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em have it. Collect yours now.
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they refuse to come out even when
they are tracked down.
Evening star., 1943-12-07

They asked for scrap-now let
em have 1t. Collect yours now.
Evening star., 1943-12-07
Report for Last 81 Hours.

Record for Last 24 Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 81, 3:3O pm. Year ago, a..
Lowest, 81, 5:25 am. Year aso, 33.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
Trom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest 50 per cent, at $50 pm.
Lowest, IS per cent at $50 am.
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New York Bank Stocks

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Monthly precipitation in inches in tn
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Market AVERAGES
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Weather Report

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Evening star., 1943-12-01

of the ventral fins under pectorals.
Their entire heads are covered with
an armor of rough, bony, spiny
plates. The European relative shown
here also has pectoral fins that are
much notched. The color is an ex-
quisite blue, and the fish is easily
recognized.
The Gulf Of Maine is the northern
limit OF the family on the Atlantic
Coast Of America. All members Of
the clan have small mouths and de-
pressed snoutS. Their eyes are large
and beautiful.
They never reach length Of more
than 16 inches and II inches is aver
age. They are not used for food,
but they are experts in Switching
food intended for the bass and blue
fish. Fishermen have a great dislike
for the poachers and cast them back
into the sea. The gurnards are
choice food for the gulls which fol-
low the boats and watch for dis
carded fish. 1t is said that gurnards
are rather well thought of in Eu-
rope. Since we are SO blessed with
excellent food fishes of all sizes, we
are choosy.
Gurnards have funny little habit
of protesting when they have been
caught. The name, by the way, is
French and means ito grunt."
In late October, sea robins or CUR
nards move into deeper water, where
is is not so cold, reappearing in the
spring, when more congenial wealth
er Is established.
These fish are bottom feeders and
are quite clever in the way they OBJ
tain their food. They bury them
selves in the mud, exposing only the
top OF the head and eyes. This Is
their way Of hiding when annoyed,
too.
In swimming, 1t is said, they use
the feelerlike rays In shaking the
weeds and sand in order to disturb
the smaller animals on which they
feed.
Gurnards lay buoyant eggs, slight
ly yellow in color, which hatch in
water u degrees Fehrenheit in go
hours. When the young fish reach a
length of from Is to 30 NM, they
show most of the anatomic charac-
teristics Of their parents.
Though the gurnards are edible
they are not marketable. They may
be captured and kept in salt water
where their beauty of coloring
mailed cheeks" and wings" may be
studied close hand.
In hunting for treasures in the
sand, one may come across the pure
white skulls. They are exquisite a,
lace and marvel of strength. With
all traces Of color gone, the gurnaro
heads yield little for dependable
Identification. But they do add much
to collection.
Evening star., 1943-12-01
Uncle Roy's Corner

In the whole hawk family no
members are more bold or hard.
hitting than the goshawks.
The name "goshawk" is 4 short
form OF "goose-hawk," and these
birds have been used to "ny at
geese" in the old sport Of falconry,
in which = trained bird chases and
captures game for its master. In
the Middle Ages the goshawk was
looked upon as q good bird for the
purpose, but most Of the mobiles used
falcons.
Goshawks are fairly Widespread
over the world. Some are found
in Asia and Northern Europe. Cam
ada has many of them and 20 does
the United States. -
There are more than 60 kinds OF
goshawks. and they 60 by different
names. Many of those on this con-
tinent are called chicken hawks,
quail hawks or blue darters.
The reason for the name "blue
darter" is interesting. Often this
blue-feathered bird dashes or darts
down into poultry yard like
Evening star., 1943-12-01

A mother goshaDk bringing
small furry animal to her three
young ones.
blue streak" and carries away
chicken or other fowl 1t sometimes
takes fowl from a point within a
few feet Of farmer standing in
his poultry yard!
Some goshawks are more than two
feet long. They may attack birds
which are larger than themselves
but are more likely to find food in
the form of small furry animals.
Often they seize such game as
rabbits and gophers. In the valley
of the Yukon River they live chiefly
on Jennings, Arctic hares and tho
grouse known as "ptarmigans."
The nests of goshawks are most
often built in high trees. They seem
to like evergreen trees best for
nesting purposes.
The many kinds of goshawks diff
fer in color of feathers. Those
classed as Chicken hawks" have
slate-blue feathers on wings and
back, but are mostly white below.
Some goshawks have many gray
bars about the breast.
Australia has goshawks which are
white all over These BIRDS have
been called white eagles. Like
other hawks, they are related to
eagles but they are not true mem.
bers of the eagle tribe. .
Evening star., 1943-12-01
Policeman Shows Need
For Sofety Booklet
BY The Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va-A police officer,
observing pedestrian jay-walking,
handed the man a.safety pamphlet.
The of1cer then hastened across the
street without conforming to safety
rules to warn motorist who was
parking. A moment later he looked
up to hnd the pedestrian standing
before him. Without comment, the
man handed back the safety panph-
let
Evening star., 1943-12-01
TeA Ae4

To obtain a free CODY OF the iilustrate ted
leaflet on the Seven Wonders OF the
World send self-addressed envelope
bearing . accent stamp to Uncle Ray In
care OF this newspaper.
Evening star., 1943-12-01
Children
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
sAPPHIRINE GURNARD
(Tri0lG htrundo)

Sea robins and their European
cousins, the gurnards. resemble to
marked degree the sculpins. They
have broad heads. slender bodies,
large famine pectoral fins and two
separate dorsal fins, one spiny the
other sOft-rayed and in the region
Evening star., 1943-05-02
WOMEN.

We can place three more de-
Tense, Government or other
workers who have three or more
hours a day. Good pay. See
employment manager, 9 to II
am. 513 K st. NV.
Evening star., 1943-05-02
YOUNG LADY.

lWhite) cashier and take phone orders in
fine grocery market, prefer experienced: :
S25 week to start. with fast advancement.
LARIMER'S. l121 Conn ave n W
Evening star., 1943-05-02
MARKERS.
LAUNDRY

Girls on shirt pressers, folders. Also
ca tchers and feeders on fat work Markers
and assorters. Good pay. Capital Laundry,
is L ST. s.w.
MILLINERY SALESLADIES
For full part time work. Exceptional
salary. Apply Mr.. Rose. Mortons, 314
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-16
Blind Man and Child
Among I Dead in
Rooming House Fire
Woman Critically Burned
Six Others Hurt in BIoze
Near Moine's Capitol
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
AUGUSTA, Me, Feb. 16.-Death
toll in a midnight rooming- house
fire rose to seven today with the
death of an 18-year-old youth in
an Augusta hospital An elderly
woman also was believed likely to
die of burns.
The bodies of five persons taken
from the ruins of the house at Grove
and Swan streets, near Maine S
Statehouse, were identified as those
of:
Mrs. Vivian Kicker.
Roland Kicker, s, son of Mrs.
Kicker.
John Pierce, who would have been
rs today.
Thomas Bishop, 81, blind.
Simon Clark
Succumbing later to burns were:
Jack Kicker, %, and Walter, 49,
brothers of Mrs. Kicker.
Mrs. Carrie Stackhouse, 20, was in
critical condition.
Six other persons suffered inju-
rleS. Two dozen scantily clad per-
sons were driven into the bitterest
cold here in many years.
Most of the roomers were State
charges or oG-age assistance recip-
tents, and Clarence Cobb of the
State Health and Welfare Depart
ment was called to help identify the
victims.
DR.. Roland L. Mckay, medical ex-
aminer, requested William H. Me
hoff, Kennebec County attorney, to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-16
Mrs. Luce Declares
.lease-Lend SteeIs
Resistance 10 Axis
Urges Extension Of Law
As Instrument for
Saving Many Lives

Representative Luce, Republican,
of Connecticut said today that the
Lease-Lend Act has steeled the re-
siStance Of the United Nations while
putting steel into the hands of their
people to fight the Axis.
In urging continuance of the act
for another year, Mrs. Luce told the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
that the mutual aid agreements
always were, are today and prob
ably will be to the national interests
for years to come"
And she added. "one hopes that
the fog Of politics will not hide this
fact to us. Not only has lease lend
saved the lives of our sons today. but
If continued, if wisely administered
and taken out of the realm of poll
tics. 1t would probably save the lives
OF hundreds of thousands of human
beings in other lands in years to
come"
She said already there has been a
good deal of discussion about lease
lend in reverse" but added, lin the
case Of some nations this talk is
definitely premature
There are some countries" she
maintained. which have not. vet re-
celved enough from lease lend to
make a discussion of lease-lend in
reverse either dignified or tenable.
CHINA is an outstanding example
China, under lease lend, has re-
celved next to nothing. In saving
how little China has received is in
no way to reflect on the fact that
Great Britain has received the lions
share of lease-lend. She also exhib-
tied, after Dunkerque, the lions
share OF courage, when she stood
alone against the mightiest military
machine the world has ever knawn
And in lease lend, in reverse, Great
Britain has also contributed the
lions share.
To repeat" she declared, al
though | am no student of great his
toric international policies, it seems
to me that lease-lend is the most
potent and flexible instrument ever
chosen by a great people, not only
for the streamlined conduct for an
infinitely complicated war. but for
the composition of an infinitely
complicated peace"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-16

tumWa, Iowa, came to the depart
ment in 1888 and has held several
high administrative posts.
New Dealers Defeated.
Whether an attempt is being made
to bring about a rapprochement
with Mr.. Farley remains to be seen
The New Dealers sought to sink
Mr.. Farley politically last summer,
when they insisted on running Sen
ator Mead of New York for the
Democratic gubernatorial nominal
ton against John j. Bennett. jr..
Mr.. Farleys choice for the nominal
ton. They were decisively defeated
in tumultous Democratic State
convention in Brooklyn.
Mr.. Farley has been away from
New York for more than a month,
visiting Mexico on a business trip.
Since his return to this country,
however, he has visited number
of prominent Democrats in the
Southwest and South. He spent
several hours talking with former
Vice President John Garner at his
hove in Uvalde, Tex. Mr.. Garner,
like Mr.. Farley, sought to prevent a
third-term nomination for Presi-
dent Roosevelt in 1910 Mr.. Far
ley also visited friends in Louisiana.
Alabama and Georgia on his way
north.
1t was only few months ago that
the New Dealers apparently be-
lieved they had Mr. Farley down
and out politically. The Farley vic
tory in the New York Democratic
Convention last summer, plus the
development of strong opposition to
the New Dealers in the Democratic
party both before and since the No
vember elections, however, presents
a very different picture Obviously
Mr.. Farley is in a position to exert
a great deal of influence on party
affairs, both now and in 1914 This
Is true both in New York State and
elsewhere Mr.. Farley was Demo-
cratic National Committee chair
man for eight years and made a
host of friends all over the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-16
RFC Unit Plans Move
To Kansas City, Mo.

The Drainage and Irrigation Sec
ton of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation will move to Kansas
City, Mo, about March /, taking
about 20 employees out of Washing
ton, it was reported today.
The unit will be headed by Albert
l.. Strong, whose appointment as
manager Of the Kansas City Loan
Agency was announced yesterday
by Secretary of Commerce Jones.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-16
Funeral Rites Tomorrow
For GEORGE G. Fy

Funeral services will be held to-
morrow for George c. Fry, 70, we'll
known retired farmer. who died
Sunday night in his home in Rock
vile after long illness. The rites
will be held from the funeral home
of w. Reuben Humphrey, Rockville
Burial will be in Rockville Union
Cemetery.
Mr.. Fry was native Of Virginia
and had lived in Rockville and
vicinity about Sc years. He is sur
viyed by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth
Fry; three children by a former
marriage, Mrs. Eugene A. Veirs,
Rockville; Mrs. Pearl Baughman,
Travilah, Md, and Edwin D. Fry,
Laytonsville, and three sisters, Mrs.
Margaret v. Mcfarland, Mrs. Hat
tie Ward and Miss Mary E. Fry,
all of Rockville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-16
Greenwoy Hatfield Dies;
Feud Family Descendant

BY TFF ASSOCIaIfu PreSS,
WILLIAMSON, w. Va, Feb. 10
Greenway A. Hatfield, direct de-
scendant of the famed Hatfield
family and three times sheriff OF
Mingo County, died last night after
brief illness. He was IA.
Mr. Hatfield, born in log cabin
on Mate Creek prior to the division
of Logan and Mingo Counties, was
a nephew of Capt. Anderson Devil
AnSe) Hatfield, leader of the Hat
field family in the Hatfield Mccoy
feud Of the l880s. He was a coal
operator and farmer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-16
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16-The
old man put the pistol, fully loaded,
in a shoebox. Then he tied up the
box neatly.
No one on the streetcar to the
beach would ever notice the box,
or guess what was in it.
Into his coat pocked he slipped
little box of pills.
Outside the door of the hotel room
where he lived most of the years
he had worked for a coffee import
ing house he stopped a moment and
patted his vest pocket. Yes, the
two notes were there. He hadn t
forgotten.
An hour later a policeman truged
through the beach sand toward the
surf. He was following footprints
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-16
Victor Harris, 70, Dies;
Conducted Choral Group
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. l6-Victor
Harris, 10. composer, conductor and
singing teacher. died last night.
For more than 80 years. until
his retirement in 1896, he conducted
the ST. Cecilia Club which he de-
veloped from small ensemble OF
women's voices The work of the
New York choral group encouraged
formation Of St. Cecilia Clubs
through the country until such
clubs now exist in every State.
Mr.. Harris, native of New York
City, composed a number of choral
works and songs which are included
on programs Of well-known singers
and organizations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-16
Man, "a, Writes Suicide Note,
DROPS Dead of Heart Disease

that stopped halfway between the
highway and the ocean. The body
lay at the end OF the trail.
1t was the body Of an old man
Nels L. Nelson, IA. according to
Deputy Coroner j. J. Trabucco.
Beside the body was a shoebox
neatly tied In it, the officer said.
was pistol, fully loaded. 1t had
not been fired.
In the coat pocket was little box
of pills.
There were two notes in the man s
vest pocket
One included directions to an I'M
dertaker.
The other, Mr.. Trabucco reported,
said: Its very lovely day-to
commit suicide"
But the man had died. the coroner
said. of a heart attack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-16

investigate the swiftly spreading
fire that broke out in the. rooming
house cellar.
Loss was estimated unofficially at
$4,000. The blaze left the duplex,
three-story wooden building an ice
sheathed she'll.
Firemen. whose station was only
two houses away, described the
building as AN inferno when they
arrived, with people hanging out the
windows and lying on the ground.
A half dozen of the rescued required
treatment for minor burns, injuries
and shock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-16
Count Ciono Reported
Received at Vatican

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 16.-Count
Galeazzo Ciano, the new Italian
ambassador to the Holy See, was
received by Luigi Cardinal aglione
the papal secretary of state, when
he made his first official visit to the
Vatican today. a Berlin broadcast
recorded by the Associated Press
said
Evening star., 1943-01-26

capitals in quest of "a basis for an
early termination" Of the strife. No
one knew better than he how futile
such endeavors were.
Yet the principle of peace by mu-
tuality and tolerance remained
sound, and Mr. Moffat was devoted to
the application of it. His spirit was
imbued in what he worked in. By
temperament, by training and by
experience he was well qualified for
his important task. 1t was a cir
cumstance not to be overlooked that
he had from 1927 onward the valu-
able assistance of his wife, the for
mer Miss Lila Cabot Grew, daughter
Of the last American Ambassador to
Japan.
When Mr.. Moffat was sent to
Ottawa in 1910 his talents soon were
demonstrated in negotiations which
brought Prime Minister Mackenzie
King to Ogdensburg, New York, for
meeting with President Roosevelt,
from which significant benefits to
both the United States and Canada
have accrued. The new tie between
the two English-speaking communi-
ties Of the North American continent
is living monument to his creative
personality and the labors by which
he exhausted himself.
Evening star., 1943-01-26
Roominq House Inspections

An interesting consideration in
connection with the large number of
rooning and boarding house opera
tors who have failed to comply with
license regulations is that the dis
covery of their delinquencies was
possible only by a check of the Rent
Commission records. There was
evidently no machinery at the Dis
trict Building to enforce compliance
with licensing regulations, even to
show who was failing to comply.
For the first time, now, the licens-
ing and inspection authorities are in
possession Of a great quantity of
basic material relating to the opera
tion Of boarding and rooming houses
which never has been available
before. Discovery that less than
half of the registered operators have
sought licenses is, fortunately, cou-
pied with their names and addresses,
number Of roomers or boarders and
other data which should facilitate
Immediate steps to enforce licensing
requirements, and what is still more
important, hasten the inspection of
these establishments to assure COM
pliance with fire and building regu-
lations.
Good progress in covering this
ground Is being made now. with a
force of some thirteen inspectors
covering about 100 places a day. But
these inspections are merely catching
up on an accumulation of addresses
in the District Building for which
licenses have been sought. And these
are less than half the known total.
No local industry has grown so
rapidly in the District as the board
Ing and rooming house business.
And 1t is probable that none has been
more neglected, as far as official
insistence on the safety of occupants
Is concerned. With the information
on location and character of these
establishments now available, the
inspection work should be completed,
using all available personnel to do
the Job thoroughly.