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Evening star., 1946-03-20
Mother Who Lost Husband,
Three Children, Still Critical

WINCHESTER, Va, Mar. 20 (Spe.
ciaD.-Mrs. Claudia Crowder, 80, to-
day was reported by hospital au-
thorities here to be still In every
serious" condition from burns re-
ceived yesterday when she rescued
three of her younger children from
ner home which was demolished by
flames near Purcellville.
Mrs. Crowder's husband, Jack, and
three Of their children, Jack, jr., IL;
Dale, 10, and Mary Elizabeth, 8, were
burned to death in the fire. The
three children rescued-Doris, s;
Billy, 3, and Violet, 2-are being
temporarily cared for at the home
OF a neighbor, Mrs. George Brad
ford, Of Lincoln, pending arrival OF
relatives, from Arkansas.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Three Hurt as Family FIees
Blaze; Farm Mansion Rozed

FREDERICK, Md, Mar. 20 B.-
Several persons sustained injuries
and a number narrowly escaped with
their lives yesterday when a large
brick mansion on the Dan Wight
farm, between Oak Orchard and
McKinstry's Mills, was destroyed by
fire, wiping out the personal property
and household goods of three fam
lilies. %
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Shipley and
their 7-year-old daughter, Anna
May, were injured when they
escaped from the second floor by
breaking window and jumping
about 80 feet from a porch roof.
DR.. T. H. Legg, of Union Bridge
who treated them, said none was
seriously hurt, although Mrs. Ship
ley jumped with her 2-year-old son
Donald, in her arms. Mr.. Shipley
dropped the girl from the roof into
her mothers arms.
Both Mr.. Shipley and the daugh.
ter suffered cuts in breaking the
window.
Other tenants Of the house were
reported away from home at the
time the fire broke out.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
luck Again Delays
Auto Inspections
BY the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 20.-Gov
Tuck, disclosing a delay in the re-
sumption of semi-annual inspection
of motor vehicles, has called on
Virginia motorists ito observe the
law and to drive as carefully as
possible, especially until conditions
are such that cars can be put back
in shape"
The Governor announced yester-
day the enforcement of the semi.
annual inspections, discontinued BY
Gov. Darden during the war emerg.
ency because Of the shortage OF
materials and manpower, would be
delayed until parts for automobile.
become available, possibly in thu
late summer or fall.
This decision was reached by the
Governor after a conference with
Col. c. w. Woodson, jr., superin.
tendent Of State Police.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Woman Sought in Theft Of Dog
From Pastor at Savage, Nd.

a mysterious blond woman with
q partiality for toy Manchester dogs
is being sought by Savage (Mdo po-
lice in connection with the theft
last Monday Of a dog. valued at
$500, belonging to the Rev. Lester
K. Welch, pastor of the Savage
Methodist Church,
Mr.. Welch said neighbors told
him the woman, described as being
about az years old and S feet 6
inches tall, entered the parsonage
after alighting from a Washington
bus.
She emerged shortly afterward
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Virginia Assembly Closes
Session as Bills Go 10 Tuck
By the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 2o.-The
work of the 1916 legislative session
officially will be, ended today when
the General Assembly's presiding
officers and chairmen of committees
on enrolled bills will sign nearly 200
measures passed in the days Just
preceding adjournment on March g.
The bills then will go to Gov.
Tuck, who will have 10 days In
which to approve them. Should he
fail or decline to sign a measure
within that time, it will die by
pocket Veto"
Speaker Thomas B. Stanley will
sign as presiding officer of the House
and 1t. Gov. L. Preston Collins as
Senate president. Chairmen of the
committees on enrolled bills are
Delegate E. Floyd Yates, Powhatan,
and Senator Harry c. Stuart,
Russell,
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Junior College in Arlington
Urged as War Memorial

Establishment of a State-aided
junior college as part of a proposed
Arlington War Memorial, today was
being sought by the Gen. Billy
Mitchell Post, No. 1856, American
Legion.
Needs for meeting educational
problems of population placed in
excess of 100000 in the nearby Vir-
ginia area were cited in resolution
approved by the post last night.
The organization cited existing
plans for a civic center to be erected
by the War Memorial Association
and asked the Board of Trustees to
give immediate consideration" to
the integration in its plans for a
two-year accredited educational in
stitution similar to Junior college
extension division of the College Of
William and Mary in Norfolk and
Richmond.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Man Seriously Burned
AS Kerosene Causes
Coal Stove Explosion

A Chantilly (Va.) man was Sc
verely burned and his rented house
destroyed when the coal stove he
tried to start early today exploded,
The victim, William N. Beach,
about SIS, who rents a two-story
frame house on a farm at Chantilly,
about four miles northwest of Fair
fax, told neighbor, Ned Sutphen,
he tried to start a fire in his coal
stove about 4:30 am. today by pour
ing kerosene in it. The stove ex-
ploded, burning the clothes of Mr..
Beach's body.
Mr.. Sutphen said Mrs. Mary Louise
Beach, awakened by the blast, tried
to go to her husbands aid but was
stopped by a wall of smoke and
flames. She ran outside, and Mr..
Beach managed to follow. He
grabbed a blanket on the way out,
wrapped himself in it, got into his
car and drove to Mr.. Sutphen's
farm. AS he got out Of the auto, he
shouted, II am burning up"
The neighbor said he then drove
the man to Arlington Hospital. At
tendants described the mans con-
dition as fair.
Fire companies from Herndon and
Fairfax, Va, responded to the alarm
but found the house a sheet of
flames. The house was owned by
George L. Sanders, a Washington
policeman. Damage was estimated at
81, 900.
Mr.. Beach, his neighbor said, was
a painter at Fort Belvoir. He and
his wife lived alone on the farm.
The couple have no children.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Man Sends State
| $500 for Taxes
lie Withheld
BY the Associoied Press

CHARLESTON. w. Va, Mar. 90
State Tax Commissioner George P.
Anderson received $500 in cash by
registered mail today from San
Francisco from a man who penned
this note:
Il am inclosing one $500 bill and
two $50 bills. This money belongs
to the State of West Virginia. It
is withheld sales tax money. The
Lord has convicted me, SO I am
mailing this money to the State
II do hope that the State will
forgive me for my wrong doing
and let this money flow into proper
channels.
Mr.. Anderson commented that
"the conscience is powerful force
and applied the money to the con-
sumers' sales tax collections.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Mrs. Mankin Declares
Congress Holds Peace Kew

Congress holds the key to world
peace, according to Representative
Helen Douglas Mankin, Democrat
of Georgia, who was elected re-
Gently to fill the unexpired term OF
Representative Ramspeck.
Speaking last night at the annual
public affairs dinner of the Arling-
ton Business and Professional Wom-
ems Club, Mrs. Mankin declared:
congressional actions during the
next few years will determine
whether or not we are heading to-
ward a third world war"
Mrs. Mankin, a veteran of five
terms in the Georgia State Legisla.
ture, also advocated equal pay fol
equal work for both sexes.''
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Silver Spring Lions Give
81 900 for X-Roy Unit

The Silver Spring Lions Club has
donated $1,000 for an X-ray ma
chine and Horoscope to be given
to the Silver Spring Health Center
Inc.
Mrs. Frank F. Smith, president
OF the center. said it plans fire.
quent clinics under the Montgomery
County tuberculosis Association
after the machine arrives in about
two months. The center has been
using an old X-ray machine loaned
by the county, but this has broken
down and cannot be repaired. she
said.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Lonhom to Continue
In City Porkinqs Post

Ira Clifford Lanham, veteran su-
perintendent Of trees and parkings
for the city government, will con-
tinue in office until July 81 al
though he reaches the compulsory
retirement age of 70 on March 81.
The Commissioners yesterday ap-
proved recommendation of High
ways Director H. G. Whitehurst that
Mr.. Lanham be carried on until the
end Of July. He has been with the
trees and parkings division since he
was is years old.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
War Fund Gives
$4,000 for
Day Nurseries /
Opening Depends on
o. K. by School Board
And Commissioners

The Districts day nursery situa-
ton had frightened today with
grant of $4,000 by the Community
War Fund to permit mothers to
operate the IA closed day care CEN
ters in the schools through June 80,
After that, the mothers hope Con-
gress will take over.
But the District Commissioners
and the Board of Education have vet
to approve the corporation the
mothers have formed to operate the
nurseries. Harry S. Wender, coun-
sci, said he would tell the Commits
sioners today that Mothers Day
Care. Inc, has enough money to
keep going through June. The
Commissioners have indicated they
would approve no plans till sufficient
funds were actually in hand.
Before Board for Week.
Meanwhile, the Board of Educa-
tion has shown no sign of action
on the mothers plan, now before it
about a week. The IA centers in
school buildings were closed Febru-
ary % after Federal Works Agency
funds were withdrawn. The mothers
were permitted to operate two CEN
ters on District property and six
in housing developments controlled
by the National Capital Housing
Authority.
The War Fund has stressed, how
ever, that it will grant no, funds
beyond June 80. This appropria-
tion was made by the Budget Com
mittee, Herbert L. Willett, jr., ex-
ecutive director, said, mainly to give
the city heads and the school boards
time to act.
The War Fund gave considerable
money to the day care centers in
1884, before FWA began allocat-
ing Lanham Act funds for their
support. At that time, the Budget
Committee said it hoped it never
again would have to support day
care facilities, because several
organizations already within the
fund give the same service.
Others to Be Operated.
Operation of about four church
centers and two centers in homes
since the IA school nurseries closed
will be financed by $4,000 in public
contributions and about $4,500 in
mothers fees, Mrs. Mary Hunt, ex-
ecutive vice president of Mothers
Day Care, Inc, said yesterday.
The mothers group was seeking
$4,000 in public contributions before
the War Fund gift was announced.
Mrs. Hunt said the campaign still
would continue to help those
mothers unable to pay the higher
fees necessitated by the parents
attempt to take over the centers.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Arlington Red Cross
Plans Refresher Glasses

J. J. Scott, newly appointed chair
man of the Arlington Red Cross
first aid program, today announced
q five-day refresher course for all
county first aid instructors.
The class is scheduled to open at
7:30 pm. Monday in the auditorium
OF the Arnold Bus Lines at Wilson
boulevard and North Randolph,
street. 1t will continue daily at the
same hour through Friday. Robert
o. Earl, field representative of the
Red Cross Eastern area office TO,
first aid, water safety and accident
prevention service, viii act as in
structor.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
.Tryouts Set Tonight
By Alexandria Theuter

The Alexandria Little Theater an
nounces that tryouts for its next
three-act play, angel Street." will
continue at 8 o'clock tonight in the
auditorium Of the Virginia Electric
|& Power Co., lit South Washing
ton street.
The melodrama will be presented
lin May under the direction of James
NJ. Allen, director Of the groups re-
cent production, "The Great Big
Doorstep"
Evening star., 1946-03-20

with the 2h-year-old dog in her
arms and boarded a Washington
bound bus. No one was In the
house at the time, Mr.. Welch said.
The pastor, who has sworn out a
warrant for the intruder, has Of
fered a $50 reward for information
leading to return Of the dog or cap
.ture of the woman.
He added, however, that II the
woman sends the animal back or
calls him at Savage 493-W-2 so that
he can get the dog, he will not pros
ecute. He. said the dog was the
constant companion Of his 2.year-
old son. Edwin Hugh.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Dr.. Gould Of Maryland u.
Awarded Borden Prize

DR.. Ira A, Gould, jr., professor OF
dairy manufacturing, University OF
Maryland, has been awarded the
1946 Borden Co. prize OF 81, 900 and
gold medal for research in the
chemistry of milk.
The award will be presented at
the opening of the American Chemi-
Cal Society's 109th national meeting
April 8 at Atlantic City, N. j.
DR.. Gould was cited for his
fundamental and extensive studies
Of Athe chemical changes in milk
and milk products, especially those
changes brought about by the ap-
plication Of heat In the various
processes Of manufacture"
Evening star., 1946-03-20
0'Conor as U. 5. Senator
Pledges Fight on Spending
By The Associated Pres,

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Mar. 2o-
Gov. O'Conor told a Democratic
rally today he would work .''as
United States Senator" to reduce
Federal expenditures.
In his campaign speech for the
Democratic nomination for the
Senate, the Governor declared 1t
was about time" that the people
of the United States realized that
no country however rich and
prosperous 1t may be" could spend
indefinitely beyond its income.
He said the Nation had grown up
under the policy OF living within its
income and that the policy that q
"big debt IS good for business was
based entirely on expediency."
Evening star., 1946-03-20
StonewoII Jackson Group
Lists 337 Members

The Stonewall Jackson Citizens
Association, with II new Arlington
residents enrolled at its last meet
Ing, reported today the organization
has grown to 337 members since ii
was formed in December, 1914.
The organization voted to instruct
Its zoning Committee to investigate
the legality OF plans to locate a
wholesale florist business at Wilson
boulevard and North Edison street.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Buckingham School
Purents Meet Tonight

Apanel discussion on Parent
Participation in the Cooperative
Nursery School" will feature the
monthly meeting tonight of parents
of children attending the Bucking-
hsm Nursery School and Kinder
garten at the school, 1919 North
Second road, Arlington.
Those scheduled to participate in
the discussion are Mrs. Seymour
Friedman, Mrs. James F. Monahan
Mrs. Albert Huntington and Mrs.
Irving Berman,
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Experts See Menace
|0f Malaria for D. {.
In Water Chesfnuts

The Japanese water chestnut,
which infests the lower Potomac
River, is a potential malaria men,
ace to Washington and vicinity,
especially among war veterans with
the fever still latent in their blood,
DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger, assistant
District Health officer, said last
night in broadcast over Station
WRC.
DR.. Seckinger shared the broad
cast with Col. Donald G. White,
District Army Engineer for the Po-
tomac, Rappahannock and Patuxent
watersheds. Col. White is respon-
sible for control measures against
the troublesome weed and Is at
tempting to have its eradication set
up as a special rivers and harbors
project.
DR.. Seckinger said that his office
knew of the chestnut in the early
1920s. but that it was not until 1899
that it was discovered it provided a
home for the Anopheles mosquito
Many Mosquitoes Found.
Huge numbers Of the mosquitoes
were found breeding in the chestnut
growths near Oxon Run and in ad-
jacent parts of the Potomac" he
said.
The mosquito flies by night and
usually bites humans when they are
asleep. Hence, he said, the best
prevention against malaria this sum-
mer will be to keep your home well
screened and ask prompt medical
treatment as soon as there's any in
dication malaria is breaking out"
He said eradication Of the water
chestnut, however, was the best
long-range method of controlling the
malaria menace.
Growth Is Greatest Here.
The Potomac has peculiar
fascination" for the plant, Col.
White said. Nowhere in the coun-
try is it so thick as right here in
Washington"
He described how 1t was first
known here in 1919 In the Potomac
Park fish ponds. In 1923 growth
was found near Oxon Run. No one
paid much attention to 1t and, as a
result, by 1889 it had a running
start, covering almost all the shallow
parts of the river, he said.
Eventually" he said, I'VE expect
to clear it from the entire river
drive it away SO it won't grow back
again"
Describes Plan Of Eradication.
This can be done with special cut
ting boats, like hay mowers, used
under 10-year cutting program,
starting upstream and driving the
weed down-river to brackish water.
where it cannot grow.
Boats coming upriver and chang
ing tides complicate this procedure,
however, he said, by bringing seeds
back after cutting has been done.
Col. White already has held q
preliminary public hearing aimed at
setting up chestnut control as a
rivers and harbors project. Under
present law, Col. White can do little
more than control certain parts of
the growth areas out Of funds ap-
|propriated to maintain Potomac
navigation channels.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Two Display Window!
Smashed as Driver
Loses Control Of Taxi

A taxicab, out of control on Four
teenth street NV. at Irving street
early today, crashed through show
windows of two stores with damage
estimated at between 5000 and
SIC, 700, police said.
Driver Of the cab, according to
police, was Stanley M. Segal, "a, OF
1888 Twenty-fourth street NV. Po-
lice charged him with failing forgive
full time and attention to his driv-
ing after hearing his and witnesses
accounts of the accident.
Police investigators said Segal's
cab, without passengers. apparently
overran streetcar loading plat
form in the 3100 block of Fourteenth
street NV. at 4:40 am. They said
Segal lost control of the vehicle
after the car careened of the traffic
stanchion. The cab bounced over the
sidewalk and crashed through the
side of a show window in the The
bee-Jay Millinery Co., 3104 Four
teenth street NV.
The cab then continued on into
the show window of the Hazard
Shoe Co. store next door at 3l01
Fourteenth street NV, shatterine
the window glass and strewing mer-
chandise in the street. Buress
Moore, the shoe store manager, esti.
mated damage at between 5000 anc
5000
No one was injured in the crash
A loaded furniture trailer truck
was stuck on an abutment at High.
way Bridge for more than an hou,
early today, police reported. Ths
truck, owned by the Stone Transfel
Co., Martinsville, Va, was. operated
by Malcolm E. Galliher, %, O
Roanoke, police said. He was charge.
with failing to give full time an,
attention to driving, according t.
police. The accident happened whei
the van overran the abutment nea
the Fourteenth street and Main
| avenue SW. end of the bridre
Evening star., 1946-03-20
1t. Boose Gets Post in ItoIy

1t. Col. Lloyd E. Boose, SIG East
Thornapple street, Chevy Chase, has
been appointed fiscal officer of the
Pentnsular Base Section Headquar-
tiers, Army Service Forces In Italy
1t was announced today. Before
entering the service he was an ad-
ministrative assistant for the Army
Chief Of Finance In Washington.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
POWs Quit Naval Academy

The Naval Academy announced
today that the last Of the 200
German prisoners assigned to work
there in 1914 have been repatriated.
The prisoners had been employed
at the academy dairy farm, Gam
Drills. Md, the academy laundry and
for maintenance work on the in
|stitution,s grounds in Annapolis.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Police Boys Club Elects

Chief Of Police Carl G. Schatz
has been elected president Of the
ly-formed Brentwood Police
Boys Club, 1t was announced today.
The club is starting drive for
funds.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
AnnondoIe PTA to Meet

The Annandale School Parent
Teacher Association will meet at 8
pm. Thursday in the school, AMMAN
dale, Va. DR.. Robert Eaves of the
National Education Association will
conduct a quiz program.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
School Cafeteria Opens

The new cafeteria of the Lee
Jackson School, Alexandra, will be
open today for the pupils. This
will be the first time hot lunches
have been served at the school.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Rotary PIons Town Meeting

Labor and Management Re-
sponsibilities Today will be the sub
ject of the Alexandria Rotary Clubs
fourth town meeting Friday at
| pm. at the Cameron street USO.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
Chest Chuirmon Nomed

The Montgomery County Com.
munity Chest and Council an
nounced today that Adolph GUIDE
has been elected chairman Of the
Embarrassing division for this years
drive.
Evening star., 1946-03-20
HospitoI Architect Named

Ronald Senseman, Takoma Park
has been named architect for the
new 20o-bed hospital in Martins
burg, w. Va, It was announced to-
lday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-10-12
STICKING" QUALITY

Projects are proposed in
Key West with fervid
enthusiasm but it requires
only a short time for the en-.
thusiasm to wane and die.
That fact was glaringly
demonstrated at a meeting
of the city commission a few
days ago. Commissioner
Cooper asked, What has
become of Garrison Blight?
and Mayor Demeritt answ-
cred, 1T has died a natural
death" He said a similar
end had come to the botan-
ical garden and municipal
pier projects.
Had the mayor said "us-
ual DEATH" it would have
been exactly in keeping with
what has happened to a hum
dred and one proposals for
the Improvement of Key
West.
Apparently, it is the east.
est thing in the world for
us to make proposals, de-
signed to promote the well
fare of the city, and the
hardest thing in the world
for us to carry on until the
proposals are brought to
fruition.
We are exceptionally good
at suggesting and extreme
" bad at accomplishing any,
thing that.will help the city.
And because of that charac-
teristic, which has chung to
us from the early days in
the history of our city, we
are no further advanced as
a municipality than we are
today.
Time and again, we have
been confronted with many
an opportunity, but, lacking
a spirit of cohesion and de-
termination, We have let the
opportunities fritter away.
The reason for that atti-
tude is not hard to find: We
are far more concerned in
self than we are in our
community. ':What is in it
for me? is the question we
have in mind. 1t is hard for
us to understand that any
thing that helps the COM
munity helps us, directly or
Indirectly. ~
That sticking" quality,
so outstanding in many 9TH
err communities. is sorely
lacking here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-10-12

The Ocean View DlnlnM ksSan
and Cocktail Lo&ange. 80 uns6aa
street. will serve q eaanplMAN So
day Dinner, chicken and AT -
fixin's. from Al o'eloek %. with
children's plates ~ half.nFsce
They invite you % caspe. hslne
the children, and listen q ~
World Series baseball game wllh
your neighhoFs - thm papalaa
establishment
Effective or Monday. hEeskfaE'
viii be served dally and eanna&
from 90 IL.
The Ocean View Eaekfmll
Lounge serves the besi IT hnawn
brands Of wines. beer End is0u8
during legal hnurs.
Their announcement Is in O.
days Citizen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-10-12
Your Horoscope

SATURDAY. OCTOBER II,
l946-Today gives a masculine
nature and whichever the sex the
native will take the lead whether
it be on the playground or in the
field of work. Avoid forcing your
opinions against opposition and
seek to rule by argument rather
than by command. The nature is
a trifle mystic and studious.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1916
-Today'S indications point to a
quiet and secluded life. The ma
tive may take much interest in
religion, perhaps be a clergyman.
The native will hold many and
powerful friends and will exert
himself in their behalf. He should
only beware of lapsing into self
indulgence.