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Evening star., 1944-03-12
0PA Offers Oil
For Cold Homes,
But Few Apply
Only 3l4 Request
Emergency Rotions
In Coupon 'Swop'

The District Office of Price Ad.
mlnlstration acted yesterday to al.
leviate Washington's fuel oil short.
age by issuing No. ration coupons
valid now-for No. coupons that
won't become valid until Tuesday
An OPA official said, however, the
small number of applications re.
ceived last night indicated the seri-
BUSINESS of the situation had beer
somewhat exaggerated"
Basing his belief on the fact that
only 314 applications had been filed
at OPA headquarters at 5601 Con-
necticut avenue NV. by 1920 O'Clock
last night, Robert H. Parker, OPA
rationing officer, said that "some
homeowners had become unneces-
sarily panicky"
1T now appears that many home
owners who asked for supplementary
fuel oil rationS have discovered that
they can hold out until Tuesday,
Mr.. Parker said.
Office Open Today.
After receiving estimates that ap-
proximately 1900 homes here were
without fuel, the OPA issued the
order allowing the exchange of No.
coupons to applicants appearing
at OPA headquarters. The Con-
necticut avenue Office will remain
open today from am. to $50 pm.
for. the purpose.
Most of the applicants yesterday
were dealer representatives present.
ing cases on request of their Gus
toners. Only Is individual home
owners appeared at the OPA Office
and no applications were filed after
$3.50 pm.
1t was said, however, that the
lateness of the announcement might
well have tended to hold down the
number of applications. Neverthe-
less, Mr.. Parker said he didn't ex-
pect today's applications to exceed
greatly the volume of yesterdays
applications.
Few Can Be Serviced.
Fuel oil dealers meanwhile men
toned that despite the OPA action
or fuel oil coupons only a fraction
OF heatless homes here could be
serviced because of the lateness of
the order.
Voicing the view of most fuel oil
dealers, Charles S. st. John, general
manager of the Griffith Consumers
Co, said the hardness" of the or
der would make it impossible to
meet but fraction of the demand. !"
Il don't know why they waited
until the last minute to act" he
said, adding that "if we can get the
coupons validated and get. enough
men and trucks into service, we'll
do the best we can"
Decision to permit exchange of
coupons followed continued confer
ences between District and national
rationing officials It.came as sur
prise to many as the national ONCE
had insisted that generalization of
the new coupons would be impos-
sible because of administrative
difficulties" and because of short
petroleum supplies in the East.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Col. E. B. Broudhurst
|Weds VioIu M. Seubert
By the Associated presx

By the Associated Press.
Col. Edwin B. Broadhurst of the
Army Air Forces. now attached to
the War Department general staff
and Miss Viola Msryann Seubert of
Cottonwood, Idaho, and Colorado
Spring, Colo, were married here
last night.
The couple met while Col Broad
hurst, who was in the Philippines
when war declared, was head OF
operations and training for the End
Air Force with headquarters in
Colorado Springs.
Col. Broadhurst, a 1887 graduate
of West Point, is one of the young
est colonies assigned to the general
staff. He Is q native of Smithfield
N. G.
Evening star., 1944-03-12

lures were out if Tommy came with
his clothes on.
Now Tommy without his dresses
is just another squirrel So some
one decided that maybe Miss Dauchy
wouldn't mind too much If Tom
my was photographed just once in
one Of his dresses with Petunia and
Jeffrey
Small boys were dispatched to
round up the animals. Something
like well-behaved riot broke out
Boys and girls were milling all
over the place. A youngster ap-
peared with Jeffrey under his arm
along with man who was pattine
Jeffrey's head
Petunia Is Rounded Up.
Another boy broke through the
crowd carrying Petunia.
"Petunia the Skunk" he an.
nounced, has a stomach-ache.'
He was right, too. Miss Dauchy
said later the skunk had drunk toe
much milk the night before.
wen, oOliiC StlllUldIlC6 OI OrQel
was finally established. The skunk
and the rooster were willing to 81,
still but they had plainly made ur
their minds they would have moth.
ing whatever to do with Tommy
Tucker, Tommy Tucker looked as
If he wanted to go off in some quiet
corner with nut.
The photographer was all set tc
go when Miss Dauchy walked into
the room. She was not amused
She had just finished her secono
lecture of the day to another batch
of youngsters, and she told then
to wait outside Then she scoopeo
up Petunia and jeffrey and hurried
out, leaving Tommy Tucker stand
ing there in his blue dress some
what tefuddled by the gcings-on.
Anyway, the hundreds of young.
sters who rOmped through the
museum had a marvellous time.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Constitutionality
OF Transit Rate Cut
Order Challenged
Suits Fight Reduced Fares
To Government BUILDINGS
In Nearby Arlington

Constitutionality of the Interstate
Commerce Commission order di-
recting four local and nearby transit
companies to reduce bus fares
between Washington and Govern
ment buildings in Arlington was
challenged in District Court yester-
day.
Justice Oscar r. Luhring signed
an order referring to Justice Jen-
nings Bailey four suits filed by
three Of the companies, including
the Capital Transit Co. and the
Virginia State Corporation Com
mission, asking that the court tenn
porarily stay the ICC order and
then permanently set aside the
order.
A three-judge tribunal would have
to decide finally all questions raised
by the companies, including that Of
constitutionality, which was chal-
lenged by the Virginia Corporation
Commission, court attaches said.
Order Called Confiscatory.
Claiming that the ICC order of
January 18 was "confscatory" and
discriminatory" Capital Transit
Co., Arlington & Fairfax Motor
Transportation Co. and Washing
ton, Virginia & Maryland Coach CO.
charged that the ICC went beyond
its powers in issuing the order.
Attorneys for Capital Transit
specifically charged in It's suit that
the order constitutes confiscation of
its property because 1t is required
to render interstate service without
any compensation. The Virginia
companies claim the commission is
without jurisdiction to require joint
fares between their companies and
Capital Transit.
All of the plaintiffs contend the
ICC acted arbitrarily and capri
ciously" in reducing fares to particu-
lar points and for the benefit OF only
certain Government employees. The
1CC order which is scheduled to 60
into effect April 13 would affect
thousands of Federal workers at the
Pentagon, the Navy Department
Annex and the Army Air Forces
Annex.
Fourth Line to File Complaint.
The ICC order calls for general
fare reductions between Washing
ton and the Pentagon by requiring
Capital Transit to extend weekly
pass, token and transfer privileges
to passengers travelling to and from
the Pentagon.
Other companies would be re-
quired to establish communication
fares and to set up joint fares with
both the streetcar and bus opera
tions of Capital Transit.
Attorneys for the Alexandria, Bar
croft & Washington Transit Co., the
fourth line involved, said they will
file an intervening complaint this
week.
The ICC recently gave all COM
panies an extra month-from March
13 to April 13-in which to set up
the new fares. Lengthy hearings on
the subject were held during last
August and September.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Electric Institute holds
Annual Meeting Tomorrow

The 10th annual membership
meeting of the Electric Institute
of Washington will be held at pm
tomorrow at the Statler Hotel.
Speakers will be Eric Johnston,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States, who
will discuss American Business and
the Peace; A. G. Neal, president
of Potomac Electric Power Co.
whose topic will be Electric Utility
Service" and DIR. William Mcclellan
chairman of the board, Union Elec-
trio Co. of Missouri, who will speak
on THE Electrical Industry" G. F.
Kindley. vice president of Edgar
Morris Sales Co. and 1943 president
of the Electric Institute will preside
| Invitations have been extended to
| representatives of Government
business and trade associations.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Zoo Pets (Au NotureI) Scorn
Squirrel in FountIeroy FriNs
Custodian Refuses to Allow Photograph
Of Sturs at ChIdren's Museum

There's no use hiding the fact that
relations among Petunia the Skunk
Jeffrey the Rooster and Tommy
Tucker the Squirrel are a little bit
strained. You can't blame them
They have their professional pride
All three of them were billed as
headline attractions at the Chill
dren's Museum, 4215 Massachusetts
avenue NV, yesterday afternoon
Petunia the Skunk and Jeffrey the
Rooster made the long trip down
from New York in day coach with
their guardian, Miss Ruth Dauchy
who is superintendent" of the
Children's Zoo of the New York
Bronx Zoo. Tommy Tucker, the
squirrel that wears dresses, was
brought to the museum by his owner
Mrs. Mark c. Bulls.
Miss Dauchy set up shop in the
museums auditorium on the second
floor. She showed lantern slides
and lectured on her ZOO. Petunia
and Jeffrey remained peacefully at
her side in their special box. Mrs
Bulls and Tommy arrived later
They saw that lot of youngsters
and their parents weren't able tc
get into the auditorium, so they went
into nearby room and put on theil
performance, which consisted oi
Tommy being interminably dressed
and undressed while everybody sale
"Oh" and All"
Tommy Blackballed.
Everything probably would have
been all right if photographer
hadn't wanted to get all the per-
formers together.
Miss Dauchy said Tommy Tucker
was very nice squirrel and all that
but she was sure her superiors ir
the ZOO wouldn't approve of having
Petunia and Jeffrey appearing with
any animal that was wearing
clothes. Her superiors believed al
animals should be allowed to live
in their natural state. No. the pic
Evening star., 1944-03-12
biIbo Promises
Early Action on
DC. Legislation
'Boby Broker,' Home
Rule Measures to
Have Hearings Soon

Early consideration by the full
Senate District Committee of bills
to license and regulate child-place-
ment agencies and individuals and
to increase the administrative pow
ers Of the District Commissioners
was promised yesterday by Chair
man Bilbo.
His tentative plan to convene a
meeting Of the full committee, per-
haps this week, was disclosed when
Senator McCarran, Democrat. of
Nevada, former District Committee
head and now chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, an
nounced favorable report on the
baby broker" bill had been made
by the District subcommittee in
charge.
Speedy action on the move to
break up improper, or too casual,
commercialized placement of chill
dren was assured when Senator
Bilbo said he was ready to call a
meeting of the full committee "as
soon as this or another District
subcommittee is ready for action"
Won't Delay Action.
He said unavoidable delay in re.
organization of the District Commit
tee staff, revolving around the time
when James O,Day, United States
attorney for the northern district
Of Mississippi, can complete his work
there and assume his job as counsel
Of the Senate District Committee,
would not hold up action on any
measure awaiting District Commit
tee decision.
Senator Bilbo also said this ap-
piled to the McCarran "home rule"
bill, to provide for an elected city
council which would name a city
manager as top executive in the
municipal government here, as
substitute for the presently appoint
ed Board of commissioners. His as
surance of speedy action, it was
made clear, does not necessarily
mean that he approves Of the home
rule" bill.
Hearings on Herbert Bill.
Senator Bilbo has taken a per-
sonal interest in the bill OF Repre-
sentative Hebert, Democrat, of
Louisiana, approved about month
ago by the House, to grant increased
powers to the Board of Commits
sioners. He indicated yesterday
he soon will designate a subcommit-
tee to hold hearings and act on the
measure. 1t would relieve Congress
of the present necessity of passing
on measures to permit the laying
OF steam and pneumatic tubes un-
der District streets. of naming or
changing the names of streets,
bridges and the like, and grant
other administrative powers to the
! city heads.
On the baby broker" bill Senator
McCarran said his subcommittee
had agreed that to assure the con-
fidential nature Of records of chill
dren involved in work of licensed
agencies there should not be added
the suggestion that the basic rec
ord may be made available to an
agency Of the Board of Public We'll
fare. He said he was convinced II
an issue arose over this point the
question would go to the courts and
that the courts could and would,
when necessary, subpoena the rec
ords.
Passed by also was the suggestion
that the committee to formulate
licensing regulations be enlarged to
include representatives of the clergy
and medical profession.
Evening star., 1944-03-12

quirements sec
ton at Ar m y
| ground orc e S
headquart e r S
here from Brig.
Gen. William F.
Dean, who has
been given an
undisclosed field
assignment, the
! War D e p a r t.
ment announced
| yesterday.
| In hi S n e W
d u t les Ge n .
| w a ! dron will
obtain informa-
ton on weapons
Evening star., 1944-03-12
$4,000 Workers
Sought for Jobs
In Capital Area
VINO to Luunch
Drive Tomorrow to
Fill Vacancies Here

Trying every recruitment trick in
the book, the area War Manpower
Commission aided by Washington
businessmen will launch Washing
tons first mass labor gathering
campaign tomorrow with an i'm
mediate goal of $4,000 new workers.
VINO officials emphasized that
the labor force is going down while
the number of untitled jobs is going
up. The city's labor force dropped
from 650,000 last July to 625 900
this month.
This Is question of impressing
a lot Of people with the idea they
ought to go to work" said Alexander
Shapiro, Capital Transit Co. per
sonnel director who is temporary
chairman of the committee of busi-
neSsmen advising on the campaign
Many Could Work.
There are lot of people who
could work if they would. Some
will only take part-time Jobs, but
there are plenty of those that need
to be filled.
THE city is dependent on the
trades and services for its existence
1t must have laundry, food, fuel
shopping and transportation. And
the city is going to be seriously
crippled in the near future if this
shortage OF labor continues"
He emphasized that women are
being employed where they never
were before, even as Jumpers" on
delivery trucks; that plenty of Jobs
are available for elderly men and
women and for handicapped work
ers.
Robert A. Morrison, manager OF
the District office of the United
States Employment Service, also
emphasized tina experience was un-
necessary.
Jobs for Unframed.
Many women aren't going to
work." he said, because they don't
have training. If they want to GO
into a war plant, we'll give them
free training. If they want a Gov
ernment job, we have a Civil Serv-
ice representative to arrange that
If they want a clerical job and
have no experience, we've got plenty
of filing jobs. There are jobs for
women without training in every
essential activity here"
Recruiters will visit pool halls
to attract unskilled laborers for
nearby war jobs. Women will be
sent personal invitations to go to
work Posters will be changed
weekly to announce new job op-
portunities. Appeals will be made
through the radio and the news
papers, Mr.. Morrison said.
Further details of the campaign,
he said, will be worked out by the
businessmen, meeting this week
with Acting Area VINO Director
Arthur L. Schoenthal and James
B. Burns, chairman Of the Area
Labor Management Committee.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Phi DeItu Theto Alumni
Will Dine "Wednesday

The Washington Alumni Club OF
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity viii
celebrate its 95th Founders Day
with a dinner at $50 pm. Wednes-
day at Hotel 24OO
The fraternity, founded at Miam
University, Oxford, Ohio, has 104
undergraduate chapters and more
than 125 active alumni clubs In the
United States and Canada.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Home Accidents
Fatal to Two
Here in Week

Two deaths from accidents in Dis
trict homes last week brought the
total for the year to 81. the Red
Cross Home Accident Prevention
Service reported yesterday.
Bathtub and home stairway falls
led in hospitalized injuries, although
the number of falls on kitchen floors
which resulted in severe burns and
scalds were relatively heavy. A pres
sure cooker figured in a scald case.
OF 80 cases reported by hospitals.
19 were admitted and 10 were
treated but not hospitalized. There
were 80 falls, burns. accidental
poisoning, eye injury, 25 cuts and
IA miscellaneous. Broken glass was
the cause Of most Of the cuts.
Evening star., 1944-03-12

and equipment, supervise tests of
this materiel and recommend
changes in existing techniques of
warfare based on development OF
materiel
Gen. Kaldron returned in April
l943, from the Southwest Pacific
having been wounded in the shoul-
der. For his overseas services he
was awarded the Purple Heart and
Distinguished Service Cross.
Gen. Waldron is native of
Rochester, N. Y, and graduate of
West Point in 1915.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
THEOLOGICAL Association
Honors DR.. lie Comte

Dr. Ralph M. LIE Comte, 2809
Thirty fourth place NV, Yesterday
was elected vice president of the
Mid Atlantic Section of the Ameri-
can THEOLOGICAL Association at the
groups winter meeting in Roa-
noke, Va.
Dr. C. H. de T. Shivers of Atlantic
City was named president and DR..
Theodore r. Fetter, Philadelphia,
secretary treasurer.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Parent-Teachers Sell
Shrine Circus Tickets

Members Of the District Congress
of Parents and Teachers are
actively participating in the ad-
vance sale to school children of
tickets to the third annual Shrine
Circus, which opens a weeks en-
gagement at the Uline Arena March
II, under the auspices of Almas
Temple lodge, Howard P. Foley.
chairman of the Circus Committee
announced yesterday.
Tickets for students are on sale
at SIS cents, IS cents OF which will
be donated to the public school
milk fund, through which milk is
distributed to underprivileged chill
dren.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
6. of c. Committees Named

Two Alexandria residents and one
from Quantico have been appointed
to committees of the Virginia State
Chamber of Commerce. Henry W.
Anderson, Alexandria, and c. C.
Cloe, Quantico, have been named
members of the Resolutions Com
mittee and Martin Greene, Alexan-
dria, has been appointed to the
Nominations Committee.
Evening star., 1944-03-12

successfully lodged police and mill
tary officials who searched the
apartment seeking him on deser-
ton charge, Sergt. Blick declared.
Anonymous informants had advised
military police and detectives that
the deserter had been seen enter
ing the apartment, police said
The prisoner was turned over to
Army authorities. Mrs Bender was
held at the Women's Bureau and
will be arraigned tomorrow morn
ing before United States Commits
sioner Needham c. Turnage on a
charge Of harboring fugitive,
police said
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Solesmen to Hear Monro

c. Bedeli Monro, president Of
Pennsylvania Central Airlines, will
speak on Trend in Commercial
Aviation" at luncheon of the
Washington Sales Representatives
Association at 1890 pm. Tuesday in
the Continental Hotel, 420 North
Capitol street.
Evening star., 1944-03-12

An Army deserter is facing mill
-tary justice after police routed him
from "foXhole" hideout in the
apartment of another soldiers wife.
The soldier, whose identity police
refused to reveal, was pulled from
an ingeniously devised refuge be-
meath the flooring of a closet in
the home of Mrs. Dolores Bender,
30, of the l700 block of Bay street
Sc. yesterday. Police said her hus-
band is with the Army in India.
Detective Sergt. Roy E. Blick, who
made the arrest, said the soldier
had been hiding in Mrs. Bender's s
home for some time" He had
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Concert at YMCA

Thelma Grant, soprano. and
Dreble Earle Donoho, boy pianist
will give a concert at $50 pm
Tuesday in the east room of the
Central Branch of the YMCA, 1916
G street NV.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Junior Hudussuh to Meet

Louis Spiegler, attorney. will ad-
dress the meeting Of the Washington
Chapter of the Junior Hadassah al
,8:l5 pm. Thursday in the Jewish
Community Center, Sixteenth and G
streets NV His topic will be, "A
Review of the Palestine Situation.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Gridiron Club Elects Wooton

Paul Wooton, Washington corre-
spondent of the New Orleans Times
Picayune and also representative of
the McGraw-Hill publications. yes
terday was elected member of the
Gridiron Club, organization Of
Washington newspapermen.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Gen. WaIdron Assigned
To Ground Forces Here

Maj. Gen. Albert w. Waldron,
who was wounded in the Buna
campaign in New Guinea, has taken
over command of the ground re-
The Apache sentinel., 1944-08-25
Medical Detachment

The discussion included the subjects
Of Venereal Disease Control, Military
Courtesy, DeIinquencies and Coop
GRAFTON. Captain Ora E. Saunders,
MAG, Commanding Officer of the
Medical Detachment, was present and
led the discussion. He introduced him
self to the new members of the De-
tachment and welcomed them to the
organization. Each member of the
Detachment was given the opportun-
ity to express anything on their minds.
'Off Limit Areas" and Venereal Dis
ease problems were most prevalent in
the minds of the men. Through Cap
tain Saunders explanations the men
learned that Common Sense, the use
of instructions given by the Post
-VenereaL Disease Control officer, and
discretion were the deciding factors
in controlling these situations. The
value of CO. operation between the
non- commissioned officers and pri-
Yates to attain a common goal was
discussed by 1st Sgt. Price. T/Sgt.
Bernard Gay enumerated specific ex-
ampies of the results of lack of CO.
operation. Captain Saunders then took
up the problem of Military Courtesy
and Deiinquencies.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-08-25
Orientotion Quiz
To Qualify For
ORIENTATION HONOR ROLL
AND AWARDS

ZIP ana Send Quiz with Answers
to
Post OrientatiOn Officer
co Special Service Building
Fort Huachuca
The Apache sentinel., 1944-08-25
333rd Ordnance Battalion

In keeping with our Know the
Situation slogan, Hq. & Hq. Detach-
ment has a new phase in it's orienta-
tion program. Commencing at 0730,
each morning. personnel of the unit
are brought up to date regarding the
situation on each fighting front. AS
each individual and section starts the
days work, up to the mintue news
reports are received over the radio.
On the wall are our situation maps
which are maintained by S/Sgt. Don
aid P. Winbush, Battalion Operations
Sergeant. AS we hear the news over
the air changes are made and our
maps are brought up to date. Thus,
each man. mechanic and clerk is able
to keep up with the advance of the
Allies on each front. This daily fifteen
minutes orientation is made possible
by the use of M/Sgt. Francis A. Sykes
radio.
PHILIP G. PITTS,
CWO, USA,
Orientation Officer.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-08-25
Post HO Det. Sou 1922

All members of the Detachment
- were present to hear our CO. speak
last week. The subject was the a'l-
important oneof soldier voting. 1t.
smith stressed the fact that voting
Z was a privilege that every American
should exercise, since it is the most
effective political force that the aver
aqe citizen has. In the course OF the
discussion, Federal Law 277, absentee
ballot, political districts and the 1i
bill of rights were enumerated upon
. We were uiven to understand that the
executions were the inhabitants OF
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the
District of Columbia. The soldier Vof-
ino card is the means that the average
service man has of casting ms vote
Noticeable exceptions are the states
~ IIIinois and South Carolina which
do not recognize these cards.
PVT. WILFRED REAPE,
1T. CLARENCE L. SMITH.