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in the Army of the United States"
1t was said.
The future task OF procuring from
civil life the right men for the
right posts, being predominately a
military one," the report said the
administration of the consolidated
units has. been intrusted to a newly
established administrative service of
the Army, under an Army officer.
Stimson Thanks Davis.
It's recommendation will be made
and passed on by Secretary Slim
sons Personnel Board, which is
headed by Gen. Malin Craig, former
chief Of staff. Secretary Stimson
expressed his appreciation of the
devoted services of Gen. Davis and
his assistants during the exacting
periods of experimentation in officer
procurement through the corps as a
uniformed civilian agency"
The report added:
working under unforseeable diff
ficulties in an entirely new and un-
tried field, the corps, under Gen:
Davis, has afforded the War De-
partment most valuable recon-
mendations for the solution of a
difficult problem" ~r--,--~.
The actual procurement program
of the Specialist Corps commenced
the middle Of last June, the report
pointed out, appointments in the
corps being made only on requisi-
ton by the Army, All persons ap-
pointed had the status of civilian
employees.
Single Service Preferred.
The report added further:
After period of testing offlcer
procurement through the corps as
civilian agency Of the War De-
partment, 1t has been found that
the purposes of the corps could not
be accomplished to the best advan-
tage in the midst of the war because
of the civilian status Of those ap-
pointed in it to serve with the
Army. In the interest of efficiency,
uniformity of operations, discipline
and the avoidance of duplication OF
effort, it is not advisable to have
two uniformed services"
The report set forth distinctive
rules of eligibility for the appoint
ment of civilians to officer candi-
date schools.
No civilian under IS without prior
commissioned service will be ap-
rNi,fol = -.
by the Selective Service for physical
disability in class 4-F Only persons
over "a and under As may be ap-
pointed If classified as class Ia or
class 2,
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Get In the Serop!
Districts Scrap Metal Pile
E Estimated at ~ Million Pounds
Survey Shows Quote Of 100000
Reached Several Weeks AGO

ital Parks came word yesterday that
the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal,
which many have suggested as a
probable source of a large amount
of scrap, has been pretty we'll
cleaned out" No official figure
could be obtained, but a spokesman
for NCP said the canal has been
combed and has yielded about go
tons of scrap" The entire contri-
button of the NCP since the salvage
drive started" has been approxi-
mately 80 tons of scrap.
The same spokesman said there is
little likelihood that scrap might be
obtained from the canals locks,
since without locks the canal can
not be used.
Asked If he meant that the canal,
virtually dry since the retaining
wall was broken in several places
by the recent flood, would continue
in use, he replied.
That's the intent. Every effort
is to be made to restore it,"
The scrapping of post-and-chain
barricades against trespassers at
various parks in the District, sug-
gested as a scrap metal source, was
termed unlikely by the NCP spokes-
man. Wood barricades have been
used for this purpose in a few cases,
but in short time became insight
ly, so 1t is likely the post land chain
barricades will remain in use.
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Morris Sales Co. Honors
Capt. KeppIer at Dinner

Capt. John R. keppler, Marine
Corps, was the guest of honor at
dinner last night at the Raleigh
Hotel. The dinner, given by the
Edgar Morris Sales Co., was a send
off for Capt. Keppler who for the
past five years has been sales man
ager of the appliance and radio de-
partment of the company.
Mr.. Morris, the principal speaker
at the dinner, said that during the
year more than 40 per cent of the
companys employees had gone into
the armed services, Government
services or war manufacturing work.
Other speakers were George F.
Kindley, vice president of the Or
ganization, and L. L. Smith, its sec
retary.
Other honor guests were Charles
P. Stearns, V. A. Holmes and H. B.
Homer, former employees of the firm
who have recently taken up war
work.
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Pound Party TO Provide
Food for Service Canteen

Food for the Washington Stage
Door Canteen of the American
Theater Wing will be provided
through the medium of the Can
teens pound party" at the King
Smith Playhouse in Rock Creek
Park below the Shoreham tomorrow
with matinee at $3.50 pm. and an
evening performance of The Eve
of st. Mark at $50 pm.
Admission to these two special
benefits will be canned foods, such
as pickles, relish, mayonnaise, pack
aged cheese, fruit and vegetable
juices. olives, canned fish, canned
meat and bottled cider.
DO you have spare ham (pack-
aged around the house?" asks the
benefit sponsors. Such gifts will go
directly to the boys in uniform.
Food can be left beforehand at the
playhouse of the conteen directly,
and subscriptions will be issued in
exchange.
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Glacier Priest Will Give
Lecture Here on Alaska

Alaska is the logical springboard
for mass attacks on Japanese In
dustrial centers by American bomb
ers, according to Father Bernard
R, Hubbard, S. j., the celebrated
Glacier Priest" and authority on
Alaska, who will deliver the open
ing lecture on THE Challenge OF
Alaska" in the Charles Carroll
Forum tomorrow at $3.50 pm. at the
Willard Hotel
Father Hubbard will show mo-
ton pictures on the Alaskan war
zone where he stayed during the
first Japanese invasion. After the
lecture he will answer questions
from the floor.
He considers that "the bombing
operations under consideration
would call for the use of Russian
airdromes in Siberia, which un-
doubtedly will be made available at
the proper time. Meanwhile, it
would be well that the Russians pre-
pare for the servicing of vast num-
bers of American bombers at Kam-
chatka and the Siberian coast"
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Place in Free World
For Jews and Other
Races Urged by Hull
Rubbis Give Him Scroll
Marking Anniversary Of
BuIfour Declaration
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary OF State Hull said yes
terday that I'VE must have a world
in which Jews, like every other race,
are free to abide in peace and in
honor"
Mr.. Hull's statement was made to
a group of rabbis who presented to
him a memorandum commemorating
the 25th anniversary of the Balfour
Declaration pledging Great Britain
to facilitate establishment in Pales-
tine of a national home for the Jews.
The memorandum called atten-
ton to the declaration, expressed
appreciation of the efforts of the
United States in behalf of the Jew
ish people, and voiced the hope that
this Government would bear in mind
in the future the aims embodied in
the declaration.
Mistreatment Deplored.
The Secretary observed that the
Balfour Declaration of November 2,
1917, had aroused wide attention in
the United States, and that this
country had followed with interest
and sympathy the work which had
been done under it, in which he
said American citizens played
useful role.
This country was shocked and
outraged" he added, when tyranny
and barbarity again commenced
their march, at the brutality which
was inflicted on certain races, and
particularly on the Jewish popula-
tions of Europe. Apparently no
form of abuse has been too great,
and no form of torture or oppres-
sion too vile to be meted out to
these populations by the Nazi des-
pots. And, in taking this attitude
toward the Jewish race, they have
made it plain by concrete acts, that
like attitude would be taken
against any race against whom they
might invent grievance.
Wider Objective Urged.
'The Jews have long sought a
refuge. believe that we must have
an even wider objective; we must
have world in which Jews, like
every other race, are free to abide
in peace and in honor.
I'VE meet today when the battle
for freedom is being carried on in
the East and in the West and every
effort is concentrated on a success
full issue. We can with confidence
look forward to the victory when
liberty shall lift the scourge of per-
secution and the might of the
United Nations free mankind from
the threat of oppression"
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Work Draft Resistance
To Bring Quota Hikes

VICHY, Unoccupied France, Oct.
81 P).-Industrial Minister Biche-
lonne warned French workers of
the unoccupied zone in press notices
today that no prisoners of war freed
by Germany would be sent to regions
which fail to produce their quota of
manpower for Germany.
The warning also told them that
any failure on their part to enlist
for labor in Germany would increase
the number of workmen drafted
from the occupied zone by the Ger
mans who had already prepared
measures to that effect.
Evidently the designation of
prisoners who return on the basis OF
exchange will be made region by
region and those regions which will
not have furnished the quotas as
signed them will not be able to hope
for liberations," Bichelonne said.
Every missing worker in the un-
occupied zone is the cause of the
departure in the occupied zone of an
older worker or one with heavier
family burdens"
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Britain Thanks French
Who Resist Nozi Order

LONDON, Oct. 81 (P.-Labor
Minister Ernest Bevin broadcast
Britain's thanks today to French
men for resistance which you are
making to efforts of the Germans
and Vichy government to compel
you to 60 to Germany
THE very fact that the Germans
are claiming to mobilize the work.
ers of Europe" he said, lis based
on the arrogant assumption that the
workers already are their slaves
Evening star., 1942-10-31

and two nuns from another mission
Although there was no further con-
firmation, they believed those killed
were Father Arthur Duhamel of
Lawrence, Mass: Father Engel-
brink, a Dutch priest, and Sisters
Mary Sylvia and Mary lOdilia, both
French nuns.
The party reached Tangarere, or
the southwest coast, September 8
after nearly a month of jungle
travel They hid out there until
word reached them they would be
picked up by boat at Kokum. Then
they were transferred to an Amer
ican ship.
Sister Mary Teresas father, Homer
Cartier, lives in Holyoke.
Sister Mary Evangeline, IL years
in the Solomons, went to New Eng
land from Canada when she was
20. Her father, Anthony Bernard,
now lives in West Springfield, Mass.
Both nuns lived in Chicopee, Mass,
at various times.
They reported another American
nun, Sister Mary Sylvester of Ha-
verhill, Mass, is missing. She was
last stationed at a mission on Ma
laita Island, but 1t is thought the
Japs have not landed there and
she is believed to be safe.
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Paralysis Treatment
By Kenny Method
Draws Criticism
Public Health Association
Told Ii DeuIs With
Secondary Problem
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,
Associated Press Science Editor.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 31.-The infan-
tile paralysis treatment of the
Australian nurse, Elizabeth (Sister)
Kenny, was criticized at the Ameri-
can Public Health Association
meeting yesterday as not justifying
the wild enthusiasm it has created.
She brought this treatment,
which she originated without medi-
cal aid in the Australian hinterland,
to the United States two years ago.
The National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis has approved it.
She uses hot-water packs and
muscle training on the limbs but
no splints.
The criticism was made by DR..
H. r. Carroll, st. Louis orthopedic
surgeon. speaker at a dernonstra-
ton of the Kenny method He said
treatments Of tnfantile paralysis
have been numerous and one of
the oldest was heat baking and
muscle training.
Principle Called Unsound.
Each" he continued, has failed
and each in turn has been replaced
by another method equally hopeless
in controlling the after-effects. We
are now confronted with the most
recent addition, the Kenny treat
ment, and the question is whether
or not it should be placed in the
same category as the others.
II firmly believe that it should
and will be classified in the same
way, as the principles on which 1t
is based cannot be considered sound
in the light of our present scientific
knowledge"
The scientific evidence, he ex-
planned, is that the wasting paraly-
sis does not originate in the muscles,
but in destruction of nerves in the
spinal cord. He said that any
treatment directed at the muscles
themselves is only tinkering with a
secondary trouble.
Says Records Disprove Claims.
The muscle, he declared, will re-
main paralyzed regardless of treat!
ment if the spinal nerves are de-
He said he is certain the
one hope of eradicating the disease
and its crippling after-effects lies
in immunizing people.
"1f," he said, "the sponsors of the
Kenny treatment would merely state
that they have a relatively simple
method which offers more comfort,
greater freedom and relief of muscle
spasm there would be no argument.
But when they go beyond this and
tell us they are able to control the
after effects there is room for dis
agreement.
Most of the reports about the
Kenny treatment in this country
have appeared in popular magazines
and of the few which have appeared
in medical literature only one has
given us any concrete evidence as to
exact results. This was by DR.. John
Pohl of Minneapolis. He reported
the results of his first 26 cases treat
ed in the Minneapolis General Hos
pital. The results in these cases
most certainly do not justify the wild
enthusiasm which this work has
created"
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Mrs. Blair Gives Talk
On Aspects of Army Life

Mrs. Emily Newell Blair of Alex
andria, Va, chief of the Women s
Interest Section of the War Depart
ment, spoke in Kansas City, Mo-,
today about the American soldiers
health, opportunities for worship
and chances to use his civilian skill
In the Army.
Representatives of rural women
from IS States attended the Inter-
American Conference sponsored by
the Associated Country Women Of
the World. Addresses of the con-
ference, many devoted to aspects Of
Army life which concern parents
and wives, will be discussed through
out the United States at one-day
county meetings.
Evening star., 1942-10-31
One Believed Dead as Fire
Sweeps Baltimore BUILDINGS
BY The Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 31.-One per-
son, a Chinese laundryman, was
believed dead today and four fire.
men were injured in a fire which
swept through block of one STORY
wooden houses late last night, caus-
ing an estimated $4,000 damage.
The Chinese, 500 Wong, was be-
lieved to have perished In the
wreckage of his laundry, where
hremen said the blaze began.
Residents of the only apartment
dwelling in the block on Willow
Spring road. Dundalk, were forced
to flee their homes and most of
their belongings were lost in the
fire.
Evening star., 1942-10-31

FE. J. 5mythe, Sought
lon Sedition Charqe,
Seized in New York
P.rotestont War Veterans
Officer Is Arrested
After 3-Month Hunt
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. s1.-The
Federal Bureau OF Investigation
announced today that Edward
James Smythe, indicted with 27
others for conspiracy to violate
the wartime sedition statute, was
arrested last night In New York
after being sought since July %.
William Griffin, publisher of the
New York Enquirer, and Col. Eugene
Nelson Sanctuary of New York,
Smythe, who is described by the
Government as publisher of a news
paper entitled Our Common Cause,
and others were indicted in Wash
ington and accused of conspiring
to impair the morale of the armed
forces.
Smythe War Veteran.
At the time the indictment was
returned, Smythe was described as
an executive of the Protestant War
Veterans Association. The FBI
said he was q native of Chicago.
P. E. Foxworth, New York FBI
agent, said that in recent months
Smythe's publication had been used
to question the necessity and pur-
poses of war against Germany.
The FBI quoted Smythe as telling
a combined meeting of the German
American Bund and the Ku Klux
klan at Camp Nordlund, N. j., in
August, 1910:
The heart of every crusading
American is in the cell with your
former leader, Fritz Kuhn, whom I
am proud to call my friend"
Kuhn, former national bund
leader, Is serving prison sentence
for misappropriating bund funds.
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Get In the Scrap!

AS the Districts quota a-Shatterlng
scrap drive reached the. end of its
fourth month, salvage leaders esti-
mated that at least $4,000 900 pounds
of the needed metals have been
shipped to steel mills for processing
or are now being collected for ship
ment before the snow flies"
The estimate is based on a survey
made by The Star, showing that the
$4,000, 900 pound quota for the July
January period had been reached
several weeks ago and was definitely
passed when the Washington Ter
minal Co. added more than 5000, 900
pounds to the District accumulation.
October collections, according to
the Salvage Committee, will approxi-
mate 5000, 900 pounds, indicating the
District total may now stand at
more than 45,000,00O pounds, just
100000 short of a second self
imposed quota of 50,O00,000 pounds.
Horace Walker, Salvage Commit
tee executive secretary, placed the
estimate to date at 100000 pounds,
however, "to be sure that We don't
overestimate."
Mr.. Walker has placed the heavy"
scrap drive total at GAL 900 pounds.
The drive ended Officially" Wednes-
day, but donations at the emergency
depot, Third street and Constitution
avenue NV, are being accepted
through today, the Salvage Com
mittee announced.
Mr.. Walker also said that the Re-
public 8488 exchange is continuing
to accept calls, though there has
been noticeable decrease in re-
quests for pickup service since We'd
nesday. The exchange took IS calls
yesterday and had IL at noon today.
School Program Spurred.
Meanwhile, school cooperation in
the continuing program to gather up
every bit of salvageable material
from the homes of the District was
getting under way today. DR.. Carroll
r. Reed, assistant superintendent
of schools and wartime activities
chairman of the local educational
system. sent letter yesterday to
Junior high school principals, out
lining the plans which have been
laid out for student aid in getting
in the scrap.
Following the suggestion of the
President schools of the Dis
trlct OF Columbia are cooperating
in the National salvage program
said DR.. Reeds letter. Continuing,
he pointed out that, while the whole
school system is participating by
way of special educational pro-
gram and otherwise, only the junior
high students will take part in the
actual collection of scrap.
Junior high school students, ac-
cording to plans mapped by DR..
Reed and Mr.. Walker will work as
block lieutenants' in cooperation
with salvage chairmen in each area
Each Junior high school will have
one teacher acting as liaison be-
tween students and salvage chair
men.
To Visit Homes.
Students will make a house-to
house canvas, first leaving residents
information on the kinds of SAL
vageable material wanted in the
campaign. then returning later to
pick up the scrap.
First to get under way in the
school program were students of
Gordon Junior High School, who
combined Halloween party YES
terday noon in the school audito-
rum with a scrap assembly" Stu
dents brought scrap items to the
school in the form of relics of the
first World War and less prosaic
items and had the scrap program
outlined to them.
From the Office of National Cap
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Nuns
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vasion of the Solomons. From their
mission at Visale, on the northwest
tip of Guadalcanal, the mission
aries saw fires burning at Tulagi
then saw ships approach the next
morning. But it was quiet for
three weeks.
Then, in early June, a japanese
officer and group of soldiers ap-
peared at the mission. They
learned that the officer. Ishimoto
had been employed as a carpenter
at Tulagi before the war. One of
the Jap soldiers said Ishimoto was
a japanese prince.
Mission Property Seized.
He was civil, but went through
the mission thoroughly, taking
radios, the refrigerator, axes,
shovels, the mission launch and
many other things.
The Jap officer also took away
one Of the priests. The Rt. Rev
John Maubin, bishop of the South
Solomons objected, declaring the
priest was then recovering from a
serious illness.
I had orders to take you ALL"
Ishimoto replied curtly.
Several days later the priest was
brought back. He had not been
injured or questioned.
Tho nuns cold
that all natives between IA and 50
had to work month without paw
on the Guadalcanal Airfield-or be
shot. Hundreds of natives thus
were forced to work on the field
day and night.
The Japs built an observation
post near the mission and armed
1t with what the sisters believed
was an anti-aircraft gun.
With the United States attack
started August 7 American planes
were f1red at from this hidden
post. The pilots, apparently believ-
ing the shots came from the mission.
returned and bombed the place, de-
stroying one building.
Befriended by Natives.
In the confusion, members of the
mission fed into the jungle. Bishop
Maubin, seriously Ill, was carried by
eight native boys.
They slept at night in huts and
were fed by friendly natives. Later,
they found that Jap patrols had
been after them, sometimes reaching
villages only half hour after the
missionaries had pushed on.
THE natives were wonderful to
U.s." Sister Mary Teresa said. Many
times the Japanese tried to get the
natives to lead them to us, but they
never betrayed U.S. Those who mis-
led the Japs were killed. Several
times we were so close to the Japs
that we could hear them in the
jungle looking for U.S."
The nuns saw plane fall one
day. They fought through the
jungle to reach it. They found an
injured Jap pilot in the wreckage
and gave him first aid.
They found out later that this
pilot promptly reported their pres
ence to Jap searchers. But they
still. didn't catch u.s." Sister Mary
Teresa said with a smile.
Nuns, Priests Bayoneted.
On their trip they met a district
oficer, who told them the Japs had
bayoneted and killed two priests
Evening star., 1942-10-31

teachers in Harrison School, the
Bundles for Brothers Club Is oper-
ated entirely by the pupils. To
make up the gift packages, each
pupils brought as many of the in
gradients as possible, all materials
then being pooled and divided into
packages of equal size. A friend OF
the school agreed to pay the postage
and the Hecht Co. provided the
boxes for mailing.
According to Mrs. L. G. Albert,
principal Of the school, the bundles
for brothers group will continue its
project throughout the year, send
ing gift packages to as many col.
ored ser fcemen as possible.
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Pupils Remember Servicemen
With Bundles for Brothers

Students of the Harrison School
have organized a Bundles for
Brothers Club" and are sending gift
packages to all their relatives in the
United States armed forces.
The first gifts were mailed yes
terday, 40 Of them bound for over
seas, where they will arrive by
Christmas, and IS for training
camps within the United States. In
cluded in each bundle were ciga-
rettes, candy, potted meats, crackers.
soap, chewing gum and magazine
or book. Razors were added to the
packages for men overseas.
Formed at the suggestion Of Mrs.
L. A. Hayes and Miss o. B. Tymous,
Evening star., 1942-10-31
II in Hungary Sentenced
To Death for SABOTAGE

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Oct. 31.-Dispatches from
Budapest last night reported that
II persons were sentenced to death
in the Batschka area of Hungary
for sabotage and possessing and US
ing firearms.
A Sofia dispatch said two persons
were sentenced to death and So to
long prison terms for sabotage
shootings and endeavoring from
March until August to prepare a
revolution.