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Evening star., 1944-02-10
Two Transit Lines Get
Approval Of WLB on
Wartime Bonus Plan
Arnold Management,
Union Still Seeking
Similar Setup

The Capital Transit Co. and the
Alexandria, Bancroft g. Washington
Transportation Co. today had War
Labor Board approval for a union
management bonus plan expected tc
raise employees wages S cents an
hour. Officials of the Arnold-op-
Grated line and union representa-
tives still have not agreed on d
similar bonus plan for that line.
The bonus plan for the Wash
ington and Alexandria companies
approved unanimously yesterday by
the WLB, will compensate transit
workers during the present ex-
trarodinary war circumstances" in
lieu of straight scent per houl
wage increase denied by the WLE
last month.
At that time the WLB recon-
mended that company officials and
representatives of the union-the
AFL Amalgamated Association OF
Street, Electric Railway & Motor
Coach Operators of America-work
out a bonus plan to increase work
ers pay.
Under the plan, bonus payments
will be calculated on the increase
in revenue per vehicle mile since
January l, 194l, multiplied by the
number of pay hours worked by in
dividual employees each month.
With the Capital Transit Co., the
plan applies to both operating and
incorporating employees and will be
retroactive to last July l. For
A., B. & w. employees the plan will
include only operating employees and
will be retroactive to last June 18.
Arnold Operated employees last
M0a1th were granted a7-cent-per-
hour increase shy WLB. but con.
tinued negotiations with company
officials for bonus plan. The
Arnold workers had requested a
straight IA cent per hour wage
boost.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Mrs. Deitz Sponsors Room
At Prince GEORGES HospitaI

mrs. Aaron Deitz, 4314 Gallatin
street, Hyattsville, is the first person
To sponsor room at the Prince
georges General Hospital near
Cheverly.
Mrs. Deitz presented a $40O check
yesterday to DR.. A. Kirk Beslev.
hospital superintendent, for the
sponsorship of room in memory
of her brother, Gerald Oxenburg.
The sponsor is the wife of the
president OF the Prince Georges
County Medical Society. She also
is a member of the women's auxil-
larry Of the society and of the Hos
pital Women's Guild,
Evening star., 1944-02-10
War Pay Will Cost
S1,500,O00
Less Than Expected
Reduction Attributed
To Failure to Fill
Many Bosic Wage Jobs
BY DON S. WARREN.

Wartime pay levels and overtime
charges will cost the District Gov
ernment this fiscal year about So
900 ,UO0-roughly $1,5O0OOO less than
had been calculated months ago
it was learned today on Capitol Hill
as study was turned to the city's
deficiency and supplemental fund
needs for the remainder of this fis-
cal year.
The heavy reduction in the war
time extra pay needs of the mu-
nicipal government, which could
not be calculated earlier with ac-
curacy, is attributed mostly to huge
savings which have accrued due to
inability of the District to fill many
positions for which basic pay ap-
preparations were made.
Vacancies Cut Down Cost.
Police, flremen, nurses and teach
er positions are among those where
vacancies have cut down the cost
of the legislated extra pay. Antici-
patton Of such factors has been one
reason for delay in preparation of
estimates for the overtime and ex-
ira pay for this fiscal year, which
ends June 30. A supplemental budg-
ct to cover this need is expected to
be forwarded to the Capitol soon.
The House received number of
deficiency and supplemental appro-
priation requests yesterday from the
President, including proposals for
an additional $4O0,9O6 for various
municipal operations, notably the
water and sewer departments.
In the 1912 fiscal year, the Dis
trict obtained congressional sane
ton to sell up to $500, 1000 of its wa
ter dep8rtments capital, improve
merit reserve fund. .>invested in Gov
securities but later found
the extra financing not necessary
Current proposals would rescind a
plan to invest 100000 more in the
re We fund and to sell enough
securities to add $4,000 to revenues
available the remainder of this fiscal
year.
The water reserve fund, started
four years ago, now amounts to ST.
836,621. Sale of the proposed $780,
600 securities would be the first time
the fund was drawn upon.
Supplemental Requests.
The District supplemental re-
quests include: For operation of the
water supply system, S125,000, due
partly to the break in the aqueduct
last summer, increased purchase OF
purifying chemicals (that make the
water taste bad, but safe) needed
because of greatly boosted water
consumption demands. and the
higher per diem wage payments; for
the water distribution system, an
extra $52,700 for maintenance work
Other items are: For cleaning ano
repair of sewers, $4,000; for the
Police and Fireman,s Relief Fund
an extra 100000; National Capita.
Parks Office, $4,000, and a mum.
ber of smaller items.
In addition. the President for.
warded other supplemental requests
including $105,038 to permit war.
time extra pay for the staff of the
United States Soldiers Home; $1O,.
900 for Mrs. Marie K. Van Nuys, the
widow of the late Senator from In
diana, this in keeping with con-
gressional custom; 100000 addi-
tional for the expenses of the spe-
cial and select committees author
lied by the House; and S72,900 ex-
ira for the operation of the Capitol
power plant.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
lsWRshoniinq
&Remiindery@a

Canned and Frozen Foods, Etc
Book No. 4. green stamps G, H,
and J valid through February 20.
Stamps K, L and M valid through
March 20.
Meats, Fats, Etc. - Book No. 3,
stamps v, w and K valid through
February 26. Stamps Y, which be-
comes valid February 13, and z,
good February 20, both expire on
March 20.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
every pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Book No. 4. Stamp 80 valid
for S pounds through March 81.
Book No. 4, stamp 40 good for 5
pounds for home canning through
February %, 1945.
Shoes-Stamp No. 18 In Book No. /
and stamp ] on the "airplane"
sheet Of Book No. 3 valid for an
indefinite period.
Gasoline-No. ga coupons good for
3 gallons through May 8, B, B-l, C
and C-1 coupons good for 2 gall
longs each. These coupons will
expire on date indicated on indi-
vidual books. B-2 and CO cou-
pons in books issued since De-
cember l are good for 5 gallons
each.
Tire Inspection Deadlines-For A
coupon holders, March 81. For B
coupon holders, February 20.
Fuel Oil-Period No. 3 coupons good
through March IA. Period No. 4
coupons valid through September
80. Nos. and 4 coupons good for 10
gallons per unit. According to the
District OPA, consumers in this
area should not have used more
than 81 per cent of their total
yearly fuel oil ration as of Feb.
ruary I.
Evening star., 1944-02-10

Victory gardeners and farmers
fertilizer problems will be solved this
year, because synthetic nitrogen
plants built in this country since the
beginning of the war will make
available about 35 per cent more
nitrogen fertilizer than ever before,
according to report by DR.. F. w.
Parker, director of the Agriculture
Department Division of Soil and
Fertilizer Investigations.
This nitrogen, ammonium nitrate,
long has been recognized by soil
experts as an excellent source for
all crops, DR.. Parker said, but its
use has been retarded by certain
physical characteristics which recent
experiments have largely overcome
DR.. Parker said the new ammo
mum nitrate will supply about 20
per cent of the available supply of
nitrogen this year, and will be an
important factor in making possible
a 35 per cent increase in the Ma
tion's nitrogen fertilizer supply. Eff
GENTLY used, he added, this increased
supply, which is equivalent to about
850,000 tons of ammonium sulfate
will greatly increase food, feed and
fiber production.
Economical Features Noted.
DR.. Parker said the ammonium
nitrate fertilizer has properties SIM
liar to two of the best-known nitro
gen fertilizers-sodium nitrate and
ammonium sulfate He said the
one fertilizer, under proper condi-
tions, will give results similar to the
use of a $3.50 mixture of sodium
nitrate and ammonium sulfate. In
addition, he asserted, use of am
monium nitrate will give a cheaper
source of nitrogen because of its
higher nitrogen content and the
saving in freight and labor involved
In its use.
While the fact that ammonium
nitrate absorbs moisture from the
air more readily than other nitrogen
fertilizers and is inclined to cake in
storage, has tended to discourage its
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Alexandria PTA Council
To Hear DR.. Lancaster

DR.. Dabney Lancaster, State su-
perintendent of public instruction,
will speak at the founders day pro-
gram of the Alexandria Parent
Teacher Association Council at 8
pm. tomorrow in the George Wash
ington High School auditorium.
T. c. Williams, superintendent of
schools, will introduce the speaker,
whose subject will be Education in
Virginia" Mrs. William Warne,
president of the council, will preside.
Evening star., 1944-02-10

he pointed out. The schools in
volved are Montgomerv. Wilson
Coolidge, Banneker. Terrell and
Jefferson. ~.
Recalling that operation of all
recreational agencies was unified
here in 1943, Mr.. Christensen told
the committee that Washington has
the basic structure for one Of the
finest public recreation programs in
the country.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
HousehoIdersW Warned
To File Tax Forms
On Moidservonts

If you have paid, an unmar-
ried housemaid $500 or more in
1943, or a married one 1924, you
are an employer under the in
come tax laws and must file
forms 1899 and 1896 by Tuesday,
the Internal Revenue Bureau
again pointed out today.
The forms should be mailed
to commissioner of Internal
Revenue, Processing Division,
26O East 161st street, New
York"
The forms may be obtained
by mail or personal request to
Room 1014, Internal Revenue
Bureau, Twelfth and Constitu-
ton avenue NV.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Maryland OPA Chief
Passes Induction Test
By the ASsnriafAd pr.ee

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 10.-Leo H,
Mccormick, State director for the
Office Of Price Administration,
passed his preinduction physical ex-
amintaion yesterday and was desig-
mated fit for general Army service.
Mr.. Mccormick, reclassif1ed la in
the draft last month, was required
to take the physical tests before his
case could be considered by the ap-
peals board. Bernard B. Feikin,
Government appeals agent, filed the
request for deferment on the ground
Mr.. Mccormick is director of a vital
war agency.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Contractors Re-eIect Rust

E. Marshall Rust, vice president of
Rust Engineering Co., 1910 Vermont
avenue NV, was reelected secre-
tary and treasurer of the Associated
General Contractors of America at
the conclusion of their 25th annual
meeting in Chicago yesterday. Will
liam Muirhead, Durham, N. c.. was
chosen president.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Civilian Defense Seeks
Volunteer Entertainers

Entertainers of all types are
needed by the Civilian Defense VOL
unteer Office for show units which
will perform evenings and week
ends at nearby Army camps.
Interested persons should contact
the Civilian Defense Volunteer
ONCE, 1850 Pennsylvania avenue
NV, between the hours of 9 am.
to 7:30 pm, Monday through Fri
day.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
PTA Group to Hold Dance

The Cottage City (MdD Parent
Teacher Association will sponsor a
dance from 8:15 to 10:45 pm. to-
morrow in the school auditorium. A
color film, depicting life in 18th CEN
tury Williamsburg, Va, will be
shown at the February az meeting.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Musons PIon Reunion

Roger Sullivan, Alexandria city
treasurer, has been appointed chair
man of the Spring Reunion Com
mittee of the Washington Memorial
Lodge of Perfection, Scottish Rite
Masons. The lodge, of which Julian
Whitestone is venerable master, will
meet tomorrow night in the Masonic
Temple to elect officers.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Save This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for Army and Navy supplies
shipped overseas. Every pound
OF old newspapers and maga-
zines is needed. Telephone your
nearest school or notify some
school child in your block to
have your paper picked up.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Deputy Sheriffs Named

speclaI Dlspatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Feb. TO-
Sheriff Robert w. Farmer has ap-
pointed Harold E. Ober and Everett
H. Pierson special deputy sheriffs
for Montgomery County. Both were
sworn in by Clayton K. Watkins,
clerk Of the Circuit Court at Rock
vile.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Patterson Again Heads
National Welfare Group
BY the AssociateG Press

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 10.-J. Milton
Patterson, State director of public
welfare, was elected president of
the American Public Welfare Asso-
citation for third term, officials an
nounced yesterday.
The association includes public
welfare administrators and workers
throughout the country.
Mr.. Patterson, native of Cum
berland, is the only Marylander
ever to head the group. He has
been State director since 1899.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Britain Plans Embassies
In Mexico, Peru, Iran
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Feb. 1o.-The foreign
office announced last night that
British legations in Mexico City.
Lima and Teheran had been ele-
waited to the status of embassies.
The first British Ambassadors TO
Mexico, Peru and Iran. respectively.
will be c. H. Bateman, Courtenay
Forbes and Sir Reader Bullard.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Tax Advice for Bethesduns

Bureau of Internal Revenue agents
will be at the Bank of Bethesda
Monday through Friday to assist
residents of the area in preparing
their Federal income tax returns,
S. w. Bogley, president of the bank,
announced today.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
Red Cross Office Moved

The Montgomery County Chapter
of the American Red Cross has
moved to new headquarters at 7012
Wisconsin ave-, Chevy Chase, Md,
chapter onicials announced yester-
day.
Evening star., 1944-02-10
PIoy to Mark PTA Meetinq

A patriotic play entitled Its Up
to You" will be presented at a meet
ing OF the Mount Rainier Brent
wood Parent-Teacher Association
at 8 pm. Tuesday at the Brentwood
School.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-27
Fresh Nazi Attack Opens Battle For Meuse
Paris Rocked Izader German Aerial Bombing
Russians FiXsh ENFORCEMENT Of Budapest
Soldiers Club Hit;
Casualties Reported
Air Raid Sirens Fail To Announce Presence
OF Night Raiders Until First Explo-
sions Shatter Partisan Serenity

ped then or saboteurs caused ex-
blossoms.
The incident caused great ten
sion in the city, partly because of
fear of Vichy fifth columnists, and
people went about carefully after
dark.
Much the same atmosphere exist
ed when enemy planes struck last
night.
FOR more than a week, since the
Germans started their counterof-
fensive, reports h ad circulated
through the city of the dropping
of German parachutists and fifth
columnists, including armed wom-
en-, behind the Allied lines.
CHS Correspondent Ned Calmer
said that the raid caused conster-
nation among Parisians.
Calmer was in his room at the
time, he said, and he first noticed
something unusual in the persistent
droning OF plane which seemed to
be circling at high altitude.
Then suddenly series of ex-
plosions shook the whole of Paris
and this hotel, which is a great
solid one, shook like everything
else Calmer reported.
Finally the Paris air raid 81
renS Sounded.''
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PARIS, Wednesday, D e C. IT,
(UP) arts, which had thought it
self secure after years OF terror,
was bombed by enemy planes late
last night in brief raid which, it
was announced, caused slight Cas-
ualties and damage.
One bomb hit a servicemen' S
club which served walking wound
ed ir transit through Paris from
the front.
The enemy planes came in over
the city at 1885,. pm, in a cloud
less starlit sky, and dropped their
bombs. Buildings rocked for blocks
around the explosions. Two min
utes after the first bombs dropped
the air raid warning was sounded.
The "all clear" came IS minutes
later.
Announcement OF the casualties
and damage came from American
Ninth Air Force Headquarters.
There had been no air alert in
Paris. let alone bombs, since short
ly after the city W a S liberated.
Then the sirens sounded, and ex-
plosions were heard, while Gen.
Charles de Gaulle was attending a
memorial service at Virty ceme-
terry. 1t was never established
whether bombs actually were drop
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Estergom, Only Route To
Safety For Foe,
Is Taken

LONDON, Dec. 26-(UP)
Powerful Soviet tank and
infantry forces, closing the
escape corridor for thousands
of enemy troops in Budapest,
today completed the encircle-
ment of the Hungarian CAPT.
tai and simultaneously fought
one and one h a f miles
through the streets of the
city toward its heart.
Enemy troops in the encircled
capital were believed preparing to
make d street-by-s stand, but
smashing back their resistance, the
Soviets were advancing into Buda,
western half of the city, and today
had captured several communities
within its limits.
The shell churned nine mile
escape corridor for the enemy was
sealed when Marshal Feodor l.
Tolbukhin's 3rd Ukrainian Army
vanced six miles to reach the Dan
advanced six miles to reach the
Danube 10 miles northwest of
BUDAPEST and captured Estergom.
Estergom was the enemy's only
possible escape point. A highway
bridge crossed the Danube at that
point. On the north bank of the
Danube, a second Soviet army was
poised to shatter any lone enemy
attempts to cross the Danube in
small boats from the pocket of re-
sistance still in enemy hands.
Smashing across Falkland on the
city's western limits from the SUI
burban town of Budakeszi, which
was captured Monday, Tolbukhin' S
troops advanced through wealthy,
residential Buda and captured
Zugliget, terminus of one of Blu
da's three suburban stre-tcar
lines.
simultaneously, other Russian
columns captured the great south
western suburb of Budfolk and five
miles northwest of Budapest took
the outlying town of PASSWORDS
var.
AS the Red army's seven-week
battle to capture Budapest ap-
preached climax, Moscow an
M unced that Tolbukhin's troops
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F0RRESTAL CITES
NAVY AIR VICTORY
u. S. Planes Have Succeed.
ed In Philippine
Conquest

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-lR-
The United States has succeeded
in the second phase of the naval
campaign for the Philippines
the battle with enemy land-based
aircraft, Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal said today.
Reviewing the recent months of
the Pacific war in a statement,
Forrestal said this second phase
opened with the crushing defeat
Of Japanese naval forces late in
October.
Having driven the japanese
fleet from the Philippine area"
he said, "the United States Navy
in the phases of the campaign
since October Is has been pitted,
not against enemy naval forces
primarily, but against enemy
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
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Three Mazi Spies; Found
In Kank Uniforms, Killed

They wore American fatigue uni
forms.
First to be placed at firing
post was Officer Candidate Guen-
Their Bipling, "a. He was dininu-
tive and he wore glasses, but the
officer in charge of the execution
said:
HE is tough. He is real Nazi.
Next came Sgt. Manfred Parnass.
He was shivering, from cold not
fear. He also was a. AS he march
ed from the barracks he looked
around him every time he heard an
order issued, and then looked at
the feet of the guards to make
sure he would not make a misstep
N the right and left turns toward
the firing posts.
Last was Cpl. Wilhelm Schmidt,
Continued on Page Eight; Col. g.
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Jap Planes Bombard
Saipan, Yank Fliers
Hammer AT Two lima

U. S. PACIFIC HEADQUAR.
TIERS, PEARL HARBOR, Dec. rs.
carbohydrates aircraft, strik-
ing back across the Western Pa
cific, raided Saipan's B29 base
Christmas Eve destroying one
American plane and damaging
several others, while Liberators
of the Strategic Air Force ham,
mered Two Jima In the VOLCANOES
IN their 18th consecutive attack,
il was announced today.
Between 16 and Is enemy planes
hit one of Saipan's airstrips
through a screen of Yankee night
fighters.
The U. S. forces shot down three
planes and Saipan's anti-aircraft
gunners destroyed a fourth.
Complete details of the damage
caused on Saipan were not avail
able but Adm. Chester w. Nimitz'
communique said six men were
injured in addition to plane losses
on the ground. The com:nunique
did not identify the type of planes
destroyed and damage on the
field,
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it will be major factor IN IN
formal discussions.
The meeting - to be the fourth
for American foreign ministers
ostensibly will be for discussion OF
world security proposals formula\
ed at Dumbarton Oaks, and other
postwar problems.
The decision to hold the confer
ence ends long controversy over
the various proposals for such a
meeting - the most sensational of
which was made by Argentina her
self. On October 81, the Buenos
Aires government applied to t h e
Pan American Unions governing
board for a foreign minister S
to consider the Argentine
problem but specifically excluding
discussion of Argentina's internal
The request was referred
to the various governments an9 has
not yet been acted upon.
AS a result of the request, how
ever. Mexico made countersug-
geStlon Tor 4 Tneetng OF all the
except Argentina. The
United Press reported yesterday
that 16 of the 18 nations consulted
on that proposal had replied and
all but two favored it.
It is anticipated that the time
of the now decided upon meeting
will be in February or March. It
definitely will be held before the
still contemplated full-dress United
Nations conference on tn world
proposals. 1t is known
that American officials will be dis
appointed if the United Nations
is not held this winter
Or in the spring.
1t has been nearly three years
since the last consultative meeting
Of American foreign ministers and
there has been increasing pressure
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N, Y. Butcher
Shops Closed
In PriiceRow
About Half OF City's Stores
Protesting OPA
Regulations

NEW YORK, Dec. 26-P,
Christmas dinner leftovers
made up the menu for many
a New York family today as
thousands of butcher shops
closed in protest against Gov.
ernment price regulations.
A bakery drivers strike
sharply cut delivery of pies
and dark bread, meanwhile
and many delicatessen stores
their owners joining meat
dealers in a price protest.
failed to open.
Police Commissioner Lewis j.
Valentine reported that 2,l35 OF s.
O2O meat stores checked in New
York S five ooroughs were observ-
ing the meat holiday voted two
weeks ago.
Joseph Cohn counsel for the
New York Council of Wholesale
Meat Dealers. said there were TO-
900 meat stores in the city and that
at least half Of them were closed.
Trada ennkesnnai1 said further shut
downs were likely tomorrow.
A little meat was available in
the stores that did open, Mayor
LaGuardia and other observers
said, and the shortage was felt in
midtown restaurants damned by
holiday crowds.
Baked in his efforts to obtain
the meat dealers principle demand
price ceilings on livestock-Rcg-
imal OPA administrator Daniel ?.
Woolley announced a ezra k
down. on meat spectators who, he
said. constitute the core of the
meat black market"
One wholesaler, Harvey Ershow-
sky. was sentencel to two days
Imprisonment after pleading gull
W 10 selling two carcasses without
furnishing required prices and 9TH
er Information.
In Washington. Rep. Celler Cd
N.Y. said ne would ask the new
Congress to compel price ceilings
on the live cattie-a move the War
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