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Evening star., 1943-04-17
FLOYD Hamilton All In
As Guards Find Him
Covering on A|catraz
Once-BoId Desperate
CrowIed to Storehouse
After Two Doys in Cove
BY the Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17-Ten
years ago he'was a staggering des-
perado, confident with splitting pis-
tol in his hand. Yesterday they found
him cringing in fear in a storeroom
OF Alcatraz Prison, his clothing in
rags, his body lacerated from falls
on the rocky island from which he
tried to escape.
He was Floyd Hamilton, 36, one
time scourge of the Southwest in the
days Of the notorious Parker-Bar-
row-Hamilton gang of killers and
robbers.
For four days Hamilton had hid
den on grim Alcatraz after he and
three others made spectacular dash
for freedom. Prison guards thought
he had perished. Two of his COM
panions had been captured, and one
is listed as dead.
Hid Under Material.
Hamilton was found covering be-
meath a pile of material in a store
house.
Cold. wet, hungry and covered
with abrasions from falls on the
rocky shore, Hamilton Thursday
night crawled back to the building
from cave where he had hidden for
two days, Warden James A. John
ston said. He was treated for ex-
posure, exhaustion and lacerations.
The cave was the same refuge in
which prison guards had found Fred
Hunter, "a, a member of the Alvin
Karpis gang. and one of the quartet
which participated in Tuesdays S
abortive bid for freedom.
The other two were Harold Mar
tin Brest. 81, bank robber and kid
naper from Pittsburgh, who was
hauled from the waters of San
Francisco Bay by prison launch,
and James A. Boarman, "a, In
dianapolis bank robber, the only one
of the four to make good his escape
in death.
Boarman Shot by Guard.
Boarman was hit by bullet from
tower guard and disappeared be-
meath the water after slipping from
Brest's grasp
Warden Johnston said Hamilton,
who prison authorities previously
believed had drowned in the tide
which swirls around the island
prison in San Francisco Bay, never
got far from shore. When he got
down to the water Tin the attempted
escape) he grabbed a plank. He said
he discovered he couldn't make it
and that when he heard shooting
he climbed into the cave. He was
there when we took Hunter, in a
different part.
He knew he couldn't get away
and climbed out and up. A guard
found him beneath the material in
the storehouse as the search con-
tinued for the implement used tc
force the window"
A decade ago Hamilton and his
notorious partner in crime, the ci-
gar-smoking gun-girl, Bonnie Par
ker, and Clyde Barrow, among 9th.
ers, preyed on the Southwest. Bon
ME and Barrow died, riddled with
bullets. as they tried to run throush
highway blockade while sought for
murder.
Evening star., 1943-04-17
Spanish Peace Move Gets
Cold Shoulder Here
Pr the Associafed presS

BY the Associated Press.
A quick cold shoulder from Wash
ington indicated today an early end
for the peace move launched in
Spain by Generalissimo Francisco
frances foreign minister.
Emphasizing Secretary of State
Hulls brusque rejection at his press
conference yesterday of any thought
that Spanish mediation might lead
to a negotiated peace with the Axis,
Director of War Information Elmer
Davis said in broadcast last night
that Europe is Uttered with the
wrecks of nations that thought there
could be peace with Hitler"
1t was recalled also that outright
Axis peace moves in the past
when Germany loomed more power
full than today-met only cold re-
lection.
Mr.. Davis predicted that I'VE are
going to get plenty more of these
peace feelers in the coming months.
some of them from genuinely wor-
ried neutrals, some clearly insti-
gated by the Axis"
Evening star., 1943-04-17

ceremonies at Griffith Stadium. The
flag will be presented by Paul S.
Van Auken, deputy administrator
OF the District War Savings Staff,
and signifies that at least 80 per
cent of the clubs personnel are
buying War Bonds on the payroll
savings plan.
To 100000 bond purchase by
international Business Machines
Corp, announced yesterday by Presi-
dent Thomas ]. Watson, the Globe
Distributing Co. added $4,000 in
sales by employees in the first two
days of canvassing. Rubin Edla-
witch, president of the wholesale
liquor firm, said his employees, who
Will sell nothing but War bonds
through May l, had increased their
original quota of 100000 to "un-
limited sales"
A one-day drive at the American
Instrument Co., 5000 Georgia ave-
nue., Silver Spring, Md, netted SILL
500 yesterday. The plant, engaged
in war work, employs 100 persons
Yesterdays bond sale was in addi-
ton to the regular sale of stamps
and bonds through payroll deduc-
tions.
Edgar Morris, chairman of the
Business Division of the War
Finance Committee, reported that
100 men, divided into five teams,
are "blanketing the city and meet
ing with exceptional response from
War bond purchasers. The teams,
led by Martin T. Weigand, George
P. Mangan, John G. Scharf, Harry
L. Merrick and Joseph C. McGar-
raghy, was concentrating their ef-
forts on small investors.
New York Invests Heavily.
Since the beginning of the drive, a
preliminary Treasury survey shows,
nearly $50, 900 900 has been invested
in Government securities by State
and local governments. The Treas
ury, listing % subscribers, said it
assumed the eventual total in this
category would be higher. Pur-
chases were divided between "a per
CCAAV CCA CllASdCCS VI uluCDCCOIlCoo,
due April /. 1914; 2 per cent Treas
ury bonds due in about seven years
and 26-year ~ per cent bonds.
New York City tops the list with
purchases totaling $25 5,000, 900
trailed by Ohio. which bought $20,-
100000 for its teachers fund
Ohio also invested $15,000,000 in
State funds, figure equaled by
Illinois New York State and North
Carolina took $4,000 900 worth each
and California s10.800,000.
Other purchases were made by
Minnesota, $7,041 900: Los angeles
$4,250,000; Oregon, s4,122 900; Ne
braska. $3,725 600; Arkansas. $500,
600: South Dakota, 50 ,450 900: Utah
50 900 600; Virginia, 81, ,750 900; Pasa.
dena, $1,6O0O0O, and Kansas State
School Pension Fund. California
Compensation Fund, Metropolitan
Water District of Southern Cali
fornia. San Francisco Employment
Retirement System. and the Phila-
delphia Sinking Fund, $l,0o0,0oC
each.
Evening star., 1943-04-17
Spain Urges Peace
To Avoid Pro|oneing
War Unnecessarily
Foreign Minister Voices
Appeal in Barcelona to
Audience of Diplomats
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BARCELONA, April 17.-Spain
has come forward with an appeal
for world peace, voiced by Count
Francisco Gomez Jordana, Spanish
foreign minister, before an audience
that included the papal nuncio, the
ambassadors of Portugal, Argentina,
Brazil and Chile, and other men,
bers of the diplomatic corps from
South America.
United States Ambassador Carlton
j. H. Hayes was invited but re-
manned in Madrid, and United
States consular officers in Barcelona
were absent from the meeting, a
formal council of the Hispanidad
Organization celebrating the 450th
anniversary of the return of Chris
topher Columbus from his voyages
to America.
Jordana urged that peace come
before the war is prolonged longer
than is necessary" He said the
warning nations are too powerful to
gain either complete victory or COM
plete annihilation of the other.
However, Jordana declared, against
Communism I'VE continue fighting
and will fight as long as necessary
with all our forces"
Sees Vatican Aiding Peace.
The Vatican, he said, may doubt
less facilitate the coming (of peace)
and collaborate in the preparation of
treaties which will organize the
world. contributing to them its
equitable and dispassionate point of
view 40
The Hispanidad Organization, be-
fore which he spoke, is designed to
strengthen Spain's ties with the His
panic Americas.
Gn Washington, Secretary of State
Hull anwsered that the United
States clear objective was an alb
solute, unconditional surrender of
the Axis. London had no official
comment but Secretary Hull's state
ment was taken for granted as ex-
pressing the view of all the United
Nations.)
Spain, Jordana said, wants to
share the world postwar "revolu-
tionary convulsions" and he asserted
that to achieve either complete
victory or complete destruction of
foe there must be countless sacri-
fees. gigantic efforts and expendi-
lures. and destruction and eco
nonic losses far more considerable
than the material and moral benefits
which may be hoped for =.
Seek to Avoid Past Errors.
1--WE are confident that these most
noble intentions which inspire us
and which other nations share with
us will become realities in the not
distant future, thereby reaping
enormous benefits.
This is peace, justice and brother
hood in which we have placed the
greatest hopes. And if this is
achieved it will not only be the
base for thankfulness for our
countries but all of us who con-
tribute to it may feel satisfied before
God and the world for having
carried out one of the most trans
Evening star., 1943-04-17
Conversion Of School
Into Hospital Requested

A resolution requesting the Dis
trict Commissioners to convert and
remodel the Van Buren, School into
temporary hospital was approved
by the Anacostia Citizens Associa-
ton last night.
Other resolutions favored by the
group urged adoption of the Sum-
newspaper bill, to amend the Con-
stitution to empower Congress to
grant the District representation in
the House and Senate; the licensing
OF baby adoption agencies; cleaning
OF an alley near the new Cramer
High School, and urging Congress to
pass proposal to set up procedure
for electing delegates from the Dis
trict to national political conven-
tions.
Evening star., 1943-04-17
Archbishop SpeIImon
Leaves Malta for Africa

BY the Associated Press.
VALLETTA, Malta, April IT,
Archbishop Francis j. Spellman OF
New York left Malta yesterday for
Africa.
Before his departure he handed
IS 900 to Msgr. Caruana, Archbishop
of Malta. to be used to provide extra
nourishment for Malta's children. 1t
was donation from the Knights OF
Malta In the United States, of which
Archbishop Spellman is chaplain.
Evening star., 1943-04-17
"Sasscer Will Request
Funds 10 Guarantee
War Housing Removal
Temporary Structures
Are Vigorously Denounced
By J. H. Deckmon
(From Yesterdays Late Editions. }

(From Yesterdays Late Editions.)
Representative Sasscer, Democrat
Of Maryland plans to introduce q
bill providing for the creation of q
fund to guarantee the removal of all
temporary housing in the District
after the war, he told House SUBJ
committee today at a hearing on the
housing problem.
Discussing particularly two tenn
porary projects being erected ir
Maryland by the Alley Dwelling
Authority, one at Forest Glen and
the other between Riverdale and
College Park. Representative Sasscer
said funds for the removal of such
projects should be set aside from
rentals of the properties.
The subcommittee, headed by Rep.
resentative D. Alesandro, Democrat
of Maryland, also heard temporary
housing in Washington vigorously
denounced by Joseph H. Deckman
chairman of the Federation of Citi-
zens Associations Committee or
Housing and Rent Control. Mr.
Deckman presented the same report
he offered at a meeting of the Fed.
Grafton two weeks ago and appended
a six-point program to relieve the
situation.
Mr.. Deckman urged Congress tc
institute its own investigation tc
ascertain the true facts in the mat
ter. Such investigation, he felt
would support the Federation's find.
ings.
John Ihlder, executive officer of
the ADA, explained that his office
is engaged on housing projects under
the National Housing Authority, but
that contracts are let through open
competitive bidding and not award
ed on cost-plus or percentage
basis. Mr.. Ihlder indorsed Repre-
sentative Sasscer's postwar plans.
Chief Stephen T. Porter of the
District Fire Department assured
the committee Washington need
have no fear of a holocaust similar
TO the Cocoanut Grove fire in Bos-
ton in which 400 persons lost theil
lives. No night clubs that might be
fire traps exist here, Chief Porter
said, and all have been inspected
and found to have proper safe
guards.
Proprietors have been co-operat.
ing with the department to the full
est extent of their power, he told the
committee, citing one instance
where inf1ammable decorations were
found in club but removed before
the fire inspector left the place.
Mr.. Ihlder told the committee the
three most immediate needs of the
ADA were appropriation of s5,00o,-
900, approved by the Bureau Of
Budget and authorized by Congress
restoration of the unexpended bal
ance and current revenue under the
first title in the Alley Dwelling Act
! and enactment of amendments II
the act as submitted to the House
District Committee last year.
Gentlemen prefer blonds-patriot
Evening star., 1943-04-17
department to conform with State
inspection laws In distributing seeds,
fertilizers and other farm ma terials,

fertilizers and other farm materials.
Larger FSA Program Asked.
Meanwhile, the National Farmers
Union issued this statement asking
for much larger farm security pro-
gram:
I'm the absence of a thorough re-
organization of the entire Depart
ment of Agriculture, which was pro-
vided for by the President four
months ago but now so long de-
layed that 1t could not be carried
out this crop year. the Farm Sc
curity Administration should be
continued and expanded to do this
job for small farmers.
ITO do the job right. a billion
dollars ought to be available"
Opposition to the FSA, the Ma
tional Farmers Union said, came
from those who want cheap farm
labor and great mass of inefficient
farmers as competitors.
The Executive Committee of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
however, issued statement in Which
it said that it favors reducing the
appropriations for FSA-transferrinp
its lending functions to the Farm
Credit Administration and its educa-
tional features to the Extension
Service.
Evening star., 1943-04-17

Gentlemen prefer blonds-patriots
prefer bonds. Buy now.
Evening star., 1943-04-17
War Loon
Continued From First Page. }

other SOC. .000, 900 In discount bills,
according to expert calculations.
Thus, with IS ,253 ,000. 900 already In
the till and the additional $780,
900, 700 expected from the banks,
the Government apparently can
consider more than half Of the
81. .000. 600, 900 accounted for.
Meanwhile, on the local front,
the Washington Baseball Club viii
step into the spotlight at IL am
Monday when It receives. the
Teasurys Minute Man Flag n
Evening star., 1943-04-17
Double Cherry Blossoms
Moy Appear by Tuesdoy

A little warm weather will bring
the double-b blossom cherry trees
around the Speedway to full bloom
by Tuesday or Wednesday. the Ma
tlonal Capital Parks ONCE said
today.
1t was said. however, that If the
present weather continues the
blooms will be delayed "for day or
two"
Evening star., 1943-04-17

cendental tasks recorded in history"
Jordana said that the Vatican's
point of view would enable the world
to avoid falling into past errors
which had such tragic consequences
and which would have even greater
consequences now"
Evening star., 1943-04-17
Dr.. N. P. Nelson Elected

CINCINNATI. Ohio, April II (P.
DIR. N. P. Nelson of Washington,
D. c., has been named executive
secretary of the American Associa-
ton for Health, Physical Education
and Recreation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-20

story of American initiative and
enterprise and drive.
For the past eight months.
quietly and without fanfare, huge
road conveys of American army
trucks. with L. ). Negro troops
as their crews, have ploughed mil
lions of miles to bring vital sup
plies of war materials TO Darwin
and North Australian bases
These conveys, which have more
than doubled the quantities OF sup
plies that formerly went by road,
are operated 10y the L. $. Army
QuartermaStor Corps, motor trans
port command. The Sparkplug of
that command IS Col LandcS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-20

even more precious rubber tires
can he saved. Those trucks roll
northward loaded 10 the gunwales
with war supplies, but they don't
roll southward7-not all Of them.
The colonelS scheme works out
this way. When the trucks are
ready for the return trip, a or a
ton grader is loaded into a tw
and-a-half-ton truck, then both
are loaded onto a semitrailer. It's
simple arithmetic from then on
u tires, 10 on the truck and two
on the trailer. have no work TO do
and no wear and tear on the
trip.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-20
u. s. TO Request
New Indictments
In Sedition Case
detroit Time. washington Rurrou

WASHINGTON March 80
The department Of Justice will
seek ncw indictments I'm the mass
scdlton' case u was announced
here today by tho government
prosecutor O. John ,RogGe, during
legal arguments heanC heard be-
fore L. s. District Court Justice
Jesse c. Adkins.
Tho evidence VIII be presented
10 The April grand curry charging
anew that }} persons and one cor
poraton had conSplrcd 10 under
mine the morale of the armed
forces.
Tho original indictments, OBJ
tanned hy special assistant L. S.
Atjy William Power Naloney,
have been under atLagk by mem
bors OF Congress wh3 alleged that
attempts were madf TO smear
prevar non-intcrvcA uonists and
Of the Now Deal by
bringing them intoithe case.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-20

whose motto rs keep EN- rolling. "
Take the road itself. From sgd
ney il runs practically unbroken,
except for an occasional spot
where creeks and ravines are he
ing bridgcd for hundreds Of miles
to the tar north.
Better than $50 of those miles
have been bitumcnizcd into a
modern highway Actually those
motor Conveys built their own
road for the bitumcn required TO
do the Job was carried by the
trucks now rolling along the road.
Incidentally Col LandeS has
( IN ought out new wrinkle
whereby precious gasoline and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-20

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-20

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-20

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-20

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-09-02
Moscow Must Cooperate

1t may be possible for the United States and Great
Britain to cooperate with the Russians by the opening
of large-scale offensive against the Germans in west
Europe but there is evidence that Moscow must en-
large the scope of its own cooperation.
From Quebec, Kirke l.. Simpson, Associated Press
correspondent, asserts that neither Washington nor
London had any definite foreknowledge of the Russian
summer offensive until it was in full swing"
How does the Soviet government expect its allies
to time their military to cocncide with the Red
army's attacks unless the Allied governments know
what the Russian army plans to do in sufficient time to
prepare for coordnated pressure upon the enemy?
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-09-02
Where Is The Jap Fleet?

Just after Pearl Harbor the Tokyo radio repeatedly
asked, Where is the American aeet?"
Not long ago, Lieutenant-Genera John l.. Dewitt,
directed similar question to Tokyo pointing out that
the Japanese Navy is lin hiding"
Reviewing the state of the in the South
Pacific Rear Admiral DeWil Clinton Ramsey, new chief
of the Nays Bureau of Aeronautcs says that the Jap
have been badly punished that they loath
to risk any strong surface forces in action against the
United States feet.
Admiral Ramsey warns however that the Japa-
have largely replaced their carrier losses and
building new planes faster than realize He thinks
it possible that the carrier strength of the Japanese
Navy may approach carrier strength at this time
and suggests that have underestimate the air.
plane production capacity of Japan, which has shown
somewhat astounding ability to replace losses"
Discussing the probable location of Japanese battle
ships and carriers Admiral Ramsey says that the enemy
prefering to keep them in northern waters to
the Japanese mainland and farther from the of
current bombat