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Evening star., 1943-02-14
All Banks to Cash u. S. Checks
On Identification of Workers

The plan was hailed by Lanier P
McLachlen. president of the Wash
ington Board of Trade, as solving
a problem that had been bother
ing" Washington for a long time.
1t was estimated yesterday that
there are at least half a million
Government checks distributed in
the Capital area each month.
The hours of banks and trust
companies in the city are $50 am.
TO pm. daily, except on the 9th,
18th, 23rd and last day of each
month when rules of the Washing
ton Clearing House Association per-
nit them to remain open until $50
pm. Under this optional plan about
half the banks are open without
break from $50 to $50 and about
half close at pm and reopen at 4.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Flexible Speed Limits
Desired, Eastman Says
, tho Az ociated Press.

r! tho AS ociated Press
Joseph B. Eastman, director, Of
defense transportation yesterday
urged State Legislatures to adopt
flexible speed limits rather than a
rigid 35-mile- an hour standard.
Mr.. Eastman said that while 35
miles An hour is now the recon-
mended limit for cars and trucks,
1t was desirable to authorize Gov
ernors or other State officials ito
change the speed limit, if this action
should be found necessary at any
time"
An ODT spokesman explained it
might become desirable to allow
certain carriers of war materials to
maintain faster schedules in some
sections and there might be need
for reducing the speed limit for pri-
vate cars and other similar vehicles.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
0PA 10 Permit Auto
Sales 10 Thousands
Now Ineligible
Rules Will Be Relaxed
To Place 240, 900
Idle Cars in Use
BY ALFRED TOOMRS.

Automobile rationing regula-
tions are to be relaxed by the
Office of Price Administration to
permit the sale of cars to thou
sands of persons not now eligible
it was learned yesterday.
Under the regulations, any per-
son needing a new car will be able
to purchase without a ration board
certificate 1941 models CT any type
or price, convertibles with soft tops
and cars costing more than s1,5OO
All holders of &C" gasoline cards
will be eligible to buy automobiles
of any price if they need the We
hicles. There will be no requirement
that such persons be engaged in an
activity essential to the war.
100000 Standing Idle.
The purpose of the action is to
move out of dealers storerooms and
into drivers possession approx
mately 240,000 cars, The cars are
gathering dust now, and it is felt
they would be of more use to the
Nation if put in service.
There are approximately 1900 1941
model automobiles, with less than
1000 miles on their speedometers
now in dealers hands, it was esti-
mated
At present. the only persons eli
gible 10 buy most kinds of autos are
war workers or those engaeed in
activities essential to the public
health or welfare. Any. one can buy
convertible models or cars costing
more than $4,000 if they get a ration
certificate.
The revised regulations vii! state
that any person who holds a &C"
card will be able to buy a new car
if it can be demonstrated that the
old car is no longer serviceable.
OPA officials explained that it was
felt that by limiting sales to such
drivers, it would be possible to get
new cars to those who need them
most and who are performing the
most essential work.
The regulations governing sales
OF the more expensive types of cars
will be revised so as to set the price
OF cars which may be sold to any
one at 81 1900 and to do away with
the requirement that a ration Ger
tificate be obtained.
Any one who wants to purchase
a more expensive car, a 194l or a
soft top model, will have to sign a
statement to be furnished by the
automobile dealer which says that
the vehicle is needed by the driver
in his work. 1t will not be necessary
to go to ration board.
The sale of automobiles was halted
by Government order on January
l. 1912 When rationing began, there
were approximately $4,000 cars for
sale. Slightly more than half of this
number have been sold under ra-
tioning.
Evening star., 1943-02-14

Government employees may cash
their pay checks at any Washington
bank or trust company beginning
tomorrow, whether they maintain
accounts or not, but must appear in
person and with proper identifca-
ton.
The new wartime service, an
nounced last night by the Treasury
Department, will be offered by the
% banks and trust companies at
their So banking houses, including
branches. scattered over the city.
The plan to assist Government
workers had been evolved, it was
explained, by negotiations extending
over several weeks between officials
OF the Treasury and the Washing
ton Clearing House Association.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Nurses Tip Indicates
Man Listed as Hit-Run
Victim Was Murdered
Silver Spring Prizefiehter
Arrested in Connection
With Paul Higgins Dedth

Surprise evidence from a nurse
at a Maryland Sanitarium indi-
Gates that Paul Higgins, SIS, be-
lieved to be a hit-and-run traffic
victim, who was found dead in
an alley New Year morning, was
robbed and murdered, police dis
closed last night.
A 26-year-old Silver Spring
prizefighter has been arrested in
connection with the death, police
announced. Washington detectives
are searching in New York and
New Rochelle. N. Y, for 25-year-
old hospital orderly, also implicat-
ed by the new evidence, it was
learned.
Nurse Tells Story.
Mr.. Higgins was found dead about
am. New Years Day in an alley
beside 1905 Kenyon street NV
An autopsy disclosed he had suf-
fered crushed abdomen and chest
compound fractures of the left leg
and a broken right leg.
Information obtained from the
nurse, police said last night, indi-
cate the victim was crushed under
an automobile from which he was
thrown unconscious after being
beaten and robbed.
According to police, the nurse
learned of the case from the 25-
year-old hospital orderly whose ac-
quaintance she made during his
three weeks of employment at a
Montgomery County hospital for
alcoholics.
The woman told police lnvesti-
gators that the orderly confessed to
her his part in numerous street rob-
berries. He admitted to her, she said,
that he and the man now in custody
robbed Mr.. Higgins on New Year Eve
land threw him unconscious into the
alley, where his body was later
found.
Blood Found on Car.
I'VE waited around to see what
would happen when he came to-"
she quoted the orderly as saying,
and an automobile turned into the
alley and ran over him"
The nurse furnished police with
(See MURDER, Page AID
Evening star., 1943-02-14
CIO Appeals to War Workers
To Halt Spreading Absenteeism
Murray Joins Government in Making Peo;
Statistics Reveal Rute RISING to l5oo -

the very time when steady appli-
cation to the job on the part Of
every worker is more and more i'm
perative B"
Concurrently. the Office of War
Information said the present rate
of absenteeism could be twice as
high as the 3 per cent figure pre-
vailing ir wartime, while the Bureau
Of Labor Statistics disclosed that
war plants were reporting absentee
rates ranging from and 3 per cent
to Is per cent. In shipyards alone,
The November rate was 81, it was
added.
In another related development,
Walter P. Reuther. vice president of
(See ABSENTEEISM, Page A-22D
Evening star., 1943-02-14

| OFFICIALS FEAR DROP IN pro-
duction If overtime pay is abol-
lshed Page A-4
The Congress of Industrial Or
ganization yesterday joined the
Government in appealing to war
workers to stop absenteeism, as
scattered reports from produc-
ton centers indicated that the
practice of taking time off Is
spreading.
In a letter to affiliated unions in
which he declared preventable ab-
serteeism must be cut to a mini
num-" CIO President Philip Murray
asserted that "absenteeism is be-
coming more and more serious
problem in American industry at
Evening star., 1943-02-14

1lIc RESOLUTION QlHerS from
those previously introduced, and
seeks to meet earlier objections
that an effort was being made to
write legislation into the Con-
Stitution.
The resolution provides:
THE Congress shall have
power to provide that there shall
be in the Congress and among
the electors of President and
Vice President members elected
by the people of the district con-
stituting the seat of the Gov
ernment of the United States.
in such numbers and with sach
powers as the Congress shall
determine. All legislation here
under shall be subject to amend
ment and repeal"
The proposed amendment to
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Movies in Reich Drew
1867, 600, 900 in 1912
BY The Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Ludwig
Klitzsch, director general of ''UFA, /"
leading German film concern. told
a board of directors meeting that
1,067 900 900 persons attended mov-
ing picture performances in Great
er Germany" in 1912 compared with
so2 100000 in le4l, a Berlin broad
cast recorded by the Associated
Press today said.
Evening star., 1943-02-14

the Constitution would have to
be ratified by the legislatures of
three-fourths of the States with
in seven years to be operative.
The new resolution embodies
simply a grant of power for
Congress. Containing no legis-
lative provisions, it leaves Con-
gress to decide the extent to
which representation would be
granted.
National representation reso-
lutions have been introduced
regularly since 1889.
Due to misunderstanding
editions of The Star yesterday
reported that the resolution in
troduced yesterday was identical
with one Mr.. Summers had
offered previously.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Gen. Loukoff of Bulgaria
Reported ,Assossinuted
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. IA Sunday -
The Berlin radio announced today
that Gen Christie Loukoff, Bull
gariar Minister of War from 1885
to 1888 in the Kosseivanoff cabinet
was assassinated at o'clock last
night.
The general was attacked in front
Of his house by several men, the
radio report added.
Fifty-six years old, Gen. Loukoff
was "a fervent nationalist and it
is believed that his assassination
had a political background the
broadcast said.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Venezuela Backs Charter

CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 13
P,,-The Foreign Office informed
the United States and British gov
ernments today that Venezuela off,
cially indorses the principles con-
tanned in the Atlantic Charter.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Arkansas Prohibits Jups
From Owning Lond

BY The Assoclated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Feb. l3.-
japanese and their descendants. re-
gardless of citizenship, will be pro-
hibited from owning land in Ar
kansas under bill signed today by
Gov. Homer Adkins.
The law is aimed at thousands of
West Coast and Hawaiian Japanese
in Arkansas relocation camps.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Prince Umberto Reported
In Turin, Not Russio
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Crown Prince Umberto Of Italy
Visited the residential areas of Turin,
hit in recent enemy air raids, the
Italian radio reported last night in
a broadcast recorded by the As
sociated Press.
A week ago Allied quarters in Lon
don said they had heard that the
prince had been appointed COM
mander of all remaining italian
divisions in Russia.
Evening star., 1943-02-14
SpeIIman's S Visit
To Madrid Causes
Wide Speculation
Peace FeeIer One Guess
As Ardent Catholic
Represents Nozis There
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

The possibility that Germany
will try to misuse the visit OF
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman
OF New York to Madrid as an oc-
casion for peace feeler was con-
sidered here yesterday by diplo-
matte observers, who recalled
that Berlin recently has sent
Hans Adolf Won Moltke, a firm
Catholic, as it's new Ambassador
to Spain.
Archbishop Spellman, military
vicar of American forces, reached
Madrid yesterday, according to the
Berlin radio. While no official an
nouncement has been made about
his visit or its purpose, it is under
stood he intends to go to North
Africa in his capacity as vicar and
the Rome radio said he will g., to
the Vatican to see Pope Plus XII.
Political significance of the trip
was disclairned in Catholic circles,
where it was said the trip was con-
cerned with church matters. The
archbishop visited President Roose-
welt at the White House February 4
shortly after Mr.. Roosevelt returned
from North Africa.
Close Link With Pope.
Archbishop Spellman served as
secretary to Eugenio Pacelli, now
Pope Plus XII. when the latter was
papal Secretary of State. He was a
bishop at that time.
The archbishop also has an in
innate link with President Roose-
welt. who has been more solicitous
than any President in American
history to ascertain the papal views
about the course Of world affairs,
The symbol of this solicitude in the
past has been Myron Taylor, twice
a special presidential envoy to the
/ Vatican.
Statements of President Roose-
velt and Prime Minister Churchill
about the Allied determination for
unconditional surrender by the Axis
have shut the door on peace feelers
but there is a disposition here
nevertheless to believe that feelers
/ will be made. That belief attains
Importance because of the presence
of Won Moltke in Madrid at the
same time Archbishop Spellman is
there.
Won Moltke, grand nephew of the
noted Marshal Won Moltke of the
Franco-Prussian War of 1870, was
suddenly brought out OF semi-re-
tirement in December and sent tc
Spain. The purpose of this move
has never been satisfactorily ex-
planned. Won Moltke was German
Ambassador to Poland until two
months before the German invasion
of Poland Between his departure
from Poland and his arrival ir
Spain, he was acting as librarian
in Germany.
Won Moltke Not a Nazi.
He possesses special quali1ca ation
as a peace emlssary. He is not {
Nazi. The National Socialist as
sault on catholici~m in German,
and other parts OF Europe is SAX
10 be repugnant to him. He is no
/ associated with the Nazi war idea
| Nevertheless, he has worked for tn,
Nazi regime since its inception /,
1888 and he is working for it il
Madrid, one Of the few neutra
(See SPELLMAN, Page A-l4J
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Extent of D. C.. Representation
Up to Congress in New Plan
Summers Resolution Entirely Unlike
Any Previously Introduced

new joint resolution for constitutional
would the for granting national
people OF the District Columbia by
man Summers of the House Judiciary Committee
Evening star., 1943-02-14

(See DRAFT, Page AID
Evening star., 1943-02-14
Weather Forecast

From the United states Weather Bureau Report
Continued cold with fresh winds. Tenn
peratures yesterday: Highest, A, at 1:20
pm; lowest, 80, at IL am, 80 at 1880
pm.
Fuel oil consumption should be 30 per cent
OF allotment for period ending March e.
Evening star., 1943-02-14

(See MURDER, Page A-14D
Evening star., 1943-02-14

tSee PAY LIMIT, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1943-02-14

The Evening and Sunday Star is
delivered in the city and suburbs at
75c per month. The Night Final
Edition and Sunday Morning Star at
65c per month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19

Announcement is made of the birth of second daughter last night at St. Mary's hospital to MT. and Mrs. Wallace Gerard of 745k Baldwin street Mrs. Gerard is the former Lillidan Hayden, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Henry A. Hayden of Luke street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19

young French Republicans. A poli- tical candidate could tell all about his policies with cards like these. l hope that this will be done on a sounder basis than that demon- strated in the hand shown today.
 North'S tWo-heart response on his worthless heart holding was not good, but it did not meet the fate 1t deserved. The opening lead was won in dummy with the king of diamonds and the spade finesse was taken. West was in with the king. He cashed the ace of clubs and led another club, which East won with the king, returning a diamond. South won with the ace, cashed the ace of trumps and led another trump, winning in dummy. The last diamond and dummy's last two trumps were cashed, South discard ed headt on dummy's fifth trump.
 The defenders assumed, when the declarer exhausted dummy's trumps, that he had no clubs, as the normal line of play would have been to ruff a club in dummy. Both defenders therefore guarded hearts. When South returned to his hand with the ace of hearts and caShed the king, they fully expected to find him with another heart, in view of his support of that suit in the bidding. Instead, the nine of clubs won the final trick.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19
Women ,SSOCietv
 Met Yesterday

Mrs. c. w. Finkenzeller of Tran sit street was hostess yesterday af- ternoon at meeting of the Wo- mems Society of Christian Serv- ice, St. Pau1S Methodist church. Mrs. David Wood was in charge of the devotional program, assisted by Mrs. Henry Kuntz at the piano. Mrs. H. M. Sutherland, president, presided. Routine business was dis cussed at the meeting and two new members were admitted and welcomed into the society. They were Mrs. Aaron B. Cook and Mrs. Victor $. Sipperly. At the conclusion of the business session q social period was enjoyed and tea was served in the garden.
 It was announced that beginning in September the regular schedule of two meetings a month will start, the first to be held September 1 at the home of Mrs. John Steck of Aurora street, who will act as hostess. Those attending yester- day were Mrs. w. J. Oldroyd, Mrs. August Paul, Mrs. David Woods, Mrs. Henry KuntZ, Mrs. John Steck, Mrs. Robert Bulk, Mrs. Theodore Kirsch, Mrs. Frederick Korngiebel, Mrs. Lewis Fage, Mrs. John Mo- shier, Mrs. Wilson Miller, Sr, Mrs. Eugene Gaylor, Mrs. Alton IT, win, Mrs. Henr yStaples, Mrs. John M. Houtaling, Mrs. Julia Fried, Mrs. Walter Weston pueSt visitor 0f Stratford, Mrs. Aaron B. Cook, Mrs. Victor s. Sipperly and Mrs. H. M. Sutherland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19
Walter Willcllell
 n Nezg YOrk
While Walter Winchen during August will be
 conducted by guest contributors.

I and common sense to keep them in" there until V-Day.
 But after victory what? Tho war will have been won in vain if the peace is lost because of postwar bitterness and misunderstandnie between ourselves and our Allies. | To be precise and to bring the question of Asiatic versus Western understanding down to one specific case, there are exactly 105 Chinks in Americas democratic theological armor. These are the 105 "Chinks' excluded from our country by our anti-Chinese immigration law which Congress tried unsuccessfully to repeal in the last session.
 COOLIES IMPORTED
 TO BUILD RAILROADS
 AS everyone who has lived West of the Rockies knows, in the second half of the nineteenth century the men who were trying to fling Amer ica's great railroads from the AL leghenies to Frisco found at the western end grave labor shortage Building railroads across the Great Divide was hard, dirty, dangerous work. It didn't appeal to the rugged American individualists of the Far West, who were striking pay dirt, banning gold and building up new fortunes in the commerce and agriculture of the expanding West To build the western end of the great railroads, the tycoons of those days imported thousands and thousands of coolies from the Orient.
 During the labor shortage, rail- road building days, these coolies were looked upon with gratitude that almost approached affection. John Chinaman" was well-liked, even highly respected, fellow. But once the railroads were completed, he fell into sudden and violent dis repute. The railroads themselves, which Chinese labor had so largely made possible, began to flood the West with the cheap manufactured products of the industrial East and Eastern laborers came in hordes on the passenger trains.
 The cheap products of the East and the new laborers pu many a Western manufacturer out of busi- ness. A severe depression hit the West Coast. This was aggravated by the indigestible presence of the now unemployed Chinese, who en- tered every labor market on the Coast at cheaper wages than Amer ican workers would or could &C., cept.
 Because the Westerners did not quite understand the causes of their own railroad born depression, they attributed them all to John Chinaman." Between the years 1865 and 1890, the yellow peril"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19

Miss Evelyn Masone of South Elm street is vacationing in New York and New Jersey.
 MT. and Mrs. Patrick 2. Shell of PittSfield, Mass, has returned home after spending several days with relatives in this city.
 Miss Ann Godfrey of Willow street is in New York City, registered at the New Weston hotel.
 Mrs. Walter Jarvis, Roseland ave- nue, has returned home after spend- ing week in Northampton, Mass.
 Miss Medelise Dzinsky, Elliott street, has returned from a weeks visit with Miss Kay Libby, Farming ton avenue, at her summer home at York Beach, Maine. Her sister, Miss Frances Dzinsky is spending several days at Watch Hill, R. l., the guest of Miss Helena Dunn, her former clasmate at the College of St. Eliza beth.
 MT. and Mrs. George McGovern and son, John, of Lounsbury ave- nue, have returned after weeks visit with their son, George, Jr., who is stationed at Lambert Field, naval air base in St. Louis, Mo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19
WINS SCHOLARSHIPS

Miss Florence Ygerne Gaetz of Laurel Heights, Shelton, Conn.,, has been awarded scholarship amount ing to over $500 at the Art Stu dents League of New York. Miss Gaetz is entitled to two classes for eight and one-half months starting September A. Miss Iaetz won this scholarship in a nationwide com- petition conducted annually by the Art Students League Of N. Y.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19
Engagements

MT. and Mrs. Floyd l.. Thoms Of Litchfield have announced the en- gagement of their daughter, Adeline Virginia, to Philip Russell zimmer- man, Army Air Forces, son Of MT. and Mrs. Theo J. Zimmerman of London.
 Miss Thoms was graduated from the Cambridge School, Kendall Green Mass. She is senior at Sarah Law renee College. MT. Zimmerman was graduated from Rugby, attended oxford University, and was gradu- ated from Columbia University i'll 1912.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19
SOCIAL
 FUNCTIONS
Contract Bridge
CORNELL BRIDGE CLUB

The Wednesday afternoon session of the Cornell Bridge club conduct ed by Mrs. John c. Moriarty, SO Linden street, closed yesterday af- ternoon with the following scoring in the finals: first, Mrs. William Myers and Mrs. James Abercrombie 519k, second, Mrs. Eric Caul and Mrs. Raymond Heebner, 514hs; third, Mrs. Frank Driscoll and Mrs. Joseph Reilly, 502; and fourth, Mrs. William Moffatt and Mrs. George Bolan, 500.
 Scores of the afternoon were: north and south, Mrs. William Cleary and Mrs. E. J. Nelson, 1001a Mrs. Edward Schweinberg and Mrs. David Hubbard 100; east and west, Mrs. Frank Dsiscou and Mrs. Jo- seph Reilly, s51a, and Mrs. Will liam Myers and Mrs. James Aber- crombie 5191a.
 CORNELL BRIDGE CLUB zThe Wednesday evening contract bridge session conducted by Mrs. w. s. Smith at the Hotel Elton re- taoi teee ETAOINUNETAOIN- suited in the following high scores: Miss Madeline Marshall and Mrs. Ruth Hurlbut 84k, M. La Bonne and w. s. Smith 79k, J. E. Cuddihy and I. w. Curlis, 761A, and MT. and Mrs. Alvin Davis 72.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19
MCKINNEY
 ON BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY Americas Card Authority

Looking over an old deck of cards of French Revolution days made me wonder why politicians do not use cards for propaganda. In place of the kings there were four philosophers, Moliere, La Fontaine, Voltaire and Rousseau. The queens became the virtues of Prudence, Justice, Temperance and Fortitude. The lacks were replaced by four
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19
CLUB NOTES
= SOCIETY -:- {
Births

Announcement is made of the birth of daughter, Joan, on August 2 to MT. and Mrs. John M. Kelly of Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Osteopathic hospital. Mrs. Kelly is the former Nellie Godek of Spring field, Mass, and IT. Kelly is the son of MT. and Ms. Michael Kelly of Sylvan avenue, this city.
 Dr. and Mrs. c. James Coppeto of East Main street announce the birth of their first child, a daughter, Rev. erly, born August at St. Mary'S hospital Mrs. Coppeto is the former Elizabeth Santavasi.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19
CASPER DAVIS INSTALLS

The installation ceremonies planned by members of Casper Davis Post auxiliary for tomorrow evening have been indefinitely post poned owing to the death of Mrs. Margaret Sizer of 1891 Thomaston Ave. Mrs. Sizer had been very &C., tive member of the auxiliary for several years.