday thought
they had identified the wom-
an, but a f1nger-print check
showed the identification to
ho errOr oOuS
Evening star., 1944-10-02
RagaIie Heads Nearby
Real Estate Association

Daniel E. Ragalie, secretary of
the Alexandria Arlington Fairfax
Real Estate Boards Association for
the last three years has been named
president of the organization.
Others elected were: Eleanor B.
Nugent. first vice president; George
Keeler, second vice president: Eppa
Kane, executive secretary, and w. c.
Clever, who was reelected treasurer
The association also has appointed
a fact-flnding committee to study
a bill in Congress which would pro-
hibit real estate men from collect
ing one months rent in advance
from tenants.
Evening star., 1944-10-02

Wounded soldiers. men who had
lost leg or both legs in the war,
sat up in their beds at Walter Reed
Hospital the other afternoon and
watched five pretty girls dance with
five soldiers.
But the patients hardly looked at
the pretty girls. They kept their
eyes glued on the shuffling GI feet
For the dancing soldiers themselves
a few weeks ago were patients in
the same beds. and each was dancing
on at least one plastic leg.
The dancers, three with a single
amputation below the knee, one with
a single amputation above the knee,
and one with a double amputation
below the knees, came back to
Walter Reed from their convalescent
ward at Forest Glen to show new
amputation patients what they, too,
could expect to do soon-regardless
Of plastic legs or arms.
They didn't wear zoot-suits but
they cut mean rug. They switched
properly when the 304th ASF Band,
attached to the medical center,
played a rhumba. They waltzed,
foxtrotted, and jitterbugged-even
the step where the BOY throws the
girl over his shoulder. Onlookers
tried to pick out the plastic legs
from the real ones but in most
cases it was toSs-up.
Dancers Pleased With Selves.
The dancers were pleased with
themselves, and with the world.
The first few weeks I was at Walter
Reed. I hated the world, and I
didn't give a damn what happened
next" one of them said. But one
look at Dali and anybody would be
willing to try to dance-although
at first, trying was as far as we
thought we'd get"
"Dal" is Mrs. Dorothy Dalrymple,
a professional dancing teacher and
wife of 1t. Col. John C. Dalrymple,
now on duty with the American
Army in Europe. She is small,
pretty, and has a mass of red curls
down her back. Two afternoons a
week she conducts classes for the
boys at Forest Glen, and whether
they are enthusiastic about learning
to dance doesn't matter. "She
won't take no." her five pupils said
when fellow puts his mind to
it, though, he can 20 most any
thing said Pvt Frank Mercurio.
81, Brooklyn, whose plastic legs
(both of them didn't stop him
from doing the rhumba.
Corpl. Pat Carney, %, New York,
had the hardest time learning. His
amputation is above the knee and
plastic Army temporary" leg
doesn't bend as easily as a real leg.
THE only thing to remember is
where you put that foot he told
one of the patients in the ward
who also had an above -the-knee
amputation. Once l was sure I'd
put the thing behind me, and it
turned up in front, and I got all
tangled up. But after a while it
comes easy
Never Had Danced Before.
SergI. IdrldnQ LaQQ, Il, HOPKINS
vile, KY, has learned to dance for
the first time. His right leg was
amputated below the knee. Il used
to shuttle around, but I never did
this" he said. and swung his part
ner around in fast jitterbug.
Pvt. Bill zeigler, 26, Norwalk,
Conn, plans to use his dancing
ability as something more than rec
reation. when I got my operation
over in Italy, they, told me I'd walk
again, but I just laughed at them.
Those fellows over there really feel
low down. They're from Missouri
when they're over there, and you
got to show them
Corpl. Bob Smith, "a, Potsdam,
N. Y, sat on the bed between
Evening star., 1944-10-02
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1914.
Maryland Plans 10 Use
$1,000 Man-Years Of
Work in Postwar Jobs
Gov. O'Conor Hopes for
EorIy Stort Of Program;
10l PIons on Boards
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. Gov.
O'Conor announced yesterday that
the $48,000,000 worth of construc-
ton in Maryland, to be ready for
the first postwar year, would pro-
vide 43,680,000 man-hours, or 81 900
man years of employment.
The estimates on man-hours, Gov.
O'Conor said. were reached by the
Maryland Commission on Postwar
Reconstruction and Development,
which reported "the public works
can make their greatest contribu-
ton from an employment stand
point if they can be started prompt
ly and are not in competition for
labor and materials with large
scale private construction that will
get under way during the period Of
reconversion"
S148,781,28 to Be Used.
The Maryland public works prof.
ects total $l48, 8,781 ,284 including the
State capital improvement program
OF $l0, ,345 1854; the State Roads Com
mission program Of SCI ,240, $50; the
Baltimore City program of $67.014,-
300, and an estimate of S10,000,000
for counties and municipalities for
which no overall program Is yet
available. the Governor said.
The projects for which plans
nave been completed, he reported,
included one airport, estimated at
$3.50 900; two bridges at sl86. $50;
one public building, $500; three
roads and highways. sl295, 500:
eight sewerage projects, s1,887 900;
seven street improvements. ST. $780,
900, and one water works, $4,000.
Other Projects Planned.
Other projects for which plans
are in process included another air.
port, three bridges, l3 hospitals, l8
public buildings, 7 recreational
facilities, 81 roads and highways.
I6 sewerage works, Is street i'm
provements, 10 utilities projects, l3
water works and 20 miscellaneous
projects.
The Governor explained that
practically all of the 101 projects
In the states capital Improvement
program were on the drawing
boards or had been assigned to
architects.
In addition to approximately
81 .500,000 remaining in previously
appropriated reserves for public
works, the Governor said he would
ash the 1945 Legislature to earmark
"a considerable portion of an es-
timated s8,96l 900 from this years
State surplus for its capital i'm
provement program.
He pointed out that counties and
municipalities, according to esti-
mates of the commission, will have
public works reserves of more than
SO, ,0OO, 900 by the end of this wear.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Maryland Milk Output
Sharply Cut by Droughts

BY the Associated Press.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, Oct. a.
Production by Maryland's 100000
dairy cows has been reduced 9,000,-
600 pounds of milk month by dry
summers for the last two years and
other factors, according to George
Hyatt, jr., University of Maryland
extension dairyman.
Mr.. Hyatt said reports showed
that the States cows produced milk
at an average daily rate Of lat
pounds on August /, compared with
16 pounds daily year ago and q
10-year average of 1871 pounds.
He said the drought Of the last
two summers had reduced hay sup
plies and that cows were not being
fed as well as they were in years
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Tire Cord Production
BEGUN at Virqiniu Plant
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associate6 Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Oct.
2.-Production of rayon tire cord
was begun today in the new 81
24O,0O0 Government-built, United
States Rubber Co.-operated plant at
Scottsville. BY the first of next
week it is anticipated that a full
complement of about 300 employees,
most of them women, will be ct
work.
The factory, begun in April, was
erected and equipped by the De-
fense Plants Corp. as war project,
but officials of the rubber company
have indicated that they hope to
acquire it and continue its opera
ton after the war.
Evening star., 1944-10-02
Health Education Course
Will Open Tomorrow

A l2-meeting course in Health
Education will be given at the Be-
thesda Chevy Chase High School.
starting at 7:45 pm tomorrow un-
der the sponsorship of the Adult
Education Program of the county.
Under the instruction of DR.. Irene
Barrett, the course will cover par
ents' problems in the mental, emo
nonal, social. physical and sex
health of children. Further infor-
nation may be had by calling Rock
vile 20.