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Evening star., 1942-05-23
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. c. SATURDAY, NAY 49, 1sN
Approves
Shuttle Bus
.ToAr|ington
Transit Co. to Serve
New War Building
On Temporary Grant

Beginning Monday, the Capital
Transit Co. will inaugurate a tenn
porary shuttle bus service between
the District and the new War De-
partment Building in Arlington
County. Permanent arrangements
will await settlement of jurisdictional
issues and collection of more data.
For the time being the fare will be
5 cents, as proposed by the Capital
Transit Co.
Arrangements for the temorary
service were approved by both the
Interstate Commerce Commission
and the District Public Utilities
Commission late yesterday. In is
suing its order, the Utilities Commits
sion stipulated, however. that moth
ing herein shall be construed as
determination by this commission
that the temporary rate Of 5 cents Is
Just or reasonable, or that the buses
employed in this operation are be-
ing employed otherwise than as part
of the Capital Transit Co.'S trans
portation system in the District OF
Columbia"
30-Day Authority.
The I. C. C. order granted the
transit firm authority to operate a
shuttle bus service for 80 days.
hn i,1ricdicti0r, iCS1Ie
as to which regulatory body, or both.
has control over such service, the
I. c. c. said:
IN order to remove all doubt
about the lawfulness of its tthe shut
tie bus) operations under the Inter-
state Commerce Act. so that they
may be properly inaugurated," the
temporary permit was issued.
IF after investigation during that
time" the announcement said. 1T
appears that such operations do not
fall within any exemption from Part
2 of the act Motor Carrier Act OF
1885, the commission will give con-
sideration to extending the tempor-
ary authority granted for such period
of time as appears necessary and de-
sirable in the public interest"
Hearing Slated Monday.
The P. U. C. has scheduled public
hearing for 10 am. Monday on
routes. fares and service in connec-
ton with the War Building. In do
ing so. 1t indicated it should have
Jurisdiction over the entire service.
When the Capital Transit Co. re-
ceived notice of the hearing, it
promptly applied to the I. c. c. for
permit and one Utilities Commits
sion official charged this was an ef-
fort to escape its jurisdiction. lndl-
eating the Utilities Commission
might not approve a scent charge
for the shuttle service.
The Washington terminus Of the
line will be on the south side OF
Constitution avenue west Of Twenty
third street NV. The outbound
route will be south on TRenty-third
street, around Lincoln Memorial
Circle over Arlington Memorial
Bridge via Memorial avenue and to
the War Building by thG unnamed
heavy-duty highway east Of Airing
ton Ridge road. The inbound route
will be over the heavy-duty road to
Memorial avenue. across the bridge
to the first cloverleaf roadway Oh
Memorial Circle, thence on 1nde-
pendence avenue extended to the
torvo{po1 m, Constitution
Edward D. Merrill, president OF
the transit firm. said he planned to
put about 20 buses in service at the
start.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
Bishop Freeman Presides
AT Rededication Of Church
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, May 23.-
Saying the war is turning more
people back to God, the Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Bishop of WASH
ington, presided yesterday at re-
dedication of st. Andrews Protest.
ant Episcopal Church, four miles
south of here.
The services were attended by an
overflow crowd from Southern
Maryland, Washington and Vir-
ginia.
Exercises were opened by the Rev.
j. M. B. Woodrow, rector of st.
Andrews, which recently under
went extensive repairs that restored
the church to its Colonial glory"
Built in 1855, the church was at
tended by the late Gov. George
Platter of Maryland and numbers
among its heirlooms a silver holy
communion service said by the Rev
Mr.. woodrow to have been donated
by Queen Anne of England before
the Revolutionary War.
The edifice was praised by Bishop
Freeman as equaling in architecture
"the famed cathedrals of Europe"
Evening star., 1942-05-23
Mrs. Rathbone, U. 5. Born
Parliament Member, Wed
By the Associated Press.

koy lUc ASSOCldlcu fTeSS.
LONDON, May 23.-Mrs Beatrice
Clough Rathbone, a former Bos-
tonian and the second American
born woman member of the British
House of Commons, was married to-
day in Saint Faiths Chapel of West
minister Abbey to Capt. Paul Helve
Giraud Wright of the Kings Royal
Rifle Corps.
Capt. Wright is the son of Mrs
Richard Wright of Bassaleg, Mon
mouthshire.
The former Mrs. Rathbone's first
husband Flight 1t. John Rankin
Rathbone, a member of Parliament,
was killed in December, 1910. when
anti-aircraft fire brought down his
plane over Germany. She was elected
to the House as his conservative sue
cessor and became a member on
March 18. 1941.
She was born in New Haven,
Conn, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. Roland Clough, now of Boston.
Capt. Wright was friend of the
late r. A. F. officer.
United States Ambassador and
Mrs. John G. Winant were among
the guests.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
-Four More Auxiliary
Rdtioning Boards 10
Open Here Monday
Demands for Cos, Sueor.
Supplemental Supplies
Continue to Pour In

Four additional auxiliary ration
ing boards will be put in service
Monday, Whitney Leary, o. P. A.
agent for the District, announced to-
day as demands for sugar ration
books and supplemental gasoline ra-
tions continued to pour into the
eight boards now in operation.
Mr.. Leary said the three auxiliary
boards remaining to be established
will be ready sometime next week
Arrangements for their locations are
being made now
The new boards to be opened
Monday will have their headquar-
tiers at the following schools:
Jackson School, r street NV.
between Thirtieth and Thirty first
streets.
Brookland School, Tenth and
Monroe streets NE.
Langdon School. Twentieth and
Everts streets NE.
Brightwood School, Georgia ave-
nue.. just north of Peabody street
NV.
Well be able to give the public
better service when these boards
start functioning," Mr. Leary said
Disclosing that about one-fourth
of applications filed for additional
gasoline ration cards are being re-
jected, Mr.. Leary called on the
public to give careful consideration
to their essential requirements be-
fore making applications.
THE general public is being very
fair about this thing" Mr.. Leary
said, but there are some motorists
applying for supplemental cards
who are not entitled to them. 1t
will save boards a lot of trouble il
motorists first determine whether
they are eligible for extra cards"
Evening star., 1942-05-23
Fi|es-Remoya| Trial
Expected 10 Go 10 Jury
Early Next Week
One More Witness
Slated to Be Heard
At Monday Session

Additional testimony will be heard
Monday in the civil service files
trial, with closing arguments to the
District Court jury and the charge
of Justice James w. Morris expected
to follow shortly. Prospects are that
early next week the jury will get the
case of the five defendants, who are
charged with illegally removing
Civil Service Commission files con-
tanning personnel information.
A sister and brother of Lawrence
Lynford Haynes, a defendant, testi-
fed that his co-defendant, Miss
Katherine Kay, suspended Agricul-
ture Department employe, aided
their family materially and they
had asked her why she did not go
out and do something for herself.
The Government says that Lynford
Haynes, deceased father of the
Haynes children, operated Standard
Business Service. mailing g-list-com-
piling agency; that the civil service
files were taken to the firm and that
Miss Kay was the Office manager of
the concern, maintaining bank ac-
count in her own name for the Or
ganiza ton. The Government also
says that the names of Government
employees, obtained from the person.
mel records, were used for a mailing
list.
The Haynes children testifying
were Wallace NJ HAYNES and Mrs
Lynda Haynes Fowler. Lawrence
Haynes announced that he had an
other witness to put on the stand
when the case resumes on Monday
and Assistant United States Attor-
ney Charles B. Murray, prosecu-
tor, said that the Government rebut-
tai would take less than a half hour
Justice Morris, at the ending of
court late yesterday afternoon, an
nounced that he was anxious to
bring the lengthy trial-which goes
into its fourth week on Monday-to
a conclusion.
1t. Charles G. Duffy, United States
Naval Reserve, former Washington
Herald executive, denied he had
made disparaging remarks to Walter
August Caesar Camp and Werner
Julius Orbach, defendants, when
they went to see him at the news
paper Office The naval officer de-
MED that he had any prejudice
against any man because of his race.
The fifth defendant in the case is
Harlin william Crandall.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
10000 Will Enroll
For Draft Here in
1870 Registration
Only 20-Yeur-OIds
Will Be Available
For Immediate Duty

Approximately 10000 young men
of the District will be enrolled June
80 in the fifth registration under
selective service, local officials esti-
mated today.
The registration, proclaimed by
the President yesterday, will put an
estimated 100000 additional men
on the selective service rolls. OF
that number, more than 100000 20
year-olds will Immediately be avail
able for military service.
Ordered to report to registration
points on the last day of June be-
tween 7 am. and pm. are the
youths born on or after January l.,
1922, and on or before June 80, 1924.
This registration. in other words,
takes in the 18 and 19 year olds and
those who have turned 20 since De-
cember 81, 194l.
$50 Turn 20 Daily.
Since the age limits for military
service are 20 and A, only the 20
year-olds who register will imme-
diately be available for military
service, but it is estimated that $50
youths turn 20 every day and will
then be added to the pool of mill
tary man power.
On the basis of the July /. 194l,
registration of those who had be-
come 81 since October, 1910. local
officials estimated that 5000 youths
were in each of the leverage groups.
More than $500 men registered on
July l, 194l.
Selective service headquarters here
Immediately started making plans
for the registration. Last July,
American Legion members were reg
istrars, but, it was pointed out, this
is a much bigger enrolment job,
requiring about 1000 registrars.
Various plans for acquiring regis
trars were under consideration, in
cluding circularizing the teaching
personnel of the SCI ools for VOL
unteerS.
The June 80 registration, third en-
rollment in four months, completes
the rolls of those required to reg
lister under selective service. The
four previous registrations took care
of men 20 through "a years OF age
a total of nearly 100000 men.
Breaking Up Families Opposed.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, where
a bill to provide allotments from
soldiers pay and Government al
loWances to the families of service
men is pending, a majority OF the
Senate Military Affairs Committee
was reported yesterday to favor de-
ferment from military service on
the basis of family relationship.
Senators johnson of Colorado and
Lee of Oklahoma, Democrats, said
such a provision would be included
in the bill. The Selective Service
Act provides for financial respon-
sihility as the basis of deferment.
Family ties should be basis
for deferment," Senator Lee de-
clared. "A husband and father
should not be called until the supply
of single men is exhausted. We do
not want to break up home life un-
less we have to-"
The coming registration as well
as the younger men among those
who registered on February 16 will
provide a large pool of single men
on whom draft boards can draw in
filling their quotas. Men of the
February 16 registration have al
ready started going into the Army
from some communities and will be
included in the Districts June
quotas.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
more Crowding in Street Cars
Permitted Under Wartime Rule

Moved by the need for addi-
tional mass transportation for war
workers, the Public Utilities Com
mission has directed the Capital
Transit Co., to crowd more stand
ing passengers into streetcars dur
ing rush hours.
An order issued by the commits
sion effective Immediately reduced
from to square feet the amount
of space reserved for each standee.
The commission said the 7-square-
foot standard lis far more liberal
than the requirements in force in
most Jurisdictions throughout the
United States" and added:
The commission believes that
during the emergency, the service
Evening star., 1942-05-23
ST. Johns College Drill
Is Won by Company {

Company C of st. Johns College
marched through yesterdays rain
storms to win the schools annual
competitive drill on the Eilipse.
Company G. was second and
Company A third. The individual
competition was called off on &C
count of the bad weather and will
be held Monday.
Cadet Capt Robert J. Hayes was
commanding officer of the winning
unit and will receive the awards
later. The usual formal presenta-
tion was Cancelled because of the
rain.
Capt. B. P. Anderson and 1t,
Clyde P. Sirles of the 176th Infantry
were judges. The college R. o. T. C.
unit, established in 1912, is said to
be one of the first established in
private schools.
Evening star., 1942-05-23

standards applicable to streetcars
should be changed to the end that
fullest reasonable use can be made Of
these vehicles"
The new standard will apply to
rush hours, which the commission
identified as follows: 6 am. to $50
am. on week days, and pm. to Z
pm. on all week days except Satur-
day, when the afternoon rush period
is from noon to 7 pm.
A street car with 40 seats and a
standing area of ITO square feet may
carry a total of 81 passengers under
the new formula. AS another il
lustration, a 48-seater with 116
square feet Of standing space can
carry n passengers in all.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
81 Qualified Officer
Candidates Chosenfor
Quotas in Lottery
Men Cheer News Thut
Monthly Inductions
Will Be Doubled

Announcement that the Districts
quota of volunteer officer candidates
for the Army will be doubled for
May and June brought cheers and
applause from the "a men already
qualified who gathered at Weight
man School, Twenty-third and M
street NV. yesterday afternoon to
witness a lottery to determine the
order in which they will be called.
Immediately before the drawing
was held, William E. Leahy, District
director Of selective service, told the
candidates that information had
just been received from Sd Corps
Area headquarters announcing that
IA. instead of 7, will be the quota
for each of the two months, and
that these men will be called on
May % and June 3, respectively.
The lottery was conducted in the
basement of the building. with Com
missioner Young drawing the cap
suleS.
O. E. Lundquist First.
The first person whose name was
called was 25-year-old Oscar Ed
ward Lundquist, 1888 Franklin street
NE, passenger rate clerk in the Of
flee of the chief of transportation,
Services of Supply. War Depart
ment. He was called to the front
and congratulated by the CommiS-
sioner and others.
The other 13 men who will COM
pose the first quota from the Dis
trict are Stanley NJ Folkman, local
board No. 9; John A. Latimer. jr,
No. 2; Charles r. Rowel. No. 9;
Beverly S. Sims, No. 3; Harold K.
Brown, No. 9; Charles P. McKer-
nan, No. IA; Henry Thomas Lipman,
No. 2; Charles r. Brite, No. 10;
Paul w. Ream, No. IS; Salvatore j.
Mistretta, No. 8; George T..
Schwartz, No. 9; Thomas L. An
drews, No. 13, and Carrelton r. Hess,
No. II.
Those whose names were drawn
in the second group for call to
training June 3 follow:
Abraham Bernstein, No. 13;
Michael j. Walsh, No. 8: George M.
Whitley, No. %; Murray w. George,
No. g; Carl c. Cook, No. 1; George
A. McCafferty, No. l; Ernest M.
Filtner, No. 18; William F. Murray.
jr., No. IA; Richard C. King, No. s;
John W. Henderson, No. S; William
F. KoontZ, jr., No. 9; George w.
Huff, No. 2; John r. Billings, No. 4;
Charles B. Rovin, No. 8.
Other Six For July.
The other six men who were
among the "a qualified at Fort
Belvoir last month will be included
in the July quota, it was announced,
in the order in which they were
drawn, as follows:
Guy w. Bennett, jr., No. IT:
Robert D. Duncan, No. 2; Gene H.
Scullin. No. 13; Albert H. Pike, No.
/; Clifford R. Wood, No. 9, and
Charles T. Boggs, No. 8.
After the drawing, Commissioner
Young spoke briefly congratulating
the entire group and told them
you've got a future ahead Of you
and the District will be watching
you"
Before leaving the room, the can
didates were informed that they
would be sent written notice of the
hour and place at which they will
be expected to report They will be
sent to Fort Myer for induction and
to Camp Lee, Va, for training,
officers present told them.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
Steps Are Taken
To Ration Rail
And Bus Space
D. C.-to-New York
Pool of Service
Being Arranged

Preparations for rationing passen-
ger space on trains and buses
throughout the country were started
today with a survey by the Office of
Defense Transportation to be used
as basis for determining travel re-
quirements ana available facilities.
Meanwhile, WaShington-to- New
York bus lines were working out the
Government new plan of mileage
reduction by arranging to pool serv-
Ices, stagger schedules, interchange
tickets and eliminate certain dupli-
eating operations.
The survey of passenger services
will take in travel originating in
100 cities, including Washington.
The information, it was announced,
Will be used lin adjusting travel re-
qulrementS to the available supply
OF passenger transportation facili-
ties and services.
The canvass, to be carried out by
the rail and bus systems. will end
at midnight Thursday. Meanwhile
complete tabulation of intercity
tickets will be kept.
Joseph B. Eastman, director of
defense transportation, arranged
for a brief QUESTIONABLE. Passen-
gers will be asked the purpose of
the trip, occupation, mileage, dis
tance and how often they normally
travel. Mr.. Eastman estimated that
more than 10000 travellers would be
interviewed during the week.
Merger of bus facilities similar to
the plan approved for service be-
tween Washington and New York
probably will be effected in other
sections of the country.
New schedules for the Washing
ton-New York lines are being
printed, and agreements have been
reached on fares, ticket interchange
and pooling resources.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
Survey Slated on Curbs
Of U. S. Workers Leaves

The District Department of the
American Federation of Govern
ment Employees, at a meeting last
night, directed its Legislative Com
mittee to make a survey of recent
restrictions on annual leaves of
Federal workers to determine
whether they have been made in
accordance with law. The commit
tee, headed by Case March, will
report to the A. F. c. E. at its June
meeting.
President Harry j. Keller pre-
sided at the meeting, which was
held in the hearing room of the
Federal Power Commission.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
Beds Available
For Servicemen
Decrease Here
Nearly 300 Men
Nay Be Without
Places Tonight

Fewer beds than the average for
the last several weeks were available
for servicemen on leave here tonight
as the District Servicemens Lodging
Committee counted only 73l places
at agencies here and In the WASH
ington leave area in Arlington.
The Army leave area reported yes
terday that $50 cots would be avail
able for white enlisted men, and
perhaps 300 in pinch" Earlier
this month housing officials had
counted on 500 cots or better By
this time. but troops in transit con-
tinue to be billeted there, an officer
at the camp said yesterday following
the weekly meeting of the Lodging
Committee.
Based on the number of service
men requesting beds here last week
end, approximately 300 men may be
without accommodations tonight. A
Lodging Committee check showed
l ,024 men asked for a place to sleep
last Saturday and about TAO found
beds.
Problem Is Growing.
The housing problem for colored
soldiers continues to grow, T. j.
Anderson of Howard University
warned after reporting that the
citys only agency for these men,
Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A., had an
overflow registry Of IS men. Fifty
men were accommodated as usual
with cots, he said, while the other
IS slept on gym mats covered with
sheets.
Because of this situation the COM
mittee agreed to press the Federal
Security Agency for immediate reno
vation of the Banneker Field House,
where 100 colored servicemen are
expected to be accommodated. Some
fear was felt. however. that War
Production Board restrictions on all
but essential construction might de-
lay work on this project.
Comdr w. P. Corley, U. S. N. re-
tired, committee member, was ap-
pointed to take up the Banneker
matter with Federal officials as a
final move to alleviate this shortage.
Appeal to F. S. A. Planned.
Winfree johnson. another mem
ber, reported that the Fort Dupont
c. c. c. camp, which members con-
tinued to hope would help relieve
the shortage for white servicemen,
was being taken over by c. c. c.
men from nearby Maryland. and
that there appeared little prospect
of converting facilities that might
care for 300 men.
The committee voted to apply to
F. S. A. for a second appropriation
for purchase of 600 cots and bed
ding TO be held at a central place
for use when additional space is
available. The committee asked
the Government agency two weeks
ago for money for 140 cots.
Meanwhile. the committee was
still searching for enough ground to
pitch about so tents and cots re-
leased from the Government re-
Gently through the efforts of Mrs.
Roosevelt. Stumbling block here,
Hugo Wolter, committee chairman,
said, is providing proper water and
sewage facilities.
Grover Hartman, chairman Of
the Washington Federation Of
Churches Defense Commission, an
nounced that members of the
Fourth Presbyterian Church, Thir-
teenth and Fairmont streets NV,
had arranged to sleep 20 service
men in their homes this week end,
following church party.
Sole church now providing Sleep
ing quarters for men is All Souls
Unitarian where so cots are filled
each Saturday night.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
Mho1Yo~R'xWiA
WAR BONDS
l. -

The Garand semi-automatic rifle,
which is the standard issue today
for the United States Army, is su-
perior to the old Springfield rifle in
many respects. We literally need
millions of these fast shooting pow
erful rifles to equip our Army.
They cost S85 each and are being
manufactured at the rate of one a
minute. They fire so 30-caliber
shells minute.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
$500 in Hotel Box Stolen

Theft of $500 from q safety de-
posit box at the Harrington Hotel
Thursday was reported to police yes
terday by Augustus Gumpert, man
ager Of the hotel.
Evening star., 1942-05-23

Every one of the 40,000,000 en-
ployed persons in America could
easily buy one of these rifles for the
Army. Not that we need that many,
but the reserve could go into shells
and other much needed supplies.
Buy more and more War bonds and
top the quota in your county by in
vesting at least 10 per cent of your
income every payday.
Evening star., 1942-05-23

Buy bonds. Give up that trip you
had planned and give . bomber q
trip to Toxic.
Evening star., 1942-05-23

Why should your Uncle Sam have
to dun anybody to buy War bond
to help preserve the democratic way
Of living? Buy . bond as your own
expression of willingness to help.
Evening star., 1942-05-23

If you can't sleep at night-go out
and buy q bond.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-17

obtain any government business
for the contractor who gave ii TO
him.
In a report presented 10 the
Senate by Senator Carl A. Hatch
CD of New Mexico. the commit
tee absolved Chandler of charges
made by John Young Brown, his
opponent in the Kentucky Demo
cratic senatorial primary.
1t noted. however, that one Of
Browns charges - that Ben III.
Ceilings, the contractor. violated
priority regulations in construct
ing the pool had been turned
over 10 the War Production Board.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-17
Chandler OK.
Senate Report AbsoIves
Kentucky Legislator

WASHINGTON, July II (UP)
The Senate committee investi'
eating the war program reported
today that Senator A. 3. Chand.
Ier's $4,000 swimming pool
actually cost $500 and that il
had found no evidence he helped