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Shortage Cuts
Potatoes From
Gallinger Diet
Many Institutions'
Report Difficulty
In Obtaining Food
The 1,100 patients at Gallinger
Hospital must go without potatoes
over the week end, it was reported
today, unless a supply of the scarce
commodity turns up somewhere
during the day.
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital has been
entirely out of potatoes for the past
several days, but a carload arrived
today from Chicago and should
meet needs for a couple of weeks.
Meanwhile, all of the District’s in
stitutions had virtually no chickens
for the past several weeks. Poultry
is extensively used in these places
in the preparation of broth and hos
pital commissaries found it neces
sary to substitute beef broth.
Difficult To Get Food.
The difficulty of procurement of
food supplies for institutions here
was described today by Roland M.
Brennan, District purchasing officer,
as being "the most critical I have
ever seen.” An institution official
■said it also was difficult to get fresh
fruits and vegetables, urgently
needed by the hospitals since the
rationing of processed food began.
Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, superinten
dent of Gallinger Hospital, said the
potato supply there was down to
several bags. He explained that the
hospital normally uses 10 bags a day
and that there would be none left
tomorrow unless a new shipment
came in sometime today. Mean
while, the hospital was making ar
rangements to substitute other foods
to provide the necessary carbo
hydrates in the diets of the patients.
According to Mr. Brennan, the
contractor who was to supply Gal
linger with 80 tons of potatoes dur
ing April was making every effort
to obtain new shipments. He has
so far, delivered about 30 tons.
Can't Get Local Bids.
According to Monie Sanger, as
sistant to the superintendent at St. I
Elizabeth’s, efforts had been made 1
for days to get merchants to bid
on %he potato contract for that
establishment. The contract was
finally let, Mr. Sanger said, to a
Chicago commission merchant be
cause it appeared to be impossible
to get local bids.
After the hospital had run out of
white potatoes, Mr. Sanger said,
sweet potatoes and other substi
tutes were used on the hospital
menus.
The official also explained that it
was difficult to get an adequate sup
ply of fresh vegetables.
"We can't go out and shop as the
housewife does.” he said. "We've
got to buy under contract., and it
isn't always easy to get bids these
days.”
None of the local poultry mer
chants have been willing to bid on
furnishing fowl because of the un
certainty of the supply situation,
he said.
Penal Institutions Hit.
District officials also revealed that
the penal institutions have been out
of potatoes at various times recently,
but that they have used other foods
to make up this deficiency.
The OPA order which, until re
cently, placed a premium on seed
potatoes, resulted in the diversion
of considerable quantities of table
stock into seed, it was said. Even
though this price inequality has
been removed. Department of Agri
culture officials believe it will be
some time before the potato supply
approaches normal again because of
the heavy demands made by the
armed services.
The small stocks of potatoes that
remained in local stores were being
doled out in small quantities and
were not expected to last long.
15 WAAC5 Here Selected
For Officer Training
Fifteen WAAC auxiliaries sta
tioned in the military district of
Washington have been selected for
officer training.
The women reported for duty to
day at the first WAAC training
center at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
Their selection was announced by
Maj. Gen. John T. Lewis, com
manding general of the district.
In the group arc:
Sinclair. Mary M. Albert. Catherine C
White. Alma G. Black. Esther M
Dunton. Vivian E Oliver, Maimie P.
Wolfe. Dorothy E. Engel. Thrace O.
Carey. Janiece E Thomas. Dorothv V
Hammel. Georgia R Swanson. Ellen V
Tannv, Elepnor M. Layton. Katherine H.
Hamilton. Martha J.
Altmeyer Will Discuss
Beveridge Plan Tuesday
The Beveridge plan of social se
curity will be discussed by Arthur
Altmeyer. chairman of the Social
Security Board, at 8 p.m. Tuesday
in another of a series of lectures
sponsored by the War Problems
Study Group at Howard University.
Mr. Aaron, director of the Alien
Property Custodian’s Office, will lead
the discussion that will follow the
talk. The aflair will be held in the
assembly room of Douglass Hall.
Daily Rationing
Reminders ffj)
Blue coupons, Book 2—Those marked
D. E and P good for rationed
canned goods through April 30.
Bed coupons. Book 2—Those marked
A and B are valid now and will
remain good through April 30.
They can be exchanged for meats,
butter, margarine, fats and oils,
cheeses and canned fish.
Stamps marked C will become good
Sunday and D coupons on April 18.
They will also be good through
April 30.
Sugar—Stamp No. 12 in Book 1 Is
good for 5 pounds through May 31
Coffee-Stamp No. 26 in Book 1 Is
good for 1 pound through April 25.
Fuel oil—No. 4 coupons are invalid.
No. 5 coupons are valid for 10 gal
lons through September 30.
Gasoline—No. i A coupons are good
for 3 gallons each through July 21
B and O coupons, good for 3
gallons each, expire on dates In
dicated In Individual books,
•hoes—stamp 17 In Book 1 Is good
for one pair of shoes through
June 13.
Retailed rationing Information
tritl be found on Page 4-2 of rite
inndag Jiar eacb umk.
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HOME OF THE DISTRICT’S FIRST MUNITIONS MAKER-— '
Helen Gatch Durston has sketched at the left the pre-Revolu
tionary War house once occupied by Henry Foxhall, munitions
king in 1812. The modern-day owners, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Randolph, have connected the original old house at 2908 N
street N.W. with 19th century houses on each side. Mrs. Ran
dolph is the granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln. Her father.
Robert Todd Lincoln, once lived a short distance away, at 3014
N street N.W.
The Foxhall house, as it is generally known, is so old that a
tunnel still runs from its foundations for refuge from Indian
tribes. The munitions maker lived there while he was supplying
guns to American fighters in 1812 from his foundry on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. He was himself an Englishman and
only a violent storm saved his foundry from the vengeance of
the British as they hurried past at the time they invaded Wash
ington. In gratitude for this good fortune, Mr. Foxhall built
the first Methodist Church in Washington at Fourteenth and G
streets N.W., now the site of the Colorado Building.
WPB s Priority Plan
For Fire Escapes in
D. C. Expected Today
Board Officials Promise
To Outline Procedure
For Rooming Houses
Officials of the War Production
Board have premised that some- ;
time today they will outline to Dis- j
trict officials the exact priority pro- ;
cedure to be followed by operators I
of boarding, rooming, lodging and i
apartment houses in applying for i
fir? escapes and other safety facili- !
ties.
There has been no explanation as
to why there has been a delay of
more than two days in detailing
th*- priorities system—which has
oeen postponing actual provision of
fire safety facilities on affected
housing units ordered by the Com
missioners.
It was assumed to be a case of
| the slow grinding of administrative
machinery. The procedural details
were to have been delivered first no
later than Thursday noon, and there
were successive postponements, with
the answer still undelivered last
night.
City Heads to Hear Procedure.
The latest information was that
officials of the construction division
of the WPB were to consider plans
this morning and that as soon as
this session was over the procedure
was to be given District officials by
L. A. Anderson, housing priorities
manager for this area.
Approval of requests for fire es
capes, fire extinguishers and other
safety facilities was expected, par
S ticularly since the WPB Thursday
morning announced it had modified
j prohibitions against use of steel for
non-essential purposes, and had au
thorized limited manufacture of
various civilian products using steel,
even including millinery wire and
hat frames.
Meanwnne, as one direct result
of the order of the Commissioners
for prosecution of rooming house
and similar operators if they con
tinue business without a District
license, hundreds of such landlords
are seeking information as to why
their license applications have been
denied. It is indicated many are
taking s*eps to bring their places
into compliance with District regu
lations and law.
Commissioners Firm.
The Commissioners are maintain
ing their stand that requirements
must be met or operators will be
prosecuted if they continue to do
business otherwise. Corporation
Counsel Richmond B. Keech has
said time and again he will prose
cute any and all operators who
operate without a permit, as soon
as the necessary information is sup
plied to him.
It came to light yesterday, how
ever, tha*. some inspectors have de
cided as a practical matter to delay,
temporarily, formal reports of non
compliance, in “a few” instances in
which proof was given by landlords
they have placed orders for fire
safety facilities or have applied for
priorities, and otherwise were un
dertaking to comply with the law
and the orders of the Commis
sioners.
How long this period of grace
will be extended for these landlords,
or just how7 far the Commissioners
will permit inspectors to use their
own discretion, was not indicated
last night.
Motorman Acquitted
In Traffic Fatality
Judge Nathan Margold yesterday
directed a Municipal Court jury to
return a verdict of “not guilty" at
j the end of the Government's case
against Ned Bumgardner, 24, Cap
j ltal Transit Co. motorman, charged
! with negligent homicide in the traf
j flc death March 6 of Thomas C.
; Parker. S5. colored.
Mr. Parker, whose home was in
i Bast Falls Church, Va„ died of in
juries received in an accident at
i Eleventh street and Florida avenue
N.W. in which he was crushed by a
streetcar while trying to push his
autentobUs off the ear tracks.
Capital s Beauty and Hurrying
People Intrigue Oscar Tschirky
Noted Host Visits
Raleigh Hotel Suite
Named in His Honor
The most famous “chef” In
America—who insists he „ ne.~.
been a chef—finds surcease from
New' York crowds by watching
Washingtonians hustle to work at
6:30 a.m.
“It is music to me, it is pleasure,”
said Oscar Tschirky, Swiss native
whose reign as “host to the world”
at the Waldorf-Astoria has perhaps
been exceeded in length only by the
reign of Queen Victoria. Oscar be
came maitre d'hotel at the Waldorf
on the day it opened, March 15,
1893.
He came here Wednesday to be
a guest of the Raleigh Hotel in a
suite named in his honor, and left
last night. But Thursday and Fri
day mornings Oscar seated himself
by a window overlooking Pennsyl
vania avenue and enjoyed the
symphony of scurrying feet below.
The man who has known world
celebrities, the friend of every
President for 50 years, was soothed
by the sight of war workers leaping
from buses and walking rapidly
through traffic signals.
Likes Busy Humanity.
Oscar, it seems, not only knows
the carriage trade, but also has a
love for humanity in general.
He likes to see people busy, yet he
doesn’t know the meaning of hard
work.
“My work has never been hard, it
has been pleasant.”
To appreciate this American figure
one must go back to the 80s. Amer
ica longed for the elegance and
splendor of Europe; Oscar had the
vision to see a nice future for him
self if he catered to a growing de
mand. He worked at Hoffman House
and at Delmonico’s before going with
the Waldorf-Astoria. He would give
the rich and famous five-hour course
dinners with all the trimmings. He
wasn't a chef, but chefs will tell you
Oscar always was coming up with
suggestions for making a meal more
delectable.
Oscar put out a cook book in 1893
designed to be helpful to the carriage
trade, which was beginning to emu
late European custom by enlarging
kitchens and employing live or six
cooks. It labeled Oscar with the title
“chef.” Nevertheless he reiterates he
is not a chef, but a host.
Near 77 years of age, Oscar has
met royalty and other celebrities for
50 years. He would greet them at the
Waldorf and escort them to suite or
banquet hall.
Mm*. Chian* Most Fascinating.
Oscar is nothing if not diplomatic.
Asked who was the most glamorous
woman he had ever met, he replied:
“Lillian Russell was a great beauty.
There have been beauties in every
decade. If you will ask me who is
the most fascinating woman I've
known, I'd say Mme. Chiang Kai
shek.”
This prompted a woman inter
viewer to ask: “What male person
ality stands out most in your recol
lection?”
Oscar shied away from that one,
too.
“There are so many, for instance
all the Presidents have been great
personalities; I don't like to single
out one.” *
About food rationing, he was
asked. Would chefs improvise as of
yore?
"We can get used to meatless days.
The chefs—and I'm not one—are
going to do the best they can with
what they have. But the American
people are good sportsmen. They
know, no matter what happens in
rationing, we are better ofT than
people in Europe.”
He wouldn't talk about Presidents
except to say that Franklin D.
Roosevelt calls him "my neighbor
across the Hudson." Oscar has
given his home. New Paltr, near
Poughkeepsie, to the Culinary So
ciety of America as a permanent
home for aged cooks.
Likes Washington's Beauty.
Oscar met Prince Henry of Prus
sia. King Albert of Belgium, Queen
Marie of Rumania, the then Prince
of Wales, Edward Windsor; King
Peter of Yugo-Slavla, and famous
European and Astatic generals and
statesmen.
Visiting Washington tar the Ant
OSCAR.
—Star Staff Photo.
time since 1931, Oscar derived his
greatest pleasure from watching
those early morning crowds rushing
to work.
“If I had to live in a city, I’d pick
Washington. No skyscrapers. It Is
beautiful; broad streets, splendid
buildings, cultured people.”
Fifty years at the top of his pro
fession. That’s Oscar’s claim to
fame.
“I am proud to have made so
many friends. I don’t believe I have
an enemy in the world.”
Late Gifts May Send
D. C. Red Cross Fund
Beyond $1,900,000
Donations Continuing
And Will Be Included
In Official Total
Gifts to the District Red Cross
received through today will be in
cluded in the official 1943 War Fund
total, with the outlook that the
grand aggregate will exceed $1,900,
000, Campaign Director Randolph
G. Bishop said.
Mr. Bishop was making a final
check with leaders of the various
divisions, in order to increase
the $1,869,282 officially reported
through April 7.
“People have not stopped giving
to the Red Cross simply because the
campaign has ended,” he stated.
“They are forgetting about quotas
and making direct contributions for
men in the armed services, through
the medium of the Red Cross.”
Meanwhile, it was announced that
the Junior Red Cross, which pledged
itself to raise $8,000 in District
schools, has exceeded its quota, 133
schools reporting a grand total of
$8,543. Miss Elizabeth Etheridge,
Junior Red Cross secretary, said 59
schools have yet to report their con
tributions.
The District government unit,
only division to fail to achieve its
$46,710 quota as other units re
ported oversubscriptions, improved
its position somewhat the past few
days by raising its total to $32,481,
or nearly 70 per cent of quota.
Two mercy ships sailed last month
loaded with cargoes of food parcels
for delivery to Afnerican and other
Allied Nations’ fighting men held
captive in Axis prison camps, the
American Red Cross announced.
These ships, traveling under safe
conduct from belligerents, sail
alone, unarmed and floodlighted,
with the Red Cross emblem painted
on their hulls. L. M. Mitchell, di
rector of foreign and insular opera
tions of the American Red Cross,
said today that these food supplies
actually are reaching American
prisoners of war.
Hospitals Given Grants
Private hospitals in Great Britain
receive government grants for spe
cial services, such as the treatment
of certain types of disease.
Women's Streetcar
Team Wins Praise
On Test Trips
'Motorman' Complimented
For Aiding Streamliner
And Avoiding Tie-up
Their first trip proved so success- 1
ful that the District's first—and.
probably last—all-woman street carj
team was given another chance at j
the controls yesterday.
“They seemed to get along so well.” 1
John E. Henshaw, Capital Transit!
superintendent, declared, “that we:
tried it again.
“But it won't be a permanent;
practice. They might start talking j
and forget about their work,” he
laughed.
Prevents Traffic Tie-Up.
“Why. Mr. Henshaw.” Mrs. Edna
Cobb, the conductor, exclaimed in
dignantly. “I have never heard so
much gossip in mv life since I have
been working here, and it has all
come from men.”
The only difficulty w'hich came up
yesterday during the run from the
Fourteenth and Decatur streetcar
barns to the Bureau of Engraving
appeared at Fourteenth street and
Constitution avenue when Mrs. Bes
sie Allison, who was at the controls,
found a disabled streamliner in front
of her.
She quickly solved this problem
by coupling her vehicle to the car
head of the crippled car and pushed
it to the new subway loop at the Bu
reau of Engraving. IShe was lauded
by officials for averting a traffic
tie-up.
Her only answer was. “It's all in
a day’s work.”
Prefers Streetcar.
Mrs. Allison has been a full
fledged “motorman” for about a
month and definitely prefers the
streetcar to the bus, she declared.
She lives, at 322 Sixteenth street
S.E. and has a son, James, who is
employed in the Treasury Depart
ment.
Mrs. Cobb is a qualified conductor
and at the present time is studying
to be a motorman. She resides at
7534 Wisconsin avenue, Bethesda,
Md., and has a 4-month-old-baby.
Cadet Dead, Another Missing
McALLfiN, Tex., April 10—The
Moore Field public relations office
said last night that Flying Cadet
Chester Robin, 22, of New Orleans
had been found dead in the burned
wreckage of his training plane. He
had been missing since Wednesday
night. Flying Cadet Joseph P.
O’Brien, 20, of Brooklyn, has been
missing since 9 pm. Wednesday, the
office reported.
Pay Bill Accord
By Conferees
Seen Next Week
Senate, in Completing
Action, Grants $300
Hike in Low Brackets
By J. A. O'LEARY.
Final agreement probably will be
reached next week between House
and Senate conferees on the war
time increases to be paid Federal
ar.Q District employes after April
30.
The ftouse today sent the bill to
conference with the Senate on the
Senate amendment. Speaker Ray
burn named as House conferees
Chairman Ramspeck of the Civil
Service Committee. Representatives
Randolph of West Virginia and Mc
Millan of South Carolina, all Demo
crats, and Rees of Kansas and Kil
burn of New York, both Republicans.
Both houses have approved con
tinuation of the 21.6 per cent in
crease in per annum pay for a 48
hour week, on an overtime basis,
out the Senate amended the bill
before nassing it yesterday to deal
mere liberally with those in the
low-salary brackets.
Major Senate changes, awaiting
settlement in conference, are: A flat
$300 in cases where the 21.6 per
cent overtime raise would be less
than $300 a year.
A flat $300 raise in place of the
present 10 per cent increase for
those whose work cannot be meas
ured by hours, principally in the
legislative and judicial establish
ments.
Eliminates $5,000 Ceiling.
Elimination of the ban in exist
ing law against any raises above
$5,000, which the House voted to
retain. The Senate provisions would
allow increases in salaries above
$5,000. but with the percentage fig
ured only on the first $2,900 of pay.
The House bill merely continued
the 21.6 per cent increase for those ,
on an overtime basis, without any !
lump sum minimum for the low
brackets. For those not subject
to overtime, the House allowed a
flat 15 per cent instead of the
present 10 per cent.
The House bill would run until
June 30, 1945, rvith power reserved
in Congress to terminate it earlier. !
The Senate made June 30, 1944. the
termination date, on the theory Con
gress could again extend it if the
war is still on.
ine conferees also will have be- i
fore them a Senate committee
amendment to deny the benefits of
the bill to any Government worker
belonging to a union that discrimi
nates on grounds of race, color or
creed.
Langer Amendment Defeated.
Senator Langer. Republican, of
North Dakota was defeated on a
motion to extend this ban to wage
board mechanics in navy yards who
are paid under separate legislation.
Supporting the Langer amend
ment, Senator Mead, Democrat, of
New York said complaints were
brought to the Civil Service Com
mittee that men have been denied
membership because of color in a
union whose members are engaged
in navy yard work. Lack of mem
bership, he said, prevents them from
advancing. Senator Brooks, Re
publican, of Illinois also supported
the amendment.
The Langer proposal was opposed
by Senators Russell, Democrat, of
Georgia, and Byrd, Democrat, of
Virginia, who argued it meant mak
ing labor unions, as private organ
izations, subject to Government con
trol.
After the Langer amendment was
declared lost Senator Russell moved
to strike out the original commit
tee ban, but this move failed on a
standing vote. This left the com
mittee ban in the bill, but without
the additional language that would
have applied it to the Navy Yard
Wage Board workers.
Senator Mead emphasized dur
ing debate on the bill that con
tinuation of the 21.6 per cent raise
for a 48-hour week for most
per annum employes amounts to
httle more than straight pay for
overtime, since it is accompanied
by a 20 per cent longer work week.
Late Friday a move was started
to put Government personnel on
the regular time and a half basis
for overtime, as required in private
industry, but it was abandoned yes
terday. This would have been ac
complished by using a 260-day work
year instead of the present 360-day
year in computing the pay for work
over 40 hours, and would have
meant a 30 per cent raise instead
of 21.6 for 48 hours. Senator Mead
explained his original bill early in
February provided for that for
mula, but was rejected by a ma
jority of the Civil Service Commit
tee.
Mortality Rate Decreases
The British tuberculosis mortality
rate decreased frqm 1,904 deaths per
million in 1900 to 602 in 1938.
INSPECTOR RICHARD H.
MANSFIELD. 1
Inspector Mansfield’s
Health May Force
Retirement Soon
Veteran Detective Chief
Recently Was Stricken
With Heart Attack
Retirement of Inspector Richard
H. “Dick” Mansfield, chief of detec
tives and veteran of 32 years with
the Metropolitan police force, ap
peared imminent today as the in
spector admitted he anticipated ill
health would force him to “take it
easy.”
Stricken with a heart attack three
weeks ago while on a train heading
for Florida and a “much needed |
rest,” Inspector Mansfield has been j
recuperating at his Cheverly (Md.) j
home.
Tire veteran enforcement officer, '
who rose from the ranks to become i
assistant superintendent of police, I
is slated to appear before the Board j
of Police and Fire Surgeons at the
end of the month for the annual ]
physical examination required of all
men 55 years of age or over. He was
55 in February.
Expects to Fail Test.
He said yesterday he “didn't ex
pect to make it,” referring to the
medical test. i
Formerly an athlete, Inspector
Mansfield first suffered a heart at
I tack last year. He was warned to
' take it easy, but he continued his
full schedule of activities, which in
cluded his regular traffic safety
chalk talks to school children and
cartooning for The Star.
He said that he received hundreds
of letters from school children ex
pressing hope for his recovery.
Appointed chief of detectives near
ly three years ago following a Con
gressional investigation of the de
partment, Inspector Mansfield aided
in building the detective bureau to
what is considered a "model” bureau.
Inspector Mansfield was in vaude
ville prior to becoming a policeman
in January. 1911. He was promoted
to a detective sergeant in 1923, to a
lieutenant in 1929 and in 1932 w'as
made a captain.
Known to Many Children.
Many Washingtonians — particu
larly children—knew him as the
| popular commander of No. 9 pre
cinct During his traffic safety
campaign among sclfbol children in
that precinct, not a single child was
killed during school hours in the
nine years he served as commander.
After becoming chief of detectives
and assistant superintendent, he
found time to continue his safety
campaign in District schools.
For 17 years he has drawm for The 1
Star the well-known Sunday fea- >
ture, "Those Were the Happy Days.”
He is the only policeman-cartoonist!
to win second prize in a Nation-wide j
contest for newspaper cartoonists.
Top honors went to the late Clare
Briggs.
Inspector Mansfield is married and
has two sons in the Navy. Donald
McAllister Mansfield. 20, is a seaman
(second class) now’ in Norman,
Okla. Lt. (j. g.i Richard H. Mans
field, jr., 29. is stationed in Prince
ton, N. J. *
D. C. Soldier to Receive
Purple Heart Today
Pvt. Charles Goodman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Goodman, 339 Cedar
street N.W.. who was wounded in the
left arm by aerial bombing on
Guadalcanal, is one of 44 conva
lescent soldiers receiving the Military
Order of the Purple Heart today at
Battle Creek, Mich.
Pvt. Goodman was inducted 21
months ago. He was in a New
Zealand hospital before being re
turned to the United States. He at
tended Takoma Park High School
and Roosevelt High School.
His father said he talked to his son
last night by telephone and was told
his son would receive the decora ticn
today.
Dominican Roads Limited
Many areas in mountainous
Dominican Republic are still in
accessible to motor traffic and may
be reached only by horseback.
SION OF THE TIMES—Mrs. Edna Cobb (left) conductor, and Mrs. Bessie Allison, who was at the
controls, shown yesterday at the car barn at Fourteenth and Decatur streets N.W. after a trial run
as the District's first all-woman streetcar team. —Star Staff Photo.
Jefferson Day
Talk to Be Given
By Roosevelt
Marine Band Concert
To Open Memorial
Dedication Tuesday
President Koosevelt will deliver a
Jefferson Day address that will be
“brief and Jeffersonian,” Stephen T.
Early, presidential secretary, said
today.
The time and place of the speech,
on which the President was working
:.oday, are to be announced Monday.
Meanwhile, plans went forward for
dedication ceremonies at the Jeffer
son Memorial on the south shore of
the Tidal Basin Tuesday, when the
program, including music, will take
place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Thousands of guests who will at
tend were asked to be in their seats
by 11:30 a.m. for the opening of
a concert by the Marine Band, with
Capt. William F. Santelmann con
ducting. The concert will con
tinue for half an hour.
Participants Are Chosen.
Participants in the program have
been selected to represent the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Com
mission, which planned the memo
rial, and the Protestant and Cath
olic Churches—symbolic of Jeffer
son's ideals of religious freedom.
The presiding officer will be Stuart
G. Gibboney of New York, chair
man of the Memorial Commission.
The invocation will be delivered by
the Rt. Rev. Henry St. George
j Tucker, a Virginian, who now is
i presiding bishop of the Episcopal
Church in America. Jefferson was
: a vestryman of Christ Church,
Episcopal, in Charlottesville, Va.
Grace Moore to Sing,
i The benediction will be offered by
a distinguished Catholic prelate, the
Mast Rev. Peter L. Ireton, Coad
jutor Bishop of Richmond, Va.
In addition to the opening concert
by the Marine Band, musical num
bers will include the National An
I them, sung by Grace Moore of the
Metropolitan Oper, and "America”
by the Marine Band.
The heroic statue of Thomas
Jefferson has been put in place
in the center of the memorial room
of the colonnaded circular Pantheon
type building.
Arriving a few days ago, the
statue has been erected on its pedes
tal. and is being prepared for exhi
bition when the memorial is opened
to the public.
Present Figure Temporary.
Although appearing like bronze,
the statue was not cast of metal,
because of the shortage of war ma
terial. For the duration, the statue
of plaster, from the design of the
| sculptor Rudulph Evans, will stand
until it can be replaced.
The memorial room in which the
i figure stands is not yet open to the
public although the memorial build
ing itself, with its approach and
broad stone steps, have been a cen
ter of interest to thousands of per
sons. especially during the period
the cherry trees are in bloom. Some
blossoms may still be on the trees
for the dedication, experts said to
day.
The building and grounds will be
opeh to the public today and up to
6 p.m. tomorrow, when it will be
closed until 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Bradbury Heights Bus Line
Health Study Asked
I A Health Department investiga
tion of conditions on old W., M. & A.
j buses on the Bradbury Heights line
I was asked last night by F. T. Ran
dolph at a meeting of the Bradbury
Heights Citizens’ Association.
Mr. Randolph said gas fumes
leaking into the buses menaced
health and that a report should be
made to the District Commissioners
for action.
Mr. Randolph also requested in
formation on a report that the ODT
has authorized delivery of several
new buses to W., M. & A. motor lines
but that the firm received some old
Capital Transit Co. buses which fail
to meet health standards.
On Mr. Randolph's motion, the
association authorized a letter to the
Alley, Dwelling Authority asking the
status of the dwellings built in the
Bradbury Heights area and when
they will be ready for occupancy.
Mr. Randolph also asked that a
letter be sent to the PUC asking
that a call box be put in the area
so that taxis might not have to go
back to the city empty after bring a
fare out to that area.
The meeting was held in the
Bradbury Heights Methodist Church
and was presided over by Henry W.
Austin.
New Rooming House Fire
Brings Investigation
The District building inspector^
office is investigating a flve-storW
brick house at 1833 Jefferson placf
N.w. following a two-alarm fak
there early today. An application
for a rooming and boarding license
for the house is pending.
Alfonse Fazir, who is listed as thf
occupant in the application, said thfc
place formerly was a boarding
house. At the District Building £
was said that the application hajl
been approved last year, but wafc
still pending for this year. It w«
added that when the fire escpae 1 in
spector had called there In January
no one was there.
Mr. Fazir said there were ncjt
more than eight persons in the
building at the time of the fire
Building inspector! stated that a
fire escape is required on a four or
five story building where there arfe
10 or more occupants in the entire
building.
The fire damaged several rooms in
the back part of the second flow,
with an estimated loss of $3,000, ac
cording to police. Mr. Fazir said the
hero of the Are—in which no ode
waa injured—was a dog, Pal. who
barked and awakened the occupants.
He was not certain of the cause of
the fire.
The house is located across tlis
street from the home of Commis
sioner John Russell Young.
Nazi Prisoners Recaptured t
SHERBROOK, Quebec. April $>
(A*).—Two Nazi seamen who eacapsl
Thursday night from a nearly
prisoner-of-war camp have been re
captured, the provost corps reported
last night. They were identified £
Wilhelm Oratsch, SI, and Erirfi
Oraw, 33.