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Evening star., 1945-07-03
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Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book 4, stamps
W., W., X-2, Y-2 and z-2 re-
= main valid through September
80. Stamps K-2 through Pa good
through July 81. Stamps o.
through U-2 valid through August
81. Stamps Al, B-1, C-1, D-1
and Ell valid through october 81
Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4, stamps
D-1, Ell, FL, GIL and HI re-
main valid through September
80. Stamps To through X-2
good through July 81. Stamps
Y-2, z-2, Al, B-1 and C-1 valid
through August 81. Stamps J-1
XII, LII, MI and Nj valid
through october 81.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points for
each pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Stamp No. SO valid for
pounds through August 81. Next
stamp valid September /.
Gasoline-B-6 CO, B-7, CT, B-S
and C-8 coupons good for 5 gall
Ions each. A-16 coupons valid for
6 gallons each through Septem-
Der 81.
Shoes-Airplane stamps l, 2 and
in Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each. An as-yet-
unnumbered shoe stamp becomes
valid August 1.
Fuel Oil-Periods l, 2, 8, 4 and
coupons good for 10 gallons pei
unit through August 81. AL
currently valid coupons, except for
serially-numbered coupons of def
mite value, will expire August 81
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Won Ribbentrop Fovors
Lenient Terms for France

June 1S-"Meeting with Hitler
and Won Ribbentrop at Munich
Il Duce and the Fuehrer are closeted
in conference. Won Ribbentrop and
I remain together. l find an un-
usual Ribbentrop, reserved, calm
favoring peace. He says we must
offer lenient terms to the French,
especially about the fleet, to prevent
it joining the British.
"'If London wants war;" he says,
it will be total war, complete,
pitileSs.' But Hitler makes many
reservations about demolishing the
British Empire which he considers,
even today, an important factor in
world equilibrium. Won Rib
bentrop does not want to push the
conversation farther, because he
does not know Hitlers precise ideas.
He says only that there is a
German proposal to send the Jews
to Madagascar.
"MuSSolini is quite unShakable on
the question of the fleet. Hitler, on
the other hand, wants to avoid an
uprising in favor of the British. .
MuSsolini is very embarrassed. He
feels mis- role is secondary. He tells
of his conference with Hitler in a
tone of bitterness and irony and
concludes by saying that the Ger
man people have among themselves
the germs of collapse. II Duce
fears that peace is growing near and
he sees his unattainable dream of
glory on the field of battle vanish
ing"
June 20-"The French have chosen
the same delegates to deal with lis
as with Germany. e. Hitler was op-
posed to it, and wanted two COM
missions.
"MuSsolini decided yesterday to
attack the French in the Alps.
Badoglio (chief of general staff
was opposed energetically, but II
Duce insisted. consider it in
glorious and morally dangerous to
fall upon a defeated army. Armi-
site is at the door. If our army
should be unable to overcome re-
sistance in its first assault, we would
end our campaign in noisy failure.
-. MusSolini is much irritated at
Balbo, who has met series of fail
ures in Cyrenaica."
June 21-"Alfieri Ambassador in
Berlin communicates the German
armistice terms. They are mod
crate, and prove Hitler's desire to
arrive at an understanding quickly
=. Mussolini does not feel inclined,
under the circumstances, to advance
territorial claims. He will con-
fine himself to asking for demili-
tarized zone of 80 miles, and plans
to advance our claims in moment
of peace.
"Mussolini is quite Inundated be-
cause our troops have not advanced
one step. Even today they have
been stopped in front of the first
French fortification that resisted:
In Libya an Italian general has
allowed himself to be taken prisoner.
Mussolini is taking it out on the
Italian people: 1T is material lack.
Even Michelangelo required marble
to make statues. With clay he would
have made nothing but pottery:
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Russian Policy Turns
More Anti-Germon

Russia is preparing to attack Ro-
mania. That is what Molotov has
said to Schulenberg German Am
baSsador in Moscow. Germany can
do no more than acquiesce, but it is
clear that Russian policy is increas-
ingly anti-German. The capital in
which there is the greatest amount
of conspiracy against German VIC
tory is Moscow. They didn't be-
lieve in German triumph. They
wanted to push Germany into con-
f1ict and Europe into crisis.
Things have moved fast and now
Moscow is trying to cloud the wa
terS."
June 25-"They. do not know the
armiStice terms in Italy yet. Rumors
are circulating and they create a
noticeable uneasiness. They ex-
pected immediate and gratuitous
occupation. . Delusions will in
crease even more when the terms
are made public"
June 26-"After a communication
from Won MackenSen, l have dis
creed the question of Bessarabia
at the office of the Soviet Ambas-
Sador. Italy has no objection to
liquidating this problem, but would
prefer to see the controversy settled
peacefully and without a new con-
Migration in the Balkans"
June 2S-"Russian ultimatum to
P0nania. Bucharest asks us directly
what to do. Yield, is our answer
We must avoid a conflict in the
Balkans at any cost that would
deprive us of their economic re-
sources.
THE Pope plans an appeal for
peace. -" II Duce is hostile
Immediately. Admiral
Cavagnari naval chief of staff
complains about the supreme COM
mand. There is confusion, and no
one assumes responsibilities We
have lost eight submarines
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Cleveland Library Group
To Ask D. {. for S14,459

A steering committee of the Com
munity Library Committee will con-
fer with the Commissioners to see
what plans are being made to pro-
vide $14,459 for the acquisition OF
a site for the proposed Cleveland
Park Memorial Library.
Decision to discuss the matter
with city heads was made at q
meeting of the committee last night
Mrs. CaZenove Lee presided.
Congress has appropriated $4,000
for purchase of a site, and the Con-
necticut Avenue Citizens Associa-
Ntion raised another $4,000 in a
community drive
A District Court condemnation
jury last week fixed the purchase
price at $74,459. It is hoped the
$14, ,459 still needed will be made ur
by the District government.
The library would be built or
Connecticut avenue, between Ma
comb and Newark streets NV, ano
would be dedicated to members ol
the armed forces from the area.
Evening star., 1945-07-03

sends from the places he visits
From India, she said, he sent her q
hand-sewn evening bag made oi
gold and silver thread, and a neck.
lace and bracelet made of washed
gold.
"INalso have clothes and perfume
from Paris" she said. My husband
piloted the first transport plane te
enter Paris after its liberation, ano
he was able to buy perfume before
other troops had time to buy out the
prewar stocks"
Miss Paulee has been touring the
West, South and Northeast for the
past few months with Columbia
Concerts. This is her second sea-
son at the Water Gate concerts
having appeared as a guest soloist
last year Her winter plans in
clude Town Hall concert in New
York. at which she will introduce
unpublished works of contemporary
composers.
Evening star., 1945-07-03

reading of the Declaration of In
dependence by Chief Justice Bolitha
j. Laws of District Court. DR.. Car
roll Roberts, president of the Fed
Grafton of Churches, will pronounce
the benediction to conclude this
formal part of the program. 80
The stars will appear next fol
about 10 minutes each. Miss Jepson
Dinah Shore, Dennis Morgan anC
Judy Canova will sing. Miss Bal
and MIR. Arnold will appear in two
skits together. Hoagy Carmichae
viii do a novelty" The De Marco.
and the Nichols brothers, profes.
sional daning teams, also will ap.
pear.
The amplification system has beer
tripled in strength this year ano
will cover an area Of l square mile
The fireworks are expected tc
begin about 1890 pm. They will
last IS minutes. The cavalcade is
sponsored by the District Recrea-
ton Board. War Finance Commit
tee, Greater National Capital Com
mittee and the War Activities Com
mittee of the Motion Picture In
duStry
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Laundry Work
'Lags 10 Days
Due 10 Heat
Labor Also Fuctor;
Cleaners Report
Heavier Bundles

Washington is facing another
summer of shirt and sheet diff
Guilty, with most of the laundries
already 10 days to two weeks
behind schedule.
Some laundries, said George N
Walker, executive secretary of the
Washington Laundry-Dry Cleaners
Owners Association, were thrown SC
far behind schedule by the heat
wave, in addition to manpower
trouble, that they are skipping pick
up and delivery days.
Since pickup and delivery trucks
only can go to given area once a
week, Mr.. Walker explained, every
time a laundry omits a collection
day the householders in that area
have to wait two weeks for their
wash to be returned.
Truck Service Stopped.
Mr.. Walker cited one laundry that
will stop truck service for three days
this week so it can handle the back
log of dirty laundry.
Dry cleaning establishments, he
said, also are swamped. Most OF
them now are taking two to three
weeks to clean clothing.
Mr.. Walker said that as far as he
knows, store laundries where GUS
toners deliver and collect their own
laundry still are on schedule, al
though most have eliminated "spe-
cials"-24-hour service.
Because of the continued over-9O
degree temperatures, the laundry
spokesman explained, laundry bun
dies averaged 10 per cent heavier
Just to complicate matters, num-
ber of housewives neglected their
housekeeping during the cool
weather. When the mercury started
climbing the housewives stripped
their homes of heavy drapeS, cur
tains and rugs and these also de-
scended on the laundry and dry
cleaning plants.
Absenteeism Is High.
With more work to do, the laun-
dries are finding they have less
workers to do it. Mr.. Walker re-
ported that absenteeism in the
laundries has increased to between
Is and 20 per cent. Turnover also
continues high.
On top of that. the climate has
slowed down productivity by as
much as 25 per cent as workers
suffer from heat fatigue.
Mr., Walker said every laundry in
town has taken on 10 to Is school
children on summer vacation. They
have been 'life-savers, he said,
except that boys under l6 and girls
under 18 cannot work on the ma
chimes.
We day hasn't helped us a Bit"
Mr.. Walker declared. The situa-
ton in the laundries is bad and
I'm afraid it's going to get worse. j"
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Water Gate SoIoist Planning
To Team With Flying Husband
Mono PouIee to Spend
Summer Studying
In Los Angeles

A concert career with her hus-
band as her accompanist is Mona
Paulees postwar ambition. The
mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan
Opera, guest soloist at tonights
Water Gate concert, is also an en-
thusiastic aviation fan, she said to-
day when interviewed at her suite
in the Raleigh Hotel.
Il like to fly" she said, "and I
took lessons. But l stopped just
before was to take the test for my
license. I'll start again after the
war when my husband can teach
me-"
Her husband, Capt. Dean Holt, is
a Air Transport Command pilot
and, she said, has made several trips
to India and Paris and other points
on the globe. ''He is pianist, toe" "
she declared, "and we hope to have
a combination team-I'll do the
singing and he'll accompany me
after the war-and fly from place
to place giving concerts"
Tonight is Miss Paulee's last con-
cert before she leaves for Los Angeles
to spend the summer studying with
Lottie Lehman. On the way to the
Coast, she expects to sing at Army
and Navy camps and hospitals.
The dark-haired singer, looking
cool in a white skirt and vari-col-
ored jacket, was preparing to re-
hearse tonight's National Symphony
program. She said she relied on
adequate preparation for a good
performance, not on lucky pieces.
Il don't believe in lucky pieces, /"
she said, because if you lose them,
then YOU would be afraid your luck
had run out"
Her hobby is collecting things
antique jewelry, Spanish combs and
whatever souvenirs her husband
Evening star., 1945-07-03

new service flag and fiagpole at $50
pm. in Triangle Park, Carroll and
Willow avenues. Chief Judge
Charles w. Woodward of the 9Th
Maryland judicial circuit will make
the patriotic address.
Raising of the largest of the three
flags at Walter Reed Hospital will
start the day for sick and wounded
servicemen. The fight for inde-
pendence will be the theme of re-
ligious services.
Amputees in Bike Race.
Twenty-three arm amputees from
the hospital will compete in a
Fourth of July bike race. part of an
all-day outing sponsored by the
Silver Spring Md Board of Trade,
for its hospital fund.
They will cycle from Mrs KS Toll
House on Colesville road to Indian
Spring Country Club.
Even the leg amputees wanted to
try it. but the doctors wouldn't let
them, "a Board of Trade Official said.
The Association of the Oldest In
habitants of the District of Colum-
bia will ring the fire bell at the Old
Union Engine House, Nineteenth
and H streets NV, promptly at
noon. Ceremonies around this an
nual ritual will open with an invo-
cation by the Rev. C. Stewart Nc
Kenzie, minister of Western Presby-
terian Church and a renewal of the
pledge of allegiance to the flag.
USO Clubs to Celebrate.
| Servicemen will find entertain
ment at all USO clubs in and around
washington. Some clubs will cele-
brate the day with dances, picnics
and special programs. Others will
carry on with their usual Wednes-
day schedules.
The Navy Band will play for an
informal dance at the USO-YWCA
Penthouse, Seventeenth and K
streets NV, at $3.50 pm. The
USO-NCCS Club at 1914 N street
NV. will hold its Independence
Day dance from to IL pm.
Negro service personnel and war
workers will dance tonight on the
patio of the USO-YMCA-YWCA
Club, 2Ol1 Georgia avenue NV.
| A house party sponsored by the
USO-Jewish Welfare Board Club
will start at pm. in the home of
Judge Harry Cayton, 1904 Macomb
street NV.
Servicemen who would Gather eat
than dance will go to picnic supper
in the patio of the USO-YWCA-
NCCS Club, 1911 H street NV. A
hiking party to Rock Greek Park at
7 pm. will be the featured activity
of the USO-YWCA Club at 9ol
Rhode Island avenue NV.
The USo-NCCS Club at sis Tenth
street NV. will be closed as usual
tomorrow night. But dances will
be held there every other night this
week
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Death of Womun in Fall
On Stuirs Held Accident

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said he would issue certificate of
accidental death today in the case
of Mrs. BERTHE B. Harris, 55, of 4207
Twelfth street NE. She died Sun
day in Gallinger Hospital after ad-
mission the previous Thursday suf-
fering from broken neck, according
to police.
A housekeeper, Mrs. Harris was
found by her employers, Mr.. and
Mrs. James F. Scanlon, lying at the
foot of the stairs at the Twelfth
street address late Wednesday. Be-
fore losing consciousness, police said
Mrs. Harris told them she had fallen
down the stairs.
Evening star., 1945-07-03

Two visitors from China, here with
the 600 students now quartereo
temporarily at Georgetown Univer-
sity, today looked at the Cub Scout
handicraft exhibit at the National
Museum, Tenth street and Consti-
tuition avenue NV. and expressed
the wish that Chinese boys could
make such things.
Ho Flu Jun and Chen Jung, both
of Chungking, explained that OBJ
tanning material for even such COM
paratively small items as those or
display presented a grave problem
for the children of their country.
Everything is needed there" they
said.
The two youths, both spending
their first free day since in Wash
ington in sightseeing, were i'm
pressed with the scale model OF
Mount Vernon. They were more
inclined, however. to study the
communications sections, showing
all kinds of travel means used by
Americans since the country's early
days.
Children in China do not make
railroad trains or locomotives" one
of the visitors said. They only
make boats and airplanes. They
never see railroad trains"
Evening star., 1945-07-03
eFourth
Will Find Most
Workers on Job
Several Communities
Plan Celebrations
Tomorrow, However

Federal employees will set the tone
for one Of the most solemn observ-
anceS OF Independence Day by work.
ing tomorrow.
George j. Schoeneman, adminis-
trative aide to the President, an
nounced that, despite victory in Eu-
rope, therell be no change from the
wartime practice of no holidays ex-
cept Christmas.
With Federal employees setting an
example, Chairman j. A. Krug OF
the War Productions Board, ap-
pealed to war workers throughout
the Nation to mark the anniversary
of the birth of the country by stay
ing on the job to defeat a formid-
able enemy.
District Workers Get Holiday.
Most District workers, however,
will have holiday. Only skeleton
crews of maintenance men, guards
and service departments will oper-
ate.
There will be no mail delivery by
carriers tomorrow, Vincent C. Burke,
District postmaster, announced.
Mail will be delivered and collected
on regular schedule at all agencies
OF the Federal Government, how
ever. 1t will be collected from street
letter boxes on a curtailed schedule,
substantially the same as the Sat-
urday schedule.
The main post Office, Benjamin
Franklin station, National Airport
station. Pentagon branch and the
Treasury station will remain open.
Other branches will be closed.
Library to Be Open.
The District Public Library's
central building at Eighth and K
streets NV, will be open from /
to 9 pm. Telephone information
service will be available from 8 am.
But all branches will close for the
day.
Takoma Park, Md, one of the few
communities planning a commun-
ity-wide celebration, will dedicate a
Evening star., 1945-07-03
District f Bond Sales
Short by 10 Million;
Spirited Drive On

Washington today was $4,000 ,OOC
short of its $4,000, 900 quota of E
bonds for the Seventh War Loan,
although sales of all types total
$219 500 900. or 1894 per cent of the
Districts s113,000,000 quota, the
District of Columbia War Finance
Committee announced.
A spirited drive to complete the
E bond quota over the July holi-
cay is being made by the committee
Chairman Wilmer j. Waller said.
Results of the bond campaign
through yesterday were announced
as follows:
E Bond Sales Behind.
E bond sales, $500, 900; total sale:
to date, $38, 8,000, 900, or 1872 per cenr
of the Districts s48,o0o.oOo quota.
Bond sales to individuals dnclud.
ing E bonds, s3,00o,0oo; total sale:
to date, s74,200,o00. or l06 per cent
of the Districts s7o,00o.oo0 quota.
Bond sales to corporations, $780,.
600, total sales to date, $145, ,400, 900
or 1881 per cent of the Districts
S43, 100000 quota.
Complete bond sales of all types
/ $500 900; total sales to date, S2l9.-
100000, or 194.3 per cent of the Dis
trict's $113,000000 quota.
Urge "Spurt Buying"
The District War Finance Com
mittee said that only "spurt buying
can push the tagging E Bonds over
the quota by the close of the drives
accounting period Saturday.
Mr.. Waller hopes distribution oi
tickets at theater booths to bono
buyers planning to attend the
"Cavalcade of Freedom" at the
Monument Grounds tomorrow will
spur sales.
There can be no more patriotic
manner in which to celebrate Inde.
pendence Day than by buying extra
E Bonds for the Fourth of July
Mr.. Waller said.
Meanwhile Woodward & Lothrop':
department store is displaying ar
American buzz bomb, the JB-2, or
its sixth floor. Bond booths have
been set up near the 5000 pound
weapon. About IS other new wal
devices also are on display.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Action Pushed
On Bill Raising
Pay Of Teachers
Subcommittee Hopes
To Send Plan to
House Unit Today

The District teachers pay bill
probably will be reported favorablJ
to the full House District Commit.
tee this afternoon unchanged from
the form in which it was submitted
by the District Commissioners ex.
cept for clause providing an i'm
mediate $l00 pay raise for all teach.
ers, Representative Feighan, Demo.
crat, of Ohio, chairman of the
House District Education Subcom.
mittee, said today.
Mr.. Feighan conducted a joint
Executive Committee of the House
District Education and Fiscal Sub
committee this morning considering
the bill and scheduled another this
afternoon. He indicated subcom-
mittee members were anxious to re-
port the bill favorably so that the
District Committee could send it to
the House before it adjourns for the
summer.
Chairman Randolph of the House
District Committee suggested ar
amendment ordering the imma.
diate $100 raise after criticism de-
yeloped at hearings that teachers
now at the top of their professional.
grade would have to wait year be-
fore getting any more money under
the provisions of the bill as origi-
nally submitted
Committee Calls HefnmilIer.
A. w. Heinmiller, school budget
officer, was invited to confer with
the subcommittee this afternoon.
Mr.. Feighan emphasized that he
did not wish to speak for other
members of the committee, but "af-
ter careful consideration" of each
section of the bill this morning, il
appeared the members were agreed
it should be reported favorably ex-
cept for the one change.
Mr.. Feighan added that the teach
erS themselves had spent more than
a year of work drawing up the bill
and that he thought the committees
had studied the complicated legis-
lation as rapidly as could be ex-
pected.
The bill provides a $500 to $4,000
annual increase for school employees
1t will replace legislation-Which eX-
pired Saturday night-under which
a $500 bonus was paid to school en-
ployes. 1t is also intended to COR
rect inequities in the pay scale and
raise salaries in effect since 1924
so as adequately to meet the rising
cost of living.
Lack of Standard Hit.
The Washington Teachers Union
sharply criticized the bill at hear
ings for not providing single sal
airy standard for teachers of all
grades.
Chairman Bilbo of the Senate
District Committee has indicated he
will await House action on this bill
before considering measure intro
duced by Senator McCarran, Demo
crat, Of Nevada, providing per-
centage pay increases similar to
those in the police and firemen's
pay bill.
Mr.. Randolph said earlier that he
will see to it the pay raises are made
retroactive to July l to avoid losses
in salary to annual school employees
affected by expiration of the $500
bonus.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
s. Dog Tag Bill Going
To White House Amid
Uproar Over Refunds

The rabies control bill, with it's
hike in the price of dog tags from
81 to SO, was expected to go to the
White House today-and end the
bargain sale of dog tags that threw
the District Building into an uproar
yesterday.
When President Truman signs the
bill the dog tag price will go to So.
The tax collectors Office will raise
the price, Corporation Counsel
Richmond B. Keech said, when the
White House of1cially notifies the
District Buirding that the bill has
been signed Rumors that the bill
was signed had much to do with
yesterdays confusion.
Arrive Early for Refunds.
Meanwhile, there was the mat
ter of refunding 81 to the hun
dreds of dog owners who paid So
some under loud protest-yester-
day for their tags.
More than score of dog owners
arrived early at the collectors Of
fee this morning to demand their
81. The telephones rang constantly,
with dog owners wanting to know
when they were going to get their
81 back.
Tax Collector Guy w. Pearson
estimated that 1900 licenses were
sold for SO and more than 200 for
50 yesterday. The tags went on
sale at the bargain price at 8 pm
several hours after Mr.. Keech ruled
that charging SO for the tags was
illegal until the rabies control bill
was signed by the President.
To Get Vouchers.
Every person who paid So when
the price should have been 50, said
Mr.. Pearson, will be mailed vouch-
er which the dog owner should fill
out and mail back to the collector S
Office at the District Building. The
vouchers will go to the auditor and
ultimately, the 81 refunds will be
distributed to the customers.
Approximately 500 mail applica-
tions were received yesterday-some
of the inclosing 50 and others So
Mr.. Pearson said less than 100 Of
these were processed for So
Mr. Pearson said dog owners who
sent in 81 will receive their tags
Those who sent in a check for 81
will be- notified of the lower rate
Those who sent in So in cash will
receive 81 back with the tag.