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Evening star., 1942-01-07
Charlton N. Clark,
Retired u. ). Worker,
Dies al Home Here
Historian Served os
Mississippi Society
Head for Eight Years

Charlton Moore Clark, president
emeritus of the Mississippi Society
and historical writer, died today at
MS home. 1920 Kilbourne place NV.
after long illness.
Mr.. Clark came to Washington
in 1890 to enter Government service
He served for several years in the
law section of the Pension Office
as special examiner in New Orleans
and Missouri and then entered the
War Department in 1899. where he
continued until his retirement in
1897 from the administrative and
fiscal service of the Adjutant Cen
erals Office.
For eight years he served as presi-
dent of the Mississippi Society. and
was for seven years chairman of the
School Committee of the Park View
Citizens Association. He is a for
mer president of the Mems Club of
ST. Stephens Episcopal Church, a
life member of the Sons of the
American Revolution. Dawson Lodge.
F. A. A. NJ: Knight Templar
Shriner. 32d Degree Mason and the
Sons Of Confederate Veterans
Mr. Clark. who was known in the
South for his articles on Mississippi
history and who had recently COM
pleted a book manuscript on In
dians and the Revolution" was
born in kosciusko. Miss While a
young man he edited three Missis-
sippi papers and was travelling cor
respondent and on the editorial staff
of the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
In 1893 he graduated from Ma
tional University with a law degree
and later received degrees of master
of law and doctor of civil law from
Columbian University. now George
Washington University. He was
one of the last survivors of the Ford
Theater disaster. He is said to have
escaped from the ruined building by
climbing along the edge of ladder
which a colored man hooked from
the top of a telegraph pole to a
window of the building.
Mr.. Clark is survived by his widow,
the former Sophia Isham Clagett,
of Keokuk. Prince Georges County,
Md; his daughter Elizabeth Cla-
gett Clark: brother, DR.. Clifton
P. Clark of this city, and sister,
Mrs. Edward Coleman of KoSciusko.
Evening star., 1942-01-07
Dutch Report Toll
OF IS Jap Planes,
IS Ships So Far
a More Worships, a
Transports and 9
Aircraft Damaged
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 7.-Piet Kerstens,
newly appointed Dutch Minister OF
Shipping and Industry, announced
today that Netherlands Indies
forces had destroyed IS Japanese
planes. two cruisers. two destroyers,
nine transports and two merchant
ships in the one -month-old Pacific
war
In addition. he said. two cruisers.
two deStroyerS. four transports and
nine airplanes were damaged.
Kerstens arrived in London after
a plane trip from Batavia, the Meth
erlands Indies capital. which he
left December IA. week after the
initial japanese attacks.
The islands will not need United
States troops. he said, but do re-
qrire additional ships and planes.
Kerstens said the first line air
strength of the Netherlands was
about 1000 planes and added that
airmen were needed because of the
scarcity of good native pilots.
The natives. however. realized that
Japanese control would be worse
than the Dutch he added. and said
Evening star., 1942-01-07
Two Minor D. {. Bills
Forwarded 10 President

The House today completed lceis-
lative action on two minor District
bills and sent them to President
Roosevelt for his signature. Both
bills had previously passed the House
but we're returned for approval Of
Senate amendments.
One grants partial exemption from
local taxation to sightseeing buses
bringing tourists into Washington
from other cities. The other pro-
hibits parking of automobiles on
private property or on public space
other than highways. without con-
sent of the owners.
The sightseeing bill. as amended
by the Senate. would allow out-of-
town buses to bring tourist parties
into Washington on Is days out of
a calendar year without payment of
the local sightseeing license fee
1t also would grant complete eXemp-
ton to all school buses bringing
children from other cities to tour
the National Capital.
Evening star., 1942-01-07
Americans in keIaya
Are Reduced 10 253
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SINGAPORE. Jan Delayed -
A month of war has reduced the
American community in Malaga
from 1853 to 253.
No exodus has been ordered. but
a majority of women and children
with the assistance of the United
States Consul General, have left
since war began.
The remaining Americans are car
rying on their work, much of which
is important to the war effort, and
many of them are active in civilian
defense. The men are serving in
air raid precautionary and other
civilian services and the women in
medical auXiharies and canteens.
Mrs. Kenneth S. Patton, wife of
the United States Consul General,
.supervises score of women volun-
teers of all nationalities making
clothes for refugees and bombing
victims.
Evening star., 1942-01-07
1t. 0sipoff Does Chute
Leap This Time 0. K.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf. Jan. Ma
rine 1t. Walter S. Osipod, who tried
a parachute leap last May IS only
to dangle helplesslv in the air for
35 .minutes until his rescue by a
daring aerial maneuver. jumped
again yesterday-successfully.
The 23-year-old Osipoff was one
of about 60 members of the I'd Para
chute Battalion who engaged in
practice leaps near Lake Hodges.
officers reported the parachuting
was routine, except for the return
of 1t. Osipof to duty as a sky
soldier.
Superb airmanship on the part
of It. W. w. Lowrey. "a. Dallas,
and j. r. McCents, Il. aviation
chief machinist's mate from Jordan,
Mont. in rescuing 1t. Osipof from
the transport last May brought them
the Navy Cross.
Evening star., 1942-01-07

millions of dollars and stripped the
country of practically all movable
property or produce. BY setting up
special banks to print more bogus
money they sought to wreck the
entire Chinese financial structure
Gen. Macarthur disclosed in COM
munique No. 48, issued here last
night, that invading Japanese troops
are circulating large quantities Of
paper money initiating the color and
texture of Philippine currency, but
substituting the Japanese govern
ment for the commonwealth govern
ment as the issuing agency.
That's an old story to the Chinese.
Every Japanese soldier who shot
or clubbed his way onto Chinese
territory was paid in special mill
tary scrip" good only in the cities
and towns and countryside he helped
conquer. Chinese who refused the
spurious currency the first time had
it offered to them the next time at
the point Of bayonet or a rifle.
Japanese carpet -baggers flocked to
Sllllld Ill tllc Wdkc Vi lIle id dpdueSc
invading armies with bales of
phoney money or restricted yen
notes. With it they bought all avail
able rice, tin and other vitality
needed metals, silk. linen. antiques.
cotton, notwithstanding that
could be consumed or shipped away
to their impoverished little Islands
regardless of whether the Chinese or
foreign producers, middleMen or
agents wanted to sell for scrap paper
In this method the japanese Army
was largely fed and clothed on the
countryside it conquered.
At a japanese press conference in
Shanghai the japanese spokesmen.
questioned concerning the avalanche
of fake currency. vociferously pro-
tested it was perfectly good money
and offered to prove it by making
purchases in the company OF several
American correspondents.
Despite his rank, this japanese
Evening star., 1942-01-07
Boyonet-Point Looting, Used in China,
Is Repeated by japanese in Philippines

officers military scrip was turned
down fatty by three Japanese-not
Chinese. but Japanese-merchants
in Hongkew, Shanghia's Little
Toxic" each asserting they could
not use 1t for purchases in Japan and
could not make Chinese accept it
without armed help.
AS it grew increasingly difficult for
the Japanese-despite bayonet per-
suasion-to pass their stage money
they invented a new twist.
Puppet Chinese governments
popped up in Tientsin, Peiping and
Marking and proclaimed the estab-
lishment of banks of issue which
promptly produced imitation Chinese
bills, printed in Japan.
Left Holding Bag.
Proclamations decreed that all
bills issued by the Chinese nation
alst (Chiang Kai-shek) government
must be converted into the new pup
pet currency Any not turned in
by a set date were declared worth
less and their acceptance GRIM
inal offense.
With the valid Chinese bills OBJ
tanned through that trickery the
japanese Immediately bought Amer
ican dollars, British pounds, French
francs, or any other foreign cur
rency with which they could pur-
chase supplies in world trade, re-
gardless Of the exchange rate.
That bear" raiding was a major
factor in cheapening Chinese cur
rency until one Chinese dollar was
worth only five or six American
cents. 1t was stabilized at that
crash rate only through American
and British support.
The Chinese were left holding the
bag with paper notes no more VAL
liable than the Joss" money which
they burn on festival days to pro-
pitiate their ancestors and their
gods-for not even the japanese
would take the puppet limitations.
Evening star., 1942-01-07
By THOMAS r. HENRY.


One of the hardest blows the
United States has suffered from the
war in the Pacific-so far as the
effect on daily life is concerned
is the shutting off of the major
source of tin.
This is the one familiar metal on
which this country is almost entire
ly dependent on imports. The do
mestic production, mostly from
Alaskan ore. amounts to only few
hundred tons a year. Eighty per
cent comes from southeastern Asia,
chiefly British Malaga. Most of the
remainder has come from Bolivia
by way of London.
Every year of late has seen an
increasing demand as the American
housewife became more and more
dependent on the tin-plated can
and the number of automobiles in
creased Through October, l94l,
81 900 tons of the pure metal had
been consumed in American in
Gustry and the figure doubtless went
over 100000 tons by the end of the
year. The total processed in 1889
was $4,000 tons.
Last year 124,810 tons were i'm
ported. a good deal of which fortu-
nately went into stock piles. These
stock piles on September l amounted
to 80. .592 tons in Government ware
houses, $3.50 tons afioat consigned
to the Government, 46,574 tons in
the hands Of manufacturers, and
about $1,000 tons either on the sea
consigned to private industry or in
the hands of dealers.
New Smclter Set Up.
This falls considerably short Of a
normal years supply, without con-
sidering the increased demands from
war industries. Experts here. how
ever, consider it highly probable that
the Government stocks have been
considerably augmented in the last
three months. Figures on imports
cannot be revealed.
If the tin can industry continues
this year at its consumption rate for
lest year it will require about 1000
tons a month-little of which prob
ably will be economically recoverable.
The one hopeful development in
this situation is the establishment
by Government subsidy of the first
tin smelting plant in the United
States at Texas City, Tex, for eX-
tracing the metal from Bolivian
ore. This is being erected by the
American subsidiary of the Billion
Maatschappij of Batavia. Java. This
Dutch company is one of the largest
tin producers in the world. The
plant. costing about $500 900. is
expected to start producing in about
two months and will be able to turn
out about $4,000 tons of metal 2
year-about a fifth of the normal
American requirements but prob
ably enough so that essential de-
fense industries will not suffer.
The Government has contracted
to purchase for the next five years
the major part OF all Bolivian ores
Evening star., 1942-01-07
Boy Dies, Five Others
In Home Overcome
In Southwest Blaze
Gas Stotion Attendant
Badly Burned os
Clothing Flares

A 5-year-old colored boy died last
night in one of several stubborn
blaZeS that kept firemen busy in the
District and nearby Maryland and
VIII nglnia
The victim was Prince Wright. jr.
one of six persons in the Wright
home overcome by smoke when
flames broke out at 500 Second
street SW. He was carried from
the building by Fireman Hamilton
Poulsen of No. 7 engine company
Artificial respiration was attempted
in neighbor's house at 511 Second
street but the boy was pronounced
dead on arrival at Casualty Hos
pital. an hour after the fire started
Filling Station Man Burned.
Another fire victim. Peter Norris
20, of 633 Florence street NE, was
in Casualty Hospital today. His
clothes burst into fame late yeSter-
day while he was standing near a
stove in the gas station where he is
an attendant, at Florida avenue and
H street NE. Police said he suffered
first and second degree burns to
hands, body and legs.
In Falls Church. the home of the
Rev. John G. Sadtler. retired min
lister. lis East Columbia street, was
partially destroyed by fire late yes
terday, while he was away from
home His wife and a maid fled
hastily Firemen said that gas was
escaping in the rear of the building,
and it took more than an hour to
discover how this could be shut off
The rear and center section of the
home were badly damaged
The fatal Washington fire was
first discovered shortly after pm,
in the first floor front room of the
little brick house. Firemen said
there was a kerosene stove in the
room.
Fire Confined to One Room.
Total property damage from the
blaze was only $500. according to
police, fer by two hours fighting the
fire companies had kept it within
the single room. But smoke had
seeped upstairs to overcome the
occupants.
Fireman j. D. Foley carried out
Mary Lee Wright. s, while Fireman
A. M Stacey rescued her brother
Albert, 4. These youngsters were
taken to Providence Hospital and
later to Gallinger.
A 3-week-old Wright baby. un-
named, was carried out by Fireman
F. K. Matthias. and Fireman K. E
Doolan rescued the baby's mother,
Mrs. Isabel Wright, 80, while Fire
Sergt. S. E. Bishop carried out Elliott
Wright, 4. They were taken to
Casualty Hospital. The mother OF
the other children was listed by
police as Mrs. Jennie Wright.
Evening star., 1942-01-07
Dependent on Imports of Tin,
u. S. Faces Big War Problem
New Texas Plant Expected to Produce
Fifth of Needs From Bovion Ore

with a tin content OF 1S per cent
or better. Hitherto all this ore has
been shipped to England. where
one ton OF it has been mixed with
two tons of the superior Malayan
ore, smelted. and the tin ingots
shipped to the United States at a
price fixed by the International Tin
Committee. British and Dutch
cartel American dealings with this
world monopoly, however. have been
quite friendly. and the price. about
so cents a pound. always has been
lower than that at which smelling
operations could be carried out in
this country
Tin plate is by far the most i'm
portant market for the metal About
half as much is mixed with lead to
produce solder, essential in all the
metal trades. Other notable uses
are in type metal, galvanizing. and
various chemical industries.
During the last two years the
country has been secured for tin
deposits by Government biologists.
None of any importance has been
found OF this metal. it seems.
America was almost entirely de-
prived.
Japan would appear to be in a
much better situation She has tin
mines of her own, which a few
wears ago produced about 1000 tons.
Thailand. now in japanese hands,
produced about 10000 tons in 1910
and was developing its tin resources.
Germany has very small tin depos-
its of her own but had been build
ing up a stock pile for several years
before the war The fall of Holland,
Belgium and France. where some
of the worlds largest tin smelters
are located, was a major haul. Many
thousands of tons awaiting export
were conflscated in Holland.
Evening star., 1942-01-07
Davies Sea Cloud
Chartered to Navy
For Coast Patrol

The Sea Cloud. four-masted,
square-rigged brigantine clipper
owned by Joseph E. Davies,
former Ambassador to Russia.
has been chartered for 81 per
year by the Navy for Coast
Guard patrol duties, it was an
nounced today.
known in both European and
American waters as one of the
most beautifully designed craft
af1oat and also as one of the
most complete in equipment
and modern navigational de-
vices. the Sea Cloud was
offered to the Navy over a year
ago. At that time. the Navy
said, it was not needed.
The vessel is of 1898 gross
tons and was built in Kiel Gar
den, Germany, in 1881. 1t is
281.8 feet long and its engines
develop $500 horsepower.
Evening star., 1942-01-07
By LLOYD LEHRBAS,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

The Japanese are repeating in the
Philippines the looting method they
developed in China-equipping their
troops with carpet bags" literally
stuffed with stage money.
From those carpet bags" in every
town and village the japanese swept
through in China came an endless
flow of paper money not worth the
poor quality paper on which it was
printed
With those scraps of paper the
japanese created a bayonet-pointed
imitation robbed the Chinese of
Evening star., 1942-01-07

Lloyd Lehrbds covered the Chi
e-JapaneSe lrar from its be-
ginning in 1887 until he fen
across Asia and Africa to be in
at the start of the European 1rar
at WdrSaW in 1889. In those t,UO
years he sa,D at first hand the
"ne,U-order" methods Japan used
to loot occupied China.
Evening star., 1942-01-07

This is the first OF series OF
articles on the essential mate
rials OF defense and daily life
lchose sources Of supply now are
closed to the United States, ,Dhat
is being done to make up the
deficiencies, and 1Uhdt can be
done.
Evening star., 1942-01-07
Racket Cos Hunted

Venezuela is on the trail Of gaso-
line stations selling gasoline mixed
with kerosene, the mixture being
injurious to motors and the pro-
cedure depriving the government Of
certain taxes.
Evening star., 1942-01-07
Gas on Stomach

What many Doctors do for IL
WIN excess stomach scd causes gas. stomacA
- heartburn. doctors prescribe the fastest aefing
medicines known for symptomstic relisf-medieinss
Ike those In Bell Tablets Try Bell ans yourself.
- drst sign Of distress. They neutralixe acid relieve
-. and bring comfort very Quickly-yet are not .
AIstive Only 2sc At drug stores II your ysTy nrst
tnal doesnt prove Bell BETTER return bottle -
- ~ get double your monsy beck
Evening star., 1942-01-07

they were anxious to tight in the
islands defense.
He said food rationing would not
be necessary.
BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies,
Jan. 7 (P.-Eight Japanese flying
boats attacked military and naval
objectives last night on the island
Of Ambon in the eastern part of
the Netherlands Indies, dropping
20 bombs which killed three civilians
and wounded four other persons, a
Dutch communique said today.
Evening star., 1942-01-07
LOST.

LOST.
APPROXIMATELY 25 TARPAULINS, sizes
12x1s #. 70 15x20 IT. mostly brown in
for eadinx to recovery of
property. AL communications held conf
Dental. p H. Martel Co, 92O 18th
st. NV. MA. 4716.
BRACELET. small gold, set with garnet:
lSs5 4sds Ne" Year Eve, Reward Hobart
BULL. TERRIER. white with brown spots.
black collar, red ribbon. vicinity Of 10Th
snd 7skS, K st. ,sJ1 Nv Call Als,andria ol7s or
DIAMOND PIN. lost IN Alexandria. Re
ward II returned to Sol Franklin St. or
call Temple 251s.
DEFENSE STAMPS. valued at So 90, lost
by Billy Guifire. vicinity Linden lane and
Seminary I'd. SH. 1885.
DOG. rat terrier. female. with bell and red
ribbon; answers to name ''Trixie" Re-
ward. 1871 Que st. NV, Apt. 3.
ENyELOPE--Brown manila Govt, sxIO
ncnes. containing pictures of cattle
GLASSES : Light bone-rimmed bifocals
Psase t phone Emerson snd ss4 smeree
GOLD AND PEARL FRATERNITY PIN.
Reward. Call Randolph 1928. g.
KITTEN. Silver-gray Persian: answers to
.Winks'; lost January 5 from l40O Goth
st. NV Adams 0a16. Mrs. c. D. NAL
kADYs kaTg rs G01D WATSH g Esin Sunday. Re
POLICE DOG. long-haired. brown. male
extra toes on hind feet. license No. 7l5l:
name "Bingo" Reward. Adams 1870.
RING. white gold with large white stones
Reward. Telephone DU. 6172.
RING, valued as keepsake. between 11th
and l4th on ST. Reward. Atlantic 5l72.
RING. gold with sapphire and diamonds
IN Mayhower lounge. Liberal reward.
Phone DE. 1928.
SMALL BLACK DOG, white feet and
white chest: curly tail: name Perky"
part Spitz; vicinity Ch. Ch Circle: SO re-
ward. 3130 Rittenhouse st. NV. EN-. $3.50
$50 REWARD for platinum initiated pin
y. A. s." Phone National 1915.
DIAMOND PIN,
Large horseshoe. Reward. North S219
FOUND.
AIRDALE. young male. collar but nc
license; Lee Heights. Arlington, Va. Chest
nut 9419.
COCKER SPANIEL, black male. North
s43l. Call after pm. 122 st. NV.
PUPPY small black. wearing red harness
vicinity of 9th and Madison ST. NV. GE.
1912.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-08-14
Coop Stores Win Laurels

Rochdale Stores, the Coopera-
tive groceries in Washington. have
just won all the laurels in a price
checking test made by the Defense
Council of the District of Column
bla over a period of eight success
sive weeks.
Cooperative stores had the
greatest number of the lowest
prices, the official tabulation
showed. Cooperative stores, the
director of tn test declared, had
noticeable steadiness in prices"
as compared with the other
stores.
The ranking which followed
Rochdale Stores was as follows:
Second, Atlantic and Pacific;
third, Acme; fourth, Giant mar
kets; fifth, Safeway; sixth, D. G.
s., a chain of independent gro
ceries; and seventh, the independ-
ent stores generally. In fairness
to D. G. S. and the independent
stores, it should be noted that they
gave delivery service and it was
a part of the price.
The price checking experiment
was not only important in that it
demonstrated Cooperative leader
ship again. but also important be-
cause 1t set pattern which might
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-08-14
Government Defense Gets
Legion Tank as Gift

Last night an American Legion
caucus meeting was held at Upper
Marlboro to select a vice command
er and an executive committee for
the Southern Maryland District.
Thomas Freeman of Greenbelt
was running for a post on the
committee.
The tank which has been outside
the Legion home for about three
years will be given to the Govern
ment for national defense, accord
ing to Virgil Estes, post conf
mander.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-08-14
Women Bowlers To Hold
Meeting At Clubhouse

Myrtle Brittingham announces
meeting of women bowlers to
be held at the Athletic Club house
at the lower end of the tennis
courts Thursday, August 20 at
500 p. m. "The women had a lot
of fun last winter and in the
summer league just ending, says
Mrs. Birmingham, "and it is espe-
cially urged that new women to
Greenbelt be present in order to
register for the session to come"
A set of rules for the league will
be drafted at this meeting.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-08-14

be followed by defense council
groups throughout the country.
The "price project" was ac-
cepted by the consumer interest
committee of the Washington De-
fense Council several months ago.
Forty-siX volunteer checkers were
loaden to the project by the Gov
ernment and put under the direc-
tion of Mrs. Virginia Fleming.
They were ordered "to shop 25
cost of living items" which had
been selected by the Bureau of
Home Economics. The shopping
was done as part of a plan which
provided check on the same day,
midweek, for all the stores. SINH
lar brands of goods and like guam
titles were purchased.
The point of greatest interest
when the price reports were ana
lyzed and charted was the steadi-
ness of the Cooperative store
prices. When the prices in all
other stores were rising, the Co
operative store prices held firm
against the infationary tendencies
and the temptation there is for all
profit merchants in town
Washington.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-08-14
Transportation
Exchange
Rides Wanted

To vicinity of 10th and Constitu-
tione Avenue. Time: 8:15 a. m. to
4:45 o. m. Cal. Greenbelt 3171
or see Bill Rogers at 26-C Crescent
Road.
Vicinity Of 25th and E streets,
N. w. Hours approximately 8:15
or 8:45 a. m. to 5 or $50 p. m.
McGee, IF Parkway.