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Laurel outlook., 1944-03-01

Pvt. H. S. Kindsfater, Southwest
Pacific, Feb. 6:
l received the Outlook of Oct.
20 yesterday and was pleased to
know the people at home have not
forgotten the boys in the battle
zones.
We haven't had it very bad
where we now are, but as you
know l would love to be home with
all my friends, so let's all hope
this war ends soon and we can re-
turn tQs civilian life. But first there
is a job to be done and we here
intend to do it.
1 enjoy reading the Letters col
umn, and l recognized some of the
boys names.
/ wish to thank the people who
make it possible for me to receive
the paper. l would love to thank
them in person, but there is a
little ocean in the way.
If you at home keep the home
front under control, that's all we
out here can ask for.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-01

Lieut.. Helen Heebner, A. N. g.,
at Modesto, Calf, has been ad-
vanced from second lieutenant 70
first lieutenant.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-01

intricacies of keeping peeps and
jeeps, trucks and scout cars roll
ing in combat.
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-01

tached to the marine division
before leaving the States, with the
combat engineers. l have beer
overseas a year and have seen a bit
of the South Pacific, and brother
you can take it from me that this
isn't a little place down here.
So far / have three stars to my
credit, each representing a major
engagement against the enemy:
Guadalcanal, Munda and Bougan-
vile. In this last engagement
landed with the marines on their in
itial landing and had experiences |
shall never forget.
At present we are resting up, and
hope we will get back to the States
in the near future. l surely would
like to see good old Montana right
now, and get some Of MONS good
home cooking again.
Recently l met some of the boys
from around Laurel. They were
George Weber and Art Armstrong.
| was glad to see them, and we had
some good talks about our home
state. We see each other rather
often.
l am not good at describing
places, but l can say these islands
are beautiful when seen from the
sea We have %coconuts, bananas,
pineapples and other tropical fruit.
The birds, parrots and insects are
plentiful.
/ would like to hear from some
of the boys who work at the Lau-
releaf plant, as l was employed
there before joining the service. Tell
my friends to drop me a line.
Good luck and best wishes to all.
Sgt. Donald Scheidecker, some
where in India, Feb. 5, to Laurel
club:
A pleasant surprise came to me
in the form of a carton
of cigarettes, for which l wish to
express my sincere appreciation.
Though you may think they got
here a bit late, you must take into
consideration that they travelled
half way around the world, which
is no small journey. Had they
come sooner my appreciation could
not have been more keen.
l would like to thank each mem
Der, but that being impossible |
send my thanks as a blanket to be
thrown over the entire club.
Pvt. Clarence Rel, somewhere in
New Guinea, Jan. 26, by V-mail:
Just a few lines to let you know
[ am in New Guinea and would
very much like to receive the Laur-
Il Outlook.
The weather over here is hot and
lamp and there often is rain.
There so many mosquitoes we sleep
lnder nets at night. When there
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-01
Cpl. Harry G. Penninger, For
Myers, Fla. Feb. 10:

Cpl. Harry G. Penninger, Fort
Myers, Fla, Feb. 10:
l have moved again, so will send
my new address. This time l man
aged to get a heck of a long way
from Montana and still be inside
the U. S.
l am here for a four-week in
struction course, starting Feb. 81.
After that l hope to get home for
a few days. The country here is
quite a contrast to Arizona. In
Florida there are trees and grass,
with plenty of warm weather.
/ have been receiving the Outlook
regularly and surely do enjoy it.
l hope it won't be long until l can
drop in and thank you in person.
Adolph Kamerzel, c. NJ. &c.,
South Pacific, Feb. 10:
| have received the Laurel Out
look ever since I went overseas,
and l wish to take this opportunity
to thank everyone back home who
makes it possible for me to receive
the paper.
l entered the service Oct. y,
1912, took my "boot" training at
Norfolk, Va, and Joined the Sea-
bees. 1 was transferred and at
Laurel outlook., 1944-03-01
Letters From
Our Boys

After a silence of several weeks
T/Sgt. Davis Fly has written his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Fly
to tell them he is well but has seen
plenty of action somewhere in the
Pacific. He also says that from
his observations around the Marsh
alls that TOTO is on the way out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
New Railroad Ticket Machine
May End Fidqetinq in Line

Travellers who fldget in lines be-
fore the ticket window as their
train time nears will be saved long
delays, if an experimental machine
demonstrated yesterday under spon-
sorship of the. Association of Ameri-
Railroads is adopted by railroads
after the war.
This is the way the machine,
which railroad officials say will
speed up sales and effect big saw
ing in bookkeeping and paper for
tickets, operates:
A passenger comes to ticket
window at Union Station seeking
a one-way coach fare to New York.
The ticket agent has before him q
machine similar to a small-size
cash register. He pushes one key;
that is for New York. Another
key is for coach rate, and another
for one-way. The actual fare, which
the agent can get from a nearby
chart if he doesn't know the price,
is then punched. A final touch
to the master key, and out comes
the ticket, looking very much like
a receipA which emerges from cash
registers.
An expert operator. of the machine
can have the passengers ticket
ready before he has pulled out his
biiHold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
New Plan Prepared
For Tin Can SALVAGE
In D. {. Apartments
Collections Will Be Made
Only When Sufficient
Scrop Is Accumulated

A new plan for salvage of tin
cans from the residents of Wash
ingtons 1000 apartment houses
was announced yesterday by Hor-
ace Walker, executive secretary OF
the District Salvage Committee.
Instead of monthly collections at
all apartments, which have resulted
in much waste of time and man.
power when calls were made at
apartments where cans had not
been saved, collections will be made
only on request. The new program
will go into effect Immediately.
Resident managers and janitors
OF all the city's apartments are
being circulized by the committee
and requested to do the following
l.. Place boxes or barrels at con-
venient spots throughout their
buildings.
2. Notify the committee of the
number of leaflets explaining the
new plan needed to supply one to
each apartment unit.
5. Notify the committee by tele-
phonlng Republic 8488 when four
bushels or more of scrap cans have
accumulated.
In turn the committee has prom
ised that collections definitely will
be made the week following the re-
ceipt of notification.
The Salvage Committee pointed
out that regardless of the eventual
capitulation of Germany, the tin
shortage would not abate. The
worlds largest tin deposits in Ma
laya still are in the hands of the
Japanese and the shortage is serious
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Capital Transit Collision
Rate Drops 25.56 Per Cent

The number of collisions inyolv-
ing Capital Transit Co. vehicles
dropped 1856 per cent during the
first eight months of this year, COM
pared with the same period last
year, S. E. Emmons, transportation
manager, reported to the Public
Utilities Commission yesterday in
his monthly survey Of accidents.
For the same period, Mr.. Emmons
noted a reduction of 3777 per cent
in accidents involving pedestrians
a drop of 2419 per cent in "other
collisions" and drop of 1888 per
cent in passenger accidents.
In comparing the month of Au-
gust this year with last August, Mr.
Emmons said collisions with other
vehicles declined 1858 per cent, COL
lisions with pedestrians dropped 40
per cent, other collisions fell of
PAT per cent and passenger acct
dents declined 11.9 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24

The ticket shows the fare, Fedora,
tax, total money paid for trans
portation, date of sale, ticket seller
office where sale was made, approx
innate time of day and destination
It's all done inside the machine. In
THE event a round-trip ticket is de-
sired, the procedure Is repeated, CIV
ing you two tickets.
The machine, demonstrated yes
terday in the Transportation
Building by officials of the National
Cash Register Co.. is capable OF
punching out SO different train desti-
nations. The machine also produces
a partially blank ticket on which
the salesman may write destina-
ton not listed in the machine.
The ticket agents routine will be
vastly simpilfied, as he will nc
longer have to add up his daily
sales and record the serial num-
bers of tickets sold during the day
1t will all be found in the ma
chine.
Ticket manufacturers stand to
take loss, as regularly printed
tickets would be eliminated. ON
Gals estimate printed tickets now
cost $1.06 thousand, compared with
IA cents for q roll of paper that
would turn out the same number Of
tickets "a the new machine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Soldier Sought in Theft
OF $500 From Tire Shop

Police last night were seeking a
soldier in connection with the theft
of a wallet containing $500 yesterday
from Eyre johnson, proprietor of
Johnson's Tire Shop, 3O66 M street
NV.
Mr.. johnson told police the SOL
der, described as about 80, wearing
a private's winter uniform, drove up
to the shop and asked to have his
tires examined. The automobile is
said to have carried Camp Pickett
Identification tags.
Before leaving his shop to ex-
anime the tries, police said Mr.
johnson told them, the proprietor
removed a wallet containing $500
from his pocket and laid it on a
table. When the tires had been
pronounced in good condition the
soldier drove of and few minutes
later Mr.. johnson discovered the
wallet missing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
! Sessions ARRANGED
To Prepare Workers
For War Fund Drive
Campaign Will Open
With United Motions
Mass Meeting Oct. Is

Seven meetings of various groups
Of volunteer workers in next
months Community War Fund
drive, have been scheduled for the
coming weeks. the War Fund Com
mittee announced yesterday.
The United Nations Mass Meet
ing. which will officially open the
campaign, will be held at pm.
October Is, In Constitution Hall
Archibald MacLeish, librarian of
Congress, will conduct the meeting
The concert band and chorus of the
Navy School of Music, directed by
1t. James M. Thurmond, will pre-
sent program. Admission to the
meeting will be by tickets, which
can be secured without charge at
the War Fund Headquarters, IDOL
M street NV.
A dinner meeting at 7 pm. Oc-
toher 4, in the ballroom of the Will
lard Hotel will initiate the activi-
ties of the 1000 workers of the resi-
dental unit. E. K. Morris, unit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Col. f. Alexis Jeunet Dies;
Pioneer in Army Radio

Col. E. Alexis Jeunet, y, U. S. A..
retired, died Friday at his apart
ment, 2126 Connecticut avenue NV
Col. Jeunet was born in Franklin
Pa. and entered the Army as a pri-
vate during the Spanish-American
War. He served in Cuba and rose
to the rank of second lieutenant.
He also served In the Philippine in
surrection and at the Mexican bor-
der in 1916.
While serving overseas in the
World War with the Signal Corps
he was promoted to the rank of
lieutenant colonel. During most of
his service with the Army he was
connected with the same branch,
and during the early days of wire
less telegraphy he installed wireless
service in Alaska.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
1rma H. Jeunet, and two sisters,
Mrs. w. w. Russell, Franklin, Pa,
and Mrs. Leondine j. Whitaker,
Cleveland.
Military funeral services will be
held at pm. Monday at Arlington
Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Assistant Secretary Of State
Aids DeIinquents in Free Time
6. HowIond Shaw Finds
Genuine interest in
Offenders Necessary
By FRANCES LIDE.

Assistant Secretary Of State G.
Rowland Shaw probably holds the
record among Washington officials
for writing letters on Sunday. But
his Sunday correspondence is un-
official.
That's the day he sets aside for
writing-in long hand-to boys and
men who have been In trouble at
one time or another.
It would be impossible to esti-
mate the number he has kept In
touch with since he became inter-
ested in delinquents back In 1890,
but his correspondence ranges from
10 to IS or more letters and notes
weekly.
Despite his work at the State De-
partment, Mr.. Shaw also makes
frequent visits In the evening to
the National Training School for
Boys here and occasional weekend
trips to the Children's Village at
Dobbs Ferry, N. Y, where he Is
vice president.
BY carefully planning his free
time, however. he has managed to
combine his career with a pursuit
of the art of disinterested friend
ship" which has made him a ma
tional figure in the field of de-
linquency treatment.
Heads Friendly Sponsors.
Although the larger share Of his
free" time goes into personal con-
tact with those he has befriended
Mr.. Shaw is identified with numer-
Gus organizations dealing with re-
form and rehabilitation.
His latest undertaking locally is
the Craftsmanship of the Commit
tee of Friendly Sponsors under the
Corrections Division of the Coun-
Gil OF Social Agencies, which will
ofier personally unoflcial service to
juvenile and adult offenders re-
leased from correctional agencies.
Mr.. Shaw emphasizes one point
above all others-that the sponso,
must genuinely like the offender fol
whom he accepts responsibility.
These fellows are so quick al
getting on to pretense that it's nc
joke" he commented.
His own wide interest In hobbies
has helped Mr.. Shaw in his first
interviews with boys-an extremely
important but sometimes difficult
contact. It also helps to know the
part OF city in which q boy lives
In one interview with the "vics
president" of Harlem gang he got
OH to a flying start when the boy
learned Mr.. Shaw was an hon.
orary member" of another New
York gang.
But there are times" he admitted
when you just have to accept tn.
fact that a boy doesn't like you
And If he doesn't you can't make
much headway."
To prospective sponsors who wan
to know what to read by way O.
preparation, Mr.. Shaw skips pro.
fessional publications and recon.
mends Booth Tarkington's "Penrod'
or "Penrod and Sam" Most eve,
moderately successful adults hav,
forgotten what it feels like to be {
| boy" he explains,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
u. Of N. 10 Graduate
% From D. T.. Area

Twenty-six University of Mary
land seniors from the Washington
area will be among 68 candidates
for degrees at commencement ex-
ercises Thursday. In addition, Ger
tif1cates will be presented to so Army
specialized training students who
have completed courses in electrical
and mechanical engineering.
The graduation exercises will be
held at IL am. in the womens field
house. Before the graduation can
didates for degrees will attend a
senior banquet tomorrow night at
the 240O Club.
Candidates for degrees include Al
for bachelor degrees, II for masters
and three for doctorates. Seven
graduates Of the law school at the
Baltimore division Of the university
also will receive degrees.
Candidates from the District in
clude:
Dorothy Barnard, Mary E. Chris
tie, Jean Davidson. Filiz Erol, Nor
ton LYMAN, Mrs. Portia K. Meares,
Virginia Raymond, Florence Ruskin,
Elizabeth Singer. Ernst Solberg,
Phyllis Stortz, Dorothy Webster,
Mari; White and Estelle Wolowo-
witz.
Montgomery County candidates
are Miriam Beall, Virginia Bean,
Frances Becker. Sarah Brown, Will
liam Goldsworthy and Mildred Mar
bury.
Candidates from Prince Georges
County are Doratha Ellis, Anna Fa-
Der. William Form, Robert Gritzan,
Wilson Power and Anne Turcotte.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24

In Leonardtown, Md, has been
awarded the Silver Star for heroic
service in Italy on April %. 1874
His citation said he voluntarily left
the cover of his foxhole with a reel
of wire and crossed $50 yards of
mined terrain covered by intense
mortar and machinegun fire that
barely missed him.
Sergt. Wood still is in the hos
pital recovering from his wounds.
Born in Hollywood, Md. he received
his education at St. Johns School
there. He went overseas in Febru-
airy, 1943, four months after joining
the Infantry. He is the son of Mrs
Alice Wood, of Hollywood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Home Accidents
| njure 86 in
D. C.. in Week

The District Home Accident Pre-.
vention Service reported compare.
lively low accidental total for the
last week with SO persons injured
in home accidents treated at II hos.
pitfalls. There were no deaths.
In one case an infection from 8
small silver caused loss of patient.
finger. A 41-year-old man had 8
piece OF a toothpick extracted from
his throat and a 30-year-old WON.
an suffered severe attack of fooc
poisoning.
A needle lying on a rug caused
a 4-year-old child to be sent to 9
hospital, 13-year-old puncturec
his ear drum with a lead pencil, q
7-year-old was burned on both
hands by matches and a 6-month-
old infant was scalded by hot tea
A 5-year-old child is under oh.
servation because she bit of the end
of a thermometer.
There were 26 falls, II burns. two
accidental poisonings, seven for
eign bodies in the ears, throat and
stomach, "a cuts and Is cases OF
a miscellaneous nature, including
two cases Of rat bite.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
COP Women to Hear
Discussion of Charter

Mrs. Ralph Himstead of Silver
Spring, State chairman Of the Mary
land League of Women Voters, will
discuss the proposed charter for
Montgomery County at a meeting of
the Republican Women's Club of
Silver Spring at pm. tomorrow
in Jesup Blair Community House.
A tea scheduled to be held to-
day at the home Of Mrs. Harry S
Elkins, club president, has been post
poned indefinitely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Businessmen
AskActionon
Repair Racket
Soy Experts Levy
Fees Without
Fixing Appliances

A charge that numerous residents
have been cheated" by recently
established operators holding them
selves out as experts" In repair
Of washing machines, radios, electric
irons and other war-restricted ar
ticles was filed yesterday with the
House District Committee by the
Southeast Business Mems Associa-
ton.
In making the complaint public,
Representative Randolph, Demo-
crat, Of West Virginia, committee
chairman, called on the District
Commissioners for recommendations
saying, If the charges by this
association are correct, it would
seem some regulatory measures
should be taken, at least for the
duration"
He also sent copy of the COM
plant, signed By Louis F. Prick,
secretary of the Southeast group, to
the Better Business Bureau with q
request for its comment.
I'm many instances" Mr.. Prick
wrote Mr.. Randolph, 1T has been
disclosed through investigations
and through reports from the local
OPA Price Panel Board that q great
number Of these new places are not
qualified for the repair Of the ar
ticles mentioned, and it has been
discovered that customers are not
only suffering the loss of the money
paid for the repair OF the articles
but that these articles are not re-
paired.
I'm some instances. it has been
discovered that not only were these
complaints true. but that further
the operator of the business has
taken irreplaceable parts from these
various articles"
Mr.. Prick told Mr.. Randolph the
problem had been placed before the
Commissioners with suggestion
that such classes of repairmen be
required to show their qualifications
before being permitted to do bust
ness. The city heads, he reported
responded with suggestions that the
matter be referred to the Better
Business Bureau and that in spe-
ciflc instances the complainant
might resort to the courts for fraud
ulent advertising by the operators
Mr.. Prick called the suggested
remedy unreasonable"
He maintained the Better Bust
ness Bureau has no legal authority
to suppress business and that court
action. would place an undue bur-
den on the customer who, he said
would rather lose IS or $40 than to
spend the time and undergo the
trouble of pressing an action before
the Criminal Court.
Mr.. Prick argued that a law reg
ulating operators Of repair BUSH
nesses would not be objectionable
since now plumbers. electricians
steamfltters and others are not per-
mitted to engage in business before
proving their qualifications.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24

At the National Training School
he's a member of the board of ad-
visers which also serves as a parole
board, but he overcomes this for
midable position by going into the
dormitories and just "gossiping"
with the boys as he puts it.
Doesn't Mince Words.
He may know a boy for months
before discussing the youngster' s
particular odense. But once the
subject comes up his rule is not to
mince words or become sentimental
He's also apt to tell boy some
thing of his own youthful plumbers
1T helps him in picturing you as q
human sort of person." he explained
If you feel you are doing good
to Billy Jones, however, you had
better stop being a sponsor at once
Mr.. Shaw believes.
And you must firmly resolve
that come what may you are going
to stick to Billy JONES'" he declared
That sticking process may lead
you to the police station, and from
there to Jail and on to the criminal
court and the penitentiary. But
perhaps at the very end of the
road Billy Jones will feel that in
the lousy world he has known there
has been one swell guy, and tina,
guy has been you"
Mr.. Shaw's interest in delinquency
grew out of his appointment az
counselor to Turkey in 1930-his sec.
ond tour Of duty there. Learning
In advance that the Turkish gov.
eminent was planning juvenile de.
linquency and other reform pro.
gram, he spent two months leav.
studying the subject exhaustively
and visiting institutions and court!
throughout the East. He WORKED
with the Turkish government or
several programs, maintaining hi
connections in the field here at tn,
same time.
Since his return in 1887 he ha.
served as president of the Nationa
Conference of Juvenile Agencies
the American Prison Association
and the National Catholic Welfar,
Board. He currently heads the Os,
borne Association, the Bureau O.
Rehabilitation here and the La.
Advisory Committee of the Distric
Juvenile Court. He also serves OF
the boards of the Southeast Com
munity Center here and Lincoln
| Hall, Lincolndale. N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24

Morris in arrangements for the
meeting will be the six area chair
men of the unit, Mrs. Harold N.
Marsh. Mrs. r. Wallace McClena-
han, Howard P. Bailey, Judge w.
c. Hueston, DR.. Wilson Compton
and Paul D. Sleeper.
Meetings this week include an
organizational meeting at 1890
pm. tomorrow in the small ball
room of the Willard Hotel for the
business unit group; a meeting of
the Arlington workers in the Arl-
ington Recreation Center at 8 pm.
tomorrow; Montgomery workers
meeting at pm. Tuesday in Rock
vile, Md; a dinner meeting of area
and section chairmen in the Prince
Georges County in the Hotel Stat
Ter at 7 pm. Wednesday,; another
residential unit meeting at pm.
Thursday at the home of Mrs.
Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of
the residential divisions, at 400
Fourth street NE, and a meeting
of area and section chairmen of
the Fairfax unit in the Municipal
Building of Falls Church at 2 pm
Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Trinity Seniors TO Hold
Cap and Gown Ceremony

One hundred seniors will attend
mass in caps and gowns this morn
ing, and then wear orchids to break
fast in the traditional cap and gown
ceremonies of Trinity College.
The Most Rev. John M. McNa-
mara, auxiliary bishop of Baltimore
and Washington, will celebrate mass
at 8 am. in the college chapel I'M
mediately afterwards, parents and
seniors will be entertained by the
378 other undergraduates at break
fast, at which each senior receives
an orchid.
The chapel procession of seniors
will be led by Miss Gloria Ilderton,
president of Student Government,
and Miss Mary Helen Mahoney,
president of the senior class.