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Evening star., 1943-05-19
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Evening star., 1943-05-19
India Seeks Trade

India recently sent mission to
Argentina to increase commercial
relations between the two countries.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
MESSENGERS.

Permanent position, 4s-hour week
Hours from 2 to 10 pm. Age e OF over.
Salary, $50 per week.
One day messenger, hours from 2 to
$40 pm Salary, S22 per week. Apply
Evening Star Newspaper Co, Personnel
Evening star., 1943-05-19
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Man who knows enough about advertis-
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merchandise at greatly reduced price. We
WITH bona our eda men er
ings 500 per week; local work, but car
helpful. See Mr.. Cooper. Suite 1901, 1919
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Permanent positions and good salaries for
experienced draft-exempt men. Hickman
Products Co., Inc. S11 Monroe st. ne.
JANITOR, good pay. Apply
manager, Jewell Theatre, 800
4th st S.W.
Evening star., 1943-05-19
FACTORY MEN
TRUCK DRIVERS,

Permanent positions and good salaries for
draft-exempt men. Hickman Products Co.
Inc, S1l Monroe st. ne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Comdr. Fenno Awarded
NAVY Star for Heroism
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Comdr. Frank w. Fenno, ir.,
whose submarine carried a huge
amount of gold. silver and securities
out of the Philippines before Cor
regidor fell, has been awarded a
Navy Gold star in lieu of second
Navy Cross for sinking $1,000 tons
of japanese merchant shipping and
damaging $4,000 tons more. Comdr,
Fenno received his Navy Cross for
the Philippines exploit.
The 40-year-old officer was cited
for extraordinary heroism and out
standing leadership during an ag-
gressive and successful submarine
war patrol in immediate proximity
to enemy shores The citation said
he pressed home every favorable
attack opportunity.
His crew and ship went through
all the operations without loss or
injury.
Prior to this latest exploit. Comdr.
Fenno had destroyed a japanese
warship and a 5,000-ton merchant
ship while he had the Philippines
treasure aboard,
Comdr. Fennos official residence
was listed by the Navy as West
minister, Mass. but his wife lives at
present at WilliamSpOrt, Pa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
SwindIer Leaves Prison,
Is Arrested for Murder

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, March 20.-Floyd
Woodward, finishing sentence for
a 2o-year-old bucket shop" mail
fraud, walked out of Federal prison
today and was taken into custody
at once by Fulton County deputy
sherlf1s under warrants charging
crimes of two decades ago
Woodward was sentenced January
20, l94l, at Gainesville, Ga. to two
years and eight months in Federal
prison for mail fraud after he had
been apprehended In September
1910, at Monrovia, Calf, where he
had been living as an apparently
wealthy retired hotel operator.
He was married, a Sunday school
teacher and held a church office.
T. Ralph Grimes, Fulton County
chief deputy sheriff, said Woodward
was arrested by Deputies Ed Bur-
dette and Paul Clover as he left the
Federal prison this morning and
that Woodward was being held with
out bond in the Fulton County Jail.
Assistant Solicitor E. A Stephens
said Woodward was arrested on old
indictments charging the murder Of
Ed Hills in April. 1919, and also on
several charges of larceny after
trust.
Woodward, now about So years old.
fed Atlanta in 1920.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Susie the Stee|worker' Scores
Biz Hit in War Plant Debut

Girls working as metallurgical OBJ
servers took temperature readings
and made inspections for surface
blemishes and scratches on red-hot
slabs of steel.
Some were busy as inspectors
measuring plates. Others operated
flame cutting tools which knitted
through the steel plates to make
them the right size and shape for
tanks. Girls drove tractors, operated
cranes and worked in the grinding
department.
Carnegie Illinois officials said a
few women have been hired among
the more than 10000 employees of
the nearby Gary steel works, Some
women also are employed in the
adjacent sheet and tin mills which
produce vital war products, and
women also work at stamping steel
cartridge case discs at nearby Amer
lean Bridge Co., another United
States Steel subsidiary A handful
are guards in the plant protective
services of these vast establishments.
But in none of the older plants
does the proportion of women even
approach that in the new arnor
plate plant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Business Federation
Urges Appointment
OF Public Defender
Needed by Many Here
Who Cont Pay Counsel,
Dinner Meeting Told

Advocation of the appointment by
Congress of public defender to ad-
wise District residents with low in
comes on their rights was voiced by
the Federation of Businessmen's AS
sociations last night on motion of
Louis F. Frick of the Southeast
Disbursements Association.
Stating that there were many per-
sons with incomes too low to afford
counsel, Mr., Prick urged the ap-
pointment be made Immediately.
The federation also went on rec
ord as approving a House bill in
PRODUCED by Chairman Randolph of
the District Committee exempting
privately owned property from dis
traint, attachment, levy, seizure and
sale.
An amendment was proposed to
another bill now pending, presented
by Senator Holman, Republican, of
Oregon, which relates to the gar
nishment of salaries or other COM
pensations of civil officers and en-
ployes of the United States. 1t was
offered by the association on a
motion by J. Nelson Anderson, chair
man of the declarations Legislative
Committee. Such amendment would
include employees OF the District gov
eminent.
John T. Leps and Frederick Levy
were appointed as a committee to
work with Mr.. Anderson in study
Ing a bill presented to Congress by
Representative Crawford, Republi-
can, of Michigan concerning the
control of business rents and rent
ceilings here.
Miss Sally Muchmore. assistant di-
rector of the Better Business Bu-
reau, as guest speaker, told how the
bureau is helping business combat
war racketeering,
The meeting. which was preceded
by dinner, was held in the HAM
llton Hotel and was presided over
by William J. Mileham.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Youth Charged With Mailing
Betty Cradle Extortion Notes
Sought Gems Worth
SIS, 900 and S., 900 in
Gosh, FBI Says

By the Associated Press.
Federal agents have arrested Rus
sci Eugene AleXanderson, Is. in
Hollywood on charges of mailing two
extortion letters to Betty Cradle,
the film star, threatening her life,
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover an
nounced here last night.
On arraignment today at Los An
geles Alexanderson was held under
$1,000 for grand jury action. Hear
ing was set for April l..
Mr.. Hoover said that Alexander
son, a native of Omaha. Nebr, had
confessed mailing the two letters,
one seeking $4,000 worth of uncut
diamonds and the other asking IS 900
in cash.
Alexanderson was held for ar
raignment on charge of violating
the Federal extortion law, the FBI
chief said.
Mr.. Hoover said that Miss Cradle
had received letter demanding the
diamonds which was signed The
Leopard" and that FBI agents COW
cred the designated pay-off spot for
several days. No one appeared,
however.
The second letter was postmarked
March 8 and demanded, Mr.. Hoover
said, that the money be delivered to
the writer, who would be leaning
against the wall" near a cemetery in
Hollywood.
FBI agents using automobiles
equipped with two-way radio sets
patrolled the area, while others pos
ing as laborers and gardeners we're
dispersed about the cemetery At the
appointed time, agents drove by and
tossed dummy package to the side
walk. Mr.. Hoover said Alexander
son, who is feet 4 inches tall, was
waiting, grabbed the package and
started to run but was caught i'm
mediately.
Alexanderson said on arraign-
ment at Los Angeles. Il never in
tended to carry out the threat.
just wanted to get some money to
see the movie stars"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Africa
Continued From First Page.)

forces had captured AN impor-
tant position" in Northern Tu-
nisia and that the British LIST
Army had suffered serious losses"
in several days of bitter fighting.
tThe Fascist communlque said
Allied losses included 1900 prison.
ers, Is tanks, 30 guns and 10 We
hicles.)
Capture Of Ell Guetar opened up,
to the American forces two roads
eastward toward the coast, the first,
toward Gabes and the second cutting
into the main coastal highway at
Achichina, about so miles from Ell
Guetar. Achichina is about IS miles
north Of Gabes on the coast road.
The American forces still had
ahead of them much rough noun
tain country in which the enemy,
could make stand, but every mile.
forward meant an increased threat
to the vital coast road which links
Rommel and Won Arnim.
At Allied headquarters. Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower prepared for.
a conference with Brig Gen. Gomez
of the Brazilian Army, who arrived.
yesterday at Casablanca. Gen.
Gomez will inspect 1t. Gen. Mark
w. Clark's American 5th Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
OPA Expects to Withhold
New Rotioning Until Fall
Clothing Fears AIIoyed as Third Book
Is Deferred for Several Months

ages might develop. 1t is not planned
to undertake the program on a ma
tional scale.
Rumors that clothing is to be
rationed apparently will not die.
But officials in OPA have pointed
out that 1t would be impossible to
ration clothing without a new ration
book. The fact that the next book
may net be distributed for many
months was interpreted as clear in
dication that any rationing of wear-
Ing apparel was far off.
The No. 3 ration books are being
moved from printing plants to dis
tributions centers by slow freight.
About one-half of the books are
printed. and they are being stored
In eight OPA regional Offices, pend
ing the day when they will be dis
tr1buted to local boards.
The coupons in the present Book
No. 2 are suf1fi1cient to last for
many months more, it was pointed
out, even if the processed foods al
lowance Is increased to "a points.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Du|in Chapel Church
Damaged as Flames
Destroy Interior
Falls Church Structure
Loss in Thousands;
Cause Undetermined

Fire of undetermined origin to-
day damaged the interior of Dulin
Chapel Methodist Church on East
Broad street, Falls Church, Va.
No estimate of damage was made
Immediately but it was thought the
loss would run into thousands of
dollars.
The Rev. w, S. Courtney, pastor
OF the church. said the fire had
burned beneath the carpet along
the floor, burned doors between
the main church auditorium and
the Sunday school room and dam
aged the walls, pews and other fur
nishings, Heat from the fire, he
explained, had peeled paint from
the peWs and other furnishings
which were not touched by the
flames. Extent of the damage to
the church organ had not been de-
termined.
About 10 am. smoke was discov-
cred coming from the structure, the
exterior of which is brick and stucco,
by the Rev DR.. r. L. Fultz, a retired
Methodist minister. Mr.. Courtney
summoned fire apparatus and the
f1remen succeeded in extinguishing
the flames after about two hours.
The church will hold Sunday
school and church services tomor-
row in the Madison School, it was
announced, with Sunday school
scheduled for 9:45 am. and church
services for 1l:l5 a m An announce
ment regarding evening services is
to be made at the morning church
service, it was said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Australian Gen. Crawford
Killed in Plane Crash
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA
March 20.-Brig. Gen. J. w. Craw-
ford, an Australian holder of the
Distinguished Service Order who
once was acting Australian COM
mander at Tobruk, was found dead
with two other Australians In the
Wreckage of an Allied plane which
crashed March in the Jungle near
a northern base, 1t was made known
today.
Ground searchers, led by a native
tracker, found the plane two DAYS
after 1t crashed.
Four days after the crash two sur
vivors were found, one of whom had
been able to crawl only 1900 yards
through the dense underground.
Gen. Crawfords companions
were not identified in the dis
patch)
In February, 1941, Gen. Crawford
commanded an air force west of
Mersa Brega, in the Libyan desert
and his battalion took the brunt of
the attack at Tobruk. In the alb
sence of 1t. Gen. Sir Leslie Mors-
head, he acted AS Australian COM
mander at Tobruk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
BY the Associated Press

GARY. Ind, March 20.-Susie the
Steel Worker made a debut today.
CARRIED in Stacks and jacket, he'll
met and goggles, she was presented
publicity as an industrial sister of the
airplane plants Rosie the Riveter
on the Nations wartime production
front.
The occasion was the first inspec-
ton tour permitted by the Army of
the new Gary armor plate plant,
built and operated for the Army by
the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp.
Approximately half the employees
in the new plant are women, an
unprecedented situation in the steel
industry which even amid the war
manpoWer shortage has hired women
cautiously especially in departments
handling hot steel.
But the visitors, l25 newspaper,
trade press and radio representa-
tives, Army. Navy and Coast Guard
officers, found Susie" all over the
armor plate plant working along
side men in the job of rolling and
finishing the heavy steel plates
which protect American tank crews
from Axis bullets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Baltimore Transit Union
Votes Tomorrow on Strike

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 20-The Ex-
ecutlve Board of the Amalgamated
Association of Street, Electric Rail-
way and Motor Coach Employees
(AFL) announced the union would
take vote tomorrow night to decide
whether to call strike against the
Baltimore Transit Co.
A. H Keller, international repre-
sentative, said the principal issue at
stake was the companys refusal to
abide by the decision of an arbi-
traitor on a number of grievances
filed by the union.
The transit company's refusal to
abide by the decision of the National
Labor Relations Board to dissolve
the company union is only a sec
ondary issue" Mr.. Keeler said.
Members of the union, which
claims TO represent the majority of
Baltimore Transits several thou
sand employees, struck once before
for one day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
'lII-Considered' Laws Seen
II Coal Miners Strike
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va, March 20.-Rep-
resentative Woodrum of the Sixth
Congressional District declared to-
day that if John l.. Lewis president
of the CLIO United Mine Workers of
America, takes the soft coal miners
out on strike the resentment in
Congress is going to run high and
there will be ill-considered labor
legislation passed
He characterized the reaction of
other Congress to Mr.. Lewis threat
to take the miners out on strike as
terrific" in opposition and said en-
phatically that If the threat is car
ried out there is going to be trouble
on the labor front"
Rep. Woodrum said in an inter-
view that he is not prepared now
to discuss the principle involved in
granting higher wages generally, but
observed that sit has got to stop
somewhere
I'VE have imitation now he de-
clared. The per capita income in
the Nation is now twice as high as
during the World War"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
20 lnternees Escape
Londonderry Prison
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BELFAST March 20.-Twenty
Irish Nationalist lnterneeS escaped
from Londonderry Prison through a
tunnel early today and sped across
the border into neutral Fire in a
furniture truck after cowing border
guards with submachine gun.
Engineering the biggest Jail break
in the history of Northern Ireland,
the prisoners craWled through a 30
foot tunnel stretching from the
prison yard to coal shed of a house
outside the walls, then dashed one
at a time to the waiting van
At the border village of ST. John,
about six miles from the prison,
their driver produced the gun and
forced the guard to let them cross
the frontier The truck later was
found abandoned.
Later II of the 20 were recaptured
in County Donegal by Fire police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
II Best Dressed
u. S. Women
Announced
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 20,-The
Fashion Academy announced today
winners in an annual poll of leading
designers to select the II best
dressed women of the Nation and
said that in making the selection
emphasis was placed on all-purpose
practicability of wardrobe.
The winners:
Screen-Carole Lands.
Stage-Judith Evelyn.
Public life-Winifred C. Stanley
New York member of Congress.
Radio-Hollace Shaw of Fresno
Calf, NBC soloist known as
"Vivien.'
misunderstanding Luft HUM,
New York cosmetics executive.
Society-Wendy Iglehart. bride Of
1t. Douglas McCrary. " -, -.
Junior society-Joan La Roche
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Chester
La Roche of New York.
Opera-Annamary Dickey, Metro
polltan Opera Co. soprano, formerly
OF Decatur, III.
Concerts--Jeanette Macdonald
JournaliSm-Lorna Farrell. editor
the Woman Magazine.
Sports-Gretchen Merrill, Boston
skating champion.
War work-Mrs. Dwight Davis of
the American Red Gross.
The names OF the winners were
announced by Emil Alvin Hartman,
director Of the Fashion Academy.
which is a fashion art design school
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20

party went into convention, but
came out with Herbert Hoover as its
choice. Although he and his farm
plank had been rejected, Mr.. Low
den backed Mr.. Hoover.
The Lowden record for declining
high office started back in the ad-
ministration of President Mckinley.
who offered to make him first As
sistant Postmaster General. Next
President Taft asked him to become
Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
President Harding would have made
him head of that department. and
President Coolidge invited him to
join his cabinet, presumably as
Secretary of Agriculture. Or to be
Ambassador to Great Britain. He
conferred with President Hoover
about a cabinet post in 1928 and in
1888 it was reported that he had
rejected a place as adviser on the
farm program of the Franklin D.
Roosevelt administration.
Earned Schooling by Teaching.
Mr.. Lowden was born on a farm
near Sunrise, MINI, on January 26.
1861. His father, Lorenzo Lowden,
had blacksmith shop in the village.
He taught in the Burlington high
school for year, then went to Chi
cago, worked as law clerk at So a
week and in one year finished two
year course in the night sessions Of
the Union College of Law, since alb
sorbed by the law school of North
western University. He was grad
uated in 1887.
In the next decade he built up a
f1ourishing law business, taught Fed
eral Jurisprudence in his old law
school and began to be active in poll
tics. In the Spanish American War
Of 1898 he was lieutenant colonel of
the LIST Illinois Infantry.
On August 20, 1896, when he was
IS, he married Florence Pullman,
daughter of the multi millionaire
sleeping car manufacturer. Three
daughters and a son were born to
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Oxygen Plant Exp|odes;
Loss Set at $1,000
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BOSTON, March 20.-A fierce ex-
plosion wrecked the oxygen and
acetylene gas manufacturing plant
of the Air Reduction Sales Co. in
the Dorchester district today, police
reported
Chester Delbridge. plant man.
ager, estimated the loss at $1,000
900. Police and Red Cross workers
said no one had been reported in
jured
Police said it was a two-story
wooden structure and that the
building appeared to be completely
demolished.
All available ambuances in the
city sped to the scene. Four alarms
summoned most of the citys fire
apparatus
The building was located along
side the tracks of the Cambridge
Dorchester Rapid Transit line. The
blast, police said, completely tied
up traffic in the area and along the
transit route.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Sanger Named 10 Head
Citizens Federation
Welfare Committee
Wender Coils on Group
To Push Legislation
Needed for District

Monte Sanger, assistant to the
superintendent of st. Elizabeths
Hospital, has accepted the chair
manship of the Public Welfare Com
mittee of the Federation of Citizens
Associations, Harry s. Wender, pres
ident, announced today.
In letter to Mr.. Sanger thanking
him for accepting the appointment,
Mr.. Wender asked the committee to
consider the bill for licensing and
supervision of adoption agencies, a
remedy for the present handling Of
repeater drunks," the ceiling placed
by the House on public assistance,
and proposed legislation to transfer
present functions of the Board Of
Welfare to the central District gov
eminent under the Commissioners.
Mr.. Wender reminded the COM
mittee that the federation support
ed the legislation for the control Of
so-called baby brokers'"
Mr. Wender also pointed out that
the federation has condemned the
ceiling placed by the house on the
amount which may be spent on pub
lie assistance to INDECENT persons.
Others named to the committee
are: Paul D. Sleeper, Crestwood, vice
chairman; George j. Cleary, Trini-
dad, secretary; Guy H. Birdsall,
Friendship: Dr.. c.. B. Campbell
Medical Society; Mrs Olive G. Fair
cloth. Cathedral Heights Cleveland
Park; j. S. Gorrell, Burleith; w. L.
Howenstein, Rhode Island avenue:
Francis J. Mcdonald, Dahlgren Ter
race; Miss Virginia ONeil, Mount
Pleasant; the Rev Harry v. Porter,
Southwest; Mrs. Henry F.. Sawtelle,
District Federation of Women's
Clubs; Mrs. Carrie Smith, Anacos-
tia, and Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan.
Progressive Citizens Association of
Georgetown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
BY ALFRED TOOMBS.

The Office of Price Admins
tration does not plan to start
any new, major rationing pro-
grams in the next few months
and therefore may not issue War
Ration Book No. 3 until next fall.
The Star learned today.
The No. Ration Book, which is
now coming off the printing presses.
may be distributed to consumers at
the same time as Ration Book No. 4
which is now being designed.
Any new foodstuffs which may be
rationed can be handled by the pres
ent books, it was said. For instance,
If eggs or poultry or fresh fish were
added to the ration program, they
might be made part of the meat ra-
ton.
Some plans are under considera-
ton in OPA for rationing fresh milk
But such action would be taken only
in certain areas where critical short