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Evening star., 1941-05-09
Missionaries to Lepers Return
After Three Decades in Japan

The Rev. Dr.. and Mrs. S. M.
Erickson dedicated themselves more
than 30 years ago to spreading the
Christian faith in the Orient. But
that was not enough.
They chose the hardest and lone
liest task missionaries can under
take-ministry among lepers.
But today they're back at their
sponsor church. the Presbyterian
Church of the Pilgrims here after
% years of work among the leper
colonies of Japan. And they're ready
to go back, whenever the State
Department will give them a pass
port.
DR.. Erickson does not feel that
his work among the lepers was
hardship. He looks on it only as
an opportunity.
Encouraged By Government.
The japanese government, he
pointed out, is doing a great deal
for lepers. and afforded him every
opportunity to spread cheer and
Christianity among these isolated
patients. The government has five
provincial hospitals and five central
hospitals for lepers, he explained,
and physicians estimate there are
$4,000 victims of the disease in
Japan. The Empress DoWager, he
added. sponsors the leper program,
which has done much to change
the popular attitude toward lepers
from horror to sympthy.
The best medical care and pleas
ant surroundings are given the
lepers, he said. Medical research
workers, meanwhile, are pursuing a
patient quest for some specific.
Chamoogral oil has proved helpful,
but there is so far no definitely
curative agent or preventive. About
one patient a year in each hospital
Is released as having had his aff1ic-
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9.-Immigration Inspector Charles
H. Whorral said three Austrian ski
racers-tWo of whom have over
stayed temporary permits to visit In
the United States-will leave the
country and seek to re-enter.
Toni Matt, Franz Koessler and
Otto Tschol were slightly injured in
an automobile accident Monday.
They we're questioned by Mr.. Whor-
raj. who said the visitor permits
granted Matt and Koessler expired
last August, while Tschol's is good
until June.
All three will leave tomorrow for
Cuba, the inspector said
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ton arrested, classed as safe to
venture back into society, he said.
The American missionary and his
wife report wide interest in
Christianity among the patients.
They have built a stone church dur
ing their ministry.
DR.. Erickson, who returned from
Japan last December, after 36 years
there, but arrived in Washington
only recently, said he felt that most
of the Japanese people were not
mfriendly to america, but there
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prize of $40 and five third prizes of
50 each.
All letters must be addressed to
the Elks' Traffic Safety Committee,
Elks' Club, 9l9 H street NV. The
contest will close at midnight on
June IS. All returns postmarked
up to that hour will be accepted.
Ambose A. Durkin is chairman Of
the committee in charge of the con-
test.
Evening star., 1941-05-09
infectious Dandruff?
get after it quick with

What makes the infectious type of dam
druff so annoying, so distressing, are those
troublesome fakes on collar or dress
and the seal p irritation and itching that
often accompany the condition.
IL you're troubled in this way, look
out-you may have this common form of
dandruff, so act now before it gets worse.
Has Helped Thousands
Start right in with Listerine Anti
septic and massage. This is the medical
treatment that has shown such amazing
results in a substantial majority of elm
ical test cases g. the treatment that has
also helped thousands of other people.
Simple, Easy Treatment
Listerine is so easy, so simple to use,
so stimulating. Just douse it on the
scalp morning and night and follow with
vigorous and persistent massage.
Thousands of users have marvelled at
how fakes and scales begin to disappear,
how much cleaner and healthier their
scalps appear. And remember:
Kills Bottle Bacillus"
Listerine, the same germicide which
has been famous for more than so years
Evening star., 1941-05-09

Shortage OF razor blades in the
British Army may lead to a short
age of glass tumblers. soldiers hav-
ing found that blades last much
longer is stropped on the inside of a
wet tumbler.
Evening star., 1941-05-09

Mexico claims its gasoline prices
are the cheapest in the world.
Evening star., 1941-05-09
Three Austrian Skiers
Will Seek Re-entry


WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, May
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as an antiseptic mouth wash and gargle.
kills millions of germs on scalp and hair,
including Pityrosporum Ovale, the
strange Bottle Bacillus" recognized by
outstanding dandruff specialists as a
causative agent of infectious dandruff.
This germ-killing action. we believe.
helps to explain why, in a clinical test.
1850 of dandruf sufferers showed either
complete disappearance of or marked
improvement in the symptoms Of dam
druff within month.
LAMBERT PHARMACAL Co., 81. Louis, Mo.
LISTERINE
the delightful treatment
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Benefits Sought Because Job
Affected Old AiIment Denied

Representing the deputy commits
sioner were United States Attorney
Edward M. Curran and Assistant
United States Attorneys Bernard
Margolius. Dennis Mccarthy, and
former Assistant United States At
torney Albert Goldstein. while the
bank and insurance company were
represented by Attorneys James E.
McCabe and Charles T. Branham.
The appeals court said, 1T is Of
no consequence that we might have
reached a different conclusion or
that there is a sharp conflict in the
testimony or even that the evidence
preponderates strongly against the
view expressed by the deputy. We
cannot substitute our judgment for
the deputys judgment, nor can We
weigh the evidence"
Sitting with Chief Justice Groner
on the case we're Associate Justices
Justin Miller and Wiley Rutledge.
Evening star., 1941-03-31

A bank teller who contended that
tuberculosis scar in his right lung
was aggravated by constant use of
his arm in stamping stubs must be
deprived of workman's compensation
unless the United States Employees
Compensation Commission awards it
to him on the basis of competent
evidence, the United States Court
of Appeals decided today.
Deputy Commissioner Frank A.
Cardillo decided that Harold J.
Groom, employed in the Bank of
Commerce and Savings, was not in
jured in the course of his employ
ment. Mr.. Groom then brought
suit in District Court but the court
dismissed his complaint.
TO justify an award there must
be a direct casual connection be-
tween the employment and the in
jury, whether it be the result of acci-
dent or disease" said the court to-
day, in an opinion written by Chief
Justice D. Lawrence Groner.
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ment antitrust activities and ex-
pansion of the work of the Com
merce Department in the field of
business and economic research.
9. Continuation of such programs
as the Agriculture Department food
stamp plan. slum clearance, lew-cost
housing, the extension of hospital
and medical facilities and develop
ment of vocational and cultural
programs for the less privileged"
10. Efforts to pass on" gains from
chronological advance. In an indi-
vidual statement Mr.. Lubin recon-
mended that displacement of men
by machinery be offset by such
practices as advance notices of dis
missal in labor contracts, the pay
ment of dismissal wages and re-
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Curran Is Sustained
In Fight Over His
Legal Right 10 Office
Questioned Indictment
Regularly Returned,
Justice Let's Rules

Almost a year after he had been
sworn in as United States attorney,
Edward M. Curran today weathered
a legal attack on his right to hold
that Office when Justice F. Dickin-
son Let's, in Criminal Court No. 3
of District Court, repulsed an attack
against an indictment that the
former had signed. Mr.. Curran took
the post of prosecutor last April.
Attorney James J. Laughlin, rep
resenting Joseph R. Burko, former
clerk to Police Court Judge Hobart
Newman, contended that his client
had been illegally indicted because
Mr.. Curran, a voter in Maine. had
signed it without proper legal au-
thorlzation. Justice Let's, however,
in ruling from the bench, declared
that there is presumption as to the
regularity in the appointment Of
United States attorneys which cam
not be attacked collaterally.
The jurist said that he examined
the record and found that The in
dictment had been regularly re-
turned and that it had been signed
by the foreman of the District
grand jury. In as much as the
indictment is not the act of the
United States attorney. requiring
his signature, Justice Let's held
that it is the official function Of
the grand jury.
Accordingly, Justice Let's sus-
tanned the demurrer that Assistant
United States Attorney Allen j..
Krause had filed to Mr.. Burkos
plea in abatement. Mr.. Burko has
been indicted on charges of con-
spiracy to obstruct and corrupt
justice and misconduct in Office,
forgery, larceny and embezzlement.
Assistant United States Attorney
Krause declared that the question
before the court was one of law and
not of fact Opposing counsel sub
mitted briefs concerning the legal
right of United States Attorney
Curran to hold the post of District
attorney here.
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training programs for technology
cally displaced workers. He declared
also that the social security laws
should be amended to "cover more
adequately the dismissal of workers
from defense industries"
IL. Encouragement of decentral-
lied industry.
IL. ALLEGATION of defense spending
"in such a manner that monopoly
control of basic products be elm
mated to insure an adequate supply
at competitive prices, so that,
furthermore, competition may de-
velop which will prove effective in
the peacetime period following the
defense effort"
13. Capitalization of Government
Evening star., 1941-03-31
81 Million in Arms
Exported 10 British
Empire in February
Licenses Covering Yeor
Put at $l18,645,629
By State Department

The United States exported S31,-
Ais 400 worth of combat airplanes
and other war equipment to the
British Empire during February,
the State Department reported
today.
OF the total of S35,745,661 worth
of arms shipped during the month.
other major shares went to China,
s2,673,234: Greece, $104,S10; Neither
lands Indies, s879,069, and Turkey,
$204,729
The monthly report of arms ex-
ports and issuance of licenses au-
thorizing such shipments Jumped
those for Great Britain proper,
other portions of the British En-
pire and the dominions under the
heading of the British Common
wealth of Nations, instead of list
ing shipments and licenses for each
section separately as has been done
in the past.
"ThiS change in the presentation
of the statistics is introduced in
order to prevent the dissemination
of military information of interest
to the national defense" the State
Department announcement said.
Licenses during February, author
izing exports any time this year
covered airplanes and other wal
equipment valued at s118,045 ,629 fol
the British Commonwealth, s6,310,.
234 for China, s209,835 for Greece
S7,565,57 for the Netherlands In.
dies and s198,649 for Mexico.
The February licenses brought tt
s277,742,296 the value of arms au.
thorized for shipment to the British
Commonwealth during the first two
months of this year, with actual ex.
ports to the British during this pc.
riod amounting to s66,551 300.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Vienna Auxiliary Elects

Mrs. George King has been elected
president of the Womens Auxiliary
of the Holy Comforter Episcopal
Church at Vienna, Va, it was an
nounced today. Other new officers
include Mrs. C. A. Ashton. vice presi-
dent; Mrs William Bennett, secre-
tary, and Mrs. Thomas r. Moreland.
treasurer
Evening star., 1941-03-31
"A. P. Wirephoto.

purchasing in one agency so far as
possible.
IA. Grant authority for the Fed
eral Trade Commission to serve as
master of chancery in antitrust
cases.
IS. Increase penalties for viola
ton of antitrust laws.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON c. MONDAY, 1eA
Baltimore Democrat
Denies 'Shakedown'
Of Drug Store Chain
Company Officials Soy
Offer Was Made to Kill
Liquor License Bill
BY tie Associated Press.

Hy u.t hSSOCldItu fIce6
ANNAPOLIS, March 31.-The
General Assembly prepared today
to wind up its 90-day session, while
q Senate committee studied testi-
mony taken in an investigation Of
an alleged S2,500 "shakedown" at
tempt involving pending liquor
license legislation.
Both the House and Senate were
scheduled to begin their last days
work this morning and legislative
leaders expressed hope that sine die
adjournment would be reached be-
fore or at the midnight deadline.
The dying moments of the 1941
Legislature were enlivened by the
Senate Temperance Committee s
grand inquest investigation into re-
ports officials of the Read Drugstore
chain had been approached with
an offer to kill a certain bill in re-
turn for s2,5OO.
The bill. already passed by the
House, would restrict drugstore
chains to single liquor license.
The Read chain now has multiple
licenses, one for each store.
POlIack Is Mentioned.
At a four-hour session yesterday
the committee heard testimony that
Jack Pollack, district Democratic
leader in Baltimore, was behind the
-shakedown" attempt.
This assertion came from Arthur
Nattans, president, and Wallace j
Smith, vice president and general
manager of the Read Drug and
Chemical Co.
They testified that the offer to
kill the bill for $2,500 was made tc
them by Lawrence Lockwood o1
Baltimore and that he told them
he was acting for Mr.. Pollack.
Mr.. Pollack, present at the hear
ing, vigorously denied that he hac
any connection with the bill or that
he had talked with the Read officials
Denies Mentioning Money.
| Mr.. Lockwood also denied that
he had mentioned money to the
drug chain officials. or that he hac
| mentioned Mr.. Pollack's name tt
| them.
The committee, headed by Sena-
tor Earl Bennett, Democrat. of Dor
chester, decided to have a Transcript
made of testimony for further study
| Then it will determine whether
or not it should be transmitted
to the proper officials for possible
| prosecution.
Meanwhile, 174 of the 227 bill!
passed Saturday went to Gov
O'Conor for signature, among then
the administration conservation
real estate tax and bond issue meas
ureS.
The conservation bill would set Ill
co-ordinating Board of Natura
Resources. The tax bill would re
duce the real estate tax from % 3
cents to POTS cents by 1943. Tn
bond issue bill would provide 81,
177,O00 for capital Improvements.
Marriage Measure Passed.
Also sent to the Governor was Sen
| ator Wilmer Fell Davis bill prohibit
ing judges from waving the 48
hour marriage delay law unless on
or both of the contracting partie
are bona fide residents of Maryland
Aimed at Elkton's marriage mill,
the measure would prevent out of
State couples from evading the de-
lay law.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Report for Last 4s Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
CFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, AZ, pm. yesterday. Year
ago, 70. 49,.
ago, 46.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, SO, on March 8.
Lowest, IS, on March 1S.
Humidity for Last "A Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 72 per cent, at am. today
Lowest, IL per cent, at $50 I'M. yes
terday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear ai
Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy at
Great Falls today.
Tide Tables
FURNISHED by Omitted States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1941-03-31
3 japanese Generals
Killed, Chinese Report
Ex IL. Assnciafed prekx

BY tho Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, March 31.-The
Chinese Central News reported yes
terday that japanese 1t. Gen
Iwanaga, 1t. Gen. Owa and Maj
Gen. Ikeda were killed in fierce
fighting last week in Northern
Kiangsi Province.
Gen. Oga's division and Gen
Ikeda's brigade suffered 10 per cent
casualties, Central News declared
Gen. Iwanaga was an army corps
commander.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
CONGRESS in Brief

BY the Associated Press.
Senate:
Considers record-breaking $780,
900 00c farm bill.
House:
Considers extension of special
committee studying migration.
Evening star., 1941-03-31

Pressure continues low of the New Eng
t2g.50 inches, while it is high off the
South Atlantic Coast; Wilmington; n G..
extensive disturbance is moving eastward
over the Central States. Kirksville, Mo.
,0O5S millibars t29.7o inches, while
pressure is rising over the Plains States;
Bismarck. N OAK, 1,01 6. g. millibars t29 80
inches. Pressure remains. low over the
Pacific States. Eureka, Calf, 1,0O1 mil.
hours there have been rains in the Central
Valleys and in portions Of California iaa ano
in the northern Rocky Mountain region
Temperatures have risen considerably from
the Lake region southwestward over the
Central Valleys and the Gulf States.
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Weather Report
Furnished By

Weather Bureauo
with occasional rain beginning late TO-
tonight with lowest temperature ABOUT
winds mostly souherY
Maryland occasional rain tomorrow and
mild tomorrow
tonight and tomorrow warmer TO-
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Foreign Stations.
TroIIey Bondit Gets Transfer

LOS ANGELES, March 81 @.-
Conductor G. w. Tamplin told police
q bandit boarded his trolley car,
robbed him of $40, then demanded a
transfer, explaining Il want to catch
another street car"
Evening star., 1941-03-31

elimination may be necessary"
Primary responsibility, the report
said. was with the companies issuing
such insurance and the States which
supervise them, otherwise all
inclusive Federal control will be
required
In discussing means to encourage
investment of private capital, the
committee said that Congress "can
we'll consider the advisability of ma
terial reductions in the rate of taxa
ton on returns which come from
investments in new, independent
businesses" because 'the advantages
to be derived by the whole economy
from the opening of new fields to
investment and commercial &C
| tivity would more than offset any
financial loss in returns from the
higher brackets under the income
tax law"
Noting that there had been vast
boarding of unused capital" the
committee said the answer was not
to be found in continued Govern
ment spending to counterbalance
the accumulation of unused savings
in a relatively few hands"
A combination of several steps
would be needed, the committee said,
including "an equitable tax system"
wise program of aid to the
underprivileged" and energetic anti
trust enforcement.
Other Recommendations.
Other recommendations of the
committee included:
l. Granting to the Federal Trade
Commission authority to prevent the
merging of competing corporations
except where it could be demon
strated that the public interest
would be served and that monopoly
would not result.
2. A fiat prohibition against ac-
QUESTION of stock in, or holding
company control of, competing COM
panies, with certain exceptions.
8. Federal registration of ma
tional trade associations, with a
requirement for periodic reports.
4. Compulsory licensing of pat
ents, the licenses to be unrestricted,
with judicial or administrative ma
chinery to determine reasonable
royalties.
In that connection the committee
said that "in many important seq
ments of our economy the privi-
lege accorded by the patent monop-
oily has been shamefully abused - .
to control whole industries, to sup
press competition, to restrict out
put, to enhance prices, to suppress
inventions and to discourage in
ventiveness."
Patent Restrictions.
S. A prohibition against filing an
application for patent in a for
eign country without permission OF
the Federal Government. Exchange
| of patents between domestic and
foreign owners, the committee said,
had been used as means for car
telizing an industry to effectively
displace competition" and had en-
abled foreign concerns to exercise
control over production of vital de-
fense material in this country in
some instances.
6. Repeal of the Miller-Tydings
Act. which permits resale price
maintenance contracts where au-
thorized by State law.
7. Establishment of committee
on Federal-State relationships tc
seek elimination of interstate trade
barriers" >,
8, Expansion of the Federal TRADE
Commission and Justice Depart
Evening star., 1941-03-31

The average airplane pilot receives
about $500 a month. A co-pllots
pay Is between $3.50 and $3.50.
Evening star., 1941-03-31

New Zealand is investigating
charges that soldiers are served poor
cake
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Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches In Il
Canitel Icurrent month to date):
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The Sun and Moon.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Curb on Concentrated
Power Is Demanded
In Monopoly Report
Federal Spending Held
No Remedy for Free
Enterprise in U. 5.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Composed of members OF Con-
cresS and high administrative
officials, the Temporary National
Economic Committee (kno1On also
as the Monopoly Committee) 10as
formed three gears ago to study
the concentration OF economic
po,oer and financial control ouer
production of goods and services.
Under leadership OF Senator
O'Mahoney, Democrat, OF Wyo-
SstnS, tas committee held numer-
Gus public hearings.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Col. Sidney J. Cutters
Funeral Set Tomorrow

Funeral services for 1t Col. Sidney
j. Cutler. 81, commander of the 32d
Field Battalion, lSt Division. who
died at Fort Devens, Mass. Friday.
will be held at $50 m. tomorrow
in Arlington National Cemetery
Burial will be in Section Eight of the
cemetery.
A native of Detroit, Col. Cutler
enlisted III the Army in 1918 and
served in the coast artillery until
1917, when he was commissioned a
second lieutenant and assigned to
the field artillery He served
through The grades and was made
a lieutenant colonel July l, 1910
During his career Col Cutler
served at Dallas. Tex; Madison
Barracks. N. Y: Fort Ethan Allen.
Vt, and Fort Devens. He completed
the battery officers course at the
Field Artillery School in 1923 and
served overseas during the World
War.
He held the four star citation for
gallantry in action during the war
as well as the French CroiX de
Guerre with palms and the CroiX de
Guerre with bronze star. He is sur
vived by his widow. Mrs Mae c. Cut
Ter of Fort Devens.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
Christian Endeayor
Calls for Return
OF Prohibition
Liquor Curb Demanded
To Promote Sobriety
And Happiness
b. the Associated Press

By the Associated Press. -
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July 12-
The International Christian En-
deavor Society convention called to-
day for a return of prohibition IF
the people OF this country are to live
together in sobriety and happiness" :"
In resolution, the 5000 dele
gates recalled that 80 years ago In
a similar convention here the So
ciety coined a slogan, "A saloonless
Nation by 1920"
They added: Through the un-
ceasing efforts of Christian men and
women across the country, national
prohibition was achieved in 1918
AS Endeavorers meet again in At
lantic City it IS to find the traffic
in alcoholic beverages has been re-
vived as major menace to public
morals and civic goodness.
We believe that the liquor
trafflc must be restricted and pro-
hibited if the people of this country
are to live together in sobriety and
happiness
The society urged passage of
pending congressional measures re-
stricting sale of alcoholic beverages
near military camps and proposed
the utmost activity on the part of
Christian Endeavorers everywhere
leading toward local option. imme-
diate sharp restriction and eventual
elimination of liquor advertisements
and rigid control of liquor sales"
1t urged its 100000 members to
encourage education in our So
cletieS, local churches and public
schools concerning alcohol and the
individual and social effects of
drinking"
The delegates later paraded down
the Boardwalk The convention
closes with devotional services to-
morrow