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Evening star., 1945-01-30

Despite their tricky" hearts
which made it impossible for them
to go to school, three Washington
high school girls received diplomas
yesterday through the work of the
Visiting Instruction Corps.
In exercises broadcast over Radio
Station WMAL, Henry w. Draper
supervising principal of Public
School Division l, presented senior
high school diploma to Florence
Marie Hunter, 20, of 407 Sixth street
S.W., and Junior high diplomas to
Marjorie Lee Curtiss, Is, of 1904
street Sc, and Joyce Triplett, Is, OF
1869 Columbia road NV.
Referring to the current mile o
Dimes" campaign for the National
Infantile Paralysis Foundation, Mrs
Amy B. Campbell, acting supervisor
of the Visiting Instruction Corps for
Divisions to 9, pointed out that the
corps has taught As infantile paraly-
sis students this year in their homes
or at hospitals
1--WE wear no braces or casts, u
Marjorie explained, speaking for the
three. but we, too, are prevented
from doing many things that other
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Two Baltimore Men, Held
In Hijocking, Give Bail
By the Associated Pres,

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 30-Two Bal
timoreans were free today under
$1,000 bond each pending grand jury
action after a hearing on charges
in connection with hijacking $780,
600 load of whisky.
The men released in bail by United
States Commissioner Ernest Volkart
were identified by the FBI as Joseph
Bach, former truck driver, and
Max Dublin.
FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover had
announced their arrest on charges
of receiving part of 500 cases OF
whisky consigned to Chicago but
driven in s truck to Richmond, Va,
December 81.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Birthday Balls Tonight Sold Out,
Fund Drive Already Over Top
Twenty Film Stors to CIimox Two-Doy Stoy
By WhirIwnd Visits to Many Affairs

President Roosevelt is 63 years old
today, and, as they have for the past
II years, District residents will cele-
brate the day by giving their dimes
and their dollars to fight infantile
paralysis and to attend the gala
birthday balls throughout the city
tonight.
Already the drive this year has
exceeded last years record total of
more than 100000, and, with money
still pouring in to the ball funds, the
Mile O. Dimes and the March of
Dimes, the District is expected again
to lead the country in per capita
contributions.
The 20 Hollywood stars who helped
make the drive a success by insur-
ing a sellout for all the birthday
activities will lunch at the White
House today, then make their Sec
ond visits to service hospitals and
climax a whirlwind two-day stint of
entertainment by appearing at all
of the birthday balls tonight-at
the Mayhower, Shoreham, Statler,
Wardman Park, Washington and
Willard Hotels, the Lincoln Colon
made and the Stage Door Canteen.
Split Second Schedule.
There was nothing scheduled for
the stars this morning-except a
chance to get a little sleep. They
have been on split-second sched-
ule since they arrived Sunday. Yet
until 4 am. this morning-when
their escorts were dropping YEARLY
the stars continued to laugh and
sign autographs.
Their day yesterday was high
lighted by a broadcast from Com
missioner John Russell Young's Of
flee, visits to service hospitals. ar
official dinner with TOO of Washing
tons celebrities, and the midnight
shows at the Earle, Capitol ano
Howard Theaters.
Trains were late, planes delayed
one actress, Linda Darnell, was sick
but the show went on.
Thousands Pay $3.50.
Their largest audiences were at
the midnight shows. Thousands OF
persons, who had paid up to $3.50
for tickets, roared with laughter at
the oral punctuation of Victor Borge
and the double-talking chatter of
Danny Kaye.
But the audience that the stars
liked the best-according to them
was the crowd of wounded service
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Longest Letter in World
Written to 1-Yeur-OId

The longest letter in the world
Is being written in installments in
India for some one who cannot read,
the writer being 1t. Col R.. E,
Harker, who already has written 49,
600 words of family odyssey for
his l-year-old son in Grassington,
England.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Two Men Are Held
In Theft of Cigarettes

James Arthur Garrett. %, of 1904
Pomeroy road Sc, and Mckinley
Walker, jr., 90, of 904 Third street
Sc, both colored, were held in
81 900 bond each yesterday by
United States Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage on charges OF
stealing two cases of cigarettes
worth $40. The hearing was con-
tinued until Thursday.
Police said the two men stole the
cigarettes from truck which was
parked at Fifth and Morse streets
NE. on January ~. The truck be-
longed to the K Il p Trading Co.
BOZ q street NV. Police recovered
about half of the cigarettes.
The men pleaded not guilty.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Commissioner YOUNG
Supports Randolph
On Teacher Pay Boost

Agreement that there should be
an increase in the basic salaries of
Washington schoolteachers was
voiced today by Commissioner John
Russell Young in a letter to Chair
man Randolph of the House Dis
trict Comm-.ee, >-ho is sponsoring
the move.
Replying to recent letter from
Mr.. Randolph which l~ged the
Commissioners to act pron ptly on
the question, Mr.. Young today ad-
vised the committee chairman rec
concentrations resulting from a
joint study now being made by
agents of the Commissioners and
school authorities were expected to
be presented for consideration by
Municipal officials early in February
Mr.. Young cautioned, however,
that the proposed pay scales recon-
mended by school officials would
call for an increased outlay of
81 ,166, 500 in the first year of ap-
plication of the new scale, exclud-
ing the existing wartime bonus. He
said the outlay would be further
increased in each of the following
years because of the proposed addi-
tional number of annual incre-
ments in the currently proposed
schedule.
Says Study Is Being Made.
On the general subject Commits
lcinrnr Vnd1ncy yvyrnto Do~Inl,zL o..
1T is realized that there should
be an upward revision of these sal
aries and the amount of such in
creases as proposed by the Board
of Education is being studied joint
ly by representatives of the public
schools and the Board of Commits
sioners."
Mr.. Young said a comprehensive
study of the merits of the proposed
new pay schedule would be pre-
sented to the superintedent of
schools and the Board of Commits
sioners for consideration early in
February, when joint conferences
are concluded.
Washington's $500 public school
teachers and officers are virtually
unanimous" in supporting the teach
ers' salary revision proposals, Mrs.
Mary S. Resh, chairman of the
Teachers Joint Legislative Council,
announced yesterday.
Early Action Is Urged.
The So educational organizations
represented on the council all sent
delegates to the preliminary dis
cussions of the wage revisions, Mrs
Resh said. Urging early action on
the proposals, she said:
"Washington's school system may
suffer irreparable losses in trained
personnel because of greater oppor-
tunities and more lucrative pay Of
fered in both the Federal Govern
ment and private industry"
The revisions, the first in 20 years,
have been under consideration by
the Commissioners and Budget Off,
Ger Walter Fowler since fall.
Evening star., 1945-01-30

men at the service hospitals who
stood on crutches, sat legless in
wheelchairs, and clapped one good
hand against leg in lieu of a hand
that was gone, audiences that
laughed and whistled and stomped
their feet.
The audience at the Naval Hos
pital at Bethesda gave the most ap-
plause to their fellow sailor, Seaman
Gene Kelly-and Army Navy rivalry
didn't stop him from being called
back for encores by the soldiers at
Walter Reed either. Servicemen
whistled loudly at Myrna 10y, Gale
Storm, Georgia Carroll, Veronica
Lake, Ella Logan and Jane Wyman
Masters of ceremony for the two
groups which alternated at the hos
pitfalls were Kay Kyser, who kept up
steady stream Of Southern-ac-
cented joking, and George Murphy
who sang, danced and did a little
serious talking.
Stars Visit Wards.
After each group had put on a
program for a crowd of soldiers al
each hospital, members visited the
wards. sang there, signing short
snorter bills, or implanted the i'm
print of a famous mouth on q
white plaster cast.
At the broadcast from the Com
missioner's Office it was 8-year-olc
Margaret O,Brien, her long brown
braids swinging, her brown eyes big
and a shy smile at her audience
who won the loundest applause.
II like to walk and you like t.
walk, so we should help all tn,
little girls and boys who can't wall
and skate and dance like you ant
I can py giving as much as we can,
she told them.
Between their dashes, by cab ant
Red Cross Motor Corps busses, from
one engagement to another, tn.
stars found time to visit the lunch
con meeting of the Women's Ma
tional Press Club and to stop fol
several minutes at the entrance o.
each building to sign countless pro-
grams and bills, wave at babies anc
chat with the crowds who waitee
to see them.
Those here-all of whom tool
part in every activity after theil
arrival-also included Alan Ladc
and Sue Carol, Charles Bickford
Monty Wooley, Suzanna Foster ane
Joe E. Brown.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Joseph ". Stinson Ruled
Mentally III by Commission

Joseph w. Stinson, 60-year- -old
former State Department aide, was
found to be mentally i'll yesterday
by the District Commission on Men
tai Health after a hearing at Gal
linger Hospital.
One of the witnesses was his wife
the former Miss Violet Biddle, rs
whom he married January 8.
Mr.. Stinson's counsel, Sol Roth
bard, said he would ask for a jury
trial. Mr.. Stinson rejected the
commissions recommendation that
he should go to st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital or Veterans Administration
hospital for treatment.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Lag System Payroll
For District Ordered
BY Commissioners

To facilitate auditing of District
payrolls the Commissioners today
ordered a lag of week between
the end of pay periods and actual
payment of an estimated $4,000
municipal employees, but made pro-
visions for the new bookkeeping ar
arrangement to be adopted gradually
Teachers in the public schools
will be paid on the 10th of the
month instead of on the I'd, as
at present. To prevent the lag from
working undue hardship on en-
ployes the payday will be advanced
only one day at time until the
required deferred payday is reached
The new plan does not go into
effect until March /. Per diem en-
ployes are not affected by the order,
since they already are being paid
seven days behind the end of their
pay period. All institutional employees
now paid on the Sd and 18th OF
the month will eventually be paid
on the 9th and 23d.
Recommended by Auditor.
The present pay periods end or
the 18th and end of each month
Auditing officials explained that 6
lag of several days on payrolls /.
already in effect.
The new bookkeeping arrange.
ment was adopted on the recon-.
mendation of Auditor Arthur R
Pilkerton. He explained that al
the present time payroll lists are
submitted to his Office for auditing
five or six days before the end of a
pay period and that absences OF
designations between then and the
end of the pay period requires re-
calculation of the payroll, withhold
ing tax and the amount set aside for
retirement.
Mr.. Pilkerton, for example, sait
that more than $50 checks had Il
be adjusted this month for error
on withholding tax and a simila
number sent to the Civil Servic,
Commission for retirement provi
sions. In some cases, he added, i
takes a year to make the adjust
ment with the Federal Government
on the errors.
Will Need Five Months.
Mr.. Pilkerton interpreted tht
order to advance each payday one
payday until the required deferred
payday is reached as meaning thai
payments would be made on March
3 and 18, instead of on the I'd ane
18th. Similarly, he said, payment.
would be on April and 10 and that
with these gradual extensions il
will take five months before ths
final deferred payday is reached.
The only exception to the change
in the teachers payments on tn.
10th of the month-a change thai
will also be made one day eacf
months that in June payment
will be made on the completion o.
the school term in June.
The deferred payroll plan was dis.
cussed among 100 department head.
and payroll clerks on December 18
at which number of vigorous pro.
tests were made. Mr.. Pikerton
however, declared, that "deferrine
of payday will materially reduce
paper work. the number of errors
assist in Simplifying and in genera
reduce the difficulty of payroll
work"
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Weather Report

District of Columbia and vicinity
Sunny with temperature rising tc
upper 3Os this afternoon. Partly
cloudy with moderate winds, lowest
temperature about 18 degrees to-
night. Wednesday fair; highest
temperature about 80 degrees.
Virginia: Partly cloudy and con-
tinued cold tonight. Wednesday
fair and cold.
Maryland: Considerable cloudiness
and continued cold; snow flurries in
the mountain tonight. Wednesday
fair and cold.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Mrs. Mason Reoppointed
To District ABC Boord

Mrs. Agnes K. Mason, the only
remaining original member of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
set up in 1884 was reappointed by
the Commissioners today for an
other four-year term beginning
February 8.
The nomination of Mrs. Mason
was made by Commissioner Guy
Mason, who earlier this month had
announced that he would support
her for another term. Mrs. Mason
Is the wife Of DR.. Beverly Mason
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Sell Jup Notes

Sale OF packages Of Japanese in
vasion money notes at $1.6O a de-
nominational set to American serv-
icemen IN Hollandia enables the
Netherlands East Indies authorities
to obtain proceeds to refund natives
for losses suffered when the Japs
lfoisted these notes on them for labor.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Shortage Of Bones

Swiss factories producing indus
trial fats, glue and fertilizers are
kept busy collecting bones to re-
place the 1000 tons annually i'm
ported from France, French Moroc-
co, South America and India before
the war.
Evening star., 1945-01-30

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 81, 4 pm. Year ago. 49,
Lowest. 20, 7:40 am. Year ago. SO.
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest, 55, on January 2.
Lowest, ~, on January 25.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Precipitation

Monthly precipitation in inches in th
Capital (current month to date)
Evening star., 1945-01-30

(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Evening star., 1945-04-10
Production
Continued From First PageD

program as calling for legislatio to
Prohibit strikes intended to coerce
Government agencies, such as work
stoppages designed to influence
wage decision.
Forbid strikes called to prevent
| the use of labor saving devices.
Make individual union member
liable under misdemeanor penalties
for strikes and picketing in violation
of National Labor Relations Board
rulings.
Deter strikes called in violation OF
collective bargaining agreements
Protect nonstrikers from coercion
or 'moleStation" If they stay on the
job while a strike is in progress.
we certainly feel" said Mr..
Hutchinson, that this so-called
labor charter should not be used to
estop discussion Of these vital Ques-
tions."
Charles E. Wilson, president Of
General Motors Corp, informed the
Automotive Council meeting that
General Motors was prepared by
every legal means to combat a re-
cent National Labor Relations Board
ruling that factory foremen COM
prise a suitable bargaining unit.
He claimed the unioniza ton of
foremen would hinder war produc-
ton and SLOW up postwar reconver-
sion to civilian production" Mr..
Wilson contended that foremen
were an integral part Of manage
ment and not of the employees, de-
spite the NLRB decision in connec-
ton with Packard Motor Co. case.
Evening star., 1945-04-10

but there was nothing for the
women.
The Dutch, on the other hand,
she added. sent in ship for the
I37 nationals they had in the Santo
Tomas internment camp. The ship
was loaded with supplies for the
Dutch prisoners, she said, and
eventually they will be taken to
Australia-undoubtedly at no cost
to them.
Represents Soap Company.
The Burkes lived in Manila for
10 years before the Japanese occu-
patton. Mr.. Burke represented an
American soap manufacturer. They
are able to pay their way, and they
are not complaining so much about
the 1926 as the idea involved, since
the Army strongly urged them to
leave Manila and return to this
country. The city is in ruins, they
explained, and there was nothing
else to do.
The lnternees were. after all
American citizens and victims of the
war; they pointed out.
Many of them, Mr.. Burke added
are destitute. Some Americans who
were in business in Manila for years
had everything wiped out during the
bombardments and the japanese
occupation. Their shops were de-
stroyed and all their belongings lost
Navy Has No Comment.
There was no comment from the
Navy Department when the matter
of exacting transportation payment
from liberated Americans was
brought to the attention of spokes-
men,
Elsewhere it was said that many
questions involving internees were
being studied by the Navy, the Army,
the Red Gross and the War Shipping
Administration. Ordinarily, VIII e n
the Navy transports civilians or SOL
diers, it acts only for the Army.
From one Government source the
comment was made that perhaps the
1OUs were required only to protect
the Navy under existing laws and
regulations. and the Treasury would
not necessarily collect on them.
The Government beyond question
would pay the return expenses of
internees who were working for it
in any capacity. Civilians are in a
different category however. it was
indicated. and some solution will
have to be worked out.
Evening star., 1945-04-10
8 Of 9 Who Urged War Bonus
In 1896 Are Now in Uniform

Gorin. jr.. former Louisville, KY,
lawyer, field artillery captain
Treasurer. Thomas Riggs. jr., Eng
lish instructor at Exeter Academy
Exeter. N. H.. Army first lieutenant
Secretary. John c. Turner. exempt
for physical disability, civilian In
New York City
Public relations officer. Robert G
Barnes, formerly with the Yale Uni
versity department of international
relations. Army first lieutenant.
Charter members:
Penn T. Kimball, former New
York City newspaperman. Marine
first lieutenant and combat cOrre-
spondent.
Alexander Black. jr. Pittsburgh
lawyer, Navy lieutenant u. g..
Thaddeus T. Hutcheson. Houston
CTexD lawyer. Navy lieutenant.
Urban J. P Ruston, University OF
Virginia faculty member. Navy lieu
tenant with the United States Mill
tary Government in the Pacific.
Richard D. Waters. New York
City businessman. Navy lieutenant
Evening star., 1945-04-10
5 Army Prisoners Escape,
Tie Up Couple, Steal Car
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kans.,
April 10.-Five prisoners at the
United States disciplinary barracks
were sought today after overpower-
ing their guard and five fellow
prisoners and kidnapping a truck
driver in making their escape.
It. Col. William Wurgler, public
relations officer at Fort Leaven-
worth, said the men fled yesterday
from the post golf club where. they
had been working. All we're dressed
in stolen Army officers uniforms.
Their trail. Col. Wurgler said, led
to a farmhouse 3 miles north of
Lawrence, where Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle
Weeks reported they had been tied
up in a bedroom of their home and
their car, a 1881 model A Ford,
stolen.
Two sleeping children were not
disturbed.
Mrs. Weeks said the men cooked
a meal in her kitchen. When they
left they took three ration books,
a shaving mug, some A gasoline
coupons and fed in the car.
Evening star., 1945-04-10

insure the safety of our own grouno
troops during the bombing to make
it next to impossible for planes tt
drop their loads on the wrong side
of the winding and normally invis-
ible frontline below us
Arrows Marked Lane.
Three minutes before reaching
the front We passed warning line
of white smokepots and large ar
rows painted on the ground, mark
ing our approach lane. Different
colorS of smoke from cannlSters at
specified intervals indicated the dis
tance to the bombing line, while the
line itself was clearly marked by a
thick row of antiaircraft bursts
from our own guns, aimed below the
bombing level
1t appeared from where we sat
that careful preparation and CO.
ordination of ground and air plan
ming had paid dividends this time.
l saw one stick of bombs burst be-
hind our lines. and there may have
been others, but the element of
error had evidently been reduced to
minimum and tragic incidents
which too often have accompanied
this type of air action were gener-
ally avoided.
Evening star., 1945-04-10
Henry
Continued From First Page,

when I make my official report OF
the march, it will shock the world -
l was in camp when couple OF
American doctors. who were cap
tured in the bulge. arrived. The
prisoners say they worked miracles,
treating frozen feet and sick prison.
erS. Those found today were men
too weak to move. All were suffer-
ing from extreme malnutrition
They were men who had been taken
in the bulge and had just arrived in
Eastern Germany before the west
ward trek was ordered
Confined in Brick Factory.
The men with the sergeant jor
arrived near here four weeks ago
and were at first confined in a brick
factory where everybody was i'll with
dysentery They were shot for look
ing out OF the window. Their daily
ration was a quarter loaf of black
bread, turnip soup-only slightly
favored hot water
Prisoners were fed the way an
American farmer feeds slop TO his
pigs The soup was poured into
great tubs, and the rush to get at
food twice day, in late afternoon
and at midnight. was impossible to
describe.
The avidity with which men de-
voured American K-rations when
We arrived was pitiful. Barnes
dropped a short cigarette butt on
the floor and crushed it with his
foot.
My God. boy" a British soldier
shouted, drop on your knees and
ask Gods pardon for that"
One German employe of the brick
factory was cited by the sergeant
major as having saved 25 American
lives in the last two weeks by bring
ing bread and potatoes from his own
table to feed them on the sly.
Forty three Deaths in Few Days.
Nevertheless, in the last few days
43 Americans died We were taken
to see their graves in the Duder-
stadt Cemetery. where all were bar
rem except one. This was elaborately
decorated with flowers and white
pebbles forming a cross-the work
of German children in the neigh
borhood.
The sergeant major told me:
Il put one of these Americans In
his grave He was feet tall and