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Evening star., 1944-05-08
Lost INT Fails 10 Mar
0CD Fire Show Before
1000 in Alexandra
Display by l0o'VoIunteers
Greet Success Despite
Wind, Bursted Hose

A high wind, a lost charge of
TINT and a fire hose that burst in
fire chiefs face, all failed to mar
a Civilian Defense fire-fghting
demonstration in Alexandria yes
terday at which more than 100
volunteers demonstrated their fire.
fighting training before more than
1000 persons.
A two-story frame house, a one
story frame garage and a brick
bungalow, all slated for destruction
to make way for an apartment
house, were fired by Civilian De-
fense personnel from the District
and nearby Maryland and Virginia
and the flames controlled or extin-
guished by the fire fighters.
OCD officials said the demonstra-
ton, the first held outside WASH
ington in the metropolitan area,
was, a great success" They said
they were more than satisfied" with
the skill and efficiency of Civilian
Defense units
A charge of TINT, placed in the
VI i'm DullSdlCW loiiCO w SO O11 diiu
was lost in the chimney, but the
building was later fired with de-
tonator shells.
AS the tWo-story house started
burning a fire hose burst. thoroughly
drenching Alexandria Fire Chief
James M. Duncan, jr.
In demonstration ,of rescue
work, Aubrey Evans, Alexandria
fireman, was saved from the
smoke-filled bungalow by members
of the Alexandria Fire Department
rescue squad
Brought from the burning build
ing in an unconscious condition
and suffering multiple fractures"
Mr.. Evans was given first-aid treat
merlt and ambulance care.
Officials explained that although
the fires never were brought under
complete control by the volunteer
units, it was planned that way,
since the buildings had to be de-
stroyed anyway.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
$500 Phone Workers
Given 81 More Weekly

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 8.-The regional
War Labor Board has ordered a So
per week salary increase for $500
non-supervisory employees of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co., retroactive to November 7.
The board also ordered reduction
Of l to 2 years in the length of
time required to make workers
eligible for maximum wage rates.
This provision also was retroactive
to November Z.
About 5000 Of the workers live in
the Baltimore area, the remainder
residing elsewhere in Maryland and
in Accomac and Northampton coun-
ties, Virginia.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Buy-A-PIane' Campaign
In Alexandra hears Goal

A decided increase in the pur-
chase Of War Bonds and stamps in
the Alexandria schools last week
brought the pupils "Buy-a-Plane"
campaign considerably nearer it's
goal of $175,000 which they hope to
achieve by May g. Total sales for
the spring semester were $154A77. 10,
OF which S6,884.O5 was raised during
last week.
Quotas have been set for each
school, and during the last week the
George Washington High School,
Jefferson, Lee, Charles D. Barrett.
Douglas Macarthur and Seminary
exceeded their weekly quotas.
The schools records for the last
week and for the spring semester
are as follows: George Washington.
s3,sS7 30, 4,1s36O; jefferson,
S64375, S8,445.35; Lee, s623.50, S.
04495; Charles D. Barrett, 5000 .s5,
$4,2l4.7o; Douglas Macarthur
$254.85, $2,869.10; George Mason,
s245.75, s7,347.25; Maury, s2o5 IS,
s6,8o0.l0; Washington, $50, s5,584:
Mount Vernon, $l79, s16,839.9o
Parker Gray, s135.s5, 1,32285; Lyles
Crouch, $58.25, $1,936.2O; Seminary,
$5080, S389.l0.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Mortar Bourd at 6. W. u.
Initiates Seven Girls

George washington University has
announced the initiation OF seven
girls into Mortar Board, women's
national honor society.
Students named to membership
and their Offices for the coming year
were: Mary Beth Sheppard, 5555
Thirty-second street NV, president;
Virginia Nails, 322 Fourteenth street
Sc, vice president; Betty June
Karle, 4701 Drexel road, College
Park, Md, secretary; Lois Smith,
Strong Hall, treasurer; Gene Snyder,
Strong Hall. historian: Barbara
Lyddane. Valley View avenue, Ia
koma Park, Md, and Mary Ring,
Strong Hall.
DR.. Katharine r. Adams, assistant
dean of the junior college, was made
an honorary member, and Mrs.
Edith G. Woodson, associate instruc-
tor in physical education, was ini-
tlated as an alumna member.
Evening star., 1944-05-08

gether with bailing wire and safety
pins, came from one airplane. Her
wings came from another, and
where the four motors came from
only the salvage crews could tell.
But she flies-and we'll. She has
a lot of hours in the air, notwith-
standing her patched-up condition,
her odd parts that once belonged
to other airplanes, and Pvt. Ches.
ter has had lot of hours in her.
They stretch into the hundreds and
soon the young man will be en-
Titled to go back home, his tour of
air duty finished. He is waiting
for that day.
Pvt. Chester had quite a time be-
fore Christmas last year. That was
the time, of course, when every SOL
dier looks for mail. The usual 5000
pounds of mail flown in his Bit
grew to astronomical proportions
as the big ship carried Christmas
parcels and letters to the troops in
Italy.
Il was a popular guy them he said
with a grin. Every one wanted to
hear from home and they knew the
mailman That was me-"
Mother Told of Dispatch.
Pvt. Chester attended the Cham
berlain Vocational School here, his
mother, Mrs. Edward J. Chester,
said today when told of the above
dispatch. He enlisted in the Army
September IA, 1912. and went to
Fort Monmouth, N. J. Before he
was sent overseas last August he
was stationed in Lakeland. Fla, she
said.
One of his brothers. Pvt. Edward
Colby Chester of the Engineer
Corps, has been stationed in Eng
land for the last three years. His
16-year-old brother. Alfred Joseph
Chester, already has passed his ma
val examinations and is awaiting
the day in January he will be II so
he can don sailors uniform, Mrs.
Chester said.
Her husbands greatest wish. she
said, was to see two of his sons in
the service. He died three weeks
before any of his sons enlisted.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Books, Music Scores
Sought for War Services

Books, periodicals and musical
scores in every United Nations Ian
guage for use by war service per-
sonnel will be sought by the new
Library Committee of the United
Nations Center, in a drive to start
next Saturday, it was announced
yesterday.
Miss Katherine ODonnell, chair
man of the committee, will be as
sisted by so working librarians,
Contributors should contact Miss
Jane Brewer. recording secretary of
the Special Libraries Association in
the District, at Executive ALSO.
Branch POSI-. Contributions also
will be accepted at the first annual
exhibit Of the Special Libraries
Association to be held in the New
Colonial Hotel Tuesday at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
SoftbaI| League
For Adults Planned
Three Groups Of Teams
To Form in County

A softball league for adults will
be offered this spring and summer
in the suburban area of Mont
gomery County, the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission has announced.
It is planned to start the league
with three groups Of teams. One
at the Bethesda Chevy Chase Rec
reation Center, the second group at
the Rock Creek Recreation Center
and the third group at Jesup Blair
Park in Silver Spring.
Edmund T. DAILY, director of the
Rock Greek Recreation Center is in
charge Of organizing the league.
Information may be obtained by
calling Mr.. DAILY at the center at
Wisconsin 1918 in the evening, to
Louis Mitchell, director of recrea-
ton at the Bethesda Chevy Chase
Recreation Center, Wisconsin 5204,
or at Shepherd 1880, the main office
of the Park and Planning Commits
sion.
Rules for the league will be dis
cusSed at meetings scheduled for 8
pm. Thursday at the Bethesda
Chevy Chase Recreation Center;
at 8 pm. May is at Jesup Blair
Center and May 18 at s pm. at the
Rock Greek Recreation Center.
The Rock Greek Center meeting
will also be parley for represen-
tatives Of all three groups to COM
plete the organization of the league.
In addition to providing play
fields, the commission will furnish
bats, balls, bases and catchers'
equipment. Should sufficient in
terest be shown in the suburban
communities in evening programs,
lighting of the fields will be con-
sidered, it was announced.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Master Builders Discuss
Wuqe Contracts Tuesday

The Master Builders Association,
which now also is known as the
District of Columbia Chapter of
the Associated General Contractors
of America. Inc, will meet Tues
day in the Mayflower Hotel.
Members will discuss pending
wage agreements, travel allowance
and the associations annual dinner.
A national councillor for the United
States Chamber of Commerce will
be selected.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Second Victim of BIust
Aboard New Ship Dies

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 8.-Walter
Caldwell, 41-year-old shipyard work.
er, died yesterday of internal in
juries, the second victim of an ex-
plosion in the hold of new Liberty
ship at the Bethlehem-Fairfield yard
Thursday.
A diver recovered the body of
Charles Wright, 40, of Sykesville,
from the flooded forward hold of the
Samsoaring Thursday night. Four
teen other workers were injured.
The cause of the blast is being
investigated by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and Bethlehem off,
cials.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
4 Youths Held in Jail
On Soldiers Charqe
OF Beating After Ride
Wounded North Africa
Veteran Reports Attack
On Self, Threut to Girl

Charged with assaulting a wound
ed veteran of the North African
campaign, four Berwyn lMdJ
youths. who had given the soldier
and a girl a lift, were being held
today in the Rockville Jail pending
a hearing in the Silver Spring
Police Court tomorrow, police re-
ported.
The youths, who were arrested
yesterday at Berwyn by Prince
Georges County Officers Boyd Ham,
ilton and Roland Sweitzer, were
listed as Albert D. Cochren, 20:
William w. Dodson, Is; James O.
johnson. 1s, and Alfred j. Johnson,
49, They were held in Jail in default
of $1,000 bond each.
According to the Prince Georges
County officers. Pvt. Clarence, Acker-
nan, 25, a patient at an Army con-
valescent home near Berwyn. and
his companion, Miss Phala L. Boggs.
408 Lackawana avenue, Hollywood
Park, were offered lift early
by the four youths as they
were waiting for a bus on the Balti-
more boulevard near Berwyn.
The officers said the youths drove
the soldier and his companion to
Hopkins sandpit near White Oak,
Just across the Prince Georges
County line in Montgomery County.
where they dragged the soldier from
the car and beat him until he lost
consciousness. After threatening to
attack the girl. the officers said, the
youths finally drove her to a place
near her home where she was re-
leased.
The officers said the soldier called
police from a nearby farmhouse
after he regained consciousness.
They said he was returned to the
convalescent home, where he was
reported recovering from the at
tack. The officers said the soldier
had lost four fingers and suffered
other injuries in the North African
campaign.
Officers Hamilton and SWeitzer
said the four youths were picked
up yesterday at Berwyn and turned
over to Montgomery County De-
tective 1t, Frank Lane, who held
them in the Rockville Jail pending
their trial at 1870 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Five Saved in Chesapeake
As Wind Capsizes S|oop
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 8.-Five men
were rescued from capsized sloop
yesterday in Chesapeake Bay as
heavy seas and wind threatened for
time to swamp the 28-foot ketch
which went to their aid.
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard sent
a picket boat to tow a 65-foot
pleasure craft reported leaking be-
tween Craig Hill Light and Miller's
Island.
Winston Pomerey said he and
another man saw the 24-foot sloop
overturn and partially submerge in
Bear Creek. off Fort Carroll, but his
ketch was unable to come alongside
because of the swell. He threw a
rope to the five men and they swan
to the ketch.
Their added weight nearly sub
merged the rescue vessel. A Coast
Guard boat was dispatched to re-
cover the Sloop.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Woman Voters to Hear
Discussion of Charter

The Montgomery County League
OF Women Voters will present a
panel discussion of the proposed
charter for Montgomery County at
meeting of the Kensington Com
munity Forum at pm. Friday at
the Kensington Elementary School.
The discussion will be led by Mrs.
Dean DinWoodey, chairman of the
panel. Mrs. MINER Hostetler, men,
Der OF the Charter Board, will dis
cuss the development of the char
ter, and Mrs. Ralph Himstead and
Mrs. Walter Perry will discuss the
effect on the county If the charter
Is adopted.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Federation Will Elect
Nominating Committee

A nominating committee to select
a slate of officers to be voted on in
June, will be elected by the Mont
gomery County Civic Federation at
8 pm. tomorrow at the Bethesda
MD Elementary School, it was
announced today. The meeting,
originally scheduled for tonight, was
postponed because of the test black
out.
The federatiop's Committee on
Sanitation and Public Health will
report tomorrow on a resolution of
the Brookmont Civic League re-
questing sewer facilities in that
area. and the Public Safety Com
mittee is expected to report on the
rabies problem in the county.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Five Hurt in Traffic
Include Boy, 3, and
Youth Riding Bicycle

Five persons, one of them an
8-year-old boy, were injured in
traffic accidents here over the week
end.
Walter Moxley, 8, OF 3073 Canal
street NV, was struck by a truck
yesterday in the 1000 block of
Thirty-flrst street NV. He was
treated at Georgetown Hospital for
head injuries and body bruises.
Police said the driver of the truck
was Bennie Watson, "a, colored,
1923 Twenty-ninth street NV.
When a bicycle he was riding
collided with the rear of Capital
Transit Co. bus at Fifth and
streets NE. yesterday. Wilbur W.
Rowles, 10, of 100 Todd place NE.
suffered a possible skull fracture
and cuts on the head andS body
police said He was admitted to
Sibley Hospital, condition undeter-
mined
The driver of the bus, according
to police, was Harry F. Schickrom,
81, Of 316 Twentieth street NE.
John Shipes, as, of lit I street
NV. was admitted to Emergency
Hospital yesterday after he was
struck by taxicab as he crossed
the street at Eleventh and I streets
NV, police said. He was suffer-
ing from coucussion and decorations
1t was said. The cab driver was
Howard j. Wolfe, IS, Of 1915 Frank
lin street NE. according to police.
In serious condition in Casualty
Hospital were George r. Tyler, is
LOT 2411 Bunker Hill road NE. and
Robert P. Kens, 16, of 4405 Twenty
ninth street, Mount Rainier, Md
The former suffered fractured
spine and numerous head and body
lacerations while the Kells youth
received a fractured arm and head
injuries when the automobile in
which they were riding Saturday
struck a streetcar loading platform
in the $500 block Of Rhode Island
NE. and then crashed into a tree.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
z Soved as Boot Upsets
In Washington Channel

John j. Meushaw. 81, of Takoma
Park. Md, and Richard E. Sebas-
tian, Is, OF 26l0 Twenty-second
street NE, were rescued yesterday
in the Washington Channel by
harbor police after their small sail
boat capsized, police reported.
Both were treated at the harbor
police dock for exposure and sent
home. The craft overturned. police
said, when it was caught in a sud-
den Snuall.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Virginia to Vote on 'Freezinq'
Of II Million Literary Fund
Set Up in 1910 to Make Vice, immortality Pay
BY System Of Building Fines and Forfeiture

| grammatlcally and as much writ
ing and arithmetic as is absolutely
necessary for the ordinary business
between man and man"
The law, epacted February 2, 1910,
provided that all escheats, confisca-
tions, penalties and forfeitures, and
all rights in personal property found
derelict, shall be appropriated to the
encouragement of learning.
In the earlier days of the fund
money was loaned to needy indi-
viduals seeking education. For a
long time now, however, the fund
has been used principally for loans
to school boards to assist in build
ing schools. Certain investments
specifically authorized yield addi-
tional money for teacher salaries.
The fund now has about $4,000, 900
invested in Federal bonds.
The majority of the school build
ings in the State have been con-
structed with the aid of Literary
Fund loans. At one time such loans
were limited to $4,000. Now a
school board may borrow up to IS
per cent of the school construction
cost, provided such an amount does
not exceed 100000.
Interest Rate Cut.
The rate of interest was decreased
by the 1914 General Assembly from
8 to 2 per cent. At one time the
rate was 6 per cent.
1t is estimated the fund has
loaned more than S30,000,000 in
modern times-and never lost a
dollar.
In the November referendum
Vlrgnians will vote on the ques-
ton of amending the constitution
so as to authorize the General As
sembly to set aside for public school
purposes, including funds for the
retirement of teachers, all Or any
part of moneys received into the
principal of the Literary Fund
when and so long as the principal
iof such fund amounts to as much
as $10,000,00o.
The proposal has been approved
by two sessions of the General AS
sembly as required in the case of a
constitutional amendment and now
needs only the approval of the
voters before becoming effective.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Petersburg Scroppine
Golden Boil Tuvern
y the Associated Press

oS lIc AssOClaLeG PTeSS.
PETERSBURG, Va, May 8.-The
Golden Ball Tavern, in which Brit
lsh officers were quartered before
their withdrawal to Yorktown in the
American Revolution, is in the
process of being razed. Best avail
able records indicate it was built be-
tween 1755 and 1850.
The cost of restoring the old build.
ing, which has been vacant for years,
were beyond the means of the
Petersburg Society for the Preserva-
tion of Antiquities, and it is being
wrecked to save annual taxes.
1t was in operation when the city
of Petersburg was formed under a
1874 charter consolidating several
towns, and the council and local
Hastings Court met there for several
years.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Dewey to Talk May ~
At Governors Meetinq
BY the Associated Press

by tne Associated Press.
HERSHEY, Pa, May 8.-Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York will
hold the spotlight on the opening
day of the 36th annual Conference
Of Governors.
Gov. Dewey will speak on Organ
lzlng the State for the Future" May
20 at Hershey. when Governors of
IS States and the Virgin Islands
will begin their four-day session.
Gov. John Bricker of Ohio and
Gov. Earl Warren of California also
are scheduled to speak.
Bernard M. Baruch, Office of War
Mobilization adviser. will be guest
speaker at a special conference,
May 80.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Copt. M. N. Dupre Wins
Legion of Merit

The Navy Department announced
today that the Legion of Merit had
been awarded to Capt. Marcy Ma
thias Dupre. jr., 1922 North Ivanhoe
street, Arlington, Va. Capt. Dupre
now is attached to the staff of Ad-
miral Ernest j. King.
Capt. Dupre, a native of Troup,
Tex. was cited for exceptionally
meritorious conduct" as chief of
staff to the commander of naval
bases in the South Pacific from jan
uary ! to May IS, 1943, and later
as officer in charge of the base plans
division of the staff of the COM
mander, South Pacific area and
South Pacific force, from July %,
1943, to January Is, 1914.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
ClO Council to Sponso,
Legislative Institute
2y the Associated Prose

Ry the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, May 8.-The CIO
maryland and District of Colum-
pla Industrial Union Council will
sponsor a slX-week legislative an
stltute aimed at insuring successful
promotion of the CIO legislative
program, Sidney R. Katz reports. 1t
will begin next Monday.
Mr.. Katz, council secretary said
irving Richter, Washington legis-
lative representative of the United
Automobile, Aircraft, Agricultural
Implement Workers of America.
would discuss abolition of the poll
tax at the first session.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
f. |. Daniels Gets Contract
For Arlington Laboratory

E. L. Daniels, Arlington contractor,
has been awarded $2l $40 contract
for construction of a laboratory
building at the Arlington County
Health Center. 1900 North Edison
street, Federal Works Agency off,
cials have announced. The con-
tract provides that the building must
be completed within 80 days.
The building will house all labora-
tory facilities OF the county health
center. 1t will be located on the
north side of the health center
building.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
PreschooI Physical Test

Pre-school examinations for chill
dren who will enter Lynnbrook
Elementary School, Bethesda. Md
IN September will be held from
am. to noon Wednesday at the
school, it was announced today
Children who will be five years old
by December / are eligible to enter
kindergarten, and those who will be
6 by the same date will be eligible
to enter the first grade, it was said.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Child Care Center Opens
Monday al HyattsviNe

A center to provide care for about
so children of working mothers will
be opened next Monday at 4313 Far
ragut street, Hyattsville, Md, it was
announced today by the Prince
Georges County Board of Education
Women who have had training in
child care are urged to volunteer
for positions at the center. Chill
dren may be enrolled by writing
Miss Lucille Lewis at the Hyattsville
Elementary School.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Woman Thwurts Bundit
In DeIicotessen HoIdup

Countering holdup mans threat
to blow her brains out" with a
threat to summon help by throwing
a can of beans through a show
window Mrs. Annette Aed. SO, wife
OF the proprietor of a delicatessen
at 90l S street NV, yesterday sent
a would-be bandit fleeing, empty
handed
George Aed, the proprietor, told
police yesterdays holdup attempt
was the 10th in "a years. and the
first in which the thief had been
thwarted.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Fort Meade Chief Nurse
Made Lieutenant Colonel
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE c.. MEADE, Md,
May 8.-Maj. Viola Ferguson. chief
nurse at the Fort Meade Hospital,
has been promoted to lieutenant
colonel, becoming the highest rank
ing woman officer ever to serve at
Fort Meade
Her lieutenant colonelcy is the
second highest rank given to mem
bers of the Army Nurse Corps.
Col. Ferguson has served 25 years
in the Nurse Corps. She served on
Corregidor shortly before its cap
ture by the japanese She is ma
tive of Springfield, Ky.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
By the Associated Press.

RICHMOND. Va, May 8.-Vir.
ginia's Literary Fund-which fol
134 years has served to make "vice
and immortality" pay IAN involun.
tary tribute to- virtue"-will soon
reach a new turning point in its
long and useful history.
Voters will decide in referendum
In November whether or not the
State constitution shall be amended
to allow the educational fund to
be frozen" at $4,000 900.
The fund, now amounting to about
$11 500 900, would continue to be a
source for loans for school construc-
ton and for investments, but addi-
tional moneys would 60 for general
school purposes, including funds for
retirement Of teachers.
Success From Beginning.
The system of building the fund
from fines and forfeitures was de-
scribed more than 100 years ago as
a happy feature" to have vice and
immortality" provide the means OF
their own extinction
The Literary Fund met with sue
cess from the very beginning, but
not to the extent of bringing about
extinction" of vice and immortality
Fines and forfeitures received by
the fund amount now to about $780,
900 a year-the highest in history
The Literary Fund was established
in 1910 at time when Virginia, in
the words of Gov. John Tyler, was
making "a faint effort" to establish
a school system.
1t thus antedates the Virginia pub
lie school system itself. 1t was not
until 1818-eight years after the fund
was created-that a bill was passed
by the General Assembly providing
for a primary school system.
This act provided for the appoint
ment of school commissioners, who
were required to determine how
many poor children were to be edu-
Gated from the $45, 200 of the Liter
ary Fund set apart for the purpose
Law Enacted hn 1910.
just prior to creation of the fund,
Gov. Tyler reported to the General
Assembly that scarcely a common
country school is to be found Ca
pable Of teaching the mother tongue