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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-14
Girls Plan Nursery
For Working Mothers

War Problem Clinic:
We are two girls interested In
starting a day nursery for chill
dren whose mothers work in fac
tories during the day. We figure
we might rent the basement Of a
church or any other place You
could suggest.
We could charge mothers by
the week. We aren't taking this
on 10 make money, but we we're
reading about the trouble mothers
are having with their children
when they work. and thought II
would be a good way TO help.
We are capable Of keeping books
and doing any other general office
work which might be necessary 10
keep us straight with the govern
ment. Could you please tell us
what we have 10 do 10 start such
a project?
MISSES D. X. AND l.. B.
Dear Misses ID. X. and l.. B.:
Although ! would like TO en-
courage you In your very fine
ambition to operate a good
nursery school for children OF
working mothers, ] must tell
you that IL is a highly technical
and Improbable enterprise. The
nursery schools of the Board
Of Education are subsidized so
per cent by the federal govern
ment, 80 that you can easily see
there II no profit In IL.
Since you are so interested In
this kind OF work, why don't
you apply 10 Miss Irma Unruh.
eighth floor. 1916 Broadway,
Randolph S426, TO see II you
would qualify as Junior Nursery
School assistants? In this way
you could do this interesting
work. receive training and he
paid at the same time. Junior"
jobs pay about SI2O per month.
MRS. IRENE Y. MURPHY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-14
MdrteI Pleads
For Admission
Of Lewis TO ALL

BOSTON, Oct. II GNS)-
Frank Martel, head of the AFL's
Detroit and Wayne County Fede-
ration of Labor, predicted today
that large -segments of the Go
would return 10 the AFL if John
l.. Lewis United Mine Workers
Union were readmitted.
Martel made an imprisoned
plea for Lewis at the AFL con-
vention here. Recalling how Lewis
set up the Go. Martel declared:
"JOhn l.. Lewis has "A score
TO settle with some of the boys
he built up I'm the Go. Moth
ing would he more 10 our adj
vantage than TO welcome him
back and give him the task.
am sure that he knows how TO
do IT."
Martel said that large groups Of
auto workers, particularly in
Flint, Mich. would rather follow
Lewis than their present Go
leaders.
He argued that IN Lewis re-
turned TO the AL, large seq
ments OF the Go, including Sid
ney Hillmans Am & m a I Q d
Clothing Workers and the rubber
workers also would return
He charged that the UAW-CIO
was controlled by Communists
and that the head Of that union
r. J. Thomas. was once the head
OF a company union,
Martel described Detroit as q
pump handle town made up Of
population from the bottom Of the
barrels from the four corners Of
the globe"
He said that Lewis WIS needed
because ne understood such
people.
Lewis stood the Industrial
lists OF our town on their ears
once and made them. like II"
be declared. He can do II
again"
Martel referred 20 LrNVis' lead
ership in the Sit-down strikes IN
Michigan in 1896 and 1897.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-14
Wife OF SerViceman
Faces Divorce Problem

War Problem Clinic:
In September. 1871, I was mar
ried in another state A week
later my husband was inducted
into the army. Since that time
have never received an allot-
ment, and found out from the Red
Cross that he had started divorce
proceedings. | very seldom re-
ceive letters from him, and he has
never mentioned this 20 me.
How can | find out just what
my status is | am now II and
not very strong.
MRS. +. r. w.
Dear Mrs. Y. v. w:
You should communicate with
the Division Of War AllOtmentS
In the war department in Wash
ington and they will probably
trace your husband and get you
information whether he was
divorced, and II not will help
him to make an allotment.
FRED VI. BUTZEL.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-14
Cleaners, Dyers
Warned by 0PA

The OPA today warned Mich
igan cleaners and dyers that I'M
less they comply with ceiling
prices they face possible court
action.
Louis A. Williams, OPA price
specialist. told Lester f. Deeley,
attorney for the Michigan Asso-
citation of Cleaners and Dyers,
that there have been numerous
complaints in which customers as
serted that they had been charged
50 cents for storage in addition
10 the cleaning price.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-14

Order War Stamps delivered
10 your homo by your Detroit
Times carrier,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-14
Assorted COMPLEXION SOAPS, 2obar LOO
u. When TsIsphOus Trsffs Is LIghtsss


Creamy, gentle soaps quick to give you foamy
cleansing lather. Some with buttermilk or palm
OIL all easy on the skin. Family scented .. will
not conflict with your perfume. All wrapped
TonETRIEs-FIRsT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Evening star., 1943-12-24
laNRahoniinq
@Remiinders@)

Canned and Frozen Foods, ETC.
Book No. 4, green stamps D, E and
F. valid through January 20.
Meats, Fats, Etc. Book No. 3,
stamps L, M, N, and @ valid
through January /.
Stamp No. /, in Book 4. good for
five points in pork through Janu-
ary 1.
Sugar-Stamp 20 in Book No. 4 good
for S pounds through January Is.
Shoes-Stamp No. 18 in Book No. /
and stamp l on the "airplane"
sheet of Book No. valid now for
an indefinite period
Gasoline-No. 8 A coupons good for
3 gallons each until February 8.
B and c coupons good for 2 gall
Ions each. b. and CO coupons
in books issued after December /
are good for S gallons each.
Tire Inspection Deadlines-For A
coupon holders. March 81.
Fuel Oil-Period No. coupons, good
for 10 gallons a unit, valid now,
expire January 3. Period No. 2
coupons, valid now, expire Febru-
ary 8. Period No. 3 coupons be-
come valid January 4, remain valid
through March IA. According to
the District OPA, consumers in
this area should not have used
more than "a per cent of their
total yearly fuel oil ration as Ct
December 13.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Veteran Airmen
Give Party for
| Soldiers Children
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ORLANDO, Fla, Dec. 24.-A group
of veteran Army flyers, playing
daddy for a day to children in the
Orlando area whose fathers are in
service overseas, gave gala Christ
mas party here-complete with toys
candy, cake and ice cream.
Even Santa Claus came riding up
in light tank to pass out presents
for all the youngsters.
Among the airmen, recently re-
turned from overseas and now as
signed to the Army Air Forces tacti-
cal center here, was Col. Robert l.
Scott, jr., of Macon, Ga, who downed
l3 japanese planes while fighting
with the Flying Tigers of the Amer
lean Volunteer Group in China.
He adopted" for the day a small
newsboy whose father recently was
killed in action.
Others who played daddy to the
children included Col. John H
Hilger, who helped plan and who
flew on the Doolittle raid on Japan
the first bombardier to drop bombs
over Naples; the last officer to leave
Bataan by air, and a Protestant
chaplain who last year conducted
Christmas services on Guadalcanal
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Mrs. Annie Daily Downing.
D. {. Native, Dies al 80

Mrs. Annie DAILY Downing. 80, ma
tive of Washington and widow OF
Charles w. Downing, died yesterday
at the home of her son, C. Wade
Downing, assistant treasurer of the
American Red Cross, at 3289 Worth
ington street NV.
A requiem mass will be sung at
$50 am Monday at the Shrine OF
the Blessed Sacrament, 3728 Que.
sada street NV. Burial will be ir
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Mrs. Downing was raised and edu-
Gated in Georgetown, attending St
Vincents Academy. Her husband
was a tobacco merchant here. He
died in 1888.
Also surviving is another son, Will
liam Webster Downing, Washington
patent attorney: sister. Mrs. Mary
Catherine Becker of this city, eight
grandchildren and one great grand
daughter.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Red Cross Schedules
Nurses Aide Classes

With the flu epidemic empha-
sizing the need for Red Gross
nurses aides, two new classes to
train nurses aides will begin in
January, it was announced today.
Meanwhile, the District Red
Cross announced that the hospital
at Fort Myer had requested four
nurses aides daily because of the
shortage Of nurses.
American University, 1t was said
also requested nurses aides for
work in the infirmary there.
Red Cross officials pointed out
that these new demands mean TAX
ing nurses aides from other posts
where they also are desperately
needed. At the same time, attend
ance in the training classes has
dropped to the point where the
Red Cross is failing to meet its
quotas. '
The new classes begin January
3 and 81. After three weeks of
classroom work at Walsh House
2020 Massachusetts, avenue, from
10 a m. to IL noon. the trainees will
study for three weeks at five hos
pitfalls, including Garfield, George
Washington University, Emergency
Sibley and Gallinger. After they
are capped" they will be assigned
to the hospitals where they trained.
Registration for the classes is held
on Mondays. Thursdays and Satur-
days at Walsh House.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
10 Persons Injured
In Streetcar, Auto J
Accidents in Capital
Star STAFF Photo,

Struck by Streetcar early today
while crossing North Capitol street
at the intersection OF T street,
Frankie Connolly, "a, Of % Todd
place NE. was taken to Emergency
Hospital suffering from possible
skull and leg fractures.
Police said the streetcar was oper-
ated by Albert v. Domico, So, vet
eran of 25 years experience.
Three persons were injured yes
terday when they were struck by a
hit-and-run driver as they crossed
the intersection Of Eleventh street
and Maine avenue SW.
The injured were Otto Raper, 46
of 2l3 Eleventh street S.W.; John
w. Wheeler, A, 300 block of Elev-
enth street S.W., and Mrs. Agnes
Congenei. Al, of 949 Virginia avenue
S.W. The two men suffered leg
fractures and Mrs. Congenei re-
ceived leg injuries. They were
taken to Emergency Hospital.
Bystander Injured.
Thomas Helde, %, of 3ll4 Quebec
place NV, was injured yesterday
when two cars collided near where
he was standing at the intersection
of Twentieth and E streets NV
Police said one of the cars bounded
over the curb and struck light pole
Mr.. Helde was struck by both the
car and the pole, police said.
He was taken to Emergency Hos
pital suffering from . possible frac-
tured pelyis and spinal injuries.
Five persons were injured yester-
day in collision between an auto
mobile and Capital Transit Co.
bus at Seventeenth and Franklin
streets NE. police reported.
Those riding in the car were Mrs
Bernice Heller, 40; Mrs. Mary Beck
Is; Rodger Heller, 13, and Natalie
Heller, 7. All live in Kimberton
Pa. The bus driver was William
L. Barbees, SO, of CAB Lamont street
NV, police said.
Mrs. Heller, driver of the car
was treated at Casualty Hospital
for hand fracture. Her two chill
dren and Mrs. Beck were treated
for facial injuries. Mr.. Barbee suf-
fered minor cuts.
Held for Court Action.
One person was held for Municipal
Court action and streetcar op-
orator was eXonerated by a coroner S
jury yesterday at inquests held in
two recent District traffic fatalities
Jasper Jones, 35, colored, of 227
Fifty-sixth street NE. was ordered
held for court action under the
Negligent Homicide Act in the death
Of Gerald Barnes. IL, of l16 Fifty
third street Sc. The boy died We'd
nesdav at Gallinger Hospital shortly
after he was knocked from his BIZ
cycle at Fifty third and East Capt.
tol streets by an auto police said
was driven by Jones.
William L. Hicks, At. Of Seat
Pleasant, Md, was eXonerated in
the death of Richard Epps, 46, COL
ored, 1900 block Twelfth place NV,
who died Tuesday in Freedmen's S
Hospital of injuries suffered Octo-
Der % when he was struck by a
streetcar at Seventh and K streets
NV
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Cornell and Army Nip
Communistic Teachinq
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A member of the House Military
Affairs Committee, who refused to
be quoted by name, said last night
some 'of1 color teaching in train
ing course being given military per-
sonnel at Cornell University for serv-
ice in occupied countries had beer
stopped by informal committee
action.
The committee member said the
group was informed by grapevine
that there had been some attempt al
Communistic. teaching in the
courses, apparently unbeknown' te
either the university or the Army.
The questioned lectures, the com.
mittee member said, were promptly
stopped after the university and the
Army had been notified by the COM
mittee of what it had been told
There was no formal action taken
in the matter and no further in
vestiga ton is contemplated. the
House member said.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Robert Stead, SO, Dies;
Former Architect Here

Robert Stead, ST.. SO, retired archi-
tect, formerly of Washington, dice
Sunday in Phils delphia and was
buried there Wednesday, according
to word received here.
Mr.. Stead was with the supervis-
ing architects Office in the Treasury
Department after coming to the
District in 1880 He later went into
business for himself.
At one time chairman OF the
House Committee of the Cosmos
Club and a member of the Chevy
Chase Club, Mr.. Stead was instru-
mental in acquiring the Octagon
House here for the American Insti-
tute of Architects before moving to
Philadelphia in 1921.
His widow. four sons. William
Force Stead, a professor at Trinity
College here: Robert Stead. jr.,:
Manning Force Stead and Edward
Stead. and a daughter, Mrs. Muir
ray Worthington. survive.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
D. {. Draft Registrars
Being Sent Forms 10
Aid Psychiatry Tests

Two new information blanks are
being sent to registrants by District
draft boards to assist induction sta
tion psychiatrists in deciding
whether the men should be rejected
or accepted for the armed forces.
Part Of the medical survey
ordered nationally, the two forms
are sent to men classified or about
to be classified as available for in
duction.
These forms are the springboard
for a thorough background on each
individual in line with orders from
national headquarters that an
adequate medical, social and edu-
cational history be sent to the in
duction station for every registrant.
Identity Verification."
One of the forms, the identity
veriflcation," asks for the regis
trant's name and address, his mari
tai status, the names and addresses
OF his parents and of his family ply
sician, the registrant's previous ad-
dresses for the past five years and
the names and ages of his children
or brothers and sisters. This form
will be sent to mental hospitals tc
determine II. the registrant every
was treated or committed for 9
mental disease.
The second form, the "educa-
tional verification" is a tracer fol-
the registrant's school history. On
this form, the prospective selectee
tells whether or not he can read
and write the English language and
other languages, how many years
OF school he completed, the name
and address of the last school at
tended, his age and the date when
he left school and his reasons for
leaving school.
In announcing that the forms were
being distributed, selective service
emphasized that the registrant was
to name the last high school or
grammar school he attended and not
list a vocational school or college.
Schools Send Histories.
District schools are already send
ing patches" of school histories on
students over is years of age to
draft boards for forwarding to Dis
trict headquarters. The educational
veriflcation is also sent to headquar-
ters. If there isn't matching
school history for the educational
verification, the draft board asks the
school last attended by the regis
trant to supply special school his
tory.
The special history is briefer than
the ones now being sent in by the
schools and comments on the quality
of the ex-Student's work, his atti-
tude toward his teachers. his tend
ency toward truancy, his dependa-
bility and how his classmates felt
about him.
The rest of the forms on the pros
pective selectees are filled out by
medical field agents now being re-
cruited by District selective service
Wanted are qualified professional
social workers who will serve on a
volunteer basis.
Evening star., 1943-12-24

lives at 1014 South Carolina ave-
nue. Sc, evidently expected to en-
JOY some thrilling experiences for
he had written to her asking for
a diary as a Christmas gift. but it
is conjectural whether he expected
anything like the incident he sur
vived to win the air forces highest
medal.
Smelling Breaks Oil Line.
In Mondays raid on Bremen the
shellfire of a German fighter plane
broke the oil line on the flying
fortress, Tenn Knights in Barr
Room piloted by 1t. Robert W.
Geib, of Great Neck. N Y
Oil sprayed all over the ball tur-
ret under the planes belly, block
ing Bridges vision. Although his
electrically heated suit was not
working properly, Bridges braved
the frigid gale to continue shooting
and is credited with helping hold
the Nazis at bay.
After the heavy attack was over
his comrades found him uncon-
scious, his hands and feet FROST
bitten.
Mrs. Bridges said her son orig
inally was in the tank corps but
transferred to the air service. In
the former branch he received two
broken ribs while on maneuvers
during blackout when the tank
in which he was riding toppled over
Ia bank Later, while in training
at Walla Walla Washington. he
underwent an appendectomy.
Sent Yule Greetings.
His mother said the first inkling
she had that he was going into
the war zone came in a letter in
which he asked how would you
like to get a letter from England?"
Only last week she received a cable
gram from him sending Christmas
greetings to her and other men,
bers of the family.
An amateur boxer and football
player, Sergt. Bridges had been in
California about SIX years before
entering the Army about three
years ago. He attended Eastern
High School.
Mrs. Bridges has another son,
Sergt. William Bridges, "a, a mem
ber of plane ground crew, now on
duty in the Mediterranean theater
of war.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Seven in Hagerstown
Hurt as Fire Sweeps
Factory Building
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated HreSS.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, Dec. "a
Fire that almost destroyed three
story brick manufacturing plant
housing two separate industries
brought injuries to seven and caused
damages estimated at several hun
dred thousand dollars late yester-
day.
The blaze was touched off by a
paint shop explosion and firemer
fought it INTO the night as it spread
through the quarters of the Station
Furniture Co. and the Hagerstown
Wood Products Corp. A nearby resi-
dence was destroyed.
The seven injured persons, all
were workers in the plants.
Hospital authorities said George
Smith suffered severe leg injuries
and a possible fracture. Minor in
juries were suffered by Joseph Ar
dinger. William Wharton, William
R. Jordan, C. r. McKane, Edna M
Ashbaugh and Albert Lapole.
Philo A. Station, owner of the
furniture plant, estimated his loss a,
several hundred thousand dollars,
but said it was covered by insurance
Mr.. Stations firm does surfacing
finishing, painting and camoufaging
as subcontractor to the Glenn l.
Martin and Fairchild Aircraft Co.'S
Morris Federman, president of the
Wood Products concern, said his
losses would be almost 100000.
Plant officials said sparks ap-
parently ignited paint fumes and
caused a minor explosion.
Earlier In the day another fire de-
stroyed a double frame dwelling
damaged two other residences and
made five families temporarily
homeless.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Tearoom 10 Be Center
For Junior Army Officers

The former Lotus Lantern tea
room will become a recreation CEN
ter for junior officers of the armed
forces under plans approved yester-
day by Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming
Federal Works administrator.
The Federal Works Agency will
spend $39, 500 to renovate and equiv
the tearoom, located at Seventeenth
and H streets NV. In addition tt
the tearoom. FWA will take over
two unoccupied rooms in the ad-
joining Government-owned building
which houses seven draft boards.
FWA said the present facilities fol
officers are inadequate. 1t was
thought the new club would be o1
particular benefit to wounded ano
convalescent officers stationed al
nearby Army and Navy hospitals
and to junior officers of the United
Nations armed forces.
The projects, according to FWA
has received favorable comment
from Secretary of War Stimson anc
is sponsored by the Junior Officers
OF Washington, Inc.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Capital S Death Rate
For r50Weeks Under
National Figure
Census Bureau Attributes
Rise in December
To.InfIuenzo Epidemic

Washington's death rate for the
so weeks Of 1943, ending December
ID. was 10.4 for 1000 population,
against 15.5 per 1000 for the Nation,
it was reported today.
The national rate experienced a
marked increase during December,
and the Census Bureau attributes
the rise to the influenza epidemic.
But the Washington rate has in
creased very little at the approach
of winter.
The national figure is determined
by reports of deaths in 80 major
cities. The death rate in these cities
normally Is l2.5 per 1000 on an
annual basis.
Washington had S,04o deaths in
the first SO weeks Of this year. The
population Is figured at 100000.
Death Rate Was Higher.
Last year Washington had $3.50
deaths IN the same period, but as
the population was figured at 848.-
600 the death rate figure came out
a little higher than the one for this
year. The 1912 figure for the so
weeks was 107.
The national rate for the week
ending December 4 was 1873, or II
per cent above normal, and for the
following week was IA, or IA per
cent above normal.
The Census Bureau said indica-
tions were that the increase in the
winter death rate for large cities
might exceed that of January, 1887,
when mortality ranged between IS
and 20 per cent above normal.
Rise Minor Affair.
However" the report added, "the
current rise Is still a minor affair
when compared with the epidemic
mortality experienced in the winters
of 1879, 1890 and 1888. Dur
ing the week ended October 26,
1918, the death rate in the major
cities rose to $50 per cent above the
normal. In the following weeks it
dropped of, rapidly at first and
then more slowly. 1t did not re-
turn to normal levels during the
remainder of that winter.
Ten years later during another
epidemic of the flu and pneumonia
the death rate in the cities rose to
49 per cent above the expected trend
Since that time there has been no
increase in the winter death rate
that was of a comparable magni-
tude.'
The bureau said cities in the
West North Central States appear
thus far to have been the hardest
hit by the increase in deaths, with
cities in the West South Central
States least affected.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Borr to Be Returned
For HoIdup Trial Here

John ]. Barr, 38, released on bail
yesterday by a Federal District judge
in Philadelphia after being held in
the penitentiary on a detainer in con-
nection with the 10-year holdup OF
the Washington Mechanics Bank,
will be brought back to Washington
to stand trial, Assistant United
States Attorney John w. Fihelly
said.
Barr, whose sentence for a 1888
bank robbery in Philadelphia was
commuted, is alleged to have been
one of four men who held up the
Mechanics Bank at Eighth and G
streets Sc. and escaped with ST.
639.l9. The other three pleaded
guilty and received Jail and prison
sentences.
Evening star., 1943-12-24
Third Show9irI Claims
Fur Cout From Customs
Y the Associated press

Ey the Associated Press
BUFFALO. N. Y, Dec. 24.-Moi-yo
Miller, one of six showgirls receiving
expensive furs from Harry F. Nc
Lean. Merrickville (Ontario) philan-
thropist claimed her mink coat yes
terday from custom officials for
about ST 900.
Mr.. Mclean gave the coats when
the show was playing in Toronto
last month. On entering the United
States, the girls relinouished them
to customs agents pending payment
of duty.
Two Mexican girls received their
coats outy free. A. mink and two
beaver coats remain unclaimed,