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the rat will go after the piece in
the bag first. Hamburger, in
cidentally, is one of the rats
favorite dishes. The formula
used by health officials is about
/ ounce of red squill to every u
ounces of bait.
Where the rat poison fails, the
campaigners will follow up with
trapping, which may be just as
effective, but requires more skill
and labor. The District plans to
use pieces of bacon rind as bait.
They've found that to be the
most successful. But they won't
use the same kind of bait all
the time because the rats soon
get suspicious and stay clear of
the traps.
Rats rely on concealment for
protection and avoid open spaces
as much as possible, so the exter-
minators have found that the
best place to set traps is close to
walls, behind objects, in dark
corners or in any other place
where rat would run for con-
cealment.
Plenty of traps will be used, be-
cause those rats not caught get
suspicious when they see their
brothers and sisters trapped. The
traps will be set in such a manner
that the rat in following its
natural course will pass directly
over the trigger.
Hiding Places Sought.
But before the rats can be
killed, the exterminators must
find their hiding places, and the
District is relying on the citizens,
working through their citizens
associations, to find the places
where the pests make their homes
and raise their families. The
surest way to permanent rat rid
dance is the removal of favorable
rat harbors, for the pest won't
stay where safe and comfortable
shelter is not available.
Most common rat harbors are
dead spaces within double walls
and beneath floors. Wooden floors
in buildings without Easements
provide a free shelter. Other
common rat shelters are those
provided by stored produce, lum-
ber piles and accumulations Of
trash and refuse. Important
means of abolishing the rats food
supply are to store foodstuffs in
ratproof buildings and to dis
pose of waste and garbage IN
tightly covered receptacles. The
uncovered garbage can IS one of
the most common sources of the
rats food supply.
Under the campaign plan, the
square supervisors and his block
managers will survey their areas
to determine the location of
homes with possible rat harbor-
ages. A list of these by name
and address will be prepared.
Rat Harbors Reported.
After the block survey, the
square supervisors will report
the number of rat locations to
the Central Committee repre-
sentative. These reports on
blocks will be consolidated by the
Central Committee and the
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trail Committee On Rodent Con-
troll. The chairman names square
supervisors and block managers,
who will make surveys to find
the location of rat harborages
and distribute bait.
That's where the little pellets
come in. Probably the most sue
cessful of all rat poisons is red
squill, which is derived from a
perennial bulb that grows wild
along the coast of the Mediter-
ranean Sea. This powdered
poison is mixed with hamburger. ).
salmon or some other bait and
made into small round pellets.
AS a rat poison,.red squill has
the advantage of being relatively
harmless to human beings and
domestic animals. 1t has an
acrid taste which is highly OBJ
jectionable to most animals. Rats,
however, usually take it readily,
so that the poison approaches
the status of being a poison
specific to rats.
Health officials who have
worked on rat determination find
the pests are intelligent and full
of quirks. They wrap the poison
pellets in paper because they've
found the rats will go after these
quicker than unWrapped ones.
Eat Meat in Paper Bag.
Similarly. if there are two
pieces of hamburger, one un-
covered and other in a paper bag,
Evening star., 1941-09-07

An army of modern Pied
Pipers, equipped with pellets and
traps instead of the pipes and
tunes which brought Hamelin's
rat charmer so much fame :.
That's the dream of municipal
health officials, who have ,1it on
the idea of having every citizen
help to rid Washington of one of
mans most relentless and de-
structive enemies-the common
house rat.
Now, the mighty rat is a pro-
life and brainy pest. 1t will eat
almost anything-varnish, soap,
chickens, glue or lead water
pipes. 1t may spread serious dis
eases - plague, typhus fever,
spirochetal jaundice and tula-
remia. And it costs the country
several hundred million dollars a
year.
The health officials believe
everybody knows these things,
but they like such facts to be
repeated to promote intolerance
toward the ubiquitous pests.
They don't think the campaign
they are planning will be sue
cessful unless the people get good
and mad at the rats.
Plan for War on Rats.
The war against the pests will
be carried out by the health
officer and his Rodent Control
Committee through citizens as
soclations and other civic groups.
Briefly, here's the plan:
The president of a civic group
appoints a chairman of a Gen.
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Campaign Planned
For Collection OF
Waste Paper
Price-ControI Office Backs
Drive of Industry to
Augment Supplies
B. the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
A campaign to increase collection
of waste paper will be launched soon
in 80 cities, defense officials said yes
terday.
"Waste paper is needed for de-
fense," Leon Henderson, price ad-
ministrator, said, because it is tie
raw material of paper board boxes
in which many defense products are
packed and transported
The defense program uses one
fourth of the paper board now pro-
duced. Total production this year
is expected to exceed 100000 tons.
The campaign will be conducted
by the waste paper consuming in
dustries, with the support of the
Office of Price Administration.
Housewives, small business houses
and industries will be asked to save
paper and give it to charitable or
ganizationS or sell it to dealers at
the current market price. Organi-
cations such as the Boy Scouts, the
Girl Scouts and Parent-Teacher
Associations have been invited to
participate.
A test campaign has been under
way in st. Louis for several weeks.
The national campaign will open
Immediately in New York, Chicago
and Milwaukee and be extended
soon to these cities:
Newark, Jersey City, Cleveland,
Boston, Minneapolis-St Paul, Wash
ington, Philadelphia, Detroit. Baltl-
more, Pittsburgh. Buffalo, Cincin-
natl, Kansas City, Rochester, To-
ledo, Memphis, Birmingham, Dallas,
San Antonio, Houston, Denver, At
lanta, Columbus, Akron. New Or
leans, Indianapolis, Louisville and
Providence.
For the present no effort will be
made to increase collections west OF
Denver because the paper mills on
the Pacific Coast have an ample
supply Of waste paper.
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Where to Go -
What to. Do
Outings.

O1tAiSos
Hike and swim, Wanderbirds'
Hiking Club, leave National Thea
ter this morning, 7:30 o'clock and
10 o'clock.
Bird walk, Kenilworth avenue and
Polk street NE, this morning, $3.50
o'clock.
Nature walk, Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal Parkway at Seneca, Md,
sponsored by National Capital
Parks. Special buses leave 1416 F
street NV. this morning, $50
O'Clock.
Nature and historical tour of
Fredericksburg -Spotsylvania Coun-
ty battlefields, Memorial National
Military Park, Va, sponsored by
National Capital Parks. Special
buses leave 1416 F street NV. this
morning, 9 o'clock.
Music.
Organ recital, following even
song" Washington Cathedral, Mt.
st. Alban, this evening, 4 o'clock.
Art Exhibit.
Pictures as Decoration The
Whyte Gallery, 1717 H street NV,
beginning tomorrow and continuing
daily until September 80, 8 am. to
6 pm.
Meetings.
American Council on Education
Mayflower Hotel, this morning, 10
O'Clock.
Washington Newspaper Guild
Willard Hotel, this afternoon, 80
o'clock.
LuncheOns.
American Roadbuilders' Associa-
ton, Willard Hotel, tomorrow
1915 pm.
Washington Executives Associa-
ton, Willard Hotel, tomorrow
1890 pm.
Washington Warehousemen Asso.
citation, Hamilton Hotel, tomorrow
1890 pm.
Newcomers Club, Carlton Hotel
tomorrow, 1890 pm.
uptown Washington Lions Club
Broadmoor Hotel, tomorrow, l2:1;
pm.
East Gate Lions Club, 839 Blad.
ensburg road NE, tomorrow, 12:l
pm.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Moscow
Continued From First Page.)

who have threatened it for many
weeks past.
Russian artillery paved the way
for counterattackS which thrust the
German infantry out of the village
of *" in front of Kiev, Red Star
reported. Red Army infantry then
drove the demoralized Germans 5
kilometers about 3 niles out
side the village, it added.
Tass, the official Russian news
agency, said Kiev had smashed two
major attempts at conquest within
the past month.
One was begun on August 8 with
three divisions of German soldiery
and three and half regiments of
artillery, Tass stated. All three di-
visions were listed as routed.
A new onslaught came on August
% from the reformed remnants of
the German force. Again the Rus
slams hurled it back with heavy
losses, Tass said.
Odessa Defense Lauded.
The Russian information bureau
lauded Red Navy men for a heroic
defense of Odessa, where it said
every Nazi thrust was being shat
tered.
In one counterattack the sailors
killed 700 Germans, the communique
stated. Soviet coastal batteries
turned inland to protect the push
and silence German field guns.
Rumanian troops next tried to
rush Odessa, but they too were
hurled back with appalling losses, it
was said.
The Soviet writer Ezra Vilensky
tust returned from Odessa as wal
correspondent for Izvestia, the OIL
cial government newspaper, said all
of Odessa had become giant fort
ress surrounded by outer fortifica-
tions so thick and high that neither
tanks nor shells could crush them
The citizen volunteers of that ole
port. which sits strategically ator
i5o-foot bluffs, have torn up the
SLT66bS W pd1A1SdNSo VA SAAN
cobblestones, he said.
The Notifications are a series o
rings so built that the city can bt
captured "only if no single person
inside remains alive" Vilensky said
They are being built under supervi'
sion of Arkady Fyodorovicf
Khrenov, q veteran of the Finnish
war and hero of the Soviet Union
Cossacks Raid Behind Lines
Russian scouts remaining on th
west bank of the Dnieper River hav
forced a German -Rumanian retrea
from an occupied village and klle'
or wounded 500 Tass said.
Elaborating on a communlqu
praising behind-the-lines exploit
Of q Cossack cavalry detachment
Tass said this force on August 2
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chairman will report his needs
to the Health Department rat
control co-ordinator, who will
determine the poison require
ment for particular areas.
Health Department personnel
will mix the bait and deliver it
to member of the Central
Committee for distribution to
the square supervisors. They
will pass it on to their block
managers, who will deliver it to
homes with instructions on
where to place the poisoned bait.
The block managers will record
their catch or their kill and these
reports will be consolidated by
the Central Committee and re-
ported to The coordinator.
Where poisoning operations are
ineffective, the square supervisor
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Big Tanker Launched
Ahead of Schedule
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHESTER, Pa, Sept. 6.-The $2,-
100000 oil tanker ESQ Trenton was
launched at the Sun Shipbuilding
and Drydock Co. today, two weeks
ahead of schedule.
The 500-foot tanker, constructed
for the Standard Oil Co. of New
Jersey, was christened by Mrs.
Clarence H. Lieb, wife of the man
ager of the firms production de-
partment. The vessel is expected to
be placed in service about Novem-
ber Is.
Three more similar craft are un-
der construction at the yards.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Draft
Continued From First Page.)

like (without expense to the Selec-
tiffve Service system.
Volunteers Among Personnel.
The personnel of the office will
be made up of volunteers and repre-
sentatives of the Federal employ
ment agency, it was understood.
Franklin j. Porter of the U. S. E. S.
has conferred frequently with draft
officials the last few weeks on the
unemployment problem. The CEN
trail bureau idea grew out of these
discussions.
One official said last night that
in Washington, where the entire
State and local ,selective service
organization is confined to such a
small geographical area, the estab-
lishment of a central re-employ.
ment Office will eliminate lot of
the needless hodge-podge which un-
doubtediy would result from plan
whereby returning service men
would be compelled to visit the
various board headquarters at GER
tain hours of the day for assistance.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Army Officer Gets
Wires Crossed and
Learns Foes Plans

BY the Associated Press.
SHREVEPORT, La, Sept. 6.
1t sometimes pays to get
your wires crossed - at least
during Army maneuvers.
Maj. Roy Stephens of the
45th Division intelligence Sec
ton, trying to contact his own
9th Corps headquarters by
field telephone. was connected
with the enemy.
Whats the dope? he asked.
A voice at the other end pro-
ceeded 10 reveal the exact loca-
ton of opposing forces.
Evening star., 1941-09-07

and his block managers will fol-
low up with trapping measures.
BY means of this concerted
civic effort, the District hopes to
make a big dent in the city's rat
population. The program will
get under way as soon as citizens
groups meet and form their ro-
dent-control committees.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
RuruI Women to Meet

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Sept. 6
(SpeciaD - Members of the Rural
Women's County Council for St.
Marys will meet at 10 am. on Octo-
ber % at the Holy Face Church,
at Great Mills. Mrs. Harry P. Wise,
president. will introduce speakers.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Indies Hos Chute Corps

BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies,
Sept. 6 lR.-A Netherlands Indies
parachute corps, newly formed, is
being trained with American equip
ment, Army officers disclosed today.
Evening star., 1941-09-07

Shale oil used on Swedish war
ships proved as effective as the best
grades of imported oil.
Evening star., 1941-09-07

Zanzibar supplied nearly four
fifths of the worlds demand for
cloves last year.
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Four May Enter
Bemidji Birchmont

Vic Sieben, tournament chair
man for the Country Club, may be
among the two hundred or more
expected at the seventeenth annual
Birchmont International golf tour
nament at Bemidji's Town and
Country Club this weekend. The
tournament opens on this 18-hole
completely watered course today,
Thursday, and continues through
Sunday. Pat Dubois, Russ Shulze
and Bob Rydholm also plan to at
tend.
Vic is now on vacation and wants
to include little tournament golf
with his loafing and has indicated
he may take in the Bemidji event.
Flights will be arranged for all
players according to the qualifying
scores with separate divisions for
men and women. Qualifying rounds
of Is holes are to be played today
or tomorrow with match play in
all flights Saturday and Sunday.
Approximately two hundred are
expected to take part this year
with a host of expert golfers in
both divisions to battle it out for
titles, j. D. Winter, secretary, an
nounced. Trophies will be award
ed for qualifying medalist as well
as winner, runnerup and consola-
ton in all flights. There will be
flights of sixteen in championship,
first and second in the mems div
ision and eight in all others in
Guiding the women's play.
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who represented the u. s. Postal
Department, at the dedication, pre-
sented the following as speaker of
the afternoon his contribution to
the event:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am happy to be with you today
as a representative of the p. o.
Dept to assist in dedication of the
new Sank Centre Federal building.
This new building represents
many hours Of hard labor on the
part of the men who took part in
its construction. It will stand for
many years to come as a tribute
to their skill. History concerning
the new structure shows that I'M
der authority Of the Federal Pub
lie Buildings Appropriation Act of
June 81, 1888, an allotment of
$4,000 was made to include the
cost of site, building, and admin
istration. Sites were advertised
for and the present site was Sc
lected on February Is, 1889. Next
followed the drawing of the plans
for the new building which was
designed by the office of the Sup
cruising Architect, Public Build
ing Administration, Federal Works
Agency, On August 20, 1910, the
Federal Works Agency awarded
the construction contract to Ed
Hirt & Son of st. Cloud, Mimi, in
the amount of $44,177. It was stip-
ulated that the building was to be
completed within 300 days from
September IL, 1910. This new build
ing is erected on a lot having a
frontage of 1872 feet on Main Street
and 100 feet on Fourth Street. The
building itself is 60 feet inches
across the front, with a depth of
81 feet 6 inches. It is Of Colonial
design with granite base, brick ex-
terror walls, stone trim, wood corn
ice and windows. Granite steps
and platform mark the front en-
trance. At the rear are the usual
vestibule and platform for recep-
ton Of mail and mailing drive with
space for parking postal automo-
biles.
Generally the structure is fire
proof. On the first floor there is
IA feet wide public lobby which
has terrazzo floor, stone wainscot,
plaster walls and ceiling, and a
wood and glass entrance vestibule.
The bronze lock boxes are of Greek
design. The postmaster's office adj
joins the lobby. The workroom and
financial section which contain 1910
square feet of floor space are well
lighted by numerous windows and
large skylight.
The earliest available record of
compensation paid the postmaster
at Sank Centre shows that for
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California, where she had been en-
ployed. Now at the home Of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Markson,
she is home for the first time in
three years. Here because of her
mothers illness, Miss Markson will
remain here indefinitely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Frank and
children, of Fergus Falls, arrived
Saturday and were weekend visit
ors with his mother, Mrs. Anna
Sieben, and with the lady's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. s. G. Schwarz-
bauer. Mr.. Frank returned to
their home Sunday while the lady
and the children have remained
for this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. v. G.. Wedge and
daughters, of Portland, Oregon,
arrived in this city Monday for a
brief stay. They left Tuesday for
Zumbrota to visit but with plans
to return to Sank Centre to spend
several days. They are former
residents of Sank Centre.
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City News Items

A daughter, Patricia JEAN" was
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank R.
Brekas formerly Mary Schley),
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Schley, of Sank Centre, on Tues
day, July %, at Providence hospi-
tai, Oakland, California. The lit
tie one weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces
at birth. Mother and babe are
doing fine, according to the an
nouncement.
Miss Lulu Kriesel spent the
weekend in Isanti visiting her
mother, Mrs. Rose Kriesel.
Miss Cecile Markson arrived
here Sunday night from Palo Alto,
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Recreation
Program Schedule
Thursday, July 81

THURSDAY, July 81
1000 a. m. to IL m.-City Park
Boys, girls organized games. Midget
baseball, ages to senior high school,
Fair Grounds. Tiny tots story
hour and games, supervisor Eliza
beth Brown.
200 p. m. to 500 p. m.-City
Park. Organized games with sup
ervised play activity. Supervisors
Clarence Dickinson, Frank Brown.
Horseshoe. bean bag, darts, arch
cry, tether ball, croquet, box hook
ey, catalina, table Switchboard, ping
pong, badminton. Quiet games such
as checkers.
900 to 500 p. m.-St. Pauls
school grounds. Senior groups soft
ball. Mr.. Dickinson supervisor.
$50 to $50 supervised games at
the City Park.
Friday, August l.
1000 a. m. to II m.-City Park.
Organized games, all ages. All
boys, Junior and Senior ages, base
ball, Fair Grounds. Tiny tots or
ganized games, Miss Brown sup
ervisor.
200 to 500 p. m.-City Park.
Supervised activity each day.
600 to 500 p. m.-St. Paul's
school grounds, senior soft ball,
all boys up to Is years Of age.
$50 to $3.50 supervised games at
City Park.
Saturday, August p
1000 to HOO a. m. City Park,
meeting of supervisors.
200 to 500 p. m.-City Park.
Game supervision. Swimming sup
ervision only; no lessons. No eve
ming supervision.
Sunday, August s.
200 to 800 p. m.-Supervised
games and swimming.
Monday, August f.
1000 a. m. to IL m.-City Park,
supervision of games for all ages.
Midget baseball, boys ages to SEN
Tor high school, Fair Grounds.
Tiny tots organized games, Miss
Brown supervisor.
200 to 500 p. m.--City Park sup
ervision Of games.
900 to 500 p. m.-St. Paul's
school grounds, senior soft ball
$3.50 to $3.50 supervised games at
the City Park.
Tuesday, August s.
1000 a. m. to II m.-City Park,
supervised games for all ages. All
boys, Junior and senior ages, base
ball, Fair Grounds. Tiny tots story
hour and games, supervisor Miss
Elizabeth Brown.
200 to 500 p. m.-Junior and
Senior Life saving lessons. Sup
ervision games and swimming.
600 to 800 p. m.-St. Paul's
school grounds, midget soft ball
$3.50 to $3.50 supervised games at
the City Park.
Wednesday, August e.
1000 a. m. to IL m.-City Park,
supervised games for boys and
girls, all ages. Tiny tots organized
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Continued from Page One)
today is the day we donate the
postoffice." He said: "These things
come to Sank Centre because Of
the untiring efforts of men who
love their home town. Men who
have community spirit, or shall we
say community ambition"
Waving aside personal compli-
ment for being instrumental in OBJ
tanning the building for Sank Cen
tire, Ben Dubois, said, IT think
when Captain Bruce in 1858
brought the first postoffice to this
city, the groundwork was laid for
this building. It's not individuals
but the character of a town as a
whole that brings such improve
ments. Sank Centre has a spirit
that's rather outstanding"
IT am of the generation once
removed from the pioneers who
blocked out this town." he said
and reminisced about postmasters
he had known like U. M. Tobey,
w. o. P. Hilsdale, others with
whom he had a nodding acquaint-
ance through hearsay only like
Warren Adley, the first, and Sam
Simonton.
These buildings represent new
era in postal service" he said.
1.-THE job of the postmaster used
to consist in distribution Of the
mails and the reading Of the post
al cards. This enlarged service of
the postoffice is what the govern
ment offers today to the people"
OF Mr.. Tull and his family it
was said, Hes adaptible and he
and his family have become real
part of Sank Centre"
Best witticism Of the afternoon
was made by Ben Dubois, when
after the introduction by Ed Rattle,
he turned with thanks and said,
sour advertising will be as usual"
Pat Dubois extended invitation
to the crowd to the open house Of
the new building with all rooms
and departments thrown open.
That evening dozens more Of the
citizens Of the community paraded
through the lobby and gaped at its
exterior bathed in it's own light
from the colonial fixtures for the
first time.
Committee in charge Of arrange
ments for the program consisted
of Pat Dubois, representing the
postoffice department, Mayor s. G..
Schwarzbauer, representing the
city. and Ed L. Rattle, represent
ing the Community Club.
r. F. Baldwin, of Minneapolis,
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THE WINNAH-
Fred Cooper Wins
First Tourney

Freddie Cooper won the first
golf tournament he ever play
ed In. In addition to striking
such q high percentage this
14-year-Old SON of DIR. and Mrs.
r. e. Cooper becomes the
youngest flight winner Of the
season In this section when he
strOked his way to win the
fourth flight in a short stop
event at Glenwood Sunday. He
and John Cotton were local en-
tries in the event. For the
COOpers GlenwoOd is their
lucky spot, for older brother,
Jim, has won there twice.