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Evening star., 1943-08-23
Pentogon's Shopping Service
Accepts Curious Assignments
Locating Hot in Some F Street Store
Is but One of Tosks Undertaken at Center

article desired and give the CUSTOM
ers the names of the stores where it
can be found.
Another common practice is for
Thursday night shoppers who can
not get waited on to describe some
thing they have seen and ask the
center to get it for them.
Mrs. Nichols, recalling some of the
services the center performs, told of
one officer who came in with a tele-
gram from his wife in another city
saying she had seen a muskrat coat
at such and such a price and want
ing to know if she should buy it.
Officer Satisfied.
The officer had never seen musk
rat and wanted to know what it
looked like and if the price quoted
was reasonable. Mrs. Nichols de-
scribed the fur and approved the
price, and the officer left to wire
his o. k
Many WAACS, Mrs. Nichols said
did not realize that under old regu-
lations they could wear civilian
clothes off duty, SO the center was
called on to outfit them.
The story of the man who called
the center for an economical" en-
gagement ring, and of the officer
who wanted a marriage license are
already Pentagon legends.
Among the orders that have been
filled, baby equipment leads the
list, with underwear a close second.
The men buy a good share of the
women's underwear, she said. The
center gets order for at least 10
black chiffon nightgowns a month,
always from men.
The center's best customer is a
major who apparently spends his
entire salary for classical phono-
graph records and is a daily visitor
The dead file of untitled orders
tells the story of wartime shortages.
Bathing caps and garbage cans lead
the list, followed by nylon hose, cleo
trio gadgets, films, baby carriages
and deck chairs.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
lsNRahoniinq
@Remindexs@
Blue coupons, Book 2

Blue coupons, Book 2-Stamps let
tered R. S and T are valid now
and will remain good through
September 20.
Red coupons, Book 2-These can be
exchanged for meats, fats, etc.
Stamps lettered T, U, V, w and
X are good now and will remain
valid through August 81.
Those marked Y and 2 will
expire October after they become
good as follows: Y on August 90
and 2 on September 5.
War Ration Book No. 3-This book
will be used beginning September
II. when brown stamps lettered A
will become good for purchase Of
meats, fats, etc. Brown stamps
lettered B will become valid Sep
tember 10, and both the A and B
coupons will then remain good
through october 30.
Sugar-For regular allowances of
sugar for general use coupon No.
IA in book / is good for 5 pounds
through October 81.
Gasoline-No. A coupons, good for
3 gallons each, are good through
November 81.
B and c coupons, good for "a
gallons each, expire on dates in
dicated in individual books.
Old type B and c coupons will
not be good after September /.
Motorists who still have these
old type books should go to their
ration boards between next Mon
day and September l and obtain
new type coupons in exchange.
The exchange will be made on a
coupon-for- coupon basis.
The old type B and C coupons
are those that have the words
Permits Delivery of One Unit of
Gasoline" on their face. The new
type coupons carry only the words
Mileage Ration" on the face.
No. 18 is good for ons
pair through October 81.
Fuel Oil-Period No. l coupons in
new fuel oil rations became good
July and are valid for 10 gallons
per unit through next January 4.
Period No. coupons of last
seasons ration are valid for 10
gallons per unit through Septem-
Der 30.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
District 0PA 10 Question
48 on Pleasure DRIVING

Forty-eight automobile owners,
suspected of violating the pleasure
driving ban, will be called on to ex-
plain their presence near recrea-
tional areas over the week end, the
District OPA announced today The
cars were noted in Rock Greek
Park, at the Zoo and near the
Takoma swimming pool.
The ban on noneSsential driving
is still in full effect, an OPA spokes-
man said, and prospects of its being
lifted next month do not Justify
such driving. He indicated the cru
sade against the practice will be
continued until the ban is with
drawn and that penalties would be
exacted of guilty drivers.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
0irl, l9, Held to Jury
In FotuI Stubbino Case

A l9-year-old colored girl is being
held for action Of the grand jury in
connection with the fatal stabbing
OF woodrow jackson, colored. %. of
the 900 block of o street NV, Sat-
urday night as he was standing at
Eighth and P streets NV.
Jackson was taken to Freedmen's
Hospital, where he died yesterday.
Police gave the name of the girl as
Minnie Brown of the 900 block of
M street NV.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Mrs. KincheIoe Elected

MANASSAS, Va, Aug. % (Spe-
ciaD.-Mrs. J, Carl Kincheloe of
Manassas has been chosen vice pres
ident of the Juniors 4th District,
Virginia Federation of Womens
Clubs. Mrs. Kincheloe is a past
president of the Junior Women's
Club of Manassas which had the
privilege of selecting the vice presi-
dent for this district.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Youths Steel Valuable Coot

Police were told today that two
youths in an automobile bearing
Maryland tags tossed something"
through a display window of Frank
Jelleff's. Inc, 1914 F street NV.
and escaped with a $1,375 mink
coat. The theft took place about
ass am.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
IS SeIecfees to Report
For Duty Tomorrow

Seventy = five District selectees
now on their postinduction furlough
will report for service tomorrow.
Forty-three will report to the Army.
26 to the Navy. to the Marine
Corps and l to the Coast Guard.
Those going into the Army were
lnducted August g. into the Navy,
August II; into the Marine Corps
and Coast Guard, August 10.
The list follows:
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Hit on Head by Baseball,
Arlington Youth Dies

Robert Cox, IT, son of Mr., and
Mrs Edward Cox of 2024 Wilson
boulevard, Arlington, died early to-
day at Emergency Hospital from
injuries received Yesterday while
playing baseball, police reported.
According to a relative, young
Cox suffered head injury when
a baseball struck him on the head.
Evening star., 1943-08-23

% y I o N e W
Guinea May IL,
the War De-
p a r t ment an
nounced today.
Born in Nor
wich, Conn, the
son of Timothy
S. Brewer, Col.
B re W er W a S
graduated from
West P o n t in
1924 a n d re-
ceived a masters 5
degree in science
from Yale Uni
versity in 1925.
He than Ser,yad
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Want a Pet? Try a Praying Muntis!

Miss Virginia Lee Grimes, ,oho
came here from Indiana 10 years
ago, ,DorkS in the QuartermaSter
generals Office at Bussdrds Point
A ten iUeeks ago delivery boy
from a drugstore near her apart
ment at 1892 Massachusetts ave
nue. NV. drriped NTH praying
mdntis on his shoulder. Miss
Grimes adopted the mdntis.
Each day she carries her pet to
,0ork NTH her. parking him in q
garden outside the Office to roam
at mill until she finishes Uork.
He doesn't stray TAR. This is her
story.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Posthumous Award
Honors Col. Brewer
lt. Col. Presley, Killed
In Crash, Also Cited

The Legion of Merit has been
awarded posthumously to Col John
H. Brewer who was killed in action
on an air mission from Port Mores-
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Army.

Cunningham. Oscar Price. James W
Maxwell Howard A. johnson James ir
wilson. Benjamin F Daniels, Raymond G.
Hunt, Theodore w Stubbs John r
Coleman, Raymond l. Hughes. Charles J.
Marshall, John A. O'Bryant, John G
Evans, Odell H. Butler Anthony B.
Brlce, Charles L.. ir, Edwards Ben
Robinson. Vann w. Gatling. Archie B.
Wilson, Joseph F.. Byrd. aze l.
Bright, joseph s. Carson, FRAME
Cam, Charles f. White, Rudolph E.
Brown. Francis A. Carpenter, James A.
Bolts, Sylvester c. Brown, Thomas E
Proctor, walter R. Morris, John H
Richardson. A. T Cooper. Louis G.
Hughes. Milton B. Thompson, D. l.. jr.
Kirkpatrick r Richmond. l. ir
Carson, William D. Miller, Thomas c.
Francis, James E Brooks Ulysses
Mays Paul B. Williams, James G.
Wyatt, Edward G.
Navy.
ChirieleiSon. ] p. H,ees. Jack c.
GodSey, Wiley NJ jackson. William L.
Merritt, Marshall I. Powando, John
Ridolh, Thomas P. Klebenoff. Milton
Clark, James A. Andrew. Howard c.
Gaines Robert E Iytton, Roy S
Weldon Raymond A. Kramer, Abram
DeShazo John T. Witt, Clarence r
Magnolia. Joseph J, Ritenour. Tyler J
Hanson. Robert 3. Conover. Merrill 3
Davis. Warren B. Andrukite, John z.
Ca slow, John Zell, Morris
Cotton, Bernard ElvoVe Jose ph T.
Marine Corps.
Braegger, Victor J. Mulvey. William H.
Erwin, Donald H OBrien, James P.
Massino, Frank A.
Coast Guard.
McKelyy. William N.
Evening star., 1943-08-23

McKelyy, William N.
Evening star., 1943-08-15
THE SECRET THAT

Here IS the inside story: hair raising account
by one Of the heroes who prevented lis surrender
by Lieut.. L. W. 4. Bennington, D.S.0., D.s.c., RN
10 e Patrick
Evening star., 1943-08-15

Now II CAN De TOLD. one of the wars
most closely guarded secrets: how Malta -
most savagely bombed of all Allied territory
- was kept fighting. It is story of cool
courage, doggedness, ingenuity, the greatest
blockade-running exploit in history - which
may we'll have saved our civilization.
Today, through the Mediterranean, men
and supplies move in steady stream. Nov
ing menacingly along the "underbelly" of
Europe Moving on to the ultimate Victory.
Had Malta fallen, the Allies would have had
no base within the entire Mediterranean from
which to launch attacks by planes and sub
marines on the Axis supply conveys, no base
from which to protect our own conveys.
Rommel would have overrun Egypt and
Africa; the American expedition into North
Africa might have been impossible. We should,
in short, be years further from winning the
war than we are today.
Malta did not fall The heroism of the
Maltese people and the British garrison will
go down in history. Yet they were human.
They had to eat. They had to have ammuni-.
ton and fuel.
There came day when Axis staff officers
Evening star., 1943-08-15

reported that Malta was done Their careful
calculations proved that Malta was out OF
food, out of the supplies needed to go on
fighting This will explain to those Axis strate-
gists why Malta did not surrender.
Recently the British submarine Porpoise
nosed into her home port. On her flag were the
initials PCS" When those initials were ex-
planned. the mystery of Malta was explained
with them. They meant: .Porpoise Carrier
Service" The Porpoise had been shutting
food and supplies to Malta all through those
days when - as the Axis experts thought =
nothing" was getting through.
TINS Weeks London correspondent got
busy Immediately, and we are now able to
present the first complete story of the secret
ship that saved Malta, in the words of her own
commanding officer.
- The Editors
p HAD recently arrived at the Alexandra
base from England. and was living aboard
the submarine depot ship, when Captain
Raw, commanding all our submarines in the
Mediterranean. summoned me. He told me
! was to take over Porpoise Carrier Service.
TW-s-ls-4s
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-01
MAJOR DE SEVERSKY

HAVING succeeded in GUST
IL ing Mussolini's Fascist
regime and putting his country
on the Allied side, we are hav-
ing difficult time of il occupy
ing Italy.
Air bombardment and the
threat of more air lombard
ment. il is generally recognized,
knocked Italy out of the war.
The question is raised. there
fore. why the same air power
does not drive the Germans out
of The Italian boot
At least part OF the answer
lies in the fact that our present
strategy in Italy is primarily
directed by political and hu-
name considerations.
1t is obvious that Allied air
power, which has shown itself
able 10 shatter Hamburg, CO.
logne and other great German
cities. could readily demolish
Rome. Milan. Turin, Genoa and
all other Italian centers.
II could destroy communica-
tions. wreck the country and
paralyze its life. That would
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-01

tlce. One OF the New York
clinics EePeEts that since the
war has BIT its stride and our
own boys are in II. there is
notable increase of activity OF
the thyroid gland among the
civil population.
Mothers. wives. sisters and
fathers and brothers think and
brood over some fellow who
may be under gunfire or worse
and. as has been well known for
years. the nervous system slim
ulates the thyroid gland and II
in turn stimulates the nervous
system over again and a vicious
circle is established.
The story is told Of a Lon
don surgeon who was called on
10 treat an air raid victim. The
X-ray showed that an uneX-
ploded air craft shell was i'm
bedded in the tissues OF his
thigh. The bomb squad experts
recognized il as an armor-
piercing projectile which might
explode any minute. The sur
geOn and his assistants were
game and finally removed the
high explosive package safely in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-01
The BRIGHTER SIDE
By DAMON RUNYON

T SHOW YOU that the soma
tors and other government
officials who arc talking about
flooding the nation with the
wRlSky now in bond are lust
plumb ignorant on this situation,
where are they going 10 get the
containers 10 distribute the
booze?
There is a tremendous glass
shortage. You cannot bottle
whisky without glass. You can
not sell whisky from a barrel
unless the Law is changed and
YOU cannot generally use old
bottles in most states. though
under a recent ruling the origi-
nal distiller's bottle with the
name OF the distillery blown in
The glass. may be used again
for the same brand.
IN THE Old days, whisky was
i often drawn from barrels by.
,,,,s use s1als 'an6 Yeoenvtw eNssSSe,
have been experiments with
wooCien barrels holding a gal
Ion with the distillery name
burned in the wood and with
earthenware but without much
success.
To use the little barrels you
would have 10 have spigots and
you cannot get spigots. There
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-01

fective use OF the air power
potential.
IN ITALY the Germans today
L are in the position of a
burglar shielding himself with
the body of a child. We can
not shoot at him because we
would kill the child in doing so.
The Nazis have put the
Vatican. the Pope, Italian Gull
tural centers and industrial vi
tails between our air power and
themselves forcing us To resort
to slow. tedious. mile-by-mile
occupation, using aviation only
in it's tactical role.
In that type of aviation we
do not have any great advan-
tage over the Germans.
Our superiority in the air
lies in the fact that we have
created a tremendous strategic
force and Germany hasn't.
That long range force, repre-
sented by our Flying Fortresses
and Liberators, was responsible
for our victories from Ell Ala
mein to Italy because its range
and great striking power en-
abled us constantly TO destroy
the German lines of supply in
Africa and Sicily.
Until the surrender we used
that same strategic air force
ruthlessly in Italy itself.
IF OUR tactical aviation sue
L ceeded in Tunisia, il was not
because of superiority in this
type of aviation; ii was pri-
marily because out strategic air
power made il impossible for
the Germans to reinforce and
supply their tactical aviation
across the Mediterranean.
The fact is that when IL comes
to auxiliary air forces. German
aviation is still as good as ours.
Hitler's Messerschmitt 1896
is a match. for the Spitfire and.
together with the Focke-Wulf
fighters, Is just as good and in
some respects better than the
P-38 Lightning. particularly
when Ii comes to close indi-
vidual combat.
The two opposing aviations in
Italy are engaged in a smuggling
match, on a more or less even
basis, and control of the skies
thus far has not been. decided
ingenious land nines.1
BOBBY traps. weather and ter
rain. of course, have something
to- do with the slow progress on
the Italian. front, but these are
only superficial. =
The crux of the situation is in
deeper strategic reasons which
made control of the Italian
skies indecisive. and as long as
il remains indecisive, the going
on the surface will continue TO
be tough and slow.
Next Article Friday
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-01
One Word Led 10 Another
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER-

Traitors Are All Alike Deserve Death
The FBI did job of detecting in LAfaire Mark
Rueckwanderer.
The Rueckwanderer Mark is the re-migration mark
that be spent only in Germany So when 923 enemy
aliens invested in the Rueckwanderer their intentions
just plain dentist with pair of forceps in his
right mitt
cannot understand the sporadic mentality of these
imported screwballs who bought the Rueckwanderer
Mark in America Everybody has the privilege of being
ignorant But these birds started imitation in stupidity.
The result is they were caught like pop flies 70
the infeld And are guilty as bartender with wet
mustache
What will happen to them? We are rather enent
with traitors here We will probably wait for the
rainy and bust their umbrellas.
The saboteurs and agents provocateur who landed
in rubber boats got the hot squat But those spies
Staten Island got few years the shade There should
be qualification in treachery. The intention of the
traitor is always 100 per cent copperheaded He has the
lidless eye and the hollow fang of death
Purchasing the Rueckwanderer is financing the
enemy The buyers are as guilty finger in the poor
box.
1913
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-01

cannot go into a description of
the country too specifically with
out having the letter cut up.
Can't mention whether we are set
up yet or not. etc. Just read what
you can and dream up the rest
Of il.
7 STARTED a journal, whatever
Il / don't write here that is worth
knowing will be in there
A Negro staff sergeant from a
ON outfit. over here seven
months, insists that in few
months l won't remember that
there is a United States. ! see
what he means because il does
seem pretty far away. both in dis
lance and in time. but everybody
around here just wants TO get
back there as soon as possible.
News OF the war. cleaned from
the local issue Of the Stars and
Stripes, is all TO the good, and
MAJ. 49, p.s~~i~--~ .i.-->-,.- .s.--leS.l
ing[y at it. JOHN.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-01


reporter Who Was in North
Africa at the time OF writing.
Dear Boss:
TN MY last letter I said that
Il had weathered all kinds of food
and drink without becoming i'll,
but right at the moment l don't
feel so we'll
| have a good case Of ache from
taking my opening dosage of alta
brine, a quinlne substitute that
raises cain with the stomach for
a while. 1t is supposed 10 elimi-
nate the symptoms Of malaria. but
! gather if the right mosquito
bites you, you will have malaria
later on when you get home and
/. sip2 taking ataRTlpts-sS
/ I'm not Sure, put I know this
won't make you immune from
nalaria. There isn't great deal
tof il : around here. anyway. but
enough TO make the precaution a
necessity.
We sleep under mosquito bars
and the guards walk with head
nets and antimosquito mittens.- /
haven't been bitten nor bothered
by mosquitoes so far.
Today / kept at pushing up the
tents, and hauling in sand TO keep
down the dust. I took ride on
sand truck about IS miles out
10 the beach where the soldiers
swim, and it was perfect.
.CRESCENT-S HAPED sa nd
~ beach about five miles long
with big clean comfortable serv-
icemen's club. As good as Miami
Beach or Atlantic City and only
about 80 people using IL. AS soon
as we can get transportation we II
run truckloads OF soldiers there in
the afternoon for swimming.
am going 10 try 10 go to-
morrow II l can get a ride prin-
cipally in an attempt 10 get clean
again. l will have to buy cou-
tune de balm (bathing suiO in
the city shops tomorrow morning.
Saw some while there that only
Frenchman would wear, but !
saw soldiers on the beach wearing
them, so I'll give II a whirl.
We had our first town casualty
soldier took a few drinks and
the next thing he knew the MPs
were waking him and he was
minus his shoes and stockings. car
and everything that he had In his
pockets.
Pardon the tipping. The red
dust OF North Africa has the
portable all gummed up.
Many subjects are taboo and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-01

ultimately force the Germans
10 withdraw, but in the process
II would leave the peninsula in
ruin and chaos. with millions
homeless and embittered.
HOWEVER. our apparent pol
II icy is 10 liberate the coun-
try. not 10 destroy it.
We have no alternative but
10 discontinue strategic bonn
bardment and try TO liberate
Italy in a mile-by-mile struggle.
It should be recalled that
even our bombardment of
France has been more selective
and more considerable of the To-
cal population than air assaults
on Germany.
We are deliberately holding
our most powerful aviation on
a tight leash. We are not en-
ploying the most efficient form
OF air power-strategic air de-
molition. Instead we are using
aviation almost entirely in an
auxiliary capacity. as a sup
porting element for the ground
forces, and that is the least eff
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-01

is no way Congress can open the
flood gates on the booze in bond
without removing innumerable
restrictions. and providing ma
terials essential 10 the war ef-
fort 10 get the whisky 10 the
consumers. And another thing.
how does IL expect the owners
Of the whisky in bond to get
the money TO pay the taxes on
II II the nontaXable period is
reduced?
Well one thought along this
line is that the government may
be induced 10 lend the owners
me money against the whisky.
One senator has estimated that
there arc 100000, 900 gallons OF
whisky in bond. II takes so
gallons 10 q barrel and at the
expected government tax OF SO
per gallon that would be $3.50
per barrel and some owners
have difficulty digging up. the
: tsx i9'apsS-oD Snort NOTICES. 80,
out government help.
..
HERETOFORE If you had
H whisky in bond you did not
have TO pay taxes on il until II
was eight years old, at which
time you had 10 take IL out
on the theory that after eight
years whisky no longer i'm
proves. The new idea of Con-
gress Is 10 reduce the period OF
nontaxation 10 four years and
while not all whisky experts
agree that whisky of this age is
at its very best, probably few
owners Will care 10 pay the
high taxes just to add age 10
their whisky.
And now there is another lit
lie item besides containers that
enters into this situation that
/ guarantee will bind up as a
major congressional error. This
item is spirits for blending
whisky. You cannot get spirits
for blending in great quantities
aid without the blending Of the
original whisky would not last
long.
II was eastern distillerS who
first conceived the idea of Civ
ing the owner of a barrel of
whisky 35 cases OF blend, the
bend being Cuban or fruit spir-
its The distiller got from So 10
so cases from the barrel. retain
inc the balance over IS.
But Twill not attempt 10 enter
into discussion OF the technical
phases Of blending / will only
repeat what / said before. that
the government will do itself a
favor IL IL keeps the whisky
locked up lest it increase the
drunkenness and skullduggery
in the land
Copyright. 1913. ny KinE Features
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