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Evening star., 1943-10-15
Behind the Foreign News
Return of 1ImperioIist' Sforzo
To Italy Feared by YugosIovs
Move Seen Aiding
Military May Cause
Diplomatic Dilemma
By BLAIR BOLLES.

Before Carlo Sforza, former Ital-
ian foreign minister, was granted
permission by the United States and
British governments to proceed to
Italy, he was urged by those lowers
to abandon the imperialist views
which he acted on when he was in
Office and which he retained dur
ing his long exile.
Count Sforza declined to renounce
his old opinions. He is expected to
reach Italy soon. The possibility
that he will obtain a post in the
present or some future Italian gov
erEment, coupled with Italy's dec
laratlon of war against Germany,
feeds the currently reported con-
Germ OF 1taly'S neighbors that eX-
panSlonism will have a place in
Italian policy after the war as it
cid before.
The decision to let Sforza go to
Italy and to accept Italy's Badoglio
government as co-belligerent
against Germany are two moves
which reflect sharply the military
diplomatic dilemmas which arise
during war. Both steps are calcu-
lated to be helpful in the progress
OF the war. Yet both steps promise
future difficulties.
Why Visa Was Granted.
Sforza was given passage to Italy
because he stands for an anti
Fascist mild liberalism which
Washington and London thought
would leaven whatever Fascist ten
dencles might remain in the Ba-
do9llo government and would in
dlcate to the outside world that
know antl-FaScistS were being given
an opportunity to seek a voice in
Italian domestic affairs.
But Sforza engineered the Treaty
OF Rapallo of November IL, 1920.
by which Italy obtained from Yugo-
slaVla territory at the head of the
Adriatic up to the watershed of the
Julian Alps and almost the whole
OF Istria. Yugoslavs have main
tanned since 1920 that Italians are
IN minority in this area. The
Italian boundary fixed by that
treaty was put further east than
the so-called Wilson Line, agreed
upon at Versailles.
In speech in New York Septem-
Der 26, Count Sforza advocated the
return to Italy of Trieste, which
is the richest part of Istria, and
three Italian colonles-Libya Fri
trea and Somaliland.
Secret Treaties.
To WreSt those three Italian COL
onies from Italy was one of the
mcst difficult tasks Of the early
phase of the war for the Allies. !
The Germans gained their admis-
sion to North Africa through their
alliance with Italy and the con-
Sequent opportunity to use Llbya
as base of operations.
Great Britain encountered some
during the Versailles con-
terence because of secret British
territorial commitments made to
Italy in return for Italy's entrance
into the war against Germany in
1915. The memory of those difficult
ties and the indignation the secret
treaty aroused in the United States
IS enough to prevent any new secret
commitments to Italy for Italys en-
trance into the war against Ger
many in l943.
Dispatches from abroad. never
theleSs, report Yugoslav and others
fear Italy will receive a reward for
Premier Badoglio's' decision The
concern is based on Italy's historic
expansionism, which antedates Mus
solini, and present failure to reject
imperial aspirations. /
Evening star., 1943-10-15

evening. British and American guns
had been barking spasmodically at
the Germans and occasionally an
enemy shell would come Whistling
back. Then, as the full moon was
rising in the east, the sky over to
the west began to flash and flicker
and there came a continuous thun-
dering rumble as the British bat
teries broke into full Cry along their
section of the front This uproar
continued for an hour. Then. about
9 O'Clock it died down as the infan-
try went into attack
At midnight We made our way up
the narrow boulder-stre noun
tain pass to a ridge overlooking the
Volturno and then scrambled down
to a spot overlooking the river val
ley on beyond and the great noun
tain barrier hemming it in on the
north. Sticking out of the valley,
two or three miles from the river,
were the two conelike hills our in
fantry had as their first objectives.
Our artillery was already clearing
its throat and had started to fire
into Caizzo over to the northeast.
There were couple of minor bon
fires in the valley
The infantry battalion with which
we had made the climb passed in
single file to take up positions along
the edge of the river before am.
the zero hour.
Soon after l o'clock, our guns
really went to work. There would
be a series of crashing reports to
our rear, followed Immediately by
the cracking sound of shells out
ward bound overhead. A few Sec
onds later, we could see the results.
Great flower pots of flames flashed
over the forward slopes of the conf
cal hill to the right, then smothered
the one to the left. Long toms and
l55 howitzers slapped at gun posi-
tions on the mountains in the far
distance, then laid down successive
salvos on the plain just across the
river, Batteries of loss ripped up
hedgerows where the Germans were
known to be and took a couple of
fortified farmhouses to pieces.
AS 2 o'clock approached, every
thing in sight seemed to be under
fire and we agreed-incorrectly-
that no human being could exist in
that shellchewed panorama. Fires
burned here and there and smoke
clouded the moonlit scene.
At l:59 exactly, there was a sud-
den deadly silence Came a single
short burst Of machine gun fire and
Evening star., 1943-10-15
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct. i5--
Pennsylvania clamped down on q
l2-year-old. depression-bo eco
nomic tester today with fat edict
that all bootleg mining of hard coal
must stop by November 80
The order came from the Anthra-
cite Committee set up by the State
Legislature to control production
and gradually eliminate the practice
of thousands of unemployed miners
moving in on coal lands they did not
own or lease
"Trespassing on lands and steal
ing of coal will be outlawed in the
anthracite region after November
80 l943,' said a committee state
ment. lin the same manner that
stealing is outlawed in any COM
munity The active assistance of
every law enforcement agency, both
State and local. will be enlisted"
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Union Legally Bound
By Contract barrinq
Strikes, WLB Rules
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The War Labor Board ruled today
that an existing no-strike contract
is a legal obligation unions must
observe and that it takes precedence
over the right to strike gained in
an election under the Smith-Con-
nally Act.
The ruling went to employees of
the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing
Co; plants in Springfield, III.
Employees at the plants voted to
strike in an election which had
been requested by District so, United
Mine Workers of America.
Dr. George W. Taylor, WLB vice
chairman, telegraphed District so
UNIV, and Local 12O, Farm Eouip-
ment Workers, CIO, that "contrac ct
provisions prohibiting strikes and
locSouts create binding legal obli
cations which must be honored bv
lhe parties company and union) -
Answers Query.
The telegram was in reply to a
question from Lee H. Hill. company
vice president. who asked whether
DE- Taylor's opinion in the Allis-
Chalmers case earlier this week i'm
pied that employees had Legal
right to strike under provisions of
the Smith-Connally Act when a
contract in effect prohibited strikes.
In his opinion, issued last week
on decision in which the board
declared it had no authority to
grant District SO collective bargain
ing election after the National La
Dor Relations Board twice had re-
Jected the unions proposal for such
an election. DR.. TAYLOR said:
We think it is advisable to state
our view with regard 10 propriety
OF strike action following refer
endum vote under Section of the
War Labor Disputes Act. There is
no doubt that after taking of sucn
vote, whatever its outcome. and
unless and until the plant is taken
over by the President under Section
3 of the act strike may lawfully
be called, out the moral obligation
not to strike in wartime remains
Clause in Contract.
Mr.. Hill said he assumed that
where contract exists containing
a prohibition against strikes during
the lifetime of the contract. the
WLB held that in addition to their
moral obligation not to strike. the
employees are bound by the contract
and may not strike without violat-
ing the contract and subjecting
themselves 20 such penalties as ex-
list at law or in the contract or both
for the breach
WLB replied that this assumption
was correct
The Farm Equipment Workers
have the contract at the Springfield
plants. covering all production and
workers. Mr.. Hill said
1t contained provision that during
the life of the contract the union
would not cause strike nor take
part in one. He added that the con-
tractual obligation bound all en-
ployes
Some time after the Farm Equip
ment Workers had held an election
IN which they obtained bargaining
agency rights at the plant. District
so asked authority from NLRB to
hold an election. The petition was
rejected. Later District so filed no.
tlce OF. intent to strike under the
provisions of the Smith-Connally
Art and called an election at the
plants
The referendum vote favored the
strike, but no strike has been called.
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Mexico ReIinquishes
Tax, Labor Claims
On u. ). Oil Firms
BY EDWARD P. MORGAN.

Correspondent of The Star and chicaxs
Daily News.
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-The Mex
ican government has relinquished
all tax and labor claims against
American petroleum companies
stemming from Mexico's expropria-
ton Of foreign oil lands in 1898.
thereby finally settling and in full
the "oil question" with the United
States.
This action, revealed today by an
unlmpeachable source, means that
the American companies will now be
paid in full, plus interest, the ap-
proximately $24000,000 indemnify
set by an evaluation commission of
the two governments on April II,
1912. Moreover by cleaning the
slate completely on the once bitter
controversy it may encourage
American petroleum interests In the
not too distant future to approach
Mexico on the possibility Of return
ing part of the nations oil industry
to private operation in some mod
ified form.
1t is almost certainty that II
any such overtures were made now
they would get nowhere. But what
an audience they might get later
on Is subject Of interesting and
important speculation.
MeXlco's guarantee that United
States companies would not be sad
died with pre-expropriation tax and
labor claims, theoretically amount
ing to millions of dollars. was made
within the last three weeks. It
closes a loophole which had made
the 1912 evaluation virtually un-
Workabl because. conceivably, an
oil company might have wound up
owing the Mexican treasury and
unions more for taxes and labor in
IDENTITIES than it was receiving for
its appropriated property.
The State Department is in pro-
cess of formally notifying the COM
panies involved. The Standard Oil
Co. of New Jersey. which will realize
approximately $4,000 900 from the
settlement, is the major company
affected. The companies already
have signifed their approval Of the
agreement. Technically their "ap-
prevail is irrelevant because the
agreement is between two sovereign
governments. but practically it is
important, because It means that
solution has finally been reached
which is pasically satisfactory to
everybody.
tCopyright, 1a43, Chica go Daily News. IneD
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Japanese Exchange Ship
Arrives al Mormugao
J the Associated Press.

b. the AsSociaied Press.
MORMUGAO, Portuguese India
Oct. l5.-The japanese exchange
ship Teia Maru carrying American
Canadian and Latin American civil
ians from japanese controlled ter
ritory arrived here tonight.
The ship first was sighted off Nor
mugao at 8:45 am. today 11:45
pm Eastern war time, Thursday.
The entire wharf in the harbor
had been cleared Of ships in expecta-
ton of the arrival of the Teia Maru
and the Swedish ship Gripsholm
bringing home Japanese nationals,
which is expected here tomorrow.
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Ocu1ist Loses !, E Fl Fiqht
On AIimony Decree

The Virginia Supreme Court yes
terday refused an appeal by Samuel
Carl Henning. oculist. of 31O5 Eli
colt street NV from a decree of
the Arlington County Circuit Court
ordering him to pay $4,000 back
alimony and holding him in con-
tempt of court. according to an AS
sociated Press dispatch.
DR.. Henning contended he is now
a resident of Washington and that
ser:ice could not be made on him
for a personal judgment.
The court also denied an appeal
by Leroy Chamberiin. Loudoun
County real estate agent. who sued
Mrs Clara Filler Pierce for a COM
mission of 81, OPS, which. he said. was
due for the sale of an estate known
as Huntley to John j. Payette and
Dorothy Crandall Payette for 500 500.
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Congress in Brief
The AsSnciafed Pres,

Ey the Associated Press
Senate:
Continues debate on school-aid
bill.
House:
In recess until Monday.
Evening star., 1943-10-15

riggers erectors and plate shop men
had been laid off because Of ma
terial shortage arising from the
earlier work stoppage.
Evening star., 1943-10-15

The book of the week is the War
stamp book. 1t spells Victory II
filled in.
Evening star., 1943-10-15

CHURCH OFFICIALS INSPECT above is sec
ton Of Kings court the several sum
visited today group 8 cergymen inspecting
the exterior OF of the OvercroWded buildings to
right DR. Frederick Resg secretary of the Wash
ngton Federation of Churches the Marshall pastor
of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church Dr. John
Rustn president of the Federation Churches James
Ring administrative officer of the National Capital Housing
thority, who conducted the tour STORY on Page BIZ
Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1943-10-15

There are more than 10 conven-
tent branch Offices for Star Want
Ads" located throughout the city.
Evening star., 1943-10-15


Morris Ernst. New York attorney
representing the guild declared
This position of few newspaper
publishers is virtually the same as
taken by some of the press in op-
posing child labor legislation, wages
and hours legislation and the Ma
tional Labor Relations Act-alWays
on the ground that freedom of the
press placed the publishers In posi-
ton free of any. governmental con-
trolls as to the working conditions
of their employees.
I'VE shall contend the employers
are Just as wrong in this opposition
as they were in fighting those other
great social advances"
Also invited to attend the hearing
were King Features Syndicate. The
Washington Star, Star Publishing
Co. of Indianapolis. Detroit News.
Forest City Publishing Co.. Cleve-
land; ST Louis Globe Democrat.
Denver Publishing Co, Gannett'
Publishing Co., Portland. Me, and
Sacramento Publishing Co.
Evening star., 1943-10-15
PimIico Entries

In recess until Monda
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Yanks Sent 10 Australia
To Depend on Food Supply
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, Oct. 30.-Austra-
lias Minister of Complerce and Ag-
riculture, w. j. Scully, said today
the amount of food the Common
wealth could produce would deter
mine the number of Allied troops
which could be sent here for the
offensive against Japan.
His comment was made in con-
nection with recent announcement
of President Roosevelt that Austria
liam beef and veal supplies would
go to American troops in the South
and Southwest Pacific.
Australia also is supplying the
Allied forces with canned fruits, but
ter, cheese, eggs and fresh vegeta-
bles.
Mr.. Scully estimated Australian
meat production would be raised by
10000 tons during 1943-44 With
food supplied to Americans, Austria
liza intends to pay in reverse lease
lend for American planes, tanks and
equipment sent here.
Evening star., 1943-10-31

Miss Frances Jacoby of Whining
ton, Del. and Capt. Richard H.
Skinner of Boston were leading with
score of 194l2 last night at the
hallway mark in the bridge COM
petition for the mixed pair cham
pionship and the Capital cup at
the Shoreham Hotel.
Second were Mrs. Nell G. Hemlin
of Washington and Gordon G.. Blair
OF Suffolk, Va, 189
Mrs. Irene Surguy and Tom Ham
lin, both of Washington, defending
champions, were third with 1876.
Mrs. Athey Wins.
Mrs. w. S. Athey of Washington
and Mrs. j. E. Folline of Richmond,
Va, won the women's pair cham
pionship played Friday night with
298 match points. They were de-
lending the Columbia trophy. Scores
were computed yesterday.
Second were Mrs. w. H. Gorton
and Mrs. Mildred Linderman, both
OF Washington, with 292l2.
AiiAid WClC NILS EuWdIu +. COl
ter and Mrs. H. R. Young, both of
Washington, with 291la.
Mrs. Winslow Vandevanter and
Mrs. James H. Lemon. both of
Washington, were fourth with 28Ol2.
Washington Men First.
The mems pair championship for
the presidents cup was won by
Rudolph A. Ashton and Herman
Steinback, both of Washington. with
$50.
Gene Herman and James Souri,
las, both of Washington, were sec
ond with 270l2.
j. T. Only and G. L. Dickerman,
both of Arlington, were third with
269l2.
Teams from the Army and Navy
club were fourth and fifth, Col. Ed
ward Clifford and Col E. B. GRAY.
260, and Maj. w P. Lentz and Maj.
c. c. Dilbert, 257.
Open pair championship for the
Woodward Cup will be played to-
morrow at 1l:30 am. and 5 pm.
The metropolitan pair event for
non-master players will be played
concurrently for The Evening Star
trophy. The Washington Bridge
League is giving the gross proceeds
to the Community War Fund.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Baltimore Shipyard
Shuts Down Today
By the Associated Pres


BALTIMORE, Oct. 30.-Although
quite a few" crane operators re-
turned to the Bethlehem Fairfield
Shipyard and every crane was in
operation for the first time in 10
days, the company order for "prac-
tical shutdown tomorrow still
stands, yard officials reported today.
Thirty per cent Of the regular
operators were back at work with
the substitute cranemen, the COM
pany said. The shutdown order was
necessitated, spokesman explained.
because the other departments are
now so far ahead that it will take
days, perhaps, for the cranemen
to catch up"
Meanwhile, the shipyard, producer
Of Liberty ships, reported that the
names Of 200 absent crane opera
tors of draft age had been submitted
to selective service boards. The
names of others under 38 dere re-
moved from new deferment sched.-
ules.
The crane operators, most Of whom
belong to the AFL International
Union Of Operating Engineers, had
offered to return to their jobs on
certain conditions, including the
complete reinstatement of all men
involved in the stoppage.
An official of the CIO Industrial
Union of Marine and Shipbuilding
WnrEprc nf
lective bargaining agent for the yard,
predicted that work would be nor
NAL by Monday morning.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Fifth unker Grounded
Off New Jersey Coast

BY The ASsOciated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, II. T.. Oct. 30
During the second severe storm in a
week, a 3,800ton tanker, the James
l.. Richards, went aground Thursday
on a sandbar miles off Brigantine
Beach, just north of Atlantic City.
Although the tanker could be seen
since Thursday from the board
walk, official Navy authorization for
publication of the fact was not re-
ceiVed until today.
The ship is undamaged and the
crew remains on board.
-Four other ships were grounded
along the New Jersey coast Tuesday
night and Wednesday.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Uruguay Hears Argentine
Workers Threaten Reuime
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct.
30.-Argentine government meas
ures against striking students and
workers "provoke' a joint re-
action of all workers who are ready
to mobilize at any moment to defend
their rights and democratic uber-
ties" said manifesto received here
today.
The manifesto, issued by the
Union of Construction Workers.
followed upon an announcement by
the provincial government of Buenos
Aires that a revolutionary strike"
is being prepared for next week and
that the government is aware of
the activity.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Central Union Mission Miss Jaeoby Leads
Given S22,636 From With Capt. Skinner
William Sib|ey Estate In Bridge Tourney

The Central Union Mission has re-
ceived $22,636 as residuary legatee
in the estate of William J. Sibley,
for whom Sibley Hospital is named
and who left his money to several
charitable organizations in the Dis
trict, E. H. De Groot, president, an
nounced at the 59th annual meeting
of the Mission last night.
This sum, he said. has been applied
against debt of $45,000 at the Ma
tional Savings e. Trust Co.
The announcement was made dur
ing memorial services for Mr.. and
Mrs. John S. Bennett, whose work
was largely responsible for devel-
oping the Mission, before a meeting
of approximately 450 persons in the
chapel at 627 Indiana avenue NV
Congratulations Read.
During the memorial service,
which was broadcast over Station
VOL, Homer Rodeheaver, interna-
tionally known evangelist, read let
ters from outstanding citizens con-
graduating the Mission.
Under the able direction of the
beloved John and Jean Bennett, the
Central Union Mission has con-
tributed to the welfare of the less
fortunate and the making Of good
citizens" wrote Mai Ernest w.
Brown, former superintendent of
police.
Maj. Gen. John It. Lewis, COM
manding general of the military
district of Washington. wrote in
letter of tribute: The untiring ef-
the mission in behalf of servicemen
has earned for you their lasting
praise and gratitude.
Cares for 400 Men.
The mission, housing nearly 400
servicemen, is the largest center of
its kind in Washington, Mr.. Rode
HEAVIER stated. When sufficient VOL
unteers are recruited the program of
entertainment will be expanded to
include other nights in the week as
well as Saturday, he said.
AT the business meeting, the fol-
lowing officers were reelected to
office: L. r. Breuninger and William
Q. Tufts to the Board of Directors,
and G. L. Loughery, auditor.
Members of the Board of Directors.
officers Of the Womens Guild. the
Evening Auxiliary, the Junior Guild
and others closely associated with
the organization were introduced to
the friends of the mission.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Hif-Run Driver Given
Life Term for Murder
Ey the Associated Press.


SPARTANBURG, S. c.. Oct. 80
Leroy Campbell of Spartanburg was
given a life sentence and H. F. Har-
rill Of Hendersonville, n. c., a Swear
sentence today after their convic-
tlon on charges growing out of the
death Of SChoolboy and the injury
Of four companions who were struck
by an automobile as they crossed
street in suburban Arcadia.
Campbell, 33, was convicted of
murder by a General Sessions Court
jury which attached a mercy rec
ommendatiOn to its verdict. Harrill,
an elderly man, was convicted of
being an accessory after the fact.
State witnesses testified that the
automobile driven by Campbell with
Harrill as an occupant ploWed into
the group Of children October IS.
and failed to stop. Both men said
they had been drinking and did not
remember anything about the trag-
ejV.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
900 Bendix Workers
Resume Jobs at Owosso

Pg the Associated Press.
OWOSSO, Mich, Oct. 3O.-Ap-
proximately 1000 workers at the
Owosso division of the BendiX Avia-
ton Corp. were back at work today
pending further efforts to adjust
a dispute in which they left their
jobs Thursday night and Friday.
The return to work followed a
union meeting last night and con-
ference between management and
representatives of the United Auto
mobile Workers (CIO) that con-
tinued until 4:30 o'clock this morn
ing.
The dispute developed over the
dismissal of three workers accused
by the company of having left their
Jobs ahead of time.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Two Naval Airmen Die
In Pennsylvania Crash

Ey the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3O.-The
4th Naval District announced that
two airmen from the Atlantic City
IN. j. Naval Air Station were killed
today when their Navy training
plane crashed in the mountains
near Beaverdale, Pa, east of Johns
town.
The ship was one of a flight of
three going from Atlantic City to
Pittsburgh, the Navy said, adding
that one of the ships landed at the
Coal Valley airport and the other
in a field about 20 miles from the
airport. The pilots said bad weather
forced them down and that all in
the other planes escaped injury.