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Evening star., 1945-04-03
f. 6. Baldwin 10 Head
Arlington Chamber

Ernest G.. Baldwin was elected
president of the Arlington Chamber
of Commerce at special meeting
of the Board of Directors, it was an
nounced today, succeeding Aubrey
P. Grow, resigned. Mr.. Grow is
being transferred as local manager
of the C. a. P. Telephone Co.
a resolution favoring a tax in
crease of Is cents per 500 of as
sessed real estate valuation fol
1856, also was adopted.
The resolution, adopted in line
with a recommendation from the
Chambers Committee on Legisla-
ton and Taxation, suggested the
increase be an emergency measure
pending scheduled reaSsessment oi
tax values in 1916.
The County Board recently pro.
posed an increase in the tax rate
from $2.70 to $295.
The chambers directors said pro.
vision should be made for some
emergency capital improvements
now to meet the most urgent com.
munity needs and to protect county
property values. A slight increase
in the tax rate, it was said, ap.
parently is the soundest method tt
meet this problem.
Mr.. Baldwin has been a county
businessman for nearly 27 years
He has been active in the chamber
for many years, having served al
director and officer of the organiza.
! ton for several terms.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Candy Stock PiIing Order
For Armed Forces Cancelled

Ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 3.-Candy manu-
facturers Of scent bars and pack
ages need no longer set aside so pei
cent of their production for the
armed forces, the regional Office OF
the War Food Administration an
nounced yesterday.
Revised estimates by the armed
forces made possible the cancella-
ton order, VIA officials said. The
order setting aside half of produc-
ton for military personnel went into
effect October 7, 1914.
In the future the armed forces
will obtain their supplies through
normal trade channels, VIA said
1t was originally planned to reduce
the set-aside order to IS per cent
but later revisions made the entire
elimination possible, the announce
ment added.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Alexandra Servicemen's Kin
Warned to Watch for Frauds

and State police believe he may be
coming to Northern Virginia.
Alexandria police also are on the
lookout for man described as
about % years old. S feet 10 inches
tall, weight $50 pounds, with light
skin and hair and wearing rough
clothing with one overcoat sleeve
pinned up to look like q missing
arm.
The Very Rev. Edward l.. Stephens,
pastor Of st. Mary's Catholic Church
in Alexandra, reported that the
man called at the rectory Sunday
and asked for money, claiming to be
q veteran with a missing arm.
Father Stephens gave him $40, but
on questioning him further became
suspicious and pulled the mans
coat open, revealing the missing
arm.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Maryland COP Sees
8 as Good Nominees
lin Governor S Race
Ry the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, April 3.-Eight men
considered eligible for the Republic
an nomination for Governor next
year were named in a recent poll
of more than 200 key figures of the
party, the Maryland Federation of
Republicans reported yesterday.
The federation, led by John H
McFaul and Harry Leeward Katz,
said it asked the question, Who
would make a good candidate for
Governor" and received 2l2 re-
plies. The cards specified that the
names of the signers would not be
used.
Suggested were:
Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin
Baltimore: Representative Bean
Frostburg; w. David Tilghman, for
mer chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee: Judge j.
Abner Sayler of the Baltimore Su-
preme bench.
Herman Mills, businessman and
president of the Hagerstown Com
merce Association; Judge Edward
S. Delaplaine Of the Sixth Judicial
Circuit; Judge William A. Hustler
of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, and
Paul Robertson, chairman of the
Baltimore City Republican Commit
! tee.
| Some political observers said thu
diversity of views on possible can
didate foreshadowed primary bat.
tie for the nomination. Gov. O'Conol
is conceded to be the likely Demo.
cratic choice.
None of the Republicans men,
toned yet has made a public an
nouncement for the gubernatorial
nomination. although Mayor Nc
Keldin and Mr.. Beall have been
among the most frequently named
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Maryland Checks Up
On Stolen Auto Tabs
BY the Associated Press.

by lne Associated freht.
BALTIMORE, April 3-Maryland
police were on the alert today to
combat an outbreak Of thefts OF
1916 automobile license markers
throughout the State.
Under orders of Motor Vehicle
Commissioner E. Lee Elgin, State,
county and city police were to be
supplied with list of motorists who
had not applied for new tabs.
Mr.. Elgin said the list would in
clude the name, addresses and large
license tag numbers to be used by
police in a thorough check.
He warned motorists displaying
false tabs, expired tags or tabs for
which they had not applied that all
would be prosecuted.
He said his office had received re-
ports of 118 stolen 1916 tabs to date,
35 of which were said to have been
taken from automobiles during a
baseball game Sunday at the Mu-
nicipal Stadium.
The commissioner said display
ers of tabs for which they had not
applied would be subject to driver
license revocation, to a charge OF
displaying fictitious markers which
might entail fine up to 500 and
costs, or to refusal of a new Car
registration license.
Mr.. Elgin reported that $4,000 mo-
torists had not yet applied for new
tabs. Tags not displaying the new
marker expired March 81.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Man Held in SHOOTING
4Persons,2Fata
Faces Hearing Today

Garfield Jones. colored, %, was
to be arraigned today on charges of
Staying two colored men and shoot
ing two colored women in the base
ment of a private home at $3.50
Thirty-ninth street NV.
An inquest before coroner's jury
may be postponed pending a change
in the condition of one of the wom-
en-, Lille Mack, 80, maid. who was
shot In the abdomen. At the Emer-
gency Hospital her condition was
reported as good.
After questioning Jones and wit
nesses to the shooting 1t. jeremiah
Flaherty, head of the police homi-
eide squad, gave reporters this ac-
count of the shootings:
Jones, he said. was in Municipal
Court yesterday afternoon, charged
with hitting his wife with an ak
February 27, in their home in the
1900 block of Thirty-third street
NV.
Was Under $1,000 Bond.
Judge Walter J. Casey held Jones
under 81 900 bond for the grand jury
on a charge Of assault on his wife
with a dangerous weapon. Jones
originally had been held under
$4,000 bond following his arrest, but
at a preliminary hearing on March
81. the bond had been reduced.
Mrs. Jones family and friends
had rallied to her support. After
the hearing in court, 1t. Flaherty
said, they all were invited by Lille
Mack, a sister of Mrs. Jones, to
have . cup of tea in her room in
the basement Of the Thirty ninth
street address, which is the home
of Jacob S. Gruver.
Lille Mack and fiye guests were
in the room when at tbs pm. Jones
came in. He had a pistol in his
hand and he shouted: Il am going
to kill you ALL"
Then the shooting began. Earle
Mack. 80. of Freeman. w. Va. a
brother of Mrs. Jones, and Leroy
Bolton. 30, a friend, we're fatally
wounded. Lille Mack and her sis
ter, Corienne Mack. also were
wounded. The latter was hit in
the back. The wound was a slight
one and she was released after first
aid at Emergency Hospital.
Two Roll Under Bed.
Mrs. Jones and another sister,
Mrs. Sadie Law of Newark. N. j.,
had rolled under the bed when
Jones appeared and were not hit.
Jones was arrested a half hour
later as he tried to leave his quar-
ters in o street by a rear door.
He was said to be unarmed. Corpl
Gordon T. Nance and Pvts Roy
Schwab and Raymond S. Evans of
the Seventh precinct reported they
found a loaded .38 pistol and 10
extra cartridges in the bed in his
room
Evening star., 1945-04-03
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

The salesmanager was giving the
new statesmen pep talk.
"You have something very un-
usual to SELL" he was telling them
Those words floated across the
crowded room as you poked your
head in the door. They might have
been setting out to sell almost any
thing. What salesmanager doesn't
say that about his product?
But there was, the most casual
and uniformed visitor would have
noted, something entirely different
about this little orientation course
The sales manager was a civilian
but all the statesmen were in uni
form.
They would offer a sound invest
ment, but they would sell national
unity, he then told them. They
would appeal to the, thrift of buy
ers, give them chance to make q
safe profit, but they would sell far
more than that. They would sell
shares in the future of America.
All Wear Ribbons.
These soldiers who listened all
wore ribbons, some of them three
rows. The man who talked was Rob-
ert w. Coyne, national field director
of the Treasury's War Finance Divi-
sion.
No salesmanager ever had such a
group of statesmen. They all rate
as heroes, every one of the So. They
had been decorated for bravery,
some of them several times. Nearly
all had been wounded.
It was the Seventh War Loan
they were setting out to sell, and
Mr.. Coyne told them it wouldn't be
easy. The Treasury had set terrific
quota, which it doesn't know If II
can meet. A lot OF people wouio
figure the war was pretty well over,
and why bother now? They would
speak to assemblies of the people
they'd fought for-people standing
about between factory shifts, others
perhaps grouped around the country
store, or collected in the town
square or pressed into the only
meeting hall in some little town.
What were their thoughts as they
got their instructions? Most Of
them didn't say. When it came
time to ask questions, only one was
asked. A sergeant wanted to know
if there was slogan for the
Seventh War Loan. No one slogan,
Mr.. Coyne explained, but number
had been prepared-they could use
any or all.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
from Our
|Leonordtown
Correspondent
BY GEORGE MORGAN
KNIGHT Ir.

LEONARDTOWN, Md, April g.
Many a man and boy today as well
as their sisters and brothers, are
getting home haircuts, with the bar
bers continually raising the price OF
haircuts, the women folk have been
called in, and are expertly, and
stylishly cutting their fanatics hair
with sissors, and bowl to help
guide them. as in yesteryears, when
BARRIERS were difficult to get to here
in st. Mary's and other parts OF
Southern Maryland. Therefore his
tory is repeating itself, and many a
family budget is now being benefited
Since the OPA refuses to force the
BARRIERS to reduce their prices, to pre-
war days. and with the price of many
things still going higher, the men
folk are having a time making ends
meet, so, the ladies have come forth
and helpt them save in cutting their
hair. So the housewife has added
this extra chore to her already over
burdened lists of things to do for
the family!
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Winners Of Peace
Essay Contest Feted
On Visit 10 Capital

Two West Virginia students, win.
ners in an essay contest. settled
down to ordinary sightseeing today
after a tour arranged yesterday by
Representative Randolph, Democrat
of West Virginia, during which they
visited the House of Representatives
met Mrs. Roosevelt and secured the
autograph of Secretary of State
Stettinius.
The students. Tony Petaki, II, and
Miss Pauline Pyles. 16, of Monon-
gala County. won second and third
places in an essay contest on inter-
national peace, conducted by r. M
Davis. coal operator of Morgantown
w. Va. Mr.. Davis accompanied
them on their tour, along with Floyd
Cox, Monongalia County superin-
tendent of schools, and Walter
Hunt. editor of the Dominion (W
Va) News. The first prize winner
Miss Darla Eddy, IT, also of Monon-
gala County. was slightly injured in
an automobile accident and did not
come.
Mr.. Randolph called the attention
of the House to the students in the
gallery yesterday and then took
them to lunch in the House dining
room. Going to the White House,
they met Mrs. Roosevelt and heard
As members of the cast of Winged
Victory" singing in the east room
for about $50 wounded veterans
from Walter Reed Hospital, the
Naval Medical Center at Bethesda,
Md, the Marine Base Hospital at
Quantico, Va, and st. Elizabeth's
Hospital.
Secretary of State Stettinius shook
hands with the group later in the
afternoon and received from Mr..
Davis his own plan for an inter-
national government. Mr.. Randolph
was host at a dinner in honor of
the essayists last night at the
Statler Hotel, introducing them to
United States Commissioner of Edu-
cation John w. Studebaker and
several representatives here of the
United Nations.
The students will leave tonight.
Their trip here was sponsored by
Mr.. Davis.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Man Freed at Cabanatuan
Thanks 4 Who Saved Him

Joseph Embree, 8109 Giant street,
Silver Spring, who was one of 513
Allied prisoners liberated at the
Japanese Cabanatuan camp on
Luzon by the American Rangers,
didn't have time to get acquainted
with his rescuers then. But he
had a chance to thank four of them
yesterday in the office of Baltimore's
mayor.
1T can't be expressed in words. :"
Mr.. Embree said as he went from
one Ranger to the other with words
of thanks.
With Mr.. Embree, who was assist
ant chief engineer of power plant
on Corregidor, was another of the
rescued. Chief Boatswain's Mate
Walter L. Kain, Baltimore, and also
the wife of a third liberated Ameri-
can.
One of the Rangers recalled see
ing Mr.. Embree. Il remember you"
Pfc. LIE Hand A. Provencher, Litch-
field, Mich, declared. 1T was your
mustache. 1t was much bigger
then made you stand out"
The Rangers were in Baltimore
to bring first-hand accounts of the
Pacific campaigns toward workers
| in that area.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Motorists in Arlington
Warned 10 Get Taos

A warning was issued today by
Arlington County Police CHIEF
Harry L. woodward that April Is is
the absolute deadline for 1914 auto
mobile tags.
VERY few motorists have bought
their new tags, and if people are
laboring under the impression that
the deadline win be extended be-
cause Of the war, they are wrong,
Chief woodward said.
Tags can be purchased at the
Olmstead Motor Co., 1000 Wilson
boulevard; Greenwood Garage. 450s
Lee highway, and the Bureau OF
Motor Vehicles, Columbia pike and
Glebe road.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Warning Signs Urged
To Avert Tragedies
Above Chain BRIDGE
Police Continue Search
For Body Of Seaman
Who Drowned Sunday

.fz As police continued to drag for
the body Of Radio Technician First
Class Robert Allen Corliss, 81.
drowned Sunday above Chain Bridge
in the Potomac when his canoe
capsized, authorities today were
taking steps to prevent a repetition
of the tragedy.
The canoe containing Mr.. Corliss
and companion, Ensign James C..
Andrews, %, overturned at Little
Falls as the two men were Shoot
ing" the rapids. Ensign Andrews
recovered the canoe and reached
the Virginia shore. Both men were
attached to the Naval Research
Laboratory at Bellevue, D. C.
This morning Harbor Policemen
Phillip K. Clark and F. A. Carr Of
the harbor precinct continued the
search for Mr.. Corliss' body.
Warning Signs Urged.
1t. Otha r. Sanders, command
ing the harbor precinct, today sent
letter to Supt. of Police Edward
j. Kelly, asking that warning signs
be placed on or near Chain Bridge
cautioning canoists and small boat
operators to stay below the span.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Boys Club Program
For Week ARRANGED

A special program has been
planned for each evening this week
at the Alexandria Boys Club in
celebration of Boys Club Week
according to David C. Book, general
chairman.
Members of the board of directors
have taken charge of the various
events and will welcome visitors and
explain the clubs program and
purposes.
Today is Victory Volunteers Day
and the boys are organizing into
teams to canvass the city for cloth
ing to be given to the United Ma
tional Clothing drive.
Tomorrow is Parents Day, when
the members are urged to bring
their families as guests: Thursday
Ministerial and Civic Club Day, the
members of those groups being espe-
cially invited; and Friday is Munich
pal Day when officials Of the city
Government have been asked to
attend.
This week will be climaxed Satur-
day with Honor Roll Night at which
Maj. Gen. George j. Richards of the
Army General Staff will welcome
the boys, particularly the Older
members and those who have been
serving in the armed forces and are
either discharged or home on leave
Evening star., 1945-04-03

Residents Of Alexandria have been
warned to watch for persons who
are attempting to get money by
making false representations to
families 81 servicemen and those
who pretend to be veterans in need
of funds.
Detective 1t. Russell A. Hawes
said State police have notified him
that a man of about IS has been
collecting $3.50 to $25 from families
of servicemen in Richmond by
promising to publish biographies
and photographs of relatives in
service in q book he claims to be
writing called Defenders of Amer
lea, World War H."
The sheriff of Appomattox, Va.
holds 3 warrant for the man for OBJ
tanning money under false pretensea
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Two Plead Not Guilty
In Harrisonburg Staying
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISONBURG, Va, April s.
A special Rockingham Circuit Court
grand jury, acting in advance Of
scheduled preliminary hearings, re-
turned indictments yesterday charg-
ing murder against Mrs. Grace M.
Smith and Ralph H. Garner.
The charges grew out of the death
of Mrs. Smiths husband, Frank c..
Smith, 80, discharged war veteran,
whose body was found in the base
ment of his home here February 20.
Both Mrs. Smith and Garner
pleaded innocent when arraigned.
Mrs. Smith, secretary for local
insurance firm, was bonded for
$4,000 and the bond for Garner,
local restaurateur, was continued at
$4,000. The trial date has not
been set.
Mrs. Smith has contended that her
husband, whose body was found on
a ladder with a rope about the neck.
committed suicide. Garner has
stated that he knows nothing about
Mr.. Smiths death.
Police reported that they found
blood and hammer on the first
floor of the home
Evening star., 1945-04-03
So Heroes Of War Are Reodied
For Part as War Bond SuIesmen

Some Of the soldiers looked as II
they'd rather face more machine
guns and mortars than an audience.
There was this comforting
thought, though Most of them
would 60 back to their home States
to sell War Bonds. And that meant
seeing their families and friends.
1t wouldn't be as tough as taking
on strange region.
Youthful Staff Sergt. James j.
Moore, who won the Silver Star and
the Purple Heart in the South
Pacific, was looking forward to re-
turning to his home county In
Illinois, where he knew a lot of
people. Guadalcanal and Bougain-
vile were a long way of, but he
supposed he'd have to tax apouJ
them when he got up to sell bonas.
There was Capt. v. P. Kelley,
from Los Angeles, who was wounded
four times in the course of fighting
in Tunisia and Italy. He was at
Anzio and Casino, two of the tough
est battles our troops have fought,
and he wears the Silver Star for
gallantry.
There were all the others, each
singled out by his commanding off,
Ger for some exploit that stood out
in places where all the men were
valiant.
None From District.
Sergt John I. Glasgow, who comes
from Boykins, Va, will tour that
State telling his fellow Virginians
why they should still buy bonds and
buy more than ever at this crucial
moment. And Sergt. Lloyd James,
who halls from Maryland, will travel
over the old State.
There was nobody, 1t developed
at the sales conference, from the
District. Would any one volunteer
to take over the District? asked the
colonel, who had the detachment OF
heroes in custody. No one said a
word. Each wanted to 60 home.
After all, you couldn't blame them.
One of them will be detailed to
the District if no Washington SOL
dier with a lot of ribbons shows up
pretty soon. Some States were rep
resented by several, and those de-
tacned to sell bonds elsewhere prob
ably will get a special furlough
home after the campaign.
The boys are on their way today,
ready to tell why they think people
should support their war. And they
know things about the war they
didn't read in the papers or see in
the neWsreels,
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Concert Series to Close

The last in the series of concerts
for the benefit of the organ FUND
will be held at st. Clements Church
on Seminary road. Alexandria, al
$3.50 pm. tomorrow. Miss Wilma
Mirelle, lyric coloratura, will presen,
a program of modern French anc
Italian songs. Miss Mirelle has ap-
peared on programs in Radio City
New York, and with the San Carlt
Opera Company.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
President Signs Two Bills
TotoIing $349, ,843 400
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The first two appropriation bills
of the 10th Congress, carrying an
aggregate Of $349, ,843, 400, were
signed yesterday by President
Roosevelt.
They provide SIP, ,450, $40 for river
and harbor work and other War
Department civil functions and
$237 ,392, $50 in supplemental funds
for miscellaneous agencies including
$233 900 900 for veterans pensions.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Gloucester Point
Pier Rozed by Fire
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GLOUCESTER, Va, April 3-The
Chesapeake Steamship Line pier on
the York River and the old Glouces-
ter Point Hotel, now used as a pri-
vate residence, were destroyed by
fire yesterday.
The county of Gloucester recent
ly spent approximately $4,000 on
the pier, but it had not been in use
by the Chesapeake Line for some
time.
The Yorktown Naval Mine De-
pot sent equipment to aid firemen
in battling the flames. Yorktown
Gloucester ferry boats also pumped
water on the burning pier.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Boy, 5, Victim Of Burns,
To Be Buried Tomorrow

Funeral services for 5-year- -olo
Tony Di Trapini, who died Sunday
in Alexandria Hospital from burns
suffered March Is when his cowboy
suit caught fire, will be held to.
morrow at the home of his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Vito Di Trapini, Isl
Lynnhaven drive. Alexandria.
Burial will be in National Memo.
rial Park, Falls Church.
Evening star., 1945-04-03
Arlington Mothers to Meet

The mothers organization at the
Patrick Henry School in Arlington
will meet at 1880 pm. tomorrow in
the Thomas Jefferson School on
South Fillmore street, north Of
Columbia pike. Mothers who are
not members are. invited to attend
the panel discussion on Manners
for Today" at 2:30 pm.
Evening star., 1945-04-03

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Opponents held generally that new
buildings should not be constructed
now at the height Of construction
costs and that only absolutely nee
essary expenditures should be made
pending changes in the tax struc-
ture.
While making no commitments.
board members said after the hear
ing that State funds made available
for teacher salaries by the recent
special session of the General As
sembly might provide the $100-a-
year addition to teacher salaries re-
quested by the school groups at
about a 37-cent reduction In the
proposed tax levy. Thus the levy
would be increased about "a cents
instead of the proposed II cents.
The final decision of the board
must be made by May !.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-09
Mrs. Robert Fife
Honored al Party

a LUNCHEON was given
Yesterday. at the DAG by Mrs.
Herman KoeStlin and her
daughter, Mrs. Robert S. Laurie,
10 honor Mrs. Robert +. Fife.
who is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Stuart CogSdill, OF
Orchard Lake
Mrs. Fife came on from
Beaufort S c. where her hus-
band, 1t. tigl Fife has been
stationed.
1t. Fife has been transferred
te Jacksonville Fla. a
Others for whom places were
marked at one long table decked
with bright blooms were Mrs.
CogSdill, Mrs. George T. Trum-
butt ErucSrne- Kern Mrs, vii
liam Kelly, Mrs. Lynn n
Wetherbee. Mrs. John c. Cal
houn, Mrs. George f. Quigley,
Mrs. William a. Falls, Mrs.
Waldso Turner. Mrs. Albert +.
Wcibel, Mrs. Stanley Conrad,
Mrs. D. J. Hutchins, Mrs. NJ.
NJ Burgess. Mrs. Charles F..
Miller, Mrs. Sam Keller, Mrs.
Ernest Kern, Mrs. James Mort
inner. Mrs. Otto Kern and Mrs.
David Viger.