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PAGE "38 PAGE 3G Haiti more, rP II VENIING SUN eceml.er 23; i9 Baltimoreans Told To Try New Skills Pin Tourney To Boost Sale Of Defense Bonds Evening Sun Sponsors Baltimore Phase Of Nation-Wide Plan All Fees And Prizes To Be In War Stamps Naval Academy Head Assigned To New Post Willson Becomes Chief Of Staff Of U. S. Fleet Commander Mayor Signs Parking Ban Into Law All Major Downtown Streets Now Restricted Laibr Democrat Leader, Dies In Hospital State Central Chairman, Stricken Nov. 1, At Age Of 66 1 lirackbill I if 1 4 it A 1 1 1 ADMIRAL RUSSELL WILLSON He becomes chief of staff i Yomen Sacrifice Yule Pleasure For Red Cross Mrs. Stieff Says "War Recognizes No Seasons" In Forming New Campaign For Relief Fringer Sees Danger In Immigration, Would Train Residents "'Executives of the defense indus tries and the people of Baltimore must combine to use to the full the working capacities of permanent residents of the city if Baltimore is to do its part industrially in "ticfense." That statement was made today by i David L.

B. Fringer, director of the State Employment Service. "There are reserves of labor among the permanent residents of the city that are not now being u.sed while people are coming into the city from other parts of the country at the rate of several hundred a week," Mr. Fringer continued. "If greater attention is not given to the situation' twu things are likely to happen.

Relief Problem Seen "The city is likely to have a large number of people on its hands and on its relief roils when the war ends and these people are unemployed. In that event, Baltimore taxpayers wilf feel the situation where it hurts a taxpayer most, in his pocketbook. "Or the executives of defense industries will find that the supply of labor is not inexhaustible and they will not be able to get the people needed to produce ships, airplanes and other necessities of national defense. People Urged To Train "The situation would be helped if the people themselves would take advantage of the special vocational schools which are being conducted in addition to the regular vocational training given as a part of the public school system. Those training courses, which run a few weeks, are designed to fit people to work in the defense industries.

The classes operate through the twenty-four hours and are de--signed for those now employed. No matter what the hours in which a man or woman Is employed, he or she has the opportunity to attend lhor classes when free from work. "It would help if all the February graduates of the city high schools would register the State Employment Service and take this special vocational training. This training is designed to start those who take it in the defense industries. Examples Cited "For example, a man who has never worked in a shop, but who has been an insurance agent, can be trained for one of the less skillful occupations in a defense industry.

Or a man or woman who is not employed at all now can be trained in the same manner. "Once in the defense industry, the training-in-industry plan which is in effect here as one of the activities of the Office of Production Management can train that person to advance from the less-skilled occupation to the more skilled. "The State Employment Service has advertised the opportunities given by these schools in every possible, way; in the streetcars, by radio, through notices in the newspapers. Capacity Unused "But the people have not responded. These schools are capable of training a much larger number than those who have applied for training.

"There is another source of workers apart from these vocational schools for adults. They are the young people who go through the vocational schools that are a part of the public school system. They get work immediately on finishing their schooling. Graduates of the Polytechnic Institute (ire snapped up as soon as they graduate. If we had two or three Polytechnic Institutes we could get work fcr all their graduates.

No Risks Involved "Those who take the training run no risk of taking the training and then finding, after they have taken it, that they cannot get job.i. "We know that expansions in the defense industries in the immediate future are going to require so many more people than arc now at work that there will be wor'i for every permanent resident of the city, and a good many more who come here from other States." JUST OUT OF PAWN 38 Genuine Diamond (Q)fS Kolld tlold Hums. Valum to SSO SO Elfiin Watchrs (Q) 0 5 i'rrfrrt Condition TT f'ully OiiHtBiitrrd. Values In DIAMOND KNCACKMKNT ItlNG AND WKDPINO I N'(i SKT Krt. with 10 brilliant iimi- if nine diamonds In modern 4 yellow gold mourning, only 0 Beautiful selection of other fine out of pawn Diamond.

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At All Dealeri. Uy Ralph Keep 'Em a slogan spurring United States industry to maximum efforts in all production lines supplying American and allied forces battling the Axis powers is soon to have a new meaning in Baltimore. It is to be the rallying cry for a monster bowling tournament to advance the sale of defense saving bonds and stamps. One of hundreds of similar events planned throughout the country, the tournament will be sponsored by The Ei'ening Sun, in cooperation with the Monumental Alley Owners Association and independent operators. Beginning January 31.

it will run through February 15 at virtually all alleys in the city and be open to all men and women bowlers here, regardless of their classification. All Awards In Bonds The meet will be known here; as elsewhere, as the national defense bond bowling tournament and it provides a $500 defense bond as first prize for the men, a $250 defense bond as the top award for women. All other awards will be in bonds Blaze Creates Traffic Snarl Pennsylvania Station Plaza Blocked By Tangle Of Fire Hose Traffic on the Pennsylvania Railroad Station plaza, al.vays heavy, and on St. Paul street at the plaza's entrance, was thrown into confusion this afternoon during a fire in a mail car on the station's lower level. The alarm was rung in from box 311 on the Charles street bridge and the Firemen parked their apparatus on Charles street and hooked up their hose lines there, bottling up that traffic which happened to be caught on the plaza "or forcing it to seek outlet through the St Paul street entrance.

Snarl Created Many drivers stranded on the plaza tried to find their way out through St. Paul street, some of them trying to back out and some turning their cars around, and the effect was a vexatious snarl not only on the plaza but on St. Paul street, where north and south bound traffic had to contend with the confusion at the plaza entrance. The traffic troubles outlasted the fire itself, which was extinguished in about 15 minutes. The confusion on the plaza and on St.

Paul street persisted, however, until the firemen took up their hose lines in Charles street and the apparatus departed from the scene. Even after the apparatus had pulled away cars were going both ways on the plaza. Bridge Traffic Halted Vehicular traffic over the Charles street bridge was halted by the police during the fire, but streetcar traffic continued to operate over the span by means of laid over the hose lines. The mail car in which the fire occurred was part of a Philadelphia Continued On Page 28. Column 3 puilllllll UJIPH i Yni! run make nrxt ChrlMmns your hanpiest fvrr by acting now.

Open an Aurora Federal CHRISTMAS SAVINGS FUND Amounts accepted as low nn 23c weekly, inrl we're not limited to any mierifir numhrr of account. Ktttilar divuirnrt. no kervice charge ever. Yes. there a STILL TIME! AURORA FEDERAL Savins A- Loan Association J03 C'harlra 11..

3144 niiniiiirrTniiiiiiiiimiiinHi In memory of THOMAS LEIGH MARRIOT' a Director find iissociate of this Company for many years, our offices will be closed December 23rd from ten a. m. to one p. m. CUMBERLAND COAL COMPANY ANOTHER GOOD POSITION lor Bard-Avon School Graduate Minn Rnlly Ann Oilple now em.

ploved iin necrrtiiry the W.vnmn Park Federal Saving. Ar Lonn Asiin. HARD-A VON SCHOOL EC ETA RIAL005 8l' i BET I AK in the Xm-as Box- Bettcr Turn To Page IS SLACKS SLACKS $2.95 and up. Open Tuesday until 9 P. M.

JKRNF VS BALTIMORE MATCH PANTS CO 414 W. Baltimore St. Near Eutaw. ri'lHT WAYS BETTER FOR SKIN FREEZE-Q and stamps, and the alley operators will receive their bowling fees in bonds and stamps, thus assuring that every penny involved in the tourney will be geared to national defense. The number of prizes, of course, will depend on the number of rollers who participate.

These pin-popping parties are one of the latest phases of the National Defense Savings Bond Administration's campaign to effect a speedy increase in defense revenues through bond and stamp sales. It has thrown its full support behind the events, and expects several million rollers to answer the call. Cooperating in Baltimore in the Maryland Committee, headed by Charles H. Roloson, chairman, and Walter N. Ruth, administrator.

Mr. Roloson is enthusiastic about bowling's part in the bond program, and has had this message placed on the tourney entry blanks: "To the bowlers of Baltimore: This tournament is an excellent opportunity for you to Advance the defense pro-f Continued On Page 25, Column 3 2 Die, 1 Hurt In Car Mishaps Machines Lock, Burst Into Flame In One Of Accidents Two persons, one of them unidentified, were instantly killed in automobile accidents on the new Philadelphia road and the Washington Boulevard early today, one crash of two cars resulting in both machines catching fire and burning. In the Philadelphia road crash, the man killed, was Edward Milton Profit, a railroad brakeman, who lived at Charlestown, Cecil county. Mrs. Elizabeth McConell.27.

of Richland, N. was injured and taken to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her husband, J. J. McConell, riding in the car with her, was uninjured.

According to State Patrolman John F. Browning the automobile driven south on the highway by Profit crashed into the rear of the other automobile, being driven by Mrs. McConell. Both cars were locked together and immediately burst into flames. The crash occurred just in front of the Midway Inn at Bradshaw.

Truck drivers passing by on the northbound lane halted their vehicles and ran to Continued On Page 28, Column 3 A Flowing Bowl of Good Old Fashioned MOG Made At IIo me MVA'IVK 1 I'lnt Unnil nut I auk litnnt Lijg Aotf Ire 'Cream (allow it to nielli iw 1 'J'uinhler Milk. i Tumbler 4-o. Kye Whiskey Stir well. Tup em-h with a ii'hilllnit of niitini'if t'xe liigreillentH In thin irn-liorllon fur lamer ruani it ieit. Ileinllera I'Ki: NK Ire renin r-oiitn Iiin nil I lie iieretmary in.

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Valuable iisn rights. 6985. Sun. EGG Eleven emergency traffic ordinances, including one that imposes a daytime parking ban on all major downtown streets, went into effect at noon today when Mayor Howard W. Jackson af fixed his signature to the eleven bill.

He immediately telephoned to Commissioner Robert F. Stanton to inform him that the ordinances now were law. Mr. Jackson added that it is his understanding that the police are to begin enforcing the restrictions as MKin as the signs have been put up. Temporary Sign Temporary signs have been prepared and are to be used until permanent signs are ready.

All the bills were drafted in accord with recommendations of the emergency traffic group, appointed by he Mayor to devise immediate remedy for the increasingly serious traffic congestion. In addition to the daytime parking ban. the other mea-vures call for the following: Includes Greene street, between Pratt and Franklin streets, in the central business district, as defined in other ordinances' Imposes rush hour parking ban on Greene street between these points, with a prohibition against loading and unloading between 8 and 9 A. One-way movement on Frar.kt.n street, between St. Paul and Monroe streets; Franklin westbound and Mulberry eastbound.

Extends the one-way movement now in effect on Lexington, Saratoga and Hanover streets. A rush-hour parking ban on Parle avenue as far as Newington avenue. A rush-hour parking ban on Gay street, from Fallsway to Orleans street and from Ashland avenue to North avenue. A rush-hour parking iun on Pennsylvania avenue, from Franklin to Fulton avenue, with the additional piovi.vt tiiat on Sdturdivt pHiking is to prohibited on both fcides up to midnight. Requires taxicobs to pull to the curbs to take on and discharge passengers and provides a fine up to 10 for each violation.

A rush-hour parking ban on Forrest street and on Greenmount avenue from Hillen street to the city line. A rush-hour ban on North, from Howard to Calvert street with a loading and unloading probation between 8 and 9 A. M. One other ordinance included in the emergency program is sull before the City Council. It was drafted to make possible the setting up of one-way on Cathedral, Charles, St.

Continued On Page 6 MAKE HSERVATIONS NOW FOB. NEW YEAR'S EVE AT HHE CHANTICLEER FEATURING CLYDE LUCAS AND HIS ORCHESTRA "A SHOW IN ITSELF" $5.50 PKR-PERSON ilnrludine Taxi CALL VKKNO.N 1414 Chanticleer. Clirlr t.aarr Christinas Skating l'arty A Vrt Olft For Ever Child FRIDAY AFTERNOON Carlins Roller Rink C.itlins Iceland Arena See old Sant Clans on Sicatra A1miMon Inrluilr Psalm Chrimma.i Party and Fr CJiffa LIQUOR Vour Favorite Brand Cheaper Here! OAMMV'S IOIIOP3 4JH Bait Imore 81 Second-Hamd MotoaxycSe Brings S85 The prron wi placed the advertisement below realized a nice turn of money for the motorcve'e; and it rot ery litile make the i i It through a SUN-AD. THIS AD SOLI) IT IIA11LEY-DA VIDSON Motoreyci 3 tires, new bauery. Al condition.

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23 (VP) Rear Admiral Russell Willson, Naval Academy uperintendent. was ordered to duty today as chief of staff to Admiral Ernest J. King, commander in chief of fhe United States fleet. Academy officials said Admiral Will-jwn would asume his ncd duties about January 1. Willson succeeded Rear Admiral Pilson Brown as Naval Academy superintendent last Feb ruary.

Born At Fredonia, The new chief of to Admiral King wrved as superintendent here durins; the expansion of the Academy and the shortening of the Academy course, necessitated by the approach of the war. WilLson, both at Fredonia. N. Dec. 27.

1883, attended school at Washington, D. C. and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before he was appointed to the Academy. Air-Raid Meeting Set At Pikesville Major Arthur Blackburn, zone airraid warden for the Third, Fourth, Ninth and Eleventh Districts of Baltimore county, and Col. W.

Ross Cameron, medical officer, will be the principal speakers tonighi. at an airraid meeting at o'clock in the public at hool in Pikesville. C. R. Reardon, air-raid warden for the Third District, said that the purpose of the meeting is to inform the people of the district just how they can cooperate with those who will do the actual air-raid work.

To date, he said, about 125 men have signed papers volunteering for air raid duty in various capacities, lie said that plans are also being made for raining women of the d'ntrirt in flint-aid work. The facilities of the Baltimore County Health Center at Pikesville have been a.Tered for this training work as well as for any actual use in an emergency, he stated. Miss Catherine Craddock in director of the Baltimore. County Health Association which Operates the center. Men Advised On Pearl Harbor Jobs Workmen applying for jobs in aircraft and shipyard work in Pearl Harbor should apply at the offices of the State Employment Service, 119 Hopkins Place, and not the Navy Recruiting Office in the Postoffice, David L.

B. Fringer, director of the service, announced today. Since publication 'of the statement that the Government is seeking workmen for employment at, Pearl Harbor, in the Hawaiian Island, attacked by the Japanese on December 7, the Navy Recruiting Office has been swamped with persons seeking the jobs, Mr. Fringer said he was informed. He added, however, that only those applicants will be accepted who, if they are now engaged in defense industry, have a letter from their employer Mating that he is willing to release thern.

2 Flee Officer; Seized At Hospital When two men he ordered to halt early today failed to do so when he nought to question them. Patrolman George Buekheit fired six shots, but te'irirn escaped, he reported. A short time later two men, one of them gu'flieririg from a gunshot wound oh the. lift leg, weie arrested at "the UniveiMty Hospital. After they were questioned, police ri.ted two other and began a search for a f'rfth.

All of them are colored. Police charged the two arrested at the hospital with a pocketbook robbery. Charged with asaulting and robing Miss Hilda Ro we, of 1833 Clifton enue. of hor pocketbook and $43.65 last Friday night two blocks from her home were Willjam Johnson and Harry Thomas, both of the 1400 block North Pan ish "alley. Don't Burn Papers William R.

McCUyton. chairman of the Raltimore City Saluage Committee, today i.vtued a request that persons save Christmas gift boxes and paper wrappings for the Salvation Aimy or the St. Vincent de Paul Society, or aell them to a waste paper cejlev rather than burn them. The committer now is engaged in art all-out efTort to prevent waste of any materials that may be of value to the 'national defense program, directly or indirectly. He pointed out that even materials not directly needed for Vie pmgram should be preserved for future use.

Navy Invites College Men JWavy recruiting offices in Baltimore wiW lie closed on Christmas Day, Lieut. Com. Philip Hambsch announced today. Commander Hambsch invited all college men except freshmen to visit the navy recruiting offices chiring their holiday at home and learn of the new opportunities open to them fcr enrollment in the Naval Reserve. M.

Harry Laib, a foremost figure in Baltimore politics for forty years and chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee for Baltimore, died today at the Union Memorial Hospital. He was 6G years old. In the course of his Ion, political career, Mr. Laib spent nearly a quarter of a century in the office of the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and in that post was recognized as the State's ranking authority on election laws and election procedure. lie left tl elections office two and a half years ago in a factional shakeup when the forces of Gov.

Herbert R. O'Conor took over the board. Stricken On Nov. 21 He suffered a heart attack November 21 and had been a patient in the hospital since that date. Mr.

Laib had been in bad health for the last three years. It was as a youthful protege of the late John S. (Frank) Kelly, last of the city's undisputed Democratic bosses, that Mr. Laib first appeared in politics. He became the personal secretary of the untutored Kelly and handled all the private affairs of the political boss for years until Kelly's death in 1928.

The two were long associated in the insurance business under the firm name of M. Harry Laib Co. Wa In Health Department Mr. Laib remained in the insurance business throughout life, and was most recently associated with the firm of J. Ramsay Barry Inc.

At the beginning of the century Kelly's influence brought about the appointment of Mr. Laib as secretary of the Municipal Health Department, and he remained in that post until 1915, when the late James H. Preston, then Mayor, reorganized the department. Mr. Laib moved at once to the Board of Supervisors of Elections.

Retained By Republican For six years he served as assistant chief clerk and in 1922 became chief clerk. He carried all the voluminous election laws and their many interpretations in his meiory, nd by the time that the board majority Was given over into Republican hands under the administration of Gov. Harry V. Nice in 1935, he had become such an established part of the election machinery that the Republicans retained him on the staff while replacing all the other Democratic employes with Republicans. For the purpose of keeping him, the position of special assistant was created.

Ousted In 1939 Mr. Laib had been in the elections office twenty-three years when a new board took over by appointment of Governor O'Conor in 1939 and immediately ousted him, for in recent years Mr. Laib had been allied with the rival factional forces led by Mayor Howard W. Jackson. Mr.

Laib became chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee for Baltimore in 1929, succeeding Charles E. Bichy. In that capacity he had directed all elections campaigns in the city for the last dozen years. Never Married Surviving Mr. Laib, who never married, are two brothers, Vernon B.

Laib, 3323 Liberty Heights avenue, and Raymond C. Laib, of New York, and an aunt, Mrs. Nettie Kirk, with whom he had made his home since the death of his mother five years ago. He lived at the Hopkins Apartments. Man Injured In Downtown Crash One man was injured ami a traffic light was put out of commission when two autos collided at Lexington and Calvert streets shortly after 6 A.

M. today. George W. Johnson. 41, of Church lane, Pikesville, driver of one of the cars, was treated at the Mercy Hospital for head injuries.

William S. Town-send, 829 Pontine avenue, operator of the other machine, was uninjured. According to Patrolmen James Man-son and Jerome Carroll, Johnson was driving west on Lexington street when his machine was struck on the right side and forced into the light standard by Townseid's car, which was going south on Calvert street. Johnson was summoned to Traffic Court on a charge of failure to give the right of way, and Townsend with reckless driving. SPECIAL NOTICES TliHiika For Ihlnr Wft Bl I fllUIlL- ult mill I'rii'iuls fur llirir silnilil nnit'rn-linn iluritik' lliix I IitImI Minx Si-tiii Wo Juki.

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4 8 "'War recognizes no seasons nor time, and do we must put our should ers to the wheel immediately," Mm. Gideon Stieff, chairman of the women's division of the Red Cross roll call and war relief campaign for $1,000,000, declared today. Garbed in a military-like gray Red Cross uniform, Mrs. Stieff told twenty-six executive leaders of the women's division at the Belvedere Hotel that the Christmas holidays would allow little time for Red Cross volunteers to rest and enjoy themselves. Gratified At Response "1 am gratified at this very minute hv vntir nuirU rpQnflnw in mv rail i i she said.

'During the last two days 1 summoned you all by telephone and every one of you except one has come to this meeting. The one lady who could not be present did everything she could to attend, but just could not. "This is a splendid showing. With spirit like this we cannot miss our goal." Mrs. Stieff pointed out that there i.s 1-H Group To Be Reclassified Call To Service For All In Class Over 28 Years Is Indicated All draft registrants placed in Class 1-H are to be immediately reclassified, it was announced today at State selective service headquarters.

Class 1-H is composed of those men who are available for call to military service but who have been deferred because they were 28 or more years old. The order was sent to the State draft headquarters from the National Selective Service Board in Washington. Call To Service Indicated From these orders it was indicated that men over 28 will now be called to servica. They will undergo physical examinations, draft officers said. If local draft boards find that a man who was in 1-H can now pass the physical examination and had no dependents, he will be placed in Class an extraordinary demand now upon the Red Cross, for in addition to immense war-relief tasks, the organization is training thousands of persons in first aid, nursing and various subjects related to civilian defense.

8,000 Workers Sought "Funds are needed for this work." she declared. "We must do everything we can to procure a record-breaking membership in the Red Cross." Robert Bonnell, chairman of the campaign committee, said the volunteer workers' army this year would have to be doubled in order to reach Baltimore's $1,000,000 share in the $50,000,000 nation-wide Red Cross fund total. This means, he said, that more than 8.000 persons will help with soliciting, clerical work and other aspects of the campaign. Committee Listed He added that the main campaign will begin after Christmas. Mrs.

Stiefl's committee includes: Mrs. Charles E. McPhail, Mrs. Emil fContinued On Page 28, Column 5 FHA Can Speed Homes, Belief Assessments Agreement Only Obstacle Left, Builders Say "If the Federal Housing Authority will assess new home construction at its actual cost, Baltimore builders will construct the 8,000 new dwelling units for defense workers needed in Baltimore." That was the comment today of C. Philip Pitt, secretary of the Real Estate Board, on the proposal of Frank A.

Vanderlip, defense housing coordinator, for construction of new dwelling units as follows: 5,000 units at Middle River, an increase of 2,000 over recent estimates; 2.000 units in the Curtis Bay-Brooklyn-Fairfield section, and 1,000 units in the Sparrows Point section. It has been swid by Mr. Vandei lip's office that, if Baltimore builders are unwilling to build the houses as a matter of private enterprise, the Federal Government will do the building. Re lip's office and the Baltimore builder Asks FHA To Be Realistic "If the Federal Housing Authority will be realistic in its assessments of property and will base its assessments on the cost -of housing now," said Mr. Pitt, "the Baltimore builders can do the work and will do it.

"The Housing Authority insures up to ninety per cent, of the cost of the buildings, but there has been a recent rise in the cost of construction amounting to fourteen per cent. If the increased cost is not taken into account, the builder obviously isn't insured to ninety per but to something less than that "Builders are willing to risk profits on the work, but they are not willing to risk their capital. "Are the builders organized to build as many as 8.000 houses when the normal number built in a year in Baltimore is around Yes they have been building at double the normal rate for some time. Yes even in these defense times they can get the labor On Page 28, Column 4J l-A. making him eligible for call to peated conferences have been held be-activ tween representatives of Mr.

Vandei Draft officers pointed out, however, that some 1-H men probably will not meet the physical qualifications and will therefore have to be placed in deferred classifications such as 1-B (available but fit only for limited duty) and 4-F (physically disqualified for any form of military duty). Withholds Total In 1-H Lieut. Col. Henry C. Stanwood, director of selective service in Maryland, said that his headquarters would not make public the number of men now in Class 1-H.

Colonel Stanwood also explained that the classification of 1-H is to be discontinued until after the new registration of men between 18 and 64. inclusive, when deferments because of age again are probable. Under the new orders, there no longer are deferments purely on the basis of age. Colonel Stanwood pointed, out that it probably would be some time before the actual reclassification gets under way and the proper forms are made available to the local boards. 0.