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Evening star., 1943-07-20
|S1,078,660 Awarded
Seminary for Plant
Taken Over by Navy

A f1ve-man condemnation jury to-
day fixed a price of 81, ,078, $50 on the
Mount Vernon Seminary property at
1901 Nebraska avenue NV, which
was taken over by the Navy last De-
cember II.
Returned In District Court before
Judge James w. Morris, the jury's
award was virtually as much as the
value approximately $1,10o, 900
placed on the property by the ap-
praisers for the seminary corpora
ton.
The Government had deposited
$500, 900 with the court as represent
ing its estimate of the value, an at
torney for the seminary said.
Includes IS Acres.
The property includes 35 acres of
ground, large school building con-
tanning 100000 cubic feet of space,
a chapel, an outdoor gymnasium, a
field house and a dwelling formerly
occupied by the schools headmas-
ter.
The Navy is now using the loca-
ton for war training of a secret
nature
Meanwhile, the Mount Vernon
Seminary is continuing in operation,
having moved its classrooms to 1910
Fordham road NV, in Spring VAL
ley, where 1t also has rented num-
Der OF private homes for its board
ing students. According to its at
torney, the seminary intends to re-
build at a different location after
the war
School Is Incorporated.
The seminary, incorporated as a
nonprof1t institution under a board
of trustees headed by Miss Elsie
Foerderer of Philadelphia, was rep
resented in the condemnation pro-
ceedings by Arthur j. Phelan and
Edmund L. Jones Of the law firm of
Hogan & Harrison.
Attorneys Alexander H. Bell. jr.,
and Henry F. Mooney represented
the Government.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Three Men Burn 10 Death
In New Jersey Accident

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., July
2O.-Three men burned to death to-
day after head-on collision of two
tractor-trailer trucks on State high
way rs, five miles south of New
Brunswick in North Brunswick
Township.
Police identified two OF the dead
as Cecil Carl Atchley, 80, Miami,
Fla, and Louis Paul Ross, "a, Bal
timore. The third man was not
identified Immediately.
Mr.. Ross died behind the wheel
OF northbound truck owned by the
Preston Trucking Co. of Baltimore
and the unidentified man, behind
the steering post of truck belong
ing to the Florida Lime and Avo-
cado Growers, Inc. Mr.. Atchley was
thrown from the cab of the Florida
truck.
The flames were extinguished by
the North Brunswick volunteer fire
department.
State Trooper John GEM of New
Brunswick said the collision took
place of the paved portion of the
highway.
The bodies were taken by Middle
sex County Coroner Frank KurzaWa
to his morgue in South Amboy.
Evening star., 1943-07-20

he might disclose would be CON
trary to the public interest"
Mr.. Carey asked Mr.. Craven
who gave you this warning men,
toned in the opening of the state
ment."
Mr.. Craven replied that it came
from Mr.. Fly who at the same time,
said he had mo desire to tell me
what should and should not do
Mr.. Craven said he told Mr.. FLY
he did not want to be put into the
position of being held in contempt
of Congress"
II have nothing to hide" he added
II am perfectly willing to testify
and express my opinions, but ]
want to stay out of the headlines
I have enough to worry about"
At that point Mr.. Carey asked
Mr.. Cox to direct Mr.. Craven to
answer all questions and submit all
records requested.
THE committee does not want ia
embarrass any one," said Mr.. Cox
ut only wants to get the facts. II
members of Congress know nothing
about the behavior of Government
officials they will have to legislate
in the dark"
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Eisenhower
Continued From First Page. }

OF Italy from the Fascist regime,
which dragged it into war and, once
this is done, to restore Italy as a
free nation. The Allied forces do
not have the intention of changing
or minimizing the laws and the ira
ditional customs of the Italian
people"
Gen. Eisenhower announced that
no political activity of any kind
would be tolerated during the period
of military government and added
that steps would be taken imme-
diately to abrogate all racial laws
"and those discriminating between
the people because of their color or
religion"
Liberty of religion will be main
tanned, he said, and, provided mill
tary operations are not affected,
liberties of speech and of the press
will be instituted Measures for the
rapid liberation of political prison.
ers will be taken. A special court
for the defense Of the state will be
abolished =
AS men whose parents fought for
their liberties it is in your interest
not to oppose any resistance to thu
Allied armies but to make their mis-
sion for the destruction of the Nazi
yoke easier, helping them to achieve
quick and complete victory"
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Fourth District Nursery
To Be Opened Tomorrow

The fourth child care center for
school-age children of working
mothers in the District will open
at 7:30 m. tomorrow at the Knox
Hill Community Building, 5000 Knox
road Sc. The three other centers
opened Monday.
The newest center is being oper-
ated under a city-wide plan for
services to children of working
mothers on a 12-hour basis, six days
a week
The Knox-Hill center and one at
the Cooke School. Seventeenth and
Euclid streets NV, are for white
children. Centers for colored chill
dren are located at the Morgan
School, Eighteenth and v streets
NV, and Smothers School, Forty
fourth and Washington place NE.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Bishop Mooney
Continued From First Page

city and acted in sincere conformity
with that declaration.
"On the other hand. no one can
fail to be impressed by the elaborate
precautions which our military au-
thorities took to avoid damaging
what all men of culture hold dear
and hundreds of millions of Chris
tians hold sacred.
Cites Pope's Prayers.
But with full weight given to
these considerations, the sense of
surprise and regret remains. The
City of Rome is the Episcopal See
of one who more than any other
man on earth worked and prayed
and pleaded to save mankind from
wars desolation and destruction;
who preached more insistently than
any other man on earth the prin-
ciples of justice and charity that
would have insured peace with
honor to all nations.
Vatican City is, indeed, the SYM
boil Of his moral independence and
supra a-national status; but Rome
and not merely Vatican City is his
diocese; st. Johns in the Lateran
not st. Peters in the Vatican, is his
cathedral; the agencies of his world
wide spiritual administration are
not concentrated in the Vatican but
scattered throughout the City OF
Rome which for centuries was his
city as well as his see: the shrines
of Christian Rome are his special
care, the historic monuments of an
cient Rome, the treasures of art
which make almost every street a
museum have come down to us
through the custody of his prede-
cesSors.
Grateful for Allied Care.
He has pleaded insistently for
the preservation of this unique
heritage from the dangers of war.
Millions have prayed that his plea
would prevail. His plea was fla
grantly disregarded by those who
made the environs of Rome an ap-
parently safe arsenal. 1t has, in
deed, been literally respected in the
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Plan Is Reported
Devised 10 Break Up
North American Co.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 20.-The
Journal American today said it
had learned that plan for the
liquidation of the on-dollar
North American Co., one Of the
largest public utility holding
companies, was being prepared
for presentation to the directors
late this month.
The proposal, the Journal Ameri-
can said, was somewhat like that
worked out for the dissolution of
the Standard Oil Co. 80 years ago
when the big company was broken
into regional units, with securities
of the regional companies distrib-
uted to stockholders.
The plan, according to the story,
calls for the voluntary liquidation
of the North American Co. into
three regional holding operating
companies, a fourth holding COM
pany and fifth liquidating COM
pany to hold miscellaneous proper
ties and assets.
Three regional holding operating
companies, the newspaper said,
would have respectively ownership
of the Cleveland Electric Illuminat-
ing Co., Union Electric Co. OF
Missouri and North American Co. s
present Wisconsin group.
A fourth holding concern, the
newspaper added, would have North
Americans ownership in the Wash
ington Cd. c. Railway & Electric
Co. and the Pacific Gas & Electric
Co. A fifth company, which would
be a liquidating company, called
tentatively North American Liqui-
dating Co., would hold such assets
as North American Light & Power
Co., West Kentucky Coal and the
North American Co.'S 22-story Of
flee building in New York.
Also proposed in the plan. the
newspaper said, was liquidation OF
North American Co.'S bonded debt
and preferred stock out Of earnings
of the operating companies making
up the regional units North Amer
lean common stockholders would re-
ceive a proportionate share of Sc
curities in the four regional holding
companies. When the debt and
preferred stock of North American
Co. assumed by the regional COM
panies was liquidated, the stock
holders would then receive stock in
the operating companies and the
regional holding concerns would au-
tomatically dissolve.
North American which owned a
majority of the stock of the Wash
ington Railway g. Electric Co.,
which in turn owns outright the
Potomac Electric Power Co. and
half of the Capital Transit Co.,
began divesting itself Of its holdings
in WRECO some time ego.
This was done by distributing to
stockholders what was known as
units of participating ownership"
in reality simply fractional shares,
worth one-fortieth of a share each.
The transaction involved no cash
dividends.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Hospital Ship
Continued From First Page. J

troopers helped him to a dressing
station on the beach.
That night they put me aboard
the hospital ship Talamba. 1 had
just had dinner and gone to bed
when a lone Italian bomber came
over and attacked. 1t scored hit,
circled away, came back and scored
another hit. This was at 10 o'clock
at night. The ship blazed with lights
from stem to stern. 1t couldn't have
been mistaken for anything else"
Flynn described how a British
nurse moved among the wounded
men, calmly telling them, "All who
can walk should come up on deck
and have look around"
Il hobbled on deck as the ship
began to list badly" he said, I'VE
were about five miles off shore. I
got into a lifeboat and we started
to lower away, but the rope broke
and We fell into the sea. Everybody
sank, but bobbed to the surface
again, as our life belts were on.
L climbed into another boat
which had been hastily lowered, but
it sank at once as somebody had
neglected to put the rain plugs in,
We climbed into a third lifeboat
and it also sank. BY that time
had swallowed plenty of water and
didn't want to try any more life
boats, so I swan over to de-
stroyer which had just come up and
was hauled on deck.
They transferred me to another
hospital ship, then put me on a
troop transport and evacuated me
to the mainland for the flight down
here. I feel fine-getting plenty of
good sleep and rest
In the same ward with Flynn
were five other parachute troopers
whose legs were broken on the
initial jump.
One of them told of finding evi-
dence which indicated that Ameri-
can prisoners had been killed by
Axis officers.
"Tracers were flying in all direc-
tions when 1 jumped" he said.
The wind caught me and I hit a
tree and was dragged across another
tree before reaching the ground.
An American lieutenant came up,
saw I was injured and told me to
hide under the bank, which I did for
a while. Later we found two Ameri-
can officers and one noncom who
had been tied and shot in the back
of the head"
Pvt. L. ]. Webster of Goodman
Wis, broke his leg in landing on a
limestone road. Some of nv bud
dies came up with a group of weep
ing Italian civilians" he recounted,
They made bed for me out of hay,
produced water, fruit and cakes, and
even offered to taste the food first
to prove it wasn't poisoned.
I'VE asked the Italians WHY they
were weeping and they said because
they were frightened and afraid OF
the Germans
Evening star., 1943-07-20

detailed instructions which governed
the precision bombing of military
objectives in the immediate vicinity
Of the Eternal City.
But one shudders to think of
the moral risks which have been
taken. This war will not be won
merely on land or sea or in the air;
it must be won in the hearts and
minds of men. A stray bomb re-
leased by mistake over Rome may
do moral harm to our cause that
far outweighs the military value of
the most accurate destruction of
enemy supplies.
May we not hope at least that
having shown the ineffectiveness of
enemy strategy in hiding supplies
under the cover of sanctity and
culture, we will not subject to further
risk the moral idealism that dis
tinguishes and ennobles our cause" 4"
Evening star., 1943-07-20
BY PAUL KERN LEE,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
ABOARD A BRITISH CRUISER
SHILLING CATANIA, July 18 De-
layed.-This cruiser took the roof
of the Catania main railway sta
ton this morning with six bulls
eye shots.
The target was cleverly selected
as it was point where the highway
and the railroad intersect, and a
route along which the Axis must
move troops, either south as REIN
forcements or north in retreat.
Intermittent bombardments of
such Axis key points and batteries
continued throughout the day.
Meanwhile fighting again was
visible ashore as the 9th Army
pushed into zone of Catania, only
3 miles from the city.
The Axis evidently was throwing
a large force into the defense of
the Catania area, as it is the best
defended city between Augusta and
Messina.
Augusta Deserted.
Farther north, the rugged noun
tain country crowned by Mount
Etna, was considered likely more
formidable than any fixed defenses.
The conquest of Catanian air
fields should give cover for an ad-
vance in that sector.
Today I went ashore at Augusta,
Sicily, where 1 found that the more
than 10000 inhabitants who de-
serted the ancient city hurriedly,
just before British forces entered,
now are clamoring for permission
to return and are begging for food.
They will be permitted to return
as soon as the water system is re-
paired. Augusta presently is with
out water.
1t was estimated that 1000 per-
sons received free meals yesterday
but that 5000 more had to 60 with
out food as the stocks simply were
insufficient to feed such multitude.
Fled Into Hills.
The population apparently fled
into the hills in the moments before
fleet and assault forces entered the
town last week.
In numerous homes half-eaten
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Suit May Be Brought
On Portal Puy Issue
Earlier Story on Pare Al

Earlier Story on Page Ally
By the Associated Press.
A court decision may be sought
soon by coal operators on the ques-
ton of portal-to-portal pay. Edward
R. Burke, head of the Southern Coal
Producers Association, said today
the question of filing a friendly suit
is under consideration" by the op-
orators.
The issue was left unsettled by the
War Labor Board in it's recent de-
cision In the bituminous coal case
and the miners through the United
Mine Workers still are insisting that
they be compensated for under
ground time required to go to and
from the location where the coal is
dug
Evening star., 1943-07-20
OstermueIIer Agrees
To Pitch for DODGERS
BY the Associated Press

by lHe hSSOCldteG Press,
QUINCY, Ill, July 2o.-Fred Os-
termueller, former St. Louis Browns
pitcher, said today he had reached
an agreement in a long telephone
conversation with Branch hickey
president of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
and that he would join the oIub
Wednesday in Cincinnati.
Ostermueller and Archie McKain,
another ST. Louis hurler we're traded
to the Dodgers for Louis (Bobo)
Newsom. Ostermueller had returned
to his farm home near here, how
ever. asserting he had been unsuc-
cessful in contracting Brooklyn
chiefs.
Ostermueller said that "every-
thing is satisfactory" but did not
reveal terms. He had been demand
ing raise. He added that Hickey
assured him there was no founda-
ton for reports from Montreal that
he would be traded to that Inter-
national League club, along with
McKain and another player or two
for Lou Olmo, an outfielder.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Federal Crop Buying
And Lower Resale
Proposed by Burton
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Government purchase of the prin-
cipal food crops and their resale at
below-ceiling prices was advocated
today by Senator Burton, Republi-
can Ohio, as an alternative to the
Administrations subsidized price
rollback program.
Senator Burton. who opposed the
subsidy principle but supported the
defeated Taft amendment to the
Commodity Credit Corp. bill which
would have provided limited
amount for the rollback, said he
had become convinced that the
simplest way to keep food prices
from advancing would be for the
Government to buy entire crops.
The rollback program is being
continued In the absence of a di-
rect congressional ban, but the is
sue will be before the lawmakers
again this fall.
While Senator Burton said he had
no idea of the cost Of a program
entailing the purchase of the en-
tire production of such commodities
as wheat, corn and meat, he as
serted that it probably would be
less than payment of outright sub
sides.
Senator Burton's proposal, how
ever, found little favor with Sera-
tor Kilgore, Democrat, West Vir-
ginia, chairman of Military At
fairs Subcommittee studying the
food supply situation in its rela-
ton to manpower.
Senator Kilgore said he would
much rather see subsidies confined
entirely to transportation, believ-
ing that payments made to lower
the cost of moving supplies to the
farm and transporting goods to
market would be the most effective
way of holding living costs.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
-Four Coast Guard Captains
Are Made Commodores

-Four captains in charge of Coast
Guard districts have been raised to
the temporary grade of commodore
the first time that rank has been
conferred on Coast Guard officers on
active duty-the Navy Department
announced today.
The men given the rank, and their
district headquarters, are: Capt.
Wilfrid N Darby, 1st Naval District,
Boston; Capt. Joseph F. Farley, 9Th
Naval District, New Orleans; Gordon
T. Finlay, 5th Naval District, Nor
folk, and Capt. Philip F. Roach, 18th
Naval District, San Francisco.
Previously the grade of commo-
dore has been effective only in re-
tired status.
Evening star., 1943-07-20

ing for another of his famous artil-
lery, tank and infantry assaults
which battered down so many de-
termined Axis stands in North
Africa.
The shabby record of Italian lead
ership in the Sicilian invasion, it
was reported, probably would con-
tinue, since among Italy's COM
manders still directing forces in the
field were Gems Zaglio and Chiriel-
eison, both failures in the African
war
But the Germans were fighting
with backs-to- -the-wall fury and for
the present at least were disputing
every inch of the Allied advance in
their vicinities.
This performance is akin to their
fiery resistance in April in Tunisia
before the Allies suddenly broke
through and transformed them into
a retreating rabble. The original
German garrison Of $4,000 troops
has been seriously depleted in men
and armor in the 10 days of battle.
The Germans are the backbone of
the determined resistance to Gen.
Montgomery.
Division Breaks in Panic.
An example of Italian capitula-
ton was witnessed by Jack Barnett,
veteran movietone news camera
man, who wrote in an article for
the Associated Press that an Italian
division broke in panic before the
American drive into Caltanisetta.
The Italians simply could not face
the smashing combined infantry
artillery assault, Mr.. Barnett wrote.
He said he saw hundreds of Italian
soldiers streaming down from hill
side villages and vineyards where
they had been hiding, waving their
arms frantically in surrender.
In tour of the front, Mr.. Barnett
reported, he encountered thousands
of the surrendering enemy at road
functions, all trying to be friendly
and asking for rations and Gig
arettes.
The italians want to live, he
wrote, and have no desire to die
either for Mussolini or Germany.
Agrigento, another town stormed
by the Americans, was considered
by the Axis to have been impreg-
nable, Mr.. Barnett added. The city
was ringed for miles by tank traps,
machine-gun nests and mines i'm
bedded in concrete. But 1000 Ital-
ian soldiers surrendered there when
the Americans hit It,, with every
thing they had-naval guns and
concentrated field artillery and
finally an infantry charge.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
British Cruisers Shells Blast
Cotonio Main Railway Station

meals remained on the tables and
most household effects and clothing
were left behind.
In one deserted harbor picket boat
dinner was cooking on the stove
when British motor gunboat crew
boarded it.
Only four decrepit automobiles
were found in the town, the others
apparently having been used fer the
evacuation.
Numerous Augusta streets were
blocked with debris from the bonn
bardment, but the town quickly was
being cleared by occupa ton forces.
Boats Immobilized.
Harbor boats had been i'm
modified by the removal of small
vital engine parts. The harbormas-
ter's boat had been scuttled but in
water so shallow that British naval
men were able to enter the cabin
where they found the keys to the
captains safe lying on the table.
Surprisingly, no BOBBY traps were
found in the town, indicating the
entry was SO speedy that the usual
elaborate Axis explosive devices
could not be planted.
One strange fact discovered by
Investigating officers was the ouan-
tity of cocaine and heroin found in
many personal kits left behind by
Italian officers, and the finding of
similar stocks in numerous homes.
Apparently they were not intended
for first aid or hospital use but for
personal use.
Port Is Vital.
Augusta now is strange and
picturesque collection of ancient
novels and fine modern Fascist
built structures set amid Towering
shrubs on a mall of palms and
lemon trees.
The city provides an extremely
useful Allied port. Many reinforce
ments of men, tanks, guns and
munitions were rushed 10 miles
northward to the front lines
through this port.
Good naval and shore ant;air-
craft defenses minimized repeated
German attempts to hit at the town
and harbor in aerial counterat-
tacks.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Fresh Fish, Seafood Put
Under Retail CeiIinqs

The Office of Price Administrator
today brought under control the re-
tail prices of nearly so species OF
fresh fish and other seafood pro-
duced on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts. The ceilings. to become ef-
fective Thursday, will represent re-
ductions in price in many instances
ranging from 10 to 20 per cent.
OPA several weeks ago placed
ceilings on fresh fish at the dis
tributor and wholesale levels, saying
at that time that sales to consumers
soon were to be brought under con-
troll.
Oficials declared today's action
would mean a rollback in the price
of fish and other seafood to approx
imately the level of last summer.