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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
100000 Pounds
Of Clothing Collected
Here for Destitute

Preliminary estimates indicate
that more than 100000 pounds OF
Iserviceable clothing were given by
District residents to the United
National Clothing Collection drive
Charles Stofberg, director of or
ganization. said today.
Mr.. Stofberg said it would take
several days, however, to give exact
figures. All trucks making collec-
tons from depots have been in
structed to make the rounds as soon
as possible These collections will
be final, Commissioner John Rus
sell Young, drive chairman, said.
Arrangements were made yester-
day for speeding collections. With
added facilities at the warehouse
469 c street NV, trucks loaded
with clothing will be handled
promptly and delays which have
slowed collections will be eliminated
it was said. Louis Mirman. local
businessman, will superintend the
unloadings.
Additional supplies of cartons for
packing the clothes have been OBJ
tanned from the Army and Navy
Mrs. Mary Rochester, in charge OF
the warehouse, said there will be
need for volunteer workers to help
sort and pack clothing for the next
two weeks.
Meanwhile, it was announced in
New York that the Allegations Com
mittee for the collection had been
named by the Presidents War Re-
lief Control Board, headed by Jo-
seph E. Davies. The United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Admins
tration will send the clothing on
the basis of greatest need to the
governments of war devastated
areas. Mr.. Davies group will review
the allotments to voluntary foreign
relief agencies.
Members of the Allegations Com
mittee include William L. Bait, vice
chairman of the War Production
Board, who will serve as chairman
Abraham S. Boykoff of UNRRA
Mrs. Edward M. Macy. vice presi-
dent of the National Board of the
YWCA, and Gerard Swope, presi-
dent of General Electric.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03

crat, of South Carolina is chairman
of the Health Subcommittee. The
federation reports were sent in by
Mrs. Leslie B. Wright of the feder-
alton legislative department.
In responding to the reports,
Chairman Randolph invited the
federation to have full attendance
at the meeting to discuss possible
remedies for the medieval condi-
lions" which the reports outlined.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee will begin discussion of the
District budget, which includes ap-
preparations for the institutions for
children, on Monday. The hearing
originally was scheduled for today,
but was postponed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
House TO Open
Pay Hearings
Next TUESDAY,,
Proposal Is Nearly
Identical to One
Offered in Senate
By JOSEPH YOUNG.

Action to obtain Federal pay in
crease legislation shifted to the
House today as the House Civil
Service Committee prepared to hold
hearings on the measure.
The Senate Civil Service Commits
sion concluded hearings on such leg
islation yesterday and will hold an
executive session Monday or Tues
day in an attempt to report out the
bill.
Hearings by the House committee
will start Tuesday. The sessions
will be conducted by Representative
Jackson. Democrat, of Washington
who heads the special subcommittee
which will hold the hearings.
Is Per Cent Raise Sought.
The legislation to be considered
by the House group is identical with
the bill introduced by Chairman
Downey of the Senate committee
with the exception of basic wage
increase recommendations Senator
Downeys bill calls for a Is per cent
basic wage increase for Government
employees, while the House bill makes
no specific recommendations.
The House measure, however
leaves 1t to the discretion of Con-
gress to provide whatever basic
wage increase it feels is justified.
Hearings by the House Committee
are expected to differ from the SEN
ate sessions in that special reliance
will be placed on a report on the
entire Federal wage and employ
ment structure just compiled by the
special investigating unit of the
House Civil Service Committee. The
report is said to be the most COM
plete report Of its kind ever under
taken.
Overtime Provision.
1t is generally expected the Sem
ate group will report out bill call
ing for basic Is per cent wage in
crease for Government employees
with a minimum guarantee of $500
to workers in the lower income
brackets.
Some kind Of overtime provisions
will be contained in the bill, though
not necessarily the regular time
and-a- half provisions now contained
in the measure. Senator Byrd
Democrat, of Virginia has led the
fight against this provision Senator
DoWney and other members of the
committee are equally insistent that
this provision remain in the bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Bond Drive Leaders
Round Up Workers

District leaders in the Seventh
War Loan drive, which opens here
Monday, May IA. began this week
setting up quotas, rounding up vol
unteer workers, and settling final
details Of the campaign to raise
sll3, 100000 in the District.
Colncident with the opening OF
the drive is the opening of a TO-
day run for the Here's Your In
fantry' show, demonstration OF
battle tactics by seasoned veterans
which will be presented in West
Potomac Park.
Tonight, the education division OF
the War Finance Committee will
sponsor a Book and Author War
Bond Rally at Catholic University
with several authors. including Marx
Van Doren and James Thurber
scheduled to appear. More thar
Sl24 900 in bonds already has beer
sold, Mrs. Howard S. LIE Roy. divi.
sion chairman said. Admission j.
by War Bond only.
The District Building and Loar
Association yesterday set a quota Of
$5,0OO,0 900 in bonds sold to individ.
uals of which more than $4,000 ,OO(
is to represent series E bonds. Dis.
trict Drive Chairman Wilmer j
Waller spoke to the group before
the quota was adopted, declaring
The job ahead requires more face.
to-face selling than ever before"
The committee also announced
that rides in Army jeeps will bs
made available as prizes to Wal
Bond purchasers during the drive
Members of the Congressional
Club, composed of wives and daugh.
tiers of Congress members, opened
bond booths at Senate and House
pay windows yesterday in a cam
paign to sell $4,000 worth oil
bonds to members of Congress. Mrs
Albert E. Carter is chairman of the
committee and Mrs. John Tolan is
co-chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03

for several months. Personnel then
would be reduced gradually over a
years period but these displaced
workers probably would be trans
ferred to other FSA work.
The Office of Defense Transporta-
ton, of which the budget request
of $11,O00,000 is being cut back by
$3,300000, is unable to give definite
figures on what the cut will mean
to employment. 1t was said, how
ever, the personnel cut in Wash
ington would be slight, but would
be larger in the field.
Transport Improvement Seen.
The cut is based on the prospects
of an improvement in highway
transportation by the end of the
year, with the personnel cuts com
ing in the final quarter of this
calendar year and the first quarter
OF next year. The highway trans
portation improvement is expected
to come from increased availability
of trucks, tires and parts, and an
easing of the gasoline situation.
1t is expected the rail, waterways
and liquid transport departments OF
the ODT will have to continue oper-
atoms at approximately the pres
ent scale because the situation in
those branches of transportation are
expected to remain tight.
The Office of Civilian Defense
with 30 officers and OF civilian en-
pioyes now on duty, will go out OF
existence on June 30. An OCD
spokesman said some of the civil
ian personnel would be transferred
to other agencies. The officers either
will be reassigned or declared sur
plus, in line with War Department
policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Wastepaper Drive S
Total Increased 10
13,474,139 Pounds

Third district Papertroopers yes
terday added another 53,920 pounds
Of Wastepaper to the steadily grow
ing total of The Evening Star-PTA
Salvage for Victory program which
has now grown to l3,474,139 pounds
for the current campaign.
An effort is being made to make
the May collections the largest in
the history of the campaign. March
the best month recorded so far, re-
corded 1,226,l40 pounds. The first
two May collections show an in
crease of 1856 pounds over the first
two days of March to get the drive
off to a good start.
Yesterdays collections of half a
ton or more included Takoma Park
6l93: Shepherd. 1923; West, 1895:
Noyes, $500, Petworth. 3,463; Bar
nard, 1902; W. B. Powell. 1929:
Raymond. 2,73O; Park View. 1895;
Mott. l.736; Gage, s,7l7; Adams
1882, Morgan, 1888, and H. D.
Cooke, 4,104
Collections tomorrow in the fifth
district, together with the leaders
will be as follows:
Honor Roll
Pounds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
District to Silence
Saturday Noon Tests
OF Afraid Sirens

District residents will no
longer be able to set their
watches at noon Saturday by
sirens and horns of the air
raid warning system.
With civilian defense on its
way out as a result of Presi-
dent Truman's order yesterday,
the Commissioners decided to
discontinue blowing the 86
sirens and horns at noon on
Saturday. Earlier in the war
the signals were blown at noon
every day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03


Walter Reed Hospital all have lost
Seberich L.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03

The $43,7l0,400 proposed cut in
the Federal Security Agency's edu-
cation and training program would
be felt mainly in the States, which
have been getting allotments for
three training programs-vocational
training for war production, food
production, war training and en-
cheering. science and management
war training.
An FSA spokesman said the agency
itself had about 230 on the payroll
for this program, of whom 200 were
In Washington. This spokesman
estimated it would take year to
iquidate the program and that no
cuts In personnel would be affected
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-28
WASHINGTON Scene
By George Dixon

finally stretched out on the floor
sound asleep.
MY goodness" exclimed Mr..
Mcdonnell, who is very bright.
"Oficer O'Fahey appears TO
have collapsed. told YOU this
rum was no good"
Wen, we were AFRAID some
profane character might steal
officer O'Fahey's gun, so we
took it and hid il. Then we
decided TO be real good Samari-
tanS.
We knew officer O'Fahey
might get into trouble if he
failed TO make his regular re-
ports TO the precinct, so we
took his keys and patrolled his
beat.
At every call box we phoned
in a snsppy, "O'Fahey, sergeant.
Everything clear
The moral of this is that of
ficer O'Fahey got a good sleep
and later was commended for
strict adherence TO duty!
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-28
One Word Led ID Another
BY Linda and
Jerry Walter
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer

don't see any much difference between the slang of
1915 and the slang of the last war AS KIP made
CT coffee in CT and listened TO the CT complaints
Condensed milk was armored COW, shovel
banjo and prunes strawberries
don't know the slang of the air forces, the mine
LAYERS and the other branches BY the way don't confuse
technical peculiar trade with slang which
something everybody understands
Yard bird is to me, but regimenta sergeant
major was always zebra because of his many stripes
And the drum major the monkey We had our
larine rumors fried eggs sandbowers and round heel
rosies
The laundry board of today was the benzine board
of 1917, where paved over inspected, cleaned
and sent home. Boot is marine slang A dog-robber
has always been officers funkey who stood between
the mess leavings and the company hounds.
Shapes tops and pad-rollers crooked dice and
the slckers who rolled them Lace curtains army
blankets thinner than invalids eyelids
There were no Mae Vests in 1917 but there were
quite lot of other ladies who just charming
We also had conchies godbrickers, housif1s and
shavetails.
C9pyrz-t D KinsFe
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-28
Noted News
Analyst

RHssiah-eepeted, - warm water
coast. of Manchuria on the Pa
ciic even more certainly than
he intended TO have Eastern
Poland or the freedom of the
Dardanelles. for warm water on
the Pacific is more important
than those concessions to the
future of his vast empire and
its influence in the Pacific era
OF world history just dawning,
-bfood-red, out Of Japan across
the bay-to correct Kipling a
bit.
QUT to get Manchuria, Stain
- has 10 move in on China,
which claims 1t. and which went
10 war with Japan to keep ii.
even more than he has to move
in on Japan.
Now his policy toward Asian
neighbors, as we pointed out in
an earlier article, is TO get what
he wants from them without
going on the record with de-
ciared wars against them.
Stain can let us pound down
Japan until the Mikado will be
only too glad to save a little
face by accepting a Russian
offer TO take over Manchuria.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-28

Yes. Women school teach
CrS arc still in a tough social
position. II they behave like
other women IN the community
they come IN for criticism, es-
pecially from the married
women, who assume for some
mysterious reason that they
are superior. If the teacher
should be so wicked as to drink
a cocktail. this diSqualilies her
completely 10 teach the moral
character of children whose
mothers consider cocktails their
especial privilege.
mo. He either oVereSti-
mates his good traits, and un-
derestimateS Nhe other fellows,
or else he compares his whole
personality with some one
quality in the other fellow. He
should compare all his qualities:
adaptability.E reliability per
severance. ambition. concentra-
ton etc. with those same
qualities ln The other person. ii
you want 10 ggt a correct ludg-
ment Of Yourself. YOU should
compare at least 10 qualities in
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-28
On the
Side

simple dress or put on my best
'oomph girl outfit for the meet
ing? Can your mules and men
department give any ideas as to
what IL the best way TO meet
and greet a man you have been
writing 40-page letters to but
have never metz"
WHY have so many women
w stopped wearing hats I
thought new hats were great
morale builders for women? I
also recall that around 1898 the
woman who won the title Of
being the best dressed woman
in Paris told reporters she had
only three suits but that she had
43 hats. She stated that wear
ing a different hat made IL ap-
pear she was dressed differently.
IZRI LEDERER, Chicago ham,
Il burger king, has 10 watches.
That's II more than l have
and one OF mine doesn't keep
good time.
can usually tell about what
time il is without a watch.
My girl friend occasionally
tests nay ability as 10 this
Am rarely more than 5 min
utes off.
Don't know why / can do ii.
Maybe II is because / was so
often without my watch for long
periods when a young fellow.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-28
BRIGHTER SIDE
By Damon
Runyon

lative. II might sell, but the
odds are against IN.
II IS pretty difficult to find
bookie IN New York nowadays
10 get d market on this proposi-
ton. but ! imagine the price of
publication against any book
selling 10 profit is easily 50
10 ! and up. depending on the
author.
! think you could write your
own ticket on an autobiography
/ am frankly a hired Hessian
on the typewriter and have
never pretended 10 be anything
else, and when ! write Some-
thing | want 10 know in ad-
vance how much / am going 10
be paid for ii and when.
AM aware that there are
many other writing fellows,
especially in the newspaper COL
umning dodge, who write out
OF sheer altruiSm and who pick
up~their weekly wage envelopes
merely aS a matter of form.
But not Prof. ] unyon. The
professor wants his. ! think
am less spurious than those
mugs who let on that their
journalistic pursuits are guided
by motives far abe mere gold.
However, the note from Lip
plncottS helps solve mystery
Tor me, For years / have been
wondering who tells people 10
write autobiographies. Many
time a. | have Skimm d through
the pages Of such a tome. / have
SAID 10 myself. how can anybody
aS lnconSeQuential in tho world
and with as little to say as this
guy have the gall 10 spoil all
this white paper?
WELL, obviously the publish
w ers tell them. which partly
abs0ives a number of persons
against whom ! have been nurS-
ING the most sinister designs.
do not know who tells the pub
fishers. That is something am
going TO investigate at the earli-
est opportunity.
Maybe many 4 fellow is going
along through life minding his
own business and keeping his af-
fairs 10 himself as he should
when some publisher or his rep
reSentative SneakS up behind the
poor blokc and whispers in his
car.
Look - why not wiite your
autobiography ."
Thot does "
The fellow Immediately be-
comes a frightful bore.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-28

be Toms chauffeur, morning
and evening.
And one of Toms associates,
With family iiy-Aefer
brazenly dates all the girls.
Tom is his champion and in
vites him here with his girls,
although he knows | do not APP
prove and feel disloyal 10 his
wife, who is my friend
{. X.
DEAR c. r.
THE trouble is Tom.
Il lie wants 10 occupy the
baSsinet Al home.
His nose is out OF Joint since
Billy moved in. just as he
pfopieSIcd il would be. And in
Your perfectionist address 10 the
tasks of motherhood, you Doubt
less threw wifely fnesse. in the
parlor and boudoir. into the dis
card, right al first.
You neglected 10 Soothe Toms
sufRIness.
You hearkened 10 Billys howl,
rather than 10 pappys scowl.
But shucks. that's a venial sin.
compared 10 Toms unpardon-
able performance
And maybe in fact, no sin
AZ all.
Your duty is 10 save yourself
from nervous breakdown, for the
babys sake.
And that means getting away
from Tom out OF range of his
freezing cruelty, 10 recoup your
strength and regain perspective.
But have YOU the stamina 10
do that
II you have IL might jolt him
into some very fast growth. and
= contrite desire 10 Join YOU in
seeking guidance NH.
EDITORS NOTE-Mary Ha-
ooyth counssis through her col
umn; not BY mail or personal
interUieW. Write her in car. Of
The Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-28

maa-ef doubtful intentions to
let them drift into the arms of
another and perhaps worse viii
lain.
Under this administration
" Dictator Stain can have
anything he wants from us for
two reasons-perhaps three.
The two definite reasons are
that the administration is in
filtfated and MANY of its off tees
are headed by dominantly pro-
Russian sentimentalists, Com
muniSts and others and that its
concept for postwar Jobs is pro-
duction on a huge scale shipped
abroad on some fantastic loan
basis.
The possible third reason is
the fundamental rivalry between
the personages of Roosevelt and
Churchill--a rivalry which en-
ables Joe Stain TO get what he
wants from us by favoring
Roosevelt In that histery-mak-
ing little matter of personal
egoS.
BY this logic-and ii certainly
is good logic--Joe Stain is not
going 10 join US in any war on
Japan for our sakes,
Then comes the question of
what he is going TO do for his
sake-and Soviet Russia's.
No one questions that he in
tends TO have his" out of ia
pans distress.
He intends TO have The long,
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-28
WALTER WINCHELH .sr On

writer. was slugged by mistake.
The assailant thought he was
Harry James.
Larry Douglas. the CHS
thrush, and Dorothy Shay the
ST. Regis ditto, are aheming.
The Rum-and-C Coke ditty is Is
years old. Any one could have
published the original version,
as IL was never copyrighted.
The first version was Rum-and-
Yankee co-lah. The present
adapters merely upholstered it
here and there.
Cert Niesen says al times she
feels like calling II The migrate
White Way.
Overheard: But what about
the visiting celebs who find their
relaxation in night clubs If
they close by l2?"
80 what: They'll have 10
stop talking about themselves
by midnight"
SOUNDS in the Night: Al the
~ Copacabana: Il can't afford
to buy the kind of orchids that
deserve you"
In the Cub Room: Hes the
I'm SIN or 7th sIn-a purebred
heel.
At Reubens: She's practi-
cally 100 proof by now"
At La Conga: II need him
like Errol Flynn needs a press
agent"
At Leon e. Eddie's: Hes not
hard 10 get-just hard 10 take.
At Versailles "A genius is a
jerk who steps out Of line 10
prove it
Al The Zanzibar, Hes a
model husband chsses nothing
but models.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-28
Brain Game Answers
Halle Selassie I.

Halle Selassie I.
"A podiatrist. also called a
ehifePedist.
3-(a) is correct. It is famed
as the flower of the Alps.
4-Fipe. Texas, Louisiana, Ala
bama, Mississippi. Florida.
5-The perimeter is the sum OF
the four sides. The vertices
are the four points of the
square.
ga demon is a spirit. gener-
ally maleficent. A demoniac
is a person possessed Of
demons.
Joseph G.. Cannon of Illinois.
With the exception of two
brief periods. a member of
the House of Representa-
tives from 1873 TO 1923 and
one of its famous speakers.
Is correct. Boxes and
crates for war materials
sent overseas require as
much lumber as all other
uses put together.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-28

I SEE where many Of our
i greatest minds are predicting
unSpeakable evils if Jimmy
Byrnes' midnight curfew brings
back the speakeasies.
do not think this is by any
means far-fetched. The speak
easies were very, very wicked.
| will admit ! have become so
moral that sometimes / can
hardly stand myself, but never
thelesS, / contend that wicked
ness is not a good thlng-espe-
cially for other people.
The big fault l have to find
with time is that 1t tends to
mellow memory Many recall the
speakeasy era only as one OF
innocent fun-like swiping the
policeman's horse, lying on the
sidewalk Splattered with catsup
so paSsersby would think they
had stumbled on a murder. and
conducting weekly drawings on
which notorious gangster would
get knocked off next.
The latter sport was mite on
the grim side II was called the
"StyN sweepstakes, and had d
theme song
I'll be Glad when You're
Dead, You Rascal, You"
But, beneath all this carefree
gayety was sinister lawleSsnesS.
Like the time we disarmed Of
ficer OFahey!
THIS was in Philadelphia.
Il Other culprits. as / recall
were Mr.. owen FidellS McDon-
nell, Mr.. John Mccullough and
Mr. +. Z. Dmitman whom /
understand Is now a big editor
in Chicago.
We had gone 10 this speak
easy in search of news. because
things otter happened there,
when Officer OFahey came in.
This was very unethical of him
because he was not present in
his capacity as policeman but as
a cuff customer
After downing half a dozen
free sluES, il clear contraven-
ton of the law. Officer O'Fahey
announced ne was the most
powerful man in the precinct.
If not the entire force. He said
he had stomach muscles of iron
and that if we did not believe
him we could punch him
you meaI." said Mr.. McCul-
Tough. his eyes lighting up.
that | can hit you I'm the pot
with everything I've got and
YOU won't hit back >"
II mean just that" replied
Officer OFahcy. "Go ahead"
So Mr.. Mccullough drove
one home. Officer O'Fahey
merely gruntcd. Mr.. Mcconnell
asked if he too might take
whaCk OFahey nodded and
grunted as another wallop hit
dead center.
Officer C'Fahey graciously
permitted me to take third
whack0 and Mr.. Dimlt;nan
fourth.
Well We stood there and adj
mircd him like anything. or
GCcr O'Fahcv continue q 10
boast. but soon his knees
started Sagging lie seemed 10
Crumble A little At time II
was weird watching him-and