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School Repair Fund
OF S398,047 Voted
lnMontgomeryCounty In

The Montgomery County Commits
sioners yesterday approved County
Board of Education request for
$398, ,047l4 for the reconditioning of
public schools.
The amount, which includes sl25,-
600 for six-room addition to Le-
land Junior High School, Bethesda,
is part of a $5,000,0 900 bond issue
authorized by the last Legislature
for public schools, public building
construction and various other
county undertakings.
In the request for funds the Board
Of Education listed the following
schools as urgently" in need of re-
conditioning:
Laytonsville, Poolesville, Richard
Montgomery High, Rockville Ele-
mentarN Clara Barton, Chevy Chase
Elementary, Somerset, Bethesda
Chevy Chase High, Sherwood,
Gaithersburg, Damascus, Kensing-
ton Elementary, Glenmont, Takoma
Park Elementary and Takoma Park
Junior High.
Plan Immediate Attention.
Of the total appropriated, S47,4OO
was designated to recondition these
schools. They will receive immedi-
ate attention, it was stated.
Frank I. Davis, former supervisor
of county public school property
and county purchasing agent, was
appointed assistant county treas
urer by the commissioners. His
salary will be $500 annually, with
his appointment effective Septem-
Der l.
County Treasurer John B. Dia-
mond told the commissioners he had
named Mrs. Alice June Silvernail,
Bethesda, stenographer-typist at an
annual salary of $1,000 and had re-
instated Miss Mary Rebecca Offutt,
Poolesville, who recently resigned,
as transfer clerk.
/ A fund of $8,068 was made avail
able to the County Welfare Board
after Mrs. Dorothy Kurtz, executive
secretary, reported that amount was
needed for work during September.
According to Mrs. Kurtz $1,310 is
needed for old-age assistance, 81 ,512
for aid to dependent children, s87
for aid to needy blind, $2,149 for
general public assistance, s2,1o6 for
boarding home care for children and
S906 for administration.
Nursery Is Licensed.
A license to conduct the Happy
Day Nursery School, 8750 Colesville
road, Silver Spring, was granted to
Mrs. Pearl e. Bellman.
The resignation of Carl F. Hurle-
baus as regular county policeman
and the reinstatement of William r.
Wootton, discharged Navy veteran,
as an emergency policeman. was
approved.
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Soldier Sentenced 10 Die
For Numbering Two Officers

Ey the Associated Press.
WIESBADEN. Germany, Sept. S
The judge advocates Office said
today Pfc. Robert A. Colby of Geet-
ingsville, Ind, a soldier in the 49th
Engineers Combat Battalion, was
convicted by a court martial last
June % of numbering two American
officers and was sentenced to be
shot.
The victims were Colbys captain
and first lieutenant. (They were
not named for publication)
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III Million Tax Refund
MADE in D. c., MARYLAND
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 5.-The more
than $4,000 taxpayers who filed
1914 returns in Maryland and the
District of Columbia are receiving
refund checks totaling in excess of
s21 100000 with s45 as an individual
average, George Hofferbert, collector
of internal revenue for the State
district, reported here today.
Since each refund must clear
through Philadelphia, individual tax
payers may have to wait a few
weeks before they get theirs, Mr..
Hofferbert said, but revenue off,
cials in Baltimore have scheduled
all but about 5000 of the returns.
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a C tion in the
Pacific on Au-
gust 6, the War
Department an
nounced today.
He was kill e i
W h e n a B-25
bomber on which
he was engineer
was hit by anti
aircraft fire off
F u r a n, Korea,
and exploded as
it hit the water.
Before enter
ing service over
three years ago
Sergt. Paddicord
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On the Roll of Honor

EMS and three sisters, Mrs. Elsie
Wood, Mrs. Betty Schrack and Miss
Juanita Peddicord.
I'd 1t. Abraham Rancman, whose
sister, Miss Marjorie B. Rancman,
lives at 1924 Twenty-ninth street
Sc, has been killed In the Pacific,
the War Department announced
today. In Miss Rancman's absence
from the city, neighbor said 1t.
Rancman was killed in August off
Korea when bomber on which he
was navigator was shot down.
1t. Rancman was about 27 years
old, and was born in New York City.
He entered service about three and
one-half years ago and had been
overseas over four months. He had
been an instructor at various air.
fields in this country before going
overseas. Miss Rancman is a Gov
eminent employe.
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KnowIond Sworn In,
Succeeding Johnson

By the Associated Press.
William F. Knowland. Republican
today was sworn in as United States
Senator from California, succeeding
the late Hiram Johnson, also a Re-
puhlican.
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Wounded

Leon Parker Silvernale, "a, Chief
Pharmacists Mate, U. s. NJ. whose
wife, Mrs. Alice June Silvernale,
lives at 4703 Chestnut street, Be-
thesda, Md, was wounded in the
right arm by shell fragment June
16 on Okinawa, the Navy Depart
ment has disclosed. He Is now in
Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Chief Silyernale was born In Mil
lerton, N. Y, and was educated
there. He has been in the Navy
about six years and went through
the entire Okinawa campaign. Be-
fore that he had seen three years
of uninterrupted sea duty. Mrs
Silvernale is a Montgomery County
employe in Rockville.
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Swiss Crops Damaged

Hailstones as large as hens eggs
recently fell in the Schaf1hausen
district of Switzerland, injuring
people and damaging crops.
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was employed here as a grocery
clerk. He was born in Gaithersburg,
Md, and has been overseas eight
months. He is survived by his par
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Todoy's Casualty Lists
Killed

S/Sergt. Marvin F. Peddicord, 81,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Forest L. Peddi-
cord, Glenn Dale Md, was killed in
The sub., 1945-02-03

by always filled with engines with steam up and ready to go on very short notice. Where our lumber storage pile is, was an island which has been Joined to the main shore by digging out and leve1ing off to make the extreme north end of the yVrd larger.
 At that time the yard was a very busy place and any time you looked on the river you could see boat loads of cars coming across both freight and passenger. can remember my father telling me at that time it would be hard for any one to get work at this railroad terminal if he was not man talk ing the Irish Brogue The Irish at that time really ran the railroad.
 This was carried on until the draw bridge that was recently taken down was built and then this place stopped for few years and our good old time Irish friends started moving across the river to take up their work at the new terminal and that terminal has never changed its looks or size from that day to this. (Thanks to summer vacationists.)
 After short resting spell James J. Hill the big shot on railroads came here and built over the term inal to a shipyard known as the Eastern Shipbuilding Go. He said at that time if he could put out ships of the size he wanted in a given time of three years to the boat he would keep the yard running if not
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one at the bow, one anidships, and one at the stern with cross arm on each mast reaching out over each boat at least fifteen feet further than the far side of the hull. On these cross arms were large cables that run from mast to mast and these cables carried the cranes which were no more than carriages hanging in mid air. The hoisting was all done from a glass house that was built on the center mast just under the cross arm by a couple of men. Each man had all the carriages to take care of be- tween two masts either on the east end or the west end of the middle mast. Each man had sixteen levers to handle two levers to a crane, eight cranes to each man. These men were real crane men and I dare say the whole state of Con- necticut can not produce a man to fill one of those jobs today. l have watched these men a good many days when I was a boy and have seen them keep three and four cranes going at one time.
 used to think that no boat as
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hard way. The original yard was built by the Railroad Co. and all the grading and building was done by hand and the sweat of the brows of good old Irish workmen.
 am going to go back to about the year of 1885 from then until the year of 1900. I will give you the story as told to me by my father who at that time was employed by the railroad as a brakeman right here in this yard. From 1900 on l will tell you the story as saw the yard grow the same as I grew from a small boy slow but sure. It took years to develop and changed man. agement only three times in all those years.
 Groton in 1885 was a railroad center with the main yard as the terminal. The side track coming from Poquonnock to the main yard was the main line track from Bos- ton to New York and all trains were made up right here where we build subs today. Trains arriv- ing at New London were trans ported across the river on what was known as car scows and were un- loaded at a ferry slip that was where we now have the marine ways. There was an engine round house built of brick standing near
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Short Story About Main Yard
 By CHARLES CHAPMAN

! gave you a short history about Ehe Victory Yard few weeks ago and am going to try to tell you a few things about the main yard that may be of interest to some of the younger men working here at the present time.
 The main yard is very old es- tablished place. In fact l know of no other place in Groton that is still doing business that dates back as far as this place does.
 The main yard of the Electric Boat Co. did not come to Groton as the Victory Yard like circus train. It came and was built the
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he would build only the two that he had started and then shut the yard down. We'll it took him four years so the yard closed up once more.
 Maybe I had better tell you a few things about these boats and how the yard looked at that time.
 The old round house was changed over to a b1acksmiths shop and where the mold loft now stands was the largest building in the yard used as carpenter shop mold loft, triggers loft, and tool room. There were several buildings scat tered around the yard all built of wood. The ways were built where the north end of the machine shop now stands and ran from the wa ter all the way through the center of the yard up to Eastern Point Road coming to the road between
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large as these could be put in the water and be made to float. These | two boats at that time were the largest freight boats afloat in the world. They were named the Min- nesota and the Dakota. One of these boats if l remem- Der right was lost on her maiden trip. The other one made a few trips and I believe she was wrecked on the coast of China. These boats left Groton about 1904 leaving the harbor fully equipped and under their own power.
 After these boats were built Hill built two large railroad car scows and then closed the yard up and sold out at auction.
 Before get to the coming of the Electric Boat Go. let me tell you a little more about the yard and what it looked like as this ship yard took over after the railroad left.
 On the Thames Street side where the Fab shops now stand there were four houses known to all of Groton as the brown houses. One of them had barber shop managed
 by one Charlie White. He cut hair
 and sold liquor on the side. One was occupied by Belton Avery, the father of Andrew Avery, Of our | present day transportation depart l ment. can not remember who lived in the other two.
 On the Eastern Point Road side. where the building you get your finger prints made in stands, was
 white house that the shipyard took over and used as hospital. We go from there down to the foundry where there were three or four more houses occupied by Bill Trask, George Maynard, and Mir. Per- kinS.
 MT. Ennis, the boss caulker at the Victory Yard, lived in one of these houses. believe Huey Sloane worked at the old Shipyard. Also Albert Latham known as Abbie to us, worked there and Abbie is still going strong.
 A1ter me old yard laid idle for few years and we school boys had
 been through 1t digging up all the copper and lead pipes and removing everything that the junk dealers
 would buy (and they would buy anything from dry bones, bottles 1 and what have you in those days) there came to Groton a new busi. ness known as the New London
 Ship and Engine Company man- aged by one Captain Frank Cable, the father of the Frank Cable we have with us at the present time. Captain Cable was as fine man aS~
 have ever met and tried to do the 1 right thing by all I worked in his
 new shop in 1914 and 1915 and liked the place very much. Being of l the travelling kind I thought I would move along to a greener
 pasture but after few years !,
 find myself back with the company
 again not in the good old machine
 shop, but out 0n the boats where men are men and have to have good. courage to stay there during the
 hardShips of the winter months. At the early stages the company fContinaed On Page EleVem)
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the gate house and the employment office. The boats were over nine hundred feet long of the ocean go- ing type. From the ground to the first deck they loomed up in the air eighty feet. The bows of these boats came out to the road and the stern reached out over the water for quite some distance. Between these boats was three steel masts,
Evening star., 1945-06-01
Mrs. Julia N. Matthews,
Native Of D. E., Dies al %

Mrs. Julia M. Matthews, 80, died
today at the residence of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Julia D. De Land, 28O7 Con-
necticut avenue NV. She had been
in i'll health for two years.
Mrs. Matthews was born October
IL, 1851, in Washington, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Forrest.
In her youth she lived at Eighteenth
and I streets NV. and attended prl-
vate schools in Pennsylvania. She
was married to Stephen M. Mat
thews. Leesburg, Va, Washington
jeweler.
Other survivors besides her daugh-
ter include two grandsons, Allan S.
De Land. Augusta, Me, and l.. Mason
De Land, Washington, and three
rgreat-grandchildren.
Private funeral services will be
held Monday. Burial will be in
GlenWood Cemetery.
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Yunks Under Fire Lowered Tito
Down Cliff to Escape Nuzis

suade Tito to withdraw with them
However, he persisted on remain
ing. The war correspondents at the
headquarters also remained and
paid the price by being captured.
when the German parachute at
tack developed on June 3 there was
general fighting in the area and
1t. Col. Street Of the British Army
took mixed Anglo American party
to the village. They found that
Tito's position was precarious, as
the Germans were preparing to at
tack the front of the cave.
I'm the best adventure story man.
ner, they managed to get Tito out
by back entrance, using a rope to
lower him down the face of a cliff
All this was carried out under me-
dium range machine-gun fire. The
whole party then took to the hills
where they were under constant
attack by enemy planes.
Marshal Tito was evacuated to
Bari in Southern Italy by a Rus
sian plane on the night of June AS
accompanied by 1t. Col. Street and
his party, who have since been dec
grated for their actions. Tito then
Travelled in British destroyer from
Bari to the island of Wis, where he
once again took over active COM
mand of the Yugoslav forces"
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Jacob |. BabIer, Missouri
Republican Leader, Dies
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, June Jacob L.
Babler, IS, philanthropist and for
mer Republican national commit
teeman from Missouri, died yester-
day of heart disease.
Reputed to be one of Missouri's
Wealthiest men, Mr.. Babler gave
the l,800-acre Babler State Park in
st. Louis County to the State and
set up a 100000 trust fund for its
maintenance and preservation.
AS national Republican commit
teeman from Missouri Mr.. Babler
supported the unsuccessful candi-
dacy of former Gov. Frank Lowden
of Illinois for presidential nomina-
tion at the 1920 convention.
When Mr.. Lowden was leading
in the race word of an alleged S32,-
900 slush fund distributed to Mis-
souri, delegates ruined his chances
Of nomination. Warren G. Hard
ing was nominated.
In subsequent congressional in
Vestigation of slush fund charges
Mr.. Babler said he received a sub
stantial portion of the money and
distributed it legally for use in
running the party machinery in
Missouri.
Mr.. Babler had large property
holdings, including a forest and
Oil fields in Mexico, and was inter-
ested in many commercial enter
priSes.
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Rites for W. CubberIey,
Patent Attorney, Held Today

Funeral services were held today
for Warner I. Cubberley, 50, Wash
ington patent attorney for 20 years,
at his home at 1929 Legation street
NV. Burial was in Arlington Gene
terry
Mr.. Cubberley, who died Wednes-
day after a brief illness, was born
in Trenton, N Y, and came to
Washington to attend Georgetown
University shortly before World
War I. He resumed his studies after
serving with the AEF in France,
graduating from Georgetown Law
School in 1922 and receiving a
Master of Patent Law degree several
years later.
Mr.. Cubberley was a member of
the District Bar Association. Bar
Association of the Supreme Court,
Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity
and the Chevy Chase Methodist
Church.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Cubberley, and two daugh-
| terS
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William {. Mosher,
Syracuse Dean, Dies

Dean William E. Mosher, ST, OF
Syracuse University's Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs, died Unexpectedly today in
Alexandria.
Dean Mosher had been visiting
at the home of his son, Mai. Fred
erick c. Mosher, at 1917 Mount
Eagle place. when he suffered a
fatal heart attack.
An authority on public utility
economy, Dean Mosher frequently
had been employed as a Federal ex-
pert. Last year he was given a
three-month leave to serve on the
Foreign Economic Advisory Com
mission. In 1884, he was chosen tc
direct Nationwide survey of cleo
trio power and light rates for the
Federal Power Commission.
He received his education in pub
lie schools and at Oberlin College
where he was graduated in 1899. He
later took postgraduate work at the
University of Berlin and at Halle.
Dean Mosher spent 13 years on
the staff of Oberlin College. He was
director of the National Institute OF
Public Administration in New York
City from 1920 until 1924, when he
went to Syracuse and became man.
aging director of the university.
Survivors also include the widow
and three other sons, Richard, an
Army lieutenant stationed at Day
ton, Ohio; William, a lieutenant in
the Navy Medical Corps on Oki-
naWa, and Henry, an Army corporal
in Alabama.
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Mrs. Mary Ga|braith
Dies in Chevy Chase

Mrs. Mary Helen Galbraith, IS, a
resident of Washington since 1881,
died Wednesday at the home of her
daughter, Miss Esther Galbraith,
602 East Woodbine street, Chevy
Chase, Md, after short illness.
Mrs. Galbraith was the widow of
William John Galbraith, compost
tor and proofreader of The Star
for 30 years, former employe of
the Washington Post and the Gov
ernment Printing Office and one of
the founding staff of the Erie pa
Daily Times.
Mrs. Galbraith was born in New
Vienna, Ohio, and came to Wash
ington in 1881. She resided for manv
years at 3425 Fourteenth street NE,
moving six years ago to the home
of her daughter, an instructor at
Theodore Roosevelt High School.
Mrs. Galbraith also leaves a son,
William Howard Galbraith, who
retired recently after 80 years with
the Federal Trade Commission.
Funeral services will be con-
Quoted at 3 pm. tomorrow at the
S. H. Hines funeral home by the
Rev. David Tosh Burgh. Burial will
be IN Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
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DIR. Arcturus Howard,
Former Physician and
Educator, Dies at IS

h DR.. Arcturus Lee Howard, rs, oi
1852 Chevy Chase boulevard, Chevy
Chase, Md, former physician and
retired head of the business prac-
tice department of the District high
schools, died yesterday at his home
after long illness.
He was born in Washington and
educated at Central High School,
the Washington Normal School and
Georgetown University Medical
School. He received his M. D. from
the latter institution in 1893 and
practiced medicine in the District
for nearly 10 years.
An interest in education led him
to take a position as instructor in
Business High School in the early
1900's. He taught and wrote on
commercial subjects until 1918,
when he was appointed head OF
the business practice department.
He continued in the post until 1910,
when he retired.
DR.. Howard was secretary of the
Federal Schoolmen's Club, a trustee
and former Sunday school superin-
tendent at Emory Methodist Church,
and member of the National Edu-
cational Society, the District Edu-
cational Society, the National Vo-
cational Guidance Association and
the Washington Board of Trade.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Anna Morrison Howard, three
daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Birthright
and Mrs. Marian Burns of Chevy
Chase, and Mrs. Ruth Harper of
Washington: one brother, DR.. Jo-
seph T. D. Howard of Falls Church,
Va. and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 3
pm. tomorrow at Emory Methodist
Church, 6100 Georgia avenue NV.
Burial will be in Glenwood Gene
tnrJy
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'ARKER, WHLIAM HARWAR

Iyl Oh IlUISQay, May JI, IH4Di
9 at his residence, in New York City
8 WILLIAM H. PARKER, major. u
y s NJ. c. Cretired), aged 66. son Of
the late 1t. Comdr William H
Parker, U, S N, and Elise Jenkin.
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BY the Associated Press.

American soldiers lowered Marshal
Tito by rope down the side of a
cliff, under fire, to escape the Ger
mans, Field Marshal Sir Henry Matt
land Wilson disclosed here yesterday.
Some time before the attack, "
said the field marshal in a state
ment issued by the British Informa-
ton Service, reconnaissance planes
of the Balkan (British) Air Force
and the 18th United States Force
had reported a considerable buildup
of German gliders on an airport in
Northern Yugoslavia. 1t was recog-
niZed, by the various Allied military
missions attached to Tito's head
quarters, that the Germans had
located the headquarters, because of
Increased radio activity emanating
from Drvar, from the time of Tito's
arrival there.
LAS a result of this, the British
and Russian missions withdrew to
the adjoining hills and tried to per-
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Draths

HAGEsTEARY, 1t ARTHUR w. On
April 20, .1945, in England. 1t.
NAeN ARTHUR W. HAGESTEARY. U. S.
IVES Army, son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
W. Hagesteary OF 1902 New Hamp-
" shire ave. NV. Memorial services
will be held at > noon Sunday,
June 3. al st. Sophia's Church. Sth and |.
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Draths

WOOD, EARL ]. Members Of the Sergt
xyahs,, Jasper Post, American Legion
ES&SA will assemble at the Hinei
SHASS funeral home, corner 14th anc
sN&NkUs Harvard SITS. NV. at o'clock
&NNy Friday evening, June !. 1915
ZfdN where the national guard o1
honor will officiate in memoria
services for our late comrade. EARL j
WOOD. 1nterment at Arlington Nationa
Cemetery Saturday
W P. KERsHMER, Commander.
CLYDE B. DEAN. AdJutant.
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Senate D. {. Committee
To Act on Bills Tomorrow

Members of the Senate District
Committee are scheduled to meet
tomorrow at the call of Chairman
Bilbo to act on the most urgent Of
the pending District legislation.
These would include the Mcmillan
bill for a 20-10-5 per cent boost II,
the pay of police and firemen, plus
3 per cent of the new basic pay
scales, in lieu of overtime or night
time service.
Another is the necessary exten.
sion of the July l deadline on occu.
pancy of alley dwellings and a thirc
to permit Dr. Alvin R. Sweeney
former head of the Marine Hospita.
of Cleveland to become superin-
tendent of Gallinger Hospital with.
out losing his Government retire.
ment status.
The bt,lndary and rabies contro
bills are expected to be assigned
for hearings.