Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1942, Page 20

== JIAIE EDITION Washington and Vicinity Power fo Shift U. S. Agencies Is Ques!ioned Senate fommittee Meets o Find Way to Keep Them Here ] By J. A. O'LEARY. There is 1 \thing in_the War Powers Act re ytly passtd by Con- gress which gi #s the President au- thority to move Government agencies | out of Washington, Chairman Mc- Carran of the Senate District Com- mittee declared, as he called the committee into special session at 10:45 this morning in another effort to find a way to avoid decentraliza- tion, An administration spokesman said at the time the current decentral- ization program was ordered that it was being carried out under the general administrative authority of | the President and not by virtue of | emergency powers. It was recalled | that the shift to New York of the Home Owners Loan Corp. had ante- dated the President’s war powers. Chairman McCarran called the meeting after receiving a report late yesterday from Public Buildings | Commissioner W. E. Reynolds, esti- mating it will cost $25,304.000 over & 10-year period to move the 12 agencies listed for transfer to other cities, as against a cost of $31.810,- 000 to provide temporary construc- tion and housing to keep them in ‘Washington. Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, aiso a member of the to the cost of providing temporary committee, began a study of the |buildings in or near the District of report Iast night, and joined Sena- | Columbia over a 10-year period? tor McCarran in seeking to work | “Answer: out some solution that would avoid Cost of Decentralization. necessity for decentralizing the Gov- | 1,450.000 sa. ft. at $1.50x10 ernment. | Senator McCarran has asked Chairman Randolph of the House | District ~ Committee, ~Chairman | Maloney of the Senate years Cost of moving offices, $256.000x2 512,000 3.042.000 $25.304.000 Cost of moving personnel,’ $1.521,000x2 Public | Total Buildings Committee and Chairman Cest of Tem O'Mahongy of the Senate Subcom- | mittee on District appropriations to attend today's meeting. Questions Figures. Cost of temporary bullding $14.500.000 Less 1 2.800.000 $11.600.000 age, etc. Cost of operation. 1,450.000 Senator McCarran questioned some | of the figures in the report, which ! was in response to a questionnaire | submitted to the Public Buildings | Administration after the last com- | mittee meeting. The Senator took | issue particularly with an estimate | that it would cost $10 per net square | foot to provide the temporary office | housing in Washington. This es- | timate was on the assumption there are no more Government-owned sites available. In questioning the power to take agencies out of Wash- ington, Senator McCarran said: “If the President is relying on the ‘War Powers Act, there is nothing in sa. . at 50cx10 years 7.250.000 Cost of housing 9.000 units o Less resale—70% 3 Total 1,810,000 Reports on Housing Factor. In outlining the housing phase of the local situation, Mr. Crane wrote in part: “The estimated total cost of the new housing required in the District of Columbia is as follows: “15.650 family units for construc- tion by Federal agencies (other than A. D. A. low-rental projects), $72,- either the letter or spirit of that act permitting the transfer of bu- | reaus from Washington.” The report from the Public Butld- | 'e“g;!o",?":;a] d“:‘em:“fm‘;‘,“g 45.10‘]"’ | “1.453 family unts for construction 1mm§ without refeereqnce to scceunl- ;by {A llley D_wegln‘g Al.)umorl;y m‘:;:” Y s | rental projects to be used as de- tralization plans, for the proposed i Government expansion both in and “?;g 523“;;’,:.‘8‘;{. &?&6 '?22' construc- District of Columbia. e ST near the tion by private enterprise (1942 fis- Pre-War Increase Estimated. cal year only). $100,000,000. Mr. Reynoids included in his an- | “Total. $183,036,000. swer to the questionnaire a letter| “In addition to _the money cost, from Jacob Crane, assistant co-| this construction will also involve a ordinator of housing, discussing in]substanual cost in critical mate- detail the housing projects planned | rials. which are urgently needed for for this area, both by Government | direct military uses in the construc- agencies and private sources. This | tion of ships, airplanes, tanks, etc. letter said that estimates made be- | Estimates Sales Return. fore the United States entered the mmne return to the Federal Gov- war indicated the total Federal em- | oyment through rental and even- ployment (civilian and military) in | ty5) sale of the 15,650 family units ‘zg; Dg‘;“?&'f"];‘;‘g&“ffl:f;fi and the 2500 dormitory units e 2 ; : | not be estimated accurately at the =i ’"“"‘“G:&mnvm °"S'e’ "‘;“e' ; present time. As an approximation, }a(‘] and 60, over December, | hoyever, it is probable that, during g | 2 “Acceleration of employment in- | ‘c}“:s p::nodt;t;:nf‘:g‘efl;‘ ':;?ldgf,;fi_ Washington, wil probabl reauire a | SLOCY 0ot 600 Tos total rent wil substantial increase in the hm’S:““ in many cases include charges for ;’e’;‘:g“:‘g‘ofitmf‘""g;’:?“”" read the cervices such as heat. light, cooking The answer of the public bulld- ot the annual amount received for ings commissioner :lo the committee | chetter as such will be not more questionnaire read, in part, as inan $6400,000. follows: % : ., pace. .| “In estimating the eventual re- cung“h:ve ),63'?;“:};:;, r;g:v :cn- turn to the Federal Government mediate use? tl;atthmny be rectextved"t}qmugh t:ale - of ese properties, s contem- ‘Answer: 4,980,000 square feet, | plated that the housing construct- Estimates Future. ied by the Defense Homes Corp. “What space, other than that| (7.500 family units and 2,500 dormi- | which you have available, will be | tory units) will be sold after the needed in the future, both in and | war without loss. The disposition of near the District of Columbia? | the other housing owned by Federal “Answer: Indeterminate, prob- |agencies (exceot that owned by the 300,000. 2,500 dormitory units for construe- | tion by Federal agencies (other than | A. D. A), $3,050,000. fuel, water, etc., and it is probable | ably 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 and ad- | Alley Dwelling Authority under its ditional housing if located as indi- cated by this question. “What space is now available, both occupied and unoccupied, in the District of Columbia to take care of the increased load imposed by the prosecution of the war? “Answer: None. “What plan, if any. is now con- templated in the matter of con- struction of further additional low-rental program) is at present in- determinate. If this housing should be sold. however, it is probable that | 8 substantial loss would be in- curred.” Maury P.-T. A. to Meet The Parent-Teacher Association of the Matthew Fontaine Maury School in Arlington County. Va., will meet at 8 o'clock tonight in the buildings? “Answer: Public Buildings Ad- | schoolhouse. There will be a special ministration has under construc- | program and refreshments. tion, 1,175,000 square feet; Public | Buildings Administration has an appropriation which will create by | June 30, 1942, 1,500,000 square feet; avallable space in new War Depart- | ment Building by June 30, 1842, 500,000 square feet. “This would make a total of 8175000 square feet availab® by June 30, 1942, and indicates a | deficit of 1,805,000 square feet at| this time. | “Authorized space to be created | by Public Buildings Administration between June 30 and December 31, 750,000 square feet; completion of War Department Building, Decem- ber 31, 2,000,000 square feet: avail- able December 31, 1942, 5925,000 square feet. “This indjcates a deficit of be- tween 1075000 square feet to 4,000,000 square feet at this time.” Facilities Offer Problem. “The availability of land for the construction of both offices and houses. in or near the District of Columbia? “Answer: Land is unquestion- ably available near the District. The real problem here is availability of sewer and water facilities. “The cost of such moving of sgencles and personnel as related Paper Collection For Tomorrow The jollowing is the schedule for The Evening Star-P.-T. A. Salvage for Victory paper collec- tion program in Washington schools, together with the five leading schools in the district and their poundage so far col- lected: District No. 3. Roosevelt High School - Barnard H. D. Cook Morgan ... Truesdell ... ‘Whittier Coolidge Keene Takoma Shepherd Paul Junior Military Road | Brightwood | Dennison ~ West Macfarland W. B. Powell Petworth Rudolph 2721 Gage Central Banneker Hubbard Powell Junior Bancroft H. Wilson Adams Sumner-Magrudec _\’ ADMITTED TO SUPREME COURT PRACTICE—Miss Antonia E. Rago, 25-year-old Chicago attorney (seated), is shown signing the roll shortly after being admitted to practice yesterday before the bar of the Supreme Court, Mrs. Beatrice A. Clephane, Wash< ington attorney and Miss Rago's sponsor, is shown standing. ~—Wide World Photo. | Defective Testifies At Trial of Two in 'Hyattsville Holdup Two Defendants Are Identified by Witnesses In Baltimore Court | Special Dispatch to The Star. | BALTIMORE, Jan. 6.—Detective | Sergt. Michael J. Mahaney of the Metropolitan Police was the first witness called by the Government today in the trial of two alleged | Hyattsville bank bandits before | Judge J. Calvin Chesnut and a jury | | in Federal Court. Sergt. Mahaney took the stand | shortly after 9 o'clock. It was he! who arrested one of the defendants in Charlotte, N. C., last October, one month after an armed trio took 852,616 in cash from two messengers of the Prince Georges Bank & Trust Co. ‘The defendants are Hilliard Sand- ers, arrested at Charlotte, and Wil- liam Leo Keefe, taken into custody by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents at New York City early last month. Both men pleaded not guilty | 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. Still to be called, he indicated, are | more than a score of witnesses, in- cluding F. B. 1. agents, North Caro- lina authorities and Prince Georges County police. During yesterday'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 to the stand and identified Keefe as | one of the participants. Mr. Harrington explained to the | court that a third member of the bandit trio has not been appre- hended. | he Fp WASHINGTON, D, \Sherman H. Stivers Dies; Consulfing Engineer Sherman H. Stivers, 55, consult- ing engineer, of 6309 Connecticut avenue, Chevy Chase, Md., died yesterday at Garfield Hospital. Mr. Stivers was connected with the valuation division of the Inter- state Commerce Commission from | 1915 to 1924. He then entered pri- | vate practice, with his own firm, Sherman §S. Stivers’ Associates, which has offices in Baltimore, Sal- Isbury, Md.; Norfolk, Va., and Wash- ington. He was engineering con- sultant for a number of small rail- roads in addition to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Line, Inter- national Harvester and the cities of New York and Buffalo. Mr. Stivers was graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1910. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and was | the author of treatises on engineer- ing and valuation subjects. Funeral services will be held at funeral home, Bethesda, Md. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Clara Wood Stivers; six children, Reuben, now with the Maritime Commission; Sherman H, jr, who recently enlisted in the Marines; Frances, Albert, Martha and Eliza- beth Stivers, and a sister, Mrs. Mat- tie Andrews of Lexington, Ky. 'Students fo Hear Talk {On War Opportunities By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Jan. 6. —President John Lloyd Newcomb will address University of Virginia students in Cabell Hall tonight on opportunities for college men in the armed services. It was estimated that 25 students have left the university to volunteer [ for the armed services since the | United States entered the war. | Dr. Newcomb sent a letter to all | students during the holidays urging them to return to school and pledged the co-operation of the university in de their 12:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Pumphrey | termining xm under the Selective Service t. WITH SUNDAY MOS&NING EDITION C, Reorganizafion Program Awaifs Virginia Body Assembly to Get Revised Proposals This Month By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 6—The midterm recommendations of Gov. Price for further reorganisation of agencies of the State government will result in a revised set of pro- posals going before the new Legis- lature this month, Incorporating some of the Gov- ernor’s proposals but omitting oth- ers, the new recommendations were drafted by a special commission headed by Delegate E. Blackburn Moore of Berryville, created by the 1940 Assembly to give further study to the Governor's suggestions and such other reorganization matters as it saw fit. Virginia has prided itself on the efficiency and economy of its State government and matters pertaining to changes always draw wide atten- tion. As members of the Moore commission pointed out, however, no session of the Legislature ad- journs without “reorganization™ in some phase of State activities. Process. Dr. Robert H. Tucker of Wash- ington and Lee University and Junius P, PFishburn of Roanoke, who issued supplemental state- ments in which they mentioned other problems for future consid- eration, emphasized that reorgani- zation was a continuing process. Dr. Tucker declared the Gov- ernor's proposals represented “ad- ditional steps in the general re- organization program begun in 1926-1928.” He also participated in the study that led to the 1926-1928 program. One of the most controversial phases of Gov. Price’s suggestions, that dealing with an integrated de- partment of conservation, appears definitely sidetracked. The Gover- nor, in a special message January 31, 1940, called for consolidation of the Commission of Fisherles, the Game Commission and the Conser- vation Commission into a Depart- ment of Conservation. This proposal, however, was in- cluded in neither House nor Sen- ate bills offered in 1940, and the Moore commission reported its evi- dence was insufficient to support the plan, but rather that it indi- cated the distribution of work among the three agencies was well defined and that diversity rather than similarity predominated. Recommendations Listed. In lieu of consolidation. the re- organization study group therefore proposed a co-ordinating committee composed of the heads of the three commissions who would get together at least once a quarter to discuss their mutual problems. The report also recommended that the terms of the three commission heads be | changed to coincide with that of the Governor and that the membership of the Game Commission be re- duced from seven to five. Savings under the Government's proposed consolidation, which he estimated at $250,000 per biennium, were a matter of opinion, the Moore Commission concluded. Other recommendations of the Moore group: Abolition of the Virginia Industrial TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1942. ening Sfar * Society and General PRINCE GEORGES TIRE RATIONERS—Members of the Prince Georges County Tire Rationing Board are shown at the opening of their office in the County Service Building in Hyattsville yes- terday. Left to right, they are R. M. Hardy, L. H. Burch, chairman, and 8. H. Hollingsworth. Board and the Industrial School Board for Colored Children and transfer of their powers and duties ;o the State Board of Publie Wel- are. Establishment of a Department of Mental Hygtene and Hospitals. Organization of & Department of Corrections., Abolition of the fee system for compensating sheriffs and city sergeants. Transfer from the Department of Agriculture to the Health Depart- ment the administration of laws re- lating to inspection and sanitation of hotels, restaurants, filling sta- tions and tourist camps. The Moore Commission made no recommendation on the Governor's proposal for the creation of the of- fice of commissioner of finance, nor | did it concur in his recommenda- tion for abolition of the division of motor vehicles and transfer of its functions to other existing depart- ments. ‘The advisory legislative tablishment of a Department of Public Safety by transfer of the po- lice functions of the motor vehicle division to the proposed separate agency. Virginia Schools Asked To Aid in Registration BY the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 6.—Col Mills . Neal, State director "of se- lective service, called on Virginia public schools yesterday to make available teachers and buildings on | February 16 for the registration of |men 20 to 44 for military service. The registration will be arranged | by selective service agencies and all available personnel will be used to aid local board chairmen in the instruction of volunteer registrars, Col. Neal said. Loudoun Farmer Dies LEESBURG, Va., Jan. 6 (Special), —Robert Macdonald, 87, Loudoun County farmer, died yesterday after- noon at the home of his son-in-law, the Rev. G. Peyton Craighill, in Leesburg. Mr. Macdonald was born in Scotland and had resided on his farm near here 30 years. He came here from Baird, Tex. You and an Air Raid . . . Medical Service Fully Mobilized For Public Protection (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 city 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. 1f 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 sutomobile, under & I\ 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 fleld 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 fleld 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-raid warning, each get a stretcher, transport a team to the casualty station, take it to the scene and stand by to transport victims to the cas- ualty station or hospital. Tomorrow: Jobs for which you ean wolunieer. council, however, has proposed es- | ¢ New Raid Sirens Will Be Tested On Thursday 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 23 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| mile and the latter a mile and a half. The sirens will be tested separate- 1y and together, officials said. The time selected for the test was sald to have been chosen as the noisiest time of the day in the city to give the sirens the hardest possible test. | Fairfax Residens Seek Restoration of Old Dominion Line —Star Staff Photo. Tire-Rationing Boards To Start Work Soon In Nearby Areas Montgomery Members Named; Virginia Groups Await Instructions tion officers in nearby Maryland and Virginia expect to begin functioning this week end. Their organization was being completed today. B 1 Prince Georges Defense Chiefs Refain Posts Mrs. La Coppidan and Lepper Withdraw Their Resignations Mrs. Daisy F. La Coppidan, chaire man, and John W. Lepper, vice chairman of the Prince Georges County Defense Council, last night withdrew their resignations and a general reorganization and expan- sion of the Advisory Committee of the council was approved at a meet- ing in the County Service Building at Hyattsville. At the same time the Executive Committee of the Montgomery County Civilian Defense Council de« cided not to use Boy Scouts as messengers because the work was described as “too dangerous” In the event of an actual air raid. In the Prince Georges County re- organization, it was agreed to extend membership of the Advisory Com- mittee to leadérs of all groups die rectly interested in county civilian defense. Acts to Still Rumors. In a session which continued past midnight, the committee acted to still rumors of dissatisfaction in civilian defense ranks. These rumors have persisted despite official denials since Mrs. La Coppidan and Mr. Lcpper last month offered their resignations to Gov. O'Conor and the State Defense Council. Mrs,. La Coppidan presided at last night's | meeting. As a result of the decision to exe pand the committee membership, in<’ vitations to join the group will be; sent to Mrs. Ruth P. Keane, chair=! ‘Tire rationing boards and distribu- | yan of the women's division of H | county civilian defense: Mrs. W.{ Parvin Starr, countv chairman of { the Federation of Women's Clubs; 4 Mrs. Catherine T. Reed, newly= appointed co-ordinator of defense Officials in Arlington County and | activities in county schools, and to | Alexandria were to be sworn in to- | the Mayors or defense officials of all | | incorporated towns. e | i day and two replacements for the | “omcig)s noteq this morning that Montgomery County board Were | the committee had, in effect, been, named by Gov. O'Conor to fill va- | reorganized along lines of those suce cancies created by resignations. The | men named are Julius P. Stadler,) Silver Spring building contractor, ‘ and J. Horace Smithey of Bethesda, | secretary of the Chevy Chase Build- | ing and Loan Association. Mr. Stadler, who was appointed chairman, succeeds S. Walter Bogley of Bethesda, and Mr. Smithey suc- ceeds Frederick L. Thomas of Sandy | Spring. Douglas Diamond of Gaith- | ersburg is the third member of the rd. Mr, Stadler said he would contact Move Is Launched In Vienna to Bolster Transportation | Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. VIENNA, Va., Jan. 6—A move- | ment to restore passenger service on the Washington & Old Dominion | Rallroad because of shortage of l automobiles and tires was launched | last night by Vienna Town Council. It was pointed out that suspen- sion of passenger service by the W. | | & O. D. some time ago and aban- | donment of service altogether by l | the Arlington & Fairfax Auto Rail- | road left a large area of the county | | without adequate public transporta- tion—a problem that threatens to become acute in view of the present emergency. Mayor Joseph T. J. Davis named a committee including Councilmen | Elmer E. Cockrill, chairman; Frank Fouche and Samuel Berry to confer with representatives of civic groups in the affected area to plan some | course of action. Dr. Thomas P. Martin of Dunn Loring, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations of Fairfax County, urged co-operation in re- storing passenger service on the line. Dr. Martin pointed to the large num- ber of Government clerks and other employes who may be left without any means of private transportation if they are unable to buy automo- biles and tires. At the same time Dr. Martin an- nounced the county federation will hold & meeting January 15, at Dunn Loring School, when the problem will be taken up by representatives of the local groups comprising the federation. | Arlington officials, however, other members of the board today to arrange organization of the board. Arlington Group Meets. ‘The three members of the Review Board and the three distribution of- ficers appointed for Arlington Coun- ty, met at the office of J. Maynard Magruder, a board member, last night to discuss organization plans. Detailed instructions concerning duties of the Virginia officials are expected today from Brig. Gen. J. Fulmer Bright, State commodities administrator, at Richmond. Mr. Magruder said the six Ar- lington rationing officials would be sworn in this morning at the office of C. Benj. Lavcock, clerk of the Arlington Circuit Court. No defi- nite organization plans could be completed, he said, pending receipt | of Gen. Bright's instructions. It was tentatively agreed by the that the county may be divided into three sections with one distribution | officer assigned each area, Mr. Ma- | gruder said. Alexandrians to Organize. D. C. Book, one of the two distri- | bution officers in Alexandria, said of ficials there were awaiting today's instructions before attempting to.or- ganize a program of action. Gardner L. Boothe, chairman of the Northern Virginia Regional De- fense Council, said the council will have no authority to regulate the tire rationing distribution officers or boards, since these officials will be sworn in as Federal officers and will function independent of the State defense system. Elsewhere in Maryland the ra- tioning of tires began today on a war-time basis, the Associated Press | cessfully established in Montgomery County. Names Subcommittee. In an attempt to solve the probe} lem of providing an adequate alarm system for the county, the commite tee appointed a subcommittee to work out details in the use of fire company warning sirens and to in= vestigate the possibility of obtaine ing new sirens where they are | needed. Members of the subcommittee are T. Howard Duckett, Representative Sasscer and J. Robert Sherwood. | It was indicated the committee will confer with chief Karl Young, county defense fire co-ordinator, on | the possibility of establishing a cen- | tral alarm signal to be operated |from defense headquarters in the | County Service Building. Following the decision of the | Montgomery County Council Execu- | tive Committee not to use Boy | Scouts as messengers, a special com« mittee was appointed to investigate | other duties for which the Scouts | might be used. Thos appointed are | School Supt. Edwin W. Broome, Dr. Dexter M. Bullard, Police Chief An= drew M. Newman and Paul L. Ban- field. | Permits Will Be Limited. | The committee decided to issue a limited number of driving permits which are to be used during black- outs, to keep traffic movement at a minimum. The permits will be issued only to certain classes of | emergency workers and applications | will be submitted for approval to a committee, the members of which | will not be made public Montgomery's chief air-raid ward- en, Arch McDonald. was authorized to prohibit solicitation of funds by | county air-raid wardens. Such funds may be collected only by authorized representatives of the Finance Com- mittee, headed by Joseph A. Cantrel, who will bear identification letters on stationery of the county come | missioners. | It also was decided to discontinue the single siren blast which has been used to summon firemen on the first warnings of an alert. It was ! agreed that the single blast sub- | jected the community to unnecessary alarm. In some instances an actual raid alarm will not follow the alert reported. signals. Several applications for tires had been filed with the Frederick ra- tioning board when it began func- tioning today. In Baltimore, hun- Virginia Seeks New Jobs For ldle Auto Workers By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va. Jan. 6—Quick absorption in defense industries of the skilled workers released by the automotive fleld was envisioned at a re-employment conference here yes- terday, but some difficulty was fore- seen in placing salesmen in new jobs, unless they are willing to undergo training to fit them for defense work. Better utilization of the facilities of the United States Employment Service, by both employers and the jobless, was recommended in the ef- fort to turn man power released by the automobile and tire rationing programs to other fields of employ- ment, particularly in the shipbuild- ing and aircraft fields. ‘The solution to the problem of in- creasing unemployment in the auto- motive establishments may lie in the | basic and refresher training already | available, spokesmen said. dreds of persons telephoned the State Council of Defense asserting their cases were urgent and asking permission to appeal directly to the City Tire Rationing Committee. Receptions Abandoned By Price and Darden By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 6.—Neither the outgoing nor the incoming Gov- ernor will give the usual receptions at the Executive Mansion in con- nection with the change in admin- istration. Gov. Price said yesterday that he and Mrs. Price had decided not to hold the customary reception at the opening of the General Assembly on January 14. At the same time, he said Colgate W. Darden, jr., Governor-elect, had asked him to would not give the reception they had planned for January 21, the day of Mr, Darden’s inauguration. “We have the feeling,” the Gov- Tire Thief and Another Man, Handcuffed, Flee By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 6.—A pris- oner receiving & maximum sentence of 12 months road work and a fine of $100 for conviction of stealing an automobile tire broke away from his guards outside of Police Court yes- terday and escaped with another prisoner who was handcuffed to him. Justice Carleton E. Jewett, in sentencing the tire theft defendant a short time before, said “tires are ernor said, speaking for himself and Mrs. Price, “that this is no time for parties.” 150,000 Maryland Men Expected to Register B the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Jan. 6—State se- lective service officials today esti- mated 135,000 to 150,000 Maryland men between 20 and 44 would regis- ter February 16 for military service. Registrations for these men, not gold today” and “I don't propose to permit people to go around stealing other people’s tires.” previously registered in the call for men 31 to 35, will be handled by local draft boards, they added., , announce that he and Mrs. Darden | About 100 physicians attended a “refresher course” in first aid at the | National Institute of Health last night. The class was conducted by Dr. L. M. Thompson of the national | headquarters of the Red Cross. 1Mounl Rainier Boys’ Club To Be Opened Thursday | Special Dispatch to The Star. Councilman Robert B. Mathias of | the third ward of Mount Rainer, Md., announced at a meeting of the Mayor and Council last night that the Mount Rainier Branch of the Prince Georges Police Boys' Club will be opened formally Thursday night with a ceremony at the Town | Hall. The principal speaker will be ;Repr!sen!ative Sasscer of Maryland. An ordinance was passed at the | meeting granting full authority to the air-raid wardens, deputy war- | dens, policemen and firemen to en- | force laws governing the citizens during blackouts and air raids. The Council ordered the town en- | gineer, Guy T. Folkes, to prepare an | estimate on the cost of widening | Thirty-fourth street. The work will be started sometime in the spring. A move is on foot in the town to widen Valley avenue from Thirty- fourth street to. Thirty-seventh street. It was taken into advise- ment by the Council and Committee on Street Improvements, Tire Board Named CHARLES TOWN, W, Va., Jan. 6 (Special) —Charles H. Smith of Charles Town, A. 8. Lucas of Shep- herdstown and John J. Steinbrun of Harpers Ferry have been named to | compose Jefferson County’s tire« rationing board by S. H. Stone, di- rector of the Jefferson County Council of Civilian Defense,