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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
Ensign and Fireman
Killed With Gilmore
Shot by Jap Machine Gun
As U. S. Sub Rommed Foe

The Navy reported today that an
other officer and an enlisted man
were killed in the engagement in
which Comdr. Howard w. Gilmore
sacrificed his life by directing the
officers of the submarine which he
commanded to submerge, leaving
him on the deck.
The officer was Ensign William
Wadsworth Williams, %, Potter VAL
ley. Calf, and the enlisted man was
Wilbert Fletcher Kelley, fireman,
third class, 10, Port Huron, Mich.
Both were killed by machinegun
bullets from the japanese gunboat
which the submarine had engaged
in combat.
Ensign Williams was serving as
assistant officer of the deck and Mr..
Kelley was acting as a lookout
when Comdr. Gilmore gave the Or
der for his submarine to ram the
enemy ship which previously had
attempted to run down the Ameri-
can submersible.
Following the ramming, Ensign
Williams ana Mr.. Kelley were
caught in the shower OF bullets fired
by machineguns on the sinking enc
my ship and they died at their
stations.
1t was subsequent to the ramming
that Comdr. Gilmore. realizing delay
might imperil his vessel and crew,
declined the aid of those who sought
to carry him below decks, ordered
the bridge cleared. and gave the
order, Take her down."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
D. T.. Book Drive
Nets $4,000 Volumes

More than $4,000 books have been
contributed so far in the District
victory book campaign and 80 per
cent of these have already been
sent to camps or ships, it was an
nounced today.
The campaign was started in jan
uary by Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith,
District representative of the Ma
tion-wide books for servicemen
drive. Although the national cam
paign closed in March, thousands
of books have been contributed here
since then. she said. They were all
classified by two women, Miss Luise
Kelley, librarian of the Southwest
Library, and Mrs. Charles McMullen.
A committee of the American
Women's Voluntary Services under
Mrs. Thruston Hughes collected
$4,000 books. Thousands more came
in from boxes at grocery stores and
libraries. Several hundred were COL
lected by dairymen with the milk
bottles and taken to the classical
ton center
OF the total, only 1000 were unfit
for use, Mrs. Smith said. This is in
contrast to last years campaign,
when thousands of old or torn books
were dumped into collection boxes.
Mrs. Smith had been especially
emphasizing this year contribution
of current books.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11

but we did not anticipate any trou-
BILE and we did not have any"
The Federation's statement is con-
cluded with section called Things
to Remember" parts Of which are
quoted:
i. These rumors were not acct
dental, so far as we know now. They
were planted and at many points in
the city. They were extremely vi
cious, and that there was not trou-
BILE is nothing short of a miracle.
2. Rumors are used to SOW dis
sension, to divide people and to in
crease class or race hatred y.
3. Responsible people lost their
heads in many instances this time.
They forgot to check the facts and
passed along the stories as true =.
AS a final word of warning, the
Federation says
Kill rumors because rumors can
kill people, here as well as on the
battle fronts"
So widespread had the rumors be-
come that the Committee on Jobs
for Negroes in Public Utilities, which
sponsored the open-air meeting and
parade last Friday night, felt
called upon to address a letter to the
Commissioners.
Excerpts from Letter.
Part of it follows:
The speed and efficiency with
which such tales were spread alb
solutely groundless as they were,
suggests that the rumor campaign
was deliberate and we'll organized.
Its apparent purposes were % to
frlghten citizens away from the
parade and mass meeting; 90 to
d1scredit the movement of the en-
ployment of Negro bus and streetcar
operators; possibly also 80 actually
to lnclte violent racial conflict as
an aid to our Axis enemies.
Whatever the valid explanation
this rumor campaign is definitely
antl-social in its effects. It created
tense situation out of which real
trouble might have developed last
week end and it now continues
to aggravate the situation.
We believe that the public well
fare demands decisive action bv the
District government to check and
dlsslpate the effects of this truly
dangerous rumor campaign" The
letter then asked the Commission
ers to institute "a thorough investi-
cation by the Police Department of
the sources and carriers of these
rumors, with the appropriate pun
lshment wherever responsibility for
their deliberate instigation is estab-
liShed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
The once of Price Administra-
ton compiled today these questions
and answers to acquaint house.
wives with regulations on obtain
ing and using sugar for home can
ming.
Coupons for buying the sugar will
be available at local ration boards
after May IS.
@. Does the sugar allowance of
zone pound of sugar to each four
quarts of finished fruit" mean that
I must can all fruit with the same
weight Of strip?
A. No, but you must make an
average of four quarts of finished
fruit for each pound Of sugar you
get.
@. Must I declare the number of
quarts of fruits and vegetables
have on hand when I apply for
sugar for home canning?
A. No. However, the available
supply Of sugar for home canning is
limited and local boards may ask
for information about your supplies
and needs in deciding how much
sugar you will receive.
@. May I ask friend who has
a pressure cooker to do my canning
for me, if supply all ingredients,
without surrendering ration points
for the food she cans?
A. Yes. If you contribute either
the ingredients or the equipment or
part of the labor required you may
acquire them without surrender of
ration points.
Q. Must I give up ration stamps
for canned foods which the local
cannery processes for me, If I sup
ply the ingredients?
A. You may acquire 100 quarts
OF such foods point-free for each
person in your family, If you or
your family raised the fruits or veg
etables. However, these foods are
considered commercial products.
and II you wish to sell them, you
must pay and collect points for
them at the point vaue of CONNER
cially canned foods.
@ May I give away as many
quarts of home-canned vegetables as
1 wish II they require no sugar in
canning them?
A. No. But each person in your
family may give away not more
than so quarts of home canned
fruits and vegetables without COL
lecting ration stamps. If you wish
to give away more than that, you
must collect ration points from the
person to whom you give them, al
though you need not ask for money
payment for this food unless you
wish
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11

not possible to permit the cab driver
to use his own discretion to decide
whether to engage in group riding,
and likewise it was not practicable
to leave the decision to the pros
pective passenger.
Survey to Be Made.
Today's decision was an interim
ORDER. The commission accepted a
suggestion. made at the recent hear
ing by an OPA representative, w.
Russell German. that considerable
information as to costs and revenues
of taXicabs was needed for a per-
manent order, and the PUG is di-
recting its staff to make such a
survey.
The commission ordered that OPP
GRAFTON of taXicabs on an hourly
basis be discontinued in the inter-
est of group riding Under group
riding an additional charge of 10
cents is to be made If any pas
senger has more than one piece of
hand baggage. The prevailing rate
of so cents per trunk is continued.
The commission said it was obvi-
Gus that group riding would result
in an increase in cost of operation,
since many trips would follow
zig-zag route. Chairman Flanagan
suggested, however. that if a pros
pective rider wanted to go to a place
far off the route of other passengers.
he should be advised to take an
other cab going in his direction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
Plane Exhibit 10 Mark
AiirmaiI Anniversary

Washington will see the most
complete exhibition OF military and
commercial air transportation ever
staged here at the National Airport
all day Sunday on the 25th anniver-
sary OF Inauguration of air mail
service, the Civil Aeronautics Ad-
ministration announced today.
The exhibit will include the Army's
standard freighters, Navy transport
flying boats, old air mail planes and
a japanese Zero pursuit plane
thrown in by the Navy for good
measure. The Navy will provide a
complete exhibition of emergency
life-saving equipment installed on
its planes.
To conserve high-octane gasolene.
there will be little actual flying, but
the Army has scheduled a develop
ment flight OF its Sikorsky helicop-
ter to Washington during the after
noon.
Air mail pickup service will be
demonstrated once and glider tow
ing and landing has been arranged
pV the military services in the
course of their regular training
flights. The services of the Air
Evacuation Unit of the Army Air
Forces will be demonstrated by a
team OF flying nurses, soldiers and
physicians.
Among those expected to attend
Will be Maj. James Clark Edger-
ton, first airmail pilot who flew the
initial mail plane from Philadel-
phia to Washington. May 10, 1918.
Others who participated in the initi-
alton OF airmail Is years ago and
who will be present are Otto
Praeger. former assistant post
master general: Charles I. Stanton,
James Murray. Benjamin J. Lipsner
and E. Hamilton Lee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
D. T.. Woman Honored
By Junior Leagues
Cecil l. Jones Elected
National Vice President

Miss Cecil Lester Jones, prominent
Washington Junior League member,
was elected vice president of the
Association Of Junior Leagues of
America at the annual meeting of
the organization held yesterday in
New York
Active in the District chapter. Miss
Jones has served as president. secre-
tary, first and second vice president
and chairman of various committees.
In l94l she was chairman of the
Junior League Committee Of the
Washington Horse Show and also
served as director of region No. 3
Of the national association.
Also active in other community
organizations. Miss Jones has served
as board member of Travellers Aid,
Georgetown Neighborhood Council,
National Craft Training Center,
Washington Civic Theater and Chill
dren's Hospital for which she also
served as chairman of the advisory
committee of the social service de-
partment.
Mrs. Linville K. Martin, Winston
Salem, S. c., is the president of the
national association. Those officers
reelected at yesterdays meeting
were Miss Judith Trip, Fall River,
Mass, treasurer, and Mrs. J. King
Hoyt, jr., Stamford. Conn, director
OF Region l. Mrs w. Kenyon
Drake, Jacksonville, Fla, was elect
ed director of Region S. Mrs. c. M.
Armstrong. Toronto, Canada, has
another term to serve as secretary.
Mrs. Martin reported 81 per
cent increase in membership for the
154 leagues and also declared that
one-fourth of the provisional men,
bers came from the ranks of the
gainfully employed while another
one-fourth had taken jobs since
joining the associa ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
W. R. Hamilton, Is, Dies;
Headed WOODWORKING Firm

William R. Hamilton, 70, presi-
dent of the Washington Woodwork
ing Co., 312 Fourth street NV, died
yesterday at his home in the Iowa
Apartments. High requiem mass
will be sung at am. Thursday at
the Immaculate Conception Church,
with burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Hamilton had been president
of the woodworking concern since
February, 1888. A native of Alex
andria. Va. Mr.. Hamilton had been
with the concern for 81 years, serv-
ing as chief estimator. He was at
one time president Of the Carpenters
District Council.
Surviving Mr.. Hamilton are two
sisters, Mrs. Pearl Barnett and Mrs.
Annie Beach, and three brothers,
Ferdie E., Frank II. and John Ham
ilton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
Canning Sugar Questions
oPA Offers Doto to Acquoint Housewives
With Rules for Obtaining Supplies

Q. How many jars of jams and
Jellies may give away?
A. Jams, jellies and preserves
are not rationed, and you may give
away as many jars as you can
spare.
@. What is the point value of
home canned food?
A. Home canned food has a point
value of points per quart and 4
points per pound or per pint.
@. May I sell canned fruits which
some one else puts up for me?
A. Yes. But you must collect
ration stamps at the rate of eight
points per quart for every sale YOU
make, regardless of who does the
canning.
@. I usually can several hundred
quarts Of fruits and vegetables to
sell through the local farmers mar
ket. May I continue to do so under
rationing?
A. Yes. You may continue to sell
home canned fruits and vegetables
but you must collect eight ration
points for each quart sold.
@. What do do with the ration
stamps collect for sales I make of
home-canned food?
A. You turn the ration stamps in
to your local ration board any time
during the first 10 days OF the month
following the sale.
@. How do I get sugar for can
ming fruit for saleo
A. You apply to your local board
on OPA Form RIBS for the amount
of sugar you will need, at the rate
of one pound OF sugar for every
four quarts of finished fruit.
@. May I also apply for sugar for
making jams and jellies for sale?
A. No. You may have only
enough sugar for preserving fruits
for the use Of your family-not more
fhan Ava y,<,1yHr y>ar oareo~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
byrnesAIIowsCanners
To Adjust Wages 10
Process PerishabIes
Changes Must Not Be
Used to Boost Prices or
Resist Fair Price Decrease
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
To prevent loss of perishable foods
through inability Of professors to
obtain adequate seasonal labor, eco
nomic Director James F. Byrnes to-
day authorized wage adjustments by
Gamers and other professors.
Recommended by the War Labor
Board, the adjustments will permit
the correction of substandard wage
conditions, the maintenance of
intra- plant differentials adequate to
maintain production and efficiency
and the restoration of usual wage
relationships between the food pro-
cessing industries and agriculture.
Any adjustments which would
cause price increase or be used to
resist justifiable price decrease can
become effective only with Mr..
Byrnes' approval and no adjust
ments may exceed minimum going
rates for unskilled labor prevailing
in the particular area affected.
Mr. Byrnes issued a policy d.
receive authorizing the adjustments
AAAASA a oCStAOAA VI CSAOCllU ILOOSCs
velt's ''hold-the-l line" executive Or
der Of April 8.
The directive says adjustments
may be made in wage rates for
common labor paid by the hour
If the altered rates do not exceed
those paid common labor on nearby
farms plus differential not to ex-
coed 8 cents an hour, which
existed during the 1910 or 1941
processing season between farm and
food processing common labor rates.
Adjustments may become effective
Immediately If employers involved
or the Once Of Price Administra-
ton certify that the adjustments
will not mean price increases or
resistance to justif1able price slashes.
Adjustments also were authorized
for workers paid on piece-rate
basis similar to those for workers
paid by the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
Budget Head Doubts
Many u. 5. Workers
Have Been Dropped
Smith Tells House Group
He Believes Discharged
Employees Are Retired
Continued From First Page.)

posed the department appropriation
would suffer
Mr.. Manasco interrupted to point
out that the permanent pay law also
includes an economy provision and
said he believed the Post Office De-
partment would be bound by this
Under the Budget Bureau order
directed at agencies where an in
quiry had showed surplus of per-
sonnet, 27,726 persons were to be
dropped by April 80 and 1905 after
that date
The committee also called on the
Budget Director to check up and
determine what happened to the
program to train stenographers and
machine operators for the. Govern
ment in private institutions rather
than in agency instruction courses.
Management Agency Discussed.
Representative Randolph, Demo-
crat, of West Virginia recalled that
Commissioner Arthur S. Flemming
of the Civil Service Commission had
told the committee that the program
was to get underway in mid-April.
Director Smith said there was no
program Of the sort before the
bureau.
Much oAthe committee session to-
day was devoted to a discussion of
the need for an agency with super
visory powers over the executive
establishments as whole, to pro-
mote efficient management policies.
Mr.. Smith said he thought by i'm
plication" that the Budget Bureau
probably could exercise such au-
thority.
The Budget Director will resume
his testimony tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
Taxi Rates
Continued From First Page

tires and taxicabs and mandatory
operation on 24-hour-a-dav basis
He contended, however. that the
rates ordered would involve IAN in
crease IN rates which is not justified
by our statute He added that the
rates are contrary to congressional
policy as outlined in the Price-Con-
troll Act of last October 2 and con-
trary to the Presidents executive
order OF April 8. During hearings
he proposed rate scale of 20. q
IS and 40 cents.
Scale illustrated.
The commission offered the fol-
lowing illustrat ton to show how the
reduced group riding rates would
apply:
III passenger boards a taxicab
at Chevy Chase Circle for Union
Station and the operator is unable
to obtain additional passengers en-
route, the single passenger rate of
W cents, a four-zone charge, will
apply. However, if the operator of
the taXicab obtains one or more
additional passengers in the third.
second or first zone en- route to
Union Station. the group passenger
rate OF so cents will apply to the
nrst passenger and the applicable
zone charge at the group passenger
rate will apply to the additional
passenger or passengers, namely.
4o cents for the passenger taken on
IN the third zone, 80 cents for pas
senger taken on in the second zone,
and 20 cents for a passenger taken
on In the first zone
Inc single passenger rates, using
the present scale, were adopted by
the commission as an answer to
fears of cab drivers that under
group riding at reduced rates. they
might often be required to make a
long trip at a bargain charge to
the rider.
Warning to Drivers
A stern warning was given by the
PUG against any abuse of the new
system by drivers, such as failing to
pick up additional passengers so
that they can charge the higher
single passenger fare.
The Commission said: ut is not
intended that the establishment of
fare for a single passenger will
relieve the driver from engaging in
group riding on every possible occa-
sion. The Commission emphasizes
that failure of a taxicab operator
to pick up additional passengers 60
ing in the same general direction
as the first passenger will be cause
for drastic action against the Of
Tending operator.
The commission added that 1t Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
Ration Boards
Continued From First Page.)

period of time" or take away a Ger
tain number of coupons from con-
victed violators or to declare the
violator ineligible to receive new
rations for a certain period.
OPA explained that the plan to
place more cases in the hands of
local boards represents a further
effort Ito meet problems arising
from rationing regulations at the
neighborhood level" It was added
that board members. sitting as =
committee of neighbors,' are be-
neved to be in the best position to
learn all the facts about 4 case in
that particular area and to give
the case fair treatment"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-11
Axis
Continued From First Page)

the Allied triumph in North Africa.
People everywhere grasp at official
information or reports, the cor
respondent wrote. but said that at
the moment official information was
difficult to obtain. He added that
to understand the establishment of
the German people, it must be
realized that. during the long re-
treat across Africa by Axis forces, it
was never intimated that the Ger
man withdrawal was anything but
voluntary"
Neutral Press Praises Allies,
Yesterday, the dispatch said. all
OF Berllnis newspapers were full of
the Tunisian situation and spoke of
a fight to the last cartridge, adding
that the press and propaganda
agencies were now having difficulty
to explain the affair."
The Bern der Bund said that the
American fighting ability, which
had not been held highly by Ber-
lin, came as shock to all Axis mill
tary leaders, and Europes neutral
press praised the Allied leadership
and men.
Der Bund added that it was 'the
Americans and French that were
used for the decisive blows. -. Most
important Of all it seems to us that
now the Americans have proved
exceptional fighting power and ex-
traordinarily good leadership"
Hitle S Axis partners seemed con-
WINGED that new Allied blow was
in the making.
Virginia Gayda, writing in the
Glornale d'1talia, was quoted by the
Berlin radio last night as saying
that the Axis has prepared plans
of defense which will become known
VIXEN the time has come" He pro-
fessed to see in the Tunisian defeat
an improvement in Italy's position,
for, he said, The Italians can now
concentrate all their means of de-
tense within their own country while
the enemy has to risk a jump across
the sea-"
Rumania Faces New Sacrifices.
Rumanian Premier Ion Antonescu
was quoted as saying in Budapest
dispatch that his country already
has lost half a million men in Rus
STA. including prisoners, but faces
still greater sacrifices.
The present disposition of Gen.
Sir Bernard Montgomery's 9th Army
was seen here as probably one of
the Axis leaders chief worries. It
Is known that some of the best units
were pulled from the Ain HarSuf
area in Tunisia and sent to join the
LIST Army in the attack on Tunis.
If Hitler knew whether the remain
der Of the 9th was still in the Ain
Hallouf area or had been withdrawn
to the rear for regrouping and prep
aration for new stroke, he might
know the answer to the riddle of
where the United Nations will strike
next.
Another Tunisian question still
unanswered was the whereabouts of
Col. Gen. Jurgen Won Arnim. Cap
tured German officers insisted yes
terday that Won Arnim is still in
Africa, but they said that Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel left about
two months ago because of illness.
Tass, official Soviet news agency,
said that all Dutch universities have
been closed because of anti-Ger-
man disturbances among the stu
dents.
A civilian member of the Ger
man military administration in Bel
GUM was shot down by unidentified
assailants as he walked along Brus-
sells boulevard today, the Belgian
news service Inbel reported. The
shooting was attributed to mounting
invasion tension.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-07-03
Psychiatrist Making
Study of Causes Of
Detroit Race Riots

Dr Lowell Selling Recorders
Court psychiairisi told Detroit
Tribune reporters Tuesday that
he Was now In the process Of
laying The ground work and hack
ground for his scientific psvcho-
logical study % participants in
Tho race rioiing last wcck TO de-
termine what prompted their ac-
ilcns
he admitf~ that he IS handi-
&. ppcd because Tho majority Of
those in custody were Negroes
ana there wcrf both white and
Negro groups who contributed 20
the disorder The doctor csti-
matcs that about thousand OF
tho rioters arc 10 be run through
tho Recorders cour, clinic with
view Of determining how they
got that way.
Dr Selling anticipates that L.
norance and in many sub-stand-
ard mental equipment viii be
found underlying thcir behavior