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Evening star., 1945-04-15
Virginia Revises Rule
On Salary Payments
From School Funds
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND. Va, April 14.-Reg-
ulations for distribution of State
funds to cities and counties were
revised by the State Board of Educa-
ton today to provide payment of
tWo-thirds of the salaries OF ele-
mentarv and high school supervisors
and directors of instruction for the
1856 session.
This means that the supervisors
of instruction in the elementary and
high schools will receive two-thirds
pay from State funds for salaries
not to exceed $2,500 and $4,000.
The localities will pay the remaining
one-third and also travelling ex-
penses. Each locality, however, may
increase this figure, but the State
only will be accountable for its
share, irrespective of the final salary
voted by the locality.
The board added l woman and 10
men to the eligible list for division
school superintendents in Virginia.
Among them was C.. M. Richmond of
Arlington.
Appointment of a committee to
set up standards for libraries in the
Virginia elementary schools was
approved. The committee is to be
composed of some members from
the State Department of Education
and other educators chosen from
the teaching and supervisory per-
sonnel in the State.
Other matters given approval in
cluded three-Week summer work.
shops dealing with the natural re-
sources of Virginia and especially
designed for science teachers in
elementary and high schools. These
will be held at Farmville State
Teachers College, Madison College,
Harrisonburg, and at Virginia
State College, Petersburg.
Regulations were adopted gov
erning the employment of visiting
teachers in Virginia schools. Gen.
orally these will be employed on
the basis comparable to those of su-
pervisors and directors of instruc-
ton.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
By MARION WADE DOYLE.

Mrs. Bess Truman, who has been
cooking her own apple pie and
cleaning her five-room apartment
without help, will move the be-
lOngingS OF the new presidential
family to Blair House this week.
From there she will move across
the street to the White House and
scale. The East Room is far from
the canning parties she used to give
in Independence. Mo. and from the
second-f1Oor apartment at 470l Con-
necticut avenue wv, where she
carried her own groceries upstairs.
She will have a veteran housekeeper,
Mrs. Henrietta K. Nesbitt, and a
large staff at her command. She
will have a host of customs to
follow and the privilege of setting
new ones.
But her closest associates believe
the former school teacher will not
bother with setting new customs.
They think she will operate just
as she has been doing, leaving PEG
Sisterhood meetings bit early to
be home when Harry got there;
going to the store with her daugh-
ter, Margaret, 20, to buy new
dance dress and staying awake to
find out if she had a good time,
and mending pair of her hus-
bands socks while he played the
piano and their daughter sang.
Called Typical Matron.
AS far as it is possible, her friends
think Mrs Truman will 60 on being
BeSs Truman. For example, when
they called the night of Mr.. Roose-
velt's death and found the Truman
telephone cut off, most of her
friends understood the necessity for
privacy. But the next morning at
9 am, after she had cooked the
new Presidents breakfast and seen
him off to his first day in the White
House executive Office, Mrs. Truman
sat down at the telephone. She
called every one of the close friends
who had left their names the night
before and asked them to pray for
her.
BY persons meeting her for the
first time it has been said that Mrs.
Truman looks like a typical Amer
lean matron attending parent
Evening star., 1945-04-15
DR.. f. B. Wi||ingham
Twill Become Pastor
OF National Baptist

DR.. Edward B. Willingham, pastor
of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
of Huntington, w Va. has accepted
the call to become pastor of Ma
tional Baptist Memorial Church
here, it was announced yesterday.
He succeeds the late Dr. Cove G..
johnson, who served for 80 years
as minister of the church until his
death December 3, 1914. DR.. willing
ham will take up his new duties
on June l.
DR.. Willingham, native OF Rich
mond, Va, comes to Washington
after five years at the Huntington
church. A leader in both the North
ern and Southern Baptist Conven-
tions, he is the 1945 chairman Of
the program committee Of the
Northern Baptist Convention and a
past president Of the West Virginia
Baptist Convention. His father, DR..
R. j. Willingham, was secretary OF
the Southern Baptist Foreign Mis-
sion Board.
After serving as a second leuten-
ant in the Army IN the WOr4d war,
DR.. Willingham took degrees at the
University of Richmond and South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville. KY. He received his D. D
degree at the University of Rich
mond in 1888.
Before taking his pastorate a
Huntington in 1910, DR.. Willinghan
served for two years as associate
professor at the University of Rich
mond and for another two years as
field secretary Of the Virginia Bap-
tist Board of Missions and Educa-
ton. He then became pastor OF the
Rivermont Avenue Baptist Church
at Lynchburg, Va. staying there five
years, and then went to Delmar Bap-
tist Church at St. Louis for eight
years.
Dr.. and Mrs. Willingham have two
children, Harriet R. Willingham and
Edward B. Willingham. jr. They
will live at 42l2 Eighteenth street NV.
The Rev. DR.. John Fraser, Baltl-
more, is serving National Baptist
Memorial Church as interim pastor.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Dry Weather Threatening
Norfolk Strawberry Crop
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, April 14.-Contin-
ued dry weather is becoming seri-
GUS threat to the strawberry crop
in the Norfolk section, John B. Sem
ter, executive secretary of the Vir-
ginia Association of Tomato and
Vegetable Growers. said today.
Present prospects are that the
crop will begin moving April %, Mr.,
Senter said, although if there is rain
accompanied by warm weather in
the next few days shipments during
the coming week are probable.
On the Virginia Eastern Shore,
where the berry is an important
commercial crop, it is estimated that
half the yield was cut off by a
heavy frost last week while the
berries were in full bloom, Mr.. Sen
ter said Except at blooming season
the crop is relatively resistant to
front damage.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Suburban Hospital 10 Give
Caps 10 46 Nurses Aides

Forty-six Red Cross nurses aides
will receive their caps at ceremonies
at 3 pm. today in the Suburban
Hospital, Bethesda.
Speakers will include Mai. L. L.
Dye, chairman of the Montgomery
County Red Cross Chapter, and
Mrs. Kester Hastings, vice chair
man of volunteer special services for
the chapter.
County Red Cross camp and hos
pital workers have invited the pub
lie to view furnishings and equip
ment for a memorial room at Fort
George G.. Meade. The equipment
will be on display from to 6 pm.
Thursday at 1908 Georgia avenue,
Silver Spring, after which it will be
installed in day room at Fort
Meade as memorial to Montgomery
County service men and women who
lost their lives in the war.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Py the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
Harry l.. Hopkins talked with
President Truman yesterday but
told reporters afterWard not to draw
conclusions that he would figure
in the new administration.
The 54-year-old close friend and
adviser of President Roosevelt, hag-
gard from a series of illnesses, flew
here from the Mayo Clinic in Roch-
ester. Mimi, to attend the Roosevelt
funeral
He had lunch with Mr.. Truman
and met later with reporters. Asked
whether he had offered his services
to the new President, he replied:
Naturally. like every other citizen,
I would want to do everything l
could to help him make his ad-
ministration a success.
But there should be no implica-
ton in that general statement that
should apply to me personally.
For years, Mr. Hopkins was a
right-hand aide to Mr.. Roosevelt,
flying all over the world on secret
missions, helping the President with
advice and information, and even
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Arlington Polio Drive
Raises $17,914.67

Net receipts of s17,91467 in this
years infantile paralysis campaign
in Arlington were announced today
by Mrs. Laura T. Boldin, chairman
of the Arlington Committee of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, Inc
Half of this amount will remain
in Arlington. while the remaining
so per cent will be sent to the Ma
tional Foundation.
Largest contribution - S., ,795 80
came from the War Department.
Mrs. Boldin reported. Other dona-
tions included:
Mile O. Dimes booth, $1,42736;
theaters, s2,5OO; public schools, ST.
89126; National Airport $50; Fort
Myer, $1,17709; Navy Department,
81 ,384.93; birthday ball, $79440, and
Arlington Hall, $82690.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Campaign 10 Explain
College Park Merger
Measure Is Planned

An educational campaign will be
launched soon to acquaint residents
of the College Park area with pro-
visions of the bill passed by the
Maryland Legislature to incorporate
those communities.
Plans for such a drive we're made
at a recent meeting of II representa-
tives of each of the five districts to
be incorporated. They are College
Park, Lakeland. Calvert Hills, Ber-
wyn. plus the district consisting of
Branchville, Oak Springs. Daniels
Park and Hollywood.
DR.. T. B. Symons of College Park
will head the campaign, which will
be conducted by the so represent
atives. In addition. an Executive
Committee comprising one resident
from each of the five districts will
be named soon.
Paul Walker, also of College Park,
announced that the assessable basis
of the proposed town will be ap-
proximately s6,7o0,0OO There are
about 5000 people in the area.
Under the bill, a referendum will
be held on or before the first Mon
day in June The time and place
of registration for the referendum
will be made public some time before
May Is.
Government of the proposed town
would be vested in a mayor, treas
urer and seven councilmen. Two of
the councilmen would be elected at
large, and each of the five districts
would choose one. The mayor would
receive $10O year and each council
man $50 year.
The tax rate on improved real
estate in the town would not exceed
Is cents per 500, according to the
bill. On unimproved real estate and
land used primarily for farming pur-
poses the tax would not exceed 10
cents Der S100
Evening star., 1945-04-15

teacher association or church meet
ing. BY persons who have known
her longer, it has been said she has
a heart of gold" and keen sense
of humor." But perhaps her hus-
band expressed Mrs Truman's role
best of all.
Worries Over Weight.
"She looks he said at the Demo-
cratic National Convention last year
putting his arm around her, lust
like a woman ought to look who S
been married for 25 years" When
he was criticized for listing his wife
as a $4,000 clerk on his office payroll
last year. he replied, She earns
every cent of it. She's there because
1 need her there She reads and
edits every speech I make"
Mrs. Truman is feet inches tall
and weighs about 130 pounds. Typ
ically too. she worries about this
weight A friend asked her when
she returned from the convention
how it felt to be the wtfe of the
vice presidential candidate
We've been eating too much,
she replied. I've gained"
Compared to Mrs. Coolidge.
Mrs. Truman gets a permanent
wave every four months and wears
light rose polish on her nails. She
buys her tailored clothes in Kansas
Ciry because they know me there
and 1 can pick up things quickly. =
She wears medium size heels, which
hurt her feet on Inauguration day
until Mrs Roosevelt told her to
loosen your knees a little" She
does not like huge crowds and has
said she would be glad to get back
to independence.
But these statistics, interesting
as they may be to Nation which
hardly knows its new leading host
ess, still do not answer the one
question foremost-"What will she
be like in the White House?"
A veteran Secret Service man
murmured as he saw her leave the
funeral services with her husband
and daughter yesterday, She re-
minds me of Grace Coolidge
A friend put it another way.
"Bess,' she said always stops
what she's saying to listen to Harry.
And at party. he's the one who
decides it's time to go home
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Historical Society
To Meet Wednesday

The Montgomery County Mary
land Historical Society will hold a
meeting at pm. Wednesday in the
hearing room at the County Build
ing. Life and Times of George
Calvert" the first Lord Baltimore,
will be the subject of an address
by 10 " Morgan.
Both Senator Radcliffe and Rep
resentative Beall have accepted in
vitations to attend. The public is
invited.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Virginia Gets
Its First State
lAirIine Service
the Associated P.ess.


RICHMOND, Va, April 14.-Vir-
ginia's first intrastate airline started
its schedule today when three planes
belonging to Atlantic Western Air
Line, Inc, arrived at Central Air
port from Danville and two of them
proceeded to Lynchburg and Roa-
noke.
The company said it would main
tain service daily on the Richmond
Danville route, which includes
Lynchburg and Roanoke, and that
after the war Norfolk will be added.
The lines first shipment was a
bolt of cloth consigned to Thai
heimer Brothers by a Danville COT
ton mill.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Arlington Police Launch
Drive on Faulty Brakes

Beginning today and continuing
through June /, Arlington County
police will test the brakes of all
cars stopped for traffic violations.
Capt. j. j. Scott, head of the Ar
lington County police traffic di-
vision, said motorists found oper-
ating cars with faulty brakes will
be liable to a minimum fine of IS.
He said police are authorized to
test brakes only of cars involved in
accidents and traffic violations. The
special brake tests have been au-
thorized by County Manager Frank
c. Hanrahan.
Evening star., 1945-04-15

lures, DR.. R. M. Williams of Asbury
M. E. Church offered the prayer and
DR.. I. M. Gray of the A. M. E. Church
gave the benediction. DR.. Mordecai
Johnson, president of Howard Uni
versity delivered the eulogy.
An estimated 10000 uniformed
and civilian personnel attended the
brief outdoor prayer service in men,
ory OF President Roosevelt in the
center court of the Pentagon. Other
thousands watched the service from
windows opening on the court.
Acting Chief of Chaplains George
F. Rixey led in prayer and Col
Harold D. Kraft of the Army Air
Forces opened the ceremony by
reading Secretary Stimson's order
to the Army which was issued Friday
to announce the death of the COM
mander in Chief. Music for the
hymns and the National Anthem
was played by the Fort Myer Band.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Garden Club to Hear Reed

Clarence A. Reed will address the
Silver Spring Garden Club at 8 pm.
tomorrow at Jesup Blair Community
House on "Nut Trees for Home
Planting" The talk will be illus
trated. Members and guests are
invited to bring speciments OF flow
ering shrubs and flowers. Prizes
will be awarded.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Edmonston Boosts Tuxes

To meet increased costs of mate
rial and labor for road repairs and
other necessary town work, the
Mayor and Council of Edmonston,
Nd, have decided to increase the
town tax rate from IS cents to so
cents on each 500 assessed valua-
ton of real estate for the fiscal
year starting July 1.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
55-Cent CEILING
SET for Maryland
Tobacco by 0PA
Wurehousemen See
Former Discomfort


The Office of Price Administra-
ton announced yesterday it will es-
tablish a price ceiling of SIS cents a
pound for the 1914 crop Of Maryland
tobacco, which goes on sale Tuesday
throughout the State.
The ceiling will be put into effect
formally within few days, it was
said. 1t will apply to all sales Of
Maryland tobacco, whether sold in
or in loose-leaf markets.
OPA officials said the new ceiling
should result in weighted average
price of about 48 cents a pound for
Maryland tobacco this season. This
compares with a weighted average
price of about 453 cents a pound
realized on the 1943 crop, they as
serted They added that the ceiling
price is in line with those estab-
lished for 1914 crops of hurley and
t1ue-cured tobacco.
62-Cent Ceiling Set Last Year.
Announcement of the new ceiling,
which represents Seven-cent re-
duction from the 62-cent figure fixed
by the OPA last year, brought mixed
reactions from Upper Marlboro
Warehousemen.
One warehousemen predicted
that there is a good chance" that
farmers will refuse to sell their
tobacco. He recalled that all eight
tobacco warehouses in Southern
Maryland closed for more than a
week last year after tobacco grow
ers protested against the original
52-cent top price set by the OPA.
The markets reopened after the
OPA raised the ceiling to 81 cents
pound.
Il don't think the farmers are
going to like the new ceiling at all"
he said. Besides, I don't see how
the OPA figures the average will
be about 48 cents pound when
the ceiling is lowered"
Contends Farmers Must Sell.
The owner of a second warehouse
in Upper Marlboro declared, how
ever, that he did not believe sales
would stop. While concedihg that
the farmers would not be satisfied.
he said there was nothing they
could do about it, since they have
to sell their crop"
He estimated the tobacco crop to
be sold this year in Southern
Maryland at approximately 38000,-
900 pounds as compared with about
100000 pounds last year.
/ A third warehouse official said he
didn't know what will happen
adding that 1t all depends on what
the average will be-"
Evening star., 1945-04-15
$4,000 Alienation Suit
Filed Against In-Luws
Bv the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April IA SIS 900
damage suit for alienation of affec-
tions has been entered by Balti-
more husband against his in-laws.
Leonard H. Blacker, the COM
plainant, charged in the suit that
his wife's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Kostin, continuously and
maliciously exercised complete influ-
ence over their daughter" to the end
that she finally left him and re-
turned to her old home.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
Boy Killed Accidentally

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, April
IA P.-Richard Stevens. 8, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Stevens Of
Stafford County, died in hospital
here last night from a bullet wound
in the head. County officers said
a .22-caliber rifle in the hands of
his brother, Richard, 9, discharged
accidentally as the boys prepared
to 60 crow hunting.
Evening star., 1945-04-15
to Give Talk

Francis w. McPeek, social welfare
director for the Washington Fed
Grafton of Churches, will address
the Cherrydale Parent-Teacher
Association at 8 pm. Monday at
the school. His topic will be Social
Responsibility of Parents" Elec-
ton of officers will be held.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-14

Editorial In the stars and Stripes Issue of August 49, s4s

Editorial
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-14

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panies may be violating the provisions
of the public utility holding company
act as well as the antitrust act"
The Regional Committee, asks labor
and farm groups for full support in
bringing information. on MVA to every
city, town, hamlet, farm and country
crossroad in the valley 1t asks every
worker, farmer, small businessman
and all others who realize the signifi-
canoe of establishing a Missouri Val
ley Authority to join the Regional
Committee. 1t calls upon them to
sign the petitions which the commit
tee is circulating and to help secure
the signatures of as many others as
possible Full particulars as to how
you can help in this drive can be OBJ
tanned by writing the Regional Com
mittee for MVA, 257 Aquila Court
Bldg, Omaha 2, Nebraska.
There are between 100000 and T.
100000 people in the Missouri valley.
We hope to secure the signatures of
100000 of these by fall. And, if our
congressman do not regard 100000
as convincing evidence of
popular support for an MVA, we will
start out after second 100000.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-14
Trade Unions


In another special session Charles
McGuerin, manager of Mutual Hous-
ing Projects at Dayton, Ohio and Har-
old Schulze of Walnut Grove Housing
Development in South Bend, Indiana
considered application of cooperative
techniques to the housing field. In
explaining the phenomenal results
achieved in building more than 500
homes in Dayton Mr.. McGuerin said
I'VE were just ordinary people, tired
of being pushed around with the old
song and dance that there were not
any houses for sale or rent and that
there was nothing we could do about
it, We set out to show people that
we could get good housing without
having to go through spectators
hands. We've done it, too" He
stated that since taking over the first
project from the government they
have operated on lower maintenance
rate than any housing project in the
U. S. Mr.. McGuerin added 1--WE are
doing such a good job managing our
own affairs that the government keeps
Not only do you manage your own
living more efficiently, but when you
live in a mutual you work together
and you live lot better"
Students came to the school from
California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illi-
nois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri,
Michigan and the District of Column
bia Sam Jacobs, CLIO liason officer
in OPA, Cecil Crews, training director
of Central Cooperative Wholesale,
Clayton Fountain, consumer division
of United Auto Workers, William E.
Brennan, AFL, st. Paul. Walter Nord-
strom, AFL, Racine; j. A. Rightley, |
JAW, South Bend and Andrew Jen- !
son, labor relations director for Mid
land Cooperative Wholesale served |
on the faculty
In summarizing the two weeks pro-
gram, G. j. McLanahan, acting direc-