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Evening star., 1944-04-19
Mileage Estimates
By C-Book Drivers
Hit at Gas Hearinq

The blame for much of the gaso-
line rationing problem was laid to-
day at the door of the C-book holder
who, according to an ONCE of Price
Administration official, overestimates
his actual mileage travelled in
essential business.
Testifying before a House Inter-
state Commerce Subcommittee in
vestiga ting gasoline black markets,
Charles F. Phillips, director of the
Automotive Supply Rationing Divi-
sion of OPA, asserted that "our
greatest problem is getting Mr.. and
Mrs. John Jones to apply for only
what they need and to stop at that
point"
The official admitted, under ques-
tioning by Representative Brown,
Republican. of Ohio, that many per-
sons overestimate their require
ments because they feel ration
boards will cut their requests in
many cases. Mr.. Phillips also ad-
mltted that many automobiles to-
day are not getting Is miles to the
gallon, the yardstikc used by the
OPA in issuing rations. Boards can
make adjustments, however, if it
can be proved their mileage is down,
he said.
- Fair Share Demanded.
Mr.. Brown commented that it was
IAN old American custom" to want
to get fair share of things. Mr..
Phillips replied that he had heard
that that was the custom.
Meanwhile the OPA, reporting
some progress in it's drive against
gasoline black markets. announced
there was no increase in illicit
diversion of fuel during the last
month and declared this fact alone
Is a heartening achievement"
Daily drain from legitimate use
as result of counterfeit and stolen
ration coupons continues at about
2,500,00G gallons, the agency said.
OPA reported that 926 gasoline
rationing arrests have been made
since the first of the year, "over
half of them involving professional
criminals including coupon peddlers,
counterfeiters and persons who had
robbed local boards Of this num-
Der 464 convictions were obtained
and 1876 Jail sentences meted out.
Filling Stations Penalized.
To make good the illegal sale of
more than 100000 gallons, 2o.061
filling stations accused of selling
gasoline for unindorsed or other
wise illicit coupons were obliged to
turn in valid stamps.
In 1856 cases, stations that had
made illegal sales amounting to
more than their entire working in
ventories simply put themselves
out of business" OPA said, while
1.l40 stations which sold gasoline
without valid stamps were denied
the right to buy or sell fuel for Pc
riods varying up to the duration of
the war.
Six hundred and eleven motorists
lost their rations for buying gaso-
line with counterfeit coupons or
without coupons.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Rome
Continued From First Page

continued from First Page)
Rome was again being actively
reviewed.
DNB said the German reply to
Fire stated:
THE Reich government has for a
long time given practical expression
to its urgent desire to preserve the
priceless monuments and works of
art Of the open city of Rome for the
cultural world by bringing into effect
comprehensive measures which led
to the complete demilitarization of
Rome"
The agency said only small forces
OF German security police and hos
pitalized soldiers were permitted
within the city--first described as
open by the italian government
In a unilateral declaration before
the surrender last year-and de-
clared that no military trains were
routed through Rome.
The city is not being defended
militarily," DNB said. Military
ohlectives OF any kind do not exist
within its area"
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Soldier to Get Medal
For Roll Wreck Rescues
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press. ....,
AUGUSTA, Ga, April l9.-Corpl.
John B. Maraghy, Dorchester, Mass,
will receive the Soldiers Medal at
Camp Gordon today for his part in
the rescue of passengers in the wreck
of the Atlantic Coast Line at Lum-
berton, NJ c., last December Is.
Maj. Gem. Paul W.. Newgarden,
commander. of the 10th Armered
Division, will present the award, the
public relations Office announced.
The citation said that Corpl.
Maraghy, with utter disregard for
his own safety, worked for eight and
one-half hours in the bitter cold to
rescue the MANNED and injured
persons"
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Gen. Vandenberg Named
Deputy Allied Air Chief

Maj. Gen. Hoyt S. vandenberg Of
the Westchester Apartments was ap-
pointed deputy commander In. chief
of the Allied Expeditionary Air
Force by Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover today, the Associated Press
reported from London.
Gen. Vandenberg, As. a. native. Of
Milwaukee, Wis, succeeded Mai. Gen.
William o. Butler, who, was, given
an undisclosed new assignment.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Knufson Would Reduce
80 Per Cent Cabaret Tax
BY the Associated Pres.


Contending that thousands OF en-
tertainers are losing jobs. Repre-
sentative Knutson, Republican. OF
Minnesota today introduced egis-
lation to reduce the cabaret tax
from 80 to 10 per cent.
The 1943 Revenue Act raised the
cabaret tax from to 30 per cent
as of April l.
THE high tax" Mr., Knutson said,
sis causing unemployment. driving
concerns out of business and by the
law of diminishing returns is caus-
ing reduction in revenue" az
Reports from New York, he said,
indicate that thousands OF variety
entertainers have lost their jobs.
When the tax was jumped from
5 to 80 per cent, tax experts esti-
mated revenue from this source
would be increased from $l9,400,000
to S1l0. TOO 600.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Lovql Warns People
Against Aiding Allies

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK, April 19.-Pierre
Laval. Vichy chief of government,
last night broadcast warning to all
Frenchmen against cooperation
with the Allied armies when the
invasion is launched" the Blue Net
work reported today.
Laval declared:
"Massed formations of Anglo
American parachutists will be
dropped over France. -" They will
seek the cooperation of French
partisans and civil war will break
out in France. For months I
have worried about the possibility
Of a landing"
Evening star., 1944-04-19
London
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'COntlnueo from First PageD
quickly extinguished the fire at the
hospital and rescue squads worked
through the night hours seeking VIC
tins.
Some of the extricated patients
were severely injured.
All told, five wards were seriously
damaged by fire in addition to two
wrecked by the German bomb Sew
eral nearby cottages also were dam
aged by the concussion from the
bomb.
A policeman said all the nurses
rushed to the rescue. II never saw
women work so pluckily to get
patients away" he added. Some
OF them were injured themselves. !"
The patients were evacuated to
three nearby hospitals A high ex-
plosiVe also fell In a tenement dis
Eict. killing 10 kysons.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Goering Speaks Of Love
For Hitler, SIS Tomorrow

Py the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 19.-Hermann
Goering spoke to the Germans Of
love today on the eve of Adolf Hit
ler's 55th birthday.
With immutable love we remem-
Der our dearly beloved fuehrer and
commander in chief at his birth
day" said Goering order Of the
day broadcast from Berlin Goering
asserted that an oath not to lay
down arms should be Hitlers BIRTH
day gift.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Russia
Continued From First Page.)


Sea Air Force was pour1ing Sc
vastopols harbor night and day and
sweeping the sea lanes to Romania.
Squadrons of low-flying Stormoviks,
dropping flares, raked self propelled
barges and transports trying to Slip
out of the battered harbor under
cover of darkness.
Meanwhile, in the Western
Ukraine the Germans were reported
to have thrown large numbers of
tanks and infantry into a fresh as
sault east of Stanislawow seeking to
hold back the Red Army's advance
on the big communications hub of
Lwow. The Soviet communique said
the Nazis suffered heavy losses in Is
unsuccessful attacks and left more
than TOO dead on the battlefield.
The communique said many fires
were started Monday night in
mass raid by long-range Soviet
bombers against the Romanian rail
hub and seaport of Constanta, an
Iattack which dovetailed with Allied
air blows against the Balkans from
Italy.
Focal Point Southeast of City.
Front dispatches said the Ger
mans made every effort to halt the
Russians west of Balaklava, but that
the Soviets stormed their positions
|and reached the main body of enemy
troops trying to escape by sea. The
Red Army now holds an arc around
the land sides of Sevastopol with
the only sector remaining in enemy
hands being stretch of the Sevasto-
pol-Yalta highway on the ap-
proaches to the city, and the
Chersones Cape to the southwest.
The focal point of battle is south
east of the city. Sevastopol seems to
be more easily defended from the
north and northwest where the 4th
Ukrainian Army is drawn up within
easy field gun range.
There were no indications that
the Germans were escaping by sea
in any appreciable numbers.
Today's German communiQue said
the Russians unsuccessfully attack
ed Sevastopol positions with strong
artillery and plane support. The
enemy reported other violent Rus
sian attacks on the Lower Dnestr.
north of the Romanian rail junction
of Iasi south of the Dnestr, west of
Tarnopol and southwest of Luck in
Ola Poland. ...
Evening star., 1944-04-19
; Army Flyers Boil Out;
7Others Hunted in Crosh

BY the Associated Press.
ONTONAGON, Mich. April 1e.-
Three Army men bailed out of q
big plane and landed safely in a
densely wooded area about IS miles
from here early today.
Seven other members of the
crew also were reported to have
bailed out. Sheriff Robert Dawson
several deputies, State troopers,
conservation men and townspeople
Immediately began a search of the
Porcupine Mountain section for
them
Many townspeople Of Ontonagon
reported seeing the plane about
2:30 am. either burning Or brightly
lighted circling in the vicinity.
Evening star., 1944-04-19
Navy Identifies Pilots
Dead in Collision

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April 19.-Pilots killed
when two naval training planes COL
lided and crashed near Charlestown,
R. l., Monday night have been
identified as 1t. Robert c. Stimson,
26, U. S. N, of Shelby. Ohio, and
Ensign Stephen l.. Smith, Sd, 81
U. S. NaR., st. Andrew, Fla.
Evening star., 1944-04-19

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Evening star., 1944-04-19

}. Irving White, Actor, Dies
HOLLYWOOD, April 10 (P,.-J.
Irving White, 10, who was stage
and screen actor tor SO years before
retiring 10 years ago, died Monday.
Evening star., 1944-11-25
Restaurateurs Attend
Sanitation Clinics

Washington restaurateurs are at
tending "clinics" sponsored by the
Washington Restaurant Association
and the District Health Department
in move to make local restaurants
the most sanitary institutions in the
city, Robert j. Wilson, association
executive secretary, announced
today.
Clinics, to which the restaurant
managers are invited, are held each
week. The next meeting is scheduled
for 2::30 pm. Tuesday in the NUM-
cipal Center.
About so restaurateurs attend each
session, presided over by DR.. r. R.
Ashworth, director of the District
Bureau Of Food Inspection, or one
of his staff, Mr.. Wilson said.
These meetings bring together
= restaurateurs in each particular
locality, eager and willing to learn
how to make their restaurants more
sanitary" Mr.. Wilson said.
Health officers make frequent
visits to eating places to see that
conditions meet the high standards
set for Washington. A score card
is issued each operator and merit
points are awarded for each sanitary
regulation which the owner has
complied with and demerits when
ever a regulation is violated,
Evening star., 1944-11-25

AThe Eskimos are rugged citizers,s
Col. Hassel said, aas long as they
don't see too much Of civilization"
Evening star., 1944-11-25
Doctor Who 'Chuted to Save
Dyinu' C. Cook Still Labrador Hero

Of the medical officer was one Of the
finest things he has seen in all his
years up North. II wouldn't have
been In that medico's boots for q
million dollars that day." he said.
Weather Was Thick.
& The party few In from Crystal II
Base in Baffin Land and located the
desolate little pin point outpost in
thick weather.
They dropped medical equipment
and enough food and clothing to
keep the doctor until the spring
thawS..
When the time came the medico
went over the side without a back
ward glance.
HE asked us the best way to
land in the wind on ice, snow and
rocks, Col. Fish said. IT was think
ing about that time he'd enjoy 1t
more if he. went in on his head"
The anxious airmen above
watched the amateur 'chutist hit
the surface and scrub along across
the ice behind his Chute until he
spilled the wind from the silk and
got his feet walking.
Evening star., 1944-11-25
Assumed Cooks Job.

DR.. Maunz removed tho cooks in
famed appendix, and volunteered to
take over his duties. There were
no complaints about the chow
Evening star., 1944-11-25

Help win the war BY saving waste
kitchen fats!
Evening star., 1944-11-25
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr,
Aviation Editor Of The Star.

ATC BASE AT GOOSE BAY,
LABRADOR Delayed "A medical
officer who parachuted through a
snow storm to operate on dying
cook at an isolated weather station
on the north tip of Baffin Land still
is a hero up here among the vet
Grams who know the risks he invited.
It was just year ago when Maj.
Dan Maunz of Bradford, Pa, VOL
unteered to take his first jump un-
der conditions that would have
dismayed a seasoned paratrooper.
A radio message had come through
that the cook was believed to be
dying of abdominal cramps at an
ice-locked station on the River
Clyde, Baffin Land, some 400 miles
north of the Arctic Circle. ~.
Strange Things Happen.
That is a country where the mag
netic pole does strange things to the
VI NiiAoAy SoAiiJooo, WiiSiC ViiC LILY D
terious Northern Lights jam radio
directional beams, where icing con-
ditionS may develop without notice,
where landing fields are small, rough
and precarious and where freezing
fogs close in in a matter of minutes.
Nevertheless, a plane was loaded
with parachute drop-gear and took
off on brief notice, piloted by 1t.
Col. B. r. j. (Fish) Hassel, COM
mander of this Air Transport Com
mand base, and veteran pilot of
the far north who tried to fly the
Greenland ice cap as long ago as
1927.
Col. Fish, as he is known to
grizzled pilots who flew with him
as far back as 1914, told the story
here today and declared the courage
Evening star., 1944-11-25

cupied himself with seal meat he
found In the tgloo.
Afraid to return for their guns
and equipment. father and son
struck out for the weather station.
The boys feet froze and for two
days the father held his sons feet
against his bare chest during rest
periods.
When the boy died his father
dragged him across the ice for two
days, but was compelled by his
failing strength to abandon the body
in order to complete the remaining
distance. When the blizzard let up,
the men from the weather station
accompanied the father back to the
body, which they buried with q
Chr8tian service.
The Eskimos turned to and made
the airmen complete set OF Arctic
clothing, each suit cut to individual
measure, in a matter of "a hours.
Evening star., 1944-11-25
Shortage in Dwellings
Spreads 10 95 Pei. Of
Cities in II Months

The shortage of single-family
dwellings has increased In the past
IL months, spreading to 95 per cent
Of American cities as compared with
SO per cent year ago. the National
Association Of Real Estate Boards
reported today.
Basing its conclusion on survey
of real estate conditions in 377 cities,
the association said this shortage,
along with the wartime pressure
on nearly every other type of struc-
ture, has forced real estate prices
upward in "a per cent of cities.
For the first time since the war,
vital industry centers are beginning
to lag a bit behind the national
average in real estate activity, the
survey disclosed. "One indication is
seen in sales prices. Real estate
prices have dropped from the 1943
level in 2 per cent of war centers,
bat in only per cent of all report
Ing cities" the association stated.
The association also listed these
hndlngs: War restrictions have put
a premium on existing retail space
in desirable locations and a new
influence has been felt-a move by
businessmen to obtain space for
postwar business opportunities.
Office space is now filled to a
record degree, but there is still a
surplus in more than one-fourth of
the cities. The spread of Federal
offices has been a shot in the arm"
to office building prices in more than
a third of the cities surveyed.
In only one-fifth of the reporting
cities were leases for downtown
office space tending toward higher
rates than in 1943.
Real estate boards estimate that
about four-fifths of today's buyers
of real estate are buying for their
own use, which is somewhat higher
than six months ago.
Evening star., 1944-11-25
Dean Doyle Named Head
Of School Association

Dean Henry Grattan Doyle of
George Washington University yes
terday was elected president of the
Middle States Association of COL
leges and Secondary Schools, made
up of representatives of educational
institutions in New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland and the District.
Dean Doyle recently returned to
the university to direct the Colum-
bian College after two years war
leave as director of the Inter-Amer-
ican Training Center at the Library
of Congress. He addressed the two
day conference of the association on
two subjects, Education; Today and
Tomorrow" and THE Dean and the
Registrar"
Evening star., 1944-11-25

around camp after that. The men
would have eaten frozen whale meat
and liked 1t II the medico served 1t.
Some time later the doctor, who
had become a jack-of -all-trades,
dropped an engine part on his foot
and fractured the bones. When the
boys back at the nearest air base
heard of it, they volunteered to fly
in with a ski-equipped plane to
remove him. The doctor now is
stationed at an Atlantic base far
to the South, but he still is we'll
remembered here.
The pilots who fly out Of the
Crystals have lot Of respect for
the fortitude Of the unspoiled
Eskimos around Baffin Land.
Francis Challifoux of Boston, now
an experienced weather flyer north
Of the Circle, told how when he
landed to bring aid to gravely Ill
weather observes an Eskimo came
into their camp in subzero weather
clad only in his underclothing after
a nine-day treck across the blizzard
swept barrens,
Evening star., 1944-11-25
Amazing Fortitude.

The Eskimo and his only son,
who was IA, had made camp while
hunting seal on the ice off shore.
A huge, starving polar bear tore
the top of their igloo and came
right in after them as they slept.
The two men dashed outside in light
clothing. The bear meanwhile oc-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-01-13
OBIT U A RY
Mrs. Ray Davis

Funeral services for Mrs. Ray
Davis, 40, of Germantown, who
died January z at the Montgom-
cry County General Hospital after
an Hines of several weeks, were
held Sunday at the Methodist
Church at Hyattstown. The Rev.
Thomas Morgan, pastor of the
Methodist Church at Clarksburg,
conducted the rites, and burial was
in the church cemetery.
Besides her husband she is sur
vived by two daughters, Mrs.
George Pearre, Comus and Miss
Peggy Lou Davis, Germantown; a
son, Leroy Davis, Germantown; her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Nc
Donald, Clarksburg; four sisters
and five brothers. She was a life
long resident of Montgomery
County.
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r. Kenneth Waters

Funeral services for R. Kenneth
Waters, 62, for the last 10 years
assistant engineer for Montgom-
cry County, were held this morn
inv, Thursday, in Christ Episcopal
Church, Rockville. Canon G.
Freeland Peter, acting rector OF
the church, conducted the rites.
Burial was in Rockville Union
Cemetery.
Mr.. Waters died Monday in a
Washington hospital after a long
illness. The son of the late Horace
D. Waters, he was a lifelong resi-
dent Of Montgomery County.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Blanche Johnson Waters; daugh-
ter, Miss Blanche Waters, of Ger
mantown; son, R. Kenneth Wat
ers, Jr., now in the Army; two
sisters, Mrs. Ethel Spates and Miss
Madeline Waters, and two half
sisters, Mrs. George M. Hunter, of
Rockville and Mrs. Harry Boland
of Germantown.
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Eastern Star
InstalIs Officers

Under direction of Mrs. Nellie
Wachter, deputy grand lecturer, as
installing officer; Miss Helen Mails
ack, deputy grand lecturer as in
stalling marshal, and Mrs. Caroline
Keiser, as installing chaplain, the
recently elected officers of Mont
gomery Chapter No. SO, Order of
the Eastern Star of Rockville, were
installed Tuesday night.
They are: Miss Lucille johnson,
worthy matron; Guy M. Wilcox,
worthy patron; Mrs. George F.
Ray, Jr., associate matron; Marion
w. Atwell, associate patron; Mrs.
Julia Waddell, conductress; Mrs.
Ruth Mckinley, associate conduc-
tress; Miss Edna Hauke, secretary;
Mrs. Dorothy Louthan, treasurer;
Mrs. Eva Poole, Ada; Mrs. Mildred
Atwell, Ruth; Mrs. Louise Bogley,
Esther; Mrs. Catherine Gates,
Martha; Mrs. Kay Mann, Electa;
Miss Mildred Ward, organist; Mrs.
Martha Looper, marshal; Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Carter, chaplain; Mrs. Char
lotte Stratmeyer, Warder; Mrs.
Lucy Barnsley, sentinel.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-01-13
Sarah E. Seibel

Sarah E. Seibel, 90, wife of the
late Lewis Seibel, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. George G.
Sellers, Laurel. Funeral services
were held from Emmarts Methodist
Church, Baltimore county, and in
terment was in Woodlawn Gene
terry.
The deceased is survived by
three daughters and one son: Mrs.
George G. Sellers, Laurel; Mrs.
Charles J. Carver, Berryville, Va;
Mrs. Katie L. Snyder, Randalls-
town, and J. Gruman Seibel, Spen-
cerville. Fourteen grandchildren
and eleven great-grandchildren
also survive.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-01-13
Miss Hattie Snyder

Funeral services for Miss Hattie
Snyder, lifelong resident of the
Germantown community, who died
at her home January 7, were held
Sunday from the funeral home of
W. Reuben Humphrey, Rockville.
The Rev. G. G. Kundahl, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church at Neels-
vile, conducted the services and
burial was in the cemetery adjoin-
ing the Neelsville Church.
Miss Snyder, daughter of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. John Snyder, is sur
vived by two sisters, Mrs. William
A. Waters, Germantown, and Mrs.
Alice Humphrey, Laytonsville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-01-13

a nation.
The eyes of our fighting men are
upon US to see if we are backing
them.
-. The eyes of our Allies are upon
US to see if we are with them.
-. The eyes of our enemies are
upon us to see if we are soft enough
to fall for non-victorious, hereto
day-gone-tomorrow peace -.
Are we? The answer is in
your pocket!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-01-13

since he was wounded, but now he
is taking it easy in rest camp,
getting plenty to eat, and some
sleep for change, he writes. Pfc.
Lees home address is GA Grandin
avenue, Rockville. He is the son of
Mrs. Maybelle Lee Of Rockville,