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Evening star., 1943-12-22
CurIey Is Improving
After Influenza Attack

The condition of Representative
Curley, Democrat, of Massachusetts
was described at the Naval Hospital
today as much better after an attack
of influenza.
Mr.. Curley's siege of flu was prac-
tically over, naval physicians said,
and his temperature had returned
to normal. He recently underwent
an operation at the hospital. and
has been suffering from the flu for
days, his secretary said He re-
turned to the hospital yesterday for
treatment.
The Justice Department disclosed
that Mr.. Curley was due to appear
before Federal District grand jury
yesterday, but his illness forced a
postponement. The department
seeks to indict Mr.. Curley and five
others on charges of using the maib
to defraud as officials Of Engineers
war contracts. An earlier indict-
ment against the six was thrown out
on the grounds the grand jury was
Illegally impaneled. - :ss
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Ii. {. B. Momsen Honored;
Son Of Lung Inventor
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
UNITED STATES SUBMARINE
BASE, NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Dec.
22.-Lt. Charles B. Momsen, jr., U.
S. NJ, was designated honor man in
the class which was graduated from
the Submarine Officers School here
today and was awarded the L. Y.
Spear Foundation prize for standing
No / in the class.
1t. Momsen, %, is the son of Capt.
c. B. Momsen, U. S. N, inventor of
the Momsen lung, underwater
breathing apparatus. During the
development of the lung Capt. Nom
sen, who was a graduate of An
napolis in 1920, made all the trials
himself and, for this display of
courage, he received the Distin-
guished Service Medal.
1t. Momsen has been residing in
New London with his wife, Helen
c., and their 8-month- old daughter
He was 1912 graduate of Annapolis
His parents, Capt. and Mrs. Momsen
live at 2436 Thirty-ninth place NV.
Washington.
Evening star., 1943-12-22

About 80 persons expressed vigor-
GUS opposition to four petitions for
rezoning in the Bethesda and Edge
moor sections of Montgomery
County at hearings before the
county commissioners in the Be-
thesda County Building yesterday.
Two of the petitions filed by
James w. Gill, attorney for Ralph
S. and Abraham Morrison, owners
sought the reclassification from resi-
dental A to G of lots and 8, block
Is, Edgemoor, and from residential
A to commercial D of the eastern
half of lot T. block IL, Edgemoor.
The remaining two petitions, filed
by Charles F. Miller, owner, asked
for the rezoning from residential A
to commercial D of two pieces OF
property near Arlington road ir
Bethesda. &
Residents of the areas affected by
the four petitions charged that the
proposed reclassification would lowel
the value of their property.
10 v. Morgan, attorney for one
group of property owners, said thai
petitions for the rezoning of the
Morrison property in Edgemoor hae
been denied twice before He urgeo
that some change be made in the
law to prevent recurring requests fol
the rezoning of property.
The commissioners took the re-
quests under advisement.
A petition for the rezoning the
132-acre Bergdoll tract along Wis
consin avenue in Bethesda will be
heard at 2:30 pm. today at the
Bethesda County Building. The
MarylandNational Capital Park
and Planning Commission has rec
commended that action be deferred
pendinp further StlldV
Evening star., 1943-12-22
|Subzero Cold Wave
Hits Middle West on
First Day Of Winter
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 22.-Winter ar
rived officially today with a cold
wave that drove temperatures down
near zero in Midwestern States.
Subzero readings were forecast for
tomorrow in the second cold wave of
the season.
Prospects for a white Christmas
were slim for most OF the country
as the Nation had what forecasters
termed "a remarkable lack of
snow" for the time of year.
Lowest reading recorded by the
Weather Bureau in the II hours
ending at 7:30 am. today was 16
below zero at International Falls,
Mimi, and temperatures hovered
around is over the entire northern
part of the State.
Bismarck, N. OAK, had a high
reading of 20 above in the last IL
hours, which dropped to -6. High
at Escanaba, Mich, was IT; low,
q: Williston, NJ Oak, Is and -12,
and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, 13 to
B
The Weather Bureau said the
current cold wave was expected to
spread and intensity" with wide
spread subzero readings. It forecast
slow moderation of the frigid
weather in the western section of
the area and in the entire district
by Friday.
Ten-below-zero temperatures were
forecast for tomorrow In Southern
Minnesota and in Upper Michigan,
with S below forecast for Southern
Wisconsin. Readings of zero to S
above in Lower Michigan were fore
cast, while in Iowa the mercury was
expected to range from S to 8 below.
The forecast for Illinois was 5 de-
grees below zero and lows of 5 above
were'predicted for the southern part
of the State.
Zero to minus 5 degrees readings
were forecast for Northern Indiana
and to 10 above in the southern
half of the State.
The Weather Bureau said no pre-
cipitation of consequence was ex-
pected to accompany the subzero
weather, but winds Of Is to 20 miles
per hour would add to the discom-
fort.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Lumb to Aid Steel Union
As Legislative Agent
BY the Associated Pres,

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 22.-Philip
Murray, president of the United
Steelworkers of America (CIO), yes
terday announced the appointment
Of Robert K. Lamp as the unions
legislative representative In WASH
ington.
Mr.. Lamb is resigning as staff di-
rector of the Senate Small Business
Committee to accept the appoint
ment, Mr.. Murray said A former
Economics instructor at Harvard
University and Williams College, Mr..
Lamb was a special investigator for
the Senate Civil Liberties Committee
in 1938-40.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
74,OOOQts. of Whisky Found
In Baltimore Back Rooms

One proprietor denied having any
whisky, but inspectors found $50
cases in back room. Sixteen
other such stores were looked over
after proprietors said mo whisky
for sale" and in each instance a
hundred or more cases were found
the inspectors said.
One liquor board member de-
clared that the high cost of whisky
cannot be attributed wholly to the
store owners, explaining that some
wholesalers are asking a bonus
for deliveries. which dealers pay
and pass on to consumers willing to
pay "a little extra"
The board member also said that
at present no action can be taken
against the places which refused tc
sell.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Lecture Tour in West
Planned by Mrs. Luce
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Representative Clare Boothe Luce,
Republican, of Connecticut, will
make a speaking trip in January
and February under auspices of the
Women's Division of the Republican
National Committee. Fourteen
speaking engagements have been
scheduled
Her itinerary includes Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Eugene, Greg: Sc
attic. Spokane. Boise, Idaho; Salt
Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Tulsa,
St. Louis, Indianapolis, Detroit and
Nashville, Tenn.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Mrs Bell was . member Of Epiph.

Mrs Bell was . member Of Epiph-
any Church.
Mrs. Bell was born In Rock Island,
ILL.,, four years before the start of
the Civil War. She married Gen.
Bell there In 1881. He was an ofIicer
in the 7th Cavalry, later in COM
mand. He conducted campaigns
rounding up the Cree and the Sioux
Indians in South Dakota,
The Bells went to the Philippines
in 1899. He became commander OF
the department In 1903 and returned
to Washington and the Stan Col
lege in that year. He became the
Army's fourth Chief of Staff in 1906
Gen. Bell retired during the last
war. Mrs. Bell continued great
Evening star., 1943-12-22

before Christmas Day in order not
to miss those going out of town
for the holidays. Regular guests
who didn't show up yesterday will
have a free meal later, it was an
nounced.
E. L. Ayers and E. r. Barnhart
owners of the restaurant corpora
ton, said they had followed SIM
liar custom for about IS years in
Bedford, Pa, before opening their
restaurant here recently.
The days festivities were topped
off with a Christmas party for the
staff, when employees received a
bonus of two weeks salary
Evening star., 1943-12-22

by q sister, Mrs. e. A. Darlington,
widow Of Maj. Gen. Darlington, in
spector general OF the Army, who
lives In Georgetown.
Daughter Of Mississippi River
steamboat captain, and wife OF q
young Army onicer campaigning
against Indians In the Western
plains, Mrs. Bell remembered vividly
days that are known to almost all
Americans only through reading.
She had lived in Washington ever
since her return from the Philip
pines with her husband in 1908. He
won the Congressional Medal there
for heroism in the campaign against
native insurgency.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Congressional Inquiry 80 Protest Rezoning
Sought in ACL Wreck In Montgomery Area
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LUMBERTON, N. c., Dec. o.
Possibility of two-way investiga-
ton of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
road disaster developed today as
Representative Sauthoff, Progressive,
of Wisconsin sought a congressional
inquiry while ACL officials proceeded
with plans for hearing at Rocky
Mount, N. c., next Monday
The Red Cross put at 70 the final
death toll in the wreck which oc-
CURED December 16 near Lumber
ton when northbound passenger
train ploWed into derailed south
bound streamliner. The Red Cross
identified the last of 81 civilians
killed, while a recheck reduced from
So to 81 the number of Army and
Navy fatalities All but two of these
have been identified and next Of kin
notified.
Representative Sauthoff, in pro-
posing at Washington that Congress
investigate the collision, said sur
vivors with whom he had talked
we're emphatic" in their criticism
of the railroad.
At the Rocky Mount inquiry
which will be closed, ACL General
Manager c. G. Sibley said officials
would seek to develop the facts
and to place responsibility for the
accident"
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Bfost Furnaces Banked
Due to Alabama WoIkout
81 the Associated Press,

By the ASsoclated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. GA
spokesman for the Tennessee Coal
Iron & Railroad Co. said last night
that all three blast furnaces at the
company's Fairfield plant were being
banked as a result of a Walkout of
employees there
The official said the stoppage was
believed to have beenacaused by a
dispute over. incentives pay. The
number OF workers involved was not
available. Union officials were not
available for comment.
The firm also operates six blast
furnaces at Ensley and one at Holt,
Ala.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Chevy Chase Restaurant Gives
Customers Surprise Party

The cashier moved out and Santa
Claus took over as about 1000 Gus
toners enjoyed a special Christmas
meal "on the house" yesterday at
Barnhart's Chevy Chase Restaurant
at 5510 Connecticut avenue NV.
A turkey dinner was featured but,
despite point rationing, diners also
had their choice of menu includ-
ing pot roast of beef and baked ham
with raisin sauce.
Though planned as a Christmas
greeting to loyal customers" the
days hospitality, beginning at the
luncheon hour, was dispensed to all
corners. The surprise party was held
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Mrs. Sarah B., Bell,
Widow Of General,
dies Here al 86

Mrs. Sarah Buford Bell, 86, widow
Of Maj Gen. J. Franklin Bell, Army
Chief of Staff during Theodore
Roosevelt's administration, died to-
day at the Westmoreland apart
ments, 2122 California street NV.
Her brother, Thomas j. Buford,
was with her. She also is survived
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Mrs. Marie Cook Dies:
Widow Of Explorer
By the Associated Press.

by lHt ASSUtIdVeu FIeSS,
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22.-Mrs.
Marie R. H. Cook. 66, widow of DR..
Frederick A. Cook, explorer, who
was long involved in world dispute
whether he discovered the North
Pole, died yesterday.
She divorced DR. Cook in 1928
When he died in 1910 his will, dis
posing of $500 estate ignored Mrs.
Cook.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Hotel Fire Loss 100000

HURON, S. OAK, Dec. % lP.-
Loss in excess of 100000 was esti-
mated today from Tuesdays fire
which razed the four STORY Royal
Hotel Two adjoining buildings
were demolished when brick walls of
the 53-year-old hotel collapsed. All
of the So guests had been accounted
for.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Mrs. {. J. Gutmon Dies

NEW YORK, Dec. % tP).-Mrs.
Blanche Waitzfelder Gutman, wife
of Edwin J. Gutman, retired vice
president of Julius Gutman & Co.,
Baltimore department store, died
here Yesterday.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Fair, mod
erately cold this afternoon; colder,
with lowest temperature near "a
degrees tonight Tomorrow. in
creasing cloudiness, continued cold
Maryland and Virginia-Fair and
colder tonight. Tomorrow, increas-
ing cloudiness and continued cold.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear at HarperS Ferry. Potomac
clear at Great Falls.
Evening star., 1943-12-22

interest in Army relief after his re-
tirement. They had no children.
Funeral arrangements have not
yet been completed, but burial will
be with her husband in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Film Publicity Man
Killed by Automobile
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22.-Terry j.
De Lapp, 80, publicity director for
Universal Studio and former day
city editor Of the Los Angeles Times,
was killed today when struck by an
automobile. IA
Evening star., 1943-12-22
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Davis, Republican, of
Pennsylvania paid tribute in the
Senate yesterday to Comdr. NAL
colin Arnold of Gettysburg, Pa, for
rescue work the naval officer did in
the train wreck near Lumberton,
N. C..
Senator Davis said Comdr. Arnold
worked heroically for eight hours
before outside medical aid arrived"
and that he saved many lives. He
asked that Comdr. Arnold's work be
recognized by the Navy Depart
ment,
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Steel Workers Warn
WLB Of Crisis Unless
PAY Is Retroactive
BY the Associated Press.

NJ ~ tAlS <hsSoSldttu FISSS.
Z The CIO steel workers issued a
warning yesterday that unless future
/. wage adjustments are retroactive to
, the date OF presently-expiring con-
: tracts IAN extremely serious situa-
: ton" will develop among the unions
many thousands of members.
Lee Pressman, union counsel, told
the War Labor Board during a
nearing on the unions petition for
the retroactive guarantee that work.
ers In 500 steel plants would want
to know why they were denied
something as result of the petit
tloning procedure which the Ma
tion's coal miners acquired by strik-
ing.
Mine Decision Recalled.
Replying to objections by indus
try representatives that granting the
union petition would be tantamount
to discarding the Little Steel" for
mula, the CIO attorney contended
that when the Government ordered
the miners back to work with the
assurance that any wage agreement
would be retroactive to the date of
expiration of the old contract the
Government established a precedent
which other unions had a right to
expect the board to follow.
George Bait, industry member of
the board, replied, however, that be-
cause OF unusual circumstances the
coal decision could not be considered
a policy which the board intended
to follow in other cases.
Throughout the day, a virtual
parade of spokesmen for the 500
steel companies with which the CIO
steel workers have contracts voiced
objections to granting of the union
petition. Each said his company
was agreeable to extending present
contracts pending completion of
negotiations, but that his company
was opposed to the retroactive guar
antee. Since it would be impossible
for the companies to make contracts
with the Government retroactive to
past dates they argued, it would be
impossible for them to lay aside
reserves to pay any retroactive wage
boost.
Calls Price Boosts Needed.
Declaring also that price increases
for steel are necessary under present
costs, they said far greater price
boost would be needed to meet union
requests for 17-cent-an-hour in
crease for most workers.
In battle of statistics, company
spokesmen declared their workers
have received wage boosts, including
overtime pay, since 1941 of up to go
per cent. Mr.. Pressman replied that
the average net profit of the basic
steel industry from 1886 to 1889 was
S139, 100000 annually, but that from
1910 to 1943 the average increased
to $258 100000 annually.
Because most of the contracts will
have expired by January 3, the
board is expected to make a prompt
decision on the union petition.
Evening star., 1943-12-22

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon Yesterday to noon todayD
Highest, 40, 1901 am. Year ago, 36.
Lowest, 81, 9:30 am. Year ago, 10.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 9S. on August 10
Lowest, g. on February 15.
Humidity for Last 81 Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon todayO
Highest, so per cent, at 2:3O am.
Lowest, ! 7 per cent, at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1943-12-22

Report for Last "a Hours
Evening star., 1943-12-22

FURNISHED by United States Coast 9
Geodetic Suryey)
Evening star., 1943-05-31

2,67000O men under arms. OF these
1,6e7 900 are combat troops. Their
reserves number 100000. They
have a total of 10,500,000 men to
draw from, but some Of those are
undoubtedly essential to their in
dustry.
They now have only sixteen di-
visions in Manchukuo. Since Oc-
tober the first the others have been
moving southwark, probably to
Hainan Island and Saigon. They
are getting set to jump"
In series of stories written for
the A. P. in February Of 194l I had
said, when the Japanese mass
troops and ships and planes at
Saigon in large numbers. the dan
ger of war between the United
States and Japan must be reckoned
from day to day or even from hour
to hour, since the practice of the
Japanese has always been to strike
first, and explain afterward"
| Now, on the evening of Novem-
ber IA, they were quickly massing
troops, ships, and planes at Saigon
in large numbers" I was glad
that I was leaving Shanghai-get-
ting out Of japanese territory-the
next morning I wanted to see the
wal, but not from an internment
camp
tCopyright, 1943, by Clark Lee; The
Viking Press)
Continued tomorrow
Evening star., 1943-05-31
THEY CALL 1T PACIFIC

Talking to Sergt. Matsui wasn't ex-
actly the same as talking to Premier
TOTO or Foreign Minister Togo, but
from my point of view it was better
The sergeant knew what was going
on in Japan, and would talk
about it.
X X X X
"The colonel has been informed"
he continued, that at the Japanese
Army press conferences you have re-
Gently made inquiries as to whether
the japanese barracks at KiangWan,
outside of Shanghai, would be used
as an internment camp for Amer
leans in the unfortunate event of
war between Japan and America. "
L. began to get the picture: A
friendly tip regarding internment
camps and how to stay out of them.
Matsui went on, "It has also been
called to the colonels attention that
you plan to 60 to the United States
on home leave in about two months.
Evening star., 1943-05-31

a cancellation. One cabin Is avail
able on the Tjibadak tomorrow
morning. 1t Is going to Manila and
you may be able to connect with the
President Coolidge for the United
States"
paid for my ticket and went over
to the A. P. office to tell the chief of
Bureau, Morris Harris, that I was
jumping the gun on my home leave.
Jimmy White of our Peiping bureau
was on his way to Shanghai so our
office would be well stated.
IF can get even as far as Ma
Mia, I can help cover the war from
there" said to Harris. "Or if I
make the Coolidge and reach Homo
lulu, can be assigned to the Pacific
Fleet. There is no use of all three
OF us getting interned in Shanghai.
weeks before we had planned
ways and means for escaping from
Shanghai when the japanese should
take over the entire city, as they
were certain to do on the first dav
OF war. We knew it would be touch
and 60 getting out, for Shanghai
was already a huge concentration
camp. Its streets were crisscrossed
with barricades and patrolled by
sentrles, and the entire city was
surrounded by double lines of barbed
wire. In September we burned most
OF our A. P. Office files, after some
Nazl friends warned us that the
japanese army was getting i'm
patient and might take over the
entire Settlement at any time. There
were lot Of data in the files that
the local Japanese had never seen,
and we knew it would go hard with
us II they ever discovered the source
OF some of the stories that had
been printed in American news
papers concerning the japanese
army and navy in China. Those
stories had gone out under Manila
or Hong Kong datelines. having
been smuggled from Shanghai,
where the Japanese operated an H.
legal and surreptitious mail censor
ship.
In some of the smuggled stories
l had reported Japan's war plans
and preparations. During the sum-
mer and fall Japan had carried out
a gigantic military mobilization.
Maj. Frank Merrill, American
military attache to Toxic, came
over to Shanghai en- route TO his
new post in Chungking, and gave
me details of the mobilization THE
japanese have got every able bodied
man, and some who aren't so able
bodied, in uniform. They have
Evening star., 1943-05-31

after the next 10 days there may not
be any way to get out"
The pieces of the puzzle fell into
place. The shooting might start
anytime after the next 10 davs.
Then the powder keg-" be-
gan.
rs almost certain to explode
shortly and blow up the Orient with
it, the sergeant concluded. "Mr.
Kurusu, who is now on his way to
Washington, will tell Mr.. Hull that
Japan is anxious for peace on
Japan's terms, terms that cannot
involve surrender of any of the ter
ritory which Japan has taken in
the past four years at the cost of so
much blood and treasure. Mr..
KuruSu-"
This time I interrupted. "Mr.
KuruSu will be told that Japan's
Evening star., 1943-05-31
was, and is, in Shansi province in
| North China

was, and is, in Shansi province in
North China.
Once having those sources of raw
materials, Japan would become po-
tentially the strongest power in the
world. The next step, then, would
be to unite the races of Asia under
the japanese leadership and domi-
nation, and to embark on the pro-
gram of world conquest that ia
pans militarists and statesmen had
outlined long before.
AS for the United States, we could
not afford to let Japan seize the
wealth of the Orient without fight
ing. So war had to come, and for
long time nearly every American
and every japanese in the Far East
had seen it coming.
My rickshaman pulled up at Gar
den Bridge, which led across Soo-
chow Creek to the heart of the In
ternational Settlement. Rickshas
were not allowed to pass the Japa-
nese sentries on the bridge. l
walked across, dropping my ciga-
rette before reaching the sentries.
They considered themselves repre-
sentatives of Emperor Hirohito, and
many foreigners had been slapped
or clubbed for "disrespectfullv''
smoking in front of Imperial Rep
resentatives. The Chinese walking
ahead of me suddenly stumbled to
the pavement. He had forgotten to
remove his hat and the sentry struck
him slashing blow across the face
with the butt of his rifle. I kept
my hat on and walked past rapidly.
There was nothing l could do about
it-yet.
Across the bridge I took another
rlcksha. Take me corner Szechuen
road, FoochoW road" I directed the
puller. "One dollar for 20 chop
chop" The grinning Chinese young
ster sprlnted up the Bund in his
bare feet, passing the tall solid
buildings from which flew the ma
tional flags and house flags of
American, British, Japanese, French,
Italian, and German banks, steam
ship companies, and business firms.
He darted into side street and
halted outside Of the China
Japan-Lljn office. I got out and
went in.
Inside the Offices, the Dtuch agent
recognized me and called to me
over the heads of a group of for
elgners and Chinese crowded anx-
lously against the counter. If you
want to leave" he said you are
Just in time. There has just been