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Evening star., 1942-05-16
Naval Personnel Bureau
Replaces NAVIGATION Unit

The Bureau of Navigation of the
Navy Department, long concerned
principally with matters of person.
mel, yesterday was renamed the
Bureau of Naval Personnel. The
change was made in accordance
with an act of Congress signed
Wednesday by President Roosevelt.
The bureau was founded in 1862
as a purely scientific bureau to
take over the photographic work OF
the old Bureau of Ordnance and
Hydrography. The photographic
office and the Naval Observatory
recently we're shifted to the Office
of Chief of Naval Operations.
Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs,
who was chief of the Bureau of
Navigation, remains as chief OF
Naval Personnel.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Mrs. Margaret Woods
Services Slated Monday

REQUIEM mass for Mrs. Margaret
Wood. 81, lifelong resident of Wash
ington, will be celebrated at 8 am.
Monday at the Church Of the Ma
tivity, 5000 block Georgia avenue
NV. InIerment will be in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
Mrs. Wood, widow of George o.
Wood, died early yesterday at her
home, 6920 Eighth street NV. after
a long illness.
Survivors include three sons, Ed
win O., Magnus P. and Noel o.
Wood, and two daughters, Mrs. John
M. McLachlen and Mrs. Edwin G.
Evans, all residents of this city.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The German claim of having
sunk q United States cruiser of
the Pensacola class in Arctic
waters has not been confirmed in
Washington, but mention of this
warship brings to notice activ-
tiles Of a portion of the Amer
ican and British navies which
seldom come to public attention.
While United Nations naval
and air forces have been fight
ing spectacular battles in the
Pacific. drawing the lions share
Of public acclaim, little has been
said about the terrific job being
done by Allied men-of-war which
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Cliff Todd, Trainer, Dies

CINCINNATI, May 16 (P.-Cliff
Todd, SO, known throughout the Mid
west as trotting horse trainer and
driver, died last night. Among
horses he developed were Lilac Hills,
a winner of the Governors Cup at
the Ohio State Fair a dozen years
ago; Greyworthy, world champion,
and Ella NJ, winner of Is of II races.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Thoi|ond May Transfer
CopitoI From Bangkok

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC From Japanese Broad
casts, May 16.-The Thailand gov
ernment mas decided to move its
capital from Bangkok near the
coast to "the Buddhist city" of Sara
Burr 10 miles inland to the north
east, Nichi Nichi said today.
Bangkok would remain the COM
mercial center Of the country, and
the transfer would not be completed
until l945, the newspaper said.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Massachusetts, Boys Get
First Air Scout Charter

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, May 16.-Youve heard
of Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts. Now
it's Air Scouts.
The Boston Council of the Boy
Scouts of America announced last
night that squad in Chelsea has
received the first Air Scout charter
in the Nation.
The Chelsea group. composed of
air-minded youths IS to 19 years
old, will engage in groundwork only.
It's activities will be conducted at
various available airports.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Permission to Dredee
Boot Slip Is Sought

b. the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Md, May 16-The
Brooklyn Engineering Corp, Brook
lyn, Nd, applied to the United
States Engineers Office for War
Department permit to dredge boat
slip in Annapolis harbor and to
deposit dredge material ashore.
ut Is understood that the vessel
Governor Harrington will be
moored in the proposed Slip" the
office said. Protests or criticisms
should be submitted on or before
May Is.
Evening star., 1942-05-16

pOrI WdlLNIg Tor
ships and that
war goods are
"piling UP at the
docks on both
coasts and are
backing up at
some inland war
plants because
of ship short
age, 1t Is not
merely the reve-
lation of that
/ n form a t | on
which is signif-
cent but the
Evening star., 1942-05-16

come?
No such terrific
initial tempest
on q wide front
as was feared
began the Often
sive. But il ple "
the lid of the
German general
strategic plan in
C o m b II a t ion
with the power
full r u S S ! a n
counterofe
on the German
Evening star., 1942-05-16

THE opinions OF the ers this page their oun not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented The
Stars effort to giue all sides OF questions of interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
FiguresGiive
dStory
OfShippine
Admiral GreensIude
Points Picture to
Spur Workers
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

When an admiral in command of
q naval district makes a public
speech revealing that 10000 military
trucks are standing at an East Coast
Evening star., 1942-05-16
BY COL. FREDERICK PALMER.

Now that the German offensive In
Russia is in its second week, what
is the outlook for the hong pull in
the protracted titanic struggle to
Evening star., 1942-05-16

War bonds are An investment In
Americas future. Nothing In the
world Is safer today. Buy!
Evening star., 1942-05-16

vital strategic Col. Frederick Palmer.
point of Kharkov. 1t revealed
underlying factors which had a most
heartening effect for a long pull.
This year Adolf Hitler ha1 rot
the force he had then to repeat the
strategic plan Of June, 194l, by at
tacking the whole length of the
front when his aim was to break
the Russian Army into complete
defeat and disorganization. Then
by a final decisive thrust, after mas
tering the Ukraine grain fields and
the industrial region Of the Donets
Basin, he would capture the Russian
oil fields.
If this plan had worked. Russia
would have been without plans for
making new arms or ammunition,
and without oil and gas her army
as helpless as though its legs were
paralyzed.
Hitler's power would have ex-
tended from the Atlantic coast
across Western Asia to the Arabian
Sea and the Himalayan roof Of the
world.
After the speed With which the
Germans had crushed the French
Army, seen by the German staff as
alone in Europe worthy Of German
steel, crushing that inferior anna
teur, the Russian Army looked like
a cinch
All-Out Plan Discarded.
But not again would the German
Army drive it's costly salients around
Moscow and plod through the
marshes to encircle Leningrad only
to suffer costly retreats. Such an
all-out plan is evidently out of the
reckoning even by Hitler, who con-
siders himself a supergenius of
military intuition.
That of itself is . confession O.
the bloody lesson he has learned In
German Army limitations and Rus
sian strength. When he told his
soldiers in his recent speech that
they might have to stay in Russia
next winter he did not surely mean
to imply that this would be in their
graves for a multitude of them. 1t
looks now like an admission that he
did not expect to crush the Russian
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Philip Williams Dies;
judge and Attorney
3, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WOODSTOCK, Va, June 29.-
Philip Williams, SO, trial justice of
Shenandoah County for the last four
years and formerly Commonwealth's
attorney. died at his home here yes
terday after an illness of several
weeks.
Judge Williams served as super
intendent of schools in Shenandoah
County from 1911 to 1914, when he
was appointed Commonwealth's at
torney. He was reelected to that
Office several times.
Surviving are his widow Mrs. Re-
becca Paxton Williams; three sons,
Philip OF the University of Virginia,
John, midshipman at the Naval
Academy, and William of Wood
stock, ard two brothers, the Rev.
Twyman Williams of Hampden-
Sydney College and Prof. Clayton E.
williams Of the w. and L. law school.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
D. {. Methodists Named
To Conference Posts
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
WESTMINSTER, Md, June 29.-
Walter A. Graham of Mount Vernon
Place Church, Washington, was re-
appointed conference director and
assembly dean yesterday as the
second annual young adults as
sembly of the Baltimore Conference
of the Methodist Church ended.
Miss Catherine Potter of Center
Church, Baltimore, was elected con-
ference secretary and James Wynn
of the Highland Avenue Church,
Baltimore, conference treasurer.
Others elected included Grover
Hartman of Foundry Church, Wash
ington, chairman of curricula; Will
liam Brown of Washington, chair
man of social activities; Fulton
Stretton of Emory Church, Wash
ington, chairman of fellowship and
recreation, and Carol Arnold of
Mount Vernon Church, chairman of
publicity.
The election of officers, an address
by DR.. F. L. Gibbs of the National
Methodist Board of Education, a
dinner, discussions and a consecra-
tion service ended the three-day
meeting.
DR.. John W. Rustin of Mount
Vernon Place Church addressed the
diners, speaking on "Legislating a
New World"
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Executive Officer Named
For Virginia Battalion

Capt. John c. Butler has been
appointed executive officer of the
1lth battalion Of the Virginia Pro-
tective Service. 1t. Col. Everett A.
Hellnuth. battalion commander, an.
nounced yesterday.
Capt. Butler. whose home is at
Rectortown, is commanding officer
OF the Warrenton company. Second
1t. John P. Strauss was appointed
battalion adjutant.
The appointment of a medical Off
Ger in the near future, Col Hellnuth
indicated. will complete the staff
OF the service. First 1t. Mitchell
Burroughs has been appointed COM
mander of the Alexandria company
to succeed Capt. Leslie Ryan. COM
pany head since February, who has
moved to another State. 1t. Nit
chell will assume permanent COM
mand of the company after con-
flrmation of his appointment by
stan headquarters.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Communication Hearing
Today Walters Last
Hope 10 Avoid Chair
Gov. Dorden to Give
Entire Day to Murder
Case if Necessary
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, June 29.-Odell
Waller, colored sharecropper whose
sentence of death for killing a white
farmer in Virginia has received ma
tional attention, carried his case for
communication before Gov. Darden
today.
The communication hearing, to
which the Governor said he would
give the entire day if necessary, rep
resented Walters last hope OF
escaping a sentence OF death in the
electric chair Thursday morning He
was to be represented at the hearing
through counsel.
Waller shot and killed Oscar Davis
in Pittsylvania County July Is, 1910.
in an argument over the shares of
a wheat crop. Since then his appeal
and attempts to win writ Of habeas
corpus have been carried to the Vir-
ginia Supreme Court, the United
States Supreme Court. the United
States District Court of Eastern Vir-
ginia. the fourth United States Court
of Appeals, and finally to individual
members of the United States
Supreme Court-all without success.
The Governor received thousands
of letters from many parts Of the
country asking that he grant the
man executive clemency. On Satur-
day 19 Virginians, including John
Stewart Bryan, newspaper publisher,
and William and Mary College
president. and the Right Rev. H. st.
George Tucker. presiding bishop Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the United States, informed the
Governor through a petition that
they did not think Waller should be
executed.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
hary|anders Will Appeal
Slot Machine Convictions

BY the Associated Press.
PRINCE FREDERICK, Md, June
29.-Five persons who were fined in
cases involving a possible test of
the State law with respect to slot
machines have given notice they will
appeal to the Circuit Court.
Trial Magistrate William w. Duke
of Prince Frederick found the de-
PENDANTS guilty and fined them $40
and costs.
Mr.. Duke explained that the law
does not specifically cover slot ma
chimes and that the warrants in each
case charged the defendants with
"unlawfully keeping place for
gambling"
Those fined were George D.
Turner and Mae Hardy Evans,
proprietors of Prince Frederick
hotels; Mrs. Ruth Perry of Port
Republic. and Garner T. Grover
and William Hayden, both of st.
Leonard.
Mrs. Linnea Russell of Sunder-
land was acquitted.
Notice of appeal has been given
also in several similar cases heard
by Trial Magistrate Clyde L. West
at North Beach.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
43 Liberty Ships
Finished 8 Months
Ahead of Schedule

One shipyard on the West
Coast has just completed its
first contracts for the construc-
ton of 43 Liberty ships eight
months ahead of schedule, the
Maritime Commission an
nounced over the week end. 1t
is going ahead with other con-
tracts and is still reducing the
scheduled completion time, ac-
cording to commission officials.
The yard is the Oregon Ship
building Corp. at Portland, Ore.
The Commission said the COM
pany required 253 days, for its
first ship. The 10th ship re-
quired 154 days, the 18th ship
86 days, the 30th ship 73 days
and the latest only so days. In
June one was delivered in As
days from keel-laying to COM
miSSioning.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Hampton, Montgomery
Board President, Weds

Thomas E. Hampton, So, presi'
dent of the Montgomery Count!
Board of Commissioners, was mar
ried Saturday to Miss Helen Bran
nan, supervisor of nurses at the
Tupelo CMiss.) Hospital, his mother
announced today.
The wedding took place at Tupelo
the commissioners mother, Mrs
Thomas E. Hampton, 109 Chevy
Chase drive, Chevy Chase, Md. said
Mr.. Hampton met his future bride
in Brunswick, Ga, during the World
War while he was employed at a
shipyard. Miss Brannan is ma
tive of Brunswick.
The couple will arrive here tomor-
ro/ so that Commissioner Hampton
can attend the weekly board meet
ing and then will continue their
interrupted honeymoon.
Mr.. Hampton has been engaged in
the real estate business in Bethesda
for the last 30 years.
He recently announced his can
didacy for the Democratic nomi-
nation for State Senator.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Third Precinct Auxiliary Police
Publish Own Newspaper
Example Of Esprit de Corps Is Shown
By Action in Equipping Headquarters

DR.. George H. Crofton, practicing
physician, is sergeant and in
structor in first aid. But DR.. Crof-
ton doesn't consider this quite
enough, so he also does regular
police duty on the streets
Some men have put in as much as
900 hours individually since the
force was organized. The auxiliary
officers have worked an average of
more than 500.
Examples of the skill with which
the approximately $50 auxiliaries of
this precinct have performed would
make a long list. Citing a single
instance. Officers Clarence H
Fletcher and Frederick Robinson,
both colored, we're on duty at
Twentieth and F. streets NV. when
they observed youth in the next
block who didn't look as if he
wanted to be watched. They sepa-
rated and lounged about, as if un-
concerned. The young man opened
an automobile door and was search
ing the glove compartment when
lllC III OH HILL.
Instructed on Bombs.
The No. 3 auxiliaries are in
structed on bombs and gas by K. c.
Mccormick. a regular police SER
geant, a graduate Of EdgeWood Ar
senal School. 1t. G.. A. Wallrodt dl-
rects auxiliary work, with the aid of
Policeman Charley c. Johnson.
Officer j. M. Costello was in the
auxiliary Office during its early
months.
Thefts from cars, pocketbook
snatchings and other petty crimes
which were prevalent on some
streets have been reluced materially.
Capt. Letterman figures this is due
to the presence of auxiliaries in con-
siderable number, especially at
night.
The mere fact that the volunteers
are on the job, the officer pointed
out, is a deterrent to those with
criminal intent. Thieves don't know
the auxiliaries and are unaware of
their beats and habits, he explained.
The auXiliaries of this precinct
have been particularly effective in
practice blackouts Of their value
in an actual raid not regular po-
liceman in the section has the slight
est doubt.
Walter F. Wasson, who owns and
manages properties and is president
of the West End Citizens Associa-
ton, is captain of third precinct
auxiliaries, and he has three lieu
tenants and six sergeants.
Capt. Wasson pointed out that
many of the auxiliaries are on fixed
posts, such as George Washington
University, and were doing effective
work, and those available for gen.
eral police work, between $50 and
1870. are putting in more time on
the streets and at the station. The
captain himself would need a couple
of adding machines to figure up the
time he has donated as civic duty.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
War| Going Badly
For Allies, 0'Conor
Tells Defense Rally
Minute Men and Guards
Among 5000 to Attend
Cumberland Meeting
BY the Associated Press.

CUMBERLAND. Md, June o.
1t would be folly Ito ignore the
fact that the war is going badly for
the United Nations" Gov. O'Conor
told a civilian defense rally last
night in urging nothing less than
a maximum effort on all fronts"
with forces so powerful and so
resourceful opposed to U.S." Gov
OConor said, nothing less than a
maximum effort on all fronts will
deserve. or can possibly achieve,
victory. '''
The United Nations have suf-
fered all the disasters that can be
absorbed"
5000 in Parade.
The Governor address was one
of the highlights of rally preceded
by a parade in which more than
5000 persons, all members OF Mary
land civilian defense units, partici.
pated.
Three battalions OF Maryland
State Guardsmen, uniformed COM
panies of Minute Men from Mont
gomery County. bands, drum and
bugle corps, fire departments and
fraternal organizations participated
in the procession.
First-aid teams and bomb squads
gave demonstrations after the Gov
ernor spoke.
Cites Lulling Optimism.
Gov. O'Conor said that American
naval and air successes in the Coral
Sea and at Midway have tended to
give our people lulling sense Of
optimism.
When we take note of what has
happened since Midway, however,
and see the fall of Tobruk opening
the way to German inroads upon
Egypt: when we note the falling
back of the Russian armies after
heroic stands: and when. finally. we
experience the shock of having some
of the Aleutian Islands seized. and
our own West Coast shelled by the
enemy, then. indeed. it would be
folly to ignore the fact that the war
is going badly for the United Ma
tons
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Sergeant First
To Get Army S
Glider Wings
$4,000 Come to See
Miss Dietrich, Buy
Bonds at Airport

The first pair Of silver wings su-
perimposed with the letter &c" Ia.
signie of the Army glider pilot, yes
terday was pinned on Sergt. William
T. Sampson, while more than 400
Air Force recruits and some $4,000
other spectators looked on at huge
War bond rally at the National
Airport.
Sergt. Sampson. 28-year-old na-
tive of Providence, R. l., and a grad
uate of the Elmira IN. " Glider
School, thus becomes the first of
what the War Department hopes
will grow into a large force Of
winged warriors. who may be used
for carrying fresh troops to the front
lines, for hauling supplies or for
landing offensive forces in enemy
territory.
Before yesterday afternoon was
over, the crowd attracted to the air.
port by the dual appearance Of
Marlene Dietrich, the firm star, and
the Air Cavalcade of American, Brit
ish and one German fighting plane,
had spent a half million dollars
to exhaust the available supply Of
War bonds and stamps.
$4,000 Bond Bought.
An autograph of the glamorous
actress went with every purchase,
from Is cent stamps to the s50,000
War bond, for which j. T. Morgan.
president of the National Dental
Hygiene Association, handed Miss
Dietrich check to open the sales
officially.
Before the wings were pinned on
his chest by Capt. Don NJ Hamilton.
establishing the new glider pilot in
sigma, Sergt. Sampson demon
strated to the crowd the technique
Of handling the motorless craft.
Towed aloft by an Army laision
plane, the pilot cut loose over the
airport, circled and landed his glider
to come to stop within a few feet
of posted marker.
The Air Force recruits were sworn
IN en- masse as members of the
Aviation Cadet Enlisted Reserve.
Flyers from Boiling Field, in P-40
pursuit ships and P-38 interceptor
craft, swept across the Potomac
from their base and flew over the
field to open the air show.
Other Planes Demonstrated.
Those at the airport also saw the
Air Cavalcade pilots demonstrate
their warcraft - Messerschmitt
fighter, Spitfire, a British Beau
fighter, a Curtiss P-40. a P-39 Aira-
cobra and a Bit bomber.
The program was presented here
by the District of Columbia War
Savings Committee, with J. Clifford
Folger, vice chairman, acting as
master of ceremonies throughout
the show. Girl Scouts and airline
hostesses worked with committee
volunteers in the sale of bonds and
stamps.
The Air Cavalcade pilots left last
night for Pittsburgh, where their
next demonstration is scheduled.
Miss Dietrich went to New York by
train.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Foirfux Summer School
EnroIIs 81 Students
Special Dispatch to The Star

FAIRFAX, Va, June 29.-Ninety-
two pupils have enrolled in the
Fairfax County summer school at
Fairfax High School, it has been
announced by James E. Bauserman,
principal.
The student government group Of
the school has organized with the
election Of John Strang, president.
Other officers include Louise Lewis,
vice president; Jean Woodson, Sec
retary, and Jack Coldweu, treasurer.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Burley Harvest Good

WINCHESTER, Va, June 20
(SpeciaD Good barley yields are
reported in Frederick and in Clarke
County by farmers who have been
threshing the past few days. John
Jenkins of Middletown reported
threshing 102 bushels from six
acres and Garland Snapp Of the
same locality had $50 bushels from
10 acres. Harry Wynkoop Of Berry,
vile had $50 bushels on II acres.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Mrs. Isabelle J.WhuIen
Dies at Sunshine, Nd.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SUNSHINE. Md, June 29.-Mrs.
Isabelle j. Whalen, go, wife OF Jo-
seph E. Whalen, died Saturday at
her home here after short illness.
Beside her husband, she is sur
vived by three daughters, Mrs.
Mrs. Lewis Grow, Bladensburg, Md;
Mrs. Franklin Duvall, Clarksville,
Md. and Miss Grace Whalen, Riv-
erdale; and five sons, Walter j.,
Capitol Heights; Joseph T., Balti-
more; William, Sykesville; Lloyd,
Sunshine, and Henry T., Clarksville;
seven sisters, a brother and IL
grandchildren also survive.
The funeral will be held at 3 pm.
tomorrow at Mount Carmel Metho-
dist Church, Sunshine. The Rev.
Conrad w. Jordan will officiate and
burial will be in the church ceme-
terry.
Mrs. Whalen was . long time res
ident Of the Sunshine and Gathers
burg neighborhoods.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Preparations Proceed
For Fair at Frederick
By the Associated Press.


FREDERICK, Md. June 29.-Di-
rectors of the Frederick County
Agricultural Society have decided
to proceed with preparations for the
annual Frederick Fair in October.
Joseph B. Eastman, ONCE of De-
fense Transportation director, re-
Gently requested that all State and
county fairs be deferred for the
duration of the war, but officials
here said they had received no speci-
flc request for abandonment of the
fair.
They added they had a request
on file from the State Fair Board
to hold the fair as usual this year.
They said, however. they might
abandon the plans later If develop
ments warrant.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Arlington Dates Set
For Canning Sugar Lists

Registration in Arlington County
for additional sugar to be used for
canning purposes is to be held every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
afternoon. between l and pm, at
the Recreational Center, Tenth and
North Irving streets: the Arlington
Fire House, S. Edgewood street, just
off Columbia pike, and the st. Agnes
Catholic Church, Twenty-first and
Randolph streets, Cherrydale.
There will be registration at the
Virginia Highlands Fire House on
Thursdays only, the Arlington Ra-
tioning Board announces.