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Evening star., 1942-08-22
Senate District Unit
Defers Tax Exemption
Action Till Next Week
Members Confer With
Commissioners on
Proposed Amendments

Action has been put off until next
week by the Senate District Com
mlttee on the proposed new tax ex-
emption law for charitable. religious
and educational institutions.
Members of the committee con-
1erred for more than two hours yes-
terday afternoon with the Commits
sloners and District legal officers, but
Chairman McCarran announced no
decisions were reached. The bill was
gone over section by section to study
the effect of the various amend
ments offered during the hearings
by religious, educational and scien-
tiflc groups, who felt the measure
as originally drafted did not cover
all cases deserving Of exemption.
Senator McCarran has indicated
desire to make the wording of the
bill so clear that tax officials will
have no diff1culty in determining the
types Of institutions entitled to ex-
emption.
Recognizing that Washington. As
the Capital of the Nation, attracts
many national institutions which
heretofore have been exempt from
taxation, Senator McCarran also be-
heves that Congress should take this
into consideration in fixing the Fed
eral share of District expenses
Evening star., 1942-08-22
ather J. F. McEIwee
Dies in Ambulance
After Heart Attack
Was Former Superior
Of House of Studies
At Catholic University

The Very Rev. John F. McElwee
55, provincial of the American Prov
ince of the Oblates of St. Francis de
Sales and former superior of the
Oblate House of Studies at Catholic
University, died yesterday in an am
bulance as he was being taken from
the Oblate Novitiate at Childs, Md,
to Wilmington, Del.
Physicians at st. Francis Hospital
in Wilmington said death was due
to heart attack. Father McElwee
became Ill as he prepared to lead q
retreat at the novitiate.
The former superior visited the
Oblate House of Studies at Catholic
University at least twice a month
as part of his official duties since his
appointment as provincial in May
1910. While head of the house from
1885 to 1888 he was in charge of the
intellectual training and spiritual
formation of the Oblate neophytes.
A native of Wilmington, Father
McElwee completed his 25th year
in the priesthood last September
He was ordained in the Cathedral
OF Albano, Italy, after studying at
the International Scholasticate of
the Oblates Of ST. Francis de Sales
In Albano. Returning to the United
States in 1917, he taught at high
schools in Wilmington and Phila-
delphia until his appointment here
in 1896.
He was elected a member of the
general council of the Oblates in
1888 and was a member of the
community of the mother house
OF the congregation in Rome until
appointed provincial.
A contributor to the Historical
Review and other periodicals
Father McElwee also was treasurer
Of the Catholic Educational Council
Of Pennsylvania from 1929 to 1896
Funeral services and burial will
take place in Wilmington Tues
DAY. Oblate officers here have not
yet announced the time of special
commemorative service for Father
McElwee.
Evening star., 1942-08-22
Randolph Urges Opening
OF Day Nurseries Here

Chairman Randolph of the House
District Committee took the initia-
tive yesterday to help bring about
the opening here. with Federal aid.
OF day nurseries to make it possible
tor mothers to aid in war work.
Representative Randolph ad-
dressed the following letter to supt.
OF Schools Frank w. Ballou:
Under Title of the Lanham Act
provision was made for the initia-
ton and conduct of nursery schools.
However, it is my understanding
that under the present law such
an operation in the public schools
in the District is impossible. There
is a very present need for these
schools which can be operated for
the benefit of District residents
without adding to the tax burden.
They would enable more women to
add their efforts to the defense
work
Il will appreciate it II you will
let me have your reaction to the
proposal"
Evening star., 1942-08-22
BY HELEN LOMBARD.

Merchants of smoke" is the latest
designation for the gentlemen who
are convinced that it is possible to
talk the enemy into defeatism. The
justification for Washington's ex-
pensive and expanding propaganda
agencies is that the Nazis use psy-
Geological warfare effectively AS in
so many other things connected with
the war however, We seem to be
copying last years Axis model
Franz Won Papen, the Nazi Am
bassador to Turkey, who has been
called the country snatcher" ever
since he engineered the occupation
of Austria in March, 1898, has de-
cided that psychological warfare. in
Turkey at least, is now outmoded.
Herr Won Papen has just ordered
some hundreds of Nazi pressure boys
out OF Turkey because their activi-
ties were irritating the Turks.
The Nazis were using newspaper
men. lecturers, actors and singers to
propagandize the neutral Turks.
They had also settled wholesale
dealers IN the country to offer rare
manufactured articles, such as good
shoes, fine clothes, clocks and
watches to private purchasers at
ridiculously low prices. The people
who were offered these advantages
and bargains" were, of course, Of
flclals of one kind or another.
Practical Approach.
This practical diplomatic approach
has worked well in many places in
the world but Ambassador Won Pa
pen is now replacing it in Ankara by
the kind of psychological pressure
which cannot fail to succeed-argu-
ments backed by force.
Prime Minister Saracoglu. form
erly Turkeys minister of foreign
Evening star., 1942-08-22
Bodies Of Nine Recovered
After Army Bombers Crash

BY the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE, La, Aug. 22.-
Army authorities announced today
that two additional bodies, bringing
the total dead to nine, had been
found in the wreckage of two medi-
um bombers which collided in mid
air yesterday.
Army rescue workers continued
a search of the heavily wooded area
near Harding Field, but Mai. C. T..
Rogers, public relations officer, said
only nine men had been in the two
planes.
The Army said names of the vic
Tins would not be made public until
the relatives had been notified.
Ohlcers at Harding Field said
the two planes were in a flight
OF five and had just taken of
on an "operational mission" when
they crashed. The three bombers
not involved returned safely.
The planes crashed into the
ground about 400 yards apart. one
bursting into flames immediately
and the other becoming deeply en-
| bedded in soft, rain soaked earth,
| according to the Army.
OF the known dead three were
officers and four enlisted men.
Evening star., 1942-08-22
Germans Must Cross Turkey
When Russia Falls, Popen Says
Envoy Pushes Cose for Peaceful Passage
Harder With Each Advance of Nozis

affairs, who became the head of
the government some three weeks
ago, is pro-Ally in his sentiments,
Unfortunately he is also anti-Rus-
sian and is inclined to realistic ap-
praisals of the march of events.
Prime Minister Saracoglu's anti
Soviet feeling goes back to 1899,
When the Germans attacked Poland
the Turkish Foreign Minister was
invited to Moscow by Josef Stain
to discuss Soviet rela tions
in the light of the new world up
heaval. Soviet Undersecretary of
State Potemkin offered Turkey pro
lection" by Russia and suggested
with some insistence that Soviet
troops be allowed to occupy the
fortresseS protecting the Darda-
nelles. Prime Minister Saracoglu
refused and ordered the Turkish
garriosn at Chanac strengthened.
Diplomatic Technique.
Today Ambassador Won Papen Is
telling the Turks that Nazi forces
must go through Turkey to the Mid
SaS A1esaSV oApCl Vic OCiCdU OI tIUSSld,
The Turkish army is an efficient
body, but it lacks the mechanical
forces which would permit the head
OF the government to talk back to
the Nazis. On the other hand, the
vaguest hints from the Ambassa-
dors of the United Nations that the
Russian armies on the southern
slopes OF the Caucasus are intact
and ready to come to Turkeys aid,
throws Russian-fearing Saracoglu
into a near panic.
Ambassador Won Papen's Ankara
diplomatic technique is simple; he
pushes his case for peaceful passage
OF Nazi forces through Turkey a
little harder with each advance of
the Nazi forces in Russia.
tReleaser by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Evening star., 1942-08-22
Teachers Reported
BootIegging in Africa

Teachers in the Transvaal are
illicitly selling liquor to make a
living, 1t was disclosed when a depu-
tation Of native teachers called on
D. L. Smit, secretary for native af-
fairs, in Pretoria. They pointed out
that 1000 native teachers were paid
an average of $22 so a month.
Many teachers not only are SELL
Ing intoxicants but some are buying
stolen goods. The deputation, which
represented the Transvaal African
Teachers Association, cited Secre-
tary Smit's own statement that $28
was the minimum necessary to sup
port a native family. That was be-
fore the war. The war has raised
the cost Of living to such an extent
that teachers find it impossible to
support their families on their earn
ings.
Evening star., 1942-08-22
Michel Fokine Dies;
Famed as Exponent
OF Russian Ballet
Doncer-Choreoeropher
Helped Introduce Art
Form to America
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22-Michel
Fokine, 64, internationally famous
Russian ballet master who created
The Dying Swan" for the late
Anna Pavola, died early today.
Fokine, who was both dancer and
choreographer, died in West Side
Hospital which he had entered
August IL after contracting double
pneumonia on train returning from
Mexico City, where he directed his
last ballet less than two weeks ago
One of the most noted exponents
OF the Russian form of ballet dane
ing, he began his career at the
theater school in st. Petersburg
(now Leningrad and in 1909 took
his troupe to Paris where it scored
his first major success.
After that he originated many
ballets and with perfection of the
Russian dance form by him and
Sergei Diaghilev they brought 1t to
America for triumph after triumph.
Besides THE Dying Swan" he
was choreographer for other of his
own ballets including Prince Igor"
"Scheherazade," Cleopatra" Car
nival" and Les Sylphides," the lat
ter another of Nine, Pavlova's great
successes.
In New York, Fokine first pre-
sented his own company and then
directed ballets for the Metropolitan
Opera. In 1887 he staged many
ballets for the De Basil Ballet Russo
and also for the Ballet Russo of
Monte Carlo.
Three years later he joined Mix
hail Mordkin, Eugene Loring and a
group Of other noted choreographers
in organizing the American Ballet
Theater.
Surviving are his wife, Vera Fo-
kline, the dancer, and their son,
Vitale. Fokine lived at Yonkers
N. Y.
Evening star., 1942-08-22

SCHMIDT, CHRISTINE. special meet
l. II ing of Ruth Chapter, No /, O.
MI E. s., is hereby called on
IS9 Monday, August "a, 1912, at
AEM 1:15 pm, at Stansbury Ma
tEN sonic Temple. to attend the fu-
" neral of our late sister, CHRIS
TINE SCHMIDT. BY order of
Evening star., 1942-08-22
Dried Butter Shipped

Butter, dehydrated to it's pure fat
content, is being shipped from New
Zealand to Great Britain.
Evening star., 1942-08-22
Uarn uf Thanks

ERWIN, FLORENCE NJ The sympath,
end 6oral offerings of her friends Is crate.
fully acknowledged.
SACKET T. DIJRYEE
Evening star., 1942-03-01
FOUND.

CAT. male, gray with white feet; found
vicinity of 14th and You sts. ne. At
lantic 1915.
WRIST WATCH, found near Evarts Cafe
Evening star., 1942-03-01
BY ]. A. FOX.

Defense means anything from
bugs to battleships now as the
manifold peacetime functions Of the
Government are being fitted into
the wartime program and the con-
version is taking some unusual
turns, according to the spring edi-
ton of the Government Manual,
which is put out by the Office of
Government Reports to show what
goes on.
Power is one of the principal
sources of activity, and while the
Federal Power Commission would
seem to be sufficient to handle the
overall situation, 1t is only a
starter, according to the manual.
The Interior Department is busy
on many fronts, with a Division of
Power and a National Power Policy
Committee operating administra-
lively, and reclamation project
plants and Bonneville supplying
juice for defense plants. The T. v. A.
also is in this field and planned to
branch out early this year in the
manufacture of elemental phos-
phorus. The Rural Electrification
Administration is keeping the lights
burning in farm homes.
The National Park Service, an
Interior unit, is developing rest and
recreational facilities for the armed
services, and cooperating with the
Army in training ski troops.
The Fish and Wild Life Service is
looking after the welfare of wild
life which otherwise might be dis
Evening star., 1942-03-01
American Soldiers
In Belfast Help Open
War Savings Week
North Ireland Hopes to
Roise $22 ,000, 900 to.
Adopt Aircraft Carrier
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WITH THE A. Z. F. IN NORTH
ERN IRELAND, Feb. 28-Husky
American troops paraded through
Belfast today, helping the citizens
of North Ireland inaugurate war
savings week during which they
hope to raise $22 ,0O0, 900 to adopt"
an aircraft carrier.
The Irish. cheered the parading
troops, stepping behind their own
band to military marches rather
than "Over There" or Keep the
Home Fires Burning" Of the last
war.
Maj. Gen. Russell p. Hartle,
United States commander In North
ern ireland, took their salute be-
side Prime Minister John Andrews,
the Lord Mayor and other govern
ment and city officials.
Crowds Cheer Troops.
The military bearing and smart
appearance of the United States
troops leading the parade drew
cheers from crowds lining the
streets.
They're big fellows" one Irish
man said-and they were.
One of the marching men was
Pvt. Dick Henke of Hutchinson,
Mimi, who took a ribbing as a
"glamor boy" because his picture
appeared in United States and
British newspapers as the first pri-
vate ashore.
When his comrades suggested to
Henke that the publicity gave him
a choice of Irish girls, Henke replied
that he already had q girl in the
United States-a brunei in Hutch
inson.
Frisking alongside the marching
Americans was Hawkeye, mon
grel dog which adopted the troops
when they landed. Capt. o. H.
Kaberle Of Waterloo, Iowa, said
Hawkeye now was q full-fedged
member of his unit.
Appearance Improved.
A months stay in Northern ire
land has improved the Americans
appearance. In addition to stren-
uous conditioning, the troops find
time for sports.
Pvt. Edward Norway, also Of
Waterloo. said the Americans had
organized two football teams to
show the American game to the
Irish, who go in for soccer and
rugby.
Twenty-Five men from one unit
are seeking places on boxing team
to meet representatives Of the Brit
ish services.
Evening star., 1942-03-01
Defense Covers Wide Variety
Of Activity, u. S. Manual Shows
Work Of Departments Renaes From Bugs
To BottIeships; Foets BecoyHs Big Job

turbed by defense activities, for in
stance on public lands which the
General Land ONCE makes avail
able for bombing ranges.
The Agriculture Department also
Is active, according to the manual.
The Bureau of Entomology and
Plant Quarantine is engrossed in
the study of insect control for the
protection of manpower, crops and
stored food supplies and materials.
The Forest Service, an old hand in
fighting fires, is training thousands
of C. c. C. enrollees and civilians
in the various tecmiques involved,
including the use of parachute
jumpers and radio.
The Farm Security Administra-
ton helps to find new homes for
families displaced from defense
areas, while the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration is putting damper
on imitation by encouraging its
clients to buy Defense bonds. The
Extension Service of the Agricul-
ture Department is telling the
rural population what its all about.
The Commerce Department,
through the Bureau of Marine In
spection and Navigation, is keep
ing a close check on ship person.
mel to guard against subversive
activities, and the F. B. I. is deal
ing with the same problem as part
of the very full days and nights
which the Justice Department as
a whole is putting in.
Training programs are operating
in abundance. The Public Health
Evening star., 1942-03-01

Government unit, also inquiries
whether the unit existed on Sep
tember 1, 1899, the date war began
in Europe. This will give the sub
committee a complete list of newly
created units.
Schedule c, relating to the Office
space of each unit, calls for the
square feet devoted to dead files
and live files, separately. Senator
Tydings wants to find out If there
is any considerable amount of floor
space taken up with records that
could be moved or disposed of to
help meet the building shortage.
1t also calls for the number of per-
sons occupying the available space
in each unit.
Schedule F Is general question
naire, designed to gather in writ
ing from bureau chiefs data that
ordinarily would be developed by
conducting hearings. 1t asks the
supervisor for his opinion as to ac-
tivities that are necessary to win
the war; activities mot absolutely
Evening star., 1942-03-01

Service Is attempting to build up
the nursing corps over the country
with refresher, student and post
graduate courses. The Offlce OF
Education is seeking to equip men
and women for skilled work in
plants, and the Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps is introducing enrollees
to the mysteries Of skillet and oven
Fact-finding is another major
operation, and If all the reports
which various agencies are making
for other agencies were laid end to
end, it would make a long line.
The Federal Trade Commission in
PRODUCES an anatomical note in this
connection, explaining that it "op-
Grated as arm of the President"
in industrial investigations in the
last war. and is being called on
for similar service now.
Under national defense activi-
ties" the National Labor Relations
Board indulges in little homily on
the progress that has been made by
labor since the first World War,
and concludes that grounded as it
is upon experiences of the first
World War, the National Labor Re-
lations Board is an integral cog in
the Nations program of preserving
democratic rights in industry as the
tested means of insuring a maxi
mum production of goods required
in the prosecution Of the present
war"
The Veterans Administration, the
manual discloses, already is pre-
pairing for a new flood OF pension
claims as the outgrowth of the war
and is also faced with the problems
Of adjustment in those cases where
veterans now receiving disability
pensions are recalled to active duty,
for they cannot draw both COM
pensation and active service pay.
The aftermath Is also causing
concern to the National Resources
Planning Board, which, as de-
fense project. is concentrating its
attention on the post-defense period
with view to developing advance
plans and programs for necessary
readjustments and new improve
ments after the defense program"
The manual describes all the reg
ular functions of the Government
also, and contains among additional
features. the Presidents war mes
sages. 1t goes into general circula-
tion this week. Price. rs cents.
Evening star., 1942-03-01

necessary to winning the war" but
of substantial aid in achieving
that end; whether more personnel
will be needed, or whether q reduced
force could carry on the work. 1t
also asks the supervisors opinion
as to whether his functions are
duplicated anywhere else in the
Government.
Finally, it asks the division chief
for this general information:
"A. Suggestions for concentrating
Government administrative efforts
toward winning the war and cur
failing activities not now essential.
'B. Suggestions for the more ef-
fective use of your organization in
the war effort.
&C. If your organization is not
directly concerned with the war
effort the reasons you would give
for its continuance, with special
reference to any harmful effects on
our war effort that would result
from its suspension for the dura-
ton Of the war or it radical cur.
tailment."
Evening star., 1942-03-01
U. 5. Adds More Firms
To Wartime Blacklist
By TIE Associated Press.

By II e Associated Press.
The United States added 844 firms
and individuals in Latin America
and 81 others in Portugal, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey to
its wartime blacklist yesterday.
The new additions, announced by
the State Department., make a to-
tai of 4,494 firms and individuals
In Latin America and 1894 in the
five European countries which this
Government deems acting for the
benefit of the enemy and with which
trade is forbidden.
At the same time 20 names were
deleted from the Latin American
list including that of the "Banco
Aleman Antioqueno" of Colombia
which, it was stated, has been re-
organized and the German influ-
ence eliminated. A new name.
probably "Banco Commercial Anti
oqueno" will be chosen by the new
directors soon, the State Depart
ment said. Three deletions wers
made from the list of forms Of neu-
tral European countries.
Evening star., 1942-03-01
LOST

LOST.
BAR PIN with graduated pearls, diamond
in center, in dressing room. dress depart
ment' 1s Kann's Isa Dept. Store. Reward. Dis
BRACELET. gold link: lost Thursday. 28th
and o SITS, NV. or 2sth above @ st. NV.
Reward. Dupont 7s49.
CHANGE PURSE small, brown. cont money
reward Phone Sligo 3s1s.
COCKER SPANIEL. blond; answers to name
'TafIy': strayed from 206 Z: Thornapple
St. Chevy Chase. Nd. Reward. WI. 4549
s4aF sur @ss meek nGas' sa slast s.tn @
wearing brown collar; Bradley Hills vic.
on Bradley blvd. Very lib. reward. WI. l0O2.
DIAMOND RING lman's), yeliov gold; i :
| ward. Cali CHI. 1850.
| DIAMOND WRIST WATCH. Baguette: VI
cinity 5th and K; Quincy. 0rdway, Conn.
and Snoreham. Reward AD S425. !.
| tan. white. black spot on back and on end
Of short tail. face black. white and brown;
disappeared from Brookmonts Md, Feb. "a.
DRESS blue. in B. Altman box. lost in
Revard calI adams os7a.
EYEGLASSES. bone-r trimmed nc. case. down
sss6 sS.o. isaFe' EaE' soE Feb. as Reward National
FOUNTAIN PEN black. schaefiey Life
Liberal reward. OR: O957.
FRENCH POODLE: large. black: VICINITY
Reward. Adams 1851.
FUR SCARF-12.skin. mink-dyed kolinsky
scarf, Zirkin label: lost between 18th and
and Presidential Gardens OF in Diamond
cab. Reward. Call Temple 639S.
LEATHER KEYcAsE; initiated &C H H."
card and drivers license. Reward. Du-
OVERNIGHT BAG. brown, lost in Diamond
taxieab. Call Lincoln 1879. Liberal re-
PARKER FOUNTAIN PEN on @ St NV
between 10Th and goth sts- Reward.
PERSIAN LAMB MUFF. probably in cab
Feb. 2. Reward. WO. 1880. Mr. Dean.
PERSIAN II,ESS LAMB MUEr: lost near copsti- ts
s.'0R ss Reward. aya EN- S1ssoA' ssos. evening s0
POCKETROOK-Black felt: lost vicinity
18th place sc. Anacostia. D. c. Reward.
Phone sH. *574-J.
eS yelyst S s s xn phsDe N.
nings REWARD.
sCHAEFFER PEN; vicinity temporary ''E'
BLDG, Adams drive and the Hecht Co.
SPRAY GUN. Devilbiss. one 6-ft., bet.
S1O reward. Harrison. Poll Bennine I'd
WEDDING BAND, gold, with 3 diamonds:
lost Friday in Sc. or ne. section. Re-
ward. Call Lincoln 0SS1.
wIRE-HAIREp TERRIER, black. white and
Phone WI. 544s. l -'' 1 o.. IN ~
WRIST WATCH, lady's, white gold. m. p
B." on back; bet. 10th and e NV. Munsey
Trust or Va. bus: reward CHI. 0S14.
WRIST WATCH. ladys. Lady Elsin brown
Goldman. Adams 1151.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-27

tThe first fragmeniary mess
ages did clear before the war
lords clampcd down on the CEN
sorShlp)
was confined in my home until
s. a. m. Tuesday
Then four policemen escorted
me 10 a concentration camp out.
side Toxic, where I was put with
dozen other Americans into a
mall completely bare room
had no cpanct* 10 see tho
streets Of Toxic t1e day war was
declared But Others told me
LATER that Japanese were anNiou,
and surprised They stood around
radio shops grmly listening to
war bulletins
My nformants said no enthuSi.
assn WAS shown.