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Evening star., 1945-06-14
Hero's Letter Is Happy Ending
To Juvenile Court Case Here

What seems to be a happy ending
to a Juvenile Court case here was
revealed yesterday when Judge Fay
Bentley made public letter from
sailor overseas, five times before
the court in past years, who wrote
he now has several decorations"
II never did have chance to
thank you before" the youth wrote,
$" for not sending me to an
institution. I was in the States a
short while in March and tried to
see you, but you were busy.
AT present I'm overseas. I have
several decorations.
Judge Bentley said the boy ap-
peared before her five times on
charges of illegal entry between
1s41 and 1914, when he entered
service.
In her reply the Judge wrote: II
was very happy to have your letter
and to know that you are doing so
Evening star., 1945-06-14
From Our
Leonurdtown
Correspondent
BY GEORGE MORGAN
KNIGHT, JR.

u LEONARDTOWN, Md, June IA
Hens who steal their nests here this
Year are not bringing in large broods
1f chickens and surprising the farm
er wives as in former years! The
reason is claimed to be the proving
Grounds at Compton, Md, and the
Extra and intensive shelling from
Dahlgren, Va, across the Potomac,
Ehich also has caused many Chin
a1ey fires, as the chimneys are
cracked and shaken loose from the
continual bombardment day and
hight frequently, and felt for hum
nreds of miles on both sides of the
Potcmac river both in Virginia and
Maryland. Therefore many farmers
are being deprived of extra chickens
and meat to eat as a result. But
stranger still is that only few eggs
catch in the stolen nests and the
mother hens come in with only two
10 three where in former times they
name in with several dozen or more
trailing and peeping behind the
mother hensl
Evening star., 1945-06-14

determination that damage was held
to a minimum" Capt. Roberts now
is director of the production divi-
sion of the Bureau of Ordnance at
the Navy Department.
Capt. Jesse Hicks Carter, USN,
on duty at the Navy Department S
Bureau of Ordnance, yesterday re-
ceived the Legion Of Merit awarded
him for exceptionally meritorious
conduct as commander of a de-
stroyer squadron during landing
operations in the Pacific. I'm di-
rect command of the screening
force, Capt. Carter provided effec-
tive protection of his task group
Throughout period of fierce hos
tilities," the citation stated.
Comdr. John Odgers Miner, "a
USN, was awarded the Silver Star
at the Navy Department yesterday
"for conspicuous gallantry and in
|trepedity as commanding officer OF
destroyer" in the Pacific from
June Is to November 27, 1914 PRO
viding effective protection for our
heavy naval units against savage
japanese air attack during the as
sault and occupation of Saipan
Comdr. Miner fought his ships guns
with determined aggressiveness
continuing his bold, defiant tactics
as he took his man-of war through
the first battle of the Philippine
Sea and the reoccupation of Guam, =
the citation accompanying the
decoration stated.
Comdr. Miner, who makes his
home at Ais Wilson boulevard, Ar
lington, Va, is now on duty in the
Bureau of Personnel at the Navy
Department.
Evening star., 1945-06-14

well in serving your country. This
fact is very gratifying and means
much more than any thanks which
you can extend to me for the help
which we tried to give"
The youth had asked in his letter
for authentic information as to the
date of his birth, the uncertainty
of which, he wrote, had caused him
to be very much confused"
Judge Bentley replied that an ex-
haustive check had failed to estab-
lish the exact date, as one fairly
reliable source set his age at 18 and
another at 10.
SO you can use whichever you
personally feel to be correct" the
judge wrote, "as an honest effort
has been made without success to
prove which is correct.
With good wishes for continued
success, am, sincerely, Fay Bentley,
Judge Of Juvenile Court"
Evening star., 1945-06-14
District Reaches
81 Pct. Of Goal
In Bond Drive
s3,4oo, 900 Report
Includes 5000, 1000
Of Series (

An Encouraging" increase of
So ,400, 900 in War Bond sales was
announced today by Mighty
Seventh" War Loan officials. The
individual bond total now stands
at $56,600,000-80.9 per cent of
the $70,000,000 individual bond
quota.
OF the So, 3,400 900 increase, 5000, 900
was in E Bonds, on the sales of
which officials are relying for sue
cess of the drive. This was the
closest in several days to the daily
81 100000 E Bond goal at which VOL
unteer statesmen are aiming. The
E Bond total is now $28, 800 000-60
per cent of the $4,000, 900 quota.
The merchants of F street NV.
will stage an E Bond rally between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets at
8:45 o'clock tonight. A pictorial
history of the war from Pearl Har-
Dor to OkinaWa will be shown on
six huge screens.
Official Films Shown.
The films are official Army, Navy
and Marine Corps pictures of the
death and destruction faced by
American fighting forces since De-
cember 7, 1941. They will show
vividly the cost of the war in lives
and equipment and should serve as
a forceful argument for the sale OF
many E bonds at caravans" parked
in the area, officials said.
The pictures will be shown from
about 3:45 o'clock to midnight. BY
moving from one screen to another,
the spectator can see complete his
tory in about an hour, it was esti-
mated.
Meanwhile, about 10000 hotel and
restaurant employees today began
selling War Bonds at 81 hotels and
81 restaurants. War Bond literature
will be left at each table for the next
seven days and each employe will
carry bonds with him. Each busi-
ness organization will present a bond
to its own employe selling the most
E bonds. The worker selling the
most bonds on city-wide basis will
receive bond from the District Ho-
tel and Restaurant Employees Alli-
ance, sponsoring the event Jointly
with the Hotel Association of Wash
ington.
Bomber to Show Here.
Tickets to inspect the B-29 bomber
arriving at noon Saturday at Ma
tional Airport now are being dis
triDuted at theater bond booths. The
B-29 will be on exhibition to the
public from noon TO pm. Saturday
and from 10 am. to 7 pm. Sunday.
Bond buyers may inspect the in
terror
The theater booths also are dis
tributing tickets to purchasers wish
ing to inspect the captured German
submarine U-505, to be on exhibition
at the Coast Guard dock, $50 Maine
avenue S.W, from June % to
June %.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, broad
casting last night with Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau, issued a
plea for success of the $4,000, ,000, 900
drive.
THE heavy price God puts upon
freedom is clear and there is no
way of bargaining" Mrs. Roosevelt
said.
Evening star., 1945-06-14
Six D. G. Area Men Get
Army Discharges Today

Six District area men will be dis
charged today at Fort George G.
Meade, Md, under the point system,
Army officials announced.
Names of the men are Sergt. Peter
Masarro, 1914 Massachusetts, avenue
NV; Sergt. Jack Wagner, 1903
Queen street NE: Pfc. James D.
Brown, colored, 19 street NE; Pfc.
Robert H. Robertson, 1923 Harrison
street NV: TIA Archie L. Green
wood. sr, 1887 Eleventh street NV,
and Pfc. Woodrow A. Howard, 29l6
Columbia pike. Arlington, Va.
Evening star., 1945-06-14
I 800 Veterans Find Home
A Reality After Battle, Prison

Pvt. Everett w. Kline, 81, of 1919
Wisconsin avenue NV. of the 29th
Division were introduced in front
of the barracks. They both had been
prisoners in Germany. though at
different camps. and had returned
on the same ship. Pfc. Dalinsky
owns the Georgetown Pharmacy at
the Wisconsin avenue address, in
partnership with his brother, Harry
A. Dalinsky. He was interested in
learning how the store looked after
the reporter remarked he had been
there recently.
S Sergt. Herschel w. Dodd, "a, of
2855 Monroe street NE and S. S/Sergt.
John I. johnson, "a, of 1921 Four
teenth street NV. were two more
Washington veterans looking for
ward to holidays after spending
many months in the prison camp
Evening star., 1945-06-14

at Braunau, Austria. They were
liberated May 2.
Sergt Dodd, graduate Of Hyatts-
vile (Md) High School, was en-
ployed at Air Tract, College Park,
Md, before entering the service.
Sergt. johnson was employed at the
Government Printing Office at the
time he entered the AAF in March,
1912. Both veterans said they ex-
|pected to stay in service until the
war is over.
Among the other returning vet
erans anticipating a furlough in
the District were T/Sergt. William
S. Dunn, "a, of 1116 K street Sc, of
the 9Th Air Force Qeft); 1st Sergt.
Paul Moore, Is, of 1920 Oglethorpe
street, Hyattsville. Md, and 1st
Sergt. Robert B. Gibson, 40, of 471O
Fifteenth street NV. Sergt. Gibson
was wounded four times and has 1874
points for discharge.
Among the soldiers returning to
camp Tuesday from overseas was
IS/Sergt. Junior Spurrier, %, of
Bluef1eld, w. Va, winner of the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
Sergt. Spurrier, clad in Army shirt,
paratrooper trousers and blunt -toed
shoes, received the. award for kill
ing Is Germans and capturing two
Nazi officers and 1S enlisted men
in the attack at Achain, France, on
November 49,. Z
The six-foot, two-inch member
i1of the 18th Infantry of the 35th
Division, took good humoredly the
numerous questions shot at him by
reporters. He posed willingly for
the photographers and answered
questions as to how he got the
Congressional Medal of Honor by
handing each reporter a newspaper
clipping of his exploits. "It saves
time" he said, laughing.
A wiry youth, Sergt, Spurrier said
Evening star., 1945-06-14
First Meeting Called
By District Budget
.Conferees Tomorrow

House ana Senate conferees are
expected to hold their first meeting
tomorrow on the Districts $65, ,0O0,-
600 appropriation bill for the fiscal
year beginning July /. There is a
difference of s715,200 in the bill as
passed by the House and Senate.
The House unit is composed of
Representative O'Brien, Illinois;
Curley, Massachusetts,; Gore, Ten
nessee, and O'Neal, Kentucky, DEM
ocrats, and Stefan, Nebraska; Jen-
sen, Iowa, and Horan, Washington,
Republicans.
Senate conferees are OMahoney,
Wyoming; Glass. Virginia; Overton
Louisiana; Thomas, Oklahoma, and
Bilbo, Mississippi, Democrats, and
Burton, Ohio; Ball, Minnesota, and
Willis, Indiana, Republicans.
Evening star., 1945-06-14
Three Navy Officers
Decorated for Work
In Pacific Theater

Capt. Ralph H. Roberts, USN,
5000 Connecticut avenue NV, re-
ceived the Legion of Merit at the
Navy Department yesterday for ex-
ceptionally meritorious conduct as
commanding officer of a warship in
action in the Pacific.
The citation disclosed that his
ship twice was severely damaged by
japanese air attacks but added that
Capt. Roberts "countered the en-
emy onslaughts with such skill and
Evening star., 1945-06-14

Home today is a reality for.many
of the 1900 Army veterans of the
European theater of war VINO ar
rived at Fort Meade Tuesday.
Yesterday was day or anticipa-
ton. 1t was a morning and after
noon of hurry and hustle. of run
ming around and noisy conversation
of getting ready for the little paper
giving them the right to do the
things they wanted to do for the
next so days Of furlough.
1t also was day of leaving camp,
of going home.
One veteran, SiSergt. Granville
R. Brown, 81. of 1922 TWenty-ffth
place NE, somehow had managed
to get Nome between the time he
arrived at Fort Meade Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning. He
wasn't saying how. The prize Wis
ible result of his visit, which he
exhibited proudly to all around,
was a weather beaten green auto.
It's an old crate" he said, but
it is going to take us home" He
pointed to a bunch of his buddies,
all veterans who returned with him
You better sit on it," he told them
as The Star photographer asked
them to gather around for picture
The soldiers did, quickly. They sat
on the hood, on the running boards,
on the bumper. They started to sit
on, the tenders. Hey, not on the
Tenders" shouted Sergt. Brown,
they'll fall Off" The tenders were
avoided.
Sergt. Brown. graduate of Nc
Kinley Tech High School, was shot
down over Germany on October IA.
l943. He was a German prisoner 81
months, being released May 2. A
brother, Sergt. William A. Brown
AAF engineers, now is overseas in
the Pacific His father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel w. Brown,
live at the Twenty-fifth place ad-
dress. He has 100 points but does
not expect to leave the service until
the war is over.
Another veteran waiting to be
taken from camp by car was 1t.
Harry Thompson, %, of 6207 N.
Nineteenth street, Arlington. His
wife, Mrs. Louise r. Thompson,
whom he hasn't seen since August,
1914, was coming for him in the
afternoon.
Il called her from camp last
night" he said. WAS she surprised!
She didn't knoW~I was in the coun-
try" the former employe of the La
Dor Department said. For himself,
1t. Thompson said he hadn't heard
from Mrs. Thompson for some time.
THE mail situation in Germany
was strictly snafu."
1t. Thompson was rescued at
Moosburg. Germany exactly at
1888 am. April 30. That was the
time the American flag went up, he
said, and you should have heard
the yelling"
T/Sergt. David M Hovis, "a, of
1741 Lanier place NV, member of
the 9th Air Force liberated May
from the prison camp at Kreems,
Austria, said he was in the forest
trying to build shelter with other
prisoners when the Sd Armored Di-
vision of the Sd Army came in.
That was when we started to live
again." he asserted.
He was anxious to get look at
the gas station at Georgia and
Alaska avenues NV. "I worked
there at the time I entered the serv-
ice in May, 1922. he explained.
Sergt. Hovis has a brother, Byron
Hovis, %, who entered the Army
since he was captured The sergeant
recalled seeing two copies of the
overseas edition of The Star at g
port in France before leaving for
America. ut felt like being home, u
he said.
Pfc. Charles E. Dalinsky, AAF, 81
of 1874 Wisconsin avenue NV. and
Evening star., 1945-06-14
Fund Requests Filed

Deficiency and supplemental ap-
preparation requests for the District.
totaling $6,154, were filed with the
House yesterday by the Budget Bu-
reau. They cover maintenance costs
at the National Training School for
Boys, judgments against the Dis
trict and refunding of enormously
paid water bills.
Evening star., 1945-10-19
OPEN A CHARGE ACCOUNT

Enjoy the convenience of Poois RoyoI
Charge Aceount-see how it speeds
your shopping and soves vouobIe time!
Inquire at our Sixth Floor Credit Office
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TOBACCO CEILING
PRICE INCREASED

WASHINGTON, July z. = R =
The government announced today
.,,+ the ceiling price for the 1916
,ron Of flue.cured tobacco will be
, cent a pound higher than last
years top price.
IN a joint statement, the OPA
md the agriculture department
aid that this years ceiling, to be
formally established soon, will be
Weighted average purchase price
# $40 hundred pounds for all nue-
ou~ed tobacco, with premium OF
ESQ hundred pounds for to.
bacco tied into hands.
Produced in Virginia, North Car.
alma South Carolina, Georgia,
Tlorida and Alabama, the flue-
cured tobacco crop is the largest
in this country and is the princi-
Mo ingredient of cigarettes.
The two agencies stated that the
higher price for the 1945 crop is
'notexpected to result in higher
retail prices for cigarettes
Last year two weighted average
ceilings were set for the hue-cured
c~op-S39 for united tobacco and
$3.50 for tied.
The agency said the average ac-
tually received by growers in 1914
for united tobacco fell considerably
below S39 even though the tied to-
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bacco average twas approximately
at ceilings for the CROP
This years premium for tied to-
bacco permits buyers to deduct
$3.50 hundred pounds from the
prices they pay for tied tobacco,
when they figure their weighted av-
erage price.
OPA said that growers had re-
quested So a hundred pounds 'tol-
erance' for this years crop Ito
make it easier to average last
years ceiling This would have
allowed buyers to exceed the
weighted average price by that
amount.
In rejecting this request, OPA
said it felt that amounts was too
great.
The maximum weighted average
price of S. hundred pounds for
farm scrap flue-cured tobacco re-
mains unchanged. Also continued
are the same dealer markups and
charges for services.
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Diamond Match Firm Charged
With Control Of World Market

WASHINGTON, July T. Up A
house small business committee in.
vestigators report said today that
the Diamond Match company zap.
pears to pretty well CONTROL the
world market through a cartel
agreement with the Swedish match
company.
Chairman Patman D-Tex.) re.
leased the report of the investiga.
ton which he ordered The report
said that the American and SWed
ish firms, through agreement, ZAP
parently control the British match
corporation, the Japanese match
industry and the Russian match
production ''~
In carrying out the cartel
agreement with the Swedish com
pany, said the report, Diamond
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agreed to cease production in its
plant at Savannah, Ga, to restrict
and to limit to not mere than 20
percent of capacity the p ! n S
at Chico, Calf, Oswego, N. Y,
Oshkosh, Wis, and Springfield,
Mass
1T is very evident from research
made in the match industry that
it is perhaps one of the most high
ly monopolized industries in n
United States" the report said.
''In fact, it far exceeds a mono
poly and is definitely one OF the
worlds largest cartel arrange
ments.''
The report said of the domestic
industry:
1T is interesting to note that the
Diamond Match Company, which
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is controlled by William A. Fair
burn, it S president and general
manager, through the William Cor
don corporation, a personal hold
ing company of Mr.. Fairburn's
which in turn owns the majority
of the stock Of the Diamond Match
company, also owns. through Mr.
Fairburn, the William Gordon cor
poration and its stockholders con
troll the other four largest match
companies in the United States,
namely, the Universal Match Corp.
The Ohio Match Company, Berst
Forster DiAfield Corporation
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Summing Glasses Are
Planned At Greenfield

Enrolment for summer swim.
ming classes at the Greenfield
playground will begin on Monday,
July 9. Registrations should be
maze with the lifeguards on duty
at the swimming area, Miss
Nancy Eutsler and Miss Shirley
Colkitt.
Red Cross life guards will serve
as instructors, and will supervise
the classes from 9 a. m. until
noon, and from o'clock in the
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EVA FISHER

Funeral services for Eva Fish
err, colored, who died at the State
hospital at Goldsboro Thursday,
will be conducted at the Price
Memorial A. NJ. E. Zion church
today at o'clock. Officiating
clergymen will be the Revs. A. j.
Kirk and S. ]. HOWE. The class
leaders of St. Luke church, of
which the deceased was mem
Der, will be the pallbearers.
She is survived by her hus-
band, John w. Fisher.
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(known as BFD) and the lior

(known as BFD) and the i n
Match Company.
1T further appears that Dia
mond's wholly-owned subsidiary,
Uniform Chemical Corporation,
Inc, controls virtually the entire
source Of matchmaking chemicals
available in the United States. this
company in turn being dependent
upon the successors to the Swedish
and Germancontrolled potash SUP
plier, "Chemische Fabrik Griesh
Elm Elektron.'
The Javanese number about 30.
000, 1000 people.
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afternoon until seven. All chill.
dren over six years Of age may
enroll in the swimming classes.
and registrations will open all
next week at the Greenfield area.
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RUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-18
'Htter all, n car is so much n part of home"

keep wondering" writes young sailor
L from the Pacific chow my old bus is do
ing. After all, car is SO much part of home"
Yes, to all of US, the family motor car is
part of our lives. Studebaker cars, especially,
have the very feel of home in them built,
as they've been for generations, by home
loving, homecoming craftsmen.
Before Pearl Harbor, and throughout the
war, Studebaker engineering genius, sound
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-18

workmanship and production skill were CON
centrated on war equipment. But now, fine
motor cars are again being built by Studebaker.
Many have had the good fortune to own
Studebakers- through the war years. Now, at
last, the timeis beginning when the smart styI-
ing, the brilliant performance, the depend
able long life and solid value of new Stude-
baker can be "part of home" to more and
more of American forward-looking families.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-11-10

On day last week 4 fellows in a boat Tn the bay opposite Potato Patch lake lost an end of a net, and when they recovered it hauled up an anchor fouled in the net.
 The men were Kelly Simeonoff, Lawrence Panamaroff, Fred Whited and Tommy Clampffer, in the latter's boat. The anchor, brought up from about Is fath- oms, was lugged to town and displayed in the doorway of the Island Fountain.
 The pitted condition of the shank and arms and accompany ing stock indicated it has been in the water for some time. The shaft is abou 4 feet long, and the fact that it is an Admiralty pat tern anchor would place the age of the gear as in the late 1800's.
 It may be a little late to ask it, but has anyone lost an anch- or?
Kodiak mirror., 1945-11-10

We don't know how it happen ed, but last week a bus and a couple of car got traffic jammed right on the main street, until there were 9 cars besides the bus involved and at stalemate.
 George Mahle, night patrol man, got the traffic disentangled despite the lack of practice in such matters.
 The last previous jam was re- ported in the Spring of 1922.
 The traffic's t'rrific.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-11-10


 The second team of Victory Volunteers 10 report to chairman O. A. Torgerson, ran into a total ly unexpecten snag.
 They uncovered a prospective bond purchaser who said he would take $l0,000 worth of Series E Bonds If they would sell them to him, but added that they couldn't.
 Why not, was the natural comeback, and the answer was that the prospect had already bought all the Series E Bonds
Kodiak mirror., 1945-11-10
KODIAK .
 DIARY

Getting req for Thanksgiv- ing?
 This year the weIl-known bird will suffer on Thursday, Nov. p Tn all but tw sta es, Arkansas and Tennessee, where he will get a week longer to gobble before being gobbled..
Kodiak mirror., 1945-11-10

, Departing Rotary c ub secre- tary R. H. Chadwick pulled a stunt at the luncheon Tuesday that involved ages of the mem bers. Having delved into the se- cret files, he knew the members ages, and eontrived quiz based
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Kodiak mirror., 1945-11-10

the law allows in one year.
 The story has a happy ending, though, as a compromise was ef- fected.
 The team got his subscription (and money) for $7500 worth of Series "K" Bonds.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-11-10
|esM SAYS:

Kodiak agrees 100 per cent That slncere thanks are due lbs Naval Operating Base m permitting local high
 shool boys to use the lBsTy's gymnasium.
 IAese boys are fine athletic material and will no doubt | mnish competition to the Navy in the future.
 Your Portrait is the most appreciated Christmas gift you can send home. Why not have it taken at once?
 Many new Christmas items uriyed on the Cordova- dup in and see them. lDAIillAllD jH0I0 SHOP sus 10 am to 8 pm. Sun s's2to 5:30.
 l. !. Norman, Owner
 Complete Photographic
 Supplies & Service