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Evening star., 1944-03-04
BraGgad0cio Now Gone.

were their choices Thursday night,
too,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-19
FOREIGN WORKERS IN GERMANY TOLD
 TO FLEE GE5TAp0


 SUP R E M E HEADQUARTERS ALLIED OMAR Y FORCES, Sept 19 < A spokesman for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told the foreign workers in the northwest, west and southwest ot Germany, to flee the Gestapo, now in a man hunt for soldiers and trench diggers, and to leave the factories"
 In the broadcast he said, "you will be in danger but in the next few days you may have the great est opportunities for action in 3 desperate effort to eliminate the Allied support among workers oi Himmler, who plan to repeat il the west what he and the Gestapo have done so thoroughly in the east. Workers there have been sent to man Notifications and thous- ands of other workers including potential leaders and women, have been herded to concentration camps as hostages. Workers in the Ruhr and Rhineland this moment are under threat of the same danger.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-19
HEALTh COUNCIL
 HOLDS MEETING

With 30 members attending, the Gastineau Channel Health Council held it's first meeting of the winter series last night at o'clock in the parlors of the Methodist Church.
 Trevor Davis, elected chairman at the last meeting held in May, presided, along with the other new officers, Mrs M O. Johnson, Vice chairman; and Mrs. Bess Winn, Secretary Treasurer.
 Mrs Winn reported the council had $1760 left in the bank and it was believed that there would be no need to assess the member ship organizations any nor e money as that sum would evident ly see them through the year. Total seXpense last year came to $395 for stationery
 Mrs. Johnson read a statement giving the purposes of the health council movement. She said the outstanding example of the local health councils work was the es- tablishment of pre-school eXamina- tions for children. Mrs Johnson then asked that member organiza- tions send people who are inter- ested in the council movement as 2 delegates.
 Margaret Higgins, Juneau Public Health Nurse, spoke and said one of the most important health measures that ought to be kept up was the inmunization program. In the near future Dr. c. c. Carter is to give whooping-c cough shots to school children.
 Esther L. Book spoke briefly on
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-19
PEARL HARB0R INVESTIGATION
 NOW DEMANDED

WASHINGTON, Sept. l9 - An independent investigation by Con- gress, of the Pearl Harbor disaster, was demanded in the House today by Rep. Harness, member of the Military Affairs Committee.
 Offering a resolution calling for a five-man committee to conduct an inquiry, the Indianan told the House that the public Is demanding that it should be told, before the Novem- Der election, all the facts connected with the Jap attack on the base. Under the resolution, the committee is given authority to subpoena "all records of the White House, State Department, Army and Navy, as we'll as the Army and Navy per- sonnel, and is required to reports it's findings within 30 days
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-19

the problem of treating Indian children returning from the can neries for impetigo and scabies She said there were numerous cases among them.
 Bess Winn followed with a talk on what the Alaska Tuberculosis Association was doing with the money received from the yearly stamp sale.
 pr. Berneta Block spoke briefly saying she was glad to have the chance to attend the meetings.
 A sidelight of the meeting was the picking of speaker for the community prayer of thanks or the last day of war in Europe. Rev G. H. Hillerman was chosen as speaker Present plans call for Gov Gruening to announce officially that the war is over in Europe and issue a call to prayer Then the speaker VIII dellVer ms aQ- dress. The program is to be 8 modification of the one outlined by the Federal Council of Churches In Christ.
 The Rev Hillerman explained the reason for asking the Health Council delegates to vote was that they represented the various town organizations and could speak fol their organizations.
 Following the meeting, coffee and cookies were served.
 By unanimous consent of mem bers present, the date for the next meeting and all other meetings during the year was set for the third Monday of the month.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-19
TOM COLE HERE;
 TELLS OF FLOOD
 THAT HIT GALENA


 Tom Cole, asphalt foreman on the Nome and Galena airport con- struction jobs for Sommers Con- struction Company flew in from Anchorage Saturday on his way to his home in Seattle.
 Cole said the Nome airfield was about completed In that part of Alaska construction work can only be carried on in the late spring and summer, so it took two seasons to lay the sub-grade and some paving was done this year
 In May Cole had an exciting experience. He says: T got thrill cut if it while it was hap pening but would not care to go through it again" That was the big flood of the Yukon River which swept ice blocks, mud, and debris down stream from the head waters to the mouth of the river, inundating thousands of acres.
 Tom said, when we learned the flood was nearing Galena we started to break camp and get ready. We lashed timbers to oil drums to make rafts and put tents and sleeping bags on the hastily improvised homes. When the flood hit, covering the bar racks with three feet of water, we moved to the new homes and stayed on them for six days.
 Home base was the huge gravel pile, now an island in a sea of swirling, brackish water. However, we did not let the high water keep us isolated on the tiny island. Padding around we visited an ad- joining camp where the water was six feet deep" and Tom says they padded right through a mess hall, in one door and out the other.
 The biggest trouble was sleep. as the raft only had three sleeping bags. all there was room for, so six men slept in shifts.
 Cole said all the food they had that week was army rations. When asked what he thought of the packaged, concentrated food. he replied Not so hot
 After the waters subsided, huge blocks of ice and trees were left scattered over the countryside. Be- fore the runway could again be used it was necessary to truck off several tons of drift wood Water logged machinery had to be dried out but there was not much loss, as everything possible had been moved to high ground before the surging waters struck
 Cole said the Indians were about the only ones who were not tco inconyenienced by the flood. They predicted 1t in the spring and had everything in readiness. They Headed their boats and what they could not put in the boats they tied in the tops of tall trees.
 Galena, unlike Dawson, was little damaged by the flood, most of the damage being done by the soaking the buildings received. Luckily, the huge ice blocks did not take any buildings out.
 During the winter months, Tom says he plans to work for the Washington Asphalt Company in Seattle, and he says that his rather uncomfortable experience during the big Yukon flood will not deter him from coming back to the Arctic in the spring to help finish the important Nome airbase
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-19
LAPKIN FOR NAPKIN

PIT T s B U R G 1.-The Greater Pittsburgh Linen Supply Associa. ton has announced that the dap kin"-an innovation about the sizt of dainty luncheon napkin--wil
 replace the cover-all type napkin for the duration. Linen suppliers cut down the size to save materials
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-19
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY

GREENVILLE, s. c. - A man a stranger to the cashiers - goes regularly to a theatre box office here and buys three or four tickets with the request, Give them to the next servicemen who come to the the atre." He explained he had a son in service.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-19
COURTESY PAYS

JERSEY CITY, N. J-George B. Hcil, seaman first class, stepped aside at the Salvation Army Red Shield Club for servicemen to let his buddy enter first. When Heil followed, he was handed a S25 war bond as the 25,O00th serviceman to enter the canteen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-19
FOR KETCHIKAN

Leaves Thursday morning for Ketchikan, Motor Cruiser Stormy Petrel For information call Gasti- .neau Hotel.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Arlington Fighter Pilot
Downs 17th Nazi Plane

Lit. Henry w. Brown, 81, son of
Mrs. Addison Grant, SOFT North
Twenty-fifth street, Arlington, was
among a group of American fighter
pilots who shot down 20 enemy
planes yesterday while escorting
bombers to Germany, according to
an Associated Press dispatch from
England. The kill" credited to 1t.
Brown was his seventeenth.
Although 1t. Brown was prohibited
by his mother from taking part in
school athletics because of an arm
injury in his youth, the injury ap-
parently has not handicapped him in
aerial combat. He broke his left
arm when he was five year old and
in healing the forearm was pulled
into an unnatural position. When
he enlisted in 194l, however. the
doctor found the arm "just as
capable as any other"
A native of Dallas, Tex, 1t. Brown
formerly lived at 2201 Thirteenth
street NE. He attended Mckinley
High School and before Joining the
Army Air Forces was employed by
the Farm Credit Administration
1t Brown has been overseas since
August, 1943.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Nurses Aide Officers
Named in ARLINGTON

The Arlington County Red Cross
Chapter today announced that Mrs.
Harry w. Howard has been named
captain of the newly organized
Nurses Aide Corps. Mrs. Howard,
who was graduated May l from the
first Arlington graduating class. is
the wife of Civil Aeronautics Ad-
ministration official.
Vice captains for the new corps
are Mrs. Lee Long and Mrs. Paul
E. Vance. Mrs. Vance is also cap
tain of the aides for the Clarendon
Baptist Church Mobile Blood Donor
Unit. Chairman of assignments Is
Mrs. William Green.
Co-captains of the day shift aides
at the Arlington hospital are Mrs.
Chester Clemens and Mrs. Howard
Wickersham. Ce-captains for night
aides at the hospital are Mrs. Ben
iamin MILAN and Miss Edith Un-
derwood. Chairman of records for
the hospital aide project is Mrs.
Abraham Checkoway.
Captain of the Pentagon Blood
Donor Center nurses, aide project
is Mrs. Albert Longaker. At Fort
Myer, Mrs. Myles w. Brewster is
captain of aides for the Mobile
Blood Donor Unit. Aide captain in
the Army dispensary at the Penta-
gon is Mrs. Richard Ruble.
Named to the Program Committee
are Mrs. Ben Withorn, Mrs. Richard
Woodward, Mrs. John G.. Martenson,
Mrs. George T. Haynes, Mrs.
Thomas A. Jackson and Miss Jane
Anne Hughes.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Two Suspects Arrested
In HyaftsyiIIe Gaming Raid

Two colored men were arrested
yesterday in a raid by Prince
Georges County and Hyattsville
police on an alleged gambling es-
tablishment in the First block of
Melrose avenue, Hyattsville. A
quantity of numbers books and
about $40 in cash were confiscated.
James Cant, A, of the Merose
avenue .address, was charged with
operating q lottery and released un-.
der 81 900 bond. Joseph H. Davis,
40, OF the same address, was
charged with possession of numbers
slips and released under $500 bond.
A hearing will be held at 10 am.
Thursday in Hyattsville Police
Court.
Those participating in the raid
were Hyattsville Police Chief How
ard Holmes, Sergt. r. Sines of the
county police and Policemen j. H.
Burgess, r. Austin, Edwin Cissel
and Charles Thomson.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Virqiniu Farm ChinchiIIu PeIts
Reported Big Hit in New York

Herbivorous by nature, they like
Virginia grass, grains and vege-
tables. Alert, dainty and
vain, the little creatures never
bathe. They use sand and dry
clean in fuller's earth instead.
Greer-Hale operations aren't
costly, complicated or difficult. The
creatures are naturally healthy and
hardy. Proper diet and sanitation
keep them so. Each Is registered,
insured and carries a tattoo on his
ear.
The project had its origin in 1927
when South American Indian took
a living chinchilla in an oil can to
M. F. Chapman, American engineer.
Mr.. Chapman saw fortune in the
animals and went to the Andes after
them.
In three years search Mr.. Chap
man found only II animals, but he
succeeded in bringing them to this
country, where every one else failed
Air express transportation was
successfully attained in l941 when
the largest shipment up to that
time arrived at New Market and
Allentown, Pa, from the Chapman
ranch at Inglewood, Calf.
The Geer-Hale ranch at New Mar
ket Is expected to become the most
modern OF its kind east of the
Rockies on completion. At present
the concern is working on quality
rather than quantity production.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Darden Warns Against
Postwar Disarmament
By the Associated Press.

oS the associated PfeSS.
CULPEPER. Va, May 13.-Parti-
clpatlng in the dedication of an
honor plaque for this community's
soldiers of this war, Gov. Darden
spoke today of the dangers of
decreasing armament.
The Governor traced causes of
the present conflict to conditions
after the World War. The present
war did not begin in 1899, he said,
but had a definite start with every
invasion made in foreign territory
including the Manchurian, Ethio-
plan and PoliSh conquests.
In stressing the Importance of ar
mament, Gov. Darden spoke of bat
ties in Congress over increased
Army and Navy appropriations.
Representative Smith, 9th District
Democrat, introduced the Governor
Giles H. Miller. acting for the
mayor, was master of ceremonies
for dedication Of the plaque, which
bears the names of 1901 service men
and women from this community
and Is located on the Courthouse
Green. A military parade of Cul-
peper Minute Men, led by the Cul-
peper High School band, preceded
the program.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Silver Spring Club to See
Victory Garden Film

A motion picture, Canning the
Victory Garden Crop" issued by
the University of Maryland, will be
shown at a meeting of the Silver
Spring Garden Club at pm to-
morrow in Jessup Blair Community
House.
The picture will be supplemented
by a discussion of Victory garden
problems. Final plans will be dis
cussed for a spring vegetable and
flower show to be held by the club
at Jessup Blair Community House
May 27-28
The public is invited to attend
tomorrow's meeting and to bring
specimens of Towering shrubs or
flower arrangements containing
towering shrubs. Specimens and
arrangements will be judged sepa-
rately and prizes awarded for the
best IN each class.
Evening star., 1944-05-14

There's new enterprise being
conducted along Pennsylvania ave-
nue. these days. It's directing force
is 13-year-old John w. Whidden,
who has turned inventor literally to
pick up nickels and dimes for
spending money.
The wooden streetcar loading
platforms along the avenue are
centers of the lads operations.
Remember the time that dime
dropped from your hand and rolled
into one of the cracks on the plat
form just as your car came along?
Well, chances are John picked it
up later. Armed with his own ia
vention - an ingeniously shaped
metal gadget fashioned from dis
carded can and two wire hooks
the enterprising youth is able to
salvage coins and streetcar tokens
in jiffy.
John bangles the gadget from
string, then uses the wire hooks to
shove the coins into a pocket" in
the device. The rest is easy.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
B, the Associated Press.


NEW MARKET, Va, May 13-
After six years of effort, pelts from
the Greer-Hale Chinchilla Farm in
the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
have made hit in New York, which
hopes, after the war, to steal from
Paris the title of fashion center
of the world"
About 80 pelts from the Virginia
ranch sold in the top bracket on
the New York market early this
month and went to I. J. Fox, New
York furrier.
At a recent benefit show at Madi-
son Square Garden, Miss Jean Bar
tell. the reigning Miss America,
modelled full-length chinchilla
coat. Into the garment went $50
skins and among the number were
pelts from the Greer-Hale farm.
Back in 1888, chinchilla farming
was first introduced at the farm
The chinchilla is native to the
South American Andes. not to a
warm region such as Virginia.
However, cooling Blue Ridge
breezes, plus good husbandry, have
done the trick. The chinchillas
have co-operated, too.
Chinchillas breed at all seasons
Mothers often nurse one litter while
carrying another. The Greer-Hale
ranch now boasts SAL animals, after
beginning with "a pairs.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Milk Producers 10 Save
100000 Miles for Trucks

New milk route schedules. now
being effected by the MARYLAND and
Virginia Milk Producers Associa-
ton, Inc, after approval by the
Once of Defense Transportation.
VIII save an estimtaed COL $50 truck
miles a year, c. F. Bletch, chair
man of a planning committee for
the producers association, said last
night.
Mr.. Bletch said the plan covers
II counties in Virginia, Maryland,
West Virginia and PENNSYLVANIA
and will affect 149 milk routes serv-
ing 507 of the 1890 milk producers
in the Washington area.
Under the plan, Mr.. Bletch said
haulers serving more than one
Washington distributor will have
their loads SO arranged as to be
able to make only one stop in the
District, and routes which now over
lap will be reshuffied in an effort
to save mileage.
He said the plan, made possible
as war conservation measure. is
expected to prove so efficient that
it will be continued after the war
Schedules are expected to be COM
pleted with the next two months,
Mr.. Bletch said.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Wise Slate Is Elected
By Virginia COP 10
National Convention
Porty FoctionoI Fight,
Begun in April, Ends
In Executive Committee
By the Associated Press.


ROANOKE, Va, May 13.-The
factional fight that developed on
the floor of the Republican State
Convention here April Is, was car
ried to the meeting of the State Ex-
ecutive Committee this afternoon
when the old-line group headed
by Maj. Henry A. Wise, national
committeeman of Albemarle, sue
ceeded by resolution in naming a
slate OF delegates-at-large to the
National Convention at Chicago
June rs, after declaring that va
cancies existed in the party offices.
The committee, with some mem
bers failing to vote, thus named as
delegates-at-large the majority
slate which, according to the an
nounced vote at the convention, was
defeated by the minority ticket by
a margin of 1,021 to Ss5.
Maj. Wise, who announced this
action at the close of the meeting
SAID pnotostatic copies of the tally
sheets showing that Richmond's S
oloc OF l54 votes had been improp-
erly recorded, were presented to
the meeting, along with affidavits.
Tonight, Lester Parsons, Norfolk
a member of the anti-Wise faction
declared that the State convention
mad duly elected the delegates-at-
large and charged that the COM
mlttee's action was illegal. Mr.
Parsons said, I'VE are going to Chi
cago with two states of delegates. u
Clarence r. Ahalt, Arlington, who
ialled OF nomination for reelection
as chairman at the State conven-
ton, was named vice chairman, re-
placing Ryland c, Craft, Gate City
Mr.. Ahalt also was named a dele
gate-at large.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Arlington Utilities Body
Plans Taxi Hearing Friday

The Arlington County Public
Utilities Commission will hold a
public hearing at the courthouse at
8 pm. Friday to hear complaints
and receive suggestions prior to
establishment of uniform taxicab
rates and zones in the county.
This meeting, according to w.
Glen Bixler. secretary of the COM
mission, is the outgrowth of legis-
lation passed by the recent session
of the Virginia Legislature. The
bill granting the authority was in
troduced by Delegate j. Maynard
Magruder at the insistence of nu-
merous citizens.
A previous meeting was held
March 81 when taxicab owners ap-
peared and gave testimony. Since,
maps have been prepared and a
tentative study made by individual
members of the commission.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Maryland U. to Begin
War Training Courses

Registrations for a series of train
ing courses at the University of
Maryland to equip men and women
to fill technical positions in war in
dustries, will be held at pm. to-
morrow in room 116 of the engineer
ing building at the university, it
was announced yesterday.
University officials said that al
most 5000 Maryland and District
residents had been retained since the
program was instituted in January
l941, under the auspices of the
Office of Education.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
K. Of c. to Initiate

The third degree of the order OF
knights of Columbus will be ex-
emplified in the State Armory, Ken
sington. Md, at 3 pm. today, under
the sponsorship of Rock Creek
Council, for candidates from the
Sd district. This degree will be
preceded by the exemplification Of
the first and second degrees. The
first degree meeting will be called
at l pm. and the second degres
meeting at 2 pm.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Heart Attack Victim Better
After PeniciIIin Injection

A 26-year-old Hyattsville me-
chanic suffering from a heart in
fection at the Prince Georges Cen
eral Hospital, was improving last
night after receiving 100000 units
of penicillin.
Hospital officials said the pa
tient's temperature was normal for
the first time since he entered the
hospital May 6.
The 100000 units, among the first
to be received in the Washington
area under War Production Board
plan to make the drug available to
civilians, were administered early
last week. DR.. A. Kirk Besley, hos
pital superintendent, said he plan
ned to apply for an additional sup
ply of the drug.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
Lee Proposes
Wider Bethesda
Business Area
Triangle Plan
Would Add
| 1850, 900 So. Fl.

A proposal for enlargement OF the
Bethesda business area was outlined
yesterday by 1t. Col. E. Brooke Lee.
Montgomery County park commits.
sioner. Iol. Lee urged homeowners.
citizens associations and business
men to study the plan and make
recommendations to the MARYLAND
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Under the proposal, the commits
sion's pending master r-land use plan
would include as suitable for first
commercial development all prop
erty within the triangle formed by
Wisconsin avenue and old George.
town road.
This area, he explained. begins at
the Bank of Bethesda and extends
north through the subdivision of
Woodmont "at least as far as the
tier of lots which face the north
side of Rubgy avenue on the east
ern base of the triangle and the lots
north OF Auburn avenue on the
western base"
would Aid Trade Growth.
Declaring this would add approxi-
mately 1,360,0 square feet of avail.
able land to the present Bethesda
commercial area, Col. Lee pointad
out would undoubtedly provide for
the growth of the business district
during the next 10 years" The ex.
listing business district includes an.
proximately 1850, 900 square feet, he
said.
Among desirable" results of such
proposal, according to Col. Lee,
are:
Definite discontinuance of the
piece meal" enlargement of the
Bethesda business district through
encroachment into detached resi-
Dental communities.
The entire Wisconsin avenue
frontage as well as most of the
oid Georgetown road frontage of
the triangle Is already zoned as
commercial so that extension Of
commercial coming on these two
arterial highways would further
protect residential communities.
The commercial growth within
the triangle would tend to support
business establishments already
located along Wisconsin avenue
north of Bradley lane and along
Old Georgetown road.
Sees Threat To Area.
Col. Lee added that establishment
of a large commercial district and
shopping area on either the Dis
tr1ct or Maryland side of Wiscon-
sin avenue at Western avenue might
seriously detraet from the growth of
the present Bethesda business
district.
He also pointed out that homes
in Woodmont are of the small
bungalow or frame cottage type and
property values would tend to drop
at the end of the housing emer-
agency. If the triangle is zoned as
commercial, he said, Woodmont
home owners would be able to sell
their property profitably.
Two possible methods of carrying
out his proposal were advanced by
Col. Lee. One would be to extend
commercial zoning first along both
sides of Fairmont avenue to the
Bank of Bethesda, then in success
sive steps along both sides of st.
Elmo avenue, Cordell avenue, Del
Ray avenue and. finally, Auburn
avenue and the eastern section of
Rugby avenue.
A second method would be to
zone the entire area as first COM
mercial in the near future, Col. Lee
suggested.