Evening star., 1942-09-19

Without music or cheering, to-
morrow and the following Sunday
offer the average Citizen a chance
to do something in the war effort.
On September ~ average citizens
in the northwest and the southwest
will make their donations.
The citizens job is to make metal
scrap available; 1t will be hauled
to % emergency stock piles, where
junk dealers will dig into it.
Today is the last day for those
in southeast and northeast to
search for scrap, to have it on the
sidewalk tomorrow by am. But,
householdlers were warned, do not
put it there until after daylight,
to prevent accidents.
23,000,000 Pounds Needed.
Late reports received by Horace
Walker, secretary of the Commits
sioners' Special Scarp Salvage Com
mittee, swelled the July and August
scrap metal collection here to more
than 11,0O0,000 pounds, leaving ap-
proximately $4,000, 900 pounds to be
collected by January l to meet the
Districts 34,000,000 pounds quota.
Developments yesterday included
the announcement of the location
of the 20 stock piles "a matter Of
vital interest to the truck drivers
and junk dealers only and a letter
from the Commissioners to the Boy
Scout executive urging the boys to
ring doorpells today to warn house
holders of Sundays scrap collec-
ton.
The citizens job tomorrow Is con-
fined to putting metal scrap only on
the sidewalk The 220 official trucks
will be adorned with American flags
and official posters, to validate their
authority to collect scrap. OF these
trucks, ITO were furnished by the
District Refuses Division and ITO
by business concerns. Labor crews
for all the trucks are being supplied
by the Refuse Division headed by
Supt. William A. Xanten.
A total of TOO laborers is being
furnished by the District govern
ment. Specific instructions yester-
day were placed by Supt Xanten in
the hands Of supervising foremen
and junk dealers. From Mr. Walker
the junk dealers also will receive a
listing OF the % official emergency
stock piles.
Lunch Period Set Aside.
Personnel should carry lunches
with them, the lunch period being
from II to 1890 pm. All material
placed on the curb should be COL
lected and the streets left in clean
condition, Mr.. Xanten directed.
Special trucks equipped with
cranes are available at the South
east Repair Shop and Northwest
Garage for the handling of extra
large articles, Mr.. Xanten said.
Afraid wardens In the East
Washington sections have been
urged by Chief Warden William J..
Mileham to assist the drive and
also enlist the interest of their
neighbors
Proceeds from the sale Of scrap
will be given to official organizat tions
| NSoAeAucSa ny tLlC Ill
the areas from which scrap is re-
moved. With no individual profit
ing, Uncle Sam receives badly-need-
ed scrap for war armaments, and
money raised by patriotic effort Is
returned to each participating COM
munity.
| Letter Spurs Drive.
In letter to depot workers,
Maurice F. White, acting committee
chairman in the Twenty fourth
street and Rhode Island avenue
NE. area. remarked 1T is better to
! haul a few pounds of metal scrap
4. block or two and win the war,
than to haul soldiers heavy pack
several miles only to lose It," People
of the Woodbridge area were called
upon to surpass tomorrow any effort
previously made.
| A group Of from 10 to so boys and
girls have collected about nine tons
OF scrap in the Connecticut avenue
and Porter street NV. area under
the leadership Of Miss Blanche
Weaver. We are not waiting for
the special Sept spber q drive"