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Evening star., 1945-08-14
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.

@. How does the death rate OF
wounded soldiers in the present war
compare with that of the First
World Wars. B.
A. The War Department an
nounced on May 13 that the
death rate of our wounded soldiers
in the present war Is 8 per cent.
The death rate of wounded men
who lived long enough to reach
surgery during the First World War
was "a per cent.
@. Was the train which disap-
peared in 1875 in the quicksands in
Colorado ever discovered?-W. E. P.
A. The train and locomotive sank
beyond discovery though probed for
to a depth Of SO feet.
@. How long does it take a tick
to develop?-W. C. M.
A. 1t may take two months for
a tick to grow from egg to adult,
but it may take as long as ~
years If the weather Is not suitable
or If there is no food at hand. The
female tick lays from 5000 to 5000
eggs.
@. Is bread a necessity?-R. NJ
A. Bread is not absolutely neces-
sary, but it is valuable in the diet
since it supplies carbohydrates and
proteins in good form for assimi-
lation. Since the beginning Of his
tory, bread in some form or another
made from wheat or from some
other grain has provided one of
the chief foods of mankind in all
countries.
@. What is the origin OF the
word "clue"?-K. A. P.
A. 1t is from the old English,
cluwe, "a ball of thread" the thread
of life, which according to the fable,
the Fates spin for every man. The
flgurative meaning, piece of evil
dence leading to discovery. is de-
rived from the story of Theseus,
who was guided through the laby-
rinth by the ball of thread held by
Ariadne.
@. Are there any schools which
offer helicopter training for civili-
ans?-J. w. S.
A. The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration says that there are no
certificated schools for helicopter
training for civilians at the present
time.
@. Can a veteran of the First
World War enter a hospital in an
other State to take advantage Of
better climate or must he go to one
in the State in which he lives?-
c. E. L.
A. In some cases it is possible
for a veteran to be transferred to
a hospital outside his State. His
transportation would not be paid
unless the physicians in charge Or
dered such a transfer. You should
refer the matter to the Regional
Office of the Veterans Administra-
tion which rated you and is han
ding your case.
@. How many rehabilitation CEN
ters has the Army in the United
States?-R. E. B.
A. Five have been established
since their inception in December
1912. They are located at Fort Slo-
cum, N. Y; Fort Jackson, S. c.;
Fort Knox, KY; Camp Bowie. Tex;
and Turlock, Calf
@. Would transfer to a different
unit overseas account for the de-
motion to private of a soldier who
had been a corporal for three
years?-M. r. E.
A. The War Department says
that the soldier in question could
have been denoted without preju-
dice to the grade of private If he
was transferred into an organiza-
ton where there was no vacancy in
his grade.
Evening star., 1945-08-14
Man Injured in Fall
While Visiting House

A fall down the basement stairs
OF house he was visiting In the
1900 block Of Fifth street NV,
Yesterday resulted in head injuries
70 Harry I. Ticer, S., of AIT Third
place NV. police reported.
Mr.. T1cer was removed to Casualty
Hospital, unconscious, but his con-
dltion today was reported to Be
favorable. He is employed by the
Southern Railway System.
Evening star., 1945-08-14
Colored Slides to Be Shown

There will be a public showing Of
colored slides at 8:15 pm. tomorrow
at the National Museum, Tenth
street and Constitution avenue NV,
it was announced today. The show
ing, sponsored by the National
Photographic Society, will have as its
subject Children and Portraits" :"
Maj. Ralph w. French, on duty at
the War Department, will preside.
The public is invited.
Evening star., 1945-08-14
Artist Hunts for Girl
Identified in Wallet
Found Downtown

An artist, now residing here,
is looking for a girl, % years old,
feet 8 inches tall, with dark
brown hair and brown eyes.
The quest is not for a model
but for a miss answering to the
name of Dorothy Pearl Rogers
who apparently comes from
Saltwater, N. Y. This much
information was cleaned from
a social security number and
other Identification found in a
billfold.
Dave Reasoner, the artist,
who found the billfold down.
town yesterday, may be reached
at Dupont 0736. There's money
in the billfold, too.
Evening star., 1945-08-14
Ey the Associated Press.


ROCKFORD, ILL.,, Aug. IA
spraying unit mounted on an Army
truck distributed DDT, the pow
erful new insecticide, throughout
the Rockford area yesterday In an
effort to curb an increase in in
fantile paralysis which has stricken
100 persons and resulted in II
deaths since July /.
The insecticide was sprayed along
streets and highways in cutters
and embankments.
Use of the insecticide was recon-
mended by Dr. Edward A. Piszczek
Cook County health director, here
as an adviser, to kill of flies and
mosquitoes DR.. Piszczek said it
was definitely known that flies can
Evening star., 1945-08-14
Boss Hooks Fisherman

SPOKANE, Wash. (P). - County
Assessor Don H. Thompson was
hooked by bass. Mr.. Thompson
related that he hooked a q
pound bass. and suddenly he found
the situation reversed and the bass
had him hooked. The fish bit his
thumb, sinking the hook in so
deeply that a doctor had to re-
move it.
Evening star., 1945-08-14
Italy Denies Attempting
Sneak Raid on TouIon

Iy the Associated Press.
ROME, Aug. 1.-THE italian Air
Ministry today denied French
statement that the Italian air force
attempted a sneak attack on the
French fleet base of Toulon June 7,
1910, three days before italy entered
the war.
The testimony is utterly without
foundation, the ministry said in a
communique.
Evening star., 1945-08-14
Girl, 3, Falls 4 Floors
To Sidewalk Without
Injury, Doll Is Broken
the Associated Press.

oy Iue ASbOCleteo FISsS.
CINCINNATI, Aug. a.
Three-year-old Irene Oliver
fell four floors from a window
Of her home to the sidewalk
yesterday, but only her doll was
a casualty.
Irene had it in her arms as
she fell, and crushed it in land
ing.
Physicians could find no in
jurtes to the child.
Patrolman william Ehrhardt
said Irene's fall was broken by
two utility wires IL feet above
the walk.
Evening star., 1945-08-14

o t m a n X ! n d i.
That, of course,
could be said OF
any period, since
life is constant
change. But the
brief ye ars OF
our tim e o n
earth happen to
b e ye ars in
which the course
of human affairs
is b e ! n 6 sub
jected to deci-
sive and radical
c h a n 6 e. Gen.
turies from now,
urhera the tale of
Evening star., 1945-08-14
By LoweH MeHen

We are living now in one Of the
great periods Of history, participat-
ing, all of us to some extent, in
events that will shape the future
Evening star., 1945-08-14
to
Questions

A reader can set the answer to any
question Of fact BY. writing The Eve
street NE, Washington 2, D. c. Please
inclose cents for return postage.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-26

the protection of all. The com
mon usages of society are in
grained in children from their
earliest contacts with those
around them. We do not con-
denim a child for his bad man
ners. but we do comment caus-
tically upon his home environ
ment.
To those conventions with
which we are all conversant,
should now be added new one,
A person who condemns another
not as an individual but because
of the group from which he
comes, should be considered as
guilty of bad breeding as he who
transgresses any of the Other
more material conventions. II
just isn't American, and it just
isn't done by ladies and gentle
men. We should hold it as i'm
portant to be kind as to be court
eous, to speak fairly as well as
truthfully, to respect our neigh
boris beliefs as we respect his
possessions.
We are now entering on one OF
the most trying years of our ma.
terial life. Let us resolve to con.
duct ourselves as well-bred people
during this trying time. Let us
be good American ladies and
gentlemen first and set a seal
upon our lips. Arguing as earnest
ly as we will, let us observe the
canons of fairplay and decent
speech and not indulge in gen
eralized charges against anyone.
Observing at all times the con-
ventions of society let us prove to
the world that the democratic
form of government with its free.
dom of speech for all people can
still be not only the most civili-
zed but the best bred form OF
government.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-26
Interracial Meet Of
Negroes, Japanese,
Filipinos and Jews

New state laws prohibiting
clauses In real-estate contracts
which would bar anyone from
moving into a residential district
because of race or color, were
urged last night at an Inter-Racial
Clinic in the Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church.
Leaders of the two-day meet
ing, sponsored by the Seattle
Council of Churches, also were
drafting recommendation for
legislation to change any state
banking and loan laws which
might allow discrimination be-
cause of race or color
Proposals for the legislation
came after speeches by represen-
tatives of many races and presen.
tation by Deputy Prosecutor John
E. Prim of a study of such hous.
ing restrictions in Seattle.
Prim declared there were few
race or color restrictions here
prior to 1928, but after a gen.
eral movement of Negroes from
small area on East Madison
Street, the Capitol Hill Community
Club circulated restrictive coven-
ants in real estate contracts which
will last until abou 1919.
Negroes Hemmed In
AS resul of these covenants.
Negroes have been hemmed into
given areas. thus not allowing
them normal growth, and the
Negro areas have become crowd.
ed" Prim said. 1.-THE homes are
in need of repair, because, prior
to the governments extending
loans, it was difficult to get a
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-26
WAR WOUNDED RAIL
TRAVEL INCREASING

The War Department, in the
first account of total war wound.
ed rail travel, announced this
week that over million trips had
been made by some $4,000 wound
ed or sick soldiers between No
vember 1912, and June 30, 1916.
In June alone of this year, 46-
600 travelled by rail in groups of
40 or more, most of them from
debarkation hospitals to inland
points. In addition to this, the
Transportation Corps estimated
that approximately 80 per cent of
the 225,OOO population of the
Army's "a general hospitals and
IL convalescent hospitals in the
United States-or more than e.
OOO-were moving between hos
pitfalls or were on pass or fur
Tough. This meant that more than
10000 patients rode the nations
railroads in June.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-26


loan in those areas"
Rabbi r. II. Levine of Temple
De Hirsch said the Jewish housing
situation In Seattle is about the
same as with any other race
crowded and with a shortage of
houses.
Prudencio Mort, business agent
for the Cannery Workers Union.
declared Filipinos had found 1t
difficult to obtain federal housing
because of clause stating only
citizens could occupy the homes.
The status of Fillpinos in regard
to citizenship. he said, had not
yet been determined.
The Rev. Fountain w. Penick,
pastor of the Peoples Institutional
Baptist Church, said he had been
informed that several housing prof.
ects will be used to house return
ing soldiers. Mr.. Penick expressed
the hope that returning Negro
soldiers will get their lust share
of such facilities without segrega-
ton or discrimination"
Report on Hotels
Mrs. Roy Green, member OF
the Y. w. C. A. board, reported
that there is a policy among hotel
organizations to refuse Negroes as
guests because Negroes are con-
sidered undesirable and downtown
Seattle hotels may be said gen.
orally to refuse Negroes as
guests"
The Rev. Thomas J. Machida,
pastor of the Japanese Methodist
Church, said two-thirds of the
1000 Japanese who had returned
to Seattle from relocation camps
are now temporarily sheltered
with relatives.
almost every Japanese home
owner in Seattle has at least two
or three families with him at this
present moment" Mr.. Machida
added.
"There are still 1000 evacuees
returning to Seattle from the
Hunt center alone. Unless the
Housing Authority prepares to
cope with the rising situation
through their emergency measure,
serious housing shortage will
arise in the very near future"
The clinic was under the direc-
ton of DIR. George E. Haynes OF
New York, executive secretary of
the Department of Race Relations
of the Federal Council of
Churches.
John r. Harris of Seattle, di-
rector of Race Relations for the
Washington State Council OF
Churches, assisted DR.. Haynes.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-26
Ebenezer AME Church
Rev. E. ?. WlIlIams. pastor

Sunday school, $50: morn
ing worship. Il; Christian En-
deayor. Z; evening service. s.;
prayer meeting Wednesdays at
s o'clock.
Ninth and Park in down
town Bremerton.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-26
On Being WelI-Bred
BY RUTH TAYLOR

Conventions are the hall marks
of civilized living. They are the
traffic rules which man has
adopted for the better conduct OF
his life. Their observance is the
card proving his right to mem
bership in a civilized society.
There is no law against pushing
your neighbor aside in the street,
but if you do so, you prove your
self a boor. There is no law
against eating peas with knife
but If you do, you mark your
self ill-bred and unused to the
amenities of civilized society
There is no law against dis
courtesy-but 1t just isn't prac'
ticed by the kind of people you
want to know.
Conventions are designed for
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-26

The trustee board of Ebenezen AME Church pre-
double choral featuring the famous Naval
Ammunition Depot Choir, Joseph 5. Powe, USNR con-
ductor The Junior AME Choir Tuesday, October 1945
at 500 o'clock Double Choral Concert Civic Recreation
Center Fifteenth and Chester, Bremrton, Washington, to
provide funds finance the renovation of Ebenezer anne
Church and parsonage. Help to beautfy your friendly
little church Bremerton Tickets sale at
downtown stores. 81 90 per person.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-22
1945 Pig Crop in U. 5.
Totals 86,714,0O0 Head

From Yesterdays Last Edition.
By the Associated Press.
The Agriculture Department re-
ported today the 1915 pig crop to-
tailed 86,714 900 head.
This figure compared with the
Governments production goal OF
90, 000, 900 head. The 1914 totaled
SO, 688, 600 head and the crops for
the l0-year (l934-43) period aver
aged 97,069, 900. The record crop
was 125, 900 600 produced In 1913 to
meet war demands for pork.
The spring crop-from which this
winters supplies of pork are being
obtained-was reported at 81 $50 900
head. The spring crop of 1914 was
S., 428, 600 head and the 10-year av-
erage spring crop was 1926 900.
The fall crop which will move
to market next spring and summer
was estimated at 35,144, 900 head
compared with last years fall crop
Of 81 100000 and with the 10-year
average Of 30,8o3 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-22
Man Held in Shooting
OF Soldier After Party

From Yesterdays Last EDITION.
Clarence r. Williams, 54, of the
$500 block of Eighth street NV. was
held in bail of $4,000 today on a
charge of shooting soldier in a
corridor of the apartment where
williams resides. Police said an
argument preceded the shooting.
John C. Sims, 20, soldier attached
to Walter Reed Hospital, is in that
institution with a bullet wound In
the shoulder. He was found about !
am. in front of the apartment house
and taken to Walter Reed by fire
rescue squad.
In asking Municipal Court Judge
Thomas D. Quinn to set the high
bond Assistant United States Attor-
ney John B. Diamond. Sd, said Mr..
Sims was in very critical condition
and may die"
Police said the argument occurred
just after a party in an apartment
other than Williams and after a
heated conversation between the two
over the telephone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-22
12-Hour-0Id Baby, Handed
To Stranger by Mother, Dies

Death of a newborn baby after
his mother had left him with a
stranger and failed to return was
under investigation today by Coro-
ner A. Magruder Macdonald.
According to the police report
Miss Evelyn Inez White, 10, Of 1922
Thirty-seventh place. Brentwood,
Md, was standing at Thirty-fourth
and Perry streets, Mount Rainier,
Md, when a slight, dark-haired
young woman about IS years old,
wearing gray coat and no hat ap-
preached her and asked her to hold
the baby a few minutes. $3.50
The woman did not return to the
corner and Miss White became
frightened and took the infant to
the Sibley Hospital where he died
from exposure not long after. The
baby was wrapped only In curtains
and a towel. Doctors at the hospital
said the baby appeared to be only
IL hours old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-22
Roger Buck, Son Of Archivist,
HELPS Save Injured GI at Seq

Jacobs Of GAINESVILLE, MINI, and
Pvt. Roger Buck, %. Of Washing
ton, D. c., had struggled to main
tain the injured mans breathing.
Pvt. Buck, whose home here Is at
35O8 Rittenhouse street NV, wears
a Bronze Star Medal for saving
three comrades under heavy fire.
He had served in Italy and Southern
France as front line medical aid
man before he was wounded in &C
ton and sent back to Italy. where
he remained on duty In hospital
as surgical technician.
Pvt. Buck. %, is the son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Scion ]. Buck. Mr.. Buck
is archivist Of the United Sta States.
Pvt. Buck, a graduate Of Wilson
High School, attended the Uni
versity Of Minnesota before entering
the service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-22

here on OCTOBER z, 1889.
It was at this conference, Mr..
Griffin recalls, that Andrew Carne-
gle became interested in amicable
relations among the Americas and
later gave $4,000 toward construc-
ton of the Pan American Union
Building. The cornerstone was laid
May IL, 1908, by President Theodore
Roosevelt.
Mr.. Griffin is native of Wash
ington. He married Marie Gertrude
Green, also of this city, in 1904.
They have four sons and daughters,
Mrs. Marie Smith and w. Robert
Griffin, of Washington; c. Vincent
Griffin of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and
the former Miss Margaret Griffin,
now Sister Aline of the Sisters OF
Mercy, Baltimore.
Mr.. Griffin is member OF the
Kenwood Country Club, Knights OF
Columbus, st. Vincent de Paul So
ciety and the National Geographic
Society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-22
ItuIions Who Fled Prison
In U. S. Ship Go to Eustis
~ Re Associated Press.

BY re Associated fresS.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Dec. e.
Nineteen Italian fugitiyes from a
French Morocco prisoner Of war
camp who slowed away on an Amer
lean vessel in the hope Of eventually
getting home to Italy have been sent
to Fort Eustis, the Navy disclosed
yesterday.
An officer at Fort Eustis said the
10 would @be treated just like any
other war prisoneAs' and no special
disposition of the group would be
made except on orders Of the prov
ost marshal.
Ofi1cials OF the ship, the Sea Fid-
dler, which arrived here Tuesday
from Casablanca, said the men had
come aboard by joining labor gangs
loading bags and ballast into the
gun tubs. They concealed them
selves In seven small dugouts con-
stzucted around one Of the tubs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-22
Carrier franklin Chaplain
Twill Receive Top Medal

From Yesterdays Last Edition.)
BY the Associated Press.
1t. Comdr. Joseph T. O'Callahan,
heroic chaplain of the aircraft car
rier Franklin. is to receive the
Congressional Medal of Honor, 1t
was learned today.
The recommendation has been
approved "all along the line" it was
learned, but the Navy is not yet
ready to make an official announce
ment.
Now transferred to another car
rier, Father O'Callahan was serving
on the Franklin last March when a
Japanese air attack of Kyushu left
the fiat top a floating torch. He
directed rescue work aboard the
crippled ship besides giving spiritual
comfort to the wounded and dying.
The Franklin's skipper, Capt. L.
T. Genres, called the chaplain 'the
bravest man I've ever known" for
his work during the three days and
nights Of the successful fight to
save the ship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-22
Clyde 6. Phelps Dies;
Land Office Examiner

Clyde G. Phelps, 81, a law ex-
sminer for the Interior Department
Land Office, died of a heart attack
yesterday at his home, 50 Randolph
place NV.
A native of Edgar Springs, Mo-
he came to Washington 81 years ago
to work for the Interior Department
and had been employed there con-
tinuously.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Helen c. Phelps; two sons, Albert G
and James K. Phelps; two daugh.
tiers, Mrs. Evelyn Hudson and Mrs
Warrena Shotwell, all of Washing
ton; and a sister, Mrs. Thelma Sold
man of st. Louis.
Funeral services will be held at II
am. Monday at Chambers funera
home, 1400 Chaplin street NV
Burial will be private.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-22
Blue Ridge Bus WaIkouf
Halls Lines 10 West
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSs.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, Dec. o.
A. F. Mcdonald, general manager of
the Blue Ridge Bus Lines, said to-
day that traffic on all the company's
routes had been halted and about IL
busloads of passengers stranded in
Hagerstown by a continuous meet
ing" of the Bus Drivers Union.
Union officials were not available
for comment. Company officials
said they were not comforting at
present with the union-the Anal
gamated Association of Street Elec-
trio Railway and Motor Coach EN-
ployes (AFL).
Mr.. Mcdonald said the union
meeting had started at 10 pm. yes
terday and that all Blue Ridge buses
then on the road had been ordered
into Hagerstown by the union so
that the drivers could attend the
meeting. A bus due in from Pitts
burgh just after s am. today was the
last bus running. ALI service be-
tween Pittsburgh, Baltimore and
Washington and between Harris
burg, Pa, and Winchester, Va, was
halted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-22
Senate Group Maps Bill to Aid
Veterans Short of Clothing

recommend that the War Depart
ment permit discharged men to
take home all clothing in their
possession.
The committee said the Civilian
Production Administration would
tackle the civilian suit shortage with
regulations requiring production Of
more suit-weight cloth by WOODEN
and worsted mills.
Meanwhile, the committee sug-
gested a broad publicity program
urging civilians not to buy garments
they don't really need and retailers
to set aside part of their stocks for
sale only to former servicemen.
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that all unidentified submarines
discovered in Hawaiian waters be
sunk.
Kimmel Exceeded Orders.
The report went on to state that
in doing this Admiral Kimmel ex-
ceeded his orders from higher au-
thority and ran the risk of COM
hitting an overt act against Japan,
''but did so feeling that 1t is better
to follow the rule of Shoot first and
explain afterwards.
Senator Brewster said this seemed
to conflict with Admiral Turner's
testimony that the Navy was not
cautioned, as the Army was, that
the United States desired Japan to
commit the first overt act.
Admiral Turner insisted that, to
his knowledge, the Pacific Fleet was
never ordered not to commit an
overt act. He pointed out that the
fleet had been operating in Hawai-
ian waters for more than 16 months
and was taking precautions against
irresponsible japanese submarine
action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-22
YuIe Leaves Cut, Then Restored
At Fort Custer in POW Move

mediately, according to Capt. Ray
mond F. Collier, public relations
officer. Soldiers living at some dis
lance from the fort were already
on furlough when the order came
out, thus it affected principally
those living nearby.
No soldier and only one officer had
been recalled from furlough when
the order was rescinded.
Army authorities earlier an
nounced that preparations were un-
der way to ship the prisoners out
but said they probably would not be
sent until the holiday travel crush
subsidies.
The shipment of prisoners will be
the first to leave this camp, which
has over 1000 internees. The Wal
Department has announced all Ger
man POWS will be sent home by
the latter part of April.