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Comdr. Clementson Wins Navy Cross for Submarine Patrol By the Associated Press. GROTON. Conn.. April 29—Capt. Charles W. Styer received the Legion of Merit at a recent cere mony here, the Navy has an nounced, for his work as commander of a submarine squadron which sank 141 Japanese ships totaling 938,845 tons and damaged 81 others totaling 666,630 tons. The citation said "much of the credit for the many successful pa trols of these submarines” was due to the "efficient administration and inspiring leadership” of Capt. Styer, now commander of this base. Lt. Comdr. Merrill Clementson, son of Mrs. Clyde Kelly of 3700 Massachusetts avenue N.W., Wash ington, was among four other offi cers and an enlisted man decorated at the same ceremony. Comdr. Clementson received the Navy Cross for a submarine patrol in which three ships totaling more than 20,000 tons were sunk and an other 5,000-ton vessel was damaged. Comdr. Joseph H. Willingham, jr., Birmingham, Ala., was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a third Navy Cross for accomplishing "with com plete success a hazardous special mission” during which his subma rine was attacked unsuccessfully. Silver Star Medals for "conspicu ous gallantry and intrepidity in ac tion” were presented to Lt. Comdr. William H. Hazzard, Los Angeles, and to Lt. Edward Ackerman, Cin cinnati. Chief Gunner’s Mate Milton J. Lake. Rochester, N. Y., was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal. Comdr. Clementson, 34, two months ago received the Gold Star in lieu of a second Silver Star Medal for "aggressiveness, skill and courage in action” which resulted in the sinking of more than 10,000 tons of enemy shipping, including a de stroyer. He was awarded the Silver Star last fall for heroism while executive officer of a submarine in the South Pacific. A resident of Washington since early childhood, he was gradu ated from the Naval Academy in 1933. He also attended the Potomac School and the Devitt Preparatory School. Funds Sought to Aid Unwed Mothers Congress and the Community War Fund have been asked by the Coun cil of Social Agencies to provide funds for the hiring of additional social workers and the enlargement of present facilities to aid unmarried mothers and their babies. Under plans formulated yesterday by the council’s committee dealing with unmarried parenthood, Con gress would provide funds for the Board of Public Welfare and the Community Fund would finance pri vate agencies in this type of work. One of the difficulties facing the committee is the sharp decrease in the number of foster homes caring for babies, it was reported at the meeting by Mrs. Catherine Norton, secretary of the council's family and child welfare division. Part of the decrease can be at tributed to the increase in the num ber of women accepting war jobs, Mrs. Norton said. As a result, she said, these women in war work no longer can take care of the babies. The committee also decided to de termine whether Lanham Act funds might be available for the program. The committee stressed that the increase of illegitimate births in the District, from 1,257 in 1940 to 1,618 last year, was attributable mainly to an increase in the District's popula tion and not to an increase of im morality. Mrs. Lois Parsons, chairman of the committee, presided. factory Accident Toll Only 3 Pet. of Last War Fatalities from accidents, fires and explosions in factories making mili tary explosives now are averaging only about 3 per cent of the fatal ities from such accidents in World War I, ac cording to Col. T. C. Gerber, Army Ordnance director of safety. Addressing the War Department Safety Council meeting yester day, Col. Gerber, a graduate of McKinley Tech High School here, based his estimate on the coi. Gerber. 1943 report of one the Govern- j ment’s largest contractors for ex-! plosives. This showed, he said, that for the I period from 1940 through 1943, ac cidents, fires and explosions in mili- i tary explosive plants including Gov ernment-owned plants operated by this contractor caused 11 fatalities, or 4 per one billion pounds of mili tary explosives manufactured, as compared with about 230 per each billion pounds of manufactured ex plosives in the last war. Property losses now are running only 7 per cent of those of last war, he said. This has been accom plished, the officer reported, even though the production thus far in this war is 72 per cent in excess of the total production for all of World War I. Flag Association Petitions To Dissolve Corporation A petition for dissolution of the United States Flag Association, de scribed as a non-stock corporation, 800 block of Fifteenth street N.W.| was filed yesterday in District Court. Lack of funds to continue the pur pose of the association was given as the reason. The petition explains that the association “was incorporated for the purpose of fostering reverence for the flag of the United States and to develop better understanding and greater appreciation of the ideals and institutions symbolized by the flag The petition asserted the associa tion owns no property and owes no money. Members and directors of the association who signed the pe tition are Mrs. John Allan Dough erty, Brig. Gen. F. R. Keefer, Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, David E. Finley, Clark Griffith, head of the Washing ton baseball club, and Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of George Washington University. Capt. Foster Retires From Secret Service Capt. Thomas B. Foster, dean of Secret Service agents and head of the San Francisco field office, has retired after 43 years of service, it was announced today by Frank Wilson, chief of I the Secret Serv 1 ice: Capt. Foster ! was bom 66 | years ago in Washington, but raised in Phila delphia, where his parents moved when he was three years old. His father was city editor of the Philadel phia Public Ca,,t-T- “• Ledger and Capt. Foster was ap prenticed as a “printer's devil” when he was 10 years old. He later secured an appoint ment with the Post Office Depart ment here and transferred to the Secret Service 43 years ago. He has spent most of his time in service on the West Coast, During the investigation of the Teapot Dome oil leases, Capt. Fos ter was largely responsible for un covering, in a defunct New Mexico bank, the serial numbers of Liberty Bonds that linked the then In terior Secretary Albert B. Fall to the conspiracy and resulted in a national scandal. His disclosure of a counterfeiting gang which was turning out spu rious currency on a printing press within the walls of San Quentin Penitentiary, Calif., shocked the country in 1936. Capt. Foster will be succeeded as head of the San Francisco office by William A. Merrill, the Treas ury announced. Arlington Girl Named Head Of G. W. Student Council Miss Lois Smith, a junior, daugh ter of Dr. and Mrs. Cloyd M. Smith of Arlington. Va., has been elected president of the Student Council at George Washington University. Holder of a four-year scholarship. Miss Smith is president of the Women’s Athletic Association and a member of Sigma Kappa Sorority and the Women’s Advisory Council for War Training. Other officers, all juniors, are Miss Dorothy Wolf, 4926 Ninth street N.W.. secretary: Don Balfour, 6228 North Dakota avenue N.W., con troller: Miss Virginia Nalls, 3222 Fourteenth street SB., activities di rector; Miss Edith Norris, 3100 Wis consin avenue N.W., publicity di rector; Dale Davis, 4812 Forty-fifth street N.W., advocate, and Miss Alice Rebert, Gettysburg, Pa., social chair man. Miss Anne Thaler, 6240 East ern avenue N.E., a freshman, will serve as director of freshman activi ties. Suspecf in Baggage Theff Held in $2r500 Here Arraigned yesterday before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage on a charge of stealing baggage from the Washington Terminal Co., David Powers, 31, was held in $2,500 bond for grand jury action. According to police, Powers was caught earlier yesterday as he at tempted to take a suitcase from a loading platform at Union Station. The suitcase was valued at $500. . Powers, who lives in the 800 block of Fifth street N.W., pleaded not guilty. Piano Team Gives Recital Before Music Teachers By ELENA DE SAYN. The Association of Music Teachers in Negro Schools, convening in the Capital, were guests of the Howard University Music School and of the Music Educators Conference of the Baltimore-Washington area, at Ran kin Auditorium last night. A recital given by a duo-piano team; Sylvia j Olden of Washington and Thomas H. Kerr, jr., of Baltimore, member of the School of Music faculty, was the first of the biennial’s two mu sical events; the second: the annual concert of the Howard University Choir, to take place this evening. A varied program, consisting of several arrangements and numbers originally written for two pianos, stressed the brilliant technique of the pianists in perfect accord with one another in ensemble. This trait enabled them to give of their best in such numbers as the exacting Bach-Saar “Prelude from Sixth Vio lin Sonata,” executed in a flawless manner at top speed, and Rach maninoff’s romantic “Nuit dAmour” the many embellishments of which suggested murmuring brooks and the song of nightingales. Gould's elaborate arrangement of Krieslerts “Schoen Rosemarin” took away much of its Viennese piquancy, while Kerr's paraphrase of Debussy's "Fetes” seemed to suffer a bit from too much modernism also. His own compositions, “Small Variatioas and Finale on a Traditional Theme” and “Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel,” introduced him again as an experi enced contrapuntist, well steeped in the art of modernistic improvisa tion. Handel-Luboshutz’ “Passacaglia,” heard here recently at Constitution Hall, Bach-Kerr’s “Es 1st Voll bracht,” Berkley’s “Polka,” Benja min’s “Jamaican Rum-ba, Fabinl Kerr’s “Triste” and Infante’s “Ritmo (Andalusian Dance) completed the program, which was well received. FURNITURE SHAMPOOED and CLEANED IN YOL'R HOME 2-Pieces $10.00 HOFFMAN UPHOLSTERERS « COLUMBIA 5116 VfaZoeMwAW&rC NOLAN AUTOMOBILE LOANS Favorable Rates No Indorsers 1102 New York Ave. N.W. Greyhound But Terminal BE. 1200 Open Till 6 F.M. 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