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Evening star., 1942-12-28
Vichy Strips Giroud of Citizenship
10000 Christmas Parcels
Still Being Delivered Here
Rorood Congestion Is Blamed
For Deioy in Arrival of Presents

tracks in the terminal. For the
first time, the siding at the Gov
eminent Printing Office and the
lexington and Pennsylvania freight
yards were used for unloading mail
The mail was late from all parts
of the country. Belated packages
bore addresses from Maine to
Florida. from Santa Fe to San
Francisco
Post Office officials said they un-
derstood eight more cars of late
arriving packages were still to be
unloaded at Union Station Before
the day is out, 1000 more sacks are
expected in the post Office. There
are usually 10 parcels to sack
Assurances were given that the
Christmas packages should be in the
hands of their recipients some time
tomorrow.
Christmas mail broke all kinds
of records. For instance, on Christ
mas night, post Office workers found
in the mailing room two and halt
times as many Christmas cards as
they had any time during the
Christmas season, more than had
ever passed through the post Office
In all. the people of Washington
received approximately 100000
Christmas cards, an increase of l845
per cent over last year. They sent
about 20,000,000 cards.
The people of Washington. how
ever, did heed admonitions to mail
early. Most of the Christmas mail
was dispatched from Washington be-
fore Union Station got jammed. The
jam began about December 20.
Going on their records of month
tomonth increases over last year,
post office officials expected a 35 per
cent increase in Christmas packages
over last year. They knew. on
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Evening star., 1942-12-28
Sammy Baugh Denies
Running Out on Pro
Charity Contest
Says Flu Made Playing
Impossible Had He Been
Present at Redskin Game

Earlier Story on Sports Page)
BY the Associated Press.
ROTAN, Tex, Dec 28.-Sammy
Baugh, star of the Washington
Redskins of the National Pro-
fessional Football League, said
today he never had run out on
a football game and 1 didn't do
it in the Pro Bowl game at Phila-
delphia."
Baugh, reached by telephone at
his ranch, declared that even if he
had been at Philadelphia he would
not have played in the charity game
because he had been suffering frA&5
inf1t4nza. Hf
II Iyired Ray Flaherty, Wasll5
ton coach, that I had been& &f
and couldn't play, and Jack EspeE
team manager, called back and told
me I wouldn't have to play but to
come on anyway just to appear at
the game"
Couldn't Get Transportation.
Then, Sammy related, he made
every effort to get to Philadelphia
but finally had to give it up because
he couldn't obtain transportation.
He had tried to get automobile
transportation from SweetWater to
Dallas, but the cab company refused
to furnish it, and then tried to catch
a plane from Abilene, but it had al
ready gone, Baugh declared.
Then, Sammy continued, he at
tempted to call Espev long distance
but the line was busy and the op-
orator informed him it would be five
hours before she could put the call
through So. he added. he wired in
that he couldn't make it.
Baugh said he couldn't use his
own automobile because it had a
bad left wheel, the result of a wreck
last year.
Sammy declared a Texas ranger
had informed the chief of police at
Sweetwater, who had agreed to pro-
vide an escort for Baugh, that he
would take Baugh to Abilene to
catch the plane, but it had already
gone before arrangements could be
completed
Won't Come East Now.
II did everything I could to make
that game" Baugh said. This
transportation situation is mighty
bad. however. and I just couldn t
make the connections. I had no in
tention of running out on the game
and thought everybody would un-
derstand the situation"
Baugh, making his winter home
here on the ranch, said he did not
expect to go back East until the
next football season.
Told that some of the Washing
ton players were reported sore at
him. the pass-master replied, Il
can't help that"
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Turnin on Radio Tube
Purchases Seen Shortly

BY the Associated Press.
Owners of radio sets soon will be
required to turn in their old tubes
when they buy new ones.
In making this announcement to-
day the War Production Board said
the requirement would permit the
salvaging of tube bases which. in
some cases, can be refabricated.
The turnin requirement probably
will go into effect early in l943.
WPB also said the number of tube
types being produced for civilian use
would be further reduced to fewer
than 100. Originally there were ap-
proximately 700 types produced. but
an order last April reduced the
number of types to 375.
The l20 types to be produced
WPB said. would satisfy 80 per cent
of existing requirements. the re-
naming 10 per cent coming from
existing stocks.
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Allied Patrols
Rout Nuzis
InAfricu
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)

Earlier Story on Page A-1.)
By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Dec. 28.-Ger-
man detachments have been
routed by Allied patrols along the
Medjez-El-Bab and Tebourba
road and shelled and forced to
retire from farm in, the same
area west of Tunis, an Allied
communique reported today.
Casualties were inflicted on the
German detachment and several
prisoners were captured, the COM
munique said.
Heavy rains which left roads a
quagmire had stopped at last as
these and other patrol actions en-
livened the front.
Rain or shine, however, American
Air Forces continued to hammer
Axis shipping, docks and transport.
Evening star., 1942-12-28
SwitzerIond-to-U. S.
Postal Traffic Cancelled
the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland Dec. 28.-
Postal traffic between Switzerland
and the United States. as we'll as
between this country and France,
Spain and Portugal has been sus-
pended by Italian occupa ton au-
thorities in France
Swiss mail addressed to the United
States since France was completely
occupied by the AXIS powers was
returned to the senders this week
with the notation that there was
no route by which it could be sent
At the same time all mail reach
ing the Swiss. border from Spain
and Portugal has been seized and
returned.
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Bough Couldn't Have Made
Game Even by AirpIone

Special Dispatch to the Star.
DALLAS, Tex. Dec. 28.-Sammy
Baugh would not have been able
to reach Philadelphia in time to
appear in Yesterdays Redskins-All
Stars football game even if he had
been able to catch a plane in this
city.
American Airlines revealed the
Dallas-Philadelphia flight was can
celled at Fort Worth due to weather.
1t was on that plane. officials said,
that Baugh had a reservation.
Baugh denied to representative
of The Star when reached by tele-
phone today at his Rotan (Tex.)
ranch that he had been working
when telephoned by General Mana
ger Jack Espey of the Redskins on
Saturday
That's not true" said Sammy
Il was out watching a hired man
feed the cattle, but I wasn't doing
any work myself. I'm still weak
from my illness"
Evening star., 1942-12-28

volunteering for induction through
District Draft Board No. q They
are scheduled to report Wednesday
morning at the boards head
quarters from which they will be
taken to Fort Myer for the routine
physical examination.
The brothers, if they pass the ex.
animation and are inducted into the
military service, are expected to be
assigned to the newly organized
unit of Austrian nationals at Camp
Lee, Va.
They are brothers of Archduke
Otto, pretender to the Austrian
throne, who is now living in New
York
Evening star., 1942-12-28

three golf courses and all other
property on the 6,500-acre tract.
The Greenbrier, a watering place
that attracted fashionable guests
the world over for generations. en-
tered the war picture Immediately
after Pearl Harbor.
1t was used as a concentration
center for alien diplomats and
journalists almost continuously ex-
cept for brief period last summer
when 1t was reopened to private
guests.
Almost at once negotiations be-
gan for the hotels lease by the Gov
ernment
1t already has been converted into
Ashford Hospital and some pa
tients are now quartered there.
Evening star., 1942-12-28
az Injured as Blast Fire
Sweeps Chicago Foundry
Ev the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Dec. 28.-Forty two
persons were injured today in
fire which damaged the Electrocast
Steel Foundry Co. in a war plant
area of suburban Cicero. All but II
were released after hospital treat
ment.
The center section of the build
Ing, about 70 by IS feet, was blown
out by an explosion which firemen
said occurred IN the furnaces. The
entire building is 200 by 10 feet
and one story high.
Firemen said about $50 men were
at work in the plant when the
flames burst through the center
portion
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Court Orders Greenbrier Hotel
Sold to U.S.. for S., 100000
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Dec. o.
Federal Judge Ben Moore entered
an order today transferring owner
ship of the 164-year-old Greenbrier
Hotel and cottages at White Sulphur
Springs to the War Department for
$3,300, 900.
The action halted condemnation
proceedings under which the Gov
ernment had planned to take a
two-year lease on the property, now
being used as an Army hospital
The sale was made in the name
OF the White Sulphur Springs, Inc,
subsidiary of the Chesapeake g.
Ohio Railroad. It involves the TOO
room hotel, Greenbrier cottages,
Evening star., 1942-12-28
New York Butter Further Cut:
II Tons Stolen From Ice Box

time between Christmas eve and
early today.
Vincent D'Alesio, manager of the
Gotham Harrison Cold Storage
warehouse, said the butter, enough
to I'LL a large truck, was being
stored for jobbers.
At police headquarters 1t was
learned that as a result of the
theft, police would guard cold
storage and other food warehouses
and would supply guards for food
trucks.
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Late Races
Additional Results. Selections and
Entries for Tomorrow.
ropicuI Park

FOURTH RACE-Purse, $500: claiming:
2-year-olds; & furlonss
Good Drive iMcCreary) 500 $50 3"0
DR.. Rush tThornbura) 40 $50
Rocky Craig tAtkinsonb @ 90
Time. 1:10a5.
Also ran-Spartiate Ebony Edee, Whiri-
gig: Bottom Rail, Bills Anne and Miss
Defense.
FIFTH RACE-Purse. $500: claiming:
3-year-olds and upward: furlonss
Time o War tWe'man) 500 1920 $50
Quakertown tGorman) $50 $50
Last Gold tThornburc) $50
Time, l:11ss.
Also ran-Last Bubble Strength and
Scotch Trap.
SIXTH RACE-Purse. $500: allowances;
3-year -olds; | mile and 20 wards
Arthur Murray tBrnan, 40 40 go
Capt. Caution tStevensonl $40 go
Transformer tWright) $50
Time. ! :42is
Also ran-Zorawar Pharstheen.
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Two Austrian Archdukes
Volunteer for Army Service

Two sons of the late Emperor
Karl and the former Empress
Zita Of Austria have volunteered
for service in the United States
Army and will be inducted We'd
neSday afternoon at Fort Myer,
Va, it was learned from an au-
thoritative source this afternoon.
They are Archduke Felix HapS-
Evening star., 1942-12-28
$4,000 Nozi Soldiers
Reported Taken by
Reds in Ten Days

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. ga
Moscow broadcast recorded by
the Federal Communications
Commission said today $1,000
German prisoners had been
taken by the Russians in the
middle Don sector alone during
the last 10 days.
The invaders we're said to
have been dislodged from 800
inhabited localities in the same
period.
The more blows they get"
the Moscow radio was quoted,
"the more they lie and the
more they shout about their
own successes"
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Beck, Ex-PoIish Leader,
Reported lIli Comp
BY the Associated Press.

By tho Associated Press.
LONDON. Dec. ga Reuters
dispatch from Stockholm quoting
the Aftonbladet said today that
Joseph Beck, Polish foreign minister
at the time of the German invasion
in 1899, is suffering from tubercu-
losis in concentration camp in
Bavaria.
The dispatch said little hope was
held for his life.
Evening star., 1942-12-28
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-Butter,
already scarce in the city's retail
stores, even scarcer in some of them
after $4,000 pounds. scheduled for
delivery today, were reported stolen
from the basement ice box of a cold
storage warehouse.
The butter. valued at 5000 to
$1,000 wholesale, disappeared some
Evening star., 1942-12-28
British Architect Dies

LONDON, Dec. % (P,.-Sir Reg
inaid Bloomfield. 86, noted British
architect. died here today. Among
his creations were the Menin Gate
Memorial at Menin. Belgium, war
cemeteries in France and Belgium
and Lambeth Bridge in London.
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Mar kets at q Glance

NEW YORK, Dec. % (P).-
Stocks easy; profit cashing halts
rise. Bonds irregular: some rails
improve. Cotton higher: mill
buying and commission house de-
mand.
CH1CAGO.-Wheat. profit TAX
Ing reduces early 1-cent advance,
Corn higher; good industrial de-
mand. Hogs steady to 10 higher;
top, SLABS; continued good de-
mand. Cattle, bulls at record
high OF $l3.75; steers, yearlings
steady to weak.
Evening star., 1942-12-28
new RUSSIAN TRAP LAPER|LS NAZI FORCES
Late. News Bulletins
Explosives Seized in French Terrorist Roundup

Explosives Seized in French Terrorist Roundup
LONDON DP.-The German n-controed vichy radio said
today French police had seized quarter explosives
$500 incendary devices and 1886 pounds
roundup of 57 alleged errors in Paris
other parts of France.
War Department Eight-Hour Law Suspended
President Roosevelt today suspended the eighthour
for aboFers and mechanics employed Department
public works within the United States that essential
to the prosecution of the affects workers engaged
In tasks relating to the storage and movement of mate
rials and the embarkaon of troops The will be paid
time and half for overtime
Albanian Gueri|Ius Rout Italians
LONDON H1-Albanian guerrillas reported by the
Moscow radio today to control the town of MaraneSh 40
miles east of Trana after routing the italian garrison and
killing several officers, including general
Vichy Strips Giroud of Citizenship
LONDON H1-The Vichy radio announced tonight that
Gen Henri Honore Giraud high commissioner of North Africa
in Admiral Jean Darlan had been deprived Of
his French citizenship by the Vichy government
Evening star., 1942-12-28

burg, 26, and his brother, Archduke
Charles Ludwig Hapsburg, "a, Both
are now living on Connecticut ave-
nue.. Their mother is now in Quebec,
Canada
Both young men, 1t was said, are
Evening star., 1942-12-28

(See MAIL, Page PIX
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Weather Report

Occasional rain with rising temperature tonight
Temperatures today-Highest, AZ, at $3.50 pm
lowest, 3S, at 1890 IN. Full report on Page A-l2
Fuel oil consumption should be s3 per cent
OF allotment for period ending January f.
Evening star., 1942-06-09
$500 Pay Increase
For Police, Firemen
To Be Reconsidered
McCorron Coils Session
Of Senate Committee
For z O'Clock Today

Chairman McCarran has called
a meeting of the Senate District
Committee for 2 o'clock this after
noon to consider again the pro-
posed s300-a-year pay increase fol
policemen and firemen, and several
other bills.
The committee also may decide
on the bill to increase the salary
of the recorder of deeds, and a
measure modifying the application
Of the local income tax to out-of-
town corporations on business
transactions not completed within
the District.
When the committee considered
the pay bill last week the Commis.
sioners and District Budget Oficer
Fowler opposed it on the ground
that it dealt with only a portion OF
the force of 1900 municipal en-
ployes, and that after the next fiscal
year the District may find itself in
financial difficulties.
The discussion created within the
committee by the Commissioners
arguments prompted Senator Nc
Carran to postpone action, although
there were indications at that time
OF sufficient support to report the
bill. =
Meanwhile. the health and safety
subcommittee of the House District
Committee arranged to start hear
ings at 10 O'Clock Thursday morn
ing on the bill recently drafted by
the Commissioners to establish a
housing code for Washington.
Evening star., 1942-06-09
CoIored Association Opens
HEADQUARTERS Branch Here

The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
opened a Washington bureau at 100
Massachusetts, avenue NV. as an
extension of the national offices in
New York, it was announced today
by Frank D. Reeves, administrative
assistant for the bureau. 1t is
headed by Walter White, executive
secretary of the national organiza-
ton.
The Washington branch of the
association will jointly occupy space
with the bureau. Mr.. Reeves said
the bureau would be concerned
"solely with problems and issues of
national import" while the branch
will concentrate its efforts on mat
ters of local Importance and signifl-
canoe"
Advisers to the bureau will include
Judge william H. Hastie, civilian
aide to Secretary OF War Stimson;
DR.. L. A. Ransom, dean of Howard
University School of Law; w. Robert
Ming, jr., attorney, ONCE of Price
Administration; George N. Johnson,
assistant executive secretary to the
Presidents Committee on Fair En-
ployment Practices. and Charles H.
Houston, formerly special counsel to
the associations National Legal
Committee.
Evening star., 1942-06-09
Real Estate Brokers Open
Wartime Business Clinic

Members of the Washington Real
Estate Brokers Association and
other colored real estate operators
met last night at the Twelfth Street
Branch of the YMCA in the first
OF a series of business clinics on
wartime problems sponsored jointly
by the Washington Chamber of
Commerce and the distributive edu-
cation department of the colored di-
visions of the public schools.
The group last night heard Walter
Pratt. president of the Equitable
Cooperative Building Associa ton !;
Jesse H. Mitchell. preside1t~of the
Industrial Bank of Washington. and
Robert Evans of the Real Estate
Board analyze problems of wartime
finance.
A second clinic on how to teach a
lesson-a personnel training course
for managers. proprietors. depart
ment heads and teachers-will be-
gin at $50 pm. tomorrow at Car
dozo High School under the direc-
ton of DR.. Kenneth B. Haas, Fed
eral agent in distributive education
for the United States ONCE of Edu-
cation.
Other clinics are scheduled for
druggists, restaurant owners, man.
ayers. beauticians. public account
ants and retail stores. The clinics
are OF six sessions each.
Evening star., 1942-06-09
Dr.. Rutland Calls Conference
Of Swimming Pool Operators

With gasoline and tire rationine
restricting many of the city's SWIM
mers to the SO pools here, Health
Oficer George c. Rutland has
called a conference of all pool op-
orators at the Southwest Health
Center at o'clock tonight.
The health officer said pools here
have shown much improvement
during the past year, but that few
still need better equipment. He also
disclosed the Health Department
has approved the plans for new
$1,000 gallon pool in connection
with the new Girls Hotel at Six
teenth and Euclid streets NV, to
be opened about July l.
During the summer Of 1910. Dr.
Rutland said, rs samples out of
1,500 taken from city pools showed
potential pollution, while during
last summer only 10 samples showed
the same potentiality.
This is an excellent record OF
progress in the sanitary supervision
Of local swimming pools" he said.
Evening star., 1942-06-09

a QUESTIONABLE he circulated among
nearby county residents concerning
transportation needs showed more
than l 900 persons now have no pub
lie transportation. Many Of these,
he said, are forced to walk between
2 and 4 miles to a bus to get to work.
Teachers Pay Rise Sought.
The federation also approved q
resolution offered by Dwight M. Col
Inns, chairman OF the Schools Com
mittee. proposing pay increases for
county school teachers.
Mr.. Collins proposed that teach
ers' salaries start at 81 800 a year
instead Of $1,000 as at present and
that they increase to $500 q year
during the second year Of ex-
perience. From the third year on
automatic average salary increases
would be $3.50 year instead of the
present SIS increase The average
annual salary increase for teachers
receiving $2,400 a year would re-
main at SIS as at present.
Approval also was given a resolu-
ton presented by Stuart M Arm
strong, urging that the cost of new
school construction in defense hous-
ing areas in the county be borne by
the Federal Government.
Other recommendation in the
program. which was offered by C.
Stephen Duvall. jr., chairman of the
Budget Committee, included one
urging the commissioners to set
aside definite fund for civilian
defense expenses instead of provid-
ing for such expenses in a con-
tingent fund, as proposed tentatively
in the budget at present.
Evening star., 1942-06-09
Grand Jury Returns
Al Indictments;
| in 'Sniper' Case
Perjury Is Charged
To Man Who Testified
Against EkIund

The District grand jury yesterday
returned Al indictments, including
one charging that Herbert Ray per-
jured himself in testifying against
John Eugene Eklund, convicted of
first degree murder as the "sniper."
Ray had testified that he had no
previous criminal record when, in
reality, he had, the grand jury
charged. 1t was on this basis, also,
that the Court of Appeals granted
Eklund a new trial, which has been
set down for the latter part Of this
month.
Since the Eklund trial, Ray had
been sentenced to from 4 to II
years on a HOUSEKEEPING and lar
ceny conviction.
Others indicted are:
Herbert Coleman, Joseph Knight,
Thomas Jones, William Lyons, Jo-
seph A. Harley, Francis J. Green
field and william Alexander New
man, assault with dangerous
weapon; James A. Howard, James
o. Watkins, Robert L. Turner, James
A. Randall, Harry Peabody and
Edwin F. Hampson, joy riding;
Daniel A. Vaughan and hewitt
Shacklett, larceny of automobile &C
cessories; James A. Reid. Mary E.
Jones, James G. Roy, Joseph L.
Washington, Raymond L. Carter,
William N. Evans and Clyde T.
Morphis, grand larceny; Adam C.
Baker. JOY riding and grand larceny;
Clifton Bradford, larceny after trust
and grand larceny; Clarence l..
Minor and r. T. Brown, Kenneth
Willis and Thomas Dent, jr., house.
breaking and larceny.
Elmer R. Carr, receiving stolen
property; Milton R. Fisher, Victor
L. Williams. Edgar Lee Morgan,
Ernest A. Morgan, Frank Smith
and Gilbert Davis, robbery; Irene
Willen embezzlement; Marguerite
E. Horton, Claude l.. Horton, Elsie
o. Stills, Robert Roland, Sam Bort
Evening star., 1942-06-09
Eastern High Shop to Produce
Wooden Guns for School Cadets
Principals Of Other institutions
Agree to Their Use Next Year

rendered rifles. They have no metal
on them and weigh about 311
pounds, instead Of the 81 pounds
Of the real rife. They can be used
for all rife drill maneuvers except
inspection arms" and Stack arms
since there Is no slide bolt and NO
metal catch on the barrel.
Mr.. Hart, once a cadet himself
Is convinced that although. the
physical training suggested by the
War Department to supplant the
former rife drills is all right. ths
drill with the gun is still the com
mon denominator of soldiery" anc
he doesn't want to give it up.
But suppose the war ends and the
cadets get their rifles back? Mr.
Hart has an answer for that, too
He thinks the wooden aguns should
be turned over to the Department OF
Health and Physical Education for
use in physical training classes for
precision drills.
In fact" he said. "if the princi.
pals had rejected the idea of USING
these guns would have had some
made up for the physical training
work here"
Evening star., 1942-06-09
Gasoline Sovinq
Won't PenoHze
Holder July ]

Motorists who do not use all units
Of their gasoline rationing cards be-
fore July will not be given a lower
rating on that account when they
apply for new cards under the per-
manent rationing system. according
to the keystone Automobile Club.
Club officials reported that this
assurance had been given them by
Joel Dean, chief of the fuel rationing
branch of the once of Price Ad-
miniStration.
In a statement to the club, Mr..
Dean said:
Under no circumstances will such
saving result in penalties for the
cardholder or place him under any
disadvantage when he applies for a
new card. 1t is intended that
cardholder shall not spend a single
unit of his ration merely to justify
his need for that card. Rather. it Is
hoped he will save as many units as
possible by eliminating unnecessary
miles"