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Evening star., 1943-10-05
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CONCERTS.
Organ recital, Washington Cathe-
Oral, 7:45 o'clock tonight.
Marine Corps Band, Marine Bar
racks, las pm. tomorrow.
RECREATION.
Walsh Club for War Workers. 4 to
II o'clock tonight Art and archi-
lecture classes, $50 o'clock.
REVIEW.
The Apostle" by Sholem Asch
reviewed by Rev Edward Peters.
Study Guild Catholic Library. 1925
Rhode Island avenue NV, 6:I5
O'Clock tonight
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Stage Door Canteen. BelaSco
Theater, Tonight: Fort Belvoir
Group 2 Swing Band. Carmen Cav
allaroS Orchestra, EVELYN TTner and
acts from The Army, PLAY by Play"
Entertainment Stickets, The Hut
Z street at Pennsylvania avenue
NV. 4 TO $50 o'clock tonight.
Pepsl-Cola Center, 80 am. today
to 1880 am. tomorrow First three
floors open to serviCeWomen.
Masonic Center, l TO 10 o'clock to-
night.
Officers.
Officers Club of the United Ma
tlons, Burlington Hotel 10 m to
1890 o'clock tonight Introductory
cards to entertainment
Tennis and golf, KenWood Coun-
try Club, all day. Guest cards at
EurllngtOn Hotel
Servicemen.
Tipping. Northeast USO. 1912
North Capitol street 7 o'clock to-
night.
Polish, Spanish classes, Thomas
Center, : o'clock tonight
Games, voice recording, North
east USO. Tenth street and Massa-
chusotts avenue NE. o'clock to-
night
StenO2raphiC service YMCA
USO), 7 o'clock tonight.
Amateur camera and movie
guild, NCCS CUSO), 926 G street
NV, $50 o'clock tonight.
Dance, jewish Community Center
(USO), 7:30 o'clock tonight
Voice recordings dance NCCS
USO), 1914 N street NV. 7:3O
O'Clock tonight
open house, Friendship House. 8
o'clock tonight.
Dance, chess club. ServlCemen's s
Club No. |, O'Clock tonight
Dance, Rhoads Club. 8 O'Clock to-
night,
Dance and drama classes. Roose-
welt Center o'clock tonight.
Bridge class and orchestra. Cen
tral Center, 8 O'Clock tonight
Federal Chess Club. 243l Four
teenth street NV. 3 o'clock tonight.
Motion pictures, USO, Eighth and
Pennsylvania avenue NV. 8 o'clock
tonight.
Dance YWCA CUSOD, NCCS
fUSOD, e16 Tenth street NV. $50
O'Clock tonight.
FOR COLORED SERVICENEN.
open house, Leisure Lodge. noon
to midnight tonight.
Photography and bridge lessons.
?MCA (USOD, o'clock tonight.
Games, Francis and Dunbar Cen
ters, o'clock tonight.
Gard party, Banneker Club. 8
O'Clock tonight.
NDanCe class, Hearthstone War
Workers Club, 8 o'clock tonight
WAR workers welcome.
Evening star., 1943-11-28

were fewer in both number and
scope-simpler, even starker.
Even Substitutes Scarce.
1t was, he explained, practically
impossible to get anything you
wanted this year. The manufacturers
couldn't get the materials or the
manpower. and they were limited
to proportions of what they had
made in the past. Last year you
could get a reasonable amount of
substitutes for the products which
once were abundant. But this sea-
son you couldn't even get substitutes,
most of the time. Plastics, even
wood, were scarce. The military or
war production needed them.
A look around the toy shop made
clearer what he was talking about.
The ingenious toys of steel with
which the boys used to build things
were gone-sometimes replaced by
wooden or pasteboard limitations.
The girls found new dolls.
But this store still had its Santa
Evening star., 1943-11-28

small boy. There were smaller mill
tary implements.
Games and puzzles seemed much
in demand.
And the shop was decorated and
lighted still with the gayety of yore,
and the children appeared just as
excited as if there were no war,
and people still could make any
thing they wanted to. If parents
felt the pinch of scarcity, they hid
1t and pretended this was like any
other Christmas.
Another store still had a good
collection of big dolls, some Of the
glamorous type in evening clothes.
But when these are gone, we'll
there may be a few more. Who
knows?
One store had an antiaircraft gun
that produced an ack-ack which de-
lighted the boys clustered about it.
All in all, the toy makers had
done very well for an industry not
essential to the war.
Evening star., 1943-11-28
Sonto's DrosticoIIy Rotioned,
But Is Bound to Have His Doy

Claus. He occupied a niche in a
corner and long line of children
saw him one at q time. Boys asked
for such impossible things as elec-
trio trains on the track, and girls
demanded lfesize baby dolls with
eyes that opened and shut. He didn't
disillusion them. Just as well, per-
haps.
Maybe on Christmas morning,
junior will be placated with wooden
Evening star., 1943-11-28
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Sure, there's still 4 Santa Claus.
But this year the dear old fellow
nnds himself so enmeshed in war
production that he's lucky If he
gets an ODT permit to drive his
reindeers and WPB priority on q
bit of new harness.
Like all the rest Of us, he's ra-
tioned-more drastically than last
year-and required to do without
many things and use substitutes for
Others.
But there1l still be q CHEEKY
Christmas just the same. Neither
Hitler nor TOTO can stop 1t, try as
either will.
The Usual Crowds.
All this was clear enough, after a
glance at Washington's stores yes
terday, as Christmas shopping got
under way in earnest. The familiar
crowds sought their certain counters
or just milled out, wondering in
bewilderment what to get Dad and
Aunt Jessica. There was no dis
cernible disposition to declare a
moratorium on the Yuletide and its
2,000-year-old tradition OF gift
giving.
. 1t will be q simpler, less lavish
Christmas than America has known
IN many a year. But this is Just
another war sacrifice and not a
major one. And the crowds jammed
themselves good-humoredly into ell
evators and waited to see what pres
ents, most Of them modest, they
could find. And stores exhorted
them with signs to buy War bonds,
as first consideration.
This wandering reporter drifted
into one Of the largest toy depart
ments and questioned the chief
buyer. He looked agonized.
I'VE haven't any toys" he said
Fastening to add that he wasn't
personally complaining, because it
was all for the war effort, and win
ming the war was more important
than anything. He was just think
Ing OF the past glories of his de-
partment, of the dazzling displays
OF everything the childish fancy
could conjure up. Well, maybe it
would come again. He shook his
head sadly.
OF course he had toys. But they
Evening star., 1943-11-28

tank or even a pasteboard construc-
ton set and a Tommygun made Of
some mysterious substance. And,
no doubt, Mary will consent to ac-
cept a small doll, Of uncertain ma
terial and an intriguing game.
There was a wooden wagon with
wooden wheels that looked like some
toy our notwithstanding pioneer
ancestors might have devised.
Yet the toy makers had contrived
some attractive things, which the
passing kids pointed at admiringly.
There was a jeep made of wood
composition which was realistic, and
tank complete in every detail
both large enough to hold q very
Evening star., 1943-06-24
Dr.. Johnson Urges Action
To Solve Race Problem

LAKESIDE, Ohio. June "a (P,.-
DR.. Mordecai w. johnson, president
of Howard University, Washington,
declared last night race riots in
Detroit and other cities are the re-
suit of backward trend in handling
Of racial problems.
Although the problem has been
known for some time, neither State
nor National Government has acted
with full vigor to meet it." DR.. john
son told the Northeast Ohio Con-
ference of the Methodist Church.
DR.. johnson called on the United
States Chamber of Commerce, the
National Association of Manufacture
ers and labor unions to go to the
economic roots of the difficulties
and work out program of employ
ment and upgraded economic oppor
tunity for the colored minority as a
solution to the race program.
Arrest and prosecution of the
individual perpetrators of violence
will not solve the problem" he de-
clared.
There has been a growing dispo-
sition on the part of capital and
labor to ease the problems of un-
employment by throwing an unduly
heavy load of unemployment on the
Negro by crowding him out of skilled
Evening star., 1943-06-24
Curfew in Two Counties
Near Detroit Removed

DETROIT, June "a (P,.-Curfev
and other restrictions imposed by
Gov. Harry F.. Kelly on nearby Oak.
land and Macomb Counties after
race rioting in Detroit this week
were removed today. Both counties
include some Detroit suburban
areas.
The orders affecting Wayne Coun-
ty Detroit), providing for all law
abiding citizens to be off the streets
between 10 pm. and 6 am. except
those en- route to or from work, and
prohibiting assembly and closing all
bars, remained in effect. however.
Removal of these restrictions re-
stored normal activities in the two
counties.
In Wayne County Detroit some
restrictions were relaxed. The cur
few was set for midnight, instead OF
10 pm. places of amusement were
permitted to remain open until II
pm. instead of being forced to close
at pm, and sale of alcoholic bev-
erages by the glass was permitted
except between 10 pm. and 7 am.
All sales of bottled liquor by
State stores and specially designated
distributors still were prohibited, as
was assembly of crowds on public
streets.
Police Commissioner John With.
erspoon reported the city was fas,
returning to normally.
Those who did the killing anC
Evening star., 1943-06-24

bring about the release of all the
Japs, irrespective of their loyalty
AS Mr.. Dies revealed the program
of the committee, four labor lead
ers and churchman from New
York and Detroit visited the White
House yesterday to ask that Presi-
dent Roosevelt act to prosecute
those responsible for the Detroit
riots.
Asked to Dissolve X. *.
One of the group, Charles Collins,
executive secretary of the Negro
Labor Victory Committee in New
York, said the President also was
asked to dissolve the Ku Klux
Klan and arrest its leaders. Mr..
Collins asserted $4,000 of the
25,000 Klansmen in Michigan were
concentrated in the Detroit area
and were responsible for a SUBJ
stantial share of the blame for the
race riots through distribution of
leaflets and the keeping alive of
racial antagonism.
The delegation, which presented
its views to Presidential Secretary
Marvin H. Mcintyre, also included
Norman F. Kinzie of the Council OF
Churches of Detroit, Sheldon Tapp
secretary of the Ford local of the
United Auto Workers, CIO, in De-
troit; Morris Gumpel of the Fur
riers' Union, New York, and Sam
Kramberg of the Joint Executive
Board of the Hotel and Restaurant
Employees and Bartenders' Unions
New York.
Evening star., 1943-06-24
ToiIor's Son Held Jap Regiment
AT Bay u Hours, Killing 38

The action for which President
Roosevelt awarded the sergeant the
medal occurred last October during
fighting in the Lunga area of Qua
dalcanal.
Pvt. Mach w. Phillips, %, Fayette-
vile. N. c.. told the story this way:
"Basilone had machine gun on
the go three days and nights without
sleep, rest or food. He was in a
good emplacement, and causing the
Japs lots of trouble, not only firing
his machine gun but also using his
pistol.
They stormed his position time
and again. Each time, he piled up
four or five more around his en-
placement. Finally, he had to move
out of there-38 Japs made it kind Of
hard to fire over the pile!"
The 26-year-old New Jersey hero
is the son of Salvatore and Dora
Basilone, and his father operates a
one-man tailor shop at Somerville,
N. J. He has nine brothers and
sisters.
Evening star., 1943-06-24
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
One of the truly epic stories of the
South Pacific campaign. the story of
New Jersey tailor's son who held
strategic machine gun post for
three days and nights without rest
or food against Japanese regiment,
was told yesterday by the Navy De-
partment.
Platoon Sergt. Basilone, Raritan.
N. j., was awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor, this Nations high
est battle honor, for his heroism
which, the Navy said, contributed
lin large measure to the virtual
annihilation of japanese regi-
ment."
During those nerve -shattering 72
hours, the Navy related, Sergt. Basi-
lone piled up 50 Japanese bodies in
front of his machine gun, and a
companion said he also used his
pistol to bend back and break bloody
Nipponese attacks on the vital en-
placement.
Evening star., 1943-06-24

provision for CCC meets the appro-
pirate needs of the CCC."
Aiken Attacks Amendment.
Senator Aiken, Republican, of
Vermont, co-sponsor with Senator
Gillette, Democrat, of Iowa, of a
more drastic anti-subsidy meas
ure. said the Taft recommendation
was no compromise, but "a measure
that gave the administration even
more than it had expected"
There are plenty Of votes in the
Senate to curb the subsidy pro-
gram" he remarked. IF we can just
get together"
Advocates Of the Taft proposal
contended that 1t would prevent the
administration from extending the
rollback beyond the present pro-
gram decreasing retail costs of
meats, butter and coffee.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of
Montana, however, declared that
"Once you have started this thing
you are not going to be able to stop
it and it will mean control by the
Government of every industry that
takes subsidies"
Evening star., 1943-06-24
Foes Of Subsidy Plan
Seek Agreement 10
Put Curb on Program
Senate Leaders Hope
For Final Action on
Proposals Today
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Outcome of a congressional
battle over paying Government
funds to Offset losses for retail
price cuts apparently hinged to-
day on ability of subsidy oppo-
nents to get together on some
form of restrictive legislation.
Declaring that an anti-subsidy
proposal by Senator Taft, Republi-
can, Of Ohio might as well have
been written in the White House, !"
some advocates of more stringent
curbs pressed for legislation that
either would strip all Federal agen-
cies Of subsidy authority or require
congressional approval OF each pro-
gram.
The Senate hoped to settle the
controversy before nightfall by dis
posing of bill to extend the life
of the Commodity Credit Corp. two
more years and increase its bor-
rowing power from $2,650, 900 900 to
$3.50, ,000, 900.
$175,OO0,O00 Yearly Limit.
The amendment, approved by the
Senate Banking Committee, would
restrict Commodity Credit Corp.
subsidy loans to s175,o0o 900 a year.
1t also would hold the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp. to a $500, 900 900
annual subsidy limit. Commodity
Credit, which makes loans to farm
ers on stored commodities, is tele-
scoped within the RFC.
In addition, the Government
would be authorized to pay any
amount necessary to compensate
shippers for transportation losses
and to purchase armament and
strategic materials to be sold at a
loss.
While RFC Chairman, Jones pre-
viously asked $1,000, 900 900 subsidy
authority for his agency, Senator
Maloney, Democrat, of Connecticut
told the Senate that half of this
amount meets the desire of those
In charge Of the rollback program. >
The $500,000,00o ceiling for the
RFC," he declared, lis in keeping
with the wishes and desires Of Jesse
Jones and Prentiss Brown (price
administrator and the SITS 900 ,00C
Evening star., 1943-06-24
'SpineIess j. ). Race
Seen by Tripp Under
Political P'aternaIism
Head Of Gonnett Papers
HoiIs Newsboys for Sole oi
$50, 600, 900 War Stomps
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, June 24.-Frank
Tripp, chairman of the Allied News
paper Council and general manager
of the Gannett newspapers, declared
last night that Americas next gen.
Grafton would be "a servile, spine-
less race of dependents" II 1t seeks
only freedom from want and per-
sonal security.
Paying tribute to the Nations
newsboys for their sale of $50, 900, 900
in War stamps, Mr.. Tripp told men,
bers Of the International Circulation
Managers Association to explain to
these boys "the humbug of political
paternalism and screwball theories
of dreaming professors, whether in
bureaus In Washington or school,
rooms in the universities"
Captains Of the Future"
The newsboy will become the man
on whom the future of America de-
pends. he said in an address before
the associations annual banquet,
and added:
If that type Of boy comes to
think that all to which he aspires
Is the bunk and that freedom from
want and personal security are the
sum total Of American life, then
the jig is up and our next generation
will be servile, spineless race of
dependents, no better of than the
pitiful peoples for whom we fight"
Mr.. Tripp asserted the Nation
would return ito that day when pub
lie servants worked for the people
and not the people for the public
servant; when a pauper was just a
pauper and not an able bodied man
leaning on a WPA shovel by the
roadside: when 2 out of 10 people
do not live off the public till, half
OF them putting fool figures into
fool books: when school teachers
teach school and don't try to tell
practical men how to do something
they have spent their lives learning
to do efiiciently and we'll: when the
workers dollar will not be raided by
indirect, hidden taxes in order that
millions of the faithful may remain
on the public payrolls; when the
newspaper boy of today may become
the captain of tomorrow, but knows
that it can never be except by his
own sweat and perseverance.
Truth to Lead Us Back
1--WE will go back to that day
because the truth will lead us back
The truth of our own times, the
story of our folly, revealed to us by
that daily visitor to our fireside--
the newspaper. That will lead us
back because there never will be
Hitler who can muzzle or sup
press it,"
Joining In the tribute to news
boys war stamp activities was James
Cagney, president of the Screen
Actors Guild. Mr. Cagney and
Babe Ruth appeared earlier at a
newsboys' program sponsored by the
Treasury Department.
w. G. Chandler, who until recently
headed the War Production Boards
printing and publishing division
told the circulation managers fur
ther mandatory curtailments in
newsprint are in prospect for the
fourth quarter unless circulation
and advertising volume decline" d"
and added that information now
available clearly points to restric-
tions in use more drastic than any
yet discussed"
Evening star., 1943-06-24
Bomber Crash Kills 5;
Second Craft Is Missino
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KEY WEST Fla, June 24.-Naval
authorities yesterday announced the
crash of medium sized bomber yes
terday with the loss of five men, and
the disappearance of a second me-
dium bomber, which has been miss
ing two days.
Those killed when the plane
crashed into the ocean a few miles
from land included.
1t. (jg) Laurence John Carl, pilot,
Omaha, Nebr.; Ensign Edmond Paul
Hubbard. ir. co-pilot, Houston, Tex; :;
Warren Morton Farrar. jr.. aviation
radioman, third class, La Veta,
Colo: Henry Albert Choate, avia-
ton ordnanceman, third class, Green
Bay. Wis. Officers said a widespread
search of water around Key West
was being made.
The number of persons aboard and
their names were withheld.
Evening star., 1943-06-24
Two Die in Hospitals.

lOOllIlR III TlOlS were NuI1t6Q GOWN
relentlessly as the death toll climbed
to 81.
Two Die in Hospitals.
Two white men injured in Mon
days rioting died in hospitals last
night. One had been stoned by a
group of colored youths and the
other struck on the head by brick
police said.
With the city guarded by $500
soldiers, last night passed quietly.
Troops had to be called, however,
to stand by while the senior class
of Northeastern High School was
graduated. A restless crowd of
youths had gathered outside the
school as the seniors, including 20
Negroes, received their diplomas.
Situation Under Control.
I'VE have the situation under con-
troll" Gov Kelly announced. "Our
next step is to find out who the
guilty ones are, to punish them and
see that things of this kind do not
happen again IN Mlcnlgan.
Toward that end he appointed At
torney General Herbert J. RuShton,
State Police Commissioner Oscar C.
Olander, Wayne County Prosecutor
William E. Bowling and John H.
Witherspoon, Detroit police COM
missioner, to a committee to investi-
gate underlying causes of the riot
The Army was invited to participate
in this inquiry.
Other city agencies undertook the
task of relieving victims of the riot
and helping to repair property. 1t
was estimated that $50 stores were
destroyed or badly damaged in the
colored district. Nineteen smashed
and burned automobiles were piled
in city lot as temporary monu-
ment to the mob.
Evening star., 1943-06-24
Dies 10 Probe Riot
And Policy on Freeing
Japanese Evacuees
Accuses Toxic Agents
Of Promoting RocioI
Prejudice in Detroit

The Dies committee, after a
long period of inactivity, will
swing into action Monday with
two-fold purpose:
]. To inquire into recent racial
disturbances, including the Detroit
riot which took 81 lives.
2. To inquire into Japanese
activities and the method of releas-
ing Japanese from relocation camps.
The program was announced yes
terday by Chairman Dies following
his return to Washington after a
long absence. He said the commit
tee has evidence that Japanese
agents, working through established
organizations, had promoted racial
prejudice in the Detroit area pre-
sumably to interfere with war prose-
cution and to break down home.
front morale.
Mr.. Dies declared recent testi-
mony given a subcommittee of his
unit disclosed that the Ku Klux
Klan had enrolled many members
in the Detroit area. He did not
indicate, however, whether the COM
mittee would inquire further into
the activities of the Klan.
WRA Chief First Witness,
The first witness before the COM
mlttee, Mr.. Dies said. probably will
be Dillon S. Myer, director of the
War Relocation Authority which has
supervision over the 10 camps in
which the japanese evacuated from
the West Coast after the attack on
Pearl Harbor were relocated. Later,
ne declared. the committee may call
the three American-born japanese
working on the farm of Secretary
OF Interior Ickes near Olney, Md,
and some of the Is japanese en-
ployed in the Washington headuuar-
ters of the WRA.
Meanwhile, Representative J.
Leroy johnson, Republican, of Cali
fornla announced he would seek
early action on his resolution pro-
Vldlng for deportation at the close
OF the war of all japanese aliens
In the United States as we'll as
those who are citizens and have
been disloyal to the country.
Mr.. Johnson's resolution, intro
duced few days ago, is pending in
the House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee.
Mr.. Dies said records seized by
committee agents in a raid June II
at the Washington branch Office
of the Japanese-American Citizens
League show "a very close contact"
between the organization and WRA
and indicate that the league has
largely dominated and dictated
some Of the policies" of the gov
ernment agency.
Officers May Be Called.
Two officers of the league now
serving with the Army and sta
toned at Camp Shelby, Miss, prob
ably will be subpoenaed to testify
during the investigation, Mr.. Dies
said. Their names. he declared, will
be disclosed "at the proper time" 3"
The Texan explained that evil
dence in possession of the commit
tee show that many of the japanese
released from the relocation camps
had been given their freedom
through cooperation of the league
and without any check whatso-
ever" except several questions deal
ing with their loyalty. The objec-
tive Of the league, he declared, is to
Evening star., 1943-06-24
Fire Destroys 5 Buildings
Al jap Detention Center
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SANTA FE, N. Mex, June "a
Three buildings and two small sheds
were destroyed yesterday by fire
which swept the Japanese alien de-
tention center near Santa Fe.
Llyod H. Jensen of the Immigra-
tion Service said the loss was con-
fined to building housing the mess
hall and kitchen, two small recrea-
tional buildings and two sheds.
The fire broke out in the kitchen.
I'VE don't feel there was anything
suspicious about it," Mr.. Jensen said
Evening star., 1943-06-24
Customs Tokes Linoerie

Nearly $4,000 worth of lingerie
and women's apparel was seized re-
Gently by customs inspectors at
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, as it was
being smuggled from the United
States into Mexico.
Evening star., 1943-06-24

and semi-skilled occupations" DR..
Johnson said.
increasingly the Negro has be-
come fearful of his economic secur-
ity and many white working men
have come to look on the Negro
| laborer as a threat to their security"
Evening star., 1943-06-24

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