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Evening star., 1945-10-02
A5D. Area Veteran!
Listed as Arrivals
From European Area

Forty-five more District area men
are listed among veterans Of the
European war arriving at East
Coast ports.
Seventeen of these men who
reached New York yesterday aboard
the transport Argentina are:
1st L.. Heni r. Scott, 3s44 Calvert
street NV; LIST 1t. H. j.. Stech, 1851
bask ls4s serss1 vn s1Nen r sree t. n
1t. Edward Csrnick. 1000 Cathedral ave-
nue. NV; LIST II; Werner Z. Kern. sS Y
William King. 1909 FIRST street Sc; Sergt.
ppe s9nn eo a Kern afla CHESTER Tset sG
street Sc. sergt John A. Carper. sergt.
william s, Martin. Tl5 Harry a. Reich,
Tas william d1aaG HaTkins pfS Eaymona
low Of Alexandria.
Arrivals at New York yesterday
aboard the Eleanor Wheelock in
cluded:
street s.W.: 1t. Col. Donald r. Buchanan
1901 Porter street NV: PVT Edward W.
Ba beasy 2s sb freed con kW sSees HAND ans
street NE.
Due at Boston tomorrow aboard
the transport Joaquin Miller:
sfsergt Vernon f. Martin 410 Fifteenth
ty-sixth street NV; Pfc. Albert Chubb
615 Twenty-second street NV: TfSergt
Herman E. Ford, 1949 Vermont avenue
NV; TIA Juliane. E. Glover. 232 Fourth
street S.W.: TI5 FLOYD M Edwards. 323h
Fenton street NV; TL5 Charles McCottry
I132 Howard street s E.: Ti5 George Price
1904 Fourth street NV: Pfc. James C.
Billings. oil Eighth street N.E. Pfc. Henry
l.. Boyd, 2l6 Seventh street NE; Pfc
Jerome A. Brooks, 1894 Meade street NE.
Pfc. Henry W. Gibbs. 1914 Lamont street
teenth street NV; Wesley C. Grffith, IT,
James E., Cason, 215 South Payne street
Alexandria.
The transport Caleb Strong is due
at Newport News tomorrow with
the following men:
street NV: Pfc Hand r. Chin, 63l /
street NV; Corpl James Butler. 161,
East Capitol street; D. Young IT,, 4934
31s New York avenue NV and Pfc
Luther Smith, 93S o street NV.
Evening star., 1945-10-02
Pedestrian, Hit by Car,
Is in Serious Condition

John William Ball, As, colored, was
reported in serious condition today
at Emergency Hospital from injuries
received last night when he was
struck by an automobile at Four
teenth and I streets NV.
Police said Mr.. Ball, who lives at
1868 Montello avenue NE. suffered
a fractured skull when car, driven
by Clayton Betzold, %, of Akron,
N. Y. struck him as he attempted to
cross I street against traffic signal.
Irving Wolf, A, of 732 Otis place
NE, truck driver, pleaded not
guilty TO negligent homicide charge
today in Municipal Court in connec-
ton with the death of Thomas Otha
Brown, r. colored, of 3lo3 Georgia
avenue NV. Wolf was granted a
jury trial
Mr.. Brown was struck last Thurs
day by truck driven by Wolf, po.
lice said, as he crossed the inter.
section at Georgia avenue and Irving
street NV. He died two days latel
in Freedmen's Hospital. A coroner.
jury yesterday held Mr.. Wolf or
the homicide charge.
Evening star., 1945-10-02
War Fund
Continued From First Page.)

cepted a s50,00o increase in its
quota. The remaining s150,000 cut
from the Federal quota was added
to a catch all" for anonymous
gifts, etc.
President Truman will speak at
10:30 o'clock tonight over an radio
networks on behalf of the Nationa,
War Fund and approximately 300
Community War Fund campaigns
going on throughout the country.
Honor Posters Available.
Honor posters are being given to
all divisions OF the Government unit
going over the top. The Civil Service
Commission, which has collected
more than 80 per cent of its quota,
is displaying 18 of them for its
various offices. Richard E. Scneder
is in charge of lobby display
entitled THE Commission Has a
Heart"
The Justice Department has set up
a special Office and staff in order
to raise its quota. Government
Services Inc. is arranging for
speakers in all of its cafeterias, and
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing is sponsoring special series of
meetings with guest speakers, Gen.
Grant added.
Reports from all eight units were
awaited today in the Hall of Flags
at the Chamber of Commerce, where
the report luncheon was scheduled
to begin at 1880 pm.
Lee D. Butler, campaign chairman
announced that report meetings this
year would be short and snappy.
We are limiting report meetings to
one hour. They're an important part
Of our campaign and we want as
many workers as possible to attend
them"
Navy personnel at Arlington Farms
are dropping their change into a
miniature model of the Fort Myel
South Post Chapel for the Com
munity War Fund. Offerings total.
ing $4,859.42 have been dropped into
the model chapel during the last is
months for various good causes. Tht
model was constructed by Chaplain
Daniel w. Fowler, U. s. N r., nov
serving aboard an aircraft carrier
Evening star., 1945-10-02
Bomb Secrecy Impossible,
Mrs. Roosevelt Soys

NEWARK, N. j., Oct. Q (Pl-At-
tempts to keep the atomic bomb a
United States secret will be an all
most hopeless task, Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt said here last night at a
postwar freedom rally of the Amer
ican Federation of Negro College
Students.
I'VE ran race with the other
nations on the atomic bomb,' Mrs.
Roosevelt said 1--WE got the infor-
nation flrst-but we won by mar
row margin. Scientists tell me we
have no secret to keep. Simply be-
cause we beat the rest of the world
on the bomb will not prevent them
from continuing their research and
finding the answer"
The federation's 1945 award for
"meritorious service to democracy
in the United States" was presented
to Mrs. Roosevelt by Miss Jane
Dewey, who represented her father
Prof. John Dewey of Columbia Uni
versity.
Evening star., 1945-10-02
GAR Opens Convention
Under Former Commander
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 2.-"As
long as they are able, members will
be on the march for meetings of
the G. A. r." declares former Com
mander in Chief Robert Rownd of
Ripley, N. Y, here for the 10th an
nual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic
The statement was made as a
pledge to his fellow veterans and
members of five affiliated G. A. r.
organizations at meeting last
night. Mr.. Rownd, on behalf of the
absent Commander in Chief Isaac
w. Sharp of Warsaw, Ind, accepted
checks totaling $500 contributions
from the auxiliary groups to carry
on the work of the G. A. r.
Representative Vorys and Service
Director Elmer Keller, both of CO.
lumbus, representing the State and
this city. gave welcoming addresses.
A reception viii be held tonight
In the rotunda of the Statehouse, a
parade and campfire tomorrow and
election of officers Thursday.
Evening star., 1945-10-02
Bradley Tells vFW
He Has Cut Red Tape
In Veterans Agency
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 2.--Gen. Omar N.
Bradley, veterans administrator,
said today he had taken steps to
.cut red tape. simplify forms and
make our service easy to get"
Modernizing procedures in the
Veterans Administration also win
be part of the job of a newly Great
ed division of organization, PLAN
ming and coordination, he said in
an address at the opening session
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
46th national encampment. Spokes-
men said the delegates represented
more than a million veterans.
Gen. Bradley, former commander
of the 18th Army Group in Eu-
rope. said that when he came into
the Veterans Administration he
found 1t was geared to serve 4,000,-
900 veterans on a peacetime basis
and threatened to choke on 49,
600, 900 more"
13 Branch Offices.
AS steps in decentralization Gen.
Bradley said 13 branch Offices had
been authorized at strategic points
throughout the Nation; IL assist
ants, instead of six, were estab-
lished.
The general also said, "The press
is entitled to frank, unvarnisbsd
information on our activities y
therefore he was establishing the
Division of Public Relations ION a
level where it will be informed on
administrative policy"
Il have instructed managers
throughout the country that we
have no secrets to hide he said.
The VFW commander in chief
Jean A. Drummer of New York, said
the matter of bringing American
fighting men back from Europe and
the Pacific as quickly as possible
consistent with occupation require
ments, is Americas No. l mora
obligation"
Chairman Tom Connally of the
iSenate Foreign Affairs Relations
Committee told the veterans last
night I'VE should not divulge the
secret" of the atomic bomb to other
nations.
Should Keep Secret.
| Speaking at the United Nations
Veterans Victory Conference, cur
tain raiser to the VFW encamp-
ment, Senator Connally said:
I'VE should proceed Immediately
l. to set flr, anrropriafe machinery Tn
work out plans for the control and
use of atomic energy. We should
not divulge the secret to other
nations.
/ An opposing view was expressed
by another speaker, Clark NJ Eichel-
berger, New York, director of the
American Association for the United
Nations, who said there must be
universal controls" and that there
Evening star., 1945-10-02
Bill for Discharge
OF Veterans Pressed
To End Strike Wave
Ry the Associated rress.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Rankin OF the House
Veterans Coanmittee urged Congress
today to enact legislation he said
would permit discharged veterans to
break these strikes overnight"
ut is time to call halt to strikes,
Mr.. Rankin said in announcing he
would ask the Rules Committee to
send to the House floor for debate a
bill approved by Mr. Rankin's COM
.mittee several months ago.
1t provides that no honorably dis
charged ex-serviceman shall be re-
quired to join union, retain mem
bership in a union or pay union dues
as a condition of employment.
"If Congress will pass this bill" I"
Mr.. Rankin said in an interview,
land see that our young men who
are no longer needed in the service
are discharged Immediately, it will
break these strikes over night"
Mr.. Rankin said thousands of dis
charged ex-servicemen would be
willing to take jobs vacated by strik-
ers but are prohibited from doing
so by contracts requiring workers to
belong to unions.
Here we are, still at war, with our
own young men being held in the
service" he declared. "Yet the high
est paid laborers in the world are
indulging in Nationwide strike
that is threatening to paralyze the
country"
Mr.. Rankin said he had assurance
that the Rules Committee would
give early consideration to his bill
Without Rules Committee clearance
the legislation cannot reach the
House for a vote.
Principal opposition to it has come
from Representatives who profess to
see in it threat to closed-shop and
union n-maintenance contracts. They
contend the bill would nullify exist
ing labor-management contracts.
Mr.. Rankin said many discharged
veterans are unable to obtain work
because they cannot afford to pay
union initiation fees and union dues
Evening star., 1945-10-02
Poker-Faced Hughes.

incidentally, Justice Hughes, hv-
ing here in retirement, listens
poker-faced to accounts of the
storm over Capitol plaza. One visi-
tor reports: "He doesn't give-but
he always has time to listen"
Evening star., 1945-10-02
Goleno Park Refinery
In Texas Is Closed
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. 2.-The Oil
Workers International Union COM
pleted closing of the Texas Co.'S
Galena Park refinery today and an
nounced that the Texas Pipe Line
Co. in Houston also would be closed,
possibly today.
The Galena Park refinery en-
ploys 140 persons and the pipe line
about $50.
D. H. Byrd, president of the In
dependent Petroleum Association of
Texas, wired Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach that the 80 per cent
increase in wages demanded by oil
workers would bankrupt the crude
oil producers of the Nation.
Evening star., 1945-10-02
Pressure Mounting
Among Japanese for
Revamping Of Cabinet

TOKYO, Oct. 2. Pressure
mounted among the japanese
today for complete reorganiza-
ton of their cabinet by the time
rehabilitation is completed in
mid d-October, and Gen. Mac
Arthur demanded a full account
ing of Japan's military produc-
tion as well as existing stocks of
war materiel.
The general asked the Japanese
government for full information on
the annual production of arms, ord
nance, ammunition and automotive
equipment from 1941 through Au-
gust, 1945, plus estimates for the
remainder of 1945.
Japanese sources reported rising
sentiment fcr elimination from the
cabinet of Ministers once associated
with the beaten, war-making regime,
as well as those blamed for failure
to anticipate growing food, housing
and fuel shortages.
ICDOl lSbAy WlbAAodG
confrmation-have limited that En-
peror Hirohito might abdicate in a
thorough government housekeeping
when his task of carrying out the
principal surrender terms is finished.
Continue Search for Funds.
Meanwhile, Allied occupation au-
thorities continued their search for
hidden gold, silver and currency
which the Japanese wartime ad-
ministration's military commanders
took from the nations they .overran.
Qn Shanghai, Mayor Chen Ia
chen said the war loot of Japa-
nese and Germans in Shanghai
would be seized by his admins
tration and returned to its own
ers, even though it had been
transferred to Swiss and Portu-
guese. He added at a press con-
ference that the 2,400 Germans
in Shanghai would be placed in
a restricted area and the pro-
Nazis and Japanese collaborators
among them screened out and
arreSted.)
The Tokyo newspaper Mainich
said today that new loud demand.
for a less tainted, more energetic
government may force Premier
Prince Higashi-Kuni to shuttle tht
cabinet even before the end of de.
mobilization, set for about Octo
Der Is.
Rumors of designations.
Higashi-Kuni had specificall,
asked the army and navy minister
to stay on the job until they fin
ished the breaking up of the armet
forces and the repatriation of serv
icemen from abroad. Rumors in
tensif1ed that these two would qui
at their earliest opportunity ant
that others would go out with then
or perhaps in advance, Mainich
said.
Other well-informed Japanes
sources said Higashi-Kuni himsel
might resign in the face of increas
ing criticism of his government TO
failure to formulate a concrete plal
to alleviate the shortages of fooc
housing and fuel before the rapidl
approaching winter.
These sources said Vice Premie
Prince Fumimaro might lead tn
exit march in a general clearing ou
of cabinet ministers and other gov
ernment leaders formerly aligne'
with the japanese war machine.
il Japanese political observers sal,
that if Higashi-Kuni fell from offic
Prince Konoye would be one of tn
;, leading candidates to take his place
and that if Higashi-Kuni were re
tanned, Konoye probably would b
forced to resign.
Evening star., 1945-10-02

are really no atomic secrets except
the processes of industrial manu-
facture and they may not be secrets
very long"
Evening star., 1945-10-02
Nijinsky Accepts Bid
To Dance in U. S.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Vaslav Nj
jinsky, in his prime the worlds
greatest ballet dancer, has been in
vited to come to this country from
Vienna to dance, and his wife, Ro-
molo, has accepted for him, it was
announced yesterday by the New
York Office of Sol Hurok of the Bal
let Theater.
Mr.. Hurok now is in Washington
trying to arrange for the celebrated
dancers visit.
Evening star., 1945-10-02
Left-Hunded Salute

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (P).
Peace is wonderful!
A bareheaded soldier shrugged at
military courtesy and saluted an
officer without donning his cap.
The officer, burdened with pack
ages, saluted with his left hand.
Evening star., 1945-10-02

COCKER SPANIEL. black, male. wearing
collar and rabies tag only, No. 264432;
1pund vicinity Silver Spring. 81. $3.50.
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Auto Tag Forms
To Be Ready Soon

Applications for 1856 automobile
license corner plates will be mailed
to motorists about February Is. ac-
cording to the Maryland Department
Of Motor Vehicles.
All postmasters are requested by
Commissioner W. Lee Elgin to for
ward tag applications to car owners
at their new addresses and collect
additional postage.
Instructions regarding the new APP
plications follow:
/. If the address on your tag APP
plication is not correct, write the new
OF correct address on the line pro-
vided for that purpose
, Insert in the boxes across the
top Of the application the number Of
the large Maryland license plate in
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MARRIED

Ellis-Be;tzel-AIiss Marie Eliza
beth Bethel. daughter Of Mrs. Pris-
ella Bethel, Of Accident, and William
Albert Ellis, son of Albert Ellis, of
Cresaptown, We're married at o.
clock last Friday afternoon, February
-, in the parsonage of the First
Methodist church. Cumberland.
The Rev. George E. Baughman,
pastor, officiated. Mrs Catherine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-02-08

Mrs. Mabel Sollars entertained
members of her bridge club at her
home on Third street, on Tuesday
night.
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Local WSCS To Be Host To Sim
liar Societies Of The District

! liar societies OF The District
The Woman Society Of Christian
Service of the local Methodist church
viii be host on Wednesday to similar
! societies Of all the Methodist churches
OF this locality. The occasion is an
"Oficers' Training Conference" spon-
sored by the District officers for the
benefit Of local officers.
The first session will be at 1000 A.
NJ, with District President, Mrs l..
II. Mott, Of Davis, presiding. Also
present will be Mrs A. V. Gallon, of
/ keyser, W. Va, district secretary of
Organization and Promotions; Mrs. II.
IS. Mycrly also Of Keyser. Conference
Secretary Of Missionary Education
and Service, and possibly other dis
! tlict officers.
Luncheon will be served at the
church at noon, after which there will
be an afternoon session, beginning at
100 o'clock.
1t is expected that all officers Of all
! Societies will attend, and that they
will participate in a discussion of the
problems of each office. There will be
presentations Of the duties Of officers.
: goals to be attained. methods to be
used, and other matters of assistance.
There will also be a large supply of
handbool,s, pamphlets and other ma
terials.
Local arrangements are being made
by the executive council of the local
society, headed by Mrs. Russell Smith,
president. Mrs. William O. Bitter, of
Mountain Lake Park, is in charge of
promotions Of the conference through
out the sub-District.
The luncheon VIII be served under
the direction of Mrs. Ernest Liller,
and with the assistance Of ladies Of
the church.
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Two Oakland Youths Take Navy
Tests

Jack Glotfelty, Second street, Oak
land, and Eugene Dewitt Helbig.
High street, Oakland, both II years
old, went to Baltimore or Wednesday
for their physical examinations be-
fore reporting for general assign
ment in the Navy, it was announced
b. the navy recruiting office in Cum
berland
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LOCAL NEWS

Mrs. O. T. eraser entertained at
bridge at her home on Second street
last Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Oscar Hinebaugh and daugh-
ter, Mary Virginia, were visiting Miss
BERTHE Cleveland on Sunday
Mrs. Mabel Sollars entertained
members of her bridge club at her
home on Third street, on Tuesday
night.
F. f. Rathbun is in Baltimore at
tending a meeting of State Super
ntendents of schools being held there
this week
Mrs. Robert Harris, of New York
City, is visiting her brother and sis
ter-in-law, Nh and Mrs Francis Con-
molly, Oak street.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard White,
Eighth street, announce the birth of
daughter at their home last Thurs
day afternoon.
Mrs. Harry Glaze is now recuperat-
ing from an operation which she un-
derwent recently at Heiskell Memoir
al hospital, Morgantown, W. Va.
Belvin Fazenbaker, residing north
Of Oakland on the old Deer Park road
entered a hospital at Philippi this
morning for observation and a posi-
bic major operation.
Mrs. Harland f. Bowman, OF Nc
Henry, left on Tuesday for New Or
leans, La, to visit her husband, H.
F. Bowman, C.M. Bic, at the naval
repair base at that city.
ia Thornton Deffinbaugh and
Mrs. Deffinbaugh, Of Arlington, Va,
are spending several days here with
relatives. T/4 Deffinbaugh is sta
toned at Fort Myer, Va.
Miss Eleanor Sincell Fairmont, an
instructor in art and English in one
of the schools Of that city, is spend
ing this week in Oakland with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. r. Sincell.
The employees of the Oakland Half
Price Store were entertained at d
chicken dinner at Fixes last Thurs
day night. There were twenty pres
ent.
Miss Ann Naylor, student at Hood
College, Frederick, spent the week
end here with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. S. Townshend Naylor, Alder
street.
Reaford Purbaugh, who had been
in hospital in Hot Springs, Missouri,
for several weeks, returned to his
home here last Friday, and has re-
sumed charge of his store.
Mrs George H. Hanst entertained
at bridge last Thursday and Friday
evenings at her home. There were
sixteen guests on Thursday evening
and twelve the following evening,
Rev. and Mrs. Felix G. Robinson,
of Arthurdale, West Va, were in Oak
land day or two this week while en-
route to their home after spending
two weeks in Baltimore and Washing
ton with friends.
The Dorcas circle will meet at the
Lutheran church on Thursday, Feb
ruary Is, at 800 pm. with Mrs. Clay
ton Winters presiding There will be
program and refreshments and
ranks will be opened.
The Everready circle Of the Luth-
eran church will meet on Friday eve
ming, February 9, at the home Of Mrs.
George E. Coddington, for a covered
dish dinner at 7 o'clock. Members are
asked to bring their banks.
Mrs. Richard March and Mrs. Geo,
Schreiner, Of Webster Springs, W.
Va. were visiting Mrs. Sallie X.
Wooddell and other relatives here.
and upon their return home were ac-
companed by Capt. Hopwood Wood
dell, who will visit relatives there for
several days.
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your name for the year ending March
81, 1915.
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issued by another state, write none"
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