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Evening star., 1943-08-08
Military Dictatorship
Reported Possible in
Reich Next Month
Continued From First Page)

quoted the unidenti-
fed traveller as saying a cleft had
developed among thinking German
people, one group eager to see the
war end and the other wishing to
hold out to avoid "unpredictable
catastrophe.
The traveller was quoted as say
ing he was bombarded with the
question When will the war end?"
Piling up the signs of unrest with
in Axis Europe, the French Com
mittee Of National Liberation an
nounced in Algiers that hand to-
hand fighting had broken out in
Paris between the French people
and German soldiers and that the
Nazis had set up machineguns at
street intersections.
Nazis Replace Italians.
The Swiss newspaper journal de
Geneve reported that German
troops were replacing withdrawing
Italian units in Southeastern and
Southern France and that the Ger
mans were steadily strengthening
their positions In Northern Italy.
Reuters, British news service,
quoted arrivals in Zurich, Switzer-
land. from Berlin as saying the
capitals authorities were at their
wits end to control a mass stam-
pede from the city" in fear of Allied
bombing.
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels admitted yesterday in a
Evening star., 1943-08-08

planning to set up q military
dictatorship, but the change OF
regime would be engineered with
the full consent OF Mani Party
leaders who would lust 60 un-
derground and re-emerge later.'D
The Army leaders were moving in
on the Nazi party 80 thoroughly
that 1t inspired Spanish newspaper
men in Berlin in the last two weeks
to refer frequently to strict mill
tary orders" governing their work.
But noting the italian Army's
dimculties In trying to replace Fas-
cist of1cials and In keeping order
among the newly awakened leftists,
the Germans were believed to have
resolved to retain the outward trap
pings Of Nazism.
Germans In Spain have explained
that the resurgence of the German
generals is expected to strengthen,
rather than weaken the German
war effort. Energy that goes into
party shibboleths like the anti-Jew-
ish campaigns will be turned to war.
as the military long has urged, they
say.
The new emphasis is expected to
strengthen German Allied states
where Nazi party members have
been more interested in introducing
their brand of totalitarianism than
In strengthening the armies.
The army, these Germans have
told Spaniards here. is in favor of
abandoning European Quislings and
their mock Nazism If these regimes
are not capable OF getting the maxi
mum support for the war, the re-
gimes In Croatia. Slovakia, Ru-
mania. Hungary and even in vichy
France would be affected.
Evening star., 1943-08-08
6,400 Textile Workers
To Get Poy Increases
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Aug. Wage In.
creases for approximately e,40o tex
tile workers in Virginia, North Car.
olina and Tennessee have been au-
thorized by the fourth regional War
Labor Board to bring minimum rates
in the applicant mills up to 47h
cents an hour, the board announced
today.
Evening star., 1943-08-08
Seaman Says Sicily
Had No Spaghetti
For Three Years
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 7.-One
reason for the Cicilians' welcome
OF American invasion troops was
the lack of spaghetti on the
island, Robert A. Taconi, IT,
Navy fireman first class, said
here today.
They hadn't any spaghetti in
three years" declared Taconi,
who arrived here to visit has
father. James r. Taconi.
Sicilian prisoners. young Ia
conf declared, told him they had
been reduced to eating soap.
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minus at San Giovanni opposite
Messina.
Un London, the Daily Mail in
q Cairo dispatch said $4,000 en-
emy planes had been destroyed
Cor captured in the Middle East
and in North Africa since Italy
entered the war three years
ago. OF these, 5000 we're Ger
man craft) .....-...
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statement broadcast by the German
radio that nonessential civilians
were being removed from Berlin.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
!. RI. :s.aGz g! g. 4AATE EDTT.G
Veteran V.M.t. ProfessofPFF6Jy y
Scholastic Juck-of-AII-Trudes
EHETT n n

and other branches, for which an
not qualified.
Even at 46 I'd like work with the
troops overseas.
Il am thoroughly griped at sitting
out this war when several thousanc
V. M. I. men I have taught OF
coached are having all the fun"
"Where'd you get that name, any.
way? fernando Money!"
Got it from my grandfather. late
Senator from Mississippi. He got
1t from Hernando De Soto, discov.
erer of the Mississippi River"
English Instructor, Too.
There was another letter-a fat
one directed to an English professor
This fellow couldn't be an English
professor-that was certain.
Whoever heard of an English pro.
fessor standing up at boxing show
and shouting, Beat that there mugs
brains out" or screaming at foot
ball game, Pass it to him, you dope
amt you got no sense?"
Just then Col. Read picked up 8
couple Of books.
Make yourself at home, fena
I've got to go down to teach some
of the cadets how to diagram SEN
tences and how to write themes"
There was a moment of silence
The colonel just stood there grin
ming.
Then you do teach English?"
yeah :"
How long?"
"Oh, more than 20 years."
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Hearing Put OFF 10 Dec. 81
On W. & 0. D. Service

A hearing before the State Cor
poration Commission on request
by residents of Northern Virginia
for additional passenger service on
the Washington g. Old Dominion
Railroad, scheduled tomorrow at
Richmond, has been postponed until
December 80, it was learned last
night.
w. g. O. D. officials said the rail-
road had requested continuance of
the hearing until it could place in
operation a combination passenger
and mail car being repaired for serv-
ice on the line between Rosslyn and
Purcellville, IL miles beyond Lees
burg.
Railroad officials said it was felt
the hearing could accomplish moth
ing at this time, since the new car
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Silver Spring Scouts
Slate Court of Honor

A court of honor and district in
spection for Silver Spring are Boy
Scouts will be held at pm. Decem-
ber 80 at the Silver Spring armory
it was announced yesterday by
Scout Commissioner William P
Goodman.
A feature of the program will be
the presentation of award badges
to boys who successfully passed the
Board of Review last month at the
Woodside Methodist Church Scout
House. The awards will be pre-
sented by Harry Switzer, assistant
Scout executive.
Scout troops from the western
area of Montgomery County will at
tend the ceremonies. All Boy Scout
troops, cub packs and Sea Scouts
from the Silver Spring area will
participate in the program.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
BY ROBERT L. MOORE,
Associated Press Stan Writer


LEXINGTON, Va, Dec. 18.-Col.
fernando Money Read must feel
like man caught in a revolving
door.
For years now the colonel, who
looks like a professor you see in
the movies, has been a fixture
around Virginia Military Institute,
like the trees and the statues and
the stone buildings on the campus.
He's general handy man, a jack
of-all-trades, you might say. He
begins his day by glancing over the
mail.
THAT seems to be a letter ad-
dressed to the public speaking de-
partment?"
That's me-" Col. Read fired back.
Il organized it a few years ago."
"And there's one to the track
| coach. :"
Yeah. That's me-for Is years.
They never fire track coaches"
And that one to the press box
quarterback"
That's what I've been for two
decades"
What about that letter addressed
to the director of publicity?"
Nobody else seems to want the
job"
There's one to the 'tin-pan' quar-
tet. :"
well, I'm one-fourth of it."
"You teach Latin, don't you?
I see that letter -"
Mo- used to, though, along with
mathematics, history, business laws,
etc."
PLAY poker?"
Tired After 20 Years.
mot any more-bridge. I got
tired of poker after 20 years. Great
game, though. Nothing better than
small-limit poker game to test
human nature"
What else do you do?"
"Oh, fish, play golf, read, watch
my wife work in the garden. :"
Got any ambition-what about
the WARP"
Sure, the biggest one is to see
action in World War III if I miss
World War II, as I apparently have
In this connection I was offered
a majority last year, but by the
time I received a waiver on my eyes
-near-sightedness prevented my
commissioning in World War L
further civilian commissioning was
stopped except for desk duty, which
1 refuse to accept; or engineering
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been granted 6

was IlTSC on JIle NAiam Z. bowman.
list and Norman Wootton was
second.
Mr.. Cullum has been granted a
review by the Civil Service Com
mission of its failure to include his
name. He said last night he had
written President Roosevelt to re-
quest him to hold the nomination
until the review was held, but since
the nomination already had gone,
he would appeal to the Senate to-
morrow to hold up confirmation.
Outlines Case.
Mr.. Cullum said he told the
President that the Civil Service
Commission had telephoned the
Post Office Department to hold up
Sthe eligible register since an appeal
fhad been granted him. He said the
Post Office Department, however,
had sent Mr.. Bowman's name on
for approval since the commission
failed to confirm the telephone con-
versation by letter.
The commission is ready to pro-
ceed with my appeal as provided
under Civil Service regulations"
Mr.. Cullum said, which, if success
full would remove Mr.. Bowman from
third place in the eligible register"
If Mr.. BoWman's name is removed
from the register it will necessitate
Endorsement of one of those on the
list for the nomination.
Lacy Shaw, chairman of the State
Central Committee, said the COM
mittee already has indorsed Mr.
Bowman for the post and can take
no further action. He said if Mr..
Bowman's name is taken from the
list the committee then would have
to make another Endorsement.
Request Refused.
Mr.. Shaw said when Mr. Cullum
= was informed by the Civil Service
Commission that he had not been
{ placed on the eligible list, he told
the committee chairman that he
had other plans. Mr.. Shaw said
the next day, however. Mr.. Cullum
asked that the committee request a
review of his eligibility by the COM
mission. The committee refused
Mr.. Cullums request.
Mr.. Bowman, a native of Brigh-
: ton, Md, has been resident of
Montgomery County most of his
life. He has been connected with
the Wolfe Motor Co., Silver Spring,
q for the last 16 years, and is the
firms general manager.
He served with the Navy during
the World War and is a member of
the Stansbury Masonic Lodge. He
is married and has two sons and a
daughter.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Legislative Council
Hears Arguments on
Farm Co-operatives
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Dec. 18.-Legislative
Advisory Council today heard argu-
ments on whether net margins" or
patronage dividends" distributed by
farm co operatives are profits and
thus should be subject to income
tax.
The Retail Merchants Association
contended they are profits. The
Agricultural Conference Board con-
tended they are merely the difference
between the estimated price and the
actual price of goods and are re-
turned to patron on the basis of
his business with the cooperative.
After hearing both sides the coun-
Gil, which Is studying the matter at
the request of Gov. Darden, took 1t
under advisement.
Merchants Stand Explained.
Walter M. Evans. attorney for the
Merchants Association, told the
council his organization had agreed
not to initiate legislation for addi-
tional taxation of co-operatives un-
til after the war. but to support its
former stand If any one else sought
to change the present act.
w. G. Wysor, general manager OF
Southern States Cooperative, who
appeared as representative Of the
Agricultural Conference Board, dis
puted Mr.. Evans claim that the
met margins" of the co-operatives
are profits. Mr.. Wysor termed the
claim of discrimination in taxation
a bogus and fictitious" issue. He
said the real opposition to the CO.
operative act came from fertilizer
manufacturers, feed manufacturers,
the seed trade and retail merchants
who found co-operatives tough COM
petition and wanted them subjected
to discriminatory, legislation and
punitive taxes.
Farm Officials Back Groups.
The chairman interrupted by say
ing the council was asked to con-
slider only taxation. Mr.. Wysor sug-
geSted that it recommend no con-
sideration of changes in the act by
the General Assembly until the war
is won.
Purcell McCue. president of the
Agricultural Conference Board; G.
F. Holsinger. president Of the Farm
Bureau Federation, and Gordon Will
lis, manager of the Culpeper Farm
Bureau, supported Mr.. Wysor's argu-
ments with statements. Present also
at the hearing, held in the Senate
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Bethesda Group 10 Give
Gifts 10 Seryicemen

Plans for the distribution of gifts
to approximately 40 patients at the
Naval Hospital in Bethesda will be
completed at a meeting of the East
Bethesda Citizens Association at
BIS pm. tomorrow in the Lynn
brook School at the end of West
Virginia avenue in Bethesda.
Letters have been sent to all resi-
dents urging them to attend the
meeting and bring gifts, even if they
are not members of the association.
The Naval Hospital patients have
expressed a desire for magazines,
books, cigarettes, puzzles and play
ing cards.
After an entertainment program,
In which Thomas N. Leef, Wash
tngton, wilf lead the group in
Christmas carols, the gifts will be
wrapped. They will be distributed
December % at the hospital.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Alexandra Post Office
Maps Special Schedule

Battling manpower shortage in
-tensified by the flu epidemic, the
Alexandria Post Office is working
overtime to get out a record load
of Christmas mail.
officials said yesterday that their
staff has been supplemented by high
school students, women and busi-
nessmen working during evening
hours, but the flood of mail requires
the elimination of some afternoon
deliveries.
The following schedule of hours
has been announced for this week
Today - although the station is
closed-parcel post packages will be
accepted in the basement and
stamps will be sold on the main
floor from l to 8 pm.
Tomorrow through Friday-par-
Gel post and stamp windows open
8 am. to 9 pm; money order Win
dow open 8 am. to 8 pm.
The post Office will be closed all
day Christmas, and there will be
no deliveries with the exception of
special delivery There will be one
collection from street boxes at pm
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Alexandra Boys Club
To Hold Annual Porty

The annual Christmas party at
the Alexandria Boys Club will be
held at pm. Thursday to permit
members to spend Christmas eve
and Christmas Day with their fam
lilies, according to an announcement
by the director, Harry Child.
Animated cartoons and movie
shorts will be shown. In addition,
Mr.. Child hopes to have present a
marionette show or a magician.
Christmas carols will be sung by
the chorus from the Alexandria
Girls Club.
If the football letters, which have
been on order, arrive in time, they
will be awarded at the party. In
any event, the awards will be an
nounced and certificates given. Each
boy will be given a bag of fruit
and candy.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Pyle on Postwar Board

DR.. j. Freeman Pyle, dean of the
College of Business and Public Ad-
ministration, University of Mary
land, has been appointed a member
and consultant of the Maryland
Commission on Postwar Develop
ment and reconstruction. Ap-
pointed by Gov. O'Conor, Dean Pyle
will serve on the committee on pub
lie activities and the committee on
fiscal and legal problems.
Evening star., 1943-12-19

Chamber, were representatives Of 4
number Of farm cooperative organ
tzations and also Of consumer CO.
operatives.
The arguments for the most part
were essentially the same as those
made IN the biennial cooperative
tax fights which have occupied the
attention Of the Virginia General
Assembly for more than a decade.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Villa Heights Citizens
To Discuss New Streets

Proposed street improvements in
the Villa Heights and Woodley Hills
subdivisions of Prince Georges
County will be discussed at a mass
meeting of residents of the area at
pm. tomorrow at Evo's Tavern.
Defense highway and Landover
road.
- Petitions are being circulated
among the residents to determine
whether they wish to have concrete
streets constructed in the two sub
divisions. Results of the petitions
will be announced at the meeting.
All homeowners are invited.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
John B. Hill, 81, Dies
After Iona Illness

John Baxter Hill, ST, died Thurs.
day at his home, 211 Rosemary
street, Chevy Chase, Md, after 8
long illness.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Mildred Moore Hill; two daughters
Mrs. George Clinton Fowler ano
Susanne Hill, all of Chevy Chase;
his mother, Mrs. William D. Hill
New YORK; two sisters, a brother and
a grandchild.
Mr.. Hill was a native of Ken
lucky. Before coming to Montgom-
cry County II years ago, he lived in
the District. He was member OF
the Masonic order.
Evening star., 1943-12-19

Civil Service
Commission ELI
gibility list, was
Endorsed by the
M o n t 6 o m e ry
County D e m
Ocratic S t a t e
Central Com
mittee, by Sen
ators Tydings
q n d Radcliffe,
Democrats, of
Maryland, and
by the Post Of
flee epar t.
ment. DR.. j.
Howell Forsyth
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Girls Club Organized
To Curb Delinquency

AS a means of reducing juvenile
delinquency, the Mount Rainier
Brentwood Womens Auxiliary has
organized an auxiliary girls club
1t was announced yesterday.
Girls between the ages of 8 and
IL, who are interested in joining
the club, have been asked to tele-
phone the Mount Rainier Town
Hall, Warfleld 1882, between $50
and 8 pm.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Cu||um 10 Contest
Bowman Nomination
For Postmaster

William E. Bowman, 8O4 Wayne
avenue, Silver Spring, yesterday was
nominated by President Roosevelt
to be postmaster of Silver Spring
but acting Postmaster Dyke Cullum
said he would contest Senate con-
flrmation of the appointment. Mr.
Bowman's nomination went to the
Senate yesterday.
Mr.. Cullum had been granted 6
Evening star., 1943-12-19

already has been obtained and will
be placed in service as soon as posi-
BILE. 1t will replace the present mail
train, which is not equipped to
carry passengers.
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advantages which they think the merely by
izng their own businesses along cooperative lines.
Federal income tax exemptions for agricultural purchas
ing cooperatves is not federal subsidy in of the
word Funds in the hands of cooperative at the end of the
year. after all costs of doing business have been paid
overcharges which, in the hands of individual enterprsers
would be called profit Since organized
themselves cannot make profit out of themselves they treat
overharges for what they and return them those
overcharged in the first instance To ask cooperative
to pay income tax such funds would be
businessman without income to pay income tax.
These private enterpriser who would cooperative
unfairly playing with dynamite They fail to recognize
the fact that cooperatve generally
co-operatves nopro organizations anyway they
cut the going price to the bone charging for merchandise
barely enough to all of doing business. That
would preciptate cecuttng which would leave
many little businessmen PROSTATE and the cooperatves with
patronage refunds to be taxed unfairly Is that what bust
want?
Members of Cog merely kidding" themselves and
the public when they insist that they taxpayers rather than
taxgaheers The going price they charge for goods and
services is high enough generally speaking to all taxes
and provide something in addition Hence it is John
Public who pays the tax load.
Cooperative Association does pay
income taxes patronage refunds However, pays many
other Altogether it collects of various kinds
amounting to ST. 900 On the basis its 749
associations collect taxes of various kinds amounting
nearly 81 000 900 But the fellow who finally
them all is the
The campaign of Cog is certain to prove a boomerang
will merely crystalline sentiment for cooperatves all
campaigns in times past have doneThe Cooperative
Consumer
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-26
BATTLE HYMN OF CHINA
By AGNES SMEDLEY
Reviewed by Leo Huberman, Educational Director NMU

No foreigner is better equipped to
tell the tragic-and inspiring story
of China's heroic resistance to Japa-
nese aggression, than Agnes Smedley,
a Missouri working class girls who
never finished elementary school.
She was on her way to India when
she went to China in 1929, as special
correspondent for the Frankfurter
eitung. She stayed in China ~ years.
Many foreign correspondents have
learned the trick of covering" a
country from the bar of the swankest
hotel in the capital But Agnes
Smedley couldn't have done that even
If she wanted to. She's just not made
that way From the moment she set
foot on Chinese soil, her path was
clear, 'to stand in the middle of the
stream of life and let it strike me full
force-risking robbery, disease, even
death" Accordingly, she covered a
China at war, on the battlefront. Four
of her twelve years she lived at the
front with the national and guerilla
armies. To the revolutionary Eigth
and Fourth Route Armies she was a
true comrade-in-arms who not only
served as a nurse but was called upon
also to help in the tremendous task
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-26
EXPERT GIVES RULES FOR
PROPER CARE OF CUT FLOWERS

entities and the air is hot and dry
your prize gladioli start acting lacka-
daisical. You can remedy this with
out freezing yourself blue by getting
some moisture into the room. A pan
of water on a radiator will do the
trick. This yen of flowers for humid
ity explains why florists sprinkle
them with water when they pack
them in boxes for delivery. It's also
good idea to keep flowers in cool,
but not frigid place overnight.
These bits of wisdom will help your
flowers stay with you longer. But
you have to work at it, Cornell Uni
versity, where they've been studying
the care of cut flowers with scien-
tific thoroughness, finds that daily
cutting, fresh water and clean con-
tainers are still the most effective
methods you can use to prolong the
career of your indoor bouquets.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-26

Of educating illiterate soldiers by lee
turing on hygiene the international
womens movement, the war in Eur
ope, etc.
She met the great and the near.
great both in government and in the
armies, and with characteristic cour-
age she tells the truth about them as
she sees it. But these passages, as
interesting as they are frank, are a
small part of the book. The major
portion of the 52S pages is devoted to
the trials and tribulations of the COM
mon man with whom she spent most
of her time.
Il watched one soldier dresser tear
ing an old dressing off the hand of
an unconscious man. The hand had
been almost severed and the man was
bleeding to death. / called the super
intendent, fairly well-qualified doc
tor but he himself was suffering from
hernia After examining the hand, he
took from his kit an ordinary sewing
needle and some thread, gathered up
Tic lew lOi CtpSs anu hnlftS,
and placed them in wash-basin to
boil. There were no sheets, towels,
soap, hypodermic syringes or needles,
and the "operating-table" was nothing
but a straw pallet. The superintend-
ent amputated the hand. l was his
assistant"
Agnes Smedley's tribute to the
courage and resistance of the Chinese
people deserves the attention of all
Americans who realize the signifi-
canoe for Asia and the world of the
emergence of free, democratic
China.
BOOK FIND CLUBS November Sc
lection, Battle Hymn of China, is
available to people joining Book Find
Club at the special membership price
of $1.35.
For further information write to
Book Find Club, 112 East 10 Street,
New York 3, N. Y.