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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
River Victim Identified
AS Mrs. Nellie Perkins

The body of a woman found float
ing in the eastern branch of the
Anacostia River yesterday afternoon
has been identified at the District
Morgue as Mrs. Nellie M. Perkins,
"a, of 2708 Thirtieth street Sc.
Missing since Saturday afternoon,
Mrs. Perkins was identified by her
sister, Mrs. Josephine Young. of the
same address, who had called police
seeking information. There were
no marks of violence on the body,
police said.
| Pedestrians first noticed the body
at about pm. More than 1000
persons gathered at the ratings of
the bridge and at its approaches
to watch police remove the body
from the river.
The woman was wearing a three
quarter-length black fur coat, a
dark green dress and tinted
glasses. Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald is investigating.
A neighbor at the Thirtieth street
address, which is an apartment
house, said Mrs. Perkins moved
there about two weeks ago. The
neighbor said she understood Mrs.
Perkins husband had died recently
and that she often walked near the
river.
| On March 3 police removed the
body of another woman from the
Tidal Basin, and she has not yet
been identified, according to officers.
The body will be buried in Potter's
Field if unclaimed by Wednesday,
| police said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
Col. W. {. Menninqer
10 Be First Speaker
Al D. T.. Health Forum

Col. William C.. Menninger, U. S.
A., director of the Army neuropsY-
chiatry consultants' division, will Be
the principal speaker at the first of
a series of public forums under
auspices of the Washington Metro
politan Health Council of the Coun-
Gil Of Social Agencies at 8 pm.
March 81 at the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States.
Mental Health in Wartime" will
be the title for discussion, according
to Howard Strong, forum chairman
OF the council, who is secretary of
the health advisory council of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Opportunity will be given for
questions from the floor. Mental
hygiene problems of the returning
veteran will be discussed, and the
application of mental hygiene to
Government worker, housewife, bus
inessman and others on the home
front also will be considered, Mr..
Strong said
DR.. Winfred Overholser, superin-
tendent of st. Elizabeths Hospital,
has been made chairman of a Spe-
cial Committee on Arrangements
for this first forum meeting, Mr..
Strong said
Presiding will be Eugene Meyer.
publisher and editor of the Wash
lngton Post, who recently was
elected chairman of the National
Committee for Mental Hygiene. DR..
Overholser will lead the discussion
following Col. Menningers address.
Other members of the Special
Committee on Arrangements for the
first forum, who were selected due
to their special interest in mental
hygiene, are Judge Fay L. Bentley,
OF Juvenile Court; Gertrude H.
Bowling, director of the Instructive
Visiting Nurse Society; DR.. Dexter
Billiard, trustee of the William
Alanson White Psychiatric Founda-
ton; DR.. Rex E. Buxton, director of
the Washington Institute of Mental
Hygiene; David B. Karrick, presi-
dent, Fidelity Storage Co., and G..
Rowland Shaw. president of the
American Foundation for Mental
Hygiene and former Assistant Sec
rotary of State.
Mr.. Strong's committee, which is
arranging the series of forums for
consideration of many health prob
lens, includes Randolph Bishop,
executive secretary of the National
Dental Hygiene Association; Ray
Everett, executive secretary of the
Social Hygiene Society of the Dis
trict, and Willard Smith, admins
traitor of the Health Security Ad-
ministration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
ID. T.. Fireman Held
With Another Man
After Raid on Still

Two Washington men, one a Dis
trlct fireman, were arrested by
agents of the Virginia Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board during a
week end raid on a summer cottage
in the southern section of Fairfax
County.
The men, who were booked at
the Fairfax County police station
by M. K. Bryant, ABC agent, were
listed as Manford H. Dagenett, 46
of the 1900 block of D street Sc.
a member of the District Fire De-
partment, and Orrie S. Shelter, 66
operator of a parking lot in the 600
block of M street NV.
Fireman Was Suspended in 1913.
According to Battalion Chief Car
Isle S. Peterson of the Fire De-
partment, Dagenett was suspended
from the department for about nine
months following his arrest in De-
cember, 1943, on charges of posses
sing an illegal still. Police found
the still in the rear of building
in the 600 block of l. street Sc.
The fireman, private attached
to No. Is Engine Company, was
acquitted Of this charge. but was
found guilty of conduct detrimental
to the department at a special fire
department hearing last September
and was fined $244, Chief Peterson
said. He has been on the force 26
years.
The battalion chief said Dage-
nett's case is being investigated and
that he will be suspended again if
fire department officials receive an
official report of the charge from
Fairfax County police.
500 Gallon Still Seized.
According to Mr.. Bryant, Shelter
was arrested Saturday night at a
cottage in Gunston Manor, where
agents seized a 50-gallon copper
still, 100 gallons of mash and Is
gallons of whisky.
Shelter was detained at the cot
tage during the night, Mr.. Bryant
said, and Dagenett was arrested
when he appeared there Sunday
morning. Mr.. Bryant said Federal
officers accompanied Virginia agents
on the raiding party.
Shelter ana Dagenett were re-
leased on $500 bond each pending a
hearing at pm. Wednesday in
Fairfax County Trial Justice Court
on charges Of illegally manufacture
ing whisky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
D. {. Restaurant Owner
Found HANGED in Tulsa

BY the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, Mar. IA man
identified by police as Harold Lang
Conrad, Al, OF 200 Upshur street,
Washington, was found hanged in
city Jail here yesterday.
County authorities termed the
death suicide and said no inquest
would be held. Police Sergt. Harold
Beal said papers on Conradi's person
showed he had been honorably dis
charged from the Army in 1925 and
1881. He said Conrad had been
taken into custody two hours before
his death after the driver of Grey
hound bus, on which he was a pas
senger, had notified police he was
acting strangely"
Mrs. Alma Gaffney, 500 block of
Shepherd street NV, told a reporter
she was the sister in-law of Mr.,
Conrad and that she worked in a
restaurant at 200 Upshur street
NV, which was operated by Mr.
Conrad and his wife, Mrs. Thelma
Conrad.
According to Mrs. Gaffney, Mr.
Conradi had lived here about l6
years and had once been EMPLOYED
at the Soldiers Home. He is from
New Jersey, she said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
Three Men and Two Boys
Are Bitten by Dogs Here

Five persons were bitten by dogs
here over the week end and owners
of the animals were ordered to keep
them confined for five days. in ac-
cordance with police regulations.
While at the Edgewood Play
ground, Third and Evarts streets
NE, Enrico De Leonibus, is, of so
Adams street NV, was bitten on
the leg. Others bitten were: Luther
Roots, 40. colored, 1900 block of
Hamlin street NE; Clyde w. Lig-
gett, A, of 2814 Seventeenth street
NE; Roland Cline, 8, of 2611 Third
street NE. and Frank Thomas, A
colored, 1918 Rhode Island avenue
NE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12

I've been sick, but can work. I'm
handyman."
Seated before a blind rehabilita-
ton counsellor was a youth who held
printed slips of paper close to his
eyes, trying to make them out. The
councillors assistant, who handed
him the slips for the test, explained
the youth was deaf and rs per cent
blind, "but We'll find something for
him"
While it took hours for each job
seeker to go through interviewing
the physical examination and coun-
selling, 1t was explained that what
was being done there actually saved
weeks of trouble ordinarily faced in
going from place to place for all the
services and examinations connected
with placing a disabled worker.
The job-seekers didn't seem to
mind-not if there was a job at the
end of it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12

run a switchboard, be Waterman
and more than that when he gets
accustomed to his artificial leg.
In another room, a youth suffer
ing from a muscular disease was
telling a counsellor, ION my last
job I had to walk up and down
seven flights Of stairs so the doctor
thought I ought to quit" Their
he added. But I've rested and II
be able to get along swell now"
Hoping for a job he could hold
was a former pipeftter for the
Washington Terminal Co., who hac
lost his arm in fire at home Thai
was a year ago. He has worked
two days since as a department
store messenger
There was a World War veteran
just out of the hospital.
Counsellor Blind.
Il have a glass eye, but you cant
notice it. can you?" he asked eagerly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
Charles BIount, D. c. Survivor
Of Ommoney Boy, Reaches US.

my wife and I are happier than
know how to say" said Mr.. Blount,
who has been employed by The Star
more than "a years.
His son, he said, lost everything
he had" when the carrier was sunk,
and would have to wait several days
in California to be re-outfitted
before starting home. He was unin-
jured, he said.
Seaman Blount, who for a time
was a part-time circulation depart
meIlt employee of The Star, was born
in Washington and was graduated
from Bladensburg High School in
June, 1943. He entered the service in
October, 1943, and was assigned to
sea duty early in 1914. He celebrated
his Goth birthday February 8 while
on the rescue vessel. his father said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
House Passes
; a
Commissioners
Height Limit Increase
For New Georgetown
Hospital Approved

The House passed unanimously
today two bills recommended by the
House District Committee-one to
raise the height limit from 80 to ITO
feet for the new Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital, and the other to
outlaw 80 days after the end of a
Congress, the use of the special
congressional automobile tags.
Both bills now go to the Senate,
where the Georgetown Hospital
measure already has been Endorsed
by the Senate District COMMITTEES
and is awaiting action by the Senate.
This bill, which would amend the
1910 building heights law, is needed
to permit the university to carry out
a project already begun under a
grant from the Federal Works
Agency, supplemented by large con-
tributions from the university.
Chairman Randolph of the Dis
trict Committee explained that the
plan involves a roof height only 8
feet more than now permitted and
that the building would be set back
165 feet from Reservoir road near
Thirty-ninth street NV.
Minority Leader Martin asked if
the bill would set up any conflicts
with a measure sponsored by Sem
ator Tydings, Democrat, of Mary
land for Federal appropriation for
provision of additional needed hos
pital facilities for the National Cap
ital, and Mr.. Randolph assured him
it would not.
Chairman Randolph explained to
the House that the other bill, to
amend the Traffic Act, was needed
to prevent abuse of the congress
sional tags after the opening of a
new Congress. Many of them, he
said, had fallen into the hands of
unauthorized persons. The bill
would provide fine of up to $500
or 80 days imprisonment, or both,
for anyone found using a congress
sional tag 80 days after the sine die
adjournment of a Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12

Seaman Charles e. Blount,, jr.
whose father is employed in The
Star composing room and who was
aboard the aircraft carrier Om-
nancy Bay when it was destroyed
by enemy bombs January 4, reached
the United States in a rescue YES
sci yesterday.
Seaman Blount called his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Blount,
5316 Gallatin street, Rogers Heights,
Md, at 30 o'clock this morning to
inform them he had arrived safely
at Alameda, Calf, and would soon
get 30-day survivors furlough."
The call was the first direct news
they have had of their son since
they received a letter written Christ
mas Day, and it ended nine-week
interval of suspense since the sink
ing Of the carrier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
DR.. Sizoo 10 Speak
'At Noon Services
OF Epiphany Church

The fourth week in the lenten
season will be observed by churches
throughout the Washington area
with special services and programs.
The daily MONDAY service at the
Church of the Epiphany will have
as its guest speaker today, through
Wednesday, the Rev. DR.. Joseph r.
Sizoo, rector of the Collegiate
Church of st. Nicholas, New York
City. DR.. Sizoo spoke at the mid
day meeting here last year. The
Rev. DR.. Peter Marshall. minister of
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, will preach at the $50
pm. service Wednesday and at the
midday meeting Thursday and
Friday.
Services held under auspices of
the Washington Federation of
Churches at the Church of the
Epiphany at noon Saturdays will
this week be conducted by the Rev.
Warren D. Bowman, pastor of
Washington City Church of the
Brethren.
Msgr. Fulton j. Sheen will con-
tinue his series of lenten talks at
the 8 pm. service Wednesday at st.
Matthews Cathedral Catholic
worshipers attending the $50 pm.
Wednesday service at st. Patrick's
Church will hear the Rev. Robert H.
Sweeney, c. S. c., deliver the fourth
in his lenten series of sermons.
Five speakers were listed by the
Rev. DR.. Edward Gabler, pastor of
Christ Episcopal Church and presi-
dent of the Southeast Inter-Church
Council, for the daily midday serv-
ice today through Friday at the
Penn Theater, $50 Pennsylvania
avenue Sc.
The speakers listed are DR.. Joseph
Caricofe, pastor of Church of the
Brethren, today; DR.. M. Chandler
Stith, District Baptist Convention
executive secretary, tomorrow; DR..
Donald Glare, Capitol Heights Luth-
eran Church, Wednesday; DR.. Cab
lC1, AAuu oody, oilo Ii AAdliy IFdui,
pastor of Epworth Methodist
Church, Friday.
The Rev. DR.. Oscar F. Black
welder, pastor of Lutheran Church
of the Reformation, will address the
weekly lenten luncheon at 1890
pm. Wednesday at the Central
YMCA, 1876 G street NV, DR..
Page NICK. Etchison, president of
the Organized Bible Glass, an
nounced today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
lsHRatonmiq
&Remiinderr@a

Meats, Fats, Etc. - Book 4. red
stamps Q-5 through SIS good
through March 81; stamps It's
through KS good through April
%; stamps YES, Us, Az through
d. good through June 2. Stamps
E-2 through J-2 good through
June 80.
Canned Goods, ESc.-Book 4, blue
stamps KS through Us, Az and
b. good through March 81;
stamps ca through ca good
through April %; stamps H-2
through No good through June
2; stamps No through So good
through June 80. Each stamp
worth 10 points.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn In.
Sugar-Stamp IS valid for pounds
through June 2.
Gasoline-A-14 coupons valid for {
gallons each through March 81.
BIS, C-5, BE-, CO, B-7 and CT
coupons good for 5 gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps /, and 8
In Book No. good indefinitely for
one pair Of shoes each,
Fuel Oil-Periods one, two, three,
four and five coupons good for 10
gallons per unit through heating
year. Old period four and five
coupons from last winter good
through year. Consumers in this
area should not have used more
than SO per cent of their ration
as Of today.
Degree days-Total for month. 219:
total for season to date. 1901:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
3 Agencies Join in First Washington lob Clinic
To Find Work for IS Idle and HondicoppedM Men
Group Combed From
Employment Files
For Rehabilitation

Three Government agencies today
combined forces to find essential
workers among the city's disabled
veterans and civilians as Washing
toms first sob clinic" for the ham
dicapped opened at the District of
Columbia Rehabilitation Service.
BY midmorning more than IS
men on crutches, with empty sleeves
or glass eyes, rated "unemployable"
in peacetime, had crowded the Re-
Mobilization Service Office at 4O2
Sixth street NV.
On hand to give the disabled their
chance at a war Job and also meet
the needs of Government and es-
sential industry were doctors, inter-
viewers, counselors, placement Off
GERS, examiners and rehabilitation
experts from the Civil Service Com
mission, War ManpoWer Commits
sion and the Rehabilitation Service.
Invite Disabled Group.
The social agencies, the employ
ment offices and the Public Assist
ance Division had been told to comb
their files for disabled jobless and
invite them to the clinic. Some of
the would-be workers hadn't held
job for years. Some had tried for
work in peacetime when there were
more workers than jobs. They had
been turned down and had stopped
trying. Others had suffered recent
injuries which damaged their job
chances.
One of the most determined job
seekers was 50-year -old veteran
of the Merchant Marine. His ci-
william coat was decorated with serv-
ice badges. He had been torpedoed
twice and had lost leg.
He has held one job since he
found out he could never go to sea
again.
II worked at drill press in
Philadelphia and my work was all
right" he said. But the boss let
me 60 after two weeks. He said
he was afraid I'd fall because /
was working on crutches."
Veteran Out of Hospital.
He wanted to tell the interviewer
that he could do many types of work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
Rites Held in Charleston
For joseph T. Waters

Funeral services for Joseph
Thomas Waters, AZ, who operated
drugstores at Gaithersburg and
Rockville for many years, were held
at the home in Charleston, S. c..
where he died Thursday Of heart
attack. Burial was in Charleston.
Mr.. Waters was q son Of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles @. Waters
and lived In Montgomery County
until about four and half years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
Army Officer S Baby Dies
|0f Suifocafion al Station

Lucien Perrault, III, month old
son of an Army officer, died in a
first-aid room at Union Station
yesterday after being found un-
conscious by his mother in crib
in Pullman on a northbound
train. Suffocation was given as
cause of death.
The child was an only son. Dep
uty Coroner Christopher j. Murphy
said he would issue a certificate of
accidental death.
With his parents, 1t. and Mrs.
Lucien Perrault of Waterbury
Conn.,. the child was en- route to
that city from Columbus Miss
Air Field, where the officer had
been stationed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
Group 10 Pick
Future School
Sites Named
Coordination Sought
Between RecreutionoI,
Education Programs

A committee composed of officials
of the schools, the Recreation De-
partment, Municipal Architects Of
flee and the National Capital Parks
Office was named today to work
out comprehensive program for
selection of school sites, with provi-
sions for school and recreational
facilities.
The committee was named at a
meeting Of joint committee of
school and recreation officials in
the Office of Col. Joseph D. Arthur,
jr., Assistant Engineer Commits
sioner.
The chairmen of the several sub
committees will be Milo F. Chris
Hansen, superintendent of recrea-
ton: Robert L. Haycock, superin-
tendent of schools; Frank T. Cart
side, an executive of the parks Office,
and Archie G. Hutson, deputy di-
rector of construction in the archi-
tect's Office.
ordination Is Sought.
Harry S. Wender, chairman of
the Recreation Board, said the pur-
pose of the program was to CO.
ordinate recreational and educa-
tional activities in various neighbor-
hoods by migrating the program of
both systems in school property. Ac-
cording to Mr. Wender, there has
been overlapping of activities on the
part of school and recreation Of
ficialS in some areas and COM
plete separation of activities in
others.
Mr.. Wender said the joint COM
mittee will plan in advance future
school sites that will lend them
selves not only to community recre-
ational facilities but to facilities for
students as well. Mr.. Wender said
this might make it possible for one
agency to do the maintenance work
in one neighborhood.
AS examples of unfortunate lack of
planning in the past, Mr.. Wender
cited the Paul Junior High School
and the Bundy School.
DOtH TOOTiy fldceu.
He said the Paul School had been
placed in the middle of the site so
that it had been impossible to de-
velop proper Fairgrounds, and the
Bundy School had been constructed
so that mot a blade of grass sur
rounded It," Within three months
all of the panes of glass in the
Bundy school had been broken, pre-
sumably by youngsters who lacked
proper recreational facilities.
Among others at the meeting were
DR.. Garrett C. Wilkinson, and Jere
J. Crane, both first assistant super
of schools; Lawson j..
Cantrell, an assistant superintendent
of schools; c. Melvin Sharpe, who
is member of both the school and
recreation boards; Mrs. Velma Will
liams, of the School Board; James
E. Schwab. vice chairman, and Mrs.
Alice c. Hunter, secretary, of the
Recreation Board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
Dr.. Rustin Will Refuse
Call 10 Cleveland Church

DR.. John w. Rustin, pastor Of
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church, disclosed yesterday that he
had received a call from the First
Methodist Church of Cleveland.
DR.. Rustin said he expects to visit
the Cleveland congregation as a
matter of courtesy within the next
week, but intends to remain at
Mount Vernon Place.
President of the Washington Fed
Grafton of Churches, DR.. Rustin
came to the District in 1896 from
Client Methodist Church of Norfolk,
Va. The Mount Vernon place church
is one of the city's largest Protestant
congregations, having approximately
$500 members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
Houston Editor Dies

HOUSTON, Tex, Mar. II tP.-
William C. Repass. 40, managing
editor Of the Houston Chronicle,
died yesterday. He had been manag-
ing editor of the Chronicle since
1884. Funeral arrangements have
mot been completed. !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
81, 300 Bracelet Is Lost

y Mrs. Eleanor K. Hampstead, wife
of naval officer, yesterday reported
the loss of a 81 300 bracelet Satur-
day night in taxicab between the
Naval Observatory and the Statler
Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
Church Dinner Tomorrow

The Woman's Society for Chris
tan Service will serve roast beef
dinner from 5 to Z pm. tomorrow,
at Wilson Memorial Methodist
Church, 754 Eleventh street Sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
RiverduIe PTA to Meet

The Riverdale (Md0 Parent
Teacher Association will meet at 8
pm. tomorrow at the school. Com
mittee reports will be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
.29 D. {. Men. TO Report
For Induction Today

Twenty-Five District men have
been ordered to report for induction
into the armed forces today. Names
of the men follow:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12

Degree days-Total for month, 219:
total for season to date. 1901:
normal for seaeep to date, 3,75s.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-09-06
Honor For Oarsmen

Wyandotte shell crews were honored pub
hcly at the inter-service club banquet last
night, for the performance they gave at
Canadian and national races this year.
The members of the Wyandotte Boat club
did an outstanding job this summer in ad-
vancing the reputation of Wyandotte crews
which had been established in past years.
The crews, representatives of Roosevelt high
school and Mount Carmel high school, were
successful at St. GATHERINGS, Canada, at
Philadelphia races, and in local events.
Credit is also due their coaches and man
ayers for tutelage and backing they gave
the boys.
This is the first year that all service clubs
of the city have banded together to honor
the local crews. 1t is such recognition from
Wyandotte organizations that provides as
much inspiration for success of the crews
as the aid of their coaches and managers
and their own pulling power.