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Evening star., 1941-08-22

There's the Washington motorist
who filled up his tank so miles
north of New York and tried to make
a dash into the Capital without re-
filling. A service truck towed him
in from Laurel, Md, after Z o'clock
that night.
A Georgia family pulled into a
District service station en- route
home from Massachusetts,. 1t had
been a trying day, they said, the
first of actual restriction on gaso-
line. All day they had hoped from
gas station to station with no pur-
chase exceeding five gallons. The
Washington dealer filled their tank.
A Rhode Island avenue, northeast.
service station remained open "a
hours a day since it was built many
years ago. The 7 pm. curfew forced
the owner to hire a watchman as
the pumps had no locks.
Dealers Irked, Too.
A different complaint is heard
from some dealers. There's one
who turns customers away from his
tanks with a maximum Of five gal
Ions, only to see them drive across
the street to finish filling their tanks
with gasoline bought from COM
petitor.
Hoarding is discouraged, but not
banned. 1t has been estimated that
more idle cars have been filled with
gas during the last few days than
ever before in the history of the city.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Orphans, Service Men
Invited 10 Attend
Police and Fire Fete
Will Be Among 20, 900
At Griffith Stadium
For Ionorrow's Events

Guests of honor among the 10000
expected to attend the police and
firemen's field day at Griffith Sta
dium tomorrow will be 100 children
from local and nearby orphanages
and 200 soldiers, sailors and marines
from Arlington Cantonment.
They will be entertained by Police
1t John j. Agnew. chairman of ar
rangements, and his committee
The field day is held annually for
the benefit of the retirement funds
of both services.
A softball game between police
and firemen will open the program
at IL am. Other competitive events,
scheduled to start at 1890 pm, in
clude a track meet, tug of war, races,
shotputs and broad jumps.
Next will come skill drills by both
services. interspersed with clown
acts and musical selections by the
Metropolitan Police Boys Club and
National Training School for Boys
Bands Police will march in forma-
ton. Firemen will demonstrate
climbing on a specially constructed
65-foot tower and extinguishing
fires. The day events will be con-
cluded about $50 pm. with motor
cycle stunts by Sergt. Tony Richitt
and his team.
Clown acts will be put on by Frank
Portillo and Bumpsey Anthony and
Fred Fetter's Clown Band.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

He reminded the dealers that they
were ''in the front line trenches OF
the petroleum situation" and that
it was up to them to back the
Government.
Mai. Beverly C. Snow, chairman
of the District Petroleum Conserva-
ton Committee, told the dealers
the gasoline picture in the East
already has passed through two
stages - voluntary cooperation by
the public and voluntary co-opera-
ton by the public and the dealers
and that both efforts had been un-
successful.
Cites Fourth Stage Possibility.
I'VE went into the third stage"
he continued, when the Office OF
Price Control placed the problem
in the hands of the dealers. The way
we handle it will determine whether
we 60 into the fourth stage, which
will mean drastic compulsory ra-
tioning"
Mai. Snow urged dealers to re-
fuse to sell gas to motorists in sep
arate containers and, in any in
stance, to remind buyers of the
danger of storing gasoline in such
manner.
The situation also was reviewed
by DR.. John Frey, director of mar
keting for the Department OF
Interior, who advised against show
ing favoritism to so-called good
customers"
You dealers have never faced
such a serious social responsibility"
he warned, land you never again
may have the opportunity to con-
tribute as much to the community
as right now"
While urging utmost cooperation
in the present drive, Dr.. Frey as
sured the group that the Govern
ment is making "real efforts" now
to offset the shortage,
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Text of Roosevelt Letter
President AssoiIs Partisan Opposition
To National Defense Program

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 22.-The
text of President Roosevelt's letter
to the Young Democratic Clubs of
America follows:
my Dear Homer Mat Adams:
Democracy has a new signid-
canoe these days, for the word
whether spelled with capital or a
small d." has merged the meaning
of both.
I'm its worldwide application, it
means the defense of the great free
doms against the entertainments and
attacks of the dark forces OF des-
potism which would re-enslave the
globe by turning back the clock OF
progress half a thousand years.
Domestically, democracy represents
the effort to continue and improve
the condition Of the individual, to
protect the gains for liberty-social
and economic-that we have at
tanned through the century and a
half of the life of our Republic.
Though the definitions differ in
phrase, the objectives in the two
neluS are Identical.
Aggressor Makes Rules.
Across both oceans, on the oceans,
and above the oceans, the struggle
is one of armed forces with the
ghastly results of destruction and
slaughter on scale not paralleled
in modern history. 1t had to be So
Against naked force the only pos
sible defense is naked force. The
aggressor makes the rules for such
war; the defenders have no al
tentative but matching destruction
with more destruction, slaughter
with greater slaughter.
AT home, for time, we cherished
the vain hope that the war would
let us alone; inexorably events
abroad taught us that there could
be no safety in passivity; no sane
tuary in isolation. So we were forced
to disrupt our industrial fabric; not
only to arm ourselves to the teeth;
but to become the armory of the
democracies, for it soon became
evident that only by the defeat Of
the sinister powers of cynical con-
quest, before they reached our shores,
could We even have the slightest
chance of staying out of actual war.
Appeasers Here, Too.
Unfortunately, here as abroad,
there were and are appeasers and
compromisers, who contend for trea-
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Gas Curb Recalls Travel Woe
Of Horse-ond- Buggy Days
D. c. Driver Towed In From Laurel;
Ohio Visitor Sleeps in FueI-Iess Car

The curfew ON gasoline sales has
brought transportation difficulties
which recall the hardships of horse
and-buggy days.
Almost overnight the cry, my
kingdom for a horse" has been re-
placed as q. popular quotation by
my shoes for a gallon of gas"
They laid a stick to a balky mule
back in the old days to get him
started but not even the fearful
supplications of a stranded motorist
can make the engine of an automo-
bile turn over when the tank is
empty.
Ohioan Sleeps in Car.
There's the A. A. A. member from
Ohio, for instance, who called the
local office of the association the
other night from point on New
York avenue NE.
I'm out of gas. What can do
about it?"
Nothing unless it's an emergency"
he was told.
We'll, I wouldn't be so self-cen-
tered as to classify my present pre-
dicament as an emergency" replied
the Ohio man.
You'll have to declare an emer-
gency before we can act" repeated
the A. A. A. spokesman.
They found the Ohioan asleep in
his gasless automobile the next
morning, curled up on the back seat
shading his eyes from the rising sun.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Transit Firm Submits
Nip-Stop Program
To Utilities Agency
Buses TO Eliminate
Mere HuIts Tomorrow,
Making TotoI Of 369

The first definite program for re-
ducing the number of streetcar stops
was submitted to the Public Util-
tiles Commission by the Capital
Transit Co. today. If approval is
granted, the Fourteenth street car
line (routes so, So, 54) will cut its
stops from $50 to 1873 next week.
Field inspections for the city's en-
tire electrified transportation sys-
tenn have been made, the transit
company announced, and further
skip-stops are being planned on a
large scale.
Tomorrow the last of a month
long series of bus stop curtailments
will go into effect Forty-nine halts
will be Misunderstanding a total
of 1863 stopping points that will have
been cut out of Washington's bus
transportation. The figure is ap-
proXimate, however, due to duplica-
tions of lines at some points.
The Public Utilities Commission
sponsored the Skip-Stop plan for
buses on the ground that gasoline
would be saved.
A defense argument is behind the
plan of eliminating streetcar stops,
also. Electric power will be con-
served. it is said. and Speedier
transportation will be available to
defense agency workers.
The schedule of bus stop reduc-
tons which will go into effect to-
morrow follows:
Chillum express route K-4, in
bound stops will be cut from 81 to 29,
outbound from 80 to SO.
Kennedy street route K-2, inbound
cut from % to 18, outbound from
"a to 10.
Takoma express route KS, in
bound reduced from As to 81, out
bound from 40 to 35.
Petworth local P-2, inbound from
63 to 54, outbound from So to 40.
1t was announced that no changes
will be made in the Potomac Park
bus schedule.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
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Evening star., 1941-08-22
No New Taxi Licenses
Urged as One Of Nine
Gas-Saving Ideas
Conservation Committee
To Study Proposals
At Meeting Tomorrow

Nine proposals to save gasoline In
the District-one of them a sugges-
ton that no more taxicabs be
granted licenses-were listed today
for consideration at special meet
ing of the District Petroleum Con-
servation Committee at 10 am. to-
morrow in the office of Traffic Di-
rector William A. Van Duzer, In
the new Municipal Center Building
washington now has more than
5000 taxicabs and for several years
the Public Utilities Commission has
recommended legislation to permit
the commission to reduce the num-
ber, but without success.
Corporation Counsel Richmond
B. Keech, formerly a member of the
Utilities Commission, voiced ap-
proval OF the idea of reducing the
number of taxicabs, but declared
the commission now has no author
ity to do this and that legislation
would be necessary.
Some District officials said that
for this reason the suggestion to be
considered by the conservation
group might we'll resolve itself into
a plea for prompt action by Con-
gress on the long-standing proposal.
Mach Wasted in Cruising.
The idea would be that consider
able gasoline could be saved since
taxicabS, as other common carriers,
are given unlimited gasoline sup
plies under the present rationing
system. 1t is argued also that, if
there are too many taxicabS. too
much gasoline is wasted in cruising
for fares. One of the other pro-
posals up for consideration tomor-
row Is that taxicab drivers be given
permission to pick up additional pas
sengers en- route on trip after they
already have taken on one fare.
This was recommendation made
at a meeting last night of the gaso-
line retail dealers association.
Other proposals which have come
to the committee, headed by Assist
ant Engineer Commissioner Beverly
c. Snow, from various groups and
the public, include the following:
That the District Board of zon-
ing Adjustment adopt a policy of
refusing to grant applications for
establishment of any additional gas
stations during the period of the
fuel shortage.
That certain gasoline stations be
designated which may be opened
for business during "curfew" hours
and public announcement of where
these stations are located.
Other Proposals.
That police and the general public
be given a clear understanding of
how to meet emergency situations
of motorists caught without gasoline
during curfew hours.
That something be done about
complaints of discrimination in the
sale of gasoline against tourists in
favor of regular customers at gaso-
line stations.
That there be more leniency on
the part of police as to rules as to
how many taxicabs may park at a
taxi stand, so that four instead Of
three cabs, for instance, may park
at one stand, the idea being to re-
duce cruising
That more steam be put behind
the program of fuel oil dealers for
q checkup on officiating plants, as
q means Of saving oil.
And that something more be done
to persuade more persons who drive
to work to pick up their neighbors
who might otherwise drive their own
cars.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

ties with force that make a mock
of treaties; for agreements with
forces that forswear promises and
pledges at their convenience.
Granted that there are some who
are making the progress of our
national defense difficult, who are
sincere in their belief that in some
mysterious way peace may come of
inaction, or inadequate action-what
they advocate is nonetheless peril
GUS to our national security. Their
horror of war is not more intense
than that of those of us who are
convinced that only by having the
brigand nations stopped abroad is
there safety for the Americas.
AS to what steps are required to
stop the Nazis, 1 certainly am more
inclined to accept the judgment of
our Army and Navy experts who
have devoted lifetime to the study
of defending America, than I am
to consider the judgment of even
the most sincere exponent of the
idea that we can occupy war
tight compartment, in world
flooded with war.
II, like the rest of you, hoped that
domestic politics would play no part
in our defense measures. To some
extent our hopes are realized-a
multitude of the opposition party is
serving the cause zealously and eff
ficiently-but on the other hand,
the votes in Congress on the various
steps in our preparedness show that
partisan politics is still rampant.
True, there are very few who still
wear a Democratic label who have
joined the obstructionists. 1 think
these are in the wrong party.
Patriotism Above Party.
Il would be the last person to
dispute or limit the right of every
citizen to have his own opinion and
to express it, and I know you are
with me as to the preservation of
that most important freedom. But
whether an individual who cam
paigns against the principles and
policies of a political party retains
the right of membership in that
party is different question.
Patriotism is immensely more
important than party loyalty, but
when party loyalty goes hand-in-
hand with devotion to our country
and a determination to keep that
country free and safe, there is no
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Support Roosevelt
Arms Policies, Young
Democrats Urged
President Tells Clubs
Foes Within Ranks Are
In Wrong Porty
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Aug. 22.-Urged by
President Roosevelt to keep their
ranks clear of any subversive inf1u-
ence, members of Young Democratic
Clubs of America today were called
upon to rally Loyalty behind the
President and accept his guidance. !"
Speakers before the clubs fifth
biennial convention told of peril to
the Nation and warned that the
time for debate over the Nations
course had passed and the time had
come when there should be COM
plete loyalty and ALLEGIANCE to Pres
ident Roosevelt"
Francis Biddle, solicitor general
and acting Attorney General of the
United States, told the Young Dem
ocrats that there can be no Amer
lean way of life in a world where
the goose step and the enslaving of
those who disagree, and the spy
and the whip and the torch and the
firing squad are the guardians of
life"
Mr.. Biddle urged the Nation to
stand loyalty behind the President
to help achieve the peace outlined
by the President and Prime Minis
ter Churchill of England after their
historic rendezvous at sea-
At the opening of the three-day
convention last night, President
Homer Mat Adams read a letter
from the President to the conven-
ton In which he said, Il only ask
you to keep your ranks clear and
clean of whatever subversive influ-
ence may add to our country's peril
or make more difficult its protec-
ton" The President added:
"In the Wrong Party"
Il. like the rest of you, hoped
that domestic politics would play no
part in our defense measures. To
some extent our hopes are realized
a multitude of the opposition party
is serving the cause zealously and
ef1ciently-but, on the other hand,
the votes in Congress on the various
steps in our preparedness show that
partisan politics is still rampant.
True, there are a very few who
still wear Democratic label who
have Joined the obstructionists. /
think these are in the wrong party" ("
Senator Albert B. Chandler of
Kentucky told the convention that
at this time there should be no
division among u.s.
We should earnestly support the
President of the United States in
his efforts to prepare adequately the
defenses of this country to make
these defenses so strong that we
shall be able to meet any eventu-
atty" he added.
Defends Roosevelt Policies.
Senator Chandler criticized state
ments by men in public life which
he said tend to create the impress
sion in the minds of the people that
the President desires to take the
country into war, because they are
not true"
The Senator said that had Con-
gress failed to vote for extension
OF the military service period 'it
would have made bolder the threats
of the Axis powers"
Representative Lyndon johnson of
Texas. the convention keynoter,
urged that the Nations youth give
the President full support with the
same fervor that the Nazi youth
"Worships the Nazi party" and
Adolf Hitler.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Gasoline
Continued From First Page

(COntlnueQ from FlrSt Pdge.)
sales to private motorists, as COM
mercial vehicles, including buses and
taXicabs, all exempted from the ra-
-tioning, normally use half OF the
amount sold.
Meanwhile, the Senate Commerce
Committee went ahead with plans
to consider next week a resolution
by Senator Malony, Democrat, of
Connecticut for a Senate investi-
cation of the fuel shortage. Simul-
taneously, Ralph K. Davies, acting
petroleum co-ordinator, urged the
public to discount persistent"
rumors that there is no danger"
and that warnings OF an impend-
ing shortage are phony"
In New York City, dealers were
warned that defiance of the 7 pm.
to 7 am. curfew might make it
necessary to close 5000 of the city's
1000 stations for the remainder of
August. In New England, on the
other hand, State officials of Maine,
Vermont and New Hampshire
sought to block a reduction in gaso-
line supplies until Labor Day. ask
ing that their quotas be made effec-
tive next month.
The Eastern Petroleum Marketing
Board, an, industry committee acting
as advisers to the Government, con-
cluded two days of deliberation in
New York today and recommended
that gasoline consumption in the
Eastern Seaboard States during the
last two weeks in August be cut 40
per cent. 1t was thought likely that
the proposal would be adopted i'm
mediately.
Mr.. Wainwright told the Wash
ington dealers he had been advised
that, if the August quota is ex-
hausted from all tanks in the city
by midnight of August 81, it will
take at least four days to supply
the tanks again.
Advises Daily Quota.
In the face of this predicament
and in view of the fact that there
has not been sufficient regulation
of sale during the days since the
quota for the last half of the month
was delivered, he advised all re-
tailers to set up daily quota, based
on at least a 20 per cent curtail-
ment, and to refuse to sell each day
after that quota is exhausted
The association of dealers recon-
mended at the close of last nights
session that there be an immediate
curtailment of gasoline in the en-
tire remainder of the United States
so that tank cars and other delivery
facilities can be released for de-
livery of gas to the Eastern Coast.
This was suggested after it had been
explained that the shortage in the
East is due to lack of transportation
rather than to lack of basic supply.
To partially offset the reduction
In revenue for dealers due to the
Evening star., 1941-08-22

present situation, the association
also urged that rent be curtailed
for them in proportion to the gas
curtailment. 1t further recon-
mended that suppliers discontinue
sale to private consumers so that all
non-essential gas will be sold to
service stations and that con-
struction of new service stations be
discontinued during the period of
the emergency.
Dealers were advised to obtain
Immediately figures on how much
gasoline they will be allotted over
a given period and to divide the
amount by the number of days their
stations will be open during this
period, taking into consideration
their experience as to heavy and
light gallonage days.
Customer Limit Suggested.
With this daily quota as a founda-
ton figure, they were urged further
to start Immediately on the cur
tailment of all possible gas sales,
by either setting a limited amount
on each individual purchaser, or by
curtailing each sale to non-essential
users. After their daily quota has
been exhausted, they were advised
emphatically to quit selling for that
particular day.
AS still another move to reduce
consumption, dealers were en-
couraged to start clearing houses"
in their individual service stations
for people driving regularly from
the neighborhood to the downtown
section, arranging for several to
double up in one car. Stickers and
pamphlets were given them to be
distributed in support of this idea.
Martin Mccarthy, president of
the association, said in opening the
meeting that "rationing is a definite
law, not just a wish, and the peo-
pie are taking it very seriously"
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Communications Guards
Urged as Defense Move

The Defense Communications
Board today requested all wire and
radio communication operators and
equipment manufacturers to place
their plants and equipment under
virtually the same restrictions and
protection as is provided for mill
tary posts and munitions plants.
The announcement of a resolution
adopted by the board was made by
Chairman James L. Fly.
The resolution specifically re-
quested that representatives of any
foreign government or firm be de-
MED access to premises containing
communications equipment or facili-
ties. except on permission of the
beard.
Evening star., 1941-08-22

division of allegiance. I have i'm
plicit faith in the youth Of this
Nation; I have no doubts of where
you stand. I only ask you to keep
your ranks clear and clean of what
ever subversive influence may add
to our country's peril or make more
difficult its protection.
Very sincerely yours,
(Signed Franklin D. Roosevelt"
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Monument Unveiled

A monument to those killed in
gunfights on election day, July I,
1910, was unveiled recently in Mex
leo City.
Evening star., 1941-08-22
Mother of Gov. Ford Dies

TULSA, Aug. % (P).-Mrs. Glen
ora E. Ford, 86, mother Of Gov. S. c..
Ford of Montana, died yesterday.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-16
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with that chair" 10th told the
reporter.
CAT a hearing before Judge
Spier yesterday morning, Fred
Fritz" Heisner, a witness, testi-
fled that Love was stabbed as
he made for 10th with a chair
after the prisoner had made
threats to get" Bill Evans, Mat
Ter hotel, because Evans beat
up on a friend
Evans was said to have struck
Hilda Johns, Al, Of Detroit, ear
ly Saturday night. The Johns
woman is a friend of Geraldine
Davis, Toth's 36-year-old girl
friend.
AWAITS EXAM
I'm supposed to be examined
by doctors to see if I'm crazy or
not" 10th went on, "but it's just
a waste of time.
I'm not crazy, although once
in a while I have an awful
headache over my right eye.
It's been that way ever since
they slugged me with that beer
bottle"
(Toth referred to a right at a
local brothel last December be-
tween employees and a group of
Detroiters. AT that time, the
prisoner received severe lacer-
alton over the eye.)
II wouldn't be talking like
this if I didn't think you un-
derstand and will give me a
fair DEAL"
HINTS SURPRISE
10th then limited that he had
surprise announcement to
make "soon," saying: There's
been an awful lot of lying going
on about me and the fight.
That's all going to be changed.
All I ask is fair play.
They say I stabbed Love.
Well, maybe I did, but I don't
remember it. was pretty
drunk when / walked into the
tavern. I don't remember much
after that.
IF ! killed him, I'm sorry. AS
God is my witness, I'm sorry.
I certainly didn't intend to do
it."