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Evening star., 1942-05-05
u. :. Refund Of Part
Of Corporation Taxes
After War Proposed
Congress May Soften
Blow Of 81 Per Cent
Excess Profits Levy se,
(Story on Page Ally
3y the Associated Press.

9y the Associated Press.
Ways, and. Means Committee
members reported today there was
a strong possibility that Congress
would soften the blow of a "a per
cent excess profits tax by refunding
part of corporation taxes for post
war needs.
They disclosed that the Treasury
had proposed informally that 10
per cent of a corporations net in
come on which excess profits taxes
Government and repaid after the
war in perhaps five equal INSTALL
ments, subject to certain condi-
tions the Treasury might establish.
Such a windfall would be non-
taxable and, sponsors told the COM
mittee. would help industry revert
to peacetime production.
Under another plan before the
George Ind0rses Plan.
committee. the Government would
withhold 20 per cent. but make the
postwar returns fully taxable.
Chairman George Of the Senate
Finance Committee which will study
whatever tax program the House
approves, Endorsed the 20 per cent
proposal.
Treasury statistic;ans estimated
that the work Of the Ways and
Means Committee to date would
raise corporation taxes next year
to more than $4,000 ,000, 900, an all
time high. They said 1912 revenues
should be about $7647, ,10O, 900 and
that the committee had agreed, at
least tentatively, on $2,490, 400 900
more.
Surtaxes Increased.
The committee has approved not
only the "a excess profit rate, but
has increased surtaXes from the
present and 7 per cent on net
incomes of more than $4,000 to
fiat 16 per cent.
A number of other provisions re-
main to be agreed on, such as the
postwar refund and special relief
for corporations whose average
earnings this year we're considerably
less than in the l936-l939 base
period.
Evening star., 1942-05-05

house so frightened the chickens
that they crowded into a corner,
causing many to smother.
At the height of the storm the
floor in a Fairfax drug store be-
came flooded and several GUS
toners had to leave through the
window.
In the capital, rain broke a long
drought, BIZ faiied to give ef1ective
relief to growing things, the precipi-
tation being oraly e.27 of an incha at
the Weather Bureaus central office,
Twenty fourth and M streets NV.
as compared with 054 of an inch
rainfall during the entire month Of
April.
Across the Potomac. however, a
different story was told. The bu-
reau at the Washington National
Airport recorded 092 of an inch
rainfall yesterday. or more than
three times the o26 of an inch dur
ing the entire month of April.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Warren Curbs
Of
Personnel
Agencies Warned
Against Detailing
Aides to Legislators

Controller General Lindsay c..
Warren, for many years a member
of Congress from North Carolina,
has clamped down on the practice
of congressional committees bor-
rowing departmental personnel to
aid in their work
To the National Housing Agency,
which had detailed two $1,440 cler-
ical employees to the House Naval
Affairs Committee and an attorney
at $500 to the Senate Defense
Committee headed by Senator Tru-
man, Democrat, of Missouri, the
Controller General directed a de-
cision made public to day.
He declared that such assign
ments were permitted "only in cases
Cd where the investigation of the
congressional committee involves
matters similar or related to those
ordinarily handled by the particu-
lar agency detailing or lending the
employees and therefore will further
the purposes for which the agencys
appropriation was made, and (2)
where the services of an employe
already on the rolls of the agency
detailing or lending the employe
may be spared without detriment
to the work of the agency and with
out necessitating the employment of
an additional employe."
The Controller General at first
threatened to refuse to approve the
Housing Agency's disbursement to
the trio, amounting to 1851 %. point
ing out that their congressional work
bore no relation to the functions
of the agency. Furthermore, he
added, there was no authority for
the course pursued in appainting
the attorney and assigning him i'm
to the Truman commit
tee. However. Mr. Warren agreed
to approve the payment already
made to these employees. but, said
no more would be permitted.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
teachers Pay Boost Urged
By 1akoma Park GROUP

A resolution urging that Mont
gomery County school teachers be
granted pay increase lin keeping
with the cost of wartime living" was
adopted last night by the Commu-
nifty League of Takoma Park, Md.
The resolution was introduced by
Dean r Wickes, chairman of the
School Committee.
Officers elected last night are Mr.
Wickes, president; Mrs. r. R. l..
Bullard. vice president; Walter
Prichard, recording secretary; Ger
aid M. Francis, corresponding secre-
tary, and DR.. j. A. LIE Clerc, treas
urer.
Delegates named to the Montgom-
cry County Civic Federation are Mr..
Prichard, w. H. McLenon and Mr..
Francis. Alternates are Mr. and
Mrs. Wickes and e. n. Walker.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Green|eaf School Tops
Month S SALVAGE Record

Greenleaf School, on Fourth street
between M and N streets S.W., yes
terday turned in more newspapers
and magazines in The Evening Star
P. T. A. Salvage for Victory pro-
gram than the school has collected
in any one month so far in the cam
paign. This school, which ranks
among the smaller with only $50
pupils, collected 2,065 pounds for a
per capita mark for the day of
8.26 pounds, well up among the best
per capita marks so far reported.
Yesterdays collections of 29,676
pounds brought the grand total to
1854 686 pounds.
Collections tomorrow in the third
district together with the five leaders
in that district and their poundage
to date will be as follows:
Evening star., 1942-05-05
No SubVersion
Found in Theft
Of U. ). Records
Admission Is Made
By Prosecutor in
Civil Service Cose

Efforts Of the Government to find
any subversive angle in the civil
service file theft case have failed.
Charles B. Murray. assistant United
States attorney, declared today In
his opening statement to the Jury
as the trial Of five defendants was
resumed in District Court.
After Prosecutor Murray con-
cluded, defense counsel asked the
court to strike out the last Z of
the IA counts in the indictment. but
Justice James w. Morris denied the
motion. The first seven counts ac-
cuse the defendants of removing
confidential files from an ONCE OF
the Civil Service Commission. The
next seven charge theft.
William H. Collins, defense at
torney, who offered the motion, con-
tended that Prosecutor Murray in
his opening statement had failed to
show any intent on part of the de-
PENDANTS not to return the files after
using them, therefore no theft was
involved.
Defense Takes Exception.
The defense attorneys noted an
exception to the ruling and told the
court they would make no opening
statements.
Shortly after the jury was chosen.
yesterday afternoon, Justice Morris
directed that Harlin William Gran
dali, one of the defendants, be COM
mitted to Jail for failure to be on
hand yesterday morning. when the
case was called for trial. 1t appeared
that Mr.. Crandall went to Rich
mond, Va, over the week end. but
returned to Washington by bus yes
terday afternoon.
10000 Records Involved.
With Mr.. Crandall, the defend
ants are: Lawrence Lynford Haynes,
Walter August Caesar Camp, Wer-
ner julius Orbach and Miss Kath-
crime Kay. They are charged in the
indictment with removing the rec
ords between August, 1910, and
January, 1941, and oficials say that
around 10000 records are involved
altogether.
Mr.. Murray announced the list OF
witnesses and among them were nu-
merous oficials of the Civil Service
Commission and Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents. Some of the
prospective jurors were excused on
the ground that they had previously
read about the case and formed
their own opinions.
Mr.. Murray said the records In
volved we're removed from the Civil
Service zCo1amission's iIoticG8 lat
Eleventh and G streets NV, and
| that while certain defendants Il
| legally removed the records, others
looked them over at the office of the
Standard Business Service, in the
400 block of Tenth street NV.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Volunteer Firemen
Elect in Silver Sprinq

Lawrence L. Swindell was re-
elected president and John w. Cole
was reelected chief at the annual
meeting of the Silver Spring Volun-
teer Fire Department last night.
Other officers are Howard Lar
combe, vice president; Victor Ben
der, recording secretary; James Wild
mayer, financial secretary; Clay v.
Davis. treasurer. and Charles Eek
hardt, sergeant at arms
Members of the Executive Com
mittee are Chris Kronenbitter, Will
liam Jouvenal. William E. Martin,
Charles Z. Demnbaugh and Leo
Bender.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Expositions 10 Display
All Phases OF Army Life

Opening in Baltimore on June 4.
a series of war expositions will be
held in the stadiums of many of the
larger cities this summer for the
benefit of Army Emergency Relief.
Undersecretary of War Patterson,
who is president of the relief or
ganization, said the exposition would
90 later to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
New York and Boston. Then it will
go the rounds Of cities IN the Middle
West.
Evening star., 1942-05-05

ThOSe h0Dtng tnJcrntdtt0n
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
NTH the Public Relations Squad
OF the Police Department, Na-
tional 1000.
Horace Marshall, "a, feet
inches, 1875 pounds, wearing gray
suit and hat, black shoes, driving
American cab, tag numbers un-
known; missing from 1903 Good
Hope road Sc since May /.
Edward Dair, Is, S feet inches,
1l0 pounds, blue eyes. brown hair.
wearing overalls or dark green plaid
trousers, green sweater with orange
sleeves. tennis shoes; missing from
260 Sixteenth street Sc. since yes
terday. He is with:
Augustus Reinberg, 13, 5 feet, 100
pounds, wearing green slack coat,
striped trousers, two-tone shoes,
lives at 255 Sixteenth street Sc.
william Kackritz. is, 6 feet. 156
pounds, blue eyes, brown hair, two
front upper teeth out, wearing blue
sport suit. blue shirt, black oxfords,
blue felt hat; missing from Mitch
ellville, Md, since Sunday.
John Whitmore, %, colored, feet
inches, ITS pounds, wearing gray
suit, blue shirt, black shoes, brown
hat; missing from 2025 street NV.
since Friday.
James Timer, 6, colored, wearing
red sleeveless sweater, blue trousers,
brown shoes; missing from 3277
Prospect avenue NV. since yester-
day.
Margaret Austin, IA, colored, 103
pounds. dark-brown skin, wearing
gray checked coat, blue sweater.
pink skirt, white shoes: missing
from 292 H street NV. since yes
terday.
Ruth Gaffney, %, colored, 5 feet
2 inches, los pounds, wearing blue
pin-striped coat. gray checked skirt.
black shoes: missing from 632 Ct
street NV. since April IS.
Charles Swami, 18, colored, feet
II inches, $50 pounds, wearing
black-and-white checked cap, brown
sweater. dark-green trousers: miss
ing from 041 M street NV. since
Friday.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Few February
Registrdntst 10 Be
Called in June
Boards Unable to
Meet Proportionote
Busis Order
By MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

District draft boards are find
ing it virtually impossible to fol-
low the national selective service
order providing that June calls
for Army induction be filled on
a proportionate basis between
February 16 and earlier regis
trants, it was learned today.
At the request of the War Depart
ment. national selective service a
few days age directed the proper
tionate basis for June calls, which
would have meant sending many
more February is than earlier regis
trantS.
Local selective service, however,
disclosed that it would be able to
send only a few District men from
the February Is registration in June.
Most of the District local boards
have classified between 300 and 400
men who registered in February,
but, it was explained, many have
to be classified to get a few men,
because such a high percentage of
this group are physically unfit or
otherwise ineligible for duty.
Processing Takes 45 Days.
The processing, from the time a
local board sends out the question:
naire until man is ready for in
duction takes minimum of As days
1t was explained.
Local selective service said it
would not be able to operate on a
proportionate basis until July or
possibly August.
Some February Is registrants
from most Of the local boards will
be sent for induction late in June
and the order will begin to be felt
In July. The ratio by which the
brunt of those sent for induction
falls on the side of the February Is
registrants will be fully in operation
by August, it was said.
Were doing everything we can to
comply with the order" a local
selective service spokesman declared.
Were just as anxious to get the
men ready for induction as the
Army is to have them"
Local boards, it was explained,
are working day and night to re-
classify the older registrants whose
cases come up for review as well as
to classify the new men. More than
$4,000 men either 20 or 81 years old
or between 81 and A years old reg
istered here in February. Local
boards can classify between 300 and
400 week. s-,.7s az a ~ste;
After a certain number of men
have been classified, it was said,
local headquarters win be able to
get a more accurate estimate of
the Ia men in the February Is
group on which they will be able to
determine the ratio between new
and old registrants and advise local
boards what percentage of new
men they will have to have classi-
fed at various headlines to keep
the calls current.
The local headquarters spokesman
said he believed a survey of local
boards would make this informa-
ton available within a few days.
Until the ratio is In operation.
local boards will continue to send
the remaining old registrants to fill
most of the calls. Sufficient IA
men are left to fill June calls, even
if no February 16 registrants were
sent, it was said.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
New Winchester BUILDINGS

WINCHESTER, Va, May 5 (Spe-
ciaD Only two building projects
calling for an outlay of $4,000 or
more were issued by the city man
ager during the past month. The
Seventh-Day Adventists obtained q
permit for church building costing
$4,000, and the Novick Transfer
Co. was permitted to build an $11,-
600 warehouse.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Government Urged
To Rush Plans for
Raid Evacuation
Action Long Before Need
Advised by Mayo Specialist
At Child Congress

Immediate plans for evacuation of
mothers sand children from popu-
lated areas In the event of air raids
or other attacks on this country were
urged on the Federal Government
today by DR.. Henry F. Helmholz of
the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MINI.
The plea was made at the Eighth
Annual Pan-American Child Con-
gress meeting in the Pan-American
Union Building.
THE experience of Great Britain
with the evacuation of mothers and
children shows us that this is a
great and difficult problem that
needs to be worked out long before
the occasion arises for putting it
into effect" the speaker told dele
gates, of the congress now in its
fourth day. The emergency is here
and plans should be made immedi-
ately."
He warned. however, that plans
should be made "on a Federal level" Z"
as State lines will have to be crossed
in most instances.
Admitting the vastness of such a
project, DR.. Helmholz said the ma
ternal and child health programs
associated with the movement would
have to be met by making adequate
arrangements for housing and feed
ing, for medical care, including i'm
munization against smallpox and
diphtheria, and for disqualification
where necessary.
Network Of Services.
The child specialist likewise
warned that only a complete Ma
tion-wide network of services for
maternal and child care for we'll
and sick alike will meet the pres
ent needs. Among the difficulties
encountered in such program are
the large number of mothers going
into war industries, the trained per-
sonnel such as physicians, nurses
and social workers entering the
armed services and the lack of funds
to carry on such work, he said.
AS a partial solution of these
problems. DR.. Helmholz suggested
limitation of recruitment of mar
ried women into industry to those
whose family responsibilities have
been adequately taken care of and
the establishment of more day nur-
series and other community services
for child care.
In outlining the nutrition pro-
gram OF the American republics,
DR.. Mordecai Ezekiel, economic ad-
wiser to the Secretary of Agricul-
ture, told the delegates that dental
difficulties and skin diseases have
declined noticeably wherever school
lunch programs were instituted,
Nutrition Programs.
He expressed the hope that nutri-
tion programs for undernourished
children would result in the ex-
change of commodities between this
country and the Latin American ma
tions ito the advantage of the school
children of all countries"
William G. Carr, secretary of the
Educational Policies Commission
and associate secretary of the Ma
tional Education Association, speak
ing at the morning session, termed
the cause of freedom the cause of
childhood.
THE mailed fist of war knocks at
every classroom" he said.
Among other speakers heard dur
ing the day were Miss Marjorie M.
Hesseltine of the Children's Bureau
Of the Labor Department, who dis
cussed the functions of community
agencies in helping parents and
children achieve good nutritional
status.
The congress will continue through
the week, closing Saturday at pm
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Maximum Utility
Of Housing Urged
By B|andford
Building Congress Told
N. H. A. and W. P. B..
Aqree on Priorities
OH rHUHVSS
lfail ntfit .IfsFl n ~

In order. that critical materials
may be- saved, there is need for a
new drive to obtain maximum utility
in the way of war housing out OF
existing dwellings, National Hous-
ing Administrator John B. Bland
ford, jr. told the Washington Build
ing Congress yesterday.
The new drive presumably would
be to interest owners in renting ex-
ira living space in their homes to
war workers, and to encourage
owners of property in defense areas
that is not habitable to renovate it
so that it would be usable for
workers.
Would Explore Possibilities.
Mr.. Blandford, addressing the
flower Hotel, did not touch directly
on the Washington housing situa-
ton. He did say that it is essential
that the National Housing Agency
explore every possibility by which
needed housing may be obtained. A
large poi ton of the need, he added,
will be taken care of by maximum
use of existing housing and the
construction of temporary housing
of the dormitory type. In many
communities, he continued, there is
a need for family accommodations
which can be used after the war and
therefore should be permanent in
type.
The housing head said private
enterprise will be given the oppor-
tunity of providing most of perman-
ent housing. The Government, he
said, must supply such permanent
housing for families of low income
who cannot be reached by private
enterprise.
Agree on Priorities.
The immediate job of N H. A.,
Mr.. Blandford stated. is to trans
late the housing need for the re-
mainder of this year into pounds
Of metal so that the War Produc-
ton Board can allocate to meet the
needs. Both his agency and the
w. P. B., he said, agree that hous-
ing should have the same priorities
as war plants where the workers
are employed. A lack of adequate
housing will have bad effect on
production.
Mr.. Blandford was introduced by
Claude Owen, chairman of the con-
gress Program Committee Guests
at the luncheon were other hous-
ing officials, including Herbert EN-
merlch, commissioner of the Fed
eral Public Housing Authority
Commissioner John Fahey, of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Admins
tration; Commissioner Abner Fer
guson. of F. H. A; Leon Keyser-
ling, Oliver C. Winston. John Ihlder
Howard Acton and Charles E. v
Prins, Arthur B. Heaton, congress
president, presided.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Fort BeIvoir Boy, a,
Accidentally Killed

Four-year-old George Neitzey, son
OF a civilian employe at Fort Bel
voir, Va. was fatally wounded last
night when SO caliber revolver
with which he was playing was
discharged, according to DR.. I. B.
McCord. Fairfax County coroner.
The boy was taken to the post
hospital where he died soon after
ward of a bullet wound in the head.
His body was removed to Halls
Funeral Home at Occoquan.
Besides his father and mother,
the boy is survived by a younger
sister,
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Warden Names Aides

MANASSAS, Va, May tSpeciaD q.
Edgar G.. Parrish. chief air-raid
warden for Prince William County,
today announced the appointment
Of James r. Simpson and Miss FL
we're Conner as assistant county
8aid wardens.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Arlington Wordens
Piun House WARMING

Afraid wardens Of sector A.
group S, Arlington, Va. will hold
open house from to 10 pm. to-
morrow at their post. 3l05 South
Twelfth street. Refreshments will
be served by the ladies Of the sector.
Evening star., 1942-05-05

Lost and found columns Of Toxic
neNspa pers are crowded these days.
Every time m American buys . War
bond the Japs lose face.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Induction Orders
Are Issued 10 116
Co|ored Registrars
District Draft Boards
Order Men to Report
To Fort Myer Today

District local boards today sent
116 colored registrants to Fort Myer,
Va, for Army induction if they pass
their physical examination.
The Fort Myer group included:
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Missing Persons

Those haping information
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
NTH the Public Relations Squad
OF the Police Department, Ma
tiordI 1000.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19
Race Troops Make
ln1presSiue Record

part in the U. S. army has taken
on additional Importance as has
been pointed out Ky 1t. Fitzgerald,
a member of Col. Pages staff in
the public relations division of the
war department.
Requested to furnish informa-
tic1 on a comparative basis con-
corning the Negro a year ago and
as Of today in the army, 1t. Fitz-
gerald wrote:
1.-The requirements of military
security disclosing the number of
Negro units or the exact number
of Negroes in the army. Negroes
however, are serving in every arm
and service of the army and the
number of Negro soldiers practical
ly equals the ratio of the Negro
race to the total population Of the
United States
A Negro infantry division, the
93rd, some $4,000 men, is now train
ing at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.; a sec
ond division, the end, has been
re-activated In addition, there
several infantry regiments; two
cavalry regiments; pursuits squad
rons in the army air forces; i'm
portant tank battalions in the
armored forces. Other important
groups include field and coast
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-19
Somewhere
Today
BY BALLADON

Observation-Disclosures and
races are fighting in furtherance of
ideals; for the protection of an
other step in national and racial
development.
Says Harry Huntington Pow
ers, 1.-THE things men fight for are
real things. tangible things, things
worth fighting for, if they cannot
be obtained any other way. The
causes for war are to be found in
the conformation of the planet
rather than IN the caprices of
men."
Somewhere today, the very con-
formation of the earth forces a
realignment CT the races of the
world In that age-old struggle for
survival of the fittest Somewhere
today, black men and white, united
under common flag. are dying
for the preservation of principles
dear to their mode of life. Through
out this country black men ano
white stand shoulder to shoulder
bearing the greatest industrial
burden in the history of the world
Somewhere today, millions Of
American Negroes contribute to the
most important saga Of any races
struggle for place in the sun
industrial achievement and rerma-
nent recognition. How are they u.s.
ing their talents? What is their
method Of approach? What are
the reactions upon white Anerica
that will be aroused. and wha. are
the impressions that will be left,