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Evening star., 1942-10-03
Mail Deliveries
To Residential
Areas HereCut
One-o-Doy Service
Adopted to Save
Tires and Cos

Householders in residential areas
are receiving their mail only once a
day as the local Post Office Depart
ment moves to conserve rubber and
gasoline and to solve a manpower
shortage.
Seventy-five per cent of all per-
sons outside the downtown area is
receiving mail in the forenoon, while
the remainder in residential sections
is getting mail in the afternoon,
Supt. of Deliveries Russell H.
Thompson asid today.
Downton deliveries to business
concerns have been cut from three
to two day, while mail delivered to
Government agencies generally has
been pared down to five a day, he
said.
Collections Reduced.
Curtailment of deliveries, which
began this week, follows by a month
a reduction in collections through
out the city.
Mr.. Thompson explained, that
some householders are not getting
their mail until afternoon because of
a doubling up of carriers. Under
the wartime plan, three postmen
now cover four districts. In the
forenoon the three men deliver mail
in their districts, and then in the
afternoon the three together cover
a fourth district.
Collections in residential areas
have been cut to four q day from
boxes located generally on streetcar
and bus lines, Mr. Thompson said.
In general, boxes off these lines are
being removed. Eventually 400 mail
boxes will be removed by the de-
partment, 1t was estimated.
Repainted and repaired, the boxes
are being sent to other cities expert
encing heavy increases in popula-
ton, the superintendent said.
No Changes Nearby.
Postmaster Vincent C. Burke has
pointed out that the reductions were
necessary, because, among other rea-
sons, of the large number of men
going into the armed services. Also
the necessity of saving tires on exist
ing vehicles is a factor in the move.
Nearby Maryland and Virginia
postmasters report no change in
two-a-day deliveries of mail al
though several admit that curtail-
ment might come.
The Silver Spring Post Office said
1t might shift to one delivery a day
after Christmas. The Mount Rainier
Post Office explained it had not
lost any of its carriers to the service
and therefore could continue the
regular twice daily deliveries.
Assistant Postmaster Elmore
Mudd of Alexandria reported today
that thus far they had lost few
men to other jobs or to the services
and, accordingly, two-a-day deliv-
cries continued There has been
some curtailment of collections by
trucks, however, he said, to save
tires and gas.
Mr.. Burke has estimated that the
new procedure will save as much
as 1900 miles day in the 240 trucks
now used by the department.
With the removal of the 400 boxes,
total of 225 will be available for
the public, he has said.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Maryland Gas Taxes
Show $534,136 Drop
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 3-State Con-
troller j. Millard Tawes reported a
decrease in gasoline receipts yester-
day for the 1941-42 fiscal year.
which ended last Wednesday, but
announced what he said was an
unexpected" increase in amusement
tax receipts.
Mr.. Tawes reported the State COL
lected $13,119,574 in gasoline taxes
between October l, 1941, and Sep
tember 80. 1912, against s13,653,71
in the 1940-41 fiscal period. The
$534,l36 decrease occurred mainly
because OF gasoline and auto and
tire rationing, MIR. Tawes said.
The amusement tax, originally
estimated to bring the State about
S165,000 during the last fiscal year,
actually returned $275,58O, which
was $s,S25 more than during the
1940-41 fiscal year, Mr.. Tawes said.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Rockville Church Scroll
To Honor Men in Service
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Oct. 3.-Pres-
entation of scroll containing names
OF 20 young men of the Rockville
Methodist Church who are in the
military or naval service is sched-
uled at II am. tomorrow in the
Circourt Court room, it was an
nounced today by the pastor, the
Rev John w. Rosenberger.
The formal presentation will be
by the pastor and Circuit Judge
Charles w. Woodward will accept
the testimonial. 1t is planned to
hang the scroll on a wall of the
new church soon to be erected on
its old site on West Montgomery
avenue in place of the building de-
stroyed by fire some months ago.
The names on the scroll are Nor
man Bean, Vance Bell, Paul Bennett,
William E. Bricker, Dorsey Clark,
Somervell Dawson, Robert Dronen-
burg, Richard Duvan, Owings Eng
land, Julian Hoskinson, Fred Lanier.
julius Martz, James McElfish. Clvde
Mllor, John Prince, Russell Raw,
George Viers, C. Griffith Warfeld.
Charles Woodward and Craig Wood
ward.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Circuit Court 10 Open
With Jury Drawing al
Upper Marlboro
Tire and Gas Rutions
Prompt Many Requests
For Excuse From DUTY

The drawing of a grand jury and
two petit juries from a panel of IS
Prince Georges County (Md0 men
will mark the opening on Monday of
the october term of Circuit Court
at Upper Marlboro.
Louis w. Kutsch of Lanham, a
former justice of peace, will be fore
man of the grand jury. Forty-seven
other men will constitute the grand
jury and first weeks petit jury while
a 25-man panel will comprise the
petit jury for the second week of
court.
Because of the tire and gasoline
shortage, court attaches said there
have been an unusual" number of
requests to be excused from fury
service, but few have been granted.
After the juries have been selected,
the court will begin hearing civil
cases on Tuesday with Judges
Charles Marbury and John B. Gray
presiding.
Between IS and 100 cases will be
presented to the grand jury, which is
expected to return indictments about
October 20, according to States At
torney A. Gwynn Bowie.
A feature of the grand jury cases
this year, Mr.. Bowie said, is the large
number of prisoners who have es-
capped from road House of Correction
gangs. There are six such cases, he
added, compared with only one or
two in previous years.
Other cases to be heard by the
grand jury include several persons
charged with manslaughter and
murder as we'll as violations of the
unemployment compensation law.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Takoma Park Youth
Dies Of Injuries in
Bicyc|e-Bus Crash
z Men Seriously Hurt
In District Trolley
And Auto Accidents

A 17-year-old cyclist, injured
Thursday in collision with a bus
at Silver Spring, Md, died last night
in Washington Sanitarium, Takoma
Park, Md, and two men, District
traffic casualties last night, were re-
ported in serious condition today at
Casualty Hospital.
The youth was Lumir Svetlik, I'll
Garland avenue, Takoma Park.
Montgomery County police said his
bicycle and bus, operated by Will
liam Griffin, 80, Glenn Dale, Md.
collided at Colesville Pike and Dale
drive. The bus driver was released
on bond pending a hearing on a
technical charge of manslaughter.
Two Hurt in Traffic Here.
In the District, two men injured
in traffic accidents last night were
reported in serious condition al
Casualty Hospital.
Ferdinando Visintin, 81, of 9 H
street NV, suffered severe chest
injuries and decorations of the back
police reported, when, in order to
escape streetcar pulling into q
loading platform on H street NV
near North Capitol street, he jumped
against, the rear of another trolley
from which he had just stepped
He became entangled, they said, and
was dragged Is feet.
Police reported that the man left
one eastbound trolley, went arounc
the rear to cross to the street anc
stepped in front of the secone
streetcar. They said he threw hi;
body against the first car and hi.
clothing was snagged by the moving
vehicle as he fell to the street.
w. L. Hicks. 46, of Seat Pleasant
Md, the operator, had moved hi.
car Is feet to the intersection be.
fore he became aware of what hac
happened, police said.
Lee Hong Pc, 54, of $500 Four.
teenth street NV, suffered a pos.
sible concussion when he was struck
by an automobile at Sixth and H
streets NV. Police said the cal
was operated by Nathaniel Edlin, 81
colored, 1856 I street NV,
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Farmer Aid Is Pledged
In Fire Prevention

The cooperation of Prince
Georges County CMd) farmers in
Fire Prevention Week beginning to-
morrow has been pledged by County
Agent P E. Clark
Volunteer neighborhood leaders
will call on every rural family in
the county with a list of ways to
prevent fires and means of extin-
gushing them if they should start,
Mr.. Clark said.
Every Prince Georges County
farmer can help the war effort" he
declared, "by cleaning up fire
hazards around his farm and build
ings. Farmers should also be ready
to put out fires as soon as they
start"
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Hotel Chefs Foresee
Better Health With
Reduction in Meat
| MorchiteIIi Of MoyhoweI
| Says Public Dinners
May Suffer, However

Chefs In Washington hotels said
today that the voluntary meat
rationing, suggested by Secretary of
Agriculture Wickard as means of
assuring adequate meat supplies for
Army, Navy and lease lend use, will
not cause any great loss of weight
among Americans, but will do them
world of good from a health stand
point.
Secretary Wickard recently ap-
pealed to civilians voluntarily to cut
their weekly meat consumption until
actual rationing could be instituted
next year. At the same time the
Foods Requirement Committee of
the WPB ordered all meat deliveries
to civilians during the final quarter
of this year to be cut 81 per cent
below the 1941 level for the same
period.
Too Much Meat.
eve have let ourselves become
accustomed to too much meat" "
Nicholas Marchitelli, chef at the
Mayf1ower, said. II think that eat
ing meat just two or three times a
week will be beneficial to our health.
In my opinion the 21a pounds weekly
voluntary limit Is more than most
people normally eat"
Mr.. Marchitelli was quick to point
out that public dinners in hotels
may suffer from the new system
He explained that in order to ration
meat to the hotels wholesalers will
sell them less per week and not
necessarily have meatless days.
Unless ample notice is given in these
instances, he said, the hotels may
not have a large enough supply on
hand to feed a large group.
Joseph Obrecht, head chef at the
Raleigh Hotel, said Substitutes for
meat meals are unlimited. There
are many ways to prepare delicious
raviola, spaghetti and macaroni, and,
for luncheons, there are always de-
licious salads, especially for the
women"
Dubious on Workability.
A veteran of the meatless days
in the last war, Abraham Grob, now
at the Wardman-Park and former
chef at the old Shoreham. thought
that, with so many people in Wash
ington eating in places other than
homes, the voluntary system may
not work.
II think the card system will have
to also be used in the meat ration"
Mr.. Grob declared, because even
though hotels will have their nor
NAL supply cut, it will be case of
first come first served for the choice
meat, and the early birds will be the
same persons each night. Yes, I
think either the card system or a
specified meatless day will be needed
to make the meat ration succeed"
Throughout the Nation leading
chefs were united in the opinion that
voluntary consumption of not more
than 21a pounds of meat weekly will
be easy. They were also certain
that patriotic Americans can still
eat we'll enough, with rationing in
effect, to slip the belt out a few
notches.
Fish Substitutes Cut.
In an article in Golfers Magazine,
released today, Secretary Wackard
wrote that the present ration of 2h
pounds week would give each per-
son 130 pounds of meat year, or
just one pound less than the average
per person annual consumption for
the 10 years between 1880 and 1910.
The Secretary also warned against
depending too much on seafood to
replace meat on the family table.
He said that submarine activity in
certain localities has limited salt
water fishing to a minimum.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Objector Asks Ballot,
Posing Legal Question
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Oct. SELECTIONS
supervisors we're asked yesterday by
conscientious objector for an alb
sentee ballot in the November elec-
ton under the law permitting SOL
diers and sailors to vote by mail.
Officials said they might ask a
ruling from the Attorney General
whether a conscientious objector is
eligible under the law.
One section of the law limits ab-
sentee ballots to those in the armed
services, but another clause refers
|, to other persons called away from
regular voting places by the decla-
ration of war.
Arthur K. Taylor OF Baltimore
applied for the absentee ballot from
Civilian Public Service Camp 10 at
Marion, N. c.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
|Pin in Boys Lung
lEor II Years
lis Removed
By the Associated Press,

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 3,-The
case Of a boy who had grown into
young manhood, unaware of an open
safety pin lodged in his lung for
more than II years, was reported
yesterday at the Medical College Of
Virginia.
The pin came to light when the
boy. now 10, started the new school
year at the University of Virginia.
In the course of the physical exam
nations, an X-ray showed the sha-
dow OF the pin, crooked open at a
sharp angle, across one lung some
what below the end of the large
bronchial tube.
His mother recalled that when he
was one and a half years old, he
suffered q cough and bronchial
trouble, which at that time was di-
agnosed as infantile asthma. Il
cleared up In q short while,
The youth was brought to thu
medical college, and the pin removed
with q bronchoscope.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
New Voter Registration
DeudIine Is Tuesday

Tuesday will be the last day on
which new voters in Prince Georges
County, Md, will be able to register
Registration officials will sit from
9 am. to pm, on that day at the
various polling places in the county.
They will sit again october 13, but
only for purposes of revision. No
new names will be added to the rolls
at that time
Only those new persons on the
registration books, who have filed
their declarations of intentions to
vote at least II months ago, will be
entitled to cast their ballots in the
general election November 3.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Mother, Seven Children
Escape Crossing Death

Mrs. Lucille v. Davis, colored, OF
Rockville, Md, and her seven chill
dren, narrowly escaped death yes
terday when they left their car,
which was stalled on the Lincoln
Park railroad crossing west of Rock
vile, just before it was struck and
demolished by a Baltimore & Ohio
train en- route to Washington, ac-
cording to Montgomery County
police.
The train, the Cleveland night ex-
press, was one of the three involved
in the Dickerson wreck last week.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Virginia Man Killed,
J Soldiers Hurt in Crash

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Oct.
R.-Charles Webster, 61-year-old
operator of refreshment stand
was fatally injured and seven SOL
diers from the A. p. Hill Military
Reservation were painfully hurt yes
terday when the soldiers automo-
bile crashed into a wrecked truck
beside United States Route l, Il
miles north of Fredericksburg.
Mr.. Webster was standing beside
the truck, which had struck two
mules on the highway, when the
automobile ran into it.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Maj. UIrey Appointed
Peoples Church Pastor

Maj. Walter o. Urey, former
pastor Of the Bowery Tabernacle in
New York. has been appointed to
the pastorate of the Peoples Church,
on Wilson boulevasd opposite CO.
lonial Village, Va. Maj. and Mrs.
Ulrey have been heard for 10 years
IN the East In radio prison vespers
Sunday morning program.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Rockville Deputies Named

ROCKVILLE, Md, Oct. 3 (Spe-
ciaD Sheriff H. Leslie Carlin has
appointed DR.. L. Grant Hector, DR..
Raymond D. Mindlin, Clarence S.
Gray and William F. Du Bois as
special deputy sheriffs.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
81 Rockville Se|ectees
Sent 10 Baltimore
Induction Center
Upper Marlboro Board
Orders 33 Registronts
To Report Tuesday

Thirty-one selective service regis
trants this morning were sent by
Montgomery County (MdO draft
board in Rockville to the Army in
duction center in Baltimore.
At the same time, Prince Georges
County Draft Board No. at Upper
Marlboro announced that 80 selec-
tive service registrants have been or
dered to report Tuesday before leav-
ing for the Army induction center.
Rockville Draftees.
The 81 men who left Rockville this
morning are:
Daring, F. W., jr... Hines, Douglas c.
McReynolds, John w Binnix, Clarence w,
Harding, Upton D. Mullican Russell E.
Matthews, Diller G. Peddicord Harold U.
GTo5nneliy' To5rsd I Edward M. Luhn. MilIsrd "; =,
siivius, John E. WiiSerson. =. t. M
FuIQen, Leroy Shoemaker, w. F.
Mullinix, Leslie E. Herman. Norman L.
Powers Raymond F. Pracht, Alfons r.
RyneX, Frank Allen Benson, Warner R.
Lee, Stanley S.. Day, Jesse L.
Ward Stanley a Loais Presei aessfy wliiam hlihssn E
Matthias, Noah F, Fink, Talmadge G.
Simmons, James
Three additional registrants, who
were included in the call, already
had enlisted while one registrant
volunteered for Army service.
The three enlisted men are Claude
A. Stup, William T. Thrasfer, jr
and Warren G. Souder. The volun-
teer is Buford B. Martz.
Prince Georges Men.
Of the 33 Prince Georges County
men scheduled to report Tuesday,
81 will report at 7 am. at the
County Service Building in Hyatts-
vile. They are:
Gorski, Stanley J. CAST William R.
DAVIDSON John NJ Gnall. Edward NJ.
Johnson, Edward l.. Morris. Percy E.
Correll, Bobbitt v. Volz. Elwood L.
Head, Jesse Matthews, B. G.
Hayton, William w. Ciprianio M. A.
Smoke. Raymond N curtin, Philip o.
Donahue: Thomas J. Mcmahon. T. I.
Duley, William H. CAN'T. John G.
Cobb, Mason H. Middleton S. R.
Payne, Elmo E.
The following five registrants will
report at tbs am. at the National
Guard Armory in Laurel:
Beall. John Metzella, John H.
kroop, Morris Allison, Frank
Garlick, George G.
The following seven men will re-
port It 11:45 am. at the boards Of
flee in the Upper Marlboro court
house:
Hall. Thomas G.. Smith, William R.
Hokins, Richard E. Weils. Georse L. ''
Evening star., 1942-10-03


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Evening star., 1942-09-07
American Soldiers
On Familiar Terms
With British Royalty
Boys Chot About Dukes
And Duchesses as
Casually as Joneses
BY z. C. DANIEL,
Wide World.

LONDON, Sept. mo social reg
lister pants ever met q nicer
class Of people than some Of the
American soldiers In Great Britain
have been shaking hands with
lately.
Some of the boys are getting so
they chat about dukes and duchesses
the way they used to mention Mr..
and Mrs. Jones back home.
Just the other day, the Princess
Royal, the Kings sister, dropped
into the American Red Cross Club
in Edinburgh and had coke with
Pvt. Ralph Coutu of Norwich, Conn.
On q tour of the club, she also
passed the time of day with Pvt.
Maurice Nugent of Chicago and
Sergt. Pilot Louis Girard, RCAF
night fighter from West Texas.
No less than So American officers
and men had lunch with the King
and Queen themselves when their
majesties visited United States
headquarters for Northern Ireland.
was introduced TO King.
Sergt. r. Grifiths of Norfolk, Va,
had an even more personal meeting
with the King. A former scout
leader, he was introduced to His
Majesty at Imperial Scout Head
quaters. which is just across the
road, practically, from Buckingham
Palace.
Sharp-shooting medals of Corpl. j
Willie of Granite City, H., even have
been fingered by royalty. The
Duchess of Glouster admired them
on visit to an American club in
London
Maj Gen. Carl Spaatz, chief of
the United States Army Air Forces
in Europe. you remember put his
raincoat around Queen Elizabeth
when she was caught in a shower
while inspecting an American sta
ton.
Several of the top-notchers like
Gen. George c. Marshall, United
States Chief of Staff, and 1t, Gen.
Dwight Eisenhower, commander in
the European theater, have been
invited to Buckingham Palace.
Lord Halifax, when he was here
on vacation, went around to the
American Red Cross Washington
Club and joined the boys in couple
Of songs around the piano in the
lounge.
Corpl. James M. Jollotto of East
port, Me, who had met Halifax,
actually went calling on the United
States Ambassador, John G. Win
ant-and, what's more, was admitted
to the ambassadorial presence.
He and two chums, Corpl. Walter
Moffitt of Maryland and Sergt. John
Blair of KY, found the Ambassador
i'll in bed one Sunday morning. He
told them of his own war experiences
in 1917-18 and showed them pictures
of President Roosevelt and Winston
Churchills grandson.
Any society folk who feel dis
posed to return calls from Ameri-
can soldiers need not worry either,
| about the quality of the boys ad-
Evening star., 1942-09-07
The Great Game of Politics
Administration Severely Criticized for Failure
To Coll in Finuneiers to Solve Tox MuddIe

making heads who were there be-
fore the war, unsupported by any
outside talent at all.
1t Is true there is more or less
regular consultation with an out
side committee of bankers and in
surance men, but this committee is
called in after policy has been de-
cided, not before, and the most it
has been able to accomplish is to
prevent one or two really serious
mistakes.
Behind In Work.
Actually, the Treasury Is handling
its appalling burdens with little or
no outside assistance-so far as
policies are concerned. It's clerical
force has been tremendously aug
mented. A new army of men and
women are employed on the stu
pendous routine of the War bond
sales-and, incidentally. are from
three to six months behind in the
work.
But, while American industry,
called upon, has supplied the men
who are here handling the great
problems of production. American
finance has not been called upon
to aid in handling the just as vital
financial problems.
The reason seems to be that be-
cause the best financial brains in
the country have been consistently
anti-New Deal, the President has
not been able to bring himself to
call upon them for aid. 1t would
be confession of financial incom-
petence extremely repugnant to his
nature. If there Is any other reason
it has not been advanced. Yet
never was there greater necessity
for aid. AS 1t stands, the Treasury
is pitiably unequipped to handle
the situation. And this opinion is
held within as well as without.
Evening star., 1942-09-07

tenacity. They also explain why
one front report concludes, 1.-THE
situation in the air remains
strained" Yet the grave1y menaced
Lower Volga is where, as the Red
Star warns meaningfully, conveys
of ships with oil and bread move
northward,
"In connection with this transfer
Of German air forces to the Russian
'front.'" writes Col Telchenov, "the
air situation in the West is becoming
more and more unfavorable for the
Germans. According to the state
ment of Prime Minister Winston
Churchill in the autumn OF last year
Britain at that time possessed air
forces which were at least numeri-
cally equal to Germany's. Since
then, British forces have increased
considerably while at the same time
intensive air battles in Russia are
compelling the Germans to weaken
their air forces in the West.
Methods Exposed.
NOl-Solii Nail Morn, prisoner
from the 53rd German Fighter
Squadron, exposed the methods
whereby tens of impressions were
created. In some dromes in the
West. Korn said, not one plane re-
mains. Former military airfields
they have transformed. into fake
fields with dummy PLANES. Korn
said, During one month our group
changed bases not less than five
times, They were told that this
was done to fool the enemy"
Tolchenov concluded, 1T is be.
coming increasingly difficult to hide
the weakening of the air forces oi
the Germans in Western Germany
France, Belgium and the other oc-
cupled countries of Europe"
There is no mention of a seconc
front in this article, but the Rus
sian people are fully aware that the
last Royal Air Force 1,000-plane raic
on Germany was staged more thar
two months ago
Copyright. 1912, by CHICAGO Daily News)