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CARIBBEAN IS )!
\ CONSPIRACY
BY BRENDA CONRAD
bt BRENDA CONRAD -.

the assortment Of people who sent it
, In. Army Intelligence spreads like
a sensitive plant over the entire Car.
ibbean area.
He looked at his watch. It would
be hours before he saw Anne-if she
showed at all. He wished to God
she'd stayed at home. There was
only one ray Of comfort in the i'm.
mediate present. Tied to his desk
with the ball and chain of Army
regulations like the prisoners of Old
Moro. he got some relief from the
fact that Miguel Valera wanted her
to 60 home. II meant at any rate
that he wasn't going all out to CLAM
orize her into staying.
And there was one other dewdrop
In the desert, That had been dropped
In passing by the Generals AIDE.
Old Iron Lung namely Colonel Nor
timer st. Clair De Voc. Engineer
In Charge Of Maintenance and Con-
struction Of the Caribbean Area) had
said to tell the CO. with his COM
pliments, that he didn't give blank
blank blank blank II the Eternal
Himself sent the Prophet Hezekiah
down to Puerto Rico. Nobody was
seeing the details Of the pumps at
Borinquen. or any place else he was
In charge Of. He would be glad to
write the Senate Of the United
States, individually and collectively.
and tell them so by blank.
What did the General say?"
some one had asked.
The General?" said the aide.
"Oh. the General The General
grinned, and sent Mr.. Taussig, plus
copy Of the Senate resolution they
haven't passed yet for Old Iron
Lungs pet project on Tortilla Cay,
to the old boy, both with his compli-
ments. So Mr.. Taussig is on the
Engineers hands, no. ours. Which
Is Okay with US, I'm telling you.
All we've got to do is have him to
dinner. And say, Pete, how about
Miss Haywood? The Old Man knows
her father. She's at the Granada.
isn't she?"
Pete looked down at the papers in
front Of him. He'd been trying to
get up nerve to ask for a week $
leave. 1t wasn't nerve so much,
actually. as proper self-control when
Colonel Fletcher turned him down.
He could hear his This is the Army,
Captain Wilcox, in case you've for.
gotten" He read absently through
the report Of dance-hau girl at a
dive on La Marina that was out Of
bounds for soldiers, put 1t aside
read another. and started in on q
third.
This man is not a personal enc
my to me-" he read methodically
He is of ancient and honorable
lineage and his family are all
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-03-03
Neighborhood
Club
(URBAN LEAGUE)

Neighborhood Clubs, which were
formerly made possible through
the WPA, are now an integral
part of the Urban League pro-
gram. This phase of the work has
been in operation for the past five
90 months. 1t is felt that a very
definite contribution is being made
to the community through civic
participation. These clubs are edu-
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Hour OF Repose

Hour OF Repose
The War Service Committee Of
the Phyllis Wheatley Branch WV
CA will have charge of the Hour
Of Repose' Vesper Service Sum
day, March II. Mrs. Elvie Cren-
ehaw Watts is chairman. Miss
Rosa Wilson is program chair.
manand Miss Johnnie Hart 10
Chairman of the Refreshment
Committee.
Visitors At USO
Captain Robinson of the 92nd
Division; 1t. Norman, 500 F. A.;
Sgt. William Freeman, 696th Ord.
nance Ammunition Co.; Sgt. Clay
ton Youngblood, 696th Ordnance
Ammunition Co., and many 9TH
ers.
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!; u S O
696th Ordnance
Ammunition Company

Ammunition Company
Welcome was extended to the
new unit Of soldiers at Camp Rob-
lnson at the Ninth Street USo
Club. The new unit is the 696th
Ordnance Ammunition Company.
Farewell will be in order this
week as it is understood that
the new unit will move. During
the short stay in the city the
new men got taste of Little
Rock $ hospitality.
Daneetime
Last Saturday many new men
and Junior hostesses enjoyed a
dance at the USO Club. Music
was played by Gilkey's orchestra.
Gilkey will play Saturday night,
March 4. Dance starts at $3.50
p. IN.
Philander Meets
Arkansas State
The Philander Smith College
basketball team with the strong
State College team in the USO
gym Friday, March 10. Both boys
and girls team swill play.
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"Y" Notes
GIRL RESERVE
DEPARTMENT

On Sunday, February 20, Girl
Reserves of Phyllis Wheatley
rendered program at Mt Pleas
ant Baptist Church. The Debut
antes, whose advisor is Mrs. Ev-
elyn T. Armon, were in charge.
The president of the club, Curl
dine Bradford, presided.
The Girl Reserves are in the
midst Of a "coat-hanger drive"
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thieves, throat-cutters and swine He
is without principle himself as all
his generations before him"
Pete stopped abruptly, not because
the tone of the letter was unusual
but because Of the name he sudden
ly saw staring up at him from the
ford script.
miguel Valera seeks to under
mine the government. He has been
seen by me in conversation with a
man who is known to steal box
of dynamite from lsla Grande and
dump it in the sea off La Perla
when the sailors come so they find
nothing. Miguel Valera was seen
by me later with an American who
is hired by the Viego Rum Com.
pany. The American whose name
Is George raised his glass and drank
the toast TO the First President Of
Puerto Rico. | write without bitter.
ness. My grandfather was killed in
falling IN machinery at Valera Cen.
trail"
Pete put the letter aside with a
scowl VindictiVeness wasted as
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-03-03
POSTAL EMPLOYEES MEET
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF

The Little Rock Branch of the
National Alliance of Postal EN-
ployess met in its regular session,
Sunday, February 20, at the Ninth
Street USO with President Birch
presiding.
In commemoration of Negro
History Week. Mrs, l.. r. Gravel
ly, Asst. Principal of Dunbar High
School was guest speaker of the
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evening. President Birch an
nouneed that an extensive cam
paign for 100 new members would
get under way at an early date.
Frank Young, a former clerk in
the Railway Mail Service, was a
visitor and gave his membership,
as reported by j, w. McGehee.
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WARNING ORDER

WARNING ORDER
State Of Arkansas
County Of Pulaski. 81.
In the Pulaski
Chancery Court
Irozia Carson, Plaintiff
vs.. No. 6s317
Lenora Carson. Defendant.
The Defendant, Lenora Carson.
is warned to appear in this court
within thirty days and answer
the complaint of the plaintiff.
Irozia Carson.
Dated February 10th, 1914.
Booker @ Booker,
Solicitors for Plaintiff.
John l.. Sullivan.
Attorney ad Litem.
II. s. Nixon. Chancery Clerk,
By Airline P. Turner, D. G.
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DOUBLE FACE
You ask me why he's always broke
While on job that pays,
And, yet, you'd take 1t as joke
If | the truth would raise,
But truth will out let come what
may;
TITS hard to keep two homes and
wives
And give to each the best.
The man who'er he be who strives
To stand such double test
Is doomed to lose, and lose he
must;
He il a double face
In whom no one can put his trust,
A menace to the face.
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for soldiers at Camp Robinson.
Already, over 100 coat hangers
have been collected, and these, in
connection with others will be pre-
scented at Camp Robinson in the
near future.
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S P E c | A l =!

SPE ALI!
Beginning next week. we
reluctantly announce that thos
most despieoble Of all column
lists. will be beck with Us to
bring you the "Iow down" on
the hisher-ups. yes, you guess
ed il - morning ledge,
Evening star., 1944-07-16
Foreign Policy Association
Asks '0pen Door on Oil

The Foreign Policy Association
said last night an open door" policy
assuring all nations access to the
worlds oil fields under a system OF
international cooperation is essen
tial to world peace and security.
Projects like the Arabian pipe
line proposal Of Secretary Ickes" or a
program Of cartels, synthetic pro-
duction and exclusive agreements
could prove formidable obstacles to
postwar peace, the association said
in report entitled "Oil: An Eco
nomic Key to Peace"
Blair Bolles, director of the pri-
vate research organizations WASH
ington bureau, prepared the report.
Secretary Ickes announced the
Arabian pipeline project last Feb
ruary but recently President Roose-
welt indicated that If it is carried out
it will be by private companies
rather than by the Government.
Moreover, there have been hints that
the proposal, calling for a 1900 mile
line across Arabia to the Mediter-
ranean, may be dropped altogether
after forthcoming British American
oil talks.
Evening star., 1944-07-16
| 800 Jop Soldiers
| Buried With Rites
IOf Three Fuifhs
b sERGT. FRED FELDKAMP


SAIPAN, Marianas Islands tDe-
layedD R1.-"Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do
prayed 1t. Harry Scheidemantle.
Navy chplain. OF Minerva Ohio. in
. religious service at the burial
ground OF 300 Jap soldiers here.
Catholic, Protestant and Buddhist
prayers were read from an impro-
vised altar laid on the front end
OF badly battered Jap tank.
Jap shells landed within $50 yards
OF the service as 1t. Comdr. o. David
Hermann, Lutheran chaplain, of
Omaha, Nebr., addressed a small
assemblage Of marines:
When man is dead he Is be-
yond human hatred"
1t. d.g.) Joseph e. Weber, Cath
Ole chaplain, of Lansing, Mich,
read the prayers for the dead after
mass, and Chaplain Scheidemantle,
Presbyterian chaplain, read q brief
Protestant service, followed by a
Buddhist Sutra (Which corresponds
to our Psalm,
Evening star., 1944-07-16
Boiling Field Traffic
Creating Problem
On 11th Street Bridoe

Tne increasing amount Of peak
hour trafac to Boiling Field and
suburban Maryland areas is Great
ing traffic congestion problem on
the Eleventh Street Bridge, and
completion of the proposed South
Capitol Street Bridge was seen yes
terday by Capt. H. c. Whitehurst,
District highway director, as the
only permanent solution.
Capt. Whitehurst, who said the
problem would be aggravated next
month when a new floor is laid on
the drawbridge section, revealed he
had asked the War Production
Board for permission to proceed
with the substructure on the South
Capitol street span.
He said. however, it would take
year to build the substructure and
another year before the bridge
would be completed. He predicted
the traffic situation on the Anacostia
River Bridge, would get much worse
before 1t gets any better.
Explains Difficulty.
He reported the Eleventh Street
Bridge already was carrying more
traffic than it theoretically could
handle, and attributed 1t to the ex-
ceedingly rapid development of the
area around Boiling Field.
D. S. Brinkley. Highway Planning
Commission engineer, explained the
difficulty arose because peak hour
traffic now runs in both directions
rather than to the District in tine
morning and to Maryland In the
evening
Previously, Mr.. Brinkley said, two
Of the three lanes on the Eleventh
Street Bridge could be used to
handle traffic moving in one direc-
ton. Now it is impossible to move
more than 1900 cars an hour in each
direction, he revealed.
Mr.. Brinkley said the number of
vehicles moving over the Anacostia
Bridge might be increased to
Of 1000 per hour in each
provided an uninterrupted
flow of traffic travelling 30 to IS
miles an hour could be maintained.
Comes In Spurts.
But traffic lights two blocks from
the bridge now tend to feed the
traffic in spurts, he pointed out,
and the mushroom growth of south
east Washington and suburban
Maryland areas has maintained
traffic at high level when other
Evening star., 1944-07-16
DAv Will Seek Plank
On Disability Policy

The platform committee Of the
Democratic convention viii be asked
by Millard w. Rice, national service
director Of the Disabled American
Veterans. to include q statement Of
policy regarding service disabled
veterans and their families.
One Of the most important planks
to be suggested by Mr.. Rice will be
one concerning the Unemployment
Of partially disabled veterans.
"At the present time" he pointed
out, employers are virtually forced
to discriminate against partially DIS
abled veterans because OF the added
risk that their physical condition
may impose against insurance
workmen's compensation programs,
and similar employe protection
plans"
The DAv is asking the Govern
ment to reimburse employers and
insurance companies for payments
made to disabled veterans or their
dependents because OF the added
risk.
Evening star., 1944-07-16
Allies Fluid Front in Normandy
Would Amaze Veterans Of 1918

automatic rife flre behind us where
six small, fierce young Germans
have been found In 4 hideout.
The refugees turn disinterestedly
toward the rifle fire. which Il pro-
longed and angry sounding. When
1t Is finished they turn back to the
civil Affairs ofncer. The Germans
emerge carrying q corpse and the
refugees again turn from the oflicer
to watch Is the Germans are hustled
along the street. The children
among them seem shy but curious.
Sniper lighting Is almost over in
the town. One sniped held out long
est In the Hotel du Vile. He took
on his shoes. climbed up the Chin
ney in his bare feet and shot
bravely but dnefhciently at passers-
BY until lads took him In hand with
rihe grenades. Then he disappeared
leaving behind him . machine pistol
and the prints of his bare feet.
Tanks Rumble Through Tewn.
Tanks rumble through the towns
main street and come to 4 halt
just past its southern edge. Men
In them wait patiently. talking
about past battles and past narrow
escapes.
South Of the town, the road dips
into 4 valley and then, nearly a
mile away, climbs : steep ridge.
Some Germans are hidden on the
ridge, making . last stand there
with machine guns and some anti
tank guns.
We have q tank down In the val
ley and have 1t hidden well. It's
75-milnmeter guns give covering
fre to the infantry. working its
way cautiously and invisibly to the
top OF the ridge. The Germans fire
at every bush that moves. A lot
Of bushes move in the wind and
the Germans fire q lot Of bullets
but our infantry here is SO well
trained 1t seems almost as II they
were Indians. When they 60 through
bushes the bushes do not move.
The long afternoon hours drag
by, patiently for tank men and the
engineers, desperately for the in
fantry and Germans. In late after
noon, an American soldier can be
seen scuttling across the road on
top Of the ridge. Machine guns
fire at him and the mufYied thump
Of grenades follows.
The last Germans are dead. The
ridge Is ours. Tank motors start
up and tanks clank down into the
valley, the tree leaves making a
green glitter as they 60. Old dough-
boys will tell you that 1t wasn't the
way 1t was in France in the old
days.
tcopyrisht, 1914, North American
Newspaper Alliance, Ine.)
Evening star., 1944-07-16

Court Of Appeals for the District,
with the proceedings stayed pend
ing outcome Of an appeal by North
American from the same order.
On April 3 Of this year, the PUG
addressed a communication to
Attorney General Biddle In which
1t asked whether North Americana s
acquisition OF Wreco and its related
companies was lawful or unlaw-
full" Since the PUG has received
no answer to its questions, the Jus
tice Department presumably Is still
studying the matter.
Planning to Attend.
Among the District onicials who
will 60 to the hearings are Chair
man James H. Flanagan of the
PUG. Lloyd Harrison. assistant cor
poration counsel attached to the
commission; v. A. McElfresh, chief
accountant Of the PUG, and James
w. Lauderdale. first peoples coun-
sci since 1896, who will go to the
hearings as his first oficial act since
taking ONCE last month.
SO far as the PUG has been ad :
vised. no stockholders have re-
quested to be heard before the SEC
and the deadline for filing notice
Of appearance was July IL.
Meanwhile, a decision Of the PUG
is expected shortly on this year. Z
Pepco rate hearings. which involved
not only the annual adjustment OF
rates under the sliding -scale plan
but an investigation Of the sliding
scale itself.
Evening star., 1944-07-16
ny IRA WOLFERT.

LA HAYE DU PUTS, France,
July 10 Delayed On thiS sector,
as Of today. the front begins here.
While It's still the same old back
of-the- lines France, 1918 veterans
would blink a little over this west.
ern front.
Germans are not Smelling back
roads. Jeeps, trucks, tanks, ambu-
lances, bulldozers, motorcycles, tank
carriers and cement mixers travel
on the roads with dash and aban-
don. Germans poke at them only
sporadically with their famous SSs.
We travelled open roads ut . Sc
date pace all day today and were
fired at only once. Then 1t was one
Of those anti-personnel shells, BURST
ing at tree level and showering its
fragments downward. It missed US
by what was as good, although not
quite so comfortable, as q mile.
The Army here Is . little puzzled
at this laxity of Germans but are
not displeased. They credit it to Our
air force and the narrowing our
planes have been giving German
roads and supply columns. Guns,
they point out, need ammunition.
You can't shoot what you haven't
got.
No Trenches yet.
There are no trenches in this war
yet. There are only cunningly scat.
tered foxholes hidden in hedges,
under trees and behind fences. You
can look out over miles of battle.
field from ridgetop. every step
across which means death to any
one, and see nothing at all except
the green and crop-laden fields Of
Normandy without workers Or
beasts.
The road comes suddenly into a
town and the silence, weariness and
nervous irritability that seizes men
in battle increases abruptly where
the ruins begin at the towns edge.
The town seems to spring up from
the fields and the ur-smelling pail
OF war springs up with it and hangs
thick over 1t. Gun and rifle shells
ny over the town at the Germans.
Men poke for snipers among ruins
while engineers search for mines
and BOBBY traps. A civil affairs Of
ficer stands in the middle of the
square. arguing patiently with a
small huddle OF refugees who think
they would like to move back into
what Is left OF their homes.
Children Curious Over Fighting.
The French have q habit, the
omcer says, Of wanting to leave
their homes too late and to come
back too early. His last words are
almost drowned by the spatter of
Evening star., 1944-07-16
48 Join Gruy Lodies

Forty-eight Fairfax County wom-
en- have volunteered as Gray Ladies
for hospital work at Fort Belvoir,
the county Red Cross Chapter an
nounced last night. Volunteers
have been accepted by Mrs. A. z
Buyers, field director of the Fort
Belvoir Hospital, and at the end Of
. training course will be assiened
- duty at the post hospital.
Evening star., 1944-07-16
|Cl0 Members Deny
|WLB voided Union
Maintenance Clause
By the Associated Press.

~ tne Aseocleted FreSs.
CIo members Of the war Labor
Board yesterday labeled "false" tho
contention OF AFL% members that
the boards decision In the InternA-
tional Harvester Co. case was
equivalent to abroeation Of the
maintenance Of union membership
clause In the CIO contracts with
the company"
The WLB held Friday that the
Farm Equipment Workers (CIO), by
seeking members among employees Of
the company's Farmall plant at
Rock Island, H., violated its mo
raiding" agreement with the WLB
and the AFL.
The WLB raid the Federal Labor
Union tAFL) consequently "is no
longer bound to refrain from solicit
Ing or accepting as members EN-.
ployes Of the company at the plants
for which the farm equipment
workers has been certified" and
is free to seek representation rights
at such plants.
The AFL members Of the board,
in statement issued concurrently
with the board decision. interpreted
1t to mean that the maintenance
Of union membership clause granted
the C1O union in six International
Harvester plans was now null and
void.
CIO members in a statement yes
terday called the AFL statement
false and misleading"
1T misconstrues completely the
effect of the boards action, and Is
bound to cause confusion and
strained labor relations" the CIO
members said.
The alleged misconduct Of the
farm equipment workers does not
match the provocative and irre-
sponsible acts of the AFL members
in issuing their statement"
The board action neither nulli-
fed or modified" the maintenance
of membership provision of any Of
the International Harvester plants,
the C1O members said.
Evening star., 1944-07-16
So From This Area
On N. u. Honor List

Sixty residents of the Washington
area are among the 106 students
placed on the University OF Mary
land honor list for the spring quar-
ter. which ended recently. All so
had scholastic averages of 3.5 or
better.
Twenty-six are from Washington.
They are:
Ne: Jean Burnside, 3so2 insomar street
eenh ssreet Nw c.2of e Collins ssS
45 good Hope rosd Ms su Mra% oo
SS0h sSSS ksnsss 9sss svsnus M Hs1In RW Aslinss
beth H. Lipp. 1883 Tennyson street NV:
6nsd s2ee = mrsS ss s9 ITyns NnS street
Grace N. Mattinsly, 200 Rhode Island
avenue NE; Jerome J. MsxXell; ts,,y, 5I17 Con Con
Murr.9 n mefsea Ssso sss ceorsde svsnue auesff
Hrsn. Rsymond 1891 farlasat s11sat Street
NV Arnold n E. seissl i54o GeraniIm aana
sT: 3Sis Sa-thedTal - avenue; ", ratTisis :.
Yeatman. 260s Tilden street NV.
An additional 81 students are
from Prince Georges County. They
are:
Mars, A; Aiello, Arthur H: Ballard
q, Chapman, jean F. DAILY. Dorothy Pitt
Luann- r. DeTar. Mary v; Hardins and
}sns em Gele'. s.5k h;o.S Eush SIND
strom. RiyeEdale;, Edn. n Gilbert an. ane
Beltsvile; Jane E. Stone, Greenbelt, and
Ellen j. Mead, Mount Rainier.
The remaining 13 students are
from Montgomery County. They
are:
Barbara NJ Seviour. LUCILLE A. Bowser
Genevieve J. Geissler, Harry A. Kahn and
Joyce r; Reside Silver Spring; Victor E
derson, Margaret r. Hushes and Nancy
Troth, Chevy Chase; Roy H. Gilnx anc
Nancy w. Holman, Bethesda, and Alice
]. Davey, Takoma Park.
Evening star., 1944-07-16

Intersections show decreases rang
ing up to so per cent.
Mr.. Brinkley underscored the
need for the proposed South Cap
itol Street Bridge with a predic-
ton that approximately $4,000 We
hicles would attempt to use the
Eleventh Street Bridge daily in the
postwar period, compared to an
average Of 5000 in 1910 and as
900 today.
He said the Sousa Bridge at the
foot Of Pennsylvania avenue did not
serve effectively the area toward
which most of the trstiic heads, and
that in many cases even the An
acostia Bridge was out OF the way
for drivers.
w. A. Van Duzer, chief Of the
Bureau Of Motor Vehicles, investi-
gated the possibility Of having the
War Departments emergency bridge
over the Anacostia river put into
regular service.
Needs Resurfacing.
But he found one-half mile Of
the temporary structure, which
crosses the river from the terminus
of M street near Virginia avenue
Sc, would have to be resurfaced
before it could be put into service
and then only passenger cars could
use it.
Mr. Van Duzer said the bridge 1t.
self, which carries a two lane road
and has e floor of wood treated
with asphalt, is capable of handling
a 20-ton truck at slow speed but
trucks would not be allowed to
travel over Anacostia parkway on
the south side of the river.
He reported the bridge necessi-
tated going seven-tenths Of q mile
farther to Boiling Field, Naval Air
Station, Camp Springs and Indian
Head areas than the Anacostia
Bridge, and doubted II vehicle traf-
nc would us it.
Mr.. Van Duzer expressed the be-
lief that drivers dissa tisfied with the
traftc situation on the Anacostia
Bridge would use the Sousa Bridge
which, while farther, would offer
much better driving conditions.
Evening star., 1944-07-16
Sen. Nye Leaves Today
To Open Election Drive
~ the Assoeiatsd pres.

By the Associated Press.
Senator Nye. Republican. OF North
Dakota plans to leave today for
North Dakota to organize his elec-
ton campaign.
He returned to Washington after
a campaign for denomination which
he regards as successful, though the
actual outcome depends on the re-
suits of soldier ballots which will be
counted by the State Canvassing
Board July ~. When unofIicial
tabulations ended, Senator Nye held
lead of about TOO votes.