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Evening star., 1945-03-23
Committee Approves
plan 10 SheIve Bill
On Commercial Rent

A recommendation that proposed
legislation to regulate commercial
rents in the District be held in abey-
ance was accepted today by the
House District Committee from its
National Defense Subcommittee
headed by Representative Murphy,
Democrat, of Pennsylvania.
The subcommittee concluded, fol-
lowing painstaking study OF
complaints and other data it
had gathered in recent weeks, that,
while some evidence of unwar-
ranted rental boosts was found, the
number was not great enough to
justify adoption Of Government con-
troll at this time.
Will Keep Watch.
However, the Murphy subcommit-
tee said 1t would keep the situation
under scrutiny and be prepared to
act if there should be an upsurge of
rent gouging.
One reason for not dropping the
subject altogether. it was suggested,
was that sizable increases in District
assessments on business properties
are anticipated for the fiscal year
beginning July l. There were indica-
tions that should this lead to a gen.
eral wave of commercial rent in
creases deemed unjustifiable, the
Murphy subcommittee would resume
its activities at once.
]. A bill amending the District 4
weights and measures law to require
that coal be sold here by the short
ton OF 1000 pounds instead of the
time-honored long ton of 2,240
pounds was approved today by the
District Committee.
Favored by Merchants.
The measure, proposed by the
Commissioners. was introduced in
the House yesterday by Chairman
Randolph. He expressed hope the
bill could be enacted by April /.
The bill is favored by the Solid
Fuels Administration. the ONCE of
Price Control and the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association
Arguments for the change are that
the District is the only section of
the country where the long ton is
followed and that to make the sys-
tenn uniform with the States would
simplify price ceilings and many
Government forms.
The committee also reported IA
vorably on bill which would give
Maj. Edward j. Kelly, superinten-
dent of Metropolitan police, the
honorary rank of colonel.
Evening star., 1945-03-23
Cob Driver Is Beaten
In Preventing Hoidup

Newt A., Wells, SO, of 1865 Park
road NV, a taxicab driver, frus-
trated holdup by four men early
today, but suffered a beating in do
ing So. He was treated at Casualty
Hospital for cuts on the head.
The four men, one a sailor armed
with pistol, who were passengers
In his cab, attempted to hold him up
near Capitol and West Virginia ave.
nues NE. Mr.. Wells said he tried to
wrest the weapon from the sailor
vhereupon the four men beat him
end fed.
Evening star., 1945-03-23

lice said the defendant then pro-
ceeded to Seventeenth and L streets
NE, where he struck car driven
by Carroll II. Douglas, 1418 North
Carolina avenue NE.
At Seventeenth street and Bla-
densburg road NE. he struck an
other parked taxicab, police said.
Mr.. Bruce and Mr.. Douglas gave
chase until the defendants motor
stalled at Montana and New York
avenues NE.
Last June, according to police
records, Rogers was given a $500
fine or 165-day sentence on charges
OF having no permit, speeding,
passing stop signs and driving on
the wrong side of the road. The
records also show other trafiic
charges beginning In 1899. during
which his driving privileges twice
were revoked. In 1912 he was sem
fenced to $2O0 fine or IS days for
operating after driving privileges
had been rescinded.
Evening star., 1945-03-23
Grand Jury Will Get
NewMed|ey Evidence
Today, Curran Says

Additional evidence linking JOSEPH
D. Medley to the death of Mrs
Nancy Boyer will be presented tt
the grand jury, United States Attor.
ney Edward M. Curran revealed
today.
Mr.. Curran, who was to present
the case personally today, refused te
reveal the nature of the evidence
but said some witnesses who die
not testify at the inquest will ge
before the grand jury.
Witnesses who testified at the in.
quest yesterday-which brought s
decision to hold Medley after /:
minutes deliberat ation were in.
structed to be ready to testify be.
fore the grand jury today.
Poker Party Testimony.
It was thought likely the follow.
ing would tell the story of the
poker party in Mrs. Boyer's apart.
ment on the night of March S, the
finding of her body on March 8 or
the blood-stained kitchen floor OF
her apartment and the subsequent
arrest of the convict wanted for the
Staying of at least one other woman
Mrs. Ann M. Ellington, who told
the coroner's jury she attended the
poker party, left at am. with
Medley and several others and was
told by Medley that he was going
back to Mrs. Boyer's apartment to
take the attractive red-haired ma
tron to breakfast.
Mrs. PhyliSs B. Morgan, who testi-
fed at the inquest that she met
Medley at her home and later took
him to a card party which Mrs
Boyer also attended a few days
before the fatal poker party.
Manager May Testify.
Mrs. Ida L. Soelter, resident
manager of the apartment house
where Mrs. Boyer lived at 2120 Six
teenth street NV, who was asked
by Mrs. Ellington to see if any,
thing had happened to Mrs. Boyer
and found the dead woman.
| The police who built up the cast
against Medley.
1t could not be learned whether
the silver fox jacket alleged to be
Mrs. Boyer's and found in Medley,
st. Louis hotel suite when he wa.
arrested Saturday would be pre-.
sented to the grand jury, but it wa.
thought likely that testimony woule
be submitted on the finding of ar
emerald and diamond ring, identi.
fed as Mrs. Boyer's, in Pittsburgh
pawn shop. The coroner's jury wa,
told yesterday that Medley wa
identified by the pawn shop pro-
lprietor as the man who pawned tn,
ring for $3.50 on March 8.
Evening star., 1945-03-23
lsiwRstonmiq
&Remiindey6,

Meats, Fats, Etc. - Book 4, red
stamps Q-5 through SIS good
through March 81; stamps T-5
, through X-5 good through April
%; stamps Y-5, Us, Az through
d. good through June 2. Stamps
E-2 through J-2 good through
June 80.
Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4, blue
stamps KS through rs, Az and
B-2 good through March 81:
stamps Ca through Co. good
through April %; stamps H-2
through M-2 good through June
2; stamps N-2 through So good
through June 30. Each stamp
worth 10 points.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points for
each pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Stamp IS valid for 5 pounds
through June 2.
Gasoline coupons are valid
through June q. BIS, C-5, B-6,
CO, B-7 and CT coupons good
for gallons each. BIS, C-5, E-1,
Ri and all D coupons invalid
after March 81.
Shoes-Airplane stamps /, 2 and
in Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair Of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods one, two, three
four and five coupons good for 10
gallons per unit through heating
year Consumers in this area
should not have used more than "a
per cent Of their ration as of today.
Degree days-Total for month, 303;
total for season to date, 1886;
normal for season to date, 1881.
Evening star., 1945-03-23
Federation Offers
Aid in Plan 10 Boost
D. C., Heads Power

Wilbur S. Finch, president of the
Federation Of Citizens Associations,
has written Commissioner John
Russell Young urging united front
on plan to broaden the powers
Of the District Commissioners.
Mr.. Finch's letter is a sequel to
the action of Senator Tydings,
Democrat, Of Maryland, who criti-
cized the present system of Congress
acting as city council for the the
District. The Senator urged a con-
gressional grant of more powers to
the Commissioners after he had pre-.
sided as chairman of a Senate Dis
trict subcommittee at a two-houl
hearing on ways to preserve the
Villa Rosa mansion in the 1900 block
of Massachusetts, avenue NV. fol
the Childrens Museum, which now
occupies it.
Assistance Is Offered.
In his letter to Commissioner
Young, Mr.. Finch said: I'VE in or
ganized citizenship who have stud
led this problem (of increasing the
Commissioners powers) are famil-
lar with the many complex problems
which must be met in formulating
such plan. For that reason I take
the liberty of offering whatever as
lsistance you may care to have the
Federation render you in this mat.
ter.
1T would, I believe, be of consid-
cradle benefit to the Congress, as
well as to the District, if we coulc
present to Senator Tydings a plar
upon which all of us, citizens ano
Government officials as well, would
be said to be in substantial agree
ment."
Writes Senator Tydings.
Mr.. Finch also wrote Senator
Tydings saying that most persons in
citizens organizations sympathize
with his evaporation over Congress
having to deal with minor District
matters.
Il sincerely hope" he wrote, that
an entirely satisfactory plan can
be worked out in which both Con-
gress and District citizens can share
their respective burdens in manag-
ing the affairs of the National Cap
ital as a municipality"
Evening star., 1945-03-23
Solicitors Press
For Last 25% Of
Red Cross Quota
Series of RoIIies Set
Today for Employees
Of Veterans Bureau

The Veterans Administration
held a series of Red Cross rallies
for employees today, while solici-
tors all over the city and sur
rounding counties pressed for the
remaining rs per cent of the
81, zoo, 900 quota. So far $2,046, 900
has been contributed.
More than 1000 residents of Nc
Lean Gardens on Wisconsin avenue
NV. have turned in $1,046 as the
proceeds of a Red Cross fair held
there Wednesday. The officers at
Boiling Field also have announced
benefit for the Red Cross, a dance
for officers and their guests at the
Willard Hotel at 9 pm. next
Wednesday. The proceeds from the
tickets, $3.50 each, will be turned
over to the Army Air Forces Red
Cross fund.
Seek OversubscriptiOn.
Samuel H. Kaufman, campaign
director, reminded solicitors again
today that reaching the rs per cent
mark was only the start of their
real goal, oversubscribing the quota.
When we reach the 100 per cent
mark We'll start after our goal" he
said, which is as much beyond 100
per cent as it is possible for us to
get"
The campaign total leaped from
66 to rs per cent yesterday when
solicitors from all divisions turned
in $255 900 at the United States
Chamber Of Commerce.
Assistant Secretary of State
Julius Holmes, veteran of 90 months
on the staff of Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower overseas, described to
the solicitors the close cooperation
between the military leaders and
the Red Cross in aiding civilians of
Sicily, Italy, France, Belgium, Hol-
land and Luxembourg after the
Germans had been driven out. As
a military government officer plan
ming the occupation of Sicily and
Italy. he added. he met with heads
of the American and British Red
Cross to plan invasion pro-
cedure.
Inspired Native Workers.
The Red Cross took over the care
OF old persons, women and children
he said, freeing many soldiers who
would otherwise have had to help
In civilian internment camps in
particular, he said, the Red Cross
inspired the native Red Gross
workers to reorganize long before
the military leaders could have ac-
complished this.
Mr.. Holmes also stressed that
part of the American contributions
go to the International Red Cross
The International Red Cross, he
said, re-established supply Ines to
American prisoners of war in Ger
many after the American Red Cross
had lost track of them because of
mass transportation of prisoners
deeper into the Reich. Gifts to
this group often help American
boys, he stressed, who are beyond
the help Of their own people.
w. E. Reynolds, commissioner OF
the Public Buildings Administra-
ton of the Federal Works Agency
will address meeting of the night
employees Of the Northwest and
Southwest districts of the Office
OF Building Management on the
activities of the American Red
Cross. The meeting will be held in
the Interior Department auditorium
Eighteenth and C streets NV. at
IL O'Clock tonight. After his talk
motion picture showing the world
activities of the Red Cross will be
presented.
Evening star., 1945-03-23
Silver Spring Red Cross
Drive Oversubscribed

The Silver Spring branch of the
Montgomery County Red Cross has
oversubscribed its quota of $50, ,457
in the War Fund drive by nearly
81 600, reporting total of $40 900.
Mrs. Warner B. Ragsdale, chair
man, in announcing the returns to-
day emphasized that workers will
continue the campaign and urged
residents who have not subscribed
to contribute.
Evening star., 1945-03-23

VETERANS TO AID SERVICEMEN-Worden Fairfax 80, Alex
andra who lost his right the Normandy invasion offers
cigarette to Alfred Buck, s8 Baltimore who lost his right
leg while serving electricians third aboard
destroyer in the Atlantic Both training contact
representatives for the Veterans Foreign
leaving the Army Mr. Fairfax will be the first hospital contact
representative for the vFW in this area will
Walter Reed. Mr. Buck will serve at Fort Meade.
Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1945-03-23

RED CROSS PASSES $oo0o MARKAssistant Secretary Of
State Julius Holmes at Left praised the work OF the
Red Cross at the United States Chamber yesterday
when solicitors turned in gains pushing the campaign to
000 Honor guests Brig Gen. Gordon Young command
ing officer of Fort Bevoir center and William Montgomery
rght president of the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
where the blood center is located Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1945-03-23

Degree days-Total for month, 3O3;
total for season to date, 1886;
normal for season to date, 1881.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-17
Your Home NOW for
WINTER.

asst call is sounding for the preparations wise home
makers will make for the ching winter Experts
show how make your snug against
ravages OF cold and se and snow by modern waterproof
Insulation fuel the while helps to keep YOU warm and
Storm doors and windows protect the nses from
me blast outside Paint helps the surface outside
ut to seal up cracks and crane Don't wait There desirable
financial plans available Have wnterproong done
The Nome nugget., 1945-02-26
COLLECTOR
 TO VISIT NOME

Deputy Collector Peter Gatz in charge of the Fairbanks office of the Internal Revenue Service, advises that Deputy Collector Leon R. Bagley will be in Nome from March 1st to approximate ly March 18th. He will assist and advise taxpayers in the prepara- ton of their 1914 income tax re- turns.
 All citizens or residents of the United States and Alaska, wheth- CT single or married, having a gross income of $5O0.00 or more for 1914, must file a federal in- come tax return, regardless whether they are an adult or minor. No one is exempt from filing a return if his gross in- come from sources within the United States is $500.00 or more.
 If you had income taxes with held from wages during 1914, you should file return even though you did not have as much as $500 gross income during the year, because you may be eligi- ble for a refund which can be established only by filing a re- turn. No refund will be made un- less this return is filed.
 March 18th is the deadline for income tax returns. An exception is made for the postponement of filing of returns and payments of tax by members of the mili- tary or naval forces stationed outside the continental U. s. A.
The Nome nugget., 1945-02-26

Around the World News in Pictures" appears regularly in The Nugget,
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

of the words for
Mrs. Corrigan in
this period.
T h G n w ar en-
quilted the world,
an international So
ciety sank TO its
proper level. And
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

headed for the Ritz freed at
last of the German magnifcos
who had pre-empted its best suites for four years
Goering had vanished from the royal suite that
once had been her part-time home for years.
A S MRS. CORRIGAN stepped into the famous old
hotel, the pendulum had indeed swung 10 its
limit The first of the international Set routed by
the Fall Of France, had returned its natural habi-
tat: The Ritz She the last 10 leave In the
interim the legend of Mrs. CoTrigan for the first
time had attained depth and dignity and stature.
For Mrs. Corrigan returned 10 Paris not as a
social climber but as a social worker. She came
back 10 Paris from London at the invitation OF
member of the British Air Ministry 10 open a
teen for Allied airmen patterned on the London
Wings Club which she opened and operates
and supports for Raj officers
She jumped at the chance TO open another can.
teen and support ii out of her multiple American
millions, for il meant returning 10 France. II meant
she could re-estabsh the wholesale charities she
had started when the began in 1899 and that
she had supported until 1912 when her American
funds frozen, she was finally forced 10 leave.
She did not flee She left in dignity and without
haste months after Pearl Harbor and after her
status that of enemy alien in the Occupied
Zone She left only after her Jewels had been sold
and the money spent TO alleviate the despair and
the hunger of the orphaned, the widowed, the
wounded the i'll and the interned. She left only
when she could no longer help anyone
AS Mrs. Corrgan stepped into the Ritz that first
day of her return she coud-in way-have felt
a wry gratitude TO Goering. After ALL il was the
fat field marshal who had enabled her to stay in
France long after other rich and naughty exquisA
had taken to their heels. For the greedy, acq ~
tive general had bought the justly famed Corrigan
cmeralds through Cartier's when pressed for funds
to continue her charities, she had sold her jewels
The hard facts that form the skeleton of this
Cinderella story on the record: The fact that
she was the daughter of poor but honest family
in Wisconsin lumber camp who pulled herself up
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

She did it all with the same
grim, implacable determination
with which she made her
assault on European society
after Americas 400 had turned
thumbs down on the ambitious
woman "by Cleveland out OF
Waupaca, Wis"
All Of which is at least par.
tial explanation of why Mrs.
Corrigan was the first woman
civilian to return 10 Paris
after the city was liberated.
Like a homing pigeon, she
Contributing Mobile RAF
Canteens Didn't Exactly
Bar Laura From NIlngling
With Important People -
l.. to r., Lady Tedder, Air
Vice Marshal Elmhirst,
Mrs. COrrigan. Air Marshal
Cunningham.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

that should have been the end of "the fabulous
Mrs Corrigan." 1t should have been but it wasn't.
At time when the barricadeS were still in the
streets and transportation was reserved for the
most important military and materiel, her
TRIM brisk figure stepped from plane onto one
OF the flying fields on the perimeter of Paris.
For Mrs. Corrigan stood up TO she stood
up to European society," and slugged it out armed
with the golden knuckles of a colossal American
fortune. When other American expatriates fled
France in panicky exodus, she stuck ii out And,
with tremendous fortune exported from the United
States, she fed the hungry, she clothed the naked,
and She comfOrted the sick
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
Clear Spring News

Miss Doris Palmer, of Boonsboro,
spent Sunday visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Frank.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Earl Kelly
are spending two weeks with Mr..
and Mrs John Kelly.
Sgt. Mason Bell, who recently re-
turned from overseas service, is
spending a 3O-day leave with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Bell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adrin Lands, East
Baltimore street, Hagerstown, spent
last weekend visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Jake Kuhn
Mr.. Adam Palmer, Middletown,
Ohio, has returned home after
spending two weeks with his broth
er, Mr.. Albert Palmer, and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Barnett, of
Boonsboro, spent last Sunday visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Barnett.
Pfc. Robert Rubeck is spending
30-day furlough with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Rubeck. Pfc.
Rubeck recently returned from
eleven months service overseas. He
has been two years in the Armed
Forces.
The Misses Lulu and Blanche An
keney, of North Prospect street,
Hagerstown, spent last Sunday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Cushwa
Miss Margaret Tear, Martinsburg,
w. Va, is spending this week with
Mr.. and Mrs. K. v. Shives.
Mr.. Frank Zimmerman, of Big
Pool, is spending sometime with his
sister, Mrs. Flora Peterman.
I Mrs. Fred Bell has returned TO
her home after spending last week
end visiting friends in Harrisburg,
Pa.
Guy Haines, USN, is spending a
12-day leave with his mother, Mrs.
Ruth Haines.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
WORLD TRAVELLERS

Every mother and father naturally hopes that their
boy will be of the lucky who will arrive home the
few months We have all breathed hugh sigh of relief
knowing that the shooting has stopped but will still be little
uneasy until ives right on the doorstep
But that parents should econvert their
mental attitude much they during this waiting period
these normal times Of would be longing
the of the earth and many of would
consider valuable aid their education if such travel could
be arranged.
Wel-now they having the opportunity the world
and history the making unhindered by gunre. They
will learn invaluable lessons how other people live and they
will the and sights which of have always
longed for the opportunity o
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
First Church of Christ Scientist
235 N. Potomac Street

Substance" will be the subject of
the Lesson-Sermon on Sunday.
The Golden Text will be from
Hebrews 11:1-"Faith is the sub
stance of things hoped for, the evil
dence of things not seen"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible-Micah Al
"But in the last days it shall come
to pass that the house of the Lord
shall be established in the top of
the mountains, and it shall be ex-
allied above the hills, and people
shall flow unto lit"
The Lesson-Sermon also will in
clude passages from the Christian
Science textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures, y
by Mary Baker Eddy, among which
is the following, page 263-"When
mortal man blends his thoughts of
existence with the spiritual and
works only as God works, he will
no longer grope in the dark and cling
to earth because he has not tasted
heaven"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
WAVES ON JOB

The Los Angeles Zone Communica-
tons Office has been operated for
sixteen months successfully by an
entire crew of WAVES Eight officers
and twenty-four enlisted women
handle all administrative message
traffic for seventy Naval activities.
They check dispatches, operate tele-
type machines, code and decode
messages, procure telephone service
and even unload their own supplies
Many more WAVES are needed and
women between the ages of 20 and
36, with two years of high or bust
ness school training are urged to
apply at their Navy Recruiting Sta
ton in their locality.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13

The following ministers will con-
duct the Morning Devotions over
Radio Station WEI (10:15) for the
ensuing week: Friday, Rev. Walter
A. Lepp, Grace Brethren Church;
Saturday, Rev. G. Aubrey Young,
The Presbyterian Church; Monday,
Rev. Paul E. Holdcraft, Emmanuel
United Brethren Church; Tuesday,
Rev. Paul B. Warrington, First Bap-
fist Church; Wednesday, Rev. Cyril
Hoover, Howard Street and Viii
Transport Methodist Churches;
Thursday, Father Dausch or Father
Ballard, ST. Mary's Catholic Church.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13

the Service three years ago, is still
stationed in Germany.
Pvt. Walter Graybill whose wife
and six children reside in this COM
munity, is stationed at Camp Leon
ard Wood, Missouri. He was in
Quoted last June.
An agricultural show will be
staged in the Grange Hall tomor-
row and Saturday nights, to which
the public is cordially invited
Mr.. and Mrs. Allan Finfrock re-
Gently entertained a number of
friends and relatives at their home
on the Hagerstown Leitersburg
highway, in honor of their niece,
Miss Mary Louise Finfrock, who
has entered Jefferson Hospital,
Philadelphia, Pa, as a student
nurse. She graduated from Hagers-
town High School last Spring.
One of her classmates, Miss Joyce
Peiffer, also expects to enroll as
student nurse at the Washington
County Hospital.
The Misses Thelma and Lorraine