Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1942, Page 19

[} . Washi Capifal Transif May Buy More Trolleys, Buses Larger Fleet Studied In View of Auto And Tire Situation The Capital Transit Co.. looking ahead to a probable heavy shift from private to public transporta-| tion facilitles as & result of the au-| tomobile and tire rationing pro- grams, may soon place orders for additional new streetcars and buses for delivery in June and July, Presi- dent E. D. Merrill indicated today. While explaining he could not es- timate at this time how many new vehicles might be ordered to aug-| ment what is now the biggest fleet of streetcars and buses ever in op-| eration in Washington. Mr. Merrill| admitted that the rubber situation | has upset the company’s calculations of its needs in 1942. Orders placed last year were esti- mated to give the transit firm suf- ficient facilities to meet transpor- {in a narrow basement hallway. | Miss Kreitzer told them her brother d Man, 82, Is Fatally Burned Fighting Fire in Sister's Home Woman Attempts , N Vainly to Pull Body From Flames W. H. Kreitzer, 82, retired black- smith of Bowie, Md., was burned to death today in attempting to ex- tinguish a fire in the basement of a rooming house operated by his sister at 418 A street SE. The sister, Miss Frances M. Kreit- zer, about 70, was burned seriously on the face and legs and was taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment. When firemen arrived they found Mzr. Kreitzer's body lying in the fire rgton News was overcome while fighting the flames. She sald she was burned in trying vainly to pull his body from the passageway. Mr. Kreitzer visited his sister for the holidays and was to have re- turned to Bowie this week. He lived | there with his son, W. C. Kreitzer, | who works for an automobile firm in | heater in the basement. The fire ‘Washington. | was confined to the basement where Piremen said the blaze may have | Miss Kreitzer has her living quarters. started from defective wiring or a | the upper floors were not damaged. W. H. KREITZER. Volunteer Workers zbeleciive Testifies tation demands during the whole of | 1942, but Mr. Merrill said it appeared e s et Show Lively Inferest | At Trial of Two in and buses would be needed by sum: mer. Move to Speed Orders. Federal and District officials are fully cognizant of the need mr‘ making adequate provision for mass thing possible to speed up delivery of vehicles now on order, Mr. Mer- rill said. | O. P. M. officials have given high priority ratings to the company’s orders and in some instances have | helped to speed deliveries of ma- terials needed in construction of streetcars and buses. Delivery of buses ordered last year has been slowed up some by delay experienced by manufacturers in obtaining certain parts, such as transmission gears, which are sim- | ilar to those used in Army tanks | and trucks. | The transit company, however, | has been promised delivery by Jan- | uary 17 of the remaining 15 buses | of a fleet of 100 ordered last April. Delivery of the 200 additional buses ordered in October is expected to begin about February 15 and the shipment probably will be com- pleted by April 1, Mr. Merrill said. 67 Expected by June. Sixty-seven streetcars also were ordered last October and some of these are expected to be in operation . in June. Mr. Merrill said he does not ex- ' pect the shift from private to pub- | lic transportation vehicles.to be too ! rapid for the company to handle. k Company officials still are canvass- ing the situation to determine the probable effect of the rationing | program on its facilities during the next few months. As matters now | stand, Mr. Merrill said, facilities will be sufficient to handle what- ever increased load there might be during the first half of the year. Only six applications for new au- tomobile or truck tires were on file with the District’s Tire Rationing Board, meanwhile, after the first day’s operation of the rationing pro- | gram. Few motorists appeared to be in a hurry to get a slice of the allot- ment of 1922 tires provided in the| District’s January quota. But| Chairman Whitney Leary of the | Rationing Board looks for business to pick up in a few days after car owners get used to the system. Right now, more citizens are call- ing at the board’s headquarters in the old Force School for informa- tion and advice than are visiting the tire inspection stations to get appli- | cations for ration cards, ! Only 20 at Testing Stations. ‘There were fewer than 20 callers at the two testing stations yesterday | and more than half of those were ineligibles. Of the six applications received by Chairman Leary, three were from doctors, two from plumbing and heating equipment concerns and one | from a visiting nurse. Mr. Leary said the first batch of requests would be acted on tomor- TOW by the three committees named to review the applications. The | committees will hold separate meet- ings at the Force School at 3 p.mA‘ tomorrow, prior to a general meet- | ing at 4 pm. with Chairman Leary | and the Executive Committee of the board. Chairman Leary last night reor- ganized the memberships of the three committees and designated a chairman for each. | Revised Committee: The revised list follows: Committee No. 1: Raymond Bparks. chairman; J. M. Sanders and | Dr. John F. Preston. This unit will handle applications from members of the medical professions, for am- bulances and for fire, police, public health, sanitation and mail services. Committee No. 2: Milton W. King, chairman; Seldon M. Ely and R.| Scott Smith. This unit has charge of applications for public transpor- | tation vehicles, for transportation of students and teachers to and from school and for necessary transporta- tion of employes on industrial, mining or construction projects. Committee No. 3: John W. Guider, chairman, and Paul Lum. A third member of this committee is yet to be named. The unit will deal with applications for essential transpor- tation of materials, such as ice, fuel, | building materials and the like, and services by common carriers. WouldmCare for Wardens Representative Kennedy, Demo- erat, of New York today asked the House to provide medical care for air raid wardens injured on duty and to require wardens to take an oath of office. He said he would seek early consideration of a bill to carry this out. Asked to Join Probe Streetcar passengers who com- plain of poor service in Johannes. burg, South Africa, are now mvne& by the general manager to join the Municipal Transport Staff’s investi- @ation of the matter. A manner. In Incendiary Bombs Hyattsville Holdup Any Raid on Capital Will Use Fire Weapon, Says Lt. Comdr. Wetherill Lively interest in incendiary Special Dispatch to The Star. bombs ik shown mflyhby vol-| BALTIMORE, Jan. 6—Detective unteer workers attending the morn- | ing session of the Air Raid Protec- | S¢T8%: Michael J. Mahaney of the tion School for Industrial and Com- | Metropolitan Police was the first mercial Establishments at the De- witness called by the Government partmental Auditorium. | today in the trial of two alleged After Lt. Comdr. John P. Wether- ill, 3d, chemical warfare ‘defense | officer at the Navy Yard, in re- sponse to a query from the audience, had replied that he felt certain any bombing blow on Washington would be dealt with incendiaries “without any shadow of doubt,” he was bar- raged with questions. The naval officer reiterated that a water spray or sand are the only safe methods of | pryst Co, dealing witth magnesium fire bombs, | Tne defendants are Hilliard Sand- strongly warned against attempting ers arrested at Charlotte, and Wil- to extinguish them in any other jiam Leo Keefe, taken into custody by Federal Bureau of Investigation Two Defendants Are Identified by Witnesses In Baltimore Court in Federal Court. shortly after 9 o'clock. who arrested one of the defendants $52,616 in cash from two messengers of the Prince Georges Bank & Penetration of Bombs. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1942 Dentist Is Held In $1,000 Bond In Hit-Run Case Glass and Speck Of Paint Are Clues In Investigation D. C. Traffic Toll Killed in 1942 Killed in same period of 1941_ 3 ‘Toll for all of 1941 95 A Washington dentist was free un- der $1,000 bond today on charges of reckless and hit-and-run driving after being arrested by police who worked with clues that included 8 or 10 small pieces of glass, a small piece of metal and a speck of green paint found at the scene of an ac- cident in which a policeman was injured. Dr. Dana L. Green, 37, of 909 Fifth street N.E. was arrested at his | | home by Policemen Horace W. Car- i | michael and A. D. Clarke, specialists |in hit-run cases with the accident | | prevention unit. | Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Clarke | | found the clues at the scene of the | mishap Sunday night in the 2300 block of Pennsylvania avenue SE. in which Policeman William Mat- thews, 42, of No. 1 precinct was | struck. He is in Casualty Hospital | with a fractured collar bone and in- | juries to the spine. 1941 Car Blamed. After conferring with automobile | dealers, the two police officers de- cided the metal and glass was | knocked from the light of a 1941 | automobile and a broadcast for this | make of car, green in color, was| | sent out. x Two other polecemen, M. F. | Frye and F. H. Dunn, heard the | lookout and recalled that they had | | WITR SUNDAY MOSNING EDITION ,m" L/ T Society and General PENNY MILK AT OPPORTUNITY HOUSE—This group at a *% W. P. A art class in Opportunity House, 78 I street N.W., received free milk at the close of the day. In the picture (left to right) are: Esther Ensminger, 7; Betty Ensminger, 9; Charlotte Dodson, 7; Rudy Kunowsky, 14, serving the milk; Nettie Eustace, 8; Beverly Thorpe, 8, serving graham crackers, and Edna Mae Curran, 8. Retrial Is Ordered By Appeals Court in "Siamese Twin' Case District Bench Erred In Instructions to Jury, Decision Says Holding that the District Court erred in its instructions to a.jury, the United States Court of Appeals today ruled that Washington's fa- mous “Siamese twin” operation case will have to be tried again before a ury. The case was an outgrowth of a complicated operation pérformed by New Raid Sirens Will Be Tested - On Thursday | i I Two new air-raid sirens which | | | have just been installed will be tested Thursday at 4:30 pm. | ‘They are a part of the group of | 18 two-horsepower horns and 2:i five-horsepower sirens ordered by | the Commissioners. Eleven of- the | total have been received and two | installed. | The pair to be tested are located on the Thomson School at Twelfth and L streets N.W. and on the east building of the Municipal Center. | The Thomson horn is two-horse- power and the Municipal Center siren five. The former is supposed to have an audibility radius of a Hyattsville bank bandits before |investigated a minor accident at|pr Robert E. Moran, & specialist in | mile and the latter a mile and a Judge J. Calvin Chesnut and a jury | Eighth street and Florida avenue | piastic surgery, on a 15-year-old col- | N.W. Sunday night involving an au- | gred boy, John M. Bonner, and the | Sergt. Mahaney took the stand |tomobile that fitted the description | hoy's cousin, Miss Clara Howard. It was he | of the suspected vehicle. They had | The surgeon attached a tube of flesh, | half. The sirens will be tested separate- |1y and together, officials said. The | | time selected for the test was said | obtained the names of those involved | cut and formed from the boy’s side, | to have been chosen as the noisiest at his home followed. | | In Trafic Court today, his case | was continued until March 6 by Judge George D. Neilson at the re- quest of the corporation counsel's office. Meanwhile. the District 1942 traf- Lt. Comdr. Wetherill told the air- raid workers that a 2'¢-pound in- | cendiary bomb, dropped from 20,000 | feet, would penetrate 2; inches of concrete but not 3 inches. In this he bore out a suggestion made at yesterday's session of the school by S. H. Ingberg, chief of the fire re- agents at New York City early last| fic toll was increased to four yes- month. Both men pleaded not guilty | terday when Dr. A. Magruder Mac- at a preliminary hearing. T. Barton Harrington, the prose- cutor, informed the court, before placing the detective sergeant on the witness stand, that less than half of the prosecution testimony had been offered. sistance section of the Burgau of Standards, who recommended a concrete “stopping layer” for incen- | diaries, where building construction is strong enough to support it. Lt. Comdr. Wetherill also gave the workers elementary instruction in gases and decontamination. Pre- viously they had heard Herbert A. Friede, superintendent of fire alarms in the District, explain the commu- nications system that would be in use here in event of an alr raid. Hear Clegg on Sabotage. Still to be called, he indicated, are more than a score of witnesses, in- cluding F. B. I. agents, North Caro- lina authorities and Prince Georges County police. During vesterday’s session, Van Gordon Stauber, 18, and Joseph J. Dameron, 17, the bank messengers, testified that Sanders and Keefe were two of the three men who par- | ticipated in the holdup scarcely a block from the bank. Marjorie Carr, an 1l-year-old Hyattsville school child who wit- nessed the holdup, was also called | Donald declared the death of Mrs. | | Ruth L. Robinson, 39, colored, of 557 | Twenty-third place N.W. was due to | an accident. Auto Crashed Inte Gate. She had died about three hours after her car had gone out of con- | trol on Nichols avenue S.E. when she had a fainting spell. The auto- | mobile had jumped the curb and | had crashed into a gate at St. Eliz- abeth’s Hospital. | Three persons had died in traffic | in the District at this time last year. | Only one person was confined to & hospital with injuries received in traffic in the District yesterday. Lilliam West, 57, of Brentwood, Md., | ‘was struck by a bus at Jackson place and Pennsylvania avenue NW. She was taken to Emergency Hospital Yesterday the wardens attending | to the stand and identified Keefe as | with a possible leg fracture. the school deviated from the prob- lem of air raids long enough to hear H. H. Clegg, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ‘ urge protective measures against sabotage, telling them meanwhile | that the F. B. I. has uncovered no evidence of any during the present war. “There has been no foreign in- spired sabotage in any plant in the United States up to this time,” Mr. | Clegg said. He advised, however, a | number of steps that might be taken to guard against saboteurs. De- scribing first the methods of those ‘who might attempt to harm a vital industry or its workers, Mr. Clegg | urged an immediate and detailed survey of vulnerable points in any | plant where the danger of sabotage might lurk. Use of common sense in applica- tion of a general plan to specific needs was urged upon the air-raid wardens attending the first session of the school yesterday morning. Orders May Be Changed. ‘ Conditions are fluid in time of | war, Col. Lemuel Bolles, executive | €rs to sell or rent their homes here,i director of civilian defense, told the 300 volunteer workers. Specific in- | structions given to them now, he | said, might necessarily be counter- | outside the Patent Office, however, | | have asked the committee for in-| manded within 24 hours. The group was variously advised during the first session that the safest spot during a raid would be (1) a reinforced basement, (2) the | second floor of a steel frame and | concrete building and (3) the third, fourth or fifth floors of an office building. The advice that the sec- | ond floor is safest came from Slocum | Kingsbury of the American Insti- | tute of Architects, who argued that it is best to have as many layers of | concrete flooring as possible be- tween a bomber and his prospective victim, while the second floor is high enough to escape flying bomb fragments. The other recommenda- tions were made by R. Le Chemi- nant of the British Purchasing Com- mission on the basis of experience with air raids since the first Zeppe- lin dropped the first bomb on Lon- don in 1915. | Expert Advice Recommended. Mr. Kingsbury urged the build- ing co-ordinators attending the school to seek advice from the architects or a building engineer thoroughly familiar with the con- struction of the building in question. Common sense and co-operation also were recommended as the best alds in applying blackout regula- tions by Sergt. Walter Watt of the District of Columbia Fire Depart- ment. He advised strongly against cut- ting off all lights in an apartment house with & master switch. Sergt. ‘Watt described to the air-raid work- ers blackout practices in use in Eng- land and said it was likely that some similar plan would be adopted here. In Great Britain traffic lights remain on, he said, and traffic con- tinues to move, with curbing and one of the participants. Mr. Harrington explained to the court that a third member of the bandit trio has not been appre- hended. 456 Pafent Employes Report Owning Homes Of the 1,200 Patent Office em- ployes to be transferred to Rich- mond, several hundred own homes in or near the District, according to returns received from a ques- tionnaire submitted to Patent Office personnel by James A. Brearley, chief clerk. So far, 847 employes have replied to the questionnaire. Of these, 456 | reported that they owned homes in | the District or nearby areas. These 847 employes are planning to move 1,067 dependents to Richmond, and enough furniture to fill 2,850 rooms. V. I. Richard, supervisory exam- iner, who is chairman of the com- mittee assisting Patent Office work- revealed today that only 20 proper- ties so far have been listed with the committee. More than 50 persons formation on houses and apartments that will become available as a re- sult of the shift of the major part of the personnel of this Federal agency to Richmond. Warplane Ferry Crews Won't Get Overtime Pay At the request of the War De- partment, the Wage and Hour Divi- sion has prepared an amendment to its regulations to exempt highly- paid crews ferrying military planes from the United States to foreign countries from the overtime require- ments of the 40-hour week, it was announced today. The ferrying planes are operated by affiliates of Pan American Airways, Inc. In a letter to the Wage and Hour Division, the War Department ex- pressed the view that the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Stand- ards Act should not apply to em- ployes on ferrying planes who are paid from $800 to $1,500 a month and who have rest periods between flights.” The nature of the ferrying operation is such that the hours of employment from time to time will necessarily exceed 40 hours in a particular week,” it said. mobiles white-striped for visibility. The volunteer workers at yester- day’s session of the school also were told of national problems of civilian defense, were advised on elementary fire-prevention methods and were given an outline of their work by John J. Hasley, assistant chief air- raid warden in charge of industrial obstructions painted white and auto- X and commercial establishments. ‘ Inquest to Continue. ‘[ A coroner’s inquest into a traffic | death was to continue tomorrow | | after taking an unusual turn yes- | terday. Ensign Robert R. Read, 31, at-| tached to the Washington Navy | Yard, was named a co-defendant | after the case had gotten nnderway. } iHe ‘was a passenger in one of th~ | automobiles involved in the accident | and was quoted by Policeman Carl- | ton T. Stein, who investigated the case, as saying he attempted to steer the car when he saw the | accident about to happen. | Mrs, Marion Louise Robinson, | Capitol Heights, Md., who was at | the wheel of the car in which Ensign Read was riding, also was named a | defendant. | Their car crashed into the rear | of another at Pennsylvania and | Branch avenues SE. New Year Day. | Charles Finley, 21, of Arlington, | a passenger in the other car, was| | fatally injured. Knocked Over Traffic Sign. Police who took measurements testified the striking vehicle knocked over a traffic sign and a small tree | before stopping 160 feet from the | point of impact. | |~ John B. Sams, 21, of 627 E street SE. driver of the car in which Mr. Finley was riding, was knocked un- conscious. His car continued 215 | feet after being struck, stopping | against a stone wall. Two men were injured when their | car turned over on a straight road | about five miles from Fairfax, Va., on Route 50, Fairfax County police | reported. Norman Leo Wynkoop, 23, and ‘Walter Gheen, 26, both of the 4800 block of North Fairfax drive, Ar- lington County, Va., were taken to Alexandria Hospital and treated for cuts, bruises and shock. Police charged Mr. Wynkoop with reckless driving. 30 New Police Named To Metropolifan Force Thirty new men yesterday were appointed to the metropolitan po- lice force by the Commissioners. The new group is a part of the 100 authorized by Congress recently. Forty had previously been named, leaving 30 still to be appointed. New men are Frederick J. Ake, Harry G. Black, Walter P. Brogan, David Chefer, Dan Davis, Patrick A. Deenihan, La Valle V. Edmiston, Hubert E, Harmon, Thomas M. Hughes, Thomas H. Hutchinson, jr.; Richard K. Kallio, Gerald L. Key- ser, Guy O. Knorl, Clarence E. Lawless, John T. Lawrence, Dennis F. Manning, James McAuliffe, Lu- ther Miller, jr; John F. Pergal, Robert A. Richmond, Thomas W. Ryan, Rufus D. Scollick, Gillespie B. Southcomb, John M. Thot, An- drew M. Keady, Franklin M. Lane, Floyd G. Lauger, William H. Reed, John W. Rowzie, ‘jr, and Joseph Stanczak. |in Charlotte, N. C.. last October, and made a report to Mr. Carmichael | to Miss Howard, who had been se- one month after an armed trio took | and Mr. Clarke. Dr. Green's arrest verely burned. in an effort to im- prove her health. Miss Howard had been brought here from North Carolina by an aunt. The Bonner boy agreed to the operation at the request of the aunt. In later operations the boy lost a considerable amount of blood and required transfusions. The tube of flesh was removed later. and he was released from the hospital after some two months. In an action for damages for as- sault and battery, filed by the boy against the doctor, a District Court Jury gave a verdict on behalf of the | doctor. ‘Through Attorney Harry H. Bettelman, the youth carried the case to the appellate court. contend- ing that the trial court had given improper instructions to the jury in telling it that if it believed that the boy himself “was capable of ap- preciating and did appreciate the nature and consequences of the op- eration and actually consented, or by his conduct impliedly consented, their verdict must be for the de- fendant.” In its decision today the appellate court held that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that the consent of the boy's mother was necessary for the operation. The mother knew nothing about the arrangement when the first op- eration was performed, but learned of the case later. On this point, the For Public Protec (No. 23 of a Series.) One of the essential services you could expect in an air raid is immediate medical aid. The entire medical profession in the city has been mobilized to pro- vide it. Here is how the emergency medical service is set up: Each hospital has organized an emergency field unit consist- ing of two or more squads, each of which has four doctors, four nurses and four nurses’ aides. At 60 points throughout the ciiy are casualty stations, located in school houses, fire stations and elsewhere, that provide facilities for heating water and protection from bombing. Each casualty station has 12 first aid workers. These casualty stations are part of the job of the emergency medical service. They are not to be prepared by citizen's groups. Casualties to Be Tagged. If communications headquar- ters were notified of casualties, it would relay the message to the hospital nearest the scene. There, the field unit leader would send out a squad from the nearest casualty station to the scene. The head of the squad, his nurse and nurse’s aide would remain at the station and disperse his teams, each a doctor, nurse, nurse’s aide and four first aid workers to set up first aid posts at the scene. These posts might be in the back of an automobile, under s r You and an Air Raid . . . Medical Service Fully Mobilized time of the day in the city to give the sirens the hardest possible test. House Member Resigns Speaker Rayburn presented to the House yesterday the resignation of Representative McArdle, Democrat, of Pennsylvania as a member from the 33d Congressional District of that State. Mr. McArdle has been elected to the Pittsburgh City Council. | School Officials Meet The_Executive Committee of the American Association of School Ad- ministrators after a meeting here rejected a proposal to hold the annual convention February 21-26 in San Francisco. appellate court said that there was evidence that “during the ensuing progress of the experiment the mother, too, was appraised of her son's heroism and gloried in the newspaper notoriety which followed, and which, as nearly as we can gather, resulted in public contribu- tions of money for the boy’s future education.” “Whether this attitude of the mother was a sufficient ratification, we have no need to decide, since that question is not now in the case,” said the court. tion tree, in a corner store, in a pup tent, anywhere. Here the doc- tors would give first aid and each casualty would be tagged, in case the victim should lose conscious- ness before he reached the hos- pital. In addition to describing the treatment given, the tag would bear all the information that could be gotten—name, ad- dress, age, sex, religion, married or single, color, persons to be notified and diagnosis. The doctor would then order the casualties sent home, to the cas- ualty station or to the hospital. Taxicabs to Be Mobilized. At the hospital, the field unit leader would be the receiving of- ficer. All doctors and nurses not assigned to field units or plant protection would be on duty, re- porting to the hospital at the air-raid warning. As with the squads of the field unit, half would be on call by day and the other half, nights. In addition to the ambulances of the city, 300 taxicabs have been mobilized for ambulance duty. Each will be fitted with blocks to hold a stretcher lengthwise in the car. - These taxicabs would re- port to the hospitals assigned them at the air-raild wamning, each get a stretcher, transport & team to the casualiy station, take it to the scene and stand by to transport victims to the cas- ualty station or hospital. Tomom)w:'.l:;bT}ov which you ean volunteer. ~ i L] | —Star Staff Photo. 29,211 School Pupils Given Free Milk As Program Begins Parents and Officials Praise Plan as Aiding In Building Morale Parents and officials joined to- day in praise of the District penny milk program which opened in 64 public and parochial schools yester- day ‘with the distribution of 29211 half pints of free milk. School authorities hailed the proj- ect as aiding in building civilian morale, so important during war- time. “The attitudes of children toward their work is very important fac- | tor in their progress, and to the extent that this extra supply of milk builds up their morale one can well understand the value of this program for needy children” said Robert L. Haycock, first assist- ant superintendent of schools. Held Wartime Need. James E. O'Hearn of the Catho- lic Charities of the District, which is supervising the distribution of milk to 14 parochal schools, said: “In time of war there is as much need for civilian morale as morale in the armed forces. This requires good health, and the penny milk program certainly is one way of | achieving this requiremend” Mr. | O'Hearn said parents in the poorer | sections of the city were particu- | larly pleased with the program. | _ Through the Commissioners’ Sponsors Fund and arrangements with the Surplus Marketing Admin- | istration, three dairies are supplying | the schools milk at an average cost of 167 cents per half pint. One cent is paid by the fund and the S. M. A. makes up the difference. Settlement Houses Helped. In addition to the milk distributed to the 64 schools. seven settlement houses joined in the program, con- suming 315 half pints the first day. Milk is supplied these places at the same low figure, but each house | must pay the entire amount. Mr. |O'Hearn said approximately 4,300 | half pints were consumed in the 14 parochial schools. | ‘Harry Gardner, requisitioning of- | ficer for the District W. P. A. and | in charge of the sponsors fun, point- ed out that the penny milk dis- tributed was in addition to three- cent milk served at lunch time in many of the 64 schools. Each school in the penny milk program has been certified as hav- ing at least 60 per cent enrollment of children whose parents come | within & low income status. Kenilworth Cifizens Ask . 'Wardens fo Waich School { The Kenilworth Citizens’ Associa- | tion urged the District civilian de- | fense office last might to provide wardens between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. to maintain a watch at the Kenil- worth School in order to relieve | teachers now on duty. Meeting in the school, members | of the association commended the faculty for maintaining a 24-hour watch, but said they felt that regu- lar air-raid wardens should take over during the night. Letters to this effect were authorized to be sent the Commissioners and Col. Lemuel Bolles, executive head of civilian defense. The association also urged that the vacancy on the Public Utilities Commission will be filled promptly. President Roosevelt has nominated J. H. Flanagan for the post; Con- gress has not acted. Deputy air-raid wardens for the area have been invited to attend the next meeting, scheduled for Monday. Officers are to be elected. School_lfourd CIeT:rs Dead Teacher’s Name By the Associated Press. SAUGUS, Mass., Jan. 6.—Isabelle Hallin, former high school teacher, School Committee of “all unjust accusations against her character” 11 days after her death in her gas- filled New York apartment at the age of 32. The 1937 School Committee ousted | Miss Hallin from her teaching job as a result of accusations that she served cocktails in her home during rehearsals of the school dramatic club which she coached. Miss Hallin later was cleared of the accusations in & civil court action. Young to Speak at School Commissioner John Russell Young will speak at 8 o'clock tonight, at Francis Junior High School, and the Lincoln Civic Association will present the official flag of the Dis- trict to the schools in its area— Prancis, Stevens' Elementary and Briggs-Montgomery Elementary. has been exonerated by the Saugus | B-1 Ernest F. Henry Named Counsel To Rent Chief Attorney and Civic Leader to Assume Duties at Once Appointment of Ernest F. Henry, attorney and civic leader, as gen- | eral counsel to Rent Administrator Robert F. Cogswell was announced today by the Commissioners. Mr. | Henry is to assume his duties at | once in view of the mounting num- | ber of legal questions Mr. Cogswell reported was beginnig to flood into his office. Mr. Henry, 40, who resides at 4627 | Ninth street N.W., is a member of | the Law and Legislative Committee | of the Federation of Citizens' As- sociations, chairman of the Law and Legislation Committee of the | Petworth Citizens’ Association, a | leader in the District of Columbia Suffrage Association and is Govern- ment appeal agent for local board |No. 5 in the Selective Service sys= tem here. | Formerly in Lumber Industry. | During the past year he was | appointed a member of the District Bar Association’s Committee on Practice and Procedure in the landlord and tenant branch of the Municipal Court. Mr. Henry has had considerable practice ,in the | EENEST F. HENRY. —Star Staff Photo. trial of landlord and tenant cases and between 1919 and 1928 was as- sociated with a lumber concern and with the construction of apartment houses. Mr. Henry was born in Arlington County, Va., and received his edu- cation in Washington’s elementary and high schools and won his law degree, in June, 1927, from George Washington University Law School. He was admitted to the bar here in 1928 and has been associated with the law firm of Lesh, Drain & Barnard. Will Receive $4.600 a Year. His salary with the office of rent administrator will be $4,600 a year. Mr. Cogswell, in a letter to Com- missioner Mason recommending the appointment, said Mr. Henry had not sought the post but he had approached Mr. Henry since he | knew of his qualifications and asked | him to take it. Salvage Committee Unit To Meet Tomorrow The Executive Committee of the District Defense Council’s Salvage Committee will meet at 4:30 pm. tomorrow at the Board of Trade offices in The Star Building. Members who were appointed bv Chairman James E. Colliflower are Heywood N. Saunders, Linn C. Drake, Rufus S. Lusk. William A. | Xanten, Harry N. Stull, Millard A. | West. jr.; Mrs. Florence Armstrong, Dr. Oscar E. Blackwelder, Hyman Viener, B. M. Bulkley, Isaac Jacob= son, L. Leroy Gritzen, R. K. Smith, Arthur Hartnett. Nugent Doods, Claude Owens, Kirk Miller, Milton S. Kronheim, G. Edward Altemus, Charles A. Appelby and William H. Press. Missing Persons Those having information concerning persons reported missing should communicate with the Public Relations Squad of the Police Department, Na- tional 4000. | Mrs. Fannie A. Henley, 46, 5 feet 4 inches, 105 pounds, blue eyes, sandy hair, upper teeth false, wearing rimmed eyeglasses, brown coat with beaver collar, black suede shoes, black hat turned up all around: missing from 1321 Fairmont street N.W. since Saturday. She is in highly nervous condition and may be sick in some rooming house or hotel room. Robert Staples, 38, 5 feet 7 inches, 135 pounds, wearing blue overcoat, | brown suit and no hat; missing from 3067 Canal street N.W. since Saturday. Joseph Wagstaff, 14, 5 feet 6 inches, 125 pounds, blue eyes, brown hair, wearing suit coat, driving a | 1940 two-tone tan Pontiac sedan, Maryland tags 488-530; missing from Chevy Chase, Md., since yes- terday. Dejuses Castor, 29, Filipino, 5 feet 10 inches, 115 pounds, brown eyes, black hair, wearing blue serge suit, white shirt and dark hat; missing |from 620 Massachusetts avenue | N.W. since yesterday. | Betty Bromley, 18, 5 feet 3 inches, | 125 pounds, gray eyes, black hair, | wearing light camel’s hair coat, white moccasins, no hat; missing from 2924 M street N.W. since yes- terday. She is with Virginia Judd, 16, 5 feet 2 inches, 110 pounds, brown eyes, light brown hair, wear- ing a dark, fur-trrimed coat, black hat and shoes, and lives at 3249 N | street N.W. Parenthia Newman, 15, colored, 5 feet 6 inches, 140 pounds, black eyes and hair, wearing brown dress with red buttons, rain sport coat, black oxfords; missing from 119 T street | N.W. since yesterday. r | J