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Evening star., 1945-03-15
Further Reduction
In Poultry Supply
Is Expected Here

Poultry on the Washington mar
ket was approaching the vanishing
point today and District dealers saw
no indications for immediate relief
of the shortage.
Joseph Danzansky, representing
the poultry division of the Mer-
chants & Manufacturers Associa-
ton, said the Washington poultry
market is about per cent of nor
NAL. He added that failure of the
War Food Administration to guar
antee the District a share of the
100000 to 1,000,00 pounds of broil-
ers released from the Delmarva Pc
ninsula for civilian consumption
might mean a further reduction in
supplies here
Mr.. Danzansky said Washington
normally receives from 80 to IS per
cent of its poultry from the penin-
sula. No poultry from the peninsula
now is being received by District
dealers. he said, and only a fraction
of the normal supplies from other
sources is coming in.
Asserting that no relief for the
shortage is in sight, Mr.. Danzansky
said Washington poultry dealers
would not enter bidding race" for
poultry at prices above the ceilings
"a condition that may result from
the WAS refusal to provide a plan
for IAN equitable distribution" OF
poultry.
VIA officials said it would be vir-
tually impossible to inaugurate a
fair system of ALLEGATION, adding
that they hoped the supply of broil-
ers would find their way into big
city markets in approximately the
same proportion as before the freeze
Meanwhile, VIA officials an
nounced that an anticipated per
cent reduction in egg production
coupled with an expected increase
in egg consumption due to the
shortage of meats, would not neces-
sarily result in a shortage of eggs
in American homes.
VITA officials pointed out that last
year I'VE had more eggs than we
possibly could use," and that while
the per capita egg consumption this
year is expected to rise from 349 to
800 the present egg production "can
be expected to meet this demand"
Evening star., 1945-03-15
Liquor Case Suspect
Held for Grand Jury

: Fairfax County Trial Justice Rob-
ert w. Stump yesterday held Orrie
S. Shelter, 66, of the 900 block of
M street NV. for grand jury action
on charge of illegal manufacture
of whisky and continued until Fri
day a hearing for Manford H.
Dagenett, IS, q District Fire De-
partment private of the 1900 block
of D street Sc, on a similar charge.
Shelter was arrested last Satur-
day in a cottage at Gunston Manor,
in the southern section of Fairfax
County. State alcoholic beverage
control agents who made the arrest
held Shelter at the cottage during
the night and arrested Dagenett
when the latter came to the cottage
the following morning.
In another case Judge Stump
held James Frank Woolfrey, 81, of
Woodbridge for grand jury action
on a charge of first-degree murder
Woolfrey was arrested March
in the Staying of James Emmett
Payne, %, discharged Army vet
eran. Police said Woolfrey admitted
shooting Payne during an argu-
ment.
Evening star., 1945-03-15
Mrs. Roosevelt Tells
Of Plans 10 Check Up
On Her Housekeeping

A Fine Arts Commission subcom-
mittee will go over the formal rooms
in the White House with a fine
tooth comb next week to check up
on Mrs. Roosevelt's housekeeping
she said at press conference today
The subcommittee set up by
President Coolidge to protect es-
thetic values in the White House,
has found things wrong" with Mrs.
Roosevelt's domestic methods in the
past. The group did not hesitate
to tell her so, either, Mrs. Roose-
velt added, though she gave no de-
tails.
Il don't mind their telling me-"
she said. Il like to have them tell
me. I am not planning anything
new in those rooms at this time. but
they may be-"
Clarke Is Chairman.
Gilmore D. Clarke, commission
chairman, and two other men and
two women will examine the rooms
March %, and then have lunch with
Mrs. Roosevelt. Periodically they
ask to come and inspect, she added
Sometimes they bring pieces of an
tique furniture with them and stand
of to see the effect.
The formal rooms include the east
and state dining rooms, and the
blue, red and green rooms. Presi-
dent Coolidge first asked commits
sion subcommittee to help him re-
decorate the red and green rooms
and later all the formal rooms came
under their supervision.
The committee members, In addi.
tion to the chairman, are Mrs
Harold I. Pratt, William Adams De-
lano, Mrs. Harry H. Bernhard ano
Luke Vincent Lockwood.
Dumbarton Proposal Mentioned.
Mrs. Roosevelt emphasized to hel
press conference the necessity Of
the far-reaching implications of the
Dumbarton Oaks proposal and the
CT Bill of Rights.
Asked if she had heard criticism
of the administration of veterans
hospitals and Of the provisions oi
the CT bill, Mrs. Roosevelt sale
parents and wives of veteran:
should visit the hospitals to see fol
themselves. Any one suspicious o1
either the medical care or educa.
tional setup for the veterans car
always write Brig. Gen. Frank T
Hines, veterans administrator, ano
complain, she added.
The concluded with a domestic
report. The Roosevelts don't have
much meat and butter either
Evening star., 1945-03-15

OF the $50 physically handicap
ped men and women who came to
Washington's first "job clinic" this
week, the majority were so In need
OF physical rehabilitation that they
could not be referred to jobs i'm
mediately, David Amato, chief Of
the District Rehabilitation Service,
said today.
Chest x-rays, given to all the
job applicants, revealed 10 cases Of
tuberculosis, Mr.. Amato said. Out
Of the first IL would-be workers
examined by one. doctor, he re-
ported, four were untreated epi-
leptics. Two others required imme-
diate disqualification.
Approximately so Of the job appli-
carlts were given work in Govern
ment or private industry and civil
service appointing ofncers were try
ing to find more jobs today-the
Evening star., 1945-03-15
SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS
WASHINGTON, D. G.
Flood Control Plan Minus Dams
|Onered Congress Year Aqo

1924 1854 cares, contribute signifi-
cantly to the food problems with
which the study deals. No program
was recommended for area five
which comprises the lower Potomac
basin below Harpers Ferry.
In general, hood-control measures
for the four areas, including the
upper Potomac and it's tributaries
consist of a combination of soil and
cover conservation measures applied
to crop, pasture and forest lands in
such manner as to reduce floods
and sedimentation and thus reduce
flood damage. The program also
was designed to increase land pro-
ductiyity and farm income.
The report asserts that the small
meconomic farms contribute most
to run-off and erosion problems, and
recommends that off-farm work op-
portunitieS be expanded In order to
encourage the abandonment of the
intensive crop and pasture practices
of submarginal hill lands.
Is Great Floods.
Justifying its recommendations
the report cites that during the last
100 years there are records of Is
great floods within the basin and
of two floods before 1900. The re-
port adds, however, that these floods
were not general over the entire
basin.
Based on the records and on
general observation and reports
gathered throughout the BASIN" the
study reveals, major floods occur
in the main river and principal
tributaries at about 10 to Is year
intervals, major floods being defined
as those that do nearly a maximum
of agricultural damage and a con-
siderable amount of nonagricultural
damage"
The reports states that the annual
flood damage is estimated at S9O1,-
600, OF which $411, 900, or 46 per cent
is agricultural damage. Urban DAM
age is estimated at 1898 900 annually,
or nearly so per cent of the non-
agricultural damage.
In addition, the report points out,
unevaluated damage includes the
spread Of noxious weeds, interfer-
ence to highway and rail traffic, re-
lief and rehabilitation costs and
other public inconvenience.
Evening star., 1945-03-15

makes you a veteran in a hurry
There really were some hellacious
sights!
guess that was the biggest day
in that particular action. The
higher ups" evidently got wise to
the fact that Jerry wasn't joking,
because that night we pulled back
from those positions in one helluva
hurry. Fact is, it was so close that
I found myself standing there with
just two other fellows and German
trucks, mounting searchlights, COM
ling down a trail few hundred yards
behind.
Start on Hike.
One Of the other men, sergeant
from Company I, had a compass
and I had one I had got from a
dead Kraut. We started cross coun-
try on an azimuth of 285 degrees
After we'd gone about seven really
breathless miles, I stumbled across
some wire, which I recognized as
that we used for one type of our
field telephones. I figured that ii
would lead to some artillery posi-
ton and we started across the hill
side following it.
BY this time other small groups
had joined ours and the other two
men and myself found ourselves
leading a band of some 80-odd men.
We had just made our way through
a clump of pines and were sliding
down hillside when one of our own
.50-caliber machine guns opened up
at what must have been 40 yards
If ever was sure was finished,
was then!
We Rugged that hillside for two
hours in a freezing driZzle, with
that so firing bursts every few
minutes. Talk about praying !
Finally the guy on that gun found
out in some manner that we wern't
Evening star., 1945-03-15
Morning Fog Ties Up
National Airport Traffic

Airline operations at National Air.
port were tied up this morning by
fog which settled around $3.50 am.
Today's fog, of the stratus" type
which, it was explained, is actually
a cloud which has settled to the
earth.
Ceilings generally were low
throughout the Eastern Seaboard,
the airport reported.
The forecast for this afternoon
and tonight was partly cloudy" "
with afternoon temperatures ex-
pected to reach the upper COS and
the lowest tonight in the Sos. To-
morrow will be mostly cloudy, with
showers and mild temperature, it
was said,
Evening star., 1945-03-15
lesHRstioniing
&Remiinder6a

Meats, Fats, Etc. - Book 4, red
stamps Q-5 through SIS good
through March 81; stamps T-5
through KS good through April
%; stamps Y-5, Us, Az through
Do good through June 2. Stamps
E-2 through J-2 good through
June 80.
Canned Goods, ESc.-Book 4, blue
stamps KS through Us, Az and
B-2 good through March 81;
stamps CO through Ga good
through April %: stamps H-2
through M-2 good through June
q; stamps N-2 through So good
through June 80. Each stamp
worth 10 points.
Points for Fat-Your meat dealer
!, will pay two ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
,Sugar-Stamp IS valid for s pounds
through June 2.
Gasoline-A-14 coupons valid for 4
gallons each through March 81.
BIS, C-5, B-6, C-6, BIT and CT
coupons good for S gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps l, 2 and
In Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods one, two, three,
four and five coupons good for 10
gallons per unit through heating
Year. Old period four and five
- coupons from last winter good
through year. Consumers in this
area should not have used more
than SO per cent of their ration
M as Of today.
Negree days-Total for month, 253;
stotal for season to date, 1885;
normal for season to date, 3,799.
Evening star., 1945-03-15
Sergi Fined for Assault
On Bratcher Case Witness

Thompson Carver Sergi, 17s5 I
street NV. character witness for
Everett M. CWashie) Bratcher,
Washington band leader, at his
draft evasion trial last November,
was fined $3.50 by Judge Robert N.
Pollard in Alexander Federal Court
today for assaulting a Government
witness during the trial.
Mr.. Sergi, who had pleaded not
guilty on arraignment, changed his
plea to one of nolo contendere and
admitted striking Jack Endler, 1908
Seventeenth street NV, radio an
nouncer for Station WWDC. in the
witness room during the Bratcher
trial.
Both Sergi and Endler admitted
that they had been arguing because
Sergi called Endler rat for testify
ing against Bratcher.
Evening star., 1945-03-15
Hearing for Shelton
Continued 10 April 70
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 15.-Hear-
ing for j. Paul Shelton, 27, former
Arlington automobile dealer, on
charges Of grand larceny, forgery
and of being a fugitive from the
Government have been continued
until April 20 in Police Court here.
Justice c. E. Hewett set bond at
$1,000.
Shelton was released Tuesday
under $4,000 bond for appearance
in Federal Court at Alexandria June
S on charges of kidnapping a 14-year-
old girl, who later was released un-
harmed In Washington, and the at
tempted holdup last January 6 Of
the East Falls Church branch of the
Falls Church Bank.
Evening star., 1945-03-15
Silver Spring Lions Club
Gives Red Cross $3.50

The Silver Spring Lions Club has
donated $3.50 to the Red Cross drive
Hogarth Colston, president, an
nounced today.
Mr.. Colston and a committee from
the club will ask the Montgomery
County Commissioners to set up a
countrywide organization for the
United Nations clothing collection
to secure good used clothing for per-
sons in devastated countries.
Evening star., 1945-03-15
| Admiral Kings
Daughter Is Page
For Assembly
By the Associated Press.
ANN AnNry1 H~


ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 15.-Relatively
few of the legislators know it, but
one of the energetic women serving
as general messengers at.the current
Maryland Assembly session is the
daughter Of Admiral Ernest j. King,
commander of the feet.
She Is Mrs. Oliver van den Berg,
now living at her fathers Annapolis
home until her husband, q lieutenant
colonel in the Army, returns from
the South Pacific. She Is the mother
OF four children.
Admiral Kings daughter is one Of
i've service wives or mothers tenn
porarily alleviating the manpower
shortage in the statehouse by de-
livering messages from the capitals
telephone switchboard to le~'-,ators.
Evening star., 1945-03-15
D. c. Youth With Famous Tooth Tells Vivid Stor,
Of Carnage During Ardennes Breok- Through

Krauts and we vacated that hillside
In favor OF small village in which
some Of our artillery still remained,
not having been able to get out yet.
After that, dad, 1t was Just a
continuous series of Withdrawals,
midnight changes of positions and
numerous attempts at at least par
tial reorganization. All the while,
just as now, 1t was miserably cold.
I sometimes wonder what kept us
from freezing. At one point I was
in a foxhole for three days and
nights without damned thing other
than my regular clothes and field
jacket. pants almost ripped of, too.
Then we started hitting 'em back!
Get Short Rest.
First, what remained Of the out
fit was hauled back few miles,
partly re-equipped. and given a few
days rest. Back to the front and
into the attack. It has been the
same story ever since.
Please understand, dad, that I
can't mention the names of any of
these places where we fought; unc
may be able to help you figure
them out. Well, now it looks like
we have 'em in the throes of
"fini." However, those persons at
home who think the Germans
haven't anything left really let us
down by thinking so. Men are
dying out there right now and it's
not their imaginations which are
tearing them into pieces and max
ing them Giving dead men,"
AS I've already said, the flame
which Is my life has not been
snuffed out, thanks to powers be-
yond the tangible, but sometimes it
surer'n hell did "fiicker!'' When
the lead comes close, when the 88s
get you zeroed, or when it gets
little too cold, praying comes real
easy. II a fellow will thank God
for a hole in the ground or for
enough cover to preserve life only
you can imagine the gratitude
which will overflow from each and
every one if ever we get home.
I repeat, dad and mother, don't
ever give up on me, I'll be home!
The foregoing is very lengthy
in parts. sketchy in others. When
ever I can say anything more I'll
do it with the utmost promptitude.
At present I'm back in Belgium
for few more days rest-well
earned, think. It is really heaven
here. There is a radio, electric
lights, bed (believe it or not, the
first time since England) and it's
warm!
What the future holds I don't
know, but things look better now.
We took God-awful pounding
there for long time; it's nice to be
giving it now. ""'
Always your very devoted and low
ing son, Grayson.
Evening star., 1945-03-15
Backs
Clinic Service
For Alcoholics
Advises Against Tying
I Work Up With Court.
Or Police Agencies

Health Of1icer George c. Rutland
said today he is heartily in favor"
OF clinical service for treatment Of
alcoholics under the Mental Hygiene
Bureau of the Health Department.
DR.. Ruhland gave his Endorsement
at meeting of the Commissioners.
attended by representatives of the
Women's Safety Committee of the
American Automobile Association,
the Washington Federation of
Churches, the Council of Social Edu-
cation and the National Committee
for Education on Alcoholism.
Commissioner John Russell Young
also indicated general approval Of
the proposal. DR.. Rutland said such
treatment should not be allied too
closely to the courts, police or the
psychopathic ward at Gallinger Hos
pital. He pointed out that alco-
holism should be treated as disease
and not associated with criminality
or psychopathic patients at Gall
linger.
Tells of Yale Clinics.
An outline of the Yale alcoholic
clinics at New Haven and Hartford,
Conn, established last March, was
given by Mrs. Marty Mann, execu-
tive director of the National Com
mittee for Education on Alcoholism.
Mrs. Mann said there was need Of
a center where alcoholics could be
referred by the courts, police, min
listers and social agencies, and
where persons could turn voluntar-
lily for aid.
Mrs. Mann told the Commission
ers that it was important that peo-
pie should be taught to use such
clinics, without being forced to go
by the courts or police as If they
were criminals.
Charles " Morris of the Com
mittee on Alcoholic Education of
the Council of Social Agencies out
lined the staff needs for a SIC, 5000
clinic, based on the experience of
the Yale clinics in Connecticut. He
recommended a psychiatric med
ical officer at SIS, 400 a year; a med
ical officer, $4,000; psychiatric social
worker, $4,000; therapeutic assistant,
$1,000; social worker, $2,400; stenog-
rapher, $1,000; $4,000 for furniture
and 5000 in the annual budget for
consulting service.
Favors Former Alcoholic.
Mrs. Mann said it would be help
full If the therapeutic assistant were
a former alcoholic, since he would
have an enhanced understanding of
how to deal with alcoholics. DR..
Rutland, who only recently has
been able to locate psychologist to
head the mental hygiene bureau,
indicated that the work here would
have to be done with available per-
sonnel and facilities.
Among others attending the con-
ference were Mrs. George Thorpe,
chairman of the Women's Safety
Committee; Mrs. Paul v. McNutt,
chairman of subcommittee on al
coholics of Mrs. Thorpe's group:
Corporation Counsel Richmond B.
Keech. Assistant Corporation Coun-
Isel Vernon West and the Rev.
Francis w. McPeek, social service
director of the Federation of
Churches and assistant director of
the summer sessions of the alcohol.
les study group at Yale.
Mrs. Thorpe indicated that the
plans for clinical treatment of al
coholics had strong support among
many members of the House and
Senate District Committees. Mrs.
McNutt described the plan as the
first intelligent and Christian one
that has been made"
Evening star., 1945-03-15
.Hebert Rejects
Plan 10 Enlarge
Park Police Role
Fight Is Promised
On Icke's Control
Of D. c. Projects
BY DON S. WARREN.

A proposal that the park polio,
expand their police authority ovel
all Federal areas in nearby Mary.
land and Virginia was advanced to.
day by spokesman for the Ma.
tional Park Service.
A recommendation to this effect
made by A. E. Demaray, associate
director of the National Park Serv.
ice, during the consideration of the
bill to abolish the park police anc
transfer its men to the Metropolitan
police, came as surprise to men,
berS Of Police Subcommittee of the
House District Committee.
Representative Hebert, Democrat
OF Louisiana, author of the merge,
bill, who was presiding, rejected the
suggestion. He contended the Dis
trict Committee would have no juris-
diction over such a plan.
Gives Counter Proposal.
IF we sponsored plan like that,
he said, I'VE would be doing the very
thing we have complained Mr.. Ickes
is doing" He referred to the Secre.
tary of the Interior, who supervises
the park police in the National
Park Service, and who, in the
opinion of Mr.. Hebert, has beer
sticking his nose into municipal
affairs"
Representative O'Hara, Republican
OF Minnesota, commented, "You
want to increase the kingdom OF
the park police, rather than to
decrease it."
The counter proposal offered by
Mr.. Demaray also brought counter
proposal from Mr.. Hebert. He served
notice he was going to appeal te
the District subcommittee of the
House Appropriations Committee tc
strike from the District budget all
money to cover cost of all serv-
ices or projects in the District under
the jurisdiction of the Interior De-
partment but paid for by District
taxpayers.
IF the Secretary of the interior
is to have jurisdiction and control
over the park police and anything
else in the District, I am going tc
make it my personal business to ask
the Appropriations Subcommittee
to require Mr.. Ickes to come to
Congress asking for the necessary
funds for this thing as a part of the
Interior Department budget.
Asks Detective Force.
"The District should not pay
cent for anything under control OF
the Interior Department"
Mr.. Demaray, in asking for ex-
pansion of the unit. recommended
that it be given a detective force
of its own.
In support of the plan. he d.
rected attention to the mo mans
land" area on the Virginia side OF
the Potomac between the river and
the theoretical high water mark o1
1871. The jurisdictional problem
arising from the century -old Dis
trict-Virginia boundary dispute, hs
brought out, was emphasized in the
Fitzwater murder in the Pentagor
lagoon. although the coroner and
the county of the District took jur-
isdiction.
Several Federal agencies, he added
have asked park police to police
Federal areas under their jurisdic.
ton and be so reimbursed, but the
authority of the park police is moi
as comprehensive as it should be.
The hearings now are concluded
and the subcommittee will meet
soon in executive session to deter
mine what action to take on the
Hebert bill.
Evening star., 1945-03-15
Lucus Heads Democratic
Senatorial Compuiqners

By the Associated Press.
Senator Lucas of Illinois yester-
day was named chairman of the
Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee.
Other members are Senators
George of Georgia, Thomas of Okla
homa, Hoey of North Carolina and
TAYLOR of Idaho.
Evening star., 1945-03-15
Strike Shuts Paris Movies

. PARIS, Mar. Is (P)-Paris movies
were closed last night as French
heater employees went on strike to
1nforce demands for 40 per cent
ss-age increases.
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