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Evening star., 1944-06-13
Gen. Young Assumes
BeIvoir Command
Gen. Marks Honored
On Leaving for DoIIos

Brig Gen. Edwin H. Marks was
succeeded today as commanding
general Of the Fort Belvoir Va)
Army engineer post by Brig. Gen.
Gordon r. Young, formerly COM
mandant of the engineer school at
the post, the War Department an
nounced.
Gen. Marks, who has been trans
ferred to Dallas, as division engineer
of the Southwestern Division was
given farewell review yesterday by
military units at the post.
Gen. Young has been succeeded as
the school commandant by Brig.
Gen. Dwight F. Johns, recently re-
turned fSom the Southwest Pacific
area, where he served on the staff
Of Gen. Douglas A. Macarthur.
Fort Belvoir's new commander, a
graduate of West Point in the class
of 1913, served in the Panama Canal
Zone until May. 1941. He served
with the punitive expedition into
Mexico in 1916 and also as assistant
to the chief engineer of divisional
areas with the American EXpedi-
tionary Forces in France.
Gen. Youngs successor, Gen.
Johns, is 1918 graduate of West
Point and also served with the
Mexican expedition. He holds the
Distinguished Service Medal for his
work in New Guinea from October
1912, to April, 1943
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Albert R. Kramer Dies;
Silver Spring Businessman

Albert r. Kramer, so, of TAI
Thayer avenue, Silver Spring, pro-
prietor of the first cleaning and dye
ing establishment in that commu-
nifty, died yesterday at the Wash
ington Sanitarium in Takoma Park
after long illness.
Born here, Mr.. Kramer moved to
Silver Spring 30 years ago. He
founded the Silver Spring Dyeing
and Cleaning Co. 20 years ago and
sold it several years later. For a
number of years he owned and
operated Kramer Cleaners in Silver
Spring.
Mr.. Kramer was a member OF the
Silver Spring Masonic Lodge.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Carrie
Inscoe Kramer, he is survived by a
son, CORTLAND u; two daughters,
June and Alberta A. Kramer; five
sisters and three brothers.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow at the Warner E.
Pumphrey funeral home, 8434
Georgia avenue, Silver Spring
Burial with Masonic rites will be in
Rock Creek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Miss De Berry Quits Post
To Direct Day Care Program

The resignation of Miss Nena De
Berry as supervisor of elementary
instruction for Alexandria public
schools was announced yesterday by
T. C. Williams, superintendent of
schools.
He said Miss De Berry will direct
the rapidly expanding day care pro-
gram for school-age children. Funds
for the program are being sought
from the Federal Works Agency.
The day care center at Jefferson
School opened yesterday with an
enrolment of IS and another center
is planned at the Mount Vernon
School.
The program will operate during
the summer on full-day basis, six
days a week, and will continue dur
ing the school year for afternoon
Saturday and holiday care.
Mrs. Dorothy Hoge, principal OF
Mount Vernon School for the last
10 years, has resigned. but Mr.. Will
liams said there are only seven
vacancies in the teaching staff
fewer than usual at this time Of the
year,
Evening star., 1944-06-13
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,
Associated Press Science Editor.

CHICAGO, June 13.-A new
method of making blood plasma,
declared to reduce the expense and
enabling any hospital with labora-
tory to make its own plasma, was
shown to the American Medical As
sociation today.
This report was made by Drs.
Charles S. White, Jacob j. Wein-
stein and J. Lloyd Collins, George
Washington Medical School and
Gallinger Hospital, Washington.
Plasma is made by Withdrawing
the red blood corpuscles from whole
blood. The plasma which the Red
Gross produces for military use Is
all the blood except the red cells.
This separation has required ex-
pensive machinery, in the form Of
centrifuges. which are whirling de-
vices that act like cream separators.
Also extremely low temperatures
are employed in drying the plasma.
The Washingtonians separate out
the red cells without any machinery
whatsoever. They use coin
stacking method. Literally, they
treat the red corpuscles so they
fiatten like coins, and stack up In
the bottom of bottle into which
the donors blood is run direct from
his arm.
This red cell stacking is known a
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Silver Spring Trade Board
Dinner 10 Aid Bond Drive

An effort to raise the $3.50 0oo
quota OF the Montgomery County
Board of Trade and Chamber OF
Commerce groups in the Fifth War
Loan drive will high light the din
ner meeting of the Silver Spring
Board of Trade at the. Indian
Spring Country Club tomorrow
night when it will be host to the
Bethesda Chamber of Commerce
and the Takoma Park Chamber
of Commerce.
In addition to promotion of ths
drive talks will be given by sew
eral members of Congress. The
principal speech will be made by
representative Fellows, Republican,
OF, Illinois, and speaking briefly will
be Representative Beall, Repub-
hcan. of Maryland and Representa-
tive Reed, Republican, of Illinois.
Bob Hawks, radio artist, who has
been responsible for selling millions
OF dollars of War Bonds In the four
previous drives, will be present to
help speed the drive. He will ap-
pear in two bond shows on the Mon.
ument Grounds.
Another special guest will be Jean
Moorhead, stage star, who will aid
in the drive. Miss Moorhead is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott
Moorhead, Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Mrs. Waller Reid Named
10 Alexandra Play Post

Appointment of Mrs. Walter Reid
as director of girls and women's
recreational activities in Alexandria,
under the direction of the Board of
Directors of the Girls Club, was
announced yesterday by the Rev.
A. T. Mollegan, board chairman.
At the same time, Alan He'll, city
recreation director, announced a
two-day playground training course
for summer playground personnel
Thursday and Friday at the Kiwanis
Camp on the Franconia road.
Eight Fairgrounds are scheduled
to open Monday. and will operate
from 10 a m. to noon and from 4 to
8 pm. daily.
Four Of the eight Fairgrounds
already are being improved under
the $4,000 recreation program re-
Gently approved by the City Council,
and work on the others will be done
during the summer.
A recreational survey has been
started by Weaver Pangborne Of the
National Recreation Association,
Mr.. He'll said.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
lsHRationiinq


Canned Foods, Etc.-Book No. 4,
blue stamps As through va good
indefinitely. Each stamp worth
10 points.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-All meats except
beef steaks and roast beef now
point free. RED stamps A-S
through W-S continue good in
definitely for 10 points each. Un-
til further notice, three red
stamps will be validated every
four weeks instead of every two
weeks.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for each
pound of waste kitchen fats you
turn In. The fact that lard, short
ening and cooking oils have been
removed from the ration list does
not mean fat collection is less
essential
sugar-Book No. stamps 80 and 81
valid for S pounds indefinitely
Sugar stamp No. 80 good for 5
pounds beginning Friday. Book
No. stamp 40 good for pounds
for home canning through Febru-
ary %, 1945.
Gasoiine-No. 1o-A coupons now
good for 3 gallons each through
August 8. B-3, B-4, C-3 and C-4
coupons good for S gallons each
shoes-Airplane stamps / and In
Book No. good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods No. 4 and S cou.
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through September 80. Period /
1944-5 fuel oil ration good nov
for 10 gallons per unit.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Rochdole Cooperative
Planned in Bethesda

Plans were under way today to
establish a branch of the Rochdale
Cooperative Store of Washington
in the Bethesda area.
Members of a special committee
named to form cooperative or
ganization in Bethesda include Mr..
and Mrs. Francis Goodell, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Porter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward F. Stohlman, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. B. Yaukey and Mr.. and Mrs
B. Peyton Whalen.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Paratrooper, "a, Convicted
In Killing Of Sfepson, 7
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, June l3-Henry R.
Tena, "a an Army paratrooper. was
convicted in Criminal Court yester-
day on a charge of manslaughter in
the death of his 2-year -old stepson
May l3.
Judge John T. Tucker deferred
sentence pending motion for a
new trial
The child, Larry J. McMickle, died
as result Of an abdominal hem
morrhage caused by blows, evidence
produced by Prosecutors Saul Harris
and AnselAn Sodaro disclosed.
Tena denied he mistreated the
child. However, he said that he had
once spanked the boy lightly and
that the youngster had once fallen
off the bed.
DR.. Henry L. WollenWeber testi-
fed there were IA separate bruise
marks on the child's stomach, the
spacing of which indicated blows
with some instrument less than an
inch in width. A round stick about
three feet long and three-quarters of
an inch in diameter was exhibited
by the prosecutors.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Washington Doctors Give ANA
Easy Method of Making PIosmo
Separate Red Cells Without Machinery;
Any HospitoI Laboratory Con Adopt Plan

rouleaux formation. 1t Is caused,
in this new kind Of plasma produc-
ton, by coating the inside of the
blood bottle with a chemical called
methyl cellulose.
In six years experiments and use
of this plasraa on all sorts Of cases,
the washington physicians reported
there hase been no bad effects from
the cellulose remaining in the
plasma.
For hospital use, the newborn
plasma does not need to, be dried,
as is done for military shipment.
The plasma in liquid form remains
good for at least q year.
I'VE feel" says the report, that
plasma can now be made available
to all at very low cost in any hos
pital with the usual laboratory fa-
ciiities."
The House of Delegates of the
association yesterday voted to 60
over the heads Of selective service
and appeal directly to the Presi-
dent or Congress to obtain more
deferments for medical students.
The house adopted a resolution
that "the present policy of the
Army and the Selective Service Sys-
ten will inevitably result in an
oeeran shortage OF qualified physi-
clans, with imminent danger to the
health and well being of our citi-
zens." F9haua f@ IT,
Evening star., 1944-06-13
BranchviIIe Man Stricken
With Rocky Mountain Fever

Albert Moler, 43, Branchville, a
Naval Observatory employe, is seri-
ously Ill in Leland Memorial Hos
pltal, Riverdale, with Rocky Noun
tain spotted fever, hospital officials
said today.
His physician, DR.. L. w. Malin,
said Mr.. Moler had been Ill for two
or three days before he was admit
ted to the hospital Sunday night
He said Mr. Moler is being treated
with spotted fever serum obtained
from the National Institute of
Health at Bethesda.
Four persons have died from the
disease so far this year in the
Washington Metropolitan Area. The
most recent death was that of a H.
year-old boy Friday in the Prince
Georges General Hospital.
DR.. Malin said Mr.. Moler did not
recall having found a tick on his
body. He added, however, that it is
possible to contract the disease by
crushing an infected tick with the
fingers.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Two $50 Fines Suspended
In Dog Quarantine Cases

Two persons were given $50 sus-
pended fines and ordered to pay
costs of $3.50 each in Hyattsville
Police Court yesterday on charges
of violating the Prince Georges
County dog quarantine. In four
other cases, both fines and costs
were suspended and two persons
were found not guilty.
Those ordered to pay $3.50 costs
were Mrs. Dorothy Truax, Decatur
Heights, and Mrs. Catherine Ken
nedy, Hyattsville.
Those whose fines and costs were
suspended were Mrs. Louise Swain,
Douglas N Haselden, Hyattsville;
Mrs. Helen Rickenbacker, West
Lanham Hills, and Miss Josephine
Hart, Lanham.
Roland Nairn, Hyattsville, and
Mrs. Hattie Diffie, Lanham, were
found not guilty.
In another case, Trial Magistrate
Henry H. O'Neill, sentenced Richard
Dickens, IT, Lanham, to serve six
months in the Maryland House of
Correction on charge of breaking
into the Lanham School May 81.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
81 Receive Diplomas
At Kensington School

Closing exercises were held at the
Kensington Junior High School last
night when 81 students were grad
uated.
Diplomas were presented by A. H
Stoner, principal, and talks were
given by graduates, Winifred
Brooks, Walter Bond Davis and
Sally Turner.
Good citizenship medals awarded
by the Janet Montgomery Chapter
OAR, were presented to Richard
Murphy, class president, who gave
the address of welcome, and to Jean
Mcpherson.
The invocation was delivered by
the Rev. w. S. Tredick, pastor of
the Warner Memorial Presbyterian
Church of Kensington. The Rev
Father j. E. Malloy, assistant pastor
OF st. Johns Catholic Church, gave
the benediction. Piano selections
were played by Leland Stauber.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Mass Sunday to Mark
Church's Anniversary

The 25th anniversary of st. Agnes
Catholic Church and of the ordina-
ton of the rector, the Rev. Robert
e. Harmon, to priesthood. will be
celebrated at II am. mass Sunday
on the church lawn, Twenty first
and Randolph streets North, Ar
lington, it was announced today.
Bishop Peter Ireton of Richmond
will preside at the solemn high mass
and the Rev. Mr.. Harmon will act
as celebrant. The Rev. Father Step
hens of st. Mary's Church in Alex
andria will deliver the sermon. A
choir of 20 voices will sing, accom-
panied by string instruments. All
friends OF st. Agnes in Washington
and vicinity are invited.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Earl Garrett, Is, Indicted
In Murder Of Yard EmpIoye

Earl Garrett, jr., Is, was indicted
by an Alexandria grand jury yester-
day on charge of numbering Perry
Quick, former Navy Yard en-
ploye, who died following blow
during an argument on May %. The
defendant, who entered a plea of
not guilty, will be the first juvenile
to be tried on murder charge in
Alexandria in more than Is years.
True bills were returned in the
cases Of Paul Portch on a grand
larceny charge; Edward M. Jones,
colored, burglary, and Elizabeth
Vaughan, abortion.
The case of Samuel Hairston, COL
ored, charged with attempted
felonious assault of police officer,
was continued until the next court
term.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Prince Georges Votes
PROGRAM 10 Vaccinate
Dogs Against Rabies
Plan Will Be Modelled
On That Of Montgomery;
Quarantine Extended

Establishment of an antirabies
dog vaccination program similar to
that in Montgomery County was
approved today by the Prince
Georges County Commissioners.
The action was taken after DR.
A. L. Brueckner, acting director of
the safe livestock sanitary serv-
ice, explained the operation of such
plan.
Under the program, which will
be set up in the next three weeks,
antirabies vaccine will be furnished
by the State, while the county will
bear the cost of administering the
shots. DR.. c. j. Gibbs, county vet
erinarian, was directed to set up in
oculation centers throughout the
county.
In addition, the commissioners
said they would arrange to have a
truck pick up stray dogs and agreed
to 90-day extension of the dog
quarantine. It was scheduled to
expire Thursday.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
cIaHer6utk Co rioimrnliiufafion.
Studied by Gov. Darden
By the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, June 13.-Goy
Darden had under advisement today
plea for communication of the death
sentence of Thomas william Clat-
terbuck OF Loudoun County, con-
victed Of murder in one of five
killings last June.
Clatterbuck, who was granted a
fourth stay June /, is due to die in
the electric chair Friday for the
killing OF Walter Russell. f...
The Governor, said he desired
time to study additional material
submitted yesterday by r. A. Nc
Intyre, counsel for the convicted
man, and is awaiting also another
report from the Governors Advisory
Commission on Mental Hygiene.
The basis for the communication
plea is the original report of the
commission which cast some doubt
on Clatterbuck's sanity. The sanity
issue was raised in the trial, but
Clatterbuck was held sane and the
State Supreme Court upheld the
verdict. The principal question be-
fore the Governor is whether Clat-
terbuck became insane after his
trial.
Those killed, in addition to Mr.
Russell, were Mr.. and Mrs. A. Morris
Love, James Love, their son, and
Mrs. Russell,
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Schools Finally Raise
Bond Quote for Plane

The spring semester War Bond
drive in the Alexandria schools.
which fell short of the SITS 900 goal
for the purchase of a BIS Mitchell
medium bomber, has been put over
the top by the purchase of a $4,000
bond through the Jefferson School
by a citizen, it was announced to-
day.
A panel bearing the inscription
sponsored by Alexandria Public
Schools" will be placed in Mitchell
bomber, and the children expect to
receive letters from the plane crew.
In addition certificate from the
Treasury Department will be pre-
sented to the schools this fall
Total sales of War bonds and
stamps in the Alexandria public
schools during the 1943-1944 term
amounted to $282 2,039.53
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Gen. Grant Asks Care
In Spending Of Funds
For Fairgrounds
Planning Should Be Aimed
At Social improvement,
He Tells Council Meeting

Great care must be exercised in
the expenditure of public funds for
parks and Fairgrounds to insure
that only the most necessary and
most urgent matters will be taken
care of after the war, Maj. Gen.
U. S. Grant, Sd, told members of
the Recreation Division, Council of
Social Agencies of the District, at
their annual meeting yesterday.
Gen. Grant said all planning in
Fairgrounds should be aimed at
social improvement as well as
against crime, sickness and auto
mobile accidents, and that space
should be provided for children of
all economic strata.
Most Urgent Needs.
The speaker declared that the
most urgent needs for Fairgrounds
appeared to be in the central, con-
gested section of the city and that
the acquisition of land for recrea-
tional space would be costly He
said 100000 of the $4,000, 900
granted the Park and Planning
Commission by Congress already
had been spent and that the re-
manning funds would have to be
used to buy higher priced land.
Urging more cooperation between
his group and the Council of Social
Agencies, Gen. Grant said the park
commission would not only welcome
suggestions but constructive criti-
cism, and added that close, co-ordi-
mated activity of the two bodies was
necessary to reap the greatest COM
munity benefit in the recreation
field.
All Officers Reelected.
All officers of the recreation di-
vision, Council of Social Agencies,
were unanimously reelected.
Mrs. Cazenove Lee, jr., was re-
turned to Office of chairman, and
DR.. A. J.. Kress was reelected vice
chairman.
Those reelected to the executive
board were Charles M. Fyfe, Anne
Mclean, Edward Rosenblum, Lloyd
Snyder and Lillian r. Dotson.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Disabled Veterans
Studying al 6. ".
Get Clubhouse
University Assigns
6-Room Dwelling to
n Ex-Servicemen

The % disabled veterans of this
war studying at George Washington
University with the Government
footing the bills now have a club.
house of their own
The men. six of whom entered the
university just in time for the sum-
mer session, paused between classes
to inspect the six-room, red-brick
house at 722 Twenty-second street
NV.
The university, it was explained
assigned them the building to give
them a place to relax as we'll as
study. That's part of the rehabili-
tation for the youthful students
with battle scars.
The veterans have their own
club, with Elmo w. Keel as presi-
dent. A master sergeant in the
Army Air Forces, Mr.. Keel was q
flight engineer serving in the India
China theater. He was wounded and
discharged in September. He is now
taking a graduate course in electri-
cal engineering.
Tend to Stick Together.
Mr. Keel said the veterans tend
to stick together, mainly because
they have more in common. They
help each other, too, not only with
their studies but with the business
of getting adjusted to civilian life.
One of the boys, for instance, is
bitterly disappointed at being dis
charged from the service. He had
hoped to stay in even after the war
but the burns he suffered made that
impossible Now he's studying
mechanical engineering, expects to
take up marine engineering so he
can carry on in civilian life what
he hoped to do in the service.
Many of the ex-servicemen are
taking engineering courses, although
some are majoring in other fields
They all seem to know just what
they want to do when they finish
their courses.
Sees Higher Requirements.
"The educational requirements for
jobs will be higher after the war,
explained Barry Harrison, 22-year-
old signalman, second class, who was
discharged from the Navy after
suffering severe burns in the South
Pacific. Besides, going to school
helps take your mind off things"
None of them have "funked out"
according to Gill Herring, a former
sergeant in the airborne engineers,
who is now majoring in psychology
to become a veterans counselor
Some of them, he said. were a little
"jittery" the first semester but
they've gotten over that now. The
ones who were in the service longest,
he added, talk about it least-par-
ticularly the ones who have been
wounded.
They don't talk about where they
got it." he said.
Thanks to plastic surgery in some
cases, it would be hard to tell them
from the other students. This helps
the men to pick up the threads OF
the life they left one to four years
| ago
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Registration Slated
For War Engineering

Registration for two new war
training courses in the University of
Maryland engineering department
will be held at pm. Monday in
Room 13l, Engineering Building.
The courses, which will include
classes in drawing and aircraft,
stress analysis, will be held two
nights a week during a 12-week
period. The courses are held under
the sponsorship Of the Once Of
Education.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Bergman Will Speak
Before FoxhoII Club

Clifford Bergman, Star cartooniSt
and recent Pulitzer Prize winner,
will speak before the FoXhall Com
munity Mems Club at 8l5 pm. to-
morrow in st. Patrick's Episcopal
Chapel, corner of Greenwich park
way and FoXhall road, Gen. George
P. Tyner, president, announced
today.
Mr. Bergman will speak on Fifty
Seven Years Watching Statesmen
Go By"
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Alexandria Police Win
Citation for Safety Work

A citation for it's work on pedes-
trian protection and notification of
its entry in the National Pedestrian
Protection contest was received yes
terday by the Alexandria Police
Department from the American
Automobile Association.
The citation commended Cant
Edgar Sims and his department for
its progressive program for pedes-
trian safety.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Scouts 10 Give Exhibition
Of Tent PITCHING

The Wolf Patrol of the Falls
Church Boy Scout Troop No. lat
will give a pitching demonstra-
ton at the troop meeting Thursday.
The Flying Eagle patrol will have
charge of the June AZ meeting, at
which a discussion will be held on
life saving and swimming. The
troop will hold court of honor on
June "a, and a three-day camp will
be held beginning June 81.