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Evening star., 1944-02-22
Judge Favors School
For Traffic Vio|ators

A traffic violators' school for first
offenders was Endorsed by Municipal
Court Judge George D. Nelson last
night in a round table discussion at
the monthly meeting of the Dis
trict's Keystone Automobile Advisory
Board in the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Under the proposed plan Offend
ers would attend the school in lieu
of fine. Judge Nelson said he be-
lieved such a school would sizably
reduce traffic violations.
The jurist also urged that business
and professional men serve on juries
to improve the general caliber of
panels. 1T is the duty of all our
citizens to serve as jurors and see
that justice is done" he said.
Referring to the large number of
acquittals in drunken driving cases
here, Judge Nelson said the pro-
posed scientific sobriety test law
would take the "guesswork" out of
the cases and convict the guilty.
Herbert S. Fairbank. deputy COM
missioner Of the United States Pub
lie Roads Administration, discussed
the s750,000,000 annual postwar
highway program submitted to Con-
gress recently by President Roosevelt
The board voted it's approval of
Traffic Director William Van Duzer S
share-the-car program and asked
that it be extended Mark Lans-
burgh, newly elected chairman, pre-
sided.
Evening star., 1944-02-22
Mordi Gros Ball
Tonight Will Be
Districts First

A Mardi Gras ball, complete with
the traditional king and queen and
a court Of maids and dukes whose
identity will remain a secret until
after the grand unmasking, will be
held in Washington for the first
time tonight.
Camille Chautemps, former Pre-
mier Of France; the Louisiana con-
gressional delegation, high-ranking
military officers and the District
Commissioners will be the guests OF
Louisiana State Society at the affair
at the Statler Hotel from 9 to ]
o'clock tonight.
Since the day comedies with
George Washington birthday. there
will be George and Martha Wash
ington to receive each member OF
the court as he arrives on the scene
The queen will be crowned in cere.
monies at II pm. Costumes have
been brought from Louisiana for thu
occasion.
Evening star., 1944-02-22

tive logging, as capital gain rather
than annual income. AS a grower
and seller of timber I think that
timber should be treated as a crop
and therefore as income when it is
sold. This would encourage refor-
eStatiOn.
Id Natural gas pipelines are
exempted from the excess profits
tax without justification and in a
manner which might well lead Oil
companies to request similar treat
'ment for their pipelines.
(e) Commercial airlines are grant,
ed an unjustifiable extension of the
tax subsidy on their airmail con-
tracts.
Asks New Measure.
1t has been suggested by some
that I should give my approval to
this bill on the ground that having
asked the Congress for a loaf OF
bread to- take care Of this war for
the sake of this and succeeding
generations should be content with
small piece of crust. might have
done SO if 1 had not noted that the
small piece of crust contained so
many eXtraneous and inedible ma
| terials.
In regard to that part of the bill
which relates to wholly unobjec-
tionable tax increases, may / re-
Spectfully suggest to the Congress
that the excise taxes can easily and
quickly be levied This can be ac-
complished by the passage of a
simple joint resolution enacting
those provisions of the bill which
increase the excise taxes. I should
be glad to approve such a measure.
This would preserve the principal
revenue provisions of the bill with
out the Objectionable features l
have criticized.
In another most important re-
spect this bill would disappoint and
fail the American taxpayers. Every
one of them, including ourselves
is disappointed, confused and bewil-
dered over the practical results of
last years tax bill The Ruml plan
was not the product of this admin
istration. 1t resulted from a wide
spread campaign based on the at
tTactive slogan of "Pay-as-you-go." +"
But, as was said many years ago in
the State of New York in regard to
that same slogan. You don't pay
and you don't co.
The Nation will readily under
stand that it is not the fault of the
Treasury Department that the in
come taxpayers are docded with
forms to fill out which are so COM
plex that even certified public ac-
counants cannot intearpret them.
No. it is squarely the fault of the
Congress of the United States in U.s.
ing language in drafting the law
which not even a dictionary or a
thesaurus can make clear
Scores Congress Failure.
The American taxpayer has been
promised of late that tax laws and
returns will be draStically simplifled.
This bill does not make good that
promise. 1t ignores the most obvious
step toward simplifying taxes by
failing to eliminate the clumsy Vic
tory tax. For fear Of dropping from
the tax rolls those taxpayers who are
at the bottom of the income scale
the bill retains the Victory tax
while at the same time it grants ex-
Evening star., 1944-02-22
"A Seized in Tampa
After Riot Threat
Ry the Associated pfess.

Ey the Associated Press.
TAMPA, Fla, Feb. 22.-Hearins
was continued yesterday in the
cases of % colored prisoners ar
rested on charges of disturbing the
peace and melting to riot after a
street disturbance in which police
riot squads and military police dis
persed crowd of 1000 persons
seeking the release of an arrested
colored man.
A oath defendant, Thomas Wat
kins. colored, was given a 60-day
jail sentence. The cases of the
others were postponed until today
when testimony will be heard from
military policemen.
Director Marshall H. Doss of the
State Bureau of Narcotics gave this
version of the disturbance:
Taking part in a series of over
night raids involving sale of mari
juana. Capt. w. L. Tedford, assist
ant intelligence officer of the Bird
Air Force, blew the horn of his
car to clear traffic on Central ave-
nue., in Tampa's largest colored sec
ton. The officer charged a man
cursed him and he said he then
ordered military police in follow
ing car to arrest the man.
Shortly after he was taken to
a nearby military police station,
crowd, estimated at 1000, assembled
outside and demanded the mans
release. City and county riot
squads and military police with an
armored car dispersed the gather
ing.
Evening star., 1944-02-22

tensive concessions to many special
interest groups.
The suggestion Of withholding at
graduated rates, which would re-
lieve millions of people Of the task
of filing declarations Of estimated
income, was not adopted.
I trust, therefore, that the Con-
gress, after all these delays, will act
as quickly as possible for simplifi-
cation of the tax laws which will
make possible the simplification OF
the forms and computations now
demanded of the individual tax
payers. These taxpayers, now en-
gagged in an effort to win the great
est war this Nation has ever faced
are not in a mood to study higher
mathematics.
The responsibility of the Congress
of the United States is to supply
the Government of the United
States as whole with adequate
revenue for wartime needs, to pro-
vide fiscal support for the stabili-
zation program, to hold firm against
the tide Of special PRIVILEGES. "''d
% achieve real simplicity for mil
lions Of small income taA. .-o,-...
In the interest of strengthening
the home front. in the interest OF
speeding the day Of victory, l urge
the earliest possible action.
Evening star., 1944-02-22
President Hits
7 ak Provision
That Aids Him
Y the AsSnciated press


President Roosevelt. who sets out
25,O00 young Christmas trees each
year in reforesting l,200-a ere
commercial tract among his HYDE
Park IN. " land holdings, objected
in his tax bill veto today to a provi-
sion which he said would amount
to "a special privilege" to timber
growers like himself.
Among five provisions he opposed
as special privileges" was one
which he said would permit the
lumber industry to treat income
from the cutting of timber. includ-
ing selective logging, as a capital
gain rather than annual income.
"As a grower and seller of TIM
ber," he said, 80 think that timber
should be treated as a crop and
therefore as income when it is sold.
This would encourage reforesta-
ton"
The President sells hundreds of
Christmas trees each year to whole
salers. Sometimes he makes a profit
and sometimes he doesn't.
Evening star., 1944-02-22
Transport Officials Bar
Pickup System 10
Extend Group Riding

Transportation officials in the
Washington Metropolitan Area are
opposed to increasing group riding
in private passenger cars through
any kind of pickup" system, the
Traffic Committee of the Washing
ton Board of Trade was told at
meeting in Schneider's Restaurant,
427 Eleventh street NV, yesterday.
The speaker, F. w, Lovejoy, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Washing
ton Regional Committee of Defense
Transportation, pointed out that
the pickup method of sharing rides
was too unreliable as a gasoline
saving device.
We want more group riding"
he said, but we want it worked
out on an orderly basis. We need
some program that will give us in
advance the number of private cars
to be used and the number of pas
sengers to be CARRIED. We can't
issue gasoline rations in any other
way and mass transportation sys-
TENS can't plan their schedules eff
ciently unless they have a fairly
accurate idea of the load"
Mr.. Lovejoy said he hoped the
lessons in ''regionalism" that were
being learned by the District and
the Metropolitan Areas of Mary
land and Virginia would.cafw over
after the war. He pointed ont that
cooperation through the regional
committee had helped considerably
TO solve traffic problemAs
I'VE go out of our way topset up.
a good neighbor policy" .hessaid,
and yet we can't always come to
with the folks across
the Potomac"
The speaker said that the num-
Der of passenger cars in use in the
District had declined from $4,000
to 10000 since the attack on Pearl
Harbor, and the number of trucks
had fallen off from $4,000 to $4,000
in the same period. At the same
time, he said, the Capital Transit
Co. alone has 1,249 buses in service.
compared with 896 two years ago,
and $50 streetcaB, compared with
1853.
Evening star., 1944-02-22
Pig Outpoints
Sin0tru at
Bond Auction
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j., Feb. ga 372-
pound live pig brought $1O8 900 and
a life-size picture of Crooner Frank
Sinatra $100 in an auction at a War
bond rally in a Newark night club
last night.
Richard Hoffman of New York.
editor of movie fan magazine and
a friend of Sinatra, won the photo
graph of the Hasbrouck Heights
IN. j. singer.
The Newark Kiwanis Club got the
pig and half hour of spirited bid
ding against the Jersey City Kiwanis
Club.
Former Gov. Charles Edison do
mated the porker, which we won
from Gov. Dwight Griswold of Ne
braska when New Jersey topped that
State in the Third War Loan Drive.
Bing Crosby wired from California
a bid of Is War Savings stamps, for
the picture of his fellow vocalist,
Sinatra. s@
Evening star., 1944-02-22
Thomas D. Blake Joins
Staff Of White House

Thomas Dawes Blake, for the last
two years in the current informa- =
ton division of the State Depart
ment, today was named an assistant
secretary at the White House. sue
ceeding William D. Hassett, who was
named one of President Roosevelt s
secretaries last week. Mr.. Blake will
serve as assistant press relations
man to Stephen T. Early.
A native of San Francisco Mr..
Blake was graduated from Harvard
in 1925. He played in the backfield
on the 1924 Harvard football team
and served as assistant coach in 1925.
For several years afterward he was
a football scout for Harvard.
After graduation from Harvard,
Mr.. Blake was associated with
Dillon-Read, investment bankers,
and afterWard was an insurance
broker. He came to the State De-
partment in March, 1912.
The new White House aide is
married and lives at 1900 Nineteenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1944-02-22
Five Russion Officers
Promoted to Marshal
BY the Associated Press

D' eite nnooStdtcH STeSS.
LONDON, Feb. 22.-Promotion OF
five Russian officers to the rank OF
marshal and the elevation of N. N
Voronov to chief marshal of artil-
iery was announced last night by
the Moscow radio in broadcast re-
corded by the Soviet monitor.
The new marshals are A. A. Novi-
kov (aviation, N. D. Yakovlev Tar.
tlllery), P. A. Rotmistrov and Y. N
Fedorenko (tank troops and Ivan
Peresypkin (signal troops.
Evening star., 1944-02-22

gathering" to attempt to override,
with Senator George as their leader
Calling the columnist Mr.. Skunk
Pearson" Senator George said Mr.
Pearson had falsely accused him of
swaying the Senate on July Is, 1912,
to vote $500 100000 in subsidies to
oil companies.
Informed of Senator George S
speech, Mr.. Pearson said in a state
ment that the Senator once de-
manded that he appear before the
Senate Finance Committee.
Il accepted Mr. Pearson de-
clared, but he got cold feet. Now
he is blowing off steam from the
safe and immune distance of the
Senate floor. What / said about
him in print still stands"
Evening star., 1944-02-22

Drew Pearson.
columnist and
radio commen-
tator, Is playing
a leading role.
Senator George
vigorously denied
o rg a n ! 2 l n g a
a movement to
override the eX-
pected veto by
President Roose-
velt of the ST.
315 200, 900 tax
bill. He said Mr..
P e a rson had
broadcast that
At1,o claws QUO
Evening star., 1944-02-22
Nunon Approved
By the Associated Press.

fo6 tIlt zfSSUSIHtEU FTtSS,
The Senate confirmed yesterday
the nomination Of Joseph D. Nunan,
jr., Douglaston, NJ Y, to succeed
Robert E. Hannegan, now chairman
of the Democratic National Com
mittee. as commissioner Of internal
revenue.
Evening star., 1944-02-22

YOUNG REPUBLICANS OPEN HEADQUARTERS-Mr Clyde
Corn chairman Of the Young Republican National Federation
confers with Harrison Spangler Republican National Com
mittee chairman the opening federation headquarters
yesterday in the Republican National Committee Building Mrs
Corbn who is from ASand KY will devote full time until the
November election organizing throughout the country
a P. Photo
Evening star., 1944-02-22
Hoyt Stresses Need
OF Closer Tie Of owl.
President and Military

Third OF four articles by Palmer
Hoyt on the workings OF the o.
flee OF War Information. Mr..
Hoyt Drote these stories after
resigning recently as domestic
director of OWL,
Evening star., 1944-02-22
George Tells Senate
Pearson Is Trying
To Smear Congress
ry ~. A,,oci...a pr.,,

Senator George. Democrat, Of
Georgia shouted to the Senate today
that a smear campaign" is being
conducted against Congress in which
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CHAPTER Nv

"They WILL" said Mrs. Wrinkle,
"when they find out how you catch
cold right away if you get your feet
wet"
Mr.. Wrinkle didn't argue about it,
but let her have her way. After
all, he was leaving tomorrow, and
she would be alone except for Pc
nelope.
He|seated himself in an armchair,
and Mrs. Wrinkle came to stand be-
fore him. There was peculiar look
on her face. "Wilbert," she whis-
pered.
He glanced up. He didn't under
stand at first what she wanted, but
was prepared for it when he did. BY
this time he was getting accustomed
to almost any surprise.
Shyly, she slipped on to his lap,
and sat there. 1t was long time
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Pettigrew, who Just then looked
around, stared. The others paid no
attention. M
Mr.. Wrinkle was indignant. It had
been bad enough to have certain
people laugh at him. But he hadn't
expected one of his fellow draftees
to make fun of him.
He decided that Freddie Tindall
didn't know any better and wasn't
worth bothering about. But Fred
die was the instrument of something
else that really touched him. For
the first time Mr.. Wrinkle told him
self that he wasn't old. The others
were just young.
The chairman of the draft board
looked at his watch and then rose.
He made a little talk, while the
men all listened attentively, except
for Freddie Tindall, who gazed in
dolently out the window.
The chairman explained that they
had all been chosen fairly, strictly
according to the Selective Service
regulations. They were being asked
to do serious thing at serious
time. He knew each would do it
to the best of his ability. He wished
them good luck. He said that the
roll would now be called. Each
man, at his name, was to come for
ward and receive his papers and a
small going-away kit furnished by
the Women Volunteers.
"a leader" he concluded, sis be-
ing appointed for you, and you are
required to obey him on the way to
your Induction Center. The senior
member among you, Mr.. Wilhert
Wrinkle, will be your leader"
Mr.. Wrinkle was fattered. He was
glad for the responsibility. 1t would
help take his mind off himself.
Freddie Tindall leaned toward him
and inquired, Elbow do you like be-
ing a big shot, Pop?"
Mr.. Wrinkle saw that he was 60
ing to have trouble with Freddie.
The men began to go up. Mr..
Wrinkles was the last name called.
He received his kit, contained in a
brown imitation leather packet.
Each of the draft board members
shook his hand. He was given his
own papers, and then instructions
about a number of other documents
for the group. The clerk was read
ing one of these, his warrant of au-
thority, when the American Legion
band burst into sound outside on
the street. The clerk had to raise
his voice to make the rest of the
warrant heard.
They all trooped down to the
street. Quite a crowd had gath
cred. The band, which had COM
pleted its first rendition, took up an
other at the sight of the group Of
draftees. There was scattering Of
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applause from the crowd. Mr.. Win
kle saw that some of the people had
little American flags, which they
waved.
Those who carried suitcases piled
them in the cars Of the draft board
members. Then the chairman lined
up the selectees in ragged forma-
ton, four abreast, in back of the
band. Mr.. Wrinkle was placed at
their head, out in front all by him
self. He didn't care for this distinc-
ton, but he couldn't refuse it. The
attention thus drawn to him, and the
noise and the staring, cheering peo-
pie, bewildered him.
They marched off behind the blair
ing band, and Mr.. Wrinkle couldn't
get over how the music sent chill
up his spine, stirring him. It hadn't
been so long ago that he was firmly
convinced martial music was an evil
thing, squirting people to war.
Part of the crowd walked along
with the procession, keeping pace
with it. The sporadic cheering and
handclapping kept up as more peo-
pie were passed along the route.
The parade went right through red
traffic light.
Mr.. Wrinkle marched stiff1y. He
tried to keep in time with the mu-
sic, but found it difficult, and finally
gave it up. He wondered what the
other men were doing, but didn't
look back to see. Once someone in
the crowd on the sidewalk called
out: eli, Winklel Grind their Axis
for theml'
lTo BE CONTINUED,
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MRS. Wfkle 1uSsed ana Iretteu
over him.
since she had done this, and she
had put on her plumpness since the
last time. Mr.. Wrinkle found her
somewhat heavy, but not disagree
ably so.
She rested her head on his Shout
der, smuggling her face against his
neck, and he put one of his arms
around her waist. Penelope gazed
at them curiously, as if she found
the scene not quite proper.
II didn't mean to say anything
about this she told him, "and I'm
thinking of you as much as myself
when I do. I've been worrying"
she confessed, "about trouble you
might get into"
"Trouble?" asked Mr.. Wrinkle.
''What kind of trouble?"
'Wen," she said, "this is the first
time we've ever been separated. Do
you realize that?"
Mr.. Wrinkle was bewildered. 81
don't see what"
81 mean," she explained, "that
you could be tired of me. / mean
other women" She came out with it
in rush. "You read about it every
day. You might-you might :"
Mr.. Wrinkle was startled. He has
tened to assure Amy that there was
nothing for her to worry about on
that score. He told her he wasn't
tired of her and that he wasn't in
terested in any other woman.
She sat bolt upright on his lap.
"But you don't KNOW" she stated.
"You don't know yourself. You don't
know how it will be-"
"How," inquired Mr.. Wrinkle, twill
t be?" He was suddenly pleased to
find her jealous.
when you've been away from me
long enough" she elucidated,
you'll find out"
Mr.. Wrinkle contemplated that. At
the prospect Of there being some
thing to what she said, he thought he
had better deny it with convincing
spirit. 'Now you look here" he
said, when you catch me with an
other woman, you take it up then"
"But I won't be there to catch
you'll" she protested. 81 won't know
a thing about it. Except" she re-
Elected, "I'll be able to tell when
see you again."
Threatened with this test, Mr..
Wrinkle accused, "All you're doing is
putting ideas in my head"
She drew back. "Why, Wilbert
Winklel" she cried angrily, and
again there peeped forth the Amy
of recent years. "Do you know
what you're doing? You're placing
the blame on me for your being un-
faithfull'
Mr.. Wrinkle felt that, having been
given his trousers back, he should
retain them. 1t was no time to quib-
bic about that or shirk it. "You
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T..sSs., co.'s WMM

THE STORY THUS FAR: Forty-four.
year-old Wilbert Wrinkle, who owns q
modest general repair shop I'm the alley
back Of his home, Is notified by his draft
board that he Is In Ia. He Is very much
surprised, as he had thought that his
many physical handicaps would keep him
out. He breaks the bad news to his
wife, Amy, who has always domineered
him, and goes TO work without kissing
her goodby. His picture appears in the
paper next day under the headline,
''Winkle Proud to Fight" The Pettigrews
and other neighbors pay a call In the
evening, and shake their heads s0lemnly.
Next day Wrinkle tacks "Closed' sign
over his place Of business and his wife
packs his things.
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limb 80 Is

If ice cubes are held under
warm water for few seconds,
they will have no sharp edges to
jab or cut the precious rubber
icebag.
When clothes must be ironed
soon after dampening, always use
hot water as it penetrates the ma
terial more quickly.
A bit of wax rubbed on the bot
toms of rockers will prevent them
marking even the glossiest Of
floors.
Fill coffee pot half full of cold
water, add teaspoon of soda and
bring to a boil for a few minutes.
Then the pot should be washed in
clean water.
When -four bin or other kitchen
container leaks dry ingredients,
pour melted paraffin or beeswax
into the cracks and let it harden.
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PERSONAL
Arab, 5000; Mule, $3.50

While no country is required by
international law to pay claims to
foreign civilians for death or dam
age resulting from combatant or
noncombatant action of its armed
forces, the U. S. government does
compensate for accidents not oc-
curing during battle and has paid
over $2,100,000 to some $4,000
claimants, says Golfers. AS these
payments are based on local val
ues, the. accidental death of a
North African Arab, for example,
costs us only 5000, while that Of
his mule costs $3.50.