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Evening star., 1943-04-01
Waiter Steps Out of Character
When He Meets Prin1u Donna
But You Must Know
OfHis Love of Music
To Understand Why

He arranges the tray and pours
the coffee. He picks up your napkin
if you drop it. He hovers behind
your chair and you wouldn't 1ecog-
nize him If you saw him on the
street.
He is. in short, a waiter and a
waiter is always part of the back
ground-or almost always.
Take Raymond Lacaille. You
think about a waiter having life
of his own or dreams of his own but
to understand Raymond you have
to know a little about that.
Native of Normandy.
Raymond is thin, gray-haired
Frenchman. He comes from little
town in Normandy. He migrated
to America 18 years ago and eight
years after he came he found girl
from Alsace and they were married.
He has a car and radio and after
the war he and his wife hope to
buy phonograph.
On his night off Raymond lays
away his walters white coat and
takes his wife to hear the music.
Raymond loves music. It's part of
his half-forgotten dream of France.
In the Normandy village where
he lived there was an opera house.
Everybody went there to hear the
music-the rich people and the poor
people. Sometimes they heard the
same opera 10 times over, but they
always went back and they knew
when it was well-sung.
When Raymond was Is he went
to Paris to hear the opera. He has
never forgotten it.
Served Vladimir HorOwitZ.
The day Vladimir HoroWitz called
room service at the Raleigh Hotel
the tray he ordered was some time
coming. The pianist was practicing
in his suite when Raymond reached
the door. The waiter stood outside,
listening, until the pianist's hands
fell from the keys.
That was one incident for Ray
mond to remember, but it was moth
ing compared to the time he stepped
out of character.
A delicately accented coloratura
Evening star., 1943-04-01
Maryland Motorists
Ride on Expired Tags
Despite Record Sale
DeudIine Not Extended,
Although Rumor Floods
Police With Calls

Hundreds of motorists in nearby
Maryland were on the streets today
with old automobile tags despite the
fact that an all-time record for final
day tag sales at the Office of the
commissioner of motor vehicles in
Baltimore was broken before the
deadline at midnight last night.
In Prince Georges County. Hyatts-
vile police said about 1000 tele-
phone calls were received by the de-
partment yesterday from motorists
asking if the license deadline had
been extended
Bethesda police said thousands of
telephone calls had poured into the
station there yesterday and that
hundreds were continuing to call
today.
To all, the answer was the same
There has been no extension of the
auto tag deadline."
TakOma Park Issues Tickets.
While most police substations in
Montgomery and Prince Georges
were issuing only warnings to mo-
torists driving without 1914 tags,
Takoma Park police reported they
had given tickets to several motor
lists
Bethesda police estimated at least
so per cent of the Maryland
licensed automobiles on the streets
in Bethesda today are without new
tags
Many of those who are driving
with old tags, police believe. have
their. new tags but have simply
neglected putting them on.
The motor vehicle commissioner
in Baltimore reported that window
sales yesterday totaled 13,064, COM
pared with the previous final day
high mark of 1l,701 set in 1941.
$4,000 Fewer Tags Issued.
The total number of tags issued up
to the time the Office closed last
night was approximately 325 900
more than $4,000 less than the total
issued at this time last year.
In Maryland all tags must be pur-
chased through the motor vehicular
department Office in Baltimore.
In nearby Virginia, where present
auto tags remain valid until mid
night April IS, Arlington County
officials reported that telephone in
quiries about the State deadline had
flooded" the courthouse switch
board for the past two days.
1t was reported al the courthouse
that the telephone in the license
distribution Office had been tenn
porarily discontinued due to the flood
of calls.
Evening star., 1943-04-01
Intramura| Contests
For Soldier Students
Planned al COLLEGES
Competitive Team Sports
To Be Limited Only
By Available Equipment
Star Staff Photo.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Competitive team sports, limited
only by the available equipment and
interest of of students themselves,
are planned for soldiers attending
colleges under the Army specialized
training program.
Announcing that today, the War
Department reiterated, however,
that the soldiers will not have time
to train for, or to participate in, any
intercollegiate sports competition"
Coaches at many of the schools
had hoped the soldier students
would be available for varsity sports
as means of building up teams
depleted by the war.
Physical training directors and
instructors at the schools. the de-
partment said, have received rec
concentrations that "as a means of
intoxicating will to win, competi-
tive team sports such as soccer,
speed ball, touch football, modified
football. basket ball, volley ball and
baseball be strongly encouraged
Program Has 4 Objectives.
AS soon as such competitive teams
can be organized it is expected that
the soldier-students will devote
much of their Saturday afternoon
free time to intra mural contests.
Generally, the War Department
said. there will be four objectives in
the physical training program:
81. To develop those qualities
capabilities and rehexes associated
with f1rst-class physical condition.
y. To develop in the soldier
students certain fundamental skills
essential either to safety or to effec-
tive operations in modern warfare.
49, To instill in the minds and the
hearts of the soldier students an
aggressive. fighting spirit.
-. To provide sound, sane and
wholesome counterpoise to the highly
accelerated schedule of academic
study that is involved in the spe-
clalized training program"
All Will Be Taught to Swim.
Emphasis, the department said,
will be placed on aquatics. COM
batives, gymnastics, and obstacle
courses, and team sports.
Under the heading aquatics will
be the teaching of every man. to
swim, with emphasis on distance
covering strokes; combative training
will include "how to use nature S
weapons, the hands, feet, knees,
elbows and head; gymnatics will
be used to develop coordination,
balance and body control.
Team sports" the department
said, will be limited only by the
availability of facilities and equip
ment, by the interest of the students
and by the ingenuity of the in
structors."
Evening star., 1943-04-01
Norman Davis 10 Speak
lin Alexandra Toniohf

Norman H. Davis. national chair
man Of the American Red Cross, will
open the campaign sponsored by
theater owners to complete collec-
ton Of the Red Cross funds at the
Reed Theater in Alexandria tonight.
Mr.. Davis, who Is, q resident Of
Alexandria, will be met at the the
ater by Mayor William r. wilkins,
. local committee and the George
Washington High School Band, and
will address the gathering.
Collections for the Red Cross War
Fund win be taken In all theaters
In the country from tomorrow
through next Wednesday.
Evening star., 1943-04-01
Huff Presses
Probe Of Relief
Food Wastage
Welfare Chief Tells
Commissioners Other
Complaints Received

District Welfare Director Ray l.
HUFF yesterday assured the District
Commissioners that efforts tc
identify the person or persons re.
sponsible" for the waste of surplus
commodities found in alley near the
Food Distribution Center of the
Public Assistance Division will con-
tinue.
Mr.. Huff's report was submitted
to the Commissioners following a
meeting of the Board of Public We'll
fare, which heard results of investi-
cation into charges that persons on
relief had thrown away free food
in the alley near the center, which
distributes surplus commodities
from the Food Distribution Admin
istration of the Agriculture Depart
ment to those on relief or certified
to be in need of supplemental ra-
tions.
The report to the Commissioners
said that no negligence on the part
OF an employe has been found"
Totals 301z Pounds.
The surplus goods found in the
alley, the report stated, included
four cans of canned milk, Is pounds
of apples, 1912 pounds of graham
flour, pounds of corn grits, making
a total of 301la pounds. The report
then stated:
Whether or not other issue OF
these commodities has been wasted
and to what amount, in homes or
elsewhere, is not known. The total
pounds issued during March was
254,077, of which 102,915 was to
persons. Fifty-six persons received
surplus commodities on this day at
this point. OF these 35 were certi-
fed by the Public Assistance Divi-
sion and 81 were certified by other
agencies"
Mr.. Huff said whether the 3Oh
pounds involved in the present in.
vestigation was thrown away by one
or more persons was not known. He
added:
"At irregular times complaints
have been received by PAD of fooc
wasted. If the persons guilty Of
such waste we're identified, further
issue of surplus commodities woule
be stopped. No such penalty has
been imposed within the past year."
Plan to Be Discontinued.
Mr.. Huff told the Commissioner.
that by June 80 the entire operation
Of the surplus commodity plan will
be discontinued. He said, however
that provisions exist to permit re.
sumption of the operation if anc
when conditions require it.
The Commissioners were told also
that all rationed goods in the ware
house are either frozen or ISSUED
only for coupons under regulations
of the Office of Price Administra.
ton. He said that the total cases
not institutions-served by surplus
ofnmodfty issue during March was
2,489 involving 8,181 persons.
Following publication of reports
of wastage, Commissioner Guy Ma
son asked for an investigation by the
welfare board and directed police tc
find out If possible who was guilty
of throwing food away. Chairman
McCarran of the Senate District
Committee directed the municipal
counsel of the committee, Julien G
SourWine, to investigate the reports
Evening star., 1943-04-01
Mrs. Reed Takes Oath
As u. 5. Attorney Aide

The United States attorneys Of
flee today acquired its second woman
prosecutor when Mrs. Helena DOGGY
Reed, former assistant trust officer
OF the Lincoln National Bank, was
sworn In by Harry Hull of the Grim
inal clerks ONCE as assistant United
States attorney.
Also on the staff OF United States
Attorney Edward NJ. Curran is Mrs.
Grace B. Stiles, who has served for
approximately five years.
Mrs. Reed was sworn in in the
third-floor District Court of1ice she
will share with Mrs. Stiles.
Evening star., 1943-04-01
Southwestern Library
Bronch Open EVENINGS

The Southwestern Branch Of the
Public Library today resumed its
hours Of 8 am. to 8 pm.
Located at Seventh and H streets
S.W.. the library had curtailed its
hours In the past two months be-
cause Of fuel oil rationing.
Evening star., 1943-04-01
Hen Mothers Kittens

CHARLOTTE, N. C. (P,.-Mrs. J..
c. Gillis was surprised when she
lifted setting hen from her nest
and found two tiny kittens under
her. The mother cat sat nearby
contentedly. AS cat, kittens and
hen seemed satisfied with the ar
rangement, Mrs. Gillis strung along,
too.
Evening star., 1943-04-01
Library Schedule Set

The Beltsville Public Library will
be open from 2:30 to pm. Mondays
and from 2:30 to $50 pm. Thurs
days beginning today. The library
is operated with funds received
from the Friends Of the Beltsyille
Library Association. Membership in
the association is 81 . year.
Evening star., 1943-04-01
Window Smoshers Get 1856

Thieves smashed the show window
of the Charles Schwartz & Son Jew
elry Co. 1905 r street NV, early
yesterday and escaped with jewelry
valued at 1856, Horace Pack, store
manager. told police. The loot In
cluded eight bracelets, servics In
sigma and gold trinkets.
Evening star., 1943-04-01
More Costa Ricun SUGAR

Costa Rica expects to produce this
year 1000 more tons of sugar than
the record crop of $4,000 tons in 1912.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18

~OME people collect old playbills,
others go in for postage stamps.
~ but pr Max Mann, a world famous
psvchiatrist, rides one of the oldest of
hobbies. He spends all his. spare time
and money putting people 10 sleep.
Movie stars, ambassadors, symphony
orchestra conductors, big business men
and high government leaders have all
been grateful for Dr. Mann's help.
The New York City expert has been
winning battles against insomnia for
years and topped off his success by
putting man to sleep over the tele-
phone 3 ,eee rr'ffes away, and ne has
done the same thing on the radio.
People who should know say that Or.
Mann could induce a jitterbug to start
snoring even with plenty Of nearby
swing music right in the groove. That
remark came from persons who had
listened 10 a record the doctor had
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18

That's of course what they figured Sooner later like
the other guys who'd left their skeletons there I'd just
nuts and then the blackout.
There wasn't much to do all day except fry in the
used to watch for Curtis the Condor He'd
about probably TO whether ready TO furnish
him dinner He'd slide the sky just skmming the
rim OF the crater and give me the uncover.
Finally had an idea. played dead for Curtis And
enough, it worked He made threepont landing
the bone pile feet from and stuck his beak
out for bite Then jumped up end grabbed his legs
That mad and surprised bird, sargiento. But
he did what I'd hoped He took off. Curtis big
fellow and didn't weigh much any more but still he
just made it, clearing the crater lip by inches Then let
60 and off went Curtis, a boil"
For several days Halsrom half delirious, wandered
through the Mountains before he found by friendly
Indians and brought to Camata
Now Peruvian authorities planning to send out an
expedition the hidden mountain top with it's crater
of torment and put end to all the mysterious disap-
pearances in the Andes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18

of llama that had sharp backbone.
"All knew was that climbing and couldn't
see anything in the pitch darkness he said How long
kept moving don't know We finally got TO wherever
we going and unseen capors cut the that
bound my arms and legs. My aching head clear
enough and figuring making sort Of break
But my captors never gave me a chance. There was
lot Of cultural abberng then they walked
distance in the darkness and stopped. Then somebody
from behind kicked legs right out from under The
next thing knew going down like fireman
brass pole hit bottom with a walop that knocked me
out again.
when 1 came to thought enough dead and
in hell In the first place IT hotter than and
wher. I opened my eyes I found myself looking right
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
I I||| A Man Whose Hobby IT
z==== IS Putting People 10 Sleep =||==

he willingly gave up his program be-
cause, so it turned out too many night
drivers happened to tune him in. The
authorities feared that many motorists
might fall asleep at the wheel and
thereby increase the number OF
accidents.
While the practice Of his science OF
psychiatry is the doctors bread and
butter. ne takes AS much time off as
he can 10 60 around the country study
ing and treating an estimated $4,000
patients who can't but want 10 sleep
better. This gives the New York medi-
cat man u great -tieal-of pleasure
Il have 10 stay up all night TO enjoy
my hobby of putting other people to
sleep" is the way he describes the long
hours he puts in.
IL was on trip to Egypt that the
doctor got started. Some sand blew
l,,, .,,.g apI bo Couldn't ctagr, for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18

It's because Of the arpane firm that used to make plane
they called The Condor 1t just private joke"
Hallstrom went to explain that, disregarding the
warnings received to all the mysterious disappear
the district he planned to he left chuna and
headed After week Of hard travel he stopped
night in village of mountain Indians,
that they giving the old dog eye but
didn't think much about it,, said Hastrom because none
of those mountain Indians cheerful guys anyway
But them that gave my last chance. She
young girl almost kid and I'd noticed her looking
a of sad-lke two three times. Later she
whispered broken Spanish, get away, white get
away now, right away il will be too late
$50, stu being wise guy just laughed at her and
smg my hammock empty hut and went TO sleep like
the dope was When woke up it pitch dark, but
could sense somebod. in the place SO grabbed my
gun and suddenly turned the flashght expecting to
catch hevng Indian But Ia no sooner turned on the
flash than somebody parted my hair with club
Hallstrom went to say that when he recovered his
senses he found himself dashed like pack the back
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18

IENN ETIEN to thought was dead and in hell.
\N With these words big Jim Halstrom. Ameri-
w rubber scout, recently staggered into the
police station of the little city of Camata in northern
Peru tell how he had been saved from crater Of
torment by a mighty condor
Hastrom's skin terribly blstered by exposure 10
sun high Andes mountains His naked feet
bleeding and, although than six feet in
height and normally weighing 200 pounds he tipped
the Camata hospital scales at only ia.
And il all because was such wise guy" he
policemen from his bed in the little hospital
where he is being slowly nursed back To strength.
I'D been warned about going into the country just To
the Ichuna in the mountains They told that in
the last years dozen-odd prospectors had vanished
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
WhyWooden
|ndiansAreWorth
Hunting

~ nee well known to the American people the
prints Of Currier and Ives wooden Indians today
super-patriot Paul Revere These nkenesses of
aborgnes as American as ham and eggs and as realistic
their execution the gueheads clipper ships
and frgates Of bygonc good security
gtedged stocks and bonds Today they have a market
vaiHe collectors items that would make many old
tobacConist blink amazement.
There's nothing odd about the for wooden
Indians This enthusiasm fits right with other beated
appreciation Of our craftsmanship Of bygone day like
the pictures that hung in livery stables dngy offices
and grocery and priced possessions
stately mansions
Other Americana also rates high Glassware that
thrifty great-grandmothers got premiums with
pound tea bring times what the tea cost 10
anyone lucky enough find them slowed away in
dusty attic. Wallpaper at 25 roll that called
"darned expensive by great grandfather back
carefully removed from crmbling walls and mounted
linen TO the tune of % cents foot And now
the wooden Indian with value anywhere between
S25 and $3.50 each depending design workmanship and
state of preservation Anynne-~ho can sitiF4ate
hands grab off peck Of nckes and they
won't be wooden ones either.
Up 30 years ago, these Indians stood in front of
almost every tobacco store. There hardly village
that didn't display at least Most
towns had whole tribe of the redskins doing duty as
silent statesmen Of the products made famous by Sir
Walter Raleigh
Sometimes the tribe had cousins" standing in
place. These wooden images Of Mr. Punch or a
Negro boy. Occasionally Indian squaw pinch-ht for
feathered brave lust for the sake of variety And on
particularly occasions distant relatives Of the
abongines mounted watch outside drugstore hatters
a millinery establishment TO steer trade inside
The carving of the rcdmen's lkenesses was entrusted
a busy skilled artisans who often behind
in their orders to supply the rapidly expanding tobacco
trade from the 18i0s throughout the 1ss0s Little shops
out in the sticks that had reputation for workmanship
thought nothing Of supplying customers thousands of
miles away and orders from few hundred miles distant
were common Many times local carpenters who had
feeling the work carved the figures and many fine
examples were turned out
Business was good for the simple that the
wooden Indian the traditional sign for the tobacco
business The started away back in the year 1900
and no man who counted on making success OF the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18

into the eye sock
cts Of a grinning
skull, / was lying
on a huge heap Of
bones, skulls and
ribs, what seemed
to be thousands of
them. Owe rh e adj
the blazing sun re-
Elected from the
shiny dark basalt
waits of a crater
on the very top Of
a mountain. / was
on the bottom with
the skeletons but l
figured / could
climb out all right
because the slope
Of I h e era I e r
wasn't so very
s I G ep. w at a
laugh that was.
But it took me all
day to find II out.
I discovered at the
end of that time
that I could get up
about 30 feet and
then slid back into
the boneyard. And
IL was $50 feet to
the top of that
DEVILS punchbowl.
Every night at
sunset s o m e on e
came and a skin
pack with a little
bit Of food and a
S m all 6 ourd Of
water came shoot
ing d own tn Q
crater. II wasn't
more than about
three bites and a
sw Ito w, but it
just kept me alive
the next few weeks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18

days He finally put himself to sleep and has been
doing the same for others ever since. ".
He guarantees for instance that such unfortnnates will
sleep well after reading only one chapter OF MS forth
coming book, Put Yourself to Sleep"
Many another author has done the same thing but Dr.
believed TO be the first to do 1t on purpose
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18

there. At leas [
they never were
seen again. Well,
you're always hear
ing about how bad
everything is just
100 miles or so
a way. Hadn't l
been through the
Matte Crosse and
crossed the Andes
four times ? There
wasn't a n V I h i ne
tough enough in
South America TO
scare me.
"B lieVe me
senores, I'll never
say that a & a / n.
Because l found
out what happened
TO those vanished
prosp e C [ ors. 1t
happ g ned to me.
And I'd be right
where they are to-
day if it hadn t
been for good old
Curtis.
And who is this
Senior Curtis ?"
asked Police Ser
geant Manuel Es-
ira d a, who was
taking down Hall
strom's story at
his bedside.
Sick as he was
the big American
IN a n a e e q a wry
grin,
THAT s what |
called him, sargi-
ento. Curtis was
the biggest condor
ever raised in these
mountains, / guess.
l called him Cur
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18

made IN an effort broaden the scope his human
tartan work,
This entitled "Relax-Sleep' and is used in many
hospitals and sanarums to ull keyedup individuals into
a somnambulant state,
For short time the story goes, the doctor was
heard many receiving sets throughout the country but
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
TheSBride1
Who Was Trapped
ByABedrd
AVID JONES read the letter again:
Although some girls are, as ,

Although some girls are, you say, sort Of
~ mean, can say am good honest girl.
hope you may choose me for your own II you ever
wish me to come there 10 see you and marry would
come but as am poor girl and have money saved
up would have TO ask YOU TO furnish me $40 toward
my fare. But perhaps my picture will not please you,
and perhaps You are not the man who would trust
girl enough 10 send her $40 for earfare
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18

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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-08-06
Good Coon
Crop Reported

COLUMBUS, Aug. g. Maybe
it's the war tempo-maybe not. But
nevertheless Ohio Division of Con-
servation and Natural Resources
officials were smiling today over
report from the State Raccoon
Farm at Milan indicating that
the 1943 "crop" of young raccoons
will be the largest in the history
Of the institution.
DIR. E. d. Martin, in his report
as manager of the farm, told Con-
servation Commissioner Don Wat
ers that he was having an unusu-
ally good season and that he hoped
to beat the record of an average
of four raccoons per female this
year. This will mean the releasing
of approximately $50 more rae
coons in Ohio in 1943.
The raccoon distribution will be
started in August and it is ex-
pected that 2,050 young 'coons, who
will serve their apprenticeship in
the hardening pens"-intended to
make them more like their broth
ers and sisters reared in the wild
will be distributed throughout
the state. Last years distribution
was 1,700, Commissioner Waters
said.