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Evening star., 1945-09-21
Lusby Area in Calvert County
Recommended as Park Site

the Lusby site, the report stated,
contains 2,100 acres, 1900 of which
are wooded; interesting topograph-
ic features, a splendid bathing beach
on Chesapeake Bay, and offers
splendid opportunities for the de-
velopment of cabin colonies and
camping areas"
The report estimated the site
could be acquired for approximately
SLOT 400, well within the maximum
acquisition cost of $l25, 900 set by
the Legislature.
Specific conditions and require
ments applicable to the particular
site to be selected, as set forth by
the several departments having an
interest in the actual operation Of
the park when once established, were
reported by the planning commis-
sion as fulfilled in the Lusby site.
The Lusby area was recommended
following study of sites In Cecil,
Kent, Queen Annes, Talbot, Hartford,
Baltimore. Anne Arundel. Charles,
ST. Marys and Calvert Counties.
The Lusby area Is rs miles from
Baltimore, and 50 miles from Laurel,
considered as the center Of Maryland
population.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Martin J. Keane, 40,
Former RiverdaIe
Physician, Dies

Capt. Martin j. Keane, 40, former
Riverdale Md physician and
Georgetown University Medical
School instructor, died yesterday in
Walter Reed Hospital of a cerebral
hemorrhage. DR.. Keane, who had
been in the Army Medical Corps a
year, was stationed at the Forest
Glen Rehabilitation Center.
DR.. Keane taught anatomy and
surgery at Georgetown and main
tanned a research laboratory in his
Riverdale Office He made intensive
studies of leukemia because his
mother, Mrs. Catherine Keane, died
Of that disease in 1899.
He was born in Washington and
attended Gonzaga High School and
Georgetown Medical School. After
graduation in 1880 he practiced
medicine in Riverdale before en-
tering the Army. He was a men,
Der of the Knights Of Columbus,
the Kiwanis Club, the Prince
Georges County Chamber of Com
merce, the American College of
Physicians and Surgeons, the Amer
ican Medical Association and the
county and State medical societies.
Requiem high mass will be cele-
brated at 10 am. Monday in st.
Jerome's Catholic Church, Hyatts-
vile. Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery.
DR.. and Mrs. Mary s. Keane lived
at 6311 Baltimore avenue, Riverdale.
Other survivors are brother, AS
sistant Prince Georges County
States Attorney Ignatius ]. Keane
University Park, and two sisters,
the Misses Agnes and Honor Keane,
RiVerdale
Evening star., 1945-09-21

In time-fuse mechanisms and makes
possible maximum results at the
split-second speed demanded by
modern antiaircraft fire"
AS examples of the fuses effec-
tiveness, the Navy said that at Oki-
nawa two destroyers, the Evans and
Hadley, which employed it, knocked
down IS Japan planes in 80 minutes.
During the Ardennes breakthrough
on the western front in December,
1914, the first time radio-fused
shells we're used on land, the War
Departments official observer re-
ported that "the terrific execution
inflicted and the CONSERVATION re-
Isulting from night and day bonn
bardment contributed materially to
nalting tine advance and Fastening
the reduction of the salient"
Developed Secretly.
The invention was given to the
British for use against German vi
bombs Its effectiveness is shown
by data covering the last four weeks
of the 80-day attack. During the
first week the British destroyed "a
per cent of all vi targets, As per
cent in the second week, ST per cent
in the third and 79 per cent in the
fourth.
Development of the fuse, the Navy
said, was surrounded by the utmost
secrecy. Workers on production
lines did not know what they were
making. Although. at the end OF the
war, 81 firms using ITO different
factories were producing 10000
fuses daily, the enemy apparently
never learned the reason for the
terrible accuracy Of American artil-
lery and antiaircraft fire.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Northern Virginia PTA
.WiI| Discuss Plans
For Year Tomorrow

Outstanding leaders in the fields
OF education, health and religion
will speak at the one-day confer
ence of the Northern Virginia Dis
trict Of Parent Teacher Associations
at $50 am. tomorrow at Fairfax
High School.
Representative from Fairfax,
Prince William, FauQuier and Lou
doun Counties and from Alexandria
will attend. Purpose of the meeting
is the formulation of plans for the
achievement of objectives adopted
at the PTA Regional Conference
last spring in Manassas.
Theme of the conference is Plan
ming for Peace and Democracy in an
Atomic Power World" to be dis
cussed by DR.. A. Powell Davies,
author and lecturer.
Better Facilities Sought.
The morning session will include
talks on each of the objectives
planned for the coming year. They
include:
Fitting the demands on schools in
peacetime with the work of the
Parent Teacher Associations; i'm
proving school facilities; obtaining
increased financial support for
schools from local, State and Fed
eral agencies; advancing health and
recreational programs and promot-
ing parent responsibility for chill
dren and providing undenomina-
tional religious training in the
schools
Workshops on the various sub
jects making up the PTA goals
will feature the afternoon session.
Discussion leaders will include Mrs.
j. E. Holway, Alexandria, peace
and democracy: Mrs. G. A. Justus-
son, Fairfax. legislation; Mrs. r. A.
Osborn, Falls Church, health and
recreation; Mrs. Richard C. Hayden,
Manassas, parent education, and
Mrs. Charles Baird, Marshall, religi-
Gus education.
State Officials to Speak.
Other speakers during the day
will include DR.. Walter S. Newman,
assistant State superintendent of
public instruction; R. F. Williams,
State supervisor of elementary edu-
cation; DR.. Francis w. McPeek,
director of the Social Welfare De-
partment, District Federation of
Churches, and Mrs. Malcolm Nc
Clellen, legislative chairman of the
National Congress of Parent-Teacher
Associations.
Parents in the area have been
invited to attend and bring their
children.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Baltimore Man Acquitted
In Bank Threat Charqe

Samuel B. Courtney, SO, of Balti-
more, was acquitted by a District
Court jury late yesterday on a
charge of attempting to take $4,000
from the Bank of Savings and Com
merce last June through allegedly
trying to frighten a woman teller
into cashing a check for that sum.
Emerson D. Davis, 81, whose ad-
dress is said to be unknown and who
was indicted with Courtney. still
is at large.
The check, presented at the bank
by Courtney, had note written
on the back of 1t warning the
woman teller she had one minute
in which to cash it. Mr.. Courtney
testified 1t was given to him by
Davis and that he did not know
about the threatening note on the
check. Mr.. Courtney was defended
at the trial by Attorney Michael
j. Lane, who was appointed by the
court. Justice James M. Proctor
presided at the trial.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Fuse With Radio Set Revealed
BY Navy as RivoIing Atom Bomb
Chevy Chase Man
Directed Development
Of Eye for Shells

How the Navy developed a radio
proximity fuse" so accurate it ex-
plodes a shell within 10 feet of any
target and contributed signally to
American victory on both land and
sea has been revealed by Assistant
Secretary of the Navy H. Struve
Hensel
At press conference late yester-
day he ranked this highly secret de-
vice as second only to the atomic
bomb as the greatest scientific de-
velopment of the war. Mr.. Hensel
credited artillery shells fused with
the device as being responsible for
repelling Japanese suicide plane at
tacks on American ships of Oki-
nawa, the repulse Of German forces
in the Battle of the Bulge and dras-
tically reducing the effectiveness of
the vi robot bomb attacks on Lon
don.
Development of the fuse, first
used against japanese planes by the
cruiser Helena on January g. l943,
was carried out by a group of scien-
lists working under the direction of
DR.. Merle A. Tuve. 1875 Hesketh
street, Chevy Chase, Md, of the Ma
tional Defense Research Commit
tee. Research work, begun in 1910,
was executed with the cooperation
of the Carnegie Foundation and
Johns Hopkins University.
Five-tube Radio.
The deadly-accurate fuse was de-
scribed by the Navy as an extremely
rugged five-tube radio receiving and
sending set which occupies a space
no larger than a pint milk bottle
At the heart of the device is a
vacuum tube which sends out cleo
tro-magnetic waves on impulses at
the speed of ight-180,000 miles per
second. The impulses are reflected
back to the tube by any target that
gives radio reflection. such as
metal objects, water or earth.
If a projectile so fused passes
within 10 feet of any target, reflect
ed impulses act on the fuse circuit
to trigger a switch which detonates
the main explosive charge.
Invention of the fuse the Navy
said, greatly simplifies the task of
gunners behind the 5-inch guns
which are the principal long-range
antiaircraft weapon. Using the ear
lier time fuses, the gunner had to
estimate the time of flight between
the gun and target and set a time
fuse. A slight error in fuse setting
caused the shell to explode inef-
fectively.
use of the VT radio) fuse" the
Navy said, excludes errors inherent
Evening star., 1945-09-21

United Nations chairman; Judge
w. c. Hueston, chairman of Area 4
in residential: Joshua Evans, jr., in
charge of soliciting national ac-
counts; Edwin c. GrahaE, general
chairman of Community War Fund;
Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, III, chairman
of the Government unit; Maj Gen.
Philip Fleming, campaign vice
chairman.
Mrs. Paul McNutt, chairman Of
the Women's Activities Committee;
Mrs. William B. Kuhns, chairman
of Area for residential; Harwood
Martin, in charge of radio publicity:
Col. Waldron E. Leonard, chairman
of Fairfax: Stephen Smith, chair
man for Arlington; Perry Wilkinson,
chairman for Prince Georges;
George Garrett. a campaign vice
chairman: Joseph McGarraghy,
campaign vice chairman; Mrs. E. r.
Finkenstaedt, Mrs. Theodore Wedel,
residential leaders, and Mr.. Jen-
ningS.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Bullet Hole Found in Can,
Youth S Body Exhumed
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md, Sept. g.
Discovery of a bullet hole in the
hunting cap of Glenn Frederick
Merbaugh, Is. of Moscow, whose
body was found in the woods near
his home Sunday, resulted in the
exhumation of the body yesterday
and the finding of a bullet i'm
beddeo in the back of the youth S
head
States Attorney Morgan C. Har-
ris ordered the body exhumed and
an autopsy made by DR.. Lime H
Corson, Allegany County deputy
medical examiner, after relatives of
the dead hunter had brought the
cap to Mr. Harris Office. The hole
in the cap was not discovered until
1t had been returned to the family
yesterday by the undertaken 1t
was in seam of the cap and was
hardly noticeable.
The county prosecutor ordered a
further investigation into the
death, although he expressed the
opinion that 1t probably was a
STRAY bullet" from the gun of some
hunter in the vicinity. The boy,
Mr. Harris said he was told, had
no known enemies.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Road
No. | Projectin
|PriinceGeorges
Topic at Hearing;
Will Link Aeer and
Defense Highways

Construction of the first east west
highway Through Prince Georges
County, starting at Ager road and
ending at Defense highway at Bla-
densburg, will head the projects
to be recommended to the county
commissioners by its Advisory Board
in connection with a 81 ,00O, 900 Met
ropolitan Area bond issue.
Other important proposals the
board has decided to recommend
and which were made public yes
terday in The Star were announced
last night at a hearing held by the
board in the County Service Build
ing, Hyattsville. More than 140 per.
sons attended.
Edgar A. Merkle, chairman of the
board, said top priority had been
given the proposed east-west thor
oughfare because it was deemed the
improvement most vitality needed in
the Metropolitan Area at this time.
He declared it would afford a route
through the area that would be out
of the f1ooo district, would greatly
ASadbC VIC VI d4AlI LOllSCSGlCIl
the Peace Cross at Bladensourg, and
would result in the closing of the
dangerous Melrose avenue Baltimore
& Ohio. Railroad crossing.
From Ager road, the thoroughfare
would cross Queens Chapel road,
proceed along Hamilton street, For
tieth place and Dewey street to
Rhode Island avenue. There, the
streetcar tracks would be lowered to
the level Of the road.
Crossing Rhode Island avenue, the
highway would 60 under the Balti-
more g. Ohio Railroad tracks, COM
ing out on Baltimore avenue at 4
point just north of the bridge over
the Eastern Branch separating Hy-
attsville and Bladensburg. From
there, 1t would continue across Bal
timore avenue to a point on Defense
highway just east of Edmonston
Evening star., 1945-09-21
RiverConlnnittee
On Tour Checks
Oyster Beds
Effect of Pollution
On Potomuc's Shod
Considered on Cruise
BY NORMAN A. KAHL,
Star War CORRESPONDENT.

COLONIAL BEACH, Va, Sept.
21.-Members of the Interstate Com
mission on the Potomac River Basin
set out today to explore oyster beds
In this vicinity as part of a gen.
eral inspection of the river below
Washington.
The commission members and
about dozen technical experts ar
rived here last night after leisure
ly trip downstream from Washing
ton on two boats-the District Com
missioners' Mary H and the Sewer
Divisions Virginia
The purpose of the three-day trip,
according to Edwin r. Cotton, secre-
tary of the Potomac commission, is
merely to familiarize members with
the river as basis for future dis
cussion. Emphasis will be given, he
said, to water conditions in relation
to fish and other marine life.
Informal consideration of the de-
crease in shad along the Potomac
was given in talks among members
of the party last night.
DiSCusS Elicit Oh SncIiS.
Chairman L. Harold Sothoron.
Maryland State Senator from Prince
Georges County, said the commits
sion would consider the possible
effects of pollution on the spawning
OF shad in the river. Senator
Sothoron pointed out that pollution
studies in other areas in the United
States has indicated that it has
little effect on the life of shad.
except in spawning grounds.
The Senator said the spawning
beds for shad generally in the Poto-
mac are in the area between Alex
andria, Va, and Indian Head, Md.
The commission is also discussing
the possible effect of shells from
the naval proving ground at Dahl
gren, Va, bursting in the Potomac.
After the inspection trip today,
three commission committees will
hold organizational meetings at the
Washington Hotel here and discuss
other matters relating to the tide
water Potomac.
Full Group Meets Later.
The committees are the technical
groups the public relations and the
audit and finance. The full COM
mission will meet later in the day.
The party will leave Colonial
Beach tomorrow morning and is ex-
pected to arrive back in WASHINGTON
at nightfall.
Among the experts attending the
meeting as guests are Col. J. D.
Arthur, jr,, Assistant Engineer Com
missioner of the District; M. c..
James. assistant director of the
United States Fish and Wildlife
Service; Edwin Warfield, chairman
of the Maryland Department of
Tidewater Fisheries; Ellwood John
son, engineer of sewers of the Dis
trict, and Emil Press, assistant to
the director of sanitary engineering
in the District.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Ey the Associated P-ess


ANNAPOLIS, Md, Sept. 2l.-Rec-
ommending 2,100-acre location in
the Lusby area Of Calvert County
as site for State park along the
shores OF Chesapeake Bay, the State
Planning Commission today report
ed Investigations Of the project to
the Board Of Public Works.
Authorized by the recent Legisla-
ture, the commission, at behest Of
the Board Of Public Works and
Natural Resources, undertook stu
dies Of potential Bayside Park areas
early In June, subjecting nine sites
to field examination and study.
Two sites-the Lusby and Drum
Point areas, both in Calvert County
were found to possess necessary
qualifications and to be free from
other objections such as excess ac-
quisition and development cost or
distance. The Lusby area finally
was determined upon as more sat
iSfactory location.
Lying along the Chesapeake Bay
for approximately 2 miles below
Long Beach and extending westward
from the bay to ST Leonard Greek,
Evening star., 1945-09-21
24 Girls Awarded $50 Each
For Failure to Receive Dinners

Twenty-four Government girls
living in boarding house at l467
Rhode Island avenue NV. were
awarded $50 each and attorneys
fees by Municipal Court Judge Ell
len K. Raedy yesterday. They
charged that they failed to re-
ceive Sunday dinners for seven
weeks in July and August in viola
ton OF the minimum service stand
ards OF the Emergency Rent Con-
troll Act.
The sl,320 judgment, including
IS for each girl for the attorneys
fees, was made against Francis r.
McDonough, conservator for the
estate of Mathilda Molin. under
which the establishment is operated
as a boarding home for girls.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
O'ConorAppoints Petrott
To JobIess Pay Board

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Sept. 21.-Maj.
Gen. Francis Petrott, adjutant gen.
eral of the State, was named yester-
day by Gov. O'Conor to membership
on the Unemployment Compensa-
ton Board.
Gen. Petrott will succeed Ambrose
j. Kennedy, whose resignation was
announced Wednesday. His term
will expire in 1947.
The new appointee was made Sec
retary of State by Gov. O'Conor in
May, 1889. He resigned in May,
1941, to accept the post of adjutant
general. He is resident of Fred
erick,
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Fuirfux School Annual
Wins Stute Contest

Fairfax High School has taken top
honors in the contest for high school
annual publications sponsored by
the Virginia High School Literary
and Athletic League, it was an
nounced today.
The league also sponsors a con-
test for high school newspapers and
magazines in Virginia. DR.. c. w.
Miller of the University of Virginia
English department judged publica-
tions in all classes.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Fenwick 10 Present
Dispositions on Voting
To Court Monday
BY the Associated Press.


NORTON, Va, Sept. 21.-Counsel
for Charles L. Fenwick, after taking
dispositions in Wise County in the
Collins Fenwick election contest.
said they would appear Monday in
the Circuit Court of Richmond for a
hearing before Judge Julien Gum on
Cumberland County returns ques-
toned by Mr.. Fenwick
The Norton dispositions were taken
by Fenwick counsel after the Fen
wick countercharges of illegal votes
for L. Preston Collins, Democratic
candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
defeated in the primary by Mr.. Fen
wick. Mr.. Collins originally contest
ed Mr.. Fenwick's nomination on the
basis of alleged illegal voting in Wise
County, where ballot books have dis
appeared
j. A. Gardner, Wise County court
clerk, and two deputy clerks, Charles
R. Fuller and Miss Allene Hendley,
testified as to the physical layout of
the county clerks Office and nearby
Offices used in their work. All three
denied they knew anything about
the lost poll books or that they had
any idea" what became of them. Mr..
Fuller and Miss Henley testified
that they learned of the disappear
ance of the books only when Mr..
Gardner returned from his vacation.
Mr.. Collins counsel, however,
made the reservation that they may
make further examination of the
Wise ballot
George Warren, Mr.. Collins attor-
ney, asked that this statement be
written into the record:
IF there are any votes in any of
the four counties that have been
questioned by Mr.. Fenwick we are
willing that they be thrown out
without the necessity of deposition,
If 1t be shown that they are illegal
in order to expedite proceedings"
Evening star., 1945-09-21
lls!NRst,oninq
&Reminde,56,

Meats, Fats, Etc. - Stamps v-2
through z-2 good through Sep
tember 80. Stamps Al through
Ell good through October 81.
Stamps FL through XII good
through November 80. Stamps
LII through Q-1 good through
December 81. /
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points for
each pound OF waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Stamp SO good through De-
cember 81. Next stamp valid
January /.
shocs-Airplane Stamps l, 2, 3 and
4 In Book No. 3 good Indefinitely
for one pair Of shoes each.
Evening star., 1945-09-21

The possibility that Mr.. Nc
Donough may himself be required
to pay the judgment was suggested
by his defense attorney, D. Edward
Clarke, who pointed out the Dis
trict Court might refuse to author
ize payment from the Molin estate
Sunday dinners were cut out be-
cause of the servant problem, the
court was told Mrs. Anne Adams,
the housekeeper. testified the new
schedule was adopted after the cook
and two maids threatened to quit.
But the girls, through their at
torney, Elmer E. Cummins, said
Sunday dinners had been served
since 1941 and that they did not
receive a rebate when the meal was
eliminated.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
.RFC Wasn't B|uffed'
On B. & 0. Debt Plan
Jones Assures Court
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE. Sept. 81. - Jesse
Jones, former head of the Recon-
struction Finance Corp, testified in
Federal Court yesterday that the
conditions on which the agency
agreed to renew the Baltimore e.
Ohio Railroads s84 900 900 loan were
imposed by the RFC" and not
stimulated by railroad officials.
He made the statement in re-
sponse to question by one of the
three judges sitting as a special
court to rule on the Baltimore &
Ohio's S500.000, 900 debt adjustment
plan. The RFC has assented to this
recapitalization as the condition of
renewing its loan.
Jones Denies ''Bluffing."
Both MIR. Jones and Charles B.
Henderson. present RFC chairman,
who followed the former Commerce
Secretary to the witness stand, said
they were satisfied that the road
had no other means of meeting its
matured debt than by the proposed
refinancing operation.
Mr.. Jones denied he had been
"bluffed" into refusing the 1914 re-
newal by railroad officials working
toward an adjustment plan. He also
contradicted previous testimony By
Cassius NJ Clay. former B. g. o.
solicitor, who claimed there had
been a ''gentlemen's agreement" be-
tween Mr.. Jones and railroad off,
cials that the loan would be re-
newed in 1914.
Terming Mr.. C!ay's testimony on
that point entirely incorrect" Mr.
Jones said, There was no gentle
mems agreement nor could there
have been any under the law"
RFC Set Conditions.
Mr. Jones said the RFC would not
have renewed the loan except on
condition Of general financial ao-
justment.
Randolph Phillips, New York, B.
& o. bondholder objecting to the
plan, asked for the reason and Mr.
Jones replied that the decision was
in the interest of the RFC"
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Gen. Cannon Decorated

BAD EILSEN, Germany, Sept. q
P.-Lt. Gen. John K Cannon of the
American Air Forces was decorated
yesterday with the insignia of the
Knight Commander of the Bath by
Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Doug
las, commander of the British Air
Force of occupation. Sir Sholto
praised Gen. Cannon's work in the
Mediterranean in co-ordinating the
United States Anti Air Forces and
Raj in the final stages of the Italian
campaign.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Jobless Compensation
Rises in MARYLAND
By the Associated Press,

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Sept. 21.-A
total Of $344, ,103 was disbursed by
the unemployment compensation
division of the State through the
period from September 10 to Is, in
elusive, Gov. O'Conor disclosed yes
terday following report from Rus
sell s. Davis, chairman of the board
The disbursements covered some
1928 separate payments, 1886 OF
which were paid to claimants
through the Baltimore office.
The $344, ,103 was in comparison to
the total Of $292, ,796 for the pre-
vious week. covering 15,775 checks
the Governor stated.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
Alexandria Womun
Arrives in Philippines

Miss Gwen Murphy, daughter of
Mrs. Mary Murphy, Beverly Plaza
Apartments, Alexandria, has arrived
in the Philippines to serve as an
American Red Cross secretary, Ma
tional Red Cross Headquarters has
announced.
Miss Murphy formerly was en-
ployed by American Airlines here.
Evening star., 1945-09-21
5, 5,000-Mile Trip to Morry

Travelling 5000 miles from Aus
tralia to her wedding in Antrim.
Northern Ireland, Miss Lillian I.
johnson became the bride of
William j. Agnew, a radio officer In
the Merchant Navy.