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Evening star., 1945-08-29
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September30 80
Luyoffs Are in Line
With National Move
To Trim Rution Units

The District Office of Price Ad-
ministration announced today that
90 Of its paid employees will be laid
off by September 80 in line with
the planned dismissals of about A.
900 paid ration board clerks
throughout the Nation In the next
few weeks.
District Director Robert K.
Thompson said no decision has yet
been reached on elimination of any
District ration boards. The national
OPA said a number would be closed
down between now and January l.
However, this does not mean OPA
plans to go out of business soon,
even though the burdens on boards
have been eased since the end of
gasoline, fuel oil and processed
foods rationing.
Some rationing will continue over
an unknown period of time, de-
pending on the supplies made avail
lble for civilian consumption" Price
Administrator Chester Bowles said.
OPA also will have its hands full
holding the price line on food and
clothing and seeing that new re-
conversion goods are held down to
1912 prices, it was said.
In this connection, Mr.. Bowles
said the services of its 100000 VOL
unteers throughout the country
still will be needed. Approximately
$4,000 paid clerks will be given at
least 30 days notice Of discharge,
Mr.. Bowles promised.
The OPA regional Office in New
York announced it's Is district Of
fees, including Washington, would
have Saturdays off beginning this
week, in line with President Tru-
mans 40-hour work week order.
All local boards will be closed
Saturdays, but will continue to be
open one night week.
Evening star., 1945-08-29
Bird That Whistles al Girls
Arrives From Bermuda
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-"Raffles," !"
a dark brown mynah bird that
whistles at pretty girls and says
Hello, darling" arrived at La
Guardia Field yesterday aboard an
airways clipper from Bermuda.
Mrs. Carveth Wells, wife of the
explorer author, who brought the
bird, said it had entertained service
men in Bermuda and had helped
sell $15,000,000 in War Bonds.
At the airport, it sang a few bars
of America" and talked and whis-
tied. Mrs. Wells said "Raff1es" sang
the same song with the words of
God Save the King" for British
audiences.
The bird, allied to the starlings
and a bit smaller than parrot. was
found In the Malayan jungles in
1910, Mrs. Wells said.
Evening star., 1945-08-29
By the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, Aug. 29.-The Glenn
L. Martin Aircraft Co. has disclosed
that, in addition to a more direct
but still undisclosed contribution
to the atomic bomb itself, it had
developed a fuel tank that insured
the high-speed cruising power with
which American planes delivered
that fearful load to Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
Martin engineers developed de-
vice known as the hidden barrier
which prevented seepage of high
octane gas fumes while a plane,
loaded with atomic bombs, was eli
route to its target or taking of
from its. home field. A spark from
the ships engine might have ex-
ploded lingering fumes, the COM
pany said.
The device, the company ex-
planned, is layer of nylon, thinner,
than the finest stocking ever spun.
It Is sandwiched between layers Of
Evening star., 1945-08-29
Prosecutor 10 Proceed
With Vagraney Trials
OF -Four in Vice Raids

Robert D. Wise, assistant corpora
ton counsel in charge of Municipal
Court, today said he intends to pro-
ceed with the vagrancy trials of
four women arrested July 13 in a
raid on a massage parlor" in the
1700 block of Pennsylvania avenue
NV, although his Office yesterday
lost its case against Deloris Nieto,
Is, another of those arrested. He
also said he would use the same
witnesses.
Besides Miss Nieto the other
women taken into custody during
the raid were named as Mrs. Mar
garet Locke, 81. alleged proprietor;
Carmen Beach. %; Judy Hunt, "a,
and Mary Karika, 81. Police de-
scribed the establishment as an
alleged house of prostitution.
Mrs. Locke has received a con-
tinuance of her case until Septem-
ber 13 and the right to file appro-
pirate motions prior to that date.
The other defendants also are sched-
uled for trial September 10, but
have filed motions asking separate
trials.
New Motion Is Planned.
Mr.. Wise declared he soon would
file motion asking that the cases
be consolidated and that they all
be tried September 13.
He said his chief Government wit
ness still would be Edmund Holmes
Potter, 49-year-old disabled war
veteran whose testimony was at
tackled by T. Edward O'Connell, Miss
Nieto's attorney, on grounds that
Mr.. Potter was an incompetent wit
ness. Mr.. Potter had testified dur
ing Miss Nieto's trial that he had
been classified by military authori-
ties as neuropsychiatric and that
waves Of an "aerograph" were
"beamed into his head"
The vagrancy charge against Miss
Nieto contained two counts. Judge
Thomas D. Quinn late yesterday
granted defense motion for a di-
rected verdict of acquittal on the
second count, which alleged she fire.
quented house of prostitution. On
Monday he exonerated Miss Nieto,
also by directed verdict, on the
first count which accused her of
committing immoral acts in the
establishment.
In granting yesterdays directed
verdict Judge Quinn said: "I am
not satisfied that the Government
has established its case beyond a
reasonable doubt"
Evening star., 1945-08-29
Father Delivers Twins Unoided
In Home, Then Goes to Pieces

Mr. Graybill left the phone of
the hook and ran into the bath
room to assist in the arrival of a
6-pound boy. He knew from X-rays
taken earlier that another baby
was on the way.
II went back to the telephone ~
he said, land asked the doctor what
to do next. l had taken care of
the first one on my own"
The second one arrived in a few
minutes. A woman neighbor an
swered his call and washed and oiled
the infants
That's when I needed a drink, ~
Mr.. Graybill said today, but there
wasn't drop in the house"
Friend after friend stopped by in
the afternoon and evening bringing
potables with them. Each friend
insisted Mr. Graybill needed a drink
after his experience.
Evening star., 1945-08-29
Gripsho|m Sails for Italy,
Greece With $40 Aboard
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
JERSEY CITY, Aug. 20. The
Swedish liner Gripsholm sailed last
night for Italy and Greece with
1,340 passengers, including 1913 de-
portees, the largest number ever de-
ported on one ship from this coun-
try
Others aboard were missionaries,
businessmen and teachers. The
vessel also carried 500 tons of cloth
ing and 10 trucks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick E. j.
Harder, Seventh Day Adventists of
Washington, said they would inau-
gurate a training school for min
listers in Teheran. With them were
: their daughter. Claudette, Is months
old, and son, Fred, 5.
Evening star., 1945-08-29
Atomic Guardianship
Urged by Mcmahon
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Mcmahon, Democrat. of
Connecticut has a bill ready to
create Government guardianship
for atomic energy.
He told reporter today he will
introduce the measure as soon as
Congress returns from its summer
recess next Wednesday.
A six-member board would be Civ
en- this job:
ITO conserve and restrict the use
OF atomic energy for the national
defense, to prohibit its private ex-
ploitation and to preserve the secret
and confidential charter of informa-
ton" concerning it.
The board would consist of the
Secretaries of War and Navy, the
Attorney General, the chairman of
the Federal Power Commission and
two other persons to be appointed
by the President.
Among other things the measure
provides five-year prison term and
$4,000 fine for any person convicted
OF applying atomic energy in an
unauthorized manner or disclosing
any information classified by the
board as confidential
Evening star., 1945-08-29
Arthur Seeks
1o0ust Federal
Units in Center
Commissioners to Be
Asked Not to Renew
Lease on Offices

Assistant Engineer Commissioner
Joseph D. Arthur, jr., today said he
Will urge the Commissioners not to
renew the lease with the Public
Buildings Administration for occu-
pylng the Municipal Center Building
when 1t expires July l, 1916.
Health Officer George C. Ruhland
complained yesterday some Federal
agencies had abused District hospi-
tality by remaining at the Municipal
Center and said some of them should
vacate to make space available for
mental hygiene clinic.
DR.. John F. Owen of Raleigh, N.
c., resigned as director of the clinic
several months ago because of the
lack of clinical space.
The Federal agencies occupying
space in the Municipal Center are
the Veterans Administration. the
Surplus Property Board and an area
office OF the War Production Board.
Library Wants to Move.
Col. Arthur also said Public liz
brary officials were anxious to oc-
cupy the already built first unit OF
the new Central Library at 499 Penn
sylvan1a avenue NV. and were par.
tlcularly anxious to occupy the top
floors, in which they could place ad-
ministrative workers and the book
bindery.
AT present, there is an administra-
ton Office in rented quarters at TOT
Mount Vernon square near the pres.
ent Central Library at Eighth and
Y streets NV. and the bindery is
IN the Ford Building. The new
library structure now is occupied by
the Office of Emergency Manage
ment.
Col. Arthur said he had advised
the Public Buildings Administration
of his position and advised against
bringing any new Federal agencies
to the Municipal Center because of
the question of renewing the lease.
No Contract Involved.
A spokesman at PBA said he re-
garded the arrangement for the
Federal agencies occupying the
Municipal Center as being "a mutual
agreement" with the Commission
ers rather than contract. He said
if the agencies could be moved out
OF the municipal building before
July ! of next year they would be,
but he saw no early prospect of that
happening.
Col. Arthur said the July l, l946,
release date also applied to the new
central library structure. He said
100000 had been provided in the
1916 District appropriation measure
for equipping the library building.
Evening star., 1945-08-29
Veterans Party Denied
Place on New York Ballot
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-The Amer
lean Veterans party. claiming to
be the first political party in New
York composed exclusively of
former servicemen, has been denied
a place on the voting machines
here this fall.
The Board of Elections invali-
dated its nominating petitions on
the ground that incorrect election
districts were given.
The petitions contained $4,000
signatures-more than three times
the necessary amount.
Harold Burke, chairman of the
party, said, 1--WE do not intend to
appeal, for we have no funds" He
added, however, that another at
tempt to establish veterans
party in the city would be made.
Evening star., 1945-08-29

The mother and the twin boys
delivered by their father yesterday
in the David Taylor Model Basin
homes in Cabin John were doing
we'll today, but Maxwell E. Gray
bill, the father, was suffering a
definite reaction from the whole
experience.
He told about it today in his cot
tage at II Froude Circle He wasn't t
nervous until it was all over. Then, ''
he added, Il went to pieces
The Graybills have had two boys
in the past two years and in neither
case was there any rush about get
ting to the hospital Yesterday
morning he was dressing the boys
and getting ready to call the hos
pital when Mrs. Graybill told him
to call the doctor. He just got the
doctor on the telephone when she
screamed
Evening star., 1945-08-29
3 Men Are Arrested
In Five Raids Staged
BY Gambling Squad

An arrest In a downtown hotel
lobby yesterday afternoon climaxed
busy "a hours for Inspector Oscar
J. Letterman's anti-gambling forces.
Eight men were taken in five raids,
Inspector Letterman said, included
a Turk, a Syrian, two colored men
and at least one big money" op-
orator.
Carl Mehrstedt, 81, Of the 1900
block of Thomas street NV, was
arrested emerging from telephone
booth in the Harrington Hotel. po-
lice reported. He was charged at
first precinct with possession of
number and horse race slips, which
police said he held in his hand when
taken into custody. Held on $500
bond, he will appear in Police Court
today.
Nick Alexopoulis, 81, identified by
police as owner of Nick's Novelty
Shop in the 900 block of E street
NV, was arrested at pm, police
reported. They said he was charged
at first precinct with operating a
gambling table and held on $1,500
bond pending arraignment today
before United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage.
Marion j. Marcellino, 80, of the
HOO block of Owen place NE, was
released on 81 500 bond after plead
ing not guilty before Police Court
Judge Almond D. Scott to charges
of operating a lottery and possess
ing lottery slips. He had been ar
rested Monday in a barber shop
in the 600 block of H street NE. by
a policeman who reported being pro-
vided with shave and a numbers
chance with equal readiness. Several
hours later, police reported they
raided cigar store across the street
arresting William j. Burke, 81, of
the 1900 block of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Sc. after being charged at
first precinct with operating a
gambling table, police said, Burke
pleaded guilty. Judge Scott i'm
posed a $50 fine after Burke said
it was his first offense.
Two colored men, Russell M. H.
Brooks, 80, of the 400 block of
Delaware avenue S.W., and Jack
Walker, 20, of the first block of @
street NV, were charged with
operating a lottery after being ar
rested yesterday in a restaurant in
the 700 block of North Capitol street.
The gambling squad officers an
nounced that in view of the open
nature of the gambling they OBJ
served, the restaurant operators,
Elias Rathal, 81 Turk of the 100
block of Eleventh street NE, and
Nader Toufic, So, a Syrian. of the
1900 block of East Capitol street,
also were arrested and charged with
permitting a lottery to operate in
their establishment.
After arraignment before Com
missioner Turnage, bond for Brooks
and Walker was set at $1,000 each
and for Rathal and Toufic at $500
EARN
Evening star., 1945-08-29
Only Token Unit to Stoy
In iran After November |
,y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The War Department said yester-
day it has been advised by it's Persian
Gulf Command that all American
troops in Iran, with few exceptions,
will be withdrawn by November 1.
approximately 1900 will remain
to maintain and guard military in
stallations and some Army Air
Transport Command personnel will
be left to continue operation of
plane routes through the country.
AT peak operation of the vital
supply route to Soviet Russia, the
United States had more than 27,.
GOO service forces in Iran.
Evening star., 1945-08-29
Hints on Hongovers,
Health Added dtoMenu
At House Restaurant

The House Restaurant in the
Capitol came out today with a
breakfast menu outlining help
full hints for health building
and hangovers.
Under the head of "pickups,"
the bill of fare listed: Bromo
seltzer, 10 cents; aspirin, 5
cents: bicarbonate, 5 cents.
The entire back page was de-
voted to a food classification
chart reprinted from a maga-
zine cook book advocating diets
containing such minerals as
calcium "for prevention of
rickets = and preserving
youth"
Evening star., 1945-08-29
Ban Lifted on Leather
In Luggage, Other Items

By the Associated Press.
Restrictions on the use of leather
in luggage, handbags, belts, uphol-
stery, wallets, slippers ano jackets
were removed yesterday by WPB.
WPB Chairman j. A. Krug also
said sufficient leather now is avail
able to increase civilian shoe pro-
duction substantially and rapidly"
Evening star., 1945-11-20
After Dark
News and Comment of the Night Clubs.
Mark Registered o. g. patent omc

now singing at the Pail Mall Room
of the Raleigh, spends some of hel
days modelling. A versatile lass, she
also has done radio acting and has
danced with the Washington Civic
Ballet. :. La Verne Bruno, recent
"Stardust Night" winner, has become
part of the regular vocal entertain
ment at Joe Moss 400. -.
u <
Mathematics is wonderful
science. Sometimes, for that matter
| it is nothing short of fabulous as 1t
Is employed in night clubs. But we
are looking at mathematics with a
queer new feeling now, after hear
ing the use to which multiplication
was put by waiter captain at the
Duet the other night when some
one asked him why the dance floor
had been made so small when the
club was remodeled.
We'll, really he said, "this dance
floor is twice as big as it is. Because
of the music. We have two bands
playing all CT the time instead of
one band playing half the time"
The silly thing is that we are still
trying to figure out whether or not
he is right
X X X X
There may be those who think
Tana, the handsome blond sees-all-
knoWs-al girl at the Troika, is not
as psychic as she would lead you to
believe, but we know a girl who will
take her word for almost anything
now. Tana told this young lady on
Evening star., 1945-11-20
BY THE SPECTATOR.

i
Since this corner seems TO have
become a sort of wailing wall, whert
the minor irritations of the town;
night life are bemoaned, it might
be well today to examine a report
from New York. And examine il
with some trepidation, too. II
seems that the bubble craze which
burst upon us few weeks age
drifted also into Gotham's life after
dark. People began carting theii
little jars of soap and glycerin and
whatever it is into the swingy
along Fifty-secono
street and the sWankier ones on the
East Side. Almost anything car
happen in New York night club
to be sure, but this nearly proved toe
much. Our informant says it is
rumored that one headwaiter had
almost decided to toss onto the pave
ment the next character he saw
blowing bubbles around the place
when the sport was Snatched from
the hands of the part-time eXhibi-
tionists and taken up by the full
time expert eXhibitionists - movie
stars and the like. And no head
waiter or night club owner would
Go anything to frustrate a member
Of that cafe society mob.
Well, there is one thing we hope
happens if that craze ever shows ur
on the local scene. We hope the
first headwaiter around this town
who encounters a bubble blower
throws him or her to heck out OF
there. Even if it's Greta Carlo
Secretary of Commerce Wallace OF
John L. Lewis. We don't suppose
any one of them will show up any
where blowing bubbles, but they
seemed at the moment the three
people least likely to be thrown out
Of, say, the Cartons Congo Room
X X 4 x
How's that for long distance
complaining. about something that
hasn't even happened yet?
The Midnight Merry -Go-Round-
Troika. which celebrated its 14th
anniversary last Thursday eve, has
corralled for the occasion the best
show seen hereabouts in many a
moon, was not one, but four head
line acts, Marjorie Gainsworth has
been held over to make wonderful
music. Talia has arrived to con-
tribute her pert dances. Ellsworth
and Fairchild add their splendid
dance doings. And Paul Duke
does some slickly mystifying things
with cards and cigarettes. AL
very fine. Herb Sachs Duet
(nee De Rio), which celebrated it.
recent reopening Thursday with 6
benefit dinner for the Nationa
Homeopathic Hospital, joins the
Madrillon in the continuous music
field. Bob Knights trim rhythms
alternate with those of a rumba
band (also good, whose name you
may never learn from us, because We
always write it inside a book OF
matches, which we promptly lose
New night club rooms at the
Carlton and Wardman Park are al
most certain to be included in the
S1,000000 modernization program
announced with the elevation OF
George D, Johnson to the post OF
general manager of the two hotels
|. The Congo Room, incidentally
gets new music on December l. when
Carl Sands replaces Stephen Kisley
Pianist Nat Upton of the King
Cole Room is a nimble fellow at the
piano. One of those who can drift
from part Of the Grieg Concerto
to Lily Marlene" in the same med
ley. =. Gini Bogart, the new May
flower Lounge singer, paying heI
first visit to Washington, spends hei
days sightseeing. Sue Milroy
Evening star., 1945-11-20

a recent night, among other things
that she had better be careful on
stairs, for there seemed to be a fall
of some sort imminent. So the y.
said thanks, then walked over and
fell halfway down the Troika stairs
X y X X
Stairs somehow recall another
story, which does have to do with
the towns night life, if not with
night clubs. This one is tale they
tell about a well-known local host
ess. In the course of lavish soiree
at her home one night she went up
stairs and found a moody British
guest alone and grim in corner OF
the library. Now brooding guest is
a challenge to any hostess.
why don't you go downstairs?"
she asked the Briton. There are
four bands playing down there"
That's why" he said sadly.
Evening star., 1945-11-20

ham G. Turnage on charges Of
failure to have selective service
cards. johnson already is on bond
on a narcotics charge. the FBI re-
ported.
Evening star., 1945-11-20
$500 Bond Set in Draft Case

Raymond Irwin johnson, 80,
colored, of the 900 block of Barry
place NV, was held in $500 bond
for hearing November 28 before
United States Commissioner Need
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18

Increases in bank clearings, debits and savings over the month previous was noted by the report.
 Decreases in freight tonnage was noted both for carload cars and L. c. L. c. cars received and forward ed, indicative to some extent of the slackening of war production in this area.
 Bank figures were as follows in the aforementioned order, $10,066,- 300; $62,532,23 $76,549,035. The previous months had been as follows $2,62O, 800; $6,154, ,346; $916,528.
 Other statistics for the city were as follows, for May; births, 131; building permits, 62 alued at S64, ,920; deaths, 70; electricity, XVII, 3o,- 467,795; Gas. Gu Ft., 147,407 ,000; communicable diseases, 109 and deaths resulting there from, g; mar riages TO; new families, g; postal receipts, $6O,823 and vtelephones in use 29,266.
 The employment figures for the month show total of 43,081 em- ployed in manufacturing, retail stores and public utilities of which 28,602 were employed in the eight major industries. A 963 decrease was noted for the former and, as stated, 1,l04 decrease for the latter. This constituted a 2,S82 decrease over employment figures of one year ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18
No oJeeps For Sale
By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

Washington, June l8 - O.PD - So you want a jeep, Everybody wants a jeep. Including me.
 This is a sad story. I'm afraid we're out of luck. There just aren { any for sale. Whether there ever will be is a question.
 A Chicago junk dealer a while back bought a small mountain of smashed jeeps. The surplus property boys thought he'd used his scrap iron for melting purposes, but not this willy Chicagoan. He smoothed out the lenders, rebuilt the motors, strengthened the wheels, swapped parts and came up with a few jeeps for sale.
 Don't get the idea the govern ment's dennouncing him. The ex- perts think he's helped a little in easing the transport squeeze A ra- dio actor q can't remember whe- ther it was Lum or Abner) bought one for S1,200. He told me it was a little sockdallager that he only put in low gear when he climbed tele- phone poles.
 A discharged Marine, Donald Lo- max, bought a jeep in Chicago and drove 1t to his home in Queensville, N Y, where he's the envy of all his neighborS. There are few other jeeps in civilian hands around the country but not more than a dozen or so all told. It doesn't look as if there ever will be many more.
 The Army said so far it has bought 618,000 jeeps. That's a lot of Jeeps. The first 45,O0O, being experi- mental models, cost S1 800 per copy. After that the price shook down to s96O each. The Armys still buying 'em but by the end of the year pro auction will be down 76 per cent.
 The trouble, insofar as civilian Jeep Wishers are concerned, is that every army corps takes it's jeeps With 1t when it goes overseas. war, obviously, is rough on jeeps. The Army has no record of how many have been worn out or blown up. but lot Of jeeps are in small pieces now.
 It turns out further that a jeep 1undamentally is ouarter-ton truck and trucks are what Europe needs most. The head men still are arguing the subject, but odds are that the Jeeps still running in Eu-