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Evening star., 1943-12-19
Streetcor Kills Woman, 30;
Fourth Victim in Week

An 80-year-old woman on her way
to church was struck and fatally in
jured by a streetcar yesterday
while crossing F. and Seventh streets
S.W.
She was Miss Maggie r. Goldman
of 500h Seventh street S.W. and
was the fourth pedestrian ia
tally injured by streetcar in
the District during the past week
and the 25th for the entire year.
Police said last night she was not
in the crosswalk as she tried to
make her way across Seventh street
from east to west.
According to police, Ralph r.
Lacey, 81, Is East Reed road, Alex
andria, Va, was operator of the
streetcar which was going north on
Seventh street at the time Of the
accident.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Congress Calls Truce
On Bills 10 Recess
tuesday 10 Jan. 10
Bottles on Subsidies
And Toxes Slated to Be
Resumed After HoIidoys
BY ]. A. OLEARY.

Congress cleared the way yes
terday for a three-week Christ
mas recess, starting Tuesday. by
completing action on a 5000 ,00O,-
600 supplemental war appropria-
ton bill and postponing the
battles over taxes and food sub
sides until early next year.
When the gavels fall in the House
and Senate Tuesday it will end the
first session of the 18th Congress.
Under a separate resolution passed
and sent to the President yesterday
Monday. January 10, was fixed as
the date for opening of the second
session.
A truce in the fight over the sub
sidy program came when both
branches hurriedly passed and sent
to the White House bill yesterday
extending the life of the Commodity
Credit Corp. from December 81 to
February IT. with the understanding
that the present billion-d -dollar-a-
year subsidy program will not be
broadened during that time.
The February II extension date
was a compromise worked out in
conference yesterday between the
Senate proposal of February 20 and
the House expiration date of Feb
ruary 5. The agreement gives Con-
gress about five weeks after its
return in which to settle the subsidy
issue.
Subsidy advocates considered the
delay a break in their favor. They
hope to demonstrate, during the
interim, that majority of the
public favors the Government pay
ments to hold down prices.
Opponents, however, declared
they would not relax their efforts
to block further use of Government
funds for such purpose.
The appropriation bill, carrying
Evening star., 1943-12-19
(See RUSSIA, A-2OO
Santa Fe Wreck Kills 2,
Blocks Eust-West Lines

BY the Associated Press.
GALLUP, N. Mex, Dec. 18.-Two
railroad men were killed and five
other persons were injured, one
seriously, today in a train wreck in
the Gallup yards of the Santa Fe
Railway.
All but one of the four transcon-
tinental railway lines through GAL
lup were blocked. Agent Joe Lie
herman said it probably would be
late Sunday before all the lines
were in service.
The wreck, in which passenger
train plunged into a switch engine
on a cross-over switch, occurred
amid heavy fog.
The dead were identified as Ar
thur j. Turner, A, engineer on the
switch engine, and E. A. Brock, Is.
fireman on the switch engine.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Father Draft Takes
.50,465 in 7 Months;
7 in ; Get Job STAYS
100000 of 1,4lS,000
Granted Deferment on
OccupotionoI Grounds
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG,

Approximately two of every
three preWar fathers were grant
ed occupational deferment in
the first two months of the
father draft, and in that period
50,465 such registrants were in
Quoted, Selective Service head
quarters announced last night in
a national report for October and
November.
OF the 1.418,333 prewar fathers
reclassified out of ga in the two
month period, it was reported that
900 ,584 were given occupational de-
ferment.
Selective Service said the figures
clearly demonstrate that draft
boards are literally deferring faith
ers on occupational grounds even
after their dependency status is
eliminated.
Here's what has happened to the
others whose cases have been re-
viewed by the draft boards:
There were 17,1sl placed in Glass
SD because induction would have
caused extreme hardship to de-
pendents.
A total of 17l,915 were rejected as
mentally, physically or morally
unfit, but, of this group, 12O,979 were
in that classification on October
indicating that draft boards includ-
ed the "nondeferrable" fathers, re-
classified earlier, in this part OF
their report.
Agricultural deferments were
granted to 1854, bringing to 692 ,252
the number of farm fathers de-
ferred
On December /, 427,O88 fathers
were in IA, awaiting call.
McNutt Sees Roosevelt.
In another draft development, War
Manpower Chief McNutt, whose con-
troll over Selective Service was re-
moved by Congress, spent an hour
and-a-half with President Roosevelt
yesterday, and emerged from the
White House smiling. He refused to
comment on the discussion, though
the President already has said he
planned to try to correct through
an executive order what Congress
had done in severing Selective Serv
ice from VINO. Authoritative sources
= lCao nP a mn, Dee A Il \ =
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Destroyer O'Bunnon's Record
Shows Cruiser|ike Wu|Iop

Is still af1oat and full of fight.
Comdr. Donald j. Macdonald, her
skipper, said of his crew, II can't
pay too high a tribute to these
American boys. They can fight and
the record proves it," Here's the
record:
Sank a cruiser.
Took active part in five surface
engagements.
Bombarded japanese installat tions
seven times.
Engaged in three rescue opera
tions, including the noted one in
which American destroyers stole
into Jap-held Vella Lavella and
took off survivors of the Helena.
Helped to sink battleship, three
cruisers and six destroyers.
Participated in fighting OF nu-
(see O'BANNON, Page A.-S.)
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Three Months Severance Pay
Is Proposed by Civil Service
Commission Sees
Grave Problem in
Postwar Releases

Legislation which would grant
severance pay equal to three
months salary, or unemploy-
ment compensation on the same
basis as that given to workers in
private industry, up to a maxi
mum Of 26 weeks, was advocated
yesterday by the Civil Service
Commission in its annual report
filed with Congress.
The commission conceded that the
task Of reducing the force of Fed
eral workers after the war "is one of
the most difficult personnel prob
lens the Government has ever
faced 1t pointed out that besides
being given some form of job in
surance, demobilized Government
employees should be aided in finding
positions in private industry through
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Traitor and 3 Nqzis Sentenced
To Die in Russia for Atrocities
Crowded Courtroom Cheers Verdict Given in
Present Conflicts First War Criminal TrioI

The opening OF the court-martial
was announced last Thursday in a
Moscow radio broadcast which said
all the accused already had pleaded
guilty. The trial followed only a
few weeks after the Moscow pledge
by Russia, Britain and the United
States on November l that war
criminals would be returned to the
scene of their crimes and tried under
local law.
One of the defendants was quoted
by the Moscow radio as testifying:
I'VE were told that the Soviet
people were an inferior race who
must be exterminated by the su-
perior German race and we were
taught methods of determination.
1t was impressed upon us that this
was the policy ordered by the Ger
man government.
Those convicted were Capt. Will
liam Langheld, 50, of the Gestapo;
(Coo TDTAIC oo y
Evening star., 1943-12-19

Miss Goldman, a native Washing
tonian, was the oldest member of
the Grace Episcopal Church, Ninth
and D streets SW., and was as
sociated with group at the church
known as the Daughters of the
King. According to the Rev. Meade
Bolton MacBryde, pastor, Miss God
man was on her way to church to
tend the altar when the accident
occurred.
A District public school teacher
at one time. she had been on relief
for the past five or six years, the
pastor declared. He said the only
relatives he knew of were some
cousins believed to be living in
Takoma Park, Md, but that he had
been unable to locate them.
1t. William j. Liverman of the
(See ACCIDENT, A-IS)
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Asks Knox
To Tell of. Censorship
On WiI|kie Buttons
Demands to Know Why
Soldier Couldn't ExpIoin
Desire to Get Emblem
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Secretary of the Navy Knox
was called on yesterday by Har-
rison E. Spangler, Republican
national chairman, to explain
why a Navy censor had appar-
emily. deleted a statement re-
garding political matters from a
letter written by a Marine pri-
vate to his mother in this coun-
try.
In his letter to Mr.. Knox, Mr..
Spangier said he had been sur
prised to read in the newspapers
that Pvt. Edward Meyerson had at
tempted to explain to his mother
in Montclair, N. j., why he had asked
for 500 Willkie campaign buttons
and that his explanation had been
cut out by the censor.
His censor did not feel that was
proper and deleted what seemingly
was a. favorably reference to a Re
publican leader (Wendell L. Will
kie)," said Mr.. Spangler.
"As you are aware, the Owl has
distributed throughout the world
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Churchill Believed
Safely Past Crisis
Hope Is Expressed for
Return in Few Weeks
By the Associated Press.

q! tHe Associated PreSS.
LONDON, Dec. 18.-Prime Min
lister Churchill was believed safely
past the crisis of his illness tonight
as bulletin issued from 10 Down.
ing street announced that his tenn
perature is subsiding and the pneu-
monia is resolving"
In medical parlance resolving"
means breaking up, disappearance
or termination.
There still was some uneasiness
here over the fact that the bulletin
cited some irregularity of pulse"
This was because it has been noted
that Mr.. Churchill is being attended
by a heart specialist in his present
illness somewhere in the Middle
East although he required only his
regular physicians during his previ-
GUS attack of pneumonia in London
last February.
However, it now was hoped that,
barring a relapse. he would be con-
Valescent by Christmas and able to
return from the Middle East within
a few weeks.
Never good patient" unless his
wife Is nearby, Mr. Churchill was
understood to have been greatly
cheered by Mrs. Churchill's arrival
at his bedside last night after
flight across the war zone. The war
cabinet is expected to decide in the
next few days whether it is neces-
sary to make special arrangements
to handle his duties during his alb
sence. But reports that a special
interim Prime Minister" might be
appointed we're not given wide cre-
dence here.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
President Prohibits
Advance Release Of
Vital War News
Army, Navy and owl
Directed to Protect
Security information
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt, taking
stern measures to prevent leaks
of important war information,
yesterday directed the War and
Navy Secretaries and the di-
rector of the Office of War In
formation to refuse to issue in
advance, for release to the pub
lie at future hour, any news
having a security value.
The American people" he said
in memorandum, want promptly
all the news which can be told
safely, and they are entitled to
have it without the interposition of
artificial barriers"
The text Of his memora ndum fol-
lows:
You are fully aware, I know, OF
the regrettable confusions which
have arisen recently over the issu-
ance of Official news relating to
the war, particularly in connection
with the conferences at Cairo and
Teheran.
I'VE may all be proud that Ameri-
can newspapers, news agencies and
broadcasters kept the faith and
observed the release dates which
had been fixed by international
agreement. 1t is most disappointing
that such loyalty should have been
penalized by failures elsewhere.
L see no point in prolonging con-
troversy over what is passed; the
important thing is that we take de-
clsiVe action to prevent a recur-
renee. To that end, your depart
ment and all other branches of the
Government will be guided by the
following:
First, no information having a
security value in connection with
the war will be issued in advance
for release to the public at some
future hour.
Secondly, all such information
Will be given out instead at the
earliest moment consistent with ma
tional security, for immediate pub
lication and broadcast.
The American people want
promptly all the news which can
be told safely, and they are entitled
to have it without the interposition
of artificial barriers"
Evening star., 1943-12-19
i. ). Forces in |taIy
Peril Nazi Gateway
To Casino Plain
Reinforcements Thrown
In by Enemy in Effort
To Halt Offensive
BY the Associated Press.

|
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Dec. 18.-American infan-
try, the jaws of a 5th Army
pincerS movement, closed in to-
night on a segment of the Cas-
sino-Rome road in the area Of
the bitterly contested village of
San Pietro, 7 miles southeast of
Casino, which now is virtually
surrounded.
On the inland side of the Sassino-
Rome road the battle for San Pietro
roared through its second day of
hand-to-hand conflict.
On the south side Of the road,
American troops comprising the
one jaw of the pincers ripped at
the Nazi defense bastions on 1000
foot Mount Lungo.
So determined were the Germans
to hold this important gateway to
the Casino Plain that they threw
their 5th Mountain Division into
the struggle for the hill positions.
An Allied military commentator
said this division had come from
Russia recently.
Farther inland from the San
Pietro battle area other 5th Army
units were disclosed to have taken
Lagone, a 2,000-foot mountain vii
lage west of Filignano, after hard
street fighting.
The British 9Th Army on the
Adriatic end of the Germans win
ter line ran into equally heavy
fighting yesterday, Allied head
quarters announced. The Germans
threw in strong counterattack at
one point, both sides using tanks.
Thirteen German tanAs were
wrecked and two were captured.
The Americans have San Pietro
neatly hemmed in, holding heights
to the north, east, southwest and
south of the village, and the Ger
mans have only one road for their
escape, the Allied commentator said.
However, the Germans showed no
Evening star., 1943-12-19
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sunday, Dec. ia
Soviet military tribunal sitting at
Kharkov convicted four men
one a Russian traitor-in the
first war criminal trial of the
present war today, and sentenced
them to death by hanging on
charges that they participated in
the mass Staying of Russian
prisoners and civilians.
The Moscow radio, which told of
the sentencing in a broadcast re-
corded by the Soviet monitor, said
a crowded courtroom cheered when
the announcement was made.
The men, who included a Gestapo
a storm troop commander
and police corporal, as well as a
Russian chauffeur for the Gestapo,
earlier were quoted as blaming Adolf
Hitler and Interior Minister Helm
rich Himmler for attempts to wipe
out the inferior Russian race"
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Briton to Lead
Early Invasion,
London Hears
Earlier Story on PAGE A-l8.)

Ey the Associated Press
LONDON, Sunday, Dec. 49,
London newspapers, playing ur
Washington reports that Gen
George c. Marshall would remain in
his post as U. S. Army Chief of
Staff, told their readers today that
a British general would lead in the
invasion from the west upon Europe
The newspapers gave prominence
to a report that Gen. Sir Henry
Maitland Wilson or Gen. Sir Harold
Alexander was top choice to head
invasion forces, with Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower named as runner
up"
The Pictorial said President
Roosevelt was reported as angry
at outsiders trying to appoint
Marshall in mis- absence"
The Sunday papers carried stories
of an invasion army streaming
across the Atlantic from the United
States.
The Sunday Chronicle declared
"it was revealed for the first time
that so huge Allied troop ships are
ferrying millions of trained men
stop from America to Britain
for a vast invasion of Europe"
Great Britain is about to
become a mighty springboard for a
United Nations leap on Hitler's
fortress"
Headlines in The Graphic and
The People said millions" of SOL
diers were massing for an invasion.
The People added that ~. S. troops
are 'strap-hanging' across the At
lantic on q nonstop run by great
fleets Of transports"
Evening star., 1943-12-19
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.

The O,Bannon is destroyer,
but in her IA months in the South
Pacific she has shown that she
packs within her thin steel hull
the wallop of a cruiser.
The warship has done such a big
job in cutting down the Jap forces
that she has been dubbed the
Little Helena"
The Navy, disclosing yesterday
that the OBannon has arrived at
a West Coast port, said the nick
name is in compliment both to her
and to the cruiser Helena, fight
INCEST ship in the Navy" which was
sunk in the Battle of Kula Gulf
last July.
Luck has provided the cruisers
protective armor, for the O'Bannon
has been fred on and fired Ut, but
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Tommy Harmon Tells
Parents He's Better
y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANN ARBOR, Mich, Dec. 10
1t. Tommy Harmon of the Army Air
Forces, rescued by Chinese guerrillas
after his fighter plane was shot down
in combat two months ago. is re-
covering at base hospital some
where in China, his first letter to
his parents disclosed today.
My burns are darn near all
healed" wrote the former Univer-
sity of Michigan All-American foot
baller, who twice in a year has
cheated death in plane crashes. He
added that my old pep and zip
aren't with me vet"
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Fourth Term Endorsed
By Alaska Democrats
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the AsSoclated Press.
JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 18.-First
division Democrats of Southeatern
Alaska, in convention here, today
indorsed fourth term for President
Roosevelt and will instruct their
territorial convention delegates to
favor a fourth term.
The 20 delegates also indorsed the
Dimond Statehood bill which would
allow Alaska to elect a Governor.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Government Payroll
Carries 250,145 as
DoHor-o-Yeor Men

There were 250,145 $l-a-year
men working for the Federal
Government as of last July.
The Civil Service Commission
disclosed the figure in its an
nual report yesterday. 1t listed
Government employment last
July at 3,l56,953-exclusive of
the $l-a-year men-as COM
pared with 920,310 in 1899. Ap-
pointments in the last fiscal
year totaled 2,697,l24.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
RaiImen Meet
President TODAY
On Strike Threat
Roosevelt Seeks
Settlement of
Wage Dispute
By J. A. FOX.

Acting to avert the railroad
strike scheduled to start at 6 a m.
December 80, President Roose-
welt today will meet representa-
tlVes OF the carriers and the
train, engine and yard brother
hoods, to seek some basis for
settling the wage controversy
which threatens a Nation wide
transportation paralysis.
The President intervened unex-
pectedly yesterday in the situation
which came to a head while he was
abroad for the Allied war confer
ences. He sent kilograms to the
railmen asking them to meet him
at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. First
news of this move came from
Cleveland, when A. F. Whitney.
president of the Brotherhood OF
Railroad Trainmen announced re-
ceipt of the invitation. He said
that he, with David B. Robertson,
president of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Firemen and Engineers,
and Alvanley Johnston of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers certainly would accept, and
that he expected H F. Fraser of the
Order of Railway Conductors and
T. c. Cashen, Switchmen's Union
president, also would be here.
In railroad circles, it was said the
carrier representatives would come
from the Wage Conference Com
mlttees set up for the three major
geographical divisions, East, West
and Southeast.
Empowered to Act.
The latter committees are en-
powered to make agreements with
the unions, and their presence at
the White House meeting would
make possible prompt settlement
on any terms agreed to there.
The White House only briefly
confirmed that the meeting had
been called. statement in mid
afternoon saying the President had
asked representatives of the car
riers and five operating brother
hoods to meet him at 2:3O pm.
today.
The threatened strike is in pro-
test against a Accent hourly wage
award recommended for the $50 900
members of the operating brother
hoods by an emergency board. func-
tioning under the Railway Labor
Act, which strongly indicated be-
lief that the men were entitled to
more, but said that it felt bound
by the principles laid down by
Sterilization Director Fred M. Vim
son in denying an Scent hourly
raise to the Is incorporating BROTH
erhoods, on the ground that it
would violate the Little Steel"
! formula.
The operating brotherhoods asked
80 per cent, or So day, and the
award consequently amounted only
to about tenth of their demand.
Policy Is Cause of Threat.
The fact that the administrations
Wage-stabilization policy is the cause
OF the trouble. rather than a dis
agreement between management and
labor, caused speculation as to Just
what basis for settlement might be
reached. Under the Little Steel"
formula, on which Mr.. Vinson in
sisted In the incorporating case, the
wage board pointed out that 4 cents
was the limit the train, engine and
yard men could receive, as a raise
they were granted two years ago alb
sorbed all but fraction of the Is
per cent permitted by the formula
Evening star., 1943-12-19

a program conducted by the United
States Employment Service.
At the same time, it was suggested
that credits to Civil Service retire
ment and disability funds be trans
ferred to appropriate Social Secu-
rity funds where, at death or at the
(See CIVIL SERVICE A-1sJ
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Archbishop Dies

LONDON, Dec. 1S P.-The Most
Rev. Anselm E. j. Kenealy, 70,
titular archbishop of Ratiaria on
the Danube since 1886, died today
at the Franciscan friary. Crawley,
Sussex.