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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
House Bill Provides
|S3o3,9o4 10 Finance
Play Area Purchase

Funds for purchase of land for
eight critically needed" playground
projects included in the independent
Offices appropriations bill. reported
today to the House. The section
of the bill providing for the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission carries 1898 1894 for the
eight projects.
The committee made a cut of
only S. from the amount requested
for this purpose by the commission
The funds would be advanced by
the United States under the terms
lof the Capper-Cramton Act and
would be repaid by the District
government.
Six of the projects are to COM
plete land purchases for existing
Fairgrounds. These are the Kalo-
rama. Hampshire, Happy Hollow
Morgan. Marshall Heights, Piney
Run and Klingle Valley Fairgrounds.
The other two are for additional
areas for the Glover parkway and
Children's playground and for the
Fort Reno Recreational Center.
Considerable questioning came
from members of the subcommittee
in charge, including Representatives
Hendricks, Democrat, of Florida and
Case, Republican, of South Dakota
as to the need of the Kalorama area
in view of its nearness t. Meridian
Park.
This project and the Happy Hol-
low play area were defended by
Planning Commission officials on
two grounds: That Meridian Park
was park area instead of a play
ground, and that the play areas were
required by the number of children
in the vicinity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Postwar. Educotion
Problems to Be Aired

Harry A. lager of the Once Of
Education will be the principal
speaker at a special meeting on
postwar school problems at $50 pm.
tomorrow at the Silver Spring In
termediate School.
After Mr.. Jager's talk, a panel dis
cussion will be conducted with DR..
Edwin w. Broome, superintendent
OF Montgomery County schools; DR..
Fern D. Schneider, high school SUI
pervisor, and DR.. Frederick E. Refs
sig, executive secretary of the Wash
ington Federation of Churches, par
ticipating. The meeting is spon-
sored by the schools Parent Teach
er Association, but members of all
women's clubs, particularly those Of
the Montgomery County Federation
are invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Lemke Asks HEARINGS
On Vivisection Bill

Representative Lemke, Republic
can, of North Dakota has requested
full public hearings by the House
District Committee on his bill to
ban vivisection in the District, as the
committee staff made public several
letters giving opposing views on the
subject.
Some of the letters commenting
on the Lemke bill, the record shows,
came from as far away as Seattle.
Among those from the Capital was
one from DR.. George c.. Rutland,
District health officer, who said:
With all sympathy for the SEN
timent that influences this group
(the antivivisectionists), may
point out that the proponents man
ifestly are overlooking that the So
called experimental work, for which
dogs pay be used, is carried on in
the interest of alternating the suf-
fering of mankind, and also for the
purpose of instructing the veteri-
narians to better deal with the ills
of dogs"
Declaring that animals used for
such research work are given EVERY
consideration" he appealed for re-
lection of legislation to ban vivi-
section 'in the interest of the prog
ress of science and of adding to our
knowledge that may lessen suffer-
ing to mankind.
An opposite view was taken by
Mr.. Lemke who commended that dogs
used in experiments are subjected
to suffering that was, in his opinion,
unnecessary. He said he was urging
an early date for hearings so we
can find out the truth about the
situation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Cab Driver in Hospital;
Beaten, Robbed by Trio

Harold J. Oliver, As, a taxicat
driver, of the 1900 block of PARK
road NV. suffered a dislocatec
shoulder and. severe scalp lacera.
lions Saturday night when he wa.
slugged and robbed by three men
one passenger in his taxi, police
reported.
At Gallinger Hospital today hi,
condition was described as good. Hi.
assailants are being sought.
Police said Mr.. Oliver told then
he picked up one Of the men as {
fare at Minnesota and Pennsylvania
avenues Sc, and was told to 60 tt
the $500 block of Twenty -eightf
street Sc. On arrival there, he said
two men got out of a parked car anc
got into the rear seat of his taxi
The three then beat him on thu
head and took bis change carrier
according to police. The amount OF
money taken was not disclosed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05

This jail has long had reputa
ton of being the 'hotdog' JAIL" the
inspector noted, because of the FIRE.
quency with which frankfurters ap.
peared on the menu.
There was very bad jail odor,
the Jail was dark and dirty ano
there was evidence of excessive use
of disinfectant -
There is no hot water available
anywhere in the Jail" the report de-
clared.
Federal Prison Inspector Edgar M
Gerlach and Baltimore County
Probation Oficer Richard w. Hicks
a former Federal prison inspector
compiled the report at the request
of State authorities,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
20 Month 10 5 Year Term
Given in Safe Robbery

Justice James M. Proctor of Dis
trict Court today sentenced Gordon
A. Schofield, "a. of the 2100 block
of Randolph place NE, to serve
from 20 months to five years i'm
prisonment for housebreaking and
larceny in connection with a safe
cracking job.
Schofield. who was prosecuted by
Assistant United States Attorney
John c. Conliff, jr., was convicted
recently by jury of breaking into
IA restaurant of the HOO block of
Bladensburg road NE. in November,
l943, and taking s495 from the safe.
At the time of the offense, Scho-
field was on parole from longer
sentence given him in 1898 on
charges of attempted robbery and
HOUSEKEEPING. He had been pa
ruled early in 1Qd2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
|Virginians Cut Wood
To Heat Homes After
Coal Supply Fails

Residents of rural sections of
Fairfax County, unable to purchase
coal, have gone into the woods
for their fuel supply, the county
Emergency Coal Distribution Com
mittee reported today.
r. M. Loughborough, executive
secretary of the committee, said
Maurice Fox, member of the
County Board of Supervisors, ran
out of coal yesterday and set men
to work in the wooded area of his
farm to cut fuel for his furnace.
Mr.. Loughborough said all county
coal dealers were out of fuel by Sat-
urday, and that IL to Is emergency
coal certificates were issued yester-
day, bringing the weeks total to
approximately so.
He said the committee had no
check on the number that had re-
ceived deliveries or had been able to
find wood. He added, however, that
STABLE number" of farm families
were reported using wood.
Mr.. Loughborough said the COM
mittee has requested the Solid Fuek
Administration to consign two car.
loads of coal to the Gladys S. Wag.
goner yards in Vienna, to be drawn
on by all Fairfax County dealers
He said this would provide onl,
temporary relief in the county.
The secretary reported that on,
county nursery school that provide,
care for about 16 children was eivel
an emergency coal supply after
ran out Saturday night. He sais
another home where one menbe
of the family was i'll would be on
of fuel today and that the committe,
would make special effort to ge
a coal delivery there Immediately.
Mr.. Loughborough said Fairfax
like Arlington, has been sending it.
emergency certificates directly to tht
dealers. Much Of the county, he ex.
pla ned, is supplied by Arlington
dealers, while the southern ane
southwestern sections draw on Alex.
andria for fuel supplies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Woodrum Won't Comment
Now on Seeking Senate Job
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, Fep. 5.--Repre-
sentative Woodrum of the sixth Vir-
ginia district today made it plain to
the Richmond News-Leader that he
would not accept suggestions that
he run for Governor.
He said in response tosa query
that he felt that my % years serv-
ice in the House has given me a
training and experience in the Fed
eral field that / do not feel should
discard at this critical time
Asked about ambitions to serve in
the Senate, he said:
1T is my intention to have some
thing very positive to say along that
line at the opportune moment"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Dean Hayden to Advise
Veterans on Law Course

Dean James ]. Hayden of Column
bus University School of Law has
consented to serve with the Educa-
tional Counseling Committee of the
Service Aid Council of Selective
Service Board No. 2 at Silver Spring
it was announced yesterday by
William F. Carlin, president of the
council.
Dean Hayden will act as an ad-
wiser to the interviewers of the
committee for veterans who want to
enter the legal profession. He will
serve in that capacity with DR.. Ed
gar Long of the University of Mary
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
|0Conor Backs
Repeater Of
/ Jim Crow Law
Senote Action Due
| On Bill This Week;
| Act Held Antiquoted
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. 5.-Gov.
O'Conora was on record today as be-
ing in favor of repeating Maryland's
40-year-old Jim Crow" statute.
which required segregation of Ne
groes on boats and trains, as the
State Legislature prepared to start
its fifth week.
The Governors position on the
legislation, already the subject of a
committee hearing, was made public
In letter addressed to Chairman
Joseph p Healy of the Commission
for Study of Problems Affecting the
Colored Population.
The repeater is expected to come
up for action in the Senate this
week.
Asks Formal Expression.
In his letter released yesterday,
the Governor cited his stand as a
part of the overall effort to benefit
the Negro race in Maryland, and
asked for formal expression on the
bill from the commission.
The Governor listed as reasons
for repeal:
That the old law is inconsistent
with interstate travel regulations
and is not observed in Baltimore
City streetcar systems.
That the consideration of simple
justice and humanity applied to all
groups of citizenry."
That 1t was inconsistent to deny
basic rights and capabilities" at
home while thousands of colored
citizens were fighting abroad.
That the State government had
directed efforts TO improve condi-
lions affecting our colored citizens"
Calls Law Anticipated.
While We are engaged in this over
all effort to benefit the colored race,
1t is inconsistent to keep on the
statute books an antiquated law
which is offensive to and unneces-
sarily restrictive upon the very group
we are trying to help. For the above
reasons, I trust that this law will be
repealed" he concluded.
Senate opposition was expected
chiefly from the Eastern Shore
members.
The bill was introduced by E. Mil
ton Altfeld, Democrat, of Baltimore
and is now in the hands of the Sem
ate Judicial Proceedings Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Lawyer Purchases
| Town to Resell
oCooIM

BY the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND. Md, Feb. S.
When John D. c. Truxall, Pitts
burgh attorney, describes Jenners,
Pa, in nearby Somerset County, as
his town, that's just what he
means.
The Consolidation Coal Co. office
here disclosed today that Mr.. Trux-
all had purchased the entire town.
which includes l04 double houses, IL
single houses and 100 acres of land.
Most OF the residences are occu-
pied by employees of the coal COM
pany's Jenners No. mine.
Mr.. Truxall said he bought the
property as an investment and he
would give the miners ian oppor-
tunity to buy their homes on terms
and prices convenient to them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
2 Boys, 10 and Il. Treated
AT Hospital for DRINKING

Two boys, one 10 years Of age.
the other II, were admitted to
Casualty Hospital last night under.
the influence Of intoxicants, po-
lice said.
The boys were taken from q
streetcar at Eighth and H streets
NE, according to officers, and have
since been released in the custody
Of their parents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Passenger injured
When Bus Skids Into
Ditch Near Lanham

One Annapolis bound bus carry
ing SO passengers skidded into a
ditch on the icy highway near Lam
ham, Md. last night and Juanita
Hart, II, passenger, was slightly
injured, Prince Georges County po-
lice reported.
Three persons were seriously in
jured in District traffic accidents
yesterday and several persons re-
quired hospital treatment after
minor automobile mishaps.
Warren Herbert Perry, 81, colored,
of 1914 K street NE, was admitted
to Casualty Hospital in serious con-
dition, suffering from skull frac-
ture received when a motorcycle he
was operating struck the wall of the
underpass on K street near Third
street NE. According to police, he
was making a U-turn when the ac-
cident occurred.
Receives Head Injuries.
Louis s. Meeks, 81. who police said
did not know his address, received
a brain conclusion, possible skull
fracture and face cuts when, ac7
cording to officers, he stepped from
a loading platform into the path
of streetcar at Massachusetts, ave-
nue. and North Capitol street. He
was admitted to Casualty Hospital
in serious condition. The operator
Of the streetcar was Mitchell A.
Harrison, 43, of 400 H street NV,
police said.
A sailor was seriously injured and
another sailor and girl were hurt
when their automobile struck a
parked car in the 500 block of Sew
enteenth street Sc. police said.
Pharcamist,s Mate First Class
William Harding. 80, attached to the
Bellevue Naval Dispensary and OPP
orator of the moving car, according
to police. was admitted to that hos
pital for deep laceration to the
scalp and is in serious condition,
attendants said. Miss Fern CARRIER,
passenger in Mr. Harding's car,
was admitted to Gallinger Hospital
with severe lip laceration while
Pharmacists Mate First Glass;
Winfield Cardwell, Is, attached to
the Bellevue Naval Dispensary, was
treated at the dispensary for head
cuts.
Two Hurt Saturday.
Two men were also badly injured
in traf1c accidents occurring in
neighboring counties Saturday
night.
John NJ Harvey, so, of Mason
Spring, Md. was admitted to Provi-
dence Hospital with possible inter-
nal injuries and broken ribs, re-
ceived in an automobile accident at
Indian Head, Nd, according to po-
lice. His condition was described as
serious.
Burton D. Allison, Al, of 931 North
Stafford street. Arlington, Va, re-
ceived back injuries, face cuts and
an injury to his ankle when struck
by a hit-and-run driver at West
Broad and Lee streets, Falls Church,
according to police He told off,
GERS he was hit while walking along
the street. He was admitted to
Arlington County Hospital. in Sc
rious condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
| June 5 Desertion
| Charged to Two
Held in Virginia
By the Associated Press.

.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 5.-Two
Virginia men. charged with desert
ing the Army in England on June
5, one day before D day-and who
managed to get home-were appre-
hended here yesterday by military
police and a Richmond police officer
Military authorities identified the
men as Billy Taylor, %, of Rich
mond, and Charles Darby, "a, of
Newport News.
The men were found asleep at
the South Richmond home of
Taylor
Military authorities said the men
also will be charged with unauthor-
lied entry into the country by
travelling under false orders from
England to the United States.
The men are held In the military
police stockade here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
lsiwRstoniinq


Meats, Fats, Etc. - Book 4. red
stamps Q-5 through SIS good
through March 81: stamps It's
through KS good through April
%; stamps Y-5, rs, Az through
d. good through June 2. Each
stamp worth 10 points. Next series
to be validated about March 4.
Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4, blue
stamps KS through Us, Az and
b. good through March 81:
stamps c. through CO. good
through April %; stamps H.
through M-2 good through june
2. Each stamp worth 10 points
Next series to be validated abou,
March l.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Book 4. sugar stamp "a good
for pounds through February %
Stamp IS will be valid for
pounds Thursday through June 2
GasoIine-A-14 coupons valid for 4
gallons each through March 81
BIS, C-5. B-6 and CO coupons
good for S gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps /, 2 and :
In Book No. good indefinitely fol-
one pair of shoes each
Fuel Oil-Periods one, two, three
and four coupons good for 10 gal
Ions per unit through heating
year. Period five coupons valid
Old period four and five coupons
from last winter good through
year. Consumers in this area
should not have used more than
% IS per cent of their ration as of
today.
Degree days-Total for month. 1856;
total for season to date, 1895;
normal for xeasoy, Tn data 10,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
|0neDead, 6Huri
In Alexandra
And D. {. Fires
Exploding Oil Stove
In Rooming House
Here Causes FotoIity

=
One person died, two were seriously
burned and two others injured in
fires which broke out early yester-
day here and in Alexandria, Va.
Mrs. Ida jackson, SIS, colored, died
yesterday at Casualty Hospital Of
second and third degree burns re-
ceived in a two-alarm fire in a
brick rooming house at 1868 First
street Sc. Two others were treated
for burns suffered in the same fire,
which broke out shortly after 3 am.
when an oil stove In a rear room on
the first floor exploded. william
Barnes. 4, colored, suffered second
and third degree burns to the hands,
face, arms and right leg, and Mrs.
Bertha Morrison, 46, colored. had
second and third degree burns.
Woman Hurt in Jump.
Mrs. Ida Richardson, 40, colored
was treated for cuts and bruises re-
ceived when she jumped from the
second floor window of the burning
building.
Mrs. Opal Cregar, 10, of Phoenix,
Ariz., is suffering from possible
fractured legs as result of jumping
from her third-floor room in the
Monticello Hotel in the 300 block
of King street, Alexandria, where a
fire that was started from lighted
cigarette caused damage estimated
at 5000. Mrs. Cregar was taken
to the Alexandria Hospital.
It was at the Monticello in 1941
that four persons died and five
others were seriously burned in a
fire that destroyed the building.
Assistant Fire Chief william M.
Barbour OF Alexandria said the fire
Yesterday wouls have caused much
greater damage had it not been for
the fireproof walls installed after
the 1941 fire.
Mrs. Doris Storer, "A, a junior
hostess with the Pennsylvania Cen
trail Airlines, trapped in the flames,
climbed from her fourth-floor win
dow and made her way down the
steel chain supporting a hotel sign.
She perched on the sign until fire.
men carried her to the ground by
ladder.
50 Routed by Flames.
The hotel fire was reported at $40
am. Approximately 60 hotel guests
ran to the street, clad in night
clothes, soon after the alarm was
spread by two sailors, Axel Road, a
torpedoman from Piney Point, N. c.,
and John Alexakes, who ran down
the hotel corridors waking occu-
pants of the rooms.
Four rooms were damaged by the
flames and others by water. Those
whose rooms were damaged were
given lodging in the Jewish Masonic
Hotel nearby and others returned to
their rooms when the fire was ex-
tinguished after several hours of
fighting. The fire could not be ex-
tinguished sooner because the in
tense cold quickly turned the
streams Of water into ice, firemen
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Report on Bill
ToDraft Nurses
Seen This Week
Moy to Ask Rule
Assuring Immediate
Consideration
By CARTER BROOKE JoNE.

S<AAs = In 1ANoOhL JoANLOs
With the, House Military Affair.
Committee ready to resume hear.
lngs tomorrow on legislation tx
draft nurses for the armed forces
Chairman May predicted today 8
bill would be reported out before
the end of the. week.
While the exact form of the bill
Is uncertain. Mr.. May explained, q
majority of the committee favors
measure carrying out the general
purpose of President Rooseveltis re-
quest for such law. The Presi-
dent acted after the surgeon gen.
eral reported urgent need for 49,
600 more Army nurses.
Representative May plans to ask
the Rules Committee for a special
rule assuring also most immediate
consideration of the legislation in
the House. The Kentuckian feels
the situation is too critical to per-
NIT delay.
Group Heads to Testify.
Officers of nursing organizations
are among the witnesses slated to
testify tomorrow.
In a statement made public by
the War Department, Maj. Gen
Paul Hawley, chief surgeon of the
European theater of operations,
pointed out that lack of nurse REIN
fercements had forced the Medical
Corps three times to reduce the
number of nurses stationed at each
hospital.
In 1910. Gen. Hawley reported
there were 100 nurses to a 1,O0O-bed
general military hospital. In 1884
the number was cut to los and in
1914 to 83. At the same time. the
bed capacity of many hospitals had
to be increased, so that today hos
pitfalls which had 1000 beds each
have an average of 1900 patients
each.
Unless We do get our replace
ments," he said, I'VE shall be ap-
proximately 1000 nurses short in
this theater within the next two
months.
Work II to 16 Hours Day..
Nurses who have been over
seas for more than two years are
working IL, often as long as 16
hours a day. The Army nurse is a
good soldier; she asks no favors.
B But she is becoming tired. There
is only one solution. Me must have
more nurses"
Gen. Hawley said magnificent
Is the one word to describe the job
the nurses are doing He added:
"A steadfast, loyal ally of the
medical officer and soldier patient
in the fight against death and pain,
it is often personal interest of the
nurse, her pleasant and efficient
minlstrations, that strike the spark
that starts her patients toward re-
covery."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Fire Ruins 28, 600 Coses
OF Food in MARYLAND

By the Associated Press.
TANEYTOWN. Md, Feb. 5.-Be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 cases Of
canned vegetables stored for the
Government at Feeser's canning
factory were destroyed yesterday
when fire swept three frame ware
house sections.
The canning machinery was saved
through the efforts Of the fancy
town. Union Bridge and West
minister fire companies.
Freezing Of the water supply ham,
pered the firemen in combating the
blaze.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Forum Series Opens Tonight

The Community League of Ia
koma Park will hold the first. of a
series of community forums on sub
jects of general interest at its reg
ular meeting at 5 o'clock tonight, at
the Municipal Building, Columbia
avenue. The topic tonight will be
compulsory military training.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Card Party Plonned

The senior class at Dunbarton
College, Holy Cross Academy, will
sponsor card party in the college
auditorium, 1886 Upton street NV.
at 1880 pm. Thursday. Tickets will
be on sale at the door. Proceeds
from the party will be given to the
school at the June graduation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05
Miss Bloom to Review Book

Miss Vera Bloom, daughter Of
Representative Sol Bloom, viii re-
view her book, Washington Is Like
That at the United Nations Cur
rent Events Evening. at 8 pm. to-
morrow. The review will be held at
the clubhouse. 1901 18th street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05

Degree days-Total for month, 1856;
total for season to date, 1895;
normal for season to date, 2,78,.