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Evening star., 1943-02-24
Polo Field as Site
For Dormitories Hit
By Recreation Board
Members Would Check
Housing for WAVES on
Northern Half

The Secretaries of the Navy and
Interior received strong protests to-
day from the District Recreation
Board against use of the north half
of the Polo Ground parking lot as
a site for WAVE dormitories.
The board acted after members
had been informed such construc-
ton is being considered The Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission also protested against
the plan at meeting last week.
Approximately 200 rooms in the
new West Potomac Park dormi-
tories have been assigned to WAVE
officers, but about 1900 more
WAVES must be accommodated
here in the near future. The West
Potomac Park dormitories cannot
be entirely turned over to them, ac-
cording to the National Housing
Agency, because the dormitories
were constructed with Lanham Act
funds expressly for civilian" war
workers.
Army Half Returned.
The Army already has returned
the south half of the Polo Grounds
to the Recreation Board and the
parking lot paving has been torn
up for sodding as play area. The
Recreation Board had hoped, to re-
ceive the Navys half also, said Park
Supt. Irving c. Root, since only
about 25 cars day park there"
Board Member James E. Schwab
protested against what he called
"unsightly barracks, Army style"
being placed on the Polo Grounds.
Approximately IL acres of tennis
and badminton courts and baseball
and hockey fields will be available
through Army REIMBURSEMENT of
the grounds, but board members
felt additional space will be needed
for recreation of the new tenants
of the West Potomac Park dormi-
tories.
Meanwhile the Navy Department
has begun construction of a dormi-
tory to house 1000 WAVES on
and Nebraska avenue loaned by the
American University. DR.. Paul F.
Douglass, president of the university,
said today.
The structure Is expected to be
ready about May /. The WAVES
are to be students of the signal
school located in buildings previously
occupied by Mount Vernon Sem
mary.
Classification Delay.
Protesting the Civil Service Com
missions delay in classification
of 100 employees of the newly organ
lied Recreation Department, Chair
man Harry S. Wender appointed
himself head of a special committee
to consult the commission to de-
termine cause of the ''procrastina-
ton" Department employees are
"notoriously underpaid" under the
present per diem setup, Mr.. Wender
declared, adding that they are being
forced to undergo hardship" while
their salaries are being placed on
an annual basis.
The board members will meet at
7 pm, March 9, at the Thomson
School, then hold meeting at 8 80
pm. for citizens who wish to hear
explanation of the effects of the
department budget estimates on
recreation here.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Col. GIottIy Reported
War Prisoner in Jupun

1t. Col. and Mrs. H. o. Swindler,
2515 Fort Scott drive. South Ar
lington, have been notified that a
friend, Col. Harold w. Glattly, had
sent them and his wife and chill
dren, now in San Antonio, a mes
sage from Toxic, where he is a
prisoner of war.
Mrs. Swindler said that the of
ficer's message, picked up by short
wave, said he was in good health
and that the Japanese were treat
ing him well. Mrs. Swindler said
that Mrs. Glattly has stayed with
them for six months before going
to Texas with her two children.
Jan and Robin.
An officer in the Medical Corps,
Col. Glattly was stationed here for
several years before going to the
Philippines on duty.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Model Store Set Up
To Explain Rationing
To Consumers Here
Point System Clarified
In Agriculture Department
Exhibit Booth

A model store to demonstrate
point rationing has been set up ir
the Agriculture Departments ad-
ministration building at Fourteenth
street and Independence avenue
S.W.
Approximately 500 everyday food
items, contributed by local retail
food dealers, are on its shelves
Each item in the stock is marked
with a price tag and point value
just as grocers will mark their stocks
after March /.
Besides procesSed foods which are
rationed, the store has fresh fruits
and vegetables and other articles
which are not rationed Adjoining
the store, the Red Cross has set uI
a booth to demonstrate how to use
foods properly to get maximum
nourishment.
The exhibition will remain open
from 9 am. to 9 pm, daily, for a
week.
Among the rationed foods, de-
hydrated products are given proml-
nent display. Dehydrated soup on
the shelf equivalent to six servings,
has a point value of four compared
to canned soup of about the same
quantity, which has point value Of
six.
Everyday foods in the store, which
are not yet rationed, include meat,
dairy products, fresh fruits and
vegetables. fish, bread, canned milk,
cakes, pastries and pies. Visitors to
the store are being advised to plan
their family meals largely with these
products to conserve their ration
points for essential processed foods
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Nine. Chang Calls
China Partner in
Allied Arms Pool
Nation Will Continue
To Do Port in War,
Press Is Informed

China is contributing its flesh and
blood, but it is up to the United
States to supply the armament in
her corner of the world, Nine.
Chang Kai-shek declared today.
Nine. Chang told a press confer
ence held exclusively for women at
the White House this morning that
President Roosevelt himself had
called the United States the arsenal
of democracy"
China has been contributing its
part in flesh and blood and man
power and will keep on contributing
she said. But planes, gasoline, spare
parts and all the heavier guns must
come to China from the common
pool of United Nations resources,
she continued, because the Chinese
can manufacture only light mu-
nitions themselves.
While reiterating that she had
| come to the United States only for
her health, Nine. Chang emphasized
that munitions are badly needed by
China if that nation is to keep up its
responsibility in the Allied circle
China regards munitions from the
United States only as it's due from
the pool of Allied resources, she
repeated.
On the other hand, China does
feel gifts of food keenly as a form OF
charity, Nine. Chang explained, and
does not expect any of her people to
be fed by the United States after the
war. She commented that the
Chinese are a poor but proud
| nation,
The wife of the Chinese generals
simo wore her usual Chinese cos
tune and the jeweled wings of the
Flying Tigers on her shoulder. She
appeared noticeably wearier than
when she held her first press con-
ference with the President.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
180,829 No. 7
Books Issued;
Little Waiting
3-Minute Speed Set
Despite Failures to
Clip Declarations

A total of l80,829 No. 2 War Ra-
ton Books was distributed yester-
day during the opening day of regis
tration in a routine that functioned
so smoothly officials said that WASH
ington's war rationing system now is
free of long waiting lines.
Yesterdays total represented an
Increase of approximately 1900
over the number of No. / books
issued during the first day of regis
tration last May 4 However. schools
were open last year only from 4 to
9 pm. instead of from 7 an to 9
pm. as yesterday. it was explained.
Consumers declarations were
turned in by 1887 families. They
reported l08 ,005 cans of food in
excess of the amounts permitted
under the rationing regulations.
Discussing yesterdays experience,
officials said consumers passed
through the routine of registration
in an average of three minutes to
person with no excess canned
goods and 10 minutes to a person
whose coupon book had to be tai
lored because of excess food.
The only bottleneck noticed yes
terday, it was reported, resulted
from the public's failure to clip out
consumers declaration forms from
newspapers and TO bring them
already filled out.
Supply of Forms Runs Out.
Anticipating that vast majority
OF the 850000 persons expected to
register here would clip the forms
before going to the registration
places, the OPA printed only l77o0O
forms. Supplies quickly were ex-
hausted yesterday and applicants
without the newspaper clippings
were turned away.
Except for this, fine cooperation
on the part of the public was re-
ported Lawson J. Cantrell, assist
ant superintendent of schools in
charge of registration, estimated
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Vegetable Seed
| Market Booms
| In District

The combination of canned food
rationing and unSeasonably warm
weather has brought about a brisk
business in vegetable seeds, sur
yey of local dealers showed today
In past years seed stores rarely
registered heavy sales before the
middle of March, but the new en-
phasis on Victory Gardens and the
beginning of canned food rationing
has resulted in a surge of buying
by amateur gardeners.
One store said its seed sales had
increased more than 100 per cent
over last year. This establishment
also noted a sharp decline in sales
of flower and lawn seeds, indicating
many a flower bed viii break forth
this summer with vegetables instead
of blossoms.
Ample supplies of vegetable seeds
are held by all dealers, the survey
showed although onion seeds and
sets are not so plentiful this year.
Evening star., 1943-02-24

that virtually all householders whose
last names begin with the letters A
to D turned out. most of them dur
ing the late part of the day.
Those whose names begin with
the letters E to K were registering
today.
Infants Create Problem.
One development yesterday for
which rationing authorities were not
entirely prepared was the increase in
the city sinfant population. Although
every baby is entitled to rationing
books as soon as his birth is legally
recorded, many parents apparently
did not bother to apply for book
No. l, probably because they found
they had enough coffee and sugar
for their needs.
But the stringent rations OF can-
ned products announced Sunday
evidently caused parents to make
sure that the youngest had his new
ration book. Thus, ration boards
yesterday found tn I'm selv e S
BWamped with applicants for book
No. l, which must be presented to
the registration centers before book
No. 2 will be issued.
Any one who is unable to get a
No. book before Friday night at
the schools may get one later from
his ration board. but applicants
were warned that they may have to
wait until after March IS to obtain
the No. book. National OPA has
given all local boards two weeks to
catch up with their bookkeeping
during which time they are not re-
1uired to issue new books to appli-
cants if it interferes with their
regular routine.
Tomorrow, residents with first
names beginning with letters from
IL through RI" should register
with the last group-from s.
through "Z"-signing up Friday.
Registration officials urged those
who have not yet signed up TO &C
to the schools early in the day
whenever possible to avoid conges-
ton after 4 O'Clock, when Govern,
ment workers begin pouring into
the schools. Although applicants
are requested to report to the school,
nearest their homes, it is permissible
for them TO stop at some other
center if they find 1t more con-
Venient.
Registrants must bring with then
the No. l books for every member
of the family for whom they are
making application.
Montgomery Signup Is smooth.
While figures were not available
for the registration which opened
yesterday in Montgomery County
officials said residents apparently
were signing up early at the varlou
schools with no "bOttleneckS' re
ported in any Of the Centers.
Registration, which Will cOnunu,
through Friday. is being held from
$50 am. to 7:30 pm at all Whit
schools with the exception of Gar
rett Park. Washington Grove, NORTH
-Four Corners, Chevy Chase ant
Rockville Elementary
Five ColOred schools also are open
They are the Ken Gar, River Road
Choppers, Linden and TakOma Parl
Schools
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Navy Lists First "a
Taken in An-Service
Draft Induction
Men Generally Given
Service Of Choice; Army
Gets 100 Of Group

The first list of Navy selectees
made public since the start of the
all-service draft this month were
announced today by District selec-
tive service.
Successful operation of the sys-
tenn whereby men are allotted to
the Army and Navy was reported at
the induction station, where it was
said that it had been possible gen.
orally to give the men the service
of their choice If they met the
physical standards.
Although the men can express
their choice for Army, Navy, Marine
Corps or Coast Guard, the joint
induction station makes allotments
only to the Army and Navy generally
and the Navy quota is broken down
into the other services before the
men leave the induction station.
Representatives of the Navy, Marine
Corps and Coast Guard then escort
their groups to their respective sta
tions for induction.
Joint Station at Fort Myer.
The men are given a chance to
express their preference as they
enter the joint station at Fort Myer,
Va, and their papers are then
stamped with the service of their
choice so that the medical examiners
can keep the service in mind as they
examine the men.
Later, those who have expressed
a choice go before an evenly di-
vided group of Army and Navy non-
commissioned officers, who question
them further and send on their pa
pers to the assignment board, which
makes the final decision based on
the days quotas for the Army and
Navy.
Although Army standards have
been generally raised, there are some
distinctions still made, particularly
on eyes and height. In other words,
| the Army will take some men for
general service barred from the
| Navy In addition, the Army can
| take, but does not include in its
days proportionate quota with the
Navy, men with some physical de-
| fects, on-citizens, as well as a
small percentage of illiterates.
100 for Army, "a for Navy.
The group announced today in
! cludes 100 Army selectees and "a
| Navy selectees, all of whom were
inducted into the services on Feb
ruary 18 and will report tomorrow
to their respective headquarters for
transfer to naval training stations
or Army camps.
Since the Coast Guard and the
Marine Corps take only small part
of the Navy quota, none for these
services are included on today's list.
Included on the Navy list are:
Evening star., 1943-02-24
1,279Cons of Food,
TweIve-Yeor Supply
Listed by DC. Woman

The largest store Of canned
goods reported IN the District
was that declared yesterday at
the John Quincy Adams School,
Nineteenth and California
streets NV, where a woman,
registering for a family of four,
listed 1919 cans. It was has
tlly calculated that, on the
present basis of rationing, this
supply would last her family
until 1855.
Nevertheless, only half the
coupons were taken from her
No. 2 ration book. The rest
OF the extra cans were noted
IN the front cover. and the next
time she gets a ration book she
will have all the 8-point cou-
pons torn out. That procedure
will go on for u years, unless
the war and rationing end be
fore then.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Havy Plans Purchases
From Smaller Plants

The Navy said today it has re-
ferred to the Smaller War Plants
Division of WPB suggestions for
purchase from lesser factories of a
wide variety of products from screw
drivers to rat traps
The Navys Bureau Of Supplies
snd Accounts believes that at least
20 per cent Of an estimated $67 600,
600 worth of odds and ends could be
purchased by contracted with small
plants throughout the Nation.
The plan is expected to give
minor industry a better chance to
bid on these requirements, and the
Navy is prepared to assist the plants
in preparation of bids. interpreta-
hon of specifications and drawings.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Alice Fowler of AWVS
Tokes Ooth as WAAC

Miss Alice Fowler, 1858 Maple
View avenue Sc. chief of the night
section of the American Women's
Voluntary Services, has been sworn
in as member of the WAACS.
Miss Fowler has been in the treas
urer's department of the National
Geographic Society for the last 18
years. Under her direction the night
section of the AWVS has grown from
300 members to 2056 members. She
is sister of Walter L. Fowler, Dis
trict budget director.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Netherlands Prince
Guest at White House

Prince Bernhard Zu Lippe- Bies-
terfeld Of the Netherlands, husband
of Crown Princess Juliana, is q
guest at the White House today.
The visit Of the prince, who came
here from Ottawa, was announced
by President Roosevelt at his press
conference yesterday.
The prince has been on active
duty with the Allied air forces in
England, but recently visited Of
taWa, where his wife is living, for
the birth of his third daughter.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Be Sure to Keep
| Ration Book No. I,
| Officials Warn

Apparently in ignorance of
regulations, many consumers
were reported yesterday to have
thrown away their No. l War
Ration Books as soon as they
had received No. 2 books. Of
ficials reminded that coupons
in No. l books are good until
used. BY discarding them, it
was explained, consumers will
be unable to purchase sugar,
coffee or shoes.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Cultivutors Rutioned
By the Associated Press.

L3 II't NSSVVIdttu Tt5S.
One-furroW horse-draWn cult
vators of the riding type were added
yesterday to the list of farm ma
chinery under rationing. To pur-
chase these cultivators farmers
must obtain certificates from county
rationing committees.
Evening star., 1943-02-24
Museum Open Longer

Beginning today the Lincoln Mu-
scum on Tenth street between Z
and F streets NV. will remain open
each day until 9 pm. instead OF
closing at $50 pm, it was an
nounced by Irving C. Root, super
intendent of National Capital Parks
Evening star., 1943-02-24

Smith, Walter D.
Toedt, John W.
Robertson, w. @.
Raynor. Charles NJ.
Bromley, William c.
Hutchison, James P.
Mccormick, G. Z.
Startling, James D.
Wilson, Paul l..
Schnell. Duane H.
Solomon, Wayne l..
Crouch. Willie E.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03

them in the kitchen and doing their
laundry The money that they earn
goes into church charity fund
The only males permitted near the
place are the MP guards, one dur
ing the day and two at night.
The WACS use mosquito netting
over their CT cots, hospital hunks,
or beds donated by the nuns, and
sleep in CT pajamas-blue and white
checks in winter peach or blue
Seersucker in summer.
Elaine Olmstead of Phoenix, Ariz.,
former physical education instruc-
tor, with five brothers in the Army,
is first sergeant of the company.
Sergeant Olrnstead blows the whistle
at 6 in the morning Lieut.. Marga-
ret JaneWay, a New York doctor,
makes daily inspections If the girls
get gigged for oversleteping or for
failing to make their beds accord
ing to regulations, they are confined
to quarters for two weeks.
Unlike most other GI's, the WACS
here praise their cooks, who not only
fix the regular chow temptingly, but
occasionally produce such miracles
as apple pie, doughnuts, butterscotch
pudding and sometimes-even ice
cream. Once week Sgt. Ann Brad
ley of Philadelphia poems up the PIX
to sell candy, cigarets, toilet articles
and recreational equipment to the
girls.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03

Like Mary Taylor, the WACS in
North Africa-there are 1876 of them
stationed in AlgierS whether driv-
ing jeep. working as typists,
switchboard operators, cable clerks,
teletype operators, or craftsmen, are
all good soldiers.
The WAC with an especially ~
teresting job is Sgt. Nan Rae, a for
mer New York stenographer who
has been assigned to stenographic
work with General Eisenhower Nan
was an auxiliary when she landed
in North Africa, but now she is a
sergeant, working hard from $50 a.
m. to 6 an dsometimes 10 p. m.
Two WAC jeep drivers act as
chauffeurs for General EisenhoW-
er's staff officers. All the girl drivers
don fatigue clothes and do their own
dirty work when their buggies get
dry or dusty, or need a new tire or
grease job One driver, Pfc. Mary
Helen Lowell of Curtis, Ohio, used to
be a short order cook. 81 don't see
why we can't do more night driving"
Mary laments. "Of course we are
not allowed to carry arms. All 1
have is this CT billy club"
The girls the first WAC company
to arrive overseas, are quartered a
few miles from town in an old pop
py-covered convent which they share
with several nuns and French refu-
gee children. The nuns get along
well with the WACS, working for
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03

You must win the second spade
lead, cash the king and queen OF
diamonds, and now you see that
you can make only four diamond
tricks. If you overtake the ten of
diamonds with the ace, you are
blocked of dummy Can you figure
out a way to make the fifth dia-
mond?
After cashing the king and queen
of diamonds, you must lead your
third spade and hope that West
will cash another spade trick. When
he does, you throw away your nine
of diamonds. Now, regardless OF
what West leads, you can overtake
the ten of diamonds with the ace
in dummy, which also will pick up
East's jack, and that will give you
the ninth trick.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
BY NEA Service

Algiers.-North Africa is long
way from home. but the WACS have
found their place here and are doing
man-sized job, even though they
don't pack guns and sleep in fox-
holes.
The first WAC commended for
gallantry under fire was Pfc. Mary
l.. Taylor, of Lake Charles, La, a
typist for the North African Econ
omic Board. Pfc. Taylor was on her
way home in blackout, when
enemy p,anes rained bombs on the
streets A Special Service officer in
an anti-aircraft outfit, Lieut.. Ernest
r Mayfield, yelled at her to take
cover, but as they ran a piece of
shrapnel plowed through the half
of Lieutenant Mayfield's leg.
Pfc. Taylor took one quick look
and applied some cool-headed first
aid. Then she and the lieutenant's
driver drove 20 miles in a jeep with
fiat tire to first aid station. The
WAC never said a word about the
incident, which would have been
forgotten if Lieutenant Mayfield
hadn't turned in a report when he
was released from the hospital.
When questioned by her astonished
friends, Pfc. Taylor shrugged her
shoulders and said, IT just got
caught in blackout."
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03

She ought to remember. too the
pleasant relationships she now has
with the people with whom she
traces she has had to learn that
she can't always have exactly what
she wants, when she wants it. And
having learned that, she is a much
more easily satisfied customer
than she used to be. 1t will be a
good thing if she can keep on be-
ing a reasonable customer, when
she no longer has to be.
She should remember. too. the
many ways in which she has SIM
pllfled her life so that she can do
volunteer war work outside her
home. She may not be needed as
nurses aid when the war is over
but She could keep her life simple
enough SO that she can spend the
time she is now devoting to hospi-
tai work at some worthwhile COM
munity project.
REMEMBER THRIFT
She should remember the thrift
that wartime living is teaching her.
1t would be silly for her to forget
it, just because she may be able to
splur9e when the war is over. If
she ever starts trying to keep up
with the Joneses again-she will be
a foolish woman.
And above all she should remem-
Der the thing she tells herself over
and over again: IF our family Is
once more united-I will never
again let little things make me I'M
happy
If she remembers all Of those
things from war time she'll be a
happier. nicer person than she was
before the war.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
MCKINNEY
ON BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM Il. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

You cannot sit down and talk
bridge with Harry Fishbein without
getting an unusual hand from him.
Before we go into details on this
hand, I want to ask you a ques-
ton. Would you win the first, sec
ond or third spade lead? Remember
that you are playing rubber bridge
and you are interested only in max
ing nine tricks. You have a spade
two hearts and a club trick, four
tricks, and there are five diamonds
there; but how do you get the fifth
diamond?