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The echo., 1943-12-31

Unhappy wives, childless due to relieve.
able functional weakness may now enjoy
the desires and activity Of Natures moss
wonderful oreation--a normal, fuliy-ds'
geloped, vigorous woman. A sensational
new vilamin treatment specifically foe
women may be Just the thing needed ~
1he chidiess wife and quickly bring thu
happiness Of a baby in the h9me. Il Isl
Of course, absolutely harmless,
II you are childless due to functional
weakness and lack normal vigor-if yoa
wish 10 eliminate one Of the great caused
of unhappy marriages, by all means tn
Perlex for one week. To introduce this
new vitamin combination to a millior
somen quickly. the Perlex Company
sl4 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois
viii send full $500 supply for only sl.W
and few cents postage. Send no moneT
Just your name and address. Perlex
comes in plain wrapper-directions are
yey simple and no diet or exercise Is
g IlIed.
The echo., 1943-12-31
Office Of Dependency
Benefits

There's a yuletide message going
out to fathers in the army-a mess
age guaranteed to warm the hearts
Of soldier-fathers wherever they are
serving their country.
For over half million children Of
army men will be better cared for this
Christmas than ever before since
daddy has been in the army-thanks
to Congress and to the extraordinary
eff of the War Department Office
of Dependency Claimants under the
direction Of Brig. Gen. H. N. Gilbert,
USA.
Congress recently amended the Ser
The echo., 1943-12-31
being converted.

Family allowances for Class B-1 de
pendents, which included parents, bro
theirs, and sisters who rely on the sol
dier for their chief support and for
Class B dependents, VINO are parents
brothers and sisters substantially de
pendent upon the soldier, must be i'm
dividually adiudicated to determine
the degree of dependency. This job
is now under way.
Family allowance accounts to di-
vorced wives to whom alimony is pay
able are also being reviewed and con
verted. These require special adjudi-
cation and therefore take longer to
process.
81 wish to commend the ODB en-
pIoyees," General Gilbert said. MANY
of them worked many extra hours to
accomplish this job of converting ac-
tive Clas A family allowance ac-
counts. | ana sure they will all feel
sense Of satisfaction in knowing that
their efforts will mean a Merrier
Christmas in thousands of soldiers
homes this year"
The echo., 1943-12-31
IfG is Printing
Let us do ii
Goodwill Printing Co
do Y0U WANT A BAef1
Asw Whmin Combination Brings nops
b childless Homes

Nothing equals q baby to bring con.
plete unity and happiness into the home
and de husband and wife together Ia .
stronger bond of enduring love and ms.
taal interest, Divorce Is rare In the homAa
Of couples that have children.
The echo., 1943-12-31

The lareUse BeoUiY Bureau was established by the
codefroy Manufacturing Company TO study meihods
Of preserving womens nafUrol beoufy. and to moks
the results Of this research oVoilaba to the public
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
District Traffic Toll
Increased 10 Eight as
Hit-Run Victim Dies
Z Unsolved Coses Listed
As Woman Succumbs to
Injuries Received Sunday
D. 6. Traffic Toll
Killed in 1943 8
Killed In same period of 1912 7
Toll for all of 1912 100

The death in Casualty Hospital
yesterday afternoon of Marybelle
Mozel, Is, colored, 1925 Thirteenth
street Sc, raised the District traffic
toll for the year to eight. This was
one above similar period last year.
The woman was the second VIC
tim Of hit-and-run drivers this year.
confronting police with two un-
solved traffic deaths. 1t is the first
time in several years that police
have failed to apprehend motorists
in connection with fatal accidents.
Still unsolved is the traffic death
of Paul Higgins, 81, formerly of
Soldiers Home, who was found New
Year Day in an alley at Eighteenth
and Kenyon streets NV.
Only clue in the woman's death
was a portion of headlight lens
found at the scene of the accident,
M street near Fourth Sc. The
woman was struck at 7 pm. Sunday
and was taken to the hospital suf-
fering from internal injuries and
compound fracture of the right leg.
Witnesses said the victim was
thrown 80 feet by the impact of the
automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21

amount of the increases have not
been sufficient to meet the in
creasing patient load, and to over
come a marked disproportion be-
tween the same and the personnel
that has continually been present.
THE result of this situation has
been inadequate and unsatisfac-
tory care of patients, episodes of
we'll warranted criticism, and a
reputation for unsatisfactory serv-
ice which should no longer be borne
by the city hospital
Provides S1,401, POT.
New buildings have been pro-
vided and in great measure have
overcome formerly present over
crowding. An excellent medical
staff has been provided, and if
limited number of additional per-
sonnet can be made available, the
hospital should be able to perform
steadily an improving grade of pro-
fessional work.
The 1914 budget will allow CAL
linger Hospital $l,401 POT. The ap-
preparation granted for its opera
ton and maintenance in the cur
rent fiscal year was 1881. 522.
The increase is absorbed chiefly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
What Can | Do?'
Suggestions for Those Who Want

A woman registering yesterday for
volunteer work told the registrar
she had been looking for some job
that she felt would really contribute
to the war effort, but she couldn't
travel across town every day to work.
She lived in the Southeast section.
The woman found exactly what
she was looking for-the Red Cross
course to train nurses aides for work
at Gallinger Hospital. She will take
her training in Southeast and serve
at the hospital, which is only few
blocks from her home.
The course was set up to meet the
request of Southeast women for an
opportunity to serve as we'll as to
fill the needs of Gallinger The first
class was filled Immediately, but the
second class, which begins next Mon
day, is not more than half full
Unless more women volunteer, the
course cannot be given, despite the
fact that more than a dozen women
have volunteered to go into the class
and are anxious to start
They have been told just what is
expected of them, the hours they
will put in and the work they will
do, and all of them want to go
ahead-just as their sisters in other
sections of the city have been doing
for many months,
Most of them are housewives, some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
Soldiers Wife Dies in PIunqe
From Eighth Floor Apartment
Friends Soy Husband
Was Slated for
Overseas Duty

Mrs. Hazel Rittenhouse. 30, fell
or jumped to death from her
eight-floor apartment at 1916 Six
tenth street NV. shortly before
noon today. She was pronounced
dead by DR.. Clayton Hawfield of the
same address.
Friends told police her. husband
David, is private in the Army Air
Forces at Mitchell, S. Oak. Miss
Mary Spear of the Public Buildings
Administration, one of three girls
who roomed with Mrs. Rittenhouse
said Mrs. Rittenhouse received a
letter from her husband yesterday
in which he indicated he might be
sent overseas at any time.
Miss Spear said Mrs. Rittenhouse
had been respondent recently, but
added she did not appear overly
excited over the prospect of early
overseas duty for her husband.
Miss Spear told police Mrs. Ritten-
house formerly was employed at the
Morris Plan Bank. Other room
mates are Mrs. Charles Patterson,
employe of the Morris Plan Bank,
and Miss Claudine Holif1eld of the
War Department.
Police are trying to trace a tele-
phone call which Mrs. Rittenhouse
was said to have received 80 min
utes before her death.
Mrs. Rittenhouse was clad only in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
Rooming Unit Applications
May Be Cleared This Week

A backlog of some 1900 applica-
tons for the operation of rooming
houses here will be cleared up this
week by District Building inspectors
who have been making surveys of
homes at the rate of $50 day, Col
Joseph D. Arthur, jr, Assistant
Engineer Commissioner, said today.
Meanwhile, an official at the Rent
Control Administration reported
that OCD volunteers who have been
transcribing records of some 5000
rooming places for the use of Dis
trict inspectors would complete their
job tonight.
This new information is expected
to accelerate the program designed
to eliminate fire traps in rooming
and boarding houses here, Col.
Arthur said.
A force of % men, many of them
borrowed from other District agen-
/ cies, has been working long hours te
bring about proper safety measures
the city official pointed out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
Conference 10 Discuss
Federal Auto Use Here

The overall problem of reporting
and checking the use of Federal
owned cars in Washington was
scheduled to be discussed today at
a conference called in the Senate
Office Building by the Joint Com
mittee on Reduction of Non Essen
tial Federal Expenditures.
Representatives of four United
States regulatory agencies, the Of
flee of Price Administration, Office
of Defense Transportation, Budget
Bureau and General Accounting
Office, indicated they would attend
the meeting. A representative of
the ONCE for Emergency Manage
ment also said he would be present.
A spokesman for the Senate COM
mittee said Chairman Byrd would
study the information obtained at
the conference and probably pre-
pare report on the entire question
of Federal-owned cars next week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
Gollineer Nurses Aide
Need Is Urgent

much to expect of women who are
not already doing a war job.
The Red Cross wants to give them
the course. Gallinger needs them
now and the whole of the Southeast
section would need them in case of
an air raid, when their assistance,
large or small, might mean the diff
ference between life and defeat to
bomb victims.
Gallinger can use SO more Red
Cross nurses aides. The class can
start with half that number. Tomor-
row is the last day for registration,
the day on which it will be decided
whether there are enough women in
the Southeast section who really
want to aid the war program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
GoIIinger Hospital Budget
Would Strengthen Staff
$l,40l ,207 Provides Assstont Superintendent
And Associate Medical Officer

Increased medical attention for
women patients at Gallinger Hos
pital Is one of the additional services
to be provided in the 1914 District
budget
OF the extra help asked by DR.
Edgar A. Bocock, Gallinger superin-
tendent, to aid him in running the
hospital in the new fiscal year, be-
ginning July /, he was given support
for an associate medical officer at
SO 200 year to work in the matern-
ity ward
The new doctor will serve as an
aide to the present chief resident
physician in charge of obstetrics
and gynecology.
Need Cited.
Need for the additional help was
requested by DR.. Bocock on the fol-
lowing grounds:
"At present the chief resident
physician with only limited group
of young, inexperienced physicians,
is charged with the complete re-
sponsibility for the examination.
diagnosis and treatment of all ma
ternity cases and diseases involving
the female genital tract for the
entire hospital.
In the former group, there were
delivered in the preceding year $500
babies which in the latter group
there are on hand continuously, APP
proximately 80 women suffering with
gynecologic diseases.
THE responsibility for all OF the
professional care for this volume of
work has been carried alone by one
physician, and with the steady in
crease that has been observed par
ticularly in obstetrical work, it Is
evident that an assistant in this
speciality Is required"
Provides Assistant Superintendent.
One of the other new positions re-
quested by DR.. Bocock and allowed
in the budget provides for an as
sistant superintendent at Gallinger.
His salary would be $500, and his
duties are outlined as follows
with the recent and apparently
continuous growth of the institu-
ton, additions have been made to
the professional and other STATS
OF the hospital to meet the added
responsibilities incident to the care
of patients. At no time, however,
has there been an addition in the
form of an assistant for the adj
ministrative service of the insti-
tuition. The need for such an adj
ministrative official has been recog-
nized by the Health Department,
and in order to meet this shortage
the position is requested"
Dr.. Bocock pointed out in JUS
tification of his estimates for funds
in the 1914 fiscal year that Gallinger
is expected to handle constantly an
average of l,085 patients daily dur
ing the new fiscal year.
Two Other Employees.
DR.. Bocock asked in his 1914
budget for four additional en-
ployes and his request was granted.
The principal job will be an as
sistant superintendent, in addition
to an associate medical officer, a
bookkeeper and secretary to the
proposed new assistant superintend-
ent. The increase in the staff at
the hospital, according to DR..
Bocock, is needed to round out"
it's present staff.
For 10 years there have been
additions to the staff" Dr. Bocock
told the Commissioners. But I'M
fortunately. 10 years ago the per-
sonnet available was so far below
the acceptable standards that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
| Soldiers to Lose
| Brass Buttons
To Production

Approximately 1865, 900 pounds of
brass buttons and metal insignia
on the overcoats and blouses of
Army enlisted men will be melted
for war production and replaced
by nodded plastic material, the War
Department said today.
The new plastic buttons already
are being issued to Army clothing
manufacturers for use on future de-
liveries, but soldiers now in uni
form will have to take care of the
change-over themselves with scis-
sors, needle and thread.
Officers' overcoats do not have
metal buttons; it's only the enlisted
men. who are affected by the new
order Officers also are to retain
the metal buttons on their blouses.
The Army order follows one re-
Gently put into effect by the Navy.
The new plastic buttons are nom
tarnishable and will not reflect
light, making them better for COM
bat, They are of olive drab color
and designed exactly as the brass
button.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
The Job in Brief

Qualifications: For Red Cross
nurses aides, women between
ID and so years with high school
education or its equivalent.
Training: Classroom work, IS
hours; probationary hospital
work, As hours. Next class starts
January Is at Chamberlain Vo-
cational School, 10 am. to IL
noon Monday through Friday.
All aides must take 20-hour Red
Cross first-aid course not later
than end OF first year of service
or l0-hour advanced review
course If standard course has
been taken III the past.
Hours of work after training:
Yearly minimum of $50 hours
Of hospital work, preferably In
a concentrated period.
Where to register: Chamber
lain Vocational School, Thir-
tenth street and Potomac ave-
nue. Sc, tomorrow from 10 am.
to II noon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
Shift Into Pentaqon
To Free Offices in IS
Buildings by Jan. 81
Space in II Vacated;
Army Structure Slated
For Completion in June

The moving of considerably
more than $4,000 military and
civilian personnel to the man.
moth new Pentagon Building in
Arlington, Va, will have released
office space to other govern
mental agencies of 1,243,049
square feet, the War Department
announced today.
BY June 80, it was declared the
War Department will be occupying
more than 100000 square feet of
Office space in the Washington
area, of which all but 1,000, 900
square feet will be housing head
quarters agencies. The Pentagon
Building, now over half occupied,
eventually will accommodate 10000
persons.
Buildings Already Vacated.
Secretary Stimson said that the
remaining 100000 square feet will
be occupied by Offices of the Army
serving this particular area under
agencies other than the War De-
partment. These include the head
quarters of the Military District of
Washington, the Office of the Dis
trict engineer, the Signal Corps In
telligence Service unit at Arlington
Hall in nearby Virginia, the Signal
Corps Photographic unit at the
Army War College, the Medical
Museum and Library and the Army
finance Office.
The migration to the Pentagon
Building, it was announced, already
has resulted in the vacating of Army
space lin IL Office buildings. Four
other buildings now occupied wholly
or partially by the Army are ex-
pected to be vacated around Janu-
airy 81.
Status of Buildings.
The four buildings and the amount
of square feet of Office space in each
which are to be released for other
purposes are the District of Column
bia National Guard Armory, 303,-
9l3; Temporary T Building, l54 $50
feet; 401 South Capitol street, $4,000
square feet, and the Securities and
Exchange Commission, l42 1888 square
feet.
The other buildings already va
Gated, with space in each, are: So
cial Security, 334,562 square feet;
United States Public Health Gen.
ter, 18,708; Potomac Park Apart
mepts, 2,935; 81 L street Sc, $4,000;
Municipal Center, 125 900; FOB. No.
2, $4,000: Twenty-fourth and M
streets NV, 10000; Premier Apart
ments, 1888; 924 New York ave-
nue. NV, $500; 1436 U street NV,
6,720, and National University, $500.
The Office of Strategic Services.
now occupying 5000 square feet of
space in an undesignated building,
has been given 5000 additional
square feet.
The Pentagon Building into which
employees are being moved steadily
as additional Office space is available,
is expected to be completed and full
ly occupied before June 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
NAotHo~4~xWM
WAN B0Nn5
II

American fighter planes are CIV
ing us air superiority on the fighting
fronts. For the job it has to do, the
Curtis P-40 is unsurpassed with
its Allison liquid-cooled motor, ar
inored fuselage and its tremendous
speed, our air pilots find it to their
liking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
Cogney to Take Port
In Birthday Program

Screen Star James Cagney will
represent the Hollywood Victory
Committee at the Presidents Birth
day Ball celebration here January 20
and 30, it was announced today.
Expected to arrive January %, Mr.
Cagney will appear at midnight
shows at the Earle, Capitol and
Howard Theaters with other stage
and screen stars and at special
events for servicemen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
Await
Priorities 10
Install Beds
Personnel Needed
Along With Minor
Equipment
BY PAT JONES.

The SGT beds which District hos
pital superintendents have, informed
the War Production Board can be
placed in existing space will be
installed Immediately after the 60
ahead signal involving priorities on
needed equipment is received from
the war agency 1t was learned by
The Star today in poll of hospital
heads.
Some of the officials already have
added part of the extra beds they
have agreed to put in, while others
have started plans for the expansion.
In some instances the additions will
hinge on employment of sufficient
personnel to care for them, but in no
case will they depend on alterations
of more extensive a nature than
wiring and plumbing.
The program of the WPB, whose
goal has been to furnish the Metro
politan Area with needed hospital
beds by granting only a minimum
OF construction, now rests with
board of review. A report on COM
mitments made by the superin-
tendents was submitted Monday by
its chief hospital consultant, Everett
w. Jones, and is expected to be given
final action within a week. depend
ing possibly on the return of Maury
Maverick, director of the WIPES
government division, called away
from the city by the hospital pro-
gram elsewhere.
Temporary Expedient.
Virtually all hospital heads ex-
planned that the extra beds they
had agreed to install would be of a
temporary nature, designed only to
meet the wartime emergency. Some
of them consented to put in even
larger number If the situation
demanded.
While admitting that patients will
be subjected to some inconvenience
under the emergency program, they
appeared unanimous in the belief
that the new and more crowded
conditions within the institutions
would have no seriously deleterious
effect on hospitalized persons.
A majority of the superintendent
expressed the opinion that installa-
ton of the temporary beds would
solve every aspect of Washington's
hospital problem except the short
age of facilities for maternity cases.
A minority conclusion was that
even the obstetrical picture had
been relieved. but this did not in
clude among its supporters the
heads of Garfield. Sibley or Column
bia Hospitals, which at present car
ry the bulk of the Districts paying
maternity load. or of Emergency
I Continued on Page B-i4, Column %
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a nightgown when she plunged to
her death.
Mrs. Lilly Turner, wife of the
janitor who lives in the apartment
building basement, told police she
heard Mrs. Rittenhouse's body hit
a cement areaway in the rear of the
apartment. Police said Mrs. Ritten-
house formerly was a nurse.
She was a native of Blain, Pa,
where her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. M. Gutchall, and her 10-year-old
son, Marlin Gutchall. live.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
Manassas Club to Meet

MANASSAS, Va, Jan. 81 (Spe-
ciaD The Postal Clerks Wives
Club of Manassas will meet at 7:30
o'clock tonight at the residence of
Mrs. A. o. Beane. The program will
be in charge of Mrs. r. C. Bauser-
man and Mrs. r. G. Bowers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
Dr.. George Lewis Made
Collier Award Chairman

DR.. George w. Lewis, for many
years director of aeronautical re-
search of the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, has
been elected chairman of the Col
lier Trophy Award Committee, it
was announced yesterday.
The announcement was made by
Gill Robb Wilson, president of the
National Aeronautics Association,
who said the selection was in recog-
milton of DR.. Lewis long experience
in new developments in the field
of aeronautics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21
BucterioIoqists to Meet

The Washington Branch of the
Society of American Psychologists
will meet at the George Washing
ton School of Medicine, 1885 H street
NV, at pm. Tuesday. A varied
series of lectures will be offered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21

by higher salaries granted en-
ployes, in addition to the funds
allowed for the employment OF an
assistant superintendent, an asso-
ciate medical officer and other en-
ployes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21

These planes cost about $5l 900
each. We need more and more of
them as we take the offensive
against the Axis. Your purchases of
War bonds every payday, investing
ct least ten per cent of your income
will help pay for them.--U. S. Treas
ury Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-21

with children, but they figure that
a few hours day during their
training period and $50 hours year
after they are capped" isn't very
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Continued on Page B-l4, Column %
Evening star., 1943-11-27
Julian R. Howdershe||, 10,
Dies; Iona D. T.. Resident

Julian R. Howdershell, 10, retired
foreman of the Crane Co., plumb
ing and heating supplies firm, dice
Thursday of heart attack al
Homeopathic Hospital He lived al
PISA Bates street NV.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. Monday at the Hines funera,
home, 290l Fourteenth street NV
with the Rev. Clarence w. Gran
ford, pastor of the Calvary Baptist
Church, officiating. Burial will be
in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Alex
andria.
Mr., Howdershell, who had lived ir
the District for about 40 years, was
native of Annandale, Va He hao
been an employe of the Crane Co
for more than Is years before his
retirement five years ago. He was
a member of the Calvary Baptist
Church.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Virginia NJ Coogan; a son
Ryland c. Howdershell; two grand.
daughters, three sisters, Mrs. F.. M
Penn and Mrs. NJ F. Kerrick, both
of Alexandria. and Mrs. B. T. Hum.
mer of Lincolnia, Va, and two
brothers, John N. and Ralph M
HoWdershell, both of Lincolnia.