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Evening star., 1943-06-15
Countess de Laune Dies;
Was Friend Of NAPOLEON III
BY the Associated Press.

BY me Associated Ptest.
NEWARK, N. j., June 15-Coun-
tess Virginie Violette Melanie D. D.
De Laune. los years old, died Sunday
night at home for the aged
The last survivor of a family long
Identified with the nobility OF France,
Countess De Laune had lived in
Newark for the last 40 years.
Sisters at the Little Sisters OF the
Poor Home said the Countess was
bright and CHEEKY and retained her
interest in world events until the
last.
Countess De Laune was born in
Paris January l3, 1888, the 18th
child and only daughter of wealthy
French family. She was educated in
French converts, knew Napoleon III
we'll, was an intimate of Empress
Eugene. and until she was 80 lived
the fashionable life OF French no.
blewoman.
Then came the Franco Prussian
war Of 1870, in which she lost seven
brothers and the family lost its
fortune
After the war she taught French
in Paris and other European capi-
tails.
In 1887 she went to Quebec with
the family Of Comte Leon Duchatel
De Montrouge, then French Consul
General of Canada. She came to the
United States at the turn OF the
century and settled in Newark,
where she taught French to hun
dreds OF private pupils. She made
frequent trips to her homeland,
crossing the Atlantic 80 times.
She never married,
Evening star., 1943-06-15
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 15.-Truck
drivers, roaming the Midwest in
an unprecedented hunt for corn,
are buying the yellow grain at
higher than ceiling prices and
selling it profitably to farmers
who need it to feed livestock,
members of leading grain firms
said today.
That is one reason, they said,
why not as much corn as is needed
is coming into marketing terminals,
threatening, in the words of the
Corn Industries Research Founda-
ton, a complete shutdown in the
corn refining industry within the
next 80 days.
A shutdown in corn refineries
would affect such industries as tex
tile manufacturing, paper making,
aluminium and steel foundries, brew
ing, candy manufacturing and in
Vulnerable others which utilize de-
rivatlves of Americas most impor-
tant grain.
The existence of an illegal market
in corn, grain men said, is common
knowledge among the trade. The
Baldwin Elevator Co. of Decatur, H.,
commenting on the situation. said :
There probably never was such
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Colleges Training Troops
10 Total $50 by August

Army privates engaged in the spe-
eialized training program at colleges
and universities will be promoted to
the grade of private first class when
they move up from the basic to the
advanced phase of the program, the
War Department announced yester-
day.
The same promotion will be given
10 privates who are assigned directly
TO the advanced phase. Enlisted men
In the higher grades will retain their
rank and pay when assigned to the
advanced courses.
Commanding generals Of Army
service commands have been au-
thorized to negotiate contracts with
five more colleges and universities,
bringing to $50 the total number en-
gagged in the program by the end of
July. Three of the colleges will pro-
vide instruction in the basic course
and two will house STAR units. None
of the five schools are located in
this area.
Evening star., 1943-06-15
7 Officers, ; Cadets Die
In Training Plane Crash
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONROE, La, June l5.-Two Of
ficers and three aviation cadets at
tached to Selman Field here were
killed yesterday when their navi-
CATION training plane exploded in
flight and crashed 4 miles north Of
Hammond, La
The dead were listed as:
Second 1t. Alvin r. Grossman
the pilot, Hillside, N. J.
Second 1t. Stanley P. Dabrowski.
navigation instructor Jamaica, N. Y.
Aviation Cadet Francis G.. Con-
way, New York City.
Aviation Cadet Rafel L. Cooper,
Elmont, Ala.
Aviation Cadet Robert E. Cooper,
Chillicothe, III.
Evening star., 1943-06-15
D. c. Flyer Heads Squadron
Pounding Axis in Mediterranean
Roidine Bomber Group
includes 2 Others
From Washington
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

STRATEGIC AIR FORCE CAMP,
North Africa.-Quartered in an old
French schoolhouse with the alge-
bra problems of the children still
chalked on the blackboards is the
B -25 Mitchell medium bomber
group which in the last year has
made one of the most thrilling rec
ords of any American unit in North
Africa.
1t has accounted for 1913 enemy
fighting planes. 1t has strewn the
Mediterranean with wreckage of
German and italian ships. It has
blasted Sicily and Sardinia and the
Axis-held North African ports day
after day for months.
Its men have been awarded 370
decorations - Purple Hearts, Sol
diers' Medals, Distinguished Flying
Crosses. Silver Stars. The names OF
120 of them are posted on one of the
blackboards, surrounded by the
half-erased algebra problems, as
killed or missing in action. 1t has
been on "a missions, 1854 sorties,
has spent 1880 hours In the air and
has lost % planes and their. crews.
Dangerous Work.
On units such as this has fallen
the great burden of the air war in
North Africa. the maintaining of
the air superiority which made pos
sible the ultimate victory OF the
ground forces, the sweeping of the
seas of Axis requirements and sup
plies 1t is hard, constant, back
breaking, dangerous work, the re-
suits Of which seldom get into the
news in competition with the more
spectacular exploits OF the heavy
bombers.
Yet this one group of B-25 has
dropped more than 100000 pounds
of bombs on Axis ships and towns
at least tenth of the total destruc-
tion handed out by the American
Air Force in North Africa.
Among its officers are Capt.
Thomas P. O'Brien, a former law
student at Catholic University, and
Capt. Earl E. Batten. 1908 Rhode
Island avenue NE, who has just
been made a squadron commander
after taking part in 81 major raids.
One of the field officers Is Maj
Gordon c. Locke, formerly OF the
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Los Angeles Is Reopened
To Seryicemen on Leave
BY the Az sociated Press.


LOS ANGELES, June 15.-The
18th Naval District ordered this city
reopened to enlisted personnel at
noon today as II reputed leaders
of youthful gangs were summoned
to county grand jury investi-
cation of recent clashes between
zoot suffers and servicemen.
Rear Admiral D. w. Bagley, COM
mandant of the 1lth Naval District
said lifting of the ban was decided
upon after he had been assured by
Mayor Fletcher Bowron that the
police department ''is prepared to
handle the situation to the salts
faction of all concerned" Los
Angeles was declared out of bounds
for sailors, marines and coast
guardsmen week ago.
District Attorney Fred N Howser
said, in announcing the grand jury
inquiry, that not all of the II
subpoenaed were involved in the dis
orders. The investigation. he said
will be "of an exploratory nature"
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Bill Providing Funds
or Three Departments
Taken Up by Senate
PIon to Put CAP Pilot
Truinees in Active Duty
Will Be Pressed

The Senate turned attention to-
day to the 1925, ,l05. .758 State, JUS
tice and Commerce appropriation
bill, one OF dozen supply measures
Congress is rushing to pass in time
for the new fiscal year, which starts
July /.
Senator McCarran, Democrat, of
Nevada. in charge Of the bill, will
ask adoption Of an amendment to
bring the Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration pilot trainees into active
duty with the Army. The $50, ,940,-
358 recommended by the Appropria- =
tions Committee for the purpose
would provide training for s,64s
student pilots during the next fiscal
year. Senator McCarran predicted
this group would produce 1900 in
structor course graduates for the
Army.
The men were originally enlisted
as reservists on inactive duty for
training for glider pilots, ferry COM
mand and other assignments.
Lack Of facilities and other bot
tlenecks' has delayed the training
program, and under emergency ac-
ton by Congress they have been
paid $50 month while awaiting as
stenment between courses.
Senator McCarran said the COM
mittee opposed continuing payments
to men on inactive duty and recon-
mended that all be brought into
active duty no later than Septem-
Der l, and that their training be ex-
pedited. I.f'.t
Evening star., 1943-06-15
0PA Official Upho|ds
Riqht 10 Set Standards
In Controlling Prices
Regulations Are Accepted
By Industry, Dr.. Haley
Tells House Group
By the Associated Press.

DR.. Bernard F. Haley of the Of
flce Of Price Administration told a
congressional committee yesterday
that OPA has the authority to set
Standards where such is necessary
TO control prices"
Appearing before House commit
tee investigating the effect of pro-
posed OPA regulations on industry
DR.. Haley testified that standards
set by OPA are in accord with War
Production Board specifications
and have been generally accepted
By industry" s
I Dr. Haley heads OPA's textile,
clothing and leather price division.
Upholding the proposed minimum
standards which the agency has set
for rayon hosiery makers, he re-
ferred to new items" being
brought on the market which sell
for higher prices than those speci-
fed in OPA's general maximum
price order Of last year.
Representative Brown, Republi-
can, of Ohio said that was "a Sc
rious charge against an American
industry and demanded that DR.
Haley give the names of hosiery
manufacturers who did this.
DR.. Haley said he had been con-
nected with the department of eco
nomics Of Stanford University in
California since 1924, and had been
loaned to OPA without compensa-
ton by the university He said, Il
have had no business experience
whatever
Peter Fleming. counsel for OPA,
told the committee "OPA has many
faults, but let us not destroy the
structure" He said he was asso-
ciated with Salant & Salant. work
shirt manufacturers, and Il know my
job and know what I am talking
about"
1T would be a grave injustice to
get rid of what some critics refer
to aN crackpot economists in the
agency he said. They need en-
couragement AID deserve help. The
organization needs balance. If the
agency could get sprinkling of top
flight executives it would be de-
sirable."
Mr.. Fleming said he was believer
in brand names and valued them
highly. but was willing to forego
them for the emergency if neces-
sary."
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Municipal Court
Routine Upset by
|OW Mokinq Film

Municipal Court regulars, accus-
toned to seeirg the Monday round
up OF drunks and petty thieves, were
surprised yesterday when they OBJ
served actors in makeup, camera
men and movie technicians in the
halls of the building.
The Once of War Inflammation had
taken over a courtroom for one day
to film a make-believe trial for a
scene in a picture 1t is producing
on black market operations.
The roles in the film will be por-
trayed by owl employees. The COM
pleted sequence will last about three
minutes ON the screen, it was said.
Newspaper reporters. observing the
proceedings, volunteered to play the
parts Of newspa permen in the film.
Their offer was firmly refused, how
ever, by an assistant director who
observed:
I'm sorry, boys, but you just don t
look the type"
Evening star., 1943-06-15
News Photo Exhibit
To Include Dag Shots
Taken in Capital .
Photographer Best Work
Since Pearl Horbor to Be
Shown June 24-29

Two hundred and forty nine Of
the most striking Washington news
photos taken since Pearl Harbor,
entries In the first annual photo
contest OF the White House News
Photographers Association, will be
placed on exhibition from June "a
to 20 at the Mayfower Hotel.
On the opening night of the ex-
hibition, which will also include 200
selected photos taken by photog-
raphers in the United States armed
forces, Vice President Wallace will
present the awards for the out
standing entries in the contest.
Selection OF the winning news
shots was made yesterday in the
National Press Club Auditorium by
B. M. McKelway, associate editor OF
The Star; Alexander r. Jones, man
aging editor of the Washington
Post; John ORourke. managing
editor of the Washington News:
Franklin Fisher of the National
Geographic Society, and Bernard
Harter, news editor Of the Times
Herald.
Though the White House News
Photographers Association was
formed in 1921, the contest this
year will be its first. 1t is planned
to make the contest and exhibition
an annual affair.
Entries have been divided into
three clasSiflcations. spot news, fea-
lures and sports. Besides a cup to
the grand prize winner, there will
be plaque for the winner of each
classification and also second and
third place awards. All the entries
were made between December 7,
l94l. through March of this year.
The treachery of Pearl Harbor Is
reflected in photos of japanese ennis
saries Nomura and KuruSu waiting
at the State Department at the very
moment the attacks was taking
place. Other shots show a flooded
scene on the Potomac, Nine. Chang
Kai-shek in various poses. touch-
ing scene at the Morgue, Lord Hall
fax in an unusual pose with a
Philippine soldier, John L. Lewis
and the activities Of Presiden,
Roosevelt.
Other pictures show Secretary
Knox laughing heartily to Utter
bugs in action. Sports action pic
lures illustrate great moments in
football, baseball, horseracing and
basketball.
The services pictures which will
be included in the exhibition at the
Mayflower Hotel will show many
scenes on the battlefronts. Because
Of service regulations these pnotog-
raphers will remain anonymcls.
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Heavy Bomber Raids
Force Evacuation Of
West German Cities
HitIer's Paper Appeals
To Public for Rooms
For the Homeless
BY the Associated Press.

BERN, Switzerland. June Is
German newspapers received mere
said a mass evacuation of cities in
Western Germany was under way
as the result of 180 heavy raids by
Allied planes and 600 air alarms.
The Nazi press is engaged in a
campaign to impel rural residents
to open their homes to refugees.
Comfort must bow to the de-
mands of necessity" Hitler's own
newspaper. Voelkischer Beobachter,
said in urging everyone to crowd
refugees into available rooms. The
newspaper said it was better to take
in the evacuees than to have "a few
live in fine homes when many do
not know where they can live
Much-bombed Dusseldorf. target
of recent 2,000-ton Raj raid, is
one of the chief cities being evac-
uated, the German papers said.
Communications from Berlin have
reported very heavy losses there
and considerable damage to houses
and public buildings.
Not only the bombed out fam
lilies but those yet untouched by the
explosives are being moved out, Das
Reich said. Men are left behind
to work Das Reich said the peo-
pie should get out of the target
cities mot as an obligation, but as
law Of common sense"
The same publication and other
newspapers disclosed that there
were resentment and discomfort
among both the refugees and their
hosts"
The host must remember what
hard experiences the evacuee has
been through" Das Reich said, His
family may be lost along with every
thing else and he may have had to
give up real family life
Das Reich reminded the evaucees
that they must realize that even
in districts outside the danger of
air attacks, the people live under
war conditions and that the de-
mands of hotel guests cannot be
made on the hosts" The publ:ca-
ton said evacuees must be content
with farmhouses and lodgings and
must not try to upset the village
life of the people"
"Evacuees also must realize that
the lack Of movies, bath or toilet
or the smell Of manure pile and
the dirt of village are by no means
cause for complaint" Das Reich
added
The appeal in Hitler's newsparer
said:
What today is happening TO our
fellow citizens in western and
northwestern Germany can happen
to you and to me Bombs make no
distinction when they fall.
Be ready and help those who have
been hit and those who will be
hit. Nothing is done with only
sympathetic words. Only deeds
will help"
Evening star., 1943-06-15

Interstate Commerce Commission
in Washington and former all
America of the University OF Iowa
Develop New Tactics.
Capt Batten, University OF
Maryland graduate, has been one
of the most active pilots from the
first and has come through with a
minimum of perilous situations
His most thrilling, he explained,
was in raid over Gabes, when the
squadron was attacked by 200 fight
ers, one of which got through the
fighter escort and trailed Capt, Bat
tens craft for 20 minutes. There
were II bullet holes in the plane
when he landed.
This particular unit has played
a big part in developing the Amer
ican medium bomber tactics used
in this area which played a big part
in the final victory, but the nature
of which cannot be described until
the war is over. They represent
however, something new in aerial
warfare.
1t has played particular havoc
wth Axis shipping, including the
bag of tanker, two destroyers and
cruiser one afternoon when it
was sent out over a must" target
a tanker loaded with gasoline at
the time Of the Kassarine break
through. when this was vitally es-
sential to the Germans for main
tanning air control
Evening star., 1943-06-15
u. ). Armed Forces
Won't Police World,
Senator Davis Says
Predicts Speedy Return.
From Abroad After War
In Flag Day ToIk

Speedy evacuation of American
troops from foreign soil at the wars
end, with no policing of foreign
nations, was predicted by Senator
Davis, Republican, of Pennsylvania
speaking yesterday at Flag Day
rally at the Departmental Audi
torium.
when this war is over this flag
should not remain long in foreign
lands, for this is no flag of con-
quest, of imperialism. of plunder, ="
the Senator said. This is a flag
of freedom and of equality among
men. We should never use this
flag as means of administering or
ruling the world"
The exercises were included in a
lengthy list of celebrations in honor
of the flags natal day. At the
Marine Barracks women auxiliaries
carried the colors in the evening
parade for the first time in the
corps history.
New March Heard.
The guard marching smartly to
a new air written especially for the
women by Louis Saverino, musician,
second class, of the Marine Band,
member. carried colors presented to
the corps by Mrs. Ethelburt Lowe
in the name of the National Society
of the Colonial Danes of America.
Maj. Ruth Streeter, director of the
women marines, accepted the colorS
from Mrs. Lowe, national president
of the society, and in turn presented
them to the guard comprised of
Corpls. Leona PAIL, Great Falls,
Mont; Florence Sharp, Denver
Colo; Lorraine Dolan. San Francis
co. and Pfc. Norma Allen Of Toledo
Ohio.
Brig Gen. L. w. T. Waller. jr. Of
Marine headquarters, reviewed the
parade.
Miss Louis G. Zabriski, Colonial
Danes service chairman, arranged
the presentation, which was wit
messed by other members of the
society, including Mrs. Joseph b.
Hutchinson, former president; Mrs.
Hugh M. Morris, Mrs. Robert Gar
rett, Mrs. Edward C. Moo, Mrs.
Agnes Peters, Mrs. William H. Will
mer, Mrs. H. S. Cammann, Mrs.
j. B. Gribbel, Mrs. G. F. Peter, Mrs.
Gilbert Hitchcock, Miss Dorothy S.
Spenser, Mrs. Enos Campbell and
Mrs. Joseph S. Wall
In the Danes color guard were
Mrs. William S. Allen, Mrs. Everett
Horgan and Mrs. John L. Sullivan.
Exercises at Capitol.
At other exercises the District
Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution presented an American
flag to students of KrameI Junior
High School, while the NVomen's
Relief Corps sponsored a program
in front of the Capitol at which
the Navy Band played.
Miss Ruth Mitchell. sister of the
late Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell, spoke
at a rally at Billy Mitchell Post, No.
IS, American Legion, at Washing
ton-Lee High School, Ballston. Va.
The rally was held in conjunction
with sl,000000 bond drive in prog
ress in Arlington for the purchase
Of two bombing planes.
At the Jewish Community Center
q military musical revue by Sylvia
Kaplowitz and an all-girl cast
featured a program sponsored by
the Jewish War Veterans.
Evening star., 1943-06-15
; MeatIess Days Weekly
New Workers. Prospect
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June l5.-New York
ers we're faced yesterday with the
prospect of having Sunday desig-
mated the third meatless day of the
week, as Albert T. Wendell, presi-
dent of the New York State Associ-
alton of Retail Meat Dealers, de-
scribed the city's meat shortage as
"the worst we've ever had"
Paul Henkel. president Of the So
ciety of Restaurateurs, which in
cludes more than 200 of New York's
largest service restaurants, reported
that the society would meet Monday
to determine whether Sunday should
be adopted as the third meatless day
in an attempt to stretch meat points.
He said that, while the meat
shortage might affect restaurant
supplies by midweek, the shortage
Of points was Of more pressing con-
Germ. He pointed out that the
points recently were devaluated by
an increase in beef point values and
the addition of other commodities
to the meat rationins program.
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Police Asked to Hunt
For Missing WAVE

Hope Fletcher, 33, a WAVE, dis
appeared early Saturday morning
from her barracks at Nebraska and
Massachusetts, avenues NV, .ac-
cording to the Navy Department,
which yesterday asked police to
search for her.
She is described as feet inches
tall, weighing 130 pounds, hazel eyes,
light brown hair and wearing a
WAVE uniform.
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Virginia Court Ruling
Frees Man
Convicted Of Assault
Charge Against Leeions,
Once Sentenced to Die,
Dropped by Prosecutor

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEESBURG, Va, June l5.-Sam-
uel Legions, %. colored. of Berry,
vile, who was convicted last year
in Loudoun County Circuit Court
on a charge of criminal assault on a
white married woman and sentenced
to die in the electric chair, ap-
parently will walk out Of the State
penitentiary at Richmond a free
man.
The conviction was reversed by the
State Supreme Court of Appeals,
and because no further evidence has
been produced, Commonwealth At
torney Charles F. Harrison ordered
the case against Legions nolle
pressed.
Legions was sentenced to die in
the electric chair by Loudoun
County jury on April 8, 1912. He
was to have been executed June IL,
1912.
Later the case was taken to the
Court OF Appeals which held that
there was not enough evidence" to
sustain a conviction. 1t was re-
manded to the Circuit Court for
new trial II the commemorative
Attorney so advised.
Legions was represented by Charles
Houston, colored lawyer of Wash
ington
CAT Richmond. Legions re-
manned in the death cell at the
penitentiary. Officials there said
they had not yet received an
order for his release
The case reached the Supreme
Court oT Appeals in January, l943,
and on January l8, 1t reversed and
remanded the case for further pro-
ceedings.
The opinion Of Justice George L.
Browning said the testimony "in
the light of the admitted physical
surroundings and absence of Incl
dents which naturally ensue Is so
contrary to human experience and
so inherently incredible as to be
totally insufficient to justify the ver-
dict of guilty beyond reasonable
doubt"
The court said the feeble" efforts
at resistance by the woman and her
husband amounted to nothing but
a shameful surrender and capitula-
tion."
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Conferees Disagree
On Granting Funds
For Planning Board
Action Returns Issue to
House for New Vote;
Hole Grunt Restored

House and Senate conferees
studying the s2,e21 ,6oO,o 900 inde-
pendent Offices bill failed to
agree this afternoon on whether
to continue or abolish the Ma
tional Resources Planning Board
after July /, which throws the
issue back to the House for an
other vote.
The Senate group, however, won
House agreement to the restoration
of sufficient funds for the Home
Owners Loan Corp. to enable it to
continue a gradual process of liqui-
dating its mortgages. The House
had originally cut the administra- :
tive expenses Of the corporation,
with a view to forcing liquidation
during the coming fiscal year.
The conferees also agreed on a
proviso, requiring HOLC to submit
a definite liquidation plan to Con-
greSs by next February.
When the independent Offices bill
passed the House originally In Feb
ruary, it carried no funds for the
NRPB. The Senate allowed $780,
900 out of budget estimate of ST.
400 900. The House conferees would
not accept even the Senate's reduced
amount, deciding instead to ask the
House to vote on the question again.
The House conferees also refused
to accept Senate cut of $2O5 900 in
the Budget Bureaus expenses, and
will ask the House to vote again on
this also.