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bl Washington News he Foe WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1942. WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION < ing Sfar XXX Society and General B B-1 Pittsburgh Out As Wage-Hour Headquarters Choice Is Narrowed To Two Cities Nearer D. C. By OLIVER McKEE. The Wage and Hour Division and is 500 employes will be transferred to one of two cities more accessible to Washington rather than to Pitts- burgh, Secretary of Labor Perkins announced today in revealing an- other revision in the decentraliza- tion program made public by the Budget Bureau about two weeks ago. No change has been made, how- ever, in the plan to move the agency out of Washington. The choice has narrowed to two cities, and the Budget Bureau probably will make a definite announcement of the one selected by Monday. Secretary Per- kins refused to identify the two eities now under consideration. Secretary Perkins revealed the change in plans in speaking at a special meeting of employes of the Wage and Hour Division today at the Departmental auditorium, The disclosure followed closely the an- nouncement of Budget Director Harold D. Smith late yesterday that the entife Immigration and Natur- alization Service of the Department of Justice will be moved to Phila- delphia. Previously it had been planned to shift only about 950 of | the 1,600 employes of this agency to Philadelphia. Capifal Marks New Year Day In Work; Prayer Thousands Respond To President’s Call To Attend Church ‘The Capital's first wartime New Year Day in 24 years was one of solemn religious reflection and, for many, hard work. Thousands throughout the city responded yesterday to the Presi- dent’s proclomation setting aside the first day of 1942 as a day of prayer for forgiveness for our shortcomings in the past and for help and guid- ance in the days to come. This was the first call by the Chief Executive for a day of na- tional prayer, it was recalled, since Abraham Lincoln’s similar plea dur- ing the Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of addi- tional Prostestants, Catholics and Jews dedicated a portion of yester- day to prayer in churches and syna- gogues throughout the Nation, which were open in almost every city and town in answer to the Presi- dent’s request. Just Another Thursday. In Washington, meanwhile, the day was just another Thursday to Government workers in agencies busy with wartime tasks, many of whom passed up or curtailed New \ desks early yesterday morning. Year eve celebrations to be at their | THE DUMMIES LOSE ANOTHER ROUND—A Fort Belvoir sergeant delivers 2 blow with the butt of his rifle on one of the dummies on the bayonet course. The sergeant made out better in his bout with the dummies than did our re- porter, who sometimes finished second in his battles with the dummies. bayonet strokes, in quick succession. Sergt. Riddick short jab at the throat, while Pvt. William Schneider, having parried the dummy’s “weapon,” is delivering a long thrust at the body. | | i | On these three dummies, grouped together, soldiers learn to deliver three different Proveaux (left) is executing a —Star Staff Photos. | | Capitol Heights Youth Killed in Auto Accident Loudoun Police Hold Seat Pleasant Man After Car Overturns D. C. Traffic Toll Killed in 1942 pdoarid Killed in same period of 1941_ 1 ‘Toll for all of 1941_ --95 Jacob Walter Kinnemont, 18, ot 303 Berryman avenue, Capitol Heights, Md., was instantly killed yesterday when the car in which he was a passenger ran off the road five miles east of Leesburg, Va,, and overturned. Loudoun County police were hold- ing Jack Pickett, 23, of Seat Pleas- ant, Md., whom they listed as the driver of the car. The accident oc- curred on Highway No. 7. A third passenger, Tony Hough, whose Maryland address was not learned immediately, was being treated for minor injuries in the Loudoun Coun- ty Hospital in Leesburg, according to word received here. Three Recruits Slightly Hurt. Three young soldiers-to-be, not yet inducted into the Army, received slight injuries shortly before noon today when the United States Re- cruiting Service station wagon in which they were riding was in a | At the War and Navy Depart- | | ments operations were reported at | Smithsonian Prepares At the Anacostia Naval Air Sta- | | tion, workmen busy on Government | conctruction” proecis o omy | 10 Move Art T[easu[esw‘ | worked on the holiday, but donated | | collision with an Army truck at Nineteenth and G streets NW. | The three, accompanied by two other recruits and a sergeant-driver | were on their way to the general | dispensary of the War Department to take Army physical examinations. Today's meeting was called by Secretary Perkins and was attended by practically all employes of the Wage and Hour Division. Secretary Perkins revealed that she had been notified by telephone 1500 Defense Officials To Atfend Course in Arlingfon Building TScribe Wields a Mean Bayonet Hit Unprecedented ~ But Dummies Elude His Jabs one evening at 6 o'clock of the order | their full day" i 5 ‘ znen:ferrlggtthe givision to_Pltts- ::vne;rch:st s teiteate ln Eveni of Raids ‘Pace During 1941 He's Ready to Call a Truce After Taste Air_Raid Proiedion e e burgh hat five minutes later " y gl j o deies e s::‘m:;ved a letter formally di- 1:;::‘1’5;:: '.f‘,“'f},lé' ssskm:rhe.g%(ncn::’ Of Trench Combot at Fort Belvou ‘:}r:"aen 1h:v wfr’srg;‘\?n fi?im recting the transfer. | rett Construction Co., turning over | tratment and released, as Arthur “I made such protest as I could against the shift to Pittsburgh, but not much of a protest could be made under the circumstances,” she told the workers. Continuing, she pointed out that it is essential to make room in Washington for persons in agencies whose work is more directly related to the war effort. “The transfer will be for the dura- tion,” Secretary Perkins said. “We must recognize this fact.” Promises to Be “Reasonable.” Secretary Perkins promised that department officials will be “reason- able” in considering workers' re- quests for transfers to other Fed- eral agencies She warned, how- ever, that other agencies will be shifted from Washington and that the status of any agency not closely identified with the war is uncertain. “The obligation to country is paramount to personal considera- tions,” she said. The division will set up a special committee to help Wage and Hour personnel in transfer problems, Miss Parkins announced. The Wage and Hour Division is one of the most important Federal agencies and it will have a contri- bution to make in helping solve problems facing the country in the post-war period, she said. In regard to the transfer of the Im- migration and Naturalization Serv- ice, it was planned previously to move only the alien registration, certifi- cation and education, and research divisions. Attorney General Biddle, the Budget Bureau explained, be- lieved that it was desirable to keep all the units of the Immigration and Naturalization Service together, in- stead of having the agency split up between Philadelphia and Washing- ton. Hence the decision to shift all six divisions. Attorney General Biddle also wished to co-operate in the Presi- dent’s efforts to provide additional office space here for expanding de- fense agencies, it was explained. The Immigration and Naturaliza- tion Segvice now is scattered in eight buildings in the District. The exact date of the removal to Phila- delphia was not announced, but the transfer probably will be made in a few weks. W. E. Reynolds, commissioner of public buildings, has made arrangements for the serviee to occupy two large buildings in Philadelphia. Cupid ”Triumphs Over Army and Civil Rules By the Ascociated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2—An or- der cutting short the holiday leave | of Staff Sergt. James McGuire of | Rantoul Field, Ill, threatened to prevent his marriage to the girl back home—Mary Elizabeth Brewer of Sharon, W, Va. To the rescue came Mrs. Dorothy F. Buschmann of the Army, Navy and Marine Service Club and Helen Hartinger, colonel of a Service Men's Cadette Regiment. Mrs. Buschmann pulled a deputy eounty clerk away from a party to make out marriage license and got a doctor to make the required blood tests of the couple. i Miss Hartinger induced her fa- ther, the Rev. William C. Hartinger, to perform olis’ first newlyweds of 1942, left for his post and a happy New Year. Air Ensign Killed By Crash Into Bay By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 2—Ensign | Thomas A. McDonald, jr. 23, was killed yesterday when his fighter plane crashed in Chesapeake Bay 5 miles northeast of Buckroe Beach, the Naval Air Station here an- nounced today. Ensign McDonald, a member of the advanced carrier training group at the air station, was on a routine flight. Although extensive search ‘was made, neither the body nor the plane wreckage has been recovered. His father a resident of Spring- field, Mass., has been notified. Requiem mass will be said Mon- day at the air station chapel. o the ceremony. And | Sergt. and Mrs. McGuire, Indianap- | more than $16 apiece, their time- and-a-half pay for holiday work. Many State Department employes. | with special tasks to perform, were | at their desks yesterday, too. And | workers were busy at the Agricul- | ture, Commerce, Interior and Labor | Departments and at the special de- fense agencies, the O. E. M. and O. Angelus Bells Rung. Religious observance of the first day of 1942 as a day of prayer was | marked yesterday afternoon by the | ringing of Angelus bells from the Capital’s churches, in a 5 o'clock call to a moment of silent reflec- | tion. Washington radio stations also broadcast the Angelus call, Dr. John | W. Rustin, vice president of the | Washington Federation of Churches |and pastor of the Mount Vernon | Place Methodist Church, at the same | time broadcasting New Year mes- | sage. Clergymen of three faiths joined in a later call to prayer broadcast of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- | tem. The Rev. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of the Foundry Meth- odist Church here, and Chaplain William R. Arnold. Catholic chief of Army chaplains, spoke from ‘Washington, being joined from New York by Dr. Louis Finklestein, head of the Jewish Theological Seminary there. America had been summoned to her knees on a day of “spiritual alert,” Dr. Harris said, adding: “A day of prayer is not a time when we ask for the avenging of Pearl Harbor, but when we ask for the cleansing of our own spirits. We cannot evade our resposibilities as individuals, or as a Nation, for our part in the chaos and ruin now dev- astating the world.” Six Nev; Disf;ia‘Offi}es Set Up by Army Engineers The Army Engineer Corps has established six new district engineer offices, one at Arlington, Va., it was announced today in effecting the transfer to its jurisdiction of the former construction division of the Quartermaster Corps. Other new districts are located at Atlanta, Ga.; Columbus, Ohio; Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Tex., and the Panama Canal Zone. The Arlington and Panama offices will be supervised directly under the | office of the chief of engineers in { Washington. | Merger of the Q. M. C. construc- tion division with the Engineer ‘Corps was authorized by Congress { last December. In affecting the merger, the former zone system of the Q. M. C. has been absorbed | district organization of the Engi- neer Corps. The Washington headquarters has been regrouped as follows: Office of the Chief of Engineers, new War Department Building. Twenty-first street and Virginia | avenue N.-W. Assistant chief of engineers in charge of construction, new Rail- road Retirement Building. Repairs and utilities branch, Mu- nicipal Center Building. Mrs. Harry F. Appleby Funeral Tomorrow Mrs. Sallye D. Appleby, 44, wife of Harry F. Appleby, died Wednes- day at her home in Montgomery Heights, Md., after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at the home at 2 p.m. tomorrow, with the Rev. Stephen Galley, pastor of Montgomery Church, officiating, fol- lowed by burial in the church ceme- tery. The daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Luther Beall, Mrs. Appleby was a lifelong: resident of Montgomery County. Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Alvin Hood, Mount Airy, Md.; a son, Harry B. Appleby, now in the Army; four sisters, Mrs. William King and Mrs. Guy Hurley, both of Purdum, Md.; Mrs. Ray Moxley, Montgomery Heights, and Mrs. Leslie Wright, Da- mascus, Md., and three bfothers, Robey Beall and Arthur W. Beall, both of Purdum, and W. Dewey Beall, Montgomery Heights. ~ into framework of the divisional and | office will be Oxford Museums to Stay Open | During War to Aid Public Morale Some of the Smithsonian Insti- tution’s most valuable cultural treas- ures are being marked for removal to a safer place in event Wash- ington is threatened by air raids. While admitting that paintings and other cuitural heritages of the Nation are getting priority listings for removal in case of emergency, officials declined to say what par- ticular objects would be removed. For months now a committee charged with the preservation of | cultural treasures owned by the Government has been perfecting a general plan for the storage in bomb and fire proof shelters of books, documents, paintings and other works of art which must be saved at all costs. The'Smithsonian | plan is part of the general scheme. In a statement today, Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smith- sonian, said: “The Smithsonian Institution, in- cluding the National Museum, the National Zoological Park, the Na- | tional Gallery and the National Collection of Fine Arts, will remain open and continue to function dur- ing the war period. “All possible precautions have | been taken, however, to insure the | safety of the buildings, the visitors | and the collections under war con- | ditions. The major part of the collections will remain in place and the usual activities, including lec- tures and loan exhibitions, will be continued and even increased so far as is practicable.” It was pointed out English closed their galleries and museums shortly after the outbreak | of the war. Seme time later they | were forced to reopen them as a measure of public morale. War leaders learned, it was said, that the public was in a healthier frame of mind when it had diver- sions not connected with the war, Freak Plan; Aécidefit Probed by Army Board By the Associated Press. LANGLEY FIELD, Va, Jan. 2— An Army board of inquiry today was investigating an accident yes- terday in which a plane crashed linto a group of laborers, killing | three, as it swerved off a concrete runway after losing a wheel. Those killed were Frank L. Malli- cott, 70, Newport News; Cossie Clay- | ton, 71, Hilton Village, and Floyd | Edwards, Elizabeth City County. Mallicott and Clayton were Work Projects Administration laborers, while Edwards was employed by the quartermaster department at the field. the name of the plane's pilot or the type of craft. Employment Service Plans Arlington Office ‘ An office of the Virginia State |in Arlington County Wednesday to | serve the Arlington and the Falls | Church areas, it was announced today by Carter W. Friend, man- aged of the Alexandria office. | “The new branch will be estab- | lished at 3213 North Washington boulevard, just off the Clarendon | circle, and will be in charge of | Mr. Friend and his assistant, Roy | J. Hildeprand. The office will act as a clearing house for jobs, Mr. Friend said, and at the present time one of its princi- | pal activities will be to place skilled | and semi-skilled workers and pro- vide training for unskilled workers. No charge is made for its services. Employers forced to lay off work- ers “because of the shortage of defense materials were urged by Mr. Friend to register such workers with the employment office so that immediate placement can be made elsewhere. The same appeal was made to employers unable to accept applicants for work. The telephone number of the new \ ) that the | Air base officials did not divulge Employment Service is to be opened | Activity Trebles Figures of Five Years Previously | Building activity in Arungl‘anl County, Va. reached unprecedented heights in 1941, when it trebled that | of five years previously and was | about 15 times as great as was noted ‘ 10 years ago. the annual report of 1 Inspector Andrew Jensen disclosed K me under the chin with the point of | today. Despite a noticeable slump in con- | struction within the latter part of last year, due to drastic building re- strictions by the Supplies, Priorities ' and Allocations Board, the value of ;construcuon for which permits were issued during the year amounted to | | $15.944,763, which exceeded the pre- | | vious record year of 1940 by more | than $3.000.000. The value of con- | struction in 1940 was $12.839,105. | Philip Shepherd, assistant to Mr. ' Jensen, disclosed that the total amount of construction in Arlington | County during the last deocade | amounts to $71,716,279. _ Last year, a total of 2,540 permits were issued for $8547.009 worth of private dwellings; $5.702477 worth of apartments, and $1685277 for ' miscellaneous activitv, including | such projects as business houses, | churches and schools. | The 1941 record compares with the previous year by classifications as | follows: { | A total of 2,612 permits issued for | $9.499.357 worth of private dwell-| | ings; $1.683,800 worth of apartments, | | and $1,655,948 miscellaneous. I You and an Air (No. 19 of a Series.) For apartment dwellers, a building | air-raid warden is the “head of the | | household.” By this time, each | apartment should have a building warden, selected by the zone war- den or elected by the tenants. If none has as yet been appointed in your apartment, get together with the other tenants to elect one. | Each apartment has different | | problems which must be worked out | by the building warden and the ten- |ants. In some apartment buildings, |the tenants have organized into | associations. In one building, each tenant has submittted a list of sug- gestions to be combed through for the most workable ideas. Here’s an Illustration. As an illustration, here is how the | Westchester Apartment has worked | out its air-raid precautions: The apartment consists of five building units. The senior building warden has selected a building war- den for each unit. Each building warden, in turn, has selected a war- den for each floor, with an alter- nate. A duplicate setup has been worked out with woman wardens to officiate in case of daylight raids. Each building has a crew of three fire watchers, whose duty it would also be to handle roof fires. These crews are equipped with stirrup pumps. One man will handle the nossle, a second the pump and a third will keep up fetching additional the water supply, buckets. t Apartment Buildings Working Out Individual Organizations Editor's Note—This is the sirth of a series by a Star reporter who spent a week in uniform as a thorn in the side of Fort Belvoir, Va. Tomorrow, our loyal alumnus of the Army tells why it is the world's finest. By ALFRED TOOMBS. ‘The corporal hoisted his rifle to the on guard position and chucked the bayonet. “Always keep the bayonet at vour adversary’'s throat.” he said, flick- ing the blue steel over so as to knock off a couple of whiskers that I had missed during the morning shave. We were on one of the bayonet courses at Fort Belvoir, Va., where the Army is training replacements for the Corps of Engineers. The corporal was doing his best to get the fundamentals of bayonet drill | through the head of the post's vis- iting warrior. “The first thing to learn is the on guard position, like this” the corporal said, again nearly carving his initials on my Adam's apple with the point of the bayonet. Handling a Springfield rifle with a bayonet on the business end of it is quite an art. It combines the finer points of fencing, boxing and shillelagh wielding. Foeman Bares His Steel. ‘The corporal gave me the high points on thrusting, parrying, jab- bing, clubbing and slashing. He also showed me the approved Raid . .. The apartment warden attended the warden’s school and instructed his assistants at a class the night | following each session at the school. All wardens in the buildings have now been instructed in combating incendiary bombs, gas and explosive bomb effects. Invalids Cheeked. Each floor warden visited every apartment on his floor to ascer- tain first of all where there were invalids. These would be removed first in case of evacuation. At the elevator on each floor a card has been tacked up giving the name of the floor warden and his alternate in case information or advice is needed. A messenger also has been as- signed to each floor warden in case communications between buildings are cut off. One man has been assigned to the outside of the build- ings to handle traffic and serve as an auxiliary policeman. Tomorrow: Moré on apart- ment house precautions. the City Editor, in, care of The Star. Answers, based on the best information obtainable from civilian defense and Brit- ish officials, will appeer in later articles in this series. ‘me(hod for withdrawing the steel from an incumbent adversary. | “Put both hands up high on the | gun, brace vour feet and give a| | quick pull. Be careful not to twist | the blade as you are pulling it out. ib«'nuse if you hit some bones or something you are liable to break the bayonet. Then where would you be?” “Yeah. agreed. | They have several bayonet courses at Fort Belvoir, which the selectees run. These consist of rows of dum- mies. The dummies have long sticks, on hinges, standing out in front of them, representing the opponent’s bavonet. In order to get your blow in at the dummy, you have to knock the pro- tecting stick aside and then deliver your thrust. Well, I guess I'm the only guy who ever lost a fight to a dummy. He Gets Conked. T am charging up at the first one, but my foot work wasn't so good The first thing I knew, the dummy had bayoneted me. I recovered, knocked the swinging stick aside and delivered my thrust. It wasn't hard enough to go into the burlap-covered body of the dummy and before I could recover, the dummy's stick swung back around and conked me | from behind. I The corporal looked a little dis- gusted. “Pirst time that ever happened,” he admitted “Maybe I better stay here and let the dummy run the course,” I sug- gested. ‘The corporal wouldn't hear of it. He said there were some dummies down the line that he was sure I could lick. So I backed up and started over. This time I parried the dummy’s weapon to the left and delivered a high thrust. I was fighting mad and my bayonet came out on the other | side. No dummy can get the best of me twice in succession. But Gets His Man. My initial success must have in- | timidated the next one. I galloped |up to it, parried to the left and smacked it on the head with the | butt of my rifle. There was a gurg- ling sound, but it was just the cor- poral expressing surprise at my up- | set victory. “I knew you could do it,” he shouted. I charged on uphill to a point where two fierce and determined dummies awaited me. There is a definite order in the way you run the course, with a certain stroke to be delivered on each dummy. The first one, I parried left and then delivered a high thrust at his throat. I missed and for the second | time had to admit that a dummy had the best of me. But a few feet ,away, and to my right, there was ; another opponent. I got this one good, with a low thrust right through the middle. In fact, the thrust was so good that I couldn't get my bayonet out. Ready to Call Truce. If the dummies had been willing, I would have called a truce at this point. I was out of breath and, in addition to losing two out of four bouts, I had nearly cut one ear off myself. But the dummies, figuring they had a good chance of victory, refused to lay down their arms. There was no alternative for an honorable soldier. So I charged on, wheezing ferociously. I parried to the left on the next one, swung the rifle around so as to deliver the scheduled horizontal butt stroke and saw the dummy crumple under a vicious blow. I'm a terror when aroused. Up ahead, I could see the final barrier. Three more dummies and then I could resign from bayoneting, permanently, I hoped. There was no holding me as I charged at the first one in the cluster of three. I brushed aside his weapon, delivered a high thrust which must have pierced half an inch. I turned to meet the second one and delivered a low thrust which hurt. As I was withdrawing my weapon, I saw the third one—snarling angrily and awaiting my thrust. I pulled the bayonet out, stepped over to the di and delivered an uppercut. This was the stoutest blow of the ‘Where would I be?” I Two-Day School to Start Monday for Wardens of All Large Buildings Civilian defense building co-ordi- nators, operating under the general direction of John J. Hasley, assist- ant air-raid warden in charge ot industrial and commercial establish- | ments, will be given a two-day course in air-raid precautions and procedures next Monday and Tues- day in the Departmental Audi- torium. ‘The school. known as the Air-Raid Protection School for Industrial and Commercial Establishments. is spon- sored by the Board of Trade in co- operation with District Civilian De- fense Council. Attendance will be limited to the chief air-raid officer in establishments such as hospitals, hotels, industrial plants, theaters, office buildings. apartments with 500 or more residents and all com- mercial establishments with 100 or more employes. 500 Expected to Attend. | It is expected that about 500 per- sons will take the course, which will begin with registration at 8:30 a.m. Monday. The initial session. at 9 am.. will | feature talks by a representative of the National Office of Civilian De- fense on “National Problems of Civilian Defense': Col. Lemuel | Bolles, executive director of District civilian defense, on *“Organization and Operation of the District of Columbia Civilian Defense Council,” and Mr. Hasley, on “Organization and Operation of Industrial and Commercial Establishments for Air- Raid Protection.” This will be fol- lowed by a general discussion period. At a session at 10:45 am. the students will hear a representative of the British Purchasing Commis- sion give an illustrated talk on “What Happens During an Air | Raid.” Other Speakers on Program. Other speakers during the two- day course will include H. H. Clegg, assistant director of the Federal | Bureau of Investigation, who will discuss “Preparatory Measures for | Building Safety”; Slocum Kingsbury of the American Institute of Arch- itects, whose topic will be “Structural Aspects of Building Protection,”” and | another representative of the Office iof Civilian Defense, who will speak on “Blackout Methods, Techniques and Enforcement.” | The program for Tuesday will fea- ture talks by Herbert A. Friede, civilian defense communications | chief, on “The Air-Raid Warning | System and the Emergency Com- munication System”; Capt. H. S. partment, on “Essential Fire-Fight- | ing Methods"; C. Melvin Sharpe, on “The Co-ordinator and Utilities,” and | other talks on such subjects as “How | to Identify and Handle Incendiary | and Explosive Bombs,” “Gas Defense and Decontamination” and “First- Ald Preparations and Methods.” General discussions by divisional deputy air-raid wardens will follow | the regular instruction sessions. 'Alven D. Whittington Dies After Long lliness Alven D. Whittington, retired em- ploye of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, died yesterday at Gar- fleld Hospital after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the S. H. Hines fu- neral home, 2901 Fourteenth street N.W,, with burial in Easton, Pa. Born in Arkansas in 1861, he came here in 1863 during the Civil War. He retired at 65 from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing after more than 40 years of service. He was a member of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Whittington Hogeland. Mr. Whit- tington made his home at the West- chester Apartments. day. The blade ripped up and out. I really got him. Some day, I'm going back after those two wise dummies that got the best of me. I'll get & squad of men and I'll show them. | trict Morgue in the deaths Harding of the District Fire De- | Appleton, 2810 Texas avenue SE., Joseph S. Miller, 835 Decatur street N.W, and Cletus Tusing, 4354 Lee highway. Army officials at the scene of J crash refused comment on the ac- cident and would not identify the drivers of the two vehicles. The truck s in use as shuttle bus be- tween the Munitions Department and the Maritime Commission. Streetcar and Auto Collide. In a collision between an automo- bile and a streetcar at Calvert ave- nue in College Park, Md,, early to- day, Collie Cubbage, 28, who live on Edmonston road, suffered head injuries and was taken to Casualty Hospital by the Bladensburg Rescue Squad in an undertermined con- dition. Prince Georges County police said the automobile was operated by Arthur De Priest, also of Edmonston road, and the streetcar by R. L. Mail of 1834 Fourth street NE. Neither was injured. Willie Bright 24, of Brentwood. received cuts and bruises and was given first-aid treat- d. ment by the rescue squ Mrs. Marie G. Curry, 57, was in undetermined condition in Emer- gency Hospital today with a head injury police said was received when the automobile in which she was a passenger collided with another in Arlington County. Va., vesterday. She lives at 725 Seventeenth street N.W. Two Inquests Today. Mrs. Ruth S. Dresser, 34, of 1649 Newton street N.W., listed by police as operator of the car in which Mrs Curry was riding, was treated at Emergency for cuts and bruises Herman Garlow. 46, of Morgan- town, W. Va.. was admitted to Prov- idence Hospital, late yesterday for treatment of a broken collar bone and chest injuries. Police said he was a passenger in gn automobil involved in a collision at Tenth ar Taylor streets N.E. A coroner’s jury was to quest testimony today at hear in- the Dis- of Rabbi F street of 48 F the last Israel Hurwitz. 75, of 475 S.W., and Louis Green, 48, street NW. They were traffic deaths of 1941 and the sec- ond of 1942, respectively. No in- quest has been scheduled yet in the death of Miss Dolores Anderson 18, of 1123 West Virginia avenue NE. first victim of this year, be- cause important witnesses are in hospitals with injuries. Virginia's 1941 Toll Is 1,064 Deaths RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 2 (# —The last two days of 1941 passed without a single fatal automobile accident in Virginia, but two highway deaths were reported to State police head- quarters yesterday. Allen Mosely, 30, and his wife, Mabel Mosely, 30, were killed in an accident in South Norfolk. A belated report received at State police of a highway death December 29 sent the 1941 toll to 1,064, a jump |of 211 over the 1940 total. Alfred | D. Jones, 19, of Charles Town, W. | Va., injyred in an accident Decem- ber 26, on route 340, was the victim, Dean Kennedy krundage, Health Official, Dead Dean Kennedy Brundage, 50. of 2701 Twenty-fourth street north, Arlington, a pioneer in the study of occupational diseases, died last night at Georgetown Hospital. He had been a resident of Arlington since 1926. Mr. Brundage, a former senior statistician in the United States Public Health Service, resigned in 1937 because of illness. He joined the service in 1918 and studied ogtu- pational diseases, writing a number of articles for Government, statis- tical and industrial hygiene publica- tions. He was a native of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a fel- low of the Institute of Public Health and a member of the American Statistical Association. He is survived by his widow and two sons, Dean Edward and Harri- | son Brundage. )