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Evening star., 1945-11-11
Airport viaduct Plans
Await Congress Action

Plans for construction of an over.
pass, estimated to cost nearly ST..
100000, to serve the National Air
port are expected to be completed
soon after January l. If Congress
acts favorably on two bills now
pending, officials of the Arlington
County Engineering Department
said yesterday.
One of the two bills requests an
appropriation to cover land acauisi-
ton and the preparation of plans.
The other appropriates funds for
construction.
Plans contemplate connecting
Jefferson Davis highway at South
Twenty-sixth street with a portion
Of the Airport road network on
Mount Vernon Memorial highway.
The overpass would cross above the
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Po-
tomac Railroad. The right of way
already has been granted.
The airport is being served now
by road which travels from Jeffer-
son Davis highway via South Fif-
teenth street and passes under the
railroad. This road, it was pointed
out, is subject to flooding and i'm
poses serious traffic hazard, mas.
much as it lacks the width to handle
the 3,400 cars which use 1t.
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) D. {. Aviation Writers
Win Prizes in TWA Contest

Three Washington aviation writer's
james J. Strebig, Wayne Parrish
and Merlin H. Mickel-won prizes
IN its eighth annual writing and
Photographic competition, Trans
continental g. Western Air, Inc, an
nounced yesterday.
Mr.. Strebig. aviation editor of the
Associated Press, won first place in
the newspaper division; Mr.. Parrish,
editor of American Aviation, led in
the magazine division, and Mr..
Nickel of Aviation News won third
place in that group.
The awards will be made at a din
ner Wednesday evening at the Carl
ton Hotel. Jack Frye, airline presi-
dent, and other company officials
will honor the winners. More than
100 newspaper representatives will
be present.
Mr.. Strebig and Mr.. Parrish each
will receive prize of $3.50, as well
as commemorative plaques, while
annual TWA rotating trophies will
go to their publication. Mr.. Nickel
also will receive a cash award.
A. Aubrey Bodine, Baltimore Sun
photographer, will receive a cash
prize of $3.50 as first-place winner
In the photography group.
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Chevy Chase School Plans
Book Week Program

Book week at the Chevy Chase
(Md.) Elementary School will in
clude talks by well-known authors,
an exhibit of books in the school
library, silver tea Wednesday at
2::30 pm. in the school auditorium
and a play.
Ellis Credle, Washington, author
of children's books, will speak to
the lower grades at 10:3o am. Tues
day. The following day at 2:30 pm.
Hilda Van Stockum, also an author
of juvenile books, will speak in the
school auditorium. A talk by Helen
Orr Watson, Washington author,
will be gi"en to the older children
Thursday.
The exhibit Of new books will be
under the direction of Barbara
Nolan Strong, editor of Story Parade
Magazine and member of the
schools Parent Teacher Association.
AS part of the celebration, the
Creative Club will give a play No.
vember 10 and 20. Proceeds will go
to the schools library fund.
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checked baggage, and in this way I
was able to keep it-and it has been
Of great assistance to me in the
preparation of this brief history.
We entrucked at Muksaq at 10
pm. on October 5, 1914, were taken
to Taihoku, put on train and got
under way at II pm. We were in
that miserable train all night and
until noon the next day, by which
time my sacroilliac trouble was
aggravated to point where I more
than needed the old light walking
stick which Gen. Macarthur had
given me.
Transferred to Railroad.
Our destination proved to be the
town of Heito, near the southern
tip OF Formosa. Here we were trans
ferred to a narrow-gauge railway
used for hauling sugar cane, for
we were in the midst of the princi-
pal sugar-raising district of the
japanese Empire. The train took
us 8 or 10 miles to a thoroughly
vile prisoner -of-war camp. AS we
entered the compound saw large
group of prisoners, mostly British
but with a number of Americans,
returning from work in the fields.
They were little more than skin and
bone, some of their depleted bodies
bronzed and some of them horribly
burned by the sum- They we're the
very epitome of human bondage,
and standing there watching them
drag themselves to their cup of rice
moved me to helpless tears.
Our group was then loudly or
dered to line up before the most
savage-looking ~Jap lieutenant 1
ever saw. We counted of, and then
were taken to long, low-roofed
bamboo shack, with sleeping benches
on the dirt floors. g
We were given no midday meal.
A surly Jap soldier led one of us to
the opening of the shack to show us
our sanitary arrangements. Outside
was a bucket of dirty water for
washing 1--WE were grimy from the
long and dirty train rides) and a
reeking wooden tub partly filled
with human excrement and urine.
Men Lie in Ditch.
I saw the enslaved men limp back
at dusk that evening and lie in an
irrigation ditch in complete weari-
ness, and my mind was filled with
them that night as 7 tried to find
sleep on the hard bench that was
my bed.
We had lost most of the niceties of
civilized living by this stage of our
captivity, but few of us were able
to stomach the sanitary arrange
ments the Japs provided at this
camp. One of those who rebelled
against using the filthy tub outside
the hut was British brigadier.
Just before dark that evening we
heard Jap shouting. You must
use the tub" The brigadier had
been caught attempting to use a
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Seabrook Group 10 Urge
New Elementary School

Representatives of the Seabrook
Md Community Club will appear
before the Prince Georges County
Board of Education at 2 pm. Tues
day to urge construction of a new
elementary school.
According to Harold A. Jameson,
chairman of the clubs Education
Committee, there are approximately
los children of elementary school
age in Seabrook. OF these, a are
in the first and second grades and
attend 50-year-old, one-room
school in Seabrook. The others at
tend Lanham School, about a mile
and half away.
Mr.. Jameson said the children
attending the Lanham School art
forced to use the heavily Travelled
Lanham-Severn road, which has
no sidewalks. He. said the present
Seabrook School should be demol-
ished.
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HyaftsvilIe Council Group
To Ask One Way Streets

The Hyattsville Council Police
Committee will recommend that
Gallatin street be made a west
bound one-way street from Balti-
more avenue to Forty-second ave-
nue. and that Farragut street be
made an east-bound one-way street
from Forty-second avenue to Rhode
Island avenue.
On Gallatin street are the post
Office. two schools, the Masonic
and Odd Fellows Halls, three
churches, business establishments
and doctors offices. The firehouse,
municipal building, nursery and
business establishments are on Far
ragut street.
Installation of parking meters
from Farragut street to Longfellow
street on Baltimore avenue with a
view to eliminating double parking
also will be recommended by the
Police Committee.
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Alexandra and Arlington
Get Holiday Tomorrow

Alexandria and Arlington County
school children will have an unex-
pected holiday from school tomor-
row.
School officials in the two COM
munities announced yesterday that
schools will remain closed because
OF the reduced Armistice Day bus
schedules. No other transportation
facilities are available.
Officials explained they were not
informed of the reduction in bus
service in time to make the an
nouncement before schools closed
Friday afternoon. The time will be
made up by an extra session later.
it was said.
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Uncle, Nephew at Fomi|y Porty
Recall Their War Rendezvous

An Army captain and former
sergeant, who hadn't seen each
other since March, 1914, In London,
were the honored guests last night
at a Silver Spring family reunion
of something like astronomic pro-
portions.
Mrs. Ida M. Peter, who will be
n years old Friday, gathered at
her house at $40 Thayer avenue, the
greater portion of her family of
children, II grandchildren and 2
great grandchildren.
One daughter, Mrs. Laura Kuhl-
man, came from Johnstown, Pa,
for the occasion. Joan Peter, 8, q
grandchild, stayed up well past her
bed time so as not to miss the
event. But the great grandchildren,
4 and 10 months old, respectively
couldn't come.
!. Soldiers Hold Reunion, Too.
The captain, Charles E. Peter, a
former member of the Montgomery
County police force who returned
to this country two weeks ago, and
the sergeant, John E. Feeney, now
with the District Health, Depart
ment, had lot of talking to do
themselves. They also were the most
talked about at the partff Charles
is a son and John a grandson of
Mrs. Peter.
Sergt. Feeney, who had been with
the 9th Air Force, finally met the
captain, his uncle, in London after
six months futile efforts to get to-
gether while both were based in
England. 1t was just after the ser
geant. top turret gunner, had fin
ished his 10th mission over Ger
Evening star., 1945-11-11
Official Alexandra Vote
Is Announced by Clerk

Elliott F. Hoffman, clerk of the
Alexandria Corporation Court, yes
terday announced the official count
of Tuesdays election for city and
State officials following a canvass
Of the vote by election officials.
The count in the race for juvenile
judge gave Marion B. West 2,163
Irving Diener 1893 and Nicholas A
Colasanto 467. For city councilman
John w. Tulloch received 2,236 votes,
Ernest Mankin 665, Walter Smith
621 and Robert Kilby 359.
Unopposed were c. Aubrey Gala
han, commissioner of revenue, $3.50;
Roger C. Sullivan, city treasurer,
3,253; Albert ". Bryan, Common
wealth attorney. 3,233; Elliott F.
Hoffman, Corporation Court clerk,
3,206; Robert H. Cox, city sergeant,
1886; w. Selden Washington, House
of Delegates, 3,140, and James r.
Duncan, police judge. 3,123.
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many They went out and cele-
brated.
On his 17th mission. the following
month, his plane was riddled by
fighter planes over Brunswick. Ger
many. He bailed out and spent the
rest of the war in a German prison
camp.
Il was taken prisoner by some one
In uniform after I landed" he said
Il guess it was one of the local
cops, because they took me to the
station house, where lot more cops
were sitting around. l really got a
laugh out Of it because they all
looked like the old movie keystone
cops"
Call Treatment Satisfactory. r
He was taken to a prison camp in
Austria, where he remained until
liberated in May of this year by
the Sd Army. Food was scarce, he
said, but the general treatment of
American prisoners of war was salts
factory.
Life actually was not unpleasant
in the prison camp, he said. The
men got all the news from the
British Broadcasting Co. They re-
ceiyed the flash on the forInendy
invasion, for example, just as soon
as any one else did.
Capt. Peter, who is now on ter
minai leave, was with a service COM
pany of the ll5th Infantry. After
England he went into the continent
on D-day and went on to the Elbc.
He was a member of the Maryland
National Guard and was called to
active duty February, 1941.
Mrs. Peter has three other grand
sons in service, two in the NAVY
and one in the Army
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12-Year School Plan
To Be Discussed al
Alexandra Dinner

Alexandria S civic leaders will dis
cuss the feasibility of the l2-year
school system at the annual dinner
observing National Education Week,
sponsored by the Alexandra Edu-
cation Association, at $3.50 pm.
Tuesday in the George Washington
High School cafeteria.
A round-tab conference will be
conducted by T. C. Williams, super
intendent of schools, and w. w.
Wilkerson, assistant supervisor of
secondary education for the Rich
mond Board of Education. Com
monwealth's Attorney Albert v.
Bryan will preside. Howard w.
Richardson, principal of George
Washington High School, is chair
man.
In a recent address to the Rotary
Club, Mr.. Williams said he believed
another year of schooling would soon
be added, but he pointed out the
city would have to provide an addi-
tional $88, 900 to 100000 year fol
new teachers. Under the 12-year
plan, kindergartens would be estab-
lished and the eighth grade added
to accommodate about 500 more
pupils.
Discussing the proposed building
program which the School Board
hopes to put into effect within the
next four years, Mr.. Williams said
it viii cost $500 900 to build a new
high school in the Northwest Sec
ton of the city; larger, permanent
school to replace the temporary
structure now serving Parkfairfax
additions to Mount Vernon and JEFF
erson Schools and to replace Lee
School with a modern building.
Bids are now being asked for the
new north wing Of George Wash
ington, and the School Board is
hopeful that alterations in plans
made since bids were first adyer-
tised will bring the cost within an
estimated $500 900 maximum. The
first bids were rejected when the
lowest was well over this figure.
An open house will be. held al
George Washington High Thursday
night to permit parents and friends
to inspect classroom work, 1t was
announced by Miss Mary Waller
Dickinson, chairman of the schools
Public Relations Committee.
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Silver Spring Civic Groups
Names Committee Heads

Chairmen of standing committees
Of the Silver Spring Allied Civic
Groups were announced yesterday
by the president, Ralph D. Boyd.
They are:
Membership, " ]. Richter, Wood
moor Citizens Association; Public
Utilities Committee, r. L. Thurston,
Northwood Park Civic Association; !;
Public Safety Committee, j. g. Dom
dero Woodmoor Civic Association;
Sanitation and Public Health Com
mittee, Frank j.. Beatty, Woodside
Park Civic Association: Schools,
Roy Jacobson, Seven Oaks Citizens
Association; Civic Improvement
Committee, Lester D. Lasher, Sligo
Branyiew Civic Association.
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High School Sports PIon
Discussed at U. of Va.
~ the Associated prsss

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Nov.
10.-Dean George B. Zehmer, Uni
yersity of Virginia Extension Divi-
sion director, discussed plans of
high school principals to place In
creased emphasis on minor sports
and other school activities that have
carry-over value in later life, in
welcoming more than 200 high
school representatives here today
for the literary coaches conference.
Dean zehmer also reported that
principals are exploring, with CO.
operation of colleges in the State,
the possibilities of using college
centers to develop regional literary
and athletic contests leading up to
the annual State championship
meet at the University of Virginia,
Beginning next Nav 10.
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Arn1istice Day Schedule
Rites at Tomb Of Unknown Soldier,
Church Services to Feature Observance

1st Division Monument, Seven
teenth street and New York ave-
nue. NV.
2 pm-Wreath laying at Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier by Mai.
Gen. John H. Hilldring for So
ciety of Sd Division.
2:30 p.m.-2d Division Veterans
memorial service at I'd Division
Monument, Seventeenth street
and Constitution avenue NV.
8 pm.-Services at Tomb of Presi-
dent Wilson, auspices of George
Washington Post l, American
Legion.
4 p.m.-Services at Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier by the Organ
lied Bible Glass Association.
4 p.m.-Services and wreath laying
on the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier. Address by the Rev.
Clifford H. Richmond.
S p.m.-Russell Mitchell Post 600,
VFW, Armistice Day supper for
servicemen at the Washington
street USO, Alexandria.
8 pm.--Armistice Day dance by the
Irish War Veterans at the Demo-
cratic Club at Silver Hill, Md.
Monday.
10 am.--Memoria1 services, Fort
Stevens Post 80, American Le-
gion, at Walter Reed Hospital.
1t. Col. Anselm O'Keefe, speaker.
II am.-Russell Mitchell Post 609,
VFW, presentation of Citizenship
Medal at Alexandria Union Sta
ton War Memorial.
1 pm.-VFW and American Legion
join United Spanish War Veterans
to rededicate Alexandria National
Cemetery
l:30 p.m.--Exhibit Of Armistice
documents at National Archives.
$3.50 p.m.-Arlington Board Of
Trade social hour at Arlington
Recreation Center.
8 p.m.-Russell Mitchell Post COG
VFW, Armistice Day ball at
George Mason Hotel, Alexandra.
9 p.r1.-Radio address by Veterans
Administrator Gen. Omar N.
Bradley on WMAL.
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corner of the prison reservation to
answer call of nature, and had
been dragged over to the tub. The
sentry had called an interpreter
and it was this Jap we heard shout
ing.
But I can't do it 7 simply can't !"
the Englishman resisted.
We could sympathize with him,
after seeing the condition of the
sides of that awful bin.
The argument rose to high pitch,
then the Jap interpreter viciously
slapped the brigadier. But again he
refused. He was slapped again, and
then again, but he held out with true
British fervor.
ut just isn't isn't digni-
fed" he said, and that was that.
Determined to Live.
Later that night I felt a tap on
my ankle and, investigating, saw a
bony white hand reaching up from
under the foot of my bench. 1t
was wagging a bit of paper. l
reached down and took the paper
1t was note from an American
officer quartered in the other end of
the same shack. but separated from
me by partition. He told me there
were "a American officers and men
in this camp, and that they had
pledged themselves to endure any
treatment the Japs gave them: they
were determined to live. g. a1s
1t. Gen. A. E. Percival received a
similar note from q British officer
in the same heart-breakingly fur
tive manner as I received mine.
Daylight was a blessing for all
of US. We got up, finished dressing,
and were fed little rice and trans
parent soup. We wee then told to
shoulder our belongings again. were
formed and marched to the entrance
of the camp, where the despotic-
looking Jap lieutenant roughly
searched us. We were then given
one of those impossibly puerile
orders which the Japs dote upon
such as our orders at Karenko to
refrain from thinking evil thoughts
of Nippon" Here at Heito the Jap
lieutenant now commanded that we
remove all pens and pencils from
our pockets and place them in our
luggage.
They marched us to the narrow
gauge railway again and we were
taken back to Heito, put in trucks
and moved to its airport. Six Jap
transport planes, copies of our CAT,
were lined up waiting for us. My
back was so bad by this time that
Sergt. Carroll had to help me with
my luggage and assist me in getting
into the plane, but was relieved
to get away from Heito.
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Alexandria to Sponsor
ChiIdren's Dance Glasses

The Alexandria Recreation De-
partment announces a six-week
session OF dancing classes, open to
all children in the city.
Mrs. William P. Kramer will have
classes on Monday afternoons, be-
ginning tomorrow, at Potomac Hall,
2l3 East Windsor avenue.
Mrs. I. v. Randall Dickerman will
teach on Wednesdays at the Jeffer-
son School annex and on Thursdays
at the George Mason School, start
ing this week. Children may be
registered at the classes and further
information my be obtained from
the Recreation Department, Alexanl
dria SITS.
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AIexandrians 10 Discuss
Law on Raising Chickens

Residents of Alexandria will be
given an opportunity Tuesday to
air their views on the subject of
raising chickens in the city when
City Council considers an ordi-
nance to control the raising of do
mestic fowl within the city limits.
Delegations have appeared be-
fore Council in recent months to
protest that their neighbors raised
chickens, while others have said
there is no objection.
City Attorney Joseph M. Pam
coast said he has prepared one
ordinance which would require only
that the chickens be confined and
that the inclosure be kept in a
sanitary condition Two more Sc
we're regulations would make it
possible to keep chickens only on
larger properties.
Evening star., 1945-11-11
Tighter Disease
Controls Sought
For District
Commissioners Ask
Increased Power
To Reach Carriers

Authority for the Health Depart.
ment to detain forcibly any person
reasonably suspected OF having a
communicable disease or being a
carrier" of one is included in the
revised amendment to the COM
municable disease control law of
1899, sentl to the Capitol by the
commissioners yesterday.
So stringent was the measure as
submitted earlier in the year that
House subcommittee about a
month ago returned 1t to the city
heads for redrafting. Revisions of
the original proposal now included
are:
i. Reduction of the period of de-
tention from 70 to 48 hours unless
the period is extended by a Judge
of Municipal Court.
2.<Authorization of private hear
ings unless the person seized wishes
otherwise.
Care for Minors.
5. Permission for the court to au-
thorize medical and surgical treat
ment for minors in lieu of parental
consent-a change designed to per-
NIT minors suffering from venereal
disease to be treated by court order
when they don't want their parents
to know about it.
4. Release by the court of con-
victed persons If they will accept
treatment by private as we'll as pub
lie physicians.
The bill is the result of doubt on
the part Of the Commissioners that
they can issue regulations for forc-
Iible removal and detention under
the present statute against persons
who, by reason of non-co-operation
or carelessness, endanger the public
health. Under its provisions the
health officer can order such a per-
son detained in an institution in
the District such as Glen Dale San
atolium in Maryland. Examination
and diagnosis by a physician are
required within 10 days of removal
to such an institution.
!, Citizens Rights Guarded.
The Commissioners insisted in
their report accompanying the bill
that "the rights and liberties of the
citizen are amply safeguarded."
This protection. they said. takes
the form of requiring the health Of
ficer to have probable cause to be-
lieve person is infected before Or
dering detention. Also, they pointed
out, a Municipal Court judge may
not extend the 48-hour detention
unless he agrees that the person is
a health menace. If the order is
continued, hearing must be held
to determine whether the person
i, has a communicable disease and If
so If release would endanger the
community. they explained. If the
latter is not the case, then discharge
, is mandatory.
The report also states that II a
person is not discharged he may at
, any time apply for a hearing by the
health officer and If once again he
is denied discharge may have an
other hearing at Municipal Court
Also carried in the measure is an
increase in Jail penalty from 30 to
80 days for court conviction of vio-
lation of the communicable disease
regulations.