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Evening star., 1945-05-13

Proponents of the plan hold that the
WACS have amply fulfilled all expecta-
tions, and that there should be a
permanent nucleus of professional wom-
en- soldiers to guide women's Army
activity in an emergency.
They'd Like to Stay
Many of the present women officers
would like to stay in the service
Whether they will have the opportunity
will be up to Congress, since the corps
is scheduled to disband under present
legislation six months after the war ends
Though the War Department so far
has said nothing about keeping the
gates open to women, Representative
Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican, of
Massachusetts, who introduced legis-
lation establishing the corps, told The
Star:
the WACS have done a fine and con-
structive job and will want them
continued"
Known as THE Mother of the Wom-
ems Army Corps for having sponsored
the bill first setting up the organization
as an Army auxiliary, Representative
Rogers added:
1T will be very important to the
national defense in the future that
skeleton force of women officers and
enlisted women be ready to take over
in every line in case they should be
needed"
Should Be Permanent Unit
When the time comes to bring the
proposal for permanent women's
service before Congress, Representative
Rogers would be the logical person to
handle the job She has been con-
vinced since serving in war work in
England during the last war that women
should have q permanent place in the
Army
In that war, she recalls, the Amer
lean Expeditionary Force had to borrow
1000 members of the British Women's
Army Auxiliary to help get its work
done
Meanwhile, WACS all over the world
are preparing to mark the third BIRTH
day anniversary of the corps with jubila-
ton at their part in bringing the Nazi
state to defeat.
Every one in the WACS will take part,
from Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, corps di-
rector, whose Office is in the Armys
Pentagon Building here, to officers and
enlisted women in the loneliest outposts.
More than $500 WACS will observe the
anniversary overseas.
Worldwide Celebration
On the schedule for salute to WAC
week." starting today, are parades and
parties at 400 WAC stations throughout
the United States and many more in
Bermuda, Italy, North Africa, the Afri-
can Gold Coast, England, France, Egypt,
India, Ceylon, New Guinea, Australia,
New Caledonia, Hawaii, Labrador, Brit
ish Columbia, Alaska, Yukon Territory
in Canada and Leyte in the Philippines.
In on the show, of course, will be
Uncle Sans soldiers, becauSe-and this
is a quotation from an official WAC
study-"the WAC'S favorite date is CT
Joe"
At many camps and air bases, the
Army will throw parties for the WACS.
Elsewhere, the girls will plan their own
observance. Womens organizations,
USO centers and other war service
groups will participate in many local
tiles.
The anniversary comes at time when
the WAC probably is at the maximum
strength it will reach in this war. With
long-term manpower needs relaxed by
Evening star., 1945-05-13
BY John Clagett Proctor

by John Clagett Proctor
Naturally, only the older residents of
Washington are aware of the fact that
IN the early days of the city there was
q comparatively well-defined section of
the Capital known as the Northern
Liberties. Bryan says it was north of G
street and east of Twelfth, while the
city directory for 1843 tells us it was
somewhere, perhaps anywhere, north
OF F or G or H street, its eastern and
western Axpanse not comprehended even
within tie probabilities of surmise" !"
But before the streets were marked
and the houses numbered, and even for
many years after this took place, the
early inhabitants knew just where to
find the Northern Liberties" And they
also knew how to find other localities,
within this indefinite area, but more
definitely defined, as Crow Hill between
Seventh street west and North Capitol
street, later contracted into a few
squares, or in the vicinity of New York
avenue and First street. And then We
are also told that Germantown extended
from North Capitol street west to
Seventh street and north of street and
That Goose Level ran from Seventh to
Tenth and north to Florida avenue.
Gasaways Hill was on N street between
Ninth and Tenth streets, and where old
Hamllne Church still stands, at Ninth
and P streets, was Turner's Pasture.
Judge Bates Recollections
Back in 1902, when Judge Edward H.
Bates was returning to Washington from
Buffalo, N. Y, for visit, he was per-
suaded to give an account of his early
recollections of his home city. He was
then 85 years of age and had formerly
been magistrate in Washington, and
what he had to say, particularly of
Seventh street, gives an idea of pioneer
conditions along this wellknown busi-
ness thoroughfare. He said
IF pocket cameras had been as gen.
orally used 10 years ago as they are now,
many snapshots of what would appear
to be village scenes might be found
among the personal effects of almost
everybody's grandfather and the names
of some of the pictures would surprise
us of the present day.
For instance, one labeled Corner
Seventh and G streets NW.-a LANYARD
on country road, the low sheds cover
ing huge vats and strip fence sur
rounding the grounds = -
"A picture of lonely common, with
small stone slabs protruding above the
damp earth, like ghosts of the stricken
choleEs victims who lay buried beneath
them, would have been marked East
side & eeventh street, between l. and M
streets NV or, if lettered in those days
-'Ye countye roade,' for Seventh street
from G street to Boundary was the
country road, and at the northwest
corner of Boundary-or, as we knew it.
Florida avenue-the amateur photog-
rapher might have planted his tripod
in front of an old inn or tavern, with
the word The Cross Keys in large
letters across its front and two huge
iron keys crossed and suspended above
its doorway in the most approved Eng
hsh style"
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Jenkins Farm

Jenkins farm, according to an early
probably Sixth and Ninth streets, and
on Seventh street extended a little be-
yond the old poorhouse On this farm
was an old dwelling house and tobacco
house or barn. From this to the Bound
ary, now Florida avenue, was what was
called the white Oak Harb Slashes,"
all in wood.
In this condition it probably remained
at least up until the latter part of the
SOS, when, we are told, there were few
homes in the neighborhood. A writer
for The Star, some three decades ago, in
referring to this square, tells us that
''In fact, north of it, with the exception
OF the Washington Asylum the work.
house,, there was not much sign of i'm
provement to be found other than a
pretense of keeping the wagon road of
Seventh street in such a condition as
to be used: for that street was, of course,
as now, the route to Montgomery County,
and during the days of the cholera
epidemic it was much used by hearses
and wagons bearing away the victims
OF the dreaded disease, who were buried
a short distance north of the asylum
incidentally, the poorhouse was located
on square 448, between M and N and
Sixth and Seventh streets NV, which
was purchased by the Corporation of
Washington in 1909.
Mount Vernon Square
A fire engine house and market had
predxed to their names Northern Lib
erty," both being located in what later
became known as Mount Vernon Square.
the present site of the downtown Public
Library. This square extends from Sew
enth to Ninth street and from K street
to Mount Vernon place, and which, at
the time of forming of the District of
Columbia, was owned by two men named
Lynch and Sands, and known as Port
Royal.
The pioneer shoemaker of this neigh
b.orhood, Thomas French, lived at the
southeast corner of Ninth and K streets
where he owned a two-story frame
house. His name appeared in the city
directory for 1843. Eastward on K street
were two three-story brick dwellings
owned by Harvey Cruttenden and w. H.
Ward, and near the corner of Eighth
street was brick dwelling owned by
anthony Preston, who then lived on
Ninth street between G and H streets
The southeast corner of Eighth and K
xsreets was then vacant, and about
where Charles Dismer used to dispense
lamb stew and Mertzen beer stood back
from the building line the two oldest
houses in the neighborhood, one of
which was occupied by free colored
woman named Ford. Farther to the east
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Not a Cure-Au

AT FIRST. thought to be cure-all
for human sterility, Nitamin Z failed
to live up to this promise. But. Vogt-
Moller, a Dane. thought it might be
of value in treating those cases
where women repeatedly lost babies
after a certain period of normal de-
velopment.
The Dane selected "a women, all
of whom had been unable to bear
live babies. He fed them nauseous
doses of wheat-germ oil, the riCh-
est source of Vitamin E then known,
and 80 per cent of them produced
healthy children!
At this point research men came
up with another striking set of facts,
They found that if guinea pigs were
denied the vitamin, they were soon
paralyzed. So were ducks, turkeys,
and even guppies! Deny a monkey
Nitamin + and each day he
would climb less and less. After
a while he would be lying on his
cage floor, paralyzed.
Rather than clarifying, all this
only confused the picture of Vita
min E. One shrewd observation was
made. Tiny slivers of muscle from
paralyzed guinea pigs were full of
holes something like Swiss cheese.
1t looked as though these muscles
had been attacked by amyotrophc
Evening star., 1945-05-13
ASh-Can Vitamin
BY J. D. RATCLIFF

lateral sclerosls, the disease that
killed Lou Gehrig. 1t was relent-
lessly progressive sickness for which
there was no treatment, no cure.
There was, of course, little hope
that Vitamin F. would cure this dew
astating ailment. Once a muscle had
undergone such severe damage there
was little chance that vitamin
would restore II to normal - any
more than a vitamin could restore
a lost leg. But Z gave some relief,
opened the door to other work.
DIR. Charles L.. Steinbcrg. of
Rochester. \. V. had observed
patients with rripplinq disease
of muscles known as primary
fbrositis. If this muscular inflam-
nation strikes in the back, the dis
ease may be diagnosed as lumbago;
in the shoulder as bursitis; in the legs
as rheumatism. Were these muscular
pains an indication Of K deficiency?
Stelnberg selected SO patients, fed
them large doses of Nltamin (.
Within eight to 30 weeks. 55 of them
were completely cured. Pain was
stopped in one week.
But the vitamin was too costly
for widespread use. Synthesized in
1898, the artificial vitamin cost
Sl.S00 pound.
Then, a British-born chemist,
DR.. Kenneth Hickman, came into
the picture. Hickman, working for
the Eastman Kodak Company. was
investigating the film-drying posi-
bllities of the molecular still In this
new research tool, the distillatlon
process was carried on in a vacuum.
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Saw Drug Display

One day, Hickman was looking
in a drugstore window. The bright
sun was beating on display of cod
liver oil He remembered how, as a
boy, he had to take quantities Of
this ill-tasting, ill-smelling stuff.
wonder why no one has extract
ed the essential vitamins from this
sickening fish OIL" Hickman NUT
tered to himself. Then you could
take them in tiny capsules"
Hickman's rangy research mind
began to work. The molecular still!
At low temperatures - because of
the vacuum - maybe you could
boil off the fragile vitamins without
destroying their activity. He bought
Evening star., 1945-05-13

1t was being thrown
away, but a chemist
got on the trail. Now
it's doing wonders
"HIS is the story OF big game
hunt that ended in sewer. The
big game: an elusive, almost fabu
lously expensive vitamn.
This vitamin looks like a specific
remedy for many vague aches, pains
and tired feelings. 1t is swift cure
for certain types of rheumatism,
lumbago, neurhls, bursitis. And it's
a top performer against one Of the
most heartbreaking complications of
child-bearing: repeated miscarriage.
Vitamin E was discovered in 1922.
but only within recent months have
research men been able to define its
vital role in human nutrition.
Evening star., 1945-05-13

MAERh ha old proud of her
father Muen the first fly solo around the world Today her
daddy leading pilot Lokhed The Maen live in Los Angeles Cal
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
letters Doubts
Benefits in
Travel Rafioninu

LOS ANGELES, June 81. UP)-
William M. Jeffers, president of the
Union Pacific Railroad said he
doubted the "practibility of rail
travel rationing" At the same time
he said he was moving to Los Ange-
les where the nations heaviest rail-
reading is going to be done.
1T would be difficult for me, un-
der rationing, to say that it was any
more necessary for John Jones, an
industrialist to travel, than for a
woman with her baby who wants to
see her Serviceman husband before
he leaves the country or when he re-
turns" Jeffers said.
But Jeffers warned that all avail
able passenger and freight service
on the rails is going to be taken dur
ing the next few months by troops
fand equipment, with the result that
civilian travel will be curtailed auto
matically.
Jeffers said his move was sug-
geSted not only by increased war
time transportation problems in this
area, but also by the future of Los
Angeles in the postwar period
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Editorials and Comment
MESSAGES FROM
MEN IN COMBAT

Public addresses and statements deliv-
cred by several generals recently home
from Europe have stressed single
theme in the form of a message from
the men who have done the job of crush
ing Nazism. From Eisenhower, Pat
ton, Bradley and others, the people have
heard this word direct from the combat
men: There must be the will and the
way and the determination to make
peace that will prevent another war."
1t is not an expression of sentiment
stemming from the excitement and fer
vor that comes with victory at arms.
What the combat men set out comes
after days and months and years of
thought and study while they have gone
about their task of fighting and winning.
Just as there was intelligent planning
for months before the Allies struck on
D-Day so have the millions of men who
carried out these plans given intelligent
thought to the reasons for them being
over there at ALL They have not been
fighting as the Crusaders fought, nor
did they ever consider the crossing and
the fighting as an adventure.
These fighting men reached the con-
clusion that a condition existed that
meant an end to civilization unless it
completely were crushed out. Under the
urge of that reasoning and conclusion,
they set about heroically and method
ically to carry out the overall plans to
remove the menace There could be no
halfway mark. 1t had to be complete
destruction of the leaders and the in
stitution itself There was no faltering
anywhere along the line. Nazism as far
as the flash of gun, the demolition of
cities, the slaughter and the pinch of
want are concerned is finished
And now the combat men send this
message along-if minds were capable
of mapping the strategy: if millions of
men were willing and able to carry out
this strategy in battle, then there must
be minds capable and willing and deter
mined to carry on from armed victory
to definite, war-proof peace.
There is no boasting in the message
from the battlefield. The fighters had
serious job on hands. They have sue
ceeded Neither is there threat in the
word they send along. They merely
draw the pattern; they have set the pace.
That and no more.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Johnson ACT AND
OLD WAR DEBTS

Debate on repeal Of the Johnson Act
which bars sale of foreign securities in
this country by nations still in debt to
us for World War One loans, is expected
soon in congress.
1t is contended by those advocating
repeal that it prevents defaulting ma
tions from obtaining further loans, SEN
ator Johnson, California, who sponsored
the original bill, takes issue on that con-
tention He points out that the law pro-
tects individuals in the purchase of such
securities. 1t was passed in 1884 at
time when thousands of citizens were
suffering losses by buying worthless for
eign paper. Of course it had the effect
of forcing a debtor nation to become
liquid" before it could float securities,
which meant loans.
Whether the law is repealed or al
lowed to stand, it is the manifest duty of
the government to continue to protect
American citizens to the extent of refus-
ing loans itself until the foreign nations
improve their fiscal conditions. Debt
reputation does not tend to do that
thing.
However, there is definite trend now
to forgive all World War One debts and
if this happens, the Johnson act will die
a natural DEATH
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
Senators Ready
New WLRB Bill

WASHINGTON, June 81. CUP)-
Three senators planned to intro
duce a comprehensive new labor
relations act Thursday designed
to smooth postwar relations be :
tween management and labor and
prevent damaging strikes during
the reconversion period.
The measure would set up a new
Federal Mediation board, ban
strikes in public utilities such az
coal and require democratic prac-
tices in unions holding closed shop
contracts.
Its sponSorc, Sens. Carl A. Hatch
CD, N. M; Joseph H. Ball (R0 j.,
Mimi. and Harold H. Burton (RD +,
Q, told reporters the bill repre-
sented more than 18 months Ct
study by a l3-man group of labor
relations experts headed by Don
aid r Richberg. former head Of
the NRA.
The senators said it was the re-
suit Of compromise and discussion
between themselves and the 13-
man group. Hatch said they were
Totally committed" to the bill
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

1t is vital above all that we establish
policies which the American people un-
derstand and believe in. because without
this condition. public opinion before long
will simply demand that we come home
and leave Europe stew in it's own juice
Sen. Homer Ferguson, Michigan.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
EDITORS NOTE: The folloUing edit
orials are presented as Interesting Opin.
ions U0iced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
MIGHT-HAvE BEENS IN WAR
New York Times)

New York Times) .s.-9se set-k
Now that they can be told, we are
hearing many previously withheld stOr-
les OF what might have happened if criti-
cal events had turned just a hairbreadth
more in Germany's favor. More stirring
than most is Harold Denny's report on
that dark Dec. 18 when Won Rundstedt' s
drive against our First Army in the Ar
dennes reached it's crest. The enemy
almost seized 100000 gallons of Am
erican gasoline stored near Malmedy,
which would have carried his armored
divisions right through our lines. Our
last reserves-cooks, engineers and
clerks-almost failed to halt the attack
before reinforcements could be rushed
up, and General Hodges himself was
almost captured by German tanks sweep
ing toward his headquarters at Spa.
The key-word in all this, of course is
almost" What could have happened
didn't quite happen. Senator Brewsters
story, that if the Germans could have
held us little longer on the Rhine their
jet planes would have dominated the sky,
is cut from the same cloth. They failed
came formidable History will ssift hun
dreds of these might-have-beens What
would have happened if. Hitler had in
vaded England Immediately after Dun
kerque, or if he had never attacked Rus
sia; if the Luftwaffe had beaten the
Raj in that first, fierce assault; if Rom
mel had taken Cairo; if Moscow or Stall
ingrad had fallen; if German rocket
bombs had wiped out London? The fu-
ture of the world hung on such narrow
escapes from disaster.
But we are still fighting another war.
We still face hazards that have not been
decided No doubt tragic events could
take place off the shores of Japan which
would set us back for months. No doubt
there have been narrow escapes still to
be told. Let us learn from the war in
Europe, with all the terrifying might
have-beens we encountered there, not
to assume victory in the Pacific until
our flag flies over Tokyo go
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
BY Congressman John Phillips

report on DlllS.
The vote on H. R. 1914, which pro-
| vided for participation in the inter-
national monetary fund and the in
ternational bank for reconstruction
and development passed the house
by vote of 345 to 18. I think the
vote was significant. 1t demon
strated the earnest willingness Of
members of the congress to meet
halfway any effort to get the ma
tions together. I would not say we
were optimistic; but we were willing
to accept a plan without having
every ''t'' crossed and every Il" dot
ted The alternative would appar-
emily be a drain on the United
States, as the only member of the
international family with money at
the moment, but without the COOP
Grafton and money help of the other
nations which now adopt this same
program.
"FEPC" not reported out by the
rules committee. Tie vote; to g.
No funds for old, executive created
committee" as the appropriations
committee was barred from setting
UP money for it, until the bill before
the rules committee was acted up
on. Unless signed out, this closes
the argument for this session.
"Poll-tax.' The bill eliminating the
poll tax, for election purposes, pass
ed the house June II by an over
whelming majority.
Postwar military training" This
general matter is now before a
strong committee. Specific bills are
not yet being considered and will
not be until fall, as I have advised
some correspondents. Lots of let
tiers on this subject. All polls indi-
cate the people, two to one, desire
some sort of training preparatory
to sending boys into war, if we must
have wars. My own attitude remains
unchanged. I have never favored
the type of legislation represented
by the May bill, which proposes a
full year, out of school, in military
training. I favor strongly some sort
of training, such as might be OBJ
tanned by two summer camps with
designated classroom studies for the
intervening year. I want the boys
who might be taken for war to have
at least as much ability to take care
OF themselves in the field as a good
Boy Scout! 1t is criminal to send
practically unframed boys into COM
bat, sometimes with only a couple
months training We've done it three
times in my lifetime; let's make sure
we don't do it again. I'd make
guess this is all the congress will
approve, but that we would approve
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-21
U. S. DEFENSES TRANSCENDENT

(Riverside Daily Press)
Seamen, rather than. landsmen, might
we'll be called the prime defenders of
this country Our navy is not only the
greatest it has ever been, but greatest
in the world, surprising even that OF
the British who once ruled, the wave"
There is another great change. Next
to land-based power in this war is air
power, and here also we are supreme.
Moreover, it is natural to assume that,
having acquired our air. superiority
primarily for domestic defense, we
shall maintain it not just through the
war, but hereafter, for the combined
purposes of defense and transportation.
suited for both uses, and it is unlikely
Our land and climate are admirably
that we shall lose our leadership.