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Evening star., 1943-05-18
1rippe Given Dollar Award
For Foreign Commerce Aid

Juan Trippe, president of Pan
American World Always System,
has been chosen to receive the Rob-
ert NJ Dollar award for outstanding
achievement in promoting our for
eign commerce The award of a
gold plaque will be made this fall
during Foreign Trade Week"
Previous recipients of the award,
established by the head of the DOL
lar Steamship Lines. were Secretary
of State Hull. Undersecretary Welles,
Thomas J. Watson, president of In
ternational Business Machines Corp,
and Eugene p Thomas, former head
of United States Steel Export Corp.
More than Is years ago Mr.. Trippe
and associates undertook the job of
linking America and its foreign mar
kets with more rapid, more de-
pendable means of transport and
communication than European COM
petitors could match. He visualized
an aerial merchant marine under
the American flag which would pro-
vide time advantage for American
worldwide commerce.
To make practical an interna-
tional shipping service, Mr.. Trippe
successfully concluded negotiations
with % foreign governments, to the
end that cumbersome and costly
paper work was eliminated and swift
clearance given American trade
shipments.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Davis Wants Billion
For Commodity Credit
To Boost Crop Output
| Asks Congress to Roise
Borrowing Powers Of
Agency as War Measure
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Food Administrator Chester
Davis asked Congress today to
continue the life of the Com
modify Credit Corp, with an ad-
ditional $1,0O0,0OO,OOO borrow
ing power, amid indications of a
brewing fight over the subsidy
program.
An exchange between Mr.. Davis
and Representative Wolcott, Repub-
lican, Of Michigan, during a session
OF the House Banking Committee
on the merits of subsidies was cut
short by plans for House action on
the tax bill Mr.. Davis will resume
his testimony tomorrow.
The food administrator described
the credit agency as the most con-
venient" through which to contract
with farmers to support prices "in
order to get the production we
want"
Congress, said Mr.. Wolcott, has
pretty we'll indicated that it doesn't
like subsidies. Yet, here you are
perhaps not in defiance of Con-
gress, but certainly against its
wishes-coming up here" seeking
the additional borrowing authority
Mr.. Davis replied that it is his
responsibility to get production of
food. and spoke against the danger
of tagging the subsidy label" on
the CCC, program.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Germicides Cost Army
S7,O00,OOO in Year

BY the Associated Press.
JERSEY CITY. N. j., May 18.-To
keep the American soldier as free
from dirt and germs as possible the
Jersey City Quartermaster Depot
spent nearly s7,OO0,O0O in one year
for everything from fly paper to
diShwashing compounds.
Development of soap which
lathers in salt water and a rinse
which steril.zes dishes in cold water
were announced by the depot today
in review of this phase Of Army
housekeeping.
Among the purchases were $4,000
boxes of fly paper and $4,000 boxes
of fly ribbon. 3l.OOoooo pounds of
soap. more than 8 tons of securing
powder and 4.732 $3.50 tubes and bot
ties of calcium hypochlorite for
purifying water supplies.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Phone Charges
Continued From First Page.

the Federal body has Jurisdiction
over surcharges collected by hotels
and clubs on calls between tele-
phones in Washington and tele-
phones outside the Washington met
ropolitan area, and on calls be-
tween telephones within Washing
ton and telephones outside of the
city but within the Washington
metropolitan area to which inter-
zone charges apply.
Such surcharges, the FEC said
were found to be for interstate or
foreign telephone communications
The Commissioners concluded that
It's jurisdiction over the surcharges
was not hindered by the District
Emergency Rent Act.
Ask Filing Of Schedule.
The FEC members proposed that
the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. be required to file tariff
schedules with the Federal commits
sion showing all such charges not al
ready listed in their schedules and
that the telephone company should
terminate such collection or imposi-
ton of'charges unless and until they
are properly shown in effective tariff
schedules on file with this commits
Sion."
The FEC instituted the investi-
cation on its own motion in January,
1912, raising a question whether it
was proper for hotels, apartment
houses and clubs to collect special
charges in addition to the regular
toll charges made by the telephone
company when the surcharges were
not on file with the commission.
The order referred apparently to
the situation as it existed over the
entire country. The FEC said that
it was desirable for reasons Of con-
venience" that the situation in the
District be investigated first.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
0PA Policies Called
Economic Murder
In House Hearing
Small Businesses Say
Agency Is Seeking to
Control Retail Trade
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)

Earlier Story on Page A-1.)
BY the Associated Press.
Representatives of small busi-
nessmen appealed today for re-
lief from controls of the ONCE
of Price Administration and
branded the policies of that
agency economic murder"
The House Small Business Com
mittee heard from the following:
Rowland Jones. jr.. Washington
representative of the National Asso-
citation of Retail Druggists, speak
ing, he said. for $4,000 independent
retail druggists He charged that
the real purpose of OPA is the es-
tablishment of a socialistic system, +"
and added that the present policies
of OPA lead in that dicetion."
Rivers Peterson, managing direc-
tor of the National Retail Hardware
Association, who said independent
hardware merchants are being
forced out of business as a result of
OPA regulations attempting to
control every element of a trade
carried on by a retailer"
Henry w. Won Unruh, Cincinnati,
representing the American National
Retail jewelers. Association. He
said he spoke for 5000 retail Jew,
elers when I'VE claim there should
be no ceiling on jewelry prices"
Other witnesses are to be heard
Evening star., 1943-05-18

CHICAGO, May 1S R.- The
National Association of Retail
Grocers, stating it spoke for 800, 900
storekeepers, appealed to President
Roosevelt today for relief from new
price ceilings ordered by the Once
of Price Administration.
Retail grocers of the Nation,
shocked and stunned by the adver-
tised maximum prices on number
of canned goods listed in yesterdays
newspapers, face grave crisis" the
association said in a telegram to the
White House.
Items In some areas are actually
below replacement cost. and many
mean actual loss to retailers, con-
sidering operating costs, decreased
volume and other expenses.
Isn't it violation of Price-Control
Act for OPA to force changes in
business practice and to issue all
regulations without consultation
with industry which they affect?"
The association complained that
the OPA had not answered its pleas
for adjustment of price ceilings.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Tornado Leaves
; Children Alone
With ; Bodies
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
STOVER, Mo-, May 1S.-With
their parents and older brother dead
beside them, three small girls lay
semi-conscious all night through
rain, darkness and cold in the ruins
OF wind-wrecked farm home.
A tornado struck the Delmar Rapp
farm Saturday. The parents and
Burton, 11-year- old son, were killed
as the house was blown away and
outbuildings flattened.
A neighbor. Charley Haley, found
the three girls, Mary Ellen, q; June,
Z, and 10 Ann, 8, 13 hours after the
storm.
The girls had injuries which were
painful but not critical.
10 Ann told attendants this story
Il woke up in the night and was
cold. I crawled over to mother and
she was cold, too. I knew she was
dead. I knew II she hadn't been she
would have covered us up.
Daddy was cold, too, and I knew
he was dead. Robert was the same
way.
That's al I remember"
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Thomas WoodIock Gets
Notre Dame Medal
BY the Associated Press,

oy tHe ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK, May 18 fP,.-Thomas
F. Woodlock. author of THE Cath
olic Pattern and contributing editor
OF the Wall Street Journal" was
awarded the Laetare Medal for 1943
by the University of Notre Dame as
the outstanding Catholic lay person
in the United States.
The award was conferred at cere-
monies yesterday at the Manhattan
vile College of the Sacred Heart
here by the Rev. John j. Cavanaugh
vice president of Notre Dame. Pre-
vious recipients of the award have
included 1t. Gen. Hugh A. Drum
commanding general of the 1st Army
and the Eastern Defense Command
and former New York Gov. Alfred
E. Smith.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
District, 100 Other Cities
Face New Travel Survey

Washington is one OF 101 cities in
which new survey of train and in
terurban bus travel will be made
between May 81 and q, Director
Joseph B. Eastman of the Office of
Defense Transportation announced
this afternoon. Baltimore and
Richmond are among the cities.
AS in previous surveys, this one
will be carried out for ODT by the
Bureau of the Census. Representa-
tives of the bureau, stationed at
rail and bus terminals, will inter-
view passengers at random, with a
view of determining how and why
travel habits have changed as a
result of the war.
Passengers will not be asked to
give their names. but only where
they are going. why, and how often
on the average they take trips
Similar surveys were made in May
and October, 1912.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
T uxes
Continued From First Page

the Ruml plan as highly in
equitable"
Il am writing" he said, 80 that
you may know my views and In the
hope that a bill may be worked out
In conference that 1 can sign. -
l believe there should be substantial
adjustments to ease this transition
Ito pay-as-you-go). But there are
limits beyond which I cannot CO."
The President did not say directly
he would veto the modified Ruml
bill, but his letter was so interpret
ed on Capitol Hill.
Some Republicans pointed out,
however that Mr.. Roosevelt said he
could mot acquiesce," and this still
left open a possibility he might let
such bill become law without his
signature, in order to get the with
holding levy which the Treasury
strongly desires.
Senator George, predicting the
President would be sustained by
Congress in any veto of the skip-a-
tax-year bill, said it was unneces-
sary and unwise to write of a whole
years taxes.
When the bill goes to conference
we'll try and make it right" he said.
1T is obvious that If it Is not ac-
ceptable to the President, however.
he will veto it and that his veto will
be sustained.
Il think it wise for the President
to have made his position clear be-
fore the matter came to issue. Then
no one can say he vetoed the bill
without having advised Congress of
his wishes"
Senator George has been pressing
Tor adoption of q proposal to abate
about IS per cent of one years taxes
and provide for installment pay
ments of the remaining IS per cent
owed by each taxpayer.
Significance was placed In the
Presidents statement that "substan-
tial adjustments" were necessary to
facilitate the transition to pay-as-
you-go, this being taken as presi-
Dental approval for liberal abate-
ment, but not to the extent proposed
by Beardsley Ruml, New York
banker.
Emphasis was placed also in con-
gressional circles to q part OF Mr..
Martins statement, in which he in
dicated his party would oppose
future increases in income tax rates.
Mr.. Martin said the pending
(RumD bill should not be made the
vehicle for an increase In taxes"
Mr.. Roosevelt told Congress the
cancellation Of whole years taxes
would result in highly inequitable
distribution Of the cost Of war and
In an unjust and discriminatory
enrichment Of thousands Of taxpay-
ers In the upper income groups"
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Canada May Use Prisoners
In Lumbering and Mining
BY the Associated Pres

by the ASSOCIATED press.
OTTAWA, May 18.-Axis prison.
ers in Canada will aid the Allied war
effort by cutting timber mining and
working on farms if a government
proposal before the House of Com
mons is approved, Labor Minister
Humphrey Mitchell said yesterday.
Use of prisoners of war is being
made in England on labor projects
with satisfactory results, but al
most all prisoners of war interned
in this country are of German ma
tionality, and the extent to which
German prisoners may be success
fully employed can only be deter
mined from experience gained in
work projects initially undertaken"
Mr.. Mitchell told Commons
Prisoners employed will be Sc
lected from those volunteering for
employment and who are consid-
cred sufficiently reliable for
transfer to such employment and
suitable for work on the project to
be undertaken Mr.. Mitchell said.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Judge Jones Named
As Permanent Head
Of Food Conference
French Envoy Protests
Use Of English os
Official Language
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)
Earlier Story on Page ALL
BY GOULD LINCOLN,

HOT SPRINGS, Va, May lS.-
Meeting in executive session the
chairmen of the delegations to
the United Nations Conference
on Food and Agriculture, today
nominated Judge Marvin Jones,
head of the United States dele
cation, for permanent president
of the conference. This action
will be ratified by the conference
itself, meeting in plenary session
at 9 o'clock tonight.
The chairmen of the delegations
constitute the Executive Committee
Of the conference They approved
the regulations already drawn up
for the conduct of the conference.
The chairman of the French dele
cation, Herve Alphand, however,
challenged rule Is, which makes
English the official language of the
conference.
M. Alphand said he wished to en-
ter a reservation" against this ac-
ton, although he. would not press
it. He explained that French had
been traditionally the language of
diplomacy and had been used at
international conferences as the Of
f1cial language for a great many
years. He said he entered his pro-
test so that the adoption of English
as the official language of this con-
ference would not be considered a
precedent for future international
conferences.
M. Alphand was joined in this
position by the chairmen of the
delegations of Belgium, Haiti,
Greece and Luxembourg.
The Executive Committee adopt
ed resolution that the conference
should not continue later than June
3. The resolution was proposed by
G. S. H. Barton, chairman of the
Canadian delegation.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Gen. laurie'5 Ration Fine
Readjusted in Appeal
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 18.-Maj. Gen. Sir
Laurie, provost marshal general OF
England and a brother of a former
Lord Mayor of London, ended ur
$40 to the good today on his ap-
peal from fine and costs equivalent
to $2,347 imposed on him April for
alleged ration book offenses.
The Appeals Committee in London
Sessions quashed the earlier court
conviction on the charge that he
had supplied false information. The
committee wiped out $347 in fines
and costs and awarded him $21C
costs. Penalties of $1,000 each on
two other counts were reduced tc
$l00 each.
Gen. Laurie was suspended from
his post pending the appeal.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
War Bonds May Be Reduced
To Size of Old Dollar Bill
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
War bonds may be cut in half
but their value will remain the same.
Treasury officials disclosed today
they are considering plans to reduce
the size of the bonds to save paper
and shipping space and speed up
production
officials Of various Government
agencies have been asked for their
opinion on the proposal, but no de-
cision has been reached.
One proposal was reported to call
for the bonds to be reduced to the
size of the old dollar bill. That was
3A by 712 inches. The present bond
Is 7a by 81a.
Meanwhile, Secretary Morgen-
thau announced that William M
Robbins, who directed the Treas
ury's record-breaking Second War
Loan Drive. has resigned as chair
Evening star., 1943-05-18

man of the Treasury's War Finance
Committee and will return to his
post as vice president of the Gen.
eral Foods Corp.
Stuart Peabody, who was ma
tional director of sales and adver-
tising specialist, is also resigning
his Treasury post tomorrow and re-
turning to private business, Mr.
Morgenthau said. Mr.. Peabody is
director of advertising for the Bor-
den Co.
Both Mr.. Robbins and Mr.. Pea
body will continue to serve the
Treasury as consultants in future
bond selling activities. Mr.. Nor
genthau said they contributed
greatly to the success of the cam
paign and I am happy that they
have consented to give us the ben
eft of their experience in connec-
ton with future drives"
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Philadelphia Refuses
To Turn Over Water
Pumps 10 Detroit
Rejects Request From
Office of War Utilities.
Citing Own Needs
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 18,-City
officials rejected today a suggestion
by j. A. Krug. director of the Office
of War Utilities, that four 4O,000,-
000-gallon pumps intended for use
in water-system rehabilitation
program be turned over to Detroit,
Mich, to meet IAN emergency in the
Detroit area this coming summer" :"
Director of Public Works John H.
Neeson informed Mr.. Krug that he
was without authority to dispose of
city property purchased with money
specifically appropriated by the peo-
pie of Philadelphia for this specific
property"
Mr.. Krug had said in letter that
Detroit's pumps and transmission
facilities will be inadequate to main
tain the necessary minimum pres
sures during peak hours on peak
summer days and that there is in
sufficient time to manufacture and
install new equipment.
THE city of Philadelphia" he
wrote, will make a real contribu-
ton toward the effective prosecu-
ton of the war if it will enter into
negotiations with the Federal Works
Administration to the end that the
four 10000 ,000- gallon pumps now be-
ing produced tor the city =" to-
gether with four 2,000-horsepower
Westinghouse motors and motor
generator sets now in Philadelphia
and designed to drive the above
pumps be made available for us in
meeting the emergency in the De-
troit area this summer"
In his reply, Mr. Nseson said the
condition of Philadelphia water
supply system lis becoming more
critical daily due to greater demands
by war industries, increased popula-
ton and other features" and that
war production might be endangered
unless the situation is corrected.
The city's rehabilitation program
has been delayed by priorities.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Ry the Associated Press

BY the Associated PreSs.
The Right Rev. Msgr Edward j.
Flanagan, founder Of Boys Town,
Nebr., offered prayer in the House
today for an early consummation
of this world tragedy that will in
sure the future of man a peace and
a social security based on mans
high dignity"
Serving as guest chaplain, Msgr.
Flanagan said, in part:
Dear Lord, our Nation is en-
gagged in a great global war, war
being waged by powerful forces on
the one hand, whose totalitarian
philosophy threatens to engulf the
world into slavery, and on the other
hand, are the forces of democracy
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Maintenance Man Dies
After Fall at 6. u.

Joseph Lapore. chief carpenter
and electrician at Georgetown Uni
versity, died this afternoon ir
Georgetown University Hospital fol.
lowing fall from campus build.
ing on which he was working.
Police said he was wiring a sec.
ton Of quadrangle and fell is feet
from ladder to a brick pavement
He was taken to the hospital with q
fractured skull and chest injuries
and died q short time later.
Mr.. Lapore. 56, had been with the
university 25years. He lived at 333.
p street NV.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Women Lie on Tracks to Halt
Sendinq of Workers to Reich

the workers conscripted for German
factories failed to co. he said.
Grenier gave full account of ac-
tivities Of French guerrillas In the
last three months and produced a
sheaf Of underground newspapers
printed in France to document his
remarks.
He said the recently organized
council of French resistance, en-
bracing underground organizations
had disseminated an invasion day
plan to be set In operation the mo-
ment the Allies strike.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Roy, Conn.'s Manager,
Suffers Heart Attack
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, May 1S.-Johnny
Ray, manager Of Fighter Billy Conn.
was in serious condition in Mercy
Hospital today following a heart
attack.
Ray, who piloted Conn. now an
Army corporal, to the light-heavy-
weight title and a heavyweight title
bout with Joe Louis, suffered q heart
attack three years ago and was hos
pitalized for several weeks.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
18 Air|ines Oppose
Federal Operation Of
Companies After War
Urge U. S. to Work Out
international Pucts for
Reciprocal Privileges
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Eighteen airlines, replying to
a QUESTIONABLE on postwar in
ternational aviation, expressed
opposition today to any form of
Government participation in
their management or ownership
The questions were posed by the
Civil Aeronautics Board. The joint
ly-expressed views of the 18 air.
lines included:
The Government should work out
Immediately a reciprocal exchange
with other countries of the general
right of so-called innocent flight"
military, together with the
right to land for refueling and other
technical purposes. A distinction
alould be maintained, however, be-
tween the right of innocent flight
and the right to engage in COM
merce by air.
Caution on War Planes.
Surplus military transport air
craft. capable of conversion for tenn
porary peacetime use, should not be
made available on the cessation of
hostilities for unrestricted sale or
use which might adversely affect the
development by the United States
of its own domestic and foreign air
transportation and national Sc
curity.
Within the limits of wartime
conditions, aircraft manufacturers
should be authorized to prepare
plans and fabricate parts for the
conversion of military transport air
craft, prepare plans for future civil
and commercial aircraft, and COM
mence construction SO as to effect
more gradual and efficient CONVEX
sion of plants to a peacetime basis
There should be no limit on the
number of schedules or the number
of carriers operating between inter-
national points. Free zones should
be established to provide points for
unloading and storing cargoes.
maintaining repair facilities and
housing staff members.
Oppose Exclusive Rights.
In addition, airports and bases
throughout the world, financed by
the United States, should be made
available to American flag air car
riers on non-exclusive basis.
The airlines expressed vigorous
objection" to the creation of inter-
national air transport operations
conducted in whole or in part
through internationally owned and
controlled government corporations.
The report was signed by these
airlines:
All American Aviation, American,
American Export, Braniff Airways,
Chicago and Southern, Colonial,
Continental, Delta. Eastern, Inland,
Mid-Continent, National, Northeast,
Northwest, Pennsylvania Central,
Transcontinental & Western, United
and Western.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Shot Fired to Make Noise
Kills Mother of Two
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. May 18.-Charles Ia
lesky told a coroner's jury yester-
day that he fired the shot which
killed young mother lust to make
a noise
He testified his wife gave him a
"dirty look because he was intox-
icated at christening party last
night. He related that he went
home, angrily upset the furniture
picked up rife, stepped into the
street and discharged it twice "just
to make a noise"
One bullet hinged into a nearby
tavern and killed Mrs. Analia Nauss
Is, mother Of two small children.
The jurors held Talesky. %, a
laborer. for the grand jury on a
manslaughter charge,
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Gov. Dewey's Wife
Works in Hospital
BY the Associated Press


ALBANY, N. Y. May l8.-Mrs.
Thomas E. Dewey is working three
hours a day as volunteer at the
Albany City Hospital, the Governors S
office disclosed today, and has been
on duty 10 days
Her present assignment. the an
nouncement added, is to the operat-
ing room, where Mrs. Dewey and
other volunteers clean instruments,
roll bandages and prepare sutures.