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Evening star., 1944-02-01
Funeral Services Held
For Mrs. Mary f. Wood

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Wood, widow of Commo-
dore Moses Lindley Wood, U. S. NJ,
who died Saturday at her residence
in Stoneleigh Court, 1925 Connecti-
cut avenue NV, after an illness of
several weeks, were held today at St.
Matthew'S Cathedral. Burial was
to be in the Naval Academy Gene
terry, Annapolis, Md
A resident of the Stoneleigh
Court for the past 20 years, Mrs.
Wood was a native of St. Louis. She
married Commodore Wood October
25,, 1887. At one time he command
ed the U. S. S. Maryland and was
president of the Naval Examining
and Retiring Boards of the Sd Naval
District and also president of the
Special General Courts Martial of
the New York Navy Yard. He died
in 1881.
Mrs. Wood is survived by a daugh-
ter, Miss Muriel Wood, who lived
with her at Stoneleigh Court:
granddaughter. Mrs. James Dun
nington Babb, wife of 1t. Comdr.
Babb, U. S. N; two grandsons.
Second 1t. Valentine Wood, U. S.
A. A. F., and Pvt. Dudley Wood of
the Army and two great-grandsons
Evening star., 1944-02-01
War Bonds
mer with s28,ls3,oOO, the latter with
Sl9,320476.
Continued From First Page J

mer with s28, $4,000, the latter with
sl9,320,476.
Virginia reported $35, 100000 or
2957 per cent of its goal.
Amy personnel mas purchased
S342,000,000 worth of bonds through
allotments of the soldiers pay, with
probably a still larger amount
bought with cash, the Nation was
told by Gen. George C. Marshall,
Army Chief of Staff, in a CHS net
work address last night. He added:
by purchasing bonds he shows
his faith in the future, which he is
fighting to guarantee at the hazard
of his life. What is your feeling in
the matter, here in the United
States, safe and comfortable in your
own homes?
I'VE are approaching the most
critical period of the war, in which
the price of success demands the
overwhelming support of the Ameri-
can people for our troops overseas in
the great operations now pending.
The troops must feel certain of your
unstinted and 1tnselfash support
Evening star., 1944-02-01
7 uxes
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NCOutlllueu from fNSt Page.)
the move was an entering wedge
for taxation.
In one of its concluding actions,
the conferees amended and adopted
the SenateS so-called hobby
amendment" which in certain in
stances restricts the allowance of
losses from business ventures from
being applied against the taxpayers
ordinary income.
If a man has a business which
loses money for five consecutive
years, he would be required to re-
compute his overall net income and
would be allowed to deduct. on &C
count of the losing business, only
up to $4,000 of the net loss at
tributable to that business for each
of the five years.
The conference also voted to allow
corporations to deduct their con-
tributions to veterans organizations
as business expenses.
The Renegotiation Act amend
ments liberalize somewhat. from the
contractors point of view, the law
under which the Government re-
examines contracts for war goods
and scales them down where neces-
Sary to eliminate allegedly excessive
profits
Next December 81 was set as the
termination date for renegotiation.
but the President was given six
months leeway, either way, to
change the date to meet develop
ments.
A siX-member War Contracts
Price Adjustment Board will have
general charge of renegotiation.
Where a contractor is dissatisfied
with the boards renegotiation, and
where a mutual agreement has not
been signed between the Govern
ment purchasing agency and the
contractor, he can obtain a COM
plete review of the case by the
Court of Tax Appeals
Evening star., 1944-02-01

| throughout the great struggle that
lies just ahead. The knowledge that
the home front is solidly backing the
Fourth War Loan drive will be q
tremendous encouragement to oul
men overseas"
Radio Program Starts.
! At 8 am. today Kate Smith went
on the CHS Nationwide hookur
until l am. tomorrow with her plea
will you buy a bond?" WTOP is
the Washington outlet. In October
1912 during a round-the-clock ap-
peal to WaShingtonians over WTOP
her bond sales here tailed over
81 100000. Her broadcasts today are
originating from New York, with
Chicago and Hollywood tied in for
special bond programs.
The American Legion will hold a
gigantic War Bond show and auc-
ton at Constitution Hall on the
night of Monday, February IA.
Franklin Porter. War Bond chair
man for the Legion in the District,
said that the program will include
the Navy Band. entertainment by
some of the Nations leading screen
and radio stars and appearance of
military and political notables.
Tickets to the show will be given
to those showing receipts for bonds
issued in February.
Beginning tomorrow, bond buyers
in Washington will be given an op-
portunity to put their names on a
scroll which Philippine President
Manuel Quezon has said will be
given place of honor in my coun-
try" The scroll may be signed at
these stores: Woodward e. Lothrop,
Lansburgh & Bro, S. Kann Sons
Co., the Palais Royal, the Hecht Co.,
Goldenbergs, Julius Garfinckel g.
Co., Jellef's, the Raleigh Haber-
dasher, Sears Roebuck e. Co.,
Brooks. Philipsborn's, Morton's and
G. C. Murphy Co.
Variety Show to Be Given.
A variety show for the Fourth War
Loan will be staged February Is at
the Jewish Community Center, Dr.
Max KoSsoW, War Bond chairman
of Washingtons Zionist groups, has
announced. DR.. Kossow said that
s500,000 goal has been fixed for the
show
More than 100000 in War Bonds
have been sold to date in response
to the wounded veterans program
broadcast daily at 6:15 pm. from
Walter Reed Hospital over WWDC,
according to Ben Larsen, station
a.
The Soroptimist Club, which has
set its goal at $4,000 for the pur-
chase of an ambulance. has so far
sold $4,000, according to Mrs. Mary
Chmylko, bond chairman. Leading
bond salesman of the club is Mrs.
Mary Catherine Lewis, whose group
has sold $1,000
Bond rallies tonight will include:
Fort Stevens Post, No. 80, of the
Legion at $50 pm. in the
York Theater, Georgia avenue and
Quebec place NV: Washington
Loan Association, 1901 Fourteenth
street NV, at $50 pm, Philip
Shinberg, speaker; Afraid Mes
senger Service at pm. at 1341
avenue NE, James E.
speaker, northern divi-
sion, Capital Transit Co. employees,
at 9:45 pm. at Fourteenth and Deca-
tur streets NV, Sergt. Crawford L.
Jent, U. S. M. c., speaker.
Evening star., 1944-02-01

Building, at the head recreation
counselor's Office in the Navy De-
partmept, Building L, room 24O2,
and at the Office of the recreation
director. room 2018, Railroad Re-
tirement Building.
Mr.. Mutch said Federal employees
could obtain information about the
concert and tickets from their en-
ploye counselors, from the Federal
Recreation Committee, or from Rob-
ert M. Holmes, jr., president of the
Federal Employees Recreation Coun-
Gil, at the Library of Congress.
Arrangements for the command
performance" were made by the
permanent Government committee
cooperating with the National SYM
phony. Civil Service Commissioner
Arthur S. Flemming is chairman,
Evening star., 1944-02-01
Deaths Reported

Etter, E. Griffth, SO, The Plains. Va.
Charles F. Boss, sr., II, 5541 Macarthur
Mollie c. Larrick, "A. 1907 Rhode Island
Georse r Gates, II, 1923 oirard ne.
John L. Oreutt, n, Mt; Rainier. Md.
harvey F.. Balmer, 20, 2907 N. Capitol st.
Richard L. Watnough.. 6s, 9l7 18th st. NV.
Magic B. Bickerton, Sc, 1858 11th st. NV.
Harry G. Carroll. 5S, q. s. Soldiers Home
John M. Williams. 80, 1922 Shannon pi
Charles schefer, 80, Arlington, Va.
Hessie r. Youngman, 36, 603O 18th pl n W
John l.. OConnell, 35, New Rochelle n Y
Louise L. Cole. 80, Fredericksburg, va.
Shirley Burdette, H.. Gaithersburg, Md
Infant Dallas c. Halverstadt, jr., 52OS Sd
ST.. NV.
InfaAt James =. Faulkner. Silver Spring,
Martha D, Freeman, 65. 1147 goth ST. NV.
Carrie Seldom. 65, l245 goth st. NV.
Walter Weaver, 5s, a2s 2Sth st. NV.
Martha Blue, Sc, 607 Half st. k.w.
infant Wooden, Vienna, Va.
Infant Harrell. 1246 10th st. NV.
infsnt Smith 4, ..sz,S eirfen ~ -n:s.. ,,.y.
Evening star., 1944-02-01
Births Reported

Aecurso. Jackine and Elaine boy.
Agar. Raymond and Florence, boy.
Bach, Ole and Jeanne, girl
Barlow, Richard and Helen. girl.
Bersen; joseph and Alice. boy
Bradheld. Merrill and Jane, boy
Burch, Lee and Agnes, boy.
Graycraft; Lester and Mary, boy.
crooks, William and Betty, boy.
Culhane. James and Mary. boy,
Szako. Frank and Elnora. sirl
Delman. David and Edith, girl.
Durkin, John and Laurie, girl.
Epstein. Alfred and Rose. boy
Fitch, Charles and Evelyn, boy.
Ford. Warren and Victoria. boy
Forti. Joseph and Lucia. boy.
Fraser Donald and Marjory. boy.
Glddings; James and Alice. girl.
Goldmark, Jonathan and 1rma, boy.
Heckei, Albert and Helen, boy.
Kelly. Edward and Ida boy.
kohler, John and Eleanor, boy.
Lister, Ernest and Elizabeth boy
Lyttle. Albert and Lena boy
Mailley' Ma rl'n frank frank and Charlotte, girl.
Mkey Rnbqqe aaG aGd boy
Mlstead: M Edgar and Matte, girl.
o,Brien, Raymond and Alba, boy.
o'Connor, Daniel and Juanita. boy.
0'Connor. Thomas and Lorraine, twin girls.
Ososki, John and Rosa, girl.
Owings. Mackall and Jeanette, boy.
Pecora, Louis and Sarah, girl.
Pennlngton. James and Elizabeth, boy.
Peyton, Gordon and Mary, boy.
Powell Jesse and Elizabeth, girl.
Robinson. John and Louise, boy.
Rounsaville John and Helen. boy.
Savage; BENJAMIN and Esther. boy.
Seltz Andrew and Cola, boy.
Shipman. Morris and Janet, boy.
ShocEey Joseph and Haseltine, twin Girls.
Smith William and Ina. boy.
soren. Leo and Lillian. boy
stewart, Richard and Melba, girl.
Ihesleh: Alexander and Annalisa, girl,
White. James and Louise. boy.
wilkins Herbert and Mary. girl
Williams. Harley and Marguerite. boy.
Winkler. Elvin and Margaret, girl
Yerowitz, Samuel and Vivian, boy.
Johnson. LIE Roy and Martha, girl.
Johnson. Willie and Virginia, girl
zones, Grandian and Marsaret boy.
Mudd, Warren and Marian. boy.
Norris, William and Mary girl.
O'Neal, Uriah and Nora. girl
Peay Aaron and Estelle, girl
Penn. William and Lavaida. boy
Rufhn. James and Efie, girl
Tidwell. William and Frances. sirl.
Watkins, George and Lillian, girl.
Evening star., 1944-02-01
Pacific
intercepted and now are engaged in
fierce fighting"
Continued From First Page.

A Toxic broadcast heard In New
York by the United States Foreign
Broadcast Intelligence Service de-
scribed the attack on the Marshalls
as "centering around aircraft car
riers' and spoke OF it as the second
phase" OF large operation.
Most Important" Forces.
The German controlled Vichy
radio quoted Toxic reports as saying
the American forces attacking the
Marshalls were the most important
ever to take part in such an opera
ton" This broadcast also said
fighting of extreme violence" was
still under way.
The Toxic radio, in a Spanish
language broadcast beamed to South
America. declared the attacks by
the enemy in the area of the Mar
shalls had been anticipated and the
best imperial units were ready to
destroy them whenever they came"
This broadcast declared that a
total of approximately 344 Allied
planes had raided the Marshalls
from January to January 26, but
were instantly repulsed without in
filctlng any grave damage"
Evening star., 1944-02-01
Symphony 10 Present
Concert Exclusively
For i. 5. Employees
Commend Performance
For Federal Workers
Set for February l6

The National Symphony Orches-
ira will give a command perform
ance" exclusively for Federal en-
lployes on the evening of February
Is at Constitution Hall, 1t was an
nounced last night.
The Federal Employees Command
Performance" with music selected
by the audience. will be a preview
of the series Of three or more pop
ular concerts of symphonic music
to be given by the National SYM
phony for Government workers next
season in line with It's plan to help
fill the recreational needs of music
loving Federal workers, Orchestra
Manager j. E: Mutch explained.
The special concert will begin
midway of the associations forth
coming drive for $4,000 to support
the orchestra next season. The
campaign will open February 9.
Star to Print Ballots.
In working out plans for the com
mand performance" Mr.. Mutch
said, symphony representatives had
discovered that Federal employees
have definite ideas on the kind of
program they would like to hear.
Instead of programming the con-
cert himself, Hans Kinder. who
Will conduct the performance, sug-
gested that the Federal employees
choose their own program. Ballots
on which Federal employees NAV
list the symphony, overture and
other works they wish to hear on
their own concert will be printed
IN The Star Friday. DR.. Kinder
will arrange the program on the
basis of that poll
Tickets Moderately Priced.
Tickets for the special concert
Mr.. Mutch said. will be priced with
in the budget of every Federal en-
ploye. Tickets will be available al
55 cents, IS cents and few. in
Guiding box seats, at s1.1O. They
will go on sale Monday at the svm-
phony box office in kits, 1880 G
street NV; Brentano's Book Store
in the concourse of the Pentagon
Evening star., 1944-02-01
$50 Jap Planes Lost
In Month Defending
Base at RabauI
By the Associated Press


ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Feb. l.
Spotlighting the speed with which
Japan's constantly reinforced South
west Pacific air force Is meeting
piecemeal destruction, a South Pa
c1fic naval spokesman today report
ed 1,450 enemy planes downed in the
last six months.
His figures make the Rabaul- -Bou-
gainville campaign one of the great
est Allied air victories of the war.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
munique today added another SO de-
stroyed aloft or on the ground at
Rabaul, in raids Saturday on this
New Britain base. Headquarters
tabulations disclose nearly $50 of
the defenders lost planes were
downed in this area In January
alone.
Airfields Knocked Out.
Tobera and Lakunai air fields, pro-
tecting Rabaul, have been rendered
temporarily unserviceable by this
latest assault, the South Pacific
spokesman reported Solomons-
based planes under Admiral William
F. Halsey's command have been
striking heavily and daily at Ra-
baul, as we'll as at remaining Japa-
nese positions in Bougainville,
Northern Solomons.
Toxic radio reports of these air
battles often are drowned out by
laughter of the returned flyers who
the suave- voiced announcer said
were killed
One Toxic report claimed IS, and
probably 18 more, Allied planes were
shot down in one raid on Rabaul;
actual Allied losses were 7, with %
to a. Zeros destroyed. (Tokio ac-
knowledged threeD
More ZerOs Rushed to Rabaul..
Despite heavy losses, however,
more and more Zeros have been hur-
ried to Rabauls battered airdromes
to counter continuing Allied raids.
At least so, and possibly as many as
80 interceptors rose in futile ef-
fort to stave off Saturdays strike
Allied bomberS range almost daily
over the whoe Southwest Pacific the
ater, and today's communique re-
ported destruction of two $500 ton
freighters in Hansa Bay. northwest
of the Japanese base of Madang,
New Guinea. A smaller cargo ship
was left aflame.
Aerial support also has aided Aus
fralian and American prO,lpd tr0opS
and one force of Aussies is nearing
Reiss Point, on their coastal push
toward the Americans widening in
vasion wedge at Saidor, below Ma
dang
Evening star., 1944-02-01
If. Tom Harmon Awaits
Actress Friend in CHICAGO
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb. Lit. Tom Har-
mon, former University of Michigan
All-America halfback who twice was
reported missing in South America
and China, arrived last night to
await his film actress friend, Elyse
Knox, due today. -...
They will go to Ann Arbor, Mich,
for visit with Harmon's parents.
Asked if wedding was among
events planned, 1t. Harmon replied,
"No-not this trip"
The one-time football star de-
clared he felt great" suffering no
i'll effects from his 32-day trek
through Japanese-occupied China
after bailing out of his flaming
fighter plane.
Evening star., 1944-02-01

ger said he thought the youths
should have a chance to play be-
cause they are Americans"
But I'd rather have the game
stopped than cause any trouble" be
decided. ~
The Seabrook team then filed off
the floor, and the game ended.
There was little reaction in the
crowd of less than 100, and there
were no disturbances, police said.
Evening star., 1944-02-01
New Air Service

Venezuela will soon begin operat-
ing a new all-cargo air service be-
tween points in the interior, as far
south as Santa Elena, in the vicinity
OF the diamond fields, and will carry
on more extensive operations when
larger equipment can be obtained.
Evening star., 1944-02-01
Third Division Group
VIII Elect Tomorrow

The Washington branch of the
Society Of the Sd Regular) Division
will meet at pm. tomorrow at
Woodmen of the World Hall, 935 G
place NV.
A new president will be elected to
succeed William j. Schmitz, who
died last month.
Evening star., 1944-02-01
ENSIGN Needs Help

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. R.-
Only promotion or change of name
can help out Ensign Louise Ensign,
Navy Nurse Corps officer from near
by Dover Plains.
Evening star., 1944-02-01

American colony women in
Mexico City are knitting for serv-
icemen.
Evening star., 1944-02-01

II az
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-02
tcondsnssd From Down Beat)
By SHARON A. PEASE

luke edward Kennedy Ellington is very
~ versatile fellow-pianist, composer, arranger,
band leader, Snowman. and champion of Ameri-
can Negro music. His record of achievement in
each of these categories would make an interest
ing story. However, this article is principally
concerned with Duke Ellington, the pianist
Duke was born and reared in Washington, DC.
He studied piano for short while during his
early childhood, due 10 parental influence, but
abandoned the idea in favor of baseball and
other sports My first genuine interest in music
came when l started attending high school
dances" Duke recalls Inspired by the work of
pianist Harvey Brooks he began experimenting
The result was Soda Fountain Rag. his first
composition. which was worked out entirely by
ear. Duke soon developed professional aspira-
tons and began the study OF music fundamentals
and elementary harmony with Doc Perry, local
hand leader, as his tutor. He had definite ideas
as to the style he wanted to develop, based on
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-02
THE WEEKLY DIGEST
THE NEGRO MOVES NORTH

factory adjustments or be prepared
to witness profound changes in
their economic life and their way
of living. The situation Is one that
demands for its successful solution
not only good will on both sides,
but the coolest calculation: a dam
gerous impasse will be reached IL
Negroes ask too much or il whites
grant too little.
II any non-southerner Is compla-
cent about this problem, let him
wake up and take notice. 1t is one
that concerns not only the South
but the whole nation; the fate OF
IL million people, or one tenth OF
the whole population. must affect
the nation. II masses Of Negroes 60
North. will the effect be that, while
the South suffers severe economic
oislocations Thereby affecting the
nation) the Negro question will
be transferred North? There are for
example, more Negroes on a single
Mississippi cotton plantation than
in all Vermont. What would hap
pen il the negro population of
Bellows Falls should increase from.
say, five families to Ave hundred
families? II thousands of Negroes
should appear in the northern labor
market when that market was al
ready approaching safety or was
overburdened, would these Me-
groes be welcomed by northern
white labor with bouquets or with
brickbats? II. politically. the north
ern population were increased by
several million Negroes and they
voted en- bloc, would the destiny OF
the nation then rest perhaps in the
hands of this minority during Cruz
cial. holly contested national cleo
tons?
These are grave questions for
which there are no glib-ready made
answers. II would be rash nation
that did not give them the earnest
study their importance demands.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-02
THE WATCHT0WER
By ROY WILKINS

q direct order to load ammunition, or that they
had conspired together Gan even so Of them to
disobey and stage q mutiny. It was shown that
they naturally were fearful of the job following
the blast that killed of many of their comrades.
1t was revealed that apparently the Navy has q
policy of requiring Negro sailors exclusively to
load ammunition, one of the hardest and most
dangerous laboring jobs in the service.
It is certainly that the morale of Negro citi-
zens and Negro servicemen has not been i'm
proved by this trial and these sentences. As bad
as the Army has been toward Negroes, the Navy
has been worse. There is long history of bitter
ness among colored Americans toward the Navy.
Under political pressure land pressure from Ger
many and Japan the Navy finally opened up
some branches to Negroes other than that Of mess
attendant. 1t has trained thousands of our men,
but has refused to assign them to duties COM
mensurate with their training. Many Of the men
at Port Chicago and other mountaineering
points have been trained for duty aboard ship,
but instead they doing the work of laborers
merely because they are not white.
Now, because they were reluctant to continue
on an exclusively Negro assignment fraught with
great danger, they have been sentenced to prison
and dishonorable discharges. Every Negro who
knows anything about how the race has been
treated in the armed services will agree with
Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP who declared,
after observing the trial for IL days, that the
men were being tried because of their color and
not because of crime"
Negroes, looking back to the first World War,
must surely be asking themselves if another off,
cial gigantic conspiracy to smear the fighting
men Of the race is not in the making
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-02
Michigan Girls
Essay Wins End
National Prize

COLEMAN. Mich.-M cline
Harris, young student OF Coleman
HI gh school. was presented with
cash award OF $4,000 and a silver
medal here Nov. 81 for winning
second prize in the National Tu-
berculos Associations 1914 essay
contest for Negro high school stu
dents.
The presentation was made BY
Theodore J Werle. executive sec
rotary Of the Michigan Tuberculo-
sis Association.
A certificate Of appreciation was
also presented 70 Miss Harris
teacher. Mrs. Alma High, in behalf
OF the national association and a
silver plaque was presented 10 the
school The testimonial was signed
by Dr. Kendall Emerson. manag-
ing director OF the association. and
Dr. Cameron S. c. Guild. direc-
tor of the associations Negro pro-
gram.
Miss Harris read her prize-win-
ming essay last December over
WKAR. the radio station al Mich
igan State college.
Mrs. Jean Harlow is chairman OF
the Midland County tuberculosis
Association.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-02
DUKE ELLINGTON: A Thumbnal Sketch

the free, uninhbited feeling that characterizes
the music of the American Negro.
COMPETED WITH MEYER DAVIS
His first job was relief pianist for Doc Perry.
There was a great deal Of work around Wash
ington and often Perry would start engage
ment and let Duke finish il so that he could put
in an appearance another job. During the
boom days of World War I, Duke formed his
own orchestra. The leading local bands of that
time were those of Meyer Davis and Louis
Thomas. Duke inserted advertisements in the
classified directory and newspapers that were
equal in size 10 those of Davis and Thomas and
as result got his share of the work and earned
favorable local reputation.
In 1925. Dukes revolutionary harmonic ideas
began TO catch on. He shifted from Gennett and
Perfect records to Victor and signed ur with the
Irving Mills booking Office From there on the
story is we'll known-hs work al the Cotton
Club and other swank nighteries, in radio, the
theater and motion pictures. Throughout these
years, Dukes work has had vast influence on
contemporary musicians.