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Switch to War Time Brings Complaints Of Inconvenience Power Company Reports It Is Yet Unable to Check Effect on Supply Reports after the first day of the1 new war time brought numerous complaints of inconveniences to day. along w'ith announcement from power company officials that they had not had sufficient opportunity to check the effect on the power supply. Power officials blamed their in ability to determine the results on the fact that the change in the clocks yesterday gave the day, first under the new schedule, only 23 hours. They hoped to be abie to tell more definitely after today’s 24-hour period gives them a basis for comparison. Yesterday’s 23 hours revealed an Increase in the use of power over the corresponding day of last year, but officials said this was in line with the normal rise from year to year. On February 9, 1941, the Po tomac Electric Power Co. gen erated 3.469,000 kilowatt hours, com pared with 3.974,000 yesterday. An hour added to yesterday's schedule would have swelled the output by 120,000-odd hours. Increased Morning Load. Earlier rising resulted in an in crease In the morning power load, an electric company spokesman re ported. but a corresponding reduc tion in the evening load was re corded. Meanwhile, it was apparent that inconveniences resulting from the change will be permitted to con tinue in most cases until advancing sunrise affords relief. Postal car riers. for instance, who yesterday were thrown behind on their rounds because it was so dark when they started that they could not read the addresses on the mail, must settle their difficulties by themselves, ac cording to District Postmaster Vin cent Burke. The postmaster said he planned to make no change and predicted that in two more weeks there would be enough light to eliminate the difficulty. Few Were on Street. The street light situation also en ters the picture. Formerly when the lights were extinguished, few people were on the streets and there was no confusion. But the war time now finds thousands of work ers running for buses and street cars in the dark in order to get to offices on time under the new schedule. Walter E. Kern. District Electrical Department superintendent, said there would be no change in the hours at which street lights are turned off unless Congress and the Commissioners pass legislation per mitting the change. The schedule now in effect, he explained, permits the lights to remain on 3.942 hours and 31 minutes each year. With this as a basis, the burning time has been pro rated according to the season of year. Lights now burn, Mr. Kern re ported. from 15 minutes after sun set to 30 minutes after sunrise. On March 16, they will Hfe turned on at the same hour in the evening, but will be extinguished 15 minutes earlier. This schedule will be fol lowed until April 19, at which date they will burn from 30 after sunset to 45 minutes before sunrise. Traffic Lights Changed. No difficulty of this nature in volved traffic lights. Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer said they had been changed in accordance with the new time. In many Instances individual con cerns and work crews solved prob lems to their own convenience. One case of this was reported at the sub terranean reservoir now under -con struction at McMillan Park. Work men there were not satisfied to re port before dawn and to quit in the middle of the afternoon, so they went to their jobs today an hour later. Personnel Unit Plans Session on Man Power The Society for Personnel Admin istration will hold a dinner meeting at. 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Young Women's Christian Association to discuss efficient use of man power in the present emergency. Panel members to lead the dis cussion will be G. Lyle Belslev, as sistant executive secretary of the War Production Board, who will act as chairman: Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of the selective service system: Col. Frank J. Mc Sherry, deputy director of labor supply and training of W. P. B.; Miss Mary Anderson, director of the Women's Bureau, and Arthur S. Flemming, Civil Service Commis aioner. TURN YOUR OidThfipetfty INTO A Many Washing ton ( property ] owners are \ calling on Kraft to bring outmoded monies up-to-datel KRAFT OFFERS these TIMELY IMPROVEMENTS KKAPT expert* can convert old houses Into smart, mod ern Apartments—thus help lny property owners to taka advantare ot the tremen dous rental opportunities brourht about by the Influx of thousands of neu> Wash lnctonlans every month The Government’s Defense Prorram provides you a X olden opportunity — Is TOUR property equipped to take advantage of it? If not. call DIst. 6006 or, better (till . comi In and see usi Capital Hostesses Perplexed Over How to Treat Aliens Government Departments Also Confused; Axis Agents Clever in Getting Around Law By HELEN LOMBARD. Into a Washington almost Inured to surprises falls the startling sug gestion of a titled war.refugee. An American woman who left her ra • tion card and her Italian husband behind her for the "duration" is trying to persuade her friends in administration circles that there should be a "most favored enemy” class in the present conflict. Italians, she declares, are not as dangerous as the Japanese and should be treated with considera tion. The fact that it was the Italian naval attache. Admiral Al berto Lais, who supervised the sabo tage of Axis ships in American harbors is excused by the statement "he was acting under Hitler's or ders.” The little campaign carried on by this Italianized American is only one of many that goes on in drawing rooms of the capital. As Senator Tydings remarked at a dinner party the other evening: "There have never been so many wheels within wheels as there are today in Wash ington.” Social Washington is in a state of great confusion. Yesterday's friends are the enemies of today; today's neutrals may be the enemies of to morrow. Vichy Embassy Situation. The Vichy Embassy is the object of lively discussion and divided opinion. People who will r.ot re ceive Ambassador Gaston Henry Have. will invite his counselor. M. George Picot, to dinner on the basis of a report that the two men differ about the extent to which France should help the Axis. The confusion in social Washing ton reflects that of different branches of the Government. The Department of Justice and the State Department are in the diffi cult position of having to preserve legalistic formulas even in cases when the Axis is using these very forms to acomplish its aims. The Justice Department is turn ing a deaf ear to alarmed emissaries from the West Coast who demand immediate action against all people of the Japanese race. Ninety per cent of the American-born Japanese enjoy dual nationality. They are entitled to all the privileges of American citizenship through the accident of birth; but they have also sworn fealty to the hereditary Em peror of Japan, as is shown in the registration lists which were seized in the Jap consulates. According to suspicious Califor nians even the small minority, about 10 per cent, who have not registered, may be agents who have abstained in order to have a clear field. Enemies Make Use of Laws. Until the thorny Japanese prob lem presented itself, there was little inclination in Washington even to consider the fact that enemy agents might be using American laws as protective coloration. The Yugoslav representatives of the government ln-exile have watched with dismay a number of well-known Yugoslav fifth columnists and agents who were allowed to enter America be cause the Axis had carefully ar ranged for the fulfillment of all legal requirements. Yugoslav consulates were unable to obtain visas for loyal Yugoslavs in spite of the personal guarantee of officials who represent the Yugo slav government, because the immi grants in question could not find the financial guarantors required by the United States immigration law. The fifth columnists and agents, however, had no difficulty. The re quired sponsors were produced by magic and the visas were granted by the State Department. There are two men in Washington who have a healthy respect for the BROOKLAND STOVE CUan COAL Smokeleat *10.25 THE BROOKLAND CO. Coal—Foel Oil—Paints 3912 GA. AVE. TAylor 7000 ingenuity of the Axis. They are the Filipino servants of the Yugoslav Minister, Constantin Fotich. When the oil-burner in the Minister’s resi dence caught fire, the fire brigade arrived, accompanied by several F. B. I. agents. The G-men insisted on visiting the whole house, much to the mystification of the Minister and Mme. Fotich. The mystery was finally solved ■when one of the Filipinos volun teered the information that it was he who had called up J. Edgar Hoover. “When the Legation of our Yugo slav Allies catches fire.” he explained, “I know that the house is full of Japs.” Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc. U. S. Missionaries Interned by Japs At Hong Kong All Safe but Suffering From Food Shortage, Chinese Refugees Say Bs the Associated Press. KWEILIN, Kwangsi Province, China, Feb. 10.—Chinese Christian refugees from Japanese-occupied Hong Kong reported today that I American missionaries trapped there when war broke out in the Pacific t were interned in the former British j crown colony. All are reported safe, but suffering from a food shortage. Among the Americans at Hong Kong are the following faculty members of the American-supported Lingnan University at Canton: Prof, and Mrs. C. N. Laerd, Prof, and Mrs. H. C. Brownell and their 14 year-old daughter. Prof, and Mrs. A. R. Knipper and their 12-year-old daughter, Prof. H. S. Prank, Prof. H. G. Rhodes, a Miss Gower, a Mrs. Warden and Messrs. Kelly, Brown and Castle. There was no news of the whereabouts of another faculty member named Guthrie who Joined the Army. The refugees said Miss Marion Dubley of the Hong Kong Y. W. C. A. also was interned. Sixty American Catholics, includ ing eight who arrived at Hong Kong from the United Stales just before the outbreak of war, also were re ported safe. Among American faculty members of Lingnan University interned on the campus at Canton were said to be Prof. J. M. Henry, Prof. W. E. j Hoffman, Prof, and Mrs. W. E. Mac Donald and their daughter, and an ' American nurse. Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Cadbury also were said to be safe. At the Baptist mission at Hwang sien in Shantung province were said to be Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Glass, the Rev. C. L. Culpepper. Miss Florence Lide and Miss Martha Franks. Mis sionaries of the American church mission held in their homfcs at Wu han, but allowed considerable free dom, were said to include Bishop A. A. Gilman, the Rev. C. L. Pickens, Miss Olive Tomlin and R. A. Keep. EDUCATIONAL. Accountancy I Pace Courses: B. C. S. and M. C. S. Degree*. C.P. A. Preparation. Day and Even ing Divisions. Coeducational Send for 33th Year Book BENJAMIN FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY 1100 lEth Streat. N. W. at L RE 2212 Intensive 90•Day Shorthand and Typewriting Course WOOD COLLEGE 710 14th St. N.W. Est. 1885 ME. 5051 Dutch Guerrillas Inflict Heavy Loss . On Japs in Borneo Trail of Enemy Graves Through Jungle Tells Of Fighters' Success B> the Associated Press. BATAVIA, Netherlands Indies, Feb. 10—A trail of hastily-dug graves through jungle morass t)t West Borneo attested today to the heavy casualties s t o u t-hearted Dutch guerrilla fighters have in flicted on Japanese forces moving south from devastated Pontianak. Aneta News Agency said the ex pert Jungle fighters, operating from secret headquarters, have attacked the 3,000 Japanese Invaders with automatic guns and hand grenades. They strike swiftly and disappear like ghosts into the jungle. So far only one guerrilla is missing. After taking Pontianak—now a shambles of bomb craters, demol ished houses, machine-gunned walls and fresh graves—the Japanese be gan filtering south in small groups. They prvoed easy prey for the Dutch patrols who have given them no rest, night after night. At one point the Japanese cap tured a Jungle camp while the guer j rilla fighters were on patrol. When the Dutch returned, 13 Japanese | were killed in a brief fight. One Dutchman was missing after the attack but later he joined a group of British Indian guerrillas and participated in an attack on a Japanese camp. • A Punjabi guerrilla patrol, oper ating in Dutch Borneo after fleeing Japanese-occupied Sarawak, sur prised Japanese soldiers at camp taking their morning bath. Heavily outnumbered, they opened fire kill ing 26. The skirmishes are being fought in incessant rain and the patrols receive supplies by trucks operating over barely passable jungle roads blocked by mud and faUen trees. The agency said day in, day out, Japanese soldiers were being picked off, ten at one place, two at another, and so on. It added that nowhere do the Japanese feel safe. Polish Club to Meet The regular monthly meeting of the Polish Club of Washington will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the I Stansbury Lodge, 5832 Georgia I avenue. ^anna & 5)m>uL Jtwtlurt A Silvtrtmitht 1221 Connecticut Avenue $2 to $50 Identification BRACELETS Every one should own one and wear one. 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