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Evening star., 1945-01-07
Victory Over Fire at Sea

hammable inorganic pigments and by
adding antimony oxide.
No romance this, just lot of chem
ical calculations and tedious tests, but
enough ships were saved to equal the
losses of several major seafghts.
The second hazard was removed by
making fire-resistant fabric jackets Of
various sorts to cover all combustibles.
One of these envelopes mans mattress,
and also slows his clothing Gun covers
were treated with chemicals.
Then new fire-fighting materials and
new fire-fghting techniques were in-t
troduced. Typical of materials is
product of soybeans, which can also be
made of casein CO ..i,k or ether proteins.
A fine powder of soybeans is mixed in
a nozzle with water by high pressure air
to eject stream of foam This foam
is made up of mechanical bubbles, as
distinguished from chemical bubbles.
The violent mixing action forms water
bubbles reinforced by soy bean powder,
SO that they last for about two hours.
Evening star., 1945-01-07

not fall into the luxury class, but many
of them are substantial structures which
may well be carried over into the post
war era. Prices are kept at minimum,
although every conceivable difficulty of
transportation and supply enters into
the COST
Women guests, while in the minority,
can be accommodated.
DE Gink, Gold Coast!"
At the busiest terminals personal
affairs officers, finance officers, special
service officers and medical officers are
on hand to aid the traveller. Snack bars
supplement tull-course meals served in
the main dining rooms.
Officials in some localities have given
the hotels elegant names like Castle
Towers" or "Cocacabanya," but when
the brisk young desk sergeants answer
telephones ringing all around the world,
they are apt to say:
Hotel De Gink, BLUE West One," or
This is the De Gink, Gold Coast!"
When the old timers hear that, they
know they've got their flaps down at a
familiar spot, no matter where it may be.
In addition, there's usually Texas
beefstake or two on the griddle.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
By Howard w. BlakeSlee.
Associated Press Science Editor.

Associated Press science Editof-
officers, men and industrialists who
work at the unheroic and prosaic job
of making paint and flame controls
have accomplished one of the biggest
single strokes of the war in preventing
the destruction of American warships.
Early in the war more fighting ships
were destroyed by fire than by bombs,
shells and torpedoes. The explosives
started the fires, but the flames finished
the vessels.
and ammunition still burn, but the
insidious fire feeders which so often led
to them are gone.
There were three reasons why a steel
warship burned.
One was paint. The flash of exploding
enemy missiles was hot enough to ignite
paint, which itself spit explosively and
kept burning Bulkhead walls became
red hot and ignited the paint on the
other side Sometimes the paint was
years thick, maybe quarter Of an inch.
Inflammable Materials
The second was inflammable materials,
indispensable on shipboard: Clothing,
bedding, bandages and some other hos
pital supplies, gun covers and shorting
timbers. Also food-such as cereals,
starches and -four.
The third was that firefighting methods
and firefighting materials were in
adequate for today's type of war.
A paint that would not burn, most
difficult of the three remedy jobs, was
undertaken by the Research Standards
Branch Of the Bureau Of Ships Of the
Navy. Navy yards, the Naval Research
Laboratory and industry co-operated.
New Paint
Now the Navy has new, partly syn
thetic, plastic paint, nearly as thick as
molasses but capable Of spreading thinly,
that will not flame. It was made by re-
ducing the amount Of combustible ma
terials In paint. by adding pore non.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Army Services
Continued From Page ca

.lany other special services for our
troops, such as the carrying of mail, the
training of personnel to restore law.
order and government in occupied en-
enly countries, the endless number of
legal and financial aides to the families
of soldiers. All these are part of the
program of the Army Service Forces.
Much of this is of lasting benefit.
Training by the military has raised the
average educational level of many thou
sands of men, fitting them to be better
citizens when they return to civilian
life. Even more valuable to American
industry and to our national economy
will be the development of latent skills
in more thousands of men as result
of their training and experience in the
military establishment.
Evening star., 1945-01-07

North African. 10000; Pacific, $4,000,
and South Atlantic, 27,000.
Accommodations range from palm
thatched billets on far Pacific islands to
Nissen huts in Alaska, or Iceland and
luxury hotels taken over by the Army
in Miami and more recently in Paris.
The de Gink" in the French capital
is the Ritz. which accommodated Nazi
stuffed shirts and brass hats during the
German occupation.
The ATC found that its responsibility,
in hufrying important passengers 70
destinations all over the world entaile6
providing for their comfort and con-
venience at airports where no such facil-
tiles existed "~7 N"s@ >nr
Generally speaking, thesDe Ginks" do
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Andrew Jackson
Continued From Page C-4.)

~--~-~~~%~N
once stood Mrs H. Ulrich's boarding
house, and it was here, on January Is,
1887, that Gen. Santa Anna, Mexican
patriot. stopped upon his arrival in
Washington. This was the year follow
ing the fall of the Alamo when Texas
was fighting for its independence and
1t must have been subsequent to the
battle of San Jacinto, when Santa Anna
was captured by Gen. Sam Houston.
But the massacre at the Alamo was
still fresh in the minds of every one and
it Is quite probable he did not appear
in public more than was necessary. >
The capture of the Alamo may not
seem to some as of much Importance
today, but at the time it occurred the
people Of this part of the country were
quite interested, since many of thosS
who fought for Texas independence
were from the District Of Columbia,
Maryland and Virginia.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
BY Berton Bralev,

o. ~s7-s@'--- ; @-sezs~< sssass-ta syssS4-~-
From John Doe. WAR PRODUCTION
BOARD, WASHINGTON, D. c.,
to
Dallas bort, director, DIVISION
OF CEN TRIAL ADMINISTRATIVE
SERVICE, OFFICE OF EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Subject: EXPENSE ACCOUNT.
After filling in the inclosed expense
account of my recent trip on business
Of the Office of Emergency Manage
ment, in accordance with the nine
pages of instructions furnished me by
your division, I have decided hereafter
to manage the emergency of travel in
one of two ways:
(A BY sending a certified public
accountant with two stenographers in
my place, or
(B) BY paying my own expenses.
In private employ have been travel
ing on expense accounts for 20 years.
I don't believe all of them put together
represent as much paper work as I've
done on this one for the Government.
And, in my opinion, SO 44-1O0 per cent
of that paper work wastes not only my
time and energy but also absorbs
precious manpower in the useless job of
checking and rechecking it, and uses
strategic steel for files to keep the
resulting piles of document in dead
storage.
Here's the Evidence
AS evidence for the public eye as well
as your private eye, I append
Cd Verbatim copies of a number
only small number-of questions, in
structions and directives 1 am supposed
to observe in making out my expense
account; together with certain COM
ments of my own.
Cd Photostatic copies of two pages of
the expense account as I prepared it
in the form to win your approval
90 A few footnotes and addenda.
I will begin with the travel voucher
check sheet-NINE PAGES of regula-
tions, instructions and questions. OF
these SO or so items I'll quote only six.
QUESTION:: "Is the typed name OF
the traUeler identical 1Uith the sigma
ture, aoith the name appearing on the
trauel authorization, as typed ON the
Jorm 1012e and signature on the form
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Admiral Smith Looks at
The Record of His Seabees

ments in an invasion. They prepare
airields and bases for immediate opera
ton, construct wharves, supply ammu-
milton and fuel depots. They build dry
docks, power plants, distribution sys-
TENS, radio stations. roads and hos
pitfalls. They see that cargoes get ashore
They even take over mosquito control" ;"
The admiral asserted that Seabees
never lack for ingenuity.
native of Williston, S. c.. Smith
calls Portland, Greg, home He was
graduated from the Naval Academy in
1906 and from Rensselaer, Polytechnic
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Hotels DE Gink' Encircle the Globe

ATC's nine foreign divisions fed them
100000 hot meals and furnished 2,OOO,-
900 lunches to carry them through long
hops over oceans, deserts, mountains and
jungles.
From Ritz to Huts
The North Atlantic Division in one
month alone cared for nearly 10000
passengers. Although passenger traffic,
except for the highest priority, is Sec
ondary to the movement of strategic
materials to global war fronts, here are
a few figures for those fed and housed
by other divisions: Alaskan, $4,000;
Caribbean, $4,000; Central Africa, $4,000;
European, q 600; India China, $4,000;
Evening star., 1945-01-07
They Serve the VIPS

doSsier of the other passengers lit runs
to Is foolscap-and dc mean FOOLS
cap-pages) would say hired it:
(A) Because there was no visible COM
mon carrier.
OBJ Because it was the only visible
carrier
The number of miles Travelled was
eight the rate per mile was so cents,
because the driver wouldn't come down a
penny; the name of the owner was
George Washington Douglas I don't
think he was any relation, arh I don't
see why its any concern of the Division
of Central Administrative Service if he
was. However, since all the natives
called him Uncle George" maybe he
was my uncle. too.
Hired Bookkeeper
There was one other passenger-a
bookkeeper I hired at my own expense,
to take care of the accounting your nine
page opus entails.
INSTRUCTION: "The dates of trauel,
and beti1een tohat points travelled must
be ShoDn in the columns headed hours
OF departure and arriUal, meter readings,
start and end, miles travelled, rate per
mile and amount claimed must be filed
in. The rate per mile is the amount
indicated in the traUel authorization
The total OF the form should be carried
to page OF form 1912 in one entry
Meter readings must be Gcutdl meter
readings"
My report is accompanied not only by
the actual meter readings, but by the
actual meter. (Hospital bill for injuries
sustained in getting the meter away
from the car owner will be attached)
INSTRUCTION.. "The BUDGET and
Finance O6fce has available trauel and
transportation experts aoho are thor
oughly familiar 10ith the problems that
may arise in performing trauel and in
the preparation OF trauel Uouchers, and
these employees aUill, on request to the
Budget and Finance Office, render ad-
Dice on questions concerning trauel,
routing, accommodations, ETC., presented
by members OF the Office for Ener-
gency Management ,0to are in traDel
status or aoho contemplate performing
official traDel."
An Elaborate System
REPLY: Which, more briefly stated,
means that you have an elaborate sys-
tenn of untangling the red tape in which
your elaborate system of red tape has
tangled you.
In conjunction with this memo, Mr..
bort, I attach herewith a photostatic
copy of the expense account have pre-
pared in the attempt to follow your in
structions faithfully.
Although this form is damnably COM
plicated already, I'm afraid your staff of
expense-a account experts may consider
it little sketchy, SO I am preparing a
20-page document containing explana-
tions and Celebrations of each numbered
item, besides pages of footnotes and a
10-page appendix. Eight copies of this
opus will be submitted to you after I've
finished my weeks work in preparing It.
After your experts have octupally
checked it, they can chuck it in the file
and you can issue directive about
conserving paper.
And when you have looked this mess
of intricate clutter over-or engaged a
sizable portion of the country's man
power in doing it for you, Mr.. Dort-
tell me as man to man, not bureaucrat
to bureaucrat, isn't it a lot of baloney2
And with meat so scarce!
+, Yours truly, JOHN DOE.
Evening star., 1945-01-07
A Memorandum to the Government

..llIzE~ and stpned below unu uddt-
rstsoHdls stateRsessts oas~tae Term f0l2e2P
REPLY: Just minute while cheek.
No, they're not identical. They were
typed on different typewriters, Royal
and an Underwood. And haven't you
omitted q form or two? You don't mean
you let me off without signing at least
four?
: What Is This Nonsense?
QUESTION;"D "Does the jurat s1ao,u the
date OF its ,trecution, day, month and
year, the to1Un and State i0here ere
cuted, and the signature and title OF
the officer administering the OATH In
the case OF officials NTH seals, the i'm
print OF the seal must be clear and
legible. The date of the expiration OF
the commission must be sho,Un. See
that the date OF erecution is after the
date and hour OF the last day for Which
claim is made"
REPLY: What's jurat? Oh, an oath,
hey? Okay, here's one-what the blank
ETY. blank does all this bloody nonsense
mean?
QUESTION:: "Haue telephone calls
been itemised daily as tolloWs? For To-
cal calls, shoW that they are ON official
business and itemise as tollo,Us. Date.
number of local calls at amount each
and total amount Toll calls must shoaD
that they are on official business and in
addition must ShotO date, name OF person
called, address OF person called, point
from Uhich call lDdS made, time occu-
pied in minutes for each call Original
receipts must De provided ator each
charge OF $f.00 or more"
REPLY: Look, Mr. bort. The Govern
ment pays me about 50 an hour. If I
put all this detail down, each five-min-
ute call will take 10 minutes to report.
That's more expensive than letting me
get away with personal call or two
now and then, don't you think?
Special Conveyance
QUESTION: "Are claims for hire of
special conveyance fully explained sho,o-
ing auhy common carrier aoas not used,
number OF miles traDeled and rate per
mile contracted for, number of passen-
gers, relationship of eDner. it any, to
traUeler, and receipts obtained? Reim-
burSentent 1DiH not be allo1Ued to other
government employees, except in cases
/, OF emergency. Paragraph II (c) Trauel
Regulations"
REPLY: Pending preparation of the
complete story of the car I hired, and a
Evening star., 1945-01-07
BY w. H. Shippen, Jr.,
AUiQtion Editor of The Star.

Every link in the worlds first globe
girdling hotel chain, from the Paris
Ritz to the palm huts of Tongareva, is
just another "De Gink" to the regular
customers.
These amazing hotels now cater to
ambassadors, film queens, five-star gen.
erals or commandos on urgent mis-
sions. and last year they fed and
lodged more than 100000 world trav-
elers in out-of-the-way places. Yet
they're still "De Ginks."
Only old-timers who drop in on the
Nissen huts, tents, regal resorts, bar
racks or palm woven shacks of the sys-
Evening star., 1945-01-07
Bombed, Set Ablaze, Queen
OfSeas Again Serves King

prisoners. "Eyewitnesses" told of seeing
hundreds of men burned to death.
A British master of an Egyptian ship
reaching New York said the Georgia
was severely damaged at Port Tewfik
near the Red Sea entrance of the Suez
Canal. He said she was badly burned
and had been beached, but could be re-
paired.
In May, 1943, New York shipping cir
Evening star., 1945-01-07
BY John A. Moroso, III.
Associated Press stan Writer.

Britain's mightiest motor liner, the
sleek 27,759-tcn Georgia, has come back
from bomb-blasted hulk to sail again
in His Majesty's service.
The Belfast-born veteran, once one Of
the most luxurious ships afioat with
sound insulation and an ebony dining
room, was in New York when the war
Evening star., 1945-01-07

cles heard that the Georgic had been
towed home for rebuilding.
Actually, here is what happened:
She reached Suez July with troops
and supplies and was Immediately un-
loaded. On July IA enemy planes at
tackled her. Five bombs missed. One
glanced off the hull and exploded under
water, damaging the shell plating for
ward OF the bridge on the port side.
Another hit the sports deck astern and
pierced five decks before exploding. This
caused much damage including frac-
ture of the engine room bulkhead.
Completely Ahame
Raging fires broke out, and within
eight minutes the ship was completely
af1ame. Oil fuel helped spread the
flames. Capt. Greig decided to take the
Georgic into shallow water and beach
her
Communications between the bridge
and the engine room broke down, and
the ship drifted aimlessly. Smoke then
drove every one from the bridge, and the
majestic Georgia grounded herself with
list that approximated IT degrees.
She burned for two days. When Capt.
Greig and a group of volunteers re-
turned to her. they found mass Of
debris, crumpled decks. twisted bull
warks and stancflions ,4 -rse
Ship Relocated =.
The Cunard White Star Line sent ,ex-
perts to the ship and salvage operations
began after divers had plugged UNDER
water holes In October, 1941. the ship
was floated, although no more than a
dead" mass of machinery and charred
debris.
On December %, 1941, the Georgic left
Suez in tow. Five days later heavy
weather parted the lines, and the
Georgic developed 10-degree list.
Emergency pumps righted her in
few days, and she reached Port Sudan
January 10. She was there six weeks and
then was taken in tow by the steamer
Recorder for Karachi, India, 2,775 miles
away, which she reached March 81.
For months workmen scrambled over
her making repairs. Then, under her
own power, she made her way to Bonn
bay, where she was drydocked for re-
plating.
She left Bombay January 20, 1943, for
England and reached British port
safely with an average speed of Is knots,
only knots under her peacetime Ca
pacity.
Thus a stubborn ship owned by Stub
born men has lived to sail again.
Evening star., 1945-01-07

sssE Eers weeks she aNasz.Iisted aSss:.ynTe-
& Z ss "a sTy llssIa4asShe
at1ed Tew .z<stn, in INST
British liner to reach America in four
months. Capt. A. C. Greig said she
made the trip from liverpool via Ber-
nluda' i'm ~ days with 567 passengers and
44s crew members. He said the German
warship Scharnhorst had spotted her
during the Norwegian campaign but she
escaped in sudden merciful fog.
Outside Narvik bombs had cascaded
around her without damage. Twice she
had struck mines that turned out to be
duds.
When the British were driven from
France, the Georgia removed 5000 troops
from the st. Nazaire area and was un-
damaged.
Then she was ordered to pick up 1000
Australians at Capetown and rush them
to Suez.
On August 8, 1941, the British an
nounced that the Georgic had been
damaged by enemy action" No details
we're given and during the months that
followed many fantastic tales made the
rounds.
Severely Damaged
An American ship arriving at Boston
said the Georgia had gone down at Suez
July 13 after plane attack and fire
that killed 1877 crewmen and 600 Italian
Evening star., 1945-01-07

tenn along the Air Transport Com
mand's 100000 miles of air routes can
recall how the term originated back in
the days when accommodations were
quite sketchy, If not entirely lacking
How 1t All Started
1t seems that back in Texas. where all
good pilots originate, as most Texans
Evening star., 1945-01-07

Like Grand Central Station
the A. T. C.'s passenger ter
mindl at DiUiSion Headquar-
ters lin Ne10 York has an in
formation booth ready 1Oith
the ANSWERS.
will admit, knight of the open road is a
"gink,' and transformers who managed
to shack in at some airfield got to
referring to their quarters as hotels
de gink'
The Texans took the term with them
when the war sent them ranging far
and wide
The "De Ginks," most of which serve
hot meals around the clock under every
imaginable condition, are operated by
Army personnel who had been rated as
some of the brightest young men in
the hotel business until Uncle Sam gave
them greetings.
They Serve the VIPS
They have to be good to deliver the
groceries down on the Gold Coast, or
guests are accustomed to nothing less
than the best of everything. They're
"VIPS,' or very important people" and
they must be served.
In addition to furnishing transient
quarters for 100000 guests in 1914. the
Evening star., 1945-01-07

started. What has happened to her
since, especially on July day at Suez
in 1941, has been submerged in rumors,
Nazi propaganda, and military secrecy.
Odyssey of the Georgic
But. finally here is the story of the
George:
She slipped out of New York for "an
undisclosed port just a few days after
the war broke out, on September 8. She
came back on October %, in wartime
gray and with two guns on her stern.
Passengers said she had zigzagged across
the sub-infested Atlantic with only
speed as her chief weapon.
She left New York again six days later
and, on November IA the Nazis classified
her as raider and pirate ship" because
of her two guns. They said she would be
sunk without warning. Thrice more the
Georgic slipped into New York. bringing
in 400 German-Jewish refugees on the
last trip, before the Nazis poured into
unsuspecting Norway and the Georgic
was put to rushing British troops to that
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
Yumomoto Dies in Flames
Lonphier Describes His Dive
On Bomber Trying to Escape

We very nearly did. The next
three or four seconds became
life-and-death problem in time and
distance. I remember feeling very
stubborn just then, about making
the most of that one good shot I
had coming up at that bomber, no
matter what the two zeros wanted
to make of 1t.
I applied myself to my gunnery
and, taking no chances Of missing,
began firing a long steady burst
across the bomber from approx
mately right angles. Long before I
considered myself In range, the
bomber's right engine, and then
his right wing, began to burn.
I had accomplished my part of
the mission. Once afire, no Jap
aircraft ever ceased burning short
of blowing up. And all on board
were too close to earth to jump for
their lives. The two onrushing
Zeros shot over my head just then,
apparently unwilling to chance a
crash in the jungle to get me.
Bomber Not Yet Down.
Suddenly, I realized the bomber
had set afare was still acting
lethal To my embarrassment, I
saw that my impetus would carry
me in another second directly be-
hind the stern of the Mitsubishi--
and out of its tail was puffing a
steady stream OF cannon shot.
Just as I moved into range Of its
cannon, the bomber's right wing
came off and it plunged into the
| jungle and exploded. All within 1t
died in flames, and Admiral Yama-
moto was at the end of his VEN
eance-driven road.
Right about then I got scared.
Having had to slow up so much to
get my shot at the bomber, was
now caught with my pants, and my
heart, down around by ankles. My
air speed indicator would coldly tell
me nothing more than go miles an
hour, which was even less than
cruising speed. had, at best, 10
feet of altitude from which to dive
and gain speed. Hardly enough. A
glance to my left told me that the
two Zeros had not forgotten me
/ they were diving on me once again
! this time from almost right angles
to my left.
For the first time that day, ]
pushed my microphone button and
called Mitchell. l asked him to send
down anybody who was not busy
at the moment to help me. He re-
piled he was coming down himself
and asked for my position. He had
me there.
I was by no means cool, and thu
best I could do was squawk that
was heading east" and was "ovel
the jungle" Bougainville Is an is.
land 80 miles long and 40 miles wide
completely covered with jungle
Needless to say, Mitchell was 60.
ing to have a hard time finding me
I did have enough sense to call hin
once again and ask him to verify
the burning bomber. He replied
that he could see it. I then applied
myself completely to keeping myself
alive
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