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Evening star., 1941-08-24
Feminine Naval Executive
Has Hired 5000 in Past Year

The Navys crack recruiting officer
Is not any glad-handing lieutenant
but a slip of girl named Grace
r. Yerger in the Navy Department
here.
To be sure, she doesn't sign up
young men to see the world, but
instead picks civilian workers to see
the inside of the vast, multiple
winged Navy Department building.
And she has selected and put more
than 5000 to work within the last
year.
Miss Yerger has a title that is
almost as long as she is tall-senior
administrative assistant, by classifl-
cation, and specifically assistant
chief of the recruiting and place.
ment division Of the Navy Depart
ment. Ralph T. Bartlett is chief,
and they both work under Charles
Piozet, director of personnel.
Hired Sight Unseen.
She hires her folks without see
Ing them, and not long ago hired
q young female midget for a stenog-
rapher. The Navy was somewhat
surprised when the tiny girl showed
UP for work, but nobody batted an
eye and the girl proved to be a
good worker. A midget doesn't have
to lean over to answer q phone,
Miss Yerger pointed out.
Here's how Miss Yerger goes about
her work. Each Monday the various
Bureaus dump On her desk their
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Naturally, you want to save
your teeth from this injury. If.
however, you feel that your
teeth need an abrasive scour-
ing, at least occasionally, we
suggest that you follow special
directions on the Teel package.
Get Teel at any drug, de-
partment or 10t store. And
see your dentist regularly
for his professional advice. i
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down-that is, largely occupied by
shanties, brick yards, junk yards
and other things not in keeping
With q War Department building.
2. 1t is three-quarters of a mile
farther from the District than the
experimental farm site and thus
would be more difficult to reach for
the daily worker.
8. II it Is used, where will the
Army put the five depot buildings,
aggregating 100000 square feet Of
floor space, originally planned for
this location?
I. 1t is largely filled land and
the foundation of a big building
would be insecure.
S. Sewer and water facilities are
not adequate in the area and would
have to be improved at consider
able cost.
s. Army employees living in Wash
ington, as most of them do, would
have to pay a Virginia income tax
unless existing laws are changed.
Z. No matter what size building
Is erected ina Arlington, a portion
Of the $13 ,000, 900 estimated as nee
essary to road improvements must
be spent.
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orders for needed personnel. Miss
Yerger takes quick look at the
orders, figures how many stenogra-
pliers and how many Multigraph op-
orators are wanted, and then tele-
phones the Civil Service Commission,
At the commission a batch of case
records of persons in those classi-
fications is laid out, and Miss Yerger
goes to work studying the files.
She has had good luck, she says,
holding up a pair of crossed fingers.
She pays most attention to the edu-
cational background IF the appli-
cants, and to their previous expert
ence. Sometimes a lack of previous
experience is not bad thing; there
is nothing for the applicant to un-
learn If he or she has Just gradu-
ated from training school and has
never held any real job.
"You learn to tell a lot about the
people just from their cards." Miss
Yerger said. But, of course, there
are some things a person can't get
down on paper.
For instance. a young man came
up for work as clerk the other
day and turned out to be a full
fiedged cowboy from Texas with high
heel boots and sombrero. Somebody
had combined two Civil Service reg
listers, and this clerk-to-be said he
was q ranchman and also good ct
farm butchering.
Miss Yerger admits she, sAlects
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they have been developed during
the course of the controversy.
Arguments for Rectangae.
Here are the arguments for the
rectangle::
l. A War Department building
here would fit into the consistent,
long-range plan agreed to by the
Park and Planning Commission and
the Army for the co-ordinated de-
velopment of Washington.
2. 1t has the backing Of the Presi-
dent, the Fine Arts Commission, the
Park and Planning Commission and
the American Planning and Civic
Association, among other groups and
individuals.
8. The Public Buildings Admins
tration has the plans ready for q
building here .-....
4. Congress has authorized acqui-
sition Of 78 acres, lying generally
between Seventeenth, Twenty fifth,
Constitution avenue and F street
NV, enough land on which to build
5000, 900 square feet of Office space.
S. The location is central with
respect to the other Federal depart
ments.
s. BY following the original plan,
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people for some jobs she doesn't
know much about herself She hires
all claSsifications of clerks and ste
nographers, and the whole field OF
operators for the list of machines
that end in "ograph." Further
more, the hiring of a few people
means looking through a lot of
papers.
II 60 through 100 papers and take
about IS" she said. I'VE figure IS of
those will answer the call. But you
still have studied 100 papers to get
fewer than Is people"
Miss Yerger is 80 years old and
admits it without a qualm. She
came to the Navy when she was 20,
and had worked for refrigerator
company in Vermont before that.
She had gone to high school in
Vermont, but is proud of the fact
that she was born in Washington,
D. G.. She lives with her mother at
5407 Nebraska avenue NV, and q
cocker spaniel dog and an alley
cat. In her spare time she works in
the garden, plays bridge, reads and
knits.
She is not bit awed at the tre-
mendous job of selecting people she
is doing, but says simply that Mr..
Piozet taught her all she knows.
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the first unit Of q projected new
War Department building chat ut
Twenty-first street and Virginia
avenue N.w0 could be expanded 10
q structure Af1ording 1,o00, 900 square
feet of ONCE space. The land neces-
sary to this, between Twenty first,
Twenty-third, c and E streets, al
ready is controlled by the Govern
ment.
I. Much needed river-front beau
tification would result.
8. Parking space could be afforded
through fringe" plan worked out
by District highway of1icials. This
contemplates a ring of huge park
ing lots around the circumference
of the city.
8. No such outlay of money for
road improvements as. would be
necessary to a Virginia site would
be entailed. 1t has been estimated
that an immediate expenditure of
$13, 900 ,000-$5, 600 900 of it in the
District-would be necessary to in
sure proper access to building for
10000 employees in Arlington.
10. Federal department headquar-
ters belong in the District OF
Columbia.
II. The time element could be
met by constructing the building
with cement, with the understanding
that 1t would be faced over with
limestone later to conform to the
esthetic qualifications of Federal
buildings.
. Opponents Arguments.
On the other hand, opponents say:
1. Land condemnation must be
undertaken before the entire rec
tangle area Is available. There is
no. money for this, and besides, 1t
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Mr.. McCloy and Gen. Somervell
would reveal no more of the Presi-
dents stand than to say he had
ordered the restudy-both as to the
buildings. dimensions and location.
Next day the Army stopped work
on a quartermaster depot project
Immediately south of the expert
mental farm. The depot land had
been suggested as site for the War
Department building Did this mean
use of the depot site?
Only the War Department and
the President know, but the public
was free to guess, and conjecture
has been heavy while the President
remained in Hyde Park. Guessers
with some background of civic
planning are confident either the
depot site in Arlington or the
Northwest Rectangle in Washington
will be chosen.
One big clue to what the restudy
OF the projected buildings dimen-
sions would produce was a letter
the President wrote to the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee hear
ing the multi-million-dollar defense
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bill carrying funds for its erection.
The letter suggested cutting the size
of the building in half.
Site Is Important Question.
IT believe it would be unwise," !"
the President wrote, ito provide
Office space on the Arlington farm
site for more than 10000 War De-
partment employees until some ex-
perience shall have been acquired
as to the effect of concentrating so
many employees in this location"
Whether the building is to be
halved, quartered or reduced in any
degree, however, is not as impor-
tant to the groups and individuals
who have debated it as its location
AS many as dozen sites have been
suggested, including the Soldiers
Home and the National Training
School and have been rejected for
reasons of topography of accessi-
bility.
With "all the evidence in" it thus
appears that the choice rests be-
tween the depot and the rectangle.
Because of this, it is worth while
to review the assets or liabilities
pros and cons-of the two sites as
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Lear's 'bIitz' Force
Prepares for Battle
With Bigger Foe
Army Of 10000 Begins
2Weeks Of Rehearsal for
Contest With 10000
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WITH THE SECOND ARMY IN
ARKANSAS, Aug. 23.-The 10000
troops Of I'd Army begin to-
morrow two weeks of war rehearsal
striking force, compensating in mo-
bility and speed for the over
whelming man power Of Sd Army's
260 900 whom they meet in ma
neuvers next month.
This relentless shifting of men,
machines and guns will carry 1t.
Gen. Ben Lear and his citizen
soldiers deep into north Louisiana,
ready to match military might with
1t. Gen. Walter Kreuger's forces,
now preparing to mass south of the
Red River. The two-sided war
games begin September Is and end
October /.
Maj. Gen. Robert c. Richardson,
jr.,. 7th Army Corps commander,
said the Armys first use of its new
dive bombers and the first large
scale employment of pontoons for
river crossings were highlights of
the first week of the Arkansas
maneuvers.
To Polish Its Operations.
Until Friday, when the other di-
visions of the I'd Army come
into the picture, the battle practice
will continue to center on 7th
Army Corps efforts to polish its
operation as a closely co-ordinated
unit.
Monday and Tuesday the corps
10000 men will withdraw to the
southeast before a mythical enemy
climaxing this maneuver with two
sided battle Wednesday and Thurs
day. This will pit the 9th New
. York; and 33rd Qllinois) divisions
on one side against the 35th mis-
souri,, Kansas and Nebraska on the
other.
The scene of maneuvers will shift
to a new battlefield 80 miles south.
eastward, straddling the Ouachits
River between Camden and Ell Do
RADIO, Friday. when the I'd Army
takes over active control.
Fast Moving Force of $4,000.
With the 7th Army Corps com.
bining its strength during the marcf
eastward - to near Camden - thu
other divisions of the Army vii
begin TO enter the picture. The 6tf
Division from Fort Leonard Wood
Mo, and the 5th from Fort Custer
Mich, will move from temporary
stopovers at Camp Robinson, neal
Little Rock, into position near Cam.
den, east of the Ouachita River.
They will form provisional
corps. fast-moving, highly flexible
orgaization of 10000 men equipped
with speedy reconnaissance cars anc
motorized infantry trained for hit.
ting suddenly and hard.
Evening star., 1941-08-24
Admiral Won Hintze,
0ne-Time Aide 10
Kaiser, Is Dead
Former Envoy Acted as
Messenger to Dewey at
Manila Boy in 1898
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 23.-Rear Admiral
Paul Won Hintze, II, one-time aide
de-camp to the late Kaiser Wilhelm
II and German secretary for foreign
affairs in the waning days of the
World War, died here today.
The admiral, who spent his last
years in retirement, was as much
at home in diplomats chair as on
the bridge of a ship, having served
as Minister to Mexico, China and
Norway, and played an important
part in negotiating with Admiral
George Dewey at Manila in 1898.
His diplomatic career started in
1911 when he was sent to Mexico as
Minister in 1911. His next assign
ment was to the same post in China
in 1917. In September, 1918, he was
called home from his ministerial
assignment in Norway to take over
the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Admiral Hintze was flag lieuten-
ant under Admiral Won Diederichs,
commander of German naval
squadron at Manila Bay in 1898,
when the Philippine capital fell to
United States forces under Admiral
Dewey.
He acted as messenger between
Won Diederich and Dewey in nego-
tiations for the removal of the Ger
man ships to another anchorage
out of line of the fire of the Ameri-
can warships.
When the World War came he
quit his ministerial post in Mexico,
disguised himself as an ordinary
seaman and made his way back TO
Germany. The Kaiser was so
pleased at his exploit that he ap-
pointed him Minister to China
provided he could get there.
Evening star., 1941-08-24

President Roosevelt, returning to
Washington tomorrow, is expected
to settle once and for all the con-
troversy that has ragged for three
weeks around the Army's proposal
to erect a $35,O0O,0OO dream" War
Department building on the Airing
ton Experimental Farm.
Tomorrow, or sometime this week.
the Army men behind the project
will lay before the Chief Executive
. redraft of their plans What
these plans will be, only the Army
knows, and the no comment" order
has been clamped on tight since
Wednesday.
That day the President called to
the White House Assistant Secre-
tary of War John j. McCloy and
Brig. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell,
construction chief of the Quarter
master Corps. He told them to
reetudy plans both for the War De-
partment building and its site.
PUT three shifts on it and come
back as soon as you have finished" !"
the President directed.
Use Of Navy Building.
The day before he had given
evidence he would take last-minute
action regarding the proposed build
ing. During the World War, the
President told newsmen, he had
had a hand in the dissertation of
Washington parks through erection
on the Mall of the old War and
Navy Department Buildings. He
declared he did not want to do any
thing like this again.
The President also said he was
considering a scheme whereby the
Army could expand its new War
Department Building on Virginia
avenue while a similar large Navy
Department building was being put
upon the site of the Naval Hospital.
Both buildings, he explained, could
then be turned over to the Army
"for the duration"
This scheme would be in accord
ance with the so-called Northwest
Rectangle plan developed 10 years
ago by the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, which
has actively opposed the idea of
placing a building for 10000 en-
ployes on the experimental farm.
Conjecture Immediately arose as to
whether or not the President had
told the Army to use the rectangle
site.
Emerging from the White House
conference the next day, however,
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takes more time than Is eonscion-
able in the emergency.
2. Despite the fact that Congress
has authorised acquisition, only four
squares Of land are actually avail
able. These could accommodate q
building Of no more than 1,000, 900
square feet Of Office space. The
Army has asked for 1000, 600 feet.
Even if the Army is allowed only
half that much, the space would still
be inadequate "
g. There would be no parking
space. To acquire adjacent property
for this purpose would cost an esti-
mated 100000 for the necessary
eight acres.
4. Use Of the four available squares
would necessitate abandonment of
plans the Public Buildings Admins
tratien has for three temporary
Office buildings there.
Arguments for Depot Site.
AS for the depot site, its exponents
claim that:
/. Its use, rather than the ex-
perimental farm, would remove all
esthetic objections raised to placing
building at the gate of Airing
ton Cemetery.
o. The Army owns the land and
no condemnation proceedings would
be necessary. -.1 -
3. The Arlington road improve
ment plans could be carried out
with only a few minor changes
4. There is ample room on its 7s
acres for parking, as well as
building for 10000 or 10000 en-
ployes.
Opponents Stand.
The opposition answers that:,
/. The surrounding area Is run
Evening star., 1941-08-24

= Recent clinical studies con-
Quoted by dentists Under q
Research Foundation showed
that 8 out Of 10 adults ex-
amined had, the soft part Of
one or more teeth exposed.
With no hard enamel or gun
% opeueoetit. progtR 4 Gamble.
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Millions Risk lnjuring Their Teeth
BE Safe! Brush Your Teeth the LIQUID Way
Loud DsMMies Coaee Lnxe Confoas Absodek Nc Abasss

Today millions of people are unknow-
ingly causing serious damage to their
teeth-by regular brushing with denti-
frices containing abrasives or securing
materials.
Gradually, as months 60 by, these
4brasives cut cavities into the soft part
of teeth along the gum line exposed by
shrinking gums, where there is no hard
enamel to protect them.
In fact, among people who brush their
teeth regularly, very large percentage
of all cavities along the gum line that
require filing are probably the result of
this injury. This was shown by elm
ical study in a leading dental journal.
Disclosed By seIsssiss Rssssreh
These startling facts were recently
confirmed by scientific research. Emf
nent independent scientists made lab
oratory toothbrushing tests with num-
Der of dentifrices containing abrasives.
Every one cut cavities into the soft
part of the teeth.
In the same manner, these scientists
tested the new liquid dentifrice-Teef.
In no case did Teel injure the teeth in
any way. because Teel contains abb
solutely no abrasives Of any kind.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30


This situation called for high diplomacy.
When Peter John pleaded guilty. Superior
Judge Charles Dawson still had to decide
whether the young man really was guilty or
not, which depended upon the unknowable
matter OF Rachels age. County Probation Of
fieer Max Watson rose to the occasion by
negotiating verbal treaty
In order to stop the scandal about a
daughter willing to marry a man who couldn't
pay for her, Mr.. Sterio consented to remove
the $1,000 price tag and literally gave away
the bride for nothing. This made it possible
Tor Judge Dawson to let Peter out of Jail and
Rachel out of the Detention Home without
solving the insolvable age question. Justice
Miller married them and when on top of that
Papa Sterio agreed to a Gypsy wedding. lin
order to make his daughter respectfully mar
RED IN the eyes of his people" the harassed
authorities heaved a sigh of relief
But more trouble was brewing Before
consenting to an outdoor Gypsy wedding.
Sterio had insisted that the Watson treaty
be set aside and replaced by a secret agree
ment calling for token payment of $500 from
Peter Johns family
When this became Unpaid and overdue Mr.
Sterio, accompanied by RachePs mother and
two brothers. Steve and Schono. and her cousin
Tans, repossessed the bride, in a car by force.
They chose Christmas Eve when others were
giving presents, 10 take tniS one back
At least such was the assertion of Peter
John who swore out warrants. charging kid
naping The bride and her relatives were
picked up at Los Angeles and brought before
Judge Chester Moore who listened to voluble
testimony until his head ached worst of all
From the confusing stories, nobody could be
sure that Rachel had not merely been per-
o.. suaded to go touring with the family In
disgust the judge dismissed the charges but
the Sterios were warned to take Peter John
along on all future trips with his bride
The Los Angeles District Attorneys office
improved the occasion by handing Peter a
formal notice that he must pay $50 a month
for the support of Annie Johns child Peter
merely repeated his previous defense and
added the further one that he had no money
Then, arm in arm. he and his smiling bride
walked out Of the courtroom.
Annie may have trouble in producing Gypsy
witnesses, because nice Gypsy girls are not
supposed TO appeal to gadjo courts.
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But there was no record to prove her age.
Peters father. Steve John, said he was all
for buying the bride Peter wanted but that
there Just wasn't any 81 500 in the John clan.
Gypsying being what it is these days. The
buxom girl was a bargain at that price, he
admitted.
Peter reaffirmed his determination to
marry Rachel. money or no money.
I love her" he said and as soon as I'm
out of this trouble we're going to be together,
despite Rachels family"
Before the court scene was over. still an
other complication arose. in the form of a
pretty girl in bright red and green Gypsy garb.
with flowing skirt and gold earrings who
swept into the court with baby in her arms
and announced that she was Anna John, 81. of
Los Angeles-Peter's wife under the Gypsy
law The infant was Peters offspring, she
claimed
Peter John looked at her stolidly and said
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he had never seen her before. Nobody seemed
to know anything about her. Rachel didn't
even bat an eye and again there were no
records. Somewhat doubtful over who was
telling the truth Justice Miller finally held
Peter for trial in Superior Court, on the
child-stealing charge. Peter promptly offered
to plead guilty, if this would hasten the time
when he could apply for probation and be
back with Rachel again.
Conviction of child stealing in a gadjo
court or of anything else for that matter
would be no stain on his character among
Peters own race, but he hoped they would
not lock him up too long Under Gypsy law,
however, he was committing an objectionable
sin, booming himself. his bride and their off
spring to be tribal outcasts, by trying to take
bride without paying for her. That was the
worst possible sort of grand larceny
The unwilling father-in-law also found him
self in further complications. An FBI agent
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Justice Miller foresaw lot of legal
headaches because everyone familiar with the
Romany race knows that its members are
never supposed to call upon the gadjo authori-
ties TO settle their own quarrels. for which
courts and officers of the law are deeply
grateful
How old is Rachel?" asked the justice,
suspecting slull-duggery.
MY little Rachel is fifteen" said the
Gypsy. promptly. He had the right answers
for all the other questions too. therefore JUS
tice Miller, though still dubious. had no choice
but to issue the warrant Sheriff William j.
Emig and deputies went to the ranch where
Kitcho said the Gypsy Romeo was living
They found Peter John not merely living
but actually working in the fields. picking
peas He was such a good worker that his
employer talked about bailing him out no
matter what the charge.
Emig knew that from time immemorisl
the Romany chal has eked out his existence by
trading horses or any other easy means that
could keep him from doing distasteful manual
labor. The Romany chic, the woman. does
all the heavy work around the camp, in addi-
ton to fortune-telling and amuet-selling So
why was Peter working?
At this point Rachel made things all the
more confusing by announcing, emphatically:
ne uiu hoI Seeal iite' Wchl because
love him. We intend to get married. l am
nineteen-father is liar"
II all began to look phony to Emig just
the same he took Peter John along and also
Rachel who seemed to be quite bit older
than fifteen.
Gypsy marriages are strictly Gypsy af-
fairs, performed without minister or any
record being made, and marital troubles sell
dom come before the courts of the land which
usually recognize the unofficial weddings
tacitly even where common law marriages
have become illegal. Also instead of the bride