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Evening star., 1945-07-09
Mrs. J. R. Williamson Rite!
ARRANGED for Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Frances. Williamson, 80, widow of
John Robert Williamson of 3435
Brown street NV, who died at her
home Friday after an illness of
three weeks, will be held at 10 am
tomorrow at the Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV.
Burial will follow in Glenwood
Cemetery.
A native of Fairfax County, Va,
Mrs. Williamson had been resi-
dent of the District for 80 years.
She was a member of the Columbia
Heights Christian Church, the
Business Women's Council, and was
active in Salvation Army affairs
and charity work. One of her Spe-
cial interests was sewing for the
children of the Florence Crittenton
Home, and she had made more than
1000 garmets for the children there.
Survivors include six. daughters,
Mrs. Parker West, Mrs. Harry Oster-
mayer, Mrs. Richard Garrett, Miss
Beulah Williamson, Mrs. Charles
Crawford and Mrs. Harry Dement,;
two sons, Howard and Hal William
son; nine grandchildren and sis
ter, Mrs. Emalyne Lacey. All make
their home in Washington.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Observers
Continued From First Page.)

of the city's highest hills of Massa-
chusetts avenue it had been planned
to make time check on the moons
first entering the outline of the sun.
Three observers with large portable
telescopes, stop watches and
Greenwich time signals from the
observatory's central time keeper
sounding every second on a tele-
graph relay, were standing by. But
the clouds were so thick at that
moment they were unable to make
the check.
Check Moons Position.
1t was clear, however, at 8:5e
when the arc of the moon slid of
the sun and the observation was
made and recorded. E. G. Reuning
one of the observers, explained that
there is a variation in the equation
of the moons orbit, variation
which corrects itself. An eclipse, he
said, is an opportunity to check the
moons exact position, something
that is known without exactitude
at other times because of the vari-
alton.
Under the dome of the 12-inch
telescope (the observatory's second
instrument-the large one is a &C.
inch telescope) were U. S. Lyons,
B. P. Sharpless, Miss Ruth Haner
and Mr.. Reuning, all observers.
Capt. v. K. Conan, head of the
Naval Observatory, also looked into
the telescopes.
Two sun spots which became COW
cred in the course of the moon
across the sun, and two others
that stayed in the crescent of the
sun which the moon never COW
cred were clearly visible through
the instruments. Mr.. Reuning ex-
planned the scientists in the area
of totality would regard the pres
ence of the four sun spots as of
Importance to their observations
That sun spots effect radio trans
mission is known, he said, and
scientists are always glad of an
opportunity to further their knowl-
edge of just what this sun spot
interference amounts to.
At 1859 am, the time of maxi
mum coverage of the suns area, the
depth of the moons penetration was
measured on the reflector of the big
telescope. 1t was So per cent.
Mountains of Moon.
The tiny irregularities on the arc
of the moons circumference which
showed up so plainly on the re-
f1ector, were the mountains of the
moon, it was explained, the same
mountains whose profiles appear in
that position in every eclipse for
the moon always presents the same
side to the earth a flxity varied by
only a slight tidal wobble.
At 1858 am. the moon slid off
and the observers began moving
the big telescopes from the catwalk
along the roof of the building and
shield was put over the 12-inch
big gun under the dome. The 26-
inch instrument was not used be-
cause at the start of the eclipse
the sun was too low on the horizon
1t would have been impossible to
train the instrument on it.
| The next total eclipse visible in
the United States will be In 1854
Like today's, 1t will be q partial
eclipse In Washinston.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Three Negro Flyers Killed
In Crash Into Ohio River

By the Associated Press.
FORT KNOX, KY, July g.
Three Negro Army flyers were
killed yesterday and two others were
injured when the Mitchell bomber
they were flying crashed. into the
Ohio River near Madison, Ind, Col
Benjamin o. Davis, jr.. post COM
manding officer, announced.
He identified the dead as 1t. Sam
uel A. Black, Plainfield, N. j., pilot;
I'd 1t. Stephen Hotesse, New York
City, copilot, and Flying Officer
Glen w. Bullien, Los Angeles, navi-
gator.
Two airmen who were thrown
clear of the plane when it crashed
were identified as Corpl. Isaiah
Grice, Jacksonville, Fla, engineer
gunner, and Pvt. Napoleon Gibbon
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Col. Davis said the survivors were
too dazed from shock to give any
details of the crash.
The flyers were members Of the
recently activated 477th Composite
Group stationed at Goldman Field
Fort Knox, he said.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Seamen Will Picket VISA
As Protest on Bonus Cuts
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 9.-Picketine
Of War Shipping Administration
Offices throughout the country will
begin as soon as possible, it was
voted yesterday by the CIO National
Maritime Union in protest against
proposed reduction of bonuses paid
to merchant seamen.
In resolution adopted at the fifth
biennial convention of the NMU
the union called for the sending
Of a delegation to Washington last
night to throw a picket line around
the Offices of Vice Admiral Emory
s. Land" war shipping admins
traitor.
The reductions would lower
bonuses to 331s per cent of base pay
in the Atlantic and in part of the
Pacific, and 662s per cent in all
other waters except the Far Eastern
Pacific and part of the Indian
Ocean. In the latter, 100 per cent
bonuses would be paid, plus S. per
day.
Base pay Of ordinary seamen Is
341a cents per hour without bonuses
NMU officers asserted the War La
Dor Board had set a minimum OF
SIS cents an hour as standard mini
mum wage for American shore
workers. The union has interpreted
the bonus reduction as wage cuts.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Former German Official Here
Executed for Plot on Hitler
Chaplain Tells How
DR.. Otto Kiep and
Others Met Death

DR.. otto Kiep, counselor of the
German Embassy here during the
early 193os, under Ambassador
Friedrich Won Prittwitz und Gaffron
was executed in the Ploetzensee Jail
in Berlin for participation in the
plot last July to assassinate Adolf
Hitler, the Associated Press reported
today from Berlin.
This revelation, according to the
dispatch, was made by the Rev
Peter BuchholZ, Catholic chaplain
of the Jail, who described the last
hours of about 80 Germans who
were executed under Hitler's orders
in that institution alone. He said
the Fuehrer forbade them to re-
ceive last religious rites.
Father Buchholz particularly
praised the courage and bearing OF
the onetime German diplomat as
he was led to the gallows.
Treated Brutally.
HE had been horribly mutilateo
and brutally treated" the priest
told the Associated Press. yet he
walked to the gallows proudly after
a brief last word said to him by
Chaplain Poelscher (Father Buch-
holz's colleague).
After Hitler came into power, DR.
Kiep was transferred from the EN-
bassy here and appointed German
consul general in New York. In
1895 he was sent by the German
government to Argentina and Brazil
to attempt the negotiation of spe-
cial trade arrangements. In the
following year he became assistant
to DIR. Hjalmar Schacht, president
Of the Reichsbank. Virtually moth
ing has been heard from him since
then.
DR.. Kiep was popular in Wash
ington official and newspaper cir
cles. On his assignment to New
York, he was the guest of honor al
a large farewell party given by
newspapermen at the Mayfiowel
Hotel.
Among those who Father Buch-
holz or Pastor Poelscher accom-.
panied to the gallows were Gen. vor
Fellgiebel. 1t. Gen. Paul Won Hase
Maj. Gen. Erich Hoeppner and Gen
Otto Won Stuelpnagel, former mill
tary administrator of occupied
France. Others included Count
Helmut Won Moltke, Count Petel
Yorck Won Wartenburg, Ambassador
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Victor Murdock Dies;
Ex-Representaiive,
Member Of FTC

Victor Murdock, IA, editor of the
Wichita (Kans) Eagle and one of
the Republican Representatives
who helped break the ironclad rule
of Speaker Joe Cannon in the early
l900s, died yesterday at his home In
Wichita after an illness of several
months, according to an Associated
Press dispatch.
A native of Burhngame, Kans.,
Mr.. Murdock broke with uncle"
Joe Cannon, for years arbitrary
ruler of the House in his capacity
OF speaker, over bill to save the
government money on railway con-
tracts. Mr.. Murdock, then took
leading part in three-year fight to
restrict the powers of the speaker.
a fight that proved successful in 1910.
Mr.. Murdock was first elected to
Congress in 1908, when he was 80
years old and the editor of the
Wichita Eagle, defeating II candi-
dates for the post. He served in
the House IL years, retiring in 1914
to make an unsuccessful race for
the Senate against Charles Curtis.
A progressive leader. Mr.. Murdock
bolted the regular Republican Or
ganization in 1912 to support Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt's Bull
Moose" ticket, and was elected to
the House as Progressive Repub-
lican. He served on the Federal
Trade Commission, part of the time
as chairman, from 1917 to 1924.
A newspaperman from youth, Mr..
Murdock served as a political re-
porter for a Chicago newspaper be-
fore he was 81 and accompanied
President Mckinley on his first
campaign for Ohio Governor. An
apt phrasemaker, he characterized
Jerry Simpson, Populist Kansas
Congressman of the 1905, as "the
sockless statesman" Mr.. Murdock
returned to newspaper work after
leaving the FTC in 1924.
He is the author of several books,
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Mrs. Adriunu Schrum,
In D. 6. 81 Years, Dies

Mrs. Adriana M. Schram, rs, O
1923 Ellicott street NV, died yes.
terday at her home after a shorr
illness. Funeral services will bt
held at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
Hines funeral home, 2901 -Four.
teenth street NV. Burial will bt
in Rock Greek Cemetery.
Mrs. Schram was native of Zee
land, Mich, but came to Washing.
ton 81 years ago. She was mem
ber of the First Congregations
Church for more than IS years anc
was active in Red Cross work.
Survivors include three sons, A. J
Schram of Philadelphia and Johr
T. and Martin D. Schram, both o.
Washington; five grandchildren
and a sister, Miss Ann G. Huizing.
of iceland.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Z Air Force Veterans
Arrive in New York
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 9.-The Felix
Grundy dcoked today with 366 mem
bers of the 84th and 85th Bombard-
ment Squadrons of the night flying
18th Air Force.
Most Of the passengers, lombard
iers, gunners and ground crew
men, had been overseas two and
half years. Their main fighting
job was the night bombing of enemy
positions in the Po Valley.
Maj. C. N. Bowen, Oakland, Calf,
executive officer and adjutant OF
the 47th Bomb Group, said 50 per
cent of the men aboard had more
than the necessary 85 discharge
points and that most of them were
anxious to fight in the Pacific.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Cotton
Continued from First Page


irrigated States show smaller acre
ages than last year. Almost one
half of the total acreage reduction
is In Texas, largely as result of
extreme drought in the Northwest
ern part of the State.
Substantial decreases also are in
dicated for the Mississippi River
delta areas of Missouri, Arkansas
and Louisiana, where excessive and
continued rainfall during the
spring interfered with planting.
North Carolina, Georgia ano
Florida also show sharp reductions
with smaller reductions indicated
for Mississippi, Alabama and South
Carolina.
The total acreage planted tt
American Egyptian cotton is esti.
mated at 6,400 acres, compared with
IA, 100 last year and the 10-yeal
average of 1890.
In addition to unfavorable plant.
ing weather, difficulties in securing
adequate labor was given as one Of
| the reasons for the reduction.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Joseph W. Pepper, Father
OF Senator, Dies in Florida
b the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, July g.
Joseph Wheeler Pepper, 72, father
of Senator Pepper, Democrat, of
Florida, died here last night after
an illness of less than week.
Senator Pepper was called from
Washington by his fathers illness
and was with him at his death.
The elder Pepper was native Of
Clay County, Ala.
He came to Tallahassee from AL
exander City, Ala, in 1881 and since
that time had been superintendent
of the State Chemistry Building.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
ABoUT TO BORROW?
y ..hAvzG Households monthly rote
CoW Of 30 with others

IF you have money problem, try
i first to solve it without borrowing.
Ask yourself if you really do need a
loan to get out of your difficulty. IF
you do get loan, borrow no more
than you actually need-and for as
short time as possible.
Household Finance makes personal
loans to employed men and women
for constructive uses. If you can re-
pay in regular monthly instalments,
you are welcome to apply for $50,
$l00. 5000 or more. No endorsers
or guarantors are ever required. No
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Washing Machine Shells
Peo Crop Successfully
BY the Associated Press.

URBANA, III. = Romeo Green,
faced with the manpower shortage
in shelling his peas, settled the
problem by giving them quick
once-over in a washing machine. He
said that after the agitator whirled
them the shells popped out and the
peas remained Ia the washer.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Silent Bandit Gets S125

CHICAGO R.-The bandit who
held up the cashier at the High
way Theater on South Western
avenue was silent operator. A
note he pushed into the ticket win
dow to Mrs. Aileene Bishop read:
Hand over the money; don't talk
Mrs. Bishop handed him S125.
Evening star., 1945-07-09

tice that the sooner you repay the
less your loan costs.
Payments shown in the table in
clude charges at Households rate OF
29o per month. This is our one and
only charge and this rate is one-third
less than the $50 per month permitted
by the Maryland Small Loan Law.
You pay no fees or other extras.
Quick phone service
If loan is the answer to your prob
lem, phone or visit Household Finance.
If you telephone us first, we can have
your loan ready when you come in.
Evening star., 1945-07-09

China, the Mysterious and Mar
velous" being among them.
Mr.. Murdock is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Howard Fleeson oi
Wichita and Mrs. Harvey Delano Of
San Francisco, and one brother
Marcellus M. Murdock, publisher Of
the Eagle.
Evening star., 1945-07-09

These payments include all costs
If payments are made monthly
on the same day of each success
sive month. Earlier or larger
payments reduce the total
charges and later or smaller
payments increase them.
HOUSEHOLDS ONLY CHARGE
Is the monthly rate of 2To on
unpaid balances. This rate is
substantially less than the max
imum prescribed by the Mary
land Small Loan Law.
1t is figured on actual unpaid
principal balances as reduced by
payments. There are no fines,
fees, discounts or other hidden
charges.
Evening star., 1945-07-09

DEPARTMENT STORES FOR HOME OWNERS AND BUILDERS
MAIN ofIcE sRicHTWoop AkAcosiA FAILS CHURCH, VA
II Go Ave Hsh~ay
The Valley settler., 1945-05-25
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UNITED PROTESTANT CHURCH Rev. Vlctor Alfsen, Pcst2r Sundcy Services
 Church School. ..lO:Q % am. Morning :orship. .ll:CO o.n. Evenin Worship. .8:CO p.n. Wednesday,
 Choir Rehearsal. ..e:Oo o.m. Saturday
 Youth Fellowship. G.: 00 p.m. ST. MlcEIA3L,s CATHOLIC GIL 2a Rev. Faeher ocead, -ostor
 Sunday Mass. ...~.s. LOCO G.m. conf essions he2rd oefo1e .lcss SodGlitv Communion on t'.a first Sunday cf ecch month. SLV1s-TE DAY ADVENTIST CHLnG- Seturdc. y----Visitors re Hel come Sabbath School. .....9:45 am. Church Services. .ll:OO am.
Evening star., 1945-11-22

Jne way CnaC my hehrS McLemore.
husband and I have spent all except
one Of our II Thanksgivings to-
gether. We were always on the way
across the country to some world
shaking event like football game
or hog-husking or calling
contest.
At any rate, we seemed never to
be anywhere on Thanksgiving except
on mad dash to get somewhere
How many times at noon on
Thanksgiving have I suggested to
Henry that we slow down and get
turkey sandwich. We never did
We had to have hamburgers be-
cause they were quicker, so that we
could get into the town where we
had decided to spend the night a
full two hours before we had thought
we would.
When we could have had q
Thanksgiving dinner at home, the
war was on, so this year, for the
first time, we are going to have
dinner at home. Henry has already
made out a menu, and though it
sounds little scanty, we should be
able to exist on 1t till Eve hope) we
are asked to somebody else's house
for a slight snack.
Turkey, Virginia ham, sweet pota-
toes baked with raisins and nuts
with marshmallows on top, white
potatoes to go under the giblet
gravy, rice, corn pudding, peas and
squash, all kinds of homemade pre-.
serves, corn bread, rolls and then a
Evening star., 1945-11-22
By Lo,peI MelIeff

Physicians are members of proud
profession and some of them won't
like to see this said, but it is the
fact that President Trumans ma
Evening star., 1945-11-22
On the Other Hand
Thinks Health Insurance Plan Could
Be Called Bill for Relief of Doctors

ton, research and other things, con-
slider only the case of the doctors.
1t is the doctors who are supposed
to be abused or "socialized" by the
plan.
All that is proposed is that those
doctors who associate themselves
with the insurance system shall be
properly Paid for their services out
Of the insurance fund. A doctor
can give full time on salary or on
a fee basis, he can give part time
on either basis. Or he can say he
wants no part of it. If he associates
himself with the system he is free
to select his patients, just as the
patient is free to select his doctor.
And, sticking to the main point,
the doctor would have an assured
practice and he would be paid. Or,
as the President delicately expresses
it, he would be spared the annoy
ance and uncertainty of collecting
fees"
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Answers to
Questions

A reader can get the answer to any
question OF fact by writing The Evening
star Information Bureau, BIG I street
NE. Washington 2. D. G. Please in.
close 3 cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1945-11-22
October Sales Up 12%
In Department Stores
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Department store sales in Wash
ington in october rose IL per cent
over October, 1914, and in the first
10 months of 1945 were 10 per cent
ahead of the like period year ago,
the Federal Reserve Bank of Rich
mond reported today. The IL per
cent increase in October compares
with an advance of only per cent
in September.
Retail trade in IS department
stores in the whole fifth district in
October registered exactly the same
increase as in the Capital and the
record for the 10 months was also
the same.
Many leading cities in the fifth
district recorded much larger gains
than Washington, Clarksburg, w.
Va, topping the list with a rs per
cent trade pickup. Percentage COM
parsons with October, 1914, follow:
Evening star., 1945-11-22

Maj. Conger to Speak
Maj. Clement E. Conger will pic
ture England and Scotland as he
saw them after We day to members
Evening star., 1945-11-22

1lhC JU pCl CCllU A~"Sh 4"AeAet''
Of Americas practitioners could use
little assistance and really require
1t If they are to begin to share in
what we call "the highest standard
Of living In the world"
Most of the opposition to such
bills IN the past has purported to
be in defense of the doctors. Con-
servative legislators have chanted
the sinister word, "socialization
whenever proposal has been
offered to extend medical care to
a.. parts OF the population. Some
medical organizations have joined
In the chant. The inference has
been that any such undertaking
would "socialize" the doctors and
do them great damage.
How truly these legislators and
medical associations represent the
average doctor, or the ma jority of
all doctors, cannot be estimated
But 1t can readily be shown that
they do not represent the average
doctors financial interest.
Profession Badly Paid.
Many medical men make big
money. Many more do not. The
profession on the whole is badly
paid In his message to Congress
the President was able to say:
The plan which have suggested
would be sufficient to pay most doc
tors more than the best they have
received in peacetime years"
The best peacetime years for
Americas physicians were those of
the late 20s, the boom years that
preceded the big bust. In 1929,
at the height of our prosperity,
one-third of the physicians had net
incomes of less than $50 q week.
Eighteen per cent had net incomes
of less than $50 week. OF all
general practitioners, half made less
than S75 a week.
When one considers what goes
into making a doctor and what goes
into being doctor, 1t doesn't seem
that the reward is sufficient. A
medical education costs the average
student a few thousand dollars of
his own money and from to 10
times that much of other peoples
money. The other people are the
philanthropists who endow medical
schools and hospitals and the States
and other government units that
support the same. Being a doctor
requires hard, devoted work, un-
sparing use of strength and energy,
willingness to sacrifice ones wn
convenience and comfort for the
welfare of others. Also 1t requires,
because Of our habits of thought,
that the doctor live up to the dig
nifty Of the profession, whether he
can afford it or not. It's hard life
Fault Lies in System.
But with all that the doctor puts
into it, under the present system,
his job doesn't get done; a great
percentage of the population does
not receive adequate medical atten-
ton. The fault isn't in the doctor;
its in the system.
Which is what the Truman plan
proposes to remedy. Without going
into the whole plan, which provides
for more and better hospital facin-
ties, expansion Of public health
services, increased medical educa-
Evening star., 1945-11-22
Noyes PTA Takes Census
In School Addition Drive

A census Of pre-school children
in the area Of the Crosby 8. Noyes
School now is under way as part OF
a drive to have the school enlarged
the Dahlgren Terrace Citizens AS
sociation was told last night.
Mrs. Irma M. Daniels, representa-
tive of the group on a Parent
Teacher Association Committee
which initiated the drive last month,
said notices were sent this week to
parents of pupils asking reports on
the number of children of preschool
age in each block of the area.
The citizens urged prompt pay
ment of school teachers salaries and
Endorsed continuation of the Rec
Evening star., 1945-11-22
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

ny IHE HASklN SERVICE,
Q. What is the correct way to ad-
dress naval officers? Should the
title be used?-M. K. L.
A. Naval officers with the rank of
commander or above are always
addressed and introduced by their
titles. Those with the rank of
lieutenant commander or below are
generally addressed and introduced
in military circles as "Mr."
Q. May a member of the Coast
Guard wear on his uniform decora-
tions which he received while in
the Army?-P. E. S.
A. Ribbons of medals and badges
awarded to naval personnel by the
Army, or won during previous sery-
ice in the Army, may be worn on
naval uniforms in proper order of
seniority.
@. Have any of our submarines
which have been reported overdue
and presumed lost been found?-
K. r.
A. The Navy Department says
that none of our submarines which
have been reported overdue and pre-
sumed lost has been found.
@. Where should a man send the
premium on his national service
life insurance after he is discharged? ?
*. C. M.
A. He should send it to Collections
Subdivision, Veterans Administra-
ton, Washington 25, D. c.
@. When the widow of merchan,
seaman is notified that her husband
is presumed dead does she receive
further official notice or is this the
final word?-R. E. N.
A. The War Shipping Admins
tration says that the presumptive
death certificate is the only noti-
f1cation which is issued unless some
one actually witnessed the death
The certificate which the widow
received serves as a record Of death
Evening star., 1945-11-22
.McLemore
Wife Recalls Years
Of Holiday Hamburg
By Henry McLem ore

(Our columnist, Henry Nc
Lemore, is still i'll and his Dite,
Uho iDrote his column While he
Uas in the Army, ,Diu carry on
again today.
Evening star., 1945-11-22

This column, I have been told,
will be printed on Thanksgiving
Day. Good old Thanksgiving with
its traditional memories. I can