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Evening star., 1944-11-01
Chapman Fears
Efficiency Drop
If Police Merge
Letter to Hebert Says
Park Force Should
Be Distinct Unit

Belief that merger of the Park
Police with the Metropolitan police
force would result in less instead of
better protection of the parks and
the public using park facilities was
voiced yesterday by Oscar L. Chap
man, Assistant Secretary of the In
terror.
In a letter to Representative
Hebert, Democrat. of Louisiana,
who plans to sponsor legislation to
have Metropolitan police take over
park police duties within the Dis
trict, Mr.. Chapman maintained
there is special need for the park
police force.
Mr.. Chapman quoted findings of
the Washington Criminal Justice
Association to show that, while park
police patrol park areas constitut-
ing about Is per cent of the Dis
trict's area, less than one half of
l per cent of certain major crimes
were committed in the parks.
He said studies of park police
records for the eight-year period,
1896 to 1943, made by the Criminal
Justice Association, reveal that the
number of murders committed on
park land was approximately one
fifth of per cent of the total num-
Der of murders in the District; that
criminal assault cases in the parks
was slightly more than one-eighth
OF per cent of the total; that less
than one-third of l per cent of the
robberies in the District were per-
petrated on park lands, and that
less than one-eleventh of l per cent
of the Districts assault cases oc-
CURED In park police territory.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
BabyDies in Bed
Fired dbyCand|e
On Halloween
Flames Keep Mother
From Rescuing
GreenbeIt Child

A Halloween candle in the
hands of another child in the
family proved fatal last night
to Thomas A. Nance, 17-month-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jean r..
Nance, Ia Eastway, GreenBelt,
who burned to death in his crib
while his mother attempted to
rescue him.
Town Manager James T. Gobbel
said Mrs. Nance told him she had
put the baby to bed about $50 pm.
and had gone downstairs where her
other children, Robert, 71a; Evelyn
Marie, 6, and Michael, 4, were
playing.
Earlier in the evening, Mrs. Nance
told Mr.. Gobbel, she had taken the
lighted candles with which the older
children were playing.
Had Taken Candles Away.
Shortly after two of the children
had gone outside, Mrs. Nance went
to call them, Mr.. Gobbel said.
Meanwhile the third child, who re-
mained in the house, again had
obtained a candle and in playing
with it apparently set fire to the
baby's bedclothing, according to the
town manager.
When Mrs Nance re-entered the
house, she told Mr.. Gobbel, she
smelled smoke and rushed upstairs
to find the baby's bedroom in flames.
She attempted to rescue him, but
was unable to get through the fire,
according to Mr.. Gobbel.
Removed by Fireman.
Neighbors attracted by Mrs.
Nances screams also were unable
to enter the burning room. BY this
time, the Greenbelt Fire Depart
ment had arrived and one of the
firemen donned mask and re-
moved the child. He was taken to
the Leland Memorial Hospital,
where he was pronounced dead.
Mr. Gobbel said Mrs. Nance was
unable to tell him which child had
obtained the candle. He said Mr..
Nance, who is in the Navy at Bos-
ton, has been contacted by the
Red Cross.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Woman Dies Of Burns
After Clothes Catch Afire

Mrs. Josephine Voting, Al, of COS
Sixth street NV. died early today
in Casualty Hospital of burns re-
ceived yesterday when her bed and
clothing were ignited by a smolder-
ing cigarette.
Mrs. Young rushed from her quar-
ters in the rooming house where she
lived, her clothing aflame. Another
roomer tried in vain to beat out
the flames and other residents sum-
moned the Fire Department.
Mrs. Young was unconscious when
firemen arrived. Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald announced today
he would conduct an Investigation
Evening star., 1944-11-01

tune contests declared he was the
pants burglar. 1t was the popular
costume of the year. 1t won no
prizes.
Little boys dressed like girls and
girls like boys at the Recreation De-
partments costume parties. There
were 80 such events about the city,
the larger ones in the high school
auditoriums.
Stage Minstrel Show.
Girls of st. Roses Technical
School, 1900 California street NV,
where Sister Serena Branson,
daughter of Capt Taylor Branson,
U. S. NJ c.. retired leader of the
Marine Corps Band, recently became
mother superior, put on a minstrel
show.
The Army's ground forces head
quarters group at the War College
held a costume party in the officers
club and Army Ordnance personnel
held dance at the Hotel StatIer.
The desk sergeant of the Eleventh
precinct was taking it easy at $50
o'clock this morning after a hard
night when he got an eyewitness
telephone call from the 17O0 block
of Minnesota avenue describing the
pants burglar at work.
II have the door open a crack" a
woman's voice said II can see him
tiptoeing down the hall"
Then she screamed, There 60 the
lights!"
The connection was broken. Po-
lice sped to the scene. They found
that the tiptoeing down the hall
and the swapping out of the lights
had been done by boy delivering
papers.
In Arlington $500 to 5000 county
residents celebrated the holiday at
the county's first street dance, in
the Clarendon business section.
On Wilson boulevard. from Irving
to Highland streets, small youngs-
ters. teen ageers and adults in
dulged in everything from sedate
waltzes to the latest versions of
jitterbugging
The orchestra for the affair. spon-
sored by the Washington-Lee Junior
Recreation Club, was furnished by
several county business organiza-
tiOnS.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Women in Bathrobes,
Escorts Wreck Auto
After Wild Ride Here

Clad only in bathrobes two young
women with two male companions
led police a mad chase early today
that ended when their automobile
crashed into a light pole at Nine
teenth street and Kalorama road
NV.
One couple was arrested as they
fled the scene and police today were
seeking the other, who escaped on
foot.
The chase started at Ninth street
and New York avenue NV about
4 am, when Policemen Herbert C.
Young and John T. Mccarthy of
the second precint. cruising in a
scout car, spied an automobile bear
ing Maryland tags speeding north.
They gave chase and the fleeing
car raced west on Massachusetts
avenue to Scott Circle, then north
on Sixteenth street, police said. The
scout car speedometer recorded 80
miles an hour at Sixteenth and S
streets NV, the policemen said.
yet the fugitive car pulled further
and further away from the pursuers.
1t was soon out of sight, according
to the policemen.
Policemen H. K. Conner, of the
Thirteenth Precinct, patroling his
beat in the neighborhood of Nine
teenth street and Kalorama road
NV. heard a crash, he said, and
hastened to the scene just In time
to see the quartet run toward Tracy
place.
In the 23O0 block of Tracy place
NV. he arrested one of the women
and her escort. While he was hold
ing them the other couple escaped.
The man is held at the precinct
station and the woman is at the
Women's Bureau pending check on
the license numbers of the car.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Several Doctors Here
Slated for Army Call
As Recruiting Ends

Although the Army's discontinue
ance of recruiting civilian physicians
which was announced yesterday will
ease the drain on doctors here, sew
eral more District physicians will
enter the Army, DR.. Paul Dickens,
District procurement and assign
ment officer for the War Manpower
Commission, said today.
Those doctors still slated to enter
the service are ones who had been
declared available before October
20, he said
DR.. Dickens reassured the public,
however. that sufficient supply of
physicians in the various specialties
will be retained here to take care
of this Metropolitan Area.
1,048 Credited to d. c.
Many of the doctors, internes and
residents in this Metropolitan Area
already have gone to the armed
forces, the Veterans Administration
and the Public Health Service, DR..
Dickens disclosed.
A total of 1,048 men and women,
including internes and residents.
from here are credited to the Dis
trict by the armed forces. This
includes Regular Army and Navy
doctors from this city.
There still remain here, in the
Metropolitan Area, 1.l26 men and
women physicians, including 97l in
the District. Within the District
itself there are 745 white men doc
tors; 155 colored men doctors, in
cluding those at Howard University
and Freedmen's Hospital, and II
women doctors, including both white
and colored.
Recruitment will continue for the
Navy, Veterans Administration ano
the Public Health Service, DR.
Dickens explained. Also there are
several doctors here who were de-
clared available on or before Octo-
ber 20, who will be "processed" and
go into Army uniform when called
And the Army still can call for med
ical students. internes and residents
who hold reserve commissions.
Some to Be Released.
AS doctors may be released from
the Army to return to civilian prac-
tice here, Dr. Dickens said, this
should reinforce the supply here
and consequently enable the District
to provide an equal number for the
armed forces, probably from the
ranks of those who had remained
in civilian practice here
Also, it might be possible that
some doctors returning from any OF
the armed services would be willing
to transfer to the less arduous public
duty of serving in the Veterans Ad-
miniStration or the Public Health
Service As wounded men return
from the battle fronts. the patient
load in veterans hospitals will in
crease sharply, it is expected, anc
more doctors will be needed in tina
service.
| While some persons in Washing.
ton now have to wait for certain
medical care of the elective ol
selective" types, DR.. Dickens said
no one has ever suffered for wan
of emergency" medical or surgica
care. The medical profession. with
its curtailed numbers here, has hae
to exercise some priority, he. said
postponing those cases in less neet
of urgent attention.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Three in Canada
Denied Draft
Appeal Here
Former Is Only One
Of Four to Win Stoy
From District Board

The long arm of the District
Board of Appeal has stretched into
Canada and denied deferments to
three out of the first four men to
appeal among the 10000 American
citizens in foreign countries who are
registrants of the District, 1t was
announced today.
The only one of the four to win
a deferment from the appeal board
during the week ending October IA
was 26-year-old farmer in Duchess,
Alberta.
A 33-year-old minister of Jeho-
vah's Witnesses, who said he also
worked part time in the building
trades, asked for deferment as a
minister. Despite his age, he was
continued in Ia. His home is in
Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Carpenter Wins Stay.
A 26-year-old carpenter for the
Army Transportation Corps asked
for his own deferment on occupa-
tional grounds. The boald refused
the deferment, but recommended a
60-day stay of induction. The
registrant, who works in Prince
Rupert, British Columbia, had been
married on July 81.
Modern Containers, Ltd, firm in
Ottawa, asked for the deferment Of
25-year-old toolmaker The re-
quest was denied in line with the
policy of granting deferments for
men under 26 only to those on a
special list drawn up by COM
mittee from the war agencies.
One domestic registrant also was
denied deferment by the appeal
board during the week on which it
reported today. He was a 29-year-
old service station manager.
Four Lose Deferments.
Four men lost their deferments
when the appeal board reviewed
deferments granted by draft boards
in other areas They included a
29-year r-old professor at the WASH
ington Missionary College who was
put in LAO for noncombatant
Army duty, 26year-old Labor De-
partment Statistician who had been
classified 2-A-F trejected from mill
tary service. but put in 4-F for
lack of an official Government re-
quest for his deferment; a 26-year-
old grocery warehouseman, put in
IA, and 29-year-old foreman
painter, also put in la.
The appeal board approved II
occupational deferments on appeal,
most of which were for Navy Yard
employees. On review the board af-
firmed 139 deferments for men under
80 and 295 deferments to men over
! 80 which had been granted by
| boards in other areas.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
SomerviIIe Heads Bor Group

James W. Somerville, Fairfax, Va,
has been named chairman of q
committee on bar admission require
ments of the American Bar Associa-
ton. Mr.. Somerville, a member of
the legal stan of the Social Security
Board, Is at present assigned to the
staff Of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1944-11-01

sound development has been ham,
pered and impeded by the personal
aims, selfish ambitions and partisan
direction under the existing form
of government.
These conditions will, in my opin-
ion, be certainly modified and, it is
hoped, eliminated by charter gov
ernment as formulated by its pro-
ponents and will conform in intent
to the principles of a government
by the people
Evening star., 1944-11-01

hlSu . Z II o o l
Cadet Corps, 1t.
Col. Henry o.
Atwood, profess
sor of military
science and tao
tics, announced
yesterday.
G a de t Col.
Perry is the son
of DR.. and Mrs.
John Sinclair
Perry, 302 Vir-
ginia a v e n u e
Sc. His grand
uncle, Sheridan
Leary, was killed
i,o ocftay With
Evening star., 1944-11-01

president OF the
M o n t g o m e ry
County Charter
Committee, Mr..
Hamilton said:
Being a long
t | m e resident
and proper y
owner in the
county, I have
v ! e W e d it S
G r o W t h a n d
been interested
in its regula-
t ory direction
and my conclu-
sion has been,
onI fe fHot TO-
Evening star., 1944-11-01
ODT Commends Press
For Transport Suvinqs

A Government agency gives news
papers an excellent" for trans
portation conservation.
The American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association reported to the Of
flee Of Defense Transportation that
600 member papers reduced their
truck mileage 43 per cent during
1943 as compared with 1941, and
predicted an even greater reduction
this year.
Director J. Monroe johnson called
this an excellent" record.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Moccosin Slippers Made
Rution-Free to Dec. 81
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Leather-soled moccasins of house.
slipper type construction may be
sold ration-free through December
81, the Office Of Price Administra-
tion announced today. This coun-
teracts an October 5 order putting
them on the ration list.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Theoter Coils Tryouts

The Arlington Little Theater will
select a play and hold tryouts at a
meeting at pm. tomorrow in the
War Recreation Center, $3.50 Wilson
boulevard. The play, to be given
early in December, will be directed
by Comdr. Walter Timmis. New
members are invited.
Evening star., 1944-11-01

John Brown at Harpers Ferry. His
grandfather, Henry S. Christmas
was a lieutenant in the Spanish
American War. His brother, John
S. Perry, jr, is flight instructor at
Tuskegee Air Field.
The new colonel was chosen to
command the 900 cadets in the oath
Regiment after competitive ex-
animation with 20 other cadets. He
also is captain of the Dunbar tennis
team and violinist in the All-High
School Orchestra.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Dean George Hamilton
Backs Charter Plan

George E. Hamilton, dean emeritus
of Georgetown University Law
School and president of the Cor
coran Gallery of Art, today an
nounced his support of the pro-
posed charter for Montgomery
County.
In a letter to Allen H. Gardner,
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Anti-Chorter

A logical way to consider this
question is to visualize the require
ments and burdens of becoming a
candidate for councilman and the
duties expected from the unpaid
members. Each candidate will have
to be nominated in a petition signed
by at least 500 voters. A county
wide campaign will ensue with the
members of the County Council
actually being elected, except in the
special election provided for next
January, at the quadrennial No
vember election where State and
constitutional county Offices as well
as Congressman are elected.
The names of council candidates
whether there are 18 or go, will all
appear in alphabetical order on the
same voting machine at the guber-
material election upon which a Gov
ernor, an attorney general. a State
controller, member of Congress. a
State Senator, six members of the
House of Delegates, clerk of the
Circuit Court, three judges of the
Orphans Court, register of wills,
a. sheriff and county surveyor also
will be elected under the two-party
system. The same ballot frequently
will include candidates for the
United States Senate and judges of
the Circuit Court.
All this adds up to the require
ment that in order to serve in the
county council candidates will have
to win election by a countrywide vote
in contest that will be as turbu-
lent and as political as Montgomery
County elections generally are.
No one yet has identified the kind
of people that are going to go
through this ordeal by fire in order
to serve for four years without pay
to consider, enact and amend all
county laws and take all the execu-
tive action required for county
government which spends 50 3,600,-
600 year and administers the local
affairs of 10000 people.
It never has been considered that
able men would work without pay
except during periods of war emer-
gency. They do not work without
pay in any other human activity.
The most probable type of person
who will seek election to the county
council is the representative of some
special pressure group or movement
to accomplish some definite thing
Through the county government or
Evening star., 1944-11-01

ploye, as fellow
workers honored
him at a retire
ment" party at
the Office after
work.
A n a tive of
Rock Island, Ill.
Mr.. r e S S was
raduated in
1891 from Rock
I S ! a n d Hi g h
School. He join
ed the Army the
next year and
was sent to the
Rock Island Ar
S e n a p Hospital !
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Orphans Court Sits Mondoy

The Prince Georges County
orphans Court will meet Monday
because its scheduled meeting Tues
day, is election day, Judge Vincent
A. Osterman announced TODAY.
Evening star., 1944-11-01

to add some new service to the
county government or to build some
new public project or projects In a
section or sections of the county.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Perry Made Colonel
OF Cadet REGIMENT

Sheridan Leary Christmas Perry,
Is, a senior at Dunbar High School,
has been appointed colonel of the
oath Regiment of the Washington
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Herman Riess Ends
.52Years' u. ). Service

Fifty-two years of Government
service as soldier and civilian worker
ended yesterday for Herman w.
Riess, Veterans Administration EN-.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Montgomery Charter Debate

THIS is the fourth OF series OF presenting
mems oy both sides issue raised by the
posed montgomery County charter The affirmative
made by the Charter Committee Negative bv the Citizens
Committee to Defeat question is
Would county consist of more or less able member
fnaido - - - NV ----NN-
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-09-28
new ASSETS FOR CARVER
RESEARCH FOUNDATION

TUSKEGEE, Sept. 28.-(ANP)
Assets of the George Washington
Carver Research foundation were
recently increased by $3O,373.72
when funds in that amount were
transferred to the foundation from
the estate of the Tuskegee scientist
by President F. D. Patterson, ex-
ecutor.
DR.. Patterson, who is also chair
man of the foundation, stated that
this addition brings the foundations
resources up to more than $4,000
and does not include DR.. Carver's
library and other personal assets.
The largest single item in the
funds transferred was $11,537.67
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-09-28

representing royalties from re-
cent book on DR.. Carver's life and
work.
"We are continuing our efforts"
said DR.. Patterson, 'sto increase the
foundations assets to at least $780,
100000 before the end of this year."
Under the leadership of DR.. Rus
sell NJ Brown, the Carver Research
laboratory is conducting, under spe-
cial assignments, some interesting
experiments for number of indus
trial plants which are planning the
production of new products in the
postwar period.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-09-28
After Shaving Bumps
Disappear Al Once

Yes, it is true, there is safe
harmless medicated liquid called
Kleerex that dries up after shaw
ing bumps at once. Thousands of
men who have followed these SIM
pie directions have applied Kleerex
and were amazingly surprised when
they found their razor hicks and
pimples had disappeared. These
users enthusiastically praised Klee-
rex and claim they are no longer
embarrassed and are now happy
with their clear complexions. Don't
take our word for it, use Kleerex
today. Only SOC. If one application
does not satisfy, you get your
money back. There is no risk so
don't hesitate. Sold and recon-
mended by Gallaher and drug stores
everywhere.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-09-28
Chicago Mayor Prot|aims
Sept. 24-0tt. I, Victory
Through Unity Week

CHICAGO, Sept. % (ANP)- -
Sept. "a to Oct. 1, has been set
aside as Victory through Unity
Week in Chicago, according to
proclamation by Mayor Edward J.
Kelly.
In complete cooperation with the
National Urban league: program
Of promoting better race relations
Mayor Kelly's proclamation in part
stated:
81, Edward J. Kelly, as mayor of
the city of Chicago, SO proclaim the
week Sept. "a to Oct. l, Victory
Through Unity week in Chicago,
and urge all citizens as we'll as
schools, libraries, churches, civic
and other organizations to observe
this week with fitting ceremonies,
stressing the need for continued
national unity in peace as we'll as
in war, and to renew in their hearts
those American ideals for which
we are fighting-justice, freedom
and tolerance which alone make it
possible for any peoples to live to-
gether in harmony and to progress
as nation
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-09-28
AMERICAN NEGRO
OPERA COMPANY makes
new YORK DEBUT
By Carl Diton

. NEW YORK, Sept. % (ANP)-
Negroes in various large centers of
the United States have been max
ing during the past 35 years slow,
but be it assured, steady progress
in the development of Negro grand
opera, with the assistance, of course,
of those of the white race who are
courageous enough to acknowledge
his unquestionable musical and his
trionic heritage. Theodore Drury, a
Negro was the first impresario to
sally forth.
From the New York standpoint
within recent years Peter Creatoro,
son of Giuseppe, the famous band
master. gave US "Cavalleria Rusti-
cana" and Emperor Jones'" pre-
senting well-known Negro vocal
stars. Then Zack Ross hit upon the
idea of featuring "Aida" with To-
cal talent Mary Cardwell Dawson
brought her National Negro Opera
company last spring and reverted
to the more spectacular star" idea.
All of these ventures moreover have
unearthed an amazing amount of
now and unheard-of talent.
Monday night Frederick Vajda,
formerly connected with the Met
ropolitan opera, and his collaborat-
ing wife, ST Lita Haley, decided to
demonstrate once more what New
York talent can do in presenting
Verdi's "Traviata" at Carnegie hall,
to an audience quite adequate in
numbers and that included this me-
tropolis' beloved mayor, Fiorella La
Guardia.
There have been given quite few
Negro "Traviata" performances
throughout the country within re-
cent months. So it is hardly neces-
sary to go into the plot of the opera
except to say that Violetta Valery,
a Partisan socialite, falls in love with
Alfred Germont, and consents to
live with him in the suburbs. The
latter's father, eager to marry off
a daughter, seeks Violette and sue