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Over There With Men From Here D. C. FLYER IS BOMBER 'LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER' This is one of a series of stories by a Star war correspondent on District, Maryland and Virginia soldiers taking part in the bombing of Germany. By THOMAS R. HENRY, Star Staff Correspondent. UNITED STATES HEAVY BOMBER BASE IN ENGLAND. Feb. 26 (Delayed).—Like a lighthouse for ships of the skies, returning battle battered over air roads strewn with clouds like rocks, is the control tbwer of a heavy bomber base. At this particular station the tower is commanded bv Capt. Wilson K. Magruder, whose wife. Juanita, lives at 4323 Warren street N.W., vvaoxiuigt/uu, 1j. iviagi uuer former chief of the publications section of the Federal Security Agency, was an enthusiastic ama teur flyer in Washington and owned his own cub before he joined the air forces two and a half years ago He not only is a “lighthouse keeper" but a traffic-control officer whose job becomes of increasing Importance as larger and larger fleets of bombers leave British bases almost daily. His job is to get the planes off the ground safely in order to get them back on the run f : losing altitude at a rate of about 200 feet a minute. Capt. Magruder quickly sized up . the situation. The pilot, shaken after a hard battle, was a little ! panicky and his situation might not ; be as dqeperate as he thought. The \ first move was to get his exact posi ; tion from the British observer | service. “From then on.” says Capt. Ma gruder, “all I did Was talk with him, but I think that was all he needed. He could hear an Ameri Capt. Wilson K. Magruder, 4323 Warren street N.W., is shown with two members of his staff at the control tower at a United States heavy bomber base in England. He is flashing directions to the pilot about to take off on a bombing mission , over enemy territory. ways again when they return in the early winter darkness with a thick white sheet of low-lying mist cov ering the field. Some may be down to their last gallon of gasoline. Some may be carrying red lights to indicate that there are wounded aboard. Dramatic Moments. The control tower has charge of air traffic over a radius of several thousand feet, but its influence often extends far beyond this area when a ship is in distress. The bombers are monitored from it after their take-off, when they have probably taken their positions in the air armada about to start east ward. They are monitored again bifore they return. There are dramatic moments in the control tower. The other eve ning, for example, Capt. Magruder picked up a distress call from a plane belonging to another base. The craft had a "wind-milling en gine.” It was still miles from the English coast. The pilot was pre pared to "ditch” his ship in th$ North Sea and trust the lives of his crew to rubber life rafts. He was can voice and it gave him a sense of contact with security. He told me that he still was at an altitude of 5,000 feet. A few minutes later he had landed safely and the plane and perhaps all the crew were saved. This is the sort of thing that goes on at all control towers.” “Talk Planes Down.” Sometimes it is necessary to “talk a plane down” When the field is covered with fog. Ordinarily it would be directed to another field, but sometimes there are none open in this part of England. Also the craft may be disabled, or short of gas. It is possible to bring him down, if conditions are not too bad, by a combination of voice and pyro technics. The anxious moment of the day in the control tower comes when the ships are returning from a mission. The approximate time of their re turn is known, provided everything has gone according to schedule. Prom the time the call of the first returning bomber is picked up until the last has been accounted for is a nerve-racking period—and the ] control tower is the first to know of i those which will not return. Capt. King Writes 24 Letters To Families of 24 Marines By Staff Sergt. Jeremiah A Afb’Leary of 1222 Quincy street 'jb' E., Washington. D. C., a Ma rine Corps combat correspondent "find former reporter on The Star. — CAPE GLOUCESTER. New Brit JUP ^Delayed'.—Twenty-four days L' company spent in the front lines fporn the historic day when the marines invaded New Britain, and marines of L company died here Twenty-four letters were flown out of this zone yesterday, letters written by Marine Capt. William J King. of Annapolis, Md., L com pany's commanding officer, to 24 families he doesn’t know. To 24 American families, from San Francisco to New York, those letters will be treasured possessions. Thev are the saddest letters Capt. King will ever write. Capt. King knew each of the 24 boys who died while fighting undei ! his command. Srme of them fought with him on Guadalcanal. “There is little I can do for the loved ones of those men of mine who went west, except give Them my condolences,” he said. “But I | thought the boys would have liked me to write their families and tell them how it was here. I wanted each family to know that their boy was given a decent burial, that our chaplains conducted services at the graves, and that those graves will always be neat and honored. “It is little consolation to tell those families that five Japanese died for every one of our men who lost his life, but I thought the men would have liked me to tell them that, too. “They are all buried together in a little plot of land overlooking the sea. The men visit there frequently to spend a few moments with their buddies. | “I told them that, too.” Arlington Renews Talks With FWA on Incinerator only seven or eight more nu^bths of trash dumping possible Winthe Four-Mile Run dump, Frank Cl;!; Hanrahan, Arlington County IMimager, said today that negotia' twhs still were in progress with the FWeral Works Agency for construc tion of a county incinerator. Refuse collection figures regularly ere turned over to agency officials tl> establish the county’s need for a large incineration project, he said. Garbage from Arlington County Is; sold to Fairfax hog farms, but Mr. Hanrahan said this practice was not permanent. Several months ago FWA offered to build an incinerator as a Gov ernment project to be leased to the county, but the terms were found Unsuitable by the county board. The board asked FWA to reconsider tjjfe proposal and instructed Mr. Bjunrahan to investigate casts for btjllding an incinerator through pri vate bids. Hospital Group to Meet ^^lection of officers and adoption Ol a constitution will feature a Jbjtteting of the newly organized Silver Spring Hospital Association bt 8:30 o'clock tonight in the hear ing room of the Montgomery Countv Dispensary Building, Colesville road. Save This Newspaper ‘ ;«'• Many paper mills are shut ting down for lack of waste paper to convert into cartons for Army and Navy supplies Shipped overseas. Every' pound of old newspapers and maga zyies Is needed. Telephorie your nearest school or notify some school child in your block to have your paper picked up. J Falls Church Fighter Pilot Reported Nazi Prisoner Second Lt. Wallace Legg, Army Air Forces, who was reported miss ing in action over Italy on January 22, is a prisoner of war of the Germans, his father, Rob ert N. Legg of the White House police force, has been advised. The family lives on Holmes Run road, Falls Church, Va. Lt. Legg, 22, is a fighter plane pilot. He Is a former track star of Washington-Lee High School in Arlington County, which he represented in competition in 1937, 1938 and 1939. He also is a former student of the college of William and Mary. He joined the Army in February', 1942. Second Rabid Fox Found In Anne Arundel Area By the A' oc ) a ted Press. ANNAPOLIS. Mar. 10.—Dr. Wil liam J. French reported yesterday the second attack by a rabid fox on Anne Arundel County residents within the last few weeks. The county health director said that Frank Graziano, a bus driver, was bitten Sunday as he walked from his home to report for duty. Examinations of the animal's head at Baltimore and Annapolis labor atories showed that the fox was dis eased. Dr. French stated. Martin Beck, a Davidsonville farmer, was reported attacked by a rabid fox February 22. I WASHINGTON AND VICINITY WASHINGTON, D. C. ___ • _ .. SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1944. Arlington Gets $174,500 Grant For New School * $274,500 Junior High to Be Near Army Navy Club A new junior high school building of 20 classrooms and other facilities will be constructed near the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington un der a project approved today by Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Federal works administrator. Gen. Fleming announced that FWA will make a grant of $174,500 from Lanham Act funds for the purpose, while the Arlington County School Board is to furnish an ad ditional $100,000, making the total cost $274,500. Heavy increases in county school enrollment due to big gains in pop ulation were outlined by Gen. Flem ing in his announcement of the expenditure to furnish more ade quate school facilities. It is planned that 15 classrooms of the proposed building will be used for junior high school pupils and 5 for children of elementary age. The structure will include, in addi tion to 20 classrooms, one “multi purpose" room, a library-study hall and auxiliary rooms. It "will be built on a site at the junction of Shirley Memorial highway and Army-Navy drive and will face the highway. Rockville Soldier Gets Five-Year Jail Term $ Raymond Mills Convicted On Jailbreak, Theft Counts By the Associated Press. FREDERICK, Md., Mar. 10.—Pvt. Raymond Lee Mills, Rockville, who escaped from the Frederick jail Christmas Eve and eluded State po lice for more than a week, was sentenced yesterday in Circuit Court to five years in the House of Correction. Convicted on two indictments charging jail breaking, theft from a Ridgeville garage and stealing automobiles, the 22-year-old Mills testified freely about the escapades. The soldier told Associate Judge Patrick M. Schnauffer that he left an East Coast embarkation point when he was refused sufficient leave to visit his wife and child before leaving. At a hearing January 7 before Trial Magistrate Alton Y. Bennett, Mills pleaded guilty to charges of stealing $43 from a Ridgeville ga rage December 21, and to the theft of an automobile in Frederick De cember 24, the day of his escape from Jail. He was captured by State police January 2 after a 28-mile chase which ended only when ' troopers wrecked the car Mills was driving. Judge Schnafler in pronouncing sentence, remarked that to “over look a situation of this nature would place a premium on desertion from the Army.” Service League Assists 909 in Prince Georges A total of 909 persons were as sisted in 1943 by the Prince Georges County Social Service League, ac cording to U|e annual report of Miss Marion H. ^Vagstaff, executive di rector. Tire league, a Washington Community Chest agency, recently moved to new headquarters at 4720 Baltimore avenue, Hyattsville. Increasing use of the agency by “white collar" workers was indicat ed in Miss Wagstaff’s report. Only one case of employment maladjust ment was handled during the past year, she said. League officers elected this week include William Duvall, president; C. D. Anderson, first vice president; Bert H. Wise, second vice president; Mrs. Charles Janes, secretary; G. Hodges Carr, treasurer; Dr. H. J. Patterson, finance chairman, and Mrs. William Breen, membership chairman. Larger Red Cross Gifts taught in Silver Spring Scattered returns from the Red Cross War Fund drive in the Silver Spring area indicate that a num ber of persons are measuring their contributions by peacetime stand ards, according to Charles W. Hop kins, chairman of the drive. Others, however, he reported, realize they must give "more liberally than ever before’’ because of the expansion of Red Cross services to our armed forces. Mr. Hopkins announced that Mrs. L. B. Cook of Piney Branch Apart ments and C. E. Bradbury, 628 Ray drive, have volunteered to serve at war fund headquarters, 8203 Geor gia avenue. Both are experienced! secretaries. Headquarters will be open daily from 10 am. to 5 p.m. land from 7 to 9 p.m. except Satur days and Sundays. Army Employe Cited for Plan To Save $30,000 A $250 cash award for a plan that will save the Government an esti mated $30,000 annually in casualty telegraph charges was presented yesterday to Miss Lutie Allen of 1401 Fairmont street N.W., an em ploye in the office of the adjutant general of the Army. Miss Allen suggested a plan whereby local telegraph officials will ! go immediately to postmasters to J obtain forwarding addresses where messages concerning casualties may I be sent to the next of kin. Under j the former system, when the emerg- 1 I ency addressee had moved, tele-i grams were exchanged between the War Department, the telegraph , j companies and the local postmasters., ] The new method saves both time> ; and expense. Miss Allen has been an employe in the War Department for 27 years. She is now chief clerk in the non delivery section of the Notification Branch in the Casualty Branch. Her s was the first $250 award made in the War Department's “Ideas for Victory" program. I Virginia House To Act Today on Service Ballot Appropriation Bill Amendments to i Be Considered By the Associated Press. RICHMOND. Va., Mar. 10.—Sen ate bills designed to give servicemen "full opportunity" to vote were set for a special order of business today by the Virginia House of Delegates, j which had its own Legion-sponsored j bill rejected by the Senate in favor of administration-supported meas ures. The House Privileges and Elec tions Committee met to report the bills which the Senate passed unani mously after beating down an at tempt to have one of the three measures substituted by the House bill. The House prepared to consider also amendments adopted by the Senate in passing unanimously late yesterday the $235,000,000 general appropriation bill. The Senate action on the big money measure, adopted with little change as reported by the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday, was high-lighted by a futile attempt on the pant of Senator L. U. Noland, Newport News, to raise the State aid for schools from $900 to $1,000 per teacher unit. School Proposal Opposed. To do this the Newport News Sen ator sought to have utilized for schools the $2,935,000 appropriated for dormitories and other capital outlay at the University of Virginia. This was a sum, he said, only $5,000 less than the amount which would be needed to increase the school unit to $1,000. Senator Aubrey G. Weaver, chair man of the Finance Committee, op posed the Noland proposal. He said such an appropriation would be come a recurring expense, and point ed out that the General Assembly already had passed two bills to re turn more than $2,000,000 a year to the localities. This money, he added, could be spent for schools by the cities and counties. Senator Noland appeared to be the only voter in the affirmative in the voice vote rejecting the amend ment. The Senate adopted a budget bill amendment, requested by the Gov ernor, which would allow the Chief Executive to use surplus funds, if any, for the relief of any depart ment, institution or agency of the State government which may need money because of the “emergency war conditions" to function properly. War Voting Bill Rejected. In addition, an approved com* mittee amendment provides that the Governor shall expend a “sum suf ficient” to provide for the proper operation of the State institutions of higher learning which have suf fered reduction in revenues because of the war. The Senate rejected by a voice vite the House war voting bill which supporters said offered a more direct and simple procedure for “soldier voting” than the Senate bill. Senator Marvin Minters, Math ews, who offered the House bill as a substitute, and Senator Y. Melvin Hodges, South Hill, said the Legion backed measure was less “cumber some” than the Senate bill. Both the measures provide for payment of the serviceman’s poll tax, the House bill “automatically” and the Senate bill on written request. Senator John S. Battle, Albe marle, speaking in defense of the Senate bill, said the only criticism of the measure seemed to be that it \ was “cumbersome." He contended that the procedure set up was neither cumbersome nor unusual, that no payment of poll tax or registration of servicemen would be required for the national election this fall because of con gressional action, and that there would be a “whole year in which to complete” the poll tax payment and registration for subsequent elec tions. Legion Assails Measure. John J. Wicker, jr., representing the American Legion in the fight to have the House bill passed, said in a statement that "after careful study of this Senate legislation * * * we are convinced that Senate Bill 269, as passed by the Senate, is so full of unnecessary complications and red tape that it will actually I discourage most of our servicemen 'from even attempting to vote.” The House yesterday almost com , pletely cleared its calendars of con ; troversial legislation by passing Sen [ate bills fixing the small loan inter est rate at 2'z per cent, consoli dating the Radford Teachers' College with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and freezing the minimum teacher units in the counties. Passed by a vote of 51 to 34 was a Senate bill to eliminate sessions of j the Supreme Court at Wythevillel with an amendment that it is to; become effective this year. The House struck from the calen-! dar the Senate bill to permit the Supreme Court to promulgate rules j for practice and procedure in civil! actions and to name a committee to assist it in preparation of the rules.! Game Bill Passed. The Stuart - Long - Stephens bill clarifying authority in the Gamei Commission was passed. The small loan bill as it passed the Senate provided for a split rate in lieu of the present rate of 24 per cent, with 36 per cent charged on the first $150 of a loan and 24 per cent from $150 to $300. The House Insurance and Banking Committee amended it to a uniform 30 per cent rate, or 2'i per cent per month, and it passed the House in this form. The measure will go back to the Senate for concurrence. The Radford-VPI merger bill passed the House by a 76 to 5 vote after Delegate John Spiers ex plained that the House committee | amendments, which were adopted/ provided for complete consolidation, within four years. During this time,! he said, no new undergraduate | women will be admitted to the VPI campus, but those there now will be continued. Exceptions are granted for mature women over 21, for; women living in the vicinity of, Blacksburg and for others which the Board of Visitors feel should be permitted. Others will stay at Radford, which will be known as "Radford College, Woman's Division of Virginia Poly technic Institute.” DISTRICT FLYERS BACK FROM BOMBING GERMANY—Col. Milton W. Arnold. 2500 Q street NAV. (left), commander of a Liberator group, discusses a maneuver following the February 21 raid on German fighter plane production centers. Taking part in the same raid were the men in the picture on the right. They are Staff Sergts. B. R. Williams of Dallas and Robert B. Seigh of 1229 Pennsylvania avenue S.E. Sergt. Seigh was employed by The Star before entering the Army. —A. P. Photos. Three Student Clubs To Be Opened Soon In Montgomery Areas Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Takoma Park Projects To Be Ready Next Week Plans have been completed for the opening next week of two canteen clubs for high school students in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Takoma Park areas with a similar project scheduled to open early next month in Rockville, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commis sion announced today. A canteen club for students in the Silver Spring area is now in opera tion at the Silver Spring Armory. All four canteens are sponsored by the commission from funds carried over from its 1943 summer recreation program. Louis Mitchell, Montgomery County director of recreation, will have charge of the Bethesda canteen, to open next Friday in the Bethesda Chevy Chase Recreation Center. Miss Margaret Wolfinger, physical education instructor at Takoma Junior High School, will direct the Takoma Park canteen, which opens March 18 in the Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Department gym nasium. Students Favor Program. Decision to establish the Bethesda canteen was made as the result of a referendum among students of Be thesda-Chevy Chase High School, Leland Junior High School and the senior class of Our Lady of Lourdes School. The referendum showed that 1,152 students favored the pro gram while 62 were against it. Students at the three schools are planning to elect two representa tives from each grade to serve on the committee to have charge of the club. Hours of the canteen have not yet been determined. Parent-teacher assocations and faculty members at the three schools are expected to provide chaperons to assist in conducting the dances and other social affairs of the club. The Takoma Park canteen will be open from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, from 7 to 9 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays and from 8 to 11 p.m. or midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. The latter hour will be used when an orchestra is availa ble. Students Eligible. All students between the ages of 13 ad 19, who live in the corporate limits of Takoma Park, may apply for membership in the club. Guest cards will be issued any tenn-age person living outside the area pro vided his or her application is spon sored by the holders of a member ship card. The Canteen Committee is headed by Mina Hackstaff and includes Ginny Strunk, Betty Jane Aber crombie, Roberta McMorris and Betty Jane Gittings. The Park and Planning Commis sion has agreed to provide basket balls, volley balls, athletic mats, ta ble tennis sets, horseshoes, dart games and a pool table. Understanding of Germans Leads Shirer Peace Plan By the Associated Press. William L. Shirer, radio com mentator and author of “Berlin Diary,” propounded eight, points for a successful peace yesterday, all to be prefaced by “understanding of the German people.” “No prospects for peace or decency in the world after this war exist so long as the ‘German problem’ is un solved,” Mr. Shirer admonished Army trainees and University of Maryland faculty members. Two myths about the German people must be exploded. Mr. Shirer maintained, before real peace is possible. The first myth is that the majority of the German people are "veryq nice and are victims of Nazi leadership.” The second, that the German people have never been re sponsible for the counrty’S “out rageous regimes.” The eight points included uncon ditional surrender and occupation of the Reich; its military and economic disarmament, punishment of warj criminals, reparations for rebuilding ; devastated cities, restoration of loot and re-education of the German people. . - Fire Damages Home A fire early today in the home of i Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Lucey, 4604! Langdrum lane, Cheve Chase, forced occupants to shiver in below-freez ing temperature for almost two hours until the blaze was extin guished by the Bethesda Fire De partment. Damage was estimated at $2,000. Clatterbuck Plea Denied By Virginia High Court By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Mar. 10.—The Vir ginia Supreme Court of Appeals has refused an appeal sought by Thomas William Clatterbuck on a petition for a writ of error from the death sentence imposed on him in Sep tember by the Loudoun County Cir cuit Court. Clatterbuck’s execution date is set for May 5. Justice George L. Browning of the ! State Supreme Court had taken the petition under advisement following an oral appeal made February 28 by Maj. R. A. McIntyre, counsel for the condemned man. Clatterbuck was indicted for the June 1 killing of A. Morris Lftve, prominent Loudoun County farmer; Mrs. Love, their son James, Walter Russell, a tenant farmer, and Mrs. Russell on the Love farm. He was tried only for the murder of Mr. Russell. In his appeal, Maj. McIntyre sought a writ on two principal grounds—that a confession signed by Clatterbuck was improperly ob tained and improperly admitted as evidence and that the 33-year-old quarry worker’s defense of insanity should have been sustained. District Bride Dies With Husband as Car Hits Georgia Bridge Hugh Brent, 40, of 1001 North Pollard street, Arlington, Va., and his bride of less than a week, the former Mrs. Violet Anderson, 3437 Eads street N.E., were instantly killed yesterday in an automobile accident near Athens, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Brent were married last Friday at Arlington and were en route from Marietta, Ga„ to Burlington, N. C., where Mr. Brent was to assume a new post to which he had been assigned as a Govern ment inspector of aircraft, members of his family said today. Details of the crash were meager, relatives said. It is known that ! their auto struck a bridge. Bodies of the couple are at an Athens, Ga., funeral establishment and will be brought here for burial. Mr. Brent is survived by his mother, Mrs. L. D. Brent, with whom he lived before his marriage last week. Two sisters. Mrs. George A. Patrick and Mrs. Howell Bell, of the same address, also survive him as do three brothers, Warren of Newark, N. J.; Murray, Hagerstown, Md., and Lawrence, who lives in Warrenton, Va. Mrs. Brent, who was Mrs. Violet Anderson before her marriage last week, formerly lived with her father, Joseph C. Mandley. 3437 Eads street N.E. She was a native Washing ingtonian. Surviving her, in addi tion to her father, are two sisters, Mrs. Gilbert E. Hyatt, jr., of the same address, and Mrs. Louis I. Obergh, 3365 Denver street N.E., and a brother, Lt. Comdr. George C. Mandley, Westchester Apartments. Mr. Brent was born at The Plains, Fauquier County, Va., and attended Central High School in jthe District. Alexandria Masons Set Celebration Thursday The Andrew Jackson Lodge, No. 120, A. F. and A. M., of Alexandria, will hold its annual Jackson night |celebration at 7:30 p.m. Thursday ! in the lodge rooms on Cameron ' street. Linwood E. Reed, civil engineer and lecturer at the University of Virginia, will speak on “Andrew Jackson’s Challenge to Masons.” District Deputy Grand Master C. M. Woodley of Alexandria will make an official visitation and a past master's jewel will be presented to Josiah S. Everly, junior past mas ter of the lodge. Edgar S. Bayol, worshipful master of the lodge, will preside. In contrast to other years, the program will be informal, with at tendance limited to members and men guests. A buffet supper will follow the program. Harold W. Reid heads the Ar rangements Committee, which in cludes William H. Wood, jr.; Riley W. Nixon, S. O. Turner, J. S. Ever ly and Oliver S. Stone. Hutcheson Takes Oath As Federal Judge By the: Associated Press. BOYDTON. Va., Mar. 10.—Ster- j ling Hutcheson, for the past 10 years! United' States attorney for the! Eastern District of Virginia, was sworn in as Federal judge for that! district in ceremonies here yes-! terday. The oath was administered by his . brother, Nathaniel G. Hutcheson, ! clerk of the Mecklenburg County : Circuit Court, in the circuit court- 1 room where the new judge's father served as clerk for nearly 35 years, l Montgomery County Artists Give Works To Suburban Hospital Other Paintings Loaned In Drive to Beautify New Institution Paintings by a group of Mont gomery County artists have been contributed or loaned to the Sub urban Hospital at Bethesda and now are on display there, it was an nounced today. "Old Mill,” by Mrs. Lona Miller Keplinger, Battery Park, has been donated to the hospital and is hung in the doctor’s lounge. As a mem ber of the Hospital Picture Commit tee, Mrs. Keplinger had charge of assembling and hanging of local artists’ works for the hospital’s opening. In the children’s ward is “Still Life,” by Mrs. Leo M. Bellerose, Be thesda, loaned for an indefinite period. Two other paintings, “White Birches” and "Herb Gar den,” by Mrs. Margaret Sdully Zim meli, Kenwood, have been placed in the clinic lobby. Other paintings on exhibit are “Vermont Village,” by Garnet Jex; “Kenwood,” by Gladys Nelson Smith; "Peonies,” by Grace Merrill Ruckman; “Gloucester Harbor,” by Mrs. Keplinger; "Spring Flowers,” by Florence Morgan; "Apollo and Venus,” by Frances H. Coombs; “Snow Scene,” by Minor Jameson, and several water colors by Peter and Rose Wagner. Mrs. J. William Mohler, chairman of pictures of the hospital’s Wom en’s Auxiliary, said she hopes to make the corridor to the hospital rooms a gallery for exhibiting local artists’ works. All loans or gifts of paintings are subject to the ap proval of the hospital’s Decorating Committee, she added. A $300 contribution for the spon sorship of a four-bed ward in mem ory of her mother, Johanna C. Lar man, has been made by Mrs. Frank C. Ebaugh, Woodhaven, according to Mrs. Walter E. Perry, president of the Women’s Auxiliary. The Chevy Chase Methodist Church also has given $300 for the sponsorship of a room at the hos pital. The Westboro Victory Club has donated $100 for the purchase of a Bartholomew labor bed. Mrs. Williarfl W. Friel is president of the club. Fannon Firm Answers OPA Fuel Oil Charges Insufficient office help, confusion over fuel oil ration periods and the desire to serve the public were the reasons for alleged rationing violations with which the firm of Thomas J. Fannon & Sons of Duke and Henry streets. Alexandria, is charged, according to its president, i Francis H. Fannon. Mr. Fannon and his brother,' Chester, have been ordered to ap pear in Federal District Court in Alexandria. March 20, to reply to OPA injunction proceedings seek ing to restrain them from detaching fuel oil coupons from consumer ra tion sheets before the valid date of the coupons; detaching coupons prior to the transfer of the fuel oil to the customer and not in amounts equal to the gallonage value of the: oil delivered; depositing fuel oil coupons in a ration banking ac count prior to their validity date, and for which oil has not as yet been delivered; delivering oil with out receiving coupons from the cus tomer. OPA investigators claimed in the; action that the Fannon firm had; supplied customers with oil during period 4 when they no longer had any period 4 coupons. Mr. Fannon said that in the early part of the winter, the clerk in charge of ration accounts was so! busy with coal orders that she was not always able to check customers’ coupon sheets before ordering the oil delivered. Mr. Fannon said when he real ized the situation, he engaged an other clerk to straighten out the records, and immediately sent let ters to more than 100 customers telling them that they were over drawn and could not receive oil until the next period coupons, then number 4, came due. 6 From D. C. Area Win « Honors at Army School Four Washingtonians and two men! rom Alexandria were among those | ■ vho received certificates of merit! yesterday as graduates of the Army j Administration School, postal unit,; it Camp Lee, Va 1 Those from Washington are: Earl j /. Barnett, 831 Florida avenue N.E.; rames L. Lock, sr„ 1209 Taylor street LE.; John W. Lewis, 1178 Morse itreet N.E., and Joseph F. Pitts, 931 ’’ifth street N.E. The two Alexandria men are John 5. Russell and Paul T. Caton. Assembly Set To Finish Work In Maryland % Burns Midnight Oil To Meet Program Drawn by Governor By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 10.—Adjourn ment some time today of the ex traordinary session of the General Assembly was considered certain after the House, working Into the early morning hours, completed ac tion on the administration program by approving the teacher bonus bill without a dissenting vote. Only odds and ends remained to be completed at sessions called for 12:30 p.m. in the House and 1 p.m. in the Senate. House approval of the teacher bonus measure shortly before 1 a.m. completed action on the principal aims of the session—the soldier vot ing bills, the State employes' bonus and the teacher bonus. Bonus Amendment Beaten. The Delegates rejected on a voice vote the attempt of Delegate Jos eph W. A. Evans, Democrat, of Queen Annes to ampnd the bonus bill to place the entire financial burden on the State. The approved bill puts responsibility for 75 per cent of the cost of the $200 per teacher bonus on the State, the re mainder on the counties. Suspending the rules, the House enacted legislation liberalizing the State's soldier voting laws after re jecting, 89-24, a renewal of the attempt to tack on an amendment to repeal the declaration of inten tions act. Minority Leader J. Mil ton Dick sought to attach the re pealer as a rider. An effort to bring Senate action on the controversial proposal to repeal the declaration act resulted in Senate President James J. Lind say, jr„ taking 'the floor to kill the attempt. Bill Up Second Time. It was the second time the repeal was brought up in the Senate, both times by Allegany County Repub lican Senator Robert B. Kimble. The first bill finally enacted by both Houses was an amendment de signed to clarify the law governing commitment of insane persons. It originated in the House, and was approved under suspension of the rules by the Senate last night. The upper chamber gave its unan imous approval to the soldier vote and bonus bills. Although the vote was unanimous, two Republican Senators declared they were afraid that the soldier vote bill’s provisions might be em ployed in furtherance of a fourth term for President Roosevelt. Senator James W. Hughes, Repub lican, of Cecil said he believed tha State ballot provisions had been worked out as carefully as it was possible, but he objected to a pro vision which would validate the so called Federal ballot for any soldier or sailor not able to receive ths State one. “I am afraid this Federal ballot was designed not to afford an op portunity to the soldiers to vote," Mr. Hughes declared, “but to afford an opportunity to vote the soldiers. I am afraid this will be abused.” Mr. Hughes asserted that Federal officials, in distributing ballots to servicemen, might not be so prompt with deliveries of State ballots, thus forcing servicemen to employ the Federal ballot or not vote at all. "I am afraid that the Federal ballot was devised to afford an op portunity for the servicemen to vote for one whose devotion to America is so great that he is determined to make ruling her his life work.” 15% in Maryland Fail To Sign Auto Gas Books By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Mar. 10.—Fifteen per cent of approximately 400 motor ists interviewed in Maryland had not indorsed their gasoline ration coupons with their license numbers, State Office of Price Administration investigators disclosed yesterday. The report was made in the course of a drive to eliminate illegal traffic in gasoline coupons. Incomplete records filed with the OPA disclosed 60 motorists had been given notices to appear at their local ration boards within 10 days and show their coupons properly in dorsed. foily Rationing Reminder* Canned and Frozen Foods, Etc.— Book No. 4, green stamps K, L, and M valid through March 20 and retain old values of 8, 5, 2 and 1 points. Book No. 4, blue stamps A-8, B-8, C-8, D-8 and E-8 valid through May 20 and worth 10 points each. Blue tokens and green 1-point stamps may be used as change. Meats, Fats, Etc.—Book No. 3, brown stamps Y and Z valid through March 20 and retain old values of 8. 5, 2 and 1 points. Book No. 4, red stamps A-8, B-8 and C-8 good through May 20 and worth 10 points each. Red tokens and brown 1-point stamps may be used as change? Red Stamps D-8, E-8 and F-8, become valid Sunday and are good for 10 points each through May 20. Sugar—Book No. 4, Stamp 30 valid for 5 pounds indefinitely. Book No. 4, stamp 40 good for 5 for home canning through Febru ary 28, 1945. Jasoline—No. 9-A coupons good for 3 gallons through May 8. B-2, C-2, B-3 and C-3 coupons good for 5 gallons each. Shoes—Stamp 18 in ration book No. 1 good for one pair through April 30. Airplane stamp 1 in book No. 3 good indefinitely. 'uel Oil—Period No. 3 coupons good through March 13. Period No. 4 coupons valid through September 30. Nos. 3 and 4 coupons good for 10 gallons per unit. Consumers in this area should not have used more than 78 per cent of their to tal yearly fuel oil rations as of March 6.