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Evening star., 1944-03-19
Arthur CowsiII Dies al 79;
Was Retired Contractor

Arthur Cowsill, 70, a resident of
the District for more than so years,
died yesterday at his home, 1916
Park road NV, after an illness of
several months.
Born in Farnsworth, England, Mr..
Cowsill came to Washington as a
young man and married the former
Matilda Rutherford, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. william Rutherford of
Washington.
Mr.. Cowsill, a well known con-
tractor, built several Government
buildings here. He retired several
years ago.
Active in civic groups, Mr.. Cowsill
was member of the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants, Myron M. Par
ker Masonic Lodge and the Shrine
of Almas Temple. He attended the
Fourth Presbyterian Church.
Mr.. Cowsill is survived by a
daughter, Miss Catherine M. Cowsill,
who lives at the Park road address.
Funeral services will be held at
the residence at 2:30 pm. tomorrow.
Burial will be in Rock Creek
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Chance Meeting in BIockout
Leads WAVE and Sailor to Altar
Reception Is Held
At USO Center for
Musician and Bride

How long is the blackout going
to last?" young WAVE asked a
stranger on a street corner one
hot night last June.
The stranger, tall, slim Navy
musician, outside the Pepsi Cola
lservicemens center, couldn't say
but there was something about the
girls voice-he offered her an arm
and escorted her home.
Ducking shower of rice, the
couple last night hurried into the
tUSO center at 1911 H street NV
The bride, dressed in traditional
white satin with finger tip veil,
was smiling at her young husband
in his Navy blues.
Other young servicemen and
women crowded around to watch
the bride cut the cake. 1t was
topped by miniature bride and
groom. Colleagues of the groom
from the Navy School of Music
were busily assembling their in
struments for a dance.
The WAVE is the former Dorothy
Nellman, yoeman, second class. The
bridegroom is Eugene Stephens,
musician, third class. Their we'd
ding took place at the Western
Presbyterian Church and their re-
ception at the USO Center, where
they have spent lot of time to-
gether. Another WAVE, Miss Pau
line Nellman, specialist, third class,
from Hunter College, New York,
was her sisters attendant. A
brother of the bridegroom, Pvt.
Frank o. Stephens, jr., stationed at
Randolph Macon College, Ashland,
Va, was best man.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
District OAR 10 Begin
Annual Meeting Today

The 43d annual three-day meeting
Of the State Conference of the Dis
trict Daughters of the American
Revolution will open at pm. today
at Memorial Continental Hall; Sew
enteenth and D streets NV, with a
memorial service for deceased mem
bers.
Assistant Secretary of State Dean
Acheson will address the session at
$50 am. tomorrow. Mr.. Acheson
will discuss the work of the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration.
The chapter regents reports and
nominations of State officers will
feature the evening session starting
at 7 o'clock.
Past State regents will present
greetings at the Tuesday morning
meeting and the Junior American
Citizens Clubs will present musi-
cal program. The conference will
hold it's final meeting at pm.
Tuesday. A program of songs by
members of Girl Scout Troop No. 45
and an essay on the flag by Nancy
Hamilton of the Potomac School
will high light the session.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Mrs. Mary Dixon ThaYer,
Widow Of General, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 18-Mrs
Mary Homer Dixon Thayer, 81,
widow of Brig. Gen. Russell Thayer
and mother of the former Mary
Dixon Thayer, poet, novelist and
one-time tennis champion, died to-
day at her home in suburban Mount
Airy.
A native Philadelphian, she mar
ried Gen. Thayer in April, 1876. He
helped lay out the grounds for the
centennial exposition of that year
and was chief engineer and super
intendent of Paramount Park for
% years. One of the first American
airship experimenters, he obtained
several patents in that field.
Survivors, in addition to the for
mer tennis champion, now Mrs
Maurice Fremont-Smith of Boston
are five sons, Russell, jr, Of Haver-
ford, Pa; Fitz Eugene D., Alexander
D., of Miami Beach, Fla; Edmund
of Haverford and Joseph Trevanion
Thayer of ElkinS Park. Pa.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Copper Probe Failure,
|REA Official CHARGES
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
John A. Becker, Wisconsin rural
electrification co-ordinator, yester-
day charged before a congressional
committee that an Agriculture De-
partment investigation of alleged
pressure brought by Rural Electrifi-
cation Administration officials to
have copper used in REA projects
instead Of aluminium had resulted in
a "whitewash."
Mr.. Becker told Senate agri-
culture subcommittee that Guy W.
Thaxton, chief of the REA division
of engineers In 1889, was one of
those urging use Of copper.
He said Mr.. Thaxton had ap-
preached directors of the Wisconsin
Development Authority, which did
engineering work on REA projects,
to try to persuade them to use cop
per materials.
''The directors became angry" said
Mr.. Becker. They went so far as to
imply Mr.. Thaxton might be getting
something out Of the copper DEAL"
Mr.. Becker told the committee
however, he had not found anything
to substantiate that belief.
The investigation of alleged pres
sure to bring about use of copper
instead of aluminium had resulted,
Mr.. Becker said, in the promotion of
Mr.. Thaxton and other REA officials.
Mr.. Becker said copper electric
lines cost about $45 more a mile.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
0nIy3ofQuints Births
Reported Registered

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, March 18.-The
Buenos Aires Herald, an English
language newspaper which first re-
ported the birth OF quintuplets to
Franco Diligenti and his wife in the
Buenos Aires suburbs, today said its
investigation had been unable to
find that the father had registered
more than three of the births.
Two of the infants, Franquito and
Maria Esther, were registered as
twins in one registry, and a third,
Fernando, was registered separately
elsewhere, the Herald said.
Two different addresses. each
listed as the fathers residence, were
given as the birthplace. Neither
was the address of the midwife
where Diligenti now says the chill
dren actually were born.
The Herald said the father had
now taken steps to have the other
two births registered. Under Argen-
tine law failure to report births
within three days is an offense
punishable by fine.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Is Pounds Of Sugar
Allowed for Home Cannino
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Sugar for home canning will be
available to housewives at a maxi
mum of Is pounds for each family
member, the same rate as last year
the OPA announced yesterday.
Five pounds of the allotment can
be obtained with sugar Stamp 40 in
War Ration Book 4, already val
idated. Beginning next Thursday
local ration boards will grant Ger
tificates for an additional supply
up to 20 pounds a person.
OPA said that as was the case
last season, the maximum supple
mentary ration will be allowed only
to families who have large amounts
of fresh fruits available.
Applications may be obtained and
returned to local boards by mail, the
agency said. Instead of enclosing
ration book with the application
spare stamp No. 81 from Book No. 4
must accompany the form.
OPA also provided that families
that can and preserve food at home
for sale may apply for a maximum
OF $50 pounds of sugar for this
purpose.
Evening star., 1944-03-19

months ago at the home of a girl
friend. She had gone out with him
three times-to the President S
Birthday ball and to two moves
and had dated him last on the
previous Saturday night.
She said she had explained to him
that she didn't want to have too
many dates with the same boy and
her mother said she had told Cam
eron that he was welcome to visit
David any time.
She said she thought he appeared
like any other boy except for a
speech impeachment. She never
teased him, she said, nor let her
girl friends tease him.
Patricia said the youth had called
her repeatedly on Wednesday when
she wasn't home and called her
early on Thursday night. She wasn't
home then, either, she said, but she
spoke to him later when he called
again and explained that she was
going out with friend.
Cameron's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Edwin j. Cameron, 65l3 Maple ave-
nue. NV, said their son had be-
come extremely morbid last year
when he was turned down on his
Army physical examination and saw
all his friends leave for the service.
He joined the Maryland State
Guard after being rejected by the
Army and was trying to persuade
David Kerlin to join with him, Mr..
Cameron said.
A talented pianist. Cameron was
student at the Peabody Conserva-
tory of Music in Baltimore. His
parents said last night he was now
under a doctors care.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Four Liquor Bandits :
Identified, Police Say

The four men who robbed
Mitchell's Liquor Store, 1922 Con-
lnecticut avenue, on March s, have
been identified as escaped convicts
from an Alabama penal institution.
They are believed to be in Birming-
ham, where officers are searching
for them, Chief of Detectives Rob-
ert j. Barrett announced last night.
A tipoff came when one of the
men tried to pawn a watch, stolen
in the holdup, in a Birmingham
pawnshop. When the pawnbroker
delayed the transaction while he
stepped into another part of the
shop to show the watch to an ap-
Ipraiser, the men who presented it
fled.
On the day of the robbery here,
the Police Department had sent
flyers" to all police and county
sheriffs in the country, describing
the watch and rings stolen from
the proprietors and salesmen of the
liquor store. Hence, Birmingham
authorities were able to identify the
timepiece.
They at once sent photos of the
four escaped convicts to Washing
ton, where they were identified by
the robbery victims.
Evening star., 1944-03-19

REUNITED IN WASHING
TON-A brother and a sister,
one a soldier, the other a
WAVE, met in Washington
Friday night after almost a
year in the service. Here
Corpl. Leroy Nelson and Yeo-
man jeanette Nelson tele-
phone birthday greetings to
their mother in Clinton, Iowa,
from the Pepsi-Cola Service
Center, Thirteenth and G
streets NV. Corpl. Nelson is
with the Coast Artillery at
Fort Monroe. Va. and is
getting ready to ship over
seas. His sister is with the
Navy Department here.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
DR.. Upton 5. Howser, "a,
Dies After Brief Illness

DR.. Upton S. Howser, GA, dentist
here for 38 years, died Friday at
his home, 1904 T street Sc, after
a brief illness.
A native of Relay. Md, he had
been a District resident 48 years.
He was graduated in dentistry in
1906 from George Washington Uni.
versity and was member of the
District Dental Society.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Mabel w.
Howser, he leaves a daughter, Mary
Jane Howser: son. Upton S. How
ser III; brother, Charles H. How
ser, all of this city, and a sister.
Mrs. William Henry Fisher, Gen.
terville, Md.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. tomorrow in the st. The
resa Catholic Church. Burial will
be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Yonks Dislike Movies
With G!orified Heroes

BY the Associated Press.
American soldiers on the fighting
fronts don't like movies with glori-
fed war heroes.
Maj. Gen. Frederick H. Osborn.
director of the Army's Morale Serv-
ice Division, SO reported to the War
Department yesterday after a 30 ,00O-
mile survey tour of the Pacific war
zone.
The men, who see Hollywood's lat
est offerings on makeshift screens
near the firing lines, like newsreels,
comedies, musical pictures and in
formational films, he found.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Germans and Chetniks
Reported Routed by Tito

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar 13.-Marshall
Tito announced today that units of
two of his divisions have routed a
large number of enemy troops on
the Lin River in Central Yugo-
slavia and penetrated to Serbian
territory.
The battle, which lasted several
days, centered near Prijepolje,
where Tito's forces were opposed
not only by Germans but by
Chetniks of Gen. Draja Mihailo-
vich's forces and troops of the
Puppet Yugoslav premier, Marshal
Milan Medic, and of the Fascist
leader, DR.. Demetrice Ljotich, a
communique said.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Arrested in His Home,
Man Ends Life With Gun

A man identified as George l..
Patterson of Beltsville shot and
killed himself last night when po-
lice went to his home to arrest him
on an assault and battery charge.
Hyattsville police said Officers
Caldwell and Burgess had gone to
Patterson's home with a warrant
charging him with assault and bat
terry on his wife. They said Pat
terson offered no resistance, but
merely asked to go into the bed
room to get his coat. A few min
utes later they heard a shot and
found him lying on the floor with
a As bullet wound in his head.
Police said Patterson was en-
ployed in Baltimore and that he and
his wife had no children.
Evening star., 1944-03-19

lo,000,0O0 Will be manufactured dur
ing the last half of the year, Mr.,
Dewey said in his fifth progress re-
port.
"A serious situation can be avoid
ed and drastic action averted if
the public understands that their
tires must be made to last while
a steady flow of goods is maintained
to the armed forces and essential
transportation" Mr.. Dewey said.
Conservation Appeal Made.
II appeal in the strongest pos
sible way to the various State gov
erning bodies to keep their roads
IN repair, to aid in the conserva-
ton OF all tires, and to enforce
low speeds. In this connection it
must always be recalled that the
life of a tire at 35 miles per hour
is so per cent longer than at SO
miles per hour and three times
longer than at go miles per hour"
The report revealed rapid prog
ress in carrying out the synthetic
rubber program. Mr.. Dewey said
America today is producing syn
thetic rubber at a rate faster than
that at which crude rubber was
consumed in this country in any
year prior to 1941. Yet, he added,
the Nations military and civilian
demands for tires and other rubber
products continues to exceed the
supply.
Construction Progress Told.
Detailing the plant construction
program, Mr.. Dewey said:
with the exception of the butyl
plant at Baytown, Texas, the second
half of the Port Nechez CTexas)
butadiene plant and the butadiene
plants at Houston, Lake Charles,
La, and Philadelphia, the primary
construction of all the more than
so plants In the original rubber pro-
gram for the manufacture of buta-
diene, styrene, buna S., neoprene
and butyl rubber has been COM
pleted.
"Other new war programs, rated
as more vital and immediate, have
caused delay in the final completion
of some of the large butadiene- from
petroleum plants Consequently,
production will not be at full ca
pacity until the second half of 1914"
Evening star., 1944-03-19
6 Hurt as Ferryboat Hits
Tanker in Hudson River
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 18.-The ferry
boat 'Weehawken," with go passen-
gers and Is automobiles aboard. ran
into a tanker anchored in the Hud-
son River late tonight. and six Of
the passengers were reported in
jured, none seriously.
The ferry left Edgewater, N. j..
at 11:l5 pm, and the collision oc-
CURED about Is minutes later.
Police said that while the automo-
biles and passengers were tossed
about by the impact. little damage
was apparent, and all the passengers
were able to walk off when the ferry
arrived.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Stote G. 0. P. Convention
Backs Nye and Lemke

By the Associated Press.
BISMARCK, N. D., Mar. 18.-
North Dakota Republicans, in State
convention here today, indorsed Sen
ator Nye for denomination in the
June primary.
Senator Nye received ZIG votes;
Norman Brunsdale, Mayville, 12;
Lynn Stambaugh, Fargo, former ma
tional commander of the American
Legion, l, with 88 delegates not vot-
ing.
Milton Young, Lamoure, and Rep
resentative Lemke, incumbent, were
indorSed for the House.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
First Allied Air Attack
On Hungary Reported
BY the Associated Press.

oS Tie AosoClabeu Press
ANKARA, Mar. 18. -Approxi-
mately $50 planes raided Hungarian
cities yesterday in the first Anglo
American aerial attack against Hun
gary, the Budapest correspondent
of the Anatolian agency, official
Turkish news agency, said.
The correspondent said the Buda-
pest alert lasted nearly an hour and
q half but no planes were sighted
The report said an official announce
ment did not list damaged cities
but 1t was ascertained that Kaposval
was among those hit. Although
Kaposyar has no large industries il
is an important railway junction
with main lines leading to Croatia
There are also several airdromes
In the vicinity.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
u. S. Newspapers
Save Newsprint
In 378 Ways
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 18.-More than
300 different corner-cutting meas
ureS have been resorted to by United
States newspapers in their efforts
to save paper, the American News
paper Publishers Association re-
ported today.
From complete elimination OF
editorial, cartoon, comic or other
features to minor reductions in type
or picture size was the range OF
changes rejecting the severe cur
tailment by the Government of the
use of newsprint paper.
The ANPA listed 318 measures in
a QUESTIONABLE sent member pa
pers in an effort to find which
space-saving practices were most
generally followed.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Pierre Cot in Moscow
On Mission for De GuuIIe
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Mar. 18.-Pierre Cot,
French Socialist and prewar air
minister of France, arrived in Mos
COW today on a special mission for
Gen. Charles de Gaulie's French
Committee Of National Liberation.
Cot was expected to stay here
about three months, although the
exact nature of his mission was not
disclosed.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Big Bill Thompson
Reported Seriously Ill
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Mar. 18. - William
Hale Big Bill Thompson, three
times Mayor of Chicago, whose
broadsides at the King of England
in his 1927 campaign brought him
in the international limelight, was
reported in critical condition at his
Blackstone Hotel suite tonight fol-
lowing a heart attack.
DR.. T. j. Coogan, attending physi-
clan, described his condition as
very critical" and said he had been
under an oxygen tent since last
Thursday. He became unconscious
TODAY.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Monk Who Laid Mosuics
On Mt. Casino Dies

COLLEGEVTLLE, MINI, Mar. 18.-
Brother Clement Frischauf, o. S. B.,
OF ST. Johns Abbey here, who laid
the mosaics in the crypt of the now
bombed monastery of Mount Cas-
sino, Italy died yesterday of in
juries received in fall on Thurs
day. He was IA years old.
Brother Clement spent from 1900
to 1914 laying the mosaics in
the crypt.
Evening star., 1944-03-19

mtlit ary de-
mands are so
tremendous that
only stringent
conservation of
passenger car
tires will con-
tinue to keep
A m e r1c a on
wheels.
Earlier plans
to build 30.000,-
600 new tires for
passenger cars
this year have
been modified to
include only 22,-
000, 900, of which
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Jewish Home to Elect

The annual meeting and election
OF officers Of the Jewish Home will
ebe held at $3.50 pm. tomorrow at
the Jewish Community Center,
Isaac B. Nordlinger, president, an
nounced yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-03-19
Rubber Chief Warns
Motorists Of Need
To Conserve Tires

The motoring public was warned
yesterday by Rubber Director Brad
ley Dewey that, despite increased
production of synthetic rubber,
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Full-length mirrored door.
Affords spacious hanging
cupboard and drawer space.
Walnut finish on hardwood.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-01-14
Whct About Sterilization

AS the months so by, bringing us near
the end of the war and the termination OF
the present large scale employment the
patience of the workers is wearing thln IN
the face of the failure of the government
to do something definite TO stabilize our
economy.
The workers are fully aware that stab
ilization has been One-sided and directed
solely against them under the terms of
the Little Steel Formula. They are also
acutely conscious of the fact that COM
modify prices have not been held within
the same rigid confines as their wages,
and their anger and resentment is growing
by leaps and bounds.
When the Steel workers took a "hOli-
day" and the Railroad workers threatened
to stage a national railway strike, they
were but expressing the bitter resentment
which labor feels over the treatment ac-
corded il by the government to which 1t
has given its fullest support and cO-Opera-
ton in time of stress and war. Labor can
not feel otherwise. Ii is aware that it has
been victimized by plan which has worked
for months in holding labor to the line, but
which is rapidly losing its effectiveness as
the realization grows that rank injustice
is being done those who make up the real
backbone of the country.
Perhaps Congress and those whose eco
nOmic interest it has been serving for
more than one year believes that labor is
on the spot. In reality, Congress is in the
middle. Unless there is some definite cas-
ing Of the unjust economic conditions by
Congress, labor viii take action to retail
ate against body of legislators whose sole
ambition seems to be to handicap labor as
much as possible, and to return to the
halls of Congress after the 1914 election.
Perhaps labor needs the present re-
dictionary Congress to waken il to the seri-
BUSINESS of the conditions under which it is
working. AS matters now stand nothing
short of miracle viii prevent more seri-
Gus difficulties because Of the inequalities
which exist due TO the failure to stabilize
the economy of the country.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-01-14
The Presidents Proposal

With army leaders freely predicting
victory in 1914, the Presidents proposal
made to Congress on January IL that
National Service Law be enacted comes
as distinct surprise.
Immediate opposition to the Presi-
dents proposal has spontaneously sprung
up all over the country, not only among
the leaders of organized labor, but among
the rank and file as well.
President r. J. Thomas has clearly
stated that the proposal ''smacks OF slave
labor" and expressed the view which
every member of organized labor can sub
scribe TO that free labor can defeat slave
labor any time"
In view of the fact that thousands of
war workers are being laid off due to cur
taiIment of government war production
schedules, and in the face OF the claim
made by Philip Murray, CIO president,
that before the end of 1914 there would
be one million unemployed, the Presidents
proposal to conscript the manpOwer of the
nation seems i'll timed and i'll advised.
Labor authorities who know the man
power situation and are acquainted with
the manpOwer problem maintain that there
are ample resources Of labor particularly
at this time, due to lay-Offs and lack OF
full employment.
It is very doubtful if the manp0wer
problems will be solved by attempting TO
conscript manpOwer, and we share the
doubts of others that such IA plan will
work even if it is tried in the face OF
the changing conditions which are begin
ming to show themselses in number of
war industries.
We have not the slightest doubt that
Congress will accede to the Presi-
dents wishes even in the face OF the
strong labor protest, fact which gives
greater significance 10 the Presidents
wishes to remove the designation "New
DEAF from his administration and substl-
tute for it "Win the War"
BY his action i'm making the National
Service Law proposal, the President is CIV
ing weight TO the claims of those who have
maintained for some time that Mr.. ROOse-
Welt would forfeit the support OF organized
labor.