davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1942-05-30
Federal Employment
Climbs 10 249,607
In Metropolitan Area
April Figure l0,306
Above March; Civil
Payroll S42, ,585, SOB

The steadily rising Federal en-
ployment in the Metropolitan area
reached 249,10 at the end of April,
an increase of 10,306 over the March
total, the Civil Service Commission
announced today.
The Federal civil payroll in the
Washington area totaled S42, ,585, sos,
the commission estimated.
There were 1871 persons added to
the rolls in April, but the net in
crease amounted to 10,306, as de-
Capitalization took 3,455 out of
Railroad Retirement. Agriculture
and Justice Total personnel now
is well over 250,000.
The World War peak approx
mated $4,000.
The War Department. which
added 6605 workers during the
month, reported the largest increase.
The departments civilian personnel
at the end of April totaled 1889.
The Navy Department personnel
was 1886, an increase of 1882 over
March.
Housing Agency Gains.
The recently established National
Housing Agency reported 1902 en-
ployes, again of 800 over March.
This increase, the commission ex-
planned. was chiefly due to the trans
fer of remaining personnel from the
Federal Works Agency.
In the Executive Office of the
President. the Office of Price Ad-
ministration personnel are shown
separately for the first time. At the
end of April OPA reported 3,711
Heretofore, OPA figures
had been included in those for the
Office of Emergency Management.
Total Employment Jumps.
Public and private employment in
the District in mid-April totaled
497 900, an increase of $4,000 over
March and los 900 above last year,
Secretary Perkins reported yester-
day.
Non-agricultural employment in
Virginia amounted to 639, 900, gain
of 10000 during the month and
10000 more than a year ago. The
Maryland total, 647.00, was 1000
less than in March and $4,000
greater than in April, 1941.
Non-agricultural employment for
the whole United States totaled 40
773,O 900 in mid-April, an increase of
38l 900 for the month and 2,545 900
more than in April, 194l, Secretary
Perkins estimated.
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a brief statement about this trip
would be like trying to give you a
history of the Boer War in 10 words"
Barrymore went to work on film,
appearing as Mercutio in a pro-
duction of Romeo and Juliet" with
Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer
in the name roles.
While thus engaged, it developed
that Miss Barrie claimed from him
an 81 carat diamond ring which,
she said, Barrymore had given her
as an engagement token. The gem
was returned to her in July, 1886,
through transfers by Hollywood and
New York banks. BY that time they
were on good terms again. she went
to Hollywood and both said that any
marriage that may have contem-
plated was definitely off But
"Caliban." which Miss Barrie said
was the name Barrymore had given
himself for her Ariel" frequently
escorted her around Hollywood.
Barrymore's name figured, albeit
fleetingly, in the sensational child
custody suit of August, 1886, be-
tween Mary Astor, film actress
and her ex-husband, DR.. Franklyn
Thorpe, case marked by introduc-
ton and impounding of Miss Astor's
diary. Thorpe's attorney announced
Barrymore was one Of several film
notables whom he would subpoena
as witnesses, but compromise
ended the trial before the sum-
monSes were issued.
Coincidentally Barrymore was in
volved in litigation with Henry
Hotchener, his former business man
ager, and Emmett D. Camomile, a
former private secretary. He filed
suit in April, 1886, asking them to
account for private papers and for
securities valued at 100000 which,
he claimed, he had put in their
hands for management. Both filed
counter-suits but when the cases
were called for trial in August,
Barrymore's physician reported his
patient was in sanitarium and too
i'll TO appear In court. In October
Barrymore Withdrew his suits with
apologies to both defendants.
Evening star., 1942-05-30

Congress in Brief
TODAY.
By the Associated Press.
Senate and House in recess.
Evening star., 1942-05-30
Unarmed Cargo Ship.
Is Sunk by Axis Sub;
u Men Killed
Four From Baltimore
Are Among Victims;
19 Others Suved

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, May 30.-An
Axis submarine, whose officers
apparently knew their victim
was unarmed, sank a medium
sized United States cargo vessel
in the Gulf of Mexico May 25,
killing % men, including four
from Baltimore.
The dead all were aboard a cingle
lifeboat blown to bits by a torpedo.
Two from this boat and II others
escaped in second lifeboat and
were picked up the next day and
brought to New Orleans.
The ship was the fifteenth off,
cially reported attacked In the Gulf
during May, of which 13 ships were
lost with the death of 1874 men.
The Navy reported the sinking Of
another cargo boat in the Gulf of
Mexico May 18. The unarmed ship,
was attacked by shellflre at am.
central war time, and Immediately
afterward the crew heard a siren
from a submarine on the surface
OF Ine starDoard SIDE.
Sub Opens Fire.
obviously aware of the absence
Of protective gun the submarine
moved closer and opened rapid fire
with its gun, firing between rs and
80 rounds, many of which started
fires.
AT AIS am, all hands except the
radio operator abandoned ship. One
lifeboat carrying l6 men got away
first and the submarine drew near
and an officer asked in English rs
every one off the ship?" Told that
they were not. he replied something
that sounded like 20. K" and a
laugh was heard.
The submarine drew quickly awav
and while still on the surface fred
torpedo which struck Just where
the second lifeboat was leaving the
ship. The explosion killed all but
two of the "A occupants in this
lifeboat.
The first lifeboat returned and
rescued the two survivors, Second
Officer Frank A. Santa of Mont
clair, N. j., and Kurt Wilhelm Con-
ska of Severn, Md, and Radio
Operator Paul Platt, no address
given, who leaped overheard. The
19 men in this lifeboat were rescued
the following day and brought to
New Orleans.
Four From Baltimore Killed.
Survivors said the sub crew either
had stalked the ship in daylight and
determined it was unprotected or
had knowledge of this fact from
other sources because it made no
effort at concealment from the
outset.
Those lost included Capt. Norris T.
Ella, Chief Mate Francis J. Trageser,
Chief Engineer William L. Gable
and Joseph Villa, all of Baltimore.
Six lives, including three officers,
were lost in the sinking of the large
cargo ship May l8.
Twenty-nine survivors were res
cued and landed at a gulf port
May %.
The ship, which previously escaped
from a submarine shelling March
20 in the Atlantic, was struck by
three torpedoes and sank quickly.
Evening star., 1942-05-30

Edwin Booth. On February 20, 1925,
he presented his production in Lon
don at the Haymarket Theater.
President and Mrs. Coolidge at
tended the Hamlet" first night in
Washington ana later entertained
him at the White House.
With that peak of triumph,
Barrymore virtually turned his back
on the legitimate stage. He had
been appearing in motion pictures
off and on since 1912, but princi-
pally in vacation seasons when
Broadway was dark. Now he went
in for films as a vocation. Holly
wood also saw the box office appeal
in teaming up the Barrymores and
John and Lionel established movie
record for brother acts" They
we're cast together first in "Arsene
Lupin" in 1881. Later Ethel was
with them in "Rasputin." Grand
Hotel" was one of the outstanding
dual triumphs of the brothers and
Dinner at Eight was another.
John Barrymore's marital affairs
put him in the news columns sew
eral times. His first marriage, on
October 10, 1910, was to Katherine
Cori Harris. 1t ended in an annul-
ment. On August l5, 1920. he mar
ried Mrs. Leonard Thomas, nee
Blance Oelrichs, who was Michael
Strange" to the literary world. A
1929 divorce ended this marriage,
whereupon he married Dolores Co.'S
tello, film star in her own right.
Elaine Barrie in Party.
A rift appeared in the Barrymore
menage in the spring of 1885 and
in May the wife filed suit for divorce
while John was on a yachting trip
to the West Indies. His party in
cluded Elaine Barrie and her
mother, the actor explaining that he
was coaching the young woman for
radio work. They all left the yacht
at Havana and flew back to the
United States, but Barrymore did
not contest his wife's suit and it
was granted in october, 1885.
More than a year later, on No
vember 8, 1885, Barrymore braved
marital fates for the fourth time
when he and Miss Barrie travelled
in a chartered plane from Holly
wood to Yuma, Ariz, and were mar
ried. They were accompanied by
Miss Barrie's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Jacobs. The union blossomed
from a romance which, after the
yachting trip to Havana, was
checked by stormy scene in Miss
Barrie's New York apartment.
Months later they were reconciled
in Hollywood but announced they
had given up thoughts of being
married. Barrymore, at the time of
the wedding revealed, however, that
a country telephone call to
New York in october had been the
means of persuading his youthful
protege again to change her mind.
She was 80 years his junior.
BY turns naughty and aloof, then
roguish and picturesque, Barrymore
was one of the footlights' and film
lands most colorful characters. His
conversation sparkled with deftly
turned phrases or flowed with Rabe-
laisian wit. He delighted in recalling
escapades of his youth and in telling
stories which made him the butt of
his own rapier- like thrusts or which
Knocked the dignity of the acting
profession as he Dracticed it.
THE stage? I'm never going
back" he once said. TITS work. Why
should I go back? In pictures can
loaf. I'm staying"
In the background Of this deter
mination there probably were mem.
cries Of early days when he was ION
Evening star., 1942-05-30
Comp Named for Soldier

CAIRO, Egypt, May 80 tP-An
American camp in the Near East
has been named for Sergt. Delmar
Park of Phoenix, Ariz., American
Army tank technician, who was
killed in the desert warfare last
November He is listed as the
first American casualty on this bat
tlefield.
Evening star., 1942-05-30
Bomber Crew Sofe
After BuiIinq Out
BY the Associated Press.

by tI6 hSSOCIdCtu PreSs.
LAKEVILLE, Mass, May 30.-The
entire crew of an Army bomber that
crashed and burned in a Lakeville
field last night was reported today
to have 'bailed out" safely.
Searchers said they had encoun-
tered the crew members, one by one,
at various points to which their
parachutes had carried them.
The plane crashed with roar
heard in surrounding communities.
Burning wreckage started a brush
fire that was extinguished by volun-
teer firemen.
Evening star., 1942-05-30

River Report. 4
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy
at Harpers Ferry: Potomac muddy at Great
Falls today.
Evening star., 1942-09-20


Ensign r. s. Weymouth. being assigned
to combat zone.
At st. Petersburg. Fla.
Three District men recently ar
rived at the Army Air Forces Re
placement Training Center here to
start their 30-day basic training.
They are: Pvts. Melvin S. Lieber-
man, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice
M. Lieberman, 1886 Thirteenth street
NV; Henry D. Sanders, jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry D. Sanders,
and Leonard H. Heitmuller, son of
Mrs. Lena Heitmuller, 1916 Shepherd
street NV. On completion of this
training they will be sent to an ad-
vanced school to prepare for Zine
duty" in maintaining and servicing
warplanes.
At Fort Benning, Ga.
Staff Sergt. Thomas Murray, 421
Randolph street NV, who has been
stationed here for three months,
received in August of this year his
Evening star., 1942-09-20
Fort Washington Glass
OF 1877 Get Commissions

Two men from the Washington
area were among 1877 who were grad
uated as members of the fifth officer
candidate class at the Adjutant
Generals School, Fort Washington
Md, yesterday.
Commissioned as second lieuten-
ants were John Beall Harvey, jr.
GIG S. Buchanan street, Arlington
Va, and George A. Pughe, jr., 1915
Cleveland avenue NV.
Col. Walter l.. Weible, deputy di-
rector of training, Services of Supply
was the graduation speaker. The
exercises were preceded by close
order drill on the parade ground at
9 am. The oath of Office was ad-
ministered to the new officers by
Maj. Charles F. KnoWlton, jr., post
adjutant.
The graduates left Immediately for
the posts to which they have been
assigned.
Evening star., 1942-09-20
Contest Is Announced
For War Poetry;
Awards Total $1,000

A War Poetry Contest, to be
open to all members of the
armed forces.S has been an
nounced by the publishers, A. S.
Barnes e. Co., 81 West Forty
fourth street, New York City.
with cash awards amounting to
$1,000.
The contest, inaugurated to
stimulate the publication of war
poetry, will be concluded Feb
ruary /, 1943. and all contribu-
tions will be collected in a book.
The Prize Award Committee
will consist of Grantland Rice.
author of only the Brave and
Other Poems," published in
1941; John Kieran, "Informa-
ton Please" expert, and Daniel
Henderson, author of "The
Road to France"
The poems may be simple
lyrics or ballads of camp life or
action at the battle fronts.
Evening star., 1942-09-20

and Mrs. Lee c. Warf1eld, Laytons-
vile, Md.
At Quonset Point, R..
1t. Harold E. Jones, husband of
Mrs. Lucy Cobb Jones, 3O18 Porter
street NV, is now training at the
Naval Air Station here. In civilian
life, 1t. Jones was economic analyst
for the Bureau of Foreign and Do
mesttc Commerce. He was formerly
publisher of the Temple City
(CalifD Times.
At Paris Island, S. C.,
Six men who recently enlisted in
the Marine Corps are in training
here. They are Pvts. Donovan E.
Burkett, son of Mr.. and Mrs. T. J.
Deming, 2737 Nichols avenue Sc:
Gerald J. ODay, 1914 Connecticut
avenue NV; Louis M. Lieb, 1893
Seventh street NE, son of Bernard
j. Lieb; Thomas F. Harris, son of
Ralph E. Harris, 313 Fifteenth street
NE; Leo j. Hayes, son of Mrs. K.
j, Hayes. 3435 Brown street NV,
and Frank B. Smith, son of Col.
Harry O. Smith, 110 Taylor street,
Chevy Chase, Md.
At Shaw Field, s. C.
Aviation Cadet John N. Rauchen-
stein, 1900 North Harvard street
Arlington, Va, recently graduated
from the Army Air Forces Basic
Training School here and has been
sent to an advanced flying school in
Georgia, where, on graduation, he
will receive his wings and COM
mission.
At Nashville, Tenn.
Cadet Joseph w. Scott, 2s. son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. James E. Scott.
3644 Calvert street NV, recently
entered the Army Air Forces CLASH
f1cation Center here. Cadet Scott is
a graduate of Catholic University
where he was chairman of the Stu
dent Council and president of his
senior class. Prior to entering the
Army, he was employed by the Cen
eral Electric Co. His father is as
sistant director of the budget.
At Keesler Field, Miss.
Second 1t. Robert E. Dougherty
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett G..
Evening star., 1942-09-20
Special Yom Kippur
Services Planned for
Men in Army and Nav,
Rites to Be Held at
Community Center
Tonight and Tomorrow

Special services in observance of
Yom Kippur, most sacred day of the
Hebrew calendar, will be held to-
night and tomorrow at the Jewish
Community Center, Sixteenth and
@ streets NV, for Jewish men Of
the armed forces and their families
in the Washington area.
In hundreds of Army chapels,
USO clubs, Jewish centers and COM
munity synagogues in this country
and abroad services will be held for
the Hebrew men of this Nation S
fighting branches. Arrangements
for this observance have been made
by the Army, Navy, USO and the
Jewish Welfare Board.
At the Jewish Community Center
today's service will commence at 7
pm. Another service will be held
at 10 am. tomorrow with a me-
mortal service at l pm. The clos
ing ceremony of Yom Kippur will
start at sundown tomorrow. Rabbi
Isadore Breslau and Cantors
Abrasha Rabofsky and Louis Fenik
will off1ciate.
The opening service of Yom Kip
pur for Jewish men and women IN
defense work will be held at o'clock
tonight at the First Congregational
Church, Tenth and G streets NV,
with Rabbi Morton Fierman offlciat-
Ing. Rabbi Fierman is director of
religious education for the Wash
1ngton Hebrew Congregation and
acting chaplain at Boiling Field.
simultaneously a similar service,
with Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld Of
hclatlng, will take place at the
washington Hebrew Congregation
Temple, Eighth and H streets NV.
Evening star., 1942-09-20
rs District Area Men Tokino
training at Miami Beach Base
Ensign on Overseas Duty Sends Recording
Of Thanks for His Friends Letters

Tolar, husband of Mrs. Marye w.
Tolar, 2712 Thirty fifth place NV.
Jerry N. Griffin, husband of Mrs.
Johnnie G. Gdiff1n. 1915 Kalorama
road NV: Stanley E. True, husband
of Mrs. Emile D. True, 311 Cumber-
land avenue, Chevy Chase, Md, and
Martin S. Hayden, husband of Mrs.
Elizabeth D. Hayden, 1901 Sioux
place NV.
Eleven District area men. execu-
tives in specialized businesses, are
now in training at the Air Forces
officers training school here to di-
rect administrative and supply oper-
ations of the ground forces. They
are: Capts Maurice Lubore. former
attorney at the Bureau of Narcotics
and husband of Mrs Naomi Lubore,
5501 Thirtieth street NV; George
Lewis jerks, former sales engineer
with the Washington Gas Light Co.,
and husband of Mrs. Mary Evelyn
jerks, 1920 Chevy Chase boulevard,
Chevy Chase. Md, and James l.. Ad-
Ter, former executive with Pittsburgh
Crushed Steel Co.. and husband of
Mrs. Louise C. Adler, Westchester
Apartments; First Its. Ellis Names
Jones, former reviewer -conferee for
the Internal Revenue Bureau and
husband of Mrs. Lucille Millen Jones,
5531 Manning drive, Bethesda, Md.
Mitchell Dreese, former dean and
professor of psychology, George
Washington University, and hus-
band of Mrs. Dorothy Dreese, Abs
41st street North, Arlington, Va;
John B. Hogan, former attorney and
investigator in the Justice Depart
ment and husband of Mrs. Catherine
B. Hogan, 2123-A Suitland terrace
Sc; James @. Huey, former investi-
gator of fiscal matters, controller
generals office, and husband of
Mrs. Marie H. Huey, 404 Meadow
lane, Falls Church, Va, and Hamil-
ton w. Bendelari, former industrial
adviser and husband of Mrs. Jane
c. Bendelari, 1000 Cathedral avenue
NV; Second Its. George G.. Butler,
former manager of the Washington
National Airport and husband of
Mrs. June H. Butler, GIT Haddon
drive, Takoma Park, Md; Lamar E.
Chamberlain, former investigator
and claims attorney for Travellers
Insurance Co., 1906 Davis place
NV. and Frank J. Dugan, former
attorney and husband of Mrs.
Frances l.. Dugan, 636 Rock Creek
Church road NV,
Evening star., 1942-09-20
Veteran of Fighting in France
Back for Another Crack at Foe
Lloyd Moore, Ambulance Volunteer
Was Under Deuee Of Shells and Bombs

French authorities could capture It's
pilot the peasants had knocked on
his head.
Once he and his squad we're called
I'D to administer to eight French
men mangled by mortar. -Four
were dead when we arrived" he eX-
planned, two we're unconscious.
seventh was moaning and crying
with his shoulder torn to shreds.
Over on a mound of earth legless
soldier struggled to get to his elbow.
and exclaimed pathetically, The
poor fellow. He has no luck. Then
he died"
Moore said that he assisted in the
transfer of Is tons of medical sup
plies to Dunkerque during the evac-
uation, but that he got out of there
as soon as his work was done. 1t
was plenty hot for me" he declared.
High in the praise of the medical
in the armies, Moore particularly
extolled the courage of the stretcher
bearers. who have got to take 1t and
can't give it back. They can't run
with the poor blokes on the stretch
ers, and they really take a beating.
Moore has had his experiences
with the Gestapo, too.
On December %, 1910, he was ar
rested for wearing a military coat
and speaking English in restau-
rant. He was accused of being an
escaped English prisoner and even
his ambulance was dubbed counter
felt" by the suspicious Nazis.
"a German officer who had lived
in California finally interviewed me-"
he added, "and he tried to catch
me up on American history and
geography. / finally convinced him.
They let me go eight hours later"
| But that wasn't Moores only ex-
perience with the police.
Arrested by French.
February of this year he was
arrested by the French in Marseille
for allegedly aiding foreign
agent" to escape. 1t took him eight
days this time to convince the irate
French authorities that the man he
helped was a Britisher and not abet-
ted by the Nazi government.
I'VE laid on cold benches and ate
bread and coffee in the dirtiest Jail
have ever seen, but they finally
let us go with apologies" he said
AS for wounds suffered in action,
Moore had to think bit. "Oh, yes"
he said, Il got blood poisoning once
in France when I cut my hand
changing a tire! And I almost for
got. have water on the knee, too.
That got when drove the majors
car into shell hole in the highway.
I caught the devil for that"
| Moore was lieutenant in Section
Of the Gen. Pershing Ambulance
Section. Later he was transferred to
the Benjamin Franklin Section III.
He returned to the United States
July Z Of this year on the S. S.
Drottningholm in an exchange of
| German prisoners. How did he get
in Unoccupied France to make the
trip? He swan across the Boug
River with German bloodhounds
only few miles off his heels. Since
his return he has spent his time
trying to enlist in the United States
Army
''They threw lot of hell at me
when I WASH t able to throw 1t back"
he declared emphatically, "and now
I'd like to take crack at them!"
Evening star., 1942-09-20
Purple Heart Award
On Wholesale Scale
Ordered by u. 5.
All Soldiers Wounded
Or Killed to Be Given
Historic Decoration
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Purple Heart, oldest Amer
lean military decoration, is to be
awarded to all Army personnel killed
or wounded by enemy action, the
War Department announced yester-
day,
The award will be made post
humously to relatives of military or
civilian personnel who meet death
while serving in any capacity with
the Army.
1t will be given to all wounded
while serving with the Army in
any capacity, provided the wounds
require medical treatment.
The Purple Heart was authorized
by George Washington from his
headquarters at Newburgh, N. Y,
August 7, 1882, during the Revolu-
ton. While special and commem-
orative medals had been issued
previously by the infant Govern
ment, no decorations had been au-
thorized.
The decoration is believed to be
the first in history to be awarded
to all ranks of soldiers.
Washington directed that "when-
ever any singularly meritorious ac-
tion is performed, the author of
it shall be permitted to wear on
his facings, over his left breast.
the figure of heart in purple
cloth or silk, with narrow lace
binding" and added, "the road to
glory in a patriot army and a free
country is thus opened to ALL"
The decoration was revived by
the War Department February %,
1882. 1t is in the form of gold
heart with a gold silhouette of
Washington in the center. This
is mounted on background of
purple enamel. The medal Is sus-
pended from purple ribbon which
is edged in white.