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Evening star., 1943-06-16
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Blue coupons, Book TX, L and M
coupons remain valid through
July 7.
Red coupons, Book 2-These can be
exchanged for meats, fats, ETC.
Stamps marked j, K, L and M
are good now and will remain
valid throughout June.
Stamps marked N will be good
through June 30 after they be-
come effective June 20.
Sugar-Stamps Nos. IS and Is in ra-
ton book No. l 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 is good for pounds
through August Is.
Coffee-Stamp No. "a is valid for
l pound through June 80.
Gasoline-Pleasure driving is forbid
den to holders of all types of gaso-
line rations.
Existing "T" allowances of gaso-
line must last their holders
through July Is.
No. A coupons are good for 3
gallons each through July 81.
B and c coupons, good for ~
gallons each, expire on dates in
dicated in individual books.
Shoes-Stamp No. 18 is good for one
pair through October 81.
Fuel Oil-No. S coupons are valid for
10 gallons Through September 80.
Evening star., 1943-06-16
Blood Donations Here
Set Record for Week

Blood donations at the District
Red Cross Donor Center and
through mobile units reached a
record high of 3265 last week, Mrs
Loretta J. Bickford. acting director
announced. The weekly quota was
only 264.
With Allied Nations planning or
engaging in offensive moves in
many war zones, the need for life
saving blood plasma is being real
lied by District area residents, Mrs
Bickford pointed out.
This week should prove satisfac-
tory, inasmuch as 572 donations
were made on Monday, she said.
Appointments must be made in
advance by telephoning Republic
$500, extension 212.
Meanwhile, Red Cross officials are
proceeding with plans to equip the
new donor center on the third floor
of the Acacia Mutual Life Insur-
ance Cos building on Capitol Plaza.
The change from present quarters
at the old Naval Hospital at
Twenty-third and c streets NV. to
the Acacia Building is expected to
be completed within two weeks
officials indicated today.
Evening star., 1943-06-16
Shoe Buying Eases,
Leaving Shoppers and
Clerks Exhausted
Coupon lS Becomes Valid,
But Washington Dealers
Stocks Are Low

Coupon No. l8. good for one pair
of shoes until October 81. became
valid today. but District shops ex-
pected a decided and welcome slack
ening in the buying that character
, lied the last days of the Coupon
No. II period.
Stocks in most places looked as
though cyclone had just hit. Store
managers and clerks were physically
exhausted, by the strain of trying
to handle unprecedented demand
of the last few days.
The public felt the strain, too.
One woman called The Star to
point out that in manv cases the
| rush for shoes was not merely a
do-or-die effort to use up coupons
before the deadline. but a genuine
! effort to get Sorely needed footwear.
In her own case, she said. she had
, been shopping for weeks in futile
attempt to buy pair of suitable
shoes, but that the brief margin of
time between store closing hours and
the time she left her Office defeated
the attempt. Store clerks, she said,
resented waiting on any one at 10
minutes before when they were
supposed to be off at SIS She said
they didn't want to bother with a
customer who might delay their
departure from the store promptly
at closing time.
Many women. like myself, are
almost literally in their stocking
feet and have to have Shoes" she
said.
She also criticized stores for al
lowing customers to stand in line
for hours. in some instances. only
to learn the store had nothing in
their size. She said one clerk should
have been placed at the door to tell
customers whether or not the shop
had the size required by the in
dividual.
Lines formed at the entrances of
shops before opening time yesterday
but by mid-afternoon the rush had
eased off. Dollar sales for the first
four-month period of rationing
scared far above last years figures
for the corresponding period and a
similar boom is anticipated during
the second rationing period.
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Il am fond of George Gershwin's s
Rhapsody in Blue" Mr.. Braggiotti
said. TT is great music. and Amer
ican music. Everything in the arts
springs from the people, responds to
the cry of the masses. The waltz.
the minuet and folksongs became
musical classics
The team of Braggiotti and Shaw
has been playing together for one
year. Mr.. Shaw, pupil of the Juil-
lizard school of Music, was an infant
prodigy and has been in concert re-
citals since early youth. Mr.. Brag-
giotti, born of American parents in
Florence. Italy, also has been con-
cert artist since boyhood.
America is becoming more music
conscious because artists not only
appeal to the long haired boys"
but also to the masses, the two pi-
anists insisted
Mr.. Braggiotti, elder of the piano
team, remarked that the call for
concerts and recitals is greater
during war than in peacetime. "A
war makes people serious and they
want to preserve enduring things,
such as music" he concluded.
Following the Water Gate concert
tonight the piano team will play at
the Stage Door Canteen.
Evening star., 1943-06-16
Negro Council Asks Probe
Of Army Discrimination

Pointing to recent racial strife in
Army camps in the South. Edgar
G. Brown, director of the National
Negro Council, has requested Presi-
dent Roosevelt to send two colored
church leaders to investigate alleged
Jim Grow determinations as a
means of gaining racial unity on the
home front.
Mr.. Browns telegram cited the
Threatened safety and morale" of
colored soldiers at Camp Van Dorm.
Miss, where colored private re-
Gently was found shot to death. He
urged that the President assure to
the 100000 Negroes in service and
the 100000 on the home front
their constitutional rights and
guarantee the protection of all SOL
diers in uniform
Mr.. Brown suggested Bishop David
Henry Sims of the African Meth
odist Episcopal Church and DR..
David v. Jemison. president of the
National Baptist Convention, Inc,
as the most eligible men for the
tour.
Evening star., 1943-06-16
Gas 10 Start FIowinq
Through New Pipeline
Within Three Weeks
District Project Started
In 194l Is Completed
Without Funfore

Opening of the first petroleum
products pipeline into the District
"a 6-inch line capable of delivering
81 900 gallons an hour to a newly
constructed terminal near the Sol
diers' Home-was formally announc-
ed today by the Sinclair Refining
| Co.
| At the same time. company Off
Gals disclosed that 100000 gallons
of fuel oil and $4,000 gallons of
kerosene already have been received
through the new line, which has
been in partial operation for about
| three weeks
Gasoline will be piped In here
| after another three weeks, when
| finishing touches have been added
to a giant underground gasoline
storage tank of 100000 gallon
capacity.
Completed Without Fanfare.
Announcement of the new source
Of fuel supply for the District came
as distinct surprise to most con-
sumers. Though the 453-mile pipe
! line has been under construction
since October. 194l, 1t was completed
without fanfare and no formal OPEN
| ing ceremonies were held.
Likewise completed without fan
fare was the local terminal. Build
ing of the terminal has been under
| way since last October, but located
! of the beaten track, in. tree
! shrouded hollow in the 400 block of
/ Farragut street NE. the new tanks
and office buildings drew little at
tention from local residents.
| According to B. P. Mackenzie.
resident manager for the Sinclair
Co., the new terminal has storage
capacity for 100000 gallons of
petroleum products.
In addition to the 1900 ,000- gallon
tank for gasoline, storage reservoirs
for 100000 gallons of fuel oil and
approximately 100000 gallons of
kerosene are included. Trucks to
deliver the petroleum to local con-
sumers can be loaded on the new
loading platforms at the rate of
600 gallons every minute.
A-Hour Basis Assured.
Petroleum that will flow through
the new line is expected to relieve
materially the local shortages of
gasoline and other fuels. The pipe
line gives the Capital its first oil
transportation system that is not
affected by weather conditions. Oil
can be kept moving through the
line on 24hour basis.
Other terminals of the new pipe
line are at the Sinclair refinery in
Marcus Hook, Pa. and on the Ohio
River at Stubenville. Ohio. The fuel
Oil and kerosene now being piped
into the District has come from the
Eastern terminal. In short time,
however, the flow of petroleum ir
the pipeline will be from west to
east. Supplies will be brought up
the Ohio River from Texas by barge
and will be put into line at Stuben-
vile.
The supplies Washington will re-
ceive from the pipeline will be
regulated by several factors, Sinclair
Co. officials pointed out today.
While the line could supply IS per
cent OF all petroleum needs in the
Washington area if Washington re-
ceived the entire flow from the hne,
the District must share the supply
with 19 other stations located along
the route.
The amount of gasoline and fuel oil
that will flow into the District also
will be regulated in the quotas set
for this area by the Petroleum Ad-
ministration.
Evening star., 1943-06-16
Mrs. Ruxton Gets Divorce
And Custody of Twins
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. June
16-Socially prominent Ruth L.
Ruxton of New York and Palm
Beach won a divorce from William
v. C. Ruxton here yesterday.
Made part of the decree was a
property settlement under which
Mrs. Ruxton agreed to give Mr..
Ruxton s15OO00 in repayment of
capital sums which he advanced
from 1884 until 1899.
Mrs. Ruxton, who charged ex-
treme cruelty, was given custody of
Dorothy Vernon and Cass Ledyard
Ruxton, twin daughters.
The agreement said Mr.. Ruxton
put up in excess of $150,OO0 while
the couple was living at Wraxhall
Manor and Melplash Court, Dor
chestershire. England. to pay Mrs
Ruxton's British income tax and
for the development and main
tenance of Melplash Court.
Mr.. Ruxton is prominent in the
affairs Of the British American Am
bulance Corps.
Evening star., 1943-06-16
|OPA Orders
Sousoges to Be
Rolled Back
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Office of Price Administra-
ton has ordered rollbacks in the
price Of sausage to give consumers
the benefit of the subsidized prices
OF the meat that goes into the
sausage
The first subsidy order applied to
ordinary cuts of meat. The reduce
ton in sausage prices amounts to
approximately 10 per cent and will
be effective at wholesale on June 81.
Evening star., 1943-06-16
Thousands Welcome
Flying Fortress Back
From European Front
Oriein4 Crew Returns
With ButtIe-Scurred
Giant Bomber

The crew of the Memphis Belle. q
smiling and happy group of young
American flyers, stepped out of THEN
battle Scared Flying Fortress at the
Washington National Airport today
and inquired where they could get
a chocolate milk shake.
They were greeted by high-rank-
ing Army air officers, headed by
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the
Army Air Forces, and a throng OF
several thousand persons who lined
the rails of the airport observation
deck.
The first man to greet Gen. Arnold
was Capt. Robert K. Morgan, the
pilot. Capt. Morgan, in turn, intro
duced the various members of his
crew and, after the party mounted
gayly bedecked platform, took over
as master of ceremonies.
Returned by Same Crew.
In his remarks Gen. Arnold said
The Memphis Belle is not the same
ship that left these shores for Eng
land l believe it had its tail shot
off and I think it lost one wing car
rying out its mission and I think it
is remarkable that it has returned
to this country under its own power.
But the grandest thing of all is that
We have back with us the same crew
that took it over"
The crew was unanimous in the
hope that their next assignment
would be in the Pacific area.
We've seen just about all there
Is to see over Europe" said James
A. Varinis, co-pilot, "and now we
would like to have a look at the
Japs. We would especially like to
fly over Toxic and see how it looks
when Vince Evans Capt. Vincent B
Evans, bombardieD is dropping his
eggs on it,"
Capt. Morgan ribbed Staff Sergt.
John P. Quinlan, the tail gunner
and only member of the crew to be
wounded, when he introduced him
to the crowd.
He got little scratch on the
knee, put a little iodine on it and
won a Purple Heart" Capt. Morgan
said.
Stuck to Battered Tail.
Members of the crew later dis
closed, however, that Sergt. Quin-
Ian stuck to his post even when the
tail was riddled with bullets which
pierced the glass shield in front of
him.
The flyers we're reluctant to talk
about their record of Is bombing
missions over Nazi-occupied terri
tory, but the record of their deeds
was picturesquely inscribed on the
fuselage of the plane Painted on it's
sides were eight Swastikas for Nazi
planes knocked down in combat.
eight yellow stars to indicate the
number of groups the plane led.
Also on the sides were painted Is
yellow bombs. each commemorating
a mission, all over heavy industrial
areas Of Germany and France. The
plane carried load of 5000 pounds
of explosives on each foray into
enemy territory.
On the planes tail were listed the
names of the cities it visited.
Navigator Is Praised.
All of the crew were lavish in
their praise of Capt. Charles B.
Leighton. navigator, who directed
both flights over the ocean and all
bombing expeditions.
Saluting the group for its work,
Brig. Gen. Laverne "Blondy" Saun-
ders, said, 1T makes mg homesick
Evening star., 1943-06-16

from Ine george
Washington Uni
versity Medical
School in 1920.
He entered pub
lie health serv-
ice in New Or
leans and joined
the Navy in 1924
as a lieutenant
junior grade. He
attained t h e
rank of COM
mander in 194l.
M I S. H a y e S
said that Comdr.
Hayes was re-
ported missing
lust a year ago
Evening star., 1943-06-16
3 District Area Men
Among 316 Listed as
Jap Prisoners Of War
Navy Department Says
Most Are Being Held
In Philippines

The Navy Department today an
nounced the names of 50 naval off,
GERS and 264 enlisted men who are
being held as prisoners of war by
the japanese. Most of them are
being held in the Philippine Islands.
Included in the list were eight
men from the Washington area.
1t. Comdr Cornelius Tunnecliff
Cross. Dental Corps, husband of
Mrs. Eva Moore Cross, 28OO Wood
ley road NV. who had been serv-
ing with the Naval Reserve since
the summer of l94l, was first listed
as missing year ago. Official
word came in May to Mrs. Cross
that he was prisoner of the jap
anese.
A native of New York, 1t. Comdr.
Cross, 54, had made his home in
Manila for many years and had
practiced dentistry there, He was
graduated from the University OF
Pennsylvania in 1918.
Luther Melvin Pliler. "A. CHIEF
pharmacists mate, brother Of
Schuyler c. Pliler, 1928 Van Mes.
street NV. also is a prisoner. He
was formerly stationed at the Ole
Naval Hospital in the District. He
joined the Navy in 1920.
Official word came to his brother
about six weeks ago that he had
been taken prisoner at Canacoa near
Cavite in the Philippines where he
was attached to Naval Hospital.
Others Listed.
Also listed as Japanese prisoners
are: Comdr. Thomas Hirst HAYES.
Medical Corps, husband of Mrs.
Marye K. Hayes. 1877 South Fairfax
street, Alexandria, Va: 1t. Comdr.
Rintoul Thomas Whitney. husband
of Mrs. Stella-Maris Whitney, 1916
North Rhodes street, Arlington. Va:
1t. Alfred Littlefleld Smith, Medical
Corps, husband of Mrs. Elizabeth
Jackson Smith, Chapman street,
Alexandria. Va: Lacy Love Casteel,
chief pharmacists mate. husband of
Mrs. Molly Louise Casteel, 2811 Davis
avenue, Alexandria, Va: Arthur Ir-
wing Diaz, chief pharmacists mate,
husband of Mrs. Margaret E Diaz,
622 South Fairfax street. Alexan-
dria. and Lawrence Franklin Tyret
pharmacists mate, second class,
husband of Mrs. Myrtle jeanette
Tyree, Capitol Heights, Md
Comdr. Hayes was born at Phila-
delphia in 1898 and came to Alex
andria as child. He was educated
in Alexandria schools and graduated
Evening star., 1943-06-16

1t. Comdr. Whitney. having held two
executive officer commands in the
interim.
1t. Smith was born In Lyman,
Me. in 1908. He graduated from the
University of Virginia Medical
School. He was an intern at the
Virginia Mason Clinic at Seattle,
Wash, before joining the Navy.
After a short period of duty in the
United States he was sent to Manila
and finally to Shanghai. His wife
was evacuated from that city in
1910.
Mrs. Smith Awas notified that her
Evening star., 1943-06-16
Senate HEARINGS
On Funds 10
Resume friday
Additional 1896, ,248
Asked for Child Care
And Milk Projects

Continuation next year of a modi-
fed school milk program, and funds
with which to operate IA recreation
centers developed under the Lanham
Act are included in the new items
totaling $986,248 which the Commits
sioners have asked the Senate to add
to the House-approved S54.7s9, ,434
District appropriation bill for the
year beginning July /.
If all the additions are granted,
the bill will total $55,775, ,682, but the
city heads told the Senate Subcom-
mittee on District Appropriations
yesterday this still would enable
them to close the next fiscal year
with general fund balance of $512,-
748.
After hearing department heads in
executive session all day yesterday,
Chairman OMahoney recessed the
hearings until tomorrow. In view Of
the short time remaining before
June 30, he hopes to complete the
hearings by Friday. Because of the
war. the bill consists largely of oper-
ating expenses, with few capital i'm
provements.
Canning Funds Included.
The amount requested for a penny
milk" fund for school children is
$4,000. but this includes supervis-
ing the canning Of Victory garden
products.
The budget estimate for operation
of the recreation centers is S79 1853.
The Commissioners also are ask
ing restoration of $10,500 for con-
tinuance of the Motor Vehicle Park
ing Agency, which the House elm
mated on the ground that the
agency will not be needed until
wartime restrictions on gasoline and
tires are lifted.
In support of restoration, the
Commissioners contend that during
the war the agency should be max
ing plans for the parking problem
that will arise when peace is re-
stored and new cars appear.
Under the Public Welfare budget,
the Commissioners are asking for
S42 1000 to buy site in Maryland for
a new National Training School for
Girls, and $4,000 to erect tempo
rary buildings. They are asking also
for $4,000 to repair the present
training school on Loughborough
road in the District for use by the
Industrial Home School, which now
occupies property needed by the
Naval Observatory.
Court Items Scanned.
The subcommittee took testimony
yesterday afternoon on the need for
a new health center at the Henry
School. The Commissioners re-
quested $4,000 to repair the build
ing and $6,120 for operation of the
new center.
Personnel items for the Juvenile
and Municipal Courts also were
considered yesterday.
Senator OMahoney said the testi-
mony of officials in charge of city
refuse indicates Washington house
wives are being careful to avoid
wasting food. The subcommittee
was told that. while trash and ash
collections have increased there has
been practically no increase in gar
bage collections.
The Wyoming Senator said an
other interesting development yes
terday was the testimony that Fed
eral agencies turn to the Free Pub
lie Library system of the District
for reference books. The Senate
subcommittee was asked to restore
a $4,000 cut in the library's per-
sonnel fund to meet war emergency
conditions.
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IN Alexandra
since her return
to this country.
Chief Phar-
maciSt's Mate
Diaz was born
in Ridgeheld,
Pa. IS years ago
and joined the
Navy at the age
of II. He was re-
ported missing
last August.
His wife, Mrs.
Margaret Diaz,.
is a native of
A | e x a n d r j a.
where she lives
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with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur E. Welsh, at 622 South Pat
rick street. She is employed at the
Naval Torpedo Station.
His mother, three brothers and
q sister are still living in Pennsyl-
vania.
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mer professional
football player
and coach. A ma
tive of Escanaba,
Mich, he en-
tered the Navy
in 1917 and saw
service in the
last W ar. He
was admitted to
the regular line
in 1921 as an en-
sign. He was
sent to Cavite,
P. l., in 1899 as
a ii e u t e n a n t
e a m m IN q or
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Twins in Every Call

WALHALLA, 5. C. lP>.-On every
call this year the draft board of
this mountain town has sent at least
one pair of twins And all the twins
have been accepted.
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husband was missing year ago last
month. She has been teaching at
the George Washington High School
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year old son.
She recalled that her husband
had not had a vacation in 20 years.
He spent all his leave taking post
graduate medical.
Served in World War.
1t Cnmdr Whitney 81 is for
Evening star., 1943-09-09

lcles Tor the Republlcan party
next year. It's individual mem
bers, however, were perfectly
willing to discuss candidates, and
did in private conferences.
Almost Immediately after his
arrival here. Gov. Dewey tossed
a bomb declaring for military
alliance with Great Britain as a
long-term policy for this country.
He expressed belief that it
would be advisable to have such
relations with China and Russia,
but in any event with the British.
At the same press conference he
answered many other questions
dealing with both domestic and
political issues with great frank
ness.
The comment among the polit-
ical leaders and the newspaper
correspondents was that the
Governor of New York, now Al
years of age, had matured since
he was presidential candidate
three years ago. He came here
with record of successful ad-
ministration as chief executive of
New York and as a dominant
figure. in the Republican political
organization of his State.
Gov. Dewey's blunt declaration
in favor of military alliance
with Great Britain met with
approval of many of the mem
bers of the council-although
none of them was anxious to be
quoted. There were others who
rather bitterly denounced his
statement, several because such
an alliance, If formally entered
into, would be contrary to the
traditional policy of the United
States against "entangling al
liances." Others said that such
a public statement might cause
Stain and Soviet Russia to eye
us askance and even seek al
liances of their own with Eu-
ropean and Asiatic nations.
Hits Hard at Dewey.
The Chicago Tribune on the
following day published an edi-
torial denouncing Dewey and at
tempting to read him out of the
Republican party because of his
advocacy of an alliance with the
British. The newspaper has been
in the past a leading force for
isolationism. The editorial was
headed Dewey Goes Anti-Amer-
ican." 1t said, in part:
Gov. Dewey's sincerity in as
serting that he does not want
the Republican nomination next
year becomes an academic ques-
ton with his Mackinac declaration
for an Anglo-American military
alliance.
BY going the anti American
way, he has secured his four-year
tenure at Albany against inter-
ruption by call to higher re-
sponsibility. Gov. Dewey's action
will occasion more sorrow than
surprise among the Republican
voters of the Nation. They have
hoped that behind his magnetic
personality they might find the
solid principles requisite in a