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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-29
S0l0NS0kAY COMPROMISE
 SERVICE LAW

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. The compromise Service Vote Bill, pro- viding for limited use of the ad- ministration-back federal ballot, has been approved by Senate and House conferees.
 The compromise authorizes the use of a uniform federal absentee ballot only if the governors of the states certify it is acceptable under the laws of the states.
 In addition, men and women in the armed forces who vote through the federal ballot must first cer- tify they applied for the state ab- sentee ballot and have not received it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-29

E. L. MINNIS HERE Here from Anchorage, E. L. Min his is at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-29

Here from Bethel, Mrs. Anna c. Schwalbe is at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-29
For Full Gamebaqs
 Hunf with Experts

HAYS, Kas. - Arthur J. Wiles, Hays attorney, says he has found way to bring home the birds every time he goes hunting.
 He always goes with an expert marksman. Every time he fires, also pull the trigger" explained Wiles. Birds fall I claim half of them"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-02-29
SENATE TAKING
 RECESS OUT OF
 RESpECT,MeNARY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. The Senate has voted a three-day recess out of respect to the memory of Senator Charles L. McNary, of Ore gon, who died last Friday in Florida
 A resolution was also adopted designating 18 Senators to attend the funeral next Friday in Salem Oregon
Evening star., 1944-02-09
laWRshonmiq.
&Remmiders@

Canned and Frozen Foods, Etc
Book No. 4, green stamps G, H,
and j valid through February 20
Stamps K, L and M valid through
March 20.
Meats, Fats, Etc. - Book No. 8
stamps v, w and x valid through
February 26. Stamps Y, which be-
comes valid February 13, and z
good February 20. both expire on
March 20.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
every pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Book No. 4. Stamp 30 valid
for S pounds through March 81.
Book No. 4, stamp 40 good for S
pounds for home canning through
February 28, 1945.
Shoe-Stamp No. 18 in Book No. 1
and stamp l on the "airplane"
sheet Of Book No. valid for an
indefinite period.
>As~S~AAAAS AVE- "a NOApOllS kOOu kOI
3 gallons through May 8, B, B-1, C
and C-1 coupons good for 2 GAL
longs each. These coupons will
expire on date indicated on indi-
vidual books. B-2 and CO cou-
pons in books issued since De-
cember l are good for gallons
each.
Tire Inspection Deadlines-For A
coupon holders, March 81. For 3
coupon holders, February %.
Fuel Oil-Period No. 3 coupons good
through March IA. Period No. 4
coupons valid through September
30. Nos. 3 and coupons good for 10
gallons per unit. According to the
District OPA, consumers in this
area should not have used more
than 81 per cent Of their total
yearly fuel oil ration as Of Feb
r,ary :.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Welfare Group 10 Discuss
County Juvenile Court Need

The need for a juvenile court in
Prince Georges County will be dis
cussed at a meeting of the Juvenile
Delinquency Committee of the
County Volunteer Juvenile Welfare
Association at 8 pm. tomorrow in
the County Service Building, Hyatts-
vile.
The committee, headed by Daniel
M. Greene, was named at an Or
ganization meeting of the associa-
ton two months ago. At that time,
it was instructed to investigate jul
venile delinquency in the county and
to determine whether a juvenile
court is necessary.
Other members of the committee
are Miss Mildred Alexander, DR..
Peter Lejins, assistant professor of
sociology at the University of Mary
land; Mrs. R. S. Allen and Mrs.
Betty Tayman.
Luis Granados, chairman of the
Juvenile Welfare Association, urged
all interested persons to attend.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
S33,968 Bonds Sold
Al PooIesviI|e RaI|y
Students Sell $1,000
Of Total in Drive

Sales amounted to S33 1868 at a
War Bond rally at the Poolesville
CMd) High School Monday night,
the Sales Committee announced
today
This total included more than
Sll 900 sold by the students in the
Fourth War Loan drive, it was
said, plus the anonymous purchase
of $4,000 credited to the Dickerson
and Poolesville Schools by "a Wash.
lngton man interested In the COM
munity."
Brooke Johns, master of cere-
monies, conducted a quiz for stu
dents. Ida Lutz Jones, Charles
Upton and Claude Cooley, winners
OF the contest, will represent the
school in the countrywide quiz at
the Richard Montgomery High
School, Rockville.
Two Other Rallies Set.
War Bonds and Stamps will be
awarded to winners OF a quiz con-
test to be held at 8 pm. Tuesday at
the Montgomery Blair High School,
Silver Spring, in connection with a
school War Bond rally.
Contest judges will be Morgan
Beatty, radio commentator: the
Rev. Ralph D. Smith, pastor of
Woodside Methodist Church, and
Mrs. H. H. Hewlett.
Jerry Strong, Washington radio
entertainer, will be master of cere-
monies at War Bond rally to bs
held at 8 pm. Friday at the Lynn
brook Elementary School, Bethesda.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
AIexandrians 10 Form
Group 10 Help Youth
Citizens Meet Tonight
To Adopt Constitution

Judge James r. Duncan of the
Alexandra Juvenile Court has called
a meeting for o'clock tonight in
the Maury School auditorium to
adopt constitution and bylaws
and to elect officers for a group
tentatively called the Citizens AS
sociation to Cooperate With
Youth"
The meeting is an outgrowth of
previous meetings called by Judge
Duncan and group of interested
citizens to discuss means of COM
batting juvenile delinquency.
A committee headed by DR.. Ernest
F. Campbell has been working with
Judge Duncan on constitution,
and suggested the name for the Or
ganization, subject to the approval
of tonight's meeting, which is open
to any one interested.
Z the steering committee has sug-
gested an organization with a presi-
dent, two vice presidents, a secre-
! tary, treasurer and chaplain, and a
man and woman to represent each
/ of the city's six wards.
The officers and executive board
will be proposed by a nominating
! committee headed by A. T. Mollegen,
a member of. the faculty of the
Episcopal Theological Seminary and
/ acting rector of st. Paul's Church,
and including the Rev. Edward L.
\ Stephens, pastor of st. Mary's Cath
! olic Church, and Rabbi Hugo Schiff
Of Temple Bethel.
1t The aims of the organization as
I brought out by previous meetings
are the cooperation of church,
civic and educational groups inter-
ested in the welfare of young people,
and in the promotion of recreational
activities to occupy the leisure time
of the youth.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Alexandra Council
Legislators
To Fight Sales Tax
Adopts Measure Asking
Local Determination in
War Housing Disposition

The Alexandria City Council
Joined forces last night with the
city's Chamber of Commerce and
the Retail Merchants Association by
passing resolution opposing a pro-
posed 3 per cent sales tax and asking
State Senator Andrew w. Clarke and
City Delegate w. Seldom Washington
to vote against any such law and to
use their influence to defeat it.
The final draft of resolution on
disposition of Federally -owned war
housing was adopted by the Council
and subsequently approved by the
Alexandria Housing Authority, the
City Planning Commission and the
War Housing Advisory Committee.
The resolution, directed to the
President, Gov. Darden, Virginia
members of Congress and local
members Of the General Assembly.
asked for local determination in the
disposition of war housing.
Would Make 1t Pattern.
Members of the four groups inter-
ested in postwar housing have been
working on the resolution for several
weeks, with the intention of making
1t a pattern for other communities.
For the purpose of the resolution,
public war housing is defined as all
Federally owned dwellings con-
structed In violation of local zoning,
building and planning regulations.
That the local governing body of
any community shall have the right
to designate a local agency to act
as legal agent for the disposition of
war housing and that housing
authorities, where they exist. shall
be that agent unless another is
designated by the local governing
body within specified time.
Government Would Act.
That in the event no agency is
designated by the local governing
body and no housing authority ex-
lists, the Government shall, on 90
days notification, designate an
agency as legal agent and that any
designated agent shall obtain the
approval of the local governing
body for its plan of disposition.
The resolution includes, specif-
caly for Alexandria. the provision
that a committee of nine repre-
sentatives from the four interested
groups be designated to work out
plan for such disposition to submit
to City Council.
Final passage of the taxicab ordi-
nance passed on first reading Fridav
was deferred at the request of at
torneys for the cab companies so a
conference can &c held tomorrow
night with City Council committee
Tor further discussion of several
points involved.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Hutcheson Confirmed
As Federal Judge
Former U. S. Attorney Fills
Eastern Virginia Post

The Senate yesterday confirmed
the nomination of Sterling Hutche-
son to be judge of the Federal Court
for the eastern district of Virginia.
Mr.. Hutcheson. former United
States attorney for that district, will
succeed the late Judge Luther B
Way.
Mr.. Hutcheson, 40, who is the first
judge to be appointed to the Eastern
Virginia district by a Democratic
administration since the Civil War,
was born in Mecklenburg County, Va.
He was educated at William and
Mary College and the University of
Virginia, and before becoming
United States district attorney was
in private law practice at Boyd
ton, Va.
The second judgeship of the east
ern district, held by Judge Robert
N. Pollard. was created in 1899.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
~ Of Virginia Draft Call
Listed as Venerea| Cases
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Feb. 9.-Selective
service serologic tests reveal that ap-
proximately per cent of men be-
tween l8 and As years who were
called by their local draft boards
during the year ended in June. 1943
were classified as positive venereal
disease cases, the State Health De-
partment reported today.
Positive reactions were shown by
1890 out of 241,537 men who took
the tests, one and one-half times
more than the number recorded for
the 1941-42 period, the report
showed.
The rate for colored men was
many times as great as that for
white men, with colored cases listed
as Is per cent of the total and the
white 1.8 per cent.
Venereal disease cases reported to
the State Health Department from
all sources showed 2l,179 of syphilis,
1854 gonorrhea and 572 of other
venereal disease cases. The l941-42
cases were listed as 1925 syphilis,
6,906 gonorrhea and 1872 other cases,
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Tokomo PTA to Assist
At School Bond RoIIy

The regular meeting of the Par
ent- Teacher Association of the Ia
koma Park Junior High School has
been postponed until next Wednes-
day to coincide with a bond rally
scheduled for that time, it was an
nounced yesterday by George P.
Adair, president of the association.
Morgan Beatty, radio commenta-
tor and newspaperman, will be the
speaker. Richard F. Green, chair
man of the Montgomery County War
Bond drive, will be master of cere-
monies. Music will be furnished by
the school band. william Marks,
Of the school, is arranging
the quiz program,
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Lack Of Equipment Delays
CheverIy Hospital 0peninu

Inability to obtain delivery of es-
sential equipment is delaying ad-
mission Of patients to the Prince
Georges General Hospital near
Cheverly, it was announced TODAY.
Hospital officials explained the
needed equipment has been on order
for several months. 1t includes an
unit. bassinets and lab
oratory materials.
Visitors to the hospital donated
more than $400 during an open
house Sunday. The money will be
used to purchase equipment not pro-
vided by the Government.
Floral tributes which filled the
central corridor of the hospital on
Sunday have been sent to the con-
valescent section of Walter Reed
Hospital at Forest Glen, Md.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
New Prince GEORGES
Budget Will Include
Teacher Pay Raises
Two $500 Annual Bonuses
To Be Permanent Part
Of Bosic Salaries

The Prince Georges County Board
Of Education today prepared to in
clude the proposed new salary
schedule for county teachers in the
1944-5 school budget to be pre-
sented next week to the county COM
missioners.
The schedule, which was ap-
proved unanimously by the board
at its meeting yesterday in Upper
Marlboro, provides that the two
5000 annual bonuses being paid by
the county and State be made a
permanent part of the teachers
basic salaries.
1t also calls for annual increases
Of $75 instead Of the present $50 in
crease every two years.
The schedule was drawn up last
week by committee of the County
Teachers Association in an effort
to make teachers salaries in the
county more comparable with those
paid in surrounding areas. Resolu-
tions indorsing such move have
been adopted by the County Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs and by
the Oxon Hill Community Women's
Club.
At present. teachers are leaving
the county school system at the
rate of one almost every school day,
and school officials are finding it
virtually impossible to obtain re-
placements. Most of the resigna-
tions have been caused by offers Of
jobs at higher pay.
]. Albert Miller. principal Of the
Hyattsville High School and chair
man of the committee that had
charge of drafting the proposed
schedule, declared that no county
teacher is now receiving a basic
salary of more than $3.50 year.
Declaring that, in his opinion,
the county could well afford the
proposed increases. Mr.. Miller said
teachers are confident that the
proposed schedule would help
the teacher situation in
the county"
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Montgomery Board
Names New Teachers
Mrs. English Resigns
As Woodside Trustee

Appointment of eight elementary
school and two high school teachers
was approved by the Montgomery
County Board Of Education at its
meeting yesterday in Rockville.
The elementary teachers are:
Mrs. l.. E. Pearson, Glenmont
School; Mrs. Ruth Kremb, Takoma
Park; Dorothy Weller and Clarke
Freeman, Bradley; Mrs. Helen Nc
Kay, Rockville; Virginia M. Farrow,
Four Corners; Helen G. Miller,
Sandy Spring, and Mrs. Alice M.
Burtis. Somerset.
The others are Mrs. Thelma Fin
nefrock. Takoma Park Junior High,
and Ella Mae Scott, Silver Spring
intermediate.
The board also accepted the resig-
nation Of Mrs. Beryl r. English as
trustee of the Woodside Elementary
School.
A delegation seeking improve
ments for the Rockville colored high
and elementary schools was assured
the requests would be taken up in
planning for summer work and
later construction programs A re-
quest from the Parent Teacher As
sociation Of the Glen Echo Cabin
John School that the lighting in
the school building be improved was
submitted. The board received a
Federal offer of continued assist
|ance in child care activities. The
offer was accepted.
DR.. Edwin w. Broome, county
superintendent of schools, reported
that a countrywide age-grade study
conducted by the teachers in No
vember showed that 23.5 per cent
OF the pupils were underage for the
grades they were in; 70.5 per cent
were normal age and 6 per cent
average. DR.. Broome said that the
percentage of overage pupils has
been greatly reduced in recent
years.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Four From D. c. Area
Finish ChopIuins' School

Three Washington men and one
from nearby Virginia are among 80
clergymen being graduated today
from the Army Chaplain School at
Harvard University.
The District graduates are Joseph
A. Crazinni and Francis N. D. Rey-
nolds. Catholics, and Douglas F. Hall,
Baptist.
The. Virginia clergyman is Thomas
P. Scannell, Arlington, Catholic.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Red Cross Workers TOP
$50, 900 War Loon Quote

{. Employees of the Eastern area of
the Red Cross have exceeded their
! quota Of $4,000 for the Fourth War
Loan campaign, reporting a total of
$50, ,125. not including pledges, it was
announced yesterday. Ramone S.
Eaton, manager of the Eastern area
office. said he expects a substantial
increase in the figure before the
drive ends February Is.
/ E. T. Moore. Alexandria chairman
of the campaign, said that Federal
Reserve figures as of February 4 in
dicate a total of 1895, ,735. .25, or 42.5
per cent of the $2,365 900 quota
subscribed, with 1858. .l68.75 or 42.2
per cent Of the $875 900 z bond quota
subscribed.
Z
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Oil Manager Is Promoted

c. E. Peed, manager of the South
ern States Fairfax Petroleum Co.
operative, Inc. for the last two years,
has been made district manager of
Southern States Cooperative, Inc,
with headquarters in Richmond, it
has been announced Mr.. Peed will
be succeeded at Fairfax by w. E..
Neale, former manager of the
Augusta Petroleum Cooperative,
Staunton, Va.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Virginia Nurses Group
Elects Officers

Mrs. Mae c. Bowman, Alexan-
dria, was elected president of Dis
trict 8, Graduate Nurses Associa-
tiorr of Virginia, at a recent meet
ing held at the Arlington County
Hospital.
Other officers include Mrs. Myrtle
D. Woods, Alexandria, and Mrs.
Naomi Hatcher, Purcellville, vice
presidents; Mrs. Sue w. Brown, Ar
lington, secretary, and Mrs. Vr-
ginia Scantlebury, Arlington, treas
urer. Members named to the board
were Mrs. Ella Turner Goodhart,
Arlington, and Mrs. Marjorie
Moore. Alexandria.
Evening star., 1944-02-09

A discharged war veteran, James
H. Moore, jr., 1917 King street, Al
exandria, Va. yesterday received
a medal for his heroism in North
Africa on July 16.
Dressed in civilian clothes, for
mer Sergt. Moore received the Sol
dier's Medal from Maj. Gen. John
T. Lewis, commander of the Military
District of Washington, in a special
ceremony in front of Copley Hall,
Georgetown University. Army stu
dents at Georgetown paraded in his
honor.
Sergt. Moore was in charge of a
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Luther N. Chamberlain Rites

WARRENTON, Va, Feb. 9 (Spe-
ciaD.-Funeral services for Luther
N. Chamberlain, rs, who died Mon
day In Presbyterian Hospital, Char
lotte. N. c., from injuries suffered
three weeks ago while on a business
trip, will be held at pm. today at
the Presbyterian Church here. The
services will be conducted by the
Rev. Thomas MacLean, pastor of
the church. Burial will be In War
renton Cemetery.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Guard Officers Promoted

Perry w. Browning, jr., Hyatts-
vile, has been promoted from Sec
ond to first lieutenant in the Mary
land State Guard, Gov. O'Conor an
nounced today according to an AS
sociated Press dispatch from An
napolis. Ten other promotions and
commissions were announced by the
Governor.
Evening star., 1944-02-09
County
Cuts Defense Costs
Drops Paid Workers
On Afraid Phones

A sharp reduction in the expenses
OF the Montgomery County civilian
defense organization was approved
yesterday by the county commits
sioners in an order eliminating all
paid personnel now manning the
switchboards and telephone facili-
ties at the Silver Spring, Bethesda.
Rockville and Gaithersburg report
centers.
The order, issued in response to
a request by Judge Albert E. Brault,
county civilian defense director, in
structed the Police Department to
assume responsibility for alerting key
personnel at each of the centers.
In letter to the board Judge
Brault said that a survey is being
made of civilian defense telephone
communications to determine which
telephones can be removed and still
retain adequate communication ia
cilities in case Of emergency.
The board also appropriated
$1,000 for appointment of an as
sistant to Miss Edythe M. Turner,
county home demonstration agent.
The appropriation will supplement
Federal funds to pay the salary of
the new official effective July l.
Police Chief H. Leslie Carlin was
instructed to investigate the shoot
ing of a dog owned by the family
of former State Senator Robert
Peter.
The duties of the Office of Char
ity and Medical Relief were ordered
transferred to the County Welfare
Board, effective March /.
Payment of $6,722 to the Welfare
Board to meet expenses during Feb
ruary was approved by the board.
The expenses were listed as old-age
assistance, $1,384; aid to dependent
children, sl,295; aid to needy blind,
$l09; general public assistance,
81 300; boarding home care for chill
dren, s1,8l7, and administration,
$8l7,
Evening star., 1944-02-09
Virginia Bill Provide!
For New Circuit Court
In Arlington County
Measure Introduced
To Change Method Of
Alexandra Elections
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Feb. "a new cir
cult court for Arlington and a
special election in Alexandria on the
question of a change in the method
of electing council members were
proposed in the Virginia General
Assembly yesterday.
The Senate received three bills
providing for the new circuit and
for the immediate election of a
judge. The patron, Senator Will
liam D. Medley Of Arlington, pro-
posed that the new circuit be Gre
ated as the thirty-fifth judicial
circuit.
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy, Ar
lington, judge of the Sixteenth cir
cult which now includes Arlington
together with Fairfax and Prince
William counties, and Alexandria
has the Endorsement of the bar for
the new post, Senator Medley said.
One of the bills provides that the
Governor appoint new Judge to
fill the vacancy which would occur
if Judge Mccarthy is named to the
proposed new circuit.
Election Proposed in March.
The bill calling for a special
election on the method of electing
council members in Alexandria was
introduced in the House by Dele
gate w. Selden Washington, who
represents that city. The election
would be held March %.
The bill provides. as an amend
ment to the charter, alternative
plans Of election.
One. designated as the council
at-large" plan. provides that after
September l, 1914, the council shall
consist of four members elected for
two years, with the terms of office
of three men elected at large con-
tinuing until their expiration
August 81, 1916. Under this plan
the present presiding officer of the
council would continue to serve
until his term expires. Vacancies
in the council would be certified to
the judge of the Corporation Court
who shall issue a writ for general
election. After September l, 1916,
the council member who received
the largest popular vote would be-
come presiding officer and mayor
ex-officio.
The other plan, designated as the
council ward plan" provides that
the council, after September /, 1914
shall be composed of nine members
OF whom one shall be elected from
each Of the six wards for two-year
terms, and three elected at large.
Teachers Back New Tax.
Any equitable tax-even a sales
tax-will be backed by the Virginia
Education Association, it's Legisla-
tive Committee said yesterday.
Miss Ethel Spillman, president of
the YEA, said the association did
not feel it was its place to suggest
what type of taxation should be
set up, but that it would back any
plan the Legislature might set up
"and the sales tax will come out of
our pocketbook just like everybody
else's."
She said the YEA had reaffirmed
its stand on DR.. Dabney S. Lam
casters proposal for $1,000 per
teacher unit,
Evening star., 1944-02-09

gun crew on a pier in North Africa
and was seriously injured when an
ammunition ship exploded. The ci-
tation says:
"Disregarding his own injuries and
in grave danger from gasoline and
ammunition exploding on a nearby
pier, he sought out each of the
members Of his gun crew, admins
tered first aid to them and assisted
them to safety before permitting
himself to be evacuated or his
wounds to be dressed"
Award of the medal was ordered
by Gen. Eisenhower.