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Evening star., 1945-09-17
78 Veterans, Some Wounded, Report Today
For Special Glasses at Central High School
Some Reporting
Are Older Than
Their Teachers

Eighteen veterans, some wounded,
some older than their teachers, be-
gan high school careers today at
Central High School.
Banded together by the gold dis
charge lapel pins, and segregated in
a classroom of their own because
they want 1t that way. the ex-serv-
icemen remained aloof from the
hundreds of teen-agers who jammed
the corridors and classrooms of Gen.
trail this morning.
John F. Wormcke, l8. Of 5315
Seventh street NV, a discharged
merchant marine sailor, came to
school on crutches. He is recover
ing from injuries received when his
ship was torpedoed by q German
submarine in the Atlantic.
Chat Over Old Times.
Nineteen-year- -old James L. Burt,
jr, of 1465 Rhode Island avenue
NV. who served year in the
Netherlands West Indies, chatted
over old times with a classmate
who also was with the Navy in the
Caribbean, 37-year-old Clarence s..
Tucker. Mr.. Tucker, whose wife
and 12-year -old son, John, live at
1922 Fifth street NV, was worried
because he had just received Dis
trict Court Jury summons in the
mail. He thought it might inter-
fere with his attendance.
A veteran of q months overseas
with the 83d Division, William T.
Guise, 20, of 1889 North Glebe road
Arlington, Va, had suffered a Sc
we're case of trenchfoot in Germany.
Two of the men were with ar
mored divisions in the European
theater: Samuel G. Tate, %, of 5534
Connecticut avenue NV, was with
the 18th Armored for two years,
while Paul E. Caspar, %, of 922
G street S.W., served with the 1st
Armored overseas for "a months.
Oldest Student Is 40.
Oldest member of the class is
Joseph c. Cater, 40, of 1923 H street
NV, who finished the eighth grade
more than 20 years ago and now
plans to get his high school diploma
Charles T. Mooney, 10, of 638 Morris
place NE, was wounded in France
Donald H. Steen, %, of 1405 North
Cleveland street, Arlington, who was
present at the attack on Pearl Har-
Dor, is registered and awaiting dis
charge.
Registered by mail from Anchor
age. Alaska, is ex-soldier Edgar M
Walker, who was discharged in our
northern territory. He is now
working in a platinum mine in
Alaska; he will attend the school to
prepare for a course he plans to
take at the Colorado School OF
Mines.
The veterans high school Is the
responsibility of Robert G. Wander
lip, co-ordinator of veterans educa-
ton. 1t is stated and supervised by
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Yom Kippur Observed
With Thanksgiving
For Return Of Peace

Washington Jewry today observed
Yom Kippur services in temples and
synagogueS in an atmosphere of
Thanksgiving for the end of the war
and OF hope that peace would bring
relief from persecution of their
brethren in Europe.
The holy day of Yom Kippur, ira
ditional day of atonement which
consists of prayer and fasting, be-
gan last night at sundown with the
chanting of the ancient Hebrew
prayer, 'Kol Nidre" Yom Kippur,
final day of period of holy days
begun on Rosh Hashonah on Sep
tember 7, comes to an end at night
fall today.
A high light of the services last
night was the reading of greetings
to the Jewish community sent by the
Protestant Christian Community of
Washington through the Washing
ton Ministerial Union and read by
Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld to the
Washington Hebrew Congregation
from his pulpit. The communica-
ton said:
The Protestant Christian Com
munity of Washington, through the
Ministerial Union, extends the greet
ings of brotherhood to the Washing
ton Hebrew Congregation on this
their Day of Atonement.
"Shares Aspirations"
"The whole world is bowed and
humbled before the events of the
past weeks. Peace has come to our
world, but it has been a peace pur-
chased by the sacrifice and lives
of men and women of every faith.
THE Christian Community joins
you in the spirit of penitence on
this your holy day and shares your
deepest spiritual aspirations that
this day might lead you and all of
us together to dedicate ourselves 10
the holy cause of freedom, as we
look forward to the high plane of
fellowship for which God in in
finite compassion and love is so
earnestly striving
This greeting was signed by the
following officers of the Ministerial
Union: The Rev. George E. Selma
bel. president; the Rev. Robert M
Williams, vice president; the Rev.
DR.. j. Herbert Garner, secretary:
the Rev" M. P. German, treasurer,
and the members of the Executive
Committee: The Rev. DR.. Clarence
w. Crawford, the Rev. A. Joseph Ed
wards, the Rev. DR.. Frederick REFS
sig and the Rev. Ralph Taber.
Service Personnel Meetings.
Servicemen and women were
prominent in all the houses of
worship. along with smaller group
of veterans wearing discharge but
tons in their lapels.
Services for service personnel
were held at the Jewish Community
Center under the sponsorship of the
Washington Army and Navy Com
mittee of the National Jewish We'll
fare Board and Post No. So, Jewish
War Veterans of the United States.
They were conducted by Chaplain
David Jacobson, USNR, who also
will lead them today
Orthodox Jews of the District as
sembled in synagogues early this
morning, most synagogues begin
ming their services at 7:30 am. Re-
formed Jews began their observ-
ances later, services at the Wash
lngton Hebrew Congregation and at
the overflow from there in the First
Congregational Church, starting at
1920 am.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Two Mars Flying Boats
To Be Completed in 10 Days
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press,
BALTIMORE, Sept. 1.-Two
Mars flying boats, sister ships of the
721a-ton Mars which sank in Ches-
apeake Bay August S, are sched-
uled for completion at the Glenn l..
Martin Aircraft Co. plant within 10
days.
The company said the first ship,
to be named Philippine Mars, would
be air tested next week. The Mars
ships are being built for the Naval
Air Transport Service.
The original Mars flying boat is
a training plane at the Patuxent
River Naval Air Station, and the
wreckage of the Hawaii, which was
salvaged in pieces, remains at Mar
tins under guard awaiting Navy
decision on its disposal.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Rites for Zudoc Euston
Set at Guithersburo

Funeral services for Zadoc M
Easton, 76, well-known resident OF
Maryland, who died Saturday at his
home, were to be held at Q pm. to-
day at Grace Methodist Church.
Burial was to be in Forest Oak
Cemetery Gaithersburg.
Mr. Easton is survived by daugh-
ter, Mrs. Lewis N. Diggs, Washing
ton; two sons, Richard M. Easton,
Frederick, Md, and Elwood H. Eas-
ton, Gaithersburg, and a grand
child.
For more than 80 years he had
been in the employ of the Viett
Co. OF Rockville as metal worker
He was member of the knights OF
PythiaS.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Fleming Quoted
As Urging End
'0fCareCenters
FWA Head Silent
As Mothers PIeod
For Continuance

A storm on the child care front
broke in Washington today with a
report that Gen. Philip B. Fleming,
Federal Works administrator, rec
commended before congressional
committee that Congress order the
closing of all Federally sponsored
child care centers Immediately.
Gen. Fleming refused to comment,
He said that when he appeared be-
fore the House Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee last week
Chairman Lanham asked every one
present not to diyulge what was said.
At the request of President Tru-
man, Gen. Fleming, who previously
ordered the program liquidated by
October 81, presented to the COM
mittee a survey on the number Of
wives and widows of servicemen
with children in the centers.
Another Meeting Thursday.
A spokesman for him said then
that the general made no recon-
mendations." But today the spokes-
man emphasized that the hearing
was supposed to be secret and said
Gen. Fleming told him nothing Of
what happened. The committee is
scheduled to meet again in execu-
tive session Thursday to consider the
question Of authorizing continuance
of the program.
Mrs. Clyde Hunt, chairman of the
District Parents Committee for
Child Care, said she was told what
Gen. Fleming said to a person who
was there. Miss Josephine Starr,
secretary of the Citizens Committee
on Day Care Centers, also said she
had it on the best of authority"
Gen. Fleming was quoted as saying
that attendance has fallen off and
that it would be too difficult not to
show partiality in deciding what
centers to keep open.
Citizens to Ask Hearing.
The District Citizens COMMITTEES
announced today that it will ask a
hearing before the House Commit
tee to request that the Nationwide
program be kept in operation until
June 80, 1916.
In public statement, the Rev.
Francis McPeek, chairman of the
committee, said that the proposed
closing on October 81 docs not give
time for orderly reconversion to
peacetlme plans which President
Truman considers generally desir-
able in the Governmnt and other
essential activity"
Mothers cannot make the plans
for little children hastily he added.
On the basis of information gathered
from many parts of the country, the
committee requests the continuance
OF the program until the end of the
fiscal year to give local communities
time to plan what centers should
be continued and under what aus
pices."
No Substitutes Found.
Mrs. Hunt said that an investiga-
tion by her committee shows there
are absolutely no available substi-
tutes for the program. She pointed
| out that Lanham Act funds will be
used through June 80 to aid public
schools in war congested areas.
| The FWA has other Lanham Act
! funds available for continuance of
the child care centers and all that
is necessary is congressional author
ization for their expenditure, she
| emphasized.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
William f. Sheldon, 83,
Dies al Lebanon Hall
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, Sept. 17.-Wil-
liam Edgar Sheldon, 83, died Satur-
day at Lebanon Hall here, where he
had made his home for the last IL
years. He had been i'll six months.
Mr.. Sheldon, who was born in
Fitchburg, Mass, came to Virginia
in 1916 and until his retirement in
1882 was personal secretary to the
late Mitchell Harrison at the Vine
Hill Farms estate near here. He was
a descendant of the Fitch family for
whom the city of Fitchburg was
named.
In 1883 he married the former Miss
Florence Marvel, who is his only
survivor. Burial will be at Fitchburg.
Evening star., 1945-09-17

noticed me. BY this time I was
holding my own with the Japs on my
tail, so put the Lightning into the
high speed climb for which it was
born, and left my pursuers behind
me. BY the time I had reached
10000 feet they had disappeared.
The entire scrap had left me with
only two bullet holes in my rudder
nothing more.
After leaving the Kahili area !
relaxed for the long fight home. I
could hear various members of the
flight calling each other over the
radio. I learned Barber was all
right when heard him ask Mitchell
for permission to go back after a
couple of Zeros he had sighted trail
ing him. Mitchell cooled Rex of
and told him to head home at once.
Our orders had been explicit.
A great satisfaction began to steal
over me, and I heard it reflected in
the Growing and congratulations be-
ing banded back and forth over the
air by jubilant members of the
flight.
Success Confirmed,
Confirmation came by cablegram
that night. The same source that
had told us Yamamoto would be
where ne was, when he was, now
wired that We had destroyed him
as directed. Congratulations were
appended.
A little over a month later the
Japs officially admitted that Fleet
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had
been killed in combat with the en-
emy' during April. Subsequent en-
emy reports placed the scene of his
death near "Kahili Airdrome, on
Southern Bougainville The ad-
miral had been found, burned to
death in his twin-engined bomber,
still clutching his ceremonial sword.
fcopyrisht. 1945. by 1t. Col Thomas @
Lanphier, ir. Released by North Amer
lcan Newspaper Alliance)
Evening star., 1945-09-17
GreenbeIt Will Elect
Council Tomorrow

Greenbelt (Md) residents will &c
to the polls tomorrow to elect a FIVE
man council. Polls will open at the
Firehouse at am, and will close
at Z o'clock in the evening.
Candidates include George F.
Bauer, John A. Cain, Margaret D.
Carmody, Donald H. Cooper, Paul
Dunbar. Sherod E. East, Jack
Fruchtman, David Granahan, Wells
Harrington, Allen D. Morrison, Eli
Radinsky, Joseph L. Rogers, Jesse
E. Smith, Ruth D. Taylor and Wal
ter r. Volckhausen.
A mayor will be elected by the
council from among it's members.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Airline Applicants
In Virginia 10 GET
Hearing Next Week
By the Associated Press.

by the ASSOClhttu
RICHMOND. Va, Sept. 1.-THE
State Corporation Commission at
hearings next Monday will consider
six applications for establishing a
network of passenger airlines in Vir-
ginia serving every major city.
Companies applying for certifi-
Gates of public convenience and
necessity to operate aircraft in the
transportation of passengers, mail
and light express are the Blue Ridge
Air Lines, Inc; Virginia Central
Airlines, Inc; Virginia State Lines,
Inc; Greyhound Skyways of Vir-
ginia, Inc; Consolidated Bus Lines,
Inc, and Atlantic Western Air
lines, Inc.
The applications were originally
submitted March 26 and May 81,
but were continued when the sec
expressed doubts that suitable air
craft could be procured.
Before any certificates are grant,
ed, all fields used by the airlines
must be approved by the State di-
rector of aeronautics, and the air
lines must provide evidence that
they have hired qualified aviators.
Opposed by C. e. O.
Establishment of the lines is
being opposed by the Chesapeake
g. Ohio Railway Co., which pre-
viously moved that hearings be post
poned because the railroad now op-
crates trains between a number of
the cities which the airlines pro-
pose to serve. The railroad also
declared that the applicants would
be unable to secure suitable equip
ment to provide effective service.
Among routes requested were these
in the Northern Virginia area:
Greyhound interests, air service
from the District of Columbia to the
Tennessee State line via Winchester
Harrisonburg, Roanoke and Wythe-
vile.
Atlantic Western Airlines. Inc.
which has its principal office in
Danville, has asked for authority to
operate from Norfolk to Alexandria
and from Alexandria to Winchester
and return.
Alexandria to Richmond.
Virginia Central Airlines has re-
quested permission to provide pas
senger and light express service
from Alexandria to Richmond, from
Richmond to Norfolk and from
Richmond to Roanoke.
Virginia Stage Lines, Inc, has
filed plans to operate over five
routes: From Rosslyn to Bristol via
Front Royal, Winchester, Waynes-
boro, Staunton, Clifton Forge, Roa-
noke and Bluefield and from Rosslyr
to Bristol; via Charlottesville, Lynch
burg and Roanoke.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Rockville PTA to Meet

The Rockville Parent-Teacher As
sociation will meet tomorrow night
at Richard Montgomery High School.
Association officers are Mrs. George
F. Ray, president; Mrs. Lerby Sher-
man and Mrs. Carlton, vice presi-
dents; Levin S. Comfy, recording
secretary; Mrs. Leslie Able, CORE
spending secretary, and Mrs. Lau-
reen Stevens, treasurer.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Tux DeudIine Today

Today is the final day for payment
OF the third installment on Federal
income taxes. The calendar date
ior such payment is September Is,
nut since the local income tax Office
IN the Revenue Building was closed
SaSuroay the deadline was ex-
tended to today.
Evening star., 1945-09-17

America Tor OUT
st a n d i ng club
achievement in
p + o m o t i n G
home = front ac-
t tivit e S, at its
first meeting of
the season to-
morrow night at
the Lee Shera-
ton Hotel.
S p e a k er for
the dinner meet
ing, which will
s t r t W it h a
cocktail party at
6 pm. will be
Miss K a t h leen
Small of the
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Youth Missing on Hunt
Found Dead on Mountain
Es the Associated Press,

Ey the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Md, Sept. 1.-THE
body of 16-year-old Moscow youth,
missing overnight on a squirrel
hunting trip, was found on Jackson
Mountain by members of a group
Of 100 searchers yesterday. The
youth apparently fell on jagged
rocks.
John o. Metz and John Broad
water, both of Moscow, found the
youth, Glenn Frederick Merrbaugh,
his skull crushed, some distance of
a narrow mountain path.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Bones of Horse Found
Buried in Coffin
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SpeclaI UlSpatch 70 The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, Sept. Is
Efforts were being made today-but
with little success-to determine
who may have thought so much of a
horse to have buried it in a we'll
constructed coffin.
In excavating for a new building
foundation on the site of a livery
stable operated long ago by VIM
chester man, workmen unearthed a
box S feet below the surface con-
tanning bones identified by Or. E. w.
Miller, veterinarian, as those OF q
horse.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Virginia AFL to Offer
Legislative Program
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSoclated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, Sept. ia legis-
lative program for the Virginia
State Federation of Labor (AFL)
to be submitted to the 1916 General
Assembly will be formulated at a
meeting of the federation's commit
tee in Richmond Sunday morning,
Horace w. Sharp, Norfolk, commit
tee chairman, announced.
Matters to be taken up, Mr.. Sharp
said, will include the sales tax, abo-
lition of the poll tax, education
health and better working conditions.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Reception for Teachers

A reception for the % teachers of
the Gaithersburg High School will
be given by the Parent Teacher
Association tonight at the high
school. Mrs. Herman M. Wilson,
president, will be in charge.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Mrs. Whiting Rites Todoy

WINCHESTER, Va, Sept. II R1.
Episcopal funeral services were to
De conducted here today for Mrs.
Mamie. Moss Whiting, 70, widow Of
circuit Judge Frank B. Whiting,
VINO died Saturday in Winchester
hospital. Burial will be at Old
Chapel, Clarke County.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
AnnunduIe PTA TO Meet

The Parent-Teacher Association
OF Annandale (Va.) School will meet
at 8 pm. Thursday at the school.
A reception for the teachers will
follow the meeting.
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Women S Ad Club
To GET Citation for
Home Front Work

The Women's Advertising Club of
Washington will be presented with
a certificate of honorable mention
by the Advertising Federation of
Evening star., 1945-09-17

Robert G. Vanderlp 0eft co-ordinator of veterans
cation shown greeting three Washington who started
back to high school at Central today educational
careers interrupted by the The pupils
Cleft to gh Pharmacists Mate Jack SakoWtz 2 of 2402
LEnant Sc; John F. Wormcke, 49, of 535 Seventh
street E. who wounded serving with the merchant
and James Burt 49, of 1865 Rhode Island NV
who served with the Navy in the CarbbeanStar Staff Photo
Evening star., 1945-09-17
Pursuers Outwitted
2 Zeros Tried to Get Lonphier
After He Shot Down Yomomoto

\ (This is the last In a series OF
articles by the Army flyer toho
shot doUn japanese Admiral
Isoroku Yamdmoto in April,
1943.)
Evening star., 1945-11-07
Soviet Press Ignores
Trumon's Message
Of ConerotuIotion
By the Associated Press.

ASs VIC ASouSiabtu rTtSSs
MOSCOW, Nov. Premier
Stain, for the first time since he
became the leader of Soviet Rus
sia, failed to attend today's mas
sive parade of. soldiers and civil
ians celebrating the 28th ami
versary of the Bolshevik Revolu-
ton in Red Square.
The Premier broke a precedent
earlier by allowing Foreign Com
missar v. M. Molotov to deliver the
state of the nation" address at St.
Andrew Mall in the Kremlin last
night. Premier Stain did not at
tend. Foreign diplomats suggested
that perhaps he remained away to
take none of the attention from
Molotov.
Premier Stain was reported yes
terday to have returned to Moscow
from a month-long vacation in the
south of Russia.
Streets Filled With Forces.
Troops and civilian marchers
started pouring through Red Square
around noon today and streets for
miles around the center of Moscow
were filled with tanks, armored cars,
parachutists, infantrymen, cadets,
sailors, motorcycle units and mo-
Evening star., 1945-11-07
STRIKE OVER, TRANSIT SERVICE IS RESUMED
Stain Is Absent for First Time
From Red Anniversary Parade
White House GivesOut
Text of FeIicitutions
Sent by President
Y the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
The White House said today
that President Truman had sent
a message to Moscow congratu-
lating the Russian government
on the anniversary of the Red
Revolution.
Reporters brought up the question
of the presidential message at a
news conference with Eben Ayers,
assistant press secretary, on the
basis of dispatches from Moscow
that no anniversary greeting from
either Mr.. Truman or Secretary of
State Byrnes had been published in
the Moscow newspaper.
Denies Chang to Come Here.
At State Department, it was said
Secretary Byrnes did not send a
message because the occasion called
for greetings from chief of state.
Mr.. Ayers also was asked about
reports, some emanating from the
West Coast, that Premier Stain is
or has been in the United States,
"If it is So" Mr.. Ayers said, 1--WE
know nothing about it. The Presi-
dent has no knowledge of it,"
Mr.. Ayers also said he had no
knowledge of a contemplated visit
to this country of Generalissimo
(See MESSAGE. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1945-11-07
IA Jews Are Killed
In New Clashes With
TripoIitania Arabs
British Order Curfew
And Stern Measures to
Put Down Violence
Ey the Associated Press.

by the Associated treSS.
CAIRO, Nov. THE British
Ministry of Information an
nounced today that "a Jews and
one Arab had been killed in anti
Jewish outbreaks in Tripolitania.
Troops and police in Tripoli,
metropolitan center of the Italian
colony in North Africa, were ordered
to shoot all hooters and fire If
necessary to disperse groups Of more
than five persons.
With support of the Arab League,
Lybians are seeking independence
from italy. The colony Is made up
of Tripolitania, the western section
and Cirenaica, the eastern.
Curfew Imposed.
The Ministry of Information
communique said stern measures,
including a curfew, had been i'm
posed to put down "a serious out
break of rioting, violence and arson
by the Arabs against the Jews in
Tripoli City Sunday night"
Arrests have been made of sub
versive Arab elements" it said.
In addition to those killed. SO
Jews, SO Arabs and 2 Italians were
hospitalized.
The ministry said the rioting
started when an Arab mob at
tackled the Jewish quarter Of Trip
oil. 1t added:
'"These acts of violence, which are
unprecedented in the history OF
Tripoltania (Which had always been
characterized by friendship and the
mutual goodwill of Arabs and jews
were the work of irresponsible ele-
ments who, in a large majority of
cases, came from the Arab section
of the population. Leading local
personalities, both among the Arabs
and Jews, have disassociated them
selves firmly from the lawbreakers
and have expressed their deep re-
gret for the occurrences.
The cemmunique said the prov
inces remained generally quiet ex-
cept for the eastern province"
Gases of incendiarism and iso-
lated brutal assaults of Arabs upon
Jews" were reported by the COM
munique, which charged that "irre-
sponsible elements in Tripoli also
attempted to stir up feelings against
the Jews by spreading false and ma
liciouS rumors.
Jewish Quarter Looted.
The communique said that through
Monday night, although the city
of Tripoh itself remained quiet,
heavy patrols were maintained and
"undisciplined Arab mobs looted
and gutted the Jewish quarter"
The curfew imposed Monday on
Tripoli between the hours of 8
pm. and S. am. was extended yes
terday throughout Tripolitania.
Brig. Temple, British military
commander at Tripoli, told mem
bers of the Allied Advisory Council
that they must exercise their in
f1uence and authority to the full in
re-establishing law and order"
The communique said Brig. Temple
issued the warning that "a meeting
of more than five persons would be
dispersed by force including OPEN
ing fire, if necessary"
"The administration will not hesi-
tate to continue or increase these
(See JEWS, Page A-14.)