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Evening star., 1942-01-21
Patent Office
SpaceGiiven
Wa||aceU Unit
Economic Warfare
Board Shores 1t With
Rockefeller Agency
BY OLIVER MCKEE.

OF the 200, 900 square feet of space
In the Commerce Department Build
ing to be released by the shift OF
the major portion of Patent Office
personnel to Richmond. approx
mately 10000 feet have been allo-
Gated to the Economic Warfare
Board, it was revealed today.
The ONCE of Co-ordinator of In
American Affairs. which now oc-
cupies $4,000 square feet in the
Commerce Building, has been as
signed 10000 feet in the Patent Of
1ice wing, and its present quarters
will be taken over by the Maritime
Commission, to provide additional
space for this expanding Federal
agency. The Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce will take over
the balance of the space vacated by
the Patent Office.
The Economic Warfare Board,
headed by Vice President Wallace,
now has its headquarters at 2501 @
street NV. 1t also occupies space
in several other buildings. The
board is expected to move into the
Commerce Department Building as
soon as the Patent Office transfer
is completed.
Related Organizations.
In several fields the Bureau oi
Foreign and Domestic Commerce
and the Office of Co-ordinator of
nter-American Affairs, headed by
Nelson Rockefeller, have been work.
ing along closely parallel lines. All
three. for example, are concerned
with the economic problems of the
Western Hemisphere
Recently several important steps
have been taken to integrate more
closely the activities of the three
units. The economic work of the
Rockefeller organization has virtu-
ally been amalgamated with that OF
the Economic Warfare Board. Mr.
Rockefeller has been appointed a
member of the board and Carl B
Spaeth. assistant co-ordinator OF
er-American affairs, has been
named chief of the boards division
of American republics.
The Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce now gives absolute
priority to all assignments from the
Economic Warfare Board. To enable
it to provide the economic data re-
quired by the board, the bureau has
received an additional $750,O00 from
the boards current appropriation
and this money will be used to in
crease the bureaus staff of econo-
miSts.
Two Shifts Considered.
Plans are now under cOnSidera-
t0n, it was revealed today, to put
part Of the bureaus personnel on a
two-shift basis as a means of speed
ing up It's work for the Economic
Warfare Board.
The United States faces an ac-
tual, or potential, shortage of
more than 100 individual commodi-
ties. One Of the most difficult prob
LENS confronting the Economic War
fare Board is that of deciding how
much of each of these materials
the United States can spare to
meet the needs of friendly nations.
The Economic Warfare Board also
studies economic conditions in the
Axis countries, and methods of
striking at their military power
through economic action.
Facilities of the Tariff Commits
sion also have been placed at the
disposal of the Economic Warfare
Board.
Evening star., 1942-01-21
Taxi-Ambu|ance Unit
OF $50 Cabs Formed
For Emergency Use
Cars Will Be Assigned
To Districts Special
Medical Squads

Organization here Of squads OF
taxiS to serve as ambulances during
emergencies is nearing completion
J. A. Brown. chief of transporta-
ton for civilian defense, said
today.
From many hundreds of volun-
teers taxi companies have selected
800 cabs as emergency ambulances
and civilian protection authorities
soon Will begin installing stretcher-
supporting devices in each vehicle
Mr.. Brown said the stretchers
already have been purchased.
So many taxi operators volun-
teered for this service that officials
in charge of emergency transporta-
tion decided to give each taxi firm
a percentage of the initial force of
800 ambulances to fill from their
memberships.
Under present plans the taxi
ambulances will be divided into
squads of 10 each. with one unit
assigned to each of the emergency
medical squads. Since there are
66 medical squads to be organized
80 for daytime duty and a like num-
Der for night duty-the emergency
ambulances will be on a 24-hour
schedule under the plan.
Stretchers assigned to the desig-
mated cabs will be kept at the hos
pitals, which will serve as the base
of operations for both medical
squads and taxi-ambulance units
When an emergency arises the cabs
will 60 directly to the hospitals and
be under the direction of the med
ical squad leaders.
The cabs will be used for two
purposes-transporting the medical
units from hospital to scene OF
emergency and transporting VIC
Tins to casualty centers and hos
pitals, Mr.. Brown said.
Evening star., 1942-01-21
Miss Janet Fish Quits as Head
OF Emergency Hospital Nurses
Sister Of Congress
Member Held Post
Over IS Years

Miss Janet Fish, who won dis
tinction in nursing during the First
World War, will retire as superin-
tendent of nurses at Emergency
Hospital February 3, she said today.
She has held the post for is
years and months, and has trained
more than 500 nurses, who write to
her from war zones all over the
world.
Miss Fish, sister of Representative
Fish, Republican. of New York, an
nounced her resignation to the
members of her own staff late yes
terday.
Lived at Institution.
This hospital has been my life"
she commented today She has
lived as well as worked at the in
stitution.
Educated in private schools of
New York and Europe, Miss Fish
had received no nursing training
when war broke out in 1914. Her
brother -in-law, 1t. william Law
renee Breese, was killed with the
British Army in France. She went
to Southern France to aid his widow
and two small sons. She began
helping to care for the wounded
there, and soon was sent north, close
to the front lines. The A. E. F.
came over. and she found herself
caring for young Americans, al
though still in French hospitals
under French Army direction.
Awarded the Croix de Guerre and
the medal of Reconnaissance Fran
caise, she returned home and grad
uated in nursing from the Presby-
terian Hospital in New York City
in 1922 She returned to France to
aid tuberculosis patients - whose
disease was induced by poison war
gas-in the Aisne region. She came
Evening star., 1942-01-21
Man Held Under Bond
Of$5,0O0 in Attack Case

Perry p. Walders. 80. a punch
board salesman. today was held
under $1,000 bond for grand jury
action after a hearing in Police
Court on a charge of criminally
assaulting a 19-year-old married
woman in her apartment in the 5000
block of B street Sc. on Monday.
The bond was set by Judge Hobart
Newman after the young woman
told of the alleged assault.
Evening star., 1942-01-21
Land for Increasing
Hospital Facilities
In District Offered
EorIy Report on Bill
Promised by Randolph
After Hearing on Needs

Members of the House District
Committee today were able to con-
slider varying views on the Capitals
hospital needs, as well as several
offers of land for new construction,
following appearance of public and
private hospital officials at q hear
ing yesterday.
The specific offer of land-ap-
proximately four-fifths Of 4 city
block at Twenty third and G streets
NW.-was made by DR.. Cloyd Heck
Marvin, president Of George Wash
ington University. through DR..
Walter A. Bloedorn, dean Of the
medical school and superintendent
OF the university's hospital.
Later. the committee heard that
Georgetown University probably
could give land for hospital pur-
poses and that Emergency and
Providence Hospitals also had
ground on which they were ready
to build If funds became available.
Randolph Promises Speed
Chairman Randolph promised
there would be no delay in report
ing the bill on which the hearing
was called-a measure authorizing
construction Of . 400-bed tempo
rary structure on the grounds Of
Gallirger Hospital and q similar
600-bed building at the Glenn Dale
tuberculosis Sanatoria. He ex-
planned he wanted the local Situa-
ton taken to the floor OF Congress
as soon as possible.
Most OF the voluntary hospital
superintendents declared they need
ed room for more beds but coun-
seled caution in deciding on any
project which would mean admis-
sion Of pay patients to general hos
pital quarters administered by. Gov
ernment.
DR.. Edgar A. Bocock, superin-
tendent of Gallinger Hospital, re-
iterated previous statements that
225 beds for maternity cases and
children and nursery facilities for
120 babies are urgent requirements
there.
Freedmen's Needs Presented.
DR.. T. Edward Jones, director in
chief of Freedmen's Hospital. stated
a need there Of 100 more maternity
beds and 100 medical and surgical
beds.
Clarence A. Aspinwall, president
of the board of Garfield Memorial
Hospital, said in reply to q ques-
ton by Mr.. Randolph that taxes
and rising costs of operation have
been responsible for failure Of VOL
untary hospitals to make ends meet.
Il know it isn't inefficient man
agement," Mr. Aspinwan declared.
Others who testified included Dr.
Daniel L. Finucane, superintendent
Of Glenn Dale: Mrs. c. r. Epperley,
representing superintendent Of Sib-
ley Hospital; S. H. Rogers, president
of Board of Directors Of Casualty
Hospital; Sister Rosa, superintend-
ent of Providence Hospital; Charles
D. Drayton, president of the board
of Children's Hospital, and o. K.
Fike, director of Doctors Hospital
Mr.. Fike said determination Of
who are the medically INDECENT" Is
a prerequisite to decision on whether
public or private hospitals, or both,
should be expanded.
Evening star., 1942-01-21
Morris Or Let's
To Try Viereck
On February 4
GoIdsborou9h to Sit
In Another Cuse;
Affidavit Withdrawn

George Sylvester Viereck, indicted
as Nazi agent who failed to reg
lister fully with the State Depart
ment, will go on trial in District
Court on February 4, probably either
before Justice James w. Morris or
Justice F. Dickinson Let's.
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough, who
presides in Criminal Court No.
OF District Court, yesterday elm
mated himself from consideration
of the case, after the Government,
represented by William Power Ma
loney, Special Assistant to the At
torney General, withdrew an aff-
davit of prejudice he had filed
against the jurist.
A projected appeal to the United
States Court of Appeals, in which
the Government was prepared to
ask for q writ of prohibition against
Justice Goldsborough to prevent his
hearing the case, was dropped. JUS
tice Goldsborough had been sched-
uled to start the case this morning.
These developments came yester-
day afternoon, after q number Of
behind-the-scenes conferences. in
which William E. Leahy, prominent
Washington attorney, acted as medi-
ator and friend Of the court.
Rushing" of Trial Charged.
Appearing before Justice Colds
borough in court yesterday Mr.. Ma
loney announced that the Govern
ment wished to withdraw the affda-
Wit of prejudice and urged the court
to reconsider his position and with
draw as the jurist who would pre-
side at the Viereck trial. Previously,
in his affidavit, Mr.. Maloney charged
that Justice Goldsborough was so
prejudiced against the Government
that it could not obtain fair trial,
inasmuch as the jurist was allegedly
rushing" the prosecution to early
trial
Mr.. Maloney asked Justice Colds
borough to continue the case from
today for compelling reasons" f"
among them the fact that number
of witnesses who may have bearing
on Viereck's trial are to be heard by
the additional District grand jury
that has been inquiring into Nazi
propaganda.
Inasmuch as evidence of witnesses
before the grand jury may affect the
Viereck case, Justice Goldsborough
said that he was willing to postpone
it. Mr.. Maloney then suggested that
February 2 be set tentatively as the
time OF Mr.. Viereck's trial and that
he proposed to have a conference
with Defense Counsel Emil Morosini,
jr., Of New York on Thursday and
finally decide upon a date.
Another Case Slated.
Justice Goldsborough then OBJ
served: Il have scheduled an anti
trust case before me on February 4.
II later date Is set than now it
will be necessary to set the Viereck
case down before another judge"
Clerk Samuel Silverman called
the jurist's attention to the fact that
a new jury will be drawn in District
Court on Tuesday, February 3, and
that February 2 would be the last
day OF the current jury. Both Justice
Goldsborough and Mr.. Maloney said
that they had overlooked that and
the date of February was then
decided upon.
The Sherman antitrust case be-
fore Justice Goldsborough on Feb
ruary 4 concerns charges that the
price OF bread in the National Capi-
tai has been held up by a number
of concerns here.
Evening star., 1942-01-21
Vending Machine
5cares Away Bandit
In Theater Ho|dup
Two-Woy Radio Trops
Youthful Suspect Shortly
After Alarm Is Given

Clatter from a candy-vending ma
chine last night foiled the attempt
Of q nervous young bandit to hold up
the Metropolitan Theater. He was
in the managers office waving a
pistol when he was startled by the
noise behind him.
A few minutes after his hasty
flight police in a scout car equipped
with two-way radio captured a sus-
pect, who said he was 10 years old,
and he came here from San Fran
cisco. The youth is being held at the
first precinct for investigation.
Almost Convinced.
Before he pulled the gun, the
youthful bandit almost had con-
vinced Jesse Osborn, %, assistant
theater manager, that ne was a rep
resentative of the American Red
Cross. entitled to pick up SIS in con-
tributions. He had produced elab-
crate credentials, and had won such
confidence that the woman Red
Cross volunteer who was soliciting
funds in the theater lobby had asked
his advice about filling out form
slips.
Mr.. Osborn said he then admitted
the youth into the managers Of
fice to take away the days Red
Cross receipts-but decided to put
in q telephone call to confirm the
strangers Identification. But Mr..
Osborn heard . voice behind him
saying:
IF you doubt me, put up your
hands and turn around" He obeyed
and saw the gun. He was instructed
to hand over all contents Of the
ONCE safe.
Two-Handed Job.
Just then q patron put q nickel
in the vending machine outside the
closed ofhce door. The bandit
jumped. He tried to open the door
with his free hand, but found it
was . two-handed job. He forced
Mr.. Osborn to pull open the door
and he ran, without the loot.
Policemen j. L. Rinker and J. A.
Jones, hearing . radio alarm in
their scout car, reported they saw a
young man run out Of an alley in
the 900 block Of E street NV. They
halted him and took him to the
theater, where they say the youth
was identified by Mr.. Osborn.
Evening star., 1942-01-21
Conservation Of Poper

Every citizen Is called upon
to see that not a pound Of paper
Is wasted. Demand from every
clerk that any unnecessary
wrapping Of packages or un-
necessary use Of paper bags be
dispensed with.
Waste paper for paperboard
is vital to the packaging Of a
great quantity Of war equip
ment.
Do not burn newspapers, but,
when you have saved enough
for q bundle, give them to the
school children who are CO.
operating in the defense pro-
gram with the parent-teacher
organization in The Stars
campaign for reclaiming old
newspapers.
Evening star., 1942-01-21
Man Is Held for Jury
In Killing of Wife

Vincent Giovinazzo, 81, OF $40
Twelfth street NE. was held IN
Jail today for grand jury action after
IN inquest yesterday into the death
Of his wife, Mary, IS, shot within
q block Of their home Sunday.
The retired tailor surrendered to
police . short time after the killing,
It was reported. A daughter said
he had been jealous.
Evening star., 1942-01-21
Church Bells to Be Sirens

WESTMINSTER, Md, Jan 81 up.
Carroll County's church bells will
ring only as air raid alarm signals.
The County Civilian Defense Council
has asked all. pastors to cooperate.
Evening star., 1942-01-21

CAMPAIGN FOR BOOKS-mmacuata Seminary has launched
concerted drive to collect books the Victory Book
pagn for in the armed service Looking of the
books already collected Qe to right HUMPHREYS
president of the school soday and head of the drive Ellen
Bell chairman of the Catholic Literature Committee
Kennedy, committee member. star Stan Photo.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11
.Conodo's Queeres+'
Haunted House

~ the Rue st. Mary in Que
bee, stands a pleasant lit
~ tie two-story house which
goes unrented year after year
and all because Of a queer my
stery that surrounds it.
From time to time, tenants
have moved into this comfortable
little dwelling, but after. short
stay, they have quickly packed
up and gotten out, explaining
that it was impossible to stay
there.
Every occupant who has moved
out has given the same reason
for leaving that after they
moved in Y strange feeling Of ut
ter depres sion came over them.
The last tenant declared that
every time she went into an up
stairs front room she was always
seized with an almost irresistible
desire to hurl herself out of the
window.
On the other hand, as soon as
she got out onto the street again,
this sentiment of depression with
its sombre thoughts and impulses
toward suicide would disappear
only to come right back when she
again entered the room.
After several occupants had
moved out in rapid succession the
landlord admitted that a few
years before a woman tenant had
committed suicide by leaping out
of the front room window.
Most of the residents had never
heard anything about the suicide
until long after they had given
up trying TO live in the house.
Although some people might
try TO explain the mystery with
the theory that the original ten
ant transmitted her suicidal ma
MIA to the very room itself, there
is no factual explanation for the
peculiar feeling that assailed
would be tenants of the odd little
house on Rue st. Mary.
But whether it can be scienti-
fically explained or not, the fact
remains that the house stands
empty
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11

Cling cozily up under the cats
head.
The two have set up house.
keeping under the mess hall-in
order to be within easy range of
the come and get it" of battery
cook, Corporal Joseph Thomas.
whom the two animals seem to
have adopted as their own mas
cot.
All Corporal Thomas has to do
is go to the door and below
Babe" and the strange pair
come scurrying out with all the
speed of star boarders. Because
they constantly hang around the
kitchen, the two have earned the
nicknames of "chowhounds."
In one of the photographs
these friendly enemies are nib
bling at one of their score of
daily snacks and in another
Babe, now fully recovered, is sit
ting on the shoulder of Sergeant
Weiman, the doctor" who set his
fractured leg. Whenever Wei
man is around, the two hover
about him constantly probably
marking one of the first times in
Army history that a tor. kick had
any real friend"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11

about once in a lifetime.
The crow - named Babe" -
broke its leg several months ago
when it came within range of the
concussion from an 8-inch coast
artillery gun. Mess S erge ant
John Weiman took the injured
bird, patched it up with splints
and bandage and turned it loose
on the company street.
During the crows GONZALES
cence, it ran PUNK into the
cat, already well established as
the camp mascot. Still hobbling
about, he was unable to fly away
The cat, seeming to sense the
strang e RS predicament, oddly
enough left the bird alone.
AS the days went by, Babe, fl
nally realizing that he had moth
ing to fear from the cat, grew
holder. First he began to peck
at the cats raw meat and dis
covering that no objections were
raised, he began dipping his beak
into the milk bowl. It wasn't long
before the two were regularly
eating their meals together
Their companionship has now
reached such a stage that they
even sleep together-Babe snug
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11
Sacrificed q Finger
to Get in the Navy

\N/ILLIAM F. CRIMSON,
was not going in for heroics
when he had a finger cut off SO
that he could join the Navy.
The Navy doctors. spotting
stiff finger which the boy had
hurt in an automobile accident
told him get rid OF that thing
and we will take you"
He did-a and the story of the
operation somehow got into ~the
newspapers. For many days af-
ter he was out OF the hospital.
the postman brought Bill Crime
son letters from admiring young
women.
Most of the letters were from
girls with brothers or sweet
hearts in the service who only
wanted TO commend the young
man for his patriotism. Others
wanted TO date him up-but ne
declined these offers as he did a
hero's role because he already
has a girl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11

nITTER enemies are the cat
r. and the crow but, like every
- thing else, there are excep-
tons to the rule.
In this particular case the ex-
ceptions are a jet black crow and
a striped cat, both of which are
mascots of a coast artillery unit
at Fort Hancock, New Jersey.
Just how two of natures most
incompatible animals struck up
friendship to the extent that they
eat, sleep, and play together in
perfect harmony is one of those
queer oddities that happen just
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11

Smarter, more attractive mems accessories
ever before are now avaiIable-through 81
designing dclever use of non priority mater
says Mr.. Morris Myers, President of the Nat
Association of Clothiers and Furnishers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-11

IF you wondered if Americas mar
facturers of belts and suspende
would be able to surmount wartil
material restrictions-you're due
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Hudson 10 Build
Bomber Wings

Wings for the Curtiss-Wright
"Helldiver" dive bomber will be
produced by Hudson Motor Car
Company in one OF its plants
under the largest aircraft contract
received by the company to date,
it was revealed Saturday by A. K.
BART, president of hudson.
Indicative of the ever increasing
tempo of aircraft production by
the automotive industry. to meet
the mounting emphasis on air
power, the new contract under
which the company will supply the
wings for both army and navy,
a major assignment for
Hudson. Production has started
already, Barit revealed, and the
company expects TO begin making
shipments of completed assemblies
within the near future.
This new assignment points to
an increase in employment. The
additional men and women needed
to handle expanding production on
the project are now being trained
in the Hudson training schools,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Fish Licenses
Holding Own

Even in wartime, fishing con-
tinues one of Michigan's most
popular forms OF recreation. ac-
cording TO state conservation de-
partment which reports the sale
of GAS, 967 sport fishing licenses up
TO the first of this month, only 4
per cent less than were sold in
the same period a year ago.
The drop in resident license
sales was only 2 per cent-5l3,S 500
this season compared with 526, 165
a year ago, a decrease of 1929
Nonresident license sales declined
more sharply, as was expected,
from 149,7lS to 1872. 10l, a mega
tive difference of 1857 or u per
cent in the eight months.
Increasing complications in trav-
cling may prevent further match
ing OF the pace that in all of the
l9il sold more than $4,000 sport
fishing licenses, officials say.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
TraiIers 10 Conserve
Steel, Copper OF. |

Standardized trailer coaches de-
signed TO conserve an even greater
amount of steel and copper will be
produced after October /, in COM
pliance with an order of the War
Production Board. This was re-
vealed at a meeting Of the execu-
tive committee OF the Trailer
Coach Manufacturers Association
at the Book Cadillac Hotel here.
r. f. Jackson, industrial spe-
cialst in the mobile housing Sec
ton of the WPB, outlined the
streamlined specifications for all
trailers completed after this
month. They call for a maximum
of Dts pounds Of steel. exclusive of
running gear. heater. stove. ice
box. water bucket, and furniture;
a maximum of three pounds of
copper; and o" rail- interior
lengths between 81 feet 6 inches
and % feet s inches.