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Evening star., 1945-01-25
200 TricycIes Offered to Child
AS Result Of Story in Star

be able to help little Barbara get
better" Mr.. Turner said. Every
body knows how scarce tricycles are
today and ours was not being used
anyway"
Mrs. Kirtz said the telephone
started ringing early yesterday and
was still ringing this morning, with
everybody either offering to give
Barbara a tricycle. or lend it to her
for long period.
IT want to thank the hundreds
of people who telephoned," she said,
"and so does Barbara. She even
answered the telephone herself
every once In q while. She's really
tickled."
An occasional stumbling Is the
sign Of weakness in Barbara's legs,
her mother said, and otherwise she
Is very healthy and happy little
girl. The doctor had first suggested
the child use roller skates to exer-
else her limbs, but this idea was
vetoed because Barbara was too
young.
Mr.. Kirtz is signal maintainer on
the Maryland division Of the Penn
Sylvania Railroad.
Evening star., 1945-01-25

With telephone calls still coming
in, more than 200 tricycles have been
offered to 3-year-old Barbara Gail
Kirtz, whose physician said she
needed one on which to exercise her
weak legs. One Is to be presented
to her this afternoon.
In a story in The Star yesterday
Mrs. Wiley Kirtz, mother Of the
child, told Of her difficulty in OBJ
tanning a tricycle., a scarce article
these days.
The tricycle. which Barbara has
her heart set on, she said, is a shiny
black and silver one which will be
taken to the Kirtz residence at 19a
Thirty-hf street NE, today by
James F. Turner, 35, of 4109 Stanley
street Sc.
Mrs. Kirtz said Mr.. Turner begged
her" to accept the tricycle. which he
declared his two children, Diane, 8
and Richard, Z, had outgrown. He
is funeral director and embalmer
at the Southeast branch of Cham
bers Undertakers, SIT Eleventh
street Sc.
my two kids are very happy To
Evening star., 1945-01-25
france Will Maintain
Forces Along Rhine,
De GauIIe Declares
BY the Associated Press.


PARIS, Jan. Is. France in
tends to maintain military forces
all along the Rhine after the
war, Gen. Charles de Gaulle told
a press conference today.
Meeting newspapermen for the
first time in weeks, the French lead
er said regretfully that he had not
been invited to the forthcoming
big three" conference.
He told 200 French and foreign
correspondents that France had
made no formal request for an in
vitation to the conference, but had
believed the heads Of all three big
countries had known of the French
attitude.
France does not intend to fin-
ish this war without assurance that
the French Army is installed per-
manently along the length Of the
Rhine from one end to the other"
Gen. De Gaulle declared.
They must be there not only for
French security but for the secur-
ity of the world"
He said history in the last 10C
years had shown such a course to be
essential, and added that France
had suffered too much in this wa,
not to claim this guarantee.
Gen. de Gaulle said France die
not intend to recognize the Lublir
committee as the provisional gov.
eminent of Poland, at least not
Immediately.
France wants Poland herself tx
choose her government" he said
up to now have the Polish people
had q chance to manifest their in.
tentions and desires? I do not thinl
so. So, We shall see."
France now recognizes the Polish
government in exile In London
but has exchanged delegates with
Lublin.
Declaring it was normal and de-
sirable" to extend commercial re-
lations with Spain for aiding tn,
French war effort, Gen. de Gaull,
added that France, with other coun'
tries, objected to the seizure OF thu
international zone Of Tangier ant
considered this a question which
ought to be settled.
Evening star., 1945-01-25
| Army Doctors
Say Ticks Cause
| Rabbit Fever
Ry the AssoAated Press.


CHICAGO, Jan. 25.-Army doctors
reported yesterday that the tick
known for years to be a source OF
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, also
causes human tularemia, which usu-
ally has been traced to rabbits.
They reported IS cases Of tula-
remia among soldiers from an Army
maneuver area in Tennessee within
80 days in the summer Of 1943, none
Of them fatal. In nearly all cases
the soldiers knew of being bitten or
exposed to ticks and had had no
contact with rabbits.
The discovery that the tick is an
important cause Of this acute in
fectious disease was reported in the
Journal of the American Medical
Association by Maj. George v. By
field and associates.
Evening star., 1945-01-25
Bard Hits Mead Report:
On Norfolk Navy Yard
As Distorted Picture
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
While admitting there is a man.
power utilization problem at the
Norfolk Navy Yard, Assistant Sec
retary Of the Navy Bard maintains
that the criticisms Of conditions
there, made early this week by
members Of the Senate War In
vestigating Committee, present an
incomplete and distorted picture.
Mr.. Bard told a press conference
yesterday that the Navy had in
vestigated the Norfolk yard before
the Senators visited it. The sur
vey was made by a. board headed by
Rear Admiral G. w. Fisher.
This naval report, Mr.. Bard said,
was furnished to the Senators who
"excerpted only those portions of
the report which best suited
their purpose of attempting to
demonstrate an inefficient utiliza-
ton of manpower at the Norfolk
Navy Yard"
500 Personnel Turnover.
The crux of the Nays problem
at Norfolk, Mr.. Bard explained,
was a SO per cent turnover in person
mel, but added that the Navy ''had
been on top of the job steadily"
trying to improve conditions.
Mr.. Bard charged that the Senate
committee, despite several requests
by the Navy Department, had not
given 1t transcript of the hearings
at Norfolk on which were based
charges Of waste and inefaciency
made on the Senate floor.
The Navy, Mr.. Bard said, has
never attempted to deny that it
has a manpower utilization problem
before 1t and studies have been
going on since the war began to
improve such conditions. Creation
Of the committee headed by Admiral
Fisher more than year evidenced
that fact, he asserted.
The big problem, Of course, he
said, is the so per cent turnover in
personnel which navy yards have
been experiencing. In four years, he
added, the total of workers engaged
in shipyard work has grown from
273 naval officers, 1900 experienced
supervisors and 5000 experienced
workers to 5000 naval officers, 1880
supervisors and $4,000 employees.
Great Majority Unframed.
"It is perfectly obvious from these
figures" he said, that great ma
jority of these are not trained ship
builders"
Secretary Forrestal, joining in the
discussion, said generally speaking
many problems in navy yards arise
out of the character of the work
turnover of labor, difficulty of OBJ
tanning adequate supervision and
the very nature of the work itself -
1T is impossible to predict the
extent or character of work which
a yard will be called on to do, but
we have to have available material
and men to do emergency work
We welcome anything to improve
conditions which at best are always
difficult"
Mr.. Bard, after referring to SEN
atorial excerpts from the report OF
the Navys own investigation, made
public the entire text of the report
Evening star., 1945-01-25

Pvt. Dominic N. Rosa, 81, Infantry
has been reported missing in action
in Belgium on December 25, the
War Department has informed his
wife, Mrs. Rea Rosa, 1881 Emerson
street NV.
Pvt. Rosa was previously wounded
in France last September and re.
ceived the Purple Heart, Mrs. Rosa
said. A native Washingtonian, Pvt
Rosa was in the taxicab bushes.
before he entered the service In
November, 1943. He went oversee.
last April. Mrs. Rosa is employed
by Lansburgh's Department store
here.
Pvt. Charles o. Curtin, 80, has
been missing in action in France
since January 2, the War Depart
ment has informed his wife, Mrs
Mildred v. Curtin, 108 Emerson
street NV.
Pvt. Curtin was born In Wash
ington and Is q graduate of Roose-
welt High School. He was employed
as an engineer at the Potomac
Electric Power Co. when he entered
the service In November, l943. He
has been overseas with the infantry
since July. Pvt. Curtin has two chill
dren, 8-year-old Patsy and 4-year-
old Timothy.
1t. Warren H. Macdonald, %
Liberator pilot, of 2431 Thirty ninth
place NV, has been missing over
Czechoslovakia since December 6
See story on Page B-1.
Prisoner
Sergt. Gilbert r. Roberts, jr., a.
infantry, son of Mr.. and Mrs. G. r
Roberts, 1887 Oak street NV, who
was reported missing In action, Is
now prisoner of Germany, he has
written his father.
Sergt. Roberts was reported miss
ing November Is near Metz. He
attended Central High School and
entered the Army two years ago,
his father said. He went overseas
in August, 1943. A brother, Staff
Sergt. Thomas Gordon Roberts,
paratrooper, is in the European the
ater Of operations
Evening star., 1945-01-25
Round TubIe to Initiate
23 at Weekly Meeting

The Washington Round Table will
initiate 23 new members at its
weekly meeting at 1890 pm. to-
morrow in the Sun Room of the
Washington Hotel.
F. Elton Rogers, past president
will direct the initiation ceremonies
with the assistance Of Linn G
Drake, Harry L. Clarke, Alton G
Grinnell, Horace L. Stevenson anc
Rex. B. Shelley. Edward T. Stafford
president of the Round Table, viii
preside.
Evening star., 1945-01-25
1t. Doyle, Flyer, Killed;
Son of House Member
Ry thu Associated pres

BY the Associated Press.
MYRTLE BEACH, S. c., Jan. IS
Lit. Clyde Doyle, jr, son of Repre-
sentative Doyle, Democrat, of Cali
fornia, died yesterday OF injuries
he received in plane crash at Paw
leys Island Sunday, the Myrtle
Beach Army Air Field announced.
1t. Doyle, a veteran Of overseas
service, was plotting the plane, the
announcement said. He Is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth l.
Doyle, Long Beach, Calf.
Technical Sergt. Robert E. Flynn
Wilsey, Kans., also an overseas vet
eran, was critically injured in the
crash.
Evening star., 1945-01-25
|kyser, Singing Wife
Join Stars Lined Up
For Birthday Balls

MOTc uuSlC-hdy hyStT-dLlQ
more glamour--his wife and vo-
calist, Georgia Carroll--will join
screen and radio celebrities here
next Monday and Tuesday for fes-
tivities centering around the Presi-
dents birthday and the drive for
infantile paralysis funds, the Birth
day Celebration Committee an
nounced today.
Along with this announcement
came the withdrawal Of Gary
Cooper from the list. Mr.. Cooper,
tie first star who promised to come.
has been ordered to bed because Of
all amoebic infection acquired on
a South Pacific tour last year, the
actors studio announced yesterday.
DIR. Leland Hawkins, his physi.
clan, said the infection was aggra-
waited by a recent attack of influ-
enza and that treatment will re-
quire weeks.
Tickets Still Available.
Mr.. Kyser, whose Southern draw
is famous on his Kollege of Mu.
sical knowledge with "Evenin', folks
how y'all?" has appeared in movies
with his band. Miss Carroll is 9
former magazine cover girl anc
also has taken part In films with
her husband.
Some tickets for the birthday
balls Tuesday night and for the
Monday midnight shows at Warner
Bros and Loews' theaters still are
available, the Birthday Committee
said today.
Appearing at these festivities be-
sides Mr.. Kyser and Miss Carroll
will be Veronica Lake, Danny Kaye
Alan Ladd, Jane Wyman, Linda
Darnell, Joe E. Brown, Victor
Moore. Margaret O'Brien, Gale
Storm, Charles Bickford, George
Murphy. Monty Woolley and Victor
Borge.
Oficial reception committees TO,
the balls were announced today
Mrs. Roosevelt will visit the balls al
six hotels. the Stage Door Canteen
the Lincoln Colonnade and two use
clubs. She will be escorted by
Thomas p. Morgan, jr., chairman OF
the Reception and Floor Committees
1t. Col. Edward M. Hudgins, vice
chairman, and Col. Horace B. Smith
Committees Listed.
Reception Committees and the
balls at which they will serve are
Statler Hotel, Commissioner anc
Mrs. John Russell Young, Commits.
sioner and Mrs. Guy Mason, Col
and Mrs. Charles w. Kutz anc
Richmond B. Keech: Willard Hotel
Mr.. and Mrs. Wall Doxey, Mrs
Laszlo Detre and Mr.. and Mrs. Nor.
ris Cafritz; Mayflower Hotel, Mrs
Patrick J. Hurley, Senator Theo.
dore G. Bilbo and Representative
and Mrs. Jennings Randolph
Shoreham Hotel, Mrs. Edwin M
Watson, DR.. Hans Kinder and Col
and Mrs. r. c. Kilmartin.
Wardman Park Hotel, Mr.. anc
Mrs. Edgar Morris and Mr.. anc
Mrs. George H. O'Connor; Wash.
ington Hotel, Mr.. and Mrs. Aubrey
Bogley, Mr.. and Mrs. John A
Reman, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. George
J. Richards and 1t. Col. John Saul;
Stage Door Canteen, the Secretary
OF Navy and Mrs. Forrestal, Under.
secretary of War and Mrs. Patterson
and Mrs. George w. Holmes; Lin.
coin Colonnade, Col. and Mrs
Campbell c. johnson and Mr.. anc
Mrs. George M. johnson; use
Club, Seventeenth and K street.
NV, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney F
Taliaferro, Miss Elsa M. Peterson
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward M. Currar
and Miss Mabel r. Cook; use
Club, 20l1 Georgia avenue NV, DR.
and Mrs. Howard Long, Mr.. anc
Mrs. j. G. Arnold and DR.. and Mrs
Daniel Smith.
Evening star., 1945-01-25
Red Leader in Chunokino

CHUNGKING, Jan. Is tP.-Gen.
Chou En-lai, one of the Chinese
Communist leaders, arrived in
Chungking from Yenan yesterday,
reportedly bearing a Communist re-
ply to the Chungking government S
undivulged proposals for settling the
Communist question. So
Evening star., 1945-01-25

They did their part. Will
you do yours? You can by
calling District 5000 to make
a blood donors appointment.
You can donate blood between
9 am. and S pm. weekdays and
9 am. to noon Saturdays at
the District Blood Donor Gen.
ter, Acacia Building, 81 Louisi-
ana avenue NV. And keep
your date. They kept theirs.
Evening star., 1945-01-25
Wounded

Pvt. Joseph G. Gales, %, one of
the five sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Tim
othy w. Gales, I'll Ingraham street
NV, who have served In this war
was wounded In action in Germany
November 20, his family has been
notified. He now is in q hospital
in England.
An infantryman, Pvt. Gales worked
at the Navy Yard before entering
service two and half years ago
He went overseas In September. OF
his brothers, one, Edmund P. Gales
recently was discharged from the
Army; Ensign Richard Gales has
been missing in the North Atlantic
since october, 1913; Pvt. William
T. Gales is i'll in a hospital at
Fresno, Calf, and Seaman OFirst
Class Ralph Gales is on duty with
the Navy in the Pacific.
Pvt. Joseph Gales is q native OF
Washington and attended Abbott
Vocational School.
Pfc. Frank H. Freed, 20, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde H. Freed, 61a
Lexington place NE, lost his right
hand under mortar fire In France
November Is, his family reported
He is now In hospital In Atlantic
City,.
Pfc. Freed was graduated from
Eastern High School and had en-.
tered Wheaton College In Illinoi,
prior ito enlisting In the Air Force.
in 1943. He was In the Army spe-
cialized training program until 1t.
discontinuance, when he was trans.
ferred to the infantry. After train
Evening star., 1945-01-25
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senate:
Routine session.
Commerce Committee calls Henry
A. Wallace on bill to strip Commerce
Department OF financial powers.
Foreign Relations Committee con-
tinues hearing on United States
Mexican water treaty.
House: g.u ..- -.
Routine session. @ o. ,zi.t-..s
Bonds bought today win pay and
pay-buy another War Bond today
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-24
Big Three Meet
Appears Near

Continued from Page u
dent Roosevelt's most intimate ad-
wiser, and Davies, former u. S. am
bassador to Russia, will undertake
their missions as part of the gen.
eral pattern of the coming big three
conference" Ross said.
This apparently means that they
will lay the groundwork for the
Stalin- Truman Churchill meeting
on the subject of which only Stain
thus far has remained silent.
While he said he had no idea of
when and where the big three will
get together, Ross said he did not
believe the British elections in July
would affect the date of the confer
ence.
Asked whether this meant that a
definite decision. had been reached
on the big three meeting, Ross said
''it is being projected"
The President, eager himself for
a personal meeting with the British
and Russian leaders, assigned the
two emissarieS to look into matters
now under discussion" among the
big three.
His action left no doubt as to the
magnitude Of big three differences
which have blossomed in Europe
since the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-24
,oHXson 5sSx!aa in Hollywood

Miss Harrison is young and at
'ractive. She reversed the old order
If show business. Instead of the
,rcducer examining the actresses
egs to see whether she gets the
,art, the actor now takes a peek at
he producers gains to see whether
lie wants the part.
Ella Raines is the only sympa-
hetic character in the picture. She
s in love with Sanders. But Di-
'ector Siodmak is guy with no
Cinderella conipleXes.
In christmas Holiday" he left
Deanna Durbin without her man.
IN The Suspect" Ella is left at
he end waiting on a ship, minus
husband Charles Laughton.
In Uncle Harry" Ella is left be-
hind again. in railroad station.
Ella told us: after Uncle Harry,
II be known as the girl they leave
behind"
Ella plays a New York fashion
expert and dresses the part. In
between scenes she strutted around
the set in a classy Travis Banton
mannish suit, saying:
Don't remind you of Gable?"
Moyna Macgill plays George San
ders' older sister She is the mother
of Angela Lansbury. and this is her
first role in a Hollywood film, al
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-24

Continued from Page u
their offensive against the capital
six months ago Thursday.
A Japanese communique said
scme fires still were burning at z
a. m. Japanese time, more than five
and a half hours after the start
of the raid.
PALACE GARDEN HIT
It said an arbor in the imperial
palace garden was attacked and an
establishment" within the grounds
of the AkaSaka detached palace,
used to house visiting royalty, had
been destroyed.
Other Tokyo broadcasts said the
Singaku temple of the Ronins, SYM
bel of Japanese chivalry." was de-
stroyed. Some bombs fell in Yoko-
hama and Kawasaki as well as in
Tokyo, the broadcasts said.
The Japanese claimed 81 Super
fortresses had been shot down and
80 others damaged.
The temple lies two and a half
miles south of the imperial palace.
The japanese were believed to
have sent jet-propelled night fight
ers against the raiders, but au-
thorities said losses had been un-
expectedly light. Returning fliers
said balls of fire." presumably jet
fighters, chased them as much as
20 miles out to sea.
The raid was more than 1000 tons
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-24
Sherwood Doinq
Well in Hospital

Russell Sherwood of El Centre, ex-
marine wounded while serving in
the South Pacific, is doing fine
after an operation performed late
last week in the naval hospital in
San Diego.
The operation was performed to
remove a bullet from his thigh. The
missile had travelled from his heart
through an artery and stopped in his
thigh. The bullet lodged in his heart
while he was in action in the Pacific
tteater and it suddenly dislodged
from his heart last week and trav-
eled to his thigh.
The same surgeon, Captain James
Roy Fulton, chief of surgery at the
naval hospital in San Diego, oper-
ated upon young Sherwood twice,
the first time eight months ago
while he was aboard a hospital ship
on the way from Peleliu, where he
was wounded, to Guadalcanal, and
the second time in the naval hospi-
tai in San Diego late last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-24

though she had done few bits.
Everybody on the set calls her
''Merna." They thought Moyna was
the Brooklyn pronunciation Of
Merna. at first. Now the name has
stuck. We wonder what they'll call
Moyna in Brooklyn.
"Uncle Harry has very interest
ing prop, a nine-inch telescope built
by George Sanders which he rented
to Universal for the picture.
Sanders, indifferent TO how the
cameraman lights him, fused for 20
minutes with Cameraman Paul
Ivano on lighting for the telescope.
He explained that this was the tele-
ccope's film debut and he wanted
it to show off to advantage.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-24
Peace Meet Must
Write Off Wars
Continued from Page u

iOOIlIIIlutu lIOIIl rage ~
of the world know tin the success
CT failure of this and succeeding
similar conferences.
What is done these days in San
Francisco well may determine
whether the sons of today's service
men Will die in battle CT whether
they can live with reasonable Sc
curity
In other words, between us and
inevitable war lies just one thing
peace plan such as the world
delegates are so sincerely, almost
frantically trying to create here.
If it fails, we have lost the first
engagement of the next war.
CLEARLY OUTLINED
This is the Alpha and Omega, the
sum and substance, the overall re-
alization which sweeps upon the
observer at the conference. In
words it is weak and without fire.
whereas in fact right before ones
eyes, its impact and far-reaching
meaning burn like X-rays deep into
zones CONSEQUENCES.
= **
1t is slightly absurd for me to
guess what these seeds of the
coming war may be- After all, the
lneXpert student can hardly claim
to be authority. With the under
standing that what I say is possibly
all supposition, can draw a picture
CT sorts.
Russia is the big question mark.
All her attitudes do not strike
favor. Nor do they entirely stir
international confidence. She is not
living up to the agreements arrived
at III Yalta-her actions and words
in the Polish matter are indeed
disturbing.
EUROPE LEFTISTS
The leftiSt movements throughout
Europe are common knowledge. We
observe with concern the recent
election in France showing a strong
swing to the communist and So
clalistic; We observe the actions of
communist leader Tito in Yueo-
Slavia- How Widespread the new
political theory is in Europe. no
enc knows.
But certain it is that the eyes of
the conference are focused on Rus
sia en- the one hand, and America
and Britain on the other. the lat
ter two as the prime defenders
against this unknown and unde-
fined "something" which is hap
pening not only in Europe but also
to unknown extent in China.
II this is serious, it might be the
tap-root Of the next war. And if
1t IS serious, the hope of the con-
ference well may be that only bv
some worldwide agreement backed
up by arms and by world-opinion
and union of nations against force
OF arms, can we. avoid the next
conflict, or at least confine it to
civilized dimensions.
F'euds and duelS have been elini-
mated IN American life.
UNCIC' hopes to. eliminate them
from the World of Tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-24
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Social Security
Bill Presented
Continued from Page II

Continued from Page II
munity who participate in the pro-
gram.
Wagner said the bill also pro-
aVides for using existing group health
organizations, which will be reim-
nursed for their services to anyone
who wishes to take advantage Of
them.
Such groups. he said, ''wculd be as
free as they are today to select
their own staffs and follow their
own method Of paying their physi-
clans.
Inc increase in unemployment
compensation, he said, is desirable
because the benefits provided under
the present state unemployment in
Surance laws are completely made
quate to serve as strong first line
OF defense against reconversion and
postwar employment"