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Evening star., 1943-06-13
Gift Of 7,044 Gallons
In Gas Sheets Probed
Woman Volunteer Worker
In Foirfux Accused

Officials Of the Virginia Office
Of Price Administration disclosed
yesterday that an investigation is
being made of reports that a volun-
teer worker on the Fairfax County
Ration Board sent gasoline coupons
to her nephew in order to help
him with his work." as a salesman
Herbert Williams, district OPA
attorney for Virginia, said in Rich
mond that the volunteer was re-
ported to have sent 273 full sheets
of c coupons equal to 7,044 gallons
of gasoline, to a nephew in Provi-
dence, R. I.
MI. Williams said the Rhode Is
land OPA reported the transfer of
coupons was discovered when
Providence postal clerk noticed gas
oline coupons protruding from an
envelope addressed to the salesman
and reported to OPA investigators.
He said the Rhode Island OPA
requested an investigation by the
Virginia State Office. Fairfax Coun-
tv Ration Board officials said they
are taking no part in the matter.
Rhode Island OPA officials re-
ported, it was said, that the nephew
denied having requested the gift
from his aunt.
Mr.. Williams said no charges have
heen placed against the volunteer.
He added that when all the facts in
the case are known, a recommended
ton for action will be made to the
OPA regional Office in Atlanta.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Food Price Survey
In Six Cities Planned
By Labor Department
Statistics Bureau Seeks
More Information on
Extent of Increases
By OLIVER MCKEE.

To provide more complete infor-
nation on food costs than that fur
nished by it's ordinary monthly price
collections, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the Labor Department
will make a special survey this week
of food prices in a large number
of stores in the District and nearby
areas, and five other cities, Sec
retary of Labor Perkins announced
last night.
The special survey is being under
taken for the committee of nom
governmental experts recently ap-
pointed by DR.. E. A. GoldenWeiser,
president of the American Statis-
teal Association, at the request OF
the Labor Department. The COM
mittee, headed by DR.. Frederick c..
Mills, professor of statistics at
Columbia University, is now review
ing the bureaus index of living
costs.
Covers LOw-Wage Areas.
In addition to Washington, other
cities to be covered are Atlanta,
Detroit, Milwaukee. San Francisco
and Scranton. Collection of prices,
in all six cities, will be restricted to
sections in which wage earners and
lower salaried workers live. No
stores in high priced residential
neighborhoods will be included.
Collection of prices in the WASH
ington area will start on Monday,
and bureau officials hope to COM
plete the survey here in three days
The local survey will cover both in
dependent and chain stores.
The bureaus monthly estimates
of changes in retail food costs in
the District are based on price COL
lection from about 40 stores. This
weeks special survey will cover
about 80 additional stores. and the
price collections from this group
will be compared with those obtain
ed from the stores regularly sur
veyed by the bureau.
Green Raps Increases.
According to the bureaus index,
retail food costs in the District
have risen 1876 per cent during the
past year, with an increase of 432
per cent between January, l94l, base
period of the little steel formula
and April, 1943
Organized labor recently charged
that the bureaus index fails to
measure the actual rise in living
costs, particularly in food prices.
Appearing before the Senate Bank
ing and Currency Committee Friday,
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, de-
clared that the index does not re-
fleet the deterioration in the quality
OF goods, the outright price viola
tons and the black market trans
actions which have become wide
spread during the past year.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Victim of Plane Crash
Buried at Etchison, Nd.
Special DiSpatrh fo Tho Ctor

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ETCHISON, Md. June 12.-The
funeral OF Flight Officer Douglas
Carlton GLAND, "a, Army Air Forces,
who lost his life in an airplane crash
near Maxton, N c., Monday, took
place yesterday from the home of
Mrs. Glands parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Hawkins, here. Burial was
IN Mount Tabor Cemetery. Etchison.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Polly
hawkins Gland, he is survived by
ms parents, Mr.. and Mrs Carlton
SIMON Gland, near Etchison: three
sisters, Carelan ", Ruth T. and
Marllyn I. Gland, and brother
SIMON Craver GLAND, in the Army
in Iceland.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
ChevyChaseP- P-TAPresidenf
Names Committee Heads

Mrs H. D. Keiser, recently elected
president of the Chevy Chase Ele-
mentary School Parent-Teacher As
sociation, has announced appoint
ment Of committee chairmen. They
are:
Mrs w. Y. Schulz, grade mothers:
Mrs. L. A. Barnes. cafeteria cashiers:
Mrs. R. H. Pledger, membership;
Mrs. D. S. Thompson, health and So
cial welfare; Mrs. Arthur Palmer,
library; A. L. Winn. teachers COM
penSation; Irving Payne. grounds;
Mrs. L, B, Gibbs. piano group; Mrs
Edgar Young band; Mrs. S. H. Will
liams, publicity: John B. Ecker, de-
fenSe, Mrs. G. j. Huber, motion pic
ture council; Mrs. w. A. Friedrich.
notices, and Mrs O. w. Hermann,
recreation.
Other new officers include Mrs.
F M, Defandorf. vice president; Mrs
J. H, Smith, recording secretary;
Mrs. H, Muir, corresponding secre-
tary. Mrs Samuel Syme, treasurer,
and Mrs. L. James, cafeteria man.
ager
Evening star., 1943-06-13
ice Watches Flow
OF Potato Carloads
For Further 5poi|age
Permit Plan Is Invoked
In North Carolina to
Protect Federal Orders

Close watch is being kept by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
on the flow of potatoes from
Southern producers with the double
purpose of preventing further
spoilage in hot cars, and also of
keeping the railroads open for in
creased war traffic, after easing of
the ban on icing potato cars yes
terday.
A spokesman for the ICC en-
phasized that the recent order
prohibiting the icing of refriger-
ator cars for potatoes was issued
on the basis Of an emergency"
Ice was allowed again in re-
stricted quantities to protect
potato shipments from Florida,
Georgia and South Carolina.
If the situation becomes less
critical, both as to the crowded
transportation lines and to the ice
supply, officials of the ICC indi-
Gated further modification of the
order might be forthcoming.
No icing is permitted on potato
AklklNlito ~ oill ANoI III SdlO OliIld IA
Virginia.
From an official of the Food Dis
trlbution Administration, meantime
came the disclosure that North Car
ollna's Irish potato crop would be
placed under a permit system be-
ginning Tuesday. The plan-placed
in operation in many potato pro-
ducing areas in the South as crops
reached harvest-is designed to as
sure fulflllment of orders to the
armed services and to provide an
equitable distribution to civilians.
Great quantities of potatoes have
been arriving in eastern cities from
the south, so spoiled they are unfit
Tor food.
One of the principal reasons for
stopping the icing of cars the ICC
spokesman explained, was because
the icing was overtaXing terminal
facilities in the south and inter-
ferlng with the transportation sys-
tenn of that part of the country.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Wives Of Men in Service
Favored as Bus Drivers

Wives of employees now in the
armed forces will be given first
choice of positions in a program to
employ women as bus drivers. ma
chinists and helpers at the Wash
ington, Virginia & Maryland Coach
Co., Joe Arnold, president and gen.
eral manager of the firm, an
nounced yesterday.
He disclosed that he has written
the wives of those employees invit-
ing them to participate in the COM
pany's employment program and
guaranteeing them first considera-
ton for available Jobs.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Gamers Subsidies
Affect Only Minority,
0PA Officials Say
Professors to Absorb
Most Wage Increases
Without Price Raise
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
Officials of the Office of Price Ad-
ministration predicted yesterday
that the new wage subsidy for
vegetable Gamers viii be paid only
to small fraction of the industry
and most Gamers will be required
to absorb proposed wage increases
without increasing prices.
Fred M. Vinson, director of eco
nomic Stabilization, announced Fri
day night that such wage subsidy
would be paid on canned green peas,
snap beans, sweet corn, tomatoes
and other primary tomato products
when and if the War Labor Board
authorizes higher wages in the cam
ming industry
OPA officials said the intention
was to pay the subsidy only to
marginal producers who cannot
absorb the wage increases" They
expressed the opinion that failure
to subsidize the wage increases for
such high-cost producers might
drive them out of business and
hence reduce production.
OPA estimated that the four types
OF vegetables included in the subsidy
plan account for 80 per cent OF the
vegetable canning production. Of
ficials are making a study to de-
termine to what extent prices of the
other 20 per cent of canned vege-
tables might have to be increased
because of higher costs of both ma
terials and labor.
Mr.. Wilson's statement had ex-
planned that wage increase demands
"f canrery workers were pending
before the War Labor Board and
that he felt it necessary to rule on
price and subsidy policies before the
board acted. His ruling was that
the Commodity Credit Corp, which
in January promised to subsidize
the increased cost of the fresh veg
etables where necessary to hold
down prices in the four major
classes. should also subsidize wa ge
increases where necessary to hold
down prices except where the
canned product was to be sold to
Government agencies.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Fort Meade Soldiers
Will Help Pick Crops
Gen, Reckord Says ESQ
Volunteer for Work
By the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE. June 12.-Nore
than 200 soldiers from Fort George
G. Meade will aid farmers the next
two weeks in the Reisterstown and
Frederick areas to pick pea crops
for canning, Mai. Gen. Milton A.
Reckord announced today.
Gen. Reckord. commander of the
Third Service Command, said not
more than $50 men would be as
signed to the work on any one day.
The soldiers who will help with the
farm work are men who have fin
ished their training and have
volunteered for the assignment,
Gen. Reckord said, adding that $50
men had already offered to help.
He emphasized that the farm
work would not interfere with the
training program.
The men will be paid so cents an
hour and transportation from the
camp to the farms, and return will
be provided by canneries in the af-
fected areas.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Arlington County w Gardens
Offer Competition for Prizes
Many Residents Try
To Produce Food for
Nations War Effort

Little gardens are being grown in
Arlington County's commun t y
groups.
Squares 20 by 20 feet are the
typical gardens at Arlington Village
and Buckingham.
Many gardeners are doing their
best to make these tiny plots pro-
ductive. Tomatoes are the favorite
plants, and garden after garden is
little green pellets which the for
tunes of June may ripen into lus-
clous summer produce.
AS quality instead of quantity is
the standard of the $1,000 Victory
Garden contest. these little gardens
can compete with the standard So
by30-foot plots at no disadvantage.
Arlington Village and buckingham
are both privately owned groups of
detached apartment buildings with
hundreds of apartment units. In
each community the tenants are cul-
tivating about $50 plots.
Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Lurie of Ar
lington Village proudly showed the
Arlington Village gardens yesterday
Mr.. Lurie is an engineer with the
War Production Board. He laid the
garden out and made blueprint to
scale, showing all the location of
their plot. Mrs. Lurie is the garden
leader, who organized the tenants in
the venture.
Almost all the tenants are garden
ing for the first time One gardener
reading that the seed was to be
planted in hills, managed to make
several hills three feet high on his
little plot, much as a child would do
with sandpile The owner of the
apartments had the land plowed,
narrowed and fertilized with a ton
of pre-War fertilizer without cost to
the gardeners. Of those signing up.
Mrs. Lurie said about 5 per cent
dropped out. Their plots were taken
over quickly by other tenants.
Community custom at both Ar
llngton Village and Buckingham now
is for tenants to hurry home, wolf"
their dinners and get out to the gar
dens wearing slacks and carrying
hoes over their shoulders.
Tomato plants were growing in
paper cups in the gardens to pro-
tect them from cutworms. One man
had guarded his tiny plants against
winds by pushing shingles, sharp
edge down, in the earth around
them to form a palisades for each
plant. 1t had worked His plants
now are far advanced and climbing
high on a 3-foot trellis.
Among the gardeners encountered
at Arlington Village we're Capt. J. j.
Calhoun, an ordnance officer at the
Pentagon Building; P. S. Twitty, a
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Volunteer Workers
Sought for Nursery

Volunteer workers, who will serve
part time at a nursery school soon
to open at the J. Enos Ray School
in Takoma Park, have been urged
to contact Mrs. r. S. Watts, Shep-
herd 3940.
Mrs. Watts said mothers who will
serve may bring their children to
the school. High school girls over
IA years also are eligible to serve.
Those who have toys, even ones
that need repair, Mrs. Watts said,
are urged to donate them. She said
a recreation center for children be-
tween the ages of and IA also Will
be opened at the school.
Evening star., 1943-06-13

products Of all kinds, including
gasoline, and reported this fact to
himself as Secretary of the Interior.
Then he approached the situa-
ton from another angle. remembers
ing that he also is solid fuels adj
ministrator for war In this role,
he decided the Secretary of Interior
could not encourage travel by train,
since trains use coal and more
trains for vacation travel would
mean more coal consumed.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Curtin Hopes for Visit
From Mrs. Roosevelt
By the Associated Press

oy ENe ASSUCIhteu PfeSS.
CANBERRA, Australia. June l2.-
Commenting on New York report
that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt might
visit Australia, Prime Minister John
Curtin said today the common
wealth government. and I am sure
the Australian people, will be glad
to welcome this gracious lady if
she can find it possible to visit Aus
tralia. and the government hopes
she can"
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Funeral Services Held
For George w. Mochem
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
BERKELEY SPRINGS. w. Va
June l2.-Services were held here
yesterday for George w. Mechem
II, for many years a resident of
Washington.
He was employed in the Govern
ment Printing Office before he re-
tlred and came to this county to
llVe several years ago He died in
a hospital in Hagerstown, Md. He
mad been employed in WASHINGTON
earller at the Adams Express Co.
Surviving are his widow. two
brothers and one sister,
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Charlottesville Flyer
Dies in Plane Crash

BY the Associated Press
SARASOTA, Fla, June 12.-Sec-
ond 1t. Roger H. Massie. %, of
Charlottesville, Va, was killed yes
terday when his pursuit plane
crashed near Sulphur Springs, the
Sarasota Army Air Field public
relations Office announced today.
1t Massie was stationed at the
Hlllsborough Army Air Field. His
mother. Mrs. Jessie H. Massie, lives
in Charlottesville.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
time" for visiting national parks,

time" for visiting national parks,
either by train or automobile.
"An unpleasant job" he called it,
putting duty ahead of his unbridled
admiration of the national park
system of almost 22,OO0O0O acres of
recreational areas and historical
sites, which his Interior Depart
ment administers.
AS petroleum administrator for
war, he found "a vital and urgent
need" for conservation of petroleum
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Ickes, Patron Of Parks,
Advises Against Visits Now
By the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes,
who for years has been telling
Americans they should spend their
vacations in the great open spaces,
reversed himself yesterday and
said, This summer definitely is no
Evening star., 1943-06-13
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Evening star., 1943-06-13

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18
Catholic Priest Flags
mission I'D Moscow

NEW YORK, May 1S-Opposi.
ton to the moving picture, Mis-.
sion TO Moscow" came today from
the Rev. FIR. Matthew Touhy, ma,
tional chaplain of the Catholic
War Veterans Of America.
Speaking at Columbian Hall
Union City, at the New Jersey
state convention OF the organlZa-
ton, the Rev. Fr, Touhy declared
1.-THE motion picture, Mission
10 Moscow was the greatest
piece of Communist propaganda
ever foisted upon the American
people.
Communism has received n
great deal Of encouragement
from Joseph Davies, former am
bassadOr 10 Russia, and from
Warner Brothers. author and
producer, respectively, of Mis-
sion 10 Moscow They have
dome meFe-te -gierifY- Soviet
Russia and advance the cause
OF communism in America than
the Communist Party could
have done In 100 years.
THE picture has created Ill
will. glorifies Communism, de-
means America, elcvates Soviet
Russia. paws tribute 10 the Reds
and ridicules Congress and our
citizens.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18
Brenda viii
You Step Out
With Me Tonight?

know I've been an awful crouch not TAX
Ing you any place lately. But after standing
al day AZ my new Job my feet darn near
killed me with eallouses and burning. Now
I've reformed or rather my feet have -
thanks 10 the Iee-Mint you advised. Never
tried anything that seemed IN draw the
pain and fire right out go fast - and tho
way 1t helps soften eAllouses 10 nobody's
business! Been able TO get some extra over
time money 30 what do you shy. let's 20
dancing tonight. You can step on my Ice
Mint feet al you want
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18
Quick Questions

What is the name Of the army
newspaper published IN Europe
for L. s. troops?
2-Mt Everest. the worlds highest
point. is part OF what range?
3-Who was IN charge Of the
Second Corps in the Successful
invasion Of BlZcrtc?
4-What legendary king was dis
obeycd in his order command
ing tho waves 20 stand still?
5-North Of what country is the
Araiura Sea?
6-=Accordlng 10 the Bible who
was the first child born on the
earth2
What river flows through Bel
grade. Vienna and Budapest?
Copyright 1913. ~ King Features
ANSWERS on Page l5)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18
Montague Love Dead

BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, May IS
GNS)-Montague Love, 65. Brit
iSh born character actor. portrayer
Of stern fathers and we'll bred viii
lains on the stage and screen, died
today at his Beverly Hills home Of
a heart attack. /.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18
DR.. S(human Resigns
From Job on FEC

WASHINGTON. May 18-Dr
Frederick l.. Schuman, former
University of Chicago professor
denounced on the floor OF the
House for alleged Communist as
sociations. has resigned from his
S., 600-a-year post with the Fed
cral Communications Commission,
ii was revealed today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18
knowledge Test
By DIR. sABINA II. CONNOLLY

DN LIN o4hlA4Nh H 1OAN.NOA<AsA
Locate it by country, Ca
Bremen; (b) Chihuahua; (c)
Auckland.
2-Fill the blanks in these titles.
(a) OWL. director Elmer
....; CD President Of 80.
University, Harold Dodds; Co
Jesse Jones, secretary 80.
was his name Ia } The
Cid; CD The Scourge of
Cod; (c) THE Hoosier Poet ?
With what country do you con-
meet tai Burgundy wine; }
Gorgonzola cheese; (c) haggis
pudding?
5-Can you name the national
flower: ta) Egypt; tb) Hol-
land; (c) Japan?
6-Who were three OF the Big
Four in 1919?
Copyright, 1913, By King Features
ANSWERS on Page t51
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18

There will be no peace any
where In the world and particu-
larly I'm America unless we de-
stroy all forms OF tOtalitariaD-
ism, fascism, nazism and COM
munism as we'll"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18
Prices Subject to 30 Sales Tss

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These pads have waffle effect that gives
you your rug softer undoot and lessons the
84xlo1 and exl2foot sizs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-04-03

Immediate Reconsideration
OF Pay-Co Plan Is Blocked

wAsHISoroN--A wslH-sus ~
Chairman Robert 1. pauxhton. n /.
~ c. ef The house Ways and
means committ.s Friday apparent
" has blocked immediate recon.
sldsrstlen ~ psy-ss.ycu-Ka tai
legislation
pcukhten announced thst Ne wss
-EelnE home"--I-surei Springs. "
G. according % me congressional
directory and would not eali his
committee into session uafll April
u At which time renewal ~ the
reciprccsl trade act win - the
order ~ The day.
The veteran Ways and means
chairman whc~ 'sno-fcrxIvrne.s
Tar plan sss rshuffed slaas with
the Rumi plan ~ . dissatisfied
house this week. ess mad about =
cal for immediate action on .
new pay-ss-yo0-ka nsll from House
Democratic Leader Ichn W. Ne
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-04-03

I'm tiiiS answer expressing me
official opposition OF the Office
Of Price Administration TO pro-
posals that meat price ceilings be
removed. Henry B. Owen. assist
ant oPA administrator for the
Pacific coast and Pacific North
west oPA district head. Friday
voiced the OPA's reply To anxious
inquiries from aroused house
holders and labor union members
as to whether OPA sanctions re-
moving price ceilings on meat.
"oPA's price ceilings mean
savings of millions Of dollars
to housewives of the state of
Washington on meat alone"
Owen said. Remove those
price ceilings and YOU can
guarantee prices will 60 mp.
Remember this single fact: not
q single item which is uncon-
trolled by price ceiling has
failed to increase in price to the
consumer! That is clear illustra-
ton of what OPA's price ceilings
mean in dollars and cents to the
average persons pocketbook.
GIVES TWO EXAMPLES
What will happen to meat
prices, if OPA price ceilings are
removed, is shown most clearly by
what has happened already to the
prices of fresh fish and cauli-
flower in Tacoma. Neither fish
nor cauliflower are controlled by
OPA price ceilings, because ap-
prevail of the department of agri-
culture is needed before either of
these products can be put under
OPA's price lids.
"Cauliflower cost the house
wife 10 TO Is cents for a large
head in June. 1912. Today,
nine months later, the Taco
ma housewife II forced to pay
an increase of approximately
500 per cent. That's because
there's no price control on
cauliflower.
The same thing applies 10
fresh salmon. You pay from
48 cents and up a pound for
fresh salmon in Tacoma now,
because there's no price cell
Ing on il. You paid p cents
pound for the same salmon
less than a year ago, in March,
1912.
There again you have no price