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Evening star., 1943-05-17
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Blue coupons, Book 2-Those marked
G, H and j are good for rationed
canned goods and remain valid
through May 81.
Red coupons, Book 2-These can be
exchanged for meats, butter, mar
garine, fats and oils, cheeses and
canned fish.
Stamps marked E, F., G and H
are good now and can be used
any time before May 81.
Stamps lettered j become valid
next Sunday MAY 23) and will
then be good through May 81.
Sugar-Stamp No. IL in Book l is
good for S pounds through May 81.
Stamp No. % is now valid
for pound through May 80.
Fuel oil-No. S coupons are valid for
10 gallons through September 80.
Gasoline-No. A coupons are good
for gallons each through July 81.
B and c coupons, good for 3
gallons each, expire on dates in
dicated in individual books.
Shoes-Stamp II in Book / is good
for one pair of shoes through
June Is.
Detailed rationing information ,cill
be found each tCeek in The Sunday
Star.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
BY GEORGE KENNEDY.

Forest Glen Annex, the former
National Park College, where $50
soldiers are convalescing in sur
roundings of refinement and cul-
ture," as the school catalogs de-
scribed it, was shown to the press
last week by its new owner, the
United States Army. A few WAACS
and convalescent nurses are among
the patients. Last September when
400 girls were packing to return to
the alma mater, Roy Tasco Davis,
it's president and proprietor. sold it
to the Government for $855, 900.
Holiday Inn," the boys call it.
But their attitude is not akin to
vacationists. Sanitoriums, military
or civil, are rather depressing
places. The new annex to Walter
Reed Hospital is no exception al
though the boys do not bore one
another by talking about their op-
erations as do the valetudinarians
who pay to reside in such places.
The convalescent soldiers in
maroon uniforms while away the
time not taken up with meals,
treatments and attempts to have
them execute snappy close order
drills. Even the ones just back
from North Africa do not crowd
around the radio to catch the news
broadcasts on the Tunisian victory
or the Winston Churchill speech,
although they pepper any newcomer
from the front with questions.
Hit on Bombing Raid.
The so or so men back from the
front tell their stories readily
enough. briefly and without much
description. Most of them were out
of the country only a month. Take
Erwin c. Kuhlman, big, broad,
blond farmer from Mapleton, Iowa.
He was flown to Africa November %.
His story then was like so many
from England:
Il was the tail gunner on a Mar
tin Marauder (B-26). We were
bombing Gabes and Tunis daily. I
was hit in the leg by fragment
of an anti-aircraft shell over Gabes.
The radioman, he is the waist gun
ner, could see there was something
wrong and asked me If I were hit.
Then the pilot came in on the inter-
phone and asked me was it bad. 1t
wasn't bleeding much. I said it
looked all right to me. Just then
an ME-109 came after us. I let him
have it and saw the plane burst
into flames and the pilot go down
in a parachute"
Both bones in his lower leg were
broken but he is recovering full use
of it now and hopes to get back in
aerial gunnery.
Or take Fred Dean, a slender lad
in his 20s, a railroad worker from
Ashland, KY. He sailed October q
and was back at the same port No
vember ~. Here's what happened
to him. He landed at Fidala near
Cassablanca on that famous Sunday
morning, November 8. That night
he drove an unlighted jeep with q
lieutenant and five soldiers along
the road to Cassablanca.
The French had q fat sheet of
steel lying in the road and had
trained a machine gun on the spot.
The noise of car crossing that
sheet was their firing signal. Wham!
went the steel plate and Bang!
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Navy Inductees'
Fur|oughs 10
BeUnchanged
Will Continue to Get
Only One Week
For Time Being

Despite the Army extension Of
furloughs after induction from one
to two weeks, the Navy "for the time
being" will continue to grant only
seven-day furloughs, it was learned
today.
Meanwhile, it appeared that the
Army was cutting down its total
strength for the year by a weeks
induction take" by extending the
period in the enlisted reserves to two
weeks, unless calls are stepped up.
1t could not be learned whether
calls would be stepped up in other
weeks to make up for the week when
no men would be reporting for active
duty because of the extension.
The extension of the period in the
enlisted reserve will go into effect
at different times in different induc-
ton stations so that the flow to re-
ception centers can be maintained.
Date Kept Secret.
Exactly when the extension will
go into effect here is being kept
secret to prevent men from stalling
off their induction until after the
| period in the enlisted service is
heightened, officials indicated.
When it has been adopted here,
no men will leave Washington for
camp during a full week. The week
1t goes into effect, the men indicted
the previous week will report for ac-
tive duty as well as those who de-
cline their furloghs.
The following week, however, there
will be no one reporting for active
duty from Washington, since the
men will be in the second week of
their period in the enlisted reserve.
Will Be Extended Further.
The Army has directed that the
"furlough" period be extended to
three weeks by September with the
result that it will lose another
weeks take" of inductees when it
again extends the period
Officials indicated that the COM
ing induction of fathers, who need
more time to wind up their civilian
affairs, rather than a move to re-
duce the contemplated size of the
armed forces, was involved in
lengthening the period before the
men must report for active duty
after induction.
Asked whether the Navy would go
on the same system-since fathers
will also be taken into the Maya
l.
time being no change in the Navy
policy of granting seven days is
contemplated"
Evening star., 1943-05-17

president; a member of the Mary
land, Virginia and Mississippi Valley
Historical Societies and the Associa-
ton of Oldest Inhabitants.
Authority on Early Washington.
For more than a quarter of CEN
tury Mr.. Clark has been active
head of the Columbia Historical
Society and written many books,
articles, addresses and art cata-
logues on the early history of WASH
ington. Among these have been the
Origin of the Federal City" Life
and Letters of Dolly Madison, "
Abraham Lincoln in the National
Capital" Abraham Lincoln, the
Merciful President" "Greenleaf and
Law in the Federal City" DIR. and
Mrs. William Thornton" and Dan
iel Carroll of Duddington." He was
also the author of biographical
sketches of the Mayors of Washing
ton.
On his 80th birthday, Mr.. Clark
received surprise testimonial from
his friends in the historical society.
A meeting will be devoted to Mr.
Clark when the organiza ton re-
sumes activities after the summer
recess. A meeting scheduled for
tomorrow night at the Mayfower
Hotel has been Cancelled.
Mr. Clark's wife, the former Miss
Sarah Pearce, died in. 1910. He is
survived by two brothers, Appleton
P. Clark, jr, and Gilbert A. Clark,
both of this city: three daugh-
ters, Miss Elizabeth G. Clark and
Mrs. Dorothy Clark Winchcole of
Washington and Mrs. Mary CLARK
Graveley of Orlando, Fla, and son
Henry w. Clark of Washington.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Fifteen Small Food Stores
Close in Cumberland
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md, May 17.-At
least Is small grocery stores have
have been forced out of business by
food scarcities, the Cumberland
News says.
The paper quoted unidentified
wholesalers as saying the trouble lis
caused not so much by rationing as
by a lack of articles that can be
obtained for sale"
Most of the stores which have
gone out of business were of the
"front-room" type where the pro-
prietor -owner used the front room
Of his home as a grocery, the paper
said, adding that Federal regulations
were hitting larger stores as well.
"One wholesaler told the story of
a grocer who contends one store
isn't enough nowadays" the paper
said. you've got to have two, one to
hide your goods in and another
where you sell it. We have to take
care of our good customers first. ;"
And dealers in wholesale products
say they have the same problem.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
May Procession Held
At St. MichueI's School

ST. Michael's Parish School, Sill
yer Spring, held its annual May
procession and ceremonies yester-
day.
Jean Tuhy, who had the highest
standing In religion in the eighth
grade, was May queen, and Joan
Higgins and Margaret Peake were
attendants Maids of honor were
Eileen Fitzgerald, Teresa Hushion,
Maridona Alexander, Catherine
Sweeney, Joan Ryall. Mary Gross,
Dorothy Powers and Patricia Quig-
ley.
Flower girls we're Mary Ellen
Thibadeau and Donne Brokaw.
Catherine Powers was crown bearer
and Arthur ODonnell was train
bearer. Boys selected for high re-
ligion marks, who served as guards
of honor, we're James Owens, Ralph
Mohr, Robert Langley, Eugene Nc
Donald, Thomas Manning, James
Marx, Richard Burke, Durwood
Hall and Jerry Canning.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Lack Of teachers
May Close Number
OF Virginia Schools
State Superintendent
Sees Military Auxi|iories
Cutting Into Personnel
By the Associated Press.

RICHMOND. May 1.-THE State
Education Department believes that
while the provision for additional
pay has made teachers generally
more receptive toward signing new
contracts, there still may be num-
ber of elementary schools that won't
open in September because of the
lack of instructors.
DR.. Walter S. Newman, assistant
State superintendent of public in
struction, said doubtless the prob
lem would involve decisions on just
how far the State board could afford
to go in lowering standards of certi-
fcation for those seeking positions
as new teachers.
The State teacher system faced a
further threat to its ranks from the
Women's Military Auxiliary Serv-
ices, Dr. Newman said
" do not believe that we will lose
so many of our teachers to higher
paid jobs in industry he explained
but the contemplated intensified
ton of recruiting campaigns by the
WAVES. the WAACS and the
SPARS are going to be aimed at the
school teacher level, and 1 believe
these services are going to get g
substantial number.
Then, too, the competition among
counties for teachers is going to
be keen, with the result that some
of the better paying counties are
going to take teachers from the
poorer localities
All in all, however, DR.. Newman
said he found the situation in Vir-
ginia better than that in most other
Southern States as far as teacher
personnel was concerned. This, he
said, was due mainly to the fact
that the Virginia school teacher
could look forward to a full nine
months employment and felt that
she would only have to supplement
her teacher earnings for three
months of the year, while some
Southern States only guarantee a
six or seven-month term.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Girls School Now Holiday Inn
For $50 ConvoIescing Soldiers
Bottle Veterans Gradually Get Used to
National Park Colleges Statues and Gilt

Bang! Bang! started the machine
gun. Pvt. Dean was hit in the
arm and rolled into the ditch. Two
of the men were killed. He never
saw the other four again.
Bullet Paralyzes Arm.
Harold Patz, another slender
youth with light hair and boyish
appearance, was barber in Chi
cago before the shooting started
His arm is paralyzed by a bullet
from German dive bomber at
Fidala. Fortunately it's the left
arm. He can return to his trade.
In the meantime, he is getting elec-
trio and hot water treatments to
bring the injured member back.
Joseph Brogan, dark, curly
haired boy from Pittsburgh. of Irish
ancestry and the only son of a
widowed mother. is going to recover
full use of his leg despite the two
bones broken by a rifle bullet. 'I
don't want to go back" he said, "but
we've got to 60 back to get it over
with"
He landed at Safi, below Casa
blanca. His company scaled a 500
foot cliff, then they commanded the
situation. They were still being
fired on and it was Brogan's hard
luck to be the only one in his COM
pany wounded.
If they could take nine out of ten
people over there" said Pvt. Brogan,
"and give them just an hour of the
real thing, you wouldn't hear so
much kicking about gasoline"
Pvt. Brogan's experience was like
the others. He sailed October %
and was back November Is qualified
for the Military Order of the Purple
Heart wounded in action.
Patients Get Used to Statues.
When the reporters arrived the
patients had gotten over their
amazement at the place and evident
ly were ready to take statue lurk-
ing behind every bush for granted.
In 1894 hotel with Stratford-
on-Avon front of stucco and ex-
posed beams was purchased for the
school. Since then two generations
of collecting and construction have
made the place a rare conglomera-
tion of statuary and eclecticism
of architecture.
A stone nimrod claps his hand
to his brow near the bus stop. On
the pedestal these words appear,
THE Grief of Acteon.' But the
girls always called it the ALAS! I've
Missed the Bus" statue.
Deep glades wooded with beech,
oak and maple, are spanned by
medieval drawbridges between
buildings in the 182-acre tract.
Design runs a gamut through &C.
clesiastical Gothic and Chinese pa
CODA to American mission. The
roof of a covered walk is upheld
by a score of concrete caryatids
which on examination prove not
to be Greek female figures but
American girl graduates holding
diplomas. But after all this, the
the ballroom where the boys are
playing ping-pong on many tables,
is the breathtaker. The height
of its three tires of balconies, fronted
by gilded rails, dizzies the uplooker.
He gets momentary impression
that New York's Metropolitan
Opera House has been moved into
the woods.
A staff psychiatrist encountered
Evening star., 1943-05-17
O'Conor Warns Maryland
May Suffer Enemy Bombing
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 17-Mary-
landers had a warning today from
Gov. O'Conor that the danger of
enemy bombing attacks was still
present ana the State was definitely
in the target area.
Addressing State Minute Men
company commanders yesterday, the
Governor said there is no basis for
complacency among our people, ="
and that he based his statement on
information received from the War
Department.
Maryland, situated as 1t is, is in
the target area" Gov. O'Conor
maintained, adding, I'VE must look
the facts in the face and understand
that the greater the gains of our
armed forces, the more desperate
will our enemies become"
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Science, Common Sense
Cut Virginia Maternity Toll
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, May 17-Sdence
and common sense, working hand
in hand, are constantly cutting
down the maternal mortality rate in
Virginia.
Improved hospital facilities, the
wider use of such facilities by
mothers and a better understanding
of the dangers of childbirth are
credited by obstetrical experts with
the reduction in the number of ma
ternal deaths.
A survey just completed by the
Bureau of Vital Statistics of the
State Department of Health, cover
ing the last 80 years, shows that
during just the last seven years the
ratio of maternal deaths to the
number of live births has dropped
from So per 1000 in 1886 to 33 in
1912.
Separated as to race, the reduce
ton of the mortality rate is even
more impressive, the drop being
from As to "a in the case of whites
and from 90 to 81 in the case of
Negroes.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Woodside Prepares
For First-Yeur PUPILS

A summer roundup of children
who will attend school for the first
time next year is being conducted
by the Woodside Elementary School
Mothers of pre-school children
will be urged to have their chill.
dren examined physically, and vac
cinations and diphtheria toxoic
doses will be given if needed. A
registration and examination will
be held from am. to noon FRIDAY
at the school.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Allen &. Clark Dies at IS:
Founder of Equitable Life
Was President of
Columbia Historical
Society Since 1916

Allen Culling Clark, founder o1
the Equitable Life Insurance Co.
lawyer and historian, died yesterday
at Doctors Hospital after a brie1
illness. He was IS.
Mr.. Clark, who made his home al
1920 o street NV, had been presi-
dent of the, Columbia Historical
Society since 1916.
Funeral services will be held at z
pm. tomorrow at Hines funera,
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV.
followed by burial in Rock Greek
Cemetery. Ofhciating at the serv-
ices will be the Rev. DR.. Edward
Pruden, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, assisted by the Rev. Dr.
John c. Ball of the Metropolitan
Baptist Church.
The honorary pallbearers will be
James G. Bennett, Henry P. Blair
Clyde D. Garrett, Lauriston H, Han
nah. j. Leo kolb, Frederick M. Net
tleship, William w. Rapley, Fletcher
c. Benton, Maurice D. Rosenberg
Joseph Sanders, Henry A. Willard
II; Fred A. Emery, Wade H. Ellis,
Victor B. Deyber, Newman F.. Nc
Glrr and F.. Regis Noel. The active
pallbearers will be Gilbert c. Clark,
James E. Corey, Lewis F. Colbert,
William NJ Kline. William T.
Mooreland and Charles Emory
Phillips.
Moved Here as Child.
Mr.. Clark was born in Philadel-
phia February %, 1858. When he
was 5 years old his family moved to
Washington and as a small boy fire.
quently saw President Linsoln driv-
Ing from the White House to his
summer residence at Soldiers Home.
With his parents, he visited the
White House once and shook hands
with the Civil War President.
Educated in the public schools.
Mr.. Clark was graduated in 1878
from National University Law
School. He undertook the practice
of law and when in 1885 he founded
the Equitable Life Insurance Co. he
became its first secretary. The COM
pany grew rapidly and he was soon
compelled to forego his law practice
and devote full time to its manage
ment.
He continued as secretary of the
insurance firm and retained an &C
tive role in its management through
out his life. He was director of the
National Capital Bank, trustee of
the Columbia Title Insurance Co..
member of the Board of Managers of
the Washington Academy of
Sciences, of which he was once vice
Evening star., 1943-05-17
100000 Here
View Airn1dl
Celebration
HeIicopter Lands
| On Capitol Lawn;
| Stunts Lend Thrills

An outstanding air show in cele-
bration of the 25th anniversary of
commercial airmail was staged yes
terday at the Washington National
Airport as q crowd estimated at
10000 was thrilled by stunt flying
and given glimpse of aviation pro-
gress.
Highlighted by the performance of
Al Williams, famous aviator and
writer, who flew his plane upside
down, and the local introduction of
the Army's Sikorsky helicopter, the
Air show disclosed many of the great
strides achieved by the aviation in
dustry.
Helicopter at Capital.
A helicopter landed at $50 a m. on
the east lawn of the Capitol, picked
up mail, provided 3-minute ride
tor Representative Woodrum, Dem
ocrat, of Virginia, and amazed spec
tators. 1t can be flown backward as
we'll as forward, sideways and
straight up without even the for
mality of takeoff. 1t can land
vertically ON small spot All these
features were demonstrated by Col.
Frank Gregory of the Army Air
Force technical staff at Wright
Field, Ohio.
There were giant Army transports
that demonstrated air evacuation
Of war wounded. Vought-C -Corsairs
displayed their speed and maneuver-
ability, and a captured japanese
Zero plane was put through its
PAGES.
A commemorative feature was the
arrival of a Pitcairn Mail Wing, a
duplicate of the original flown on
the first foreign airmail service
flight between Montreal and New
York in 1923. Capt. Herb Clark,
pilot, brought with him a letter
from Canadian Prime Minister Mac
kenzie King to President Roosevelt.
Noted Pilots on Hand.
Postmaster General Walker and
Secretary of Commerce Jones joined
members of Congress in witnessing
the aerial snow.
Watching AL Williams perform
we're Capt Roscoe Turner. speed
flyer; Dick Merrill and Jack Lam
bic, pioneer transatlantic aviators:
Maj. James Clark Edgerton, who
completed the first successful air
mail flight between Washington and
New York: James Murray, pilot of
the first transcontinental air mail
in 1920; Capt. j. w. Whitney, chief
of the Naval Air Transport Com
mand; Moon Chin, American born
Chinese pilot who flew Maj. Gen.
Doolittle out of China after the
Toxic raid, and Capt Chuck O'Con-
nor, veteran pilot for the American
Always, now with the Air Trans
port Command.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Three From Virginia
Named on Casualty Lists

The names of three Virginians
were included on casualty lists re-
leased yesterday by the Navy and
War Departments.
Raymond Wilfred Fleck, deck en-
gineer. son Of j. P. Fleck of Win
chester. was included on the mer-
chant marine list of missing from
April to April 30.
Among those reported by the War
Department as wounded in action
In North Africa were Corpl. Francis
o. Callahan. son of Mrs Ada I. Gal
lahan of Fredericksburg, and Pvt
Robert R. Strickler, son of Earl D
Strickler of Staunton.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Western Maryland
Graduation Held:
100 Get Degrees
Roger J. Whiteford,
Chevy Chase Lawyer,
Makes Address

Twelve residents of Washington
and vicinity are among the approx
lmately 100 students at Western
Maryland College in Westminster
who received their degrees at COM
mencement exercises yesterday.
The principal address was made
bv Roger j. Whiteford, Chevy Chase
attorney, whose son, Joseph S.
Whiteford II, was among the gradu-
ates. Mr. Whiteford, who was grad
uated from Western Maryland Col
lege in 1905, was awarded an hon
orary doctor of laws degree.
The Il local and nearby gradu-
ates who received A. B. degrees
are: William C. Baylies, Albert w
Jones, Virginia M. Bell. Phebe Rob-
lnson and Robert T. Siemon, all of
Washington: John C. Hancock. La
Plata, Md; Lee D. Lodge. Beltsville,
Md, who will receive the Bates prize
for best all-around college man:
Joseph S. Whiteford II, Chevy
Chase; Joseph B. Workman, Silver
Spring; Pearl L. Bodmer, Pooles-
vile, Md; Louise A. Penn, Laurel
Md, and Hannah C. Mckee,
Croome. Md.
Mr.. Whiteford, who was award
ed an honorary degree for achieve
ment in the profession of law and
interest in civic welfare" spoke
on From One Generation to An
other" The respopse m habolf ,f
the graduation class was made
by his son, who is among % seniors
who have completed the advanced
ROTC course. Others include Mr..
Baylies and Mr.. Lodge.
While not receiving their commits
sions at commencement exercises,
these men will report shortly to Of
f1cers' Candidate School for train
ing before being commissioned.