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Evening star., 1945-06-05
Drivers Asked 10 Observe
35-MiIe Speed Limit

The Commissioners yesterday
asked District motorists to "rededi-
cate" themselves to strict observance
of the 35-mile-an-hour speed limit
adopted nationally as a wartime
conservation measure in 1912.
The plea was made at the sug-
gestion of John L. Collyer, special
director of the War Production
Board rubber program, who pointed
out tire conservation continues of
vital importance in Fastening the
end of the war in the Pacific Mr.
Collyer said the production of new
tires will not meet the demand for
many months.
Local motorists were reminded of
the Districts current policy of sus-
pending drivers permits for con-
victions of speed exceeding IS miles
an hour and were warned this
method of enforcement would con-
tinue. Commissioner John Russell
Young assured Mr.. Collyer of the
cooperation of local drivers.
At the traffic division of the
Police Department it was said it only
was in certain park areas the speed
limit was as high as 35 and that in
most places it was 25 and 80 miles
Evening star., 1945-06-05
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Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book 4, stamps
, W., W., X-2, Y-2 and Z-2 re-
main valid through September
80; stamps E-2 through J-2 good
through June 30; stamps K-2
through P-2 good through July
81. Stamps o. through U-2 valid
through August 81.
Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4, stamps
D-1, Ell, FL, GIL and HI re-
main valid through September
80; stamps NJ through So good
through June 80. Stamps To
:. through X-2 good through July 81.
?. Stamps Y-2, 70, Al, B-1 and
C-1 valid through August 81.
Points for. Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points for
each pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Stamp No. 36 valid for. S
pounds through August 81.
Gasoline-A-15 coupons are valid
through June 81. B-6, CO, BIT
land CT coupons good for S gal
Ions each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps 1, 2 and
in Book No. good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each. An as-yet-
unnumbered shoe stamp becomes
valid August l.
Fuel Oil-Periods 1, 2, 8, and
coupons good for 10 gallons per
4, unit through August 81. All
currently valid coupons, except for
Y serially-numbered coupons of def
mite value, will expire August 81.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Bethesda Chamber Sells
$4,000 in Bonds at Rally

The Bethesda Chamber of Com
merce sold $4,000 worth of War
Bonds at dinner rally last night at
the Bethesda Women's Club.
Chamber officials said last nights
sales fell SIS, 900 short of the $780,
600 quota, but added that the quota
is expected to be exceeded by the
end Of the War Loan drive.
The rally featured talks by 1t.
Comdr. George M. K. Baker, for
merly on the staff of Admiral Ches-
ter w. Nimitz in the South Pacific,
and Chief Pharmacist Clyde r. Site,
a Pacific war veteran now stationed
at the Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Ralph Boyd Is Given
Third Term as Head
OF Allied Civic Groups

Ralph D. Boyd was elected presi-
dent of the Allied Civic Groups of
Silver Spring for the third straight
year at the organizations annual
banquet last night at Wheaton Inn.
Other officers chosen were J. W.
Gannaway, vice president, and Rob-
ert r. Snure, secretary-treasuere
The association adopted a resolu-
ton, introduced by the Seven Oaks
Manor Citizens Association, oppos-
ing any application or permit which
would change the residential A
status of a site bounded by Coles
Vile road, Dale drive and Kings
bury drive The Seven Oaks group
charged that reports said the site
had been leased for commercial
purposes. 1t pointed out that the
property is now zoned residential
A and asserted residential character
of the area should be maintained.
The Civic Groups also indorsed the
program of the Silver Spring Hos
pital Association.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
III Adyentists Are Sent
Into Mission Field in IA
Adventist

The Seventh-day Adventist
Church, which conducts missionary
work in 4l3 countries, sent Ill mis-
sionaries into the field last year,
according to an article by E. D.
Dick, secretary of the World Gen.
eral Conference, Takoma Park, in
the current issue of esReview and
Herald, church publication.
Mr.. Dick wrote that this is the
largest number of missionaries sent
out by the church in any war year,
with the exception of 1910, when
122 were sent to foreign fields.
In addition, 1O6 calls from foreign
fields now are being processed and
81 appointees are studying languages
in preparation for foreign service
Also during 1914, Mr.. Dick wrote,
more than 80 members of missionary
families were repatriated from Phil
ippine prison camps.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
.3,@O in Montgomery
Taken Off Voting Rolls

The Montgomery County super
visors of elections reported yester-
day that the voting eligibility of
3,490 voters who have not cast bal
lot in the last four years has been
Cancelled. as required by law.
In report to the Permanent
Board of Registry the election su-
pervisors said the registration cards
of lat members of the armed forces
had been returned to their files and
that 9 others had reregistered.
| OF those not voting during the
last four years, the supervisors said,
2,567 were Democrats, 814 were Re-
publicans and 100 were not affiliated
with either party. The supervisors
said 1,843 were men and 1857 were
women.
F. Byrne Austin was reelected
chief clerk of the board, Miss Rose
K. Dawson was reelected assistant
clerk and Mrs. Helen Maddox and
Mrs. Cornelia Maddox were re-
elected clerks. The supervisors, all
recently reappointed by Gov O'Con-
or, are R. Shirley Hays and Delaney
F. Brown, Democrats, and Carey
Kingdom, Republican,
Evening star., 1945-06-05

Naval Academy through appoint
ment by the Secretary of the Navy
In the regimental organization
Midshipman Iselin held the rank of
mishipman second petty officer in
the first group, midshipman COM
mander of the second group and
midshipman lieutenant command
er in the final group.
Midshipman Upthegrove received
class numerals in gymnastics while
at the academy and in his third
class year qualified as expert rifle
man
Midshipman Watson prior to ad-
mission to the Naval Academy at
tended Jefferson High School, San
Antonio, and the Naval Academy
Preparatory School at Norfolk, Va
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Panic May Follow
Farm Price Boom,
.Virginians Warned
BY tie Associated Press.

BY tIe Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va. June 5.-Be-
cause of soaring prices of Virginia
rural real estate which now have
reached the highest peak since the
postwar boom of the World War,
the State may face a farm land
panic, DR.. Harry M Love, farm
economist of Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, predicts;
Rising land values are causing
great over-optimism which will
probably change to panic when
prices start falling" he says Cur
rent high prices for farm real estate
in Virginia are only 10 per cent
below the peak reached in the post
World War boom. The present rise
is now at least year ahead of the
record established last time. To the
extent that the war continues. land
prices probably will go higher.
Virginia is one of nine States to
report more than 10 per cent in
crease in rural land prices over the
average prices of 1885 to 1889. Prices
are now at their highest point in
the commemorative history, with
the exception of the two-year period
from 1921 to 1923.
State economists say the splurge
can be attributed to number of
factors-the high returns from
crops, the generally low rates of in
terest, the plentiful supply of money
used for credit. They say it is diff
cult to determine how many farms
in Virginia have been purchased on
a speculative basis, but the rate Of
resales for the Nation as whole is
extremely high and last year two
thirds of the resales involved land
held by the seller not more than
one year
Dr. Love says one solution is for
farmers to pay off their mortgages
as rapidly as possible and to defer
the purchase of land until prices
are more nearly normal.
A study by the National Bureau
of Agricultural Economics indicated
that SIS per cent of all farm pur-
chases in 1914 were for cash, but
very heavy" mortgages were placed
on much of the land bought on
down payments. Almost 40 per cent
OF the credit purchases
were encountered by rs per cent or
more Of the sales price and more
than three-fourths of the farms
carried debt of so per cent or more.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Man Chasing His Hot
Falls Out of Window

Trying to catch his hat which was
sailing out the window of his second
floor room, Samuel Jackson, 26, COL
ored, 1000 block of Seventh street
NV, fell from the window and suf :
fered possible fractures of the skull
and back, police reported last night.
He was taken to Emergency Hos
pital and later was transferred to
Gallinger Hospital for X-Rays. At
tendants said his condition today
was fair.
Evening star., 1945-06-05

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, June 5.-Mid-
shipmen Donald Grote Iselin, Ra-
cine, Wis; Harry Nelson Upthe-
grove, Ann Arbor, Mich, and Harry
Andrew Watson, San Antonio, Tex
have been declared the three mid
shipmen standing highest in the
order of merit in the 1916 gradual
ing class, numbering over 1000, at
the Naval Academy.
Midshipman Iselin won eight
academy prizes, including the Glass
of 1871 Sword for proficiency in
practical and theoretical ordnance
and gunnery. and the Glass of 1912
Prize of a gold watch to the mid
shipman graduating highest in the
course of English. He entered the
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Grand Jury Due 10 Act
Monday in Fort Myer Thefts

The District grand jury may act
Monday in the cases of six men
arrested recently in connection with
thefts of meat from the Fort Myer
commissary, it was learned today.
Testimony was heard yesterday by
the grand jury and a court attache
said it was quite likely that indict-
ments would be returned Monday.
The District Attorneys Office has
announced arrest Of commissary
clerk, local grocer and four deliv-
erymen of local wholesale meat
firm which has been supplying the
Army commissarY.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Plant at Alexandra, Already Making Rockets
Will Turn Out Its Last Torpedo This Month

total of $l3,0O0,OOO month, giving
the combined rocket program for
1945 total cost of 81 $50, 100000.
Still in the experimental stage,
rocket production improves from
month to month with the constant
ly increasing accuracy of the weapon
continuing to make it more and
more important in modern warfare
The Navy's conquest of the Pa
cific islands has demonstrated the
Importance of the rocket which can
be used as a short-range weapon
between the time of the naval gun
barrage and the landing OF the
troops. The lightness of the rockets
makes it possible for small landing
craft too light to support an adequate
number of guns to carry rockets
with fire power comparable to
that of the salvo of a battleship.
Valuable Aircraft Weapon.
The light weight of the rocket
and the fact that it has no recoil
makes it of particular value as an
aircraft weapon.
Somewhat like miniature tor
pedo in appearance, the rocket is a
cylindrical casing of metal with a
pointed nose and open vents at its
rear end. The head contains a
high-explosive charge and the rear
section is packed with powder which,
when ignited by an electrical con-
nection, burns to produce gases
which escape through the vents and
propel the rocket by their pressure
of expansion.
At the Alexandria station, portions
OF shells rejected for imperfections
are used in the manufacture of
rockets while the unusable portion
is salvaged by the Navy for the
metal.
Engineers are completing designs
for tools which will produce many
types of small precision instruments,
some so small that dozen or more
are stored in a cigarette carton
awaiting completion.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Christian Endeavor Group
To Meet in MONTGOMERY

The Maryland State Christian En-
deavor convention will be held June
16 and II at the Neelsville Pres
byterian Church in Montgomery
County.
The convention theme will be mot
I, but Christ" All Christian En-
deavor members from the District
and Prince Georges County have
been invited.
Those desiring to attend have
been asked to write Miss Betty Lou
Miles, registrar, route 3, Gathers
burg, Md, for application forms.
Registration fees are 81 for young
people, so cents for high school stu
dents and Is cents for juniors.
The Christian Endeavor, composed
largely of young people, now has
members in 100 countries through
out the world.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Arlington Construction
Continues to Mount

Arlington County building con-
tlnued to mount during May, with
1854 permits issued for construction
valued at $683,416, it was reported
today by Andrew Jensen, county
building inspector This is an in
crease of almost 100000 over April,
he said.
Permits were issued for So single
family homes, $382,250; two duplex,
1000; three semidetached, s36 900:
five apartment buildings, comprising
80 units, $136,000; one church.
$4,000; 80 alterations and repairs.
$55 1855; three business buildings.
$12, 700, and one garage, $500.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Mother, Boby Burned
In Villa Heights Home

A 6-month-old baby girl was i'm.
proving today at the Prince Georges
Hospital, Cheverly, Md, from burns
suffered yesterday when she tipped
over a pan of boiling water at her
home, 5503 Landover road. Villa
Heights. Her mother. Mrs. Francis
Harmon, 80, also burned, was re-
leased last night after treatment at
the hospital
Hospital officials said the mother
had placed the pan of hot water on
table and then had started to feed
her daughter. They said the child
tipped the pan, spilling the water
over herself and her mother.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Arlington County COP
Picks DELEGATES Tonioht

Arlington County delegates to
State Republican Convention June
30 at Roanoke will be elected at 8
O'Clock tonight at the Republican
County Convention in the Arlington
Village auditorium, 2508 Columbia
pike.
Two candidates for the House of
Delegates and one for the County
Board also will be named at the
meeting. The principal speaker will
be Representative Mundt, Repub-
ican, Of South Dakota.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Ayattsvi||e Tax
RATE Is Boosted
Sc Per 500
AieIIo Cites Rising
Salaries and Other
City Expenses

HyattSvllle'S tax rate for the year
starting July l will be so cents per
500 assessed valuation, a scent in
crease. The rate was set by the
Mayor and City Council in special
session last night.
Councilman Caesar L. Aiello, chair
man of the Finance Committee, rec
commended the increase with great
reluctance" He said it was neces-
sary to meet increased salaries and
other higher city expenses.
Fire Department Fund.
Mr.. Aiello said the rate will be As
cents for the general fund, with the
other cents going for maintenance
of the Fire Department. The gen.
eral fund rate for the current year
is IS cents and the Fire Department
tax cents. The special scent tax
to pay for the Fire Department
pumper will be discontinued, since
the apparatus has been paid for.
The city's assessable Basis now is
s12,359, 800, an increase of 1,765 $50
over that for the present year. OF
this, approximately S1,300,0O0 is in
the territory of Castle Manor,
Clearwood and Queens Chapel
Manor, recently annexed to the
city. The remainder is represented
largely in new apartment houses.
The estimated general income of
the city for the ensuing year Is
$71,9l725. and estimated expenses
$70,285, leaving $1,632.25 as the
working balance. Sharpest in
crease is in the police department,
where the budget has been boosted
81 200 to Sl4,550. The roads budget
was upped from $4,000 to $4,000
to take care of extensive resurfac-
ing work. Garbage and trash COL
lection will cost $9,750, or S3,250 more
than the current year.
Mail Bills June Is.
The new tax bills are expected to
be mailed by June Is.
The council awarded contract
to E. r. P. Smith of Hyattsville to
construct concrete pavement, side
walks on both sides of the street
and curbs and cutters on Forty-first
avenue from Oglethorpe street to
Oliver street and concrete pavement,
curbs and cutters on Fortieth place
from Longfellow street to Madison
street. The cost will be assessed
against abutting property owners.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Repairs 10 Planes Hit
By Hail Under Study

The Surplus War Properties
Board was considering today
whether or not to repair before Of
fering for sale so surplus planes
that were damaged by hail during
Saturdays storm at the Hybla VAL
ley Airport, south of Alexandria.
Officials at the airport said the
planes, all light trainers, were not
damaged too severely" They said
some had eight holes knocked in
their wings, and others had been
pierced by as many as 20 hailstones.
Officials said the total amount of
the damage to planes has not been
determined.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
BY HELEN RAU,

A complete transformation has
taken place at the Naval Torpedo
Station in Alexandria, which this
month will make its last torpedo and
already has turned to the manufac-
ture OF rockets-a major weapon in
land, naval and aerial warfare.
Although the station still is test
ing torpedoes at its Piney Point
range, and overhauling them in its
Franklin street annex, the aspect
of the main station has changed
completely, with 5-inch rockets In
the shops where the giant torpedoes
once we're made, small wooden boxes
no larger than a shoe box replacing
the huge torpedo crates, and even
the machines seemingly shrunk in
size.
Last February the station re-
ceived a Navy order to slow down
the manufacture of torpedoes, taper
ing off the work for completion this
month, and an immediate program
for reduction of personnel was
planned.
Before that could become effective
Capt. Robert B. Simons, command
ing officer, received orders for the
fanufacture of rockets and other
ordnance equipment for both the
Army and Navy, a program which
was put. into operation in March.
Although none of the personnel
was discharged, workers had in
many cases sought other jobs when
the February order was released,
and an almost immediate recruit
ment was started to secure enough
help for the new program. ..
Orders for Nine Months.
According to Capt. Simons, the
station now has on hand enough
orders to keep it going at full blast
for at least nine months, and mid
summer will see the start of the
manufacture of gun parts, gun
subassemblies, aircraft arma-
ment, mine parts and miscellaneous
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Falls Church Theater Group
To Elect Five Directors

The Falls Church Community
Theater will elect five members to
the Board of Directors at pm.
Thursday in the Madison School
auditorium, it was announced today.
Members of the Falls Church
group, meeting for the last time this
season, also will be entertained by
an Arlington Little Theater pres
entation of Arnold Benefits one
act play, "A Good Woman"
Nominees for the five directors,
announced by Isaac Avery, Nomi-
mating Committee chairman, are
Capt. Charles Robinson, Mrs. Acors
Thompson, Comdr. Paul Cornelison,
Mrs. Joseph Crost, Comdr. Charles
Glisson, j. o. Martin, Miss Matilda
Rem, Mrs. Irene Barrows and
Comdr Walter Timmis.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
College Park
Moves 10 Pick
Town Officials
Petitions Prepared
After Area Votes
To incorporate

Residents of College Park and vi
cinity today prepared to circulate
petitions for the nomination of
municipal officials after a proposal
to incorporate the area was ap-
proved yesterday by a vote of 955
to 709.
The vote in the communities af-
fected was as follows:
Berwyn, 219 for and 158 against:
College Park, 454 for and 96 against:
Lakeland, 9 for and 173 against, and
the district consisting of Branch
vile, Oak Springs, Daniels Park and
Hollywood, 273 for and 282 against.
Real estate within the boundaries
OF the newly incorporated town is
assessed at approximately $6,050, 900.
Personal property in the area is
assessed at about $650,000.
Will Forget Differences.
DR.. T. B. Symons, chairman of the
College Park committee sponsoring
incorporation, said he was de
lighted" with the results of the ref
erendum. He added that I'VE are
going to forget our differences now
and try to get some good candidates
for town Offices"
Under the bill providing for in
corporation, which was passed at
the last session of the State Legis-
lature, government of the town will
be vested in mayor, treasurer
and seven councilmen. Two of the
councilmen will be elected at large,
and each of the five districts will
choose one. The mayor will receive
500 a year and each councilman,
$50 a year
A tax rate of 25 cents per S100
property valuation will be levied on
improved real estate in the town,
and 10-cent levy will be imposed
on unimproved real estate and land
used primarily for farming pur-
poses.
The bill provides that nominal
tions to town Offices are to be made
by petition of registered voters. The
petitions must be filed with the
supervisors named in the bill not
later than Is days before the elec-
ton, July 2.
| Signatures for Nominations.
| Twenty-Five signatures are re-
quired to nominate the mayor, treas
urer and councilmen at large, while
20 signatures are required to nomi-
nate district councilmen. Those
elected must be property owners.
The four election supervisors
named in the bill are Herbert w.
Wells, E. F. Zalesak, Mrs. Sylvia
Stephens and L. G. Worthington.
DR.. Symons said another registra-
ton probably will be held soon to
care for residents who failed to
register last month for the refer
endum.
According to DR. Symons, the Uni
versity of Maryland already has
contributed $4,000 toward the opera
ton of the town, with additional
payments to be made later.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
New Parking
Plan Offered
Requires Auto Area
Be Provided With
All New Buildings

A plan to provide off street park
Ing facilities in the suburban ares
OF Montgomery County, outside tht
Bethesda and Silver Spring bust.
ness districts and portions of tn,
towns of Takoma Park, Kensingtor
and the -Four Corners area, will bt
/, presented to the Board of County
Commissioners, sitting today as 6
District Council, by the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
The plan, which is in the form
of an amendment to the county
zoning ordinance, provides that ap-
pncation for permits for the con-
struction of commercial and indus
trial buildings be accompanied by a
plot plan, showing the required
space to be provided as a parking
area for the proposed structures.
Car Space Apportioned.
The plan calls for the provision
of off-street parking facilities at
the rate of one passenger car for
each six seats at a theater, audi
torium, stadium, recreational estab-
llshment or similar public building.
1t provides that for each one
story commercial building, one off
street parking space shall be pro-
vlded for each 300 square feet of
floor area, and for multistory build
ings one space shall be provided for
each 300 square feet of ground
space and one space for each 400
square feet of upper floor area.
1t further provides that restau-
rants and other eating establish
ments shall provide one parking
space for each so square feet of
floor area, with hotels being re-
quired to furnish one parking space
for each 500 square feet of sleeping
room area.
All commercial and industrial
buildings must provide space for
one automobile for each four en-
pfoyes for which the building is
planned One parking space is de-
fined as 200 square feet of area
exclusive of driveways.
hoOI space Allowed.
Garage space in easements or Oh
roofs Of buildings may be counted
as street parking areas, accord
ing to the plan, and in cases where
the creation of parking areas In
the development or redevelopment
of property would cause undue hard
ship, The applicant shall be given
the. right to appear before the
Board OF Zoning Appeals.
In excepting the suburban busi-
ness districts, the Planning Com
mission pointed out that because OF
existing commercial improvements.
some other plan will be required.
Explaining the necessity, the Park
and Planning Commission pointed
out that recent studies indicate
constantly increasing amount of
motor vehicle congestion on the
highways in the business and in
dustrial areas of the suburban
section.
THE studies indicate" the COM
stated, that beginning with
the postwar period this motor
vehicle congestion will increase
promptly and will continue to in
crease for years to come