Service Center Honors Millionth Guest

Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming presents a $100 War Bond to Lawrence Elam, radioman, first class. Left to right are: Gen. Fleming; Beulah Shock, SPAR storekeeper, second clAss, and Radioman Elam’s fiance; Radioman Elam, and Joseph C. McGarraghy, chairman of the War Hospitality Committee, which operates the United Natfbns Service Center. —Star Staff Photo.

A 25-year-old sailor who was re-

visiting America after being at sea

seven years, walked into the United Nations Service Center, 500 N. Cap- itol street, Friday night He was tired after a trip from his home in Missouri, he was trying to find a friend whose last name and address he didn't know, and he was wonied about his chances of persuading his high school sweetheart, stationed here with the SPARS to marry him.

Last night, he went to see the friend he was looking for, whom the center had found. He took her a dozen roses, which the center had provided. He took his high school sweetheart to a dance, which the center also had provided. He pre- sented her with a $100 War Bond, which the center had provided. And he announced his engagement to her. The center hadn't helped him In the last activity, but—

"That's what I call service," he commented.

Lawrence Elam, radioman fifst class, left home to join the Navy "to see the world" when he w>as 17, and saw action at Pearl Harbor, the Dutch East Indies, Australia and New Guinea before he came back | early this month. He stopped off, to see his brother and sister in Paris, Mo., and then came to Washington! to see the girl he will marry, Beulah,

| Shock, SPAR storekeeper second ’class, and to find Mrs. Robert P. j Petersen, who he had known as Miss Marian Trezona. when she wras a

;Red Cross worker in Australia. He went to the service center

which he said he had heard of "all i around,” to see if American boys | are really treated "right” in big city : service centers. "They are,” he said

jwith finality yesterday. When he walked into the center,

the workers were in the midst of preparation focstheir first birthday party which was held yesterday aft- ernoon—and because he was the 1.000,000th serviceman to use the center's facilities since It opened October 28. 1943, he became the honor guest.

At the open house celebration yes- terday. Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works Administrator, pre- sented him with a $100 War Bond, on behalf of the War Hospitality Committee, which operates the cen- ter, Then he was asked what he wanted most to do or see in Wash- ington. He told them of his search for his Red Cross friend, but all he knew was her maiden name, and that she had married a Navy lieu- tenant whom she called "Pete." With that to go on, the center wcik- ers got busy, and with the help of the Red Cross and Navy personnel, found Mrs. Peterson—who is in

Doctor’s Hospital about ready to take her week-old daughter, Martha, home.

After the party, the center officials gave Radioman Elam a dozen roses, sent as a birthday present from Mrs. Roosevelt, which he took to Mrs. Petersen. He |lso took Miss Shock, and told Mrs.’Petersen, "You can

congratulate me. too." Then he took her back to the center to a dance.

During the party, hundreds of Washingtonians visited the center, which is equipped with 570 beds and 541 chairs—all filled with sleeping servicemen every night, two can-

teens, about two dozen small lounges with writing desks, pianos, magazines, newspapers from every State in the Union and many foreign countries, a travel service, a nursery where servicemen's wives leave sleepy children during a wait be- tween trains, showers, legal aid serv- ice. sewing rooms, libraries, foot treatment clinic, gift-wrapping serv-

ice. telephones and numerous other services which Radioman Elam said, “made it more like home than home.”

One visiting serviceman walking through the lounge remarked, "Gee, this place really has everything a soldier can want, and they sure treat you swell.”

The 1.000.000th visitor agreed.

District Losses So Far Due to Enemy Action Triple Total of Last War, Survey Shows

The District has lost more than three times as many men by enemy action so far in this war as it did throughout the last war, a com-

parative survey reveals. The same survey suggests the

strides made by medicine, since more District fighting men died of disease in the last war than have been killed in action in this one.

The Star was informed that no

State-by-State compilation of cas- ualties has been made by the serv- ices for this war and that only the Army made such a survey after the last W'ar.

Only estimates are available as to the number of District men serv-

ing in this war. The Army’s most recent State-by-State count was made last January before inductions had reached their peak. The most recent report from the naval forces, including Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, was June 30.

At the time of the reports, the Army had 53.689 District men and the naval forces, 26.449, for a total of 80.338.

District Selective Service so far has sent into the services, approxi- mately 75.000 men who had been living in the District since before the war. Draft officials estimated this figure would rise to 90.000 with the inclusioh of men who were com- missioned, enlisted, and called to active duty from the National Guard or the Enlisted Reserve Corps. An additional 15,000 men who regis- tered for the draft in other com- munities but came here to work en- tered the services from the District through the draft.

27,651 Served in Last War. In comparison with this 105.000,

the Veterans Administration reports

that 27.651 District men served in the last war. Reports from the Sec- retaries of War and Navy and official Marine Corps figures show that 20.235 District men and women served in the Army—of whom only 8,589 saw service overseas: 6.115 served in the Navy and 1.004 served in the Marine Corps.

Not more than a few hundred, probably less, were in the Coast Guard. Today 1,304 District men are serving In the Coast Guard.

In this war, drafted men were already in the service when war broke out. In the last war, men started registering for the draft two months after war was declared and the first were inducted July 30, 1917. Just two months before the last war ended, a large group of men— the oldest and youngest in the draft—were registered.

The final report of the Provost Marshal General shows a total of 90.361 District men between the ages of 18 and 45 registered for the draft in the World War and 11.029 were inducted. In this war. 203.270 Dis- trict men in the 18-45 age bracket have registered and approximately 75,000 have been inducted.

Casualty Contrast Striking In the casualty figures, the con-

trast between this war and the last one for District men is most strik- ingly revealed. Enemy action ac- counted for 146 lives in the last war, including 102 soldiers. 125 naval officers and enlisted men and 19 marines, according to official Army and Marine Corps figures and a count made by The Star from a naval report, in which The Star credited to the District men who listed their next of kin here.

The Star's tabulation of deaths by enemy action in this war, in- cluding official reports and word from relatives up to today, shows the District has lost 327 soldiers,! 92 naval officers and enlisted men, 54 marines and five coast guards- men for a total of 478 District men who have been killed in action, died of wounds or have been declared dead.

On the other hand, disease took its toll in the last war. A total of 513 District men. including 408 soldiers and 105 naval officers and enlisted men, died when pneumonia, influenza and other diseases swept through the camps or from acci- dents.

51 Die of Other Causes. Fifty-one District men have died

from disease or from accidents, in- cluding plane crashes, in this war, according to The Star’s record of reports from the scene or from relatives.

Five other District men and women should be included in the death count of this war. Reported dead from the District are one WASP, one member of the Mer-

! chant Marine and a member each !of the Canadian Army. RAP and RCAF. The number lost in the Merchant. Marine probably is much larger but no official figures are available.

In all, the District has lost 534 men and women in this war, mostly] 1 from enemy action, according to the record kept by The Star. It lost 659 men and women in the last war, mostly from disease.

District men served on only one battlefield in the last war. Today,] they are serving from Aachen to i

I Leyte.

The 'Old Man/ 25-Year-Old Capt. Skinner Is One of Nation's Youngest Ship Commanders

The “old man'1 is about ready to sail again, and he's anxious to plant his feet on the swaying bridge of a

ship once more. The “old man’’

is 25-year-old Capt. Robert C. Skinner, one of the youngest skippers in the American Mer- chant Marine. He was home at 1629 Columbia road N.W. last week to visit his mother and his father, Wade H. Skinner, general counsel for the Maritime Com- mission, Who is C«Dt. Skinner,

in a hospital recovering from a recent illness.

Young Skinner's rise from an or- dinary seaman six years ago to the command of some of the Nation’s largest merchant ships seems in- credible, but it's true all right, and the four gold stripes on his uniform prove it.

First Command at 24. He received his first full com-

mand last February, when he was 24. He was in charge of the ship; yet, among all the officers and crew, he was the youngest. Almost all his subordinate officers have been older men. Right now. he's in command of the Alexander Ramsey, which is loading in an East Coast port. His chief engineer is 69. his chief ofllcer, 46. And, like everybody else, they call him the “old man.-’

Capt. Skinner never harbored any dreams of going to sea when he was a boy. A native of Washington, he was graduated from Central High School and was attending George Washington University when he got the idea of an office job with some steamship company.

At the United States Lines, he was given some encouragement. A representative of the company said he thought they could use him, but maybe it would he a good idea«!f he sailed on one of their ships for a while—a year maybe—before set- tling down at a desk.

So, at 18. young Skinner signed up as a cadet.

“I never intended to stay at sea

very long,” he said. "Now I'rri not interested in any other type of work.”

Besides the Ramsey, he has com-

manded the Daniel Drake, and the John Ericsson and was staff cap- tain. second in* command, on the Benjamin K. Curtis.

He was on the Ericsson once be- fore he commanded it. Soon after he obtained his junior third of- ficers license in November, 1941, he was assigned as the eighth rank- ing officer on the vessel, which was

formerly the Swedish-American Line ship Kungsholm, sister ship of the Gripsholm, used during the war as a diplomatic exchange craft.

He left the Ericsson as executive officer in September. 1943.

Capt. Skinner has sailed in every part of the world and holds combat ribbons from the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean theaters. Three times, in the Mediterranean, his ship was under aerial attack.

No Ships Lost Under Him. ‘‘I’ve been pretty lucky,” he said.

“In convoys in the North Atlantic, I’ve had ships go down astern of me and on either side. Yet no ship I was on has ever been hit.”

He was an officer on the first troop convoy to Australia. His ship took the first marines headed for Guadalcanal out to New Zealand where they had to be transferred to smaller craft for the actual land- ings, and he was executive officer on the troop transport that dropped the first American forces at Casablanca during the African invasion. ,

As a skipper, Capt. Skinner is entitled to wear the four gold stripes equivalent to the rank of a captain in the Navy. But under the United States Maritime Service's system of rating, he said, he holds only the rank of commander—and he had to fight for that.

“First they made me a lieuten- ant, and I squawked,” he explained. “Then they made me a lieutenant commander, and I squawked some more. So finally they made me a full commander. I guess It wont

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do any good to squawk some more.

There are only five captains in the Maritime Service, and the young- est is 45.”

Capt. Skinner has one brother. He is Lt. Wade H. Skinner, jr., U.S.N., who is a year older than the “old man.”

Special Services Today Open Girl Scout Week

Girl Scout Sunday today ushers in Girl Scout Week, with observ- ances in many churches, and mes- sages from leading clergymen of various faiths praising the organi- zation. Special programs will be on the radio networks.

Most of the 5,500 Girl Scouts in Washington plan to participate in functions throughout the week. Many will attend special church services today.

Messages of praise for the organi- zation were issued by Msgr. Law- rence J. Shehan, for the Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore and Washington (Catho- lic) : the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop of Washington (Episcopal); Charles Wesley Flint, Resident Bishop of the Washington Area Methodist Church; Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer, of Mount Pleasant Congregational Church who is president of the Ministerial Union: Dr. Seth R. Brooks of Universalist National Memorial Church, on behalf of the Committee on Religious Life of the Nation’s Capital, and Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld of the Washington He- brew Congregation.

Connecticut Express Number Is Changed

The Capital Transit Co. an- nounced that beginning tomorrow the route number on the limited- stop trips on the Connecticut avenue busline northward will be changed from L-4 to L-3.

Route numbers will be displayed on a red background. The company said “it is expected that the change in route number will make the lim- ited service more distinguishable for those who use the service.”

SOCIETY AND GENERAL

WASHINGTON, D. C. 3% JSsunflay §ste WASHINGTON NEWS

OCTOBER 29, 1944. m

Commissioners Approve Child PlacementRules

Agencies Must Meet Rigid Requirements Of Responsibility

The Commissioners announced yesterday they had approved a de- tailed set of regulations “prescribing standards of placements, care and service to be required of child-plac- ing agencies” in the District, which were drawn up by a special commit- tee named by them.

Each child-placing agency must make an application for a license annually and it is recommended that they be incorporated as non-

profit organizations. The rules and regulations use the

word “must" where the standards are required and the word “should” where the standards are recom- mended. The committee was named, on the recommendation of the Board of Public Welfare, under the terms of the so-called baby broker1 bill, approved by Congress on April 22.

Requirements Cited. The governing board of incor-

porated agencies must be controlled by "a responsible board or local governing authority” and the agen- cies must satisfy the Board of Wel- fare that they have ‘‘adequate fi- nancial resources to maintain the standards of service required by regulations.”

The executive of .an agency must have had experience in children’s work; case work supervisors must have completed a minimum of one

year in a graduate school of social, work, plus three years in an agency- approved by the welfare board and case workers must have had one

year in a graduate school of social work. During the war emergency, provisions have been made for re-

laxing the qualifications. The regulatioas require that a

complete record be kept of appli- cations and investigations for care of children and of foster families, and the number of children super- vised by one caseworker must not exceed 50. Before a child can be accepted for foster care, a thorough investigation must be made of his family and environmental condi- Xions.

Must Give Child Family. In the case of faster homes, it

is recommended that the family- have "an acceptable motive for tak- ing a child.” a dependable income sufficient to provide a comfortable living, enjoy good health and be without communicable diseases. The neighborhod must be "healthful” and the home should be near a church and school.

In addition, the family should have "intelligence and emotional maturity,” a “realization of the value of educational training and cultural activities for children,” and an "ability to share in the develop- ment of children and the realiza- tion of the differences of life ex-

perience." “Children should be placed for

adoption only when permanent separation of the child from his parents or relatives is found by careful investigation to be neces- sary,” the regulations state. “Its purpose is to give the child a family j of his own,”

“A child’s own home and family are his basic right and it is under- stood that only under these circum- stances can he be assured of his normal social personality develop- ment.” said the committee prefac- ing its regulations.

“Emotional Shock.” ‘‘Every child who is removed from

his own home suffers a severe emo- tional shock. Therefore, no child should be removed until every pos- sible effort has been made to bring about an environment conducive to the wholesome development of the child. A complete, well-rounded program of child welfare should be provided for all children in the Dis- trict.”

inose named in May by the city; heads to write the regulations were Mrs. Milton W. King, who was at that time a member of the Board of Public Welfare: Dr. Ella Oppen- heimer of the Health Department: Miss Gladys Cook, formerly of the Welfare Board; Mrs. Milton Harris, chairman of the Child Welfare Committee of Jewish Social Service Agency: Miss Florence Murray, su- pervisor, Catholic Charities; Sefton Darr. attorney, representing St. Ann’s Infant Asylum; Miss Mildred Terrett. executive secretary. Chil- dren's Protective Association, and Miss A. Patricia Morss, chief of the children’s services, welfare board.

After Mrs. King left the board, Mrs. Radford Moses of the welfare board became a member of the committee this summer and was made its chairman.

Womanr 21, Who Fainted On Train Is Recovering

Miss Florence E. Booth, 27, New- ark <N. J.) munitions plant work- er, who was taken from a Pennsyl- vania Railroad train at the Union Station Friday night unconscious, was improved at Casualty Hospital yesterday.

Miss Booth told Dr. Richard Git- ter, resident physician, that she came to Washington to visit an aunt, Mrs. Anna Wingert, who lives in a houseboat in the yacht basin at 1300 Maine avenue S.W., near Thirteenth street.

She told Dr. Gitter she was sub- ject to fainting spells.

Critics' Forum to Meet at

Mayflower Wednesday The Critics’ Forum, Catholic dis-

cussion group, will meet at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the main ball- room of the Mayflower Hotel. The Rev. Dr. John Keating Cartwright, forum director and director of the Catholic Radio Hour, will review the book, “The Time For Decision” by Sumner Welles, rformer Under Secretary of State.

William H. Collins will act as chairman. Tickets may be obtained in advance at the Immaculate Con- ception Rectory, 1315 Eighth street N.W., or at the hotel Wednesday night.

Or Would You Rather Be a Mule? By SARAH FLINN.

If mules could read, they would get a kick out of this story.

It's about a woman who thinks mules are pretty great guys. She says they have more sense than horses, and are as charming and lovable little playmates as dogs or cows or anything. She says she ought to know, too. She’s been making a study of the personality of mules for more than a year. Her book—which so far as she knows is the first glorifying mules—will be out Tuesday to tell anybody who’s interested just what makes a mule run—or not run, as the case mav be.

The poor old mule always gets a raw deal because he has a reputa- tion for being stubborn and dumb, and so she wrote "Shavetail Sam, U. S. Army Mifie,” to prove other- wise. Mrs. Helen Orr Watson of 5312 Thirteenth street N.W. ex-

plained yesterday. In "Shavetail Sam,” the mule

comes into his own. He's the hero of an Italian mountain battle, the savior of a troop of American boys, and one war veteran who finds a useful, self-satisfying career—a good American soldier.

Mrs. Watson has written three other animal books, "Chaneo, United States Army Pigeon,” "Top Kick, United States Army Horse” and "Trooper, United States Army Dog.” She wrote her books about Army animals because, since she is the wife of Col. James T. Watson, jr., Signal Corps, she knows them best. Col. Watson, however, says "he won’t be satisfied until she writes a book about a cow.” She owns two dairy farms and has "always known and loved cows,” so thinks she will write about them next. But, of all the animals she knows. "Shavetail Sam” is about her favorite, she says.

She met Sam down on a farm near Richmond, when he was "just a round, winsome little foal,” and studied him and his brother mules she knew what stages their voices went through before they achieved their first "hee-haw,” what they said to each other by their "hee- haw” inflections, how their ears reacted when they were pleased or angry or tired.

She packs these little tidbits of

Hebert to Modify Plan For Merger of District And U. S. Park Police

Representative Hebert. Demo- crat, of Louisiana announced yes- terday he would modify his plan for merger of the park police with the Metropolitan Police Depart- ment allowing the park police con- tinued jurisdiction over the Fed- eral areas outside the District.

He said his objective was to end the division of responsibility for policing the District and to hold one department responsible for pro- tection in the city.

He had not intended, he added, that the Metropolitan police. as- sume responsibility for the Mount Vernon parkway and other areas outside the District, now patroled by the park police.

Following his recent announce- ment that he would sponsor a bill to merge the two forces, it was brought out that the park police are responsible for more territory outside than within the District.

In addition to the Mount VeJroon parkway, park police patrol the old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal between Washington and Cumberland. Fort Hunt. Fort Foote and the Chopa- wamsic recreation area near Quan- tico. Va'. The new Suitland park- way. soon to be opened between Boiling Field and the Great Mead- ows Air Base, in Maryland, will be assigned to the park police.

Corporation Counsel Richmond B Keech has been asked by Mr. Hebert to draft the proposed legislation. Mr. Hebert said he still was con- vinced that police jurisdiction with- in the District should be centralized under the Metropolitln department and he expressed confidence that the details could be handled.

St. Paul's Property Hearing Tomorrow

The legal fight of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 917 Twenty-third street N.W.. and several property owners in that block to prevent the Federal Government from con-

demning the square for a new 400- bed George Washington University Hospital is scheduled in District Court tomorrow.

The Government, represented by Robert R. MacLeod of the Justice Department, has asked Justice Jesse C. Adkins, presiding in the case, to hear all questions of law and prece- dent raised by all parties. This will include matters of constitutionality brought up by protesting counsel.

The Government’s latest plan is to condemn the square bounded by Twenty-second, Twenty-third and I streets, and Pennsylvania avenue, at Washington Circle N.W., build a

new hospital, keep title .to it and lease the property to G. W. U. for five years, granting the university an option to buy.

The property of the G. W. U. Medical School and hospital on H street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets N.W., also is said to be involved but details of the transaction between the Govern- ment and G. W. U. have not been divulged.

Counsel for protesting property owners have contended the Govern- ment also plans to build a new medical school and a nurses home on the square in question, in addi- tion to the new hospital.

WCTU Hails Dr. Kolb's Statement on Alcoholics

A recent statement by Dr. Law- rence Kolb, Assistant Surgeon Gen- eral and director of the United States Public Health Service, that there are 3,000,000 confirmed alco- holics in this country, was ac- claimed by the Women's Christian Temperante Union yesterday as vin- dication of their stand against legal- ized liquor.

Mrs. Caroline E. Coates, newly elected president of the Washing- ton chapter of the WCTU declared:

"Dr. Kolb’s figures furnish fur- ther proof that all our contentions are well founded, our alarms timely and our prayers bringing results in recognition among men of science that (liquor) problem is of serious public importance.’'

Mrs. Helen Orr Watson thinks Winkle, her Boston terrier, is pretty nice. But she thinks mules are equally charming.

—Harris & Ewing Photo.

information in her book, along with the story of Sam and his career as

Army hero and later as a farm worker. And all of the things that happen to Sam in the book are

things that happened to Army mules she knows, or has heard about.

She dedicated the book to her son, Donald, a West Point cadet, who someday will be called a “shave- tail.”

After getting to be friendly with mules. Mrs. Watson says:

Falls, Burns Lead Home Accidents List for Week Although falls led in the list of

home accidents in the District dur- ing the past week, burns and cuts caused many of the injured treated at District hospitals, the District Red Cross Home Accident Preven- tion Service reported yesterday.

There were 37 falls, 15 burns, 3 accidental poisonings, 9 cases of foregin bodies in eye, ear. nose and stomach, 29 cuts. 3 severe bruises and 11 accidents of a miscellaneous tj^je. One suffocation brought the home accident death total since the first of the year to 112.

.Four falls were caused by grease spots and spilled water in the kitchen. A 33-year-old man cut himself while opening a can of vegetables with a screw driver. A 26-year-old woman received minor burns on the hand from an explod-

I ing box of matches and shortly after the accident got a sliver in one of the injured fingers. The combined injuries created a serious infection.

Two children drank kerosene and two drank turpentine. Most unusual accident of the week was that a man who was pecked in the eye by a chicken.

5 Area Plants Win WPB Approval of Civilian Items

Five Washington area firms have received War Production Board ap- proval under the "spot authoriza- tion” plan to manufacture civilian goods valued at $114,000 it was learned last night.

A total of eight applications have been received at WPB from area

companies. None has been denied and three are pending. The "spot” plan authorizes WPB field offices to approve civilian production where materials, manufacturing capacity and manpower not needed for war work are available.

The applications WPB already has approved follow: American Scale Manufacturing Co., to make coin- operated scales; D. L. Bromwell, to convert oil lamps and vases into electric table lamps; Federal Prisons Industries, Inc., to make file cases; Washington Mattress Co., inner- spring mattress, and American Wholesalers, innerspring mattresses.

While WPB does not make public the names of firms whose applica- tions are pending, the three other companies here have asked permis- sion to make outdoor swings, more innerspring mattress and a bronze statue.

WPB announced last week that approval had been given to firms over the entire country to make civilian goods valued at $152,000,000 through the third quarter of 1945.

Trinity College Classes Plan Halloween Parties

All classes at Trinity College will hold Hallowe’en celebrations tomor- row night.

The seniors will hold a banquet at 6 p.m. in Alumnae Hall on the cam-

pus. All will wear caps and gowns. Miss Mary Madeleine Sheehan is chairman of arrangements.

The jurors will hold a candle- light banquet in another section of the hall at 6 pm. Miss Carol Donovan is chairman. They will wear formal dresses.

The sophomores will give a Hal- lowe’en party for the freshmen at 7 pm. in the Notre Dame Auditor- ium. Prizes will be awarded for costumes. Miss Cecelja Butler and Miss Elaine Mahoney are in charge of the entertainment.

Cornell Alumni to Hear Chinese Agriculturist

Dr. P. C. Chao, a visiting con- sultant to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, will address the Cornell Alumni Club at 8 p. m. Wednesday in the Lee Sheraton Hotel.

Dr. Chao, China’s director of Agricultural Economics, is a mem- ber of the Cornell University class of 1936.

"They have more sense than horses. A horse will work till he drops. A mule quits when he’s tired. A mule knows what he wants and goes after it. He figures things out, and knows his own mind. He has a keen sense of humor, and is a

friendly creature, responding to kindness.”

In short, Mrs. Watson says, "a mule is a rugged individualist”— just like a lot of other good Ameri- cans.

Eastern Shore Placed In Dewey Column In Election Survey

This is the first of a series of articles in a pre-election survey throughout Maryland.

Bv WILL P. KENNEDY, Star Staff Correspondent.

SALISBURY. Md Oct. 28. — Gov. Thomas E. Dewey may be a winner on Maryland's Eastern Shore, which is the 1st congressional district. It covers 9 of the State's 23 counties, with a population of approximately 200.000.

Republican State Senate Leader Wilmer Fell Davis. Federalsburg, is expected to win the House seat, held since 1939 by Representative Ward, and before that for 19 years

jby T. Alan Goldsborough. The Re- ! publican swing largely is due to i strong antifourth term and anti- ! Roosevelt sentiment.

Senator Tydings, Democrat, seek- ing re-election for a fourth term will lead the ticket easily.

The Dewey-Davis prediction dis- putes the claims of all Democratic leaders, including Senator Tvdings Gov. O Conor, W. Preston Lane, national committeeman and State campaign manager, and Dudley G. Roe, Sudlersville. the party's con- gressional nominee, that there will be a clean sweep for the Democratic ticket.

The Democrats' forecast in turn, is challenged by Republican lead- ers, including Galen L. Tait, chair- man of the Republican State Com- mittee.

Mr. Roe claims he will win by 3,000 to 5,000; President Roosevelt by 2.000 to 3.000 and Senator Tyd- ings by 7,000 to 10.000. Mr. Roe says he will carry seven counties—Cecil, Kent, Queen Annes. Talbot, Dor- chester. Wicomico and Worcester— and concedes Mr. Davis two counties "by a small margin '—Caroline and Somerset.

Mr Davis expresses confidence that he will carry six counties, in- cluding Queen Annes. his oppon- ent's home county, which he says "will go for Dewey, Tydings and Davis.” Senator Tydings said Queen Annes is the strongest Democratic county in the State.

This canvass of the Eastern Shore shows a strong sentiment for Gov. Dewey, even on the p>art of veteran Democrats, and that there will be a big reduction in Mr. Roosevelt's 1940 vote of 39,954.

The soldiers’ vote and the votes of women, who for the first time are casting more ballots than the men, will have a big influence in the elec- tion. A total of 3,864 absentee bal- lots have been requested.

It is a safe prediction that a ma- jority of the women's votes on the Eastern Shore will be cast for Gov. Dewey and Mr. Davis. Many sup- porters of Mr. Ward, whom Mr. Roe beat in the primary, are still “sore” over the way he was defeated ana may defeat Mr. Roe.

Senator Tydings and Mr. Roe have been censured severely because neither mentioned Mr. Roosevelt in a big rally at Easton.

Foreman Fined $50 In Safety Violation

Charged with failing to provide a guard on a circular saw for the protection of an employe on a housing project here, Leonard A Penner, foreman for the Ceco Steei Products Corp., was fined $50 in Municipal Court yesterday after he pleaded guilty.

It was the first prosecution for a violation of the safety standards for construction issued by the District Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety, according to Assistant Cor- poration Counsel E. E. O’Neil. The standards became effective last July. Mr. Penner gave his address as 3901 Ames street N.E.

R. M. Ravencroft Acquitted R. M. Ravencroft, 3070 Thayer

street N.E.. was found not guilty be- fore Judge Hugh Reid of the Arling- ton County Court of charges of driv- ing while intoxicated, according to James T. Simmonds, attorney for the defendant. After first imposing a $100 fine and 30-day jail sentence. Judge Reid reconsidered and re- versed his verdict, Mr. Simmonds said.

Draff Boards Establish Job Division Here

Higher Veteran Discharge Rate Prompted Step

Establishment of a Veterans’ As- sistance Division in District Selec- tive Service headquarters to help returning servicemen get their old jobs back or find new ones was announced last night by District Selective Service Director William E. Leahy.

Mr. Leahy pointed out that re- employment committeemen to carry out the re-employment provisions of the Selective Service Act had been appointed months ago but that "only recently the discharge rate increased to the extent that addi- tional facilities for handling vet- erans here became necessary.”

Under the Selective Service Act, veterans are entitled to reinstate- ment in their former jobs if they are still qualified to perform them, if they apply within 40 days after discharge and if the employers circumstances have not changed so much that it s impossible to re- instate them.

Re-employment committeemen go to work when employers refuse to back veterans or put them on jobs without the seniority, status or pay of their prewar employment, or when the veterans want to know about new jobs or some of the bene- fits they're entitled to under the GI Bill of Rights.

President Roosevelt has directed a message to draft boards and re- employment committeemen urging them to stay on the job to aid re- turning veterans in finding employ- ment.

The President’s letter, printed in the latest issue of the Selective Service Bulletin, was reinforced by a message from Selective Service Director Hershey asking draft of- ficials to give psychological as well as economic assistance in helping veterans readjust themselves to civilian life.

Some national draft officials are known to have become concerned over the possibility that local vol- unteers might drift away from se- lective service work, on the assump- tion their services no longer were

urgently needed. The Veterans Assistance Division,

which is designed to strengthen the District's program for veterans, will serve as a clearing house for the records of returning servicemen, Mr. Leahy said. To the division will come the reports from the armed forces that District men and oth- ers who ivant to come here to work have left the service.

The division. Mr. Leahy ex- plained. will then send the veteran a letter offering him assistance in the solution of Stny problem con- cerned with his return to civilian life. A form will be inclosed on which the veteran is to indicate whether he would like to talk with his re-employment committeemen.

When this form is returned to the division, it will be forwarded to the proper local board, which will arrange for an appointment between the re-employment committeeman and the veteran, and notify the lat- ter.

Follow-up Provided. At the interview, the re-employ-

ment committeeman may find it necessary to send the veteran to other agencies for special types of assistance. Within 10 days after the interview report is received, Mr. Leahy said, the agency to which the man was referred will be asked to report on what was done for the veteran. The re-employment com- mitteeman will continue to offer help at any time the veteran needs it. Mr. Leahy said.

Local boards also will reserve enough information to supply some of the answers and direct veteran* to such agencies as the Veterans Administration and the United States Employment Service, Mr. Leahy said.

Mr. Leahy estimated that the ma- jority of the 75,000 District men inducted into the armed forces will return to Washington after their discharge. In addition, a large num- ber of veterans from other com- munities are expected to come here seeking work.

As the flow of discharged men increases. Mr. Leahy said, it prob- ably will be necessary to appoint more than the present one re-em-

ployment committeeman for each local board so that veterans can receive prompt assistance.

Gas Model Planes to Fly Again Today in Area Race

Competition for the Annandale (Va.i Model Airplane Club’s trophy for the best gasoline model air-

| plane builder in the Washington area will be resumed today at Bailey’s Cross Roads Airport from 1 to 6 p.m.. weather permitting. This will be the second of a series of three Sunday contests.

Leaders thus far in the competi- tion are the father-son combina- tion of Lyall Steger, junior and senior, of 1341 Queen street N.E., and the father-son-daughter team of Byrton Barron family of Spring- field, Va.

While the contest is limited to club members, it was announced, other model planemakers have been invited to Join.

Interest in flying gasoline models has been revived through resump- tion of the manufacture of model gasoline engines, which had been discontinued because of the war.

A feature of the Bailey's Cross Roads meets is the requirement that each model taxi down a runway and rise into the air like a full-size plane. The airport can be reached by bus out Columbia pike.

Services to Be Held For English Primate

A commemorative service for tba Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. William Temple, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Washington Cathedral. The Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop of Wash- ington, will speak.

The archbishop, primate of all England, died Thursday after a heart attack at the age of 63.