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Evening star., 1945-10-18
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne AsS0cldted Pftss.
CAMDEN, N. j., Oct. 18.-William
c. Gottschalk, Camden attorney
yesterday said dozen Salem
County peach growers. who claimed
their 1914 peach crop was blitzed BY
the atomic bomb long before the
Japs ever heard of 1t, had filed suit
in New Jersey Supreme Court te
collect 100000 from three chemical
firms.
The firms named in the action
were the e. I. du Pont de Nemours
Co, which has a plant at Deep
water, Salem County, and the Sur
Evening star., 1945-10-18

Chambers works" Mr.. Goodrich
said.
While we have continued to OPP
crate the Chambers works in 1045,
most OF the farmers in the vicinity
where the 1914 damage is alleged to
have occurred are reported to have
had good crops" Mr.. Goodrich
stated.
Evening star., 1945-10-18
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON p. c. $50 Ar


Good Friday Long Friday, probably
an allusion to the length Of the
services which marked the day.
Evening star., 1945-10-18

Good Friday Called Long
Anglo -Saxons and Danes called
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Gen. del Vale Appointed
Marine Inspector General

Creation of the Office of inspec-
tor general in the Marine Corps
headquarters and appointment of
Maj. Gen. Pedro A. del Vale to the
post, was announced today by Gen.
A. A. Vandegrift, commandant.
Gen. del Vale, who commanded a
Marine artillery regiment at Qua
dalcanal, the artillery of the Sd
Amphibious Corps at Guam and the
LIST Marine Division in the Okinawa
campaign, lives at 3O5 Russell road,
Alexandria, Va.
Gen. Vandegrift also announced
that Maj. Gen. James L. Underhill,
inspector general and deputy COM
mander of the Fleet Marine Force,
will head board to handle transfer
OF reserve and temporary officers to
the Regular Marine Corps. Gen
Underhlll was assistant commander
OF the 4th Marine Division during
the Kwajalein operation.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Admiral Ftch's Veteran Airmen
Join Him at Naval Academy

AVS pilot to report aboard the car
rier Saratoga.
Comdr. Gray, 1896 graduate of
the Academy, shot down the only
japanese plane bagged by night
fighters in the Philippine Sea battle
and was promoted to skipper of all
the Enterprise squadrons.
Admiral Fitch said a new avi-
alton program, designed to co-ordi-
nate surface and air power at sea
is now before the Academic Board
for addition to the academy cur
riculum. He said Inauguration OF
the program will hinge on academy
expansion creating space for ad-
ditional personnel and tempo the
program would entail. An airfeld
for land planes will be required and
at least one new building for class
rooms.
Stressing that fleet officers need
not be aviators in order to utilize
aviation units in conjunction with
surface forces, Admiral Fitch stated
that the new course will be one of
indoctrination.
ITO illustrate the point" the ad-
miral said, IAN officer on the bridge
of fighting ship must know what
will occur when he signals the en-
gine room for change of speed. So
must our officers today understand
the fundamentals of aviation and
aerial warfare in order tn effective
ly combine air and surface power" :"
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Baby Broker Act Changes
To Be Sent 10 D. {. Heads

Recommendations for revising
regulations adopted under the
Baby Broker Act will be sent short
ly to the Commissioners.
Last month a committee, headed
by Mrs. Radford Moses, member
of the Public Welfare Board, was
appointed to study the regulations,
a step required annually under the
law.
Welfare officials said yesterday
that seven of the II original child
placement applicants have received
licenses, two are pending at the re-
quest of the agencies and a third,
the Parker Foundation, has not
been acted upon by the board.
Agencies licensed are the Chill
dren's Protective Association, Cath
olic. Charities, the Jewish Social
Service Bureau, Hillcrest, st. AIMS
Infant Asylum, the Welfare Board
itself and the Methodist Board Of
Child Care.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
One Vagrancy Count
AGAINST DeIoris Nieto
Quashed by Court

A directed verdict of acquittal
late yesterday was granted on one
count of two-count vagrancy
charge against Deloris Nieto, "a. on
trial in Municipal Court. The case
resumes at 1:30 pm. today.
She is one of five women arrested
July 13 in raid on a. science in
stitute of physiotherapy" in the
1700 block of Pennsylvania avenue
NV, described by police as a house
of prostitution.
Judge Thomas D. Quinn dismissed
the first vagrancy count, which in
volved the alleged presence, in a
single instance prior to the raid, of
the Nieto woman in the establish
ment, and also accused her of
having no lawful occupation. De-
fense Attorney T. Edward O'Con-
nell successfully contended that a
single alleged immoral act was in
sufficient grounds on which to base
charge.
The second count alleges the
Nieto woman "frequented' a house
of i'll fame. Mr.. O'Connell was de-
MED directed verdict of acquittal
on this count, after unsuccessfully
maintaining that the Nieto woman
was in the establishment the day
OF the raid having a facial in the
belief it was a legitimate massage
parlor.
Judge Quinn also overruled Mr..
O'Connell after the attorney sought
to have discredited the testimony
OF the principal Government wit
ness, Edmund Holmes Potter, 40, on
grounds Mr.. Potter was, by his own
admission, classified by military au-
thoritieS as a neuropsychiatric.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
District Will Continue
Paper, Tin and Fat SALVAGE

Continuance of paper, tin can and
fat salvage will be required to aid
industry, a member of the District
Salvage Committee said today, de-
spite the action of War Production
Board in discontinuing salvage as
governmental function effective
September 30.
The District committee will meet
with Commissioners September 4 to
work out program for continued
salvage of the critical items, Horace
Walker, member of the committee,
said today.
WPB announced It would turn
over its salvage program to indus
try sponsorship and that "discon-
tinuance of salvage is consistent
with WPB's policy of stepping aside
In favor of industry whenever it is
feasible"
Mr.. Walker said the need for the
salvaged items still Is acute.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Msgrs. Scu||y and Treacy
Named Coadju Bishops

Pope Plus XII has name Msgr
William A. Scully, secretary for edu-
cation for the Archdiocese of New
York, to be Titular Bishop of Phar-
salus and Coadjutor Bishop of the
Diocese of Albany, and Msgr. John
P. Treacy, director of the Pontifical
Society for the Propagation of the
Faith for the Diocese of Cleveland
to be Titular Bishop of Metelis and
Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of
La Crosse, Wis.
Announcement of the appoint
ments was received here from the
Vatican by the Most Rev. Giovanni
Clcognani, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States.
Bishop-elect Scully, 81, attended
St. Josephs Seminary, Dunwoodie
Yonkers, N. Y, and was ordained in
st. Patrick's Cathedral, New York,
by the late Cardinal Hayes in 1919,
He took postgraduate work at Cath
olic University.
Bishop-elect Treacy, SIS, studied at
Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass. :
Catholic University and ST. Johns
Seminary, Brighton, Mass. He was
ordained at Cleveland in 1918. He
was member of the United States
Social Service Commission which
went TO Latin America in 1899.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
House Bill Would Name
Naval Center for Roosevelt
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The Navy favors changing the
name of the Naval Medical Center
at Bethesda to the Franklin D.
Roosevelt Naval Medical Center.
The departments position was
made known yesterday by the Office
of Representative Flood, Democrat,
of Pennsylvania, who has bill pro-
posing the change.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
John L. Sullivan wrote Mr.. Flood
that redesignating the hospital in
honor of the late President would
be most appropriate"
Mr.. Sullivan declared Mr.. Roose-
velt had manifested great interest
in the center, had selected its pres
ent name, approved its location and
had suggested architectural and
landscaping features.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Many owl Aides Overseas
Reported Resigning Posts

Numerous designations are being
received by the Office of War In
formation from its overseas staff, an
official said today.
While President Truman and Sec
retary of State Byrnes ponder
OWI's recommendation that an in
formation service be maintained
abroad under State Department
supervision, the staff overseas has
decreased through designations and
normal attrition to 1000. Before
We day it numbered 1000.
owl officials wondered today if
more than few hundred employees
would be left when the time for alb
sorption by the State Department
arrives, if it does. The owl is
scheduled for liquidation in 80 days.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
ABC Board Votes, d,
To Allow Photography
In Night Clubs Here

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board today held by 2-to-l vote
that it is permissible for photog-
raphers to take pictures in restau-
rants and night clubs.
Chairman Alan w. Payne and
William P. Meredith voted that "the
taking of photographs of patrons
in Glass c license premises is per-
missable as incidental to bonafide
dining rooms or restaurants"
Mrs. Agnes K. Mason dissented.
Referring to testimony taken by the
5oard on June 19 during a public
hearing granted night club photog-
raphers, Mrs. Mason said:
Il cannot find from the testimony
adduced that the taking of photo
graphs in certain restaurants has
become so universal a practice as to
make it such a business as is Incl
dental to a bonaf1de dining room or
restaurant as provided in the Alco-
hol Beverage Control Act
After the June hearing at which
it was estimated SO restaurants have
100 persons engaged in the business
of taking pictures the file on the
hearing was referred to Corporation
Counsel Richmond B. Keech. Mr.
Keech, however, said it was up tc
the ABC Board to decide whether
photographers were incidental to
serving food and liquor.
Meanwhile the board also an
nounced that "as policy it would
in the near future not deem as ap-
propriate" places for the sale OF
alcoholic beverages where the de-
sign or construction depicts a bev-
erage container. This, it said, is not
"in the best interests of the public
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Report Urges Orient Route
For Northwest AirIines

Bs the Associated Press.
Civil Aeronautics Board examin-
ers have recommended that North
west Airlines, Inc, be permitted to
fly trans-Pacific routes to the Orient
In competition with Pan American
Airways, Inc, only United States
civilian carrier presently authorized
for that area.
The examiners report on the Pa
cif1c case, which must be approved
both by the full board and the
President before it goes into effect,
recommends that certificate be is
sued to Northwest authorizing serv-
ice for period of seven years be-
tween the co-terminal points New
York and Chicago and the terminal
point Manila, via Edmonton, Can
ada; Anchorage, Alaska; Paramu-
shiro, Kurile Islands; Tokyo, Japan;
Shanghai, China, and Hong Kong.
The Pacific case involves the es-
tablishment of extensive new and
additional" air transportation serv-
ices between the United States and
the Orient, between the United
States and Australia and between
the United States and Alaska.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Central Library Pay
increases Approved

The Commissioners have approved
the upgrading of the classification
OF approximately 100 employees of
the Central Public Library and
bindery at an annual cost of s23 $50
The increases in annual SALARY, as
result OF this civil service reclassi-
fcation, range from s22 to 1920.
employees affected are those at the
Central Library, administrative
workers and the bindery.
The increases followed suryev of
the entire library personnel by the
classification division of the Civil
Service Commission, authorized bv
the Commissioners. Job descrip-
tions. grades and salary rates had
not been reviewed since 1882. ac-
cording to the annual report of the
Library Board of trustees.
AS submitted to the Civil Service
Commission by the District Person.
mel Board, the annual increase was
estimated at $4,000. The commits
sion, however, raised some of the
requests, lowered others and re-
tanned original requests in regard to
still other empl0yes
Evening star., 1945-08-28

by the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. 28.-The
spotlight shifted today to aviation
at the Naval Academy as Vice Ad-
miral Aubrey w. Fitch, new super
intendent and one of the most
air-minded admirals, assembled his
staff of veterans OF the Pacific air
war.
Admiral Fitchs personal plane
and the pilot who flew him all over
the South Pacific for two years have
followed the superintendent to his
new station. Two former combat
pilots have reported as aides to the
1t. Walter Schauer, Grand Forks.
S. OAK, who flew Admiral Fitch
more than 1000 hours in two years
and landed the former South Pacific
feet aircraft commander on all ter
ritory shortly after American forces
conquered it, quoted Admiral Halsey
as saying that Admiral Fitch flew
everywhere he had no business
being"
The new aides are Comdr. C. Rus
sell Burke, U. S. N. R., New York
City, and Comdr. James S. Gray, jr.,
Milwaukee, Wis, who relieved
Comdrs r. S. Craighill and G. T.
Ferguson.
Comdr Burke, 38, one of the first
to complete the aviation speciality
course at Quonset, Me-, was the first
Evening star., 1945-08-28
lsNRstionmiq
&Remmider@a

Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book 4, stamps
o. through U-2 good through
Friday. Stamps W. through
70 good through September 80.
Stamps Al through Ell good
through October 81. Stamps FL
through XII good through No
vember 80. Stamps LII through
Q-1 become valid Saturday and
remain valid through Deem
ber 81.
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
pounds through Friday. Stamp 80
valid Saturday. Next stamp valid
January l.
Shoes-Airplane stamps, 1, 2, and
4 in Book No. 3 good indefinitely
for one pair Of shoes each.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
'Sandhog' Union
Members Sue
For Million
Charge Suspension
Of Local Deprived
Them of Jobs

Damages totaling $3,140OO0 we're
asked in two suits filed today at
District Court by Local No. lat of
what is known as the "Sandhogs'
Union" of New York, and 264 mem
bers of the local union against
Joseph V. Moreschi, president of
the International Hod Carriers,
Building and Common Laborers'
Union of America, the international
union itself and others.
The suits charge the defendants
Illegally kept members of the union
from lawful employment and sus-
pended the local from the interna-
tional union.
Damages include earnings of
which the union members claim to
have been deprived from 1899 to
the spring of this year. The indi-
vidual plaintiffs are asking for $1O.-
OD0 damages each and the local for
$5O0,00O damages.
The official name of the local is
given as the Compressed Air, Foun-
datIon, CaiSson, Tunnel, Subway,
Sewer, Coffee Dam, Construction
Local Union No. lat Of New York,
New Jersey States and vicinities.
Similar Suits Filed in New York.
The two suits were filed here by
Attorneys Hyman N. Glickstein of
New York and Samuel Levine of
this city. Mr.. Glickstein said they
are somewhat similar to suits filed
in New York.
Besides Mr.. Moreschi, who lives
1T The Wardman Park Hotel, the
suits also name as defendants.
James Bove, described as a former
vice president of the international
union, and several other persons
accused of engaging in an illegal
conspiracy to take over Local No.
lat in the spring Of 1899.
Among allegations contained in
the suit are that employers on
construction projects within the
jurisdiction of Local No. lat were
ordered not to deal with the local
or to employ the individual plain
tiffs.
New Local Held Illegal.
The charter of the local was re-
Voked on the basis of a false re-
port. it was charged. Subsequently
another local was organized to sup
plant Local No. lat, it was said.
Thereafter, it Is asserted, the re-
vocation of the charter and organi-
cation OF new local by the Defend
ants was held to be illegal by the
Supreme Court Of New York.
Mr.. Moreschi was among a num-
Der OF persons indicted here in
March, 1914, with Larry Kelly. for
mer treasurer of the Building Com
mlttee of Local No. "A of the Hod-
carriers Union. on charges of con-
Splracy to embezzle union funds
That indictment, however, has no
connection with the Sandhoe Union
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Medal of Honor Winner Hired
To Report Veterans Problems
Pore Country Boy
From BIuefieId
Lists Their Needs
By MIRIAM OTTENBERG.

SISergt. Junior Spurrier, Congress
sional Medal of Honor winner and
22-year-old hero of Bluefield, Va,
self-described pore country boy
had his say today about what the
veterans want.
He'll be paid to keep on doing Just
that. Discharged June 81 with l42
points, Sergt. Spurrier has been
hired by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars to visit veterans hospitals
and discharge centers, wherever the
veterans are, to learn the problems
OF the veterans and bring them to
the attention of the VFW.
Think you can take care of all
that?" he was asked at a press con-
ference today.
Sure" replied Sergt. Spurrier
who won the Medal of Honor for
cleaning out two enemy dugouts and
capturing % prisoners at Lay st.
Christopher, France, last September.
Now about this mastering out
pay he began. "The officers get
terminal leave pay. The GIs should
get that, too. We were over there
fighting just like the officers were.
Why should they get it and we not?
I was in five years and never had a
furlough. I'd have been entitled to
flve months pay. That would have
been enough to start me out"
Wants Terminal Leave Pay.
He'd like to see enlisted men get
terminal leave and mastering out
pay in lump sum, instead of just
getting mastering pay at the
rate of s100 a month for three
months-if they've been overseas.
But that was just the beginning
Here are some of the other things
Sergt. Spurrier says the GIs want
or will want when they get out and
try to settle down:
Rationing-"Its hard for us to get
adjusted-like We went through a
chowline and got our food. Now
they give us red points and pretty
soon they're all gone. I think we
should be allowed more red points
till we can get sort of organized"
Credit-"A serviceman goes to a
strange town to work. He hasn't
got a reference. He can't get any
credit. If he wants to buy furni-
ture, let him pay third down and
let the Government guarantee the
rest. Sure, the Government Ioarx
them enough to build house, but
you can't live in an empty house"
Wages-"A married man can't live
on less than 5000 a month, not
counting taxes"
Sergt. Spurrier, who left his
grandfather's farm and the seventh
grade in school to enlist at II. was
offered a s40-a-week job in a Blue
field furniture store, but he said he
couldn't live on that when taxes
were deducted Since then he's
been married and thinks 5000 a
month is too little, because of the
taxes.
Withholding tax-"The GIs are
going to raise a lot of hell about
that. We won the war. Why
should they take taxes from us?
There should be something done
about all those taxes"
Jobs-"I was lucky. Bluefield
gave me $1,000 bond On the
Fourth of July they pitched a big
Evening star., 1945-08-28
District Gets $4,000
To Prepare Plans for
Three Works Projects

Checks totaling 1000 have been
received by the District from the
Federal Works Agency representing
so per cent Of the advances for pre-
pairing plans and specification for
three public works projects costing
s2,207, 900.
The checks included one for SIS
600, which will be used in plan
ming $1,412,000 worth of improve
ments at the Bryant street pumping
station. Capacity of the plant, over
taxed since the war, will be increased
md the entire plant "rehabilitated." /"
Another check for $3.50 will be
used for plans to add four digestion
tanks at the sewage treatment plant
at Blue Plains. a $550,0OO project,
and the third for s3,750 is for four
additional sedimentation tanks at
the treatment plant, s245 900
project.
Henry j. Sullivan, division engi-
neer of the Bureau of Community
Facilities of the FWA, said the other
half OF the money for plans and
specifications would be mailed on
completion of plans for each prof.
ect.
Prince Georges County will re-
ceive four checks totaling s11,480
for the following projects: Oxon
Hill School, $4,000; Clinton School
addition, 5000; Laurel School ad-
dition, $4,000, and Upper Marlboro
School repairs. $4,000.
Checks totaling s4O,5OO will be
used in Montgomery County to
draw up plans for a 1911 900 Be-
thesda School addition; $4,000
school facilities in Takoma Park
and $371 900 school facilities at Sill
yer Spring.
Arlington will construct a $685.
800 incinerator and $605,OOO ma
chine shops, for which the FWA has
supplied $500 in advance funds for
plans and Specifications.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Gen. Ii Chow Is Confident
Strife in China Nears End

Maj. Gen. Ii Chow of the 7th
War Zone of the Chinese Army, who
has been in this country for the last
two months studying American in
dustry and war administration, to-
day told a radio audience he be-
lieves the internal problem created
in his country by opposition of the
Chinese Communist Army to the
forces of Gen. Chang Kai-shek
would be peacefully solved.
Gen. Chow spoke over Station
WWDC as an individual and not as
a representative Of the Chinese gov
ernment.- He said in his opinion the
Chinese Communist Army opposi-
ton is not very strong. Gen. Chang
Kai-shek can solve the problem by
political, peaceful means to the salts
faction of all political parties in
China and for the good of the
nation, he said.
Here under arrangement with the
Interior Department, Gen. Chow is
a graduate of the University of
Washington, in Seattle. He termed
the future outlook Of China very
bright"
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Home Nurse Courses
Praised by DR.. Parran

Praising Red Cross home nursing
courses, DR.. Thomas Parran, sur
geon general of the Public Health
Service, yesterday called for an in
crease in health personnel and facil-
tiles ito build stronger, healthier
nation for the tasks of peace"
1--WE need more hospitals, more
doctors, nurses and other health
workers than we have ever had be-
FORE" he said in a radio program
over WRC, broadcast from the Red
Cross Canteen.
Interviewed by Mrs. Nancy Os-
good, DR.. Parran praised the Red
Cross home nursing courses as
enormously helpful in the preven-
ton of communicable diseases"
There are a few simple signs,
which if reported accurately to the
doctor, help him to decide if a sick
person should be seen at once," said
DR.. Parran. Every woman should
know how to take a temperature
and count the pulse and respiration.
Any one with a fever should be put
to bed. The home nursing courses
teach these things, and many other
valuable skills as we'll. To have
some one know how to follow his
medical instructions intelligently.
and to keep the patient comfortable,
relieves the doctor both in mind and
physical strain"
Also interviewed on the broadcast
were Mrs. Harold M. Kiesel, 6817
Georgia avenue NV, "a lovely
young mother-to-be," and her moth
er, Mrs. Garnet G. Loeffler, the pros
pective grandmother, both of whom
had taken the Red Cross course
on Modern Heir conditioning,
dealing with mother, baby and fam
lily health. The baby is expected
in October. they said.
The course is given each week,
beginning Monday. Instructors are
graduate registered nurses. Pros
pective mothers may enroll by call
ing Red Cross Home Nursing. Ho-
bart $500, Extension 3. Enrolment
Is limited to 20 per class.