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Evening star., 1943-10-23
Army-kavy Register
Discounts Reports Of
NJ MArthur Retirement
By. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The political aspect of any at
tempt to retire Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur is loaded with dynamite, ~
the Army and Navy Register, unofh-
cial service publication, said today
Gen. Macarthur, commander of
United Nations armed forces in the
South Pacific, reaches the statutory
Army retirement age of 64 next Jan
uary 26.
The Register commented that un-
der a recently adopted policy, off,
GERS known to be physically and
mentally capable of holding COM
mands are retained beyond the age
limit.
ENTIRELY aside from his military
attainments," the Register said, his
success with inadequate personnel
and materiel in directing operations
against the armed savages of Nip
pom, and the fact that he is ready
to proceed further toward the reali-
Zation of his ambition to lead vic
torious army into the Philippines,
the political aspect is loaded with
dynamite
Gen. Macarthur, the Register
says, has ranked high in recent polls
as potential Republican presiden-
tial candidate and "enjoys wide
spread admiration and popularity at
home"
Nobody believes that the admin
istration, in such circumstances,
would bring him home at any time
before the presidential election in
the autumn of 1914" the Register
said.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Shut Out Favorite
In PimIico Feature
P. Wirephoto.
BY the Associated Press.

oy tiiC AoooSAdtCu FIeSS.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 23.-Today's
renewal of the $20,0OO-added WASH
ington Handicap, which features the
racing program at Pimlico, may have
an important bearing on the contest
for leading money! winning honors
between the two top stables in the
country.
Until today, Warren Wright's
Calumet Farm was leading its East
ern rival, Mrs. Payne Whitney's
Greentree Stable, with total win
ningS~ for the year of S204.890, COM
pared with Greentree's~sle e4,935
Shut Out, the Greentree star, was
a short-priced favorite in the over
night odds, however, to win the ma
jor share Of the rich purse in the
mif-and-three -siXteenths Washing
tbn, a traditional Laurel; Park fea-
turp.
A victory for either stable in to-
days event and in next Saturdays
S25, 900 Pimlico Special would just
about clinch the years earnings title
The Calumet hopes in the 3oth
running Of the Washington today
rested on Sun Again and Son of
Peace, carrying ia pounds and 112,
respectively, to Shut Outs top i'm
post of 1924.
The Wright entry was second
choice in the early wagering to the
Greentree pair of Shut Out and
Famous Victory.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
HyaffsviIIe Sergeant
Reported War Prisoner

Staff Sergt Robert K. Binnix
whose wife. Mrs. Eunice K. Binni2
lives in Chillum Gardens, Md, wa.
reported by the War Department to-
day to have fallen prisoner of wal
prior to Italy's capitulation.
No further information on the
status of United States men held ir
Italy prior to its surrender has been
received as yet, the War Depart
ment said. The names of lat men
are included in today's list.
The name of 1t. Richard V. Love-
less of 6515 Utah avenue NV, who
is being held prisoner in Germany
was on the list. A story telling oi
his being interned appeared in The
Star on October IA. He is bombar-
dier.
Sergt. Binnix, "a, is the son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Binnix, 834,
Colesville road, Silver Spring. Born
in Ohio, Sergt. Binnix came here
with his parents when he was an
infant.
He was graduated from Eastern
High School and was working as
a carpenter when he entered the
Army about two years ago. He was
National Guardsman at the time
He was married about year ago.
Mrs. BinniX is employed at the
War Department
According to his father, Sergt
Binnix was taken along by the Ger
mans when the camp in which he
was prisoner was seized by the
advancing American Army in Italy
Evening star., 1943-10-23

entire front are in imminent peril
OF suffering their biggest disaster
since the Red Army launched its
sweeping summer offensive.
AnnihiIation Threatened.
The Nazis' lengthy retreat to the
Dnieper River defense line was
made with not too great a loss and
in rather orderly fashion, in the
opinion of London military observers
but the Germans now are threat
ened with humiliation at the hands
OF the Red Army in the trap at
the Dnieper bend, at outfanked
Kiev and Gomel and below the
Dnieper elbow and in the Crimea
when Melitopol falls.
According to estimates based on
reports from the battlefront, pos
sibly 100000 Germans face en-.
trapment by successful Red Army
f1anking thrusts in the Dniepel
bend, above the Crimea, and around
Klev and Gomel.
Some sources estimate that up-
ward of 100000 Nazis are crowded
into the Dnepropetrovsk area alone
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Dogs
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month period the muzzling order
would be continued.
The order declares that dogs must
wear good, substantial muzzle
securely put on SO as to prevent the
dog from biting and snapping'
The order also warns that any
dog at large without a muzzle dur
ing the next three months, whether
licensed or unlicensed, will be taken
by the poundmaster.
Regulations Cited.
District authorities called atten-
ton to several existing regulations
One regulation requires that when
the District health officer has reason
to believe that any dog or other
animal has been exposed to an
animal with rabies at the time of
death, the owner of the exposed
animal must quarantine it for Pc
riod of so days.
The poundmaster may impound
such an exposed dog for not less than
60 days or more than 80 days.
Charles Stofberg, special assist
ant to Commissioner John Russell
Young, said the Commissioners had
Instructed the police to exercise
extra vigilance In reporting stray
dogs on their beats and In noticing
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Coal
Continued From First Page.)

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sary, to consider the coal case and
one or two other pressing issues.
The members took up the Illinois
plan III executive session late yester-
day after operators had agreed to
supply estimates showing the extent
to which the longer work day would
contribute to increased production.
Instead of the present seven-hour
productive day, the operators and
miners propose an 81 hour day, in
cluding underground travel time,
increasing their pay $3.50 a day.
Time and half would be paid how
ever, after 40 hours, SO a five or six
day week would mean an average
increase Of SITS to s1.S3 a day.
Vice Chairman George w. Taylor
said an estimate of how much more
coal would be produced in the added
hour and half is "the most critical
figure in the whole case" He point
ed out that If daily travel time av-
erages an hour and a half, as the
miners once contended, there would
be no increase in coal production
Under questioning by George H.
Mead, industry member of the board,
the miners said they were willing to
make the Illinois agreement exclu-
sive to that area, but hoped that it
would provide a pattern for agree
ments in the other soft coal dis
tricts.
Thurlow G. Essington. counsel for
the Illinois operators, said his group
had negotiated an agreement for Il
linois only, but added: "If this con-
tract is approved. these Appalachian
fellows will come in and sign it. 1t
won't have to be imposed upon
them Everybody in the room knows
that" He assailed the Appalachian
operators for criticizing the proposal
and referred to them as "a group
that has permanent lobby" in
Washington trying to stop any con-
tract.
In another overnight development
in the Pennsylvania fields, a num-
ber of Washington County officials
| oAAA lall1o1l ChCCuGlNCS lClCkl dDI1CO
a request to Mr.. Roosevelt urging
the miners be given a wage increase
above the provisions of the Little
Steel wage formula.
1--WE have witnessed three strikes
since April l, strikes which in
jured the miners and the com
munity and played directly into the
hands of those who would like to
sabotage our war effort" stated the
telegram. 1--WE are convinced that
not strikes, but cooperation with
Government agencies, will solve the
problems of the miners"
1t added, 1--WE note the WLB ruled
in the Boeing aircraft case on Sep
tember Z, 1943, that under certain
conditions it is not a violation of
your hold-the-line order to grant
a wage increase above the Little
Steel formula"
Evening star., 1943-10-23
District Police Stage
6-Hour Roundup Of
Rowing Rodeo Steers

Iong-horned steers visiting Wash
lngton must not be allowed to make
rodeo romping place of the Cap
itol grounds and streets of Wash
ington, police today informed an
apologize lot of cowboys whose wild
west show Unexpectedly opened in
advance last night with a sideshoW
stampede of frightened cattle.
1t. Charles Warder, temporarily
in charge of the ninth precinct, took
the matter of. public safety up with
the management of the show today.
The show people denied indig-
antly that the outbreak, which had
the police conducting a roundup
with squad cars co-ordinated by two
way radio round the White House, in
Rock Creek Park and through the
business section, was staged to call
attention to the opening of the
show at the Uline Arena. The riot
had been caused, they said, by small
boys throwing stones at the steers
and frightening them into breaking
out Of their corral.
Policeman Throws One.
Motorcycle Policeman J. F. Claffy
was the hero of the day. He twice
attempted to bulldog the steers
grab them by the horns and throw
them. He managed to hold one, the
other got away.
The stampede started at $50
o'clock last night when six steers
broke out of the inclosure behind
the arena at Third and M streets
NE.
The herd scattered quickly. One
of them startled patrons leaving the
Raleigh cocktail lounge, crossed
Pennsylvania avenue and got into
the alcove of the new Post Office
A photographers f1ashlight fright
ened him into charging the crowd
In front and dashing down the Ave-
nue. to the Capitol grounds and be-
yond where Motorcycle Patrolman
Claffy caught him.
Whistling Fails.
Another got into Rock Creek Park
and was cornered by police scout
cars. "Whatll we do now?" the po-
lice, who lacked Patrolman Claffys
technique, asked Dispatcher Charles
Cloy, jr., over the radio.
whistle to him SOFTLY" said Clay.
That's what the show people say"
There was something wrong with
the whistling. The steer charged
between the cars and dashed across
the creek. He finally was captured
behind the Francis Junior High
| School.
Policeman Claffy wrestled with
another steer near the Tidal Basin
1t got away.
The animals finally were rounded
up. Despite soiled clothes and few
bent tenders. the police participants
talked about it today aas if they
enjoyed playing cowboy.
Its something We'll never see
again." said one.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
1ri-Partite Meeting Turns
To Political Questions
BY the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Oct. 23.-The tri-
partite conference was reported yes
terday to have shifted to consid-
GRAFTON of political topics after
reviewing military questions during
the earlier sessions.
Although a ban on news con-
tinued, it was thought that some
decisions in the political sphere
already had been reached.
1t was learned yesterday that
Soviet Commissar Vyacheslav Molo-
tov is presiding at the conference
by agreement of Secretary of State
Hull and British Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden.
The Russians announced that
their delegation to the conference
includes Marshal Klementi Y. Vo-
rosholiV, commander of Russian
forces in the Far East; Vice Com
missar for Foreign Affairs Andrei
ViShinsky, Vice Commissar for For
eign Trade Maxim Litvinoff and
V. A. Saksin of the Foreign Office.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Burma Targets Blasted
In Larqe-ScaIe Raids
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, Oct. 23.-Taking
advantage of improved weather,
American and British bombers and
fighters ranged the length of Jap
anese-occupied Burma Thursday,
yesterday and today lin increased
operations on large scale" United
States and British communicates an
nounced today.
Cities, railway yards, river traffic
and enemy airport installations were
pounded by both American and Raj
heavy Liberators, medium American
Mitchell bombers, RAF Vengeance
dive bombers and fighter craft.
Neither the Americans nor tbs
British suffered a loss.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Man Dies as SonSturts
Home on GripshoIm

SOUTH BOSTON, Va, Oct. 23-
An anticipated reunion between
father and son was prevented by
death this week.
Funeral services for4 Thomas
Housen Ligon, SO, whose son
Thomas H. Ligon, jr., was returning
to the States aboard the Gripsholm
were held Thursday at the Glover
Methodist Church, with burial IL
the scottsburg Cemetery. Mr.. Ligon
o1eo WedneSday. Z
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Lloyd George

Minister in 1915. Now Britain's
elder statesman, he occasionally at
tends the sessions of the House of
Commons, but devotes most of his
attention to his Surrey farm.
Miss Stevenson was schoolmistress
at the school attended by Megan
Lloyd George and then chancellor
of the Exchequer was so impressed
with her efficiency after meeting her
in 1911 that he retained her as his
secretary.
She wassborn in Wellington, Sur
rey, won honors in classics at Lon
don University where she took a
bachelor of arts degree and is a
good linguist. The King made her
a commander of the British Empire
in 1918 for her services to the Prime
Minister.
Evening star., 1943-10-23

ANY peculiar characteristics" in the
behavior of dogs. Z
1t was understood that the Com
missioners would also issue an order
requiring that when dog is brought
into the District, the owner must
have certificate from veterin-
arian stating that the dog has not
been in contact with rabid dogs.
Health authorities said the dogs
which bit two children earlier this
week had been found to be rabid
and had been destroyed. The chill
dren were identified as Arthur Cam
erson, 5. of 200 block Sixth street
Sc, and Jane Ann Ryan, 2, Of 23OO
block @ street Sc. Both are un-
dergoing preventative treatment.
Four persons were bitten this week
and three last week, bringing the
total for the year to IS, the Health
Department pointed out.
Meanwhile Dr. John M. Byers
Prince Georges County health Off.
Ger, today urged county resident.
to take special precautions to pro-
Cect garbage ana refuSe from rats
which he said were a "potentia
source" Of rabies infection to dogs
and other domestic pets.
DR.. Byers said there had been one
case of rabies in the county which
he was reasonably" sure had beer
caused by the bite of rat. He
said the only way to curb the spreao
of the diesease by rats is to elimi-
nate the rat population. 81.
The health officer said residents
should keep garbage containers COW
cred and should ratproof thei,
homes where this is possible. He
added that restaurants and grocery
store owners should take "specia
means" of protecting refuse from
rats.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
0PA 70 Give 3O-Day Notice
Before Voidinq Shoe Stamp
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
To quiet rumors and end scare
buying, the Office of Price Adminis-
tration said today that the public
will be given 80 days notice before
shoe ration stamp No. 18 becomes
invalid.
There are no present plans to
terminate the stamp, OPA said.
Originally scheduled to expire Octo-
ber 81, it was extended indefinitely
last month.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Dane Suboteurs Strike
Third Nuzi Center
y the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Oct. %. Pre-
Danes said last night that saboteurs
IN Denmark had damaged German
headquarters in Aarhus-the third
Nazi center they have struck in lC
days.
The others, it was said, were the
Nazi headquarters in an Aalborg
Hotel and Gestapo headquarters in
Copenhagen, both of which were
reported wrecked by bombs.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
r. l. Kane Elected
To Real Estate Board

Robert L. Kane of the R. L. Kane
Realty Co., Alexandria, was elected
president OF the Arlington-F Fairfax
Alexandria Real Estate Board at
It's meeting Thursday night. !.
Col. Clyde Eastman of Eastman
q Steele, Falls Church, was elected
flrst vice president; Albert A. Cohen,
Arlington, second vice president; w.
G. Clever, Arlington, treasurer, and
Daniel Regalie, Arlington, executive
secretary.
Charles w. Smith, new State
president Of the Virginia Real Estate
Association, spoke on Housing as a
Private Enterprise. Not oovern-
mental"
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Pacific Plant Shifts Output
From Tanks 10 Planes
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
RENTON, Wash, Oct. 23.-The
last General Sherman tank has
rolled off the production line at the
Pacific Car and Foundry Plant
passing an already impressive array
of Flying Fortress parts.
The transition was completed yes
terday as smoothly as the shift from
production of railroad cars to tanks
last year.
The plant has started delivering
fabricated wing parts to the Boeine
Aircraft Co.
Ellis johnson, in charge of the
aircraft contract for the firm, said
It's an entirely different kind OF
work, of course, but most of them
took to it like a duck takes to water
In no time at all they found they
were aircraft workers."
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Army Reorganization
Cuts Division S Size,
Raises Firepower
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The War Department, seeking
to step up the fighting efficiency
Of the Army ground forces, has
ordered infantry divisions re-
duced in manpower and motor
vehicles and greatly increased in
firepower. Normally, the infan-
try division is made up of $4,000
men.
The unofficial but authoritative
Army and Navy Register, reporting
a sweeping reorganization of troop
units, said today that the motorized
divisions will be eliminated as sep
arate organizations.
The Register published a partial
text of War Department circular No.
256, dated October 16, which dis
| closed:
Cd The infantry division, Of ap.
proximately $4,000 men, Is being re-
duced 8 per cent in strength and IA
per cent in motor vehicles, at the
same time being greatly increased in
firepower.
| CD The motorized division Is
eliminated as separate type OF or
ganization. Infantry divisions will
be transported by troop transport
battalion, and all infantry division
training will include such transport
tation.
Artillery Strength Raised.
60 Regimental organizations are
eliminated in the armored division,
which in the future will have three
tank and three armored infantry
battalions of increased size and
strength, the divisions artillery and
infantry strength being greatly In
creased in relation to tank strength.
(4 A new type of light division
"is being tested" for amphibious,
airborne, mountain and jungle OPP
erations. It's aggregate strength
will be less than that of an infantry
division, but its firepower approxi-
mately the same in small arms and
automatic weapons.
90 The divisions organic defen-
sive weapons, such as tank destroyer
battalions and antiaircraft, are be-
ing limited, and a pool of anti
aircraft artillery and tank destroyer
battalions provided under corps Of
Army control to reinforce threat
ened points.
CO. The corps will be relieved Of
administrative duties, which will be
concentrated at headquarters of the
field army. so that the corps be-
comes purely tactical and training
organization Except when it func-
!; tions as separate" corps, when
, it is in effect a small army.
Stats Reduced.
The circular notes also that the
number of staff officers, even at
Army headquarters, is being reduced
generally TO provide only sufficient
personnel for combat needs since op-
erations cannot be swift and eff
fective if staffs are large and
clumsy"
In general says the circular, the
purpose of the reorganization Is to
| obtain maximum use of manpower,
provide greater flexibility in organi-
Zation for economy of force and
massing of strength at the decisive
point, reduce headquarters and
other overhead to keep pace with
modern transport and communica-
ton facilities, and Ito provide COM
manders with the greatest possible
amount of offensive power through
reduction in passive defensive ele.
ments."
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Revival Series Scheduled

Revival services are to be con.
Quoted at the Cherrydale Baptist
Church, Arlington, by the Rev. J.
Harold Smith, of Knoxville, Tenn,
each evening through Friday. He
will speak at both services, II am.
and pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
20 Flee Unhurt as Flames,
High Sweep District Bus

More than 20 passengers escaped
injury last night when a Tenley
Circle -Pinehurst crosstown bus
caught fire and was nearly destroyed
at Forty-first and Mckinley streets
NV.
Driver Aubrey w. Johnson, 444
Grosvenor lane, Bethesda, Md, had
stopped at the corner, when some one
shouted fire. He pressed a treadle
opening both doors of the bus so that
passengers could escape, but re-
manned in the bus until the last
passenger was out Just after he
made his own escape, flames shot
out Of the bus and rose 80 feet in the
air.
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Mrs. Scripps, Hawkins Wed

MINDEN, New, Oct. % (P.-Mar-
garet Culbertson Scripps, widow of
Robert P. Scripps, and William w.
Hawkins, chairman of the board of
Scripps- Howard newspapers, were
married by Justice Of the Peace
James Hickey at the courthouse
Thursday.
Evening star., 1943-10-23

No. 81 engine company and two
fire engines from Chevy Chase, Md.
extinguished the fire. Police today
had not decided what caused the
blaze. but thought that it possibly
was due to leaking gasoline line.
In another automobile fire last
night, a car owned by Fred K. Marks
9 Sixth street NE, was damaged to
the extent of about $50 when il
caught fire in front of firehouse in
the 1900 block of Florida avenue NE
Firemen from No. 10 engine COM
pany and No. 13 truck company
which are housed there, quenched
the flames.
Evening star., 1943-10-23

Wini Shaw, who is in Washington
for an engagement at the Capitol
Theater, assuaged her grief over
her brothers death by rejecting
that war causes people in all walks
of life to suffer.
There are no class hatreds over
seas among men in uniform" she
told reporter. 'They are fighting
for the same cause. It's a shame
that it took a war to bring closer
together the boy from Hell's Kitch-
en- and the Bowery and the son of
the rich man. They never met
when the world was at peace"
Has New Perspective.
Her brothers death, her morale
trip overseas, have given the enter
tainer a new perspective, she said.
Things that were once so impor-
tant to people don't mean whoop
now" she said.
when I learned Of brother Bills
death, I was shocked beyond eX-
preston. I couldn't talk, but neither
could I give way to my emotions.
When one moves among suffering
one must school ones emotions if
cheer is to be offered another.
wounded boys lying in hospitals
are glad to receive visit from an
entertainer, especially women. All
the girls abroad spent from three to
four hours each day in hospitals
writing letters for those who couldn' t
write we'll.
"They will let their hair down to
a woman, but not to another soldier
They would show me pictures of
their wives, mothers, kid sisters and
their sweethearts and tell me about
their plans when this war is over
You learn to know how they feel
deep inside"
Miss Shaw was one of 13 children
II of whom were born in Hawaii
She has two other brothers, George
and Charlie Shaw, in the armed
forces. George is with the Navy
in the Pacific, and Charlie is "up
north with the Army in cold
climate" She said her brother Bill
was in the Army before Pearl Harbor
and that she had not seen him for
"a months.
"It's good to know" she said,
that he had real buddy who
carried out promise"
Evening star., 1943-10-23
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Continued
cool with moderate winds this after
noon, cooler tonight and Sunday
morning.
Maryland and Virginia-C Continued
cool this afternoon, cooler tonight
and Sunday morning.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
clear at Great Falls.
Evening star., 1943-10-23

Domestic help Is hard to find
but you may find 1t through .
Want Ad" In The Star.
Evening star., 1943-10-23

Hts common sense to be thrifty
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