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Evening star., 1944-05-28
Car-Sharine Mounts
To $4,000 Registrars

Registration in the local car
sharing drive has mounted to $4,000
with 2,100 registrants soliciting rid
ders, Robert K. Thompson, director
of the District OPA, announced last
night.
The figure, Mr.. Thompson pointed
out, does not present the entire pic
ture because some of the 146 Fed
eral transportation committees have
held back their registrations for use
in their own programs.
In addition to the applications for
rides and riders, the OPA director
said, applications for renewals of
supplemental gasoline rations re-
vealed an increase in the number
OF persons forming their own clubs
There are many people who still
doubt the necessity for car-shar-
ing" Mr.. Thompson declared
What they do not realize is,
although the supply of gasoline
available to civilians is severely linn
tied, car-sharing has other objec-
tives than to conserve this critical
commodity.
"Car-sharing, as the program is
now set up, means conserving criti-
cal tires, replacement parts and
equipment Even If there were no
shortage Of automotive gasoline
car-sharing would be necessary"
Evening star., 1944-05-28
French Club Lecture
Series to Close Eriduy

The last of a series of lectures
sponsored by the French Club OF
the State Department Recreation
Association is slated for 8:15 pm
Friday in the National Archives
auditorium. 1t. Robert Aisner OF
the Free French Army will speak on
his experiences as prisoner of war
in Germany.
The lecture, which will be delivered
in French, is open to Federal and
District employees as we'll as members
OF the armed services stationed here
Edmund Caskie of the central trans
lating division of the State Depart
ment is accepting registrations for
the lecture.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
5 D. 6. Area Soldiers
Finish Comp Lee STUDY

Five men from Washington and
vicinity were among graduates OF
a non-commissioned officers sup
ply and administrative course at
Camp Lee, Va, yesterday, the AS
sociated Press reported.
Three of the five are from Wash
lngton. They are Richard J. Hol-
Ger, 5204 Third street NV; Thomas
H. Polk, 1928 Flagler place, and
Samuel G. Redman, jr., 502l Illi-
nois avenue NV.
The other two men are Samuel p
Gould, 5000 Melville street, Chevy
Chase, Md, and William P. Wat
klns, 1916 Queens lane, Arlington.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Darlington Wins Prize
OF $50 for His Paintino

A cash prize of $50 was awarded
to Omar j. Darlington for the best
painting in the annual art show for
members of the Arts Club of Wash
ington yesterday. Mr.. Carrington's
painting is entitled Prelude to
Rain"
Ralph j. Totten won second prize,
set OF oil colors, for Florida on
Monday" and third prize, a set of
water colors, went to Henry w.
Olson for Two Trees"
Miss Sarah Baker, John Walker
and Eugen Weisz comprised the
jury. The second and third prizes
were donated by George F. Muth.
The show will open with tea at
) pm. today and will continue
throughout the summer.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
West Virginian Is Held
In Hit-and-Run Case

A 23-year-old West Virginian,
who described himself as an ex-
soldier wounded at Guadalcanal,
was being held in Alexandria Jail
last night on charges of hit-and-
run driving, operating under the
influence of liquor, speeding and
failure to have driving permit.
Alexandria police said the man
whom they identified as Robert j.
Hensly, st. Adams, w. Va, was ar
rested Friday after he struck a car
driven by Sergt. Robert Kearney,
9l0 jefferson street, at Franklin and
Alfred streets. Police said he
jumped from his automobile after
the accident and attempted to
escape.
Police said Hensly also is wanted
by Virginia State police in connec-
ton with forgery case and alleged
theft of an automobile They ex-
planned that the car he was driving
was reported to belong to w. E.
Jannett, BristoW, Va. Police said
they have sent for Hensly's medical
discharge papers and police record
A hearing will be held June l In
Alexandria Police Court.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Fire Board, Club Group
To Discuss Truck Sole

A joint meeting of the Executive
Committee Of the Bethesda Fire
Board and of a Bethesda Chevy
Chase Lions Club committee will be
held Friday night at the Bethesda
Firehouse.
An accusation made by Albert E.
Brault, county civilian defense di-
rector, that the board was not act
ing in the publics best interest when
it sold an 11-year-old ambulance to
the Takoma Park Fire Department
last January will be discussed.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Mason Is Confident
Glenn Dale Can Avoid
Closing Single Ward
New Conference Slated;
Better Transportation
Likely Proposal

District Commissioner Guy Ma
son last night expressed confidence
that some way will be found to
get sufficient personnel for Glenn
Dale Sanatoria so that the institu-
ton will not be forced to close a
ward
Several phases of the problem are
under consideration, the Commits
sioner said. He could not disclose
details at present, he added.
Among the possibilities are under
stood to be improved transportation
from Glenn Dale to an established
bus line to encourage employment.
The situation, will be discussed
this week by Commissioner Mason
with DR.. George C. Ruhland, Dis
trict health officer, and DIR. clayton
B. Ethridge, chairman of the Tu-
berculosis Subcommittee of the Dis
trict Medical Society, it was learned
last night.
Such a conference was planned
at the conclusion of meeting of
the subcommittee yesterday at
medical society headquarters, at
tended also by DR.. D. L. Finucane,
Glenn Dale superintendent.
Several proposals and suggestions
were discussed, it was said later by
Theodore Wiprud, secretary of the
medical society and spokesman for
the committee.
Refusing to 60 into detailed ex-
plantations, Mr.. Wiprud said several
seemed promising"
Attending the meeting were
Chairman Ethridge, DR.. A. Barklie
Coulter, director of the Health De-
partment, Bureau of tuberculosis:
DIR. Harry F. Dowling, DR.. Robert
r. Hottell, DR.. James E. Wissler,
DR.. Finucane and Mr.. Wiprud.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Swiss Benevolent Group
Reflects g. l.. Munter

Godfrey L. Munter, former presi-
dent OF the District Bar Association
has been reelected president of the
Swiss Benevolent Society. Other
sofficers elected at the society's re-
scent 10th annual meeting were:
Rudolph Siegrist, first vice presi-
dent; Miss Sina Suter, second vice
president; Ernest Faesch, treasurer
and Miss Gertrude Thoeni, secre-
tary.
Charles H. Chevallaz, Charles
Fuglister and Mrs. A. Luckett were
.re-elected to the Auditing Commit
tee. Justice o. r. Luhring of Dis
trict Court was the principal speaker
at the meeting
Evening star., 1944-05-28
East Bethesda Citizens Elect

Donald E. Gray has been elected
president Of the East Bethesda Citi-
zens' Association. Other officers are:
John H. Davis, first vice president
Mrs. David G. Whitten, second vice
president; Mrs. Mildred c. Heigham
corresponding secretary; Cecil A
Eby, treasurer; Mrs. w. C. Beck
library representative; DR.. w. C
Killinger, j. r. Durnell and Ger
hard j.. Isaac, delegates to the
County Civic Federation.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
|Quezon's Aide Named
War Cabinet Secretary

Col. Manuel Nieto, senior aide de
camp to President Manuel L. Que
zon of the hilippines. yesterday was
appointed secretary to the war cabi-
net of the Philippine Common
wealth.
A veteran OF Bataan and Corregi-
dor, Col. Nieto was decorated by
Gen. Macarthur and President Que
zon for bravery.
Cal. Nieto has served as resident
Quezon's senior aide de camp since
the latter's Inauguration in 1885. In
his new job he will act as the liason
between President Quezon and the
cabinet during the Philippine chief
executives absence from Washing
ton,
Evening star., 1944-05-28

the prize from John A. Reilly, chair
man Of the District War Finance
Committee. The slogan will be used
in Nationwide publicity launching
the Treasury's drive for sale OF $16,-
600 ,000, 600 in bonds during June and
July.
The largest collection of captured
aircraft ever assembled in the
United States will include late
model Jap fighters, Stuka dive
bombers, JU-88 bomber and i'm
proved Messerschmitts.
The show Is sponsored by the AAF,
the Treasury Department, the Dis
trict War Finance Committee and
the National Parks Service.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Mrs. Robert O. Boil Asks
Divorce and AIimony

Mrs. Lucille " Ball, BOIL Foxhall
road NV, yesterday filed suit in
District Court for limited divorce
from Robert o. Ball, an executive
of the Penn Paper & Stock Co., with
offices in the 1900 block of lexington
place NE. The complaint charges
cruelty.
The suit said Mr.. Balls income is
approximately $4,000 a year. 1t says
the couple was married in Philadel-
phia in 1926 and claims Mrs. Ball
left home on May 20 of this year
due to alleged cruelty.
Filed in behalf of Mrs. Ball by
Attorneys Thomas A. Farrell and
A. P. Commit, the complaint asks
temporary alimony pending outcome
of the suit and permanent alimony if
the divorce is granted.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Strike Penalty Cited
As Sole Point Delaying
Greyhound Settlement
Conferences in Baltimore
Seek Solution Of stoppoge
CoIIed in Protest

Striking drivers and maintenance
men of the Pennsylvania Grey
hound Bus Lines said late last
night that only one point-punish-
ment Of those taking part In the
work stoppage--was holding up q
complete agreement.
Greyhound buses running from
here to Baltimore, Gettysburg and
Scranton were tied up all afternoon
and night by strike of drivers and
maintenance men of the Amlaga-
mated Association of Street, Electric
Railway and Motor Coach Workers,
Union men here were in almost
continuous session, hrst at Pythian
Temple and later at. , hall at s2a
New jersey avenue NV. They
awaited results Of negotiations car
ried on in Baltimore by Clark Dor
sey, president of the union. -.
Local Agent Not Informed.
G. c. Battershell, ALI Tennessee
avenue, Alexandria, head of the
Greyhound service here, said last
night he had no information Of
any prospective settlement.
However, the union men under.
stood only the question of the com.
pany's alleged intention to suspend
strikers from one to five DAYS wa,
at issue.
cThe Associated Press reported
from Baltimore shortly before
midnight that the meeting be-
tween union and bus company
officials there still was in prog
ress.)
Contract Violations Charged.
Lucien Rye of the Labor Depart.
ments conciliation service in Balti.
more is working on the case there
while c. H. Williams of the same
agency has been negotiating here.
The work stoppage was called ir
protest against alleged failure oj
the company to meet contract com.
mittments calling for the posting ot
employment and seniority vacan.
cles within five days and tn,
restoration of returning servicemer
to seniority, a union spokesman
said. The bus company manage.
ment also was accused of sendins
It's vehicles to nonunion shops.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
New Suburban Water System
Slated to Open By Mid June
$500 900 Project to Double Supply;
Operations Woit Filter Plant Completion

The $2,5O000O project to double
the water supply OF the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission and
make unnecessary strict conservation
regulations during drough periods
in metropolitan Prince Georges and
Montgomery Counties is expected to
begin operating about the middle Of
June with the completion of the
filter plant at Willis School.
The huge project, comprising a
dam across the Patuxent River near
Brighton, pumping station farther
down the river near Laurel and the
filter plant, was conceived by COM
mission engineers several years ago
to relieve present facilities, over
taxed through the rapid population
rise in the suburban Maryland area.
After General Assembly approval
the three-fold project was begun in
the fall of 1941. The dam and the
pumping station have been COM
pleted.
Separates County Systems.
When water Is turned into the
eight miles Of pipeline that connect
the new filter plant with the water
supply network for Prince Georges
County, engineers say that the
Prince Georges area will be cut on
from the Montgomery County area.
The Montgomery area still will be
supplied from the Burnt Mills filter
station, which takes water from
Northwest Branch. The two areas
may be connected again If necessary,
engineers said.
At the present time the Burnt
Mills station supplies all water for
the suburban area, feeding into a
network of mains that carry water
over an area from Cabin John,
northwest Of the District, to Suit
land. This includes Bethesda, Silver
Spring and Kensington sections in
Montgomery County. and Hyatts-
vile, Capitol Heights, GTeenbelt,
Forestville and other sectionS In
Prince Georges County
Although handicapped in its con-
struction by war restrictions, CON-
mission engineers said the new sup
ply system still will present features
found in few other water supply
projects. Furthermore, they ex-
planned, the project has bee-l con-
structed so that future additions
may be built at minimum cost. AS
it stands, they said, the system will
send 100000 gallons of water a
day into Prince Georges County
homes and business establishments.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Dirksen to Be Feted
By Colleagues June 6
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Representative Dirksen, Republi-
can, of Illinois, candidate for the
Republican presidential nomina-
ton, will be honored by 36 of his
Republican colleagues in the House
at dinner here June 6.
Sponsors of the event said in a
statement yesterday that Mr.. Dirk
sen. during a recent speaking tour
of 80 States, had lent his efforts
in behalf of the Republican party
far more than in his own behalf. F."
The Illinois representative will
speak from the dinner on a Nation
wide broadcast from 8 to $50 pm
Evening star., 1944-05-28

A Navy lieutenant won first prize
yesterday for the best slogan de-
scribing the Army Air Forces ex-
hibit of captured enemy equipment
to open here June IL as part of the
Fifth War Loan Drive.
Shot From the Sky by the Bonds
You Buy" was the suggestion which
won a $25 War Bond for 1t. q. g.
John A. Thomas, U. S. N. r. The
exhibit will be open from 10 am. to
10 pm. on the Washington Monu-
ment Grounds, with special enter
tainment features planned each
night
LIT. Thomas, writer for the
Navy's official magazine, received
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Diplomats Slated 10 Attend
Hoods Educational ParIey

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICK. Md, May 27.-Rep-
resentatives from the IS United Ma
tions and nine associated nations
are scheduled to attend meeting
Of the International Education As
sembly at Hood College, Frederick,
June SO, the National Education
Association announced yesterday.
The association also reported that
observers from the State Depart
ment and a number of embassies
and legations of foreign countries
are expected to attend
This will be the second meeting
Of the assembly. The first was held
at HarperS Ferry.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Boy Shot Examining
Automatic Owned
By Chum' 5 Father
Arlington Youth Reported
In Grove Condition at
Emergency Hospital

A Luger automatic pistol which
two 13-year-old chums were ex-
amining yesterday was accidentally
discharged, critically wounding one
Harry Hodge, son of Charles Lee
Hodge, Washington representative
of the Railroad Retirement Board
who lives at 1851 Old Dominion
drive, Arlington.
Young Hodge was rushed to
Emergency Hospital where DR.. John
Shugrue said a bullet had passed
through his neck. chipping of a
piece of his spinal column and leay-
ing him paralyzed from the chest
down. His condition was described
last night as grave"
The two boys had spent the night
at the home of Mitchell Mills, 2629
Woodley place NV, and were wait
ing for other members of Boy Scout
Troops No. of the All Souls Me-
mortal Church to join them there
to go on an outing.
Meanwhile, young Mills told De-
tective Sergt. w. Dempsey Perry,
they went to the attic to look at the
Luger, the property of the Mills boys
father, Dwight McCabe Mills, who is
understood to live in New York.
The gun, the boy said, was accident
ally discharged as he and his chum
were examining it.
AS the Mills boys mother, Mrs.
Adele Mills, was on trip to Chi
cago, police notified Comdr. Warren
w. Bayley, 2205 California street
NV, his uncle. Comdr. Bayley CO.
operated with the police in ques-
tioning his nephew, who later was
released in his custody pending the
outcome of young Hodges injury.
Members Of the Hodge boys fam
ily said that he was intensely inter-
'ested in firearms and had been say
ing his allowance money to buy a
sporting rife. When he was only 8,
they added, he was wounded in the
neck by an air rifle pellet when the
gun was discharged accidentally.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Menoriia|Day
Events Listed
ByD.C. Groups
Arlington Cemetery
Rites of Veterans
g..
High Lights Program

Numerous tributes to the Nation s
war dead, highlighted by the an
nual services of five veterans or
aRnizations In Arlington Cemetery,
will mark the Capitals observance
Of Memorial Day.
In addition many residents will
leave for holiday vacations, with
transportation officials expecting a
20 per cent increase in travel load.
Chairman Connally of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee and a
veteran Of two wars. will be the
principal speaker on the program in
the Arlington Cemetery amphi-
theater, scheduled to begin at / pm.
Tuesday.
The main program will be pre-
ceded by the traditional placing of
the Presidents wreath on the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier at II am,
followed by placing of wreaths from
representatives of patriotic and vet
Grams organizations.
DR.. Parran to Speak.
Earliest program of Tuesday S
schedule is flag-raising ceremony
at Z am. at Chevy Chase Circle,
sponsored by the Chevy Chase Citi-
zens' Association in collaboration
with Boy Scout Troops 50, 54, 81 and
80. DR.. Thomas Parran, surgeon
general of the United States Public
Health Service, will speak.
Rear Admiral William Brent
Young, chief of the Nays Bureau
Of Supplies and Accounts, will speak
at memorial services at 10 am. at
the Georgetown University School
of Law.
Senator Wiley, Republican, of
Wisconsin will speak at memorial
sponsored by the GAR and
Citizens Association at
$3.50 pm. in battle-ground National
Cemetery. Representative Dondero,
of Michigan, will speak
at services sponsored by the Ma
tional Capital Parks and the Lin
coin Group Of the District at 8
pm. in the Lincoln Musem.
Program Planned Today.
Several programs are planned to-
day, including the sixth annual
military field mass at 10
Am. in Arlington Cemetery, spon-
sored by the Washington general
Knights Of Columbus,
and other Catholic groups.
Msgr. James H. Griffith, New
York, military ordinariate for the
armed forces, will deliver the SER
mon, and the Most Rev. Arcene
Turquetil, vicar apostolic of Hud-
sons Bay, will preside at the mass.
The Rev. william Walsh, former
chaplain at Walter Reed Hospital
who has just returned from service
In Greenland, will be the celebrant.
Representatives of Is national and
81 local Catholic organizations will
place wreaths Blessed by Bishop
Turquetil at the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier Immediately after
the mass.
Col. Carlos Romulo, military aide
to President Quezon of the Philip
pines and one Of the last hen ID
leave 4BAtAAn, will speak at me-
mortal services OF Jane A. Delano
Post s Of the American Legion at
the nurses plot in Arlington Gene
terry.
1t. r. N. r. Clark, Spanish
war veteran, will speak
at joint memorial services of 10
patriotic organizations at 8 pm. in
the Second Baptist Church, Third
street between H and I NV.
Evening star., 1944-05-28

a supply equal to that OF the Burnt
Mills station.
Pumping Station in Rocky Gorge.
Heart of the supply system is the
pumping station In Rocky Gorge of
the Patuxent River, mile above
Laurel, where a maximum of H.
100000 gallons OF water a day can be
forced through two miles of 30-inch
pipe to the Willis School filter plant.
This station, constructed 50 that
it can be easily enlarged If needed,
Is equipped with three two-pump
electric units and an additional gas
oline engine that can be used in the
event OF power failures. Automatic
in operation, the pumping station
will require the services of only one
attendant after pumping begins.
Water Is pumped directly from
the Patuxent River, no larger than
a mountain trout stream as 1t runs
through Rocky Gorge, and, to in
sure sufficient flow at all seasons.
the Brighton dam was built q few
miles upstream.
Provides for Future.
Here more than $500, ,000, 900 gall
Ions will be stored over q 775-acre
area enough to allow 26 1000 900 gall
Ions to flow down stream daily. In
addition, engineers said, a similar
dam may be constructed the future
just above the pumping station.
This would double the amount Of
water which could be taken from
the river.
Completed last fall, the dam al
ready is more than half filled. The
water behind the concrete structure
has inundated for the third and
last time the 140-year-old village
Of Tridelphia, an important milling
center before the Civil War.
Only two houses remained in the
village when dam construction was
startad.s These were torn down.
The Green Bridge road leading into
Howard County was flooded and
was rerouted across the top OF the
dam.
Engineers said the top Of the spill
ways are $50 feet above sea level.
The top of the dam itself rises 80
feet above the river bed level. Elec-
trical generators have been installed
in the dam to provide current for
opening and closing the gates and
lighting purposes. Power for the
pumping station, however, will be
purchased from the Baltimore Con-
solidated Light & Power Co.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Cathedral AIumnue to Meet

The National Cathedral School
alumnae will meet at dinner at the
Sulgrave Club Saturday night. Mrs.
Philip M. Rhinelander will act as
sponsor. Reservations may be made
through Miss Mary Key Lewis,
Washington Cathedral, not later
than Thursday.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Cosmos Club Lists Speaker

DR.. w. F. G. Swan, director of
the Bartol Research Foundation of
the Franklin Institute, Philadel-
phia, will lecture at the Cosmos
Club at $50 pm. tomorrow. His
subject will be Certain Applica-
tions Of Physical Principles to the
Playing Of Musical Instruments.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-05
Coast Chamber
Aid States
Imperial Talks

Partly as a result of Los Angeles
pledge of support to Imperial Valley
postwar planning programs, M. j..
Brown, domostic trade commission
ers of the Los Angeles county cham
Der of commerce will arrive in Fl
Centro Friday, April 7. for confer
ences with valley chamber heads
I'D businessmen.
Brown who annually has made
a .rado survey Of the produce ship
ped from the valley to the Les
angeles market, will point out the
Yalue Of increased reciprocal trade
between the two counties in visits
TO the valley towns. His schedule
includes Holtville April TO- Brawley
April II and Calexico April y.
He will talk with local business
men on the present use that can be
made of the Los Angeles county
market and the nature and volume
Of postwar business on which I'M
parial Valley firms may enter with
the coastal county.
Los Angeles county annually buys
rom Imperial Valley five million
dollars worth Of fruits and vegeta-
bles. Brown points out.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-05

sinners. followed shortly by an
other two. The speaker continues
while the officers smile OCCASION
ally at the colloquialisms which
he uses to let the japanese know
he is really one of them.
Tells of Lies
He reminds the JapaneSe that
they were told by their officers on
March l2, when he was still in their
ranks, that both American air
fields had been captured and that
all they had TO do was to penetrate
lines in their sector to
win the battle of Bougainville. He
relates feelingly hcw they attacked
nd were shattered.
There are no more shots. Evi-
15ntly the enemy has decided to
istsn. The prisoner says there has
oeen no penetration Of U. S. lines
nd that all attacks have been re-
laced. He repudiates a story by
japanese officers that The Ameri-
ans drive tanks over Japanese
E9unGed ana otherwise GTe cruel to
re!r prisoners.
FIe paws tribute to the treatnep!
II japanese soldiers wounded b.
'le Americans and reminds tn