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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-27
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Evening star., 1943-08-21
New Nursery Schools
Will Open Monday

The Districts three new public
nursery schools will open Monday
with a total enrolment of %
youngsters between 2 and 5 years.
At least 80 more have been regis
tered but are still away on vaca-
ton or have not yet been given the
physical examination to permit
their entrance
Rapid increase is expected in
numbers of children in the nurser-
les when the father draft begins in
October.
There will inevitably be an in
crease when fathers are drafted"
Mrs. Henry P. Chandler, chairman
OF the Districts Child Care Com
mittee, said. wives of servicemen
and their young children simply
cannot live on the dependency al
lotment given them. The mothers
will have to put their chilren in
nursery schools and go to work"
There are about 81 children now
attending the four-day care centers
for children S years and older. The
nursary schools care for children
only from 2 to 4 years. The day
care Office at 480 Indiana avenue
NV. keeps a list of foster homes
to recommend to mothers with
children under 2 years. These chill
dren are ineligible for public care.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Douglass 0. Reed Dies;
Was Enqineer in ice

Douglass o. Reed, 40, OF 1919
Thirty-seventh street NV, a civil
engineer In the Bureau OF Evalua-
tion of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, died last night at his
home. He had been Ill since Mon
day.
Mr.. Reed, former commander of
the Sergt. Jasper Post of the Amer1-
can Legion, was chairman of the
Finance Committee of the District
Department of the Legion. He was
also active in Washington Cathedral
affairs.
He was born in Easton, Pa, and
attended Lafayette College before
enlisting in the 318th Engineers. Mr..
Reed took part in the Meuse-
Argonne offensive and served in
Germany with the Army of Occupa-
ton. On his return he earned his
engineering degree at George WASH
ington University.
He worked for the Bureau OF
Standards and the Southern Rail-
way before joining the staff of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mary Reed, and sister, Miss Eliza
beth Reed of Washington.
The American Legion will hold a
military service for Mr.. Reed at 8
pm. tomorrow at the Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV.
Religious services will be at pm.
Monday at the Bethlehem Chapel
in the Washington Cathedral.
Burial will be in Arlington Gem
etery.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Economist Calls Scheme
'SuperficioI and Unsound

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81 (P.-The
Treasury's revised plan on interna-
tional finance was termed yesterday
superficial and unsound" by Prof.
Benjamin M. Anderson, nationally
known economist, who declared 1t
would lead to dangerous world
inflation.'
I'VE should not repeat our 1919
mistake Of pouring billions OF dollars
into the artificial support of the
foreign exchanges, which prevented
the correction of fundamentals" ="
said Prof. Anderson. former econo-
mist of the Chase National Bank of
New York and now professor Of eco
nomics at the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles.
He declared the plan still appears
to strike at symptoms rather than
underlying causes OF financial dis
order"
Prof. Anderson asserted the United
States should make relatively small
loans to the weaker countries, con-
ditioned on their financial reform.
He cited such loans made to Ger
manyin 1924 and to Poland in 1927,
and added:
I'VE should not use the Federal
Reserve Banks or the Government
stabilization fund for this purpose,
but rather should use investors saw
ings because the former course has
bad reactions on our domestic money
market"
The plan, he concluded, still gives
borrowers control of the lending"
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Mrs. Mildred 0. Straw
Rites Held in Bethesda

Funeral services for Mrs. Mildred
Orem Straw, Al, wife of Robert c.
Straw, 207 Spring street, Chevy
Chase, Md. who died Wednesday,
were held yesterday at the funeral
home of w. Reuben Pumphrey,
Bethesda. The Rev Clifford H.
Richmond, pastor Of the Chevy
Chase Methodist Church, and the
Rev. Edward G. Latch, pastor of
Metropolitan Memorial Church,
Washington, of1iciated Burial was
in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Straw
Is survived by her father, the Rev.
William L. Orem, Chevy Chase; .
sister, Mrs. Elizabeth o. Preston,
Seattle, Wash, and a brother, Will
liam L. Orem, ir. Chevy Chase. She
was native of Thurmont, Md, and
had lived at Chevy Chase the greater
part of her life. She belonged to
the Chevy Chase Methodist Church
and was a member of the Board of
Managers of the Methodist Home
for the Aged.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
u. 5. Press Survey Group
To Return From Britain
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Aug. 21.-One con-
tingent Of visiting American news
paper executives was preparing to-
day to head home after a thorough
going flrst-hand, study of British and
American war activities while an
other group was in the midst of a
similar survey.
Leaving next week are Robert Nc
Lean, publisher of the Philadel-
phia Evening Bulletin; Basil Wal
tiers, executive editor of the Min
neapolis Star-Journal, and L. L.
Winship. managing editor of the
Boston Globe, who in the last four
weeks have toured military stations
and humming war factories from
Northern Scotland to Britain's south
coast.
Paul Patterson, president of the
Baltimore Sunpapers, who has been
in Britain since late June. also plans
to return home shortly. He has been
busy establishing the new Sunpapers
bureau in London with Thomas
ONeal in charge, and making sur
vey of both the military and political
situation on this side of the Atlantic
w. w. Waymack, vice president
and editor of the Des Moines Gowa)
Register and Tribune; William F..
Mag, publisher and editor OF the
Youngstown Ohio Vindicator;
Charles c. Shaw, news editor of
radio station KTSA, San Antonio,
Tex; Thomas E. Martin, manager of
station WWNY, Watertown, N. Y;
H. E. Hollensbee, editor of the mag
azine Industry and Power, ST.
Joseph, Mich, and Phillip Andrews
publisher of Air News, New York
City, who arrived July IL, are on a
week end trip.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
| laps Believed
|GuodoIconoI
| Was Catalina
BY the Associated Press.

HUTCHINSON, Kans., Aug. 2l.-
Some of the Japanese who battled
the United States Marines for Qua
dalcanal though they had invaded
Catalina Island, off the coast of
California.
That's the report brought back by
several of the Guadalcanal veterans,
including A. A. Vaughn, chief avia-
ton machinist's mate, now stationed
at the Hutchinson Naval Air Station.
Il personally talked to Jap pris-
oners who admitted they had orig
inally believed they we're on Cata-
lima Island" he said in an interview
issued through the station.
There were two Japs in this
stockade at the time and another
chief and I went over to look at
them. Both spoke English.
I'VE asked them If they thought
they were going to win this war.
They told us they had practically
won it. One of them said we know
where we're at now They said they
had first believed they were on Cat
alma Island, but that Marines had
put them right"
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Half Of Strikers Return
Al West Point AirfjeId
BY the Associated Press.


WEST POINT, N. Y, Aug. 21.-An
Army spokesman said yesterday that
approximately half of 300 striking
workers at West Points Stewart
Field and an auxiliary air field at
Galeville had returned to their jobs
this morning.
The announcement came from
Capt. Thomas j. Roberts, public re-
laticns officer for the Army district
engineer Office in. New York, who
said 80 per cent" of the strikers
resumed work pending negotiation
of the dispute.
The strike, which began Tuesday
and involves chiefly operating en-
gineers, teamsters and chauffeurs,
threatened to interrupt flight train
ing of West Point aviation cadets.
Academy officials said the dispute
was delaying completion of paving
projects and other war contracts in
the vicinity.
Col A. B. Jones of the Engineers
Corps said in New York last night
the strike was called by the Build
ing Trades Council of Newburgh
and added that "it was intimated
they desired to force" a contractor
at nearby Montgomery Airport ito
enter into a union agreement" No
qualified union spokesman could be
reached for comment.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Star Chef to Realize Ambition
OF Years to Sinq in Opera

classics for a constantly growing
audience.
Among his teachers have been
Prof. Hilary Taylor and Prof. Lester
Williams. Frank was with the Ro-
land Hayes Chorus and the Good
Will Church Choir under the for
mer and appeared in every radio
broadcasting station in Washington
with the latter. He sang a leading
role in "The Symphony OF Life"
staged at Dunbar High School by
the WPA. Each Sunday morning
he is with the Good Will group at
Station WINK He has made re-
cital tours in his native State and
In Maryland, and he has recorded
several of his favorite numbers.
Miss Alice Eversman, music critic
of The Star, speaks of Franks voice
as being very good" He sings
both first and second ranges and
can be a basso when needed. II
don't have leading part in Ira
viata,'" he said today, but I am
enjoying every minute of the re-
hearsals and am looking forward to
the performance"
The opera is to be conducted by
Frederick Vajda, formerly of the
Metropolitan, New York, with Mrs.
Mary Caldwell Dawson as general
manager.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Traders Unload Stocks
To Await Major
Military Moves
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer

NEW YORK, Aug. 2l.-As in the
preceding session, most stock market
customers today continued to
tighten commitments as safeguard
against possible major military de-
velopments abroad over the week
end.
1t was recalled what happened to
the market when Mussolini took
runout powder, and, boardrooms
figured, if the Quebec conferences
had resulted in the determination
to hit Europe with an all-out inva-
sion Immediately. as the Russians
have been demanding, then it
might be wise to take profits on the
recent mild recovery and retire to
the safety zone for the time being.
Motors were among the soft spots
from the start along with rails and
air transports. Even the gold min
ing favorites of yesterday, which
bulged on the Treasury's revised pro-
posals for international currency
stabilization after the world conflict
calling for larger contributions of
the yellow metal than had originally
been contemplated, lost their rising
animation.
Bullish forces derived some con-
ISOLATION from the fact that selling
pressure was lacking throughout.
The ticker tape frequently came to
full halt and transfers for the two
hours of around 1876, 700 shares were
among the lowest for the year. Re-
sistance cropped up here and there
near the close of the two-hour pro-
ceedings but declines of fractions to
2 or more points were well in the
majority.
A little pessimism was seen in the
fact that the 50,000-share special
offering of General Foods which
went on the big board Tuesday at
Al still was dragging, with about
5000 shares remaining unsold.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Business Briefs

An Acute Shortage Of Auto Me-
chanics must be solved II Americas
essential automobile transportation
is to be kept in working condition,
according to the National Automo-
bile Dealers Association, which re-
ported a need for an immediate in
crease Of 499o in repair shop per-
sonnel. The average dealer had less
than half as many mechanics on
his payroll July as on January 1,
1912. In general, women have not
proved to be good replacements for
experienced mechanics, the associa.
ton added
Little Change in Wholesale Prices
for the week ended August 20 was
reflected by the Associated Press in
dex of 35 staples, which stood at
105.72e5 Of the 1926 average on that
date, compared with 10573To a week
earlier and 99.34ao a year ago.
State and Municipal Financing
scheduled for next week totals S4i,-
937,733. compared with this weeks
s5.62l ,725 and a weekly average for
the year to date of $l7,818,269, the
Daily Bond Buyer reports. Largest
issue will be s5,800000 of Phiiadel-
phia school district refunding bonds,
expected Wednesday.
Indicating Uncle Sans Growing
Might, the automobile industry now
Is producing military items at a
rate in excess of So, SOC, 900 900 year,
the Automotive Council for War
Production announced. This Is an
increase of 8l.41o over the rate of
a year ago.
Secondary Distribution of 3,540
shares Of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
common stock at 9334 was made by
Mellon Securities Corp. A discount
of Ia points was allowed dealers.
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey
has registered with the SEC as a
holding company. Registration was
a step in its program for disposses-
sion of natural gas utilities sub
sidiaries in compliance with the
commissions order of February 5,
1912. To comply, Standard formed
the Consolidated Natural Gas Co.
in July. 1912, to acquire voting Sc
curities Of its natural gas properties.
Consolidated shares are to be dis
! tributed pro rata among Standard
holders.
Municipal Operation Of the elec-
trio and water systems at Frank
fort, KY, started after completion
of transaction through which the
city purchased the properties from
Tri-City Utilities Co., Associated
Electric subsidiary, for $1,200,OO0.
New York, Chicago G. st. Louis
Railroad asked the ICC for author
| ity to acquire 10000 shares of the
common stock of the Wheeling &
Lake Erie Railway. Nickel Plate
proposes to pay S53 share for 50,-
600 shares and $50 share for
10000.
Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. an
nounced E. Perry Holder had been
elected president. Mr.. Holder will
resign as president of the Vulcan
Iron Works of Wilkes-Barre, Pa,
to take over his new position. He
will succeed E. c. Bowers, who re-
signed from Wickwire Spencer be.
cause of illness.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK, Aug, 2l LP.-Closing for
eign exchange rates follow (Great Britain
in dollars, others in cents):
Canada: Omcial Canadian Control Board
per cent premiums selIing' il Der cent
premium. Equivalent to discounts on Ca
madam dollars in New York OF buying, 9.9l
per cent. Selling, 900 per cent.
Canadian dollars in New York open
market, 81. per cent discount or qOSll
United States cents,
Europe: Great Britain official Bankers
Foreign Exchange Committee ratesl: Buy
ing, 402; selling, 4 .04
Latin America Argentina, ofhcial, 90 II;
free %. 90, up 2/10O cents; Brazil oficial,
6.Q5n; free. 52Qn; Mexico, 2065n.
Rates n cables unless otherwise indi-
Gated. Nominal.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Lee Heads Labor Division
For New War Loan Drive

Frank w. Lee, chairman of the
trustees of the Central Labor Union
and vice president of the City
Bank, yesterday was named chair
man of the labor division of the
Districts Third War Loan Cam
paign Organization by John A.
Reilly, chairman Of the District
War Finance Committee. Mr.. Reilly
heads the Executive Committee for
the campaign.
Labor will support.the Third War
Loan drive to the fullest extent, as
it has the previous war loan cam
paigns," Mr.. Lee said Labor unions
are constantly buying series F. and
G bonds, not waiting until a spe-
cial effort is made by the Govern
ment in a particular drive"
Serving with Mr.. Reilly on the
Executive Committee for the cam
paign are Robert v. Fleming. presi-
dent Of Riggs National Bank; J..
Clifford Folger of Folger, Nolan &
Co.; Winslow B. Van Devanter, vice
president of Lionel D. Edie & Co.,
and H. L. Rust, jr., president of H.
L. Rust Co.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Postwar Airport Chain
with u. s., States as
Partners Is Proposed
BY the Associated Press.

ST. PAUL, Aug. 21.-The Nations s
postwar civil airport system should
be patterned after principles of the
national highway system, with Fed
eral and State Governments as the
partners in construction, Charles L.
Stanton, civil aeronautics admins
traitor, said yesterday.
He addressed 500 delegates to the
National Aeronautic Associations
Midwest Global Air Conference here.
IF funds are appropriated for
this purpose" Mr.. Stanton said,
"apportionment to States should be
based on area of the State, It's popu-
lation, number of registered aircraft
and existing number of accredited
airports. Under this plan, as in the
Federal highway system, each State
would match specified percentage
of its portion of Federal funds"
Under this system, plane popula-
ton estimated by Mr.. Stanton for
1850, on the basis of one plane for
every $50 persons, Minnesota will
have, in the postwar period, 9,972
planes, Wisconsin will have 1I,205
planes, North Dakota, APIS and
South Dakota, 2,215.
I'VE expect that by 1850 we will
have in this country at least $4,000
private, commercial and military
planes in active service" he said.
Representative Randolph, Demo-
crat, Of West Virginia told delegates
10000 air terminals are needed in
present postwar plans.
G. H. Dickins, vice president and
general manager of Canadian Pa
cific Air Lines, Ltd, Montreal, Que
bee, said that Canada will figure
prominently in postwar aviation be-
cause the country is in the foremost
position on northern hemisphere
intercontinental air routes; the in
ternal north-south air routes tap
territory far larger than the east
west settled areas in which 80 per
cent of Canada's population is now
contemplated, and the airplane has
been adopted by the two Canadian
transportation systems which have
placed their resources, experience
and financial stability behind any
new air Developments.
Evening star., 1943-08-21

CHICAGO, Aug. II GP.-Salable cattle,
500; calves, 100: compared Friday last
yearling heifers, steady to 25 lower. mostly
steady to weak; most weakness, however,
on strictly good and average-chotce offer
ings, supply of which was unusually large;
decline; beef cows strong, but Gamers and
cutters 25-40 higher; weighty sausage bulls
steady, all others rs lower; vealers scarce
and fully steady; stock cattle strong to %
steers, 1875; very little above 1850; long
yearlings reached 1850, however, with
light yearlings 1928 bulk fed steers and
yearlings, 14.25-1b.25; moderate supply
grassy and warmed-up offerings, 1880
1850; sooa and choice stockers. 1900
10.5O-12 so; choice 6O6-pound yearlings
reaching 1850 on considerably broader
trade than week earlier STRICTLY CHOICE
heIters I topped d, At I625 bulk 5o.l5.5;
mostly ,7.o0-S25; good Wyoming LILO
pound beef cows stopped at 1878; most
beef cows, 10. 50-12 90: heavy sausage
bulls sold up to i435. but underweisht
Salable sheep, 100; total, 100; COM
strong to 25 higher; sheep mostly steady;
choice Washington Spring lambs. IS
native crop at 14.5O-l4 10; many medium
to goov natives, 13 O0-l4 IS: many medium
12.50-13.1O; native slaughter ewes, 900
700; top, z 40 on choice 121-pound Wash
ingtons; closing top. 200 on natives: small
lCs is 75l pound Washington feeding lambs
salable hoss. 30O total, 1900: nomi
nally steady: not enough good and choice
hogs on sale to make market; auotable
under 240 pounds, 1926 higher; weights
ever 24o pounds, 4o-65 higher; sows so
Evening star., 1943-08-21
$1,000 Is Reported
Stolen by Pickpocket

A pickpocket who lifted $1,000
in the Greyhound bus terminal at
Eleventh street and New York ave-
nue. NV, a butcher knife bandit
and several other reported thefts
had robbery squad detectives max
ing detailed investigations today.
Daniel De Moro Of Bridgeport,
Conn, told police that after he was
"jostled" in a crowd at the bus
terminal late yesterday afternoon
he discovered the loss of cloth
money belt containing $1,000 in $40
bills. Mr.. De Moro said he sus-
poets a dark looking man, about
so, who brushed against him.
A bandit, believed to be about IS
years old, entered the Aristo Clean
ers shop at 2408 Fourteenth street
NV. yesterday afternoon, police
said, and demanded cash from
Goldye Goldstein, manager, while
he brandished butcher knife.
When Miss Goldstein said she had
none, the bandit grabbed her wrist
and forced her to hand over $25.
Ruth Butts of 1910 Allison street
NE, and Myrtle Blunt of 500 Third
street NV, reported that a steel
cabinet in the Office where they are
employed at 1901 I street NV, was
rifled and $84 and check belonging
to them were taken. Miss Butts lost
s83, and Miss Blunt lost 81 and the
check.
Betty Harper and Betty Dobinski
notified police that their room at
2408 Clifton street NV, had been
entered and $45 in cash belonging
to Miss Harper and $40 in cash be-
longing to Miss Dobinski were
missing.
While she was trying on hats at a
department store yesterday, her
pocketbook, containing $l00 and
three ration books, was stolen from
a counter, Sarah H. Richards of
District Heights, Md, reported to
police.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Two Diamond Rings
Returned by Finder .

Mrs. Mary C. Wiley Of 2800 Wood
ley road NV. reported to police that
two diamond rings valued at $3.50,
which she had left Thursday night
in a washroom at the Washington
Hotel. were returned to her last
night by woman who had found
them.
Mrs. Wiley said the woman, who
preferred to remain anonymous.
learned her address after calling at
the hotel to return the rings.
Evening star., 1943-08-21
Building and Loan
Groups Urged 10
Buy u. ). Bonds
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Purchase Of Government bonds by
the building and loan associations in
this territory, as the highest type of
investment now available, was
strongly urged by O. X. LaRoque,
president of the Federal Home Loan
Bank of Winston-Salem, at a meet
ing of 125 loan executives at the
Statler Hotel last evening.
Many speakers pledged further
extensive purchases of Government
bonds for their associations and full
support of the coming third war
bond drive. THE Government needs
the money and needs 1t now" Mr..
LaRoQue declared, in stressing the
situation.
Building and loan associations,
generally speaking, today have only
one problem, too much money, Mr..
LaRoque added. This situation re-
quires a great deal of common sense
and conservative Judgment in the
lending of this money. The question
OF present and future real estate
values is Of greatest importance.
AIoWCh AhkCA CSt ltdtCS SCCII.
There is no question about the
downward trend of interest rates,
the speaker added. The day of the
high loan fees and the per cent de-
sirable mortgage loan is fast fading
and a reduction of interest rates
automatically means a lowering Of
dividend rates. Your institutions
being mutual in character cannot
be expected to pay dividends in ex-
cess OF earnings. The public wants
safety and is more interested in
the certainty Of return than the
amount of return on investments,
Mr.. LaRoque concluded.
In a forum discussion Of the pur-
chase of Government bonds, sale to
the public of War Bonds, interest
rates, reserves, and loan policies,
Washington building and loan Of
f1cials took an active part. Among
the speakers were Edward C. Baltz,
Perpetual Building Association;
Wilfred H. Blanz, American; Clar-
ence E. Kefauver, Columbia Federal;
Carl ]. Bergman, Washington Per-
manent, and Carl H. Ellingson, First
Federal.
Prior to the discussion of sound
wartime policies, the Federal Home
Loan Bank of Winston-Salem was
host to all the loan officials and di-
rectors at a dinner.
Capitals Summer Trade Lays.
Department store sales in the
Capital for the week ended last Sat-
urday, August IA, showed drop of
IA per cent from the corresponding
week a year ago, the Federal Re-
serve Bank of Richmond reported
today. In the Fifth District trade
averaged 9 per cent below the same
1912 week.
Sales in the Capital were off 4 per
cent from the previous week but
were up l per cent in the Fifth Dis
trict. Cumulative sales in the four
weeks ended last Saturday were the
same as last year in this city, gained
per cent in the Fifth District and
81 in a group OF cities, the survey
said.