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Evening star., 1943-07-12
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Blue coupons, Book 2-Stamps let
tered N, P and @ are valid until
August Z.
Red coupons, Book 2-These can be
exchanged for meats, fats, etc.
Stamps lettered P, @ and R are
valid now, will be good until the
end of July. S stamps will be valid
July Is through July 81.
Sugar-Stamps Nos. Is and 16 in ra-
ton book No. / may be used to
obtain sugar for home canning.
Each will be good for pounds
through October 81.
Families needing more than 10
pounds OF sugar per person for
home canning must make appli-
cation to their ration boards for
all over this amount.
For regular allowances Of sugar
for general use coupon No. 13 In
book l is good for 5 pounds
through August Is.
Coffee-Stamp No. 81 will be good
for / pound until July 81. Stamp
No. % will be good from July % to
August IL.
Gasoline-Pleasure driving is forbid
den to holders of all types of gaso-
line rations.
Existing 1T" allowances Of gaso-
line must last their holders
through July Is.
No. S A coupons are good for
gallons each through July 81.
B and G coupons, good for az
gallons each, expire on dates in
dicated in individual books.
Shoes-Stamp No. 1S is good for one
pair through October 81.
Fuel Oil-Each coupon is good for
the number of units marked In
large numbers on its face.
Period No. 5 coupons of last
seasons ration are valid for 10
gallons per unit through Septem-
ber 30.
Period No. / coupons in new
fuel oil rations became good July
and are valid for 10 gallons per
unit through next January 4.
Applications for this seasons
rations should be filled out proper
" and returned to local boards
immediately.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
venerea| Disease Expert
Gets Public Health Post
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran an
nounced today the appointment of
DR.. Raymond A. Vonderlehr as
director of District No. 6 of the
United States Public Health Service
covering Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands. ...'.
DR.. Vonderlehr, a native of Rich
mond, Va, has just completed eight
years duty as assistant surgeon
general in charge of the Division of
Venereal Diseases. DR.. Parran said
his appointment was determined, in
part, by the fact that the disease
control problem in the Caribbean
area has assumed major Importance
due to the concentration there Of
American troops.
Evening star., 1943-07-12

commanded the Monitor in the bat
tie with the Merrimac during the
Civil War. The mother of Chief
Boatswains Mate Wood was Edwina
Hunter Wood, film star in silent
days.
Mr.. Wood was with the original
forces invading Africa. He helped
to set up bridgehead for the Army
and he marched in with them when
the city of Algiers was all lit up
like a Christmas tree" He also
helped to convoy troops back to
Englanad through Torpedo juno
ton" or the Straits of Gibraltar.
Mr.. Wood is detailed now to
making a series of oil paintings de-
picting the history of the Coast
Guard from its beginning in 179l
as reserve marines to present day.
Emily Victoria Wood, his sister,
has joined the WAVES instead of
the SPARS, move that has her
Coast Guard brother puzzled.
But the family was always an
independent bunch" he said today.
Evening star., 1943-07-12

Boxer, sailor, painter and now war
hero, Chief Boatswain's Mate
Hunter Wood, "a, Coast Guard is
concerned these days with trying
to leave the shore duty to which
he has been assigned in order to
return to combat duty.
Mr.. Wood appeared today with
Mrs Halle Hill Mccartney, presi-
dent of the District of Columbia
Blue Star Mothers, on the opening
Stamp a Day for the Man Who's
Away" radio program at Station
WINK. This program will be broad
cast for the next 13 consecutive
Mondays to urge War stamp buyers
to complete their books instead of
leaving them half-fllled.
Mr.. Wood gets both his Navy
background and his artistic bent
from his father, the we'll known
marine painter, Worden Wood. The
elder Mr.. Wood served aboard the
clipper Yankee in the Spanish
American War, and was the grand
nephew of John L. Worden, who
Evening star., 1943-07-12

viereck, Wife
Due 10 Testify
In Trial Today
Defense Motion for
Directed Verdict
Is OverruIed

George Sylvester Viereck and his
American-born wife were to testify
today in the District Court trial OF
Viereck, as the defense opened It's
case with motion for a directed
verdict.
The motion was. denied by Justice
Bolitha j. Laws after Defense At.
torney John J. Wilson claimed the
Governments evidence in trying the
German-born defendant on charges
OF violating the Foreign Agents
registration Act had been highly
circumstantial."
Mr.. Wilson asserted that the
Government had submitted mo
tangible evidence" to sustain the
charges that Viereck failed to list
all foreign principals for whom he
worked before this country's entrance
lnto the war, and that he failed to
give comprehensive statement of
his activities.
Defendants Record Traced.
Following Justice Laws action
overruling the motion, Mr.. Wilson
delivered lengthy opening state
ment to the jury.
He pictured Viereck as a promi-
nent literary figure who urged neu-
trallty between the United States
and Germany prior to two wars.
Once a rupture occurred in re.
lation, however" Mr.. Wilson de-
clared, Mr.. Viereck was no longer
an isolationist. He stopped in his
tracks and put his shoulder to the
wheel and worked for the country
of his adoption"
The attorney claimed that viereck.
during the last war made speeches
for liberty loan drives.
The defendant, Mr.. Wilson said.
was born in Munich in 1884 and
came to this country with his par
ents at the age of II. Two years
later he wrote his first poem, which
Mr.. Wilson said defended the United
States against press attacks by the
Germans. His father became a nat
uralized citizen in 1901 and Viereck.
as minor, automatically became q
citizen.
Was Exchange Professor.
Viereck attended New York schools
and received B. A. degree from
the College Of the City of New York.
Mr.. Wilson continued. In 1909
Viereck returned to Germany for
the first time-as an exchange pro-
lessor to lecture at the University
OF Berlin on American poetry. In
time, Viereck became a good friend
OF such notables as President The
odore Roosevelt, George Bernard
Shaw, William Jennings Bryan and
Mark Twain, his attorney said.
At the suggestion of a Harvard
professor friend, Viereck started to
work on writings to offset growing
anti-German feeling in this coun-
t try prior to the last war, Mr.. Wilson
claimed.
He urged neutrality in the last
war as in this one," he asserted.
Mr.. Wilson said that the defend
| ant had two sons, Peter and George
Sylvester, jr., both in the American
Army now In North Africa.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
NavyParkingLot
Still Denied as
Recreation Site
Department Refuses
To Follow Army Leod
For LittIe-Used Area

The Navy is still clinging to its
ittle-used parking lot in West Po-
tomac Park.
Sought by recreation officials to
complete the reconversion of the
polo field from an Army Navy park
ing lot. the Navy, these officials
say, has declined to relinquish its
portion as the Army did some
months ago. The former Army
parking lot has been remade into a
field for four softball diamonds.
The Navy press section says, how
ever, that no change was contem-
plated IN the immediate future" in
its lot.
The Navy area, constructed at
the northern end of the once we'll
known polo field, cost 100000 and
provides space for 1900 cars. An
attendant, who said that he had
been there for the past seven
months, reported Friday that the
daily number of cars averaged
around $50 to 200.
Sometimes = Few Dozen.
ut has been slim since gasoline
rationing," he observed.
Even last year, it was said that
not more than 300 cars had ever
been seen in the area, and in July
of that year the Navy announced
that space behind temporary build
ings on Constitution avenue near
the Washington Monument would
provide space for more than 400 cars
When visited by reporter at
1880 am. on a weekday last week,
1t had approximately 100 private
cars and nine trucks and ieeps of
the Navy. Recreation officials say
they have received reports that at
times during the day there are as
few as two or three dozen cars.
A number Of vacant parking places
on the roadway around the field
were observed, including places on
the road nearest the Navy buildings.
The only parking signs in sight
warned motorists not to park in the
gutter or on the lawn. No time
limitations were on the signs.
Army Space Cleared.
The work of removing asphalt
form the Army parking area, super
vised by the Army Engineers Office
here was completed four months
ago. A small portion of the paving
has been left on the southern end
and may be used for tennis courts
if demand develops.
THE Army field will come in
handy" Supt. Milo F. Christensen
Of the Recreation Department, says.
I'VE would like the other half,
though"
After the removal OF the gravel
base and asphalt, the lot was filled
in with soil from the excavation
work at the West Potomac Park
duration halls" and another nearby
project, thus reducing the cost of
conversion to the labor involved.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
District Seaman HELPS
Save Ship Carrying
Explosives and Troops
WiIIiom MiIsteod in Gun
Crew That Suved Croft
With 800 Aboard

William H. Milstead, seaman,
first class, %, of 300 I street NV.
helped man one of the guns of
10,000-ton freighter which recently
repulsed five attacks by enemy
torpedo planes and saved 600 men
and a cargo of munitions, the Navy
Department said today. The action
occurred while the American vessel
was en- route to North Africa with
supplies.
Mr.. Milstead told this story. naval
officials said, when he arrived in a
British port:
I'VE unloaded our original cargo
at Oran and took on a large guam
tity of high explosives With more
than 600 soldiers jamming the decks,
we steamed out of port for the run
to Algeria.
"The freighter was one Of two
large vessels in the convoy. The
others were small coastal ships. One
evening at dusk three torpedo
bombers roared in to attack.
Planes Veered Away.
Because we were the largest ship,
they headed for us. We were lucky
to have a five-inch gun on the fan
tail. They didn't have a chance.
Each time they came at us we placed
bursts right in front of their noses
and they veered away.
The bombers came at the
freighter thee times more, but each
time the gunners drove them off
They made a final attack at one of
the other ships in the convoy, but
failed to get her.
I'VE saw the rear gunner's fire
suddenly shoot skyward while a
plane was attempting to strafe the
decks and we figured we got hit.
Then the plane faltered and plunged
behind a smoke screen which the
escorts had laid down. We don't
know whether we got it or not"
Planes Renew Attack.
Then, according to the report,
there was period of bad weather
for two days, and just before the
convoy reached its destination the
enemy flyers attacked again.
"All our Oerlikon cannons blasted
away at the first plane" Mr.. Mil
stead continued, "As he turned to
come back he got a hit right on
the nose. We continued firing and
we figure we must have got him.
Late that afternoon as the freighter
was heading into port flight of
nearly so heavy bombers was OBJ
served heading for the convoy.
I'VE thought we were 'goners'
then, but they turned out to be
Flying Fortresses returning from
a daylight raid on Naples and we
really sighed with relief"
Mr.. Milstead is son of Mrs.
Anneta A. Milstead of the I street
address.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
'WPB to Ask Workers
To Be on Job Labor Doy
BY the Associated pres.

BY the Associated Press.
The War Production Board in
dicated today that Labor Day, 1943
will be just another day of labor
in the Nations essential war in
dustries.
While WPB has not yet issued
formal appeal for full production of
vital war goods over the Labor Day
week end, it was said such an ap-
peal was expected within the next
two weeks.
The policy for all holidays so far
this year has been to ask plants
to work as usual, particularly in
cases where schedules for the month
cannot otherwise be met. An ex-
ception to this rule will be made to
give as many workers as possible
day of for Christmas.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Battle Of Fort Stevens
Described by Proctor

The 18th anniversary of Gen.
Jubal Early's unsuccessful attack on
Washington in 1864 was observed by
the Ladies of the Grand Army of
the Republic yesterday at Fort
Stevens Park.
John Clagett Proctor, member of
the Sons of Union Veterans, de-
scribed the Battle of Fort Stevens
to the audience gathered at the site
on Rittenhouse street between
Georgia avenue and Thirteenth
street NV. President Lincoln stood
on the hill to watch the battle, he
said, and had to be ordered to cover
by Gen. Horatio Wright, commander
of the 9Th Army Corps defending
the city.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Second Man Beaten,
Robbed; Police Hunt
Fatal B|udgeonas
Victim Attacked on Own
Front Porch; Murderers'
Descriptions Known

A man was beaten and robbed on
the porch Of his home early today in
another of series of attacks by
thugs and footpads.
Alexander Morgan, As, of zoos
Eighth street NV, told police he
was sitting on the porch of his
home when four men came up to
him and one of them asked him for
a match.
AS he reached for a match, the
men jumped on him. struck him in
the face and took his wallet con-
tanning SAT. He later was treated
at George Washington Hospital for
lacerations of the face and a pos
sible fractured nose.
Meanwhile, detectives expected an
early solution to the fatal bludgeon-
ing of Thomas S. White, 36, of ST
Randolph place NV, early Satur-
day. Investigators seeking the two
assailants said they had a good"
description of the thugs.
1t. jeremiah F.aherty, chief Of
the homicide squad, said a reighbor
ofGth victim was able to furnish
police with a description of the two
aSsailants.
Mr.. White. a Navy Yard crane
operator. was strucksby two light
Skinned colored men hear his home
and robbed of $40. Before ne died
at SIS pm. Saturday, he was able
to tell doctors, They hit me with
a pipe"
Meanwhile. police and detectives
rounded up suspects in several street
robberies. Police, while admitting
that there had been an increase In
such cases during the past week,
declined to tag the series crime
wave"
Funeral services for Mr.. White will
be held at $3.50 am. Wednesday at
his late home, followed by a requiem
mass at st. Martins Church at 8
o'clock. Burial will be in st. Mary's
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
New Chapel at St. AIMS S
Is Blessed by Bishop

Hailing the opening of the new
chapel of the Annunciation Mission
OF st. AIMS Parish as indicative of
the actions of people wherever free
dom reigns, the Most Rev. John M.
Mcnamara, Auxiliary Bishop of
Baltimore and Washington, yester-
day blessed the chapel after a mass.
Pointing out that the destruction
OF churches, as in Europe. is indica-
tive OF tyranny, Bishop Mcnamara
said that this new chapel is evil
dence Of our four freedoms. Sal
vaged material from the dismantled
building of Our Lady of Loudres
Church in Bethesda went into the
building of the chapel which is
located at Thirty-ninth street and
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Evening star., 1943-07-12

The Women's Auxiliary Transpor-
tation Service, composed of women
who are helping Washington
transportation system move war
workers to and from their job, was
officially installed in its new rec
reation room today at an open house
in quarters at 4702 Fourteenth
street NV. From now on they'll
have all the comforts of home-well,
almost all-with laundry tubs and
ironing boards included
There aren't many WAITS at pres
ent, only 35 full-fledged car and bus
operators and fare collectors. More
are taking the six-week training
course and company officials hope to
increase the enrolment to 100 wom-
en- a week until the labor problem is
solved
They come from all over the city,
some from other cities, and some
have husbands in the company's
employ-an item that pleases tran
sit officials no end.
There are Mr.. and Mrs. Larkin r.
Daily, for example. They made his
tory last week by working on the
same streetcar and Husbands take
note) Mr.. Daily did the driving.
Mrs. Daily, Ruby to the other women.
thinks the arrangement will work
out fine and she. herself. is fond
of the work.
The couple came to Washington
from New Albany. Ind, where Mrs.
Larkin was employed in a gum
powder factory cutting rifle pow
der" Her husband was bartender.
The lure Of adventure, the urge to
travel plus the fact that Mr.. Daily
was putting on little added weight,
Influenced their decision to come to
Washington.
A great many of the women don't
like the idea OF playing nursemaid
to the big buses rumbling through
the Districts streets but Mrs. Elsie
Stone, whose husband is in the
Navy and on duty in the Southwest
Pacific area, thinks they have it all
over streetcarS.
She doesn't mind crowds, double
clutching" to shift gears. swinging
the steering wheel-a man. sized
Job. incidentally, or any of hun
dred other minor items that seem
to irk some male bus drivers, but
taxicabs do get in her hair.
"Taxis are all right in their place"
she said, but most of the time
fhov,ro II, roine ~ ,,
Mrs. Stone had ! slight collision
with a cab not so long ago, but 1t
wasn't much. Her bus merely
bumped it from behind.
Some passengers, mostly nervous
women, have gotten off buses and
streetcars after discovering women
were operating them but now. after
couple of months. they all stay
and seem to be at ease.
Training for WAITS job Is
strenuous business, requiring some
to rise as early as 5 am. to be ready
for their initial training class at
$50. They stay in school until 8
o'clock and then hop aboard a mo
passenger" car with an instructor to
get operating experience during the
non rush hours. This lasts until
3:45, when the homeward rush
begins.
The women work split shifts,
couple of hours in the morning dur
ing the rush and again in the after
noon.
Mrs. Virginia Starr, graduate of
Columbia University Teachers Col
lege, New York, is counselor to the
WAITS and to make sure she had
thorough understanding Of any prob
lem that might arise took the six
week training course herself.
E. D. Merrill, president Of the
Capital Transit Co., praised the
members of the service for their
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Open House Held by WAITS
In New Recreation Room
Women Streetcor and Bus Operators
Number IS, With Others in Training

patriotic spirit in helping keep war
workers on the move. He said he
was very proud of the comment he
had heard around town" about them,
and particularly proud of those who
have other members of the family
in the company.
"We are in general doing a good
job" he said, although we all know
the service Is not as good as we'd
like it to be-"
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Guard at Agriculture
Dies of Fall Injuries

Albert J. Schuster, 70, of 1446 Fair
mont street NV. died Saturday
night at Providence Hospital as
result of injuries received in a fall
April Z at the Agriculture Depart
ment, where he was employed as .
guard.
A native Of belmont, Pa, Mr..
Schuster had worked at the Agri-
culture Department for about six
months. He is survived by a sister,
Miss Minnie Schuster of belmont.
Funeral services and burial will be
at belmont.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Congress Forces
LOW to Limit
Book Diqests
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Those free digests of leading
books, which Government officials
liked for their terseness, just barely
survived congressional cuts in funds
for the Office of War Information.
This report came yesterday from
SGhester Kerr, chief of the Owls
hook section, who said that the cir
csllation list is being pruned to
Make sure the digests go for busi-
ness purposes and not for bedtime
sfelaxation." They have been going
to 500 subscribers"
- The IS volumes digested in the
last six months all we're non-fiction
books dealing with war subjects.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Defective Wiring Causes
Ruid Siren to Sound

Defective wiring caused an air.
raid siren on the new War Depart
ment Building at Twenty first street
and Virginia avenue NV. to sound
about o'clock this morning, ac-
cording to the District Fire Board.
The siren was quickly repaired by
the Fire Department.
Evening star., 1943-07-12

There is no secret to the War bond
campaign. The more War bonds
you buy the more you will save,
and the more all of us save the bet
ter are our chances of victory in the
battle for freedom and against in
f1ation,
Evening star., 1943-07-12
X X
AAotHo~R~1MiM
WAR BONDS
Finding Secrets

During World War I, divers did
much in our battle against the
U-boats by locating destroyed subs
and taking from them secret Ger
man codes and other vital informa-
tion. We are using thousands for
the same purpose in this war. Many
War bonds must be bought to pay
for diving outfits as they cost up to
81, 500.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
II D. T.. |nducfees
To Report 10 Army, 19
To Navy Tomorrow
Four Others, Accepted
For Marine Corps, Also
To Go on Active Duty

Ninety-four District men now on
furlough will report for active duty
in their respective services tomorrow
The group includes II men for
the Army who were inducted June
%, 10 for the Navy and four for the
Marine Corps who were inducted
July 6. The list follows:
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Businessmen to Meet

The Southeast Business Mems As
sociation will meet at $3.50 O'Clock
tonight at the Donohoe real estate
Office, 314 Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Model for White House

The design Of the White House is
said to have been modelled on that of
the Duke of Leinster's palace in
Dublin.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Army,

90, 40 2OA VIC 4NdNy aAlo AOul Aol Cale
Marine Corps who were inducteo
July 6. The list follows:
Army.
Cook, Edgar T. Strother James E.
Ellis. Ernest Moore, Arthur L.
Lewis, Lovedaie B. Lochard. Harry L.
bawfna eharies " Ibson Matthew
Graves, Jasper T. Campbell, .Hedley E.
Holbrook. Walter Gilchrist. Vernon c.
Montgomery, w. L. Johnson. Ernest E.
Green. Hilton L. Stephens. James w.
Hill, Clarence R. Mangrum, Walter s.
Fairfax, Hubert B. Sturdivant. r. J.
Kittrell. John w. Smith John E.
StultZ Charles c. y Dupree Jesse J.
Lattisaw, Edward J. Moore, Dewey
Worthey. Harry Mcclure, Frank w
Thompson. Moses E. White John r.
Clark, Bernard WASHINGTON, Charlie
Barber. John H.. jr. Fox, Booker T.
Watts Melvin J. Stewart, B. V.
Wilkerson, L, A. Hope. Amos A.
Wheeler, Albert II. Jennifer John p, ir
Price. Ray E. Peek. Willie l.
Owens Oscar Jones. Robert 8.
Hawkins, w. w. Jones' Frizel
Lowe. Clarence M Harrison. James
Coleman, James R. johnson. Fred G.
Penn. Eugene D. Knight Henry E.
Ross, Robert Reed william A.
Hall, T. R., jr. Simmons, r. M.
Medley. Eugene r. jackson, John E.
Lawson, Melvin B. Black. Fred B.. jr:.
Lee, James stymiest; Norman V.
w iIldIl bcIHphloii. w.
Bethea, Milton
Navy.
Fountain, Lewis E. Smith. william T.
Johnson. Daniel H. McCollum. BENJAMIN
Travis, George H. Price, Edward
Holland. Allen D. Edmondson, w. L.
Proctor Carl F. Smith, David F.
Durrette. Edgar S. Baylor William e.
Brawner Joseph c. McNeary. Rudolph
SiZemore. James M Frazier. Wilmer T
Robinson, w. H. Martin, Cornelius T.
Saunders Cato w.
Marine Corps.
Goodson Louis C. Ross. Frank D
Jeter, John H. Saunders, W. H.
Evening star., 1943-07-12

MATING C0Fps.
Goodson Louis C.. Ross. Frank D
Jeter, John H. Saunders, W. H.