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Evening star., 1945-04-23
Joe 7. Allison, Is, Retired
Federal EmpIoye, Dies

Joe T. Allison, IS, retired Veter-
ans Administration employe and
past secretary of the Grand Lodge
District Odd Fellows, died last night
in Bradenton, Fla, according to
word received by his daughter
Mrs. Doris A. Elliott, AIT Garrison
street NV.
Mr.. Allison, who was born on a
farm near Peoria, Ill, came to
Washington in 1897 and entered
the employ of the old Pension Of
flee shortly after that. In 1888 he
was transferred to the Veterans
Administration and retired in 1898
He had lived in Bradenton since
that time. He formerly resided
here at 4001 Garrison street NV.
Long active in the IOOF, Mr.
Allison was grand secretary from
1917 to 1922. He also was past
grand of Friendship Lodge No. IL
of which he was the second oldest
member from point of service, and
former secretary of the Friend
ship Heights Citizens Association
He was member of the Chevy
Chase Baptist Church.
Besides Mrs. Elliott he is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Estelle Allison
Bradenton; son, Clarence P
Allison, Washington, and another
daughter, Miss Capitola Allison,
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
lsWRshonnq
&Remiindey6,

Meats. Fats, Etc.-Book 4, red stamps
T-5 through KS good through
April %; stamps US, Us, AZ
through d. good through June 2;
stamps E-2 through J-2 good
through June 80; stamps K-2
through P-2 good through July 81.
Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4, blue
stamps CO through CO good
through April %: stamps H.
through M-2 good through June
2; stamps N-2 through So good
through June 80. Stamps To
through X-2 good through July 81
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Susar-Stamp IS valid for S pounds
through June 2. Next STAMP
scheduled to be validated May /
Gasoline-A-15 coupons are valid
through June 81. BE-, C-6, B-7
and CT coupons good for S gal
Ions each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps /, 2 and
IN Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair Of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods /, 2. 8, 4 and
coupons good for 10 gallons per
unit through heating year. All
currently valid coupons will ex-
pire August 81. Consumers in this
area should not have used more
than 81 per cent of their ration as
Of today.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Inquiry on News BIuckout'
In Police Pressroom Ordered

the Detective Bureau-some dis
tance from the pressroom-and copy
the information they wanted instead
of having 1t instantly available in
triplicate from their teletype.
Maj. Edward J. Kelly, superin-
tendent Of police, called in the re-
porters covering headquarters and
assured them no information to
which they were entitled would be
withheld. But no plan for avoid
ing delay or possible censorship of
reports which members of the de-
partment might want to withhold
was announced.
Until last week, the press room
had two teletype machines, one
carrying reports from headquarters
to the precinct and the other re-
ports from the precincts to head
quarters. The machine bringing in
news from the precincts was re-
moved last week. The other oper-
ated until early today. While the
police radio gives flashes on happen
ings Of interest to the police, it does
not carry news of arrests and other
results OF police calls.
Early today a policeman shot and
killed a burglar suspect. It was
some time before reporters heard
about 1t.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Fisher Loses Appeal
On Death Sentence
In Cathedral Staying

The Court of Appeals today af-
f1rmed the District Court convic-
ton of Julius Fisher, 81, colored
for the Staying l3 months ago OF
Miss Catherine Reardon in the
Washington Cathedral library.
Declaring the principal conten-
ton of Fisher in the appeal was
that "the evidence is not sufficient
to justify the jury in finding that
the killing was premeditated," the
Appellate Court opinion. written BY
Justice Thurman Arnold, held thai
the evidence was sufficient.
Referring to denial of the lower
court of a request to instruct the
jury along certain lines regarding
Fishers mental condition, the Court
of Appeals decision declared:
80 far as sanity is concerned
there is no testimony indicating
appellant did not know the nature
and character of the act or was MOI
conscious Of the difference between
right and wrong"
Inc apeidte court also ASSERTED
that brutal murders are not com
mitted by normal people"
At the same time, the court sait
that to give an instruction to tn,
jury such as was asked in the lowe
court by Fishers counsel would b.
Ito tell the jury they are at libert.
to acquit one who commits bruta
crime because he has the abnorma
tendencies of persons capable o
such crimes"
Justices Henry w. Edgerton an
Justin Miller heard the case in tn
Appellate Court with Justice Arm
old. Fisher is scheduled to be elec
trocuted on June %, the dat
having been postponed severs
times pending outcome of the ap
! peal.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Man Held in Inquiry
Into Woman S Death

Police today are holding a &c.
year-old man at the 18th precinct
pending an autopsy on Mrs. Harriet
G. Thomas, 2S-year old mother of
two children, who yesterday was
found dead on a bed in the mans
apa. tment in the 1000 block of Ninth
street NE, according to police.
The autopsy will be performed to-
day by Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald. The wife of Navy enlisted
man, Mrs. Thomas was found fully
clothed on the bed, police said, and
there were no apparent signs of vio-
lence. The man, who told police he
found the body on returning to his
apartment at $3.50 pm, said he met
the woman some time ago at party,
but did not know she was in the
apartment.
Police said Mrs. Thomas had en-
tered the apartment with the man s
key, having known where he was in
the habit of placing it outside the
door.
Mrs. Thomas lived in the $500
block of Twentieth avenue, Green
Meadows, Md, and is the mother of
Carol, 4, and Paul Thomas, 16 months
old, police said. Her husband, Sea-
man Robert Joseph Thomas, is be-
lieved to be overseas, police de-
clared.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Prayer Service Planned
For Security Conference

Undersecretary of State Joseph c.
Grew will speak at the Washington
Cathedral at pm. next Sunday at
a prayer service on the first Sunday
of the United Nations Security
Conference, the Very Rev. John
Wallace Suter, dean at the Cathe-
dral, announced today.
The service, sponsored jointly by
the Washington Federation of
Churches and the Cathedral, will
offer prayers for the peoples of the
United Nations and for their leaders
meeting at San Francisco.
The Right Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop
of Washington; the Rev. DR.. John
w. Rustin. federation president and
pastor of Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church; the Rev. DR..
Fred S. Buschmeyer, Washington
Ministerial Union president and
pastor of Mount Pleasant Congre-
gational Church, and Dean Suter
will participate in the service.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Labor Supply
Falling TooLow
Here, WkCSays
Dangerous Rote'
Of Decline in Numbe,
Of Job Seekers Cited

The number of job seekers in the
Washington area is declining "at q
rate dangerous to the manpower sit
uation in the Nations Capital
Ernest v. Connolly, Washington area
manpower director, announced to-
day.
The disappearing labor traffic
through the six Offices of the United
States Employment Service in this
area, he reported, indicates Wash
tngtons absentee and turnover
problems are ''far from being under
control" The demand for new work.
ers has not decreased along with
the labor supply, he said.
Number Fell in March.
Announcing employment figures
for March, Mr.. Connolly said an in
tenslve recruiting campaign would
be necessary. Plans for the cam
paign are now being worked out by
the area VINO Labor Management
Committee and the Advisory Re-
cruitment Committee, headed by
Alexander Shapiro of the Capital
Transit Co.
In terms of job seekers, Mr.. Con-
molly reported, March was far be-
low previous peak months. An esti-
mated 15,840 workers applied to
USES Offices In the Metropolitan
Area for jobs in March as compared
with 20,600 in January, 1945.
Job openings filled in March in
the Washington area, which in
cludes Montgomery, Prince Georges.
Arlington and Fairfax Counties and
Alexandria, Va, totaled 10,720 as
compared with 1857 job place.
ments in January.
Job Openings Not Filled.
OF the job placements in March,
Mr.. Connolly reported, 6,086 were
direct placements and in 4,640 cases
the workers already had lined up
their jobs, but had to go to the
USES for referral.
The USES Offices came nowhere
near filling all the job openings. In
March, employers had listed open
ings for 25,787 workers.
Mr.. Connolly. however, cited one
hopeful note. He said more workers
were placed in essential firms dur
ing March than at any time since
the priority referral system went
into operation last July. One out
OF every four workers placed in jobs
by the USES last month went to
concerns with top priority rating.
Mr.. Connolly said. About eight of
every 10 workers went to essential
Jobs.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Senate Group Approves
Matthews and Flynn

Favorable reports on the nomina-
tions of w. Bruce Matthews of La
Plata, Md, to be United States
marshal for the District and Ber-
nard J. Flynn for another term as
United States attorney for Mary
land were ordered today by the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee.
Action by the Senate to confirm
the selections, which were made by
the late President Roosevelt, is ex-
pected to be taken tomorrow. Rec
concentrations for favorable action
came last week from a subcommittee
headed by Senator Hatch, Democrat
of New Mexico.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Trade Board Survey
Predicts Abundant
Postwar Jobs Here

Abundant job opportunities here
after the war are indicated in the
survey conducted for the Washing
ton Board of Trade by Opinion Re-
search Corp.
Third in a series of releases pre-.
pared by the boards Postwar Plan
ming Committee, the survey figures
show that the labor force here
after the war will be reduced by ap-
proximately 81 per cent.
This means there will be q labor
force of about 475,000 persons, not
nearly enough to fill the 556 900 jobs
that the Postwar Planning Com.
mittee has estimated will be avail.
able here in the second postwar
year.
But If $4,000 servicemen return
to work in the District area, as the
committee has estimated, labor sup.
ply will just about equal the esti-
mated demand. However, additional
workers will be required to fill the
estimated 100000 jobs necessary fol-
the fifth postwar year.
The survey showed that 86 pei
cent Of Government employees and
81 per cent of those privately en-
ployed intend to remain in the
Washington area.
The greatest loss in age groups
will be among those under 30, OF
whom only II per cent will continue
to make Washington their home
Approximately SO per cent of the
white residents and 95 per cent oi
the colored will remain here.
Professional workers lead in the
percentage of those who will make
Washington their postwar home, "a
per cent answering the question in
the affirmative. 49,
Nine per cent of the privately
employed women to retire from work
to do their own housework and
per cent of the Federally employed
women clerks plan similar action.
Among the workers more than SO
years old, 4 per cent plan to retire
when the emergency is over.
Evening star., 1945-04-23

Commissioner John Russell Young
ordered an investigation today of a
news blackout" In the press room at
police headquarters which occurred
when the -teletype which carries
reports of fires, accidents, holdups
and other events Of public interest
were shut of at midnight.
The press room teletype was cut
off, it was learned, when the Metro
politan police teletype system went
on a tri-State circuit with Virginia
and Maryland for the exchange of
police news of mutual interest. The
police were advised by Herbert
Friede, chief of communications for
the District government, that it
would be violation of the Federal
c Communications Act of 1884 to make
public any confidential police in
formation sent from one State to
another.
It was planned, police officials said,
to copy the local incidentals-police
reports of crimes and accidents
and relay them to the pressroom
teletype. But, 1t was argued, this
would entail considerable delay. The
reports, meanwhile, were made avail
able in the office Of Inspector Robert
Barrett, chief Of detectives. This
means police reporters had to go to
Evening star., 1945-04-23
John F. 0'DonneII Dies;
Navy Yard Machinist

John F. ODonnell, so, a ma
chinist at the Washington Navy
Yard for AZ years, died today at the
home of his sister. Mrs. Lawrence
E. Dolan, 4O06 Thirteenth street
NV. He had been i'll since Feb
ruary.
Mr.. O'Donnell was born in Balti-
more and received his education in
the public schools of this city. He
was a member of the knights OF
Columbus and the Holy Name So
ciety of st. Anthony's Church. He
lived at 1904 Newton street NE.
Besides his sister, he leaves a
brother, James v. ODonneu OF
Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
9 am. Wednesday at the residence
on Thirteenth street. Requiem mass
will follow at $3.50 am. at st. An
thongs Church. Burial will be in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Bandit Attempts
To Hold Up Man
ION Train, FIees
~ the Associated Press.

ABERDEEN, Md, April 23.-State,
county and military police today
were searching for an armed COL
ored man who attempted Saturday
night to hold up a passenger on q
Pennsylvania Railroad train, threat
ened conductor with a revolver
and then escaped after he pulled the
emergency cord and brought the
train to stop near here.
The holdup attempt occurred on
a New York-bound train and was
thwarted when a sailor rushed from
the coach where the robbery at
tempt was made and summoned aid.
Conductor F. L. Schabaur was
held of by the man as the latter
pulled the emergency cord. The
train came to stop as 1t entered
the Aberdeen station and Tia bandit
made his escape.
Twelve military police from the
Aberdeen Proving Ground and a
number of State police started a
search for the man. Tie bandit
was described as about 40 years
old and was wearing q brown
sweater and dark trousers. Rail-
road officials did not identify the
intended victim or the sailor.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
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|ForCongress
Early Construction
Hinges on Priorities.
Hearing Is Told

Proposals for the construction Of
apartment hotels for members of
the House and Senate and their sec
retarial staffs were revived today
at hearing before a subcommittee
Of the House Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee.
Representative Morrison, Demo-
crat, of Louisiana, who conducted
the session, said the purpose of the
hearing was to listen to proposals
from prospective builders.
A request that Congress act to
obtain priorities for an apartment
hotel on a site at c street and New
Jersey avenue, south of the new
House Office Building, was made by
Titus Du Bobla, an architect, who
said he held an option on the site.
He was supported by Wesley
Mcdonald and Robert H. Mcneil,
attorneys, who explained the
prospective builder had the land,
building plans, financing and labor
and that all that was needed was
priorities for materials. The prospec-
tive builder said he was willing to
leave questions of rental prices to
Congress or the District rent ad-
ministrator, who has been very
fair"
Another proposal was outlined by
M. F. Moore, who spoke for Fulton
r. Gordon, as the owner of an apart
ment hotel site at Connecticut ave-
nue. and Legation street. While the
Du Bobla proposal was for private
ownership and operation, Mr.. Moore
proposed that the Government take
title of project calling for a struc-
ture containing 400 units and a gym
nasium in an area where parks and
swimming pool could be provided.
| Mr.. Moore suggested a total cost
of about $1,800,000, which he said
could be amortized over a period of
30 years.
j. B. Shapiro, Washington builder,
renewed his request for priorities
for a privately owned apartment
hotel to be erected on Adams Mill
road near Rock Creek Park and
suggested rentals ranging from
$3.50 month for the smallest units
to 5000 month for units of six
rooms and two baths.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Ponomo ConoI Society
Names Ross President

Walter G. Ross. Washington busi-
nessman, has been elected president
Of Panama Canal Society of WASH
lngton, it was announced today.
Roger E. Erdman was named vice
president and David B. Wolverton
secretary-treasurer at a dinner
meeting held Saturday at 2400 Six
teenth street NV.
Samuel Legis, Panamanian Am
bassador, spoke at the dinner and
presented silk flag of his country
to the society. 1t was accepted by
Maurice H. Thatcher, former gov
ernor of the Canal Zone and one
time member of Congress from
Kentucky.
Evening star., 1945-04-23

DR.. Morley JUL. head of the uni
versity's poultry department, said
shipment of eggs to Europe by air
should have a greater chance of
Matching than South American
cargoes, because of lower tempera-
lures encountered in transit. He
said setting eggs should be kept be-
tween 40 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit.
DR.. JUL said the shipments to
Russia in the near future will be
through sub-freezing climates.
The tests we're begun in March,
1914, when a lot of 180 eggs was
flown from here to Los Angeles and
back. DR.. JUL said 1877 per cent
of the lot Matched, compared to a
9l.5 hatch from q similar lot kept
at the university.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
5000 Hear Douglas
Praise Roosevelt al
Memorial Services

More than 5000 persons, many in
uniform, gathered yesterday at the
Sylvan Theater on the Washington
Monument Grounds to honor
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
I'VE come" said the Rev. Paul J,
McNally, S. j., vice president OF
Georgetown University and chair
man of the meeting, "to try tc
answer the question burning in every
grieving heart, the question first
asked by Mrs. Roosevelt, What can
we do to help?'"
Supreme Court Justice Douglas
said:
His name was on a casualty list
that entered every home in the
land"
Worlds Biggest Job.
Justice Douglas, personal friend
and appointee of the late President
concluded his talk by saying:
mo one man could build lasting
peace. President Roosevelt knew
that, probably better than any man
living. He wasn't trying to do
something for us. He was doing
something with us, something that
all of us agreed on and knew had
to be done. It's big job, the big
gest the world has ever faced.
When Franklin Roosevelt died
we lost an engineer who knew that
job intimately, and who had been
working at it with all his heart and
all his strength for years. But he
did not die fearing that the job
would not be done because he was
gone. He knew it could be done
by the rest of us-if We worked at
it with as much patience and con-
viction and unselfshness."
Reads Final Message.
Cornelia Otis Skinner, leading
actress in the current play at the
National, read the last paragraphs
of Mr.. Roosevelt's last message, the
undelivered Jefferson Day radio ap-
peal ending with:
To-day as we move against the
terrible scourge of war-as we go
forward toward the greatest contri-
button that any generation of human
beings can make in this world-the
contribution of lasting peace, I ask
you to keep up your faith. ."
THE only limit to our realization
of tomorrow will be our doubts of
today. Let us move forward with
strong and active faith"
Senator Burton, Republican, of
Ohio, said:
THE best memorial to any one of
the present generation will be the
recognition of his part in establish
ing just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations. This
was the prayer of President Truman
in his message to our armed forces
last week This has been the prayer
of President Roosevelt for three
years. This was the prayer of Presi-
dent Lincoln 80 years ago. In such
memorial there is room for all who
share in building it"
Marine Sergt Maurice H. Pion,
retired, who last an arm at Guadal-
canal, led a pledge to work for peace.
Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld gave the
invocation and DR.. Frederick Refs
sig, executive director of the Wash
ington Federation of Churches, gave
the benediction.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Cur|ey Suddenly Ill;
Mail Fraud Trial
Delayed for Week

Trial of Representative James M
Curley, Democrat, of Massachusetts
and six others on charges of mail
fraud in connection with Govern
ment war contracts was postponed
today until next Monday because of
the illness of Mr.. Curley.
Attorney William E. Leahy, repre-
senting Mr.. Curley, told District
Court Justice T. Alan Goldsborough
his client was stricken in his room
at the Statler Hotel yesterday. Mr.
Leahy said he was told by the
Representatives. physician, DR.. 10.
seph j. Mccarthy, that Mr.. Curley',
illness grew out of an infection oi
undetermined origin. The attorney
said he was informed Mr.. Curley
would be taken to the Naval Hos.
pital at Bethesda sometime today.
Before coming to Congress in 1912
Mr.. Curley had been Governor oi
Massachusetts, and Mayor of Boston
The indictment charges him anc
the six others with having falsely
and faudulently" represented them
selves as being an experienced firm
of consulting engineers, equipped
with facilities for obtaining Govern
ment contracts.
The other defendants are James
Barton Underwood, formerly OF
Washington, who was president and
director of the firm; Donald Wake
field Smith of Chicago and Wash
ington, formerly a member of the
National War Labor Board, who was
assistant secretary and treasurer;
James G. Fuller, formerly of Wash
ingtop, now serving f1ve-year term
for sending fraudulent securities
through the mails, executive vice
president and director; Marshall j
Fitzgerald, Chicago and Washing
ton, secretary and director; Bert
Hall, Texas and Tulsa, Okla, vice
president and director, and David E
Desmond Rostnn a salesman
Evening star., 1945-04-23

10, an interim subsidy increase of 40
cents a hundred pounds will be
granted. Any increase will be re-
troactive to April l.
If the various moves aimed at
more equitable distribution don't
achieve that end, two more drastic
measures now on a standby basis
will be put into effect:
l. If packers do not voluntarily
distribute their meat to the same
areas and customers as they did in
the past, OPA will undertake to do
so by Federal order.
2. If the higher subsidies are used
to bid up prices, and the price CELL
ing structure is thereby threatened,
OPA will order "the fair apportion-
ment Of available live animals
among federally-inspected packing
houses.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
D. c. Woman to Sponsor
Submarine Trumpetfish

Mrs. Oswald S. Colcolough, 1905
Warren street NV, wife of Capt.
Colcolough, U. S. NJ, will sponsor
the submarine Trumpettsh, which
will be launched at the Cramp Ship
building Co. yards in Philadelphia
next Sunday, an Associated Press
dispatch reported in a Fourth Naval
District announcement yesterday.
Capt. Colcolough, a resident of
Washington since 1941, is graduate
of the Naval Academy. He is now
serving in the Pacific.
Funds for construction of the sub
marine were contributed by Phila-
delphia County Women's Clubs dur
ing the Sixth War Loan drive.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Setting Eggs to Go to Europe
Under Plans Drawn byM. u. -

Eggs laid in the United States
soon will be Matching in Euro
pean barnyards, providing source
of meat and poultry products for
the war-torn countries.
Under plans worked out by the
University of Maryland's poultry
department, the eggs for setting
will be shipped by air from this
country directly to Europe. The
Sovet Union, it was said, already
has asked large numbers of chicken
and turkey eggs.
For more than a year now test
egg shipments have been made to
various points in the Western
Hemisphere. Eggs have been flown
5,443 miles from here to Brazil and
over so per cent of the shipment
Matched.
Evening star., 1945-04-23
Mrs. V. N. RidgeIy, Wife
OF Former Pastor, Dies

Mrs. Anna r. Ridgely, wife of the
Rev. Vernon N. Ridgely, former
pastor of Calvary Methodist Church,
died Saturday in Baltimore.
Mr.. Ridgely was pastor at CAL
vary from 1882 to 1885.
Funeral services will be held at
IL am. tomorrow at the Tickner
funeral home, Baltimore. Burial
will be in Druid Ridge Cemetery
there.