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Evening star., 1944-03-26
District Leads Nation
In Bond Purchases
Under 2Categories
Tops Per Copito List
For Peoples Bond and
Series {, F, 6 Combined

With more than half q billion dol
lars in War Bond purchases since
the emergency financing program
began May /, l94l, the District leads
the Nation in per capita purchases
of Series E and of Series E, F and G
combined, the Treasury announced
last night.
Total sales of Series E, F and G
were listed at $305 200 900 for an
average of $375 per person or $3.50
for every one gainfully employed.
Series E bond sales alone have
totaled 1920, 800, 900 for an average
or s275 per person or $475 per capita
for those gainfully employed.
More than 1929 900 900 in other
war securities were sold in the Dis
trict during the four war loan drives
for a total of s534,00o,o 900.
Sales Rise Annually.
Sales of E Bonds, the peoples
bond" have increased annually in
Washington since the war financing
program began. For the fiscal year
1912, sales totaled s34,827 900 in this
category; in 1943, they were s83,-
147,000, and during the first eight
months of the current fiscal year,
they already have reached $780,
034, 900.
Series F and G Bonds sales
reached $23 3,247,0 during the 1912
fiscal year and $22 2,407, 900 during
the first eight months of the pres
ent fiscal year. Other issues totaled
$37 ,677,000 during the first War
Loan drive in December, 1912, as
against 65,817,000 during the fourth
campaign last month.
Washington's Greek Americans
will participate in a War Bond rally
at 3 pm. today in the Depart
mental Auditorium, under the Joint
auspices of Ahepa, American
Hellenic fraternity, and st. Sofia
Greek Orthodox Church.
Seek 100000 in Sales.
Efforts will be made to raise
100000 in bonds to complete the
$350,000 bomber project started
during the Fourth War Loan drive.
Speakers will be Senator Thomas
Of Utah and DR. Achilles M. Sakell,
chief of Owls foreign section. En-
tertainment will include variety
acts headlined by the appearance of
Nick and Steve Condas, dancers,
from the Martha Raye troupe now
appearing at the Capitol Theater.
Music will be provided by the
American Air Forces Band from
Boiling Field.
Merchandise and captured enemy
equipment will be auctioned off to
the highest bidders for bonds.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

lad who will join the Marines in two
weeks said he certainly did have
some ideas about foreign policy,
though this was the first time he'd
ever been asked.
Whenever Churchill comes to
this country, our rations get cut a
little more" he said.
rs that our foreign policy?" the
reporter asked.
Yeah, except that whenever Mrs.
Roosevelt goes to England we also
lose something"
Another bellhop, who said he was
going into a defense plant soon,
said yep, that was just about the
way he felt about it.
Maybe the President was only
joshing, the way he does sometimes,
but, anyway, he's got the bellhops
thinking about foreign policy, and
the next time some one pops up and
asks them what our policy is, they'll
probably have . right pert answer
ready, Just like that.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
By NORMAN KAHL.

If people really are going around
town asking bellhops what the
American foreign policy is, the way
President Roosevelt said they were,
they're learning precious little
about foreign policy, anyway.
After the President, at his Friday
press conference, made that crack
about the bellhops it seemed sensi-
BILE to find out what kind of diplo-
matte dope the boys are dishing
out. So poll was taken-an in
formal one naturally-and the re-
suits are nothing to write home in
our diplomatic pouch about.
The consensus appears to be that
If Secretary of State Hull will take
care OF our foreign policy, the bell
hops will take care of bellhopping
They fear the President must have
been nisinformed when he got the
impression that hotel guests 70
around asking the bellboys what
American foreign policy Is.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Army Honors District Man
For Communications Work

William F. Friedman, director of
communications research of the
Army Communication Service, YES
terday received the War Depart
ment's exceptional civilian service
award.
The award was presented at a
Penagon ceremony by Maj. Gen.
Harry G. Ingles, chief signal officer.
Mr.. Friedman's researches and
developments in the field of military
communications have been valuable
to the operations of all units of the
armed forces, the citation for this
highest civilian award pointed out.
The award carries an in-grade pro-
motion.
Only those who are intimately
connected with them can evaluate
fully the extent of your contribu-
tions to the War Department both
in peace-time planning and in
effecting those plans during the
war;" Gen. Ingles said.
Born in Kishinev, Russia, in 1891.
Mr.. Friedman came to the United
States in 1893. He is graduate of
Cornell University. During the
World War, he served as lieutenant
in the Military Intelligence Service
and held a Reserve commission as
lieutenant colonel from 1886 to 1941.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star War Correspondent.

AN AMERICAN AIR FORCE
STATION.-The top-ranking ace
among the fighter pilots from the
Washington area participating in
raids on Nazi targets in Europe is
Capt. Michael j. Quirk, %, 3718
Livingston street NV. Flying his
fast Thunderbolt plane, Capt. Quirk
has scored 13 aerial victories. He
also shared in the destruction of an
FW-190 during the third American
daylight raid over Berlin, when 176
German planes were destroyed.
Victories also were scored in this
raid by Capt. John William (BilD
Guckeyson, 6705 Forty-sixth street,
Chevy Chase, Md, former University
Of Maryland and West Point athlete,
and 1t. Henry w. Brown, 2201 Thir-
teenth street NE.
Capt. Quirk, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Timothy J. Quirk, was featured in
The Stars Heroes of the Wash
ineton Area" series February 81.
The former Catholic University stu
dent holds the Distinguished Flying
Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster and the
Air Medal with three clusters.
Capt. Guckeyson, a four-letter
man at the University of Maryland
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Offered
To Make Airport
Reservation
Randolph Proposal
Would Give Virginia
Certain Tax Rights
BY DON S. WARREN.

A new plan for settlement ol
the century-old District Virgins
boundary dispute, which would es.
tablish the Washington Nationa
Airport as a Federal reservation,
was proposed yesterday by Chair
man Randolph of the House Dis
trict Committee.
Indicating he would seek action
soon on revised measure that
would give neither the District MOI
Virginia jurisdiction over the air.
port-focal point in the boundary
issue-Mr. Randolph said he had
submitted copies of the new plan
to the Justice Department and other
interested agencies.
Tax Provisions of Plan.
While the United States, which
holds title to the airport, would be
given exclusive Jurisdiction" the
revised measure would reserve te
Virginia the right to tax oil, gaso-
line and other motor fuels anc
lubricants sold on the airport reser.
vation for use over its roads by auto.
mobiles, trucks and buses, but this
would not apply to sales for govern.
mental or aviation use.
The measure also would reserve
to Virginia the power to serve
criminal and civil process on the
airport.
f. Mr.. Randolph said a spokesman
for the National Capital Park anc
Planning Commission had expressed
belief the new plan would not
jeopardize its position as to the
boundary issue. Copies of the plar
also have been given to Representa-
tive Smith, Democrat, of Virginia
who has supported bill which would
cede the airport and other portions
of the "no-man's land" to Virginia
and to Representative Stefan, Re-
publican, of Nebraska, who has
blocked House action on that bill.
by Air Transport Officials
Officials of the Air Transport As
ISOLATION of America, which includes
all operating airlines of the United
States, suggested the new solution,
Mr.. Randolph reported.
Expressing hope that the new
plan would serve to reconcile the
viewpoints, Mr.. Randolph
said:
"If the airport is to be truly a
national airport, there is no rea-
son why it should be subject to
the jurisdiction of either the Dis
trict or Virginia. The most logical
is to make it a Federal
reservation subject to the exclusive
of the Federal Govern
nent, though it is located within
he territorial limits of Virginia.
Under such a procedure, the
airport would be administered by
Federal agency, probably the
Civil Aeronautics Administration
md would be in the most advan-
'ageous position to earn the great
,st possible revenue from opera
ions and thus return to the tax
payers their investment in the air.
port"
The bill, though establishing the
airport as a Federal reservation,
would make the boundary line the
high-water mark on the
Virginia side of the Potomac River.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Six Lost Boys Return
AS Police Search Woods

District and Maryland police had
a few anxious hours yesterday after
a group of six boys from the Barney
Neighborhood House became separ-
ated from their leader while on a
hike and disappeared in the thick
underbrush of the Maryland woods.
I. c. Gauntt, director of boys
activities, became separated from
his charges near Accokeek, Nd, as
they were hiking homeward after
an outing in the country. He called
Waldorf and District police.
While Maryland State police and
Mr.. Gauntt feverishly searched the
woods, the youths, unaware of the
commotion they had caused, walked
into the Barney Neighborhood
House.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Pepoo's S Attorneys
will Cross-Examine
'Rate Expert Friday
Bonbrieht, Who Proposed
New SIiding-Seole Plan,
Will Return to Stand

DR.. James c. Bonbright, chair
man of the New York Power Au-
thority, who yesterday offered the
Public Utilities Commission recon-
mendations for modifying the Slid
ing scale arrangement with the
Potomac Electric Power Co., will
&. take the stand at 10 am. Friday for
%cross- examination by PEPCO at
torneys.
The appearance of DR.. Bonbright
Eas witness for the Procurement
Division of the Treasury, brought
the largest attendance in the
month-long hearing on this years
power rates. He is professor of
finance at Columbia University and
considered an authority in the pub
lie utility field.
Hearings Resume Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the hearings are ten
tatively set to resume at 10 am.
Tuesday, at which time witnesses
are to appear for the Procurement
Division and the Federal Works
Agency, both intervenorS.
q The procurement division has an
nounced that it is seeking modifi-
cations in the sliding scale arrange
Ement for rate determination while
%the FWA has demanded abrogation
of the arrangement. Up to the
present time, FWA has offered no
witnesses, but has confined itself to
spasmodic croSs-examination
DR.. Bonbright presented seven
proposals for modifying the sliding
scale agreement. He said the slid
ing scale should be continued only
if modified and that in any event
1t was no longer "strikingly" su-
perior to other forms of rate regula-
tion.
Per Cent Return Proposed.
These proposals included a change
to an undepreciated rate base, re-
duction of the present rate of re-
turn from 6 per cent to per cent
and a proposal to "recapture" one
half OF excess earnings in any one
year for a special reserve fund.
The purpose of recapturing one
half. of excess earnings in any one
year would be to set UP a special
fund to guard against an increase
in rates If the company earned less
than the permissible rates of re-
turn in any one year.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

make q Jour OF tne Unlted states
to study American agricultural
methods.
The new agricultural attache has
been professor of agriculture at the
University of Reading, England,
since 1888 and prior to that time
was lecturer in charge of the De-
partment Of Crops and Animal
HuSbandry.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Safe Stolen in D. T.,
Found Ripped Open
On Maryland Farm
Two Stronebox Robberie!
Net Burglars Sl0,766
In Gosh and War Bonds

Police last night pressed their
search for safe crackers who staged
two successful strongbox robberies
which yielded $2,766 in cash, $4,000
In War bonds and gas ration cou-
pons worth 1900 gallons. A third
attempt on a gas station safe
failed, police revealed, because the
safe was one Of modern design.
While the city was being secured
yesterday for thieves who removed
an 800-pound safe containing 50 500
in cash and So 900 in bonds from the
Potomac Grill, GIT Eleventh street
S E, Friday night, the safe crackers
were dumping the strong box
empty but for $4,4o0 in checks-on
a Maryland farm lot, police said.
William Windsor, owner of a
farm near Largo, Md, found the
safe, which police said was the one
taken from the Potomac Grill, as he
walked over his property YESTERDAY
He notified Prince Georges County
police who in turn informed Dis
trict detectives working on the case
Safe Door Chiseled Off.
Detective Sergts. w. G. Fawceti
and Irving Lubore, of the genera,
assignment squad, Immediately lef,
to examine the safe. They said or
their return last night that the door
had been chiSled off.
The second safe robbery was re-
ported yesterday by William w
Brown. colored, owner of a filling
station at 21o1 Georgia avenue NV.
police said. The door of that safe
was ripped of and police declared
the manner in which the job was
done indicated the burglars were
professionals. Mr.. Brown reported
Sl66 in cash and gas coupons worth
l,600 gallons were stolen.
Inspector Robert j. Barrett. chief
OF detectives, confirmed reports that
safe robbery specialists were work.
ing here.
There is more than one safe mob
working in the city, Inspector Bar
rett declared. Give us a little time
ana we will close these cases, too"
Thieves Thwarted.
A safe of modern design, said bv
police to be practically burglar-proof,
thwarted thieves who Friday night
broke into filling station operated
by John Gard, at So T street NV
The strong box was SCARED and
tools from the service station had
been used by the cracksmen in an
effort to force the door, police said.
They apparently despaired of open
ing the safe and left without taking
anything.
Police, meanwhile, recovered part
OF so cases of whisky stolen from a
restaurant operated by John Mes
line, 2314 Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
after a chase yesterday of a stolen
car which ended up in a Southeas st
alley. Two men who were in the car
fed through alleys on foot after
abandoning the car and 243 bottles
of whisky. The tax stamps on the
liquor identified it as part of that
stolen from Neslnes, police asserted.
The car was one reported stolen
last Wednesday from Mrs. Mary
HURT, 1765 R street NV.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Two Americans Named
To Posts in UNRRA
6y the ASsorictodp prass

BY the Associated Press.
Two Americans and one Canadian
have been appointed to the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration, Sir Arthur Salter,
acting UNRRA director, announced
yesterday.
Edwin R. Henson of the United
States was named chief of the divi-
sion of agricultural rehabilitation,
and Rolf Nugent of the United
States was appointed economic con-
sultant in the bureau of supply.
Andrew Cairns of Canada was
appointed chief of the food division.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

and later an all-American soccer
player, trackman and baseball play
er at West Point, flies Thunder
bolt. The well-known athlete,
grandson of Mrs. Elizabeth Council,
went to England in December and
has one Messerschmit to his credit.
1t. Brown, 81, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George D. Brown, is a graduate of
Mckinley High School and formerly
was craftsman for the Farm
Credit Administration.
Served as Eisenhower's Secretary.
First 1t. John C. Mouat, pilots
"Old 66,' a Flying Fortress with quite
record in this theater. 1t Mouat
attended George Washington Uni
versity and later served as secretary
to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower when
he was assistant chief of staff.
1t. Mouat flew his Fortress in
raids against Schweinfurt, Rjukan
(Norway), Kiel, Frankfurt, Lud-
wigshafen, Bremen and Emden. The
crew of his ship probably shot down
many German planes but because
OF the necessity Tor absolute con-
flrmation, has not received credit
for victories.
Il know they shot down at least
two" said 1t. Mouat, because I saw
them. That was all in the first five
missions. None in the last 90"
Over Kiel, flax knocked out two
of "Old 66's" four engines. Badly
crippled and losing speed and alti-
tude, the plane fought it's way back
home. The Fortress never has
turned back on mission. 1t Mouat
said credit for a record like that
belongs to the ground crew.
Best friends guy ever had" he
said All the combat flyers are CRATE
full for the ground crews, the unsung
men of the air forces, who work all
night and all day to KEEP airplanes
in the air
Navigator of the Flying Fortress
"Shatzi II is 1t. Thomas A. Mott,
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Col. Reed Assigned Here

Col. Howard Reed, son of Senator
Reed, Republican, of Kansas, re-
turned to Washington yesterday
from a tour of duty with the Army
Air Transport Command in Africa
Assigned to temporary duty here, he
received a promotion from lieuten-
ant colonel to colonel.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Blue Ridge Tunnel
Goes in Use Thursday
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne ASs0tlatAd Press.
WAYNESBORO, Va, Mar. 25.-
The new Blue Ridge tunnel, between
Waynesboro and Alton on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, will
be ready for use next week, officials
said today. The first train will go
through the tunnel Thursday.
The tunnel, huge engineering
accomplishment, has claimed the
lives of two men since construction
started.
Although it is not the largest
tunnel on the c. & O., its bore is
4,230 feet long. The job was begun
in November, 1941. Drilling was
finished last June.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

tAAS - = v q . II
Ministry of Ag-
riculture. H e
will r e pl a C e
Prof. j a m e S
Watson Scott,
who will soon
return to Eng
land for a post
as yet unan-
nounced.
Prof. Rae, en-
bassy officials
said, will serve
on Lord Hall
fax staff in an
advisory canae-
ity nd will
Evening star., 1944-03-26

detective. The typical conversation
ran something like this:
Reporter: The President says lots
of people 60 around asking you fell
lows what the foreign policy is.
What is it?
Bellhop: What is what?
Reporter: The foreign policy?
Bellhop: What is foreign policy?
Reporter: That's what I'm ask
ing you? What is it?
Bellhop: Look, Bub, I think that
guy over there is looking for me to
carry his bag. Maybe I'll see you
later.
One middle -aged fellow-an ex-
ception-said he thought foreign
policy was good thing and every
country that was on our side ought
to have one. It was like that at the
Statler and it was like that at the
Mayfiower.
At the Carlton Hotel. though, q
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Save 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-
zines is needed. Telephone your
nearest school or notify some
school child In your block to
have your paper picked up.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
FBI Agent to Speak

j. B. Green, special agent of the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation,
will speak on Child Delinquency"
at a meeting of the East Silver
Spring Elementary School at pm.
tomorrow. The meeting was post
poned from last Monday because of
inclement weather. Selections will
be given by the school band.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Johnston Says U. 5.
Must Guard Against
Decline in Mora|ity
Addresses Committee of
Social Agencies Council;
JeIIeff Receives Award

No plan to regulate world rela-
tionships is any better than the
people who use it, Eric A. Johnston,
president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, told men,
bers of the Corrections Committee
OF the Council of Social Agencies
at its luncheon meeting yesterday.
The program was high lighted by
the presentation of the annual
award of the Washington Criminal
Justice Association for outstanding
work in the correctional field to
Frank r. Jelleff, chairman of the
Districts parole board.
Our enemies look on war as the
normal and desirable state of af-
fairs while we look on it as a tragic
and hateful interruption of the
normal and desirable way of life,
Mr.. Johnston said, and we must
guard against pollution of our blood
stream by the enemies moral cor
ruption. Victory, he told his audi
ence, will avail us nothing if in
the process of attaining it we lose
our perspective and permit the
contagion of totalitarian amoralism
to infect our own hearts ano
minds"
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Steel Official Joins WLB

Appointment of E. F. Blank, di-
sSxector OF personnel relations for
Jones 81 Laughlin Steel Corp, Pitts
burgh. as substitute industry MEM
Der OF the War Labor Board was
announced yesterday by the board.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Sees U. s. in Danger.

Mr.. Johnston said there have
been alarming symptoms of moral
decline in America, that it has-be-
come smart" to question moral
values, to make excuses for horrors
at home and abroad.
Paper plans will not be enough in
the postwar world for the results
must depend upon our sense of
right and wrong, our respect for in
dividual human beings, and upon a
new dedication to the simple things
of everyday life, he said.
While we cannot all take part in
clearing the globe of moral debris
left by totalitarian propaganda" he
said, still we can clear its corrup-
ton from our souls through a new
appreciation of democracy and pub
lie affairs and decent behavior in
our private lives"
Mr.. Johnston said the Nation
needed dedication to higher stand
ards of conduct in public life and
in business. Labor, he declared, has
had its full quota of cynicism with
some leaders who reached out
greedily for power and profit, with
little concern for the wen-being of
the rank and file of their member
ship and no thought at all for the
interest of the community as
whole"
Jelleff Hits Secrecy.
In accepting the award from Eu-
gene Meyer, president of the Crimi-
nal Justice Association, Mr.. Jellef
related how his appointment as
chairman of the parole board was
termed ridiculous" by former
Federal official who did not believe
a businessman could successfully
execute the duties of that Office.
He said the board could accom-
plish more good in dealing with
Juvenile delinquents if it had the
case history of youths who come
before it. but that efforts to pro-
cure them from Juvenile Court au-
thorities had been thwarted be-
cause social workers believed these
records to be confidential
I believe in helping these boys
before they acquire a jail record
rather than after they have one"
he said.
Mr.. Jelleff said the board had
been criticized for giving parole
vlolators another chance but that
those so favored knew they had
been given every opportunity to
make good and had not left prison
with chip on their shoulders after
serving their sentences.
In referring to the good accom-
pished by the board, he said more
than 400 PAROLES had been inducted
INTO the armed forces and had made
good.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

'We get asked a lot of things
around here" said a bellhop at the
Statler Hotel, "but never about for
eign policy. So help me-"
Another one said simply, Look.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Roe Joins HoIifux Stuff,
In Agricultural Post

The British Embassy yesterday
announced the appointment as ag-
ricultural attache of Prof. Robert
Rae, currently technical adviser to
Evening star., 1944-03-26

with a new type of electric gong on
streamline cars giving a more rapid
sounding of the warning, somewhat
on the order of the alarm bell on
an electric alarm clock.
The accident rate figures given by
Mr.. Emmons to compare the first
two months Of this year with last
year follow:
Evening star., 1944-03-26

I'm busy-awfully busy. I amt got
time to get mixed up in politics"
Most OF the Statler bellhops Just
looked suspicious, shifted at the re-
porters breath and kept looking
over their shoulders for the house
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Over There With Men From Here
FLYERS FROM D. C.. AREA
MAKING GOOD RECORDS
Copt. Bill Guckeyson Scores Victories
In Berlin Raid; 1t. Mouut Pilots Fortress

This one OF series OF stories BY Star correspondent
District Maryland and Virginia soldiers taking
OF Germdnu.