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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-10

lied, and if I decide to marry Jay
it may embitter him for life.
"a hundred times he has said to
me, oh, why, why, why, does it
have to be this way? Why you, Of all
women?' OF course that is what my
own heart echoes. But twice lately,
Robert has used the expression, If
you feel you must pay the debt Will
you tell me what you think and
help one more distracted woman to
peace?"
Judging from your letter, Vera,
] would say that life with Robert
might be rather rigid affair. It
seems plain that this sef-controlled
conscientious man is having the sort
of battle between the spirit and the
flesh that comes only to religious
persons. He is in love with you, and
it is his first love, and so overwhelm-
ing and painful.
Robert undoubtedly thinks that
Jay has a claim upon you, that you
pledged him wifehood when you
yielded to him in that early affair.
And that nagging conviction will
grow stronger after marriage, when
the first wild glamour dies and he
discovers that you are human, and
can make mistakes and be trouble
some and disappointing like any 9TH
er wife.
So I wouldn't marry Robert if I
were you. If the more easy-going,
cheerful Jay is sympathetic to you,
and you can imagine yourself as
making good mother to his child
and working out a happy normal life
for yourself as his wife, then why
not tell Robert once and for all that
you see the justice Of his attitude
and that you have determined to
make the only reparation in your
power for your youthful mistake.
This will make him feel heroic and
that you both are committed to the
dutiful and self-sacrificing course.
Success Rests With Vera.
But if your decision meets with
violent opposition from Robert, and
he inplores you to forget the past
and 60 on with him into a more
honorable future, then of course you
might relent and accept the more
distinguished destiny. A faultless
husband is a fearful and wonderful
thing, so be sure that you are re-
luctantly talked over, if you decide
to be talked over. It might be that
in the future you will be glad to re-
mind him that your decision was
made to marry Jay, when Robert
persuaded you otherwise.
With either man, the success or
failure Of the marriage rests with
you. With Jay you probably would
have cheerful companionship, more
laughter, more of the unexpected
than with Robert. But with Robert
you would have wealth, position, the
power young wife with both can
WELD, and the knowledge - very
much to your credit-that you did
not conceal anything from him and
that he contracted this marriage
with his eyes open to your early
history.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-10
More Raleigh Jingles

Raleigh Cigarettes are again
offering liberal prizes in q big
Jingle contest to be run in this
paper. One hundred and thirty
three prizes will be awarded each
week. ADV.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-10
COMMANDOS:
Hit Daring BLo,U

Britain'S commands, after a lull
Of several weeks during which they
doubtless had been cooking" an
other raid, had descended in full
power on the, German-held port Of
st. Nazaire, important submarine
and naval base, with dire results.
Chief objective, outside of general
demolition work around the port,
had been the destruction of huge
dock, the only one on the European
Atlantic coast capable of handling
the 35,000-ton German battleship
Won Tirpitz. &
The commands had attacked st.
Nazaire under cover Of an aerial
bombing raid. using paratroops, de-
stroyers, and motor torpedo boats.
The Nazis denied all efficacy Of the
raid, but the British just as positive
~ declared it to have been huge
success.
Chief item and most daring in the
raid was the use Of an average U. S.
destroyer as a swiftly moving bomb
to ram the dock. The destroyer had
been loaded with five tons of high
explosive in its bow, fixed with a
time fuse to permit the crew to get
ashore and fight while the ship blew
up.
British sources had reported that
this was just what happened. The
vessel rammed the dock and stuck
there, later to blow up and put the
structure out of commission.
The Germans said, however, that
their coastal defense batteries
struck the destroyer and caused her
to blow UP before reaching her OBJ
jective.
The Germans, however, admitted
that many of the raiders got ashore,
but claimed they were all killed or
captured. The British said there
"were some casualties" but that the
detectives were carried out, and
that many members of the raiding
forces returned in safety to England.
It was all part Of the British spring
offensive, which included practically
nonstop raids against Germany and
occupied France.
The U. S. destroyer found at her
end place in history along with the
vindietive and the blockships Of zeel
brugge fame.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-10
TIMETABLE:
Revised

There had been much talk about
the Japanese timetable being awry,
but to the man in the street this was
hard to believe, since the Japs had
swept the East Indies, including
Singapore, but excluding Bataan
and Manila Bay fortresses, in the
intellectually short period since De-
cember z.
However, it had become apparent
that the Japanese plans to enter the
Australian mainland had suffered
severe setback in the arrival of thou
sands of American troops on the
continent, in the about plane
attack on Jap concentrations in is
lands to the north of Australia, and
in the reported reinforcements be-
ing received by the Aussies of their
own blooded troops back from north
ern Africa.
These were signs all could read.
The attacks on New Guinea had
been going on far too long in COM
parison with those on other islands
in the Indies without the Japs NOV
ing in for the Australian "kill."
1t was inconceivable that the Jap
anese wanted to wait until the Amer
leans and North African troops had
landed, had become organized. They
had not wanted Macarthur, and
President Quezon to escape to the
mainland.
Nor did they want their enemy to
he holding onto Port Moresby at this
late date, with it's airfields and gar
,risons awaiting Jap push over the
almost impossible mountainsides to
the southern part of the island.
Here, it was evident, the Japs
had met serious delay. Many be-
i1ieved the attack on Australia was
to be abandoned, thus setting the
stage for real Allied counter
offensive.
The Australians, however, particu-
larly General Blamey, who had been
placed in command OF the Aussies
under General Macarthur, believe
that 1--WE must arrange our strate-
igy on the basis that the Japs are
going to try an invasion"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-10
AMERICANS:
Cupid sDotUn Under

Most interesting while the Amer
lean troops were training in Aus
tralia, becoming acclimated, and
meeting the people" was the flood
Of romance sweeping over the con-
tinent.
Literally scores of marriages were
being performed, causing all sorts
of reactions.
Some of the Aussie clergy de-
plored these marriages in haste, 7"
and one cleric had the bad taste to
say the Americans came here to
fight, not to get married"
The Australian public met the
romances with whoops of joy. and
the press was definitely on the side
of young love.
One American commanding Of
ficer forbade his soldiers to get
married, and drew down on himself
bowls of rage from the rank and
file, and reprimand from his SUI
periors.
The war department in Washing
ton capped this climax by issuing
a statement that any American sol
der had a perfect right to get mar
ried as long as he did his duty as
a soldier, and obeyed the commands
Of his superiors-and was free to
get married.
And that, after all, turned out to
be the only major worry OF those
who watched Cupid's darts flying
right and left in Australia-the fear
that some enthusiastic lovers might
forget that they had wives at home.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-10
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

NNE of the most awkward
questions that youth can
- ask age is the one a girl
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-10
RUBBER-OIL:
Gern,ar, Patents

congressman had been looking
with wary and angry eye at the
Standard Oil group which, it had
been publicly charged, had possess
sion of superior rubber-oil formu-
la, and had been negotiating with it,
and turning its patents over to
German concern even after Deceaa-
Der z.
For time things had looked most
serious, with Senator Truman say
ing: ''It looks like treason and I'm
going to give the Standard officials
q chance to show why it isn't" but
this feature Of the case simmered
down couple Of days later when
he said he was willing to let by
cones be bygones."
But the aftermath was that Stand
ard and its process for making rub
Der out of oil was on the spot, and
its every move was being watched.
Truman said he didn't like the looks
Of the deal whereby the government
was constructing plants for making
aviation gasoline.
SIT looks as though the big COM
panies are freezing out the little
ones, and that they will make
enough profit out of their contracts
to pay for the government build
ings," he said.
Another aftermath Of the congress
sional probe into conditions sur
rounding the rubber-malking deals
with German firms was that Tru-
man said in the future no foreign
pacts of any sort might be made
without government scrutiny and APP
prevail. 'E.
Congress didn't want to be caught
mapping again.
OFFENSIVE:
The oft-repeated question where
win Hitler's spring offensive strike"
had been sufficiently answered by
dispatches from Moscow.
Activity was definitely on the lull
in North Africa.
Activity across the channel was
largely from England to Germany,
with the Nazis on the defensive.
But ON the Russian front, both at
Murmansk and all along the whole
2,O00-mile line, the Reds themselves
were admitting widely increased
German activity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-10

''His brother tells me he cannot
sleep nights for worrying over this
thing; the brother doesn't know all
the circumstances. Robert has had
the old house completely modern
lied; he has talked to me Of our
life together as though it were
dream too precious ever to be real
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-10
WNU-4
Do You Like Jingle Contests 2

Raleigh Cigarettes are now rum
ming another series of weekly con-
tests for those who can supply the
best last line to jingle. Over 100
liberal prizes each week. Watch
this paper for details.-Adv.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Bethesda School 10 Hold
Career kiqht' Wednesday

Students at the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Md High School will have
an opportunity to decide what they
wish to do after graduation when
they meet with more than a score
of specialists in various vocational
fields at a Career Night" sponsored
by the school Parent Teacher Asso-
citation at 7:45 pm. Wednesday at
the school.
Principal speaker will be DR.. Floyd
Cromwell of Baltimore, Maryland
State supervisor of guidance, who
will give a 15-minute talk on Fac
tors to Be Considered in Choosing
a Career"
Particular emphasis will be placed
on careers in which graduating
students may be able to obtain posi-
tions vital to national defense and
in which there are shortages at
present.
Among Bethesda Chevy Chase
residents who will advise the stu
dents are Marquis w. Childs, news
paper correspondent; DR.. John
Younger of Maryland University,
DR.. Haven Mankin, eye, ear and
throat specialit; 1t. Comdr. Merlin
ONeill; Lawrence J. Heller. presi-
dent of Station WINK; William j..
Sholar and Mrs. Martha Frye,
public health nurse.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Mahon Says Hearing,
On Budget May Be
Delayed Until May
Many Changes Likely in
S55,000, 900 Estimates
OF District Expenses

Congressional consideration of the
1943 District budget probably will
not begin until May, it was an
nounced last night by Chairman
Mahon of the House subcommittee
which handles the District appropri-
alton bills.
The budget, which calls for ap-
proximately s55000,00O to operate
the municipal government in the
new fiscal year beginning July
l, has been pending in the House
Appropriations Committee since
early in January.
Representative Mahon indicated
many changes might have to be
made in the estimates because of
unanticipated war conditions, and
that members of his subcommittee
and District officials would get to-
gether before the hearings start to
line things up"
Representative Stefan, ranking
minority member of the subcom-
mittee suggested such a conference
several weeks ago He pointed out
the 1943 budget is obsolete" because
it was prepared last fall and should
not be revised because of the un-
precedented demands on the mu-
nicipal government resulting from
the population increase.
Evening star., 1942-03-08

she pointed out, would rather sleep
an extra half hour and go to work
by bus if they aren't due at work
until later than the early-rising
Interior people
Miss Grace Hazard, who lives in
Chevy Chase. Md, and once won an
Interior Department popularity con-
test, maintains her popularity by
taking a load home every night.
Her regular passenger is an employe
of the Indian Office. Picking him up
helps her get to work on time.
Harold Anthony of the Office of
Land Utilization and Glenn Rodgers
of the General Land Office live in
Vienna, Va, and take turns driving
to work. If Mr. Anthony's wife wants
to use his car for her marketing,
they take Mr.. Rodgers car, used to
bring in four Navy Department en-
ployes until their hours were
changed. Fortunately, Mr.. Rodgers
wife doesn't drive.
The QUESTIONABLE proved so sue
ceSsful as a spur to Interior De-
partment cooperation that other
agencies, including the District Gov
ernment, wanted copies, which they
have now circulated among their
employees.
Patting his employees on the back
Secretary Ickes sent a memo to all
cooperating employees thanking
| them for their efforts.
BY this time, some seven months
after the request was made, they're
thanking him.
Evening star., 1942-03-08

were playing chauffeur to lilo other
employees. That. apparently, was
nothing compared to the pickup
situation now.
Few Singles Ride.
Stop any Interior Department
employe in the halls, step into any
office and you'll find an impressive
number of them are either riding
in some one elses car. taking a
covey of colleagues to work or al
ternately driving and being driven.
People VINO park regularly in the
Interior Department basement say
they notice few cars coming IN with
out a pair or even trio Of passen-
gers.
Once the idea went the rounds,
Interior Department people took
not only employees OF their own
building but also started chauffeur
ing employees of other Government
departments who live in their neigh
borhoods.
Most of them have regulars on
the way down, many of them have
regulars both ways and there's al
ways a fourishing transient trade" "
After the QUESTIONABLE, no effort
was made to tell people with cars
whom to pick up and deliver. They
were supposed to find their own pas
sengers and apparently did so. Some
would-be passengers took the time
h,lnGrGS Of G
tionnaires on file in the chief clerk;
office to find people in the neighbor-
hood with cars.
Ickes Pools Seats.
An example-setter. Secretary 1ckes
always takes a carload of staff mem
bers when he visits Capitol Hill. The
other day he instructed all bureau
chiefs to pool departmental Ve'
hicles so one car could carry a;
many people as it would hold from
several bureaus. The unused cars are
being laid up to save shoe leather
| later.
Walton OnSloW of the interior
Department Division of Informa
ton has worked out a pleasant sys-
tenn. In his block in Bethesda, Md.
are a man from the Social Sc
curity Board and another from the
Budget Bureau. Each one drive!
in two days a week. all using the
same parking space reserved for Mr.
Onslow in the Interior Building
| basement.
The wives of the three men fol
low the same policy. With one Of
the remaining cars they go en- masse
to buy their groceries.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Auto Owners Warned Against
Fake u. S. Tire inspectors

stocks of dealers to determine
whether they are complying with
the tire rationing program.
The report yesterday came from
Leo A. Master, 1923 Ridge road Sc,
who said he was notified by neigh
bor, Mrs. Mike Leon, 344 Ridge road
Sc, in whose yard his car was
parked, that a young man had come
to her home and asked questions
concerning the tires on the ma
chine.
Mrs. Leon said the man presented
a badge and said he was inspecting
tires because the Government was
preparing to take up all OF them in
private use. He asked Mr.. Masters
address and left after examining
the tires.
A man answering his description
later appeared at the apartment Mr..
Master lives and questioned Mrs.
Ralph Cooksey and Mrs. James H.
Shepherd about Mr.. Master.
Mr.. Master said he notified the
F. B. I. and police about the Incl
dents.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
EMPLOYEES Thank Ickes No;l
For Early Share Car raining
System Puts Interior Workers in Line
To GroppIe With Tire and Cos Crises

The system is worked out in such
detail that when the man at the
end of the block Is driving. he picks
up the two other men; when the
man in the middle of the block
drives, the man on one end walks
up to his house and he picks up
the man on the other end; when
the man on the other end is driv-
ing, both the other men walk up
to his house.
Direct benefit to Mr.. Onslow? He
gets to work on time every morning,
to say nothing of the tires he doesn't
use.
Glenn Thompson. assistant execu-
tive officer in the petroleum CO.
ordinator's Office. lives in Silver
Spring, Md, and brings in two Fed
eral Works Agency employees. one
Agriculture employe and one in pri-
vate industry-all women.
He insists that contrary to tradi-
ton his feminine passengers are al
ways on time and all report to his
front door. The conversation of
four women early in the morning
doesn't bother him a bit and they
always are politely insistent that he
should not go out of the way to de-
liver them. He drops one of them
at Seventeenth and F streets, an
other at Seventeenth and c and
two others at Seventeenth and
streets.
Like Stanley CroSsthWaite, eXecu-
tive officer of the petroleum CO.
ordinator's Office, he can't take them
all home at night because he works
late. Mr.. Crossthwaite's two GUS
toners are Census Bureau employees.
One of them had been driving, the
other going by bus.
Chief Clerk Floyd E. Dotson, who
was bringing one Interior Depart
ment employe to work before the
Secretary's request, now brings two.
Mr.. Dotson admits the system re-
quires some little sacrifice on the
part of drivers as we'll as drivees.
Sometimes passengers have to wait
an hour or more for working
chauffeur Sometimes the chauf-
feur would like to go sCme place else
of late afternoon, but has his
responsibilities to his customers.
Extra Sleep Figures In.
Mrs. F. Ridge Hicks. who rides to
work with her husband and three
other passengers from Arlington,
Va. agrees with some of the others
that the passengers should do the
requesting for rides. Some people,
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Maryland Scouts Salvage
Tons Of Waste Material

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 7.-More
than 100 tons of waste material,
mostly paper, were salvaged by
Maryland Boy Scout troops in col
lections between January l and
February Is. William R. McClayton,
head of the Baltimore Salvage
Committee, reported today.
Mr.. McClayton said all Scout
troops were engaged in salvage
work, but that reports had been
received from only 81 of Maryland's
$50 Scout troops. He estimated
that on the basis of reports already
received total collections exceeded
300 tons for the first two months
of the year.
Both Boy and Girl Scouts make
house toulouse collections Of waste
material the first week OF each
month, Mr.. McClayton said.
The average amount collected
by each troop reporting was 3,57C
pounds and the average cash re-
ceived by each troop from sale OF
the salvage material was $l8.14
The largest collection of any troop
reporting so far was 1870 pounds
by an Annapolis troop" Mr.. Nc
Clayton said.
Evening star., 1942-03-08

Price Administration officials
warned the public yesterday to be
on guard against persons posing as
tire inspectors representing the Fed
eral Government under pretense
that tires. private citizens were to
be reQuisitioned for Federal use.
The warning followed a report
from a resident of Southeast Wash
ington that a man who flashed E.
badge and claimed to be an agent
of the Government yesterday in
spected his tires under such an ex-
cuSe.
o. P. A. officials gave assurance
that any person offering such an
explanation is an imposter and
should be turned over to the police.
They said the Government has no
plans at present for requisitioning
privately-owned tires and no in
spectors have been authorized to
examine tires either by o. P. A. or
any other Federal agency.
They added that the only tire in
spectors now at work under Federal
authorization are those checking
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Mistake Holds Up Signs
For Macarthur Boulevard

The Macarthur boulevard signs
will not be posted tomorrow along
Conduit road because old municipal
procedures have caused some delay
in paying honor to the commander
of the American forces in the Phil
ippines.
After President Roosevelt had
signed into law the measure to
change the name of Conduit road
to Macarthur boulevard municipal
officials promptly set in motion ma
chinery to produce the new signs.
Following old procedure, designed
to prevent inconvenience to the
travelling public, the signs carried
a second line saying formerly Con-
duit road"
Through a mistake the Conduit
road letters in the new signs we're
made just as large as those for Mac
Arthur boulevard.
When Brig. Gen. Charles w. Kutz,
Engineer Commissioner. noticed this
Yesterday he ordered a delay in the
placing of the signs until they
could be revised to eliminate all ref
erence to Conduit road.
Officials said the revised signs
would be in place within one or two
weeks.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Zone Hearing Is Set
For Tokomu Park Lots

A hearing on the application OF
Ralph G. Shure, agent, asking for
reclassifcation from residential A
to residential C of lots 4, 5 and 6 in
block 103 in Takoma Park, Md, has
been set for $3.50 pm, March 81, at
the Silver Spring County Building.
Located at Maple and Lee ave-
nues, the lots were included in the
original petition for zoning amend
ment filed by Judge Shure August
%, 194l, but the description OF the
above lots was inadvertently omitted
from the notice Of the hearing held
December 8.