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Evening star., 1945-07-20
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Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book A, stamps
K-2 through P-2 good through
July 81. Stamps o. through U-2
good through August 81. Stamps
Va through Z-2 good through
September 80. Stamps Al
through Ell good through Octo-
ber 81.
Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4, stamps
To through X-2 good through
July 81. Stamps Y-2, z-2 and
Al through C-1 good through
August 81. Stamps D-1 through
HI good through September 80
Stamps J-1 through Nj good
through October 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 August 81. Next
stamp valid September !.
Gasoline-B-7, CT, B-8 and Ca
coupons good for gallons each
Ais coupons valid for 6 gallons
each Through September 81.
Shoes, -An nasane stamps !, Q and :
in Book No good indefinitely TO,
ore pair of shoes each. Stamp
4 becomes valid August /.
Fuel Oil-Periods /, 2, 8, 4 and
coupons good for 10 gallons pei
unit through August 81. Period ]
coupons for 1945-46 season now
valid. All currently valid coupons
except for erially-numbered cou-
pons OF definite value, viii expire
August 81.
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Two New Polio Cases
Reported in District,
Sending Total 10 IS

Two more cases of polio in the
District area were announced today,
bringing the total number to IS.
The two new patients are g.
year-old boy of the $500 block L
street NV. and an 18-month-old
boy whose parents live on North
Ridge road, Greenbelt, Md. Both
are in Children's Hospital.
The Greenbelt boy is the fourth
polio case from Prince Georges
County.
In the Capital itself II cases have
been reported since the first of the
year.
The nearest comparable figure of
last year to the Districts total of 35
cases this year is that Of 80 cases in
the area at the end Of the third
week in July, 1914.
The disease this year appears
more prevalent in other sections OF
the country than in Washington.
There are Is polio cases hospitalized
In Richmond, Va, and Ramona S.
Eaton, manager of the Eastern
area headquarters of the Red Cross
at Alexandria called for additional
nurses to care for the Richmond
patients.
I'VE have been informed the
nursing resources of Richmond are
taxed to the limit" Mr.. Eaton said.
Since acute poliomyelitis victims
REQUIRE constant nursing attention
it is necessary to call for aid"
Evening star., 1945-07-20

or vegetable, can be canned there.
Yesterday there were three naval
lieutenants putting up tonatoe
juice and peaches; score OF wives
readying apples for applesauce;
apricots, carrots, beets. string beans.
One woman told of trying fresh
pineapple last year-shel repeat 1t
this year; its her family favorite.
Typical of the Gamers yesterday
were Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Boyer,
2407 Fifteenth street NV. Mr..
Boyer represents a pharmaceutical
firm here. Mrs. Boyer works for the
Social Security Board. They're on
vacation now and would like to be
on their way to Bermuda.
"BNt since that's impossible, this
is the next best way to spend a
vacation" Mr.. Boyer said, as he
washed pan of cherries. This
way we enjoy our vacation all win
ter"
To make an appointment, call the
day before you want to go-the
number is MA. 5000, extension 2523.
The center Is open Monday, Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday from
$50 to $50, and Friday from $50
to midnight.
Evening star., 1945-07-20
BY HERMAN r. SCHADEN.

Next Halloween, when Melvin
Harry Sinquefield turns 18, he will
register for the draft as the law re-
quires.
Nevertheless, he is the same lad
who enlisted In the Army Air Forces
II days after his 18th birthday an
niversary and stuck 1t out through
so combat missions during which he
shot down three enemy planes, rolled
up 26A combat hours in less than six
months and survived two doses OF
Nazi flax without a whimper.
Until last Sunday, when he was
honorably discharged from Fort Dix
with 1o3 points, he was S/Sergt.
Sinquefield to the Army and Jun
ior" to his crewmates Of the Bit
bomber Crazy House.
Plain Harry to Mother.
Today he Is plain Harry to an
idolizing mother at 1439 Euclid
street NV.
1t was November II, 1912, that a
youngster of about 5 feet 8 inches
and 100 pounds appeared at the
local recruiting station.
I'VE had moved here only short
time before from Fort Lauderdale
(Fla) and I didn't know anybody"
Harry explained. II associated with
older fellows back home and most
of them had joined the Navy. ]
didn't want to go to school"
The recruiting officers vino accept
ed Harry's age as the Is years he
called himself, should see him today.
Junior" stands feet inch, weighs
I55 pounds and is a living adver-
tisement for the Army Builds Men"
posters.
"Of course it was a shock to me, !"
Mrs. Sinquefield said today. "but
who can deny it made a man OF
him? Why he seems SO much older,
and he has a great deal more con-
sideration for other people"
Sets His Course.
Harry has changed in others ways,
too. The Army set his course for
vocation and he means to make use
Evening star., 1945-07-20

The Allied convoy was spotted
Nov. 4 and the Italian general staff
guessed its correct destination. The
Germans, Ciano said, expected the
landings Immediately behind Rom
mels positions in Tripolitania, or a
new effort to relieve the Mediter-
ranean island fortress of Malta.
II Duce was worried by an amoeba
which one of Italy's foremost physi-
clans said he had discovered and by
gossip of his affair with Claretta
Petacci. He took refuge in Renais-
sance history when, he said, every one
had a lover. No cne had the right
to Judge him, Mussolini declared.
Ciano wrote:
September 26-"1 receive a letter
from Edda which disturbs me a
great deal. :"
Dear Gallo: Ny father is
not well-stomach pains, irritability,
depresSionS, etc-mother paints a
rather dark picture of it-in my
opinion it's the Old ulcer again.
They made X-ray pictures OF every
kind, all negative, but doctor was
never called. So far the only
measures have been tears and curses.
s&&
Though it was beautiful day
I had a sense of suffocation and of
fear. Maybe because I am tired and
feel poisoned. Tonight I haven't
slept a wink because, as the song
says, "all through the night with
candle in hand I hunted the horrid,
ugly beast in vain" Hundreds of
mosquitoes attacked my unprotected
bed. That's Capri for you. l
embrace you affectionatelJ, Edda. ~"
September 27-"Il Duce realizes
that military events, particularly the
resistance at Stalingrad, have bitten
deeply into the morale of the popu-
lation.
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Youth Who Enlisted at 5, Got 3 Enemy Planes,
lis Out on Points and Ready to Register Again

my age, but always I decided to
sweat it out. The fellows never
suspected how old I was. And
homesick-I was that from the day
left home.
His Biggest Day.
my biggest day? We were on a
mission over Memmingen, Germany,
and it was supposed to be just a
lark.
Suddenly out of nowhere it looked
like the whole Luftwaffe was after
us. I could look out the window
and see about three of our planes
going down at one time. That time
I was really scared"
He was SO scared in fact, that
before a piece of fax got him in
the head and knocked him out he
sent two enemy fighters spinning
into oblivion. For that bit Of fright
the air force gave him the Dis
tinguished Flying Medal.
Harry's third knockout was one
of three scored by the Crazy House
over Toulon, France, and he added
dll Van lCdl SluobCA w LILO IA P4C
Heart when fax got him in the left
foot over Ploestf.
Returns to States.
After Ploesti, Harry returned to
the States to serve with the Air
Transport Command at Memphis,
Tenn, and later as a radioman for
crash boats"
They told him he would have to
go to the Pacific. That was before
the point system for discharges was
introduced. He was just becoming
reconciled to another war when his
mother acted.
81 was determined not to go
through another summer like I spent
last year." she said. $50 I wrote
the War Department and told about
Harly's age. But in the meantime
the point system was approved and
he went out on points"
What is Harry's advice to 15-year-
olds who would join the Army?
Don't do it, he said. THE draft
board will get you soon enough.
Boy! I'm through with flying for
Iifei"
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bombings of Italy's northern cities
to the reports of the American
messenger.
"'This buffoon,' II Duce says, went
back to America to say the Italians
are on their last leg, and that one
or two heavy blows would defeat
them. He learned these things
from the Holy See, where informa-
tion comes by way Of the parish
priests
He wanted me to let the Vatican
know that 'Concordat or no Con-
cordat, Myron Taylor will be hand
cuffed if he tries to return to
Italy"
October 81 Ley (Nazi labor
front leader has come here to head
the Nazi mission for the Goth an
niversary of the march on Rome
(by the Fascists). Ley is vul-
gar, both in appearance and
thought.
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Injured Brakeman Asks.
$50, 900 From R., r. &P.

Charging he was forced to Jump
from atop tank car when it ran
out of control in Potomac Yards,
Alexandria, because of an inefficient
hand brake, James G. Simpson, As.
of Hickory, N. c.. a railroad brakes
man, today filed suit in District
Court for $4,000 damages against
the Richmond, Fredericksburg d
Potomac Railroad.
Mr.. Simpson alleged he suffered
a broken back and other injuries
which have incapacitated him and
made it impossible for him to again
work as a brakeman. A jury trial
was demanded.
Evening star., 1945-07-20
3 WAVES Graduate
IAt Officers School,
Get Commissions

Twenty-three WAVES, the third
class of WAVE officers to be trained
at the Naval Training School here.
received their commissions this
morning in the recreation room of
WAVE Quarters *" Columbia pike,
Arlington, Va.
Two were commissioned as lieu
tenants q. g. the others as en-
signs. Six have been assigned to
duty in Washington. Six were COM
missioned for service in the Supply
Corps, eleven in the Hospital Corps,
the others will be assigned to gen.
eral duty. Thirteen formerly were
enlisted women.
Those commissioned as lieutenants
were Dorothy Behlow, Pasadena,
Calf, and Mary J. Dodge, West Los
Angeles, Calf. es
The new ensigns assigned to
Washington duty are: Margaret H.
Boswell, Dallas, Tex, and Bette T.
Beavens, Bloomington, Ind, as
signed to the Bureau of Supplies
and Accounts here; Page M. Davis,
Natchez, Miss, and Comfort G. Mes
bitt, Eagle, Idaho, Navy Yard; Nora
j. Frain, Bronx, New York City, and
Frances T. Folger, Billings, Mont,
Navy Department.
Other ensigns are Jeanne A. Hurd,
Oak Park, ILL.,; Stella Brubaker,
Port Treverton, Pa; Nan Dickson,
Chicago; Eleanor F. Buck, Oldtown,
Me-; Alice j. Van Deventer, Attica,
Ind; Elizabeth T. Graisbery, Gren-
loch, N. j.; Martha K. Pittenger,
Indianapolis, Ind; Margaret o.
Gardiner, Philadelphia; Iona Peter
sen, Alameda, Calf; Anne M. Barry,
Fairmont, w. Va; Nadine M. Brown,
Keene, Calf; Mary T. McGrath,
Los Angeles; Ethel M. Schwartz,
Salina, Kans.; Charlotte Taylor,
Mount Healthy, Ohio, and Bernice
E. Sanderson, Pasco, Wash.
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Skizechowski Gains Third Delay
OfPleoding in Bank Robbery I

Charles Bronco" Skizechowski,
alleged bank robber, has lost his
faith in the United States mails.
For the third time in as many
weeks, he stood before a District
Court justice today and insisted a
delayed letter from his brother in
Newark, N. j., prevented him from
obtaining an attorney so he can
plead to a charge arising from his
alleged participation in the $24.647
National Bank of Washington rob-
berry March 30
Skizechowski already has pleaded
not guilty to an indictment charg-
ing violation of special bank act
covering robbery or theft Of funds
from member bank of the Fed
eral Reserve System. Today he
was scheduled to plead to a robbery
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Duce Defends Right
To Love Affairs

"Pavolini (miniSter of popular
enlightenment says II Duce spoke
to him about report that men
toned the 'Petacci affair Musso-
lini faced the question Squarely, and
said that no one had the right to
investigate and judge the emo
tional life of any one else He went
into the history of the Renaissance
to prove that all men had their
love affairs. He was very irritated
with the party for what has hap
pened."
October 28-"The Goth anniver-
Sary celebration. Mussolini
appeared in public for the first
time since his illness. In the open,
in uniform, and surrounded by
many people, he seemed thin and
more tired than two days ago.
The organization of the ceremony
was far from coming up to par.
The fact is that the present secre-
tariat of the party is made up of
unknown men to whom we in turn,
are unknown. The inefficiency
of the party is felt more strongly
than ever, because it is headed by
incapable, discredited and ambigu-
GUS men"
October 90" "Bisma arck (Nai
minister) has learned from Rim
telen (head of the Nazi military
mission) that Rommel is optimistic
about the military possibilities in
Libya, but is terrified by the sup
ply situation. Not only is fuel lack
ing but also munitions and food"
November 1-"All the Anglo-Sax-
on preparations lead one to believe
they are planning powerful blow
to strike Italy in the Mediterranean,
the heel of Achilles
Evening star., 1945-07-20

Jones' peaches are ready to be TAX
en- home.
The cost? Ten per cent of the
canned goods. If Mrs. Jones got
20 cans from her bushel, she takes
home Is and gives the center two.
(Those which the center gets are
allotted to District institutions0
Machines Do Work.
It's speedy process because of
the machines, which do most of the
work. There's one which peels a
peck of potatoes in three minutes,
another which peels and cores a
bushel Of apples in two minutes,
another which dices vegetables and
fruit (any size you hkel and large
vats for the steaming and cooking
processes.
The employees are ready with ad-
vice when it's needed. They know
how long tomatoes should be cooked
for tomatoe juice, how long string
beans must be cooked-and they do
the cooking.
Some wives and mothers of serv-
icemen put up specialties for their
men overseas chow mein, spaghetti
and meat balls, beef stew, vegetable
soup anything that Is mostly fruit,
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Post Offices Here
ToCIose at PPM.
On Saturdays

Branch post ofices will close at
2 pm. tomorrow and every Saturday
hereafter until further notice, Vim
cent Burke postmaster, announced
today.
The only exceptions are the main
post Office, Massachusetts, avenue
and North Capitol street; Benjamin
Franklin, at Twelfth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV, and the
branch at the National Airport.
These will continue to be open "a
hours a day, including Sunday.
The pm. Saturday closing also
will affect post offices in Bethesda,
Chevy Chase and Takoma Park, Md,
Mr.. Burke said. The order will re-
duce employees hours to A a week
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Inquiry Opens
On Army Job
Redistribution
Civilian Workers
Protest That System
Reduces Their Pay
BY JOSEPH YOUNG.

The War Department has started
an investigation of complaints that
large numbers of its civilian en-
ployes have had their salaries
slashed through indiscriminate job
reclassifications by agency heads, it
was learned today.
The War Department took the
action after numerous complaints
were received from Federal workers
throughout the country. Many
workers have asserted that the
salary increases granted them under
the recently enacted Federal pay
bill have been nullified because their
positions have been down-graded by
their supervisors.
Called Overclassified.
Many of the complaints have been
received from clerks and custodial
workers earning less than $50 a
week. The positions they filled were
considered overclassified by agency
heads and the employees salaries
were cut accordingly, the employees
contended.
A War Department spokesman
said today that 1t was the depart
ment's policy to continually review
all job classifications in accordance
with the intent of the Federal Class
ification Act. However, he said that
many agency heads hestitated to
reclassify jobs during the past few
years since Government employees
generally had not received any wage
boosts and 1t was felt that down.
grading of positions would work
financial hardship on the employees.
However, since passage of the
Federal pay bill, many agency heads
have ordered complete review Of
existing jobs under their supervision
to determine whether persons are
receiving salary rates out of pro-
portion to the jobs they fill.
The department is investigating
the situation to determine whether
some agency heads have been over
jealous in their job classification
review, the official said.
Union Enters Protest.
A sharp protest has been regis
tered by, the United Federal Work.
ers of America (CIO). The union
contended that the wholesale wage
cutting program of the War De-
partment" will nullify for thousands
of employees the effect of the Fed
eral pay raise.
Eleanor Nelson, president of the
UFWA, in a letter to Undersecre-
tary of War Patterson. said the de-
partment's action was contrary to
the intent of Congress when 1t
passed the pay bill. In the bill Con-
gress provided that all workers in
the Federal service should receive
pay raises Of not less than $500.
Wholesale job reclassification will
result in lower living standards for
thousands of Government employees,
who are playing a vital part in the
war effort, Miss Nelson declared.
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Canning Center Aids in Solving Food Problem

A man and his wife walked into
a building on Wisconsin avenue yes
terday. They were short of points,
but hankering for some nice canned
fruit, and had heard you could buy
canned goods there without points
They couldn't buy them. But two
hours later, after quick trip to a
nearby market, they walked out the
building, smiling, with dozen cans
of cherries to take home. The
cherries took no points, and cost less
than they'd have paid in grocery
store.
No, there's no black market con-
nection.
The Wisconsin avenue building
1910 Wisconsin avenue N.W.-is the
District Community Canning Center.
It's been operating for two years
and opened two weeks ago for its
third season. So far this summer,
almost 100 persons-housewives and
Government workers, husbands and
wives, mothers and sweethearts of
men overseas, victory gardeners and
apartment dwellers-have used it to
can their own fruits and vegetables.
10000 Cans Produced.
Last summer, 10000 cans Of pro-
duce were put up there, according
to r. M. Gardner, supervisor.
Here's the way the center operates.
Mrs. Jones lives in a small apart
ment. She has Government job
and little time for housework. Her
kitchen is tiny, her supply Of pots
and pans small. She's heard other
housewives talk of the delicious
canned goods they put UP, and she
too would like to save on points
But she's also heard how canning
steams up your house, takes hours
of hard work, and a lot Of skill
She knows nothing about canning
Well, some Friday night after
work (the center is open Friday
nights, and later on will be open
Thursday nights as welD, Mrs. Jones
buys a bushel of peaches at the
market, takes them to the center
where she has made an appoint
ment, and two hours later she
walks out, her peaches canned and
ready to eat.
Doesn't Take Long.
During those two hours, she cam
ned her peaches, under the super
vision of experienced center en-
ployes, who did all the hot and
heavy part of the work for her.
She is shown where and how to
wash the fruit. and is given a
table and large pan, where she can
peel them.
The peeling doesn't take long, be-
cause first the center employe
blanched them for her fblanching
is heating process which makes the
skins slip of easily. She pits
them, lets them stand minute
salted, washes them again, places
them in the cans she buys there for
8 cents a piece and her part of the
work Is over. Center employees make
the sirup from the sugar she gives
them (and she tells them how
thick she likes IT'D, puts 1t through
the heating or exhausting process,
seals the tops Of the cans on Gust
as they would be done by any cam
ming factory, cools them-and Mrs,
Evening star., 1945-07-20
9Th Army Launches
Its Victory Drive

October 24-"The British have at
tackled in Libya. CThis was the be-
ginning of the 9th Army's victor
ious march to Tunis.) y Won
Stumrne, the overall commander
taking Rommel's place, is dead.
Genoa and Milan are bombed
heavily again"
October 25-"Nothing new politi-
cally, except a short letter from
Alfieri, who speaks Of the lead
weight, physically and psychologi-
cal that hangs over the capital of
the Reich"
October 26-"I saw II Duce today
for the first time in Is days. He
has lost great deal of weight, but
his eyes are clear, and his voice
firm.
"Mussolini was irritated with My
ron Taylor president Roosevelt,s
special representative and the
Vatican. He attributes the heavy
Evening star., 1945-07-20

the Washington Community Chest.
Among the organizations of which
he is a member are the Washington
Board of Trade, Republican State
Committee of the District, the
American Institute of Banking, of
which he is charter member;
Reserve City Bankers Association,
American Bankers Association,
Chamber of Commerce and the
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase
Clubs.
He is second vice president of the
Instructive Visiting Nurse Society,
a trustee of the Better Business
Bureau and a trustee of the Ma
tional Parks Association.
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Axis Situation Grows
More Serious in Libyo

November ga new and more
violent British attack makes our
situation more serious in Libya
where our forces are wearing out,
and supplies are arriving by eye
dropper. We seem to be damned
to fight wars overseas"
November 4-"Rommel wanted to
begin his withdrawal two days ago
but Hitler nailed him to the spot
with an order to show the troops
the way to victory or death Mus
Solini did the same for the Italians.
The battle is in full swing. -.
From Gibraltar we learn that
a great convoy is assembling.
1t suggests a landing attempt in
Morocco"
November 5-"The Libyan front
collapses. II Duce is pale. His
face is drawn. He is tired.
From some time now a sense of
uncontained pessimism has gripped
the Italians"
November 6-"The Libyan retreat
is assuming the character of a
rout. We know nothing of our
10th Army Corps, cut off by the
British. Even the detachments that
are withdrawing are massacred by
aerial bombings. II Duce thinks
Libya may be captured and adds
quickly that from some viewpoints
this would be an advantage because
already it has cost us our merchant
marine and we can concentrate
better on defense Of Italy itself.
A convoy of exceptional pro-
portions is advancing from the west.
"Mussolini has asked If I was
keeping my diary up to date. I
told him yes. and he said it would
serve to document how the Ger
mans always acted without our
knowledge in the military and po-
litical fields"
Noversber 7L"What will Rommel
do or, better still, what will the
conveys 10 that have left Gibraltar
and are moving east? There are
various interpretations: To resupply
Malta or to land in Tripolitania in
Rommels rear, according to the
Germans; to occupy French bases
in North Africa, according to our
general staff.
I'll Duce shares this opinion and
believes the Americans will meet
almost no resistance from the
French. North Africa is ready
to hoist the De Gaullist flag. All
this is exceptionally serious for us"
November Sat $50 this morning
Won Ribbentrop telephoned to in
form me of American landings in
Algerian and Moroccan ports. He
was nervous and wanted to know
what we planned to do. I must con-
fess was unaware, and too sleepy
to give very satisfactory reply.
I'll Duce's reaction is immediate.
He speaks of landings in Corsica
and of occupying France. But where
are forces to undertake these things!
have learned nothing off,
cially from the Germans. But I
know from Anna Maria Bismarck
(wife of the Nazi minister) that they
are terrified at the German en-
bassy at the heavy and absolutely
unexpected blow.
During the evening I see Gen.
Arne (head of military intelligence).
There is still resistance, ne says,
in the cities, but pressure from the
De Gaullists and the Americans soon
will overcome 1T. ** Within a
week the Allies will hold the coll
onies. Within two weeks they will
be able to attack Libya. Italy will
become the center of the Allied
offensive against the Axis"
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