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Evening star., 1944-02-28
Former District Physician
Awarded Silver Star

1t. Harvey Franklin Kreuzburg
80, former Washington physician
now serving as Navy medical Of
ficer in the Pacific, has been award
ed the Silver Star for gallantry
during an air attack on his destroy
er, 1t has been learned here. He
also received the Purple Heart.
The action occurred on August 21,
1943, and according to his citation,
when enemy planes attacked his
vessel, LIT. Kreuzberg, although
wounded seriously in the arm,
worked continuously and diligently
among the wounded until forced
by loss of blood to assume an ad-
visory capacity. His prompt treat
ment OF the wounded, with COM
plete disregard for his own per-
sonal safety, undoubtedly saved the
lives OF several men and was in
keeping with the highest traditions
Of the United States Naval Service. "
After receiving his medical degree
at Georgetown University, It.
Kreuzburg practiced here three
years before entering service short
ly after the Pearl Harbor attack
He Is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. H
w. Kreuzburg Of Silver Spring, Md
His wife, the former Dorothy Day
Green and two sons, live with the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Day Green, Bradley boulevard, Be-
thesda, Md.
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Daughter Names Destroyer
For Admiral EnqIish

With her mother, brother and sis
ter standing by, Wave Ensign Eloise
w. English christened the destroyer
English yesterday as it slid down the
ways of the Kearny IN. j. ship
yards. e'
The ship is named after hel
father, Rear Admiral Robert H
English, who was in command oi
the cruiser Helena at Pearl Harbol
and who was killed a year later in
an airplane crash on the CaIfornia
coast.
Mrs. English, Ensign Robert H
English, jr., U. S. N. R., and Eleanor
Corneia English, a student at
Sweetbriar College, were on the
platform. They live at 4445 Lowell
street NV.
Two classmates of the late ad-
miral, Capt. Robert NJ. Hinckley and
Capt. Alfred G. zimermann, and
their wives, and Capt. Victor Bar
ringer, who was executive officer OF
the Helena at Pearl Harbor, went
from Washington to the ceremonies
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Noxon Doctor Tells
OF Baby's Eye Injury
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey Inc ASS0claten Press.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. Feb. 28.-l
physician testifying today at the su
perior court trial of John F. Noxon
jr., Al, on charge of murder.
ing his 6-month- -old subnormal son
said he had noticed injuries about
the infants eyes during an exami-
nation a few hours before the child
was electrocuted in the Noxon home
on September "a.
Under questioning by District At.
torney Charles r. Alberti, DR.
George P. Hunt, elderly pediatrician
said that when the mother, Mrs
Margaret Noxon, brought the in.
FAINT to him for a checkup and fol
|diptheria and whooping cough in
|oculations, she explained that the
baby had bumped his head or face
against his crib four or five days
before.
DR.. Hunt said there was evidenc,
of slight hemorrhage near the
external corner of the left eye and
a discoloration on the inner corner
of the right eye.
Earlier, DR.. Hunt had identified ,
26-gauge rustless steel needle as tn.
one he had used in giving the bab,
a Schick test, The needle was in
troduced after being shown to tn,
jury as a commonwealth exhibit.
The doctor also described the typ,
of serum used in the test and tn,
lmanner in which it was admin.
iStered.
Mrs. Noxon sat with friends, MI
and Mrs. Samuel Kennedy, jus
within the bar inclosure and a few
yards from her husband.
Evening star., 1944-02-28
74-Yeur-OId Man Serves FIoq
As Seaman in Combat Waters
Retired Businessman Joined Merchant Marine
After Army Rejected Him os Too Old

did not take 1t, paying his own ex-
penses as his effort in that war.
In 1925, after SO years on the road,
he retired. Kresge had offered a
half million dollars for one of his
Chicago properties. He started to
travel. first in Mexico. He kept his
property through the depression but
changed his mode Of travel. On a
trip to Australia in 1884 Mrs. Bald
win went as passenger on a
freighter; he shipped as an able sea-
man. They enjoyed the experience
so much that they did it again the
next year.
TOO Old" for Army.
After Pearl Harbor he went to the
Quartermaster Corps and offered to
inspect blankets, but was told he
was too old. He went to the Navy
and the Coast Guard. Finally
through friend he got berth as a
seaman on Liberty ship.
"A big Army transport lay in the
harbor." he said. Il managed to
transfer to it. That was what l
wanted. I was with the boys" So
at u he sailed from a West Coast
port on the great adventure.
They put into Guadalcanal to re-
lieve the Marines at the end of 1912
The Japanese were there in force
In the eight days they were unload
ing the tons of ammunition in the
hold there were two air and three
submarine attacks. He saw Zero
make a suicide dive at the ship and
miss it by only Is feet.
Back on the West Coast early las,
year he transferred to a tanker. 81
figured that If / could only get ir
some submarine service after that,
he said, II would have seen every.
thing"
Took Oil to Australia.
The tanker took California oil K
Australia and Australian grain t<
Basra at the head of the Persian
Gulf, where ut was los to 110 de.
grees at breakfast, ITO to lis a,
lunch and 120 at dinner" he said.
For months the tanker ploughee
back and forth across the Arabian
Sea taking oil to India and Ceylon
1t was an old East Coast tanker
another reason for the gasoline
shortage here last summer.
"On one trip to Bombay we were
in convoy of more than 20 vessels,
he said. "One night at 10 O'Clock the
alarms sounded, escort vessel.
ploughed past, searchlights criss.
crossed, and there was firing al
around.
I'VE had the same experience ths
next night and on the following
morning less than half the vessels
were left"
Like every man back from tn,
wars Seaman Baldwin had picture.
OF his companions. He opened tn,
newspaper wrapping Of the packag,
under his arm and produced then
from between the pages of a bool
of verse by Ernest McGaffey, colum.
mist of the old Chicago Inter Ocean
On q blank page was written tn,
regards of one of his officers: "Tt
Dad-Seeing you at sea at 72 make.
me proud I am an American
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Woman, q, 10 Mark
I'D Birthday Tomorrow
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-Mrs. julia
G. Bernheimer, a grandmother who
can remember four wars, will cele.
brate her 22d birthday tomorrow
but there will be 80 candles on the
birthday cake.
Mrs. Bernheimer was born in
Philadelphia on Leap Year day
February 20, 1852, and has BIRTH
day but once every four years. Once
at the turn of the century, she had
to go eight years, as 1900 was not a
leap year.
Mrs. Bernheimer, by her own ac-
count the oldest living person born
on Leap Year day, reads the news
papers daily and says she feels
better now than at any time during
the past six or seven years.
She has five sons, the oldest hay
ing fought in the Spanish American
War. Her late husband made uni
forms for the Union Army.
Evening star., 1944-02-28
.Chinquapin Nursery
Plan Discarded

The day-care nursery established
as part Of the recently completed
community building at Chinquapin
Village. housing project in Alexan-
dria for employees Of the Naval Tor
pedo Station, will not be opened
according to T. C. williams, super
intendent of schools.
Mr.. Williams revealed that ques-
tionnaires sent recently to the 800
families in the project did not bring
a single application for enrolment
of children for day care. Two ap-
plications were received from Cam
eron Valley, nearby housing project
whose tenants were offered the op-
portunity of using the Chinquapin
nursery, he said.
Mrs. Frances Albert, in charge OF
community service for the Alexan-
dria Housing Authority, which oper-
ates the projects. said a house to-
house survey will be made before the
nursery is definitely abandoned, but
she Is convinced that there Will be
no call for day care.
Some of the reasons given for
the lack of interest were that few
mothers in the Projects are EN-.
ployed. that those who are already
have made provisions for care o1
their children, and that the publ,
still is not educated to payment o
weekly fees for day care, ever
though the Federal Works Agenc,
recently reduced the fee to So +,
week per child.
Mrs. Albert said provisions hav
been made for a convenience nurser,
at Cameron Valley. where mother
can leave their children while the.
shop and the Chinquapin nurser,
unit may be similarly used.
At the same time, Mr.. william!
said he has notified FWA that unles
some provisions are made for tn
day care unit now quartered in th'
George Mason School, it will hav,
to be closed next year because tn,
space Is needed for school use.
Evening star., 1944-02-28

the most hazardous of all the serv-
ices. Slender, erect and unslowed,
with graying hair and burrows
around his clear blue eyes, Richard
Baldwin is an able seaman of the
United States Merchant Marine.
He came to Washington after his
tanker put IN at an Eastern port
His ship was one of the few that
survived two murderous Japanese
submarine attacks in the Arabian
Sea.
Sons Proud of Him.
Almost a year at sea, he had not
received a single letter or cable OF
the many dispatched by his family
His two sons, both Dartmouth grad
yates, are so proud of him they
can't put, it strong enough in their
letters. The older son is married
and is in Chicago with his wife
and children. The younger son, SO
enlisted in the Marine Corps and
has worked his way up to first lieu
tenant. His father is proud of this
And the officer son, who has vet te
leave the country, is frankly enviou.
Of the father who has seen combat
with the enemy in distant land.
and seas.
His wife, Clara, was so eager to
meet him that she left Chicago a
month ago for Los Angeles, thinking
he would come back across the Pa
cific, He is now on his way to Join
her there before shipping out again
He was reluctant to talk for publi-
cation until an officer suggested ii
would help the service. Then tell
them" he said, that there is a
chance in the Merchant Marine fol-
the fellow who is 40 or so to serve
They're needed"
Helped in Last War.
He started to travel the United
States selling blankets for a Chicago
wholesale house in 1888. That is the
date on the fly-leaf of a volume OF
Shakespeare's plays purchased on
his first trip.
In the last war he found that the
|Quartermaster Corps was accepting
shoddy blankets for lack of ar
Experienced inspector. He obtained
leave of absence from his firm and
undertook that work. He was Of.
cred a majors commission but hf
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Red Cross Makes Appeal
For Clerical Workers

An appeal for paid clerical work.
ers urgently needed to expedite
sending of supplies, such as plasma
and surgical dressings, to the men
overseas was made today by Ma
tional Red Cross headquarters.
Lack of clerical and stenographic
help, it was explained, is delaying
fulfillment of increasing demands
for these vital supplies as we'll as
comfort articles and recreationaI
equipment. Also, the workers are
needed to handle increasing home
service communications and pris-
oner of war inquiries.
Red Cross officials said they want
to hire Immediately 60 stenogra-
lphers, IS clerks and 40 typists. The
appeal is especially directed toward
Army and Navy wives and women
with secretarial training. So great
is the need, applicants for part time
positions also will be considered.
Any one interested may apply tx
employment service at American Rec
Cross national headquarters.
Evening star., 1944-02-28
.ATC Cargo 10 China
Exceeds Shipments
Over Burma Road

The Air Transport Commands
big fleet Of planes is carrying more
war supplies over the Himalayas to
hard-p pressed China than went over
the Burma road before the Japs
closed it, a statement authorized by
the ATC revealed last night.
The China India line, one of the
most vital services maintained by
the ATC, brings war sinews not
only to the Chinese armies, but also
Ito the 14th United States Air Force,
commanded by Maj. Gen. Claire
Chennault.
Backbone of the China India serv-
ice is the C-46 Commando transport
|plane, built by the Curtiss- Wright
Corp, as Jhree-fourths, of the ships
used on the line are the big aerial
freight cars" according to the COM
lpany. The planes constantly are
being improved as result of the
severe tests they receive in the Far
East. .l
Receive Severe Tests.
The Gas Commands were first
put into service in May, 1943, when
30 of them were flown $4,000 miles
across oceans, deserts and noun
Itains in what is described as the
largest and longest mass fight in
aerial history. All the ships ar
rived safely in India.
Interesting and varied are the
lcargoeS carried by the Indian
China service, according to the
GAGS makers. They vary from
bombs to white mice, shipment of
which recently took priority over a
major on one of the fights be-
cause they were hastily needed in
China for medical research.
The China-India route Is a two
way affair. Going to China the
planes carry drums of gasoline and
oil for Gen. Chennault's forces as
we'll as weapons, food and personnel
On the return journey they take out
tungsten and other war materials.
Assignments to the route over the
roof of the world" are packed with
danger. Pilots must fly over Jungle
covered valleys and bare, ice-clad
peaks at 1900 feet or more within
the space of a few minutes. And
they must hue to the line of flight,
for slight deviation might take
them into Jap territory. At some
points along their route Jap fighter
bases are only few minutes flying
time away.
Flyers Highly HOnored.
So gallant has been the service of
these flyers, under the command of
Brig. Gen. Earl S. Hoag, that three
fourths of the 1900 decorations
given to the personnel of the ATC
have gone to men in the India
China wing. And the unit itself
has been honored by a presidential
citation, conferred by Gen. H. H.
Arnold, chief of the Air Force.
Curtiss- Wright facilities at Buff
falo, Louisville and ST. Louis, as
we'll as huge new plant constructed
by the Higgins Aircraft Corp. at New
Orleans are given over to production
of the Commando. A large proper
ton of them will see service on the
India China route.
Evening star., 1944-02-28
WV Names Ketchum
Office Director Here

Omar B. Ketchum, national leg
islative counselor for the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, has been named
director of the Washington Office,
Carl J. Schoeninger of Detroit.
VFW commander in chief, has an
nounced.
A former newspaperman and vet
Ieran of the World War, Mr..
Ketchum has been active in vet
Grams groups since 1880. He served
as post commander in Topeka,
Kans, and was member of the
Department Council of Administra-
ton. In 1910 he won national
recognition for his work as chief
of staff, and in l941 was appointed
national legislative counselor.
AS director of the Washington
Office, Mr.. Ketchum will combine
administrative duties with legisla-
tive service, handling matters re-
lating to veterans rehabilitation,
claims, employment, civil service
problems and Army and Navy con-
facts. The new director lives at
$3.50 Minnesota avenue Sc.
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Arlington Officials
May Get Hearing on
Cemetery Measure

The Senate-approved proposal to
expand Arlington National Gene
terry, which has been approved by
the House Military Affairs Com
mittee, probably will be returned
to that committee to allow Airing
ton County authorities to be heard,
Representative Smith, Democrat. OF
Virginia said today,
Three county hoard members
proposed meanwhile that a per-
manent national cemetery be estab-
lished on Civil War battlef1elds
near Manassas, Va, while the board
chairman, Leo c. Floyd, said he
favored a bill pending in Congress
to establish 48 State cemeteries.
Board members pointed out that
Civil War dead, both Union and
Confederate, are buried at the Ma
nassas battlefield.
All Ave board members were
opposed to the expansion on the
ground that the 118 acres involved
include some of the most "poten-
TALLY valuable" land in the county.
Held Ideal Hotel Site.
Pointing out that the area at
the entrance to Arlington Memo
rial Bridge, overlooking the Poto-
mac River, is an ideal hotel site
Basil De Lashmutt said that "acqui-
sition of some of our most valuable
property would satisfy only tenn
porarily the need for cemetery
ground" He said the Federal Gov
ernment eventually would have tc
establish another cemetery and
should take steps to do so now.
A proposed $6,OOO,OOO apartment
hotel to be erected at Lee boulevard
and Arlington Ridge road was
blocked in 1941 when the Office OF
Production Management revoked
priorities for materials. The County
Board, which had approved the
project, and the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission, had
been at odds over the project fol
months. The commission con-
tended the project would be ar
"eyesore."
Manassas Plan Favored.
Mr.. De Lashmutt's suggestion tina
the Civil War battlefields be mad
into a national burial ground ane
shrine was concurred in by Mrs
Elizabeth B. Magruder and F. Free
land Chew, County Board members
Mr.. De Lashmutt said he believed
l 900 acres of undeveloped land prob
ably could be purchased for the pric'
Of the highly developed land unde
consideration.
Mrs. Magruder, who asked tn,
board to take action on the Senat,
bill, said Federal acquisition of sucl
valuable section of the count,
would be disastrous to the count.
tay setup by cutting of potentia
source of large revenues.
Evening star., 1944-02-28

1t. E. Brooke Lee, jr., U. s. A., at q
tea at the gubernatorial mansion.
Miss Edge attended schools in
France and Switzerland, was grad
uated from st. Timothyis School
Catonsville, Md, and attended
Sarah Lawren nee College. She made
her debut in Washington in June
1941.
1t. Lee, stationed at camp Mack
all, N. c., is the son of 1t. Col. E
Brooke Lee, Norwood Corners, Sandy
Spring, Nd, and Mrs. Clarence AS
pinwall, Washington. He was grad.
uated from st. Paul's School, Con.
cord, N. H.. and Princeton Univers-
ity, class of 1910.
Col. Lee is park commissioner OF
Montgomery County.
Evening star., 1944-02-28
St. Dovid's Society
|Will Honor Patron

The st. David's Society will COM
memorate St. David's day, in honor
of the patron saint of Wales, at
3 pm. Sunday at the Eastern Star
Temple, $500 Sixteenth street NV.
The principal address will be given
by Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, pas
tor of Foundry Methodist Church
and chaplain of the Senate.
There will be tea and refresh
ments. Invitation is extended to
all Welsh friends.
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Motor Convoy Travels
5000 Miles Across Africa
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ALGIERS, Feb. pa motor con-
voy led by two Frenchmen, Jean
Chanas and Georges Siredey, has
arrived here after a pathfinding
journey of approximately 5000 miles
from the French Cameroons with
truck loads of rice, soap and coffee
destined for Corsica.
Six trucks and one passenger We
hicle made up the convoy. The
pay loads were so small that trans
portation costs ran as high as 500
a ton. but Chanas said larger con-
voys would reduce the toll.
The journey started at Yaunde,
In the Cameroons. The party trav-
eled through Garva, Kano in Brit
ish Nigeria, Niamey and Gao on
the Niger River, and across the Sa-
hara Desert to Adrar and then to
Alsisrs.
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Senate Juvenile Inquiry
To Hear Boys 10 10 Il

Testimony from several youngsters
will be heard by the Pepper Senate
Health and Education Subcommit-
tee at the resumption of its hear.
ings on juvenile delinquency Wed
nesday.
A group of boys between 10 and
IL will be brought from New York
City by the Vocational Foundation
Inc, as witnesses Wednesday. They
will be presented by Miss Viola lima
foundation director, who also will
testify.
Miss Ruth Clifton, 18, OF Moline
ILL.,, who led a teen-age movement
in her community to organize q
recreation club as an attack on
the delinquency problem, will be q
witness Thursday Both hearings
are scheduled to start at 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Soldier Hurt in PLUNGE

WAYNESBORO, Pa, Feb. 28 (49
Frederick Macy, %, Army private
of Cincinnati, was seriously injured
yesterday in a 35-foot plunge to the
sidewalk from q window of a
Waynesboro hotel. Chief Of Police
John H. DodSon said the soldier
was taken to the Camp Ritchie Hos
pital in Maryland, where he had
been stationed.
Evening star., 1944-02-28

crew that has been participating ir
recent raids on Japanese bases. The
family received its most recent let
ter from him about five weeks ago
Born in Baltimore, Machinist's s
Mate Long was educated in that
city and in Wilmington, Del, where
the family resided eight years. He
was employed at the Navy Yarc
before enlisting in the service ir
October, 1912.
Evening star., 1944-02-28

tlOuuCt0 tOQdy.
His parents,
Mr.. a n d Mrs.
Harry j. Long,
1914 Cir a r d
street NE, have
been notified he
is now at a mo-
bile h o S p i t a ]
unit in the war
zone. No details
of his injuries
have been re-
vealed.
Mrs. L on &
thinks her son
was a member
Evening star., 1944-02-28

businessman has
succeeded In 60
ing to war. To-
day he wears
two combat bars,
the service rib
bons of three
t h e a t ers of
war a n d t h e
shoulder shield
of the China
Burma India
forces. And he
is in 6 back
into it.
For two years
he has been ac-
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Ways and Means Unit
Begins SimpIiiication
|0f Income Tax Return
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House Ways and Means
Committee started work in
earnest today on simplif1cation
|of the income tax return.
In about two weeks, when most
Of the $4,000, 900 taxpayers viii have
completed the most intricate forms
ever dispatched by the Treasury
the committee hopes to have its
"streamliner" ready for presenta-
ton to the House.
Chairman Doughton said the new
bill may have these features:
l. Integration Of the Victory, nor
NAL and surtaxes into one overall
levy.
Adjust Withholding Levies.
2. Adjustment of withholding
levies and individual tax indebted
ness so that, in most cases, the
amount withheld by employers will
constitute the entire tax and sup
Elementary payments and filing of
returns will be made unnecessary.
3. Revisions provided in the new
form will be such that tax burdens
will be continued, as far as possible
at their present level.
Although Representative Dough-
ton expressed hope that stream
lining of the income tax law might
end returns for most taxpayers,
Chairman George of the Senate FL
nance Committee said he believed
the total tax for some 10000, 900
might be collected through the with
holding tax alone, while the other
20 900 600 would continue to make
returns. In the latter group, said
Senator George, would be those in
high income brackets, professional
people and the self-employed.
Simplif1cation proposals presum-
ably would not affect this years
April IS filing date for declarations
of estimated 1874 tax. required only
from an estimated 15,000,0 900 tax
payers whose incomes are above
levels substantially covered by the
present withholding system.
WiIlkie Raps Veto Message.
Meanwhile, Congress had a new
tax comment from Wendell Willkie
to consider. In New York, the 194(
Republican presidential candidate
who earlier had advocated a $l6,.
600, ,000. 900 tax bill reiterated hi.
stand that "the additional incom.
that the war has created should bt
taxed and taxed heavily"
He said Mr.. Roosevelt's veto of tn,
latest measure was violent and ill
tempered" but added that tax prob
lens could not be solved by "dra
matte designations and over-senti
mental reconcilations. He made n,
other reference to the resignation o
Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Ken
lucky, as Senate majority leader ant
the Kentuckian's apparent recon
ciliation with the White House afte
he was unanimously reelected.
Said Senator Taft, Republican, O
Ohio, of Mr.. WILKES views tina
there must be heavier taxation:
IF Mr.. Willkie wishes to assum,
the role of advisor to Congress h,
should tell us more definitely hov
additional money should be raised.
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Ii. {. Brooke Lee, Jr.,
Ito Wed Camilla Edqe

BY the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. j., Feb. 28.-Gov.
and Mrs. Walter E. Edge announced
yesterday the engagement of their
daughter. Camilla SeWall. to First
Evening star., 1944-02-28
TT. Long Is Wounded
In Action in Pacific

Torrance T. Long, Aviation Ma
chinists Mate, third class, has been
wounded in action in the Southwest
Pacific, the Navy Department an