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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-17
CHURCH BIRD HOSPITAL

Notrc Dame Cathedral, Paris, has bird hospital operated by the cho:rmaster, Canon Eenault. It is atop the roof of one of the wings of the cathedral and sick birds have learned to seek out the canon, who keepS watch overthem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-17
1R. SIDNEY JENNES
 VOTED FELLOWSHIP

Dr. Sidney Jennes, son of MT. and Mrs. Jacob Jennes, IS Crescent street, recently returned to civilian life after an honorable discharge rom the army air forces, has been made . fellow in the American College of Physicians, honorary medical society.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-17

Lack of tires has garaged nearly 5000 motor vehicles in Venezula.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Cook County Reports
ills Without Funds
To Pay 5000 Workers
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-The money
box in the Cook County treasurer S
office for payroll purposes was de-
void Of immediate cash today and
payless paydays until December
for some 5000 employees was forecast
by Treasurer Victor L. Schlaeger.
Some s625 900 was to have been
distributed to the employees yester-
day In salaries and wages for the
first half of September, but Mr..
Schlaeger did not sign the payroll
checks, marking the first payless
payday for county employees since
1898.
There1l be money coming into the
treasurer's Office during the next 10
weeks, Mr.. Schlaeger explained but
the revenues that accrue to the
county in that period already are
earmarked for specific purposes
but not for payrolls. Approximately
$3,000,000 would be needed to meet
the next five semimonthly payrolls.
On December l, the beginning of
the county's next fiscal year, the
county could arrange to sell tax
anticipation warrants to pay back
salaries, Mr.. Schlaeger explained.
County Board President Clayton
F. Smith said that the county's
troubles were due to insufficient
revenues; that it's total income from
taxes was less than $7,000,0OO, far
below the estimate.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
CorteIs May Be 1914 Issue

from the legal or public policy
involved.
The Wallace charges are old.
They have been freely discussed
before and the people against
whom they are made seem abun-
dainty able to reply. But as is
usual with charges of that sort,
the remedy is vague.
What are Henrys suggestions?
Entire withdrawal of American
companies from all international
agreements with foreign compa-
MES? That would be a type of
isolationism anathema to Wal
lace. Would he require all for
eign patents to be licensed to all
comers? Or would he require the
licensing of all patents? Surely
not the latter, because that would
hurt his common man." for it
would pinch small manufactur-
ers most.
Does Mr.. Wallace suggest that
Mr.. Roosevelt's Attorneys Gen.
eral have been incapable of en-
forcing the Sherman Act, which
presumably deals with monopo-
olles, domestic or foreign, or in
combination? He has not said
so. The fact is that he scarcely
hints at any remedy that big
engineering firms and industrial
corporations would not accept or,
in fact, have not advocated long
ago.
The National Association of
Manufacturers has been on rec
ord for a considerable time as
follows: 1--WE approve in princi-
pie the recording of agreements,
particularly international agree
ments, pertaining to patents or
the filing thereof with the Patent
Offlce where such instruments
contain restrictive provisions or
involve cross-licensing under pat
ents or the pooling of patents"
Along with some such measure
OF compulsory publicity, the Gov
ernment might well determine in
advance what agreements are in
the national interest. Expert
ence would probably show that
even the wisest bureaucrat would
not be able to protect American
interests better than our big
companies have done in recent
years.
'Released by the Associated News
papers)
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Earl Of Kenmare Dies;
Newspaper CoIumnist

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 21.-The Earl of
kenmare, So, who as Viscount Cas-
tlerosse was one of London's best
known newspaper columnists before
the war, died unexpectedly yester-
day at the ancestral home at Kill
larney, Fire.
His death followed by less than
nine months his marriage to Enid
Vlscountess Furness. His first wife
Doris Viscountess Castlerosse, from
whom he was divorced, died last jan
uary from an overdose of sleeping
medicine.
Lord Kenmare had suffered from
heart disease for several years. VAL
entine Castlerosse, as he was known
TO his friends, was a popular figure
IN London and internati ational society
He was a director of the Evening
standard, Daily Express and Sun
DAY Express, newspapers owned by
Lord Beaverbrook with whom he
was long associated.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Cross-ChunneI Thrust?

perts who feel that had the Allies
been able to invade France this
summer, it likely would have been
possible to finish Hitler off by the
end of the year Some think it still
might be done, If the operation were
started soon, though admittedly the
season is late.
The Russian plea, of course, has
been that the appointed hour for
invasion is while the Germans are
in dire straits on the Red front.
Gen. Marshall himself, in testifying
before the Senate and House Mill
tary Committees on the need OF
more men for the Army, declared:
While you have the other fellow
on the run, the more you do to cut
him down before he regains his
balance, the better it is"
One Of the arguments against
cross-Channel invasion now is that
the Germans are better prepared
for an attack on the French and
Belgian coasts than at any other
place. For this reason the Nazis
would like the Allies to try this op-
Grafton. 1t also is argued that fall
ure might be catastrophe for the
Allies. There are other arguments,
including the one that we are help
ing relieve pressure on the Russians
by invading Italy, and would give
further aid by invading the Balkans.
Oppose Balkan Invasion.
Well, there's truth in this. How
ever, It's apparent that the Rus
slams don't want the Allies to invade
the Balkans, which Moscow regards
as Its sphere of influence. We know
also that Britain long has worked
to extend her influence In the
Balkans, which lie up against her
special sphere of influence in the
Middle East. Thus we encounter a
political angle, quite apart from the
military.
Just as this article was being fin-
lshed there arrived from London a
bulletin quoting Prime Minister
Churchill as telling the House Of
Commons:
I never have regarded this
African operation as substitute for
a direct attack across the Channel
on the Germans in France and the
Low Countries"
1t looks as though he had taken
quick cognizance of the Army and
Navy Journal editorial and to have
given this as an answer. Maybe
the Allies still will find it feasible
to invade Western Europe while the
Russians have the Nazis on the run.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Barney House 10 Train
Volunteer Workers

A training course for adults in
terested In volunteer work at settle
ment houses will begin at 7:30 pm.
Thursday at Barney Neighborhood
House, 470 N street S.W., it was an
nounced today by the Council of
Social Agencies.
The course will be open to men
andwomen who are at least 18 years
of age and are high school gradu-
ates. 1t will cover eight weeks, with
each meeting at one of the eight
settlement houses of the city.
The stats of these houses, all of
which are members of the council
and the Community War Fund, are
sponsors of the course, in co-opera-
tion with the Civilian Defense VOL
unteer Office, the Federation of
Churches and the National Recrea-
ton Office.
The first meeting will cover the
history and philosophy of settle
ment houses, with DR.. Ernest S.
Grifath, director of legislative ref
erence of the Library of Congress,
and Miss Margaret Merrill, head
resident of Barney House, in charge.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Second Strike Threatened
BY West Coast Trainmen

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21.-For
the second time within two months,
a union grievance committee repre-
senting $500 employees of the Pacific
Electric Railway has set strike
date because it said the economic
stabilization director has not au-
thorized a l3-cent hourly wage in
crease.
The new time fixed for the walk
out-Friday at 2 am. Pacific War
time)-was agreed upon after a
conference of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen's Grievance
Committee and endorsed by 400
workers at mass meeting last
night.
Employees of the interburban line
receive a top wage of 81 cents
hourly, and their plea for 81 was
approved by the company several
months ago.
A stoppage last July was
averted, union officials said, when
President Roosevelt promised a re-
view of the case and immediate
action.
Evening star., 1943-09-21

terpriSe will be carried on. For
in its precise sense, cartel" is a
word for the courtroom rather
than the soap box.
A cartel is a combination OF
commercial or political interests.
AS the word is used in Europe,
it describes a combination of sro-
ducers to regulate prices, output
and markets, Thus, a German
cartel would be illegal in the
United States. But in dealings
OF an international cartel, Amer
lean companies have always been
free, under our law, to make
agreements in their own or our
national interest with foreign
combinations which would, them
selves, be illegal in America.
Such agreements are not in
themselves cartels and, as can
be shown by innumerable exam
Piles, can clearly be in the inter-
est of this country. The fact is
that cartels can be made by
government iself. Mr.. Wallace's
AAA was, in effect, a cartel Gre
ated under Government author
ity to guarantee minimum prices.
The issue, then, comes down to
the question of whether each par
ticular agreement is a good deal
from the standpoint of the
United States as a Nation. To
single out one company, as Mr..
Wallace did, and to carry on a
public controversy, is hardly the
way to get at the truth, for the
discussion then becomes an effort
to create prejudices wholly aside
Evening star., 1943-09-21

Allied forces In Southeast Asia
made an excellent impression on
our allies who have been fighting
the Japanese with determination
but with very little equipment.
Lord Mountbatten, who has
specialized so far in commando
warfare which is more spectacu-
lar than effective, is expected to
show his qualities as & leader CT
large forces in a different kind Of
warfare. In the past commando
attacks may have had son,e effect
in Europe. where nations sub
jected by Hitler were hunsering
for any kind of an action, but
they are not likely to make dent
on the Japanese or the Burmese.
Toxic, which, according to all
available indication, has decided
to fight henceforth a purely de-
fensive war, has taken all pos
sible precautions to offset any
kind Of Allied effort to reconquer
Asia except that based on an
overwhelming military force.
Burma has been given her in
dependence. 1t may mean Moth
ing to us who know what the
Japanese mean by making an
Oriental nation independent. We
have seen the case of Manchuria,
where. by the appointment of
puppet emperor and by changing
the name Of the country to Man.
chukuo, the japanese claimed to
have created an independent
state. To the Burmese people who
have been clamoring for even
token independence in the past
the gesture OF the Japanese Is
said to mean something.
Know U. S. Position.
The Philippines also are by way
OF receiving a complete inde-
pendence" within a few months.
The Japanese task there will be
far more difficult because in the
last decade the most. vociferous
Filipino nationalists have real
lied that America meant well by
them and the freedom granted
them was given in good faith.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
) House Bills Aimed
AT Reducing Waste
OF Federal Funds
BY the Associated Press.

Representative Jones. Republican,
OF Ohio has served warning that he
is girding for "a commando raid on
the wasters in the Federal Govern
ment" in introducing legislation
aimed at obtaining for Congress in
formation on general expenditures
and any unnecessary Implications
and waste of public funds" in Gov
ernment agencies. ....
One of his three bills would re-
peal the provision of the admins
tration's reorganization plan No. /
which transferred the Budget Bu-
reau from the Treasury Department
to the executive Office of the Presi-
dent.
Mr.. Jones' bill would make the
bureau an independent agency re-
porting to Congress and to the
President details of all requests by
departments and agencies for ap-
preparations. 1t also would furnish
information on whether the request
ed money would be used to carry out
functions now authorized by law.
A second bill would appropriate
s20,000,000 for the remainder of this
fiscal year to permit the Controller
General to make inquiries, reports
and recommendation to Congress
on receipt, disbursement and ap-
plication of public funds. He also
would submit reports on expendi-
lures or contracts made in viola
ton of law and furnish congress
sional committees any requested in
formation.
The third measure would require
the Controller Generals office to
make disalloWances and withhold
credits where expenditures are made
illegally and to start collection pro-
ceedings against those receiving the
illegal payments. His Office also
would report to Congress annually
any overlapping or Implications of
functions of agencies
Mr.. Jones said in a statement
yesterday that Congress has had
the will to eliminate duplication and
waste, but it has not had the facts
from the executive departments and
the General Accounting Office to
get the waste and duplication
stopped with dispatch"
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Northeast Civic Group
Opens Headquarters

Ceremonies were held by the
Northeast Boundary Civic Associa-
ton, Civilian Defense Unit No. 81.
to celebrate the opening of head
quarters at Fiftieth and Grant
streets NE. Sunday.
Participating in parade which
preceded the addresses were two Red
Cross ambulances, the Fire Guards
and the auxiliary police, headed by
Sergt. Thomas Ryan of Maj. Ed
ward Kelly's staff.
Speakers on the program included
the Rev. Father Peter C. Curran,
S. S. j.. of the Church of the In
carnation; Drs. Charles H. Marshall,
DR.. Herbert Marshall and E. F.. Har-
ris, representing civic organizations;
DR.. Howard H. Long, civilian de-
fense inspector; Adjt. Albert Dun
lap of the American Legion, Bishop
Alexander Terriu and Charles M
Thomas, president of the organiza-
ton, presiding.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
.5,415 Applicants
Given Statements Of
Availability in July

More than a third of the state
ments OF availability issued by the
United States Employment Service
to workers seeking to change Jobs
curing July were approved to en-
able workers to make a greater con-
trlbutlon to the war effort in new
jobs, the regional War Manpower
Commission said today.
VINO also announced that q
hlgher percentage of requests for
the releases were denied by USES
IN July than in June.
Throughout this region, which in
Guides the District, Maryland, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and North
Carolina, total of 57,Al5 state
ments of availability were granted.
Of the total granted, 20,019 went
TO workers where it was determined
transfers would result in a more
effective prosecution of the war,
VINO said Of the others, 3.555
went to workers who were not be-
Ing used at their highest skills and
8,l27 were given to workers because
OF compelling personal reasons The
other releases were given because
workers had been discharged. laid
of more than seven days or for
other reasons.
Total inquiries for information
about the employment stabilization
plan increased in July by about IL
per cent. Appeals taken by employ
ers and employees from decisions of
the USES increased IS per cent over
the previous month.
approximately the same number
OF releases were denied during july
as during June, but in relation to
the number of cases handled. a
higher percentage of requests were
denied in July, VINO said. In June
lo.3 per cent of the requests were
denied and in July 1871 per cent.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
By DEWITT MACKENZIE,

One wonders whether the authori-
tative Army and Navy Journal
hasn't opened the closet door on a
rather grim international skeleton
by it's sensational assertion that
powerful interests would like to re-
move Chief of Staff Gen. George C.
Marshall from the Washington
scene.
Acting under the Presidents in
struction," explains the Journal "he
(MarshalD has labored zealously to
insure the fullest measure of Coop
Grafton with our Allies and espe-
cially the British, policy based on
the Presidents and his own appre-
citation of the necessity of safe
guarding American interests.
Thinking only of winning the war
in the shortest time and of saving
every American life possible, in con-
nection with the bloody operations
which it calls for, Gen. Marshall, Of
course. has come into conflict with
powerful interests which would like
to eliminate him from the Washing
ton picture, and place in his stead
an officer more amenable to their
will
Wants Direct Invasion.
That's nasty picture. Who are
these powerful interests? The
Journal leaves it to us to figure it
out for ourselves. The general pub
lie has learned of only one differ
ence of opinion between Gen. Mar
shall and critics.
The Chief of Staff is said to have
held firmly to the conviction that
Western Europe should be invaded
directly from England. Other strate-
gists, particularly those on the Brit
ish side of the table, have frowned
on cross Channel invasion. Timing
OF the drive also is said to have
caused some dissension.
Well, it certainly is interesting to
know where Gen. Marshall has stood
on such invasion, for that has been
one OF the major issues of the war,
as Moscow hasn't allowed us to for
get. 1t persistently has been pointed
out that the quickest way to victory
would be this admittedly highly
dangerous operation - always pro-
vided the Allies were properly set
for 1t. Nobody with any knowledge
Of military affairs would suggest
such an invasion short OF full pre-
paredness.
You'll find plenty Of military ex-
Evening star., 1943-09-21
BrookIand Citizens
Recommend Site for
Branch Library

The Brookland Citizens Associa-
ton at a meeting last night ap-
pointed a committee to recommend
to the Board Of Library Trustees q
site for a library to accommodate
the Brookland and Burroughs neigh
borhoods.
Action was taken following a re-
port by Marvin Mclean, president,
that an item had been included on
the new District budget for the pur-
chase of library site of approx
mately 10000 square feet in Brook
land. j. M. Jameson, president
Of the Burroughs Citizens Associa-
ton, promised the support of that
group in the project.
E. c. Giddings, assistant to the
president of the Capital Transit
Co., was guest speaker of the eve
ming. He explained the problems
which are facing the transit COM
pany in the restoration of curtailed
bus routes and the maintenance of
service.
Seven hundred of our men are
already IN the armed services, and
if fathers are drafted, the company
anticipates an additional loss of
1000 men," he said, adding. Women
will be needed to replace every man
who goes"
Two months are required for the
process OF planning and picking the
schedules necessary to the restora-
ton Of curtailed routes, according
to Mr.. Giddings. With the manpower
shortage the company is able to give
better service on shortened runs be-
cause of the limited number of
operators.
A resolution was passed indorsing
the bill now pending before Congress
which will increase payments to re-
tired Government employees.
Sergt. Rasmussen of the 18th po-
lice precinct reported that crime
conditions in the Brookland neigh
borhood compared very favorably
with those in other parts of the city.
The meeting, held in the Brook
land Methodist Church, was presided
over by Marvin NJ Mclean.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Rubber Union Chief
Urges Full Support
For Roosevelt
BY the Associated Press.


TORONTO, Sept. 21.-Fun sup
port for President Roosevelt was ad-
vocated yesterday by s. H. Dali
rymple, president OF the United
Rubber Workers Of America (CIO),
IN his presidential address to the
eighth annual convention OF the
union here.
After asserting that I'VE are going
to be confronted with a national
election in 1914" Mr.. Dalrymple said
labor had benefited under the pres
ent administration by the passing
OF the Wagner Act, social security
laws and other legislation.
Canadian Labor Code Urged.
During the next year we have a
profound duty to perform" he said.
Certainly vie cannot afford to sit
idly by like we did in the last elec-
tlon and allow number of progress
slve-minded Congressman and Sen
ators to be ousted and reactionaries
elected to take their place.
| Neither can we afford to fail to
give undivided and full support to
our Commander in Chief, the Hon.
orable Franklin Delano Roosevelt"
A. r. Mosher, president of the
Canadian Congress of Labor, in a
speech, said that Canadian workers
need a labor code similar to that of
the United States.
I'VE in Canada are still striving
for labor code guaranteeing work.
ers the right to organize and bar
gain collectively and Furnishing en-
ployers who do not want to recog-
nize labor's right" he said.
Synthetic Rubber Is Challenge.
Mr.. Mosher expressed hope that
after the war, "a round-table con-
ference of workers from Great Brit
ain, Canada, the United States,
Russia and other Allies will have its
place in the building of world of
freedom"
Thomas F.. Burns of WASHINGTON.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Rees Urges Tax Program
Be Prepared Speedily
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
Representative Rees, Republican,
OF Kansas has called on Congress to
get busy and work out tax pro-
gram on its own without waiting for
the administration to make up it's
mind"
"Otherwise," he told the House
Yesterday, I'VE will be again con-
ironted with some more last-minute
legislation
Mr.. Rees also said the House Wavs
and Means Committee could do a
lot OF good if it would submit legis-
latlon to simplify these tax reports
that are giving people a lot of head
acnes throughout the country right
now"
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Cathedral Arranges
London Church DISPLAY

Visitors to Washington Cathedral
this week will see a special display
on All HalloWs Church of London,
arranged by John H. Bayless,
curator of the Cathedral.
Pictures Of the 18th century Lon
don church at various periods in
its history will be shown. A book,
London Wall Through Eighteen
Centuries" and a stone taken from
the debris after the church was
bombed in 1910, will be on display.
The Cathedral will continue to
remain open until $50 pm. Tues
day nights. A tour of the building,
conducted by Pilgrim Volunteer
Aides, will be held at pm. There
will be music Oh the great organ
from 745 pm until closing time.