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Evening star., 1941-07-13
Margaret Dutand, III,
Is Married in Hospital

White House friends eof Miss
Margaret Durand,e af1ectionately
known as rabbit" during years OF
service in President Roosevelt's sec
retariat, learned yesterday she had
become a bride while seriously Ill in
an Asheville IN. c. hospital.
Miss Durand. who was stricken
suddenly and had to give up her
position two years ago, was married
Friday to A. C. Mills of st. Louis,
Mo. The ceremony was performed
in st. Joseph's Hospital by the Rev.
j. A. Gallagher, chaplain of the
hospital, the Associated Press re-
ported. Mr.. Mills, formerly assist
ant to the Secretary of Commerce,
is with the Inland Waterways Com
mission.
Miss Durand went to work in 1928
for the late Louis McHenry Howe,
longtime secretary and confidential
adviser to President Roosevelt, then
Governor of New York After Mr..
Howe's death in 1886 she was Sec
retary to James Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1941-07-13

wiser in the Office of Price Ad-
ministration and Civilian Supply.
Mr.. Paul also will get a check
for an even dollar. He gets two
checks. The dollar one is for
services rendered from July /.
1910, to July l, 1941. The 2-cent
one is for duties performed be-
tween June Is, 1910, when his
appointment was approved, to the
beginning of the 1941 fiscal year.
Why couldn't they give him one
check for $1.02? Well, payments
must be annual, and the limit
for one year is 81. So it took two
checks to make it legal.
Several defense men are to get
two checks. Most of them were
early appointees now in the
Office Of Production Manage
ment. In most cases neither Of
the checks will be for an even
dollar, even thouRh they have
Evening star., 1941-07-13
New Guard ArmoN
Cornerstone Service
Set for Today
Fort Meade Troops ond
Druft Bourd Members
Will Take Port

The cornerstone of the new Ma
tional Guard Armory will be laid at
4 o'clock this afternoon in cere-
monies combining military pomp
and informality.
Three groups will come in mill
tary convoy from Fort Meade-the
l21st Engineers, the 104th Quarter
master Regiment and the 29th Di-
vision special troops. Brig. Gen.
Albert L. Cox, commanding gen.
eral of the District Guard, has sent
invitations to chairmen and men,
bers of the city's Is local draft
boards. members of the Selective
Service Board of Appeals and mem
bers of the RegiStrants' Advisory
Board. Officers of the Guard, now
inactive, and families of members
now in active service also have
been invited.
Hazen to Officiate.
Commissioner Hazen will lay the
cornerstone, which will contain
copies of today's newspapers, a
Bible, a small American flag, a
Congressional Directory, a history
of the District National Guard,
photographs of officers and men,
designs of the building and photo
graphs of other structures formerly
used as Guard headquarters.
The new building is at the end of
East Capitol street.
Troops coming by convoy from
Fort Meade have been instructed to
proceed so as to avoid interference
with civilian traffic as much as pos
sible. The travel will be classed as
convoy training for the participat-
ing troops. and troops coming will
be excused from the "at home" pa
rade scheduled for next Sunday at
the camp.
The cornerstone ceremonies will
open with playing of God Bless
America" by the 121st Engineers
Band. DR.. Albert Evans of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church will give the invocation and
Gen. Cox will present the organiza-
ton commanders as follows: Col.
c. A. Dravo, the adjutant general;
Col John w. Oehmann, 121st Engi-
neers; Col. Walter w. Burns, 26Oth
Coast Artillery, and Capt. c. C.
Hutchinson, 12lst bseryati n
Squadron.
Officials To Be Presented.
Members of the Board of Com
miSSioners of the District will be
presented. and the architect and
builder of the Armory-N. C. Wyeth
and Charles H. Tompkins-will be
introduced.
After actual laying of the corner
stone bv Commissioner Hazen the
band will play the Doxology and the
Rev. James J. OLeary, S. j., pres
ident of Georgetown University, will
pronounce the benediction.
After the formal ceremony, the
guests have been invited to visit
the drill hall.
Evening star., 1941-07-13

his associate, William L. Bait.
The lowest check was to George
H. Wilde, assistant to the deputy
commissioner in the production
section-62 cents.
Those of the II who were still
on the pay roll last June 80 re-
ceived supplementary checks for
the period from March 81, l94l,
to June 30, l941. The checks
issued at the Knudsen dinner
were from the time appointments
were approved to March 81, 1941.
Checks that will be issued to-
morrow to the 262 $1-a-year
workers amount to a grand total
of $126. A group Of 216 o. P. M.
staff members got $685., with the
remaining $32.65 being distributed
among 46 persons in other defense
agencies co-ordinated in the
ONCE for Emergency Manage
ment. With the Knudsen dinner
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Evening star., 1941-07-13
Those Doo Getting Dollar After All When Poy

visor in the Office of the director
general; A. L. Viles, producers
representative on the priorities
division; William L. Finger, How
ard c. Sykes and John c. Parker,
consultants in the production d.
vision, and George Raymond,
Clarence Avildson and Richard
H. Lansburg, all of the 0. P. A.
c. S.
Several more recent additions
to the $1-a-year list will receive
modest sums on their first and
only Government checks until
after June 80, 1912. Low man in
this respect Is James L. ONeill,
deputy director in the production
division. One dime will be paid
to his order by the Treasury on
demand.
Mr.. ONeill and virtually all
the other $1-a-year men won't
cash their checks though. They
will frame them and hang them
Evening star., 1941-07-13
IsoIotionist Propaganda Delivered With Star
Found to Be Work of Ham Fish, Sd
Youth Persuaded
Carrier Boys to
Distribute Sheets

Having carrier boys deliver iso-
lationist propaganda along with The
Evening Star was young Hamilton
Fish's idea of killing two birds with
one stone"
Fourteen-year-ol Hamilton, Sd,
admitted as much yesterday after
inquiries from subscribers, some Of
them indignant, started an inves-
tigation which led to the door OF
his fathers home at 2319 Ashmeao
place NV.
For several days subscribers In
the heart of the Northwest reslden-
tial area had been receiving. along
with The Star, mysterious little
2x4-inch mimeographed slips which
began with the words Wake up,
America" and went on to give the
authors views.
Ran Of Hundreds of Copies.
Young Ham" as he is known
to his playmates, composed the
message, he said, with the assist
ance of an adviser at the America
First Committee, with local head
quarters at 1875 c street NE.
He typed a stencil and ran on
hundreds of copies, he said, on his
toy. mimeographing machine.
The youth, whose father, Repre-
sentative Fish, Republican, OF New
York, is at Fort Bragg, N. c., serv-
ing a tour of active duty as an Army
Reserve officer, enlisted the aid OF
several boys in the neighborhood
in distributing the leaflets. Two OF
the bows were sons of the colored
janitor of a nearby apartment
house.
The carrier boys had to 90 to
a lot of apartments and homes
anyhow" young Ham said, so l
thought they might as well kill two
birds with one stone. They didn't
put the slips in the papers, you
see-they just delivered the two at
the same time. They also left the
slips at doors where they had no
papers to deliver"
Young Ham didn't pay the boys
anything, he said-he merely en-
listed them in the cause. The COL
ored boys, they said, agreed all the
more readily because the Repre-
sentative's son often loaned them
his bicycle and let them use his
baseball and football equipment,
One At Home of Sir Willmott Lewis.
The route agent got to the bottom
of the affair yesterday after the
propaganda leaflets kept turning up
between Fourteenth street and Con-
necticut avenue, Harvard street and
Florida avenue NV. One slip, prob
ably delivered by one of the carriers
while serving a substitute run, ap-
peared with The Star at the home
of Sir Willmott Lewis. Washington
correspondent of the London
Times, who lives at 1856 Massachu-
Setts avenue NV.
The agent quizzed the youths and
got the whole story from them. The
boys admitted they knew little about
the country's foreign policy.
I'VE were just doin' a favor for
a friend" one boy said. When we
knew what it was all about, we took
his leaflets back to him. We don't
want any more of them and
that's the strict truth"
Young Ham for his part said he
wanted it clearly understood his
propaganda leaflets had mo con-
nection whatever with The Star,
wish in which The Stars editors
cheerfully concur.
Evening star., 1941-07-13

salaries for $1-a-yearites add up
to $141.14.
Four to Get Even Buck.
Four men in Ralph Budd's
transportation division are to re-
ceive checks for an even 81 simply
because they had been employed
for exactly a year or the nearest
fraction of a month thereto, as
the fiscal fraternity says. They
are Ted v. Rogers, Arthur M.
Hill, Frederick C. Horner and
Alexander T. Wood. They were
the only ones on the list who
were owed for precisely . years
work.
Eight other recipients Of 81
checks will be men, who like Mr..
Paul, have been around more
than a year and whose pay rec
ords were not broken before the
end Of the year by the Knudsen
dinner short-year computation.
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Evening star., 1941-07-13
By JAMES FREE.

Tomorrow is payday for 262
defense dollar-a-year men, but
only 13 of them will get a dol
lar.
1t might seem that all dollar
a-year men should get a dollar
on their annual payday, but that
isn't the way the Treasury op-
crates.
The dollar salary, according to
law, is for IL months work, no
more, no less.
If only II months work is
done, one months pay must be
deducted. That's 82s cents, but
the Treasury takes off only 8
cents. After all, no bank can
cash a check for a third of a
cent.
One Check for 2 Cents.
One of the dollar.a-year men
is to get a check for only 2 cents.
He is Randolph Paul, special ad-
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Bond Concerts Listed
For Current Week
TOMORROW.

Army Band, Army War College
band auditorium, 11:30 am.
Army Band, Treasury House,
Fourteenth and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV, 4:30 pm.
Navy Band, East front of Capital.
7:30 pm.
Army Band, District World War
Memorial, West Potomac Park, 7:30
pm.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks
bandstand, 8 pm.
TUESDAY.
Army Band, Army War College
band auditorium, pm.
Army Band, Treasury House, 4:3O
pm.
Marine Band, Mount Alto Hos
pital, 7 pm. (not public.
Soldiers Home Band, Soldiers
Home bandstand, 7 pm.
Navy Band, District World War
Memorial, 7:3O pm.
WEDNESDAY.
Marine Band, East front of Capt.
tol, 7:30 pm.
THURSDAY.
Army Band, Treasury House,
1890 pm.
Marine Band, Marine Barracks
auditorium, l pm.
Navy Band, Naval Hospital, 2:30
pm. Gnot public.
Soldiers Home Band, Soldiers
Home bandstand, pm.
FRIDAY.
Marine Band, ST. Elizabeth's Hos
pital, 2 pm. (not public.
Navy Band, Mount Alto Hospital,
$50 pm. (not public.
Army Band, East front of Capitol,
7:@ pm.
SATURDAY.
Army Band, Army War College
band auditorium, 10:30 am.
Soldiers Home Band, Soldier S
Home bandStand. 7 nm.
Evening star., 1941-07-13

been on the job for more than a
year.
II Checks Total S15.14.
That may require some ex-
planning. It's because they were
invited to a dinner given by
William S. Knudsen, o. P. M.
director general, early last month.
Mr.. Knudsen thought it would
be nice to give out some pay
checks to his buck-a-year boys
on that occasion. But the fiscal
fraternity told Mr.. Knudsen the
checks couldn't be for full year,
because none of the men had
been on the payroll for a full
year at that time. Mr.. Knudsen
said "All right, give them what
you can"
There were II checks for a
total of Ssh. The highest
amounts -97 cents went to
initial appointees, such as John
D. Biooers, production chief. ard
Evening star., 1941-07-13
By WILL p. KENNEDY.


r. F. Camaier, municipal counsel
to the Senate District Committee,
will make studies of all legislation
that might be of benefit to the
District, consult daily with District
officials in key positions and with
business and civic leaders, it was
learned yesterday as he prepared
to start his new duties. The aim
of Chairman McCarran of the COM
mittee, he said, is to find out what
is needed for long-view, compre-
hensive development of the city,
through a series of round-table dis
cusSions.
Senator McCarran outlined three
ways in which the new municipal
attorney will work and two inno-
vations which he proposes to keep
the committee better informed on
District affairs.
Plans Close Contacts.
First. the Senator said, Mr.. CANA
lier will be in constant contact with
the District Commissioners, attend
ing conferences with them and Wis
iting with municipal officers in the
District Building. getting their views
and ideas and reporting to the COM
mittee chairman.
Second, the consultant will be
required to study, analyze and re-
view all proposed District legisla-
ton and compare it with existing
law, then report his findings to the
committee chairman.
Third, the committee Offices will
be kept open throughout regular
Office hours, from am. until 4 pm.
to receive all suggestions, and the
municipal attorney will consult with
the corporation counsels office, and
much time will be saved for the
Senators on the committee by hav-
ing concrete and authoritative sum-
mary on all questions brought before
the committee.
Plans Frequent Conferences.
Senator McCarran's proposed in
novations for close cooperation with
the work of the municipal aitor-
ney. and to make committee action
more efficient is to call the District
Commissioners more frequently into
conferences on vital questions, and
to call similar conferences with other
District officials, particularly the
District auditor and budget ofiicer.
Mr.. Camalier, who takes the newly
created office August 1, says he wei
comes "the opportunity to render
service to the people OF my native
city and to help in the well-rourded.
carefully thought-out development
of the Nations Capital"
He specified that he would well
come all constructive suggestions.
One of his special studies, he said,
will be reorganization and changes
in the form of the District govern
ment He has long thought that the
chasm between District residents
and Congress can be bridged through
creation of an advisory counsel OF
business and civic leaders and Dis
trict officials-not holding political
Jobs, but career men, who know Dis
trict affairs.
Expects officials to Aid.
He mentioned some of those with
whom he has worked and on whom
he will depend for counsel: Walter
L. Fowler, budget officer; Richmond
B. Keech, corporation counsel; FL
wood Seal, former corporation
counsel; Edward A. Dent, assessor;
Roland M. Brennan, purchasing
officer; G. M. Thornett, secretary
of the board; Chester H. Gray. who
writes legislative proposals; Edward
w. Thomas, assistant corporation
counsel; officials of the Water De-
partment, whom he feels have an
especially important job in the rap
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Hooded Bandit Robs
Youth in Parked Cor

Parked in a wooded sector C
upper Rock Greek Park last night,
Aldo Camana, 81, of 1882 Ontario
place NV, was held up by an armed
bandit, wearing black hood, and
robbed of SIS in cash and an S85
watch, he reported to Bethesda
Md police.
The victim said he was talking
with girl companion when the
bandit thrust gun into his auto
mobile and demanded money. He
could not tell whether the man was
white or colored, Mr.. Camana said.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
July, lo4l
July , July s July 9 JuIYlll
. . . .
July, 1910
July s July ~ July Is July 29
. . . .
In July, Beware OF:

In July, Beware OF:
|. The hours between $50
and $50 pm. All four Of the
persons killed in traffic in July,
1910, were fatally injured within
this three-hour period.
2. Crossing a street at point
other than q crosswalk. Two
pedestrians met death by this
action in July last year.
The two other traffic victims
were fatally hurt while either
crossing a street at an uncon-
trolled intersection or driving
an automobile.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Moose to Meet Friduy

FROSTBURG, Md, July II tP).-
approximately 1000 delegates are
expected for the Maryland and bor-
der States convention of the Loyal
Order of Moose July 1920.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Columbus Club to Elect

The Columbus Club, Inc, OF
Clarendon. Va. will hold a special
meeting Thursday in the club home
to ''""t a president and secretary.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Make July Safer

Every blot is District traffic
death. The toll thus far ex-
ceeds that reported here during
the same period last year. Keep
the July calendar clear.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
II Checks Total Sl5.14.

'een on the job for more than a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-16
Rail Eliminates
Bank Loans

NEW YORK. Dec. 16.-Southern
Railway today eliminated out
standing bank loans by prepay
ment of notes for S1.500000 due
February Is, and May Is, 1912.
The loans. originally $1,000
600, were negotiated last May,
with proceeds applied 10 liquida-
ton of the balance Of the COM
pany'S debt 10 Reconstruction
Finance Corporation. At their
peak. loans from RFC incurred
during the depression. amounted
to S31 .405, 900.
Southern. by exercising its
privilege of anticipating any Of the
quarterly maturitieS Of the bank
loan paid off the Sl0.0O0.00O debt
many months ahead of the Sched-
uIe provided for under terms of
the loan. The loan agreement
called for repayment inStalments
beginning August Is. this year,
and concluding May Is, 1914.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-16
Indiana Utility
10 Refund Notes

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Public
Service Company Of Indiana, Inc,
has consummatcd an agreement
with group Of six banks and
two insurance companies for loan
OF Sl0,o00000 on unsecured notes
with an average interest rate over
the life of the loan Of 2.6356 per
cent. Proceeds from the loan were
applied TO redemption of SIS, 100000
of Public Service Company Of In
diana 37s per cent serial deben-
lures maturing semiannually 10
Sept 1a449: 100000 Northern
Indiana Power Company 3 per
cent serial notes maturing annu-
ally to Feb. 81. 1915. and 1896 923
Central Indiana Power Company
2.73 per cent collateral notes ma
turing semfannually TO 1859.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-16
Auto
Graphs
Force Of Industry
To Give U. S, Victory,
Paul Garrett Believes
BY SILER FREEMAN

Paul Garrett. General Motors
director of public relations, gives
new concept Of war. He
doesn't picture IL as planes
bombing cities, bayonet clashing
with bayonet. great ships duel
ing with mighty guns many
miles apart.
CARROTS picture Of modern
warzof America at. wars
lights burning in a research
laboratory; new engine plant
turning out power for fighting
planes; tanks rolling off as
sernbly lines; factory lot with
a thousand autos waiting to
take their owners home from
work; a group of executives en-
route TO Washington.
For Garrett believes il isn't
only strength of arms that will
bring victory for the freedom
of United States but the de-
termined force of industry build
ing up from the make ready"
stage 10 the keep EN- rolling"
stage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-16
In Actual Production

The forces have already At
tanned the stage of actual pro-
duction. Garrett told the Ad-
craft Club of Detroit last night
at its thirty-sixth annual dinner
at the Statler.
THE recent drive on the
North African front by the
British WAS made with the
substantial help of American
machines" he pointed out.
"AIl reports confirm they are
giving q good account Of
themselves.
Even at the end Of World
War / we had not succeeded
i'm placing a single complete
fighting plane or tank Of
American design ON the fight
ing front. And only few
artillery pieces. Already In
World War III our production
lines have delivered to the
govern rent $4,000, 0OO,-
900 worth Of war equipment.
Not that much had even
been ordered last March. II
represents more than $780,
600 man years of work. That
would. build Is bands Of super
highway from coast to coast.
II would build 200 Boulder
DAMS"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-16
New Board
United Artists Corp. Passes
Control TO Directors

NEW YORK. Dec. Is GNS(.-
a new board of directors has been
elected to manage affairs of the
United Artists Corporation and
henceforth owners of the corpora
ton will have no control over the
corporations business operations.
il was announced today.
. Edward c. Raftery. company
president. was elected board chair
man. Other directors elected were
Gradwell L. Sears. vice president
in charge Of domestic distribution:
Arthur w. Kelly, vice president
and chairman of the finance COM
Laudy Lawrence. vice
president and executive co-ordina-
tor; George Bagnall vice president
and chairman of the. production
committee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-16
Contrasts New War

Declaring that even yet we
have not begun in our peace
loving country to comprehend
modern warfare in terms Of
mechanization as II must evolve
from the basic industrial blue
print Garrett offered the fol-
lowing contrasts:
'Tn World War equipment
for a division Of infantry was
400 horses and 1853 motor
vehicles. In World War III Il
Is no horses but $500 motor
vehicles of 100 types.
"War now Is a war Of horse
power. In 1918 an infantry
division had equipment with
$500 horsepower. Now an
armOred division has 100000
horsepower. That j. as much
as city the size Of San Fran
cisco has available. IL Is the
horsepower Of World War I
multiplied 121 times. And
industry I'm this country has
no equal In production of
horsepower.
"Grand Coulee Dam will
generate 2,4OO,OOO horsepower.
But last year the internal
combustion engines of General
Motors alone bulked 240, OOO,-
600 horsepower. This II 100
Grand Coulee dams. Visualize
from that the potential pro-
duction for all of industry"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-16
Lists Suggestions

Garrett proposed IAN Ameri-
can primer on how to help fur
Their the victory we all seek"
Among others, he listed these
suggestions:
Let us work for victory
through better understanding
IN America that never was in
dustry more united than now on
winning this war at any cost:
2,--Let us work for victory
through better understanding
in America of what il is we are
fighting for;
3.-Let us work for victory
through better understanding
IN America that differences be-
tween management and en-
ployes should be submerged in
getting the war job done:
4.-Let us work for victory
through a better understanding
In America that there is hope
for world Of 1860 that tran
sends anything yet known il
We will but imagine and build il.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-16
Real Speed Example

President * T. Keller tells
Chrysler stockholders their cor
poration has already delivered
more than - GOO units or -STc-
-etalll4r designed trucks and other
vehicles for the United States
Army
How's this for speed?
The corporation WAS asked
M February 10 take the draw
ings Of the foreign cannon and
rcdesign them To American spe-
Cificstions and dimensions and
To nj the weapon Ia American
pract ceS of interchangeable
manufacture The first two
guns were delivered in less than
five months. The cannon itself Is
comprised Of more than 500 In
iividual parts from tiny springs
weighing a fraction Of an ounce
80 it's S-foot barrel weighing $50
punds."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-16
War Of Horsepower

Declared Vice President Paul
Garrett Of General Motors last
evening:
ALREADY our production lines
have delivered Ia the govern
ment $4,000. OOO.O 900 worth Of
war equipment. Not that much
had even been ordered last
March. II represents more than
100000 man years Of work.
WAR now j. a war of horse
power. And American industry
has no equal in production Of
horsepower. Grand Coulee Dam
will generate 100000 horse
power. But last year the inter
nal combustion engines Of
Y cneral Motors alone hulked
t0.O00.000 horsepower. That il
100 Grand COulee Dams.
III war il dependent. a. Hit
Ter proclaims, upon technlciPoS
and the ability to organize in
dustriallN. itS course will he de-
termined here" -