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Evening star., 1944-05-16
Stolen Truck Gives
Police Wild Chase
Trees, Lomppost, Hydront
Damaged; Driver Escapes

A stolen truck early today led po-
lice wild chase through the South
east section of the city, damaging
trees, lamp post and a fire hydrant
before coming to a halt in front of
the fifth precinct police station.
The driver jumped out and escaped
by vaulting a fence.
The truck, owned by Amberger and
Wohlfarth, Inc, plumbers, 47Ol
Forty-first street NV, was reported
stolen on the police radio shortly
before 4 am. Policeman L. N. Perry
in a police car near Fourth and C
strets S.W. saw the truck speed by
He halted the vehicle two blocks
away, but the driver cut the police
mans quizzing short and speeded off
The chase zigzagged through de-
serted streets. At Fourth and E
streets Sc. the truck hit stop sign
and knocked it down, careened
across the street and felled a tree
and lamp post. A few blocks further
on 1t struck fire hydrant and an
other small tree. 1t came to a stop
in front of the fifth precinct station
This driver leaped out and ran
into an alley, police said. Policeman
Perry fired one shot-which missed
as the fugitive jumped over q
fence and disappeared.
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Senate Subcommittee
Approves Simp|ified
Child Aid Program
Bill Provides Changes
To Meet Requirements
Of Social Security Board

The House-approved bill to SIM
plify and provide basic legislation
for the Districts id-to-dependent-
children program and make it con-
form to requirements of the Social
Security Board was reported favor
ably today by subcommittee of the
Senate District Committee.
Early action by the full commit
tee will be urged by Senator Walsh,
Democrat, of New Jersey, subcom-
mittee chairman. Other members
of his group are Senators Clark,
Democrat, of Idaho and Bridges,
Republican. of New Hampshire.
While making the Districts Home
Care Act conform to the Federal
standards for matching money
grants, the measure also provides
one procedure instead of two in
dealing with assistance cases In
volving dependent children, defines
eligibility in terms of social security
legislation through which Federal
grants are obtained, permits the
inclusion in grants of an inca
pacitated father living with his
family, determines eligibility for aid
on the residence of a child instead
OF the parent. permits assistance to
children Is and II years of age and
removes from Standing Commit
tee of the Board of Public Welfare
the necessity of reviewing each
case, permitting control of this
function by regulation through its
agencies
Evening star., 1944-05-16
lsNRshoniing
&Remiinder5@,

Canned Foods, Etc.-Book No. 4,
blue stamps A-8 through Q-8 good
Indefinitely. Each stamp worth 10
points.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-All meats except
beef steaks and roast beef now
point free. Red stamps A-8
through T-8 continue good indef1-
nitely for 10 points each. Until
further notice, three red stamps
will be validated every four weeks
instead of every two weeks.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for each
pound of waste kitchen fats you
turn in. The fact that lard, short
en1ng and cooking oils have been
removed from the ration list does
not mean fat collection is less
essential.
Shoes-Airplane stamps l and 2 in
Book No 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Sugar-Book No. 4 stamps 80 and 81
valid for S pounds Indefinitely
Book No. i, stamp 40 good for 5
pounds for home canning through
February %. l945.
Gasoline-No. l0-A coupons now
good for 3 gallons each through
August 8. B-2, CO, B-3 and C-3
coupons good for gallons each.
Fuel Oil-Periods No. and cou-
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through August 81. Consum-
ers in this area should not have
used more than 81 per cent of
their total yearly fuel oil ration as
of May !.
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Potomac Power Project
Revival Strongly Opposed

Vigorous opposition to construc-
ton of water power dams in the
Potomac in the vicinity of Wash
ington was expressed by the Boarc
of Trustees of the National Parks
Association at its recent annua,
meeting, it was learned today.
Backing the opposition previously
expressed by spokesmen for the asso-
citation, the board passed this reso-
luton:
The Board of Trustees of the
National Parks Association has
heard with regret the revival of
he project to place several dams on
the Potomac River near Washington
tor purposes of water power produc-
tion and flood control. We believe
II, that commercial developments,
especially when they are intended
to serve distant communities, should
not be encouraged in the Capital
City area; 2, that the existing
natural beauty and historic sites of
the valley, including the Chesapeake
& Ohio Canal, now managed for
recreational purposed by the Ma
tlonal Capital Parks should not be
marred. We therefore again vigor-
ouSly oppose this project"
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Maryland Draft Boards
Call Men Is and Over
Under Revised Rules
Younger Registrars
Practically in the Army
Headquarters Official Suys

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 16.-Col. H. C.
StanWood, Maryland selective serv-
1c" director, announced yesterday
that Maryland local boards were
ready to deal with men 26 wears
old and over under terms of the
regulations adopted in a washing
ton conference last week.
Col. Stanwood said all local boards
had been furnished copies of the
new rules and that induction of mer
26 and over had been ordered re.
sumed.
1nductions for the old men haG
been halted last week pending form
ulatlon and distribution of the rules
AS the draft picture now stands
men under 26 are practically in the
Army, a headquarters spokesman
said. while men between 26 and 3(
may get deferments only if they are
necessary men in war production
or in occupations having to do with
the national health, safety or in.
tereSt."
| Those 80 and over merely have tc
be in war production or occupation.
affecting the national health, safety
or interest to be granted deferments
Decisions in the cases of men q
and over are in the hands of loca
boards.
Evening star., 1944-05-16
D. {. Man Given Il Years
In Maryland Assault Case

Alfred Acquilino, 80, Washington
who was convicted Friday in Anne
Arundel County Circuit Court at
Annapolis, on charge of criminally
assaulting 30-year-old Washington
waitress near Lanham, September
8, 194l, was sentenced yesterday to
81 years in the Maryland Peniten-
tiary.
The woman testified at the trial
that she met Acquilino in a Wash
lngton restaurant and accompanied
him in his car to Prince Georges
County for a drink. He refused to
take her home afterward, she said
taxing her to Lanham where he
attacked her.
Acquilino said he was drunk and
could not remember anything about
the alleged assault. Attorney Rob-
ert w. Mccullough had requested
that the trial, originally scheduled
in Prince Georges County, be re-
moved to Anne Arundel County
The case was prosecuted by Assist
ant States Attorney Ignatius J
keane Of Prince Georges County.
Evening star., 1944-05-16


ture division Of the District War
Finance Committee by Chairman
John A. Reilly. He also will be as
sisted by Frank La Falce, publicity
area chairman, and Joseph B. Bree-
cheen, exchange chairman.
1.-The Fighting Fifth War Loan"
will be the slogan of the drive.
Mr.. Lust, a native of New York,
came to Washington as salesman
for the Warner Exchange, which he
later bought, and now operates IL
theaters in Washington, Maryland
and Virginia. He is member OF
the Boys Club. Amity Club and
Touchdown Club, for which he has
arranged the father-and-son ban
quet for six years. >a '-a
In the second and Third War
Loan drives Mr.. Lust was chairman
for Maryland. He headed the In
fantile Paralysis Fund and March
of Dimes in 1912 and 1943 and has
had charge of Christmas shows for
the poor and worked on salvage
drives. He is on the National Board
of Directors of the Variety Club, a
member of the National Motion Pic
ture Theater Owners Executive
Committee and serves on the Board
of Governors for the Home for the
Aged and the Jewish Community
Center
Mr.. Lust has appointed Plan
ming Committee, to be headed by
John Allen, MGM; Special Events
Committee to devise extracurric-
ular activities, and a committee to
consider motion picture bond pre-
Evening star., 1944-05-16
378 New Apartments
Available in VIRGINIA
For Essential Workers
z and Bedroom Units
Ready in Pickett and
Shirley Housing Projects

The Federal Public Housing Au-
thority announced today that 37a
two and three bedroom housing
units are available for immediate
occupancy by families of wal
workers and servicemen at the
George Pickett and Henry G. Shir-
ley housing projects in Arlington.
Heads of the project rental offices
reported that at the Pickett homes
40 tWo-bedroom apartments are
available and at the Shirley homes
200 two bedroom and 1873 three-bed-
room units are available.
Officials said most of these units
were completed recently and have
never been occupied. They said the
larger size units rent more slowly
because of minimum requirements
as to family size. Three bedroom
units go to families with a minimum
OF five members and the two-bed-
room units are let to families with a
minimum of three members.
Persons employed in war-con-
nected jobs and servicemen and
their families are eligible to occupy
the units, which rent for $3.50 a
month for the two-bedroom units
and S48 a month for the three
bedroom units.
Evening star., 1944-05-16
McCarran Expects
Action Tomorrow
On Home Rule Bill
Subcommittee to Weioh
Favorable Report on
Modified Measure

Favorable report on a modified
version of the McCarran Home
Rule bill for Washington. which
calls for city council-city manage,
form OF government to succeed the
appointed Board of Commissioners
is to be considered tomorrow BY
members of a Senate District SUBJ
committee.
In the hope of getting final action
on his bill, which was the subject
OF extended hearings earlier this
year, Senator McCarran, Democrat
OF Nevada, has called for a meeting
OF his subcommittee for l:30 pm
tomorrow
Anticipating that bill will be
reported faVorably by the group, he
has asked Chairman Bilbo of the
Senate District Committee for con-
slderatlon of the measure at ar
early meeting of the full committee
This may be granted although
Senator Bilbo has announced his op.
position to suffrage for the District
The McCarran bill called fol
election of council of seven mem
bers. from wards into which the
District would be divided, censu.
tracts being used as the basis fol
ward boundaries The counci
would name a city manager fol
whom a salary of $4,000 was pro.
posed.
Judging from suggestions made
during the hearings, it is expected
one of the notifications to be in.
cluded in a revised bill may be 6
provision for the appointment by tn,
President of some members of tn,
council to assure representation O.
Federal workers and the Fedora
viewpoint
Evening star., 1944-05-16
D. {. PoIiceman's Slayer
Wins STAY in Execution

The execution date for Monroe D.
Neely, 35, colored, for the first
degree murder of Policeman Charles
r. Johnston"fn May, l943, was post
poned today from June to October
I6 pending a decision in the Court
of Appeals on Neely's District Court
conviction.
The order poStponing the date
was signed by Justice David A. Pine
of District Court Nicely was found
guilty last November of shooting
and killing Policeman Johnston as
the latter started up flight OF
steps To arrest him in a house in the
600 block of TWenty-flrst street NE
Nicely previously had shot and
woundec his wife, it was charged.
The pistol used in the shooting
belonged to a rookie colored police
man, who later was dismissed from
the force for falling to help arrest
Nicely.
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Charles F. Phillips Named
10 Deputy Rationinq Post

Price Administrato Chester Bowles
late yesterday announced the ap-
pointment of Charles F. Phillips as
deputy administrator for rationing
to succeed Col Bryan Houston
whose resignation to return to duty
with the War Department became
effective yesterday.
MI. Phillips has been with OPA
since its organization and had
leading part in developing the tire
ratiOning program.
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Lag in Car Sharing
Laid 10 Hesitancy
Of Woman Riders
Drivers Response Tops
Demand; Warning Issued
On Supplemental Rotion

With the registration of prospec-
tive riders tagging behind that of car
owners in the current compulsory
car-sharing campaign, the situation
today was attributed by a Govern
ment registration officer in part to
the fact that women are "choosy."
Women are choosy about whom
they ride with" 1t. Col. C. w.
Cramer. in charge of the car -shar-
ing registration at the Pentagon
Building, declared. They don't
want to ride with every Tom, Dick
or Harry"
Registration officials at the vari-
Gus centerS and transportation COM
mitteeS were also of the opinion that
many prospective riders do not want
to depend on car club to get to
work. They said people were afraid
of the possibility of the driver being
late OF not showing up.
Too, there was the chance the
driver might arrive at the appointed
corner early and, not finding any
one there, go on.
WIN only SIX Gays remaining in
the registration drive, Robert K.
Thompson, District OPA director,
reported some transportation COM
mittees have not sent in any rider
applications during the entire II
days of the campaigns operation.
1t is little early to prophesy the
results of the registrations in all
committees he declared. But one
thing should be apparent, the fewer
the car clubs filled after May %. the
greater may be the number of cars
grounded as result of inability to
secure renewal Of supplemental ra-
TONS
Oscar Williams has been appoint
ed to thesnew post of mileage ra-
tioning representative in charge of
transportation. Mr.. Williams, who
has been employed in electrical re-
pair and assembling work at the
Navy Yard, will act as liaison man
between the Transportation Com
mittees and the local OPA head
quarters.
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Police Seek Soldier
With SIoshed Wrists

A Boiling Field Air Forces private
SAID by. Army authorities to be
AWOL from his post and described
as "despondent with slashed wrists
and his khaki uniform probably
bloodstained,' was being sought
today by District and military police
He was identified in a police
broadcast as Pvt Matthew E. Allen
feet 10 inches tall, dark complex
Toned, with heavy beard and dark
hair. Persons were requested to
notify police or Boiling Field su-
thorities of his whereabouts.
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Catholic U. AIumnoe
To Hold Cord Porty

The alumnae chapter of the
Catholic University Alumni Asso-
citation will have its annual card
party at 8:l5 Friday in the Mullen
Library on the campus.
Mrs. Hyland Bizot is committee
chairman, assisted by Miss Vivian
Barr, Mrs. Mildred Bennert, Miss
Marian Hartnett. Mrs. George
Hughes, Miss Mary Kennedy, Miss
Agnes Naughten and Miss Helen
| Watson.
Evening star., 1944-05-16

the Calvert Hills and College Park
homes subdivisions at College Park.
He is president of the Prince
Georges County Real Estate Board.
A native of Montgomery County,
Mr., Watkins is a graduate of the
University of Maryland and presi-
dent of its alumni association. He
belongs to Birmingham Masonic
Lodge, No. 1888; the Prince Georges
kiwanis Club, Alpha Tau Omega,
social fraternity, and Delta Kappa,
honorary fraternity. He also is a
member of Phi Kappa Phi and
Alpha Zeta Societies.
Evening star., 1944-05-16

attained m a y
confidently b e
expected in the
forthcoming AL
lied invasion of
Europe.
The proposed
I a C t | c S and
strategy h av e
been hammered
into shape on
the hot forge of
war from south
ern Tunisia to
Casino. Fight
er CO. m m a n q
! e a d ers have
profted by both
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Shepherd Park Citizens
Discuss Library Plans

Members of the Shepherd Park
Citizens, Association last night dis
cussed the possibility of establishing
a library on the Shepherd Park
School grounds, at Juniper and
Fourteenth street NV. and a play
ground west of the school between
Juniper street and Kalmia road
NV.
The group expressed the opinion
that the law concerning muzzled
dogs should be more stringent
Evening star., 1944-05-16

the successes and mistakes Of the
past-and there have been plenty
of both.
Now the fighters aand fighter
bombers of the 9th Air Force are
on the line and ready to 60 at the
word of command from one of the
most picturesque, enthusiastic ano
successful American air leaders
39-year-old Maj Gen. E R. Quesada
native Washingtonian, and one OF
the best known Army officers about
the Capital.
Impressed by Scene.
I. for one, was enormously i'm.
pressed by the scene presented al
this air base 1t has been my fortune
during the last year to have hao
numerous contacts with tactical all
forces in action and my mood ha.
swung back and forth from cynicisn
to enthusiasm, depending on the
fortunes of the day. The cynicisn
is at very low ebb after hearing
Pete" Quesada outline his plans
The great difficulty in the past has
&
and air. They are independent COM
mands. Neither takes orders from
the other, but they try to cooperate
as equal partners. The path of this
cooperation has not always beer
smooth.
The present tactics may be con-
sidered to have started with the in
vasion of Sicily from Africa.
Liaison Parties.
During the first week, several OF
the A-36 squadrons moved over to
the Sicilian coast and Maj. Gen
Edwin j. Houses headquarters were
set up adjacent to those of the 7th
Army. With each force was an air
liaison party. When commander
felt the need of air support for any
particular project-say knocking out
German battery or breaking up a
truck convoy bringing reinforce
ments to the enemy-he would make
the request of one of these officers
who would transmit it to Air Sup
port Command headquarters.
D,
thought the commanders request
reasonable, would transmit it to
Gen. Houses headquarters. From
there, If it was deemed feasible, it
would be transmitted to the air base
where, If again it was considered
feasible, the mission would be un-
dertaken. This, it is pretty clear
now, was clumsy arrangement,
especially with the long commune
cation lines due to the rapidity of
the advance and the difficulty of
transmitting sufficient details.
In Sicily, Gen. House was trying
out essentially new tactics and he
was quick to profit by the bugs"
which became apparent in them.
Different Picture In Italy.
Immediately after the capture of
Messina Gen. House moved his
headquarters to the Milazzo penin-
sula and the majority of the Air
Support Command was moved to
Italy in the first few days of the
invasion. There it was apparent
from the first that the picture
would be different. Distances be-
tween the fighters, especially after
the air fields about Naples were
made available to them, and the
ground forces were much less and
far better communication lines
were established. Air support. after
a somewhat stormy beginning, had
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Woman Fined in Assault

Bernice Young, colored. 25, of the
3700 block of Grant street NE, was
fined SOS in Hyattsville Police Court
yesterday on charges of assaulting
a Prince Georges County policeman
and disorderly conduct. After not
ing an appeal, she was released
under $500 bond.
Evening star., 1944-05-16

mlereS, under
the direction of
Roland Robbins
of Trans Lux
Theater.
Mr.. Watkins.
a member OF
the land pur-
chasing Office OF
the Maryland
National Capital
Park and Plan
ming Commits
sion and of the
w a S h j n G t ION
Home Builders
Association, is
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Save This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for Army and Navy SUPPLIES
shipped overseas. Every pound
Of old newspapers and maga-
zines Is needed. Telephone your
nearest school or notify some
school child in your block to
have your paper picked up.
Evening star., 1944-05-16

M. w a t k | n S,
president of the
Prince Georges
County Cham
ber. of Com
merce, will head
Prince Georges
drive, it was an
nounced today.
Mr.. Lust will
work in cooper
alton with John
j. Payette and
Carter T. Bar
ron, who have
been apDOinted
co-chairmen of
the motion Dic-
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Lust Named Chairman
Of Fifth War Loan
Campaign in District
Robert M. Watkins
To Direct Drive in
Prince Georges County

Sidney Lust, local motion picture
theater operator, has been chosen
chairman for the Fifth War Loan
campaign in the District and Robert
Evening star., 1944-05-16
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

UNITED STATES 9TH AIR
FORCE BASE IN ENGLAND by
MaiD The closest and most effec-
tive air support of ground troops yet
Evening star., 1944-05-16
20 Years of Experience,

Maj. Gen. Elwood R. Pete"
Quesada, leader of the 9th Air
Force Fighter Command, has packed
many experiences into his 2O-year
Air Force career.
Gen. Quesada was nominated April
28 by President Roosevelt to be a
major general. In 1929 he was CO.
pilot OF the Army transport plane
Question Mark, which set a l50-
hour endurance refueling record.
He and 1t. Gen. Ira C. Eaker. who
was his superior when Gen. Quesada
began his career as an engineering
officer at Boiling Field, piloted a
relief expedition to Greenly Island,
of Labrador, when the German
plane Bremen was forced down on
the first East-West Atlantic crossing
by air.
Gen. Quesada once piloted an
elephant-hunting expedition into
Africa, and was flying aide to Gen.
Hugh johnson. former National Re-
covery Administration chief.
He has the Distinguished Flyinp
Cross, the Legion of Merit and the
Medal of the Commander of the
British Empire. He was born here,
graduated from Mckinley High
School, where he was quarterback
on the football team. and attended
the University of Maryland and
Wyoming Seminary in Pennsyl-
vania.
His mother, Mrs. Helen A. Quesada
lives at 4716 Ninth street NV.
Evening star., 1944-05-16
Over There With Men From Here
GEN. QUESADA TO GIVE
FLYERS THE INVASION 60

come i1to its own, largely due tc
the tireless and not infrequently
misunderstood labors of Gen. House
to smooth out the new tactical
problems.
Gen. Quesada inherits all this
development and is building on it
All indications are that the field OF
operations will be rather favorable
certainly much more so than was
the case in Sicily. His command
remains independent of the ground
forces, but will work, of course, in
the closest possible cooperation
with them With each infantry
force there will be an air force
operations officer and intelligence
officer. Detailed to work with them
will be an infantry intelligence Of
ficer and operations officer. It will
be entirely the job of these four
men, with whatever assistants may
be assigned them, to facilitate CO.
operation and they will be able to
make on the spot many of the de-
cisions which formerly passed
through three or four hands.
Invasion Rehearsal.
Here is a typical scene as staged
in Gen. Quesada's headquarters as
an invasion rehearsal:
The infantry air operations officer
tells the Air Forces operations officer
that the force commander wants a
dive bomber sortie to break up a
German battery which has been in
stalled on a newly-built railroad
siding and which is preventing an
assembly of tanks from rushing
through and securing a corridor
opened up by an infantry regiment
why doesn't he silence that bat
terry with his own artillery instead
of tying up plane on the job? asks
the air men.
Because its position is such that
the shells would be likely to hit our
own infantry"
The two intelligence officers are
consulted, They agree, although
with some discrepancies, on the gen.
eral picture. The air intelligence
officer says that plane can be made
available, although there are other
purposes to which it might proftably
be put. But the four of them at
length agree this particular job is
essential and can best be done by
the Air Forces. The request is trans
mitted with all the pertinent data.
All this takes no more than two
minutes. In the early days of air
support it might have required two
hours-in some cases I have heard
about very much longer.
Just such request missions are ex-
pected to rise quite often in the
course of battle. The decision rests
with the air commander. But he
can make up his mind Immediately
and his job is to do everything pos
sible to further the success of the
Army.