Evening star. [volume], March 24, 1944, Page A-14, Image 14

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New Anthracite Rules
Raise Delivery Limit
To Half of Needs
Householders using hard coal
here will be able to receive one
half of their requirements for next
winter in one delivery after April
1, under a revised program of dis
tribution of hard coal and coke
announced by Secretary of Interior
Ickes. Up to now, defers have
been limited to two tons of anthra
cite on each delivery.
The regulations, which affect the
entire country, continue, hqwever
to limit domestic consumers to
seven-eighths of their annual re
quirements.
New' consumer declarations to be
distributed after April 1 will in
clude for the first time the number
of rooms to be heated. Similar
declarations have been required
here since last November.
The amount of coal on hand April
1 w'ill be deducted from each con
sumer’s quota for the new' "coal
year. ’ Those who buv coal by the
sack in amounts loss than a ton at
a .time will not have to file state
ments.
General provisions of the program,
effective at 12:01 a.m., April 1, have
been in operation in Washington
and other Eastern cities during the
past winter. By yesterday’s action
they are extended wherever anthra
cite is used.
A. P. Brown, chairman of the
Merchants <fc Manufacturers Asso
ciation. pointed out that dealers here
had "taken upon themselves" to
place many of the provisions in
operation last fall.
119D. C. Selectees
To Report Tomorrow
A total of 119 District men. found
qualified on their pre-induction ex
amination, have been ordered to re
port for duty tomorrow.
In addition, three volunteers were
sworn into the Army at Fort Myer
yesterday. They are: James W.
Jackson, James H. Wood and David
C. Haupt.
The group to be inducted tomor
row includes 77 for the Army and
42 for the Naval Forces. The list
follows:
— . Army.
Bartlett. L'oyd L. Lowe. Russell D
Berser. Jack Putnam. Calvin C.
Burkett Laurel C. Clooton. Frank G
D hlst»dt. R. A. Holloway Edward
Baumann. V. M. Hudson, Russell O
King. Raymond A McGill. William z'
Marsh. Frederick C. Mar.... James L.
Martin Edward J. Matthews. Paul C
Pyles. Arby Thomas. Howard W.
{Shoemaker. C. W. Williams A S
Reeknor. Orville J. Clarke. Calvin V
Rumn. Mauriee J. Clayton, Wilbur
Wallace. Gus C. Colbert. Thomas
Zimmerman. R. H. Cradle. Samuel H
Clay. Leo W. Culpepper. James
Amann. Matthew R. Stewart, Clarence A
Fortune. Woodrow P. Thomas. Bennie L
Freeman. Harold A. Wrikht. William
Salb. Thomas R. Bias. Rober L
Sharrow. Harvey T. Branch. George E
Walker. Paul Davis Daniel
Muldoon. William T. Jenkins, William
Bnyder. William G. Shorter, Edward T
Acton. Raymond F Watson. William H
Anderson Elw-od V. Williams. Arthur d'
Bcmck. John F Williams, L D
Bryant, Marion N. Wiseman. Oatinr L
Filbey. Charles A. Barnes. Marvin
Fox Herbert W. Burden. Robert
Goodwin. L. M. Carter. Morris A
Johnson. Jaoics C Fells. Clarence T
KUrov. Thomas F Lampkms. N V
Mundell. Charlc' G. R-’d. Harry J.
Rulapaugh, John O. Washington. Chas. T.
8hade. Hiram L. Wormley. Jesse J
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Williams. Howard E JaCkS°"' Richard C'
Graninger. J H NavVncent. Edmund
Grantham. Percy E. Beall. Wilbur E
Aj?®? d Capec?. Anthony P.
Jh.f-,11' PlCd j Chase Howard M
ASfiT.S'' Dnvld . English. Thomas R
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rv^»roe‘ 'eLVa,R Shea. Joseph M
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vSh' RnJ}er • G. Butler, Ernest E
R«nC. H,arry 9 Jefferson. John L.
Gaum. Elmer S Adams. Willie
Mart,n. George M. Chew. Guv E
BeVom Cunningham. Jasper
oKar Deadwyler. Odvsee
HiJild SohnCI G fernande? Edward
Plln «, Ingram. James P.
K£ £r2Cf S Matthews. William E.
xvi.ne. James M. Smi‘h William
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Shiplett. Isaac L Townsend. Paul
Businessmen Honor
Mileham at Luncheon
Gifts wore presented to Wil
liam J. Mileham. retiring chief air
raid warden for the District, by
friends at a luncheon given in his
honor by the Central Businessmen's
Association yesterday. Mr. Mile
ham. a member of the association,
will report on March 30 to the Navy
for active service.
He^ was introduced to the gather
ing bv Max Schwartz, his successor
as chief air-raid warden for the
District. Mr. Mileham lives at Belle
Haven. Alexandria, Va
—T-;
Sidwell School Wins
Highest Award for
Quarterly Magazine
Sidwell Friends School’s maga
zine, the Quarterly, won the highest
award for secondary private school
magazines, and other District school
papers scored heavily in the 20th
annual newspaper magazine contest
of the Columbia Scholastic Press
Association, according to an Asso
ciated Press dispatch from New
York today.
The Quarterly won the medal in
its class. Two other papers, the
Western High School Breeze and St.
Alban's News, won first place in
their respective classes, the Breeze
for senior high schools with 1,000 to
1.500 pupils and the News for sec
ondary school newspapers. Second
place in the latter class went to the
St. John's College Saber.
Tech Life. McKinley High School;
The Easterner of Eastern High
School and Wilson Beacon of Wil
son High School were awarded sec
ond-place ratings in newspapers for
schools with 1,500 to 2,500 pupils.
Wilson Spectacles of Wilson
Teachers’ College was awarded sec
ond place for newspapers of schools
of education.
The Morgan Sentinel of Morgan
Demonstration School, Eighteenth
and V streets N.W., won first place
and the Junior Messenger of Brlggs
Montgomery School, Twenty-sev
enth and K streets N.W., and Lan
tern of Smothers School, Forty
fourth street and Washington place
N.E., were awarded second place
in the elementary school division
for grades 1-6 magazines.
Approximately 800 publications of
elementary, junior and senior high
schools, junior colleges, private
schools and teachers colleges shared
in the ratings. Points were awarded
on make-up, news coverage, story
content, editorial policy, typography,
advertisements, features, sports and
creative literary work. First place
went to publications scoring 850 to
1.000 points; second to those with
750 to 849, and third for th06e with
650 to 749.
Charles Buck, Founder
Of Pet Milk Co., Dies
By the Associated Press.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Mar.
24.—Charles Webber Buck, 66, re
tired founder of the Pet Milk Co.,
died yesterday in his sleep.
His physician said the cause of
death was unknown and he asked
the coroner to perform an autopsy.
Mr. Buck's only survivor is a sis
ter, Mrs. Emma Shafer of Peoria,
111. His wife, Lillian, died here in
1936.
Msgr. Dennis J. Dunne,
Chicago Rector, Dies
By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla., Mar.. 24.—The Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Dennis J. Dunne, rector
of the Holy Cross Catholic Church,
Chicago, and former chancellor of
the archdiocese of Chicago, died in
a Miami hospital last night after
a brief illness.
Surviving is a nephew, the Rev.
William P. Dunne, Palos Park, 111.
The body will be sent to Chicago.
Parent-Teacher Parley
Called at Miner College
Parents and teachers will meet at
Miner Teachers’ College at 9:30 a.m.
tomorrow for a conference on inte
grating the work of the schools with
the work of other social agencies.
Dr. Jane McAllister, professor of
education at the college, is chair
man of the meeting, which is one of
a series of sessions on the general
theme of "Education Today and To
morrow.” A demonstration of school
and commuhity projects will fbllow
the discussion.
Brokers' Loans Down
$128,000,000 in Week
By the Associated Press.
The Federal Reserve Board re
ported that loans to brokers and
dealers on securities held by mem
ber banks in New York City totaled
$1,170,000,000 yesterday, a decrease
of $128,000,000 from a week ago and
an increase of $699,000,000 from a
year ago.
Included is $682,000,000 loaned to
purchase or carry United States
Government obligations, a decrease
of $138,000,000 for the week.
War Demands Pushed
Paper Consumption in
'43 to Near Record
By the AssocUted Press.
Increasingly heavy war demands
ran the consumption of paper and
paperboard higher last year than at
any time except the peak year of
1941 despite Government conserva
tion and limitation orders, the Of
fice of War Information said yes
terday in a report on the paper
situation.
Almost simultaneously the War
Production Board announced more
drastic controls on the use of pa
perboard containers for shipping
civilian goods, Including restrictions
for the first time on the packaging
of more than 30 food items, effec
tive April 1.
WPB said the restrictions are ne
cessitated by increased military
shipment needs which exceed the
supply of containers despite the
fact that container board is being
produced to the limit of its allotted
available woodpulp supply.
34 Food Items Affected.
Thirty-four food items, from ba
con to vermicelli, appear on the
restricted list, with quotas ranging
all the way down to 40 per cent in
the use of cartons. Animal and pet
food, formerly allowed 80 per cent
of base period shipping carton sup
ply, are cut to a new quota of 50
per cent.
Nonfood items newly restricted
under carton quotas of not less than
70 per cent include curtains, cush
ions, slipcovers, household screens,
office supplies, mirrors, drinking
straws, soap and tobacco products.
Statistical breakdowns of supplies,
consumption and inventory of pulp
wood, paper and paperboard for this
country are contained in the OWI
report which is based on informa
tion obtained from the War Produc
tion Board, the Commerce Depart
ment, the War Department, the
Government Printing Office and the
Budget Bureau.
War Take* 38%.
WPB states that 38.6 per cent of
the country’s total paper and paper
board production is purchased and
uesed directly for war purposes
while another 33.5 per cent is used
largely to maintain a war economy,
such as communications, transporta
tion. health and welfare, agricul
tural products and drugs, construc
tion and public utilities. The re
maining 27.9 per cent is shared by
civilian users.
Wartime consumption of pulp
wood, primary raw materials for the
manufacture of paper and paper
board. has been at a higher rate
than imports and domestic produc
tion, the report said, with the result
that inventory is down to about
three-fourths of normal.
Both imports and domestic pro
duction of newsprint are expected
to decline this year, OWI said.
Newsprint Drop Expected.
Newsprint consumption, already 8
per cent under the 1941 figure, is
expected to drop in 1944 to 19 per
cent below that of 1941.
Net saving of newsprint during
1943 was 7.7 per cent of the normal
consumption, WPB said, but con
sumption nevertheless exceeded the
supply by 134,910 tons, with the ex
cess being taken out of inventory.
Newsprint supply for the first
quarter of this year is estimated at
819,000 tons. Consumption and in
ventory adjustments are estimated
at 808,121 tons, leaving 10.879 tons
for appeals and other contingencies.
Government agencies, excluding
the Army and Navy, consume ap
proximately 1.2 per cent of the total
supply of paper and paper board,
GPO figures showed.
New Antitank Weapon
Of Nazis Seized by Reds
By the ArsocittK’. Press.
MOSCOW, Mar. 24—A Moscow
exhibit of newly-captured German
arms includes a sell-propelled, elec
tricaly-controlled land torpedo used
as an antitank weapon.
Tass News Agency said the tor
pedo, captured along with a 10
barrel reactive mortar mounted on
an armored carrier, had been held
a close secret by the Germans, but
had been abandoned during the
rapid retreat from the Leningrad
sector.
Tass said the torpedo was con
trolled by a wire a mile and a half
long.
Among other exhibits are a
105-mm. gun with range of about 11
miles and a 150-mm. gun with a
range of more than 12 miles.
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3,000,000 Family Kits
Asked to Aid Russians
In behalf of the Nation-wide Rus
sian War Relief Kit Prograta, Mrs.
Stanley F. Reed, wife of Supreme
Court Justice Reed, yesterday urged
that 3,000,000 family emergency kits
be sent to Russian families return
ing to devastated homes in reoc
cupied territory. She spoke on a
coast-to-coast broadcast
Mrs. Reed is a member of the kit
campaign of the Washington chap
ter of Russian War Relief, Inc.,
which has set April 1 as the open
ing date of the local drive, to con
tinue through April.
Empty family emergency kits and
directions for filling them may be
obtained from the Russian War Re
lief office, 924 Seventeenth street
N.W. _
Wholesale Commodity
Index Up Further
By the Associated Press.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
wholesale price index advanced 0.2
per cent last week, principally be
cause of much higher prices for
grains, livestock and cotton.
The index level stood at 103.6 per,
cent of the 1926 average, 0.3 per cent
higher than a month ago, 0.6 per
cent above the corresponding week
of last year, 18.3 per cent above the
corresponding week of 1937 and 7.8
per cent above the average for
March, 1929.
Eye Transfer Unfeasible,
Doctor Says of Girl's Offer
The transfer of an entire eye from
one person to another Is unknown
to surgical science, according to Dr.
Dexter Davis of the Episcopal Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital, who was
consulted about a report that a Cal
ifornia woman had offered an eye
to an American soldier who was
blinded in an air fight over Europe.
Dr. Davis pointed out. however,
that the transplanting of a cornea
from the eye of one person to that
of another was a feasible operation.
He defined the cornea in popular
language as the clear, glass-like
part of the eye which is a portion of
.its front surface. Serious damage to
i the cornea wUI result In blindness.
According to Associated Press dis
patches, it appeared that Tech.
Sergt. Forrest Vosler, who has been
recommended for a Congressional
Medal as a result of his heroism in
trying to save the crew of his Flying
Fortress, might lose the sight of
both eyes. Miss Pauline Venard, 25,
a University of California co-ed. of
fered to give him one of her eyes.
However, Army doctors said Sergt.
Vosler was losing the sight of his
best eye by a cataract and that a
cornea graft was not indicated in
such cases.
One pound of waste cooking fats
makes enough glycerin to manufac
ture one-third pound gunpowder!
Frances Farmer Sent
To Mental Hospital
Bt the Associated Prese.
SEATTLE, Mar. 24.—Frances
Farmer, former screen star, was or
dered sent to the Western state
Hospital near Tacoma, Wash., yes
terday on an Insanity complaint
filed by her mother.
The King <Seattle > County Sanity
Commission issued the order. Her
mother, Mrs. Lillian V. Farmer, told
Drs. D. A. Nicholson and George E.
Price, commission members, that 3he
was unable to control her daughter
at home.
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