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j. s. PLANNING
HOUSING PROGRAM

WASHINGTON, July 6 -REThe
government is considering a hous-
ing program to enable servicemen
to live with their families in those
last days before they go overseas.
Rep. lac. D-Calif) said today
that such a program had been pro-
posed by the National Housing
Agency but that actual construction
depends on release of materials by
the War Production Board.
Meanwhile, he said, thousands of
service families are living in
shacks, acknowledgement out in
the open-in order to be with their
men folk.
The Californian said that while
the Navy is working with the haus-
ing agency to obtain housing for
the service families, the Army is
not sympathetic toward the pro-
gram.
'It has consistently been the War
Departments policy" lac said,
ito discourage families from fol.
Loving their men to training sta
tons and embarkment areas.
'This attitude completely disre-
CARDS the morale factor involved
when a wife or mother realizes
there are only few weeks left
to be with her husband or son
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Light scorch marks should be
rinsed in clear, cool water n d
then put in the sun to bleach.
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DOCTORS MEET.
DISCUSS POLIO
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Approximately 300 physicians at
tended a special meeting of the
Catawba Valley Medical society at
Hickory last night and discussed
means of combating a wave of in
fantile paralysis that has claimed
20S victim in North Carolina, nine
fatally. The paralysis is concen-
trated in the Piedmont area.
DR.. Philip Trommer of the Phi
,ladelphia General hospital now
stationed at the emergency hospi-
tai at Hickory, was scheduled to
demonstrate the diagnosis and
treatment of the disease
Meanwhile, health officers from
the Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennes
see, Virginia, Florida, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama were
asked to attend a conference on the
outbreak. The conference would in
clude a study of emergency cen
tiers at Hickory Gastonia and
Charlotte.
Efforts are being made to raise
100000 to fight the disease in
North Carolina. The National Foun-
dalton for Infantile Paralysis al
ready has sent check for $50, 1000
to the North Carolina committee,
and local chapters, with a quota
of $4,000. already have raised
about $4,000. The National Foun-
dalton will be asked for another
100000. Its New York office has
sent five physio-therapists and one
doctor to North Carolina.
Twenty-three new cases and two
additional death were reported yes
terday. BY counties, the deaths I'M
officially stood last night as fol-
lows: CataWba 5, Iredell l. Ala
nance l, Robson l, Person 1.
From June through last night:
The cases, as reported % the State
Health Department in Raleigh,
were:
Alamance 2, Alexander 10, Ashe
10, Buncombe /, Burke %, Cabar-
rus 5, Caldwell 81, Catawba SO,
Davidson /, Forsyth 2, Cleveland
3, Cumberland l, CASTOR 10, Gull
ford l, Iredeu /, Lee 2, Lincoln Z
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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FOUR INJURED
In AUTO CRASH

Two unidentified soldiers and two
Wilmington men were injured in an
automobile wreck near the Bruins
wick river bridge early yesterday
morning, according to State High
way Patrol reports.
State highway patrolman c. j..
Ferguson identified two of the in
iured as a. E. Henson, of 1876
Morgan street, Maffitt Village,
who possibly had fractured hip;
and a. P. Faulkner, of Whining
ION, who possibly had fractured
back and decorations of the head
and hand. Two soldiers from the
Army Air base at Camp Davis
were not identified by the officer.
who said they were taken to a
hospital for treatment.
The collision occurred as the sol
der driven vehicle smashed into
the rear of Henson'c car, parked
near the bridge, the patrolman
said. Approximately S175 worth OF
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before he goes overseas-perhaps
never to return.
eff we can only get revision Of
former policy which has restricted
such housing we may be able tc
erase from the memory of those
men before they go overseas the
picture of their families living ir
hovels," lac said.
He has introduced bills which
would authorize spending of $780,
100000 for housing for Army ano
Navy servicemen and their famil
les
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Columbus County
Reports Polio Case

WHITEVILLE, July 6 IN
DR.. Floyd johnson, Columbus
county health officer, this morning
reported Columbus county's first
case of infantile paralysis in the
epidemic which has been sweeping
the state.
The victim is three year old
Walter Sullivan, Tabor City Negro
child.
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damage was done to the soldier s
car.
Cpl. John Negich, of Camp Da.
Wis, a passenger in the soldier
automobile, and the only one of
the trio identified by the patrol
man, escaped injury.
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GOING TO CHERRY POINT

CHERRY POINT, July 6. - Col.
Theodore B. Willard, USING, has
been detached from duty overseas
under orders assigning him to du-
ty at the Marine air station here.
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ORDERED OVERSEAS

CAMP LEJEUNE, July g. 1t.
Col. Robert L. Mckee, USING, has
been ordered from Camp Lejeune
to duty overseas.
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Mecklenburg 5, Person /, Robson
l. Rockingham l, Rowan II, Stanly
l, Surry 8, Union l, Watauga s.,
Wilkes Is, and Wilson l.
Evening star., 1944-05-21

nary planning, he estimated. II
would take IL weeks to attain so
per cent production and 20 weeks
to reach 100 per cent.
Curtailmcnt Of War Contracts.
All the manufacturers agreed,
WPB said. that 1t was extremely i'm
portant that they be furnished at
the earliest possible time with plans
of the Army and Navy for terminate
ing or curtailing their production
programs. Charles E. Wilson. WIPE
executive vice chairman, promised
the group that every effort would
be made to provide such informa-
ton as far ahead as possible.
WPB said the industry spokes-
men disagreed on whether the lag
between war and peacetime produc-
tion could best be filled by unre-
stricted manufacture of repair parts
for cars now on the road, or by
fixing program for a partial re-
of new-car manufacture.
Most of the manufacturers pre-
ferred the unrestricted part produc-
ton plan, holding that parts SO
produced would provide a useful
reserve. even If they were not sold
Immediately for replacement pur-
poses.
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Row Over Safety Glasses
Shuts General Motors Unit
Nv The ASsoc!ated Press,

BY the ASSOC iateC Press.
ANDERSON. Ind, May 20.-T'he
gun barrel department of the Cen
eral Motors Corp. guide lamp divi-
sion was idle today and its 900 en-
ployes were sent home in a dispute
over safety glasses.
Last Monday the company issued
an order requiring all 900 workers
in the department to wear the
glasses while at work. The employees
then obtained court order tenn
porarily restraining the manage
ment from enforcing its order.
Hearing on the temporary order
TO determine whether it should be
made permanent was set for next
Wednesday in Superior Court. as
was also hearing on an employees
petition asking that the manage
ment show why it should not be
held in contempt of court A mo-
tion by the company to dissolve the
temporary order was overruled yes
terday.
c. E. Wilson, General Motors pres
ident, issued a statement at Detroit
in which he said the employees were
challenging the right and duty of
management to take every possible
safety precaution.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
$50 Men, Women Volunteers
Patrol Potomac to Guard City

One hundred and fifty men and
women of the Metropolitan area are
giving anywhere from II to "a hours
a week without pay or fanfare in
Washington's fast-growing Volun-
teer Port Security Force, which
already has released a number of
Coast Guard regulars for active
duty Oh our fighting ships on the
high seas.
The force now on active duty
any comprising 1877 men and women
in the enlisted ranks and 13 men as
officers. is a typical cross section
of any American city. Included
among the group are physicians,
dentists, lawyers, mechanics, car
penters, truck drivers, real estate
men and busy housewives.
ut isn't any easy task to adjust
their time to duty that requires
getting up at midnight or six in
the morning or missing a family
dinner at night" Capt. Norman B.
Hail, in charge of all port security
activities in the United States,
points out. "Yet they do it gladly
and their only pay is a free uni
form, plus the satisfaction of per-
forming an invaluable duty in time
of war as full-f1edged members of
a real branch of the armed forces"
In Operation Seven Weeks.
The little -publicized Washington
battalion" of VPSF has been op-
Grating for seven weeks and only
last week received a visit from Vice
Admiral r. r. Waesche, Coast
Guard commandant who spent more
than two hours inspecting the
Coast Guard base at $50 Maine
avenue S.W.
officials believe that in time the
local base will be virtually taken
over by the volunteers, leaving only
a limited number of regulars for
purposes.
Washington's battalion is unique
in that it is the only unit engaged
in boat patrol duty. Men 60 on but
on Coast Guard patrol craft-an of
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Jersey Minister Tokes
Arlington Pulpit Today

The Rev. Willard H. Borchers
former pastor of the Belleville IN. j.
Lutheran Church, will be installed
as pastor of the Resurrection Luth-
eran Church, North Washington
boulevard and Powhatan street
Arlington, at services at pm. today
The services will be conducted by
Dr.. A. w. Ballentine, representing
the United Lutheran Synod OF
Evening star., 1944-05-21
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 2O.-Seven-
year-old John Richard Jackie"
Shea was his mothers protector"
tonight just as his naval hero
father, the late Comdr John Joseph
Shea, U. S. ~, urged him to be in a
letter written just before he lost
his life in the sinking of the carrier
Wasp.
Jackie stood beside his mother as
she christened the 2,200-ton super
destroyer honoring the memory of
his father at the Bethlehem Steel
Co.'S Staten Island shipyard.
One of the last acts of Comdr.
Shea, who was posthumously award
ed a Navy Cross, was to write his
son, then years old, explaining
he could not be home with his fam
lily because it was his honor and
duty" to fight those people and
countries who want to change our
Nation, its ideals, form of Govern
ment and way of life"
Don't ever forget your daddy"
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Jackie Shea, 7, True to Dad,
Stands by Mother at Luunchino

the letter concluded. pray for him
to come back, and, If it is Gods will
that he does not, be the kind of
boy and man your daddy wants you
to be-
The Shea, rated by yard officials
as more powerful than a World War
cruiser, was the 9th destroyer
launched at the yard and the 82nd
built by Bethlehem since the United
States went to war.
The late commander, who served
in the World War, and afterward
was a member of the Naval Reserve
Air force, died September IS, 1942.
The Sheas live in Arlington,
Mass.
Evening star., 1944-05-21

son unexpectedly since she expects
to give birth to baby some time in
October.
In any event, they climbed
aboard the S. S. Sea Star, leaving
an Australian port. without the
shippers permission, and made the
26-day voyage to San Francisco,
arriving May 13. There immigra-
tion authorities greeted them by
placing them in a detention center.
They were assisted by Chief Stew
ard Paul H. Hahn, who said he
only wanted to help the girls join
their American husbands. Hahn is
being detained in San Francisco
as result of this generous i'm
pulse.
Placed on Probation,
Capt. Blair said he was going to
see the appeals board of the Immi-
grafton and Naturalization Service
here tomorrow to see what could be
worked out Meanwhile, the two
young ladies have been placed on
probation for six months by Fed
eral Judge A: F.. st. Sure in San
Francisco, who told them they
would have to report once month
to immigration officials.
Whatever happens, Capt. Blair
expects his wife to join him In
Springfield. He met her, he said,
during his Is months of service in
Australia. They were married last
December 81.
Mrs. Calderola is the wife of
Tech Sergt. Frank Bell Calderola
who lives In Rochester, N. Y.
Evening star., 1944-05-21

them ex-pleasure yachts-to guard
bridges and various military install
lations along the Potomac. BY
working in spare hours or on days
off they give minimum of II hours
duty a week. Others work even
longer, if their jobs will permit.
Wear Regulation Uniforms.
The men wear the regulation
Coast Guard uniform and the
women, the uniform of the SPARS,
while on active duty. All hands are
subject to military discipline and
two hours of military drill, inter-
spersed with gunnery instruction
and other subjects. Drill day is
Monday from 7::30 to $50 pm.
Just another "gob" while in uni
form is Anthony A. Fleger, special
assistant to the Attorney General
and former Representative from
Ohio. Seaman First Glass Fleger
has served on the river patrol. An
other prominent member Is Emory
L. Frazier, legislative clerk of the
Senate. Chief Warrant Boatswain
Frazier is in charge of military
training, and good drill master,
too. He was top sergeant in the
last war, and knows how to put the
men through their PAGES.
The Coast Guard is in need of ad-
ditional volunteers, despite the fact
that another $50 men and women
are now taking their training lead
ing to enrolment as temporary re-
servists in the local VPSF. Accord
ing to 1t. Comdr. Robert A. New
man, captain of the port here, there
is a need for men who can give one
day a week from am. to 6 pm
and for women who can work dur
ing the day.
Most anyone between the ages of
l8 and IS can volunteer, providing
the applicant can meet certain basic
requirements such as good character,
dependability, loyalty and some pro-
fessional or vocational skill. Duty
with the reserve, however, does not
exempt anyone from selective serv-
ice
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Hines Orders Creation WPB Hopes 10 Detail
0f Groups Throughout Plans for Auto Output
u. s. 10 Aid Veterans By Late July

Establishment of veterans service
committees in every State and COM
munity to centralize aid to veterans
and dislocated war workers was di-
'ected last night by Brig. Gen. Frank
r. Hines If his first order as admin
istration of retraining and re-em-
ployment of veterans.
Gen. Hines, who is also Adminis-
traitor of Veterans Affairs, predicted
that many persons will experience
serious difficulty in readjusting from
war to peace activity" and empha-
sized the need for having informa-
ton on services and benefits readily
available in every community ito
give the most appropriate assistance
to the individual in making this
readjuStment."
Wants Balanced Program.
Representatives of Selective Serv-
ice, War Manpower Commission and
Veterans Administration should be
on the State and, if pos
sible, on the local committees, he
said, Gin order to promote an inte-
grated and balanced program in the
community"
The community committees, he
added. should mobilize the efforts Of
volunteer and other groups on vet
,erans affairs and determine the
need for single information service
center where veterans and war work
ers could also get advice on hous-
ing, special assistance and family,
farm and business problems.
The centers, Gen. Hines added,
should have access to the most in
fluential citizens in the community
since Federal programs will by no
means meet all of these demands. I"
No Federal Funds Asked.
He pointed out that no Federal
funds have been requested or ap-
propriated to carry out the activi-
ties described in his directive.
Meanwhile, Omar B. Ketchum.
national legislative officer of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, said
he had received letter from Secre-
tary Of War Stimson promising "a
very comprehensive plan for i'm
proving the conditions under which
personnel returned from overseas
are to be received, furloughed, re-
classified and reassigned." Mr..
Ketchum said the Secretary's let
ter was in answer to protests from
VFW concerning alleged abuse of
veterans invalided home from the
fighting fronts.
hnrL. D..x
Evening star., 1944-05-21
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The War Production Board yes
terday informed the producers of
automobile parts that it may be
ready by late July to announce de-
tailed plans for the partial resump-
ton of civilian passenger car manu-
facture.
Chairman Donald M. Nelson
some weeks ago notified automobile
manufacturers he saw no chance of
resuming passenger car production
this year. WPB has indicated, how
ever, that it will permit partial re-
conversion shortly after the fall Of
either Germany or Japan, which
ever comes first.
John H. Middlecamp, director gof
the WPB automotiye division said
the first step in planning a limited
return to motor car production,
must be a decision on the number
to be made and the ALLEGATION of
shares in the production job among
the nine prewar manufacturers.
He suggested 1000 COO cars as the
initial civilian program.
Specific Data Needed.
WPB said that members Of the
Automotive Original Equipment
Parts Industry Advisory Committee,
who met here Friday, had given
notice they could not advise WPB
on their ability to take part in a
partial resumption of passenger car
production until they had received
tentative orders designating specific
quantities and parts.
One manufacturer estimated he
would be able to resume production
at so per cent Of his peacetime rate
If only 10 per cent of his present
war contracts were Cancelled. II
WPB does an adequate job of ad-
vance planning for reconversion,
this producer said, it would take
10 weeks to get back into produc-
ton at half the peacetime rate
and IA weeks to restore full peace
time production without prelimi-
Evening star., 1944-05-21
15Hurf as Dynamite e Carrier
Passenger Truck Collide
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 20. - A
major disaster failed to materialize
today when a trailer tractor bearing
$4,000 pounds of dynamite and a
truck carrying 80 Mexicans bound
for Michigan beet fields collided on
Route 40 at the eastern edge of
Indianapolis.
Although the collision was severe
enough to send at least Is persons
to hospitals for treatment and wit
nesses said one side of the passenger
truck was peeled Off" the dynamite
did not explode
Injuries of some of the Mexicans
were described as serious. At least
three ambulances were dispatched
to the scene and hospital was
advised to prepare for about 20 in
jured. City and State police ad-
ministered first aid.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Silver Spring Nursery School

The Silver Spring Nursery School
at Fairway Housing project, which
occupies wing of the community
center at 1010O Greenock road, will
be open to visitors from to 6 pm.
May %. One of several in Mont
gomery County made possible under
the Lanham Act. the school is spon-
sored by DR.. Edwin w. Broome
county superintendent of schools
and supervised by Miss Jane E
Joslin, director of child facilities for
the county.
Evening star., 1944-05-21

came here from Springfield, Mass,
to see what he could do about
getting his wife, Mrs. Margaret
, Mary Blair, "a out of the clutches
of the law, said he virtually had
completed arrangements for getting
her to this country via approved
channels when he suddenly learned
she was already on her way.
II got a letter from her father" :"
he said, "and it said everything was
all right and she was on the way
over. Of course, had no idea she
was coming as part ofethe cargo on
a merchant ship"
Reasons Not Clear.
Just what prompted Mrs. Blair
and her companion, Mrs. Ola Mar
garet Calderola, %, to hide them
selves in freighter was not exactly
Evening star., 1944-05-21

aways, m i G h t
have had easy
sailing if they
had waited until
t h ey received
visaS which were
p + a C tically on
the way, t h e
husband of one
of them said
here last night.
Capt. Frede-
rick Q. Blair. %.
with about a
yard of decora-
tions and serv-
ice ribbons, a
hcy,,l,orr1ior h xr,1,o
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Claude v. Hyson Heods
Huntington Citizens

Claude v. Hyson has been elected
president of the Huntington Terrace
Citizens Association. John r. Will
mott was elected vice president; H. 8.
Smiley. secretary-treasurer; Mrs.
w. Murphy, parliamentarian, and
Z. E. Edwards, John Faircloth, II. r.
McMurdie, l.. Mickey and X. r.
Frames, members of the Executive
Committee.
Delegates to the Montgomery
County Civic Federation are Mr.,
Willmott, Mr.. Edwards and Mr.. Nc
Murdie. with Mr.. Hyson. Mrs.
Murphy and Mr.. Faircloth a.
alternates.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Arlington Arrests Totol I'll

There were Ill arrests in Airing
ton County, Va, during the first
Is days of May, with 81 for trafIic
of1enses and 81 miscellaneous, 1t
was reported yesterday by Police
Chief Harry L. woodward. There
We're 81 traffic accidents, with five
injuries resulting. Parking tickets
were issued to 72 motorists.
Evening star., 1944-05-21

clear. M a y b e
they failed to re-
ceive the mes
sage that their
visas had been
approved by the
S t a t e Depart
ment.
More lik e | y,
Capt. Blair said,
his wife had no
In t e n t ion of
waiting the four
or five months
it would have
taken her to get
legal "a S S a G e
over on the Mat
Evening star., 1944-05-21
French Labor Delegates
To Talk on Cooperation

Col. Aristides Antoine. vice presi-
dent of the Association of French
Public Utilities. an employers dele
gate at the recent International La
Dor Organization meeting at Phila-
delphia, and NJ. Albert Guigi,
workers delegate at the sessions
and first delegate of the Workers
Underground to the French Com
mittee of National Liberation, will
discuss the cooperation of employ
ers and employees, at the National
Press Club Auditorium at 8 pm.
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Friqute Launched

CLEVELAND, May 20 (P.-A
slim gray frigate slid broadside
down the ways of the American
Ship Building Co. here today after
Miss Mary Frances Persons chris
tened her the U. S. S. Forsyth,
named for Forsyth, Ga.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Husband Of Stowaway
Australian Bride Here
To Clear Legal Tang|e

A couple of Australian war brides
who got into no end of trouble with
the immigration authorities when
they entered this country as stow
Evening star., 1944-05-21

We are about to open up a second
front, Open up your purse or wallet
and buy that extra bond.
Arkansas State press., 1944-09-22
PINE BLUFF

as guest his sister, Mrs. Sylvia
Il. Knox Of st. Louis. Mrs. Knox
also visited relatives in Rose
dale, Miss. Mrs. Bertha Ellis
and Mrs, Mary Lou Bradford at
tended Singing Convention at
Nilmot, The Silver Rose and
-Four Notes sponsored d musical
program at Morning star Bapt
Church Of Monticello, with Rev,
King pastor At ST. Peter AME
Church, Rev, f. c. Reed and
membership are preparing fer the
fourth quarterly conference to be
held with DR., w. T. Eskridge,
presiding, Sunday At Evening
Star Baptist Church, a covenant
meeting was held at the regular
worship hour, BTU was direct
ed by Mrs. j. l.. Perkins, with
evening message brought by the
pastor, Rev. w, c. Campbell.
Mrs, l.. w. Flowers was a Little
Rock visitor this week.
Arkansas State press., 1944-09-22
Dt1RNIOT'T
Lille NJ. Wimberly

Mrs. Lille b, Grandson is
home again, Sgt. Grandson
spent furlough here, Mr. and
Mrs. Will Myles and daughter
are in Chicago where Mr.. Myles is
taking medical treatments.
Pvt. Walter Davis was home on
furlough. Spencer Binns, Jr,
spent vacation in the Windy City.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Paynes and
daughter spent several days at
home. Off to college are Miss
Ernestine Wardlow and Miss
jeanette Simpson, Tuskegee In
stitute; Mrs. Roxie DeJohnette,
c. V. Reeves and w. T. Rowe to
A. NJ. & N. College, Pine Bluff;
Miss Claudine Reeves to Bennett
College, Greensboro, N. G.
Mrs. Mary Poats left for Los
Angeles, California. Mrs. An
nye c. Blaekmon spent the week
end at home. Thad Martin who
is employed in Muskegon, Michi-
gan, spent several days at home.