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Evening star., 1943-12-09
Vichy Reports Changes
In Turkish General Staff

LONDON, Dec. 8 (Pl.-The Ger
man-controlled Vichy radio asserted
today that Gen. Hassim Gunduz, as
sistant chief Of the Turkish general
staff, had been replaced by Gen.
KAHN Orbay, in series of changes
in the Turkish general staff.
The broadcast. recorded by Reu-
terS, quoted what it said was a re-
port from Ankara.
BY the Vichy account, Marshal
Chakmak, chief of the general staff,
would be retired December 81 be-
cause of the age limit. Gen. Orbay
recently has been in charge of re-
equipping the Turkish Army with
British arms. He made an extended
stay in Britain in 1889 as head of a
Turkish military mission.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Hoover Says Landon
Has Open Mind on
Moscow Agreement
BY the Associated Press.

oy tne ASSOCIATED PresS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-Former
President Hoover said yesterday that
naturally" he approved the Moscow
pact and that ALI M. Landon, 1886
Republican presidential nominee,
had not opposed the pact "either in
his public statements or to me per-
sonally."
Mr.. Hoover issued formal state
ment after comforting here with Mr.
Landon, who will resume a swing of
the East Sunday when he attends a
dinner given in his honor at Roches-
ter, N. Y, by Publisher Frank Can
nett. Mr.. Landon conferred here
Tuesday with Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey.
Mr.. Landon, in a talk before fresh
man Senators in Washington last
Saturday, referred to the Moscow
pact as 'hazy" in part. The speech
led Wendell Willkie, COP 1910 presi-
Dental candidate, to declare that if
Mr. Landon's views represented those
of the Republican party, then some
one other than Mr.. Willkie should
be the 1914 leader.
Mr.. HOOvers statement said:
Gov. Landon and I discussed the
war and domestic situation general
| ly. The Governor did not take a
position in opposition to the Mos
COW pact, either in his public state
ments or to me personally. I, natu-
rally, approve it, inasmuch as it
adopts the transition period and
other principals which I have advo-
Gated for the past Is months.
THE Governor is deeply inter
ested in securing a lasting peace,
but has rightly objected to advance
pledges of Republicans to commit
ments on peace settlements until
those proposals are made known. I
should expect every sensible citizen,
irrespective of party, to hold that
attitude.
Nor is the Governor opposed to
an identical foreign relations plank
in the two party platforms. He
would. when the time comes. six
months hence. favor full considera-
tion OF specific proposals from the
administra ton in that direction.
Generally, being from near Missouri,
the Governor first wants to know
what is proposed in black and
white"
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Court Refuses to Order
Mans Army Release

Py the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. ga
petition for a writ of habeas corpus
won't free a farmworket son from
the Army. United States District
Judge William Tillman D. Johnson
has ruled.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. A. Bingham had
flled the petition, contending their
son. Brigham r. Bingham, 20. was
detained and confined" wrongly
and should be released as an agri-
cultural worker.
The youth, inducted December g.
twice had been deferred by the
State Appeals Board.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Dies Subcommittee
Hears Myer Assai|
Tu|e|ake Criticism
By the Associated Press.

Director Dillon Myer of the War
Relocation Authority declared yes
terday he was tired of general ac-
cusationS Of lack of firmness" and
"soclal-mindedness' made by men,
bers of Dies subcommittee con-
cerning the WRA. He asserted his
complete confidence" in ability of
WRA officials to command the situ-
alton at the Tulelake (CalifD Japa-
nese relocation center.
Mr. Myer told the Dies group 1t
might be possible for his agency to
resume control of the center in
about two months. 1t has been
under Army control since riots oc-
CURED there last month. There
have been demands that the Army
be given permanent supervision of
the camp.
After questioning Mr.. Myer for
three days, the committee decided to
call on representatives of the War,
Justice and State Departments for
information concerning interna-
tional repriSals which might evolve
from the Tulelake disturbance and
constitutional questions involved in
the relocation program.
Mr.. Myer also suggested that rep
reSentatives of the Federal Com
munications Commission be called
to give information concerning the
type of broadcasts coming from
Toxic as result of the Tulelake
riots.
Replying to questions of commit
teemen, Mr.. Myer said there had
been some bootlegging at the center,
with resulting arrests. He added
that the WRA had put no absolute
ban on use OF alcoholic drinks unless
the community in which WRA
centers were located did so.
The WRA, he replied to another
inquiry, was checking reports OF
traffic in narcotics at TuleIake
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Navy Takes Charge
OF Coast Shipyard,
Hitting High Costs

The Navy was in charge of the
shipyard Of the Los Angeles
Shipbuilding g. Drydock Corp.
today after President Roosevelt
ordered the seizure on the
ground that the plant has been
operated inefflciently and that
the naval auxiliary vessels it
constructs cost too much.
A two-member House Naval sub
committee recently reported that
one large ,naval repair ship, the
Ajax, was turned out by the yard
at a cost of $4,000 900, in COM
parlson with the construction cost
OF $4,000 900 for a similar ship, the
Vulcan, built by the New York Ship
building Corp.
The presidential order, dated De-
cember 3 and issued late Yesterday.
said the corporate ton had failed to
perform satisfactorily the work
called for by its contracts with the
Navy. Rear Admiral Harold G.
Bowen was put in charge of opera
tions
Navy Invested 81, 500 900.
The Navy owns part of the COM
panyS facilities, having invested
S6,500,000 in shipbuilding and repair
equipment purchased for war ex-
pansion of the yard. 1t also is
guarantor Of half a $4,000 900 loan
the company negotiated.
The amount of the corporation's
contracts with the Navy was not
disclosed, but the Navy said that
IN addition to construction of auxili-
ary vessels the shipyard does con-
version and repair" of ships needed
by the Navy.
In Los Angeles. Alfred F. Smith
president of the firm, said the man
agement can scarcely be blamed
for initial excessive costs and pro-
duction difficulties"
Without assuming to take issue
with high ranking officials of our
Navy" Mr.. Smith declared in a
statement:
When I assumed presidency OF
the corporation more than one year
ago. the original estimate of the
first repair ship contracted for had
already been exceeded.
During this period OF excessive
costs, management Of the company's
operations was in the hands of men
placed in their positions by the
Navy itself
Since the inquiry early in Oc-
tober. we have turned over to the
Navy the Ajax. our first ship. and
have been very highly complimented
by the Navy, itself, for its initial
performance.
I'VE have also launched a sea-
plane tender, the Norton Sound,
and within two weeks We would have
turned over to the Navy the second
repair ship, the Hector. at a cost
OF several million dollars less than
that of the Ajax. Unfortunately
for us, the Bureau of Ships cid not
see flt to permit us to make the
delivery. -"
There have been some unpleas-
ant incidents in connection with
these Navy contracts, but this is
not the time to air them.
Il shall do everything to cooperate
with the Navy so that operations
of the corporation will be restored
to the company at the earliest pos
sible moment"
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Three Children Die
In Flaming House
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROCKFORD, Ill, Dec. 9.-Three
children burned to death yesterday
when fire destroyed a one-story
frame house their father had built
recently
The father, Forrest Page. was
working in war plant, and his wife
was at store when their home, 7
miles north of Rockford, was de-
moliShed
The victims, put to bed for a nap,
were Lonnie, 4; Theresa, 3, and
Larry, 2.
Origin Of the fire was not de-
termined
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Letter From Patton Is Followed
By News of Husbands Death

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Dec 9.-Hopefully,
Mrs. Lee Lifschitz, 20, a garment
worker, wrote 1t. Gen. George S.
Patton. jr.-could he arrange a fur
Tough for her husband, Harry, whom
she hadn't seen for more than a
year.
That was September 8. She waited
patiently. not telling Harry OF the
letter. Finally there came a reply.
Gen. Patton wrote on October 4
that he was sorry, but her 33-year-
old husband, who had soldiered
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Dr.. Marvin Elected Head
OF ST. EIizabeth's Board

Dr.. Cloyd Heck Marvin. president
of George Washington University,
was elected president of the Board
Of Visitors Of St. Elizabeths Hos
r,tal at meeting Tuesday.
DR.. Marvin, who has been a mem
her of the board for several years,
succeeds the late Rev. DR.. U. G. B
Pierce, minister of All Souls Unita-
ran Church, as president of the
board.
Evening star., 1943-12-09

with the 7th Army in Sicily. couldn't
be given leave. The shipping stu
alton is so dificult," he explained.
Although disappointed, Mrs. Lif-
schitz's morale was boosted. She
proudly disclosed the generals let
ter yesterday and said she bet
Harry could be "awfully excited
when he learned of it.
A few hours later she received a
telegram. 1t was from the War De-
partment and read:
PVT. Harry Lifschitz was killed in
action on Nine November in Italy"
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Farmer Acquitted
Of Murder Choroe

By the Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Dec. "a
Laramie County District Court Jury
yesterday acquitted George Moreby,
IS. Western Nebraska farmer. of a
f1rst-degree murder charge in the
fatal shooting Of Norman Ford. 81,
Pine Bluffs pool hall operator, Sep
tember !.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Chinese Recapture
Changteh, Key City
In Rice Bowl Area
BY the Associated Press.


CHUNGKING. Dec. s.-The
Chinese high command an
nounced today that Chinese
forces had recaptured the stra-
logically important city of
Changteh, in Human Province,
which fell to the japanese De-
cember after many days of
bloody fighting.
The victorious Chinese stroke pro-
vided another decisive turn in the
fortunes of war in the bitter battles
In which China's vast and important
rice bowl" area is major prize
Loss OF Changteh had opened the
prospect of an enemy drive on
ChangSha, capital of the province.
The recapture of Changteh was
particularly satisfying to the Chinese
In that, by official calculation. only
a few more than 300 men OF the
57th Division survived when the
city was abandoned to the Jap
anese after 15-day siege.
Controlled Rice Bowl Area.
BY holding Changteh the Japanese
controlled the rice bowl" region
and stood astride the Human
S2echwan supply line. one of the
Chinese Army's principal sources of
supply.
A special Chinese communique
this morning announcing the re-
capture of the city said:
News has just been received that
Chinese troops in Northern Human
reoccupied Changteh at 4 o'clock
this morning They creased the
Yuan River last evening and broke
into the city through its east and
west gates early this morning."
L. S. Planes Take Role.
American aircraft, which played a
strong part in the defense of the
city. were said to have had a hand
IN its recapture. During the long
siege while the 57th Division was
fighting to the last ditch, the Amer
leans on several occasions dropped
food and ammunition and dispersed
enemy planes trying to blast the
Chinese from the smoking and
bomb-pocked town.
1t. Gen. Joseph w. Stillwell's
headquarters announced today that
Mitchells with a fighter escort on
Tuesday bombed Japanese held in
stallations in Changteh.
In other activities American
fighter planes operating on the
Salween front attacked railway
equipment between Mogaung and
Myitkyina, in Northern Burma, with
out loss.
Town to South Retaken.
Only a few hours before the spe-
cial communique announcing the
Changteh success the Chinese high |
command had reported recapture of
the town of Tehshan, few miles
to the south on the railway linking
Chanteh and Changsha.
A communique said Tehshan was
taken by japanese Monday. An i'm
mediate counterattack by reinforced
Chinese forces regained the town.
Chinese troops swept back the
enemy on still other fronts, break
ing into the important Japanese
base of Sinyang in Southern Honan
Province and entering the suburbs
of Suihsien in Hupeh Province. Yes
terday's communique said jap
anese attack near Kingshan, go
miles south of Suihsien, had been
beaten back
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Christmas Club Mails
Checks for Sl5l.QQQ

Checks amounting to sl5l 900 have
been mailed to Alexandria Christ
mas Club members by the Alexan-
dria National Bank.
Luther H. Dudley. vice president
and cashier Of the bank. said 2.20C
depositors received checks, much
larger number than in previous
wears
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senate.
May take up pay boost for nom
operating railroad workers.
Finance Committee continues
work on new tax bill in executive
session.
House.
Routine session.
Military Affairs Committee drafts
mustering-out pay bill for service
men.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Nozi Cigarette Rotion
Cut to Three q Duy

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. Dec. 9.-The Berlin
radio said today that German
cigarette production is as great as
ever, but the cigarette ration for ci-
villains has had to be cut to three a
dav.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Bulgarian Parliament
Holds Secret Session

NEW YORK. Dec. 9 P).-The
Bulgarian Parliament met in secret
session last night to discuss i'm
portant problems in the field of
domestic and foreign policy which
have recently emerged" a Hun
garian news broadcast said today.
The broadcast, recorded by United
States Government monitors, added
that nothing is yet known about
the discussions and it is learned
that nothing will be published
Evening star., 1943-12-09

An Istanbul dispatch to the Stock
holm newspaper Allehanda yester-
day said there was great nervous
ness in Sofia as result OF the
Allied war councils in Cairo and
Teheran and that many persons
there expected Bulgaria to break
with Germany.
The dispatch added that Bulgarian
Ministers to Berlin, Moscow and
Turkey are all home for conferences
and that Russian military mission
is visiting the Bulgarian capital.
Evening star., 1943-12-09

Corpuscles, as well as corporals.
can fight. Enlist yours at the Blood
Donor Center, District 5000. Enlist
ments accepted at your convenience.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Charles Town Entries
Clear and Fast.

FIRST RACE-Purse $500 claiming;
s-yesr-olds: Charles Town course
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-15
LET THE FOREMEN ORGANIZE

IN A NUMBER of large American war plants
foremen have begun to grasp the advantages
that union organization gives employees and to
Organize unions of their choosing. Some big
employers have got quite excited about their
supervisory personnel becoming union-minded and
have even modified their friends in Congress to
deprive this group of employees of their collective
bargaining rights
The experience of other countries shows that
foremens organizations, even if affiliated with the
workers unions do not hurt management-labor
relations. In pre-llitler Germany foremen were
organized in q powerful union, affiliated directly
with the federation of White-collar workers and
indirectly with the German Federation of Labor.
In Great Britain the National Foremen's Associa-
ton of the Engineering and Allied Trades, which
lat present counts 10000 MEMBERS is directly
AFFILIATED with the Trades Union Congress. AS the
London Economist reports, in many plants the
toremen's Association has succeeded in getting
representation in labor-management committees,
lat the side of The representatives Of workers and
management. This Ii-partite system of represen-
tation seems to be working very we'll
1t is to be hoped that in the hearings it has
called to discuss the foremen problem the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board will take cognzance
of its satisfactory solution in other democratic
countries.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-15
STATE LABOR OFFICIALS
SUPPORT lS-HOIR WEEK

Washington, -. Resolutions re
the lS-hour week as condu-
Give to maximum output in war in
duStricS, with exceptions only in
created by the urgency of
the war effort and calling for main
lciance of pcacctimc standards of
hours and working conditions in civil
IAN industries were adopted at the con
ference on women in industry called
by Secretary Of Labor Perkins and
attended by State Labor Department
officials from 10 states and the District
of Columbia and by representatives of
the War and Navy Departments, War
ManpoWcr Commission, and other Fed
eral agencies.
The resolutions committee consisting
of John w. Gibson, Michigan labor
commissioner, and William l.. Con
molly, director of the Rhode Island
labor department, stressed the value
of upholding such standards aS the
S-hour day, 4S-hour week, one day Of
resi- in seven, the same wage rates for
women rs men, and proper safeguards
for health and safety
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-15
LIBERTIES UNION ASKS
DRIVE TO KILL WAVE OF
STATE ANTi-LABOR BILLS

New York City ULNS). After the
enactment in Kansas recently of Il
sweeping bill limiting the freedom of
labor to organize, strike and picket,
the American Civil Liberties Union
called upon its members in other states
to oppose similar bills pending in their
legislatures.
The union reported Il "virtual cpl
dcmic of measures designed to curtall
the legitimate activities of trade
The restrictions imposed in these
bills, the ACLU said, range from the
compulsory registration of unions and
the regulation of their internal affairs,
TO the extreme of direct prohibition of
picketing and striking. Severe penal
ties including Jail sentences and eX-
ccSsivc fines are provided in many of
them.
The states where such measures
have been introduced are: Arkansas,
California, co lora do, Connecticut,
ldoaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota,
Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Nebraska,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas.
Utah and Washington.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-15
THANKFULNESS

IN A WORLD at war and the menace of autoc-
racy threatening our liberties, we have cause
for thankfulness that our vision is clear to the
duties that are ours America has been patient
and conSiderate, but not supine. Aroused at last to
put forth her strength, the unity of purpose sc
established will not disintegrate when its initial
work is accomplished. Cohesion and unity will sur
vive to give more vgor to the fiber of our national
commercial and social life. The habit of personal
sacrifice for the common good, for each other
and for the sake of an idea will live for the bene-
fit of posterity and the nation.
Inventive genius has always found its best nur-
ture in America. And as potent means Of destruc-
ton now doing deadly work many fronts were
the product of American inventiveness, so bene-
fcent contributions in devsing means to save
life, conserve food harvest crops relieve pain
and suffering, disseminate information link ma
tons together in rapid communication, are Ameri-
can. AS the arts of peace have been turned to the
uses Of war, so the intensive arts of war must
later revert to the advantage of the arts of peace
with larger purpose and larger hope.
Unity of action is a primal importance in
all our affairs and this unity exist only among
a well-informed people. No nation is so well
equipped as America with the means of keeping
informed There is no village so small that it's
inhabitants cannot readily be acquainted with
what is going on in the nation and in the world
thanks to the newspaper, which is the life of our
liberties.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-15
News From Ohio Federation Of Labor
NNAH TELLS LEGISLATORS FRENCH BILL INSULT TO LABOR


House to
unions was sponsored by ouofthestate organizations stir dis
Practically every union and central body affiliated with the Ohio State
Federation of Labor attendance hearing.
Phil Hannah speaking for the Ohio
to
that members criminals.
ehorcontribung
bonds
the light
the of
Of
Following annahs of
organizations spoke protesting the antiI4ato nalsur
conclusion
o the
public would held
the
but they would have been granted
to l
Hamilton
Representative f. Simpson, Hardin
tuyallo@,.
Following the defeat of the proposal Jackson
Belts (I Hancock hearing the
held a raid
Belts
opposition to the bill this hearing.
The French bill is
ing bills ever to be introduced Ohio Assembly
AS the contents the bill become
members and resentment
slider such measure to degree that a
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-15
A NEW RESPONSIBILITY

All America will participate in the
nationwide drive of the American Red
Cross which began on March l. But
while the country AT large will join
the drive for one month, organized la
Dor will conduct its own Red Cross
campaign in April also.
This year the Red Cross has given
the tradc-uniOn movement the reSpon-
sibility for organizing the solicitation
and collection of funds in union shops
Organized labor welcomes that reSpon-
Sibilily.
Old complaints and present SuSpi-
CiOnS must be forgotten. 1t is up to
labor to convince the Red Cross by its
record contributions that union recog-
milton pays dividends on every front
Every contribution by worker will
be credited to his union; every contri-
button increases the prestige and the
influence of the trade-union movement
in the community and in the nation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-15
BRASS HATS IN THE SADDLE

YOU MAY believe that by having civilians at the
head Of our government there is little danger
of militarism; small chance for military brass
hats to run away with the government and you
along with it.
1t is a good idea, however, for you to keep your
Ieye on the ball and keep in touch with your Con
IgreSsman, because unless you are on a 24-houl
shift you will miss some of the moves which will
Iallect your future welfare.
The brass hats want 100000 men under
arms. Civilian officials of the War Production
Board have been resisting this idea because such
ia plan will deplete not only the industries produc-
ing arms and munitions but would leave made
quate production for civilians. Besides which, they
say, how can many men be transported to COM
bat areas?
The American Federation of Labor contends
that "the way to victory" is through a balance
between production and fighting forces. TO strip
industry to build a superarmy will harm the war
effort.
The war chiefs, who refuse to revise their
stand, have been cunning for the members Of the
WPB planning board and have practically forced
civilian members off the board. Organized labor
which up TO now has had little voice in war plans
may be able to save the country and our democ-
racy along with it. Organized labor is the voice
of the people, and at time like this the people
must assert themselves.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-15
UNIONS PUSH VICTORY GARDEN

st. Paul, Minn. ILNS). - Labor
Volunteers for Victory, organized la
bor's part of the civilian defense pro
gram here, is cooperating in the pro
motion of Victory Gardens. Edward e..
lIsboldt, chairman of the Civilian De
fcnSe Committee of the Trades and
Labor Assembly, has urged union
members to attend a series of promo
tional meetings on Victory Gardens to
be held in most of the city's high
schools between now and harvest time
OCD representatives will be on hand
to discuss the laying out of gardens
this spring and there will be technl-
clans from garden clubs and the office
of the county agent to assist in plan
ming for small home gardens.