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Evening star., 1943-08-18
mrs. Hiett, on 99th Birthday,
Gives Perpetual Youth Secret

On her 99th birthday anniversary
yesterday Mrs. Flora Baker Hiett of
6732 Twenty-f1fth street, Falls
Church, told her secret of perpetual
youth.
You see," she said. youth is an
outlook on life. 1t comes from hap
piness and a youthful heart. My
heart is as young today as it was
when I had to run errands in Win
chester for my father during the
War Between the States"
Mrs. Hiett likes to recall those
days and she emphasizes that the
war was not the Civil War, but a
war between States. People who
call 1t the Civil War are making a
mistake" she said. There was moth
ing civil about it."
Mrs. Hiett was 16 when the war
began and soon was the only person
left at home to tend to business
matters for her father, Henry NJ
Baker, Virginia artist. She said
the Yankees, who captured and lost
Winchester more than 10 times dur
ing the war, wouldn't let the male
servants of the house move about
the town.
III tell you." she said, that war
was a lot worse than this one. Our
soldiers are well fed, but in those
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Fairfax Farms Need
70 Men, zones Says
343 From D. c. Willing
To Help With. Crops

John Jones, head of the cam
paign in the District to recruit va
cationists for work on nearby farms,
said today that more than 20 men
are needed Immediately for farm
work in Fairfax County.
Mr.. Jones said these men will be
used in cutting silo corn and in
helping to fill silos. He urged Gov
ernment and other employees now on
vacation to volunteer.
The campaign director said 343
Government-employed vacationists
already have signed up in the United
States Employment Service -Exten-
sion Service campaign to provide
harvest labor and at present 80 are
at work on nearby farms.
Mr.. Jones said % of these volun-
teers came from the Agriculture De-
partment; 7 from the Labor Depart
ment; 13 from the Library of Con-
gress; SO from the Navy Depart
ment; IL from the Pan-American
Union; 7 from the State Depart
ment; 10 from the Treasury De-
prtment; "a from the Veterans Ad-
ministNtion; 90 from the War De-
partment, and 19 from the War
Manpower Commission. In addition.
he said one each volunteered from
the White House Staff and the
Senate Once Building.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Institute Head Sees
No Need to Ration Coal

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 (P.-Harry
NJ. Vawter, director of the Btu
minous Coal Institute, said yester-
day that there is no need at this
time to ration bituminous coal.
Mr.. Vawter said in a statement
that only protracted work stop
page at the mines would bar the
industry from exceeding the 600,-
D00,000-ton production goal set up
sarlier in the year by the Govern
ment as required tonnage to meet
the country's soft coal needs.
Chester Bowles, OPA general man
ager, Monday said that the agency
had no new rationing programs in
view, with the possible exception
Of coal"
AS of the week ending August
T." Mr.. Vawter said, production of
bituniinous coal had reached 349,-
408, 600 tons. This is approximately
1000, 900 tons more than was mined
In the corresponding period last
year and was achieved despite a
series of work stoppages."
Mr.. Vawter said that ''the pro-
posed 48-hour week, if adopted gen.
orally, could bring about an over
production of bituminous coal" and
might carry production beyond
$50 ,000, 900 tons"
Under a proposed plan Of Fuel
Administrator Ickes, he said, stock
piles for the generation of power
and electricity would be cut to one
third of present levels.
The Institutes membership in
eludes operators who produce about
Is per cent of the Nations annual
soft coal output.
Evening star., 1943-08-18

Alexandrians soon will be able to
obtain city assistance in planning
their parties. They also will get
suggestions on how to have fun at
home, with the city furnishing the
ideas.
These new municipal functions are
part of wartime recreation pro-
gram planned for the rest OF the
year by Alan L. He'll, city recreation
director, who today announced a
comprehensive program following a
survey of Alexandyia's recreation
needs.
While the agenda will include ac-
tivities ranging from handicrafts
and tap dancing, to football and
basketball teams, Mr.. He'll pointed
out that transportation restrictions
serve to make recreation at home a
concern of the municipalities war
time program.
The first activity to be organized
will be junior civilian defense
corps made up of boys and girls
from 9 to IA years of age. They will
collect savings, distribute pamph-
lets and do other work for the civil
ian defense organization.
AS soon as coaches are obtained
and trained, Mr. He'll plans to or
ganize six-man football teams at
all the Fairgrounds for boys under
IA years Of age and l20 pounds in
weight. ...
Instruction In tap dancing will be
an early fall activity for junior girls.
Evening star., 1943-08-18

days the Confederate men had to
eat the corn they fed their horses.
MY husband, who served in the
Confederate Army, used often to tell
me about the suffering of the South
ern soldiers because of their inabil-
ity to get food" she said
Mrs. Hiett likes to speak of her
father. HE was. great man." she
said. What he didn't know would
fill mighty small book. There is
hardly home in the Valley that
doesn't have portrait painted by
him"
OF all of his paintings, the one she
likes best is that of a small child,
which looks down from her living
room wall. 1t is the portrait of her
self as small child. Another por-
trait she likes is of stately gentle
man who looks out of dark back
ground THAT is DR.. Livingstone,
the African explorer she said.
On her Goth birthday anniversary
Mrs. Hiett listened to the news
broadcasts, read the papers and at
noon helped prepare the lunch. And
last night she was given surprise
birthday party by the Falls Church
Chapter, UDC.
The best thing about the party.
she said. was the special birthday
cake with SO lighted candles.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Maj. E. A. Goldman, TO- Retires
From Fish and WHdIfe Service
Naturalist Prepares
Report to Smithsonian
On Mexican Animals

Mai. Edward A. Goldman, 70. 27O2
Seventeenth street NE, one of the
Governments pioneer naturalists in
the Fish and Wildlife Service of the
Interior Department, has retired and
will devote himself to the completion
of his report on wild animals of
Mexico for the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition. The report has given him an
honarary appointment as an asso-
ciate in zoology.
Maj. Goldman has spent 81 years
on wild life in the Government serv-
ice. In his younger days he was one
OF Uncle Sans mighty hunters.
Many of the $4,000 stuffed birds in
the study collection at the National
Museum were brought down by his
gun. He also has killed many deer.
mountain sheep, bears and antelope.
He started to work for the Gov
lernment at the age of l8 as assistant
to DR.. E. W. Nelson, a field worker
for the Biological Survey of the
Agriculture Department, who later
became chief of the survey.
They went to Mexico together in
1892. Maj. Goldman stayed below
the Rio Grande for the next IA years.
The naturalists always went armed
against men as well as animals.
Once bandits jumped on the majors
back in the dark, taking him by sur
prise in the mountains near Mexico
City. They got rs cents.
The work of the survey led to the
migratory water fowl treaty with
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Mrs. Charles I. Johnson
To Be Buried Today

GERMANTOWN, Md, Aug. 1S.-
Funeral rites for Mrs. Charles r.
Johnson, 76, who died at her home
at Germantown Sunday after long
illness, will be held today at Upper
Seneca Baptist Church, Cedar
Grove. Burial will be in the church
cemetery
Mrs. johnson was lifelong resi-
dent Of Montgomery County Be-
sides her husband, who is post
master her, she is survived by a
daughter, Mrs. Prescott Benson
Chevy Chase, Md; son. Glen
wood Johnson, Pittsburgh; a sister
Mrs. George O. Hendrickson, Ur-
bana; two brothers, Cornelius A.
Watkins, Baltimore, and H. l.. Wat
kins. Cedar Grove, and number of
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Farm Leaders Weigh
Program
Of Drought Relief
Four Nearby stotes Send
Delegates to PorIey Here;
Agency Experts Attend

Farm leaders from Maryland,
Virginia, Delaware and West Vir-
ginia began discussions here today
of six-point program of relief to
drought stricken farmers.
The program. as outlined by w.
G.. Wysot, general manager of the
Southern States Cooperative, in
cludes:
/. "A request to seed supplers to
provide needed emergency crop seeds
at low ceiling prices.
Y o. request to the Government
to lift present corn ceilings or other
wise encourage the shipment of corn
into deficit areas.
3. To ask Government action for
relief from high vegetable oil meal
ceilings. and to take steps to provide
oil meals for deficit areas.
Hay Purchasing Service.
4. To propose plans for a hay
purchasing service, either through
Government channels or by private
means.
S. To provide a setup to advise
farmers Of emergency crop recon-
mendations and emergency feeding
practices.
g. To take steps to achieve reduc-
tions of rates on feed shipments.
Pointing to the seriousness of
drought conditions now faced by
farmers, Mr.. Wysor said averages
taken for the States of Virginia,
Maryland and Delaware showed the
corn crops in these States to be Al
per cent of normal.
Tobacco 81 Per Cent Normal.
He said hay crops are 20 per cent
of normal, pastures 46 per cent of
normal soybeans 80 per cent of
normal. tobacco "a per cent of nor
NAL and other crops 46 per cent of
normal.
Leaders said relief recommended
tions will be presented to Grover B.
Hill, deputy administrator of the
War Food Administration; J. B.
Hutson, president of the Commodity
Credit Corp, and N. E. Dodd, agri-
cultural adjustment administrator.
Attending the meeting were rep
resentatives of the State Extension
Service. farm co-operatives and
other farm organizations of the four
States.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Alexandra War Fund
Receives First Donation

The first contribution to the
Special Gifts Committee of the
Alexandria Community War Fund
was received yesterday, even before
the committee has been appointed,
Raymond c. Brehaut, chairman, has
announced.
Joseph Burke, an Alexandria mer-
chant of 2 East Walnut street, in
formed Mr.. Brehaut he is giving
one OF his trucks to be sold for the
benefit of the fund.
Plans to start the special gifts
campaign on September 13, two
weeks before the opening of the
drive, were announced by Mr. Bre-
haut, who anticipates that at least
so per cent of the quota will be
raised by his committee.
In order to bring before the pub
lie the needs of member agencies
Francis Fannon, chairman of the
Alexandria Community War Fund,
has arranged for speakers of differ
ent nationalities to address civic
clubs during September. Mrs. Ernest
F. Campbell is assisting Mr.. Fannon.
The Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions
clubs agreed to give over their meet
ings to these speakers.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
kartinsburg Rites Today
For Harry R. KiImer
By the Associated Press.

oy Inc Associated PresS.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, August
l8.-Funeral services for Harry Ray
mond Kilmer, Government engineer,
who died Sunday at, the home of
his sister here after years illness,
will be held today. He will be buried
here.
A native of Berkeley County. Mr..
Kilmer was the son of the late Har-
rison Douglas and Almeda Morrow
Kilmer. He had been an engineer
with the United States Geological
Survey for 80 years. His home was
at 2227 Newton street NE, Wash
ington.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Dorothy Kilmer, and two daughters,
Mrs. Richard Wathen and Dorothy
Kilmer, all of Washington; one son
William Harrison Kilmer. IN the
Navy. and two sisters, Bessie and
Rebecca Kilner Of Martinsburg.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Arlington Sofety Drive
Results Are Reviewed

During the last flve safety con-
tests among large fleet operators and
commercial drivers there have been
only 19l accidents, 2 personal in
juries and no deaths, it was an
nounced today by Clifton G. Stone
burner, Arlington Safety Council di-
rector. The total mileage, he said,
was 11,030,554. ~ US
In the contest just ended, Mr..
Stoneburner said, 253 vehicles
travelled 2,551 ,873 miles with only a
accidents and l personal injury.
Individual no-accident awards have
just been made to 251 drivers who
completed the entire contest with
out a mishap.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Par|ey Called
On Night Milk
Need
Health Officials
To Sift Reports
Of Throot IFS

District health authorities today
were arranging q conference to de-
termine II reported increase In
throat infections among children Is
sufficiently grave to warrant . re.
quest for night delivery Of milk. now
limited to daylight hours by once
OF Defense Transportation regula-
tions.
DR.. Daniel seckinger, acting health
omcer, siad representatives OF the
District Medical Society, ODT.
dairies and dairy unions are being
asked to confer with him this after.
noon. II possible. to review the situa-
ton and plan remedial steps.
Revocation Of the ODT ban was
urged last night by DR.. william De
Kleine, chairman Of the Public
Health Committee Of the District
Medical Society. who said the milk
shortage probably could be alleviated
If deliveries were made before z am.
while employed housewives are still
at home.
Urges Milk BE Boiled.
Children's illnesses could be at.
tributed In part, he said, to i'm
proper refrigeration Of milk after 1t
reaches the consumer. He stressed
that families lacking ice boxes or
refrigerators can preserve she purity
of milk by boiling it before 1t il
consumed.
As the conference was being ar
ranged, DIR. Seckinger said he
would join local groups in urging
lifting of the night delivery ban II
the facts warrant such action.
Reports received at our once
from private physicians through
yesterday did not indicate an un-
usual prevalence of throat or gastro-
intestinal Ills" DR.. Seckinger COM
mented. However, am studying
the latest reports. We are going
into the situation thoroughly. AL
citizens, Of course, are vitally In
terested in preventing food poison
ing"
Believes Fluid Wasted.
DR.. De Kleine, emphasizing he was
expressing his own views alone,
plans to hold meeting of his COM
mittee as soon as possible. he
said he would recommend that the
committee request the District pub
lie health authorities to lead the
undertaking, adding his group would
cooperate with them in seeking
remedial measures.
II am confident milk Is being
wasted through improper care" Dr..
De Kleine said. with a shortage
existing, milk should be protected by
all means. Often milk delivered in
perfect condition stands in the sun
all day because the housewife is not
at home"
The conference called by DR..
Sechinger will go into all phases Of
the delivery problem.
Meanwhile, 1t was estimated that
dairies would be compelled to use
considerably more gasoline by re-
turning to night delivery system,
inasmuch as day trip also would
be necessary to collect from patrons
who pay daily. Milk deliveries, an
ODT official pointed out, call for
the use Of more gasoline than the
delivery Of any other food.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
llsHRshonmig
@Remimdery@D

Blue coupons, Book 2-Stamps let
tered r, S and T are valid now
and will remain good through
September 20.
Red coupons, Book 2-These can bs
exchanged for meats, fats, etc
Stamps lettered T, U, v and w
are good now and will remain
valid through August 81.
Those marked x, Y and will
expire october after they become
good as follows: x stamps next
Sunday, Y on August 20, and z
on September S.
War Ration Book No. 3-This book
will be used beginning September
IL. when brown stamps lettered A
will become good for purchase Of
meats, fats. etc. Brown stamps
lettered B will become valid Sep
tember 10, and both the A and B
coupons will then remain good
through October 80.
Sugar-For regular allowances Of
sugar for general use coupon No.
IA in book l is good for 5 pounds
through october 81.
Gasoline-No. 6 A coupons, good for
3 gallons each, are good through
November 81.
B and c coupons, good for az
gallons each, expire on dates In
dicated in individual books.
Old type B and c coupons will
not be good after September /.
Motorists who still have these
old type books should 60 to their
ration boards between next Mon
day and September / and obtain
new type coupons in exchange.
The exchange will be made on a
coupon-for-coupon basis.
The old type B and c coupons
are those that have the words
Permits Delivery OF One Unit of
Gasoline" on their face. The new
type coupons carry only the words
Mileage Ration" on the face.
Shoes-Stamp No. 10 is good for one
pair through october 81.
Fuel Oil-Period No. coupons In
new fuel oil rations became good
July and are valid for 10 gallons
per unit through next January (.
Period No. 5 coupons Of last
seasons ration are valid for 10
gallons per unit through septem-
Der 80.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
0PA Denies Cafe Meat;
Holds Rations 0verdrawn
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Aug. lS.-In what
was described by Office of Price
Administration spokesmen as the
first case of its kind in Maryland,
a Dundalk restaurant operator was
under suspension today for allegedly
overdrawing his ration-banking ac-
count by more than $4,000 meat and
fat points.
The operator, Francis Weiskopf,
was denied the right to receive
meats and fats until he can balance
his account. Clifford Snider, OPA
hearing commissioner. ordered the
suspension effective August 30.
Mr.. Snider said Mr.. Weiskopf
would be required to surrender all
Of his ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS al
lotment until the deficit Is cleared
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Ickes Comedies
Need for Rise
In Coal Price
Moves to Increase
Miners Work Week
To 48 Hours
ey the Associated Press.


Coal prices will have to go up when
the mines go on a 48-hour week,
Secretary of Interior Ickes conceded
last night as he prepared an order
to put in the longer work week where
local conditions will permit. Many
mines now work AZ hours
How much higher coal will 60 is
up to the Office of Price Administra-
tion. officials there are studying
the question. For miners. the longer
week will mean a SO increase in
weekly pay. This is at the rate of
time and one-half for the extra six
hours. ....
The War Labor Board disclosed
that Mr.. Ickes hopes to freeze miners
IN their jobs. 1t made public letter
from Mr.. Ickes reading:
I'VE are recommending that, in
order to remedy the serious man
power difficulties in the industry the
War Manpower Commission take
steps to reduce or eliminate labor
turnover at the mines"
When mines increased their week
from IS to ~ hours last winter. un-
der the urging of Mr. Ickes, the OPA
adjusted coal ceilings upward. The.
increases amounted then to l3 or IA
cents ton.
WLB authorization for Mr.. Ickes
TO order the longer week in selected
coal mines was announced Monday
night in a speech by James F.
Byrnes, director of the ONCE of War
Mobilization.
Mr.. Ickes told the WLB that the
Nation is dangerously behind" in its
coal production and that substitu-
tion of an eight-hour for a seven
hour day in the mines may we'll
spell the difference between a coal
shortage and an adequate coal sup
ply"
He said current production from
bituminous mines is 100000 tons
= week and ought to be stepped up to
l2500,000; that only 1925 900 tons of
anthracite are coming out each week
and 1900, 900 tons are needed.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
1akoma Park Council
Seeks Resumption Of
Through Bus Service
Petition Will Be Filed With
CopitoI Transit Today;
Copies Going to PUG

A petition to resume through bus
service between Takoma Park and
the downtown area will be filed with
the Capital Transit Co. today by the
Town Council of Takoma Park, Md.
Copies of the petition will be sent
to the Public Utilities Commission
and Representative Beall of Mary
land. The petition was unanimously
adopted at Council meeting last
night.
Judge Herman C. Heffner, a mem
Der of the Town Council, said many
commuters have to leave their homes
as early as Z am. to reach their
offices by 9 am. He referred par
ticularly to those residing just be-
yond the town limits in Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties.
Town officials will soon consider
postwar projects, and the construc-
tion Of a municipal building for
holding meetings and housing the
records Of the town will be among
the first to be listed Another
project is town swimming pool,
utilizing the water from the famous
Takoma spring. >s
The Town Council fixed the as
sessment for the construction of a
cement-concrete roadway on Co.
lumbia avenue at an5estimated cost
of 81 per linear foot and similar
improvement of Larch avenue at a
cost Of So 65 per linear foot.
A petition from the town garbage
collectors for pay increase was
denied. because they have received
two increases since September, 1912.
The commissioners of Prince
Georges County will be requested to
consider improvement of the grounds
around the J. Eros Ray School in
Takoma Park.
Funds will be provided for the pur-
chase of equipment for the school
Fairgrounds, following an appeal
from the school Parent Teacher As
sociation. The grounds around the
Takoma spring will be improved,
proper drainage outlet provided and
the roadway finished in concrete.
The largest amount received in
many years from the collection of
general taxes was reported by j.
Wilson Dodd, town clerk and treas
urer. The total was $58,118.59, less
discounts of s2,316.39. Other receipts
during July included permits, fines,
interest and penalties and miscel-
laneous, totaling $746.34
Disbursements during the same
period included streets, $3,4l0.03;
service, s1,858.38; police, 1892 90;
Office, $814.04; parks and play
grounds, $11668 assessable i'm
provements, $5,25185, and miscel-
laneous items, s1,77211, making
total of $14,116.06.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Vernon Watkins Rites
Held at Damascus
Special pispat tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DAMASCUS, Md, Aug. 1s.-Fu-
neral services for Vernon T. Wat
kins, 70, well-known retired farmer
of the Monrovia section, who died
at his home Saturday, took place
yesterday from the Beall funeral
home here. The Rev. w. D. Eye
conducted the services. Burial was
in Bethesda Cemetery, Brownings-
vile.
Mr.. Watkins is survived by four
daughters, Mrs Alice Umberger and
Mrs Sallye Blumeneaur, both of
Frederick; Mrs. E. Pearl Schade,
Monrovia; Mrs. Mildred Behrend,
Washington. and two sons. Ray M.
Watkins, Monrovia, and Dallas D.
Watkins, in the Army.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Montgomery Prisoners
10 Work on County Roads

Prisoners in the Montgomery
County Jail committed for definite
periods we're made available for road
work yesterday by the county COM
missioners.
Under another law, prisoners in
Jail here have for some time been
used on county roadwork when SEN
fenced in default of payment OF
Zines.
The commissioners indorsed w.
Nelson Oliver, Glen Echo, for ap-
pointment by the State Department
Of Forestry as a forest warden.
The board also appropriated ST.
3280 for enlarging the capacity OF
. sewer on the Silver Spring Inter-
mediate School. 1t was explained
by Frank I. Davis, county super
visor of school property, tina. the
present sewer pipe is inadequate.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
Virginia Mental Hospital
Salary Scale AssoiIed

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 18.-
Twenty-six members of the admin
tstrative and medical staff of the
Western State Hospital declared in
a signed statement, which sought to
defend Superintendent J. S. De
Jarnette against criticism, that the
task of attending patients at such
- mental institutions was becoming
IAN impossible" one because of the
inflexibility of State salary appro-
priations.
The statement followed criticism
of DR.. De Jarnette before the State
Hospital Board last week by the
Rev. w. Carroll Brooke, rector of
Trinity Episcopal Church at Staun-
ton.
The Rev. Mr.. Brooke suggested
that a change of superintendents
might be helpful and that the hos
pital needed more money.
Evening star., 1943-08-18
O'Conor Grants Pardon:
Commutes One Sentence

Gov. O'Conor yesterday granted
one pardon and one communication of
sentence in cases recommended pre-
viously by State Parole Director Her
man M. Moser
P. Ray Souder, who was given a
four-year sentence by Montgomery
County Criminal Court on a charge
of false pretense, was pardoned.
The sentence OF Thomas r. Bro
gan, given by the Prince Georges
County Circuit Court on an assault
and battery charge, was commuted.