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Evening star., 1945-06-20
Gasoline Supply
Ca||edAmp|eto
Meet Increase
A-Cord Boost
Of so Pct. to
Take Effect Fridov

Gasoline supplies will be entirely
ample" to take care of increased
District requirements when A-16
ration coupons become valid Friday,
q spokesman for the Petroleum
Administration for War said today,
as District OPA revealed that 110, 900
motorists here will profit by the so
per cent increase In the A coupon
value.
Each A card holder will be en-
titled to receive six gallons for each
Of six Ais coupons, in contrast TO
four gallons per coupon previously.
The increase will permit average
monthly driving of 180 miles in
comparison to the previous 120-
mile limit. Under the increase an
A card holder will be entitled to 36
gallons for the next three months.
The A card increase and a liberal
ization of allowances to B card
holders were based on an expand
ing supply for civilians. The PAW
spokesman said the District will re-
ceive its full share of the increased
supply.
Nobody needs to worry about
gas" the spokesman said. But at
the same time this agency always
advises that motorists buy gasoline
as they need it,"
The PAW spokesman revealed
9,489 900 barrels of gasoline were in
the hands of suppliers in II At
lantic Seaboard States and the Dis
trict on June 8 in contrast to $780,
900 barrels at the same time last
year.
District OPA officials pointed out
that A card holders here previously
were entitled to purchase 2,640, 900
gallons for each three month pc
riod when the A coupon value was
fixed at 4 gallons. Under the g.
gallon value, A card motorist will
be entitled to purchase $3.50 900 gall
Ions, an increase of 100000 gallons.
Evening star., 1945-06-20

Of 20 per cent or $40O annually
whichever is the smaller.
Since postal workers have had
no increase since 1925, and because
Of inequities involved" said Senator
Mead, the committee feels the bill
does not violate the Little Steel For
mula limiting wage increases to Is
per cent of the 1941 base.
Asks Work Week Cut.
Representative Rees, Republican
of Kansas, told the House yesterday
he had written President Truman
asking him to issue an executive
order reducing the work week July
for great percentage of all Govern
ment workers to A hours. The
ranking minority member of the
House Civil Service Committee said
he would exempt the War and Navy
Departments, the Veterans Admin
istration and other agencies where
a 48-hour week was deemed "nec-
eSSary."
Evening star., 1945-06-20

The tragedy and destruction OF
the war in Europe will not have
any effect on the future of great
music, in the opinion of Percy
Granger, pianist and composer,
who will be soloist tonight with the
National Symphony Orchestra at
the second Water Gate concert.
Mr.. Granger also believes that
the universal desire for an end to
war for all time is the real reason
that there has not been a greater
output of martial music compost
tions during the present conflict.
The Australian-born virtuoso. who
served in an American Army band
in the World War, was hard at
work, practicing for his concert, in
a music store studio on G street.
He was clad in a blue shirt open at
the throat, khaki work trousers and
heavy shoes that resemble the ones
G1 Joes wear He interrupted his
work to answer questions.
Country Districts Escape.
almost all the destruction and
horror of this war" he said, came
in the big cities and industrial CEN
tiers. Country districts weren't
bombed and destroyed. And almost
all the beautiful melodies of the
last few hundred years have been
antitown and procountry. They are
linked to that part of our world
which means subsistence, energy,
robustness, and even fury. You
can't get anything like that out of
a town.
Il believe that nearly every great
composer in Germany and England
has been born in small community
near the country. War is struggle
between towns and cities, to feed
themselves. Agricultural countries
never make war unless they have
to. That's why the future of music
won't be affected"
Mr.. Granger paid tribute to the
work being done in musical educa-
Evening star., 1945-06-20
Vacation Days
Begin Today for
| $1,000 Pupils

Summer vacation begins for st.
600 public school children at the
close OF classes today. Glasses re-
open September II.
Most schools scheduled regular
instruction periods and planned to
hand out report cards at the end of
the day. Several hundred Junior
and senior high school students al
ready have received diplomas and
hundreds more will be graduated at
ceremonies this afternoon and eve
ming.
The two teachers colleges, Wilson
and Miner, will be the last public
schools to hold commencement ex-
ercises, conferring degrees tomor-
row.
As the students began their three
months vacation, the Board of Ed
ucation will consider at it's meeting
this afternoon proposal to cut
vacations Of principals and super
intendents from a maximum of IS
days to rs days. The move is
planned to make these oficials'
vacations conform with civil service
regulations.
Evening star., 1945-06-20
Rayburn 10 Address
.158 U. Of Maryland
Graduates June II

Speaker Rayburn will address the
Is members of the graduating class
of the University of Maryland al
the institutions 138th annual com.
mencement exercises June 27, Uni
versity President H. c. Byrd said
today.
In making the announcement, DR.
Byrd said the exercises will be held
in the new University Armory ano
will be devoted to an expression OF
appreciation for Maryland's public
schools and educators. A feature OF
the program, he said, will be the
presentation of honorary degrees to
outstanding persons in the public
school system.
Besides Mr.. Rayburn, other COM
mencement speakers will be Gov
O'Conor. Commissioner of Educa-
ton John w. Studebaker and DR.
Thomas G. Pullen, State superin-
tendent of schools.
DR.. Byrd said the following hon.
orary degrees would be conferred: ::
Doctor of humanity, Tasker G.
LoWndeS, chairman OF the State
Board of Education; Mrs. Lena c.
Van Bibber, retired Baltimore teach
cr who served 80 years on the faculty
Of Towson State Teachers College.
and Mrs. Ella P. Robinson, Chester
town, who taught a3 years in Kent
County elementary schools and is
also retired.
Doctor of letters, Nicholas Orem,
Hyattsville, retired county school
superintendent whose last super
intendency was in Prince Georges
County, and Edwin Warfield Broome,
Rockville, superintendent of Mont
gomery County schools.
Doctor of laws, Judge w. Calvin
Chestnut of Federal District Court,
Baltimore.
The Rev. Nathaniel c. Acton of
the College Park church will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon SUNDAY.
Evening star., 1945-06-20
ton in high schools over the United

ton in high schools over the United
States.
Regarded as Sissies.
when I was a boy" he said, "a
musician was regarded by other boys
as peculiar, almost a sissy. or ef-
Terminate. Now. through the high
schools more than anything else,
boys look at musician almost as
they do at a boxer or a baseball
player. 1t is a healthy sign for the
musical life of America"
Failure of the expected output of
martial music during this war is
easily explainable. the pianist said.
I'VE and our Allies are not fight
ing for the glory of war" he pointed
out. "We are fighting to see that
there never will be more war in the
world. Despite all manner of diff
ferences, even of ideologies, We and
our Allies agree on that point. That
kind OF a spirit just doesn't pro-
duce martial music"
Mr.. Granger urged a greater de-
centralization of performance of
great works of music in the interest
of more composing of American
music. He, said music lovers, par
ticularly in great cities, are too
likely to pay attention to the work
of composers who frequent great
cities in Europe than their native
composers. He cited the work OF
Arthur Fikensher, for many years
director of music at the University
of Virginia.
He is, I believe. the greatest
composer in the United States to-
day. Mr.. Granger said, "and one
Of the three or four greatest in the
world. He is IS years old and a
native of Illinois. Yet he has never
had his major works performed. De-
cntralization would end that situa-
ton"
Mr.. Granger will play Tschaikow-
skis B Flat Minor Piano Concerto"
and two solos. Sibelius' Romance"
and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody,
No. g." at the Water Gate Concert.
Evening star., 1945-06-20
Dr.. Luther H. ReicheIderfer, II,
Commissioner in 1906, Dies
Prominent Physieion
Had Received Many
Professional Honors

DR.. Luther H. Reichelderfer,
II, prominent Washington ply
sician and president Of the
Board of Commissioners from
1880 to 1888, died at his residence,
1861 Crescent place NV, last
night OF a heart attack.
On learning of the physicians
illness, an attendant at his apart
ment house summoned an Emer-
gency Hospital ambulance at 10
o'clock last night, but he was pro-
nounced dead by DR.. Turner Reuter-
when he arrived.
Funeral services will be held at St.
Adams Episcopal Church at IL am.
Saturday. Rev. C. T. Warner will
conduct the services and burial will
be In Arlington Cemetery. Until
then the body will be at the Hysong
funeral home, 1900 N street N.!W.
The Commissioners today ordered
that flags on District buildings be
flown at half stan until after the
funeral. They also adopted a reso-
luton of sympathy for Mrs. Reich
elderfer in which they said that DR..
Reichelderfer had served as a men,
Der of their board with credit and
distinction"
Practiced Here for Is Years.
Highly honored by the medical
world during a quarter Of century
Of active practice here, DR.. Reichel-
derfer had been In semiretirement
since 1924, except for his three years
as a Commissioner. He spent much
time in travel with his wife, the
former Mary McCauley, who sur
wives him.
In addition to his medical and
civic activities, DR.. Reichelderfer
also had a notable military career
having served for % years with the
District National Guard. He en-
tered it as a lieutenant and ad-
vanced to the rank of lieutenant
colonel and chief surgeon. During
the World War he served with the
AEF in France as a lieutenant
colonel in the Medical Corps, and
at the end OF the conflict received a
commission as a colonel.
Born in Ohio.
A native Of Hallsville, Ohio, where
he was born February 4, 1874, he
was brought to Washington by his
parents when a child of 8. He
attended the Franklin School and
Central High School, from which he
graduated in 1892. He was colonel
OF the school cadet corps. Shortly
afterward he joined the faculty Of
Evening star., 1945-06-20
Montgomery Board
Defers Signing Of
Budget Until Friday

A proposed s3,465, 1858 Mont
gomery County budget for the fiscal
year beginning July is expected to
be signed at II am. Friday. The
County Commissioners deferred
final approval yesterday pending
further study.
At the same time, the board re-
iterated its intention not to raise
the present tax levy of $3.50 per
500. The board plans to pay off
100000 in maturing county bonds.
Representatives of more than 100
Parent Teacher Associations and
civic groups protested a s62,0 900 slash
in the Board of Education's estimate
for the coming year at a public
hearing Thursday and demanded
that it be restored "even if it means
increasing our taxes"
In a statement issued at yester-
days meeting, Aided D. Noyes,
president of the Board of County
Commissioners, pointed out that it
is proposed to appropriate $l,446,-
141 for schools next year.
This is more than one-half of
the total operating budget of the
county," Mr.. Noyes asserted, "and
includes the $135, 900 needed to meet
all increases in teachers salaries.
1--WE have not provided s62,444.41
of other Board Of Education recon-
mendations, $4,000 of which in
cluded the following items: Jani-
tors salaries, $4,000; additional
cost of fuel and light, $4,000; three
new school buses and additional
costs, $4,000; addi-
tional appropriations for school Ii
brar. :, $1,000, and salaries of addi-
ito, clerks and stenographers,
S. ,0O."
Mr.. Noyes also explained in his
statement that the County Health
Department has requested $23,323
more than is provided in the pro-
posed budget. He added that to-
tai of $l45,000 is unallocated.
This shows the extent to which
we have conservatively provided for
next year." Mr.. Noyes asserted, "and
illustrates the lack Of justification
in some recent demands that these
appropriations be voted Immediately
and that they be voted whenever
that action raises the county tax
rate or not"
The commissioners ordered the
sale of all surplus civilian defense
property not needed by the county
after Judge Albert E. Brault,
county civilian defense director, said
he had been told by the Maryland
Council Of Civilian Defense to dis
continue all protective activities by
June 80.
The resignation of Mrs. Ada How
ard as chief telephone switchboard
operator at the Rockville Court
house, effective July /, was accepted.
A public hearing was scheduled
at 11:45 am. July II on an applica-
ton by Mr.. and Mrs. M. Edgar Allen
for permit to operate . tourist
home near Middlebrook.
Mrs. Stanley Gather was granted
a permit to operate q rest home at
Shady Grove, near Rockville.
Evening star., 1945-06-20
Death Sentence Ordered
In Staying Of Woman

William Copeland, 81, colored, who
was found guilty of first-degree mur-
der on May 81 by a District Court
jury in the shooting of Mrs. Dora M.
Johnson, 43, colored, in February,
1914, yesterday was sentenced by
Justice T. Alan Goldsborough to be
electrocuted November %. Attor-
ney James ]. Laughlin, representing
Copeland, announced he will ap-
peal the case.
The victim was the sister OF a
woman Copeland had married be-
fore an earlier marriage had been
dissolved witnesses said. The shoot
ing took place in the 2700 block OF
Sherman avenue NV
Evening star., 1945-06-20
Surplus Board Plans
To Offer Radio Stock
For Police Networks

The Surplus Property Board is
working out plan which eventually
viii provide every police department
Of the United States a complete
ishort-wave radio outfit-assemblec
from radio equipment released BY
the armed forces.
Maj. Jonas Ryner. deputy admin.
strator Of the board. disclosed this
today IN addressing the final session
Of executives of the National Asso-
citation of County Ofdcials meeting
In the Mayflower Hotel.
Some day the FBI may be able
to flip a switch and talk to any
police department in the United
States, Maj. Ryner said.
Equipment to Be Modified.
The plan, he said, calls for the
assembling of the surplus equip
ment at a central point, and modi-
flcation of the equipment to police
use, then its eventual distribution.
The Official also disclosed that
As States already have set up ma
chinery for distribution of surplus
property on a Statewide basis, and
that within few days the remain
ing two States will have completed
their organizations.
An association committee was to
meet later today with Surplus Prop
erty Board officials to work out a
plan whereby the country,s various
counties would be informed when
the Government had = available
equipment in which they would be
interested-such as road-repair, Of
flee and hospital equipment.
Col. Heller Speaks.
Also speaking on today's pro-
gram were Col. Edward H. Heller,
member of the Surplus Board, and
Lee w. Moran, director of the auto
motive division in the Commerce
Departments ofilce of surplus prop
erty.
Onicers, directors and executive
committeeman of the association
were given q firsthand picture of
the operations of the Government
IN disposing of surplus property
yesterday afternoon in a meeting
with William Bradley, assistant to
Secretary of Commerce Wallace.
George H. Field, commissioner of
community facilities in the Federal
Works Agency, declared it was his
opinion the Government was not
going to provide aid for postwar
public works unless something hap
pens"-such as veterans failing to
gain employment-after the war.
He said, however, that the FWA
was prepared to make interest free
loans on county projects where there
are provisions for partial State aid.
Evening star., 1945-06-20
IyEight Schools Fill
To Continue Paper
Drive in Summer

Only eight schools so far have
notified The Star OF their intention
to continue wastepaper collections
throughout the summer, but the
eight all are in the top flight Of
producers.
So far listed are Shepherd, 2Oo,.
3l3 pounds; Benning, 154,641
pounds; Jefferson, 165,s1o pounds;
Wallach, 1851 pounds; Bryan
1o6,623 pounds; Kimball, 106,99l
pounds; Adams, 14s,ses pounds, and
Hardy. 173,o16 pounds. The collec-
tions for Hardy will be made at St
Patrick's Chapel nearby. At Stod-
dert, the Papertroopers will take
their hauls to the playground next
to the school.
All Papertroopers active through
the summer will receive credit for
their work toward advanced awards
providing the person in charge of
the collection center certif1es the
collections. Fresh supplies of chev-
rons are expected soon and these
either will be awarded at the schools
continuing their programs or at the
Fairgrounds.
On notification by a school or
playground supervisor that a child
has reached Supertrooper ranking
or beyond to earn the Distinguished
Service medallion and campaign
ribbons he will be given his awards
from Papertrooper headquarters at
The Star.
Despite the holiday Monday,
11,030 pounds we're collected at five
schools. Those with half a ton or
better were Bryan, 2,07S; Orr, 400;
Ketcham, 2,190; Jefferson, 2,317.
This was followed by collection
of 1890 pounds yesterday to bring
the grand total to 15,250,78 pounds.
Yesterdays collection Of half q ton
or more included Emery, 1870; j. F.
Cook, 2,075; Cleveland, 1,150; Shaw,
1000; Harrison, $40; Noyes, 2,1o3;
Woodbridge, 2,223; Langdon, 1,750;
S. j. Bowen, 1,466; Randall, 2,009;
Young, 1900; Kimball, 1912; Beers,
2,404; Buchanan, 4,s4l; Giddings,
2,16o.
Collections will be continued to-
morrow and Friday on regular
schedules, after which only those
schools listed with The Star will be
visited. The playground collections
probably will start the first week
of July.
Evening star., 1945-06-20
u. of Md. Students Ask Voice
In Policies; Byrd Hits Charges

President H. c. Byrd of Maryland
University today made public a de-
tailed reply to nine charges drafted
by rs students and Instructors al
leging, among other things, that the
institution was undemocratically ad-
ministered and that a proposed
Americanization program was being
forced upon the students. His state
ment constituted denial of virtu-
ally all the allegations.
Meanwhile, 643 of the approx
mately 1000 students at the uni
versity yesterday voted overwhelm-
ingly in favor of increased partici-
patton in administration policies in
a referendum on nine proposed
changes in the present regime.
Disputing a statement that the
university was controlled "unilater-
ally" DR.. Byrd pointed out that de-
partment heads and deans were
chosen by the Board of Regents, not
by him and that instructors were Sc
lected by the department. heads. But
he vigorously defended the right OF
the university to establish its own
curriculum without reference to the
students, adding:
"The statement that the students
do not play q part in the formula
ton of educational policy Is correct
If they were competent to do that
they would not need to come to the
University Of Maryland"
Started by Letter.
The present controversy, DR.. Byrd
said, had its origin in a letter writ
ten to the college newspaper, the
Diamondback, by Daniel Nitzberg, a
student, in which he protested Ger
tain conditions in the university. y
Afterward the 26 students and
faculty members met and drafted
their detailed charges.
Authority is vested in every uni
versity administration and rightly
so," DR.. Byrd said with regard to the
student protest.
Evening star., 1945-06-20

Ine year prODaDly never WILL
come when there will not be some
students in every university who will
wish to have things done differently,
but no university could operate on a
basis of allowing each student to do
anything he or she might wish"
He denied a student statement
that the faculty played no part in
formulating educational policy, de-
claring that "the educational policy
in virtually every college is formu-
lated by the faculty of that college" !"
Explains Dismissals.
With regard to protest on sum-
mary dismissal of students without
reason, DR.. Byrd said that some
times this was done for the protec-
ton of the student, since the filing
Of specific charges might leave a
black mark on his record which
would impede his future career.
Denying faculty censorship of the
newspaper Diamondback, DR.. Byrd
quoted that at a recent meeting he
held with the 26 protesting students,
1t was admitted that the publication
was not being censored. He said
that the university would continue
its present practice, however, Of
pointing out to student editors mis-
takes made In the paper after pub
lication.
With regard to the proposed
Americanization courses, the stu
dents state that "the question Is not
with the merits OF the action but
rather with the method which the
administration used In formulating
the program" continuing that DR..
Byrd had not explained it.
IF students in an American uni
versity need to have explained to
them the purpose Of courses in
American history, American gov
ernment, and American literature -
the president said, then no further
reason need be cited for the neces-
sity Of such courses"
Evening star., 1945-06-20
Final Festival Set

The final square dance and folk
festival of the season will be held at
$3.50 pm. tomorrow at Thomson
Center, Twelfth and L streets NV,
the District Recreation Department
announced today. In case of rain,
the affair will be held in the center's
auditorium.
Evening star., 1945-06-20
Dr.. Steward Succeeds Joffe

ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 20 R.-
Appointment of DR.. N. B. Steward
of Laurel, member of the Maryland
House of Delegates from Prince
Georges County, to the board of the
Brownsville State Hospital was
announced yesterday by Gov.
O'Conor.
Ad-daleel., 1945-07-18


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.OkinaWa
Yank Toll
Is 7.424

GUAM. April 26 GNS)-Ameri,
can doughboys. and marines or
Okinawa and surrounding island:
were revealed today to have elm.
mated approximately a third OF
the japanese garrison at a cost
TO themselves of 7,424 casualties
The American dead totals LAS
Adm. Nimitz. who once esti.
mated the Jap Garrison on Oki-
nawa at $4,000 to $4,000, an.
nounced that 21,269 enemy sol.
diers had been slain and 399 cap
tured in 25 days.
"A total OF 1929 civilians
have come under the jurisdic-
tion of u. s. military govern
ment authorities on Okinawa,"
the admiral added.
The Yanks. scoring a general
advance of 1000 yards deeperinto
the powerfully fortified Naha
Line across the lower portion OF
the island, drove the JapS from
Kakazu town in the center of the
front, as we'll as from east coast
Hill No. 17S.
This height. overlooking the
Yonabaru Airdrome. fell 10 the
L. S. bayonet welding doughboys.