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Evening star., 1941-03-23
City Heads Urge Change
In Taxicab Permit Bill

Congress was urged Yesterday by
the Commissioners to amend the bill
proposing refusal of taxicab permits
to Federal and District employees so
that the same restrictions would be
applied to all persons who are en-
ployed, in the Government or private
jobs, for 40 or more hours week.
The Commissioners said. in a
letter to Chairman Ramspeck of the
House Civil Service Committee. they
felt the bill as previously drawn
would be discriminatory since it
would prevent Government workers
from driving cabs for hire, but would
not prevent persons in other oc-
cupations from driving cabs as a
means of extra income.
They urged the bill be amended
to prescribe that no persons reg
ularly employed 40 hours or more a
week shall be permitted to operate
for hire any motor vehicle in the
District.
The Public Utilities Commission.
which long has urged a reduction of
Washingtons unusual number of
cabs, Endorsed the intent of the
original bill but suggested the re-
striction be extended to include
other than Government workers.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Garden Aides to Talk
At BeItsviIIe Grunoe

Beltsville Grange will hold a
meeting, open to the public, in the
Grange Hall, Beltsville, Md, Tues
day at o'clock.
On the program are two garden
ing experts: Mark Shoemaker land
scape architect of the. University Of
Maryland, who will give a talk on
"Beautlfying the Home Grounds,
and w. r. Beattie, recently retired
from the Department of Agricul-
ture. who will speak on The Home
Garden"
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Boeing Strike Threatened
Over Workers Dismissal
Ply the Associated Press,


SEATTLE, March %. - Strike
threats were voiced by union officials
today after police broke up a fist
fight that sent one Boeing Aircraft
Co. mechanic to a hospital and
three. temporarily, to Jail All were
members of the Aeronautical Me-
chanics Union in which a bitter fac
tional fight flared into fisticuffs as
crew came off shift at plant No l
where clipper planes are built
early today.
Pamphlets, distributed just prior
to the fighting, asserted one faction
of the local was determined to call
strike or stopwork demonstra-
tion at the plant gates.
Harry Bomber, local president,
confirmed the strike threat report,
but told interviewers:
There will be no strike, nor stop
work meeting at Boeing. I won't
stand for it,
Hugo Lundquist. former business
agent, recently ousted by Harvey w.
Brown, international President of
the Machinists' Union, however, as
serted strike action still is pending. .
'Boeing fired worker in body
shop No. 16 part of plant No. u
on the grounds he was doing Griev-
ance Committee work on company
time" Mr.. Lundquist said. There
was tremendous uprising in the
shop and about 6n0 mon poiIled
around union headquarters demand
ing reinstatement of the man, or
q strike"
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Mccormick Plant Plans
10 Reopen Tomorrow
By the Associa ted Press.


CHICAGO. March 22.-The In
ternational Harvester Co. planned
today to reopen the strike bound
Mccormick works Monday after 1t
had obtained court order forbid
ding mass picketing by C. I. o.
unioniStS.
Superior Judge John C. Lewe is
sued a temporary injunction re-
straining Local 108 of the C. I. o.
Farm Equipment Workers Organiz-
ing Committee from stationing more
than 10 pickets at each of the five
gates of the southwest side plant
which employed 5000 persons be-
\fore it was closed by c. I. o.
sponsored strike February %.
Company officials said the plant
would resume operations at 7 am.
Monday and that advertisements ad-
vlSing workers of this decision would
be inserted in Chicago newspapers.
Irving Brown, American Fedora
ton of Labor organizer who claimed
1000 of the employees were A. F. l..
members, stated that these men
will go into the plant and nothing
will stop them"
Clarence Stoeker, president of the
Local l08 of the F. E. w. o. c., is
sued a statement relating that the
injunction does not alter our plans
to prevent scabs and other strike
breakers from entering the plant
."
Evening star., 1941-03-23
0. p. N. Unit 10 Seek
Substitutes for Vital
Defense Metals
Aluminium Industry to Be
One Of Major Fields
For Investigation

National efforts to encourage and
direct private industry to conserve,
reclaim and develop substitutes for
vital defense metals have been con-
centrated under a new conservation
unit of the Office of Production
Management, it was announced last
night.
The new units duties will include
planning ahead to meet require
ments of the defense program and
seeking to avoid economic disturb
ances due to adoption of substitutes.
Substitutes for aluminium, tung-
stem, magnesium. nickel and zinc
will be the first objects of the
agency's search. Later. rubber and
other non-mineral materials will be
considered.
Mcconnell 10 Direct Work.
Director of the work, it was an
nounced, is Robert E. Mcconnell.
Colorado-born mining engineer and
omcial in a number of research, in
vestment and development COM
panies.
One of the most important fields
of investigation will be the alu-
minum industry, which yesterday
became the first to be placed on a
rationing basis for all requirements,
including both defense and non-
defense
Some progress in substitutes had
been made already in this field
through voluntary action of private
companies. Dial wheels on new
telephones are now made of steel
instead of aluminium. Old and re-
Gently developed materials. such as
plaStics, have begun to replace alu-
minum in domestic utensils. Syn
thetic rubber and copper are being
tried as substitutes for aluminium
in refrigerator ice trays.
Plastic Materials Tested.
Aircraft manufacturers are test
ing plactic materials as prossible re-
placements for metals like alu-
minum in flooring and other uses
in airplanes.
Studies are being made regarding
possible savings of manganese in
the steel industry and the finding
OF satisfactory substitutes for tung-
stem, essential alloy in production of
some types of steel.
The prefential order placing all
aluminium distribution in the fu-
ture on a schedule to be fixed by
the o. P. NJ Priorities Division was
described as IAN overall formula"
which might we'll be applied to other
vital metals or commodities later.
The order strengthened priority
control imposed on aluminium in
February and extended regulations
to include secondary smelters as we'll
as other producers and fabricators.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
{. |. 0. Asks Negotiations
For Little Steel Pacts
B. the Associated Press.

b tht Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. March 22.-The
c. I. o. Steel Workers Organizing
Committee today called on Repub-
lie Steel, Youngstown Sheet and
Tube and Inland Steel Corps.
to negotiate written contracts en-
bodying a 10-cent an hour wage in
crease, improved vacations and
other conditions of employment.
Philip Murray, S. w. o. c. chair
man and c. I. o. chieftain, dis
patched requests for negotiations i'm
mediately after receiving approval
of the action at meeting of presi-
dents of A local unions in mills of
the three companies. all of which
were involved in the 1897 Little
Steel" strikes.
The program presented to the cor
porations is the same as now is being
negotiated in S. w. o. c. conferences
with Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp,
United States Steel subsidiary.
Changes are sought in existing con-
tracts with Carnegie Illinois. There
are no existing contracts with the
little steel" concerns.
Evening star., 1941-03-23

pose OF her blockade was to prevent
any kind of supplies reaching Gen.
tral Europe which might benefit
Germany directly or indirectly, she
could not relax the blockade with
out adequate guarantees against
benefits to the Nazis.
The last obstacle to the arrange
ment for the emergency -four
shipment was understood to have
been removed by French agreement
That the two ships involved would
return to this country and not be
allowed to fall into German hands.
Use of the French ships to trans
port the relief supplies solves anoth-
er difficulty resulting from shortage
OF transatlantic shipping facilities.
CASTOR Henry -Haye, French Am
bassador here, who has made in
sistent pleas for food relief to allie
viate what he has described as fam
Inc conditions in unoccupied France.
has expressed confidence the trial.
shipment will prove that there is
nothing to fear from the British
viewpoint in such an arrangement
for Red Cross distribution and that
the program will continue.
Hopes for Further Shipments.
He hopes the British will agree to
further shipments of wheat and
other foodstuffs and that the United
States will release a part of the
French funds. which were frozen
here by executive order when France
surrendered to Germany, for pur-
chase OF the supplies.
1t was at the suggestion of the
Red Cross that flour ready for
bread-making, instead of unmilled
wheat, will comprise the emergency
shipment. Of1icials said distribution
Of the -four would be simple and it
could reach the persons who needed
it quicker.
Arrangements for the shipments
to unoccupied France carried no i'm
plication of any change in the firm
British stand against relaxation of
the blockade to permit passage of
relief supplies for Belgium and other
occupied nations. Throughout dis
cussion of the French negotiations,
the British have emphasized the dis
tinction between unoccupied terri
tories and those under direct Ger
man military occupation. This Gov
ernment has agreed that feeding
of the populations of occupied ter
ritories is Germany's responsibility.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Jesuits Observing 40Oth
Anniversary OF Society

washington alumni of Jesuit uni
versities and colleges, under the local
sponsorship of GEORGETOWN, will par
tlclpate today in a coaSt-to-coast
observance of the 400th anniversary
OF the founding of the Society of
Jesus.
Gov. Herbert r. O'Conor of
Maryland will be one of the speakers
In a national broadcast that will
be directed to Jesuit alumni at COM
munion breakfasts in 18O cities.
The local observance will start
with a mass and communion in
Dahlgren Chapel, Georgetown Uni
verslty at 10 O'Clock. The Very Rev.
Arthur A. OLeary, S. j., president
of the university, will be the cele-
brant.
Several hundred alumni are ex-
pected to attend the communion
breakfast in the Mayf1ower Hotel at
II O'Clock, the principal feature of
the program being the anniversary
broadcast over the Mutual System.
Gov. O'Conor will speak from Bal
tlmore and other special broadcasts
will originate in New York City.
New Orleans and Miami, Fla.
DR.. OLeary will welcome the
alumni at the breakfast and the
POSTMASTER will be William E. Leahy,
a graduate of both Holy Gross and
Georgetown. Arrangements for the
local participation were made by
DR.. James S. Ruby, jr., secretary of
the Georgetown Alumni Association
and a committee headed by DR.. Cas-
imir Leibell of Fordham and George
town.
The date of the celebration was
chosen as being the nearest to that
of the anniversary of the landing
OF the Maryland colonists in the
Ark and the Dove on March IS,
1884.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Two German Planes
Are Reported Shot
Down by British
One Crashes in Field,
Second FoIIs in Sea
OFF Eust Coost
eS the Associated Press.

eN the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 22.-Two Ger
man planes were reported here to-
night to have been shot down, one
crashing in field, the other in the
sea off the east coast.
Anti-aircraft fire was credited
with bringing down the plane over
the coast. The second was identi-
fed as a big Heinkel bomber. Two
of its crew were killed and two others
were injured.
Clearing of debris continued at
Plymouth during the day and many
exhausted citizens, without heat and
water. nestled in the ruins of their
homes seeking their first hours of
sleep after two nights of intensive
German bombing
Up to a late hour London had not
had night alarm.
The weather was unfavorable, in
Southern England, light SHOWS of
the day turning into steady rain
tonight.
The Air Ministry and the Min
istry of Home Security said in
joint communique that enemy ac-
tivity over this country during day.
light today has again been on a small
scale"
Bombs were reported dropped in
East Anglia, causing some damage
and a small number of casualties.
Later at night German raiders
were reported over a North England
town.
British bomberS attacked a Ger
man supply vessel and set it afire
in Egersund, Norway. harbor early
today. the Air Ministry said. 1t
reported of four bombs dropped, two
hit the ship.
A British pilot was credited bv
the ministry with a vertical hell
dive" in machine gun attack on a
Norwegian airdrome. Another was
said to have bombed a supply ship
convoy near the Norwegian coast
damaging the leading ship "se-
verely."
Evening star., 1941-03-23

- odCl llScy dS as
sistant executive secretary.
The board will hear the report Of
the plenary committee charged
with reorganizing the association.
simultaneously, the plenary COM
mittee, which has steered the asso-
citation since charges were first lev
eled against it early last month, is
expected to be dissolved.
The board also will act on budget
proposals and the future program
of the orgaiZation, Mr.. Lund said.
The program, he added, will follow
the general policies outlined by the
plenary committee at the last meet
ing of the board on February 28
Mr. Guernsey leaves his post as
educational director of the Buffalo
tuberculosis Association. Graduate
of the University of Michigan with
a masters degree in public health,
he was for eight years associate pro-
fessor of hygiene at Antioch Col
lege. He has also been a field
worker of the New York State Com
mittee on tuberculosis and Public
Health, and district health educa-
ton supervisor with the New York
City Department of Health. He will
start work here tomorrow
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Club to Invite G. O. P.
Candidates to Speok

Prospective Republican candidates
to be entered in the race to fill the
seat of the late Representative
Byron. Democrat, of Maryland, will
be invited to speak at the Seventh
District Republican Club of Mont
gomery County tomorrow at pm
in the Bethesda Elementary School,
Wilson lane and Georgetown road.
The organization will also elect
officers.
An invitation has been extended
to Democrats as we'll as Republicans
to attend
Evening star., 1941-03-23
French Food
Continued From First Page)

issued statement emphasizing that
agreement to the -four shipments
did not imply that under present
conditions" the British government
would approve "the import into
France of other supplies"
Mr. Welles said President Roose-
velt had authorized the Red Cross
to use part of the $4,000, 900 fund
appropriated by Congress for civilian
relief abroad to finance the -four
shipment. The Red Cross will buy
the flour and pay the costs of load
ing, unloading and distribution,
with France providing the transpor-
tation.
The flour will be loaded aboard
the French freighters lie de Rey
and Leopold, now idle in New York
Harboi. They are expected to sail
In about two weeks, with no other
cargo
The French Government has
given all the assurances required
in order that the American Red
Cross may have every facility for
carrying out its responsibilities" in
distribution of The flour, Mr.. Welles
said.
Assurances Listed.
Further French assurances. on
which approval of the shipment by
British blockade authorities was
based, were listed by Mr.. Welles as:
Il. The shipments will pe sent
solely to unoccupied ports.
" Every pound of food so sent
will be distribuated within unoccu-
pied France to It's ultimate desti-
nation under the direct supervision
of The American Red Cross.
q. Not a single pound of similar
or equivalent foodstuf1s will be per-
mitteo to pass from unoccupied
France to occupied France.
4 These ships will return i'm.
mediately to the United States"
Agrees to Navicerts.
The British Embassy statement
summarized these conditions and
said that 'in view of the assurances
given by the French Government.
his majesty's government have
agreed to issue navicerts for the
two ships In question" Navicerts are
certificates amounting to passes"
through the blockade.
The Red Cross already has a large
organization in unoccupied France
IN connection with the distribution
of medical supplies and milk and
clothing for children. One shipload
OF such relief supplies already has
arrived at Marseille and another
Is en- route. These shipments were
transported by vessels chartered by
the Red Cross.
Great Britain had permitted pas
sage through her blockade of the
limited supplies for children under
an agreement reached last Decem-
Der, and negotiations for further re-
Taxation of the blockade to allow
shipment of other foodstuffs have
been under way for months-with
the United States acting as a post
office" for interchange of views be-
tween the French and British gov
ernments.
Demanded Guarantees.
Tension over the problem was
demonstrated recently by a threat
of Admiral Jean Darlan, French Vice
Premier, to use the French Navy
to convoy food shipments unless
sufficient supplies were granted
passage through the blockade.
Britain insisted that since the pur-
Evening star., 1941-03-23
PIT. A. Units Urged
To Join CONGRESSES

An appeal to all parent-teacher
associations in Montgomery County,
Md, affiliated with the State and
national congresses to register for
participation in campaign to To-
cate children who will enter school
next fall was made yesterday by
Mrs. Frank F. Smith, State chair
man Of summer roundup.
Mrs. Smith urged that the asso-
Citations contact her at her home
at 9405 Saybrook avenue. Silver
Spring, Md. Several groups. she
said, have already begun to canvass
their local communities.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
CoImur Manor Glasses

Myron F. Perry, Red Cross rep
resentative, will open the first of a
series of 10 classes in first-aid Tues
day at 7:30 pm at the American
Legion Hall, Colmar Manor, Md.
Succeeding classes will be held Mon
days.
Evening star., 1941-03-23

the associations
Board of Direc-
tors will hold a
session March
81.
Announcement
that notices of
the m e e tin 6
would be mailed
tomorrow as
made yesterday
by Harald H.
Lund, executive
secretary, who
a lso disclosed
t h e appoint
ment of Paul D.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
7 okio Bolsters Silk Prices

Japan silk reelers will limit offer
ings Of silk for export conditioning
during l94l to less than IS per cent
OF the volume in 1910. the object
being to maintain export silk prices.
Evening star., 1941-03-23


Losses by nations dncludes naval vessels:
Britain 65l; Norway, no. Germany ST.
ITALY, 6S France S. Netherlands S. Denmark Finland
gum ~ Estonia 49, Yugoava g. Panama g.
Egypt q Poland Argentina Hungary ava
Rumania, Soviet. United States.
Evening star., 1941-03-23
tuberculosis Society
Directors 10 Meet
On March 81
Paul Guernsey Nomed
To Post Of Assistcnt
Executive Secretary

Meeting for the first time since
nine employees of the District Tu-
berculosis Association we're swept
out on q wave of reorganization,
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Losses in War at Sea -,


following
8lst week Of the inclusive
Evening star., 1941-03-23
Demanded Guarantees.

Tension over the problem was
demonstrated recently by a threat
OF Admiral Jean Darlan, French Vice
Premier, to use the French Navy
to convoy food shipments unless
sufficient supplies were granted
passage through the blockade.
Britain insisted that since the pur-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-04
This and That.

Reliable reports Indicate that for
me- Governor Clyde r. Hoey is re-
CeiVIng many letters urging him to
run for governor again at the end of
the present Broughton administra-
ton. Some time ago there were pub
llShCd reports that Mr.. Hoey was be-
ing doomed for a return stay in the
governors mansion. There is alb
solutely no indication, however, that
the whole thing is more than Cos
sip, There seems no douE; he is get
ting the letters, though. Mayor
Graham Andrews of Raleigh is about
To bring down on his head the wrath
of d considerable volume of pubic
opinion by standing out firmly for
a Sl00-a-night charge on the Memo
rial Auditorium for soldier dances
TO which there is a small fee Charg-
ed the girls (to provide transported
ton to and from the auditorium)..
State employees are wrought up over
making Halifax street a one hour
parking" ~thoroughfare. This street IS
near many of the departments and
has been much used for parking dur
ing working hours. There have
been so many fatal accidents in
Wake recently that a common greet
ing is Good morning, have you
heard of any deaths 10 Wake yet?
Your reporter wouldn't know all
about the relations of highway safety
division and highway patrol officials,
but in four years of once in-a-While
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-04
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-04
British Diet
Insufficient
(Coctinued From Page One)

of American food now were reach
ing England under the British aid
program. but that the facts are that
the English people are not getting
enough to eat"
Both officials said they believed
their personal contact with British
officials would facilitate the food
supply program because they found
that in addition to meats, cheese, eggs
and other dairy pr ducts that Eng
land could use several products of
Which there is a real surplus in the
United States.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-04
Records Mount

Traffic deaths in the United States
IN Aus1,st a,r reported a, $50. or
tventy-onc percent above August d
wear ago. and slaughter on the high
WAYS moves or apace. For the eight
months of 1871 the total is 24,o3o,
or eighteen percent higher than the
-ame pur1ud of 1910. Barring a
miracle I'm the remaining months OF
The year. l94l viii set the highest
ecord in the nations history IN thus
holocaust of killing,
II has been observed before that
should thi- number of fatalities have
ny as the result of Hltler's bomb
ings. we would be in war, actually
and up Ia our necks. Since we are
committing suicide by killing our
selves. nothing of that kind can be
done about it. And reports of SucN.
deaths are read with a mere shru5
Of the shoulders, and with an oh,
1t wasn't / or any of mIut,' and
that's that.
In a few days the National Safety
Congress will open a CONVENTION IN
Chicago with representatives present
from all over the country, and bent
upon a serious study Of conditions.
The only suggestion offered IN ad-
vance as a remedy IS a nationwide
safety campaign. That is abcI: the
only thing that can be done, yet a
program Of the sort has been IN
progress for years and without get
ting satisfactory results.
What more can be undertaken the
safety congress may be able to say.
All America will be ready to follow
through with any feasible plan that
promises a reduction in this slaugh-
ter Of the highways.
But all the plans and programs
and campaigns imaginable can't drill
caution into the heads of people who
Just refuse to cooperate and to exer-
else care in operation of motor
vehicles. An educational effort of
| some sort is the answer, but that is
| spoken in ge%neralities, whereas
something concrete is needed and
must be had if this disgraceful
| record is to be cut down.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-04
al

The PSalmist in high cXultatIon
Spoke of the greatness of God,
OF heavens declaring, and iIrma-
mont showing
The might of His glory, the sun by
his going.
But what f the pod and the clodo
lis not ALWAYS in mightiest things
that we find Him,
Mountains high lifted or ocean waves
wild.
From the Clod SpranC the seed from
the heart of the pod.
From the clod came man in the
likeness of God.
And His love found root in the heart
of a child.
A. l.. MCLEMORE.
Henderson.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-04
RESIGNS

Goldsbcro, Oct. 4.-(AP)-John
Calvin Slemp, editor and business
manager of the Biblical Recorder,
state Baptist weekly, has resigned
effective November IS, Rev. A. j.
Smith, of Goldsboro, chairman of the
directors for the publication, an
nounced today.
DR.. Slemp has accepted a position
on the editorial staff of the Ameri-
can Baptist Publication society at
Philadelphia.