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Evening star., 1943-08-03
Bovingdon Labels His DANCING
AS Exercises for Health

talks with motion pictures and
lantern slides.
There was no music and he never
had partner. He was monologist.
On rare occasions he appeared with
some entertainment or instructional
group as an added attraction.
AS for current pictures in news
papers, showing Mr.. Bovingdon
wearing few clothes, leaping into the
air at New York's Town Hall, he ex-
planned: When you illustrate with
muscles and movements of the
human body, you have to show some
thing of the human body"
His appearances, he explained.
were only a means to an end-that
he might continue his studies and
his teaching.
I'D almost forgotten those days."
he remarked, when all this fuss
came up"
His gymnastic therapy, he in
sisted, was not. by any stretch of
fancy, ballet. Mr. Bovingdon does
not like the idea of being called a
ballet dancer. He did not say that
any one should smile when calling
him that, but is conscious, it was
clear, Of the fact that some OF the
less enlightened regard male
dancer as-well, not quite as male
as he might be.
Today, Mr.. Bovingdon pointed
out, he has an Al physical rating.
At So he is husky and happy, or
reasonably so.
Gradually, having regained his
health, he dropped the avocation
forced on him and picked up the
threads of his vocation. He tray
eled around the world again. He
continued his studies. Recently he
was awarded Phi. D. degree from
teachers college at Columbia Uni
versity. He has taught economics
and social sciences. He speaks four
languages. He feels that he has
qualified for the $500 post he is
filling at DEW. So, apparently, do
DEW officials.
But it was not, as some critics of
DEW have intimated, some young
professor" of the New Deal who got
Mr.. Bovingdon on the Federal pay
roll. 1t was, instead, that staid old
institution, the Civil Service Com
mission.
DEW wanted an economic analyst
with Far Eastern experience. The
commission suggested Mr.. Boving-
don.
Evening star., 1943-08-03
nv the Associafed pres.

BY the Associated Press.
Barring unforeseen military
demands, civilians can expect
increased quantities of wool fab
RIGS. but with some of the prewar
variety missing.
Wool manufacturers, the War
Production Board reported today,
are sacrificing novelty to step up
production of staple items. That
program is part Of the WPB drive
to make clothes rationing unneces-
sary.
Apparel wool output for civilians
now Is running at an annual rate
OF 240, 100000 yards. about the same
as last year. To increase that man
ufacturers are reducing the variety
OF colors and counts of their yarns.
That results in larger lots of one
material.
Raw wool, no longer on the criti-
cal list, is described as in sufIicient
Evening star., 1943-08-03
Early Arrangements
For Making Synthetic
Fue! Urged by Lekes
By J. A. OLEARY.

A joint congressional committee
was urged today by Petroleum Ad-
ministrator Ickes to begin planning
now for the manufacture of syn
thetic gasoline and fuel oil. He
warned that For several years we
have been consuming petroleum
nearly three times as fast as we
have been able to discover new
sources"
Urging passage of the OMahoney
bill to authorize establishment of
demonstration plants in appropriate
areas to work out processes that
would be commercially feasible, Mr..
Ickes continued
The idea that, somehow or other,
sufficient new reserves OF petroleum
always will be discovered has its
roots in wishful thinking. Natural
petroleum does not accumulate like
weeds and we cannot produce more
and more of it as we are able to
grow trees through reforestation
Petroleum was made by nature many
ages ago and nature isn't making it
at the rate we are using it."
Mr.. Ickes recalled that in 1890 a
large hydroganetion plant in Ger
many was producing 10000, 900 GAL
Ions OF gasoline year, and six
years later four plants were turning
out more than 200 1000, 900 gallons.
The last fairly definite figures
we had from Germany in 1899 re-
vealed that the Nazis were getting
about 1,00000o,O0O gallons of gaso-
line year from coal, and today the
figure may be nearer to 1000 000,-
000," he added.
Declaring that Americas known
petroleum reserves are equal to a
IA or IS year supply, Mr.. Ickes con-
tinued:
But we cannot count on an ade-
quate supply for each of the poten-
tial IA or Is years, because existing
wells will begin to slow down in pro-
duction as time goes on. 1t ac-
tually would take about so years to
remove all of the known available
oil from the ground"
This country's coal reserves, on
the other hand, ''have barely been
scratched" Mr.. Ickes said, estimat-
ing I'VE can count about 3,000,000,-
100000 tons left in the ground"
He estimated this much coal could
provide $500, 100000 gallons of syn
thetic liquid fuel each year for 1000
years and still have enough coal to
use for all other present day pur-
poses. The bill also contemplates
development of processes for extrac-
ton of liquid fuel from oil shale,
available in Western States.
Evening star., 1943-08-03
BY CARTER BROOKE ZONES.


John Bovingdon, embattled an.
alyst for the Once of Economic
Warfare, clarified today for the frs
time his disputed past-the briel
era when he appeared in concer,
halls and before clubs and other
groups.
Charged fatty by Chairman Dies
of the House Committee on Un.
American Activities with having
been ballet dancer, Mr.. Boving.
don denied this, somewhat indig-
nantly.
Mr.. Bovingdon explained, in ar
interview with The Star, that he
toured as lecturer, illustrating his
talks with what he called "therapy
gymnastics" system of dramatic
exercises which he devised primar-
lily to regain his health and per-
fected as means of symbolizing
some of his economic and socio-
logical ideas to audiences.
To go back bit, Mr.. Bovingdon
had attended Harvard (Phi Beta
Kappa) and received in 1915 a de-
gree summa cum laude. He had
majored in the social sciences. He
intended to make these subjects
his life work through teaching and
writing. But few years later his
health failed. The doctors told him
that his particular infirmities would
respond only to some form OF physi-
cal exercise.
In the early 20s he was chief
economist for the American Woolen
Co. in Boston, and he resigned be-
cause of his health. In 1923. he
began the study of gymnastics.
Il wanted to find out" he said,
what one could do in the way of
benefiting ones own body. exper-
imented, and I worked out this
system of therapy gymnatics. found
it beneficial, but 1 knew I would
have to apply it for some time before
1 could be sure my health was fully
restored. 1 wasn't able to teach
my life's vocation-at the time
AASAS Wdo VIC uldttCI VI IIidklIlk
a living in the interim. and I hit
on the idea of lectures illustrated by
these gymnastics"
Mr.. Bovingdon didn't go at 1t half
way, he explained-he gave it full
attention for several years. He had
been around the world and had
taught at Keio University in Toxic
one reason he was hired by OEW-
ana he prepared lectures based on
his observations of social and
economic trends in various countries.
The gymnastics were not thrown
In extraneously by way of illustrat-
ing how he was training recalcitrant
He made them apropos to
the lectures entirely.
They were" he pointed out.
economic studies put to motion"
They might. he agreed, be called
concepts" of some of his conclu-
sionS.
Despite the difficulty of trans
ferring these distractions to posture
and motion, he felt that his audi
ences understood what he was driv-
ing at. He illustrated his lectures
in this novel way just as Burton
Holmes used to illumine his travel
Evening star., 1943-08-03
Larger Civilian Wool Supplies
Assured by WPB;; Varieties Cut

supply to meet all military and civil
ian demands, and 1t Is chiefly 4
question of making the wool into
fabrics. The Government has a
stockpile of 5000 900 pounds OF
wool-a safeguard In the event war
conditions should cut OF foreign i'm
ports.
The War Department ordered,
meanwhile, temporary so per cent
cutback in its procurement program
covering many important wooden
and worsted items. freeing an esti-
mated 10000, 900 additional yards of
such material for civilian use.
WPB and the Army worked out
the program after it was determined
that substantial part of the
planned military purchases could be
deferred from the last third of this
year to the first four months Of 1914.
As result. civilians will get in
creased supplies Of blankets, and
various items OF mems, women's and
children's apparel.
Evening star., 1943-08-03
Youth Takes Truck,
EIudes Police in Chase

An 18-year-old inmate of the Ma
tional Training School for Boys was
sought by police this afternoon after
driving of in delivery truck parked
on the grounds and eluding police
In wild six-block chase.
A lookout was ordered and a po-
lice scout car sighted the truck at
Thirteenth and Gallatin streets NV
speeding at IS miles an hour. The
boy abandoned the truck in the
1900 block Of Georgia avenue and
escaped.
Evening star., 1943-08-03
Rev. WiIIiom Robinson
To Head St. Edwards u.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. g.
The congregation Of Holy Cross an
nounced last night the appointment
of the Rev. William Robinson, now
at the University of Notre Dame,
as president of st. Edwards Uni
versity, Austin. Tex. Father Rob-
inson will succeed the Rev. Stanis-
laus Lisewski, who will rejoin the
Notre Dame faculty.
simultaneously 1t was announced
that new boys high school at
Biloxi, Miss, in the parish of the
Rev. Geoffrey O'Connell, would be
taught by brothers of the congre-
CATION
The Rev. Joseph Hart, mission
Evening star., 1943-08-03

The Axis is watching you; keep
'em signing while you keep buying
War savings stamps.
Evening star., 1943-08-03
Freedom for Crane Refused
Despite Connie Mack S Plea
By the Associated Press

cs INC assOCldte0 PreSS.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Aug. s.
Despite the Intervention of Connie
Mack. Samuel B. Red" Crane, for
mer major league baseball player.
lost his 11th plea today for COM
mutation of his 18 to 36 year prison
sentence for a double Staying IA
years ago in Harrisburg barroom.
His petition, opposed by the FAM
lilies of the victims, was rejected by
Gov. Edward Martin and the Penn
sylvania Pardon Board. Mack, for
whom Crane played with the Phila-
delphia Athletics, told the board in
letter last June: Il think the ends
OF justice have been met by Cranes
exceptionally good record"
Crane was convicted of murder in
the second cegree In the deaths of
Miss Della Lyter, his former sweet
heart, and John D. Oren, a brick
salesman. His defense was that he
was intoxicated and did not know
what he was doing. !
The former shortstop, now 48 years
old, played in the American Associa-
ton, the International League and
the Pacific Coast League and for
Cincinnati and Brooklyn in the Ma
tional League and the Athletics and
Washington in the American League
The Axis is watching you; keep
'em signing while you keep buying
War savings stamps.
Evening star., 1943-08-03

ments OF their legal commitments
on appropriated funds.
The President said in his resurvev
OF the budget that only $llo 900 ooo-
900 Of 1886, ,ooo, ,ooo, 900 in war appro-
priations made since July /, 1910
has been paid out by the Treasury
While Senator Byrd said he
recognized this as a problem he
insisted that there is too wide a
spread, adding:
Apparently We have sufricient
money appropriated to carry on the
war for two years. at the sloo ooo-
100000 yearly level the President
desires, without making another ap-
preparation. 1t seems to me the
Time has come when closer scrutiny
should be given to these colossal
appropriations
Morgenthau Cites Charts.
Mr.. Morgenthau meanwhile made
public a series of charts intended to
back up Mr. Roosevelt's demand for
higher taxes.
declaring that IS cents out OF
every dollar the Government spend,
goes into the war effort, the Secre-
tary said that means that s36 ann .
100000 OF the estimated s38, 700. 600 .
QUO IN revenue during the presen,
nscal year will go toward the pur.
chase OF guns, tanks, ships and
planes In order that decency NAV be
restored to the world"
In one chart, Mr.. Morgenthar
drew a contrast between the IS 4
per cent OF total governmental costs
met by taxes in this country and
the All per cent In Canada and
SIT per cent in the United Kingdom
Another drew a distinction between
the income tax paid by two salarieo
groups IN the three countries. Fo,
married person with no depen-
dents. 1t gave these figures for pres
ent rates after postwar credit:
9@,ooo net So,UOO ne1
income. income.
united States----$188 1892
canada ------- 231 1873
United Kingdom 37s 1928
The third chart compared Fedora,
spending and receipts for the fiscaI
years 1912, 1943 and 1914, the latter
on the basis Of Mr.. Roosevelt's re.
vised budget estimate. 1t said that
Of the $34 200, ,000, 900 spent ir
1912, II per cent went for nonwal
purposes Of the 79,700, 900 ,00t
spent in the year just ended only {
per cent represented nonwar ac-
tivities, while in the present veal
95 per cent Of the sos 800 900 ,00t
will go to finance the war.
Evening star., 1943-08-03

| priest In the Midwest, was desig-
mated superior of the mission
priests at North Easton. Mass.
The Rev. Hugh ODonnell, presi-
dent of Notre Dame. and the Rev.
John j. Cavanaugh, vice president,
were reappointed.
Evening star., 1943-08-03
Former Reports Heifer
Gave Milk at 8 Months

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md. Aug. s.
w. D. Coppage of the Vally Lee sec
ton of st. Marys County has heifer
9 months old which he claims be-
gan giving milk a month ago.
Evening star., 1943-08-15
WAR PRODUCTION HAS FIRST CALL

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hours day in thousands of
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Evening star., 1943-08-15
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The home workshop is an old and versatile
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Evening star., 1943-08-15
FRESH FROM COLLEGE
Come the Factory Follies
TO aid war-plaai morale

~RoMPTLY at noon few months
ago, hundreds of war workers
= dashed from their machines at
the U. S. Rubber Company plant in
.Chicopee, Mass, and crowded into
the auditorium. As they settled into
seats a chorus of pretty girls from
Smith College pranced onto the stage,
singing. s'Make with the maxi
mum, give with the Drawn! Make
with the maximum, smother that
yawn!'
They were seeing brand-new kind
of morale boosting - 'The Factory
Follies," first musical show ever
staged by college girls to entertain
war workers. After the curtain fell.
the cheering audience went back to
work with more pep to punch out tools
which will lick the Axis. "Gives you
a liftr' one worker shouted; another
added, 1T sure breaks up the day"
Doing Their Part
SMcE then, the 80 students in "The
Factory Follies" cast have toured
13 war plants in the Connecticut
Valley. Visiting such arsenals as the
governments Springfield Armory and
Westinghouse Electric Company,
they've performed for over 5000
workers.
Now other plants are so eager to see
their show that the girls will keep on
giving it for the duration. Smith
College officials, at Northampton,
Mass, admit it's launched a nation
wide style among amateur theater
groups. They're getting inquiries
from colleges and clubs all over
about staging similar war-plant
entertainment. It's a volunteer
scheme, 50 the script and advice
60 to amateurs for the asking.
"The Factory Follies'' originated
last spring, when Smith girls decided
it wasn't enough just to be studying,
volunteering as farm laborers, nurses
aides, AFRAID wardens. Professionals
were putting ON free shows in war
plants. College girls could do it too!
They went to work, writing. produc-
ing every word of their show them
selves, including costumes and music.
The whole thing peps up the girls
as much as the workers. In fact, one
chorus girl has had to be replaced
already - she signed up for a job in
war plant. ELEANOR sTlERHEM
Evening star., 1943-08-15
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-03
Jeky||.Hyde
Act on Skates
CowIey and Boil
Are the Characters
Nv Tn. Associated Press

Bill Cowley. leading play
maker of the National Hockey
League, and his teammate Buzz
Boil. top goal getter, did a DR.
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde last night
as the Boston Bruins defeated
the Chicago Blackhawks. SO.
Cowley fired home three goals
and Boil got four assists as the
Bruins increased their first -place
lead over the idle Detroit Red
Wings TO six points.
frankie Brimsek had another
busy night in the Boston nets,
kicking out 40 shots. The season
series between the two clubs
now lands in Boston's favor,
three to two with two ties.
Although they were idle, the
T Toronto Maple Leafs an
nounced they had signed Jackie
Hamilton. l7-year old forward,
as a replacement for the injured
Syl Apps. Hamilton comes from
the Toronto young Rangers of
the Junior Ontario Hockey AS
ISOLATION.
There are no games tonight
but tomorrow ven ing the
Hawks will play the Rangers in
New York and the Detroit Red
Wings the Leafs in Toronto.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-03
YBMC's Regain Lead
in Bath City Circuit

Young Business Mems Club
was back as pacemaker of the
Bath City League at Macomb
Recreation today, replacing
Board of Commerce last night
by scoring a sweep over Fellow
craft Club as B. of c. was blank
ed by kiwanis Club.
B. of C.'s shutout dropped the
team to third place, with the
Lions Club moving to second by
gaining a 81 win over Optimist
Club. In a fourth match Rotary
Club won three points from
High Twelve Club.
DR.. r. Harvey Millar of Lions
nosed out Ralph Clark of XII
wants for individual honors by
the margin of one pin, shooting
544 with 200 finish.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-03
Harry GraysOn's
ScOre]bOard
Pep convinees Broadway He Has
Every Right to Claim
Feather Title
Nv HARRY GRAYSON

TAKES considerable Broadway wise guys -
In the William Papaeo SO straight profess
sional - they won't be fooled him again.
Flooring belaboring Allie Stolz lightweight
required corner
young Papaleo Willie Pep definitely proved
n feather champion.
whispers that Pops incredible winning
he hasn't much been held he
fighter late in 940-Wa built up his old home town
of Hartford and Broadway likes to be In his only
at Madison Square Garden Pep quickly
placed lily in the hand nobody outweghed and
bicycle decision Chalky Wright He
coded stolz five and three quarter pounds.
So WHEN WAR WORKERS of Connecticut hit the big
force their only complaint that three
before day which prohibited them from wagering
they found the Broadway that Soz
made the favorite at ID to TO-
Pep fights according other fellows style and capab
He an old school fighter respects not the least OF
which that he follows instructions His objective the Wright
match to the title the New York version OF It, He
blazing speed afoot well his hands and took care
that Wright difficult fellow fight did not get good shot at
him.
punishment sailed into
him, put him in his place at the outset
READINESS with which they accepted a March appoint
with vicious and seepdeang Beau Jack whom Pep will
idea Of what Manager
Viscu Bill Gore old hands with fighting
think Of the industrious 1875 pound champion.
gained lightweight title recognition in New York and
bucks office stopping Stoz hanging Tppy
Larkn out to dry the end of uppercut.
Pep who only collected SAB in Fall River for his
first paid so 900 the other night He drew
$4,000 in two starts at the Garden.
HARDLY will agile side stepping and punch
Larkn He'll have
hit and hurt early find the Italian annoying
Pep will have take rank with foremost feather
weight but 90 and has demonstrated that
slap the better ghtWeighs around That's good
for the time being
Willie Pep certainly a flying start.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-03
Spartan Quint
Hopes to Snop
Losing Streak

EAST LANSING, MICH, Feb.
3-Basketball victories are few
and far between at Michigan
State College this winter, but
the Spartans think they have
their eyes on one Thursday
night. They are to play the
Army Ferry Command team
from the Romulus air base here.
State is hoping the soldiers Will
prove their second victim of the
season.
Vast improvement in the
teams play was seen against the
powerful Camp Grant soldier
five here last Friday night.
Even without Fred Stone, veter-
an center, the State cagers held
lead on the Camp Grant team
fair share of the playing time.
In the end the Warriors won, as
they have on all but one other
occasion this winter against the
strongest competition they could
find, but the Spartans definitely
gave Coach Ben Van Alstyne
reason TO feel that his untiring
efforts have not been IN vain.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-03
Teller Comments
ON Draft Notice

DETROIT, Feb. 3 (P -
There was wide speculation but
small comment today along the
Detroit professional sports front
on the future of the Tigers, Lions
and Red Wings in the wake of
he War Manpower Commits
sion's notice that all men of
fighting age not in essential war
work would be drafted.
Perl aps General Manager
Jack Zeller Of the Tigers ex.
pressed il best:
IF it means work or fight and
that we cannot play ball, then
we'll work or fight. If il means
that we can keep some Of our
players and that the govern
ment wants us TO play ball. then
We'll try TO play ball"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-03
Traffic Jam Seen
in Wanamaker Mile

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 - Seven
runners will create something OF
a traffic jam in the Wanamaker
Cup of the Millrose Games at
Madison Square Garden, Satur-
day.
They are Gilbert Dodds, Jim
Rafferty,, Frank T. Dixon Sd,
Ensign Walter Mchl, Earl Nit
chell, Don Burnham and Leroy
Schwarzkopf.
All have competitive clock
ings of Ala or better, the swift
est being those of Ensign Mehl
4:07.4, and Dodds, 4.08.5.
1t is the largest entry in the
mile fixture in 10 years.