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Evening star., 1943-06-18
Girl Scout Troop SO
10 Get Awards Tomorrow

Girl Scouts Of Troop 88 will hold
their annual Court of Awards at 8
pm. tomorrow at McKendree Meth
odist Church, South Dakota and
Rhode Island avenues NE.
Miss Barbara Phinney, field leader
OF District S, will give a brief talk
on Scouting service and the awards
will be presented by Mrs. Zelma A.
Miser. troop leader.
Senior service awards will be made
to Evelyn Clayton, Betty Jean
Cooper, Sylvia Duerksen. Betty Jean
Ferguson. Mabel Hopkins, Carol
Miser. Carol Rice, Charlotte Ristig
and Doris Ross.
Seven girls will receive their curved
bar, which signifies additional work
in a chosen field of interest beyond
the first-class rank. They are EVELYN
Clayton, Betty Jean Cooper, Sylvia
Duerksen. Betty Jean ferguson,
Mabel Hopkins, Carol Miser and
Carol Rice.
Evening star., 1943-06-18
This is the first in a series OF
three articles on preparations for
the final blo,0 against the Euro
pean ArtS.
BY BLAIR BOLLES,


LONDON, June l8.-England is a
mighty offensive fortress gaining in
power every day.
The day will come when Allied
troops under cover of thousands of
bombers and twice as many fighter
planes will hit hard at Hitler's At
lantic wall. determined to roll on
toward Berlin. This correspondent
has been all over the island, from
the southern coast to Aberdeen. from
beautiful Cotswolds to the Wash
looking at the preparations.
The best place to obtain an idea
OF the scope of what is coming is
an American Army Services of Sup
ply depot in Western England where
freight trains-goods wagons over
here-bring in from British ports
vast quantities OF military neces-
stiles made across the Atlantic
Ocean in the arsenal OF democracy.
Huge Depots Erected.
Several depot storage hangers,
built by Army engineers since the
United States entered the war, cover
more than a million square feet of
ground for handling ordnance sup
plies alone. This depot is only one
Of several of about the same size
scattered over the British Isles.
Two bulky warehouses are stocked
with automatics. Two contain a
treasure in rubber tires. Weapons,
from pistols to l55-mm. gun bar
rels and combat vehicles are in an
other. Still another hangar is the
center for issuance of parts. kept
in $4,000 bins. One hangar pro-
tects machinery required to operate
the depot.
The ordnance supply section of
Evening star., 1943-06-18
1ardy on Ration Book )
Must Wait Until AUGUST

Residents of the District who
failed to mail in their applications
for War Ration Book No. 3 by June
10 were reminded today by the Dis
trict OPA that they will not be per-
mitted to apply for the new book
until after August l.
1t was explained there will be
sufficient time to obtain the new
book after that date since OPA
does not contemplate using Book
3 until late in August or early in
September. The OPA also asked
persons who mailed their applica-
tions but who do not receive books
to wait until after August l before
going to their rationing boards.
Many of the applications will be
kept on file numerically in the mail
ing centers because they are ilegi-
BILE or lack signatures. In such
cases. it was pointed out, applicants
can identity themselves by the stubs
which they were asked to retain,
and the books will be issued when
the application is properly filled out.
All the books are supposed to be
mailed by July 81.
Evening star., 1943-06-18
Three Judges Named
For Victory Garden
$1,000 Prize Contest Q.
z Agriculture Department
Experts and Landscape
.Architeet Appointed

Appointment of two Agriculture
Department experts and a woman
landscape architect as grand
award judging team" in the $1,000
Victory garden prize contest was
announced today by Granville Guide,
chairman of the Victory Garden
Committee
The judges will be DR.. v. r. Bos-
we'll, horticulturist at the Belts
vile CMdD experimental station and
author Of the departments Victory
garden handbook: DR.. Royal J.
Haskell, plant pathologist of the
department, and Mrs Chase Dom
aldson. in charge of the Montgom-
cry County Victory garden office
at Bethesda, Md.
These judges will inspect gardens
nominated for prizes by neighbor-
hood judges in the city's 66 defense
areas and in the adjoining counties.
Entries in the contest close today.
Entries may be mailed and the cou-
pom published on this page may be
used as convenient form for enter
ing your garden or that of a neigh
Dor.
Judging will begin next week.
There will be another inspection in
September and the War Bonds and
Stamps divided into more than 100
prizes for neighborhood and met
ropolitan area wide competitions
will be awarded shortly thereafter.
IF ,t,.,4
preached j. Morton Franklin, Vic
tory Garden supervisor. again point
ed out that home gardens will not
be inspected by the judges unless a
request to have them entered is in
the mail today.
Inspection Plans.
The community gardens in the
city and adjoining counties. more
than 1000 garden plots altogether,
will be inspected by the judges
whether entered or not. That is,
the judges will make sure that the
best garden plot in the community
tract wins, but they can only in
spect home gardens which have been
called to their attention by request
of entry in the contest.
II your neighbor has an unusually
good garden. enter it for him. There
have been some Implications in the
gardens entered. but they give the
clerks sorting entries little trouble.
The District Victory Garden Com
mittee which is conducting the con-
test wants every good garden, even
very small backyard plots, in the
competition.
Mail Entries Tonight.
Fill in the coupon and mail it to
The Star tonight. Every coupon re-
ceived in the mails delivered Satur-
day and Monday will be valid en-
try.
First prize for the best garden in
Metropolitan Washington is a 500
War bond. Prizes of $25 War bonds
and $40 in stamps have been offered
for the best gardens in each of the
four quarters of Washington and In
each of four districts in the adjoin-
ing counties. Prizes of $40 and IS
in stamps are offered for the best
gardens in each of the 66 defense
areas of the city.
Evening star., 1943-06-18

sidy program would ruin small pro-
ducers and reduce output of agricul-
tural commodities.
Organized labor. however, has
urged extension of the price rollback
program on butter meats, coffee and
fresh vegetables to most other COM
modities and enlargement of a s45O,-
100000 subsidy to $1,000 900 900 to
finance price cuts to April, 1912
levels. The alternative, labor repre-
sentatives insisted, must be relaxa-
ton OF wage controls to meet higher
living expenses.
The range Of opposition to sub
sides apparently assured a congress
sional floor fight Senate Minority
Leader McNary said he was sat-
isf1ed with the commodity credit bill
in its present form which contains
the prohibition against all subsidy
payments without approval of Con-
greSS
Evening star., 1943-06-18
Zoot-Suiters Labeled
Strong Antiwor Band
By Jap Propogondists
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June 1S.-Jap-
anese propagandists have their
own explanation for recent
American "zoot suit" incidents.
In Toxic broadcast reported
today to the Office of War In
formation. a Japanese COM
mentator declared:
The American zoot suffers
are isolationists and anti-war
fighters. They are strong.
courageous young men who have
banded together into a Nation
wide army to express by physi-
cal force their disapproval of
the war"
Evening star., 1943-06-18
Allied Invasion Power Grows Daily as Weapons
And Motere Pour Into Eng|ond's Huge Depots

the depot has total stock In major
items and parts valued at
$l00, 900 900.
Engineers have constructed a
freight unloading yard, one of the
largest yards in England. In addi-
ton. the Services of Supply oper-
ates two railroads of its own in the
depot, one a standard gauge with
imported American steam locomo-
tives and the narrow gauge hauled
by toy engines behind which string
out fat cars for carrying goods from
trains to warehouses.
The narrow gauge railway even
tually will be six miles long. The
materials are famed out all over
England from the depot. Much of
the stun is kept on the ground
under tarpaulins. The depot has
10000, 900 square feet of outdoor
storage space. Even this depot gives
an incomplete picture of the gigan-
tic supply requirements for the war
to be waged out of England. The
Air Forces Control Supply has its
own planes and l0o-octane gasoline
concentrations
The depot operation shows that
sometimes the Army puts the right
men in the right job The COM
manding ofhcer of the railroad op-
erations at this base is Maj. Homer
j. Sandusky, Indianapolis. who had
80 years service with the New York
Central Railroad.
d. c. Officer Heads Shop.
Two former Chrysler officials ex-
perienced in efficient. distribution
of supplies play large role in the
depot's operations - Col. Graham
Trainer, chief Of general supply for
ordnance. and 1t. Col. Henry T.
Kirkland, chief of the, general sup
ply depots for ordnance in the Brit
ish Isles.
Col. Otto Low. 1909 Munson ave-
Evening star., 1943-06-18
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Pfess.

By the Associated Pfess..
Senate.
Takes up Interior Department
appropriation bill.
Heuse.
Seeks vote on $4,000. .00o, 900 war
agencies appropriation bill. -.
Appropriations Committee puts
finishing touches on 81 900 900 900
Army supply measure.
Evening star., 1943-06-18
Johnson Enormously
Reported at Luncheon

An article in yesterdays Star.
specializing on the coming reorgan-
ization in OPA, mentioned a lunch
con held recently at the Capitol to
discuss possible oil price increases,
which the article said was attended,
with others, by Representative Jed
Johnson of Oklahoma.
Mr.. johnson told the House yes
terday that this was incorrect, mas
much as he did not attend the
luncheon party and knew nothing of
its being held. The Star regrets this
lnaccuracy in its news columns.
Evening star., 1943-06-18
Milk Producers Official
Assoils Subsidy Plan
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CANTON, Ohio, June 1s.-Amer-
lean farmers will become "vassals of
organized labor and Washington
New Dealers If they accept subsidies
IN lieu Of necessary prices" Charles
w. Holman. secretary OF the Ma
tional Co-operative MIX Producers
Federation, told meeting Of dairy
farmers last night:
Evening star., 1943-06-18

nue. NV, Washington. commands
another supply base at which a shop
covering three acres serves as an
overhaul base for United States
Army vehicles. It has automotive
maintenance machinery valued at
81, 500 900.
1t. Col. Louis w. Walden of Hy-
attsville commands the base. In a
single l0-hour shift the shop can
renovate 80 engine transmissions, 40
transfer cases, 80 axle assemblies
and 40 radiators. Two more bat
talions would make possible three
8-hour-shift operations.
A rigid materials-saving program
is followed at this shop Oil used
for testing and in breaking in re-
built motors is filtered and used
again and again until viscosity final
ly breaks down. Even the radia
tor water used for testing is cooled
and reused.
Grow Part of Food.
Patches Of earth around the depot
buildings are highly cultivated.
American soldiers are growing their
own food as much as possible One
supply depot has a 65-acre plot of
reclaimed land turned up by pillow
BY July 4, the American troops will
be eating English-grown ears of
corn.
Soldiers at the depot are per-
mitted to volunteer for regular as
signment at farm work although
this requires some adjustment OF
the regular working hours because
crops now need much attention.
To save military. manpowery de-
pots are to be guarded by dogs.
Col. j. Y. Baldwin. commander of
the British Ministry's Guard Dog
Training School, said that two dogs
can perform the guard task of,l10O
men.
The second OF the series uill
Evening star., 1943-06-18
War Plant Operator
Says Renegotiation :. i,
Penalties Foresight
Tells House Committee
Profits Are Needed, for r
Postwar Conversion = -


An indignant manufacturer of. war
machinery has informed the House
Naval Affairs Committee that he be-
gan preparation for war long before
Pearl Harbor, but now is being
penalized for his foresight through
downward adjustment of his profits,
The protest came from John B.
Hawley, jr., who identified himself
as the worlds greatest hydraulic
machinery designer" He heads the
Northern Pump Co., Fridley, Mimi.
which makes gun mounts and other
hydraulic ship equipment for the
Navy.
He told the committee yesterday
that only Wednesday, after long ne
gotiations, he ana the Navy's Price
Adjustment Board reached an
agreement under which he will re-
fund 100000 900 on 1941-42 business,
leaving his profit on adjusted sales,
after taxes, as approximately 2 per
cent
How am going to take care Of
my $4,000 workers in the period
Of postwar reconversion, when, after
renegotiation and after taxes. they
leave me with only 2 per cent?" he
asked.
Hits Time Required.
That was one of his arguments
against operation of the year-old
statute permitting the War, Navy
and Treasury Departments and the
Maritime Commission to recoup
excessive" profits Another was
the time involved in negotiations.
Mr.. Hawley thumped 2-foot
pile of his firms financial records
"a s2,000000 display" he said. be-
cause his engineers had to take 10
days off from their work to pre-
pare it while merchant ships are
waiting for gun mounts"
! Why, 1 think it is treason" he
exclaimed.
He declared a 1886 trip abroad
convinced him Europe was an
armed camp, and he began to gear
for war production, turned over his
peacetlme customers to other manu-
facturers, and sought Navy busi-
ness
Without the items developed in
that intervening period, he con-
tended, vol wouldn't have any
Navy, and after Pearl Harbor this
country would have been in one sad
flx."
Prefers Higher Taxes.
Mr.. HaTley argued that while his
profits are subject to renegotiation.
other manufacturers who did not
convert to war production are max
ing big profits on civilian goods.
He declared he was not so much
interested in profits as such as he
was in the use to which they can be
put, because profits are only an in-
strument tor production
The witness said he preferred IN
creased taxation to continuance Of
the renegotiation statute to recover
excessive profits. He declared how
ever, that if the renegotiation stat
ute continued on the books, it. should
be changed to provide
l. o.renegotiation on profits on
4 shipments before April %, 1942.
That was the date the renegotia-
tion law went into effect. applicable
TO contracts then in effect as we'll
as future war production contracts }
2. Establishment of a minimum
profit in like industries. so that
manufacturers could have some
thing they could count upon"
3. Allowance of per cent Of
profits for postwar reconversion and
emergency CONTINGENCIES.
Evening star., 1943-06-18
Bieomist Wants Rinos

Sentenced to IS months hard
labor for bigamy, man asked
Justice Groom johnson in a Leeds,
England, court to help him get back
rings from the young woman he had
bigamously married.
Evening star., 1943-06-18

The second OF the series uill
appear tomorrow.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-28
BOTTLED CITRUS DOES NOT
KEEP LONG

Housewives who have been consid-
ing botlting at home the juices OF
oranges and grapefruit, both to save
tin and to avoid using ration points
in buying canned juices, are advised
not to try it. U. S. Department of
Agriculture chemists, says the Agri-
cultural Research Administration,
have experimental under the most
favorable conditions and after long
experience with citrus juice preser-
Walton. Working in the Florida lab
oratory of the Bureau of Agricultur-
al and Industrial Chemistry with
equipment designed for rapid hand
ling and sterilization of juice, they
found that Juice packed in glass
and stored at room temperature dar-
kened and developed off-fiavors in
a few months" They report that mo
known method of processing will pre-
vent the development of objection
able changes in orange and grape
fruit juices packed in glass contain
ers and stored for six months at ordi-
nary temperatures.
Cool storage (below 60 degreesF.)
retards changes and the laboratory
is continuing studies with citrus
juices packed in glass and in tin and
stored cool.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-28
O'CONOR ACTS UPON 1905
MEASURES

1905 Legislative Measures, passed
by the 1913 General Assembly, have
now been disposed of finally by Gov
ernor Herbert r. O'Conor-a record
task, performed in record time, un-
der extraordinary conditions.
OF this grand total of 1905 bills,
the largest crop ever to be placed be-
fore any Maryland Governor at one
session, 948 received official approval
and signature, thus becoming law,
F'ifty-seven measures were vetoed,
for one reason or another, many of
them because of legal or constitution
al defects or because they were du-
plicates of bills already signed.
At conservative estimate, it was
declared at the Executive Offices, the
Chief Executive received $500 COM
munications, kilograms, letters, post
cards, and telephone calls, in support
of or protesting the bills In addition
to being read and studied, many of
these communications were answer.
ed, and in some instances, further
correspondence ensued.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-28
TREES IN PASTURE SUPPLY
RICH FEED

Honey locusts make good trees for
planting in pastures because many
ground cover forage plants do we'll
in their shade, and because. the pods
are valuable feed for livestock.
Plant scientists of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture recommend
root cuttings for the reproduction of
desirable clonal stock of the honey
locust, rather than grating or bud
ding Neither hardwood nor green
wood cuttings gave satisfactory re-
suits.
Both grated and budded honey
locust tend to sucker and to produce
basal sprouts that must be removed
about three times during the season.
Production costs for grated and
budded stock are high enough SO that
commercial nurserymen could not
sell trees at price low enough for
the average farmer to plant them
in a pasture where shade is desired.
Root cuttings appear to be the
most promising method of propaga-
ton. Prunings of the roots of young
nursery trees will furnish many Ms
able root cuttings,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-28
Keep Farm Account Books,
Save Yourself Much Worry

Keep farm account books in 1913
if you want to save yourself lot of
trouble figuring out how much vic
tory tax you owe your government in
1914, says w. F. Knowles, extension
specialist in farm management at
Rutgers university.
Unlike people who receive regular
salary checks, you will not pay VIC
tory tax in 1913 if your income is de-
rived solely from farming, Knowles
explains to farmers. Instead, you
will be asked to pay the 1913 tax the
following year in the same way regu-
lar income tax has always been paid.
But unlike the income tax, you
will receive a postwar credit or
refund amounting to Is per cent of
your victory tax if you are single
and 40 per cent if you are married,
plus an allowance for dependents.
One item farmers will not have
to compute, Knowles adds, is the de-
duction of taxes from their en-
ployees' wages, for wages paid to
agricultural labor are specifically ex-
empt from the withholding provi-
sions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-28
Trouble Found in Itching
Palm. Not Love of Money

The itching palm used to mean a
love of money, but during the war
production boom 1t means trouble.
Skin diseases, or "occupational
itch," are responsible for 70 per
cent of lost industrial man hours,
it was revealed today in survey
conducted by a national linen sup
ply organization. In addition, the
survey showed, thousands of other
workers have skin troubles which
are not serious enough to cause alb
sence from the job.
The best prevention of skin trou-
bles, according to concensus of in
dustrial physicians, is scrupulous
cleanliness, the report states. FIRE.
quent washing of all parts of the
body coming into contact with
chemicals or dust particles, using
mild soap and clean cloth towels
which thoroughly dry the skin, are
recommended.
Also, working uniforms especially
designed to keep out fumes and
chemicals should be worn and
changed frequently. Many plants
obtain uniforms and towels from lin
en- supply firms and furnish them to
the employees, to prevent workers
from "economizing" on cleaning to
the detriment of their health and
productivity.
"Occupational itch" usually re-
suits when persons who are allergic
or sensitive to such substances as
forrnaldehyde, TINT, turpentine, ma
chine oil and mercury are in jobs
requiring contact with them.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-28
THE FOURTH TERM ISSUE

There will be another Presidential
election next year; the contestants
are lining up for the race; they are
THE usual two-theDonkey and the
acknowledgements and Republic
cans; but the main issue is new, un-
precedented and epochal. 1t is wheth-
er a President of the United States
should, under any circumstances, be
elected for fourth term.
The fight is on The President was
informally nominated, Republicans
say, by Gov. NJ M. Nicely OF West
Virginia, at Washington's birthday
dinner last February when he pro-
posed the toast: "To the famous
third-term President who next year
will be elected for a fourth term,
President Roosevelt"
The next day Chairman Adolph
SABBATH, of the powerful House Rules
told the President that he loves it
to the country and to the world to
be a fourth-term candidate" Repub-
lican members of the House charged
that the activities of Postmaster
General Frank Walker chairman
of the Democratic National Commit
tee), of David Niles and other White
House aides, and the recent itinerary
of the President through 20 states,
all were in furtherance of the Presi-
dents candidacy for a fourth term.
Chairman Walkers proposal to Re-
publican National Chairman Harri-
son E. Spangler that short cam
paign follow late nominating conven-
lions was considered further evidence
that the Democrats already had their
candidate nominated.
The fourth-term issue was brought
out in the open and it was busted OF
publicly and ably by authoritative
debaters standing toe to toe and slug
cling it out on the Town Hall of the
Air program April 29th. The propo-
nent was Gov Nicely, of West Virgin
ia, ardent New Dealer; the opponent,
Senator Styles Bridges, Republican,
New Deal batter, of New hampshire.
The way the country in general
l0GlS dUOut q SOAotACoeAOhNA sSAAAO~AN
ment limiting Presidents in the fu-
ture to two terms was indicated by
a public opinion poll taken in April
last by DR.. Gallup's Institute. From
this survey it appeared that only
two sections, East Central and West
Central, showed majority for it.
The four East Central States of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan were
81 percent in favor of such an
amendment; eight other States, ex-
tending far enough west to take in
the Dakotas, were even more favor
able-5S percent. The country in
general, however, struck an average
of 46 percent in favor of the amend
ment to "a percent against it.
The Pathfinder
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-28
suspend Crow Control Contest

Indiana's annual crow control con-
test, which has accounted for nearly
400, 900 black marauders since its
inception in 1884, has been suspend
ed for 1913, the division of fish and
game has announced. s'While there
is need for continuous control meas
ures against the crow" the an
nouncement states, SIT was felt that
no organized campaign should be
sponsored this year when gasoline
and tires are being rationed and
when ammunition for sporting guns
is increasingly difficult to obtain.
This does not prohibit the individu-
al conservationist from killing
crows, nor does it prevent a club
from continuing activities against
crows In its community"