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Evening star., 1945-02-19
ST. Johns Official Denies
School Lacks Finances
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 19.-Richaro
T. Cleveland, secretary of the st
Johns College Board of Governors
and Visitors, taking issue with a leg
islator who said the school "is going
to pot" financially, declared that 'the
life of the college was never more
vigorous"
Delegate Bertram L. Boone, Demo-
crat of Baltimore, who introduced a
bill in the Legislature to set up a
commission for study of st. Johns
with a view to possible assimilation
in the State educational system, as
serted the State was not receiving
a fair return on its investment. The
State has appropriated funds for st.
Johns since 1911 in return for schol-
arships.
Mr.. Cleveland, in a letter to the
Baltimore Sun, declared the college
has become almost entirely solvent
since 1887. In that year the present
administration, headed by DR.
Stringfellow Barr, assumed control
Mr.. Cleveland said the curriculum
introduced by DR.. Barr has made
the college the most lively and
stimulating educational center in
the United States"
Evening star., 1945-02-19

Comdr. David McCampbell, "a,
the Navy's leading ace who has had
a plane to his credit for each year
of his age, was married here yester-
day to Mrs. Sara Jane Kahn, 33, of
New York, the girl he dated II years
ago in West Palm Beach, Fla.
The ceremony, held in the chapel
of the Naval Research Laboratory,
was performed by 1t. Robert E.
Fitch, Navy chaplain. Miss Clara
Kahn was maid of honor, and the
brides mother, Mrs. A. j. Heliker of
Green Cove Springs, Fla, also was
present.
Comdr. McCampbell, holder of the
Congressional Medal of Honor. re-
turned to the United States early in
Evening star., 1945-02-19

December after 10 months in the
Pacific, during which he flew 81
combat missions. After a 30-day
wedding trip to Florida, he expects
to return here for temporary duty
then be reassigned to a training
command.
Mrs. McCampbell was married
first in 1888, and was divorced re-
Gently from Gilbert Wolff Kahn
New York financier and son of the
late Otto H. Kahn. 1t also was
Comdr. McCampbell's second mar
rage. The couple met when they
both were in school, and both lived
in West Palm Beach. Comdr. Nc
Campbell's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
C. McCampbell. now live in Los
Angeles.
Evening star., 1945-02-19
Fight on Amendment
Delaying Nurse Draft
Due in Committee
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.


Some members of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee expressed
fear today that the induction of
nurses to meet the Army's critical
shortage would be slowed up by an
amendment, approved Saturday, to
the draft measure.
This is a provision that eligible
members of the Nurses Cadet
Corps be inducted before any ci-
william nurses are called into service.
An effort to have the amendment
reconsidered may be made when
the committee takes up the bill for
final action tomorrow.
Chairman May, author OF the bill,
said the amendment would slow up
the draft, although he did not say
whether he would ask another vote
on it.
Take Army Training.
Others pointed out that nurses in
training who belong to the Cadet
Corps take their final six months
of schooling in Army or Navy or
veterans hospitals. On completing
this "internship," they are eligible
for commissions Only some OF
these students would be qualified
for immediate or early service, 1t
was pointed out, and, while the
machinery of inducing these was
in motion, civilian nurses already
registered and ready to answer call
to the colors would have to be held
back.
The May bill provides that nurses
may continue to volunteer while
the process of drafting Is being set
up and carried out.
Staff officers at the War Depart
the hope that Congress would hurry
passage of the measure. The number
of volunteers who have been COM
missioned since the need became
critical, they cited. has been small,
and the nurse shortage is increasing.
VINO Reference Provided.
The committee, which held two
weeks of hearings on the legisla-
ton, adopted several suggested
amendments intended to clarity the
bill and protect essential health
services.
One would require draft boards
to refer suggested deferments to
the procurement and assignment
service of the War Manpower Com
mission, which has classified large
numbers of nurses Another pro-
vision would protect veterans hos
pitfalls by allowing the induction only
of nurses in those institutions re-
leased by the Veterans Administra-
ton.
Evening star., 1945-02-19
Gas Company Urges
One e-Burner Limit
10 Conserve Fuel

The Washington Gas Light Co.
today renewed It's appeal to consum-
ers to burn less gas following dis
closure of another fuel crisis in the
Appalachian area.
Edward Falck, director of the Of
flee Of War Utilities, announced late
yesterday that industrial plants
making vital war material were be-
ing shut down to conserve gas. He
said it is imperative that every one
else using gas reduce consumption
to minimum so long as the cold
spell lasts.
(The thermometer dropped to
20 degrees this morning and the
Weather Bureau predicted con-
tinued cold. weather.)
Some Of the industrial users whose
gas supply was cut of have standby
equipment, the OWU said, and
would not have to shut down.
An emergency gas cutoff order
affecting amusement places was is
sued during the last gas crisis
February 2.
Statement Being Issued.
An official of the gas company
said 1t was preparing a statement
outlining what conservation steps
should be taken in the new Short
age.
In the interim the company urged
its customers to cut down on gas
consumption.
Mr.. Falck said in statement that
the situation requires that every
one in the area cooperate fully in
the following emergency program:
l. Don't use your oven at all.
Limit range use to one top burner
at time, then only for preparing
meals.
Q. Don't use any room or portable
gas heaters. Set your gas furnace
thermostat down to IS degrees or
lower.
3. Don't use hot water sexcept
where absolutely necessary"
Several States Affected.
The OWU, division of the War
Production Board, said the crisis
affected natural and mixed gas "in
the Appalachian Area including
Western New York, Western Penn
sylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Mary
land, Virginia and the District Of
Columbia.
Although Kentucky is in the Ap-
palachian group, the cold wave is not
effective there, it was stated.
This new crisis is gas is upon us
before the gas systems have had
time to recuperate from previous
cold waves which drained reserves,
said the statement.
Evening star., 1945-02-19
Government Workers
In Symphony Fund
Drive Open Campaign

Key Government workers in the
campaign to raise $150,000 as a
sustaining fund for the National
Symphony Orchestra were to meet
for lunch in the Sun Room of the
Washington Hotel today to launch
their drive for a $17,500 quota.
Civil Service Commissioner Ar
thur S. Flemming, chairman of the
Government Committee, declared,
1--WE do not want people to feel
that they are being high-pressured
into giving something they do not
want to give. Our committee will
ask Government people to support
this work because they want to, be-
cause they want the orchestra and
It's music"
If the fund is reached, the Or
chestra plans next season to in
crease its concerts given especially
for Government employees, and give
added students concerts. More
musicians will be used in the sum-
|mer Water Gate concerts and more
seats will be made available for
the use of soldiers, it was said.
An example of what the orchestra
and its patrons mean to soldiers
stationed here was told today by
the Women's Committee of the as
sociation, which released a letter
addressed to "the Lady in Box 49,"
On Sunday afternoon last
month, "the Lady in Box 49" had
asked three soldiers from Utah to
share her box, which, by chance,
bore the crest Of Utah upon it. The
letter they wrote to her, said:
"It is rather difficult to define
the spirit manifest by city, par
ticularly Washington, as brotherly
or honey, but whatever the defini-
ton the significance remains the
same The feeling is that of equal
ity and sincere friendliness. And
it is good.
1--WE were grateful for the splendid
musical enjoyment which you af-
forded us Sunday afternoon. Your
invitation to use the unoccupied
seats in your box was a typical
gesture of that spirit which lends
emphasis to our claim of democracy.
We hope that same spirit will be
found after the uniforms have been
discarded. And, though we. don't
know your name, we thank you
and hope that reciprocation may
some day be our good fortune should
you visit the West"
Evening star., 1945-02-19

that, as lead bomber of squadron
1t. McCartney's missions over Rome
and Florence were particularly ef-
fective," that he received the Flying
Cross and, posthumously. the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross and Purple
Heart.
"He knew life only In the Gre
scendo," he added. The service flag
with the United States and Chris
tian flags, were brought into the
chancel by the flyers brother, 1t
Albert Noble Mccarthy, U. s. N. r.;
Col. e. B. Fletcher, commanding Of
ficer Of the group in which he had
served; Col william S. Culbertson
member of the church who visited
his grave near Bastia, and 1t. Col
j. w. Brabner- Smith, also member
Of the church.
Many Service People Present.
For the memorial ceremony, those
seated in the chapel during tn.
morning service, after the audi.
torium was filled, were invited tt
come in and stand against the walls
Many service men and women wer,
among those present.
Before the congregation were thes.
words from Shelley's elegy on tn,
death Of John Keats. used on tn,
cover Of the church bulletin:
"He has outsoared the shadow q
our night;
Envy and calumny and hate an,
pain,
And that unrest which men miscal
delight
Can touch him not and torture no
again;
From the contagion of the world
slow stain
He is secure. and now can neve
i mourn
A heart grown cold, a head grow,
gray in vain;
Nor, when the spirits self has cease,
to burn,
with sparkless ashes load an unla
| mented urn"
Evening star., 1945-02-19
Farmers Asked 10 Aid
In Fairfax Road Repairs

w. F. Smith, State highway resi-
dent engineer in Fairfax County is
sued an appeal to rural residents
today to assist in maintaining
secondary roads damaged by freez-
ing weather.
Explaining that manpower short
ages made it impossible for the State
Highway Commission to give proper
consideration to the maintenance of
all secondary roads, Mr.. Smith said
rural residents will be called on for
assistance in repairing important
rural routes.
First consideration, he said, will
be given rural mail and school bus
routes and roads important in carry
ing workers to war industries. The
prevailing State wage scale will be
paid TO all work, he said.
Evening star., 1945-02-19
Major Issues Await
Action in Maryland
This Week
Ey the Associated Press.

ls Tie hSoOCldtcQ FfeSS.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. 19.-An-
other heavy program of committee
hearings and expanded floor work
on number of important issues
are in store for State legislators In
the new General Assembly week
starting tonight.
A House committee probably will
start preliminary work on the Jim
Crow repeal bill which passed the
Senate, 20 to 9, Thursday; budget
hearings will be continued in the
Senate Finance and House Ways
and Means Committees, and another
of the Home Rule bills will come
up for public airing.
Just which committee will get the
Jim Grow" measure is unknown,
since it has yet to be sent over by
the Senate, but 1t probably will be
the Judiciary, headed by Delegate
Milton Tolle of Baltimore County
The Senate Judicial Proceedings
Committee Is set to send an un-
favorable report to the floor on q
bill which would place regulatory
control of building and loan asso-
Citations in the State Banking Com
mission.
The unfavorable report was voteo
last week after a hearing which
showed intensive opposition to the
measure. A similar bill failed o.
passage in the 1943 session.
The home rule" bill which wouls
extend specified powers to official
of incorporated municipalities vii
be discussed before the Senat,
Judicial Proceedings Committee to-
morrow. A companion bill, which
would give additional Legislative,
powers to county commissioners
was given hearing some time agt
at which such violent opposition wa.
Expressed that success for any par1
of the home rule" program wa,
jeopardized.
Several Senators expressed tn.
opinion last week, after final actor
on favorable committee report OF
the bill was suspended until a hear.
ing could be held, that officials Of
incorporated towns and cities woulc
be more favorable to this measur,
than were county commissioners tt
theirs.
Evening star., 1945-02-19
Death of Veteran, 26,
Certified us Suicide

Deputy Coroner Richard Rosen-
berg has issued a certificate of sui
eide in the death Saturday of Harry
l.. Eckhard, 26-year-old war veteran
found unconscious in his apartment,
2801 Twenty-eighth street Sc, with
a gunshot wound in his head. He
died on arrival at Gallinger Hos
pital.
Eckhard had been a first lieu
tenant in the Air Forces and re-
Gently received a medical discharge.
Evening star., 1945-02-19
lsiHRstioniinq
.Remiinde,y@1

Meats, Fats, Etc. - Book 4, red
stamps Q-5 through SIS good
through March 81; stamps T-5
through KS good through April
%; stamps Y-5. z-5, Az through
d. good through June 2. Each
stamp worth 10 points. Next series
to be validated about March 4.
Canned Goods, Esc.-Book 4, blue
stamps KS through Us, Az and
BE- good through March 81;
stamps c. through Co. good
through April %; stamps H-2
through Ma good through June
2. Each stamp worth 10 points
Next series to be validated about
March /.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Book 4, sugar stamp "a GOOD
for pounds through February 28.
Stamp IS valid for pounds
through June Q.
Gasolt0e-A-14 coupons valid for
gallons each through March 81,
B-5, C-5. B-6 and CO coupons
good for gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps /, 2 and
in Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair Of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods one, two, three
and four coupons good for 10 gal
Ions per unit through heating
year. Period five coupons become
valid March 1. Old period foul
and five coupons from last win
ter good through year. Consum-
ers in this area should not have
used more than 73 per cent OF
i their ration as of today.
nepree d2yS-Totc1 for r,,o,,fb Enn.
Evening star., 1945-02-19
Gold Star for Minister'S Son
Placed on Church Service FIuo

The father stood in the chancel
and gave helping hand as a gold
star was pinned on the church serv-
ice flag in memory of his son.
Then. he read his own Prayer for
the Nation"
Come, o Great Physician, watch
by the bedside of the wounded, COM
fort the households that have suf-
fered bereavement and heal the
broken-hearted.
May we who survive daily dedi-
cate our lives anew to the blessed
memory of those brave young men
who have sacrificed their lives in the
cause of freedom. And by that
sacrifice bring in a new day of
peace on earth and good will among
men"
Then he pronounced the benedic-
ton.
From the choir came the trium-
phant strains of Handel's "Hallelujah
Chorus" There was a silent reces-
sional and the sounding of chimes.
In this simple ritual at the Cove
nant-First Presbyterian Church yes
terday, fourth gold star was added
to the church service flag.
1t was in memory of 1t. Benjamin
Conklihg Mccartney, %, son Of the
minister. DR.. Albert j. Mccartney
and Mrs. Mccartney. 1t. Mozart
ney died October / of wounds re-
ceived September % while on his
49th bombing mission above a tar
get east of Milan.
Stimson Takes Part.
The flag was pinned in place by
Secretary of War Stimson, member
and former trustee Of the Covenant
First Presbyterian Church.
Assisting in the ceremony, which
followed the morning worship serv-
ice, was the minister's brother, DR.
Clarence Edward Noble Mccartney
of the First Presbyterian Church OF
Pittsburgh.
Reading the citation, he recalled
Evening star., 1945-02-19
$700, 900 Loss Caused
BY War Plant BIuze
BY the Associated Press.

by tnt Associhted Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 19. - Fire
which razed the plant of the North
west Automatic Products Co., which
turns out machine screws and parts
OF automatic devices for war ma
terials did an estimated $700 900
damage Saturday, Frank w. Girls
void, president, estimates.
Firemen worked for more than
six hours in subzero temperatures
to subdue the flames, which flared
when oil in a tank overheated and
caught fire, spreading quickly to a
pile OF oil-soaked sawdust.
The razed plant employed $50
persons.
Evening star., 1945-02-19
Concert Slated at YMCA

Gertrude Troutman, pianist, and
Marie Ruddell, soprano, with Ralph
Bissonette as accompanist, will be
the artists at the concert to be
given at $3.50 pm. tomorrow in the
east lounge Of the YMCA, 1875 @
street NV. The public is invited.
Evening star., 1945-02-19
Stote Guard Plans Review

The Alexandria State Guard will
hold a George Washington birthday
review before the Mayor and Coun-
Gil at 9 pm. Thursday at the
Armory, 2l0 South Royal street.
Dancing and refreshments will fol-
low the review.
Evening star., 1945-02-19
36 D. {. Men Ordered
To Report for Induction

Thirty-six District men are
scheduled to report for induction
into the armed forces today. Names
Of tbo mon follour.
Evening star., 1945-02-19

mother, Mrs. Henry Chalfant Gear
ing, ST., Of Carvel Hall, Annapolis,
Md, who is ILL.
Evening star., 1945-02-19

Degree days-Total for month, 500;
total for season to date, 1889;
normal for season to date, 3.2l3.
Evening star., 1945-02-19

More bonds, more power-mors
| strength to Eisenhower"
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ton from men who gradually earn
a public reputation that they are
dlsinterested and are more often
right than wrong.
Mr.. Wallace must not suppose
that he can earn the reputation
for disinterested leadership and
expertness by forcing his party to
make spectacular fight to vest
him with great personal power. A
wiser man, one who had thought
more clearly and deeply about
his task, would have seen that to
be relieved of the entanglements of
power was the one way to estab-
fish his influence.
The real resources at his dis
posal in promoting his idea are not
money, not legal authority but the
persuasive effect of knowledge.
The maintenance of stable econ
omy at high level Of productivity
is a new undertaking in the ex-
perience of human society. Much
but not everything is known about
the theory of this undertaking;
something but by no means enough
about the application of these
princiaples. No one can doubt that
the task must be undertaken;
people who have seen that there
can be unemployment in time of
war will not tolerate underem-
ployment in time of peace. But no
one can suppose that all the nee
essary knowledge exists, or that
the men who would know how to
apply it have been developed; the
effort which must be made entails
therefore, long time of trial and
error.
We cannot hope to pass through
1t successfully unless we can draw
upon large reserves of confidence
and of patience and of openmind-
edness. And just as the progress
of preventive medicine requires a
population which has learned to
understand hygiene, so the progress
of this idea will require a great
rise IN the general level OF eco
nomic thought.
For these reasons nothing could
be more unfortunate than to have
launched the undertaking in an at
mosphere of political patronage,
and then of a personal feud, and
then of struggle for personal
power. Mr.. Wallace owes it to the
country, and to the great idea
which he happens to represent, to
clear the air for a different and
better beginning.
He is capable of doing that as
few men in public life could do it.
For he has shown that he knows
how to renounce ambition, and he
has learned how this can enhance,
not diminish, the stature of a man.
Copyright, 1945, New York Tribune
Inc.
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Clipper Captain Says
Plane Struck Object
In Air Before Crash

MIAMI Fla, Jan. %. - P} -
Capt. C. A. Goyette, skipper Of
the Pan American Clipper which
crashed at Port Of Spain, Trini-
dad. January 8 with loss OF %
lives, testified today that the giant
flying boat struck some object
while the plane still was in the
air.
He told his story at hearing
conducted by the Civil Aeronautics
Board into the details of the loss
Of the former China Clipper then
engaged in the Miami to Africa
run.
Pan American previously re-
ported that it's investigation had
revealed that the big ship struck
surface craft. Paint and wood
spinters were found imbedded in
parts of the plane.
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the boy was jailed, he confessed
that he sran away from his family
in New Rochelle, because they
wouldn't permit MIN to join thu
Navy. He said he had hitch-hiked
from New York TO Elizabeth City,
and "just happened" to catch 4
ride from there to Wilmington.
On arriving in the City he tried
tc get a job and discovered that
he would have to have a work
permit from the Welfare Depart
ment. After calling at the Welfare
Department, he could not obtain a
permit because he could not pro-
duce parents or guardian. He Wis
tied the public library and saw
Judge Smiths name and imme-
diately prepared to call on him.
After he related the truthful
story, FBI agents checked with
his parents through New Rochelle
police, and his father requested
that he be held until he arrived.
He was returned home in custody
of his father Sunday.
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Youth Arrested Here
After Saboteur Scare

A 15-year-old, six-foot youth,
identified as Stanley Joseph Den
mis-, Jr., Of New Rochelle, N. Y,
was arrested here last Friday
when it was thought he was a
German saboteur, but it was later
proved that he was patriotic
youth who had attempted to enlist
in the Navy.
He first came in contact with
the law VIXEN he claimed to be a
cousin of Judge H. Winfield Smith
Judge Smith was somewhat
alarmed as the long lost rela-
tive" knocked at his door last Fri
day and told him he was his
cousin and he would like to have
the judge adort him. Judge Smith
invited him for dinner, and imme.
diately called Harry Fales, super.
lntendent of the Bureau of Identi.
flcatlon. The description of the
youth fitted that which had been
distributed by the Federal Bureau
OF investigation, concerning a Nazi
saboteur who possibly could hav,
been in Wilmington, Fales dis
closed
After questioning Dennis, whc
used the alias of Smith, Fales sale
that the youth told of his expe
rlences as a sailor aboard a fish
ing boat. He told the identification
superintendent that his parent
died when he was a baby, and h
mad worked most of his life on
fishing boat, attending schoe
while he travelled.
, After the FBI was called in, an
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FRENCH RECEIVE
NEWSPRINT QUOTA

WASHINGTON, Jan. o. R -
The United States has allocated
approximately 5000 tons of news.
print to France. Acting Secretary
Of State Grew said today the ac-
ton was taken to maintain a
means of communication that
otherwise would be unable to op.
crate.
Grew told mis- news conference
the ALLEGATION represents a three
months requirement by the French
press.
Comparing it to the $4,000 tons
month he said are required ir
this country, he said it amount.
to less than seven tenths of one
per cent of the amount which ha!
to be made available here in the
same period
Representatives Brown (R-Ohio.
and Boren D-Okla) had asked tn,
State Department in a letter VIII,
the neWsprint could not be OBJ
tanned from the Scandinavian coun
tries and Russia.
Grew told reporters that the pos
sibility of obtaining newsprint TO-
the liberated areas of Europe from
sources outside North America nat
been under constant survey bu
that the exingencies of war do no
permit free flow of merchandis,
from the Scandinavian countries
1t is impossible, he asserted, II
get the newsprint available there