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Evening star., 1943-12-09
Policeman Maghan' S
|ntoxication Case
Due in Court Today
Former Detective Suing
Officials Over Demotion
Suspended From Duty

Policeman Robert J. Maghan, jr.,
whose suspension without pay from
the police force. was approved yes
terday by the Commissioners, was
scheduled to appear in Police Court
today for hearing on charges of
intoXicatior lodged against him
Sunday morning at the seventh pre-
cinct
Policeman Magnan, who was re-
Gently reassigned from work as de-
teCtive sergeant TO uniform patrol
duty, last month filed a suit for
$l50000 damages against the Dis
trict government, Maj Edward j.
Kelly. superintendent of police,
Commissioner Jonn Russell Young
and Assistant Superintendent OF
Police Robert j. Barrett, head of the
Detective Bureau.
Inspector Harvey G.. Callahan.
acting major and superintendent of
police, recommended to the Com
mis5ionerS that the tentative sus-
pension ordered by 1t Earl P Hart
man of No be approved Inspec-
tor Callahan's report to the Com
missioners said that Policeman
Maghan, while off duty and in ci-
vlllan clothes, was brought to the
seventh precinct early Sunday from
a parking lot, where he was found
seated in his parked car.
"On observation by 1t. Hartman
acting captain of the seventh pre-
cinct, Policeman Maghan was found
to be under the influence of intoxi-
cants to such an extent as to unfit
him for the performance of police
duty and he was tentatively sus-
pended at 7:35 am. December S,
l943, by 1t. Hartman and booked
on the arrest records of the seventh
precinct charged with intoxication, -
the report said. He was subse-
quently released upon the deposit
of $40 collateral for his appearance
in Police Court on December 8,
1943."
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Worcester County 10 Get
Food Production Award
BY the Associated Press

BY me Associated Press.
COLLEGE PARK. Md. Dec. g.
Worcester County will receive the
war food "A" for the most outstand-
ing achievements by a Maryland
county in food production this year.
Joseph H. Blandford, chairman
OF the Maryland Agriculture De-
partment War Board, announced
Worcester County had been nomi-
mated for the honor by his office
and approval had been given by
the National War Food Admins
tration and the Army.
Mr.. Blandford said the Eastern
Shore county had increased its Irish
potato acreage by 1000 acres. in
creased sweet potato acreage by the
largest percentage of any county in
the Safe, maintained the highest
percentage of normal tomato acre
age, obtained 100 per cent certifi-
cation on canneries in the county
for paying Government support
prices to producers of canning crops
and led the States % counties in
increasing poultry production
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Yeoman From Warrenton
Commended for Heroism

Secretary Of the Navy Knox yes
terday commended Lester Franklin
Schwab, yeoman, third class, U. S
~, for unselfish courage and endur-
ance as member of an armed guard
crew Of an American merchantmen
which was torpedoed and sunk at
night by an enemy submarine.
Yeoman Schwab is a native OF
Warrenton, Va. where he was born
on January 81. 1924, and is son OF
Mrs. Grace Florence Schwab, who
lives at IS K street NV. in this city
He was one of Navy gun crew
who refused to leave the sinking
ship in the hope of coming to grips
with the enemy submarine which
had sent torpedo into the vessel
the citation explained.
Shortly before the ship went dowr
Yeoman Schwab and the crew took
to the remaining lifeboat and dur.
ing the ensuing 10 exhausting DAYS
on the open seas before reaching
land every man displayed remark.
able fortitude. courageously main.
tanning efficiency and morale a,
exceptionally high level"
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Excessive Wine CHARGES
To Be Halted by 0PA
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 9.-The
OPA moved today to halt excessive
charges on light wines that are
estimated to be costing Virginians
more than $500,000 a month.
In a circular sent to all Icens-
ees of the ABC Board, the OPA
called attention to the fact that
a retailer is allowed to markup his
product only so per cent. Investi-
cations have shown that in some
instances, the markup in effect is
nearer 200 per cent, and that a
large number of the smaller licens-
ees are above the legitimate ceiling
set by maximum price regulation
effective August IA.
p Violators are subject to criminal
penalties, civil enforcement action
license suspension proceedings, and
suits for triple damages, aside from
the possibility of having their
licenses revoked.
Under the order, many of the
wines now selling for about s1.5O
a fifth will be reduced to less than
81.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Winchester Man Killed
In Bottle in Italy

WINCHESTER, Va, Dec. 9.-John
L. Bean, who recently received a
letter from his son. Corpl Samuel
M. Bean, infantryman, stationed in
Italy, saying he was we'll and not to
worry about him, yesterday was
notified by the War Department
that his son had been killed in action
November 8.
The soldier had written that he
had been given a "breather" after
severe combat duty, but would re-
turn to the front soon. Two brothers
and four sisters also survive.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Maryland d-District
Clio Council Re-eIects
De Dominicis, Katz
Stote Labor Relations
Act Is Included in
Legislative Program
Sp the Associated Press

4
CUMBERLAND, Md. Dec. 9-Re-
suits of the balloting for officers of
the Maryland and District OF Co.
lumbia Industrial Union Council
were declared official today. with
both President Ulisse De Dominicis
and Secretary-treasurer Sidney R.
Katz being reelected to their jobs.
A voclferous protest from men,
bers of Baltimore Local No. 43 of
the International Union of Marine
and Shipbuilding Workers against
the reelection of the two officers
last night brought an apology on the
floor from Benjamin Gravy Of Local
43. Mr.. De Dominicis declared that
the incident. which he very much
regretted was to be considered
closed.
Apology Ruled Out.
Nick Voldick, leader of the pro-
testing minority of Local 43. con-
tested the apology from Mr.. GRAVY
and the president ruled the apology
out of order.
/ Nat Klein of the United Retail
Wholesale and Department Store
Employees Association, Local 327, o1
Baltimore was nominated to oppose
Mr.. Katz.
Joseph E. Craig of the United
Automobile Workers. Local HAP OF
Hagerstown. was named to oppose
Mr.. De Dominicis.
! There were Is nominati tions fol-
vice president, from which Is were
to be elected.
The council, in final session
adopted legislative program call
ing for a Maryland labor relations
act, tWo-year terms for all legis-
lators, a State nutrition agency and
State purchase of toll bridges and
ferries serving war workers pri-
marily.
Ask More Compensation.
Several changes in the State un-
employment compensation law were
proposed by the council They in
cluded an increase in the benefit
period to 26 weeks and a rise in
benefits to two-thirds of the work
er's regular earrings plus adequate
additions" for dependents. The CIO
also asked repeal of the so-called
experience rating.
A special session of the Mary
land General Assembly would be
necessary to consider the legislation
the preface of the program de-
clared, and said the present atti-
tude of Congress is today nearly
identical with the long time re-
dictionary majority at Annapolis
with ample support by the Gov
ernor."
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Baltimore Firm Files
Low Bid Of $181,375
For New Reservoir
10-MiI|ion- Gallon Water
Oval Expected to Supply
Anocostio for Is Years

The lowest bid so far received for
the new 10000, ,O0O-gallon water res
ervoir to serve the Anacostia area
is one for $18l,375 from the Balti-
more Contractors, 1t was announced
at the District Building yesterday
If no lower bids are received, engi-
neer officials expect the award to
be made in the near future.
District engineer officials said that
work is to start shortly on the new
reservoir, to be completed within
three months from the start of con-
struction work. The three month
requirement, officials explained, is to
insure that adequate supply will be
available for the eastern part of the
city before the hot weather of next
year.
Designed to augment the present
Fort Stanton Parks 3,000000-g gallon
installation, it will be adjacent to it
at the head of w street Sc. So
far as officials can estimate popula-
ton increases, 1t is expected that
the added supply will be sufficient
to serve Anacostia and nearby Sec
tions for at least 25 years.
Engineers say that the new reser-
voir will have several unique fea-
lures. 1t will be oval shape like a
stadium, with sloping ends and sides
to eliminate high vertical walls, and
no steel or iron reinforcements will
be installed. 1t will not be rooted,
as the present reservoir, until con-
struction metal is available.
The old rectangular tank, built in
1882, will be emptied and renovated
on the completion of the new one
and the Water Division hopes to
install a chlorination unit for the
Anacostia section before warm
weather.
Bids received to date range from
the Sl81 900 of the Maryland firm
to s320,000 by New York corpora
ton.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Drop in Hog Production
Expected for Virginia
BY the Associated Press.

oS inc hSSOCl8IfG preSs.
RICHMOND. Va, Dec. 9.-Vir.
ginia stands to lose this years rec.
ord increase in hog production be-
cause OF the present wave of selling
by farmers, L. M. Walker. jr., State
Commissioner of Agriculture, said
yesterday,
Mr.. Walker said he expected hogs
to be scarce and hard to buy next
spring and "it looks like we are
going back to where We were before
interest was stimulated in hog pro-
duction."
Meanwhile. J. H, Meek, director
of the State Division of Markets
sent a telegram to War Food Ad-
minstrator Marvin Jones request
ing a readjustment in support of
prices on hogs. In a previous wire to
Price Administrator Chester Bowles
he said. Chaotic conditions in hog
markets are causing great loss of
food"
Mr.. Meek, in his wire to Food Ad-
minstrator Jones, said the support
prices on hogs are hurting pro-
ducers instead of helping"
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Lodging House Code
Amended 10 PenaIize
Room-Law VioIators
Regulation Is Aimed at
Borders Taking In
Additional Persons

Regulations governing lodging,
rooming and boarding houses were
amended yesterday to penalize those
who violate the law in regard
to the number of persons who may
sleep in one room.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Vernon E. West, chairman of the
Regulations Committee, informed
the Commissioners that 'it appears
at present, after the proprietor of
a rooming house has rented room
to the proper number of persons
they have, without the knowledge
and consent of the proprietor, taken
in additional roomers.
The proprietor is not to blame
since he did not consent to the ad-
ditional roomers. The purpose Of
this amendment is to impose the
penalty on those whose presence
causes the over-occupancy. Fines
range up to $500 for violations
The Commissioners also agreed
to change in the regulation which
would require a toilet for each 10
persons in the cases of properties
with outside toilets. Under present
regulations an outside toilet is one
permitted in building without
inside water and sewer connections
The effect of the present regula-
ton was that homes with water
and sewer connections for only a
kitchen sink were technically re-
qulred to have an inside toilet be-
cause of the inside connection. Mr.
West said that in view of the short
age OF bath room equipment it was
recommended that in such cases out
side toilets be permitted in the case
of existing buildings for the dura-
ton OF the emergency and six
months afterwards
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Christmas Club Mails
Checks for S151,OOO

Checks amounting to $l5l 900 have
been mailed to Alexandria Christ
mas Club members by the Alexan-
dria National Bank.
Luther H. Dudley, vice president
and cashier of the bank, said 1900
depositors received checks, a much
larger number than in previous
years. He added that January /
is the deadline for becoming mem
bers Of the Christmas club for 1914.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
New Arlington School
MAY Be Lost Over
Site Difficulties
Surveyors Ordered
From Property by
Irute Landowners

Inability to select site for a pro-
posed $279,000 school building in the
vicinity of the Henry G. Shirley
Homes in Arlington County may re-
suit in the loss of the school to the
county, it was learned today.
The project, approved last April
by the Federal Works Agency, was
delayed after bids for construction
of the building had been advertised.
A building site on the Stoneburner
property, South Glebe road and the
Army and Navy drive, was rejected.
Another delay occurred this week
when Mrs. Frances Lee Sickels,
owner of the land on which the
Shirley Homes are situated, ordered
surveyors from her land.
VIA officials said several sites
now are under consideration for the
building, including the Sickels prop
erty.
Basil M. De Lashmutt. Arlington
County board member, whose firm
was engaged to survey the various
sites for the building, said his party
of surveyors was ordered off Mrs.
Sickels' property last Saturday. He
said Mrs. Sickels stated that he
would be treated as q trespasser il
his engineers again attempted to
survey her property.
Study Future Plans.
Mr.. De Lashmutt said he told
Mrs. Sickels that he had been or
dered by VIA to make the survey.
He said he would confer with off,
cials today on future steps in COM
pletlng surveys Of the property.
Mrs. Sickels was reported to have
placed value Of $4,000 an acre
on her property and to have stated
that she was not interested in selling
1t as a site for a public building,
F. L. Helm OF Public Buildings ADJ
mlnistration, the agency which will
construct the building, said bids for
construction had been recalled when
the Stoneburner location was turned
down. He said the building could
have been nearly completed by this
time. Priorities on the building eX-
pire March 30 1914.
Fletcher Kemp, superintendent OF
county schools, said he vas not ac-
eualnted with the Sickel5 size. but
that he understood property at
South TWenty-thiyd street. vast Of
RIDGE road, was under considers
atom.
FiaAs call for 26-leom. one
story building Of brick veneer con-
struction. The building would con-
tain manual training shops and
would be leased to the county by
VIA.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Postwar Projects Board
Sought in Montgomery

A resolution to ask for appoint
ment by the Montgomery County
commissioners of a special commit
tee to assist the board in consider
ing postwar projects will be dis
cussed at the monthly meeting OF
the County Civic Federation at
pm. Monday in the Bethesda Ele-
mentary School.
The Federation also is expected to
resume consideration of resolution
tabled at last months meeting, in
dorsing the operation by the WASH
ington Suburban Sanitary Commits
sion of trash and garbage collec-
ton system in the county.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Maryland Finds New Jobs
For 3,4O0 Ex-Servicemen
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Dec. 9.-Records Of
the veterans unemployment repre-
sentative of the Maryland War
Manpower Commission disclosed
yesterday that so far 3,400 discharged
soldiers and sailors have been placed
in civilian Jobs.
Last month jobs were found for
1,0l2 veterans, 891 of them in Balti-
more
A. Vernon Collision, veterans rep
resentative, said that SO per cent of
the returned veterans who we're
physically fit to take a job had been
placed.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Richard P. Iddines, 70,
To Be Buried Tomorrow
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BRINKLOW, Md, Dec. 9.-Fu-
neral services for Richard P. Iddings,
70, retired chemist, who died Tues
day at the Montgomery County
General Hospital, Sandy Spring, will
be held at the home near here at 2
pm. tomorrow. Burial will be in
Riverside Cemetery, near Brinklow.
Mr.. Iddings was a son of the late
Charles A. and Elizabeth Stabler
1ddings. He Is survived by q broth
er, Frederick T. Iddings, Baltimore.
Evening star., 1943-12-09

Over the top in Italy! One more
ridge, one more mile on the road
to Berlin.
AS in victorious military CAM
paigns, people on the home front
must sacrifice to provide all the
sineWs of war. One of these is the
regular purchase of War bonds.
Omitted States Treasury Department
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-11-11

Sgt. Carl Funk, rs, Cincinnati,
lost his right eye and sustained
a fractured left knee in Sicily. He
has been buying War Bonds regu-
larly. He will return to civil life
as soon as he is discharged from
Halloran Hospital. N. Y.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-12-09
BIBLE SUNDAY

Next Sunday, December - is Uni
vcrsal Bible Sunday, sponsored each
year by the American Bible Society
to remind the people Of this nation Of
their responsibility to see that an
adequate supply Of Bibles is main
tanned for those who want them.
Chaplains are calling for pocket
Testaments for soldiers and sailors.
These requests have asked for an av-
erage Of 10000 a week for more than
a year at the Bible House. home Of
the American Bible Society in New
York City. Prisoners Of war in
Germany, Poland and elsewhere are
asking for Bibles The Bible Society
has already supplied over half a mil
lion in 81 different languages for
these unfortunates
Civilian populations of Europe and
people Of China are crying out for
copies They look to America for their
supply
A little thoughtfulness and gener-
osity on the part of Americans will
correct this condition. The Bible
Society, agent of the church bodies
of America, is a non-profit institu-
ton chartered to translate, produce
and distribute the Word of God with
out note or comment for any man on
!,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-12-09
WE, TOO. NEED RE-EDUCA.
TTON

We have talked much of the impor-
tance Of re-educating the people of
Germany away from the ideas and
ideologies Of Zazism which have been
so well drilled into them by their
despotic overlords, and most people
agree that this is the only way that
problem will ever be completely solved.
But we, too, need rc-education. Tech
nical re-education alone is not meant
though We could do witha thorough
overhauIing job on that. What is
needed most is a re-education Of our
way Of thought We need not merely
enough education SO as not to have
to look up to anyone, but also enough
not to look down on anyone
We need re-educatioon in response
bility. We must accept our full share
Of the work not merely Of the world,
but Of our own government, national,
state or local. We need more coopera-
tors and fewer coasters on the work
Of others. Of you have ever tried
to name working committees for even
a small club, you know what | mean)
We need re-education in justice We
cannot expect to build world of the
-Four Freedoms until we have in
grained in all Of our people the ideal
Of absolute justice for all-those with
whom we do not agree as well as to
those with whom we see eye to eye.
We need re-education in kindness.
We need to teach those who will fol-
low after us, that prejudice is igno-
rance, that bias and group hatreds
are ignoble. that the spirit Of brother
hood is not just for something we
learn on Sunday and put away with
our best gloves for another week.
We have to re-lcarn that the Col
den Rule is still the most practical
law Of life.
We need re-education in speech. We
need to learn how not to talk as well
as how to talk. We need to make
careless rumor mongering, unkind
generalization and carping criticism
Of our neighbors' motives or religious
beliefs a social solecism equal to eat
ing peas with a knife.
We need re-education in citizenship
We need to express in our lives the
dealism that is the American way Of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-12-09

/ to spring from the soil fully armed
with hoes, rakes and experience. Not
one volunteer can replace a skilled
dailyman, poultryman or stock feeder
now in the army. The whole 100000
would be useless without direction by
experienced workers.
Yet this volunteer army can be of
value if it is properly Organized
not from Washington but on 4 re-
gional basis, county by county, town
, ship by township. Any plan organized
and centralized in Washington is
doomed to failure, because Of the
farmers intense resentment against
The errors, extravaganza and ineffi-
! cheney Of government bureaus.
When the federal government last
year did nothing to solve the farm
labor problem Minnesota brilliantly
solved her own ON state basis. In
other scattered communities, the local
people organized spontaneously to
harvest crops and help farmers.
in Philadelphia the Junior Cham
Der Of Commerce has worked out an
| admirable and efficient plan for sup
plying volunteer workers for harvest
labor in the orchards and fields Of the
great food belt of Delaware, New
Jersey and southern Pennsylvania.
Volunteers include war-plant workers
on their days off, white-collar men,
club women, high school boys and
girls, and even elderly people with
leisure time. They can pick vegetable
and fruit crops and work in canneries,
where the labor shortage is very
nearly as grave as on the farms.
Only one thing can really put an
end to black markets and that is such
an abundance Of food that rationing
will be unnecessary. The United
States can produce that abundance
with proper planning, necessary farm
labor and equipment, and orderly dis
tribution of food But we won't have
any of those things until we have a
food ministry as powerful and indie
pendent as food itself is vital to the
winning OF the war.
However, even ii tomorrow morn
ing an ideal Food Administration
we're set up, it would still make no
difference in the amount OF food pro-
duced, harvested and distributed in
1913. And certainly no improvement
Of any kind can be expected until the
administration is taken completely
out of the hands Of theorists, college
professors and routine bureaucrats
and placed, as industrial war produc-
ton was placed in the hands Of cX-
pcrionced mon-faImers, meat pro-
duce"s, distributors, dairymen.
The repcrcussions Of the food mud
die, both political and economic, are
endless. They can put an end to lend
lease and force such a strong ally as
Russia out Of the war. They can
change the temper Of The American
people and throw them back to black
est isolationism. They can mean that
our hand will be much less strong at
the peace table, that the peace can be
an ugly thing pregnant again with
new wars for our children and grand
children.
think few people will now say
chat food is not as important as the
military forces or armament produc-
ton. 1t is as i. has always been, since
The beginning OF time, the basis Of
victory and of peace.