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Evening star., 1945-05-24
Nearby Areas Asked
To Pay for Residents
Care al Ga|Iinger

| District health officials have sent
letters to health officers of nearby
Maryland and Virginia counties te
ask them to obtain promises from
county governments that they will
reimburse the District for medical
care given to INDECENT county resi-.
dents taken to Gallinger Municipal
Hospital
1t was pointed out by District
budget officials that no advantage
was taken of provisions of an ap.
preparation act several years age
authorizing local officials to make
agreements with nearby counties fol
the care and treatment of any out.
of-town indigents who may be in.
jured or taken i'll in the District.
Douglas N. West, head of the
Hospital Permit Bureau, estimated
| that 95 persons from Virginia re-
ceived free care at Gallinger during
the first 10 months of 1914 and
approximately twice that number
from Maryland.
Mr.. West said that as a routine
thing" no payments were received
for the INDECENT cases, although in
few cases payments were made
by the counties. The office said il
was frequently faced with emer-
gency cases of persons from outly-
ing areas who give a local address
at the time of their admission tc
Gallinger.
Difficulty has been experienced
also in collections of nonindigent
out-of-town patients. District Off
cials said. 1t has frequently been
necessary, it was explained, to can
Gel a delinquent account in such
cases because it was not profitable
for the District to institute legal
action in Maryland and Virginia
courts.
The Health Department letters
were sent to health authorities in
Alexandria and Arlington County
Va, and Prince Georges and Mont
gomery Counties, Md. 1t was under
stood that the letters did not cover
the additional problem of nonresi-
dents who are taken i'll in their own
jurisdiction and brought to Gal
linger. To discourage taking in
digent patients across the State
lines, it has been suggested by Dis
trict officials that the authorization
to enter into reimbursement agree
ments be publicized among county
police and fire departments and
physicians.
Evening star., 1945-05-24
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

In a dusty corner of disordered
room in the old German Embassy
on Massachusetts, avenue some one
late yesterday dug out an oil paint
ing of a uniformed man with
a Charlie Chaplin mustache and a
mop of dank hair overhanging his
forehead.
Photographers pictured the dusty
painting as assembled newspaper
men snickered. The portrait was
that of man named Adolf Hitler
1t had been sent to the Embassy by
the government of the Third Reich
to hang in a place of honor.
The scene was emblematic and
somehow very fitting. Only a few
minutes earlier, r. L. Bannerman,
chief special agent of the State De-
partment, had hung plaque on
the ancient red brick building which
housed German ENJOYS for nearly
half century. 1t read:
Former German Embassy. I'm
der custody of the Department of
State"
First Time in History.
Never before in American history
had the United States taken pos
session of the diplomatic property
Of another state. Always before, at
the end of war with foreign ma
ton, its Embassy had remained un-
der the protection of a neutral power
until diplomatic relations between
the belligerents were restored.
But today Germany has no gov
ernment: and will have none for
any predictable period except the
Allied Military Government to be
set up in Berlin. So, at the State
Departments request, Minister
Charles Bruggmann of Switzerland,
which has been Germany's pro-
tecting nation here during the war,
signed a document transferring all
German property to be held in trust
by the United States Government.
Evening star., 1945-05-24
First District Area Troops From Overseas
Arrive at Fort Meade for Point Discharges
Seret. EichenIoub
Wants to Re-enIist
For Crack at Jops
BY GEORGE KENNEDY,
Star Staff Correspondent,

FORT MEADE, Md, May "a
The first of several hundred Mary
land, District, Virginia and West
Virginia soldiers, who left Europe
after We day, are here for their
discharges under the point plan.
They arrived yesterday in two troop
trains.
T/Sergt. Frank Eichenlaub, jr.,
26, a husky 225-pound Flying Fort
ress gunner. is one of them. He
was on the New York bound convoy
that left Southampton, England, on
We day, with rockets firing and
bands playing all over the harbor
Four transports of that convoy
docked in this country over the
week end
Sergt. Eichenlaub will be given
an honorable discharge tomorrow,
with 35 missions noted on his service
record. The last one was to help
blast Munich, the birthplace of
Naziism, into submission to the
advancing 7th Army.
Plans to Re-enIist.
His father is DR.. Eichenlaub of
1856 Argyle terrace NV. Sergt.
Eichenlaub intends, after a stay with
| his family at their summer place on
the banks of the Severn, to 60 to
California and re-enlist so he can
have crack at the Japs.
After you are over there while, u
he said, you get to hate the enemy
He is getting his discharge be-
cause they could not guarantee me
combat duty, if stayed in
You people on this side have nc
idea what this war did," he said
You can go along for miles in
France, through town after town
where there isn't a window that
hasn't been broken"
The sergeant was a student at
Georgetown University five years
ago. He was selling for the Life In
surance Co. of Virginia when he en-
listed. His marriage was ended by
divorce. He has one child.
Tells of New York Welcome.
He told how his troopship, with g.
900 men aboard, many of them cas-
ualties, came through the narrows of
New York Harbor one afternoon last
week in driving rain. They did not
see the Statue of Liberty. They
docked at Staten Island. But they
missed none of the thrill of coming
home, he said.
There was WAC band out there
for us. playing away" he said. There
were Red Cross women serving milk.
1 would have settled for a glass of
beer. Did you ever have any of that
English beer?
Many of the casualties were
American prisoners of war rescued
from Bad Orb. They looked fair
with their clothes on, but when they
rolled up their sleeves you could see
how weak they were from starva-
ton"
Two Washington Young men. who
Evening star., 1945-05-24

Pennsylvania avenue NV, was dead
His mother had been writing him
regularly, but she never had men,
toned it.
Corpl. Owens, whose wife lives in
Mount Rainier, was wounded driy-
ing a truck near Palermo, Sicily. He
wears the Purple Heart. He also
had fought in North Africa and
crossed France from the Mediter-
ranean last year He said his job
as a sheet metal worker for Rose
Bros, at Rosslyn, Va. is waiting
for him.
Other Washington area men to be
discharged today and tomorrow are
Sergt. Alex Martin, colored. 1872
Riggs street NV, and Pfc. James
/ E. Hildebrand, Route 4, Rockville
Md.
Evening star., 1945-05-24
Nozi Prisoners Keep
Status Indefinitely
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Truman was asked at his
news conference yesterday when
German war prisoners would cease
to be prisoners. He replied nothing
could be done about war prisoners
in Germany until a government is
established there.
When reporter said that might
be the end of time, the Chief Ex-
ecutive replied that the reporters
guess was as good as his.
Evening star., 1945-05-24
Tenunt Gets $50 Award
And Owner Wins S26

Fred Nevills, 2215 West Virginia
avenue NE, won $50 judgment
in Small Claims Court yesterday
against his former landlord, Harvey
A. White, 1917 Montello avenue NE,
on charge of overceiling rent. Mr.
White won counterclaimS against
Mr.. Nevills in the amount of $26 In
back rent.
Mr.. Nevills claimed he paid $11 a
week for two rooms at the Montello
avenue address from August l8 to
December /, 1914, when the weekly
rent ceiling was $40. Mr.. White
charged his former tenant left
owing a weeks rent and $l6 in ga
rage rent.
Evening star., 1945-05-24
Relatives of Prisoners
To Hear House Membe,

Representative Edouard Izac, Re-
publican, of California, only men,
Der of Congress who holds the Con-
gressional Medal of Honor and who
was prisoner Of war in the World
War, will speak before the American
Prisoners Of War Relatives Asso-
citation at o'clock tonight in the
Central YMCA Building, 1736 G
street NV.
Representative Izac was taken as
a hostage by a German submarine
crew when the ship on which he
served as naval officer, the U
S. S. Franklin, was torpedoed.
Evening star., 1945-05-24
Officers to Speak

Maj. A. N. Watson of Air Trans
port Command, AAF, and 1t. ].
Stevens Stock of the Navy Depart
ment will speak before the Wash
ington Statistical Society at meet
ing at 8 pm. tomorrow in the hall
OF government at George Washing
ton University. The chairman will
be Col. Charles B. Thornton, chief
Of Statistical Control Headquarters
AAF,
Evening star., 1945-05-24

will be given honorable discharges
today under the point system have
just completed ST days furlough al
home. They are: Pvt. John w
Armstrong, GIT East Capitol street
and T/5 James w Owens, 4604
Twenty-ninth street. Mount Rainier
Md.
Learns of Fathers Death.
Pvt. Armstrong was with the 44th
Division on the Saar River when he
was given his rotational leave ir
March. He had landed at Oran
fought in Tunisia, across Sicily, al
Salerno and the Anzio beachhead ir
Italy and landed at Marseilles for
the race across France to hook ur
with Patton's forces. When he re-
turned home he found that his
father, Samuel Armstrong, pro-
prietor of a lunchroom at 21lt
Evening star., 1945-05-24
II. S. Takes Formal Possession
OF German Embassy Here

Assistant secretary OF state JuluS
C. Holmes signed for this country
In addition to the Embassy, the
State Department took possession
of the German consulate in Sar
Francisco and various property
stored in warehouses in cities where
consulateS were maintained.
Tour Building.
After the ceremony. Mr.. Banner
man took a small group of news
papermen on a tour Of the En-
bassy. In the ballroom where Ger
man Ambassadors once entertained
diplomats, Senators, officials ano
other distinguished guests. motley
array of packing cases and small
trunks was piled. They are the
property of German civilian de-
portees and contain such things as
cameras, tools and canned foods
Customs officials barred their eX-
port as possibly helpful to the Ger
man war effort.
In the long, narrow dining room
with its three great crystal chan
deliers, furniture from other enter
tainment rooms had been piled
helter-skelter, 1t was here that the
picture of Hitler was found. Be-
side it was painting of a cold
eyed, walrus- s-mustached old mar
whom Americans of the World Wal
period hated almost as much as q
later generation did Hitler-Mar-
shall Paul Won Hindenberg.
Down the corridor in what hao
been the Ambassadors study, Mr.
Bannerman pointed to what hao
been a cleverly camouf1aged safe
built flush into the wall SO that its
door was hardly perceptible. In the
same room was rare old desk, beau
tifully carved, which contained sew
eral skillfully fitted hidden drawers
These secrets had been discovered by
the Swiss during their four-year oc.
cupancy of the Embassy.
Radio Equipment.
On a fourth-f1oor room was locked
an array of highly intricate radio
equipment. 1t had been moved down
the corridor from an isolated corner
room with iron-barred windows
which, Mr.. Bannerman said, had ap-
parently been the Embassy radio ano
code room. State Department Off
cials were unable to say whether the
equipment was designed for sending
as well as receiving. They plan to
have it examined by an expert on
wireless.
Secret documents? Reporters saw
a number of filing cabinets scattered
throughout the Embassy, one bearing
the intriguing label: Germany, Italy
and Japan" These files will be ex-
amined by State Department archi-
visits. But if they reveal anything
really sensational, no one win be
more surprised than the State De-
partment.
Skilled diplomats-and most of the
German corps were-don't leave
secret papers lying around.
Evening star., 1945-05-24
Blood Unit Visit Set

The Red Cross mobile blood unit
will visit the Chevy Chase Women's
Club from 9 am. to 1:30 pm. to-
morrow. Volunteer donors are urged
to call Wisconsin 1868, or Wisconsin
4041 for appointments.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-23
Shortage Of Labor
Hits Fish Business

George T. Harrison, president OF
the Tilghmann Packing Company,
Tilghman, Maryland, has notified
fishermen that the Havre de Grace
plant, located on the wharf Of Chas.
B. Silver & Son, will not be operated
this spring. Mr. Harrison says that
he cannot get the necessary labor to
pack herring and herring roe.
This will be first season the COM
pany has failed to operate at Havre
de Grace since opening the branch
plant nearly quarter century ago.
The management states, however,
that trucks will call regularly for
fish to be taken to the Tilghman
plant.
Mackin Bros, one of the largest
operators of pound nets in the Upper
Chesapeake waters, will fish only one
net this year because. of labor short
age.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-23
Delegation
Urges New
Colored School

The Board of Education met in
regular session on Tuesday, February
18th. Those present were Mr.. Reuben
Reynolds, president; Mr. Harvey R.
Buck, vice-president; and Mrs. Wal
lace Williams
The minutes of the regular meet
ing of January 9th were read and APP
proved and sundry bills ordered paid.
A letter was received from Mr..
William DUPONT acknowledging re-
ceipt of the letter from the Superin-
tendent to the effect that the Union
School located on Mr.. duPonts pro-
perty had been closed by the Board of
Education.
A delegation of colored patrons
representing the entire county with
Rev. L. S. Penn, of Elkton, as spokes-
man, came before the Board in the
interest of a new school building in
Elkton. The Board assured this dele
cation that the matter was under
consideration and that new colored
school in Elkton had been definitely
listed as postwar project.
The Superintendent reported that
at recent meeting of the high school
principals, it was decided that in
view of the coal situation that vari-
Gus organizations should not be al
lowed to use the high school auditor
iums or classrooms for night meet
ings and social functions--the one
exception being monthly meeting of
the P. T. A.-unless an organization
desired to use school without heat.
This suggestion was approved by the
Board and the Superintendent was
instructed to see that the public re-
ceived notice of this decision.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-23
SUN SPORTSMEN
ATTEND ID. u.
BUFFET SMOKER

The following members of the Ris-
ing Sun Sportsmen Collaboration
Poist, Eric Hawley, Ted Brown,
Charles Mahoney and Joseph Baird
spent very enjoyable evening, Sat
urday, Feb. 10th, attending the
Ducks Unlimited Buffet-Smoker held
IN the Sears Community Hall, Balti-
more. This gala occasion is presented
yearly by the Maryland-D. c. Com
mittee for Ducks Unlimited, consist
ing of Mr.. Glen l.. Martin, James q.
Bartlett and Wallace Tabor.
Mr.. Bartlett, acting as toastmas-
ter, introduced Glen l.. Martin, who
gave an interesting talk on the Mary
,and Division, it's accomplishments,
and it's progress in the rehabilitation
of the thousands of acres in the pro-
vince of Manatobia, known as the
maryland Duck Factory. This once
ury barren waste is being flooded and
a water level kept by dams to pro-
vide a nesting place for thousands Of
.anvasback, red heads and scaups,
the principal ducks that come to our
own Susquehanna Flats to provide
cecil County with one of the greatest
If sports.
Mr.. Martin in turn introduced Tom
Main, genial manager of Ducks I'm
limited in Canada. There is only one
rom Main. He is the anly man who
could have brought the duck popula-
lion from an all time low of 30,00O,-
900 in 1897 to 140,000,OO0,00O in
1914 on the small amount of money
hat was furnished the organization
lie doesn't claim credit but in a few
short years the club has reclaimed
and brought under control 1,792,0OO
acres of land donated by the Cana
dian Government, worked and man
ned by Canadians, made possible by
me donation of the United States
.,portsmen's dollars to keep Duck
r1unting from becoming a thing of
The past. There was a cOlored hlm
shown to bring out the facts in con-
nection with Mr.. Mains talk, before
and after dams were constructed, the
GOALTOl VI val Auihlo, hOoCAhS VA NS,
young ducklings and care taken by
The men to see that every duck could
come south that fall. 1t also showed
Aow ducks die from lack OF water. II
water would have remained in the
oot-holes and sloughs for two extra
weeks, until ducks could fly they
would live. Without water for two
lays they die. The film showed such
ducks.
1t is the Clubs purpose to maintain
an ever present wafer level by the
erection OF dams to control flow OF
such water, to prevent floods ana
drought, to increase their acreage
rom 100000 to 800, 100000, and
20 send an ever increasing number Oh
uucks southwark each fall for U. S.
oportsmen to Bang, Bang, Bang-if
.ney have any shells.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-23
Oil Lease Will
Bring $2O,577
To State

The State of Maryland will be rich
Ell by $20,577.5O, by reason of lease
which has been approved by the
Board of Public Works with the STAN
dard Oil Company of New Jersey, for
exploratory drilling for petroleum on
State-owned lands In Worcester
County.
Most Of the $3.50 acres covered
by the contract, Governor O'Conor
made known, are under water, in
Guiding $3.50 acres of inland waters
and a strip of Atlantic Ocean Coast
one-half mile wide, comprising TO-
240 acres. The Pocomoke State For
est Reserve and the Searaboro Game
Refuge make up the additional acre
age.
Annual payments of $20,577.50
will be made to the State also, Gov
ernor O'Conor pointed out, while
drilling operations are not In pro-
gress In addition, a royalty Of one
eighth of all oil and gas produced
and saved will be paid to the State,
the Governor said.
Following execution of the lease,
Governor O'Conor said, and prior to
beginning of drilling operations, ge-
illogical and geophysical surveys will
be initiated by the Standard Oil Com
pany, in which use will be made Of.
all scientific methods proven as USE
full in the search for petroleum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-23
Lodge-Price

Miss Mary Lodge, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Grover Lodge of 341 Hol-
lingsworth Manor, Elkton, became
the bride of Pvt. Amos Price, of
Boyd, Kentucky, on Saturday even
ing, February 10, at the Methodist
parsonage in Elkton, Rev. ]. J. Bunt-
ing officiating.
The bride wore blue suit with
brown trimmings with shoes, gloves,
hat and pocketbook to match.
The bridesmaids were Mrs. Ralph
Bramble and Miss Ann Boinovych.
Mr.. Ralph Bramble of Locust
Point, Maryland, was best man.
After the wedding a reception was
held at the home of the BRIDGES par
ents. The groom is now stationed. at
Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-23

MISS Suzanne Henrietta Conroy,
daughter of the late Mr.. John F. Con-
roy, president of the Magnesium Cor
poration of Elkton, and Mrs. ]. p.
Conroy of Park Circle Elkton, be-
came the bride of Lieut.. Benjamin
Harrison Sexsner, U. S. NJ, of Chica-
go, on Saturday afternoon.
The ceremony took place at Christ
Church, Park Avenue and Sixtieth
Street, New York City, the Rev
Ralph Sockman officiating. The bride
was given in marriage by her brother
Mr.. John F. Conroy, Ill, and was at
tended by Miss Alice Moore of East
Orange, N. j., as maid of honor, and
the bridesmaids were Misses Dorothy
Shaw and Joan Booth, cousin of the
bride.
The bridegroom had Lieut-Comm.
Harry j. Bachmann, U. S. N. r., as
best man, and the ushers were Lieut.
Comm. Andrew ]. w. Cox, U. S. N.
r., Lieut.. Arson Fowler, U. S. N. r.,
and Mr.. Charles Moody, Jr.
The bride wore a gown of ivory
satin and tulle VEIL She carried
lilies and stephanotis. The attendants
wore pale pink brocade. Miss Shaw
and Miss Booth wore matching polk
bonnets and carried pink roses. A
reception followed at Sherry's.
The bride attended the Georgetown
Visitation Convent in Washington.
Lieutenant Sexsuer attended the Uni
ted States Naval Academy and was
graduated in 1889 from the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology,
where he also received his masters
degree in 1910. He has served in the
European and Pacific theatres of war.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-02-23
ONE HUNDRED
FIFTY.TWO
BLOOD DONORS

One hundred fifty-two persons do
mated pint of blood each at the Mo-
bile Red Cross Blood Donor Unit, set
up in the auditorium of the Rising
Sun High School, Friday, February
16, from 12:45 PM until Sis PM.
Those donating blood for urgently
needed plasma were from the town of
Rising Sun and it's outlying areas.
More than one hundred seventy per-
sons had expressed a desire to donate
blood for use in our armed forces,
but few were unable to make their
donation because of health condi-
tons. Those in charge of arrange
ments for this setting up of the unit
expressed praise for the efficiency
with which all phases of the service
we're handled: medical, nursing and
canteen. The unit was sponsored by
the Lions Club of Rising Sun, one of
the most active organizations in Ce-
Gil County.
Mrs. r. G. Dodson headed the local
nursing corps during the units work
NC CdAICCh, oCiNlH5 " tllOSc
who donated their blood, was under
the supervision of Mrs. Norris Rey-
nolds. Miss Louise Wallis and her
volunteer nurses from Elkton were,
as usual, on hand to lend their ex-
perience to the success of the project.
The committee of the Lions Club
in charge of arrangements were:
William G. Graham, Everett Johnson,
Clifford Marker, Thomas b. Rober-
son and Phleet Cooper.
The Mobile Red Cross Blood Donor
Unit will return to Rising Sun in the
late spring.
The blood donor registrants at the
Rising Sun High School on Friday,
February 16, were the following:
From Rising Sun: Mrs. Hazel Bur-
kins, Frances Riley, Dorothy Cox,
Richard Hall, Mrs. Josephine Welsh,
Mrs. Edith McCullen, David Cullen,
Mrs. Jettie Rhodes, Mrs. Brownie
Lynch, Mrs. Ethel Pierce, Fulton
Etter, Mrs. Louetta STOPPED, Mrs.
Mae Hutchens, William Stanley Bar
rett, Joseph Biggs, Jr., Harry Plum
mer, Mrs. Adalene Hansen, Paige
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