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now forming. Beginners and refresher
courses In shorthand. typing. bookkeepins,
comptometer, all secretarial subjects. Est
233s; BOYD SCHOOL. 1888 r st. topp
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SITUATIONS poMEsIlc icent. J

GIRL, colored, neat ana reliable, would
ike part-time work, an. to p.m. DI
GIRL, colored. wants days or part-time
work days week; Al references.
GIRL, colored, wants 8 hours Of gem
eral housework 4 days = week. DE.
1850.
GIRL, colored. wants part-time work; good
reference. Call DI. 94S4
GIRL, colored. wishes any kind of Job after
school. d. 9533
GIRL. colored. experienced, wants days
work. cleaning and laundry. RA. 8186.
GIRL, colored, desires days work; no cook
ing. CO. 1888.
GIRL. colored. neat and reliable. wants
days work. Call ME. 0109.
LAUNDRESS Curtains stretched at
home; work guaranteed. Call Ludlow
0Sb0. &c
WOMAN. colored. wants mornings work,
3 am tn IL noon; S14; no Saturdays.
HO. 0207.
WOMAN. colored, reliable. wants 8 or 4
hours in afternoons, 5 days week. NO
914D
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EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
BUSINESS

LIBRARIAN-TEACHER- college, M. A
required: live in: adequate salary. ADAMS
TEACHERS AGENCY, 204 Colorado Bldg.
GovERNESS, $3.50; live in country. teach
Calvert System, children and 9. ADAMS
TEACHERS AGENCY, 204 Colorado Bldg,
sitions No charge unless placed top SAL
cries. Visit NATL, TEACHERS AGENCY
Est II yrs 1911 @ st Ma 2l14
medical, $500 !Fl; card punch oper's, $3.50:
gen. ofice clerk-typist. S156 mo-; l. B. M
S4O-S50 wk. $50 openings; est. I'll years:
Oldest agency in D. C. MA. 233s. BOYD
SERVICE, 1888 F st. NV, opp Capitol
Theater
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SITUATIONS DOMESTIC

COLORED WOMAN wants Ave days work
in small family; nrst-class. Michigan
4454.
GIRL, colored, wishes part-time work as
1901.
GIRL wants part time, empl. people: plain
cooking; days week, $50 Pm ref,
to pm.
GIRt colored. wants s.h.w.; live IN; sx-
perienced. FIR. STAT.
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SITUATIONS MEN 6 woMEh.

MAN AND WIFE wish janitor quarters,
man to attend fires night and morning:
wife to do light work during day. Phone
Rockville 762 between 6 pm. and 10 pm.
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one-room apt: studio couch. inner-sprins
mattress and base, full spring construction;
CoesWei! chair and ottoman occasional
chair , end tables and , table lamps with
shades' complete, $50; easy terms free
delvery, Open ewes. until O'Clock: open
Mon, Ihurs. and Fri. until pm. ATLAS,
92l @ st. NV. DI 312-
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tunity. THE JENNY SHOP. 1919 Conn.
sALEsLADY, experienced, in our suit and
sSet %oNpGR ffPae59sFE coH ss st. n%
dept, good salary; permanent. EMILE,
sALEsTaD All fahei aXs; have an opening in our
lady's department for a salesiady, for suits
and coats: this, is a permanent position
Mr. Berns BOND cLoTHING. 1885 F st.
SALESLADY = Excellent opportunity for
make who
seelates. see Mr.. Waters at HARVEY
sATEsIADY WA washinston''s tons newest and
most beautiful ;jewelry store. has desirable
opening for salesperson, with or without
msnent position: See Mr. waters at HAR-
sALEsIADIks; immediate late. OPENINGS: openings: pei pei
4th floor: i: FRANK Co, 1900 + st. NV.
sAL,EsLADIEs, experieppcssde selling flns
eos eos aans saS saa ps
cellent earnings; full or part time. Apply
pAsHoN sE ss so of14sR 1890 p
sAIEsLADRs., steady position With sal
sAIEsLADIEs, experienced. selling fine
QUALITY meE attractive ap-
pearance and personality: splendid oppor-
tunity with excellent earnings; full or
part time. Apply in person to Mr.. Fred
Pelzman. FRED PELzMAN's FASHION
SHOP. j 200 F st. NV.
SALESWOMAN. Thoroughly experienced,
for gowns good salary. Apply FRANCES
EFT FRANCES, 1915 Conn. ave.
sALESWOMAN for full or part time EN-.
ployment experience not necessary. Apply
employment office. 4th floor, LANSBURGH
& BRO. 9TH. Sth and e NV.
sALESWoMEN. part time up to 80 hours
essarY GARRIsoNS' 1915 E st. NV
SALESWOMEN wanted. full time or part
time. Apply personnel office, 7th floor
JELLEFF,s; I214-I2e0 F st: NV;
SALESWOMEN - Permanent positions for
dependable women. GARFINCKELS, F
sALESWOMEN, experienced in selling ho-
siery and HANDBAGS; $50 week salary
CROSBY SHOES. 1115 st. NV.
SALESWOMEN, full and part time, perma-
n nsns Intsryisw between 2 and 4 pm.
sALESWOMEN, selling helpers: full OF
part time: no experience necessary. Apply
at once. Employment ofice, 9th foor.
WOODWARD 6 LOTHRoP.
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houses, restaurants, groceries. LIQUOR stores;
buys or sells; satisfactory and promp
results. 1107 Eye st. NV. DI. S6S1
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CONTINUED on Next PaSs1
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Questions They Asked

He always asked for questions at the
end of his talk. The men wanted to
know about furloughs, how they could
get their choice of service, whether they
were going to camp Immediately. One
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has happened near Lessay for a week
and that there isn't the slightest pos
sibility Of an American soldier setting
foot In the town for another week"
1t was an object lesson which every
correspondent needed again and again.
Personal Experiences
I started to write a brief apology
and explanation for repeating history.
Memories of personal experiences come
thick and fast and I could string this
along into a book. What follows is
based on what myself saw within my
own limited horizon. This was the ter
ritory of the United States 1st Army,
commanded at first by Gen. Omar K.
Bradley and later by Gen. Courtney
Hodges. During my time in France
had no contact whatsoever with su-
preme headquarters. had some con-
facts with the Sd Army
And furthermore, my horizon hardly
covered, for any extended time, the
whole of the 1st Army.
Without respect to their proper rela-
ton to corps or armies, most of the time
I was thrown with the 9Th, I'd, Goth,
30th and Sd Armored Division. I was
fairly close at times to the 29th Division
and I had rather brief contacts with
the 28th, 35th, 4th, 1st, 9th and 10th
Divisions. 1 have had no contacts at
all with the 5th and 83rd Divisions
Within these limitations, with all due
apologies, paint the thing as saw
IT.
Mid-July, after the perilous occupa-
ton Of the rubble piles Of pulverized
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question Col. Royer never forgot. The
man had only one worry: when do We
eat?'
Every few months, Col. Royer had TO
develop a new talk because the whole
induction procedure actually was al
tered half dozen times.
For the first few months of existence,
Fort Myer was purely an examining sta
ton. The men were returned to their
draft boards marked accepted or re-
jected and later called up for service.
That system was changed when it de-
veloped many of the men were enlist
ing as soon as they had been examined.
Of course, they went into the service
anyhow, but their draft boards couldn't
meet calls. When they summoned the
men for induction, they found their
quarries had already eluded them and
were of at an Army or naval training
station or learning how to be Marine.
Some Moved Fast
In April, 1912, Fort Myer started in
Quoting the men and shipping them to
camp the same day. If they were lucky,
they sometimes had a chance to get
furlough later. Usually, they were half
way across the country within few
days. That system, you may remember,
didn't work either. Because there was
no chance to wind up their affairs be-
fore induction, the men quit their jobs,
sold their cars and sent their families
home before they went to Fort Myer. A
few hours later, when they were re-
jected, they had to pick up the pieces
of their civilian life all over again.
So in July, Fort Myer began trans
ferring the men to the Reserve Corps
after induction and ordering them for
active duty week to three weeks later
in order to give them time to wind up
their affairs after induction instead Of
before.
That system lasted until February,
1943, when Fort Myer began inducing
men into the Army, Navy, Marine Corps
and Coast Guard. For a while, the
station was called the Joint Army and
Navy Recruiting and Induction Station,
but 1t was finally whitfield down to
Armed Forces Induction Station.
And Sailors, Too
For the first time, sailors invaded the
Fort Myer station. As far as possible
the men were given their choice Of the
service they preferred, but no recruiting
was allowed. For while, though, the
Marines were doing some unwilling
recruiting. The Marines showed up to
help with the induction procedure in
their dress blues. The boys took one
look at those uniforms and all wanted
to be leathernecks The Marines were
asked to take of their coats.
In February, 1914, preinduction ex-
aminations were started by request oi
Congress to give the men advance notice
that they were physically fit for service
If they were. The men who passed were
assigned to an Army or Navy pool and
later were called UP for duty, That
system didn't work either because the
Army was exhausting It's pool while tht
Navy had barely scratched the surface
This was unfair to the men because Il
they got tapped for the Army, they
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were liable to 60 into the service months
ahead Of men with lower order numbers
who were destined for the Navy.
The last systemic date-went into
effect July l when the physically fit men
became part of single pool and didn't
know which service they would get until
they actually reported for induction.
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remember a trip one day with Hal
Denny of the New York Times. At goth
Division headquarters I kept the 1st
Army jeep with which I had been
provided while Denny borrowed divi-
sion car to 90 to the city of Lessay at
the mouth of the Ay River, which had
been reported the night before as cap
tured by the 10th Division. He wanted
to write an eyewitness story inside the
town.
1t was, recall, rainy Sunday. Capt.
Jim Mcnamara, public relations officer
of the Goth Division and I promised
Denny faithfully that we would meet
him at division headquarters at S o'clock
in time for an early dinner and return
to press camp before dark. 1t so hap
pened we were delayed in the rain and
mud. We didn't get back until nearly
8. Denny, soaked to the skin, had
been waiting for us for three hours.
Naturally he was provoked. We were
sorry. 1 hoped he had gotten good
enough story from Lessay to recompense
him in some measure for the difficulties
we had caused him.
The whole day is wasted" moaned
Denny. Il didn't get any story at all"
But" he added philosophically, ut
probably was worth while after all. You
can't have it brought home to you too
often. All I found was that nothing
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Nehou, in about the center of the Cher
bourg Peninsula, was the American Sd
Army. not yet activated, commanded
by 1t. Gen. George S. Patton, ir.
The costly occupation of ST. Lo, vital
rail and road junction and communica-
tions center, had completed the first
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Bv Miriam Gutenberg

month after Pearl HarDor, Wnen
the Army realized 1t would have to pour
men into the service as fast as they
could be examined, the trickle Of Dis
trict men into the army became a
stream.
The first men called from the District,
then for a years training, had gone to
Baltimore for examination but with
the coming of war, the Army decided
the District would have to have its own
station.
So, on January 81, 1912, an examining
station was established on the grounds
of Fort Myer. Since that day, close to
100000 men have passed through the
station.
Now the pressure is off. Again the
calls for the armed forces have been re-
duced to a trickle compared to the peak
calls of only few months ago. Com
pleting the cycle, the induction station
at Fort Myer formally closes Tuesday
and the young men who now make up
the Districts short calls are going back
to Baltimore for examination and In
duction.
Closest to War
For many District men, Fort Myer was
the closest they ever got to the war. Ex-
Cept for a few fathers who hadn't been
called for examination when deferments
we're nberalized in May, every District
man between the ages of 18 and 38, and
many up to 45 in the early days, visited
Fort Myer at one time or another.
In way, 1t. Col Charles E. Roger,
commanding officer Of the station, was
one of the best known men in Washing
ton Most of the men didn't know the
name of the officer who talked to them
one early morning but they remembered
his face.
When he gets shine, the bootblack
looks up with grin, Il know you. You
rejected me at Fort Myer." One night,
in hotel dining room, the orchestra
leader waved and smiled. He had been
examined and rejected. The captain of
the walters had gone into the service
from Fort Myer and had later been dis
charged. The waiter at Col. Rogers
table told him he had passed his physi-
cal at Fort Myer and was due for induc-
ton any day. 1
Moments Well Remembered
That early morning talk is one of the
better-remembered moments in the day
these men spent at Fort Myer Col. Royer
once confded to this reporter that he
tried to talk to the men like two
f1sted he" so they wouldn't think they
were being treated like bunch Of
kids"
Its a damn big moment in mans
life when there's every possibility he'll
leave here in IL hours in the service"
Col Royer was wont to tell the men
lined up before him in the big front
room of the frame building. You're
entitled to know what it's all about. I
don't like getting up at am. and I've
got plenty of Junior officers who could
tell you this but I think what have to
say is of sufficient importance to you
that you should hear 1t from the lips
of the commanding officer"
That is somewhat expurgated ver-
sion of the colonel's opening remarks
Then he would go on to explain what
they could expect that day and how
the regulations happened to affect them
at that point.
Questions They Asked
He always asked for questions at the
end of his talk. The men wanted te
know about furloughs, how they could
get their choice of service whether they
were going to camp Immediately. Ont
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Clearing Misunderstanding About the Fighting Europe
Bv Thomas r. Henry.
Star War Correspondent, Who Recently Returne
With American Armies the IN

Star War Correspondent Who Recently Returned After
With American the Thedter
which
the Reich liberated Bel
the Netherlands,
In
in
forum in France.
considerable the fighting
familiar
a
equilibrium
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ahead of men with lower order numbers
who were destined for the Navy.
The last systemic date-Went into
effect July when the physically fit men
became part of single pool and didn't
know which service they would get until
they actually reported for induction.
1t Was All Explained
Each system as it was ordered by
higher authority was carefully explained
to the men because Col Royer was de-
termined no man was going to leave his
station with "gripe" If he could help
it. He gave that instruction to his en-
listed men, too.
There was one selectee sent away
happy. The man was scheduled for the
Army that day but he explained he
urgently needed five days. Under ques-
tioning, it developed he had to wait five
days for a marriage license. He ex-
planned he wanted to give his three
children father. He got the five days.
Another man got a five-day delay
without even asking for it. He was be-
ing sworn in when an urgent call came
to the station His small daughter had
just died on the operating table.
Tragedy and Comedy
Tragedy and comedy walked hand
in hand through the induction station.
One man was asked if he'd ever been
in an institution. Yes, he admitted, he'd
been in jail He was committed for a
vacation" he explained.
How long was your vacation?" asked
the interviewer without batting an eye.
six months"
The interviewer thought a moment
and then asked, You don't mean vag-
rancy, do you?"
That's 1T, boss"
One man was asked how far he went
in school,
-Four miles" he responded, "and I
walked both ways"
When the men were going into the
enlisted reserve, the induction station
was responsible for shipping them out
to camp. Capt. Frank A. Leschinsky,
who was executive and transportation
officer of the station, remembers one
time when two women came to blows
over departing selectee.
The man had just hidden his wife and
sisters good-by and was about to board
the bus for camp when girl stepped
up in front of him. threw her arms
around him and asked, Aren't you go
ing to kiss me good-by, too?" The man
cast hasty glance at his wife, gave
the girl quick kiss and escaped into
the bus.
Then The Hair Pulling
AS the girl turned, the wife and sis
ters started for her. She managed to
fend them off with a newspaper until
one OF them ripped at her blouse. While
she was trying to tuck it in, the wife
closed in on her and pulling con-
test began. Capt. Leschinsky calmly
summoned the man from the bus to
separate his wife and girl friend.
On another occasion, Capt. Leschin-
sky recalled, colored girl walked along
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St. Lo found the 1st American Army,
commanded by 1t. Gen. Omar K. Brad
ley stretched in thin, unbroken line
from La Foret de Cerisy on the east,
where 1t was in contact with the right
flank of the British, across the Cher
bourg Peninsula to the sea.
With headquarters at st. Jacques de
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secure foothold had been established on
French soil But the position of Ameri-
can troops still was far from satisfac-
tory. Except on the Cherbourg PENN
sula itself the beachhead was little more
than 10 miles deep. The push inland
through the hedge-rowed orchards had
progressed by the yard. sometimes by
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What Put Him In

had brought along to keep himself out
Of the Army was what put him in. The
mans eyes were tested and proved to be
bad enough to keep him out. Later, he
duly presented the evidence from his
own physician to show how bad his eyes
were. The examining doctor glanced
through it and asked the man, You're
sure you want us to accept this?"
The man nodded vigorously.
"All right, then, that puts you in the
Army"
The man had thought a vision of
10000 was rejectable and that was what
his own doctor had recorded. The sta
ton doctor had rated his eyes at 10000.
His own evidence that his vision was
10000 made him acceptable
One of Col Rogers headaches was
balancing Army and Navy quotas to be
sure that each branch Of the service
got the correct balance of men of certain
ages, skills and education
Once when the Navy was running over
its quota, the commanding general Of
the Third Service Command sent a cap
tain to chide the station c. o. While
the captain was conferring with Col.
Roger, the telephone rang. An admirals
aide was calling to say the admirals
chauffeur was being indicted the next
day and would Col. Roger please see
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ored selecteeS good-by as they stuck their
heads out the bus window AS the bus
drew away from the curb, she draped
herself over no-parking sign, chant
ing over and over, "Oh, Lawd, don't
let them take my man away"
Col. Royer said he had more protests
from the men who were rejected and
wanted to get In than from those who
were accepted and wanted to stay out.
Some of them pleaded to be re-examined
and a number who were rejected for
remediable defects promptly had them
corrected and showed up for another
examination.
A station psychologist said he always
had trouble with the colored men among
the iliterstes. The station could only
accept limited number of them and
all the colored men wanted to get in
They say they don't want to walk
down the street with their best girl" he
explained, and have somebody hoot
Who's that 4-F you're walking with?"
How The Fakers Worked
The station, however, had some spec
tacular efforts at malingering One
day, Col. Royer was told a prospective
selectee claimed he could read nothing
smaller than newspaper headlines. The
doctors thought he was malingering but
couldn't prove it. The man was law
yer. Col. Royer is also lawyer.
You tell that man." instructed Col
Royer, that the commanding officer is
also lawyer and if he says he can
practice law and isn't able to read any
thing but newspaper headlines he is a
- liar
The colonel's message was duly con-
veyed and the man broke down and con-
fessed he could read little better than
he had admitted
On another occasion, a man betrayed
himself into revealing he was a malin-
gerer. He had convinced the psycholo-
gist he was illiterate, that he couldn t
read at all. At the end Of the day, the
psychologist called him in to hand him
his rejection slip. If the man had stuck
to his role minute longer he would
have been out Of the Army, but just as
he walked out the door, he started read
ing the slip. The psychologist caught
him at it, called him back in. The man
was sworn into the Army few minutes
later.
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mayor. Sharing honors with a CO.
pilot for sinking an enemy destroy
er by machine gun fire, Capt. Pru-
lit quietly told the mayor how their
bullets struck and exploded pow
der magazine. Added to his record
also was the shooting down of three
enemy planes and destruction of
eight ground planes.
Modestly describing his success
es as "just lucky hit, when the
mayor called the sinking of the
destroyer a. fine piece of work,
Capt. Pruitt was advised that a
special day would be proclaimed in
his honor.
'The going got pretty rough al
times" Pruitt stated, "but I'm for.
tunate in not having been sick or in.
jured during my nine and one-hal1
months overseas"
The young pilots flights tool
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Sepia Swingsters will hold you
spellbound with their precision
dancing and Dayton will be talking
about them long after the show
has finished.
To sum the whole thing up: the
"Blackbird Frolics" is a fast NOV
ing, beautifully costumed and eye
filling musical revue. packed with
comedy, girls and novelty acts. The
performance will not be presented
in a Burlesque manner so it will be
worthy of the patronage of the en-
tire family.
The screen features will be: Fri
day and Saturday: "The Monster
Maker" and "The Desert Hawk"
plus short subjects. Saturday Mid
night Ramble; "Call of the South
Seas" plus short subjects. Sunday
"Seven Doors to Death" with sew
eral short subjects.
Please remember that the
''Blackbird Frolics" will be pre-
sented for three days only-Fri-
day Saturday and Sunday, Decem-
Der 9Th, 9th, and 10th, so if you
miss seeing this show it's your own
fault.
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him to the Italian area where sew
eral bullet holes were shot in his
ship, Psi Mustang, but he was
uninjured. Before returning to the
United States he had flown 70
missions.
His plane was named the "Alice
Jo," after the girl friend of his
squadron leader and his own girl
friend, Miss Alice Charlston of De-
troit, whom he plans to marry
when the war was ended. Miss
Charlston is likewise pilot.
Capt. Pruitt, son of Mrs. Melanie
G.. Pruitt of St. Louis is the possess
sor of the distinguished flying
cross and the air medal with four
oak leaf clusters.