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Movement to Control
War Profits Gains
Support in Congress
Higher Taxes or Ceiling
On Yields Are Chief
Measures Proposed
A movement to control war profits
by puting a ceiling on them or by
Imposing tax levies high enough to
absorb any •‘unconscionable" returns
gained impetus today.
Chairman Truman of the Senate
Defense Investigating Committee
and Senator 'La FoUette, Progressive,
of Wisconsin urged heavy excess
profit taxation to prevent creation
of war millionaires.'
PossibiUty of re-establishing per
centage profit limitations on Gov
ernment contracts, such as formerly
covered warships and airplanes, was
discussed in the Senate yesterday
by Chairman Walsh of the Naval
Committee and Minority Leader
McN&ry.
In the House, meanwhile, far
reaching legislation to require labor,
trade and business organizations in
Interstate commerce to register with
the Commerce Department was in
troduced by Chairman Vinson of the
House Naval Affairs Committee.
Representative Vinson declared
the proposed legislation would pro
vide protection to the members of
tne affected organizations, and to
the public, against misuse of funds
and would "compel disclosure of the
activities of various pressure groups
seeking to influence legislation.”
The measure was offered as an
aftermath of the Naval Affairs
Committee's report on its investiga
tion of shipbuilding contracts, in
dustrial profits and union finances.
The Senate passed and sent to
the White House late yesterday legis
lation authorizing expenditure of
•775,000.000 for new shipbuilding
and ship repair facilities. Of the
total, repair facilities would account
for *275,000.000.
At the same time, Congress was
asked by President Roosevelt to ap
propriate $100,000,000 for protection
of civilians during the war. A bill
authorizing the money already has
been passed. The funds would be
used by the director of civilian de
fense chiefly for purchase of gas
masks for civilians, additional fire
fighting equipment and other ma
terials.
D. C. Flyer Soon to Join
U. S. Squadron in England
With 230 flying hours to his credit,
Walter P Gray, jr„ 1417 Parkwood
place N.W.. has "joined the foreign
legion.'’
That's his way
Of saying that he
expects to be in
England soon as
a pilot officer of
the Eagle Squad
ron, the group of
American flyers
with the R. A. F.
The 22 - year -
old flyer, who at
tended Central
High School,
George Wash
ington University
and Wake Forest
College, started
flying with
W. T. Graf. Jr.
friends at College Park, Md., two
years ago.
Canadian officers gave him a
"flight check" in New York and he
was sent to California for a so
called “refresher course" under
R A. F. flyers.
He remained there for three
months, along with other American
youths and a number of young men
from other countries, training for
personal vengeance on the Axis
powers. One of the boys was from
Vienna, another from Athens.
Mr. Gray, back in Washington
after completing his course on the
West Coast, has been ordered to
report to Ottawa January 28 As
soon as he leaves Canada for Eng
land he will be commissioned a
pilot officer. He is the only son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Gray.
Gen. F. F. Russell to Get
Social Hygiene Award
Bf thf Associated Press.
BOSTON, Jan. 23.—The 1942 Wil
liam Freeman Snow award for dis
tinguished service to humanity in
the social hygiene field will be pre
sented to Brig. Gen. Frederick F.
Russell of Boston February 3 it was
announced last night.
Gen. Russell, a member of the
Army Medical Reserve Corps, will
behonored during the 29th annual
meeting of the American Social
Hygiene Association in recognition
of his work in organizing the United
States Army syphilis and gonorrhea
control program in the first World
War—the basis of the current Army
program.
Other recipients of the award
have included Gen. John J. Pershing
and Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran.
Man Who Tried to Kill
Girl Gets 10 to 20 Years
By the Associated Press.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Jan 23.—
Isaac Brown, New York insurance
broker, convicted of trying to kill
Mathilde Le Boyer, 17, New York
girl applicant for a stenographic
position, was sentenced yesterday to
10 to 20 years in Sing Sing. He was
convicted last month.
County Judge Frank H. Coyne
rejected a plea for clemency.
Brown took the sentence calmly.
Delivery of
Night Final
Edition
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The Star, with two addi
tional pages of last-minute
news, is delivered through
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suburbs, together with The
Sunday Star, at 85c per
month.
This edition gives the
latest developments of the
day in International, Na
tional and Local news, with
complete Financial Reports.
Special delivery is made
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daily.
REPORT TO THE NATION
First Instalment gf Facts and
Figures on War Accomplishments
On December 2 last President Roosevelt wrote Archibald
MacLeish, director of the Office of Facts and Figures:
“As you know, 1 am most anxious that the general public
be fully informed concerning the scope and progress of the
defense program. To this end 1 should like the Office of
Facts and Figures to prepare a report on the progress of the
defense effort, as of December 31.”
The Star herewith presents the first installment of Mr.
MacLeish’s “Report to the Nation.” Subsequent installments
will be printed daily until the full report is published.
■
We have been at war for more than a month. American
soldiers and marines have fought at Wake Island, Guam, Mid
way and the Philippines. The Navy has gone into action in the
i Atlantic and over the broad stretches of the Pacific. There have
been defeats. ( But this much our small forces on our island out
posts have demonstrated: We have an Army and a Navy that
can fight.
It is only the beginning. In his address to Congress on the
| state of the Union, the President said that American sea, air and
land forces will take stations in the British Isles. They will be
protecting the Western Hemisphere. They will be operating
throughout the Far-jSast and on all of the seven oceans.
Total victory is our objective. Speaking for all of us, the
President has expressed our common determination not to stop
short of the destruction of Hitler and the certainty, so far as we
can establish that certainty, that the world will never again
suffer the disaster of Naziism. To win such a war and to win
such a peace, it will not suffice merely to attain a slight superi
ority in armaments over the Axis aggressors. We must attain
an overwhelming superiority. We must take the offensive on a
front that extends around the world. We must liberate Guam,
Wake and Manila. We must carry the war to the enemy’s home
ground and hit him again and again wherever we can reach him.
Our goals have been set:
This year 60,000 planes.
Next year 125,000 planes.
This year 45,000 tanks.
Next year 75,000 tanks.
This year 20.000 anti-aircraft guns.
Next year 35.000 anti-aircraft guns.
This year 8.000,000 tons of merchant shipping.
Next year 10,000,000 tons of merchant shipping.
No other nation In the world has ever undertaken or could
ever undertake such a program. In 1942 alone we will produce
nearly three times as many weapons and supplies of war as in
all the 18 months since the fall of France. In 1942 alone we will
produce as many tanks and planes as Hitler did in all the years
before 1939 when he was preparing for world conquest.
We Decide to Do the Job.
The immensity of the production that we have set ourselves
reflects the transformation that has been effected in the country.
From a people reluctant to go about a business we hate—the
business of war—we have been changed to a people determined
to get the job over with as quickly as possible.
Napoleon said that war was Prussia’s chief business. War is
Hitler's only business. The business of the United States, from
the days of the Revolution, has been the business of peace, the
welfare of its people. We were reluctant to exchange our busi
j ness for Hitler’s.
Hoping to remain at peace we gave up many traditional
rights. We passed a neutrality law in August, 1935. But when
Hitler invaded Poland in September, 1939, it became evident
that the neutrality law favored the Nazis, who had accumu
lated vast stores of arms, while penalizing the democracies who
had not. We repealed those features of the law. It was our first
learning of the lesson that merely wanting peace does not mean
that a nation can stay at peace
But we did more than repeal laws. We began, gradually,
to take action for our own defense. In September, 1939, the
President appointed a War Resources Board to survey the
Nation's resources. The board's recommendations were useful
in planning an increased armament effort. It was disbanded
when its work was finished. Then the invasion of the Lowlands
and the fall of France in the spring of 1940 revealed the full
power of the Nazi war machine and our peril. On May 28, 1940,
the President created the National Defense Advisory Commis
sion, partly composed of leading industrialists. It was an “ad
visory” commission and our aim was “defense."
But the lines of offense pushed closer. By December, 1940,
London had become our first line of security. We could not let
Britain fall for want of food or guns, tanks or planes. The
President announced our determination to serve as the arsenal
of democracy. On January 10, 1941, the lend-lease bill was
introduced into Congress. To gear our production to the urgent
needs of the free nations, the Office of Production Management
was set up, superseding the National Defense Advisory Com
mission. O. P. M pooled the practical experience of industry
and labor in one organization responsible for assisting the Army
and Navy. Still hopeful for peace, we were resolved to give every
aid to the democracies “short of war.”
The End of “Business as Usual.”
As the lend-lease billions began to be spent, the size of the
job we had undertaken became apparent to all. It was a job
too big to be reconciled with “business as usual.” In August,
1941, the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board was created to
direct the harsh task of curtailing the less essential civilian in
dustries so that our available raw materials would go for the
production of first things—munitions—first.
Then Hitler showed his hand and it held a sword made in
Japan. i
To speed the mobilization of the Nation for total war, on
January 13, the President announced the creation of a new' War
Production Bokrd, with full and final authority over all Amer
ican production given to one man, the chairman.
How badly or how well have we, in the 18th months just
past, prepared for the total war now forced upon us?
The dollar, translated into the tools of war, is one yardstick
by which we can measure what we have done.
On July 1,1940, with the tragedy of Dunkirk fresh before our
eyes, we were spending for defense at an annual rate of $2,000,
000,000. On January 1, 1941, on the eve of the lend-lease legis
lation, our defense spending had risen to the rate of 6.2 billions
a year. By the following July 1, as the Nazis were invading Rus
sia-, we were spending at the annual rate of 10.6 billions. On
December 1, 1941, spending had reached an annual rate of
almost 20 billions.
True, this was an accomplishment.
But it is only a fraction of what we must do to survive as a
free Nation. The President has told us that we must step up
our spending on total war to more than 4 billions a month this
year, to more than 5 billions a month in 1943. The record sum
of 1.8 billions spent on war in the month of December, 1941,
represented little more than one-fifth of our national income.
We must now divert more than one-half of our national income
to the prosecution of the war.
That means the mobilization of every available man, woman,
dollar and thing—every plant, tool, machine and bit of material
to contribute to our total war effort. Literally, our* military
strength will depend upon what we, the people, can do without.
The report which follows is the story of the foundations we
have laid for such a total effort. They are good strong founda
tions. But they are foundations only. The President has told
us that we ‘‘must face the fact of a hard war, a long war, a
bloody war, a costly war.” How hard a war, how long, how
bloody, at how great a cost, depends on how quickly we can
erect the necessary structure upon these vast foundations.
The answer will be given by 132,000,000 Americans who,
never having failed in any crisis, now face the gravest crisis in
; their history.
II. The Navy
In 1922 the American Navy, honoring the promises made at
the Washington Arms Conference, began to scrap and strip and
sink more than a million tons of its own fighting ships.
In 1932 the American Navy, becalmed against its will, found
itself approaching a level below Britain, below Japan, below even
France and Italy in the number of its effective fighting ships.
At the beginning of 1942 the American Navy had completed
a full year of full speed ahead on its two-ocean program and had
become within the space of a few months the strongest single
sea-borne fighting force oi\ this planet.
The “two-ocean Navy”—most crucial of all our necessities—
is under way.
When France fell we began to wonder what would have hap
pened tp us if Britain had not survived Dunkirk. On June 14,
1940, an 11 per cent expansion of our naval forces was authorized
by Congress. Five days later the 11 per cent was raised to 70
per cent. By the end of 1940 the Navy Was growing at the rate
of $179,000,000 a month. The cost of 1941 was over $3,000,000,000.
When Japan struck we had .17 battleships, and 15 more
being built. We had 7 aircraft carriers, and 11 more being built.
We had 37 cruisers, and 5* more being built. We had 171 de
stroyers, with 193 more being built. We had 113 submarines, and
73 more being built.
That is by no means the whole story of the Navy’s progress
in 1941. By November, 1941, the Navy had commissioned 25 new
combatant ships. It had added 2,000 planes to its hangars uid
its aircraft carriers. Its new chain of overseas bases extended
far into both oceans, and it had enrolled some 5,000 new offloera
and more than 12 times as many men.
In those 10 months 345 new combatant ships of many kinds
were under construction, as well as 96 auxiliary vessels, 243 mine
craft, 225 patrol boats and other floating equipment generally
overlooked in accounts of battles at sea, but essential if the men
of-war are to go into action.
Where were they being built? At shipyards up and down
both coasts and as far inland as the Great Lakes, where even
submarines are born. At the beginning of the year 72 private
yards were building ships for the Navy. By November there
were 133 yards—not including the Navy’s own 86 yards.
The air is as important to the Navy as the sea. The Navy's
plane complement of 15,000 has been increased. Before the war
entered the shooting stage the Nafy—and the Marine Corps—
had more than 5,000 pilots: Thousands more were in training.
It is interesting to note here that last July the rate of enlistment
for naval aviation training was eight times the rate in May,
1940. A greater rush was to come.
The Navy alone has 34 air stations. In Jacksonville and at
Pensacola the Navy has in operation two of its greatest'new
training stations. A third is in Corpus Christi, Tex. The Corpus
Christi station shows what Americans can do when they decide
to put their backs into an effort. In just 10 months a flat,
desert area of sand and scrub was turned into a modern city,
a city with miles of streets and runways, a city of permanent
buildings with leagues of water mains and power lines, a city
with one purpose—to help buUd an air fleet for our Navy.
. Our Far-Flung Line.
All this expansion of air and sea forces has led to a vast
increase in naval shore establishments.
American sailors and marines are now serving in Newfound^
land; they are serving at Bermuda; they are serving at Great
Exuma Island in the Bahamas; they are serving at Antigua,
Jamaica, St. Lucia, and Trinidad in the Caribbean, and in Brit
ish Guiana in South America. In the Pacific our sailors and
marines hold a far-flung bastion of bases protecting us from
would-be invaders from Asia.
A great deal of work has gone into the development of those
overseas bases. As Secretary Knox pointed out. what we gained
in the destroyer trade with Britain was not bases but the right
to build bases. Defenses against attack from the air and attack
by sea had to be installed. Dockyards, coast artillery, barracks,
j lines of supply for guns, food and coal, workmen to do the build
ing were needed. Nearly half a billion dollars was spent in de
! veloping our bases last year.
For some time American ports have been shared by nations
resisting Axis aggression. Ever since the lend-lease program
j got under way the men-of-war of Great Britain have been
coming into American yards to repair 'the ravages of battles on
distant seas. Merchant ships flying the flags of Britain and of
Russia, of Holland, Norway, Greece and other countries have
also put into our harbors. They have been outfitted with de
gaussing cables against magnetic mines, repaired, overhauled
and fitted with guns. Liners have been turned into transports
to carry troops to outposts and to bring British flying cadets
to our training fields.
Meantime, impressive numbers of our own ships were also
being overhauled and converted for more effective wartime use.
i They were strengthened in protective devices and provided with
increased fire power. Mine protection equipment and sky look
j out stations were installed. To give an example from a single
class: Twenty-three old destroyers were modernized and re
commissioned. Forty-one others were converted for important
uses. Private shipyards shared in the work, gaining valuab'-'
experience for the big job ahead.
A Naval Problem Without Parallel.
The Navy's task today is twofold—it has the greatest battle
of its life on its hands, and it also has a tremendous defensive
patrolling job to carry out. The Navy, like the rest of us. is at
war with Germany in the Atlantic, with Japan in the Pacific,
with Italy in the Mediterranean. At the same time, it must
police with Britain the sea lanes from Iceland to the bulge of
South America and, with the British, Dutch and Australian
Navies, the vast Pacific as far as Singapore. Fighting ships
which might otherwise be used to attack the Japanese Navy
must serve as two great mobile arcs of steel guarding all our
continental coastline. They must see that German ships do not
menace the routes to and from the eastern ports of South and
Central America. They must keep Japanese ships clear of the
Western Hemisphere from the Straits of Magellan to the North
ern Bering Sea. This is a naval problem without parallel in
history.
Long before Pearl Harbor, the Navy’s ability to give and take
severe blows had been shown in the waters between America
- and Europe, in the months when it was obeying tl# President's
command to shoot first.
The Navy and the Marine Corps entered the war with an
unprecedented peacetime strength. Their complements of fight
ing forces are being increased with a speed that can be matched
; by no other nation on earth at this time. The Navy’s ultimate
strength rests soundly on the resources, the spirit and the
capacity of this country to carry to completion a plane and
shipbuilding program years before we thought it could be done.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
Cables Hint Capture of Two
Washingtonians at Guam
Parents of an ensign and a yeo
man from Washington fear their
sons have been captured by the Jap
anese at Guam because of terse
cablegrams received saying merely— |
“Am well, season's greetings.” Origin
point of the communications was
not given.
One of the men. Ensign William
Lee Owen. 25. sent his parents a
j letter dated November 24 from Hon
: olulu saying he expected to sail the
next day for Guam to become legal
j aid and attorney general to Capt.
; George J. McMillin, Governor of
Guam.
According to his parents, the Rev.
and Mrs. B. A. Owen of 1701 Six
teenth street N.W., a check with
Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief
of the Bureau of Navigation, indi
cates he arrived in Guam a short
while before the Invasion. The
Owen family came here from
Kansas City, Mo., last May to be
with their son. *
The other Washingtonian believed
held by the Japanese is Ben Mac
Greer, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Everett Greqp. 3914 Military road
N.W. Mrs. Greer said today she
had not received any confirmation
as to the whereabouts of her yeoman
son, but after speaking with Mfs.
Owen feels certain he also is being
held captive. The youth had been
ordered to Guam as a member of
the clerical force and is believed to
have sailed on the same transport
with Ensign Owen. His father is an
employe of the Veterans’ Admin
istration.
Closing of Italian Airline
To Brazil Hailed by British
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 23.—A “very Ir
ritating leak” in the British blockade
has been plugged through suspen
sion of the Italian airline to Brazil,
Hugh Dalton. Minister of Economic
Warfare, declared today.
“The most important Axis exports
by this channel were propaganda
and fifth columnistsMr. Dalton
told a Condon Guildhall audience,
adding that every plane to South
America carried "about a ton” of
mail and freight, proof of the value
the Axis placed on propaganda.
Mr. Dalton said the Brazilian gov
ernment had “applied the pressure”
to suspend operation of the airline,
which linked “Rome and the Argen
tine republic by way of Spanish
West Africa, the Cape Verde Islands
and Brazil.”
'The airline was not a commer
cial enterprise,” Mr. Dalton con
tinued. “The pilots were members
of the Italian air force. Their duties
included the observation and report
ing of movements of our shipping.
We know they made reconnaiuance
flights and were in touch with enemy
submarines.
"It is with great satisfaction that
I report the closing down of this
service.''
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Hull to Take Part
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With President
President Roosevelt scheduled
conferences today with Secre
tary of State Hull and W. Averell
Harriman, Minister to England,
and speculation arose that the
latter might be named Ambas
sador to Soviet Russia.
The White House said yesterday
an appointee to this post probably
would be chosen on a basis of experi
ence in wartime supply problems
and some knowledge of military af
fairs. As principal lease-lend ex
pediter abroad, Mr. Harriman has
accumulated experience in both
these regards.
Asked about the vacancy in the
diplomatic ranks at his press con
ference today, Mr. Roosevelt said
he had not yet chosen a successor at
Moscow in Lawrence A. Steinhardt,
now Ambassador to Turkey, but he
indicated that a selection would be
made soon.
The President said he likewise had
made no selection as yet for Ambas
sador to Colombia, where a vacancy
also exists.
Mr. Roosevelt referred one other
question in the field of diplomacy
to the State Department, when an
inquiry was made about prospects of
a unanimous accord in the Pan
American conference at Rio de Ja
neiro.
Probably setting a record for
shortage of news at a press confer
ence, the President gave negative or
non-committal answers to a variety
of other questions.
He said he expected a report soon
on the Japanese-Amencan engage
ment at Pearl Harbor, but said he
did not know whether the findings
of the special investigating commit
tee headed by Associate Justice
Roberts would be made public. The
committee has returned to Wash
ington.
Asked about the problem of fed
eralizing unemployment insurance.
Mr. Roosevelt said it is now up to
Congress. Pending on Capitol Hill Is
a request for legislation and funds
to utilize the unemployment ma
chinery as an Instrument of relief
for persons temporarily unemployed
during conversion of industry from
civilian to wartime production.
The President said he had re
ceived no information on the com
promise being effected between the
House and Senate on price-control
legislation.
Jury Convicts Woman
Third Time in Slaying
By thf Assot »'fd Pres*
LAKE CHARLES. La.. Jan. 23 —
Mrs. Annie Beatrice (Tony Jo)
Henry. 25. was convicted today of
the murder in February, 1940. of
J. P. Calloway, Houston (Tex.) sales
man. The verdict makes the death
sentence mandatory.
It was the third time the woman
j was convicted of the crime. On two
, other occasions, she was granted
! reversals by the State Supreme
: Court.
Finnon Burks. Mrs. Henry's com
panion. is under death sentence for
j the slaying and was the State*
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Women Ask Part in Making
Policies of War Program
A plea that women be deluded on
policy-making staffs in the war
production program as well as in
the enforcement of policies, was in
cluded In one of several resolutions
approved yesterdajr at the conclu
sion of a two-day conference spon
sored by the Women's Bureau of
the Labor Department.
Representatives of 11 large na
tional women's organizations, 14
labor unions and United Service Or
ganizations groups concerned with
welfare of woman workers partici
pated. Most delegates were mem
bers of the bureau's Advisory Com
mittee or Defense Labor Advisory
Committee.
The following labor standards for
women engaged In war production
were asked;
An eight-hour day. six-day week
of not more than 48 hours, provision
for adequate meal and rest periods,
equal wage rates with men, includ
ing entrance wage; proper safe
guards for health and safety, and
"extension of State minimum-wage
orders to women in service indus
tries who though not on war pro
duction are essential to a smoothly
running defense program."
Other recommendations approved
included provision of training pro
grams which would not stop with
placement of women in war in
dustries but also would give addi
tional instruction leading to ad
vancement. improvement of housing
and recreational facilities for these
new woman workers and use of
woman dietitians and personnel di
rectors in plants employing large
numbers of women,
Byrns Called by Army
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 23 {*).—
Joseph W. Byrns, jr., former Ten
nessee member of Congress and son
of the late Speaker of the House,
said yesterday he had been ordered
to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for a physi
cal examination prior to entering
the service as a captain of the Army
Air Corps. He expects to take the
examination next week.
American Club of Paris
Addressed by Bolles
Col. Lemuel Bolles, District civilian
defense director, yesterday described
completed and contemplated air
raid precautions for Washington at
the monthly meeting of the Amer
ican Club of Paris in the Army and
Navy Club.
Russell I. Hare presided at the
meeting. Guests were Lawrence V.
Benet, former chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Hotchkiss
Co., and William L. Clemens, assist
ant to Col. Bolles.
LOST.
CAT. black, male, one bad aye. Reward.
1207_De la field jolace n.w._
CAT, all black. Persian, male vicinity 5th
and Inaraham n.w. Reaard. Ran
dolph 4691.
COAT.. WOMAN’S BLACK BUTT. New Tear
Eve. in taxicab. Reward. Call North 1517
eveninaa and Sunday.
PUR NECKPIECE Kolinsky, k>(t en Tues
day, Reward Phone Republic 1165 or
Alexandria 0246 eve_24*_
IRISH SETTER, red. female: answers to
'Bell"; liberal reward for any informa
tlon. Franklin 19.31_
LOCKET, white, with red stone in center.
Friday, between- 42nd and Edmunds Hi.
and 19th and F sts. n.w Reward. WO.
6453.__ _
MINK COAT, brown tone. 1 button at
collar, plain pattern, full >« lenath. 2
slantina pockets embroidered monoaram.
"ANNE DeL K Liberal eash reward tor
information leadlne to recovery. ME. 0316
POCKETBOOK. man's, containing identi
fication of owner Please notify. Owner
will call. _Reward
PURSE black suede, on Mount- Pleasant
; car line, Thursday noon Reward. Call
Woodley 4606 after 6 p.m.
RING (lady's), square-cut emerald act with
baauct diamonds: J100 reward Fire Com
| names' Adjustment Bureau. NA. 0870.
WATCH. Gruen. Initialed ’’A. E. F.,”' lost'In
vicinity Doctors' Hospital. Reward. Georaia
6924 after 6:30 p.m._
WRIST WATCH, lady's Hamilton diamond,
i in Dupont Circle Blda or vicinity, aift of
' a deceased person. S26 reward. Phone
j Woodley 2134 _
rI8T WATCH, lady’s told. Initial! "OT
N.” on back: downtown Washmaton.
Thursday afternoon. Reward. TE. 651 *
WRIST WATCH, lady's Lontines. black
band: Saturday. N W.-N.E Reward RE
J 820, Each. 3687. or Box 438-M. Siar. 24
WRIST WATCH lady’s told: Thursdsy
afternoon, in or near Kreste Store, Chevy
I Chase. Reward. WO. 5415
_ FOUND.
1 DOG email white male with tan spota.
found at 20th and R sts. n w. Wednesday
; afternoon North 01*8_
FOUND—Small purse on 15th at n w at
K. Owner may have by identifyina Call
' CH. 1707 evenints___
SKIRT and niece of silk material, both
brand new Call Warfield 3493
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What You Should Know
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Copies may be obtained for 2 cents each at the
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