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Evening star., 1942-01-01

we'll as by blast and fragments
and require extensive protective
measures. The type of protection
to be used will be determined by
individual requirements. Sky
lights may be painted black for
blackout purposes and the glass
may be supported by wire mesh
attached close underneath, or the
skylight may be covered with
boards.
A sandbag barricade over a
store front not only deteriorates
quickly, but also sandbag ma
terials are becoming scarce. II
sandbags are used boards should
be placed over the window before
the barricade is erected and a
covering should be placed over
the finished barricade to protect
it against bad weather.
Board walls are considered
worthwhile for shop fronts. This
method calls for covering or re-
placing large areas of the glass
with onc-inch boarding in which
small windows with hinged shut
ters are provided to allow for
display ard to admit daylight.
To@";oTrcU: II you liue in an
apartment.
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weighed 400 pounds. The tanks
kept rolling by. There was some
thing uncanny about the way the
monsters showed up whenever I was
abreast of briar patch.
After crawling, fighting and
bouncing over hill and dale for some
time, we achieved our objective. The
lieutenant gave us a little speech.
"You men did very well in taking
cover. II you had been in your cd.
uniforms, don't believe I could have
seen you"
The lieutenant was a youngster
and earnest.
Learning to take cover is very
important. I have been told-of
course, 1 don't know of my own
experience, because I wasn't there
that in one battle of the World War
5000 American soldiers were killed
needlessly because they didn't
known how to take cover properly ,
There was an impressive silence
Then some one spoke up.
Say, lieutenant, where are we
supposed to get those Molotov cock
tails?"
I can't remember what the
lieutenant told him, because wasn't
much interested IN that point. AL
I wanted to know was where coulc
I get a pair of tweezers.
Evening star., 1942-01-01

feet of my own epidermis dangling
on the fence.
Wins a Wound Stripe.
I. was following my corporal
through the woods. He would take
tree. then run a few yards to the
next bit of cover. I did the same
and I was getting along all right.
I had just started for clump Of
bushes when I heard the whistle
blast twice. Without further ado,
I took a dive for the bushes-a good,
deep dive. Naturally, the bushes
turned out to be blackberries. I
emerged with numerous lacerations.
We went along for a few more
minutes and just as was approach
ing holly tree, another tank came
by. This time, I didn't dive in
such a hurry. I was looking around
for a better ole when a sergeant
behind me yelled:
Hit the ground, fatty"
I did. I lay in the shade OF the
old holly tree for some time, think
ing of those Indian fakirs and their
beds of nails When I arose, you
couldn't have told me from a Christ
mas wreath-including red berries
in my ears.
Ho! For . Pair Of TweesefS. ~
For some reason, this skirmish
was being fought uphill. I felt like
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Free Milk Program
In Public Schools
To Begin Monday
30,035 Half Pints
To Be Distributed
To Pupils Daily

District school children in "a
public and parochial schools will
receive free milk each day beginning
Monday following an Agriculture
Department announcement yester-
day that the Surplus Marketing Ad-
ministration had accepted the bids
Of three local dairies.
A maximum daily total of 30035
half pints of milk will be supplied
the schools and seven settlement
houses by Wakefield Dairy, Thomp-
sons Dairy and Embassy Fairfax
Dairy, Inc.
Under the so-called penny milk
program" school authorities will
pay l cent half pint for the milk
with Surplus Marketing Admins
tration making up the difference of
the amount paid the dairies. Chill
dren will be given the milk without
charge.
The administration rejected con-
tract BIDS on December 26 as too
high and asked dairies to submit
new figures for supplying the low
cost milk. Yesterdays announce
ment paved the way for the program
which has been timed for the OPEN
ing of schools after the holidays.
Accepted bids, according to the
administration, averaged about 167
cents per half pint as compared with
the December 26 range of bids from
1.96 to 81 cents.
Public schools included in the pro-
gram are Addison, Curtis, Hyde,
Thomson, Bowen, Greenleaf, Fair
brother, Amidon, Wallach, Crench,
Tyler, Gales, Seaton, Jefferson
Junior, B-iggs-Mon.gomery, Mill
tsry Read. Phillips. Vormley, Reno,
St.veaS, Sumner, Ma9ruder, Cco.,,
CTunlneil, Dou3lcs5 Simmons,
Logan, Morse. Twinilc, T.ott, Slater,
Lancstcn, Walker, Jc.le:, Ambush,
Smaliwooc, Eell, Birney. Bowen,
Burrville. Dearwood, Garfield, CD
dings. Lincoln, Lovejoy. Payne,
Smothers, Spyhax, Van Ness, Ran
dali Junior and Terrell Junior.
Parochial schools are st. JoSeph'S,
st. Peters, st. Dominic,s, Our Lady
Of Perpetual Help, st. Stephens. st.
Patricks, Holy Comforter, st.
Aloysius, st. Augustine's, st. Cy-
prian's, Holy Trinity, st. Vincent de
Paul, st. Teresa's and st. Mary's.
And the following settlement
houses: Georgetown Children's
House, Juanita K. Nye Council
Hcuse, Northwest House. Southeast
Eo..sc. Opportunity House. Eamp-
shire --1cu-e and Temple Center.
Evening star., 1942-01-01
| Excess of Zeal
| In Afraid Test
Costs Man SIS

Thomas Mitchell, 81, Of the HOO
block Of North Capitol street, who
took Tuesday nights practice air raid
so seriously that he smashed q head
light on Netherlands Legation au-
tomobile, yesterday was sentenced to
pay fine of $25 on a disorderly con-
duct charge and another $40 fine
for drunkenness when tried before
Judge George D. Nelson.
The automobile, listed to Capt.
j. E. Meier Ranneft, naval attache
at the Legation, was in front of Sib-
ley Hospital, where 1t had been
taken by the attaches daughter,
Miss Jacoba Meier Ranneft, 10, who
had reported at the hospital as
member of the AFRAID emergency
force.
Mitchell found the lights Of the
automobile burning and smashed
the right headlight with q rock and
was preparing to break the second
one when arrested by Policeman
A. b. Hit Of No. 2 precinct.
It was testified that the door Of
the automobile was unlocked and
that an air-raid warden was pre-
pairing to turn Oh the car Nzhts.
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Committee Agrees
To Recommendation
On Moving Agencies
Formal Proposals
To Awoit End of
Hearings Next Week
Bv WILL p. KENNEDY.

WILL
Recommendations to be made to
the House Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds when hear
ings on the decentralization resolu-
ton are concluded next week were
tentatively agreed on in conference
yesterday by Chairman Downs and
Representative Manasco of the sub
committee which has been conduct
ing the hearings.
The principal recommendation IS
that all Federal agencies that can
possibly do so should use their Of
flee space on 24-hour basis, en-
ploying as many shifts Of workers as
may be necessary with view to cut
ting Office space requirements to a
minimum. These investigators esti-
mate that Office space requirements
may thus be reduced approximately
one third. They feel that it will
also result in less traffic congestion,
and will reduce greatly the number
Of desks and typewriters that would
have to be bought.
Temporary Moves Seen.
They have not yet decided on any
specific recommendations for NOV
ing any Federal agency out OF the
Capital City. However, they believe
some agencies that cannot find ade-
quate space here may be moved
temporarily.
When c. p M officials appear for
a hearing early next week, the
House investigators believe it will be
found that the purchasing division
can be decentralized, and that a
large part of the Office of Price Ad-
ministration can also be decentral-
lied.
They are prepared to recommend
that all of United States Housing
should be removed to New York or
some other city-and they feel that
there should be consolidation of the
housing agencies.
The resolution they have been con-
sidering gives the House Commit
tee no authority to make recommen-
dations, or to conduct a survey of
private organizations occupying con-
siderable ofilce space in Washington.
They are agreed that many such
private business enterprises, since
all citizens and organizations are
called to make sacrifices for de.
fense. should vacate their present
quarters to help the Government.
Careful Study Lacking.
They expect to have arrangements
made for moving the Fish and Wild
Life Service to the Patuxent Md
Reservation and the University of
Maryland, temporarily at least,
where it can be accommodated, the
subcommittee was advised, probably
with only slight cost, and where 1t
could continue to function more ef-
f1ciently than If sent to Chicago, as
the Budget Bureau proposed.
The subcommittee also has COL
lected testimony which indicates,
Chairman Downs said. that the
Budget Bureau decisions on moving
agencies out Of Warrington were
taken without preliminary hearings
or careful survey.
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Defense Officials Study
CixiIiun Production

Defense officials said yesterday that
the Government was considering
plan, similar to the British indus
trial concentration system, under
which the entire civilian output Of
an industry would be carried on by
one or two plants, leaving other
plon nts free for war work.
They said that the plan had ret
yet passed the discussion stage, hut
that the refrigerator and vashiry J
machine industries were being stud.
led as particularly adaptable.
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Workman Is Burned
When Gasoline Flames

A workman was burned seriously
today when gasoline. which was be-
ing used to clean motor, ignited
in a bus garage at 1854 Twenty
third street NV, police reported.
The resulting fire caused $500
damage to two sightseeing buses.
Robert Addison, 21. colored, 1928
Champlain street NV, was admit
ted to Emergency Hospital with
third degree burns to the face and
hands. Albert Price. 10, colored, 1408
Corcoran street NV, was released
after treatment for laceration.
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Capt. E. H. Nohe
Quits as Fireman
After A Years

Capt. Edward H. Nohe retired last
night as head of No. 26 Engine Com
pany, but the A years of experience
he gained as a member of the Fire
Department will continue to be valu-
able to Washington in his work in
connection with civilian defense.
Capt. Nohe, 81, Of 1907 North Capt.
tel street, IVES captain of the COM
Evening star., 1942-01-01

District Building now stands. He
was decorated for his service in the
Knickerbocker Theater disaster.
Capt. Nohe was copy boy of The
Star for q time when a youngster.
It was during this period that he
became the first person to be car
ried down a fire escape known as
the Little Wonder" at demon
stration from the fifth floor Of the
District Building, then at First street
and Indiana avenue NV.
Active in civic work, he has been
q member Of the Knights Of Co
lumbus and Woodmen Of the World
for more than 80 years. He is mar
ried and has three daughters, one
Of whom Is . missionary In Japan.
AZ far as he knows, she Is safe, he
0aid today.
Evening star., 1942-01-01
By ALFRED TOONIBS.

Combat training includes practi-
cally all the comforts OF war.
This I discovered by spending an
afternoon in the field with a platoon
of selectees at Fort Belvoir. Va. We
were tearing what to do in case OF
tanks, how to sneak up on a ma
chine-gun nest without making a
sound and how to hide ourselves
under such briar patches, holly
trees and assorted shrubbery as
might be available.
CARRIED In blue denim fatigue
clothes and Juggling rifle. I slipped
in with a platoon-all unbeknownst
to any save the commanding lieu
tenant-determined to do or die.
Before the afternoon was over had
done little of both.
The lieutenant got things under
way by showing us how to fix our
packs 20 that the kitchen utensils,
bayonets, dice, etc, would not
rattle when we ran.
Everything Wrong"
Theoretically. we were supposed
to be operating at night. We
couldn't be seen, but II we made
noise we would give our position
away.
Yesterday" the lieutenant said,
you did everything wrong. That
machine gun you heard over In the
woods was Just klaxon. But II you
had been in real battle and that
had been a real machine-gun there
would have been a lot of men in
this platoon who wouldn't have
come back alive
On this happy note. we started in.
First we were told how to walk
soundlessly over soft ground and
hard ground. Then how to lift our
feet high when walking through tall
grass so as not to make a tell-tale
swishing sound.
We got some instruction In crawl
ing through the grass, snake-style.
Then each squad blindfolded one
man and famed out around him.
We had to crawl toward the blind
folded man and If he could hear you
coming, he pointed at you and you
were considered shot.
Lurking Perils.
BY the time had crawled so feet.
I was pufhng like q switch engine
and consequently was rendered hors
de combat. Some Of the boys ac-
tually got up to the man without
being detected and were therefore
entitled to whack him on his ex-
posed flank with a bayonet scab-
bard.
When We had the fundamentals
down. the lieutenant ordered us to
prepare an assault on the woods at
the edge of the pasture where we
were practicing.
That woods was filled with lurk-
ing pertls. Is.t,
We deployed in squads. scattered
out 50 that no single bullet or shell
Evening star., 1942-01-01

pany 20 veal 5.
He fought mc-y
of the major
fires and gave
aid in big dis
asters in the
District.
His first big
fire, he recalled
today, was at
the old WASH
ing {. George
town Railway
Co. Building at
F. o ur t e e n t h
street and Penn
svlvania avenue
NJ w uhoro tho
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Cec,r17.,;c e~>:et"
10 Sc Fir, c: .::,c:.1

TIE aren't s-t CT folcc...-v, viii
scenes of roycl life in India, will
feature natu:al-colo- film to be
shown members of the National
Geographic Society tomorrow at
Constitution Hall.
As the guests of a Maharaja's
brother, Frank and John Craighead,
young naturalists of this city, had
opportunity to film Indian wedding
ceremonials, solemn professionals
and other colorful scenes In the
palace Of the Maharaja, In the In
dian state Of Bhavnagar.>
Evening star., 1942-01-01
b|ackout Faults
Checked Before
Next Rehearsal
New Plans Call for
Advance Notice of
Next D. 6. Test

Civilian defense authorities today
we're still checking over reports OF
Tuesday nights blackout with q
view to enforcing more complete
compliance with regulations during
the next test, expected in about two
weeks.
The third test-and second black
out-according to orders issued to
Col. Lemuel Bolles, civilian defense
director, by District Commissioner
John Russell Young probably will
be of total" nature to help train
"the entire community in proper
conduct during air raids
The test will take place at night
at a date and hour to be announced
in advance, it was said today at Col
Bolles' office. It was expected that
by this time the Distrist will
have in operation at least 10 Of Al
new electric AFRAID warning de-
vices which have been ordered. The
sirens have a distinctive" note not
to be confused, it was said, with
sirens on Police and Fire Depart
ment motor vehicles and on ambu-
lanceS.
Plans Changed.
The report that the date and hour
Of the next test will be revealed
beforehand represents a change in
plans, it having been stated yester-
day there would be no advance
warning, other than that the public
would be told 48 hours in advance
that another blackout was coming.
In seeking to find and correct the
faults of Tuesdays blackout. Off
cials bore in mind that a number
of Government as we'll as privately
owned buildings showed lights dur
ing the test.
Reports also were being received
on the response to the alarm OF
some $4,000 afraid wardens and
thousands of auxiliary policemen
and firemen. The reports state the
number of volunteers who manned
their posts during the blackout and
the time it took the individuals to
report for duty.
Col. Bolles emphasized that the
success or failure Of the blackout
rehearsals depends to large de-
gree on the individual air-raid
warden. The warden IS expected to
know his particular locality and to
act with energy and intelligence
when summoned to duty, Col. Bolles
said
Pleased With Results.
He expressed qualification at the
spirit and ability of the volunteers.
Most of the volunteers. Col Bolles
said, are new to the job, but are
learning fast.
Faults Of the system will be
checked again after the third re-
hearsal in preparation for a still
stricter blackout to "test final ar
rangements," Mr.. Young ordered.
Some advance notice will be given
Of this training period, but the hour
probably will be withheld.
Subsequent tests, according to
Commissioner Young's instructions
to Col. Bolles, will be held without
warning. They are expected to help
Washingtonians to get accustomed
to city totally blacked out, it was
said.
Meanwhile, Col. Bolles has asked
Corporation Counsel Richmond B.
Keech to make a study of the Dis
trict's new blackout law to deter
mine If it covers all conditions
which have developed in the recent
tests. The authorities have yet to
determine a policy for enforcing
penalties for violations of the black
out regulations.
Evening star., 1942-01-01

Readers hcuin3 questions
regarding AFRAID precau-
tors or protection are in
Uited to urite the City
Editor, in care OF The Star.
Answers, based on the best
information obtainable from
Civilian Defense and British
officials, Uill appear in later
articles in this series.
Evening star., 1942-01-01

Glenn Dale Hospitals are such that
1000 beds could be serviced in those
two hospitals-40O at Gallinger and
600 at Glenn without necessity
for construction of new heating and
laundry plants.
Subsidies Urged.
Additional saving of critical ma
terials could be accomplished by
using the type Of construction that
Is now being used in the new tenn
porary Government Office buildings.
Hospital units constructed along
these lines could be built, equipped
and stated In about 80 days and
could be constructed at q cost Of not
more than 40 per cent Of permanent
type buildings.
Existing hospitals have already
been asked to provide additional
beds. This doubling up process
should be organized more fully. 1t
is recommended that hospital unitr
providing at least 1000 addition
beds be built Immediately, t'.ct
building of units with 1000 more
new beds be considered arl that
Government subsidies ami aid be
provided for hospitals"
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Ruritun Club Elects

STAUNTON, Va, Jan. (SpeciaD i.
IT. Z. Huffman was elected pres
ident Of the Hayes Creel Ruritan
Club at its December meeting.
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Cuban Workers Examined

Cubans being recruited for work
in the Panama Canal Zone will be
examined as to their capacity a.
electricians, carpenters and mechan-
les before they leave Cuba.
Evening star., 1942-01-01
Reporter at Be|voir War Covers Self With Briors

Editors Note-Thfs Is the
fifth of a series Uritten by Star
recorter Uho served as a guest
soldier at Fort Belpoir. Va. To-
morrop, he gets a bayonet and
comrlete instructions on hdri
kari
, 1942-01-21

These citizens are patiently COOL
ing their heels while industry
states that it is re-tooling for war
production. incidentally, this re-
tooling was urged by government
and labor many months ago and
could have been well toward COM
pletion by now with war produc-
ton flowing from assembly lines.
Business with profits as usual"
have not only brought widespread
unemployment and misery, but
also contributed to the disaster of
Pearl Harbor and the Philippines.
We are now facing an issue that
is just as vitality important as any
that has ever faced our country;
and that is, training our displaced
workers to perform the new oper-
atoms and skills required by a
nation at war! The necessary in
crease in our armed forces will
drain more and more skilled labor
from our industrial plants which
must be replaced by older men
and millions of women.
What is Dayton's program to
train industrial workers for pro-
, 1942-01-21

duction? Less than 100 workers
are receiving defense training in
the City of Dayton, and out of
this loo, not one woman! This
miserable situation can only be
classed as actual sabotage!" Day.
ton, Ohio can only boast of one
equipped vocational school, but it
is limited in it's facilities. Our
Board of Education does not seem
to be alarmed or even feel the
responsibility for the defense of
our country. Up to the present
time, they haven't even offered a
good "alibi" for criminal negli-
gence" in this crisis.
The City of Cincinnati, Ohio al
though not faced with the large
unemployment problem of Dayton,
is well equipped with rs or more
vocational schools with an about
program for National Defense
training. The Federal Government
has been informed that if an in
vestigation is conducted, a stu
ton will be uncovered that will
expose some of Dayton's most un-
American public officials.
, 1942-01-21
Auxiliary
Meets
January 20

The Ladies Auxiliary Chapter
No. /, will hold a meeting Thurs
day evening at the Local 755
hall, at 20 Madison Street. A dis
cussion will be held as to the
future activities of the Ladies, in
recreation and entertainment.
The Ladies will be given a OPP
portunity to inspect the new room
that is being built for their COM
fort. Every member is urged to
attend, we need all the women.
We feel that the cooperation they
give us Is most important to the
building of our organization.
BUY - U. s. Defense Stamps | /!
, 1942-01-21
Recreation
Committee

The Recreational Committee of
Delco Local 755 has been organ
lied for this year. The following
members compose the committee:
Chairman Harvey Childress;
Wrestling and Boxing, Jack Fiske;
Publicity, Orville L. Kuhnle;
Bowling, William Spradling.
General Committee: Clifford
Hellyer, Walter Molesko, A. J.
Fink, Henry Smotherman, Harry
Meyers, Jack Bourquin, Clarence
Wilson, Grace Milhauer, Margaret
Thomas, Mildred Rohrer, Helen
Koestler, Edna Corcoran, Mar
celia Held, Rita Weaver, Rose
Janka, Mary Jones, George Zirn-
mer.
, 1942-01-21
Visitor

At a gathering of some three
hundred people in the UE Hall
at 9 East Fifth Street, International
Representative Fred Haug gave a
most interesting talk.
1.-The Role of The Trade Unions
In The War Defense" was an ap-
propriate subject and the audience
was well pleased with his ex-
PLANTATION of the hoped for future
position of Labor.
, 1942-01-21
educational
Committee
Set Up

Under the direction of Chair
man Charles Dills, the Delco Local
755, has set up a plan for the
education of members in Union
activities. Study of the interpre-
tation of the contract will be a
feature of the program. Time will
be taken for discussion of the
correct method of settling grie-
vances and unusual problems. We
feel certain that such an institu-
ton will take us a long way, in
advancement of our Unions aims,
the best in hours, wages, and
working conditions for UE
workers.