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Kodiak mirror., 1946-03-09
Ships To Call At Various Ports

The DenaIi is scheduled |. leave Seattle March 19, arrjv.. at Woman's Bay approximatsh March 26, and will then nroco., to Port Bailey, Port William, Uganik Bay, Squaw Harbo' King Cove, False Pass, returniv' to Woman's Bay and thence ts Seattle.
 The Lakina is still scheduI,S to leave Seattle March l5, arrii,. ing at Kodiak about March n proceeding to Ouzinkie, POrt. lock, Seldovia, and Homer. w. turning via Port Williams, KOdi. ak, and Ketchikan to Seattle.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Engineering Building
Work 10 Start Soon

Prince Georges County Engineer
Arthur Tayman announced today
that construction of the proposed
county Park and Planning Commits
sion and Engineering Building in
Magruder Park, Hyattsyille, would
start as soon as possihle.
/ He said he hoped work on the
excavation and foandation would
begin within a month after the
architects for the building reported
they had progressed to such stage
that construction could begin as
soon as priorities on materials are
received.
Under present plans. he declared,
the new building will be two-story
structure of Georgian Colonial de-
sign. He said the building would
contain approximately 5000 feet Of
floor space when completed at q
cost OF S60,000. which would be
contributed by the Maryland Park
and Planning Commission and the
county commissioners.
When completed, the Park and
Planning Commission will OCCUPY
the first floor and the county engi-
neer's office, now housed in the
County Service Building, Hyatts-
vile, would take over the second
floor, he said. The proposed site
is located near Fortieth place and
Hamilton street, HyattSyille
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Cabin John Man, n, Held
In Shooting Of Woman, 40

A 22-year-old Cabin John man
was being held today in the Rock
vile Jail in connection with the
shotgun shooting last night of Mrs.
Pearl M. Royce, 40, Cabin John, at
the home of her brother-in- law
James Royce, 1000 block of Wissiom-
ing road, Glen Echo Heights.
Mrs. Royce was taken to Suburban
Hospital, Bethesda, where officials
said number of shot had lodged
In her right side. Her condition was
described as fair.
Detective Corpl. Leo Day of the
Montgomery County police force
said no charges had been placed
against the suspect, william Pyle,
pending outcome of Mrs. Royce's
injuries.
Detective Day said Pyle told him
the shooting occurred a few hours
after he had had an argument with
Mrs. Royce's husband, Charles, at
the Royce home.
The double gun was
found in the woods near the scene
of the shooting, according to De-
tective Day. He added, although
both triggers had been pulled, only
one shell was fired. The other ap-
parently failed to explode, he said.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Alexandra Court Names
Woman Probation Aide

The appointment of Mrs. Mabel
Charlotte Fox of 1928 Gunston road,
Parkfairfax, as probation officer OF
the Alexandria Juvenile and Domes-
tic Relations Court was announced
yesterday by Judge Marion West.
Mrs. Fox is the first probation
officer to serve the court since the
resignation of Miss Clara Norfieet
four months ago. Judge West said
that he expects to appoint a male
probation officer as soon as an ac-
ceptable candidate applies and ade-
quate quarters are obtained for the
court, which is functioning in Judge
Vests private Offices in the Burke
and Herbert Bank Building.
Mrs. Fox attended Flat River
Junior College and Missouri State
Teachers College. She served for
seven years as assistant to the
matron at the Masonic Children s
Home in st. Louis. She also taught
for one year at Irondale, Mo-, and
was case worker with the State
Social Security Commission in st.
Louis for almost two years.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Memorial Services Held
For Donald N. Bowie, Jr.

Memorial services for Donald M
Bowie, jr., who died February g.
were held yesterday in Montgomery
County Circuit Court at Rockville
under the auspices Of the County
Bar Association.
A resolution adopted by the asso-
citation eulogized Mr.. Bowie for his
"brilliance of mind and his knowl-
edge of the principles Of his pro-
feSsion."
The resolution pointed out that
Mr.. Bowie began practicing law In
Washington, moving to Montgomery
County in 1888. At the time of his
death he was assistant to the State
attorney general. He was born at
Ashton, Md, in 1909.
The association also expressed Its
regret at the illness Of Carey King
don, Rockville correspondent for
The Star for many years. Mr.. King
don is now recovering from an oper-
alton at the Georgetown Hospital
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Extension Of Transit
Reroutinq Trial SOUGHT

E. c. Merrill, president of the
Capital Transit Co., yesterday re-
quested the Maryland Public Service
Commission to permit the transit
company to extend it's 30-day trial
period of the proposed bus and
streetcar rerouting plan in Prince
Georges County.
The commission last month au-
thorized the transit firm to put the
changes in effect for 80 days and to
give the commission and the public
at least five days notice before max
ing changes.
In his petition, Mr. Merrill said
full trial of the plan, involving the
rerouting into the Mount Rainier
terminal of Capital Transit Co. IA
cilities serving the county, could not
be started until early August.
A similar request for extension
has been made by the County In
dependent Trade Association, which
formulated the plan with the aid OF
transit company representatives.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
10000 Expected 10 Parade
In Arlington March 80

More than 10000 members of vet.
Grams, military and civic groups are
scheduled to participate in the two
hour parade in Arlington March 40.
sponsored by the Arlington War Me.
mortal Association.
Assembly point will be at Wilson
boulevard and North Randolph
street. The line of March win fol-
low Wilson boulevard through tn.
main business section in Clarendon
Inc reviewing stand will be at North
Highland street and Wilson boule-
Vard and the parade will disperse
near the courthouse.
Among the units participating will
pc a detachment of military police
from Fort Belvoir, sailors from the
Potomac River Naval Command and
Marines from Quantico.
The parade is being held in con-
nectlon with the associations drive
to raise $368.0oo for a war memo-
rial.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Adventist Students Get
Cafeteria Hearing Today

DR.. Benjamin G. wilkinson, presi-
dent of the Washington Missionary
College at Takoma Park, said that
he will meet later today with rep
resentatives of students who have
boycotted the college cafeteria since
Sunday.
He said that "a very few" of the
men and women students of the
Seventh-Day Adventist institution
had maintained that servings were
too small in the vegetarian cafeteria
and prices too high.
"In no cases does a student ever
pay over $50 a month for food" he
added. "and some are able to keep
their bill down as low as s11. An
average full-course meal is so cents
or less"
He, said prices have not been
changed in some time, and he
doubted any need for changes exists.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Silver Hill Club Fight
Costs Six $500 in Fines

Six men from Washington and
vicinity were fined total of 5000
in Upper Marlboro Police Court yes
terday on charges growing out of an
alteration Saturday night at the
Silver Hill (Md) Club, in which
Ralph w. Brown, Prince Georges
County police chief, was struck.
Two of the men, George Hardy,
20, O. 1903 Seventeenth place Sc.
and Daniel Sproul, 81, of 2906 p
street, were fined $25 each on dis
orderly conduct charges and SIS
each for assault and battery on the
police chief Chief Brown told Trial
Magistrate Arthur P. Owens he was
present and attempted to stop the
fight
The others, John E. Day, 81, OF
1925 G street Sc; Thomas A.
Prather, 26, of 1924 Massachusetts
avenue NV; Clifford B. Alley, %, of
1851 Branch avenue Sc, and Elmer
T. Day, %, of 3701 Branch avenue
Silver Hill, were fined $25 each for
diSorderly conduct,
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Maryland 0PA Head
Urges Firm Stand on
Inventory Hoarding

Leo H. Mccormick, Maryland OPA
director, last night called for a firm
stand against sharp operators" who
have been withholding goods from
the market, adding that they cam
not be permitted to force the Nation
into bankruptcy"
In addressing meeting of Mont
gomery and Prince Georges County
Price Control Board members, OPA
employees and residents at Silver
Spring, Mr.. Mccormick declared:
We must decide on a future of
prosperity and security and support
the Governments anti-inflationary
measures, or stand by and see in
f1ationary dynamite blow us into
economic disaster" .,
= y Need to Continue Controls.
He, said that he had talked with
hundreds Of businessmen" who
want price and rent controls con-
tfi1ned until they can be lifted with
safety"
New fiscal policies, reinstituted
priorities, wage controls are on the
way now, to help relieve the hard
pressed fanks Of OPA's price con-
troll" he said. 1--WE have already
seen beginning of that easement
in building materials and in fabrics.
ut is to be hoped that selfish,
greedy groups who have indulged in
the boarding of inventories will be
prevailed upon to release those goods
for the benefit of their fellow Amer
leans, particularly for the benefit of
returning servicemen, who are des-
perate for the necessities of life
after spending years out of their
country, away from their families.
fighting for the American way of
life
Time to Insist on Action.
"Hoarders of inventory have near
ly made that phrase a mockery, to
their everlasting shame and dis
grace.
Its time to wake up-to jog the
short memories of these sharp op-
orators, to remind them that we
have just barely finished very cost
ly, bloody battle for our very lives.
They carrtet be permitted to
force the Nation into bankruptcy
and fate worse than that suffered
by the enemies so recently routed on
the battlefield"
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Bethesda Group Asks
Market Traffic Change

The Bethesdas QMd.l Chamber OF
Commerce. Beard of Directors last
nigM requested the Montgomery
County Commissioners to pass an
ordinance permitting only north-
bound traffic to enter the Farm
Women's Market grounds from Wis
consin avenue on Saturdays. Under
the plan, exit would be made one
way eastbound by way of Willow
lane.
In approving report of the Safe
ty Committee, headed by A. j. Bar
gagni, the board also requested in
stallation of 600-candlepower lights
on Wisconsin avenue instead of the
200-candlepower lights now in use
The report pointed out that three
policemen have been required to
handle two-way Saturday traffic in
the vicinity of the market.
The chamber will not make an
award of the Oliver Owen Kuhn
Memorial Cup for the year 1945
The cup is given by The Star each
year in recognition of some out
standing physical improvement in
the community. Because of wartime
building restrictions there are no
candidates for the cup.
Clarence Keiser, member of the
Maryland National Park and Plan
ming Commission, announced the
master plan for land use of the
Bethesda business district is ready
for a public hearing.
A special meeting of the cham
Der will be called for April 8 in the
Bethesda County Building when the
plan will be explained.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Union Studies Wage Offer
OF Virginia Power Firm
BY the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 1e.-Lead-
ers of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers gave
close study today to a wage offer
made by the Virginia Electric g.
Power Co. in an effort to settle con-
tract disputes before April l, the
deadline set by the IBEW for a
'system-wide strike.
Neither the union nor the COM
pany would discuss specific points
of the wage offer. A union repre-
sentative said the wage plan was
complex" but he declined to 60 into
details.
Contract negotiations were to be
resumed today with at least four
international representatives of the
IBEW on hand to assist the eight
locals in the VEPCO system.
The Virginia State Association of
Electrical Workers organized yes
terday in Richmond at meeting of
representatives of Is IBEW locals in
Virginia, pledged support Of the
scheduled strike.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Fairfax Court Dismisses
Freight Car Robbery Case

The Fairfax County Circuit Court
yesterday dismissed two charges
against Glen e. Suthard in con-
nection with the robbery of an r. F.
& P. freight car at Lorton, Va, last
November.
The action was recommended by
Commonwealth Attorney Hugh B.
Marsh Immediately after the grand
jury returned indictments against
Suthard charging him with breaking
and entering a freight car and tam
pering with air brake machinery.
A joint indictment was returned
against Gilbert L. Follin, Harry K.
Cation and John N. Kelly on charges
of housebreaking. The three men,
held by the Arlington County police,
are accused of entering the home of
s. F. Everett at Belle Haven and
stealing jewelry and other articles
valued at $500.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Attorney Is Fined $40
For Being Late 10 Court

Robert Bains, Silver Spring attor-
ney, was fined $40 by Judge Stedman
Prescott for failing to respond when
his case was called in MONTGOMERY
County Circuit Court today.
The case, involving a damage suit
by Spencer P. Bose, Silver Spring.
against Burnie Rowe, Avenel, was
called at the opening of court at
$3.50 am. Mr.. Bains, attorney for
Mr.. Bose, was absent, however.
When the attorney entered the
courtroom 20 minutes later Judge
Prescott asked him why he was late.
He said he thought court convened
at 10 o'clock. The Judge then i'm
posed the fine.
Mr.. Bose won verdict of s235 45
in Trial Magistrates Court at Silver
Spring for damages to his car when
it collided with a bull owned by Mr.
Rowe. Mr.. Rowe then appealed the
case to the Circuit Court
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Work Cuts Marriage Chance,
Clare Luce Tells Career Girls
Rise to Congress
Resulted Without
Plonning, She Says

Representative Clare Boothe Luce.
the glamorous Republican of Con-
necticut, started her career making
fancy paper nut cups and believes
that If she stayed in Congress much
longer, I would wind up making nut
cups again.
Unfettered by any desire to win
another election (she already has
announced her coming retirement
from politics. the blond politician
told 500 would-be career girls a
thing or two at George Washington
University last night.
Il am the worst possible advertise.
ment for career planning or higher
education" she said. "T never
planned career In my life and have.
practically no education, i" she added,
ignoring biographical accounts. II
have had q fairly interesting time
without any preparation whatso-
ever"
Her observations were given the
career conference for women stu
dents in the university's hall of
government before nine of Wash
ington's leading career women, who
were about to conduct speciality ses-.
sionS on how to succeed in drama
government, newspaper work, home
economics, etc.
Began Earning in Teens.
MIS-. Luce recalled that she had
climbed the dizzy, dismal ladder of
failure" through all these profess
sions Ito final success in Congress.
While still in her teens, Mrs. Luce
was making $21 week in the paper
factory. That's what she said she
believes really forecast her future
role in life when, at the age of IL
she she produced rod .sdIa a play fQr the Amer
"The play was Cinderella. You
can see by the title that originality
marked my old career, particularly
the part about being a Republican.
BY her own account, Mrs. Luce
began to get an education for the
first time when she entered Con-
gress. If any of the university's CO.
eds find themselves in Congress
some day. Mrs. Luce hopes they will
have as rich, happy and firing an
experience in power and respon-
sibility as did," She hopes they
will learn that the key word is "re-
sponsibility."
Marriage Is One Career.
She believes that women think
pretty much like men. For instance,
she believes that most women be-
long In the home. Just as firmly,
she believes they will continue to
leave it.
None of you need worry about
opportunities opening for women"
she declared. There is only one
career that is slowly, surely closing
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Public Works Program
Seen Necessary by Fall

A Government public works pro-
gram may have to be established
by fall to help offset imitation, DR.
Dewey Anderson, secretary of the
Senate Small Business Committee
told the Independent Trade Asso-
citation of Prince Georges County
last night.
He added there had been marked
shift westward in the country's
population and spoke of mounting
unemployment in at least one Cali
fornia city.
Although war contracts benefited
large corporations, DR.. Anderson
asserted, they did not greatly aid
small business, which now must
have governmental aid to pull
through the postwar slump.
Small business, he said, must Or
ganize from the roots if it is to
make its influence felt in high
places, he declared. A good sign of
increasing attention being paid
small business, he pointed out, is
the fact that various large univer.
stiles are establishing courses fof
small business study, whereas for
merly all training had been for
posts in large corporations.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Diseases Show Decline
For Month in ARLINGTON

Communicable disease in Airing
ton County declined from January
to February, although a marked In
crease since June has been recorded
by the Health Department in COM
parison with the year ended June
20, 1945.
There already have been more
than $500 cases during the eight
month period since June 80 COM
pared with approximately 1000 dur
ing the entire previous 12-month
period.
In February, DR.. Ralph G. Beach
ley, county health officer, reported
227 cases compared with 1884 the
month before. Influenza continued
to lead with 127 cases, while the re-
mainder were listed as follows:
Measles, 26; scarlet fever, %;
syphilis, Is; gonorrhea, 10; tubercu-
losis. s: chickenpox, s; pneumonia,
8; meningitis, 8; poliomyentis, 2;
-mumps, 4, and diphtheria, ery-
sipelas, each.
The report listed ITS births and
38 deaths in the county during the
period,
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Pho

for women now as opportunities in
other fields expand. That Is the
career of marriage. The more op-
portunity you have to earn living
the less opportunity you will have
to find man to take on that job
for you"
Mrs. Luce was introduced by
Margaret Lynn, president of Mortar
Board, the student boy sponsoring
the event. Special sessions on job
opportunities. were conducted by
Elisabeth May Craig, Washington
correspondent; 1t. Col. Mary Agnes
Brown, adviser on women veterans,
Veterans Administration; Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, president of
the District Board of Education;
Helen Hostetter, editor of the Jour-
nal of Home Economics; Josephine
Callan, speech and drama depart
ment, Catholic University; Mary E
Switzer, assistant to the adminis-
traitor, Federal Security Agency;
Eloise Cram, National Institute of
Health, and Dorothy C. Atkins,
test division, Civil Service Com
mission.
They agreed: TT takes hard work
for a woman to build a career"
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Yankee WAC Hits Memorial,
Pivotinq Confederate to North

A WAC sergeant Of Yankee ex-
traction ran her car into q Confed-
crate monument in Alexandria early
today, hitting 1t such blow that
the soldier who customarily faces
south found himself suddenly peer
ing in a somewhat northerly di-
rection.,
No less outraged than any good
champion OF the old South, Alexan-
dria's defenders of law and order
took to task Sergt. Doris T. Duperre
80, Of Chicopee Falls, Mass, but
temporarily resident Of Fort Myer
They said Sergt. Duperre was
Evening star., 1946-03-19
1akoma Park Council
Orders Razing Of
Old Spring House

The old spring house in Takoma
Park was ordered torn down by the
Town Council last night, but its
stone will be used for building
columns for new cover over the
spring. The improvement will be
made when funds become available.
Meanwhile, A. P. Bell of the Dis
trict Health Department, told the
Council the United States Public
Health Service has requested that a
new analysis be made of the spring
waters.
A. L. Sullivan of the Maryland
State Food and Drug Commission,
forwarded an analysis of the water
to the Council, which showed no
segage contamination. He said he
would not draw too many con-
clusions" from this analysis, taken
last month. ell said in the past
several years a number of samples
from the spring of questionable
purity have been reported.
The Takoma Park Historical So
ASy ASSAeAy ACPOA tCQ IllC UdllQ-
stand has no historic value. The
society favored razing the structure
and constructing a stone terrace
over the spring to make it useful.
Luke j. Bennett, president of the
Community League of Takoma Park,
presented a port on the condition of
town thoroughfares and was COM
mended by the council for the ac-
curate information embodied in the
report.
The council returned to the Mary
land National Park and Planning
Commission without recommended
tion the following requests for re-
coming: Charles B. Ullom, from
residence A to residence C, lots in
Gibbs & Kosack's subdivision, and
Elmer and Anna Shook, from resi-
dence B, lots nj the Cunningham
subdivision. ~
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Club Gaming Case Jury
Dismissed; RetriaI April 3

Trial of three men charged with
setting up a gaming table in the
Trojan Club. 1700 block of Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, resulted in a
hung jury late yesterday at District
Court.
Justice Jennings Bailey dismissed
the jury, which had deliberated ap-
proximately three hours. Justice
Bailey set April 3 as a date for re-
trial.
The three defendants are Joseph
B. Walling, 40, whose address was
given as the 1700 block of Mas
sachusetts avenue NV, president
of the corporation which is said to
have run the club; Charles R.
Warde, So, of the 2l00 block of
Massachusetts avenue NV, and
Byron M. Jones, "a, colored, door,
man.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Virginia Truck Tax
Hearing Set April 5
By the Assaeiatsd pr.,.

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 19.-The
State Reciprocity Board met here
yesterday and adjourned without
action until April when a public
hearing will be held on the pro-
posed waiver Of collection of the 2
per cent gross receipts tax on COM
mercial truckers from other States
and the District of Columbia.
Decision to hold a public hearing
was made after Virginia railroads
requested hearing on the matter.
Repeal of the tax as part of Gov.
Tuck's revised road tax program en-
acted by the recent General Assem-
bly, does not become effective until
March, 1947.
Evening star., 1946-03-19
Youth Faces CHARGE
Of Posing as Major

James Carlisle Robey, jr., 10, Co.
lumbia Park, Landover, Nd. today
was being held by ,Alexandria s{Va.) J
authorities for transfer to the Dis
trict to face a charge :pf Illegally
wearing the uniform Of 4 major in
the Army Air Forces, the FBI an
nounced. Robey, the FBI said, was
listed as 4-F in the draft and has
never been in service.
He was arrested Saturday night
after chase at Arlington Farms,
Va, near the WAVE barracks. When
accosted, he struck at an FBI agent,
authorities said, and then ran. A
civilian and naval officer joined in
the chase, which ended in a nearby
field. He was taken before the
United States commissioner at Alex
andria yesterday on a charge of
being fugitive from the District
and waived removal proceedings. He
will be brought here when the Fed
eral judge for the Alexandria dis
trict signs the necessary papers, the
FBI said.
Robey, who admits he served q
year in the Chillicothe (Ohio) Re-
formatory on bad-check charge in
1943, according to the FBI, within
the past six weeks has been escort
ing service women, hiring taxicabs
all day and then having the women
write checks for him. The checks
he authorized turned out to be in
valid, authorities said, and Robey
has but limited education, having
difficulty with reading and writing.
The FBI says he is on parole from
the National Training School for
Boys here and cashed checks with
merchants and even visited Boiling
Field.
WACS at Walter Reed and
WAVES at Arlington Farms were
Robey's victims, authorities said
At first, about six weeks ago, he ap-
peared in a captains uniform, but
rapidly promoted himself to a major,
the FBI asserted.