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Evening star., 1945-03-08
Of Trade
Backs Modified
Parking Plan
Silver Spring Group
Proposes Financing by
Business Area Tox

Rejecting proposal to provide
off-street public parking sites in the
Silver Spring business section by
taxing the entire Silver Spring SUI
burban district, the Silver Spring
Board OF Trade last night approved
a recommendatio to finance the
parking spaces by special tax on
its business and industrial area.
Action of the board followed a
heated discussion at its dinner meet
ing at the Indian Spring Country
Club at which majority and minor
lty reports were submitted by MEM
bers Of special traffic committee.
The majority report, presented by
DR.. w. B. Mehring, was lost by a
vote of 62 to Is.
What Reports Proposed.
The defeated report recommended
that the nine original public parking
sites recommended by the Montgom-
cry County Advisory Committee on
Postwar Planning be provided by the
county commissioners with funds
obtained by the levy of tax on all
real and tangible personal property
IN the Silver Spring suburban dis
trlct. Several days ago a tentative
study map of the Maryland -Nation-
al Capital Park and Planning Com
mission showed plans for 16 parking
spaces.
The resolution adopted by the
trade group recommends that the
tax contributions of Silver Spring
commercial and industrial property
Tor this purpose should be limited
to a Accent annual tax on each
500 OF assessed valuation. It adj
vocates, however, that property
which has furnished general park
ing facilities to the same extent
as that which would be required
for new and other commercial prop
erty be exempt from the tax.
Tax Limitation.
Unimproved commercial and in
dustrial property, the resolution
states, should have a tax limitation
of 20 cents on each s1O0 assessed
valuation. The tangible personal
property located on or in real estate
that is industrial or is used in man.
ufacturing process should be exempt
from the tax, the measure adds.
Any bond issue to cover the cost
of these parking sites should not
exceed $500, 900, the resolution stip-
ulates.
The proposal calling for a 40
cent-per-s100 tax doubles that ap-
proved by the County Planning
Committee. which recommended a
20 per cent tax limitation on busi-
ness and industrial property.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Alexandra Red Cross
Drive Off 10 Good Start

Collections of $15,898.91 of quota
Of $48,900 were reported by Alex
andria Red Cross War Fund workers
at the first report meeting yester-
day in the auditorium of the Vir-
ginia Electric & Power Co.
Charles M. Jones, chairman of the
campaign, expressed satisfaction
with the report, calling it the best
on record for the first week of a
Red Cross drive in the city.
The Canteen Corps served lunch
to the workers. Mr.. Jones an
nounced that similar report meet
ings will be held every Wednesday
noon throughout the campaign.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Women Voters 10 Discuss
Virginia's S School System

Five AleXandria-Ar Arlington League
of Women Voters groups will meet
tomorrow to discuss the Virginia
public school system. The time and
places of the meetings are as fol-
lows:
Buckingham Arlington Forest
group, 1:30 pm, Buckingham
Community Room; darlington
group, 2 pm, 1918 South Abingdon
street, Apartment B; Arlington
Ridge-Aurora Hills group, 2 pm,
2515 Fort Scott drive; North Airing
ton group, 1:3o PPM, 2244 North
Quebec street; Beverley Hills group,
pm, Beverley Hills Church.
A sixth group, the Parkfairfax,
will meet at 8:15 pm. Monday at
1926 Ravensworth place, Alexandria
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Assembly Turns
IoServiceBaIIot,.
School Program
Maryland Committees
Of Both Parties Meet
On Vote Problem
BIJLLETIN.

ANNAPOLIS R.[Leaders of
both major political parties
agreed today to advance the
1946 primary to elections from
September to June to facili-
tate handling OF absentee SOL
dier ballots.
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Mar. 8.-Two
major subjects revamped educa-
tional program for Maryland's chill
dren and primary ballots for the
States servicemen-occupied the at
tention of legislators today.
The ballot problem is not as yet a
strictly legislative one, as bills which
would permit servicemen to vote in
primary elections as well as general
elections have not yet been submit
ted. But bipartisan meeting with
the War Ballots Commission today,
called by Gov. O'Conor, is expected
to produce recommendation leading
to such legislation.
The educational program is en-
bodied in bills already before the
current session of the General As
sembly.
Invited to Meeting.
Invited to the meeting on the
vote problem were the national
committeeman of both parties, both
State Central Committee chairmen,
and both Baltimore City chairmen.
Two bills would be required to
extend the servicemen's voting
right to primaries. One would ad-
vance the date of the 1916 pri-
maries, possibly to the spring. The
other would permit servicemen and
merchant mariners to vote in the
primaries.
Scheduled to appear before the
Senate Finance Committee were
members of all the States county
commissioner boards. They were
expected to join the committmen in
a question and answer period on
Gov. O'Conor's educational program.
The commissioners also were
scheduled to meet and discuss other
legislative affairs at Carvel Hall.
Assembly Sets Speed Record.
At meeting March S the Western
Shore County Commissioners Asso-
citation recorded its approval of the
O'Conor plan to extend for one year
compulsory school attendance in
Maryland. The approval was quail
fed, however, by request that the
State bear expenses resulting from
the plan.
Despite time-consuming fights
yesterday. the General Assembly
continued to set an all-t time record
for speed. The Governors Office an
that a new batch of bills
would be on the executives desk
today for action. Gov. O'Conor al
ready has signed 1874 bills into law
this session.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
20% Cut in Hard Fuel
Due in Foil Ickes Says
By the Associated Press,

BY tue AsSOCldJeu FIeSS.
Urging Maryland's cooperation
in a vigorous campaign" to elimi-
nate fuel waste, Secretary of the
Interior Ickes has informed Gov.
O'Conor that Fasteners would have
to get along on 80 per cent of their
normal hard fuel supply next winter.
Letters also were sent to Governors
of other States in the fuel-shortage
area, Mr.. Ickes said.
I'm order that industries can have
enough fuel to do their war job, we
anticipate that during the 1S45-46
heating season deliveries of solid
fuels for heating homes and other
buildings throughout the Eastern
half of the United States will have
to be reduced to 80 per cent OF
normal tonnages," Mr.. Ickes' letter,
released by Gov. O'Conor, said.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
lsiHRshoninq
&Remiinderr@

Meats, Fats, Etc. - Book 4. red
stamps Q-5 through SIS good
through March 81; stamps It's
through KS good through April
%; stamps Y-S. Us, Az through
D-2 good through June 2. Stamps
E-2 through J-2 to be validated
March and be good through
June 30.
Canned Goods, EGc.-Book 4, blue
stamps KS through Z-5, Az and
b. good through March 81:
stamps CO through ca good
through April %: stamps H-2
through M-2 good through June
2; stamps NJ 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.
SugarzStamp IS valid for S pounds
through June 2.
Gas0line-A-14 coupons valid for 4
gallons each through March 81
BIS, C-5, B-6, C-6, B-7 and CT
coupons good for 5 gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps /, 2 and
In Book No. 3 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 81 per cent of their ration
as OF today.
degree days-Total for month l4f1.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Virginia Report
Cool 10 Sales
And Use Tax
Commission Urges
That Other Methods
Be Tried First
BY the Associated Press.

=
RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 8.-Post-
ponement of sales and use tax
until after sources are tried for in
creased revenue for school financing
Is recommended by the Sales Tax
Study Commission in its report re-
leased today.
The commission suggested that
additional revenue be sought
through moderate increases in in
dividual and corporation income
taxes, merchants license taxes and
public service corporation taxes.
Senator Y. Melvin Hodges, a
onember of the commission and pa
tron of sales tax bill at the 1914
session of the General Assembly,
dissented in part from the report
and recommended that a sales tax
be adopted now.
Headed by DIR. Snavely.
The seven-man commission, head
ed by DR.. Upton R. Snavely of the
University of Virginia, was appoint
ed pursuant to an act of the Gen.
eral Assembly to study the advis-
ability of sales and use tax as a
means of financing public schools
and for the relief of real estate.
Conclusions and recommendations
reached by the commission and out
lined in its 75-page report included:
/. The commission recommends
that taxes on other suggested alter
native subjects of taxation be in
creased before adopting a sales tax
It has found that under present
levels of national income payments,
approximately $8,186,328 can be
raised through moderate increase
in rates of individual and corpora
ton income taxes, merchants Ii
cense taxes and the taxes of public
service corporations.
Postwar Revenue.
2. Virginia citizens will earn about
1896 100000 annually after the
war, and that general fund reve-
nues, on the basis of the present tax
structure, would amount to $31 AGO.
900.
3. The States current appropria-
tions for recurring expenses are
approximately 36,500,000 a year. 1t
appears certain that with $1,000,000
annually to meet the costs of extraor-
dinary repairs, additions and bet
terments for State institutions, and
the cost of other services, recurring
appropriations from the general
fund will rise to at least 0,000, 900
annually. A full program of expen-
ditures for schools, health, welfare
and other purposes would carry the
general fund annual budget above
$50,0000O0.
4. Such budget could not be
financed from current revenues in
the general fund, and additional
revenue in substantial amount must
be found"
The commission estimated that |
for the fiscal year 1914 a retail sales
tax of l per cent, without exemp-
tions, would have yielded net reve-
nue. of sS,513,016.19. The yield from
a tax of z per cent would have
equaled $17,o26, ,o323 SO. A tax with
a rate of 2 per cent would have
returned approximately Sc per per-
son in revenue.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Berwyn Heights Votes
Against Annexation

Residents OF Berwyn Heights, Nd,
have rejected a proposal that it be
included in the projected incorpo-
rated town Of College Park, William
/. Donaldson, BerWyn Heights town
treasurer, announced today.
He said q tally Of votes cast Tues
day showed Is opposing the plan
with So favoring 1t, and that BerWyn
Heights would continue as q sepa-
rate town for the present.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
A. P. Grow to Direct
Arlington x-Roy Drive

A. P. Grow, Arlington manager of
the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co., has been named county
chairman of the mass x-ray survey
in the annual campaign for early
diagnosis of tuberculosis, it was an
nounced today
The campaign is sponsored jointly
by the County Health Department
and the tuberculosis Association.
Special portable equipment will be
set up at various points in the
county May 9-12, Mr.. Grow said,
and X-rays will be given at rate of
IS cents per person.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Arlington, Alexandria
USES Place 1,O32

The Arlington and Alexandria
branches of the United States EN-
ployment Service recorded 1,008
complete and "a assist placements
last month, it was reported today
by Carter w. Friend, manager.
Women numbered 474 of the to-
tai, the report said. Information
centers at the offices served 1870 vet
Grams during the period, Mr.. Friend
said.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Plan Bond Dance

Latin American Embassy Daugh-
ters and Senate Daughters will hold
War Bond dance Monday at the
Shoreham Hotel. The 669th Army
Air Forces Band, under the direc-
ton of Chief Warrant Officer Will
liam D. Corney, will provide music
Sergt. Don Cornell, formerly a singer
with Sammy Hayes Orchestra, will
sing.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Study Kensinqton Coop

A meeting to determine local in
terest in q cooperative food store
will be held in Kensington Town
Hall at pm. tomorrow. Edward
Behre, vice president Of Rochdale
Cooperative, Inc, and Charles
Planck, member Of the District Co.
operative Planning Commission,
viii speak.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Bethesda Kiwunis Gives
81 300 for Iron Lung

A gift Of $500 to the Suburban
Hospital Of Bethesda to be used for
purchase of an iron lung was au-
thorized this week by the Board
of Directors Of the newly organized
Kiwanis Club of Bethesda.
n. Dewey Lutes, superintendent
Of the hospital, viii arrange for
purchase Of the lung. DR.. Leo DON
ovan, who suggested the gift, has
been named chairman of q commit
tee to work out details Of the pres
entation.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Finish Fight on Dam Proposal
Planned by Valley Residents

Asserting tnaC Speclncat1OnS Tor
the Millville dam make possible an
83-foot drop in the water level,
residents said this would leave mud
fats along the reservoirs edges and
cause serious health menace.
Fear Stagnant Water.
Pools of stagnant water, left
when the water level was lowered
would provide an ideal breeding
place for mosquitoes and the mud
would render the lake inaccessible
for recreational uses, they said.
In addition to the thousands OF
acres of bottom land that, accord
ing to B. S. Morgan of Berrys
Ferry, will 'pay the interest on an
investment of $1,000 acre." many
estates along the river would be
inundated.
Among these are the estates of
y. r. Williams, Pittsburgh coal
operator; his sister, Mrs. Anna
Cummins, and the estates of Mrs
L. A. Livingston and Mrs. George
Greenhalgh at Castelean's Ferry
near Berryville, and the estates OF
Mrs. John T. Lindsey and Mrs. K
N. Gilpin at Berry's Ferry, near
Winchester. Nearly all of these
homes are landmarks that have
been renovated. .
Raymond j. Funkhouser, Charles
Town industrialist and unsuccessful
candidate for Governor in the last
election, said:
"I believe the cost has been esti-
mated at something around $685.
000, 900, but certainly no experience
in the past in respect to floods nor
demands for power justifies such a
vast undertaking The people who
live through this valley should not
be expected nor required to make
such an unnecessary sacrifice to
make possible a water power de-
velopment
Has 5000 Acres.
Mr.. Funkhouser, who owns Clay
mont, the old Bushrod Washington
estate, said he did not know how
many acres of his total holdings OF
more than 5000 acres, would be in
undated.
So far, only two persons, both
women residents of Jefferson Coun-
ty, have failed to sign petitions op-
posing the project. They are Mrs
j. M. Trapnell and Mrs. Bailey
Boyd, both of whom hold about 400
acres of land along the river.
Mrs. Trapnell said she had been
impressed with accomplishments OF
the iva and would reserve her
opinion of the proposed project until
after the engineers full report can
be studied.
Details of the project are expected
to be made clear at public hear
ing April 3 at the Interior Depart
ment auditorium.
If the engineers report is ap-
proved by the Army Board of En-
|gineers for Rivers and Harbors fol-
lowing the April hearing, and the
proposal is approved by Governors
of States affected, the plan must
then be approved by Congress be-
fore it may be carried out.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
2 Auto License Agents
Added in ARLINGTON

Two additional automobile license
agents have been appointed to serve
in Arlington during the renewal
period from March Is to April Is,
the county Chamber of Commerce
today said 1t had been notified by
c. F. Joyner, jr., State commits
sioner of motor vehicles.
The two new agents will be the
Olmstead Motor Co., 1000 Wilson
boulevard, and Greenwood Sales
and Service, 4505 Lee highway.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Schooling on Peuce Plan

The first in a series of one-day
training schools for leaders of dis
cussion groups on the Dumbarton
Oaks proposals will be held from
10 am. to pm. tomorrow at the
Office of the county home demon
stration agent in Rockville by the
Montgomery County League of
Women Voters.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Address PTA

Mrs. Stanley g. Cook, president
q the Maryland Council of Parents
ana Teachers, viii discuss ssUp to
Date IN School Legislature" at .
meeting OF the Prince Georges
County Council Of Parent Teacher
associations at 8 o'clock tonight in
the University of Maryland admin
istration building auditorium Carl
Hintz, director of libraries at the
university, and DR.. John w Nc
Kay, chairman Of the Committee on
Legislation TOR the County Council,
also will speak.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Potomac Commission
Reuppointed by Dorden
By the Associated Press.

by IHe ASSOClated PreSS.
RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 8.-Gov,
Darden has announced reappoint-
ment OF members of the Potomac
Basin Commission for four-year
terms to end February %, 1949.
The members include John A. K.
Donovan. Falls Church, member OF
the commission from that area :
Raymond v. Long, Richmond, from
the Virginia Commission Of Inter-
state Cooperation, and N. G. Bailey,
member Of the House Of Delegates
from Orange and member at large.
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Copt. Joel T. Boone
Given Overseas DUTY
Py the Associated Press,

Ry the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Mar. 8.-Capt. Joel T.
Boone, commanding officer of the
Seattle Naval Hospital and former
personal physician to Presidents
Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, has
been reassigned to overseas duty,
the 18th Naval District announced
Yesterday
Evening star., 1945-03-08
Little Theuter to Elect

A business meeting Of the Airing
ton Little. Theater viii be held at
o'clock tonight at the Arlington
Recreation Center, Wilson boule-
ward. Of1icers will be elected.
Evening star., 1945-03-08

Degree days-Total for month, l40;
total for season to date, 3,722;
normal for season to date, 1868.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-01-12

many other hits, and the lyrics are
by E. Y. Harburg, who turned out
the verses for the songs in "Bloom-
er Girl" New York's newest mu-
steal hit,
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LET HER HAVE JUNIOR

Molly finds herself in a tangled
situation. She is the second ,Uite
Of a doctor, noto in service. Her
husband, Lynn, left his eight
year-old son in her care. All ,oent
UeH until Lynn's first ,uite, Adele,
began to take a renewed interest
in her son, Junior. She no,v takes
him to the sho,o, gives him pres
ents and, in general, "spoils
him."
Lately Adele has been demand
ing possession Of her child. and
limiting at legal action. Lynn,
,criting from far-of China, is en-
tirely opposed to this. 1t all
places Molly in a difficult and an
noying position.
Miss Norris counsels Molly to
give in gracefully to Adele's
wishes. When Adele has had the
care and worry that an eight-year.
old entails. she ,UiH probably be
glad enough to relinquish him
after a little ,Uhile. Then, says
Miss Norris, Molly can make her
DUN terms about taking him back.
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reclaim him, for there will be moth
ing final in such a course, but Just
now that will be much the wisest
plan. Adele's actions smack just a
little of malice; she is evidently try
ing to annoy you. This will COM
pletely reverse the situation, and
call the bluff of both these women.
An eight-year-old boy is great care
and responsibility; he is noisy, de-
manding, destructive, he cannot be
left alone in an apartment, and yet
he can't be taken to weekend par
ties and dances. The care of his
clothes and meals is real burden,
and to be away from his friends
will make him all the more restless
and dissatisfied. Let them try it
awhile, and get good rest yourself
before, upon some pretext or anoth-
er, they send him back to you. And
when they do, make your own
terms.
Gain Lynn's Sympathy.
If Lynn RACES about this, rise
above it. Merely answer him as
amiably as you can that you talked
to your lawyers, who assured you
that you have no authority, and that
you will not make legal battle of it
until Lynn comes home. Go on after
that with the usual chatty, affection
ate letters, as if the question was
closed once and for all.
If you treat it in this spirit, with
no ugliness or argument, Lynn's
sympathy will inevitably 60 to you,
his young wife being harassed by
these older women. And very short
ly you will begin to receive mes
sages that Junior would like to
come home for the weekend, that
perhaps it would be better for him
to finish the school year under your
guidance, since it is so much nearer.
Then you can say Eyes" or mo-"
just as you feel inclined. If it is
yes, be sure to stipulate that only
occasional visits are to be permit
ted, for the child's own sake, to his
mother and his grandmother.
Often, in this life, the bad thing
turns into the good. Often by con-
ceding point, accepting a humili-
ating defeat, we win through to a
real, rather than a seeming, victory.
To lose the first trick, in this case,
actually will give you all the trumps.
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BY KATHLEEN NORRIS

IN EY problem is a mad
MI dening one," writes
1 v i Molly Bates, from
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e | |H I9f$HH@

Use curling iron to stretch the
fingers of washable kid gloves.
Bacon fat and salt pork drip
pings add to the flavor of kale,
turnips and legumes.
When ripping clothing with a
two-edged razor blade, cut slit
in a cork and put it on one side
of the blade to protect your hands
from being cut.
Pin perfume-soaked dabs of cot
ton to the hens of garments to
lend a subtle fragrance to body
and clothes.
As far as possible all windows
In a house should have a similar
appearance from the outside; if
the draperies hang straight, sheer
curtains used with them should
also hang straight.
In the kitchen where but little
space is available, place the trays
from under the gas burners atop
of the burners. A good place to
stack the soiled dishes before
washing them.
Because of the residue of animal
fats, which pelts naturally have,
some perfumes suffer unpleasant
distortions when applied to furs.
So, it's a good idea to test out the
compatibility of your muskrat or
mink with your own perfume be-
fore you whoosh on a lot of the
fragrance.
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Repairing Blankets

New yarn or Rawlings from old
blankets should be used to darn
holes or breaks in a blanket as soon
as they appear. When possible, use
wool pieces for patches and re-
Inducements. Because wool blan-
kets do not fray, stitching without
turning is quick finish on heavy
blankets with worn selvages.
To replace worn or shabby bind
ing, sateen, or rayon in q satin
weave makes attractive edges. The
binding should be machine stitched
with fairly long stitches.
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Squeeze the Trigger

At Fort Custer, Mich, a soldier
is taught to squeeze instead Of pull
the trigger of his rifle by con-
traption that, when he makes this
mistake, gives him a resounding
whack on the seat of his pants.
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Girl and Boy Play Suits

pLAY toys for boy or girl-little
tots will love this practical set
made in corduroy with bright flow
er applique. Sisters dress has
pert pulled sleeves-and she may
have overalls just like brothers.!
Use pretty scraps for the applique.
4 and S years. Size 2. dress. requires IL
yards of IS or 39.inch material: panties
II yard: overalls. 1ls yards.
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the most popular pattern numbers.
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