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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-12-23
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Black market operations In occu.
pied France have reached the point
where color shades are being used to
distinguish reasonable frem unrea.
sonable illegal trade.
The American people have been
asked by the Office of War Utilities
to confine Christmas lighting deco
rations to Christmas trees inside
private homes.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-12-23
CroUned Heads
PROVE Headaches

After the last war. some POLITICALLY
minded writer penned an editorial
which had wide circulation entitled:
The Twilight of the Kings" Many
a throne had tumbled as a result of
that last conflict, names that were
written large in history, faded until
they were less than memories-Ho-
henzollern. Hapsburg. Romanof. not
to mention a host of lesser majesties.
But some who survived r to-
day problems of the United Nations.
like plebiscites. famine, frontiers.
lend-lease, airways and a thousand
other annoying questions that must
be settled when peace ONE
OF course, kings are not to be
shrugged away lightly. Some of
Americas best friends are kings.
But there are crowned heads who
are bound to be headaches for the
uncrowned brows Of the statesmen
who have - put the world together
again.
There is the House Of Savoy, for
instance. The king Of Italy has been
a problem. So r Balkan poten-
tates in exile or in cahoots with Hit
Ter.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-12-23

Seasons Greetings. accompanied
by q check, have been mailed by
the Santa Fe railway to its more
than 5000 employees, who are sta.
toned in this country or throughout
the world.
The national income produced In
NE United States In September was
the highest monthly figure on rec.
ord. Il amounted to $l2. $50. 900. 900.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-12-23
DID YOU KNOW THAT?

Nearly half the persons enga-
ged in producing communica-
tons equipment are women.
Records indicate. that dive
bombing was first used by the
marines in Haiti.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-12-23

America will need $50 900 nur-
ses in 1914, or 100000 more than
are now available.
tose, maltese, etc.
The regular Atlantic Clippers
have a range of 5000 miles at
1865 mph.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-12-23
About King Carol

One most romantic monarch who
is likewise exceedingly dynamic is
ex-King Carol Of Rumania. Recent
ly. I received a communication from
him. It looked like a telegram but
it was not that intimate-it was
mimeographed. 1t contained a state.
ment Of some kind. I have forgotten
the exact nature Of it.
But the other day, its source was
revealed when a certain publicity or
g%anization registered with the de-
partment Of justice as all organiza-
tons representing foreign elements
must. 1t developed that Carol had
arranged to try to encourage the
good will of Americans by hiring
this agent for s35. 900 (ten grand
down, the rest in easy payments)
to express Carols views, all to be
democratic and pro-Ally.
But the interesting implication is
that one Of the jobs of the press
agent is to remove the lex" from
the title ''ex-king'' which seems to
have attached itself to Madame Lu.
pescu's husband.
And there is a roll-back which
only the temerity Of an American
press agent would grapple with!
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Workers in District Get
S64,747 in Back Waqes

Employees of District business es-
Establishments received S64, ,74745 dur
ing the past year in back wages
due them under enforcement of
Federal and District wage laws, the
Minimum Wage and Industrial
Safety Board said today in its an
nual report to the Commissioners.
To comply with the wage scale
established by the municipal agency,
$25 ,09645 in back wages went to 670
women and minors under the pro-
lection of the board. This brought
the total of backwage orders since
the Minimum Wage Board started
its operations in 1888 to $74 4,063 81
it was said.
In addition to enforcing its own
minimum wage orders, the board
acts as the agent of the Labor De-
partment in enforcing the Fair
Labor Standards Act. Under this
phase of its work the board said
inspections revealed s64,6l3 was due
in back wages to 564 employees work.
ing in Washington. OF this amount
back-wage payments totaling $50 ,65l
were made by the end of the past
calendar year, the remainder to be
paid from time to time this year.
The report. presented by the three
members, Mrs. Albert w. Atwood
chairman: John E. Laskey and
Fred S. Walker, told of steps which
had been taken for the adoption of
industrial safety codes. Final Or
ders on these have not yet been
adopted.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Navy Hospital Proposed
AT Sun Valley Resort
Ey the Associated Press.

sy the Associated Press.
Representative Dworshak, Repub-
lican. of Idaho, said yesterday he
had been informed that the Navy is
taking over the Sun Valley resort in
Central Idaho and that he presumed
it would be used for a convalescent
hospital.
The resort, which has been closed
this season, is owned by subsidiary
of the Union Pacific Railway and
lies in the foothills of the towering
Sawtooth Mountain range. south
and west of Yellowstone National
Park.
Capt Carlton L. Andrus, head Of
the planning Office of the Navy's
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
told a reporter the proposal to take
over Sun Valley had been given ap-
proval "as a project" but the lease
has not vet been signed. He said a
1.400-bed institution was contem-
plated.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Absent AIexundriuns
Con Cast Votes BY Moil

Alexandrians who will be out of
town, or for any other reason will
be unable to go to the polls to vote
in the June 8 election for members
of City Council are urged to make
applications for absentee ballots.
Fred Petit. city registrar, said any
registered voter who can sign an
affidavit stating that he will be
unable to vote in person is entitled
to an absentee vote, but application
for the ballot must be made before
June 3.
The three councilmen at large,
who were nominated in the April
Democratic primary, are candidates.
The one receiving the largest num-
Der of votes will be Mayor. Cam
didates are the incumbent council
men, Mayor William T. Wilkins. Vice
Mayor Eugene Simpson and Charles
M. Stump.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Firm Denied Gas Asks
Writ Against WLB
Enforcement Of Order
Fought by HimmeIforbs

S. A. Himmelfarb and Harry Him
melfarb, described as co-partners
and trading as the Federal Oil Co.,
6400 block of Blair road NV, filed
a complaint in District Court today
for preliminary and permanent
injunction against Chairman Donald
NJ Nelson of the War Production
Board to prevent the board from
continuing TO enforce a WPB order
of last February preventing the COM
pany from receiving gasoline de-
liveries for six months.
The WPB accused the company of
exceeding it's quota of deliveries and
of excessive and illegal delivery"
of more than 550,0O0 gallons of gaso-
line during April. May. June and
July of 1912. WPB claimed the det
liveries were made to the company's S
IL service stations it then operated
here.
The suit filed today declared
that last December at hearing be-
fore Rector G. Spaulding, one OF the
compliance commissioners of WPB
the plaintiffs Offered testimony in
complete refutation of the charges
brought against them and no COM
petent evidence was adduced to
prove or support said charges
The suit says the plaintiffs have
exhausted all of their remedies be-
| forc tho War prod,lctior, poord" md
that the WPB's action in suspend
ing the business operations of the
plaintiffs is arbitrary, capricious
and without warrant of fact or
law"
The suit was filed In behalf of the
plaintiffs by Attorneys Benjamin L.
Topper and Leo A. Rover,
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Western Cadets Honor Memory
OfDeod & Commander by Victory
Company Wins NoiIor Medal,
K Takes Second Place in Competition

The memory of their dead bat
talon commander, Maj Robert
Clark, II, did more than anything
else to spur Western High Schools
cadets on to winning both first and
second place in the annual company
competition at Griffith Stadium,
declared Capt. Howard Surface, jr.,
of frst-place Company L, today.
Capt. Surface received the dia-
mond-studded Allison Nailor Medal
yesterday for commanding the vic
torious company Capt George
Graves commanded the second place
Company K. Third place was taken
by Company B of Anacostia, COM
manded by Capt Robert Hartline,
whose brother. Ralph. now a lieu
tenant in the Army Air Forces, led
the same Anacostia company to
victory in 1870
I'VE really did it for Bob" said
Capt. Surface. The youthful Maj.
Clark died of sudden illness only
a short while after leading the
Western battalion into second place
in the annual battalion competition
in March.
Meet Challenge.
Persons had also been telling him,
Capt. Surface said, that the de-
parture last June of both West
ern S principal, DR.. Elmer S. New
ton. and their cadet instructor. Maj.
George A. Hawkins would break
Westerns 25-year record of either
winning or placing in the annual
drill.
I'VE wanted to show we were
just as good under Principal Ma
thaniel Danowsky and our new in
structor, Don McAdoo. as we were
under the men who helped us on
to all our successes I'M other years, "
Capt. Surface said. Western took
all three places last year, just be-
fore DR.. Newton was retired and
Maj Hawkins went into the Army.
Capt. Surface suggested that
Evening star., 1943-05-19

school officials should make cadet
instruction compulsory among high
school students.
1T does you lot of good" he
insisted. He admitted with grin
that "some boys don't take cadet
discipline so we'll"
But it's good for them to learn"
he added That's what they will
be doing in the next few years any,
way" He himself will enter Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute in July
to study medicine as a prospective
Army medical officer.
Mckinley Cadets Disappointed.
Despite the blow of Westerns
victories. the other 26 cadet COM
panies marched out of the stadium
yesterday in smart order. McKin-
ley cadets in particular could not
conceal the disappointment they
felt. They had won the regimental,
battalion, band and map reading
competitions held earlier this year
and had hoped at last to break
Westerns grip on the company COM
petition. Western has either won
or placed for the last Is years.
Mr.. DanoWsky was el2ted, when
for the first time he received a cup
won by his Western cadets for their
general high average in the COM
petition. DR.. Newton at once sent
his congratulations to Cadet In
structor McAdoo, who this year was
suddenly saddled with responsibility
for the entire cadet corps at West
ern instead of the band he had
been handling heretofore.
1t. Col Wallace M. Craigie. pro-
fessor of military science and tao
tics in the school system, presented
the Nailor Medal to. Capt. Surface at
the drill and congratulated the 9TH
er two scoring captains. The rib
bons for individual company men,
bers were handed out by Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle. president of the
Board of Education, and Or. James
A. Cannon, a board member.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Court.Considers
Appea|toUpho|d
Gas Rate Hike
y -
Three Judges Hear
Case Involving Price
Control Authority

Whether the Washington Gas
Light Company's 100000 annual
increase in rates in effect since last
fall shall stand was under con-
sideration today by three judges of
the. Court of Appeals
They are Judge Morris A. Soper
of@the Fourth Circuit Court of Ap-
peals at Richmond, Va; Justice JUS
tim Miller and Justice Fred A.
Vinson. Decision is expected in a
month.
Challenged as violation of price
control legislation. the increase was
invalidated by Justice F. Dickinson
Let's in District Court in February.
He stayed his judgment when the
company and the Public Utilities
Commission appealed from his de-
cision
AS Washington has 100000 meters,
the increase averages a dollar a year
a meter, or about 9 cents a month
The PUG in announcing the rate
last october 13 said it would amount
to only 3 cents a month to the
average household that is, one
that does not use gas for heat.
Counsel Argue Issues.
As the case is the first attempt
of the Office of Price Administra-
ton to prevent an increase author
lied by Government regulatory
board to utility, it has attracted
national interest.
Legal issues were argued yeSter-
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Cos Case Testimony
Lost When Judge
| Set Increase Aside

/! Record of the gas case be-
fore the Public Utilities Com
mission-1,500 pages of testi-
mony in two volumeS-WaS
lost" in District Court when
the commissions rate increase
was set aside.
That was revealed yesterday
when the case was argued in
the Court of Appeals. Counsel
for the gas company said the
record was given an erroneous
case number and was not found
until several days after Judge
Let's overruled the increase.
Later. the judge wrote, ac-
cording to the gas company
brief, "it is with some chagrin
that I admit the certified record
of the proceedings was not
physically brought to my at
tention upon the appeal"
Evening star., 1943-05-19

day by E. Barrett Prettyman for
the company, Lloyd B. Harrison for
the PUG and Harry R. Booth for
the OPA and the director of eco
non1ic stabilization.
The increase helped the company
in financing problem in q manner
consistent with one Of the principal
= purposes of the Price Control Act
to aid in the prosecution of the
war'--Mr Prettyman said.
He explained that the company
needed to expand its plant last year
to take care of population increase
An issue of 10000 shares of per
cent stock was offered through local
brokerage houses last spring, but
only $4,000 shares were sold in a
months time. The company then
borrowed short-term money from
the. banks and did not offer the
stock again until increase was al
lowed by PUG. Last month the re-
manning shares were sold without
difficulty.
Mr.. Prettyman quoted PUG Chair
man James Flanagan as saying
The issues can be easily confused
but to me they are quite simple
This commission must make de-
cision under the arrangement which
was entered into in 1885, whether
this company is entitled to rate
increase. That involves a very SIM
pie clear-cut question of fairness
and the integrity of this commits
sion of which I am very jealous"
Sliding Scale Hit by Booth.
The arrangement was the sliding
scale" of rates-when profits &C
down, rates go up. Mr. Booth
argued that the sliding scale was in
itself inflationary and should have
been set aside because of the war
No consideration was given by the
commission to his proposal that it
consider abandonment of the slid
ing scale, he said.
This was the point on which JUS
tice Let's upheld him in setting
aside the increase The Price Con-
troll Act "of October 2. 1912" Justice
Let's decision read, required that
NIlCl SlNS bllC L SsidSili .
representative a reasonable Oppor-
tunity to present his case that the
commission might determine wheth-
er the formula agreed on in the
sliding scale arrangement was in
t1ationary, under present known con-
ditions. The record does not show
that such opportunity was afforded :;
accordingly, the case is returned to
the commission with direction that
an inquiry be made to determine
whether an application of the slid
ing scale formula is inf1ationary IN
view of the changed economic and
war conditions"
Mr.. Harrison told the court that
Mr., Booth had produced no wit
nesses or testimony before the COM
mission to show it that the increase
WOULD be inflationary Instead ac-
cording to Mr.. Harrison, the OPA
lawyers participation was the ira
ditional opposition to rate increases
challenging the valuation on which
the rates are based.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Ice Cream Store Owner
Fined S125 in Court

Clifford Y. Stephens. owner of
Highs ice cream stores, was fined
$l25 in Municipal Court today fol-
lowing his conviction on charges
that insanitary conditions existed in
two of the stores and three other
establishments were unlicensed.
Health Department Inspector
Henry G. jenkins told Judge Walter
J. Casey that three of the stores
were refused licenses because of in
sanitary conditions which existed at
the time of the inspection on April 6.
He said these stores are located at
1907 Seventh street NV, BIG
Eleventh street NV. and 1924 Four
teenth street NV.
1t was charged by the inspector
that rat infiltration" existed at the
store at 1925 Pennsylvania avenue
NV. and that the basement of the
store at 1882 Pennsylvania avenue
NV. was filled with water from
overflowing ice box pans.
Mr.. Stephens denied such condi-
tions existed. asserting he had never
received any formal complaints from
the Health Department.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Orchestra Leader Held
As Evader Of Induction

James j. Hinsley. "a. of Cleveland.
leader of a colored orchestra, was
arrested last night by FBI agents
and local police at night club in
the 1400 block of T street N. w. on
charges of violating the Selective
Service law.
He was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Needham C.
Turnage today. Commissioner Turn
age set a hearing for May 20 and
ordered Hinsley held on $500 bond.
According to the FBI, Hinsley
was ordered inducted into the Army
last November 8, and on his failure
to obey the order a warrent was is
sued in Florida for his arrest as q
Selective Service violator in April.
Hinsley was arrested as he pre-
pared to open an engagement at
the night club.
The FBI announced Saturday that
Nationwide drive, which started
Friday, had netted 638 draft de-
linquents, including 10 arrests in
the District.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Fitness Drills Held
By Boys and Girls
Al Woodrow Wilson
CoIisthenics Adopted
As Port Of Special
Wartime Troining

The bows at Woodrow Wilson
High School think their own physical
fitness drills are important, but they
jeer and hoot at the girls attempts
to improve their physical condition.
Catcalls and whistles filled the air
at the Wilson Stadium today as
about 400 girls went through an
exhibition of the modern dancing
and the mass calisthenics introduced
this year as part of the expanded
physical fitness program.
When the boys tore around the
track and went into their mass
show. on the other hand, the girls
shrieked with delight. Applauding
every high jump and marathon
race, they seemed to harbor no
resentment at the 40 minutes of
jeering that had greeted their own
efforts.
Boys Jeer at Dancers.
Most of the boys derision was for
pretty Mary Fuller and her purple
colored costume. Standing in the
center of a ring of girls in red cos
tunes, Mary led the group in a
series of writhing gyrations taught
in modern dancing class. The boys
booed so loudly the music could
hardly be heard
Its an Indian torturer's dance"
whispered one of the court of the
May queen. The May queen. elected
by the students. was Mary Whittle-
sey, IT, senior who lives at 1914
Livingston street NV. She and her
court sat on thrones to watch the
physical fitness demonstrations and
later danced sedately around two
May poles at either end of the sta
dium.
The obstacle races and mass calls
themes were new for the boys also
this year, but their exhibitions pro-
ceeded with the precision of experts
On the rare occasions that one of
the $50 youths started an exercise
too soon a physical education in
structor spoke sharply to him
through the microphone.
Girls Jump Rope.
The girls mess calisthenics mainly
required jumping. bending and arm
movements. One group in long
skirts wiggled and twisted from side
to side to develop "fexibility' An
other group jumped rope for 10 min
utes to the tune of Pop Goes the
Weasel"
The boys calisthenics involved
turning and twisting on the ground,
hand-to-hand combat and a swift
race around the track at the end.
Similar May Day" demonstrations
of the physical fitness routines de-
veloped in the public schools this
year have been scheduled at both
elementary and high schools during
the rest of this month.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Extension Of Benefits
Of Social Security Urged

Extension of the benefits of social
security legislation to most of the
groups not now covered was advo-
Gated by Evan Clague, director of
the Social Security Boards bureau
of employment security, before the
Voteless District League of Women
Voters last night. The meeting was
in the National Education Associa-
ton Auditorium, 1901 Sixteenth
street NV
Asked whether the Ssh would be
able to handle the administrative
problem of insuring domestic and
agricultural workers, he said that it
could not be done by present meth
ods. HIS said stamp plan would
be the best method, but that the
board at present had no such plan.
Mr.. Clague said he thought there
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Lutheran Church Alumni
viii Hold Joint Meetinq

Alumni of several colleges of the
Norwegian Lutheran Church will
hold a joint meeting at pm. Sat-
urday at the Church of the Refor-
nation, 2l2 East Capitol street.
Principal speakers will be DR.. and
Mrs. Sigmund Skard. Dr. Skard
formerly was librarian for the Royal
Academy of Science and Letters in
Trondheim, Norway, and is now
corlsultant in the Scandinavian De-
partment of the Library of Congress
Mrs. Skard formerly was assistant
professor of child psychology and
education at the Graduate School
for Teachers in Trondheim.
pr. Tillman M. Sogge, president of
the Washington st. Olaf Club. is in
charge of arrangements for the BAN
quet. Among the colleges which will
be.represented are Luther. st. Olaf,
Cohcordfa. Augustana. Augsburg,
Pacific Lutheran and Waldorf.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
McNair's Nurse in Tunisia
Made Lieutenant Colonel
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
1t. Bernice M. Wilbur, who nursed
1t. Gen. Lesley j. McNair, COM
mander of the Army Ground
Forces, when he was wounded q
Tunisia, has been promoted to lieu.
tenant colonel and named director
of Army nursing service in North
Africa, the War Department an
nounced yesterday.
She was given the jump in rank
to make her position as chief nurse
in the North African theater COM
mensurate with that of the rank and
position of those in charge Of the
nursing service in the European
theater and In the South Pacific.
The 32-year-old nurse has been
In the Army service two years.
Col. Wilbur was graduated in 1893
from the New England Deaconess
Hospital in Boston, her home city.
where she worked as graduate
nurse.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
"a Are Indicted
As Anti-vice
Drive Is Pushed
Cobmen, Bell Hops
Here Accused of
White Slave Plot

Washingtons anti-vice crusade
was accelerated today when the Dis
trict grand jury handed down in
dictments against "a men and
women on charges of conspiracy to
violate the White Slave Trafflc Act
and pandering law.
Bell hops and taxi drivers were
among those named in indictments
handed down in a special return
before Justice Matthew F. Mcclure
in District Court.
Seven taxi drivers were indicted
on charges of conspiring and viola
tion of the White Slave Traffic Act
in connection with charges of trans
porting women for immoral pur-
poses.
The defendants listed are: Joseph
w. Blount, Edward R. Dickson,
Thomas Terrett, Victor Zieloskowski,
Donnis S. Reardon, Anthony Chris
topolous and Maxwell S. Sherman,
all of whom are taxicab drivers, ac-
cording to Assistant United States
Attorney Bernard ]. Long. who pre-
oSAlbSo Vic SdtoSS w Vic Z dIl0 Jul
Peggy Brown, Peggy Ann Brooks
Ann G. Braulette, Rita J. Heiss,
Moria Rogers, Betty Lee Morrison,
Jean Thompson, Judy Hunt, Beverly
Martin. Mary Gordon, Ira Weitzel,
Arthena Thomas, William C. Glover,
Bernard G. McGoldrick, Jack B.
Tyrrell, Walter Wells and Morris
Greenfield. Glover, McGoldrick and
Tyrrell were hotel bell hops, Mr..
Long said
The Indictment names different
ones among the "a as having met at
places downtown, and describes a
number of them as having conversa-
ton in building in the 1400 block
of K street NV. in carrying out the
alleged conspiracy.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
Acting Postmaster Named

George Brewer, 81. has been
named acting postmaster at Rock
vile to succeed the late DR.. George
L. Edmonds.
A lifelong resident of Rockville.
Mr.. Brewer was employed at the
Washington Office of Dun e. Brad
street for % years. retiring in 1910.
He Is now connected with the Selec-
tive Service Administration in
Washington.