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Evening star., 1943-10-31

a technician laboratory worker in a
hospital in her home town of Rochester.
N. Y, Miss Vella found her work mo-
nontonous and decided she wanted
something more exciting She had a
number of friends in radio work with
the merchant marine, so she decided
on radio.
Miss Vella entered radio school in
Rochester and dragged" one of her
brothers along with her. Later she and
her brother, who is now in the merchant
marine, and friend went to New York
and went to see an acquaintance at
Pan American Airways at La Guardia
Field. In fun, her brother suggested
that she try for Job with an airline.
She took him seriously, went to Amer
clan Airlines and got job.
After working month at La Guardia
Field, Miss Vella was transferred to
Washington. She admitted that there
is nervous tension now and then in
the work, but she said she liked it we'll
enough ito want to stick to it and make
a career of it."
of the American Airline station at the
airport here, would like very much to.
see more Miss Vellas. Washington is
now the third busiest airport in the
United States and he has had two COM
plete changes in personnel since the first
of the year.
Airplane Communication.
American Airlines has both radio
phones and adio-telegraph. The radio
phone is used for the pilot to communi
cate with the airport-and vice versa
on his location and altitude. The op-
orator, if the pilot is within his or her
territory repeats the message back to
the pilot and then types it out. 1t is
room in another part of the airport,
where progress record of all the planes
within its Jurisdiction are kept. The
manually operated radio-telegraph is
used for station to-station work. for
transmitting messages on loads of
planes and information on reservations.
TWA has several young women op-
Grating radios. There's Grace Ohray,
rs, who felt there was little future in
working in a day nursery in Cleveland
read a newspaper ad about airlines
needing women and went to a radio
school in Kansas City. Her colleague
Agnes Hilton, %, of Kansas City, got
bored with her job of filing cards and
also decided airline work would be more
interesting and exciting.
The airlines, both here and elsewhere
are using more and more women. The
percentage of women with Pennsyl.
vania- Central, for instance, which nov
has It's headquarters at Gravelly Point
was 20 per cent on September /. com.
pared with per cent in 1889. Th(
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cause big stories we're kicking around
in other parts of the country that in
terested her more. There was a war
on and the movies seemed a negligible
assignment. But she really dug into
Hollywood, just as she does into the
story of the Alaskan highway, or post
war planning.
Her ability to dig was shown in her
stories about Wallis Warfield Simpson
when that Baltimore lady and the then
King of England were going steady,
with marriage scheduled. She even
found the first beau of the present
Duchess OF Windsor At a party sew
eral years later in Washington, Sigrid
was chatting with the Duchess and
said, in the soft, even voice which is 81
misleading to those who, on occasion,
seek to mislead her:
Il know what happened to George
So-and-So"
The Duchess looked up, startled but
with twinkle, and asked what had
Evening star., 1943-10-31

is so we'll acquainted with this gas mask
that he is ready at all times and often
trying times, to don it quickly. He
never knows when he will be subject
to surprise gas attack. He may be
on the march, on bivouac. or even in
the classroom, when there will be an
attack of tear gas. His gas mask must
be in readiness.
The officer candidates day at the
Edgewood Arsenal begins before reveille.
The morning hours are spent in the
classroom where he receives lecture
courses in such subjects as decontami-
nation, protective clothing, tactical en-
ployment of chemicals, mortar tech
nique. and all of the various phases Of
chemical warfare agents
His afternoons are spent putting this
knowledge into practical use. He runs
an obstacle course while wearing a gas
mask, he is shown demonstrations of
fame throwers. he witnesses the value
of screen smoke, cylinders that also
shoot" gas.
During this practical field training
he Is taught to connect primacord to
land mines which contain a simulated
mustard, molasses residum, that simu-
lates weight and appearance of mus
tard gas. The officer candidate makes
frequent trips through the gas cham
bers, taking off his mask while in the
chamber and then putting 1t on again
"on the double"
A tactical march is also all In the
days routine. An airplane passes over
spraying tear gas and automatically
on go the gas masks. No sooner is the
attack over and masks removed when
jeep rushes through with the chemi-
cal cylinder wide open-spraying the
officer candidates with the same potent
tear gas. In short, he learns all of the
answers to the chemical warfare prob
lens, not only theoretically but prac-
tically. His evenings are spent in en-
forced study hours and also there are
many might problems There seems
to be no letup in the life of the officer
candidate of the Edgewood Arsenal
OCS.
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associates consider it merely typical Of
her judgment.
When the New Deal was starting,
Sigrids Washington career marched
right alongside. She analyzed new deal
1ngs from scratch. When she went
through the first NRA code covering
textiles it dawned on her that prices.
on textile products would go sky-high.
So she went out and bought an eight
year supply of linens, curtains and
other household textiles. Her judgment
proved eminently correct. She still is
years.
The early NRA codes also convinced
her prices would go up and dollar values
down. So she opened her checkbook,
stocks. AS the New Deal progressed, her
personal prophesy proved right. She
now sits in a fairly comfortable spot,
when she sits, with the stocks paying
off brisk dividends. They help her to
live in smart apartment at 277 Park
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continental gallop. She lives with her
first college chum, Ruth Goodhue, a
magazine editor.
WASHINGTON News Beats.
Among her Washington news beats
was the first story that there would be
civilian defense corps Her biggest
single Washington chore was thor
ough study of the Social Security Act.
She wrote four interpretive stories, the
first generally published.
To straighten out the complex struc-
ture Of the act in her own mind, ST.
grid pasted up dozen sheets of paper
and made huge chart. Down one
side she listed amounts of money. Along
the top she listed types of workers
Laden with this chart and hundreds
Of questions, she cornered officials OF
the new bureau.
No one had the answers Officials
went into huddle and decided they
would study the chart. Sigrid should
come back several days later. When
she returned she got her answers, anc
more. They wanted her to take a jot
digging up more answers. But she just
wanted to keep on writing.
Rowing Assignment.
In 1941 she was sent to Hollywood
for three months as the first stop OF
rowing assignment. Sigrid didn't nk'
Hollywood very much at that point, be
Evening star., 1943-10-31
BY Jack O'Brian,
Associated Press Staff Writer.

NEW YORK.-Sigrid Arne says that
when she was years old she wanted
to be writer Not owning child-size
crystal ball at the time she could not
know that one day she would be one of
the best known newspaperwomen in the
United States. Nor could she realize
what well-ordered whirlings would turn
her into Journalistic dervish OF seven
league boot proportions.
At that early age she would have been
startled out of her stiff1y starched PIN
afore had she known that in 1943 she
would be making comprehensive study
Of postwar planning, that her continent
thorough understanding of wartime
problems. But the thought that she
would, in 1943, be getting the facts OF
the worlds ills right from the men who
know them best would hardly have
seemed more like a dream than what
actually has happened.
Sigrid couldn't know then that She
would write some of the most trenchant
analyses of the New Deal. Nor that she
would hobnob with the most influential
personalities, politically and industrially,
in America. Nor that for years she
would drop the harried world to write
an annual fiction story about Christmas
which would bring responses from chill
dren all over the land. Not even a
grown-up crystal ball could have fore
told all the things Sigrid Arne has made
happen to her.
Has Had Vivid Career.
Like the time she bought 24-hour-
old baby boy to expose a baby selling
racket; or getting jeep-sick after an
18-hour ride over the Alaskan highway
or getting the first story out Of the
Japanese-Italian concentration camp al
Missoula. Mont.
In 1929, ten years before John Stein
beck wrote his Pulitzer prize winning
novel, Grapes of Wrath" Sigrid wrote
a series of IA stories about the Okie.
and their grim predcament. She usee
grim facts, not fiction.
The story of Sigrid Arne, a star rov
Evening star., 1943-03-10
Counsel for Vjereck
Seek 10 Withdraw
Habeas Corpus Plea
.FuI! Reason for Request
To District Court
Is Not Apparent

Counsel for George Sylvester
Viereck, alleged Nazi propagandist,
whose District Court conviction was
reversed by the Supreme Court last
week, today asked District Court to
permit withdrawal of a petition for
a writ Of habeas corpus.
The petition had been filed with
Justice James M Proctor on the
grounds that the $1,000 bond on
which Viereck has been released
constitutes constructive custody"
Counsel for Viereck argued that
because Of the Supreme Court rul-
ing the indictment on which he was
convicted should be dismissed. At
a hearing last week Justice T. Dick
lnson Let's released Viereck on
81 900 bond, but refused to dismiss
the Indictment.
The Justice Department has an
nOunCed 1t intends to retry ViereCk
on the original Indictment
Vlereck was convicted on charges
OF tallng to furnish certain in
formation on his activities when
registering with the State Depart
ment under the Foreign Agents
Registration Act.
The full reason for today's re-
quest was not Immediately appar-
ent, since neither of Viereck's coun-
sci, Col. 0. r. Mcclure or Emil Nor
oSlnl, II, were available for COM
ment.
Col. Mcclure said last week that
granting Of the habeas corpus petit
tlon would VOID the indictment.
Previously he had told reporters he
doubted that the Government would
Evening star., 1943-03-10

porters he was confident Mr.. Brown
was "endeavoring to shape the OPA
into an organization where business
experience. instead of theory. will be
used in establishing general pol
icies."
Discussion of OPA personnel was
said to have led to Mr.. Browns dis
closure that the agency now en-
ployes 2,700 lawyers. He told the
committee members that Great
Britain's food control organization
employed only 10 lawyers and left no
doubt that he had in mind drastic
reduction of the CPA's legal staff.
Mr.. Brown also told the Senators
he intends to reduce price ceilings
in cases where the unit cost of pro-
ducing goods has declined because
of expanding production. He de-
MED this policy is designed to con-
troll profits.
The administrator said my job
is to fix prices, not profits" But
he added that naturally we must
fix price which allows a reason
able margin between costs and
prices
Hamm to Quiet OPA.
At press conference following
the session, Mr.. Brown announced
that John E. Hamm, whom he de-
scribed as "sort of general manager"
for the Off1ce of Price Administra-
ton, had submitted his resignation
as senior deputy administrator, but
had agreed to stay until June 1 to
review the recommendations of a
special OPA reorganization commit
tee headed by former Senator Clyde
Herring Of Iowa.
MIR. Brown told reporters he dis
cussed the general relationship be-
tween costs, prices and profits and
was glad to get the Senator'S views.
Il came up here to tell the COM
mittee that I didn't think there was
much price control could do about
profits" he said. Il think profits
can be controlled by taxes and the
renegotiation Of contracts, and I
came prepared to show the limita-
tions of OPA with respect to profits" +"
He said the bulk of industries fell
Evening star., 1943-03-10

into three general classiflcations:
/. Those which ask for price In
creases when their profits are In
creasing.
Mr.. Brown thought they should
not be allowed rise in the ceiling
price of their products.
No Effort to Interfere.
q Those which are asked to re-
duce their prices when profits are
declining and prices are at or below
the ceilings fixed under the Price
Control Act. In such cases, Mr.
Brown said, there should be no ef-
fort to interfere and the industries
should not even be bothered with
questionnaires.
3. Industries which by reason of
tremendously increasing production
find their unit costs steadily de-
clining
Mr.. Brown said their prices should
be reduced, and declared the law d.
rected him to take profits into con-
sideration in such cases.
He said a steel company which
had nearly doubled its production
would be fair example of the latter
case.
Senator Reed. Republican, of Kan
sas, meanwhile introduced yesterday
| proposed amendment to the Price
Control Act to permit persons in
jured by OPA orders and regulations
to seek injunctions in the Federal
district courts.
Senator Reed told the Senate that
while the original price control law
set up an emergency court of ap-
peals with jurisdiction over all cases
mot a single appeal, so far as my
information goes, has been able to
reach the emergency court"
| He said the OPA now could delay
appeal "by amendment and change
In the orders or by requiring addi-
tional information before an order
| is made final"
Evening star., 1943-03-10
.0PA May Abandon
Price Regulations
On Luxury Goods
Expensive Fur Goats
And Costly JeweIy
Among Items Mentioned
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Price regulations on so-called
luxury items such as expensive fur
coats may be abandoned in a new
policy shift toward concentration
and simplification of OPA controls
over basic cost of living articles.
Price Administrator Brown was re-
ported today to have told commit
tee Of Senators he could see little
value in attempting to regulate the
selling price Of articles which are not
competitive with the necessities of
life.
Committee members said they in
terpreted Mr.. Browns statement as
indicating clearly that he proposes
to narrow the price control field to
exclude luxury items, the selling
level of which has little bearing on
Initiation prices. Members mentioned
expensive fur coats and higher
priced jewelry as falling within this
class.
Mr.. Brown also was reported to
have discussed the possibility of
simplifying the administrative work
OF the agency by taking controls of
many small and relatively mex
pensive items such as department
stores sell, where there is difficulty
IN enforcing regulations.
Appears Before Committee.
Mr.. Brown, himself former Sen
ator, apparently won general ap-
proval Of his OPA policies In an ap-
pearance before 10 members of the
Senate Finance and Banking Com
mittees at closed session yesterday
Chairman George Of the finance
group, who had complained about
what he said seemed to be an OPA
trend toward profit controls, told re-
Evening star., 1943-03-10
FOUND.

COLLIE HOUND. small young. white with
black ana brown. Call Woodley 30O2
DOG, Young, small white silky-coated
male, with harness, in dog fight vicinity
19tn and Potomac sVe. Sc Identify fun
IL s57s
IRISH TERRIER. female vicinity chew
Chase, FrieVinE for owner. Gail Emerson
6O52.
PURSE containing wedding r!ng; la silver
Spring. Shepherd 2s66.
Evening star., 1943-03-10
Afraid Wurdens' Part,
Set in MICHIGAN Park

Afraid wardens of Zone B of
Michigan Park area will hold a
party at pm, Friday, March 10,
at Maloney Hall at Catholic Univer-
sity.
Guest speakers will include Henry
Lorentz, who will show color travel
films; Sergt. John F. Ryan, instruc-
tor and trainer of the District Auxil-
iary Police, and Haywood Saunders,
assistant chief AFRAID warden of
the District
Evening star., 1943-03-10
British Leader Brings Note!
To Wallace, Rayburn

By the Associated Pross.
NEW YORK, March l0.-Col.
Arthur Evans Of the British Army, a
member Of Parliament, arrived on a
transatlantic flying boat today and
said he carried official messages for
Vice President Wallace and Speaker
Rayburn.
Col. Evans said he carried mes
sages from the Lord Chancellor OF
England to Mr.. Wallace and from
Col. Clifton Brown, Speaker of the
House Of Commons, to Mr.. Rayburn.
Col, Evans said he expected to
spend two months at the British EN-
bassy in Washington as guest of
Lord Halifax.
Other passengers included Joseph
w. G. Clark, Canadian Army public
relations director.
Evening star., 1943-03-10
Ahepa Order Gives U. 5.
Bust OF Roosevelt

A bust of President Roosevelt was
presented to the country through
the President by George C. Vournas,
supreme president Of the Order of
Ahepa, at a brief ceremony in the
White House today
The bust. executed by Walter Rus
sell, New York sculptor, will be in
stalled at the Roosevelt Library at
Hyde Park, Mr.. Vournas said. Be
cause it weighs about half a ton it
WaS noJ brought TO WashingtOn. Pic
lures CT it were used in the presenta-
tiCn ceremony.
SIX other officials of Ahepa accom-
panied Mr.. Vournas to the White
House.
Evening star., 1943-03-10

be able to get a new indictment on
similar charges, commenting that
the atmosphere of hysteria which
attended the indictment and the
trial of Mr.. Viereck has been cleared
by the Supreme Court decision"
In disclosing the request for with
drawal, Justice Proctor referred to a
letter he had received from Mr.
Morosini in which it was stated, "We
should like now to withdraw this
petition and we shall appreciate it
II your honor will mark it with
drawn"
Evening star., 1943-03-10
Mobile Blood Donor Unit
To Visit Falls Church

The mobile unit of the Red Cross
Blood Donor Service will visit Falls
Church tomorrow, it was an
nounced today.
Pointing out that a pint of blood
given the Red Cross actually may
save the life of a member of the
American armed forces, Falls
Church Red Gross officials urged
residents to make blood donations.
Donors are asked to call Falls
Church 1885 for appointments.
Evening star., 1943-03-10
Senators Named Directors

Vice President Wallace yesterday
named Senator Thomas, Democrat,
Of Utah, to serve on the board of
directors Of the Columbia Institu-
ton For the Deaf, and reappointed
Senator Radcliffe, Democrat, of
Maryland. to the board of Columbia
Hospital For Women.
Evening star., 1943-03-10

You can place a Want Ad" in
The Evening Star as late as IL
o'clock tonight. At the business
counter, or if you have telephone
call MA. 5000.
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Ciuic and Study Clubs.

Twentieth Century Club - Tomor-
row. II am, YWCA, literature
section; reviews, The World of
Yesterday" Stefan Zweig, by Mrs
Albert Atwood; Western Star"
Stephen Vincent Benet, by Miss
Richard D. Simpson.
American Association of University
Women-Tomorrow, pm, club
tea; 6 pm, board meeting and
dinner, Tuesday, noon, Member
ship Committee luncheon.
Business, Professional Clubs.
Zonta Club Wednesday, l pm
YWCA; speaker, Miss Louise
Moore, women War Workers
From Maine to California"
Soroptimist Club, of Montgomery
County-Tomorrow. 7 pm, Ken
wood Golf and Country Club;
speaker, T. L. Tsui, first secretary,
Chinese Embassy.
Women's National Press Club
Tuesday, pm, Willard Hotel,
luncheon; speaker, Rear Admiral
Emory Scott Land.
Soroptimist Club Wednesday, l
pm, Willard Hotel; luncheon.
Community Clubs.
Woman's Community Club of Chevy
Chase. Md. Wednesday, noon
monthly meeting; speaker, Hester
Beall Provenson.
Junior Woman's Club of Chevy
Chase, Md. - Tomorrow, pm.
clubhouse; speaker, Miss Mabel
Cook
Women's Club of Lyon Village
Tomorrow, lis pm. with Mrs.
H. H. Mckinney, 1920 North Edge
wood street, Arlington: book re-
views by Mrs. c. w. Shinnamon,
Mrs. R. w. Owens, Mrs. r. w.
Livingston and Mrs. M. j. Ander-
son.
Woman's Community Club of Ken
sinRton"- Tomorrow. 1870 pm.
book section, with Mrs. F. c.
Morey, Al west Washington
street; reviewer, Mrs. A. B. Has
tings; 8 pm, music section with
Mrs. K. L. Hungerford, Wheaton
road
Petworth Woman's Club - Tomor-
row, 8 pm, civic education Sec
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evening, Washington Club; speak
er, Agnes Mccall Parker, THE
Personality in the Art of Living"
American University Guild of Wom-
en-Tuesday, II am, Presidents
residence, campus; speaker. DR..
Elgin Groseclose, Visit to Iran"
Luncheon follows.
Housekeepers' Alliance-Thursday, 2
pm, with Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley,
2345 Ashmead place NV; speak
er, H. C. Henderson, Accident
Prevention in the Home"
Alabama College Hummelshine,
day, luncheon meeting, YWCA.
New Rochelle College Alumnae-To-
day, pm, with Miss Marian
Meyer, BIT Tennyson street NV;
speaker, the Rev Hugh Radigan
Washington Wellesley Club-Wed-
nesday, $50 pm, supper meeting,
YWCA.
Theta Sigma Phi-Wednesday, $50
pm, Woman's City Club Restau-
rant; speaker, Jossleyn Hennes-
Sy.
Zeta Tau Alphabetically, $50 pm,
Founders Day meeting. with Mrs.
Franklin Steinko, 1869 Colorado
avenue NV.
Volunteer Sewing Guild of Chill
dren's Hospital-Wednesday, 10
am. to pm, sewing, 1920 Con-
necticut avenue NV; public in
vited.
Study Guild Catholic Library
Tuesday, 8:l5 pm, 1725 Rhode
Island avenue NV: speaker, the
Rev. Thomas Fitzgerald.
Special Libraries Association -
Thursday. $50 pm, Room 766,
National Press Building.
Trinity College Alumnae-Tuesday
evening, annual banquet, Hotel
Statler.
Colonial Danes OF the 18th Century
Saturday, 2:30 pm, with DR..
Ruth Coyner, 215 A street NE:
speaker, Mrs. Yassin lunar, Role
of Women in Iraq."
Curley Club-Today. 4 pm, benefit,
st. Dominic's Church Auditorium
Tomorrow evening. religious dis
cussion group with Miss Luella
All, 200 Massachusetts avenue
. NV.
Hadassah-Tuesday, 2 pm, Jewish
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Meetings on the Engagement Pad this Week

Community Center; speaker, Mrs.
Walter C. Lowdermilk.
ORT, Washington Chapter-Tomor-
row, 1870 pm, Jewish Community
Center.
Jewish Consumptive Relief Society
Auxiliary-Wednesday, 1890 pm.
Jewish Community Center; 2 pm,
program; speaker, DR.. Reuben
Stone, Fighting Disease on the
Home Front"
Junior Hadassah-Wednesday, 8:15
pm, dance, Thomas Circle Club,
Fourteenth street and Massachu-
sets avenue NV.
DAR-Today, 3 pm. Independence
Bell Chapter with Miss Grace and
Miss Camilla Diggs. Tomorrow,
1890 am, American Red Cross
Committee, Chapter House; speak
er, Miss Ramona Rockway, --latest
News on Clubmobiie Overseas
Service" Tomorrow, 2 pm, Ellis
Island Committee, Chapter House.
Tuesday, 8 pm, Constitution
Chapter, Chapter House. Tues
day, 8 pm, Monticello Chapter,
with Mrs. John William johnson,
1870 Irving street NV. Tuesday
evening, Fort McHenry Chapter,
Chapter House; speaker, r. C..
Ropes, Russia, Present World
Power Wednesday, pm, APP
proved Schools Committee, Chap
ter House. Wednesday, 8 pm,
Marcia Burns Chapter, Chapter
House; speakers. Mrs. Carlos j.
Campbell, Mrs. w. H. O. McGehee.
We esday evening, Martha
Washington Chapter, Chapter
House. Thursday, 1890 am, His
torical earch Committee,
Chapter House. Friday, 8 pm,
Judge Lynn Chapter, Chapter
House. Saturday evening, District
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Wellesley Topic
To Be USO Service

Opportunities for service in the
USO will be the topic of an open
supper meeting of the Washington
Wellesley Club at $50 pm. Wednes-
day in Barker Hall, YWCA.
Miss Mabel Cook, USO national
area representative, will outline the
expanded program of the USO in
Washington. Mrs. Harold Scragg,
director of the new USO club for
servicewomen at 1911 H street NV,
will discuss volunteer work there.
The Wellesley Club is making USO
service its newest war work interest.
Reservations for the meeting may
be made with Mrs. Robert Pierce,
472l Yuma street NV, through to-
morrow.