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WASHINGTON ANp VICINITY
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1945.
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Tuck Is Victor,
Fenwick Leads
In Virginia Poll
Collins 1,897 Votes
Behind With 305
Precincts Still Out
William M. Tuck, South Bos
ton, backed by the organization
headed by Virginia’s Senator
Byrd, appeared the overwhelm
ing choice of Virginia Democrats
today for the nomination as
Governor.
Mr. Tuck, who took an early lead
over his opponent, Moss A. Plunkett,
Roanoke attorney in yesterday’s
balloting, had piled up a better than
two-to-one lead with 80 per cent of
the State’s precincts reporting.
The vote was very light. With
805 precincts out, the vote totaled
about 125,000, compared with nearly
600,000 in the 1944 presidential elec
tion.
In the three-cornered race for
Lieutenant Governor, Charles R.
Fenwick, Arlington, had a 1,897-vote
lead over his principal opponent,
L. Preston Collins, Marion, while
Leonard Muse, Roanoke, trailed the
ticket. With 1,410 of the State’s
1,715 precincts reporting, Mr. Fen
wick had 48,411 votes to 46,514 for
Mr. Collins. Mr. Muse received
30,314 votes.
Lynch Beats McCandlish.
Among the nearby oontests for
House of Delegates, Edwin Lynch,
Annandale, defeated Lt. RobertJ.
McClandllsh, incumbent, by a vote
of 1,203 to 851 for the Fairfax Coun
ty seat, while in Loudoun County
Stilson H. Hall polled 1,467 votes to
365 for Mrs. Nellie O. Fletcher.
Alexandrians, voting on a refer
endum to decide on an elected or
appointed Juvenile Court judge,
chose the former by a vote of 1,296
to 1,238, a margin of only 58 votes.
W. Selden Washington, incumbent,
was unopposed for member of the
House.
In Arlington County, J. Maynard
Magruder and George Damm, un
opposed for the House nominations,
received 3,355 and 2,864 votes, re
spectively, while Basil M. DeLash
mutt, unopposed candidate for
County Board, received 3,280 votes.
One of the lightest votes in the
State was counted in Prince William
County where only 593 ballots were
oast in the county’s 17 precincts.
The returns gave Mr. Tuck 518 to
75 for Mr. Plunkett, while in the
Lieutenant Governor race Mr. Fen
wick polled 492 to 68 for Mr. Collins
and 24 for Mr. Muse.
School Groups Opposed McCandiish.
Lt. McCandiish, whose defeat had
been anticipated by political observ
ers, had won the animosity of Fair
fax school groups through his op
position, in the last session of the
Legislature, to increased school ap
propriations. He also lost the sup
port of new residents of the county
by sponsoring a bill in the 1944 ses
sion which would have required a
new resident to declare his intention
to become a State citizen 12 months
prior to becoming eligible to vote.
This was considered as a move to
further restrict voting rights in the
State.
Fenwick Carries Nearby Areas.
In the contests for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor, the nearby
areas gave an overwhelming ma
jority to Mr. Tuck and to Mr. Fen
wick. In Alexandria, Arlington and
Fairfax, Mr. Tuck polled 1,524, 2,782
and 1,255 respectively, compared to
952, 750 and 809 for Mr. Plunkett.
Early in the count, Mr. Fenwick
swept ahead to take a Statewide
lead over Mr. Collins, but this early
margin was narrowed as additional
returns came in and the outcome
was still undecided early today.
In his home county Mr. Fenwick
received 2,870 votes to 434 for Mr.
Collins, while in Alexandria the.
vote was 1,653 to 360 and in Fair
fax 1,265 to 518. In Loudoun
County Mr. Fenwick received 972
votes to 230 for Mr. Collins.
Cell Ins Leads in Eighth District.
According to incomplete returns,
with 158 of the 217 precincts re
porting, Mr. Fenwick failed to carry
the eighth district, his home dis
trict. Early returns in this district
gave Mr. Collins 11,473 to 9,716 for
Mr. Fenwick.
Incomplete returns also indicated
that Mr. Collins had lost his home
district. With 109 of the 249 pre
cincts reporting, Mr. Fenwick had
2,412 votes in the ninth district
to 1,872 for Mr. Collins.
Throughout Northern Virginia the
vote was extremely light. In Alex
andria little more than 2,000 of the
city’s 13,000 qualified voters bal
loted, while in Arlington the total
vote was about 3,500, and in Fair
fax about 2,064.
Tuck Promises Action.
Receiving the returns at his South
Boston home, Mr. Tuck said the vote
indicated that the people of Virginia
wanted him to translate his cam
paign promises into action.
The Democratic candidate, who is
an attorney and owner of a 700-acre
farm, said he would keep the State
free of debt and would supply great
er State support for education,
health, welfare, farm and marketing
facilities. He said he also would in
crease power and communication
facilities in rural areas and would
enter into an expansion program of
highway building and public works
in the postwar era.
Mr. Tuck, who tips the scales at
better than 230 pounds, was edu
cated at William and Mary College,
Williamsburg, and at Washington
and Lee University, Lexington. He
served in the Marine Corps during
the World War. *
During his legislative career, he
has served in the House and Sen
ate and as presiding officer of the
Senate while Lieutenant Governor.
Virginia GOP to Open
Campaign Saturday
li the Associated Press,
BRISTOL, Va., Aug. «.—Virginia
Republicans will formally launch
their gubernatorial campaign in
Bristol Saturday when Senator
Ployd Landreth, nominee for Gov
ernor, meets with the Ninth District
Republican Committee.
It win be the first district meet
ing since Senator Landreth was
nominated at the recent Republican
State Convention at Roanoke.
A call for the meeting was sent to
committee leaders by Robert H.
Wood, ninth district chairman and
State campaign manager for Sena
te Landreth. •
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Tuck, Virginia Nominee, Won
His First State Post in 1923
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WILLIAM M. TUCK,
CHARLES R. FENWICK,
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William M. Tuck, the choice of
Virginia Democrats as Governor of
the State, became interested in poli
tics while a law student at Washing
ton and Lee University and followed
through in 1&23 by becoming the
youngest member of the House of
Delegates.
A Halifax County attorney and
owner of a 700-acre farm, Mr. Tuck
tips the scales at better than 230
pounds and possesses the jovial dis
position to go with his weight.
Born in Halifax in September,
1896, Mr. Tuck attended Chatham
Training School, now Hargrave Mili
tary Academy and the College of
William and Mary before he was
graduated from the Washington and
Lee Law School in 1921.
Dining the World War he served
in the Marine Corps, and following
the war was first elected to the
House,-where he served until his
election to the Senate in 1932. He
has been Lieutenant Governor and
presiding officer of the Senate for
the last four years.
In the House he served on the
Finance and Courts of Justice Com
mittees. In the Senate he was
chairman of the General Lav/s Com
mittee and was a member of the
Finance, General Privileges and
Elections, Nominations and Inter
state Co-operation Committees.
Fenwick Made Truck Tax Study.
Among the candidates for lieu
tenant governor, both Mr. Fenwick,
who is a native of Arlington County,
and Mr. .Collins, who lives in Ma
rion, have served in the House of
Delegates.
i A patent attorney, Mr. Fenwick
was graduated from the University
of Virginia and took postgraduate
work in law at George Washington
University here. He was elected US
the House of Delegates in 1940.
Mr. Fenwick, an outstanding col
lege athlete, is a member of the
State Boxing and Wrestling Com
mission, the State Board of Educa
tion and has served as chairman of
the Motor Vehicles Tax Study Com
mission. In 1943 Gov, Darden ap
pointed him to make a study of Vir
ginia’s increasing juvenile delin
quency.
While a student at the University
of Virginia. Mr. Fenwick was on
the football, boxing and baseball
teams. Following his graduation he
remained at the . university to coach
freshman football and as an a«
EDWIN LYNCH,
sistant to Coach "Greasy” Neale.
He served with the Tank Corps
during the World War, and In 1943
he was commissioned in the Judge
Advocate General’s Department and
was assigned to a patent royalty
board at Wright Field, Ohio, which
passes on use of airplane patents in
wartime production.
Collins in House Since 1936.
Mr. Collins, a graduate of Wash
ington and Lee University and the
Yale Law School, has represented
Smyth County in the House since
1936, with the exception of one term.
During his service in the House
he has been identified with many
important legislative acts, includ
ing the Social Security program
adopted by the State, and has been
a member of various important
committees.
Edwin Lynch, 32, who succeeds
Lt. Robert J. McCandlish, jr„ as the
Democratic nominee as Fairfax
County member of the House of
Delegates, is a native of Annandale,
where he operates a dairy farm and
a real estate*tousiness.
Mr. Lynch attended public schools
in the county and was graduated
from the Lee-Jackson High School.
He received a B. S. degree in busi
ness administration from Strayer
Business College here.
Mr. Lynch advocates increased
State aid for schools, and tax revi
sions to foot the bill. He is married
and has two children.
Maryland Crop Loss
Is Put at $8,000,000
July's heavy rains cost mare than
$8,000,000 in Maryland crop losses,
Dr. T. B. Symons, extension serv
ice director at the University of
Maryland, said yesterday.
Terming the rainfall “disastrous,”
he said that some Eastern Shore
farmers were not expected to har
vest a single cash crop.
The director said the Eastern
Shore tomato crop was the worst
hit, with losses expected to total at
least $4,000,000. The average annual
State tomato yield of $10,000,000
was severely set back with a 30 p^r
cent cut in Harford County and a
75 per cent cut in Dorchester
County was reported.
Wheat also was adversely affected,
Dr. Symons pointed out, with the
crop stacked or uncut in most
Maryland fields. The damage has
in some measure been offset by the
good stands of corn and bay and
good pastures. The weather, how
ever, must take a turn for the better
if farmers are to cut their hay, the
director said.
Salvaging of Hawaii Mars
Expected to Begin Today
Py the Associated Press.
ROCK HALL, Md„ Aug. 8—Sal
vaging of the 72% -ton Hawaii Mars
was expected to start today, weather
permitting, but the length of time
required to raise the huge craft was
undetermined pending study of
divers’ reports.
A portion of the tail assembly was
removed from Chesapeake Bay yes
terday and returped to the Glenn L.
Martin Aircraft Co. for study. A
crew member aboard the flying
boat when she crash-landed and
sank Sunday said the upper section
of the tail assembly’s vertical fin
broke away and the ship “began to
flutter immediately.’’ ^
Martin engineers said wings and
tail fuselage would be severed by
acetylene torch under water before
the hull was raised by floating
crane.
Merritt, Chapman and Scott Corp.,
New York City firm which raised
the Normandie altar she caught fire
and capsized, was given the salvage
job.
Attendance Hits 18,000
At Fairfax Playgrounds
Total attendance figures for the
Fairfax County Playgrounds for the
first half of the summer program
haw reached the 18,000 mark, ac
cording to Robert W. Mavity, man
ftffing director ot the Fairfax Coun
ty Recreation Association, a sub
sidiary of the Fairfax Community
Chest.
These figures, he said* reveal
steady growth in attendance and
also show a gnat demand for recre
ation and recreational facilities in
the county. In most cases play
grounds are operating wily three
days a week with limited funds re
ceived from the Community Chest
an$ local sources.
Excessive Rainfall
Brings on Mosquitoes
Excessive rainfall during the last
month has created many breeding
places for mosquitoes and unless
they are eliminated there will be
a marked increase in their number,
Acting Health Officer George C.
Ruhland announced today.
Ponds and pools have been formed,
basements flooded, roof gutters
clogged and window wells filled with
water, any one of which may now
breed mosquitoes. Dr. Seckinger
said. Standing water on private
property is the responsibility of the
owner, he added.
The Health Department, Dr.
Seckinger said, does not have the
personnel to inspect property regu
larly and does not take the re
sponsibility for eliminating mos
quito-breeding places on private
property.
Dr. Seckinger advised property
owners to drain off standing water
if possible. He said roof gutters
and window wells should be cl »ned
out and all receptacles should be
emptied and turned upside down.
Standing water which cannot be
drained should be oiled every 10
days.
Outmoded Ideas Slow
Civilization, Educator Says
By thr Associated Press.
HARRISONBURG, Va„ Aug. 8 —
Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, president
of the Colgate Rochester Divinity
School, Rochester, N. Y„ asserted
yesterday at the 24th annual Bible
conference at Massanetta Springs
that “civilization is all cluttered up
with practices and ideas that have
survived long past their social
utility.”
Dr. Poteat said the business of
science is to eliminate useless ideas
in order to make room for useful
techniques and practices and de
clared that socially “we are behind
the practice of the laboratory.
This, he said, accounts in a great
measure for such things as war,
which has lost its social usefulness.
$6,000 Fire Destroys
Building Material
Fire of undetermined origin lest
night destroyed a warehouse con
taining building materials in the
5000 Mock of Livingston road, Oxon
Hill, Md., causing damage estimated
by firemen at $6,000.
Ray Campbell, chief of the Oxon
Hill Volunteer Fire Department, said
the Maze was out of control when his
company arrived. He said firemen
fought the flames for three hours to
prevent theth from spreading to
nearby homes.
Cruise to Feature Contest
A moonlight cruise, sponsored by
the Clarendon Volunteer Fire De
partment and featuring a Jitterbug
contest, will be held September 7.
The S. 8. 'Potomac, chartered by
the fire fighters, will leave the Sev
enth street and Maine avenue 8.W.
wharf at 6:60 pm
Planning Group
Gets Draft Today
Of Fort Drive
Early Construction
On First Link Expected
To Be Started Soon
After IS years of planning and
buying land for the projected Fort
drive to link the historic Civil War
fortifications encircling Washing
ton, announcement was made today
that the construction of the first
unit, crossing Rock Creek Park, is
approaching realization.
Preliminary plans for this vital
link in the extensive driveway sys
tem are in process of being drafted,
it was said, and Will be presented
this afternoon at the monthly
meeting of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
The proposed link in the Fort
drive would start from Oregon ave
nue on the west side of Rook Creek
Park and terminate at Thirteenth
street in a general location close to
Military road. The Fort drive was
put on the master-plan of N. C. P.
P. C. in 1930 and since then practi
cally all of the land for it has been
^acquired.
co-operate on Flans.
Capt. H. C. Whitehurst. District
director of highways and the Na
tional Park Service have co-oper
ated in the planning and Capt.
Whitehurst’s plans for the link
across the park are being whipped
into final shape.
The Fort drive was conceived in
connection with the planning of the
George Washington Memorial Park
way. It will extend eventually from
the Potomac River above George
town, where Nebraska avenue
“touches the river,” officials said,
circling the city to Shepherd's Land
ing below Anacostia.
The Planning Commission moved
its monthly session up one day and
expects to conclude it this afternoon
Plans will be initiated, it was said,
to develop a comprehensive pro
gram for the Washington water
front, as authorized in the rivers
and harbors bill approved March 2.
Public Hearings Planned.
John Nolen, jr., director of plan
ning, will present a request from Col.
John M. Johnson, United States
District engineer, for an "expres
sion of views” on the somewhat
elaborate project. Public hearings
will be held soon by the District
Engineer Office, it was said.
Original plans for improvement
of the Washington water front were
made lo years ago and already a
number of commercial changes have
been made. The newly authorized
study calls for a preliminary exam
ination and survey of conditions in
the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers
and “adjacent waters,” with a view
to co-ordinating a comprehensive
plan for the development of such
waters and shores. Planning offi
cials said improvements for com
mercial uses would be segregated
in the study, which also would con
sider removal of channel obstruc
tions. For recreational purposes,
the study would include such things
as race courses, picnic grounds along
the water fronts and possible sea
plane bases.
Also under consideration today
will be a suggested amendment to
the local radio mast regulations, to
permit the use of other types of
high-frequency radio transmission
and reception in addition to tele
vision and frequency modulation.
At present the regulations refer
specifically to television and F. M.
and planning officials said the
amendment will present no new
problem.
Report en Television.
Mr. Nolen qiso will report today
on the recent hearingr. on applica
tions for erection of television tow
ers before the Board of Zoning
Adjustment. A decision on these
applications may be expected any
day. The Planning Commission is
in favpr of erecting the towers.
Questions involving possible use
of the grounds of the Emery estate
on Georgia avenue for playground
purposes, as well as the grounds of
the Industrial Home School on Wis
consin avenue, if and when the
school should be moved to some
other section. A committee of
the Brightwood Citizens’ Associa
tion will be heard in connection
with plans for the disposal of the
Emery estate, a privately owned
property.
Thomas C. Jeffers, landscape ar
chitect, has made an inspection of
the grounds of the Greenbelt Res
ervation, a part of which may be
disposed of by the Government. He
will submit a plan for incorporating
the area that is to be retained into
the regional park system now being
projected as a postwar project.
Highway Problem Up.
The question of whether a bus
line should be allowed* to operate on
the new Suitland Parkway, also
will come up. Harry Thompson, as
sistant superintendent of the Na
tional Capital Parks Office, will be
heard on the proposal. Planning
officials said additional transporta
tion facilities to take care of Census
Bureau employes no doubt were
needed. The Suitland Parkway is a
restricted thoroughfare like the
Mount Vernon Memorial Boulevard
but buses have been allowed to op
erate on the latter.
Mr. Wehrly will submit a prelim,
inary report on the long-range study
being made for regional thorough
fare planning in the Washington
metropolitan area. The plan will
be used for the appraisal of cur
rent projects as they come up, such
as the development of major streets
and arterial highways in the metro
politan area.
Similar plans for New York City,
Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland and other
cities have been under study by the
local Planning Commission in this
connection.
Farmer Gets First Jeep
Sold in This Area
Hie first Jeep to be sold toxa
civilian in this area is now in use
on the 3,000-acre farm of Russell
M. Arundel. The Mains, Va.
Mr. Arundel purchased the Jeep
yesterday from a Washington dealer
dor $1,533. It has all necessary
equipment for tractor use and sta
tionary power application and is
classified as a trade.
Although Mr. Arundel could not
be reached today, his wife said he
could find many uses for the Jeep on
the farm.
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Doctor Who Rescued Boy From Dead Mothers
Arms in Manila Wins Permission for Adoption
Long Search Finds
Grandmother Who
Waives Claim to Boy
Dr. Ricardo Sabella hopes he has
found a home at last for the little
boy who bears the name of an
American soldier and looks like his
Filipino mother.
It Isn’t, however, the home Dr.
Sabella had in mind when he lifted
4-year-old Anthony from his dead
mother’s arms and escaped from
Manila in the last days of Jap
resistance.
Dr. Sabella. a veteran of the last
war who holds degrees from three
universities here, knew that some
where in this country was the
mother of a sergeant captured on
Bataan. Somehow, he was going to
find that mother and offer the boy
into her keeping until the soldier
was liberated.
The Doctor’s Story.
This is Dr. Sabella's story of the
beginning and—he hopes— the end
of that quest:
Dr. Sabella was a foreign service
officer for the State Department,
detailed to field work in Manila,
when the Japs came in. Being an
Oriental, he couldn't claim diplo
matic immunity so he stayed on in
Manila.
About six months before Manila
was liberated, the Sabellas took into
their home one Esther Abdon and
her son, Anthony.
Anthony was the son of a 28
year-old “soldier of fortune who had
seen service all over the Far East
when he met Esther. Theirs was
<me of those romances that bloomed
in the Philippines and ‘Sonny’ was
bom.”
Dr. Sabella never knew the sol
dier, but Esther had told him about
the day the sergeant kissed “Sonny”
good by and joined the soldiers re
treating to Bataan.
Heme Set Afire.
“Early In the evening of Febru
ary 7, 1945, after the Jap marines
had found out that I and my family
had come from Washington, our
house was set afire and the Jap
marines started riddling the house
with rifle shots attempting to kill
every one in it.”
Sonny was hidden in the bath
tub at first to escape injury but
when darkness came the Sabellas
with Esther and her son escaped
through the back of the house. Dr.
Sabella broke his arm in jumping
from a second floor window.
They fled to the fields where they
hid for two days, caught between
Jap and American lines, clinging to
the earth to avoid machine gun and
rifle bullets and exploding trench
mortar.
Determined to reach the pontoon
bridge separating the American-held
from the Jap-held sections of the
city, they left the fields and hid
under a bungalow.
"My son, Dick, volunteered to go
out and pick up wounded American
soldiers and Esther Abdon with
Sonny in her arms moved over to
take Dick’s place under the bunga
low. Hying shrapnel penetrated
the back of her skull, killing her
instantly.”
With Sonny riding on Dick’s
shoulders, the family raced through
a hail of sniper bullets for the bridge
and safety. Then came the question
of what to do with Sonny. Dr.
Sabella decided the boy should go
to the only person to whom he was
2 Montgomery County
Policemen Suspended
And Third Resigns
Two Montgomery County police
men have been suspended and a
third has resigned, the county com
missioners were told yesterday by
Police Chief H. Leslie Carlin.
Chief Carlin said he had requested
the resignations of Corpl. Herman
Paul and Policemen George Wilt
and Julius E. Leins because of “con
duct unbecoming officers and for
violating the police manual.”
After Policeman Wilts’ resignation
was accepted by the board, Chief
Carlin said he had suspended the
other two men. He added that the
three had agreed to resign after he
had investigated the disappearance
of several cases of beer from the
Dixie Pig Tavern in Silver Spring,
July 31.
Commissioner Richard H. Lans
dale, Chief Carlin and Willard F.
Day, county supervisors, were in
structed to investigate applicants
for positions on the police force and
to submit their report in time for
appointments to be made, at the
board’s meeting next week.
Police Recruiting Drive Begun.
Meanwhile, County Supervisor
Willard W. Day announced the
launching of a program to Dll about
a dozen vacancies In the Police De
partment.
Mr. Day said it is hoped to have
an eligible roster of at least 25 rash.
Mr. Day said he has asked the
heads of service aid centers for vet
erans in Rockville, Bethesda and
Silver Spring to refer all persons
interested In police work to him.
Veterans will get preference, he said.
“What we want,” Mr. Day em
phasized, “is a group of qualified
men who desire to enter police work
as a profession and not merely to
get temporary jobs.!’
Applicants must be between 21 and
35 years of age, at least 5 feet 6
inches tall and must be In good
health. They also must be residents
of Montgomery County and be of
good moral character. A high school
education is “preferable” but not
compulsory; Mr. Day said.
Application blank* may be ob
tained. at the four county police
itatiens in Rockville, Bethesda, Sil
ver Spring and Takoma Park.
Penult Granted.
The commissioners granted H.
Lynn Womack a permit to operate
the Howell Academy for Boys on the
Rockville pike at Montrose after
health department inspectors told
the commissioners sanitary condi
tions at the institution were satis
factory. ' ..
. The-board deferred action on the
application two weeks ago pending
compliance with Health Department
regulations. Mr. Womack said a
fire escape is being constructed at
the school and is expected to be
completed September 15.
The resignation of Mrs. Theresa
Paulsgrove as laboratory assistant
was reported hr Dr. V. L. BUloott,
county health officer, effective Au
gust 31. The health official recant
SONNY WITH HIS ‘PROTECTOR’—Dr. Ricardo Sabella and his
daughter Muriel pay a visit to Sonny at the Children’s Country
Home, Eighteenth street and Bunker Hill road NJS.
—Star Stall Photo.
linked by a family tie—the soldier s
mother.
The Sabellas arrived here in May
and settled at 42 T street N.W.
Mrs. Sabella went to work at the
library of Congress. Dick, who is
18, went to the Foreign Economic
Administration. Sixteen-year-old
Muriel Sabella, who was threatened
with torture by the Japs because
she had committed the crime of
making a V-sign to American sol
dier prisoners, got a job at George
Washington University, and Dr.
Sabella started work at the Govern
ment Printing Office.
Starts Search.
In his spare time, he tried to find
somebody who would help him
locate the soldier’s family. He went
from one War Department office to
another. Finally, quite by accident,
he landed in the Personal Affairs
Office of the Military District of
Washington.
• The Army officer who listened to
his story found the sergeant's serial
number among the papers Dr. Sa
bella had brought with him. A quick
check of the casualty branch
brought this word: The sergeant
died of dysentery in a Jap prison
camp in May, 1943.
It became more important than
ever to find a permanent home
for Sonny. The War Department
wanted documentary proof of the
child's paternity. Army authorities
were notified in Manila to get the
proof if it existed.
Find Birth Certificate.
Meanwhile, the 9th Service Com
mand was asked to send some one
to the home of the soldier’s mother,
who was listed by the soldier as his
emergency addressee. The mother
was to be told only that the child
existed and that documentary proof
was being sought in Manila.
Back from Manila came a birth
certificate, a statement from the
doctor who delivered the child, affi
davits from friends of the dead girl,
a torn picture of a good-looking
soldier in a pith helmet, and an
old brown envelope which, appar
ently, the soldier had left with
Esther Abdon when he Vent to
Bataan. In that envelope were all
his treasures—12 medals as a crack
marksman, his regimental insignia,
certificates of proficiency and a few
souvenir scenes of China.
The proofs were sent to the sol
dier’s mother with a picture of the
little boy. Did she want him or
would she submit an affidavit waiv
ing all claim to the child?
The answer was a long time com
ing while the soldier's mother tried
to decide what her son would want
her to do. Finally, the other day,
Dr. Sabella was notified by the War
Department that the soldier’s
mother had waived her claim to
the child.
Dr. Sabella admits now he was
hoping all along it would be that
way although he was afraid the
soldier’s mother “would Just grab
that little Sonny.”
Right now, Sonny is in the Chil
dren's Country Home “catching
some weight." Officially, he is un
der the care of the Board of Pub
lic Welfare, which has to make its
investigation before Dr. Sabella can
adopt him.
Some day, “when he is old enough
to appreciate them” the letters that
passed between the American sol
dier and the Filipino girl, the pic
ture of the man in the pith helmet
and the medals which now repose in
a War Department safe will be given
to young Anthony.
mend appointment of Mrs. Pauline
Oderf Penn to the vacancy, but
action was deferred.
Granted Leave of Absence.
Andrew J. Boyd, county sanitary
inspector, was granted an inde
finite leave of absence without pay.
The commissioners authorised is
suance of $865,000 refunding bonds
to replace bonds and county certi
ficates of indebtedness maturing
this year. They also authorized Is
suance of $20,000 In bonds for con
struction and equipment of a build
ing for the Hillandale Volunteer
Fire Department.
Mrs. Lillie B. Melton was granted
a license to operate a home for
elderly people at 9508 Biltmore
drive, Silver Spring.
The board was told by Mrs. Dor
othy Kurts, executive secretary, that
the Montgomery County Welfare
Board would require $7,988 for its
August expenditures and that
amount was made available. Ac
cording to Mrs. Kurts the money
#fil be used as follows; For old-age
assistance, $1,310; aid to needy
blind, $100; aid to dependent chil
dren, $1,512; general public assist
ance, $2,082; boarding home care
for children, $2,130, and administra
tion, $904.
Permit fer Party.
Tomlinson Council, Daughters of
America, was granted a permit to
hold a game party at Cabin John
August 22.
A delegation of Poolesville district
property owners asked the commis
sioners to improve about 1% miles
of road which intersects the Pooles
ville-Edwards Perry thoroughfare,
3Hi miles from Poolesville. The
matter was referred to County En
gineer Sterling Maddox and County
Supervisor Willard P. Day.
The Navy and Commerce De
partments and the State Aviation
Commission assured the commis
sioners that they would co-operate
In preventing low and stunt flying
in the county.
Body of80-Year-Old Man
Found-in River Channel
Hie body of an 80-year-eld man,
identified by. Alexandria police as
John A. W. Johnson, retired Navy
Yard employe, 810 Bnderby drive,
Alexandria, was found yesterday in
the Potomac River near Bast Po
tomac Park.
Police said lCr. Johnson had been
missing since Sunday. His family
said he had been in 111 health for
some time. A note attached to his
clothing gave Mr. Johnson's address
and the telephone number of a son,
W. A. Johnson, of the same address.
According to police records, Mr.
Johnson was the 8«th person re
ported missing in Alexandria since
January 1. Of these, 82 have re
turned to their homes and three are
still missing. The missing ones are:
Miss Helen Mae Lehman, 16, who
left her home at 522 Bast Windsor
avenue, Monday; Duncan Banka, 15,
of 2106 Mount Vernon avenue,
mlaslnt since May 22, and Mrs.
Sophie H. Woods, 44, missing from
her home at 1706 Duke street since
June |0.
Map Studies Asked
Before Television
Appeals Are Decided
The Board of Zoning Adjustment
yesterday announced it was pre
pared to approve the television sites
requested by the National Broad
casting Co. and Bamberger Broad
casting Service, Inc., but that
further evidence must be submitted
by both companies to prove that
the heights of the proposed towers
would render satisfactory service
to the District.
NBC is seeking permission to
build a 350-foot tower on a 200-foot
site behind the Wardman Park
Hotel, while Bamberger wants to
construct a 300-foot tower on a 406
foot site, which would make the
top of the Bamberger tower ap
proximately 150 feet above the NBC
tower.
“While the evidence in each case
would seem to indicate that shadow
areas (areas of poor reception) will
be negligible, the board is unable
to reconcile the difference in height
for each location, in the absence of
detailed evidence in. the form of a
map study showing where, if at all,
service will not be satisfactory,” the
board declared.
The board, therefore, directs the
preparation of a map or maps by
each appellant company showing
territory that might not be satis
factorily served by each of the
heights proposed. In view of the
question raised by the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission that a 100-foot less height
might be adequate for the Bam
berger Broadcasting Service, Inc.,
location at Fort Reno, the board
requests that it show, in addition,
the territory that might not be
satisfactorily served with a 100-foot
lesser tower height”
At Monday’s hearing Raymond
Guy, NBC radio facilities engineer,
testified that the tower sought by
his company would be sufficient to
render satisfactory service. George
Davis, consulting engineer for Bam
berger, when asked why Bamberger
wanted ISO feet greater height than
NBC, he said his client’s tower
would give “superior service.”
The board turned down the re
quest of the Zionist Organization of
America for permission to establish
a “nonprofit institution of higher
learning or culture devoted exclu
sively to the arts and sciences” at
1730 Sixteenth street N.W. The or
ganization has had the property tar
the past five years, it was testified
Monday, and the organization was
given 6 months in Which to "abate
the violation” by the present use of
the structure fn 'a residential zone
Approval, with certain modifica
tions, was given by the Zoning Ad
justment Board to the appeal of
Morris Frank for to build
community dwellings on Davenport
street, between Connecticut avenue
and Thirty-sixth street N.W, and
two semidetached and one com
munity dwelling on Cumberland
street, between Thirty-sixth street
and Connecticut avote N.W.
Prince Georges
Calls Meeting
To Fix Taxi Rates
Long Advocated Step
Taken After Charges
Of Gouging Are Heard
Establishment of uniform taxi
cab rates in Prince Georges County,
a move long advocated by county
civic and business organizations, is
in prospect.
The county commissioners an
nounced yesterday they will re
quest all cab owners in the county
to meet with them and with repre
sentatives of the Maryland Public
Service Commission at 2 p.m. Sep
tember 11 at the Upper Marlboro
Courthouse to draft a uniform rate
schedule.
The action was taken at the re
quest of Le Roy Pumphrey, a mem
ber of the county delegation to the
State Legislature, and Joseph S. A.
Giardina, transportation engineer
for the Public Service Commission.
Gouging Charged.
Also appearing before the board
was County Police Chief Ralph W.
Brown and Sergt. Charles N.
Thomsen, who reported they had
received scores of complaints about
the “gouging" of passengers by
county taxicab operators.
Sergt. Thomsen said that in one
case, a person was charged $4.50
for a trip from Berwyn to Mount
Rainier—a distance of about 3 miles.
In another case, according to
Sergt. Thomsen, two passengers
were charged $10 to be taken from
Brentwood to Union Station, about
7 miles away.
He said several taxicab com
panies in the county have prepared
rate schedules, but that the drivers
refuse to observe them, since they
are not official.
Pointing out that the commis
sioners have broad powers to reg
ulate taxicabs and fix rates under
a law passed at the 1941 session of
the Legislature, Mr. Pumphrey at
first suggested that the Publia
Service Commission set up a pro
posed rate schedule to be approved
by the board.
Mr. Oiardina said that although
he would be glad to aid in such a
proposal, he would prefer that the
taxicab owners “get together” and
draft their own schedule to be sub
mitted to. the commissioners. He
added that such rates, if approved,
should be filed with the Public Serv
ice Commission and posted in the
taxicabs.
He also suggested the installation
of taxicab meters as tM* “rally real
solution to the problem.” The board
expressed doubt, however, concern
ing their availability.
Agree on Meeting.
The commissioners then agreed to
call a meeting of the approximately
20 taxicab owners in the county.
A request by Chief Brown for ad
ditional policemen was taken under
advisement. Under the law, the com
missioners have authority to appoint
up to 18 emergency policemen.
Declaring that the present police
situation is pitiful, the police chief
pointed out that there are only 18
county policemen now on duty to
patrol an area of approximately 500
square miles and with a population
of about 130,000.
The county police force has an au
thorized strength of 28 men but
three are on vacation, three are sick
and four recently entered the serv
ice, Chief Brown explained.
An application by the Cherford
Corp., owner, for the reclassifica
tion from residential A to com
mercial D of a parcel of land on
the south side of East-West high
way east of New Hampshire ave
nue was approved.
Application Granted.
Also approved was an application
by Lawrence Collins and Butler
Woodward, owners, for the reclassi
fication from residential A to O
of lots 11-18, block 6, Unwood sub
division. Bladensburg.
Trial Magistrate Alan Bowie re
ported collection of fines and costs
totaling $4,355.35 last' month, of
which the commissioners receive
$2,614.05.
Collection of $110.50 in fines and
costs during June was reported by
Substitute Trial Magistrate Henry
M. O’Neill. Of this amount the
commissioners receive $73.
Circuit Court Clerk Brice Bowie
reported thetsale of beer, wine, ice
and peddlers’ licenses totaling
$234.90 during July.
The. appointment of Gilbert E.
Wilson, Accokeek, as deputy SUr.e
forest warden, was approved by the
board.
New Police Surgeon Named
Dr. Maurice Mensh, 2745 Twenty
ninth street N.W., has been appoint
ed a member of the Board of Police
and Fire Surgeons, Capt. Walter H.
Thomas, acting executive officer of
the Police Department, announced
yesterday. _m
daily Rationing
Reminders Rp
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Q-2 through U-2 good through
August 31. Stamps V-2 through
Z-2 good through September 30.
Stamps A-l through E-l good
through October 31. Stamps F-l
through K-l good through Novem
ber 30.
Canned Goods, Etc.—Book 4, stamps
Y-2, Z-2 and A-l through C-l good
through August 31. Stamps D-l
through H-l good through Sep
tember 30. Stamps J-l through
N-l good through October 31.
Stamps P-1 through T-l good
through November 30.
Points for Fats—-Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points tat
each pound of waste kitchen fata
you turn tat.
Sagar—Stamp No. 36 valid for I
pounds through August 31. Next
stamp valid September 1.
Shoes—Airplane stamps L, 2, 3 and 4
in Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
GasoBno—B-7, C-7, B-8 and C-g
coupons good for 6 gallons each.
A-18 coupons valid for 6 gallons
each through September 31.
Fuel Oil—Periods l. 3, 8, 4 and •
coupons good for 10 gallons per
unit through August 31. Period l
coupons , for 1045-46 season now
valid. All currently valid coupons,'
except for serially-numbered cou
pons of definite value, Will expire
August 31.