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Evening star., 1945-08-31
Standard Oil 10 Increase
Wages Up 10 IS Per Cent

Plant and Office workers of the
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey will
be given an increase of up to IS
per cent OF the basic wage rate for
4O-hour week, to help cushion
transition from war to peace, Eu-
gene Holman. president of the com.
pany, announced today.
Approximately $4,000 employees.
including plant workers and Office
workers except executives, will be
affected by the decision. OF these,
1900 work in the District. Maryland
and Virginia, Mr.. Holman said.
Mr.. Holman declared: ITO cut
back to 40 hours a week without
making some adjustment would
mean, to large groups of our en-
ployes, a reduction of 23.2 per cent
in their weekly take home pay. The
upward adjustment will mean that
the reduction in take home pay
will be less than 9 per cent. Work.
ers also will have that long awaited
additional day a week off"
Mr.. Holman said the move was
IN accord with the renewed right
OF employers and employees to bar
gain on wage increase so long as
the result did not increase prices
of products
Evening star., 1945-08-31
DC. Veterans Center
To Have CubicIes for
Private Interviews

Extensive remodeling of the Dis
trict Veterans Information Center
at 1850 Pennsylvania avenue NV,
with curtained-off cubicles as one
of the features, will begin next
week, Porter M. Lumpkins, new
head of the Districts services to
veterans and war workers, said
today.
The counters, which run across
the center of the Office, will be torn
out and desk space will be made
available for Is interviewers, re-
ceptionists and telephone operators
Mr.. Lumpkins said ----
Mr.. Lumpkins said he is rying
to get materials and expec 5 the
remodeling to take three u. eks.
Some, but not all, of the ]. ater-
viewing will be done in cubicles :.
provide more privacy, he said.
At present, the center has nc
manager and only two paid inter-
viewers. Mr.. Lumpkins said he
thought manager would be a good
idea and the staff of interviewers
should be increased to five or six.
In addition to the District staff, he
hopes to get representatives from
interested agencies. So far, only
the American Red Cross has said
definitely representative would
start working at the center Sep
tember 10.
The volunteers. of whom seven
or eight now are working at the
center part time, will have to go as
soon as the President proclaims
hostilities are at end, Mr., Lumpkins
said. He explained that under an
act of December 26, l94l, the Com
missioners were authorized to ac-
cept the services of volunteers dur
ing the war. In peacetime, he
added, volunteers cannot work for
the District government.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
Allen 10 Start Work
Mex Week on Plans
10 End War Agencies

George E. Allen, former District
Commissioner. who was named yes
terday by President Truman to shape
a program for liquidating more than
score Of war agencies, said today
that he would set up an office next
week and start to work.
Mr.. Allen, who will serve without
pay, said that as yet he had mo
idea of the procedure to be fol-
lowed. The task is too huge to be
approached without careful study,
he said.
His headquarters will be in the
State Department, and his office
force will be drawn from other
agencies.
Scope Of Operations.
In letter to Mr.. Allen in which
the scope of his operations was
outlined, Mr.. Truman said that
methods must be devised for trans
fer of necessary functions to per-
manent departments and of funds to
the Treasury. Surplus equipment
must be transferred or sold prompt
ly to permit release of rented quar-
tiers. Dismissed employees must be
paid for accumulated leave.
President Truman turned to one
of his close friends in designating
Mr.. Allen as his personal represent
ative to study "the most efficient
and economical method of carrying
IN tf,iS 1in,iIofioy, H,o~ 49,. e..
rher Commissioner, it is one Of 4
long series of presidential assign
ments.
Mr.. Allen, who resigned as Com
missioner in 1910 to re-enter the in
surance business, went to San Fran
cisco to arrange for Mr.. Truman's S
attendance at the United Nations
Conference.
Helps Truman on Speeches.
He also has helped with material
on many of Mr.. Truman's speeches
and has done lots of spade work"
for the present Chief Executive Just
as he did for the late President
Roosevelt.
Mr.. Allen was WPA administrator
here early in the New Deal and In
this capacity donned old clothes for
trip to the Nations major cities
for a personal study among the
unemployed.
Hiding his identity, he lived as a
job seeker and discovered, he said,
that about 80 per cent of those he
found on WPA relief rolls actually
did want work but couldn't find it.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
lsWRstioninq
&Remiinde,y9a

Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book 4, stamps
o. through U-2 good through
? today. Stamps w. through
"a good through September 80.
Stamps Al through Ell good
through October 81. Stamps FL
through XII good through No
vember 80. Stamps LII through
OIL become valid tomorrow and
remain valid through Decem-
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 S
pounds through today. Stamp 80
valid tomorrow and remains good
through December 81. Next stamp
valid January /.
Shoes-Airplane stamps, 1, 2, and
in Book No. good indefinitely
for one pair Of shoes each.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
Mrs. Henry Rau, Jr., Gets
Alexandra War Fund Post

Clarence Hite. chairman Of the
Alexandria unit of the Community
War Fund campaign, today an
nounced the appointment of Mrs.
Henry Rau, jr., Of SIS Duke street
as public relations chairman for the
drive.
Mrs. Rau, who is the Alexandria
correspondent for The Star, directs
public relations for the Alexandria
Community Chest. of which she is a
director. She also is member of
the board of the Washington Com
munity Var Fund, the Alexandria
Visiting Nurse Service and the
Alexandria Girl Scout Council.
Subchairlnen named by Mrs. Rau
to assist in the promotion of the
campaign to raise $50 900 in Alexan-
dria are J. Randall Cation as head
of the speakers Bureau, John
Hauber in charge of posters and dis
plays, the Rev. Clifford Johnson as
church chairman, and Mrs. William
Moor Kabler to direct newspaper
publicity.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
$1,000 Damages Sought
For Man S Death in Hotel

Mrs. Mildred I. Clark, Hutchinson
Kans., yesterday filed suit in Dis
trict Court asking $4,000 damages
from the Raleigh Hotel Co., Inc,
for the death of her husband, Ellis
c. Clark, 40, who was fatally in
jured in August, 1914, when he fell
from the sixth floor down a stair
well at the hotel
Mr.. Clark was a litigation at
torney for the OPA from the Wich-
ita, Kans., district. Mrs. Clark
brought the suit as Administrative
OF his estate.
The suit says that Mr.. Clark ap-
peared in the hotel in an obviously
intoxicated" condition and alleges
reasonable precautions" were not
taken for his safety,
Evening star., 1945-08-31
29fh Division Association
Opens Reunion Tomorrow

The annual national reunion of
the 29th Division Association will
open at the Lord Baltimore Hotel
in Baltimore tomorrow and con-
tinue through Monday.
Committee meetings will be held
tomorrow afternoon and a dance at
night. There will be memorial serv-
Ices Sunday and election and in
stallation of Offices on Monday with
a dance that night.
Five hundred persons, who have
given one gallon or more of their
blood, will be presented with a 29th
Division plaque of honor at serv-
Ices Monday at the War Memorial
Samuel w. Barrow, a member of
the Washington Post of the asso-
ciation, is prominently mentioned
for the post Of national commander
Evening star., 1945-08-31
Numbers Slips
Handed to Police
| By Raid Victim

Police say they don't often meet
people as cooperative as James
Henry Lewis, colored, 46, of the 1900
block Of Ninth street NV
Lewis was held for grand Jury
action under 81 500 bond at an ar.
raignment yesterday before United
States Commissioner Needham c.
Turnage on charge Of operating
lottery and possessing lottery slips.
He was arrested Wednesday In q
combination cigar and notions store
in the 1900 block of Ninth street
NV. by Detective Sergts. Paul II.
Clarke and Howard E. Ogle. as
signed to the special gambling
squad.
They said when they entered
Lewis was standing behind a counter
and counting numbers slips.
The officers said when Lewis saw
them. he showed the slips over the
counter and remarked: sHere. take
them. Take them all.
I'VE did," the officers said.
Evening star., 1945-08-31

ington have been observing two or
three meatless days, Mr.. Wilson
said.
More meat isn't the only pleasant
change IN store for restaurant goers,
Mr.. Wilson said.
The peacetime bill Of fare will in
clude a lot more courtesy, cleaner
tables and floors, better napkins,
spick-and-span uniforms, an extra
glass Of water without having to
ask to get it, and uniform silyerware.
A training school will be opened
next month to emphasize courtesy,
he said.
Our plans are to make every
meal pleasant memory" he ex-
planned.
Evening star., 1945-08-31

can do to rescind the sale of the
property by the Defense Homes
Corp. Attorney General Clark ruled
yesterday that the sale was legal.
Mr.. Fig was shocked to hear from
Star reporter that the museum
does not intend to move tomorrow
as agreed in a stipulation between
the directors and his attorney. He
would not comment on the situation
before discussing it with his attor-
ney.
Miss Young didn't think there
was much he could do about it.
1T would take him several days to
get q writ Of restitution" she OBJ
served.
The museum directors have issued
2 public appeal for funds SO that
they could buy the properly.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
Mason to0ffer
Plan 10 Remove
Welfare Homes
jolly Acres Would
House Children in
Temporary Buildings

Commissioner Guy Mason will
recommend to the Board of Commits
sloners next week a plan for NOV
ing several children's welfare insti-
tuticns to Laurel, Md, in the near
future by using temporary buildings
rather than waiting for the con-
structlon OF permanent structures.
MIR. Mason announced this late
yesterday after conferring with We'll
fare Director Ray L. Huff and A. J.
Driscoll, chairman Of the Board of
Public Welfare's Committee on In
stitutions.
The board is scheduled to meet
today to discuss the question of the
children's institutions. The meeting
was called by Chairman Edgar Nor
rls. Mr.. Mason said he had asked for
the meeting yesterday to work out
differences between himself and the
board
Huff Backs Plan.
Mr.. Mason said Mr.. Huff had
agreed to go along with the plan. It
calls for moving the National Train
ing School for Girls, at Macarthur
boulevard and Loughborough road,
NV, to the recently acquired jolly
Acres near Laurel and the Indus
trial Home School at 2453 Wisconsin
avenue NV, to District property
within an eighth of a mile of jolly
Acres
The plan advocated for the past
several years by the welfare board
has been to move the training school
to jolly Acres and then place the
children of the Industrial Home
School in the training school site
on Macarthur boulevard until per-
manent buildings are constructed
on the Laurel property. The District
now has 1,080 acres near Laurel, on
which it hopes to develop a so-called
children's center.
Mr.. Mason said that the plan
which will be outlined to the Com
missioners would avoid continued
use CT the Macarthur boulevard
property. A number of residents
OF the area have expressed dissatis-
faction over continuation of the in
stltutional use of the property in
residential section.
Not Yet Available.
The jolly Acres property, recently
acquired through condemnation
proceedings in Federal Court in
Baltimore, will not be available until
after the middle of September,
Buildings on the grounds can be
renovated, Mr.. Mason said.
AS for the Industrial Home School.
where conditions have been criti-
clzed by the Council of Social
Agencies and the District Fedora
tion of Women's Clubs and many
other groups, Mr. Mason said an
attempt would be made to purchase
demountable homes and buildings
from the Government. He said hos
pltal facilities could be used at the
District Training School, which
already is located near Laurel and
which will form the hub of the
proposed center.
Commissioner Mason said he felt
1t would take year and a half for
the construction of permanent
buildings and that funds would be
sought from Congress for the tenn
porary buildings.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
PUG Orders Extension
Of Present Gas Rates

The Public. Utilities Commission
today ruled that the present gas
rates charged by the Washington
Gas Light Co. should continue dur
ing the rate year beginning to-
morrow.
The order came as a result of
testimony taken during a public
siearing on August 20 at the District
Building. The rate of return of the
company was set at per cent.
The rate of return was lowered
from 6.5 per cent to SIS per cent in
1943, but this reduction was set aside
by District Court and the PUG did
not appeal. On reconsideration a
6 per cent rate of return was estab-
lished and accepted by the company
This rate of return now will be con-
tinued.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
Federal Worker Retires
After So Years Service

David M. Braun, 10, chief of the
annuity section of the Civil Serv.
ice Commissions retirement divi-
sion, retired today after 56 years of
Government service.
Appointed as messenger in the
pension agency at Pittsburgh on
May l, 1889. Mr.. Braun was trans
ferred to Washington in 1918. He
was appointed chief of the annuity
section OF the retirement division
IN 1920 and has been connected
with the administration of the
Civil Service Retirement Act since
the legislation was enacted in 1920.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
Man TO Face Grand Jury
In Narcotics BURGLARY

Percy Grabenheaimer. IS, colored,
1912 N street NV, was held for
the grand jury under $4,000 bond
on a charge of housebreaking after
a hearing today before United
States Commissioner Needham C.
Turnage.
Grabenheaimer pleaded guilty to
stealing SIS worth of narcotics from
pharmacy in the 1900 block of
New Hampshire avenue NV.
Detectives said they believed
Grakenheaimer, who was arrested
yesterday, also was responsible for
the looting of approximately $4,000
worth of narcotics from two other
drug stores. Police identified these
as the Cut Rate Drug Store, lilo
Seventh street NV, and the
Modern Drug Store, Eleventh and
N streets NV.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
It's Oyster Time
| Again, but Supply
| Will Be Scarce

It's oyster time again beginning
tomorrow. But don't be surprised
If your favorite food shop doesn't
have them until October.
Even then, there won't be enough
to supply the demand.
That's the official word from the
Fish and Wildlife Service. DR.. Paul
S. Galtsoff, in charge of the serv-
ices shell-fishery Investigations,
said there is nothing to indicate
this years oyster supply will exceed
that of last year.
In Maryland waters. chief source
of oyster supplies in this area. pro-
duction will be about the same, but
in Virginia there may be decrease
because Of increased pollution in the
Hampton Roads area, he said.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
II Montgomery Youths
Enter Armed Services

Seventeen youths from the Be-
thesda,, Chevy Chase and Potomac
(Md) areas were inducted into the
armed forces this week, Montgom-
cry County Draft Board No. an
nounced today. They are:
William E. Dunford, Kenneth P.
Butt, James P. WEIGH, Thomas w.
Miller, Lauriston s. Taylor, jr.; John
G. Walker, Norman E. Donnelly, jr.;
Frank L. Hall, George w. Imirie, jr.;
Charles P. Wales, Grant H. Sheldon,
Edward c. Pugh, Charles e. Mac
Donald, Phillip S. Hclston, John B
Harrison, Terence j. McCarty and
Herbert F. Corn, jr.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
Meutless Days in Restaurants
To End With Fall in Point vuIue

Virtually all District restaurants
will abandon "meatless days" as a
result Of the lowered point cost Of
red point foods, it was disclosed to-
day by Robert j. Wilson, executive
secretary Of the Washington Res
taurant Association.
But for the time being, the ma
jortiy will be obliged to continue
serving margarine instead OF but
ter.
THE customers want the meat,
and it's a choice Of bringing the
meat back or the butter, so most
everybody'll concentrate on meat
and let the butter wait" he said.
Almost all restaurants Ia Wash-
Evening star., 1945-08-31
Gems. Bradley, Hines
Honored at Reception
Given by Legion Chief

Gen. Omar N. Bradley, admins
traitor OF veterans affairs, and his
predecessor, Brig. Gen. Frank T
Hines, who has been named Amer
lean Ambassador to Panama, were
honored at reception last night at
the Mayflower Hotel, given by Ed
ward B. Scheiberling, American Le-
gion national commander. About
$500 attended, including Is wounded
servicemen from nearby hospitals.
welcoming Gen. Bradley to his
new responsibilities, Mr.. Scheiber-
ling said the Legion appreciated the
increased load on the Veterans Ad-
ministration and pledged the Le-
gion's support
In response Gen. Bradley said the
stepped-up rate of discharges due to
the end Of the war had greatly
increased veterans promlems. He
thanked the Legion for its cooper
alton.
Gift to Gen. Hines.
Presenting a gold watch to Gen.
Hines, as a token of the love. re-
spect, affection, and esteem" of
every member of the Legion and the
Legion Auxiliary, Comdr. Scheiber-
ling praised Gen. Hines for his serv-
ice as administrator.
In accepting the gift, Gen. Hines
said that whatever credit came to
him should be shared with the
workers of that great Veterans
Administration" He called for team
work" behind Gen. Bradley.
Mrs. Hines was presented with a
wrist watch.
Senator Barkley, Democrat, of
Kentucky, Democratic leader. paid
his respects and shook hands with
the wounded men.
Among the guests were many
ranking officers of the armed forces.
leaders in Government depart
ments and Legionnaires from many
cities.
Steak Dinner Given to Fifteen.
The Is wounded soldiers, sailors,
Marines and Coast Guardsmen,
who were guests at the reception,
were treated to a dinner featuring
steaks. Gen. Bradley shook hands
with each one.
The receiving line included Gen.
and Mrs. Bradley, Gen. and Mrs.
Hines, Mr.. and Mrs Scheiberling, E.
H. Burns of this city, assistant ma
tional adjutant of the Legion; T. O.
Kraable, national director of re-
habilitation: Col. John Thomas
Taylor, Legion national director of
legislation; Mrs. Charles B. Gilbert
OF Norwich, Conn, national presi-
dent of the American Legion Aux
iliary; Mrs. Norton Pearl of De-
troit, national rehabilitation chair
man of the auxiliary; Col. Raymond
H. Kelly, past national commander;
Mrs. .sWalter G. Craven of Charlotte,
N. c., national child welfare chair
man OF the auxiliary, and Col.
Bryan Hobbs of the War Depart
ment, prominent Legionnaire.
Among those attending was Earle
D. Norton of New York City, ma
tional commander of the Army and
Navy Legion of Valor, who lost a
leg at Chateau Thierry in the other
World War.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
2District Stores
Announce Plans
For Branches
Woodward & Lothrop
And PoIois RoyoI
To Build in Suburbs

Woodward g. Lothrop and the
Palais Royal each have made plans
to open a suburban branch store, it
was announced today.
The Palais Royal branch will be
built just east of the Silver Spring
Shopping Center in the $500 block
of Colesville road.
woodward & Lothrop proposes to
build its store on Wisconsin avenue
at the District line. provided a petit
tion for rezoning of 6-acre tract is
granted by the Montgomery County
Commissioners, the store manage
ment announced.
Silver Spring Lease Made.
A lease negotiated between the
Palais Royal and the Silver Spring
Shopping Center, Inc, calls for the
construction by the shopping CEN
ter Of a modern, air-conditioned
one-story building, 72 by $50 feet,
with sales basement.
Golden g. Small, real estate
agents, through whom the lease was
negotiated, said the building would
provide 10000 square feet of space.
Construction will begin as soon as
possible, Sam Fig, president of the
shopping center firm, said. The
architect is Arthur P. Davis. Park
ing facilities will be made available
The woodward g. Lothrop build
ing is to be located on the west side
Of Wisconsin avenue, between West
ern and Willard avenues, on a lot
now occupied by a burned-out Hot
Shoppe. This site already is zoned
commercial. and the additional tract
on which commercial D from resi-
Dental A zoning is sought. is di-
rectly in the rear of and abutting
this lot, it was said.
Plan 200-Foot Front.
The petition for rezoning is ex-
pected to be considered at the
October meeting of the Montgomery
commissioners.
The building would have a 'front.'
age OF approximately 200 feet on
Wisconsin avenue. The tract in the
rear of the building would be used
to provide parking facilities for store
customers. The area would be suit
ably laid out for this purpose and
appropriately Handicapped, the store
management said.
The proposed building would be
modern, r-conditioned throughout
and include improved shopping ia
cilities, it was said. If rezoning is
granted, the store management said
construction will begin as soon
afterward as plans can be completed
and materials obtained.
Cost of the project has not been
estimated since the number of
floors Is not as yet been determined
it was said.
Evening star., 1945-08-31
Splits Tree
Near White House,
Hits I Farm Homes

A large poplar tree on the south
ground of the White House was
split by lightning, two farm houses
were damaged and a barn burned
early today in one of the noisiest
thunderstorms experienced by the
Washington area in years.
The White House tree was hit
shortly after 3 am. as the storm
was subsiding. according to Pvt.
James A. Norris of the White House
police force, who was in a guard
house so feet from the tree when
it was struck. He was uninjured.
The storm was entirely "unex-
pected," according to Donald
Cameron, head forecaster at the
Weather Bureau, who called 1t a
flash in the PAN" Mr.. Cameron
said the storm covered the southern
and central portions of Pennsyl-
vania, Western Maryland and the
extreme northern section of Vir-
ginia. Washington was on the edge
of the storm with the northwest
section getting the most rain.
Barn Burns Down.
In Rockville 81 inch Of rain
was recorded and lightning caused
damage to two farm houses, burning
down a barn.
At the height of the thunder
squall, the Rockville Fire Depart
ment responded to fire on the farm
of Joseph Cavangh near Glen, Md,
seven miles outside of Rockville.
Firemen reported his barn was
burned to the ground and his home
partly damaged.
The fire department. also put out a
fire in the house of j. C. Cotter,
Travilah, Md, 10 miles from Rock
vile. The fire was caused. firemen
said, when the chimney was struck
by lightning.
Monument Reported Hit.
1t was reported that the Wash
ington Monument was struck at
least twice and the Capitol dome
once. Hail was reported in Front
Royal, Va. area and at Falls Church.
At the Airport a half inch of rain
was recorded.
Mr.. Cameron said thunderstorms
are caused by the action of rain
in the atmosphere" but could not
explain why one should be more
severe than others. The lowest
cast was sunny, hot and humid TO-
temperature recorded last night was
66 degrees.
E. c. Crittendon, chief of the di-
vision of electricity at the Bureau
OF Standards, said it has been
pretty we'll established" that light
ming is caused by rising of masses
of hot air which break up drops
Of rain. This action causes elec-
trical charges to be built up, some
into positive and some into mega
tive charges, until they are released
in form Of lightning.
More severe thunderstorms may
be caused by the velocity of the
rising air masses as we'll as a con-
tinuous upward movement of air
over a long period of time during
the storm Mr. Critt tendoYo evploipad