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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-31
Maryland BIackout Test
Results Are Studied

By the Associated Press.
Third Service Command and
Maryland civilian defense officials
today studied results of last nights
surprise blackout which blanketed
the State, except the District Metro
politan Area, in darkness from ap-
proximately $50 to 10 o'clock
Both w. Frank Roberts, chairman
of the Maryland Council Of Defense,
and Col. Henry S. Barrett, State air
raid precautions director. indicated
last night that the test had been
satisfactory. The Sd Service Com
mand said its reports were not ex-
pected until today and Withheld COM
ment.
Col. Barrett said preliminary re-
ports from the counties showed OBJ
servance was excellent, particularly
on the Eastern Shore.
The General Assembly at Annap-
oils was thrown about an hour of
schedule when it's members were
forced to leave the chambers for
afraid cellars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-31
Loyal Legion Wins
Treasury Award

Members of the District Of Co
lumbia Society, Danes of the Loyal
Legion, will be entertained by the
president, Mrs. Jerome j. WILDER,
tomorrow afternoon in her apart
ment on Wyoming avenue NV. at
the final meeting OF the season.
Delegates will be named to attend
the annual congress of the national
society to be held April Is and is
in Philadelphia. Mrs. WILDER will
attend as president, accompanied
by Mrs. Warren Kendall, the ma
tional treasurer.
The District society has been
awarded the certificate of the
United States Treasury for purchase
of War bonds and stamps by the
membership. 1t has also been 100
per cent active in several phases Of
Red Cross work,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-31
WAVE Made Liaison Officer
With House Naval Committee

slant close touch with the Naval
Affairs Committee. Much naval
legislation originates in requests and
recommendation by the department,
and the committee consults the Navy
on bills introduced into the House by
independent sources.
Meets Secretary Knox.
Ensign Stillman writes Capt. b.
CARTS correspondence, answers in
quiries, sends out notices of meetings
and copies of hearing transcripts
and meets the inouisitive public.
Many people ask her whether the
WAVES enlistment age has been
lowered from 20 to 18. which it
has not. Ensign Stillman has been
lucky enough to meet many naval
leaders whom the ordinary junior
officer never sees.
Secretary Knox. came in the Sec
ond day I was here" she recalls.
He introduced himself, shook hands,
and asked, How do you like 1t here?'
I don't remember what else he said,
I was still very confused about the
whole thing"
Rear Admiral Ra 1dall Jacobs,
chief of naval personnel, dropped in
the other day, as did 1t. Comdr.
McAfee.
Il had never seen 1t. Comdr.
McAfee. but I looked at her stripes
and realized it must be She" Ensign
Stillman recalls. The only thing
could think of was to worry whether
one of my coat buttons was undone. ="
Miss Stillman was born in Sacra-
mento, Calf, and received her B. A.
in history from the University Of
California in Berkeley. Upon COM
pletion of 8 business course, she be-
gan her secretarial career. A brother,
1t Col. Edmund H. Stillman, is an
Army instructor at the University
of Michigan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-31
Red Cross Plans
New Corps Of
Dietitians' Aides
Volunteers Would
Relieve Shortage
In HOSPITALS

Plans for the establishment of a
volunteer dietitians' aide corps by
the American Red Cross in Coop
Grafton with the American Dietetic
Association have been completed
and are awaiting administrative
approval OF the Red Cross, Miss
Melva Bakkie declared last night.
Miss Bakkie, director of the nu-
triton service Of the American Red
Cross, was one of several speakers
to address the District of Columbia
Dietetic Association at a meeting
in the solarium at Doctors Hos
pital.
Explaining that the proposed new
corps Is designed to relieve the
shortage of dietitians in hospitals,
Miss Bakkie said it is similar to
the Nurses Aides Corps and will be
under the volunteer special serv-
ices Of the American Red Cross.
Need Is Growing.
AS many professional dietitians
are going into the Army and war
industries, a number of women with
nutrition and canteen training al
ready have been helping in vari-
GUS hospitals to meet the emery
ency, she pointed out.
The establishment of a corps for
such assistants will set up stand
ards for training and will also give
the workers an added incentive
and enthusiasm, it is felt.
AS the corps has been planned,
the new aides would perform specific
duties under the supervision of
professional dietitians. These duties
relate to preparation of food and
food service to patients and hospital
personnel. Some clerical work also
would be included.
Would Give $50 Hours.
Dietitian's aides would be asked
to give a minimum of $50 hours of
service year. Their training would
call for completion Of a 20-hour
course in nutrition and a 40-hour
course for dietitian's aides. The lat
ter would include Is hours OF prac-
tical work In hospitals.
Maurice Pate, assistant director of
insular and foreign affairs OF the
American Red Cross, also addressed
the meeting on international Back
ground of Prisoner of War Relief
Work"
Miss Clara Cerveny, an assistant
to the director of the Red Cross
nutrition service, spoke on Prisoner
Of War Package" and Miss Mary
Lindsey, special assistant in the
nutrition service. Training of Over
seas Club Directors"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-31
Blue Star Mothers
Back From Flint

Mrs. Halle Hill McCarteney
president of the District Chapter
of the Blue Star Mothers, and Mrs.
Mary Holt. returned to Washing.
ton this week from Flint, Mich,
where they attended meeting of
the national organization. Mrs. Holt
was appointed chairman of the
Board of Control.
The Blue Star Mothers is COM
posed OF women who have sons or
daughters in the armed forces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-31
Mrs. Creyke Backed
For National Post

Mrs. Godfrey Creyke, State re-
gent of the District Daughters of
the American Revolution, was
unanimously Endorsed as a candi-
date for vice president general of
the national society in 1914 by men,
bers of the District organization
yesterday. The action was taken
as the District OAR concluded its
AID annual conference at Memorial
Continental Hall.
Mrs. Creyke is completing the first
year of her two-year term as head
Of the District society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-31
John Roosevelt and Wife
Received BY Nine. Chianq

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 81
Nine. Chang Kai-shek received the
Presidents youngest son. Naval 1t.
John Roosevelt, and his wife, the
former Sally Clark of Boston, at tea
in her hotel suite yesterday. 1t.
Roosevelt is stationed at the nearby
Oakland naval base.
Nine. Chang. apparently much
less tired than when she arrived
here, left by train for Los Angeles
late yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-31

Ensign Elinor II. Stillman,
WAVES officer assigned to the
House Ndudl Affairs Com
mittee to replace a naual
lieutenant for combat duty,
receipes instructions from
Capt. I. c. Bogart, U. S. N.
retired. Capt. Boodrt is
Hdison officer for the Many
Department in the House
committee office.
Star STAFF Photo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-31
Welfare Plan Considered

Chile is considering plan to in
clude under its social security fund
all welfare activities in the country,
including the administration of the
laws relating to employer liability
for work accidents.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
VITA Begs Public TO Buy
0nce-Scarce Potatoes

A bootleg item few weeks ago,
potatoes are now so plentiful that
the War Food Administration yes
terday begged the public to eat them
before they rot on grocers' shelves.
The situation has changed SO
markedly since OPA inspectors were
busy rounding up dealers for sell
ing potatoes far over ceiling prices,
that VIA also took occasion to as
sure producers that it intends to
provide full support to the potato
market. Purchases at prices equiv
alent to 90 per cent of parity already
are being made in the Southern pro-
ducing area.
New potatoes now are abundant,
VIA stated, and production in
Southern states is running IS per
cent above last year. Although the
armed forces are requiring substan-
tial quantities, VIA said the supply
available for civilians is large. Early
potatoes are not suitable for long
storage and unless the demand is
large some will so to waste.
The l943 potato goal for all pro-
ducing areas calls for an acreage
increase of II per cent to meet ex-
panded wartime requirements.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Three Wuys Are Provided,
Including Request From
Minority Chiefs
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

When Congress soon starts on
a l0-week vacation it plans to do
so under an unusual procedure
by which it will determine
through its own party leaders,
when or whether it should be
back on the job to handle war
emergencies-as well as at the
call of the President.
An effort is being made to clear
the decks in order to start the re-
cess in week. There already is
an agreement between the leaders
that this recess will extend to
September 13.
This recess will be taken under
an unusual but justifliable resolu-
tion," House Majority Leader Nc
Cormack said last night. The reso-
luton already drafted, he empha-
sized, is a proper one to pass on
account of the war condition. II
gives the minority. as we'll as the
majority, power, through their lead
ers in the House and Senate, to call
Congress back into session at any
time they think the situation re-
quires or justified such action"
Three Ways to Reopen Congress.
Mr.. Mccormack explained that II
an adjournment sine die was taken,
Congress could be called back only
by the President, while in the reso-
luton to be presented there is pro-
vision for the leaders in both
branches to terminate the recess.
in three ways:
BY the speaker and vice presi-
dent.
At the request of the majority
leaders in both branches.
AT the request of the minority
leaders in both branches.
THE only thing likely to hold ur
the recess, Mr.. Mccormack said
lis appropriation bills, and it now
looks as If they can be cleaned up
Chairman Cannon of the Appro-
priations Committee said in the
House Wednesday, THE Fourth of
July falls on Sunday. So far as
the appropriations for the session
are concerned we should be ready
for a recess by Independence Day
1t offers a very happy method OF
celebrating that auspicious occa-
sion."
In anticipation of the recess, the
House Civil Service Committee in
vestigating Government policy and
practices regarding civilian en-
ployes has temporarily closed its
hearings.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Girl Reporter Serving With WAACS Finds Life
Highly Disciplined, With Efficiency Stressed

an Army major and got a star
gig" for reporting late to forma-
ton one morning. I went to serv-
Ice club dance and met a soldier.
I tried to make a telephone call
home and waited through forlorn
hours for a circuit to Washington.
I powdered aching feet every night.
Had Personal Interview.
I was typical WAAC.
We reported to the recruiting
center at 14o0 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV. at the crack of dawn.
Then we waited till the Army got
ready to give us mental alertness"
tests. Their content Is military
secret. Weary afterward, I started
out the door for cup of coffee
across the street.
"Just a minute" said lieutenant.
You're WAAC now. Ask for per-
mission to leave the building"
May I, ma'am?"
NO"
A personal interview followed the
mental alertness" test.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Mutiny of German Sub Crews
In Norway Is Reported
Steps Leading to World War Collapse
Recalled us Nozis' Morale Weukens

Oslo, now employed by the Ger
mans as military prison, the re-
ports from Norway said.
The base where the reported dis
affection occurred was not dis
closed, but Norwegian circles said
it might be Trondheim, or in the
Trondheim area, where the Nazis
had based much of their fleet this
spring to prey on conveys to Russia
Norwegian sources with reliable
connections with the efficient un-
derground in their home country
said that recent reports from
Northern Norway say that remark
ably many German warships are al
ways lying in harbors for repairs
of some small damage which they
sustained only a short time after
they put to sea. People CNorwe-
gians) cannot help thinking that
most of these damages were in
territorial to enable the marines to
come ashore as soon as possible"
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Loundries Desperate for Help
AS Dirty Clothes Pile Up
VINO Makes Recommendations While
Machines Idle and Service Is Cut

say that If it didn't get workers i'm
mediately it would shut down In two
hours. A few workers were sent
out.
The USES is the operating arm
of the area War Manpower Com
mission whose responsibility it is to
see that war industries-and the
laundries come under that heading
get and keep workers. The area
VINO meanwhile, have suggested
the laundries ask the War Labor
Board to allow wage increases and
has sent three men into the plants
to find out the causes of absentee
ism. 1t was not until yesterday that
the USES decided to suggest to
domestic workers waiting for jobs
that they try the laundries.
The laundries fear the withhold
ing tax will be the last straw. If
they can't get wage increases for
tSee LAUNDRIEs, Page A-I0.)
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Faces
.0PA as Senate
Bars Subsidies
Both Branches Now
On Record Against
Price RolIbucks

By the Associated Press.
The Senate joined the House
yesterday in repudiating OPA's
food subsidy rollnack, and voted
besides to transfer future sub
sidy operations from the ONCE
of Price Administration to the
war food administrator, Chester
c. Davis.
Thus the administration suffered
its second major setback in two
days, the anti-subsidy action fol-
lowing Congress overriding of Pres
ident Roosevelt's veto of the anti
strike bill.
In no mood for extended debate,
the Senate voted, As to %, to kill
the rollback, which Price Admin
istrator Brown has said is essential
to hold the line against imitation.
1t then swiftly adopted, without
record vote, an amendment by Sem
ator OMahoney. Democrat, of Wyo-
ming, transferring subsidy author
ity to the food administrator.
New Crisis for OPA.
The actions brought OPA opera
tions to a fresh crisis. Mr.. Brown
has put the subsidy into effect on
meat and butter and declared it
necessary ito roll back the cost of
living to the level which we are
committed September Is, 1922,
and to hold it there"
OPA also faces a financial crisis.
the House having slashed 26 per
cent from the s177,00o 900 recon-
mended for the agency's operations
in the next fiscal year. Mr.. Brown
said last week that price control viii
be crippled into uselessness" If the
Senate agrees with the House on the
money issue.
The Senate rollback decision came
as it approved bill extending for
two years the life of the Commodity
Credit Corp. Substituting its own
version, allowing $1,000 ,000, 900 in
crease in the lending authority of
the CCC,. for House bill, the Senate
passed the measure on voice vote
and sent it to conference to iron out
differences between the two cham
bers.
Hill Comedies Rollback Dead.
/ The House had voted Friday to
eliminate iollback subsidies and had
provided only $500 900 900 for the
CCC, through which much of the
Government assistance to farmers is
channeled.
While provisions of the two meas
ures differ in language, Acting Sem
ate Majority Leader Hill conceded
that the price rollback program is
dead. so far as Congress is con-
cerned. A veto by Mr.. Roosevelt
might keep the direct prohibition
against such subsidies out of the law,
but legislators pointed out that the
agencies concerned still would have
| to find the money somewhere to
finance such program.
1t took the Senate less than an
hour yesterday to decided that it
wanted to eliminate not only the
(See SUBSIDIES, Page A-8J
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Dies Planning Inquiry Congress Is Planning
OF Racial Aniagonism Recess, With Return
On u. ). Home Front AT Call Of Leaders
Subcommittee Attacks
WRA on Handling of
Jops Placed in Comps

Plans for an exhaustive, Ma
tion-wide investigation of "the
growing racial antagonisms in
this country" were discussed last
night by Chairman Dies of the
House Un-American Activities
Committee.
1T is grave error for the Gov
ernment to ignore this dangerous
situation" he said.
Mr.. Dies ascribed the racial hat
red' to "a combination of un-Amer-
lean propaganda activities and the
coddling or races by politically
minded people in this country who
ignore the vast differences between
the protection and the coddling of
race
Want General In Charge.
Meanwhile, the Dies subcommittee
which investigated conditions in the
10 japanese war relocation camps
returned last night with a recon-
mendation that the camps be placed
under War Department Jurisdiction
with "two-fisted" general in COM
mand.
Representative Costello, Democrat,
of California, subcommittee chair
man, said the present policy of the
War Relocation Authority in han
ding the 100000 japanese in the
camps is breeding a situation that
may result in 100 per cent disloy-
atty among American citizens of
japanese ancestry who are forced
to live with alien japanese, many
of whom, he said, are outspokenly
disloyal to the United States.
ut is my conviction" said Repre-
sentative Mundt, Republican, of
South Dakota, another subcommit- :
tee member, that fundamental
changes in administrative policy and
organization are necessary before
Evening star., 1943-06-27

You realize you may be assigned
work you don't like?" said the in
terviewer. Are you sure you want
to join and perhaps never get to
be an officer?"
Sometimes girls are discouraged
and quit, she said. I wasn't dis
couraged. but then was in for
only six days, not the duration.
Sent to Pentagon Building.
Line up by the door, said the
officer in charge.
We were marched out the door
under close surveillance and into
a bus for the Pentagon. There we
were issued shapeless surgical gowns
and huge red corduroy dressing
gowns labelled Medical Depart-
ment.ss
open your MOUTH said the den-
tist. Jump up and down. said the
heart specialist. Roll up your left
sleeve" said the blood tester. Get
closer to the x-ray machine said
the laboratory assistant. Get OIL
(see WAACS, Page ALL
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Wife Is Missing
En- Route to See
ILong-LostO officer
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MELB RNE, June 26.-For
months Mrs. Gabrielle Lyon waited
in Australia with her baby for some
word of her husband, Capt. Ian
Lyon of the British Army, who had
escaped from Mayala through
Burma, finally reaching India.
At last a cable came from him.
1t said, "Safe, WELL"
Within four days Mrs. Lyon was
aboard the steamed Marking, en-
route to India to join her husband.
having resisted entreaties of friends
who urged her to wait in view Of
the danger on the seas.
Some weeks later Capt. Lyon
arrived at the same hotel in Perth,
Western Australia, at which his
wife stayed before sailing on the
Nanking.
He learned the Nanking had
fallen victim to the Japanese, and
the survivors, presumably. had been
interned.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Allies Drop 70 Tons
OF Bombs on RabauI
Lue Also Is Given Heavy
Pounding by Airmen

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Sunday, June 81
Twenty tons of bombs were dropped
yesterday on Rabaul, New Britain,
where concentrations of Japanese
shipping and aircraft had been re-
ported by reconnaissance flyers, the
high command announced today.
The bombs were directed at The
airdromes and docks. The recon-
naissance flyers had reported SPOT
ting ITO bombers and fighters on
the airdromes and that the shipping
in the big harbor included an air.
craft carrier.
The bomb tonnage brought to 1856
the amount dropped in seven raids
on Rabaul dating back to June 10.
On New Guinea, Mitchell medium
bombers gave Lac on the Huon Gulf
one of the heaviest poundings ever
directed at that enemy base.
"Our medium units in concen-
trated attack on the airdrome at
midday bombed and strafed revet-
ments, hangers, barracks, buildings
and ground defenses," the noon
communique said of the raid.
Dense clouds of smoke over the
target area prevented assessment OF
damage. Intense anti-aircraft fire
was encountered. All our planes
returned"
At Rabaul, the bombers attacked
Vunakanau airdrome and installa-
tions in the harbor before dawn
Both incendiaries and high explo-
sives rained down.
The raiders encountered heavy
enti-aircraft fire and two of the
big bombers we're reported missing
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Eight in City FeIIed
By 95-Degreg,e: Heat;
No Relief in Sight
Residents Urged to Save
Voter; SC, 900 Federal
Workers Quit Desks
Temperature.
YOUTH, Is, DROWNED while swim
ming in Potomac. Story on Page
Page AS.

There still is no relief in sight
from the heat wave which yes
terday caused eight prostrationS
here, released nearly $4,000 Gov
ernment employees from their
desks, sent the mercury soaring
to 95, and resulted in an appeal
to conserve water, especially in
sprinkling lawns.
1t was the 18th. day this month
that the temperature had been 80
or over and the 95 degree peak tied
June and June 13 as the hottest
of the year. A light shower of
very brief duration fell in the ex-
treme northwest section last evening
and this temporary relief cooled the
city, as the thermometer slid from
81 to 88 between 7 and 8 pm.
Hope for rain today, however, was
shattered by forecasters who pre-
dicted continued hot weather, ac-
companied by moderate winds.
Eight Treated in Hospitals.
Eight persons. heat victims, sent
to Freedmen's Hospital, all colored,
included Leon Brown, 80, of 10
o street NE; william Gillian, 80,
of 1900 Meigs place NE, and Jere-
miah Jones, 81, of 1921 Sixth street
NV.
Robert Howard. 54, of 2433 Shows
Evening star., 1943-06-27
'No-Strike' Pledge Is Renewed;
WLB Labor Members to Stay
AFL Leader Predicts Defect of 1870 of Those
Voting to Override ConnuIIy Bill Veto

crisis for the War Labor Board
through. resignation of its labor
members vanished. While that pos
sibility had been suggested before
enactment of the bill, the labor
members said yesterday they in
tended to stick by the board.
A question to be resolved, how
ever, is the extent of the restric-
tions placed on them by the acts
prohibition against a WLB MEM
Der taking part in consideration of
a case in which he has an interest.
1t must be decided, for instance,
whether that means an AFL mem
Der may not consider any AFL
case or may consider an AFL case
(See TAPnp pa0o AIc1
Evening star., 1943-06-27
First of a Sertes.)
BY MARION WADE DOYLE


FORT OGLETHORPE, GA, June
26.-I have been a WAAC for six
days.
In an experiment the Army actu-
ally enrolled" Is newspaperwomen
in the Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps. We took the complete phys
ical examination at the War De-
partment's Pentagon in. Washing
ton. Then we lived through five
crowded days in barracks at the
Fort Oglethorpe (Ga) training
center.
You'll take everything the wAAC
takes except the OATH said pub
lie relations officer. He was right.
I made my bed with GI.
toothbrush as the measuring stick
for the distance of the sheet fold.
I cleaned the latrine. I took phys
ical training exercises in cadence
under blazing Georgia sun. !
stood inspection Of barracks from
Evening star., 1943-06-27
BY the Associated Press.

STOCKHOLM, June 26.-Six
German submarine crews in Nor
way have mutinied and refused to
re-embark in the underseas boats.
1t was reported in Norwegian
circles here today.
Usually reliable sources were said
to have relayed rumors that Off
GERS and men alike had jointly de-
cided to mutiny and that all were
sent to military prison in Oslo.
The report, Gaping a series of
stories of discomfort and weaken
ing morale among German forces
in Norway, recalled the mutiny of
sailors of the German high sea
feet in October, 1918, in one of
the major steps of the German
collapse in the World War.
A considerable number of men
and officers from submarines have
been sent to Akershus Prison in