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Evening star., 1945-01-29
Montgomery's Work
For Veterans Praised
In Building Dedication

Declaring Maryland is proud of
the community's initiative in start
ing program for rehabilitation of
returning veterans, Col. Henry c.
Stanwood. Maryland Selective Serv-
ice director, yesterday delivered the
dedicatory address at a program off,
cially opening the Service Aid Coun-
Gil Building in Jesup Blair Park, Sill
yer Spring.
Every possible assistance. "
ne said, shall be given to our re-
turning service men and women =
to meet and overcome the many
problems which their readjustments
Of necessity will involve"
Laws have been passed which
seem adequately to provide for our
veterans" he continued. But II
takes more than laws to return tc
these men and women some meas
ure OF security for that which they
have so generously and gallantly
given us. Vision, determination
time, sympathy, 'stick-to -itiveness.
all are characteristics which mus
exist in every community before even
start can be made in ACCOMPLISH
ing the mission we have before u.s.
1t. Col. E. Brooke Lee, member OF
the observation-disclosures Capital Park
and Planning Commission, which
provided the site for the Service Aio
Building, emphasized that the
building is one of the many evi.
dences of the determination OF
county officials to plan and provide
every service of the local govern.
ment that is due the returning
veterans.
A similar building, he said, j.
about to be built by the county al
the Bethesda Chevy Chase Recre.
alton Center and equivalent office.
will be made available to the Rock.
vile draft board area when required
Officials of the county, Col. Lee de.
clared, tire bending their full effort.
to the planning of an adequate anc
needed program of public works anC
are taking every possible step to pro.
tect public employment opportuni.
ties for returning veterans.
The building was turned over tt
William F. Carlin. president of tn.
Service Aid Council by Lacy Shaw
president of the Board of COUNTY
Commissioners. Mr.. Shaw pledget
continued support by the county O.
the work of the Service Aid Council
Among guests who we're intro.
duced and who spoke briefly wa.
Maj. Gen. s. A. Marietta, head O
Walter Reed Hospital Center.
The Service Aid Council handle.
problems of service men and womer
from Selective Service Board No. .
Of Montgomery County, which GOV.
iers Silver Spring, Takoma Park
Kensington and OUTLYING areas.
Evening star., 1945-01-29
Two Youths Injured
When Car 0yerturns
In Prince Georges

Two youths were injured early to-
day when their automobile skidded
on loose gravel and overturned at
New Hampshire and Norwood ave-
nues in Prince Georges County, Ia
koma Park police reported.
The youths, j. w. Kiaser, IT, of
1900 Old Bladensburg road, Silver
Spring, and o. L. Keeler. II. of rs
Gallatin street NV, were treated
at the Washington Sanitarium and
Hospital for shock and head injuries.
Police said the Keeler youth was
released after posting $26.75 collat-
eral for appearance In Hyattsville
Police Court on a charge of reckless
driving.
In another accident, two Mont
gomery County policemen were in
jured. one critically. early yesterday
when their car skidded and struck
a telephone pole near Middlebrook
Md. police reported. The injured
were listed as Everest Moxley, 81, OF
Monrovia. and Harold Treadwell, 2l,
of 805 Greenwood avenue, Takoma
Park. Mr Moxley suffered skull
fracture, attendants at Suburban
Hospital Bethesda, reported.
Police said the men were OF duty
when the crash occurred.
Catherine Callahan, %, of Airing
ton Hall Station, Arlington, was ad-
mitted to Emergency Hospital with
a possible concussion of the brain
and scalp decorations received, po-
lice said, when she was struck by a
streetcar at Twelfth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV, yester-
day. Police said the streetcar was
operated by Delbert Evans, 38. of
1870 North Sixteenth street, Airing
ton.
Charles jackson, 40, colored, of
S Naylor court NV, suffered head
injuries when struck by streetcar
at Fifth and K streets NV, yes
terday, according to police. He was
admitted to Casualty Hospital. The
operator of the streetcar was Allen
Wilkens of 85 New York avenue Ne.
police said.
Evening star., 1945-01-29
Maryland Assembly
Schedules HEARINGS
On Budget, Loan Bill!
By the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 29.-Com-
mittee hearings on the 1867 bien-
nial State budget and first consid-
erations in the House Ways and
Means Committee of the contested
discount company" bill are promi-
nent on the General Assembly
agenda for this week.
The discount company measure
is a revised version of the one which
Gov. O'Conor vetoed after it had
passed at the 1943 session. It is
expected to be written into this
law this time-but not without some
protest from the companies con-
cerned.
These protests, if any, may be
voiced tomorrow when the Ways ano
Means Committee, headed by Dele
gate John Luber, Democrat, Balti.
more, 5th, conducts a first hearing
on. the measure. In l943, attorneys
protested that no provision was
made for payment of their fees
when handling loan cases.
Would Regulate Firms.
The bill would provide for super.
vision and control by the loan law
administrator over concerns making
loans of 81 500 or less.
The Senate Finance Committee
| is scheduled to hold a genera
budgetary discussion tomorrow, te
be followed Thursday by one of the
first important hearings, that Of
DR.. H. c. Byrd, president of the
University of Maryland.
Under the Governors budget sub.
mitted two weeks ago, the univer.
sity would be given s3,387, ,773 for tn.
1946-47 biennum, an increase o
$713,787 over the last biennium.
DR.. Byrd will be asked to explain
necessity of several specific appro.
priations, said Senator John B
Funk of Frederick, head of The
Finance Committee.
Judiciary Work to Start.
The House Judiciary Committe.
will start work tomorrow on seyera
measures providing for shortened
indictment forms in various crimi
nal proceedings. Baltimore Cit.
States Attorney J. Bernard Wells
who originally suggested the changes
to the Legislative Council, will ap.
pear.
Floor work in the houses again wa
expected to be routine and confined
mainly to relatively minor and non.
controversial issues.
Most of the major work befor,
the General Assembly is still in com.
mittees and likely will not come out
/ for some time.
Evening star., 1945-01-29

they were treated well, allowsd to
set up the camps very much as an
American garrison and to run their
own affairs under camp COM
mander, who in one case was two
star general.
Prisoners Set Up Exchange.
Corpl. Hall told how the prisoners
set up a stock market to deal in
the contents of Red Cross pack
ages, setting a price on each article
in terms of pack of cigarettes, so
that shrewd trader might get
eight packs for a can Of condensed
milk, trade six packs for another
can of milk and pyramid the busi-
ness until he became a big operator.
Sergt. Mcpherson, who worked in
the rice fields, said the men made
stew of snakes they caught in the
fields and discovered, when this re-
cipa palled, that the snakes could
be fried in Barbasol, which has the
same properties as Crisco.
1t. Col. Joseph Kavanaugh, as
sistant director of American Pris-
oner of War Information Bureau,
Provost Marshal Generals ONCE,
described the work of his bureau
urging relatives of men reported
missing in action not to give up hope
until at least six months after the
war is over, and pointing out that
since all queries about prisoners of
war go to his Office no matter to
whom they are addressed, the quick
est way to get information Is from
the local Red Cross chapter. which
is in constant touch with the bureau.
In answer to questions after the
meeting. Col. Kavanaugh, who will
leave Thursday with the returned
soldiers for a tour Of 80 American
cities to give similar talks, said the
Germans will make every effort to
move their camps to prevent capture
OF prisoners by the Russians, and
that his Office believes most of the
prisoners in the Philippines are now
being transferred to Japan.
Many Question Speakers.
Relatives of prisoners were given
an opportunity TO ask the three SOL
diers personal questions. In almost
all cases it was did you know John
Doe?" rs he well?"
All the returned prisoners have
been writing to families of men
they left behind in the prison camps,
and Sergt. Sheahan said that to
date he has written 800 letters and
received 1900
AS the last persons were leaving
the auditorium, white-haired man
approached Corpl. Hall and asked
him, not about prisoner, but about
certain landmarks in Manila.
Have you ever been there. sir?"
Corpl. Hall asked. The man pointed
to a small purple ribbon in his lapel,
Il earned the Purple Heart there IS
years ago." he answered
Evening star., 1945-01-29
Mon Found in Bedroom,
Throut SIushed, Dies

Roy Taylor, 63, OF TAO Fifth
street NV. was found unconscious
early today in q bedroom there,
police reported. He was pro-
nounced dead at 3:55 am. by an
Emergency Hospital physician.
Homicide squad detectives said
Mr.. Taylor's throat was slashed and
that q straight-edge razor was
found nearby. Mr.. Taylor was
found by Hartman Bell, SO, of the
Fifth street address. police said.
Deputy Coroner Richard Rosen-
berg is investigating the death.
Evening star., 1945-01-29
Berwyn PTA 10 Meet

The Berwyn MD Parent Teacher
Association will meet in the school
at 8 pm. tomorrow. School i'm
proyements and State school legis-
lation will be discussed. Ensign
Helen Huus Of the training section
of the ONCE Of the Secretary Of the
Navy will speak and plans for pre-
senting three l-act plays and 4
dance Saturday win be outlined.
Evening star., 1945-01-29
BIuckout in Bellevue

An unexpected "blackout" lasting
only few minutes occurred late
last night in the Bellevue section of
Southeast and Southwest Washing
ton, when home and street lights
went out due to short-circuited
transformer. according to officials of
the Potomac Electric Power Co.
Evening star., 1945-01-29
Club to Hear Author

Maj. Holdings Carter, author Of
winds of Fear" will be the guest
speaker at meeting of the Silver
Spring Business and Professional
Women's Club at pm. February 6
at the Indian Spring Country Club.
Reservations for the dinner at the
meeting must be made before Friday.
Evening star., 1945-01-29

before noon today for the trial
of Marine Pfc. Earl Mcfarland.
The panel of rs prospective jurors
was questioned on its attitude to-
ward pickups, drinking and over
seas service as selection of a Jury
to hear the murder trial of Marine
PFC. Earl Mcfarland, to begin In
District Court today.
The 24-year-oId Guadalcanal vet
eran. accused of criminally as
saulting and numbering I8-year-old
Dorothy M. Berrum last October S.
walked into Justice James M. Proc.
tors packed courtroom a few min
utes after 10 am. to see three rows
OF fellow marines who are to appear
as witnesses.
Mcfarland smiled at Defense
Counsel George A. Cassidy. ir.
whispered good morning" and said
he was "okay" when Mr.. Cassidy
asked how he felt. The defendant
was wearing his marine uniform
with the Guadalcanal emblem on
his sleeve.
Shown to Jury Panel.
Once he turned slightly in his
chair for feeting smile at one
OF the marines behind him but for
the most part he stared impassively
at the justice.
He looked uncomfortable only
once-when the court asked him
to sise and let the jury panel see
him. Mcfarland turned slowly,
pushed a little by his second coun-
sci, P. Bateman Ennis.
McFarland's young wife was not
IN the courtroom this morning.
Mrs. Doris Mcfarland has been iii
IN New Bern, N. c., since the birth
OF baby which lived only a week.
In the first As minutes spent on
selecting a jury, three veniremen
were eliminated. On of them. w.
w. Sine, told the court he had a
brother in the FIFTH police precinct.
Two others, L. T. Shook and Miss
Gladys Caddle, told the court they
already had formed an opinion. In
asking the panel about opinions.
Justice Proctor said he assumed that
all OF them had heard or read about
the case.
To Blame War Illness.
Prosecuting the case for the Gov
eminent are United States Attorney
Edward M, Curran and Assistant
United States Attorney John w.
Fihelly.
Attorneys Ennis and Cassidy indi-
Gated before the trial opened that
they would lean heavily on the
testimony Of psychiatrists that Nc
Farland was subject to severe mem
tai attacks brought on by malaria.
DR.. Thomas Vernon Moore Of
Catholic University examined the
marine while he was in Jail await
ing trial. Mr.. Cassidy said his ex-
animation showed a definite posi-
bility of "malarial psychosis."
The defense, Mr.. Cassidy said. also
will bring from New York an 'in-
ternationally known psychiatrist
who has made a study of malarial
psychosis." Mr.. Cassidy said Nc
Farland had had recWrent and
severe attacks of malaria and had
been administered quinine while in
Jail.
Evening star., 1945-01-29
1t. Dogeett, Rockville, Dropped
By Air Force, Is Infuntry Hero

in the woods northwest OF Schillers-
dorf when word reached him that
elements OF vaunted German SIS
mountain division had opened an
attack on the town from Hulhausen,
a mile and one-half to the northeast.
"On foot, 1t. Doggett's little unit
rushed half a mile to the edge OF
the town and took up positions pro-
tecting the unarmed medical unit
So ferocious was 1t. Doggett's stand
that the German line was forced
back for the time being-long
enough for all the 'medics' to escape
unharmed.
Helped Attack Town.
After they saved the 'medics'
Thursday morning. 1t. Doggett' S
men helped in the attack on Schil-
lersdorf the next day that resulted
in the recapture of the town by the
Americans"
The Times correspondent, recall
ing that 1t. Doggett was dismissed
from the Army Air Forces in the
United States for flying under q
bridge on a routine training flight
In Colorado, remarked that the air
arm might have been "bit hasty, =
for he had turned out to be light
ing man." After leaving the air
forces the lieutenant transferred
to the infantry and won commits
sion.
1t. Doggett's wife, who lives with
the senior Mr.. Doggetts at Rockville,
was delighted today when told by
The Star OF her husbands latest ex-
plot. She said that the family on
Saturday had received q letter from
him dated January Is and that he
had, said he was in the best Of
health. 1t. and Mrs. Doggett were
married two years ago. She Is em-
ployed in her father-in-law's bust
ness.
Evening star., 1945-01-29
OPA Historian to Speak

Robert E. Stone, historian of the
Office of Price Administration, will
be speaker at the Civitan luncheon
at 1890 pm. tomorrow at the May
flower Hotel He will speak on "A
War, Agency Keeps Its History"
Evening star., 1945-01-29
Drdft Bourd Coils Man
In Service Overseas

By the Associated Press.
MOUNT SAVAGE, Md, Jan. %
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Mckenzie re-
ceived letter from a Frostburg
draft board requesting their son,
Melvin w. Mckenzie, to appear.
They informed the selective serv-
ice authorities it would be impos-
sible-he is now an Army sergeant
overseas
Evening star., 1945-01-29
COP Women Plan Teo

The Women's Republican Club OF
Silver Spring, Md, will have q busi-
ness meeting and social tea at 2 pm.
tomorrow at Republican headquar-
ters at the Masonic Building there.
Evening star., 1945-01-29
Leoyes for Puerto Rico

DR.. Tomas A. Cajigas, well-known
clinical pathologist, has left WASH
ington for Ponce, Puerto Rico, to
visit his 82-year-old father, Antonio
Cajigas, who is reported critically
Evening star., 1945-01-29

1t. Leonard b. Doggett, jr., "a, Of
Rockville, Nd, has distinguished
himself in battle on the western
front by holding on strong attack
by elements of Nazi division with
one understrength American COM
pany to enable an unarmed detach-
ment Of Medical Corps men to es-
cape from French village, accord
ing to a dispatch published today
in the New York Times.
1t. Doggett, who previously had
received the Bronze Star for hero
ism, was dismissed from the Army
Air Forces last summer for dam
gerous flying" the dispatch said.
The Rockville ofiicer, formerly a
student at Georgetown Preparatory
School, who was in the parking ga
rage business with his father, Leon
ard B. Doggett, sr., before entering
the Army in 1912, received the
Bronze Star in November for tax
ing a bridge near st. Die, France.
Lit. Doggett, with small unit.
rushed the bridge guard. killing the
sentry with one shot. The rest OF
the foe fed.
| His latest exploit was described
/ in a special dispatch by one Of the
Times correspondents with the
American 7th Army, as follows:
lit. Doggett with a single
company of infantry, held OF Q
strong German attack on Schillers-
dorf, IL miles west of Naguenau
last Thursday morning to permit
the escape of an American medical
unit.
Chung TO Road.
LIT. Dogsett and handful Of
men clung tenaciously to . roac
running northeast out OF the towr
for half an hour while the threat.
ened 'medics' pulled out.
He was in charge of an under.
J strength company holding Z poin
Evening star., 1945-01-29
Mcfarland Jury
OF One Woman,
II Men Chosen
Panel Questioned
On Piekups, Drinking
In Murder Case
BULLETIN.

A jury of II men and
woman was selected shortly
before noon today for the trial
OF Marine Pfc. Earl Mcfarland.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-10

Valuation Of
Stamps Announced

Valuation Sunday of five more
red stamrs and five more blue
stamps has added total of one
hundred points to your food buy
ing budget, since each new stamp
retains the established ten points
salue, oPA said today.
New blue stamps are il
through Nj; new red stamps are
Al through Ell. All ten stamps
may. be used anytime from now
through the month of October,
.OPA announcement said. There
are always four sets of both tbs
red and blue stamps valids.@ The
life time of each set being -four
months. The first set is always
retired as the fifth becomes good.
In announcing the new stamps,
the OPA urges all ration book
holders to write the expiration
date on the back of each stamp
for easy reference.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-10
Iaycees Plan To
Meet This Evening

Tbr KEY West Junior Chamber
II Commerce will hold its first
nirvtine updcr the new admins
tfs.un tonight IN the office OF
thr Seniof Chamber of Com
miafcv. beginning 40 3 o'clock.
President Cobo urges all Jay
oues especially all former and
nfu officers directors and COM
mittrc chairman. to make spec
80 effort 60 attc3d this meeting
80 that the club can begin the
neU term with minimum loss
"a time and effort, states Wilbert
3 Maehrke. secretary of the or
gsnisatiUn
ns.siirs. turning over all prop
rffR. bssuks records. and other
..ermlnls. from the old To the new
administration, the club presi-
sirut wiil present 90 the general
rs4nlrrship some of his plans for
the neN year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-10
ZLwlwAawAwwlwZ
BRIDE OF Is YEARS,
GROOM, YEAR OLDER,
MARRIED YESTERDAY

Justice of the Peace Esqui-
naldo yesterday afternoon
performed four marriage
ceremonies. and one of them
was of q boy and a girl. the
former Is and the latter IS
years of age.
The groom is Jesus A.
Medina, Jr., of Tampa, and
the ls-Year-old bride, Theola
Airline, of Inglis, Florida,
both of whom are visiting in
Key West.
Justice Esquirsldo explain
ed that the marriage cere-
monY was performed with
the consent of the parents Of
the boy and girl.
Couples in the other cere-
monies were:
Roy Herrera, 81, and Helen
Rounds. 81. both, OF Key
West.
Another Key West bride
and groom are Zoraida Fer
rer and Jose M. MonYeagudo.
Parties to the other cere-
monv are William Henry Full
Ter, 20, Haworth, Okla, and
Eloise Forms, 81, of Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-10
TWO NEWCOMERS
AT NAVAL BASE
LIEUTENANTS MORROW AND
GLANDINC REPORT .
FOR DUTY

The newcomers at the Indus
trial Department, who reported
at the NavSta recently, are Lieut..
Clarence L. Morrow, USN, OF
Miami, Fla, and Fred H. Gland
ing, USNR, of Elkins Park,
Penna.
Lieutenant Morrow whose
home is at 636 N. E. So ST., Miami
enlisted on April %, 1926 and
has made the Navy his career.
Commissioned on June l, 1912.
he has seen action in the Pacific
since Pearl Harbor. Among his
decorations are the Good Con-
duct medal, the American De-
Tense ribbon and the Asiatic-
Pacific ribbon with Is stars. His
last duty was aboard the USS
Indiana.
Lieutenant Glanding, gradu-
ate of Penn State University,
served as Vocational Training
Officer in the Fourth Naval Dis
trict before reporting here. In
civilian life, he was superintend-
ent of a machine shop and later
industrial education instructor
He will serve here as assistant te
Lieut.. Comdr. Smith.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-10
DIR. Baldridge In
Charge Of Clinic

DR.. Doris A. Baldridge is now
in charge of the Monroe County
Health Clinic. due to DIR. M. G..
Frich's leaving here this morn
ing for Washington, where he
will undergo a medical examina-
ton, prior to his release, because
of illness, from the United
States Public Health Service.
1t was said at the clinic that
DR.. Baldridge will be at the head
of the institution until the Flor
ida Department of Heath names
DR.. Frich's successor.
DR.. Erich arrived in Key West
last October to succeed DR.. Fur
stenberg. who was transferred to
San Francisco
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-10
FlagpOle I'm Italy Il
Negroes Tribute To FDR
nv A.sec.atsa ssre.ss

ROME..--A 63-foot flagpOlc. one
foot for each year Of the la'e
Franklin ID. Rooscvclt'S life, has
been erected IN an almond grove
near CanoSa. Italy, by m:mbcrs
of a Negro aviation engineer bat
talon.
Mayor Giuseppe SorrCnti of Ca
nosa publicly proclaimed that un
every annlvcI Sary of prcsIden.
Roosevclt'S death--Aprll ~ the
citizens will bank the flagpulc's
base with flowers.
The battalion built a four foot
wall around the base of the flag
pole, each foot symbolizIng a
Presidential term. AT the bast
they placed a marble 81 ga" with
the words: This flagp rs dedi-
Gated in memory % President
Franklin d. Roosevelt, 1882 l945.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-10
laps Now Feeling Full
Ferce OF u. ). Bomb
ers From Shanghai To
Ind0-China

~@A@tNt Nst@MF
MANILA, July 1O.-For-
mosa, which Japan had used
rs iss chief base in conduct
ing its war in China, has been
entirely cut off from the
homeland, II was announced
today.
Formosa has been bombed
80 frequently, and 80 many
ships have been sunk i'm its
harbor. Il Is now only a sha-
dow of It's former status as
one of the chief cogs i'm the
Japanese war machine.
Planes from the Philip
pines and Okinawa have rak-
ed Form0sa from side to side
and end 90 end and have de-
stroyed hundreds of her war
aud industrial plants, large
and small.
From Shanghai to Indo-
china, the JapS are feeling
ne mi force ol. American
lsomhefs. As "A result. Jap
troops In China are retreat
inR 60 an area north of
shanghai. evidently to make
their last stand there.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-10
Air Mail Postage
To Cuba Is Reduced

Effective Immediately, The air
mail postage rate to Cuba is re-
duced to cents half-ounce from
the continental United States,
Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Viz
gin Islands, Postmaster Hollon r.
Bcrvaldi said today he had been
notified by the Post Office De
partment. The former rate was
~ cents.
The air mail postage rate has
been reduced from 10 to 8 cents
a half-ounce on civilian mail to
the Naval Operating Base, Guam
tanamo, Cuba, from the contlnen-
tai United States, Alaska, Puerto
Rico and The Virgin Islands.
The postage on articles mailed
in the United States possessions
in tie Pacific to be carried by the
transPaCific air service to the
United Gyates and thence by air
to Cuba or the Naval Operating
Base, Guantanamo, will be the
prescribed postage for carriage by
air to the continental United
States to destination.