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Evening star., 1944-10-12
Negro Women S Council
Meets Here Tomorrow

The National Council Of Negro
Women, Inc, will open its national
convention tomorrow at the Depart
mental Auditorium, Mrs. Mary Nc
Leon Bethune, president, announced
today.
Tomorrow evenings session will be
devoted to Human Relations in the
Transition to Peace"
Guest speakers will include Mrs
Mary Church Terrell, Mrs. ]. Bor-
den Hartman and DR.. Rayford Lo-
gan. Nine. Lillian Evanti, Mrs. Mar
|garet McDaniels, Miss Louise Burge
Fred Bloch and the Howard Uni
versity Choir will furnish the music
The councils new headquarters at
1913 Vermont avenue NV. will be
formally dedicated with q reception
at 4 pm. Sunday.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
.Sfreetcar Purchase
Approved by PUG

The Public Utilities Commission
yesterday authorized the Capita
Transit Co. to enter into an agree.
ment with the st. Louis Car Co
and the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. for the purchase of IS stream.
lined streetcars at an estimated
cost of $l,473,750.
1t is hoped that deliveries on the
cars will start before the end of the
year and plans are under considera-
ton for purchase of so additional
cars, with deliveries next year
Previously, the commission had ap-
proved the purchase of the rs cars
as necessary" to the Districts
transportation system.
The agreement provides that the
purchase price shall be "$19, CSC
more or less per car" and that the
interest rate will be per cent
The notes will run over a 12-yea,
period.
The PUG said that the transit
company, in its negotiations with
the RFC, obtained a credit OF
$2,600,000 to cover 1875 cars. The
commissions action yesterday, how
ever. extended only to the proposed
purchase of the rs cars,
Evening star., 1944-10-12
$4,000 Seek Tickets
For Mass Meetino
Fund Drive
Admission Cords Split
Evenly Among Workers
Of Four Divisions

About $4,000 persons have applied
for the 1000 tickets available to the
Community War Funds opening
mass meeting October is at Consti-
tuition Hall, Herbert l.. Willett, jr.,
executive director of the fund, an
nounced today.
The tickets are being divided
evenly among workers of the four
units - Government, residential,
business and uburban-working on
the $4,850,000 drive, he said.
Joliot- Curie to Speak.
The main speaker will be Jean
Frederic Joliot-Curie, husband of
Irene Curie, daughter of the dis
coverers of radium, who will de-
scribe his work on special explosives
for the French underground.
Through the cooperation of the
State Department and the French
provisional government, the French
leader is to be flown here from his
country for the mass meeting.
M. Joliot-Curie, a professor of
physics at the Paris University, COL
laborated in making special ex-
plosiyes for the underground work
ers at a time when the Germans
thought he was doing research on
splitting of atoms, Mr.. Willett said.
Lord Halifax also will address the
rally, to be attended by Mrs. Roose-
velt and representatives of all the
United Nations. The speeches will
be broadcast Nationwide by the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Must Be on Time.
Ticket holders must arrive by 7:5o
pm. to attend the rally, Mr.. Wilett
said. Just before the starting hour.
8 pm, empty seats will be open to
the public, he explained.
Solicitation for contributions from
Washington's 100000 Federal en-
ployes has already begun, Mr..
Willett said, because their numbers
made it advisable to allow longer
than the announced period of the
drive. The drive for the rest of
the city and suburbs begins Monday
and runs through November 8, Mr..
Willett said.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
ConnolIy Urges Hungary
TosBreuk With Germany

BY TUE Associated Press.
Only by breaking with Germany
nowyand coming over to the Allied
side can Hungary hope for "a
better existence in the postwar
worln" Chairman Connally of the
SenSte Foreign Relations Commit
tee warned the Hungarian people
Yesterday in a message broadcast
by tine Office of War Information.
ut is high time for the Hungari-
ans TO take a realistic stand and to
shake OF the German yoke and
show the world that they are willing
to act as an independent, self
respecting nation" Senator Con-
naHy said. only by breaking with
Germany and contributing their
strength to the final defeat Of Ger
many can the Hungarians of today
lay the basis of a better existence
for the Hungarians of tomorrow"
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Phone0perators
May Other
Jobs, WLbIsToId
Attorney Says Many
Older Workers Are
DispIeosed With Pay

Indications that some telephone
operators in the District may quit
their jobs unless they receive
satisfactory treatment" were seen
in statement made today by union
counsel at q War Labor Board
hearing on wage dispute involving
$3.50 operators here.
Al Philip Kane, attorney for the
Washington Telephone Traffic
Union, appearing on behalf of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Co. en-
ployes, declared:
I'm the event some of the older
operators do not receive satisfac-
tory treatment, many will leave
their switchboards for other en-
ployment. The union will do every
thing to maintain service but
we may come to an interference"
Calls Action Unthinkable.
Judge j. T. Ellenbogen of Pitts
burgh, chairman of the three-nian
WLB panel, interrupted Mr.. Kane
with:
Il don't think we should talk
about it. It's utterly unthinkable any
girl would leave her switchboard in
time Of war"
Mr.. Kane had been explaining
that discomfort" had arisen among
many of the more experienced oper-
ators over the employment by the
company of some 300 operators
brought here from other cities as
temporary employees and who are
being paid a higher wage scale.
The attorney informed the panel
that he intended to show that wages
paid the employees ARE not sufficient
for decent standard of living;
that wages scales are obsolete"
Base Pay Involved.
The 1ong-standing wage dispute,
which threatened a curtailment of
telephone service here last month,
involves base-pay salaries. The op-
orators are seeking a $5-a-week
increase, raising the starting salary
from $40 to $25 and increasing the
top salary from $33 to $40 after
five years service. The company
has agreed to the IS increase for
starting salary and has proposed a
81 increase for the top salary which
would give operators a base pay of
S35 after eight years service.
The contract expired March 81,
and after collective bargaining
failed, the matter was referred to
the Cancellation Service. Failing
agreement, the dispute was certified
to WLB late in September.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Two Roosevelt Talks
High Light Capitals
Columbus Observance
Pon-Amerieon Diplomats
To Attend Ceremonies
At White House

President Roosevelt will speak over
the radio at 4 pm. today as part of
the Columbus Day program in cele-
bration Of the 452d anniversary Of
the discovery of America.
The President viii speak from the
White House during ceremonies to
which diplomats and officials of all
North American and South Amer
lean nations except Argentina have
been invited.
Another brief radio talk from the
White House will be made by the
President tonight when he accepts
the -Four Freedoms Award of the
Italian-American Labor Council
to be presented at Columbus Day
ceremonies in New York.
The President will speak at 8:25
pm. for three or four minutes
when Attorney General Biddle &C
cepts the award in his behalf.
The program was arranged ovel
the Mutual Broadcasting System
from 8:15 to $3.50. but the Other
networks have been advised they
may carry 1t If they wish.
A wreath was laid at the foot OF
the Columbus statue in Union Sta.
ton Plaza by the Knights Of Colum.
bus this morning.
Members OF the Knights Of Co.
lumbus and their families viii cele.
brate the anniversary to 7:30 O'Clock
tonight with a dinner-dance at the
Mayhower Hotel. Speakers will in.
clude the Very Rev. Lawrence j
German, S. j., president of George.
town University, and the Right
Rev. Msgr. Patrick j. Mccormick
rector of Catholic University.
No other special celebrations art
planned, although many Catholic
churches will include prayers fol
the continued repose of the soul ol
the discoverer Of America at regu.
lar masses.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
OverhoIser Fuvors Action
To Protect Teen-Aged Girls
Doctor Believes Some Should Be
Sent Home, But Sees Difficulties

most impossible one for a busy civil
service official"
Would Tighten Rules.
DR.. Overholser gave >unreserved
approval to the suggestion that the
Government girls here get more
guidance. II think tightening up
the rules for civilian workers in
Government dormitories would be
very worth Whine. 1t might be a
good idea to house all girls under
a certain age In Government dormi-
tories and give them adequate
counseling and guidance. This
might even entail allocating more
dormitories for civilian workers.
Il am sure many of the girls
would protest further restrictions, "
he asserted. But the WACS,
WAVES, SPARS and Marines have
tighter rules in their barracks, and
Government girls are no less Fed
eral employees. OF course, the fun
damental questions is: How much
responsibility can we expect the
Government to accept for its non
military employes?"
81 also aglee with Mr.. Everett
that talks and discussions of prob.
lems-sex and otherwise-are de.
sirable. In q town like Washington
with thousands of unattached mer
and girls. 1t Is childish for any one
to hide their eyes to the facts that
cav oy4d ~ov v,vrI,IovSoS dr oyict nY,s
only thing to do is to face them
sensibly," DR.. Overholser said.
Can't Police Morals.
He also said he thought additional
police forces would be helpful, al
though, he added, "Of course, you
can't police or regulate morals"
THE situation Is not perfect, and
improvements certainly could be
made" he said. However, it has
improved continually in the past few
months. At one time the number
of Government girls who came tc
this hospital as psychiatric case.
was appalling. That number ha.
decreased substantially, and Will.
doubtless there are still many girl!
who should not be here, and while
many of them have less acute psy.
chiatric illnesses and need more sta.
bility, still, the Government coun.
selling program and the recreationa
work being done by the Government,
and by private agencies has gone {
long way toward solving the prob
lem"
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Jury Studies Fate
OF Carrier, Accused
In 1943 Auto Staying

A District Court jury this after
noon was considering charges of
flrst-degree murder against STAN
ford Carrier, u, former Silver
Spring (Md9 boxer, in the auto
mobile Staying of Paul Higgins, SIS,
World War veteran. The case went
to the jury late this morning.
Justice James M. Proctor said In
his final instructions to the Jury
that there were three possible YER
diets, not guilty, guilty of first
degree murder or of second-degree
murder.
Mr.. Higgins was fatally injured
January l, 1943, by an automobile
in the alley of the 1900 block OF
Kenyon street NV. George K
Burton, Is, is serving a prison SEN
tence on a charge of second-degree
murder in connection with the kill
ing. He was tried separately
Carrier has denied any knowledge
of the murder.
Carrier admitted on the stand yes
terday that at about 2 am. on Janu-
ary he met Burton on New York
avenue NV. and lent him his car.
The defendant said he and Burton
picked up a man Burton called 'his
friend" at Fourteenth and g streets
NV, and then Carrier said he got
on at the Capitol Hotel, 1913 l
street NV, where he was staying
Burton returned the car keys within
half an hour, Carrier said.
On cross-examination by Assistant
United States Attorney Bernard
Margolius. Carrier admitted he and
Burton went to Baltimore three DAYS
after the murder to join the Mer-
chant Marine, but they were talked
out Of 1t by Carriers uncle, with
whom they stayed in Baltimore.
In his final argument Defense At
torney James j. Laughlin charged
the police with trying to ''pin some
thing" on his client and denied
that Carrier would hit some one who
was down.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
'dgef Orders A,S55 CuI
In Executive Personnel

E fcutive agencies have been in.
stru ted to reduce their personnel
requirements for the second quarter
OF this fiscal year by 1886 persons
the Budget Bureau announced
today.
This reduction Is effective within
those groups Vt employees subiec,
TO the Overtime Pay Act. These
groups constitute about so per cent
OF total executive agency personnel
which now Is around the 5000, ,0o(
mark.
The Budget Bureau said the re-
duction in the number Of persons
required will be met largely by moi
filling vacancies.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Five New Polio Victims
Raise Area TotuI to 29o

Five new cases of infantile pa-
ralysis have been reported since
yesterday, raising the total since
July ] to 100, the District Health
DEPARTMENT reported today.
Four cases were Of District oririu
while the fifth victim was from
Arlington. OF the total, III orig
mated In the District and 128 In
the surrounding counties,
Evening star., 1944-10-12
District Traffic Deaths
Rise 10 IS as Man.
Hit by Streetcar Dies
Maryland State Police
Ambulance Strikes Truck:
; Passengers Uninjured

Raleigh c. Janney, As, of 316
Ninth street NV, who was struck
Saturday by streetcar in the 900
block of Ninth street NV, died to-
day In Emergency Hospital. It was
the Districts 66th traffic fatality, as
compared to 63 deaths for the same
period last year.
Police said the operator of the
Streetcar was Leroy White, 43 of
4515 Burlington place NV. He has
81 years driving experience.
A Maryland State police ambu-
lance carrying three persons to Cas-
ualty Hospital from an accident in
T. B.. Md, collided with a truck in
the $500 block of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Sc. yesterday.
Two of the patients in the ambu-
lance were admitted to Casualty
Hospital, while the third was treated
and released. They suffered no ad-
ditional injuries in the second acci-
dent. Lucille Marks, 18, of Brandy
wine, Md, suffered face and neck
injuries. Everett j. Claudy, 80, OF
Baltimore was treated for leg lacera-
tions and Dan Laster, SO, of Brandy
wine was treated for face lacera-
tions and released.
Drivers Escape Injury.
Police said neither the driver OF
the ambulance, Champ Clark YUM
brum, 80, Of police barracks at Wal
dorf, Md, nor the driver of the
truck, Robert H. Bowles, 80, of 1902
| s street Sc, suffered injury.
Eleven persons, including Jose
Iphine Drew, 81, GIG Maryland ave-
nue. S.W, were injured when a
northbound streetcar rammed an
other streetcar at Seventh street
and Washington drive NV. The
woman was admitted to Emergency
Hospital with a fractured kneecap
The others were treated and re-
leased.
The two streetcar operators, police
said, are Ivan l.. Judy, IS, sos A
street Sc, and James H. Porter, 81,
Of 141 Bates street NV.
Alexandra Man Dies.
Frank Nesselbrodt, 81, of 416
North Columbus street, Alexandria,
died today in the Alexandria Hospi-
tai following injuries received when
he was struck by car Saturday.
Mr.. Nesselbrodt was struck by a
car operated by George Ewald, jr.,
Is, of 801 Twenty-second street,
Arlington, at North Washington
and Cameron streets Saturday night.
At first his injuries were believed to
be minor and the boy was not held.
DR.. John Sims, Alexandria coroner
has ordered an inquest for pm
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1944-10-12

Approval-with reServations-was
given by DR.. Winfred Overholser
st. Elizabeth's Hospital superin-
tendent, to the four-point program
outlined in The Star yesterday by
Ray H. Everett, executive secretary
of the Social Hygiene Society.
"All of these suggestions certainly
demand serious consideration" DR.
Overholser said. I'm not sure but
what it is the thing to do to send
some of the very young girls home.
However. the probabilities of such a
program may prove big difficulty. y
Mr.. Everett's program asked that
the teen-age Government girls be
sent home; that careful screening
process, including strict medical and
psychiatric tests, be given Washing
ton job applicants; that Govern
ment girls who live here be given
more guidance with their problems,
and that the police force be In
creased.
No Place for Children.
Undoubtedly, some of these
youngsters are entirely too imma-
ture to cope with the pitfalls of a
place like Washington. 1t Is nc
place for children to be left on Their
own" DR.. Overholser said.
However" he said, I'VE must re-
member that, although some of the
girls are playing high, wide and
handsome, most of them are doing
their jobs, and doing them well. Il
we sent all Of them home arbi-
trarily. We might be doing a grave
injustice to those who do take care
of themselves.
"Such action might hurt the wa,
effort, too," he said. "The girl:
from 20 up are likely to have gooc
jobs at home, or to join the serv.
ices in preference to coming tt
Washington as civilian workers, anc
Iif we eliminated all those under
20, it might create serious woman
power shortage"
Favors Screening Process.
AS to the screening process tt
weed out those whose physical Of
mental health would not fit then
for Washington jobs, DR.. Over.
holser said: "It Is an excellent idea
However, to put it in practice woule
be to work a great hardship o. both
the job applicants and the Govern.
ment medical stats.
"At one time all civil service EN-.
lployes had to pass physical test
given by Federal medical employees,
DR.. Overholser said. But that soor
became an impossible task, and W,
had to rely on reports from privat.
physicians. Many girls were giver
health approval statements from
their hometown doctors and aftel
they came to Washington we dis.
covered they had some disease, o.
had had some illness in the pas
that would make them bad risk!
for the Government.
"It would be an even greater jol
to attempt to give each applicant .
routine psychiatric test befor'
sending them here" he said. "De'
termining what constitutes menta
stability among several hundred
young girls would be a long, difh'
cult task for any one-but an al
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Business Group Elects

Mrs. Estelle NJ. , Whiting was
elected president of the American
Business Association at its annual
meeting at the Statler Hotel last
night. Other officers elected tc
serve for the coming year were DR.
II. A. Blohm, first vice president;
Mrs. Anne T. Kelly, second vice
president; William r. Franck. treas
urer, and Frank Gordon, secretary.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Suve This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
IoF Army and Navy supplies
snipped overseas. Every pound
ofxold newspapers and maga-
Zines is needed. Notify some
school child in your block to
hays your paper picked up.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Fuel Oil Users Urged
To Fill Tanks Now
By the Associated Press.

Deputy Petroleum Administrator
Ralph K. Davies today urged domes-
tic users Of fuel oil for heating to
MI all home tanks now to insure q
supply when cold weather comes.
Storage space available Tor civilian
grades Of fuel oil, he said, has been
drastically reduced by the needs for
| military reserve.
Evening star., 1944-10-12

j. 5. Fights Plea
To Halt Seizure
For orNeWHospita
Federal Attorney
Says Government
Cont Be Sued

MOVING 10 DISMISS all requests
for an injunction to prevent the
Federal Government from condemn
ing square on Washington Circle
for new George Washington Uni
versity Hospital, Robert r. Macleod
Justice Department attorney, today
charged the petitioners, including
st. Paul's Episcopal Church and sew
eral property owners, had no right
to sue the Government because 1t
had not consented to be used.
The court had no jurisdiction In
such an Injunction case, Mr.. Mac
Leod told Justice Matthew r. Nc
Guire.
On the other hand, he said, the
plaintiffs have ample opportunity
under law to present their COM
plants in q regular condemnation
proceeding which so far they are at
tempting to block. The Government
consents to be sued in regular con-
demnation proceedings, Mr.. Mac
Leod explained.
Under the Lanham Act and the
Second War Powers Act, the Fed
eral Government has ample author
ity, Mr.. Macleod contended, to pro-
ceed with condemnation of the
square for the Federal Works Agency
because Of the health, safety and
welfare" provisions OF the law. He
quoted this and many other prece-
dents on court decisions which he
claimed were authority in this case.
Doesn't Relish Church Issue.
Opposing the request OF plaintiffs
for three-judge tribunal to hear
the injunction case, the Federal
attorney declared such a procedure
could not be employed unless a
substantial Constitution question
were involved.
Replying to charges by st. Paul's
Church that the Government had
no right to take church property
under the power of eminent domain,
the Government attorney said he
did not relish" any issue between
church and state, but he quoted at
length from legal decisions to con-
tend that the Government did have
such power.
Church and private property own
ers claim the Government lacks a
right to condemn the property on
the argument that the acquisition
would be for the benefit of a private
institution.
Opposition to the condemnation
came yesterday from DR.. E. r,
Harris, president OF the Federation
OF Civic Associations, and speaking
for the Lincoln Civic Association.
Writes to Senator Burton.
In a letter to Senator Burton,
Republican, Of Ohio, a member of
the Senate District COMMITTEES, DR.
Harris recalled that last March he
had protested the evacu ltion of
tenants Of 20 homes in Bisseps
court under condemnation proceed
ings brought by the National Capital
Housing Authority.
Declaring that George Washington
University now seeks to cause more
difhculties" for others in the WASH
ington Circle area, under the use of
eminent domain, DR.. Harris said the
Lincoln Civic Association was "un-
alterably opposed" to this movement
since eminent domain does not fit
the picture, in that the hospital
would not be for public good because
1t does not treat Negro bed pa
tients and therefore discriminates
against an integral part of the
public"
He added, "The time has arrived
when the use of eminent domain by
several of the Governmental
agencies, under first one pretex and
then the other, should be investi-
gated by Congress"
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Goult Mac Gowun Back
In U. S. for Rest
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-Gault
MacGowan, war correspondent for
the New York Sun and the North
American Newspaper Alliance, who
was captured by the Nazis In France
and later escaped, has returned to
New York for brief rest, the sun
announced today.
After q rest he will return to
Europe to cover the Allied victory
and reconstruction, the Sun said.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Bolivio to Complete Line

Bolivia expects to complete its new
Yacuiba- Santa Cruz Railway by
1916.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
chileons Replace Germons

Chileans now comprise the 5th
Fire Brigade Of Valdivia, Chile, once
dominated by residents Of German
descent.
Evening star., 1944-10-12

Propaganda Artillery"
Hitler, the witness added, called
propaganda the artillery and trench
warfare" Of modern conquest.
Once, at Berchesgaden, the witness
said, Hitler described the basic prin-
ciple of his police as world revolu-
tion."
DR.. Rauschning testified through
q storm Of defense objections to
nearly every question. Defense at
torneys contended repeatedly that
this testimony had nothing to do
with the charge that the defendants
conspired to undermine the armed
forces of this country after July,
1910.
Chief Justice Edward G. Eicher
deferred ruling, at least until this
afternoon, on . sheaf Of defense mo.
tions Tor mistrial. based on Presi.
dent Roosevelt,s reference In his
speech recently to the Silver Shirts,
an organization which figures In the
alleged conspiracy.