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Evening star., 1943-01-05
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Manuel c. Blanco, so, of Baltimore
today started serving a 90-day sem
tence for destroying personal prop
erty, feeling happy about the whole
thing. g
He told Judge Almond Scott in
Municipal Court yesterday that he
smashed a plate glass window of a
jewelry store located at 1850 E
street NV. last Saturday because he
wanted to 60 to Jail where he would
be mice and warm" during the VIM
ter months.
Blanco, a former seaman in the
Merchant Marine, told the court he
arrived in Washington recently to
look for a job, but was unsuccessful.
Il walked around the block Sat-
urday for two hours before I got
up enough courage tc break the
window with STICK" he told Judge
Scott.
Holice testified that Blanco did
not attempt to run after breaking
the window. but remained until they
arrived on the scene.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Stut|er Hotel Is Set to Open
By Jan. ", Manager Says

The Statler Hotel at Sixteenth
and K streets NV. will be opened
at some time between January Is
and 81, according to Fred Kenny
manager. The actual date has not
been set as interiors and furnish
ings are not yet complete.
The hotel will contain 800 guest
rooms, and the management is as
sembling staff of some 750 en-
ployes. All floors except one are ex-
pected to be completed when the
hotel is opened to the public. In
view of the shortage of labor in the
District, a considerable number of
employees probably will be brought
from New York.
One of the early listings for the
hotel is the annual dinner of the
White House Correspondents Asso-
citation on January ~, when the
only guests will be those ofiicially
invited by the Executive Commit
tee OF the association. Mr.. Kenny
said this dinner will be served.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Army Surgeons Death in Fire
At D. c. Hotel Being Probed
Capt. N. N. Berck, 80,
Was Son-in-Luw of
Dominican President

The coroner's Office today launched
an investigation into the death Of
Capt. Maurice Marshall Berck, 38,
Army Medical Corps, son-in-law of
Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, Pres
ident Of the Dominican Republic,
who was fatally burned last night
in a fire in his apartment at the
Brighton Hotel.
He was taken to Emergency Hos
pital suffering from third degree
burns of the body after fremen
found him on the floor of his apart
ment, his clothing burned off, He
was pronounced dead shortly after
arrival at the hospital.
Surgeon Found Unconscious.
Firemen who entered the apart
ment found the entire room ablaze
and Capt. Berck unconscious nea,
a bed. Cause of the fire had not
been established.
Capt. Berck, widely-known
New York surgeon in private life
had been attached temporarily to
Walter Reed Hospital here since
November "a of last year An officer
at the hospital said he was assigned
to Army Medical Department pro-
fessional pool.
He was a specialist in chest sur
gerry and had served on the sta1s
of Mount Sinai and Gouverneur
Hospitals in New York. He was
commissioned in the Army last No.
vember 9.
Capt. Berck and Flor de Orc
Trujillo were married March 6, 1912,
at the Hotel Pierre in New York
City. According to Investigators,
Capt. Berck had just returned from
visit with his wife in New York.
A graduate of Cornell Medical
School, Capt. Berck underwent his
internship at Mount Sinai Hospital.
From 1881 to 1882, he was with the
Barnes Hospital in st. Louis. He
was in private practice in New York
since 1882 Capt. Berck, according
to police here, was a surgeon for
the New York Police Department..
Hotel Guest Discovers Blaze.
r. H. Fatt, manager of the hotel,
said the fire was discovered shortly
after 7 o'clock by hotel guest. The
manager and several employees
gained entrance with pass key, but
they were forced back by flames.
Capt. Berck was pronounced dead
at sos.
Police advanced the theory the
surgeon had fallen asleep with a
lighted cigarette in his hand. Mr.
Fatt said the Army surgeon returned
to the hotel between 4 and 4::30
O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
He had been at the Brighton
since November.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Traffic Safety
Conference
Called Jan. IS
Session to Discuss
PIons- to Halt High
Deuth Rute Here

A new attack on Washington
high pedestrian traffc fatality record
is to be formulated at meet
ing of police and traffic oficials
scheduled by the Commissioners for
1890 am. January IS.
The session is to be attended by
Chairmen MacCarran and Randolph
of the Senate and House District
Committees and Senator Burton. Re-
publican, of Ohio, head of the Traffic
Subcommittee of the Senate District
Committee The Traffic Subcom-
mittee of the House group also will
be invited if Chairman Randolph
names one meanwhile. The meeting,
to be held in the boardroom of the
District Building, will not be open
to the public.
Planned by City Heads.
The session was planned by the
city heads at the request of their
Traffic Advisory Council, which ad-
vised them that 80 per cent of the
trafiic fatalities recorded last year
were pedestrians and that five out OF
the six traffic deaths this year, up to
the time Of adopting the suggestion,
also involved pedestrians.
Ofhcials predicted that definite
plans would develop from the meet
ing, saying that some already were
in mind. The advisory group, which
Is headed by Whitney Leary, the
Districts OPA director, said 1t felt
the pedestrian fatality record of last
year and continuing this year called
for comprehensive understanding
by all concerned" If safety promo
ton activities were to bear fruit this
year.
Not only must the civilian popu-
lation become conscious of the prob
lem, but municipal officials must
have the same outlook" said one Of
ficial. He added that adoption of
"cure-all' was not planned, but
rather ways and means leading to
a cure"
Civic Discussions Urged.
One suggestion was that each civic.
business and fraternal organization
IN washington set aside at least one
session for an open discussion of the
problem.
While 1t was indicated special at
tention would be given to pedestrians
In the new safety program, it was
asserted by an Advisory Committee
spokesman that the motorist would
not be overlooked"
In addition to the several men,
bers of Congress, those expected to
attend the conference include all
Metropolitan Police inspectors and
captains, a committee representing
the Traffic Advisory Council, Police
Chief Edward j. Kelly, Traffic Di-
rector William A, Van Duzen and
Capt, Jerome B. Lawler of the Park
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Evening star., 1943-01-05
By the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 5.-James v.
Forrestal, Undersecretary Of the
Navy, told the fourth graduating
class of the Naval Reserve mid
shipments school today that IF
there is any fault to be essayed or
any blame to be placed, 1t is on my
generation and not on yours because
mine, which had been through one
war, preferred to forget history and
to believe an earthly millennium had
fallen on an hitherto sinful world"
Commissioned as ensigns in the
Naval Reserve, the 284 men, out of
an original class numbering 316,
entered the Naval Academy Sep
temher II. They have followed an
intensive training and instruction
period which included naval engi-
neering, naval discipline and in
doctrination.
Mr.. Forrestal, introduced by Rear
Admiral j. r. Beardall. superintend-
ent Of the Academy, told the gradu-
attng class that "the rewark for work
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Woman Admitted
To Park Police
Training School

First woman to attend the Park
Police Training School since it was
founded three years ago, Mrs. Lydia
H. Barton, park policewoman, yes
terday joined is of her male COL
leagues at the first session of the
school.
Mrs. Barton, who lives at 2417 K
street NV, has been a park police
woman for five months. She has
worked mainly with Juveniles and
women's ofenses, according to F. F.
Gillen, senior superintendent of
National Capital Parks.
Mrs. Barton was preceded on the
park police force year ago by Miss
Beatrice Ball, now with the WAVES
at the Coast Guard Academy, NeN
London, Conn.
Mrs. Barton gets the same training
and pay as the men on the force.
The school, which is located at
Fifteenth and c streets SW., was
started by Capt. Jerome B. Lawler
and Mr.. Gillen. Co-directors are
Sergts. william K. Snider and
Arthur D. Cook, both Of the park
police.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
284 Naval Academy Grads
Hear James Y. Forresto|

well done must come largely from
within ones self" and that "ambi-
ton must be ambition for the whole
service and not for individual
glories."
Reserve Midshipman Chester M.
Locke of Lockeford, Calf, COM
manded the reserve battalion, and
the component companies were
commanded by Carl L. Byham, jr.,
Kane, Pa; Robert c. Meacham, Bir-
mingham, Ala, and Frank H.
Thames, jr.. Charleston. s. c..
Admiral Beardal, in introducing
Mr.. Forrestal, pointed out that "for
nearly 100 years the Naval Academy
has been maintained for the sole
purpose of training young men to
be naval ofdcers-our leaders at sea,
capable of carrying on the Navy's
great traditions and fighting EN-
cheney"
As the reservists were presented
their commissions by Mr.. Forrestal
they received orders directing them
to report Immediately for active
service.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Department Store Cases
To Be Heard This Week

The Governments case against two
District department stores, the Hecht
Co. and Woodward & Lothrop, on
charges of violation of price ceiling
and price posting regulations will be
heard tomorrow and Thursday, &C
cording to papers on file in District
Court.
A pre-trial hearing Of the Hecht
case. to settle points Of argument
has been scheduled for Justice David
A. Pines Court tomorrow at
1870 pm.
On motion by counsel for the Of
flee of Price Administration and
Woodward g. Lothrop, date for argu-
ments was continued until Thursday
The motion for continuance was
granted by Justice James M. Proctor
in Motions Court.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Representative Cochran
Has Leg Amputoted

Representative Cochran, Demo-
crat, OF Missouri, veteran of %
years IN Congress, had his left leg
amputated below the knee yester-
day In an operation for q circula.
tory ailment performed at the Naval
Hospital, Bethesda. Md. DR.. George
w. Calver, attending physician of
Congress, announced today that Mr..
Cochran's condition ''is very salts.
factory"
Representative Cochran is expect
ed to remain at the hospital for an.
other month or six weeks, it was
said. He underwent an intenstinal
operation ut the hospital last August.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Annual Dinners Here
Severely Cutai|ed
By Food Shortages
Many Events Cancelled;
Steaks Disappear From
Menus at Others

Many large dinners which former
ly were held annually in Washing
ton have been Cancelled, and others
are curtailing both their menus and
guest lists, it was learned today,
following an attack yesterday by
Representative Mahon, Democrat, of
Texas on lavish banquets in
Washington.
Several functions which used to
be dinners have been turned into
dances instead, according to one
hotel spokesman. who said that
hotels have almost as much diff
Guilty in obtaining foods as do house
wives.
One prominent socialite who al
ways has entertained elaborately in
the past. it was pointed out, has
taken recently to publishing hel
menu, to show that the food values
are not as lavish as in the past.
= Menu Changed. 1890
One big annual dinner at which
huge steaks have always been served
has had to give up the idea this
week, according to one hotel, and
will serve chicken instead. A rep
resentative of the organization
sponsoring the affair indicated
that in place of the former elabo-
rate meal, the food will be more
like "chuckwagon grub"
One hotel spokesman, who also is
a homeowner, insisted that the
problem of getting coffee. beef, ham,
bacon and certain other scarcities is
about as difficult for the hotel as for
the home, comparatively speaking
One hotel is serving coffee in demi-
tasse cups instead of the large din
ner coups formerly used Guests
also are restricted to one pat of
butter.
Delicacies Available.
Though chain stores and the lower
priced groceries in the District have
had serious shortages in basic COM
such as beef and butter,
fancy grocers still have stocks OF
chickens, canned goods, artichokes
in olive oil, fancy cheeses and other
delicacies, a brief check revealed.
One large hotel reported that it
was low" on beef and lamb and
butter, but that it would serve guests
as long as any stocks were available.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Money Acceptable
In New Drive for
Victory Books
Funds Would Purchase
Technical Publications
For Servicemen's Reodin!

AS the second "Victory Book
drive opened today in the District
its chairman emphasized that cash
contributions are acceptable as well
as books
Mrs. Philip Sydney Smith, again
directing the drive, explained that
cash donations would be used TO
purchase specific technical books re-
quested by the services. A list Of
these books also will be published
from time to time in The Star for
contributors to use as guide.
Prefer Books to Be Mailed.
The campaign for books for serv-
icemen and merchant seamen
opened Nation wide today and will
run until March S. Books can be
brought to any branch of the Public
Library or the George Washington
and Catholic University libraries.
The officials prefer, however, that
books be mailed to the classifica-
ton center, the Southwestern
branch of the Public Library. Sew
enth and H streets SW., to save
the gasoline and tires of the other
branch library trucks.
Cash donations should be mailed
to Mrs. Smith at the headquarters
of the drive, the Franklin Building,
Thirteenth and K streets NV. In
addition to these funds, Mrs. Smith
also will use for special purchases
the proceeds from sale of books
whose condition or subject matter Is
not acceptable to the armed services.
Certain Types Best.
The best type Of books. she said,
whether regular or pocket size, are
those now on your bedside table. "
Current fiction and non-fiction are
what the soldiers, sailors, marines,
coast guardsmen and merchant
seamen want, Mrs. Smith said. She
also mentioned detective stories,
westerns" and adventure stories.
The drive is sponsored nationally
by the American Library Associa-
ton, Red Cross and United Service
Organizations. Here the Commits
sioners have also announced their
sponsorship. In a similar campaign
last year District residents contrib
uted $4,000 books. About IS 900 of
them were acceptable and are now
being read by fighting men in all
parts of the world.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Mrs. R. w. Chew Dies
Of Traffic Injuries

Mrs. Robert w. Chew. 1881 Ord
way street NV, injured late Sat-
urday in a station wagon and street
car collision in Norfolk. Va, died
early today at the Norfolk General
Hospital, the Associated Press re-
ported. Mrs. Chew suffered internal
injuries.
Mrs. Chew's body will be sent to
washington tonight.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Fire Causes $1,000 Loss
Al Takoma Park House

A fire believed to have started
from defective furnace f1ue, dam
aged the home of E. L. Richman
at 8 Pine avenue, Takoma Park, Md.
last night to the extent Of about
$1,000, Takoma Park fire officials
reported.
Firemen said the flames were dis
covered on the second floor at about
10 pm. by Mrs. Richman, who
turned in the alarm.
Equipment from the Takoms
Park and Silver Spring Fire Depart
ments answered the call.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Casey Leaves HospitoI

Daniel M. Casey, protagonist of
the poem, Casey at the Bat" has
returned to his Silver Spring home
from Washington hospital, where
he was reported near death three
months ago. The 80-year-old for
mer pitcher is much improved.
Evening star., 1943-01-05
Benefit Dinner Set

A benefit ham dinner will be given
by the ladies of the Walkers Chapel
Methodist Church, Dittmar and
Glebe roads, Arlington, from $50 to
7:30 pm. tomorrow. Mrs. Herbert
Todd will serve as chairman,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

Magazine SeCton-Detrolt Times
Copyright 1913. In the United states Of America BY
American Weekly, Inc. All Rights Reserved Under
International Copyright, Including Foreign Rights.
Reproduction in Original. or In Translation Is
Expressly Forbidden.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06
RUBBER:
Showdown on Oil Use

Rubber continued to be a contro-
versial subject as William M. JEFF
fers, rubber director, came to grips
with Robert P. Patterson, under
secretary of war, and Harold L..
Ickes, petroleum administrator, in a
dispute over the use of gasoline in
the synthetic production program.
Patterson, supported by Ickes,
charged in a statement that letters
was weakening American air
strength against the Axis by reduc-
ing combat supplies of high octane
gas for the benefit of the civilian
synthetic rubber manufa curing
schedule.
Still at odds with Elmer Davis,
owl director, over publicity re-
leases on the rubber program, JEFF
fers briskly took on his two new op-
ponents declaring that their charges
called for investigation to bring out
the true facts to the public.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06
AIR TRANSPORT
Chicago to Singapore

How air passenger and cargo
transport service will be expanded
after the war was indicated by the
application of the Chicago and South
ern Air Lines for a charter to op-
crate postwar trans-Alaskan serv-
ice from Chicago to Singapore and
Batavia.
The company had previously filed
application to operate from the West
Indies to New Orleans. The new
service to Singapore and Batavia
would thus establish the shortest
route to the East Indies and the
West Indies.
The new route would be 1,543
miles shorter than present air serv-
ice from Chicago to Singapore-Ba-
tavia, via San Francisco. More
over, no over-Water hop would be
longer than 480 miles.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06
DRAFT:
PayroIIers on Call

Probability that many Of the 840,-
900 draft-eligible men on govern
ment payrolls would be indicted
into the armed forces was seen in
the selective services ruling that
federal workers could not be de-
ferred for occupational reasons ex-
cept through examination Of individ-
ual cases by a special presidential
committee.
Up to the present, thousands of
government workers had been given
deferred classification as essential.
Selective service announced that
effective May Is, the $500 local
boards must submit monthly to Ma
jor General Hershey, for transmits
sion to congress, the names and
numbers of federal employees clas-
sified as IA or 2-B, the classes of
deferment for occupational reasons.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06
PACIFIC:
II. S. Filters Busy

From the Aleutians to New
Guinea, American airmen continued
their assaults on Jap airields, ship
ping and ground installations.
Liberators, Mitchel1s, Lightnings
and Warhawks made IS raids on the
enemy at Kiska, carrying the total
of forays on this menacing Jap in
stallation to more than 100 in the
course of a single month.
In the Solomons, Yankee f1iers bat
tered Jap positions in four air raids,
attacking Tonei harbor and Kieta
and smashing at Kahili and Munda.
From Australia, Allied. aircraft
made 10 forays in single day, de-
stroying enemy planes and straffing
Jap base installations and occupied
villages. Rabaul and Ubili, New
Britain, the Saidor area of New
Guinea and Laga on Timor island
were the principal targets. In addi-
ton American planes participated in
two raids on enemy fuel dumps and
float-plane anchorages in Dutch New
Guinea.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06

SAILORS: More than 5000 Ger
man naval personnel, mostly off,
GERS, arrived in Italian ports for as
signments aboard Italian warships,
according to reports received in
London.
FEDERATION: Ezequiel Padilla.
Mexican foreign secretary in book
published in New York wrote that
federation of American nations lis
a pressing and imperative duty"
SURPRISE: Vice Adm. Jonas H.
Ingram, commander of the United
States Atlantic fleet, predicted dis
agreeable surprises" for the enemy
off the Brazilian coast soon, but did
not amplify his statement.
"CAN OPENERS: Specially
equipped I'D Hurricane fighter
planes, known as "can openers" and
armed with two 40-mm. guns firing
shells weighing 21z pounds each are
being used as tank busters by the
Raj in North Africa, the British
air ministry announced. The tank
busters have proved very effective.
Released by Western Newspaper Union
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06
U-BOAT DAMAGE:
More Ships the Remedy

Calling submarine losses of United
Nations shipping "heavy but not
disastrous" the Truman senate
committee revealed that approx
mately 100000 tons month were
sunk last year-or more than the
total tonnage built by the United
States and Britain combined in 1912
Adding that losses were reduced
in the latter months of the year, the
report declared: ''The submarine
menace can and will be effectively
met"
Most effective answer to the
U-boat threat will be increases in
new construction of merchant ships
and escort vessels this year, the
committee said. The report esti-
mated that between 10 and 10 mill
lion deadweight tons will be built In
1943, compared with 10000 tons
last year.
Increased speed for newly con-
structed ships was promised through
the building Of new Victory models
and the redesigning of Liberty ships
to permit speeds of Is to II knots
compared with II knots for the pres
ent design.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06
TUNISIA:
Nazis Counter-Attack

Fighting stubbornly to delay the
inevitable day of reckoning, Axis
troops sought desperately to pre-
vent the Allied armies from further
narrowing their last hold in Tunisia.
On both the north and south fronts,
German counter-attacks were fol-
lowed by successful Allied thrusts
that wrested mountainous terrain
from the enemy and forced the Axis
armies nearer to their last-stand po-
sitions.
In the north, the British First
army pushed southeast after repel-
ling major enemy assaults in the
Medjez-el-Bab sector, destroying
more than one-third of the Nazi
tanks opposing them.
In the north, General Montgom-
ery's British Eighth army made i'm
portant gains in the strategic hill
country north and west of Enfda-
vile which brought it closer to
Tunis.
F, Meanwhile, bombers Of the Allied
tactical air force kept up constant
attacks against the few remaining
Axis-held airfelds.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06
WAR BUILDING
Peak Is Passed

With the completion Of the major
part of the building construction
necessary for full-scale armament
production, a shift of men and ma
terials from construction to other
fields is now under way, the depart
ment of commerce reported.
The department estimated a de-
cline of 80 per cent in new con-
struction in the first quarter of 1943
compared with the last quarter of
1912. New construction amounted to
So, 200, 900 in the first three months of
this year.
Total nonfarm residential building
continued the downward trend evil
dent throughout most of 1912, de-
spite some increase in publicly
financed structures. Private resi-
Dental building amounted to only
$138, 10000 in the first quarter Of
1913, decrease of AZ per cent from
the preceding three months and 20
per cent less than in the correspond
ing period of 1912.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1943-05-06
POSTWAR FINANCE:
Congress Holds Rei11s

Voting to extend for two years the
Presidents authority over the
$4,000, 100000 currency sterilization
fund, the house adopted an amend
ment designed to prevent the use of
this money in the $4,000, 100000 in
ternational banking fund proposed by
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau for
a postwar world bank.
The senate had previously with
drawn the Presidents power to de-
value the dollar while approving
continuance of his power of the sta
Utilization fund.