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Evening star., 1943-11-22
1900 Fill Cathedral
For Installation
OF Bishop Powell
Ceremony Is Reported
First Of Kind Held
In Maryland Diocese
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 22.-Approxi-
mately 1900 witnesses filled the
Cathedral of the Incarnation to the
doors yesterday for the installation
of the Right Rev. Noble C. Powell,
former dean of Washington Cathe-
dral, as Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Maryland.
The service was reported to be
the first of its kind to take place
in the Free State diocese. It was
the first time that any part of the
cathedral, started in 1908, was ready
for a bishops installation ceremonies.
Bishop Powell was escorted to the
bishops chair, canopied seat built
into the wainscoting of the sanctu-
ary and bearing the coat of arms of
the diocese, by the Rev. Arthur
Chiffon Powell and the Right Rev.
Edward T. Helfenstein, retired
bishop of the diocese.
The service was started with a
procession in which vested choirs
from the cathedral and old St.
Paul's Church participated.
Members of the clergy particpat-
ing included the Rev. DR.. Roger A
Wake, secretary of the Standing
Committee of the diocese, and Canon
H. N. Arrowsmith of the cathedral
Carlyle Barton, a layman ane
chancellor of the diocese, read let.
ters Of conservation.
The cathedral was started durins
the bishopric of the late Very Rev
John Gardner Murray, first pri.
mate of the Protestant Episcopa
Church in the United States.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Maryland fSA Group
10 Plan Crop Expansion
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 22-John D
Leatherman, director of the Farm
Security Administrators State Ad-
visory Committee, announced today
that the group would draft plans
for increased food production by
Maryland's small farmers at an all
day session tomorrow.
Mr.. Leatherman said the group
would review the work of the 900
Free State farmers co-operatine
with FSA preliminary to planning
expanded production for the coming
crop year.
The director reported that Mary
land farmers had been repayine
loans faster than new transactions
were being made by the FSA. Since
the beginning of the fiscal year July
l, the FSA loaned s88, 900 and COL
lected $214,000, he said.
Production increases by FSA Dor.
rowers were we'll above the general
State average, the director said
They had increased milk production
54 per cent as compared with the
overall State figure of 3 per cent:
27 per cent in egg production a.
compared with 8, and SO per cent ir
poultry as compared with 6 for the
State,
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Panel 10 Hear Arnold
Pay Case Tomorrow
Session to Provide Dotu
For WlB RuIino

A three-man War Labor Board
panel, composed of representatives
OF industry. labor and the public.
will begin hearings at 10 am. to-
morrow in the d-Operated Bus
Lines wage dispute.
DR.. Paul Douglass. president of
American University, will preside
over the fact-finding hearing which
will be held in the Labor Depart
ment Building. John Twohy, presi-
dent of the Transit Mix Concrete
Corp, Norfolk, Va. will be the in
dustry member, and labor will be
represented by E. j. Shea. president
OF the Virginia American Federation
of Labor.
Serving only as a fact-finding
panel, the group will submit its
findings to WLB's regional Office in
Atlanta, which will fix the wage
rates. BESIDES the question of pay,
overtime and arbitration methods
are due to be discussed.
The Arnold line is offering a s.
cent-an-hcur increase, while the
union, Local l079 of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street, Electric
Railway & Motor Coach Employees Of
America, is seeking a accent boost.
Present scales are II cents an hour
for the first year and 81 cents there
after.
With the disputants deadlocked on
the wage issue, service currently Is
being maintained under terms of a
Today truce arranged Saturday
morning, following Fridays walkout
which cut off bus service for 10000
Virginia commuters for more than
"a hours.
The case originally went to WLB
in May for settlement of the wage
and other questions. Then, when a
company union conference after the
strike settlement Saturday failed to
reach an agreement on wages, it was
decided to take the matter to the
WLB panel.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
FueIOH Users Get
II Per Cent Index
Supply Warning

If you expect to make your fue
oil ration last throughout the cole
weather months, you should have
used no more than IL, per cent Of
your total allotment so far, the
District Office of Price Administra.
ton said today.
Computed by the OPA with the
cooperation of the Weather Bureau
and the fuel oil industry, the IL pc,
cent figure is the first of a series
OF weekly estimates to be announced
by the District rationing authorities
Each Monday the OPA Office will
announce an official OPA index fig
ure-representing the maximum per
cent of your fuel oil ration you
should have burned up to that date
The weekly index figure makes nc
allowance for possible future spells
OF unusually cold weather, how.
ever, the OPA warned. If you wani
to be on the safe side, aid prepared
for unexpected cold, keep your per.
centage of consumption considerably
below the OPA figure.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Madison Bridge Tolls
To Be Lifted This Week
BY the Associated prese

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, Nov. 22.-Toll.
for use Of the James Madison Memo
rial Bridge across the Rappahan.
mock River on route 3O1 at Por,
Royal will be abolished after mid.
night Wednesday, the State High.
way Department announced yes
terday.
Authorization to make the bridge
toll free was given on the basis OF
calculations which indicated that
collections will have completed the
liquidation of Indebtedness on the
bridge by that time.
The bridge was built about 1C
years ago by the James Madison
Bridge Corp partially with funds
borrowed from the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. Completed in 1894
the span cost approximately $150,855
Since its opening, the State has
operated and maintained the bridge
but title did not pass to the State
Highway Department until Febru-
ary.
The span is an important link ir
routes from Fredericksburg anc
Richmond into the Northern Necl
OF Virginia. 1t also serves on the
route to the Dahlgren Bridge across
the Potomac into Maryland.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Seal Sale Drive Open,
With Stamps Mailed
10 Thousands Here
Booths Will Be Set Up
In Various Parts Of City
Beginning Monday

The 37th annual Christmas Seal
Sale Of the District tuberculosis
Association got under way officially
today with thousands of Washing
ton families receiving letters con-
tanning sheets of these health
stamps" the sale of which provides
the funds needed to carry on the as
sociation's year-'round fight against
the white plague.
In the first phase of the drive
more than 10000 letters contain
ing seals already have been mailed
to District homes, the association
said, and beginning next Monday
booths will be set up in various
parts Of the city to distribute the
seals.
Biddle Buys First Sheet.
Attorney General Francis Biddle
purchased the first sheet of seals
sold in the District and, in doing
SO, urged support Of the campaign
pointing out that the seal sale is
the sole support of the association s
work. Similar campaigns were
launched simultaneously today in
other sections by associations af1iH-
ated with the National Tubercu-
losis Association.
In the opening plea for the Dis
trict drive. Brig. Gen. Charles C.
Hillman, chief of professional serv-
ices in the office of the surgeon
general of the Army, told a radio
audience over Station WTOP yes
terday that tuberculosis last veal
took the lives Of $1,000 persons
many Of whom might have made
good soldiers or aided in war pro-
duction." The number of deaths
from the disease, he pointed out
greatly exceeded the present toll
OF deaths Of Americans in this war;
THE war effort itself is aiding
in the fight against, tuberculosis,
Gen. Hillman said. Chest X-ray
examinations, which every mar
must have before entering the
armed services, have discovered
thousands of early cases that woulo
otherwise have gone neglected. The
services. as a result, have a low
rate Of tuberculosis, and public
health has gained greatly in oppor.
tunity"
IS Per Cent Proceeds Used Here.
Paul D. Sleeper, president of the
District tuberculosis Association
issued a statement urging support
OF the seal sale and emphasizing
that the association can carry on q
continuing fight against the disease
only If the sale is a success. He
pointed out that 95 per cent Of the
proceeds from the sale in the Dis
trict 60 to the District association
with the remaining per cent 60
ing to the national association.
Gen. Hillman, who recently re-
turned from long tour of obser-
vation of medical problems in the
South and Southwest Pacific, was
largely responsible for the intro
duction of the present system oi
universal preinducton chest X-ray
examination, which has been highly
effective in keeping tuberculosis out
of the Army.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
J Die, a Chute to Sufety
In West Coast Crash
Rx the Assnciated prasr

By the Associated Press.
EPHRATA, Wash, Nov. o.
Seven Army airmen were killed Sat-
urday night in the crash of a four
engined bomber near Wilson Creek
Wash, the Ephrata Army Air Base
puilic relations Office reported yes
terday.
Four others bailed out and landed
safely.
Those killed included 1t. Warren
G. Smith, Chicago; 1t. Herbert w
Rubinstein, Brooklyn; 1t. John B
Haselbeck, ST. Paul, Mimi; 1t
David Saltiel, New York; 1t. David
f.. Armstrong, St. Paul, and Sergt
George F.. Schauer, Dayton, Ohio.
Sergt. Joseph Rusinko, Minneap-
>.olis, was among the four who para
chuted,
Evening star., 1943-11-22
100 Sailors Dine on Hog
O'Conor Won on Bet
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. %. - REQ
points, the 250-puund hog forfeited
to Gov. O'Conor by Gov. Dwight
Griswold of Nebraska as payment
Tor a bet, was just pleasant men,
ory today.
He was the main course last night
at a dinner given by the Navy
League for 100 hungry sailors
League officials and Mrs. OCono,
pinch-hit for the Governor who was
detained on official business.
The Governor donated the corn
fed hog to the Navy League last
month, shortly after Maryland out
stripped Nebraska in subscriptions
to the Third War Loan campaign.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Rites for Kenneth Petrie
To Be Held al Winchester
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, Nov. 22.-
Disciples Church and Masonic rites
will be held here today for Ken
meth Petrie, 38, former member OF
the Bethesda Chevy Chase (Md. }
High School faculty, who died at
the home of his mother, Mrs. r.
L. Petrie, here Saturday.
Mr.. Petrie held degrees from the
University of Maryland, National
University and the University of
Chicago. He was a member of the
Hyattsville (Md) Masonic Lodge.
Surviving, in addition to his
mother, are his widow, Mrs. Matte
Brumback Petrie. and a brother,
Richard Petrie of this city.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Big Army Plane Crashes
After Long Crew|ess Flight
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
MIDLAND, Md, Nov. GA four
motored Army bomber crashed last
night near here after flying crewless
for almost 80 miles. All six of the
crew had parachuted to safety.
1t. Jack Clay of the Army's Air
Transport Command reported that
the craft flew from Cherry Tree,
Pa, empty.
When the plane developed me-
chanical difficulties over the Allie
gheny Mountains the five crew
members bailed out. 1t. Clay also
said that the pilot, 1t. Donald Crist,
told him he had left the plane flying
by its automatic pilot before jump
ing from an altitude of 10000 feet.
AL Of the crew landed safely. The
plane was destroyed.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
First Lanham Nursery
Opens in MONTGOMERY

The first day-care nursery in
Montgomery County to operate with
Lanham Act funds opened today in
the Chapel Of the Redeemer at
Fairway Hills.
!. Designed to care for children of
mothers working at war jobs, the
nursery has facilities to care for Is
youngsters. The cost for parents
, is So a week.
The Sunday school room of the
! church was made available to the
nursery without charge. Children
will be provided lunch, as we'll as
midmorning fruit and afternoon
milk
The nursery is operated under the
direction of the Montgomery County
Board of Education.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Police Arrest -Four,
Including Boy, IS, in
Ticket Sca|ping Drive
Violations Of 3 Sections
Of Internal Revenue Code
Charged to Group

Four alleged ticket scalpers, one q
15-year-old boy, ran afoul Of the
law yesterday at Grifith Stadium
where police arrested them for ille-
gally selling seats to the Redskins
Chicago Bears football game.
Police gave the names and ad-
dresses of those arrested as Kelly
Miller, Al, Of New York City; James
T. Trioe, %, of Is r street NV;
Emmett M. Long. 81, of 212 s street
NV; Edward Brown, Is, of TIT
Euclid street NV, and another
teen-age youth, who was not booked
and whose name was not given. AL
were colored.
They were charged with violating
three sections Of the internal reve-
nue. code with respect to the tax on
tickets. The men were released on
$500 bond and the boy was released
in custody of his parents.
Clarence M. Winchester, SO, coll
ored, of 407 T street NV, was
charged with selling tickets on a
public space, and five colored boys
were taken into custody for solicit
ing parking fees on public space
in violation of the traffic code. The
boys were turned over to their
parents.
Scalpers evidently were not fright
ened away by last weeks activities
Of the police, who took several al
legged offenders into custody. There
was no fixed price among the vend-
ers yesterday, each getting what he
could for his seats, but top grand
stand scaper scale was reported to
have been SIS, with bleacher seats
selling for as high as IS.
| A crowd of impatient bleacherites,
most of them without tickets,
stormed turnstile on the Fifth
street side of the park, which leads
to the east bleachers, and between
200 and 300 rushed into the park
before the breach was closed.
| Tickets were sold legally at .
store opposite the ball park. The
dealer sold out.
| Servicemen seeking tickets stood
In punches on the concourse lead
ing to the. grandstand gates and
a one-eyed soldier persistently
voiced his appeal for two tickets
at SIS EACH" A stoical sailor wore
hand-printed sign on his hat, ad-
vertising that he had seen action
and asking any good Samaritan to
step up and sell him a ticket.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Hx-Day Deer Season
10 Open in Virginia Areas

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 22.-State
Forester Fred c. Peterson an
nounced yesterday that the Prince
Edward, Cumberland and Appomat-
tox-Buckingham State forests will
be open to hunters from December
6 through December II. inclusive.
Regulations which have in the
past governed hunting in these areas
again will be in full effect, he said.
Hunters must purchase the special
hunting permits, in addition to the
regular State or county licenses, and
must check in and out of the areas
daily, displaying and reporting game
taken.
An abundance of wild turkeys has
been reported in the State forests
this year, and hunters should enjoy
real hunting, Mr.. Peterson said.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Vichy Radio Lauds Petain
Despite Talk Cancellation
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 22-The Vichy
radio gave special review of
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain's
career yesterday on the eve of his
25th anniversary as a marshal of
France, interspersing the program
with fanfares and martial music, the
United States Foreign Broadcast In
telligence Service said today.
Despite this accolade, the BIC re-
ported last night that scheduled
broadcast by Petain yesterday had
been called off by the Vichy radio
without explanation-the second
time this has happened in two
weeks.
This action caused considerable
speculation in view of recent re-
ports from neutral Switzerland to
the effect that Petain has threatened
to resign as chief of state unless his
demands for convening of demo-
cratic" French parliament are met.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Permanent Centers Open
For Liquor Rution Books

Permanent registration centers foy
issuing liquor ration books opened
today in Arlington and Alexandria.
The Arlington center is at 3OOS
Wilson boulevard and that in Alex
andria is at 1900 King street.
The registration centers will be
open from 10 am. to pm. daily.
They will issue books only to civil
ians and resident military personnel,
but will sell no liquor.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Maj. Gen. RoIphMitcheII
New .SoIomons Air Chief
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
SOUTH PACIFIC ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 22.-Maj.
Gen. Ralph j. Mitchell Of the Marine
Corps has relieved Maj. Gen. Ma
than Twining of the Army as COM
mander of aircraft in the Solomons.
This change is in line with the
policy of rotating this arduous,
front-line command.
Gen. Mitchell as commander of
aircraft in the Solomons will func-
ton under Vice Admiral Aubrey
Fitch, commander of aircraft in the
South Pacific. Rear Admiral Marc
Mitscher was commander of air
craft in the solomons before Gen.
Twining.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Auction Will Benefit
County War Fund
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, Nov. GA gen.
eral sale will be held at the Ma.
nassas Livestock Market at 3 pm
tomorrow for the benefit of the
Prince William County War Fund
Donations of livestock, poultry anc
|other articles will be sold in con.
junction with the regular weekly
market day auction.
!, The Girls Service Organization
of Manassas will hold a service
mems dance at 8 pm. tomorrow in
the Manassas Gymnasium, when q
collection will be taken for the wal
fund.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Man Killed in Bathroom;
Police Hold AssuiIont

Edward Bean, colored, 81, of Ill;
Twenty-second street NV, was shot
and killed in the bathroom of the
house late yesterday during an alter
cation with another colored man
who lived there.
According to police, Bean died
from wounds in the stomach and
neck inflicted by .38-caliber re.
volver held by Eugene Boulware, %
colored, who surrendered at the
third precinct Immediately after the
shooting.
Bean was pronounced dead by an
Emergency Hospital physician.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Msgr. Ready Improving,
To Leave Hospital Soon

Msgr. Michael J. Ready, general
secretary OF the National Catholic
Welfare Conference, who entered
Providence Hospital 10 days ago for
a rest and general checkup, is "com-
ing along very WE'LL" it was learned
today.
1t is expected that he will be able
to leave the hospital within the
next few days.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Swedes Planning Daily
Plane Service to u. S.
IL the Associated Prass

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22.-Daily
transatlantic plane service between
Stockholm and the United States is
anticipated after the war, two ex-
ecutives Of Swedish Air Lines say.
The officials, President P. A. Nor
lin and Chief Engineer K. H.
Larson, are here on a Shopping
tour"
I'VE can use as many planes as
we can get" Mr.. Norlin said,
Evening star., 1943-11-22
First-Aid Class to Form

A Red Gross class in first aid will
be organized at pm. tomorrow at
Wheaton Hall, on Georgia avenue
extended near Silver Spring, Md.
AS an added attraction tomorrow
"a lecture illustrated with motion
pictures will be given by Harold
Wager, who has travelled in South
America and Canada. The course
is open to any one over Is years of
age. Further information can be
obtained by calling Mr.. Jennings at
Shepherd 9053.
Evening star., 1943-11-22

SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH
PACIFIC Delayed Our quarters
here are sort of jungle Grand
Hotel for the birds and prehistoric
monsters which abound in this Sec
ton.
Prehistoric monster is the all
'enveloping name we apply to the
insects, because We have no enty-
mological knowledge. We only know
most of them are big enough to be
featured in a Buck Rogers comic
strip.
We also have learned what that
old wisecrack about a rat race
means. Rats make a speedway to
the tent during the long night hours
We've spotted them in our fashlight
beams. But we can't figure a reason
for their visits. There's no food or
anything else in the quarters which
might prove attractive to them.
Snake Slides Across Shoe.
At noon today, Marine Pfc. Will
liam P. Fey, 10, Cincinnati, Ohio
called attention to a pile of leaves
There was a lizard big enough tt
eat hay.
The other day I was writing wher
I looked down to see a 4-foot snake
slithering across my shoe. The
snake took off in hurry toward my
foxnole. did, too-in a different
direction.
Sergt. William H. Burnett, %. OF
Washington, D. c., former Wash
ingtcn Post sports writer who be-
came a Marine Corps combat cor
respondent and is comparatively new
around these parts, was aghast a
week ago.
Two black yellow-crested, fierce
looking birds staged an impromptu
cockfght in his tent. These sharp
billed babies are as big as moder-
ately sized broilers. They pay little
or no attention to us. I guess we
are minor annoyances they're will
ing to tolerate because there's a war
on.
Spiders Pop Out of Clothes.
Having spiders-big, brown ones
pop out of your clothes, your cot, or
any other convenient hole, no longer
is scary novelty. Red ants are the
smallest and worst of the pests
They crawl over, under and into
everything. What possible pleasure
they can get out Of using a piece of
paper for a boulevard battles me-
Entering your foxhole at night is
an adventure for more reasons than
the enemy planes overhead. It's an
even bet that you'll have to convince
some beastie that you have more
right to those quarters than he does
After ali. you dug the darn thing
didn't you?
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Nozis Claim RepuIse
|Of Petrol Boot Attack
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Berlin radio said yesterday
that a British boarding party from
an E-boat was beaten of in an
attempt to capture German patrol
boat of st. Nazaire, France, Satur-
day night.
The broadcast claimed heavy
losses were inflicted on the British
crew.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Virginia War Bond Sales
Reported Loqqinq
y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. ,
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 22.-The
War Finance Committee for Vir-
ginia said today that Virginian,
purchased less than one-third OF
the States November War bond
quota during the first half of the
month.
Sales IN that period amounted to
50, ,068.723. The months quota is
SIS, 400 900.