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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-15

} cerned with keeping internal order.
Dispatches on conditions inside Ba-
varia stop short of reporting actual
clashes, but they reflect, nevertheless,
a grim hostility to the nazi regime
and distinct flare-up of anti-Prussian
bomb-shattered Munich, scene of the
abortive nazi Beer Hall Putsch in
1923, now seems to parallel Colognes
position in the Rhineland as a center
of opposition.
Both the Swiss newspaper Welt
woche and the Stockholm Tidningen
have reported widespread anti-nazi
feeling in Munich, with the Swedish
newspaper declaring that Communist
slogans inscribed ON walls were seen
frequently. Despite this mention of
Communist slogans, the nazis seem to
be directing their wrath mainly
against the Catholic clergy and for
mer Catholic political leaders.
AS the Swiss Gazette de Lausanne
reported mass arrests of priests and
former members of the Catholic Ba-
varian Peoples Party, the domestic
German press quoted Kreisleiter Den
nerl as denouncing what he called the
Munich mentality" The nazi Off
cial told mass meeting that this
mentality" consisted of a lack of
hatred for Germany's enemies and the
"defeatist" hope that after the war it
will make a difference whether one
was a Bavarian or a Prussian, Pro-
testant or Catholic"
Continued anti-nazi sentiment in
Silesia, which sprung the alleged Goer
deler plot, was indicated recently in
the fact that DR.. Roland Friesler,
head of the nazi Peoples Court"
went there to make a speech in which |
he declared that "some remnants of
the so-called internal enemy be-
long to the same circles as have been
opposed to National Socialism since
1888"
According to the Stockholm Sven
ska Dagbladet, the highest judge of
political criminals" in Germany, who
has been passing ruthless sentences
on "defeatists," admitted that the
Germans were sitting on a keg of
dynamite. He said that "defeatism"
in Germany would be certain to rear
its head "if leniency or something
like that was shown"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-15
GERMAN FOOD CRISIS


Reich Food Minister Herbert Backe,
outlining the nazi food program for
the coming year in a recent address
to German farmers, all but admitted
that the present problems facing Ger
man agriculture were virtually insur-
mountable. According to a domestic
DNB report of his speech, Backe pre-
scented a grim picture of food condi-
tions in Germany, which shaped up as
! follows:
Due to loss of territory and other
factors, fodder and fertilizer supplies
have shrunk dangerously, with meth
err direct nor indirect relief" of the
fodder situation being available"
Owing to air-raids and lack of new
equipment, transport is desperately
scarce.
The only way to make up for the
lack of fertilizer is by more man.
hours of work, solution complicated
by the demands of last-ditch total
mobilization" of fighting and indus
trial manpower The only answer to
the fodder shortage is further curtail-
ment of meat and fat for the con-
sumner. To make up for the lack of
transport, the whole structure of the
German agricultural economy must be
revised, which he conceded to be a
tremendous task at this juncture.
There was little encouragement
Backe could offer the farmers. He
gave the farmers the same kind of
pep talk he has given them so many
times before.
81 do not give you any other watch
word than one that has been we'll
known to us for years. he said.
He told the farmers that this watch
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-15
ASSETS

ASSETS
According to the Stockholm Sven
ska Dagbladet, the nazi party news
paper Voelkischer Beobachter has pic
tured the effects of Allied bombings
as strategic asset. The Stockholm
daily said the nazi party had told its
readers that heavily bombed towns
provided excellent training grounds
for street fighting.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-15
MAILED THREATS

Two Swiss newspapers, the Basler
Arbeiterzeitung and the Journal de
Geneve, reported recently that nazi
officials were getting an increased
volume of anonymous letters threat
ening them with the killing of their
families and the burning of their prop
critics unless they turn against the
party.
The domestic German press has
long been complaining against the
flood of anonymous mail being sent
to party officials, but the contents Of
the letters were not revealed until
the recent Swiss dispatches
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-15

forces declared that numerous re-
quests" by soldiers for radio sets and
spare parts could not be fulfilled and
called on the soldiers to place avail
able sets in common rooms"
The German Army newspaper Front
und Heimat printed a two-column ex-
hortation urging soldiers not to aban-
don tanks, trucks or other equipment
and asking them to destroy equipment
that must be left behind
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-15
BUNGLING

!
Reich Marshal Herman Goering's
Essener Acknowledging recently
quoted the Mayor of Essen as com
planning in a press interview about
the assistance the bomb-battered city
has been getting from national author
tiles in connection with its acute
transportation problem
Declaring that "the populations
supply with life-essential goods can
be maintained only by motor vehicles
that can find their way through rub
ble," the Mayor bristled:
"If we again get vehicles like the
last batch we received, we consider
such help a mockery."
The Mayor also complained that the
gasoline granted Essen was made
quate, claiming that other towns were
far better off. He actually went so
far as to say that nazi bungling had
aggravated the situation.
ut is downright grotesque that
few thousand loaves of bread were
dispatched to Essen in a gasoline
driven truck from a town situated 500
kilometers (310 miles, away" he said.
IF we had been given the fuel nee
essary for the trip, we could have
fetched many times the quantity of
bread from neighboring towns"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-15

word was: 1.-The last ounce must be
squeezed out"
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Wallace Rollins Dies;
.Ex-Fire Lieutenant

Wallace w. Rollins, So, retired
Fire Department lieutenant, diec
Sunday at his home, 6220 Shady
Side avenue, Capitol Heights, Md.
after long illness.
A lifelong resident of the Seat
Pleasant area, Mr.. Rollins was re-
tired from the department in 1926
after losing his right eye as the
result of an injury received at q
fire. He had been a member OF
the department for II years.
Mr.. Rollins was active in the
Republican party in the 18th Seal
Pleasant district and served as reg
istration officer for several years
He was justice of the peace ano
had served several terms as towr
Councilman in Capitol Heights.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Annie
MeCann Rollins, he Is survived by
two daughters, Mrs. Marian U
Bartz, Oakland. Nd, and Mrs. Hes
ter E. Culver, District Heights, Md:
two sons, Wallace L. Rollins, District
Heights, and Sergt. Donald w. Rol-
Inns, stationed at an Army post in
Recife, Brazil; two brothers, Douglas
Rollins, Washington, and Vernon
Rollins, Detroit, and two sisters, Miss
Hattie B. Rollins, Asheville, NC.
and Mrs. Mamie Rude, Greenville,
S. C.
Funeral services will be held al
2 pm. tomorrow from the resi-
dence, with burial in Addison Chapel
Cemetery, Seat Pleasant.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Robots in Infancy,
.Stettinius Warns
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-Within 10 OF
20 years, robot bombing is almost
certain to befall this country and
all other countries unless we are
able to establish an efficient'' peace
organization, Secretary of State
Stettinius said today.
Writing in the Kiwanis magazine
Mr.. Stettinius said the Dumbarton
Oaks proposals are important be-
cause they point the alternative "to
unspeakable disaster"
Let no one forget that the robot
bomb and the rocket are still in theil
infancy, at a stage comparable to
the stage of development which avi-
alton reached at Kitty Hawk in
1908. These deadly missiles
can be perfected to the point where
they can travel thousands of miles
at incredible speed.
TN that event our oceans. ou,
industrial strength and our man.
power would not be able to preven,
surprise attack and vast damage b,
accurately aimed weapons travelling
faster than sound"
The Dumbarton Oaks proposals
Mr.. Stettinius wrote, revealed thai
the four participating power.
recognized that their economic
strength and their military potentia
placed special responsibilities upor
them for the maintenance and en-
forcement of peace
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Mrs. Mary Ella Hamb|y
To Be Buried Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Ella Hambly, who died yesterday at
her home, 5713 Ninth street NV.
will be held at pm. tomorrow al
Hines funeral home. Fourteenth ano
Harvard streets NV.
Services will be conducted by DR.
Clarence w. Crawford, pastor OF
Calvary Baptist Church, in which
Mrs. Hambly had been active for
many years, and by DR.. William S
Abernethy. pastor emeritus, close
friend of the Hambly family. Burial
will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Born in Chicago, Mrs. Hambly
spent most of her life in Chicago
and Washington. AS a nurse, she
served as head of the sick COM
mittee of the Burial Glass at CAL
vary Baptist Church, which at one
time was the largest Bible class in
Washington.
Surviving are her husband, J. st.
Clair Hambly, representative Of the
Equitable Life Insurance Society;
her stepmother, Mrs. Ottilie
Schwarz, who made her home with
the Hamblys; nephew, 1t. Jack
Schwarz Brown, U. S. N R., now on
duty with the Navy, and a niece,
Mrs. Rose De Jong Of Chicago.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Sister N. FredoIin Dies;
As Years in Schools Here

Sister M. Fredolin elizabeth Hal
beib), 72, who spent As years OF
service at the Holy Cross Academy
and st. Joseph's Home and School
died December is at the Mother
House, st. Mary's Convent, Notre
Dame, Ind, after an illness Of five
years, according to word received
here yesterday.
She was received into the Sisters
OF the Holy Cross in 1893 and the
following year came to the Holy
Cross Academy as a teacher. Ir
1888 she went to st. Joseph's Home
and School where she was sister
superior for six years. Besides hel
teaching duties here she had spent
a year as stewardess at Mount
Carmel Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
A native of Elizabethtown. Pa.
she is survived by a niece, Mrs
Bernard A. Gallagher; grand
nephew, Bernard G. Gallagher, ano
four grandnieces, Mrs. John Hazard
Mrs. Harry E. Keller, Mrs. George
L. Clark and Mrs. Joseph Loveless
all of Washington.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Polio Patient Sees Children
For Hour on Christmas

Mrs. Frederick w. Russo. jr.. Alex
andria, Va, polio victim now In st
Louis after Q journey from Wash
ington last week, today looked for
ward to longer periods out of her
iron lung after seeing her two chill
dren yesterday.
Mrs. Russo, 81, wife of Navy lieu
tenant con- nander stationed here
was permitted to spend an hour out
OF the iron lung with her children
according to the Associated Press
She arrived in st. Louis three days
before Christmas but due to nerv-
business and exhaustion resulting
from the trip, was unable to see the
children, Susan, Al, and Frederick
William, III, 4 months, until yes
terday.
Mrs. Russo has spent most of the
last three months in the lung, vir-
tually all Of the time as a patient
at Gallinger Hospital. She was
stricken at the height of the cpl
demic here after leaving her chill
dren with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George C. Mackay, in st. Louis to
protect them from exposure to the
disease.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
A Job To Be Done
An Appeal to Those Who Want Sincerely

At the airport, an Air Transport
Command pilot returning from far
corner of the world shouts Milk! /"
and starts gulping. He hasn't seen
milk for long time.
In camp recreation hall, an
Army private shyly requests let
tuce and jelly sandwich and mur3ches
1t lovingly. 1t reminds him Of ice
box raids back home.
At Union Station, shocked sur
vivors of a nearby passenger
freight collision reach with trem-
bling fingers for steaming mugs OF
coffee.
Members Of the District Red Cross
Canteen Corps were there in each
case-to pour the milk, to spread
the jelly, to pass out the coffee.
They are there to stock planes with
coffee when the ATC men start out
on their long missions, and there to
greet the wounded boys returning
from the front.
Their stock In trade is doughnuts
and coffee, sandwiches and smiles.
They staff the canteen in the Dis
trict Red Cross chapter house, serv-
ing other Red Cross volunteers and
members of the armed forces. They
prepare and serve the Red Cross
War Fund luncheons, serve refresh
ments in the Blood Donor Center
and at six Army canteens and recre-
alton halls. They are on eau fse
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Red Cross Needs
Cunteen Workers
War Program

Gradually, their work is turning
more and more toward giving hos
pitality and bit of cheer to men
returning from abroad. AS this
work increases-and it already
makes up the majority of the chores
OF the canteen workers-mor and
more volunteers will be needed.
The immediate need, however, is
for $50 daytime volunteers who
must be recruited before January 8
so they can be trained in time to
assist with the Red Cross War Fund
lunches, serving the volunteers help
ing to raise funds to continue the
work of the Red Cross here and
overseas.
For women who can spare the
time only to help out at the special
lunches during the War Fund drive,
the District Red Cross has scheduled
a 10-hour training course for can
teen aides" who will serve under
trained corps members as shock
troops" during the War Fund drive
luncheons. That class is scheduled
to start in nnid-January.
The Canteen Corps hopes, how
ever, that women will take the train
ing described in "The Job in Brief
so that they also can be counted on
to greet the returning boys, the
soldiers stationed around Wash
ington and the survivors OF IRE and
food with a CHEEKY word and a
welcome cup Of coffee.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
The Job in Brief

Qualifications: For Red Cross
Canteen Corps recruits, women
between the ages of 18 and so
in good health, available for
daytime volunteer work.
Training: A 20-hour course
for those who have taken the
prerequisite Red Cross nutrition
course. Next class starts jan
uary S and ends January 80,
two hours q day, two days a
week. For those who haven't
taken nutrition, an accelerated
canteen- nutrition course starts
January 8 and ends February
10, three hours day, two days
a week.
Hours of work after training:
Yearly minimum of $50 hours,
one regularly scheduled day
each week with choice Of day
to serve as far as possible.
Where to register: Red Cross
Canteen office, Memorial Conti-
mental Hall, Seventeenth be-
tween c and D streets NV,
Monday through Friday be-
teen 10 am. and 4 pm. Dead
line for registration, January
8. For additional information,
call Republic $500, extension 2ee.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Baltimore Man Is Held
In Fatal SIashinq Of Wife
By the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, Dec. 26.-A 30
year-old shipyard worker, hospital
lied for razor slashes which police
said probably were self-inficted to-
day. faced charge of assault by
cutting and causing the death" of
his wife.
Mrs Ruby Berry, "a, died Sunday
shortly after her 5-year-old son
found her lying in a pool of blood
on the floor of her bedroom, her
throat cut and her abdomen slashed,
Police Capt. William E. Murphy re-
ported.
The womans husband, John H
Berry, Bethlehem Fairfield Ship
yard employe and former Whites
burg Ky) coal miner lay nearby
unconscious, his stomach gashed
A straight-edged razor was beside
him, Capt. Murphy said
South Baltimore General Hospi-
tai authorities reported Berry was
expected to recover. He was kept
under police guard.
Another son, 7-year-old Glenn
Harold. and Mrs. Berry's sister, 49,
year-old Genevieve Caudill, lived
with the family.
Evening star., 1944-12-26

An information center also ha,
been considered to give doctors dats
on group clinics. Mr.. Wiprud sale
younger doctors are interested ir
working together where they may
have more facilities
In an attempt to locate ofhc,
space, the society circularized it.
300 members to ask how many woulc
share their offices with veterans. O.
the IS who responded, Is said the,
would be willing to do so and an.
other % said they were holdins
space for doctors with whom they
previously were associated. Mr.
Wiprud said the response was dis.
couraging, bdt that more wori
would be put into finding office spac.
later.
The society's secretary predicted
it would not be easy for some mer
to build practices again, although
hospitals are holding staff position.
open for the doctors.
Veterans to Decide Plan.
A few still in civilian practice, he
said, are listing the names of physi-
clans from whom they acquired pa
tients. Mr.. Wiprud added, however
that patients didn't care to volun-
teer the information and some may
be reluctant to return to former
doctors.
The plans will be altered by the
attitude of the veterans, he said
Now, he added. they are too busy
caring for wounded men to go int
details about what they want wher
the fighting is ended.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Maryland Group Studies
Effect Of Insurance RuIinu
BY the Associated Press.

hy tne Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. 2e.-The
effect Of recent Supreme Court
decision bringing insurance COM
panies under provisions Of the Sher-
man Antitrust Act will be studied
by a newly appointed committee
composed of Maryland insurance Of
flcials.
Announcing the committee Gov.
O'Conor said the members would
pay particular attention to the ad-
visibility of amending Maryland
laws to strengthen State control
over insurance companies and to
the future of State supervision of
State supervision OF insurance.
Since the announcement of the
Supreme Court decision, State off,
cials and insurance men had been
apprehensive that insurance busi-
ness wolud be taken from State
supervision and put under Federal
regulation, the Governor explained.
The committee is headed by Law
renee E. Ensor, State insurance
commissioner, and includes Presi-
dent F. D. Laizear of the Mutual
Fire Insurance Co. of Montgomery
County, Sandy Spring.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
DsHRstoni;nq


Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4, blue
stamps KS, Y-5, Us, Az and BE-
good for 10 points each. AL
stamps validated before December
l are Cancelled. Five more blue
stamps will be validated January
l, New processed food items went
on ration list at midnight last
night.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book No. 4, red
stamps Q-5, RS and SIS good for
10 points each. All stamps vail
dated before December l are can
celed. Five more red stamps will
be validated Sunday, the date new
items 60 on ration list.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
Will pay two ration points for
each pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Sugar stamp "a good for
pounds. Stamps 80 through 80
Cancelled. Another will be vail
dated February /. Book No. 4
stamp 40 good for S pounds for
home canning through February
%, 1945.
Gasoline-A-14 coupons valid for 4
gallons each through March 81.
B-4, ca and C-5 coupons good
for 5 gallons each. B-4 and ca
coupons expire Sunday.
Shoes-Airplane stamps l, 2 and 8
in Book No. good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods one and two cou-
pons good for 10 gallons each
through heating year. Period three
coupons valid January Is. Old
period four and five coupons from
last winter good through year.
consumers in this area should not
nave used more than SO per cent
OF their ration as of December rs.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Man Found Unconscious
On Railroad Tracks

An unidentified colored man about
10 years old was found unconscious
on the railroad tracks near Seventh
and D streets just west of the
Seventh street overpass this morn
ing.
Police said physicians at Casualty
Hospital, where the man was taken,
expressed the belief he had suffered
an epileptic seizure. At the hospital
it was said there were several
scratches on the mans face and he
was semiconscious.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Moore Brothers Face
Problem Of Findinq
Home After Tragedy

The problem of finding a home
faced the Moore brothers today, fol-
lowing Christmas which saw play
mates. neighbors and new-found
friends rallying to help the boys
with gifts and condolences over the
death of their parents, sister and
brother in fire which swept their
home Sunday morning.
Spending the holidays with a
neighbor, Mrs. Maude Dentz, $40
Roxboro place NV, the boys still
were too stunned by the tragedy to
study their problems. Clinton, Is
and William, IA, did say, however
that they would prefer to remain In
the neighborhood, where they carry
paper routes, attend classes at Paul
Junior High School and where they
have lived most of their lives.
Their dead fathers uncle, Leonard
H. Sinclair of Arlington, said last
night that decision on their future
still is to be made.
The Dentz home, not far from the
ruins of their home, at 618 Sheridan
street NV, yesterday was filled with
gifts for the youths. Strangers whit
had read of the tragedy visited tn,
Dentz home to deliver gifts. ant
neighbors, schoolmates and play
mates of Clint and Bill took up col
lections to buy the boys presents
The boys were touched PARTICULAR,
when Police Sergt. Louis H. Peterses
Of the sixth precinct dropped by witt
a silver dollar found in the ruins O
their home Before leaving, Sergt
Petersen added a few dollars of hi
own.
| The two boys attended midnigh
mass Christmas eve at the Church
Of the Nativity. After the service /;
few Of their playmates returned will
them to the Dentz home for a waf
fie supper
Funeral services for the four vic
Tins, Mr.. and Mrs j. William Dewitt
Moore, Bobby. II. and Marjorie, 9
have been set for l pm. Thursda,
at the Lee funeral home, Fourth
street and Massachusetts, avenu.
NE. Burial will be in Manassas
Va, where Mrs. Moore was born.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Medical Society Plans to Aid
Members Returning From War

The District Medical Society is
making plans now for the day when
"Col. Jones" will be DIR. Jones"
again.
DR.. Jones will find his patients be-
ing cared for by the doctors who
didn't 60 to war. He'll find Office
space at a premium and no one able
to tell him just how large Wash
ington's population will be-and a
doctors practice obviously varies
with the population.
With about 260 Medical Society
members in the armed forces and
hundreds more as one-time internes
residents or not practicing before
they entered the services, the num-
ber of doctors expected to return to
Washington Is 1000. Theodore O.
Wiprud, secretary of the society
estimates.
Map to Show Distribution.
A committee headed by 1t. Col.
Stuart Foster, before he left Wash
ington, and now by Col. A. c. Gray
has developed tentative plans to ease
the problems of the returning men !:
A pin map showing where doctors
now are located will be set up to
indicate in what sections of the city
physicians are needed.
An arrangement has been pro-
posed whereby the telephone ex-
change, which gives names OF doc
tors to patients who do not have
their own physicians, would be
turned over to the group. Doctors
support the exchange but veterans
would be given the service for six
months without charge.
In an effort to set up postgraduate
medical courses for the doctors, Mr.
Wiprud has been instructed to find
out what type of courses the men
want