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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-17
oPA ADMINISTRATOR SPEAKS

WASINGTONOPA Administrator Prents Brown said today
people themselves the pers of in
aon the sterilization and also the
commodities. He said that majority
satisfied with of foodstuffs produced and that
other callngs should
ceiling
from
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-17
STRIKE IN WELDING PLANT

ELIZABETH N Three thousand worknnen
electric welding plant here today Higher higher
the plants the strike
hundred joined the
work. y .
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-17
.CernlanStSdN Pressing Forward
Despite Heavy Losses inflicted
By United States COntngentS
LATE BULLETINS
BREAK IN COLD WAVE
Thy Associated Pressl

LAKELAND officially announced today that there has
been break in the cold Florida that there viii be
need be against
day, Friday and Saturday mornings.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-17

WASHINGTON.-The manpower commission said today that
farmers the will be released
speaker for the farm bloc declared that if they going
leased that action should be taken Immediately
back the farms time for spring planting IF
releases will not be harvest
bumper harvest one
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-17
WARsHIPs READY TO BE LAUNCHED

TAMPFour minesweepers and destroyer tender
been completed by the Tampa Shpbudng ConoanY
nouneed today and ready for launching
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-17
sTRICTER cURFEw ENFORCEMENT

CLEARWATER. Fla.-Cv authorities announced today that
there will be cer enforcement of the
that all boys and girls under Is be home
Laxiy enforcing the law has resulted
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-17

Key West, Florida. has TIC
most equable climate in the
country; with IN average
range of only Ia FshrenF &c
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

foothills Of the White Mountains.
Il always worked around the
farm. and I like to work with my
hands" Dorothy says. Il like my
job here very much"
Tire shop work is fairly dirty, but
Dorothy keeps herself neat. Her
hair is nicely groomed, she wears
lipstick, and is dressed in a spot
less. creased pair of blue Stacks and
clean shirt. Her hands get dirty.
though. Il scrub them with gasoline
and kerosene" she says, and by
Sunday night I get them practically
clean"
Dorothy does important work on
the third floor of the Firestone
plant. She inspects worn tires. re-
jects some, and re-caps the rest.
First all top-side rubber is buffed
of until the cording shows. Cord
ends are trimmed off and tire is
covered twice with a cement con-
sisting OF black liquid rubber. After
two hours drying the "camelback"
of soft raw rubber is fastened
around the tire. and the tire is
finally cooked, baked or cured" in
huge steel molds at 300 degrees
Fahrenheit under l25 pounds pres
sure for from one to two and a
half hours.
When Dorothy first came to
Washington, she did domestic work
was nurses aid. and finally came
to Firestone's last September. Her
44-hour week will soon be upped
to 48 hours. She has a boy friend
in the Army stationed in Honolulu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

authority he must resort to indi.
rect control authorized in the re.
cent executive order. This Is sup
posed to permit him to deprive
non-essential industries Of skilled
help, to assign workers arbitrarily
from job to job and to force indus
try to rely solely ON the Employ
ment Service for its labor supply.
Legislation Again Talked.
With Congress about to recon-
vene, the talk of manpower legisla-
ton is being revived. Neither in
direct nor compulsory control will
be effective, it was said. until the
Employment Service is reorganized.
Therefore, the word is being passed
around that employment through
labor unions and plant manage
ment appears for the time being the
best method to obtain an adequate
working force.
The congressional group support
ing Mr. McNutt's effort to get larger
funds for the employment service
also is opposed to any form of COM
pulsory labor legislation at this
time. A spokesman said this type
OF legislation is not needed inasmuch
as the voluntary system has not been
given a fair trial
The group holds, however, their
support to Mr.. McNutt does not i'm
ply cessation Of efforts to set up
an overall Office of war mobiliza.
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Judge Hits u. 5. Lawyers
For DELAY in Alien Case

BALTIMORE, Jan. 2-Criticizing
Government attorneys for what he
termed an unreasonable, delay
Judge w. Calvin Chestnut today gave
the United States Attorney Cen
erals ONCE an additional week in
which to present further evidence
against the habeas corpus petition
of Max Curt Miller, Rhode Island
inventor confined as an allegedly
dangerous enemy alien.
Il can't keep him locked up indeh-
nitely merely because the Govern
ment hasn't paid attention to the
case" the United States district
judge said
The case of Miller, now confined
at Fort Howard, Md, has been pend
ing two months.
Miller, who was born in Germany
claims he became an American citi-
zen in 1910.
Declaring that on the basis of
documentary evidence produced by
the defense at previous hearing he
believed Miller to be a citizen, Judge
Chestnut gave Government attorneys
Leo Gltlln and John J. Burling ar
additional week because he said the
case involved important national
matters
The Government attorneys said
they expected to show that if Miller
had acquired derivative citizenship
IN 1910, he had "expatriated' him.
sell by subsequent actions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
IMcNutt Will Give
Employment Service
Thorough Shake.Up
S54,000, 900 Budget
Sought for Agency
Called 'DemoruIized'
BY JESSE O. IRWIN.

Manpower Chairman Paul v. Nc
Mutt plans to give his main operat-
ing arm, the United States Employ
ment Service, a thorough house
cleaning and will request Congress
to appropriate approximately s54,-
600, 900 for it's operation during the
coming fiscal year, it became known
yesterday.
Mr.. McNutt wants to make this
service the single hiring agency
for all war industries, but is pre-
vented, 1t was said, by congressional
restrictions which have completely
demoralized" the personnel now to-
falling 17,7l0.
On Capitol Hill, it was said he
has been assured by the chairmen
of five committees investigating the
war effort that in the event he
makes an effort to get this agency
in working order they would sup
port his appropriation request.
8,l28 Employees Quit.
The State employment service was
federalized January /, 1912. Previ-
ously, in many States its personnel
was recruited through the patron
age system, and 1t is now manned
by many who are reported to be
more loyal to State officials than
to Federal officers.
This is said to be due to the
Federal Governments commitment
to restore the service to State con-
troll following the war. The restora-
ton has the support of Congress
which has refused to appropriate
| sufficient funds to place it on full
time Federal basis Employees con-
tinue to work at State salary levels
| based on 38-hour workweek
| though they are required to con-
form with the Federal workweek Of
48 hours.
The result has been. it was pointed
out, that Is of the 1900 Offices have
been forced to close; 8,l28 employees
have quit, and vacancies now stano
at 2,64l. A total of II per cent O.
all stenographers and clerks; A.
per cent Of all job interviewers, anc
81 per cent of the supervisory fore,
have sought and found other jobs
many in other Federal agencies.
Salaries Relatively Low.
Top salaries, except for manager
of metropolitan offices, average S27
a month. A manager of a sma
office receives Sl35 a month, com
pared with from Sl20 to s150
month for stenographers in the Fed
eral service
Until this so-called maladminis
tration is adjusted, Mr.. McNutt wi
be hampered in meeting manpoWe
demands with an adequate suppl
through program for transfe
training and upgrading. congress
sional sources pointed out
! They added that lacking legs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
u. Of Maryland Students
Install Own Radio Station

Students at the University of
Maryland will soon be listening to
radio programs broadcast from their
own station on the college campus
it was announced by Gilbert Cullen
of Baltimore. a senior in the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, president
of the Old Line Network
Present plans of the network call
for one-hour programs. both in
the afternoon and evening. five
days week. The station will be
limited to the range of any stand
ard radio on the college campus.
George F. Corcoran, head of the
electrical engineering department
supervised installation of the equip
ment. The work of erecting the
technical equipment was performed
by students who will also assume the
tasks Of producing the programs
The programs will be under the
supervision of the speech depart
ment OF the university.
Work was held up on the project
because of priority difficulties and
it was only through the donation
of student ham operators" that the
work was completed
The students were aided in es-
tabliShing the network by George
Abraham. head of the Intercolle-
giate BroadcaSting system. who do
mated enough equipment to get the
Old Line Network on working
basis.
Since the Federal Communica =
tons Commission prohibits broad
casting over the air without a IL
cense, the Old Line Network will
transmit its programs through the
wires Of the campus lighting sys-
tenn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Military Flares
Sent Up in Fun
Alarm Baltimore

Ey the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. jan 2. Many
Baltimoreans thought the war had
hit home when two military flares,
supported by parachutes, lighted the
skies early today as they slowly
fioated to earth.
Police stations were swamped by
phone calls from excited citizens.
In mid-afternoon another flare
was seen, this one appearing just
as an airplane passed over the city.
Again excited citizens asked what
it was all about
Police soon found out-and ar
rested James c. Durand, a shipyard
worker, on charge of having dis
charged the flares.
He told Magistrate John w Prinz
he didn't dream the gift of a flare
pistol and three flares would get
him into trouble, They were pre-
sented him by trio of British
pilots three years ago after the
American freighter on which he was
second officer, had rescued them in
the Caribbean.
He was fined S645.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Girl Garage Mechanics Enjoy
Tossing Monkey Wrenches'
Like to Be Outdoors and Do 'Hefty' Work
Of Fixing Flats and Changing Batteries

NV. win highest praise from Frank
P. Payne, manager.
L am perfectly satisfied with
both of Them he says with obvious
enthusiasm. They are just as good
as men. and just as dependable.
They do all the assignments given
them. I wish we had more Of them. !"
You have got to see the one we
have on outside jobs, he repeats
constantly. Boy, she is good. She
can change a tire faster than most
men. She certainly Is quick, she's
a whizz."
The girl wonder is Eileen Williams,
20, of COL I street NV, Yankee
from Keene. N. H., who came to
the shop three weeks ago. She got
her start with Firestone store in
Worcester, Mass.
4 just went and asked for a job, :"
Eileen explains. and they hired me
as a gas station attendant. But
that was too monotonous, so I be-
gan to repair tires and fix batteries"
Calls Work Interesting
This work is very interesting. +"
she continues. and it is something
everybody can't do. There are many
big husky men who don't know how
to do this"
Eileen is small and wiry. She
has firm set to her mouth and
muscles like steel. Her boy friend
is private at Fort Belvoir, and
Eileen would like to join the
WAACS but lacks year in age and
doesn't think she has enough edu-
cation to be admitted into the
WAVES.
Outdoors life keeps Eileen in good
health. Il don't often have colds"
she says, but when I first came
down here. had head colds because
Of the funny weather you have
here I couldn't get used to 4
warm winter with no snow"
She dismounts. repairs and
mounts tires; installs batteries.
cleans spark plugs and lubricates
cars.
Another trustv Yankee at the
Firestone shop is Dorothy Hanks,
10, of 7730 Blair road. Tskoma Park
Nd. She rooms with her sister,
Mary Hanks, employed in the pay
Office OF Woodward 81 Lothrops.
Dorothy grew up on her parent S
farm in Whitefield. N. H.. in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
By LISBETH SOLLING.

Women are throwing monkey
wrenches in the auto repair business
these days. but they do it neatly
and aim to fix the works.
What with the scarcity of man
power, Washington auto repair
shops are hiring women to change
tires, patch flats, clean and install
Sparkplugs, lubricate cars, change
oil and recharge batteries. One
leading chain of tire dealers even
has young girl recapping worn
tires.
Women take these jobs because
they like to be outdoors and do
'hefty'' work.
Grew Up with Cars.
Mrs Nancy Swain of 1903 Fourth
street S.W. and 20 years of age has
been changing tires and attending
gas lines at the Mckee Service Gen.
ter, Twenty-Second and N streets
NV, for three months.
ooh. love this job she says. Il
like to move around on outside work
l don't want to be inside. Mother
used to say I was a tomboy. have
always been around cars, I grew
up with them"
Her father, William Howard
Smith of the Fourth street address.
was mechanic at the Christian
Heurich Brewing Company until
he retired some years ago, and her
husband. Lewis A. Swain. used to
be a body and fender man." but
has been driving a taxicab for the
past two months.
Mrs. Swain is full of pep, banters
with cab drivers waiting for repair
jobs on the Mckee parking lot and
Jokes with the customers She
climbs tool trucks and slams doors
like a regular mechanic and drives
trucks around lot corners on two
wheels. That's a habit from her
motorcycle days.
High Boots and Breaches.
On her cap Mrs Swain wears
winged insignia pins Of two motor
cycle manufacturers and marksman-
ship bars for pistol and rife. Her
outfit consists Of high boots, riding
breeches and a close-fitting jacket
Her left wrist is bandaged since
she broke small bone wrenching
open trunk lid.
When men stand around with
their hands in their pockets watch
ing Mrs. Swain change their tires
on the road. they say: 1T GER
tainly feels awfully funny. I never
watched a woman change my tire
before" According to Mrs Swain
men don't like the idea of getting
dirty and figure that changing tires
is what gas stations are for"
Some men tip her, others don't
One man in Kenilworth even bought
her a dinner the other day in addi-
ton to a 50-cent tip. When she
changed a tire at F and Twelfth
streets at pm the other day quite
crowd gathered Mrs. Swain
finally got tired of the fuss ano
snarled out of the corner of hel
mouth, so what"
She gets $25 a week.
Just as Good as Men"
The two young girls who work al
the FireStone store at 623 H street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Fuel Oil
Continued From First PaRe.)

last at least through the end of
heating Period 3, which ends here
late this month.
The coupons for period 3, however,
will continue to be good in Feb
ruary. Whether their value would
be restored-and whether period 4
coupons would have full value-will
depend on supplies of oil next
month.
Two Earlier Cuts.
This was the third major reduc-
ton in petroleum rations in the
East during the winter. Late in
November, the gasoline "A" coupons
were cut from to 3 gallons. Last
month similar reduction was made
in the value of B" and &C" coupons.
The drive to force conversion of
commercial establishments from Oil
to coal was given new impetus by
the latest fuel crisis. Orders had
been issued during the autumn to
all local ration boards to deny fuel
oil to owners of commercial estab-
lishments who did not convert as
soon as possible.
Orders to this effect were given
out here. with building owners told
that they must convert to coal or
prove that it was impossible by the
early part of this month
In the move to force conversions
yesterday Administrator Henderson
O RI q hon dc
ordering that rations be terminated
for all apartment houses. hotels,
theaters, Office buildings and other
structures-eXcept private dwellings
unless:
Terms for Exceptions.
1. Written proof is presented that
arrangements have been made for
conversion by definite date with
in the current heating season.
2. The applicant has proved con-
clusively that conversion is impos-
sible
Mr.. Henderson said that too many
owners have been gambling on the
leniency Of the Government in the
ma tier Of conversion" He added:
There will be heatless buildings
as result, but fuel oil is too
precious to permit its waste by prop
erty owners who shrug off their
Government requirements and think
the whole thing is a joke.
Il am instructing the local boards
to turn down fatty any request for
oil from commercial property owners
whose efforts at conversion have
been anything short of the maxi
mum demanded by the oil situa-
ton
Mr.. Henderson said rationing
boards were empowered to reject
conversion dates which are set too
far ahead. and pointed out that
most building owners only had oil
coupons enough to last them until
the latter part of this month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

1t Is patriotic to hOard-what?
War Bonds, the more the better.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Woodmont Club Buys
$201 300 in War Bonds

War bonds and stamps totaling
S20l 300 were purchased by mem
bers of the Woodmont Country
Club and their guests at New
Years Day party, it was announced
yesterday by James H. Simon,
chairman Of the clubs Bond Com
mittee.
The party was featured by an
impromptu appeal made by one of
the members wearing an Uncle Sam
costume,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
OPA Lifts Price Control
From Hotchine Eggs

BY the Associated Press.
To stimulate poultry and egg pro-
Guction. the Once Of Price Admin
istration yesterday removed price
controls from the sale of shell eggs
purchased solely for Matching pur-
poses,
1T has become evident" OPA
said, that eggs Of the type and
quality necessary for Matching pur-
poses can not be obtained in suf-
ficient quantities unless removed
from all price curbs."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Key Death Anniversary
Memorial Set for Jan, II
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE. Jan. 1.-The Tooth
anniversary of the death of Francis
Scott Key. author of The Star
Spangled Banner" will be observed
at a memorial service in old St.
Paul's Church January IT.
The services will be sponsored by
the Star Spangled Banner Flag
House Association. Key died on
January II, l843, but the memorial
service. to be addressed by the Right
Rev. Noble C. Powell, Episcopal
bishop of Maryland, was scheduled
for a week after the actual ami
verSary.
On January II a half-hour story
OF Keys life will be presented over
Radio Station VIDAL.
1t Is patriotic to hOard-what?
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Widow of Knickerbocker,
Hotel Family Scion, Dies

By the Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla, Jan. Mrs. Fran
ces Perry Knickerbocker, rs, a ma
tive of Albany, N. Y, died here
today.
Mrs. Knickerbocker was the widow
Of Henry I. Knickerbocker, scion of
the Knickerbocker Hotel chain
family.
She is survived by son and .
brother. Burial will be at Albany,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

You can still buy = good auta-
mobile and you don't need = priority
10 do i-Use . little Star Want
Ad." MA. 5eOo.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-12-04
Miss Smith
To Speak At
Ogden Hall

HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va
(SNS)-Miss Lillian Smith, co-edi-
tor Of South Today" and promin-
ent figure in fostering better Negro
white relations in America, will
appear at Hampton Institute Mon
day, December 6 in the 1943-44
Lecture Series of the college. She
will speak in Ogden Hall.
A native Southerner and a resi-
dent of Clayton, Ga, Miss Smith
wrote in a recent biographical
statement that her interest in ra-
cial problems developed from con-
tract with the Chinese when she
taught music in China for three
years and from her associations
with Negroes in the Southern states.
A leading Negro weekly recently
termed her the most unusual white
woman in the South"
With Miss Paula Smelling, Miss
Smith hogan eight years ago publ
Smith began eight years ago publ
she states, I'VE realized that we,
although intelligent. well-educated
Southerners, knew actually very lit
tie about the South, and practical
~ nothing about the colored race.
We began to read everything we
could get our hands on that color
ed people had written about them
selves"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-12-04
Sn1ashes Potato
Picking Record

sent her a letter of commentator.
Living at 122 Camden street, Bos-
ton, Miss Halfkenny received her
education in Wellesley, Mass, and
had never done farm work before
the campaign sent her to Maple
ton, Mo.
She worked from a. M, to
6 D. m. and earned $685. for her
six weeks work. Back in the city
she states that she would like TO
try her hand at dairy farm this
winter and see if she can milk
and collect eggs as well as she pick
potatoes. During the period on the
1000 acre farm of Colby Turner,
she picked 1000 barrels of potatoes
or approximately six cars. Miss
Halfkenny was the only woman
worker among the Is men. Eighty
barrels of potatoes day was her
working average, and she got from
20 to 40 cents barrel.
Miss Halfkenny is a deaconess of
the Church of God in Christ.
Asx&szsps assyses ~ IA . ~ 49, ssrsxs~
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-12-04

will cooperate on the regional level
with FEPC in adjusting complaints
of discrimination.
"Upgrading and utilization of Ne
groes," he said, are the main sore
spots in the matter of employment,
rather than placement. The diff
culties in placement arise largely
out of the unwillingness Of en-
ployers to use Negro women" he
added.
What he called the impact of
new people" into communities and
the establishment of "ghottoes" for
Negroes have produced a difficult
situation for the postwar, Dr.
Weaver said. The two possibilities
for solving the problem offered by
the manpower official were that the
government Immediately undertake
to program more housing with an
eye TO breaking down those ghet-
toes; and the likelihood. that many
Negroes with more spending money
Serving as voluntary assistants to
included more than routine work.
the grocers, they helped post price
ceilings in the stores, rearranged
will be buying private homes.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-12-04

CHICAGO-(AN P)-The Chica-
90 Northern District Federation OF
Colored Women's clubs will hold a
testimonial banquet Dec. 7, in the
million dollar Parkway ballroom
honoring "our career women, am
bassadors of goodwill according to
an announcement by Mrs. Fannie
M. Carter, president.
Selected for honors are Mrs.
Edith Sampton- Clayton, Mrs. Geor-
gia Jones Ellis, and Miss Sophia B.
Boaz, who were recently admitted
to membership in the National As
ISOLATION of Women Lawyers, cul-
minating a fight extending over sew
eral years. Others are Mrs. Made
line R. Morgan, public school teach
er, who drew up the Negro history
course now being studied in Chica-
GO schools: Mrs Bessie King, an
other public school teacher who
assisted Mrs. Morgan with the his
tory course; and Miss Daisy Samp-
son, Office supervisor of nurses for
the Chicago Board of Health.
Mrs. Mary C. Clarke and Miss