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Evening star., 1946-07-16
Nisei Veterans Honored Here,
Await Release From Service
By GEORGE Kennedy

The Nisei who distinguished
themselves by their gallantry in the
European theater of operations had
some reason to feel they were ap-
preciated, as. with the rectangular
blue badge of the Presidential Ci-
tation pinned on the left side of
their tunics, they hung about Fort
Belvoir today awaiting transporta-
ton to separation centers on the
Pacific Coast and Hawaii.
They marched right into the
hearts of all who saw them yester-
day, these stocky little American
born japanese who formed the 442d
Combat Team, one of the best shock
troops, trouble-shooter outfits in the
European theater. They marched
down Constitution avenue-481 of
them-their tan faces dead-pan and
immobile under their green he'll
NETS.
= Cheered at Every Block.
Bursts of hand-clapping, cheers
and approving whistles sounded in
every block as they stepped along
smartly in perfect cadence behind
band playing Sousa marches. The
Government officers had granted ex-
tended time during the lunch hour
to allow parade attendance. Despite
the clouds and the drizzle, en-
thusiasm wasnot lacking.
Many of the men in this outfit
which was awarded 5000 Purple
Hearts and 1000 decorations for
gallantry, chad been drafted from
internment camps to which their
families had been transferred from
the Pacific Coast after Pearl Harbor
Harry, Harry!" cried two attrac.
tive japanese girls at Fourteenth
street, but in vain All the troops
were strictly eyes front.
Two Japanese American soldiers
swapping cameras were at the curt
of the Ellipse south of the White
House. where the combat team
turned in for presidential inspection
Shot Up Bit"
Were you in this outfit? Why
aren't you marching?" they were
asked.
YES" they said, "but we can't
march. We were shot up a Bit"
1t. Col. A. A. Pursall of Crystal
City, Mo, led the combat team
Most of the officers were European
Americans. All the non-commis-
stoned officers and enlisted men were
japanese Americans.
AS the troops stood at ease waiting
for the Presidents arrival. one of the
officers briefly told the story of the
442d.
The Tooth Combat Battalion
which led the parade" he said
staged in North Africa and went ir
through Naples to get in the Cas-.
sino mixup They were pulled back
and went into the Anzio beachhead
Later, after Rome was taken, two
other battalions of Japanese Amer
leans and artillery and service
groups were added to form the COM
/ bat team. They were in the Italiar
campaign up to the Po Valley. Their
they were brought back to Naples
and sent into the Anvil operation.
They landed in occupied Mar.
settles D plus As at the end ol
/ September and went up the Rhons
Valley as part of the 7th Army
In late October, there was trouble
at the front and they were sent II
| to Ak it. A battalion of the 141s
Infantry, 36th Division, originally ,
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Two D. T.. Men Held
In County Robbery

Two District men were ordered
held under $1,000 bond each fol
action of the Prince Georges County
grand jury yesterday in Hyattsville
Police Court in connection with the
robbery of $180 in cash and mar
cotics from a Mount Rainier drug
store on June Is.
The two men, Arthur F. Maphis
81. and Robert L. Ray. %, both of
440 H street NV, pleaded not
guilty, through their attorney,
Robert w. Mccullough, to charges
of store HOUSEKEEPING and larceny
of the stolen goods from the Cameo
Pharmacy, 1920 Thirty fourth street
Mount Rainier.
County police said both men were
arrested last Thursday by District
police on another charge and were
linked with the Mount Rainier theft
after questioning.
In another case, Trial Magistrate
Alan Bowie impaired SITS fine on
George C. La France, 81. of 1905
Twenty-fourth street NE, or
charges of reckless driving, speeding
driving without proper headlight;
and using expired dealers license
plates.
Donald K. Grove, 18, 1926 Thirty.
seventh place, Brentwood, was finee
S25 for permitting the automobile
driven by La France, to be used with
the expired plates.
La France was arrested by County
Policeman Earl j. Huber on June
after a collision on Landover road
near the Pennsylvania Railroad
Landover, police said.
Robert G. Dillman, "a, 4915 New
ton street, Bladensburg, driver O
the other car, was found not guilt,
of a charge of reckless driving.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Sale Of Ice Cream
By Weight Beginning
Next March Urged

A special committee headed by
Thomas Kennedy, superintendent
of weights, measures and markets
today recommended to the Commits
sioners that ice cream in the Dis
trict be sold by weight instead of by
liquid measure, as at present.
The Commissioners, however
postponed action on the recon-
mendation until next March, in line
with the committees proposal that
action be held in abeyance because
of labor and material difficulties
facing District dealers if the change
were approved.
Between now and next March, the
Commissioners said, a public hear
ing will be held to determine public
sentiment on the proposal, which
is opposed by the local ice cream
retailers, wholesalers and by the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION.
The committee also asked the
Commissioners to consider elimina
tion of bulk ice cream sales over the
counter, except when packaged by
the wholesaler, on the ground that
bulk handling at the retail outlet is
insanitary.
The report further called atten-
tion to the absence of any con-
trolling regulation over the swell
from the introduction of air into
ice cream. The members felt some
control of this swell should be de.
vised.
The public is not protected under
the present method of sale by liquic
measure, according to the report
because "ice cream is a mass ma
terial and it is practically impossible
to place quart in a quart con.
tainer unless packaged by the man.
ufacturer."
At a hearing several weeks age
retailers objected to the proposal.
on the ground of increased cost, in.
ability to get necessary help anc
difficulty in obtaining the necessar,
scales which would be required BY
the changeover.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
|HeIicopter Mail Service Heurino
Set for September 9 by CAB

The immediate future of helicop-
ter airmail service in the United
States will be decided September 8,
a Post once Department official
said today. when the Civil Aero
nautics Board will begin hearings
on several applications to provide
localized airmail delivery with the
windmill" aircraft.
The official, speaking in the abb
sence of Second Assistant Postmas-
ter General Gael Sullivan, said ex-
perimental service was begun in the
Los Angeles area July for a four
week period. Army pilots, flying Army
helicopters, are delivering the mail
between Los Angeles and surround
ing points under supervision OF
post Office men.
The efficiency OF the service, as
revealed in the tests, is being an
alyzed by postal inspectors, who
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Zuch Heads Federal
Recreation Committee

The Federal Recreation Commit
tee, composed of representatives ap-
pointed by various Federal agencies
to coordinate recreation facilities
for Government workers here, has
elected as chairman for the CON-
ing year G. L. Zuch, 1854 Columbia
road NV, it was announced today
Mr.. zuch, who represents EN-.
ployes of the Civil Aeronautics
Board, will be assisted by Mrs. Dor.
thy Abdill, State Department, vice
chairman: Mrs. Eleonore Dimitrieff
Internal Revenue, recording secre-
tary, and Mrs. Florence E. Palmes
War Department, corresponding
secretary.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Downey Pushes
Civil Service
Bills in Senate
Four Measures
Aiding Employees
Passed by House

Speedy Senate action was sought
today on four civil service bills
passed by the House late yesterday,
including legislation to exempt the
Internal Revenue Bureau from the
DirkSen observation-disclosures amend
ment and a measure to grant an
nuity rights to dismissed Govern
ment employees with Is or more years
OF service.
Chairman Downey of the Senate
Civil Service Committee was ex-
pected to press for early Senate ac-
ton on the bills.
The House passed the bill ex-
empting the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau from the personnel ceilings
amendment of the Federal Pay Act
. after its sponsor, Chairman Ran
dolph of the House Civil Service
Committee, declared the agency's
officials testified before his group
that a cut in their personnel will
cost the Government hundreds of
millions of dollars in uncollected
taxes.
The bill to grant annuity rights
to dismissed Federal employees with
Is or more years of experience af-
fects, for the most part, aged en-
ployes in Navy yards and Army ar
senals throughout the country who
have lost their jobs in the current
reduction force program. Many
of these employees are under the
regular retirement age of so or 81
and consequently are denied full
annuity rights. The House-ap-
proved measure would entitle them
to full retirement benefits less 2 per
cent reduction in the payment for
each year they are under the retire.
ment age.
Another bill passed would place
wage board employees under the
efficiency rating system of the Civil
Service Commission, the same as
classified employees. The fourth
measure would give a lump sum
payment in lieu of accumulated
leave due to employees of the In
terror Department who lost their
jobs when the Bituminous Coal Act
expired.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
New Hospital Group
May Begin Study Of
.Tydings-BiIbo Bill

The new Hospital Council of the
National Capital area at a meeting
at 2 pm. tomorrow at the United
States Chamber of Commerce may
consider the pending Tydings- -Bilbo
bill for hospital construction in the
District.
The Hospital Council was praised
yesterday before the House District
Committee by Alan Johnstone, gen.
eral counsel of the Federal Works
Agency. in connection with his rec
concentrations for passage of a re-
vised bill. He headed an FWA sur
yey of hospital conditions here.
This Council, which will continue
to bring common counsel to the COM
mon need, ought to be fruitful" Mr.
Johnstone told the committee. Far
more valuable than money is intelli-
gent cooperative action to improve
service, to avoid duplication and
conflict, to recruit and train staffs
and to keep the community aware of
its needs and responsibilities.
"T'he apathy which has been at
tendant on and which possibly has
grown out of the difficulties of the
situation concerning hospitals)
seems ended. And that is progress
For it is more true perhaps of hos
pitfalls than of most institutions that
they are made by people and not by
bricks and mortar and other mate
rial things alone.
"Only a slight acquaintance with
the hospitals in Washington will
demonstrate that in spite of made
quate and often disgraceful physica'
equipment, the character, devotion
and skill of boards, nurses and stats
is above reproach.
ANY observer must be struck with
wonder that they do so much with
so little. This is the great contribu.
tion that the existing hospitals car
make to improve hospital service
here. And it is truly above price"
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Vocational High
PayCase Awaits
More Testimony
Teacher Scale
Hearing Extended
To August IS

The question whether teachers In
Margaret Murray Washington Voca-
tional High School should be blank
eted under the same pay scale as
District senior high school teachers
remained unanswered today follow
owing continuation of the vocational
teachers case by the Committee on
Complaints and Appeals of the
Board of Education.
When the tWo-hour hearing before
the committee ended late yesterday,
Charles H. Houston, attorney for
the teachers, was given until August
Is to prepare additional written
testimony.
Sees High School Status.
Describing the case of the WASH
ington school as a test for all the
Districts vocational schools, Mr..
Houston attempted to establish yes
terday that because the Board of
Education in 1914 decided to extend
the range of vocational schools and
call them vocational high schools,
teachers In them should advance in
pay to senior high school rates and
the pay should be retroactive to the
time the boards action in 1914.
He contended the schools now
have more advanced curricula, are
authorized to issue diplomas and
may adopt extra -curricula programs
similar to those followed in senior
high schools.
New Classification Cited.
DR.. Hobart M. Corning, superin-
tendent of schools, and DR.. Garnet
c. Wilkinson, first assistant super
intendent, maintained the position
taken by the boards Personnel
Committee, which denied the same
plea last month, that the board
specifically had continued vocational
teachers pay at the old level when
it changed the name of the school
and that Congress has since set up a
new classification for such teachers
which continues that level.
The highest rate of pay under
this classification in the same as the
lowest rate paid senior high school
teachers and may be attained by any
teacher willing to qualify, it was
explained.
/ Mr.. Houston charged the board
had made no effort to obtain a
higher rate of pay for teachers
under the new vocational setup
although it had obviously intended
to raise the status of the school
when it started calling them high
schools.
Evening star., 1946-07-16

will report to Mr.. Sullivan when
the tests are completed. Other tests
may be made at New York, Boston
and Chicago. the official said, but
no experimental helicopter mail
service In the Washington area is
contemplated at this time.
Any air route must have a GER
tificate of public convenience and
necessity from the CAB, the official
pointed out. He said the applicants
who will be heard September are
all desirous of setting up in the Los
Angeles area, Their petitions, along
with the findings of the postal in
spectors now working with the
Army, will be aired at the hearing
before the CAB decision is handed
down.
The Los Angeles tests are cover-
ing territory for radius of about
so miles from the city. serving Is
post ofrices with six helicopters.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Newsboy's Foot Is hang|ed
Under B. & 0. Freiqht Train

Walter E. Green, II, colored, of
1918 Fiftieth street NE, was re-
ported in serious condition today
at Gallinger Hospital after an acci-
dent yesterday in which the boy had
his right foot mangled by Balti-
more d Ohio freight train in the
rear OF the 1900 block of Minnesota
avenue NE.
Police said the boy, formerly a
substitute carrier for The Star,
slipped and fell when he tried to
catch ride on the rear of the
northbound train. A wheel ran over
his right foot. Three toes were
amputated.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Mrs. Truman 10 Entertain
War Hospitality Workers

Mrs. Truman was to entertain
about 1000 volunteer workers OF
the Washington War Hospitality
Committee at S pm. today at a
garden party, where no refresh
ments will be served.
The committee suggested there
be no refreshments, in light OF
world food shortages, and the Presi-
dent wife agreed to the arrange
ment.
The group invited in a cross
tion Of workers for the committee
which has co-ordinated all Local
agencies and groups offering socia,
and recreational facilities to service
personnel and war workers.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
just Peace for Italy
Group Plans Bonouet

Speakers at a banquet of the
Committee for a Just Peace for
Italy at 7 o'clock tonight at the
Mayflower Hotel include:
Alberto Tarchiani, Italian AM
bassador; Senator. Bridges, Repub-
lican, OF New Hampshire; Senator
Mead, Democrat, of New York: /:
Senator Wiley, Republican, of Wis
consin; James P. McGranery. assist
ant to the Attorney General; George
Meany, secretary treasurer of the
American Federation of Labor, and
Edward Corsi, industrial commits
sioner OF New York State.
The dinner is in celebration of
the establishment OF the Republic
of Italy.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
AuxiIiuries to Entertain

The Ladies' Auxiliary of Post So
Jewish War Veterans of the United
States, will give watermelon party
from to 9 pm. tomorrow fol
approximately 18O wounded veterans
at Fort Washington Hospital. Mary
land. Auxiliaries of Posts 381 and
386 will assist at the party, which
inaugurates a monthly series OF
entertainment for hospitalized vet
Grams
Evening star., 1946-07-16

Texas division, was isolated miles
behind the German lines in the
Vosges foothills. The 442d was sent
in to fix it and they did. They
reached their objective. allowing the
rescue of the remnants of the bat
talon. But they were shot to pieces
doing it. They were combat team
no more. Most of them were hos
pitalized. The rest were sent back
for regrouping with requirements. >
After he inspected them by walk
ing up and down their files, Presi-
dent Truman pinned the citation on
their colors Then he said:
L think patriotism is not mat
ter of race or creed, but of the heart
50" You fought not only the enemy
but prejudice-and you won"
Evening star., 1946-07-16
CoIored Song Writer
Honored by Virqiniuns

A granite monument at the Phila-
delphia (Pao grave of James A.
Bland, colored composer of Virginia S
State song, Garry Me Back to Old
Virginny,' was dedicated yesterday
by Gov. Tuck and delegation of
Virginia residents who were in Phila-
delphia to attend the Lions interna-
tional convention, which opens to-
day.
Mr.. Bland was born in 1854 in
Flushing, N. Y, and died in 1911. He
also wrote "Oh, Dem Golden Slip
pers" and I'm the Evening by the
MOONLIGHT"
Evening star., 1946-07-16

palgn, W n ! c h
: opens October
%, Daniel w
Bell, chairman
of the fedora
ton Campaign
Committee, an
n o u n c e d last
night.
This appoint
nent to direct
the fund faising
among coinmlS :
81 ion employees
was made by AS
sistant Secretary
of the Treasury
Edward H. Foley
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Work Starts in Bethesda
On Veterans Home Project

The first veterans housing project
in the District to be insured under
the new Federal Housing Admins
trations liberalized loan provisions
was to be started today by the Al
bert w. Walker Properties, 6701
Hillandale road. Chevy Chase, Md.
Ground was to be broken for the
first Il of 184-unit rental group
al Chevy Chase drive and lillian
dale road, just off Bradley boule-
ward in Bethesda. Md. The build
ings will be an extension of a 542-
| unit development completed in 1943
Evening star., 1946-07-16

jr., chairman of the campaigns Gov
ernment Unit. Mr.. Mitchell, presi-
dent of the commission since 1888,
is a former Mayor Of Great Falls,
Mont, and father Of Senator Mitch
ell, Democrat, of Washington. He
lives at 4oo4 Forty-ninth street NV.
Evening star., 1946-07-16
Mitchell Named TO Direct
Civil Service Chest Drive

Civil Service Commission Presi-
dent Harry B. Mitchell will head
the civil service division of the 1947
Community Chest Federation cam
Evening star., 1946-07-16
County WCTU to Convene

The Montgomery County con-
vention OF the Women's Christian
Temperance Union will be held
beginning at 10 am. July % at the
Ashton Methodist Church.
Evening star., 1946-07-16


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The midland journal., 1946-03-22
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retorted with a laugh. "They hear
the rowlocks as soon as we leave
the dock. Time you got over be-
ing afraid Of canoe, old man."
Eberly grinned. "Oh, all right.
My life is in your hands," he said,
and took the front seat. He held to
the edge Of the dock while Ledforge
got In, then took his paddle, and they
moved away, out of the little cove,
around the wooded point, across the
pond.
Once Eberly turned half around
in his seat to look back. The boat
house was completely hidden by
the wooded point between. The wind
was behind them, toward the mouth
of the gorge where the dam held
back these waters. Ledforge, when
they were hundred yards offshore,
said:
"Stop padding, Carl, and let's try
them here. Wen drift with the
wind, fish the shoals here first, and
the deep water afterward."
"Good enough" Eberly agreed.
He laid down his paddle and began
to cast, turning little sidewise so
that his back cast would not inter-
fere with Ledforge. Thus he was
The midland journal., 1946-03-22

THE STORY THUS FAR: Adam Bruce,
FBI operator, Inspector Tope and Mrs.
Tope met In the Maine woods. Tope
found a man murdered at auto camp.
The body was frst identified a. Mr.. Led.
forge, head of New England utilities. A
car believed to have been used In the
murder was raised from the quarries,
with q woman's murdered body inside.
Proof had been found that both the muir
dered man and the woman had been ad-
ministered dope prior to their murder.
The case, with the suicide Of Kell, seemed
to have blown up In Tope's face and
Soc Dane, assistant D.A., took over the
case. Tope, however, still had plans
and asked Bruce to help without saying
what he had In mind.
The midland journal., 1946-03-22
Youth Found Cats to Be
Similar to Human Beings

The following essay on "Cats"
was turned in by 10-year-old pu-
pill:
Seats and people are funny ami
mails. Cats have four paws but
only one ma. People have fore
fathers and only one mother.
"When a cat smells a rat he
gets excited; so do people.
Seats carry tails and lot Of
people carry tales, also.
"All cats have fur coats. Some
people have fur coats and the ones
who don't have fur coats say
catty things about the ones who
have them.
The midland journal., 1946-03-22

NOW, MISS Le01Orge, I'm sorry,
but you mustn't try to deceive u.s."
able to see the other man out Of the
corner Of his eye; and this somehow
was consoling. The back Of his neck
no longer crawled; his spine was no
longer cold.
Yet he cast badly, his line tangle
on the water. But Ledforge, he saw,
did no better. The others line
splashed and Slated against the
side Of the canoe. Ledforge may
have felt Eberly's sidelong glance,
for he said:
''This lines sticky. Need new
one, I guess" AND then he said:
"Hullo, you're perspiring, Carll Bet
ter unbutton that coat"
Eberly hesitated. 81 am a little
hot" he agreed, and-his back to-
ward the other mamie loosed the
upper buttons. He said: you've
forgotten how to cast, Rufus"
There was a momentary pause.
They had drifted, Eberly perceived,
out into the deep water where the
old brook-channel ran.
And then Ledforge said:
"I'n try it standing up. Always
could do better So"
He got uncertainty to his feet, and
seemed to totter. And suddenly they
were both in the water. The canoe,
as Ledforge in falling clung to it,
dipped one gunwale and thus over
turned, the other gunwale coming
down hard across Eberly's hips as,
belatedly, he scrambled clear.
The point that hid the boathouse
was well over a hundred yards
away; the dam and the near shoul-
der Of the gorge perhaps fifty yards.
Ledforge, without a word, began to
swim toward the rocky shore be-
side the dam.
Eberly did not call out as he
watched Ledforge swim SO quietly
away.
Joe Dane, in the hour Of Tope's
humiliation, was quick with theory
of his own. 'The whole things plain
enough" he declared. "Ledforge
was having an affair with Mrs. Kell,
brought her to Dewain's Mill that
night; and Kel trailed them there
and killed both of them"
They stood in Win Banion's chap
el. Quill was gone, Doctor Medford
busy somewhere in the small rooms
behind. Mat Cumberland scratched
his head.
So Joe remembered Earl Priddy
and Isaac Murrell, and took Cum
berland to hear their stories. Cum
berland questioned Ike at length,
and was half convinced at last that
Rufus Ledforge had been on Friday
night in Little Bear. Afterward they
dropped Earl and Ike at Dewain's
Mill, and Mat Cumberland himself
thanked them for great services to
the commonwealth, while Mr.. Muir
rell and Mrs. Priddy stood by in
excited pride. Then Joe and Cum
berland drove on.
II was just past i've when they
came up the drive to the Ledforge
mansion. Joe recognized Bee De
wain's car at the steps. What's
she doing here7" he wondered: bui
The midland journal., 1946-03-22
A PEOPLE GAINS
NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

LESSON TEXT Samuel 7:1-8. 1918.
MEMORY SELECIION-Obey my voice.
and I will be your God. and va shall be
my people: and walk ye In aN the ways
that have commanded you, that 1t may
be well unto you.-Jeremiah 1928.
The midland journal., 1946-03-22
Lesson for March "a

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