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Evening star., 1942-11-01
Last-Minute Pickup
In Overseas Mail Seen
With [)ead|ine TODAY
Troops YuIe Packages
Moving Right Out Here;
Volume Called Steady

Postmaster Vincent c. Burke ex-
poets mailing of Christmas pack
ages Ito pick up" on the deadline
of the overseas Christmas mail
today.
On the whole, he said, mailing of
overseas packages has been steady
since the first announcement Of the
November l deadline.
There has been no congestion
and no delay" said Mr.. Burke.
We've been moving things right
out"
Department stores seconded Mr..
Burke's report of even distribution
OF mailing with report of uniform
volume of buying and mailing
through the entire month of Oc-
tober.
I'VE didn't even have a big rush
last night as we expected" said one
official. Instead, Thursday night
was the most congested of the
month and even that wasn't nearly
as spectacular as we had antici-
pated." -
Mr.. Burke Is looking forward now,
he said. to another steady surge of
mail for servicemen here in the
United States. This deadline, he
said, is December /. Other city
postal officials said this continental
mailing has already begun.
1T sure makes us feel good, too,"
declared veteran employe of the
City Post ONCE.
Mr.. Burke has suggested to per-
sons who mailed Christmas gifts
during the last days of September
and the first of October that dupli-
cate packages be sent. The Navy
has announced that a cargo ship
carrying 1896 sacks of mail was tor
pedoed. There is no way of telling,
Mr.. Burke explained, which of the
packages got through.
Evening star., 1942-11-01

At the same time, the committee
asks all ialopy donors in the Dis
trict to be guided by the following
suggestions in disposing of their
scrap heaps:
/. If you have an auto which is
no longer usable and wish to do
nate it to the scrap drive, call the
Salvage Committee at Republic
8488, giving your name. the location
OF the car and the make of the car.
2. Upon receipt of letter from
the committee, fill out and sign the
form and inclose the title certifi-
cate.
A plan for the collection of the
cars will be announced through the
newspapers tomorrow.
Sources of junked and abandoned
automobiles, the committee an
nouncement said, are private ga
RACES, back yards, parking lots, auto
dealers and finance companies.
Hope for 100000 Pounds.
The average weight Of a junked
automobile runs between $500 and
1000 pounds in salvageable steel, it
is estimated. At 1000 pounds. the
300 automobiles which have been
located and, it is presumed, will be
heaped on the mounting District
scrap pile weigh approximately 800, :
sO10 poundk. s$a .ts..4 81,
The salvage committee asks pros
pective donors who may be dubious
about parting with their cars to
consider the following facts: One
old auto, when processed at a steel
mill, will produce more than q air.
craft cannon or three 2,000-pound
aerial bombs.
The Importance of these figures
in terms of the fight Americans are
waging against the japanese at
Guadalcanal, cannot be exagger-
ated.
Evening star., 1942-11-01
Romme| May Be Named
Hitler Adviser, Bern Hears
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 81
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel may
be slated to become Hitler's per-
sonal military adviser, the Neue
Zuricher Zeitung said today.
The newspaper added there has
been no official clarification of many
runnors coming from Germany, but
that evidence grows that Gen.
Franz Halder has been ousted as
chief of the German general staff
and has been replaced by Gen.
Zeitler.
The newspaper added that there
have been persistent reports that
Gen. Jodl has been replaced as
Hitler's personal aide and that there
is room at the top for a vigorous
officer of Marshal Rommel's pres
tige.
Extensive changes, some an
nounced and others apparently in
the making, the newspaper con-.
tinued, are in line with the observa-
tions of Reichmarshal Goering who
in an address on October 4 empha-
sized that Hitler is the one supreme
commander responsible for victory
or defeat" and that general staff
officers found inadequate would be
replaced by others with the neces-
sary toughness."
The bund has gone, but the bond
Evening star., 1942-11-01
Red Cross Glasses Form

The Parent-Teacher Association
of the Bunker Hill School is or
ganizing Red Cross classes in nu-
triton and home nursing, which
are expected to begin this week.
Any one interested in taking these
courses may register by calling
Mrs. H. A. Stein. study group chair
man, at Warfleld 0362.
Evening star., 1942-11-01

Straits one pilot said. There
seemed to be FW-190s everywhere. "
The Frenchman went up and de-
stroyed one Focke-W landed, re-
fueled and went up second time
and was back in Is minutes after
destroying another one.
A South African pilot destroyed
two.
Some of the 1905 went down in
flames" he said, "and others went
straight into the sea. One Of our
chaps who was lost was last seen
fighting eight Huns
Evening star., 1942-11-01
Corcoran Art School
Will Open Lecture c
Series tuesday ~
Personalities in Modern
Art Will Be Subject
Of Lohey's Talk

Richard Lahey, principal OF the
Corcoran School of Art, will open
the schools series of. illustrated lee
lures at $50 pm. Tuesday, with the
first of two lectures on PERSONAL.
ties In Modern Art" be-.
Mr.. Lahey will talk about living
artists, what they are like as human
beings, and how they do their work.
Evening star., 1942-11-01
District E|ks 10 Conduct
SALVAGE Drive Wednesday

The Benevolent and Protective Or
der OF Elks, No. Is, of Washington
will stage salvage day wednesday,
1t was announced yesterday.
All members are urged to deposit
salvage material at the official SAL
wage depot at the Elks Club, 9l9 H
street NV.
The days program will conclude
with an Elks Club Boys Band con-
cert at the depot ut pm.
James E. Colliflower, chairman
of the District Salvage Committee.
will address the assembled club
scrap collectors.
Evening star., 1942-11-01
Bundles Office to Move
Sunday, November l, 1912.

District headquarters of Bundles
for America, Inc, an organization
that supplies wool for sailors sweat
ers and gloves and formerly known
as Bundles for Bluejackets, will
move this week from ITO Connecti-
cut avenue NV to Connecticut
avenue and Calvert street NV.
Evening star., 1942-11-01
First-Aid Class to Open

A first-aid class for adults will
be started at 730 pm. tomorrow IN
the Brentwood School. Leonard
Wohlfarth, American Red Cross In
structor, will conduct the classes.
Evening star., 1942-11-01
Get In the Scrap!
Get In the Scrap!
,0O0Poundso dsofScropFound
In Get the JoIopies' Campaign
Police Survey Lists 300 Abandoned
And Junked Automobiles in District

More than 100000 of scrap metal probably
covered the future 800
in the District in the first step
pagn to get the jalopies."
Evening star., 1942-11-01
Weather Report

by Unite statsw weah Bureau
District OF Coumba-Cooer gentle
Virginia
in west portion by morning portion evening
Evening star., 1942-11-01
weather In Various cities.

Save time. Save money. Use Star
want Ads" for quick results.
Ma. EooA
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The bund has gone, but the bond
is here. Buy it now for victory.
Evening star., 1942-11-01

Report Until 10 PM. Saturday.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Apportionment Law

The Civil Service Commission re-
port as of June 80 affords an inter-
esting study of the way in which the
apportionment law works out in war
time. The customary argument OF
apportionment advocates is that the
ALLEGATION Of departmental positions
on the basis of State population is
necessary to prevent the creation of
a job-holding hierarchy of District
residents. With employment at an
all-time high, and apportionment
waived for run the mine clerical
posts, the District-if this argument
held good-would have a corner on
jobs. But this condition does not
prevail.
In the two years of the war effort,
apportioned positions have increased
from approximately 10000 to 5000,
or something less than so per cent
of total employment here. New York
leads in the number of positions oc-
cupied with 1909, an increase OF
1927. The District is second with
l1,14s, but the gain here of 2,297 has
been exceeded by Pennsylvania,
which added 3,5l4 to rank third in
the number Of positions held with
total OF 7,745. Massachusetts, picked
Evening star., 1942-07-16
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TrdceDeH.

All food put out In this manner will
be found as readily by the birds as If
1t were all in neat mounds.
In fact, they like it better this way,
since 1t more closely approximates ma
tural conditions.
Being down in the grass. the bits
Of meat and the raisins (unground) must
be secured by dipping in the bill
This is the ancestral way of eating,
not only for robins, but for all species.
1t is particularly good training for the
young birds-especially the baby robins.
In this way. they find out about eat
ing for themselves, and practice in
seeking and finding before they learn
anything about rustling up worms for
themselves.
It must be great day in the life OF
any young robin when he spots and hauls
up his very first worm.
Probably it is one very close to the
surface.
Robins hear, rather than see, angle
worms in the earth.
Their whole life is spent in scratching
for them The more early training they
get, the better.
Catbirds, cardinals and mockingbirds,
as we'll as robins, find the lawn spot, as
suggested, veritable land of plenty in a
world Of fast dwindling food supplies.
Such lawn spot need not be kept
filled at all times.
Some selected time will do.
At the same time each day. If feasible,
put in such food as can be spared. A
little will 60 long way, If 1t is ground
up.
Then the birds will come to look for
it, 1t is an amazing thing, the time sense
which the birds have. Many times we
have told here how the blue jays came to
the feeding station all winter at exactly
7:20 o'clock in the morning.
Recently q friend told us how the
parent wrens in his yard would change
duties on the nest at exactly the same
time every day.
Birds which are fed food sprinkled in
given spot in the lawn at the same
time every evening will come to look
for it.
They will begin to gather or 10
minutes before the appointed time.
One by one they will fly into shrubbery
nearby, in order to keep watch.
No sooner has the food been placed,
and the door shut, than down they come.
1t is always an interesting experience.
Natural things are always interesting, no
matter how often they happen, or are
repeated.
Man-made things, such as books and
music, tend to grow boresome, if too
often repeated. That is why great SYM
phony orchestras vary their programs
from season to season, why there is an
incessant stream Of new books from the
presses. But robins song, always the
same, is always beautiful.
Evening star., 1942-07-16

up 1,707; Maryland, 1914. and Min
nesota, 1875, while Missouri, Iowa
and Virginia show in excess of 1900.
A dozen other States have recorded
appreciable gains, as there are twenty
which now are filling more than their
apportioned quota of positions.
The bulk of new employment here
has been at or below the $1,44O level,
the entrance grade for typists and
machine operators. Because of the
shortage of such personnel, the COM
mission lifted the apportionment re-
quirement, and in some instances, in
an effort to.aid the housing situation,
has restricted hiring to the area
within committing distance.
For the better paid positions, how
ever, the old inequities of apportion-
ment are continued, with District
residents locked out unless recruits
from the States are unavailable.
Evening star., 1942-07-16

Scattering ground beef and raisins
In the grass for the young birds and
their parents. especially robins, is a
good way to keep the dogs from getting
it, and at the same time it affords the
baby birds good training.
When the time comes that the young
birds must be weaned, the parents re-
fuse to feed them, and peck at them
if they insist on being fed.
If there is small patch of lawn
where all of them have been accus-
that the young will learn to eat by
themselves in painless way.
Not that eating for ones self at first
isn't very hard work.
Young robins, at any rate, find it so.
Dipping down the bill into the lawn
(Which might seem to an observer an
ancestral action known beforehand by
all robins) Is seen to be great task.
The very hinges of the young robins
"knees" seem to be rusty.
All this time one bird is learning to
eat, while another may be opening its
bill and squawking helplessly to its
mother and father, and even to its
brothers and sisters.
The latter pay no attention to it.
They are too busy learning to eat by
themselves.
1t is big day in any robins life
when it catches it's first worm.
The use of ground beef and raisins
helps tide over the period between being
bill-fed and rustling up food for them
selves.
1t means that not only great aid has
been given the older birds, but that the
young ones learn to eat more quickly
and surely.
They are led to look to the good earth,
from which their food comes.
The householder interested in bird
life, and believing in true conservation,
who realizes that our animal and bird
life is one of the mainstays of the
Nation, will find a great deal OF pleas
ure and profit from selecting q lawn
feeding site such as suggested.
1t is best chosen at some point which
can be easily watched from the house
Not too near shrubbery is best.
just any place where the grass is
good.
Select patch of not more than six
feet square, and be careful to put the
food inside this at all times.
~ 4
The temptation at first will be to put
the beef in one mound, and the raisins
in another.
This means that the first dog which
enters the yard will eat the meat, and
nobody can blame him.
If 1t is ground up, and then scattered
in the grass. the dogs can't get 1t, and
the birds have no difficulty in finding it..
The same goes for the raisins.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Tax Bourd Chunqe

At first glance, the proposal of the
House Ways and Means Committee
to change the designation Of the
Board of Tax Appeals to the United
States Tax Court appears of minor
consequence inasmuch as the duties
of the agency are undisturbed, but
several substantial reasons are ad-
vanced in its behalf.
To start with, those favoring the
change believe it would give the gen.
eral public a clearer idea of the ma
ture Of the tribunal and lessen the
confusion over procedure that often
delays litigation, causes needless ex-
pense to taxpayer and Government
and sometimes is responsible for de-
feating a meritorious appeal. Not
infrequently, appellants, assuming
incorrectly that the board procedure
is informal, fail to conform to it's
rules in instituting appeals from tax
assessments, and thereby encounter
endless difficulties. If, however, the
judicial status of the tribunal was
indicated by the designation, advo-
Gates contend that litigants would
take due note of that fact, and in
form themselves as to the proper
method of prosecuting claims.
Further, the change would
strengthen the subpoena powers of
the agency, for the right of subpoena
is inherent in court, while now the
board must depend on the courts for
enforcement when issuing sum-
monses.
There is still another phase to be
considered. The board often encoun-
ters difficulty in obtaining accommo-
dations for holding hearings in
various cities. This situation, it is
believed, would be eased if it were
on a more equal footing with Federal
courts, as the space occasionally
needed could be obtained in court
buildings then as matter of right.
The proposal for the name change
was written into the new tax bill by
the Ways and Means Committee after
careful study and the reasons which
prompted it no doubt will get con-
Sideration in the House.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Room for Both

'It does not make any difference
what we do to Washington. We have
a war to win
That is the attitude, expressed
more than once recently, which has
enabled the authorities charged with
provision of temporary Office space,
housing and parking of automobiles
to run roughshod over the authorities
charged with maintenance and de-
velopment of the Capitals park and
recreation areas. 1t finds its most
recent expression in the final award
of contracts to builders who will tear
up the small golf course in West
Potomac Park for erection OF a
dormitory to house woman war work.
ers It explains the rather hysterical
action of the War and Navy author
tiles in spending over 100000 to
cover the Polo Grounds with concrete
as a parking area for cars which do
not use it,
If the need for parks and recrea-
tional areas is compared with the
war needs, there Is no room for
argument. The two are not COM
parable. But it is highly unfortunate
that the war agencies have been so
shortsighted as not to recognize the
Importance of adequate recreational
facilities in war-crowded Washington
and that they have proceeded ruth
lessly to destroy them instead of
making any consistent effort to find
alternative ways of getting what they
need.
The unnecessary, wasteful con-
creting of the Polo Grounds for a
temporary parking lot that lacks the
patronage to make it worth while is
the horrible example of what can
happen in Washington, in too many
cases, in the name Of the war effort.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
McDouquI's Victory

1t would De plIy, lHueeQ, IL tue
name of David Stockton McDougal
were to be forgotten. Especially at
the present time he merits the CRATE
full remembrance of his country.
There never was a better "first-class
fighting man." and the inspiration
of such a career is needed just now
as never before.
A Scot by descent and filled with
the traditions OF his race, McDougal
was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, Sep
tember ~, 1909. He enlisted in the
United States Navy in 1928 and rose
through the ranks to be rear admiral
in 1873. His apprentice experience
he gained in the Mediterranean
Squadron between 1882 and 1885.
During the Mexican War he took part
In the capture of Veracruz. At the
outbreak of hostilities between the
North and the South in 1851 he was
ordered to the Pacific in search of
Confederate privateers, particularly
the Alabama The chase continued
until 1864 and included an incident
which should be better known to the
living generations of readers.
Says Walter B. Norris in the
Dictionary of American Biography:
'McDougal had been informed in
Yokohama that an American
steamer, the Pembroke, had been
fired on by Choshu clansmen in the
Straits OF Shimonoseki, in obedience
to decree Of the Emperor that for
eigners should be excluded from
Japan-a decree which the friendlier
Shotgun at Toxic had refused to
promulgate. In retaliation for this
violation of treaty promises, the
Wyoming, single-handed, attacked
the entire japanese force
consisting of land batteries and three
armed vessels
In contrast to modern Nipponese
procedure at Pearl Harbor, it is of
interest to observe how McDougal
began the battle Edgar Stanton
Maclay, the naval historian, explains:
Making directly for these vessels, he
shook out his colors, but reserved his
dre, intending to attack the vessels
frst and give his attention to the
batteries afterward. The sight Of the
American flag seemed to act like oil
on the fire, for now the japanese
opened from other batteries with
savage ferocity. McDougal's shift
from the main channel somewhat
disconnected their plans, as seen by
the fact that most of their shot took
effect in the Wyorning's rigging. He
was now engaged with the three
vessels. BY a we'll directed fire he
succeeded in sinking two of them,
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Wyoming unfortunately ran aground
and was in danger of being rammed.
Having silenced the third vessel, he
devoted his entire energy to the
shore batteries, and while deliber-
ately retracing his course through
the straits, kept up most effective
fire"
The engagement took place on July
IS, 1853 years ago today. 1t cost
the lives of four Americans but won
for the American flag a degree OF
respect never before accorded 1t IN
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Toxicob Compromise

Assuming advance reports to be
factually correct, there can be little
doubt that the Public Utilities Com
mission has resolved the taxicab rate
and zone problem through the me-
dium of a face saving" compromise
which represents a very substantial
victory for the cab drivers.
After a tumultuous public hearing
last fall, the commission granted a
temporary taxi fare increase which
raised the first zone rate from 20 to
30 cents, thus leaving the full sched-
ule at 3040-6080 cents. Under the
new order. which the commission is
understood to be preparing these
rates will be jumped to 3O-50- TO 80
cents, a very substantial increase.
The nature of the evidence upon
which the prospective order for these
higher rates is based is far from
clear. 1t Is known, however, that it
includes higher cost of gasoline and
tires and the somewhat irrelevant
fact that Capital Transit bus drivers
recently were granted a higher pay
scale. Presumably the commission
feels that there should be some rela-
tionship between the income of bus
and taxi drivers, but it is difficult to
reconcile this theory with the diff
ferences in their working conditions
and the fact that the increased bus
pay rates were absorbed by the tran
sit company, while the burden of the
higher taxi rates will be passed on
to the public. 1t may be that the
cab drivers are entitled to higher
rates, but this, to say the least, is
an exceedingly curious way of dem
onstrating that fact.
The tentative decision to approve
the higher rates did not dispose of
the whole problem, however, for it
left unsettled the question of whether
the drivers would finally accept
the commissions 21-subzone system,
which has been championed by
Chairman Gregory Hankin. But as
matters stand, the commission seems
to have won a face-saving victory on
this point, because spokesmen for
the drivers indicated they would op-
crate under the subzone system for
month with the understanding that
the question may be reopened after
they have gathered evidence on the
feasibility of the plan.
In reviewing the history Of this
matter, it seems hardly necessary to
point out that 1t has been a badly
mishandled affair. After months of
pickering and indecision, the dispute
has been brought to the point where
the commission gets a months trial
of its zone plan, the drivers get their
rate increase and the public foots the
bill. Certainly no one would be JUS
tilted in pointing with pride to that
record.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Pays Tribute to Musician
Known Among Vaudeville People.

To the Editor of The Star:
With all the talk about vaudeville re-
turning to its rightful place in the
amusement world, it seems fitting that
I should remind Washingtonians that
there is modest, capable and extremely
likable man living in our midst who
has mingled as musician and con-
ductor with the great Of vaudeville and
for whom all the artists of that once
large profession have the highest re-
spect both personally and professionally.
He is G. Frederick Clark, who for
many years directed the orchestra at
Keith's Theater In Washington.
When Chase's vaudeville house (Which
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Hoskin's Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. Hdsktn.

A reader can get the dnstce- TO any
question OF fact by icriting The Epe-
nina Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, director, Washington.
d. C. Please inclose stamp for return
postage.
@. What per cent of persons earn
ings is spent for taxes?-G. N.
A. 1t was estimated In 194l that
about one fifth of the earnings OF the
average person In the United States was
spent for taxes.
@. In how many cities are there
more males than females?-P. C.
A. The Bureau of the Census reports
that males were more numerous than
females in only 20 OF the l99 cities of
$4,000 or more population at the last
census.
@. Which is the southernmost point
Of the mainland Of Canadap-M. r. F.
A. Point Pelee National Park is the
most southerly point on the mainland
Of Canada.
Evening star., 1942-07-16

the Orient. McDougA had acted
without specific orders, but President
Abraham Lincoln. recognizing the
logic Of his reasoning, approved his
decision not to tolerate a violent
insult without resistance. The Japa-
nese as recently as last December
still referred to McDougal as "the
American devil" Such compliment
surely was merited.