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Evening star., 1945-01-22
.3-Day Seminar Slated
For Methodist Group

A three day seminar on Americas
Role in World Affairs" with en-
phasis on the global mission of the
church in postwar reconstruction,
will be held at American University.
starting April 10, DR.. William K. An
derson, head of the Methodist Gen.
eral Conference Commission on
courses Of study, announced today.
The commission, which is sponsor
ing the seminar expects more than
$50 Methodist ministers to attend.
DR.. Paul F. Douglass, president of
the university, announced that three
courses have been prepared. The
courses, and the men who prepared
them, are: Critical Organization,
by DR.. Pitman B. Potter, professor
of International Law in the graduate
division of American University and
editor of the American Journal of
International Law; Problems of
Tariff and Trade in the Postwar
World" by DR.. Howard Piquet, ad-
junct professor of economics of the
graduate division of the university
and secretary of the Interim Com
mission on Food and Agriculture of
the United Nations, and "Global
Missions of the Christian Church"
by DR.. Emory Ross, general secre-
tary of Foreign Missions Conference
OF North America, and DR.. Douglass.
DR.. Potter, Piquet and Ross each
have charge of the program for one
day. They announced that Govern
ment officials will address the classes
on special aspects of the studies.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
|WiIIiamsNamed
Chief Of REA
.ByPresident
Succeeds SIuttery,
Who Resigned After
Blast at Wickurd

President Roosevelt today nom
mated Aubrey Williams. former
administrator of the National
Youth Administration, to be ad-
miniStrator Of the Rural Elec-
trif1cation Administration, a post
which Harry Slattery resigned
late last year with a blast charg-
ing Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard had been guilty of ''il-
legal acts"
Mr.. Williams resigned as chief
of the National Youth Administra-
ton in September, 1943, and became
director of organization for the
Eastern and Southern States for
the National Farmers Union. He
had been head of NYA since July,
1899.
Mr.. Slattery also was named REA
administrator in 1889. He sub
mitted his resignation November 25.
1t was announced by the White
House December II and at the same
time Mr.. Slattery issued a state
ment in which he said the situation
in REA had become "indefensible
and increasingly intolerable."
Slattery Accused Wickard.
He accused Mn Wickard of hav-
ing "by-passed and displaced" him
by investing most of the admins
trative powers in deputy REA ad-
ministrator whom Mr.. Slattery
identified as William j. Neal. He
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Roosevelt Names ; Envoys
For Latin American Posts

President Roosevelt today sent to
the Senate the nominations Of three
ambassadors to Central American
and Caribbean republics.
Edwin Jackson Kyle of Texas was
named to succeed Boaz Long as en-
voy to Guatemala.
Joseph F. McGurk of New Jersey,
formerly deputy director of the Of
flee of American Republics Affairs
in the State Department, was named
Ambassador to the Dominican Re-
public. He will succeed Ellis Briggs,
a veteran foreign service officer.
r. Henry Norweb of Ohio, a for
eign service officer who has been
Minister to Portugal, was named
Ambassador to Panama. He will
replace Avra Warren. who recently
was appointed director of the Office
of American Republics Affairs.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Wage Arbitration Asked
AT Woodward & Lothrop

The council of the Union of
Woodward & Lothrop Employees, an
independent union, has decided to
invoke an arbitration clause in it's
contract in connection with a re-
quest for SO weekly wage raise
for all store employees, according to
Walter L. Hodkinson, president of
the union.
The action was taken at a meet
ing of the council Thursday night
and Mr. Hodkinson was appointed
arbitrator for the union. Under the
contract, Mr.. Hodkinson said, the
store and union are entitled to
name one arbitrator each, with a
third to be chosen by the two.
Mr.. Hodkinson said the union Pc
titioned the firm December 20 for
the wage increase and that on
January Is the petition was de-
MED on the ground that it could not
be considered in view of 'llberalized
provisions" of the present three
year contract signed in August, 1914
Notification of the union action
was given to C. G. Booth, store per-
sonnel director, Mr.. Hodkinson said.
Mr.. Booth said the store man
agement had no comment.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Rosenman 10 Visit Europe
As Envoy for Roosevelt

Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, special
counsel to President Roosevelt, is
going to Europe to make what Pres
idential Secretary Stephen T. Early
today described as a sort of eco
nomic survey for the Chief Execu-
tive
Mr.. Early in announcing the i'm
nainent departure of Mr. Rosenman
said he would go to England, France,
Belgium and the Netherlands and
that as the personal representative
Of the President he would have the
rank of minister.
Mr.. Early said Judge Rosenman
would survey steps to be taken with
respect to the flow of vital supplies
other than finished munitions to
our Allies. He is expected to be
away two or three months.
Mr.. Early said he had not heard
of report that Sumner Welles was
going to Argentina as a personal
representative of the President.
Evening star., 1945-01-22

The transport bearing its load Of
wounded from the battlefields OF
Europe settles on the field.
AS the men are helped or carried
from the plane into the Boiling Field
Station Hospital, they see group of
women in blue pinafores.
The men, only a few days out of
battle, can't believe they're actually
home again. The women in blue
ask if there's anything they want.
They ask for a coke, milk shake.
The women scatter to the post eX-
change.
Later, there is the job of making
them comfortable until they are
transferred to other hospitals for
the weeks or months of treatment
that lie ahead, but the men don't
forget the reception they got at
Boiling Field from the women in
blue with the Red Cross on their
perky caps.
One of Many Duties.
These women are Red Gross
nurses aides. Meeting hospital
planes is only one of their many
duties on the wards of the Boiling
Field Station Hospital. Their pa :
tients include pilots returning from
overseas, veterans of many battle
missions now stationed at the field,
the men of the Army Air Forces
throughout Washington.
Like all Army hospitals, the field
hospital is suffering from q short
Evening star., 1945-01-22

He has been missing since jan
uary 7, the War Department dis
closed. A letter received from him
today was written January 8.
During his first four months In
the India-Burma theater he few
252 combat flying hours.
1t. Collier attended Washington
and Lee High School in Arlington,
and Dewitt School. and American
University here.
His father is in charge Of public
relations Of the lst Naval District
with headquarters in Boston. He
and Mrs. Collier are living in Cam
bridge, Mass, with their youngest
son, Jack. Another son, william, Is
a Navy flyer overseas. Their home
is on Old Dominion road, Arlington.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Social Agency Unit Sets
Discussion on Veterans

The veterans reaction to the
community on his return from over
seas service will be discussed by the
Council of Social Agencies division
of family and child welfare at a
luncheon meeting at 1915 pm.
Thursday at the YWCA.
Speakers will include Miss Mar
garet Hagan, assistant to the di-
rector of hospital services, Military
and Navy Welfare Service, Ameri-
can Red Gross; Comdr. Dana l..
Farnsworth, U. S. NJ, assistant chief
OF the euro-psychiatric service,
Naval Medical Center, and DR.. Addi-
son Duval, senior medical Office, St.
EliEaheIh'S Hospital.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
lsNRstoniinq
&Remiinder56o

Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book No. 4, red
stamps Q-5 through KS good for
10 points each indefinitely. Next
series will be good January %.
Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4, blue
stamps ks, Y-5, Us, Az through
Ga good for 10 points each indef1-
nitely. Next series will be good
February /.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
each pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Book 4. sugar stamp "a good
for pounds indefinitely. Another
will be validated February /.
Gasoline-A-14 coupons valid for 4
gallons each through March 81.
B-o. C-5, B-6 and CO coupons
good for S gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps l, 2 and 8
in Book No. good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each
Fuel OIl-Periods one, two and three
coupons good for 10 gallons per
unit through heating year. Period
four coupons valid February S.
Old period four and five coupons
from last winter good through
year. Consumers in this area
should not have used more than So
per cent Of their ration as Of today.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Social Security Board
Asks Changes in Act
To Broaden Program
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Social Security Board today
asked Congress to correct defects
in the Social Security Act to make
it IAN even stronger bulwark or So
cial stability, economic progress and
free enterprise"
Topping the boards recon-
mendations was an extension. of the
unemployment insurance system to
Is, 600 900 to 10000, 900 presently ex-
cluded workers, and of the old-age
and survivors insurance program to
2O,000,000 to 25,000,000 additiounl
employees and self-employed per-
sons.
Sickness Insurance Urged.
Chairman Arthur j. Altmeyer said
the board regards these extensions
as the major defect of the two social
insurance programs.
The board also asked for the set
ting up of system of disability and
sickness insurance, saying that an
average of 1000, 900 persons are sick
or disabled on an average day, with
an annual wage loss of 5000 900 900
to $4,000 600, 900.
Our country stands almost alone
among the great nations of the world
in failing to protect the great ma
+jority of wage earners against inca
pacity of nonoccupational origin,
the board, told Congress.
Most of the recommended changes
could be effected by the States, but
some Federal legislation would be
necessary. -
Would Increase Benefits.
In addition to extending cover
age to persons employed by small
firms, farm workers, employees OF
State and local governments and
others not now included, the board S
recommendations included:
Increase in maximum weekly ben
efits to s25, including dependents
allowances, to make benefits cover
one-half of the wage loss of unem-
ployment.
Increase duration of benefits to
26 weeks.
The board renewed previous rec
concentrations for a system of in
surance for medical and hospital
| care.
Evening star., 1945-01-22

This is the first year since the
Mile O. Dimes campaign for funds
to fight polio began that Mrs. Mar
garet v. Adams, tiny little lady in
her eighties, hasn't appeared in per-
son at the Mile O. Dimes stand to
give the money she raised by can
vassing her neighborhood and
friends. Last year. on her way home
from bringing 10 dimes to the stand,
she slipped on the street and died
as a result of her injuries.
But the money she would have
gathered-even more probably-was
brought to the stand today, $50
given in. her memory by the friends
and neighbors who remembered how
eager she had been to see that each
person was part of the drive.
Mrs. jamie Conrad, with whom
Mrs. Adams lived at GOT Seventh
street SW., and her next-door neigh
Dor, Mrs. Dora Baum, took the
money to the stand.
"There'll be more" they said. "All
the folks around the neighborhood
remember her. She'd be so pleased
most people gave her dimes last
year. This year, it's dollars"
Evening star., 1945-01-22

said he decided to leave the REA
in order to carry the fight to the
public.
Mr.. Williams first was called to
Washington by Harry L. Hopkins,
then Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministrator, who appointed Mr..
Williams field representative of the
FERA in the Southwest. Later he
became deputy works progress ad-
ministrator.
When the NYA was created by
presidential order he became execu-
tive director while serving as deputy
administrator of WPA.
Served in Foreign Legion.
Mr.. Williams is native of Ala
bama and is 54 years old. He grew
up in Birmingham. In the World
War. after serving with the YMCA,
he joined the French Foreign Le-
gion, transferring to an American
field artillery unit when our troops
became engaged. He was wounded
and later was commissioned a lieu
tenant.
After the armistice he received a
degree in philosophy from the Uni
versity of Bordeaux. Returning to
this country he engaged in social
work, becoming secretary of the
Wisconsin conference of Social
Work in 1922 and, 10 years later
joining the staff of the American
Public Welfare Association.
Mr.. Slattery's resignation from
REA ended controversy with the
White House that lasted more than
a year. At one time Jonathan DAN
iels, administrative assistant to the
President, refused to testify before
a Senate agricultural subcommittee
regarding the REA and Mr.. Slattery
Later he changed his mind and tolo
the committee the President had
not been satisfied with Mr.. Slat-
tery's work and in June, 1943, hao
offered the post to the late Senator
Norris, independent, of Nebraska.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Telephone Pay Claims
Ito Be Heard al Panel
Meeting This Week

The newly-establiShed National
Telephone Panel of the National
War Labor Board. representing the
public, the telephone industry and
labor, will hold its first hearings in
Washington this week. One of the
cases to come before the panel in
wolves the wage claims of 1850
members of the Washington Tele-
phone Traffic Union against the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co.
A panel announcement refers to
the case as one it has received for
preparation for consideration of
the board"
The case already has been heard
by special panel which recon-
mended wage increases of SO or 81
a week if the proposed schedule
would be found permissible under
the national wage stabilization poll
cies. The company accepted the
panel recommendation but the
union was dissatisfied.
Al Philip Kane, union attorney,
said the panel had ignored COM
plants over paying operators "bor-
rowed" from other cities $3.50
weekly as living expenses.
Under the former procedure spe-
cial panel rulings went to the Wage
Sterilization Administration and
then to the Review Committee of
the War Labor Board. Now all cases
go to the national panel and that
panel makes recommendations di-
rect to the Labor Board. Some OF
those concerned believe the National
Telephone Panel may become an
important instrument in stabiliza-
tion policies in the telephone in
dustry.
Another pending case is one in
which the Federation of Telephone
Workers of the District is asking
wage increases. This is voluntary
case in which the company has
agreed to the increases asked, but
there has been no final determina-
ton.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
bird WorIdWa
Brewing in Asia,
Conference Told
Churches Must End
Poverty of People,
Missionary Worms

DR.. Frank Laubach, author and
missionary, told the opening meet
ing of the spiritual fertilization and
national dedicatory conference spon-
sored by the National Committee
for Christian Leadership today at
the Hotel Statler that third world
war Is breeding in Asia, where more
than three-fifths of the people are
illiterate and desperately impover-
ished.
The conference opened today with
Nathaniel Leverone of Chicago,
president of the committee, presid-
ing.
DR.. Laubach said the people in
Asia need program which will aid
them in overcoming the poverty
stricken conditions leading to IAN
explosion" that may result in a cat
astrophic war. He said the churches
are now planning survey of these
areas and seeking to learn their
greatest needs. DR.. Laubach also
said that they are trying to get
100000 men with technical training
to go and help these people. He
added that there is a movement to
interest colleges in our country
to train these people in such lines
as agriculture, medicine and similar
subjects so they can minister to the
stricken peoples.
States Aim of Conference.
| MIR. Leverone opened the session
by stating that the aim of the con-
ference is to create better leader
ship in the Nation in industry, busi-
ness, education and politics" He
said that many men in high posi-
tlons have high ideals which they
are afraid to follow out and hopes
that this movement will show them
popular support for those ideals.
| Stuart Krohn of Chicago outlined
the program of the breakfast groups.
He said the program should consist
OF four main points: 1t must be in
fallible, accessible, applicable and it
must be followed. Mr.. Krohn said
that the largest percentage of BRO
ken men he has met in his work
were college graduates"
The conference will be concluded
at 8 pm. tomorrow with a general
assembly, open OF the public, at the
Departmental Auditorium, Consti-
tuition avenue and Twelfth street
NV. Abraham Vereide, executive
director of the committee, is in
charge of the conference.
Senators to Speak.
Senators Hoey. Democrat. of North
Carolina; Connally, Democrat, of
Texas, and Wiley, Republican, of
Wisconsin are scheduled to address
the dinner meeting at $50 pm. to-
day at the hotel. Among the speak
ers listed to address this and other
meetings are Representatives Judd,
Republican, of Minnesota; thinner
man, Democrat, of Missouri; DR..
Walter A. Maier, Lutheran Hour
radio preacher, st. Louis; DR.. Glenn
Clark, st. Paul, Mimi, and the Rev.
w. Tolbert- Hindley, Montreal, Can
ada.
The committee sponsoring the
conference was formed in 1943 ito
coordinate and direct on a ma
tional basis" the many breakfast,
luncheon and f1reside groups seeking
to make "a workable program with
a clear perspective and a new life of
confidence in God"
Evening star., 1945-01-22
The Job in Brief
Qualifications: For Red G

Qualifications: For Red Cross
nurses aides to serve during the
day at Boiling Field Station
Hospital; women between the
ages of Is and 55 with a high
school diploma or its equiva-
lent; must be citizens of United
States or United Nations living
in the vicinity of Boiling Field.
Training: 80-hour course, in
cluding IS hours of classroom
work and As hours on hospital
wards in four-hour shifts, three
days a week. Next class starts
January 20.
Hours of work after training:
Yearly minimum of $50 hours
with choice of days and hours
to serve.
Where to register: With Mrs.
Floyd Hurt at 1862 Second street
Sc, Apt. a, tomorrow and
Wednesday from to pm. For
additional information call At
lantic 1888 or Republic $500
Extension 29l.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
District Grand Jury
Indicts B; Youths
Accused in Robberies

Robert A. Sykes, 20, of the 300
block of Seventeenth place NE, was
indicted today on two charges of
robbery and one of assault with in
tent to commit robbery. These
were among 33 indictments returned
by the District grand jury before
Justice James w. Morris.
In two of the cases, an accom-
plice was named with Sykes. In
one case, Sykes is charged jointly
with Kendall E. Rhinehart, 18, Of
Edmonston, Md, with robbing
James B. Carneal, 400 block Of
Sixth street NV, of $216 after Mr..
Carneal had left his place Of busi-
ness.
In another case, Sykes is charged
Jointly with Samuel A. Trewolla,
l8, of the 300 block of T street NE,
former Mayor of Boys Town, Nebr.,
with assault to. commit robbery in
a Highs ice cream store at Fourth
and K streets NE.
Robbery Thwarted.
The robbery was thwarted, ac-
cording to police, first by the refusal
of Mrs. Evelyn w. Behlen, clerk,
to open a cash drawer for them
and secondly when she told them
money for the day already had been
picked up by a man collecting it.
The youths left soon afterwards, it
was said.
Sykes also was charged with rob-
bing a woman of her pocketbook
containing small amount of cash.
Several younger boys who are said
to have participated in the alleged
offenses have been turned over to
juvenile authorities, it was said.
Others charged with robberies in
today's indictments included Fur
man Tibbs, %, colored, of the 400
block of N street NV, and Clarence
M. Carroll. IS. colored, accused of
robbing a colored man of $37, and
James E. Riley, 10, colored, of the
1900 block of Vermont avenue NV.
accused of snatching a pocketbook
containing more than $50 from a
colored woman.
Accused of Impersonating Officer.
Karl w. Church, IS, whose home
was said to have been in Baltimore
and who is said to have been mar
ried five times, was indicted on
charges of Illegally wearing the uni
form of commander in the Navy
of causing bad check for $125 to
be transported in interstate COM
merce in violation of the National
Stolen Property Act and also on a
charge of obtaining a handbag
while falsely representing himself
to be Navy commander.
Marie c. z. Basile, Al, said to be
the proprietor of a hotel in the 300
block of Mount Vernon place NV.
and John Patterson, colored, said
to be houseman in the hotel, were
indicted on pandering charges.
William Lee, colored, of the 5000
block of Sherman avenue NV, was
indicted on a charge of criminaIly
assaulting a 16-year-old, colored
girl.
The indictments were presented
to the grand jury by Assistant Unit
ed States Attorney Joseph F. Law
| less,
Evening star., 1945-01-22

employed. Bricker, a small, thin
man, said he was separated from
his wife and three children and that
ne was burdened down by debt and
unable to meet his weekly payment
of $50 to her.
Saturday when he heard that his
family was about to be evicted from
their home and after the gas and
electricity had been shut of, Bricker
told police he committed the robbery
so that the county would be forced
to support his family.
Police said that Edwin Feldman,
proprietor of the gas station, re-
ported a battery and a quantity of
gas coupons also missing.
Evening star., 1945-01-22
Staged Robbery to Get County
Aid for Family, Father of 3 Saws

A father of three children who
said he committed a theft and then
turned himself over to District police
so Prince Georges County authori-
ties would support his family,
pleaded guilty in Municipal Court
today to charges of stealing $5 from
a gas station.
The case was referred to the pro-
baton office by Judge John P. Nc
Mahon.
The defendant, Roscoe A. Bricker,
33, of West Lanham, Md, walked
into No. 2 precinct yesterday and
told police he had robbed a gas
station at 1917 Fourteenth street
NV, where he had formerly been