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Evening star., 1945-04-09
Tax Boost Rejected
By Loudoun Board
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, Va, April 8-Lou-
doun County's tax rate was kept at
$l05 per $l00 valuation for the fiscal
year beginning July l, at the month
ly meeting of the Board of Super
visors here Saturday.
A number Of taxpayers and school
patrons asked an increase in the
rate for the benefit of schools, but
the vote of the supervisors ended
in a tie and w. A. MetZger, tie
breaker, voted against any increase
Supervisors voting for a higher
tax rate were j. Terry Hirst, D. C
Sands and Benjamin Bridges. Vot-
ing against were 1. w. Baker, J. H
Mock and J. Emory Kirkpatrick.
Schools were given an appropria.
ton of S165,000 plus all surplus ir
/ the county general fund as of June
80 1945. This surplus fund will be
used as reserve for future schoo
building. The schools had asked fol
$4,000.
Estimated receipts for the fsca
year are S250,2l867, with expendi.
lures of $241, 1888, plus the surplu.
to be given to the schools.
! An appropriation of $4,000 wa!
made to the Purcellville Library
provided the State attorney genera
rules that this is legal. This library
serves the county with bookmobiles
Harrison Williams, Leesburgh resi-
dent, entered strong protes
against the appropriation.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Rites for Levi Phillips
Arranged for Tomorrow
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assoc lated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Md, April 9.-Fu.
neral services for Levi B. Phillips, 76
founder of the Phillips Packing Co.
who died Saturday night at the Bal.
timore Church Home and Infirmary
will be held at 2 pm. tomorrow al
Zion Methodist Church.
Active in industry, banking anc
Republican politics, Mr.. Phillips was
known N the community as Capt
Phillips because he owned and op.
Grated a sailing ship engaged in
British West Indies trade at the
turn of the century.
He founded the packing business
in 1900 and it grew to be one of the
largest in the country. He was CO.
founder of the Phillips Hardware
Co.. the Phillips Can Co., and the
Phillips Oil Co.
Mr.. Phillips relinquished his pack.
ing business in 1927, and in 1886 he
retired as president of the Nationa
Bank of Cambridge because of fail.
ing health.
He was director of the Baltimore
branch of the Federal Reserve Banl
of Richmond and former vice presi.
dent of the American Bankers AS
sociation.
He is survived by his widow, a son
two daughters and his brother, AL
banus, all of Cambridge.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
lsNRshoning
&Remimdey@,

leafs, Fats, Etc.-Book 4, red stamps
T-5 through KS good through
April %; stamps Y-5, rs, Az
through Do good through June 2;
stamps E-2 through J-2 good
through June 30; stamps K-2
through P-2 good through July 81
AIMED Goods, Etc.-Book 4. blue
stamps CO through Co. good
through April %; stamps H.
through M-2 good through June
2; stamps N-2 through So good
through June 80. Stamps t.
through X-2 good through July 81
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points fol
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Stamp 35 valid for S pounds
through June 2. Next STAMP
scheduled to be validated May l
Gasoline-A-15 coupons are valie
through June 81. B-6, C-6, b.
and CT coupons good for gal.
Ions each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps /, 2 and ;
in Book No. 3 good indefinitely fol
one pair of. shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods one, two, three
four and five coupons good for II
gallons per unit through heating
tyear Consumers in this area
should not have used more than 81
per cent of their ration as of today
Evening star., 1945-04-09
.Tydines Expects Red,
TO Join Pacific War
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. April o. Senator
Tydings believes Russia's denun-
citation of its neutrality pact with
Japan means the Soviet Union
eventually will join the United
States and Great Britain in the
war in Asia.
He expressed the opinion in a
radio broadcast, declaring that
when Russia joins the fight 1.-THE
great Russian air bases in Asia, not
far from the japanese homeland
will become available for launching
bombing attacks on Japan proper
More than that, the Russian Army
will be available against the jap
anese in Asia"
He said the postwar years offered
a real promise of world peace il
the Russian people were permitted
personal freedom and spiritual ano
religious development along with
material progress.
1T is encouraging to note tina,
the trend away from extreme Com
munism, particularly of the Trotsky
world revolution brand. has beer
steady in Russia" he said.
But Russia still has long way
to 60 before her people enjoy rea
personal liberty, spiritual and re.
ligious freedom and economic Sc.
curity'
He said that. since the Unitee
Ctotec opd Pussia Seene6 6eStjne(
to be the two most powerful ma
tions. it was to be hoped they woule
find it possible to cooperate.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Funeral Arranged Today
For Dr.. William D. Haden
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, April 8
Private funeral services were ar
ranged for this afternoon at Mon
ticello Memorial Park for DR.. Will
liam cambridge Haden, 65, one. of
Charlottesville's leading business
men and civic leaders, who died yes
terday at the University Hospital.
DR.. Haden served three terms as
Mayor and had been a member of
the City Council He was member
of the University of Virginia Board
of Visitors.
Among DR.. Hadens business in
terests we're the presidency OF the
National Bank and Trust Co., vice
president of the Monticello Hotel
and a director in the Jefferson
Lafayette Theaters.
He was president of the Martha
jefferson Hospital, treasurer of the
Virginia Cancer Foundation anC
member of the Pennington Country
Club.
Educated in medicine at the Uni
versity of Virginia and at Johns
Hopkins University, Dr. Haden prac.
ticed here for more than 20 years
He retired from practice in 1888.
Surviving are his widow, two
daughters, Mrs. Joseph Lyon anc
Mrs. William MasSie Smith; two
sons, DR.. w. D. Haden, jr., Wash.
ington. and Llewellyn P. Haden
Charlottesville.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Gir||njured WhenCar
Mail Truck Collide;
-Four Others Hurt

Miss Marie Coward, l8, of 3044
N street NV, passenger in an
automobile driven by Howard Nc
Lawhorn, II, of 47l0 North Wash
ington boulevard, Arlington, Va,
was injured last night when the
automobile collided with a mail
truck which police say was driven
by Vernon Wood, %, colored, 1921
Eighteenth place Sc.
! The accident occurred at Louis
lana avenue and North Capito
street. Miss Coward was taken tC
Casualty Hospital, where it was said
she has a brain conclusion and a
possible fractured arm.
Broken ribs and head injury
we're suffered by Mrs. Bertha May
Wharton, SO, of 220l Massachusetts
avenue, yesterday afternoon when
she was struck by Capital Transit
bus at Eighteenth street and Con-
necticut avenue NV. She is in
Emergency Hospital. The driver OF
the bus. according to police, was
James G. Meredith, 81, of 2703 Key
boulevard, Arlington, Va.
Mrs. Pearl Barkley, 43, of 900
Norta Lincoln street, Arlington, sui
fered head injuries and injuries 10
the hands and knees when she was
struck yesterday at Second and M
streets Sc. by an autmoblle when
police say was driven by Johnson
Smith, 38, colored, of l43l New Jer-
sey avenue NV. She is in Emer-
gency Hospital.
Mrs. Mary E. Keith. %, Of 2o0
Philadelphia avenue, Takoma PARK.
Md, was treated for cuts and
bruises at Emergency Hospital
when the automobile in which she
was riding yesterday afternoon was
in collision with streetcar at
Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV. The streetcar operator
was F. E. Smith, So, of l6 South
Park drive, Arlington, Va, and the
driver of the automobile was John
Deeb, "A, of 800 Garland avenue,
Takoma Park, police records showed,
| Charles P. Edwards, Al, OF 27o
Tennessee avenue NE, was charged
with reckless driving last night by
Prince Georges County police after
the car he was driving struck tree
at Riggs and Chillum roads. He was
released on 500 bond pending a
Police Court hearing THURSDAY.
Police said Edwards was treated at
the Leland Memorial Hospital for
cuts on the neck suffered in the
accident.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Red Cross Stuff Course
To Open in Alexandria

Registrations are being taken and
interviewing days have been set for
the next staff assistance course at
the Alexandria chapter of the Red
Cposs.
Mrs. Lawrence Pfingstag. corps
chairman; Mrs. Lawrence Docket
and Mrs. Danile N. Adams, vice
chairmon will be at the chapter
house, AIT Duke street, from 10 am
to pm. April % and "a to inter-
view applicants.
The 20-hour course will start April
80 and will meet from 10 am. to
noon Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays.
The course will equip members
to take over the duties of the corps
which include manning the chapter
information desk. Any one inter-
0sted is asked to call at the chapter
ouse or telephone Alexandria $500
Evening star., 1945-04-09
100000 Bushels of '44 Apples
Still Stored, Awaiting Market

Consumers were being advised
that the crop this season will no
doubt be lighter than normal in
not only Eastern, but some Middle
Western States, and that now is a
good time to buy.
Efforts have been made, unsuc-
cessfully, to induce processing plants
to buy up much of the surplus, a
move the plants would like to make
because of the darkened prospects
for the 1945 crop. Inability to OBJ
tain sufficient labor for the plants is
the hitch.
Four cold storage plants operating
here accounted for the 100000
bushels of fruit on hand today. The
Winchester Cold Storage Co. had
more than half of them-288,0 900
bushels with $4,000 BUSH
els year ago.
Growers estimated that there are
at least 100000 bushels of the
fruit in storage throughout the
country
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Funeral Services Held
For William H. Harvey

Funeral services for William H.
Harvey, 68, who died Saturday at
his home, 213 Webster street NV,
after a long illness. were held at
10 am. today at the Hines funeral
nome. Burial was in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Mr.. Harvey was rate clerk in
the General Accounting ONCE for
the last eight years. Formerly he
held the same position with the
Cotton Belt Railroad at Shreveport,
La. He was born near Shreveport
and was a Mason.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Sadie G..
Harvey, he is survived by two sons.
Machinist's Mate (Third Glass;
William K. Harvey, on sea duty with
the Navy, and Corpl. Robert H.
Harvey, stationed in India; a
daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Oliphant,
Washington; a brother, 1t. Col.
Quentin c. Harvey, and four sisters,
Mrs. James Tarpley, Mrs. F. D.
Bridgeman and Mrs. Mary E. Camp,
all of Homer, La, and Mrs. Amanda
Perritt, Arcadia, La.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Maryland U. Assigns
Two Experts 10 Make
Fruit Damage Survey
Preliminary Estimates
Indicate so to so Pct.
Loss Of State Apple Crop

Two fruit specialists from the
University of Maryland are being
sent to the western fruit section OF
the State today to make quantita-
tive surveys of orchard damage
caused by two nights of killing frosts
last week
DR.. Charles H. Mahoney, head OF
the university's horticulture depart
ment, said that while accurate
knowledge of damage to the States
$5,000000 fruit crop must await this
survey, estimates made over the
week end indicate that so to go per
cent of all varieties of apples were
killed.
DR.. Mahoney said these estimates
were made Saturday and yesterday
during a tour of the western sec
tion of the State. He added that
reports from the Eastern Shore re-
gion indicate that the damage there
was pretty severe
Outlook "Not So Good"
"The outlook for Maryland fruit
crops is not so good at this time, ;"
DR.. Mahoney said 1T wouldn't
be so bad if this was April 25, about
the date we can expect the last
frost, but as it is we still have
about three weeks to go in which
we can expect killing weather.
DR.. Mahoney said Robert Allen,
large Eastern Shore grower, re-
ported frost damage was heavy in
that area. The horticulturlst de-
scribed Mr.. Allen as not pessi-
mist, adding that his reports gen.
orally were accurate.
Meanwhile, reports of serious
damage to Virginia's peach and
apple crops continued to come in
from various sections of the State.
$50 Kill Seen in Some Areas.
While agricultural statisticians
warned of attempts to give accurate
estimaes of frost damage this early,
orchardists in some sections reported
as high as 95 per cent of some
varieties of apples killed.
Robert E. Worsley, Shenandoah
Valley grower, said survey of
orchards west of Winchester dis
closed that 80 or 95 per cent of
Stayman, Jonathan and Delicious
varieties had been seriously hurt.
A. C. Oates, another grower in the
area, said so to rs per cent of
the York Imperial crop had been
critically hurt by the cold.
In the Charlottesville area, in
cluding Crozet, growers said half
the peach and apple crop had been
lost, while in Halifax County, noted
for its tobacco rather than fruit,
it was reported that fruit losses
would amount to between S250,0OO
and S5O0,000.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Maryland Food Chief
Dep|ores Absence Of
State Meat inspection
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 9-Deploring
the absence of real meat inspec-
ton service" in Maryland. DR.. A. l.
Sullivan, chief of the Food and Drug
Bureau of the State Health Depart
ment declared over the week end
many meat slaughtering establish
ments in the State would "be found
Objectionable if checked
DR.. Sullivan said there had beer
a marked increase in cattle slaugh.
tering throughout the State, with
killing in a small way widespread,
and added that the State had ne
power to check on farm slaughter
ing operations of the small retailer.
THE small places are not properly
equipped. We do not have the staff
to inspect them all as regularly as
they should be; We are able to get
around to the smaller packing
plants, say, only once or twice a
year
DR.. William Brenner, chief of the
Baltimore City Meat Inspection Bu-
reau, disclosed that several large
size shipments of uninspected meat
have been seized here"
One lot, he said. weighed 10000
pounds. 1t and other lots seized
were turned over to establishments
producing soap and glycerine.
DR. w. B. Billingsley, State De-
partment of Health veterinarian in
spector. said there is no question
but what a black market of sizeable
proportions is operated in the rural
areas. We are able to make only
sanitary inspections. We do not
have the force to inspect the animals
before they are killed or to see that
they are slaughtered under approved
conditions"
Evening star., 1945-04-09

Executive Com MRS. Piummer.
mittee of the General Conference.
She had travelled widely in Europe
and North America.
The widow of Frank E. Plummer
Washington broker, who died in
1918, Mrs. Plummer lived at 1923
Willow avenue, Takoma Park, Md.
She was born in Jay County, Ind,
and taught high school in Nevada
and Iowa before going into church
work.
She is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Dorothy Boggs, Fletcher, N. c.,
and a son, Dom L. Plummer, Ia
koma Park.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 pm. tomorrow at the Takoma
Park Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Burial will be in Rock Creek Gene
terry.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
14th Street Bridge
Freight Wreck Blocks
Traffic Three Hours
IS Troins Delayed;
Coupling Breaks and
Cars Are DeroiIed

More than IS inbound and outgoing
passenger trains were delayed about
three hours last night when south
bound Pennsylvania Railroad freight
train broke in two on the main line
alongside the Fourteenth Street
Bridge near Maine avenue S.W. and
blocked all rail traffic.
No one was injured in the wreck,
which occurred about 7:30 pm,
Pennsylvania Railroad officials said.
The freight was southbound and
was made up of 80 cars, according to
the officials. Motorcycle Policeman
John F. Corey. attached to the Met
ropolitan Police Traffic Division,
said he witnessed the accident as he
was operating his motorcycle over
the Fourteenth Street Bridge.
II saw the train had broken in
two just about in the middle and a
freight caE was humping along the
gravel roadbed in a cloud of dust.
About 20 cars behind it remained on
the tracks. The derailed car smacked
into a pole carrying an overhead
wire, broke it off at the base, and
then collided with the end of a
trestle and leaned over" he said.
Pending further investigation,
officials said they believed the train
separated when coupling broke.
The front cars on the train were
routed on their way soon after the
accident, while those in the rear
were returned to the railroad yards.
Among crack outgoing trains de-
layed were the Champion, Silver
Meteor and other streamliners.
Several inbound trains also were
delayed, and the passengers got off
in Alexandria or at the Potomac
Yards. Buses took the passengers
to Union Station. Trains which
unloaded south Of the wreck in
cluded the Tennessean, from New
Orleans; the Havana Special, from
Miami; the Florida Special, from
Jacksonville, and two trains from
Richmond. In all, several thousand
passengers were delayed, railroad
officials said.
Many servicemen on weekend
passes from camps in Virginia were
late in returning to their bases.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Variety Show Planned
At MONTGOMERY Blair

Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring. will present its ninth
annual variety show at $3.50 pm
April q and % in the school audi
torium.
The program will feature songs
dance numbers, choruses, dramatic
skits and instrumental solos. Tick
cts are being sold to students under
the direction of Mrs. Catherine
Ackerman, chairman.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, April g.
Apple growers of the four State
Appalachian area are being plagued
by one headache after another
After the wintry bareback OF last
week seriously damaged the poten-
tial l945 crop in many localities
there came a disclosure today that
more than 100000 bushels of last
years output still are in cold storage
plants here with no buyers in sight
Unless the fruit can be moved
into consumer channels at even a
small margin of profit, much of the
leftover frNit may have to be
dumped.
Many of the apples still in storage
are small, having been dwarfed by
last summers drought, but otherwise
are said to be of good quality. It
has been suggested by growers that
housewives buy now for canning
without sugar, which can be added
later.
Evening star., 1945-04-09

to be a combat correspondent, usu-
ally attached to intelligence units.
They didn't have enough spare men
for the patrols, he explained,
Meets Old Schoolmate.
One day he ran into an old
schoolmate at st. Johns College,
Capt. Joseph H. Giebel, George
town University alumnus. The cap
tain offered him ride in a jeep
During their ride two amphibian
tractors passed them, but they were
in front of a third when the Japs,
who were thought to have been
cleaned out Of that area, opened up
with an antitank gun.
When he finally got out of range
of the Japs and the ignited Amer
ican shells, he discovered that his
hand was wounded. He made his
way to a first-aid station and got
it dressed and continued on duty.
BY December l, 1914, Sergt.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Convention Referendum
Registration Ends Today
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, April 9.-Today
is the last day to register for partici-
patton in the State constitution con-
vention election April "a. Registra-
ton books will be reopened here the
day after the election.
Citizens who were qualified to vote
in the election last November and
others who paid their poll taxes be-
fore December IL also may vote, pro-
vided they are registered.
The convention will meet April 80
to amend the Constitution in order
that members Of the armed forces
may vote in State and local elections
without meeting poll tax and regis
tration requirements.
Evening star., 1945-04-09
North Ridge Citizens
Plan Session Toniqht

The Alexandria North Ridge Cit
izens' Association will meet at 8
o'clock tonight at the George Mason
School, Cameron Mills road. This
is the first meeting since the in
stallation of the officers for 1945,
and at which the new president,
Donald E. Jameson. will preside.
State Senator Andrew w. Clarke
and Delegate w. Seldom Washing
ton will talk informally about the
recent special session of the Gen.
eral Assembly and what effect its
actions will have on the public
school system.
Evening star., 1945-04-09

OLeary was headed homeward for
a rotation furlough. His transport
carried $500 Guadalcanal veterans
who had been overseas 81 months
and were the last of the Marines
to take part in that first campaign
of the Pacific war
Sergt. OLeary's service in the
Marines dates back to May 9, 1912
His early service as a combat cor
respondent took him to British Gui-
ana and Puerto Rico.
He was graduated from St. Johns S
College in 1887 and attended George
Washington University for two
years. He had been a member of
The Star staff for five years when
he took war leave. He makes his
home with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
y. A. OLeary, at l22 Quincy street
NE. The senior OJeary is the
veteran Capitol reporter for The
Star
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Oxon Hill PTA to Meet

The Oxon Hill Parent Teacher As
sociation will meet at pm. tomor-
row in the Oxon Hill School audi
torium. William M. Brish, assistant
superintendent of Prince Georges
County schools, will talk on Prob
lens in Transition to the 12-Year
Program"
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Homemukers to Meet

The "a homemakers' clubs o.
Montgomery County, which com.
prise the Montgomery County
Council of Homemakers' Clubs, are
scheduled to hold their semian-
nual meeting April 26 in the Pres
byterian Church at Jamestown
Several hundred club members are
expected to attend.
Evening star., 1945-04-09

w a S h i n G t o n
Sanitarium, Ia
koma Park, Md,
after a long ILL
ness.
Mrs. Plunmer
directed the Ad-
ventist Sabbath
school through
out the world
from 1913 until
her retirement
In 1886. For a
quarter of a CEN
tury she was the
ly W o m a n
member of the
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Susscer to Speak

Representative Sasscer, Democrat
of Maryland will speak at the
monthly meeting of the Independ-
ent Trade Association of Prince
Georges County at $3.50 pm. April
16 in the Riverdale Municipal Hall
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Mrs. |. Flora P|ummer Dies;
Adventist Church Leader

Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, 81, promi-
nent for more than 80 years in the
General Conference of Seventh-da
Adventists, died yesterday at the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-10-25
A CANDIDATES SUGGESTION

One of the % candidates for the city
commission has made an excellent Sugges-
ton: let the % dead ducks" give ban
quet in honor of the five winners and assure
them concerted support in promoting the
welfare Of Key West.
Nobody Is sure OF winning. this can
didate pointed out. but everybody i sure
that % candidates wiz be defeated. and
he added:
REGARDLESS II what the result Of the
election may be. there should no, be any
hard feelings. All Of Us can't win: the fact
il not one-fifth of us will pc winners. but.
winners or losers lets all pull together to
make our new form Of government a sue
cess. There are many things to be done 10
help our city. AMI lets do them and forget
about politics after the election"
Yes. an exceedingly good idea. so good
that Il should be expanded To- take in all
residents Of Key West. Those Of Va who
are not running for office have our fav-
orite candidates. and. should they be de-
feated. we should not entertain any hard
feelings. a this particular candidate said
about the p
The proposed banquet would not cost
the p losers much. individually. and much
good feeling could be engendered il il is
held. II would be something Of a get-to-
vether meeting 20 discuss the interests of
Key West: for the losers. g. well as the
winner. b. pledge themselves 70 strive to
their utmost 10 improve conditions gener-
ally in hey West.
Many Improvements are needed. IL we
are to be- a topnotch winter resort. Let the
candidates form a sort Of necleus of an or
ganization 10 work for the interests II our
city.