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Evening star., 1943-06-12
Charged
With Breaking
Driving Ban
OPA Agents Find
Many Reported
VioIutors in Parks

Moving all over the city and in
the parks yesterday and last night,
OPA inspectors today reported 76
alleged violations of the pleasure
driving ban.
OPH said cars were spotted in
various places" and a number had
been noted in Rock Creek and Po-
tomac parks. Added to 80 reported
yesterday, the total Of reported vio-
lations under the present anti
pleasure driving campaign now
amounts to 1923. OPA reported
that the 80 alleged violations re-
ported yesterday had occurred at an
alleged gambling resort on Bladens-
burg road.
Seven alleged violations to be
heard June IS, meanwhile, were put
over to July l for additional inves-
tigation.
John L. Laskey. chief District
OPA attorney, said three cases in
volving the sale of gasoline allegedly
without coupons appeared to require
additional investigation. He said he
would look into the standing of the
stations and determine whether the
sales were of the type which would
justify asking suspension of the
stations right to deal in gasoline.
The other four cases, against
dealers accused Of having been dis
criminatory in their sales of gaso-
line, also are being continued to
July because the enforcement at
torney, Carl Beruef1y, recently un-
derwent minor throat operation
and should avoid throat strain for a
while, Mr.. Laskey said.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
Cab Driver Is Convicted
Of Assault on Woman

James Calomeris, 21, of the 600
block street NV, a cab driver, was
convicted by a Municipal Court
jury today on a charge of assault
ing woman passenger in Rock
Creek Park May g. Judge Nathan
Margold will sentence him July /.
The complaining witness, q 26-
year-old Government employe, tes-
titled that she engaged the defend
ants cab shortly after midnight on
Georgia avenue NV. and asked to
be driven to restaurant.
Instead, she said, Ca1omeris drove
her to Rock Creek Park. When she
resisted his advances. he struck her,
leaving her unconscious, she said.
When she regained consciousness a
short time later she was lying on
the roadway and the defendant had
gone. She said she had not been
criminally assaulted.
The defendant denied the charge,
asserting that 1t was a case of mis-
taken identity.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
Food, Fuel Prepared
For Arrival Of
Circus Tomorrow
More Than 81 500, 900
In Bonds Are Sold in
Connection With Show

Thousands of pounds of feed. hay,
straw and fuel are being delivered
today to the circus lot at Benning
road and Oklahoma avenue NE, as
Washington prepared for the arrival
Of the Ringing Bros and Barnum &
Bailey Circus tomorrow
More than s1,5oo,oo worth of War
bonds already have been sold in con-
nection with the circus. which opens
Monday afternoon The Treasury
Department has issued special
requisition slip to bond purchasers,
emitting them to sit in an honor Sec
ton at each performance Shows
start at 2:15 pm. and 8:15 pm.
The feed and hay have been pur-
chased from Washington dealers by
William Carr, the "24-hour man"
preparing for the arrival of the
circus. He is also checking unload
ing crossing@ at the railroad and
the route from Union Station to the
lot. Laoorers are leveling off the
lot for the three rings, two stages
and hippodrome track.
The back entrance Of the circus
where the cast and equipment
gather for entrance into the arena
must be larger than ever this year,
Allan Lester, Ringing press agent,
said today. The Gay Nineties"
circus street parade which opens
each performance includes large
bandwagons, calliopes and floats, he
explained. The Al tents housing the
show will be grouped around the
performing tent. which is larger this
year and supported with six poles
instead of four.
DR.. William NJ Mann, director of
the Zoo, said he and the other circus
enthusiasts who always watch the
train unloading at the station in
tend to 60 again this year to see it.
Dozens of boys and girls also are
planning to see the unloading or
watch the setting up at the lot.
The show is expected to arrive
some time between 9 am. and noon
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
j. ). Units Plan
Overall Setup
For Recreation
Holmes Chairman
Of Committee to
Form Council

A committee of representatives Of
Government recreational associa-
tions was named last night to for
mulate plans for a congress or
council of Federal Government rec
reational associations.
Robert Holmes, president Of the
Library Of Congress Recreational
Association, who presided over the
meeting, held in the Coolidge Audi
torium OF the Congressional Library,
was named chairman of the COM
mittee.
The plan, as outlined by Mr..
Holmes, would be for the recre-
atlonal associations to band to-
gether, elect officers and incorporate
into non-profit organization, with
a paid secretary.
1T would avoid entangling alli-
ances with those not as altruistic as
the proposed group" he said.
Gallo Promises Aid.
Before the committee was set up.
Fortune Gallo, manager and i'm
presario of the San Carlo Opera Co.,
who flew down from New York to
attend the meeting, promised that
II an organization were formed one
or more performances here this
summer of his company would be
for its benefit. Under the arrange
ment, Mr.. Gallo said, the recre-
alton group would get part of the
proceeds of the tickets for such per-
formances they sold.
Among the activities of the pro-
posed organization would be spon-
sorlng entertainments that would
not conflict with those of individual
associations, bringing name" bands
to an arena, sponsoring an annual
track meet and other events, CO.
operating with the newly formed
Federal Recreation Committee, and
backing social and cultural activi-
ties.
Stresses Need of Stadium.
Mr.. Holmes said he wished to
make it clear that he was "op-
posed to infringement on the ac-
tivities of individual associations"
He stressed, as part of what he
called a possible postwar program,
VAN AlSSd Va a SUdolulll 1Ol SuCli
events as the Army-Navy football
game and recreation center.
Mr.. Holmes said he knew at pres
ent of no two recreation associa-
tions in the Government that were
linked together and saw in the pro-
posed overall organization a means
OF raising funds to further such
associations. The committee named
to draw up plans will submit them
to possible member associations,
Those named to the committee,
in addition to Mr.. Holmes, We're
Don Simpson. War Production
Board; Miss Hope Kane. Archives:
j. l.. Acuff, Interior Department;
Miss Celia Wicks. Government
Girls; Clifford H. Bingham, Navy
Department.; G. B. Amerine, Gov
ernment Accounting Office; Miss
Hilda Crawford Government Print
ing Office, and Ralph D. Boyd,
GAO
Evening star., 1943-06-12
Cut in Indian Bureau,
Ending Of Wardship
Proposed TO Senate
Subcommittee Asserts
Agency Should Be
Gradually Eliminated

BY the Associated Press.
A Senate subcommittee has recon-
mended that the Indian Bureau be
reduced to a fraction of its pres
ent size, the Indian population be
freed from wardship and trust funds
distributed.
The recommendation was in a
report to the Senate yesterday by
Senators Thomas, Democrat, of
Oklahoma, chairman; Wheeler,
Democrat, of Montana; Chavez,
Democrat, of New Mexico, and Ship
stead, Republican, of Minnesota,
under authority of an investiga-
ton started by the Seventieth
Congress and continued by sue
ceeding sessions.
There should be progressive
elimination (of the Indian BureaU
-" proceeding until the whole
objective is attained" declared the
committee, predicting that "all may
be accomplished within from one
to four years."
The committee said the bureau
had attempted to build up, through
the years, a self-perpetuating insti-
tution and to make material i'm
provements for the Indian Service
at the expense of Indian life.
Indian Commissioner John COL
lier's estimates of expenditures, said
the committee, ARE based on the
assumption that there are 100000
Indians under the bureau, including
80 900 in Alaska.
Under any rational definition of
an Indian, there are nowhere near
this number of Indians in the
United States In the first place and
in the second place. only a small
proportion of this number is in any
way dependent on the bureau.
Though all the Indians-even
400. 0.000-are considered wards of the
Government, 1t is certain the In
dian Bureau has no effective con-
tact with half that number and no
right to claim them as justification
for increased appropriations"
Evening star., 1943-06-12
Bloom Victory Garden
Entered in Contest
By Cooks Husband
Representative Orders
Additional Planting
After He Reads of Need

Representative Sol Bloom, chair
man of The House Foreign Relations
Committee. today entered his garden
in the $1,000 Victory garden prize
contest.
Some 80 varieties Of vegetables are
growing prosperously in neat rows
alongside his home at 1880 Columbia
road NV.
Mr.. Bloom is a proprietor" Vic
tory gardener and thereby disqual-
ifled from winning one of the prizes
himself. But he directed Granville
Stewart. stone mason and husband
OF Mandy Stewart, who presides over
the Bloom kitchen, to enter the gar
den in the Stewart name. Gran
vile has done most of the work on
the garden.
Plants in Bushel Baskets.
Added planting was ordered on
the farm" yesterday by Mr.. Bloom
when he read of the disappointing
crop report issued by the Agricul-
ture Department. All available space
has been planted with vegetables, in
cluding the flower beds. His workers
now are planting squash and cucum-
bers in barrels and bushel baskets
filled with earth.
Soil alongside the Bloom resi-
dence was remarkably good, black
with leaf loan. Light also was IA
vorable and, with the rainy, warm
weather. his cabbage is heading, his
corn is high and his potaotes bios
soming. The Bloom household will
not have to worry about changes in
point values of canned goods this
winter. Mrs. Stewart is going to
can everything that cannot be eaten
right away.
1t is not Mr.. Blooms first farming
experience. In the almost forgot
ten days when he did not spend
II months a year in Washington,
he deserted his Riverside drive
apartment for dairy farm-"the
best dairy farm in Connecticut"
Tells of Song Writing.
The Bloom fortune was made in
the song-publishing business. Asked
about it today, he said his best
selling hit was THE Heroes Who
Sank With the Maine" He read
about the disaster in the morning
paper on February 16, 1898, and
began writing the song on the
streetcar on his way to his Chicago
oh1ce. THE Honeysuckle and the
Bee" was his best steady seller.
Any city garden such as Mr.
Blooms has an excellent chance
to win one of the defense area
prizes, $40 and IS in stamps fol-
the best gardens in each of the
city's 66 defense areas where 10
Evening star., 1943-06-12

the Boy Scouts who volunteer for
this work. Mr.. Van Duzer said.
With the present curtailment in
manpower. the Traffic Department
would be unable to obtain this val
liable and vital information without
the gracious help of the District Boy
Scouts"
The study will require four days,
with the Scouts spending one eight
hour day on the job. Office of De-
fense Transportation regulations
allow lights to be kept on only at
intersections where 1000 vehicles or
$50 pedestrians pass in an hour dur
ing an eight-hour period.
Scouts who volunteer for the work
will undergo day of instruction in
their duties under a group of Traffic
Department engineers, headed by
Chief Engineer John Milton.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
Dr.. H. A. Swanson Named

DR.. Henry A. Swanson yesterday
was appointed member of the
Board Of Dental Examiners for a
f1ve-year term beginning July II. He
was selected by the Commissioner
on nomination by the dental socie-
ties OF the District, which had sub
mitted q list Of SIX names DR.. Swan
son will succeed DR.. Charles T.
Bassett, whose term expires July l6.
Evening star., 1943-06-12

gardens are in competition. In
addition, it is eligible for the s25
War bond offered for the best gar
den in each of the city's four quar-
ters and for each of four sections
outside the city A 500 bond will
go to the best garden in metropoli-
tan Washington.
To enter your garden write the
District Victory Garden Commit
tee at 458 Indiana avenue NV. or
fill in the coupon on this page and
mail it to the Garden Editor of
The Star.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
900 Scouts to Aid Survey
OF Traffic at ITO CROSSINGS

One thousand Boy Scout volun-
teers will assist the Traffic Depart
ment in survey of auto and pedes-
train movements at ITO intersections
to determine if traffic lights at
some can be eXtinguished during
the pleasure driving ban, it was an
nounced today.
Following a conference with Lynn
c. Drake, national Scout executive,
Traffic Director William A. Van
DuZer announced the Scouts, four
to each intersection, will make their
check June 49, 1t will be the sec
ond time Scouts have assisted In
a traffic survey. Last autumn they
made a record of movements at rs
intersections which resulted in the
elimination of 80 unnecessary lights.
I'VE can't praise too highly the
spirit and excellent workmanship of
Evening star., 1943-06-12
81 in Armed Forces
GET Diplomas at
National University
Representative Murphy
Speaks at Exercises;
Graduates Total 56

The necessity of thorough ad-
vance preparation before arguing a
law case in court was stressed last
night by Representative Murphy,
Democrat, of Pennsylvania as he
addressed graduates Of National
University at commencement ex-
ercises at 818 Thirteenth street NV.
Proper survey and skillful prep
aration Of plans are necessary to
give law its full power" he said.
The diplomas were presented by
DR.. Leslie c. Garnett, chancellor of
the university, after speech by the
class valedictorian, Chester Martin
Brasse. DR.. John W. Rustin, pastor
of the Mount Vernon Place Meth
odist Church, offered the invocation.
Thirty-seven members of the class
now in the service received their
diplomas in absentia. The complete
list of Sc graduates follows:
Master Of Laws.
Chang Fa Shun House, Hobart R.
ehS Gs a9e G. NJ @an ksadoeR Andfes Ga1ss
Harper. Lillian S. Witt Clarence E.
Bachelor Of Laws.
Allies, William c. Henry Homer H.
Bell, Charles T. JenSon. Charles P.
Blake, Thomas r. johnson, Reay E.
BraSse, Chester M. Kile. Werner L.
Brent. Ellis U. LaMacchia, Philip j.
Campbell. william F. Leahy, John F.
Carroll, Philip j. Manning. John C.
Carroll, Walton C. Martinez, Joe L.
Collins, Clayton B. Meadows. Guy NJ
Cotting, John L. MCGEE Edward j.
Curran, Thomas W. Pons, Henry G.
Davis, Halford G. Prentiss, Elizabeth r.
Denning. Lester J. Ssviola. Alesio
Domers, Henry r. Schoeneman, H. G..
Dulberser. .Nettie NJ. Sherley, Thomas H.
Eagan, Robert T. Snowder, C. Ral7h
Fox Williem A. Sturgeon Jean M.
Frank. Irving Taylor, Donald K.
Friedman. Berta Weggeland, D. w.
Garlock, Charles H. Wolf. David A.
Goheen. Willard Yaffee. Carson
Grant, Preston w. Zarzyka, ,Zygmunt c.
Hastey, v. c. L..
Bachelor Of Arts.
Shelledy, Nelson F.
Associate in Arts.
Lacy, Faye M. Plytnick Mae McC
Evening star., 1943-06-12
Ordnance Will PLAY
Major Invasion Role,
SomerveI| Declares
1853 Civilian Employees
With 5 to As Years of
Service Are Honored

Ornance is the backbone of our
armament defense" and will play a
major role in coming attacks on the
Axis powers, 1t. Gen. Brehon Somer-
veil, chief of the Army Service Com
mand, declared last night In address,
ing an assemblage in Constitution
Hall honoring the 131st anniversary
Of the Ordnance Department.
Hitler and his cohorts have been
driven from Africa and soon the
Axis will feel the forces of our might
elsewhere" Gen. Somervell said.
Undersecretary of War Patterson
conveyed his congratulations and
those of Secretary Stimson to the
assembly and 168 civilian employees
who have seen from to As years
of continuous service in ordnance.
Commencing Maj. Gen. Levin H.
Campbell, ordnance chief, and the
thousands who work under him, Mr..
Patterson declared they are doing
"a magnificent job Both Mr.. Pat
terson and Gen. Somervell referred
to the establishment of the Ord
nance department IN 1872 by Beclus
Wadsworth, its first chief.
Gen. Campbell said the Ordnance
Department has carried this country
through six major wars.
1T has produced weapons for our
military forces throughout this en-
tire period and it has never faltered
in any OF its great responsibilities"
he said.
High-ranking Army and Navy off,
cials attended the anniversary cele-
bration, and prominent members of
Congress also were among the audi
ence. Bob Hope, radio star, and his
company provided entertainment at
the end of the formal ceremony.
Gen. Campbell congratulated each
of the long time employees at cere-
mony in the Pentagon Building yes
terday. Included among the civil
ians were some of the foremost ord
nance specialists in the world.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
Ambulance Presentation
Ceremonies POSTPONED

Presentation of an ambulance to
the Naval Medical Center at Be-
thesda by the Daughters of Amer
lea of the District of Columbia,
which was to have been held to-
morrow, has been postponed until
4 pm. June 20. Mrs. Louise Grubbs
will make the presentation to Ad-
miral c. w. O. Bunker.
Those desiring to attend should
take streetcars marked Friendship
Heights and go to the District line,
thence by bus to the center.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
May Fires in Arlington
Do $5,595 Domuoe

Damage amounting to $5,595 re-
suited from 66 fires in Arlington
County during May, 1t was reported
today by Fire Chief A. c. Scheffel.
There were 13 house fires, Chief
Scheffel said, with the remainder
being distributed as follows: Grass,
81; automobiles, 8; sheds, 4, and
Government buildings, 3.
The report also listed 56l men
reporting to all fires during the
month, with an average of eight
men at each fire, and 81 ambulance
calls
Evening star., 1943-06-12

Now we have come to realize that
this war is to the finish, winner
take ALL" and our Government Is
building q flve-ocean Navy.
That Is why we are being asked
to increase our subscriptions for
War bonds. That Is why we must
do It.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
4 <
WAotHo~4~1%lA
WAR Bonds
Free the Sans

Before we win the final battle with
Hitler's Nazis all Navy men are
agreed we must win the battle of
the Atlantic; that is to free the sea
lanes Of the German U-boats.
A year ago We were building 54
cruisers and nearly 200 destroyers,
or just about enough for a two
ocean Navy.
Evening star., 1943-06-12

Garden Editor
The Star
Please enter prize Victory
Of garden here:
Evening star., 1943-06-12

Bachelor Of Arts.
Shelledy, Nelson F.
Associate in Arts.
Lacy, Faye NJ Plytnick Mae McC.
Evening star., 1943-04-09
Aerial Taxi Service
By He|icopter Sought
In i. 5. Application
Northeast Lines Asks
Authority to Cory
Mail and Passengers
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April 9.-Samuel J.
Solomon, president of Northeast
Airlines, yesterday disclosed plans
for a postwar setup wherein hell
copters would be used to carry mail
and passengers from town and city
rooftops to major airline terminals
as part of what he called "an aerial
taxi service"
AS an initial step, Northeast OFF,
cials filed with the Civil Aeronautics
Board in Washington an application
for a "helicopter service to carry air.
mail and express to and from the
rooftops of over 400 post Offices and
railroad stations in the six New Eng
land States and New York" Mr..
Solomon said the service would op-
crate not only between cities and
towns but also from congested urban
areas to airports.
Would Garry Passengers.
"This application" Mr.. Solomon
said, seeks authorization not only
for the transportation of airmail,
but for all first-class mail as we'll.
We think this is the first specific
proposal to bring to reality the
transportation of all first-class mail
by air.
"The helicopter has tremendous
possibilities. We can envision
machine that will carry as many as
20 passengers. 1t is entirely pos
sible that We might operate an aerial
taxi service between Boston and
New York, not running on schedule,
but, say, picking up a group of Bos-
ton businessmen at their conven-
ience from the roof of their Office
and depositing them on the roof of
an Office in downtown New York"
After testing the possibilities of
helicopters, the stocky president of
Northeast was enthusiastic. Igor
Sikorsky, he said, had shown him
that helicopter could accelerate
faster and stop faster than an au-
tomobile, could remain stationary in
the air, fly straight up, drop straight
down, and move forward, backward
or horizontally to the right or left.
Asks Moscow Route.
Northeast Airlines recently ap-
piled in Washington for a postwar
route for passengers and freight
from Boston to Moscow, London and
various European points, and is al
ready making regular freight hops
across the Atlantic.
What we're doing is to lay our
postwar plans on the table," Mr..
Solomon said. There's no sense
in keeping them a secret or talking
in vague generalities about the fu-
ture of aviation. Actually we have
no yardstick by which we can meas
ure the tremendous possibilities of
aviation after the war. But we want
to be as specific as we can about it,"
Evening star., 1943-04-09
Gen. HuzIett Promoted
To Birmingham Post
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, April 9.-Maj.
Gen. Harry F. Hazlett has succeeded
Maj. Gen. Harold R. Bull as COM
handing general OF the Replacement
and School Command, Army Ground
Forces, here
Announcement of Gen. Bulls
transfer to another assignment, and
Of the promotion of Gen. Hazlett,
chief of staff at the command head
quarters here since March, 1912,
from brigadier general to major gen.
eral, was announced yesterday by
The Army Command Headquarters
here.
AS the new commanding general,
Gen. Hazlett will have supervision
over many Army centers of the
district.
Evening star., 1943-04-09
10 and 81 granted occupational de-

10 and 81 granted occupational de-
ferments.
Confirming reports that the COM
mittee had turned an eye on Cap
itol Hill employees, Mr.. Harness de-
clared there was nothing radically
wrong up here"
Reports From 80 Agencies.
A subcommittee of the House Mil
itary Affairs Committee, the Co.'S
tello group has spent the week with
the full committee discussing man.
power legislation, but expects to get
back to draft deferments next Mon
day.
The committee, according to Mr..
Harness, now has reports from 80
Federal agencies and departments,
and is getting in reports from field
staffs of OPA, WPB, WLB and Owl
among others.
After the congressional committee
completes its survey of Federal agen-
cies, Mr.. Harness said, it will turn to
private industry, particularly estab-
lishments indirectly operated by the
Government.
Patterson Field Cited.
Among the current puzzles, the
legislator said, are the thousands OF
deferments granted to civilians in
the War Department not at the re-
quest of that agency. He cited Pat
terson Field, near Dayton, Ohio,
where, he said, there were more
than $500 single men of draft age
and about $500 married men with
out children, though War Depart
ment had asked for only approxi-
mately 100 deferments.
Investigation, he said, had con-
flrmed his original idea that there
were thousands of men on the pay
roll Of the War Department who had
not been deferred at department re-
quest and belonged in the Army.
Evening star., 1943-04-09
Coffee in Netherlands
Sodrs to $31 q Pound

Cofee has become 50 precious In
NaM-occupied Netherlands that at
Roermond a portion sold recently at
more than $31 a pound. A purchaser
bought ~ pounds on the black mar
ket for $1l3, but scarcely had taken
a step toward home before he was
offered a profit of SIG. He accepted.
The second buyer almost immedi-
Evening star., 1943-04-09
Hearings Set on Bills
Let Chinese Enter U.S.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Dickstein the House
immigration and Naturalization
Committee has announced his COM
mittee will begin hearings May 4
on repeal of laws which bar Chinese
from permanent residence in the
United States.
Representative Dickstein, who in
troduced two bills to repeal sections
of the exclusion laws, told reporters
his committee would keep an open
mind" on the possibility of extending
immigration privileges to other
Eastern peoples, except Japanese.