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YANKS ATTACK JAP CONVOY—The toll of Jap ships sunk in the Pacific increased with this
American Far East Air Force attack on a Jap convoy off Kavieng, New Ireland. In foreground,
bombs straddle a patrol boat, one bomb (lower right center) just about to hit the water. In
background is a cargo vessel fatally hit. 1 —A. P. Photo.
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JAP PLANE GRAVEYARD—This “graveyard” of Jap planes is in Wewak, once powerful Jap
base on the New Guinea coast, which has been neautralized by powerful American air raids.
Not only were aircraft destroyed in the air and on the ground, but all airstrips were knocked
out. Photo shows parachute bombs in air, just dropped by American airmen.
>*-Army Air Forces Photo,
12,C J Seek Tickets
For Mass Meeting
Opening Fund Drive
Admission Cards Split
Evenly Among Workers
Of Four Divisions
About 12,000 persons have applied
for the 4,000 tickets available to the
Communty War Fund's opening
mass meeting October 16 at Consti
tution Hall, Herbert L. Willett, jr„
executive director of the fund, an
nounced today.
The tickets are being divided
evenly among workers of the four
units — Government, residential,
business and suburban—working on
the $4,850,000 drive, he said.
Joliot-Curie to Speak.
The main speaker will be Jean
Frederic Joliot-Curie, husband of
Irene Curie, daughter of the dis
coverers of radium, who will de
scribe his work on special explosives
for the . French underground.
Through the co-operation of the
State Department and the French
provisional government, the French
leader is to be flown here from his
country for the mass meeting.
Joliot-Curie. a professor of
physics at the Paris University, col
laborated in making special ex
plosives for the underground work
ers at a time when the Germans
thought he was doing research on
splitting of atoms. Mr. Willett said.
Lord Halifax also will address the
rally, to be attended by Mrs. Roose
velt and representatives of all the
United Nations. The speeches will
be broadcast Nation-wide by the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Must Be on Time.
Ticket holders must arrive by 7:50
p.m. to attend the rally, Mr. Willett
said. Just before the starting hour,
8 pm., empty seats will be open to
the public, he explained.
Solicitation for contributions from
Washington's 300,000 Federal em
ployes has already begun, Mr.
Willett said, because their numbers
made it advisable to allow longer
than the announced period of the
drive. The drive for the rest of
the city and suburbs begins Monday
and runs through November 8, Mr.
Willett said.
Former Baltimore Solicitor
Named State Parole Chief
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Oct. 12.—F.
Murray Benson, 49, former Balti
more City solicitor, was appointed
State parole director yesterday, less
than 24 hours after Gov. O’Conor
named Herman M. Moser, former
parole head, to the city supreme
bench.
Mr. Moser, who had served since
1939> and E. Paul Mason, Baltimore
attorney, were appointed Tuesday to
fill the vacancies created by the
elevation of Judge W. Conwell Smith
to the chief judgeship of the Balti
more bench and William L. Hender
son to the Court of Appeals.
Stating that he was "detenhined
to continue the functioning of the
parole department on its present
high plane,” the Governor said “Mr.
Benson can be depended on to act
intelligently and fearlessly in all
eases coming before him."
Labor 'Swap'
Wins Praise of
Farm Official
A Gaithersburg <Md.) farmer who
•swapped” more than 2,000 hours of
labor and farm machinery work
with his neighbors to increase war
food production has been cited by
Paul Nystrom. Maryland emergency
farm labor supervisor, for his in
genuity.
The farmer, Allie Messer, is a
former 4-H Club member who now
operates a 190-acre dairy farm with
the full-time help of five men. To
fill out his production Mr. Messer
employed eight boy volunteers to
thresh his wheat and a contingent
of German prisoners of war to cut
and shuck his corn.
Despite the labor shortage, Mr.
Nystrom reported, farmers like Mr.
Messer have raised a corn crop 40
per cent larger than last year’s. The
wheat crop is 85 per cent larger,
sweet potato crop 25 per cent larger,
the peach and apple crop about two
and a half times larger, the tobacco
crop 60 per cent larger and the to
mato acreage the largest since 1918,
he added.
Better Schools Demanded
By Fairlington Civic Group
Resolutions calling for immediate
improvements in the Virginia public
school system were adopted last
night by the Fairlington Civic
Association.
Elected rather than appointed
school boards, a 12-year system,
free text books and uniform adher
ence to the Virginia bourse of study
were urged. The association also
called for construction, of modern
schools, equipped with chemical and
biological laboratories, vocational
workshops, health clinics, cafeterias,
home economics rooms and visual
education equipment.
Charles Cobbins, president of the
Arlington County Civic Federation;
Mrs. Dallas W. Smythe of the
Arlington County School Investiga
tion Committee, and Mrs. Virginia
Durr addressed the meeting, held in
the Fairlington Elementary School
Auditorium.
A report was submitted showing
that the outlay for education in Vir
ginia is only $48.35 per year per
child, compared to an average of
$84,18 throughout the Nation and
$141.06 per year in New York.
Connally Urges Hungary
To Break With Germany
By the Associated Pres*.
Only by breaking, with Germany
now and coming over to the Allied
side can Hungary hope for “a
better existence in the postwar
world,” Chairman Connally of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee warned the Hungarian people
yesterday in a message broadcast
by the Office of War Information.
“It is high time for the Hungari
ans to take a realistic stand and to
shake off the German yoke and
show the world that they are willing
to act as an independent, self
respecting nation,” Senator Con
nally said. “Only by breaking with
Germany and contributing their
strength to the final defeat of Ger
many can the Hungarians of today
lay the basis of a better existence
for the Hungarians of tomorrow.”
A
Court Will Hear Pleas
On G. W. Hospital Site
Condemnation Today
Motion by Church Group
For 3-Judge Tribunal
Also Will Be Heard
District Court today was sched
uled to hear arguments in the legal
battle over condemnation of a square
bordering on Washington Circle as a
site for the projected 400-bed new
George Washington University Hos
pital, a plan actively fought by the
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, which
is located in the affected area.
Among angles to be considered by
Justice Matthew F. McGuire is a
Government motion to dismiss an
injunction suit brought by the
chruch, by which the church seeks
to prevent the Government from ac
quiring its property as a part of the
hospital site.
3-Judge Tribunal Asked.
Also pending is a motion by
church representatives for a three
judge tribunal to hear the injunc
tion issue. In addition there are
motions filed by' several private
property owners in the affected area
for permission to intervene in the
case.
Church and private property own
ers claim the Government lacks a
right to condemn the property on
the argument that the acquisition
would be for the benefit of a private
institution.
Opposition to the condemnation
of the square near Washington
Circle #as a site for the new George
Washington University Hospital
came yesterday from Dr. E. F.
Harris, president of the Federation
of Civic Associations, and speaking
for the Lincoln Civic Association.
In a letter to Senator Burton,
Republican, of Ohio, a member of
the Senate District Committee, Dr.
Harris recalled that last March he
had protested the evacuation of
tenants of 20 homes in Bissel’s
court under condemnation proceed
ings brought by the National Capital
Housing Authority.
Asks Congress Probe.
Declaring that George Washington
University now seeks to “cause more
difficulties” for others in the Wash
ington Circle area, under the use of
eminent domain, Dr. Harris said the
Lincoln Civic Association was “un
alterably opposed” to this movement
since “eminent domain does not fit
the picture, in that the hospital
would not be for public good because
it does not treat Negro bed pa
tients and therefore discriminates
against an integral part of the
public.”
He added, “The time has arrived
when the use of eminent domain by
several of the Governmental
agencies, under first one pretex and
then the other, should be investi
gated by Congress.”
Tuxedo-Cheverly Bingo
A series of bingo parties, spon
sored by the Tuxedo-Cheverly Vol
unteer Pire Department, will begin
at 8 p.m. Saturday in the firehouse.
Proceeds will be used for the pur
chase of new fire apparatus now on
order, according to G. M. Lewis,
captain. Lester G. Berry is presi
dent of the department.
SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS
WASHINGTON, D. C.
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WASHINGTON AND VICINITY
OCTOBER 12, 1944.
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Alexandria Clubs Plan
City-Wide Council to
Assist Red Cross
Field Workers Request
Recreational Material
For Camps and Hospitals
The initial step in organising a
city-wide council, of clubs to co
operate with the Red Cross was
taken when delegates from more
than 20 Alexandria civic and fra
ternal groups met yesterday as
guests of the Potomac Area Camp
and Hospital Service, comprising
seven Metropolitan Area Red Cross
chapters.
The morning session at the Norton
Memorial of St. Paul’s Church,
Alexandria, heard requests from Red
Cross area field directors for useful
articles, recreational material, serv
ice day room furnishings, and ma
terials for holiday celebrations in
camps and hospitals.
Mrs. Robert Lord, Alexandria
Camp and Hospital chairman, is
planning to call a meeting during
the coming week after the club dele
gates report to their groups on the
services that can be provided for
camps and hospitals.
Requests came from representa
tives of Walter Reed Hospital, Boll
ing Field Station Hospital, the Na
tional Naval Medical Center at Be
thesda, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital,
Fort Belvoir Hospital and the Na
tional Airnort.
The requests were for portable
typewriters, a drum, sheet music,
cookies, playing cards, billiard balls
and cues, phonograph records and
musical instruments, books, includ
ing some in French for French
soldier patients; magazine subscrip
tions, flowers, hat stands, card
tables, material for kit bags, art
materials, roller skates, games, cur
tains and furnishings.
Assignments for obtaining the re
quested articles were made to the
chapters present, which included
Alexandria City, Arlington, Fairfax,
Loudoun, Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties and the District.
A special appeal has been made
by Mrs. Alfred Cunningham, chair
man of the Alexandria Red Cross
Army and Navy Committee, for
service wives and mothers to make
surgical dressings for Walter Reed
Hospital.
The number of wounded service
men at the hospital is increasing, it
was reported, and more workers will
be needed to supply the dressings.
Registration of women is handled
at the chapter house, 417 Duke
street, from 2 to 4:30 p.m„ Monday,
Wednesday fend Friday and all vol
unteer corps are open to the group.
Mr*. John Warlick, chairman of
the blood donor service for the
Alexandria chapter, reported that
the total amount of blood collected
this month in Alexandria and at the
National Airport was only 314 pint*,
far short of the 480-pint quota.
With the continuing need for
blood plasma. Mrs. Warlick urged
volunteer* to make appointments for
the -next Mood donor days in Alex
andria, October 25 and 27, when
the mobile unit will be at Grace
Church parfth hall. 207 South
Patrick street. Appointments may
be made by telephoning Alexandria
8300.
Alexandria s War Fund
Drive Extended to Monday
The Alexandria Home and War
Fund Campaign, scheduled to close
today, has been extended until
Monday. Workers reported collec
tion of $48,844 of the $118,701 quota
at the final report meeting last
night.
John R. Schafe, chairman of the
drive, said the average contribution
w*s $12. This was termed an en
couraging factor because only 4,000
of the 15,000 pledges expected from
the residential area have been
turned in. The final report meeting
will be held at 8 p.m, Monday at
the USO, 115 North Washington
street.
Employes of the Red Cross East
ern Area Headquarters have ex
ceeded their quota, and T. C. Wil
liams, chairman of the schools di
vision, reported 88% per cent of his
quota collected. Mrs. A. R. Lash
was the first residential captain to
go over the top.
Alexandria Group Names
Chairman for Seal Sale
Committee heads for the Alexan
dria Tuberculosis Association’s seal
sale have been announced by State
Senator Andrew W. Clarke, who will
act as chairman of the drive for the
third consecutive year.
Thomas C. Graham will head the
Large - Gifts Committee, Irving
Diener has been named chairman of
the Speakers’ Bureau and Charles
Henry Mason heads the group to
arrange window displays.
Miss Margaret Nowell, faculty
member, will take charge of seal
sales in the schools. Mrs. A. J.
Heine will head the Parent-Teacher
Association group.
No quota has as yet been set for
Alexandria. Last year’s quota was
$12,500, which was exceeded by $2,256.
Virginia'Job Committee
To Me^jt in Alexandria
The first of 15 regional meetings
of a Postwar Employment Commit
tee named by Gov. Darden under
the Virginia veterans’ assistance and
and postwar employment program
for the development and operation
of postwar employment planning in
the State will be held Monday at
the George Mason Hotel, Alexan
dria. *
The meetings will be held
throughout the State and are
planned to outline the program, ac
cording to Col. Mills P. Neal, State
director of selective service, the
Associated Press reported.
War Fund Meeting Called
Tonight at Bladensburg
The initial meeting of the Prince
Georges County Community War
Pund campaign for $35,000 will be
held at 8 o’clock tonight in the
Bladensburg Elementary School, un
der the leadership of Inspector
Richard Mansfield, area chairman.
R. M. Watkins is general chair
man of the campaign, and Mrs.
Betty Tayman will represent the
Bladensburg district, Mrs. Glenn
Standiff, the Lanham district, and
Joseph Grigsby, the Kent district, i
Defense Plans to Quiz
Hitler Ex-Aide Today
In Sedition Trial
Dr. Rauschning, Refugee,
Tells of Fuehrer's Plan
To Cause U. S. Revolt
By CARTES BROOKE JONES.
Direct testimony that Adolph Hit
ler planned a decade ago to torment
a revolution in the United States
and set up a national socialist state
were laid before the Jury in the
sedition case today as the defense
took over the examination of the
Feuhrer’s former confidant, Dr. Her
mann Rauschnlng, noted German
refugee author.
Hitler is named in the Govern
ment’s bill of particulars as the No.
1 conspirator in the case, and the
28 defendants on trial are alleged
to have carried out his purpose
through an Alleged attempt to un
dermine the loyalty of the armed
forces in this country. The defense
repeatedly has challenged the prose
cution to show anywhere in Hitler’s
writings or in any other authentic
documents of the Nazi regime the
world-wide conspiracy charged by
the Department of Justice and par
ticularly any plot to incite the over
throw of the American Government.
Dr. Rauschning, who took the
stand in District Court late yester
day, was the first witness to quote
Hitler directly.
Tells of Conversation.
"Adolf, Hitler said,” the witness
told the Jury, "that he had no fear
the United States would again Join
a edition of western democracies
against Germany. He said the
United States was threatened with a
bloody revolution. He said he would
be able to make this latest revolu
tion come to pass. He explained
the methods by which he would
be able to paralyze the national
unity of the United States and the
power of resistance of this country.”
This conversation, Dr. Rauschning
said, occured October 18, 1933, at
the chancellory in Berlin at the
time he was president of the Free
City of Danzig. The witness ex
plained that he had just returned
from a League of Nations meeting
in Germany, and he reported to
Hitler that the situation there was
very tense, following the withdrawal
of Germany from the league, and
Great Britain might go to war
again against Germany, with the
possibility that eventually America
would be drawn in.
Hitler, said Dr. Rauschning, saw
no possibility that the United States
would intervene.
“He explained.” the witness said,
“that the United States was not
really a well-established nation,
but a nation in the making. He
said the cleavages in the popula
tion could be widened to disunite
the country.”
Recalls Talk Year Later.
Nearly a year later, Dr. Rausch
ning testified. Hitler said the idea
of war with America waa ridiculous.
"He mentioned,” the witrikes re
called, "that during that year there
had been a riot of marines on an
American battleship, and this was
an example that proved that at
least the American Navy would be
fertile soil for propaganda.”
Dr. Rauschning said Hitler ex
plained it would be easy for him to
follow in America the methods he
had used in Germany to “neutral
ize” the police and military forces
toward his policies.
Another time, the witness said,
Hitler and Goebbels and others dis
cussed America at a conference in
Hitler's private apartment in Ber
lin, and it was agreed that Nazi
propaganda could be spread through
various groups in America.
"We have to paralyze the will and
national unity of this and other
countries,” Hitler was quoting as
saying, as he mentioned also Po
land, France and Great Britain.
“He said,” the witness reported,
“that the great issue vAs to liberate
the world from the poison of democ
racy, with its degenerating doctrine
of liberty and equality.”
Policy in America.
It would be the policy In America,
Dr. Rauschning said Hitler told
them, to play on the resentment of
the majority against Negroes, Jews
and other racial minorities, at the
same time emphasizing the necessity
of the strong discipline of a power
ful state to dispel trouble between
opposing groups.
Early in 1934 Hitler, the witness
said, again reverting to the United
States in a general discussion of
conditions, mentioned groups of
German origin in this country as
valuable contacts, adding, “We will
have a German SA (storm troopers)
there and a Hitler Youth.”
It would be necessary, the witness
said Hitler told him, to weaken the
discipline of the armed forces and
the police, just as he had done in
Austria, where the Nazis “gained
the support of the officers and at
least the neutrality of the privates.”
Hitler was said to have empha
sized that the technique was to work
up sympathy for a National Socialist
state through the traditions and
historic surroundings of each coun
try, rather than trying to impose a
foreign type of government which
would, be strange to the people.
Thus, the witness said, Hitler ex
plained that he could cite George
Washington for his purpose, be
cause the first President was “not
really a democrat, but an aristo
crat,” and similarly Lincoln could
be mentioned as a man of the peo
ple who would be sympathetic to
the aims of Germany.
Propaganda “Artillery.”
Hitler, the witness added, called
propaganda the "artillery and trench
warfare” of modem conquest.
Once, at Berchesgaden, the witness
said, Hitler described the basic prin
ciple of his police as “world revolu
tion.” !
Dr. Rauschning testified through
a storm of defense objections to
nearly every question. Defense at
torneys contended repeatedly that
this testimony had nothing to do
with the charge that the defendants
conspired to undermine the armed
forces of this countoy after July,
1940.
Chief Justice Edward C. Etcher
deferred ruling, at least until this
afternoon, on a sheaf of defense mo
tions fen- a mistrial, based on Presi
dent Roosevelt’s reference in his
speech recently to the Silver Shirts,
an organization which figures in the
alleged conspiracy.
Bolivia to Complete Line
Bolivia expects to complete its new
Yacuiba-Santa Crus Railway by
1946. I
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IN PISTOL TOURNAMENT—Lt. Mary S. Wheeler, 900 Nine
teenth street N.W., aims straight at the target center as she
tries her skill in the 12th annual International Pistol Tourna
ment at Teaneck, N. J., October 7 and 8. She was one of 12
WAVES from the Navy Department Ordnance Bureau here who
took part in the tournament. —Official U. S. Navy Photo.
Overholser Favors Action
To Protect Teen-Aged Girls
Doctor Believes Some Should Be
Sent Home, But Sees Difficulties
Approval—with reservations—was
given by D». Winfred Overholser,
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital superin
tendent, to the four-point program
outlined in The Star yesterday by
Ray H. Everett, executive secretary
of the Social Hygiene Society.
“All of these suggestions certainly
demand serious consideration,” Dr.
Overholser said. “I'm not sure but
what it is the thing to do to send
some of the very young girls home.
However, the practicalities of such a
program may prove a big difficulty.”
Mr. Everett’s program asked that
the teen-age Government girls be
sent home; that a careful screening
process, including strict medical and
psychiatric tests, be given Washing
ton job applicants; that Govern
ment girls who live here be given
more guidance with their problems,
and that the police force be in
creased.
No Place for Children.
“Undoubtedly, some of these
youngsters are entirely too imma
ture to cope with the pitfalls of a
place like Washington. It is no
place for children to be left on their
own,” Dr. Overholser said.
“However,” he said, “we must re
member that, although some of the
girls are playing high, wide and
handsome, most of them, are doing
their jobs, and doing them well. If
we sent all of them home arbi
trarily, we might be doing a grave
injustice to those who do take care
of tljemselyes.
“Such action might hurt the war
effort, too," he said. “The girls
from 20 up are likely to have good
jobs at home, or to join the serv
ices in preference to coming to
Washington as civilian workers, and
if we eliminated all those under
20, it might create a serious woman
power shortage.”
Favors Screening Process.
As to the screening process to
weed out those whose physical or
mental health would not fit them
for Washington jobs, Dr. Over
holser said: “It is an excellent idea.
However, to put it in practice would
be to work a great hardship on both
the job applicants and the Govern
ment medical staffs.
#,At one time all civil service em
ployes had to pass physical tests
given by Federal medical employes,”
Dr. Overholser said. “But that soon
became an impossible task, and we
had to rely on reports from private
physicians. Many girls were given
health approval statements from
their home-town doctors and after
they came to Washington we dis
covered they had some disease, or
had had some illness in the past
Streetcar Purchase
Approved by PUC
The Public Utilities Commission
yesterday authorized the Capital
Transit Co. to enter into an agree
ment with the St. Louis Car Co.
and the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. for the purchase of 75 stream
lined streetcars at an estimated
cost of 01,473,750.
It is hoped that deliveries on the
cars will start before the end of the
year and plans are under considera
tion for purchase of 50 additional
cars, with deliveries next year.
Previously, the commission had ap
proved the purchase of the 75 cars
as “necessary" to the District’s
transportation system.
The agreement provides that the
purchase price shall be “019,650
more or less per car.” and that the
interest rate will be 4 per cent.
The notes will run over a 12-year
period.
The PUC said that the transit
company, in its negotiations with
the RFC, obtained a credit of
02,600,000 to cover 125 cars. The
commission’s action yesterday, how
ever, extended only to the proposed
purchase 'of the 75 cars.
Mark Cockrill, 77, Dies;
Real Estate Operator
Mark Cockrill, 77, a lifelong resi
dent of Colvin Run, Fairfax Coun
ty, Va., died Tuesday in Emergency
Hospital after a brief illness.
Mr. Cockrill was well known as a
real estate operator and for many
years was affiliated with the Lees
burg Lime Co. and the Peoples Na
tional Bank of Leesburg. For more
than 50 years he was a member of
the IOOF Lodge at Falls Church.
He Is survived by three daughters,
Mrs. Viola J. Money, Miss Effle M.
Cockrill and Mrs. Mildred H. Wick
line; a son, William R. Cockrill; two
granddaughters, Virginia M. Cham
berlain and Mildred Rita Wickline,
and two great-grandsons, Milton
Ashley and Harold Stanley Cham
berlain. His wife died in 1941.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow at 8t Andrew’s
Chapel, Leesburg highway.
that would make them bad risks
for the Government.
“It would be an even greater job
to attempt to give each applicant a
routine psychiatric test before
sending them here,” he said. “De
termining what constitutes mental
stability among several hundred
young girls would be a long, diffi
cult task for any one—but an al
most impossible one for a busy civil
service official.”
Would Tighten Rules.
Dr. Overholser gave unreserved
approval to the suggestion that the
Government girls here get more
guidance. "I think tightening up
the rules for civilian workers in
Government dormitories would be
very worth while, it might be a
good idea to house all girls under
a certain age in Government dormi
tories and give them adequate
counseling and guidance. This
might even entail allocating more
dormitories for civilian workers.
“I am sure many of the girls
would protest further restrictions,”
he asserted. “But the WACS,
WAVES, SPARS and Marines have
tighter rules in their barracks, and
Government girls are no less Fed
eral employes. Of course, the fun
damental question is: How much
responsibility can we expect the
Government to accept for its non
military employes?”
"I also agree with Mr. Everett
that talks and discussions of prob
lems—sex and otherwise—are de
sirable. In a town like Washington,
with thousands of unattached men
and girls, it is childish for any one
to hide their eyes to the facts that
sex and sex problems do exist. The
only thing to do is to face them
sensibly,” Dr. Overholser said..
Can’t Police Morals.
He also said he thought additional
police forces would be helpful, al
though, he added, “Of course, you
cant police or regulate morals/
“The situation is not perfect, and
improvements certainly could be
made,” he said. “However, it has
improved continually in the past few
months. At one time the number
of Government girls who came to
this hospital as psychiatric cases
was appalling. That number has
decreased substantially, and while
doubtless there are stUl many girls
who should not be here, and while
many of them have less acute psy
chiatric illnesses and need more sta
bility, still, the Government coun
seling program and the recreational
work being done by the Government
and by private agencies has gone a
long way toward solving the prob
lem.”
Improvements Are Planned
At Suburban Hospital
Plans for improving the out
patient department of the Suburban
Hospital of Bethesda will be dis
cussed at a meeting of the Women’s
Hospital Auxiliary at 10 am. Mon
day.
Dr. F. A. Martinez, director of the
out-patient department, and Dr.
William W. Welsh, assistant director,
will discuss the possibilities of de
veloping further service. Addresses
also will be made by Mrs. Sadie
Wisner, social service director at the
hospital, and Mrs. John W. Cutler,
president of the Bethesda-Chevy
Chase Public Health Lay Committee.
Previous donations to the out
patient department were listed as
$100 toward a motor for .dental
X-ray, $630 for dental instruments
and other appropriations for start
ing an emergency reserve fund and
special gifts to indigent patients of
penicillin. Insulin and Rocky Moun
tain spotted fever serum.
Waterford Foundation
Plans Art Exhibit
The Waterford Foundation, Inc.,
will hold an exhibition of the works
of artists and craftsmen of Loudoun
County tomorrow, Saturday and
Sunday at the Fairfax Meeting
House, Waterford, Va. The exhibi
tions will be open to the public from
2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m. each day.
Commuters Ask Shelter
Representative Smith, Democrat*
of Virginia yesterday received a
petition from a number of com
muters using the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington Rail
road a subsidiary of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, for erection of an
inclosed waiting room at the’former
ticket office and substation at Sev
enth and C streets S.W.
Save This Newspaper
Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for Army and Navy supplies
shipped overseas. Every pound
of old newspapers and maga
zines is needed. Notify some
school child in your Mock to
have your p«per picked up.
A
Intent Law Repeal
Heads Changes Urged
For Maryland Voters
Commission Also to Ask
For Revisions in
Service Ballot Provisions#
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Oct: 12.—The Gov
ernor's Commission on Revision of
Election Laws plans to recommend
to the Legislative Council abolition
of the declaration^ of intentions
law, Incorporation of the soldier
vote law into the election statute*
and State-wide permanent registra
tion of voters. '
These are among the principal
change* to be suggested to the coun
cil, Commission Chairman Hilary W.
Gans said yesterday, adding that
most of the lengthy bill prepared by
the commission merely recodifies
the present law and eliminates pro
visions no longer applicable or
duplicated elsewhere in the law.
The bill and commission recom
mendations will be presented by Mr.
Gans tomorrow.
Will Confer in Easton.
The council, which will go to
Easton next week to confer with
the Eastern Shore County Commis
sioners’ Association on proposed
legislation extending the powers of
these officials, will meet here today
and tomorrow and on two days
later in the month.
The bill proposed by the commis
sion is approximately half as long
as the existing election law and re
arranges the material under 9 sub
titles instead of the present 22.
The most significant changes in
corporated in the measure, Mr. Gan*
reported, are:
1. Empowering supervisors of elec
tions to fix compensation of judges
and election clerks “within pre
scribed limits’’ and to appoint, re
move, fix duties and compensation
of clerks and registrars and other
employes “within general limits.”
2. “Make it unnecessary for per
sons now registered to vote in any
county to register unless their regis
tration is canceled,” require “sys
tematic and regular erasure from
the registers of persons who have
died, removed or have not voted
within a five-year period, thereby
removing the necessity for sporadic
new general regstrations in various
counties."
Would Drop Fee.
3. "Eliminating in nominations by
petition the 25-cent fee for each
name as now required.”
4. Make uniform provisions for
use of voting machines.
5. Eliminate provision requiring an
adavit of nonintention to change
residence by persons leaving the
State temporarily.
6. Provide one set of penal pro
visions applicable to offenses at all
elections, general, special or pri
mary, in place of “duplicated and
overlapping” present ones.
Explanation of these primary
changes were contained in a letter
to Gov. O’Conor reporting work
done by the commission over a
three-month period.
Mrs. Murray Again Seeks
Debate With Smith
Mrs. Elizabeth Chilton Murray, in
dependent Democratic candidate for
Congress from the 8th Virginia dis
trict, yesterday renewed her chal
lenge to Representative Smith, Dem
ocratic party nominee, to a debate
on his loyalty to the party and to
the President.
Mrs. Murray, in a letter to Rep
resentative Smith, suggested his in
tended appearance before the Wom
en’s Citizen League of Alexandria
at Gadsby’s Tavern next Tuesday as
an occasion for the debate, which
she first proposed in a letter Satur
day.
“Since you have failed to appear
at any of the other meetings sched
uled—including your own rally at
Fairfax Courthouse—and since I
have had no reply to the letter in
which I challenged you to debate
with me, I feel that I must reiter
ate the question I have asked you,”
she wrote.
Mf. Rainier Boy, 11, Shot
Accidentally by Playmate
Paul Campbell, 11, of Mount
Rainier is in a serious condition at
Casualty Hospital with a gunshot
wound suffered yesterday when a
playmate accidentally pulled the
trigger of a pistol they were exam
ining.
Mrs. D. H. Campbell, mother of
the wounded boy, who lives at 4208
Thirty-second street, said his play
mate, Eddie Gobbett, 11, of 2800
Upshur street, Mount Rainier, was
demonstrating the gun at his home
when the shooting occurred. Tha
bullet entered young Campbell’s
right chest.
Daily Rationing
fj£#c«/WerrBft
Canoed Foods, Etc.—Book No. 4» -
blue stamps A-8 through Z-8 and
A-5 through R-5 good indefinite
ly. Each stamp worth 10 points.
Most canned vegetables and
special foods now off rationing.
Use of blue tokens discontinued.
Meats, Fata, Etc.—Red stamps A-l
through Z-8 and A-5 through K-5
good Indefinitely for 10 points
each. All melts except beef
steaks, roast beef and choice cuts
of lamb and pork are point free.
Points for Fats—Tour meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
each pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in. The fact that lard,
shortening and cooking oils have
been removed from the ration list
does not mean fat collection is
lea essential.
Sugar—Book No. 4 stamps 30 through
33 valid for 5 pounds indefinitely.
Book No. 4 stamp 40 good far S
pounds for home canning through
February 28. 1945.
Gasoline—A-ll coupons good for 1
gallons each through November 8.
B-4, C-4, B-5 and C-5 coupons
good for 5 gallons each.
Shees—Airplane stamps 1 and 3 la
Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Oil—Periods No. 4 and • cou»
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through August 31, IMA Period 1*
1944-5 ration, alia food for 11
gallons a unit.