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Evening star., 1942-05-04
Gen. Hines Pleads for Unity
At Legion's Memorial Rites
Seventh Annual Exercises Poy Tribute
To D. c. Heroes of World War

United war effort by the Ameri-
can people is the only method of
insuring quick victory and a lasting
peace, Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines,
Veterans Administrator. said yes
terday at the seventh annual COM
memorative exercises held by the
District American Legion and Aux
iliaries at the District World War
Memorial in Potomac Park.
Gen Hines address was the fea-
ture of a program which included
the placing of red poppy wreaths
in honor of District men who we're
killed in the World War; the dedi-
cation of a tree as a memorial to
Thomas Mason, past departmental
commander, and the singing of pa
triotic songs. Music was furnished
by the Marine Band.
Gen. Hines urged public support
of the Nations leaders in the prose-
cution of the war effort. These
leaders are in possession of military
facts not known to the public, and
their judgment will be patriotically
exercised, Gen. Hines SAID.
Foes Strength Stressed.
He warned several hundred man
and woman listeners that America
and the United Nations face the
most determined and best military
prepared enemies that lovers Of
liberty and democratic principles
have faced in the worlds history.
Reminding his audience that self
iShneSs and greed-the lust for
power and individual glory-have
shattered the peace of nations since
time immemorial, Gen. Hines said
those living today owe a debt of
gratitude to the honored dead who
made the supreme sacrifice that
others might enjoy peace and liberty.
This memorial Is a tribute to the
435 men and women of Washington
whose names are inscribed on it,
Gen. Hines said. "As we give
thanks that the global war has not
actually been brought to the Amer
ican mainland, let us be grateful to
our honored dead, and to those who
today proudly wear their country's
uniform and otherwise are assist
ing in the wars prosecution.
America didn't want war, but we
have war We must win and we
will win through the united effort
and spirit of the American people
Let us hasten the winning of the
war so that we may know the bless
ings of peace as quickly as possible
We don't know the sacrifices that
await us, but whatever we are
asked to do, liberty and freedom
Evening star., 1942-05-04

and respect for human dignity de-
mand that each of us support those
fighting and planning the country's
battles"
Exercises Are Simple.
The exercises were simple and i'm
pressive, in a setting shaded by
towering trees.
Haywood Saunders, Department
commander, presided. He pre-
sented Mrs. Margaret Carroll, de-
partment president: Richard A.
O'Brien, grand chef de gare, and
Mrs. Virginia Mccarthy, chapeau
departmental of the Eight and
Forty; Col. Henry Allen of Fort
Myer, representing the commanding
general there, and Legion Auxiliary
officials from New York.
The Marine Band gave a con-
cert for fifteen minutes. after which
group singing was led by James D.
Hayes and Miss Hilda Nelson.
Invocation was asked by the Rev.
Howard E. Snyder, Legion depart
ment chaplain.
Massing of the colors was an i'm
preSsive scene. The National Guard
of Honor marched to the memorial
and formed lines through which the
color bearers passed as the audi
ence rose in salute. The Marine
Band played the national anthem.
Mothers Take Part.
1xrs NHory r HiIIaan Dras;daof
of the Gold Star Mothers, placed a
gold star wreath on the memorial
in tribute to the honored dead.
The poppy professional then
formed, led by the Auxiliary Juniors
and Sons of the Legion Drum and
Bugle Corps. Ten young girls, five
approaching from either side of the
large white cross in front of the
memorial, placed ropes of red pop
pies on the cross.
Horace Lineburg, past department
commander, recited John McCrae's S
verse, In Flanders Field" as a tree
was dedicated to the memory of
Thomas Mason. Accepting the gift
on behalf of the National Park
Service, Donald McHenry said a
growing tree is symbolic of Amer
ica's strength and its desire to walk
along the path of honor and peace
Also participating in this ceremony
was Frank Griffin, Second Division
Post commander and Mrs. Dorothy
Hess, unit president.
The ceremonies were ended with
the singing by Miss Nelson of I'VE
Will Do 1t Again" Aud Lang
Syne," America" and the retiring
of the colorS.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Bishop Heads Group
Seeking Hospital Funds

Randolph G. Bishop yesterday was
elected president of the Board of
Trustees of the Suburban Hospital
Association at meeting of the
board at the Kenwood home of Lee
D. Butler.
The association is composed of
residents of the Bethesda Chevy
Chase area who seek Federal funds
for the erection of a 100-bed hos
pital to serve the two communities.
Other officers named were Paul
L. Banfield, vice president; William
N. Norell, secretary, and Mr. But
Ter, treasurer. The trustees will
serve until the annual meeting of
the association next April.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Virginia Tech Halves
Commencement Duys
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
BLACKSBURG, Va, May A
wartime program this year will limit
the 10th commencement at Virginia
Tech to two days, instead of four,
and will provide for an earlier grad
uation for the nearly 500 student
candidates for degrees.
The exercises this year, minus the
usual speech-making, will be held
May q and 30, DR.. Julian A. Bur-
russ, president, said.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Virginia Auto Tog
SuIes Fall 18 Per Cent
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va. May 4.-The
1912 sale of automobile tags in Vir-
ginia is 18 per cent below the 1941
record for the same period, C.. F..
Joyner, jr, assistant director of the
Division of Motor Vehicles, reports.
In the first As days of the current
sale period, 367,457 sets of tags were
delivered as compared with 452,830
for the same period last year.
Total paid in for the tags this year
was $5,1l0,324. This was S1,099, ,626
less than for the same period OF
1o41.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Three Navy Flyers Killed
In 7 Crashes Near Norfolk
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, May 1.-Two
Navy land planes crashed during
the week end near Wnitehurst Field,
carrying three Navy men to death.
the fifth naval district announced
last night.
The dead were listed as Harold
E. Bowers. aviation photographer.
first class, of Des Moines. Iowa,
and M. K. Wenc, aviation ordnance
man, third class of Saundersville,
Mass. killed Saturday, and Ensign
Paul Warren Monson, U. S. N. R.,
of Matoon, Ill, killed yesterday.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Prayers for Rain
Said in Forest Glen
Catholic Church

Catholics who attended two
early masses at st. Johns
Church, Forest Glen, Md. were
asked yesterday to pray for
rain.
Father Urban Abelman of
Capuchin College. Catholic
University, conducted the
services and made the request.
He said today that he supposed
many other priests and min
listers made similar requests,
because of the prolonged
drought, damaging crops and
threatening water supplies.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Rockville Luborer Killed

DR.. c. E. Hawks, Montgomery
County coroner, issued a certificate
of accidental death in the case OF
William Brown. IS, colored laborer
of Rockville. whose body was found
early yesterday beside the B. & O.
Railroad tracks near Rockville. Po-
lice said the man apparently had
been struck by a train.
Evening star., 1942-05-04
Murder in Alexandra

Alexandria police today held
Thomas Lipscomb, colored, 400 block
of First street, Alexandria, on a
charge of murder in connection with
the fatal shooting last night of
George Robinson, colored, HOO block
of Princess street.
Evening star., 1942-05-04

make more use of cover crops, such
as clover, which take nitrogen from
the atmosphere and transfer it to
the soil, it was explained. Planted
in the fall, these crops are plowed
under in the early spring.
Evening star., 1942-08-10

War bonds make bombers to bomb
the Axis and lower our taxes. why
not buy some and help yourself?
Evening star., 1942-08-10
FOUND.

BOOK OF DEFENSE STAMPS, on Petworth
bus line, Sunday. Call Emerson 4766.
GLASSES, gold rim in brown leather case;
vicinity 1920 9TH st. NV. Call RA. 65o2
GLASSES. presumably child's, found in
the vicinity OF 4th and Bryant SITS. ne.
Call LU. 1857. |
FOR lost stray or unwanted animals cal
Washington Animal Rescue League. North
$3.50. Four ambulance collections weekly
Please bring animals whenever poSSl0le
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Gripsho|m Arrives
Al Rio de Janeiro
With Americans
Extru Precautions Taken
By OfficioIs Against
Incursion Of Jops

fMar Hill OF Colorado Springs,
Colo, was the Associated Press
chief OF bureau in Toxic from
1910 until the outbreak OF the
War betWeen the United States
and Japan. He is being repatri-
ated NTH other North and South
Americans on the SDedish liner
Gripsholn,, Which arriDed at Rio
de Janeiro today
BY MAX HILL.
RIO DE JANE1RO, Brazil, Aug.
10.-United States authorities are
taking elaborate precautions to in
sure that japanese or Axis agents
are not introduced into the United
States aboard the repatriation liner
Gripsholm.
The strenuous efforts to check the
sympathies and leanings of all non
officials aboard is shown by. the pro-
vision requiring passengers to list
five native-born Americans who will
testify to their loyalty.
Extensive Questioning.
All passengers who are not United
States citizens also are being fin
gerprinted and questioned exten'
sively.
Reliable quarters said high Gov.
ernment officials feared that thu
drastic sweeping up of Japan's fifth
column in the United States soor
after the start of the war nigh
have resulted in an attempt to sent
fresh corps of agents via the Asam'
Maru and Conte VERGE, the liner
which brought us from Japan II
Portuguese East Africa, where VI
boarded the Gripsholm.
| Among the passengers were som
Nisei, United States-born japanese
and some Chinese who say they ar
pro- -Chungking.
Besides United States citizens
there also are number of Soutl
American diplomats.
Build Wooden Freighters.
When We left Japan it was re
ported the japanese were launchin
a new and rapidly expanding pro
gram of construction of woode
| freighters to replace their losses i
the South Seas and supplement a
already overburdened merchant ma
rine tonnage.
The program for wooden ships in
dicated the supply of iron and stet
was not sufficient for all currer
needs.
Yards for such ships were re
ported under construction not onl
in Japan but also in the Philippine
where renegade Chinese from Hon
Kong were said to be directir
activities.
Evening star., 1942-08-10

Corps. Grandson Gardner, lieu
tenant colonel, Air Corps; tempor-
ary colonel, Air Corps. Lester
Thomas Miller, lieutenant colonel,
Air Corps; temporary colonel, Air
Corps. Auby Casey Strickland, lieu
tenant colonel, Air Corps; tempor-
airy colonel, Air Corps. Edmund
Walton Hill, lieutenant colonel, Air
Corps; temporary colonel, Air
Corps. Joseph Leon Philips, lieu
tenant colonel, Cavalry. Frank
Augustus Keating, lieutenant colo
nel Infantry. Lowell Warde Rocks,
lieutenant colonel, Infantry. AL
bert Kualii Brickwood Lyman, Corps
of Engineers. James Kirk, Ord
nance Department. James Kerr
Grain, Ordnance Department.
John Elliott Wood, lieutenant col
onel, Corps of Engineers. Herbert
Daskum Gibson, lieutenant colonel
infantry. Edmund Bower Sebree
major, infantry. Joseph Nicholas
Dalton, lieutenant colonel, Adjutan1
Generals Department. Anthony
Clement McAuliffe, major, Field Ar
tillery. Elbridge Gerry Chapman
jr., lieutnent colonel, infantry
George Pierce Howall, major, in
fantry. Hugh Jaseph Gaf1ey, lieu
tenant colonel, field artillery. Regi
nald William Buzzell, infantry (Na
tional Guard of the United States)
Kenneth Frank Cramer, infantr.
(National Guard of the Unitet
States). Henry Cotheal Evans. flelt
artillery (National Guard of tn
United States. Alexander Gallatil
Paxton, field artillery (Nationa
Guard of the United States.
Nat Smith Perrine, Infantry (Na
tional Guard of the United States
Ralph Clifford Tobin, Coast Ar
tillery Corps tNational Guard O.
the United Stateso.>
Brigadier generals temporary
to be brigadier generals in th'
Marine Corps: Allen H. Turnage
Ralph J. Mitchell.
Colonels to be brigadier general
in the Marine Corps: Bennett Pur
year, jr.;; James L. Underhill. Kelle
E. Rockey, Matthew H. Kingmal
(retired list, Alphonse De Carre
Samuel l.. Howard, De Witt Peck
Archie F. Howard.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Auto Workers Back Murray
On JurisdictionaI Board
b the Associated Press.

b the ASSOCIATED Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10.-Establish-
ment of a national board, composed
of representatives of the two prin-
cipal labor organizations and a
third neutral member, to settle
union jurisdictional disputes, today
had the support of the CIO United
Automobile, Aircraft, Agricultural
Implement Workers Convention.
Some 1900 delegates at the
JAWS closing session yesterday ap-
proved a resolution indorsing the
proposal, which was outlined to
them last week by Philip Murray,
CIO president.
The resolution favoring the board
said. that jurisdictional disputes
"retard the war effort" and sug-
gested the membership Of the board
include one representative from
each the CIO and AFL and "a
third party mutually agreed upon.
William Green, AFL president
said that his international unions
had not empowered him to aid in
perfecting the proposed board but
he added he would act when such
power Is delegated to me-"
The 1o43 convention, to be helc
In October. was awarded to Denver
with Detroit designated as pos.
sible second choice in event condi.
tons prevent meeting in the Col.
orado city.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Lyric TeIegroms
as Delaying
War Messages
ey the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Aug. 10.-Telegraph
messengers should confine them
selves to delivering kilograms, not
singing them, says Joseph P. Selly
Furthermore, they shouldn't be
called on to take the dog out for a
walk or make a fourth at bridge
Mr.. Selly, who is president of the
American Communications Associ-
alton (CIO), demands the immedi-
ate elimination OF such services on
the ground they constitute serious
impediment to wartime communica-
tions.
The telegraph industry is wal
industry" he wrote in letter tc
Chairman Fly OF the Federal Com
munications Commission in which
he cited alleged instances Of off1cia
messages being delayed for many
hours.
over its circuits travel message:
which make possible our whole com
plex manufacturing and distributing
systems. No impediments should b'
permitted to hold telegraph oper'
ations during wartime below th'
maximum level of efficiency.
The most obvious impeachment Il
achievement of a maximum level o
efficiency for wartime communica
tions is continued handling OF fixed
test messages, dog walking, singing
kilograms and other non-essentia
services"
Both Western Union and Posta
Telegraph spokesmen, when ap
preached on the matter, said specia
services never were allowed to In
terfere with oficial messages.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Army Experts Perfect Technique to Get
Accurate Picture Of Soldiers Opinions

ington and taoulated electrically.
Then the results are transmitted to
the department making the request.
The question about athletics is an
illustration but not an actual in
stance. All the questionnaires and
what they are about are secret.
These probings of soldier opinion
come without any warning and are
finished as quickly as possible
usually in day or two in any one
camp-so that there will be no pos
sibility for soldiers to discuss ques-
tions in advance.
The success of the method. it Is
stressed, depends on convincing the
soldier not only of his anonymity
but also that this is serious business
and that his opinion will be re-
spected. The directors of the In
uuires do not resort TO funny OF
trick questions, and the dignity
necessary to Army discipline Is
never infringed upon.
Also, they point out, never Is II
their job to uncover cases OF wrong
doing. That is the job of the
inspector general of the Army, who
must use quite different technique
But it enables the Army authori.
ties to keep constantly before then
a fair cross section of soldier opin.
ion-instead of merely guessing al
it, as has been the case in the past
They get some big surprises from
time to time. And the men art
proud to have been chosen by 10
to take part in this characters
J tically American democratic process
Evening star., 1942-08-10
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.


What does he think of his food.
his clothes, his quarters, any one
of the thousands of things which
affect his daily life?
The Army has small group OF
experts with a special technique OF
mass mind reading to find out and
they already have learned a lot
which, in some cases, has led to
notable changes.
The technique developed by the
Special Service experts under Brig.
Gen. F. H. Osborn is modification
for military uses of that developed
in the past few years by psycholo-
gists and other experts on public
opinion and business research.
Rumor reaches headquarters, for
example, that there are complaints
about the athletic program. The
kicks" are vague and cannot easily
he localized.
A request is sent to the corps OF
experts in Washington. who must
find out what. if anything. is wrong
Questionnaire First Step.
| The first step is to draw up a ques-
tionnaire. 1t is taken up with two
or three OF the foremost experts In
the country. The art of making
such questionnaires has developed
greatly in the past decade. They
are aimed to get exactly the infor-
nation wanted without suggesting
any answers and, above all, without
exciting any emotions in the soldiers
/ Then it Is applied in represen'
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Promotions
Continued From First Page)

Division in France he was awarded
the Armys Distinguished Cross with
cluster, the Silver Star, the Purple
Heart and was cited by five foreign
countries.
Another prominent reservist pro-
NOTED is Col Joseph Wilson Byron
of Williamsport, Md. He will be the
new head of the Army Exchange
Service, succeeding Brig. Gen.
Isaac Spalding, assigned to a field
command.
Built Alaska Defenses.
A West Point graduate who re-
signed from the Army some years
ago, Col. Byron has been prominent
in banking circles and was an in
dustrial advisor to the National
Recovery Administration.
Col John R. Fitzpatrick OF the
Cavalry Reserve, also on the list, is
former president of the Madison
Square Garden Corp. in New York
City. He was a famous Yale foot
ball player and World War veteran
A National Guard Engineer Off
Ger, Col. Edwin Whiting Jones, ar
Alabaman, also was nominated fol
promotion.
The War Department said he ha:
been doing "a whale of a job II
the construction of the Alaskan de
fenses.
Col. Daniel Noce, who was an
nounced last week as commander o
the engineer amphibian command
one of the Army's newest comba
organizations, also was promoted t.
brigadier general. His home is a
Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Figurin
in recent dispatches from the Pa
cific Southwest was Col. Eugene
Eubank, an Air Force bombin
commander who was also promote
to brigadier general. His home
Port Arthur, Texas.
Col. Hays Promoted.
A Congressional Medal of Homo
recipient, Col. George P. Hays
Council Bluffs, Iowa, also was o
the promotion list. He will be
brigadier general.
His Congressional Medal wa
, awarded for extraordinary heroisl
/, as a field artillery of1icer during tn
!, Champagne offensive in the la
5 World War.
I Other Army ofiicers sent to tt
Evening star., 1942-08-10

onel, Infantry, John Russell Deane
lieutenant colonel, Infantry Will
liston Birkhimer Palmer (major,
Field Artillery John James Bohn
lieutenant colonel, Cavalry, Nor
rill Ross lieutenant colonel, Field
Artillery, Charles Love Mullins, jr.
lieutenant colonel, Infantry, How
ard Louis Pockham (major, Corps
of Engineers, Robert Horace Dun
lop (Adjutant Generals Depart
ment), Donald Armpriester Stroh
lieutenant colonel, Infantry, The
ron De Witt Weaver lieutenant
colonel, Corps of Engineers, George
David Shea lieutenant colonel,
Field Artillery, David Sheridan
Rumbough lieutenant colonel,
Field Artillery. Ray Wehnes Bar
ker CField Artillery, Allison Joseph
Barnett lieutenant colonel, In
fantry), Creswell Darlington Corps
of Engineers). Raymond Eccleston
| Serveira Williamson lieutenant
colonel, Cavalry.
Haywood Shepherd Hansell, jr.
| captain, Air Corps temporary lieu
tentant colonel, Air Corps; tempor-
airy lieutenant colonel, Army of the
United States Army of the United
States-Air Corps William Frazier
Tompkins lieutenant colonel, Corps
of Engineers; William Hesketh
lieutenant colonel, Coast Artillery
Corps; Jerry Vrchlicky Matejka
lieutenant colonel, Signal Corps;
Ray Edison Porter lieutenant col
onel, Infantry Albert Charles
Stanford lieutenant colonel, field
artillery; Claudius Miller Easley
lieutenant colonel, infantry; Ben
jamin Franklin Giles lieutenant
Colonel, Air Corps; temporary
colonel, Air Corps; Frank Watkins
Weed medical Corps, Edgar Lewis
Clewell lieutenant colonel, Signal
Corps: Archie Arlington Farmer
lieutenant colonel, Signal Corps !;
Fred Warde Llewellyn Judge Ad-
vocate Generals DEPARTMENT. Eu-
gene Lowry Eubank lieutenant
colonel, Air Corps; temporary
colonel, Air Corps Howard Arnold
Craig tmajor, Air Corps; temporary
) colonel, Air Corps.
Clements McMullen, lieutenant
colonel, Air Corps; temporary colo
l mel, Air Corps. Robert Gale Breene
!, lieutenant colonel, Air Corps; tenn
5 porary colonel Air Corps. Charles
= Carl Chauncy, lieutenant colonel
= Air Corps; temporary colonel, All
Evening star., 1942-08-10

tative area. First it is necessary to
get a representative sample Of the
soldiers. The diff1culty of doing
this has been one of the worst draw
backs to the QUESTIONABLE technique
among civilians who answer or not
as they please. In an Army camp
it is easy, although the method de-
pends somewhat on the questions
to be asked. The most frequent way
is to take every 10th name. These
are ordered to appear at a certain
time.
Officers stay out of the picture.
Most of the men write their answers,
Those unable to write are inter-
viewed by fellow enlisted men. There
is a group specially trained on the
spot for this work. Interviews, how
ever, are avoided as far as possible
The written replies are all anony-
nous. The soldier drops the COM
pleted QUESTIONABLE into box with
! all the secrecy of a ballot. He is
perfectly free to say anything he
wants to. Nobody ever will try te
trace back a questionnaire. The in
terest is entirely in mass opinion
not in what any individual may
think.
Up to the present, officers ir
charge of this service are convinced
SO per cent of the mary thousand:
of answers recorded have been hon.
est expressions of opinion. About
per cent have been frivolous-pos
sibly through misunderstanding O.
the technique.
The papers are brought to Wash
Evening star., 1942-08-10
u. 5. 10 Present Movie
On World al War
By MAX HILL.
Ry the Associated Press.

Ey the ASSOclateu freSs.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-The
United States Government is plan
ming to present its own motion
picture version of the war-a docu-
ment supplemented by German and
japanese propaganda movies that
missed their mark and wound up
in the hands of Uncle Sam.
The World at War;" a record OF
the decade that Pearl Harbor cli-
maxed-and of what was to come
will be presented by the Govern
ment in New York and Washington
premieres September and distrib-
uted to theaters throughout the
Nation starting September lS.
Five months of research and
preparation by the once of War
Information's motion picture unit
are represented in the Commute
feature which portrays the events
that swept the world into its great
est conflict
The movie is one of smashed
bodies and wild fights in the air
on land and water and of ruined
cities 1t shows starving, weary
people trudging away from bomb.
and bullets and leveled homes II
search of shelter that does no
exist.
1t begins at Pearl Harbor OF
December 7, l941, and goes bacl
to when a former house painte
> threw Germany's mechanical nigh
against Poland.
Many sequences have been show
in neWsreels. The rest were sen
here by the enemy to "enlighten
America before this country 60
into the war.