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Evening star., 1945-01-30
Sergt. Amber
|Of Falls Church
Has Close Call

Sergt. Clarence Anlbler, formerly
OF SOB South Meadow Lane, Falls
church, Va, had a narrow escape
from death in Koslar on the 9th
Army front, according to a dispatch
from Chicago Daily News Corre-
spondent Jack Bell.
This is Mr.. Bells account of the
incident:
Voices seemed to come from under
the street as we walked through
Koslar. We stopped and listened.
They were coming from under the
sidewalk.
We peered through the iron bars
of a little window in the street,
half way up the side of the house.
During the night a Jerry air bomb
had blown the house to broken
bricks and broken timber. In the
cellar, pinned down by tons of
wreckage were Sergt. George Mar
shal, Cambridge, Mass; Sergt.
Clarence Amber, Falls Church, Va.
and Pfc. Lawrence Goldsmith, New
York.
They weren't hurt. In fact, they
were having lot of fun, now that
the danger wos over.
We'll get a sledge and knock
hole in the foundation" we prom
iSed.
You'll do nothing of the sort"
they said. There's Jerry dud
lyin' right there-and don't you
move it. The captain promised to
get us out soon as the company
takes that pillbox on the river"
We backed carefully away from
that sleeping INT charge.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Birthday Balls Tonight Sold Out;
Fund Drive Already Over Top
Twenty Film stors to CImox Two-Doy Stoy
By WhirIwind Visits to Many Affairs

men at the service hospitals who
stood on crutches, sat legless in
wheelchairs, and clapped one good
hand against leg in lieu of a hand
that was gone, audiences that
laughed and whistled and stomped
their feet.
The audience at the Naval Hos
pital at Bethesda gave the most ap-
plause to their fellow sailor, Seaman
Gene Kelly-and Army Navy rivalry
didn't stop him from being called
back for encores by the soldiers at
Walter Reed either Servicemen
whistled loudly at Myrna Loy, Gale
Storm, Georgia Carroll, Veronica
Lake, Ella Logan and Jane Wyman
Masters of ceremony for the two
groups which alternated at the hos
pitfalls were Kay Kyser, who kept up
steady stream of Southern-ac-
cented joking, and George Murphy
who sang, danced and did a little
serious talking.
Stars Visit Wards.
After each group had put on a
program for crowd OF soldiers at
each hospital, members visited the
wards, sang there, signing short
snorter bills, or implanted the i'm
print of a famous mouth on
white plaster cast.
At the broadcast from the Com
Office it was 8-year-old
Margaret O'Brien, her long brown
braids swinging, her brown eyes big.
and shy smile at her audience,
who won the loundest applause.
Il like to walk and you like to
walk, so we should help all the
little girls and boys who can't walk
and skate and dance like you and
I can by giving as much as we can,"
she told them.
Between their dashes, by cab and
Red Cross Motor Corps buses, from
one engagement to another, the
stars found time to visit the lunch
con meeting of the Women's Ma
tional Press Club and to stop for
several minutes at the entrance of
each building to sign countless pro-
grams and bills, wave at babies and
chat with the crowds who waited
to see them.
Those here-all of whom took
part in every activity after their
arrival-also included Alan Ladd
and Sue Carol, Charles Bickford,
Monty Wooley, ,Suzanna Foster and
Joe E. Brown.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
BaIdinger 10 Address
Alexandra B mai Birth

DR.. Milton Baldinger, acting dean
of the National University Law
School, will be the principal speaker
at the installation of officers of the
newly formed Alexander Lodge of
B'nai Birth at hrmory Hall, South
Royal street, at $3.50 o'clock tonight.
DR.. Baldinger, who is secretary of
the Judge Advocate Generals Asso-
citation, is president of Argo Lodge,
B'nai Birth.
Maurice Rosenberg, president of
the new lodge, said that Mayor Will
liam T. Wilkins will make an address
of welcome and Julius Fischer, secre-
tary of the Grand Lodge of the fifth
district, also will speak.
City officials and other prominent
guests have been invited to Join the
100 lodge members and their friends
at the installation ceremonies and
the buffet supper and dance which
will follow.
Tickets have been sold and the
proceeds will be donated to the Alex
andria Committee of the National
| Infantile PARALYSIS Foundation
Evening star., 1945-01-30
School Quarantined
For Scarlet Fever

The students and staff of Virginia
Episcopal High School, near Alexan-
drla, were under quarantine today
as the result of an outbreak of scar
let fever among students.
DR.. Nelson Podolnick, Fairfax
County health officer, said the quar-
antine was ordered last night and
will remain in effect for a week. He
said IA students are in the school
inf1rmary with scarlet fever symp-
toms, but so far it is a mild type of
the disease.
DR.. Podolnick said all day stu
dents are required to remain at
home for the quarantine period and
boarding students and staff mem
bers must remain on the campus.
Glasses are being conducted with
out interruption. About 225 stu
dents. 16 teachers and % other en-
ployes are affected.
The quarantine did not affect de-
llveries of food and other supplies
Evening star., 1945-01-30
County Delegation
May Offer Home Rule
Bill for Montgomery
By the Associated Press.


ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 30.-Montgom-
cry County legislators disclosed to-
day that the county probably would
introduce its own home rule" bill
in view of what they termed the
"unlikelihood" of passage of the
Statewide proposal.
Members of the county's Assem-
bly, delegation said that Friday night
the county postwar planning COM
mittee was expected to indorse a
local home-rule measure which
would retain many of the major
points of the charter government
proposal defeated by referendum
vote in Montgomery County at the
November election.
Under the proposed local home
rule statute, responsibility for carry
ing out legislation for the county
would rest with the five-man Board
of County Commissioners and a
county manager who would be elect
ed for a two-year period The char
ter proposal would have required the
election of such a manager for a
life term.
The bill would apply to Montgom-
cry County only.
Another difference in the cur
rent proposal from that of charter
government is that the commission
ers would hold office under the pres
ent laws, while the council govern
ment DrODOSed nv the cha rtar WOULD
have been composed of nonsalaried
officials who would meet for a 30
day period every two years.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Jan. 30.-Virginia
ranks as the lowest State in the
Nation in per capita expenditure
for public assistance, the Virginia
State Department of Public Welfare
announced today.
The per capita expenditure for
1914 was $153 for old-age assistance,
aid to dependent children, aid to
the blind and general relief. Since
the Federal Government pays half
OF all grants, except general relief,
the per capita expenditure in Vir-
ginia from State and local funds
amounted to only 81 cents.
No other State had an expendi-
ture so low, and 43 States had per
capita expenditures for these pur-
poses which were more than twice
that of Virginia. In 1943 Virginia
was 45th in rank.
Virginia is far below the 1914
national average, which is $7.35 per
capita expenditure; far below States
of equal population; far below
States which handle equal case
loads, the department announced.
According to Miss May Hawkins,
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Alexandra Polio Drive
Reaches S2,40O Total

First reports of Alexandria's COL
lection from the March o. Dimes
drive show that $2,4O0 was COL
lected at the two King street booths
according to Clarence M. Hite, cam
paign chairman.
Mr.. Hite said funds donated in
boxes throughout the city have not
been collected and that this money
IN addition to the receipts from to-
nights ceremonies of the B'nai
Birth Lodge will undoubtedly bring
the total far above the city's $4,000
quota.
In announcing the amounts COL
lected by the various civic groups
that manned the booths, Mr.. Hite
gave special credit to the Lions
Club, which under the leadership
OF its president, Nicholas Colasanto
collected 1898, turning in $619 on
the opening day of the campaign
Other groupss collections were as
follows: Kiwanis Club, 1855; Rotary
Club, $434; American Legion, 1888:
Junior Chamber of Commerce
$139, and Civitan Club. S12O
Evening star., 1945-01-30

ROCKVILLE HERO-Lt. Leon
ard B. Doggett. jr., "a, Rock
vile hero who distinguished
himself on the western front
by holding off a strong attack
by elements of a Nazi division
with one understrength Amer
lean company until an un-
armed detachment of Ameri-
can medical men could escape
from a French village. 1t.
DOggett, whose wife lives with
his parents in Rockville, was
dismissed from the Army
Air Forces last summer for
dangerous flying" He trans
ferred to the infantry, where
he won q commission.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Alexandra MOI Affected
By Street Light Brownout

Brownout rules will not affect Al
exandria's street lighting, which is
considered inadequate now, City
Manager Carl Budwesky said yes
terday.
Mr.. Budwesky conferred yester-
day with Charles M. Jones, manager
of the Alexandria Office of the Vir-
ginia Electric & Power Co., who de-
livered to him a copy of the War
Production Board regulations, which
become effective Thursday.
Alexandria has no white way"
lighting as described in the regula-
tions, Mr.. Budwesky said, and it's
streets, including the business Sec
tion are not now considered suffi-
ciently lighted.
Observance of the regulations by
business firms is not a concern of
the city, Mr.. Budwesky said, and
there is no use of coal by any func-
tions of the city which can be elm
mated or cut down, he added.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Maryland Flyer Killed
In Crash, Wife Learns

Corp Francis M. Burch, %, who
was among five missing Army Air
Forces crewmen who parachuted
January Is from a Flying Fortress
disabled on a combat training fight
from the Gulfport CMiss.) Army Air
field, was killed in the accident, the
War Department has notified his
wife, Mrs. Esther Burch, Colmar
Manor, Md.
The young radio operators body
was found Saturday in Lake Sabine,
Tex.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. Thursday at Gasch's funeral
home, Hyattsville, Md, with burial
in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Corpl. Burch was born in Cumber-
land, Md, and attended Bladens-
burg High School. He is the broth
er of Leonard H. Burch, University
Park, Md, who is, in charge OF
rationing for Prince Georges
County.
Besides his widow and his brother
he is survived by his 5-year-old
son, Danny NJ, and a sister, Miss
Dorothy M. Burch, University Park.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Page Quits Virginia
Senate Race Amid
Speculation on Future
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 30.-An-
nouncement by Vivian L. Page, for
mer State Senator from Norfolk,
that he has withdrawn as candi-
datS1fo the vacancy caused by the
resignation of State Senator Ralph
H. Daughton brought speculation on
Capitol Hill today on whether the
Norfolk leader was planning to make
his third bid for Governor in the
State primary this year.
Long a thorn in the side of the
political organization of Senator
Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, Mr..
Page announced some months ago
that he was in favor of scrapping
the States poll tax as a prerequisite
to voting. This issue was prom
inent in his unsuccessful campaign
for Congress against Senator Daugh-
ton last fall.
His withdrawal leaves the field
open to James Hoge Tyler, III, who
resigned Saturday as a member of
the House Of Delegates to announce
tnaC ne Will be a CANDIDATE to sue
ceed Senator Daughton.
In announcing his withdrawal
from the senatorial contest, Senator
Page referred to my future political
plans" but did not elaborate.
when I announced" he said, Il
expected to be candidate to fill the
vacancy in the State Senate. I
thought the election would be called
much sooner than is now indicated.
Since then my private legal engage
ments and also my future political
plans have made me decide not to
become candidate"
MIR. Page was candidate for Gov
ernor in the last two primaries. He
was defeated by the late Gov.
Price and also by Gov. Darden.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Maryland Library
Proposal Would Cosi
22-66c Per Capita
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMO Jan. 30.-The
$999 900 county library system rec
commended for Maryland by the
State Planning Commission would
cost the average citizen from %
cents annually in the poorest coun-
ties to &c cents in the wealthier ones,
commission estimates disclosed yes
terday.
In it's plan for financing the pro-
posed system of free public libraries,
to be organized by counties but ad-
ministered by a State library agency
under the State Board of Education,
the commission based its estimate
Ion a $4,000 annual minimum for
operation of county library.
1t recommended Scent tax levy
on each 500 of assessed valuation in
the county, with a State equaliza-
ton fund and State aid for books
providing the remainder of the min
imum in a county which could not
raise that sum by taxation alone.
The county levy would provide
about $788, 800 of the estimated $780,
600 total cost for the system, the
commission report showed, leaving
about $4,000, or 81 per cent of the
total, as the State share.
1t was suggested that the State
sum could be raised by a levy of rs
cents per 500 of assessed valuation.
Examining the cost of the pro-
gram on an individual basis, the
commission estimated that in the
richest county, where the per capita
assessed valuation is $1,749.95, the
3-cent levy would make the average
cost to the citizen SIS cents year
in county taxes, which would remain
in the county.
The States levy would cost the
same taxpayer 1925 cents, or about
Sc cents altogether for library serv-
ice at the minimum level.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Mrs. Clark Worburton
Named to PTA Office

Mrs. Clark Warburton, Mclean,
Va, was elected vice chairman for
Fairfax County at a meeting of the
Executive Committee of Northern
Virginia district of Parent Teacher
Associations, 1t was announced to-
day by DR.. Abner Robertson, exec
utive secretary.
An intercounty Speakers Bureau,
to serve Arlington, Alexandria,
Fairfax, Loudoun, Fauquier and
Prince William, also was formed.
Mrs. George Justusson was named
chairman. Mrs. r. A.Osborn was
named health chairman for the
district.
At the annual meeting of the dis
trict in Manassas, Va, on April IS,
representatives viii discuss the
Denny School Commission report,
and panel discussion will be held
on Federal aid for Virginia schools.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Berwyn Annexation
Referendum Slated
To Be Held Tonight
Residents of Berwyn Heights, Nd,

Residents of Berwyn Heights, Nd,
will vote tonight on proposal to
annex the Berwyn area. The ref
erendum will be held from to 8
pm. at the Berwyn Heights Fire
house.
The plan would combine the two
areas and would include all the land
west of the Baltimore g. Ohio Rail-
road, north of Lakeland, east of
Paint branch and south of Green
belt road.
The proposal also calls for the
creation of five districts with a
councilman to be elected from each
and tax rate Of 20 cents on each
500 Of assessed valuation.
Plan Mass Meeting.
8 pm. tomorrow in the Berwyn
School, residents of the area will
hold a mass meeting to decide
whether to take different course
and join the proposed incorporation
of the College Park area. DR.. H. C.
Byrd, president of the University of
Maryland, will be the principal
speaker.
AS tentatively outlined by MEM
bers of the Committee for the I'M
provement of College Park, this pro-
posal would include all the area
west of Edmonston road, north of
Riverdale and University Park, east
of Colesville road, south of Metzerott
road and west of Paint branch.
A final decision on the boundaries
is expected to be made at a mass
of residents of the College
Park area at pm. Thursday in the
university's Agriculture Building au-
ditorium.
Tax Rate Is Given.
The proposed tax rate would be
Is cents per $100 on improved prop
erty, 10 cents on unimproved lots
and cents on undeveloped land.
In letter sent to all residents OF
the Berwyn area, Ralph II. Case
Berwyn, pointed out that there viii
be a substantial increase in both the
College Park and Berwyn areas after
the war. !.
Declaring that "a sound plan now
is worth dozen plans later" Mr.
Case urged residents to make up
your minds" in order to prepare for
the postwar growth in both COM
munities.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
VirginioSpends Less forWeIfore
Than Any Other Stute in Nation

commissioner of the department,
the factors contributing to Vir-
ginia's low rank are:
Virginians have been slow to ac-
cept the concepts of social security
and the purpose behind public well
fare.
There is a lack of kneweldge with
in the State of the existing need
for public assistance.
Basic needs have been interpreted
so narrowly that only shelter, cloth
ing and food are considered.
There has been a lack of accept
ance in Virginia of "the right Of the
people to apply for assistance when
the need, the right to receive such
assistance, the right to use ones own
judgment in spending a grant as
one thinks best"
Public welfare grants in Virginia
are so low many persons will not
take advantage of them, even when
in dire need, since the grants cam
not help them, Miss Hankins ex-
planned. AS result, she said, moth
ers of small children seek jobs which
take them from their families when
they are needed most at home.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Attorney Defends Action
In Delaying RandIe Case
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 30.-
States Attorney Marvin I. Anderson
|of Anne Arundel County declared
yesterday he was exercising the pre-
rogative of his Office when he moved
in Circuit Court to stet the charge
of assault with intent to kill against
Mrs. Helen Aileen Randle.
He gave no indication as to when
the charge might be heard.
Mr.. Anderson had entered the
motion, which in effect would dis
miss without removing from the
court records the charge filed in
the wounding of Mrs. Randle's hus-
band, Ulmo S. Randle, at the Randle
home January 81, 1943.
Mrs. Randle was convicted Of
manslaughter but acquitted of mur-
der in the fatal shooting of 17-year-
old Allen Wiley, friend of her hus-
band, and was sentenced to five
years In the Women's Prison at
Jessups. She was sentenced May Is,
1943.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Service Men and Women
To Attend Laurel Ball

Five hundred and fifty service
men and women from Fort George
G. Meade, Md, are expected to at
tend the Presidents birthday ball
tonight at the Laurel USO Club.
Dancing will begin at 8:15 pm.
and will continue until midnight
when an 80-pound birthday cake
will be cut by Miss Jean Dorsett,
president Of the Laurel Girls Service
Organization, and Judge George p.
Welzant, grand commander Of Al
Gala Caravan. Music will be by
Buster Fleister's Rhythmonians.
Among those expected to attend
the dance are 400 service men, $50
service women, $50 members Of the
Girls Service Organization and about
100 invited GUESTS.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Two Workers Fined,
Employers Freed in
Sunday Liquor Sales

Arthur Berned, jr., 81, of 202e
Hlgdon road NE, an employe at
Otto's Grill, Colmar Manor, and
Louise Traynor, %, Bladensburg, a
waitress at Benny's Tavern, Brent
wood, were fined $3.50 each in
Hyattsville Police Court yesterday
after they pleaded guilty to charges
OF selling liquor on Sunday.
AT the same time the wording
of the liquor law resulted in the
acquittal by Trial Magistrate Alan
Bowie of Benny Bass, %, Brent
wood, and Walter Shelton. 49,
Hyattsville, owners of the two tav-
erns, who were charged with per-
mitting the sales.
Charles F. Mckay, jr., attorney
for the two proprietors, contended
that under the law the defendants
must knowingly" permit the sale
In order to be convicted. Testimony
showed, he claimed, that neither
Bass nor Shelton were present when
the sales were made.
Assistant States Attorney Igna-
thus j. Keane agreed with Mr.. Nc
Kay and requested Judge Bowie to
nolle PROSE- charges against the two
men. Mr.. Keane declared, however.
that this is a glaring deficiency in
enforcement of the liquor law and
should be remedied by the State
Legislature.
The cases of George H. Williams.
Sc, operator of the Hi-Boy, charged
with selling whisky on Sunday, and
Oscar j. Goodrum, A, operator of
Bob's Liquor Store, also in Colmar
Manor, charged with selling whisky
without a license, were postponed
to February 9 at Upper Marlboro
Police Court.
Trials of Max Pincus, "a, pro-
prletor of the Pincus Grill, Colmar
Manor, charged with permitting the
sale of whisky on Sunday, and Leon
Cohen, IS, of 1877 E street NE, an
employe at the establishment,
charged with selling whisky on Sun
day, were postponed to February 10
at HyattSville Police Court.
Evening star., 1945-01-30

President Roosevelt is SO years old
today, and, as they have for the past
IL years, District residents will cele-
brate the day by giving their dimes
and their dollars to fight infantile
paralysis and to attend the gala
birthday balls throughout the city
tonight.
Already the drive this year has
exceeded last years record total Of
more than 100000, and, with money
still pouring in to the ball funds, the
Mile o. Dimes and the March of
Dimes, the District is expected again
to lead the country in per capita
contributions.
The 20 Hollywood stars who helped
make the drive a success by insur-
ing a sellout for all the birthday
activities will lunch at the White
House today, then make their Sec
ond visits to service hospitals and
climax a whirlwind two-day stint of
entertainment by appearing at all
of the birthday balls tonight-at
the Maydower, Shoreham, Statler,
Wardman Park, Washington and
Willard Hotels, the Lincoln Colon
made and the Stage Door Canteen.
Split Second Schedule.
There was nothing scheduled for
the stars this morning-except a
chance to get a little sleep. They
have been on a split-second sched-
ule since they arrived Sunday. Yet
until 4 am. this morning-when
their escorts were dropping YEARLY
the stars continued to laugh and
sign autographs.
Their day yesterday was high
lighted by a broadcast from Com
missioner John Russell Young's Of
flee, visits to service hospitals, an
official dinner with TOO of Washing
tons celebrities. and the midnight
shows at the Earle, Capitol and
Howard Theaters.
Trains were late, planes delayed,
one actress, Linda Darnen, was sick
but the show went On.
Thousands Pay $3.50.
Their largest audiences were at
the midnight shows. Thousands of
persons, who had paid up to $3.50
for tickets, roared with laughter at
the oral punctuation of Victor Borge,
and the double-talki chatter of
Danny Kaye.
But the audience that the stars
liked the best-according to them
was the crowd of wounded service
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Two Baltimore Men, Held
In Hijocking, Give Boil
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 30-Two Bal
timoreans were free today under
5000 bond each pending grand iury
action after hearing on charges
in connection with hijacking a 500
600 load of whisky.
The men released in bail by United
States Commissioner Ernest Volkart
were identified by the FBI as Joseph
Bach, former truck driver, and
Max Dublin.
FBI Director ]. Edgar Hoover had
announced their arrest on charges
OF receiving part Of 500 cases of
whisky consigned to Chicago but
driven IN truck to Richmond, Va.
December n.
Evening star., 1945-01-30

In the counties, teachers having
charge of two-teacher elementary
schools would be paid 500 addi-
tional per school year. The princi-
pal of an elementary school with
from two to five teachers, would get
5000 year additional; with from
six to nine teachers, $400 year ad-
ditional, and with 10 or more teach
ers, $500 a year additional.
A teacher in charge of a one or
two teacher high school, which offers
a year or two years of high school
work, would receive 5000 year extra.
Scale for Principals.
The salary of a teacher holding
second grade certificate would be
$3.50 and teacher with third
grade certificate would be paid $3.50.
The salary scale for high school
principals with from one to five
teachers would be as follows: