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Evening star., 1942-04-17
Nation Resents Capital Goyety
During Wa, Mrs. Roosevelt Says
White House Cleared; Legion Aides Suggestion
She Limit ToIks During War Will Be Ignored

People throughout the country
are resenting Washington's gayety
and feel that the type of social ac-
tivity that was legitimate in peace
time is not legitimate now. Mrs.
Roosevelt told her press conference
today.
Basing her report on the letters
she has received, Mrs. Roosevelt
promptly cleared the White House
of any charges Of gayety. The White
House, she said. hasn't had any en-
tertainment without a legitimate
reason or invited any persons who
weren't involved directly or indi-
rectly with the war.
She announced there would be
no large entertainments for the
President of Peru when he visits the
white House in May. and the South
American visitor will have to fall
into the routine of wartime White
House life.
Mrs. Roosevelt also discussed her
spring wardrobe, the possibility of
postwar pensions, the White
Houses adventure in gardening, the
draft, the plight of inexperienced
war workers, the rumor that she
was going to England as this coun-
try's Ambassador and American Le-
gion criticism of her activities.
No Big, Happy Family.
Apparently worried aubout the
Government girl and her problems.
Mrs. Roosevelt announced that she
had invited the wives of the heads
of expanding Federal agencies to
luncheon today to learn If the
agencies were doing all they can to
make life easier for new arrivals
and If what should be done is being
done.
She visiualized an information
set-up In the various agencies
where newcomers could get advice
Mrs. Roosevelt said she didn't be-
lieve it was possible for Government
workers to become one big, happy
family because the young people
would have to stand on their own
feet, but she believed things could
be made little easier for them.
Mrs. Roosevelt laughingly ap-
praised as 1t might be a good idea
she didn't know-the suggestion of
Jacok Ark, New York commander of
the Legion, that she contribute to
the national welfare by keeping
quiet for the duration on subjects
of which she knows little, If any
thing"
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Cross-Town Bus Line
Rerouting Plans
Put Before P. U.C.
Citizen Groups Offer
Variety Of Ideas on
Service Extension

A variety of plans for rerouting
bus lines in the Northeast area, in
connection with the proposed ex-
tension of the new cross-town bus
line to BladenSburg road, were laid
before the Public Utilities Com
mission today at a continuation of
its hearing.
Different plans from that advo-
Gated by Fred A. Sager, chief en-
gineer of the commission, were pre-
sented by John l.. Fowler, for the
Rhode Island Avenue Citizens Asso-
citation; L. M. Green, for the Ma
tionaI Gateway Citizens Associa-
ton, and A. D. Calvert of the Lin
coin Park Citizens Association
Witnesses were cross-examined by
Kenneth P. Armstrong, civic leader
and Nathan Lubar, chairman of
the Steering Committee for the
CrosS-town Bus Line. Mr.. Lubar is
supporting the Sager plan.
Briefly, the Sager plan is to ex-
tend the crosstown bus line from It's
present eastern terminus at Seventh
and Monroe streets NE, east to
Bladensburg road via Monroe street
and South Dakota avenue; estab-
lishment of feeder bus line to run
from Eastern avenue and Twenty
second streets to a loop in the Lang
don area reaching Twentieth and
Evarts streets NV. and establish
ment of another feeder line from
Twelfth street and South Dakota
avenue to Bladensburg road, which
would cross Monroe street at
Twelfth street, and Rhode Island
avenue at Fourteenth street.
The hearing recessed shortly after
noon to meet again Monday morn
ing.
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Adventist Medical Corps
Gets $l00 From Nurses

A 500 purse raised by nurses of
the Washington Sanitarium and
Hospital Nurses Alumnae ASSoci-
alton was presented to the Seventh
Day Adventist Medical Cadet Corps
Reserve last night,
The money was presented at an
informal ceremony by Mrs. Jean
Tobias, president of the association
and Mrs. Olga Lindsay. treasurer.
1t was accepted by E. H. Shull
finance and supply officer of the
Cadet Corps. who said it was the
largest gift the corps had received.
First-sid equipment will be bought
with the funds, Montgomery County
civilian defense officials plan to use
the corps as a mobile unit for duty
in the Washington suburban area, it
was reported,
Evening star., 1942-04-17

She said she had no plans along
that line, adding that her schedule
for the next two weeks includes at
least six speeches and discussions
in Washington, New York and Nash
vile In addition TO a press confer
ence.
Speech Made at Wellesley.
Mr.. Ark's comment, made in Buff
falo, N. Y, was based on a speech
Mrs. Roosevelt made at Wellesley
College the last of March. She re-
pested today it had been misunder-
stood possibly through an unfortu-
nate choice of words.
Mrs. Roosevelt declared she never
said as repeated by Mr.. Ark. that
the men who came back from the
last war, in a sense, were responsible
for this war.
Speaking slowly and emphatically,
she declared that she did not attack
the Legion, but was trying to make
the civilian population understand
that they have a responsibility to
those who are away fighting and
that that responsibility is to make
it a better world for them to re-
turn to.
Mrs. Roosevelt sent to the Execu-
tive Offices for letter which she
read to reporters from Oswald Ryan,
a past National Legion commander,
who wrote that he had been in the
audience at the time of her speech
at wellesley and that he wanted
to say she was being misunderstood
and unjustly criticized. The letter
was written to Stephen Early, a
presidential secretary.
Likes New Apartment.
On the question of pensions she
declared there would always have to
be pensions after war.
Mrs. Roosevelt said she believed
her spring wardrobe would conform
to War Production Board specifica-
tions. The wardrobe consists of two
dresses. a coat and suit, none of
which has unnecessary pocket flaps
frowned on by w. p. B.
She said the suggestion that she
become Ambassador to Britain had
not reached her, that the White
House was getting advice from the
Department of Agriculture before
embarking on garden, and that
she finds her new apartment in
New York very simple and COM
Portable.
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Hundreds Fail 10 Get
7th St. SAVINGS Dividends

Warning that the receivership of
the Seventh Street Savings Bank
would be closed in about three
weeks, Justice S. Wardell, receiver,
today. said hundreds of depositors
have failed to call for their final
dividend checks.
Depositors can get their checks at
the office of the receiver. 1929 street
NV, within the next two or three
weeks. Afater that all accounts will
be turned over to the Office OF the
Controller of the Currency.
Mr.. Wardell is also working on
the affairs of the District National
Bank, the receivership of which is
to be closed this year. No infor-.
nation is available as to when the
final dividend will be paid, but 1t is
hoped that total dividends will reach
100 per cent.
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Chinese War Film
Shown at Press Club

Motion pictures depicting China's S
dogged struggle against the Japa-
ness invaders we're presented last
night in the auditorium of the Ma
tional Press Club as benefit show
ing for United China Relief.
The audience was greeted by DR..
Kim Wei Shaw. secretary general
of the Chinese American Institute
for Cultural Relations. and T. Y. Lo,
vice president of the China Motion
Picture Corp. of Chungking, whose
wife played a featured role in one
OF the films, Fight to the Last"
Wilfred Fleisher, a Washington
correspondent of the New York Her
aid Tribune, spoke briefly, predicting
an eventual clash between the jap
anese and Soviet armed forces.
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Administrator Urged
For Tax ApproisuIs

The District Commissioners late
yesterday requested Congress TO
abolish the Board of Personal Tax
Appraisers and to turn over the
work of making appraisals for per-
sonal property taxes TO an ADMIN
istrator to work under Tax Assessor
Edward A. Dent.
In the letter Of transmittal of
the proposed legislation, Mr.. Dent
said: Il am strongly of the opinion
that the administration Of the per-
sonal property tax division could
be made more effective anc oper-
ated more efficiently under the
guidance of an administrator rather
than under the present board
system"
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Agriculture Workers
Give Blood for War Use

Twenty employees of the Agricul-
ture Department took their lunch
hour today to donate their blood
at the District Red Cross blood
donor center, Twenty-third and C
streets NV, as their home" part
in aiding the armed forces of the
United States and the civilian war
victims.
This blood donation is part of a
regular Friday program of the
United Federal Workers of America
to help the United Nations win the
war.
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Electric Heating Pad
Output to Halt June 30

RS the Associated Press.
The War Production Board yester-
day ordered manufacture of electric
heating pads halted on June 30.
Producers now are operating un-
der curtailment program permit
ting them to make so per cent Of
the home-type pads produced in
1910 and an amount Of hospital type
equal TO the iS4o output.
Evening star., 1942-04-17

thoroughfare. The Suitland area
long has been under consideration
as a housing site in view of the
office buildings that are to be erect
ed in that suburb.
Planning oticials said the pro-
posed site near the Municipal Cen
ter is conditional upon approval by
the District Commissioner
Evening star., 1942-04-17
For q Stronger America
StFon9eT
D. C.. Budget May Include Fund
For School Health Program
House Subcommittee Asks Supt BoIIou
To Estimate Cost of Physical Troinine
(Ttoenty-ninth OF a Series }
BY JOHN w. THOMPSON. Jr.

aocaed in the l943 District budget to increase
the physical training in the public schools in line with
the War and Navy Departments to the schools and
colleges the Nation increase the physical fitness of its youth
After hearing testimony of school officials yesterday the
expanded program Chairman Mahon of the District
Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee said his
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Weekly Dances PIonned

Beginning tonight. st. Dominic's
Parish, Sixth and F streets S.W., will
sponsor weekly Friday night dances.
A popular orchestra has been OBJ
tanned and q new floor has been laid
In the hall.
Evening star., 1942-04-17

Robert Bernard Brown. Is, 5 feet
q inches, iS4 pounds, brown eyes,
dark-brown hair. burn scar on left
hand; wearing dark-blue trousers,
black shoes, blue and white striped
shirt, brown and green sweater, tan
jacket; missing from 1900 Fourth
street S,W. since Wednesday.
Thomas Tomlin. ID, 5 feet s
inches, lao pounds, brown eyes. black
hair; wearing tan lumberjacket, blue
trousers. white shirt; missing from
2l6 Indiana avenue NV. since yes
terday.
Berniee Smith, IS. colored: S feet
] inch, 100 pounds; missing from ASS
u street NV. since last Friday.
Evening star., 1942-04-17
Missing Persons

Those harino information
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
tpith the Public Relations Squad
OF the Police Department, Ma
ftonoi 1000.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-04-02

every car ordered for troop move
ments.
BITS O. BUSINESS-Philip X.
Wrigley expects there'll be 20 per
cent less chewing gum this year than
last. on account Of the sugar prob
lem Industrial users of sweet
enings who have restored to honey,
have been ordered by WPB not to
exceed their 1941 use of it - that
type of demand was beginning to
cut into the supply available for
household and other established hon
ey uses The ice industry is
figuring its "comback" considerably
this summer, with mechanical re-
f~rigerator production halted - is GO
ing to spend three times as much on
advertising Prunes are much
in demand by a sugar-economizing
public-they're highly nutritive, and
contain their own sugar; CALIFORNIA;
shipments of them r up Is per
cent.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-04-02
BiIbo On Sheffield;
New Congress Needed?

On February 28th a letter to the Memphis
Commercial Appeal, from John c.. Sheffield,
Helena, Arkansas World War veteran and
practicing attorney, was printed on the front
page of that paper.
That letter contained sentiments express
sed frequently in these columns for weeks
before February 28th. We believe those
sentiments express the will of the majority
Of the American people.
From Mr.. Sheffield's letter we quote:
"Is it the idea of our Government that it is
more important to preserve labor unions than
it is to preserve the American union? Why
can't a freeborn American citizen get a job
in a plant where the Government needs
workers without having to pay tribute to a
high-powered labor leader?
IF our sons are to be drafted to give their
lives for their country, why should not Labor
and Capital be drafted to supply them with
munitions of war? Why should Congress,
which has the power to make laws, be so
tender of the regard for laborers and mana
cement who work and prosper in safety
while having an utter disregard for the lives
of the boys at the front?
I'VE don't like it, and we don't mind say
ing so right out loud. Maybe it is time we
were electing some senators and congress
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-04-02
men who will crack down and compel Car

men who will crack down and compel Car
ital and Labor 10 get into this war. Ands
come to thing of 1t, this is election year, and
we might as Vii get ba3y while we hava
the time and orportunitys.
Congressman theodore G.. Bilbo in a lettea
to a Mississippi constituent had this to san
about the Sheffield letter:
Il note the John C.. Sheffield letter to
the Republican Scrip-Howard Commercial
paper. The Congress is talking of an inves4
tigation of what is believed to be fifth coll
umn propaganda responsible for the dis
tribution of such dope throughout the coun-
try to bring about disunity and dissatisfac
ton among the people for the benefit of the
Germans and Japs.
Sheffield is a good-meaning man in this
case but he has not got the whole picture.
before him. | do not hesitate to tell you that
if we would follow the suggestions made by
his letter the whole War production program
would be stopped in all probability almost
over night. AS you know most of labor is or
ganized and if we cracked down on them as
he suggests there j. nothing that would keep
the whole organized labor from walking out
and we would be in a devil of a fix"
Can it be possible that the President of.
the United States and his administrator are
admitting they have allowed one organized
group in this country to become more inn
portant than the government itself? More
important than the very life of this nation
More important than the lives of our brave
men in our armed forces?
1t is tragic to think that our Congress has
gone to sleep so completely during these
past few years; that our Congressman have,
without stint and without question, turned
over the treasury of this country and prac-
tically all their powers to any one man OF a
group of men who have allowed this ter
rible situation to develop.
Surely the appeasement of any one group
in America can't be as important as the con-
tinued existence of the nation itself. Ger
tainly the advantages gained by organized
labor will be lost if America loses the war
in which we are engaged. We must not let
that happen.
If our Congress is afraid to exact sacrl-
flee from organized labor, as it appears to
be, then Mr.. Sheffield's suggestion Of gett-
ing a new congress seems to be very sound
and opportune.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-04-02
BEHIND THE SCENES IN
AMERICAN BUSINESS
BY John Craddock

NEW YORK, March 3o-UPTURN
Production is climbing, again.
Maybe you didn't know it had eve11
paused, but there was a period re-
cently-right after the auto industry
pulled up its assembly lines by the
roots and swung 100 per cen to war
production-when the nations total
employment, payrolls ad industrial
output showed signs of sagging. But
actually the low point Of that par
ticular-and biggest - conversion
was reached and passed almost be-
fore even the economic pulsetakers
could notice it. The index kept by
Business Week magazine hit an all
time high of 175.2-which is Is
ner cen higher than at the same
time (mid-March) last year, and Q
full 40 per cent higher than for
the best week Of 1897 =. Don't
look for unbroken line Of continu-
ing gains, though, for the "full-stop'
stages Of other civilian industries
tradios, re~frigerators, etc. upeom-
ing soon will be detracting factors
in the upward-curving graph Of total
industrial output.
ITP-OFFS ON THE TINES -
Safety razor users will have to get
along on n blade a week Tin 194l
three billion blades were produced)
so right away there was a small
stampede for blades in New York,
sales jumping 20 per cent overnight
General Motors sales in l94l
set in all-time high of $4,000, 000,-
600, a gain of 1873 per cent over
1870; at the same time, deliveries
Of war materials quardrupled, reach
ing a total of $406, 0o0. 900 u942's
total will dwarf that) -. All profits
from operation of a huge new NUM-
tons firm now a-building in the mid
west. to be operated by a subsidiary
of Johnson and Johnson, the surgical
supply folks, will go to the Army
Emergency Relief Fund, announces
Robert w. Johnson Menthol al
ways was imported from China and
Iaran. but no more. Domestic pep
permint oil may come to the rescue,
for Wick Chemical company has
placed an education" order with an
essential oil refiner for menthol ex-
tracted from peppermint oil a.
bout so per cent of which comes
from northern Indiana and south
ern Michigan.
CHANGE OF PACE-War-hit au-
to dealers are going in for CONVEX
too. They're opening skating
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-04-02

tary use, the War Department told
canners it will pay higher prices for
the pack of those agreeing to guar
antee fixed minimum prices to the
grower. The Agriculture Department
said it will continue to support mar
ket prices for designated types of
1941 crop dry edible beans.
Aliens and Disloyal Citizens
Attorney General Biddle report
ed the Justice Department will start
proceedings in 80 or 40 cases, and
later on 'hundreds more to de-
w~aturalize disloyal foreign-born citi-
zens, particularly members of the
German American Bund. The war
relocation authority said the first
large-scaIe relocation of 10000 al
len and citizen Japanese residents
from west coast military areas will
be established on the Colorado
River Indian reservation, Parker,
Ariz.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-04-02
LEGAL NOTICES
Advertisement for Bids

Sealed bids will be received by
the Mayor and Aldermen, City Of
Durant, Mississippi, until 2 o'clock
pm, April 81, 1912, for material
and work required in the Elemen-
tary School Building for a Heating
System, Toilet" Doors, Wardrobe
Hardware, Asphalt Tile Floors and
Drinking Fountain Backs. All a.
corcing to plans and specifications
and other documents prepared by n.
w. Overstreet, Architect, JEkson,
Mississippi. A copy of which is on
file in the Town Clerks Office.
MAYOR and ALDERMEN,
City Of Durant
Durant, Mississippi.
BY Mrs. C. w. C~resswell,
9ity Clerk, Durant, Miss.
A 2 3 t
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-04-02

Kinks and bowling alleys, insurance
agencies, selling bicycles and scoot-
ers, fertilizers, jewelry. A big beer
company and a big feed company
each have courted the dealers with
offers. One former auto maker, Will
lys-O Overland, has gone ahead and
acted as intermediary between dea-
lers and one Of the largest window
shade firms in the country, arrang-
ing for ~dealerships for blackout
shades and other civilian defense
supplies. The program evolved as
one result Of the ,rompany's survey
Of the nations dealer shops which
showed, among other things, that
Sc per cent Of the dealers respond
ing were eager to take on new lines,
preferably Of defense items, and had
ideal floor and display facilities. J.
w. Frazer, WHY'S president, is now
supervising assigning of territories
for exclusive distribution rights on
the shades, which are OCD approved
and recommended for blaeking out
factories, homes, schools and other
buildings.
THINGS TO WATCH FOR -
A new washable wallpaper that has
"a Celanese fabric face, but can be
applied to walls with ordinary paper
hanging paste -. Also 3 new wall
board keystone Asphalt Products)
developed to help offset the war
caused pinch in certain fibre boards
A portable airplane hanger
which can. be folded up quickly and
moved to another airport . Signs
on cash registers saying: Take Part
of Your Change in Defense Stamps"
(and why not?) -. A device that
automatically makes a cars horn
blow when the tires are tempered
with.
TROOPS ON THE MOVE-Uncle
Sans soldiers are getting around
these days. As an indication of the
magnitude Of this job take a look at
the record of the past year. There
were l,957,200 u. S. soldiers ar
ried in specially assigned sleeping
cars during 1e4l. according to David
A. Crawford, president, + the Pull
mar Company, and each a travel
ed an average distance of 1900
miles. Crawford recalled that many
times during 1941 it was reported
that the Nazis had to cancel all civil
liam railroad accommodations in or
der TO move troops from one n
of Germany to another. while Am
erican troop movements have been
effected without disrupting normal
civilian passenger service. He re-
ported that at times during the year
as much as one-third of Pullman's
entire sleeping car fleet of about
1000 has been employed in troop
but that the company wa.
able. to supply. on the spo, and date,
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-04-02
A WEEK OF
THE WAR
Continued from page one)

users April 20 and 90, and of indi-
vidual May 4 through May
7. T1e Office released for rationing
beginning April 13 more than lOO,-
900 new .ypewr:ters now III the hands
Of Distributors, Wholesalers and
Dealers.
Ap ! quotas for tires provide 1922
600 new tires and 100000 recapped
tires fer essential passenger cars
and motorcycles, 275,00O new tires
and 100000 recapp,d for trucks,
and a limited number of recapped
tires for War Workers, Taxicabs,
Farmers, Statesmen and Government
Agencies. The OPA released for
rationing several classes Of higher
priced cars and those ordered by
State and local agencies during 1941.
The Office of Defense Transporta-
ton will ration ~ambulances, hearses
and station wagons.
Civilian Defense
The President signed a bill pro-
viding Federal insurance for homes,
factories and farms damaged by
enemy action. Civilian Defense Dir
ector Lands said establishment Of
first-aid supply centers which dupli-
cate equipment already existing in
the OCD emergency medical service
threatens to cause a serious shortage
Of medical essentials. The OCD said
an air raid siren that could efficient
ly serve an area Of eight to 10 square
miles will be in production soon and
might cost as little as $500.
Army Progress
All U. s. Army Air Stations, ex-
cept those at certain stragetic points
on the west coast, will hold oPeK
house on Army day, April 6 air for
ces Commander Arnold said. Late
model fighter planes and bombers
will be placed or exhibit and air
force activities will be explained to
visitors. Congress completed action
on legislation which will enable ap-
proximately 10000 Americans in
Canadian and British forces to re-
gain their citizenship and be trans
ferred to the u. S. Army.
The House passed and sent to the
Senate an SIS billion war appropria-
ton bill including 81 billion for
$1,000 airplanes and their equipment
War Secretary Stimson said. the ar
my plans to induct 175,00O negro
selectees this year. He said plastic
fuzes will replace the standard alu-
minum fuzes for trench mortars,
thus freeing tons of aluminium and
many machine tools for other pro-
duction. Army sugeon General Ma
gee listed manly physical defects no
longer considered a barrier for
limited service for officers Of the
army supply arms and services.
The War Front
The Army and Navy announced
the Navy has been given full COM
mand over all anti-submarine activi-
ties on both coasts, and army air
units have been allocated to the naval
commanders of sea frontiers. The