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Evening star., 1943-10-22
Knox |ndorses Proposal
To LET Servicemen Vote
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary of the Navy Knox
believes every man in uniform or
out of uniform should be given a
chance to vote-but the prosecution
OF the war is our first consideration.
Testifying before the House Elec-
tions Committee yesterday on legis-
lation to give members of the armed
forces anywhere in the world the
right to vote by absentee ballot, Mr.
Knox said he favored "in general a
law of this character"
James P. Selvage. assistant to
Chairman Harrison Spangler of the
Republican National Committee, said
the committee favored making it
possible for every soldier and sailor
to vote"
Evening star., 1943-10-22

One hundred enlisted men and
officers and an Army nurse-the
largest group of service personnel
ever to be naturalized in District
Court-yesterday swore allegiance
to the United States in brief cere-
monies presided over by Justice F..
Dickinson Let's Sixteen countries
were represented.
The ceremonies were interrupted
when a soldier tainted during the
lurlsts reading from Lincolns
Gettysburg Address. He was re-
vived Immediately and insisted on
returning to his feet to take the
oath.
The lone woman in the group was
Second 1t. Shirley E. Rogers.
native of Montreal, Canada. She
came to the United States a wear
Evening star., 1943-10-22
Ga|Iinger Employees
Condemn Proposal 10
Dismiss DR.. Cake
s. Sign Round-Robin
Affirming Faith in Head
Of tuberculosis Ward

The recommendation by a Senat,
subcommittee that DR.. Charles P
Cake be dismissed as head of the
tuberculosis Department of Gal.
llnger Hospital today was termed by
b3 department employees as "a ridicu.
lous, biased condemnation of sim
cere, honest man."
A round-robin signed by all the
employees pointed out that 1T is in
deed ironical that the very patients
whom DR.. Cake has been accused OF
neglecting, have raised their voices
in praise of him and have loudly
protested even the thought of hi!
dismissal Our respect for him, both
as a capable, earnest physician anc
As fine man, is unchallenged.
I'VE protest the unfair recon-
mendation that Dr. Cake be dis
missed. We feel that his loss to Gal.
linger Hospital and to the com
munity as whole would be ir'
reparable."
Employees signing the statemen
Included physicians, registered
nurses. student nurses, orderlies anc
other workers.
The Senate subcommittee urgec
DR.. Cakes removal because he ha
permitted an atmosphere of callous
ness. Indifference and neglect of pa
tients to pervade that ward" add
ing that tuberculosis patients ART
found to have access to other part
of the hospital and grounds anc
there are great many cases o
patients departing from the hos
pital without the consent or knowl
edge of the authorities
Mason Defended.
Meanwhile, defense of Commits.
sioner Mason and other District Of.
ficials involved in the Gallinger in
vestigation came from O. K. Fike
superintendent of the Miami Valley
Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, and for.
mer director of Doctors Hospita
here. Mr.. Fike is attending the con.
vention of the Maryland-District Of
Columbia Hospital Association, Of
which he is immediate past presi.
dent.
While I was in the District" Mr.
Fike said, Il had frequent occasion
to see Mr. Mason and have never
found him ufco-operative as far a.
hospitals are concerned. I think hi!
intensive efforts in trying to get ad.
ditional hospital beds for the Dis.
trict under the Lanham Act com.
priSed the best answer to the Senate
committees charges"
Although he said he was not per
sonally familiar with the admins
tration of Gallinger, Mr. Fike saic
he believed the investigating com
mittee should have gone into othe
institutions. including voluntar,
hospitals, to ascertain conditions be
fore drawing any conclusions.
Cites War Difficulties.
The trouble is" he said, 9TH,
committee was drawing a compar
ison between the hospital as it i
today and the hospital which mem
bers of the committee believe ough
to exist. The weakness in this rea
soning is that no institutions O
services, private or public, today ar,
what they ought to be because o
rationing and manpower and ma
terialS shortages
AS far as DR.. George C. Ruhlanc
is concerned, Mr.. Fike. said he be-
lleved his services as District healtf
officer were efficient
Evening star., 1943-10-22

ceremony included Chairman RAN
dolph of the House District Com
mittee; Mrs. James Clement Dunn
chairman of the Civilian Executive
Committee in charge of the cam
paign; Capt. Bernice Keplinger
WAC staff officer for the military
district. and 1t. Helen K. Cooper,
in charge of the WAC recruiting
Office.
The campaign, for which the Dis
trict quota is $50, began September
27 and will be concluded Decem-
Der T.
The inductees were to leave Union
Station at $3.50 pm. for their basic
training at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
Evening star., 1943-10-22
Scouts to Hold Court

Arlington County Boy Scouts will
meet at 8 pm. tomorrow for the
court of honor at Washington-Lee
High School auditorium. Commits
sioner H. B. Locking announced
Star Life and Eagle badges will be
awarded as we'll as first and second
class. badges, Mr.. Locking said
Parents and friends Of Scouts are
urged to attend.
Evening star., 1943-10-22
Young Presents District FIuq
To 125 New WAC Recruits

Commissioner J. Russell Young
presented the District flag ito COM
memorate the spirit of the women
of Washington and of the entire
United States" to 125 newly induct-
ed WACS in ceremonies today in the
caucus room of the Old House Of
flee Building.
The new recruits, the first WAC
detachment to leave the District
under the new all-States recruiting
campaign, were sworn into the Army
by Maj. H. B. Rumsey, adjutant
general of the Military District OF
Washington.
Other speakers at the induction
Evening star., 1943-10-22

and half ago, working in hospitals
in New York and Baltimore. She
entered the Army Nurse Corps at
Fort Belvoir.
Among enlisted men from Fort
Belvoir taking the oath was Pvt.
Frances Staetenburg, 38, of Antwerp
Belgium, holder of a Dunkirk cam
paign ribbon with silver star. In
the Belgian Army since 1925, he
found himself aboard a Belgian
tanker carrying oil for his country's S
air force when the evacuation of
Dunkirk began.
His ship carried some 27O men of
the British Expeditionary Force
safely to England the first trip. The
second trip they evacuated $50. but
on the way home two Nazi planes
strafed the decks. killing nearly
half the soldiers. he said
Evening star., 1943-10-22
II Refriqerutors Stolen

Twelve electric refrigerators. val
ued at s1.302. were stolen yester-
day from a Martin Construction Co.
project at Second street and Missis-
slppl avenue Sc, William S. Pritch-
ard, company superintendent, re-
ported to police.
Evening star., 1943-10-22
"a ItoIiun Subs Sunk

LONDON, Oct. % (R.-The Berlin
radio said today that the Rome
radio asserted that "a Italian sub
marines had been sunk during the
war with the loss of their crews.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-15

Mult-colored novelty patterns on white or pastel
backgrounds. Extra heavy and closely woven
cher.lies. full size. Wide choice OF pastels from
which you can choose.
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Five Senators Seek
Florida Canal Funds
Introduce Amendment
To Civil Functions Bill
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Advocates of the Florida barge
canal as a wartime transportation
need carried their fight for its con-
struction to the Senate today
through introduction of an amend
ment to the War Department civil
functions appropriation bill.
Two Republicans, Senators Bridges
Of New Hampshire and Barbour of
New Jersey, joined with three
Southern Democrats, Senators Pep
per and Andrews, both of Florida,
and Maybank of South Carolina, in
offering the amendment which
would provide $44,O00,000 for con-
struction of the canal
If the Senate should approve the
amendment, the bill would have to
go back to the House for action.
The Florida canal item was turned.
down recently by the House Appro-
priations Committee by a 2l-to-19
vote.
= The amendment, along with the
bill, has been referred to the Senate
Appropriations Committee, of which
Senator McKellar, Democrat, of
Tennessee Is acting chairman.
The original bill, providing funds
for maintenance of harbors and
other civil works carried on by the
Army engineers, is expected to pro-
duce no extended debate in the Sem
ate unless the canal proposal is ap-
proved by the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee.
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Mrs. M. J. Krunichuck
Dies in Massachusetts

Mrs. Michael J. Kranichuck, ma
tive of Washington, died Tuesday at
her home in South Hadley Falls,
Mass, following a brief illness. Fu-
neral services will be held tomorrow
in Holyoke, Mass, with burial in
South Hadley Falls.
She was the wife of DR.. Michael j.
Kranichurch and was the former
Miss Marguerite Topson OF this city.
She is survived by her husband, her
mother, Mrs. Margaret Topson Of
Washington; two sisters. Mrs. Louis
E. Thomas and Mrs. Leo Carr, both
Of this city, and brother, Leo Top
son, Clinton, Md.
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Pay Bill May Pass
Senate This Afternoon

The Senate late today may pass
wartime Government pay bill,
dealing more literally with the low
est salary brackets than the tenn
porary law which expires April 30.
For the majority of departmental
employees the Senate measure, like
the House bill, merely continues for
the duration Of the war the PIG per
cent raise granted in December for
a 20 per cent longer work week.
The Senate bill, however, gives a
nat $500 increase to those whose
hours cannot be measured for over
time purposes and minimum of
$500 to any other employe whose
overtime pay on the percentage basis
would come to less than $500.
The only other major difference
in the Senate bill is the lifting of the
ban in the temporary law against
any increase that would run basic
salary above $1,000.
The House and Senate are agreed
on continuation of the rule that for
those in the higher brackets the in
creaSeS snail be computed only on
the first $4,000 OF base pay.
The pay bill is due to be taken up
today, after passage of the $4O, O,OOO,-
900 appropriation to recruit and
place farm labor.
A preliminary debate on the pay
bill crept into discussion late yes
terday OF the Bankhead farm bill.
designed to lift the parity price of
some farm crops.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Oklahoma, Bankhead bill sup
porter, noted that the Government
pay bill was coming up next and OBJ
served that mo one raises the cry
of imitation" against that measure.
as they do against bills To- increase
farm income Senator Thomas ex-
planned, however, he was not op-
posing the wartime increases for
Federal employees.
Evening star., 1943-04-08

African ports and even if ballast
were available, the loading of it
would prolong the stay in port and
result in missing the return convoy,
thus wasting much valuable ship
time, not to mention the increased
exposure to enemy action to which
such ships would be subjected.
Therefore, War Shipping Ad-
ministration has concluded that as
long as the foregoing conditions pre-
vail and the winter weather con-
tinues, it will adhere to the practice
OF providing vessels sailing to North
Africa with the requisite amount of
dry ballast for the return voyage.
The question has been raised as
to why water ballast cannot be used.
The fact is that the available tanks
in ships cannot hold enough water
to bring about sufficient immersion
OF the propeller and rudder to main
tain maneuverability under adverse
weather conditions, especially in
COnyOy"
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Lodges,C|ubs Here Ac'
To Support Second
War Loan Drive
Selling Groups Formed
To Put Over D. c. Quote
In 13-BiIIion Compuion

Preliminary activity in the Sec
ond War Loan drive which gets
underway officially on Monday was
begun today by several Washington
organizations which are setting up
selling organizations to put over the
new $4,000, 100000 security issue.
The campaign received its initial
impetus in White House ceremony
yesterday when President Roosevelt
acted as salesman and staff en-
ployes as buyers.
Philip Murray, president OF the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions. meantime, appealed to all
members of the CIO to support the
Victory bond campaign by buying
to the utmost.
I'VE must face the fact" Mr.. Mur-
ray said, that the increasing cost
Of the war is placing additional
financial obligations on all loyal
Americans. Your Government must
raise additional billions of dollars
by sound methods which will not in
crease our cost of living and dis
locate present money values in a
way which will penalize all wage
earners. Here is your chance to
help"
Moving forward to help reach the
Districts $70,0O0,000 goal, of which
S42, 100000 is to be obtained from
the public aside from banks, the
Samuel Gompers Masonic Lodge,
Lions Club and Rotary Club have
made campaign plans.
The Lions Club has appointed a
special committee headed by w. C.
Hanson, chairman, who described
his plans at the weekly meeting of
the club at the Mayflower Hotel.
Masonic Dance Tonight.
The Masonic lodge will hold din
ner dance at the Hotel Statler to-
night, when it is expected there will
be heavy subscriptions to the bond
campaign. DR.. Maurice A. Goldberg
is chairman of the program. Carl H.
Claudy, ST., grand master of Masons
in the District, will deliver the prin-
cipal address and a war hero from
Guadalcanal will tell of his personal
experiences. Lynn Allison will sing.
The District War Savings Com
mittee announced that this city
again had exceeded its monthly
quota of Series E bonds during
March. Records show there were
sales of $7,252,0O0 during the past
month, or 1l.6 per cent more than
had been assigned as its goal Since
quotas on these bonds we're assigned
to the Capital last December, bonds
have been sold here in the sum Of
s29, 100000, or 10 per cent more than
the combined quotas for the four
month period.
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Mrs. Asfor in Reno
To Obtain Divorce
BY The Associated Press


NEW YORK, April 8.-Mrs. John
Jacob Astor. Sd. the former Ellen
Tuck French, has established res
idence in Reno, New, preparatory
to obtaining divorce, Mr.. Astor' s
New York Office announced today.
Charles Gilbert, Mr.. Astor's Sec
retary, said that in a recent agree =
ment Mr.. Astor settled $1,OO0,0 900
outright on Mrs. Astor, who relin-
quished all claim to any of Mr..
Astor's other property, including
several farms, two of which are in
Canada. Each will have custody
of their child, Billy. 7. six months
of each year, under terms of the
agreement.
Mr.. Astor was out of town today
transacting business for his farms,
and the secretary said he did not
know when he would return to his
New York apartment.
The Astors were married at a
fashionable ceremony in Newport,
r. l., June 80, 1884, and have been
separated for several years.
The divorce is to be an amicable
one, the secretary said, adding that
neither had romantic interest in
another at the present time.
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Douglas Explains Use
Of African Sands
To Ballast Ships
No Cargo Is Available
For Use on Return
Trip, Deputy Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Lewis Douglas, a deputy war ship
ping administrator, said today that
vessels sailing for North Africa
would continue to carry ballast for
use on the return trip because ian
adequate supply of cargo or dry bal
last is not available in North
African ports"
Reports some three weeks ago
that these ships were carrying sand
across the ocean for ballast on the
return trip prompted the House
Merchant Marine Committee to ask
for the shipping administration S
explanation.
In memorandum made public
by the committee without comment,
Mr.. Douglas said, I'm the circum-
stances, there is little question as
to the need of ballasting vessels for
the return voyage from North
Africa, either with cargo or dry
ballast.
without such ballast" he added,
ships may become unmanageable
in bad weather when in convoy, and
a single unmanageable ship in a
convoy may be source of danger
not only to itself but to other ships
in the party.
IAN adequate supply of cargo or
dry ballast is not available in North
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Peace Talks Called
In WaIkout Of 1900
AT 7 ingalls, Plants
Alabama Iron Workers
leove Jobs in Dispute
Over Length of Shifts
BY the Associated Press.


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April g.
War Production Board and United
States Cancellation Service repre-
sentatives arranged conferences to-,
day with management and union
officials in seeking to end walkouts-
which hold approximately 1900 |
workers idle at two ingalls, Iron |
Works Co. plants.
Both company and union officials
said the work stoppage resulted from.
a disagreement as to whether the
men would work nine-hour shifts
SIX days week with the morning ,
shift reporting at 6 am. daily, or
seven eight-hour shifts weekly with
the morning shift reporting at 7 am.
The walkout began at the COM
pany's southside plant yesterday
after union representatives charged
that the plant gates were locked on
some 270 workers when they re-
ported at am. 1t later spread to
the Birmingham Tank Co., ingalls,
subsidiary
E. G. Glazner, special representa-
tive of the AFL International As
sociation of Bridge, Structural and
Ornamental Iron Workers, said the
men worked under supervision of
| the War Labor Board, which had
directed that the company leave in
status quo an agreement under
which the men worked three eight
hour shifts daily seven days a week.
The union official said the walk
out at Birmingham Tank was in
sympathy with the stoppage at the
southside plant and was un-
authorized
| Robert T. ingalls,, sr., chairman
of the board for the company, said
| the firm had changed to the nine
hour. six-a-week shifts last October
because of the press of war work.
Approximately 200 men are en-
ployed at Birmingham Tank and
about 1000 at the other plant.
Evening star., 1943-04-08
1Nictory Gardens

the bush varieties and bear over a
longer period. The bush varieties
need to be planted every two to three
weeks until the first of August If
continuous harvest is to be had. Pole
beans are easier to dust-eaSier to
protect from the bean beetle.
The choice between wax and green
beans Is largely a matter OF in
dividual taste.
Occasionally, beans are troubled
with mosaic" diseases. Where that
difficulty is encountered, only those
varieties known to be resistant
should be used. All kinds of beans
are subject to continuous and ruin
Gus attack by the Mexican bean
beetle.
Every gardener planning to grow
beans should buy duster with an
extension tube and a package of
bean beetle" dust (retenone or
pyrethrum so that as soon as the
beans are we'll started, protection
may be given them. Busting or
spraying, however, is of no avail un-
less it is applied to the underside of
the leaves. That is why an extension
tube is necessary-to reach under the
foliage. Lead arsenate Injuries the
bean foliage and is poisonous-use
rotenone or pyrethrum.
The varieties of beans recon-
mended by the University of Mary
land for the Victory Garden are
Green, bush-Stringless green pod,
tendergreen and giant stringless
green pod. Bush-Pencil pod black
wax and round pod kidney wax.
Green, pole-Kentucky wonder. Wax,
pole-Golden cluster wax.
Beans to be of top quality, should
be harvested while tender and free
from fiber. When left on the vine
beyond that stage, they should be
allowed to ripen for use as shelled
beans. For canning, it is we'll, to de-
pend upon spring planted crops.
Clip and Saue for your Victory
| garden Scr1pbOok.
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Canada Sends More Flyers
And Auxi|iaries 10 Britain
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A. BRITISH PORT, April 8.-Re-
Inducements for the Royal Cana
dian Air Force overseas and q group
of the air force womens division
have arrived In Great Britain and
soon will be hard at work on the
ground and in the air.
The men came ashore singing after
a trip in which a submarine alert
was sounded at one point in the
journey. The women in the contin-
gent spent four hours in the lounge
OF their ship with their lifebelts
fastened during the alert.
The airmen included both flying
and ground crews. Some of the men
are instructors who had been flying
In Canada since Canada's war decla-
ration.
With the Canadians was q group Of
French seamen from the French bat
neship Richelieu. now tied up In
New York.
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Rotarians Are Told
How War Bond Drive
Can Check Initiation
Members Heor Fleming;
Atwood Slated to Head
Club on July l.

Robert v. Fleming, president of
the Riggs National Bank, outlined
the Governments problem of avoid
ing imitation while financing a war
to the Rotary Club at its luncheon
meeting yesterday. He spoke on
the Treasury's second war loan
campaign for $4,000, ,000, 900 start
ing Monday.
At the same meeting it was an
nounced that Albert w. Atwood,
writer now with the National Geo.
graphic Magazine, will be president
of the club for the year starting
July l, 1943. Howard LIE Roy will
be vice president and Grant Leet,
Dan Holland and Albert Lucas will
become directors.
With productive capacity at an all
time peak the Nation will produce
STE, ,000, 5000 worth of goods this
year, but 100000 ,000, 900 worth of
these goods will be the materials
of war, Mr.. Fleming explained.
That leaves $85, ,000, ,000, 900 worth
Of goods, but about $4,000 0OO, 900
worth of these will be for the re-
placement of railroad and public
utility equipment. That leaves in
turn $4,000, ,000,000 worth of goods
for the public, but the public is 60
ing to have SOC, 900 ,0O0, 900 to spend,
even after 1t pays debts and saves
money as usual, Mr.. Fleming ex-
planned.
The Sc, 100000, 900 difference is
the "inflationary gap" which, Mr..
Fleming continued, the Government
is trying to close by sale of bonds
and by taxation. Otherwise, he
said, there is danger that these un-
spendable billions will force prices
up despite ceilings, cause imitation
and demoralize our civilian economy
behind our fighting fronts.
Each of the Rotary Clubs 26 ia
bles will have a bond leader, with
competition among the groups for
the biggest sale of bonds to the
Rotarian acquaintances.
Evening star., 1943-04-08
No. As

another have been No 45
important i TENS
OF food since his
tory began. While most of us think
in terms of green, wax and lima
beans. there are many others. How
ever, with the exception Of the soy
bean, which has recently come into
the vegetable garden, they are of
little or no interest.
Beans are q warm weather crop
and should not be planted much be-
fore the end of the first week in
April-even then the first planting
should be looked upon as a trial
Beans are easily handled and should
be adequately spaced at planting
time-3 to inches apart in drills
an inch deep-late spring and sum-
mer sown seed-2 inches deep. The
rows should be at least is inches
apart, l8 to 20 inches if space per-
mits. since the foliage, if disturbed
while wet, tends to rust.
Soaking the seed overnight tn
warm water speeds termination by
several days. 1t is good garden
practice to inoculate the seed, unless
beans or peas have been grown in
the garden within the past or 3
years. One pound of seed will plant
$50 feet of row and produce about
bushels of beans.
The choice between pole and bush
beans depends largely upon the
effort required to provide support
for the pole beans. While it takes
pole beans a week or two longer to
come into bearing, they will outyield
Evening star., 1943-04-08
Pollard 10 Set Hearings
In Alexandra April 19
81 the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Judge Robert N. Pollard of the
United States District Court will be
In Alexandria April 10 to set the
dates for hearing several cases be-
fore the June term.
Although no date has been set for
the court session. Mrs. Elva Brum-
stetter, clerk. said it probably would
be some time in May. No criminal
cases will be heard then, she said.
Attorneys with cases they want
placed on the docket have been
asked to appear at the United States
District Court in the Alexandria
Post ONCE Building at noon April 10.