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Evening star., 1943-06-10
President 10 Give Medal
To Sister Of Dead Hero
BY the Associated Press

BY Inc Associated PreSS.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 10.-Mrs
Edith Hall Price Of nearby Obetz
Junction said today she had been
summoned to Washington to receive
from President Roosevelt the Con-
gressional Medal of Honor, awarded
posthumously to her brother, Corpl
Lewis Hall, who died in battle on
Guadalcanal on January 10.
A letter from the adjutant gen.
erals Office, asking Mrs. Price to re-
ceive the Governments highest
military honor in, behalf of her
brother, said the award was for
"conspicuous gallantry and intre-
pidity above and beyond the call of
duty"
1t said Corpl. Hall, a 47-year-old
infantryman transferred to ma
chine gun squad at his own request,
and members of his squad accounted
for at least 40 of the enemy before
he met death.
Corpl. Hall, a recipient of the
Order of the Purple Heart. was sent
to Guadalcanal from Pearl Harbor
where he was stationed at the wars
outbreak. He had served in the
Army almost continually since the
World War, enlisting at the age
of II.
The sister who will accept Corpl
Halls medal has a laudable war
record herself. She is the wife of
veteran of the World War, the
mother of two soldiers in the present
war and served as a nurse in the
former conflict.
Evening star., 1943-06-10
Woman Pleads Guilty
To Charges Under
White Slave Act
Faces Possible Penalty
Of IS Years in Prison
And $4,000 Fine -.@,r

Anna M. Swift, SO, today pleaded
guilty in District Court before JUS
tice Matthew F. Mcguire to three
indictments charging violations of
the White Slave Traffic Act.
In accepting the pleas. having to
do with alleged transportation of
women for immoral purposes, Justice
MCGUIRE announced that the woman
was throwing herself on the mercy
OF the court and indicated that by
her action she could not expect
leniency.
The three indictments contained
seven counts. under which a pen
atty OF 35 years in prison and a
S35 900 fine are possible. The maxi
mum penalty on each count is five
years and a $4,000 fine.
Meanwhile. the woman. who called
herself doctor and operated So
called massage parlors one of them
in the 100 block of Church street
NV, is accused in four other in
dlctments which contain a total of
seven counts.
She was indicted in February, but
trial had been delayed on her plea
of illness.
Justice MCGUIRE set next Thurs
day as the date for sentencing and
allowed her to remain at liberty
under $4,000 bond.
Evening star., 1943-06-10
Plan to Ration Milk Studied
By OfficiqIs, Davis Aide Says

only essential military and civilian
needs.
These four methods of limiting
consumption of fluid milk are under
study, the dairy oncial said:
Rationing of huid milk on a cou-.
pom basis, somewhat like gasoline.
Restricting transportation of milk,
thereby limiting, and possibly re-
ducing, the size of urban milk sheds.
This would cut out the importation
of so-called emergency" milk
brought in from long distance.
Eliminating sales of cream and
cream by-products.
Allocating supplies to dealers or.
to markets.
Mr.. Stitts said it was possible that
a combination OF these methods
might be used.
Whatever restrictions might be
imposed would be Nationwide, he
said.
Evening star., 1943-06-10
President Of Paraguay
Plans Visit 10 Capitol
As Part Of Busy Day
Gen. Morinigo Moves
To Blair House.; Feted
At Dinner Lost Night

Gen. Higinio Morinigo President
of Paraguay, who arrived here yes
terday and was an overnight guest
at the White House. launched on a
busy program today, with plans to
visit the Capitol and to address the
Governing Board Of the Pan-Amer-
lean Union He will be in Wash
ington until Sunday, when he will
leave for visit to war plants at
Detroit and Buffalo
Leaving the White House this
morning. Gen. Morinigo took up his
residence at the Blair House on
Pennsylvania avenue. opposite the
State Department, the official Gov
ernment guest house He planned
TO go to the Capitol at noon.
A special session of the Govern
ing Board of the Pan-American
Union was scheduled for l pm,
when Secretary of State Hull. chair
man of the board, was to welcome
the distinguished visitor. A lunch
con of the board was to follow.
Plans Press Conference.
This afternoon Gen. Morinigo eX-
pected to hold a press conference at
the Blair House and will be the
guest of Secretary Hull at dinner
tonight at the Carlton Hotel
Reaching Washington in an Army
plane at 4:35 pm. yesterday, Gen.
Morinigo was met by Secretary Hull
and other State Department officials
at the National Airport. They mo-
tored to the White House, where an
official ceremony on the south lawn
greeted the visiting chief of state
A guard of honor. consisting of SOL
diers, sailors and marines. stood at
present arms while the Army
Band played the Paraguayan and
American national anthems.
The soldier-P President and party
then entered the White House,
where they were welcomed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in a diplomatic re-
ception room A state dinner was
given last night at the White House
in honor of the distinguished visitor
Will Visit Annapolis.
Tomorrow Gen. Morinigo will
visit the Naval Academy at Annap-
oils and will return to Washington
III the late afternoon Undersecre-
tary of State Sumner Welles will
give dinner in his honor at the
MayfoWer Hotel tomorrow night.
In the party with Gen. Morinigo
are DR.. Luis Argana. Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Paraguay: Dr.
Rogelo Espinoza, Minister of FL
nance; 1t Col Victoriano Benitez
Vera, 1t. Col. Manuel Rodriguez.
Maj. Eugenlo Reichert, Dr. Jorge
Escobar, Undersecretary of Foreign
Affairs; 1t. Comdr Pedro Meyer,
naval aide to Gen. Morinigo; Wes-
ley Frost. United States Ambassador
to Paraguay; Brig. Gen. Charles L.
Mullins, jr., U. S. A.. military aide,
and Capt. Frank Loftin, U, S. N,
naval aide.
Evening star., 1943-06-10
BY WILLIAM L. WORDEN,

CORRIES LAKE, Attu, May 30
Delayed On this bloody Memoir
isl Day, which brought annihilation,
of the last organized enemy resist
ance on Attu. the mass of surviving
japanese killed themselves with
hand grenades rather than sur
render.
Surprised yesterday by desperate
enemy counterattack which brought
lied to rout the japanese and
slaughter them by hundreds. The
fighting ended today.
The final Japanese assault began
at am. yesterday. A madly yell
ing mob of japanese army and navy
personnel and civilians-apparently
every man who could be mustered
into action in the Attu village Sec
tor - rushed American positions
above Cories Lake. They succeeded
in reoccupying positions from which
they had been driven days before.
That attack took American forces
by surprise At an advanced COM
mand post near here, sleeping
soldiers were bayonetted and gren-
| AIDED in their pup tents and in fox
holes. At least one American field
gun was turned against our own
| forces.
Killed by Own Grenades.
A few snipers penetrated even be-
| yond Gen. E. M. Landrum's head
quarters, to the west and east.
Their attack stopped. the des-
perate Japanese died almost to a
man. Hundreds were killed by our
fire. Some killed themselves.
One last hopeless charge by about
so of the enemy was made at am.
today on a command post above
Cories Lake. But there was no sur
prise this time American fire swept
through the ranks of the yelling
Japanese.
They broke and ran into gullies
There in grisly masses they held
their own grenades against their
chests after setting of the detona-
tors. Their bodies lie in piles to-
! night.
Some of the stories coming out
of the batle of Attu are true-others
are just good stories
Jap Calls for Doctors.
For instance. there is the un-
luckiest man. He was shot through
the leg. He was brought down on
litter which became snipers tar
get. The soldier was shot through
the other leg. In dressing station
awaiting further transportation as
the japanese began their desperate
last attack, the soldier, never seri-
ously injured, was shot through the
arm.
There was the English speaking
Evening star., 1943-06-10
Mai. Gen. VIC. Baker
To Head Veterans
Chosen Commander
Of World War Order

Maj Gen Walter c. Baker. former
chief of the Chemical Warfare
Service. who now is on duty with
the War Production Board. was
elected commander of the District
Chapter. Military Order of the
World War, succeeding Brig. Gen.
Richard M. Jordan at the orders
annual luncheon meeting at the
MayfloWer Hotel today.
Senator Thomas. Democrat. of
Utah. was the luncheon speaker.
The new commander and his staff
were installed by Charles Ham. jr.,
of New York. the national COM
mander in chief.
Those elected to serve with Gen.
Baker are: Maj. o. W. Clark. senior
vice commander; Vice Admiral R. R.
Waesche. Maj. Gen. Myron C. Cra-
mer, Brig. Gen. Charles D. Roberts.
Col. Arthur ]. Perry, Maj. Russell
P. Freeman, Maj Charles w. Ar
derry, all Junior vice commanders.
1t. Col. Edwin S.. Bethlehem, jr.,
was reelected adjutant-treasurer
while Col. Charles M. Trammell was
chosen judge advocate; Rear Ad-
miral Adolphus Station. historian.
and 1t. Col Howard E. Snyder,
chaplain.
Gen. Bakers staff will consist of: +:
Maj. Gen. John F. Williams, 1t.
Comdr. Harold K Hughes. Col Mer-
ritt B. Curtis. 1t. Col. Sidney Nor
gan, 1t. Col. Charles L.. Frailey,
1t. Charles E. Krey. Maj. Leonce
Legendre. Lee Carter. Maj. Ennalls
Waggaman. Col. George F. Un-
macht. 1t. Col. George E. Ijams,
Brig. Gen. Perry L. Miles, Maj. John
D. Cutter. Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox,
Rear Admiral Harry G., Hamlet, 1t.
Col, B. K. Cash, Mai. James Alex
ander Lyon, Rear Admiral Adolphus
Station and Brig. Gen. Richard
Jordan.
Evening star., 1943-06-10
Spang|er 10 Meet Tonight
With COP Postwar Unit
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Chairman Harrison E. Spangler
OF the Republican National Com
mittee will meet tonight with the 18
congressional members of the new
Republican Postwar Advisory Coun-
Gil to discuss how to expedite the
councils studies of a peacetime pro-
gram for possible use in framing
1914 party platform.
A committee announcement said
Mr.. Spangler also will meet infor-
mally with the "a Republican Gov
ernors on the council during the an
nual Governors conference at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, June % and "a. 1t
is planned then to call the whole
49-member group together, includ-
ing seven party officials, later in
the summer.
Membership of the council was
announced June /. The congress
sional section includes Senate
Minority Leader McNary, House
Minority Leader Martin and Repre-
sentative Otter of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the party's Congress
slonal Campaign Committee
Evening star., 1943-06-10
By the Associated Press.


SACRAMENTO, Calf, June 10.
Milk may be the next COM
modify to be rationed, Federal
authority disclosed today.
The War Food Administration, the
Office of Price Administration and
the dairy industry are studying ways
Of limiting civilian consumption of
milk. expecting decline In supplies
later this year, according to T. G.
Stitts, chief of dairy and poultry in
the VIA.
Mr.. Stitts, in a speech before the
California Dairy Council, said food
ofhcials had concluded that the Gov
ernment must curtail consumption
Of fluid milk or cut down on the
manufacture of such products as
butter. cheese. evaporated and dried
milk. The latter alternative, was
said to be out Of the question because
manufactured products now meet
Evening star., 1943-06-10
Russia S New War Loan
Far 0versubscribed
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, June 10-Russia's new
war loan has been oversubscribed by
more than eight billion rubles. the
Finance Commissariat announced
today.
The loan aimed at raising u billion
rubles. The fund has reached 20
l2l 900, 600 rubles, 1t was declared.
The ruble has nominal" value
OF about l9 cents, but conditions
governing Russia's economic con-
facts with the outside world make
accurate conversion into the dollar
impossible. At the 19-cent figure the
war loan quota would be $2,28O, ,OOO.-
600. and the amount of oversub-
scription would be 1882 900 900, for
a total of $3812,000. 900.
Evening star., 1943-06-10
California Runcher Weds
Seventh Time at 70
Rv the Associated p,.,s

BY The ASSOCIATED PlSjs,
LONG BEACH. Calf, June 10
Harry L. Male, 78, six times a wild
over, was married yesterday for the
seventh time.
His bride is the former Mrs. Sarah
Elizabeth Hamilton, Y. Mr.. Male,
a retired cabinetmaker, said the
couple will reside on his small ranch
in Kern County, Calf. and:
Il expect to live happily ever
after"
Evening star., 1943-06-10
Many Jops on Attu Killed Selves
With Grenodes When Trapped
Every Available Man Joined in Desperate
Final, Yelling Charge at Americans

japanese who came tumbling out of
hole yelling: Need medic. need
medic!" A soldier saw grenade in
the hand OF the supposedly wounded
man. Ten seconds later he had no
further need of a doctor.
There is the thoroughly embar-
,rassed private now on his way back
from Attu on a hospital ship. He
isn't badly hurt, but he's very un-
comfortable. A grenade struck a
rock just beyond him as he was
kneeling behind a ledge. The doc
tors have been picking pieces of
grenade and splinters of rock out of
him ever since.
He is not able to sit down.
Evening star., 1943-06-10
D. c. Woman Sponsors
Liberty Ship Launching

Mrs. Stanley WOODWARD, 3005 o
street NV, yesterday sponsored the
launching of Liberty ship in Bal
timore named for her husbands
great-grandfather, George w. Wood
ward, late Pennsylvania jurist and
Representative in Congress.
The 10,500-ton vessel is the 148th
of its type to be launched at the
Bethlehem-Fairield shipyards in
Baltimore.
George w. Woodward was presi-
t-judge of the fourth judicial
district from 184l-5l and later chief
judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court. He served in the House in
the Fortieth and Forty-first Con-
crosses.
Evening star., 1943-06-10
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senate:
Debates new proposal to eliminate
Farm Security Administration.
Banking Committee hears OPA
witnesses on food price roll-back
order.
Military Affairs Committee re-
sumes hearings on Austin -Wads-
worth bill.
House:
May consider Treasury Post once
appropriation bill,
Naval Affairs Committee begins
new study of war contract profits.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-06

elndependent oil groups, from
farm organizations, from some
cooperative groups, finally
caused Sen. George D. Aiken
of Vermont to request Attor-
ney General Francis Biddle to
begin an intensive study of
conditions in the oil industry
today Aiken is the most active mem
Der of a special subcommittee of the
senate committee on agriculture
which has the responsibility for in
quiring into any conditions which af-
feet the production and distribution
of foodstuffs. He told Biddle that
when congress reconvened in Septem-
Der he would ask the subcommittee
to make an investigation into the COM
plants against the oil trust and that
he intended to call on the antitrust
division for a report.
Assistant Attorney General Tom
Clark is directing the inquiry which
is now being made. Representatives
of the department have already called
on farm cooperative leaders here and
it is known that shortly the investi-
gators will go into the states from
which the complaints have been most
numerous. The antitrust division
has very creditable record in deal
ing with the oil trust. In fact, it is
one of the few agencies of the gov
IL L..
winked or brow-beaten by the oil
lobby.
Control of oil production and to a
considerable degree, control of dis
tribution is in the hands of the Pc
troleum Administration for War. That
agency Is, controlled By Secretary Of
the Interior Harold L. Ickes. While
Ickes is the car, the agency is di-
rected by Ralph Davies, vice presi-
dent of the Standard Oil Company
of California. A scandal developed
in the early days of the war when the
Security and Exchange Commission
revealed that Davies, although sworn
in as a government officer, was still
a tremendous salary from
Standard Oil. How embarrassing that
situation can be was shown recently
when the same Standard Oil company
was involved in the Elk Hill exploita-
ion scandal now being investigated
by house committee.
Committees of the house and senate
ome formal committees and some
imp committees, have been aroused
o inquire into the oil situation be-
.ause of the complaints from farm
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-06
NATIONAL POLL
TAX ACTION
Imperative

On July Bird, the Tennessee suprem,
court celebrated the American Dec
laration of Independence by holdins
unconstitutional the repeal of the
poll tax in that state.
/ By overwhelming majorities at thu
last Tennessee legislature, the feuda
vote tax in Tennessee was abolished
Now by margin of one vote, in {
/ 3 to decision of the Tennessee su
preme court, Boss Crump of Memphis
and his courthouse poll tax rings have
denied free vote to three million
| Tennesseans, and to 100000 young
Tennesseans in our armed forces.
For seven long years, democratic
liberal, and labor groups in Tennessee
have battled the poll tax disfranchise
ment. Now the will of the people has
been set aside by packed judiciary
of poll tax appointees.
Thus, in the one state of all the
eight poll tax states where repeal of
the poll tax by state legislation was
thought possible, it has now been
shown to be impossible.
One course remains open-only one
course-to guarantee a full and free
democratic election in 1914, the cleo
ton that will decide the shape of
the war and the peace. That course
is immediate enactment of HR by
the senate of the United States HR
Z passed the house of representatives
on May 25th by a vote of 265-110
Now reposing in the senate judiciary
committee, HR can only be brought
before the senate and passed if every
citizen urges his senators to vote for
cloture and for passage of the bill.
Ten million American citizens,
workers and farmers, white and black,
fathers and mothers of our heroic
fighting men are looking to the senate
to act swiftly. The fate of American
democracy rests in the hands of the
senate as surely as it does in the
hands of our troops.
Ask your senators to stand up and
be counted for the democratic way
of life Ask them to support HR
for repeal of the poll tax. Ask them
to bring democracy to ten million
The National Committee to Abolish
the Poll Tax during the next ten
weeks will direct a vigorous cam
paign This summer campaign will
involve delegations to the senator's,
and mass meetings in as
many communities as possible, "a ma
tional anti-poll tax week to be cele-
brated in September, a mass lobby
week in Washington the latter part
Of September to bring direct pressure
in order to defeat the filibuster. Ac-
tivity on the poll tax in the next ten
weeks can ensure early passage of
E1R in the fall.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-06
GRAND JURY
Investigation
OF RIOTS ASKED

The Workers Defense League has
joined with ten other organizations in
urging Attorney General Biddle to
see that a federal grand jury investi-
CATION of the Detroit riots is insti-
tuted at once.
Pointing out that Special Prosecu-
tor Dowling's recent statement plac-
ing the blame for the riots on the
negroes has greatly undermined the
confidence of the people of the coun-
try in the local law enforcement, the
telegram to Biddle voices the opinion
that the situation requires prompt
and vigorous Intervention of the De-
partment of Justice.
The full text of the wire follows:
"The reported refusal of Special
Prosecutor William Bowling to grant
the request of the mayors commit
tee on interracial peace to convene
grand jury to investigate the De-
that the situation requires the prompt
and vigorous Intervention of the De-
partment of Justice. AS reported in
the press Mr.. Dowling's statement
supported by Police Commissioner
Witherspoon placing blame for the
riots on the negroes has so greatly
undermined the confidence of the peo-
pie of Detroit and the nation that only
a federal grand jury investigation of
the Detroit riots will be effective.
The undersigned organizations in the
conference against race discrimina-
ton are trying to aid in establishing
racial understanding and peace. We
believe that unless the Detroit riots
situation is relieved and further fric-
ton prevented by the federal govern
ment serious race riots will break
out in more than a dozen cities in
the nation where riots are threat
ened at present. May we have your
assurance that the Department of
Justice will institute federal grand
jury investigation at once, particular
ly in the light of the evidence of law
lessness on the part of the Detroit
police?"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-06
C0-0PS HELP
GUARD WAGE
INCREASES

DETROIT-Inside the ranks of or
ganized labor, new leadership is de
veloping rapidly to lead an effective
campaign against rising prices and
profiteering and control of consumers
by monopolies and trusts.
Elmer E. Milliman, president of the
great railroad workers organizations
the Brotherhood of Maintenance OF
Way Employees, this week told about
1000 delegates to the triennial con
vention of the organization that they
could not win when organized only
to fight for better wages and better
working conditions. He urged them
to become intensely interested at once
in the consumer cooperative move
ment and added that through coop
erative activity they could help to
bring peace to the world.
Shortly thereafter, Murray d. Lin
coin, president of The Cooperative
League of the USA, told the delegates
the story of cooperative accomplish
ment in the United States. He talked
for more than an hour and when he
sought to conclude he was urged on
and on to tell other stories and to
answer questions. 'The delegates
would have stayed there all night if
Lincoln would have gone on with the
story" remarked one of the delegates.
you have the tools in your own
hands to fashion your destiny" Lin
coin emphasized as he described how
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-06
PENSIONS TO
WIDOWS, ORPHANS
INCREASED

Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, admin
istrator of Veterans Affairs, today
! ordered the review of approximately
As, 900 case files pertaining to widows
and orphans of veterans of all wars
and the regular establishments, whose
death has been due to service. This
review is designed to provide auto
matte increases beginning August 1,
in compensation and pension which
were provided such widows and or
phans in a law signed by President
Roosevelt on July 10.
The increases will total about S4,-
100000 a year, averaging approximate
ly 500 annually in each case. Gen
eral Hines said that it will not be
necessary to write Veterans Admins
tration offices for the increased pay
ments. The machinery has already
been set in motion to grant these
automatically. Writing in may cause
delay in an award of the new rates.
The new rates will apply to claims
which are pending and will be paid
also for deaths occurring in the future.