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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-03-15

Democracy suffers more from its
loud .mouthed friends than from its
enemies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Train Kills Virginian,
HurIs Porter 10 Death
BY the Associated Press

BY Inc Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 10.-Wil-
liam j. Shillingburg, retired insur-
ance executive, was killed yesterday
when struck by a northbound Allan
tic Coast Line streamliner from
Savannah, and a colored porter,
thrown from the train when the
engineer applied emergency brakes,
died under the trains wheels.
The porter was listed as Macarthur
Robinson, 35, of North Carolina, by
Richmond police. who reported the
accident occurred on double-track
stretch
An ACL spokesman said the Is
car train, due at Broad Street Sta
ton about and hour before the &C
cident, was going 40 to As miles an
hour. The engineer was said to
have applied his emergency brakes
when he saw a man standing on the
tracks ahead. The train parted
about four cars behind the locomo-
hive, and the porter. who was stand
ing in the vestibule between the cars
which separated, was thrown under
the wheels, the ACL spokesman said
Mr.. Shillingburg, 10, retired about
two years ago as vice president OF
the Virginia Life g. Casualty Insur-
ance Co. because of i'll health. He
formerly was manager of the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Co. here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Army Major, 81, Gets Top Post
AT Hopkins Medical School
Dr.. Harvey Replaces
Dr.. W. T. Longeope
When Latter Retires
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Dec. l0.-A 34-year.
old major-Dr. A. McGehee Harvey
is slated to become professor Of
medicine at the Johns Hopkins Uni
Versity Medical School on June &c
when DR.. Warield T. Longcope, who
has held the post since 1922, retires
DR.. Longcope's forthcoming retire.
ment and the appointment Of DR.
Harvey to what is considered one Of
the top medical posts of the Nation
was announced yesterday by DR.
Isaiah Bowman, president of the
university.
DR.. Harvey, a native of Little
Rock, Ark, also will act as ply.
sician in chief of Johns Hopkins
Hospital and director of the medica
schools department of medicine.
He is now on terminal leave after
three years service in the Pacific
with one of the Hopkins medical
units.
DR.. Harvey received his M. D. at
Hopkins in 1884 and, following an
interneship at the hospital, studied
at the National Institute for Med
ical Research at London and at the
University of Pennsylvania under
fellowship grants.
He returned to Hopkins as resi-
dent physician in 1910. The follow
ing year he was appointed professor
of medicine at the Vanderbilt Uni
versity Medical School, where he re-
manned until he entered active Army
service in 1912.
He is married and has one child
daughter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
American 'AW0Ls'
Boost Paris Crime
BY the Associated Press.


PARIS, Dec. 10.-Every night a
lost regiment" of perhaps 2,00C
men pours into the soldier-conge
areas of Paris, swells the wave OF
postwar petty crime, and disappears
into its secret dwellings before
dawn.
They are American soldiers, but
they obey no orders. They are the
"AWOLs," and more than one-flftt
Of them in the European theatel
are believed to have drifted to Paris
The American Army is secretive
about its absent without oficia
leave" men, but a check of indi-
vidual arrests by military police
discloses an average of 10 AWOLs
seized in Paris every day. Mostly
they are caught when they commit
some kind of delinquency.
They form only a part of the ele-
ment responsible for the skyrocket-
ing crime wave in Paris, and the
often sensational Paris press has
been careful not to place the blame
either on the AWOLs, or on the
American soldier stationed in Paris
France Soir, in its account of q
crime wave which has seen kill.
ings, shootings and beatings mount
to 996 from January through Octo.
Der compared with 302 for the same
period in 1899, emphasized thai
thousands wearing American uni.
forms are not American soldiers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Mrs. Ethel Crews PAGE
To Be Buried Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel
Crews Page, S., Of 1852 Forty-fourth
street NV, were to be held today
at the Lee funeral home, Fourth
street and Massachusetts avenue
NE, followed by burial in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Page, who worked at the
Maritime Commission during the
war, died Saturday at Washington
Sanitarium and Hospital after a
weeks illness.
A native of Danville, Va, she had
lived in Washington more than 4C
years. She was member of the
Florence Crittenden Circle of the
Florence Crittenden Home and OF
the Wears Aid Society of st. Pat
rick's Chapel.
She is survived by her husband
Arthur S. Page; her mother, Mrs.
Cornelius Barber, and a daughter
Mrs. Barbara Page Verbycke, all of
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
PIunkett Weighs Entry
Into Race Against Byrd
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va. Dec. lo.-Moss
A. Plunkett, Roanoke attorney and
foe of the poll tax, said here during
the week end that whether he would
offer to defeat Senator Byrd for re-
election to the United States Senate
is matter not yet decided.
Mr.. Plunkett made the announce
ment in connection with a state
ment that anti-Byrd organization
forces already are busy with plans
to unseat Virginias junior Senator.
The antl-Byrd organization, he said,
disclaims any intention of trying to
capture the post of Senator Glass.
should he retire and leave both va
cancies to be filled.
The Roanoke attorney said local
meetings of anti-Byrd politicians
already are being held in many Sec
lions Of the State. He declared, I'VE
are getting some fine work done"
AL activity, he said, is aimed at
beating Senator Byrd. I'VE won't
divide our shots" he added. Well
concentrate on the program we out
lined in 1941-the defeat of the Byrd
machine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
200 Elephants Helped
Allies Beut Burmu JOBS

SHANGHAI.-Two hundred ele.
plants made up 8 labor company
that had much to do with the Allied
forces defeat Of the Japs in Burma
it Is revealed here.
Credit goes to a Cornishman, 1t
Col. Elephant Bill" williams, an
expert on organization Of elephants
He bossed the animals that built
bridges, carved roads through dense
jungles, evacuated the sick, cranked
broken down trucks, sprayed tar on
jungle roads with their trunks, car
ried guns and had them fired from
their backs.
The Japs seized 5000 elephants
left behind by big tea companies
and contractors in Siam and used
them in Burma. In November, 1912
a group of Britishers and natives
managed to persuade" 60 elephants
to bolt Jap lines. That was the labor
gangs embryo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Intestinal Flu Reduces
Attendance in MANY
Maryland Schools
By the Associated Press.


What State Health Commissioner
Robert H. Riley said seems to be
a light intestinal flu" has cut at.
tendance in many schools in all sec.
tions of Maryland from 20 to 40 pei
cent, a survey showed today.
The highest incidence of the at.
tacks was reported in Montgomery
County, where School Supt. Edwin
w. Broome said many of the schools
reported 40 per cent drops in at.
tendance. Damascus and Rockville
were hardest hit, he said.
In Wicomico County, many school.
have absences totaling Is per CEN
of the normal attendance, with Sal.
isbury reporting the greatest drop
School Supt. James M Bennett said
About 10 per cent of the teacher!
and Is per cent of the pupils wer,
away from Washington Count,
schoolrooms last week, and report.
from Baltimore County were tina
there had been an outbreak o
grippe among the teachers, but tina
average pupil attendance had no
dropped.
George Fox, Anne Arundel Count,
school superintendent, said doctor
in Annapolis had reported an in
creased number of influenza case.
there. He added that school at
tendance in the county was clos,
to normal, except in the school.
nearest Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Adrian McC ardeII Dies;
Ex-Mary|and Legislator
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
FREDERICK, Md. Dec. 10
Former State Senator Adrian Leroy
McCardell, 70, of Frederick County
died yesterday at his home here
after an illness of two months.
Mr.. McCardell, a Democrat. was
president of the Frederick County
National Bank. and served in the
upper house of the General As
sembly from 1927 until 1890, when
he was appointed to a six-year term
on the State Tax Commission by
the late Gov. Richie.
Prominent in fraternal circles. he
was a 800 degree Mason, a former
grand commander of the knights
Templar in Maryland, and belonged
to several other organizations.
He is survived by his widow, a
daughter and two sons. Funeral
services will be held tomorrow at
the First Evangelical Reformed
Church, where he was Sunday
School superintendent for more
than 20 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
New ZeoIonders Map
Employment Service

New zealand's legislators are
establishing a national employment
service which will operate on pure
ly voluntary basis to assist worker
and employers to get together fos
the good OF the commonwealth
economy.
Part of the new Department.
functions will be to help persons fipa
better or more suitable employment
whether in professional, technical O..
supervisory capacities, and to assiy
those requiring occupation readjust,
ment, training or other assistance
to enable them to resume full-time
employment. Prime Minister Fraser
explained in WELLINGTON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Cleveland Printers Strike
Averted by New Contract
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 10.-Threat of
a strike on Cleveland's three daily
newspapers, Central Press Associa-
ton, Newspaper Enterprise Associa-
ton and other publications was
averted yesterday when the ALL
Typographical Union No. SO voted
1854 to IS, to accept a new contract
giving weekly pay raises ranging
up to sl614.
William G. Barrow, president of
the local, said the new contract
was accepted for the Cleveland
News. the Cleveland Plain Dealer
and the Cleveland Press. but that
union members employed by Cen
trail Press. NEA, Shopping News
and four foreign Language parers
had agreed to follow any action
taken at the session.
Under the new contract, retro
active to November u. typograph-
ical workers weekly pay will be
raised from $3.50 to ST. 20 for day
work, from s6l.73 to s77.37 for night
and from s6304 to s7918 on the
lobster or early morning SHIFT
The lobster shift is IS hours a week
while others are 37l3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Z Foreign Banks Reopen
Branches in Shanghai

By the Associated Press.
SHANGAI, Dec. 10.-Seven for
eign banks reopened here today for
limited banking operations. For
eign currency transactions will not
be included
Banks reopened included National
City Bank of New Yark. Chase Ma
tional Bank and Underwriters
Bank for the Far East, all Ameri-
can; Chartered Bank of India. Aus
tralia and China, the Hong KONG
and Shanghai Banking Corp. and
the Chartered Bank of India, all
British, and the Banque Beige pour
LEtranger.
Customers who had Chinese cur
rency accounts at the outbreak of
the war may draw on them. Those
who converted into japanese puppet
currency after the war began may
reconvert into Chinese national
currency at the fixed rate of 200
to /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Barefoot Boy, ;, Found
After 300 Comb Woods
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
WAYNESVILLE, Mo-, Dec. TO-
Donald Lee Holder. 3, was recuper-
ating in General Hospital here to-
day, safe after a day and a night
in subfreezing weather in the wood
ed hills of Mark Twain National
Forest.
Barefooted and unafraid, the son
OF MIR. and Mrs. Carl Holder of near
Waynesville was found yesterday by
Leon Cummings, Waynesville night
bus dispatcher, who was one of SOC
persons who had searched all night
A patrol trooper said Donald ap-
parently had found adequate shell.
ter in the high grass or the mat oil
leaves which covered the ground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Maryland Group Plans
First Farley 10 Aid
tobacco Industry
BY the Associated Press.


The first meeting of the Mary
land Tobacco Production Commit
tee, appointed by DR.. T. B. Symons,
director of the University of Mary
land extension service, to revitalize
the tobacco industry in Southern
Maryland, will be held Friday at
Upper Marlboro.
The following members will at
tend with county agricultural agents
of the five Southern Maryland
counties and State extension staff
specialists:
T. D. Hayden, Great Mills, st.
Marys County; Harry w. Town
send, Mitchelville, Prince Georges
County; W. A. Cooksey. Spring Hill,
Charles County; r. Bennett OAR
nell, Greenock, Anne Arundel Coun-
ty, and E. A. Miller, Huntingtown,
Calvert County.
DR.. Symons said the committee
would consider the practical steps
to be taken for adjusting land
tenure, development of machinery
to replace hand labor. increase in
new production and marketing
methods, improvement in curing
methods and in curing barns. and
the required soil conservation meth
| DDS necessary to production of cul-
tivated crop on sloping land.
| Tobacco is one Maryland crop
that has an assured market" DR.
Symons declared. but added that
increased production is needed to
assure continuance of the outlet
/ for special quality cigarette tobacco
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Sd Service Command
To Stop Private Use
OF P0Ws by March |
BY the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, Dec. 1O.-Third
Service Command headquarters an
nounced yesterday that stable cut
backs in the number of German
prisoners of war available for private
contract work in Virginia, Maryland
and Pennsylvania are expected to
start January /.
This, it was explained, will lead
to termination of this type of POW
ALLEGATIONS by the end of February
To Leave U. S. by April 30.
Of1icials added that the contem-
plated action, along with removal of
prisoners from work at military in
stallations by the end Of March, is
in line with the War Departments
plan of sending all enemy prisoners
out of the country by April 80
industrial and agricultural con-
tract work already terminated and
the repatriation OF more than 5000
prisoners from the Service Com
mand here resulted to date in the
closing of base prisoner camps at
the Tobyhanna Military Reservation
and Carlisle Barracks in Pennsyl-
vania, and at the Richmond (Va.)
Army Air Base, the announcement
said
Nineteen branch camps also have
been discontinued. The Model
Farms Base Camp at Philadelphia
is scheduled to close December IL.
A Camps in Operation.
Still in operation to house the
approximately $4,000 prisoners left
in the Service Command are 81 base
and % branch camps. At the be-
ginning of this year there were 81
base and branch camps and $4,000
prisoners.
In January. 1914, only five camps
had been needed for the 5000 pris-
Ioners confined in the tri-State area. -
Service Command officials esti-
mated that from June through Oc-
tober of this year, savings to tax
payers effected through work by
prisoners on military reservations,
plus earnings derived from private
contract work, totaled more than
| S13, ZOO, 000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Post Office Extends
Hours 10 Take Care
OF Heavy Yu|e Mail

Urging District residents to have
Christmas greetings and gifts on the
way by December Is, Postmaster
Vincent c. Burke today announced
new post Office hours to handle holi-
day mails.
The three largest post Offices in
the District-the main post Office at
Massachusetts, avenue and North
Capitol street, the Benjamin Frank
lin Station at Twelfth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV. and the
National Airport Post Office-will
be open "a hours a day, seven days
a week. The 33 substations through
out the District and other stations
in Takoma Park, Chevy Chase and
Bethesda, which ordinarily close at
l pm. Saturdays, will remain open
until 8 pm. on December Is and %
Mr.. Burke said there will be nc
mail service on Christmas Day ex-
cept special delivery. Approx
mately $500 temporary employees
drawn mostly from the ranks Of
veterans and high school students
past the age of 16-have been signed
up to handle the 28,000,0 900 packages
letters and cards which normally
make up the Districts incoming ano
outgoing mail.
The Once of Defense Transpor-
tation predicted December will be
"the worst travel month yet" be-
cause of anticipated heavy troop
movements and the civilian travel
urge accompanying the Yuletide
Beginning Thursday, the Hyatts-
vile Post Office will close at 10 pm
daily, one hour later than usual
The Office will remain open from
am. to 10 pm. on Sundays, Deem
Der 16 and %. Extra collections will
be made from letter boxes from now
until Christmas. The Hyattsville
branch Offices at Edmonston, Chew
erly and Landover Hills will reopen
from 7 to 9 pm. daily. The closing
hours are extended from l to pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Mayor 10 Discuss Plans
For Alexandria S Future

Alexandria's future plans for de-
velopment. as we'll as problems facec
by local governing officials during
the war, will be discussed by Mayor
William T. wilkins at the North
Ridge Citizens Association at 6
o'clock tonight.
Mayor wilkins recently observed
his 50th anniversary with the
Southern Railway.
A proposal to alter the constitu-
ton to provide for future meetings
of the civic body to be held at the
convenience of guest speakers
rather than on the second Monday
of each month will be discussed.
The meeting will be held in the
George Mason Elementary School
2601 Cameron Mills road.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
ArbifratorsMeel
Tomorrow on
Transit Wages
Board to Work Out
Method for Hearing
Opposing Arguments

The board of three arbitrators in
the Capital Transit Co. case will hold
its first meeting tomorrow to work
out procedure for hearings on the
wage dispute that caused two recent
tie-ups in mass transportation here
Whether the hearings will be open
to the public and the press was an
open question today. The hope was
expressed by parties to the dispute
that the hearings would be open,
but certain Federal officials said the
usual procedure in such arbitration
cases was to hold hearings in execu-
tive session to facilitate agreement.
James Francis Reilly, Capital
Transit Co. arbitrator, said he was
ready to meet with the other two
at any time, and fully expected the
three could get together tomorrow
probably in the afternoon.
The union arbitrator, o. David
Zimring, of Chicago was expected
in Washington today, according to
William F. jSimms, president of the
local transis union.
aaron HorOYltZ OF New York,
chosen by Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach as the third member
and chairman of the board, has in
Dictated he will arrive here tomorrow
morning.
The only issue before the Arbitra-
ton Board will be the wage dispute.
Both parties to the dispute have
agreed to abide by the decision of
the board. When a decision can be
reached is uncertain, but indications
today were that the procedure prob
ably would be long drawn out
giving both parties time to present
their cases in detail.
Following the two strikes by tran
sit employees, the Government,
through the Office of Defense
Transportation, took over the COM
panv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
IS Furniture Plant Pickets
Arrested on Riot CHARGES
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 10.-Forty five
striking furniture workers were
taken to Jail today and held on riot
ing charges after a melee at the
Comfort Springs Factory.
Police said orders to maintain an
orderly picket line and to move ii
from the entrance to the place SO
nonstriking workers could enter
were disobeyed. They said the orders
were issued to Louis Gilbert, inter-
national representative of the
United Furniture Workers (CIO).
Union officials said the police Or
dered the strikers to cease picketing
when they crowded the alley in
front of the entrance. They said
the picket line was larger today than
1t had been in the four weeks of the
strike. The melee followed a fight
between picket and a nonstriker
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Officer Drops Rank
To Rute Pension
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY.-Here' one
ohicer who decided he'd rather be
an enlisted man. 1t sounds COM
plicated, but Capt. Hal w. Freeman
OF Boise, Idaho, gave up his Army
commission to re-enlist as a mas
ter sergeant to qualify for a pen
sion
In the Army for more than 30
years, Freeman was not entitled to
retirement allowance except for dis
ability.
Now as Master Sergt. Freeman
he can request immediate release
and retire at rs per cent of his base
pay plus longevity pay. In his case
it adds up to about SIS a month
for life,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Doorstops Are Rocks
Containing Uranium

Astonishment was expressed in
Cornwall, England, over the an.
nouncement that uranium is the
basis of the atomic bomb, for pitch
blende, an impure oxide, long has
been found and scorned there. Min
ers seeking for tin kicked aside the
colorful stones called pitchblende or
used them for doorstops.
The principal tin mines where
uranium has been found in Corn
wall have been flooded for many
years and would need new machinery
If worked,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-10
Blazing Gasoline
Causes $4,000
Loss at Ross|yn
Two Buildings Fired
As Truck Overturns
After Collision

Workers today were repairing the
damage to two Rosslyn buildings
caused by fire early yesterday when
a fuel truck crashed into a milk
truck and burned at the Virginia
side OF Key Bridge, causing losses
estimated at more than $4,000.
The truck, loaded with $500 GAL
Ions OF gasoline, crashed into the
truck while attempting to turn
south onto Lee highway from Key
Bridge. police said. No one was
injured, but flaming gasoline, pour
ing into the, Potomac River, for a
time endangered a nearby tanke,
barge loaded with gasoline.
The flames were put out before
the District fireboat could reach
the scene, but not before they had
damaged the Arlington Trust Co
building and burned out the State
Loan Co.
Davis Weir, loan company presi-
dent, said damage probably would
reach $4,000 He said the records
were intact, however, and the COM
pany was open for business today on
the second floor of the Arlington
Trust Co. Building.
The driver of the gasoline truck
trailer, Lee McCanless, 26, Balti.
more. told Capt. Ernest H. Miller
of the Arlington County police that
his brakes did not hold when he
tried to make the turn and the
vehicle crashed into the parked
milk truck. He said the trailer
jack knitted into the milk truck and
burst into flames. Mr.. McCanless
ran from his truck and got safely
across Rosslyn Circle.
Andrew Kovat, 1412 jefferson
street, Hyattsville, driver of the
milk truck, was eating breakfast
across the street at the time.
The tWo-story Arlington Trust
Co. building was scorched by the
fire and the entrance badly charred
Alan B. Prosise, treasurer, estimated
damages would reach $4,000. He
said the company would be open
for business tomorrow.
The fuel truck. owned by the
Trans Oil Co., Philadelphia. was
hauling gasoline from Baltimore tc
the American Oil Co. distribution
plant in Rosslyn. Oil company Of
flcials said the destroyed cargo was
estimated at $4,000.
Thompson's Dairy, owner of the
milk truck, placed its loss at $4,000
Sixteen Washington fire engine,
and eight Arlington County valun.
teer fire companies put out the fire