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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
| WPB Executive
Quits, Says He
lust Sat-

The War Production Board was
labeled today as an organization
'crammed with confusion and idle
employees" by Norman r. Pond, jr..
who said he recently resigned an
executive position because he was
not given enough work to keep busy
Employed in the Smaller War
Plants Corp, WPB branch, Mr..
Pond claimed that, although. he
asked for more work he just sat at
a desk and did nothing. He said
he became disguised and quit.
Mr.. Pond said he came to Wash
ington in l94l as ''priorities spe-
cialist" in the WPB Ordnance Divi-
sion because Il wanted to take part
in the war program" He said the
WPB's explanation for breaking up
the ordnance unit in 1912 was that
1t was duplicating the work done
by the Army and Navy. Actually,
he said, the division was co-ordinat-
ing the efforts of the military
agencies.
Following this shake-up he said
he was shifted to the Smaller War
Plants Corp. where Il just sat"
Mr.. Pond said his salary was
IS 500 a wear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Stores Withhold Ads
In n. Y. Rate Dispute
Major Firms Reported
Protesting Times Action
Es the Associated Press.

Es the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 2o.-Ma ior
New York City department stores
have been withholding their adver-
Using from the New York Times
since March 8 in protest, retail and
newspaper sources said last night.
against an increase in advertising
rates.
Editor and Publisher. weekly
newspaper trade journal, listed the
stores involved as r. H. Macy g. Co..
Gimbel Bros. Saks Thirty-fourth
Street, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord and
Taylor, McCreery, B. Altman, Bon
wit Teller. Franklin Simon. Abra-
ham and Straus and Losers.
A spokesman for Abraham and
Stratus, who said the store was with
holding its advertising, was the only
department store executive who
would speak for publica ton.
The Times apparently was with
holding comment on the situation
but last Monday it carried a two
column box on the first page of its
second section which said:
The absence Of the advertising of
certain department stores from the
columns of the New York Times in
recent days Is due to a controversy
over department store advertising
rates and not to any shortage of
merchandise or new governmental
restrictions.
Editor and Publisher said the
Times told its advertisers on March
6 that it would rise its rates, effec-
tive in 60 days. because of increased
operating costs. The rate rise. Edi-
tor and Publisher said, ranges down.
ward from IA per cent in the week
day retail minimum rate and from
10 per cent in the Sunday retail
minimum rate. 1t affects all clas-
sifications.
1t is the first advertising rate ill.,
crease the Times has made since
1882.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Ex-Husband Of Duchess
Suffers Knife Wound
BY he Associated Fress.

ps AiN aSsDtlskfu I IrSs.
SANTA MONICA. Calf. March
20-The Duchess of Windsors first
husband, Earl Winfield Spencer, 40.
retired naval commander, was in a
nearby Long Beach service hospital
today suffering from two-inch
chest liberation.
Police Chief Clarence E. Webb said
he was advised that Mr. Spencer
had said that he had fallen against
a knife"
The only comment from Capt
William H Michael, commanding
offlcer at the Naval Hospital, who
identified Mr.. Spencer. was that the
victim was much improved and
would recover
DR.. Edison P Bacon said he was
summoned by MIR. Spencer's fourth
vile, Mrs. Lillian Spencer, about s
am. Thursday. He quoted her as
saying she returned home following
a brief absence and found her hus-
band lying on the floor. bleeding
profuseiv.
Nl' SptilctI. WHO fetlled from
active naval duty four years ago
married Wallis Warfeld of Balti-
more, now the Duchess of Windsor
Is wears ago, They were divorced
in 1927
His second marriage to Mrs
Marian J. Spencer, ended in divorce
six years ago, and his thnd wife
Mrs. Norma Spencer, was divorced
from him in 1910. He married his
present wife Mrs. Lillian Hackney
Spencer, two years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
1000 New York Police
Discourage 'kuggers'

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK. March 20-By dawn
today not a "mugging" had been
reported by police in New York
City during the previous hours of
darkness when a special detail Of
1000 policemen. the largest in the
history Of the department, patroled
the streets.
From 8 pm. Yesterday to 2 am.
the men in this detail, many of
whom had not been on street duty
In years, deployed through areas
OF the city where 'muggers" had
been active. Muggers usually seize
or knife intended robbery victims
on. dimmed-out streets.
These 1000 police. all in addition
to regularly assigned details. we're
reinforcements. Composing the de-
tall were detectives called in on
their day of, men taken from cleri-
cal duties, plain clothes men and
squads assigned to headquarters and
Police Commissioner Lewis j. Valen-
tlne,s own confidential squad. The
slx-hour tour was ordered by him in
addition to their regular duties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Army Hangs Soldier
For Assau|t-Murder
OF Texas Girl, 8
Sod Bless Ny Mother
Are Prisoners Last
Word on GoIIows
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LEON SPRINGS MILITARY
RESERVATION. Tex, March 90
Pvt George Schubert Knapp, 49,
year-old st. Paul Mimi draftee,
paid with his life on an Army gal
lows here yesterday for the murder
Of S-year-old Lucy Rivers Maynard
OF Bastrop last October s.
His last words before plummeting
from the nine-foot fresh pine scat
fold were: God bless my mother
Knapp was sentenced to hang by
general court martial October "a
after being convicted under war ar
ticles covering murder, criminal as
sault and theft. He pleaded in
nocent.
Yesterday he repeated his stead
fast denial OF assaulting the child.
daughter of former County Judge
and Mrs. c. B. Maynard of Bastrop.
Handcuffed, Knapp impassively
mounted the gallows stairs, talked
with the chaplain, repeated the
Lords Prayer.
The child disappeared on her way
home from school, Next day she
was found unconscious In a ravine.
On October 8 she died Knapp. ar
rested in Austin, admitted before a
general court martial he had left
the child in the ravine.
the draftee once had been con-
fined to a Minnesota hospital for
the insane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Nine. Chang 10 See
Arms Plant Group
Faces Busy Schedule
On Stop at Chicago
8y the Associated Press,

ny the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. March 20.-Half wav
across the country in her tour of
official appearances, Nine. Chang
Kai-shek scheduled a busy after
noon today for her second day In
Chicago.
A press conference led of her ap-
pointments. 1t was to be the
fourth official press conference for
the wife of the Chinese generals
simo since she appeared in Wash
ington as White House guest a
month ago.
The first lady of China also was
TO give an audience today to repre-
sentatives Of the Western Cartridge
Co. of East Alton, Ill, manufactur-
ers Of ammunition for rifles and ma.
chine guns used in China.
Among others scheduled to be re-
ceived by Nine. Chang during the
afternoon was delegation of Ro-
tary Club members who were to pre-
sent her with tribute scroll to her
self and the generalissimo and Ro.
tarians in China.
Nine. Chang. who is en- route tc
Los Angeles, scheduled no public
engagements for tonight. Tomor-
row she will visit Chicago's China
town and make a brief speech
Monday night she will appear at the
Chicago Stadium at a mass meet.
ing sponsored by a citizens com
mittee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
|OPA to Permit
| Butchers toCut
Ration Values
By The Associated Press.

ps tHc hssOEldJcQ frcsS.
Here's wrinkle in the meat ra-
tioning program which ought to
tickle bargain hunters. Butchers
will be able to have clearance sales"
OF some kinds Of meat at reduced
ration coupon values.
This possibility was described by
the Once of Price Administration
last night in a list of instructions
to retailers.
Generally, butchers will have to
charge coupon points-red coupons
in ration book No. 2-according to a
tabulation to be issued next week.
Officials got worried, however.
that, at least at the beginning OF
meat rationing, the point values
might be fixed too high to permit
consumers to buy certain kinds Of
meat. and these types might accord
ingly remain on hand too long.
Accordingly, OPA said, retailers
are permitted during the first two
months of rationing to lower point
values below the regular value when
absolutely necessary to move per-
lshable items threatened with
spoilage"
To avoid abuse of this authority.
OPA stipulated that butchers who
cut points must file detailed ex-
plantations with ration boards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Davis Sees New War
Unless Allies Solve
Postwar Problems
Boil Resolution Hos Put
People to Thinking, He
Says in Broadcast
BY the Associated Press.


Elmer Davis believes we'll have
another war on our hands within IS
years unless the people of the world
show more wisdom in handling post
war problems than they did in 1918.
In his weekly summary of the war
news, broadcast last night, the head
of the Office of War Information de-
clared that nothing going on now is
Of more vital interest to every
American than the conversations
among United Nations leaders here
and the proposals advanced by four
Senators for United Nations Or
ganization to prevent future agrees
sion.
These proposals. Mr.. Davis said,
may not get very far at present.
but at least they have set lot of
people to thinking"
U. S. Participation Needed.
And, he added, I'VE are going to
need all the thinking We can get, for
two things seem clear-first, that no
plan for world security will be work.
able without the participation Of
the United States; and, second, that
our Government cannot undertake
such participation unless the Amer
lean people are pretty generally
convinced that whatever plan may
finally be proposed makes sense"
Mr.. Davis expressed the opinion
that the present war never would
have happened IF there had been
more wisdom in the world at the end
of 1918" ~.
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt's
disclosure that several United Ma
tons conferences may be called to
consider postwar problems stifIened
today the determination of the Sem
ate group supporting the Ball reso-
luton.
Would Strengthen Presidents Hand.
1T would strengthen the Presi-
dents hand if the other nations had
assurance that the Senate was be-
hind him in laying the foundations
for future peace" said Senator Ball,
Republican, of Minnesota, who.
along with Senators Hatch, Demo-
GRAFT Of New Mexico, Hill, Democrat.
OF Alabama and Burton, Republican,
OF Ohio authored the resolution.
The Presidents press conference
statement yesterday that plans al
ready are afoot for a conference
on production and worldwide dis
tribution Of food after the war oc-
casloned little surprise in informed
Senate circles. That move had been
anticipated. as well as his sugges-
ton that another conference might
discuss general postwar relief &C
tiyities.
The Ball resolution proposes chat
the United States take the initiative
toward forming United Nations
organization that not only would
coordinate the member nations
resources for victory. but also would
provide postwar relief, set up ma
chipery for peaceful settlement Of
future international disputes, and
provide for a United Nations milf
tary force to suppress any futurs
attempts at aggression.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Retired British Admiral Returns
To Service as Convoy Officer

wasn't any reply for me to make:
he was the boss of the whole thing :"
The only answer to the battle of
the Atlantic, he said, is more and
faster escort vessels and planes-I
thought that was understood by
everybody" The admiral said that
improved and faster escort vessels
that are coming now are what is
wanted" as protection against Ger
man submarines which can make
20 knots now"
Sir Charles joined the Royal Navy
in 1897 at the age of IA, became a
captain in 1922, rear admiral in 1894.
vice admiral in 1888 and was ap-
pointed full admiral on April of
last year He served as aide de camp
to King George V in 1888 and during
the last war was mentioned In dis
patches in connection with the &C
ton against enemy cruisers on No
vember II, 1917.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
D. T.. Area Doctors
Hear Report on New
Fracture Treatment
Navy Surgeon Discusses
Stoder Method at
Richmond Meeting
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, March 20-The new
Stader splint method that permits
almost immediate use of a fractured
limb has a definite value, but offers
no postwar panacea in the treat
ment of broken bones. a Navy sur
geon reported yesterday.
The technique appears only to be
the best of one particular method of
treating fractures, said Capt Ca
mile M. Shaar, chief of surgical
service at the Philadelphia Naval
Hospital. at regional meeting of
the American College of Surgeons.
Good results in the trea tment OF
casualties, he added, depend main
ly upon accurate knowledge of the
fundamental principles and the
ability OF the surgeon and not mere
ly upon the use of certain methods
or appliances
Method Explained.
The Stader spllnt. designed by Otto
Stader, veterinarian. has been used
with success by the Navy and later
by the Army in this war. One OF its
principal advantages is found in the
fact that it permits ready movement
Of the patient after application. The
method consists of driving stainless
steel pins into the bone above and
below the break and fixing them ex-
ternally by an adjustable hinge bolt
between the pins. The metal catches
the stress that would normally be
borne by the bone if the injured
member were used.
Dr. Shaar said that while the
splint was the best of the external
fixation" methods of reducing frac-
lures and probably would be OF con-
siderable value to orthopedic sur
geons in civilian practice after the
war, the three other methods of
treatment will not be supplanted
The others are the plaster cast
skeletal traction or ordinary splints
and internal fixation, an operati tive
procedure using plates and screws.
Infection Danger Discussed.
DR.. Paul B. Magnuson, chairman
Of the department OF bone and joint
surgery at Northwestern University
said, however, that there was an
increased danger Of infection in the
use Of the Stader splint method and
that he had seen number of cases
in which the results obtained weren t
so good.
But he agreed with Dr.. Shaar that
good results in the treatment of
fractures depended on the surgeon
rather than the gadget employed.
More than $50 representatives of
the medical profession from Vir-
gtnia, Maryland and the District
heard speeches from members Of
both military and civilian life and
from WPB officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Wallace 10 End Visit
To COSTA RIGA Today
Vice President Plans to Be
In Ponomo on Monday
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN JOSE, Costa RIGA, March 20.
Vice President Wallace was to
conclude his three-day visit to Costa
Rica today with an airplane tour
OF the banana and coffee plsnta-
tons and inspection of q model dairy
farm on the slopes of Irazu Volcano.
He planned to go to Panama for
an official reception Monday. He
visited Panama briefly and inform
ally on his way here to inaugurate
his tour of South American coun-
tries.
An afternoons inspection of a
rubber plantation near the town of
Cairo, in the company of President
Rafael Calderon Guardia, and at
tendance at ceremonies inaugurating
the Inter American Institute of Az
ricultural Sciences, near Turrialba,
occupied most of the Vice Presidents
time yesterday.
In an address he said he hoped
that all Latin American republics
would cooperate in fostering the
institute which he described as a
center of Western Hemisphere ex-
periments in rubber production.
Later he said informally it was
hoped TO produce a rubber plant
Immune to plaques which heretofore
have limited rubber production in
Latin America
School children, waving flags lined
the smile drive from Turrialba to
the institute. Again the Vice Presi-
dent spoke in Spanish and his ad-
dress was carried by radio to San
Jose. where hundreds heard it in
the city's plazas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Kiska, Munda Attacked
BY American Air Forces

New aerial attacks on the Japa-
rese bases at Klska in the North
Pacific and MunGa in the South
Pacific were reported today by the
Navy
Navy Communique No 3ls said:
North Pacific.
y. On March l8 Klska was at
tackled by Army Lberator CConsoli-
dated B-24 and Mitchell North
American BIS bombers, with Light
nlngs Lockheed P-3S, as escorts
Results were not observed. All
United States planes returned.
South Pacific tall dates are Eas,
longitude
2 On March 20. 4 force OF Wild
cat Fighters tGrumman F4Fl
strafed japanese positions on Mum
da, New Georgia. All planes re-
turned"
The rald on Munda was the 96tr
against that base IN the Central Sol
onions, $50 nautical miles from
Guadalcsnal Air Field. The two at.
tacks on Kiska we're the 1871 and
18th delivered against that Aleu-
tians outpost of the enemy this
month
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Chinese Announce Repu|se
OF jap Counteratack

By the Associated Press
CHUNGKING. March 20--A jap
anese counterattack, launched by
the invaders after retreat Of their
eight columns south of the Yangtze
River, in the Hupeh- Human border
region, has been smashed, the Chi
nese communiQue said today.
In beating back eight Japanese
columns which crossed the river on
100-mile front, the communique
said, the Chinese at one time pene-
trated the strategically important
town Of Hwajung, one OF the four
anchor points newly established by
the enemy offensive. The Chinese
retired, however, after inficting
more than 100 casualties.
The japanese counteroffensive was
launched Thursday under cover of
Warplanes after the initial offensive
had been thrown back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Baltimore Soldier Goes
On One-Mun Job Drive
BY tbs Associated Press.

BY tbs Associated Press.
KEARNS. Utah, March 2o-Tech-
meal Sergt. Ebert Bish of Balti-
more knew there was a shortage
OF civilian applicants for office Jobs
at Camp Kearns, where he is sta
toned
So, when Sergt. Bish went to
nearby Salt Lake City on leave he
asked about every girl he met--at
soda fountains. IN movie Hobbies
and other public pIaces-if she
wanted a job. His efforts, Camp
Keans officials said, resulted in the
hiring of more than 100 clerical
workers.
Sergt. Blsh said that TO get the
100 applicants he talked to approx
mately 300 girls and only one cried,
Fresh guy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
British Physicians
Preparing 10 Meet
Beveridge Problems
PIons Drown Up for
Negotiations With
Health Ministry
BY HELEN KIRKPATRICK,
Foreign Correspondent OF The Sara ard
Chicago Daily News.


LONDON, March 20-The British
Medical Association has drawn up
the bases on which the medical pro-
fession is advised to negotiate with
the Ministry of Health on the ma
tional health services foreshadowed
in the Beveridge report.
A committee Of n has been ap-
pointed by the Medical World to
consider proposals for Matchmaking
medicine in Britain after the war.
The Medical Associa tons three
royal colleges of medicine. the So
ciety of Medical officers of Health
and the Medical Women's Fedora
ton will discuss with the Ministry
of Health ways and means of i'm
piementing the Beveridge report.
Opposition in Profession.
BY no means all of the medical
profession favors the national health
scheme. Many are determined that
private practice should be main
tanned at the same time.
Both advocates Of the scheme and
opponents admit that private prac-
tice would be inconsistent with a
real national health program and
that in order to succeed, it would be
compulsory for all doctors to belong
TO the scheme.
The British Medical Association
puts forward four bases for discus
sion by the profession and the gov
eminent
First. salaries. fees and condi-
tons of service must be nationally
agreed and universally enforced.
Second clinicians must be equal
in status and salary with admins
traitors.
Comprehensive Plan Needed
Third. health centers, hospitals
and health authorities must have
medical staff committees who would
advise on all professional appoint
ments. The planning of health
services must be on ma or scale.
Unless a sweeping, comprehensive
plan is presented, there willie con-
siderable opposition from both with
in the medical profession and from
the public to compulsory plan
Opposition is likely to develop, in
any case. There will be a fight on
the part OF both doctors and public
to permit private practice. or other
means by which patients may select
their own doctors.
This Is regarded by advocates of
the scheme as undermining the
main purpose. Some insist that
hospital accommodation must be
the same for all classes of patients,
and this will certainly be opposed
Copyright, 1919. CHICAGO Daily News. Inc !
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
Australian Minister
Calls for Vigorous
Drive Against laps
Must Not Give Them Time
To Make Full Use of
Resources, Dixon Says
b. The Associated Press.

d. t'S HsSOtidltu L ichc.
TORONTO, March 20-Sir Owen
Dixon. Australian Minister to the
United States, said yesterday that
the war against Japan must be con-
Quoted with vigor to keep her from
reaching a strength so great that
her defeat becomes a formidable
task for the United Nations, not
withstanding the concentration Of
their forces against Japan"
In an address before the Canadian
Club, Sir Owen said:
we cannot afford to be unduly
optimistic about the time We will
take to bring about the collapse of
Germany. But we may be sure
when the forces Of Great Britain
are released from that gigantic task
they will be concentrated on the
Pacific war.
BY that time the development of
United States naval military and
air power will be immense. but I'M
less meanwhile the war against
Japan is prosecuted with vigor and
determination and her military
strength is kept fully strained we
may expect her to make full use of
the resources at her command,
which now are SO great, that her
powers may grow until her COM
plete defeat becomes a formidable
task for the United Nations - -p
Referring to the prospect Of a
Japanese invasion of Australia he
said 'it has not been found easy to
read the Japanese mind with refer
ence TO these matters. 1t is never
safe to reason from what we would
do If we occupied their position .
Early last year they failed to
move against the Australian main
land when its defenses were rela-
lively weak. 1t does not follow that
the present preparations do not
threaten the continent"
The Minister praised Canada s
contributions to the Allied war effort
and said the west coast of Canada
geographically is important in the
campaign against Japan.
Even now from Vancouver sup
plies Of Canadian munitions and
materials are finding their way to
the South Pacific and Australians
are aware that the products of
Canadian industry are making no
inconsiderable contribution to the
war against Japan" he said,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-20
BY The Assoclated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK. March 20.--A retired
admiral in the Kings navy is now
doing his bit as a commodore. second
class, on convoy duty aboard mer-
chant ships
The ex-admiral, Sir Charles Cor
don Ramsey, Knight Commander of
The Bath, volunteered for naval
service last October shortly after he
retired from the navy at so. His
offer was accepted and he was made
commodore of conveys
AS commodore Of convoys. he said
Yesterday, he has to take orders
from young navy officers in the
escort
Once I was taking 80 ships out.
and / thought ! was doing well
enough, but I got licked of by
young Canadian lieutenant COM
t1ander, who told me to be quicker. q"
he unused good humoredly. There