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Evening star., 1943-03-22
Mrs. Councillor to Talk
On Nursery Schools

The Nursery School-Its How and
Why" will be the subject of talk
by Mrs Harry Councillor before VOL
unteer workers from Alexandria Day
Care Nurseries at pm. tomorrow in
the jefferson School Annex. Mrs
Councillor is director of a nursery
school and a member of the Day
Care Committee.
The lecture is the third in series
designed to acquaint volunteer work
ers with modern nursery school phil
osophy and technique.
The committee is anxious to enroll
more volunteers for work in the
school Any one interested is asked
to call Alexandria 6464 for an inter-
view.
Evening star., 1943-03-22
Senate Civil Service
Committee Delays
Pay Bill Approval
Conference With Author
Called to Discuss
Disputed Provision

The Senate Civil Service Commit
tee virtually completed work on the
pay bill for Government employees
this morning, holding up final ap-
proval pending decision on a race
discrimination provision.
This provision, barring benefits of
the legislation to members of any
union which discriminates against
or denies membership to any person
because of race. color or creed" was
reported after an executive session
to be Objectionable to one member
of the committee, and a conference
with Senator LANCER, Republican, OF
North Dakota. the author. was de-
cided on before final action was
taken.
The provision was inserted after
Edgar G. Brown. head of the United
Government Employees, a colored or
ganization, complained that skilled
trades in the American Federation
of Labor had Disseminated against
members of his race. 1t was not
certain whether an effort would be
made to cut out the provision or
to change the language nor was
there any indication of when this
issue would be adjusted. Until it
is, the bill will not be reported to
the Senate 1t was not expected
that the further meetings of the
committee would be necessary,
Measure Explained.
The bill, whose major provisions
were approved week ago. continues
the present overtime rate in the
classified service of the District
and Federal governments, which
amounts to 2l.6 per cent increase
over base pay for a 48-hour week
For employees whose times cannot
be figured on an overtime basis
principly legislative and Judicial
$500 flat increase is provided
The bill also fixes a $500 minimum
on the amount of overtime to be
earned by any individual
The measure is designed to sup
plant the temporary legislation ex-
piring April 30, and the overtime is
based on the first $4,000 of salary, as
the present law provides
The committee voted week age
to report the bill out, but it was held
up until some amendments could
be clarified and at this morning S
meeting additional changes were
made. All. however, were minor.
Several Changes Made.
The most important of these will
permit the heads of agencies to
grant compensatory time off in lieu
OF overtime for work over 48 hours
Under a controller generals rul-
ing. where overtime over 48 hours
is required" the employees are en-
titled to cash and where it is volun-
tary they may have time off
Another change exempted en-
ployes of the War Department, War
Shipping Administration and Inland
Waterways Corp, who are employed
on vessels and paid in accordance
with the wage practices in the mari
time industry.
1t also exempted per annum en-
ployes Of the Government Printing
Office whose wage can be fixed by
the public printer.
The bill permits the Civil Service
Commission to adjust the pay OF
truck drivers and elevator operators
employed on per annum basis by
the War Department. This is tc
prevent a discrimination as between
the per annum workers and per diem
workers
Evening star., 1943-03-22
0PA, Treasury
End Arguments
|nPepcoCase
SIiding-SeoIe Rote
Bottle Before PUG
Neors Ending
By DON S. WARREN.

The battle over rates of the
Potomac Electric Power Co. under
Its sliding scale plan neared an end
today when counsel for the OPA
and the Treasury closed their case
after the majority of the Public
Utilities Commission had ruled out
certain Government exhibits.
After a morning session, marked
by q furry over admissibility of
evidence, the case was adjourned to
pm, but not much more testimony
was expected.
AS he did In the rate case OF the
Washington Gas Light Co.. begun
last fall, Harry r. Booth, OPA at
torney, declared the Federal Gov
ernment had not been given fair"
nearing, because of adverse rulings
BY the PUG majority.
Hill Presents Arguments.
He was supported by Thurman
Hill. general counsel of the Treasury
procurement division. who. in his
argument, declared he had two sons
Toing into the armed services at $50
month. He added there NAV be
others present having sons offering
sheir lives in defense of democratic
principles but also for the protection
OF the property of the power COM
pany within those democratic prin-
ciples." Therefore, he said, the PUG
may decide Ito be a forward COM
mission and say to the company it
must bear its own war taxes.
The immediate issue revolved
around admissibility of three exhib-
It's presented by witness for Mr.
Booth, David A. Kosh, a rate ana
iyst. These undertook to show by
what rate figures Federal taxes of the
company would be reduced if the
amount of the customer rate reduc-
tion for this year were stepped up
far beyond the $315.000 suggested by
a witness for the PUG.
Exhibits Ruled Out.
James H. Flanagan, PUG chair
man, after hearing arguments from
all sides, ruled the Kosh exhibits
out, saying, to Mr.. Hill. that the
IOS WdS lOi WdI u COiIllulSSEOll
in the gas company case but that
IT'S going forward" had been i'm
peded by litigation.
Chairman Flanagan added, point
edly, that issues raised in the Kosh
exhibits and in other testimony
and argument for the Government
intervenors might well be pertinent
to the broader investigation of the
power company, it's sliding scale,
rate Of return, war taxes, and other
things, which is to follow conclusion
Of this case.
Gregory Hankin, minority mem
Der Of the PUG, gave a dissenting
opinion from the ruling of Chair
man Flanagan and Engineering
Commissioner Charles w. Kutz.
Federal intervenors were given
until April l. to submit briefs out
lining their arguments on the case.
Evening star., 1943-03-22
Three Track Luborers
Injured by Troop Troin

Three Pennsylvania Railroad track
laborers were injured today when
struck by Baltimore g. Ohio troop
train in the railroad yards near
Ninth street and Virginia avenue
S.W. Only one required hospital
treatment.
The injured were John Bridges.
colored, 48, of Baltimore, who was
admitted to Emergency Hospital for
head injuries, Isaac Samuels, COL
ored, 5ll0 Grant street NE, and
James Bell, colored. $3.50 Nichols
avenue Sc, who were treated on the
scene.
Evening star., 1943-03-22
Emergency Need Cited.
P-TA Unit to Meet

Garden plans will be discussed at
a meeting of the -Four Corners
Parent-Teacher Associa ton tomor-
row night. Miss Edythe M Turner
home demonstration agent for
Montgomery County, and Mehrle
Wayne, a member of the Mont
gomery County Senior All Council
and poultry specialist, will talk.
Evening star., 1943-03-22
'WPB Eases Pants Rule
For 347-Pound Man
b. tie Associated Pres

b. the Associated Press.
DALLAS. TeX-Cecil Faris told
the WPB If he got some trousers
he would do his best TO discourage
the consensus that the whole setup
is a joke" He got his pants-six
pairs.
The WPB limited waistlines on
work pants to SO inches. Faris. 347-
FOUNDER, measures 62 inches.
WPB Director R. Eugene Riser
authorizing outsize breeches wrote
Faris, I'm willing to stick my neck
out to keep you out OF a nudist
camp"
Evening star., 1943-03-22
Citizens Unit 10 Push
Action for 24-Hour
Drug Store Service
RondIe Highlands Group
Answers Opposition
Of Pharmacists

The Randle Highlands Citizens
Association will continue to demand
that one drug store be kept open "a
hours a day in each of the four
sections of the city, despite the
opposition of the District Phar-
maceutical Association. Inc, Joseph
H. Deckman, president, announced
today in releasing letters in the
controversy
advised DR.. George C. Rutland, Dis
trict health officer, that the proposal
OF the citizens association was in
distinct opposition to our efforts and
to the wishes of our Government
with respect to the conservation
program. This city is facing a def
mite shortage in registered phar-
macists which already is being felt.
This condition will grow steadily
more acute as more men are called
into armed services"
Service Inadequacy Denied.
The pharmaceutical group also
denied that it had failed to take
any steps to insure adequate service,
pointing out that 'our pharmacists
/ have always been ready to cooper
ate with the medical profession with
respect to the supplying of emer-
gency drugs and supplies, even to
the extent of reopening their stores
at various hours between midnight
and dawn in order to make these
supplies available
In reply. Mr., Deckman informed
Chairman Randolph of the House
DISTRICT Committee that "the will
ingness of druggists to open up on a
doctors request - is not in con-
currence with the testimony given
| at the meeting of the association
There were cases presented
to prove the reverse condition to
be true and near tragedies were de-
/ sCribed.
Emergency Need Cited.
Furthermore" Mr.. Deckman
added 1T is difficult to find the
/ owner Of drug stores name in an
emergency when time is a dominant
factor"
The original resolution of the as
soclation claimed that there WaS
only one drug store in the city oper
"a hours a day. MI. Deckman tolc
Mr.. Randolph that adequate drug
service was logical" in times whel
epldemics were threatened by the
abnormal conditions created by wal
in general and the current Wash.
lngton housing shortage in particu-
lar"
Evening star., 1943-01-03

issues and certain of Mr. WILKES friends
would have him do likewise. But he
could not, even if he would, keep silent
on the issue closest to his heart.
He believes that Americans everywhere
should discuss the peace and what is to
come after victory. Mr.. Willkie believes
that from within the Roosevelt admin
istration there is opposition to free dis
cussion of the peace, and opposition in
particular to Mr.. WILKES insistently re-
peated line that Russia and China. as
well as England and. America, must be
equal partners in the peace. He sees GER
tain clear evidences of an effort to de-
stroy his usefulness in advocating this
point of view.
Since Mr.. WILKES return from his trip
to Russia and China and the beginning
OF the North African invasion, there has
been effort to make it seem that he was
naive and foolish in advocating second
front" when without his knowledge such
a 'front.' was in preparation. Here for the
first tiLas the facts on the controversial
issue are presented.
President Roosevelt did not tell his
personal representative" of the North
African plan prior to Mr.. Wilkes depar-
t,ire on his globe-girdling trip. He first
heard OF It IN Egypt from 1t. Gen. Ber-
Evening star., 1943-01-03
BEW Conducts Global Business
Operations to Undermine Axis
Economic Warfare Experts Not Only Supply U. S.
With Needs, but Cut Vital Materials
From Under Feet of Hitler
BY James d. White,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

cordage fiber throughout Latin America
-abaca (manila hemp, sisal, ixtle, hene-
quen, pita, caroa, roselle, fique and ca
buya.
Never heard of most of 'em you'll say.
Never mind, BEW has the situation in
hand, and our ships will get their rope.
Includes Assistance Buying.
There's another type of BEW import
buying which is anything but small pota-
toes. You might call it assistance buy
ing good example is Brazil, where we
continue to purchase our normal peace
time quota of 100000 bags of coffee,
even though we haven't the shipping to
get it all out.
Vast stocks of this purchased coffee
are accumuiating-we'r gambling, in
sense, that We'll be able to get it out
and use it later on. To keep on buying
this coffee preserves Brazirs coffee
producing capacity and keeps her econ
omy from going On the rocks. In the
meantime We are shipping as much as
we can, and BEW officials think that
when world shipping resumes after the
war thereW be tremendous demand
for coffee as mankind goes back to
drinking it. In the meantime, coffee
beans keep fairly we'll
We're doing other assistance buying
in cocoa from many tropical countries,
long staple-iber cotton (Which we need,
incidentally from Peru, sugar from
Cuba, and, to certain extent, wool
from Australia.
Then there's that very important pre-
elusive buying that BEW is directing,
What actually happens is that we buy
up things in neutral countries which
Hitler needs badly-whether we need
them or not-just to keep him from
getting them. Thus we are buying
quicksilver in Spain and certain ores in
Turkey.
Hitler Knows Value.
All this buying is only one phase of
BEW's work, and if you think it isn't
important, just keep in mind that the
Axis knows all about economic warfare
and how vital an adjunct it is to military
operations.
H1tler's geopolitical institute at Munich
(though designed primarily to exploit
conquered countries) had much to do
with the successes of the German Army.
And when one of our submarines sank
boatload of japanese economic experts
there were 800 Of them on the Taiyo
Maru when she went down-we spiked,
for a time at least, japanese plans to
exploit the Dutch East Indies.
Our Board of Economic Warfare under
Vice President Wallace is the nearest
democratic approach to the geopolitical
institute, with emphasis on the word
democratic. For BEW is concerned only
with winning the war and keeping the
economy of the United Nations going at
the same time.
Under Mr.. Wallace, its executive di-
rector is Milo Perkins, self-made busi-
nessman from Texas best known for de-
vising the food stamp plan when he was
surplus marketing administrator
The board itself is composed of the
Secretaries of State, War, Navy, Treas
lry, Agriculture, the Attorney General
and the administrators of WPB, lease
lend and the Committee on Inter-Amer-
lean Affairs.
The board and its experts figure out
(See WHITE, Page B-3D
Evening star., 1943-01-03
BY Frank /. WeHer,
Associated Press Staff Writer.

way around, when it tried to to get Mr.
Ickes fired as NRA oil code administrator.
The past may explain the present
Mr.. Ickes, natural resources CON
servative," said on taking Office in 1888
that the Interior Department was an
"oil portrait" of the Teapot Dome scan-
dals and he was going to make some
changes. He put eight lawyers to work
on every public domain oil contract. In
terror executives feared nothing so much
as slipup in oil leases.
About that time the oil industry, which
had been fighting the Secretary over
conservation, lost its shirt because Of
overproduction and low prices. Crude
dropped to 10 cents barrel. Mr.. Ickes
had warned it would. Alfalfa Bill Mur-
ray, then Governor of Oklahoma, called
out the National Guard to close the oil
wells. Texas plugged her pumps. Thir-
ty-three Gil company delegates hurried
to Mr.. Ickes, saying something like this ::
''Ol is running out of our ears. We're
producing too much. Please make us
stop!" Mr.. Ickes had them by the ears.
But, whenT1he oil code went to work,
producers again howled for free enter
prise, the code was kicked out as uncon-
Evening star., 1943-01-03
ICKES AND OIL MEN SING MUTUAL PRAISES
War Drives Early Foes Into Each Others Arms

It's harder to say who started the COO
Ing between Secretary of Interior Ickes
and the Gil industry than to figure out
which came first. the chicken or the egg.
These historic opponents are very
SNUG about the whole thing. After
decade Of hating each other, suddenly
Mr.. Ickes:
The petroleum co-Ordinator for war
(Mr Ickesl and the oil industry work
together in cordial understanding and
every day the tie grows stronger.
The oil industry is Going its part to has
ten victory; patriotically, mstintingly,
efficiently. indefatigably = y Govern
ment does not wish to control it.
We appreciate each other"
Petroleum potentates:
THE oil industry is nightly lucky it
fell into the hands of Harold L. Ickes
during the war period This is the same
man whom we previously regarded as our
arch-enemy. He is doing a grand Job.
1t gives real pleasure to testify to
the fine. patriotic, intelligent. effective
work he is doing = = to his statesman
ship"
From Old-Line Foes.
These words come from such old-line
Harold haterS as William R. Boyd, jr.,
president of the American Petroleum In
stitute; Writ Franklin, president of the
Independent Petroleum Association;
Howard Pew, president of the Sun Oil
Co., and John Brown, president of So
cony-Vacuum.
Time was when Mr. Ickes and the oil
archangels worked up lather of purple
phrases whenever they mentioned each
other.
Some smart boys around here think
the lovey-dove business started when Mr..
Ickes went to bat with Government ra-
tioning outfits and got priorities for the
oil boys. Others are just mean enough
to suggest that President Roosevelt
scared them by proposing that Mr.. Ickes
take over the Labor Department-and
that would mean new and untried In
terror Secretary would become boss of
the war oil business.
Much as the ruggedly individualistic
oil industry hated the ruggedly individ-
ualistic Ickes all these years, it knew him
like an old shoe and hastened to tele-
phone and telegraph the White House
to say, in effect: "You can't do this to us
--or can you?" 1t remembered the other
Evening star., 1943-01-03

nard l.. Montgomery who told the Ameri-
can visitor that he had defeated Rom
mel's Afrika Korps. This was the basis
OF the Willkie statement that victory in
Egypt was assured. Gen. Montgomery
suggested that there might be an Ameri-
can invasion of the African continent
from the other end of the Mediterranean.
In Russia Mr.. Willkie discussed the
North African invasion at length with
high ranking Soviet officials. They took
the view, as they had earlier with Prime
Minister Churchill, that North Africa
was not actually second front" and
that it would not create sufficient diver
sion to aid beleaguered Russia 1t was
following these talks, and with full
knowledge that Stain had been informed
OF the coming North African action. that
Mr. Willkie made his second front state
ment.
Shortly before his recent speech in
Toronto, news story came out of
Canada stating that the city of Toronto
had decided against giving Willkie a re-
ception. In Toronto after his speech
Willkie was told by high official of On
tario Province that cancellation of the re-
ception had been suggested" by WASH
ington.
A British correspondent in New York,
Allstair Cooke, who writes for both the
London Times and the London Daily
Herald, came to Mr. Willkie recently for
an interview. In the course of that in
terview he showed Mr.. Willkie previous
dispatch to the London Times in which
a favorable reference to the defeated Re-
publican candidate had been deleted by
the American censor. The deleted ref
erence was as follows: And Wendell
Willkie, currently talking more sense to
the square audience than any living
Democrat, has been special victim Of
the blue pencil and If his opinions main
tain their present health, he may expect
to suffer still further"
These and other similar incidents Mr..
Willkie takes as evidence of desire on
the part Of the administration to shut
him up. But given his temperament,
such undercover opposition is all the
more incentive to fight.
They seem to think" says Mr.. Willkie,
that the peace should be private
peace, determined by q little inside
Continued on Page BIS, Column ~
Evening star., 1943-01-03

We will produce more airplanes than
all of the warning nations had in service
prior to our entry into the hostilities.
We will build more ship tonnage than
we had afloat prior to Pearl Harbor.
We will more than double the existing
number of tanks and increase the weight
of our artillery fire power beyond the
combined total of the Axis nations.
We will bring into the armed forces
additional millions of men and transport
and supply them on every fighting front
in the world.
Hundreds of New Ships.
We will have augmented our naval
strength with hundreds of new ships.
We will have definitely passed from
the end of the beginning to the Begin
ming of the end.
Miraculous as the Transformation from
peace to war has been, it has been equal
ly astounding to find that we could
draw upon our resources to the extent
we have already done with only a few
dislocations in our economic system.
The pinch in automobiles and other
durable goods came quickly, but we still
have cars, refrigerators and radios, and
with proper care they can be made to
last.
U-boat warfare curtailed the distribu-
ton of gasoline sugar, coal and coffee.
and there will be other dislocations, but
with cooperation minimum require
ments in all commodities will be pro-
vided.
AS matter of fact, the American
people were still able in 1912 to spend
more money for consumer goods and
services than they were in 1941. In the
year which closed II months ago, SIS
300 900 was spent for food, clothing,
rent, amuSements, etc, and in the last
IL months s81 100000 ,0O0 1t was not
until the last quarter of 1912 that the
wholesale and retail inventories began
to show a decline-a foretaste of search
ties which will increase as we throw
more and more of our might into the
global conflict.
Actually, the value of things there
were for us to buy increased until June
OF l942. On that date, the value of all
inventories amounted to 9311 900 ,O0O-
$4,000, 100000 more than was the case
in the same month of 1941.
A factor which became an actuality in
1912 and which some Americans fail to
take into account is that this country at
present is--in fact and not just in theory
the storehouse of freedom.
The United States now is the only
place to which the United Nations can
look for many absolutely essential war
supplies. We have to think in terms both
of our own Army and Navy-no matter
how large they may grow to be-but also
in terms of the millions of British fight
ing men, Russias millions of gallant SOL
diers, Chinas vast armies and territory,
and the absolute needs of our other
Evening star., 1943-01-03

stitutional overproduction returned and
Mr.. Ickes became very unhappy.
He clutched the substitute Connally
Hot Oil' Act to his bosom and sailed
forth to challenge flush production sales
in interstate commerce. Wells, he de-
clared, no longer would be "wildcatted
and ruined for meager 25 per cent of
their potential output. He piled heavy
fines on hot OIL bootleggers, but wound
up on Don Quixote when Illinois and
California refused to indorse Federal
and State compliance laws.
Finally, the courts made Standard Oil
OF California, after eight years litiga-
ton, give back to the public the famed
square-mile Elk Hill oil deposits and pay
the Government $26 900 900 for what they
had sold for private profit.
With whoop, Mr. Ickes' oil lawyers
jumped on every lease extant from Re-
publican administrations, and the in
dustry-its turn behind the eight ball
again-screamed," This is going too far"
1t called Mr. Ickes a tyrant dictator,
czar, screwball-and some names news
papers never used HE says this is
conservation" they rallied, but we say it
is regimentation and Federal control"
Threat From Ickes.
Mr.. Ickes replied that if industry didn't
stop what he called "squandering" nat
ural resources, the peoples government"
would declare the whole shebang a pub
lie utility and subject it to interstate
commerce laws.
I'm this country" he said I'VE have
thrown away our natural wealth with
both hands. Sometimes we have in
dulged in waste simply because OF our
ability to waste"
BY the time peak oil production
reached almost 1,500,0G0,0oo barrels a
year. officials estimated we were using
up one-twentieth of all known reserves
every eight months. Mr.. Ickes tried
every means to seal in the ground what
he called "fightin' oil against Hitler,
urging foreign imports to meet domestic
demands.
Oil, he said, will win or lose this war.
We weren't in it, then. Promoters said
Mr.. Ickes was visionary when he
warned in June l94l, that gas and oil
(see 1cKEs, Page B.sJ