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Evening star., 1943-06-12
The Week in Religion
German Churches PIun Reconstruction
After Overthrow of HitIerism
Nv Religious News Service.


The planning for the reconstruction
the nation ovehrown according
this
reliable source.
The
hopeful Germany the
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in my mission. Never fear that some little
bullet would hit me. was too arrogant
for that All Of us were.
Soon it's almost time. and as you stand
around and wait the inteTmmable seconds
for the operations officer to brief your
mission, you are sharp and cross with the
ground crewmen. but it's from the tension
of the moment. And then you take off
and you're the happiest man in the world.
Soon you're saying to yourself, why
don't the devils come up? Why?"
And there they are At the first instant.
the steepness of their climb chills you.
then their numbers. but now you remem-
Der there aren't seven of you this time.
There's whole group; and more in reserve
higher up; and you're attacking without
realizing that you've moved.
In seconds, it seems. it's all over. Then
you remember that you didn't even think
about dying. You know if you don't worry
about it. you probably won't die. And
even if some accident - it could only be
an accident = kills you. you'll know you
died for the best place in the world. You
look around into sky that's filled only
with American ships. The stars on the
wings and fuselages look like a part of
the United States = Main Street or
the State Capitol. A cheer may rise
to your lips. a tear blur your eye.
You're no warrior caste, and you're
longing to get back home. But right now
you think it's privilege to be here to
do this job for the greatest country on
earth, and you realize that this is the way
to keep the country you love just the way
you want it. You'll insure by hundreds
of such raids that your wife will live the
way she was living when you first knew
you loved her, your little boy will have
the same future that you've always
planned for him, that your Main Street
- your America will go on.
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recently, he's also become known as one
Of its greatest writers. His best-sellmg
God Is My Co-Pilot" has been hailed as
one of the finest frsthand stories to come
out of the war.
Scotty is anxious to get back to fighting
duty with the General, but right now
and for few weeks more - he's enjoying
himself with his wife and two-year-old
daughter in Florida, where he's teaching
advanced combat tactics to student pilots.
The inspiring message on this page was
first expressed in an article he wrote for
'.Air Force" official service journal of the
U.S.A.AF. and now he has expanded it
for THIS WEEK. We think it has special
meaning for all Americans.
ANOTHER FIGHTER. One of our Navy
friends told us that Lieut.. Blair Walliser,
U. S. Coast Guard, had story to tell.
He had just returned to the Us after
Evening star., 1943-09-26

~IF1EEN hundred feet below, the blue
waters of Victoria Harbor were rip
Z pling in the light of the setting sun.
Some of those waves were caused by the
wind, but few of them started with the
splash of 10 Jap Zeros which seven of us
had shot down in the last three minutes.
Just then crossed the tip of Hong
Kong Island and saw one more airplane
silhouette. My gun switches were already
on, my gunsight was reflected brightly in
my windshield. There was not an in
slant Of wondering whether it was q
friendly plane, q shadow or bird.
At full speed, attacked.
A split second before ! went for the
six guns of my P40. l saw our Air Force
insignia on the other ship. saw it wig-wag
its wings. Then l heard Texas drawl
coming over my radio, IF that's P-40
in front of me, wiggle your wings"
laughed, kind of Historically, and on
the way back to our base I kept turning
that scene over in my mind. And then,
I had the secret of America and the men
who are fighting for her. l knew why.
when the Japs in China outnumbered US
five to one, we still knocked them down:
Tex and l had both attacked. There had
not been moment of deliberation about
whether the other plane was friend or an
enemy. We were alive because we never
waited, never had defensive thought.
lr's an arrogant attitude. We deliber-
ately put chip on our shoulder. That chip
is as necessary to fighter flying as our
planes and our guns. You can give it a
name and call it the American Fighting
Spirit. 1t is the spirit that produced Amer
ica - and Americans And it's the spirit
that stamps Victory on all our fighting
forces in every part of the world.
But we don't think about it when we're
in the air. Our mind is at ease once we
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are on a mission, for we are flying the best
equipment in the world. we have received
the best training anywhere - and soe hGss
everything to JsM tor.
You don't find fancy words to explain
why you're there. You think Of your wife
and your baby daughter and the sound of
church bells on Sunday morning. You re-
member how you suddenly stopped being
an Army private and went to West Point
and wonder what the aristouatic Japs
would think of that. You think of what
a nice kid Colin Kelly was, and you re-
member what team he and another
American named Meyer Levin made.
That'swhat you're fighting for. And you
know that you have everything to live
for, and that the Jap has mostly nothing
but things to die for. That's his only hope
of reaching his kind of heaven.
WE CARRY chip of superiority on our
shoulders. That must be our character in
the air We must never wonder: Can I
do this? Am l meeting better pilot?"
We must forget everything but that we
are the best in the world. We must have
long ago learned to shoot 50 that as each
Jap comes right at us, we will be glad that
he helps aim the guns for us. We must
be saying, 'You poor sucker. I'll get you
long before you come within range with
your poor little guns!"
Afraid in combat? It never enters our
mind. There isn't time for prayer or for
fear. Sometimes when it's over we know
that someone at home must have prayed
for us. And we may experience fear before
or after, but not during the fight
There was always fear gnawing at my
heart the night before the takeoff for
action. could shut my eyes and see Zeros
climbing into the bomber formation.
Sleep would never come. Not from per-
sonal fear. but from fear that would fail
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slDEllAEs

EIoHxER. Col. Robert Scott came back
from China - where he was commander
of all fighting planes under Gen. Chen
nault - with reputation as one of the
hottest" pilots of World Was II. More
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participating in the invasion of Sicily. So.
we asked him about his experiences.
MY experiences?'' he said. Nothing
worth writing about. But there was one
fellow 80" And 50 we present Dear
Junior" on page 18.
Lieut.. Walliser's terms for the article
were rather exceptional. "Put it in War
Bonds" he said. "And make them out
to a baby named Walter Proeger." Youn
understand why when you read tine
Lieutenant's article.
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D. c. Budget
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second highest cause of death in the
District, DR.. Rutland reported the
cancer mortality rate here had
more than doubled since 1905. Then
it was 75,6 per 100000 population,
whereas for 1910 the rate was 1919.
To set up cancer control divi-
sion. DR.. Rutland asked an appro-
prlation of S14,400, for hire of
director, a physician and two clerks,
and for supplies The bureau would
promote early diagnosis of cancer
victims, referring patients to clinics
and hospitals for treatment accord
ing to need, would conduct a gen.
eral educational program and seek
to coordinate its work with that of
private physicians,
A sum Of S41,14S is asked for
a mental hygiene division with
staff of IA including director a
psychiatrist and a psychologist who
would work through Gallinger Hos
pltal the school system and depart
ment clinics.
recommendations Cited.
DR.. Rutland said such service
had been recommended, not only
by the Federal Public Health Serv-
ice, but also in the Kepecs report
on child care of several years ago
by the Board of Trade, the District
Medical Society and the Council
OF Social Agencies. He declared
such service would save money
for the DISTRICT by reducing the
number of mental cases hospitalized
and by permitting the earlier dig
charge of hospital patients, &c
DR.. Rutland predicted that if in
one year only nine cases were saved
from hospital commitment, the Dis
trlct would save more money than
the cost of the proposed bureau. He
emphasized that the District now
is paying S3,250,0O0 a year for the
care of 4,700 District cases at st.
Eliza Hospital.
The amount sought for the Health
Department itself exclusive of hos
pitals) is $1,760,303, an increase of
S566,597 over this year DR.. Ruhland
stressed his desire to bring the Dis
trlct's per capita Health Depart
Evening star., 1943-08-29
Denmark
Continued From First Page. !,

tried by German military courts
precipitated the series of riots in
volving Danes and German troops
and the general strikes which swept
Denmark the last II days.
Saboteurs damaged German
transport lines for troops and sup
plies and wrecked factories pro-
ducing war materials for the Nazis.
A German military court in Aar-
hus tried one accused saboteur this
week and sentenced him to death
but postponed the execution as Best
tried to reach a solution to the
crisis with the Danish government.
The Aarhus police threatened to
quit en- maSse if the Saboteur was
executed
German military forces already
have taken over police control, how
ever, in Aarhus, Frederikshavn and
Aalborg in the Jutland area and
Helsingor north of Copenhagen,
Aarhus, Frederikshavn and Hell
Singer are important seaports han
ding supplies for German forces in
Norway, while Germany's biggest
alrfleld in Denmark is located AT
Aalborg.
Evening star., 1943-08-29

Mr.. and Mrs. D. l.. Macdonald
and their 15-year-old daughter,
Janet, yesterday became the 1,OOoth
set of tenants to move into Fair
lington, the Defense Homes Corp. s
extensive public housing project
under construction in the Seminary
road-Leesburg pike area of nearby
Virginia.
Project officials made quite a cere-
mony over the occupancy of the
1,000th apartment, presenting Mrs
Macdonald with bouquet of flow-
ers and posing the smiling family
on the front steps for news pho
tographers
darlington, which eventually will
consist of 1850 apartments of brick.
Colonial-style architecture, is we'll
on the way to completion, George
c. DeNeale, the property manager,
explained. About 80 units are being
completed each week and tenants,
who have selected their apartments
in the construction stage, are mov-
ing in as rapidly as workmen add
the finishing touches.
Girl and Boy Scout and Civilian
Defense groups already have been
organized among darlington resi-
dents. A school is under construc-
Lion and private interests soon. .Wiu
build two shopping centers iii the
vicinity. Diaries, bakeries and the
Good Hufnor man already include
the area Oh. tf1eirsroutes. -,., ss
Harrington apartments come In
one, two and three bedroom sizes,
though most of them are of the two
bedroom duplex type. Unfurnished
except for kitchen ranges, refrigera-
Evening star., 1943-08-29
Sergt. Warmer Gets
DSC for Downing
Seven Nazi Planes
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 28.-Staff
Sergt. Benjamin F. Warmer has
been awarded the Distinguished
Service Gross for the unprecedented
feat of shooting down seven Axis
planes on a single Flying Fortress
mission over Gerbini, Sicily, on
July 5. .s
tStaf Sergt. Warmer. son of
Superior Court Judge Benjamin
r. Warmer, of San Bernardino,
Calf, was member of the uni
formed force of the Secret Serv-
ice assigned to the Treasury De-
partment in Washington for
three months in 1940)
The D. S. c. was pinned on the
six-foot, six-inch, 275-pound gunner
by 1t. Gen. Carl A. SpaatZ, COM
mander of the Northwest African
Air Force. at an advanced fortress
base Thursday, which was both
Sergt Warmers 29th birthday and
his seventh wedding anniversary.
Sergt. Warmers feat is an all
time Fortress record and was set in
a record raid in which Flying For
tresses knocked down AZ out of 100
enemy fighters which attacked them.
Sergt. Warmers plane accounted
for 13.
Mai. James H. Doolittle also at
tended the ceremony, but Sergt.
Warmers mates were absent. They
were off on bombing mission.
Gen. Spaatz made the presenta-
ton with words of praise for the
craftsmanship of the ganging Cali
fornia University graduate, who
was paid $25 for making para
chute jump at a county fair and
later became a real member of the
Caterpillar Club when he was COM
PEELED to bail out of a Fortress
which ran out of gas in pitch dark
ness over Algeria.
The citation hailed Sergt. War
mer "for extraordinary heroism
while participating in aerial COM
bat over Gerbini airdrome.
He shot down an ME-109 in
flames as a formation of 80 fight
ers attacked his element. A few
minutes later he destroyed two
more ME-109s, forcing the pilots
10 bail out. Again two more at
tackled. One of these exploded by
the accurate fire of Sergt War
mer's gun. The other went down
in flames.
"Replenishing his ammunition,
Sergt. Warmer shot down a sixth
fighter. Then, as five more ME-109s
attacked, he destroyed his seventh.
"The extraordinary heroism and
super-marksmanship reflect great
credit upon Sergt. Warmer and the
Air Corps of the United States
Army"
Evening star., 1943-08-29
La Plato Farmer Cited
For. Wor Food Effort

Kostka Simpson of La Plata was
one of A farmers in the Maine
through Maryland area cited by the
Farm Security Administration yes
terday, "for outstanding work in
wartime food production
The citation said that the farmers
cited had made great sacrifices in
increasing production" Mr.. Simpson
has two sons in the Army. William
20, who is with the Army Air Forces
in the South Pacific, and Raymond
%, who is stationed in Ohio.
Production on Mr.. Simpsons farm
has been increased despite the short
age of help, the FSA said. He has
large garden, raised extra hogs,
planted more potatoes than ever be-
fore, and has raised turkeys, ducks
and chickens for market.
Mrs. Simpson has contributed to
the winning of the citation by doing
a large amount of canning.
Evening star., 1943-08-29

tors and screens, they rent for
$3.50 to $3.50 month. The man
agement pays all utility bills, COL
lects the garbage and when recently
sodded grass has grown, will NOW
the lawn.
The MacDonalds, who spent sew
eral weeks house hunting before
they hit on darlington as the solu-
ton to their problem, appeared yes
terday to be well satisfied with their
new home. Mrs. Macdonald already
has found nearby hospital where
she can serve as nurses aide, and
Janet. a Senior Service Scout. has
located a troop in the vicinity.
Residence at darlington is re-
stricted to Immigrant war workers
and their families-those who have
come to the Washington area since
July /, 1941. Mr.. Macdonald. a
former professor in Montana State
College, qualified because he arrived
here last July 81 to work as a spe-
clallst in vocational agricultural
education for the Office of Educa-
ton. The family applied for an
apartment on August IL, and be-
cause Mr.. Macdonald held a W"
referral' card from the War Hous-
ing Center certifying his eligibility
for war housing, was notified the
same day that the application would
,hessaacepted. .-sso,,...,..,,,,.,..,s,ss.. =.
7 Ind1cations yesterday. though.
were that the MacDonalds' fame as
the l,000th tenants @of Fairlineton
swosiiu~ be fieeting. Busy greeting
other new residents, project off,
cials already have forgotten the
identity of the first tenant of the
project, who moved in without cere-
mony last May Is.
Evening star., 1943-08-29

ment outlay up to the $3.50 level
recommended as standard by the
American Public Health Association.
For support he quoted from the
June, 1943, report of the subcom-
mittee on public health, hospitals
and charity of the House District
Committee, which said this was
needed to permit much better con-
troll with an enlarged, adequate per-
sonnel.'
More Food Inspectors Needed,
Ten additional inspectors. an as
sistant director, four clerks and four
junior inspectors are asked for en-
largement of the food inspection
service, to strengthen the depart
ments attack on insanitation. Again
the Public Health Service report
was quoted for support.
An expansion of the campaign on
rats also is planned under a re-
quest for 16 more laborers and two
foremen and new truck for the
rodent control division.
Also in connection with recent
efforts to improve insanitary spots
in the District. DR.. Rutland seeks
a special fund of $4,000 with which
to provide water and sewer connec-
tons for dwellings of the poor
There are 40 cases, with the cost of
connections estimated at about $500
each. Owners might be prosecuted
and fined for failing to make the
connections themselves, but this
would not cure the insanitary con-
ditions, he argued.
Employment of high school grad
yates as trainee technicians for the
Health Department laboratory is
proposed as means of meeting the
lack OF experts. Funds are sought
for employing four at $1,440 a year.
10 More Workers Sought.
For the venereal disease service
10 additional employees are request
ed, and the director would be placed
on full time instead of half time.
For the tuberculosis control program
Evening star., 1943-08-29

two additional physicians are re-
quested, largely due to the opening
of Northwest Health Center in
the Henry-Polk Schools.
Twenty-Five additional employees
are requested for the maternal and
child health service, including five
physicians at $1,000 a year each
and IL Junior clinic aides, to
strengthen the staffs at the 16
maternal and child clinics. Twelve
more junior clinic aides are to be
sought for 1916.
Among increases sought for the
Hospital Permit Bureau are funds
for four medical social workers. In
support Of this proposal, DIR. Ruh-
land asserted that the bureau in
the calendar year 1912 had saved
the District 100000 over and above
Evening star., 1943-08-29
D. G. Draft
Continued From First Page.)

been given no instructions to defer
men in locally needed activities
such as hotels, restaurants, laun-
dries, fuel distribution and other
service industries. The spokesman
said that the boards were being
guided by the critical list, the es-
sential activities list and the non
deferrable list on occupational ques-
tions. He said no instructions had
come from national headquarters
about defefrfng men in Locally
needed activities. -
The District is known to have a
high average OF registrants rejected
at induction stations. The national
average is about 25 per cent, the
District average about 30 per cent.
Figures Offered.
District headquarters gave these
figures to show why fathers will
have to be drafted here in Novem-
ber::
OF the .175,000 eligible regis
trants, approximately 10000 have
either been inducted into the armed
forces, are awaiting induction now
to fill calls this month and next
month, have already been rejected
or are in such minor classifications
as ministers, conscientious objectors
or others deferred by law.
About SIS 900 men are still in ga.
For the most part these are fathers.
A comparatively few are doubtful
cases, or have not yet been classi-
he'd out OF the class reserved for
prewar fathers.
Occupational deferments account
Tor most of the rest of the regis
trants, since headquarters said that
these amounted to about 5 per cent.
Nominal" October Call.
Although the announced national
readjustment of calls appeared to
bring the draft closer for fathers
In States which thought they had
enough men to hold out until No.
vember without calling fathers, Dis
trict headquarters spokesmen said
they had received their October
call and would have enough non
fathers to fill it.
This will mean that some Dis
trict boards will have only nominal
call in October-just enough to take
in the men coming off replacement
schedules. those whose appeals have
been rejected, youths becoming Is
and those whose stays of induction
have expired. Boards, which still
have a pool of childless married
men, will get the lions share of the
call in october as that all boards
can start calling fathers at the
same time.
The boards are now going through
their files to locate fathers whose
jobs fall on the non-deferable list
Some boards are sending out let
ters notifying these fathers that
they must change jobs by Septem-
Der ! or become available for in
duction. Some boards are notify
ing non-deferrable fathers to re-
port for their preliminary physical
examinations now with the idea
that they will be ready for induc-
tion as soon as the 30-day period
allowed them to change jobs has
expired.
Evening star., 1943-08-29

tbs bureaus cost. by refusal Of
free treatment for 3,687 applicants
for hospital care and 1901 appli-
cants for out-patient service.
For the Glenn Dale Sanatorisfn.
the health officer seeks 81 loss, ,504,
an increase of about s250,000 over
this year. This would provide for
more than score of additional
workers and Improvements to build-
ings and grounds.
Funds Sought for Pay Boosts.
For Gallinger Municipal Hospital
and the tuberculosis Hospital for
Convalescents at Fourteenth and
Upshur streets NV, the depart
ment requests S1,975, ,082, an in
crease of more than 100000. All
of the increase except about s26,-
900 is for overtime pay, salary pro-
motions, reallocations and the
transfer to District charges of sery-
ices now paid by Federal grants.
The latter include the rapid treat
ment center for venereal disease
for which new buildings are pro-
vided at Gallinger.
An item Of $4,000 is requested for
a photo photographic unit for CAL
hnger SO that each patient admit
ted may be given a chest test for
tuberculosis. BY such case find-
ing work. it was argued, student
nurses and physicians would be
less likely to contract the disease.
The sum requested for medical
charities remains unchanged, ex-
cept that DR. Rutland proposes no
contribution for Columbia Hospital
since no arrangements are made
for care of District Government
patients there.