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WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1943. *
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D. C. Prepares
Intensive Drive
For War Loans
Churches, Theaters,
Radio All Band to
Raise $70,000,000
Gearing for the greatest financial
Undertaking in the history of the
Nation—the second War Loan drive
for $13,000,000.000—local civic groups,
business organizations, religious
faiths, professfional leaders, and na
tional radio networks today stood
ready to follow through on the
theme, “They give their lives—you
lend your money."’
The District quota for the drive
from April 12 through Mav 1 is more
than $70,000,000, of which $42,000,000
Is to be obtained from the public.
Commercial banks are expected to
fill the remainder of the quota.
One hundred members of the In
surance Underwriters Division, under
Chairman Fred G. Halderman. and
100 members of the Business Di
vision, under Chairman Edgar
Morris, met yesterday to assign
prospect cards for the local drive.
Benefit Dance Held.
The Kiwanis Club held a "War
bond day" at its weekly luncheon
yesterday at the Mayflower Hotel,
and last night the Samuel Gompers
. Masonic Lodge held a War bond
rally and dance at the Statler Hotel.
Members of the lodge raised more
than two and one-half times its
quota in War bonds. The quota
set for the event by the War Bond
Committee of the Masonic Order
was $100,000. The sales reached a
total of $254,310. according to Dr.
Maurice Goldberg, committee chair
man.
A letter sent to the lodge by Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
was put up for auction by the com
mittee and was bid in by Samuel
Weinstein, 4505 Brandywine street
N.W., for $10,000 in War bonds.
Lt. Allan Rothenberg of Wash
ington, holder of the Navy Cross
and Silver Star for bravery in the
battles of Midway and the Solo
mons, told the 800 guests of his ex
periences and stressed the import
ance of raising funds to maintain
the fighting forces.
Sefton Darr, chairman of the cam-1
paign speakers’ bureau, sponsored I
by the District Bar Association, an
nounced his group will cover 200
organizations during the drive. Two
speakers will appear each day at
local theaters for a week, at about
3 p.m. and 9 p.m., to give 4-minute
talks.
This phase of the drive will begin
on April 15, 16 or 18, depending on
when the respective theaters begin
their week. Speakers will appear
at the suburban theaters only in
the evening.
Jewish Program Mapped.
The Jewish community will map
their participation in the campaign
with a meeting of the rabbis and
presidents of all synagogues in the
city next Thursday night at the
Jewish Community Center.
Meanwhile Cingregation Ohev
Sholom. Fifth and I streets N.W.,
will hold a war bond rally at 7 p.m.
Sunday night. Speakers will include
Representative Folger, Democrat, !
of North Carolina: Capt. Stanton j
Salisbury, Navy chaplain: Hugh
Lynch of the District War Finance !
Administration and Capt. John H.
Simpson, U. S. A. There will also
be several war heroes from Guadal
canal and North Africa.
Rabbi Zemach Green, leader of \
the congregation, will welcome the
guests. The synagogue's Ladies' Aux
iliary will dedicate a service flag, a
Jewish folk chorus under Mendy
Shain and Cantor Israel Flusberg
Will sing. Washington Jewish war
veterans will present the colors and
the United States Navy Band will j
play.
Radio Programs Slated.
The four national radio networks !
find approximately 675 individual !
stations will conduct an all-dav sale :
and promotion of war bonds and
other Government securities on the
opening day of the drive. April 12.
Besides the best radio talent obtain
able. there will be special broadcasts
all during the day from London.
Africa, the Pacific, other war zones,
nnd from hospital rooms to bring
the necessity of the campaign home
to the public.
Stories of how American boys are
dying and their faith in the people
on the home front buying War bonds
to back them up resounded at the
Kiwanis Club luncheon yesterday.
Two returned war heroes and Wil
liam E. Leahy, director of selective
service for the District, were the
speakers.
Seaman George Haboush of the
Coast Guard, who was accompanied
to the meeting by Coast Guardsman
George Klemchuk, a participant in
Guadalcanal action, presented a
graphic picture of the initial land
ings in North Africa. Describing
himself as from Brooklyn and a!
Dodger fan, Seaman Haboush gave i
an account of three days of in-!
tensive fighting, during which, he
said, many American boys were
killed.
“I am here to tell you to buy War
bonds," he asserted. "It will help
our boys win the war."
Guadalcanal Veteran Speaks.
Maj. Don Dickson, Marine' Corps,
formerly co-aUthor of the comic
strip, "Stony Craig,” which appears
in The Star, told the meeting of his
experiences on Guadalcanal.
“Those boys on Guadalcanal and
In Africa are ‘not soft.’ and they
are not ‘beating their gums’ about
what they have accomplished to
date," he declared, "but they are ex
pecting you people to keep up the
fight the same as they are doing.”
He said it was unpleasant to see
men dying, but those men were will
ing to die to keep the war from
the home front, if the people at
home keep the supplies coming.
Supporting the appeal of the two
war heroes, Mr. Leahy said it is the
obligation and responsibility of every
American to back the second “Vic
tory Loan" campaign.
Special Meeting Planned.
“Let us give those boys a hand,”
he asserted. “They are giving the
last full measure of their devotion.
We will be giving so that the future
Will be secure.”
James Cassidy, program chair
m.
John S. White of Colmar Manor May Succeed
Conlon as Speaker of Maryland House
Incumbent Makes
Race for Baltimore
Council Post
John S. White of Colmar Manor,
Md., majority leader of the House
of Delegates and a member of 'the
State Legislative Council, today
appeared to be a likely choice to
succeed Thomas E. Conlon of Balti
more as House speaker and as vice
chairman of the Legislative Council.
Mr. Conlon was nominated last
: Tuesday in Baltimore’s municipal
| primary as the Democratic candi
: date for president of the city coun
i cil. He was conceded an excellent
| chance to win the general elec
i tion May 4, in which event his legis
lative post would become vacant.
If Mr. ’White becomes speaker of
the House he Would serve only until
the Secretary of State calls the
Legislature into session again.
Member -'Since 1935.
■ A former mayor of Colmar
■ Manor. Mr. White has been a
! member of Prince Georges County
I delegations to the Legislature since
| 1935.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. White
! came to Colmar Manor in 1923 to
practice law. He is a past president
JOHN S. WHITE.
of the county Kiwanis Club and is
corporation counsel of Cheverly,
Colmar Manor and Laurel. He is
47 years old and married.
Besides Mr. White, other dele
gates mentioned as possible succes
- i
*sors to Mr- Conlon as vice chair
man of the State Legislative Coun
cil include LeRoy Pumphrey of
Prince Georges; James W. Gill,
Montgomery; S. Denmead Kolb,
Wicomico; William P. Stromeyer,
Anne Arundel, and Charles M. Ban
diere, Baltimore. Most of these men
also are mentioned as possible suc
cessors to Mr. Conlon as Speaker
of the House.
Meanwhile, speculation centered
on a successor to Senate President
Arthcur H. Brice of Kent, whose res
ignation is anticipated following his
reappointment last Tuesday to the
Public Service Commission. Mr.
Brice resigned from the commission
to take over leadership in the 1943
Senate.
If he accepts the commission post
—and there seems to be no doubt
that he will—his resignation from
the Senate becomes automatic. Mr.
Brice also is chairman of the State
Legislative Council.
Among men mentioned as likely
successors are Senator James J.
Lindsay of Baltimore, majority floor
leader.
A leading candidate to fill the va
cancy in the Legislative Council if
Mr. Brice resigns is Senator L.
Harold Sothoron of Prince Georges
Governor to Present
Trophy to Guards
At Silver Spring
County Square Review,
With Ceremonies,
Set for April 18
Gov. O’Conor will present the
Governor’s Trophy to the Seventh
Battalion. Maryland State Guard,
at a review to be held in the county
square adjacent to the Silver Spring
Armory on April 10, it was an
nounced today.
The Governor, who. together with
Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, com
manding the Third Service Com
mand: Brig. Gen. D. H. Mohr, com
manding the State Guard, and Adj.
Gen. Francis Petrott of the State
Guard, will make the award for
highest score made on the rifle
range at the annual summer en
campment at Cascade.
Gen. Reckord will present com
missions to the officers of the 12
Montgomery County companies of
the Maryland Minute Men of the
Reserve Militia, recently commis
sioned by the Governor, and Gen.
Mohr and Gen. Petrott will pre
sent service ribbons to the re-en
listed members of the six State
Guard companies of the Seventh
Battalion and the battalion band,
who have not already received serv
ice ribbons for re-enlistment in the
State Guard.
Following the presentations. Gov.
O'Conor and Gen. Reckord will in
spect the 38 companies of the Sev
enth Battalion and later the entire
battalion will pass in review before
the Governor’s party.
In addition to the ceremonial fea
tures of the assembly, the review
will serve as the first trial mobiliza- i
tion of the battalion, it was said.
Col. E. Brooke Lee, commanding
officer of the Seventh Battalion, has j
advised company commanders that
the occasion may be taken as the
beginning of the mast intensive
training period of the coming year,
which will include the second Fed
eral inspection of the State Guard
companies and a State Guard camp
at Fort Meade.
In the event of rain, the review
will be postponed to May 4, it was
said.
Miss Martin Sees GOP
Trend in Arlington Talk
Muss Marion E. Martin, assistant
chairman of the Republican Na
tional Committee and president of :
the League of Republican Women's !
Clubs, told Arlington County Re
publican leaders yesterday that the
"trend of the times is toward a
complete Republican victory.”
Speaking at a meeting of county
precinct chairman, workers and
party leaders. Miss Martin said she
was “tired” of hearing people say
politics should not be discussed
in time of war.
Miss Martin described work be
ing done by Republicans in other
sections of the Nation, and urged
Arlington leaders to make an in
tensive campaign for their candi
dates in the fall election.
The meeting was presided over by
Leroy B. Rider, chairman of Arling
ton precinct.
Arlington Red Cross
Drive Raises $33,166
Arlington County’s Red Cross War
Fund drive, with nearly all returns
reported, shows contributions of $33,
166.99, it was reported today by
John F. Phelan, chairman. The orig
inal quota of $20,241 was oversub
scribed by 10 per cent two weeks be
fore the end of the drive.
The local chapter is assured the
drive will yield more than $35,000,
Mr. Phelan said. The Junior Red
Cross and Arlington teachers have
collected more than $2,000 that
hasn't been turned in yet.
Harold Benson, chairman of resi
dential area collections, reported col
lections of $17,272.25, with only one
area out of 26 to be heard from, and
Harold J. Heishman reported $7,
997.64 from 43 out of 47 business sec
tions and Mrs. Howard C. Bronson
listed an early total of the special
gifts at $6,454. Last week’s drive in
the theaters yielded $1,056.67 and
booths in four county banks $386.42.
man, introduced the speakers. Ray
Garrity, president, who presided,
announced that 60 volunteers of the
club will participate in the drive.
It was also announced that the
club will hold a special meeting
April 29 at the Statler Hotel to cele
brate United States-Canada “Good
Will Week.” Speakers will be Fred
McC&llister, of Canada, interna
tional Kiwanis president; Assistant
Secretary of State Adolph S. Berle
and other dignitaries.
A
Maryland Mayor
Reports Town's
Taxes All Paid
Irving L. McCathran, mayor of
Washington Grove, Md„ said today
that for the third successive year
all town taxes have been paid and
it will be unnecessary to hold a tax
sale for delinquent property in 1943.
Mayor McCathran said the cur
rent installment and interest on the
road bond issue have been paid and
all other outstanding obligations
have been met.
The mayor said the town treasurer
has reported that sufficient funds
are on hand to take care of antici
pated expenses for the remainder
of the fiscal year which ends June 30.
Tree Planting Program
Under Way in County
Montgomery Area Projects
Started, Others to Follow
The Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
is conducting an intensive tree
planting program in Montgomery
County, in parks and along streets,
according to County Park Com
missioner E. Brooke Lee.
Mr. Lee said the program is un
der the direct supervision of Wil
liam R. Hall, the commission's land
scape architect, who already has
completed studies for streets now
being planted.
He said plantings are being made
on Sutherland road, Sterling road
in Fairway on the west side of the
Colesville pike opposite the Indian
Spring Golf Club, and on Drum
mond avenue in West Chevy Chase.
The next tree-planting project,
he said, will be in Wyngate sub
division along Singleton lane ad
jacent to Old Georgetown road in
Bethesda.
In view of the shortage of men,
Mr. Lee said trees are now being
planted in areas where citizens are
willing to dig holes for young trees
in locations designated by Mr. Hall.
Requests for tree planting should
be made to the Park and Plan
ning Commission office, 8500 Coles
ville road, Silver Spring.
Report on Medical Care
Studied by OXonor
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, April 9.—Gov.
O'Conor considered the initial report
today of the State Planning Com
mission's Committee on Medical
Care, which recommended that a
State council of medical care be
established.
The report stated that “this coun
cil is to consist of eight persons—
two representing the medical pro
fession, two representing the faculty
of the medical schools of the Uni
versity of Maryland and Johns Hop
kins University, two representing the
State Board of Health, and one each
from the hospitals and the State
Board of Welfare.”
The committee also recommended
a program “to assure medical care,
including the medically indigent,
under the State Department of
Health.”
Gov. O'Conor said the initial re
port was the result of two years of
“intensive study by the committee
of the problem of providing adequate
medical care to the residents of the
counties of Maryland.
"The report of the committee is
concerned solely with the counties.”
Court Dismisses Suit
Over Loudoun Newspaper
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, Va„ April 9. — The
suit of Ralph M. Dorsey, Berryville
publisher, against Mrs. Marguerite
Davis, executrix of the estate of for
mer Gov. Westmoreland Davis,
charging failure to perform a con
tract to sell the Loudoun Times
Mirror Publishing Co., was dismissed
in Loudoun County Circuit Court
here yesterday.
The court held that “the evidence
didn't show a proper case for an or
der for the specific performance of
a contract.”
Mr. Dorsey claimed that the paper
had been purchased by him through
Thomas Kivlighan, manager of the
Times-Mirror, and E. E. Garrett, at
torney for Mrs. Davis, and that the
bid for $17,500 had been accepted.
Mrs. Davis claimed that she did
not authorize acceptance.
Boy's Funeral Held
Funeral services for Ira Ketter
man, jr„ 12-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ira Ketterman of Sunshine,
Md., who died in Children’s Hospital
in Washington, were held today.
Six of the youth’s classmates at
Sherwood High School in Sandy
Spring wen pallbearers.
FWA Allots $388,000
For Two Schools in
Arlington County
Junior-Senior High
And Elementary Facilities
To Care for 2,000 Pupils
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Fed
eral Works administrator, has ap
proved a grant of $388,000 for two
Arlington County schools, which will
provide for approximately 2,000 ele
mentary and junior and high school
students.
Tire projects call for construction
and equipping of an elementary
school building in the Fairlingon
development of the Defense Homes
Corp. on the Leesburg pike and a
similar project for a combination
junior-senior high school near the
Ama Valley housing project near
Shirley driveway and Old Glebe
road.
Each school will have facilities to
care for approximately 1,000 stu
dents.
Gen. Fleming said a grant of
$109,000 of Lanham Act funds will
be made toward the cost of the ele
mentary school, the county paying
$100,000.
The Junior-senior school will be
financed and construced by the Fed
eral Government at an estimated
cost of $279,000, Gen. Fleming said.
Both buildings will be one-story,
brick construction, it was said. The
elemehtary school will have 16 class
rooms to accommodate its 1,000 stu
dents, who will attend classes in two
shifts.
The junior high school will have
28 classrooms with facilities for
about the same number of students,
it was said.
The high school will be located on
a site containing about 8'/2 acres and
will be equipped with a parade
ground for boy and girl cadet corps
drills. The two schools will serve
the children of workers living in
Federal and private housing devel
opments in the county.
Servicemen's Center
In Silver Spring Opens
The Silver Spring Servicemen’s
Recreational Center at 8225 Georgia
avenue opened officially today. A
formal request has been made to the
United Service Organizations to
sanction the center as a USO branch
but in the meantime the center is
functioning as a civilian defense
project. The building was donated
to the committee by Jacob Sclar.
One of the features is a sewing
and mending service for the service
men run by Silver Spring house
wives. Volunteers are needed for
this service and are asked to call
the center at Silver Spring 0222
and register.
There also will be an information
desk where an attendant can ar
range for servicemen to visit for
week ends or for dinner and ar
range parties for servicemen. Civic
organizations planning dances or
entertainments are requested to call
the Service Center and arrange
them with the Clearance Commit
tee.
Furniture to complete the center
is needed, William M. Wright, chair
man of the hospitality committee,
said. Easy chairs, floor lamps, ash
trays, smoking stands, folding
screens, books, magazines and cash
donations are needed.
Daily Rationing
%§Jfemindersife
Blue coupons, Book 2—Those marked
D, E and P good for rationed
canned goods through April 30.
Bed coupons, Book 2—Those marked
A and B are valid now and will
remain good through April 30.
They can be exchanged for meats,
butter, margarine, fats and oils,
cheeses and canned fish.
* Stamps marked C will become good
Sunday and D coupons on April 18.
They will also be good through
April 30.
Sugar—Stamp No. 12 in Book 1 is
good for 5 pounds through May 31.
Coffee—Stamp No. 26 in Book 1 is
good for 1 pound through April 25.
Fuel oil—No. 4 coupons are invalid.
No. 5 coupons are valid for 10 gal
lons through September 30.
Gasoline—No. 5 A coupons are good
for 3 gallons each through July 21.
B and O coupons, good for 3
gallons each, expire on dates in
dicated In individual books.
Shoes—Stamp 17 in Book 1 is good
for one pair of shoes through
June 15.
Detailed rationing information
will be found on Page A-2 of The
Sunday Star each week.
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Rent Increase
Notices Sent Out
At Greenbelt
Raises Set June 1
Won't Affect 1,000
War Housing Units
By J. B. ZATMAN.
Greenbelt residents were being
notified today that their rents will
be increased beginning June 1, and
that analysis of tenants’ incomes, on
which increases will be based, will
begin immediately.
The Federal Public Housing Au
thority late yesterday decided on the
move. It was explained, however,
that the 1,000 war housing units
built at Greenbelt under the Lan
ham Act will not be affected.
The increases have been set up on
a graded rent program based on
ability to pay, and will not exceed
rent ceilings set by the Office of
Price Administration.
Salary Boosts Cited.
FPHA officials explained that the
plan was adopted in view of salary
increases received by most of the
tenants in the three lqw-cost hous
ing projects.
It was not known immediately
how many residents of Greenbelt
would be affected, since the survey of
salaries must be made first. There
are approximately 885 living units
at the nearby Maryland develop
ment.
Normally, it was said, residents of
the three developments would have
to move if their salaries were in
creased. Because of the housing
shortage, however, it was believed
that the present plan would be more
equitable, and would raise the rents
so that they would compare favor
ably with similar housing accommo
dations.
Special Provision for Some.
Special provision will be made for
those whose incomes have not been
substantially increased.
Under the new rent schedule, the
lowest rental will be $24 a month
as compared with approximately
$19. The maximum will be $65 as
compared with between $45 and $50
at present.
It was also learned that similar
increases would apply to Green
hills, Ohio, and Greendale in Mil
waukee.
17 Draft Pleas Denied,
6 Granted in Fairfax
Appeal Board Classes
Five in 2-A Group
The Fairfax County Board of
Appeals has refused 17 applications
for reclassification and granted six
others, the County Selective Service
Board said yesterday. Registrants
whose 1-A classification were con
tinued were:
Homer S. Wells, State highway
mechanic: Edward D. Jenkins, War
Production Board clerk: Harry R.
Crouch, produce dealer; Charles
Petitt, farmer. This group appealed
on grounds of occupational depend
ency.
Those appealing for occupational
deferments were Edward Kaiser,
office supervisor; Eugene H. Brooks,
auto body worker; Richard E. High,
telephone installer; Fred C. Craig,
truck driver; John L. Wells, plum
ber; Robert H. Ellicott, oil burner
mechanic.
Those appealing on dependency
grounds were Charles E. Dean, car
penter’s helper; William H. Deavers,
laundry supervisor; John H. Wil
liams, milk truck driver; Horace M.
Fields, plumber's helper; George
Harris, truck driver; Richard L. Pro
sise, steamfitter’s helper, and Pat
rick G. Bator, clerk.
The appeal board assigned 2-A
classifications for a period of six
months to William Turley, car re
pairman helper; Charles O. Breck
enbridge, telephone frameman; Ray
mond Wiley, truck mechanic; Walter
Miller, railroad yard brakeman; Wil
liam D. Keys, car repairman.
Joseph Miller, appealing from a
4-E classification assigned by the
local board, was placed in 2-C.
Alexandria Ration Head
Urged to Retain Post
Brig. Gen. J. Fulmer Bright, State
OPA chairman, has requested C. M.
Jones to reconsider his resignation
as chairman of the Alexandria Ra
tion Board, it was learned today.
In a telephone conversation yes
terday Gen. Bright described the
work done by Mr. Jones as head of
the board as “excellent” and urged
him to stay on.
Mr. Jones said that while he ap
preciated the feeling of State offi
cials, his resignation would “have
to stand.” He said the press of busi
ness made it impossible for him to
continue as a member of the board.
An official of the Virginia Public
Service Co., Mr. Jones has headed
the Alexandria rationing setup since
it was organized in January, 1942.
In hts letter of resignation to Gen.
Bright he said he felt it unfair to
his firm to spend so much time on
ration board affairs. He asked that
his resignation take effect imme
diately.
Until a new chairman is appoint
ed by Gen. Bright, the affairs of the
board will be handled by William J.
Coakley and James Armstrong, thp
other members of the board.
Hill Gets Institute Post
Paul A. Hill, secretary of the Ar
lington Chamber of Commerce, has
been appointed State attendance
chairman of Virginia, West Vir
ginia, Maryland and Delaware for
the National Institute of Commer
cial and Trade Organization Exec
utives to be held at Northwestern
University August 15-21. ,
Mount Holyoke Club to Meet
Miss Gertrude Bruyn, field secre
tary of Mount Holyoke College, will
be guest speaker at the spring meet
ing of the Mount Holyoke Club of
Washington at Pierce Hall, Six
teenth and Harvards streets N.W, at
I o'clock tonight.
KIWANIS CLUB HOLDS “WAR BOND” DAY—Members of the
Kiwanis Club dedicated their weekly luncheon yesterday at the
Mayflower Hotel to the second war loan drive to be held from
April 12 through May 1. Shown at the meeting are, left to
right, Coast Guardsman George Xlemchuk, who landed with
the first contingent at Guadalcanal, Coast Guardsman George
Haboush, who took part in the invasion of North Africa, and
William E. Leahy, director of Selective Service for the District.
—Star Staff Photo.
Stoneburner Made Head
Of Evacuation Area
At an organization meeting yester
day, Arlington County Civilian De
fense Co-ordinator Clifton G.
Stoneburner was named chairman
of the Evacuation Authority for the
Virginia portion of the Washington
Metropolitan Area, including Arling
ton, Alexandria and Fairfax.
Julian A. Brooks, executive secre
tary of the State Evacuation Au
thority, outlined preliminary plans
for the area in the event residents
have to be moved.
Other members of the committee
are T. J. Stockton, Fairfax; Dr.
Ralph G. Beachley, Arlington; W. W.
Jefferson, Alexandria; Lt. J. J. Scott,
Arlington, and Miss Barbara Wat
kins, Alexandria, who was named
secretary.
Montgomery to Open
5 War Job Classes
USES Office to Hold
Registration Monday
Five different classes will be
offered by Montgomery County
schools In the Western suburban
area in an extensive program of war
job training, it was announced today
by William C. Feddeman, co
ordinator of professional training
for war production workers.
Registration for the classes, which
w’ill include machine shop, aircraft
sheet metal, electric and acetylene
welding and blueprint reading, will
be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at
the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High
School, and all classes will be held
in the school shops on East-West
highway, just east of Wisconsin
avenue.
Mr. Feddeman said the United
States Employment Service office
of Montgomery County will conduct
registrations and will aid persons
completing the training to get posi
tions in critical war industries.
The machine shop course, he said,
will be termed light manufacturing
and will be operated on a strict pro
duction basis. The trainees actually
will manufacture small tools to be
used in other war training classes
throughout the State, he said.
The aircraft sheet metal class will
produce simulated airplane sectional
parts, and the acetylene and electric
welding classes have been designed
to give technique and practice time
to trainees in these skills. The wide
demand for skilled blueprint readers,
he said, has motivated the planning
of a course on this subject.
The classes, which will be spon
sored by the Federal Government
under the direction of the County
Board of Education, will be held at
any hour, day or night, indicated by
the demands of the greatest number
of trainees, Mr. Feddeman said.
Two Baltimore Landlords
Fined Total of $9,200
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April * 9.—Judge
Joseph N. Ulman imposed fines to
taling $9,200 yesterday on two land
lords accused of health and building
code violations in war-crowded
Baltimore and declared:
“Their contempt for the law was
exceeded by their callous indiffer
ence to the safety of their tenants;
both were topped by their greed for
money.”
Judge Ulman, asserting he must
“take at least the illegitimate profit
out of this kind of gambling” with
public safety, fined Mrs. Esther
Kirsner $7,950 on nine counts and
her brother, David Saiontz, $1,250
on two charges.
Payment of the fines was sus
pended pending the outcome of an
other housing law case now before
the Maryland Court of Appeals.
The case involves the constitution
ality of the health and building
codes.
Fifteen houses were involved in
the cases.
St. Marys County Faces
Loss of Ancient Jail
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md., April 9 —
Unless action is taken by the Board
of County Commissioners, historic
St. Marys County may find itself
without its county j%il.
According to County Commissioner
E3mer Jarboe, St. Marys Jail, built
in 1774, has been condemned by the
State and the refusal of a grant by
the Federal Works Agency prevent
Immediate erection of a proposed'
$124,000 jail for the county.
St. Marys bankers, however, have
approved a loan to the county of
approximately $15,000 for recondi
tioning the old jail and the erection
of a house for the jailer, Mr. Jarboe
said.
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Alexandria Council
Is Asked to Provide
More Teachers' Pay
Education Board Seeks
Boosts to Insure Full
Staffs Next Term
The Alexandria City Council to
day received a resolution from the
Board of Education requesting ap
propriation of funds for additional
increases in teachers’ salaries.
The resolution calls for a request
fon sufficient funds to raise the
minimum salary from $1,155 to
$1,400 a year, and the maximum
from $1,755 to $2,000, with propor
tionate increases throughout the
scale.
The proposal is to make the salary
increase effective at the beginning
of the 1943-44 term and to make
provision in the school budget, which
will be passed next January, to con
tinue the increase.
T. C. Williams, superintendent of
schools, said the board favored mak
ing any increase which might come
from the State an addition to the
proposed new salaries.
Increa ed in ’43 Budget.
Although Alexandria teachers re
ceived salary increases in the 1943
budget, the pay scale is still below
those in Washington and Arlington,
and the board feels it is imperative
to maintain a sufficiently high sal
ary scale to insure a complete teach
ing staff next term.
The School Board voted to take
immediate steps to employ a pro
fessional adviser to make a survey
of recreation needs in the city,
preliminary to applying for Federal
funds for after-school and adult
recreation programs.
The council has authorized an
appropriation up to $500 to pay for
such a survey, and Mr. Williams is
hopeful that it can be completed in
time to have the program operating
by the end of the school year.
Mr. Williams said the board also
has changed the system of allowing
sick leave for teachers so they now
will have 10 days a year with the
privilege of carrying over unused
time from year to year. Teachers
had been given five days a year for
personal sick leaves, and five days
for illness in their families, with no
carry-over privilege.
Board to Hear Parents.
A special meeting of the board has
been called for Wednesday night to
hear a delegation of Washington
School parents who are asking that
temporary buildings he erected on
the school grounds to care for fifth,
sixth and seventh grade children
who now are sent to Jefferson School.
Mr. Williams said he is doubtful
that anything can be done to permit
the children to attend Washington
School through the entire elemen
tary course. It is doubtful, he said,
whether priorities would be granted
for any additional construction when
there is room in the Jefferson School.
Virginia Spends $24,259
On Ouf-of-Sfafe Students
By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, April 9.—State Au
ditor L. McCarthy Downs said yes
terday that the cost of educating
non-Virginia students in the State's
four teachers’ colleges amounted to
$24,259 last year, as compared to
$290,698 for the education of Vir
ginia students.
The larger portion of the contri
bution of educating out-of-State
students was made through Mary
Washington College at Fredericks
burg.
The cost for non-Virginians at
the Fredericksburg school was re
ported to be $20,037.66.
A similar study, undertaken at the
request of Gov. Darden. Is under
way at the College of William and
Mary.
Mr. Downs said that on an
"equated average” basis, the loss on
eaqh student in the four institutions
was $80.69 for Virginia students and
$20.69 each on out-of-State students.
Funeral Rites Set Today
For Mrs. Fannie Gover
Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie
Z. Gover, 75, widow of Elie Gover,
who died at an Atlantic City Hos
pital after a long illness, were to be
held at 3 p.m. today at Montgomery
Methodist Church in Clagettsville,
Md. Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
Mrs. Gover was a former resident
of the Clagettsville area.
She is survived by two daughters
Mrs. Russell Mullinix, Clarksburg!
Md„ and Mrs. A, 8. Atterberry of
California, and two sisters, Mrs.
Hepsey Harrison, Baltimore, and
Mrs. Lavinia Burns, Bakerton, W.
Va.
Senate Expected
To Hold Federal
Pay Hike to 21%
Life of Overtime
Rate Limited to
June 30, 1944
By J. A. O LEARY.
A last-minute effort was being
made in the Senate today to raise
the war-time pay increase for most
Government employes from 21.6 to
30 per cent for a 48-hour week, but
appeared to have little chance of
succeeding.
Informed sources predicted the
Senate would pass the bill, sub
stantially as recommended by the
Civil Service Committee, which
means continuation of the present
21.6 per cent increase for the 20
per cent longer work week now In
effect.
Thousands of employes in the
lower salary brackets would get
more out of the committee plan
then they now receive, however,
because it provides for a $300 mini
mum raise in all cases where the
21.6 per cent overtime increase
amounts to less than $300.
Year Cut From Bill.
The committee bill also grants
a flat $300 in place of the present
10 per cent raise to employes whose
work cannot be measured in hours,
principally in the legislative and
judicial branches of Government.
During preliminary consideration
of the bill late yesterday the Sen
ate agreed to limit its life to June
30, 1944. instead of the same date
in 1945. The change was made on
motion of Senator Russell, Demo
crat, of Georgia, who took the view
that it would be easier to extend the
measure again if the war is not
over next summer than it would
be to repeal the act if the war ends
before 1945.
Even if the Senate accepts the
pay rates recommended by its com
mittee, the final terms of the bill
will have to be worked out in con
ference with the House, which
passed a different bill Monday.
Chief differences are that the
House bill omits the $300 minimum
for the low bracket employes, paid
on an overtime basis, and substi
tutes a 15 per cent raise for the 10
per cent increase now being re
ceived by employes not subject to
overtime. Another variation is that
the House retains, while the Senate
plan repeals, the ban against any
increase that would run a salary
above $5,000.
30% Issue Revived.
The move to boost the overtime
rate of increase from 21.6 to 30 per
cent was revived late yesterday by
Senator Downey, Democrat, of Cali
fornia, acting for Senator Thomas,
Democrat, of Utah, who was called
away on other business.
When the new pay bill was first
introduced by Senator Mead, Demo
crat, of New York, on February 4,
it called for the 30 per cent in
crease for a 48-hour week, which
would be equivalent to the regular
time-and-a-half rate the Govern
ment has imposed on private in
dustry for overtime.
Senator Downey said he had
joined Senator Mead and Senator
Langer, Republican, of North Da
kota. in favoring that plan, but,
after lengthy consideration, a ma
jority of the Civil Service Commit
tee had opposed it. For that reason,
he said, he realized those acting for
the committee could not accept the
Thomas amendment on the floor
but that the Utah Senator had re
quested him to offer it for debate.
The 30 per cent rate of increase for
48 hours would be obtained by com
puting the overtime on a 260-day
work year, instead of the present
360-day yardstick.
Senator Mead explained that the
21.6 per cent raise now in effect is
nothing more than the payment of
straight, time for overtime, since it
is accompanied by a 20 per cent
longer work week. For that reason,
he said, the bill does not even ap
pi oach the “Little Steel" 15 per cent
W'age increase formula, "because we
do not increase base pay.”
Cost Estimated.
The cost of the Senate committee
bill is estimated at $585,000,000 a
year, but included in this total is
$280,000,000 for continuation of over
time pay some employes of the War
and Navy Departments have been re
ceiving since 1940. Overtime pay did
not apply to all Government agencies
until passage last December of the
temporary law, which will expire
April 30.
Senator Mead told the Senate the
adoption of the time-and-a-half
rate for overtime, or a 30 per cent
raise for 48 hours, would add about
$219,000,000 more to the cost.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland questioned committee
members as to what raises the bill
would grant in the higher brackets,
using $4,000 as an illustration. Sena
tor Burton, Republican, of Ohio
pointed out that, regardless of a per
son's total basic salary, no overtime
may be computed on more than the
first $2,900 of a salary. The Ohio
Senator said this wotild mean a
maximum raise of $628 a year.
Cites Sick Benefits.
Senator Tydings said he wanted to
see those in the low salary brackets
helped, but indicated he had some
doubt about the proposed increase
in a $4,000 salary, in view of the an
nual and sick leave benefits that go
with it.
Senator Thomas also is expected
to urge elimination of a provision
allowing departments the option of
giving employes compensatory time
off in lieu of pay for work in excess
of 48 hours a week.
Red Cross Gets $3,329
At Alexandria Theaters
A total of $3,329.90 has been
turned over to T. W. Robinson,
chairman of the Alexandria Red
Cross War Fund, from collections
made in the city's theaters during
the week of April 7.
The Alexandria Amusement Corp.,
operating the Reed, Richmond and
Ingoma theaters, turned in $3,587.57.
The Vemon Theater contributed
$463.74; the Palm, $130.67, and the
Capital, $147.92.