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Evening star., 1945-07-02
.BergdoIIs' Maryland
Land 10 Be Auctioned

The Maryland property OF the
Bergdoll family, subject of a con-
troversy since 1912, will be sold at
auctions in September and October
under an agreement reached in
Delaware County Court, near Phil
adelphia, the Associated Press re-
ported today.
The property consists of 100 acres
of unimproved land in Somerset,
abutting Wisconsin avenue just
northwest Of the District. 1t is
zoned as class A residential prop
erty and attempts to rezone the
section along Wisconsin avenue for
apartments failed more than a year
ago.
Judge Henry G. Sweeney said the
proposal for the auction sales is
acceptable to Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll, famous draft ,dodger in
the last war; to his brother, Erwin;
his sister, Elizabeth, and their
nephews, Louis and WILDER Bergson.
Controversy over the land came
into court in 1912 when Elizabeth
Bergdoll brought suit against Gro
yer Bergdoll's wife, Berta. seeking
to prevent sale of the tract for
100000. The offer for that sale
still stands, members of the family
said in Delaware County Court. 1t
was made while Berta was one of
the trustees and would have been
accepted had more cash been in
volved. The proposal called for
$4,000 cash and a three-year
mortgage for the balance. There Is
a 100000 lien against the land, ac-
cording to a court record disclosure.
Evening star., 1945-07-02
Senate Group Hears Plea
For Home BUILDING Material

The National Association of Real
Estate Boards today told Congress
more materials should be released
by the Government for home build
ing, and indicated it believed the
building industry was being dis
criminated against in contrast to
other businesses.
In a letter to Chairman Murray
of the Senate Small Business Com
mittee, Herbert U. Nelson, executive
vice president of the association
said while other types of business
are successful in obtaining release
of materials, builders who seek
increased allotments,, ARE told that
war conditions do not permit ex-
pansion Of the present emergency
house construction programs"
Declaring 1--WE need some aggres-
sive action" Mr.. Nelson suggested
that the committee investigate the
need for further material releases.
Evening star., 1945-07-02
Summer Session Opens
AT Catholic University

Lectures and classes in the sum-
mer session at Catholic University
begin today and will continue until
August IL. %
Enrolment and registration Of
students was held last Friday and
Saturday. Additional students were
expected to complete registration by
noon today. Enrolment figures
were about the same as last years
summer session, with the speech
and drama departments attracting
a particularly heavy registration.
The new course in theology, offered
religious students this summer for
the first time, also interested a large
number of the student body, the an
nouncement said.
Low mass was sung for the stu
dent body in the Shrine of the I'm.
maculate Conception on the campus
yesterday, with Msgr. Edward B.
Jordan, vice rector of the university.
giving a brief welcome to the
students.
Evening star., 1945-07-02
New Ration Cut Bars
Meat Every Day at
Restaurants, 0PASays

The newest cut in restaurant
rations went in effect yesterday and
OPA officials warned today any
restaurant which continues to serve
meat in large quantities will face
enforcement action.
No restaurant in the District or
anywhere in the United States can
go on serving meat for most of its
customers day after day and do it
legitimately," Robert K. Thompson,
District OPA director said today.
They just can't do it under the
new point allotment.
District OPA intends to back up
the national regulations and will use
its enforcement powers to obtain
strict compliance.
The Districts 2,200 restaurants
received varying meat ration cuts
ranging from as high as 81 per cent
to little or none at all. Generally
those restaurants which had heavy
use of meat during the base period
of December, 1912, were cut most
severely.
Inc cut was SAID by National OPA
to average about 20 per cent in red
points, IL to Is per cent in blue
points and 40 to Is per cent in
sugar. Aim of the reduction was
said to be the desire to level down
restaurant rations to a. par with
those for household consumers.
Restaurant owners generally were
inclined to view with misgivings the
two-month period ahead. Operators
Of restaurants which had been at
tempting to continue to serve steaks
in traditional fashion despite ration
ing were especially gloomy.
The only thing we can do is
change the entire character of our
business" one said.
Evening star., 1945-07-02
Three D. {. Area Men
Flown Home From Europe

Two Washington men. were
among the first $4,000 veterans tc
be flown to the United States from
overseas by the Air Transport Com
mand, the Miami ATC headquar-
ters announced today.
The veterans, Tf5 j.. D. Stewart
81, of 1903 Trinidad avenue NE
and Pvt. Lee A. Williams, 35, OF
2116 p street NV. are en- route to
Camp Blanding, Fla, from where
they viii be sent to distribution
center nearer Washington for re-
lease or reassignment under the
Arrny's redeployment plan.
T15 Stewart served "a months in
the European theater with an ord
nance unit. He has seven battle
stars.
Pvt. Williams served IS months
with the engineers in Italy.
Pfc. John r. Elgin, whose wife,
Margaret, lives at 1415 Anson street,
Silver Spring, Md, also has returned
by plane from Europe, where he has
been since October, 1912 Landing
at Miami, Fla. he will go to Fort
George G.. Meade, Md, before coming
home.
Evening star., 1945-07-02
Labor Shortage
Stalls Deliveries
OF Ice Here

Swamped with orders for ice,
Washington's ice terminals today
we're running hours behind schedule
for lack of manpower to get the
ice on delivery trucks.
All the ice companies said they
had plenty of ice"--unlike the ice
shortage of last summer-but some
of them predicted that if the heat
wave continues the supply may not
be sufficient for the summer.
At some terminals delivery trucks
were lined up for blocks. Ice COM
panies reported their orders had
more than tripled. One company
which said it was five hours behind
schedule, reported it was going to
try to reach all its customers some
time today.
The ice companies all complained
of lack of manpower. One company
reported hiring three men last
week, none Of whom showed up for
work today.
Evening star., 1945-07-02

proposal from French Foreign Min
lister Daladier was ignored con-
temptuously
Ciano wrote:
May 10.-"This is for history: ]
had a bad meal at the German
Embassy yesterday When we
LEFT at 1925 Won Mackensen Nazi
Ambassador .said he might have
to disturb me during the night and
took my private telephone number
At 4 am. he called to say that with
in three-quarters of an hour he
would see me and, and together we
would go to II Duce, as he had or
ders to confer with him exactly at
5 am. He would say nothing about
the reasons. ..
Editors note. Without ,Darn-
ing Germany inUaded Belgium,
the Netherlands and Lurem-
bourg at $50 am. on May 10,
I940.)
Evening star., 1945-07-02
Dagger Blow Strikes
AT Fallen France

June 10-"Declaration OF war.
received Poncet first who tried moi
to betray his emotion. After listen
ing to the declaration, he replied;
Tt is a dagger blow struck at a
fallen man.
Editors note: President
Roosevelt, speaking the same
day at the University of Vir-
ginia, said, "The hand that held
the dagger has struck it into the
back OF its 1eighbor.'
"sThe Germans are hard mas
ters. You will become aware OF
it. I did not answer. This did
not seem the time for debate
Don't get yourself killed. he con-
cluded, pointing to my air-force
uniform, and he clasped my hand
"Sir Percy Lorraine was more
laconic and inscrutable. He re-
ceived my communication without
batting an eye.
'Mussolini speaks from the bal
cony of Palazzo Venezia. The news
of the war does not surprise any
one, and does not arouse very much
enthusiasm. I am sad, very sad
: May God help Italy"
(ToncrrotD. Mussolini bOsDs to
Hitler 0CGsn.J
Evening star., 1945-07-02
School Board Protest!
Lack Of Painters for
Repair Of Buildings

Strong protest over the small
number of painters assigned to
public school buildings this summer
were made to the District CommiS-
sioners today by the Board of Edu-
cation.
Adeloert w. Lee. board member,
criticized the Commissioners for
assigning the same number of paint
ers-about 30-to Gallinger Hos
pital as have been allocated to the
entire system of 158 school build
ings. The District repair shop
spends 80 per cent of its time on
school buildings and the other 20
per cent on other District govern
ment buildings, including Gallinger,
he said. He and DR.. James A. Can
non, another board member, be-
ieve the division of painters should
be in proportion in the amount of
work involved.
Mr.. Lee added that summer is a
bad time to paint hospital. The
public schools are in "deplorable'
condition for lack of paint and
should receive the repair shops full
attention while classrooms are idle,
he said.
The board approved summer
program of painting % schools
under private contract at a cost of
s1l9 500. Another SGT 500 was allo-
Gated for the repair shop to paint II
more schools. The protest, on the
number of repair shop painters was
forwarded to Col ]. D. Arthur, jr.
assistant engineering commissioner
along with the contract approvals.
DR.. Cannon added that he wished
to examine some of the contracts
given to private companies in the
future to determine If costs are
exorbitant.
The board reelected for her
10th term as president Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle. DR.. Robert A.
Maurer was elected vice president
for the eighth year
Mrs. Opal Corkery, acting Ana
costa High School principal, was
promoted to permanent status.
Five assistant principals appointed
were: Miss Mary r. Maciulla, Cor
don Junior High School; Mrs. Eliza
beth K. Draper, Hine Junior High
School; Miss Elizabeth C. Jameson,
Jefferson Junior High School; Miss
Mary NJ. Aldhizer, Powell Junior
High School, and Harold Henegar,
Taft Junior High School
Evening star., 1945-07-02
Soldier Trapped
Atop Freight Car
After Rampage
Charged With Toking
Auto, Wrecking 1t,
Robbing Two Women

When police finally captured Pvt.
Myron Ernest Benjamin, %, of Fort
Belyoir, Va, early today they ac-
cused him of three-hour rampage
which included ID stealing an auto,
CD assaulting and robbing two
women, CD running the stolen ma
chine into another car and (4 re-
sisting arrest by scaling 10-foot
wall.
Meekly surrendering atop freight
car in the lexington railroad yards,
police said the soldier admitted the
misdeeds. He was held for military
authorities.
The outburst began at 1:10 am.
today in vacant lot at Tenth and
H streets NV. There, police said,
he saw Mrs. Bernice Johnson, 81,
and Mrs Lucille Young, Al, both of
1865 Kennedy street NV, about to
enter a car. Police recorded the en-
suing events as follows:
Pvt. Benjamin grabbed Mrs.
Johnson's purse and struck here in
the face with such force that she
went. to Casualty Hospital with a
possible jaw fracture and chin lac
erations. Then he attacked Mrs.
Young, inf1icting minor abrasions
on her face, snatched her purse and
fed in the car belonging to Wilmer
B. Young, A, Mrs. Young's husband.
Proceeding west on New York ave-
nue., the soldier ran the car into
the back end of one operated by
Francis v. Dorsey, 81, colored, of
22l3 N street NV, turning 1t COM
pletely around.
That did not stop the soldier,
police said. He abandoned the auto
in the 100 block of M street NE. as
police squad car drove up. When
police flashed a light on the soldier
he ran to a 10-foot brick wall, seal
ing it to escape. The police retired
and awaited developments.
Soon police at No. IL precinct re-
ceived call from a watchman at
the lexington yards, lexington
place and Florida avenue NE, say
ing that soldier was hiding on a
freight car.
Police Pvts. Donald Drager,
Charles P. Flynn and Frederick
Rabil arrived at the scene. Pvt.
Drager climbed the car and re-
turned with his man.
Pvt. Benjamin told police he lived
in Albany, N. Y, and was on a pass
from Fort Belvoir, where he had
been stationed Az months.
Evening star., 1945-07-02
Taxi Paper Plans During
To Benefit Veterans

A moonlight boat trip for the BEN
eft of disabled veterans at Walter
Reed Hospital and Forest Glen will
be held at $3.50 pm. Friday under
the sponsorship of the newspaper,
The Taxicab Driver.
Veterans and others who wish to
go will board the S. s. Mount Ver-
non at its pier. Tickets will be de-
livered anywhere in the city at no
charge by George E. Bowley, editor
of the newspaper. The fare Is 80
cents, with the proceeds going to the
veterans special fund at Walter
Reed, Mr.. Bowley said.
Evening star., 1945-07-02
Federal Bur Will Honor
Tom Clark Tomorrow

Members of Congress, heads of
numerous Government agencies and
jurists here will honor Tom c. Clark,
new Attorney General, at a testi-
monial dinner tomorrow night at
the ,Mayf1ower Hotel. The affair
viii he sponsored by the Federal
Bar Association.
Speaker Rayburn win make the
principal address and Robert H.
Shields, national president of the
bar association, will preside.
Evening star., 1945-07-02
Hitler Suggests Delay
OF Attack for Few Days

"Mackensen brings Hitler's written
reply to II DuCe. He asks that
the date be changed by few days
because shortly he proposes a de-
cisive attack against French air.
fields. He fears Italian action might
cause a reshuff1ing of French air
forces, interfering with the German
plan of destruction. II Duce agrees
in principle he prefers the 18th,
a fatal day for me-"
June 2-"Il Duce writes his answer
to Hitler. He selects June II.
During the evening Mackensen
asks urgently for a hearing and in
Hitler's name withdraws the earlier
objections. 1t seems now that inter-
vention sooner than the one pro-
posed would be more welcome. This
is impossible.
"We have moved some divisions
and declaration of war before June
II would catch them in half-stride.
June 3-"Alfieri telegraps Hitler's
approval. MuSsolini says the
King, too, finds the date satisfactory,
perhaps because of the slight delay,
perhaps because of his birthday
Nov. ID, and perhaps because as
recruit he was assigned No. ILL.,"
June "A council Of ministers.
All are expecting political sensations,
but II Duce capriciously gives to-
days meeting a strictly administra-
tive character. - Only at the
first, he said, This is the last coun-
Gil meeting in peace - I as
sumed command of a squadron
of bombers at Pisa"
June 5-"n Duce, who had PLAN
ned previously an air attack on
France, has decided now to bomb
British ports in the Mediterranean
and to remain passive Coward
France) unless our action
would finish the job"
june ct find II Duce angry.
His majesty has written let
ter In which he repeats that he
assumes command, entrusting at
the same time to Mussolini the
political and military conduct of
the war"
June 8-'New German successes,
but one still cannot speak of a
break-through. - Mussolini reads
to me the speech he will deliver
at s pm. Monday (June 10) when
the nation will be called to listen.
' :, II Duce is happy about
French resistance because the Ger
mans at last are being weakened
and will not reach the end of the
war too fresh and too strong"
June 9-"Il Duce was angry this
morning at the Germans. From
an intercepted telephone call it was
learned that Ribbentrop pretended
to know the content of Mussolini's
speech.
''Mackensen brings a message
from Hitler to II Duce. His best
wishes. : He accepts the offer
of the Bersaglieri (crack Italian
troops, and will send some regi-I
Evening star., 1945-07-02
New Building |
AT American u.
ToCost 7 Million
Modern Edifice 4
To Be Known as
Public Affairs Center

Plans for construction of ST.
600 900 building for American Uni
versity's School of Social Sciences
and Public Affairs, to be built ON
the site of the present school at
Nineteenth and F streets NV, were
announced today by DR.. Paul r.
Douglass, university president.
DR.. Douglass said the project,
which will be known as the Public
Affairs Center, would begin as soon
as materials are available.
The six-story, highly modern
structure will increase the schools
present facilities fourfold, the uni
versity said Among its features will
be double walls of glass in place Of
the usual brick and complete air
conditioning.
DR.. Douglass said the center would
be "a convenient concourse where
students from home and abroad,
scholars and the leaders and spe-
cialists of the Government may
come together to discuss and refine
ideas"
THE American University, when
its new center Is ready, will literally
be trustee of an educational mis-
sion and its service will be extended
by its collaboration with other insti-
tutions," DR.. Douglass added.
In the basement of the building
will be rooms for statistical labora-
tory work, duplicating equipment,
micro-film and the university's de-
partment of health.
One wing of the first floor will
include an auditorium seating 500
persons On the other side of the
building will be library with a
main reading room with 200 seats.
A smaller auditorium seating 200
will be in the center of the building
on the first floor.
The second floor will include a
reserve bookroom, the third floor,
kitchen, dining room and class
rooms; the fourth floor, additional
classroomS, including three rooms
for radio study. TIE fifth floor will
be devoted to recreation, including
squash courts. The remainder of
the floor will be made available to
national organizations with branch
offices in Washington.
The sixth floor will house student
lounge and snack bar and there will
be an open-air terrace running
around the entire building, DR..
Douglass said.
| Architects for the project are
Fulkner & Kingsbury of Wash
| ington.
Evening star., 1945-07-02
Rites for George Dorr
Set for Tomorrow

Funeral services for George Win
field Dorr, 64. patent attorney for
IS years, will be held at 10 am. to-
morrow In st. Adams Church. Bur-
ial will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Mr.. Dorr, who had Offices in the
Mnnsey Building, died Friday at his
home, 3518 Thirty fifth street NV.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Fannie Dorr;, two sons, Pvt. George
Walter Dorr, AAF; 1t. Charles r.
Dorr. U. S. NJ. r.; four daughters,
Mrs. Jean Rixey, Mrs. Emma Totten,
Mrs. Frances Smith and Ellen K.
Dorr, and three grandchildr
Evening star., 1945-07-02
MussoIini Approves
HitIer's Invasion

I'VE found II Duce calm and
smiling. He read Hitler's note list
ing the reasons for the action and
Mussolini to make the decisions he
must now consider necessary for the
future of his country. After
almost two hours II Duce told Mack
ensen he was convinced that France
and Great Britain were preparing
to attack Germany through Bel
gium and Holland. He approved
wholeheartedly of Hitler's action. 4. .
During the morning I saw him
I'll Duce) many times, and alas
found the idea of Intervention grow
ing stronger and stronger. Edda,
too (Ciano's wife and Mussolini's
daughter), has been at Palazzo
Venezia and told her father that
the country wants war and that
continued neutrality would be dis
honor.
81 confer with Poncet French),
Lorraine (British) and Phillips
Omitted StateS). They want news
on the Italian attitude. From
intercepted telephone conversations
it appears they expect our answer
momentarily. -.
Phillips said that what has hap
pened will shake the American con-
tinent deeply. He made no proph-
ecies, but I would not be surprised
if the United States broke relations
Immediately with Germany as
prelude to Intervention.
"Edda comes to see me before
leaving for Florence, and talks about
immediate intervention, about the
necessity to march, about honor
and diShonor. I listen with imper-
sonal courtesy. It's shame that
she who is so intelligent also re-
fuses to reason. I tell her 1T will
do her good to go to the Maggie
Fiorentino (spring festivaD where
she may occupy herself with music
to greater advantage. =.
I'll Duce says we must act
quickly Gin Yugoslavia). He marks
his calendar about the first of June
and decides to call Gambara (com-
manding italian forces) back from
Spain to command the forces that
will attack. i. The substitution of
Churchill for Chamberlain is re-
ceived with absolute indifference
and with irony by II Duce."
May 12-"The kilograms sent by
the Pope to the rulers of the three
invaded states have disturbed Mus
solini, who would like to curb the
Vatican. He said, The Pope
should not think that he can seek
an alliance with the monarchy, be-
cause I am ready to explode both
of them at the same time.
Editors note: The Pope sent
messages to Belgium, the Duchy
OF Luxembourg and Holland,
saying he Das praying for their
Dictory.)
"The King sends word that he
will give the Collar of the Annun-
ziata Qtaly's highest decoration) toI
Goering, but wants to avoid sending
a telegram of congratulations. :.
His majesty desires that his wish
be kept secret from Mussolini."
Evening star., 1945-07-02
28 SaiIboafs Compete
In Columbia Club REGATTA

Twenty EIGHT small sailboats in
five classes competed yesterday in
Columbia Yacht Clubs annual re-
gatta off Hains Point in light
and shifting wind.
Winner of a special handicap race
in which all classes competed was
Francis French's Frog, little cat
boat. Second place was taken by
Frank and Gene Marquardt's White
Shadow, star boat.
Glass winners in separate events
were Commodore william Barker's
Skipper, snipe class; Writ Gill's
Skeptic, penguin class; Darrell
Vick's Trop, handicap class; Fred
Koch's Betsey, comet class, and
White Shadow in the 20-foot class.
Dean Evans cruiser Flossie B
served as Race Committee boat.
Evening star., 1945-07-02
Federal Worker Finds
Makeshift Sprinkler
Saves Day for Children

A pack OF Swelter1ng children
went on a sit-down strike today
when a sprinkler attachment burst
after being connected to a fire hy-
drant in the $500 block of Mozart
place NV, and temporarily de-
prived them Of a street shower.
However, the day was saved when
a sympathetic Government employe
appropriated a nearby garden hose
and water tap and gave the kids a
substitute shower while another
sprinkler was obtained from the Dis
trict Recreation Department.
Mozart place NV. is one of 43
District streets ordered closed for
one hour daily during the summer
by the Commissioners to permit
street showers for children.
Mothers watched approvingly and
reporters were drenched in ventur-
ing close to the happily squealing
children, who were dressed in an
array Of conventional bathing suits,
makeshift loin-cloths, diapers, cut
short overalls, underwear and
dresses.
Pressure Too Strong.
From the enthusiastic noises ac-
companying the hose shower spec
tators had little doubt that the chill
dren appreciated the substitute
shower secured by the Government
worker, j. E. Fleener, visiting here
temporarily from Caracas, Vene-
zuela, where he works for the CO.
ordinator of inter-American affairs.
One of the first to be turned on
in the city, the original shower was
to have started at 9:45 am. The
kids were waiting when Bill Haag,
is, Recreation Department employe,
attached the sprinkler as a 2-year-
old blond kibitzer attired in diaper
offered advice. But the pressure
from the hydrant proved too pow
erful and the sprinkler fell apart.
At this point, 1t was suggested
that Bill go to recreation headquar-
tiers and obtain another sprinkler,
and he left in car. The minute he
took of, however, the children, act
ing as If of one mind, parked them
selves on the curb in a long line, and
inferred to their mothers that they
would not go home until they had
had the benefit. of some kind of
shower. Bronx cheers and assorted
boos meanwhile were rending the
peaceful air of Mozart place. i
Brings Out Tarzan i'm Him.
Their plight touched the heart of
Mr.. Fleener.
AS some Of the children danced
and jumped when the water from
the hose hit them, others daringly
ran close-in to the nozzle and one
little Tarzan gave out with few
yells
Little Cary Rinker, az years old,
of 2517 Mozart place NV, kept
rushing boldly into the stream while
holding up his underwear.
Another child, who decided the
water was too cold, suddenly took
of down the street and was block
away before his mother caught up
with him. He got a spanking. Il
Eventually the new sprinkler
came and was attached and the
youngsters piled in anew. But 1t
was all anticlimax.