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Evening star., 1945-09-13

Mrs. Degges and her five sons,
ranging in age from 10 years to %
months, have been living with her
mother at 630l Eastern avenue, Ia
koma Park, Nd, since Pvt. Degges
entered the Marine Corps February
II, 1914 But l have been trying TO
find a larger place she explained.
So far she has been unsuccessful in
finding place large enough and
within the means of an income af-
forded by Marine priVate's pay
and allowances, she said
Pvt Degges. the son of Andrew
Hamilton Degges, l642 F street NE,
was a native of nearby Maryland.
He attended schools in the District
and Takoma Park, including Lang
ley Junior High School Before en-
terlng the service, he drove a Bell
taXicab.
The five children Pvt. Degges
leaves are Ernest E, jr, 10; Leo
Thomas, 8, William Andrew, 6,
Robert Eugene, 4. and James War
ren. % months. He also is survived
by two brothers in the Navy, Andrew
Hamilton Degges, jr., and Jack
DaooaS
Evening star., 1945-09-13
Eight Veterans Sign
For High School
Opening Here Monday

A high school for discharged SerV-
icemen. stated and supervised by
Washington high school teachers,
will begin classes for an estimated
so veterans at 9 80 am Monday in
Central High School,
Robert G. Vanderlip. co-ordinator
of veterans education, said seven
former soldiers and one eX-sailor,
three Of them wounded, have reg
istered already Many more vet
erans are expected TO enroll before
courses get under way next week.
The eX-servicemen will be segre-
ated Mr.. Vanderlip said. because
they appear to want it that way and
because We can give them diplo-
mas in half the time it would take
to graduate them from regular high
schools here
There are six teachers on our
staff. We will give instruction in
six educational classifications: Eng
lish, science, mathematics, busi-
ness education. languages and social
studies-history," Mr.. Vanderlip said
If the men want special sub
jects. such as art. music or wood :
work, we will arrange a schedule for
them in the regular classes"
The veterans will be given credit
for any school work they did while
in the service. the co-ordinator said
Veterans NAV register for night
school in regular classes if they
wish. In the veterans high
school they may start from scratch
in freshman subjects or be assigned
to study subjects in which they
were weak or lack high school cred
its. The usual high school class
distinctions will not be made. Eacn
students needs will be met by in
dividual or group instruction.
Colored veterans are being reg
istered at Dunbar High School by
the co-ordinator of education for
colored, j. N. Saunders.
Those enrolled thus far at Gen.
trail are: Gerald M Bohn, 25. of
1921 F street NE, who was wounded
in Europe; Norman 2. de Leon,
%, of 3425 A street SEs;; Joseph E.
Cater, 49, of 1923 H street NE:
William T. Guise, 20, of 1889 N.
Glebe road, Arlington; William T.
Kite, 10. of 5061 New Hampshire
avenue NV: Charles T. Mooney
l9, of 638 Morris place NE, who
suffered severe conclusion in
France, and Earnest R. Deanis of
1901 Twenty eighth street Sc;
Donald H. Steen, %. of 1405 N.
Cleveland street, Arlington, who
was present at the Pearl Harbor at
tack, is registered and awaiting his
discharge from the Navy. One man
has registered at Dunbar.
Mr.. Vanderlip said that dis
charged servicewomen will be
grouped with the men in the vet
eranS' classes So far there have
been no female registrants.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
De Marcos 10 GET Hearing
In District Court Sept. Is

For the second time in a little
more than two months, Julian R
de Marcos, II, yesterday filed a
petition at District Court seeking
his freedom from st. Elizabeth's s
Hospital in a habeas corpus pro-
ceeding.
Shortly after the filing of the Pc
tition, Justice Jennings Bailey Or
dered writ issued, and set the
hearing for September IS.
De Marcos, who was convicted of
killing a man in Canada in 1884
was found of unsound mind there
some time later and was returned to
this country in 1899.
He has tried several times to re-
gain his freedom through habeas
corpus proceeding In one such
proceeding, last December. he was
successful in District Court only to
have that courts decision reversed
by the United States Court o1
Appeals.
In yesterdays petition De Marcos
claims he now can produce compe.
tent medical testimony" to estab.
lish he is of sound mind and shoulc
be released.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
lsiHRst;oniinq
&Remiindera

Meats, Fats, Etc. - Stamps W.
through Z-2 good through Sep
tember 80. Stamps Al through
Ell good through October 81
Stamps FL through XII good
through November 30. Stamps
LII through Q-1 good through
December 81.
Points for Fats-Your meat deale,
will pay two red ration points fol
each pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Stamp SO good through De-
cember 81. Next stamp valid
January /.
khoes-Airplane Stamps l, 2, 3 and
in Book No. good indefinitely
for one pair Of shoes each.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
9A.M. School Opening
Urged by Member
Of Education Board

Thousands of public school chill
dren will shift from the wartime
opening hour of $50 am. to the
traditional hour of g sm. if one
Board of Education member has his
way.
DR.. James A. Cannon, physician
member, told board meeting YES
terday the war is over and home
conditions are more normal if the
children go to school at 9 am"
Robert l.. Haycock, superintendent
OF schools, promised a study of
the $50 versus a m. situation by the
next board meeting next Wednesday
Meanwhile, the schools will open
Monday at 9 am. for about $4,000
elementary school children and $50
a m. for about 10000 juniors, senior
and vocational high school students.
The staggered opening hours were
established in the spring 1912 to
ease the traffic congestion caused by
Government agencies and schools
opening at the same hour. Maurice
.. Eldrldge, assistant director of the
Department of Vehicles and Traffic,
commented that need for staggered
hours still exists. Traffic has in
creased SO per cent here since VI
DAY and some intersections are
worse than they ever were" he said.
Will Study Situation.
The Traffic Department will make
study of the situation along with
MI. Haycock's study, MI Eldridge
Indicated
Meanwhile, a suggestion by Mr..
Haycock that cars be allowed to park
by elementary school buildings as
early as pm. instead of the present
limit of 5 pm. was Shelved until the
opening hour question is solved
Possibly parking limits by all the
schools may be shifted to 4 pm. if
they all open at 9 am. DR.. Cannon
Sald.
The schools need u junior high
school teachers of music, physical
education and machine shop. Law
son j. Cantrell. assistant Superin-
tendent in charge of Junior high
SCllOOS, announced.
Mr.. Cantrell asked that appli-
cants see him immediately at Thir-
teenth and K streets NV. The
vacancies all developed in the last
10 days as the result of teachers
plans changed by the end of the
war, he said
No other vacancies exist at pres
ent, school heads said
Names Assistant Principals.
The board yesterday appointed
Earl T. Willis, a history teacher at
Anacostia High School. to be its
assistant principal: Mrs. Muriel
Alexander, a teacher at Randall
Junior High School, to be assistant
principal At Bannaker Junior High
School; Oliver Rogers, ir., a teacher
at Francis Junior High School, to
be its assistant principal; Mrs. Edna
Payton, a teacher at Francis, to be
assistant principal of the Garnet
Patterson Junior High School, and
Harry j. Robinson, teacher at
Shaw Junior High School. to be
assistant principal at Terrell Junior
High School.
The board also decided to put its
clerks on 40-hour week but to keep
engineers on a 48-hour schedule till
the engineer shortage is eased. The
unusual hours and mechanical diff
culties confronting engineers. espe-
ciaLy in the winter months, are too
great to be handled by a 4O-hour
week until many more engineers can
be found, Jere j. Crane, assistant
superintendent in charge of build
ings, told the board.
improvements on 81 school
grounds. costing S1l9,204, were
approved
Evening star., 1945-09-13
McCarran Urges Dealers Fear
{ Months Grace Shortage Of Coal
For Care Centers For Some Time
Little Effect Seen
Immediately From
Lifting Of Curbs

Lifting of the Government regu-
lation restricting deliveries of coal
by retailers to domestic consumers
to 80 per cent of normal annual re-
quirements will have little or no
immediate effect in Washington
until coal supplies increase, dealers
here commented today.
The regulation rescinded yesterday
by Solid Fuels Administrator Ickes,
was put in effect April /, the start
OF the present fuel year, when man
power was low and production was
not keeping pace with requirements.
An official of Griffith Consumers
Co., 1413 New York avenue NV,
said: Coal is short and it's going to
remain short even though the re-
striction is off. We are still running
on the same basis as before because
nothing has been done to increase
production. With the supply of coal
still controlled by the Solid Fuels
Administration. why they've dumped
the retail distribution problem into
the hands Of the dealers is beyond
me"
He said recent stoppages in coal
production have thrown the whole
supply schedule off, and predicted
that supplies will be short for some
time.
Firm Has No Coal.
R. j. d M, C. Grace. dealers at
CT L
asked about their supply said, We
Just don't have any and our 300
customers don't have any either.
Our hard coal shipments are be-
hind schedule, and many people
won't take soft coal. And unless the
armed services release more miners,
we probably won't get any coal"
A spokesman for the NARROW Coal
Co, 8ll E street NV, termed the
supply as mot whole lot
Hard coal is scarce. but we do
have some soft coal on hand" he
said
Shipments Still Controlled.
In reVoklng the restriction on de-
HVerleS, Mr.. IckeS said controls over
shipments from producers and
wholesalers TO retail dealers will be
retained in order TO assure that each
community will receive an equitable
share of the available coal, COKE
and other solid fuels.
Solid fuels officials consider that
present overall supplies of all fuels
for home heating are now sufficient
to meet consumers needs. They
said shortages of the most desired
kinds and sizes of solid fuels will
eventually be relieved by increased
supplies OF other fuels.
Meanwhile, conversion of coal
burning furnaces to oil, and install
iatlon of new oil and gas heating
equipment by houSeholders who have
been eager to avoid coal rationing
has been delayed by shortages of
labor and equipment. However, the
hitting of the restriction on coal NAV
relieve this pressure somewhat as
soon As the coal starts coming
through.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
.FWA Lends D. {. S30,875
To Plan Municipal Garage

A Federal advance of $30,875 to
the District to prepare plans for a
municipal garage and warehouse
estimated to cost $865 900, was made
today by Maj. Gen. Philip B. Flem-
ing, Federal Works administrator.
The building, a reinforced con-
crete structure. will be at Sixth and
D streets S.W Present plans call
for three floors with 178, 400 square
feet of floor space, but eventually it
will have five floors and 252,0OO
square feet of floors.
The advance is made available
through the Bureau of Community
Facilities, FWA, and is to be repaid
without interest when construction
is begun.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
Arlington Girl, ;, Stricken
With Polio; Total Now 1853

The Washington areas 163d in
fantile paralysis case, that of a 81
year-old child living in the 23OO
block of North Curtis road, Airing
ton, was reported today. The child
was taken to Children's Hospital.
Hers is the 77th such case during
1945 from the Maryland and Vir-
ginia sections of the Metropolitan
area. There have been Sc cases
from the District. Last year at this
time there had been 218 cases re-
ported from the Metropolitan Area
Evening star., 1945-09-13
Revomping Hearings
To Reopen Tomorrow

Hearings on the presidential reor-
ganization bill will be resumed at
10:30 am. tomorrow before a sub
committee of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, Chairman McCarran an
nounced today.
Representatives of several Federal
agencies are expected to testify dur
ing the session.
The bill would give President Tru-
man broad powers to group, con-
solidate or abolish Federal agencies
in the interest of more efficient Gov
ernment operation.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
; Montgomery Policemen
Held on Theft Churqe

Three Montgomery County police
men who were asked to resign, for
conduct unbecoming an officer, were
arrested last night on charges of
theft of three cases of beer last
July 81 from the Dixie Pig lunch
room at Silver Spring.
The men, who were arrested on
warrants sworn out by County Po-
lice Chief H, Leslie Carlin, are Har-
man Paul, Takoma Park, former
corporal on the force; Julian Lein,
Silver Spring, and George Wilt,
Rockville, both privates.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
Retailers Told
Price Plan Aids
Black Market
Economist Attacks
OPA Pricing Policy at
Retailers Meetinq

The OPA's new price absorption
policy by which retailers will be ex-
pected to absorb increased produc-
ton costs was attacked today by
DR.. Jules Backman, professor OF
economics at New York University
as certain to lead to a "peacetime
black market"
BY maintaining widespread price
ceilings, he said, OPA is creating
the atmosphere for immortality
bribery and corruption on a granc
scale"
Speaking at the Statler Hotel be.
fore the fall meeting of the Ameri.
can Retail Federation, the econo-
mist, retained by the federation te
study OPA reconVersion policy, said
I'm this country, We have con.
fused price sterilization and price
fixing. 1t is absolutely wrong tt
think that you can control price!
in peacetime by imposing ceiling!
on large scale. You will only fine
that you have a black market il
which prices actually are withou
control"
Bowles Speech OFF Record.
DR.. Bachman spoke in place O
Price Administrator Chester Bowles
originally scheduled to address tn,
meeting of trustees of State anC
national retail organizations attend
ing the session.
Explaining that Mr.. Bowles hac
phoned he would be unable to at
tend this morning, but would speal
at this afternoons session, Delo
Walker, federation board chairman
told the meeting:
"Mr Bowles insists his speech
this afternoon must be off TIT
record or not at all. l understand
he plans to open his heart to hi
brothers and children of the trad.
and is afraid ne will be misunder.
stood in the press"
Dr.. Backman explained thai
under a recent executive order j
price increases are permitted a,
the manufacturer level they CAM
go up at the retail level. That is
he cost absorption policy. 1t is
the first time that such a policy has
ben adopted since we've had price
control"
Calls for Flexibility.
Warning that it is necessary fol
the Nation to encourage non-essen.
tial industries IN peacetime so that
imitation may be controlled and EN-.
ployment increased, DR.. Backmar
said that the new OPA policy will
in fact, discourage such peacetimt
development.
THE problem today is to restor,
to the price system some fexibility
and not to control the price line" h,
said, explaining that the price sys
tenn must be allowed to play it
fundamental role in our economy
He added economists expect that il
the immediate postwar period wag
income will drop because of a reduc
ton in the labor force and ehmina
! ton of overtime pay, in contrast t
/ the last war when wage income
( rose 40 per cent in a two-yea
/ period after the war.
"All along retailers have had t.
absorb increased production costs,
DR.. Backman said, and this tend
ency has been taking place at al
accelerated rate. There is a poin
beyond which retailers cannot con
tinue to do this and remain in busi
ness"
1 Robert Nathan. deputy directo
. for reconversion in the Offlce of Wa
Mobilization and Reconversion, wa
scheduled to address a session thi
1 afternoon.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
Bon on Use of Cameras
In Civilian Flights Lifted

The Civil Aeronautics Board has
repealed its wartime regulation pre-
venting the use of cameras by pas
sengers on airplanes. The section
of the civil air regulations provid-
ing for the search of passengers
baggage and removal of cameras
was one of the few remaining war
time restrictions on flying.
All wartime restrictions will be
lifted as quickly as possible. CAB
said. However, the board pointed
out, there are still in force military
regulations providing that no pho
tographs shall be taken of military
installations
Evening star., 1945-09-13
BiIbo Asks for Copy
Of FWA Survey on
Needs Of Program
BY DON S. WARREN.

Continuation of the child care
centers here for "at least another
six months" was urged today by
Senator McCarran, Democrat, o1
Nevada, AS working mothers con-
tinued their drive for extension OF
the system, established under war
time Lanham Act funds.
The Nevada Senator, a member OF
the Senate District Committee
cited the case of wives of servicemer
overseas and mothers who came
here to work for the Government.
Especially in the case of these
there is just as much justification
for supporting continuation of the
centers as there is for liberalizins
the unemployment compensation
benefits to get us over reconversior
period" he said.
Bilbo Asks Survey Report.
Chairman Bilbo of the Senate
District Committee, meanwhile
asked that he be furnished a report
of the survey now being made by
Federal Works Agency officials al
the request of President Truman or
the needs of continuing the child
care center programs. I'VE will loob
into it," he said.
The % centers will be kept open
through next month as a result ot
protests against threatened early
closing. School-age centers were tc
have been closed Saturday and
nurseries September 30.
Many working mothers have been
bombarding members of Congress
with petitions, some for a temporary
continuation Of the programs and
some for permanent arrangement
Many Of these have gone to Chair
man Bilbo, some to Acting Chairman
Mcclellan of the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee.
Servicemen's Wives Protest.
Representatives of "a mothers OF
children attending the Carbery day
care center here wrote Chairman
Mckellar that their group includes
SerVicemen wives who have been
able to keep their children with
them only because of the operation
OF the center"
They added that others have tC
provide their children's care because
Of broken homes and that others dc
not have sufficient income unless
both parents work. IF the centers
are closed, the children will be
turned loose on the streets" they
continued. Then the District gov
ernment will have TO spend money
to correct situation that neeo
never exist"
Similar petitions have been flee
by parents of children in the Park
side child care center and by AZ
slgners of petition from the
SmotherS nursery and school-agt
centerS. The latter group empha
sized that domestic help here still,
is unavailable even if the mothers
could afford it.
Evening star., 1945-09-13

letter was dated August l9 She
said her husband had never men
toned any wounds or injuries re-
celved during his Is months Serv-
ice in the Pacific with the 9th
Marine Division and she has no
idea what caused hlS death
Evening star., 1945-09-13

the end of the
war.
The N a V Y
c h a p ! a j n who
II o I i fed Mrs.
Anna DeggeS OF
her h u S b a II d S
death was un-
able TO inform
her how 30-year-
old Pvt. Ernest
f. Degges lost
his life.
He la st wrote
me from Oki-
n a W a - Mrs.
d e g e e S said.
adding that the
Evening star., 1945-09-13
Longest-Ronge u. S. Fighters
Needed to Down Yomonoto

This is the second of a series
OF articles by the Army fyer pho
shot do1on japanese Admiral
Isoroku Yamamoto in April
I943.)
Evening star., 1945-09-13
.28 District Men Ordered
To Report for Induction

Twenty-eight District men have
been ordered to report today for
induction into the armed forces.
1hev sre.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-27

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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-27
NEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

zen DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
~ has been subjected to the neces-
sity of refuting another of the mys-
terious and slanderous attacks upon
him, to which he has been particu-
lar prey throughout the present war.
In the current instance, the re-
sponsibility had been attributed to
Gen. Macarthur for preventing as
signment of Gen. George S. Patton
to the Pacific theater of war after
conclusion of his European mission.
This was exploited by various
commentators as a particular in
Justice to Gen. Patton, who had
achieved spectacular success IN
Europe as a specialist in mechanical
warfare and had vigorously petit
toned the war department for a SIM
liar assignment in the Pacific war
where it is anticipated that great
land operations on the Asiatic main
land will ultimately develop, involV.
inc extensive use of the mechanlzed
ornaments which are his speciality
THE purported motive ascribed to
l. Gen. Macarthur was that of fear
that Gen. Patton, with his flare for
dramatic behavior both on and off
the field of battle, might "steal the
show" from him.
The truth of the matter, as Gen.
Macarthur forthrightly said in
formal denial of the slanderous i'm
putation, is that:
81 would be DELIGHTED to
haze Gen. Patton and any or all
good soldiers, If they are available,
assigned to this command.
81 need all the help l can gel"
In further refutation of the
vicious charge, an official spokesman
for Gen. Macarthur commented:
"There is not an iota of truth in
the statement that Gen. Macarthur
has objected to the detail of Gen.
Patton to the Pacific.
"He has on a number Of occo-
sions expressed himself as not only
an admirer of Pdtton'S military
qualities, but has often said he
HOPED Patton and his Third Army
might be transferred to the Pacific"
Why is it that Gen Macarthur is
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-27
fully.

1T WAS said that he aspired and
conspired to be President of the
United States, whereas he repeat
edly RENOUNCED all political am
bitions and declared it to be his sole
purpose to return to the Philippines
and keep faith with the men who had
died there.
Many lesser slanders have been
banded about among civilians and
the armed forces, some of them ma
licious and others merely ribald, but
all of them disparaging both the mill
tary accomplishments and the per-
sonal character of Gen. Macarthur.
None of these slanders have
HURT Gen. Macarthur, because his
brilliant record as a military COM
mander and strategist speaks for
itself.
But it gives all decent Americans
a sense of SHAME that the man who
has done so much to restore the dig
nifty and prestige and honor of his
country in the Pacific-probably the
only man CAPABLE of doing its
so constantly and persistently made
the victim of irresponsible slander
mongers.
The honored place of Gen. Doug
las Macarthur is secure in the hearts
of his countrymen, and he deserves
more of the country he has served so
we'll than these malevolent asper-
sions.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-27
Brain Game

What type of plane is the
one that Japs have been
using recently, called the
kamikaze I?
2-True or false: (a) Most re-
volvers are made 10 fire 10
shots before reloading?
3-Taking 1898 as a normal year
for American sports, would
you guess hat baseball or
football had greater paid
attendance?
A 13-year-old actress is the
star of the Hollywood version
of the Broadway play, Jun
ior Miss" Can you name
her?
"a Pyrrhic victory is: (a)
One gained by unsportsman-
like conduct in battle; tb)
one gained at ruineus loss:
tel one gained against an
unworthy foe /? -
6-In which Of the amendme II
10 the u. S. Constitution v
we guaranteed freedom Or
religion, speech, press, assem-
bly, and petition
I'm the Bible story, after the
waters Of the flood had begun
TO subside, Noah opened the
window of the Ark and sent
forth what?
S-What insecticide has the
army used against both the
louse. which carries typhus,
and the mosquito, which car
ries malaria?
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-27

;-There is one word used in
correctly in each Of these
sentences. Substitute tn g
right word CaG A mans
reputation can n YER be
taken from him; (b) His cor
poral>vigoE was unusual; tc)
The German mark has depre-
Gated in value; cd Always
be kind 20 mute animals; (e)
No man has less friends ?
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