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Evening star., 1945-08-20
I Alexandria Officials
Without Opposition
As Filing Date Passes

With the expiration last week of
the 90-day deadline for candidates
to file for the November election
in Alexandria seven city officials,
all OF whom were unopposed for the
Democratic nomination, virtually
became officeholders for another
term.
The officials were declared the
nominees by the Democratic Com
mittee before the August primary
when no opposition materialized.
The remote possibility of write-in
candidates winning the November
election is the only opposition they
now face.
The newly created Office of juve-
nile judge will be filled in the No.
vember election, but according to
the bill by which the State Legis-
lature created the Office last May,
a special 30-day deadline has been
set for candidates to file.
With the exception of w. Sheldon
Washington, member of the House
.of Delegates who is a candidate for
a second term, all of the men orig
inally came into Office by appoint
ment to fill vacancies and have been
elected continuously since that time.
Commissioner of Revenue C. Au-
brey Callahan was appointed by
Judge William p. Woolls to succeed
his father, Charles H. Callahan, who
died last August after having held
Office for 46 years.
Judge James r. Duncan of the
Civil and Police Court has served
since 1885.
Commonwealths Attorney Albert
v. Bryan has held Office since 1928
when he succeeded Judge Woolls,
who was appointed to the Corpora
ton Court
Corporation Court Clerk Elliott
F. Hoffman has served since 1922.
City Treasurer Roger C. Sullivan
became a clerk in the treasurer's
Office in 1909 and was appointed
treasurer in 1925.
The oldest ofhceholder, City. Sergt.
Robert H. Cox, has held Office for
A years.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
800 Virginia Schools
Planning Improved
Business Courses
By the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 20.-1m-
proved business training through
Office education courses will be Of
fered in 300 Virginia high schools
this term. A. l.. Walker, recently
appointed State supervisor of COM
mercial education, has announced
In addition to the regular courses
in tipping, shorthand and bookkeep-
ing, commercial instruction this
year will include elementary busi-
ness management and practical
training designed to coordinate
classroom instruction and practical
Office procedures, he said.
He estimated that about 10000
students will enroll in commercial
courses this fall.
Mr.. Walker, who is the first State
supervisor of commercial education
to be appointed in Virginia, said
that high schools also will offer
courses in Office management and
commercial subjects to out of school
business people.
About 300 commercial education
teachers are available for the COM
ing fall term, he said, but an acute
need for more teachers exists. Dur
ing the war more commercial in
structors we're absorbed by business
than teachers of academic subjects,
he explained.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
Early Reveals
| |RooseveItPIun
|Fu uNewspoper
y the Associated Press

6y tAc hSeOClabcu 1ISeSs
President Roosevelt had in mind
starting a newspaper in New York
once he completed his fourth term,
according to Stephen Early, secre-
tary to the late President.
Mr.. Early said yesterday Mr..
Roosevelt had considered and dis
cussed the project to the point where
he had decided the paper should be
tabloid size and should print no
editorials.
"It win print only news stories in
which there viii be only facts" he
quoted the President as saying.
Give the people plenty Of facts and
they will form their own opinions. !"
After Mr.. Roosevelt,s death, Mr..
Early remained at the White House
at President Truman's request for
q brief period to help the new ad-
ministration get started. He now Is
q vice president Of the Pullman Co.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
Stain Orders Tribute
To Red Air Force
BY the Associated Press,

BY the I LSSoclateu Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 20.-Premiel
Stain proclaimed yesterday as Avia-
ton day in Russia and saluted the
Red Air Force for routing the Ger
man Luftwaffe. The order called
for Moscow's first peacetime artillery
salute, 20 salvos by 220 guns.
The Russian Army newspaper said
editorially the Soviet people want to
see their aviation still stronger and
more powerful and asserted the
people "are convinced that the air
forces will brilliantly fulfill the new
and serious tasks standing before
them"
Evening star., 1945-08-20
lsHRst;oniinq
.Remmider6a

Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book 4, stamps
o. through U-2 good through
August 81. Stamps Va through
"a good through September 80
Stamps Al through Ell good
through October 81. Stamps F-1
through XII good through No
vember 80.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Stamp No. SO valid for 5
pounds through August 81. Next
stamp valid September !.
Shoes-Airplane stamps l, ?, ; and 1
in Book No. 8 good indefinitely for
one pair Of shoes each.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
State Senator GIascock
Will Be Buried Today
BY the Associated Press.

6y lGt aesOClattC fIeS&.
UPPERVILLE, Va. Aug 20.-
Funeral services for State Senate,
Thomas B. Glascock, who had repre-
sented the Culpeper. Fauquier and
Loudoun district in the Senate since
1886, were to be held at his home
Williamsburg, near here. at O'Clock
this afternoon. Burial was to be in
Ivy Hill Cemetery here.
At Richmond the flag over the
Senate chamber of the State Capito
was flying at half mast in honor OF
the Upperville Senator.
Senator Glascock had been in i'll
health for a number of years and
suffered stroke in May. He died
Saturday.
Survivors include his widow, three
children and three sisters.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
| From Our
|LeonordtoWn
Correspondent
BY GEORGE MORGAN
KNIGHT, Jr.

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Aug. 90
Many an old homestead throughout
all of Southern Maryland, Leonard
town and st. Mary's today, has had
its face lifted so to speak, and is all
dressed up, in its best paint job,
sports new gayly colored shingled
roof, new green shutters, and new
weather boarding, and as they call
it, all dressed up in its best bib and
tucker" to greet the many redeploy-
ment service men, returning for
short and long furloughs, thanks to
the Patuxent River U. S. Naval base
construction workers, jamming the
old homes, and new, enabling the
owners to get their hands on ready
and extra cash, to fix up their resi-
dences, and farm houses as result
of the crowded conditions, making
lodging and eating places hard to
find, for the workers, and the Naval
personel and their families.
Frequently a field that did not
raise a good crop along the roadside
has been turned into a trailer camp,
dIlQ VI lklSC III q SOOOAy 1OI ItuliC, W
the farmers and the town folks, who
let the trailer families set up trailer
house keeping, on these vacant spots
of, dust in summer, and mud holes
in winter.
Such spots have turned into literal
gold mines of income, for the owners.
So many trailer camps have
sprung up and continue to grow
throughout st. Mary's, and with this
extra income the old homes have
been fixed up, modernized, and that
Is why. when Johnny Comes March,
ing Home" he will find it hard to be-
lieve, that the old ramshackled place
he left behind, and has been dream
ing of these past World War II
years, has been turned into almost a
palace in his absence, and that of
his friends and neighbors as we'll,
and where his folks use to wear old
clothes, they now wear the best, eat
the best, and pa and ma don't have
to grub for living any longer!
They can now sit back, and take it
easy, from the many incomes the
field of trailers bring in, that is in
Leonardtown and st. Mary's-the
richest county in America today,
thanks to the Patuxent River u. s.
Naval base constructed at Cedar
Pointl
Evening star., 1945-08-20
Congregational Group
Reflects Roy Lurrick
'pecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER. Va, Aug. 90
Roy A. Larrick, Winchester layman,
has been reelected president for
the eighth consecutive year of the
Virginia Valley Conference of the
Congregational Christian Church,
which held its annual meeting at
Bethel Church, Rockingham County.
The Southern convention was re-
quested to give aid in establishing
congregation at Front Royal,
where considerable number of
communicates of the denomination
have taken UP residence since the
industrial expansion in that area.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
A.,B.&W.P Plan! ]!
Early Return 70
Shorter Week
Bus Company Also
To Schedule First
Vacations in a Years

The Alexandria, Bancroft G WASH
ington Transit Co. will put its en-
ployes on shorter hours with vaca-
tions as soon as possible, it was
revealed today by Beverly c. May,
general manager, who said the COM
pany would be more than able"
to rehire any former employees who
are discharged from the armed
forces.
Mr.. May said the present drivers
have been working a 60-hour week
for the past four years, without va
cations. They have transported
more than four times the passen-
gers carried during prewar years
with only a Al per cent increase
in buses and a 43 per cent increase
in drivers.
The 100 company drivers who are
in the armed forces can easily be
absorbed If they want their Jobs
back, Mr.. May said. Some of the
new drivers who kept their jobs
in order to remain in essential in
dustry are expected to leave, he
added.
Expects As New Buses.
The company also expects 20 new
buses this year and Is in the early
part OF 1916, Mr.. May said. This
will allow the discard of some of
the older equipment now in use.
In prewar days the normal bus
capacity was 40 persons sitting and
16 standing. Since the war more
persons have been standing than
sitting, according to company re-
ports.
AS a basis of comparison Mr.. May
said that in June, 1910, the company
carried 650,856 passengers with 112
buses and $50 drivers. In June. 1945,
2,506,919 passengers were carried
in 158 vehicles. operated by 2l5
drivers.
No great drop in the passenger
load is anticipated by Mr.. May, who
observed that the large housing de-
velopments in and around Alexan-
dria will continue to grow. He said
that if Fort Belvoir continues to
be used by the Army the A. B. & W..
only public transportation available
to the post, still will carry a ca
pacity load Of soldiers.
Faced Segregation Problems.
Praising the drivers for the efforts
during the war years in transport
ing passengers, Mr.. May said that
some of the problems faced by the
men, came from the necessity of
enforcing the Virginia segregation
laws while carrying large numbers
of passengers who came from North
ern States and were unaccustomed
to the regulations.
Resumption of direct service from
Washington to Mount Vernon, as
we'll, as other purely sightseeing
routes, are anticipated by the COM
pany. Mr., May said a survey will
be made in the near future with a
view to scheduling the routes which
will best serve the public.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
Week End of Drivinq
Kills 50 Over Nation
BY the Associated Press .

BY the Associated Press.
The Nations traffic death toll
mounted to SO for the first week end
since gas rationing ended and most
States lifted the 35-mile-per-hour
speed limit. The unofficial total
OF reported traffic deaths for the
previous week end was IS.
Traffic fatalities this week end ~
States were: Virginia, 8; Ohio, s:
New York and Tennessee, S; Cali
fornia. 4; Michigan, 3; Florida,
Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Okla
homa, Texas, Washington and New
Jersey. 2 each; Indiana. Maryland,
New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ore
gon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wiscon-
sin, North Carolina and Kentucky,
l each.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
Most Veterans
Won n'tNeedAid (,
Brad|eySays
Leeendre Urges
Three A. U. Graduates
For Center Advisers

Desclaring veterans difficulties ir
readjusting to civilian life had beer
70 overplayed, Gen. Omar N. Bradley
new administrator of veterans af-
fairs, predicted today the great ma
jority of returning servicemen will
take their place in the community
without needing help from any one
At the same time, however, he
warned that getting these men back
to their old lives with the least
upset in minds" is going to require
the combined efforts of everybody
, in the country.
He said one of the troubles of the
Veterans Administration will be
that many uniformed people will
want to give advice to veterans.
Gen. Bradley was one of the Gov
ernment officials giving send-off to
the fifth class of veterans to start
their training at American Univer-
sity as national service officers. The
breakfast, held at the Willard Hotel
also marked the graduation of the
fourth class from the 13-week train
ing course.
Urges Trained Advisory.
The veterans heard assurances
from Brig. Gen. Harry F.. Vaughan,
, military aide to President Truman,
! that all the veterans of this war
won't be treated as they were in
1920.
! 1t. Col. Leonce Legendre, District
Commissioner John Russell Young's S
advisor on veterans affairs, said
he had recommended to Commits
sioner Young that three graduates
of the American University course
be employed at the District Vet
Grams Information Center, 1850
Pennsylvania avenue NV, to coun-
sci District veterans beginning Sep
tember l. Col. Legendre said ne
eotiations were now under way to
get the three men. The center has
been criticised since it's establish
ment for lack of trained personnel.
Gen. Vaughan assured the vet
Grams at the breakfast of President
Truman's keen interest in veterans
affairs. He said the administration
was now more veteran conscious
than ever before-partially because
most of the top men are veterans
themselves and many of them have
served overseas.
Far Ahead of 1920.
He said the country was miles
ahead" of 1920 in its thinking and
planning for veterans and could
profit by the mistakes it made
then.
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, di-
rector of selective service, told of
the part selective service will play
lin returning men to their old Jobs
and urged civilians and veterans to
work together.
i Maj Omer W. Clark, assistant
administrator of the Veterans Ad-
ministration, joined representatives
OF the veterans organiZa tions and
the Red Cross in telling the new
students they have an opportunity
to contribute something worth
while to veterans for the rest of
their lives.
Predicting that community prob
lens will be acute, DR.. Paul F..
Douglass, president of American
University, who presided at the
breakfast. urged the men to become
good citizens and leaders in their
communities as we'll as good na-
ttional service officers.
| The course was started at the re-
tquest OF the Disabled American
Veterans and the tuition and ex-
lpenses are paid by the Veterans
Administration. with supplemental
ialloWance to the men from DAV.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
Rev. Anthony Lyons Dies
In Staunfon PARSONAGE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
STANTON Va, Aug. 20.-The
Rev. Anthony Osley Lyons, pastor
of the Marquis Memorial Meth
odist Church, died at the church
parsonage yesterday.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Louise Linthicum Lyons, and three
sons, the Rev. William Anthony
Lyons, Selma, Va; Sergt. Gerald
Lyons and Charles Lyons.
Funeral services will be held at 3
pm. tomorrow at the church. Burial
will be at II am. Wednesday in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Washington.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
1000 Veterans Hired
By STANDARD Oil Co.

More than 1000 veterans who
were not on the Standard Oil Co
of New Jersey payroll before the
war have been hired by the COM
pany, it was announced today.
In addition, the company said 90
per cent of their employees in the
armed forces and now back in civil
ian clothes have returned to the
company. OF more than 5000 who
went into the service the company
said nearly one-flfth have been dis
charged.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
Australia to Destroy
Unused Poison Cos
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. 20.-A Reuters
dispatch from Melbourne today said
tons of poison gas munitions-held
in Australia for retaliation If the
japanese began gas warfare-would
be dumped into the sea.
The supply was brought from
Britain early in the war and its
existence had been a closely guarded
secret, the dispatch said.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
Aussies to Send Volunteers

CANBERRA, Aug. 20 (R.-Arny
Minister Francis Michael Forde an
nounced today that more than 10000
volunteer Australian troops will 60
to Japan as occupation forces, in
addition to air force and navy per-
Sonnel.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
'Firemen's Convention Set

Phil Ryan, Mount Rainier, presi-
dent of the Maryland State Fire
.men's Associa ton, said today the as
isociation's annual convention, previ-
lously Cancelled because of the Of
!f1ce Of Defense Transportation ban
ion conventions, would be held this
lyear October 3 and 4 in Hagerstown.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
|14-Yeur-OId Girl Drown.
In Roppuhunnock River

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Aug.
20-Dorothy Marie Habron, IA
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilbur Habron of Stafford County,
was drowned while attempting to
wade across the Rappahannock
River here yesterday.
The body was recovered by the
Fredericksburg Rescue Squad after
dragging the river for two hours.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30

man took it on the chin and lights
out.
Now for giving little Graves a bit
of credit that he muchly deserves.
E. In my mind he proved himself
as a championship treat. He proved
it more Tuesday night than ever
before. While many rate his fight
with Harry Jeffra as something I
considered his win over Riley as his
most important.
l always contended that Jaffra
was or still is washed up former
fighter while Charley Riley was as
fresh a youngster and plenty am
bilious. There should be no doubt
in the fans minds that Graves is
really a great prospect and from
now on is expected to get national
recognition. The smart way he
handled himself and the way he
found an opening and took full ad-
vantage of it is what counts in a
fighter. I doubt very much if there
are four or five better fighters than
Jackie Graves in America today.
The card as a whole was far
above average and Tony Stecher
was happy that everyone was so
pleased. Stecher isn't one of those
fly by night promoters and is really
always concerned that he keeps his
sport fans happy.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30

Saturday night early, saw Mary
Ryan, Don and Barbara Strawder,
Bea Slemmons, Ray and Helen
Philips, their house guest from Des
Moines, and should I tell who else ?
Saw Leroy and Theodosia Martin,
elaine Mayes and James Brown
Sunday. Pat Mallory and Eliza
beth Hughes will be home next
week, I hear. Lii "Gabby" Kirk
is very sick hope she is better
soon. Too bad about Mrs. Marie
Reddick having that accident. Saw
Mary Jane Cyrus and Leatrice
Dodd in Minneapolis Tuesday.
The fight was very good though
Riley got knocked out. The prelim-
inaries were very good. Cockyane
and Jordon were really good. Some
of the spectators there were Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Wallace, Jimmy
Slemmons, Carl Boyd, Jimmy Sis
son, Slim Ellis, Ben Wilson, Brutus
Cassius, Tanner Crockett, Archie
Givens, Bill Freeman, Ernestine
Danforth and many others.
Saw Oscar Newman at a certain
place last week with an apron on
helping his girl friend on her job!
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30
What's What Among
Twin City RailrOaders

tight, Chester! Introducing: Arthur
Hill, mp, better known to the boys
as "Hill and Hill"
The frantic Freddie Law, GIN,
is getting a jump on you Golf
enthusiasts, by taking advantage
of this beautiful weather, we are
having. Freddie has championship
intentions-Good going, to you,
Fred. Roy Green, PIP, is often
seen around the better spots of St.
Paul, and in very good company.
But why wouldn't he?-Roy is a
real gentleman. Victor Banks,
head-waiter, GIN, disposed of so
many highballs one night just re-
Gently, that he didn't even remem-
Der his name. By the way, Vic,
how do they operate the Pershing
Hotel, in "Chi," when you're in St.
Paul? A little "Cat," and won't
mention any names, went the wrong
way one night, supposedly follow
ing a well-known and charming
waitress. didn't see it, so can't
vouch for it; only heard.
Back your column with subscrip-
tons, fellows.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30
DO THEY?
BY CHARLES ALIEN

DO THEY?
Splendid white Gs disturbed
practices Negroes They segregation and unfair treatment of
comrades abolished How right they they
in and ar fighting for a better word-Chcago Bee.
REVEALING TEST
The fight for National Fair Employment Practices Committees is
providing revealing of the real policy of those control of the
Republican Party toward the Negro peop-N Y Peoples Voice.
As there to be segregated Army
conclude that Negro soldiers the whites
would feel the insult their personalities keeny if the leadership
qualities individuals within
segregated conngens with Negro oce-Los Angeles
POLL TAX NOT PURELY DOMESTIC ISSUE
The poll tax purely domestic question What
has significance for all the people of the world who looking
that the democratic understand the spirit of
day. when neither
the exercise of freedom-St. Louis Star.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30

known as a square from Delaware
but now he's a red hot mess from
st. Louis . By the way, Charles
Moore is back from boot training
at Great Lakes, streamlined and
everything. We used to call him
Moore the Moore, now he's the
groovy sailor on the loose. my
My Uncle Sam must be a hep cat,
too). l know all of you fine
chicks and cats will be sicked out
in your zoot suits, ETC., for Easter
parading (boy am l working hard
for mine) so l have to sign off.
I am beginning to think there
are as many wolverines as wolves
so we're just one big happy pack
Be seeing you grooveyites. Be-
cause that's the 1--WE you've got to
dig. So long hepters see you
next week.
Hear dynamic Ann Arnold
Hedgeman Monday night, April 2
at Halle @. Brown House Annual
meeting, 8:15 p.m.-Adv.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30
By Emma Crews

The good-doing, Walter Sothern,
flair child" of the MP, made his
last trip as a waiter, Tuesday,
March 20. He is giving up his
services with the MP by request of
Uncle Sam-and you know what
that means-"So you can't get that
no more" Lots of luck, Walter,
and you know you'll be missed. The
hard shootin' root tootin'," reg
ular fellow, "Tinie" Jones, GIN,
really knows his business with the
"bones." Little Joe" Monroe,
MP, from Chicago" has been
caught slipping lemonade at st.
Paul's most popular bar. Amt
that a killer?
John Scott, GIN, and his lovely
wife, Dorothy, did the Twin Cities
up right" the night of March 81.
The occasion was the celebration
of their wedding anniversary and
Dorothy's birthday, combined.
Along to help them celebrate was
his beautiful sister, Christine
Slaughter.
Jake Lynch, the "groovy cat" of
MP, wears his "ready toys" and
keeps his "fine gold" which is
every fine, Chicks" delight. If you
make" Jake, you'll make no mis-
take. Cool Chicks"
Hector Vassar, GIN, his beautiful
wife, and charming little daughter,
were seen dining in the Elks re-
Gently. Hector, you have an ideal
family! Have you heard the rumor
about JEFF Anderson? 1t seems he
is about to make the lonely hearts
of st. Paul lonelier. wasn't told
to me; I only heard" big Head"
the jolly, good fellow, everyone
knows, and an exporter of GIN,
is setting a good example of what
the well-dressed man is wearing
this year. Power to you, Head"
Earl Webb, better known to his
mates as "Big Daddy" last time
seen, seemed to be enjoying the
evening with his lovely wife, Ceola,
at st. Paul's most frequented spot.
George Sanders, MP, dapper little,
playboy of Minneapolis, is often
seen playing in st. Paul play
grounds. Come over anytime,
George, we think it's a pretty nice
town.
"Jitterbug" has a "t1ame," but
he will not tell her name. "No
competition" "Jitter." Saw the
well-known Ted Massey, GIN, the
other night said he's been on a
four weeks rest. Teddy, we know,
that you know best.
The wise-cracking Herschel Bell,
GIN, the young man with lots of
wit, has just returned from the
big foot" country-spent a few
days in Chicago and says his mind
is running "silly dilly." "Straighten
up and fly right" Herschel. Chester
Green, GIN, wild child" of st. Paul,
has been flying through the air
with the greatest of ease,"-Hold