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Evening star., 1943-12-08
Health Service Opens
Survey on Extent
OF Influenza Here
Schools Facing Shortage
Of Substitute Teachers;
Many Seek Doctors

The United States Public Health
Service and the District Medical
Society today launched a joint sur
vey on the extent of Washington's
influenza epidemic.
simultaneously, it was learned
that Supt. of Schools Robert L. Hay
cock, faced with a shortage of sub
stitute teachers, was gathering re-
ports on the number of elementary
grade teachers absent because of ILL
ness.
DR.. James G. Cumming, head of
the Bureau of PreVentable Diseases
OF the District Health Department.
had received preliminary reports of
widespread absenteeism Of both
teachers and pupils in District
schools
Many Calls for Doctors.
Telephone calls continued to pour
through the Medical Bureau swich-
board at the District Medical Socie-
ty, asking for doctors, Theodore
Wiprud, Medical Society secretary
said.
Gonzaga High School has sus-
pended classes until Monday be-
cause approximately 100 of the
schools student body of about 600
are i'll with colds and influenza, and
also because of observance of the
Feast of the Immaculate Concep-
ton. the Rev Francis E. Garner
headmaster, reported.
1t. Charles Benter, leader Of the
Metropolitan Police Band. has cam
celed an engagement to play at the
scholastic all-star football game at
Griffith Stadium Saturday. Twenty
two members Of the band were re-
ported i'll with influenza and 1t
Bcnter himself went on the sick list
today.
Cases "MoGerately Severe"
Group Health Association. which
furnishes medical care to thousands
of Federal workers and their fami-
lies, has the largest number of
influenza cases in its history. ac-
cording to DR.. Mario Scandiffio.
medical director. The cases are
moderately severe" he said, but
are not serious.
In addition to its Washington sur
vey the Public Health Service today
received its regular weekly tele-
graphic reports on the incidence of
influenza in all sections of the coun-
try
Reports indicated the mild form of
influenza is prevalent in all sections
of the United States except the Pa
cific Coast and the Southwest.
The epidemic here has not reached
closing the schools, Supt. Haycock
emphasized. The mild form of the
disease has caused no such alarm.
nor high death rate as in the great
1918 "pandemic," he pointed out.
The shortage of substitute teach
ers is one of the most serious prob
lens of the school system, he said.
Teacher absenteeism today is
about IS per cent above normal.
while the high schools normal pupil
absentee rate of about per cent
rose to 13 per cent, early reports to
DR.. Cumming indicated.
Mrs. L. c. Turner. Mckinley High
School secretary, told The Star that
there were more teachers on the
sick list today than at any time since
she began teaching there in 1921.
Western High School reported
that pupil absences had risen from
l06 on November to 142 yesterday
Roosevelt High School showed an
increase in pupil absences from SO
on November l to las yesterday, with
five or six teachers away each day.
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Three Grocers, Clerk
Charged With Onion
Ceiling Violations
Loskey Declares Action
Is Due to Retailers
Lack of Cooperation

The United States attorneys
office today issued warrants for the
arrest of three grocers and a clerk
on charges of violating the Emer-
gency Price Control Act by selling
onions above ceiling prices.
The warrants were requested b,
John L. Laskev, District OPA en-.
forcement attorney, after his office
investigated reports of widespread
black marketing of onions in Wash.
lngton.
Assistant United States ATTORNEY
Ray l.. Jenkins said the three gro.
GERS were retailers and the CLERK
worked in one Of the stores.
According to the complaint. onion,
were sold at IS to 20 cents pound
The ceiling price is 8 cents.
Previously, Mr. Laskey complained
OF lack Of cooperation from re.
tallers in securing evidence agains,
wholesalers engaging in black mar
ket activity.
I'VE pleaded for constructive co.
operation from the retailers ane
have not received it." he said. "Oul
only alternative is to hold the re.
tallerS fully responsible.
Evening star., 1943-12-08
|Kronheim PAYS
100000 for
|||ega|Prices
OPA Penalty Based
On Overehorges
For Whisky

Milton S. Kronheim & Son,
Inc, Washington's largest liquor
dealers, have agreed to pay the
Treasury 100000 in settlement
of an OPA riple-damage claim
based on ceiling violations in
March, April and May, John L.
Laskey, District OPA enforce
ment attorney, announced last
night.
The 100000 figure represents a
reduction of $50, ,406 from the actual
amount of the triple damages. The
total of the oVer-ceiling sales have
been placed at s76,80285, involving
various brands of whisky.
Under the terms of the settle
ment, the firm already has paid an
initial installment Of S33401, The
balance will be paid in Is monthly
Iinstalments ranging from s6400 to
s28,265.
An official of the firm said today
the practices on which the OPA &C
ton was based had been terminated
before the OPA began its investiga-
/ ton. He asserted the money COL
lected in violation of the CPA regu-
lations would have been returned 10
I those who had paid it but for the
fact that no equitable way could be
found to Go so.
F The following statement was is
sued by the firm in explanation Of
its position:
I The claim asserted by the local
OPA against Milton S. Kronheim 81
Son arose because of a difference
in Interpretation of the application
of a general ceiling price order to
technical matters perculiar to the
alcohol beverage business.
That order, because of the reali-
cation of its impracticability to the
beverage business, has been with
drawn by the national OPA Upon
its withdrawal, there was sustituted
a new ceiling price order and one
which is comparatively simple and
based upon an entirely different
theory and practice.
/ The c!01"o CT method by the
CPA eAG~s that the old o:6er could
1Ct Re expected to operate fairly
?otA = the consumer and to b'ISi-
ness. All the claims are under the
discarded ORDER.
"A thorough study Of tho matter
convinced US that while in the end
We would be probably successful IN
maintaining our interpretation Of
the old order, the cost of the neces-
sarily long litigation involved would
be unbearable by our company"
i According to Mr.. Laskey, there Il
an extensive whisky black market in
Washington. Although it is being
investigated. he said he was un-
) able to estimate how much LIQUOR
) is reaching Illegal channels. He
| urged purchase who have been
oyercharged to communicate with
his office.
Evening star., 1943-12-08
II Is mK @ isss g m !

believe it is supposed to commend
rate the attack on Wake Island. The
color is claret red and the denomi-
nation plus l sen.
On the secondhand more provoc-
atlve-stamp appears a bird 's-eye
view of Pearl Harbor burning after
the sneak air raid two years. ago
yesterday. 1t shows smoke rising
from blazing docks and airfields. A
string Of battleshipS are in the fore
ground. The original photograph
undoubtedly was made during the
December 7, 1941, bombardment
Dark blue in color, the value of
the sticker is 5 plus 2 sen.
Both stamps carry the inscrip-
tions: Imperial japanese Post" and
First Anniversary of the Great
ASiatic War"
Evening star., 1943-12-08
u. 5. Judge Sentences
Couple Called Spies

by me Associated PreSS.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. "a A
year-old French woman and hel
husband, 30, former Austrian sol,
dier who said he was fugitive from
a Nazi concentration camp, were
sentenced to three years in prison
yesterday after United States Dis
trict Judge George A. Welsh sale
he suspected they were spies.
The couple had pleaded no contest
to a charge that they made false
statements to obtain British pass
port in Lisbon to enable them to gel
into the United States
They We're booked as Peter Henry
Ertler and Jacqueline Maria Ertler
"A great deal of information
reaches our enemies through un-
.derground channels and spies ano
I'm not certain we don't have two
here now Judge Welsh said.
The couple said>they escaped from
Casablanca in a 31-foot sailboat, il
which they said they spent five
nights and six days in the oper
seas. They used deception to gel
here, they said, merely so they coule
go to Canada and enlist with the
Free French forces.
Il don't believe a word of theil
story Judge Welsh said.
Judge Welsh acted despite a rec.
ommendation OF the Justice De
partment that no sentence be i'm
posed and sworn statement b.
Capt. Paul Franc Well, head of the
military justice division of ths
French National Committee on Lib
Grafton in this country. who saic
they would be assigned to dutie,
abroad Immediately If the cour
freed them.
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Stdssen Slate 10 Enter
South Dakota Primaries
Ry the Associated Press

Ry the Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, S. Oak, Dec. g.
A slate of delegates pledged to vote
for 1t. Comdr. Harold E. Stassen
former Minnesota Governor, for the
Republican nomination for Presi.
dent. will be filed in the South Da.
kota presidential primary next May
Joseph H. Bottum, jr., Rapid City
attorney, said today.
Mr.. Bottum said he will manage
a campaign for Comdr. Stassen in
South Dakota. He said Comdr. Stas-
sens name has been filed in the Ne
braska primary and Gov. Walter S
Goodland of Wisconsin has indicat-
ed he will support Stassen dele
cation in that State.
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Citizens Council Asks
Immediate HOUSING
Probe by Congress
Report Declares NCHA
Fuiled in SIum Clearance,
Ignored Peoples Wishes

Unanimously adopting an even
more strongly worded report than
that approved by the Federation of
Citizens Associations, the South
east Council of Citizens Associa-
tions last night called for an imme-
diate investigation by Congress of
all public housing projects and
agencies.
The report, submitted by a COM
nittee headed by Joseph H. Deck
man, who also served as chairman
OF the Federations Committee or
Housing and Rent Control, declared
that the National Capital Housing
Authority had failed in its original
purpose of slum clearance. and that
because of its failure thousands OF
persons still occupying alley dwell
ings automatically will be stamped
as law violatorS, as of July /. 1914
subject to $500 fines or six months
imprisonment.
Real Estate Values Hit.
Neglecting slum clearance. after
disposing of only IA out of an ap-
proXimate 200 such squares, the re-
port charged NCHA with using this
project as an excuse to set up ma :
chinery for entering the public
housing field to the detriment OF
real estate values in the District
1t further declared that NCHA re-
peatedly had ignored the wishes OF
various communities in its work and
that its officials apparently consid-
cred their personal decisions final
and beyond the control of the wishes
of the people
The housing authority, the report
said, had attempted to inject the
racial question into the matter
when the people are primarily
protesting against the construction
of loW-cost apartment housing on
undeveloped land, which will have
a lasting i'll effect on the commu-
nifty" 1t cited a petition by Is
Negro families in Congress Heights
more strongly worded than a SINH
lar document signed by 1850 white
property owners, objecting to low
cost housing in their neighborhooo
on the ground it would decrease
property values. 1t also pointed te
protest by colored property own
ers against a permanent low-cost
housing program near Fifty-firs
street and Division avenue Sc.
Slump In Tax Returns Seen.
statement attributed TO the Fed
eral Housing Authority that lane
was not available in communities
other than those selected for prof.
ects completed or now underway
was branded as unfounded. AS proc
it offered the testimony of repre-.
sentatives who located 81 acres Of
available land adjacent to sewer ane
water in the Barry Farms area, ane
large areas in the Deanwood section
IF low-cost multiple housing i
permitted to be indiscriminatel,
located in undeveloped areas ada.
cent to high property values" the
report warned 1T will lead to 6
slump in tax returns after the wal
which will materially harm the pub.
lie welfare"
1t further declared that under the
existing setup citizens have no re-
course to higher authority for q
final decision than the housing
agency in control of project when
they protest against the particular
project 1t referred to protest
lodged with John Blandford, admin
istrator of the National Housing Ad-
ministration, which went unheeded
because he did not have the power
to act In the matter.
Evening star., 1943-12-08

Bill 10 Nu||ify
|McNabb RuIinq
CIO Counsel AssuiIs
Hobbs Measure
As 'ScunduIous'

The Hobbs bill to validate con
fessions by criminal case defendant
whose arraignment is delayed wa
assailed today as "scandalous
measure by Lee Pressman, counse
for the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations.
Testifying before a House Judi
ciary Subcommittee holding hear.
ings on the measure. which is de.
signed to ease the restrictions OF
evidence imposed by the Supreme
Courts "McNabb decision" Mr.
Pressman declared that the basic
substance of the bill is that pris'
oners are to be convicted even or
the basis of confessions secured BY
methods which, as the Supreme
Court has indicated. come very clost
to the third degree or at the very
least afford an opportunity for the
third degree"
Pressman First Witness.
Mr.. Pressman was the first Of {
list Of witnesses opposing the bill
introduced by Representative Hobbs
Democrat of Alabama, after Fedora
courts throughout the country be.
gan to throw out confessions in line
with the Supreme Court decision If
a murder case that such statements
cannot be admitted unless the de-
PENDANTS have been arraigned with
reasonable promptness."
John T. Corbett, national legiSla-
tive representative of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, as
sailed what he described as the anti
labor implications of the measure as
did Martin H. Miller, national legis-
lative representative of the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen.
Mr.. Corbett expressed the opinion
that the Hobbs bill would attempt
to legalize' indefinite detentions "ir
any future labor controversy and We
must protest against any and al
such proposals.
Bases Argument on Anderson Case.
Mr.. Miller based his argumen,
primarily on the Anderson case, 6
companion to the MCNabb case
which was decided on the same day
In this instance the court set aside
the convictions of group of mer
found guilty of dynamiting TVA
power lines.
Mr Miller said the dynamitine
was the outgrowth. of strike anc
that the entire picture Cprosecu.
tion) looks like perfect frame -ur
to break the strike
The Anderson case defendants
were held for a long time before
arraignment. and Mr.. Miller said
1T proves that the incommunicadc
process can be used effectively
against organized workers to defeat
their legal right to struggle for col
lective bargaining when all the usual
tricks of the trade of strike breaking
and union smashing have failed
Evening star., 1943-12-08
|MdttressFire
Kills Woman al
Shorehan1 Hotel
Vain Efforts Made
To Save Wife
OF Publisher

Mrs. Belle Lee Ridenour, 40,
Treasury Department employe
and wife of an Ohio newspaper
publisher, died of asphyxiation
early today after a mattress
caught fire in the room she was
occupying at the Shoreham
Hotel.
Found unconscious on the floor of
the smoke-f filled room shortly after
5 am, Mrs. Ridenour was pro-
nounced dead on arrival at Emer-
gency Hospital, after efforts to re-
vlve her were made at the hotel
by DR.. Harry M. Kaufman, Shore
ham house physician, and DR.. l.. J
Stefan of the Emergency Hospital
staff.
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald, Dis
trict coroner, said death apparently
was due to smoke from the burn
ing mattress. An autopsy was order
ed Detective Sergt. William D.
Perry of the Police Homicide Squad
is investigating.
Police, who arrived with fremen
after firebox alarm was turned in
at Connecticut avenue and Calvert
streets, NV, at SOC AM, said the
mattress evidently was set ablaze
by lighted cigarette.
The fire was quickly extinguished,
but smoke blackened the walls of
the room and caused some damage
to furnishings.
Mrs. Ridenour was the wife of C.
F. Ridenour, who publishes the
Piqua Daily Call in Piqua, Ohio
She came here last summer to as
sist in handling women's news in
the press division of the Treasury
Department during the Third War
Loar. drive. Previously she worked
in the womens division of the Ohio
War Finance Committee.
Mrs. Ridenour had occupied a
room at the hotel for about two
weeks,
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Seaman Is Victim
OF Rifle Wound

Fireman Third Class Eugene H.
Brooks, %. Route 3, Alexandria. is in
the Naval Hospital at Bethesda with
a bullet wound in his chest received
yesterday at the home of his broth
er-in-laW, Clarence Clore, Weynoke,
Va.
Fairfax County police quoted Mr..
Clore as saying MrsBrooks told him
he shot himself because he was
depressed.
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Bryun Gets Endorsement
|Of Central Labor Union

Albert V. Bryan, Alexandria s
Commonwealth attorney, has re-
ceived the unanimous Endorsement
Of the Central Labor Union for ap-
pointment as judge of the Federal
Court for the Eastern District of
Virginia.
Union President Fred Kirchner
said Mr.. Bryan received the vote of
the union at it's meeting Monday
night, and the resolution of indorse-
ment will be sent to President
Roosevelt and Virginia's S Senators.
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Mans S Skeleton Found
Near Camp Pickett
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CAMP PICKETT. Va, Dec. g.
The skeleton of a man. believed to
be that of a soldier, was discovered
in wooded section near the boun-
Diary of the Camp Pickett military
reservation by two civilian hunters.
the Public Relations Office here
announced yesterday.
Initial investigation revealed no
indications of foul play. the an
nouncement said. Army and civil
authorities are trying to establish
identity.
Evening star., 1943-12-08

as he took part in the worldwide
broadcast of carols and the Christ
mas story on the second anniver-
sary of Pearl Harbor.
Two years ago, his father was
with him and his mother and little
sister and brother. Last December
it was Africa, and now Allen be-
lieves he is in Italy
The little boy sat very still in
his neatly pressed dark suit, one
of row of other solemn young
south procession sopranos" from
st, Adams School for boys. Across
from them and around them, in
Evening star., 1943-12-08

cob Jones Post, American Legion,
and Bethlehem Chapter, Order of
the Eastern Star, Mrs Bliss was a
chief yeoman CD in the Navy in
the World War. After that she
entered Government service in the
Veterans Administration, remain
ing there until her retirement in
1898.
Mrs. Bliss made her home here
with her daughter and son-in- law,
1t. Comdr. George Mallet-Prevost,
at 1910 Locust road NV.
She is survived by son, James
E. Bliss, Minneapolis: two grand
sons, George Mallet-Prevost, jr., and
Ronald B. Mallet-Prevost, and a
sister, Mrs. John M. King, also of
this CITY.
Evening star., 1943-12-08

f1OOr-taX law VI
olations, wi t h
L rry K e / Y.
former treasurer
of the building
committee Of
Local No. "a Of
the B III | d II G
Laborers' Union
a n d form e r
president of the
District Council
Of the union
still missing.
Kelly, sought
as a witness.
d l S a p p e a I ed
Evening star., 1943-12-08
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

l. L
japanese imperialists have made
use of postage stamps to publicize
their victories" since December 7,
1941.
Reports to that effect were re-
ceived in the United States soon
after the beginning of the war But
not until today did any of the Jap
propaganda stamps reach Washing
ton. Passengers on the Gripsholm
managed to bring few copies with
them.
The first issue shows two am
phibian tanks on sandy shore with
palm trees in the background and
a small japanese flag on the left.
Whether it represents an incident
In the taking of the Philippines is
debatable. Some stamp collectors
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Housing for Peut Workers

Brazil is erecting houses to ac-
commodate 1000 people who will be
employed at the peat reserves in the
suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, where
! 900 tons Of peat will be produced
daily.
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Funeral Rites Tomorrow
For Mrs. Emma I. Bliss

Services for Mrs. Emma T. Bliss,
Is, who died Monday at Garfield
Hospital after a brief illness, will
be held at 2 pm. tomorrow at the
Evening star., 1943-12-08

his young so
prano BLENDED
with the voice:
of 500 other boys
and girls in the
n a We Of t h {
Washington Ca :
thedral yester-
day afternoon.
Ten = year = ole
A lien Holmes
was hoping that
p e r h a ps h is
f a t h er. Brig
Ge n. J. C
Holmes was lis
tening some
whore oversee c
Evening star., 1943-12-08

.. n. HlIleS T u
n e + a | H o m e.
Burial in Glen
wood Cemetery
will follow.
A lif e | o n G
+ e S i d e n t o f
w a S h i n G ton,
Mrs. Bliss was
t h e W i f e o f
t he ! a t e DR..
James E. Bliss,
we'll known Dis
triCt physician
who died sew
eral years ago.
A member Of
tho TT G G Ia
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Grand Jury Questions
Larry Ke|Iy's Wife
At Inquiry on Funds

After a recess since last month.
a District grand jury resumed its
investigation into possible misuse
of union funds and possible liquor
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Boy, 10, Points Carol Broadcast
To Father, q General Overseas

That shock of yellow hair in front
wouldn't quite stay down in spite
of everything, but beneath it the
face of the little boy was earnest as
Evening star., 1943-12-08
Notice to Classified
Advertisers

We regret the necessity beginning Saturday. December
H. OF further limiting display classified advertising to or
lines OF 10 point type the balance of copy be solid
in agate type.
Sample of "ad" set in 10 point and solid agate:
IN WASHINGTON.
A tapestry Colonial brick IA
fsEe unIsrn1 Terms cash 81 800 Act aqc6 for
JOHN DOE & CO.,
200 ELEVENTH ST NV. REALTOR.
Sample of solid agate with black index word
words:
a
D.
Necessary suaranteed salary and commits.
z zpm M Nj So 6o. o 81 o6ooo u.s. roe or a''ef
Evening star., 1943-12-08

OLD-ESTABLISHED life insurance company
has opening for salesman on large estab-
lished route in .. c.; no car or experience
necessary, suaranteed salary and commits.
sion. Call RE 0000 Mr.. Roe. or after
4'pnl.. Mr.. Doe, DU. OO0O.
Evening star., 1943-12-08
IN WASHINGTON.

tapestry Colonial BRICK, rooms. q
baths. In perfect condition. Built-in ga
rage. Terms cash. $500. Act quick for
this unusual buy. Call Mr.. Roe, MI OO0O.
JOHN DOE & CO.,
200 ELEVENTH ST. NV. REALTOR,
Evening star., 1943-09-14
Stock Market Turns
Moderately Lower
In Light Selling
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.


NEW YORK, Sept. IA. - Stocks
turned moderately lower today
under the lightest kind of selling,
blamed mainly on the cloudy battle
situation in Italy.
Brokers also suggested the big
Government bond campaign might
have diverted some cash that would
have gone into corporate securities
or caused the liquidation of scat
tered equities for the purpose of OBJ
tanning funds with which to pur-
chase the Federal issue. In addi-
ton, reassembling of Congress and
the important question of taxes
served to promote speculative and
investment conservatism. Recent
peace favorites took a rest and the
armament groups remained dor
mant.
There were scattered strong spots
at the start although trends were
indefinite. The ticker tape barely
crawled during most of the session
and this was comforting to bullish
forces. Declines of fractions to a
point or so predominated near the
close. Transfers were around 400, 900
shares, one of the smallest volumes
for the year to date.
American Locomotive preferred
(new) breasted the current for a
gain of more than 2 points at 1943
top. Doing fairly well were Bethle-
hem, Chesapeake & Ohio, Allied
Mills, Goodrich, American Can, j. C..
Penney and American Smelling.
Laggards included Santa Fe, South
ern Railway, Du Pont, General Mo-
tors, Chrysier, Standard Oil IN. J3,
Douglas Aircraft, Boeing, Westing-
house, Allied Chemical and United
States Rubber.
Bonds were narrow.