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Evening star., 1942-03-04
Rationing Board Approves
civ Purchase Of IS Autos

The District Auto Ratlonlng
Board yesterday took its first formal
action ss.in the rationingssprogram
! a approving purchase Of Is autono
biles by the District government for
use by the Police Department.
The vehicles already have been
ordered They are among % new
police automobiles whose purchase
must be approved by the rationing
group. The District also is seeking
II other motor cars for use in the
Disbursing, Sewage, Refuse. Fire
Alarm, Surveying and Repair De-
partments.
The rationing board, holding its
first formal meeting at the old
Force School. took no final action
on others of the approximately l0O
applicants for purchase certificates
Tom K. Randall. administrative as
sistant of the body. said an an
nouncement will be made each Sat-
urday morning of the applications
approved and denied during that
week
Board members are Arthur Drury
chairman: H. Lawrence Choate and
John Locher.
Evening star., 1942-03-04
Bus and Truck Shortage
During War Forecast
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. March A.
Wartime highway problems in the
United States and Mexico occu-
pied the attention of the American
Road Builders Associations Defense
Highway Congress here today.
Speakers on the days program in
cluded Commissioner Thomas H.
Mcdonald of the Federal Works
Agency's Public Roads Administra-
ton, and Carlos Bazan of Mexico
City, director general of Mexico's
highways.
Limiting of bus and truck trans
portation in the United States was
predicted at last nights session by
John L. Rogers, director of the
motor transport division of the
Office of Defense Transportation.
Mr.. Rogers said available supplies
of buses and trucks will be INSULT
cient to permit normal private
motor transport operations. and
forecast that Ito do what is neces-
sary is going to hurt many people" p"
The association, which last night
installed Chris ]. Sherlock, former
Alabama highway director, as its
president, will end its congress
Thursday.
Evening star., 1942-03-04
Viereck
Continued From First Page }

bias had been made in the presence
of the jury in an effort to cause
prejudice and give the jurors the
impression Viereck was not receiv-
ing fair trial
Morosini Silent.
Mr. Morosini stood silently beside
the bench as Justice Let's made
known his decision. After adjourn
ment, the New York attorney had
no comment to make except that
the record speaks for itself
Numerous defense witnesses under
subpoena had not been called and
Viereck had not taken the stand
when MI. Morosihi announced the
defense rested.
Only one defense witness. had
been heard at any length-Mrs.
Norma Ward Lundeen, widow of
the Farmer-Laborite Senator from
Minnesota. She was on the stand
for hours, and gave testimoney in
tended to impeach statements by
several Government witnesses.
The Government contends that
Viereck listed himself with the State
Department only as an author and
editor" employed by German in
terests and did not set forth in re-
quired supplementary statements
his alleged activities as . propa-
gandist.
Evening star., 1942-03-04

warden commented that with the
Richmond highway blacked out,
Fort Belvoir stands out like a sore
thumb"
Fort Belvoir was exempted from
the order, but the Naval Hospital
and the National Institute of Health
on the Rockville pike just outside
OF Bethesda, which was also ex-
cepted, were shrouded in darkness.
With $500 air-raid wardens and
pit auxiliary police on duty, j.
Robert Sherwood, chairman of the
Prince Georges County Civilian
Defense Council, pronounced the
practice blsckout "a, 100 per cent
success Chief Afraid Warden
E. F. Zalesak objected to too many
exceptions" contending that some
plants in the area which could have
blacked out did not do so because
of their defense status.
Montgomery County had approx
mately $500 wardens on the street
with skeleton force operating
after midnight and l8O auxiliary
police patrolled the county with the
regular night police force.
Col Bolles reported that all the
nearby counties had notified him of
perfect or almost perfect compli-
ance with the blackout regulations
and no arrests we're made for
fragrant violations.
Wardens patrolling Rockville re-
ported only one instance Of made
quate light screening and this was
quickly remedied. Police in Arling-
ton and Fairfax Counties and Falls
Church reported excellent public
cooperation.
In Montgomery County Mai.
Marshall P. Fletcher, representing
Col. Henry S. Barrett, chief air
raid warden of the State, toured
through Silver Spring and Bethesda
and expressed himself highly
pleased" with the efficiency of the
air raid warden organization and
the cooperation of the people.
Evening star., 1942-03-04
New Mystery Tunnels
Found Under House on
|ndependence'Ave.
Sinister Legends Survive,
But 1t Seems DR.. Dyor
Just Liked to Diq

They started to prepare for the
widening Of independence avenue
and dug up legend. A veritable
storehouse Of legends, in fact, is the
house at 804 independence avenue,
once the home Of the late DR.. Harri-
son Dyar, entomologist and, 1t seems,
eXcavationist extraordinary.
DR.. Dyar. who had been employed
by the Department Of Agriculture,
died in 1929, but he had been through
one tunnel mystery and left another
behind.
Many are the rumors that have
been caused by the tunnels, part Of
which were discovered yesterday at
the Independence avenue address by
Joseph w. Strohmann and Henrik
Moeldrup, examining the property
for the Public Buildings Admins
tration of the Federal Works
Agency.
Older Mysteries Recalled.
There's the story that one tun-
mel leads diagonally across the
street to the Smithsonian In
stitution. There is the story that
the digging OF the tunnels left
such a pile of dirt in the backyard
that the inclosing fences collapsed.
Strangest OF all, there is the legend
that the dank underground passages
were used during the last war as
breeding place for mysterious germ
cultures, with which a German sci
enlist was going TO wipe out the
population Of the Nation.
This one probably stems back to
the great Dupont Circle mystery"
Of 1924. An alley caved in under a
truck then, leading to the discovery
Of an underground labyrinth, leading
from 1910 Twenty-f1rst street NV
Empty liquor cases reused the rumor
that this was part Of a bootlegger's
layout. Old German newspapers
aroused the cry OF spies.
DR.. Dyar came forward the next
day and admitted all One day in
1906. he said, he was digging deep
to prepare a hollyhock bed for his
wife. He got down to a depth of
six feet and the smell of good brown
earth was too much. He just kept
digging and eight years later had
his well-constructed labyrinth.
Moved and Borrowed More.
Shortly he left Washington, re-
turning in 1920 to take up his hobby
again at the Independence avenue
address. Now it's up to Mr.. Stroh-
mann to discover the extent to which
he carried the hobby, to prevent fu-
ture cave-ins But the tunnels are
strongly constructed and seem safe
for explorers.
1t seems a shame to clear away
the mist of mystery But DR.. Dyar
was just fellow who liked to dig
tunnels.
Evening star., 1942-03-04

large Army camps, industrial and
ordnance plants were built in the
current program. Mr. Madigan said
the new form makes a virtue of
subcontracting"
Under the new system the prime
contractor is a manager for the
War Department, doing the en-
gineering work and some OF the
actual construction, but recon-
mending subcontracts for as much
as 40 TO so per cent Of the work
In such cases the subcontractS are
awarded, not by the prime con-
tractor, but directly by the Army
district engineer responsible for
general supervision of the entire
project.
These subcontracts may be cost
plus, lump-sum or unit price awards,
Mr. Madigan said, but in any event
the new type contract arrangement
puts Army construction on the
same basis on which the building
industry in this country has always
eoperated, and it already has proved
Ito be the best solution of the War
Departments building problems
Fees for the architect-engineer-
manager. Mr. Madigan said, are
based on the cost OF the project,
the length Of time required and
the technical difficulties involved.
In contrast, the negotiated cost
plus contract which was adopted
in the interest of speed when the
Army expansion program started in
1910, reduced the price contractors S
fee in proportion to any subcon-
tracing and provided no incentive
for economy.
Evening star., 1942-03-04
DR.. Harr In Pennsylvania
Goyernorship Contest
L, the Associated Press.


HARRISBURG, Pa, March A.
DR.. Luther A. Harr of Philadelphia
has formally entered the Demo-
cratic gubernatorial contest setting
the stage today for a wide-open
fight for the nomination in the May
19 primary.
DR.. Harr, bituminous coal con-
sumers' counsel, announced in
Washington ne was a candidate and
asserted:
In entering the primary, I am
appealing from the bosses directly to
the people"
Auditor General N. Clair Ross and
Common Pleas Judge Ralph H.
Smith of Pittsburgh both are avoVed
candidates, Judge Smith with the
backing of Senator Guffey and Mr..
Ross supported by a majority Of
the State Committee.
William McNair, former Mayor Of
Pittsburgh, also has announced, but
has failed to win support from any
of the recognized leaders.
Evening star., 1942-03-04
Reports on B|ackout
Present Picture Of
Democracy at Work
Drumu Is Provided
By Incidents Between
SPIN. and 6 AM.

Whatever it is that makes democ-
racy work was tested last night.
The reports flltering into air-raid
warden service headquarters today
tell the story.
No incidents"
"All wardens on duty"
Light showing 3:17 am. Taken
care of"
Behind those reports are the little
thingS-the housewife who called
in Wardens at regular intervals to
give them doughnuts and coffee
the two girls who went down four
flights and back up again to be sure
their rooming house cubicle showed
no lights, the curtain of darkness
that fell just at 8 o'clock.
The people, most of them. didn't
wait to be told. Col Lemuel Bolles
their civilian defense executive
called it free men disciplining
themselves"
Practical Experience.
And then there were the Vardens
and auxiliary policemen. the civilian
defense army getting its first taste
Of an .all-night blackoui.
p Sometimes they walked alone,
sometimes in pairs, sometimes
neighbors joined them.
They were a cheerful lot. They
knew their reig ia1orSs One e5 i heu
would shout. Hey Mrs. Joficss how
about that light?" and Mrs. Jones
would wave and grin good-naturedly
and that bit of the street would be
dark, too.
Early in the evening it wasn't Sc
bad. At least there were people
to talk to. But at and 3 and
4 am. they walked alone. You
could see solitary figures on the
street and when you came closer
you noticed the white armband.
A man strobe briskly down the
street, hatless. Yes, I guess I'll
be on all night. All the other men
are out of town. Oh, guess 1 can
take it."
Warden Takes Double Shift.
Another warden took a double
shift so his neighbor could go to
the symphony concert.
Sometimes there was sarcasm.
Cant you wait a few minutes;
I'm just going to bed?" Il know
you can't see that light from the
street"
They didn't argue. They took the
offenders out in the street with
them, showed them that Venetian
blinds weren't enough, that chinks
of light cleaned around the shades.
That was enough.
They helped sometimes to fix the
windows-a little tape. thumb tack,
the curtains pulled a different way.
A man who must have been 70
and leaned heavily on a cane clicked
his heels and saluted when Defense
Co-ordinator Young's car went by.
Then he went on patrolling.
Sometimes there were few houses
and long vacant spaces between.
A man stood alone in a hollow. A
single house occupied each of the
four blocks around him. 1t was on
the edge of town and deserted.
At 6 am. today the men on the
last shift made their reports. Then
they went home, washed up and
went to work.
Evening star., 1942-03-04
District Court Refuses
Extrudition Request

In District Court extradition
hearing Justice James M. Proctor
today refused to turn over Frank
Coffee, who is in the trucking busi-
ness here, to authorities of High
Hill, Va, near Charlottesville, to
face a charge of stealing a prize
coon dog.
Evidence was introduced to show
Mr.. Coffee was in Washington last
June 5. the day the dog allegedly
was stolen.
Evening star., 1942-03-04
Jewish Center to Hear
Postwar Planning Talk

The last of a series of institutes
on the operation of various phases
of the Federal Government will be
held at 8:45 o'clock tonight at the
Jewish Community Center. The
speaker will be Robert A. Walker,
chairman of the Postwar Commit
tee on Rural Planning Of the De-
partment of Agriculture. His sub
ject will be POSTWAR Planning" :"
A new series of Institutes on in
ternational affairs will start next
Wednesday night at the center, with
prominent newspapermen as the
speakers.
Evening star., 1942-03-04
Police Boys Club Drive
To Be Extended Two Weeks

The Metropolitan Police Boys
Club will extend its campaign
through two more weeks. having
reached but So per cent of its $780,
600 goal. This was decided by the
Campaign Committee during a
meeting in the National Press
Club yesterday. when it was an
nounced that in the months drive
only s58,7e6 had been pledged.
Ralph Goldsmith. ch rm n
praised the workers for their ef-
forts to obtain funds to operate
the five clubs and summer camps
sponsored by the organization. 1t
was announced a team composed
of members of the Washington
Redskins and headed by Club Owner
George Preston Marshall will help
to raise additional funds.
The leading team thus far, cap
tained by E. r. Mcconnell, has
raised S10,169, while the special gifts
group, under Paul D. Sleeper, has
a total of $24.854. The downtown
team, headed by Thomas P. Nor
gan, jr., has raised s19,31l, and the
residential unit, under Kirk Miller,
has pledges of s3,7s1, it was re-
ported.
Evening star., 1942-03-04
Young Names Six Officials
To Assist Gen. Reed

Six more assistants TO Mai Gen
Walter L. Reed inspector general
for the civilian defense organization
for the Metropolitan Area, have been
named by Commissioner John Rus
sell Young, civilian defense CO.
ordinator.
They are Maj George w. Edgerly
1908 Mckinley street NV; 1t. A. L
Gardner. $40 Thirtieth street NV:
Walter G. Dunlop. 5000 Hillcrest
place. Chevy Chase; Maj ]. B. Pat
terson, Curtis place, Chevy Chase:
H. Joel Barlow, 5275 Partridge lane
NV, and Capt. Roger OLeary, 14O6
Buchanan street NV.
Co-ordinatOr Young directed that
all members OF the Citizens De-
fense Corps afford every courtesy
and facility to these inspectors in
performance Of their work.
Mr.. Young also directed Inspector
Gen. Reed to conduct inspections
of defense organizations through
the chairmen of the civilian defense
committees.
Evening star., 1942-03-04
Killed by Lightning

While driving herd Of cattle,
Adolfo NJ. Delmaschio, aged 16, and
the horse he was riding were killed
when struck by lightning at Los
Quirquinchos, Argentina.
Evening star., 1942-03-04
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Evening star., 1942-03-04

Waste paper can be used to start
fire-under Hitler. Save your
waste and call a collector.
Evening star., 1942-03-04

What makes Sammy run? He's In
hurry to buy Defense bonds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01

Truth is, they planned worldwide
monopolies, and not to the benefit of
the American people, for their con-
tracts all looked to absolute control by
themselves of the American markets
for some of the most essential ele-
ments of this machine-age civilization.
1t was to be the development of their
own New Order"
With America as home base, they
saw the possibilities of a world en-
pire, based on financial power and or.
ganization. 1t was an economic war;
and IN its prosecution they were as
merciless to the people of America, as
to those of any other land. They an
ticipated unemployment. They antici-
pated relief rolls for the unemployed.
And they proposed that every per-
son enrolled on the relief rolls should
be stricken from the voting rolls.
That was the kind of democracy in
which they believed. And this also
was among the results to which they
looked forward, "after the war"
One of their spokesmen said, back
in the days of NRA, permanent un-
is no part of the problem
of industry" But permanent con-
troll of American industrial and eco
nomic conditions was part of their
problem.
But here come along two nations of
retroverts, who do not think in terms
of dollar-power; but of machine-gun-
dive bomber panzer division power,
and who calmly propose to test out the
relative strength of the two kinds of
empire and world rule: Dollar-power
VS.. Gun-power.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
Truths POndered While
Riding at
Anchor
''Then gently scan
your brother man
BY Mr.. M0destus-

Some poet has said: "The thoughts
of youth are long, long thoughts"
Which may account for the far
reaching plans of some of Americas s
present monopoly -devising crew. Some
of them were doubtless young men,
just after the end of World War /,
and they saw the rich pickings which
their sires gathered, after that holo-
caust, when America planted the seeds
of multi-billion crop of gold bullion
now hidden somewhere in the Mid
west.
And so, they planned, on a much
larger scale, for some more "after the
war" gleanings. They made contracts
with /. Gesellscaft Farben Industrie,
for after the war. They did the same
with japanese fnanciers. Naturally,
they would say that they had no idea
of what Hitler and Hirohito were
planning. Well, they might have
known, had their research men been
told to look into the records, and then
to make honest reports.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
DRAFT DEFERMENT
NO LABOR REMEDY
In RAIL PROBLEMS

Washington, d. C. (ILNS) Draft
deferments granted railroad workers
will not solve permanently the prob
lem of manning and maintaining the
railroads in the face of increasing la
Dor shortage, officials of the Office of
Defense Transportation told repre-
sentatives Of the railroad industry at
meeting here.
At best, the railroad men were fur
ther told, granting of deferment must
be considered only as an opportunity
to train workers to replace those
called to duty with the armed services.
Suggested measures by which rail-
roads might ease their labor situation
included proposals for changing the
hiring age limits and relaxing phys
ical requirements, making campaign
to rehire former employees, including
those who have retired, employing
women wherever possible and making
full use of government employment
offices.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01

their minds bind them to certain per-
spectives. And it will take dive bomb
ers over Wall Street to get their at
tention away from their lifelong OBJ
sessions.
Patriotism? Why, these men are
citizens of the world And they have
been thinking that it was their world,
since they had taken it's financial con-
troll away from London, after World
War |. Any narrow view of loyalty
to any one country, just because they
happened to have been born there,
became absurd in the light of these
larger conceptions.
You think this is harsh? Well, you
write the analysis which will explain
the attitude of the men who, on March
IL, 1912, thought they were still in a
position to give, or to withhold, from
the United States government, the
use of the synthetic rubber formulas.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
FEW WOMEN in N. Y.
WAR PLANTS I'm NEAR
FUTURE, TESTS SHOW

New York City (ILNS). - Women
in New York state will not be working
in war production plants to any great
extent in the near future if the esti-
mates of 400 employers holding war
contracts are correct.
According to joint report released
by the Division of Women in Industry
and Minimum Wage, State Depart
ment of Labor and the U. S. Employ
ment Service for New York, about
$4,000 more women will be hired in
the next six months by these indus
tries. During this same period these
employers expect to add total of ap
proximately $1,000 men and women to
their present work force of 650,000.
The estimated hiring of women is
conservative, the report states, be-
cause it does not account fully for
requirements of men by women which
may result from the draft and it does
not include the numbers of employees
to be added by 65 employers who
could not forecast expansion. Half of
them will be working for II large
firms. Only 269 of the 1,400 employ
ers interviewed expected to take on
any women at all, the report states.
This survey of anticipated hirings"
of women, which is the second made
since the beginning of the year by
the two agencies, covered mainly firms
in the metal industries employing at
least so workers. The second survey
showed practically no change since
January in the policy of employers
toward the hiring of women. The male
labor supply, especially in New York
City, is believed by the two agencies
to retard the rapid hiring of women
in war production. More than two
thirds of the women will be hired out
side of the city.
More than 5000 women will be
added in IL of the % aircraft plants
visited mostly outside New York City
before the autumn. They will be op-
Grating drill machines and bench
lathes; working as assemblers, power
sewing machine operators and as filers,
borers and riveters. Training courses
and in-plant training for women are
under way in these industries.
Fourteen firms manufacturing pro-
fessional and scientific instruments,
such as lenses, bomb sights, binocu-
lars, fire control apparatus and pre-
cision instruments expect to take on
about 1,700 women, mostly in New
York City, as assemblers, inspectors,
grinders, cementers, drill press oper-
ators, solderers, welders, engravers,
polishers, testers and honers.
Another 1000 women will be added
in the communication equipment in
dustry-mostly in New York City
as coil winders, crystal grinders, in
radio repair and in drafting. They will
help turn out radio tubes, parts, head
sets and transformers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01
CIO Uses A. F. of L. Labor

Detroit (ILNS)- Members Of Amer
lean Federation of Labor unions are
remodeling the building which the
United Automobile Workers, CIO af-
filiate, recently purchased to house its
international Offices. In choosing A. F.
of L. members for the work, the auto
union ignored the United Construction
Workers Organizing Committee which
is headed by A. D. Lewis, brother of
John l.. Lewis.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01

the dollar-a-year men, whose real sal
aries come from these monopoly-plan-
ners, planted among the key-places in
the war production and supply Offices.
with their hands on the levers of mill
tary supplies, exercising their knowl-
edge of materials and processes and
contracts, with their eyes glued still
to the "after-the-war" detectives.
They don't even know what is going
on, in this world of Pearl Harbors,
Manilas. Bataan and Corregidor, Sim
gapore and Trondheim. The habits of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-05-01

Our little would-be super men had
been thinking of war, along with the
navy and army brass hats, in terms
of the last war. And so they had no
conception of what was back of these
contracts CD which the totalitarian
powers had coddled them into making,
so as to tie the hands of the democ-
racies of the world, who were still OBJ
serving contracts and patent laws.
Thus it is, that when America is
facing the crisis Of all time, you find