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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-09-20
Labor Draft Dancers

The big push is on for passage of the
Austin-Wadsworth labor draft bill. 1t has been
given No. priority in House and Senate commit
tees, and Army and Navy officials and the press
are beating the drums for it.
The CLIO opposes this any other SINH
lar labor draft BILL not only because 1t Is unjust
coercive and undemOcratic but more important
ly because it is used as an excuse to evade
real solution for manpOwer and production
problems.
No less an authority than Bernard Baruch also
opposes labor CONSUMPTION for similar reasons. In
a report to War Mobilization Director Byrnes he
emphasizes what the CLIO has long been trying to
explain to Congress-namely, that real or alleged
manpower shortages and other production bottle
necks are due to faulty planning lack Of correlation
in letting contracts alloting materials, making
plants available, etc.
To apply forced labor, without correcting
these real and basic evils, Is as One-sided and
ineffective as to attempt economic stabilizatiOn
by freezing wages alone, while leaving prices
and all other factors uncontrolled
The Austin-Wadsworth bill does nothing to
remedy the lack of planning and other conditions
that are causing artificial manpower shortages. 1t
does nothing to remedy bad housing poor eating
arrangements, lack of childcare facilities or dis
elimination by employers against Negroes or women.
Is
neck and freeze it to present jobs under present
conditions or not the jobs are essential
to winning the war.
True, the bill says workers should not be al
lotted to areas where housing and other similar
conditions are bad But 1t does nothing to correct
these conditions
We have already had painful experience with
one labor draft-the amendment to the Selective
Service Act freezing farm labor to farm jobs, re-
gardless of what they are.
Under this freeze more than n million farm
workers have been kept tied down to cotton
and tobacco growing and harvesting-though
we have two years supply of these items In the
warehouses, and though short staple cotton
(the kind we grow Is no good for war pur-
poses.
This labor draft, put over by the so-called farm
bloc" keeps more than million workers from being
used for the production of essential war foods of
which there is real shortage.
The basic approach of the labor draft bin is
wrong, and 1t cannot be sweetened with amendments
To dragon labor In this fashion will do downright
mischief to war production
It diverts attention from the only real solution ;
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Bethesda Hospital
To Open Monday

The Suburban Hospital in Be-
thesda will open at 7 am. Monday
for medical patients. ]. Dewey Lutes.
hospital superintendent, announced
today
While the hospital originally was
scheduled to open December l. delay
in the delivery of sterilizers and
laboratory equipment caused post
ponement.
Mr.. Lutes explained that steriliz-
ers now are being installed and that
laboratory equipment has been bor-
rowed from the hospital pathologist.
Facilities will be available to care
for all except surgical and maternity
cases.
Approximately 70 physicians and
20 nurses are ready for duty at the
hospital. The nurses are staying in
private homes in the neighborhood
pending completion of the furnish
ings at the nurses home.
Twenty-Five beds have been in
stalled in the hospital and IS addi-
tlonal beds are expected to arrive
within the next few weeks after be-
ing ordered by the Government sew
eral months ago.
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Silver Spring Plans Great Fete
To Welcome 1t. J. F. Kelley

posed Of William J. Jouvenal. chair
man; Lauman T. Faulconer,
Charles A. V. Smoot. K. J. Porter,
Capt. Gail Judd. Capt Mark Pat
terson, Capt. William Harlow
Joseph H. Fields, William S. Marvel
jr.; Eugene Rupert, Dr. C. R. Naples
and Mr., Collier.
A reception will be held at the
home of 1t. Kelley from $50 to 7;30
pm. for the officers of the Army Air
Forces, the American Legion, Vet
Grams of the World War. the clergy
OF the Silver Spring churches and
others. The committee in charge of
this phase of the program includes
Chairman George T. Day, Fred l..
Lutes, Vernon Abbott, j. H. Forsyth,
William B. Marks. John Clifford,
Russell Mizell, Admiral A. Station,
Warner E. Humphrey, Richard F.
Green. Harry E. Yerrick, j. Fendall
Coughlan, Merrill Salter. Shirley
Workman. Paul E. Griffiths. Martin
Kinsinger. J. T. Frizzell. William H
Reynolds and Mr.. Faulconer.
Air Force Band to Play.
The program at the armory will
include selections by the Army Air
Forces Band providing it has no
radio committmenD. by Corpl. Glen
Darwin. Metropolitan Opera BARI
tone, now stationed at Boiling Field,
and by Justin Lawrie. A represen-
tative of the Air Forces will make
an address as will County Com
missioner Lacy Shaw, the Rev.
Ralph D. Smith, the Rev. Francis
x. Lannon and Mr.. Lutes.
William F. Carlin, chairman of
the general committee, will make
the introductions and present 1t.
Kelley to the audience. The COM
mittee on arrangements for the
armory program is composed of
Wlnshlp I. Green chairman: Ray
mond E. Barrett. Lee H. Robinson.
j. M, Matson, Norman Wootton.
Paul M. Coughlan. Joseph E. Hayes.
Frank B. Proctor, p NJ. Williamson.
John Dolan, Ira Whitacre, Beryl
r. English, c. G. Armiger and
Dyke Cullum, Mr.. Pumphrey is
chairman of transportation.
Capt, Daniel Snyder is chairman
of police and Shirley Workman is
chairman OF printing.
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Court Orders Candy Firm
10 Restore WEIGHT Of Bars

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 10.-Judee
Albert L. Reeves of United States
District Court has granted an order
temporarily restraining the Curtis
Candy Co. of Chicago from violat-
ing provisions Of the general max
imum price regulations.
The order came after the Once
OF Price Administration asked in
an injunction suit that the firm be
required to restore the weight and
quality of its candy bars to stand
ards of March, 1912.
Jerome Walsh, OPA attorney. al
legged the company had reduced the
size of II types of candy bars, in
violation of the OPA regulation
that the price must be reduced if
size or quality is diminished.
In the complaint, the OPA asks
for judgement of $434,530.29 for the
Treasury.
Similar action has been filed
against Mars Inc. also q Chicago
candy firm.
Evening star., 1943-12-10
80 Rockville Fothers
Begin Navy Duty
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SpeSidi OlSpdtCh 10 Inc star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. Dec. 9. - The
first pre-Pearl Harbor fathers to
be sent by the Rockville Selective
Service Draft Board into any branch
OF the service have reported to the
Navy. They are Jacob Mobley
Howard Harry William Sudduth,
Lester Gordon Whetzel, David Irwin
Ward, Thor Emory Fee. James
Leonard Burdette and William
Leonard Graves.
Other registrants of the Rockville
board to start training in the Navy
Wednesday were Forrest Mason
Donaldson, Lawrence Franklin
Hawkins, Albert Dawson Wootton
Philip Lewis Watkins, William Ed
ward Nelson and Philip Lee Linthi-
cum.
Dorsey Clements Griffith and
Fenton Jerome Kephart, fathers,
and Atlee Ralph Burlington, inducted
last week, are scheduled to report
to the Marine Corps next week. and
the following, also mducted last
week, will report to the Army in
about two weeks: Melvin Harris
Glover, John Wesley Combs. Peter
Joseph Hayes and Valentine C. Will
son, fathers. and George Glenn
Cook, Charles Noel Crosby, Horace
Lorraine Frizxell, Joseph Miles Ger
mon, Donald Eugene Kirby, Stanley
Wilson Watkins, Lewis Edward
Phelps and Edward Allie Shif1et.
The Rockville board Yesterday
sent SO registrants to Baltimore for
physical examinations. Most of the
81 white men in the group are pre-
Pearl Harbor fathers,
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Leo Beach Gets Certificate
For Penal Conservation

Leo Beach, property officer OF
District penal institutions, today be-
came the second District Official to
receive the Commissioners certifi-
cate for conservation work.
The award to Mr.. Beach was made
for his unusual aptitude in develop
ing and executing procedures for the
care and conservation of supplies,
materials and equipment, and for
conspicuous enthusiasm in inspiring
others at the District penal institu-
tions in observing property regula-
tions and carrying out the objectives
OF the Commissioners conservation
program"
The first award went to Asst,
Supt. of Police Milton Smith. who is
in charge of police uniforms and
property. The award to Mr.. Beach
was made in Commissioner John
Russell Young's once.
Evening star., 1943-12-10
.0'Conor May Give
Service Forces Vote
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 10.-Mary-
landers in service appeared assured
today of the right to vote in forth
coming elections regardless of what
action Congress should take.
Gov. O'Conor disclosed he was
considering the possibility of issuing
a proclamation extending the fran
chise to servicemen and women and
said Secretary of State Thomas
Elmo had been instructed to investi-
gate the matter.
The Governor asserted, however
that the proclamation would be is
sued only in event of unfavorab BILE
Federal action.
Gov. O'Conor announced his in
tentlons after receiving a request
from Delegate Leon A. Rubenstein
Baltimore, that special session of
the General Assembly be called.
Mr.. Rubenstein said he spoke
especially for thousands of service
men who reached voting age since
entering the armed forces and still
more thousands not on the reeistra-
ton books. The statutory absentee
voting procedure, he said. would
take care OF the rest.
Evening star., 1943-12-10

Arrangements have been made to
collect tin cans TO-DAY at Eaton
School, Thirty-fourth and Lowell
streets NV, and Oyster School,
Twenty-n ninth and Calvert streets
NV, after piles OF the scrap,
brought by pupils from their homes,
have been heaped up at the schools
for several months.
School officials said pleas for help
to the District of Columbia Salvage
Committee had gone unheeded while
the mounds of tin continued to
grow. At the committees Office
1t was said that no provisions had
been made to include schools in
the general scrap collection plan
for the city.
Horace Walker, executive secre-
tary of the Salvage Committee,
was confined to his home yester-
day because of illness. but at his
Office it was said no provision had
been made to collect tin cans from
schools because trucks were not
available. Itwas said that schools
Evening star., 1943-12-10
"a Pct. Of War Bonds
Still Held by Owners,
Treasury Reports
Purchases in September
Found Almost l3 Times
Amount of Redemptions

Nearly 81 per cent of the funds in
vested by Americans in Series E, F
and G War Bonds Since May /. 194l,
are still held by their owners, the
Treasury reported today as the
Office OF War Informa ton revealed
that the tendency to cash War Bonds
does not compare with the trend to
buy them
Owl pointed out that while bond
redemptions of sl48,500,000 in Sep
tember was at rate 5i2 times as
great as year ago, War Bond pur-
chases in September amounted to
81 ,927 900 900. or almost 13 times the
amount of the redemptions.
Projecting its breakdown through
November 30, the District War
Finance Committee said 9l.56 per
cent of the s16, 100000 in Series
E bonds sold during three campaigns
still remains in the hands of the
public. Redemptions in Series F and
G bonds were even less, bringing the
total percentage of the three types
of bonds still held by the public to
364 per cent.
Owl said the estimate of l943 in
come to individuals remains at
Sl42 900 100000. with the value of
available goods and services tagging
far behind at s9O,6oo 900 900. After
taxes are deducted. there remains
s35000,00O,00O which cannot be
spent for goods or services and
which tends to push up prices. Owl
stated. Siphoning this surplus buy
Ing power into War Bonds is the out
standing objective Of the Treasury
Department. it was added.
In the past two months the cost
of-living index has gone up" Owl
said. THE rise was slight. but it
stands as warning, There are
constant and increasing pressures
for higher prices. The price line
can be held only with the full sup
port of every citizen"
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Mrs. Osborne Named
Nursing Supervisor
For Alexandria
Former EmpIoye Of City
Health Department Will
Direct Operations

appointment of Mrs. Virginia p
OSBORNE as supervisor of the Alex
andria Instructive Whiting Nurse
Society has been announced by Miss
Marguerite Wales. chairman of the
organizations nursing committee.
Mrs. Osborne, whose appointment
becomes effective Wednesday, has
been released by the United States
Public Health Service to assume her
new position. She now is doing
public health nursing in connec-
tion with the venereal disease con-
troll program at Hopkinsville, KY.
Before going with the Public
Health Service, Mrs. Osborne was
member of the staff of the Alex
andria Health Department, where
she served for IS months during
194l and 1912.
A graduate Of the South Side
Hospital, Pittsburgh, Mrs. Osborne
served as nursing supervisor there
after her graduation. She also
mas served at the Willard Parker
Hospital, New York. and at the
Sloane Hospital, New York. She
holds a public health certificate
from Catholic University and will
work for public health degree
there.
Hope to Open January l..
The board of directors of the
Alexandria Nurse Society is conf
dent that it can begin operating by
January l. even if it is necessary
to start with temporary Offices.
Negotiations are under way for
Mrs. Osborne and another nurse
who still is to be appointed to
take over the nursing service now
handled by the Red Cross.
The nursing service will be avail
able to all residents of the city,
at set fee to those who can pay
and without charge to INDECENT pa
tients. The society will receive
funds from the Community Chest
to cover the cost of caring for pa
tlents unable to pay the fee.
Funds Donated.
The service was organized by the
Health Committee of the Council
Of Social Agencies, which appointed
the Board of Directors. Funds for
the purchase of equipment were
donated by individuals and civic or
ganizations.
DR.. Thistle Mckee is honorary
president of the organization. The
Board of Directors includes Donald
Jameson, president; the Rev. Fred
" Poag, vice president; Mrs. L.
Gilmer Hoge. secretary; Bedford
Penn, treasurer; Miss Wales. nurs-
ing chairman; DR.. w. A. Browne,
DR.. O. D. Durant, Mrs. Rathbone
Smith, Fred Kirchner, 1t. Sol
Everett A. Hellmuth, Thomas j.
Gore, Glenn U. Richard, Mrs Henry
Rau, jr., and the Rev. A. Myron
Cochran.
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Move 10 Aid Veterans
Launched in MARYLAND
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 10.-Maryland
servicemen and veterans organiza
tlons were united today in an effort
to obtain from Federal authorities
better facilities for wounded veter-
ans and increased pay for discharged
servicemen.
The veterans group planned to
meet tonight prior to sending a
special delegation to Washington to
press the demands.
Several Maryland legislators, in
Guiding Sentor Tydings, Democrat
OF Maryland, voiced approval of the
movement.
Senator Tydings said he believed
the men should receive "compensa-
ton to keep them going until thev
are settled and that he would work
to have it done before Christmas.
Adolph c. Winkler, commander of
the Baltimore chapter of the Dis
abled American Veterans, said what
we want is immediate action for
these men of the armed forces. .
| am receiving pathetic letters dailv
from wounded and disabled men
who shunted out of the service and
90 not get a penny"
Evening star., 1943-12-10
McCand|ish 10 Back
Teachers Pay Boost
In Virginia House
Believes Each County
Should Have Right
To Fix Salaries

Robert J. McCandlish. jr., Fair
fax County Representative in the
Virginia L., If Delegates, today
declared that he favored a sub
stantlal increase in teachers SAL
aries "on sound III, cial basis"
and would support such legislation
next year in the General Assembly.
The problem of financing pay in
creases for State teachers will be
one of the issues before the Vir-
ginia legislative body when it con-
venes January / 1t has been pro-
posed that the additional revenue
required be taken from the State
surplus fund,
Mr.. McCandlish explained that
any salary increases for teachers
should not be taken from the sur
plus fund, but should come from
recurring funds which could be
diverted from the surplus to school
usage.
Counties Should Fix Salaries.
Declaring that schedules of sal.
aries for teachers should be de-
cided upon by counties, rather than
oy the State, since problems of
hirlng teachers vary in different
sections of Virginia, Mr.. Nc
Candllsh said some means should
De found by which a part of State
taxes could be returned to the
counties for use by school boards
For example, Mr.. McCandlisb
SAID, teachers will demand higher
salaries in Fairfax and other coun-
ties adjacent to metropolitan areas
than those in rural sections. If it
We're left up to the counties these
dlf1erences could be easily ad-
justed."
Farmers Bear Load.
Mr.. McCandlish said funds for
school operation might be provided
II the State would turn back a part
OF the income taxes collected to
the counties. AS it stands now he
SAID, the farmer is bearing a greater
part OF the tax burden in propor-
tlon to his annual income than the
small urban property holder.
by turning back a part of the
income taxes to the counties. he
SAID, the State would be distributing
the tax burden more equally on the
basis of ability 10 nav
Evening star., 1943-12-10
". & 0. D. Requests
Hearing Continuance

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Dec. lO.-A break
down IN newly acquired equipment
resulted in the WASHINGTON e. Old
Dominion Railway requesting a con-
tlnuance yesterday of arguments on
the general subject of passenger
service
The State Corporation Commits
sion took the request under advise
ment and indicated that a definite
date for argument might be set
today.
The railway company stated that
1t had made an effort to obtain ad-
ditional equipment, but only one
extra car had been secured. This
car, on its second trial run, broke
down and repair parts have not
been obtained so far.
Mrs. Nellie o. Fletcher. Pleasant
View, who has led the fight for res
toration and expansion of passen-
ger service on the line, appeared
before the commission to object to
further continuance. She is
seeking extension of service be-
tween Rosslyn and Purcellville.
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Folls Church Lions
Plun Ladies' Nioht

The Falls Church Lions Club will
hold its annual ladies night celebra-
ton at 7:30 pm Tuesday in the
Crossman Methodist Church, Lee
Highway. Dinner will be served by
members Of the Ladies Guild.
The principal speaker is expected
to be Representative Smith. Demo-
crat, OF Virginia. Another scheduled
speaker is 1t. Barbara J. Smith.
WAC. The program will include
musical and vocal selections by well
known artists.
Members and their wives of the
Lions Clubs Of Alexandria. Arlington
and Vienna have been invited Presi-
dent Reginald Turner will preside.
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Maryland Stote Forester
Warns on Greens Theft
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 10.-Declaring
that "pilferers of Christmas greens
are abroad in practically all Mary
LAND counties, State Forester Joseph
r. kaylor yesterday warned such
persons that they are liable to a fine
OF s25 or imprisonment for 80 days.
or both.
Mr.. Kaylor said the Department
OF Forests and Parks had received
reports that unauthorized persons
mad cut holly, mistletoe, ferns, moss
and even Christmas trees.
For their own protection and in
the interests of public safety, the
State forester urged landowners to
post their properties against this
form Of trespass.
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Beer, Gas Coupons, Cash
Stolen in Alexandria

The Harding Seafood Restaurant
1886 King street, Alexandria, re-
ported to police today that thieves
broke into the establishment last
night and took $50 from a juke box
1t. Russell Halves said thieves
also broke into the Watkin Dis
trlbuting Co., 715 North St. Asaph
street, Wednesday night and stole 20
cases of beer, 50 in cash and 80 T-2
gasoline coupons, worth 400 gallons
Of gasoline.
Evening star., 1943-12-10

throughout the city, anxious to do
their part in war work, had ini-
tiatel their own scrap drives with
out consulting the Salvage Commit
tee, especially concerning methods
of collection.
Calls for assistance from the
schools. the spokesman added, were
referred to the District Building,
where help might be obtained from
the Refuse Division. At the Dis
trict Building, however, it was said
that city trucks made collections
only from private homes and then
in conjunction with regular gar
bage collections. The District would
help out in an isolated case, how
ever, 1t was said, but could not
make a general practice of it.
The Salvage Committee spokes-
man said it could not go to the
schools assistance because trucks
for regular collections from apart
ment houses were supplied by brew
ers and soft drinks firms and were
only available once month.
Evening star., 1943-12-10
Plans have been completed for a

Plans have been completed for a
home coming celebration in honor Of
1t. James Ford Kelley, Army Air
Forces, who is expected to arrive
from the European theater in the
near future to visit his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. William J. Kelley, 1907
Woodbury. drive, Silver Spring 1t
Kelley, who has received seven deco
rations. will be honored as a repre-
sentative Silver Spring youth.
Representatives of every church
and organization in Silver Spring
will participate in the program,
which is planned so it can be held
on "a hours notice, since the date of
1t. Kelley's arrival is not known.
The program will begin at $50 pm.
on the day chosen, with a parade
and serenade by children of all
schools in the community under the
direction of William B. Marks. prin-
cipal of the Takoma Junior High
School.
At 7:30 pm. there will be parade
OF about 1000 citizens, which will
form at the intersection of Chicago
and Sligo avenues and proceed via
Sligo avenue and Woodbury. drive
to the Kelley home, where it will be
reviewed by 1t. Kelley, a delegation
OF officers of the Army Air Forces
and representatives of the American
Legion. The parade will then pro-
ceed to the Silver Spring Armory,
where a simple program will be
given.
Lee TO Be Marshal.
The parade will consist of three
divisions, with 1t Col. E. Brooke
Lee as chief marshal The first divi-
sion will be composed of the Mary
land State Guard and the Minute
Men. and will be headed BY the
Maryland State Guard Band of
Frederick. The second division will
consist Of the American Legion, Vet
Grams of the World War. and other
servlcemen, with John Collier. COM
mander Of CisselSaXon Post. No. Al
AS marshal The third division will
be headed by the Silver Spring VOL
unteer Fire Department, followed by
Civilian Defense and other organ
izations Of the Silver Spring area.
The Parade Committee is COM