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Evening star., 1945-09-18
Woman Pedestrian
Is Killed by Truck
On Downtown Street

A 70-year-old woman yesterday
became the Goth person to die in
Washington traffic accident this
year.
Mrs. Irma j. Barrows, 2146 North
Taylor street, Arlington, a Veterans
Administration employe for % years,
died In Emergency Hospital after
she was struck by truck in the
1900 block of I street NV. Police
said Mrs. Barrows stepped from be-
tween two parked cars into the path
of truck driven by Charles L. jack
son, 80. colored, 1913 Pierce street
NV. The truck driver will appear
before coroner's inquest later this
week.
Two women were injured In a
collision between an automobile and
a Capital Transit bus at MasSa-
chusetts avenue and Eighteenth
street NE. yesterday. Mrs. Beatrice
Jackson, 20, wife of Navy 1t. w. H.
Jackson of 1922 street Sc, was
driving Joyce Amrin, 16, of the
same address to school when the
collision occurred. Police said the
driver of the bus was Eldridge E.
Wood, As, of 645 Massachusetts, ave-
nue. Sc. Mrs. jackson and Miss
Amrin were treated at Casualty
Hospital for head injuries.
Mrs. Katie w. Presgraves. So, of
42l5 Fourth street NV. was treated
at Emergency Hospital for injuries
received when a car driven by her
husband, Porter r. Presgraves. SO,
struck trailer tractor at New York
avenue and Seventh street NV.
Police reported Samuel Crutchfield,
40, colored, of Baltimore, Md, was
driving the truck
Meanwhile, Herbert Block of 3613
Gunston road, Parkfairfax, Alexan-
dria, an employe of OSS, was injured
when the Government station wagon
in which he was riding collided with
another car at New Jersey avenue
and c street NV. Mr.. Block was
admitted to Casualty Hospital.
Police said the driver of the auto
mobile, Harry S. Baer, "a, of Pitts
burgh, was charged with failing to
allow the right of way. He was re-
leased on $25 bond. Stanley Fox,
AZ, colored, of l6 Cloud place NE,
was driving the station wagon, &C
cording to police.
Dirk H. Brauns, u, of 1925 Everett
street NV, was struck by an auto
mobile driven, police said, by Alice
L. Cook, 81, colored, of The Plains,
Va, at Connecticut avenue near
Everett street NV, last night. Mr.
Brauns was treated at Emergency
Hospital for compound fracture of
the left leg. Police were holding
the driver of the car at the Wom-
ems Bureau on an open charge.
r. V. We Rette of Hyattsville, Md.
suffered dislocated hip yesterday
when his automobile was involved
in three-car collision on Branch
avenue near the new Boiling Field
road. Mr.. We Rette's car collided
with an auto driven by George M.
Wentz of Brandywine, Nd, accord
Ing TO Maryland police. Immedi-
ately after the first collision, a car
operated by William H. Degges of
20l5 Fifteenth street NV, crashed
into the two cars. Mr.. Degges and
Mr.. Wentz escaped injury: Mr..
We Rette was taken to Casualty
HOSpital
Evening star., 1945-09-18
United Brick Workers
Vote 10 Continue Strike

The strike of rs workers at the
United Brick Corp, Bladensburg
road and New York avenue NE.
continued today after efforts by q
conciliator to settle the dispute
failed yesterday.
At meeting last night, the
strikers, members of the United
Construction Workers, affiliated with
the United Mine Workers, voted to
remain away from their jobs until
a satisfactory settlement" was
reached, according to Daniel Quig-
ley. jr., regional director of the
union.
Union representatives met yester-
day with William E. Kelly, company
attorney, and James Holden of the
United States Cancellation Service
According to Mr.. Quigley, the firm
offered a wage increase of 5 cents
an hour retroactive to August 18.
The union is seeking a scent retro
active increase to May l.
Mr.. Quigley said the union is
ready to accept the scent increase
on brick work and cylinders, retro
active to May l. The rate now Is
rs cents an hour.
The strike began on September 10.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Bill Would Give NAVY
$4,000 Men and
Marines 100000
Ey the Associated Press.


Legislation to Ak the postwar
strength of the Navy at 558 900 off,
GERS and men and the Marine Corps
at 100000 was submitted to Con-
gress today.
Twin bills were introduced in SEN
ate and House by Senator Walsh
Democratic, of Massachusetts, and
Representative vinson, Democrat
of Georgia, chairmen of the two
Naval Affairs Committees.
The proposed Navy roster of 50o,-
900 enlisted men and $1,000 officers
compares with a wartime peak of
1889, 900 officers and men. The
maximum number in the Marines
during the war was 482 500.
The legislation also would au-
thorize reserve officers and officers
and men who served in higher
grades during the war, to be ap-
pointed to commissioned or war
rant ranks on the. active list of
Officers Views Expressed.
Senator Walsh and Representative
VlnSon said the legislation was pre-
pared after consultation with naval
officers and in general way" rep
resented the officers views.
The two chairmen introduced
another bill which would provide
official review of the records of all
officers in the ranks of rear ad-
miral and below in the Navy and
major general and below in the
Marine Corps and lowers the statu-
tory retirement age from "a to 81
years for all officers below the rank
of fleet admiral.
Meanwhile, the Navy announced
its new plans for encouraging re-
servists and inductees to enlist in
the regular Navy, for the purpose of
expediting demobilization and re-
ducing selective service calls.
Navy Appeals for Recruits.
Members of the reserve and in
ductees may be transferred imme-
diately to the regular establish
ment in approximately 40 different
ratings. The men who elect to con-
tinue in the service will be given
the permanent ratings which they
now hold.
The Navy also will take in civilians
aged II to 80. At the same time,
the Navy announced that its term
of enlistment had been reduced
from six to four years and that
physical requirements have been
lowered in keeping with war ex-
perience. Those in the service at
sea or overseas who enlist in the
regular Navy will receive 80 days
special re-enliStment leave
Evening star., 1945-09-18
By the Associated Press.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Sept. 18
The invitation was signed, sc
of the most beautiful girls in the
world" but even go of the most
beautiful girls in the world couldn't
have afforded such a party as this
This party last night, celebrating
Earl Carroll's birthday, was put on
with a lavishness that Hollywood
hasn't seen in years.
Nearly everybody said, 'It looks
like the wars over" when they
saw the food, the bars, the people
the lights, decorations and the Car
roll estate. Tall fir trees and dwarf
orange trees were decorated with
thousands of multi-colored lights
that gave the spacious grounds a
Christmas-like effect.
Colored spotlights played on the
swimming and numerous fish pools.
as well as the jewels and furs and
gee-gaws of so of the most beautiful
land tallest) girls in the world.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Library Of Congress
Shows WerfeI's Works

The original manuscript of Franz
Werfel's novel. "A Woman's Hand
writing in Pale-Blue" is feature OF
an exhibition OF his poems and
novels which will continue at the
Library Of Congress, through Octo-
ber 7.
Werfel, widely known as the au-
thor OF THE Song of Bernadette. >
died August rs after a brief illness
A refugee from the Nazis, the Bo-
hemian-born writer came to Amer
lea in 1910 after escaping from a
French concentration camp. He
made his home in Hollywood until
his death.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Nurses to Test CIothino
For Winter of Occupation DUTY

Twenty-Five Army nurses, WACS
and Red Cross workers prepared to-
day to undergo rigorous outdoor life
in severe climate while modelling
clothing suitable for women as
signed to Central Europe and Japan
this winter.
In announcing these plans, 1t.
Gen. E. B. Gregory, quartermaster
general of the Army, said that a
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Former FPHA Auditor
Held in EmbezzIement

A former auditor for the Federal
Public Housing Authority has been
arrested in Chicago on charge OF
embezzling $216.84 from the agency
here, according to an Associated
Press dispatch from Chicago.
George r. McSwain, head of the
Chicago office of the FBI, identified
the man as Francis J. Finneran
formerly of the 4100 block of Con-
necticut avenue NV.
The FPHA said Finneran hao
been employed as an auditor t.
large between April and July of this
wear.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Jop Forces Violating
Surrender, Chinese Soy

By The Associated oreSs.
CHUNGKING, Sept. 1S.- The
Chinese Central news agency
charged last night that japanese
forces have violated surrender terms
in a number OF instances since Sep
tember 2.
The news agency cited alleged
violations in various parts of China,
including destruction of arms, am
munition, railroad equipment and
bridges,
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Mrs. L. L. GraveIy Dies
In North CuroIino
By the Associated Press.
ROCKY M0uNT

By the Associated Press.
ROCKY MOUNT, N. c., Sept. 18.
Mrs. Clark Hoofnagle Gravely, 54,
wife of L. Lee Gravely, president OF
the Tobacco Association of the
United States, died yesterday at her
home here. Funeral services will be
held this afternoon with burial here
A native of Richmond, Va, Mrs
Gravely was reared in Ashland, Va.
but has made her home here since
her marriage in 1916.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Employer Fined $l95
In Hour-Luw VioIution

Louise N. Keys, trading as the
Keys Coffee Shop, 1853 Seventh
street NV, was fined $195 by Mu-
nicipal Court Judge Almond Scott
yesterday on charges of violating
the female 8-hour day law and the
minimum wage law.
The District Minimum Wage and
Industrial Safety Board charged
that women employees were permitted
to work more than eight hours a
day and more than 48 hours a week.
She also was charged with failure to
record hours of beginning and stop
ping work and to keep a record OF
the total number of hours worked.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Weather Report

District of Columbia a-Consider-
able cloudiness, with highest tenn
perature in the upper 7Os this after
noon. Some cloudiness, with lowest
temperature near so tonight. Some
sunshine and little warmer to-
morrow
Virginia and Maryland - Some
cloudiness tonight and tomorrow. A
little warmer tomorrow afternoon
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers mudd,
ut HarperS Ferry. Potomac muddy a
Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Woman, n, Stabbed
During Tiff Over
Merits of Crooners
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Sept. IA quar-
rel over the relative merits of
Crooners Bing Crosby and
Frank Sinatra, police said, sent
Mary Ports, 81, to a hospital
with stab wounds yesterday.
Offlcers quoted Miss Ports as
saying she and her roommate
argued as to whose records
should be played and that the
other woman stabbed her in
the back with an ice pick as
she turned to leave the room.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
John Mccormack Buried

DUBLIN, Sept. 13 (P).-John Nc
Cormack, the Irish tenor, was buried
today in Deans Grange Cemetery
Premier Eamon de Valera and other
national figures attended.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
RAeord fnp Last 04 I

Record for Last Fl Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 13, at 2 noon; year ago. 73
Lowest, SO. at S:59 am; year ago, 81.
Record Temperatures This Year.
highest, %, on July /.
Lowest, IL, on January 25.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Editor Fusts Over Strike

The editor of newspaper in In
dia recently began fast in protest
against his typesetters going out on
strike.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Sweden Modernizes Fleet

Neutral Sweden modernized its
merchant marine fleet during the
war
Evening star., 1945-09-18

Report for Last "a Hours.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Tide Tables
The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in tn,
Capital tcurrent month to date):
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18

transportation. Scarcely any organ ized transportation is available ex- cept what is being used by the mili- tary. Practically none of the dis placed persons are strong enough to walk the thousands of miles back to their homes, although they all want to start back immediately.
 Approximately 46 per cent of these persons are Russian, g per cent French IA per cent Polish, and the rest from various other coun- tries, UNRRA surveys show.
 UNRRA now has approximately 1400 persons in Germany aiding military occupation officials. They work in teams of 10 persons. Each team has specialists in certain fields of relief administration.
 The work they are doing includes setting up clinics, nurseries, dis pensaries and registering the per sons in the centerS. They try to find out where they came from and if there is any place to return. Few groups are found to have been transplanted en masse. They are in extremely mixed up groups, as far as their home towns go.
 Aside from providing the bare necessities of life, UNRRA is try ing to bolster morale among these people. Sport fields are being laid out and pe.Sons who are phy- sically able are encouraged to par ticipate in some sport. To ease the tense food situation. some persons have already started gardens close to the assembly centers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18

thing that provides protection from the elements is being appropriated for use. Fortunately the weather is mild now. It will be an uphill fight to get adequate shelter provided by fall.
 NEED MEDICAL AID
 Once the centers have been set up there is the problem of getting adequate medical attention for these unfortunates. Threat of the further spread of disease must be fought continually. Typhus is the worst danger. Only those needing emerg- ency medical attention have been treated. There is still the job of trying to nouriSh back to semb- ance of health those persons system atically starved over a period of years. Others need operations, den- tai work and treatment of chronic diseases.
 The lack of military doctors to help with this job has been acute. They have been busy in caring for their own sick and wounded. To aid in this phase of the work UNRRA has placed many French doctors and nurses on it's payroll and has sent them to the assembly centers. Many other Europeacs have been recruited and are proving to be val uable assistants.
 First request of the DPS is mere ly to be sent home. It is hard to tell them tbSc most of their homes no longer exist and they are better eff where they are. Where homes do still stand, there is the problem of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18
CIO Activities

An election of local officers of the Scovill Brass Workers Union Local 569 will be held Thursday at Union hall from ' a. m. to 10 p. m. Officers to be voted on are: Presi- dent, Edward Birmingham; vice. president. Philip Bertrand and Charles DAino; finncial sec'y. Mary Splettstos-.er; treasurer, Margaret Santoli; recording secretary. George Minicucci; warden, Frank Bergin and conductor, Anthony Garafola.
 Members also will be chosen for the following board: trustees. execu- tive board (tool division); executive board. manufacturing division) and executive boards for the service, mills and Waterville divisions.
 An appeal has been made by the CIO to white-collar workers of the Scovill Mfg. Co.,, that they consider organization as a union. Thomas Cook, international representative of the CIO has been named to handle white-c collar organizations for the CIO in this area.
 Starting July l, the initiatio fee for new CIO union members will be $3 it has been decided by the ex- ecutive board at a recent meeting The reinstatement fee will be re- tained at s.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18
Your GI Rights
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON SERvicEMEN'S PROBLEMS
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff pc>ldent

Washington, June .,-Here are some questions on veterans prior ity for surplus property:
 O. My brother and l own a dry goods store. There have been many requests for work clothes which are hard to get. In understand that some work clothes have been de- clared surplus property and inas- much as I am a veteran I would like to know how I can get these items using my priority.
 A. You canont get any surplus property under veterans priority if you plan to resell it. Of course you can get it through the regular channels Your priority is only for goods that will go directly into maintaining or setting up the busi- ness.
 Q. My buddy and I are planning to open up a tavern. We know Of some refrigerating equipment we need which is Government surplus property, but it costs S3000. They tell Us you can only get items $25OO or less on a veterans priority. We are both veterans. Is this true?
 A. One veteran is entitled to priority for surplus goods up to s250O. That means that two of you could buy up to $50OO worth There fore you can buy the refrigerating equipment you need.
 o. I saw a list of items which .aye been declared surplus proper ty by the Government recently. I could use several of the things on the list to fix up my home which is in need of repair since have been in the Army. do I go about getting priority for these things?
 A. You can't get priority for sur plus property unless you use it in your business or on farm.
 o. understand the Government has . lot of excess stuff it is sell ling cheap. Some of it could use in my business. Where can l get a list of just what the Government has and how much it costs?
 A. Write to the nearest office of the Smaller War Plants Corpora .ion if you are going to use it in business or War Food Administra- ton for farm goods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18
'Deoth to LeopoId'
 Shouted in Belgium

Brussels, June 18-CUP)-Belgian labor unions and leftist parties threatened general strike today if King Leopold resumes the throne.
 CA CBS broadcast from Brussels said many belgians expected Leo- pold would return to his capital to- day or tomorrow from Switzerland, where he has keen resting with his commoner wife since their liberation from a German concentration camp)
 New anti-Leopold demonstrations were reported from elsewhere in Bel gium. At Waterloo, cries of Death to Le opold! Hang him!" were heard during ceremonies at the wounded Eagle monument consecrating Ma poleon's defeat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18

Lack of fuel oil has closed prac- tically all of Paraguay's cotton gins.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent

Washington, June l8 - Displaced persons in the Reich. designated as DPS by the Allied Military Govern ment, are major headache to our forces of occupation. Many months perhaps years-will pass before millions of civilians held prisoner by the Allies and slave laborers fiber ated in the Reich, can be sent home.
 First reports to United Nations Rehabilitation and Relief Admin istration headquarters here indicate the size and complexity of the prob lem of providing food, clothing and shelter for the DPS. UNRRA is CO., operating with military authorities in an effort to ease chaotic condi- tions.
 War destruction of their form CT homes and lack of transportation facilities are the biggest problems in the way of DIP repatriation. 'UNRRA reports that Germans are being forced on a near-starvation diet in order to provide these dis placed persons the bare necessity of 200o calories day. The Germans are getting ll50 calories per person per day. Slave laborers working for the Nazis were given little more than 1000 calories day while pris- oners in some instances were reduc- ed to 500
 AS quickly as possible, under the prohibltive conditions that exist in den1olished Germany, liberated per- son5 are being gathered into assem- bly, centers.' Sites for the centers are selected where there is any kind of shelter or where food might be available.
 Shelter. in formal sense, scarce ly exists. Partially gutted factories, schools, shift tents and any
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18
|P-T ASSOCIATION | HOST TOSTUDENTS
Members of Graduating Class Entertained at
 Waverly Inn

.Supt. of Schools Harold E. Chit tenden today announced the pro- gram for the grammar school graduation exercises to be held Monday night at 6:30 on the Futile High school lawn. It is as follows: Processional Connecticut March" ........ NaSSaan Grammar School Orchesera Salute to The Flag ........ Class Singing-'The Star r-Spangled
 Graduates and Audience Welcome
 Jerry Labriola
 Central Avenue School Connecticut State Song" Crosby
 Class Recitation
 Franklin Delano Roosevela" Bernard Lincoln Avcollie
 Salem School Faith of Our Fathers .. Hemy Recitation
 'The United States Army"
 Raymond Robert Smith
 Prospect Street School The Army Air Corps" ,. Crawford
 Class Recitation-"Our Navy"
 Frederick Engelhardt
 Salem School Navy Hymn .......... Dykes
 Class Recitation-"Meet the Marines"
 Sarah Janice Elder
 Hop Brook School The Marines Hymn .. Phillips
 Class Recitation-"The Civilians Part" Jeremy Clayton Rice
 Salem School onward Christian Soldiers"
 Class Presentation of Diplomas. .............. Samuel I. Lyons Chairman, Board of Education Awarding of the Josephine A. Maher Prizes to: Bernard Lincoln Avocolli, ...... Elan Jean Campbell ......... Frederick Engelhardt ........... Millicent Ann Ford ............. Eleanor Rela Lieberman ........ Jeremy Clayton Rice .........
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18

chairman of the committee in charge of the rally.
 Retail stores throughout the vi- cinity will be closed from g a. m until Il a. m. to permit sales staf1s to attend.
 Highlights of the program will be the appearance of Herta Simon, concert singer, accompanied by Mrs. Carl Heebner.
 The program will open with a spe- cial feature, now being arranged by Julia Smith, manager of the State theater, and will be followed by a transcription of excerpts from the address of the late President Frank lin D. Roosevelt to Congress on the day following Pearl Harbcr.
 James Moran. chairman of Wa terbury's Seventh War Loan drive. will address the gathering, followed by brief talks by the following: Ray mond Tanning, managing editor of the American; Attorney John Cas- Sidy, chairman of the speakers bureau of the campaign; and Will liam Davies. War Finance commit tee director of the retail division.
 Eugene A. Oviatt will serve as master of ceremonies.
 Victory House sales on Thursday, June 21, will be sponsored by the Polish CentralS, comprising all Polish organizations in Waterbury. Marcel Vlatowski. president of the organization, will be assisted by Mrs. J. Sterling, head of the special bond committee. Others who will assist at Victory House are Mrs. Marcel Vlatowski, Mrs Benjamin Pogodzienski, Mrs. Joseph May. Mrs Anthony Alex, Mrs. Patrick Mo- Fadden, Mrs. Vincent Obuchowski, akd Miss Helen Arots.
 The American Lithuanian Coun-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18
Merchants Staging
 Mass Rally Tomorrow
Propretors, Clerks Unite in Patriotic Demonstration
 to Boost War Bond Sales; Stores Closing

All local merchants and their sales representatives will march in a body
 tomorrow morning to the State theater where a mass rally will be staged at 9:45 a. m, under the spon- sorship of the Retail Division of the
 War Finance Committee, it has been announced by Eugene T. Oviatt,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18
DEBATE TEPEACE-TIME.
 MILITARY TRAINING

Charles H. Shons, a master at Taft school, and Rev. Emerson L. Hangen, pastor of the First Congre- gational church in Meriden, parti- cipated in a Town Hall Forum on the subject. "Is Peace-Time Con- scription of American Youth For Military Training Advisable last night at the Bunker Hill church.
 MT. Shons, who was a major in the A. E. F. in the last war, and lieutenant colonel in the present war, took the affirmative side. MT. Hangen is a former Navy chaplain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18
Full Weather Report

Boston, June IS CUP) New England weather forecast:
 CONNECTICUT. YER MON T, NEW HAMPSHIRE. MASSACHU- SETTS and RHODE ISLAND - Showers and occasional thunder storms tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy. less humid and not quite so warm. Minimum for Worcester tonight GA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-18

cil who sponsored sales at Victory House last Saturday, reported total sales surpassed the S23 ,00O mark.
 President c. L. Campbell. of the Connecticut Light and Power Con- pany announced today that his company has purchased was bonds totaling s3,0O00O0 in the current Seventh War Loan Drive. The pur- chasers will be pro-rated among all the towns served by the company. Waterbury and surrounding towns will receive credit in the amount of $808 600.