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Evening star., 1944-02-07

Instead of listening anxiously on
your shortWave radio for enemy
oroadcasts about your boy who may
be prisoner of war, you may de-
pend on Uncle Sam to let you know
about any such message through an
elaborate system of Nationwide
listening posts headed up in an
Office here in Washington.
No longer is it necessary to catch
such precious words yourself out
of the air, or even depend on some
friends, or strangers who may hap
pen to hear as they listen in.
The Government has a way of do
ing the job more comprehensively
more accurately and round the
clock. The system is operated by
the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence
Service Of the Federal Communica-
tions Commission, known for the
sake of abbreviation as FBIS, not
to be confused with FBI, which is
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Of the Justice Department.
ScTVlCc 10 dml1eS.
Indication that the Government
was doing some such work was di-
vulged generally sometime ago,
when warning went out to FAM
lilies not to be taken in by anyone
who wanted to furnish such radio
messages for money. But more de-
tails of the operation have just
come to light. The service is free
to families.
The messages are picked up by a
kind of super monitoring system,
channeling through the central re-
ceiving station here at 1924 K street
NV. Into this headquarters come
messages from many different list
ening posts scattered throughout
the United States and abroad. So
complete is the monitoring. "a hours
a day, according to experts, that
it is safe to say that no single pris-
oner's message shot into the air by
an enemy radio station amid a food
of enemy propaganda escapes the
keen ears Of Uncle Sans official
listeners-in.
Some of the messages. purporting
to have been sent by the enemy
from men OF our armed forces who
are prisoners abroad, may be sus-
|pect. The enemy is not roadcasting
these messages to give aid and COM
fort to relatives back home but to
entice Americans to listen to propa-
ganda. The enemy realizes news
Evening star., 1944-02-07
al CheverIy
May0pen February
Sosscer and Red Cross
Officials Inspect Building

Plans were being pushed today to
open the Prince Georges General
Hospital at Cheverly for medical
and surgical patients by February
Is. An open house was held at the
institution yesterday.
Among visitors who inspected the
hospital during the afternoon were
Representative Sasscer. Democrat,
of Maryland; County Commissioner
William Carson, members of the
Red Cross Motor Corps, the Red
Gross Home Service Division, the
Red Cross nurses aid group and
the Prince Georges General Hos
pital Guild.
The 100-bed hospital, of one-story
brick construction, was built at an
approximate cost OF s650,000 by the
Federal Works Agency with Lanham
Act funds. The hospital will be
operated and maintained by the
county under lease now being
negotiated with FWA.
During the open house a COM
mittee headed by Mrs. Ruth P.
Keane, chairman of the county VOL
unteer civilian defense Office, re-
cruited nurses aides. Mrs. Keene
said promising number" of VOL
unteers signed up.
The hospital and its two-story
quarters, providing accomodat
for SO nurses, is located on a wooded
lot at Fifty-eighth place, of Land
over road, Cheverly.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Farmers Club Marks
tooth Anniversary
Two Judges Address
Sandy Spring Group

Montgomery County Circuit Court
Judges Charles w. Woodward and
Stedman Prescott were the principal
speakers Saturday night at dinner
celebrating the Tooth anniversary
of the Senior Farms Club of Sandy
Spring, Md. The affair was held in
the Manor Club at Norbeck.
Organization Of the group grew
out of a desire for improvement in
agricultural methods through ex-
change Of ideas.
Under the farmers constitution,
adopted 100 years ago, meetings
are held monthly and those attend
ing inspect the crops, stock and
farm implements and discuss the
agricultural methods used by the
farmer at whose house the meeting
is held.
At the conclusion of each inspec-
ton, the host for the evening is
required to read an original agri-
cultural essay dealing with some
aspect of farming. Political and
religious questions are banned.
Since its first meeting in 1874, the
club has missed only one regular
meeting and that was caused by the
funeral of a child of, one of the
members.
The club now meets at II farms
instead of the original II. These
farms comprise over 1000 acres, in
cluding three dairy farms with
nearly 100 cows.
Members of the club are:
T. A. Barnsley, ]. M. Barnsley,
James w. Barnsley, j. F. Barnsley,
Leonard C. Burns, Frank Bready,
James T. Cashell, Hobart G. Hut
ton, Josiah ]. Hutton, Durns c. Hot
tel, Thomas A. Ladson, Herman H.
Ladson, T. Hilton Ladson, John E.
Muncaster, secretary and the only
officer of the club; John E. Mum
caster, jr., Oscar c. Martin, Frank
P. Palmer, T. Calvin Owens, NAL
colin H. White and Richard H. Lans-
dale. member of the Montgomery
County Board of Commissioners
Calvin Bready Is an honorary men,
her
Evening star., 1944-02-07

SUAIiuIs VAC0Uys
Even in the tunnels of Corregidor
we could feel the. japanese barrage.
One night toward the end of April
1t lifted for short time. Hundreds
OF people went out for a breath of
air and smoke. 1t was pitch dark.
Suddenly the group of people
around the tunnel entrance seemed
to be. struck by lightning. A salvo
of Japanese 240-mm. shells had
landed in their midst. Just one
salvo-no more. Fortunately, it was
dark and the survivors did not have
to look on the scene around them.
1t. Col. Mellnik:
The headquarters of Gen. VAIN
wright and Gen. Moore were in
Malinta Tunnel. In this tunnel
were the hospital, machine shops,
food and ammunition reserves, radio
station and administration units.
was directed to form and take
charge of the Malinta Tunnel guard.
This guard was to prevent a Jap
raiding unit from getting in and
capturing the headquarters units,
thus bringing about the surrender
OF Corregidor.
On the night of May S, about
pm, the guard was alerted-an
enemy landing appeared likely.
Enemy 240-mm shells were fall
Ing. The tunnel system literally
Evening star., 1944-02-07
MARYLAND j. Schedules
Free Engineering Glasses

Registration for instruction in a
new series of tuition-free war train
ing courses sponsored by the United
States once OF Education will be
held at pm. February 16 in Room
l16 of the Engineering Building at
the University of Maryland.
The courses include engineering
contracts and specifications, draw
ing, experimental aerodynamics, per-
sonnel management and industrial
relation and principles of radio.
High school graduation is required
for enrolment in each of the courses,
which will be taught between IL and
16 weeks with evening sessions two
or three nights a week.
Those who complete any of the
courses will be awarded certificates
of proficiency. Employment is prac-
tically assured on completion of a
course, according to Dean s. S.
Steinberg of the College of Engi-
neering at the university. Further
information may be obtainoA by
calling Dean Steinbers.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Charles K. Brown Dies;
Staunton Publisher
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STAUNTON, Va. Feb. 7.-Charles
Kenneth Brown, 81. vice president
and general manager of the Leader
Publishing Co., publishers of the
News Leader and Evening Leader,
morning and AFTERNOON daily news
papers here. died yesterday after
heart attack.
He was born in Kansas City, Mo-,
the son of the late Rev. Stonewall
Jackson Brown, a Methodist minis
ter. He came here as a reporter II
years ago and later was made editor
of the News Leader. A year ago, on
the death of his brother -in-law,
Brig. Gen. Heroine L. Opie, he was
named general manager of the
papers.
Mr.. Brown was a former COVER
nor of the Virginia district of Rotary
international and long had been
active in the affairs of the interna-
tional organization,
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Montgomery Schools
Top Bond Sole Quotes

Montgomery County public schools
continue to exceed their quotas in
the campaign they are conducting
under direction of DR.. Edwin w.
Broome, county superintendent of
schools, to sell 100000 worth, of
War Bonds as their share of the
county's quota of $2,2O0,0OO. ...
At Laytonsville Friday night,
where the Laytonsville and Unity
Schools staged a joint rally, bonds
totaling Sits were subscribed for,
$5.975 being credited to the Laytons-
vile School and $1,000 to the school
at Unity. The quotas were 1880
and 5000, respectively.
A rally at the Montrose School
produced sales Of $7,325 and at a
similar meeting at the school at
Dickerson the sales totaled $2,100.
The Montrose quota was 1926 and
the quota for the Dickerson School
$3.50.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Virginia Partially Lifts
Ban on Liquor Dividend
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Feb. 7.-Virginians
holding stocks in distilling concerns
will be given an opportunity to bring
into the State. despite the present
liquor rationing restrictions, a
limited quantity of the spirits to
which their shares entitle them.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board announced it would permit
the importation of the whisky and
other spirits for private use only,
under special permit which would
limit the holder to the amount of
liquor allowed on one share-not to
exceed 18 cases-to be delivered
within a specified period of 10
months.
To date, under the State law
limiting to one gallon the amount
Of whisky that an individual can
bring into Virginia, distilling COM
pany stockholders given liquor divi-
dends had been unable to take ad-
vantage OF them.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Bethesda Woman Buys
barboursviIIe Estate
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ORANGE. Va. Feb. 7.-Barbours-
vile, historic estate Of the late
Gov James Barbour, at Bar
louisville in Orange County, the
ruins of which furnished some
scenes for the motion picture, "vir-
ginia,' has been purchased by Mrs.
Charles H. Merryman of Harris
onburg, now living in Bethesda,
Md, from the estate Of the late
Mrs. Carolina B. Ellis.
Mrs. Ellis was a granddaughter
Of Gov. Barbour, colorful figure in
early Virginia.
The estate, comprising 24o acres,
has attracted thousands during the
annual Garden Week pilgrimages
in the spring.
The ruins, with its lockwood gar
dens, represents a typical ruin of
the old South, and is the residue
OF the home designed by Thomas
Jefferson which burned on Christ
mas Day, 1884. OF brick construc-
ton, 1t was typically Colonial, with
large columns which still stand
together with much of the side
walls, and the annex, used by Gov
Barbour as his office.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Alexandra Church Gives
Red Cross Unit Use Of Hall

The parish hall of Grace Epis-
copal Church at 207 South Patrick
street, Alexandria. has been turned
over to the local chapter of the
Red Cross for its blood donor pro-
gram and home nursing and nurses
aides classes, it was announced over
the week end.
The vestry has made the hall
available without charge and has
agreed to allow equipment to be set
up permanently. The blood donor
unit has been coming to Christ
Church parish hall since the pro-
gram started in April, 1912, and
the board of the Red Cross chapter
has expressed Its appreciation to
the church for its cooperation.
Mrs. Thomas Reamy, blood donor
chairman, announced that next Wis
its Of the unit, on February % and
%. will be at Grace Church.
Home nursing classes will be held
at the new location every Tuesday
and Thursday afternoon and eve
ming, said Mrs. r. B. High, chair
man, and Mrs. Howard Richards,
chairman Of nurses aides, is plan
ming classes at the parish hall for
the near future.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Fort Myer Private
Dies Of Injuries in
Hit-Run Accident
Arlington Man Held;
Two Women Hurt
In Streetcor Crash

An Army private. struck by a hit
and-run driver Saturday night died
this morning in Walter Reed Hospi-
tai. His death brought to seven the
number OF traffic fatalities in the
District since January /, equaling
the figure for the same period last
year.
Pvt. Jack r. Peck, %, Of Gaines
vile, Ala, soldier at Fort Myer,
was hit by car at Thirty fourth
and M streets NV. Saturday night.
The driver failed to halt and the
automobile sped into Virginia over
the Key Bridge, witnesses told police.
Arrested later and charged with
leaving the scene of an accident and
failing to give right of way to a
pedestrian was Charles E. Narring-
ton, SO, of Arlington, Va, a mechanic
employed by Pennsylvania Central
Airlines.
To Be Held for Inquest.
Police said today that harrington,
who is free in $500 bail, will be re-
arrested and held pending a coro-
ner's inquest into the soldiers death
Two women were injured. one seri-
ously, Ill a crash of two Capital
Transit Co. street cars at Thir-
teenth and D streets NE. yesterday.
Police said the car in which the
women were injured stopped to dis
charge passengers and was struck
in the rear by second car.
Mrs. Myrtle Stukey, So, of 1885 L
street NE, was taken to Emergency
Hospital suffering from possible
fractures of the back and neck,
police declared. Her condition is
critical. The second casualty. Mrs.
Annie Diggle, Al, of 1900 Isher-
wood street NE. was treated at the
same hospital for minor bruises and
discharged.
Policeman Injured.
Policeman William j. Weston of
the ninth precinct, was slightly in
jured early yesterday when a taxi
cab In which he was driving a COL
ored cabbie under arrest for drunken
AVliiS 70 the pol1ce station
crashed against tree in the 600
block OF Ninth street NE.
The collision occurred, according
to police, when James F.. Weaver
20, colored, of Cheverly, Md, at
tempted to strike Weston with a
bottle and grabbed the steering
wheel, causing the cab to go out
of control. Weaver was also injured
when his head struck the wind
shield as the car hit the tree. Both
were treated at Casualty Hospital
and Weaver was later transferred
to the psychopathic prison ward of
Galllnger Hospital, charged with
driving while drunk and assault
ing an cfhcer.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
500 Gulf Oil Workers
To Get Overtime Paw

About 500 service station attend
ants with the Gulf Oil Corp. in
the District, Maryland, Virginia,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania may
now be paid time and a half for
overtime in excess of 48 hours, the
regional War Labor Board in Phila-
delphia ruled today.
Special permission from the board
was sought by the company because
gasoline station employees are not
covered by the Wages and Hours
Act, under which time and a half is
mandatory for work over 40 hours.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Miss Lena H. Carey Dis;
ARLINGTON School PRINCIPAL

Miss Lena H. Carey, principal of
Patrick Henry Elementary School.
Arlington, for the last % years, died
yesterday at Sibley Hospital after a
three-week illness.
Miss Carey was graduate of the
University of Virginia and Joined
the Arlington County teaching staff
in 1919. In 1921 she was made
principal of the largest elementary
school in the county.
She is survived by two sisters, Miss
Mary Carey, principal of the Wood
row Wilson Elementary School; Mrs.
E. M. Pennington, and brother, c..
Irving Carey.
Funeral services will be held at 10
am. Wednesday at the Ives funeral
home, 2847 Wilson boulevard, Ar
lington, with burial at Yeocomico,
near Tucker Hill, Va.
Evening star., 1944-02-07

At 10 am, orders were sent tc
all artillery Units to destroy their
guns and installations by noon
There were few guns left to destroy
However, stocks Of ammunition
power plants and other installa-
tions and supplies had to be made
useless.
To most, the surrender came as a
relief. But the silence following the
surrender was worse than the she'll
ing. The sudden opening of door,
q falling chair. would make us Jump
and finch. In the moment OF sur
render none of us thought of to-
morrow, for there was no tomorrow
For us, the end had come.
Comdr. Mccoy:
At l1:55 am, May 6, 1912, wrote
out the Nays last message and
handed 1t to a radioman at the
sending apparatus. Beam it for
Radio Honolulu" I said. Don't
bother with CODE" Then the mes
sage began to go out. Going of
air now. Good bye and good luck.
Callahan and Mccoy.
It was three hours before the i'm
perial Japanese marines finally
swarmed into the Navy tunnel.
During that wait, I had time to
think of the two chances I had had
to escape from Corregidor during
Evening star., 1944-02-07
lsWRstionmiq
&Remindersm

Canned and Frozen Foods, Etc
Book No. 4, green stamps G, H,
and valid through February 20.
Stamps K, L and M valid through
March 20.
Meats, Fats, Etc. Book No. 8,
stamps v, w and x valid through
February rs.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
every pound OF waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Book No. 4. Stamp 80 valid
for pounds through March 81.
Book No. 4, stamp 40 good for
pounds for home canning through
February %, l945.
Shoes-Stamp No. 1S in Book No. 1
and stamp / on the 'airplane"
sheet OF Book No. 3 valid for an
indefinite period.
Gasoline-No. 8 A coupons good for
3 gallons each through tomorrow.
No. GA coupons good for 3 gall
Ions starting Wednesday through
May 8. B, B-1, c and C-l coupons
good for Q gallons each. These
coupons will expire on date indi-
Gated on individual books. B-2
and CO coupons in books issued
since December / are good for 5
gallons each.
Tire. Inspection Deadlines-For A
coupon holders, March 81. For B
coupon holders, February 20.
Fuel Oil-Period No. coupons good
through today. Period No.
coupons good through March ID.
Period No. 4 coupons valid tomor-
row through September 80. Nos.
2, 8 and coupons good for 10
gallons per unit. According to the
District OPA. consumers in this
area should not have used moro
than 81 per cent of their total
yearly fuel oil ration as of Feb
ruary 7.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Dr.. A. {. Powell Dies at 80;
Noted Maryland Minister
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Feb. THE Rev.
DR.. Arthur Chiffon Powell, SO, rector
emeritus of Grace and st. Peters
Church and one of the original
trustees Of the Protestant Episcopal
Cathedral Of the Incarnation, died
yesterday after a brief illness.
DR.. Powell was admitted Janu-
ary rs to the church hospital, suf-
fering from chronic bronchitis.
He was one of the oldest men,
bers of the Diocese of Maryland
and served as active rector of Grace
and st. Peters Church for Is years.
Born July %, 1854, in Dayton,
Ohio, he was educated In the public
schools of Dayton and was gradu-
ated from Amherst College, AM
herst, Mass, in 1876. Surviving
are a son, Paul r. Powell, and ive
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
NyIon Production
Could Fill Most
Hosiery Needs
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-Need n.y.
Ions? The head nylon salesman
for the company that makes the
thread says production has ex-
panded so much that when mill
tary demands drop off, it will be
sufficient to supply most of the
hosiery industry"
Robert A. Ramsdell, sales direc-
tor for that division of E. I. Dupont
De Memours g. Co., says CONVEX
sion will be immediate when Gov
ernment requirements permit.
incidentally, the latest reported
bootleg market quotation on nylon
stockings was 81 a pair, for good
grade, and Sc for the buyer-beware
kind. They were $12 at Christmas
and no picking.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
DR.. kremer J. Hoke Dies;
Dean Of William and Mary
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Feb. T.
Dean Kremer J. Hoke of the College
Of William and Mary died of heart
attack in a Richmond hospital yes
terday after a brief illness.
An outstanding figure in Virginia
education, DR.. Hoke had been a
member of the faculty of William
and Mary since 1920.
Nationally known. for his work
with the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools, he
had served as chairman of the Com
mission on Curricular Problems and
Research since 1896.
Dean Hoke will be greatly missed
at William and Mary" President
John e. Pomfret said, and his loss
Will be felt not only at the college,
but IN national educational circles. 3"
From 1916 to 1920, DR.. Hoke served
as superintendent of schools in Du-
luth, MINI.
Evening star., 1944-02-07

from a prisoner is most eagerly
awaited in thousands of American
homes. especially since the recent
disclosure OF Japanese atrocities.
All the Facts Checked.
So the Government in its compre-
hensive coverage of Axis broad
casts carefully checks, so far as pos
sible, all facts in the broadcast
against information available in
official sources here.
Into the office on K street, which
is set up with translators. typewrit-
ers, telephones with earphanes and
receiving machines, pour messages
picked up by powerful receiving sta
tions near Washington in Puerto
Rico, in Texas, San Francisco, Ore
gon and from other listening posts
abroad Translators are constantly
at work sitting the wheat from the
chaff, analyzing broadcasts for high
officials in the Government, and
taking careful note of all messages
which may concern an American
prisoner Of war.
These messages are being broad
cast from time to time by both the
Japanese and the Germans. They
usually give the prisoners name and
the name and address Of some next
of kin, usually a mother, father,
wife. Included in the message often
is some detail of information which
would not be known outside the
immediate family.
As soon as such messages arrive
at K street they are forwarded to
the next of kin home address, with
the explanation it came from Axis
sources. In the cases Of soldiers,
the information is forwarded to the
War Department., which checks with
the mans service ercord. Most of
the messages are found to be bona
fide, conforming to the War Depart
ment's report Of prisoners of war
Some vary in details. About so to
so such messages clear through
FBIS here daily. A total of about
1900 have been handled since the
service began. Everything is done
by FBIS and the War Department
to give full and accurate informa-
ton to the family. One anxious
father here recently was told by
friends they had heard a message
about his boy. Early next morning
he rushed to the FBIS and there
was the message, through channels,
in complete text.
Evening star., 1944-02-07

the seige. both Of which I had
turned down.
Outfitted Schooner.
The first of these escape oppor-
tunities came on the day after
Christmas, 1941. Outside the bay
was the sailing ship Lanakai, a
two-master which had once been
used by Hollywood. There was a
place for me aboard, and I could
have received permission to 60; but
was radio materiel officer for the
Navy, and I knew that my services
would be needed in our communi-
cations. outfltted the Lanakai
with certain equipment and pro-
vided enlisted personnel to operate
it. The Lanakai got through.
Another opportunity had pre-
sented itself the month before. Al
small group of US came into possess
sion of the sloop. Southern Seas,
completely outfitted with charts,
food, fuel for the auxiliary engine.
and new sails and rigging. The
Southern Seas was anchored off The
Rock, and a few of us intended to
board her and make for the open
sea at the last moment before cap
ture.
In the last days before surrender,
however, we were too busy to think
Of escape. The Japs began to hit
The Rock with minimum of 5000
shells day. mostly of about $50
NM, along with some 240s and
loss. On one day they blasted us
with $4,000 shells, mostly fired from
gun emplacements on Bataan. Much
of this fire could not be returned.
The Japs massed much of their
artillery in the No. 2 hospital area
on Bataan, an area which we knew
10 contain at least 5000 American
and Filipino wounded. The Japs
literally used our wounded to make
ramparts around their guns.
When I got ready to use the
Southern Seas it was too late. Two
days before the surrender the sloop
was stolen from her moorings by
some OF our own people Whoever
took her obviously did not know our
recognition signals. AS she passed
one of our outer bastions she did
not answer a challenge. She was
riddled with gunfire and sunk. Pre-
sumably all aboard were killed.
Tomorrow: The Enemy Takes Over.
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