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Evening star., 1943-12-27
Mrs. Amos ChiIcott
Dies in Phoenix, Ariz,
Native Of Washington
Suffered Long Illness

Mrs. Elizabeth Huddleston Chill
colt, so, wife of Amos A. Chilcott,
Fairfax County orchardist. died Sat-
urday in a Phoenix (Ariz.) hospital
after long illness, relative in Fair
fax learned.
Mrs. Chilcott was born in the Dis
trlct, where her father, the late F..
w. Huddleston, operated drug
store. AS a young girl she moved
with her family to Herndon and
later to Fairfax.
Her father was prominent Fair
fax County dairy farmer and served
as county treasurer from 1916 to
1888. Mrs. Chilcott served for num-
Der of years as deputy treasurer and
also had been employed in the audit
ing section of the Post Office De-
partment.
Mrs. Chilcott was married about
II year ago and lived for time at
the Chilcott orchards near Vienna
When her father retired from office
she and Mr.. Chilcott moved to Fair
fax and continued to live there after
the death of Mr.. Huddleston in 1899
Mrs. Chilcott had been in ill health
for number of years and for the
last four years had spent most of
her time in Arizona.
She was charter member of the
Fairfax Garden Club and was active
in library work in the county. She
was member of Truro Episcopal
Church.
Her only survivor is her husband
who was with her when she died.
Funeral services will be held at 3
pm. Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
j. E. Nickel, Fairfax. Burial will
be in the Fairfax Cemetery.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
Rites for Judge 0ffutt
Will Be Held Today
Ey The Associated Pres

ES the Associated Press.
TOWSON. Nd. Dec. 27.-Former
Judge T. Scott Ofutt. who died Fri
Gay after a long illness. will be
buried today after services at $50
pm. at the Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church in Towson. Judge
Offutt retired in June, 1912.
The 7l-year-old jurist was a men,
Der of the Maryland Court of Ap-
peals and chief judge of the third
judicial circuit for more than 20
years.
He had been inactive since suffer-
ing stroke three and a half wears
ago. Approximately six weeks ago
he developed pneumonia and four
weeks later was admitted to the
Johns Hopkins Hospital where he
died.
Judge Offutt was an active men,
Der OF the Democratic party from
the time he began to practice in
ToWson until Gov, Ritchie appoint-
ed him to the bench in 1920.
He is survived by his widow, ons
son and daughter.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
1,418 Leave Federal
Jobs Here in Month
As Decline Continues
National Figures Show
zoe, 900 Reduction in
Employees Since July ]

Another decrease in Federal en-
ployment in Washington was
brought about in October, the Civil
Service Commission announAed to-
day. The total of 268,469 employees
here as of October 81 represented
a decrease of lab employees from
the September 30 overall figure.
The drop in civilian employment
maintained the downward trend re-
ported for this area over the last
eight months. A year ago this city
had 283, ,692 Federal employees.
Chairman Ramspeck of the House
Civil Service Committee said last
night that Federal civilian employ
ment has been reduced by 10000
since last July and that the figure
probably would run to 100000 for
the complete fiscal year.
Most Find New Jobs.
The Government seemed to have
overstocked its personnel in the rush
when this country entered the war"
Representative Ramspeck said. "and
now it is settling down to a smooth
operating basis"
Most OF the persons leaving the
Government are finding jobs in pri
vate industry, Mr.. Ramspeck said
and he explained that much of the
personnel reduction now being ac-
compllshed is by not filling vacan-
cies.
The estimated total employment
by the Government, within and out
SIDE the Continental United States.
was 2,952,0l3 as of October 81, COM
pared with 2,960,O19 at the end of
the preceding month, the Civil
Service Commission said.
Seasonal Trends Shown,
Seasonal developments were re-
Hected in the overall picture. Where
the War Department Topped off
1899 employees in October. the Post
Office Department was adding .291
and the Navy 4,6O5.
In line with the retrenchment
policy the following decreases in
jobs were reported in October: Agri-
culture, 1,736; Interior, 1850; Fed
eral Security Agency, 1872; War
Manpower Commission. 1904.
In addition to paid employees there
were 266069 persons in the Nation
serving without compensation or at
81 per annum during October, as
compared with 263,63O (revised)
during September.
Washington at the beginning of
November had 258,235 full-time en-
ployes on a salary or wage basis.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
REGIONAL uses Offers
Rewards in Effort 10
SPUR Labor Drive
Plaque to Be Given
Quarterly to Office
Giving Best Servic

Adopting an incentive plan to spur
local United States Employment
Service Offices to greater effort, Re-
gional War Manpower Director
Henry E. Treide announced today
that after the first of the year a
plaque will be awarded quarterly to
the Office rendering the most effec-
tive wartime service.
In addition to the plaque, the best
employment Office in each State
throughout the region will compete
Tor an AZ certificate of outstanding
accomplishment. Excepted is the
DISTRICTS Office which will be eligible
to compete only for the plaque since
1t is the only USES office here.
A total of 1870 local EMPLOYMENT
offlces will compete for the plaque
which will be held by the office win
nlng 1t for three months. The "a"
designation will be held permanent-
ly by the employment offices.
Mr.. Treide said the plan for the
reWardlng outstanding performance
was adopted as part of a general
program to speed up recruitment of
war workers and improve the eff
cheney of employment offices.
Undoubtedly, he said, many Offices
throughout the region are doing
outstanding work and should be
given the same recognition as pri-
vate industry gives to the outstand-
ing efforts of its workers.
Effective performance, he said,
Will be measured in terms of the
amount of work performed per man
hour as indicated by Office cost stu
dies and the success of recruitment
campaigns carried on by local
| Offices.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
D. e., Virginia Men
Missing in Action
Pvt. Stewart Overseas
Only Two Weeks

A Washingtonian and a resident
of Falls Church are missing in &C
tion. the War Department an
nounced today.
Pvt. Essex NJ Stewart. jr., whose
mother. Mrs. Signora Stewart, lives
at 2l32 Eleventh street NV, is
missing in action in the South Pa
cific. Sergt Thomas A. Earhart,
whose father. Wayne L. Earhart,
lives at 1900 Tracy place, Falls
Church. Va, is missing in the Medi-
terranean area.
Pvt. Stewart. "a, worked at several
hotels here as a porter before he
was drafted a year ago, his sister.
Mrs Anglice Evans, 1923 @ street
NV, said. The family came here
about eight years ago from Staun-
ton, Va. Another sister, Miss Beau
lah Stewart, lives at 1924 California
street NV
Pvt. Stewart had been overseas
only about two weeks. his family
estimated from letters they received
from him, when he was reported
missing in action.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
Nursery School Committee
Submits Economy Report

The Nursery School Advisory
Committee submitted report or
reducing high" nursery school ad-
mlnlStratiVe costs to Commissioner
Guy Mason this afternoon after
lengthy discussion of the problem
earlier in the day.
Supt of Schools Robert L
Haycock called the committee meet
ing at the request of Commissioner
Mason, who had been concerned
about complaint from the Federal
Works Agency that the administra-
tive costs of the local nursery schools
were out of proportion to the
amount of service now being offered
by the II schools open.
Commissioner Mason said he Woulc
release the report possibly late to-
day-after he had studied it thor
oughly. Members of the Advisory
Committee besides Mr.. Haycock in.
clude Recreation Supt. Milo F
Christensen, Welfare Director RAY
Huff and Health Officer George C
Rutland.
Miss Dorothy D. Pearse is di.
rector Of the school.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
Oldest Inhabitants
To Hear '43 Chronicles

Chronicles of historic 1943 will be
presented to the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants at its traditional
New Year meeting at 1920 am.
Saturday at the Old Union Engine
House, by Acting President John
Clagett Proctor, the organization's
chronicler.
The meeting is open to members
OF the association and their families.
according to announcement by John
B. Dickman, sr., recording secretary.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
Bitner Expected 10 Quit
WPB Publishing Post
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The resignation of Matthew G,
Sullivan as assistant director of the
War Production Board printing and
publishing division presages the
resignation of H. M. Bitner, division
director, WPB sources said today.
A formal announcement Of Mr.,
Bitner's resignation is expected soon.
Arthur R. Treanor, veteran execu-
tive of the Booth newspapers in
Michigan, will succeed Mr.. Bitner,
the same sources said.
Mr. Treanor was recently named
deputy director of the division.
Carroll Hanson, an executive of
the Audit Bureau of Calculations.
VIII succeed Mr.. Sullivan January 6.
Mr.. Sullivan will return to his post
as general circulation director of
the Gannett newspapers. He makes
his home in Rochester, N. Y.
Mr.. Hanson's duties will include
supervision of the newspaper pub
llshlng section of the printing and
publishing division He Will be pri-
marlly concerned with administering
the regulations covering restrictions
on the use Of newsprint.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
Army Halves Anthracite
Use to Aid Civilians

BY the Associated Press
The Solid Fuels Administration
today reported the Army had agreed
to substitute bituminous coal for
one-half of its domestic size hard
coal requirements during the current
heating season, to save anthracite
for civilian use.
The STA estimated that the
Army's action would divert l5O.O 900
tons of anthracite to civilian
channels.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
District Girl to Sponsor
DESTROYER Escort Riley

Miss Mildred La Verne Riley, 210O
Connecticut avenue, a sister of the
late 1t. Paul James Riley, USN, has
been designated to sponsor a de-
stroyer escort named in the latter's
honor. The Riley is to be launched
Wednesday at the plant of the
Bethlehem bingham Shipyard, Inc,
bingham, Mass.
1t. Riley was a native of Hot
Springs. Ark, where he was born
April IL, 1918. He was graduated
from the Naval Academy in the
class of 1887. He was a pilot at
tached to the U. S. S. Enterprise,
and was shot down in the Battle
of Midway. Before his death, he had
won the Navy Cross and the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross, and was
awarded the Purple Heart post
humously.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
Thieves Loot Wine Cellar
In Countess Home Here

The Countess Anna de la Grand
vile, 34o4 Fulton street NV, re-
ported to police yesterday that
thieves broke into her home Christ
mas night and stole several bottles
OF imported wine and whisky.
The Countess and her two chill
dren, Baudoin, 3. and Oliver, 2. were
asleep on the second floor when she
heard noises downstairs. Investi-
eating, she found the thieves had
fled, leaving the front door open.
The thieves also had taken several
Of the children's candy sticks. Police
said they gained entrance Though
the basement.
The Countess is the wife of Capt.
John de la Grandville, now serving
as a liaison officer on 1t. Gen. Mark
w. Clark's staff in Italy.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
Col. Lincoln Kormony
Dies; Retired Marine
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS. Md, Dec. 27.-Col.
Lincoln karmany. retired. Of the
Marine Corps, died Friday night at
the Naval Academy Hospital. He
was 83.
He was appointed to the Naval
Academy from Pennsylvania and
was graduated in the class of 1881.
After long service at posts in Amer
lea. Cuba and the Philippines, he
retired in February, 1923.
Burial will be at 2 pm. today in
the Academy cemetery. Surviving
are the widow and a daughter, Mrs.
Robert E. Hoyt, wife of a captain in
the Navy Medical Corps.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
S575 in Clothing Stolen
From Station Wooon

At least one visitor here isn't i'm
pressed with the Districts hospi-
tality.
Betty White of Clark Summit, Pa,
who stopped en- route to johnson
City, Tenn, reported to police that
s575 worth of clothing was stolen
from her station wagon last night
while it was parked in the 17OO block
of De Sales street NV.
Evening star., 1943-12-27
Armed Man Robs Grocer

Jacob Lotker, operator of a groc-
cry at 720 V street NV, was robbed
of s45 by an armed colored man who
entered the store early today, police
reported. Mr.. Lotker told police he
was forced to hand over the money
at the point of a gun.
Evening star., 1943-12-27

on a clty-WlQe
basis.
Chairman of
Local Board No.
%, Gail T. Judd,
spends a b ou t
two hours an
e V e n i n G just
talking to the
men, G n G
taem advice if
they ask for it,
going over their
b u d G e I S with
them.
L can appre-
cia te what these
boys are going
Evening star., 1943-12-27
Draft Board Head Conducts
Aid Center on Small Scale
Gail T. Judd Gives Own Time to Advise
Family Men Called Up for Military Duty

One draft board chairman is al
|ready doing on a small scale what
the Draft Aid Center" plans to do
for the families of drafted fathers
Evening star., 1943-12-27

S1NATRA READS OF HIS SWOON POWER-Crooner Frank
Snatra reads letter which 17yearold Rita Stearns
Oet Central High School student of 1889 Kenyon NV
free trip to New York be the entire
broadcast Miss Steans winner of Columbia Broadcast
ing System contest Why SWoon Sinatra" She
IF lonesome he reminds of the your
If waiting for dream prince his thrilling sings you
alone "A P. Wirephoto
Evening star., 1943-04-11
FATS IN THE WAR!

wife will make $40 million pounds
of powder in year.
What happens to your waste fat
after your butcher gets it? First
it's picked up and trucked to a
rendering plant. There all the cans
are dumped into a big vat and
heated just enough to melt the
greases without injuring the tins.
which are later cleaned and them
selves salvaged.
Daeoa Iato Bullets
lHE liquid fat is then drained
off into tank cars or trucks and
transported to the giyoerin pro-
ducer. at whose plant the fats are
chemically treated until they sep
arate: a solid mass rises to the top
and a liquid settles to the bot
Evening star., 1943-04-11
ngInSCAuoaGAL

apiece to enable a battleship to fire
one shell from one 12-inch gunl
Acceptable kitchen geases in
clude: drippings from roasting
pans and broilers; residual grease
after frying bacon, sausage. ETC.;
grease skinned from stews or
meat-base soups: used lard, vege-
table Shortcomings and cooking oils;
the actual fats cut from meats be-
fore cooking or left over after eat
ing. These solid fats. incidentally.
should be melted down in a double
boiler or under a slow fame in the
oven and then strained into the
container.
Any kind Of a clean. ss'eosh-
edged ces iciu do as a oontainer. So
long as our supply of cans lasts.
you are requested not to use glass
Jars or cardboard containers; ex-
cessive breakage and leakage make
them impractical to handle in
bulk.
A simple enough job. but a vital
one. It's 80 simple that many of US
have neglected it as being inconse-
quential yet it is so vital that
its neglect could cost US the
war.
So save your waste grease, Mrs.
America. PAUL u. NANNY
Evening star., 1943-04-11

giycerin. So urgent is the need for
it that the fat you turn in to your
butcher today will be processed
and delivered to a munitions plant
within three weeks.
In the year 1918 alone. German
field artillery of just one type fred
over 96 million rounds of ammuni-
tion-which represented the glyc-
erin product of about eight billion
tablespoons of fat. And they lost
the war!
HuA11y 0uAs
ToDAY that's small change. with
a modem division expected to con-
sumo 600 tons of ammunition in
"a hours as against a mere 80 tons
in World War l. Which is why the
Army cries desperately for fat -
and more fat.
With civilian meat supplies cur
tailed - and with fats scarce and
eettfnq scarcer the housewife
faces a difficult task. She must
carefully conserve fat to feed her
family - and must save every
dnop of excess for our war effort.
No amount is too small to save.
A tablespoonful a day will add up
to a pound a month. A pound a
month from every American house.
Evening star., 1943-04-11

tom. lhe former,
in due time, be-
comes our laun-
dry and toilet
soaps; the latter
is distilled into a
sweet, amber
colored liquid
which is 96.6 per
cent pure dyoer-
in. Mixed with
nitric and sui
phuric acids, this
erstwhile HARM
less stuff becomes
nitro -glycerin.
the most potent
of explosives.
Your pound
of kite h e n
grease will pro-
duce enough
dycerin to fire
$50 rou nds
from 4 light
machine gum
one round from
. light antiair-
craft gun. The
big stuff, Of
course, eats up
much more giyc-
erin. So if you
have a brOt Other or
a son or q sweet
heartintheNavy,
make q note that
you a n d 3 4 8
neighbors will
have to ante up
one pound of
kitchen grease
Evening star., 1943-04-11

the world. Yet
o,sy dycerin sup
ply is failing rap
idly. And We can
lose the war on
that account.
This sounds
far-fetched at
first blush, but it
isn't. Glyoerin is
needed for many
of the bullets.
shells and bombs
that our guns and
planes depend
upon; and the
chief sources of
glycerin are fats
and oils. Our
greatest outside
source of supply
heretofore was
the Far East:
with the Japs
straddling that.
we now find that
We must salvage
200 million
pounds of waste
fat per year from
American house.
holds.
So when the
government i'm
plores US to save
waste kitchen
grease. it is a gen.
uine cry for help
in a real emer-
gency. Th at
grease contains
about 10 per cent
Evening star., 1943-04-11
You collect II in
your ho1ne...Uncle
Sam shoots with II

HE American housewife and
the grease she pours off her
d frying pan may help decide
between victory and defeat in this
war.
In 1918 the Germans had the
greatest chemical industry in the
world. Yet they lost the war in
large part because of the failure of
their supply of glyoerin, indispens-
able to the manufacture of ammu-
nition.
In l943 the United States has
the greatest chemical industry in
Evening star., 1943-04-11

n ives u ~ wits ead-efy-
ing to get . clear, snowy
wash in our very hafd
waeer! When I finally dis
covered La France, I knew
my troubles were over! It's
= MUST for sparkling whioe
washes!"
Evening star., 1943-05-31

this country from the observance of
the day are distributed abroad by
the New York headquarters.
E. de S.
Evening star., 1943-05-31
THE EVENING WASHINGTON, G, MONDAY MAY s 1e4s
Program Observes
Day of Russian Child

The DAY of the Russian Child"
was observed yesterday in the parish
hall of the Russian Orthodox St.
Nicholas Church, under the auspices
OF the Russian Refugee Children Aid
Society, Washington Branch, Nine
w. JoukoWsky, president.
American-born children between
the ages of 4 and 13 gave varied
and well-prepared program in the
Russian language under the direc-
ton of Gen. George Ivitzky.
Recitations from Pushkin's famous
poems, "Poltava" and Russian and
Ludmila," others written by Nekras-
SOW and Alexis Tolstoi were pre-
sented individually by Elizabeth,
Serge and Olga Ourusoff, Boris Ia
tishtsheff, Alexis Troubezkoj, Eliza
beth and Andrej Shvetzoff.
Nicholas Ourusoff, the Youngest
OF the group, made an impression
when he exhibited sweet voice
and a good ear for music in the
Russian song, Cuckoo" and later
joined Marie Troubezkoj in her
dance number. At the conclusion
OF the program the children were
heard in selections for chorus.
Through the assistance of the
International Red Cross the Fedora
ton OF Churches and other organi-
cations. the proceeds collected in
Evening star., 1943-05-31
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing
Stare.

NationaI-"The Doughgirls." JOS
eph Fields comedy: Tonight at 8 80
Screen.
Capitol-"Assignment in Brit
tany,' province assists the British
II am, 1:40, 4:20, ITO and 9:45
pm. Stage shows: 1855, 335, 6;25
and 905 pm.
Columbia-"Keeper of the Flame
Hepburn goes anti-Fascist: II am
las. 430. 7:15 and 10 pm
Earle-"Mission to Moscow" Hol-
lvwood on Russia: 10:45 am, 30
4:10, 7:05 and GAS pm. Stage
shows l. $40. $50 and 9:l5 pm.
Keith'S-"This Land Is Mine.
what liberty means to many: :35
am. 2:O5. 4:35, 7:O5 and 9:35 pm.
Little-"Long Voyage Home" the
Eugene O'Neill-John Ford master
piece: II am, lis, 800, $50, 7::35
and GAS pm.
Metropolitan-"ReveilleW with Bev-
erly." Ann Miller and the Army
motif: 1l:40 m, 1:35, 3:35, 5:45
TAO and $40 pm.
Palace-"Bataan," activities of q
lone patrol: 1875 am, 2:05, ABS
7:05 and $40 pm.
Pix-"Last Will of DR.. Mabuse":
continuous from 2 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-05-31

magic, has no notion where he
would be today if a German border
guard in 1889 had not accepted the
picture as ample justification for
ColleanoS possession of large
number of German marks.
Colleano a proper cosmopolite as
BELTS man whose act transcendS
the barriers of language and has led
him everywhere, has a vivid men,
ory of the incident
1t began in the summer of 1889
He had been playing at the Scala
in Berlin when the chance came to
play what had been the Munich
Opera House. In pre-Hitler days,
the Munich Opera House would
have been beyond the range of a
tisht-Wire act. That. however, was
another one of the things Herr Hit
Ter thought should be changed Va
riety, or vaudeville, he decided one
day, was what he liked-at least
better than he liked opera. He or
dered the house remodeled, and per-
Sonally supervised the alterations to
see that no one slipped in any ersatz
materials or honest pieces of dyna-
mite.
English variety, performers, was
booked into the place to keep the
Fuehrer relaxed for a couple of
hours nightly during those tense and
awful days of July and August, 1880.
Whatever relaxation they may have
brought to the F'uehrer, re did moth
ing to return the favor. The per-
formers lived through weeks of
mounting tenseness as any foreigner
might reasonably have. The only
relaxed moments Colleano had were
those when he was dancing or SOM
erSaulting on his tight wire. The
penalty for being tense at such
time seemed worse than other i'm
pending penalties, so the wire genius
had no reasonable other choice.
1t was part of the daily routine Of
the performers on the bill to consult
the British consul before going to
the theater
How do things look today?" they
would ask.
Awful the consul would say,
"but We are STAYING"
we stayed, too says Colleano.
until the day the consul told us
he and the consulate staff were
clearing out the following morning"
X X
The performers who had no diplo-
matte courtesy coming to them de-
cided not to wait. They chose to
disappear that night, a disappear
ance act that was made enormously
improbable by the circumstance
that there was no transporta ton
Everyone. perforce, decided to fend
for himself and the Colleanos finally
Tended we'll enough to land
bantam car whose owner was willing
to take them, and their hand lug
gage to the Swiss border. He could
not take trunks and certainly he
could not take the Colleano equip
ment which may still be in the
Munich Opera for all the owner
knows.
The trip was incidentless beyond
the exciting implication of troops
glutting every road and mountain
pass until the Colleanos got to the
frontier.
1t became exciting there when the
Nazi border guard looked murder
ously askance at the huge supply
of marks which Colleano had in his
possession.
Colleano, in the diplomatic way
he had learned from world travel
ing. tried to assure the guard that
it was really nothing at all for
Evening star., 1943-05-31
A Good and Bad Man
Sometimes Confused
By the Associated Pres

HOLLYWOOD.
Alan Hale has made a career of
bashing in actors noses, blacking
their eyes and catching them at the
business end of an assortment of
guns. He has also come in for his
share of punishment. He's died
gloriously and ingloriously. And
loves it.
He gets little confused at times
remembering which side he's on.
Right now, he's doing a heart-of-
gold first sergeant in This Is the
Army In Dodge City" he was
soldier in the Union Army. In
"Leathernecks" he was two-fsted
Marine.
Give him uniform, a sneer, and
a rousing fist fight, and he's happy.