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Evening star., 1944-10-29
Gas Model Planes 10 FLY
Again Today in Area Race

Competition for the Annandale
(Va) Model Airplane Clubs trophy
for the best gasoline model air.
plane builder in the Washington
area will be resumed today at
Bailey's Cross Roads Airport from
l to 6 pm, weather permitting.
This will be the second of a series
of three Sunday contests.
Leaders thus far in the competi-
ton are the father-son combina-
ton of Lyall Steger, junior and
senior, of l341 Queen street NE,
and the father-son-daughter team
of Byrton Barron family of SPRING
field, Va.
While the contest is limited to
club members, it was announced,
other model planemakers have been
invited to join.
Interest in flying gasoline models
has been revived through resump-
ton of the manufacture of model
gasoline engines, which had been
discontinued because of the war.
A feature of the Bailey's Cross
Roads meets is the requirement that
each model taxi down a runway
and rise into the air like a full-size
plane. The airport can oe reached
by bus out Columbia pike
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Falls, Burns Lead
Home Accidents
List for Week

Although falls led in the list of
home accidents in the District dur
ing the past week, burns and cuts
caused many Of the injured treated
at District hospitals, the District
Red Cross Home Accident Preven-
ton Service reported yesterday.
There were 81 falls, Is burns, 3
accidental poisonings. cases of
foreign bodies in eye, ear, nose and
stomach, 20 cuts, 3 severe bruises
and II accidents of miscellaneous
type. One suffocation brought the
home accident death total since the
first of the year to 112.
-Four falls were caused by grease
spots and spilled water in the
kitchen. A 33-year -old man cut
himself while opening can of
vegetables with a screw driver. A
26-year-old woman received minor
burns on the hand from an explod-
ing box of matches and shortly after
the accident got q silver in one OF
the injured fingers The combined
injuries created a serious infection.
Two children drank kerosene and
two drank turpentine Most unusual
accident of the week was that a
man who was pecked in the eye by
a chicken.
Evening star., 1944-10-29

mission, VINO is Capt. Skinner.
in a hospital recovering from 6
recent illness.
Young SINNERS rise from an or.
dinary seaman six years ago to the
command of some of the Nations
largest merchant ships seems in
credible, but it's true all right, and
the four gold stripes on his uniform
prove 1t.
First Command at "a.
He received his first full COM
mand last February, when he was
"a. He was in charge of the ship;
yet. among all the officers and crew.
he was the youngest. Almost all his
subordinate officers have been older
men. Right now, he's in command
OF the Alexander Ramsey which is
loading in an East Coast port. His
chief engineer is SO, his chief officer,
46. And, like everybody else, they
call him the "old man"
Capt. Skinner never harbored any
dreams of going to sea when he was
boy A native of Washington, he
was graduated from Central High
school and was attending George
washington University when he got
the idea of an Office job with some
steamship company.
AT the United States Lines, he
was given some encouragement. A
representative of the company said
he thought they could use him, but
maybe it would be a good idea If he
sailed on one of their ships for a
whlle-a year maybe-before set
tling down at desk.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Trinity College Glasses
PIun Halloween Parties

All classes at Trinity College will
hold Halloween celebrations tomor-
row night.
The seniors will hold a banquet at
6 pm. in Alumnae Hall on the cam
pus. All will wear caps and gowns.
Miss Mary Madeleine Sheehan is
chairman of arrangements.
The jurors will hold a candle
light banquet in another section
of the hall at pm. Miss Carol
Donovan is chairman. They will
wear formal dresses.
The sophomores will give a Hal
loween party for the freshmen at
7 pm. in the Notre Dame Auditor
ium. Prizes will be awarded for
costumes. Miss Cecilia Butler and
Miss Elaine Mahoney are in charge
of the entertainment.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
ST. PauI's Property
Hearing Tomorrow

The legal fight of st. Paul.
Episcopal Church, GIT Twenty-th
street NV, and several property
owners in that block to prevent
the Federal Government from con.
demning the square for a new 400.
bed George Washington University
Hospital is scheduled in District
Court tomorrow.
| The Government, represented by
Robert R. Macleod of the Justice
Department, has asked Justice JESSE
C. Adkins, presiding in the case, tt
hear all questions of law and prece-
dent raised by all parties. This vii
include matters of constitutionality
brought up by protesting counsel.
The Governments latest plan i.
to condemn the square bounded by
Twenty-second, Twenty-third and
streets, and Pennsylvania avenue
at Washington Circle NV, build 6
new hospital, keep title to it anc
lease the property to G. w. U. fol
five years, granting the university
an option to buy.
The property of the G.. w. U
Medical School and hospital on
street, between Thirteenth anc
Fourteenth streets NV, also is sale
to be involved but details of the
transaction between the Govern.
ment and G. w. U. have not beer
divulged.
Counsel for protesting property
owners have contended the Govern.
ment also plans to build a new
medical school and a nurses home
on the square in question, in addi.
ton to the new hospital.
Evening star., 1944-10-29

Shock, SPAR storekeeper second
class, and to find Mrs. Robert P
Petersen, who he had known as Miss
Marian Trezona, when she was a
Red Cross worker in Australia.
He went to the service center
which he said he had heard of all
around to see if American boys
are really treated right" in big city
service centers. They are" he said
with finality yesterday.
When he walked into the center
the workers were in the miGst of
preparation fortheir first birthday
party which was held yesterday aft
ernoon-and because he was the
1000, ,000th serviceman to use the
center's facilities since it opened
October %, 1943, he became the
honor guest.
At the open house celebration yes
terday, Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming,
Federal Works Administrator, pre-
sented him with a $1O0 War Bond,
on behalf of the War Hospitality
Committee, which operates the CEN
ter. Then he was asked what he
wanted most to do or see in Wash
ington. He told them of his search
for his Red Cross friend, but all he
knew was her maiden name, and
that she had married a Navy lieu
tenant whom she called Pete
With that to go on, the center wcIk-
ers got busy. and with the help of
the Red Cross and Navy personnel,
found Mrs. Peterson-Who is in
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Halls Dr.. KoIb's
Statement on Alcoholic:

A recent statement by DR.. Law
renee Kolb, Assistant Surgeon Gen.
eral and director of the United
States Public Health Service, that
there are 100000 confirmed alco-
holics in this country, was ac-
claimed by the Women's Christian
Temperance Union yesterday as vim
dication of their stand against legal
lied liquor.
Mrs. Caroline E. Coates, newly
elected president of the Washing
ton chapter of the WCTU declared !:
"Dr. Kolbs figures furnish fur
ther proof that all our contentious
are well founded, our alarms timely
and our prayers bringing results in
recognition among men of science
that WquoD problem is Of serious
public Importance"
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Connecticut Express
Number Is Chonoed

The Capital Transit Co. an
nounced that beginning tomorrow
the route number on the limited
stop trips on the Connecticut avenue
busline northward will be changed
from LA to L-3.
Route numbers will be displayed
on red background. The company
said "it is expected that the change
In route number will make the lin
tied service more distinguishable
for those who use the service"
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Hebert 10 Modify Plan
For Merger Of District
And i. ). Park Police

Representative Hebert, Demo
crat, of Louisiana announced yes
terday he would modify his plan fol
merger of the park police with
the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment, allowing the park police con.
tinued jurisdiction over the Fed
eral areas outside the District.
He said his objective was to enc
the division of responsibility fol
policing the District and to hole
one department responsible for pro-
lection in the city.
He had not intended, he added
that the Metropolitan police as.
sumo responsibility for the Mount
Vernon parkway and other area,
outside the District, now patroles
by the park police.
Following his recent announce.
ment that he would sponsor q bill
to merge the two forces, it wa.
brought out that the park polio,
are responsible for more territory
outside than within the District.
In addition to the Mount Vernon
parkway, park police patrol the ole
Chesapeake g. Ohio Canal between
Washington and Cumberland, For
Hunt, Fort Foote and the Chopa.
wamsic recreation area near Quan.
tico, Va. The new Suitland park.
way, soon to be opened between
Boiling Field and the Great Mead.
oWs Air Base, in Maryland, will be
assigned to the park police.
Corporation Counsel Richmond B
Keech has been asked by Mr.. Hebert
to draft the proposed legislation
Mr.. Hebert said he still was con-
vinced that police Jurisdiction with.
in the District should be centralized
under the Metropolitan department
and he expressed confidence thai
the details could be handled.
Evening star., 1944-10-29

SO, at IL, young Skinner signed
up as a cadet.
Il never intended to stay at sea
very long" he said. Now I'm not
interested in any other type of
work"
Besides the Ramsey, he has COM
manded the Daniel Drake, and the
John Ericsson and was staff cap
tain, second in command, on the
Benjamin K. Curtis.
He was on the Ericsson once be-
fore he commanded it. Soon after
he obtained his junior third Of
ficer's license in November, 1941,
he was assigned as the eighth rank
ing officer on the vessel, which was
formerly the Swedish American
Line ship Kungsholm, sister ship
of the Gripsholm, used during the
war as diplomatic exchange craft.
He left the Ericsson as executive
officer in September, 1943.
Capt. Skinner has sailed in every
part of the world and holds combat
ribbons from the Atlantic, Pacific
and Mediterranean theaters Three
times, in the Mediterranean, his
ship was under aerial attack.
No Ships Lost Under Him.
1--WE been pretty lucky" he said.
'In conveys in the North Atlantic,
I've had ships go down astern of
me and on either side. Yet no ship
I was on has ever been hit"
He was an officer on the first
troop convoy to Australia. His ship
took the first marines headed for
Guadalcanal out to New Zealand
where they had to be transferred
to smaller craft for the actual land
ings, and he was executive officer on
the troop transport that dropped the
first American forces at Casablanca
during the African invasion.
AS a skipper, Capt. Skinner is
entitled to wear the four gold stripes
equivalent to the rank of captain
in the Navy. But under the United
States Maritime Services system of
rating, he said, he holds only the
rank of commander-and he had to
fight for that.
First they made me a lieuten-
ant, and I squawked," he explained.
Then they made me lieutenant
commander, and I squawked some
more. So finally they made me
full commander. I guess It won't
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Foreman Fined $50
In Safety Violation

Charged with failing to provide
guard on a circular saw for the
protection OF an employe on a
housing project here, Leonard A
Penner, foreman for the Coco Stee]
PRODUCTS Corp, was fined $50 in
Municipal Court yesterday after he
pleaded guilty.
1t was the first prosecution for q
violation of the safety standards fol-
construction issued by the District
Minimum Wage and Industrial
SAFETY, according to Assistant Cor
poration Counsel E. E. ONeil. The
standards became effective last .Julv
Mr.. Penner gave his address as
1901 Ames street NE.
Evening star., 1944-10-29

The Stars tabulation of deaths
by enemy action in this war. in
cluding official reports and wore
from relatives up to today, shows
the District has lost 327 soldiers
80 naval officers and enlisted men
81 marines and five coast guards
men for total of 478 District mer
who have been killed in action. dice
of wounds or have been declared
dead.
On the other hand, disease took
its toll in the last war. A total
of 513 District men, including 4Oe
soldiers and los naval officers and
enlisted men, died when pneumonia
influenza and other diseases swept
through the camps or from acci-
dents.
81 Die Of Other Causes.
Fifty-one District men have died
from disease or from accidents, in
cluding plane crashes, In this war
according to The Stars record OF
reports from the scene or from
relatives.
Five other District men and
women should be included in the
death count of this war. Reported
dead from the District are one
WASP, one member of the Mer-
chant Marine and member each
OF the Canadian Army, Raj ano
RCAF. The number lost in the
Merchant Marine probably is much
larger but no official figures are
available
In all, the District has lost 534
men and women in this war, mostly
from enemy action, according tc
the record kept by The Star. 1t los
$50 men and women in the last war
mostly from disease.
District men served on only one
battlefield in the last war. Today
they are serving from Aachen tc
Leyte.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Eastern Shore Placed
In Dewey Column
In Election Survey
This is the first OF q series of
articles in a prediction surrey
throughout MARYLAND.
BY WILL P. KENNEDY


SALISBURY, Md. Oct. %. - Gov
Thomas E. Dewey may be a winner
on Maryland's Eastern Shore. which
is the 1st congressional district
1t covers of the States % counties
with a population of approximately
/ 100000
/ Republican State Senate Leader
Wilmer Fell Davis, fredericksburg, |:
expected to win the House seat
held since 1899 by Representativ.
Ward, and before that for 19 year.
by T. Alan Goldsborough. The Re.
publican swing largely is due tt
strong antifourth term and anti
Roosevelt sentiment.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, seek.
ing reelection for fourth tern
will lead the ticket easily.
The Dewey-Davis prediction dis
tputes the claims of all Democratic
leaders, including Senator Tydings
Gov. OConor, w. Preston Lane
national committeeman and State
campaign manager, and Dudley G
Roe, Sudlersville, the party's con.
gressional nominee, that there will
be clean sweep for the Democratic
ticket.
The Democrats forecast in turn
is challenged by Republican lead
ers, including Galen L. Tait, chair
man of the Republican State Com
mittee.
Mr.. Roe claims he will win by
5000 to 5000; President Roosevelt,
by 1000 to 5000 and Senator Tyd-
ings by 1000 to 10000. Mr.. Roe saws
he will carry seven counties-Ceci
Kent, Queen Annes, Talbot, Dor
chester, Wicomico and Worcester
and comedies Mr.. Davis two counties
| "by small margin ano
Somerset.
Mr.. Davis expresses confidence
that he will carry six counties, in.
cluding Queen Annes. his oppon.
ent's home county. which he say.
will go for Dewey, Tydings anc
Davis" Senator Tydings said Queer
Annes is the strongest Democratic
county in the State.
This canvass of the Eastern Shore
shows a strong sentiment for Gov
Dewey, even on the part of veteran
Democrats, and that there will bt
big reduction in Mr.. Roosevelt.
1910 vote of 39,954.
The soldiers vote and the vote.
OF women, who for the first time ar,
casting more ballots than the men
will have big influence in the cleo
ton. A total of 1864 absentee bal
lots have been requested.
1t is safe prediction that a ma
Jorlty OF the women's votes on tn,
Eastern Shore will be cast for Gov
Dewey and Mr.. Davis. Many sup
porters of Mr.. Ward, whom Mr.. Ro,
beat in the primary, are still sore
over the way he was defeated ane
may defeat Mr.. Roe.
Senator Tydings and Mr.. Roe hav,
been censured severely becaus,
neither mentioned Mr.. Roosevelt /,
big rally at Easton.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Critics Forum to Meet al
|MuyfIower Wednesday

The Critics Forum, Catholic dis
cussion group, will meet at $3.50
pm. Wednesday in the main ball
room of the Mayfower Hotel. The
Rev. DR.. John Keating Cartwright,
forum director and director of the
Catholic Radio Hour, will review
the book, "The Time For Decision"
by Sumner Welles, former Under
Secretary of State.
William H. Collins will act as
chairman. Tickets may be obtained
in advance at the Immaculate Con-
ception Rectory, 1915 Eighth street
NV. or at the hotel Wednesday
night.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
|Or Mould You Rather Be a Mule?
By SARAH FLINN.

If mules could read, they would
get a kick out of this story.
It's about a woman who thinks
mules are pretty great guys. She
says they have more sense than
horses, and are as charming and
lovable little playmates as dogs or
COWS or anything. She says she
ought to know, too. She's been
making study of the personality
of mules for more than year. Her
book-which SO far as she knows
is the first glorifying mules-will
be out Tuesday to tell anybody who's
interested just what makes a mule
run-or not run, as the case may
be.
The poor old mule always gets
a raw deal because he has a reputa-
ton for being stubborn and dumb,
and so she wrote "Shavetail Sam,
U. S. Army Mule," to prove other
wise. Mrs Helen Orr Watson of
5312 Thirteenth street NV. ex-
planned yesterday.
In "Shavetail Sam" the mule
comes into his own. He's the hero
of an Italian mountain battle, the
savior of troop of American boys,
and one war veteran who finds a
useful, self-satisfying career-a good
American soldier.
Mrs. Watson has written three
other animal books, "Chanco, United
States Army Pigeon" Top Kick,
United States Army Horse" and
Trooper, United States Army Dog. ="
She wrote her books about Army
animals because, since she is the
wife of Col. James T. Watson, jr.,
Signal Corps, she knows them best.
Col. Watson, however, says "he
won't be satisfied until she writes
a book about cow" She owns two
dairy farms and has always known
and loved cows" so thinks she will
write about them next. But, of all
the animals she knows. "Shavetail
Sam" Is about her favorite, she says.
She met Sam down on a farm near
Richmond, when he was lust a
round, winsome little foal," and
studied him and his brother mules
she knew what stages their voices
went through before they achieved
their first "hee-haw," what they
said to each other by their "hee-
haw" infections, how their ears
reacted when they were pleased or
angry or tired.
She packs these little tidbits of
Evening star., 1944-10-29
District Losses So Far Due to Enemy Action
Triple Total of Last War, Survey Shows

The District has lost more than
three times as many men by enemy
action so far in this war as it did
throughout the last war, a COM
parative survey reveals.
The same survey suggests the
strides made by medicine, since
more District fighting men died of
disease in the last war than have
been killed in action in this one.
The Star was informed that no
State-by-State compilation of cas-
ualties has been made by the serv-
ices for this war and that only the
Army made such a survey after the
last war.
Only estimates are available as to
the number of District men serv-
ing in this war The Army'S most
recent State-by- State count was
made last January before inductions
had reached their peak. The most
recent report from the naval forces,
including Navy, Marine Corps and
Coast Guard, was June 80.
At the time of the reports, the
Army had 53689 District men and
the naval forces, 26,449, for a total
of 80,338.
District Selective Service so far
has sent into the services, approxi-
mately $4,000 men who had been
living in the District since before
the war. Draft officials estimated
this figure would rise to 10000 with
the inclusion of men who were COM
missioned, enlisted, and called to
active duty from the National Guard
or the Enlisted Reserve Corps. An
additional $4,000 men who regis
tered for the draft in other COM
munities but came here to work en-
tered the services from the District
through the draft.
1851 Served in Last War.
In comparison with this los 900,
the Veterans Administration reports
Evening star., 1944-10-29

that 27,651 District men served In
the last war. Reports from the Sec
retaries of War and Navy and
official Marine Corps figures show
that 20,235 District men and women
served in the Army-of whom only
8,589 saw service overseas: 6.115
served in the Navy and 1,OO4 served
in the Marine Corps.
Not more than a few hundred
probably less, were in the Coast
Guard, Today 1904 District men are
serving In the Coast Guard.
In this war, drafted men were
already in the service when war
broke out. In the last war, men
started registering for the draft two
months after war was declared and
the first were inducted July 80, 1917.
just two months before the last
war ended, large group of men
the Oldest and youngest in the
draft-were registered.
The final report of the Provost
Marshal General shows a total of
90,361 District men between the ages
Of 18 and As registered for the draft
in the World War and 11O29 were
inducted. In this war, 2O3 27O Dis
trict men in the l8-45 age bracket
have registered and approximately
$4,000 have been inducted.
Casualty Contrast Striking
In the casualty figures, the con-
trast between this war and the last
one for District men is most strik-
ingly revealed. Enemy action ac-
counted for 146 lives in the last
war, including 102 soldiers, 125 naval
officers and enlisted men and 19
marines, according to official Army
and Marine Corps figures and a
count made by The Star from a
naval report, in which The Star
credited to the District men who
listed their next of kin here
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Cornell Alumni to Hear
Chinese AqricuIturist

DR.. P. C. Chao, visiting con-
sultant to the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration,
will address the Cornell Alumni
Club at p. m. Wednesday in the
Lee Sheraton Hotel.
DR.. Chao, China's director of
Agricultural Economics, is a men,
Der Of the Cornell University class
of 1885.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Services to Be Held
For ENGLISH Primute

A commemorative service for the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most
Rev. William Temple, will be held
at 10:30 am. Wednesday in the
Washington Cathedral. The Rt.
Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop Of WASH
ington, will speak.
The archbishop. primate of all
England, died Thursday after Q
heart attack at the age Of 63.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Woman, II, Who Fainted
On Train Is Recovering

Miss Florence E. Booth, n, New.
ark IN. j. munitions plant work
er, who was taken from Pennsyl-
vania Railroad train at the Union
Station Friday night unconscious
was improved at Casualty Hospital
yesterday.
Miss Booth told DR.. Richard Git
ter, resident physician, that she
came to Washington to visit an
aunt, Mrs. Anna Wingert, who lives
IN a houseboat in the yacht basin
at 1900 Maine avenue S.W., near
Thirteenth street.
She told DR.. Glitter she was sub
ject to fainting spells.
Evening star., 1944-10-29

do any good to squawk some more
There are only five captains in the
Maritime Service, and the young
est is As"
Capt. Skinner has one brother
He is 1t. Wade H. Skinner, jr.
U.S.N., who is year older than the
"old man"
Evening star., 1944-10-29
R. IA. Rovencroft Acquitted

r. M. Ravencroft, SOTO Thayer
street NE. was found not guilty be-
lore Judge Hugh Reid of the Airing
ton County Court of charges of driv-
ing while intoxicated, according to
James T. Simmonds, attorney for the
oeIendant. After first imposing q
$lO0 nne and 30-day Jail sentence,
Judge Reid reconsidered and re-
versed his verdict, Mr.. Simmonds
said.
Evening star., 1944-10-29

information in her book, along with
the story of Sam and his career as
Army hero and later as a farm
worker. And all of the things that
happen to Sam in the book are
things that happened to Army mules
she knows, or has heard about.
She dedicated the book to her
son. Donald, a West Point cadet,
who someday will be called shave
tail"
After getting to be friendly with
mules, Mrs. Watson says:
Evening star., 1944-10-29

SAiAp p1is'C lllol c
The "old man
is 25 year old
Capt. Robert C.
Skinner, one of
t h e youngest
shippers in the
American Mer-
chant Marine.
He was home at
1929 Columbia
road NV. last
week to visit his
mother and his
father, Wade H.
Skinner, general
counsel for the
Maritime Com