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Evening star., 1942-12-12
Georgia Grocer Denies
Charging Army Paid
10 Gents for Eggs
Association Head Still
Maintains Nearby Camps
UnderseII Retailers
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MACON, Ga, Dec. 12.-H. B.
Samples, president of the Macon
Retail Grocers' Association, denying
he had charged at a congressional
committee inquiry In Atlanta last
Wednesday that Camp Wheeler had
paid 10 cents a dozen for eggs, said
II do know, however, that bread
which costs the Macon grocer
cents loaf is being sold at Cochran
Field for or cents"
Referring to a report that he told
the House Committee on Small
Business that Camp Wheeler had
paid 10 cents for eggs, Mr. Samples
asserted he did not give the state
ment as a positive fact adding he
had testified that "the information
was given by poultry man."
State-w wide Meeting Called.
Since the hearing, the Georgia
Retail Grocers' Association has or
dered a Statewide meeting here
Sunday to prepare protests against
red tape, Government competition
and regulatory conditions, which
they charge are driving merchants
out of business.
Two Camp Wheeler officials, 1t.
George NJ Stenbridge, sales officer,
and 1t. Harry B. Blake, public rela-
tions officer, contacted Mr.. Samples
who said he received the informa-
ton about the purchase of eggs
from William Young, another grocer
here. Mr.. Young told the officers
he had heard the report from a
poultry dealer, but added that the
dealer had not mentioned Camp
Wheeler but said another Army
post was paying 10 cents for eggs,
Purchases Made Under Bids.
1t. Stenbridge revealed that act
ually Camp Wheeler. paid an aver
age of As cents for eggs, 10 cents
under the OPA ceiling. In a state
ment, he said that foodstuffs for the
camp were purchased under bids at
Columbus, Ga, by the Quarter
master Corps. He added Il have
never known prices for this COM
modify to exceed 48 cents per
dozen"
Replying to second charge that
civilians who were entitled to make
purchases at the Camp Wheeler ex-
change were buying commodities
and passing them on to others. 1t.
Stenbridge said that even such
civilians are required to obtain writ
ten permission of the commanding
officer of Camp Wheeler in order to
take advantage of these purchasing
privileges"
Evening star., 1942-12-12
Letter Arrives Safely
Despite Brief Address

z! The Associated Press
DES MOINES.-Clerks In the
State Heath Department looked at
the letter curiously. 1t was addressed
simply: "ST. D. H."
Postmarked in Chicago the day
previously, it had been delivered in
the first mail. Inside was a request
for information about birth record
The postal service was given
credit for guessing right the first
time.
Evening star., 1942-12-12
Services at Fort Myer
For 1t. Col. ZeioIer

Funeral services for 1t. Col. Fran
els M. Zeigler, 40. fatally injured
in an airplane crash near Macon,
Ga, December 2, will be held at
l pm. today at Fort Myer, Va.
Col Zeigler, who was executive
officer of the Wellston Air Depot,
near Macon, was killed while on a
routine training flight.
He was born at Allendale, S. c.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mildred Van Ausdel Zeigler of
Macon.
Evening star., 1942-12-12
Miss Virginia L. White
To Be Buried Today

Miss Virginia L. White. lifelong
resident of Washington who died
Thursday night at Emergency Hos
pital. was to be buried today in Oak
hill Cemetery following funeral serv-
ices at pm. at Hines funeral home
290l Fourteenth street NV.
Miss White. employed by the Gov
ernment for IS years, retired about
1880. She Is survived by . sister
Mrs. Lucie w. Salisbury.
Evening star., 1942-12-12
Treasury Estimates
Inf|ationary Gap
Al IS Billions
Pennies Of Non-Stroteqis
Materials and 3-Cent
Coins Are Planned

Higher national income and lin
ltation of consumer goods on the
market will produce an inf1ationary
gap of about $4,000, 900 900 next
year, it was estimated yesterday by
Treasury Department officials, who
hope Americans will aid the war
effort and help to check imitation by
putting as much of the surplus as
possible into the purchase of War
bonds.
The national income is expected
to reach s125,0Oo, 100000 in 1943
About s39, 900 000, 900 of this amount
Treasury officials predicted, will be
used in paying taxes, paying of
debts, in savings and in other non
inf1ationary ways-leaving S86, ,0OO,-
100000 available for buying goods.
Since only $68 5000 900 900 to $70,-
900 900. 900 worth of consumer goods
will be offered for sale, the differ
ence, which will find no use and
which may threaten price ceilings
is SIG, 900, ,000.0 900, the officials said.
Plans New Type Pennies.
Part Of Americas money in 1943
the Treasury also announced, will be
in neW-type pennies made from non
strategic materials. The new pen.
nies will be put in production as
soon as the President signs author
izing legislation which already has
been passed by both houses of Con-
greSs.
The form Of the new penny has
not been decided on, but the Treas
ury Department has been expert
menting with zinc-coated steel coins
which have blush gray color AND
soon lose their shine. taking on the
appearance of lead slug. The test
coins are lighter than the copper
penny.
The congressional legislation also
authorizes a Scent coin. which ii
put into circulation probably will be
of the same materials as the new
penny and slightly larger No plans
for their circulation have been made
the Treasury said.
Debt Installments Due Tuesday.
1t was also noted yesterday by .
Treasury spokesman that semi-an.
nual installments on World War
debts still owed The United States
will be due Tuesday. The Treasury
Department does not anticipate thai
any payments will be made, it wa.
said.
Originally debtors in Europe ane
the Near East owed this country
approximately $10,350, ,000, 900 for aie
extended during and Immediately
after the World War. Payments o1
principal and interest totaling ST.
750,193,412 have been made as O.
July l of this year. Refunding op.
erations. accruals of interest, ane
moratoriums, however. have in
creased the debt total to preSen
figure of about $4,000 ,0O0, 900.
Evening star., 1942-12-12
Endeovor Secretary Named

SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. IL lP).-
The Rev. Willard r. Ford, 36, re-
signed yesterday as executive sec
retary of the United Churches of
Scranton and Lackawanna County
to become secretary of the Mary
land-Delaware Council of Churches
and Christian Endeavor. He will
succeed the Rev. DR.. John Harms,
named secretary of the Chicago
Church Federation.
Evening star., 1942-12-12

Bah fighting. About half of the IS
tanks employed by the Germans
were damaged, the communique
said.
Another French communique re-
ported that offensive reconnaissance
west of Kairouan progressed as
planned" Kairouan is about q
miles west of the main road between
Sousse and Sfax and 35 miles from
the Mediterranean coast.
Evening star., 1942-12-12
Robberies at Two Homes
Net Loot Worth $1,000

Jewels and a sable scarf with a
total value of $4,000 have been
stolen from two Washington homes,
it was reported to police yesterday.
Mrs. Katherine w. Wolf, 2480 Six
teenth street NV, told police that
thieves who ransacked her apart
ment took the sable and a jewel
box containing $1,500 diamond
ring. two other rings and assorted
trinkets. She estimated the loss
at $2,700.
In another burglary. a jewel box
containing a pearl ring was taken
from the home of Miriam P. Con-
way, 1906 Florida avenue NV The
items were said to be worth $500.
Evening star., 1942-12-12
Leaders in Congress
Pledge Cuts in 1943
Non-Mi|itary Funds
Army and Navy to Get
AIl-Out Aid, However,
Cannon Announces
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
The first congressional New
Year resolution-strict retrench-
ment on all Government, non-
military expenditures in 1913
was made today by the chairman
Of the House Appropriations
Committeeman echoed by
other leaders.
Serving notice that he intended to
keep a tight check-rein on all de-
partmental spending, Representative
Cannon, Democrat. Of Missouri,
chairman of the committee which
has initial supervision over all
money bills, said policy of cutting
non-essential costs to the bone al
ready has been adopted.
And next year." he pledged, well
take out part of the bone"
State War Fund Policy.
Mr.. Cannon declared that the
committees policy toward the bill
lions sure to be demanded by the
Army and the Navy in coming
months for war material would be
one Of careful supervision, but we'll
give them the benefit of the doubt" Z"
I'm allocating funds for the mill
tary," he said, "the committee feels
emphatically that it is better to give
a little too much than too little. We
don't want to take any chance of
Gripping the war effort through lack
of funds"
Mr.. Cannon's outline of policy
came only a short time after House
Minority Leader Martin declared in
an interview that the Republicans
would press for reduction of non-
military expenditures.
McNary Asks Agency Control.
Concurrently, Senate Minority
Leader McNary advocated former
congressional control over the oper-
ations of Government agencies
which do not obtain their funds by
direct appropriations.
Mr.. Martins preview of the Re-
publican plan of action took on add
ed Importance in the light recent
statements on the House floor by
several Southern Democrats that
they were ready to join in an econ
omy drive.
Likely to play an important part
IN that move is an investigation now
being conducted by House Civil
Service Subcommittee on Ways and
Means to cut down personnel in
Government bureaus and to elimi-
nate duplication Of effort. The Byrd
Joint Committee is proceeding along
similar lines
The tremendous sum needed for
prosecution of the war Mr.. Martin
said, will demand that we cut
other governmental expenditures
wherever it is possible Obviously,
the people are demanding a reduc-
ton in the thousands of political
strap hangers.
To Curb Bureaucrats.
Another of our purposes will be
to curb the unauthorized use of
power by some of the autocratic
bureaucrats. We want them to have
what power is needed for prosecu-
ton of war, but we don't want this
used for the persecution of the peo-
pie"
Mr.. Martin gave this preview in
his first press interview since re-
turning from st. Lcuis. where he
bowed out as the Republican ma
tional chairman in order to devote
more time to leadership of the
Evening star., 1942-12-12
PROGRAM at Nazareth Center

The Rev. Denis Mooney, o. F.. M,
of the Commissariat of the Holy
Land will give day of recollection
at Nazareth Social Service Center,
200 1 street NV, tomorrow. The
first conference is scheduled for 10
am, the second at 2:30 pm. and
an holy hour for 4::30 pm.
Evening star., 1942-12-12
City Hall Doors Ruled
To Be Fire Hazard

BY the Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J,-Inspec-
tors of the fire prevention bureau,
making an inspection tour. found
that the doors of City Hall open
toward the INSIDE, constituting a
fire hazard.
Change the doors, cor City Hall
will be closed" they ordered.
Evening star., 1942-12-12
Liberiu Breaks With Vichy

MONROVIA, Liberia, Dec. II LP.
The Liberian government, which
is collaborating with the United
Nations and affcrding bases for
United States troops, has severed
diplomatic relations with Vichy, it
was announced TODAY,
Evening star., 1942-12-12

You, too, can 20 on . raid. Make
yours On that old pile Of junk metal
Evening star., 1942-12-12
SoIomons

Continued From First Page. y +.
Evening star., 1942-12-12
FOUND.

REPORT ABANDONED, STRAY ANIMALS
10 the Animal Protective Association for
Humane Disposition, Atlantic 7142 or Hill.
eide 1913. Present facilities limited to
these only.
Evening star., 1942-09-10
Fingerprints for War Job Bring
Arrest Of Fugitive Life Termer
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-Finger-
prints required of him for a war
industry job caused the arrest to-
day of Osmund Westgate, 50-year-
old electrician. on charge of being
fugitive from justice for an es-
cape almost 16 years ago from the
Illinois State Prison at Joliet, where
he was serving life sentence for
robbery.
WeStgate, known as a model hus-
band and father to his friends and
family, was routed from his home
at | a m. by Detectives James Gully
ana James O'Keefes wffo eaflied tel
egraphic INSTRUCTIONS from Warden
E. M. Stubblefield of the Joliet
Prison accusing Westgate of having
fled the prison October IL, 1924.
The detectives said Westgate was
traced through Federal Bureau of
Investigation examination of finger
prints obtained when he tock
s100-a week job with the Roebling
Steel Co. in Brooklyn. Authorities
said the prints were taken to per-
nit his continuance on war pro-
duction jobs and for a Coast Guard
pass.
Police said Westgate's life SEN
tence was the result of a second
conviction for robbery, mandatory
under Illinois State law The Illi-
nois warden said ,extradition pro-
ceedings would be started. West
Evening star., 1942-09-10
House Group Studies
Paw Rise for WAACS
Rr the Associated press.

BY the ASSoCi6ttu FTeSs
Chairman May called the House
Military Affairs Committee together
today to consider putting the
WAACS on pay base correspond
ing to that of the Regular Army.
An Army private now gets $50 a
month. but last May when the
WAACS were created a buck p1-
vate drew only s2l monthly, and
that was the amount decreed BY
Congress for the WAACS.
Under a proposal offered by Rep
resentative Magnuson, Democrat, OF
Washington, which the committee
will consider today, WAACS. of the
lower four grades would receive The
same base pay now given the corre-
spending Army ranks.
A WAAC first leader, now receiv-
ing s72 monthly, would get sos, the
same as an Army staff sergeant, who
used to get S72; leader, now draw
ing $50, would be paid s7s, the pres
ent pay of a line sergeant; a s54-s-
month junior leader would be
boosted to the s66 level of an Army
corporal. and a plain WAAC aux
iliary would be raised from s2l to
$50.
Lower ranking WAAC officers also
would benefit by the Magnuson bill,
second officers getting the same $500
annual increase recently voted for
Army second lieutenants.
Committee attaches said the War
Department favored the bill and no.
body, so far as could be learned, was
opposed to it.
Evening star., 1942-09-10
British Ship Officer
Survives His Fourth
Torpedoing Of War
Getting Used to 1t Now
Chief Engineer Says;
Two Seumen Killed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
A GULF COAST PORT, Sept.
10.-Chief Officer George Crawford
Dobson, only 80 years old, lived
through his forth torpedoing when
submarine sank a medium sized
British merchantmen in the Carib-
bean Sea in mid August.
Il am getting used to it now" re-
marked the Sunderland England
sailor.
The second engineer and oiler
lost their lives as single torpedo
struck the engine room.
Forty-three others-including a
passenger and four gunners-were
picked up by naval vessel after
two hours in lifeboats.
The Axis submarine toll of Allied
and neutral vessels in the western
Atlantic battle area rose to 462 to-
day in the Associated Press count of
announced sinkings since Pearl Har-
Dor with naval disclosure of the
torpedoing of medium sized Brit
ish merchantmen in the Caribbean.
The Navy had announced yester-
day the sinkings of an American
merchantmen and Polish cargo
carrier, both attacked off the South
American coast.
The captains of both ships were
taken prisoner aboard the raiders.
the Navy disclosed, boosting to nine
the number of merchant ship COM
manders reported held by Axis subs
following destruction of their craft.
Both the skipper and chief en-
gineer of the American ship were
taken prisoner, and another man
was missing, but so others aban-
doned the vessel is single lifeboat
and landed on the west coast of
Africa, making their way to Cape
town whence they sailed for the
United States.
Survivors from the Polish vessel
told howttheir captain awas ordered
aboard the U-boat,> searched for
papers and then ordered below as
the sub moved away. Three crew.
men perished in the encounter, but
IA others landed safely on a West
Indian island
Evening star., 1942-09-10
Strike Ties Up Work
In Cartridge Plant
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALTON, H., Sept. 10.-A strike
of the AFL Chemical Workers Union
spread to all sections of the Western
Cartridge Co. plant here today.
A company spokesman said pro-
duction was virtually halted at the
huge works, which has many war
contracts.
The strike began Tuesday at the
smokeless powder subsidiary, work
ers protesting failure of the COM
pany to reinstate Francis Bunny,
president of the local union of the
chemical workers.
Although agreeing to a War De-
partment order yesterday that Bunny
be reinstated, the company said he
still was under suspension for viola
ton of a company rule and must
await hearing by a disciplinary
board.
Several companies of the Illinois
Reserve Militia were ordered mobil-
lied, but there was no definite an
nouncement as to where they would
be assigned. No trouble was re-
ported at the plant, although a
large crowd assembled a half block
from the main gate.
Evening star., 1942-09-10

Ickes Estimates East
Will Be 25% Short OF
Fuel Oil This Winter
Report Secretary PIons
To Resign os Petroleum
Co-ordinutor Is Denied
BY the Associate

BY the Associate
Petroleum Co Ickes es-
timated today ther~ Juld be
deficiency of home -heating oil on
the East Coast this winter of pos
sibly Is per cent.
Testifying before special House
committee, Mr.. Ickes said he hoped
the picture would be better, but
that we can't guarantee it. I be-
lieve 1t is unmerciful to raise false
hopes"
He added that military detectives
must take precedence over domes-
tic requirements"
Fuel Oil Given Right Of Way.
Declaring fuel oil shipments were
being given the right of way over
gasoline movements to the II At
lantic seaboard States, Mr.. Ickes
said, IF taking tank cars for the
East means scarcity any place
else. we will take them"
The Eastern fuel oil deficiency, he
said, would depend lot on how
we'll home owners converted heat
ing equipment.
Mr.. Ickes appeared before the
committee only few hours after
aides in his office said there is
nothing to- reports from New
York that he had submitted his
resignation as oil co-ordinator to
President Roosevelt.
Frey Declines Comment.
Clyde G.. Morrill,, secretary of the
Atlantic Coast Oil Associations
conference, said members had been
advised of Mr.. Ickes' proposed steu
by DR.. John W. Frey, assistant to
Ralph Davies, deputy petroleum CO.
ordinator. Mr.. Frey declined tc
comment on Mr.. Morrill's state
ment.
Mr.. Morrill, said Mr.. Ickes hac
mentioned his intention to resigr
from the petroleum post. unles.
granted more authority, at a meet.
ing here last week with the Ad.
vlsory Committee of Eastern petro.
leum industry leaders.
Evening star., 1942-09-10
Hearings Due on Bill Giving
District Delegate in House

. Representative Paddock, Repub-
Ecan, of Illinois, said today he had
been promised hearings as soon as
Congress gets back to a regular
schedule, in several weeks, on his
bill to give the District a delegate
in Congress without the right to
vote
Chairman Summers of the House
Judiciary Committee has referred
this bill to subcommittee headed
by Representative Mclaughlin,
Democrat, of Nebraska. The other
members of the subcommittee are
representative Satterfeld, Demo-
crat, ,Aof Virginia: Eliot, Democrat,
of Massachusetts; Sprifiger, Repub-
lican, Of Indiana and Hancock, Re-
publican, of New York.
\ Il have received scores of letters
and telephone calls from District
residents indorsing this measure, "
said Mr.. Paddock There is no
doubt of its constitutionality. 1t
would be very helpful to the Dis
trict Committee, the District sub
committee on appropriations and
to the House members to have such
a delegate to advise with them on
District legislative needs"
Evening star., 1942-09-10
Mrs. J. Edward Froyser.
Dies in Lynchburg

Mrs. J. Edward Frayser. native
Washingtonian, died yesterday in
Lynchburg Va. She had been liY-
ing in Lynchburg for the last Is
years
Mrs. Frayser is survived by her
husband, a daughter, sister, Mrs.
Martha Griffin, and two brothers,
DR.. J. Rozier Biggs of Washington
and DR.. j. G. Biggs of Airing
ton, Va.
Funeral services will be. held In
Lynchburg at am. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1942-09-10
Office Workers Union
Reflects President
E, the Associated Press.

E, the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y. Sept. 10.--Louis
Merrill of New York was unani-
mously reelected president of the
United Office and Professional
Workers fCIO, as the unions five
day convention closed yesterday.
John J. Stanley. New York. an
Army private, was unanimously re-
elected secretary treasurer.
The convention elected these
members to the Executive Board:
Evelyn Adler, Jane Benedict,
Leon w. Berney, Peter K. Hawley,
Richard D. Lewis. William Piehl
Aaron Schneider, Bernard Segal and
Roy Whitman, all of New York City;
James Durkin and Robert Poirrer.
Boston; Alice Balmer, Seattle:
Bertha Bloksberg, Newark, N. j.;
Joseph H. Levy Chicago: Norman
B. Sayer, Trenton, N. j.: Albert
Shepherd, Philadelphia, and Jerome
Shore Detroit
Evening star., 1942-09-10
u. 5. Forces Expand
Drive 10 Push Japs
Out Of SoIomons
GuoduIcunoI Is Used os
Sprineboord for Attack
On Island of Gizo
3, the ANsnciated Press

3, the Associated Press.
A new American offensive to
drive the Japanese out Of the
Solomon Islands apparently was
under way today-launched by
an aerial assault on enemy
troops and installations at Gizo
Island.
With the United States captured
base on Guadalcanal, 2l5 miles to
the southeast, evidently the spring.
board tor the attack, American air
forces bombed and strafed the
small, heavily wooded island, the
Navy Department announced last
night.
The attack was carried out last
Sunday without enemy resistance,
the Navy said as the marines con-
tinued to mop up Japanese units
which had fed to Guadalcanal
iungles at the first American land
ing more than a month ago.
These japanese detachments, the
Navy added, may have been REIN
forced by a few troops which man.
aged to land on the island under
cover of darkness.
Flying Boat Destroyed.
The Navy communique also re-
ported destruction of a large Jap
anese four engined flying boat by
naval patrol plane northeast of
| the Soiomons on September S. The
loss boosted to 1913 the number OF
japanese planes destroyed in the
Solomons thus far.
The American blow at Gizo was
regarded as indication of a new
phase of offensive activity in the
strategic Pacific islands and evil
/ dence that the American forces had
consolidated their positions in the
! Southeastern Solomons.
Until the Gizo attack the troops
| in the Guadalcanal- Tulagi area
were mainly on the defensive against
/ japanese sea and air attacks while
strengthening their positions anc
presumably building a bomber base
on the Guadalcanal airfeld.
Also regarded as significant wa!
the fact that GiZo is situated more
than halfway on the road to tht
Japanese-hel point of Kieta or
Bougainville Island, southeast of tht
enemy's big Solomons base at Buka
Text of Communique.
The communique said:
South Pacific: (All dates giver
are east longitude)
Il. On September 5 Navy patro
/ plane shot down large japanese
four-engined flying boat northeas
of the Solomons.
%. On September our aircraf
bombed and strafed enemy shor,
installations at Gizo Island, in th'
Georgia group of the Solomons. M
resistance was encountered.
"3. Marines on Guadalcanal con
Evening star., 1942-09-10
Mrs. Annie F. Burton
Funeral Set Toduy

Funeral services for Mrs. Annie
Firmadge Burton, 78, retired Patent
Office clerk, who died Tuesday at
the Sibley Memorial Hospital were
to be held this afternoon at the
Hines funeral home, 2901 Four
teenth street NV, followed by
burial in Laurel, Md.
Mrs. Burton, who lived at 2Ol4
Klingle road NV, retired from
Government service eight years ago.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Forrest H. Thompson and Honora
Waters Burton, and a granddaugh-
ter, Honora Thompson, all of Wash
ington.