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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-14
By LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent)


 Washington, Aug. 14.-(UP) )-Tokyo radio said today that Japan would surrender to the Allies and the White House expected official veri6cation in matter of hours.
 White House press secretary Charles G. Ross said Japanese note formally replying to Allied un conditional surrender demands expected here stsometime today.'
 The Japanese radio in broadcast strange to western ears reported that Ion Aug IA the imperial decision was granted" It assumed here that this meant the imperial decision to accept the austere terms of the Potsdam ultimatum
 LAPS MOURNFUL
 The broadcast say that throngs of Japanese gathered before the emperors palace and wept in shame asking Hrohito to forgive them because our efforts were not enough"
 Hours earlier, at 1:4s a. m EWT, Japanese Domej agency broadcast had been in the midst of solemn discussion the of chilbalns Tor An eight word announcement. 1t said:
 "FIash- -Tokyo-14/Sl learned imperial message ac- cepting P0tsdam declaration forthcoming S0On"
 That enough to start victory celebrations m many places.
 Meanwhile, it appeared that the task of decodng and recording the Japanese reply slowing down It's long, indirect transmission to Washington.
 Ross said shortly before 10 m. EWT, that the Jap note had been received in Bern Swtzeand about a. put into the hands of the Swiss foreign ol flee for delivery to America. &
 Ross said he was assuming nothing" regarding con- tent of the reply But the other hand he also said W looks like our long vigil is coming to end s0on.
 The Swiss foreign office said in Bern that tne sspans to the Swiss government for delivery to the uneu States.
 NO COMMENT YET The White House made no comment on these reports
 The likely situation appeared to be that the reply had gotten far the Japanese legation in Bern and Was being decoded for delivery to the Swiss
 State Department officials said the normal procedne for the Swiss after receiving the note from the Japanes would be to prepare copies One the official would be transmitted the Swiss legation here for delivery o Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, who would take President Truman. -
 The other would be handed to U. s. Minister Leland Harrison in Bern and Harrison presumably would teIe phone summary of its contents to Washington at once Byrnes meanwhile called twice on the president fne first time at S:l5 a. m. and again at 11:l4 a. m.
 The Japanese broadcasts indicated that the enemy 1ed agreed to complete surrender But officials here were taking nothing for granted.
 Later American monitors heard Japanese radio stations calling all Japanese ships at and t recalled nz such calls before Germany surrendered finally az May7
 Later there was another Domei transmission ealing Japans "10OOOOOO0 (peopel without exceplion' ie zl atfentvey to broadcast of Unprecedented importance scheduled for II D. m FIVE. 'Tt Iooks" Ross told more than 100 neNguru l4 4* White House office, las If long vigil s coH1IuS tc eHd so0n-that is. sometime today.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-27
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CLASS.
Effective public speaking class, All
Souls Unitarian Church, Sixteenth
and Harvard streets NV, 1890 am.
tomorrow.
DANCES.
Duke Alumni cocktail dance, Hotel
Statler, $3.50 o'clock tonight. Duke
Alabama Sugar Bowl game film to
be shown alumni and friends.
Pennsylvania State Society, Shore
ham Hotel, o'clock tonight.
EXHIBITS.
P. H. Aelman of Cincinnati, pho
tographs, Arts and Industries Build
ing, Smithsonian Institution, 8 am.
to 4::30 pm, through next Saturday.
Spring book display, foreign dolls
and birds and tropical fish, Chill
dren's Museum, to $50 pm. Tues
days through Fridays, II am. to 5
pm. Saturdays and 8 to 5 pm. Sum
days through next Saturday.
Society of Washington Artists,
Natural History Building, Smith
sonian Institution, am. to 4:30
pm. through next Sunday.
Old inaugural picture exhibit
through next Sunday and picture
history of Florida through June l,
Library of Congress, g am. to 10
pm. Mondays through Fridays, 8
am to 6 pm. Saturdays and 1870
to 10 pm. Sundays.
st. Elizabeth's Hospital Wednes-
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day creative group exhibit, Public
Library, Eighth and X streets NV,
9 am. to 9 pm. weekdays and 2 to
Is pm. Sundays through next Mon
day.
Etchings and Autographs of
France by Lester G. Horribly of Mass
achusetts, Smithsonian Institution,
on Mall, 9 am. to 4:30 pm. through
April 8. a
Stiegel-type glass, OAR Museum,
Memorial Continental Hall, 8:45
am. to 4:45 pm. weekdays except
Saturdays, 8:45 am. to 12:45 pm.
through April 10.
Benjamin Kopman paintings
through April II and Bonnard
paintings through April, Phillips
Memorial Gallery, II am. to 10 pm.
Mondays, II am. to pm. Tues
days through Saturdays and to 7
pm. Sundays.
MUSIC.
George Washington University
Glee Clubs Lenten concert, Lisner
Auditorium, Twenty-f1rst and G
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streets NV, $3.50 o'clock tonight.
Thelma Grant, soloist.
LUNCHEON.
Rotary Club, Willard Hotel, 1890
pm. tomorrow. Members and guests.
MEETING.
Akiba Club, Adas Israel Syna-
gogue, $3.50 o'clock tonight. Leon
Hoffman, speaker.
FOR SERVICEMEN.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco
Theater, tonight: Earle Theater acts
and Gayety Theater show.
Officers dance, Junior Officers of
Washington, $3.50 o'clock tonight.
Service personnel NAV obtain
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more information by calling the
United Nations Center, National
5000, or any of the following USOs:
Executive 0428, Republic 1927, Ma
tional 3431 or National 0614. Colored
service personnel may call USO,
Decatur 1864, or War Hospitality,
Decatur. 7768.
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Service personnel may obtain
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4,k'<&
y TOiIe

Seofoh toiIete masculine toiees masculine the
Scotch Seofor ehonde from which these oetries take
their Appropriate for the Seoorh Highondes
looked ultimate both with regard and
fragrance Scotch Heather and Fern with
include 2O2o toxobe
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Parents Protest
Plan 10 Close
Nursing Centers
Committee Is Formed
To Press Program
For Continuance

Protests against Siscontinuance
of Washington nursery schools and
school-age centers will be lodged
with the Board of Education and
District Commissioners, it was indi-
Gated today, after organization last
night of a Parents Committee for
Child Care Centers.
Seventeen mothers and a father
met at the home of Mrs. Della G.
Kessler, 2013 New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV, War Production Board
statistician whose husband is in the
armed forces overseas.
Chosen to head the committee was
Mrs. Clyde Hunt, 129 Carroll street
Sc, librarian at the Library OF
Congress. A second meeting will be
held tomorrow night at the home
of Mrs. Dorothy Thompson, 23e
Eleventh street Sc, at which 1t is
planned to have representation OF
parents with children in each of the
white nursery schools and school age
centers, 1t was said.
The organization plans to obtain
information for the Board of Educa-
ton on the number of fathers of en-
rolled children in the armed services
and how many mothers expect te
continue employment.
The committee also took steps te
cooperate with any protest which
may be filed by representatives with
children in colored nurseries, Mrs
Kessler said.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
District Information Center
Busy With Aid Requests

Need for immediate expansion Of
the District Information Center fol
Veterans was stressed by District
officials today as they ordered the
Volunteer Office Division of the
Council OF Social Agencies, which
occupies half of the center at 1856
Pennsylvania avenue NV, to vacate
their quarters as soon as possible.
With the end of the war, veterans
have swamped the Center seeking
advice and information, Mai. En-
nails Waggaman, director Of the
center, said today.
Yesterday, applicants seeking in
formation numbered over 70. This
figure formerly was considered high
for an entire week.
At the same time, the center re-
vealed that 1t would add three dis
abled veterans trained at American
University to its shorthanded staff
The District government has Of
fered the volunteer office, which re-
cruits workers for hospital aides
and other civic activities, quarters
at 480 Indiana avenue NV.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Dog Discovers
Defective Heater
Rouses Family

Comes now DR.. /. Phillips Frohmar
who, being ''fed up on all those
stories about rabid dogs" wishes to
relate the story Of Phus, a 5-year-
old boxer with Inoxie.
Along about 3 am. yesterday the
household at 1924 Nichols avenue
Sc. was sleeping soundly-that Is
all but Phus, who was up and
smiling.
A humping noise from the base
ment disturbed the S0-pound pet
Unaccustoned to barking, he set up
q howl that awakened DR.. and Mrs.
.Frohman on the second floor, and
they, too, heard the humping.
Cautiously, they proceeded to the
basement. Instead of an intruder,
they found q red-hot water heater,
smoke and fumes. The automatic
valve cutting of the heater had
failed to function and for five hours
the wafer had boiled.
"Phu8 was none too early" DR.,
Frohman said. sThe man who fixed
the burner said It might have ex-
sploded Ia another half hour and
likely would have blown . hole in
the ceiling and possibly injured U.s.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Army Rodio IN England
Promotes WMAL Man

Sergt. Keith Jameson, former
WMAL announcer In Washington
has been named chief announcer for
the American Forces network in the
United Kingdom. Capt. Jack Lon
don, chief Of operations for the net
work, announced In London today.
Sergt. Jameson was assigned to
the American Forces network d
branch OF the Armed Forces Radio
Service in August, l943. He gives
daily newscasts and has been master
|of ceremonies on the General Forcea
program, : popular variety show
beAmed to Allied troops Ia China,
Burma and India
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Gardner lauds Teamwork
In Speeding Reconversion

o. Max Gardner, chairman of the
War Mobilization and Reconversion
Advisory Board, declared today
there has been remarkable de-
gree of coordination and teamwork
among all agencies in putting re-
conversion plans into high gear"
Mr.. Gardner's statement, issued
through the White House, followed
two-day meeting at which Re
conversion Director Snyder and
members Of his staff laid the Gov
ernment's reconversion plans before
the board. which is composed OF
representatives of labor, agriculture,
business and the public.
Mr.. Gardner, former Governor OF
North Carolina, said that though
the end of the war came suddenly
ut is quite evident that it did not
catch us unprepared. This is not
only true. on the whole, for Gov
ernment, but also for business. labor
and agriculture"
The chairman expressed the opin-
ion 1T Is q good thing to face
frankly the fact Of probable unem-
ployment" but he added that this
should not be cause for discour-
agement.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
7 Held for Grand Jury
On Gambling CHARGES

Two men brought before United
States Commissioner Needham G..
Turnage yesterday on gambling
charges were held for action Of the
grand jury under $500 bond. Both
pleaded not guilty.
Edward C.. Fox, colored, As, of
the $500 block of Ontario road NV.
was charged with operating a lot
terry and possessing numbers slips
following his arrest Monday in a
car in. the 1400 block of w street
NV, by the police antigambling
squad. Describing Fox as one of
the largest pickup men in Wash
ington," police said they found IL
packages of numbers slips and
$241.38 in cash in his car.
Richard Remer, 43, of the 510o
block of Seventh street NV, who
was arrested August 10 in a coffee
shop In the TOO block of Ninth street
NV, also was charged with oper-
ating lottery and possession of
numbers slips.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Col. james Stewart
Expected Home Soon
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated fIeSS.
INDIANA, Pa, Aug. 22.-Col
James Stewart, former movie stal
who became a war hero, is expected
to leave England Monday for home
his mother, Mrs. A. M. Stewart, dis
closed last night.
Its been a long wait for me
two years." Mrs. Stewart said. II
don't know whether he's going to
fly or come by ship. I think maybe
he's coming by water with his outfit
the I'd Bomb Wing"
Col. Stewart who entered the
Army as a buck private March 90
1941, became operations officer of q
Liberator combat wing which
pounded key cities in Germany. He
has been awarded the Air Medal
and Oak Leaf Cluster, the Dis.
tinguished Flying Cross, and ths
Croix de Guerre with palm from the
French Air Force.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
DswRstionimq
&Remiindery@a

Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book 4, stamps
ca through U-2 good through
August 81. Stamps va through
Ia good through September 80.
Stamps Al through Ell good
through October 81. Stamps FL
through XII good through No
yember 30.
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 5
pounds through August 81. Next
stamp valid September 1.
Shoes Airp1ane stamps, l, 2, 8 and
4 in Book No. 8 good indefinitely
for one pair of shoes each.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
III. Comdr. Mccain Named
Head Of Montana State j.

1t. Comdr. James A. Mccain S
personal postwar employment prob
lem was settled today with the an
nouncement that he will become
president of Montana State Uni
versity after his release from the
Navy this fall.
At 81, Comdr. Mccain, who lives
at 5733 Washington boulevard, Ar
lington, Va, will be the youngest
head of any Montana educational
institution. For the past three years
he has directed the enlisted CLASH
flcation program of the Navy Bu-
reau of Personnel here.
He will succeed DR.. E. O. Melby,
who resigned effective September
l. A native of South Carolina who
never has been in Montana, the
new president obtained his bachelor
of arts degree from Wofford Col
lege in 1926 and his master of arts
degree from Duke University in
1929.
Before entering the Navy in 1912
he was dean of student personnel
and assistant to the president of
Colorado State College.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
$4,000 Veterans, Wives
Employed by U. 5. in July
BIZ the Associated Press.

BIZ the Associated Press.
More than $4,000 veterans and
wives and widows of veterans were
placed in Federal employment dur
ing July, the Civil Service Commis-
sion announced today.
This was an increase of more than
5000 over the number placed in
June.
Veterans placements during the
first seven months of the year
totaled 114,153, of which 81 per cent
were for Federal field establishments
outside the District of Columbia
The total included 2,119 wives and
widows of veterans of this war and
845 wives and widows of World War
veterans.
Since July 1, 1943. total of 9,15O
physically impaired veterans have
been placed in Federal jobs. Since
July l. 1914, a total of 1881 vet
Grams have been restored to Federal
s;ositions.
Evening star., 1945-08-22

security specialist, first class, last
was stationed at New London, Conn
He had accumulated the required A
points for discharge.
Mr.. Holmes is married and is the
father of three boys, aged 7, anc
4 months. He received the discharge
at the Coast Guard separation cen.
ter in Philadelphia.
Covers 10 Months.
Under its new point system, the
Coast Guard has begun a dis.
charge program which is expect.
ed to return the service to a peace.
time basis within 10 months, re.
ducing the number of officers anc
enlisted personnel from the present
liz, 1874 to "a 900.
Based on the Navy's point system
the plans call for return of coast
guardsmen and SPARS to civilian
life at the rate Of 13,800 a month
and retention within the United
States of all officers and men lack
ing three or fewer points for dis
charge
This latter means, the announce.
ment said yesterday, that enlisted
men with Al points and officers with
46 points will not be transferred te
sea duty.
While A points are required fol
an enlisted mans discharge, 40 are
required for an officer. SPAR en-
listed personnel need % points fol
discharge, and officers IS points.
Only exceptions to the point sys.
tenn are certain specialized per.
sonnel whose duties are considered
essential to the rehabilitation pro.
gram or who must be retained be.
cause of technical skills.
Key to Demobilization.
The announcement said the ke!
to the demobilization plan is tn,
establishment of intake and sepa'
ration centers which rips ava,
delaying red tape and deletes du'
plication."
Seagoing personnel eligible fol
discharge will be routed through
intake centers in Alameda, Calf
and Manhattan Beach, N. Y.
Separation centers are operating
in Boston, New York City, phila'
delphia, Norfolk, Va; Savannah
Ga; New Orleans, Cleveland, st
Louis, Long Beach, Calf; San Fran.
cisco and Seattle.
Three other centers will be es'
tablished by September l, the an.
nouncement added. These will b,
in Michigan City, Ind; Indianapo.
lis and Detroit.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
1000 Women
ToBeDropped
By Navy Yard
September J Loyoff:
Are First of Series
To Cut Force 9,100

Beginning a gradual series of lay
ofis which probably will affect 9,100
employees within a year or less, Navy
Yard officials yesterday notified L.
600 unskilled woman workers their
jobs would terminate after Friday,
September 7.
Previously, 210 persons, 10 per
cent Of them women, had quit their
jobs after the Japanese surrender.
AS result of both voluntary separa-
tions. and the layofi, the yards
working force has been reduced to
18,100.
All employees involved in yester-
days layoff were listed as unskilled
ordnance workers and ordnance op-
eratives. a spokesman said He
added that present and future lay
offs are based on reduced need for
guns as the result Of slash in
shipbuilding ordered since Japan
quit fighting.
+ Some May Get Office Jobs.
A total of 1902 women were en-
ployed in the Navy Yard until the
layod of these 2,277 were shop en-
ployes and 2,525 Office workers. Va
cancies in Office jobs may absorb
some workers involved in the pres
ent layoff, the spokesman said.
The yards peacetime employment
stood at 1000 in 1899, it was said,
and 1t Is expected the new peace
time level will reach approximately
10000 in view of the likelihood a
larger Navy will be retained.
One factor which may slow up
separations, the Navy Yard official
said, will be a shift to the 40-hour
week, which started in some units
this week and which will be in ef-
feet throughout the establishment
by September Is.
Laid-on Workers Sought.
Meanwhile, spokesman for the
Briggs Clarifler Co., which laid off
SIS persons last week, said that ap-
proximately 60 District and other
employers had requested that laid
of workers be referred to them.
Chase Donaldson, company presi-
dent. said the firm plans a follow
up on all dismissed employees to
offer further aid to them in obtain
ing job placement. The United
States Employment Service said that
Of 234 given referrals 169 had OBJ
tanned employment.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
End 10 Civil Service Asked
For 'Trainees' al GaIIinqer

The Commissioners today ordered
Corporation Council Richmond B
Keech to draft proposed legislation
removing Gallinger Hospital resi-
dent physicians, interns and student
nurses from civil service status and
to place them back on "trainee'
standing.
The action was taken on the rec.
ommendation of DR.. Alvin r
Sweeney, Challenger superintendent
who said they were not regular
employees, but actually trainees ir
the process of completing theil
education"
Hospital officials feel that the 40
hour Federal week should not apply
to these employees, most of whom
often work long and irregular hours
Mr.. Keech has not indicated
whether he favors the proposed
legislation.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Court Fight Resumes
lin Effort 10 Retain
Custody Of Youth, ;

A court battle for 3-year-old Gill
bert Shoemaker, which began Mon
day between his mother, Mrs
George w, Shoemaker, 3127 Gen.
trail avenue NE, and Mrs. Joseph
J. Kay, 1926 Ninth street NE, was
to be resumed today in District
Court.
Mrs. Kay and her husband, who
have hao Gilbert with them since
shortly after his birth, want to keep
him permanently. The mother
Mrs. Shoemaker. is seeking to get
the boy back through a habeas
corpus proceeding against Mrs. Kay
Husband Testifies.
Yesterday Mr.. Kay, who was the
first witness placed on the stand in
behalf of his wife, testified that
when they took the boy to Their
home in 1912 they were under the
impression they were to keep him
permanently.
The boys mother, Mrs. Shoemak-
er, testified earlier at the hearing
she never intended to let Mrs. Kay
keep the child permanently, anc
stated she had left him with Mrs
Kay because she had to go to g
sanitarium. Mrs. Shoemaker said
however. she recovered her health
and that in April of this year Gil.
bert was taken to the home of hi.
parents.
In May. it was said, the father
took the child to visit the Kays ano
left him there while marketing
When Mr.. Shoemaker returned fol
the boy he was informed the Kays
intended to keep him, it was said
Will Resume Stand.
The case is being heard by JUS
tice Henry A. Schweinhaut. Mr.
Kay was scheduled to testify further
today, after which Attorney William
j. Rowan expected to put his client
Mrs. Kay on the stand.
Mrs. Shoemaker, represented by
Attorney Harry T. Whelan, took the
witness stand and told of striking
Mrs. Kay following a scuf1le over the
child after the mother attempted tc
take him away from Mrs. Kay, who
was seated in an automobile. Mrs
Shoemaker said she struck Mrs. Kay
after the latter had torn her dress
This happened in May, it was said
Evening star., 1945-08-22
MIS-. Locke Pleads Innocent
Al Vice Raid Arraiqnment

Mrs. Margaret Locke, ST, who
was arrested on July 13 in a raid
on a place advertised as massage
parlor in the 1700 block of Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, pleaded not
guilty today to charges of procur-
ing and of accepting money from
women engaged in prostitution.
Police said the place was operated
as a disorderly house.
Mrs. Locke was arraigned before
District Court Justice Henry A.
Schweinhaut and bond of $4,000 was
continued. No trial date was set.
Mrs. Locke was to appear this
afternoon before Municipal Court
Judge Aubrey Fennell with four
other women arrested in the raid,
for hearing on vagrancy charge
The other defendants are Carmen
Beach, %, who also was indicted on
a chage of procuring; Judy Hunt,
q; Mary Karika, "a, and Deloris
Metro, "a.
ALI the women are free under $500
bond each in the vagrancy cases.
Evening star., 1945-08-22
Body Of Missing Baker
Recovered From River :

The body of Rooney Parker, "a, of
I'LL King street, Alexandria, baker
for the Fairfax Bakery who had
been missing from his home since
last Sunday. was recovered yester-
day from the Potomac River, 300
yards from the Smoot Sand &
Gravel plant in Alexandria, harbor
police reported today.
Mr.. Parker, who married a week
ago, left Sunday to see about job
In Washington, his wife, Vietta, 80,
told Alexandria police.
The body was found by Emmitt
Posey and Joseph Mazingo, en-
ployes Of the Smoot company, and
was identified by Thomas Sawyers,
Fairhaven, Mrs. Parker's brother. An
inquest was scheduled today.