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Evening star., 1944-12-12
New Civilian Services
Division 10 Take Up
Duties After Jan. |

The newly ablished Division of
Services to Veterans and War Work
ers will begin operations the first
of the year, it was announced today
at the District Building as the Com
missioners formally abolished the
Civilian War Services Division.
which it replaces.
The unit will operate within the
Department of Civilian Defense.
headed by Capt. H. G. Whitehurst.
Abolition of the civilian agency
was forecast by The Star Sunday.
The Commissioners also are doing
away with the Committee on Serv-
ices to Veterans and War Workers
headed by E. G. Graham, which was
created June 28
The new division will have an
information center, according to the
Commissioners, ''for the purpose of
assisting war veterans and workers
in making contact with appropriate
agencies in connection with their
various rights, benefits and oppor-
tunities, particularly in connection
with retraining and re-employ-
ment."
Provides Advisory Board.
The division will include an ad-
visory board and an executive head
to be appointed by the Commits
sioners. The executive head, under
the terms of today's order, shall
make every endeavor to facilitate
and guide war personnel in re-es-
tablishing their civilian life"
The Commissioners gave Capt
Whitehurst, who also is director of
highways, the power to make rules
and regulations for the new division
after consultation with the advisory
board which has yet to be named.
Under the new arrangement, the
volunteer office of the District will
be re-established in the Department
of Civilian Defense. Ali personnel
records and property of CWS were
ordered transferred for use in the
new division on veterans and war
workers.
Sl2,UOO Estimated Available.
The appropriation formerly avail
able to CWS was made available to
civilian defense The Commission
ers estimated that about $4,000
remains of $25, 900 appropriation.
In abolishing Mr.. Grahams COM
mittee, the Commissioners said it
had accomplished in a. a.highly salts
factory manner the purposes for
which it was created"
Several days ago Commissioner
Guy Mason said he saw no reason
to continue the CWS division, which
was originally under the Office OF
Civilian Defense.
The draft-aid center, which was
under CWS, was dropped last month
and Mr. Mason referred to the re-
mainder of the divisions work as
"frills."
Evening star., 1944-12-12
BushfieId Would Drop
District Committee Post

Senator Bushfleld, Republican, of
South Dakota, said today he hoped
to be relieved of his assignment on
the Senate District Committee when
the new Congress meets in January.
He was one of the committee
members who Investigated conditions
at Gallinger Hospital more than
year ago and recently made a fight
against the confirmation of Com
missioner Guy Mason for a second
term.
Evening star., 1944-12-12
Party Set Tomorrow
For Hospital Aides

Emergency Hospital will give a
'get-together' party for its volun-
teer workers and regular staff at 9
pm. tomorrow in the Hamilton
Hotel
The volunteer workers, composed
Iof businessmen, Government Off
cials, Red Gross aides, women vol
unteer nursing groups and Army
Medical Corps men, have given their
spare time and service to the hos
pital to alleviate the wartime man.
power problem. The program has
proved highly successful" hospital
officials declare.
A series of one-act plays, written
and produced by volunteer workers,
and dancing will high light the
party.
Evening star., 1944-12-12
Governmental
Study Urged
By yRamspeck
Equality With Scale
Of Private Firms
Is Suggested

Chairman Ramspeck of the House
Civil Service Committee today urged
a complete study of the pay of Gov
eminent personnel in all three
branches of the Government.
His statement was made in con-
nectlon with yesterdays report of
the Civil Service Commission which
recommended an increase in the
basic pay rate of Government en-
ployes.
Mr.. Ramspeck said he had not
studied the report and he discussed
it only in general terms.
Il have only felt Government en-
ployes should be treated on the
same basis we require private en-
ployers to treat their employees" he
said. Il don't think Government
employees ought to be treated any
better or any worse
Can't Match Industry.
mo doubt there are administra-
tive positions in Government not
compensated on the same basis as
In private industry, and there never
will be.
Government operations are much
larger today than when top salaries
were fixed and they require more
able administrators. We should con-
slider whether the sacrifices we are
asking the men in these positions to
make is not too great"
Salaries for Federal emploves in
general are not as far out of line as
top management salaries. although
there are some situations where the
pay is out of line, Mr.. Ramspeck
said. He said there have been in
creases in a good many cases through
reclassiflcation of employees.
Flexibility of Increases.
He was asked to comment on the
commissions recommendation that
Government agencies should be
given more flexibility in granting
increases for meritorius service.
He replied that when such flexi-
bility had been given, it had been
abused and I'VE have to be careful"
He said that on any occasion
agencies were permitted to make
one-step promotions for meritorious
service.
One agency with between 5000
and 5000 employees promoted 1876"
he said. Another agency with 40
900 employees promoted seven One
or the other was out of line"
Evening star., 1944-12-12
Poll Tax Stute Victors
In House Face Contests

By the Associated Press.
The Southern Electoral Reform
League will contest the election of
Representatives from the poll tax
States of Alabama, Georgia, South
Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi, Tennessee and Virginia.
Formal notices of contest, the
league said yesterday, have been
sent the 70 House members from
those States.
The. action is based on the
grounds that the 14th Amendment
to the Constitution forbids abridge-
ment of the right to vote in any
way except for crime or rebellion.
Evening star., 1944-12-12
Testimony Involving
De Marcos in Attack
Given 10 Grand jury

Testimony in connection with an
alleged attack by Julian R. De
Marcos, II. former patient at St.
Elizabeths Hospital, on a fellow
patient some time ago was presented
to the District grand jury today
after an investigation. it was said
at the United States attorney S
Office.
Should an indictment be returned,
the Government would be afforded
an additional legal means of re-
turning De Marcos to the District.
The former mental patient, de-
scribed by the Government as ''ex-
tremely dangerous, obtained his re-
lease from ST. Elizabeth's last
Wednesday in writ of habeas
corpus and two days later the Court
of Appeals ordered his apprehension
and reconflnement pending a Gov
ernment appeal of his release.
Whereabouts Unknown.
Present whereabouts of DeMarcos
are unknown, though his attorney,
George A. Parker. said his client had
planned to visit niece in Indian
apolis. 1t also has been suggested
he may have gone either to Florida
or Tennessee, where he is said to
have relatives or friends.
Search for DeMarcos in the Dis
trict, which had started Friday after
his apprehension was ordered by the
Court of Appeals, was abandoned
yesterday.
The victim of the alleged attack
being investigated by the grand jury
was said to be colored mental pa
tient at St. Elizabeth's.
Habeas Corpus Studied.
A meeting yesterday of two local
committees named to study habeas
corpus procedure and Judge John
j, Parker of the 4th Circuit Court
chairman of similar committee
for the Conference of Senior Cir
cult Court Judges, was described
as very tentative and exploratory.
by Justice Justin Miller of the
United States Court Of Appeals, in
whose office the session was held.
District Court Justice James w
Morris, chairman of the court COM
mlttee named by Chief Justice D
Lawrence Groner of the United
States Court of Appeals, said after
the meeting that a new joint ses-
sion will be held after the two local
groups meet separately. Edmund D
Campbell, member of the District
Bar Association Committee, was
named permanent secretary for the
joint session.
Law Is Reviewed.
| Ringgold Hart, chairman of the
bar association committee, said to-
day the meeting was afforded a gen.
eral review of habeas corpus law
and the problem created by SHARP
increase in the number of petitions
for writs filed by mental patients.
At the meeting he voiced the
opinion that there was "a definite
lproblem and serious one.
Possibility of statutory or admin
istrative changes as a means of re-
ducing the number of habeas corpus
writs was among the subjects dis
cussed, he said. Other matters
brought up at the meeting included
possibility of convening court at st
Elizabeth's periodically to hear petit
tions, limitation of the number Of
petitions which might be filed in q
given time and larger staff for the
Commission on Mental Health.
The number of petitions for writs
by st. Elizabeth's patients more thar
doubled in two years, the meeting
was informed.
Evening star., 1944-12-12
District RetaIiates
Against Maryland
On Medical Licenses

Retaliating rather regretfully'
against previous similar action by
Maryland officials, the District of
Columbia Commission on Licensure
has discontinued as of November l,
the issuance of so-called border
line certificates" to Maryland doc
tors, permitting them to practice
medicine in the Capital.
AS a result two Maryland doctors
who have asked for such certificates
since November /, will be turned
down, and no certificates issued
Eighty-five doctors from Mary
land who still hold borderline GER
tificates from the District of Column
bia Commission still will be per-
mitted to practice in the city, it was
explained. No action was taken
against certificates issued prior to
November /. Maryland doctors still
may follow the previous procedure
| of applying to the Commissioners
here for regular licenses.
Action 'Regretful.'
In announcing the action taken
late yesterday afternoon, DR.. George
C. Ruhland, District healtfr officer
who is secretary of the hcensure
commission, emphasized the COM
mission took the action rather re-
gretfully' in time of war. 1t felt
impelled to do so, however, he said
in view of the action recently by
the Maryland Board of Medical
Examiners
This board refused to issue border.
line certificates, as of November l
Furthermore it virtually served no.
tice on District doctors, that if they
expect to continue practice in the
nearby Metropolitan Area, they will
be expected to obtain regular Ii
censes. The Maryland board, how
ever, took no action against certifi-
Gates issued prior to November l,
The borderline certificates for
merly were issued in both jurisdic-
tions, by mail, and for 81. But regu-
lar licenses to practice medicine are
issued in Maryland only by submit
ting lengthy records, appearing ir
person before the board in Baltimore
for a personal interview, and pay
| ing $50.
Washington doctors who have ex.
tensive practices in nearby Mary.
land, as a result of patients coming
to their offices in the Capital, have
protested against the action of the
Maryland board.
Object to Loss of Time.
The Executive Board of the Dis
trict Medical Society announced
that these doctors do not so much
object to paying the $50, as to the
loss of time in getting Maryland
license-time which they think
should be given to treating the sick
The District Commission took &C.
ton yesterday with four of its five
members present: j. Russell Young
president of the Board of Distric
Commissioners, who is commission
chairman; United States Attorney
Edward M. Curran, Robert l.. Hay.
cock, superintendent of schools, ane
DR.. Rutland, who is secretary of ths
commission. Attending also wa!
Paul Foley, assistant secretary. Tht
absent member is DR.. John w
Studebaker, United States Commis
sioner of Education, who was out O
1.-THE city.
Evening star., 1944-12-12
Orgunist to Give Recital
At Fourth PRESBYTERIAN

Virgil Fox, world famous organ
ist, who resigned from the faculty Of
Peabody Conservatory of Music IN
Baltimore to enter the Army as a
as a private, will give recital at
.8:15 pm. tomorrow on the new
organ of the Fourth Presbyterian
Church, Thirteenth and Fairmont
streets NV.
The congregation presented the
organ on the church's 116th ami
versary. The public is invited = the
-anital
Evening star., 1944-12-12
Senator O'Mohoney's
Wife Sponsors Ship
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the AssOclated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 12.-
The IS Henry B. Plant was
launched yesterday. Sponsor was
Mrs. Joseph O'Mahoney, wife of the
senior Senator from wyoming, who
was among the speakers.
The vessel was named for Henry
Plant. railroad develnrer In Florida
Evening star., 1944-12-12
Police Get Fucts

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. R.- News
Photographer Eldred Perry of the
Birmingham News was losing no
time as he headed for an assign
ment.
A police motorscout, pulling along
side, shouted, where's the fire?"
Avenue E and Twenty ninth
Istreet," shouted Perry.
Evening star., 1944-12-12

WHERE TWO CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH-Arington
County Fire Chief G. shee points the
children OF Mrs Sidney D. Carter burned death
terday when fire destroyed their small South
Vermont street. Arlington The bodies of Sidney, b g. and
julia found in the crib while the body third child
Garland 2, was found the floor of the bedroom.
Star Staff Photo
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-27
Education for Usefulness

were 1898 graduates, of whom 2,5O5,
or &c per cent, were placed in jobs.
Of that number, 2,365 WERE
EMPLOYED IN FIELDS FOR
WHICH THEY WERE TRAINED,
116 entered "related fields" and
ONLY "a took jobs unrelated to
their preparation"
For January, 1912, out of 3,263
graduates jobs were found for 81 per
cent, or 2,027, and 1910 OF THESE
GOT JOBS FOR WHICH THEY
WERE TRAINED.
With varying figures as to the
number of graduates, the tabulations
for other periods followed the same
pattern.
AS MANY AS TWO-THIRDS
OF THE GRADUATES IN A
SEMESTER WERE ABLE TO BE-
GIN THEIR CAREERS IN THEIR
CHOSEN VOCATIONS.
THE survey is statistical proof that
Il employers prefer TO hire boys ana
girls with training for their jobs, and
that those who have such training
are best able to get the kind of jobs
in which they are most likely to
succeed.
The vocational training idea thus
fully justifies itself.
The "work. study" plan has even
higher value in the education of
useful citizenship because of the
high emphasis which it places upon
actual shop training during the
academic years and even more, be-
cause it fits perfectly into college
study years and into professional
education in such technically adj
vanced callings as metallurgy and
mechanical or electrical engineering.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-27
Bond of Faith
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES
THE whole country is modified for
l. the sixth war bond drive.
What is bond?
1t is a covenant, a pledge, an
agreement.
1t is more than the piece of paper
which you will receive as receipt
for your investment.
1t is more than the face value of
your bond.
1t is more than the interest on
your bond.
1t is SOLEMN, SACRED
AGREEMENT between you and
every American fighter on all fronts.
1t is in this sense bond of faith.
THE money your son, your brother,
L your father, your friend receives
from the government as pay is not
of much Importance or value to him.
1t is the money he receives from
YOU that is of overwhelming i'm
portance to him.
Bond money is LIFE MONEY to
our defenders.
THE money you are asked to put
i into bond loads his gun.
1t buys the shells that protect
him when he makes a landing in
Europe or the Philippines under
enemy fire.
1t provides for almost instant at
tention when he is wounded.
Bonds shorten the war by paying
for the material that will overwhelm
the enemy in the shortest possible
time.
Every bond you buy brings your
loved one home so much sooner.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-27

1t is therefore an investment in
LIFE, in VICTORY, in PEACE.
MO AMERICAN fighter likes to
~ believe for moment that his
folks back home are Stacking" on
him.
HE never slacks.
He goes into battle every day be-
cause he believes YOU are back of
him
In back of him with prayers and
BONDS.
For a bond is prayer made
visible.
Every dollar you put into bond
is a prayer to bring back your loved
one to you.
THE least that can be asked of
i those who stay at home is to buy
bonds.
If you think investing in bonds to
your limit is hardship, think of the
hourly hardships and dangers of
seven millions of our boys.
They never "squawkH" None of us
should either.
EROM now until Dec. 6 the govern
i ment of the United States asks
for billions of dollars as a LOAN
from the American people.
No war can be fought without
money.
No war can be fought without
men.
And, above all, no war can be
fought without YOU.
Buy bonds for him.
Buy bonds for your country.
Buy bonds to break the power Of
Germany and Japan as soon as pos
sible.
Either sell bonds or buy bonds.
And you can, of course do BOTH.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-27
BY GERTRUDE GOLDFINE

Manager, Massaebnseffs Youth Committee
Center at Grove Hall, Boston
A TOUR Grove Hall Massachusetts
"A Youth Committee Center, we
found it most effective to organize
teen-age boys and girls in small
groups. Clubs were formed and older
brothers and sisters invited to act as
directors. Each group has its own
officers. Boys and girls recruit new
members. We now have more than
60 clubs in operation, with total of
more than 700 teen-agers. The
youngsters have great fun selecting
names for their clubs which are
supervised by an adult council.
Boys from street corners who
visit our center, often through mere
curiosity or bent on mischief, are
attracted by our various activities,
register and soon become some of
our most enthusiastic members.
We empha size fair play and
craftsmanship among our boys and
girls, regard for the right of others,
industry, the value of pursuing spe-
cial studies and devotion to flag and
country.
T OYALTY to the center and to its
II good name and reputation is in
stilled in each club member. The fit
ness of candidates for office is passed
upon by the adult club director.
Each candidate has to have nomi-
nation papers signed by so boy and
girl members of the center. At
mass meeting in the auditorium,
nominees are given chance to pre-.
sent their qualifications preliminary
to election as club officers.
General interest is stimulated by
interclub activities and competition.
A governing council arranges all
programs. The officers of the coun-
Gil and the committees are always
guided by center leaders. Commit
tees meet frequently and adopt rules
governing all activities - debating
schedules, "little theater tourna-
ments," basketball, football, baseball
and other athletic contests.
When first organized, some boys
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-27
Brain Game

Score 10 for each correct answer throsrh
question ain, 40 each. for the Remaining two
questions. Any score - OF higher n
excellent.
1--Where are the following uni
verSities located: Rutgers,
Wisconsin, Cornell. Lehigh,
Michigan State, Duke.
2-What day of the year Is
known as grounding day?
3-True or false: "She Stops to
Conquer" is the name Of
new Broadway play BY Chan
ming Pollock.
4-What are the names given
first year men and second
year men at the u. S. Naval
Academy?
5-Father Of American football
is regarded to be: (a) A1onZo
A. Stagg; (b) Percy Haugh-
ton: (c) Walter Camp.
Shine vice presidents OF the
United States became presi-
dents by the death In office
Of their chiefs. but only two
of this number were re-
elected for an additional
term. Can you name the
two?
Name the best known In
diana poet.
SIN the earthquake OF 1923
great damage was done to
two Of Japan's most i'm
portant cities. Can you re-
member their names?
ANSWERS on opposite page)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-27
knowledge Test
BY DIR. sABINA CONNOLLY

Score one for each ~ the hru ave ques-
tIons and Ave for the lsst question; $40,
brilliant; To, BRIGHT; 80, svsrste; Or,
dull
IA japanese heroine is in the
opera: (a) The Girl Of the
Golden West; tbl Madame
Butterfly; (c) The Kings
Henchman."
2-The art of making fireworks
Is called: (a) pyrotechnics:
tb) hydrotechnics; (c) fire.
otechnics.
3-If you want TO visit the grave
OF Calvin Coolidge, would,
you 60 to: (a) Washington;
OBJ New York; (c) Vermont.
4-The color connected with the
word pistachio is: (a) brown:
tb) green; (c) yellow.
5--Father of American football
you: ta) eat il for lunch;
(b) shoot it quickly; (c) talk
TO it about politics.
6-Rearrange these islands in
the order OF their location
from north 10 south: Cal
Mindano: tb) Formosa; (c)
Borneo; I'D Java; (e) Leyte.
ANSWERS on opposite psge)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-27
Youth Clubs Solving
Teen-Age Problems

clubs showed interest only in sports,
but gradually members enroll in spe-
cial Study classes, debating, and our
little theater programs. Debates on
current subjects prompt boy and girl
competitors to indulge in research
work, involving many hours outside
of school work, which has proved
highly fascinating and instructive.
Our "little theater tournament"
involves selection of plays by each
club. Boys and girls have become so
enthusiastic and proficient that they
have written and produced their own
plays. Parents and the public are
invited, and, on special nights plays
are enacted with proper music and
stage effects. A score of plays are
presented in the course Of the season
with very satisfactory results.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-27

NEW inquiries just completed by
~ the school department of New
York City provide rather startling
demonstration of the immense prac-
tical value of combining EXPERT
ENCE with EDUCATION in
preparing young men and women for
adult life.
The well organized educational
system of New York has consider
able number of vocational high
schools.
Besides this, New York City has
also developed to an exceptional
degree the "work. study" plan by
which pupils attend classes part of
their scholastic time and work in pri-
vate enterprises during equal
periods, thus combining theoretical
instruction with shop training.
A RECENT report from the school
n department showed that nearly
all work study" students are
graduated" from their classes into
the fields of employment for which
they are educated, and that their
permanent employment, in fact, is
usually a continuation of their part
time student experience jobs.
A similar report, just issued for
the vocational school division, pre-
sents strikingly similar findings.
According to Associate Superin-
tendent George F. Pigott Jr. the vo-
cational high school survey has
plotted the post-school records of
graduates for FIVE semesters extend.
ing back from June, 1943-no survey
being attempted for 1914 classes be-
cause most Of the boys are in the
armed services.
In the classes of June, 194l, there
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