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Evening star., 1942-11-28
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Coyote has a crafty brain:
His wits are sharp his ends to ga II


His wits are sharp his ends to gain.
There is nothing in the world
more true than this. Old Man
Coyote has the craftiest byain of all
the little people of the Green Forest
or the Green Meadows. Sharp as
are the wits of old Granny Fox,
they are not quite as sharp as the
wits of Old Man Coyote, If you
want to fool him you will have to
get up very early in the morning
and then it is more than likely that
you will be the one fooled, not he
There is very little going on around
him that he doesn't know about
But once n a while something
escapes him. The coming of Paddy
the Beaver to the Green Forest was
one of these things He didn't know
thing about Paddy until Paddy
had finished his dam and his house
and was cutting his supply of food
for the winter.
You see It was this way: When
the Merry Little Bree2es of Old
Mother West Wind first heard the
news of what was going on in the
Green Forest and hurried around
over the Green Meadows and
through the Green Forest to spread
the news, as is their way, they took
the greatest pains not to even hint
1t to Old Man Coyote, because they
were afraid that he would make
trouble and perhaps drive PADDY
away. The place that Paddy had
chosen to build his dam was so deep
In the Green Forest that Old Man
Coyote seldom went that way. So
1t was that he knew nothing about
Paddy, and Paddy knew nothing
about him for some time.
But after while Old Man Coyote
noticed that the little people of the
Green Meadows were not about as
much as usual. They seemed tc
have a secret of some kind. He
mentioned the matter to his friend
Digger the Badger. Digger had
been so intent on his own affairs
that he hadn't noticed anything un-
usual. but when Old Man Coyote
mentioned the matter he remem-
bered that Blacky the Grow headed
straight for the Green Forest every
morning, and several times he hac
+ seen Sammy Jay flying In the same
direction rs If In q great hurry te
get somewhere,
Old Man coyote grinned. "That'l
Evening star., 1942-11-28
Hay Fever Sufferers
Reported Aided by
Doses Of vitamin {
OberIin College Doctors
Report Relief in n
Of25 Cases Treated
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,
AfSnrtafAA

NEW YORK, Nov. 28.-vitamir
G as q promising remedy for ha,
fever was reported yesterday ii
Science. official journal of tht
American Association for the Ad.
vancement of Science.
OF 25 persons who were given the
vitamin during the height of the
hay fever pollen season this fall
around Oberlin, Ohio, all except
three got some relief. Two reported
hay fever gone after three days ot
the vitamin, seven reported grea,
relief.
The report was made by Drs
Harry N. Holmes and Wyvona Alex
ander Of the science chemical lab
oratory, Oberlin College. DR.. Holme.
is one Of the Nations best-knowr
chemists and an expert on vitamins
The basis of the vitamin treat
ment was observations that many
persons suffering from hay fever
and asthma showed lowered excre-
ton of vitamin C. There is a theo-
retical explanation. 1t is known
that during hay fever the body re-
leases extra quantities of histamine
q normal tissue chemical, into the
blood. The Oberlin chemists found
that the histamine in the blood
probably destroys some of the nor
NAL supply of vitamin C.
Their hay fever experiment was
q pioneering Job done principally to
find out what doses of vitamin C
might help hay fever. The effec-
tive doses were fairly large. Normal
human beings require from 80 to
Is milligrams daily of vitamin c.
the range in this figure being the
spread Of opinion between experts
who have studied human require
ments.
The Oberlin chemists gave doses
OF 100 milligrams daily. 200, 500 and
IN a single case. 1000 milligrams
Alter week on 100 milligrams daily
I'VE persons made a noticeable gain
IN health. Two hundred milligrams
daily decidedly improved IL. Eight
persons reported remarkable i'm
provement after three or four DAYS
at 500 milligrams.
The -milligram dose brought
great relief in one day. Two persons
tailed to, improve on the vitanin
one broke out in rash and quit
taxing 1t. Some who failed to i'm
prove on 100 milligrams a day got
better after taking larger doses.
Evening star., 1942-11-28
Lillian Cox Athey

Roman occupation. apples have been
growing in Great Britain. 1t is said
apples, as they are known today
descended from the wild crabapple.
Less than nine years had passed
when the Pilgrims had their first
apple trees growing in America. The
temperature was suitable In New
York State, and the Dutch settlers
were so industrious that they
planted all the apple seeds they
could collect. This was the actual
beginning of the apple industry in
this country.
Have YOU ever read the thrilling
story Of Johnny Appleseed? His real
name was Jonathan Chapman; he
Evening star., 1942-11-28

David Bruce Burnstone, Oswald Jaco-
A. LiRhtner. worlds leading team -of-
four, inventors of the system that
has beaten every other system in
Evening star., 1942-11-28
Kansas City Needy
Decline in Number
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
KANSAS CITY,-Usually the City
Union Mission has 1900 persons for
Its Thanksgiving dinner for the
homeless and jobless But Mrs.
David Bulkley. superintendent of
the church-supported unit. found
her job much simpler this year.
Only 500 showed up.
Evening star., 1942-11-28
Girl Teachers Halted

Young woman school teachers who
seek to join the women's army or air
force in the Transvaal have been
told to halt by the Education De-
partment in Pretoria.
Evening star., 1942-11-28
Alcohol Wanted as Fuel
BY fronk willard
By Herb and Dole Ulrey
BY Will Eisner
BY Art Huhto
BY Paul Foaorty

More alcohol for use In motor cars
as fuel Is sought In Asuncion, Par
aguAy, to increase trade demands Of
Argentina and Uruguay. Paraguay
last ysar exported moro than 5000
gallons.
Evening star., 1942-11-28

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Evening star., 1942-10-16
War Agencies
Shift 1900
From Capital
Units Going to
Newark and Detroit
Beginning at Once

Nine thousand War Depart
ment employees are to be sent out
of Washington it became known
today as the Budget Bureau or
dered the Office of Dependency
Benefits with $500 workers to
Newark, and the War Depart
ment announced that 1900 Ord
nance Department workers would
be shifted to the Detroit Tank
Arsenal.
The first move, it was said by
Budget Director Smith is to be
started at once; the latter is sched-
uled to be completed Monday.
The Office of Dependency Bene-
fits administers all functions in con-
nection with benefits for the mil
itary and civilian personnel of the
War Department except for per-
sonnel under the Civil Service
Retirement Act. The move, it
was explained, will be on a pro-
gressive basis, so as not to disturb
the ordinary functioning of the
office.
In Newark, the force will be
located in the Prudential Life In
surance Building.
The two shifts are a part of the
decentralization program started
earlier in the year and when they
are completed, a total of more than
10000 departmental employees will
have been sent from Washington in
an effort to ease the housing and
Office space situation.
The Ofice of Dependency Benefits
ultimately is expected to have 10000
employees.
The entire group Of ordnance
workers will be established in new
offices in the Detroit Tank Arsenal.
Those being transferred are en-
ployes of the Tank and Motor
Transport Branch of the Ordnance
Department. They are responsible
for procurement OF tank and other
combat vehicles.
The branch is under Brig. Gen.
John K. Christmas, whose appoint
ment as assistant chief Of the new
ly-established Tank Automotive
Center of the Ordnance Branch at
Detroit was announced today.
Employees in the branch are being
incorporated in the new organiza-
ton which Gen. Christmas is to
head in Detroit,
Evening star., 1942-10-16
George [ongan, Publisher
OF Kansas City Star, Dies

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 16.-George
B. Longan, 81. president Of the
Kansas City Star Co. and q director
of the Associated Press, died Of a
heart ailment today at Menorah
Hospital. He was stricken last
night.
Mr.. Longan had suffered previous
heart attacks, but had kept on with
his newspaper work. He spent
Thursday at his desk and became
Ill after reaching home. He died
today at 1890 pm.
He rose to presidency Of the Star
company, publishers Of the Kansas
City Star. an afternoon paper. and
the Kansas City Times, q morning
publication, in 1928 after having
served in many reportial and edi-
torial capacities.
Survivors include his widow and
two daughters, Mrs. Dale Asllby
Beronius, Kansas City, and Mrs.
William Lambert Higgins, jr.,
washington.
Evening star., 1942-10-16
1S-Year-0ld Draft
Bill Approved by
Senate Committee
Vote Is Slated Tuesday;
House Expected to Act
Tomorrow on Measure
Earlier Story on Page A-20
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The Senate Military Affairs
Committee recommended the
drafting of 18 and 10 year olds
today shortly after the House ar
ranged for final action tomorrow
on similar legislation.
Rumblings of displeasure arose in
the House over school deferment
amendment in the bill before it
and the lack of assurance of a full
IL months training for the youthful
selectees. .s.'-
The objections were aired at a
Rules Committee hearing on House
procedure on the bill. which admin
istration leaders said they expected
would be passed swiftly.
Vote Unlikely Till Tuesday.
The bill approved unanimously
by the Senate Committee was spon-
sored by Senator Gurney, Repub-
lican, of South Dakota, who an
nounced that the measure would 20
to the Senate floor Monday. A
St, 1000, 100000 naval appropriation
bill has the right of way, however,
and Senator Gurney said that a
vote on the draft bill was unlikely
before Tuesday.
Senator Gurney's bill lowers the
minimum draft age from 20 to 1s
and provides that students may be
(See DRAFT, Page 2-X.) =
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Judge Upho|ds Treason
Indictment Of Six
3y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 16.-Legality of
an indictment charging six Chi
cagoans with treason and con-
spiracy to commit treason by aid
ing a German spy was upheld in
Federal Court today by Judge VIII
liam j. Campbell.
Judge Campbell overruled a de-
murrer attacking validity of the
indictment which accused the Chi
cagoans of aiding Herbert Haupt
one of the six Nazi spies executed
in Washington in July.
Paul Warnholtz, attorney for the
defendants, had asked dismissal OF
the indictment because 1t was
vague and ambiguous" and also
charged the document with mis-
joining" the defendants.
Judge Campbell ordered all six
defendants rearranged and each re-
peated mot guilty" as they ap-
peared before the bar. He ordered
all to be in court October 26 for
trial and said there would be mo
delays"
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Earlier Story on Page ALL

Earlier Story on Page A-l.l
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16-CBS re-
ported hearing the vichy Radio
broadcast a Laval government state
ment today that arms and ex-
plosives" had been dropped by para
chute in French territory.
The statement was issued after q
session of the vichy cabinet.
CHS quoted it as follows:
.At the proposal Of tJoseph) Bar
keeper Of the seals and
minister Of justice, the cabinet de-
cided to hand over to the state tri-
bunal all authors or accomplices Of
acts which constitute grave attack
against the interior security Of the
state and were committed when
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Judge Rules Basement
Unfit for Family Of 10

Richard Corcoran, his wife and
eight children must move from their
basement apartment at 468 K street
NV. within 10 days because it is
unfit for human habitation. Judge
Brice Clagett ruled in Municipal
Court today.
Health inspectors told the court
that for 10 persons to live in the
place was violation of the District
health law. The case first came up
inrourt Monday but was set down
for rehearing-
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Byrnes Lists Plan
To Bring All Wages
Under j. ). Control
Salaries Under. $1,000
And Up to $1,000 to
Be Regulated by WLB

James F. Byrnes, director OF
stabilization, today announced
arrangements to bring all sala-
ries-including those under
S., ,000-under Federal control.
All salaries under $4,000 as we'll
as those up to 5000, which are COW
cred in wage agreements, are to be
regulated by the War Labor Board,
Mr.. Byrnes announced.
The Treasury Department is pre-
pairing regulations for those salaries
over $4,000 which are not in the
category handled by the WLB, he
added.
This system was announced by
Mr.. Byrnes In statement to the
first meeting Of the Economic Stabil-
ization Board this, afternoon. which
was made public through the White
House.
Limited to S25,0O0.
President Roosevelt's executive or
der of October 3, creating Mr..
Byrnes'' Office of Economic Stabil-
ization, stipulated that no increases
in salaries now above $1,000 year
should be granted until otherwise
determined" by Mr.. Byrnes, but did
not affect those salaries under
5000.
In his statement to the board
this afternoon, Mr.. Byrnes also
announced that he was working out
1o$t thu arArNinc
cerned to cover:
/. Limiting salaries to $4,000
after certain taxes and other per-
missible reductions.
2. Machinery for handling wage
increases which may affect price
ceilings" necessitating close COOP
Grafton between the WLB and the
Once of Price Administration.
g. Machinery for the control of
agricultural prices" necessitating
similar cooperation between the
Agricultural Department and the
OPA.
Compulsory Savings Studied.
Indicating that he was consider
| ing action on numerous other
fronts to help stabilize the cost of
living, Mr.. Byrnes said he had
asked different Government agen-
cies for detailed reports on some of
the problems that lie ahead" in
cluding:
l. Compulsory savings and other
proposed measures TO control excess
spending power"
2. Prospects as to future ration
ing needs"
3. THE spacing of military and
lease-lend purchasings'
4. Prospective subsidy needs and
considerations which should govern
or limit the use of subsidies"
5. Wages of farm labor"
6. THE effect of the sterilization
OF wages on manpower problems,
problems, particularly on the migra-
ton OF workers"
Asks For Views of Board.
Mr.. .Byrnes said he would be glad
to receive any views of members
OF the board-which includes the
heads Of eight Government depart
ments or agencies concerned in the
representatives each of labor. apri-
culture and industry-on any OF
these problems.
II intend" he added, "to continue
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Evening star., 1942-10-16
l22 New BIimp Pilots
Begin Active Duties
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LAKEHURST, N. j., Oct. 16.-The
Lakehurst Naval Air Station has
assigned 122 new pilots, largest
group of blimp pilots ever to COM
plete training here, to active flight
duty.
Station officers announced today
that the total consisted of SO avia-
ton cadets, commissioned as naval
reserve ensigns, and SO officers who
had been detached from sea duty
and assigned here for training.
The Lakehurst school is the only
one maintained by the Navy for
lighter -than-air pilots.
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Floods Threaten
MoryIond's Game
With V. M. /. Cadets

BY the Associated Press.
The University of Mary
lands football squad, which
was scheduled to leave Wash
ington shortly before noon to-
day for the v. M. I. game at
Lexington tomorrow, still was
awaiting means of getting to
the scene this afternoon.
Floods overflowing West and
South railroad tracks kept the
Old Liners from leaving as
planned, and omcials held little
hope that the team would be
able to get away even tonight.
The officials said that even if
trains could get through. the
question remained of obtaining
buses to Lexington from points
along either of the available
railways.
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Victory Tax Retained
By Conferees;; Credit
For Dependents $3.50
so Levy Would Be Token
At Source; Full Accord
Expected by Tomorrow
Earlier Story on Page A-5)

N@~>SA ~ASA SsSAJ ~AA = 20 - - w
BY the Associated Press. 49,.
A Joint Senate-House confer
ence committee agreed today to
retain in the new revenue bill the
S per cent victory tax on all in
come of individuals over 1924
yearly.
Making only minor changes in the
form of the levy as it was adopted
by the Senate, the committee acted
to cut out of the bill comparable
5. per cent withholding tax on net
income previously voted by the
House for the advance collection Of
income taxes. This latter levy
would have been increased to 10
per cent in 1914.
Acting swiftly on controversial
sections of the bill, the conferees
agreed to fix the credit for depend
e1ts under the regular income tax
at $3.50 instead of the s400 level
voted by the House and the Senate
figure Of $500.
Loss Undetermined.
That reduced the prospective rev.
enue from the bill by an undeter-
mined amount.
In approving the victory tax,
which would be collected at the
source. from most wage and salary
earners beginning January l. the
conference committee agreed to ex-
clude from the withholding provi-
sions fees paid to such public ON
cials as Sfleriffs and others.
1t also instructed experts to draft
language to regulate the collections
on persons whose earnings largely
are from commissions and moved to-
ward clarification of provisions re-
quaring employers to furnish 'em-
fSno. IRA YHsC nn0o y ~ =,
Evening star., 1942-10-16

arms ana explosives were dropped
by parachute in French territory"
A Vichy broadcast heard In Lon
don said the French cabinet met to-
day and that Chief of Government
Laval declared he would not toler-
ate ANY attempt to interfere with
public order"
The Berlin radio broadcast a
Transocean dispatch from Vichy
that the cabinet meeting dealt with
the exchange Of laborers accepting
work in Germany for French pris-
oners awaiting return to their home
land.
DNB said the cabinet also was
concerned with the British and
American menace to French colo
mics, especially French West Africa
and Jibuti.''
Evening star., 1942-10-16

possibility that both Chain Bridge
and the Highway Bridge would be
closed later today, but District off,
cials said they had no definite plans.
The seventh precinct police ordered
X street closed from Twenty-ninth
street.
The Weather Bureau. forecasting
that an all-time record flood crest
Of IT'S feet would hit Washington
tonight, pointed out that it was
still raining throughout the Poto-
mas River valley and that the over
now might be even higher. The
highest flood level recorded here
was In 1886, when the water stood at
III feet over mean low.
Bald Sanabag Levees,
Sandbass were being made into
levees at low points In the District
and workers in temporary buildings
In the Tidal Basin area were told to
'..stand by" in anticipation OF flood
waters. The National Capital Parks
=, (See FLOOD. Pace 2-XD -
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Gen. Frink Is Named
Deputy Quortermuster

Appointment Of Brig. Gen. James
l.. Frink, Fort Leavenworth, Kans..
as deputy quartermaster general for
supply. planning and operations,
was announced today by the War
Department.
Col. Harold A. Barnes, Amster-
dam, N. Y, was named deputy quar-
termaster general for administers
ton and management.
Evening star., 1942-10-16
John Lodwick, 81, Dies;
Publicity Director
BIZ the Associated Press.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Oct. 16.
john Lodwick, veteran director of
publicity for the city Of st. Peters,
burg and known to hundreds of
newspapermen throughout the Ma
ton, dropped dead while on street.
car bound for his office this morn
ing, He was So years old native
of Cleveland, Ohio.
Evening star., 1942-10-16

personal inspection of the Dis
trict's flood area late today.
e.. The Red Cross announced
late this afternoon that relief
workers were. caring for at
least 1000 persons made home
less by flood waters in this
area. It was believed that the
figure would rise as later re-
ports came in from other COM
Hlunities.
President Roosevelt this aft
ernoon ordered the District Com
missioners to do everything
possible to protect the City of
Washington as the waters of the
Potomac River and it's tribu-
taries swept toward the sea in
what threatened to be the worst
flood in local history.
Water was rising in the city's
streets near the river late this aft
ernoon and the Red Cross was TAX
ing over care Of number of per-
sons driven out of their homes here
The water was over the seawau in
some parts of Potomac Park, was
swirling in the streets along the
Georgetown water front and was
creeping over the river banks at
Constitution avenue and the Rock
Greek Parkway.
Virginia Workers Sent Home.
Government employees who live
In. Virginia were dismissed from some
of1ices early in the afternoon. The
Navy Department sent It's Virginia
employees home at $50 pm. and
the Federal Communications Com
mission and the WPA did the same
q few minutes later.
War Department and Civilian
Aeronautics Authority employees in
Virginia were ordered home during
the afternoon. The Navy Depart
ment ordered employees working in
Virginia, and living in the District,
to leave their offices early.
Two men were dead, victims of
the flood, and thousands were home
less along the route followed by the
raging waters. The communities of
Fredericksburg, Va, and Harpers
Ferry, w. Va, were virtually iso-
lated by the flood and Red Cross
aid was being rushed to them.
Those dead were John E. Buell.,
81, chief Of the Bethesda Volunteer
Fire Department, drowned when the
waters of the Cabin John branch
swept over River road, and Joseph
Lamp, a Northern Virginia Power Co.
lineman, who was electrocuted neal
winchester, Va, last night.
Police reported this afternoon the
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Former Burmo Planter
Is Slain by Burglar

b the Associated Press.
BERKELEY. Calf, Oct. 26.-John
Shaw .Tarbet, A, one-time wealthy
planter In Burma, was wounded
fatally today by burglar he con-
fronted In his bedroom.
His wife, known as Grace Bor-
roughs, dancer, witnessed the shoot
ing.
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Chinese Attack jap Positions

CHUNGKING, Oct. 16 (P.-Chinese
troops attacked Japanese positions
south of Chaoan, Eastern Kwang-
tung Province, last Friday, inflict.
ing more than 100 enemy casualties,
the high command announced to-
day.
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Rockinqhum Park

FIFTH RACE-Purse, 5000; Claiming:
3-year-olds and upward: 6 furlonas
Prairie Dog tMoore) 2.2O 22O
Victory Bound (MillmAn) 800
Time, 1:13.
Also ran-Bilrs Sister. Maemante, DARK
Mischief Bit o. Green. -
Evening star., 1942-10-16

FIFTH RACE-Purse, $4,000; allow
ances: 3-year-olds and upward; 4 miles
Fire Warden (Thompson) $40 $50 2.aO
Families tAtkinson) 500 256
Cheesestraw fEadS) go
Time. 1:45A.
Also ran-Briton. Hi Diddle.
Evening star., 1942-10-16

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 @.-
Stocks mixed; leaders recover
selectively. Bonds uneven; reor-
ganization Of rails improve. Cot
ton quiet; trade buying balances
hedge selling.
CHICAGO. III. Wheat about
steady; await price ceiling ruling.
Corn about steady. Hogs mostly
15!25 cents lower: top $l48O.
cattle-most killing classes ac-
tive. steady.
Evening star., 1942-10-16
Hawthorne

ing: 3-year-olds and upward: furlonss,
SuRArage lReeyes) 1850 7.60 4aO
Chief Bud Fielding) 4.S0 500
Tetra Gal tJemas) 500
Time. 1:13a. ~
Also ran--Youroff, Reigh Dear, Blossom
Queen, Tusco, Calculator. Dusky Prince,
seiann. suma1ra III and crandon Boy.
Evening star., 1942-10-16
luureI

SIXTH .RACE-Purse. S1,50O: claiming;
4-year-old and up; l 10 miles.
Cacodemon (BalzarettD 1920 7.60 $50
Ginoca tShelhamer) $40 416
Woodvale Lass (Young) $50
Time, 1.51 -
Also ran-Detroit Bull, Haste Back, Busy
Fingers, Yarn Spinner