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Evening star., 1944-03-08
81 More Gas Stations
Ordered 10 Make Good
On Improper Coupons
Tickets for 81 ,595 GoIIons
Found to Be Counterfeit
Or Unindorsed

Thirty-one additional service sta.
ton operators here have been noti-
fed by the District ONCE of Price
Administration that they must make
good 81 .595 gallons worth OF gaso-
line ration coupons found to be un.
indorsed by motorists or counterfeit
OPA already has charged 26 other
stations with 3,629 gallons worth oi
invalid coupons. All stations must
make the coupons good or face a re-
duction in their gasoline quotas
OPA has warned. Those who fail tc
do this face court action, officials
added.
OF the 51,595 gallons worth
checked by experts, 1,070 gallons
were found to be counterfeit, OPA
said yesterday.
More than half of the stations in
the city have been checked since
February Is and the drive is con-
tinuing, officials said.
The agency has staff Of experts
CHECK ping constantly on coupons sur
rendered by filling stations to local
banks. The banks, in turn, release
the coupons to the OPA for secret
tests.
A recent survey of 10000 gallons
worth of coupons showed that ap-
proximately 10 per cent were either
counterfeit, unindorsed, out of date
or had forged Endorsements.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Accused Man Allowed Bail
To Seek Real CuIprit

Police got the wrong man when
they picked up Washington's cham
plon butter" on a HOUSEKEEPING
charge-so he says.
What's more, the butting cham
pion promised Judge Thomas D,
Quinn in Municipal Court today he
would produce the real culprit.
III have him for you tonight. /"
he said.
The defendant is Theodore Roose-
velt Grant, Al, colored, 1900 block
OF Riggs street NV, known af-
fectlonately in his circle as John
Bull because of his peculiar prow-
ess with his noggin.
Grant was released under $500
bond pending grand jury action,
after he asked Judge Quinn to give
him a chance to look for the man
he says is really guilty of the crime.
Police arrested Grant after he
paWned a watch which had been
taken from house at 232 Tenth
street NE. on December IS. He said
he got the watch from an unknown
man.
Grant has been charged with
many things" said Denny Hughes,
his attorney, but never house
breaking"
Evening star., 1944-03-08

of Atlanta, Ga, took a desperate
chance, feeling that the jig was up
anyway. He turned the nose OF
the fort straight down in a dive
directly into the fax and in a few
thousand feet was able to bring it
under control.
When the dive started, Sergt
Herndon says, he had thrown of
his flax suit and was getting ready
to leave the ship by parachute
when Il found myself standing on
nothing with my head against the
roof. The other waist gunner was
in the same predicament, and there
was nothing we could do about it.
1t only lasted second or so. When
my head hit the roof, it bumped
very gently, and I didn't even get
a headache out of it. But when I
went up my whole insides seemed
to go up at the same time, and 1t
felt as if my stomach had risen
into my throat"
Other members of the crew were
not standing freely when the dive
started and hence did not experience
the same phenomenon.
A waists gunner in the same
squadron is Sergt. Robert M. Sweeny
of 304 North Glen avenue, An
napolis, Md, who has just COM
pleted his goth mission over Europe.
The toughest was the last when his
plane went over an unnamed target
deep in the continent and was in
battle with enemy fighters most of
the way.
1t was on this mission that
Sweeny had his first experience
with German rocket shells. They
knocked down one ship in his
formation.
First" he says, "there is a red
flash from under a wing of the
fighter, followed by red streak and
slight smoke trail. Then 1t bursts
like a flax she'll, only a lot worse )"
His ship is the Blitzing BETSY.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Chief Of Navy ChapIains
To Inspect Work Abroad

Capt. Robert D. Workman, Navy
chief of chaplains, will tour naval
bases and activities in the Carib-
bean, South America, Mediterranean
and British Isles to observe the ef-
Ifectiveness and efficiency of the
Navy Chaplain Corps work, the
Navy Department announced yester-
lday.
Capt. Workman, who lives at 384a
Livingston street NV, will be &C
companied on the two-month tou,
by Comdr. John r. Boslet, 373l
Thirty ninth street NV, Catholic
chaplain on duty in the directors
office at the Navy Department, ano
1t. Comdr. Joshua L. Goldberg
Long Island, N. Y. Jewish chaplain
attached to the Sd Naval District
Headquarters in New York.
The trip is the first official in
spection tour of the Navy Chaplain
Corps since the beginning of the
war.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Mrs. Milton K. Davis
Granted Reno Divorce

Emily K. Davis has obtained a
divorce from Milton K. Davis
Washington orchestra leader cur
rently playing at the Hamilton Ho-
tel, according to word received from
Reno, New. They were married in
New York in 1923 and have one
child. She charged cruelty.
Mr.. Davis lives at 63l South Fill
more street, Arlington.
Other divorce actions reported
from Reno today were:
Agnes E. Wood was granted a di-
vorce from Claude o. Wood, 151e
Oates street NE, formerly with the
Government Printing Office, on al
legation Of cruelty They were mar
ried in Washington in 1886.
Grover B. Luce, formerly of 1907
Kearney street NE, was divorced
for nonsupport by Dorothy Luce
who was granted permission to re-
sumo her maiden name, Dorothy
Wilson. They were married at Eli
cott City, Md, in 1896.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Admiral Thebaud Cited
For Role in Sicily LANDING

The Navy Department announced
today the award of the Legion OF
Merit to Rear Admiral Leo Hewlett
ThebaQd of Washington for services
while commanding officer of the
cruiser Boise during the amphibious
assault on Sicily last July 1912
The award was ordered by Vice
Admiral Henry K. Hewitt, com
mander of American naval forces
in Northwest African waters.
Rear Admiral Thebaud, whose
address is 1903 Nineteenth street
NV, was captain at the time
and his ship was assigned to bom-
harding enemy shore positions and
supporting the landing and initia.
advance.
Capt. Thebaud," says the citation
"by his aggressive leadership, sound
judgment and skillful maneuverine
OF his ship, carried out his mission
with outstanding effectiveness
thereby contributing greatly to the
success Of the invasion"
Evening star., 1944-03-08
McCarran Promises
Prompt Action on
Baby Broker Bill
Principle Endorsed
By Civic Groups at
Subcommittee Hearing

Prompt action on the "baby
broker" bill to license and regulate
all child placement agencies and
individuals was promised by Chair
man McCarran of a Senate District
Subcommittee after hearing yes
terday at which spokesmen for
nearly score of public, civic and
welfare groups Endorsed the prin-
lciple Of the House-approved meas
lure.
Impressed with stories Of how
newborn babies lose their identity,
are placed in unsuitable homes and
of other tragic" circumstances re-
sulting from commercialized child
placement operations, Senator Nc
Carran said action would be rec
commended shortly to the full Dis
trict Committee.
Split on One Provision.
Yesterdays hearing left doubt as
to agreement on but one feature Of
the plan, that relating to the con-
| fidential nature of the records of
the children subject to placement
and their parents and relatives. All
witnesses agreed to suggested elm
ination of the proviso that such
records shall not be open to in
spection or diyulged except with
the authority Of the Board of Pub
lie Welfare"
1t then was suggested there be
added a provision that such records
shall not be open to inspection
except to representative of the
Board of Public Welfare" This was
brought up by Corporation Counsel
Richmond B. Keech, who reported
one OF his assistants had advised
him the language had been ap-
proved by conference of a num-
Der Of spokesmen for interested
welfare agencies.
Miss Florence Murray, speaking
for the Very Rev. Lawrence j. Shee-
han of the Catholic Charities, who
could not be present, said she doubt
ed that Msgr. Sheehan was cor
rectly quoted as approving the addi-
ton. Mr.. Keech said he had not
attended the conference personally,
but would consult promptly with
Msgr. Sheehan.
Would Include Clergy, Doctors.
One proposed change accepted by
most witnesses calls for inclusion of
representatives of the clergy and
physicians on the Regulations Com
mittee. Under the House bill, the
committee would consist of a well
fare board member, representative
OF the Health Department, a mem
Der of the welfare board staff and
representatives of five charitable
organizations.
Spokesman for the Board Of
Trade, the Federation of Citizens
Association, the Women's Bar Asso-
ciation. League of Women Voters,
the Washington Bar Association
and the Federal and District gov
ernments were among witnesses in
dorsing the bill.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Bureau Of Standards
Explosion Declared
Accident by Army
Coroner Issues Certificate
In Death Of Women
Hurled Through Window

Army officials investigating the
Bureau of Standards explosion that
took the life of one person and
sent three others to hospitals Mon
day, definitely have established that
| 1t was accidental, it was learned to-
day.
There is no question but that
1t was an accident" DR.. Lyman j.
Briggs, director of the bureau, said.
Army officials have completed their
investigation and found nothing to
justify any suspicion that 1t could
have been otherwise"
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
yesterday issued q certificate of
accidental death for Mrs. Lorene
B. Chandler, who was hurled
through a second-story window of
the laboratory where the group was
conducting experiments in high
octane aviation gasoline. DR.. Mac
Donald said death was due to severe
burns.
Ensign Lawrence F.. Chandler,
q. S. N. r., left last night with his
wife's body for their home town
OF Bellevue, Nebr., where funeral
services will be held. The couple
was married last June and Mrs.
Chandler, who left her studies at
the University of Nebraska In
November to be with her husband
here, had been employed at the
bureau less than two weeks.
Three other persons working in
the laboratory at the time of the
explosion were reported recovering
today. DR.. Frank l.. Howard, 80
OF 1902 Lawndale drive, Silver
Spring, and Marie F. Whitesell, %
OF 2207 K street NV, are in Provi-
dence Hospital. Thomas w. Mears
Is, of 623 Oneida place NV, was
discharged from the hospital yes
terday, but is still under a doctors
care.
DR.. Howard, who also was blown
through the window, received a bro
ken leg in addition to suffering
severe burns and shock.
The Bureau of Standards has been
a restricted zone since the beginning
of the war when the Army virtually
took control to conduct secret ex-
perlments.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
laWRatoni;nq
&Reminders@a

Canned and Frozen Foods, Etc
Book No. 4. green stamps K, L, and
M valid through March 20 and
retain old values of 8, S, 2 and l
points. Book No. 4, blue stamps
A-8, B-8, C-8, D-8 and E-8 valid
through May 20 and worth 10
points each. Blue tokens and
green 1-point stamps may be used
as change.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book No. 3,
brown stamps Y and 2 valid
through March 20 and retain old
values Of 8, S, 2 and l points. Book
No. 4, red stamps A-8, B-8 and CO
good through May 20 and worth
10 points each. Red tokens and
brown 1-point stamps may be used
as change. Red Stamps D-8, E-8
and F-8, become valid Sunday and
are good for 10 points each
through May 20.
Sugar-Book No. 4, Stamp 80 valid
for pounds indefinitely. Book
No. 4, stamp 40 good for
for home canning through Febru-
ary %, 1945.
Gasoline-No. ga coupons good for
3 gallons through May 8. B-2,
CO, B-3 and C-3 coupons good
for gallons each.
ShOes-Stamp 18 in ration book
No l good for one pair through
April 80. Airplane stamp l in
book No. good indefinitely.
Fuel Oil-Period No. coupons good
through March 13. Period No. 4
coupons valid through September
80. Nos. and coupons good for
10 gallons per unit. Consumers in
this area should not have used
more than 78 per cent Of their to-
tai yearly fuel oil rations as Of
March 8.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
HouseGroup
Backs District
Boxing Bill
Gurnishee Measure
Also Approved
By Committee
BY DON s. WARREN.

By unanimous vote. the House
District Committee today favorably
reported the Harris bill to revamp
the District Boxing Commission pro-
cedures-without putting wrestling
under Its control--but by agreement
reserved for further study a pro-
posed ban on woman wrestling ex-
hibitions In the District.
The committee also reported
favorably the Randolph bill to
amend the Districts garnishee level
to raise the attachment exemption
from $50 to 500 in the monthly
earnings Of the person sued; and the
bill to prohibit the construction Of
an apartment house at the south.
west corner of Sixteenth and Shep-
herd streets NV. by directing the
Zoning Commission to change the
zoning classification of the property
to "a" restricted.
Worthless Check Liability.
After discussion of the bill to ex-
empt banks from liability for cash.
ing fradulently- drawn checks. tho
committee left the question in the
hands of subcommittee headed by
Representative Lesinski, Democrat,
Of Michigan for further study.
Adoption Of the bill was urged by
Francis G. Addison, representing the
District Bankers Association, who
told how Washington banks had
been victimized by checks drawn by
a Government agent for fictitious
payroll. Further study was agreed
on, however, when many legal ques-
tions were asked by Representative
Murphy, Democrat, Of Pennsylvania.
Chairman Randolph explained the
committee was awaiting a report on
the bill from the Justice Depart
ment and said it had received an
adverse report from the Treasury.
Boxing Bill Features.
The boxing bill, whipped into final
shape after months of study by a
subcommittee headed by Repre-
sentative Harris, Democrat, of
Arkansas provides for salaries of
up to $1,000 a year for the two
civilian members Of the commission;
retains member of the police de-
partment as commission member,
limits the commissions gate tax
(now 10 per cent? to per cent,
limits the commissions reserve fund
at the end of any fiscal year to
$40 900 and provides that any sur
plus above this sum shall be turned
into the general revenues of the
District.
While approving the Harris bill,
Representatives D'Alesandro, Demo-
crat, OF Maryland; Rowe, Repub-
lican, Of Ohio, and Lesinski, insisted
that something be done to prevent
women wrestling exhibitions here.
1t was agreed that study should be
given to a separate bill dealing with
this subject. Mr.. Harris and Police
Inspector Clarence Talley, boxing
commission member, said they felt
the Districts police powers could be
employed to stop women wrestling
If such exhibitions were found in
decent, but there was insistencs
that legislation might provide Q
surer cure.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
ParochiaI School Reopens;
MAY Get Needed Fuel Oil

Pupils of st. Dominic's Parochial
School returned to classes today
after a two-day holiday because OF
insufficient fuel oil to heat the
building, as church officials awaited
an expected decision this afternoon
by Ration Board No. so on their
application for a supplemental fuel
oil allotment.
The school closed Monday morn
Ing after the Very Rev. r. j. Dewd-
ney, pastor of the parish, had been
informed by the board that it would
he impossible to release additional
lftsons before March 18, according
II the assistant pastor, the Rev
C2niel Hamilton. Father Hamilton
seld the board has since informed
the rectory that it would be possible
fer the church to receive an extra
allotment under its emergency pro-
gram.
Application for additional fuel was
filed by Father Dewdney yesterday
He said the rooms could be heated
for a few hours today on the fuel
the school has left in its tanks.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Three Youths Held TO Jur,
In 5000 Forgery Case

Three youths, the oldest 20, were
held under $1,000 bond each for the
grand jury by United States Com
missioner Needham C. Turnage to-
day on charges Of forging a check
for 5000.
Those accused are James Robert
Jones, 10, OF 1121 I street NE; Ed
ward j. Regan, 20, of 400 G street
NE, and William j. Haag, 10, of 824
Seventh street NE.
According to Detective Sergt.
Dewey Guest the trio met at Haag's
home February IS. Rummaging
through the upstairs rooms they
found bank book belonging to
George A. Watts. Haag's stepfather,
an oflcial of a sheet metal workers
union.
Sergt. Guest said they drew a
check for 5000, tracing the signature
with the aid Of strong light placed
under the check, and cashed it.
Regan, who was arrested in nearby
Maryland, was found in a car al
legedly purchased with part Of the
stolen money.
Haag was arrested several days
ago and Jones surrendered to police
early today.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Alleged Droft Evoder
Freed Pending Appeal

Willis E. Giese, 36, former unit
chief of the War Manpower Com
mission, who was sentenced on Feb
ruary Is by Justice David A. Pine of
District Court to serve from three
months to three years on q charge
OF failing to report for induction,
was freed under $4,000 bond today,
pending appeal Of the case in the
Court Of Appeals.
The appeal is based on the de-
fense's contention that the Presi-
dents appeal board, which ruled on
Giese's classification was composed
of military men. The defendants
attorney, Edmund D. Campbell, con-
tends it should have been composed
of civilians.
Giese claims to be a conscientious
Obiector.
Evening star., 1944-03-08

ting the moon-at least it did until
the unique experience the other day
of Sergt. Roland Herndon of Swords
Greek, Va, a waist gunner on a
heavy bomber stationed here. He
and his fellow waist gunner are per-
haps the only two men in the world
who have fallen up instead of down
but their experience was accord
ing to the laws of classical physics
and not relativity
They were free-falling bodies in
closed in more rapidly falling body
and as a result both hung suspended
for several seconds with their heads
against the roof of the waist COM
partment, dancing on air with
nothing holding them up. It was
during a recent raid over Munster
One of the forts flying near was
knocked out by flax. The pilot COM
pletely lost control Of it. It was
coming straight at the plane of
which Herndon is one of the crew
members.
A crash in the air seemed in
evitable. But the pilot of Sergt.
Herndon's ship, 1t. D. w. Sullivan
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Pepco Attacks
Proposal toCut
Basis for Rates
Cross-Exumine
Accountant on
Capital Reduction

Attorneys for the Potomac Electric
Power Co. today critically examined
computations Of v. A. McElfresh,
chief accountant of the Public Util-
tiles Commission, showing the pos
sibility of eliminating more than
81, 1000 of working capital from
the rate base of the power company
Mr.. McElfresh admitted he did
not know "of1 hand" of any court
decisions disallowing such working
capital from the rate base of the
utility company, but said he had
discussed the matter with an expert
formerly with the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
II a reduction is made in the rate
base of the company, Mr.. McElfresh
testified, 1t would have the effect
OF reducing rates to the consumers.
He made his suggestion that cash
working capital could be eliminated
because the lag in payment of taxes
was greater than the lag in collec-
tion of revenues. He estimated this
lag leaves the company with cash
on hand at any one time of 1851, 600
Harry r. Booth, special counsel for
the Procurement Division of the
Treasury Department, who has been
at variance with the majority of the
commission for several years, brought
about a new situation in the annual
rate hearing by offering to have his
own experts testify in behalf of Mr..
McElfreshs computations.
Mr.. McElfresh's testimony brought
to an end testimony by the commits
sion on the computation of the rate
base of Pepco.
AS the hearing opened last week,
Mr.. Elfresh testified he found the
rate base Of Pepco on December 81,
1943, at $105. .578,192.98 while the
controller for Pepco set the figure at
$107, ,106,516.40. The question of the
rate base was not involved in last
years hearings.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Col. Bartlett Beaman
Promoted 10 General

Col. Bartlett Beaman, whose wife
Mrs. Helen Beaman, lives at Alban
Towers here, was promoted to briga-
dier general yesterday, according to
an Associated Press report from
London.
Maj, Gen. James H. Doolittle
commander of the 9th Air Force,
pinned the insignia on Gen. Beaman
chief of staff of Flying Fortress
division. Gen. Beaman is from Bos-
TIM, Mass.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
John R. Irwin, IS,
Dies at Duuqhter's Home

John Richmond Irwin, IS, died
yesterday at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. John c. Niedermair, 6ll6
Thirty second street NV. He had
been an invalid for a number of
years.
A native of HARRISON, Ontario,
Canada, Mr.. Irwin had lived here
for about IL years. For many years
he was in the carpentry and build
| ing business in New York, retiring
in 1924. He was naturalized citi-
zen.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. tomorrow at the Reuben
Pumphrey funeral home, 1857 Wis
consin avenue. Burial will be In
Harriston.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
| January Exports
| Up 46 Per Cent
From Year Ago
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
January exports aggregating ST.
084 100000 marked the ninth con-
secutive month in which shipments
exceeded the billion dollar mark,
the Census Bureau reported today.
The January total was 46 per cent
higher than that of the same month
a year ago, but 13 per cent below
December The figures embrace
lease-lend shipments, but exclude
goods sent to United States forces
abroad.
Imports valued at 10000, 900 in
January were 33 per cent above the
total for the same month of 1943
and ~ per cent higher than in De-
cember.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Montgomery County
To Join District in
Postwar Job Survey
Col. Arthur, D. c. Officer
Sees Money Available
To Areas With PIons
By MRS. J. REED BRADLEY.

Montgomery County will join with
the Washington Board of Trade in
making survey of postwar job
possibilities for the county's 10000
servicemen, under the terms of q
resolution introduced at a meeting
OF the County Postwar Planning
Committee last night in the Bethes-
da Elementary School.
The resolution, offered by Fred
Lutes, followed an hour of contro-
versy over whether or not the public
debt should be increased by heavy
spending by county, State and
Federal governments.
Col. Joseph D. Arthur, Assistant
Engineer Commissioner for the Dis
trict, spoke Of the Districts plans
for development in the postwar Pc
riod. Col. Arthur stressed the i'm
portance of having definite plans
worked out for specific projects SC
they could be put into operation
in a short time.
There is going to be plenty OF
money available for spending after
the war and the group which ha.
had foresight enough to carry its
plans beyond the blueprint stage
will get its share Of that money,
he declared. Men can't 60 to worl
on a proposal or an artists draw.
ing"
Manpower Readjustment.
Fred G. Macarow, vice chairman
OF the Postwar Planning Committee
Of the Board Of Trade, and Greater
Washington representative of the
National Council for Economic De.
velopment, discussed plans for pri-
vate industry and finance to cope
with the problems of postwar man.
power readjustment.
Mr.. Macarow assured the county
committee that the Washington
Board Of Trade would be glad tc
have its cooperation in making the
job survey.
A resolution by Emory Bogley
urged construction of "a modern
suitable and adequate recreation
SNAAA6 oAA0 ddC4OdCC SWuIllIllIlk
facilities" at the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Recreation Center to serve
the western suburban area. The
resolution asked that the appropri-
ate authorities proceed with the
preparation of all necessary arcli-
tectural and engineering construc-
ton plans for use at the earliest
possible date.
Committee Rues Amended.
The rules Of the committee were
amended to allow resolutions pre-
sented to the chairman between
meetings to be referred to standing
committees Immediately after writ
ten notification to all members OF
the General Committee. Such reso-
lutions then could be reported on
at the next meeting.
1t. Col. E. Brooke Lee, presiding
officer, announced that the mex,
meeting would be held at the LIQUOR
Dispensary Building in Silver Spring
at pm. April 4.