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Evening star., 1942-07-11
WASHINGTON D. SATURDAY,
New Lease-Lend Pact
Siqned With NORWAY
And Czechos|ovakia
FinoI Settlement May
Require No Postwar
Repayment to U. S.

The United States signed new
master lease lend agreements today
with Czechoslovakia and Norway,
pledging continued mutual aid IN
prosecution of the war and eco
nomic cooperation afterward to
help build a permanent peace.
Providing practical iease-lend as
sistance that helps to ease the wars
financial burdens on the two gov
in-eXile of countries that
have been occupied by the Nazis, the
agreement stipulates principles for
final settlement which may require
no postwar repayment.
Similar agreements already have
been signed with Great Britain,
China, Russia, Belgium, Poland, the
Netherlands and Greece, and are
being sought with other United
Nations.
Conditions of the postwar settle
ment of lease-lend obligations. un-
der terms of the master agreement,
shall be such as not to burden
commerce between the two coun-
tries, but to promote mutually ad-
Vantageous economic relations be-
tween them and the betterment of
World War economic relations" CO.
operation is pledged with other like
minded nations to establish a world
vide economic system based on
American fair trade principles.
The agreements concluded todav
were signed by Secretary of State
Hull with Vladimir Hurban. Czecho-
SloVak Minister, and Wilhelm
Munthe de Morgenstierne, Norwe-
glan Ambassador.
Evening star., 1942-07-11
{. W. Briggs Dies;
Helped Establish
Film Industry
Pioneer Photographer
Had No Confidence in
Future of Movies

Py the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July IL
Caspar Warren Briggs, 95, dean OF
American photographers who helped
establish the motion picture indus
try but had little faith films would
amount to anything, died yesterday
at his Ventnor summer home.
Mr.. Briggs followed in death
within two weeks William H. Jack
son of New York, 80, whom he sue
ceeded as oldest living American
photographer. The two met in
Philadelphia last year for the first
time.
a native of Norton. Mass, Mr..
Briggs and his father, DR.. Daniel H.
Briggs, purchased in Philadelphia in
1872 the magic lantern business or
Frederick Langenheim, inventor OF
the forerunner of the films.
Three years later Mr. Briggs
brought out his slip slides" in
which figures painted on lantern
slide moved horizontally across a
scenic background imposed on an
other slide. The first production
was "Lincolns Assassination" a
popular feature that was followed by
a series of such melodramas as 1.-The
Drunkard's Daughter" THE Bottle"
Father, Dear Father" and Ten
Nights in a Barroom."
Mr. Briggs was total abstainer
Mr.. Briggs turned down all offers
from the budding motion picture in
dustry, then starting to displace his
slides.
Il said they would never amount
to anything" he related later, land
they didn't amount to anything
until they started showing pretty
women and telling stories. Before
that no one cared much about them.
OF course, we told stories with magic
lanterns, but not about beautiful
women"
Evening star., 1942-07-11
Richard Mcguire, Pioneer
Blind Flying Pilot, Dead

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 11.-Maj
Richard Cromwell Mcguire, 38,
American Airlines pilot who made
the first blind flight" from New
York to Chicago, died at Baptist
Hospital here yesterday.
On September 8, 1885, Maj. Ma
guire left New York with his instru-
ments covered and followed radio
beams into Chicago for the first
commercial airliner trip of its kind
over that route.
Funeral services will be held here
this afternoon and the body will be
cremated and the ashes flown to
Elkton, Md, for burial.
A veteran pilot. Maj. Mcguire held
commission in the Army Air
Forces Reserve and was one of the
organizers of the Airplane Pilots
Association of America. He had
lived here since last September.
He underwent an appendectomy
at the hospital July / and appar-
emily was recovering when death
came from heart attack.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Henrietta Mcguire, and two sons,
Richard Arnold and James Flynn
Mcguire, both of Memphis; his
father, William Harrison Mcguire
Of Flushing, N. Y; three brothers,
William and Phillip Mcguire, both
of New York, and Hugh Mcguire
with the Navy; five sisters, Mrs.
Mary Dale of New York, Mrs. Louise
Skinner of Detroit, Mrs. Virginia
Simms of Upper Marlboro, Md;
Miss Elizabeth Mcguire of Balti-
more and Mrs. Edn2 Warburton of
Elkton.
Evening star., 1942-07-11
BarkleY Urges Truman
To Speed Chandler Probe

By the Associated Press.
Senate Majority Leader Barkley
urged the Truman Committee today
to be prompt and thorough" In in
Vestigating and reporting on the
construction of a swimming pool
given recently to Senator Chandler.
Democrat, of Kentucky by Louis
vile contractor, Ben Ceilings.
The investigation began this week
on requests by Senator Chandler
and by his opponent for the Demo-
cratic senatorial nomination, John
Y. Brown of Lexington, Ky. Mr..
Brown charged the construction had
violated priorities on the use of
steel, brass and other materials.
Senator Barkley, in a letter to
Chairman Truman, commented:
1T is only about three weeks until
the date Of the primary and if the
construction of the swimming pool
has any validity as campaign is
sue, that validity depends upon the
facts as they exist
Evening star., 1942-07-11
1horez's Kin, IS Others
Escape From Nazi Camp
PS the Associated Press

2, the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 1l-A brother
of Maurice Thorez, French Com
munist leader, and Is others es-
capped from German concentration
camp near Compiegne July
through a 45-yard tunnel they had
dug under their barracks, 1t was
learned today in a dispatch from a
reliable European source.
Two guards, charged with negli-
gence, were reported drastically dis
ciplined.
The Communist camp is located
at Royalieu, near Compiegne, where
German camps for interned Amer
leans and for prominent Jews also
are situated.
Maurice Thorez himself disap-
peared during the anti Communist
drive by Premier Daladier's regime
shortly before the war started and
he subsequently was deprived of his
French citizenship.
Evening star., 1942-07-11
Rev. Ernest |. McCurtney
Dies in California

The Rev. Ernest Leopold McCart-
ney, brother of the Rev. Albert
Joseph Mccartney of the Covenant
First Presbyterian Church, now on
duty at the Naval Air Station at
South Weymouth, Mass, died Thurs
cay at the home of his sister, Mrs.
A. L. Guerard at Stanford Univer-
sity, it was learned here today.
He had held various charges in
different parts of the country and
since his retirement had lived in
Upland, Calf. On several occasions
he had occupied the pulpit of Gov
enant-First Presbyterian. He will
be buried in the family cemetery at
Beaver Falls, Pa.
Evening star., 1942-07-11
Joseph ToIbert Rites
Will Be Held Monday

Funeral services for Joseph Emory
Talbert, "a, who died yesterday, will
be conducted at Lees funeral home
at pm. Monday Burial will~be in
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Talbert, native of Maryland
who came to the District as a young
man and engaged in the produce
business at Eastern Market for more
than 35 years, is survived by two
sons, two daughters, a sister and
four brothers, all living here.
Evening star., 1942-07-11
lit Mrntnrtaut
CaRMoDY, FLORENCE FULTON.

CARMODY, FLORENcE FULTON. In
loving memory of FLORENCE FULTON
CARM0DY' who departed this life July
HER DiEVoTED CHILDREN AND GRAND
CHILDREN,
CATION, ROMA MARTHA GIBSON. In low
ing memory OF my dear wife. ROMA MAR
TIA GIBSON CATION, who departed this
life two years ago,
The flowers place. upon your grave
May WithCr and decay,
But the love l bore for you IN life
Can never tade away.
HUSBAND. JOHN A, CATION.
HICKS, CORRINE VI. A sacred, sincere
voted wife, CORRINE NJ. HICKS, who en-
tered into eternal rest one year agO today.
July j, 1871
precious one from me is gone.
A voice l loved Is Stllled,
place is vacant IN my home
That never can be filled,
it IS lonely here without you, dear,
And life IS sad along the way
Life does not seem the same TO me
Since you have gone away
miss your sweet and smiling face,
You had a smile for every one,
My heart aches with sadness.
My eyes shed many tears
God only knows how ! miss you
At the end of one long year.
YOUR LONELY HUSBAND, NORMAN
HICKS.
KING. GERTRUDE ANN. In loving re-
membrance OF our dear vie and mother,
GERTRUDE ANN KING, who departed this
life two years ago today July /, 1870
God gave us a wonderful wife and mother,
She was one who never grew old;
God made her smile as the sunshine,
He made her heart of pure gold.
LOVING HUSBAND AND CHILDREN.
sIMMS, ETA BROOKS. In sad but
loving remembrance of our devoted mother
and grandmother, Eta BROOKS SIMMS,
who departed this life nine years ago to-
day, July IL, 1888
DEVOTED DAUGHTER. BERNICE HOB
SON; GRANDDAUGHTER, CLARICE
JONES.
TRAvERS, ELIZA S. In sad but loving
ELIZA L. TRAVERS, who departed this
life four wears ago today, July /. l93s.
HER DEVOTED GRANDDAUGHTER, LII
! LIE.
Evening star., 1942-07-11
|E. D. Robb, Dead at62,
Designed Carvings al
National Cathedral
Architect Devised
Secret Message on
StuII in Great Choir

E. Donald Robb, 62-year- -old ma
tionally known architect, who died
Wednesday in Newton, Mass, after
a brief illness, had been active in
the design of large portion of the
Washington Cathedral of st. Peter
and st. Paul.
A member of the firm of Frohman
Robb & Little, Mr.. Robb concerned
himself principally with designs for
carvings and interior furnishings
The last task he performed for the
firm here was the design of the
Gothic lettering for the memorial
inscription to Henry Vaughan, who
designed the original Bethlehem
Chapel and the Abbess of the Ca
thedral, which is to be carved in
one of the piers supporting the CEN
trail tower
Secret Symbolic Message.
He also designed, among other
things, the detail of the choir
screens, the choir stalls and the
clergy stalls just recently completed
in the great choir loft. His designs
for many of these, according to P.
H. Frohman, head of the architec-
tural firm, incorporate the same
subtle humor behind which lies
serious symbolism, that marked his
work on st. Thomas Episcopa
Church in New York. One partic-
ular bit of carving on one of the
choir stalls at the Cathedral incor-
porates a symbolic message, the
meaning of which Mr.. Robb hao
asked be kept a secret until after
the war.
Mr., Robb was considered especial
ly able at making water color H.
lustrations of church interiors, many
of his drawings having been used to
illustrate proposed designs for the
Cathedral to members of the Build
ing Committee.
His associates consider his work or
st. Thomas one of the most out
standing representative examples OF
his style, saying that his originality
was kept somewhat in check by
previously outlined plans for the
Washington Cathedral.
Carving Creates Furore.
Mr.. Robb, noted authority on
ecclesiastical architecture, gained
especial notice when it was discov-
cred that he had been responsible
for the carving of a dollar sign,
symbolic of loveless marriage, over
the brides door of ST. Thomas
Church. 1t had gone unnoticed foi
10 years before its discovery created
furore 20 years ago.
It was pointed out here yesterday
by friends Of Mr.. Robb that the IA
nous dollar sign was accompanied
on the opposite side by a carving
of lovers knot, symbolic of the
point that marriage should be fol
love.
Evening star., 1942-07-11
Two Air Cadets Killed
Procticinq Dive Bombing

By the Associated Press
PENSACOLA, Fla, July 1.-Two
aviation cadets from the Naval Air
Station here were killed Instantly
yesterday when their plane failed to
come out of dive and crashed in a
big lagoon west of the station.
They were George Metz, %. of
Chicago and William F. Montgom-
cry, %, of Springfield, S. Oak.
The cadets were practicing dive
bombing when their plane crashed
into the water, the public relations
Office said. Both bodies were re-
covered.
Evening star., 1942-07-11
Funeral Services Held
For John T. Dunlap

John T. Dunlap, IS, retired Gov
ernment Printing Office employe,
who died Thursday in Needham,
Mass, was buried in Mount Olivet
Cemetery today. Funeral services
were held at the Saffell funeral
home, ATS H street NV.
Mr.. Dunlap, a widower, had been
d pressman at the GPO for nearly
40 years, retiring about IL years ago.
He was a member of Pressman's S
Union No. l. For the last few years
he had made his home with his
daughter, Mrs. William A. Foley, in
Needham, Mass. Besides his daugh-
ter, he leaves a grandson, John
Foley, and a nephew, Vernon Dun
lap Of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1942-07-11
Jops Report Arrival
Of Convoy in AIeutions
3y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, From Japanese Broad
casts, July 1.-THE japanese yes
terday announced that large con-
voy escorted by destroyers and
cruisers arrived this week in the
Aleutian Islands occupied by Japa-
nese forces.
"All forces reached their desti-
nation safely without encountering
enemy attacks" the announcement
said.
Evening star., 1942-07-11
John 0. Wilson Funeral
Will Be Conducted Today

John o. Wilson, 49, employe of
the War Department, who died
Wednesday at Casualty Hospital,
was to be buried today in Arlington
National Cemetery after military
rites at Fort Myer Chapel.
Mr.. Wilson, who worked in the
Office of the Quartermaster General
since the World War, was a Medical
Corps corporal at Fort Meade, Md,
during the last war.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Miriam NJ Wilson, 1909 B street
Sc, assistant librarian at the Ma
tional Institute of Health in Bethes-
da, Md, and son, Sergt. John o.
Wilson, jr.. who has been in the
Army for the last four years.
Evening star., 1942-07-11

commander of
the vessels Cali
lee and Carnegie
died yesterday
at his home, 80
Rosemary street,
G w Chase,
Md. He was 70.
He entered the
Geological Sur
vey in 1884 as
assistant topog-
rapher and was
r a p i d y pro-
NOTED through
the grades. From
1908 to 1905 he
was second in
Evening star., 1942-07-11
RAF Hits DESTROYER
And Merchant Ship

Py the Associated Press.
CAIRO, July 1.-THE British
Royal Air Force announced today
that an Italian destroyer and s.
000-ton merchant ship each were
hit twice Thursday night in an at
tack on Axis shipping by "our med
ium bombers and naval aircraft"
Evening star., 1942-07-11
'JiIIs' Replace Jacks

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (P).
-"Lumberjills" have taken the place
of men at some New Zealand saw
mills. Their job is to hook on slings
of timber for loading and they are
making good.
Evening star., 1942-07-11
Capt. W. J. Peters,
Carnegie Scientist,
Dies al Chevy Chase
Magnetic Observer
Wus Commander of
Ocean Expeditions

Capt. William John Peters, for
merly chief magnetic observer at the
Department of Terrestrial Magnet
ism of the Carnegie Institution and
Evening star., 1942-07-11
Brazil to Control Transport

Passenger and freight transport
tation by gasoline vehicles between
cities in Sac Paulo State in Brazil
served by railroads will be elirIii-
mated
Evening star., 1942-07-11
Truvet Permits SOUGHT

In spite of restrictions on overseas
travel, many civilians in New Zea-
land are applying for government
permits to go abroad.
Evening star., 1942-07-11

We have an Axis to grind. Grind
it thin, every payday, with a War
bond.
Evening star., 1942-11-07
Glamour Plus

The dean of Barnard College, the
feminine portion of Columbia Uni
versity in New York, appeals for
more mathematical training for
young women. To get them to take
it, in her exact words. I'VE must try
somehow to show that calculus, for
example, is not only patriotic but
glamorous."
A tough task, this. Even In such
elementary mathematics as addl-
tion, many women are apt to go sad
ly astray. Frequently they remain
Is years old for Is years at stretch.
not realizing that Is plus Is does not
make Is. OF course, If 1t is patriotic
to study calculus, they will do it,
and If 1t makes the authorities any
happier, may even 60 so far as to
pretend to find glamour in 1t. II any
is present, 1t Is well hidden under an
appalling array Of complicated SYM
bols. When they begin to try to un-
tangle these themselves, perhaps
they will have more respect for the
male student who can tackle q dif-
ferential equation and integrate 1t.
Up to now, they have found more
glamour in the brawny, rather than
brainy. student who can tackle an
opposing football team and 'disinte-
crate It.
Evening star., 1942-11-07
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Traceuell.
coloration. The female Is less colorfu
and somewhat smaller.

coloration. The female Is less colorful
and somewhat smaller.
The white-throated sparrow is one Of
the gems of the winter garden.
1t comes down from the North.
At this time Of year it often seems
rather small, but that is mostly because
it has not puffed up Its feathers yet.
When the weather gets really cold, the
white-throat seems to be twice as large
as usual.
Then it becomes almost round in shape,
perfect ball of bird
This Is one of the 10 species of SPAR
rows which come to this section, and 1t
is one of the best. With the song SPAR
row, it may be said to be one of the
two best sparrows.
Every one with more than a passing
interest in bird life should make more
than an average study of the sparrow
clans in order to be sure to distinguish
the song sparrow and the white throat
from the English sparrows.
No doubt many persons fail to make
this distinction. They speak of all SPAR
rows as "just sparrows" Some persons
have even been known to trap and kill
other and more valuable species under
the impression that they were "just
English sparrows." Cases have arisen
of young song sparrows being killed in
this way. Surely nothing could be sadder.
The song sparrows are striped top and
bottom and quite streamlined. The
White-throat has plain gray stomach
and white throat and is inclined to
be chunkier. The head is quite striped,
and in the spring there is much yellow
along the eye stripe.
Whlte-throated sparrows usually come
IN small groups. That is, where one is
seen, probably half dozen are to be
found.
There is nothing more engaging in the
outdoor-lndoor sport of bird feeding
than the sight of several of these friendly
biras at window feeding station.
1t is impossible to become acquainted
with this one at distance You have to
have him close to be able to see clearly
jaw
from the lesser sparrows.
The white-throated sparrow is a great
friend of the juncos, or snowbirds.
Naturally it likes the society of all
other sparrows. The same may be said
OF the cardinals. They always put the
stamp of approval upon the various
sparrows, including the English sparrows.
We always have thought 1t curious
to hear some one laud the redbird and
at the same time speak disparagingly Of
the common sparrows. These little birds
eat tamiliarly with the glorious cardinals,
are their true pals" in every sense of
the word. Hence it may be believed that
bird good enough for the lordly car
olnals to greet as friend is also good
enough for all human friends of birds,
or at least ought to be good enough,
Investigation has proved that song
sparrows are permanent residents here
abouts.
Evening star., 1942-11-07
Dubious Policy

Selective Service Officials have
worked out new plan for inducing"
men to take war jobs-a plan based
on what they call double-defer-
rlent status.
To illustrate how this plan would
function in actual practice. one Off
cial explained: A childleSs married
man working as barber could shift
to an aircraft factory and get reclas-
sifcation from 3-A to 3-B, even
though his work consisted only Of
sweeping the factory floor or run
ming the elevator.
BY any standard of measurement,
this is an unfortunate-almoSt
shocking-proposal. In effect, it
amounts to an official notice to ga
men that if they want to avoid being
drafted, for a while at least, they
can do so by getting job in war
plant, even if that job amounts to
nothing more than sweeping floor.
Service in the armed forces, is and
ought to be, privilege. 1t is not an
ordeal or penalty to be avoided by
giving up one job and taking an
other, and it is psychologically and
fundamentally wrong for the Selec-
tive Service to adopt any policy en-
couraging a contrary impression.
The Selective Service system is
based on the belief that men should
be called to military service IN an
orderly and equitable fashion when
they are needed. 1t is not intended
to be used as an instrument OF
coercion, and, fortunately for the
country, most Americans would
spurn any "inducement" to take q
war Job which is based on the as
sumption that they would like to
escape military service. The few VINO
might be attracted by such an IN
ducement would make neither good
war workers nor good soldiers.
. Unquestionably the Selective 6erv-
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patrol boats for which the Coast
Guard was given $27 .439, ,627 Of PWA
capital.
It was PWA likewise which pro-
vided the aeronautical research
laboratory at Langley Field, Virginia;
La Guardia Field, New York, and
eight other airports; yards and docks
for the Navy at Norfolk, Virginia;
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and
elsewhere; barracks, mess halls, hos
pitals, offices, warehouses, heating
plants and other essential structures
for the Navy's shore forces; barracks,
officers quarters, roads and other
basic and long-needed improve
ments" for Army posts, and facilities
for reconditioning ordnance, the
modernization of arsenal machinery
and the motorization OF Army units
Under PWA also network of "a 900
miles of strategic highways was per-
fected and $4,000 bridges OF steel or
masonry were erected or repaired
Another helpful aspect of PWA was
the construction of 43 new armories
for National Guard organizations
of the several States and the de-
velopment of 81 National Guard
camps on locations from coast to
coast.
More, of course, might have been
done to prepare for the great conflict
which now prevails. But the fault
in the circumstances was not Mr..
Roosevelt's or Mr.. Ickes'. Congress
was unwilling to allow the admin
istration to "go all out" for national
defense
Evening star., 1942-11-07
ChulIenqe to Winter

Ho,O silent is this still November dayl
The barren stalks that edge the quiet
-t Hill
Are ghosts OF ho,oers long since blo,on
dD1y,
But petaled In my autumn memory
still.
There on the spreading oak the
brotDn leaf fingers
Where once our lore Uns sheltered,
sunan1er-brtght,
The chill tDtnd moves among the brit
tie fingers,
Murmurtng ioords of loped and lost
delight.
This dcQuiescent lull upon the breast
OF earth Is not for long. Thers wtu
come sr1otc
And silence. But no wtnter cdn
arrest
The April that loue promised long ago
When, Nth the urgency that spring
outpours,
Joy DtH surge ,carmly against tho
Utntrv doors.
IDA ELAINE JAMES.
Evening star., 1942-11-07
PWA and National Defense

AS the years pass, the President
and Secretary of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes must feel highly gratifled
over the dividends that have been
paid by the PWA program of con-
struction developed between 1888
and 1910. That enterprise had for
its primary objective the creation OF
employment opportunities for hun
dreds of thousands of men and wom-
en- who otherwise would have been
workless. But many citizens are apt
to forget that in excess of billion
dollars of emergency funds was spent
under PWA for projects directly re-
lated to national defense.
Specifically, more than 100 mill
tary planes of various types were
purchased by the Army Air Corps
out of PWA ALLEGATION of $7,497 ,612.
Hamilton Field in California and
Cory Field in Florida were equipped
with hangers, barracks and admin
istration buildings through PWA.
The Navy meanwhile was provided
with 1870 planes under PWA grants
in amounts of $7,496,923. Coinci-
dentally, the aircraft carriers York
town and Enterprise were con-
structed by PWA at 100000 each.
Four cruisers-the Vincennes, Phila-
delphia, Savannah and Nashville
were ordered through PWA in 1888
and commissioned In 1887 and 1888.
The heavy destroyers Porter, Self
ridge, McDougal and Winslow were
PWA "jobs" OF the same period.
Sixteen smaller destroyers and four
submarines were launched under
PWA, management. Two gunboats-
the Charleston and Erieal were
financed by PWA and served as
models for . fiotilla Of cutters and