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Evening star., 1943-07-23
Filipino Cargo Ship Travels
10000 Miles on War TRIPS

perilous voyages from New York to
the Near East. Unarmed and un-
escorted on the first voyage, but in
convoy and carrying an armed guard
crew on the second, she unloaded
and came back safely without sight
ing one enemy plane, sub or surface
ship.
I'VE were at sea while the Allies
were occupying Madagascar" said
Capt. Mullins, but saw nothing of
the action and none of the Jap
subs that we're reported in the area
Saw Three Ships Sunk.
The only war action the vessel
has seen was while steaming home
ward on her voyage from Australia
early last year. I'VE saw three
tankers torpedoed ahead Of us COM
ing up the East Coast" the skipper
related.
Capt. Mullins, a jovial mariner
who holds lieutenant command
er's commission in the United
States Naval Reserve, has been
master OF the ship for more than
three years since she was built in
England. AS junior grade lieu
tenant in the World War he was
commanding officer OF the first
U. S. S. Houston, the converted COL
lier Libenfels seized from Germany
in 1917.
The only American aboard, Capt.
Mullins likes his 43-man Filipino
crew. They perform we'll, he said,
though they are down in the
mouth" because they have had no
word from their families since the
Japs invaded the Philippines
Evening star., 1943-07-23
VINO Turns Job freeze
Into '1hawing' Program
BY the Associated press

6' INC ASSOCIATED Press.
DETROIT, July 23.-The War
Manpower Commission has turned
from job freezing to "thawine
OUT program to place the Nations
men and women were they are most
needed, Judge Charles M. Hay,
VINO general counsel, told the con-
vention of the International Broth
erhood Of Maintenance of Way EN-
ployes (AF'L) last night.
He estimated armament plants
needed an additional 1900 900 work.
ers and said that, with unemploy-
ment almost negligible, there would
be heavy transfer of personnel from
nonessential jobs into war work.
The brotherhood reelected Elmer
E. Milliman of Detroit president and
A. Shoemaker of Detroit secretary
treasurer, each for three years.
George Hudson of st. Louis and
William Aspinall of Winnipeg, Can
ada, were named vice president and
c. E. Crook of Chicago, T. C. Carroll
OF Jacksonville. Fla; T. F.. Holleran
OF Wilkes Barre, Pa, and J. j.
O'Grady of Ottawa were reelected
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Paul Patterson Praises
britain's War Effort
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 23.-Paul Patter-
son, publisher of the Baltimore Sum-
papers, say the "easy optimism" of
Americans regarding the wars out
come is not shared by Britishers,
but that the English have conf
dence and plenty OF It,"
In an interview broadcast in Brit
ain and short-waved to the United
States, Mr. Patterson said:
There is confidence, plenty of
it-confidence that the situation is
now fully under control, but nobody
here Is in any doubt that we have
long and hard way to go before
Germany and Japan are finally
beaten.
Every American newspaper pub
Usher or editor who can do so ought
to visit England and see with his
own eyes . how the British war
effort is stabilized and maintained
after four years of war. 80"
"On the material side i" = the
most striking thing is the experience
with which a stable basis of control
has been effected"
Mr.. Patterson cited British food
rationing as basis of such control,
adding that fluctuations and uncer-
tainties (such as are harassing
American housewives" have been
eliminated.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Pennies
Continued From First Page J

freely. The vice president of the
street railway company there said
there did not seem to be much
trouble once the public got used to
the new coin.
The new penny, it was explained,
cannot be colored because acids
would injure the zinc coating
necessary to keep it from rusting.
The penny was introduced at the
first of this year after the War Pro-
duction Board had suggested calling
in all existing pennies for remelting.
Steel, being less scarce than any
other metal, was the only one which
would relieve the situation. Steel
rusts easily, but the board allotted
enough zinc to coat the coins.
The mint used the same design of
the familiar Lincoln penny for the
new coin and the same machinery
for its manufacture. This meant
that the new penny could not have
a hole in it or be octagonal.
The Mint buys blanks for the
coin-steel slugs just the size of a
penny. Coins with holes in them
would mean new machinery and
purchase of metal in strips, which
would mean 80 per cent waste.
"The Mint officials" the Secretary
explained, "do not want to have to
manufacture any more punched
coins. They made 1o0,o00,000 of
them in 1941 for the Netherlands
possessions in the Far East. Their
manufacturing equipment and
methods we're so little adapted to
making the punched coins that they
had great deal Of trouble produc-
ing them"
AS for letters Of complaint, it was
pointed out that the public always
resists changes in coinage. The
Mint" the Secretary said, has
letters predicting that the Nation
would be ruined by the substitution
of Jefferson for the bison on the
nickel"
Evening star., 1943-07-23
BY the Associated Press.

by lne Associated Press.
AN EAST COAST PORT, July %.
Manned by a Filipino crew and
skippered by a redheaded Brook
lyn Irishman, Filipino freighter
loaded cargo here for another voy-
age to add to her post-Pearl Harbor
log of 100000 miles-half of it un-
armed and unescorted - through
submarine infested seas.
AS singing, sweating stevedores
crammed the vessels holds with war
materials, 48-year-old Capt. Will
liam H. Mullins pointed signif-
cantly to a rabbits foot on his key
ring and unfolded the ships story:
The 9,00o-ton freighter-one of
only four Filipino ships still afloat
and in the war-escaped the Japa-
nese attack on the Philippines be-
cause she was on the high seas,
having sailed from Punta Burri on
December for New York with
a sugar cargo. Warned by radio
that war had come, she changed
course and proceeded to Australia.
Pistol Was Only Weapon.
With the skipper's .38-caliber
pistol the only weapon aboard, the
tWin-screw Diesel freighter sailed
from Sydney in January, 1912,
ploWed across the Pacific to the
Panama Canal and thence to New
York, where she discharged her
sugar
Then, operated by the War Ship
ping Administration for delivery of
lease-lend goods, the ship made two
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Labor
CONTINUED From First Page }

week is one remedy under considera-
ton as partial remedy for the
labor shortage. 1t applies at present
only to three industries on a Nation
wide scale and otherwise to regions
classed as critical.
With the labor shortage in pros
pect, the demands of Mr.. Green and
Mr.. Murray took on increased i'm
portance.
The union chieftains said that
unless the price rollback alterna-
tive is carried out, they will con-
centrate on scrapping the Little
Steel formula, and, in addition, will
discontinue support of the whole
stabilization program and demand
the official scalp Of Price Admins
traitor Brown.
No Time Limit Set.
The labor chiefs yesterday left
with Mr.. Roosevelt a statement
declaring no adequate steps were
being taken to reduce prices in line
with the Presidents anti-inhation
policy.
IL youl dulIlLlllSIl dUOlS have ue-
cided not to carry out in full the
program which you proposed and
which Congress permits, it will, of
course. be impossible for organized
labor to continue in its support of
the wage and price stabilization pro-
gram as now formulated" the state
ment said.
Mr.. Murray reported that no time
limit had been set for the admins
tration to meet labor's demand, but
he expressed hope something salts
factory" would be worked out by
the time the group has its next con-
ference with the President at an
early date.
The threat to seek Mr.. Browns
removal was made orally to re-
porters. and Mr.. Green said 1t had
not been made to the President. He
declared, however, that the price
administrator and wage stabilization
agencies had failed to check rising
prices with the result that wages
"are practically frozen and prices are
soaring" Mr.. Green said organized
labor would insist" on Mr.. Browns
removal unless prices are controlled
Evening star., 1943-07-23
ShowqirIs Return From Alaska,
Find Sidewalks Hard on Feet
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, July 23.-A couple of
dancing girls just down from the
Alaskan military circuit wondered
why their feet bothered them the
first day in the city.
Then they figured it out. It was
those hard Seattle sidewalks. After
eight months in the North their
feet had become accustomed to
walking on something with a little
give to it-something, for instance,
like Alaskan mud.
The showgirls are 10 Andrews Of
Brookline, Mass, and Judy Lane Of
Hollywood. They went North for
three months of entertaining and
stayed eight. Now they want to get
warm.
They were dancing on the wharf
Of an -Aleutian base when troop
ships sailed for the conquest OF Attu.
"Our audience pulled out and left
us right in the middle Of the show" I"
Judy said, but We kept right at 1t
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Stanley King Appointed
u. ). Commissioner

Stanley King, Al, Alexandria at
torney. yesterday was appointed
United States commissioner for the
Eastern district of Virginia to sue
ceed Joseph Pancoast, who resigned
to become Alexandria city attorney.
Mr.. King, who will take Office
August /, said he had resigned as
referee in bankruptcy, post he has
held for the last four years
The new commissioner is presi-
dent Of the Alexandria Rotary Club
and a member of the Board of Trus-
tees of the Community Chest. He
was educated at the Alexandria
High School and at William and
Mary College and received his law
degree from George Washington
University.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Finnish Troops Serving
With Germans Disbanded
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press,
Dissolution of battalion of Fin
hish volunteers who had served in
the German army was reported in
diplomatic dispatches from Helinski
today.
The battalion was formally dis
banded at ceremony in Hanko
July II, the reports said Men fit
for military service were transferred
to the Finnish army.
The action was interpreted in
some quarters as indicating Fin
lands desire to dissociate herself
from the German war effort, while
remaining at war with the Soviet
Union.
After the Soviet-Finnish winter
war Of 1940-4l, more than 1000
Firms volunteered for service in the
German army and were Incorporated
In an SIS battalion.
On the expiration of the two-year
contract last spring the Germans
tried to keep them under arms, re-
ports said, but the volunteers re-
turned to Finland, where the gov
ernment refused to let any rejoin
the Germans.
Evening star., 1943-07-23

the ball turret door burst open.
"As near as I can remember,
had one leg out and one in," Sergt.
Thomas related. He said he hung
like that for full minute before he
decided it was futile to try to climb
back. He let 60 and dropped.
1T didn't take more than five
minutes to get down to the ground"
he said. Only after he started fall
ing did he recollect that he was in
his stocking feet, having slipped out
Of his flying boots. He said it Jared
him quite bit" when he hit.
He was many miles from his home
base, but, testifying to the ubiquity
Of the United States Army in the
British Isles, he landed in a field
near an American engineer detach-
ment and only few miles from this
station.
Evening star., 1943-07-23

until their ship was just a little
speck at sea-"
They danced again when casual
ties came home.
They danced in numbing cold.
''It was 50 cold once" said 10,
that when we danced to the music
Of an accordion, they had to warm
it over a stove between numbers"
I'VE danced in costumes, added
Judy, "and you know dancing cos
tunes aren't noted for their warmth
and the boys out in front sat In
parkas and mukluks."
On the womanless Alaskan front,
they sprayed perfume literally wher-
ever they went.
''The boys loved the smell of per-
fume." explained 10. 1T reminded
them Of the girls at home, and 1t
seemed to please them more than
anything else"
After q furlough, they want to
60 where it's warm.
10 wants to 60 to Africa, perhaps
sicily-"and do you think maybe
Italy7"
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Nomination Of Two
|For Same Position
lin VINO. Revealed

Through an inadvertence, two
appointments to the same Office
Washington regional director OF the
War Manpower Commission-were
sent to the Senate by President
Roosevelt, it was learned today.
This was disclosed after 81 ap-
pointments to various offices, in
cluding that of former Gov. James
v. Alfred of Texas to the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals, were re-
turned to the White House because
the Senate failed to act on them
before the summer recess of Con-
gress.
First, the nomination of Ray
mond Kenny as regional VINO
director was sent up. Shortly after
ward Mr.. Kenny resigned from an
acting position in the office to take
a commission as major in the Army.
Why his appointment was not with
drawn could not be learned, but pre-
sumably it was overlooked.
A second appointment for the
Office carried the name OF Henry
Treide of Baltimore. Mr.. Treide's
nomination reached the Senate on
the day it adjourned for the recess,
and by that time Congress had
abandoned plan to require Senate
confirmation of all positions in this
category, and so this appointment
was referred to the Civil Service
Commission. The commission still
had it under consideration today.
Mr.. Kenny's nomination was sent
back to the White House along with
the others. Two other local ap-
pointments were on the returned list
those Of Arthur L. Schoenthal as
assistant to the Washington VINO
regional director, and of Ford T..
Shepherd of Ohio as chief industrial
consultant of the national Bureau
of Manpower Utilization here.
The Alfred appointment, stymied
in the Senate Judiciary Committee
by 9 to 9 tie vote, went back to
the President under a Senate rule
which requires the return of any
nomination remaining uncopfrmed
when the Senate adjourns or re-
cesses for more than 30 days. Con-
sress now is in recess until Septem-
ber ID.
Immediately after Its submission
February 10, the Alfred nomination
encountered opposition in the Sen
ate, in part from a group which
previously had fought the Presidents
selection of Toward j. Flynn, former
Democratic national chairman, as
Minister to Australia and had forced
the withdrawal Of Mr.. Flynn's name.
Senator O'Daniel, Democrat, Of
Texas led an attack on the Alfred
appointment as political deal
under which he charged Mr.. Alfred
had resigned as a Federal district
judge to maze an unsuccessful race
for the Texas senatorial nomination
against Senator O'Daniel with ad-
ministration sponsorship and was
being rewarded by appointment to
higher court.
Both Mr.. Alfred and Attornev
General Biddle denied that there had
been any such political understand
ing.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Mutual Life Death Rate
Shows Little Chance
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, July 23.-The Mu-
tual Life Insurance Co. Of New York
said today, in reporting on its opera
tions in the first half of 1943, that
the war had little effect on the over
all mortality rate among the COM
pany's 100000 policyholders.
The ratio in the first half, includ-
ing war death claims, was slightly
higher than for the same period of
1912, but lower than for the like
months of 1941 and 1910.
Voluntary surrenders of policies
were Al per cent less than in the
corresponding period of last year
because of improved economic con-
ditions, the report said. adding that
claims under accidental deaths were
one-third less.
The company's holdings of United
States Government securities were
1868 100000 on June 30, an increase
of more than $150,000,000 over the
same date last year. Total admitted
assets of $1,618, ,686,901 increased
$31 zoo, 900 in the 1943 first half and
$51 500, 900 since June 80, 1912.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Board Denies Mrs. Tawes
Asked Gas for Family Car
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CRISFIELD. Md, July ga
spokesman for the Crisfield Ration
Board said today that Mrs. Helen
Avalynne Tawes. wife of j. Millard
Tawes, Maryland controller, had not
applied for a gasoline ration for the
Tawes personal automobile which
her husband transferred to her
name.
w. Lee Elgin. head of the State
Department of Motor Vehicles, said
in Baltimore yesterday that Mr..
Tawes had transferred the auto to
his wife on July /, less than a month
after his personal gasoline ration
had been suspended for year.
Mr.. Tawes lost both his personal
and official gasoline ration books
after he admitted misusing c ration
gasoline to drive State-owned auto
to Georgia to attend his sons we'd
ding. He was later granted a new
official ration for essential driving
Of the State-owned car which is
assigned to his use.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Woman Hit by Bicycle
Dies in Hospital;
Child, 7, Injured
D. 6. Traffic Toll
Killed in 1943- a
Killed in same period in 1912 So
Toll for all of 1912 100

A 39-year-old colored woman died
early today in Emergency Hospital of
injuries suffered three hours earlier
when struck by bicycle near Eigh-
teenth and T streets NV. The death
raised the 1943 traffic toll to A as
compared with SO at this same time
year ago.
Police said the woman, Mary Rose
man, 1901 Swami street NV, was
hit by a bicycle ridden by Alfred S
Paige, IA, colored, of 1742 Swami
street. She received a fractured
skull. The youth is to appear at
coroner's inquest.
In two other accidents yesterday,
four persons, including a 2-year-old
child, were injured.
The child, Celestine Yearly, COL
ored, of 2216 Thirteenth street NV,
was struck by an automobile in
front of her home, and was taken to
Children's Hospital suffering from a
broken leg and scalp injuries.
In a collision of two cars at Trim
idad avenue and Morse street NE,
DR.. Stanley Levin, %, and his wife,
Sylvia, also %, received minor in
juries and were treated at Casualty
Hospital. The driver of the second
car. Lawrence Howard, 26, of 4425
New Hampshire avenue NV, was
admitted to Casualty Hospital for
treatment for a possible shoulder
fracture.
Glenn Edmonds, 6-year- old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Edmonds of
423 Queen street, Alexandria, was in
an undetermined condition in the
Alexandria Hospital today from in
juries received when he was struck
near his home yesterday by a hit
run driver.
Hospital attendants said the child
suffered head injuries and a frac-
tured arm
Evening star., 1943-07-23
|FTC Orders Chance
In Cement Institute
Pricing Practices

Ihe Cement Institute and IS
member companies-producers and
distributors of more than three
fourths of the Nations Portland
cement-today were under Federal
Trade Commission orders to cease
and desist" from price practices
which the commission alleges are
unfair methods of competition.
The FTC order, announced yes
terday, listed more than half dozen
alleged unfair practices. Much of
the announcement was devoted to
the multiple basing point delivered
price system, under which the retail
price represents a fixed base price
plus the cost of shipping by rail
from the mill to the consumer.
The FTC said when the delivery
point Is such that the formula would
result in lower delivered price
from another mill, the practice has
been for the selling mill to absorb
part Of the rail charge and thereby
meet the lower price OF the other
mill.
Storey Defends System.
Replying to the FTC announce
ment, S. w. Storey, president of the
Cement Institute, today declared the
order threatens complete disrup-
tion OF the delivered price method
OF marketing employed by practi-
cally all industries in direct re-
sponse to consumer demand"
Mr.. Storey also said the institute
took the position that this is merely
new attack by Government bu-
reaus seeking to bring up questions
that already have been settled by
Congress and at least once by the
Supreme Court of the United
States"
The FTC for more than Is years
has urged the multiple basing point
method of marketing be declared
illegal, but Congress has Consist
emily refused" he added.
The institute head said the basic
issue involved in the order is
whether the FTC can usurp the
functions of Congress and by ad-
mlnlstratlve fiat prohibit methods
OF marketing which involve selling
at delivered prices"
Understandings" Charged.
In announcing the cease and
desist" order, the FTC charged that
records of cooperative activity
among cement producers show the
cement industry has evidenced a
strong aversion to free competition. !"
Members Of the industry have, "by
understandings and agreements, de-
veloped and maintained substantial
uniformity of action among them
selves with respect to practically
every marketing procedure which
involves price or other competition. :"
the F'TC said.
The FTC further maintained that
long pursued restraints of competi-
ton" have led members of the in
dustry to believe free and open COM
petition is impracticable, and have
fostered a philosophy OF seeking
not to exceed others" in quality,
price or terms of sale.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Draft Board Shifts
Snite,' BoIerKid,'
From 4-FCIuss
BY the Associated Press,

CHICAGO, July 23.-Fred Snite,
jr,, the infantile paralysis victim
who has been in an iron lung since
1886 has recovered from q recent
stomach ailment, his father said
yesterday.
Hes doing all right" Fred Snite,
ST., reported. Yesterday he re-
ceived his draft Redistribution
notice from Miami Beach, Fla,
where he is registered. He has been
shifted from 4-F to 3-A-4."
The new classification is for
fathers in a non-deferable occu-
patton" Mr.. Snite, jr., and his wife
are parents Of 3-year -old
daughter.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Boy Tours New York Seekinq
Recipient for Gift to Forces

a radio appeal for recreation equip
ment.
After five refusak, Max said he
finally reached the Citizens Com
mittee for Army and Navy which
welcomed his gift.
Il wasn't mad" said Max, "be-
cause kept thinking I was doing
something for my country. I just
went where people told Inc to 60.
It'll take me long time to make
up the money I spent on carfare
though"
Max turns over all his earnings to
his mother and father, both Ill and
unemployed.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Gunner Saved by Parachute
When Turret Door Flies Open
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A UNITED STATES BOMBER
BASE IN ENGLAND. July 23.-For
full minute Wednesday night
Sergt. Elias Thomas, 81, of Grant
ham, Pa, dangled from the open
ball turret of Flying Fortress at
$4,000 feet, then finally let go and
was saved by his parachute.
1t was the first time he had worn
his parachute in dozens of flights,
the ball turret being so cramped
that the gunner usually leaves his
chute handy inside the fuselage.
Because it was my first flight
over here decided to try squeezing
into the turret with my chute"
Sergt. Thomas said. I'm darned
glad I did"
The Fortress had been up about
an hour on practice flight when
Evening star., 1943-07-23
1axicab Assault Case
To Go 10 Grand Jury

Cecil Coleman, 30, colored Rock
vile taxi driver, faces grand jury
action on a charge of attempted
criminal assault on a 27-year old
white woman July Is.
Coleman was released under IS 900
bond after a preliminary hearing
yesterday before Trial Magistrate
Donald A. De Lashmutt in Rock
vile Police Court.
According to police, the attempted
assault took place in Coleman's cab
on the Rockville pike while he was
driving the woman from Rockville
to Bethesda. Police said the woman
also lives in Rockville.
Evening star., 1943-07-23
WASHINGTON Produce

From the Food Distribution Adminis-
tration. Prices paid net fob. Washington:
EGGS--Market steady. Prices paid for
srading stations (July 80 Whites, u. s.
grade A. large, 43-46: average 45Ia: o. s.
grade A, medium. Al; U. s. grade B, large.
42-43; average, AZ. Browns, u. g. grade
A. large, 43-47; average, 451a; u S. grade
A, medium, a l-43; average, Al: U. s. grade
3, large, 41-43; average, 42A2: U. g. grade
nearby ungraded eggs, whites. 3SH: mixed
colors, 3Sia. Receipts, Government graded
eggs, 1913 cases
LIVE POULTRY-Market steady. Re-
ceipts very light. Some broilers and
Evening star., 1943-07-23
Benefit Plan LiberoIized

Age benefits under social security
will be reduced in New Zealand only
for the period of employment, a
new regulation announced at We'll
lington provides. Previously secur-
ity payment recipients were de-
prived, during the following year, of
benefits If they earned over $2O8
annually.