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Evening star., 1943-11-25
Boston Police Shift
Demanded 10 Curb
Anfi-Semitic Strife
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON. Nov. 25.-Attorney Gen.
eral Robert T. Bushnell yesterday
called on Gov. Saltonstall to effect
IAN honest, thorough reorganiza-
ton" of the Boston Police Depart
ment as result of what he termed
"anti-Semitic lawlesSness" which
was "of assistance to the enemies
of the United States at war"
Mr.. Bushnell's statement was con-
tanned in letter to the Governor
commenting on recent report by
John F.. Stokes, State commissioner
of public safety, on the results of
State police investigation of al
legged anti-Semitic conditions in Bos-
ton.
Mr.. Stokes reported that outbursts
involving anti-Semitism were "a
police problem" and he blamed Bos-
ton patrolmen and sergeants for
their existence.
Policemen Assailed.
The Attorney General, saying
lower ranking policemen should be
held to strict accounting for enforc-
ing the law, asserted that a recent
fracas in the Dorchester section in
which four Jewish boys were arrest
ed "establishes an all-time record
for brazen disregard and abandon
ment Of equal and impartial law en-
forcement."
Between so and 300 persons parti-
cipated in that fracas, he said,
but there were no other persons
arrested
Bushnell said it would not be diff
ficult for police officers properly in
structed and directed" to find the
'ringleaders of a stupid local group.
Friction Is Cited.
Responsibility at the top" he
went on, cannot be evaded by max
ing the sergeant scapegoat for this
(the Dorchester) affair."
Bushnell and the Governor have
been at odds for several months
over Boston police matters, the
former demanding repeatedly that
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Bomber Crash in Texas
Kills Three Flyers

BY the Associated Press.
DEL RIO, Tex, Nov. 25.-Three
Laughlin Field flyers were killed
in the crash of a medium bomber
near their base yesterday.
The public relations Office listed
the dead: 1t. Osvaldo Mercado, San
Juan, Puerto Rico; 1t. John C.
Martin, Wellesley Hills, Mass, and
Corpl. James Philip Lambers, Millers
Falls, Mass.
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Boys Group to Meet

The boys department of the
Southwest Settlement House will
meet at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
Settlement House, sol Second street
S.W., to discuss a COMMUNICATIVE
boys conference.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-05

PAINTER and paperhanger wants
work. Phone 1890. So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-14

So this is New Guinea, From the roll Of
their hospital ship. Army nurses view the
stronee lond upon which they ore about TO
d'sembork for their new wor service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-14

Army nurses behind the
fighting front in New
Guinea hove to take some
Of the things that go with
soldering along with their
nursing duties on thot en-
bottled isIond Of the South
west Pacific. They ore
taking them without O muir
mur-the tent life Of the
soldier, his lock Of Iuxuries,
his exposure to enemy roids.
They work with the best
modern medical equipment,
but not within the four VOLS
Of q hospitoI.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Hopkins Ex-Secretary
Cited for Goodness
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Al
glers, Dec. 23.-An American Red
Cross girl, who formerly was secre-
tary to Harry Hopkins, presidential
adviser, has been cited by the COM
mander OF an American Ranger bat
TALON for her GOODNESS under fire,
Lois N. Berney of Fallon, New. who
has been distributing doughnuts and
cof1ee to combat units, was cited bv
Maj. Roy A. Murray, as follows:
During the most inclement
weather my men have had to en-
dure since the beginning of the
Italian campaign, Miss Berney was
present at my forward command
post on November 16, 1943, and dis
tributed coffee and doughnuts to all
my men. Our bivouac area is /
mile from our forward outposts and
is subject to harassing artillery fire
and on the aforementioned date an
enemy shell fell close during her
visit.
Miss Berney remained uncon-
cerned and her smile and cheerful
word for each man was, indeed, an
excellent morale builder. All officers
and men of my command express
their gratitude and thanks to Miss
Berney."
In transmitting the citation to
headquarters, 1t. Gen. Mark w.
Clark added praise for Miss Ber-
ney's work and similar work done
on the same front by other Red
Cross clubmobile girls.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Nazi Revenge Threat
|After Kharkov Trials
Discounted Here
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Germany's threat to IDEAL with
Anglo-Saxon prisoners who are &C.
cused of having committed grave
violations of international law" Is
believed here to be propaganda
chiefly for home consumption.
In the first place, international
law puts in entirely different cate
gories American and British avi-
ators who carry out military opera
tions over German cities and Nazi
soldiers and Gestapo men who mur-
der innocent civilians.
For another thing, the United
States has three times as many
German war prisoners as Germany
holds Americans-should the Nazis
choose to disregard international
| law.
| Britain Still Holds Hess.
Rudolph Hess, who flew to Eng
land in the spring of 194l with a
Nazl peace plea is still in Jail there.
There have been reports that the
Russians are pressing for a trial
OF Hess, but no move has yet been
announced.
There has never been an exact
definition of just what constitutes
a war criminal" but the most
likely formula is to consider acts
criminal if they may not properly
N of
operations.
The German threat was an
nounced by the Berlin radio as the
Nazl answer to the Kharkov trials,
resulting in the execution of three
Germans and one Russian for atro-
cities against civilians. The four
confessed to numbering innocent
civilians and said they were carry
ing out orders.
Given Many Warnings.
The accepted principles about
treatment OF noncombatants in oc-
cupied territories are that they
should be dealt with humanelv, On
several occasions, President Roose-
welt has warned the Axis that per-
petrators of atrocities will be pun
iShed after the war.
If the Germans attempt to sat-
lsfy their bomb-dazed population
by taking vengeance on captured
Allied airmen. they will be acting
in violation of the Geneva conven-
tions on treatment of prisoners OF
war. which they signed.
The japanese violated the con-
ventions when they executed Amer
lean aviators who bombed Toxic
and Southwest Pacific islands. but
Japan never signed the pacts.
President Roosevelt nevertheless
promised retribution against Jap
anese responsible for the killings.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
ice Decision Denies
Separation Of Races
On Trains Is Illegal
BY the Associated Press.

Segregation of races on railroad
trains, where equal accommodations
and services are provided, does not
constitute unlawful discrimina-
ton" the Interstate Commerce
Commission ruled today.
In dismissing a complaint filed by
18 colored seamen against the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad, the ICC
said the right of railroad to main
tain rules separating white and COL
ored passengers had been upheld
by court decisions.
The complainants had asked for
a bold declaration that segregation
in and of itself must today be re-
garded as constituting an unlawful
discrimination even in those cases
where the Negro, while segregated,
Is actually furnished with equal IA
cilities and accommodations.
What camplainants asked us to
decide is, in its essence, a social
question and not question of in
equality of treatment such as is
prohibited by Section 3 of the On
elStdIe SullllileICt) ACt, IIlc COlu-
mission commented.
The complaint grew out of a trip
from Tampa, Fla, to New York
more than three years ago. The
complainants alleged that the rail-
road refused to serve them break
fast and dinner in the dining room
and that they were allowed to eat
lunch in the dining car only after
white passengers had finished. They
said the railroad sought to serve
breakfast to them in a Pullman car.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Foremen End Strike
AT Willow Run Plant
BY the Associated Press.

by lne Associated PTeSS,
DETROIT. Dec. 23.-Settlemen,
Of a dispute that caused a walkout
by several hundred foremen at the
Willow Run bomber plant of the
Ford Motor Co. and curtailed pro-
duction in the manufacturing de-
partment by as much as so per cent
was announced Yesterday.
Details of the settlement were not
disclosed.
Emerging from conference with
Ford officials. Robert H. Keys
president of the Foremen's Asso-
citation of America, an independent
union, said:
"All foremen employed at the
Willow Run bomber plant are re-
quested to return to their Jobs i'm
mediately on their respective shifts
The dispute has been settled.
Earlier, a Ford spokesman had
reported approximately 500 of l,l0O
foreme nat the plant were absent
from their day-Shlft jobs, and that
in addition to the slump in output
of the manufacturing department
subasSembly production was off 1C
to Is per cent.
The dispute involved the FAA's
claim to recognition as bargain
ing agent for the foremen. An
agreement between the company
and the union expired November
and was not renewed. The actual
walkout was precipiated yesterday
by the disciplining of a plant COM
mitteeman of the FAA.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Dyess
Continued From First Page !

t c.
ton launches. He also Strafed troops
and docks and caused numerous
casualties.
When Bataan fell, Col. Dyess re-
fused to leave some ITS Air Forces
men and 25 officers because there
was no way to take them, too.
Press dispatches said that after his
squadron's planes We're shot up he
led his forces with rifles, machine
guns, grenades and knives to kill 500
Jap marines.
He and small group of men
moved back into the Philippine hills
IN an effort to continue fighting. In
December, 1912, his parents were
notlned ne was japanese prisoner
How he escaped is still clothed in
military secrecy He returned to this
country wearing the Distinguished
service Cross, the oak leaf cluster
TO the DISC, the Legion of Merit. the
silver Star and tWo-cluSter grour
citation.
his widow, Mrs Marajen Dyess
survives. His father. Richard Dvess
chairman of the Albany tTexD Draft
Board, asked that the body be re-
turned there.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Sailors Complete Ship
Tied Up by Dispute
BY the Associated Press

DS tilt associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 23-IJni-
formed craftsmen of the NAVY took
over the jobs Of civilian machinists
and finished I'D a naval vessel yes.
teroay after CIO machinists were
accused by a wartime shipbuildine
committee of refusing to do the
work unless paid higher wages.
The Pacific Coast Joint Commit
tee for Shipbuilding and Ship Re.
pair declared Machinists' Union
1904, Oakland, demanded the sl.34
an hour ship repair rate for the
Job, instead of the $l20 paid or
new construction work.
The committee, headed by Vice
Admiral John w. Greenslade. con.
tended the ship, built at a Stockton
yard which had no drydock facili-
ties. was brought to Moore Dry
dock Co at Oakland for completion
The union argued the job consti-
tuted repair work.
James P. Smith. business agent
for the union. saying we are pre-.
pared TO SIT down and negotiate any
misunderstanding" declared the
Navy Department in Washington
had directed several months age
that boats sent into a repair yard
or the repair division of COM
bination yard would be paid for al
repair rates"
The committee declared the union
attitude violated the Pacific Coast
ship repair agreement in which labor
agreed TO accept new construction
wages and working conditions un-
less the vessel, upon which the work
is performed, has been completed
finally accepted, and has made q
passenger or cargo-laden voyage. or
voyage in the service for which II
was constructed "
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Bishop-e|ect Dun Due
Here During Holidays

Bishop-elect Angus Dun may
come to Washington sometime dur
ing the holiday season for short in
formal conferences with leading
Episcopalians here, it was indicated
today
No official information concerning
DR.. Duns program was available at
the cathedral, where it was said he
was arranging an informal program
until his conservation, probably
sometime next spring at Washing
ton Cathedral.
DR.. Dun, who is dean of the Epis-
copal Theological School at Cam
bridge, Mass, was elected fourth
bishop of Washington to succeed
the late Right Rev. James E. Free
man.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
British Officials Restore
Names Of Liberty Ships
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 23.-A Brit
ish shipping official says the English
merchant shipping mission in Wash
ngton has restored the original
American names of several Liberty
ships, under pressure from the
Maritime Commission.
The spokesman also told the Bal.
timore Sun that whenever obi &C.
tlons have been raised about the
changes, original names have been
restored" and indicated several such
restorations are planned.
His statement was made after
Maritime Commission representa-
tives and officials of the Bethlehem
Fairfield Shipyard, Inc, of Balti-
more said names Of some Liberty
ships had been changed after elab-
crate christening ceremonies at the
yards
Liberty ships allocated to the Brit
lsh government now carry place
names prefixed with Sam" in trib-
ute tot'Uncle Sam"
Evening star., 1943-12-23
zion Howitzer,
Ferried by Plane,
Defeated Jops
BY the Associated Press


SAN JACINTO ORDNANCE DE-
POT, Tex, Dec. ga Flying For
tress carried 1000 pound 105-mm
howitzer from Australia to New
Guinea and saved a battle for the
Americans, the Army revealed to-
day.
The spectacular flight, the first
time one Of the immense howitzers
had been carried into battle BY
plane, was during the critical times
when japanese troops were driving
across the Owen Stanley Range
toward Port Moresby
Gen. Douglas Macarthur told 1t
Gen. George C. Kenney, his all
force commander, that he must have
a howitzer within 48 hours.
1t was taken to pieces, lashed ir
the plane and reassembled just in
time to pour such a heavy fire into
the japanese that they were forced
to retire.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Exchanged Prisoner of Jops
Says |nternees Are Optimistic
Navy Officers Wife
Will Spend YuIe
With Sister Here

Mrs. Eleanor Watkins, formerly OF
Washington who was interned by
the japanese at Manila, said today
that the nearly 5000 Americans left
in the Philippines are the most
optimistic people on earth"
Rumors run wild there, she said
and almost all the Americans on the
islands expect an American victory
by the end of this year She said
their optimism is one way they have
of keeping up morale.
Mrs. Watkins, wife of 1t. Comdr
N. P. Watkins, a submarine COM
mander on foreign duty with the
Navy, was taken prisoner in Manila
when Corregidor fell. Her husband
was on submarine duty there at the
time, and she had not heard from
him until she arrived in Mex York
aboard the Gripsholm recently.
He walked right into my state
she said. L hadn't known whether
he was alive or not until we reached
Rio de Janeiro and l heard from
my family that he had been pro-
NOTED several times and was COM
mander of a submarine"
Mrs. Watkins said her husband
had never seen their daughter,
Linda Jean, who was born in Ma
Mia May 18, 1912, They had been
married only a few months before
the war started
After the fall of the Philippines
she said she heard rumors of Japa-
nese atrocities, but never heard of
any actual incident of Japanese
cruelty to Americans. She said the
Americans at Manila had good med
ical care. provided by their own
doctors, and good food. although
the fare became somewhat monoto-
nous
Mrs. Watkins, daughter of the
late Col. Ralph E. Murrell, Army
Medical Corps, expects to spend
Christmas with her sister. Mrs. Earl
r. De Hart 728 Chesapeake avenue,
Silver Spring
Il really couldn't miss having a
merry Christmas this year" she
said. Its wonderful, just being
back
Evening star., 1943-12-23
1000 Ship Workers
.Iqnore U|timdtun1
In Cleveland Strike
BY the Associated Press

CLEVELAND, Dec. 23.-Approxi-
mately 1000 AFL craft unionists at
the American Shipbuilding Co.'S big
West Side yards today ignored a
regional War Labor Board ultima
tum and failed to return to work on
the morning shift. A company
spokesman said 1868 men reported.
The Walkout, now in its eighth
day, was precipitated by the COM
pany's discharge of the chief steward
OF III craft unions and has para
lyzed production of small warships
for the Maritime Commission.
The regional WLB announced pre-
vlously it would recommend that the
national board use the full wartime
powers of the National Govern
ment," including. if necessary, re
ferral Of the case to the President. "
if the men failed to heed the back
to-Work deadline.
Regional WLB Chairman Lewis
M. Gill advised union leaders yes
terday the recommendation to Ma
tional Chairman William H. Davis
could result in Government seizure
of the yard.
IF the Government does seize the
yard it will be for the purpose of
restoring production" Mr.. Gill de-
clared. Don't get the idea you're
going to get any concessions from
the Navy or the Maritime Commits
SION"
Howard Ward, the discharged
union steward and newly elected
president of the Boilermakers
Union, said he offered to remove
himself from the issue and ask for
strike vote, but contended the men
refused to cease their demands for
his reinstatement as a condition for
resuming work.
A company spokesman reported
Ward was fired for failure to do as
signed work. He said the company
took the position that the case
should come before the WLB for ar
bitration in accordance with pro-
visions of the contract between the
company and the union.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
VIA Asked 10 Prohibit
Prescriptions for Cream
Py the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23-Reportine
25 per cent jump in the sale OF
heavy cream under medical pre-
scriptions, the Industry Advisory
Committee of the New York-NeW
Jersey metropolitan area yesterday
asked the War Food Administration
to reconsider the permission II
granted for such sales,
DR.. J. c. Blandford, ex-officic
chairman of the committee, said ir
a letter to the VIA that the in
crease had created a distribution
problem.
He added available opinions indi-
Gated that heavy cream in ordinary
prescriptive use has little or nc
therapeutic or dietetic value superior
to cream of lesser butterfat content.
DR.. Blandford said the permitted
sale through medical prescriptions
was the sole exemption to the
Nation wide ban on the distribution
of so-called whipped cream.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Chinese to Address
Citizens YuIe Porty

Kung- -Shou Wang of the Chinese
Embassy will speak at the 9th an.
nual Christmas celebration of thu
Northwest-Central Citizens Associ.
alton in the Garnet Patterson Ju.
nlor High School. Vermont avenu,
and V streets NV, at $50 O'Clock
tonight.
His topic will be Road to Peace ;
Miss Lillian Evanti. concert anc
opera singer, will sing an origina
! selection.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Public Told 10 Expect
Tremendous Losses
In War in 90 Days

Tremendous American battle
casualties may be expected with
in the next 80 days, in the opin-
ion Of one highly placed Gov
eminent official.
The warning was injected into
an off-the-record news conference
yesterday, when the official, who
stipulated he was not to be quoted
by name, predicted that war losses
would mount threefold in the next
three months. This would boost the
present $4,000 casualty total we'll
over the half-million mark.
Hours after the statement had
been made, unofficial efforts were
made to lessen its impact by persons
who pointed out that 1t came from
a civilian and had no military sub
sanitation.
Invasion of Europe Expected.
When the remark was relayed tc
Director Elmer Davis of the Ohice
lof War Information for comment
he said:
only God knows what American
battle casualties will be-in the next
80 days or any other time
The statement itself-openly in
tended as jolt to civilian compla-
cency did not necessarily imply an
immediate invasion of Europe or
any other large-scale military un-
dertaking. However, there has been
general belief that the invasion of
Hitlers fortress" would be no later
than March, and both American and
British officials have emphasized
frequently that this undertaking
would entail terrific losses. There
have been recent disclosures that a
high-pressure building program is
under way to turn out landing craft
of the sort used in invasions.
Some of President Roosevelt
closest associates discourage any
thought of impending internal col
lapse within Germany. They are
convinced it will take a major mil
itary defeat to fold the Nazis. And
they are convinced that defeat can
come only at the cost of heavy AL
lied losses.
Public Jolt Held Need.
The officials prediction of coming
war casualties was intended pri-
marily for home front consumption
Some officials feel a tremendous
shock at home is needed to Jerk the
country out OF a feeling that the
war is about Won Other steps NAV
be taken to prepare the stay-at-
homes for the bloodiest news of the
war.
Offlcial motion pictures of the
marine fighting at Tarawa may be
released to the public soon, supple
Imenting the carefully expurgated
newsreels already out. Efforts may
be made to induce the Army and
Navy to turn loose, without editing,
the battle pictures of the future.
The idea is that the visual shock
Iof war might stimulate civilian
morale and give new vigor to home
front war production.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
MouIinie Given 18 Months
In Worthington Staying
BY the Associated Press.

SS Inc Associated fTeSS.
GEORGETOWN, Del. Dec. %
Carl "Frenchy' Moulinie. 38. Army
warrant officer stationed at Fort
Miles. was sentenced today to serve
l8 months in prison on a charge OF
involuntary manslaughter in the
shooting of Warrant Officer John H
Worthington. in the latter's Re-
hoboth Beach home November 4.
Chief Justice Daniel j. Layton
pronounced the sentence at special
session of the Court of Oyer and
Terminer, in which Moulinie was
convicted December 3 after trial on
a charge of murder.
The State charged that Moulinie
killed Worthington after quarrel
in which Worthington accused his
wife, Elaine Worthington, 25, OF
Washington. of intimacies with
Moulinie. Moulinie said the shoot
ing was accidental
Evening star., 1943-12-23

service in August, 194l, and served
at Boiling Field until September,
1912, when he left for overseas. He
was promoted to major while abroad.
Mrs. Dewsnup told relatives here
that Maj. Dewsnup, who was direct
ing morale activities, wrote her he
recently had completed hazardous
trip deep into the jungle to bring
out wounded men and expected to
go on another important mission
soon. He had informed his wife
in an earlier letter that while on
long trip into South China he had
ordered some fine silk, woven by
Catholic sisters in convent for her,
but would have to return to get 1t.
Relatives here include an aunt and
uncle. Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Lorin
Powell, 2800 Farm road, Alexandria
and Mrs. Clair Johnson, 272l Ter
race road Sc, conSin. Maj
Dewsnup is native of Salt Lake
CitV
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Blast Furnace Shut Down
In Iron Production Cutback

LORAIN, Ohio, Dec. 23.-One of
five blast furnaces at the Lorain
plant of the National Tube Co., a
United States Steel Corp subsidiary
was closed today in what the COM
pany termed the first major produc-
ton cutback here.
A decline in orders for pig iron
was given as the reason for the sus-
pension. The furnace had been op-
Grating continuously since 1887, pro-
ducing approximately $4,000 tons of
pig iron monthly.
The approximately 30 men en-
ployed on the furnace have been
offered other positions, the COM
pany said.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Spencer Connolly Rites
Held at Hunting Hill
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
TRAVILAH, Nd, Dec. 23-Spen-
Ger E. Connolly, 81. lifelong resident
of this vicinity, who died here Mon
day, was buried yesterday in the
cemetery at Darnestown, Md, after
funeral services at the Methodist
Church at Hunting Hill.
Mr.. Connolly is survived by his
widow, six sons and three daughters
his father, Patrick w. Connolly
Travilah; four brothers and two
sisters.