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Evening star., 1945-09-14
Capt. Hurt Tells of Last Cruise
Of Submarine Perch, Lost in AZ

the engine room and after-torpedo
compartment matches began ship
ping water. The submarine settled
to the bottom. where she lay
throughout the day of March 2.
After hours of battening and few
erish repairs, the crew brought the
stricken sub to the surface where,
in the darkness, they found enemy
craft yet prowling. The night lent
them a measure of security, but as
daylight approached, Capt. Hurt de-
cided to try another dive to escape.
Water poured through the con-
ming tower and engineroom hatch
in such quantities that we had to
surface again." he said. While the
crew attempted to repair the DAM
age, three Jap destroyers pickeo
them up and opened fire.
The submarine had no hope of es-
cape. and rather than have her fall
into hands Of the Japs, who might
have towed her into port, Capt.
Hurt decided to abandon ship and
scuttle the Perch.
"All the crew got over safely" he
related, land in a few minutes all
that showed of the Perch was her
coming tower. One Jap destroyer
ran by while we were in the water,
then returned and picked us up.
We were in the water about As
minutes"
Capt. Hurt, with three radiomen
from the Perch, was taken to Yoko-
hama, from where he was sent to
the prison camp at Ofuna. Men
from the American destroyer Pope,
the British cruiser Exeter and the
British destroyer Encounter were
also imprisoned at that camp.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
|VPI President Terms
200 Acres and Jeep
Proposal Unsound
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 14.-The
200 acres and jeep" idea is mot
sound" John r. Hutcheson, presi-
dent of Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute, declared yesterday at the pub
Lie hearing conducted by the State
Commission on Veterans Affairs
here.
The farm is not the place to dis
solve depression. You can prolong
depression by putting more men on
the land than the land can support, :"
he said.
This Is the poorest time in 20
years to buy farms because they are
higher than they have been in 20
years. Right now they are so per
cent higher than before the war;"
the VPI president continued. Some
Of you city fellows who bought farms
are going to get burnt on them"
DR.. Dabney Lancaster, superin-
tendent of public instruction for
Virginia, told of the need for ap-
preparations for educational work
among veterans and said, Il hope
you gentlemen will bear in mind
that the adult education program
will be one of the most important
to be considered. We will have
evening classes set up in every
county in Virginia where these boys
can get what they want" he said.
John ]. Wicker, stating that he
appeared as an individual and not
as representative OF the American
Legion with which he is closely af-
flliated, asked the commission to
extend as permanent proposition
chapter Sc of the Acts OF 1945, which
appropriated $4,000 to establish,
equip and operate service ofices
in the State. The act was tempo
rary but In making it permanent
Mr.. Wicker advocated that an ap-
preparation Of certainly not less
than $250,00o" be made for the
biennium 1946-47.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
Trial Of Carmen Beach,
z Others, Set for Tuesday

The joint trial of Carmen Beach
and two other women, arrested in a
raid on a massage parlor" in the
100 block of Pennsylvania avenue
NV. and charged with vagrancy,
was set for 1:30 pm. Tuesday by
Municipal Judge Almond Scott late
yesterday.
The trial had been scheduled for
yesterday but was deferred to allow
T.. Emmett Mckenzie, one of the
defense attorneys, to file a Smotion
to quash the arrest of Mary Karika.
Mr.. Mckenzie, who also represents
another defendant, Mrs. Margaret
Locke, alleged proprietor of the
resort, was retained to represent
Miss Karika only yesterday.
The third defendant to be tried
next week is Judy Hunt. The case
of Mrs. Locke, severed from that of
the other three, was postponed in
definitely. Mr.. Mckenzie has filed
in District Court a suit for injunc-
ton restraining the corporation
counsel for using certain evidence
against Mrs. Locke. The attorney
contends this evidence was seized
Illegally. Her counsel also has
carried to the Municipal Court of
Appeals motion to stay her trial
pending disposition of the injunc-
ton suit.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
tuberculosis Boord
TO Hire Health Expert

The Montgomery County Tuber-
culosis Association is sponsoring q
health educational program and
plans to employ. health educator,
Mrs. Dexter Bullard, associate pres
ident, announced yesterday.
Hiring OF the professionally
trained health educator was ap-
proved after meeting Of the asso-
cations board Of directors. Mrs.
Louise g. Morrell. association exec
utiye secretary, who will direct the
work Of the educator. said that
many applications are now under
consideration.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
5-Day Work Week Begins
In Maryland Tomorrow
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Sept. 14.-Gov.
O'Conor announced yesterday the
State will inaugurate a five-day
work week effective tomorrow.
The Governor said the new sched-
ule will go into effect at the same
time that the five-day week is begun
by Federal departments under the
revised plan announced recently by
President Truman.
The State schedule will not result
in any less work for State en-
ployes, the Governor explained.
Heretofore employees have worked
three hours on Saturdays, and to
compensate for Saturday closing,
the closing time on weekdays will
be extended one-half hour.
The new schedule will not apply
to hospitals, institutions and other
State agencies now operating on a
seven-day week.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
Three Men Sentenced
In Alexandra for Thefts

Three colored men were given
jail sentences by Judge Robert N.
Pollard in United States Court in
Alexandria yesterday.
James A. Garrett, "a, of Wash
ington, was sent to the penitentiary
for six months for theft of gasoline
coupons from truck in Arlington.
Arthur BroadnaX, As, and Paul
Mccain, "a, both of Washington,
were sentenced to year and day
each for theft of three adding ma
chimes from the Pentagon Building.
Court officials left Alexandria
early yesterday, and will not return
until September "a when Judge
Sterling Hutcheson will preside at
the trial of J. Paul Shelton, Ar
lington, charged with attempted
bank robbery and kidnapping.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
7 Tokomo Resident
Asks Court to Ban
Neiqhbor' S Fowl

An injunction suit by John p
Wager, 420 Boyd avenue, Takoma
Park, seeking to prohibit William
McQuenney,. 432 Ethan Allen
avenue, Takoma Park, from kesp-
ing chickens on the latter,s prem
ises was filed yesterday in Prince
Georges County Circuit Court ut
Upper Marlboro.
Through his attorney, Walter L.
Green, Mr.. Wager claims the de-
fendant's chickens disturb him by
their continuous Growing and cack-
ling, starting early before daybreak
and continuing all day"
He states in his suit that in the
early hours of each morning Mr.
McQueeney's roosters crow at the
rate Of $50 times for 15-minute
periods.
AS a result, according to Mr.. Wa
ger, the value of his property has
been lowered and his health suffers
because of loss of sleep.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
BY LIT. COL. THOMAS G..
(. LANPHIER, Jr.,


It promised to be quite a Donny.
brook for all concerned, and wher
Mitchell and I returned to oul
squadron area and broke the news
of the impending. scrap to the resi
Of the Lightning pilots, the lobby.
ing began, with every pilot plead.
Ing his case to be included in the
show.
We had over 40 pilots available
for only 18 aircraft, however, and
outside of Mitchell, Barber. Moore
McLanahan and myself, no decision
had been made as to who else would
participate in the mission. Mitchell
as the commanding officer, had the
unhappy job of appointing l3 pilots
from among the unanimous volun-
teers. To accompany him In the
covering section he choose Mai
Louis r. Kettel and Its. Julius
Jacobson, Raymond K. ,Hine, Besby
T. Holmes, Douglas S. Canning
Deltion c.. Goerke, Gordon Whit
taker, Roger j. Ames, Lawrence
Graebner, Everett Anglin, William
E. Smith, Albert r. Long and Eldon
Stratton.
Gathering these pilots together
Mitchell briefed them thoroughly
and exactly. Take of at OTIS
G:25 a-m0 next morning. One
circle of the field to pick up strag-
glers. On course and underway at
0730. Indicated air speed of 2I0
miles an hour: proceeding a max
imum altitude of 80 feet above the
water. We would fly thus for over
two hours, around a great semi
circular course 435 miles in length
taking us far out to sea in order
to circumnavigate the Jap posi-
tions at Munda, Rendova, Vella
Lavella, Shorthand and Kahili.
From the moment of take of until
the target was reached, not word
was to be spoken.
Plans Outlined.
After two hours of skimming the
waves far beyond enemy sight or
radar detection, we would head in
toward the southeastern shore of
Bougainville and begin climbing to
our appointed attitudes.
AS we crossed the shore, my Sec
ton was to break away from the
rest of the formation and head for
that spot over the jungle, IS miles
back of Kahili, where we had an
appointment with the admiral at
exactly 0935. No sooner and no
later. Any sooner, we would have
to circle and wait for our prey, thus
Haunting our presence at Nip OBJ
servors. Any later. fate forbid, and
we would miss the party
Mitchell and his section, mean
while, were to climb in the direction
Evening star., 1945-09-14
Comp Fire Girls Plan
Food Shurinq Proorom

The Camp Fire Girls of Mont
gomery County today announced
plans Tor their annual membership
drive IN October and for their par
tlcipation In the Share the Food
Day Tuesday.
Camp Fire families will eat from
9 menu selected from the country
q countries with whom they would
nke 70 share q restricted wartime
oiet during Tuesdays activities.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
Gen. Roderick R. Allen
To Fly Buck to Germany

Maj. Gen. Roderick r. Allen, who
commanded the 18th Armored Di-
vision which spearheaded Gen. Pat
tons drive into Germany, is re-
turning to Germany by air Sunday,
after q three-week visit with his
family at 5025 Macomb stret NV.
Gen. Aliens outfit captured Utt-
weller December 5. the first German
town to be taken by the Americans.
When he returns to Germany,
Gen. Allen will assume command
OF the LIST Armored Division, now
part OF the Army Of Occupation.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
Alexandria Red Cross
Unit Chiefs Appointed

The appointment of Mrs. Burl
Bailey, 924 South st. Asaph street
as chairman of the Stan Assistance
Corps of the Alexandra Red Cross,
and OF Mrs. Elliott Vandeyanter
429 South Lee street, as Thrift Shop
chairman, was announced today by
Mrs. Albert Miller, chapter chair
man.
Mrs. Bailey will succeed Mrs. Carl
Phngstag who has resigned after
heading the Staff Assistance Corps
for almost year.
Mrs. Vandevanter succeeds Mrs.
Alley Rorex, who started the Thrift
Shop in 1889.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
West Virginia Stream Picked
For Test Of DOT on Fish, Bugs
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SbsCiai 0iSpatcn 70 Ine star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Sept.
l4.-An experiment to determine
the effect of DDT on fish in warm
water streams will be conducted by
the Interior Department In Back
Greek next week. the State Con-
seryation Commission reported to-
day.
The experiment will not only test
the effect Of DDT On bass streams
but also check on control of In
sect pests. such as gypsy moth and
brown field moth. One pound Of
DDT per acre will be distributed by
airplane during the experiment.
The test will be made in co-opera-
ton with the Department OF Ento-
mology and Plant Quarantine and
Evening star., 1945-09-14
Magistrates Retain Power
In Auto Death Cases
By the Associa.. d Press.

6s tue ASSocia.tQ Press.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 1A.-Mary-
lands trial magistrates have full
jurisdiction over "manslaughter by
automobile" cases despite the failure
Of 1945 bill which would have
delineated that Jurisdiction more
clearly. the attorney generals Office
has ruled.
Under the 1941 acts, manslaughter
by car and other vehicles was made
misdemeanor, applicable to cases
where the death of a person resulted
from grossly negligent" operation
of vehicle
Senate Bill Gil, which Gov.
O'Conor vetoed. substituted the
word "criminally" for grossly" and
sought to add to the 194l act a
clause that trial magistrates in the
several counties shall have
jurisdiction over said offense con-
current with that of the Circuit
Courts"
However, the attorney generals
office held that despite the failure
of that amending measure, trial
magistrates have jurisdiction be-
cause "manslaughter by automobile"
is a miSdemeanor, not a felony.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
lsiwRstonii,o
&RsmiinderGh

Meats, Fats, Etc. - Stamps W.
through Z-2 good through Sep
tember 80. Stamps AL through
Eel good through October 81.
Stamps FL through XII good
through November 80. Stamps
LII through Q-1 good through
December 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 SO good through De-
cember 81. Next stamp valid
January /.
Shoes-Airplane Stamps /, 2, 3 and
I in Book No. 3 good indefinitely
for one pair Of shoes each.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
eGeorges
Federation 10
Schools
Committee Named to
Check on Charges Of
Politics, Law Violation.

Following hearing charges that
the Prince Georges County Board of
Education was violating the law"
the county Federation of Citizens
Association last night moved to in
vestigate activities of the board.
A committee named for the inyes-
tigation was instructed to report at
a special meeting OF the federation.
The committee includes George L.
1ckes, Frank H. Fierstein, Mrs. Bet
ty Tayman, Louis A. Day and Mrs.
Frances Irons.
Mr.. 1ckes asserted that although
the law requires the board to set
up schools for children in their home
communities, school facilities have
been abandoned in Bowie. Pupils
OF that community are being sent
to school in Laurel. He charged
that the board appoints teachers
without consulting school trustees
and claimed that the board is
"stified by politics"
Serves "a Communities.
Mr.. Day, former president of the
Bladensburg Parent Teacher Asso-
ciation. said Rogers Heights chill
dren- have been switched from the
Bladensburg School and are being
transported by bus to the Riverdale
School. Children from Largo, he
said, are being taken by bus to the
Cottage City School, passing the
Bladensburg School en- route.
Mr.. Day maintained there was a
plan on foot to make the present
Bladensburg Senior High School a
junior institution. Pupils from ~
communities attend this school, he
said. He thought the plan was to
establish another senior high school
to replace Bladensburg's.
Stephen A. Wiley, Lanham, was
named to represent the federation
on the County Veterans Service
Council and in all other county mat
ters concerning war veterans.
Constitution Drafted.
Luis Granados, chairman of the
County Affairs Committee, urged
that steps be taken to prevent liquor
stores being placed at the approaches
to the new express highway now un-
der construction near Bladensburg.
Daniel M. Greene, Legislative
Committee chairman, said he had
finished drafting a new federation
constitution and bylaws allowing
membership organizations other than
citizens associations to be admitted
He said the plan was to strengthen
the federation. He suggested the
name be shortened to the Civic Fed
GRAFTON Of Prince Georges County.
The group voted to ask Gov.
O'Conor to reinstitute the 35-mile-
speed limit on highways
until tires and other equipment are
improved.
On motion of Mr.. Day, the fedora
ton approved the stadium proposal
for Washington and plans to hold
Olympic games there.
A motion by Mr.. Fierstein, that the
proposed county memorial library be
built adjoining the Peace Cross at
Bladensburg and that the Library
Committee be notified to that effect,
was passed.
Evening star., 1945-09-14

Is q further experiment in opera
tions carried on recently In PENN
sylvania and Maryland. In Patux-
ent River and Scranton (PA.) tests
about per cent Of the trout pop
ulation was affected and some fish
were hurt In the Patuxent test, oii-
cials said.
Jack Shipman, director of the
commission. said the stretch in
Back Greek was chosen because of
its proximity to Martinsburg Mu-
nicipal Airport and its wide variety
of fish in comparatively small
numbers.
Back Greek has been stocked with
500 bass and 5000 bluntnosed and
blackhead minnows from the Ridge
Hatchery.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
Pentogon Road Project
Bids to Be Asked Soon
~ the Associated Press. i.

Ey the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, Sept. 14.--Bids
will be accepted September n for
q project on the Shirley Memorial
highway In Fairfax County which
viii be the flrst step toward COM
pleting . network Of roads leading
to the Pentagon Building, the State
Highway Department announced.
The preliminary work will con-
sist Of grading and draining 6.8
miles as an extension to that por-
tion Of the highway constructed in
l943.
Surfacing of the project, which
also will serve traflc southbound
from Washington on Route /, will
not be undertaken until more man.
power and necessary materials be-
come available. Highway Depart
ment authorities said.
Evening star., 1945-09-14

Of Kahili. Reaching 10000 feet,
they were to take up q covering
patrol, interposing themselves be-
tween us and any threat from
above.
If and when the target had been
lsighted and destroyed, every one on
the mission was to break on any
conflict they may have become in
volved in, no matter how engaging,
and head for home.
Briefing Concluded.
Mitchell's briefing concluded, our
two intelligence officers, 1t. Joe Nc
Guigan of the Navy and Capt. Bill
Morrison of the Army, gave us sup
Elementary advice. The weather
was to be cloudless and almost
MINDLESS. Several new antiaircraft
batteries had been spotted about
Kahili and their positions were out
lined to us
Capt. Morrison also gave us the
answer to the question uppermost
in all our minds. Would Mr.. Y oe
on time? According to Bill, the
answer was yes. Having lived over
half his life in Japan and the
Orient, Bill spoke with some au-
thority wien he assured us that,
barring hurricane or typhoon, YAM
amoto would run true to lifetime
form by being exactly on time
wherever he scheduled himself to be.
Mitchell had to do a perfect job
of navigating and timing over track
less ocean and through winds of
unknown velocity to get us to the
appointed spot at the correct split
second. Which, to his everlasting
credit, he did.
And Yamamoto had to be ex-
actly on his course at exactly the
right time. Which, to his everlast-
ing sorrow. he was. Any one of
countless things could have hap
pened to make his five minutes early
or late.
Prepare for TakeOff.
The next morning I TAXED my
to the head of the runway
for the takeofi. As I rolled past
Rex Barber's parking revetment,
caught a glimpse of him through
the rising clouds of coral dust kicked
up by Mitchell's flight preceding me.
AS he eased his ship onto the taxi
way behind me, he grinned and
waved. His grin was perforated by
the gaping absence of an upper front
tooth lost in an extracurricular
brawl in Fiji some months past.
A superior team flyer, and a wing
man who had saved my tail a time
or two when I had mistaken myself
into trouble, he also had knack for
doing things on his own that had
men predicting an early and spec
tacular death for him.
An eager and hell-for Leather guy,
he was good to have riding along
side that day when the hunting
promised to lead us to the biggest
game loose in all the jungle of the
enemy outside the Wilhelmstrasse.
1945, by It. Col. Thomas @.
Lanphier, ir)
Evening star., 1945-09-14

10 StreaInIine
CountySetups
Townships Outmoded
Governors Are Told
At Conference Here

States must encourage counties to
replace their present outmoded gov
ernments with more responsible
mechanisms, the Committee on
State-Local Relations said In a ten
tative report to the Council OF State
Governments here today.
The report stated that townships,
outside of New England, are gen.
orally an "outmoded" form of gov
ernment and should be abolished,
States should aim at principals of
one local responsible government for
one local area, because Simplifying
local government will result in. a
greater public interest in local gov
ernment, the report said.
The committee, headed by Gov.
O'Conor of Maryland, meeting at
the Statler Hotel, concluded that the
optional charter or home-r,,le sys-
tenn provides the most suitable syS-
tenn of legal relationship between
State and local community.
Exploring the subject of State-lo-
cal relationships to develop a pro-
gram for presentatio to State Leg
islatures in l947, the committee de-
clared local presentations should be
maintained where it is consistent
with reasonable cost and efficiency
The report said protection of local
initiative and discretion are an i'm
portant responsibility of the States.
1t was further recommended that
each State consider establishment
OF a department of local govern
ment.
The Governors Committee is
made up of Cows. Baldwin of Con-
necticut, Warren of California, Kelly
Of Michigan and Arnall of Georgia.
Other recommendations in the re-
port included:
City-county consolidation should
be made possible and encouraged;
reduction in the number of local
government units will reduce gov
ernment cost; school consultations
should be fostered and hastened:
substantial numbers of special dis
tricts should be unified with appro-
pirate larger county or city units.
Participating in today's meeting
were Cows. O'Conor and Kelly, Mrs.
Bernice Vande Vries, member OF
the Illinois Legislature; Caye Mel
son, director of the State Planning
Board of Louisiana; Karl Frazure,
chairman of the Commission on In
terstate Cooperation of West Vir-
ginia; Frank Bane, secretary of the
committee, and other State, county
and municipal officials.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
fredericksburg Officer
Found in Korean Prison
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICKSBURG. Va, Sept.
l4-Lt. Col. Reginald H. Ridgely. jr.,
OF the famed 4th Marine Regiment,
who was captured at Corregidor, has
been found in a prison camp in
Korea, his wife, who lives here has
been advised.
Mrs. Ridgely was told by Marine
Corps officers that her husband was
IN fair condition
Col. Ridgely was born at Lexing-
ton, Va. but spent most of his early
me IN Annapolis, Md. His mother,
mrs. Reginald H. Ridgely, ST., lives
In Baltimore.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
Moury PTA to Meet

A business and social meeting of
the Maury Schools Parent Teacher
Association, Alexandra, will be held
at $3.50 pm. Tuesday in the school
auditorium. Mrs. Milton S. Briggs,
new president. and the Executive
Board will meet at 1:45 pm.
Evening star., 1945-09-14
Pilots Plead for Mission
Split Second Figuring Needed
In Plans to Attack Yomonoto
Pilots PIeod for Mission

fThis Is the third In a series
OF articles By the Army flyer tDho
shot dotDn japanese Admiral
Isorokn Ydmamoto in April,
1s43.l
Evening star., 1945-06-27

nation, no regional group, can or
should expect any special privilege
which harms any other nation. If
any nation would keep security for
itself, it must be ready and willing
to share security with all. That is
the price which each nation will
have to pay for world peace. Unless
we are all willing TO pay that price,
no organization for world peace can
accomplish its purpose.
And what reasonable price that is! !!
Responsibility for Peace.
Out of this conflict have come
powerful military nations, now fully
trained and equipped for war. But
they have no right to dominate the
world. 1t is rather the duty of these
powerful nations to assume the re-
sponsibility for leadership toward a
world of peace. That is why we have
here resolved that power and
strength shall be used not to wage
war, but to keep the world at peace,
and free from the fear of war.
BY their own example the strong
nations of the world should lead the
way to international justice. That
principle of justice is the foundation
stone of this charter. That principle
is the guiding spirit by which 1t must