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Evening star., 1944-03-29
DC. NavyWor
Costing 5ki||ion
Voted byHouse
$l4,000, in
Nearby Projects
Also Approved

improvements and expansion Of
facilities In the immediate WASH
ington area estimated to cost nearly
81, 600 900 are included in the 81 ,644,-
100000 naval public works authori-
zation bill approved late yesterday
by the House.
In addition, works costing $l4,-
000, 900 are authorized for places in
Maryland and Virginia, not includ-
ing heavy programs planned for the
Norfolk areas.
Included in the list OF District
items in the bill are plans for erec-
ton OF three additional buildings at
the Naval Gun Factory to cost
$1,180,000. In addition q storehouse
would be built at the Navy Yard
at a cost of 100000.
For the Naval Research Labora-
tory at Bellevue, D. c., and the
Randle Cliffs Annex $l,593, 900 Is
authorized for a variety of struc-
lures, including shop, laboratory and
storage buildings and housing for
technical personnel, as well as
SIS, 900 for expansion of facilities
for Women's Reserve training.
$S63,0O0 for Naval Magazine.
For the Naval Magazine at Belle
vue, there is authority for construc-
ton Of number of buildings to
cost $863.000.
For nine projects, including new
construction and repairs, for the
Naval Torpedo Station at Alexan-
dria, Va, the bill provides authority
for 1902 900.
Under items for shore radio IA
cilities, 100000 is authorized for
expansion programs at the naval
communication annex Of Washing
ton.
Other local items include $40 900
for additional facilities for the bomb
disposal training school of Amer
ican University; $4,000 for tennis
courts and other recreational facil-
tiles at the National Naval Medical
Center, and 5000 for tennis courts
at the Naval Air Station.
Other Authorizations.
The bill also authorizes:
For the Naval Power Factory at
Indianhead, Md, 100000 for va
rious factory buildings, water sup
ply and boilers.
For development Of convalescent
hospital facilities for the Potomac
River area, $250,O00.
For land acquisition, auditorium,
feldhouse. warehouse and shops,
laundry and stadium facilities for
the Annapolis Naval Academy,
1885 900.
For additional school buildings
for the Bainbridge CMd) Naval
Training Station, $3.50, 900.
For barracks, recreational facili-
ties and other projects at the Naval
Mine Warfare Training School at
Solomons, Md, $3o5 900.
For a variety of improvements,
including a motion picture theater
at the Naval Proving Grounds at
Dahlgren, Va, $605, 900.
Evening star., 1944-03-29
10000 Workers
10 Be Sought
For District Jobs
Permanent Group
Named to Help
Recruit Labor

A permanent committee Of WASH
ington businessmen was named yes
terday to avert a threatened dis
ruption Of local trades and services
by helping to recruit a minimum
OF 10000 workers during the next
six months.
Alexander Shapiro of the Capital
Transit Co., who was elected chair
man OF the group, said the COM
mittee will formulate program in
tended to arouse the consciousness
OF Washingtonians to the need for
workers to take the places of those
going into the armed forces"
While the committee will attempt
to reach every person in Washing
ton who can work. Mr.. Shapiro in
dicated that the campaign will be
slanted particularly toward women
who never have worked before and
who don't need the money.
Volunteer Activities Cited.
Many women, he pointed out,
have given freely of their time in
volunteer activities, not realizing
that some of the paid jobs are just
as necessary to the war effort.
Establishment of an information
and employment counseling booth
at a downtown location was ap-
proved at the meeting. In addi-
ton, department stores will be
asked for booth space where cards
directing women to the employment
service will be distributed.
The committee, Mr.. Shapiro said.
is also considering q personalized
method of reaching the potential
workers, possibly through individual
letters. He said the committee had
been asked to get realistic pic
ture Of job needs from Washington
employers as well as an agreement
to send to the employment office
any workers who don't meet the
specifications of an individual EN-.
ployer.
| Schoenthal Speaks.
Arthur Schoenthal, acting War
Manpower Commission director.
told the group that essential and
locally needed" activities in this
area were currently short 1000
workers and that the shortage prob
ably will rise to $4,000 by July l
unless more workers can be drawn
into the labor force.
In addition to Mr.. Shapiro, mem
bers of the permanent committee
include Edward Shaw, Merchants
and Manufacturers Association:
Peyton R. Evans, Washington Pub
fishers Association; Robert L. Will
son, Washington Restaurant As
sociation; Everett j. Boothby,
Washington Gas Light Co.; Arthur
j. Harnett, Washington Hotel As
ISOLATION; Edwin E. Wesley, Laun-
dry-Dry Cleaning Owners Associa-
ton; w. R. Ganser, Washington
Terminal Co.; M. G. Long. ir.,
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Co.: Mahlon A. Glascock, National
Broadcasting Co.; A. J. BryIawski
/ Motion Picture Theater Owners:
Paul A. Snowden, District Truck
ing Association; E. r. Kinnebrew,
White Motor Co.; M. H. Kessler,
Potomac Electric Power Co.; F. G..
Addison, jr., Washington Board of
Trade; Robert L. Lewis, Washing
ton Automotive Trade Association,
and Lew Mohler, Building Owners
and Managers Association.
Evening star., 1944-03-29
Dr.. Maurer Takes Oath
AS Sharpe's Alternate

DR.. Robert A. Maurer, vice presi-
dent of the Board Of Education,
yesterday was sworn in to serve as
the boards alternate representative
on the Recreation Board. c. Mel
vim Sharpe is the regular repre-
sentative.
The Recreation Board at its
meeting yesterday also received
permission from Gonzaga High
Schools Board of Trustees to oper-
ate the Gonzaga athletic field as
. summer playground.
Operation Of the Rose Lees Hardy
School Playground - . summer
project Will b considered BY mem
bers Of the board, It was decided.
Evening star., 1944-03-29

1nlS u the way tne conversation
went:
She: You're from near Washing
ton. I was there just before COM
ing over.
He: How long ago?
She: Three weeks.
He: How was 1t?
She: Oh, 1t was wonderful. 1t
was just beginning to be spring.
The leaves were coming out on the
trees along New Hampshire avenue
and in Lafayette Park. There was
that special springtime smell in the
air, you know.
He: Yeah, I know. Yeah, that
sure sounds good.
She: I'm afraid I'm making you
homesick.
He: No, you don't make me home
sick. I like to think about that
kind Of thing. I lived right in
Washington when I was kid. I
used to play all around the Lin
coin Memorial and the Capitol this
time Of year.
She: Remember the Hot Shoppe?
He: You're telling me.
She: My roommate and I were
saying just the other day what we
wouldn't give to see one now. That
cake and ice cream and the steam
Ing hot coffee
He: Will you autograph this for
me?
She: You bet I will.
He: What were you doing in
Washington?
She: I took my training there
and for a while I was working in
Walter Reed Hospital.
He: I used to live up near Walter
Reed, STOP Georgia avenue. I went
to Brightwood School.
She: One time I was out there,
and it was pouring rain and I
couldn't seem to get a bus at all
So had to walk all the way from
Walter Reed to the Carlton Hotel
I've never been so wet in all my
life.
He: Reading) Good luck always,
Madeleine Carroll. That's what I'm
going to need lot OF. Thanks.
She: Do you think they'll send
you hcme now?
He: don't know. I'd sure like
to go home, but you can't tell. If
I could just sit up and go outside
1t. wouldn't be so bad-but to just
sit up here. . haven't heard
from my wife in long time be-
cause of change of address, see.
She: If you'd like, could write
to your wife and say I'd seen you
and that you are looking swell and
everything. How would that be?
He: Well . well yeah, yeah, 1 i
think that would be okay. She's
not the jealous type. I've got three
kids. Would you write?
She: You bet I would. III come
back and see you later.
Evening star., 1944-03-29
Mrs. Roosevelt Back in US.
After Latin American Trip

By the Associated Press.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is back
in this country after an extensive
tour of South America, Central
America and the Caribbean area.
President Roosevelt, announcing
her return late yesterday, said she
had made the trip at his suggestion
and apparently had done . lot Of
good.
Evening star., 1944-03-29

planes over New
B t in, was
gr ou n d ed at
home today.
Although h e
arrived Sunday,
he was to have
t a k e n a plane
back to the Pa
cihc Coast today
and returned to
Washington on
shore leave later =.
One of his
wing mates, 1t.
H arry March,
former star ath-
lete a.t Mckinley
Evening star., 1944-03-29

lurIIlg Cne great VnArles d. neaschief.
cantatas of the church. 1t is an
all-professional group, each singer
being soloist in a Washington
church or radio or concert artist.
At present the organization num-
bers Is members, and 'soloists for
the four cantatas in preparation
will be chosen from the choir per-
sonnel.
Mr.. Beaschler is minister of music
at New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church. There is no admittance
fee
Evening star., 1944-03-29
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., 1944-03-29

OuVet to CAL
vary" W i'll be
presented at the
New York Ave-
nue. Presbyter-
l an Ch ur c h.
Soloists will be
William Croft ,
tenor, and Rob-
e r t Nicholson,
bass, with Kar-
liam Myer at the
organ.
The choir was
orga nized to
present a series
of concerts fea-
Evening star., 1944-03-29

left Alexandria
today for in
duction in the
Army. Mr.. Mac
Arthur was a
resident of Alex
andria at the
time of his reg
istration.
An attorney in
the legal divi-
sion of the Re-
construction FL
nance Corp, Mr..
Macarthur is
married and the
father of a 49,
Evening star., 1944-03-29
Pharmacists to Elect

The District Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation will elect officers and vote on
revision of the organizations con-
stitution and by-laws at q meeting
at $50 pm. tomorrow In the Profess
siona Arts Building. 1722 street
NV.
Evening star., 1944-03-29
MacArthur's Nephew
Enters Army With 0.
40 AIexandrians
Naval Captains Son, 36,
Attorney Here for RFC;
Father of Daughter, Is

Bowman McCalla Macarthur, 36
Of 2900 Connecticut avenue NV, a
nephew of Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
was one of group of 40 men who
Evening star., 1944-03-29

High School and North Carolina
University, is expected home at 5000
Thirty-second street NV. Monday.
He has a 6-month-old daughter he
has never seen.
The weather left Comdr. Black
burn lounging by the radio in his
attractive little brick house at $500
Loughborough place. Chevy Chase,
Md, with his wife and 4-year-old
Evening star., 1944-03-29

1t. Comdr. John r. Blackburn.
leader of the Navy's ace Skull and
Cross Bones squadron of based
Corsairs that shot down 1856 jap
Evening star., 1944-03-29
Washington Solo Choir
To Give Concert Tonjuht

The Washington Solo Choir,
Charles Dana Beaschler, director,
will give its first public performance
at 8 o'clock tonight when Maunder's
Evening star., 1944-03-29
BY NEWBOLD MOVES, Jr

This Is one OF a series OF stories BY Star tDdr
On District, Maryland and Virginia soldiers abroad.
Evening star., 1944-12-27
British 'BamboozIe U. 5.
On Palestine, Author SAYS

British propaganda is bamboo
zling" Americans about the diff
culties of building Palestine into a
Jewish state due to strife between
Jews and Arabs, Pierre van Paassen,
Dutch author and foreign corre-
spondent, declared last night in
talk at the Jewish Community Gen.
ter.
Mr.. van Paassen, who wrote Days
.of Our Years" and more recently
THE Forgotten Ally" said British
consulates are persistently sending
"surreptitious" propaganda here to
convince Americans that there
should be no Jewish homeland in
Palestine Actually, England fears
such policy would lead to freedom
of other oppressed countries. such
as India, he charged.
The author also condemned Brit
ain for not 'appreciating the Pales-
tine Jews contribution to the war
effort. He cited the conversion of
Jewish industries to wartime ma
terials and the effective fighting of
Jewish forces in Africa
Evening star., 1944-12-27
Draft Official B|ames Army
For Rejection Of Athletes
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Col. Arthur
v. McDermott, New York City selec-
tive service director, said yesterday
that Army physicians at the induc-
ton center, and not selective serv-
ice, disqualified many athletes
When we call them (athletes) )" he
commented, "the Army either turns
them down or lets them out for rea-
sons they consider good"
War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes said Saturday in letter
to Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey that
it was difficult for him and the pub
lie to understand how men could be
physically unfit and yet compete in
strenuous athletic activities.
Col. McDermott warned book
makers and those employed at race
tracks to get into essential war pro-
duction or be called up for service.
Evening star., 1944-12-27
) Kansas City Buildings
In Warehouse Area Burn
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 27.-Fire
ragged today through three big
buildings in the downtown ware
house district
Twenty Kansas City fire COM
panies. making no headway after
five hours of fighting, called further
help from the Kansas City CKans)
department.
The blaze, smoldering since early
morning in the basement of build
ing housing floor wax manufac-
turing company. suddenly burst
through the windows and roof and
spread quickly to two other build
ings. The agent for the first build
ing to catch fire said it and its con-
tents were valued at S2.250.000.
Evening star., 1944-12-27
Eight Of French Gestopo
Executed Near Puris
BY the Associated Pres,

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Dec. 27.-A military firing
squad today executed Henri Cham
berlain, alias La Fonte, and seven
other members Of Vichy's French
Gestapo who were convicted of COL
lusion with the Germans against
French patriots during the occupa-
ton of France.
OF IL members of the French Ges-
tapo who have been brought to trial
two were given life imprisonment
sentences. one died before a verdict
was reached and anothers death
sentence was commuted to life i'm
prisonment by Gen. Charles de
Gaulle.
The eight condemned men were
shot at Fort Montrouge, on the
southern outskirts of Paris.
Evening star., 1944-12-27
minds and don't know what they

minds and don't know what they
are doing"
Arriving at La Guardia Field with
his wife and 5-year-old daughter,
the former director of the marine
ministry of the Greek government
in-exile, said he was en- route to
Washington as naval attache.
The captains wife and daughter
were trapped in Athens during the
German occupation, he said, adding
that he was at sea when his country
Evening star., 1944-12-27
New Greek Naval Attache
Reaches j. 5. With Family
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Capt. Con-
stantine Scoufopoulos of the Greek
Navy said yesterday that many of
his countrymen, because of suffer-
ing and misery, are out of their
Evening star., 1944-12-27

was occupied. Last August they
escaped to Syria and later made
their way to Alexandria, where he
met them about month ago.
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Woman, IS, Born
In Ireland, Wants
To'Die American

Miss Sarah Dooley, a native of
Ireland, who has lived in this coun-
try for approximately IS years, yes
terday told Justice David A. Pine of
District Court that she wanted to
die as an American when he asked
her why she had waited so long to
become naturalized.
Il haven't lived an American, but
I want to die an American" Miss
Dooley said. She later told to re-
porters that she will be rs years old
February IA, and that she is house
keeper for DR.. Aloysius w. Valen-
Evening star., 1944-02-02
As Witnesses Slated
10 Appear Today in
Behalf Of Maqhan

Forty-flve character witnesses,
including high police department
officials and members Of the Dis
trict Attorneys staff, were sched-'
uled to appear today in Municipal
Court on behalf of Robert j.
Maghan, jr., suspended policeman
who is charged with intoxication.
After the prosecution rested yes
terday. the defense called Police
man Michael Reidy, station clerk
of Precinct No. 7, who testified
Maghan was not intoxicated at
about 1852 am. December 5 when
he asked Policeman Reidy for a
cigarette at the station house.
Saying that he smelled no alco-
holic odor on the defendant, Mr.
Reidy said he charged Maghan with
being intoxicated a few minutes
later on the order OF Sergt. James
Pipkin.
Capt. William Cunningham of the
traffic division, who was the last
Government witness, testified he
visited Maghan in a cell soon after
the arrest, and told the latter he
was in no condition to drive. Capt.
Cunningham declared Maghan "de-
fed" anyone to prevent him from
driving home after he posted col
lateral.
why couldn't you let him drive
homer" Assistant Corporation
Counsel Edward Thomas asked.
Because he was under the in
f1uence of liquor" Capt. Cunning
ham replied.
On cross Capt. Cum
ningham admitted Maghan was not
drunk when he saw him at $50
am, but definitely under the in
fuence of liquor.
Jddge Brice Clagett refused to
allow into the evidence the whisky
bottle, allegedly found in Maghan's
car, until he could study the legality
of tho Sei1y)ro f,Irthor
Evening star., 1944-02-02

tine, physician. OF 610 North Caro-
lima avenue Sc.
Miss Dooley was one Of 10 per-
sons naturalized. A total of 12O
were scheduled to have been sworn
in, but Justice Pine continued sew
eral to investigate their delay in
being naturalized and several others
were continued for a detailed check
on their draft status during the last
war.
A total Of ~ nationalities were
represented among the 110. OF
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Maurice Cotton, 65, Dies

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 2 (P).-Maurice
Cotton, IS, retired head of the Hale
& Cotton Tobacco Co. of Louisville,
KY, died here yesterday. He had
spent each winter in Miami since
1922. Mr. Cotton directed the COM
pany actively until his retirement
lseveral years ago
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Wooden Shoes for Jups

Pigskin and flshskin shoes have
proved impractical in Japan be-
cause they lose their shape or crack
after getting wet, and the gov
ernment is encouraging the use Of
"gata," Japanese wooden slippers.
Evening star., 1944-02-02

these there were more than 10 eacn
from Italy, Germany and Great
Britain.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-08-05

Farmers of America at Virginia
State College, August to August
6. The radio program will be heard
over station WRVA in Richmond.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-08-05

Tuskegee Army Air Field was
visited recently by Mrs. Harry c..
Mitchell of Washington, D. c.,
mother of First 1t. Paul G. Nit
chell, first Negro pilot in World
War II to be killed in combat. The
occasion of her trip was to see, for
the first time, the newly -complet-
ed housing project erected here,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-08-05
Eight War Plants Charged
With Unfair Labor Policies

ployment programs. Hearings are
scheduled for August l and 2.
While seven of the companies
are charged with refusing to en-
ploy needed and available Negro
war workers and with refusing to
promote Negro workers to jobs in
which they could exercise their
special skills, one of the companies
was charged with having dismiss
ed it's Negro employees during a re-
cent work shortage when workers
with less seniority were retained.
The eighth plant, the United
States Cartridge Co., refused to re-
instate these Negro workers just
because they were colored.
According to Malcolm Ross, F.
E. P. C. chairman, the hearings
will be conducted by the full men,
bership of the committee The F..
E. P. C. counsel will consist of
Ernest C. Tribe and Frank D.
Reeves, staff members.
The seven plants charged with
refusing to hire Negro workers are
Amertorp Corporation; Bussman
Manufacturing Co., Wagner Elec-
trio Corporation: ST Louis Ship
building Steel Company, Mcdonnell
Aircraft Corporation and the Nc
Quay-Norr:s Manufacturing Co.
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THE ABBE WALLACE SERVICE
Newspaper Syndicate 20 Auburn Atlanta Ca

r. l.. C.-My husband is "a and
1 am "a We are not getting along
SO good right now. My folks claim
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-08-05
FOOD SHIPMENTS HEAVY

WASHINGTON- amp - Dur
ing June, 40, 326,287 pounds of food
stuffs and other agricultural pro-
ducts were shipped to Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands under the
leld-lease program, the War Food
administration announces.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-08-05
G| Rights Bill
Said Inadequate
Measure Fails To
Go Far Enough

NEW YORK (ANP)-That the
CT bill of rights will not solve the
veteran problem has been pointed
out in a new book, THE Veteran
Comes Back" by D. Willard wal
Ter. of Columbia University, accord
ing to reports from the Dryden
press last week.
Conceding that the CT Bill has
many excellent features, DR.. Wal
Ter claimed that it does not go far
enough. He points out the made
quacy by saying that 1T provides
lavish expenditures, but gives no
assurance. or any reasonable pro-
liability that these expenditures
will produce the desired effect. One
of the undesirable provisions OF
the CT bill of rights is its states
rights clause that governs the edu-
cational features of the measure.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-08-05
New President
0'Connor Asked
To Take Action
Policy Refutes
Our War Aims,
Asserts White

NEW YORk-(SNS}-In a con-
gratulatorv message to Basil O'Con
nor. newly appointed President of
the American Red Cross, Walter
White, NAACP Secretary, urged
immediate reversal of the current
segregation policy between Negro
and white blood plasma.
Asserting it has done more than
any other act to depress the NOR
ale of American Negroes and of
many white Americans, Mr.. White
pointed out that Our Axis enc
mics have used this policy of Sc
gregation to convince colored peo-
pie of the world that our country
is not sincere when it says that it
it fighting against the racial theo-
ries of Adolph Hitler while at the
same time it practices a similar
master theory"
Commenting on the increasing
need for blood plasma at this time,
Mr.. White said, Courageous action
by the lied Cross in reversing it's
present policy, will we know, re-
suit in the immediate donating of
OF blood by many hundreds of
Americans, Negro and white, who
want to do their utmost but who
nave been stopped by the segrega-
ZION policy of the American Red
Cross. the Army and the Navy"
Mr.. O'Connor, who is Trustee and
Executive Chairman of the Georgia
Warm Springs Foundation, and
senior member in the firm of
O'Connor and Farber, was the law
partner of President Roosevelt from
1925 to 1888.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-08-05
grow.

L. M S.-My husband is in the
army and we don't get along Sc
good. He wants me to buy home
out of the fifty dollars month
that I am getting. How can
do that? I do everything car
to please him but I can't. I am not
able to do hard work and it takes
what 1 get to live on Should
continue on, divorce my husband
after the war is over as I pan?
Ans. Our Government intended
the family allotment check as
an insurance against dire want
instead of a bone of contention.
But, a wise wife will work to
support herSalf and save this
extra money. II yonr health
isn't as good as it should be,
you should have phyfical
checkup and get Yourself in
good condition. For your hus-
band to know that You are
saving consistently VIII make
him appreciate you and lift
his morale and hopes for the
future. Forget the divorce I'M
til times return to normal.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-08-05
Cartridge Co.
Fired Negroes
With Seniority

Comedies report revealed that
eight war plants were discriminate
ing against the Negro in their en-