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Evening star., 1942-10-20
Central Labor Union
Donates Iron Lunqs
To 3D. {. Hospitals
Portable Equipment
Is Provided Especially
For Use in Event of Raid

Three portable iron-lungs were
donated to Washington hospitals
today by the Washington Central
Labor Union for use in emergency
cases and especially to be available
in the event of an air raid here.
The iron lungs were presented, one
each, to Casualty, Emergency and
Freedmen's Hospitals, and they are
to be available fol- any public need
Presentation ceremonies were held
shortly before noon a. Casualty, with
Fred S. Walker, treasurer of the
CLU Civilian Defense Committee,
and other labor lesoers participating
Desire for such equipment was
crystallized recently when a number
of union workmen were trapped in
cave-in on a construction project
near the Bryant street pumping
station.
Members of unions affiliated with
the CLU have donated to the Dis
trict, for civilian defense purposes
more than $13l,OO0. Out of this
fund there is being developed a
blood plasma bank and the Com
missioners have used part of it tc
purchase number of police cars
equipped with stretchers for emer-
gency use.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Man Hit by Streetcar
Dies Of Injuries Here
D. c. Traffic Toll
Killed in 1912 az
Killed in same period of 194l "a
Toll for all of 1941 95

The District traffic fatality toll
was raised to 86 last night with the
death of Joseph E. Williams, 46, a
plumber OF 1867 Holmead place NV,
Mr.. Williams died at Gallinger Hos
pital as result of injuries received
when he was struck by a streetcar
at Fifth and H streets NV. Thurs
day.
Mr.. Williams was employed on the
naval airport project at Cedar Point,
Md. He is survived by four sisters
and one brother.
The streetcar. police said. was op-
Grated by William H. Laurie. 81. of
GA Elliott street NE. He has seven
years experience with the Capital
Transit Co.
Oliver C. Wilburn, 26, bus driver,
OF 529 South Twenty third street
Arlington, was ordered held for
action of the Municipal Court under
the Negligent Homicide Act by a
coroner's jury which yesterday in
vestigated the traffic death of Sally
T. Simpianen, %, of 500 Quintana
place NV.
Miss Simpianen died Friday at
Emergency Hospital a few hours
after being run over by an A.. B.
& w. bus at Tenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue NV. Police in
vestigation at the scene indicated
she had stepped into the side of the
bus while crossing the street on her
way to work.
Miss Simpianen, a native of New
York, was employed at the Archives
Building
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Converted Industries Hirinq
More Than Before War
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Peacetime workers. thrown out of
employment by the industrial tram
sition to war production, are going
back on the job again in increasing
numbers.
Employment in eight leading in
dustries. once engaged in production
for civilians, is back to normal or
better in most instances, the War
Production Board announced last
night.
For example, WPB said. the auto
mobile industry which has stopped
production of passenger cars, en-
ployed 1000 workers in August,
more than 100000 in excess of the
highest peactime rate.
A survey showed that employment
in the household refrigerator in
dustry, commercial refrigerator and
air conditioning and commercial
laundry equipment plants is about
normal. Employment in the house
hold washing machine industry is
about go per cent of normal be-
cause conversion is incomplete, but
the radio industry had 20 per cent
more on the payrolls than in peace
time.
Conversion of plants which had
made household oil burners, BIZ
cycles and household sewing ma
chimes was expected to be completed
within the next few months.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Anocostio Naval Flyer Killed
As Plane Crashes in MARYLAND
Machine Clips Trees,
ExpIodes as 1t Hits
Earth at CheItenhum

Ensign C. NJ O'Brien, 33-year-old
pilot stationed at the Anacostia
Naval Air Station, was killed in
stantly when his plane crashed yes
terday afternoon at Cheltenham,
near Brandywine, Md.
Prince Georges County police said
the plane clipped off two trees at
the edge of a woods and exploded
upon impact with the ground.
Ensign O'Brien was born in Wa
bash, Ind. He enlisted in the Navy
as an apprentice seaman in March,
1925, and was awarded his COM
mission while stationed here on
June Is, 1912. He came here from
duty at Pensacola, Fla, May 27,
1941.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mar
garet M. O'Brien and four children,
of 1925 B street NE, and a sister,
Mrs. Marie Albert, of Fort Wayne
Ind.
The body will be taken to New
York City, where funeral services
Evening star., 1942-10-20
|WPB Approves Plans
For Sponge Iron Plant
BY the Associated Presa

By the Associated Presse
Notice that the War Production
Board had cleared plans of the Re
public Steel Corp. to build s45O,O0
sponge iron plant at Youngstown,
Ohio, with a 100-ton daily capacity.
was handed a congressional COM
mittee today in the midst of it's
investigation of the sponge iron
question.
In a climax to a series of hear
ings before the House Merchant
Marine Subcommittee studying the
steel shortage, H. Leroy Whitney,
technical consultant to WPB Chair
man Donald Nelson. rose to an
nounce that the proposal was ap-
proved yesterday.
Financial arrangements remain to
be concluded with the defense plant
corporation, he explained, but he
said he expected no tie-up there.
For several weeks the committee
has been inquiring into the status of
sponge iron development, seeking to
establish its practicability and rea-
sons for what some members said
was an apparent lack of interest in
its possibilities.
Sponge iron was described by it's
advocates before the committee as
low-temperature process for re-
ducing iron ore, capable of utilizing
low-quality ore and avoiding the
necessity of scrap iron for Steel
production.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Patent Law Groups Urge
Davis for Supreme Court

Nomination OF William H. Davis,
chairman of the National Labor
Board to be associate justice of the
Supreme Court was urged at a
recent meeting of the American
Patent Law Association. Copies of
the resolution were sent to the
President and Attorney General.
The association said that in it's
Judgment" Mr.. Davis outstanding
ability as lawyer, his judicial
temperament, his wide experience in
matters of national Importance, his
broad views, and his knowledge of
issues such as are presented to the
Supreme Court, eminently qualify
him for the nomination"
A similar resolution was adopted
by the New York Patent Law AS
sociation, of which Mr.. Davis is a
member He is also member of
the American Patent Law Associa-
ton, :
Evening star., 1942-10-20
0'Conor Asks u. 5. Survey
Of Bay Oyster Resources
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS. Md, Oct. 20.-Gov.
O'Conor today wrote Secretary of the
Interior Ickes asking that the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service sur
vey the oyster production resources
of Chesapeake Bay.
Gov. O'conor said that the State
was unable to obtain expert per-
sonnel to do the job, and added that
such survey was indispensable to
the conservation work of the State
Department of Tidewater Fisheries.
He also asserted that the oyster
grounds in the Chesapeake are more
extensive and have more potential
value than those of any other single
region. With the food shortage ap-
pearing on several fronts, the Gov
ernor said the bay production has
potentialities Of even greater impor-
tance.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Norris Reelection Urged
In Senate for Third Time
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Reed, Republican of Kan
sas, appealed yesterday for the re-
election of Senator Norris, Independ-
ent of Nebraska.
1t was the third such appeal re-
Gently on the Senate floor Senators
Hatch, Democrat of New Mexico, and
Pepper, Democrat of Florida, have
spoken along similar lines.
Senator Reed said he ''unhesitat-
ingly" accorded to Senator Norris
"the distinction of being the most
useful public servant and the most
wholesome influence in our public
life for 40 years"
George Norris is our foremost
public servant of any party and in
any walk of life today" he declared.
Senator Reed said he was sure
that, If Senators were selected by the
Nation as a whole. Norris "by an
overwhelming, perhaps unanimous,
vote, would be continued in his men,
bership as long as he. lives and re-
tains. as he does now. his mental
and physical vigor."
Evening star., 1942-10-20
u. 5. Officials Confer
On Building CurtaiIment

BY tne Associated Press.
Congressional leaders and officials
of the Army, Navy and War Pro-
duction Board conferred at the Cap
itol yesterday on curtailment of
public and private construction.
Speaker Rayburn, in whose Office
the meeting was held, told reporters
the discussion centered around
policy matters and was not con-
nected with any legislation, either
pending or projected. He said a
formal announcement might be
forthcoming soon from the depart
ments represented.
At the meeting were Chairman
George of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, Chairman Donald M. Nelson
of the WPB. Undersecretary of War
Patterson, Undersecretary of the
Navy Forrestal, House Majority
Leader Mccormack and Republican
Leader Martin, Chairman Bland of
the House Merchant Marine Com
mittee and Chairman Mansfield of
the House Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Site Clearing TO Start
Tomorrow for 6. u.
Hospital Extension
Rozing Of ; Old Houses
Preeedes Building Of
15l-Bed Addition

Work of razing three old houses
to make way for a 151-bed extension
to Georgetown University Hospital,
one of series of local hospital ex-
pansion projects recently announced
by the Federal Works Agency, will
begin tomorrow.
Hospital officials said today they
still were moving equipment from
the buildings, located on Prospect
avenue between Thirty-ffth and
Thirty sixth streets NV, and that
they expected to empty the struc-
lures by tonight.
They added that they had been
informed by Commissioner Mason,
Who has taken a personal interest
IN the Georgetown project, that
workmen from the Hechinger Co.
would be on duty there by tomor-
row.
The three buildings will make way
Tor a three-story structure to be
used as quarters for internes and
nurses and as space for enlarge
ment of the hospitals clinics. FWA
officials reported that the new
structure, with only a few excep-
tions, would not require essential
materials.
The first floor is to be used as
an annex to the clinics and in
ternes and nurses will be housed
on the second and third floors.
This addition will permit re-
moval of nurse and inferno accom-
modations from the main hospital
The hospitals nurses training
school also is to be shifted from
the main building and will be
housed in the old Threlkeld School
nearby, which has been sold bv the
District to the Federal Govern
ment.
The price for this building was
S15, 500, the same as that offered
by the Capital Transit Co, some
time ago when it sought to buy the
property for transportation pur-
poses. Because of the demand for
hospital expansion, the transit firm
waived its claim to the property. >
Evening star., 1942-10-20
D. {. Virginia
Bus Lines Seek
FareEquaity
Burton Reveals ODT
Is in Charge Of
Rute Discussions

District and Virginia transporta-
tlon companies are endeavoring to
agree voluntarily on a joint rate of
fare for Government employees work.
ing in new Federal buildings in Ar
llngton County, it was revealed to-
day at an informal conference with
a special Senate subcommittee.
Senator Burton, Republican, of
Ohio, chairman, said the negotia-
tions are being directed by the
regional committee for the Office
of Defense Transportation, but the
details of the proposed rate were
not made public, pending further
discussions.
Situation Reviewed.
AS outlined to the Senate sub
committee today, the present situa-
ton is as follows:
Persons going to the Pentagon
War Department Building by way
OF Lincoln Memorial Circle paw 5
cents in addition to the District fare
of 10 cents cash, 8is cents token. or
pass.
Buses leaving from downtown ter
mlnals for Virginia charge a 10-cent
interstate fare in addition to one of
the three local rates
This means that if District tokens
are used the present fare by way of
Lincoln Memorial amounts to 13l,
cents, and on the downtown Vir-
glnia bus lines 1873 cents. 1t was
explained, however. that the. .down-
town Virginia buses also go to the
Navy annex building as we'll as the
Pentagon.
Burton Advocates Cooperation.
The subcommittee also was told
that some of the Virginia buses
starting from downtown already
have a round-trip rate of Is cents
for employees going to the Army Air
Force Building at Gravelly Point,
which Is beyond the Pentagon and
Navy Annex Buildings,
After tWo-hour discussion of
the whole problem, Senator Burton
adjourned the conference until Fri
Gay morning to enable all of the
companies to continue the volull-
tary effort to work out joint rates,
to permit a greater interchange of
the bus facilities of the District
and Virginia companies.
Senator Burton said it was for
tunate that the Metropolitan Area
has the ODT regional committee TO
tackle this problem and expressed
the hope the various companies
would continue to cooperate with
that committee and thereby avoid
the jurisdictional disputes that
would arise if solutions were sought
through the established regulatory
commissions.
Today's conference was the first
OF a series, at which Senator Burton
plans to take up separately different
phases of the subject Chairman
McCarran of the Senate District
Committee selected .Senator Burton
to direct the survey because of his
experience with municipal admins
tration as Mayor of Cleveland.
Differentials in rates OF fare for
those Federal workers whose offices
are now just across the District
boundary have been emphasized bv
the erection of the Pentagon and
Navy buildings. Other Government
bureaus have moved to Suitland. Md.
The subcommittee at later meet
ings will turn attention to &C
cldent prevention and traffic en-
glneerlng questions.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
a Star-Area Pictures
Exhibited in National
Winning Snapshots
First Prize of 81 500
Won by Corporal in
Military Class

Featured by the 81 500 prize win
ming photograph made by an Army
corporal and four pictures from this
area, all of which won awards, the
Eighth Annual Newspaper National
Snapshot Awards opened today at
the National Geographic Society,
Sixteenth and M streets NV.
The exhibition, containing 344 of
the best amateur photographs Sc
lected by SO newspapers scattered
all over the United States and Can
ada, will be free to the public from
10 am. to 10 pm. daily and on Sum-
days from II noon to 6 pm. On
week days there will be a showing
Of kodachrome motion pictures from
to 10 pm. Prizes awarded in the
contest totaled $12,500
The grand prize picture, by Corpl.
Kenneth C. Pratt of Northvale, N. j.,
shows two soldiers perched on a
snow-clad rock, silhouetted against
cloud-flecked sky. 1t took first
prize of $500 in the class for armed
forces exclusively and the $1,000
grand prize.
Four Star Entries Win Prizes.
All four entries from Washington
and vicinity sponsored by The Star
won cash prizes in the contest, in
which nationally known experts
acted as judges.
"Whiskers,' a closeup of a cats
head, won $50 for Harvey Colpe, 402
East Custic avenue, Alexandria, Va.
and an award of special merit"
This picture was considered in COM
petition for major prize
Honorable mention and S25 each
were awarded to the three other
entries by The Star, as follows:
"Optimist," a smiling baby face,
photographed by Harold Melnicove,
9701 Lawson place, Silver Spring,
Md.
Wondering Where" a young
woman with a censored letter from
which a section had been cut, look
ing over map of the world, made
by Martha H. Brown, 6720 North
Central avenue, Chevy Chase, Md.
Preserve What 1t Means" the
new Jefferson Memorial, by M. R.
Fernald, 1922 H street NV.
Other National Winners.
The first, second and third ma
tional winners were:
Class A, babies and children
First, C. R. Schlemmer. Lincoln,
Nebr.: second, Corpl D. Lasky,
Grand Rapids, Mich; third, M. R.
Allen, Hartford, Conn.
Glass B, young people and adults
First prize, Wilfred Belanger,
Montreal, Quebec; second, Fred
erick H. Cove, Concord, N. H.;
third, Laverne Frost, Crystal, Mich.
Glass c, scenes and still life
First prize, George Goodfellow,
Highspire, Pa; second, Bessie w.
Galloway. LAGRANGE, Ca; third,
Forrest R. Brauer, Richmond, Va.
Glass D, animals-First prize
Florence Higgins, Grangeville,
Idaho; second, G. Carter, Dallas
Center, Iowa; third, John P. Nc
Dermott, New York City.
Glass E, military-First prize
Corpl. Pratt; second, w. Kowal-
chik, Muskegon, Mich; third
Corpl. Tom Tsuda, Honolulu, Ha-
| Waii.
The judges were: Col o. NJ Sol
bert, U. S. A.; Eleanor Parke Gus
tbs, nationally known pictorialist
and exhibitor; DR.. Thomas w. Nc
! Knew, assistant secretary of the
National Geographic Society; John
S. Rowan, president of the Pho
tographers' Society of America, and
Kenneth Williams, director OF
Photographic studios, Eastman Ko-
dak Co.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
DR.. Brown Will Give
Series of Three Sermons

DR.. Charles R. Brown, dean emeri-
tus of the Yale Divinity School, will
give a series Of sermons at 8 O'Clock
tomorrow and Thursday nights in
the First Congregati Church
Tenth and G streets NV.
DR.. Brown will speak tonight on
The Main Source of Happiness. >
Tomorrow night he will discuss
Listening" and Thursday night he
will speak on Dreams Come True
DR. Brown, who is 80 years old. is
speaking to students at 80 colleges
and acadamies. A past moderator
of the Congregational Christian
Church, he is the author of more
than 30 volumes on religious topics
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Flood Sufferers Are Urged
To Report 10 Red Cross

Flood sufferers here are urged to
report their needs as soon as possi-
BILE to the District Chapter. Amer
ican Red Cross, which already is ex-
tending rehabilitation assistance to
u families struck by last week S
storm waters.
Registrations should be made at
the Palisades Field House, where re-
lief work is now being carried on for
the n families registered from the
Georgetown area. Mrs. Kathryn
Mitchell, home service secretary of
the chapter, is in charge.
Otto S. Lund. chapter manager
said that until the families return
to their homes they will be cared
for at the field house, where meals
are served by the Red Gross canteen
corps.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Longer Would Debate
Charges of Dishonesty
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senator LANCER. Republican, of
North Dakota, yesterday challenged
North Dakota's Governor, John
Moses. to series of debates on
Gov. Moses charges that there was
dishonesty during Senator Langer's s
administration as chief executive of
the State.
Come on, now. John, don't be
afraid" said Senator LANCER in a
telegram, later read to the Senate
Get on the platform with me face
to face before the people of our
State and produce your proof"
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Citizens Elect O'NeiII

George T. O'Neill has been elected
president of the Four Corners (Md)
Citizens Association to replace Wall
ter Miles, who was unable to accept
his recent election to that office.
Delegates from that association to
the Allied Civic Groups of Silver
Spring are Berry Clark. Ira e. Laws
and John Cowell.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Would Decorate Allies

A bill authorizing the President
to confer decorations and medals OH
units of, or persons serving with, the
military forces of co-belligerent ma
tions was introduced yesterday by
Representative May. Democrat. Of
Kentucky.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
796 Speeders Arrested

RICHMOND, Va. Oct. 20 tP.-
State police tagged 1876 motorists for
speeding, and careless and reckless
driving during the first week of the
enforcement of the new 25-mile- can
hour speed limit, Maj. c. W. Wood
son, jr., police superintendent, said
today.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
4 <
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WAR BONDS
Il 4

The handle talkie" is the new
est product of the Army Signal
Corps "a hand sending and
receiving set. compiled into a small,
extremely portable unit. The an
tenna telescopes into the back of
the set when it is off the air. 1t
Is called a transceiver.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Army Life Starts Tomorrow
For 81 D. T.. Se|ectees

Elghty-one colored registrants
from the District will report at 10
am. tomorrow at selective service
headquarters for assignment to
Army training camps.
The group was inducted October 7
ana given two-week furlough be-
fore reporting.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Missing Persons

| Those hauingo information
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
Nth the Public Relations SQUAD
OF the Police Department, Ma
tionai 1000.
Reginald 1. Smith, 81, 5 feet IL
inches, 225 pounds, blue eyes, brown
hair, wearing gray shirt, light
brown sport coat, dark blue trousers
and brown shoes; missing from 1889
Harrison street NV. since Friday.
Jeronimo C. Fallero. 20, l2G
pounds, missing from 1910 G street
NV. since October IL.
James Arthur Thomas, IL, colored
60 pounds, wearing brown suit, blue
jersey shirt, brown shoes and blue
socks: missing from 1887 Spring road
NV. since Wednesday.
Evening star., 1942-10-20

Our line of communications is one
of the most important divisions of
our fighting units. We need thou
sands of these small radio sets.
Your purchase of War bonds =.
at least 10 per cent of your income
every payday will enable us
to equip our boys with these new
units in radio communications.
Evening star., 1942-10-20

The men leav.
Tabbs, Augustus
Essex, H. A., jr.
Hough. c. C.
Scay. Charles, jr.
Booth, James E.
johnson. Jesse w.
Wales, Leroy
johnson. Radil
Whole. Ralph D.
Wa shington, J. B.
Swinton, Joseph
Smith, Joseph C.
Christian. Leon H.
Smith, Donald
Spriggs, Clarence :
jackson. Doctor
Black, James w.
1n0maS,. Roosevelt.
Hill, owen
Jones. Alfred
BranSon, James P.
1vey, Lee G.
Lewis. Albert w.
Mcdowell, w. C.
Bond, Theodore S.
Arnold, Eoyt
Rogers. James M.
Davis. Clifton
Friday, Jessie
Curry, Oscar
Hampton. James
Hood. william E.
Taylor. Rogers l..
Kelley, Toperese
Tibbs, Clarence w
Young. Sic, jr.
Cunningham. II. l.,
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Bland, Charles A.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-25
Joint Defense Plan
Prepared by Short

The commander in chief Of the
Pacific fleet from Feb. |. 1941
TO Dec. Il. 1871. was Admiral
Husband r. kummel. The com
18th naval district from
April il, 1910. 10 date is Rear
Admiral Claude {. Bloch.
The commanding general. Ha.
wsiisn department. from Feb 7
1871, 10 Dec. II, 1871. was Lieut.
Gen. Walter &. Short.
A local joint defense plan en-
titled Joint coastal frontier de-
Tense plan. Hawaiian coastal from
tier" was prepared by Genera
Short and Rear Admiral Bloch
the latter acting under the direc-
ton Of Admiral kimmet
y Zach commander adopted q
standing operating procedure, on
standing orders. 10 carry out his
under the joint agree
ment.
This Joint coastal frontier de
Tense plan was intended 10 become
operative upon order OF the wal
and navy departments or as agreed
upon by the local commanders IN
the case of an emergency. a threat
of hostile action, or the occur
renee ot-ikaT-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-25

Japan. At meetings Of the war
council the chief of staff and the
chief Of naval operations were also
present.
The Secretary Of State con-
Stantly kept the Secretary Of War
and the Secretary of the Navy
Informed of the progress Of the
negotiations. and all three Of these
Officials were cognizant of the
growing threat at hostllties and
of the military and naval needs
and measures consequent there
upon
The Secretaries Of War and
Navy were i'm constant touch with
the chief of staff and the chief
of naval operations. and impaired
TO them the information received
from the Secretary of State and
the results of their conferences
with him. -.