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Evening star., 1946-03-02
Montgomery Women Hear
Talk on Coming Election

The Montgomery County League
of Women Voters yesterday heard
Mrs. Frank Garfield, chairman OF
the Local Government Study Group
declare that "By recognizing the
responsibility of public servants to
perform their functions, the citizen
is enabled to vote intelligently."
Meeting in the All-Saints Epis-
copal Church, Chevy Chase Circle
the 100 persons who attended con-
sidered You and Your Country
as the theme. The five-hour ses-
sion was designed to prepare for
approaching primaries.
In the morning, the league
adopted the Social Welfare Com
mittee report by Mrs. Thomas
Bartram, chairman, to support the
Maryland State League of Women
Voters in a resolution to amend the
adoption laws.
Members also approved a resolu-
ton by Mrs. Dean Dynwoodie
chairman of education, to accept
the recommendation of the County
Council of Parent-Teacher As
sociations for a Is per cent increase
in the county school budget and
that child-care centers be MAIN
tanned under supervision of the
Board of Education and be self
supporting as far as possible.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
USO Troupe Opens New Show
Billing Policy at Mount Alto

"Funfare," the six act USO camp
show managed by John F. Horan
veteran Snowman, last night inau.
gurated the Veterans Administra.
ton entertainment program ir
Washington at Mount Alto Hos
pital.
The veteran entertainers, already
have played at 225 Army, Navy
convalescent and regional hospitals
from Maine to San Diego.
AS usual, men rolled their wheel
chairs close to the stage, the better
to whistle at pretty performers and
heckle comedians. AS usual, the
audience applauded loudly for the
acrobatic team, the singing Keller
sisters and the ventriloquist.
Each man picked his favorite
number Arthur G. Rice, of Pine
City, N. Y, liked the acrobats. Will
liam Ommen of Milwaukee pre-
ferred the South American music
of the Contreras troubadours.
There is nothing to my case, ~
said Mr.. Ommen. Il wasn't shot
down over Japan. I was an aircraft
electrician on Guam. My kidney
trouble came from working 18 to
"a hours a day in bad weather"
Forgotten men? They didn't
think so.
Sure, it's hard to think you may
Evening star., 1946-03-02
Mitscher Raises Flag
On Carrier Chumpluin
BY the Associated Press

NORFOLK, Va, Mar. 2.-Vice Ad-
miral Marc A. Mitscher. command
er of famed Task Force So, yester-
day raised his flag over aircraft
carrier Lake Champlain, which will
serve as flagship of the new 9th
Fleet.
The Champlain is at the Norfolk
Naval Shipyard being reconverted
into an aircraft carrier after being
used in the transport service.
Admiral Mitscher also has opened
an Office at the Norfolk Naval Air
Station, where he will transact the
business of organizing the fleet
pending completion of work on the
Lake Champlain.
The Champlain will serve as the
admiral's flagship only until the
supercarrier Franklin D. Roosevelt
returns from Rio de Janeiro, where
she now is stationed.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
John I. De Bell, 79,
Dies in Centeryine

John T. De Bell, 70, prominent
Fairfax County dairyman and a
descendant of early Fairfax families,
died yesterday at his home, at Cen
terville, Va. He had been in i'll
health several years
A former member of the county
School Board from Centerville dis
trict, Mr.. De Bell for many years
was active in civic groups seeking
better school conditions. He was
born in the ancestral home where he
died He received his education at
Peabody Normal College, Nashville
Tenn. and the University of Vir-
ginia, where he majored in chem
istry.
AS young man, he went to Mex
leo as a chemist for the American
Refining and Smelling Co. After
20 years he returned to Centerville
and entered the dairy business.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Miss Mary Turberville; a
daughter, Miss Mary Thornton De
Bell, and son, Stuart De Bell, both
of Centerville: a sister, Mrs. j. Ed
won Tietjen, Newmanstown, Pa; a
brother, DR.. Arthur w. De Bell,
Maiden, w. Va, and grandson,
Stuart De Bell, jr. Another son,
Capt. T. De Bell, jr., was killed in
action in Italy two years ago.
Funeral services viii be held at
2 pm. tomorrow at his late home.
Burial will be in Fairfax Cemetery
Evening star., 1946-03-02
Secret Service Chief
Urqes AAA Drive for
Parked Car Lockinq

The American Automobile Associ-
alton was urged by Frank ]. Wilson,
chief of the United States Secret
Service, yesterday to start a cam
paign among motorists to lock
parked cars to prevent 'teen-age
delinquents from stealing them and
thus embark on a life of crime.
Mr.. Wilson's recommendation
came in a speech before the Wom-
ems Safety Committee of the AAA
following luncheon meeting at the
Sulgrave Club, 1901 Massachusetts,
avenue NV.
Mr.. Wilson told the committee
boys and girls under 81 were re-
sponsible in 1914 for 63 per cent of
all auto thefts in the country.
No Victim, No Crime.
If the AAA were to adopt such a
program, he said, it would be
adopting the same tactics the
Secret Service has found successful
in combating counterfeiting and
forgery-education of the potential
victims to be on their guard.
If there is no victim, he said. there
can be no crime and, hence, no
criminal.
Following his speech Adelbert w
Lee, member of the District of Co.
lumbia Board of Education and q
member of the Mems Advisory
Committee of the AAA, said the
proposed campaign would be given
very careful consideration.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
War Memorial Planned
By Kensinqton Groups

Plans for war memorial for
Kensington are being made by a
group composed of representatives
of organizations in the town.
Under the sponsorship of the Ar
mold Wilburn Legion Post and the
Kensington Volunteer Fire Depart
ment, committees will study a num-
ber of proposals which have been
suggested for the memorial. Among
those to be considered is the estab-
lishment of a recreational hall, a
library with memorial windows, an
auditorium which might be built by
finishing the hall of the firehouse
now under construction and a me-
mortal ward endowment at either
the Suburban Hospital or the pro-
posed Silver Spring Memorial Hos
pital.
Reports on the feasibility of the
proposals and of methods of financ-
ing the projects will be made at a
meeting March 20. More than $50
men and women from the general
Kensington area served in the
armed forces during the war.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
Virginia ABC
Gets Pockoged
Scotch Bricks
By the Assocjuted Press

RICHMOND, Va, March 2.-The
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Contro
Board has unwittingly gone into the
brick business.
The ABC Board yesterday receiv-
ed a case of what was supposed to
have been II bottles of imported
Scotch Whiskey and the Federal
Government collected S30.59-s18.5e
in Federal taxes and S12 in import
duty.
When the case was opened, fouI
bricks were found, all neatly wrap
ped in the fancy paper which comes
around that particular brand OF
Scotch.
The board said today it was will
ing to give the bricks back to the
importing firm and receive credit
if the firm would pay freight
charges,
Evening star., 1946-03-02
Maryland Farmers
Warned 10 Gear Crops
To Tight Labor Supply
by the Assoejoted Press

COLLEGE PARK, Md, Mar. a.
Only by organizing all available
farm hands into flying squadrons'
to be moved from, county to county
can harvest peaks be met this year,
Paul Nystrom, of the University of
Maryland Extension Service, told
farmers.
Mr.. Nystrom, who heads the Ex-
tension Services farm labor pro-
gram, declared that Maryland faced
a severe shortage of seasonal farm
hands in 1916.
Adding to peak labor demands
this year was the expectation of a
normal fruit crop, he said, along
with the probability of better har-
vest and growing weather to in
crease the need for pickers of to-
matoes, cucumbers and beans.
He explained that Maryland was
almost lacking in fruit crop last
year.
Seven Guides to Farmers.
Mr.. NyStrom made the following
suggestions to farmers:
l. Plant crops and plan livestock
programs according to prospective
labor supply.
2. Use maximum efficiency in all
farm operations.
3. Use all possible labor saving
techniques.
4. Exchange labor and equip
ment.
5. Rely more upon own recruiting
efforts rather than those of govern
ment.
6. Utilize all local labor, including
youths, before requesting outside
assistance.
7. Build patterns of employment
not only for 1916 but also for fu-
ture years when governmental re-
cruitment efforts may be discon-
tinued
Migrant Workers Can Aid.
Mr.. Nystrom described the seventh
suggestion as applying particularly
to the migrant movement on the
Eastern Shore, the interstate move
ment in the fruit area of the West
ern Shore and the vegetable area
adjoining Baltimore City.
Heaviest seasonal labor demands
will come in May or June for as
paragus; June and July for early
snap beans, potatoes, lima beans:
August and September for early
tomatoes; and September for late
beans, apples, sweet potatoes and
field corn, he said.
The grain and hay harvest in
June and July would complicate
the picture, Mr.. Nystrom added.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
CoIored Auxiliary Tops
.Quotdin Seal SoIes

Receipts for the sale of Christmas
seals during the 1945 campaign by
the colored auxiliary of the Alex
andria tuberculosis Association
amounted to s1,08147, it was an
nounced today by Mrs. Ruth K
Graham, executive secretary.
The amount was 119 per cent OF
the auxiliary's quota of $908.22, Mrs
Graham reported. Records show
an increase in sales of more than
100 per cent in a three-year period
since 1912 when the auxiliary raised
$522.04, she said.
The Rev. j. H. Lowell, the auxil-
iary's seal sale chairman, said he
wished to thank" the volunteers
who assisted during the campaign
Evening star., 1946-03-02
Jurors 10 Be Chosen
March Is for Term
OF Montgomery Cour'

Jurors for the March term of the
Montgomery County Circuit Court
which will begin March 10. at Rock
vile, have been drawn by Judge
Charles w. Woodward.
On opening day. the presiding
judges will designate a foreman OF
the grand jury and draw the other
% members of the body. An addi-
tional Is will constitute the petit
jury. BY election districts the jur-
orS are:
Laytonsville district-William R
Cue, Greenbury G. Griffith.
Clarksburg-Augustus r. Selby, M
Shippers Waters
Observation-Disclosures E. Painter
Lewis P. Allnutt, jr., Isaac Fyffe.
Rockville-Charles " Veirs. jr., r
Humphrey Cissell, Leonard B
Doggert, Richard T. Schwartz, Will
lam v. Robertson, Lawrence L. Cecil
Colesville-Walter L. Bryan, John
M. Mccormick, Albert Dustin, Will
lam F. Briggs.
Darnestown-Arthur l.. Lowe, j
Sterling Bowman.
Bethesda - Thomas P. Bones
John L. Imirie, Harry L. Golladay
Thomas Somerville III, Frederick
o. Smith, Fred M Booth, Preston
C. King, ST., Rudolph Bender, jr.
Olney-Harry T. Whitlock, Charles
Frank Bready.
Gaithersburg-Roland L. Banks
Robert S. Billhimer, Worthington
Griffith.
Potomac-Harry Penn, Joseph F
Taylor.
Barnesville-Howard C. Robertson
Charles Horace Davis.
Damascus-J. Bradley Hawkins
Harry F. Pearce.
Wheaton - Albert H. Sellman
Richard Wahl, Ira c. Whitacre
Philip Buscher, William A. Ost.
mann, James NJ. Phillips, Henri c
Brockdorf, Joseph c. Clark, Earl B
Cny
Evening star., 1946-03-02
Virginia Director Charges
Many Labor Law Violations
BY the Associated Press


RICHMOND, Va. Mar. 2.-Vio-
lations of child labor and woman
labor laws continue to prevail at
the wartime level in Virginia, Mrs.
Rose S. Mcmahon, director of the
division of women and children,
State Department of Labor and IN
dustry, assorted yesterday.
Bowling alleys and other places
of amusement are the most fragrant
offenders, she added, with some
bowling alleys employing children
as young as 8 years of age. The
minimum employment age is Is for
boys and Is for girls in places of
public amusement.
'It is not the intention of the
department to take violators into
court where infringements are found
unless it is absolutely necessary sss.
I'VE do resort to the courts If
any employer disregards a warning
We are trying to educate the
public to employ women and chill
dren within the provision of the
law laid down by the State" she
warned
Evening star., 1946-03-02
Miss Regon Addresses
Temple Hills Group

Miss Ethel Regan, home demon
stration agent for Prince Georges
County, yesterday discussed new
foods and ways to prepare them" at
the meeting of the Temple Hills
Homemakers Clubs.
The club, which was recently
formed, is headed by Mrs. Otis Mil
stead. Other officers are Mrs. Al
len M. Goodson, vice president; Mrs
John E. Davis, treasurer; Mrs. Will
liam H. Watson, corresponding Sec
retary, and Mrs. Leon M. Smith
recording secretary.
Committee chairmen named yes
terday include Mrs. Frank M. Mar
land, nutrition; Mrs. Albert E. Bird
clothing: Mrs. Harold j. Cook, gar
dening; Mrs. Carl R. Nyman, home
furnishing, and Mrs. Hazel w
Downs, art-needlework.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
Alexandria Expects
Building Permit Mark
In March and April

Although actual building permits
issued in Alexandria during Febru-
airy show a drop from the January
figure of 1857 ,000 A. R. Lash, build
ing inspector, said his Office has ap-
plications ready for processing
amounting to more than Sl.000,000,
and he expects record months in
March and April.
The rush to obtain permits for
commercial construction indicates a
fear of a building freeze in order to
expedite housing, Mr.. Lash said,
since the proportion of applications
for non-residential construction is
much greater than for residential.
During February permits were is
sued amounting to S184,276. Of this
amount only four residential permits
were issued for Is one-family dwell
lngs to cost SLOT 500.
The largest single permit was is
sued to John Mcpherson for the
construction of a S45,0OO warehouse
on the Calvert tract on Route l..
Another new building planned is
$1,000 Office building, with s28,-
e26 in repairs and alterations and
81 l,250 in installations accounting
for the remainder of the total.
Mr.. Lash said applications are on
flle for 100000 roller skating
rink for the Charles H. Tompkins
Co., Washington. a second S45, 900
warehouse for Mr.. Mcpherson, a
$4,000 addition to the George
Mason Hotel, a $4,000 building
for the Bendan Pontiac Co., a SITS
600 plant for the Comico Products
Co., 100000 addition to the G. c.
Murphy store at King and Wash
ington streets, and a S22,0 900 addition
to the Lauralee Tea House on South
Washington street.
Non-commercial applications in
clude one for the S193, ,429 school
building at st. Agnes School or
Russell road and S1S5, 900 Temple
Baptist Church.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
PTA in Silver Spring
To Discuss Teacher Puy

Teachers salaries will be discus
sed by the Silver Spring Intermed-
late School Parent Teacher Asso-
citation at pm. Monday in the
school. Chicago and Florida ave-
nues.
r. B. Marston, director of legis-
lation and Federal relations of the
National Education Association, and
Leslie Able. president of the Mont
gomery County Council of Parent
Teacher Associations, will speak.
Evening star., 1946-03-02

have to go on living in hospitals
maybe for years after you get out
of the Army, just because it may
take dozen operations to repair
the bones you shattered at Schmidt
But you stop thinking about that
when 6-foot Grace johnson is
wiping up the floor with her 5-foot
partner.
me? There's nothing wrong with
me but fiat feet and sdandruff, y
joked the veteran who had eased
his bandaged frame into a front
row seat.
Until the Veterans Administra-
ton set out to bring entertainment
to the bedside of every hospital,
Mount Alto had to rely on Cancelled
engagements in the area to obtain
USO troupe shows, explained Miss
Agnes Brophy, director of recre-
alton. Now it will get them regu-
larly.
Thirty USO units will tour the
country, appearing twice a month
in veterans hospitals under plan
pushed by Veterans Administrator
Omar Bradley.
IT'S different from appearing in
military hospitals" said Mr.. Horan.
For one thing, the audience is
older. And yet it is just the same.
All the men appreciate the show"
Evening star., 1946-03-02
Ball Again Seeks Writ
To Put Athletic Funds
In County Treasury

Attorney Frank L. Ball, jr, has
filed an amended petition for writ
of mandamus, seeking to compel
members of the Arlington County
School Department to pay school
athletic funds into the county
treasury.
The petition is aimed specifically
at Washington-Lee High School
representatives of which already
have been notified by Mr.. Ball that
he will ask the Circuit Court on
March IL to issue the writ.
None of the funds collected by
the school board for public admis-
sion to games have been deposited
with the treasury as required by the
Virginia code, the Arlington attor.
ney charged
In his 11-point petition, Mr.. Bal
states that the high school had nc
committee or association known az
students athletic association anc
that no student is given any report
of receipts or expenditures of funds
Authority to determine that ar
admission fee will be charged, anc
its amount, is entirely within the
power Of the School Board" tht
petition states. These fees are re.
ceived through ticket sales by Schoo
Board agents and expended fol
school purposes. A profit is derived
in this manner by voluntary studen
participation"
Mr.. Ball contended the funds ar,
public and should be legally de.
posted with the county treasurer.
Previously John Locke Green
county treasurer, filed an amended
intervening petition in support O.
Mr.. Balls allegations.
Lawrence w. Douglas, Arlington
Commemorative attorney, recently
was supported by the Circuit Cour
on demurrer which he filed agains
Mr.. Balls original petition, but tn,
court gave Mr.. Ball and Mr.. Greer
leave to enter amended petitions.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
Removal Of Agencies
From DC. Apartments
Asked by Mcmillan

Chairman Mcmillan of the House
District Committee appealed to
President Truman last night to re-
lieve the extremely critical" hous-
ing shortage here by bringing to
an end the use of residential build
ings as Offices for Government
agencies.
AS head of the District Commit
tee Mr.. Mcmillan is besieged daily
by returning veterans and Govern
ment employees, he said, to aid them
in locating an apartment or room.
He was reliably informed, he said,
that from 1900 to 1000 family units
were being used for Government
Offices and asked for presidential
aid in transferring them to Govern
ment buildings.
Thinks Time Sufficient.
II would think that eight to ten
months after the termination of the
war; he wrote, "a sufficient number
of war agencies should have been
abolished to give the agencies now
using apartment buildings an op-
portunity to move into regular Gov
ernment Office buildings"
Mr.. Mcmillan said he considered
the housing conditions in WASH
ington so critical he would continue
to exert every effort" to assist the
people here in locating "a decent
place To live"
He requested the President to di-
rect the appropriate Government
official to investigate the situation
to determine if the Government
agencies using apartment buildings
could transfer their activities to
some Government Office building.
He added:
Used by Foreign Powers.
"I also have been reliably in
formed that some of the foreign
governments are utilizing a number
Iof the family dwellings and apart
ment houses of Washington for Of
flee space. I will appreciate your
assisting the District Committee
and the Commissioners in having
all apartment buildings here, used
for Office space, vacated to give the
returning veterans and their fam
lilies place to live
He said he thought that with all
the temporary Government build
ings that were erected here during
the war there should be sufficient
space in Office buildings to take
care of the needs of both the con-
tinuing Government agencies and
the representatives of the foreign
governments.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
D. c. Driver Fined Sis
In Prince GEORGES Court

Donald G. Fulton, 47, of 5412
Fourth street NV, was fined $115
and costs, by Trial Magistrate Ar
thur P. Owens yesterday in Prince
Georges County Police Court at Up
per Marlboro on charges of driving
while drunk and reckless driving.
Police told Judge Owens that Full
ton was arrested last August 81
after an accident on Route 4, near
Mellwood, Md. His case had been
continued because of illness in his
family, police said.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
AIexundriu's Court
Collections Reported

The following report for the
month of February has been sub
mitted to Judge James R. Duncan
of the Alexandria Civil and Police
Court by Douglas w. Stanton, jr.
clerk and bailiff:
City fines. trial fees, warrant fees
bail fees, filing and indexing and
other fees and money collected
$3,52828; State fines and clerks
fees collected, $29625; sergeant's
fees collected. SCOTS; cash deposi-
tory bonds collected, $2,382; fees
collected for Justice of the Peace
$25; other fees collected, $174.35;
total collections for February, $6,-
1868; total on deposit for Feb
ruary, $l,630.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
$50 Million Outlay
On Army Projects in
; States Reported
BY the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 2.-Wartirne
military construction projects in
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Vir-
ginia cost S850,0OO,O00, with the
work ranging from highly technical
industrial and experimental plants
to simple emergency cantonment
areas, the Army Engineers Middle
Atlantic Division announced yester-
day.
Col Earl E. Gesler, division head,
said Fort George G. Meade, Aber-
deem Proving Grounds and Edge
wood Arsenal, Md, and Forts Story,
Belvoir and Monroe, Va, had been
expanded to enormous wartime pro-
portions" Large ordnance depots
were built at Radford, Va, and
Chambersburg and Meadville, Pa.
The construction included that of
four general DISQUALIFICATION, at
Butler, Pa; Valley Forge, Phoenix
vile, Pa; Woodrow Wilson, Staun-
ton, Va, and MCGUIRE, at Richmond,
Va.-and erection or enlargement of
Camp Reynolds and the IndiantoWn
Gap Military Reservation, Pa, and
Camps Pickett, Lee and Patrick
Henry, Va.
224,O00 Acres Acquired.
Real estate activities involved in
the construction included acquisition
of $500 tracts of land, comprising
224 900 acres and costing some $23,-
100000; negotiation of $500 leases
with an annual $6,400,000 rental;
negotiations of agreements to per-
NIT maneuvers on privately-owned
land; termination of more than 1000
lease contracts and relocation of
many roads, utilities and cemeteries.
The Division Engineer Office also
procured more than $4,000, 900
worth of railway bridges for over
seas shipment, snow plows for the
Alcan Highway, Bailey bridges and
materials for camouf1aging the
Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Plant at
Middle River
Functioning as Sd Service Com
mand engineer-a job likened to
that of city manager for 100000 per-
sons scattered in more than 100 To-
cations in three States-Col. Gesler
supervised expenditures of more
than $40,0O0,000 a year during the
wars peak period, maintained all
Army posts in the tri-State area,
and operated their power plants,
sewage systems and other utilities.
Projects Enumerated.
Col. Gesler listed these civil prof.
ects now under way or to be started
shortly:
/. Construction of local flood
protection works at Cumberland,
Md; Ridgley Field, Va, and Tyrone,
Pa, at a cost of more than $10,-
100000.
2. improvement of numerous trib-
utaries of Chesapeake Bay to IA
cilitate small-boat traffic.
3. Completion of yacht basins and
piers along the Washington water
front at cost of about S3,000,000.
4. Construction of Buggs Island
Dam on the Roanoke River for flood
control, hydraulic power and allied
purposes, to cost more than $45,-
100000.
5. improvement of the Baltimore
Harbor to provide deeper main and
branch channels and additional
anchorage, and connecting chan
mel to the Chesapeake g. Delaware
Canal.
6. Completion of local flood
protection works at York, Pa, at q
cost of more than $500,000.
Evening star., 1946-03-02
Arch Mcdonald Files
For Congress Race
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Mar. arch
Mcdonald, radio broadcaSter Of
Burnt Mills Hills, Silver Spring,
Md, filed yesterday his certificate
of candidacy for the 9Th congress
sional district nomination of the
Democratic party.
Mr.. Mcdonald presented his cer-
tificate personally to the secretary
of State, Edward G. CLANCY, in the
presence of Gov. O'Conor. He is
the first of either party to file for
the office.