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Evening star., 1945-11-20
A. U. Park Group Hears
Transit Aid on Bus Service

The American University Park
Citizens Association was told last
night by George T. Keyser, superin-
tendent Of the Brookland division of
Capital Transit Co., that there is
little possibility of immediate i'm
provement Of bus service in the as
sociation's area because of the man
power shortage.
Discussion of the transportation
service disclosed that w. Edward
Deming, member, recently had
written to Capital Transit request
ing express service from Ward Circle
down Massachusetts, avenue during
the morning rush hour.
The association decided to take up
Evening star., 1945-11-20

at It's next meeting . report that a
liquor store Is being planned in the
shopping center in the 1900 block
of Massachusetts, avenue. A course
of action will be decided after dis
cussion. The next meeting will also
take up the proposition of granting
10 days sick leave annually to
teachers.
Last nights meeting was held at
Hurst Hall, American University.
Evening star., 1945-11-20
Gateway Citizens Indorse
Revival Of Conference

Revival of the long-inactive
Northeast Conference of Citizens
Association was asked by the Ma
tional Gateway Citizens Association
last night.
Backing a movement headed by
Jerome P. Lynch, president of the
neighboring Brentwood Terrace
group, the association recommended
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

their "two-way pigeons" supports Or.
Griffin's theory. Ordinary homing
pigeons will, of course, return TO their
home loft after they h ave been
released several hundred miles away.
But the Army now has pigeons that
will fly from the field to their home
loft and then fly back again TO mobile
Signal Corps lofts.
The handlers of the birds at the
mobile loft find that they have TO
give their flock training flights; short,
exploratory trips into the air so that
they can get the feel of the terrain.
Good food and a bit of rest and home
life are the rewards that bring them
back 10 the mobile loft.
While science still has no answer
on the homing instinct, the experts
have proven that the birds are born
without any particular instinct for
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03
n Capsule
Containing a
Message Is AZ
fixed To the Pigeons
Foot Before Its Release.

special air route. II has been proven
false that they remember the direc..
ton in which they are transportAk
by the bumps and jolts. "
Pigeons have been transported In
revolving, spinning cages and have
been shipped while drugged TO in.
SenSibility. And yet, when released.
they have headed for home
The normal training routine for
Army carrier pigeons is series OF
500-mile flights, which they make in
about "a hours without food or water
But in at least two cases. pigeons
have gone AWOL from their Army
lofts and flown over 1,600 miles 10
their original home.
Long distant champion in this re
spect is the bird of the Air Transport
Command who went over the hill
at Saint Lucia Island in the Carib.
bean and, 1,750 miles and five days
later, dropped down on Morrison
Field in Florida. The Army gets
pretty sore about such spurof-thc.
moment flights, for the discipline
among homing pigeons In the sigma
Corps is just about what it is in the
Army anywhere.
While the ordinary flight of the
homing pigeon is not al any great
altitude-from 500 TO 1000 feet--it
has been found that the birds can ny
at a high ceiling il they have 10.
Bomber commands have dumped
them out at attitudes of $4,000 feet
and in this chilling cold and rarefied
atmosphere, they came back home
bearing their secret messages. Often
they have strapped 10 their chest n
tiny automatic camera which photo
graphs terrain over which they ny.
Carrier pigeons have been used
from submarines and tanks as well
as planes on almost any occasion
when il is necessary to maintain radio
silence. The pigeons are good para
chute jumpers, too, for paratroopers
carry with them homing pigeons m
they drop behind the enemy linetie
The pigeons in their crates drop
right along with them by parachute
There is no longer any mystery
about the training of homing pigeons
But what makes them fly so un-
erringly Is still major riddle.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

electric and magnetic fields. They
could find no effect.
Everybody agrees that the homing
instinct in pigeons is inherited. But
il You ask an expert just what this
instinct is, he will have difficulty
in explaining.
The alternate theory Of how hom-
ing pigeons fly unerringly more than
1000 miles through rain or snow or
storms or night is advanced by Har-
wards DR.. Donald r. Griffin who
says that their acute vision and
normal senses are in part responsible.
The Army's training program for
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

peated on three different occasions
with different patches of birds inter
changed. On every occasion me ra-
dio signals damned" the birds hom-
ing instinct.
Signal Corps engineers offer no
explanation of how this happened,
but simply report the results of their
experiments.
The newest Signal Corps test re-
flutes earlier experiments of many
years ago by two German scientists,
+. Stressman and A. Daanje, who
tested the navigating ability of pi-
geons in their laboratory in the strong
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

ana Wneeleu anu
circled and stag
gered around and
finally, after many
false starts, FUN
bled I h ir way
home. 1t was only
10 miles away .ut
it took them from
% to 50 minutes.
In contrast, the
other batch of five,
released when the
radio transmitter
was not on the air,
took off swiftly and
made [ h G 10-mile
flight at their cruis-
ing speed of 80
miles an hour, with
an elapsed time OF
% T,1in1Itnc
This test was re-
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03
Is II An UneannY Instinct 70
Exploration. Or Does Some -Un
discovered Electric and Magnet,
Organ in The Birds Body
Govern IFS Flight?
By GOBIND BEHARI LAL
Science Analyst

~CIENTISTS and the Army Signal
Corps greatest raisers and
~ trainers of homing pigeons 49,
still haven't figured out what makes
a homing pigeon 90 home.
The newest theory is that some
yet undiscovered electric and mag
netic organ in the pigeons head
somehow orients him on his home
ward course. The experts have long
laughed at such an idea but recent
tests demonstrate its plausibility.
In their experiments Signal Corps
experts divided group of 10 pigeons
into two patches which were released
separately near a powerful d / o
tTansmitter.
One batch was sent from their
cages when the tranSmitter was in
operation and pouring out its electro
magnetic energy through
space. These pigeons left
their cages all right, but
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

magnetic energy through
space. These pigeons left
their cages all right, but
they fluttered into the air
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-03

and the Army Signal
- Corps greatest raisers and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23

"~S~~-~-'
shortly after the first of the year
Gen. McCoach now is commanding
general of the 9Th Service Com
mand, with headquarters at Chicago
Gen. and Mrs. McCoach plan to
reside at the Wardman Park Hotel
He served as Engineer Commits
sioner from September, 1888, to May
1s41, and was particularly con-
cerned with the fiscal and construc-
ton program of the District.
During his term as Commissioner
. large public works program, in
Guiding the Municipal Building, the
Juvenile Court Building, the Re-
corder of Deeds Building, the Rock
Greek sewer project, the National
Guard Armory, the new Public Lii
brary and number Of school build
ings was begun and completed. e..
In 1889, Gen. McCoach started the
refinancing of the Districts public
works loan, which resulted In large
savings to the District.
Gen. McCoach is a member of
the American Society of Civil Engi-
neers, the American Society of Mill
tary Engineers, the Chevy Chase
Club, the Army and Navy Club, the
Army and Navy Country Club and
Lebanon Lodge No. z, F. A. A. M.
Gen. McCoach has one son, Col.
David McCoach, III, Corps of Engi-
neers, now assigned as deputy engi-
neer Of the End Army, Memphis,
Tenn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN
Foreign Correspondent of The Star and
the Chicago Daily News.

LONDON, Dec 22.-The British
governments first real experiment
in Naturalization the
huge coal industry-will not offer
easy sailing for Prime Minister Att
lees Laborites.
Since 1899, the rate of annual out
put of mines has slumped from
231 900 900 tons to 181 900 900. The
number of workers has gone down
from 766, 900 to 697 900 and the pro-
portion Of those actually mining
coal has decreased. Absenteism is
up to Is per cent, compared with Is
per cent last year. And the miners
are demanding another increase in
wages.
Under the coal Matchmaking bill,
all OF the nations collieries and
subsidiary industries will be con-
trolled by nine-man board of busi-
ness and technical experts.
These experts will be faced with
the job of increasing output and
efficiency by means of a grand re-
vamping of underground methods
that will involve years of expensive
work.
Due to the helter-skelter way In
which mine tunnels have been
driven in the past, and the lack of
cooperation between various own
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
Irish, Swedish Lines
Buy Five U. S. Planes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
/ PARIS, Dec. 22.-The sale OF, five
american Army transport planes to
Irish and Swedish airlines and of
% trainer planes to the Norwegian
government for a total of almost
$500 900 was announced today by the
ONCE OF the Foreign Liquidation
Commissioner.
The Irish Airlnes purchased three
CAT transports for $4,000 each.
| BY the Associated Press.
Swedish Aerotransport bought a
CAT for $4,000 and A C-53 for
$685. The advanced trainers went
for $4,000.
In addition the Netherlands gov
eminent has leased IA C-54 trans
ports for 10 months at $4,000 each
Iper year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23

ward and wrapping favors for bed
patients.
Filling Stockings.
The Lutheran Inner Mission saw
to it that every patient received
Christmas card, and trimmed
trees in wards for tuberculosis pa
tients. The workers knew some pa
tients at the hospital never receive
mail.
The stockings the children will
hang on their beds tomorrow night
will be transformed into tinselled
cornucopias Of toys, novelties, fruit
and sweetmeats. Adults will receive
cigarettes, toilet articles, bedjackets
and other useful gifts.
Roast turkey and dressing we'll
feature the Christmas dinner ar
ranged by Dietician Eva Marks.
Candied sweet potatoes, green peas,
fruited jello, ice cream, fruitcake
and nuts will round out the meal.
Carols will ring throughout the
institution, sung by such groups as
Stuart Junior High School, CALM
ger Student Nurses, Vermont Ave-
nue. Baptist Church, the Christian
Endeavor Union, the Fellowship Of
Reconciliation and the Young Peo-
pies League of the Church of the
Reformation.
Jail to Have Movies.
Turkey also will help cheer those
| in oil institutions oovarnad hy tho
Board Of Welfare except the adult
penal institutions, where chicken
must suffice to remain within the
budget.
| District Jail inmates will be Of
fered movies and church services in
addition to presents and Christmas
trees within sight of the cells. Those
at Lorton. Reformatory will have
candies and cigaretts donated by
civic groups. At the workhouse the
men will entertain with skits Christ
mas night.
/ Baked chicken, pie and coffee are
on the Municipal Lodging House
menu from to pm. Tuesday. At
the Home for the Aged and Infirm
the 400 residents will open 1.500
presents furnished by civic and fra
ternal groups.
Two turkey dinners are scheduled
for the Industrial Home School
4 today and Tuesday-because some
children will be going home to their
parents Christmas Day.
Radio Presented to School.
st. Nicholas will show up At the
Receiving Home Tuesday personally
to take care to the so children
there. They will top OF their day
with turkey, pie, cake and ice cream.
The National Training School for
colored girls will have turkey din
ner and special entertainment by
church groups. plus a radio con-
tributed by one OF them. The In
dustrial Home School for Negro boys
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23

the United Nations followed in the
evening by a midshipmen's and
cadets ball at the club from to IL
o'clock.
A square dance at the Potomac
Area Youth Hostels, st. Johns Par
ish, 82l Sixteenth street NV, at
pm.
Christmas dinner at the Hospi-
tality Committees Service Mems
Center No. from 2 to S pm.
Open House at the United Ma
tons Service Center, 500 North
Capitol street.
Open house at the YWCA, Seven
teenth and K streets NV.
Open house and dance at the
Hospitality Committed Banneker
Service Center, for colored.
Wednesday,:
A progressive game party follow
ing an employed girls supper at
6:15 pm. at the YWCA.
Boys Club to Give Show.
A Christmas tea from to 6 pm
to be held by Kamp Kahlert at the
YMCA.
The annual Rotary Club Christ
mas party at 1915 pm. at the Will
lard Hotel at which the Boys Club
of Washington will present a Christ
mas show.
A Christmas party at the Ban
neker Service Center, no time speci-
fed.
Thursday:
The Al-States Clubs Christmas
party at pm. at the YWCA.
The annual Christmas dance OF
the Senior High Girl Reserves at
from to II pm. at the YWCA.
The annual Christmas party OF
the Boys Club of Washington, East
ern Branch, at pm.
Friday:
A semiformal Christmas dance
from 8 to ii pm. at the YWCA.
sponsored by the employed girls
department
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
Matchmaking British Mines
Offers Variety of Problems

ers. 1t is estimated that the
miners I'M 407 of this country's 615
large collieries have to walk more
than one mile from the shafts to
actual coal faces.
To finance the INFLAMMATION of
underground transport and remap-
ping of the mines, the new board
will be entitled to borrow $450, 0O0,-
600 over a Swear period. Granted
the governments power and deter
mination to nationalize the mines,
it is generally agreed that the new
bill Is fair and full of promise.
tCopyright 1a45)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
.OwIEmuIntes
Chimney Stunt
OF SontuCIous

What comes down chimney
these days Is not necessarily Santa
Claus.
Mrs. Ives Lowe, 1850 Dexter road
NV, came home from shopping
last night with a Christmas tree and
parcels under her arm, to find a
large angry boot owl sitting in the
fireplace.
The only way the bird could have
gotten into the house was down
the chimney, since all windows and
doors were closed, Mrs. Lowe said.
In desperation, Mrs. Lowe tele-
phoned police. A radio call went
out to the seventh precinct: Assist
a woman with an owl in her room /"
Reporters at headquarters heard
the call and telephoned. She asked
them for advice. After offering q
few lame suggestions, including one
to telephone the Zoo, the reporters
thought she should wait for the
police to arrive.
Policemen Richard C. Thornett
and Raymond c. Redifer, both
armed. entered the house. They
threw a blanket over the owl, car
ried 1t outside and turned 1t loose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23

The children's prelude to Christ
mas-letters to Santa Claus-is
ending and thousands Of tiny hearts
are awaiting the arrival of the old
fellow in answer to their pleas.
Many of their notes are going to
the Washington City Post Offlce's
Dead Letter ONCE which doesn't
equal some agencies in protecting
the legend of the jolly saint for chill
dren. The 500 letters to Saint Nick
which found their way through the
mails to Vincent c. Burke's City
Post Office this year are being read
then destroyed.
In some cities, postal employees
play Santa Claus. Committees of
postal workers search the stacks of
hopeful messages, pick out the needi-
est and do for the writers whatever
their budgets will allow.
Individuals and organizations are
encouraged to accept as many letters
as they can and supply the children
VINO, IT. appears, might nnd their
stockings empty on Christmas morn
ing.
1t is impossible for any post Office
to answer many letters signed only
by Little Sister" or Your friend,
Bobby" Most of the children's let
ters. postal authorities said, are
markedly unselfish, and once in a
while youthful realist who takes
the Christmas legend literally pops
up. For example, there was the fol-
lowing letter:
Dear Santa: I have been a bad
boy. Nothing for me this time"
Washington's post Office has dis
confirmed the practice of saving the
letters of underpriviIeged children
because there have been no offers
to answer some of the pleas since
before the war began
But the letters still arrive, every
December, some on fine gellum
paper, others scratched out on
pieces of used wrapping paper. They
want the same thing-toys, Tin SOL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23

he has read are Robinson Crusoe, ,
Little Lord Fauntleroy" and Peter
Pan" He also has read Mark
Twain's Prince and Pauper," THE
Three Muskateers" and Uncle
Toms Cabin"
u. S. Movies Not Shown.
American movies were not showr
in the palace during the war, but
Akihito remembers early Mickey
Mouse films with great delight
American newsreels, too, apparently
made an impression on him.
The Crown Prince follows a regu-
lated schedule under which he
never is alone, except when he goes
to bed. He arises at am, takes
a walk in the garden and performs
Danish style" calisthenics. His
breakfast consists of toast, milk and
fried eggs.
He attends sixth grade classes al
school three hours daily, studying
arithmetic, reading, history, geog-
raphy, writing and manual arts
Although school is dismissed at
noon, he carries his own lunch OF
rice, fish and beans sc he won't be
different from other boys"
In the afternoon, he studies for
an hour or two and then goes out
to play. His favorite diversions are
horseback riding and boating In
his own garden pond. He doesn't
ride any more because the stables
were damaged during a eB-29 raid.
Retires at 8 Pm.
At night he reads, plays with his
toys or plays a card game called
"two-ten-jack" with the grand
chamberlain. winning good deal
of the time. He retires at 8 pm.
While he was romping on, a
wooded knoll with schoolmates, he
appeared just another boy in blue
serge knee pants and white cap
They were playing a game in which
one boy grabbed the cap of an
other and the latter had to re-
trieve it. A boy snatched the Crown
Princes cap, but he got it back after
% spirited chase rs - f.
AS a message to American boys,
Akihito said, 'Minasan nj noroshika
remember me to everyone. He
thought bit, then added: "Naka-
yoku shimasho let's be good
friends"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23

will have a Christmas eve play at
1 pm.
Several parties were held last
night at Glenn Dale Sanatorium,
filling out week of entertainment.
Open house and turkey will con-
clude the activities Tuesday.
There will be a welcome to vet
Grams at the corner of Fifteenth and
T streets NV. between 6 and 7 pm
today by the Midway Civic Associa-
ton. The speakers will be Col
Campbell c. johnson and Woolsey
w. Hall, president of the Federation
Of Civic Associations.
Parties Scheduled.
Christmas parties sponsored by
Washington groups tomorrow and
throughout the first part of the COM
ing week had been scheduled as fol-
lows yesterday:
Tomorrow:
A tree decorating party featuring
carols and dancing at the Officers
Service Club of the United Nations
1914 Twenty-first street NV, from
$50 to 1850 pm,
A party, with gifts and carols, al
the War Hospitality Committee.
Service Mems Club No. /, 306 Ninth
street NV. no time specified.
A Christmas eve supper sponsored
by the employed girls department
and USO of the YWCA, from 5:3(
to $50 pm. at the YWCA, Seven.
tenth and K streets NV, followed
by caroling at Union Station ant
party at the "Y" at 9 pm.
A Christmas party at 7:30 p m. fol
resident servicemen at the Contra
Union Mission, 6l3 C street NV.
Open House Planned.
A Christmas tree party at thu
hospitality committees Hearthstont
Club, for colored, 1903 Eleventh
street NV, at pm.
Christmas Day:
Christmas dinner from to :
pm. at the Officers Service Club OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
Gift Of Billion in Food Urged
To Supplement UNRRA
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The National Planning Associa-
ton yesterday recommended a ST.
600 100000 gift in food and feed
supplies for Western Europe, in
GLIDING ex-enemy countries.
The contribution. the report said
should be in addition to funds pro-
yided for the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration
a non-profit, non-political organi-
zation, estimated that the billion
dollars In goods will be needed. in
addition to an estimated $500 ,000,-
900 in UNRRA funds, to keep West
ern Europe, the United Kingdom
and non-UNRRA countries from
hunger this winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
J Of life which must Il

Of life which must b
....isisl1o. led for the Austrian people.
Starting January l, the cost and
responsibility of providing relief
program for Italy shifts from the
armies of the United States, Great
Britain and Canada to UNRRA.
Utter restitution" was the
phrase used by Mr.. Lehman to de-
scribe Italy's plight.
Under terms of the measure
passed by Congress granting au-
thorization for additional United
States funds to UNRRA, its ship
ments to Europe will end In 1916
and those to the Far East by March,
1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23

diers, bikes, games, books, dolls, and
once In a while, food.
Unless the Washington child who
hopefully posts a letter to Santa
Claus, North Pole, World" however
has unusually resourceful parents
there will be no reply in the mails.
Parents are reduced to the time
honored alibi that Santa Claus is
too busy to write" or, tits so cold
at the North Pole that Santa Claus
ink is frozen"
Saint Nicholas has been modern
lied to the extent that word gets
around the Fairgrounds and kinder
gartens that he is using a Douglas
CAT these days, or a parachute and
jeeps instead of reindeer.
And, somehow, he doesn't seem to
find time to answer childish letters
any more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23

tiUu nIui, as vice
president.
T h is q n =
nouncemei1t was
made yesterday
by Mr.. Tomp-
kins, who said
that after ap-
proval by the
War Department
OF Gen. Nc
Coach's request
for retirement
after 80 years
service, the OH
Ger would come
to Warrington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
Army Of $4,000
Planned by France
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, Dec. 22.-France's postwar
"streamlined" army will be COM
posed Of 500,eW recruits and $500
officers, all sMghly- trained picked
men, the Ministry of Information
said today, while the Navy will have
IS 900 men.
The total will include los 900 in
the French home army, 100000 in
North Africa. 10000 in the French
Army Of occupation in Germany
10000 in the colonies and Far East
and $1,000 darmes, mobile
guardsmen and firemen. e"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
Car Jumps Rails

DETROIT, Dec. % Mew
York Central fsaiIroac ofIieials sad
that one car of the Mercury. a De-
troit-to- Toledo train. jumped the
tracks near Erie, Mich. tonight,
but no one had been injured.