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Evening star., 1942-11-23
Firemen Bring Down
Man Hurt in Fall on
St. Patrick 5 Roof
Workers Leg Broken
When SeoffoIdine
CoIIopses

Firemen Of No. | Rescue SQUAD
rescued Dewey Mercer, colored, A
years old, OF. 26 Fenton street NE,
at 1890 am. today after he and
another man fell from a scaffolding
to the roof of St. Patrick's Catholic
Church, on Tenth street between
F and G.
Mercer, who was working with
Vernon L. Dellengey. 35. 1855 Clay
street NE. fell to the roof of the
church when the wooden support
suddenly gave way. MERGERS leg was
broken in the fall.
The heel of Dellengey's shoe
caught and was pulled off in the
fall, but he made the 12-foot drop
to the Slanted roof unscathed. Ap-
parently Mercer's leg caught on the
scaftold's supports as he was falling
AS Mercer lay on the roof, Emmert
Simms, colored helper of the men
installing tinted glass on the root
above, called for assistance.
First to reach the injured mar
was Seaman Second Glass Michae
Paul Masek, U. S. NJ who was ir
the church. Seaman Masek climbed
ladder and used his Navy necker.
chief to apply a tourniquet to stor
the bleeding of MERGERS leg.
When flremen arrived they gave
Mercer first aid Then, resting 8
5O-foot extension ladder against the
side OF the building, they tied the
injured man on stretcher ano
lowered him slowly to the GROUND
from the roof, where an ambulance
was waiting to take MIN to Emer-
gency Hospital.
A large crowd of onlookers watch.
ed the firemen make the rescue
in light rain.
1t. w. S. Boes of No. l Rescue
Squad supervised the rescue. Pvt
Blels Mortenson, an ambulance
driver, received cuts on one hano
while aiding in the rescue.
Mercer and Dellengey are en-
ployed by the T. j. Casey Construc.
tlon Co., 208 H street NV.
AT Emergency Hospital MERGERS
condition was described as serious
but not critical Attendants sale
ne suffered a compound fracture OF
his left leg.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Appellate Court Hears
0PAP|ea 10 Halt New
Seat Pleasant Fare
Three Justices Take
Cose Under Advisement
Following Arguments

The United States Court of Ap-
peals today took under advisement
the appeal of the ONCE of Price Ad-
ministration from District Court
dismissal of its injunction suit
against the Washington, Marlboro
and Annapolis Lines in connection
with a fare increase.
Associate Justices Henry w. Ed
gerton, Fred M. Vinson and Justin
Miller heard the two-hour argu-
ments of counsel.
The OPA sued November on the
ground that the bus line failed to
give it 30 days notice of the proposed
increase from 10 to Is cents on the
Washington-Seat Pleasant run, as
provided for in the amended Emer-
gency Price Control Act. This is
to give the OPA an opportunity to
intervene, If it wishes, before the
regulatory body having jurisdiction
to consider such increases.
The act. as amended, became law
October 2. The line filed the pro-
posed increased tariff with the
Interstate Commerce Commission
on September %. Justice Daniel
w. O'Donoghue dismissed the OPA
suit last Wednesday, holding that
the line made" the increase on
September % prior to passage of the
act.
Henry Jones, OPA counsel argued
that the increase not made" until
the date that the tariff went into
effect, October 26. To argue other
wise, he pointed out, would be to
contend that in the future carriers
would have to give the OPA 80 days
notice in advance of the filing of
the proposed increased tariff with
the 1CC-which would make a total
of so days before the rate could go
into effect.
Attorney James p. Donovan, rep
resenting the line, declared that his
client made" the increase with the
filing of the tariff and that there
was nothing further for him to do
until the effective date.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Women sWar SAVINGS
League Sets Goal al
100000 Bond Buyers
Certificates to Be Given
All Members Who Make
Regular Purchases

Enrolment of 100000 Washington
women as members of the Women's
War Savings League is a goal which
should receive a great stimulus dur
ing Women at War Week" which
began yesterday, it was announced
today by Mrs. John Jay O'Connor,
chairman of the women's division,
District of Columbia War Savings
Committee.
A certificate of membership, free
Of charge, will be given to every
woman who meets tine following
qualifications: First, the applicant
or her husband already is a member
of a payroll savings plan; second,
the applicant is co-owner of bonds
purchased regularly. and, third, ap-
plicant agrees to buy bonds and
stamps consistently for the wars
duration.
Buy More Bonds"
As this plan to give recognition to
woman bond and stamp purchasers
got under way, representatives of
more than 100 women's organiza-
tions here began hammering the
slogan of Buy More Bonds" among
their own membership. In addition,
special bond booths are in operation
in large department stores and at
theaters In which woman's role in
war is stressed. A special window
display, manned by volunteer work.
ers. is being shown at Guides, florists,
1912 F street NV.
The climax of this weeks War
bond membership drive will be a
public rally Friday night in the au-
ditorium of the United States Cham
ber of Commerce, at which the
speaker will be Mrs. Charles C.
Gates of Denver. There will be
community singing, with band
music. Mrs. O'Connor will preside.
Saw Pearl Harbor Attack.
Mrs. Gates was at Pearl Harbor
when it was attacked. She had
never spoken in public before, but
following Americas entrance into
the war she has travelled at her own
expense and delivered addresses in
$50 cities, urging the people to buy
War bonds, it was said at Mrs.
O'Connor's Office.
The chief purpose of Women at
War Week." which was opened at a
luncheon meeting Saturday at the
YWCA, with Mrs. Henry Morgen-
thau, jr., wife of the Secretary of
the Treasury, as principal speaker,
is to set the pace for women's par
ticipation in War bond purchases
throughout the wars duration, it
was explained.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Marine Is Commended
For Hains Point Rescue

Corpl Samuel j. De Mary, U. S
M. c., attached to the service COM
pany here, has received a letter of
commendation from Secretary Knox
for his feat of rescuing two men
from drowning in the Potomac River
on September 20.
Corpl. De Mary, Fairmont, w. Va,
swan to the assistance of the two
men after their small motor boat
had capsized during sudden squall
near Hains Point. One of the men,
a weak swimmer, was struggling
with the other man, who evidently
was unable to swim at all. Despite
the choppy water and the fact that
he was fully clothed, Corl De Mary
managed to part the struggling men
and to bring to shore the one who
could not swim.
Released from the grasp of that
one, the second man made his way
to shore also. The Secretary's letter
said.
Your meritorious conduct and
prompt action in saving the life OF
one, If not both of the men, and
the nonchalant manner in which
you conducted yourself in their res
cue are in keeping with the tradition
of the naval service"
Capt. H. B. Hylbert, Ordnance De-
partment. U. S. Army, witnessed and
reported the rescue.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
M. P.'s Pick Up
Soldier Weorinq
'Zoot' Uniform

A colored Army sergeant wearing
uniform cut as a zoot suit with
drape shape today was in custody
of military police.
The soldier was picked up last
night in the vicinity of Turner's
Arena, where. it was believed, he
might have planned to do a little
rug cutting.
He wore a tunic coat made of ex-
pensive officers gabardine and with
regulation insignia. 1t had fared,
puffed sleeves and hung below
finger-tip depth.
His pants, suspended by white
belt through double loops, had a
chest-high waist and narrowed to
less than 10 inches at the foot,
Cuffs were hemstitched.
A coa-colored shirt and an over
seas cap tailored with an extra high
peak completed the ensemble.
At police headquarters, the soldier
revealed he was from QUITO town.
His Army station was not disclosed.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Shuttle Bus Service
To Federal BUILDINGS
Gets Under Way
Lines Operate During
Rush Hours to
Monument Grounds

Shuttle buses ordered by the Pub
lie Utilities Commission to be
operated in the downtown area for
the benefit of persons who are un-
able to board long-route buses during
the rush-hour periods because of
crowded conditions made their first
trips this morning.
A Capital Transit Co. spokesman
said only a few passengers had used
the buses on their first rounds, but
added that much more extensive
patronage is expected as soon as the
public becomes better acquainted
with the fact that they are in oper-
alton.
The buses operate on morning and
afternoon schedules. They run
seven and half minutes apart be-
tween tbs and 1852 am. and four
minutes apart between 4::3O and
4:50 pm.
The morning buses start lust
above Pennsylvania avenue on Sew
enteenth street, proceed north on
Seventeenth street to H street,
thence east on H street to Fifteenth,
south on Fifteenth and around the
Washington Monument to the John
Paul Jones Statue and from there
up Seventeenth street to Constitu-
ton avenue.
In the afternoon, the buses start
at the John Paul Jones Statue, pro-
ceed up Seventeenth street to H,
along H to Fifteenth and south on
Fifteenth to E street.
The new service was authorized
by the PUG at the request of the
Capital Transit Co.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
.WPB Holds Up Shift
Of Census Bureau GROUP

Transfer of approximately $500
Census Bureau employees to the
bureaus new building at Suitland,
Md, scheduled to take place over
the week end, has been blocked by
the War Production Board, it was
disclosed today.
Employees affected are in the tabu-
lating division and, according to
census officials, are doing consid-
cradle work for war agencies. The
WPB desired to keep the tabulating
machines and personnel near at
hand. so Commerce Department
officials delayed the move.
Apparently in ignorance of the
change in plans, about dozen work.
ers reported this morning at Suit
land and were sent back to the
old Census Building at Second and
D streets SW., where the tabulating
division occupies almost an entire
floor.
Representative of WPB, the Com
merce Department and the Budget
Bureau are expected to reach
decision this week as to whether the
tabulating division and machines will
remain where they are or be trans
ferred to the Suitland building.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Oldest Inhabitants
To Honor Dr.. Proctor

DR.. John Clagett Proctor, acting
president of the Association of Old
est Inhabitants. will be honored
with exercises commemorative his
recent 18th birthday anniversary
at the next meeting of the associa-
ton, to be held at the Old Union
Engine House, Nineteenth and H
streets NV, December 2, at 7:3C
pm.
DR.. Proctor was feted on his birth.
day by the William F. Hunt Chap
ter, Order of the Eastern Star, OF
which he was formerly worthy pa
tron.
Election of officers will feature
business at the association meeting
on December 2, it was announced
Plans also will be discussed for the
annual banquet of the group to be
held December 7, at the Hotel 24O0
to mark the 77th anniversary of the
association.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Interstate Bus Lines
To Change D. {. Schedules

Adjustments in bus schedules Of
major passenger services to and from
Washington in line with similar
changes over the Nation will be made
shortly after December /, it was
revealed today.
The schedules OF arriving and de-
parting buses will be further
reorganized to synchroniZe with the
national 35-mile-per-hour speed law
instituted October IS.
w. C. Beard, terminal manager OF
the Greyhound Bus Lines, said
schedule adjustments will not mean
the diScontinuance of any buses now
serving between stations He said his
company expects to put the new
schedules into affect about Deem
ber 6.
H. w. Ingram, terminal manager
of National Trailways, said his COM
pany will probably begin the changes,
necessitated by slower runs, around
December /.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Picture Studio Accused
OF Misrepresentation

A complaint was issued by the
Federal Trade Commission today
charging G. S. Proper, trading as
Albee Studio, 1926 G street NV,
with Misrepresentation.
Mr.. Proper denied the charge OF
misrepresentation, saying the COM
plant hinges on a technicality re-
lating to toning process. He said
his concern had made 10000 por-
trait pictures here in five years and
would continue to do business as
before"
The commission charged that pic
lures represented as having studio
values of SIS and $40, respectively
do not possess any such value; that
the tinted or colored photographs
produced by the respondent are not
genuine portraits or paintings COL
ored in oil, as implied by his repre-
sentatives, but are merely sepia or
brownstone prints produced from a
Photographic base and slightly
tinted or colored thereafter"
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Phone, Transit
Firms Here Held
War Industries
VINO Lists Systems
As Defense Units to
Bar Discrimination

The Districts communication and
transportation systems today we're
held to be defense industries" in
War Manpower Commission legal
opinion requested by the Presidents
Committee on Fair Employment
Practice to permit it to seek redress
against members of these industries
elsewhere which have set up bar
riers against employing Negroes,
Jews or aliens.
DR.. Malcolm S. MacLean, COM
mittee chairman, explained that the
opinion was sought because of COM
plants that persons had been re-
fused employment in the communi-
cation and transportation industries
solely because of their race, religion
or foreign background"
The statement did not indicate
that the District utilities had been
charged with discriminatory prac-
ticeS.
Bernard Gavit. former dean Of
law of Indiana University, and gen.
eral counsel of the commission, ruled
that ''the essentially to the de-
fense effort of the services rendered
by the Capital Transit Co. can
scarcely be disputed. Without
transportation of Government war
workers to and from their jobs, the
entire defense program would be
seriously hampered. This has be-
come especially true since the ra-
tioning of tires and gasoline"
From the very nature OF the
services they render" the opinion
summarized, ''it is apparent that
radio, telephone and telegraph COM
panies and the Capital Transit Co.
are essential to the national defense
program and as such must be treated
as defense industries"
In an opinion last January, the
WPB general counsel held that the
Nations railroads constitute a de-
fense industry within the meaning
of the order creating the Committee
on Fair Employment Practice.
Mr.. Gavit holds that the order re-
affirms "the policy of the United
States that there. shall be no dis
elimination in the employment OF
workers in defense industries = -
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Luncheon Honors
Mrs. WiIIium Kittle

A luncheon in honor of Mrs. Will
liam Kittle, retiring chairwoman
OF the District Minimum Wage and
Industrial Safety Board, WAS to be
held at ! pm. today in the May
flower Hotel.
Mrs. Kittle, who is also prominent
in various District Civic groups, is
moving to Minneapolis. She has
been chairwoman Of the Minimum
Wage Board since its inception in
1897.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
New Speaker Named
For Church Meetinq

The Rev. william F. Wright,
Douglas Memorial Me IN o dis t
Church, Washington. will speak at
the special Thanksgiving services of
the Calvary Methodist Church,
Twenty-third and Grant streets,
south. Arlington, at pm. Wednes-
day, instead Of the Rev. J. Warren
Hastings of the National City Chris
tian Church.
The pastor, the Rev. Thomas G.
Betschler, announces that DR.. Hast
ings has another engagement, which
would make 1t impossible for him
to speak as scheduled.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Gen. lie Jeune Buried
Al Arlington With
Military Honors
Personal Aide of
President Roosevelt
Attends Services

1t. Gen. John A. LIE Jeune, former
commandant of the Marine Corps,
who died Friday, was buried in Ar
lington National Cemetery today
with highest military rites.
All branches of the Nations mill
tary forces we're represented and
personal aide of President Roose-
velt was present to pay final tribute
to Gen. LIE Jeune, regarded as one Of
the country's ablest military leaders.
Prior to the military rites the
Right Rev James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, presided at
religious funeral services of the
Episcopal Church at the Church of
the Epiphany, 1917 G street NV.
From the church the funeral cor
tege went to the I'd Division Me-
mortal Monument at Constitution
avenue and Seventeenth street NV.
where it was joined by a military
escort for the trip to Arlington.
HOlcomb Heads Procession.
1t. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, com
mandant of the Marine Corps, head
ed the procession, which was COM
posed of two battalions of marines
one battalion each from the Navy
and Army, picked guard of honor
from the student regiment of Vir-
ginia Military Institute, the Marine
Corps Band and a headquarters
color guard.
Bishop Freeman, in his eulogy at
Epiphany Church, paid tribute to
Gen. LIE Jeune,s Christian life.
During the ceremony Gen. lie
Jeune's body was attended by a
guard of honor from the Virginia
Military Institute, where the soldier
was superintendent emeritus. The
chancel was banked high with flow
ers. Military leaders, including Ad-
miral Ernest King, 1t. Col. Chester
Hammond, White House representa-
tive, and others, attended the serv-
ices.
Honorary pallbearers and the Vir-
ginia military school guard formed
corridor from the church door to
the hearse as Gen. LIE Jeune's body
was brought from the church.
Bishop Freeman, attended by the
Rev. DR.. Charles Sheerin, rector
of Epiphany; the Rev. DR.. Taylor
Willis, rector of Christ and St.
Luke's Church, Norfolk, Va, and
the Rev. Mr.. H. T. Cooke, All Saints
Church, Chevy Chase, escorted the
body from the church.
The cortege moved across WASH
ington to Constitution avenue where
the military escort had formed for
the procession to Arlington. Grave
side rites were held as the body was
lowered into its final resting place.
Gen. LIE Jeune died in Union Me-
mortal Hospital, Baltimore, after a
three-week illness. He is survived
by his widow and three daughters,
Mrs. James B. Glennon, Miss Laura
T. lie Jeune and Miss Eugenia de LIE
Jeune, all of Norfolk.
Gen. LIE Jeune, commander of the
I'd Division in the First World War,
was commandant of the Marine
Corps for nine years, ending March
S, 1929. In February of that year he
was promoted to the rank of lieuten-
ant general under an act of Congress
applying to retired officers specially
commended for performance of duty
in actual combat.
Later Gen. LIE Jeune served as
superintendent of VMI for eight
years and held an honorary superin-
tendency of that institution at the
time of his death.
Evening star., 1942-11-23

wood, Md, was injured when he
walked into the side of streetcar
in the $500 block of Rhode Island
avenue in Mount Rainier, Md. He
was under observation today In
Casualty Hospital.
Inquest Ordered.
Meanwhile, inquests were to be
held today in the deaths of Milton
Ackman, Sc, Of 904 K street NE,
and william H. Wooden, 10, of 121
Twelfth street Sc.
Mr.. Ackman died September 20
in Casualty Hospital after the car
In which he was riding collided with
streetcar at Ninth and East
Capitol streets.
Mr.. Wooden died Saturday OF In
juries received two days before when
he was struck by . streetcar In
the 500 block Of Ninth street NV.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Missing Persons

Those hauing information
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
tpith the Public Relations Squad
OF the Police Department, Ma
tional 1000.
Sybil NJ. Shif1er, 18, feet inch
135 pounds. brown eyes and hair
wearing brown dress, red and gray
coat, black shoes, missing from 224s
Thirteenth street NE. since Satur-
day.
Naomi E. Sipler, 13, 4 feet IL inches
100 pounds, blue eyes, brown hair
wearing light coat, yellow sweater
green. dress, missing from Hillsdale
Md, since Saturday.
Francis Mccarthy, 10, feet
inches, 10 pounds, blue eyes, light
brown hair. missing from 435 Sec
ond street Sc. since Saturday.
Helen Sarah Hart, 10, S feet 3
inches, 118 pounds, blue eyes, black
hair. missing from 1417 Park road
NV. since November 6.
Clarence White, A, colored, 5 feet
5 inches, 185 pounds, wearing dark
gray hat. heavy blue sweater. white
shirt, blue trousers and brown
sweater, missing from 1881 Eleventh
street NV. since Friday.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Library Of Congress Gets
White House Letters

A collection, described as contain
ing 5000 items Of White House cor
respondence of the Coolidge admin
istration. today was turned over to
the Library of Congress by Charles
Kohen, 716 Seventeenth street NV,
who owned the collection.
The collection, acquired from the
estate Of the late Edward T. Clark,
who was private secretary to Presi-
dent Coolidge, was accepted in be-
half Of the Library by David c.
Mearns. reference librarian, and
Saint George L. Sioussat, chief of
the Lbrary's division of manu-
scripts.
The items were sealed, following a
cursory inspection, Mr.. Mearns said,
and are not to be opened or made
public prior to 1862, q stipulation
made by Mr.. Kohen.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
White House Conference
Studies Food for Europe

Plans for sending food into Europe
were discussed with President
Roosevelt at the White House today
by Undersecretary of State Welles
and Norman H. Davis, chairman of
the American Red Cross.
The conference might pave the
way for the work of Gov. Herbert
H. Lehman of New York who on
Saturday was appointed Director of
Foreign Rehabilitation and Relief
Operation, which will include prob
lens Of feeding Europe and other
war zone areas.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Dorden to Speak

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. % (R.-
Gov. Darden and DR.. Huston St.
Clair, president Of the Virginia State
Chamber of Commerce, are among
speakers scheduled to address a
two-day conference Of Virginia
commercial organization secretaries,
December As at the Hotel John
Marshall. It was announced yester-
day.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
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WAR Bonds

Refrigerators are out for the dura-
ton. Manufacturers have now fooled
their plants for production of war
materials. Common-sense folk, how.
ever, are saving now, not spending,
and building up a fund for purchase
of refrigerators and other domestic
needs through investment in United
States War Bonds.
Evening star., 1942-11-23
Elected Assistont Cashier

MIDDLEBURG, Va, Nov. q
(SpeciaD w. Stanley Wilson has
been elected assistant cashier Of the
Middleburg National Bank. Mr..
Wilson has been with the bank for
10 years.
Evening star., 1942-11-23

Your money put into War Bonds
today will bring you back 81 for So
at maturity. So start saving for
those domestic needs when you will
be permitted to buy them. Join the
Payroll Savings Plan at your office
or factory and let's all "top that 10
per cent by New Year"
q. 8. Treasury Department.
Evening star., 1942-09-09
OPA Hikes Price
To Absorb Cost
Of Wage Boost

For the first time. the Office of
Price Administration raised mini
mum prices of product today to
absorb the cost of a wage increase
granted by the National War Labor
Board.
Wooden posts and certain other
lumber products used in mines were
affected, but, in increasing their
price an average of 20 per cent, OPA
laid down general policy which
eventually may affect many other
commodities.
OPA officials said it was their
policy ito give consideration to in
creased labor costs arising from
wage advances if, but only if, the
increased wage rates have been or
dered by the National War Labor
Board and if the seller is unable to
absorb the increased labor costs"
The particular price increase on
which the principle was laid down
followed an hourly wage increase of
from 16Ss to 20 per cent for workers
engaged in making these wooden
mine materials.
The wage increase and conse-
quent price raises apply only to ap-
proximately 80 counties in South
western Pennsylvania, Northern
Maryland and West Virginia.