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Evening star., 1943-06-21

Even If the caterpillars eat all the
leaves of tree, Mr. Lanham said.
this alone would not kill the tree.
though it would if repeated season
after season. The plan is to make
a survey of the worst areas and to
start one spraying machine operat-
ing this week, working on one sec
ton at time
Indicating the extent of the prob
lem, however, Mr.. Lanham explained
that the gasoline allotment for his
division is 600 gallons a month
with 10000 trees along the park
lngS, or about 1900 miles of spaced
trees.
For the mosquito control work
officials say $50 gallons of gasoline
would be needed each month for the
operation of five Sewer Department
trucks, plus large quantities of No
2 fuel oil to spread in breeding
places. To make such gas and oil
available for mosquito control would
have made deep cut in the already
reduced allotments for the Sewer
Division. To avoid this, Assistant
Engineer Commissioner Joseph D.
Arthur. jr., who is serving as Dis
trlct mileage administrator, pro-
posed cuts in other vehicle opera
tions and reapportionment of fuel
allotments among divisions.
For one thing, officials said, the
Commissioners have given up using
their large limousines for travel be-
tween District agencies, except when
large parties are necessary, and in
stead are using the smaller cars, and
this on a reduced basis"
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Three Soldiers
From DC. Area
Killed in Action
Latest Casualty List
Of War Department
Names 112 Dead

Two soldiers from the District and
one from nearby Maryland Park
were reported as killed in action, on
two new casualty lists issued today
by the War Department.
Those listed as dead were Col.
John H. Brewer, whose wife lives
here at 6608 Fourteenth street NV;
Corpl Earl Ryan, 22lO Pennsylvania
avenue NV, and Pfc. Harry L.
Bradshaw, whose mother, Mrs. Elsie
M. Holmes, resides at 827 Pleasant
street, Maryland Park, Md.
Also named on the two casualty
lists today were 112 other American
soldiers killed in action and l56 who
are reported missing.
Died on Inspection Tour.
The deaths of Col Brewer and
Pfc. Bradshaw previously had been
reported in The Star, at the time
their next of kin were first notified
by the War Department. Col.
Brewer, according to information
received, was killed on an aerial in
spection trip in the Southwest
Pacific. Pfc. Bradshaw met death in
the European war theater.
Corpl. Ryan, who was killed in
North Africa on May %, used to
write letters to his foster mother,
Mrs. Clara johnson, telling her he
would be glad when the job "over
there was finished so all the family
could be together again.
Corpl. Ryan is survived by a
brother, Norman, now an Army
corporal stationed at Fort Belvoir
his sister, Mrs Mildred Maurer of
1858 Meggs street NV, and Mrs.
Johnson, who cared for the three
after the death of their father.
Thomas Ryan, who was a policeman
in the tenth police precinct.
Corpl. Ryan, 81, was born and
reared in the District. Before he
entered the service nearly two years
ago, he lived with his brother and
foster mother at the PENNSYLVANIA
street address.
He was an empIoye of the Capita.
Transit Co. when he went into the
Army and previously had worked for
the Handley Motor Co. here.
Corpl. Ryan was in the field ar
tillery. He went overSeas-to Ire
land-a year ago last March. and
was among the American troops
who landed in North Africa to start
the invasion there.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Army Truck Gas Blast
Burns ) in Alexandra
Four Firemen, OnIooker
Caught in 20-Foot Flame

Four Alexandria firemen ana an
onlooker were burned yesterday -
two of the firemen seriously-when
an Army truck caught fire at Queen
and Henry streets.
Chief Fire Inspector Thomas
Cockrell, 40, of West Oak street,
and Charles L. Scott, 80, of 1O9
South st. Asaph street, were taken
to the Alexandria Hospital suffering
second and third degree burns. They
were reported in serious, but not
critical" condition.
Minor burns were received by
George Travers of No. S Fire Com
pany: William Barber, senior gas
officer with the Office of Civilian
Defense and member of the fire
department, and Vaughn Eskridge,
colored. l0l4 Queen street, a by
stander.
According to police, the men were
burned when a gasoline tank ex-
ploded, hurting flames and gasoline
more than 20 feet. The fire was
thought to have started from a short
circuit in the ignition. The driver,
George Lovelace, a Baltimore CIV
1llan, was not injured.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Capital Transit Ex-Motornon
Finds Dropping Bombs Is Tame
Ser9t. George Ash
No Longer Bothered
By Milling Traffic
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star Staff Correspondent

STRATEGIC AIR FORCE STA
TON, North Africa (By MaiD.- -
Life of a bombardier over Sardinia,
where he has Just completed his
fifth mission, is relatively tame for
Sergt. George w. Ash of Warren
ton, Va.
Before he enlisted in the Air Force
year ago, Sergt. Ash was a motor
man on the Capital Transit Co. s
Seat Pleasant line and after the
thrills Of running street car
through the milling traffic at Four
teenth and New York avenue. he
says, it is peaceful in the clouds
waiting to drop a bomb on the un-
suspecting target.
Routine Work.
Thus far he has been in only one
fight but has pretty thoroughly mas
tered the art of bomb dropping. The
Mitchells usually fly in triangular
formation of three planes. The bonn
bardier at the apex sets his bomb
sight on the target and lets 20.
For the two behind, one of which
positions usually is occupied by
Sergt.. Ash. it is only a matter of
waiting until his third bomb is seen
to leave the ship and opening their
own bomb doors.
After thoroughly mastering the
mechanism of the secret bomb sight,
Sergt. Ash says, he never has been
In a position to use it. The only
technique now. he says, is not to
open the bomb door until the last
split second and get it closed i'm
mediately after the third bomb is
released; This protects the crew
from flax
The former Washington motorman
has held his bombardier lob for
the last six months through some of
the toughest fighting in North
Africa.
In the same outfit, but on ground
duty, is Pfc. Fred Richards of ALL
Shadyside avenue, Bradbury Heights,
Md.
Sergt. Wood Raises Chickens,
At a nearby air base, Ordnance
Sergt. A. A. Wood, 500 block of
Twelfth street NE. has purchased
a flock of hens from neighboring
Arabs and set himself up as an
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Soldier Knifes Three
In Row Over Music
Objects to Continued
Playing Of luke Record

Three persons we're slashed in an
Alexandria cafe yesterday by a Fort
Belvoir soldier who was angered by
the repeated playing of a record on
a juke box, police said today.
The soldier, Pvt. Sven Alinder, is
being held on charges of felonious
assault, pending a police court hear
ing.
The fourth playing of a record
entitled Beautiful Heaven" was too
much for Pvt. Alinder, and he tried
to turn off the machine in AIS
Cafe, King and Fairfax streets, after
Marshall Hartshell, 423 Cameron
street, had dropped in the fourth
nickel. Failing in this. police said
he stabbed Mr.. Hartshell in the
back.
Police said after Mr. Hartshell was
stabbed, Pvt. Alinder then slashed
Robert Adams, 524 King street
across the abdomen and cut Pvt.
Loren Marker, another Fort Belvoir
soldier, in the groin. Mr.. Adams
was taken to the Alexandria Hos
pital, where he was reported in a
serious condition. Pvt Marker was
taken to the Fort Belvoir dispensary
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Three Freed Under Bond
After Night Raid on Hotel

Three persons were at liberty un-
der $4,000 bond each, another was
still in custody and six others were
released last night following a raid
on the New York Hotel 612 F street
NV, late Saturday night.
Released under bond were Sam
uel Ishkamian, Al; Jacob Macgrill,
SIS, of the 1900 block of Ingleside
terrace NV, and William v. Hill,
Al. who lives at the hotel.
Still in custody was Alfred j.
Austin, %, colored, of the 1900 block
of Twelfth street NV. They were
charged with operating a disorderly
house.
Capt. Robert C. Pearce, first pre-
cinct, led the police squad.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Veterans Unit Votes
To Admit New Soldiers
Gen. Reckord Addresses
18th Division and VIEW
Hy the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, June 81. The
Maryland Department of the 29th
Division was on record today as ia
voring admittance into its ranks
of any members of the division,
comprised largely of Maryland and
Virginia soldiers, who are serving
In this war.
The action. voted yesterday at
the departments annual conven-
ton, is subject to approval by the
national convention.
Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord
spoke at the one-day convention,
As we'll as to the final days session
of the Maryland Department of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, which
ended a three day session yester-
day.
George H. litter of Baltimore was
elected commander of the State
VFW. Other officers named at the
concluding session of the 23d annual
convention we're Joseph F.. Stetka
Baltimore, senior vice commander
Frank j. Weipert, Baltimore, junior
vice commander; Dr. Floyd j. Car
ter, Chevy Chase, surgeon, and w
Thatcher, Baltimore, chaplain.
The Maryland 29th Division Asso-
citation convention. shortened from
the usual three days to one, was de-
voted to discussion of business af-
fairs, memorial service and the
election of officers.
j. A. Mullendore, Baltimore, was
elected commander of the 18th
group, and j. ]. Philbin, also of Bal
timore, was elected vice commander
Other officers named were A. W.
OFT, Westminster, historian, and
Cornelius Vernon, Baltimore, chap
lain.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
CAA Officials 10 Visit
Cumberland Airport
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md. June 21.-
Director Philip Moore and Chief
Engineer Charles Donaldson of the
Civil Aeronautics Administration
will make the first Official landing
by plane tomorrow at Cupmber-
lands Wiley Ford (W. Va) Airport.
Airport Director Charles z. Heskett
said the CAA officials would be ac-
companied by Representatives Ran
dolph, Democrat, of West Virginia
and Beall, Republican, of Maryland.
The visitors will be guests of honor
at dinner meeting tomorrow spon-
sored by the local Rotary and XII
wants Clubs. Proposals to develop
the municipal airport in accordance
with a master plan will be dis
cussed.
The CAA recently earmarked
s150,000 for improvement of the
airports landing area.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Realty Values
Show Decline
In Virginia
$4,000, 900 Drop in
Nine Years Offers
Tax Problem
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND. June 21.-Virginia's
"a cities suffered a decrease OF
s265 900, 900 in true value of locally
assessed real estate from 1881 to
1899, while the 100 counties had an
increase in these values of nearly
$133 900 900, the League Of Virginia
Municipalities reported in a study
released today.
In only 10 of the cities did the
true value of real estate show an
increase and none of these was one
Of the larger municipalities.
For the cities and counties COM
bined the true value of locally as
sessed real estate declined slightly
more than $132,0o0,O00.
Serious Financial Difficulties.
While there was an aggregate in
crease for the 100 counties, the re-
port said it should be pointed out
that 81, or more than one-third, Of
the counties showed a decrease.
Harold I. Baumes, executive sec
retary, said the league undertook
the study in the realization that
serious financial difficulties con-
front the local political subdivisions
OF government in Virginia" The
completed study is part of COM
prehensive analysis of the trend
of State and local revenues and
expenditures.
All of the facts developed in the
present study, particularly for the
cities. offer adequate proof, the re-
port said, of the urgent need for
new sources of revenue for the
localities or additional State aid.
"Contrasted with the shrinkage of
realty values in many localities, is
| the substantial increase in the value
of intangibles for State taxation.
Significant also is the fact that new
construction in many localities is
not sufficient to offset the decline
in the value of other realty.
Postwar Problem Feared.
Many tax authorities seem to
feel that after the war" the report
continued, "the problem of sufficient
local revenues to meet needed local
BUDGETS Will be even more severe,
and practically all tax authorities
seem to be in agreement that real
estate should no longer be relied
upon for as great a part of local
budgets as has been possible in
the past
In the meantime. factual infor-
nation contained herein surely
merits the careful study of State and
local fiscal authorities and members
of the General Assembly. Surely,
it is part of wisdom to anticipate
the financial difficulties confronting
the localities and take whatever
appropriate action may be neces-
sary to keep both the State and the
local political subdivisions in sound
financial condition with suffcien,
taxes or other revenues assured to
meet the conservative cost of State
and local government in providing
needed services to Virginia citizens. 8
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Pride in Garden Brings Toll
To Mr.. and Mrs. Milo Perkins
Plot at London School Grows Block-Eyed
Peas, Bolivian Corn in Variety of Crops

Victory garden yesterday Mr..
Perkins had scored a personal tri-
umph in Congress Friday His
Board of Economic Warfare had
been the one war agency to escape
a cut when a coalition of Demo-
Gratis and Republicans had begun
swinging the ak on the floor with
unexpected success. After his cham
pions declared that Milo Perkins
committee appearance was the best
justification of budget they had
ever heard, motion to cut SO 900 900
from his $4,000, 900 budget was voted
down.
Bolivian Corn Grows.
Despite the black Friday the ad-
ministration experienced Mr.. Perkins
was not discouraged about the home
front. It's wonderful" he said, "the
way a democracy will get back on
its feet"
Here's some Bolivian corn from
seed Vice President Wallace brought
back he said. Il don't believe il will
ear 1t needs 10000 feet elevation
You know he cultivates his Victory
garden on Woodiey road like a
farmer. He just goes after the crop.
Doesn't care about appearance. Lets
his tomatoes lie on the ground"
Mr.. and Mrs Perkins gathered up
their tools. their bottle of iced tea
and the cups and started up the
path to their white clapboard house
in the woods nearby. His arms and
shoulders swung as he walked. Had
he been an athlete?
No" he said, I'm a muscular
llliterate. But the boys were. They
certainly won their four letters,
didn't they, dear?"
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Dunn loring Citizens Give
Money for Fire Station

Approximately $3.50 was donated
for construction of a fire engine
house in Dunn Loring, Va. by men,
bers of the Volunteer Fire Depart
ment at meeting yesterday at
Hunter and Dunn Loring roads.
Merle Clifford, president of the
volunteer group, has called meet
ing for $50 pm, June % at the
Dunn Loring School to obtain more
subscriptions.
Mr.. Clifford has suggested that
Dunn Loring residents do most of
the construction work themselves.
The site at Hunter and Dunn Loring
roads was donated by Albert Merry.
Construction work is to start i'm
meditely
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Eastern Cos Dealers
Urge Naming Of 'Czur'
BY the Associated Press

&oS lic ASSOCldItu fTeSS.
PHILADELPHIA. June 21.-A
resolution urging appointment of a
gasoline czar" was drafted today
by the executive committee of the
newly organized Eastern States
Gasoline Dealers Association.
The association, formed at a week
end meeting attended by represen-
tatives of service station operators
from Maine to Virginia, also pro-
posed a congressional investigation
of Government agencies activi-
ties in the Eastern States gasoline
shortage.
John DreSsler of Cliffside, N. j..
was elected president of the group;
A. Reed Engle, Philadelphia, vice
president; Frank Banfleld, New
York, secretary, and Henry v. Bra
dy, Providence, R. l., treasurer.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Virginia Reform League
To Oppose Poll Tax
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, June 2l.-The Vir-
ginia Electoral Reform League
broadened its organization and pre-
pared to speed up its fight against
the poll tax as prerequisite to vot-
ing, in its second Virginia State con-
ference here yesterday.
E. P. Robertson, chairman of the
Administrative Committee, said the
group mapped plans to support the
anti-poll tax bill, now before the
Senate, and to carry on a campaign
next January in the Virginia Gen.
eral Assembly.
Evening star., 1943-06-21

African poultry farmer He is able
to keep most of the base messes
supplied with enough eggs for an
occasional meal without paying the
exhorbitant local prices.
The adjutant at this base is 1t
Joseph Levin, Washington attorney
54O3 Fourth street NV He has
been with the outfit for the last six
months. Still another Washing
tonian is Sergt. George Higbee, the
base telephone operator. 1900 block
of Seventeenth street Sc.
Outstanding in the records of this
fighting air outfit is Staff Sergt.
Linnie c. Sterstorfer, armorer- gun
ner, of Cumberland, Md, who has
taken part in IS sorties and has been
awarded the Air Medal and two Oak
Leaf Clusters.
In a fighter squadron few miles
up the road is Technical Sergt. John
w. Shank, lot Upsal street Sc, the
ranking noncom in the squadron S
technical supply section.
Sergt. Shank is & graduate of the
Canton High School, Canton. Pa,
and attended Dickson College at
Williamsport, Pa He has been in
the Army since 1898 and is now in
the supply division of the Air Forces.
His wife, Mrs. Doris Thrift Shank,
and daughter make their home here
and a brother is at Camp Edwards,
Mass.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Scouts 10 Distribute
War Theme Posters
To Stores for owl
900 in District and
Nearby Areas to Stort
Service This Week

One thousand Boy Scouts, repre-
senting 260 Scout troops in the Dis
trict and IA nearby counties of
Maryland AND Virginia, will begin
this week to serve as Official dispatch
bearers for the Office of War In
formation.
This was announced today bv the
owl, which said the first assign
ment for the new volunteers would
be to distribute to retail stores in
their neighborhoods Saturday copies
OF Government poster stressing
the strength and unity of the United
Nations. The posters will carry the
slogan, United We Stand
Each retailer will be asked to CO.
operate by displaying the posters
and replacing them semi-monthly
with subsequent ones distributed by
the Scouts.
Later posters will deal with a va
riety of themes, including conserva-
ton OF food, clothing and equip
ment; security of information, re-
cruitlng of manpower and woman
power, and salvage and rationing.
They will be distributed by the
Scouts on the Saturdays nearest the
1st and 18th of each month.
Each Scout dispatch bearer will
carry an official identification card,
bearing the Boy Scout and Owl
seals and countersigned by both Di-
rector Elmer Davis of the owl and
Ebert K. Fretwell, chief Scout
executive.
In addition to the posters, each
cooperating retailer will be given
an Owl window seal.
Similar plans for circulation of
the posters are being initiated in
$500 American cities and towns.
where more than 100000 Scouts are
qualified as dispatch bearers. Local
retail organizations and chambers
Of commerce throughout the coun-
try are cooperating in the poster
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Soldier and Seaman,
Brothers, Meet in Africa
3y tho AsSoriated pras~

bs lne ASSUCIaIed PreSs.
CUMBERLAND, Md, June 2l.-
Two Cumberland brothers, one
soldier and the other seaman, met
recently somewhere in North At
rica" for the first time since Janu-
ary, their parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph A. Mackert of Cumberland,
were informed in a letter.
Sergt. William Mackert, former
reporter for the Cumberland News,
and his brother, Seaman First Glass
Robert F.. Mackert, member of
merchant ships gun crew, met in
May after soldier friend of the
former reported seeing the seaman
in a North African port.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Virginia Guard
Routs Enemy
Al Bull Run
"a Companies Seize
Hill at Henry House
In Mcneuvers
BY staff Correspondent of The Star

by staff Correspondent of The Star
MANASSAS, Va, June 21.-Mov-
Ing in assault waves across Bull Run
Battlefield where Gen. Jackson
earned the name "Stonewall," the
18th Battalion of the Virginia Pro-
tective Force. composed of five State
Guard companies and IA Minute
Men companies from the 10 North
ern Virginia companies, yesterday
swept across the run in 2-mile at
tack to rout theoretical enemy on
the heights near the old Henry
House, which was the center of
fighting in the Civil War battle.
The attack, led by 1t. Col. Everett
A. Hellmuth, commanding officer,
was the high point in a 24-hour
battalion maneuver designed to al
low men and officers to put in prac-
tlce the training they received dur
ing the winter and spring.
Under Fire" 10 Hours.
The action. which. resulted in a
complete rout of the enemy" oc-
Cured late yesterday after the bat
TALON had been under almost con-
slant fire" for more than 10 hours.
Throughout the attack the $50 men
and officers of the 11th conducted
themselves with "vigor and GAL
lantry."
The maneuvers began at 2 am.
when the men, who had assembled
Saturday afternoon, were aroused
from their sleep after small patrols
established first contact with the
enemy" At 5:45 am. the first
skirmish took place between recon-
naissance parties and for more than
an hour firing was heard over the
battle area
AS dawn broke the battalion
moved out along the little Manassas
Sudley road in an effort to contact
the main opposing force. AS the
columns stretched along the dusty
road they were subjected to simu-
lated straflng by Army planes, sent
from nearby air base.
Eight Mile Forced March.
Failing to contact the enemy
the force returned to camp after an
eight-mile forced march under a
blistering Virginia sun to find that
headquarters also had been under
enemy plane attack
After a field mess, patrols re-
ported the main body of the EN-
emy' had swung in flank move
ment on the camp, and officers
moved their companies two miles
across the run in a frontal assault.
Col. Hellmuth reported that only
five men were forced to fall out by
the intense heat He said the entire
action moved without single delay.
Staff officers of the 11th Battalion
include Maj. John c. Butler of Rec
tortown, executive officer; Capt.
John p Strauss of Alexandria, ad-
iutant, and Capt. P. C. Smith of
Arlington, operations officer.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Injured in Rail Yards,
ArIinqton Man Dies

Earl Scott, 43, colored, 1901 JET
ferson Davis highway, Arlington,
died today at Alexandria Hospital of
injuries received yesterday when he
struck high tension wire and was
knocked from a freight car in the
Potomac Railroad yards, Arlington
County police reported.
According to railroad police, Scott
was not railroad employe. He was
found by Sherman Hill. colored, of
the Jefferson Davis highway ad-
dress,
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Pair Get License, Wed
As Bus Stops 10 Minutes

BY the Associated Press.
W1NNEMUCCA, Nev.-The bus
pulled into Winnemucca and DR.
Sanford Harris, 80, Layton, Utah
and Miss Lorraine Christensen, 21
of Hyrum, Utah, fed.
Obtaining marriage license from
the county clerk, they rushed to
Justice of the Peace John Frans-
way for the ceremony, rounded UP
two witnesses, filed the license with
the county recorder, and sprinted
back to their bus-all within a TO-
minute Stopover.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
William B. GiIIies Dies

YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, June 21
(P). - William B. Gillies, SO, vice
president in charge of operations OF
the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.
died yesterday of a heart ailment
He was native of Chicago. Sur
vivors include a son, William B
Gillies, jr., of Pittsburgh.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
Cleric, Former RoiImun,
Paid for Work in 1901

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex. In July, 1901
the Rev. Claude Hile, now a Dallas
minister, quit as Texas & Pacific
Railroad fireman without drawing
his pay.
Recently he walked into the COM
pany's Offices and said: II think we
both kind of forgot about the money
you owed me-"
A. r. Bice consulted old records.
An hour later a SLABS check was
ready.
Evening star., 1943-06-21
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WAa1Yo~R~1WM
WAR BONDS
Equip Porofroops

Probably the most dangerous
branch of any service in our armed
forces is the paratroop service.
Their very lives depend upon the
equipment we furnish them when
they are dropped into enemy terri
tory. Clothing alone for a para
trooper costs $219.35. He carries
two parachutes.