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Evening star., 1942-03-07
Groy Ladies Will Care
For Blue Plains Patients

Pledged to serve the $50 patients
at the Home for the Aged and In
firm, Blue Plains. seven Red Cross
volunteers yesterday became gradu-
ated Gray Ladies in a ceremony at
Red Cross chapter house. 1870 E
street NV.
A congratulatory message was
read from Mrs Roosevelt, who has
been a critic of the lack of facilities
at the institution.
Mrs. Albert N. Baggs. hospital
corps chairman. issued an appeal
for wheel chairs, hospital beds,
crutches. mattresses. bath towels,
plates and cups needed at Blue
Plains.
The graduates were Margaret
Curtis Chadwell, Mildred G. Chris
tie. Norma Forman. Anne Gordon,
Helen C. MULTI. Hannah Rendel-
man and Eugenia Dietz Sewers.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Shotgun Blasts Wound Four
In Indiana Labor ARRAY

By the Associated Press.
BLOOMINGTON. Ind, March T.
Four men were wounded. two Of
them dangerously, bv shotgun blasts
in labor dispute yesterday at the
site of an abandoned stone mill on
the South edge of Bloomington.
Taken to a hospital were Duard
Deckard, 18. Clear Greek, head
wounds; Raymond Holtsclaw, %.
Bloomington, body wounds; Claude
Hale, 30, Petersburg, shot in left
arm, and Paul Shate, 38, Solsberry,
shot in right hip.
Attaches at the hospital said
Deckard and Holtsclaw were in a
critical condition.
Sheriff Earl Baxter said the men
had gone to the mill, which is being
razed, and demanded that workmen
there be required to join a union.
In the ensuing dispute the shots
were fired
A Bedford wrecking crew boss was
held in Jail on an open charge in
the affray.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Japs Claim 6 Direct Hits
On Aircraft Carrier
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
TOXIC From Japanese Broad
casts, March Imperial head
quarters claimed today that Jap
anese naval planes scored six direct
hits on a specially converted" en-
emy aircraft carrier before the Java
Sea naval battle last month.
The Japanese announcement said
the carrier was seriously crippled
and later was seen listing to star
board.
At the same time, the japanese
said aerial photographs had con-
firmed the sinking of a medium
sized enemy aircraft carrier attacked
in the waters northeast of New
Guinea
Thirty aircraft on the deck OF the
carrier reported attacked in the
Java Sea were said to have been
set on fire and destroyed while other
planes in the ships hangar were
DESTROYED.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
u. S. Charters
Dutch Ship That
Escaped Jops
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Navy Department announced
yesterday that the Maritime Com
mission had chartered the Dutch
steamer Wilhelmina, which escaped
Japanese controlled waters at the
outbreak Of the war and reached
Alaska after 70 days at sea.
The Wilhelmina's Dutch captain
and his crew of II Chinese and one
Russian we're on board the 3,492-ton
vessel, en- route from a northern
Japanese port to Yokohama Nth a
cargo of 1000 tons of coal, when
the ships radio operator, Rus
sian. picked up a message that
Japan had gone to war.
Also on board were two Japanese
described as representatives of the
Toxic government, and one of them
was radio operator.
The captain. after a conference
with the ships other officers, de-
cided to make a run to get out of
enemy waters, and 1t reached the
Alaskan port December %.
Evening star., 1942-03-07

told the House committee that the
price settlement for crop of beets
is generally on a 12-month market
ing period. He said the marketing
of sugar from beet crops planted
this spring would not be completed
until September, l943.
Unfairness Charged.
He testified that beet growers felt
it would be unfair to ask them to
take the risk of planting a crop
now, the return from which would
not be determined for so long a
time, in the event the war ended in
the meantime. without the protec-
ton afforded by the sugar control
law
Several members of the House
group insisted the new price control
law could be used to see that the
grower received fair price and do
away with the special sugar tax.
Dr. Bernhardt contended the retail
price of sugar would have to be
higher to give the grower parity
without the present program than
by continuing it on the statute
books.
At another point in the hearings,
the head of the sugar division testi-
fed there has always been a surplus
of collections over benefit payments
out of the sugar tax. For the fiscal
year 194l, he told the committee,
collections were approximately $80,-
900 900, and s46,OO0,0OO actually ex-
pended. Asked if the difference goes
into the general revenues Of the
Treasury, he said the only excep-
ton was that taxes heretofore COL
lected on sugar from the Philippines
% was required tir d,tt to Ds II.s set aside as a
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Col. Britton Warns French
That R. A. F. Will Be Back
BY TIE Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. March THE mys-
terious Col. Britton." the Lon
don radios voice to the Nazi-oc-
cupied continent, warned French
men sharply last night to get away
from Nazi-controlled factories. for
the Royal Air Force is coming
again-more and more often"
He referred to the great Tuesday
night raid on the Paris industrial
area.
Il warn you again now he said.
Keep away from these factories
Keep away from any work which is
helping Germany. :. Get into the
country"
If they are forced to work, he
said. the French should demand
better air raid shelters.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
$50 u. 5. Engineers
On Way 10 Start Work
On Road 10 Alaska
$50, ,000, 900 Project Has
Approval of Cunudu's
Cabinet and War Board
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, March IA $50, ,000, 900
highway from the United States to
Alaska through Canada-the dream
of many Yukon gold hunter and
the despair of countless engineers
is to become a reality. War and its
threats have brought the project to
life.
Prime Minister w. L. Mackenzie
King announced yesterday that the
cabinet had approved the project.
already recommended by the United
States Canadian Joint Defense
Board. More than $50 United States
Army engineers are on their way to
Alberta for preliminary work on the
highway.
An advance crew of American
engineers is at Dawson Creek, and
thousands of freight cars carrying
construction equipment are eX-
pected to pass through Alberta in
the next few weeks.
Would be Protected Route.
The roal will start at Fort ST.
John in Northern British Columbia
and follow the general line Of air.
ports which Canada has constructed
through Fort Nelson, Watson Lake,
Whitehorse, Boundary and Big Delta
to Fairbanks, Alaska.
The bones Of many gold hunters
of 1893 lie along the l,200-mile route
chosen for the highway. 1t follows
one of the trails used by men who
ventured into the Yukon gold fields
at the turn of the century.
Through tundra and swampland,
over prairies and mountain passes,
the highway will provide protected
route to the American door to Asia.
For defense or for offense it will pro-
vide powerful weapon in the hands
of the United States and Canada.
Follows River Courses.
Airmen who have flown the re-
mote route say there would be no
very high passes to cross on the
highway because river courses could
be followed most of the way
The highway will connect with
existing road systems of Canada and
Alaska.
The air route, like the proposed
highway was designed with military
] considerations in mind. Military
planes of short range or huge bomb
ers may be flown over it safely.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Indian MosIem Leader
Opposes Hasty Action
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOMBAY, March 7.-Mohammed
Ali Jinnah. president Of the ALL
India Moslem League, cabled Prime
Minister Winston Churchill today
expressing concern lest the British
government take action prejudicial
to Moslem interests in a hasty at
tempt to settle the Indian problem.
The Moslem leader urged that no
constitutional changes affecting
India be adopted without approval
of the league, which is demanding
the establishment of an autonomous
MoSlem state
The Moslems represent a minor
ity of 100000 in .Indias vast
patchwork population, which in
cludes about 242,0O0,000 Hindus.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Joseph T. Deal, 81, Dies;
Former Representative
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
NORFOLK, Va. March 7-Joseph
T. Deal, 81, former member of Con-
gress from the I'd Virginia District,
died today at his home here.
He was a lumber manufacturer
and owner of large areas of land
on the James River.
Mr.. Deal was elected to the Vir-
ginia State Senate in 1919 and
served as a Member of Congress
from 1921 to 1929
He was a candidate for the Vir-
ginia Democratic gubernatorial NOM
ination in 1888, but was defeated in
the primary by George c. Peery.
Evening star., 1942-03-07

Small Jop Force
londs at CoIopon

The tert of War Department com
muniQue No. 1873. based on report
received until $50 am. today:
l. Philippine theater:
Except for slight artillery fire
and an ineffective enemy air raid,
there was no activity on Bataan.
A comparatively small force of
japanese troops, accompanied by
tanks. landed at Calapan on the
island of Mindoro. Several ports
on the east coast of the island
were shelled by enemy naval
craft.
There was desultory fighting
between patrols on the outskirts
of zamboanga on the island of
Mindanao.
2. There is nothing to report
from other areas.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Fire Wrecks BuiIdinq
AT Magnesium Plant;
Sabotage Suspected
Contractor Says BIoze
Started Where Wind
Could Whip 1t Through
BY the Associated Press.

b! lne ASSOclatcO FTeSS.
LAS VEGAS. Nev., Mar. =
Wind whipped flames destroyed the
S250 900 administration building of
the Basic Magnesium Plant. Inc.
last night. The S63 900, 900 project,
financed by the Defense Plant Corp,
is scheduled to begin producing
magnesium for warplane factories
about June l.
Lawrence G. Mcneil, head of
Mcneil Construction Co, the con-
tractors, said he suspected sabotage
because the flames started in a
corner where wind would whip them
through the structure
Blueprints in Building.
He did not say whether engineers
plans and blueprints were saved. An
acquaintance said they would be the
chief object of sabotage in the ad-
ministration building and added
that because designers were racing
to keep ahead of construction, he
doubted whether duplicates had
been prepared.
The first magnesium processing
building is scheduled to be ready for
production in late May
Five thousand men are employed
in construction work.
Other buildings were not damaged
| and no one was injured. The loss
included engineering equipment and
Office equipment of the contractors
and the basic magnesium plant.
Crews Fail in Fight
Mr. Mcneil said the building, to
be used in the manufacture of mag
nesium, a substitute for aluminium
in the aircraft industry, would be
reconstructed Immediately.
Crews working on other buildings
of the plant fought the flames un-
successfully. The area has been
under close guard by employees of
the contractor during construction.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Edward B. Mclean Buys
2,510-Acre Ranch in West
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo,
March 7.-Edward B. Mclean, son
of Mrs. Evelyn Walsh Mclean, and
his wife have bought a 2.51O-acre
ranch % miles northwest of Colorado
Springs for permanent home.
The ranch was owned by George
Higginson, Sd, and Mrs. Virginia o.
Higginson, both of Brookline, Mass.
Mr.. Mclean said the deal involved
about S35, 5,000
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Inspection Of School
Attics Is Urged for
Fire Prevention
Commissioner Young
Told Of Doneers by
PIT. A. Congress

The District Congress of Parents
and Teachers, through its Executive
Committee, has asked the CcmmiS-
sioners for an inspection by ergi-
neers of all school attics to deter
mine their safety against fire, it was
disclosed today.
In letter to Commissioner Young
the board cited specifically oondi-
tions at the Petworth School and de-
clared the matter of such vital i'm
portance to the safety of District
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Pronkster Strips Court Cors

BALTIMORE, March 7 ,P).-For
years Traffic Court magistrates have
supplied miniature. rubber tired au-
tomobiles so defendants could show
on stage of streets and boule-
wards just how the accident hap
pened. 1t was very life -like-and
yesterday the court found some
prankster had stripped the little
cars of their rubber tires.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
TutuiIo Given to Chino

CHUNGKING, March 7 LP-Ihe
United States has presented the de-
commissioned gunboat Tutuila to
China. 1t. Col. James M. McHugh
informed the Chinese government
yesterday. The formal transfer is
expected to take place in a few days.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Fireman Studies Defense

Percy A. Davis of 29l7 Akron place
Sc, Washington fireman, was one
tenSive two-week course in the War
Department Civilian Defense School.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Weather Report

Furnished by the
tonight we'll
freezing:
Vrgina-Warmer
Evening star., 1942-03-07

N
he will confe with
A.
ito on rom
re the
Evening star., 1942-03-07
River Renort.

River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac very muddy
at Great Falls today.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital tcurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1942-03-07

Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
In recess.
House:
Resumes debate over cuts in ag-
Iculture appropriations.
Evening star., 1942-03-07
Record for Last "a Hours.


Record for Last "a Hours.
prom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest, 81, at 3:55 p.m. yesterday.
Lowest. "a, At $40 am. today. Year
ago. %.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 85. on January IS.
Lowest, g, on January IL.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. 80 per cent. at $40 m today
Lowest, AS per cent. at IL 80 m. today.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic SurveyD
Today. Tomorrow
High ~ 12:46 am.
Low 6:23 am. ia am.
High ---- 1921 pm. 1:16 pm.
Low ----- 1908 pm. 500 .. m.
Ths Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
sun. today T:33 f:07
Sun. tomorrow ---- 7:32 7:07
Moon, today -- - 1925 am
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-hah hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1942-03-07

Report for Last "a Hours.
Evening star., 1942-03-07

Increased Base Kate.
Congress, less than three months
ago, extended the life of the Sugar
Control Act, and at the same time
increased the base rate of payment
from 60 cents to 80 cents per hum
dred pounds. Although Congress ap-
propriates the amount to be paid
out. the fund from which payment
is made is raised by special proc
essing tax on sugar, at the rate of
half cent a pound.
Defending continuation of the
payments before the House Ap-
preparations Committee in January,
officials of the Agriculture Depart
ment contended the program is es-
sential to stimulate the increased
production of sugar needed to offset
cllrtailment of imports and to meet
higher labor costs in American beet
fields.
DR.. Joshua Bernhardt. chief Of
the sugar division Il Agriculture,
Evening star., 1942-10-03

He turned his sharp blue eyes
back to their patient vigil.
This brought Tony's volatile spirits
up again. i
Some convoy-why. hell"
We chewed this over a while.
Shortly the sun went to work.
Gene sighed and touched his long,
tender nose. Tony automatically
began Tipping water onto Genes
blouse. I sat and dourly regarded
the raw red circle where my wrist
watch had been. This spot never
tanned. 1t repeatedly burned to
blisters, peeled, and burned again.
The rest of the morning passed
in silence. Each of us was occupied
with his own thoughts, and they
must have been uniformly gloomy.
Over and over I took stock of our
situation. In few hours I would
make the fifth pencil mark on the
gunwale. Five days without food
or water. Five days, the three of
us crowded together in a space not
much bigger than the inside of
bathtub. Five days with no sleep
by night, and pitiless torture by
day, all day long, as the suns burn
ing rays bit viciously into our hides
and boiled out the remaining mois-
ture. Five days of turning our suf-
fering skins, like basting fowl, to
baths of stinging salt. Five days
and how many days ahead?-of
nothing to keep us alive but the
sinew that was now wasting from
our bones.
I shook my head like boxer who
suddenly catches himself being
counted out. Time to put on the
pot, old boy.
Boys" I said.
They stared at me, Gene absent
mindedly lingering his ludicrous
young beard. which was stiff with
salt.
"All we've got to do now" said,
Evening star., 1942-10-03

God helps those that help them
selves" I said.
well, come on, rain" Tony chal-
lenged. or maybe it amt gonna
rain no mo-, no mo-"
We lifted our voices Justify at that
and sang, "It Amt Gonna Rain No
Mo-" as far as we knew the words
which wasn't far-as If by our false
cynlcism we could put a reverse
hoodoo on the elements.
At least we were all laughing
again, which we hadn't done for
some time.
Despite our elaborate irreverence,
there was no denying that the
prayer had made us feel better.
Gene, who had more piety in his
nature than either Tony or I, took
evident satisfaction. His mind now
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Gallery Is Given Portrait
Of Roosevelt Ancestor

A portrait Of Capt. Warren Delano,
great grandfather of President
Roosevelt, has been presented to the
National Gallery Of Art by the
Warren Delano estate through
Frederic A. Delano, 240O Sixteenth
street NV.
The gallery also announced today
chat a portrait of George Washing
ton, by Rembrandt Peale, was given
by George w. Dawson of New York
City. For many years Peale was
known as the last surviving artist
who had painted Washington from
life.
The Delano picture was done by
Charles Loring Elliott and was
painted in 1852. Capt. Delano was
a famous merchant skipper and
played an important role in the
merchant service and the shipbuild-
ing and whaling industries Of this
country during the first half of the
10th century.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Unknown Youth Exonerafed
In Soldier S|ayinq Here

The unknown colored youth who
shot and fatally wounded a soldier
September 20 was exonerated bv a
coroner's jury yesterday.
Deliberating for less than 30
minutes. the jury decided that the
youth, still at large, shot in defense
OF his own life The soldiers death.
they decided, was justifiable homi-
eide.
The soldier was Pvt. Robert W.
Hammer, 81, of the 176th Medical
Detachment, Fort Myer, Va. The
shooting occurred in the 140O block
OF Rhode Island avenue NV. in an
alteration brought on by insulting
remarks supposedly made to a white
girl by the colored youth and COM
panion.
Detectives of the homicide SQUAD
said that as far as they could recall
no such decision has ever been
handed down in a murder inquest
when no defendant was present.
Morgue records showed likewise.
Evening star., 1942-10-03

the waves and the darker clouds
just above.
Rain. a.
AT numerous points we could make
out what we believed to be line
squalls, rains along the line of wind
change, or cold fronts. Many times
we thought one of those squalls
would surely hit us and we could get
drink, and many times we seemed
to sail right between two showers.
But the sun still shone on us.
Night Comes Suddenly.
The night arrived surprisingly as
always in this latitude.
We watched the great red sun
sink in silence. The sea this eve
ming was dappled with tiny gold
tipped surface waves on which a
bird occasionally lighted as if COM
ing home. We felt lonely.
The tiny topmost yellow silver OF
sun hung a second, then dropped
and suddenly it was twilight. Behind
us. star cleaned.
We'll, Henry" Tony said promptly
time to put on the pot"
Why that phrase didn't get under
our skins after its five hundredth
repetition is one of the minor won
GERS of the voyage. s
In the gray morning of the fifth
day we realized, fully and definitely
that our force had left us behind.
Tony said it: "They aren't coming
back, fellas."
This time I couldn't think of any,
thing to say. My eyes checked
every inch of the little boat from
habit. Gene, on watch, was sitting
or the forward thwart, tirelessly
scanning the sea as it unfolded in
the rising daylight.
He looked at each of us without
expression, swallowed, and stretched
a grin.
well, shucks, ours amt the only
ship on the ocean"
Evening star., 1942-10-03

trying to make my voice strong and
confident, lis keep going south and
west, and We'll either be picked up
or run into an island. 1t isn't easy,
but 1t might be worse, and If we
stick together, have feeling we're
going to come out all right"
Lets shake on it," Gene said.
So we shook hands all around, and
things seemed better after that.
Gene Suggests Prayer.
Before evening, the three of us
were sitting dejectedly silent. Then
Gene made suggestion.
"1t might be a good idea," he said,
not meeting our eyes, ito say a
prayer"
We discussed this seriously. We
found that we had all been reared
in some religious atmosphere, but
that we had all drifted away. It
had been many years since I had
been inside a civilian church, but I
sometimes attended Sunday services
held by the chaplain aboard ship,
when my duties permitted and I
was not going ashore.
We all concluded that a word of
prayer wouldn't hurt anything.
So we sat in the steaming little
cup that our boat had become, and
bowed our heads beneath the cruel
tropic sun. We each mumbled a
few words of our own awkward
choosing, calling on our God to bless
our loved ones back home, over
whom we were more concerned than
ourselves, and asking for a little
rain.
We were all quite skeptical about
the possibility of any answer to our
prayer.
We'll, now we done all we could"
Tony said.
Gee, give 1t a chance" Gene
answered impatiently.
called on my store of proverbs.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Personnel Officer Named

BALTIMORE, Oct. 8 R)-Maj.
Gen. Milton A. Reckord, command
ing general of the Sd Service Com
mand, was notified yesterday that
Percival Edward Foerderer of Phila-
delphia had been nominated for a
commission as lieutenant colonel In
the Army Specialist Corps, to be as
signed Is principal personnel pro-
elrement ofnesr, neld service, ID
Evening star., 1942-10-03

was obviously clean Of worries or
self-reproaches.
For a time we made a game OF
f1inging handfuls of salt water on
each other to cool our chafing
bodies. but soon in the quivering
heat we. again fell silent, and well
coined the evening.
That night it rained.
Continued tomorrow
Copyrisht. 1912 by Henry Holt e. Co.. Inc.
Distributed by King Features, Inc.
Evening star., 1942-10-03
Missionary Head Renamed

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Oct. s.
Mrs. M. Edwin Thomas Of Baltimore
was renamed president of the Wotn-
ems Missionary Society of the
Evangelical Luthern Synod of Mary
land at business session closing the
annual two-day meeting.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-01-08
MIR. Sargent, Our
Musical Director

| wonder how many Of US realize
what Mr.. Sargent goes through dur
ing performance. To those il the
audience no doubt all that is seeu
is man waving and flinging h.
arms in such positions as to make
him look like he might be a little
off. To a chorus member he looks
a great deal different His arms
and hands, of course, play great
part, but to me, the expressions Of
his face are most inspiring. That
man can SO we'll change the express
sion of his face, to fit the mood Of
each phrase Of music. that by being
attentive if you didn't know how a
song was to be sung, you couldn't
help but find out.
AS member of his chorus, |
can't see how any member can help
but be inspired and enjoy partici-
pating in a performance directed by
Mr.. Sargent. To see him with sweat
running down his forehead surely
encourages the performers to give
all they can to make the occasion
a success. Success has surely beer
the outcome of everything attempt
ed by Mr.. Sargent. Success anc
Sargent go well together