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Evening star., 1944-11-22

turned to the boy when The Star
published a story of the loss. AS
a puppy, the dog accompanied her
master on his paper route.
Mrs. Holder, whose husband is
an employe of the Bureau of Stand
ards, said she had borrowed $28 to
be used to pay her sons fare home
and provide groceries for week
end Thanksgiving. She said her son
was to have left Staunton tomorrow
night.
Before buying a money order to
send to her son, Mrs. Holder said,
she had bought stamps and laid
her change purse, containing the
$28, on the counter at the stamp
window while she posted two letters.
When she returned the pocketbook,
which also contained Identification
cards, post Office clerks said they
had not seen it.
There isn't any hope of his COM
ing home now," she said. Il don't
feel like going home either. I Just
want to walk until I DROP
Evening star., 1944-11-22

knocked out, stagger for a moment,
and then disappear earthward.
THAT sort of thing makes you
stop and think. 1t made me super
stitious, guess. Never again have
I gone out of my way to try to cover
the local ANGLE"
It was soon after that experience
that the big spring offensive in
Italy got under way. Mr.. Noyes
went along with the 5th Army and
picked up local angle" headline
without having to go out of his way
for it when he accompanied a force
led by Brig. Gen. Robert T. Fred
erick of 5801 Thirty third street
NV, into Rome
Covered Parachutists.
Later, he covered the entry of
Allied parachutists into Southern
France, found time to interview
Gertrude Stein where she had hid
den in the South of France from
the Nazi invaders, and went with
Task Force Butler" on a foray
behind the German lines before re-
turning to Rome. Still later, he
was the only correspondent accom-
panying British forces into Albania.
He returned to Italy from that ex-
pedition in time to go with another
British force into Greece and write
of the liberation of Athens.
Mr.. Noyes saw lot of the war
in the Mediterranean before he
started writing about it. He left
a job on the editorial staff of The
Star in November, 1912, to go over
seas as an ambulance driver with
the American Field Service. On an
old Egyptian liner he travelled for
rs days from New York to Suez
After six months with the British
9Th Army in Syria, his ambulance
unit drove from Damascus to Egypt
and across much of Africa to Trip
oil, from where they went into Italy
with British units in the 5th Army
in Naples few days after
it was taken from the Germans.
After service with the British
forces in bitter fighting across the
Volturno River and northward in
Italy, Mr.. Noyes' time in the Amer
lean Field Service was up last Feb
ruary and he asked The Star for
his job back, and became war cor
respondent in Naples. He soon went
back to covering fighting, by Amer
ican forces this time, in the same
area where he had served as an
ambulance driver.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
North Brentwood School
To Get Broom Addition

Plans are underway for the con-
struction of three-room addition
to the North Brentwood Colored
School, G. Gardner Shugart, Prince
Georges County superintendent of
schools, announced today.
Mr.. Shugart said school authori-
ties have conferred with the War
Production Board on priorities and
expect approval soon. He added that
work probably will start next spring
The project, which will include
modernization of the present school
building, will alleviate congestion
and enable the Board of Education
to discontinue the rental of a room
in a church, in which one class now
is being held.
He said the addition, consisting
Of two classrooms and recreation
room, will accommodate about 80
pupils. The school now has an en-
rollment of approximately 200,
Evening star., 1944-11-22
Police Merger Bill
To Be Filed TODAY

Representative Hebert, Democrat
OF Louisiana, a member of the
House District Committee, today
was to lay before Congress a bill to
abolish the United States Park
Police force 'in the District of Co.
lumbia" and transfer its personnel
funds and equipment to the Metro
politan Police Department
The measure leaves unanswered q
question as to what police would be
left available to patrol govern
mental areas around Washington
now under park police authority
Those opposed to the bill say the
park police force now is % short OF
its authorized strength and ask
where could it find enough new men
today to take over the outlying
operations. These include the Mount
Vernon Parkway, the Chesapeake
& Potomac Canal to Cumberland
Md; Forts Hunt, Washington and
Foote and various recreational Sec
tions.
Following his recent announce
ment he would sponsor a move to
eliminate one of the several police
forces operating in the District, Mr..
Hebert said he did not mean that
the metropolitan police should take
jurisdiction. over the territories be-
yond the District.
AS drafted for him by attorneys
at the District Building, the measure
would make available to the Com
missioners any appropriation or un-
expended balance of the park police
transfer the personnel and all
equipment, including uniforms, mo-
torcycles, bicycles, weapons and
ammunition, official records and
files to the metropolitan police, and
give the metropolitan police rights
to the use of quarters within the
park system.
A formal protest against the plar
has been filed with Mr.. Hebert by
Assistant Secretary of Interior Os-
car L. Chapman.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
Navy Medical Officer
Honored at Luncheon

Rear Admiral Luther Sheldon,
jr., who has been promoted to chief
medical officer of the 5th Naval Dis
trict at Norfolk, Va, was guest of
honor yesterday at luncheon given
in the Willard Hotel by his associ-
ates in the Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery, where he had served as
deputy chief of the bureau.
Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire
chief OF the bureau, who was toast
master, expressed his appreciation
Of Admiral Sheldon's service in the
bureau. Capt. j. C. Agnew, who
succeeded Admiral Sheldon and
soon will be promoted TO rear ad-
miral, also spoke.
Attending the luncheon were
Rear Admiral P. S. Rossiter, Rear
Admiral II. w. Smith, Rear Ad-
miral George c. Thomas, Rear Ad-
miral William Chambers, Rear Ad-
miral Carl Michel of the Coast
Guard, Admiral Alexander A. Lyle,
Commodore r. G. Warner, Capt.
E. w. Brown, Capt. William E.
Eaton, Capt. John Harper, Capt.
Eric G. Hakansson, Capt. C. C.
AndruS.
Also, Capt. Howard H. Montgom-
cry, Capt. Paul Wilson, Capt. Ben
jamin H. Adams, Capt. William H.
Kennedy, Capt. Sue Dauser, head
of the Navy's Nurses Corps; Sur
geon Capt. r. w. Mussen of the
British Navy, Capt. P. S. Davis,
Capt. Thomas B. Magath, Capt.
Thomas j. Carter, Capt. j. j.
Kaveney. Capt. E. H. Cushing, Capt.
Rae D. Pitton, Comdr. r. G. Rams
dell, Comdr. j. j. Mundell, Comdr.
Arnold F. Emch, Lit. Comdr. E. G.
Dennis and William S. Douglas,
civilian assistant to Admiral NC
Intire.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
CutholicU.Confruternity
Officers Are Appointed

The Rev. Joseph B. Collins, direc-
tor Of the Catholic University unit
of the Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine, today announced officers
have been appointed as follows:
President, the Rev. Bernard Ran
sing, c. S. c.; vice president, Sister
M. Gertrude; secretary-treasurer
Paul Berg.
Chairman Of committees-James
Hickey, teachers; Edwin Reynolds,
c. s. p, fishers: Brother Louis Sc
cundo, T. o. r., helpers; Brother
Daniel Egan, S. A., apostolate to
non-C Catholics, and Robert Smith
hospital unit.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
MocouIey Nomination
Confirmed by Senate
y the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press,
The Senate yesterday confirmed
the denomination of Edward Ma
cauley Of California for q new six
year term on the Maritime Com
mission.
The nomination had been pend
ing on the Senate calendar since
before the election recess.
The confirmation was approved
by voice vote.
Mr.. Macauley's old term expired
September rs, and Senator Bailey,
Democrat, OF North Carolina said
he has drawn no salary during the
interim.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
Woman Loses Funds Borrowed
For Blind Sons THANKSGIVING

The loss OF a pocketbook in the
Benjamin Franklin Post Office may
mean that blind Alexandria youth
who, despite his handicap, had a
paper route last summer, may miss
Thanksgiving dinner with his fam
lily.
Mrs. Edward B. Holder, 234 Evans
Lane, Alexandria, mother of Rich
ard Hutcheson, 16, who is student
at the Virginia School for the Blind,
Staunton, lost the money she was
about to send her son in Staunton
for his trip home as she was posting
letters yesterday. The money had
been borrowed earlier from a cousin.
Mrs. Holder said she had prepared
for her sons Thanksgiving dinner
with the family. His sister, Betty,
who taught the blind youth his pa
per route last summer, has been
excited over the visit, the mother
said.
Richards dog, a boxer, disap-
peared last summer and was re-
Evening star., 1944-11-22
Roosevelt Carried
Maryland by H,857
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov 22-Final Off
cial tabulations of the presidential
vote in Maryland disclosed yesterday
that President Roosevelt carried the
State by margin of 22857 votes
over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York.
Mr.. RooseveltIs S vote, including alb
sentee ballots, was 316,138 to 293 ,3S1
for Gov. Dewey.
Although Gov. Dewey carried the
counties by majority of 27,819, he
ran sc, ,678 votes behind Mr.. Roosevelt
in Baltimore City.
A tabulation of the soldier vote
showed 34,62l-or about 80 per cent
of the eligible service personnel and
other absentees cast ballots.
Mr.. Roosevelt received 21,317 of
these to Gov. Dewey's 1921.
Evening star., 1944-11-22

After Rome fell, Mr.. NoyeS said
he intended to write some articles
about the political situation and
how the Allied military govern
ment of Italy was working out. 81
spent two months talking to people
and collected trunkful Of notes
but never wrote a word on this SUBJ
ject because it was so complicated
I never could get at the TRUTH" he
said ruefully.
OF one thing he is convinced
that the people Of Italy, Greece
France and other war-devastated
countries in Europe are pinning
their hopes on the United States
praying that this country will "stick
with them" and see that they have
chance to develop democratic gov
ernment. It is an economic neces-
sity, he said, for the devastated
countries to "tie themselves to the
apron strings of some big country
and they have confidence in oul
political intentions"
1t was while in Rome last sum-
mer that Mr.. Noyes began planning
to come home on leave. Just as he
was about ready to depart, CORE
spondents learned confidentially OF
the decision to go through with an
invasion of Southern France and
he decided to stick around for that
He Got Rocked.
II got rocked, however. in the
drawing for the correspondents
pool" he remarked. This was a Sc
lection by lot of the limited num-
ber of war correspondents to &C
company the invasion forces. "My
drawing scheduled me to go in about
D plus 15," he explained. That would
have meant sitting around Rome
until two weeks after the invasion
began August Is.
Mr.. Noyes managed to get a ride
on one of the planes taking para
chutists in behind the French coast
and wrote about that operation
Then he and several other corre-
spondents 'hitch-hiked" a ride by
plane to Corsica and from there by
PIT boat to the French coast.
when we Showed up at the press
camp they said there was no room
for us and we would have to go
back and wait our turn" he said.
There was some talk of being
penalized for breaking the regula-
tions, anyway.
However, I found a friend in an
Air Forces public relations officer
He accepted me as an air cor
Observation-Disclosures that is-and
put me up at house on the beach
for a few days. Then it was de-
cided to send Task Force Butler on
a big swing inland to cut up Ger
man communications. They were
eager to have correspondents GO
along to cover that operation, so !
was welcomed back to the press
camp with open arms when I said
I'd like to CO."
Discovers Gertrude.
1t was about this time that Mr.
Noyes found the retreat of Gertrude
o1ShA oiAo SOb dIl luIeiFleW, WHICH
appeared in The Star on Septem-
ber 5.
The fighting in Southern France
so swiftly that Mr.. Noyes
soon had to decide whether to stay
and be accredited to the European
theater or 60 back to Italy to retain
his credentials with Allied force
headquarters in the Mediterranean
theater. He chose the latter in order
to cover the liberation of Greece.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
Gen. Field Harris, s Others
Nominated for Promotion

Brig. Gen. Field Harris, veteran of
81 years of marine aviation, who
formerly lived at 5000 Connecticut
avenue NV, was nominated by
President Roosevelt today for pro-
motion to major general. The Presi-
dent also nominated three other ma
rine brigadier genrals for promotion
and three colonies to be brigadier
generals.
Gen. Harris was cited for cut
standing service as head of all
United Nations air units in the
Solomon Islands.
The other brigadier generals
named for step up in rank are
Earl G. Long, Pedro del Vale and
Louis E. Woods. Colonels designated
for promotion are William T. Gle
ment, Louis r. Jones and Joseph H.
Fellows.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
Fiscal Plan Would Cu1
Debt Funding Needs,
Capital Transit Says

The reflnancing program of the
Capital Transit Co., submitted re-
Gently to the Securities and Ex-
change Commission, would eliminate
large cash requirements for capital
and debt retirements in 1947 and
1851, Edward j. Heberle, vice presi-
dent and controller of the company.
said today at hearing of the Public
Utilities Commission.
Under the company's present debt
structure, Mr.. Heberle explained
cash requirements for capital and
retirement of debts would be 81, ,497 :
600 in 1945 and would go up to ST.
668, ZOO in 1947 and $8,597, 900 in
1851.
If the company is permitted by
the SEC and the PUG to refinance,
Mr.. Heberle told the commission,
cash requirements for capital ex-
penditures and debt reduction
would range from 81, ,294, 900 in 1945
to $2,450, 900 in 1864.
Top Requirement S2,707, 900.
Contrasted with more than So
100000 which would be required in
1851 under the present debt obliga-
tions of the company, the greatest
cash requirement of the company
under the refinancing plan would
be $2,707,00 in 1857.
The transit company has asked
the SEC and PUG for authority to
issue $12,500,000 of bonds due De-
cember l, 1864, and bearing 4 pei
cent interest. It also seeks author
ity to borrow $2,500,000 from banks
With the $15,000,0O0 raised by re-
financing and the use of cash or
hand, the company proposes to re-
tire its present long term debts.
During the course of his testi-
mony, Edward D. Merrill, transit
company president, said the re-
financing program does not include
proposals for a subway system re.
Gently submitted to the Commis-
sioners by consulting engineers.
Opposes Subway Plan Payment.
Mr.. Merrill said he saw no reason
why the company should be put to
expense for a subway program de-
signed to clear the streets for the
benefit of private motorists. De-
spite uncertainties of revenue ano
costs after the war, Mr.. Merrill
maintained that now is the proper
time to refinance the company.
The capital requirements estimat.
ed by the company include the cost
of relocating streetcar tracks at un.
derpasses proposed by the Highway
Department for such intersections
as Dupont Circle. It was also
brought out that the company ex.
poets to purchase IS buses q veal
during the period from 1916 to 1864
inclusive, making a total of 1,61s
buses. Similarly, it plans to pur.
chase 366 streetcarS from 194s
through 1864, enabling the company
to replace the conventional two-mar
cars with streamliners.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
; Big D. {. Markets
Doing Brisk Business
In Sales Of TURKEYS

Washington's three big markets
Center, Western and Northeast-did
a brisk business in turkeys today,
but nearby farmers, who were sup
plying the only Thanksgiving birds
for District families, were expected
to be sold out by early afternoon.
Western turkeys, which make up
the bulk of the local supply each
year, failed to materialize in time
for the holiday.
The situation in the three markets
was summed up by the farmers, who
said: I'VE are only taking care of
our regular customers" So, for
those householders who have de-
pended in the past on turkeys from
chain stores, there appeared little
likelihood of turkeys.
There was q. good business In
dressed and drawn turkeys at West
ern Market, Twenty-frst and K
streets NV, but farmers were only
selling to persons who had placed
their orders a week or more in ad-
vance. Only about four farmers
stands were operating outside the
market. Inside, business was brisk
in chickens and ducks.
At the Northeast Market, Fifth
street and Florida avenue NE,
farmers actually were finding a
little difficulty in selling birds weigh
ing over 16 pounds. Families just
don't seem to run to big numbers
in Washington, or else their ovens
are not big enough" one farmer
commented. At noon he still had
about Is turkeys weighing between
1S and 20 pounds for sale.
Prices in the markets varied with
the individual stands. Few suppliers
appeared to be agreed on just what
the various Office of Price Admins
tration ceilings were.
For instance, live turkeys were
selling anywhere from 40 to SO cents
a pound. Top legal price is A cents
a pound, plus transportation diff
ferential ranging up to 2 cents a
pound if the birds are shipped 300
miles or more.
Dressed turkey prices were so to SIS
cents pound. Highest OPA ceiling
is So cents, with fractional cent
addition for hauling.
Prices asked for drawn turkeys
were the only ones remaining within
the ceilings, according to a check
Top asking price was 60 cents a
pound. The OPA maximum is 81
cents.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
Musicians Complaint
Recalls 1916 Law on
troops 0tt.DutyW Work

James Caesar Petrillo, AFI Musi-
clans Union president who reported
ly has forwarded a protest to Marine
Corps headquarters against Marine
Band members giving music lessons
in their of hours, may have basis
for complaint under an act of Con-
gress passed in June, 1916.
The act, which is part of the
United States Code, states:
Hereafter no enlisted man in the
active service of the United States
in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps
respectively, whether a non-commis-
stoned officer, musician or private,
shall be detailed, ordered or permit
ted to leave his post to engage in
any pursuit, business or performance
in civil life for emolument, hire or
otherwise when the same shall inter-
fere with the customary employment
and regular engagement of local
civilians in the respective arts, trades
or professions.
A Marine Corps spokesman said
headquarters was not discussing the
case further. A statement issued
late yesterday declared: THE Marine
Corps headquarters today acknowl-
edged receipt of letter from James
Caesar Petrillo, president of the AFL,
Musicians Union, forwarding a pro-
test against certain Marine CORPS
Band members alleged to have given
music lessons when off duty. A reply
is being prepared by the legal officer
of Marine Corps headquarters"
The statement did not specify who
originated the protest, although it
was understood complaint had been
received at the New York Office of
the union from a Washington men,
ber OF the organization.
Questioned in New Orleans on the
report, Mr.. Petrillo told the Associ-
ated Press:
you've got me there. It's news
to me. We don't stop anybody from
giving lessons"
Evening star., 1944-11-22
DR.. Pruden Reelected
President Of District
Baptist Convention

The Rev. DR.. Edward Hughes
Pruden, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, was reelected president OF
the District Baptist Convention to-
day at the 67th annual meeting OF
the District Convention. The meet
ing, in session at the Metropolitan
Baptist Church, will close tonight
with installation of its 1945 officers
Charles H. Cooke of the Calvary
Baptist Church was reelected to q
second term as vice president. Two
brothers, William N. Janson and Ed
ward N. Janson, members of the
Second Baptist Church, were chosen
to continue as secretary and assist
ant secretary, respectively, for the
seventh consecutive year. Elgin
Smith OF the First Baptist Church
was selected as treasurer of the
convention for his 18th consecutive
term.
Standing Committees Named.
The convention named the stand
ing committees and their chairmen
for the 1945 term. They are: Bap-
tist Bible School, the Rev. j. Ray
mond Nelson: Baptist Home for
Children. Mrs. Redmond Mayo; the
Baptist Home, Mrs. w. B. Hoof-
nagle; Baptist men, DR.. Thomas r.
Wilson; missions, Mrs. E. Hilton
Jackson; ministerial education, the
Rev. N. T. German; social service,
the Rev. Newton D. Simmonds; ad-
visory, the Rev. c. B. Austin; build
ing and loan fund, c. Clinton
James; resolutions, DR.. Gaye Nc
Glouthlen; cooperation with COL
ored Baptist churches, the Rev.
Clarence Cransford; evangelism, the
Rev. James P. Rodgers, and Chris
tian Home, William N. Janson. I
Herbert w. Ludwig of Petworth
Baptist Church was chosen chair
man of committee to obtain new
headquarters for the District Bap-
tist Convention. Present headquar-
ters at Calvary Baptist Church are
inadequate, it was stated. Other
members of the committee are lie
Roy T. Gravatte, E. o. Clark, E. H.
Fox, Mrs. c. M. Long and DR..
Pruden.
Two Gold Stars in Flag.
The report on the Baptist Home
for Children by Mrs. Harvey Town
send, outgoing president of the
Home Board of Managers, stated
that two gold stars are on the serv-
ice flag with the 80 other stars indi-
eating men from the home who are
now in the armed forces. Mrs.
Townsend introduced to the meet
ing her successor, Mrs. Mayo, whose
grandfather in 1915 founded the
first Baptist Home in the District.
DR.. Walter o. Lewis, secretary OF
the Baptist World Alliance, yester-
day told the meeting that ''Baptists
must bear their share in relieving
the physical distress of the people
OF Europe and Asia when the war
is over" Declaring Baptists helped
in the problems of readjustment
after the World War, DR.. Lewis pre-
dicted conditions will be far worse
at the end Of this war, and called on
the denomination to support fully
the relief committee being formed
on which all Baptist organizations
in this country will be represented
Speakers at the installation cere-
monies will be DR.. M. T. Rankin of
the Southern Baptist Convention,
and DR.. Jesse Wilson Of the North
ern Baptist Convention.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
Holiday Gift Wroppings
Needed at Navy HOSPITAL

The District Camp and Hospital
Service of the American Red Cross
today appealed for immediate do
nations of Christmas wrappings and
boxes for more than 1000 gifts
which convalescent servicemen at
the Bethesda Naval Hospital are
sending home to their families.
The Red Gross said that with the
holidays so near it was important
that the men receive these wrap
pings at the earliest possible date
so their parcels may be mailed we'll
in advance.
ANY one willing to donate is asked
to call the camp and hospital desk,
OAR Building, RE. 5000, Exten-
sion 422.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
Phone Rate to Bermuda
To Be Reduced Dec. L
" the Associated Press.

BY the ASSoclated Press.
Telephone calls to Bermuda will
be cheaper beginning December 1.
The Federal Communications
Commission announced today that
tariffs filed by the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co. represent
sizable reductions affecting calls
from all points in the United States.
Examples listed were:
A three-minute weekday or Sun
day call from New York or WASH
ington now costing SIS will cost 50;
a similar call from Miami or Chi
cago now costing $17.25 will cost
$10.50, and call from San Fran
cisco now costing $3.50 will cost $12.
Evening star., 1944-11-22
Girl Injured on Bus
Given 81 500 DAMAGES

A jury in Arlington County Cir
cult Court yesterday awarded $4,5OO
damages to Betty Lou Murray, 18
of Arlington in suit against the
Arnold Operated Bus Lines.
Miss Murray declared she suffered
the loss of four front teeth and
other injuries when she was thrown
from her feet while riding in an
Arnold bus.