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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Mrs. Roosevelt Plans to Walk
To Presidents Birthday Balls
Will Give Up Use of White House
Car for Annual Celebrations Here

Mrs. Roosevelt is going to walk to
the Presidents Birthday Ball cele-
brations in Washington hotels Sat-
urday night.
The Presidents wife announced
at press conference today that she
intends to make her rounds on foot
this year instead Of in the White
House car that usually whisks her
to a total of six dances in about As
minutes.
Il will walk to whatever balls I
can walk to-" Mrs. Roosevelt said.
The only hotels holding Birthday
Ball celebrations beyond reasonable
walking distance Of the White House
are the Shoreham and the Wardman
Park. Others are the Staler, Hamil-
ton, Washington, Mayhower and
Willard Hotels.
The Presidents wife laughed when
women reporters asked If she would
do all that hiking in an evening
| dress.
Il will wear what they tell me to-
! she replied.
In preference to using gas and
rubber, she will omit her trips to
the outlying hotels. she added. If the
Birthday Ball Committee agrees
with her on the point.
Usually all the movie stars on
hand for the celebrations appear at
all the hotels, but Mrs. Roosevelt
believes that this year, this extern
sive circulation by the stars will be
curtailed to the hotels nearest to
the one at which they first appear.
Turning to the world situation.
Mrs. Roosevelt advocated that the
voting age be lowered to 10 on the
theory that boys old enough to fight
are old enough to vote. She added
that although she has not aban-
doned her pacifist views, she be-
lieves If disarmament is not uni
versal after the war, no one should
disarm at all.
| Although the cost of armament
would be prohibitive, Mrs. Roosevelt
said, unless everyone disarmed. it
would be useless for a few to do So"
Mrs. Roosevelt said that she is
particularly to blame for her "un-
realistic attitude before the war be-
cause she had more opportunity to
know what was going on all over
the world. She said this unreal
istic" point of view was taken by
many people who refused to face the
fact that other countries were pre-
pairing for war.
Plans Recreation Luncheon.
Returning to the question of low
ering the voting age, Mrs. Roosevelt
commented, II don't know why you
should not vote at 10. You are ready
to get married at 49," She added
that If boys were given the extra
burden of fighting at 18 and 10 they
should also be able to exercise the
voting privilege.
On the District front, Mrs. Roose-
welt said she hoped to give impetus
to donation of more recreation
centers for Government workers
by having wives of Government
agency heads to lunch tomorrow.
The women will be addressed by
Mrs. James A. Lands, chairman of
the committee which secured from
Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean the
use OF her garage as a sitting room
and play center for Government
workers
Mrs. Lands hopes TO find new
ways OF getting more centers," Mrs.
Roosevelt said. Recreation Super
intendent Milo F. Christensen has
set up master plan" calling for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Clerk Held for Grand jury
In Gas Book Sale Case

George E. Anderson, 40. chief clerk
OF Ration Board No. 81, charged with
illegal transfer of gasoline ration
coupons. was held for the grand
jury today by United States Com
missioner Needham c. Turnage afte,
gasoline service station dealer
here testified he had purchased ap-
proximately 100000 gas ration cou-
pons from Anderson.
The dealer, Herman I. Smith, 1886
Quincy street NV, a Government
witness, said he paid Anderson
somewhere" between 1880 and
$4,000. He said the transactions &C.
Cured on various occasions between
last July and October.
Anderson, a naturopathic physi.
clan, lives at 2l29 Florida avenue
NV. He pleaded not guilty to the
charge. He is free under s2.5OC
bond.
The defendant is charged with vio-
lating the Second War Powers Act
and with larceny from the United
States Government. The penalty
for each offense is 10 years imprison-
ment or $4,000 fine or both.
According to 1t. Joseph Shimon
chief investigator of the District at
torney's office, Anderson's arrest
Friday climaxed three-month in
vestigation by the District attorneys
office and the OPA. The investiga-
ton was conducted by 1t. Shimon
Detective James E. Armstrong and
Charles E. Cannon of the OPA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Social Hygiene Society
President 10 Be Honored

DR.. H. H. Hazen, president of the
District of Columbia Social Hygiene
Society, will receive an honorary
award of life membership in the
American Social Hygiene Associa-
ton at a luncheon at 1915 pm.
Tuesday, February 2, in Barker Hall
of the YWCA for outstanding serv-
ices to the cause of public health
practice, research and teaching"
DR.. Hazen will make a report on
venereal disease control in this area
to health and welfare workers as
sembled to celebrate National So
cial Hygiene Day.
The award will be made by Mai
Gen. Meritte w. Ireland. who was
surgeon general of the AEF under
Gen. Pershing.
DR.. Harry A. Overstreet OF the
Department OF Philosophy, College
OF the City OF New York, will de-
liver the annual Hannah B. Sanders
memorial address on social protec-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Grand Jury Indiets
Pair in Thefts From
Furniture Warehouse
Former Employe Charged
With Using Key to
Gain Admittunce

The District grand jury today In
dicted two men for the theft of
several hundred dollars worth of
furniture and household goods, al
legged to have been stolen October 3
and December 10 from Goldenberg's
warehouse, 472 L street NV. Some
Of the furniture, it is charged, was
used in local rooming house.
Two separate indictments, one for
grand larceny, the other for house
breaking and larceny, we're returned
against John S. McCauley, SO, and
Horace Gray, a. McCauley, former
Goldenberg's employe, is said to
have used some Of the furnishings
to outfit two-story rooming house
which he is alleged to have operated
in the 1900 block of Ontario place
NV,
The two men removed the furni-
ture by truck during the night, &C
cording to investigators, storing part
Of it in garage in the rear of a
house in the 1900 block OF Columbia
road NV.
McCauley was dismissed as a COM
pany employe on December 2, store
official revealed today. The second
indictment charges him and Gray
with returning to the warehouse De-
cember 10 and gaining access by
use of q key which McCauley had
not turned in when dismissed. In
all, the two men are charged with
three separate thefts in the ware
house
The true bill detailing the alleged
crimes lists the loot as ranging from
a shoe rack, valued at so cents, to
rug valued at $50. Items included
ladder, chairs, a cabinet, a pitcher,
Venetian blinds, blankets, mattresses,
table, dresser, chest of drawers.
bookcase, one case of toilet paper,
cake cover set, tray, a China closet,
a desk, pillows and beds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Film Program TO Honor
Mrs. Roosevelt and Halifax

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Lord Halifax have been invited to
be honor guests at the opening OF
the United Nations film festival at
$50 pm. Wednesday at the Jewish
Community Center, Sixteenth and
@ streets NV.
The first film, The Lady Vanishes. ,
Is part of program to celebrate
Great Britain night.
The George Washington University
choir, with DR.. R. H. Harmon con-
Quoting, Is also on the program
sponsored by the center and the
USO-Jewish Welfare Board.
Eleven pictures will be presented,
according to Philip Schiff, USO
director, for the entertainment of
servicemen and war workers. The
program also is designed to bring
about better understanding of the
countries of the United Nations
through the medium of motion pic
lures. Other countries which will
be honored are Russia. France,
Czechoslovakia, China and Belgium
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Marines Win Praise
For Making Home Of
Guada|cana| Junq|e
Admiral w. l.. Calhoun
Says Morale Is High
Unless Mail Is Late

Vice Admiral William L. Calhoun,
commander OF the Pacific Service
Force, is in Washington for confer
ences after travelling $1,000 miles by
plane to most OF our Southwestern
Pacific bases.
First" he said, Il was struck
with the morale. ability and the
calm and intelligent courage of our
men,
Next. almost more than the mar
Vicious fighting job the marines had
done on Guadalcanal, was I'M
pressed with the way they have dug
themselves a place to live in that
jungle, how they have made them
selves homes as white men, while
they continue to whang the enemy
"a hours every day.
Another indelible impression is
the complete gratitude of the people
of New Zealand. who look on the
Americans as friends in need. and
say to us, Maybe you are fighting
your own war, but, as far as we're
concerned, you are fighting ours,
too
Il am still amazed at the vast dis
tances of this war and am still
learning how big the world is, for I
have seen how long it takes to go
from here to there, even with the
fastest means of travel ever known.
Plentiful supplies in all cate
gories are now on hand in the war
zones, but they must continue to
flow. Our men are equipped with
the sinews of war, well clothed and
we'll fed. The morale of the men is
excellent and only goes down hill
when the mail fails to arrive AS
long as they know the folks at home
are safe and happy, no effort or
sacrifice seems too great. They are
Just average Americans who fight
like they play-hard!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

himself. During the morning he
sold six clocks.
At national OPA, an official
pointed out that alarm clocks came
under the general maximum price
regulation and that they could not
be sold at price any higher than
the high Of last March. If none
were sold at that time by a mer-
chant, then the price should be
taken from the nearest competitor
However, the expert said the
dealer could add the import charges
to the price.
Mr.. Edmundson said he had
checked with nearby corner drug
store and found that clocks had
sold there as high as $l2
On second thought. MI. Edmund
son, who said he believed he was
only doing service by bringing
clocks to Washington, decided to call
the whole thing off until he had
consulted OPA.
This ceiling business is compli-
Gated to fellow who's beeln out of
the country as long as I have" he
commented, Maybe I better sell
these clocks 10 the Army"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

dependent Establishments of the
Government for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1943, whether contained
In this act, or any other act, shall
DO expended for the maintenance,
operation and repair of any Govern
ment-owned motor propelled pas
senger-carrying vehicle not used
exclusively for official purposes; and
official purposes shall not include
the transportation OF officers and
employees between their domicles
and places OF employment. except
in the cases OF medical officers on
out-patient medical services and ex-
cept in the cases Of officers and en-
ployes engaged in field work the
character Of whose duties make
such transportation necessary and
then only as to such latter cases
when the same is approved by the
head of the department or estab-
lishment concerned. The limita-
tons OF this subsection (b) shall
not apply to any motor vehicles for
official use OF the President, the
heads OF Executive Departments
Ambassadors. Ministers and charges
d'affaires."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
II Exonerated
lin Pleasure
|DrivingCases
43 More Motorists
Cited as VioIotors
Over Week End

All II Of the motorists called be-
fore Ration Board 80, Sixteenth and
Lamont streets NV, yesterday were
found to have been on legitimate
business at the time they were cited
for alleged violation of the pleasure
driving ban. Board Chairman l..
Walton Sanderson reported today.
A weekend check added 43 names
to the local list Of suspected pleas
ure drivers.
Meanwhile, the District Office Of
Price Administration revealed first
results of its plans for increased
preliminary investigation. announced
last week, and spokesman predicted
the new system soon will put an
end to the needless summoning of
obviously innocent motorists before
local ration boards.
Notices Mailed to 26.
Twenty-six pleasure driving sus-
poets have been mailed notices by
the District OPA under the new
procedure, 1t was disclosed.
Given three days in which TO
present explanations in person or
by letter to the District OPA head
quarters. seven Of the rs motorists
already have established their inno-
cence and will not have to face
ration board hearings. One alleged
pleasure driver who asked the Dis
trict OPA to exonerate him was In
structed to tell his story to his
local ration board.
Explanations Accepted.
Most of the II motorists sum-
moned before Board 30 yesterday
would not have been forced to APP
pear had the new system been put
into effect soon enough to govern
their cases, a spokesman for the
board said. All had acceptable ex-
plantations, he indicated, and the
majority were obviously innocent.
Explanations accepted by the board
included that of head-waiter IN a
downtown hotel, who stopped at a
restaurant on his way home from
work at an hour when his own hotel
was no longer serving meals. A
plasterer was exonerated when he
said he had stopped near a down.
town amusement hall to sign a con-
tract for plastering the establish
mert.
A woman cited after her car was
seen parked at the Shoreham Hotel
explained to board members that she
lived at the hotel, having moved
from the address shown on ration
| board records.
| More Hearings Set Today.
Results of the District OPA's new
plan for increased preliminary in
vestigation of cases were expected
to have their effect on the ration
board hearings for the first time
today.
Four boards were to hold hearings
today as follows: Board 81. Georgia
avenue and Upshur street NV, $3.50
to $50 pm: Board 40, Seventh and
D streets Sc, to Z pm; Board AZ,
Twentieth and Evarts streets NE,
pm, and Board IL, 1740 Massa.
chusetts avenue NV tbs pm.
OF the 43 motorists reported today.
80 were listed by local OPA inspec-
tors and 10 by District police. Park
police, In reporting only one, said
pleasure drivers steered clear of
Washington parks after the citing
OF so motorists in the parks Satur-
day and Sunday week ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Hacker FoiIs ; Bandits
By Crashing Machine;
Suspects Captured
Armed Trio Threatens
Driver With Death; Flee
As He Hits Parked Cor

A 26year- old taxicab driver foiled
three armed holdup men who
threatened his life early today by
crashing his cab into another auto
mobile parked in the 4500 block OF
Connecticut avenue NV, police re-
ported
The trio fed after the collision
and later were arrested in nearby
woods by Eighth precinct police,
According to the police report,
Paul D.. Baldridge of Arlington was
hailed at Seventeenth and r streets
NV. shortly before midnight last
night by three colored men, who
asked to be taken to the 4400 block
OF Connecticut avenue.
Refused to Give Money.
When the taxi reached Connec-
ticut avenue and Macomb street,
police said, one of the men pulled
a gun and announced, This is a
holdup"
When Mr.. Baldridge refused to
surrender his money he was ordered
to keep driving and was told: "Well
take you out in the country and
kill you"
The three suspects arrested, who
were identified by Mr.. Baldridge
were said by police to be a 23-year-
old Washington man and a youth
10 and man % from New York.
Painter Loses $3.50.
Another holdup, in which two
armed men confronted a painter In
the hallway of his home early yes
terday and took a billfold containing
$3.50, was reported to police by the
victim, Roy Sidney Hart, 912 ]
street NV.
Theft of two fare boxes containing
an estimated $3.50 in cash and tokens
from Capital Transit Co. barns at
Eighth and M streets Sc, was re-
ported to police today by Albert L
Oliver. a. superintendent for the
company. Mr.. Oliver said the theft
occurred between 1870 and Els
o'clock this morning.
Meanwhile, a 30-year old colored
man was being held by police In
connection with the theft yesterday
of 200 bottles of whisky and sl0C
cash from a liquor store at 1915
Fourth street NV. Most of the
loot was recovered, police said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
AssoiIont Is Sought
In FutuI Stubbino

Police today were searching for a
26-year-old colored man believed
to be the assailant Of George Hamp-
ton Brown, Is, colored, Charlottes-
vile, Va, who died of stab wounds
in Casualty Hospital yesterday after
what police described as an argu-
ment over 81.
According to police, Brown and
another colored man fought Satur-
day night in the 1900 block of Fifth
street NV. Brown was stabbed In
the throat and his assailant fed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Hundreds OF Art Lovers
Attend Show at Corcoran

Opening of the SD annual ex-
hibition of the Society of Washing
ton Artists at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art was attended yesterday by
hundreds of art lovers, including
members OF the diplomatic corps
and Federal officials.
Sixty-two paintings and many
sculptures will be on exhibition
through February IA. Work OF
Washington, Maryland and Virginia
artists are included in the show.
Also on view is the picture, "Aut-
umn," painted by Mrs. Esther Lyme
Of Henderson, KY, which won The
Evening Star award
Among other pictures which at
tracted favorable comment yester-
day was Solitary Breakfast" by
Jack Berkman of 2106 N street
NV, winner of the Alice Barney
prize.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
AWVS Sturts Course
In Motor Transport

A course in motor transport
started today at the American
Women's Volunteer Services head
quarters, 2170 Florida avenue NV
The course will run for three weeks,
five days a week.
Those completing the intensive
training will be qualified as full
fiedged transport workers and are
eligible for immediate service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Boy, II, to Go on Trial
In Mutthes Murder Case

Richard l.. white, IT, charged
With the murder of Madeline
Matthes, Is, a door-to-door mis-
sionary for the Jehovah's Witnesses
sect, will go on trial for his life in
District Court Thursday, Justice
Matthew F. MCGUIRE ruled this
morning.
Mrs. Matthes was found dead in
the White apartment, at 1922 N
street NV, April IS, 1912
On September II District Court
jury found White of sound mind
and ruled he must stand trial for the
crime.
Bernard Margolius, assistant
United States attorney, will handle
the prosecution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Boy Scouts President
Speaks Here Toniqht

Walter w. Head, president OF the
Boy Scou,s of America. will be guest
of honor and chief speaker at the
annual meeting of the National
Capital Area Council of Scouts at
the Epiphany parish house, 1917 G
street NV. at o'clock tonight.
Winners OF Silver Beavers for dis
tinguished service to boyhood will
receive awards at the meeting. A
buffet supper will follow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Fuel 0i|-to-CoaI
Conversion Lists
Close Today
But OPA and Ration
Board Officials Plan
No Drastic Action

Today is the last day on which
commercial and industrial users of
fuel oil in the District will have op-
portunity to prove to their local
rationing boards either that they
have made arrangements to convert
to the use Of coal or that it is i'm
possible for them to convert.
Local boards. however. have not
yet indicated they were ready to
get tough" in the matter of con-
version, even though the Office Of
Price Administration adheres to its
ruling OF early December. At that
time the OPA announced that COM
mercial oil consumers would have
to comply with the conversion
order or go without fuel oil after
they had used up their No. 2
coupons.
This conversion order" an OPA
spokesman said today, lis still on
the books. The people affected will
have to comply or they go without
OIL"
Drastic Action Discounted.
1t was generally understood, how
ever, that local OPA officials were
planning no drastic action against
those who have not complied with
the order. For the most part, action
on conversion was being left in the
hands Of the area boards, and one
District OPA spokesman said he did
not think any board would be in
clined to crack down at this time"
Most Of the commercial users of
fuel oil, it was explained, already
have contacted their local boards on
conversion and have come to an
understanding. Invariably, the
boards have adopted a lenient atti-
tude-chief1y because they recognize
the difficulties in obtaining CONVEX
sion parts.
AS a matter Of form, every non
commercial consumer Gncluding
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
USO May Take Over
Old Church BUILDING

The USO has taken an option on
the old building of the Western
Presbyterian Church at 1911 H street
NV. and plans to use it for dances
and as a weekend dormitory for
women of the uniformed forces, ac-
cording to John Schoolcraft, local
USO representative.
The building is across the street
from the present Western Presby-
terrain Church. The old building was
erected In 1854. President Franklin
Pierce and his Secretary of War,
Jefferson Davis, worshiped there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Oil Users Must Cash
No. 2 Coupon Today
Or Forfeit Value

Today is the last day on
which fuel consumers may cash
in their No. 2 coupons. Those
not redeemed by midnight to-
night automatically become void
and may not be exchanged for
valid coupons Of later periods.
No. 4 coupon will become valid
on Wednesday. An announce
ment as to the exact value of
No. 4 coupons was to be made
later today or tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Institute on Adoption
Practices PIunned

An institute on adoption prac-
tices," sponsored by the Children's
Protective Association, will be held
Thursday and Friday at the head
quarters of the association, 1907 S
street NV.
Miss Ora Pendleton. executive
secretary of the Children's Bureau
OF Philadelphia, will conduct the
institute, which is designed as a
refresher course for welfare workers
concerned with the problem of child
adoption. Glasses will be held at
10 a m. and pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
VIEW Post to See Film
On National Home

A sound-color film on the Veterans
OF Foreign Wars National Home at
Eaton Rapids, Mich, will feature the
social to be given by the Front Line
Post 1401, WV, at 8 o'clock tonight
at the meeting hall, 1903 Fourteenth
street NV.
The film has been obtained through
George ]. Neuner, first department
ofncer Of the District and trustee of
the national home. Garnett M.
Mattingly. senior vice post COM
mander, is in charge OF the program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
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WAatHa4R~xMM
WAR Bonds

Washing machines and other
household appliances are not avail
able today. Manufacturers have con-
verified their plants to war work. If
you save today, however, by buying
War bonds, this money saved will
start these factories rolling and put
millions Of Americans to work after
the war is won.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

Join the payroll savings plan at
your office or factory. Save a def
mite amount every payday, 10 per
cent or more of your pay check.
Your pay check today buys a pay
day for tomorrow and gets you "a
back for every SO you invest.
o. 8. Treasury Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

Some Need More IaFN.
Section 302 OF General Provisions
Act No. 495, approved March 10,
1912, covers the use OF Federal cars
as follows:
No appropriation available for
the executive departments and in