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Evening star., 1942-12-04
White House Luncheon
Honors Gen. Sikorski

Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski Prime
Minister of the Polish government
ln-exile and commander In chief of
Poland's fighting force, was honored
by President Roosevelt yesterday at a
White House luncheaon attended by
more than dozen State, War and
Navy Department officials.
Gen. Sikorski is here on invitation
OF President Roosevelt to discuss
present and postwar problems.
Those attending the White House
luncheon today included Ambas-
sador Ciechanowski, Admiral Will
liam D. Leahy, the Presidents chief
Of staff; Representative Bloom,
chairman of the House Foreign At
fairs Committee; Undersecretary of
State Sumner Welles, Undersecre-
tary Of War Robert P. Patterson,
Undersecretary of Navy James ".
Forrestal, Assistant Secretaries of
State Breckenridge Long and Dean
G. Acheson: Norman H. Davis,
chairman of the American Red
Cross; Harry L. Hopkins, special
assistant to the President; James F..
Byrnes, director of Economic Stabili-
zation; Col. William j. Donovan, di-
rector Of Strategic Services; Ray
Atherton, chief of the Ctate Depart
ment's Division of European Affairs:
Marvin H. Mcintyre, secretary to
the President; Maj. Gen. Edwin M.
Watson. the Presidents military
aide, and Capt. John l.. McCrea, his
naval aide.
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Naval Officer, Wife,
Boston Fire Victims,
Buried in Arlington
Rites Held in Chapel
Where Jesse D. E!Iiotts
Were Wed in 1889

Funeral services for 1t. Jesse Dun
can Elliott, U. S. N, and his wife,
who were burned to death Satur-
day night In the Boston night club
fire, were held yesterday in Fort
Myer Chapel, where they were mar
ried in July. 1889
They were buried side by side In
Arlington Cemetery. with full mill
tary honors accorded 1t. Elliott.
1t. Elliott was the son of Col. and
Mrs. J. Duncan Elliott of Aquasco,
Md, who formerly lived here on
wyoming avenue. Mrs. Elliott was
the daughter of Col and Mrs.
Charles H. Nulson, commandant at
Fort Sam Houston, Tex.
Friends of the couple and their
parents, including officers in the
various branches of the armed
forces, attended the services.
The Navy Band played with drums
draped in black. A platoon of sail
ors from the Navy Yard and a
platoon of marines from the Marine
Barracks lined up before the Fort
Myer Chapel.
Serving as honorary pallbearers
we're seven Navy leutenants and one
Marine Lieutenant, Annapolis class
mates of 1t. Elliott. They we're Its
N. E. Thomas, w. M. Porter, F. F..
Smart, A. r. Mcfarland, r. H.
Northweed, r. A. Bevernick and
Godfrey Norman of the Navy and
Marine 1t. G. P. Carroll.
Capt Robert D. Workmen, Navy
chief of chaplains, read the funeral
service.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
0PA Aides Untanq|e
Price Ruling Snar|s
AT Arlington Clinic
Grocers Are Advised
On How to Comply
With Regulations

How can I determine the ceiling
price of brand of canned peaches
by the March level when I didn't
have that brand in stock in March?"
This is typical Of the questions
asked three officials from the Office
of Price Administration at a grocers
clinic last night at the Arlington
Ration Board, 1924 North Highland
street.
The purpose Of the clinic was to
solve the grocers' individual prob
lens resulting from changes in OPA
regulations concerning price ceilings
on cost Of living food items.
In answer to the March ceiling
question, the grocers were told that
in the event that they find them
selves with new food brand they
should find some competitor who did
have that particular brand in March
and charge the same as he does.
One grocer said: THE public has
the mistaken notion that all food
items should be sold at the same
price. wish it were possible for
the OPA to run consumers clinic
to acquaint the public with all the
facts"
OPA officials present were Harper
Soles, chief of the OPA food stores
section of the retail trade and serv-
ices; Philip H. Coombs. executive
assistant of the OPA retail trade
and services branch, and Morris
Levinson, food division counsel.
In charge of the meeting was
Mrs. Beulah Goss. officer In charge
of the price program for Arlington
County.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Arlington Asks
More Time for
Tire Inspection
Labor Shortage
Cited as Reason for
Seeking Extension

Due to ]arbor shortage at Arling-
ton County tire inspection stations.
the countys rationing board will ask
the Office Of Price Administration
for an extension through February
to complete inspections, 1t was an
nounced today by Charles Olmstead,
who last night was elected chairman
of the tire inspection group.
Mr. Olmstead said today he be-
lieved it would be impossible TO
finish tire inspections on some $4,000
automobiles by the end of January
as desired by OPA He also pointed
out that pproximately, II 900 auto
mobiles to be inspected are operat-
ing on B and c rationing cards
which will mean they will have to
be inspected again at the end of
go days which will fall IN February.
He believed, however. the inspection
could be completed by the end of
that month.
Official OPA licenses were issued
last night by the Arlington County
Rationing Board to % designated in
spection stations, certifying ther
officially to inspect the tires.
Forms Labor Committee.
Mr.. OlmStead of the tire inspec-
ton group named a committee to
report on the possibility Of alleviat-
ing the labor shortage at the in
spection stations. Those on the
committee include H. ]. Brown,
Homer Bauserman, W. C. Crockett,
David Collins and E. H, Handy.
A discussion at last nights meet
ing. at which all % county stations
were represented concerned posting
tire inspection hours for county mo-
torlsts in connection with the tire
record application which was re-
Gently filed with the Rationing
| Board.
The board yesterday requested car
owners to have their tires inspected
within week after receiving
the B section of the application
and the station representatives last
night approved this action. The B
( StCtlOllo dI DCllls llldiiCu OuN al az
cordance with the date they we're
received by the Rationing Board.
Approved Stations.
The county tire inspection stations
are as follows:
AIS Motors, 1924 Wilson boule-
ward; H. j. Brown Service, 1918
North Moore street; Hiett's Garage,
East Falls Church; Greenwood Ga
rage, 45O5 Lee highway; Windridge
& Handy, 1ll9 Wilson boulevard;
Kemp's Garage, 1882 Lee highway;
-Kirby's Service Station, 3237 Will
son boulevard.
7 Arlington Motor Co., 1917 North
Moore street; Edmonds Motors,
Wilson and North Washington boule-
wards; Park Lane Service, 2417 Lee
highway; Ford's Auto Service, 1882
Washington boulevard; Kenyon
Peck, Inc, 1925 Wilson boulevard.
American Service Center 585
North Glebe road; Joyce Motors,
27O0 Wilson boulevard; Log Cabin
Garage, Jefferson Davis highway
and South Twenty-third street;
Crockett's Service. 2227 Wilson
boulevard; Bausermans Garage.
Columbia pike and Glebe road;
Falls Church Motors, East Falls
Church, and Olmstead Motors, 1000
Wilson boulevard.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Army Run-Around Stumps Probe
Of Camp Springs Wood Waste

Disregarding pictorial evidence of
workmen at the Camp Springs Md
airport project burning cords of
wood which the Army refused to
sell to neighboring farmers, War
Department investigation" has re-
suited in a virtual white-wash of
Army responsibility.
Or maybe Undersecretary Robert
P. Patterson, who was assured that
the logs were merely stumps of
trees, is being given the old Army
run around" and doesn't know it.
At the weekly War Department
press conference yesterday when he
substituted for Secretary Stimson.
he said he knew of no wood being
burned at Camp Springs-it was
only stumps."
Earlier in the day the War De-
partment had instituted an inquiry
on the basis of news reports and
picture which showed clearly that
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Temperance Conference
Opens in HyottsviIIe

Representative Bryson, Democrat,
Of South Carolina, will deliver the
opening address tonight at the 1912
Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
of Youths Temperance Councils at
the First Methodist Church in
Hyattsville, Md. His subject will
be The LIQUOR Contribution to the
National War Effort"
Greetings to the conference, which
holds it's first session at 7:30 o'clock
tonight and is open to the public,
will be extended by Mayor E. Muir
ray Cover of Hyattsville, the Rev.
Edgar W. Beckett, pastor of the
First. Methodist Church; Mrs. James
Severe, president of the Prince
Georges County CMd) Women's
Christian Temperance Union, and
by Miss Bertha Tyson of Baltimore,
president of the Maryland Women's S
Christian Temperance Union.
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workers were burning great piles of
logs on cleared sections of the air.
port site. Some of the logs even
had been split before being burned.
Representative Sasscer, Democrat of
Maryland, seeking to make inquiries
of Camp Springs officials on behalf
of one of his farmer constituents,
also had been given run around"
When Mr.. Patterson was told at
the press conference that picture
showed the "stumps" to be logs
which any one would be glad to
burn in fireplaces during this period
OF governmental fuel rationing, he
apparently was unwilling to believe
that Army policy" could have been
disregarded in this instance.
That policy, as he emphasized 1t
is: When place is cleared, wood
is finally disposed of, but not by
burning"
He did not elucidate.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Santa Claus Receives Gift:
WPB Removes Salary Ceilings

The fat old gent in the red suit
and white whiskers, who turns up
in the stores about this time every
year, received a Christmas present
himself today from the War Labor
Board.
Demonstrating that there Is no
ceiling on the Yuletide spirit, the
board issued blanket wage-control
exemption to all bona fde Santa
Clauses on condition that they ra-
diate spirit of good will and cheer.
The board took this action fol-
lowing telegram from Lew Ha-
han of the National Retail Dry
Goods Association in behalf of
small store as to whether it could
raise the paw of its Santa Claus
this year from $40 to s25 a week.
Evening star., 1942-12-04

lea, system development; Stuart
Bailey. Bethesda, consulting engi-
neer, apparatus development; Paul
Thomson, Silver Spring. radio en-
gineer, operations; Philip J. Hen
messy, Bethesda, radio lawyer, coun-
sci; Fred Snider, Bethesda, operator
at WRC, construction, maintenance,
supplies and salvage, and Phillip J.
Austensen, Silver Spring, public re-
lations.
The first task of the new service
is the collection of enough old radios
and parts to construct short-wave
sending and receiving sets which
would be needed in maintaining con-
facts between the county control
center, the five report centers, the
13 casualty stations, the fire service
apparatus and other vital defense
services if telephones were bombed
out.
Residents of the county who have
old radios or parts. regardless of
their condition, are asked to donate
them for this purpose. The sets
should be tagged with the name and
address of the donor and left at any
Montgomery County police station.
Acknowledgement will be made
within two weeks.
Meanwhile, group of % residents
of the Silver Spring area completed
course this week in the Operations
Staff School, conducted by Fred w.
Tuemmler. technical advisor of the
Montgomery County Civilian Defense
Council.
They are the Misses Barbara Allen.
Mary Ann Blakeney, Helen Dolan,
Lucille Fitzcharles, Polly Harmon,
Joyce Haynes, Bette Helm, Sallie
Leibig and Sally White, and Mrs.
Grace Bowers, Mrs. Ellen Drum
mond, Mrs. Amy Hayes, Mrs. Mae
Howard Mrs. William E. Hewitt.
Mrs. Eve Joan Kruger, Mrs. Marian
M. Tuemmler, Mrs. w. J. Wheeler,
Mrs. Alice White, William Stewart,
William Tuemmler, William T.
Brooks and Albert S. Cake.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Virginia S Raid Test
Is Marred by Death
OF 0CD Worker, 10
Messengers Motorcycle
Hits Standing Trolley
On Richmond Street
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec 4-Civil-
ian defense authorities termed Vir-
ginias surprise test blackout last
night generally successful, although
violations in some cities sent tell
tale shafts of light skyward.
The test also was marred by at
least one fatality William Robert
Cheatham. 19-year-old motorcycle
messenger for the OCD in Rich
mond, was fatally injured when
his machine struck the rear of a
standing streetcar, which was
blacked out.
The gasoline tank exploded and
caught fire. The youth died three
hours later in hospital
John J. Howard, State chief Of
air-raid precautions. said first re-
ports showed the blackout was very
successful.
The completeness Of the surprise
was evidenced by the fact that
several hundred Roanoke AFRAID
wardens were caught congregated
at hotel Roanoke when the sirens
sounded and had to scamper all
over the city to their posts of duty.
Co-ordinator Sydney F. Small said
the Magic City's showing was good
The giant plant of the Newport
News Shipbuilding e. Dry Dock Co.
at Newport News was blacked out
for the first time since the war be-
gan. Newport News. Norfolk, DAN
vile, Staunton and other cities re-
ported cooperation of the public.
and the test was good.
Richmond had a number OF vio-
lations, particularly in the down.
town section, where some signs and
windows glared brightly against the
background of darkened city.
The sirens sounded at 7:5O pm.
and the all-clear came so minutes
later.
Evening star., 1942-12-04

In an unanimous resolution, the
board decided that Santa Clauses
could receive raises provided that
the term bona-fide Santa Claus
shall be construed to include only
such persons as wear a red robe,
white whiskers and other well-rec-
ognized accouterments befitting
their station in life and provided
that they have kindly and jovial
disposition and use their high office
Of Juvenile trust to spread the
Christmas spirit of good will among
all men, women and children"
The exemption covers only the
Christmas season, the board said
and shall not be considered as a
precedent, since the role of Santa
Claus in war-torn world is
unique"
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Six Nearby Boards
Complete Plans 10
Register Youths Of 18
Remaining Four Units
Expected to Announce
Procedure Soon

Plans for the registration of 18-
year-old youths for military serv-
ice have been completed in six of
the 10 selective service boards in
nearby Maryland and Virginia, a
survey revealed today.
The procedure to be used by the
four other draft boards is expect
ed to be announced either tomor-
row or early next week.
Approximately $500 youths in
nearby areas are affected by the
Presidents recent proclamation
calling for the registration of young
men who have become 18 since the
last registration, June 30.
While the Presidents proclama-
ton provided for three week-long
registration periods beginning next
Friday. 18-year-olds In the area
covered by Montgomery County
Draft Board No. 2. in Silver Spring,
may register at the boards office
on any day beginning December II.
Procedure Is Explained.
At Montgomery County Draft
Boards No /, in Rockville, and No.
3, in Bethesda; Prince Georges
County Draft Board No. |. in Hy-
attsville, and No. 3, in Upper Marl-
boro, and IN the Alexandria Draft
Board, the registration procedure
will follow that outlined In the
Presidents proclamation.
Those born on or after July l.
1924, but not after August 81, 1924.
Will register on any day during the
week beginning next Friday.
Those born on or after September
/, 1924, but not after October 81,
1924, will register on any day dur
ing the week beginning December
18.
Those born on or after Novem-
Der /, 1924, but not after December
81, 1924, will register on any day
during the week beginning Decem-
Der 26.
Centers Are Listed.
AS the war continues, those who
were born on or after January l
1925. will register on their birth
anniversary, unless that date comes
on Sunday or legal holiday. In
such cases. they will register the
following day.
In all except the Alexandria Draft
Board, 18-year- -olds will register at
their local board offices. Alexan-
drla youths will register In Room
304 Of the City Post Office Building,
Plans have not yet been com
pleted by Arlington Draft Boards
No. l and 2, Prince Georges County
Draft Board No. 2, in Upper Marl-
boro, and the Fairfax County Draft
Board.
Officials in the two Arlington
boards said youths in their areas
probably will register at their re-
spect1ve draft board offices. but
added that no definite ARRANGEMENTS
have been made yet.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Advisory Unit Named
For New Montgomery
War Radio Service
Old Rodios and Ports
Sought From Residents
For Short-Wuve Use

William H. Blair of Bethesda,
chief of the newly former War
Emergency Radio Service of Mont
gomery County Civilian Defense, to-
day announced the appointment of
an advisory council of seven, each
member to have charge of one phase
of the defense communications
setup.
They are Wesley c. Mock, jr., OF
Green Acres, physicist at the United
States Bureau OF Standards, who
will have charge of frequency stand
ards; w. c. Lent, Bethesda, engi-
neer with the Radio Corp. of Amer
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Virginia Given
Tax Reciprocity
U|tinatun1
Maryland Threatens
Action in Row Over
Levies on Trucks
BY the Associated Press.

oy tuc hSsOCldGeQ fIeSs.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 4.-Virginia
today had until December is to halt
an alleged disregard of truck tax
reciprocity measures, w. Lee Elgin,
Maryland commissioner of motor
vehicles, warned.
If Virginia does not stop exacting
these unfair penalties" by that
date, Mr., Elgin said, Maryland will
levy like imposts and the State
police force will be instructed to
see that they are carried out.
If Virginia wants to build a
fence between Virginia and Mary
land" Mr.. Elgin said yesterday,
well have to do the same thing"
On Richmond, the Virginia
commissioner, C. F. Joyner, jr.,
said last night there was no reci-
procity agreement now in effect
between the two States. A re-
port of a newly established reci-
procity board was in process of
completion, he said.
Report Ready Soon.
(Mr. Joyner said he had no
comment to make on Mr.. Elgin's
assertions. He added that the
reciprocity board of three men,
bers, of which he is one, was set
up by the 1912 General Assembly,
and that it would soon submit q
report to Gov. Darden.
tOnly the Governor. he added,
has the power to negotiate reci-
procity agreements
In Baltimore, General Manager
Walter F. Kneip of the Maryland
Motor Truck Associat ton said the
dispute came to a head when Mary
land truckers were stopped in Vir-
glnia and forced to pay taxes on
hauling profits.
Mr.. Kneip said Virginia had also
a gasoline tax recapture
clause under which out-of-State
truckers had to pay to the Virginia
treasury a sum equivalent to the
tax on the amount of gasoline re-
quired to perform the Virginia
mileage.
Action Threatened.
Mr.. Elgin said Virginia is the
only neighboring State which is
up our truckers" adding in
\ letter to Mr.. Joyner:
Il am forced to advise you that
unless this situation is cleared up
by December IS we will be COM
PEELED to require all Virginia truck
ers to register their vehicles in
in order to operate in
this State, as we'll as to comply
with Our financial responsibility act.
You promised to have this data
not later than December l and I
can no longer appease the Mary
land truckers with promises of fu-
ture adjustments and agreements"
Mr.. Elgin said his Office had met
with Mr.. Joyner last month, at
which time the Old Dominion COM
missioner had agreed that the reci-
procity pact would be put in effect
in Virginia
Mr.. Elgin said Maryland had
leaned backwards" to facilitate
interstate transportatio of war ma
terials over the States highways.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Swords Contributed
By Naval Officers
To Scrap Drive
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The Navy announced yester-
day that naval officers were
turning in their swords to the
scrap metal drive. to be re-
modelled into more effective
weapons.
Vice Admiral H. V. Butler,
Belle Meade, Va, administra-
tive officer of the Navy De-
partment, was the first officer
to surrender his.
Swords have long been out
moded as fighting weapons, but
were retained as part of the
uniform for formal occasions.
New Navy regulations, how
ever, discarded the sword as
part of the uniform.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
VIginio' S Health
Head Chilly in
65-Degree Room
Hs the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. Ats all
right with DR.. I. c. Riggin, State
health commission, if Surg, Gen
Thomas Parran wants to sit around
N 55-degree temperature, but per-
sonally DR.. Riggin would be chilly.
In a letter to War Production
Board officials here, DR.. Parran
said that the 65-degree temperature
which Government war agencies
have asked Americans to maintain
Is we'll within both the health and
comfort zones and that, in his opin-
ion, room temperature of IS de-
grees would not result in any mate
rial impairment of public health.
DR.. Riggin said he feels chilly
at IS. He said it might be injurious
to health to keep home and Office
at SIS, but that this is only per-
sonal opinion, because there's no
scientific data on the subject.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
John R. Grown Heads
Vienna Phone Office

John r. Crown has been ap-
pointed manager of the Vienna office
of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. of Virginia, S. A. Kedy,
area manager, announced today.
Mr.. Crown succeeds William Tayloe,
who has Joined the Army.
Mr.. Crown, a native of Washing
ton, is a graduate of the University
of Virginia. He entered the tele-
phone company at Lynchburg in
July, 1899. Prior to his appoint
ment to Vienna, Mr.. Crown was
manager of the st. Paul exchange.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Safety Unit Set Up

Undersecretaly of War Robert P.
Patterson announced that an Army
industrial hygiene laboratory, which
will inspect arsenals and ordnance
plants against industrial hazards,
has been established at Johns Hop
kins University.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Rudios Wanted

The District needs radio
equipment at once to develop
an emergency communications
service. This equipment is a
critical material and cannot be
purchased. If you have an un-
used or even "junked" radio,
leave it at your nearest fire
station. The parts will be re-
built into two-way radio sets.
This program is essential to the
civilian defense of the Metro
politan Area.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Largest SeIeetee Group
Leaves Alexandria Dec. "a

One hundred and thirty-five men,
the largest group yet called from
Alexandria, will leave for the Army
induction center at Charlottesville
on December Ia, officials of the Sc
lective Service Board announced to-
day.
The group includes some 20-year
OldS
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Those called are.

~ tit
Bra dley. M. D.
Wolfrey. r. A.
Hartley, D. H.
Cooke, M. E.
BumpasS. H. w.
Payne. M. c.
Gutridge, G. w.
Morrison z. V.
Nails. Clinton L.
Edmonds. w. D.
Cohen. Bernard
Petit. T. H.
Trout, F. c.
Wright, L. B.
Longerbeam. w. M.
billiard. w. M.
Wingf1eld, NJ. I.
Thompson, c. H.
Harris, w. F.
Murray. w. E.
Beer. Peter j. w.
Cunningham, W. T.
Cruff, Kent Roop
Aldrich, G. l..
Klein. Adam. jr.
Bennett, Paul B.
Bush, L. D.
Dooley, j. r.
Alexander. r. A.
McCordic, j. A.
Harding, H. J.
Poulson, {. NJ.
Olchesky, Frank T.
Pulzone. Raymond A
Myers. Wilmer L.
Ma son. John W, jr
Iasiuolo. Orazlo
Rutledge, Robert c
Ha wilkins, Harry A.
Hawes, Victor p.
SholeS. Harry w.
Ovellette, Emilien
Harwood. Harry l..
Turner, EaWin L.
Barnes. Luther E.
Warner. Delos L.
Loving, Charles s.
Carver, Cha rles B.
Mcleod, James z.
Fleming, Lee r.
Haroo. All F.
Carter. John P.
Zentz, Virgil S.
Knots, BENJAMIN
Berg, william F.
Cobean, George r.
Groves, French NJ.
Gladwall, Cecil T.
Fallatik. Charles A,
Flynn. Lloyd c.
Roland. Raymond M
Harlow, James r.
Stump. Melvin
page. Paul L,
Tomlin, Waugh l..
O'Connell, James
Julian. william r.
Newton, Robert L.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Mexicons Aid Defense

Mexicans of all classes are turn
ing out every Sunday to drill for
defense. and many foreigners have
Joined in the training.