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Evening star., 1944-05-28
American Legion
Memorial Service
AtArlington

Inc American Legion, under aus
pices of its National Pilgrimage
Committee, will hold memorial serv-
ices, for veterans of both World
Wars at the Argonne Cross, Arling-
ton National Cemetery, at noon on
Tuesday. It will include the laying
OF wreath by national and depart
ment officers, escorted by the
national guard of honor.
Following this program, services
will be held in the Amphitheater
where colors of the various posts will
be massed with other patriotic or
ganizations. Admission to the Am
phitheater will be by card.
Department Comdr. G. Francis
Mccarthy announced last week that
rs posts of the department have
made or exceeded their membership
quota.
1t is expected the department
membership will exceed IL 900 by the
time of the National Convention at
the end of July.
Jane A. Delano Post will hold its
annual nurses memorial service in
Arlington National Cemetery in the
nurses plot at pm. today. Col
Carlos Romulo will be the speaker.
The post will meet next Thursday
evening at the Legion clubhouse for
nomination and election of officers
and election Of delegates to the
convention.
Government Printing Office Posi-
presented the Eleanor Roosevelt
Navy Wives Club, Chapter 81, with
an American flag last Thursday. A
delegation of Legionnaires,s headed
by Comdr. Harold Hampshire, at.
tended.
The post is making plans to OBJ
serve its 10th anniversary in July ir
the form of buffet supper.
Legion certificates of merit and g
school plaque will be presented tc
the outstanding boy and girl of the
Eliot Junior High School next
month.
U. S. Jacob Jones Post will hole
memorial services at the Argonne
Cross, Arlington National Gene.
terry, at S pm. today.
Department of Agriculture Pos
Will hold memorial services at 43(
pm. today at the Chapel of thu
Epiphany, Twelfth and C street.
S.W. Details from the WACS
WAVES, SPARS and Marines vii
form a living cross during a portion
OF the service, which will be con.
Quoted by the Rev. Francis Yarnell
There will be brief exercises in thu
Agriculture Department patio at .
am. May 80.
United States Internal Revenue
Post met Thursday at Stansbury
temple, with Comdr. Robert E. Var
Every presiding. Capt. Francis Mil.
Ter and the Forty and Eight ritua
team conducted the initiation serv
ices for Is new members.
The moonlight cruise of the DOS
will be held June 30.
Legion headquarters request,
Legionnaires mail their Legior
magazines to friends and relatives il
the armed services throughout tn,
world.
U. s. Jacob Jones Post indorset
Joseph J. Malloy for reelection a
national committeeman.
At a meeting of the World Wa
II National Liaison Committee her
plans were discussed and program
agreed upon for an enlargement o
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Colored Masons

The 119th anniversary of Social
Lodge of Colored Masons will be
observed with services at the Scot
tish Rite Cathedral, 1888 Eleventh
street NV, at $3.50 pm. June 4. The
sermon will be delivered by the Rev.
Richard w. Hall.
David P. Highley was elected
president of the Acacia Temple
Builders Association. The associa-
ton will conduct a mortgage burn
ing in the near future.
The semiannual communication
of Acacia Grand Lodge will be held
at 7 pm. June ID at the Scottish
Rite Cathedral.
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Shoes-Airplane stamps l and 2 in
Book No. 3 good indefinitely.
Special shoe stamp form R-1708
is valid for only 80 days after date
Of issue. In cases of refunds and
defective shoes, the 30-day limit
does not apply.
Bicycles - Persons gainfuIly en-
ployed or those who are doing
voluntary work in connection with
the war effort or the public well
fare, as well as pupils, may obtain
certificates for the purchase of
bicycles If they need bicycles for
travel between home and work or
school, subject to certain excep.
tions.
New Cars-Those gainfully en-
ployed or doing voluntary war or
public welfare work are eligible
to obtain rationing certificate
: for the purchase Of cars with a
list price of over $1,50O, or con-
vertibles, regardless of price.
Eligibility for automobiles with
a list price of less than $500,
except convertibles. Is confined to
persons who can show the imme-
diate need for car in any of the
essential occupations (such as war
workers, physicians, ministers,
etc. who do not now have the use
of an adequate car.
New 1912 model passenger cars
with a list price of more than
$2,500 and 1941 model cars driven
less than 1000 miles are available
without rationing certificates.
Before cars can be titled, the
purchaser must supply the District
director of vehicles with a receipt
showing the former owner has
turned in his gasoline ration to his
board.
Stoves-All new domestic cooking
and heating stoves designed to
burn coal, wood, oil or gas are
now rationed. Apply to your local
ration board for stove purchase
certificate.
Tires-Al classes Of drivers may now
have tires recapped without OBJ
tanning certificates from their ra-
tion boards. Holders of B and C.
books eligible for new tires. A
book holders also eligible for used
tires (grade -.
Certificates must be obtained
from the rationing board for the
purchase Of any type of tire. Ger
tif1cates are issued only after pres
entation Of applications on which
tire inspector has certified the
need for requirements and II ap-
plicants are eligible.
Inner Tubes-Used passenger car
and truck inner tubes have been
removed from rationing restIic-
tions. New inner tubes, however,
are still rationed.
Tire Inspection-Periodic tire in
spection for A, B and G ration
holders is no longer required. Per-
sons desiring tire replacements
still must obtain an inspection.
Rubber Boots and Rubber Work
Shoes-Regulations have been re-
laxed to make all persons who
need type below-the-knee light
weight rubber boots eligible for
ration certificates for their pur-
chase.
Certificates must be obtained
from local boards for certain
types Of heavy rubber foot
wear. Ha rs
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Meetings this week are:
Thursday - George Washington
Jane and Delano and Vincent B
Costello Posts, Legion clubhouse
Fort Stevens Post, Stansbury Hall.
Friday-Victory Post, Legion club
house.
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. a Il. 2
service to men and women In the
armed forces. Jack Williams of
North Dakota presided.
1t was announced there have been
approximately zoo, 900 veterans of
the present war who have already
obtained membership In the Legion.
A bill, awaiting the signature of
President Roosevelt, which was
backed by the Legion, provides that
blind war veterans will get Seeing
Eye" dogs from Uncle Sam. It pro-
vides an appropriation of 81 1,00O, 900
for the plan. The measure was in
troduced in the House by Repre-
sentative Hamilton Fish of New
York. Senate amendments provided
for adding certain mechanical aids
to be furnished free to blind vet
Grams.
Evening star., 1944-05-28

Keen-edged steel blades
that give you a close
shave quickly and COM
fortably.
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Keep your hands
softer and lovelier,
in spite Of these
busy days Of war
work, by using this
reliable hand lotion
with the lanolin
base generously.
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U. s. Jacob Jones Post Endorsed
Joseph J. Malloy for reelection as
national committeeman.
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told him that Representative Ke-
fauver, Democrat, of Tennessee had
said membership would let the
certificate holder go any place in
Washington, even to see the Presi-
dent
After Gov. Dewey denounced the
club in campaign speech, Frank
j. Lewis of Chicago, the groups
national chairman. described it as
partisan" and Democratic
Chairman Robert E. Hannegan said
he had never discussed it with Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Mr.. Lewis, a manufacturer, said
the club included prominent Re-
publicans as well as Democrats" but
that all subscribe to the belief that
President Roosevelt should be per-
mitted to carry on the present war
to conclusion
A report filed by the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee
with the clerk Of the House yester-
day said the committee had received
a $4,000 contribution from the club
No individual members of the club
were listed.
After banteringly refusing to dis
cuss the nature of his two-bit bet,
the President finally said it was on
the outcome of the election in
certain State.
Doesn't that prevent you from
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Western Front
Continued From First Page.)
But there was no confirmation at
supreme headquarters.
$4,000 Prisoners Taken

But there was no confirmation at
supreme headquarters.
$4,000 Prisoners Taken.
A dispatch from Canadian LIST
Army headquarters said the Canadi-
ans had taken $4,000 prisoners and
liberated $50 square miles Of Bel
gian and Dutch terrain since Octo-
ber 6, the day infantry veterans
pushed across the Leopold Canal to
begin the battle to clear Antwerps
approaches.
A British column reached the
Mas yesterday north of captured
Capelle, the Allied communique re-
ported, and farther west the Mark
River was crossed north Of Ouden-
bosch and northwest of Breda on the
main road to'the Moerdijk Bridge
over Hollandsch Diep, the seaward
arm of the Mas. "i-- q
Bad weather, which grounded Al
led aircraft and kept infantry and
armor struggling in knee-deep mud
contributed heavily to the failure to
close the. trap on the bea ten German
forces.
On the east flank of the widening
Dutch salient, however. British in
fantry reinforced the hard pressed
American forces and hurled the
enemy out of Liesel as bitter fighting
continued In the Mas bulge west of
the Dutch border city of Venlo.
Nazi Crossing Blocked.
Another German attempt to cross
the South Willems Canal at Neder-
weert, Is miles southeast of Find
hoven, was smashed. Twenty pris-
oners were taken and SO enemy SOL
diers were killed in this action, and
a dispatch from headquarters said
the German counterthrust in this
area so far has cost the enemy at
least 20 tanks and 400 prisoners.
Allied armored forces already have
fought through to the Mas north
OF 1llburg and are within half mile
Of the Geertruidenberg Bridge, one
of the enemy's main escape routes.
These Allied units are approximately
7 miles south of the Waal, southern
most outlet of the Rhine.
AS result of the triumph of the
Canadian 1st and British I'd Armies
in the southwestern coastal corner
Evening star., 1944-11-01
COP Group Here Is Near
S100, Campaign Goal

The Republican State Committee
in and for the District has raised
more than two-thirds of its 500, 900
goal in the financial campaign tor
the election of the Dewey-Bricker
ticket, according to an announce
ment. The campaign is being con-
Quoted through its Finance Commit
tee, headed by E. F. Colladay, and
the Dewey -Bricker Club headed by
James A. Councillor.
The Finance Committee has sched-
uled a luncheon for Saturday at the
Washington Hotel and will hold it's
final luncheon Monday. Officers in
clude Mrs. Thad Brown and Paul E.
Shorb, vice chairmen; Charles D.
Drayton, treasurer, and Rufus 8.
Lusk, secretary.
In addition to President Councillor,
Dewey -Bricker Club officers are Mrs.
Cooper B. Rhodes, executive direc-
tor; Mrs. Edward E. Gam and Lewis
T, Breuninger, vice president; Mrs.
William S. Culbertson, secretary,
and Bruce Baird, treasurer.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Prizes for Salvage Offered
To WOODBRIDGE Residents

Five S25 War Bonds and numerous
other awards will be given to resi-
dents in the Greater WOODBRIDGE
area participating in the commu-
nity's paper salvage collection Sat-
urday, which will be sponsored by
the East Gate Lions Club.
Each household placing waste
paper out for collection Saturday
will receive numbered ticket en-
titling the holder to a drawing on
the War Bonds at the Village The
ater Tuesday night. Boy Scouts will
conduct the collections.
j. E. Crowell is Lions Club chair
man for the November drive and
Rudolph Boehs heads the clubs
Paper Salvage Committee. The
Lions Club has sponsored the sal
wage program in the area for two
years and has been responsible for
collection of 459,064 pounds.
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Plea Filed 10 Drop
War Housing Project
On Montana Avenue

Charging that the project would
involve health menace because
of drainage problems, the National
Gateway Citizens Association and
140 residents of the area today pc
titioned President Roosevelt and
the House District Committee to
bring about abandonment of the
l03-unit prefabricated mobile
war worker housing project being
set up at Montana and West Vir-
ginia avenues NE by the Federal
Public Housing Authority.
In response to the petitions, the
District Committee today wrote let
ters to the Federal Works Agency
the Commissioners and Health OFF,
Ger George C. Rutland, requesting
reports on the project and asking
whether any health problem would
result.
In their petition to the President,
the property owners declared the
project may constitute a serious
health hazard within itself and to
the surrounding community"
The petition added: I'VE note
particularly that the site Of this
project is on land reclaimed by the
filling of swamp, that the general
area is low and partly covered by
standing water after heavy rains.
and that it is Immediately adjacent
to, and all of 1t lies below the level
Of, the Mount Olivet Cemetery from
which 1t receives surface drainage. -
The groups advised Chairman
Randolph of the House District
Committee that the drainage prob
lem Is not temporary, that it has
prevailed for many years.
In a letter to the District Com
mittee, Norman NJ Murray, presi-
dent of the citizens association,
said, I'VE are not opposing housing
of the worthy underprivileged I.
but We join with the petitioners in
protest to this or any other project
likely to jeopardize the health of
any group Of people"
A spokesman for the MIA said
the project was part of a program
started about two months ago to
provide $50 temporary housing units
in various places here for war work.
ers. The project at Montana and
West Virginia avenues is for COL
ored war workers.
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the Allies now have a broad front
extending across Southern Holland
in place of the original narrow sa-
lient.
Bridge Reported Under Fire.
The Allies reached the Mas yes
terday on the sector just north of
Capelle and approximately IA miles
west of S Hertogenbosch. A few
miles farther west two other con-
verging Allied columns bore down
on Geertruidenberg, and were re-
ported to have the long bridge there
under fire.
Canadian troops driving north
westward from Breda were within
5 miles of the Moerdijk bridges, IL
miles downstream from the span at
Geertruidenberg. A dispatch from
Allied headquarters said the railroad
bridge at Moerdijk was reported to
have been destroyed, but the long
highway bridge there lis believed TO
be intact" These bridges are over
the Hollandsch Diep. Moerdiik is
IA miles southeast of the southern
outskirts of Rotterdam
On the left flank Canadian units
north of Bergen Op zoom were re-
ported within 1000 yards of Steen-
bergen last night. The German re-
treat in that area was so swift that
the Canadians largely had lost con-
tact with the enemy. The only
semblance of a German stand was
made by a parachute regiment as it
fell back slowly on Steenbergen.
>. Com DlllSOrU fdenfifu nards ara
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B-29, Attacked by 79 Fighters,
Is Unscuthed, Downs 7 of Them

fectly and the gunners o-ordinated
their fire SO we'll that they put a
metal fence" around the besieged
Super Fortress. Three ofthis attack
ing force were shot down before the
others broke off after a 15O-mile
chase.
Immediately 10 new japanese
showed up and began a series of
eager attacks. After lbs more miles,
four of them had been downed and
the others gave up the chase. They
evidently had called up the reserves,
however, for off the China coast
go fighters rose TO meet the bomber.
These last attackers were de-
scribed as reluctant to close, and
the Super Fortress gunners, running
low on ammunition, reserved their
fire for the few who meant business
Two of these were damaged. The
gunners complained that if they
had possessed more ammunition for
long shots they were sure they could
have increased their bag.
AS a final quirk to an exciting
trip. the B-29 landed unscathed on
its home field during a japanese
air raid
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voting in New York?" asked a re-
porter who was mindful of a State
ruling that an election bet is cause
for disqualification.
1t was made outside the State, the
President laughed.
White House aides said later the
wager was with the $1,000 Club
chairman, Mr.. Lewis.
In bid for the support of busi-
ness, Secretary of Commerce Jones
made radio address in behalf of
President Roosevelt last night. de-
claring that in his 12-year associa-
tion with the President, Mr.. Roose-
welt. never had failed to readily
approve" any suggestion he had
made for the benefit of any seq
ment of our business"
Evening star., 1944-11-01
|Pan-American Board
1ofReceive Argentine
Plea for Recognition
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

The Governing Board of the Pam
American Union will meet today
to act on Argentina's request for
a conference of American states to
hear its case for the recognition
of the regime headed by Gen.
Edelmiro Farrell, which Secretary
of State Hull has indicated as pro-
Axis.
Diplomatic observers expected
that the board, composed of the
Secretary of State and the envoys
of other American republics in
Washington, merely would receive
the, Argentine proposal oficially
and then refer it to the member
states for study. Definite action,
lit was expected, may be deferred
for several weeks while the various
governments discuss the proposal
informally.
TWO of the American republics,
Colombia and Ecuador, have an
nounced their support Of the Ar
gentine request.
AS Secretary Hull is in Naval Hos
pital for an examination, he will
be represented at the board meet
ing by Acting Secretary Stettinius.
Indications at the State Depart
ment were that the United States
will not oppose a conference If it
is desired by majority of the other
American nations. However, from
the United States point of view, the
issue is clear: This Government has
told Gen. Ferrell that he will not
be recognized until he changes his
policy Of economic cooperation
with German interests and anti
United Nations propaganda for one
of real support of the democratic
cause. Regardless of arguments
advanced by Argentina, no change Is
expected in this basic position.
Aside from most of the Latin
American countries, Great Britain
has openly supported the State De-
partment's position and has with
drawn its Ambassador from Buenos
Aires.
The fact that Argentina has asked
for a conference indicates to off,
cials here that Gen. Ferrell and his
"colonel's clique" are finding their
position of political isolation from
most OF the other American states
lntolerable. Moreover, the Buenos
Aires administration faces the con-
slant threat OF increasing economic
pressure from the United States and
/ Great Britain
Evening star., 1944-11-01
Roosevelt Preparing
1oEnd Campaign With
Talks in New England

Giving every indication of
being well satisfied with develop
ments along the political front,
President Roosevelt today was
getting set for the windup of his
fourth-term campaign, which
calls for two more major speeches
and several shorter talks on
stumping tours which will bring
him before audiences in Con-
necticut, Massachusetts, and his
New York neighbors in the Hud-
son Valley,
Mr.. Roosevelt will speak from the
White House at 9 pm. tomorrow
over the National Broadcasting Sys-
tenn and then heads for Boston,
where he speaks at rally in Fen
way Park at 8 pm. Saturday. This
will be the last Of seven major
addresses and will be carried by
NBC, CHS and Blue Networks.
The President remained in his
study to work today instead OF going
to the executive offices and made
only one engagement, receiving
David L. Podell, a Columbia Uni
versity Law School classmate, who
is general counsel for the Smaller
War Plants Corp.
Subject Not Disclosed.
The Presidents speech tomorrow
night will be limited to Is minutes
and it's nature has not been dis
closed. 1t was said at the White
House today that the remaining IS
minutes of the broadcasting period
will be taken up by the Democratic
National Committee.
En- route to Boston Saturday, tie
President will talk briefly at Bridge
port and Hartford, Conn, and
Springfield, Mass, and on Monday
election eve-he will talk at Pough-
keepsie while touring the Hudson
Valley by auto in accordance with
regular custom. The President, as
usual, will be at his Hyde Park home
on election day.
Mr.. Roosevelt seemingly didn t
have q worry in the world at his
news conference yesterday after
noon. when he acknowledged that an
offhand suggestion he had made
was responsible for the Isl 900 Club, -
which has been denounced by his
Republican opponent, Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey; said he had made a Is
cent bet and told an inquisitive re-
porter it was none of his damn busi-
ness what it was on, and added that
he was getting ready to make his
quadrennial guess on the division
OF the presidential electoral vote, but
would keep it to himself.
Reporter Puts Question.
A reporters question brought the
explanation about the Isl 900 Club
which Gov. Dewey has charged was
organized to sell privileges"
Way back in the summer, the
President related, he suggested that
somebody start a 100000 club, but
people just laughed. Then he sug-
gested $4,000 club, but they still
laughed and said no one would give
that amount to the campaign,
either. So he suggested a $1,000
club and they said they might get
a few members.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he thought no
more about it until a few days ago
when a man from Chicago came in
and gave him a certificate worth
may be halt cent and told him he
was a member of the club. because
the President had given his usual
81 900 to the campaign.
What does it entities you p?p a
reporter asked. 81
The President said we would have
to find that out.
He only laughed when reporters
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BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A B-29 BASE IN WESTERN
CHINA, Nov. 1.-Seventy-n Jap
anese fighter planes ganged up on
a single American B-29 bomber
over their own home islands re-
Gently and not only failed so much
as to scratch it but had seven of
their own planes shot down and
two damaged by the bomber's gun
ners, Interrogation officers disclosed
yesterday.
This four-hour running battle,
described as undoubtedly the sew
crest test ever made of a B-29's de-
lenses, began over Kyushu when a
fight of nine new japanese pur-
suit planes jumped the bomber just
as it was heading home after a
bombing raid
The Japanese were skilled and de-
termined, and the American pilot,
Maj. j. c. Eigenmann, Springfield
Ill. said, They came SO close you
could almost read their dog tags"
1t. Col. Edward J. Potter, Austin
Tex, who was a headquarters OBJ
server aboard the bomber. reported
the gunnery system functioned per-
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Fog HoIts Air Troffic

A heavy fog shrouding Washing
ton this morning halted airline
trafflc for a short time but the mist
burned off with the rising of the sun
ana service was resumed. The
weather Bureau promised a con-
tinuation of fair and warm weather
through tomorrow.