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Evening star., 1944-10-17
Pants Burglar Active
Despite 40 on Trail

While at least 40 District police
men, led by Inspector Robert j. Bar
rett, chief of detectives, cruised
Washington streets last night-all
seeking the pants burglar
quarry struck again.
His haul added $54 to a total of
more than $4,000 taken from the
trousers of slumbering Washington
mans in the last four months.
The latest victim was Dominic
Balenga, barber, SAL Thirty
second street NV. He told police
the prowler entered his house some
time between am. and 6 am.
through an unlatched kitchen door.
The money was stolen from Mr..
Balenga's pants pocket. All the
occupants Of the house slept un-
disturbed.
Members of the robbery, general
assignment and public relations
squads toured the city in incon-
spicuous civilian automobiles with
out success. Late in the night their
forces were augmented by members
Of precinct forces working in plain
clothes. All were empty handed al
daybreak.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Woman Freed by Jops
viii Speak Tomorrow

Mrs. Don Hayes, who spent three
years in concentration camp in
the Philippines. where she was in
charge of American children, will
address meeting at pm. tomor-
row in the chapel of the Covenant
First Presbyterian Church, Eight
eenth and N streets NV.
This will be her first address
under auspices of the Board Of
Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian
Church of the United States.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Scottish Rite Cathedral
MORTGAGE Is Burned

A mortgage outstanding on the
Scottish Rite Cathedral, 1881 Elev-
enth street NV, more than 20
years, was burned last night In
Atlanta in a ceremony Of the Su-
preme Council Of the Southern
Negro Masons, according to an
Associated Press dispatch.
The cathedral, 100000 struc-
ture built in the l920s, is headquar-
ters for the United Supreme Coun-
Gil, Ancient and Accepted, Scottish
Rite Masons, 33d Degree, Southern
Jurisdiction. During the last year
the mortgage was liquidated and
the burning held at the councils
58th annual meeting.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Junior Bur to Heur TuIk

Al Philip Kane, professor at
Georgetown University Law School,
will address the first business meet
ing of the junior bar section Of the
District Bar Association at pm.
tomorrow at the Mayflower Hotel.
Mr.. Kane will speak on "The His
tory Of the Junior Bar Section and
the Integrated Bar" An open forum
will follow. j. e. Bindeman, chair
man Of the section, will preside.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Downtown Transport
Report 10 Be Made
Public Next Week
Mojor Changes Expected
To Be Urged for System,
Says Copt. Whitehurst

The long-awaited report on the
proposed solution of transportation
problems in the heavily congested
downtown area will be made public
next week, Capt. H. c. Whitehurst,
director of the District Highway De-
partment. told the Advisory Board
of the District Division. American
Automobile Association, at the Ho-
tel Washington yesterday.
The report, under preparation by
a private firm of consulting en-
gineers for a long time, is expected
to recommend major changes in
the present transportation system
through the central area.
Capt. Whitehurst also outlined the
three-year postwar program of high
way Improvements for the District
estimated to cost $12 2,0O0, 600. Work
ing drawings for the projects are
about so per cent completed, he
said, and construction can be
started as soon as the war emer-
gency ends.
Virtually all the Districts cur
rently contemplated improvements
can be completed within the three
year period, Capt. Whitehurst said.
An additional two years are being
allowed, however, for certain phases
of the K street "thoroughway,"
which will speed automobile traffic
through the heart of the city by a
system of depressed highways, ele-
waited roads and other grade sep
arations.
Half the funds for the postwar
projects, Capt. Whitehurst pointed
out, are to come from the Federal
Government under the pending
Federal aid bill. The Districts s
share, he said, can be provided for,
without increasing tax rates, from
gasoline levies, registration and per-
NIT fees.
I'VE hope to give Washington a
transportation system second to
none in the country" he said.
John I. Vandegrift was reelected
chairman Of the Advisory Board
and Walter B. Guy vice chairman
Stanley H. Horner was named to
the AAA National Advisory Board.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
John Stewart Bryan, Richmond
Publisher, Dies of Pneumonia
William and Mary
Chancellor Was Near
His 73d Birthday
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 17.-John
Stewart Bryan. publisher of the
Richmond News Leader and the
Times Dispatch and chancellor and
former president of the College Of
William and Mary, died here last
night at the Medical College of Vir-
ginia Hospital.
Mr.. Bryan, who also was one Of
the principal owners of the Chi
cago Daily Times and the Tampa
(Fla) Tribune, had been i'll only a
few days. Death was attributed to
pneumonia. He was born at Brook
Hill, Henrico County, and would
have been 73 next Monday.
Funeral services will be held in
the Emmanuel Episcopal Church at
Brook Hill at II am. tomorrow. He
will be buried in the churchyard
there.
He is survived by Mrs. Bryan, the
former Anne Eliza Tenant: d
daughter, Mrs. r. Keith Kane,
Washington, and two sons, 1t.
Comdr. D. Tenant Bryan and
Stewart Bryan, jr., major in the
Army Air Forces. He is also sur
vived by a brother, J. st. George
Bryan, OF Richmond.
Was College President.
Mr.. Bryans civic and philan-
thropic interests were numerous, but
next to the newspaper business,
education assumed large claim on
his energies. He served as president
of William and Mary from 1884 to
1912. He held membership on the
Harvard University Board of Over
seers from 1887 to 1943 and was
rector OF the University of Virginia
Board of Visitors from 1920 to 1922.
He went to Episcopal High School,
Alexandria, and received his M. A.
degree from the University of Vir-
ginia in 1898 and his LII. B. from
Harvard in 1897.
Active in the advancement of
newspaper publishing for nearly a
half a century, Mr.. Bryan was a
charter member of the Associated
Press in its reorganization of 1900.
Educated in law, Mr.. Bryan left
that profession to become associated
with his father. the late Joseph
Bryan, in the newspaper field and
became publisher of the Times-Dis-
patch in 1908. He also acquired the
News Leader and after selling the
Times-Dispatch in 1914, Mr.. Bryan
devoted himself to the development
of the News Leader, an afternoon
daily. A new afflliation of the
Times-Dispatch and News Leader
was announced in 1910 and Mr..
Bryan became president, publisher
and treasurer Of the two papers.
He was associated with the late S.
Emory Thomson in publication of
the Chicago Times and the Tampa
Tribune.
He was president of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
from 1926-28.
Secretary of State Hull today sent
to Mrs. Bryan telegram expressing
deep sorrow over the death of he1
husband and characterized Mr..
Bryan as "a man Of the finest char
acter and integrity and possessing
unusual gifts of intellect and the
ability to inspire and lead others in
worthy causes"
Praised By Kent Cooper.
In New York, Kent Cooper, ex-
ecutive director and general man.
ager OF the Associated Press, said !:
I am shocked and grieved by the
death OF John Stewart Bryan, one
Of Americas great men, and q great
Evening star., 1944-10-17

total exceeding
$4,000, 900, the
Treasury report
ed today.
The campaign
among Federal
workers Is head
ed by Edward F.
Bartlett, commits
sioner Of ac-
C oun t S at the
Treasury, W h o
serves as chair
man of the In
tie departmental
War S a v i n g S
Bond Commit
fee Mr. Rartn1t
Evening star., 1944-10-17
War Bond Purchases
By u. 5. Employees Top.
.S54,000,000 Monthly

Ninety per cent of the Govern
ment's civilian employees are invest
ing more than 10 per cent of their
earnings in War Bonds for a monthly
Evening star., 1944-10-17

she didn't know word of English 1t is the story
how the journey possible
who cared serving with the Travellers Aid Society
and elsewhere Your contribution the Community
helps support Travellers Aid It the payment
on soldiers future happiness How much do you care?
Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1944-10-17

IN New YORK, Kent Cooper, ex-
ecutive director and general man
ager OF the Associated Press, said:
I am shocked and grieved by the
death OF John Stewart Bryan, one
OF Americas great men, and q great
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Bio Ben

1t has been announced in London
that Big Ben's "hoarse, rather jar
ring tone" temporarily will be heard
over the air waves only as a record
ing. The sound of the great bell
itself might furnish direction for
the Nazis' latest weapon against
England-the ghostly robot torpe-
does now streaming over the Chan
mel from an unknown enemy source
on the continental mainland. For
that reason the familiar voice" in
the Clock Tower of the Houses of
Parliament has been silenced. Such
is the decision of the government
of Britain.
But another issue concerning Big
Ben is not so easily solved. Not
long ago it was proposed that the
boom should be corrected by re-
casting. Professional critics of
music, it was understood, had
launched crusade for the reform
of it's allegedly inharmonious rever-
beration. The answer to their sug-
gestion came rolling back from far
off Winnipeg, where the editor of
the Free Press rose in his wrath to
declare: This is movement which
deserves to fail" All through the
blitz the Cheerful noise" from West
minister had let the whole earth
know that England could take it,"
It's advocate in Manitoba argued:
Big Ben is veteran of five reigns
two world wars and many minor
wars, and nothing has disturbed or
interrupted him. A successor, even
made from the same metal, could
never fill his place in the hearts of
free men everywhere" Even
in the form of a recording, the ad-
mittedly cracked resonance is "the
ringing note" of liberty.
All of which brings to mind the
fact that the famous bell in Inde-
pendence Hall in Philadelphia like
wise LIS imperfect. Perhaps 1t u
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Action in Pacific
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

1t is entirely possible that the long
expected major fleet action, the deci-
sive battle for the Pacific, may be in
progress in the vast quadrilateral of
open sea west of the Marianas Islands.
These words are written just after
the release of Admiral Nimitzs COM
munique No. 58 We know that our
carrier-based planes attacked an enemy
fleet including battleships and carriers
before dusk" on June 10, western longi-
tude time about midway between Luzon
and the MarianaS. 1t Is clear that the
enemy sustained losses, presumably in
surface vessels; and that we sustained
losses also, presumably in aircraft. That
is about all that is known right now.
There are many questions which inn
mediately arise. Is the enemy trying to
break off the action, perhaps as result
of his heavy losses in carrier-based
planes during his attack on the 5th Fleet
near Saipan? He lost 300 carrier-based
aircraft, which are probably at least
half, and perhaps a far higher propor-
tion of his Total carrier based plane
capacity. So in a feet action he has one
strike on him right now, and may have
changed his mind about fighting.
X
If the enemy is trying to get away,
were we able to follow him closely
enough through the night in order to
bring him to action again on the morn
ing of the Goth? Radio silence" inter-
venes. We do not know. There was a
similar problem at Tsushima, in the
Russo-Japanese War, which Togo solved
correctly; and a similar problem at Jut-
land, which Jellicoe failed to solve-in
both cases without benefit of aircraft.
Another thought-if, as is probable, the
enemy casualties include damaged ships
as well as sunken ships, will the enemy
abandon his lame ducks" or will he
stick to them and try to protect their
withdrawal? Or. finally, is he boring in
for fight to the death whatever may
betide?
OF one thing we may be absolutely
sure, and that is that our naval forces,
both air and surface, are trying desper-
ately to bring the enemy fleet to decisive
action.
II the Japanese have at last decided
TO make a. nght of 1t the reason Is not
far to seek. If we take Saipan we have
only the open sea between us and the
Evening star., 1944-06-22
The Hunters

This clock, these tides, this silper storm
OF stars
That turns the dark Great Circle OF
the night,
All these are armed and aimed for that
feH hour,
That certain place ,ohich marks my
terminus OF flight.
And ON some fatal day ,DN these three,
nolD deplOyed,
Conperge; the cdlibrated moment
neither hurried nor delayed
Reaper and Hnntsmdn tDiU close, sone
WaUe auiH cancel me,
And at the appointed time the final
chess move ,DiH be played.
Not any talsman or arn,or ,DiH prolono
the chase,
Parry and counter and back-tTacA
though ,DiH;:
And attertpard the stars ,piH turn, these
tides yet fo1p,
The pussionless clock bs there and
ticking stu.
FREDERICK EBRIGHT.
Evening star., 1944-06-22

Asks About Care for Elms
To the Editor of The Star:
Is Washington, through heedlessness
or through neglect of things lovely which
Is forced upon us by the necessities Of
war, to be deprived Of the elms on New
Hampshire avenue?
Those Of us who have lived on New
Hampshire have in years past seen the
trees cared for regularly and with great
attention. This year they have not been
sprayed and in consequence the leaves
are being eaten away and are dropping
off. This, suppose, is caused by insect
pests.
One remembers the much yaunted
avenues of trees in Germany. which did
not compare in beauty with New Hamp-
shire avenue, and one recalls that New
Haven lost SO many of her elms because
she failed to care for them when one
particular insect, its identity forgotten,
first attacked the trees.
To allow Washington's elms to 60 in
the same way would be In small
measure to give the victory to Germany
and Japan.
Are the trees neglected because of lack
Of men or because the chemicals are
needed elsewhere7 Is there not some way
in which the difficulty can be overcome
before an irreplacable achievement Of
nature is destroyed?
FLORENCE HELM.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
Required x-Ruy Tests

A Star news story reports that "a
number" of teachers, clerks and
custodial workers in the schools
face dismissal for failure to sub
NIT themselves to chest X-ray ex-
aminations.
Perhaps there would be no need
to discuss such penalty if the
significance and desirability of these
examinations for school personnel
were adequately explained. For the
examination in the schools is merely
a small part of great national
program for public health that
contains encouraging possibilities in
cutting down the toll. in illness and
death, Of tuberculosis.
Last April the United States Civil
Service Commission very wisely
made X-ray chest examinations a
required part OF other health tests
for applicants for Federal positions
In Washington. The Districts Bu-
reau of tuberculosis has played a
prominent part in making the exam
nations available, not merely in the
Federal service but in other lines
of work, such as food handlers. Lit
orally scores of thousands of work.
ers have been x-rayed, with benefit
to themselves and to the general
public with whom they come in
contact. The United States Public
Health Service is encouraging the
spread of such examinations, wher-
ever facilities are available.
While there always will be found
a percentage of those who refuse to
conform in such program, there
Is every reason to believe that the
intelligent personnel in the public
schools will realize its advantages,
from an educational as well as
health point of view.
Evening star., 1944-06-22

On the eve Of the selection by the
two major political parties OF candidates
for the presidency Rep. Garfield, Re-
publican, of New Jersey has tossed a
bill into the hopper to make former
Presidents of the United States "sena-
tors-at-large" with q voice in debate
but no vote.
AS Mr.. Garfield told the House, the
problem of what to do with Presidents
who have left Office, how to make use
OF their services in the public interest,
has been discussed for years. Nothing
has been done about it. At present there
is only one living former President.
Herbert Hoover. Whether after the No
vember elections there will be another
is anybody's guess. The Republicans
say yes, the Democrats no.
Mr.. Hoover's abilities, his wisdom In
counsel, are well known. Should Presi-
dent Roosevelt be out of office next
year, his services and his wide knowl-
edge of world affairs might be lost to
the country with retirement to private
life. Both Mr.. Hoover and Mr.. Roose-
welt are men of private means. They can
live out their lives In comfort. II either
of them should become associated with
large business enterprises, he might be
subject to criticism. 1t was President
Hayes who when he was retiring from
ONCE made the comment there is no
place in the United States for an ex-
President. "If I could 60 into any of
the great business enterprises of the
country would hardly At, and the
country would not think 1t proper, so
I am devoting my life to delivering lee
lures before schools, academies and
colleges"
When the late President Theodore
Roosevelt left the White House, he left
the country to hunt and explore in Al
rica Four years later he sought the
presidency again, but failed. He trav-
eled more after that and became pub
ncist Had he been given a place as
senator -at-large, his influence on the
country and in his party might have
been more effective.
Two former Presidents re-entered
public office, John Quincy Adams and
William Howard Taft. The first be-
came member Of the House and the
second Chief Justice of the United
Evening star., 1944-06-22

Philippines, Fornrosa and the coast of
China. We have broken into the great
quadrilateral of ocean which has
hitherto been Japanese waters. Once
we have taken Saipan it is pretty clear
that the japanese cannot hope to hold
Guam, that ,Truk is by-passed, that Yap
and the Palau Islands are hopelessly
pinched between Nimitz and Saipan
and Guam and Macarthur at Biak
Island. The sea-road to the Philippines,
to Formosa, to the coast of China
would then lie open before us.
So possibly this is the moment when
the Japanese have decided that they
must throw their last stake on the
board: Their battle feet. If they wait
longer they risk complete abandonment
of the initiative. Perhaps they are
gambling for time, and as far as the
strategical factors go, the japanese have
reasonably favorable conditions.
X X
But they will need more than the de-
gree of advantage thus obtained to offset
our numerical and qualitative superb
ority. There is little use trying to guess
at the exact strength of the Japanese
fleet. We know that they have nine or
10 old battleships and may have as many
as five new ones, though probably they
have not more than three new ones. We
know from Admiral Kings recent report
that our feet has at least eight new
battleships of the most formidable sort
and that our old battleships are hardly
inferior in number to the Japanese in
that category and are probably far su-
perior in fighting power, having for the
most part been completely rebuilt since
Pearl Harbor. We know also from the
rate at which the Japanese have been
losing cruisers and destroyers in small
scale operations, and the rate at which
we have been building them, that they
must be very definitely inferior to us
in both these categories. We know that
they cannot hope to match us in car
rierS.
Finally, we know that our naval forces
In the Marianas area are under the
command of an officer whose name,
ever since Midway, has been synonymous
with victory-Admiral Spruance.
If the decisive battle of the Pacific
must be fought now, in the vast sea area
beyond the Marianas, we need have no
doubt as to the outcome.
Copyright, l944)
Evening star., 1944-06-22
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln.

States. Still another former President,
Grover Cleveland, staged comeback
that is without parallel. He was again
elected President four years after he
had left the White House. These men
are the exceptions in a long line OF
Presidents.
Mr.. Garfield, commenting on the
action of John Quincy Adams, said:
John Quincy Adams was the only man
who was able to forget that he was once
a President. When his friends came
and asked him IL he would be willing
to 60 to the lower house Of Congress
as Representative from the old Ply
mouth district, he was able also to for
get that he had been United States
Senator, Minister to the Court of St.
James and Secretary OF State, and he
replied that he would serve as select
man of the town of Quincy If he could
be useful" Mr. Adams served in the
House until his death. He dropped dead
on the floor of the House.
The New Jersey Representative point
ed out that the Senate would in all
probability never be overburdened with
IOTmcT FIcSlQGIlGS IL MS Uili S cHdCoCu
into law He said that there have never
been more than four living former
Presidents except in the year 1861-62,
when Van Buren,, Fillmore, Tyler, Pierce
and Buchanan were all alive. The aver
age of living Presidents in the last IS
years, he added, has been well under
two.
Five Presidents died in office. Will
liam Henry Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln,
Garfield, Mckinley and Harding, three
of whom were assassinated. When
Grover Cleveland and Benajmin Harri-
son went back to the practice of law
said Mr. Garfield, 'the people were
shocked that Presidents should wrangle
for living. The Nation owes its ex-
Presidents something just as it owes,
and pays, it's ex-soldiers something"
No constitutional amendment is re-
quired to make former Presidents
Senators at large. Congress can take
the necessary action, just as 1t did in
providing for Delegates in the House
from the Territories. Mr.. Canfields bill
has been referred to the House Judiciary
Committee. He intends, he says, to
press for action upon 1t.
Evening star., 1944-06-22
A Merited Defect

1t is tribute to the patriotism
and skill of the young women pilots
who volunteered for the Womens
Air Service Pilots (WASPS that no
single word of criticism was directed
against them in the lengthy and
spirited House debate yesterday
which preceded the vote to kill the
Costello bill, under which they
would have been given commissions
in the Army Air Forces.
The bill was killed. and rightly
so, because its distinguished pro-
ponents were never able to give a
convincing answer to the obvious
question of why this expensive
program of training women pilots
was necessary, in view of the dem
onstrated availability of men to do
the job. Arguments supporting the
measure simply failed to stand up
under analysis, leaving still un-
solved the mystery of why the busi-
ness ever was begun in the first
place. 1t was done without any
specific authorization of Congress
at a potential cost, according to
the House Civil Service Commit
tee, of some $500O0.0O0 of public
funds and without any acceptable
showing that the results have
justified or ever could justify them
selves.
Now that this bill has been killed,
the question Is what the War De-
partment proposes to do about the
costly training e women pilots al
ready under way, and what use is
to be made of skilled and available
men pilots. The Civil Service Com
mittee's report recommended that
as "the proposal to expand the
WASPS has not been justified"
"the recruiting OF inexperienced
personnel and their training for the
WASPS be Immediately terminated"
This undoubtedly would be an econ
omy, despite the reports finding
that the War Department ''is at
present encountered with over half
a million dollars" worth of smart
uniforms" designed by Fifth ave-
nue. shop, for issue at Government
expense.