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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
Retired Enlisted Men

Master Sergeant Victor E. Deve-
reaux who was retired from United
States Engineers CDEML) of the
Army, was admitted to membership
IN Association No. ! at a recent
meeting
The bylaws of the association
have been amended so as to make
enlisted men retired, because of dis
ability, eligible for membership on
the same basis as 30-year men.
Hereafter the regular monthly
meeting will be held on the sec
ond Friday of each month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
Daughters of America
Elect New Officers

At the recent State session, off,
GERS of the District of Columbia,
Daughters of America, were elect
ed as follows: Mrs. Eunice Get
tings, state councillor; Mrs. Lulu
Mastin, associate councillor; Mrs
Floy Carson, vice councillor; Mrs.
Nora Lee, associate vice councillor !;
secretary, Charles H. Miller; assist
ant secretary, Mrs. Mary M. Ruther-
ford; press correspondent, Mrs.
Bessie Pearson; treasurer, Mrs
Agnes Barbour; conductor, Mrs
Stella Graham; warden, Mrs. Mary
Hansen: inside sentinel, Mrs. Cath
crime Skinner; outside sentinel, Mrs.
Rose Harris; trustee, Mrs. Hannah
Gates, and Mrs. Cora Borey, ju-
dietary,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
Legion Auxiliary
Officers Meeting
Planned SATURDAY.

The presidents and secretaries
conference Of the District of Column
bia Department, American Legion
Auxiliary. will be held next Satur-
day at the American Legion Club
with Mrs. Pearl Heagerty presiding
Group sessions will open at pm.
conducted by the department off,
GERS.
The general assembly will be at
9 pm. at which Comdr. Herbert
j. jacob Of the Department Legion
will be the principal speaker
Greetings will be extended by Mrs
Gertrude S. Pierce, national COM
mitteeWoman: William H. Hargrave
national committeeman; Lee Pen
nlngton, past department COM
mander; Fred Money, grand chef
degare; Mrs. Marie Totten, chapeau
departmental, and Mrs. Edith
Sadler, chairman of the past presi-
dents parley.
Officers and chairmen of units
are requested to attend the ses-
sions.
/ The Department Executive Com.
mittee will meet tomorrow night al
the Legion clubhouse.
Officers of the following units vii
be installed this week as follows
Tuesday, Potomac, Palisades Fielc
House; Wednesday, Henry c. Spen.
gler, Office Of Mrs. Amos Fries, Al.
bee Building; Thursday, Woodbridge
Odd Fellows Hall, Mills and Rhode
Island avenues NE.
A table has been reserved for the
department officers for the Com
munity War Fund luncheon at the
Statler Hotel next Saturday. AL
auxiliary members are welcome.
Volunteers from the various units
are needed to assist in preparing
tuberculosis Christmas seals for
mailing. This work is being carried
on daily at the District of Columbia
tuberculosis Association headquar-
tiers, Eighteenth and I streets NV
Membership chairman, Mrs. Thel-
ma Healy, urges that all 1916 men,
bership dues be sent in as soon as
possible in order that this depart
ment may have good membership
representation at the Geographic
roll call at Indianapolis in November
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
Royal Arcanun

District Council will meet at 8
pm. Tuesday at 419 Seventh street
NV, with Regent Charles L. Mari
oft presiding. Members of Munich
pal Council will make an official
visitation.
Oriental Council will meet at 8
pm. Friday at Fourth street NE.
The combined degree team. being
organized for the grand regents
rally on October %, will hold its
first rehearsal at this meeting. De-
gree STATS Of all local councils are
requested to attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
Sonata PROGRAM

Musician Emanuel Vardi, q. S. n,
violist, and Capt. Arthur Loesser
U. S. A., pianist, will give a sonata
program tonight at o'clock in the
National Gallery of Art The
artists will present jointly Brahms
Sonata in F Minor, OPP. 12O, No. L.
and Mendelssohn' Sonata No. o.
Capt. Loesser will be heard in Bee
thovens "Sonate Pathetique" ano
Mr.. Vardi in Hindemith's unaccom-
panied Sonata, OPP. II, No. s." for
viola.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
WV Posts Elect
New Members;
1Other Activities

Several posts of the District of
Columbia Department, Veterans OF
Foreign Wars of the United States
last week elected new members.
Comdr. Gerald Ryan presided over
Washington Post, at the Gold Chev-
ron Club, when the following were
elected to membership: Warren OFT
Warren Sadler. Theodore r. Barker
John P. Stack, w. P. Mitchell, Wal
ter H. Parsons, Harold Rosenberg
Edwin w. Saunders, Maurice De-
caster, Franklin johnson, Tony
Fernandez, Albert j. Atkinson and
Col. j. Monroe Johnson, director OF
the Office of Defense Transportation
All were given the obligation by
Past Department Comdr. Carries B
Jennings and the Front Line Post
degree team, with the exception OF
Col. johnson.
Joseph Stiegler, jr., was appointed
service of11cer.
With Comdr. Leo S. Dove presid.
ing, Potomac Post elected to mem
bership, who were obligated, Cheste,
H. Tucker, Early J. Taylor, Charles
E. Hays, Earl j. Kellock, Saul Alpel
and David J. Harris.
Comdr. Joseph j. Saunders of In.
ternal Revenue Post, announced
Leon B. Lambert, DR.. Walter B
Vogel and Milton E. Carter as dele.
gates and Hampton D. Percy, Nc.
Kinley w. Kreigh and John E
jenkins as alternates to the nationa
convention.
Comdr. Earl E. Maud of Follow Me.
Defense Post, gave the obligation
to James r. Cox, Spencer L. Fish
Howard A. Geissler, Charles l.
Graft, George C. Plue, James Car.
lucci, Thomas B. Jones, Norman
N. Zipkin, John F. Manning, Let
Morgan, Louis La France. Edgar F
Sims. John H. Hall, John E. Hayden
Francis j. Carragher, Pasquale Dt
Leonibus.
Comdr. Stephen T. Nichka o.
Federal Post, meeting at the Cole
Chevron Club, obligated Harold
Barry and Jesse l.. Harrison. HI
also presented past commanders
buttons to Past Comdrs. John G
Strobel, S. B. Lapin, J. r. Hatch
and George c. Williams.
Meetings this week are:
Monday-Front Line Post. 1915
K street NV.
DISQUALIFICATION Post, 1919 K
street NV.
Wednesday-Police Fire Post, II;
D street NV; Honor Guard, 1915
K street NV,
Thursday-Potomac Post, 1919 K
street NV; Follow Me-Defenst
Post, 1909 Rhode Island avenue NE
F'riday-Internal Revenue Post
1919 K street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
Masonic News

In the series of degrees now being
conferred by the Scottish Rite the
18th degree is scheduled for Tuesday
evening, to be followed by the 18th
degree Friday evening. Robert de
Bruce Council of Kadosh will meet
Tuesday evening preceding the con-
ferring of the degree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
Drive-in Bank Service

BUFFALO, N. Y. R.-The
Western Savings Bank said today it
will install "drive-in" window, at
which hurried customers can tran
sact business without leaving their
cars. in Its new branch opening
early next year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
FRANKLIN DRESSED

TEACHER OF SINGING
Pupil of Frank Bibb Peabody Conserva-
tory. and one of his approved repre-
Studio. 1907 Eve St wv Phi. Met. $3.50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

The Womens Auxiliary of the
Washington Bridge League has ar
ranged for a special game to occur
on Saturday afternoon at Tilden
Gardens. An important business
meeting and luncheon will be held
prior to the play.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

The Federal's monthly MASTER
point game will be played Tuesday
night. Nonmembers will be permit
ted to participate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

With Comdr. Leo S. Dove presid-
ing, Potomac Post elected to men,
bership, who were obligated, Chester
H. Tucker, Early J. Taylor, Charles
E. Hays, Earl J. Kellock, Saul Alper
and David J. Harris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

George w. Linn, editor and publish
er of Linn's Weekly Stamp News
refers to the Army commemorative
as mass murder on a postage
stamp"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

Norman D. Slater will discuss
Mounting and Arrangement of
Stamps on Album Pages before a
meeting of the Washington Phila-
telic Society at the Sheraton Hotel,
Fifteenth and L streets NV, We'd
nesday evening at 8. Visitors in
vited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV. Tuesday evening at 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

Meetings this week are:
Monday-Tank Corps and Taxi
Posts, Legion clubhouse.
Iuesday-James Reese Europa
Post, 1914 Vermont avenue NV.
Observation-Disclosures Cathedral
Henry c. Spengler and Bureau of
Engraving and Printing Posts, Le-
gion clubhouse.
Thursday-James E. Walker Post
Twelfth Street YMCA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23

A proposal for stamp in tribute
to the celebrated Negro scientist, DR..
George Washington Carver, has
been rejected. Other requests re-
fused were for issues in homage to
John Jay and Thomas Paine and a
commemorative for the Tooth an
niVersary of the founding of the
United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis
Evening star., 1945-08-26
Parkway Chief Hopes
TO Resume Work
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va, Aug 25.-Hope
that construction work on the Blue
Ridge parkway, scenic highway con-
Meeting Shenandoah National For
est in Northern Virginia with the
Great Smoky National Park in North
Carolina, might be renewed by next
spring was expressed today by Sam
P. Weems, superintendent of the
parkway, who maintains offices in
Roanoke.
The superintendent stated that
with the advent of war, work on
construction over the entire park
way was halted. At that time he
said, two contracts were still being
carried out, both of them in North
Carolina.
These contracts are still in
force" he continued, "and when
we start work again, these will, of
course, be completed before any
other work is begun"
Blue Ridge parkway,s northern
terminus is at Rockfish Gap and
its southern terminus at the en-
trance to Great Smoky Mountains
National Park in North Carolina.
IF the demand for postwar pub
lie works Is great enough for Con-
gress to appropriate money for large
construction, we hope to be the
first to apply for such funds, Mr..
Weems said.
Evening star., 1945-08-26
|GIWith Fatal Addison Disease
Finds Relief in New Pellets

patient reacted badly" to injections
of the hormone and grew nervous.
Our study showed that in similar
cases, the patient soon had tend
ency to omit injections and grow
careless about his treatment, with
serious results" the medical officer
declared. The recently developed
synthetic pellets provided the an
Swer."
The pellets of "desoxycarlicas-
terone acetate''-a synthetic prod
uct possessing the same properties
as an extract of the corticle hor-
none of the adrenal gland, are used
to replace the hormone itself, lack
Of which causes Addison's disease,
DR.. Gordon explained.
These pellets" he said, ARE
made under tremendous pressure
and when they are inserted under a
little flap of skin, they are absorbed
into the system very slowly, so that
one pellet supplies the body with
the vital hormone for many months,
possibly as long as a year and a
half"
When the soldier was discharged
from the Army after the new treat
ment had proved effective, arrange
ments were made for him to con-
tinue to receive the pellets at Vet
erans' Administration hospitals, DR..
Gordon said.
Evening star., 1945-08-26
Victims of Addison's disease,

Victims of Addison's disease, a
rare ailment which, according tl
local physicians, always has proved
fatal heretofore, may now look for
ward to a possible cure.
A newly developed treatment, in.
volving the sewing up of tiny pellets
of synthetic glandular extract under
the patients skin. was used recently
in the case of a 24-year-old veteran
at the Army General Hospital. Camp
Pickett, Va. He has since been dis.
charged from the hospital.
1t. Col. Burgess L. Gordon, CHIEF
of medical service at the hospital
described results of the treatment as
highly satisfactory" adding, they
have given the exsoldier a "gooo
chance for a number of years oi
useful life"
The veteran contracted the dis.
ease in Europe. Principal symptoms
are loss of weight, fatigue and dark
ening of the skin, it was said, caused
by glandular deficiency.
Although only about one in every
1888 900 contract the disease, DR.
Gordon explained, medical officers
recognized the condition, gave emer.
gency treatment and sent the soldier
to Camp Pickett for further treat.
ment.
At first. Dr. Gordon recalled. the
Evening star., 1945-08-26
Half Of Down Payment
Raised 10 Buy ShadweII

Ey the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Aug.
25.-Purchase of "Shadwell"-200-
acre tract on which Thomas Jeffer-
son was born-has been recon-
mended by a special committee ap-
pointed by the Thomas Jefferson
Birthplace Memorial Park Com
mission, which holds an option to
purchase the acreage for 100000
by next Saturday.
officials have said that $40, 100 has
been raised on goal of $4,000 to
be used as down payment.
The plan is to restore the Shad-
well home and develop the sur
rounding land as a park. Plans
also call for construction of a
roadway through the park and
across the Rivanna River to make
it connect with Jefferson's other
home, Monticello"
Evening star., 1945-08-26
Comdr. Cunningham, Leader
OfWoke Garrison, Contacted
Special Team Locates
Officer in Peiping;
Wife Is 'Overjoyed'

The Navy ANNOUNCED yesterday
that Comdr Winfield. Scott Cum
ningham. leader Of the gallant de-
tenders of Wake Island, had been
contacted in the Peiping area by
what was described as an "emer-
gency liaison team"
The Navy said its report was
based on word received from the
commanding general of United
States forces in China.
Comdr., Cunningham, a naval
aviator, led the small group of Navy
and Marine forces which defended
Wake when the japanese first at
tackled the Pacific outpost Decem-
ber s, 1941. They inflicted great
damage on the enemy for IA days
before capitulating in the face OF
overwhelming odds.
The Marine detachment on the
island was commanded by Maj
James P. S. Devereux, Chevy Chase,
who several days ago was reported
safe in Jap prison camp in Man.
churia.
Comdr. Cunningham, now As, was
awarded the Navy Cross for dis
tinguished and heroic conduct in
the line of his profession in the de-
fense of Wake Island, December 8
to %, 1941," and is entitled to the
Presidential Unit. Citation for the
same action. He reported to Wake
in November, 1941. as officer in
charge of all naval activities.
His wife, who lives in Annapolis,
was "overjoyed' when told her hus-
band had been contacted.
II had had no word from him
since September, 1914" she said
HE was then in a Jail in Shanghai
Evening star., 1945-08-26

The husky GI at Fort Belvoir who
looks as if he stepped out of turn
of-the-century album is TIA Harold
Jordan, known as "Handlebar
Hank" whose mustache has won
renown all the way to Alaska.
He was stationed in Nome for 30
months, and he won three mustache
contests sponsored by homsteaders
and GIs. The prizes were, respec-
lively, $3.50, SITS and a beer party.
And Technician Jordan must have
looked, as he faced undaunted the
most powerful mustaches at the
mouth of the Yukon, not unlike a
prospector of the Gold Rush days or
the proprietor of the Last Chance
Beverage Emporium.
But" he explained, stroking the
lush growth above his mouth, this
is nothing to what I had in Alaska. :"
The Army, he explained, was free
and easy in the Far North. Most
any style of whiskers went. And he
had mustache that sometimes got
in his way when he was trying to
Evening star., 1945-08-26
.Cannery, Union Split
On Use Of Nazi Labor

Ey the Associated Press.
A labor-management dispute de-
veloped today over continued use
of German prisoners of war in a
Baltimore cannery.
The union, the Food, Tobacco,
Agricultural and Allied Workers
Union (CIO), charged the concern
with attempting to keep German
prisoners of war to force laid-off
war workers to accept jobs at much
lower wages than they had been
receiving.
The cannery, Gibbs g. Co., an
swered that it had tried unsuccess-
fully to hire civilian workers, but
that there is no labor available in
the canning industry other than
what we're using"
Lawrence B. Fenneman, State di-
rector for the War Manpower Com
mission, said use of war prisoners,
discontinued in all industries except
canning Immediately after the end
OF the war, also would be ended
there "as soon as arrangements can
be made to supplant them with
civilian workers"
Evening star., 1945-08-26
Alexandra 10 Open
New Community Hall

Formal opening of the Madden.
Parker Community Building al
Pendleton and North Royal streets
Alexandria, for use by the city:
colored housing projects, has beer
set for 8 pm. Wednesday.
The building was designed by
Joseph H. Saunders, jr., Alexandra
architect, and was constructed by
the Federal Public Housing Au-
thority in connection with the 166-
unit colored housing project re-
Gently completed in the city. The
center will serve all FPHA colored
housing projects, which includes
the 110-unit George Parker Homes
the 15-unit Ramsay Homes and the
20-unit mobile project as well as the
new units.
Although the dwelling units were
constructed by FPHA during the
war for the exclusive use of defense
connected tenants, they are operated
by the Alexandria Housing Au-
thority and the majority are OF
permanent construction intended
to serve as low cost housing projects
after the emergency.
R. S. Marshall, director of the city
housing authority, said the new
recreation building contains a large
lobby and auditorium with stage,
a clubroom, kitchen, three Offices
and a maintenance room.
The opening program Is being
planned by a committee of tenants
under the direction of the Rev
William Henry, resident supervisor
of the projects, and the welcoming
ceremonies will be followed by a
dance for project residents and
friends
Evening star., 1945-08-26

hitch up his dog team and, he
claims, it once tripped him ano
made him fall into snowbank wher
he was answering mess call But
when he was sent to Fort Belvoir
he found more conventional at
mosphere, and they made him
modify his mustache, trim it to ar
effete nubbin of the eight-foot-
more or less-adornment he sporteo
in Nome. Still it's no down shadow
even now.
"Handlebar Hank" has some &C
points, and he expects to leave the
Army any day and 60 back to his
wife and two children at Conway
Ark, and his old job with a utility
company. But he plans to go back
to Alaska for visit within a year
and to keep his mustache, which
he feels his wife will learn to ap-
preciate in time.
And he may be tempted to settle
down in Alaska It's a great country
he said, in his booming voice, for a
young fellow who likes adventure
and feels that he has a future.
Evening star., 1945-08-26
Honrohun Will Assist
In tuberculosis Study

Arlington County Manager Frank
c. Hanrahan yesterday said he has
accepted an appointment to serve as
member of Virginia Advisory
Legislative Council Committee to
study the prevention and control
Of tuberculosis in the State.
A complete study of the disease
throughout the State is to be made
by the committee, he said, in line
with the States plans toaenlarge
sanitorium facilities.
Evening star., 1945-08-26

under a sentence OF 10 years i'm
prisonment with hard labor for
escaping from a prison camp in
i942.
Two months after that last let
ter from him in 1914, he escaped
again and nothing else had come
through. 1t was great news and
hope something more definite comes
through SOON"
The Navy also announced that
1t. William w. hamilton, jr., U. s.
NJ, son of Mrs. Donald w. Hamil-
ton, Coronado, Calf, and nephew
of Vice Admiral Aubrey w. Fitch
superintendent of the Naval Acad-
emy, and Mrs. Fitch, has been re-
ported safe in a japanese prison
camp. 1t. Hamilton was wounded
and captured at Cavite in the
Philippines.
Evening star., 1945-08-26
Crop and Feed Looms
Offered in MARYLAND

Applications are being accepted
for crop and feed loans up to $4oo
for farmers in Montgomery, Prince
Georges, Anne Arundel, Calvert
Charles, Frederick and St. Mary's
counties, Field Supervisor D. e.
Clark of the Emergency Crop and
Feed Loan Office at Upper Marlboro
announced yesterday.
Mr.. Clark said the loans bear 4
per cent interest and mature August
81, 1916. Livestock growers and
dairymen may obtain feed purchase
loans secured by chattel mortgage
OH the livestock to be fed. he added
Evening star., 1945-08-26

by a vote of 800 to 299 in the closest
and most spirited election of
commander in the repartment's his
tory.
Mr.. Cantrel, a graduate of
Georgetown University, saw service
overseas in the World War as a
first sergeant with an infantry di-
vision.
Martin Iverson, Takoma Park,
was elected vice district commander
for Southern Maryland.
The final action of the conven-
ton was to change the departments
bylaws making the tenure of Of
flee of the State adjutant four years
instead of one.
In the future the adjutant will
be appointed by the Executive Com
mitteee and not by the commander
as heretofore.
The 1916 convention, to be known
as the Legion Victory Convention,
will be held in Cumberland.
Evening star., 1945-08-26
Volunteer Workers
Begin Preparations
For Livestock Show

Unable to find labor. due to the
late harvest rush, two-score retired
farmers, businessmen and boys yes
terday went to work at the Pooles-
vile fMd.) High School preparing
for the fifth annual Poolesville
Livestock Show, to be held at the
school next Saturday.
Led by two 200-pounders, T. B.
Dorsett, a Beallsville stock raiser.
and "Gilly" Young, Washington
businessman, the assorted crew be-
gan construction of a shed, $50 by
20 feet, which will be used to house
entries. Mr.. Dorsett and Mr.. Young
pushed wheelbarrows laden with
concrete. Other crews dug holes
for piers and installed forms, under
the direction of Charles Fitz.
A mile or so away another crew
cut down trees and sawed lumber
for the building None of the work
ers will receive pay except field
hands, whose services are being
donated by employers.
The show is expected to draw
record entries from upper Mont
gomery and other counties, compet-
ing for several hundred dollars in
cash prizes, as well as several head
OF purebred stock. The latter are
being offered by prominent farmers
Of the community, including A. G.
Rolfe, Washington contractor;
Charles Davis, Beallsville dairyman,
and George Lechlider, Rockville.
A feature of the show next Satur-
day will be horse pulling contest
at pm. Fifty dollars in prizes is
being offered for heavy and light
teams.
The show is sponsored by the FLA
and All Clubs, with the Maryland
State Fair Board cooperating. All
arrangements are under direction
of young farmers attending the
high school.
Evening star., 1945-08-26
Mrs. Rodulie Bouic Penn
Dies at Home in Clinton

Mrs. Rodalie Bouic Penn, n, ma
tive and former longtime resident
Of Rockville, died yesterday at her
home at Clinton, Md Funeral serv-
ices will be held at pm. tomorrow
at the w. Reuben Pumphrey funeral
home, Rockville with burial in
Rockville Union Cemetery.
The wife Of William E. Penn, also
q native OF Montgomery County,
Mrs. Penn also Is survived by two
sons, William B. Penn, Hyattsville,
Md, and Thomas Allen Penn, Clin-
ton, and three grandchildren. She
was a daughter Of the late David H.
Bouic,, who for many years was in
the general mercantile business In
Rockville.
Evening star., 1945-08-26
Foirfox Clinic Schedules
For Week Are Listed

Clinic schedules for the Fairfax
County Health Department next
week will be as follows:
Venereal disease in Building 70
Station Hospital at Fort Myer at
noon Tuesday. Treatment also will
be offered in the Town Hall at Falls
Church at $50 am. Wednesday and
at Fairfax Court House at l pm
Friday.
Maternal and child health at !
pm. Wednesday at Fairfax Court
House. Immunization clinic in Fair
fax Court House at pm. Wednes-
day and X-ray clinic from 8 N. to
II am. Friday in Fairfax Court
House.