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Evening star., 1945-08-16
Sasscer Favors Use
Of ST. John S by Navy
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. Aug. 16.-Rep-
reSentative Sasscer, Democrat, OF
Maryland, decrying attempts to es-
tablish Naval Academy on the
West Coast, is advocating expansion
OF the Annapolis institution on the
St. Johns College property as tho
only site in this vicinity"
The Representative from the fifth
district gave his views in letters 10
persons, among them Mrs. Morden
Rlgg, chairman of the Committe of
the Hundred Women, who have
written him in opposition to the ac-
QUESTION of St. Johns campus for
academy expansion.
If an attempt is made to establish
two academies, Mr.. Sasscer wrote he
had almost moral certainty that
the Annapolis school would become
only a specialist or postgraduate
school,"
Expressing strong personal senti-
ment for st. Johns" he stated his
belief that I'VE are at the cross
roads of decision" and advocated
that steps be taken to clear the exist
ing situation which he described as
taking the ST. Johns College or los
ing the Naval Academy" which he
termed tremendous asset and ad-
vertisement not only to Anne Arun.
del County but also to our State"
Mr.. Sasscer wrote that the possi-
bilities Of alternative available land
had been fully explored and said
the belief held by the House Naval
Affairs Committee, of which he is
member, was that there was no all
tentative.
Chairmen Walsh and Vinson of
the Senate and House Naval Affairs
Committees yesterday gave a hear
ing to Richard Cleveland, son of the
late President Grover Cleveland,
who Is representing the trustees of
st. Johns College.
Senator Walsh said st. Johns COL
lege authorities have requested that
the two committees give the school
authorities further hearing on the
acquisition of the property when
Congress recOnveneS.
Evening star., 1945-08-16
Diplomats Congratulate
Truman on Jan Defeat

Ranking members of the Wash.
ington diplomatic corps called on
President Truman yesterday to offer
congratulations on the victory over
Japan. Their spokesman, Ambas-
sador Castillo Najera of Mexico. ex-
pressed hope the achievements on
the battlefield may be surpassed by
those in the peace.
The visitors were received in the
East Room of the White House.
In a prepared address, the Mexi-
can Ambassador, dean of the CORPS
said the defeat of japanese mill
tarism CLOSES the final chapter of
a tragic and fateful cycle" He also
said:
I'VE render special homage to
Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose per-
sonal task was continued and
brought to a happy conclusion by
his illustrious successor with the
same dignity and patriotism.
President Truman, in responding
expressed his deep appreciation OF
the Mexican Ambassadors remarks
and said:
Il want to say that we owe our
victory as much to our Allies as to
ourselves. I appreciate the tribute
you have paid to my predecessor,
whose plans were carried out to the
best of our ability"
Evening star., 1945-08-16

est possible route. With rationing
OH. people have been asking about
trips to national parks, with detours
to places Of scenic or historic in
terest," he said.
Supplies Of gasoline and more
driving resulted in an increase of
calls for road service from motorists
whose tires weren't equal to the
situation. Yesterday, instead of one
man answering calls for road service
there were four, and there was an
increase Of so per cent over Tues
days calls.
The condition Of cars and espe-
cially Of tires mean motorists will
just have to drive slowly, Mr.. Ryan
said.
One motorist asked where he
might get some 100-octane gasoline.
Il want to see II it would make my
old bus act young again." he said.
Evening star., 1945-08-16
End Of Gas Rotioning Causes
Many Calls for TruveI Dutu

The end OF gasoline rationing has
brought flood of calls to the Dis
trict Of Columbia Motor Club Of
the American Automobile Associa-
ton, making Immediately apparent
the transition from armchair tour
ing to motor touring.
]. D. Ryan, director of service
said as soon as word came that
rationing was ended, motorists
started calling for advice on actual
trips they planned to make. They
planned to 60 to such resort areas
as the Shenandoah Valley, Will
liamsburg and Charlottesville, Va,
and to Gettysburg, Pa, and Atlantic
City, N. j.
"One OF our travel counsellors
said before vi day almost all tour
ing was by military personnel on
furlough or transfer, or by others
making necessary trips by the short
Evening star., 1945-08-16
7 Bodies Recovered
From Channel; Sailor
Is Ruled a Suicide

The bodies of two men. one a SOL
dier, have been recovered by police
from Washington Channel since
last night, and the drowning of a
sailor Tuesday night has been de-
clared suicide by the coroners
office.
Police early today recovered the
body of a man identified as Ray
mond Lawrence Curtin, 36, of 610 G
street S.W., which they said was
floating in the channel near the
harbor precinct.
The body was taken to the morgue
and police are conducting an in
vestigation. The body is said to
have been in the water for some
time.
Identification was made by Mrs
Loretta Dornisch, a sister of Mr.
Curtin and in whose house he lived
police said. Mrs. Dornisch told po-
lice he had not been home since
Tuesday.
Mr.. Curtin was a street foreman
for the Washington Gas Light Co.
Pfc. Thomas Floyd, %, a military
policeman stationed at the Army
War College. drowned last night
when he fell from the cd War Col
lege pier. police reported.
Pvts. Paul Henry and Roma
Lanier, other soldiers stationed at
the college, tried to help Pvt. Floyd,
but could not locate him, the police
said. Harbor police recovered the
body shortly afterward. His par
ents live in Gordon, Ala, according
to police.
DR.. Richard Rosenberg, deputy
coroner, last night issued a certifi-
cate of suicide in the death of Phar-
macist's Mate &c Robert E. Nc
Donnell. He drowned Tuesday night
in the Potomac River near Memorial
Bridge, police reported.
According to police, Mr.. Mcdonnell
was a wounded patient on leave
from Bethesda Naval Center and
the son of L. j. Mcdonnell, 3911
PENNSYLVANIA avenue SE
Evening star., 1945-08-16

ships on which the late President
Roosevelt made cruises. Mr.. Dunn
assisted in outf1tting the cruiser
U. S. S. Augusta on which the late
President journeyed for his historic
meeting at sea with Winston
Churchill in 194l.
Mr.. Dunn also had charge of the
battle flags sent by warships to the
Navy Department for preservation
He said there were now about IS
flags in the collection, mostly from
cruisers which took part in the in
vasion of Italy and cruisers which
were in battles in the South Pacific
Seven of these battle flags are on
exhibit at the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
A native Washingtonian, Mr.
Dunn lives at BAIT Brown street
NV. He began his Government
service in 1898 when he was ap-
pointed as a clerk at the Wash
ington Navy Yard.
Evening star., 1945-08-16
40 Youths Taking Test
For Annapolis, West Point

Nearly 40 young men are taking
competitive examinations this week
to qualify for five openings for Dis
trict residents next year at the
United States Military Academy and
the United States Naval Academy,
Geoffrey M. Thornett, secretary to
the District Commissioners, an
nounced today.
The examinations began yester-
day at Wilson Teachers College and
will continue both morning and
afternoon through Saturday. They
were prepared by the Board of Ex-
aminers of the public schools and
are being given by Mrs. Esther
Towers, secretary to the chief ex-
aminer.
Evening star., 1945-08-16
lsiWRstoniinq
&Remiinder5@a

Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book 4, stamps
Ga through U-2 good through
August 81. Stamps va through
IA good through September 80
Stamps AL through Ell good
through October 81. Stamps FL
through XII good through No
vember 30.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Stamp No. SO valid for S
pounds through August 81. Next
stamp valid September l.
Shoes-Airplane stamps /, 2. 3 and 4
in Book No. 8 good indefinitely for
one pair OF shoes each.
Evening star., 1945-08-16
1878 D. C.. Acres
| Are Still Devoted
To Agriculture

Believe it or not-there are IS
farms in the District of an average
OF about Al acres each.
Authority for this is Herbert r,
Green, Census Bureau area super
visor for the 1945 farm census in the
District and Maryland. His head.
quarters are at Ellicott City, Md.
The number of farms in the Ma.
tional Capital is on the decline,
however, according to the prelimi-
nary count of returns. They dropped
from IS farms in 1910 and SO in
1885.
The total land in farms in the
District now, according to the pre-
llminary count, is 1878 acres, as
compared with. 2,341 acres in 1910.
and 2,801 acres in 1885. Average of
ALT acres per farm compares with
So acres in 1910, and 31.S acres in
1885.
Evening star., 1945-08-16

Before assuming his new post, Mr..
Doran had been since 1888 inspector
in charge of the New York postal
district.
Mr.. Doran began as letter carrier
36 years ago and worked his way up
in the postal service. He was born
in Waterbury, Conn, on September
8, 1887. He and Mrs. Doran, who
now live on Long Island, N. Y,
have four hildren-James, Jerome.
Robert. a lieutenant in the Naval
Reserve; and daughter, Marie. Mr..
Doran said yesterday he would move
his family to Washington in the near
future.
In an impromptu speech to postal
officials at the swearing Mr.. Han
negan expressed the hope the in
spection service increasingly would
become an agency to deter crime
rather than arrest law-breakers.
Evening star., 1945-08-16
From Our
|LeonordtoWn
CORRESPONDENT
By GEORGE MORGAN KNIGHT

ny UEOhGE MOkGAN KNIGHT
Jr.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, Aug. 49,
Leonardtown residents do not have
: to go to the seashore or the beaches
all up and down the Atlantic sea-
board to know and be informed as
to the latest fashion in bathing suits
and what milady is wearing. No
They can sit home or just go shop
ping at the local stores where the
live models as themselves come te
shop in the briefest of bathing suits
and summer time shorts, and what
appears frequently to be the latest
Is the three cornered pants ensemble
or the newest abbrivated G-Strine
sun suit, with f1oppy hat. and toeless
sandals, in the gayest of colors!
Who dares wear these latest sum.
mer fashions is not always the
youngest ladies but the older the,
are the bolder and scantier the GOV.
ering!
With the many Navy wives of the
service at the Patuxent River u. S
Naval Base just below here, swelling
st. Mary's county and Leonard
towns population figures by leaps
and bounds, one wonders what dar-
ing costumes these lady of the feet
will appear in next to shock the
natives, and cause them to get many
a whistle from the gentlemen and
the shop keepers as they come in
and depart.
In winter the same ladies wear
slacks over which they display lovely
fur coats of slick mink, fox, and
silver fox and matching turbans set
on their heads at acute angles. So
Paris, France, and New York City.
USA, has nothing on folks in Leon
ardtow1 in the way of seeing what
the next best dressed lady strangers
are wearing. Thus there is lots of
talk, and never a dull moment in
Maryland's oldest countyseat-Leon-
ardtown.
Evening star., 1945-08-16
.
Truman foCut
MostAgenciesto
40 Hours Soon
Four Departments
On Full Overtime
! Also Face Decreases
BY JOSEPH YOUNG.

A 40-hour week for most Gov
ernment agencies will be Or
dered by President Truman
within the next few weeks, it
was learned today.
At present all agencies are on a
44-hour week, with the exceptions
of the War, Navy and Treasury
Departments and the Veterans Ad-
mlnlStratlon which are generally
on a 48-hour week.
These latter agencies are ex-
pected to be ordered in the next
few days on a 44-hour week and
within few months will be on a
4o-hour week, Government officials
predict.
Five-Day Basis.
The 40-hour week will be worked
on five-day basis, Monday
through Friday, for most workers.
Before the war, Federal employees
were on six-day, 39-hour week.
Most employees, however, have ex-
pressed themselves in favor of a
40-hour week providing they can
have the whole day off on Saturday
instead of working a half day as
they did in prewar times.
Although the reduction in hours
will eliminate overtime pay to Fed
eral workers, 40-hour week means
that the dismissals of some war
service appointees will be delayed
for months.
Government officials feel that re-
ducing the hours will spread out"
employment for a while and pre-
vent the confusion and financial
hardship that sudden dismissals
would mean to war service ap-
pointees.
There is possibility the Veterans
Administration, which is desperately
in need of personnel, will be per-
mitted. to remain on 48-hour week
for some time.
Had Worked 48 Hours.
Until last month all Government
agencies were on a 48-hour week.
With the enactment of the new pay
act, President Truman ordered the
hours of most agencies reduced to
A. He asked the excepted agencies,
however, to reduce their work week
as soon as possible.
The War Department reduced It's
work week at some of its field estab-
llshmentS, but its $1,000 civilian
employees here have remained on a
48-hour week.
Evening star., 1945-08-16
Capital Area VINO
Will Continue 10
I0perate Indefinitely

The Washington area War Man.
power Commission will continue in
definitely although VINO Deputy
Chairman Frank L. McNamee said
today Washington is mot a good
example" of why VINO plans to hold
onto all its area offices.
So far, it was learned, the local
VINO has had no instructions re-
garding its future and assumed that
it would 60 out of business when the
manpower controls were dropped.
Ernest v. Connolly, Washington
War Manpower director, had ap-
proved press release for today with
a somewhat valedictory air. The re-
lease thanked District employers
and workers for their cooperation
and said that following the two-day
holiday granted Government en-
ployes normal operations of the
United States Employment Service
will again become our main con-
Germ"
Uniform Methods Sought.
Mr.. McNamee said area VINO
Offices would be continued so that
USES Offices would have uniform,
aggressive and dynamic" methods of
working toward full employment.
When asked exactly what the
Washington area VINO would do
along those lines, Mr.. McNamee said
Washington was not a good example
since there was little industry here.
Mr.. McNamee said it was neces-
sary to continue the present struc-
ture of VINO with national, regional
and area VINO Offices because you
can't coordinate for quick action
on a dynamic basis" when a State
USES Office had as many as 95 local
USES Offices to handle.
The Washington area Office "co-
ordinates six USES offices and actu-
ally supervises two" an area spokes-
man said. He explained that the
area Office cannot cross State lines
on supervision, but is responsible
for this labor market area which
includes the two local USES offices,
Arlington and Alexandria, Va, and
Hyattsville and Silver Spring, Md.
Will Encourage Expansion.
Mr.. McNamee said that in addi-
ton to finding jobs for workers in
their own communities and chan
neling workers to key industries
threatened with reconversion bottle
necks because of manpower short
ages, local area VINO Offices would
be responsible for encouraging en-
ployes to expand their facilities and
for developing work opportunities.
In Washington, it was understood
the area VINO Office feels the WASH
ington Board of Trades Postwar
Committee, on which it is repre-
sented. is serving adequately to en-
courage business expansion,
The II employees of the local area
Office are divided into these groups: !:
Manpower utilization, which has
handled priorities and employment
ceilings; compliance; reports and
analysis; business MANAGEMENT
which has handled the offlce's fiscal
affairs. and the personnel division
which has been responsible for USES
personnel.
Evening star., 1945-08-16

ern m e n t en-
ploye, the Navy
announced to-
day. He spent
Al years in the
Bureau of Ships.
In addition to
his duties as a
clerk, Mr.. Dunn
a r r a n g e d for
the manufacture
a n d shipment
OF special equip
m e n t flags,
gang pl a n k S
special ra m p S
and elevators
ra n11i rad an
Evening star., 1945-08-16
Low-Priced Shoe Sale
Moved Up 10 Tomorrow
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
The OPA has advanced to tomor-
row the beginning of ration-free
sales of certain types of mems and
women's low-priced shoes.
The ration-free sales will con-
tinue through September %. Pre-
viously the sales had been sched-
uled to begin August ~ and end
october IS.
The change was made, the agency
said, because many of the ration
free shoes are summer styles.
Evening star., 1945-08-16
Maryland Employees
Remain on HoIidoy
Fy the Associated Press.

ES the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. Aug. 16.-All
Maryland State employees except
those needed to maintain essential
services had holiday today in cele-
bration OF victory over Japan.
However, today Is not a legal loli-
day IN the State and banks reopened
after closing yesterday.
Evening star., 1945-08-16

difficulties for the early bird look
ing for breakfast. Thompson's res
taurants, at Eleventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV. and at
Fourteenth and E streets NV, did
not open until long after their reg
|ular time. Nedick's, on E and Thir-
teenth streets NV, were also slow
In getting under way. In both
places tardy help explained the
delay. Other eating places in the
downtown area were closed for the
day, adding to the problems of
workers or visitors in this area try
ing to get breakfast.
Evening star., 1945-08-16
Bureau Of Ships Aide
Retires After Al Years

Joseph F. Dunn, senior clerk in
the allowance section of the Bu-
reau of Ships, Navy Department,
has retired after Al years as a Gov
Evening star., 1945-08-16
Truman Will Attend
Convention of Legion
the Associatad press

Ey the Associated Press.
Edward N. Scheiberling, COM
mander of the American Legion
said yesterday President Truman
has accepted an invitation to at
tend the Legion's national conven-
ton in Chicago November 1920.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-22
DimOnd Grants
 Injunction Against Wagner Radio Co.

Ire U. s. District Court in An chorage, Judge Anthony Dimond presiding, June g issued prelim- mary injunction against Wagner's Alaska Radio Supply Co.,, of that city restraining them from further overcharges under price regula- tions which apply to its sales of goods and services.
 A permanent injunction was is- sued on the same day against Will Key Jefferson, Anchorage land- lord who was previously fined S1OO for contempt of court wnen he violated the preliminary in- junction first issued ordering him to cease violation of the Ren Reg ulation pending final hearing of his case.
 OPA's action, especially in the Jefferson case, was bitterly con- tested in trials extending over a period of several days. The Office of Price Administration feels con- fident the final orders, as entered June 13, will serve to encourage voluntary compliance with OPA regulations by other merchants and landlords in the area. These cases have been closely watched by the public in general since in vestigation and enforcement ac- ton first started, and will serve as a possible restraint on others who might through violations incur similar court orders.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-22

through Trench. He said it was absolutely essential that the six hundred mile gap be considered as a part of a postwar program in which Canada and British Colum- bia would participate.
 He said he would try to find a way to complete it in cooperation with Canada and British Colum- bia. It's a good project he added and he will support it.
 Stories appeared in eastern pa pers that you are getting rid of MT. Ickes and of replacing him with Captain Krug," J. A. Krug, chairman of WIPE, reporter as- serted he asked the President if he planned such an action. The President replied that he had no such intention and it was the first he had heard of it. It was news to him and he hadn't discussed it at all with MT. Ickes.
 The President appeared attired in wool pullover sweater he had borrowed from Governor Wall gren. It had been knitted by In dians on Vancouver Island the President explained, but as to the nature of the designs he reminded a reporter to ask the chief of the
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-22
OPA Ceilings Not Cause OfCOal Mine Closing

The claim of the company that the present shutdown of the Buff falo Coal Mine the Anchorage area is due to the maximum prices es- tablished by OPA for all Alaska produced bituminous coal is not substantiated by the facts uncov- cred by OPA's careful analysis of the situation.
 Present ceilings were set on all producer and dealer sales of the Alaska-produced product on the basis of extensive surveys and consultation with the operators and dealers themselves. The Buff falo company neglected for eight months to report to OPA required expenditure accounts which re-
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-22

Siwashes, asserting it was a Sl- wash sweater.
 The President said that General Eisenhower was entitled to any tring he wants and he will see that the general gets it. The Presl- dent didn't elaborate on his remark made after reporter inquired as to his plans for Eisenhower who was guest at a Whitehouse stag dinner Monday.
 Eisenhower's first job is to get back to Germany and finish the work there. The President said he had no plans concerning proposals to lower the age for discharge of soldiers, asserting it was strictly military affair.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-22
President Says
 Alaskan Highway Must Be Completed

OLYMPIA, June 21 - (R -| President Truman praised the work of the San Francisco confer ence and promised that the meat situation would be enlightened out, but denied the report that he contemplated removing Secretary Ickes from office.
 The President said the Admins tration was working toward a plan of single control over prices of food in response to one ques- ton, but didn't disclose how it would function.
 In the first press conference since leaving the Whitehouse the President also expressed gratifica- tion over Senate approval of legis- 1ation extending the reciprocal trade agreement program with further tariff lowering authority. He announced he would stop over in Portland Monday enroute to San Francisco.
 He came out flatly in favor of postwar completion of the Alaskan highway in cooperation with Brit ish Columbia and said about six hundred miles of road, from Trench up were needed to com- plete. He said he had talked over the Alaskan Highway with Cover nor Gruening and Senator Mag nuson and discussed it's extension
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-22
MRS. MARY COGSWELL VISITING FATHER

Mrs. Mary Anne Cogswell, daughter of MT. Guy Mish, sur prised her friends by arriving on the first boat to visit with her father.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-22
JOHN BADEN ON BUSINESS TRIP TO NOME

MT. John Paden, superintend- ent of the White Mountain Indus trial School is in town on busi- ness.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-22
VIM. T. MURRAN. FORMER
 NoMEITE, IN LOS ANGELES

Wm. T. Murran, who lived on the Sand Spit from 1911 to lSl' is now in business at 6llO So' Main Street, Los Angeles, Calif.
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-22

flected true operational costs, the Alaska Director stated "and even in its petition for adjustment it has not supplied clear and ade- quate cost information upon which determination could have been based readily, had it been avail able to OPA."
The Nome nugget., 1945-06-22
RITA TAvIS RETURNS FROM VISIT IN FAIRBANKS

Rita Tavis, popular and effi- cient traffic representative for the P.A.A. returned from a weeks visit in Fairbanks where she com- bined business with pleasure.