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pushing fishcarts. Most Of the origi-
nal cast ultimately was picked from
Negro singers with conservatory
training, Duncan getting his chance
after singing in the all-Negro pro-
duction of "Cavalleria Rusticana," I"
at Mecca Temple in New York.
He laughed yesterday at the recol-
lection Of wiring Gershwin that he
couldn't come to New York for a
trial, not realizing the opportunity
for career the offer held He did
go a week later, however, and was
chosen for the part after singing a
few bars Of 18th century Italian
song. Ne thought it curious that
Gershwin, looking for Negro
to sing songs with the warmth and
feeling OF the race, should pick him
over hundreds of others after, hear
ing him sing in Italian.
"Porgy and Bess' is a production
Duncan will not forget, he said yes
terday, and it is not hard to under
stand the reason.
Eye on the Box ONCE.
Duncan, who tomorrow night will
sing "Ol' Man River" Walk With
Me" and Every Time I Feel the
Spirit" among other numbers, had
the satisfaction of playing two
record-breaking weeks on the West
Coast in the annual Los Angeles
Light Opera Festival. The COM
pany crossed $4,000 the first week
and $4,000 the second, and Duncan
is one to keep an eye on the box
of11ce. the only real gauge OF sue
cess in the theater.
Some day Duncan thinks he may
return to teaching musician avo-
cation he processes to like, but ex-
actly when. he can't say. He hasn't
spent two consecutive months at
his comfortable home here in the
last four years and Thursday he's
off again to fill more engagements.
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80 Boys Sought to Work
AT CenterviIIe Forms

Eighty District boys over IA are
needed for volunteer farm work at
Centerville, on Maryland's Eastern
Shore, John Jones, extension serv-
ice farm labor recruiting director,
said today.
Mr.. Jones said the boys will be
paid 40 cents an hour to detassel
corn and will be charged 81 a day
for room and board. He said volun-
teers must register at his office at
the United States Employment
Service headquarters, Fifth and K
streets NV, between 9 and II am.
Friday. They will be taken to Gen.
terville by bus Sunday morning.
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Baltimore Hospitals
Facilities Reduced
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, July 4.-Baltimore
hospitals were faced today with the
necessity of taking more beds out
of use because of the nurse shortage.
DR.. Merrill Stout, director of the
Hospital for the Women of Mary
land, announced yesterday that OF
20 beds will not be used for six
weeks to two months At the same
time P. J. McMillin, superintendent
Of city hospitals. disclosed that de-
pletion Of the nursing staff had
necessitated taking 80 additional
beds out of use during the last two
months. bringing the total number
now unused to 800.
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Foirfux School Bourd
Reflects F. W. Robinson

Frederick w. Robinson, Herndon,
yesterday was reelected chairman
OF the Fairfax County School Board
at q reorganization meeting Of the
board. Mr.. Robinson has served
as chairman Of the board for the
last four years.
A special meeting of the board
will be held at 10 am: Thursday in
the Farr Building to open bids on
the proposed new high school build
ing at Falls Church, which will re-
place the Jefferson School. The
board also will discuss revised plans
for the new elementary school
building at Oakton.
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Fairfax Rotary Club
InstoIIs New Officers

Oficers and directors of Fairfax
Rotary Club were installed yesterday
by Stanley King, former president
OF Alexandria Rotary Club.
Thomas E. McDonough, manager
OF the local office of the Virginia
Electric g. Power Co., was installed
as president. He succeeds Common
wealth's Attorney Hugh B. Marsh,
who will serve as vice president.
Other officers include Bennett w.
King. secretary. and Judge Harry L.
Carrico, treasurer. Besides the
officers, other members of the board
are James E. Bauserman, Paul c.
Kincheloe and Thomas P. Chapman.
jr. Sheriff E. p Kirby was named
sergeant at arms.
Evening star., 1944-07-04
800 Ask for Advice Daily
At Recreation Department
Wartime Conditions Increase Work Of
New Agency, but Facilities Are Locking

Where can I play tennis? Where
can study French? Where can
place my child during the day this
summer"
The District Recreation Depart
ment answers 800 Of these questions
every day as it goes into its third
year Of directing public recreation
In Washington. The wartime
crowds and travel limitation have
doubled the demand on public rec
reation facilities.
Recreational opportunity offered
to the public gives the impression
Of having increased greatly since
the Recreation Board was created
and the Recreation Department or
ganized in July, 1912. Actually
only nine new Fairgrounds and nine
new day camps have been added
to the total of 103 recreation facil-
tiles operated by the schools, the
Commissioners and the National
Capital Parks before unification of
the service in 1912.
Seven-Day Week.
But members Of the Recreation
Board and Milo r. Christiansen,
recreation superintendent, have
stressed longer hours and q seven
day week at many Fairgrounds. All
Fairgrounds formerly closed at 6
pm. Now they do not close till
dusk. which means that war work.
ers often have two or three hours
use of recreation facilities after
work each day.
Before, Fairgrounds were closed
Saturday or OPEN only a half day.
Now all the larger grounds which
serve all age groups are open all
day Saturday and on Sunday after
Moons -
! Fools operated by the department
also have been opened longer hours
on weekdays and have been opened
for the first time on week ends. The
department co-operated in opening
youth canteens" at Is public
schools to present dancing parties
and other recreation for teen
ayers"
Day Camps Crowded.
The day camp program, two-week
periods Of all-day play at park sites
equipped with outdoor fireplaces,
was started last year by Mr.. Chris
tiansen. This summer the number
of camps was increased from five
to nine. But on the opening day,
Monday, Mr.. Christensen already
had to announce all the camps but
Evening star., 1944-07-04

Only three hours after he was
told that his son, Pfc. Grover C.
Taylor, USMC. had been killed in
action on Saipan Island in the South
Pacific, o. H. Taylor. ATOP Decatur
street, Edmonston, Md, died of a
heart attack in Prince Georges Gen.
eral Hospital.
Mrs. Taylor said she first learned
OF her sons death from a Navy
chaplain, who called at her home
Saturday-her 39th birthday. Short
ly afterWard she received a tele-
gram confirming the news.
Meanwhile, a friend had called
Mr.. Taylor, a guard at the Treasury
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Mrs. Spootz Raises Flag
In Railways Ceremony

Employees of the Southern Railway
Co. celebrated the Fourth of July
today with flag-raising ceremonies
in front of the company Offices at
400 South Henry street, Alexandria.
An American flag was purchased
by subscription among the employees
and a 60-foot steel pole was erected
by railroad workers.
The flag was raised by Mrs. Carl
Spaatz, wife of the commanding
general of the Strategic Air Forces
in Western Europe. Alexandria s
Fifth War Loan drive Is dedicated
to 1t, Gen, SpaatZ.
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ID Injured, None Totally,
In Arlington in June

Arlington County Police Chief
Harry L. woodward today reported
there had been no traffic fatalities
IN the county during June. Fourteen
persons were injured in 80 automo-
bile accidents. however.
Arrests totaled 270, with 1873 for
traffic offenses and 1872 miscellane-
Gus. Other items in the report in
cluded issuance of lib parking tick
cts, $1,925.25 in fines and court
costs, stolen property reported total
ing $l,647, with $649 local and $500
out-of-town property recovered;
stolen automobiles valued at $4,000
reported, with 5000 of the total re-
covered.
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Red Cross Correspondent

Mrs. Margaret E. McNaughton Of
Parkfairfax, Alexandria, has been
named junior Red Cross correspond
ent for the Eastern area by Ramone
S. Eaton, area manager. Mrs. Nc
Naughton will keep in touch with
junior Red Cross chapters In Penn
sylvania, Virginia and West vir-
ginia and correlate junior Red Cross
activities in the chapters under her
supervision.
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Blood PIasma: May Be
Ready by Aug. | for
Civilian Emergencies
New Organization PIons
To Supply Fluid at
Greatly Reduced Prices

Blood plasma may be ready fo1
distribution for civilian emergencies
here about August /, under tenta-
tive plans announced today by DR..
Roger M. Choisser. newly elected
president of the Community Blood
PlaSma Bank of Washingtton.
DR.. Choisser was elected head OF
the new organization at a meeting
Of the board of directors Saturday
DR.. John A. Reed was named vice
president, and Fred A. Walker of
the Central Labor Union was made
secretary-treasurer
Will BE incorporated.
The organization, which tenta-
lively adopted its new name Satur-
day, Is to be incorporated as soon
as legal technicalities can be COM
pleted, DR.. Choisser said.
The new organization succeeds
the former Once Of Civilian De-
Tense blood bank, established to
meet emergencies during air raids,
but since the danger from raids has
so greatly minimized. the $500 units
of plasma obtained by the OCD or
eanization, now frozen and distrib-
uted among 10 hospitals is being
to the new bank.
Under proposed plans. this plasma
will be made available for emer-
gency patients at greatly reduced
prices, DR.. Choisser said. A unit of
$50 &C. of frozen plasma may be
sold at the regular price of about
$l8, with the understanding that
when and If, a relative or friend OF
the patient donates a pint of blood
to the new bank. there probable will
be q refund of about $40 on the
price. In this way it is hoped to
keep UP the supply to its present
$500 units.
Union Supplies Apparatus.
Blood donors probably will be
asked to go to the police-flre clinic
at the fire station on Thirteenth
street near K street NV, and the
blood will be processed at the lab
oratory at George Washington Uni
versity Medical School, under direc-
ton of DR.. ChoiSser.
Laboratory apparatus for prepara-
tion Of the blood was paid for by
the Central Labor Union. which will
continue to cooperate in the new
This program has no
connection with the blood donor
program of the American Red Cross,
which operates to supply the Army
and Navy.
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Baltimore Census Coins
1A,891 in 81 Months
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 4.-Metropoli-
tan Baltimore has had a civilian
population growth Of 124.891 per-
sons from April l, 1910. to November
l, 1913, Census Bureau estimates,
based on registrations for War
Ration Book No. 4, disclosed today.
OF the increase 99,762 were fe-
males and 25,129 were males, the
census report showed. The drain
of men into the armed forces was
held responsible for the difference.
Evening star., 1944-07-04


place NV, so that the officers s.
month-old son, Houston Stafford
Park III, whom he had never seen,
may know of the esteem in which
his father was held.
1t. Parks death earlier had been
formally announced at court by
Charles E. Stewart, District Court
clSrk.
In praising 1t. Park, Justice Pine
declared:
He has given his life in order
that you and I might live
1t. Park was native of Tus-
caloosa, Ala, where his parents still
live He was appointed court clerk
April 2, 1910, when Justice Pine took
his place on the bench here.
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Theoter to Aid Bond Drive

The Reed Theater in Alexandria
will sponsor a special movie attrac-
ton in behalf of the Fifth War Loan
drive at 7:30 pm Thursday. The
picture will be Two Girls and a
Sailor" Free tickets will be given to
all bond purchasers at booths, the
post Office and banks.
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Intruder Shot Tryinq
To MoIest SIeepinq
Woman in Berwyn
New Yorker Wounded
Critically in Struggle to
Force Him From Home

A New York man. believed to be a
wanderer, was critically wounded
early today when shot In the face
after breaking into a Berwyn (Md.)
home and attempting to modest the
wife Of a serviceman as she was
sleeping In q combination bedroom
kitchen, Prince Georges County
police reported.
County Policeman Horace E. King
and Richard A. Pearson said the
New Yorker, identified by a draft
card as William j. Hogan, about As,
was shot by James H. Lee after he
broke into the Lee home at S704
Baltimore boulevard. Berwyn, and
attempted to molest Mr.. Lees
daughter, Mrs. Bernice Main, whose
husband Is in the Navy in the
Pacific.
Police said Mrs. Main, who with
her 6-month-old child has been
living with her parents during her
husbands absence. screamed when
the man approached her bed. Her
cries woke her father and mother
sleeping upstairs.
They said Mrs. Lee was the first
to reach her daughter and that the
two attempted to push the intruder
out through the kitchen door.
Neither had ever seen the man
before. Mr.. Lee was quoted as say
ing Hogan was struggling to re-
main In the house when Mr.. Lee
reached the. kitchen and that he
fred at the man as he reached
toward his hip pocket.
:. Police said Hogan's hat and bag
were found in clump Of high grass
across the street. He was taken to
Casualty Hospital where attendants
described his condition as critical.
Police said Mr.. Lee was charged
with assault and was released on
81 900 bond pending outcome of
HOganS injuries.
Evening star., 1944-07-04

one, Foundry Branch. Forty. first
street and Reservoir road N. w.,
filled to capacity all summer.
AL permits for use OF flreplaces
in the park, tennis courts, for soft
ball diamonds and other recreation
facilities are now issued only by the
department, Sixteenth and Lamont
streets NV. More than 1000 COL
ored and white softball teams, for
example. now apply weekly for use
of fields all over the city. Use of
picnic grounds has increased.
The department has continued to
maintain services in practice before
l942-such as furnishing song books
for singing festivals: teaching
French, Spanish, dancing; bridge
stamp collecting, drama. opera and
musical instruments. 1t has also
started an exercise and dancing
class for men and women over a
and co-operated in the pre-induc-
ton school which gave hardening
exercises to dozens Of men facing in
duction into the armed forces. It
sponsors Women's Battalions, hum
dreds Of young women who travel
to nearby military installations to
attend dances. It grants permits
to all organizations which wish to
use school property after $3.50 pm.
Looking to Future.
After the war the department
hopes to build new pools and light
many of its Fairgrounds for night
games and dances. The Recreation
and Education Boards are cooper
ating on studies Of postwar schools
equipped with public playground
facilities. Mr.. Christensen also
anticipates, he said, that several
pools and bicycle concessions nov
operated by the sWelfare and Rec
reational Association may be turned
over to his department when the
associations contract expires in
l947.
Besides expanding activity in the
the Recreation Board
also has made gains in appropria-
tions to improve facilities. It's an
nual budget has increased from
$406, 900 to $677, 900 in two years
Twenty-one Fairgrounds are being
improved through a 100000 Ian
ham Act program. now 60 per cent
completed. An item of $4,000 for
purchase of three Fairgrounds in
the business section was included
by Congress in the Districts 1914
AZ anYYonrio tim
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Suve This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack Of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for Army and Navy supplies
shipped overseas. Every pound
OF old newspapers and maga-
1nes is needed. Telephone your
nearest school or notify some
school child in your block to
have your paper picked up.
Evening star., 1944-07-04

was killed IN the
landing on Sal
pan.
Justice Pin e
ordered the rec
ord to show the
court action was
taken out of re-
ect to the
memory of the
30-year-old for
mer clerk.
An account of
the proceedings
will be sent to
1t. Parks widow,
who lives at 2909
-y ~
Evening star., 1944-07-04
Brio. Currie Killed

LONDON, July 4 (P.-Brig. John
Cecil Currie. thrice awarded the
Distinguished D Service Order for gall
lantry in the Middle East and Italy,
has been killed in action, it was an
nounced today. The announcement
gave no details.
Evening star., 1944-07-04
28 Chevy Chase Men
Report for Induction

Montgomery County Selective
Service Board No. at Chevy Chase
announced today that "a selectees
and volunteers reported yesterday
for induction into the armed serv-
ices.
The selectees are:
Grafton. Dudley c. Trussell, Charles r.
Manlandro, James J. Metz, Clarence T.
Blumbera, Raoul Moran. Francis L.
warren. Monroe, Jr. Downey Michael j.
volgt' Henry M. Harris. Kenneth c.
11tus, Ka!ph e. Frazier. James W.
nan, Wlliam b. Holland. Thomas E.
Hunt, Willard NJ. Saunders Richar rd w
Money, Carlton A. Grethe Aubrey =
Lozupone. Angelo I. Arsem Collins
HOFFMAN, John D. MusEroye Irving u
Lucia, Robert E. Hess Gordon A
The volunteers are:
Navy.
SLAUGHTER John L. Coleman. Marshall =
Daniels. Richard G.
Marine Corps.
Dat rin
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Court Honors Clerk
Killed at Saipan

Justice David A. Pine yesterday
adjourned District Court in honor
of his former clerk. 1t. Houston
Saffold Park, jr., Marine Corps, who
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o. H. Taylor. Pve. Grover Taylor.
Department, and told him to come
home because his wife was i'll. When
he arrived and was told that his son
had been killed. Mrs. Taylor said,
he took the news calmly with no
outward show of emotion.
Complains Of Indigestion.
About two hours later, however,
she recalled, he complained of in
digestion, although he had not eaten
Evening star., 1944-07-04


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Hoppel. Patrick II
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1944-12-25
COMMANDS
WORK FOR
BIO PLANES

1t. Col. Robert J. Gleason,
well known in Alaska, where he
lived for over 10 years while he
was connected with Pan Ameri-
can Anyways and previous to
that with the Signal Corps, is
pictured in the November 18th
issue of the Seattle Post Intel
ligencer along with three other
Seattle men who met for the
first time recently at the Goth
Bomber Command Headquarters
in India.
Col. Gleason is now command
ing officer of an Army anyways
communications system group,
which provides radio aids for
B-29 Superfortresses operating
against vital japanese industrial
targets.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1944-12-25
TO AGAIN PLAY
ROLE OF
SANTA CLAUS

HEADQUARTERS ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT = Alaskan De-
partment Chaplain Joseph M.
Apologize of Los Angeles, Calf. :,
will again place the role of San
ia Claus this Christmas to CTS
stationed in out-of-the-way,
northern outposts, according to
plans recently announced at
Alaskan Department headquar-
tiers.
The trip, which will be made
by army plane, is expected to
cover approximately the same
group of outposts visited by
Chaplain Appellate last year,
when a similar mission was car
ried out. The itinerary will in
clude CAMPS and stations not
provided with year-around chap
lains. Religious services will be
conducted and gifts will be dis
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1944-12-25
sRUSTY" HEURLINE
NOW IN PIT. BARROW

Rusty" Heurline, the Alaskan
painter who wintered in Nome
last year, is spending the win
ter in PIT. Barrow. He is now
painting the portrait of Charles
Brewer, probably one of the
most publicized and typical of
Alaskans.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1944-12-25
THANKS,


The following communication
has been recently received from
1t. Gen. o. N. Bradley, and |
self explanatory:
The Nome Nugget,
Nome, Alaska.
% October, 1874
Gentlemen:
The copy of your paper, date
July 8, 1914, reached me toda.
I found it very interesting an
appreciate your sending it I
me. I have always looked upo
Alaska as an exceedingly attras
tive place and hope that afte
the war I may be able to pa
your country a visit.
0. N. BRADLEY,
Northumberland,
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tributed.
Presents for the enlisted men,
furnished by the University Re-
ligious Conference of the Uni
versity of California, were gift
wrapped by the Home Builders
Class of the Figueroa Boulevard
Christian Church of Los Ange-
les. Chaplain Appellate former
ly served that church as pastor
for II years and was founder of
the Home Builders Class. This
year the class, knowing it would
prove a source of pleasure to
their former pastor, requested
permission to wrap the packages
intended for Alaskan Depart
ment distribution and the uni
versity group readily granted
their wish.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1944-12-25
COMMITTEE REPORTS
ON IT'S FINDINGS
Continued from Page 12)

papers.
To urg e Congress and the
War Department to make Army.
landing fields in Alaska avail
able for civilian aviation.
To urge the Territorial Road
Board to procure housing facil-
tiles at the Serpentine Hot
Springs.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1944-12-25

Clouds are rarely observed
more than six miles above the
earth.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1944-12-25

Distance of the moon from the
earth varies as much as 10000
miles.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1944-12-25

Advertise in The Nugget. d.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1944-12-25

HEADQUARTERS ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT = Alaskan De-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-13
10 District Area Men
Home on FurIouqh
From Overseas

In keeping with the troop rota-
ton plan, 20 District area men have
been returned home on furlough
recently after duty overseas. The
names, home addresses, branches of
service and lengths of time in for
eign service for these men follow:
Pacific Theater~
Master Sergt. Albert Smietani, 2aIs Nc
Giii terrace NV, 80 months with the
Stan .serst. John Wilson, jr., lel Ra-
leigh street Sc. 81 months with the
Pfc. Joseph o. Pettis. $3.50 O stree,
N% s.r.t J monthS ., With rs sisnsi Corps
Kennedy street NV. "a MONTHS With The
Capt. Arthur L. Mcneil. 44o1 Garrison
street NV l,.n 80 months with the Quarter
u, Col W. s. Ramsay, 6ss Irving
street N.Y. w. 40 months with the Quarter.
PVT. Ernest c. Mcclure, Al Mellon
Stan Sergt. Louis NJ Howard lis Fort
drive. Alexandria, "a months with the
Pfc David E. Van Malta, 1908 Leslie
avenue. Alexandria, 10 months with the
Eurepean Theat@r
NJ 1T1orpl. J. E. Felter, 55l7 seventh street
~ ", 20 months with the air force
FIRST 1t. Don F. Mars $500 Thirty
sixtn street NV. Is months with the
PIC RAYMOND E. Hol.sclav. ST.. go5
Mig niig street road. Alexandra, nine months
Stan Sergt. Thomas j. Kirchein 1880
queen street NE, six months with the
=, First, 1t. John B. Casey, 9O5 X street
NE, six months with the air force
FIRST Ii. Thrift B. Eigin jr liza
Allison street NV, seven months With
the air force
Capt. Charles II. Rosenberg. 1925 Holly
Second 1t RAYMOND / Cady. 4401 Ninth
street NV, eight months with the air
force
:. STAFF Serst Everett S Pearson. Iorton.
Va 10 months with the air force
Tech. Sergt. William Rowland 81 Full.
with the air force
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