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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Two Important Issues
In Ward Firm Seizure
Nearing Showdown

Two important issues in the Mont
gomery Ward seizure neared de-
cision today.
A National Labor Relations Board
election will be held at the big Chi
cago mail order house tomorrow
to determine if the CLIO United Mail
Order, Warehouse and Retail En-
ployes' Union still represents a ma
jority-the basic question In the dis
pute which led to the Government
taking over the establishment.
On Wednesday Federal Judge Will
liam H. Holly is scheduled to rule
on the companys motion to dissolve
his order restraining Montgomery
Ward officials from interfering with
Government control of the concern.
Senate to Get Report.
In another development the Sem
ate Is expected to get a preliminary
report this week from the Judiciary
Committee on the seizure, but Chair
man McCarran said he did not ex-
pect 1t would 60 into the controversy
between the company and its en-
ployes. The refusal of the COM
pany to extend contract in the
absence Of showing that the union
still had majority was responsible
for the strike that preceded the
seizure.
Majority Leader Barley success
fully insisted on insertion of
clause calling for such a labor re-
lations inquiry before the Senate
passed resolution by Senator Byrd,
Democrat, of Virginia, to investi-
gate the legality of the action of
various Government agencies in
connection with the case.
Previously the committee had I'M
dertaken an inquiry under author
ity of resolution by Senator Ship
stead Republican. of Minnesota,
authorizing an investigation into
the legal basis for all of President
Roosevelt's executive orders.
House Inquiry Slated.
Senate investigators combed the
War Labor Boards Montgomery
Ward records today, while Speaker
Rayburn prepared to appoint sep
arate House investigating commit
tee.
Mr. Rayburn, an informed source
said, had approached Representa-
tive Ramspeck of Georgia, Demo-
cratic whip, about taking the chair
manship of the House committee,
but Mr.. Ramspeck told the Speaker
he did not "covet the job" Mr..
Ramspeck said last week he did not
see how President Roosevelt could
fail to back up the War Labor
Board in the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Horse-Drawn Canal Clipper
HauIs 300 on Initial Trip

The old freight barge Cana
Clipper" carried capacity loads OF
sight-seers up the Chesapeake 8,
Ohio Canal yesterday on the first
trip of the season.
Because mules which formerly
used are scarce, large horse hauled
300 persons on two trips between
Georgetown and Brookmont, Win
free Johnson. supervisor of the
canal trips, said
The barge service, under the
auspices of National Capital Parks,
will continue throughout the sum-
mer. d
The barge, which mades two trips
every Sunday, leaves the wharf at
Thirtieth and M streets NV. at
Gam. and at pm. Passengers are
discharged at Lock No. 5, Brook
mont, Md, to return by land trans
portation. The downstream trips
leave Brookmont at 1l:30 am. and
4:30 pm.
Tickets for the excursion may be
obtained during the week at the
American Automobile Association
Seventeenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, or on the barge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
WV Asks Full Inquiry
On Discrimination Report

Charging that commanding off,
GERS and their subordinates at GER
tain military posts and hospitals are
discriminating against veterans in
valided back from battlefronts, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars today sent
letters to War and Navy Department
heads asking a through investiga-
ton of the matter.
Omar B. Ketchum, national legis-
lative officer of the organization
said names Of camps, of the officers
involved and complete details of the
alleged determinations have been
sent to War and Navy heads, but
names of the complaining service
men have been withheld for fear OF
reprisals.
LAS we understand it," Mr.
Ketchum said. the trouble stems
from some of these commanders
who plan to give these boys who
are coming back the works for fear
they might get too cocky. They seem
to be jealous of these mems overseas
records"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08

1t would have been poor strategy
he explained. to put a full stop on
the induction of all men over Is
when selective service didn't know
how near it could come to filling
calls with the younger men.
Transition Period Over.
Now, he said. the period of tran
sition' is over. Selective service
knows the size of the pool of younger
men. 1t has an idea of what the
armed forces want and what in
dustry will have to give up in the
way of younger employees 1t now
can make plans.
The plans, which are supposed to
take the form of Clarifying" regu-
lations, will be discussed at the
meeting of State draft directors
which opened here today.
How those plans will affect the
electrician next door or the bus
driver down the street, however, is
going to depend not only on the
planners at national headquarters
but on what the State directors
think the planners mean and what
the local boards think the State
directors mean.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Men From D. T.. Area
Given Invasion Role
BY a Star War Correspondent.

BY Star War Correspondent.
UNITED STATES 9th AIR
FORCE BASE IN ENGLAND, May
S.-Men from Washington and
nearby areas will play a notable
role IN the activities of the Troop
Carrier Command, which will land
and supply air-borne troops and
evacuate wounded after the start
of the invasion.
Assistant chief of staff to Brig.
Gen. Paul L. Williams Is Col. John
T. Sprague of Warrenton, Va, for
mer Georgetown foreign service
student, who is experienced in every
phase of air-borne operations.
John H. Mentally, former West
ern Maryland football star and
coach of the Johns Hopkins team
up to the time he entered the Army,
is special service officer at the base
headquarters. Prominent in the
unit is Capt. Michael Brelick of
Buckroe Beach, Va, who was a
George Washington student from
1886 to 1938-"a two-year escape
from uniform" he terms it.
Others in the unit are: Tech
nician Frederick J. Farrris. son of
Mrs. M. B. Farris of 1856 Fourteenth
street NE; Pvt. Samuel Janofsky,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. LYMAN ia
nofsky. 2601 I street NV, and 1t.
Col. Clement C. Crawford of jan
ney'S lane, Alexandria. Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Cleaning Of Mains Blamed
For Queer Taste Of Wafer

Residents of Northeast Washing
ton who have noticed a queer taste
in their water recently, have re-
ceived assurances from Humphrey
Beckett, superintendent Of the Dis
trict Water Department. that it was
caused by additional chlorine in
newly cleaned water mains.
Mr.. Beckett said the work of clear
ing the water mains should be fin
ished this week. In cleaning the
mains, he pointed out, it Is neces-
sary to open the lines, thus SUBJ
jecting them to possible contami-
nation and requiring additional
chlorine
Last week, when the program was
first announced. Mr.. Beckett sug-
gested that water be boiled until
further notice" when turned on
after the mains had been cleaned.
He said that under a $25, 900 pro-
gram 24-inch main along K street
NE. and So and 20-inch mains in
the Benning area have been cleaned.
A more extensive program calling
for expenditures of S215,0OO is
planned under future appropria-
lions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Staying Of Man, Is,
Without an Enemy
In WorId,' Probed
BY the Associated Press.

Ls TIC hsSOtidlct TIcSS.
PHILADELPHIA, May 8.-Police
followed fresh leads today in ar
effort to discover why some one
with motives of revenge or q
grudge" killed a retiring, church
going 73-year- man who appar.
emily had not an enemy in the
world.
But officers expressed little hope
for an early solution of what Capt
William Engle of the homicide
squad termed zone of the mos
vicious murders" in local history.
The victim, William H. Harten, q
retired gas works employee, wa.
stabbed at least 30 times, an au-
topsy showed yesterday. His body
was found Saturday in the hote
room that had been his home fol
80 years.
Capt. Engle said revenge" wa!
almost certainly the motive in view
of the brutal" knife wounds ane
the fact that none of Mr.. Harten!
few belongings were missing.
Acquaintance and hotel employee:
said MIR. Harten was a man who
said little, attended church almos,
daily, kept six crucif1xes in his room
and had few pastimes other thar
listening to the radio.
He was the sort of man, the de.
.tective captain said, who never
quarreled with anyone and who
stretched his monthly pension over
many donations to charity.
Mr.. Harten's body was found
when hotel employees, hearing his
radio early in the morning and re-
calling that he never left it on after
midnight, called police
The old mans radio log lay oper
on a desk in front of the body. A
gangster drama was the last pen
ciled entry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Selective Service Will Seek Policy to End
Confusion Among Draft E|iqb|es Over rs

In the District and Virginia, no
men over Is except volunteers and
delinquents are now being called
and Virginia doesn't expect to lift
the ban until July at the earliest.
Men Drafted i'm Maryland.
But in nearby Maryland, a draft
board sent Is older men to the Army
and Navy last week. One of them
was volunteer. Seven of the re-
naming Is, most of them in their
middle 30s, were in activities listed
nationally as essential. That was
the list draft boards were supposed
to use as yardstick in deciding
which men were to have their in
auctions postponed.
Even at national headquarters
there were some difference of opin-
ion. Two national officials were
asked to comment on the statement
from Col. Henry c. Stanwood
Maryland draft director, that being
in an essential activity was not
enough to postpone mans induc-
ton; that he had to border on being
necessary man"
One of these officials said men
merely had to be in an essential
activity and if boards varied it was
because they had different ideas of
what was essential He admitted
there was no reference to "neces-
sary men" in the postponement
order.
The other national official said a
man could be in an essential activity
without making a contribution to
the war effort" If he wasn't max
ing a contribution he said, the man
should be drafted
A third national official-one who
held out hopes for clearer future
for draft eligibles-admitted that
when the order went out there had
been no time to develop a full, ex-
plicit policy and State directors had
to be left pretty much on their own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Draft Chiefs May Act
Soon 10 Clear Status
OF Federal Workers

An announcement was expected
this week to clarity the status OF
older Government workers, who are
now being drafted in some commu-
mites and having their induction
postponed in others.
A selective service spokesman
and Edgar Puryear, chairman of the
committee which reviews defer
ments of Government employees
both said an explanation of the
status of Federal workers probably
would be forthcoming in q few days
Although Government is listed al
an essential activity. the barriers to
deferring employees without an au-
thorized Government request has
resulted in their induction in some
communities where other older mer
in essential activities are not being
indicted.
In one nearby Maryland boarc
last week six Government workers
most of them fathers in their 80.
were drafted.
Mr.. Puryear said Government
agencies could ask his committe.
recommend a postponement of tn,
induction of their older workers, but
these cases would be treated by hi
committee as regular deferment re.
quests. Very few such requests, hi
said, had been made.
Although other older men in es.
sential activities can appeal to Their
State director if they think theil
board has treated them unfairly il
ordering them for induction now, q
seleetive service spokesman sale
Government workers could not make
such an appeal without the indorse
ment of the Puryear Committee.
The committee has been working
under orders from President Roose.
welt to give fathers employed in the
Government the same consideration
for deferment as those in private
industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Unity Of Meihodisis
Finally Completed;
Systems lntegrated
BY the Associated Press.

hy the hSsOClAteQ SfeSS.
KANSAS CITY, May 8.-The gap
which had separated the northern
and southern divisions of the Meth
odist Churches since the War Be-
tween the States until five years
ago was closed completely before
adjournment here Saturday OF their
quadrennial general conference.
The delegates approved commit
tee reports which completed the In
tegration of the various financial
systems and the codification Of
church policy and set out on
united crusade for Christ" pro-
gram to raise 5000 900 for recon-
struction and worldwide evan
gelism.
The North and South Methodist
Episcopal and Methodist Protestant
Churches agreed Ave years ago to
unite, and since then the work OF
bringing the physical assets of the
churches into the singular program
had been in the hands of the COM
mittees.
The report on church growth In
the past 10 years was viewed with
considerable concern by at least a
few delegates who pointed out that
the expansion was only in proper
ton to the increase In population,
while Sunday school membership for
the same period showed a loss of
100000 and the number of min
listers steadily decreasing.
One resolution adopted by the
conference called on President
Roosevelt to stop the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors
under his war emergency powers.
Another resolution expressed dis
approval of Sunday hikes under
Boy Scout direction"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Books, Music Scores
Sought for War Services

Books, periodicals and musical
scores in every United Nations Ian
guage for use by war service per-
sonnet will be sought by the new
Library Committee of the United
Nations Center, in a drive to start
next Saturday, it was announced
yesterday.
Miss Katherine ODonnell. chair
man of the committee, will be as
sisted by so working librarians
Contributors should contact Miss
Jane Brewer. recording secretary of
the Special Libraries Association in
the District, at Executive ALSO
Branch 206l. Contributions also
will be accepted at the first annual
exhibit of the Special Libraries
Association to be held in the New
Colonial Hotel Tuesday at pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
$4,000 Clubhouse Fire
Routs Screen Celebrities

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. May 8.-Fire
which destroyed the Hillcrest Coun-
try Club last night drove about 300
guests, including score of movie
folk, from their dinners.
The luxurious two-story clubhouse
was destroyed but firemen were able
to save the caddy house and $4,000
worth of golf equipment. Club Pres
ldent George M. Thompson set the
loss in a preliminary estimate at
$4,000
AL Jolson, Danny Kaye, the Marx
brothers, George Burns, Mervyn LIE
Roy, Bert Lahr and the Ritz BROTH
ers were among those dining when
the fire started.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Six Killed as Army Plane
Crashes During Rainsform

BY the Associated Press.
ELMIRA, N. Y, May s.-Six Of
f1cers and enlisted men were killed
when an Army cargo transport plane
crashed and burned on a hill near
Chemung County Airport Saturday
night during rainstorm.
1t. Bruce Mooney, Rome Army
Air Field public relations officer, said
the plane was on a flight from Sell
man Field, La. He identified the
dead as:
Second 1t. williams Carlstrom, 26,
jamestown, n. Y, pilot; Mai. John
]. Kiyak, %, Perth Amboy, N. j.;
1t. Hollie Cummings, "a. Alto, Tex;
Second 1t. Francis E. Brinker, 20,
New Brunswick, N. j.; Sergt. Leon
T. MacIrorowSki, 90, Sayreville, N. J..
and Pfc. Frank C. Heuer, 80, New
York City.
Airport officials said they were in
radio communication with the plane
shortly before midnight and that
the pilot had messaged: IT see your
lights"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Mass 'Chutist Exercises
Are Staged in England
Ply the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 8.-RAF trans
port planes and glidermen last week
landed masses of troops and para
chutists in one of the biggest pre-
invasion night exercises ever staged
on British soil.
AS Air Chief Marshal Trafford L
Leigh Mallory, Allied air comman-
der, watched from an Raj control
tower, the transports flew over pre-
cisely on time and dropped para
chutists on selected pinpoint spots
A moment later, the first glider
towing aircraft arrived.
Before the maneuver Leigh NAL
lory told the parachutists, One of
the great moments in history is in
front of YOU"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Stuart Bollontine, 46,
Radio Engineer, Dies

MORRISTOWN, N. j., May g.
Stuart Ballantine,\ As, inventor of
the throat microphone and an or
ganizer of the Institute of Radio
Engineers, died yesterday.
Mr.. Ballantine, a graduate of
Drexel Institute and Harvard Grad
uate School, was president of the
Ballantine Laboratories, Inc. His
first job was with the Marconi Wire
less Co. at the age of IA. A native
Of Germantown, Pa, he lived in
BOOntOn, N. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG

Selective service spokesman now
are promising an end to the con-
fusion which in the last month has
reached the point where a mans
home address may mean more than
his age or occupation in determining
whether or not he will be drafted,
Under the wording of an order
issued April 8 only men under 2e
have known fairly specifically where
they stand Except for those who
are hardship cases, physically unfit
or working on a farm, men under
26 will be drafted unless their defer
ment is recommended on a specia
form by their State draft director
Home Location Important.
AS for the men over 25-Some
who thought they would surely be
drafted haven't been, and some who
had reason to believe they wouldn't
be drafted because of their occupa
ton have been drafted. Two men
might be working side by side in
the same Washington office, but
because one man went home to
maryland at nlgnt and the other
to Virginia, one was drafted and
the other wasn't.
The April order authorized State
directors to postpone induction OF
men over IS who are contributing
to essential agriculture. war pro-
ductlon of transporting activities
Some State directors. who tried to
follow the order, gave up in a few
days and banned induction of all
men over Is except for volunteers
and delinquents Others decided the
order referred to BARRIERS, bellhops
and others in nonessential activities
and told boards to take them, re-
CARELESS Of age.
In North Dakota, the Associated
Press reported draft boards were
instructed to resume normal in
auctions of men from 10 to SO" on
May !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Welsh Ex-Archbishop Dies

BANGOR, Wales, May 8 (P,.-The
Most Rev. Charles Alfred Howell
Green, 70. Bishop of Bangor and
Archbishop of Wales until his re-
tirement about month ago due to
i'll health, died yesterday. He was
appointed Archbishop of Wales in
1884.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Unhurt on 81 Missions,
Flyer Breaks Arm in Fall

BY the Associated Press.
SEVENTH AAF HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Central Pacific, May g.
Stan Sergt. James Fleming. Is
Richmond Hill, Long Island, went
through 81 missions as gunner on a
dive bomber without a scrath, but
he's in the hospital now.
He tripped over wire in a gym
nasium and broke both arms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Clear toda,
and tonight, warmer with loves,
temperature near 81 tonight; to.
morrow some cloudiness ane
warmer
Maryland and Virginia-Fair ano
warmer tonight; tomorrow increas
ing cloudiness and warmer.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
Cloudy at Harpers Ferry: Potomac
slightly muddy at Great Falls.
Report for Last ~ Hours
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
GEORGE vi Honors Chinese

CHUNGKING, May (P).-Sir
Horace Seymour, British Ambassa-
dor, today presented to Chinese War
Minister Ho Ying-chin the insignia
of knight commander of the Bath
military division. The decoration
was conferred by King George vi
for long, outstanding service to the
Allied cause"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08

was appointed
acting director
Of the Washing
ton area VINO.
He succeeds
Arthur l.. Scho-
enthal. deputy
r e g / O n a | di-
rector. who had
been acting area
director in c e
the resignation
of Ere d z.
Hetzel. who en-
tered the Navy.
Mr.. Connolly,
whose appoint
m emf NIlA on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08

nounced by Henry E. Treide, re-
gional VINO director entered man
power work in 1888 when he
went with the Pennsylvania State
Employment Service. He came to
Washington in l94l as an associate
special representative of the Bureau
of Employment Security, Social Sc
curity Board. and was transferred
to the War Manpower Commission
national Office in December, 1912.
He has been a regional placement
specialist since last June. He at
tended the University of Pittsburgh
and Is 43 years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
Connolly Appointed
Area VINO Chief

Ernest V. Connolly, placement
specialist for the War Manpower
Commission region covering the Dis
trict and four other States. today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08

Record for Last ~ Hours.
tFrom noon Yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 81, 2.55 pm, Year ago, 81.
Lowest, AZ. 4 46 am Year ago. 81,
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, Sc on May 4
Lowest II. on January .
Humidity for Last ~ Hours
tFrom noon Yesterday to noon ;oday)
Highest. =! per cent. at 2.30 am
Lowest. 30 per cent, a. 80 pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08
The Sun and

Rises. Sets
sun, To-Day 500 sos
Sun. tomorrow 500 sos
Moon. TODAY S.35 I'm & n a n,
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-han hour after sunset
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-05-08

Time Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
and GeOdetic SnrveN
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Nudge and
family were Sunday visitors OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bokon. Sumpter
Rd.
Mr. and Mrs. David Cox, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Wright, George Es-
sex and SOL Darrell. Edward
Maleski. Mrs. Glen Roberts and
Mrs. Alden Day attended the din
ner and rogram given by the
Michigan Milk Producers Associa-
ton at the Willis NJ. E. Church,
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mr. Gilbert Day, Rose
dale Gardens, Plymouth; Mr. ana
Mrs. William Day and family, Mr..
and Mrs. John Snyder, Dearborn.
were Sunday visitors Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Day.
Mrs. Glen White, Wayne. spent
Tuesday with her mother. Mrs.
Glen Roberts.
Mr.. and Mrs Alden Day and
family were Sunday afternoon calf
ers of Mr.. and Mrs. Eaton Roberts,
Ypsilanti.
Wilbur Collyer has started wor1
at the Bomber Plant.
Miss Viola Garlick, Melvindale,
spent the week end with her par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. David Garlick.
Mrs. Donald Garlick. Mrs. vii.
liam Colts and Maud Day were iii
Belleville Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alden Day and
children, Carol and Burton, were
guests at the home Of Mr. ana
Mrs. James Whitmer, Belleville,
Sunday evening.