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Evening star., 1945-04-24
New Jury Commissioner
To Take Oath Tomorrow

Edward G. Bliss, So, assistant gen.
eral manager of the Chesapeake ano
Potomac Telephone Co., is to be
sworn in at $50 am. tomorrow by
Chief Justice Bolitha j. Laws as 6
new jury commissioner for the Dis
trict.
Mr.. Bliss, who recently was named
at a general term session of the
justices of District Court, sue.
ceeds, Archibald McLachlen, vics
president and treasurer of the Nc.
Lachlen Banking Corp, who ha.
resigned as jury commissioner aftel
having served for more than two
years.
The duties of the commission
made up of three members, include
the selection of prospective Jurors
and grand jurors.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
United China Relief
Day Being Observed
In Clothing Campaign

Today is being observed as United
China Relief day in the United
National Clothing Collection drive,
Charles Stofberg, director Of organ
ization, said yesterday.
Thursday will be known as Philip
pine day and Sunday, one day be-
fore the Nationwide drive closes,
will be French day.
Congestion at Post Offices, which
are among the places being used as
depots in the drive, has become
acute and one postal clerk said that
sit looks like Christmas around
here, except that it's clothing bum
dies instead of packages"
Trucks Continue Collection.
Commissioner John Russell Young,
chairman of the local part of the
drive, said every effort would be
made to relieve congestion at Post
Offices, where storage facilities are
limited. Trucks of the Salvation
Army, Goodwill Industries and the
Volunteers of America are con-
tinuing collection work and detail
of soldiers is helping the work of
sorting and packing at the central
warehouse, 469 C street NV.
A sorting bee" will be held at
the central warehouse from 7 to 10
pm Thursday. with Mrs. Mary
Rochester. in charge of the ware
house, serving as hostess. Men and
women volunteers have been in
vited to attend.
Pickups at Apartments.
From now on it was said that
collections from apartment houses
will be final, the pickups being made
after collections of clothing in each
building are completed. The truck
making collections from apartments
today is from House of Stover, Inc,
collections tomorrow and Thursday
will be made by trucks of E. Kahn
&, Co., Inc.
Persons presenting S pounds of
acceptable clothing will be admitted
free to Thursdays matinee at the
Avalon Theater. 5612 Connecticut
avenue NV, 1t was announced.
The Uptown Washington Lions
Club is sponsoring the project. The
matinee begins at $3.50 pm. Sheets,
blankets, quilts and shoes will be
accepted, as we'll as garments.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Committee Named 10 Stud,
Jobs for Residents Bill

In response to protests over the
selection of outsiders" to District
jobs, Chairman McCarran of the
Senate Judiciary Committee has
named subcommittee to begin con-
sideration of the Chavez bill to re-
serve specified District jobs for bona
fide residents.
The action came after the Judici-
ary Committee ordered a favorable
report to the Senate on the nomi-
nation of w. Bruce Matthews of La
Plata, Md, to be United States mar
shall for the District.
There was no opposition to Mr.
Matthews except that he was not q
bonafide resident of Washington
This objection was outlined last
week to a subcommittee of the SEN
ate Judiciary Committee by Melvin
D. Hildreth, speaking for the Demo-
cratic Central Committee for the
District.
Named on the subcommittee to
consider the bill of Senator Chavez
Democrat, of New Mexico are Sena-
tors O'Mahoney of wyoming and
Chandler of Kentucky, Democrats;
and LANCER, Republican, of North
Dakota.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
today also recommended to the Sem
ate confirmation of Bernard j. Flynn
for another term as United States
attorney for the Maryland district
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Police Hunt for Girl, 13,
Missing on Way TO Bus

Prince Georges County police to-
day were investigating the disap-
pearance of 13-year- old Joan Gun
ther, daughter of Mrs. Ann
Gunther, 905 Ray road, Takoma
Park, Md, who was last seen Sun
day night after accompanying a
friend to a bus at New Hampshire
avenue and Kennedy street NV.
Police quoted the girls mother as
saying Joan was seen returning
home along New Hampshire ave-
nue.. The bus stop is about a mile
from the Gunther home.
Joan, whose father is an Army
lieutenant serving in the Pacific
has never failed to come home with
out telephoning, her mother told
police.
Police said the girl was without a
coat and was wearing rose -colored
suit. She is feet 8 inches tall
weighs $50 pounds and has wavy
light brown hair.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Tuck Files as Candidate
For Virginia Governor
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, April 24.-Lt
Gov. William M. Tuck, Halifax
formally qualified yesterday as a
candidate for the Democratic nom-
ination for Governor in the August
primary by paying his filing fee OF
5000 to the State treasurer and filing
with Horace H. Edwards, chairman
of the Democratic State Committee
a petition containing the names OF
600 qualified electors.
Moss A. Plunkett, Roanoke, only
opponent of Mr.. Tuck in the Demo-
cratic primary SO far, has not filed
his petition. The deadline for filing
is May 8.
Neither of two other possible
candidates-former State Senator
Vivian L. Page, Norfolk, or former
Speaker Ashton Dovell, Williams
burg-has made any announcement
about running.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Voting IsLight
On nDe|egates
In Virginia
Only $4,000 Persons
Expected to Cost
Ballots in State

A comparative handful of Vir-
ginians struggled to the polls this
morning to cast their ballots for
delegates to convention to amend
the Constitution to allow service
personnel to vote in State and local
elections without personal registra-
ton or payment of a poll tax. The
convention will meet Monday in
Richmond.
In Alexandria, home of both can
didates for delegate from the 29th
Senatorial District, only 20 persons
had voted by midmorning. In Ar
hngton, a separate district, there
was no contest and little interest
was shown in the election.
In the State at large there are go
candidates for the 40 convention
seats. with contests in 18 of the dis
tricts. Observers predict that fewer
than $4,000 of the 100000 potential
voters will cast ballots. The polls
will close at 7:54 pm.
In the 29th neither Robinson
Moncure nor Walter T. Young, both
OF Alexandria, have made an active
campaign. L. A. Montague, Center
vile, announced as third candidate
but failed to qualify.
In Arlington County, former State
Senator Frank L. Ball is unopposed.
MIR. Ball has announced he will seek
an amendment to the constitution
abolishing the poll tax for all voters.
Mr.. Moncure, former Corpora
ton Court judge, has announced in
favor Of retaining the poll tax ex-
cept for service personnel, while his
opponent, Mr.. Young. recently re-
leased from the Army, favors
abolishing the tax as a prerequisite
to voting.
The 1914 session of the General
Assembly attempted to waive these
requirements by legislation, but this
War Voters Act was declared un-
constitutional by the State Supreme
Court.
A special election then was called
to set in motion the machinery for
changing the constitution and Vir-
ginians voted by wide majority to
call a constitutional convention.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
May Draft Call
AffectFew
Over 3 Here
Pool Of Younger
AvuiIubIes Increases
As Many Lose Stoys

Few men over 80 will be called
for induction by District draft
boards in May. a District draft
spokesman predicted today.
He based his prediction on the
number of men under 80 who have
become available for induction be-
cause they were not certified for
deferment by a Government agency.
For the last month, he said, boards
have been taking a substantial
number of men from the pool Of
older draft eligibles. For the rest
of this month, however, and during
May, men under 80 will fill most
OF the calls.
Men in the 1898 age group, how
ever, are considered extremely vul-
nerable" and will be called for in
duction as the pool of younger men
is exhausted.
Pool Not Large.
The District draft spokesmen ad-
mitted the pool of available 18-to-
29-year- -olds was not as large as
District draft headquarters had as
sumed it would be when the order
went out that only 80 per cent of
the men under 80 could be certi-
fed for deferment.
One of the largest reservoirs of men
under 80, he explained, is in the
naval establishments here which
have greatly exceeded" the 80 per
cent ceiling. 1t was possible, he said,
that the Navy went over 80 per cent
here with the idea of making up
the difference in naval establish
ments elsewhere. but in any case
the majority of younger men at the
Navy Yard were not made available
for induction.
In June a substantial number of
18-year-olds who were deferred to
finish the last half of their aca-
demic year will be available to fill
calls-if they haven't already en-
listed in the Navy.
Older Men After June.
After June, however, the District
draft official predicted, if calls con-
tinue as they are now going, the
oJoI1Vy VI 1llCll 1Ol
service by District boards will be
the older registrants.
The draft spokesman said, how
ever, that the District has been per-
mitted to allocate more of its call
to the foreign board, which has reg
istrants throughout the world.
These men finally are becoming
available for induction, which will
relieve other District boards
slightly.
Asked how District boards are
following the Government agency
recommendations on deferring men
under 30 in private industry, he
said that some boards are putting
a considerable number of men with
Government agency certiication in
la while others are giving occupa-
tfonal deferments to men who have
not been certified.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Senate Action Today
On Draft Extension
Predicted by Hill
By the Associated Press.

|
Acting Majority Leader Hill ex-
pressed confidence the Senate could
complete action today on legislation
to keep the draft alive.
His prediction came after defeat
of the first of two amendments de-
signed to restrict the use of young
draftees in combat.
The chamber voted 66 to 8 yeSter-
day against proposal by Senator
O'Daniel, Democrat, of Texas to bar
assignment of men under 20 to
combat without a full years train
ing.
Up for decision today is some
what less drastic proposal spon-
sored jointly by Senators Johnson,
Democrat, of Colorado; Stewart,
Democrat, of Tennessee; Revercomb,
Republican, of West Virginia, and
Wilson, Republican, of Iowa. 1t
would forbid assignment of selectees
under 19 to combat unless they had
received at least six months train
ing.
Amendment Modified.
At the request of Chairman Walsh
of the Naval Affairs Committee, the
pending amendment was modified
to permit the Navy to continue to
assign men to ships for training.
Senator ODaniels proposal was
rejected after Senator Hill read the
Senate an excerpt from a letter
written by Gen. George c. Marshall
to Chairman Thomas of the Mill
tary Affairs Committee.
"Just as soon as the military sit
uation will permit" the Chief of
Staff wrote, sit is the purpose of the
War Department to stop shipping
men overseas who have not yet be-
come 10 years of age, and I am
hopeful that this will develop in the
near future"
The bill itself would extend the
draft law to May Is, 1916, or to the
end of the fighting, whichever
comes first.
Hill Presents Figures.
TO Gen. MarShaUS statement,
Senator Hill added an assertion that
fewer than 10000 men have been
sent into combat by the Army with
less than six months of training.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland said it was clear the Army
was trying to do in practice what
the SnonSorS of a manda tory mini
mum training period wanted to Or
der by legislation. Senator O'Dan-
iel's amendment got support only
from himself and Senator Bilbo of
Mississippi, McCarran of Nevada
and Stewart, Democrats, and Bush
field of South Dakota, LANCER of
North Dakota, Moore of Oklahoma
Revercomb and Young of North Da-
kota, Republicans.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Fay and Bove Granted
Right to Appeal Case
By the Associated Press,

Es the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 24.-Supreme
Court Justice Isador Wasservoeel
yesterday granted a certificate of
reasonable doubt to Joseph s. Fay
and James Bove, AFL union lead
ers, permitting them to appeal their
conviction on charges of conspiracy
and extortion in connection with
the citys $500, 0,000,0 Delaware
water project.
The court, held that legal ques-
tions had been raised which should
be reviewed by the appellate divi-
sion.
The granting of the certificate
permits the defendants to apply for
immediate bail. They were SEN
fenced to terms Of 81 to Is years
in prison.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Gen. Truman Landon,
7th Bomber Command,
lis Awarded DSM

Brig. Gen. Truman H. Landon
who commanded the 7th Bomber
Command in the Pacific Ocean
areas from February l to December
10, 1914, has been awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Medal, the War
Department announced today.
The 7th Bomber Command, de-
spite shortages Of personnel and
equipment, maintained heavy
schedule of tactical operations
against the Japanese over a vast
ocean area and overcame "insur-
mountable obstacles" in carrying
out combat assignments. Gen.
Landon is from Los Angeles.
Brig. Gen. Dale v. Gaffney of
Portland, Greg, has been awarded
the Legion of Merit as commanding
officer of Ladd Field, Alaska, from
September, 1899, to May, 1943. He
later commanded the Alaskan
Wing, Air Transport Command,
contributing to the solution of prob
lens incidental in operating air.
craft in cold weather.
He organized the Cold Weather
Detachment at Ladd Field, operat-
ing in temperatures go to 10 degrees
below zero. Upon the outbreak of
war he expanded his base to sup
port our air attacks against the
japanese in the Aleutians and help
move lease-lend aircraft to Russia
Other Legion of Merit awards:
Col. David r. Stinson, 5462 Thrift
eth street NV, commander of the
Corsican Air Subarea from March
l to July 3, 1914. He developed
three service groups that were able
to supply a number of fighter and
bomber groups during period when
shipping was definitely limited.
Col. Lloyd H. Watnee of 2s74
Northampton street NV. was con-
troll officer of the Army Airways
communications Syste m from
March II. 1912, to April 25, 1943. and
commanded the organizations Sys-
tenn Wing from April 26. 1943, to
November 8, 1943. Col. Watnee ad-
ministered a world wide communi-
cations system now comprising some
$50 stations in 7 domestic and 16
foreign regions, contributing effec-
lively to air operations.
Maj. Matthias E. Lukens Of 422
North Thomas street, Arlington,
Va, during August, 1912. to Decem-
Der, 1914, contributed to the success
full development of the functional
organization of AAF Zone of the
Interior air bases. He conducted
field tests of the plan and indoctri-
mated the commanding generals and
their stats in the principles of the
plan.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
BY the Associated Press,

ATLANTA. April 24.-From the
dark and silent world which she
vanquished by her own spirit, Helen
Keller yesterday brought renewed
faith and courage to wounded Amer
ican fighting men at Lawson Gen.
eral Hospital here.
And as she moved from bed to
bed-a word of cheer here and q
bright smile there-sick and weary
soldiers who knew of Helen Keller
and her gallant fight for a normal
life despite sfghtless eyes and deaf
ears took heart.
"a spirit like yours can never be
changed" she told 1t. Sherburn C.
Searl, Is, of Ludlow, Vt. He lost a
leg in Germany.
Running her gentle Seeing" hands
over the head and face of Capt
William D. Butler, 27, Los Angeles,
Miss Keller said, You are very
good-looking." And right she was
He spent three and half years OF
combat duty in the Pacific and in
the European theater.
You have the spirit of a free
man. Blessings upon you," she said
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Foirfox PIons Hearing
On Budget Tomorrow

Mayor Robert D. Graham of Fair
fax announced today that the town
Council will hold q public hearing
at pm. tomorrow In the Trial JUS
tice Building on the tentative town
budget for the next fiscal year.
Town Treasurer Walter T. Oliver
jr, said that while the budget calls
for an increase In expenditures, nc
increase is anticipated in the town
tax rate Of 81 per 500 valuation.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
c. U. VocoIists to Give
Joint Concert Sunduy

The combined Catholic University
Mems Glee Club, School of Nursing
Education Glee Club and the UNI
versity choir will give their annual
concert at $3.50 pm. Sunday in the
gymnasium at Catholic University.
Mrs. Helen Corbin Heinl, Wash.
ington pianist, will be guest artist.
The program is being arranged by
DR.. Leo A. Behrendt, director Of the
university singers.
In memory Of Catholic University
students and alumni who have died
In this war. the choir will sing Per.
oSi's "Dies Irae."
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Rites for Orlando Sykes
Set for Today in Hyatfsvi|Ie

Funeral services for Orlando F.
Sykes, 81, who died Sunday as his
home, 5725 Forty third avenue, Hy-
attsville, Md, will be held at $3.50
pm. today at the. Gasch funeral
home, Hyattsville. Burial will be in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Mr.. Sykes was a claims examiner
at the General Accounting Office,
where he had been employed for
more than 80 years. He was born in
Richmond, Va.
His only son, First 1t. Jack Will
lis Sykes, was killed in action near
Aachen last September.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Helen Sykes; a sister, Mrs Annie
Troutman, Richmond, and a brother
Harvie L. Sykes, Allenhurst, N. j.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Direct Air Service Storts
ToTuIsu, OkIuhomu City

Direct air service to Tulsa and
Oklahoma City was inaugurated
yesterday on new schedule added
by American Airlines to its Wash
ington-Los Angeles route.
The new schedule calls for de-
parture from here at 2:55 am, ar
rival at Nashville at 5:56 am, Tulsa
at 10 am, Oklahoma City at
1888 am. and Los Angeles at 7::3O
pm. Returning, the fight leaves
Los Angeles at 9:25 pm. and ar
rives in Washington at 600 pm. the
next day.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Gross Makes Tour
Of Markets.; Asks
is This American
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASsociated Press.
Representative Gross of Pennsyl-
vania told the House yesterday that
after a tour Of Washington's food
markets he wonders: "Is this Amer
ica?"
The self-styled York County "dirt
farmer" said:
"A lot of food is being offered that
we back in the country have never
taken into the house-such things
as chicken heads, fish heads, chicken
feet, bacon rind and ham rind-the
kind of things I saw the poor starv-
ing people of Puerto Rico buying
and eating some years ago."
Mr.. Gross made trip. to Puerto
Rico in 1898,
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Report boIsters
U. 5. Employees
Hope for Raise
House Probers Find
LIST, 900 Receive
Same Pay as in 1923
BY JOSEPH YOUNG.

Hopes Of Government employees
for wage adjustments were boil
stored today by a report of the
House Civil Service Committees
investigating unit which showed
glaring inequities in the salaries
OF thousands of Federal en-
ployes.
The report, which will be submit.
ted to Congress sometime this week,
showed that approximately 1,250, 900
Government workers are in positions
which carry the same salary they
dio IN 1928 when the wages were
fixed under the Classification Act.
No Wage Boosts.
Despite increases in the cost of
living since the war, there have been
no wage boosts for these workers,
Ilme-and-a-twelfth provisions for
overtime are now in effect, but the
Civil Service Commission as well as
various Federal unions have asked
for regular time-and-a-half provi.
sions.
Chairman Downey of the Senate
Civil Service Committee has intro
duced legislation calling for Is per
cent base wage increases for Federal
workers in addition to the time
and-a-half provisions. Hearings on
the proposed legislation start to-
morrow.
In contrast to workers coming
under the Classification Act. those
working on per diem basis have
had several wage adjustments.
Importance of the special investi-
eating units report is stressed by
the emphasis placed on it by
Chairman Ramspeck of the House
Civil Service Committee, and Rep
resentative Jackson, Democrat, of
Washington, who is chairman of the
special House subcommittee which
starts hearings next month on pro-
posed pay boosts for Federal work.
ers.
Both Representatives felt that It
was essential for Congress to get a
clear picture of the Federal wage
structure before it could consider
legislation.
The investigating unit has drawn
no conclusions for Congress. pre-
ferring to let the facts speak for
themselves. Statistics taken from
the report will be closely studied by
both Civil Service Committees of
Congress.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
E Awarded War Plant

The American Instrument Co.
plant No. l at Silver Spring, Md,
has been awarded the Army Navy
"E" for excellence in the manufac-
ture of war materials. 1t was among
18 firms receiving the award.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Those Who Want Sincerely to Aid I

bers of the motor corps in their
home towns and have since come to
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1945-03-22
EUROPE:
Rebuff Nazis

Amid a furry of talk that high
German groups had sounded the
U. S. and Britain out or peace pos
sibilities, Allied armies maintained
their heavy pressure against Nazi
lines in both the east and west.
According to one report. Gen.
Dwight Eisenhower rebuffed Field
Marshal Won Rundstedt's approach
for an armistice, under which the
latter offered to pull German
armies beyond the Rhine. where
they have been forced, and disarm
them.
Published in Sweden's Svenska
Dagbladet, the other report dealt
with German ov%ertures to a British
official for an armistice for preserv-
ing the Reich as a bulwark against
the "Bolshevik menace" To include
the retention of the Nazis in office
and the evacuation of occupied ter
ritory. the offer also was fatty re-
jected. it was said.
Even as the reports came through,
Germany rocked under the tremor
of continued heavy aerial assaults.
aimed at Nazi industrial installa-
tions. communication lines feeding
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1945-03-22
NEW PLAN FOR
CHIC OSING JUDGES

Supreme court justices and
district judges would be ap-
pointed by the governor and go
before the people at the end of
each term for approval to re-
main in office under the judi
cial selection and tenure plan
which has been under consider
alton by the Montana Bar As
ISOLATION for more than three
years.
H. C.. Crippen, Billings at
torney and president of the as
ISOLATION outlined the plan re-
Gently as steps were being taken
to present in the Montana leg
lSlature a proposal to change
the present system of judicial
selection. Crippen said that the
plan is patterned after the judi
icial selection and tenure SyS-
tenn which IS in effect in Mis-
souri, and which is looked upon
by attorneys over the country
as a model plan.
It provides:
l.. Creation of a judicial COM
mission composed of the presi-
dent of the state bar asSocia-
ton, the senior district judge in
point of service in the state,
the immediate past president
of the state bar association,
the dean of the law school at
Montana State university, which
four members shall select
three others, one representing
labor, one representing agricul-
ture and one representing in
dustry.
2. When a vacancy occurs in
the office of the chief justice,
associate justice or district
Judge, the commission shall
certify the names of three NOM
inees to the governor, who must
appoint one of the three.
3. At the end of the term for
which he is elected chief JUS
tlce, associate justice Or dis
trict judge, he shall go before
the people On his record, with
no opposing candidate, the ell
ectors voting upon the question:
Shall Judge Cnaming him. be
retained?"
4. If a majority of the elect
ors answer the question in the
affirmative, the retiring Judge