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Evening star., 1942-11-15
Daughters Of America

Meetings this week: Monday, John
Burnett, Eagle; Tuesday. Liberty,
Star Spangled Banner, Mount Ver-
non, Red Cross Unit; Wednesday,
Anacostia, Kenmore, Betsy Ross;
Thursday, Mizpah, Triumph, Bar
bara. Frietchie, and Friday, May
flower, Friendship.
State visitation to Betsy Ross
Council, Northeast Temple, Novem-
Der Is.
Thanksgiving service ut st. Marks
Episcopal Church, November "a ct
7:45 pm.
Unity Council viii have . party
November a at 2407 Minnesota ave-
nue. S.E.
Mizpah Council will have q dinner
and bazaar, December 3 at S22 Twen-
tieth street NV.
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Bill Would Retire
Disabled Officers at
Temporary Rank

Legislation was approved by tho
Senate Military Affairs COMMITTEES
last week that would permit officers
OF the several components of the
Army, If retired for physical disabil.
lty, to retire in their temporary
ranks. The bill is Of particular in
terest to Regular Army, Reserve and
National Guard officers, all of whom
can serve In temporary higher
grades.
The bill was amended by the com.
mlttee to cover II officers retired for
physical disability while holding
temporary rank during the World
War and n officers retired for
physical disability while holding ad-
vanced rank under the Air Corps
Promotion Act of 1896. The legisia-
ton also includes all officers tenn
porarlly promoted since September
9, 1910, or who may hereafter be
temporarily promoted.
Regular Army commissioned per.
sonnel retired under the bill will be
entitled to receive IS per cent of tho
active duty pay Of the temporary
grade. Officers of the other com.
ponents of the Army Of the United
States, though not actually retired,
will be entitled to receive retire.
ment pay based on rs per cent Of
the active duty pay Of their grade.
Of interest to Reserve officers on
active duty with the military estab-
nshment is a proposed substitute
uniform allowance law for the Army.
Under the provisions, uniform allow
ances for all officers below the grade
OF major now on active duty and for
all warrant officers except those
drawing the pay and allowances of
the fourth pay period, would be au-
thorized.
The proposal, which will repeal
the act Of May IA, 1910 (original $50
a year for three years. and the act
OF March 9, 1912 (3150 uniform al
lowance act) broadens the SCOPE Of
the two previous acts. This sub
stitute uniform allowance proposal
not only increases the allowances
from $3.50 to $3.50, but It entities Of
f1cers who already have received the
$3.50 allowances to receive the ad.
ditional 500.
The Bureau Of the Budget is op-
posed to this increase In the amount
OF the uniform allowances, and the
indications are that some congress
sional opposition may be encoun-
tered. On the other hand, however,
the Navy, Marine Corps and the
Coast Guard are authorized q ur,f-
form allowance Of $3.50.
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US0 Units Increase
In War Plant Areas

The number of United Service
Organizations units providing serv-
ices for war workers in communities
where facilities for recreation and
welfare are inadequate has in
creased II per cent, Mrs. Pearl c.
Blough, USO secretary for industrial
work, said yesterday.
OF the total Of 1,07l units now In
operation, 200 are providing some
sort Of service to war workers, Mrs.
Blough said. USO expenditures for
service to war workers is only 6 per
cent of the organizations total ex-
penditures, she said. The organi-
zation provides services for war
workers only. at Government re-
quest and only in communities
where local facilities are inadequate,
she added.
MANY USO units now serve both
men Of the armed forces and war
workers." continued Mrs. Blough.
In some communities USO clubs
are used by families Of war workers.
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Auxiliary
Adopts Wards al
Mt. Alto Hospital
Police and Fire Unit
To Give Bineo Porty
Niqht of Nov. Is

Miss Edna Mcintosh, rehabilita-
ton chairman OF the District of Co.
lumbia Auxiliary, the American Le-
gion, announced several units have
adopted" wards at Mount Alto Hos
pital to be visited at least once each
month, accompanied by post COM
manders.
They are: Lincoln, ward A, "a pa
tients; Nash, ward B, 43 patients;
Walker, ward c. 80 patients; Sergt.
Jasper, ward D, As patients; Po-
tomac, ward E, AZ patients; Police
and Fire, ward E2, 65 patients; Nc
Alexander and Capital Transit,
Ward E3, IS patients; G. P. O., ward
G, q patients.
A Christmas party will be held at
Mount Alto on the evening Of De-
cember 20. On November 16 the
Police and Fire Unit will give a bingo
party. Beginning In January, the
third Friday night in each month is
to be known at the hospital as Amer
ican Legion Auxiliary night with 4
bingo party in the recreation hall.
Prizes will include boxes Of sta
tionery. s -s
There will be a meeting Of the De-
partment Publicity Committee At 8
pm. tomorrow at the Legion club.
There will be a meeting Of the
Department Rehabilitation Com
mittee at the Legion club On No.
vember 10, at 8 pm.
Until further notice department
headquarters will be open only ON
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
from 6 to 8 pm. when the depart
ment president and department sec
retary will be in attendance. Other
evenings will be by appointment
only in case of emergency.
There will be a Community Serv-
ice Committee meeting at the club
on November IT, at 8 pm.
A luncheon In honor of LIE Cha
peau National Hazel Davis Of Den
yer, Colo, national head of the Eight
and Forty, was held yesterday at the
Army Navy Club.
Government Printing Ofice Unit
met November 4 at the Government
Printing Ofnce. They decided on
their Thanksgiving basket, also the
Christmas party at Mount Alto Hos
pital.
There will be = special meeting
November 18.
Sergt. Jasper Auxiliary Unit wa
called to order by the president, Mrs
Maudie M. Brunson.
The chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee announced q
bingo party to be held November IA
at the home Of Mrs. E. S. Schuler
1922 Rogart road NV.
The child welfare chairman re-
ported the project for the year to be
the contribution of the germicidal
lamp for the Children's Hospital
The unit voted the funds for the
lamp.
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Ben Hur News

Edward G. Walker, having received
the largest number Of votes in this
city and Baltimore for alternate to
the national convention, Mckinley
Court members celebrated the event
with an oyster supper and an enter
tainment. Chief Charles G. Lewis
presided ut the business session and
Charles o. Fischer was master OF
ceremonies.
The meetings to be held In
Pythian Temple are: Monday, Poto-
mac Court and the Executive Board; ;
Tuesday, Mckinley Court, and ri
day, United Court. Congressional
Court VIII meet wednesday at the
hoano e oczabo Hm9 Jooaneon.
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Retired Enlisted Men

The following have been nomi-
mated as officers: Commander, d. j.
MAlenfant; vice commander, j. E.
Montgomery; quartermaster, L. A.
0rubb: chaplain, II. J. WE'LL; ofncer
Of the day, T. M. Phillips; ofIlcer
Of the guard, T. Eckam: quarter
master sergeant, q. Darhanian, and
adjutank J. v. Mckay.
Plans are being made for the
annual banquet b follow installa.
tn & emeegs Il jannaxy.
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conductress, Mrs. Hazel Barsa;
chaplain, Mrs. Nellie Dodson; mar
shall, Mrs. Lola Heise; organist,
Mrs. Kathryn Rogers; Adah, Mrs.
Elva Smith; Ruth, Mrs. Margie
Hanlin; Esther, Mrs. Susan Swartz;
Martha, Mrs. Mildred Buckley;
Electa, Mrs. Daisy Smith; warder,
Mrs. Ida Elms, and sentinel, James
Enos.
Installing officers will be: Mrs.
Mary w. Kissinger, matron; Mrs.
Nora Martinsky, marshal; Mrs. Lii
liam Damitz, chaplain, and Mrs.
Anna Lambert, organist.
Mrs. Katherine Ernstedt, matron
of st. Johns Lodge Chapter, an
nounces installation of officers to-
morrow night.
Friendship Chapter will have a
turkey dinner on November 81, from
to pm, at 4441 Wisconsin avenue
NV.
Installation of officers on Novem-
Der "a.
Gavel Chapter elected as officers:
Matron, Martha Trueblood; patron,
T. A. Trueblood: associate matron,
Letha Hopkins; associate patron,
Eugene Hopkins; secretary, Louise
Darby; treasurer, jeanette Praetor-
ius; conductress, Naomi Holmes; as
sociate conductress, Flo Suter,
Installation will take place Tues
day.
Mrs. Jane Duval, matron Of Ca
thedral Chapter, announces the
Ways and Means Committee will
meet tomorrow night at 1922 Jocelyn
street NV, with Past Matrons
Geneva Perry and Edith Young as
hostesses.
Mrs. Rena K. Hunt, matron of
Martha Chapter, announces the next
meeting will be the installation OF
officers.
Mizpah Chapter elected as officers
Edith Biggs, matron; Elinor Rat
cliffe, associate matron; Caroline
Pickel, secretary; Mary Kunkel,
treasurer; Mary Pettis, conductress,
and Fannie Parish, associate con-
ductress. Installation will be held
November II.
The 1928 Matrons and Patrons
Association will meet November Il
at 8 pm. at the home of Mrs. Lulu
Glover with Mrs. Sadie Boyce as
sisting. Plans will be made for
q Christmas party.
Mrs. Mary r. Lewis, matron OF
William F. Hunt Chapter, announces
the final meeting of the Home Board
at the home of p. M. Sister Richards
tomorrow at 8 pm.
Mrs. Varina H. Penrod. matron OF
Areme Chapter, announces on
Wednesday the following officers will
be installed: Miss Mildred Brown,
matron; Jesse Newton, patron: Miss
Elizabeth Knight, associate matron;
Miss Lille B. Dowrick, secretary;
Mrs. Mary Jane Jester, treasurer;
Mrs. Grace Williams, conductress;
Mrs. Selma Newton, associate con-
ductress; Mrs. Edna Wallace, chap
lain; Mrs. Ellen Beavers, marshal;
Theodore c. Frech, organist; Mrs.
Bertha Kunst, Ada; Mrs. Cora v.
WEIGH, Ruth; Mrs. Eleanor Hase
Esther; Mrs. Estelle Gather, Mar
tina; Miss Elizabeth Smitskamp,
warder; Moses Morris, sentinel;
Louis Allen Smith, trustee.
The installing officers are: Past
Grand Matron Bena .Barnhart,
matron; Past Patron Conrad Alber-
ding, patron; Past Matron Ruth
Newcomer, chaplain: Past Matron
Marion Mitchell, organist; Past
Matron Helen Rubenstein, marshal: !:
Miss Carrie Newcomer, warder, and
Past Patron Walter Rubenstein,
| sentinel,
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Sd Division Society

Tho following Marnemen Joined
the society since the last meeting
Of Washington branch: Brig. Gen.
Patrick J. Hurley, U. 8. A.; Col.
Paul p. Logan, q. 8. A.: George w.
Sartain. D. 8. c.; Maj. +. J. Cullen,
M. c.; Col. Stewart E. Reimel and
Capt. William H. McGrath, U. s. A.;
John P. Robey, John B. Dickman, r.,
and 1t. Victor 8. Little D. 8. M.
A membership contest Is being
conducted between Washington.
Philadelphia and New York.
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Odd Fellows

Grand Patriarch Samuel Lebo-
witz win close his series Of vista
tions tomorrow night \ at Mount
Nebo Encampment meeting In the
Seventh street temple.
Mrs. Esther Anderson, president
Of the Rebekah Assembly, and her
corps Of officers Will visit Fidelity
Lodge, 2020 Rhode Island avenue,
Tuesday. 3 pm.
Ladies' auxiliary, Patriarch Mill
tant, win meet ct l1e SEVENTH street
NV, 9at1fday O. . pm.
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Sons and Daughters
Of Liberty

Washington Council met with
Councillor Mrs. Elizabeth Deakins
presiding. National Associate Vice
Councillor Miss Madge Mills spoke,
followed by Deputy State Councillor
Mrs. Jessie Richards on United
States Bond drive being conducted
by the council.
The next meeting will be Wednes-
day night ct Z Fourth street NE,
when they viii entertain members
Of this district, Virginia and Mary
land.
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Fleet Reserve Association

Branch No. 4 win meet tomorrov
evening at 10l2 Ninth street NV.
There viii be . prominent speaker.
Members and eligible shipmateo
of the Metropolitan Area, - well .
yidting associates, ars invited. xe.
3koohmauA9 W1n bo served
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Jobs Douohters

Bethel No. : win honor present
and past honored queens. November
10. The date Of this meeting y
advanced beeaAse q ThAnng1y1ng.
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Masonic Grand Master
Plans visifations

Grand Master Noble D. Larner,
accompanied by the officers of the
Masonic Grand Lodge, will pay off,
cial visits to the following lodges
this week: Thursday night, Con-
gress, Brightwood and Stansbury:
Friday night, Justice and Barristers.
Anacostia Lodge will have the
E. A. degree tomorrow night.
National Lodge will devote Tues
day night to business.
Master Ralph Lancaster of Myron
M. Parker Lodge announces the
F.. c. degree Tuesday night.
$. Russell Wolfgram, master of King
David Lodge, has scheduled the
M. M. degree Tuesday night. Senior
Warden Lollo will be in the East.
East Gate Lodge will confer the
e. A. degree Wednesday night.
Master Thomas Jones Of Naval
Lodge announces the E. A. degree
Thursday night.
Clifford Grant, master Of La
Fayette Lodge, has arranged for
the F. G. degree Thursday night.
Hiram Lodge will confer the E. A.
degree Thursday night and Petworth
Lodge the M. M. degree.
Master Harry Bowman Of Joseph
H. Milans Lodge announces the
M. M. degree Friday night.
A. Russell Miller of Lebanon
Lodge lists the F. c. degree Friday
night. Memorial night will also
be observed.
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The Ancient and Accepted Scot
tish Rite will confer the 21st degree
on the Limerty Glass Tuesday eve
ming. Visitors who are members of
the Rite are invited to be present.
Mithras Lodge Of Perfection will
meet preceding the eonferring Of
the degree.
Rush 8. Young, illustrious master
OF Adoniran Council, No. 2, Royal
and Select Masters, announces No
vember 10 degree work. All sojourn-
ing select masters are invited.
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: Ruth E. Gray, matron of East
Gate Chapter, announces the chap
ter will have charge Of the religious
services ut the Masonic and East
ern Star Home today ct ; pm.
The following ofncers will be In
stalled on November 20: Matron,
Mrs. Reah Davis; patron. Frank
Heise; associate matron, Mrs. Ruth
Dicksrson: associate patron, David
0nita: semstafy, Mrs.. Mars o.
In: 69ASWog. Nm. 0slo 1n1s:
Evening star., 1942-09-15
I'D Rather Be Right
Congress No Longer Relied On for Investigations
Since Inquiries Adopted Vaudeville Tactics

cies into free -booting grand iuries,
out to indict the administration.
Thus the committees have given
up investigating the state of the
Nation: they prefer to spend their
long afternoons in hostile heckling
of some agency head, as Howard
Smith used to heckle the Labor
Board people, and as Mr.. Dies used
to find radicals in every bureau. with
the result that in the year in which
we ran short of rubber and steel,
Congress chief discovery was that
the administration had hired Miss
Mayris CLANCY.
The remarkable outcome is that
congressional committees which
were prostituted into becoming
agencies for destroying the admin
istration have come near DESTROYING
themselves.
Legislative SIingshots.
So many of the committees have
become political weapons, loaded
legisla tive slingshots, that the pub
lie has caught on. 1t has sensed
the hardened hostility of the Coxes
and Dieses and Howard Smiths to
the administration, it has seen Leon
Henderson weary and limp after
hours of partisan pounding; it has
watched Congress gleefully make a
joke of Mr.. Ickes's oil pipeline; it
has observed the bitterness with
which the committees tried to de-
stroy such agencies of the little man
as the Far Security Administration
1t has failed to see any committee
rejoice that the Rural Electrifcation
Administration brought electricity to
the farmer, but has seen several
committees 60 into a tizzy of spite
full joy on discovering that this
agency had stored away some copper.
Now, when we really need a sober
investigation, when a vaudeville act
simply will not do, we find our
selves turning to private citizens.
That is sad.
The blame lies on those politicians
who decided that a congressional
committee could be first-rate polit-
ical weapon. They Titled Congress
down. they shrank 1t and miniatur-
lied 1t. Now. when we need a big
Congress, they find it has lost its
stretch.
Short-sighted, bitter men made
Congress over from a general in
stitution to special institution; the
public now accepts its special pur-
poses, and when 1t wants the gen.
eral truth, turns elsewhere.
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producing great quantities of
modern war equipment. Ship
yards in Germany and France
are turning out large number
of submarines.
The Germans now have on
hand large supply of war mate
rial, enough to carry on the war
for many years. But this mate
rial is immobilized because the
Nazis do not have enough gas
and oil to keep their formidable
war machine In action.
In Russia, tanks and planes
bear the brunt of all attacks.
The same is true of Africa. The
consequence appears to be that
oil and gas production, both nat
ural and synthetic, is no longer
sufficient for the large scale op-
erations the Nazis are under
taking and reserve supplies are
now being heavily taxed.
This explains why the Nazis
are attacking with such determi-
nation in Southern Russia, where
great quantities of oil are located.
The principal objective is, OF
course, to cut off oil supplies from
the Soviet forces. At the same
time, however, they are fighting
to obtain an unlimited supply OF
gasoline and oil for themselves
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This Changing World
kozis Concerned Over Monpower Losses;
Heavy Casualties Suffered by Germon Allies

counterattacks. This explains
why in recent weeks so many ma
tionalSof Germany's allies have
preferred to 60 into the hills and
organize guerrilla forces to agnt
the Nazis.
The Carpathian Mountains are
said to be full of such men who
have established contact with the
Yugoslav Chetnik commander in
chief, Gen. Draja Milhailovic,
and are being supplied by him
from his scant stores OF arms
and ammunition.
According to information COM
ing from the same sources, the
Nazis have begun to feel the
pinch in gasoline and oil. The
submarine campaign and opera
tions in Europe and Africa are
consuming unbelievably large
quantities of oil and gas. The
production of the Rumanian oil
fields has been stepped up.
Material Immobilized.
The production of synthetic
gas also has been increased and
the oil fields of Albania and Po-
land are being exploited for all
they are worth. But their yield
in quantity and quality is poor.
The arms factories working for
the Nazis in Germany and the
subjected countries-particularly
France and Observation-Disclosures
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Petition Of 100 Seeks
Traffic Islands Removal

A petition of more than 100 names
will be sent to District officials today
by the West End Citizens Associa-
ton asking for removal OF a traffic
island in the middle of New Hamp-
shire avenue at the intersection with
Twenty second and L streets NV.
A resolution condemning the
island was passed at a meeting of
the association last night at 2027
H street NV. Walter F. Wasson,
president of the association, who
said there had been a number of
accidents at the intersection. urged
the removal of the island and the
installation of three-way light.
Reversing its previous position for
retention of Western Market as a
market, the group also adopted a
| resolution recommending that it be
turned over to the District Recrea-
ton Committee to be converted into
a recreation center for the white
people Of the area. Mr.. Wasson said
that only about one fifth of the
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BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.


Where is Congress? Don't look
now, but Congress has just lost an
other function. 1t used to be our
chief investigatory agency into the
public business. But when we fell
into mess on rubber the President
found 1t necessary to appoint the
Baruch Committee, consisting of
private citizens, and so great is It's
prestige, so sound its work, that
Congress will now be compelled to
adopt Its recommendations.
That means that Congress, which
long ago began to delegate the func-
ton of making technical decisions,
is now losing the function of crit
icizing them when made.
In the good old days, before con-
gressional Investigations became
sideshows, congressional COM
mittee's report on rubber would
have been a solemn piece of busi-
ness Not the least of the harm Mr..
Dies has done to his own Congress
is that few people now accept a
congressional committees findings
as final; they are only semifinal and
have to rechecked.
Doesn't Take Itself Seriously.
So Congress now delegates to
private experts the making of deci-
sions on rubber, how much to pro-
duce and where and when, and when
| the rubber program goes badly, the
job of finding out why is delegated
to still another private group. This
leaves Congress merely paying the
bills and wondering why it was
born.
The people do not take Congress
seriously for the suff1cient reason
that 1t does not take itself seriously.
The Investigations it does conduct
are planned by hired impresarios
these days, like vaudeville acts, with
one eye on the audience in the room
and the other on the headlines
Witnesses are summoned for their
publicity value; chemists who should
know better go through the mean
ingless but pleasantly spectacular
charade of making" rubber in the
committee room; cards" of wit
nesses are arranged so as to total ur
to good days show, like program
ing race meet, and, more and
more. the witnesses before congress
sional committees tend to become
celebrities who are good copy.
Investigations once used to be
conducted for the purpose of pro-
ducing sensible final report; they
are now planned largely to produce
day by day sensations, a good run
ming story, and nobody ever reads
the final report. Sometimes, in fact
it is never written, like the still
missing final report Of last years
committee to investigate war
mongering" in Hollywood.
There is a special reason for this
So many congressional committee
have, as chairmen, old-line con-
servatives who have for year.
wanted only to destroy Presiden
Roosevelt's reforms that they hav,
imperceptibly changed their com
mittees over from fact-finding agen