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Evening star., 1945-02-15

EloR EIGHT CONSECUTIVE YEARS, public
l. patronage for Universal pictures has in
creased. 1t is the patronage, by millions of
moviegoers in this country and throughout
the world, that enables this company to earn
'.its living and a return to its stockholders
on the capital they have invested in the
enterprise. AS consequence, it is felt that
substantial part of the public can be expected
to have an interest in Universaps progress
during its past fiscal year.
STAR DEvELoPMENr PROGRAM
Stars are most important asset to motion
picture company and Universal's program
for developing new star personalities con-
tinues to meet with success. The big majority
of the company's pictures are built around
Evening star., 1945-02-15

UNIVERSAL PRODUCTIONS you WON'T
WANT 70 MfSS-Deonno Durbin In Cont Help
Singing" with Robert Poige. Akin TomiroH; Abbott
and Costello in Here Come fhs ce-sds"; Morio
Moniez, Turhon Bey in "sudun"; Yvonne De Carlo.
Rod Comeron in "soloms, Where She Donesd";
Susanna Fossr. Jurhon Bsy In "Frsee sol"; Charles
lovshton, Elu Roinss in The svspset"i jock ookis,
pseey ayan h .sIhaf's The Spirit"
Evening star., 1945-02-15
f. f. UNIVERSAL e
PICTURES COMPANY, INC.
reports to the public
reports to the public

has leading part in the same motion pic
ture. Still another is Charles Korvin. who
has already clicked" in his first starring
picture, Enter Arsene Lupin."
@ FINANCIAL PROGRESS
Reflecting the entertainment value OF
Universal productions, the drawing power of
its stars and the favorable market for motion
pictures, rentals and other income from oper-
ations increased to $51 ,561 ,504 in the fiscal
year ended October %, 1914, the largest
amount in the history of the company. This
compares with SAG, ,478, SGT in the preceding
fiscal year.
Net earnings, after provision for Federal
income and excess profits taxes of 81, ,847, 800.
aggregated $3,412, 701, equivalent to $5.15
Evening star., 1945-02-15

uCSQ A0 WIG o
d e a t h to an
overdose Of sed-
atives.
The body of
Mary Lee Epes,
pretty 26-year-
old Jacksonville
(Fla.) sch oil
teacher, was dug
up y e s t e r day
from a shallow
foxhole grav e
near Fort Jack
son, where 1t.
Epes was being
held under guard
in the fort hos
Evening star., 1945-02-15
|Epes Claims Sedatiye
Killed Wife, Found
Buried in FoxhoIe
BY the Associated Press.

COLUMBIA, S. c., Feb. IS
Sheriff T. Alex Heise said today that
1t. s. G. Epes, 29-year-old son Of 4
prominent Virginia family, attrib-
Evening star., 1945-02-15

Black Market Hit
Argentina has started a campaign
against gunny sack black market.
Evening star., 1945-02-15

| 4100, 900 900 United States fund
would be given permanent status.
Renewal every two years heretofore
has been required.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
TOTAL PROFITS AND TAXES PAID

per share on the number of shares of stock
outstanding at the end of the fiscal year.
This compares with So, ,759, 1868 in the preced-
ing fiscal year.
Net working capital was further strength
ened, the total increasing from $16,O94, ,9O6
to$18, ,798, ,687. The ratio of current and work
ing assets to current liabilities was 2.S4 to l.
The company's capital structure was
strengthened and simplified during the past
year as result of the sale of $7,500, 900 of
3lGo debentures, due March 1, 1859. The
proceeds from the sale were used to retire the
company's outstanding bank loans and its
so Convertible Debentures, due 1850.
Taxes of all kinds totalled So, ,639, ,542 for
the year. This was equivalent to approx
mately $2,741 per employee in the United
States, to 43 cents of every dollar of wages
and salaries and to $14.55 per share of stock.
Last year the payment of dividends was
placed on a quarterly basis, the company
paying total of So per share for the year.
Since the close Of the fiscal year, it has de-
clared another quarterly dividend of so cents
per share, payable january 81, 1945.
Universal has continued to place services
to the nation in the war effort as foremost
consideration in its activities. Through tho
War Activities Committee Of the Motion
Picture Industry, it has contributed, with
out cost, 2,021 16mm. prints of feature pic
lures and 1,275 prints of short subjects to
the Army for showing to troops abroad.
]. CHEEvER CoWDIN,
Chairman Of the Board
N. ]. BLUMBERG, President
Evening star., 1945-02-15

'More bonds, more p6wer-more
strength to Eisenhower"
Evening star., 1945-02-15
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Evening star., 1945-07-22
Talking Books Exhibited
AT Library Of Congress-

An exhibit of talking books" fol-
the blind is on display in the Annex
Building of the Library of Congress
DR.. Luther H. Evans, librarian, an.
nounced yesterday. The showing
will continue through September
Talking books" which are SLOW
speed phonograph recordings, were
first forecast as aids to the blind
by Thomas Edison on his application
for his "phonograph or speaking
machine" The books" were not
developed until 1884 when the Amer
lean Foundation for the Blind in
New York took up the project.
A present day talking book'
record, DR.. Evans explained, is a
12-inch, double-faced monograph
disc. Each side has is to 16 min
utes of playing time, compared to
5 minutes side for commercial
records. Professional readers from
stage and screen read entire books
for recording on these discs. A
printed book of $50 pages requires
16 to 20 records. the records being
played on specially built phono-
graphs owned and distributed by
the Library of Congress. More than
/, 1,0o0 books" are now available in
these records and more than 23,500
talking books" have become an i'm
portant part of the rehabilitation
program for the more than 500 blind
servicemen.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Americans Still KiIIinc
laps Who Come Out
OF Corregidor Caves
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CORREGIDOR, July 81. - Now
and then Japanese stragglers are
killed on this famed fortress in Ma
Mia Bay, but summer and spring
have healed much of wars terrible
devastation.
"Just two days ago they killed
two or three Japs who came out oil
q cave" Pfc. Paul E. Hawk of Rock
ford, Ohio, jeep driver for many
tourists" to THE Rock" said oil
July II.
Occasional stragglers are flushed
In periodic patrols of the many
caves by Company F of the 38tf
Divisions 152nd Regiment. The
company, with the support of some
Filipino Army trainees, now gar.
risons the island.
Five months ago a battalion oi
the Oath Divisions 34th Regiment
stormed onto the Rock. Now, Quon-
set huts have been erected on the
beachhead. Some garrison troops
are also quartered in the wrecked
barracks on "Topeside," where the
503d paratroopers made their his.
toric jump.
Sergt. Joseph H. Risner of Brook
lyn, who presides at the registra-
ton hut on the beach, says the
average of visitors is about 125 9
day. Sights that interest then,
most are the Wainwright tunnel
under Malinta hill and the wrecked
12-inch gun positions overlooking
the north channel from "Topside.
The latter were elaborate Amer.
ican installations which the Jap.
anese never were able to use.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Planning Board Firm
Against Bradley Hills
Site for AirfieId

The Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission last
night announced it has reafdrmed
its opposition to the proposal to To-
cate an airport on the site of former
Bradley Hills County Club.
The commission has authorized
e. Brooke Lee, vice chairman, and
j. Boyd Smith, general counsel. to
act as its representatives before the
Montgomery County Board of Zon-
ing Appeals to oppose the plan.
Several days ago the State Ayia-
ton Commission voted to issue a
State license for the proposed air.
port provided prior to 80 days
from the date hereof, permission
for the use Of said property for
airport purposes shall be granted
by the appropriate coming authori-
ties for the territory in which pro-
posed airport is situated and proper
evidence of said action Is presented
to the State Aviation Commission" !"
- Under the law and ordinances
governing the situation in suburban
Montgomery County, the county
Board of zoning Appeals has juris-
diction over airport sites. After an
application for the airport permit
is actually made to the zoning Ap-
peals Board, that board is required
by ordinance to give adjacent prop
erty owners at least seven days
written notice prior to a public
hearing on proposed license. After
public hearings, the board may
either approve or deny the permit.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Democratic Reception
To Be Held al High School

The Democratic reception at the
home of Harry K. Green, Arlington
commissioner of revenue. from to
10 pm. Tuesday, viii be transferred
to Washington-Iee High School in
case of rain, Mr.. Green said yester-
day.
Honoring 1t. Gov. William M.
Tuck and 1t. Col Charles r. Fen
wick, Democratic candidates for the
nomination of Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor, several hundred
Northern Virginia residents, includ-
ing Democratic leaders, are expect
ed to be present, Mr.. Green said.
]. Maynard Magruder, Arlington
member of the House of Delegates,
will act as master of ceremonies.
H. Bruce Green, Arlington Circuit
Court clerk, will introduce Mr.. Tuck
and Col. Fenwick will be presented
by Board Member Edmund D.
Campbell.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
BY WILLIAM J. HEATLEY,
Star staff Correspondent.

BALTIMORE, July 21.-The 721a-
ton Hawaii Mars, largest flying boat
in operation and first of 20 super
cargo carriers for the Navy in the
Pacific, slid into Middle River here
this afternoon.
Ten minutes. later, her four en-
gines had lifted her great hull into
the air to join her waiting proto-
type, the history making Mars, to
soar over the Glenn L. Martin plant
where she was built.
The monster aerial boat was chris
tened in colorful ceremony by Mrs
De Witt Clinton Ramsey of Wash
lngton, wife of Vice Admiral Ramsey
former chief of the Naval Bureau
of Aeronautics and now chief OF
staff of the 5th Fleet.
Champagne Bottle Explodes.
Before a distinguished assemblage
of naval officials, Mrs. Ramsey gave
the traditional bottle of champagne
such a resounding whack on the
nose of the big flying boat that the
bottle exploded its contents in a
spray on the ship and on all stand
ing by. The craft was dressed in
Navy signal flags that spelled her
name.
At the same time, new policy
was disclosed of formally naming
these ships as are surface and un-
dersea craft. Each of the other
planes in the current group OF 20
of which this is tbe first. which have
been contracted for by the Navy,
will be named after Pacific COM
bat island.
Mrs. Ramsey stepped out from the
traditional duties of sponsor, to
speak briefly of the new vessel. She
called the ship "a very great lady
and said that she not only wished
Evening star., 1945-07-22
|FaIsehoods Peril Peace,
Pope Tells u. 5. Writers
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, July 21s-Pope
Plus XII told group of 10 Ameri-
can writers today that strict ad-
herence to the truth was essential
in their profession and suggested
that flood of error and false NOR
al standards" had been responsible
for much of the worlds troubles.
'It is an invaluable service your
profession offers society in break
ing down the barriers of time and
space and assisting all members OF
the vast human family to share
their joys, sorrows, triumphs, dis
asters, hopes and fears" the Pope
said.
Members of the profession who
do not hesitate to smear pages OF
polfute the ether with falsehood are
rendering great disservice to their
fellowmen; they gravely i'm
peril peace among nations. If COM
petent civil authority fails, when ne
cessity demands it, to curb such IL
cense, then the civil society will
most surely pay the penalty"
The writer's, on a world tour un-
der auspices of the United States
War Department, reached Rome
yesterday. They included Robert
Considine of Hearst Publications,
Hallet Abend of North American
Newspaper Alliance and Mary Day
Winn of This Week magazine.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
CoddIing Of Captured
Jap Officials Charged
BY the Associated Press.

Representative Springer, Repub-
lican, of Indiana, asserted yester-
day that "our Nation has elected
to coddle and pamper high
officials of Japan without any justi-
fication or excuse"
Japanese military, naval and dip
lomatic officers captured in the fall
of Germany, Mr.. Springer told the
House, were taken to fine and
commodious hotel" at Bedford
Springs, Pa, for detention.
There they are now established
in those luxurious suites in that
super-fine hotel, having rich food
to eat and every accommodation
available to the rich and the ex-
elusive among the people" Mr..
Springer said.
He demanded that the high jap
anese officials be placed in war pris-
oner camps and treated like other
prisoners.
A State Department spokesman
has explained that fair treatment
of the japanese group was neces-
sary in order that the japanese gov
ernment might have no excuse for
mistreatment of any Americans now
in their hands.
1t was emphasized by the spokes-
man that the interned Japanese
group of 1872 persons would be
crowded into accommodations orig
inally designed for 80 persons, that
they would get their meals cafeteria
style and would not have access to
the hotels golf course.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
1000 Maryland Militia
Start Training Tomorrow
Ry the Associated Press,

Ry the Associated Press.
FORT MEADE, Md, July 2i.-
More than 1000 Maryland State
Guardsmen will arrive tomorrow at
the Camp Herbert r. O'Conor"
cantonment for 10 days of field
training
Training will begin Monday on
rifle and Thompson submachine
gun ranges. Included in the gen.
eral program will be riot control,
civilian and disaster disturbances,
marching and bivouacs. bayonet
practice, field tactical problems and
sanitation.
Mai. Gen. Dwight H. Mohr, Guard
commander, will have direct COM
mand of all units. Guard commits
stoned officers, headed by 1t. Col.
Christian l.. Claypoole of the 3rd
Service Command, viii supervise the
work.
1t. Col. E. Brooke Lee, Silver
Spring, is commander of the 7th
Battalion and 1t. Col Caesar L
Aiello, Hyattsville, the 9Th.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Senator's Warn Against
Revival Of German Plants
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Three Senators who recently re-
turned from Europe, said last night
that Germany could come back
quickly to industrial power and even
now Is plotting the way.
Senator Kilgore, Democrat, of w
Va, said that at least three-fourths
of Germany's industry could be
rehabilitated in three months to q
year at the outside"
| Senator Mitchell, Democrat, o1
Washington said, Germany is still
the worlds third largest industrial
power. Within five years she could
be stronger than she was in 1885,
They and Senator Ferguson, Re-
publican, of Michigan, spoke on a
radio program against the idea OF
letting Germany ever get into q
position again to wage aggressive
warfare.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
81 Of 38 Restaurants
In Olympia, WASH,
Plan 10 Close Tonight
Ey the Associated press.

| K
OLYMPIA, Wash, July I'll
Thirty-twe Of Olympia's 38 eating
places viii close indefinitely at mid
night tonight to await Office Of
Price Administration action on q
demand for more red points, spokes-
man Jim Ramey said yesterday.
We're out Of points until Septenl-
Der, and the only way we can operate
Is to buy black market meat. We
don't want to do that"
The OPA said there was nothing
we can do about it,"
Rent control has been estab-
lished here" said Mr.. Ramey, land
II rent control Is necessary this
must be a defense area"
Olympia has population Of a.
900.
Bernard ]. Fotheringham, OPA
district food rationing officer, said
In Seattle the Olympia restaurants
had tried to serve heavier meals
than they should" and had gotter
behind on points.
Asserting the cut in point allot.
ments was Nationwide, Mr.. Fother-
| ingham said the OPA in Washing
ton, D. c., would increase the rec
point allotments as soon as the meal
Is obtainable."
State Government employees, mean.
while, planned to carry lunches
where 1t was impossible for them tx
return home for the noon meal
Most of them reside here with theil
families. :
Evening star., 1945-07-22
RedepIoyed GIs Won Face
Japs Before December
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
FORT DIES MONIES, Iowa. July
21.-Despite the fact redeployment
is far ahead of schedule the first
combat division from Europe will
not face the Japs until almost the
lst of December" Brig. Gen. P. x
English declared today.
This means, as far as military
calculations are concerned, that we
still have long road ahead of us,
Gen. English, chief of staff of the
7th Service Command at Omaha
said in an address at the 58tf
officer candidate graduation at this
Women's Army Corps training
Center.
Col. Westray Battle Boyce, new
director of the WAC who was COM
missioned a second lieutenant herr
about three years ago, attended tht
ceremonies. Among those commits.
stoned were five women who served
under her as enlisted women ir
the North African theater.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Court Refuses to Stop Russion
From Corrying Food Home

Mrs. A. Povalishin, both Russian
citizens. He said the nen had been
employed by the Russian Purchas-
ing Commission at Washington.
He told the court OPA believed
the merchandise was bought in New
York, Kansas City, Chicago and
Portland and that the agency was
investigating where and how the
rationed items were purchased.
Nan Wood Honeyman, District %
customs collector, also was named
in the petition based on a law pro-
hibiting export of more than $25
worth Of goods for resale without
license.
District OPA Director Mcdaniel
Brown said the action had full ap-
proval Of the national OPA.
Evening star., 1945-07-22

Students in the American Uni
versity'S Sloan Foundation Insti-
tute on Economics this fall will
attend classes in setting resem-
bling Hollywood's idea of the class
room of the future-if the pro-
posed plans are carried out.
DR.. Paul Douglass, president of
American University, yesterday out
lined plans for the new classroom,
to be located on the first floor of
the building at 1901 F street NV
Calling it functional" room, he
said $1,000 would be spent to fur
nish it as library-living room
combination. with soft chairs, at
tractive walls and draperies and in
direct lighting. Small work tables
which can be fitted together for q
round table discussion and screen
on which to throw charts, maps, OF
statistical matter under discussion
will be features of the room, DR.
Douglass said. This new type class
room, he added, Is an effort to dc
away with the system where the
professor sits at his desk and lec-
lures and the students sit in their
seats and get bored.
Provided by Foundation.
Alfred P. Sloan,i chairman of the
Board of Directors of General Mo-
tors, Inc. is head of the Sloan
Foundation, which is providing for
statistical equipment, library and
the salaries for an institute director
and his assistant, as well as funds
for the classroom furnishings.
The purpose of the Sloan Insti-
tute, DR.. Douglass said. is to pro-
duce trained, competent, analytical
economists.
The 80 students to be chosen fer
the first term-the institute will op-
crate as a part of the university
curriculum-will not be super-stu-
dents, DR.. Douglass said. He said
the selection, to be made from ap-
plicants who show the most promise
in the economic field, will include
bright, average and dull students,
some on the masters level, a few
chosen from those in the senior di-
vision of undergraduate work, few
graduate students, and some who
come as part-time students"
The professor to head the insti-
tute has not been chosen, but it is
understood that Alfred G. Hart of
Chicago has been offered the posi-
tion.
The Administrative Committee for
Evening star., 1945-07-22


The composer is Pfc William D.
Coffey, who is stationed in Italy
with the 5th Army. His wife and
two children, Janet Louise, S, and
William Donald, jr., g., make their
home at 919 Sligo avenue, Silver
Spring.
Although Pfc. Coffey has written
a number of poems, this is his first
attempt at song writing. When his
wife received the song she went
to the Service Aid Council for help
in getting it copyrighted and pub
ished.
Entitled I'm Just Lonesome
Soldier. the words reflect the
thoughts of Pfc. Coffey, who has
been a litter bearer on the battle
front for a year.
His wife, who is almost blind and
@ graduate of the School for the
Blind, said yesterday she expects
him home this fall and hopes he
can get a discharge.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
IVA Can't Condemn Land
For Park, Court Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, July 21.-Claude
M. Dean, clerk OF the Fourth Cir
cult Court of Appeals, today an
nounced the decision of the court
that the Tennessee Valley Author.
ity cannot condemn land SO that
it, may be incorporated into the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park.
The opinion was handed dowr
on six cases which iva appealed
from judgments of the Federal Dis.
trict Court at Asheville.
iva sought to condemn lanc
owned by S. Columbus Welch anc
others, because the filing of the
Fontana reservoir flooded the only
highway serving tract Of 4.40t
acres, housing 216 families. The
condemnation step was taken tc
justify the State Of North Carolins
for the closing of the road.
The alternative to condemnation
proceedings was construction of 9
new highway.
The Federal District Court dis.
missed the petitions of the IVA
and the Court of Appeals affirmed
the judgment. 1t held that TVA
could condemn land only for the
improvement of navigation anc
flood control, the purpose for which
it was created.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
D. {. Banks War Bond
Sales Total SS55,67S,t73

District banks have sold $685.
67S,173 worth of War Bonds since
war financing began in 1941, Wilmer
j. Waller, District War Finance
Committee chairman, announced
yesterday.
The sales involved 858,675 trans
actions. The clerical detail was
handled superbly by depleted bank
stats, Mr.. Waller added.
More than $3.50, 900 900 of the total
sales was recorded between war
loan campaigns and reflects daily
bond promotion by the banks, Mr..
Waller said.
The sales, through banks in 1941,
were SIG, ABS, ,135; 1912, $79, 1898, ,118;
1s43,. $206, DOT ,o31,. and 1914, $342,-
s01, TBS. Sales SO far in 1945 have
been $205 ,t84,166.
The total sales represent a pei
capita purchase through banks of
$1,047. The figure includes pur.
chases by corporations as well a.
individualx tsssE
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Chincoteogue Island All Ready
For Pony Roundup Thursday

Mr.. Savage claimed that the past
years crop of young ponies Is the
best in number of years and more
numerous.
The roundup proper will be start
ed at $3.50 am. Thursday, followed
by a wild pony ride. A money
prize viii be offered to anybody who
can stay on one of the animals for
a minute. Members of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Firemen's Asso-
citation will serve oyster sandwiches,
Seafood and chicken.
Buyers from all parts Of the
United States are expected to be
on hand for the auctioning of the
young ponies which usually bring
between $75 and $110.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
IWomon Slain in Home,
Police Seek Collier

Miss Martha Lee Pollard, colored,
Is, of the 1900 block of Fifteenth
street NV, was killed last night at
her home and police said she had
been hacked to death with a meat
cleaver.
Police have ordered the arrest of
William G.. Briscoe, colored, IS,
whose last known address was in
the first block of L street NV. and
who was said to have been a caller
at the woman,s home.
Evening star., 1945-07-22
Lehman S Daughter
Takes Bus to Reno

BY the Associated Press.
RENO, New, July 21.-Mrs. Hilda
Jane De Vadetsky, daughter of for
mer New York Governor Herbert
Lehman, joined a Reno divorce
colony at Tumbling DIV dude
ranch today.
Rather than seek a favor, she
said, she made the trip from New
York to Reno by bus The estranged
wife of Boris De Vadetsky described
it as mo hardship at all" but instead
rather pleasant"