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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-28
Racing Official Dies
After so Active Years

LOUISVILLE, KY. Dec. 27-WP)
William H. Shelley, 70, a racing
official for more than go years
and a member of the big Three"
which supervised Kentucky racing
for the past SO years, died today.
Shelley, closely associated with
Col. Matt VIM, the head of
Churchill Downs, died OF compli-
cations which followed his col
lapse at the Lincoln Fields track
last spring. He presided as racing
secretary of the old Latonia, KY,
track and a score of other courses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-28
BY RICHARD C. GLASS
United Press Staff Correspondent

wv
MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 27.-UP)-
Far from the snow, sleet and cold
which had hampered their prac-
tce for the Orange Bowl game
here next Monday, the Georgia
Tech and Tulsa football squads
tonight rested from long train
journeys and prepared for prac-
tice under tonorroW's predicted
bright sun.
The second half of the 52-mem-
Der Tulsa squad came in under
Coach Henry Frnka's chaperon-
age, and Bill Alexander and his
ia Georgia Tech players arrived
later, in time for a good night
sleep,
The Tulsa vanguard which ar
rived yesterday Hmbered up at
thei' 'ractice field this after
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-28
Heavy Earth Shocks
Recorded In Calf.

PASADENA, Calf, Dec. 27.-P)
The California Institute of Tech.
nology recorded a heavy earth
quake, estimated at 5,4O0 miles
west of Pasadena, at 8:39.57 and
8:49.30 am, Pacific War Time, to-
day.
Probably in the region of New
Britain, it would have been de-
structive in a settled area, the
seisnologists' announcement said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-28

Make breakfast preparations
ahead of time. If you are plan
ming to have mullins, measure
dry and wet ingredients the night
before. Set the table, too, before
going to bed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-28
Herbert Swope Gives Rea-
SON Because OF Other
Duties

ALBANY, Dec. 27.-(UP)-Gov
Thomas E. Dewey today announc-
ed the resignation of Herbert Bay
ard Swope as chairman OF the
New York State Racing Commits
sion, effective Jan. 81.
In a letter acknowledging Swope's
resignation, rendered in letter to
the Governor dated Dec. 20, only
three days before War Mobiliza-
ton Director James F. Byrnes
made public his request for the
closing of all race tracks by Jan.
8, Dewey expressed "regret" at
his retirement.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-28
Utah Wins Basketball
Title In Mythical Saga
By JOE JAMES CUSTER
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK - (UP) - Utahs amazing ''Cinderela
team wrote baskebals most spectacular 1914 saga
turing the mythical national championship thus preserving
for the Rocky Mountain the top honors annexed prev
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-28

WINsoME 16-year-old Mary Rutte,
Pasadena, Calf, will wear the
crown and preside from the royal
box in the Rose Bowl on New Years
Day. She is S feet, 51a inches tall,
weighs 115 pounds, and has brown
eyes and hair. (TmternationaD
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-28

SWope, whose term as chairman
extended to May l, 1947, said in
his letter of resignation that he
found it impossible to continue his
work on this body because Of
other duties"
For the 10 years that have
been chairman of the State Racing
Commission there was satisfaction
in helping to draft and enact the
regulations under which the turf
operates in this state, particularly
after the people voted for the pari-
mutuel system, which began in
1940," he said.
Swope expressed thanks for the
support" he said the governor
had given him, adding that he felt
sure 1.-The foundation on which the
commission has operated will con-
tinue to be effective and in the
public interest, unless there should
come a change in the present poll
cy and a failure to exercise the
authority with which the commits
sion is endowed"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-28
RUMOR DENIED

RUMOR UENlED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81
(UP)-A rumor in sporting cir
cles that War Mobilization d.
rector James F. Byrnes had
modified his order that horse
and dog racing cease by Jan.
3 was denied today by the
White House.
The report was that racing
would be permitted three days
weekly.
"Any report of any mOdifi-
cation of the original order is
untrue" a spokesman for
Byrnes said
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-12-28

BASKETBALL RESULTS
BY UNITED PRESS
Arkansas 50, Denver SO.
Rice 60, West Texas State a..
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Army Venerea| Cases
Reach Record Low
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Army venereal disease rate
reached a record low of 81 cases
per 1000 men during 1943, according
to preliminary figures, and the use
of penicillin in extensive trials on
gOnorrhea cases resistant to the
sulfa drugs effected cures in 96 per
cent of them.
Retreatment of failures in these
gonorrhea cases raised the percent
age OF cures to nearly SO per cent.
The new bulletin of the Army's
Medical Department said yesterday
that the low rate for 1943 for gonor-
rhea, syphilis and other venereal
diseases compared with 38 per 1000
men in 1912, 40.5 in 1941 and 42.5
in 1910.
"The 1943 figure is even more i'm
pressive when the rates in past wars
are considered. the bulletin said
noting that 'in the Civil War, the
rate reached 214 per 1000, in the
Spanish-American War, 1873, while
in the World War the rate went to
lot in 1918 Between wars the
rates have regularly subsidized tc
comparatively low levels"
The Medical Department credited
the present record low rate to col
laboration between the Army, Navy
and civilian health and law enforce
ment agencies"
Evening star., 1944-03-04
4 Persons Injured
When Auto Hits Pole

Three servicemen and a woman
were injured last night when an
automobile in which they were rid
ing crashed into pole on the Balti-
more boulevard at Compton avenue,
Laurel, Md, State police reported
today.
Police said the car, bound for
Plattsburg, N. Y, had been reported
stolen in North Carolina. 1t was
occupied by two marines, a sailor
and woman thought to be WAC.
The woman, identified as June
Holmes, 81, of East Warwick, Mass,
was taken to the Leland Memorial
Hospital, Riverdale, where attend
ants said she suffered fractures of
both ankles, fractured jaw and a
possible skull fracture An examina-
ton of her luggage indicated she is
WAC, although she was not wear
ing a uniform, police said.
Police said one of the marines
Sergt. Michael r. Farraw, 20, of
New River, NJ c., and Apprentice
Seaman John w. Massie, 2O of Fort
Bryant, Va, were taken to Casualty
Hospital and later were transferred
to the Naval Hospital at Bethesda
State police said Farraw was
charged with larceny pending an
investigation.
The other marine, listed as John
r. johnson, %, of Angler, N. c., was
taken to the Naval Hospital at
Bethesda. Hospital officials saio
Farraw suffered a brain conclusion
Massie ruptured kidney and John
son fractured leg.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Steps Urged 10 Avert
Economic Warfare BY
Lifting Trade Barriers

To prevent a return Of economic
warfare" among the nations, DR..
Amos E. Taylor, director of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, Commerce Department,
declared today it was "our para
mount duty to synchronize national
economic programs through inter-
national cooperation so the inter-
change of goods and service among
nations may assure mutual benefits"
The alternative to such co-opera-
ton, DR.. Taylor told the Citizens
Conference on International Eco
nomic Union at the Statler Hotel,
| is economic warfare" under the
guise OF another quarter century of
peace"
A similar note was sounded at
the gathering by Willard l.. Thorp,
director of economic research, Dun
& Bradstreet, Inc, who warned the
United States to avoid the bitter
ness and i'll will' which crept into
our international relations between
tne TWO World Wars.
Warning that a network of trade
barriers against international trade
still would be hindrance to the
postwar flow of goods, William Fow-
Ter, chief of the Division of Com
mercial Policy, ONCE of Economic
Affairs, State Department, declared
that such restrictions should be ex-
amined immediately.
This network, he said, included
barriers Of all kinds-tarifis, import
quotas, exchange controls and dis
elimination. Many of these, he
charged, reduce or cut of foreign
markets needed by our export
branches of production" Reporting
progress in the trade agreements
program, Mr.. Fowler pointed to fig
ures showing 26 such agreements
have been concluded and that Con-
gress had approved in principle steps
by this Government to establish an
effective system of international Sc
curity.
Sharply attacking several policies
OF the administration, Paul Sifton
assistant to the president of the Ma
tional Farmers Union, deplored the
fact that Vice President Wallace
who has stated the peoples war
aims most clearly in words we un-
derstand and indorse, has been
marked for political death in 1914"
Louis H. Pink, chairman of the
conference, presided at the morning
luncheon and afternoon sessions. He
is president of Associated Hospital
Service of New York.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Group Set Up 10 Seek
Tax Exemptions for
PhiIanthropic Gifts

A group of churchmen and edu-
Gators yesterday organized to seek
Legislation to guarantee tax exemp-
tions for philanthropic donations.
The current income tax law. said
a statement issued by the group at
a luncheon meeting at the Cosmos
Club, already has jeopardized tax
exempt gifts to churches, colleges,
hospitals and other philanthropic
institutions by subjecting these tax
exempt charity gifts to 20 per cent
Withholding tax at the sourse. -
Specifically, the group will ask re-
peal of the withholding tax pro-
vision and insertion of a separate
line in income tax forms permitting
charity deductions up to IS per cent
OF gross income.
Some 100000 persons" said
DR.. Gould Wickey of Washington,
secretary of the Council of Church
Boards of Education, "are now taxed
on their charity"
Meeting with the group were Rep
resentatives Gearhart and Carter.
Republicans, of California; Carlson,
Republican, Of Kansas; Camp,
Democrat, of Georgia, and Carson.
Republican, of Ohio. They agreed
to ask the House Ways and Means
Committee to amend the law so that
charity gifts up to IS per cent of in
come will not be subject to the with
holding tax.
The group elected as chairman,
DR.. Guy E. Snavely of New York,
executor director of the Association
of American Colleges. Others chosen
included DR.. Wickey, vice chairman
and Raymond Wilson of the Friends
Service on Legislation, secretary
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Iran Appoints Black
AS Farm Adviser

DR.. A. G. Black, whose resignation
as governor of the multi-billion-
dollar Farm Credit Administration
has been announced by President
Roosevelt, is assuming a post with
government of Iran as an agri-
cultural adviser, an embassy spokes-
man said today.
In announcing his resignation
yesterday. President Roosevelt wrote
DR.. Black that he had been "an
important part of the administra-
ton from the beginning" adding:
The country will not soon forget
the situation of the American
farmers in the spring of 1898. am
glad to say that you have demon
strated marked ability in many i'm
portant posts of responsibility and
trust. latterly as governor Of the
Farm Credit Administration"
A Western Democratic group led
by James c. Quigley, Nebraska ma
tional committeeman, recently de-
manded the ousting Of Mr.. Black
and Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
on the ground that they had mis-
managed the farm program.
Ivy w. Duggan, recently appointed
deputy governor of the FCA, was
reported to be in line for the ap-
polntment as governor.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
TWister Frees
Circus Animals
In Oklahoma
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
HUGO, Okla, Mar. 4.-Nearly all
animals in the AL G. Kelly Circus.
which winters near here, escaped
their quarters last night in tornado
that caused approximately $4,000
damage to equipment.
Those escaping were chiefly trained
dogs, raccoons and the like. Four
elephants in a barn were untouched.
Seven trucks and trailers were
destroyed.
The twister injured five persons
and damaged or destroyed about IS
homes in the southeast section of
Hugo. Two buildings OF the Good
land Indian School nearby were
wrecked. The State highway patrol
estimated total damage at $75, 900.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Charles A. Goldsmith Rites
Will Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for Charles A.
Goldsmith, rs, former vice president
Of Lansburgh e. Bro. department
store, will be held at 2 pm. tomorrow
at the Danzansky funeral home,
3501 Fourteenth street NV. Rabbis
William F. Rosenbloom and Hugo
Schif1 will conduct the services,
which will be followed by burial In
the Washington Hebrew Congrega-
tion Cemetery.
Mr.. Goldsmith died Thursday in
Georgetown Hospital. He lived in
the Westchester Apartments, and
for many years was a leader in
charitable and civic circles. A native
Of New York, he had lived here since
1874. He had been connected with
Lansburgh's since 1917. retiring from
active business in 1896.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Minnie Lansburgh Goldsmith,
daughter Of the founder of Lans-
burgh's; daughter, Mrs. William
Thalheimer of Richmond, Va; three
grandsons, all in the armed forces
two granddaughters and two great
granddaughters.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Nation Needs Christ
To Build Better World,
Bishop Pardue Says

Unless we allow Christ to help u
individually and collectively to be-
come better people and to make a
better world, we cannot help our
selves, the Right Rev. Austin B. Par
due, Bishop of Pittsburgh, yester-
day told more than 1000 lenten wor-
shippers at the MONDAY service at
the Church of the Epiphany, 1917
G street NV.
DR.. Pardue declared the church
cannot legislate the Holy Spirit into
inactive members whose names are
on parish files or into others indif-
ferent to God. Christ is more will
ing to give his power to us than we
are to receive it,"
Prayers for approximately 500
servicemen and servicewomen whose
names had been inscribed in the
Remember in Prayer" book at the
church were offered by the Rev.
Charles w. Sheerin, rector, at the
$50 pm. service. These services at
the prayer center are sponsored by
the Defense Commission of the
Washington Federation of Churches.
Announcement was made by the
church that the Episcopal Canteen,
open from 2 to II pm. every Satur-
day in the Parish Hall, under the
sponsorship of the Brotherhood of
st. Andrew, will be open as usual
throughout the lenten holiday
period.
The Central YMCA, 1876 G street
NV, announced that DR.. Gerald
Priestley, formerly of London and at
present member of the faculty of
the YMCA College at Springfield
Mass, will be a weekend guest of
the USO Club at the YMCA. Dr.
Priestly will speak on Today s
War and Tomorrow's, World" to the
Chinese USO at the Central YMCA
at 10 o'clock tonight and to the fol-
lowing on Sunday: Java Club at is
am, and the general dormitory
breakfast at 10 am, both at the
Central YMCA; the Marine women
at ii am. at Henderson Hall in
Arlington, Va, and the colored USO
Club at the YMCA at 1916 Twelfth
street NV, at pm.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Food Supplies Seen Peri|ed
By Inspectors Low Pay

Safety of Americas food supplies
may be seriously menaced unless
Congress increases the salaries of
lay inspectors and veterinarians of
the Agriculture Departments meat
inspection force, James B. Burns,
president of the American Fedora
ton of Government Employees, de-
clared today.
Many of these employees, he said,
have gone into military service, and
it is almost impossible" to find re-
placements in the ranks because of
the low-salary scales paid qualified
men-s1,620 base pay for lay in
spectors and $4,000 for veterinar-
ians."
Recalling the 'embalmed beef
scandal of the Spanish American
War, Mr.. Burns said adequate meat
inspection affects every one, and no
time should be lost in remedying the
present unfortunate condition"
A proposal to reclassify these
salaries upward is pending before a
subcommittee on Department of
Agriculture appropriations and is
being supported by the AFGE.
Evening star., 1944-03-04

easy for the group to climb large
pipe to the restroom on the floor
above.
Miss Jewett told police she first
noticed the mans shadow on the
frosted glass pane OF the room and
thought he might be trying to steal
her pocketbook. She said she went
out into the hall and stood by the
doorway to the clerks Office, from
where she observed the man leaving
the room.
"None Of Her Business"
Asked why she made no effort to
inform guards OF the incident. Miss
Jewett told First Assistant Deputy
Marshal c. Michael Kearney she
thought 1t was none Of her business.
Elmer H. Day, "a, and William F.
Thomas, rs, who sawed through an
iron bar to freedom at District Jail
last month, denied any knowledge
of the trio's plans to marshals who
questioned them. They pleaded
guilty to jail-breaking yesterday. At
the time of their escape Day was
being held on HOUSEKEEPING and
robbery charges, while Thomas was
charged with larceny.
Yesterdays episode marked the
first successful attempt to escape
from the courthouse cell block, and
was the first break from marshals
custody since last July, when John
E. Eklund, convicted sniper slayer,
fed bandcuffed from a van as pris-
oners were being unloaded at Dis
trict Jail.
Evening star., 1944-03-04

GOLDEN WEDDING-Dr. and
Mrs. Joseph T. D. Howard of
223 North Cherry street, Falls
Church, Va. who recently
celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary with a reception
at the home of their son, For
rest K. Howard. 2513 North
Quantico street, Arlington, Va.
DR.. and Mrs. Howard have
resided in Falls Church for
the past 40 years. Another
son, 1t. F. G.. Howard. U. S.
N. r., lives in University Park,
Md.-Harris 81 Ewing Photo.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
New Jersey Legislature
Approves New Constitution
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. j., Mar. 4-The
Republican dominated Legislature
of New Jersey last night formally
approved the proposed new State
constitution, the Assembly indors-
ing the new charter seven hours
after the Senate approved it.
Voting in both houses was strictly
according to party lines. In the
Senate the vote was II to 3, with
one Republican member absent, and
in the Assembly the vote was 43 to
Is, with one Democrat and one Re-
publican absent.
The new charter will be referred
to the voters at the general election
next November and, If approved by
them, become law, replacing a State
constitution which was adopted in
| 1874.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Group Asks Increase
lin zoninq Commission

A motion presented by Joseph H.
Deckman, president of the Randle
Highlands Citizens Association,
urging Congress to increase the Dis
trict Zoning Commission by four
members was passed by the group
last night
Mr.. Deckman suggested that one
new member be chosen from the
Federation of Citizens Associations,
one from the Federation of Civic
Associations, one from District real
estate interests, and one from the
District of Columbia building in
|dustry
Mr.. Deckman was commended by
the group for the time and study he
has given to the Washington hous-
ing situation, and for his representa-.
tions to the Housing Subcommittee
of the Senate District Committee.
Members also voted approval of
proposed change of zoning in the
Randle Highlands area to permit
the Chesapeake & Potomac Teie-
phone Co. to establish a telephone
exchange there.
Mr.. Deckman presided at the
meeting in the Orr School.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
U. Of Maryland 10 Revert
10 3-Semester System

BY the Associated Press.
President H. c. Byrd of the Uni
verSity Of Maryland announced yes
terday that the institution would
revert to the three semester system
next fall-probably in October-as a
result Of Army abandonment of most
of the specialized training program.
The university has been operating
on four-quarter basis since July,
when the ASTP was organized.
Transferral of the majority of Army
trainees to camps will leave only a
few ASTP men, most of them ad-
vanced engineering students, on the
campus
DR.. Byrd said the semester system
still would constitute an accelerated
study course, enabling students to
complete a year-and-a-halfs work
in year.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
7 University Park Boys
Sentenced in Armory Theft
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Mar. 4.-Federal
Judge William c. Coleman SEN
fenced two 15-year-old boys yester-
day to four-year terms in a re-
formatory for stealing equipment
from the National Guard Armory
at Hyattsville.
The youths were convicted of
breaking into the armory February
l6 and II and taking two sub
machine guns, rifle and other
equipment.
G. Ross McKenrick, Government
prosecutor, told Judge Coleman
both boys lived in the University
Park section, near Washington, and
that they lacked proper parental
control"
Evening star., 1944-03-04
Spain Will Receive
Huge u. 5. Oil Cargo
Newspaper Charges
BY the Associated Press.

~ lhc hsoOSidtcu IIcss.
PHILADELPHIA. Mar. A quar-
million gallons of high grade
Pennsylvania lubricating oil in S.
gallon drums has been loaded at an
East Coast port and will be shipped
to Spain within the next few days
the Philadelphia Record said in a
front-page story today.
The newspaper said it received its
information from an indisputable
source and added that the ship
ment is "in direct contradiction to
the policy which the public has
been led to believe is followed by
the State Department"
(The State Department today
confirmed that a ship is being
loaded in Philadelphia with
packaged lubricants derived from
petroleum for shipment to Spain.
The department said the embargo
on shipments of petroleum prod
ucts to Spain affected only bulk
shipments originating in the
Caribbean area)
Policy Outlined.
The newspaper said the policy of
the State Department, as reported
from Washington with department
approval, was:
There has been an embargo on
'oil shipments to Spain since Feb
ruary l from the Western Hemi-
sphere-an embargo in which Great
Britain joined
Even before that, oil shipments
from this hemisphere were solely
from the Caribbean area, with no
United States oil going to Spain at
any time during the war"
Oil in drums, barrels or any other
package, can be shipped, provided
the department approves of the
specified cargo, the spokesman was
quoted as saying. The embargo
applies only to bulk oil, shipped in
tankers, the paper said the spokes-
man explained.
The State Department pointed
out, however, that it does not en-
force this policy; that, it was stated
is up to other agencies which could
be the Foreign Economic Admins
tration or the joint chiefs of staff.
The paper quoted the State De.
partment spokesman as saying that
agents OF the department in Spair
trace all shipments after their ar.
rival to make sure they do not fal
into enemy hands.
The consignor is quoted by the
newspaper as saying the shipment
was specifically approved by the de.
partment; otherwise, it could no
have been loaded.
Evening star., 1944-03-04
BY the Associated Press,

MOSCOW, Mar. Manshuk
Mamedova, 20 year-old machine
gunner, who fought on in battle
despite wounds and inspired her Red
Army comrades to hurl back a Ger
man attack, has become the second
living woman hero of the Soviet
Union.
The broad-faced, black-eyed girl
joined the army as a volunteer in
1912 and asked for machine-gun
duty.
She quickly learned to operate the
gun and the Red Army's winter Of
fensive found her in the front ranks,
where the Germans launched fierce
counterattacks on her sector.
She held her ground, said the Red
Star newspaper account of her
heroism, for almost an hour before
a shell overturned her gun and
wounded her in the head.
She regained consciousness, saw
enemy troops moving on her posi-
ton, righted the gun and turned its
fire on them. The Nazis were turned
back in this sector.