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Evening star., 1944-04-27
Curtin and Roosevelt
In Complete Harmony,
Prime Minister Says
BY the Associated Press.

q
Prime Minister Curtin of Aus
tralia says he and President Roose-
velt are in complete harmony"
In radio address, review of war
and postwar problems in the Pa
ciflc, Mr.. Curtin said last night he
has expressed to Mr.. Roosevelt the
gratitude of the Australian people
for American aid in preserving their
country from japanese aggression
and added:
.ss'" Australia will look to the United
States in the future, as it will look
to the. other great powers with
larger resources, to work out, inter-
nationally, the salvation of human
beings"
But Australia's voice, Mr.. Curtin
said, will be- heard in the Pacific
ano it will accept its responsibili-
ties.
The Prime Minister'S remarks ap-
peared intended to give the United
States reinsurance on the Australia
A>S" 0Coidiiu pdCt, tIlOuSl lle ulu
not mention it directly.
This pact, signed at Canberra
January 2I, had elected some criti-
cism both here and in Australia on
the grounds it would limit United
States rights in the South and
Southwest Pacific One clause pro-
vides that the use of naval or army
air bases constructed during this
war in any territory under the SOW
ereignty or control of another power
does not afford any basis for terri
torial claims on rights of sovereignty
or control after the close of hos
tilities.
Mr.. Curtin spoke, too, of the con-
tribution Australians are making to
victory.
He said Australia has only $780,
600 adult males and 100000 are "in
the fighting forces-over 100000 of
them for service in any part of the
world"
Mr. Curtin stopped here on his
way to London for next month S
conference of Prime Ministers of
the British Commonwealth.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Methodist ChapIains
Total 1900, D. {. Man
Informs Conference

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, April 27.-The
future leaders of the Methodist
Church will come from among it's
1900 chaplains who know what 1t
is to lie in foxhole under machine
gun fire, D. Stewart Patterson of
Washington says.
The secretary of the church's
Commission on Chaplains said seven
Methodist chaplains already have
been killed.
Mr.. Patterson said the impression
that the Methodist Church is not
furnishing its share sof chaplains is
mistaken.
Here to attend the quadrennial
general conference of the church, he
said the Methodists, with 100000
members, have more chaplains than
any other denomination. If the
percentage isn't as favorable as some
other churches it is because a larger
group has more difficulty reaching
its quota, he added.
There are $4,000 Methodist preach
ers, but of these 1000 are supply or
local preachers, he continued. OF
the remaining $4,000, at least half
have passed the maximum 5O-year
mark. leaving 5000. Of those in the
right age group, half are physically
unfit. That leaves 4,500, and 1900
Of these will be unable to meet the
Army and Navy's rigid educational
requirements or possess certain
which would make them
ineligible. That leaves 5000 men,
and MIR. Patterson points out almost
half of them have been tapped.
Two reasons why it's been hard to
get chaplains, Patterson says are:
Until recently many preachers
have thought the war wouldn't last
long enough to justify the training
period.
The Army gives preacher up to
a first lieutenants commission as a
starter. Thus financial obligations
hold some men back.
The conference, which opened
yesterday, heard Bishop Arthur J.
Moore of Atlanta, present a report
by the 54 bishops calling for an in
ternational order to preserve peace.
He deplores what he called the la
mentable stage in our national and
moral idealism," and disclosed the
church had gained 3l8,822 members
in the last four years.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Trial Is Set for Three
Indicted in Triumph Case

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 27-United
States Attorney Bernard j. Flynn
|said yesterday that three men, in
dicted with the late Joseph Ben
Decker on charges of conspiracy to
defraud the United States, would
come to trial May 10 before Federal
Court Judge w. Calvin Chestnut.
Decker, former vice president and
general manager of Triumph Ex-
plosives, Inc, Elkton, Md, who was
convicted of violating the Renego-
tiations Act and using the mails to
defraud, shot himself shortly before
he was to begin prison term.
The Government contends the
three-Alfred P. Shirley, Floyd B
Olcott and Forrest Nichols-con-
|spired with Decker to obtain a 8
per cent fee from Triumph for So
liciting contract with the War
Department. Such a fee. the in
dictment said, was contrary to the
contract.
The three, members of a Wash
ington brokerage partnership en-
gagged in representing contractors
before the War and Navy Depart
ments, also are charged with max
ing false representations to the
Government,
Evening star., 1944-04-27
| New Guinea Landings
Set Pacific 'Pattern,'
Stimson Declares
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The pattern for future drives
against Japan has been set by the
long leap-frog up a New Guinea
coast and the complete cooperation
of ground, sea and air forces, Sec
retary of War Stimson said today.
There is evidence that future
hops can be even longer than those
we have thus far TAKEN" he told his
weekly press conference. -
The landings of American in
fantrymen at Hollandia, in conjunc-
tion with those at Aitape, should
raise a well-deserved alarm in the
minds of the Japanese" the Secre-
tary said.
Aid to Russia Cited.
Secretary Stimson also COM
mented that air operations out of
Italy against Balkan centers and
communications are in direct aid of
the Russian southern offensive He
drew attention to this meeting of
Allied forces in the East with AL
lied forces from the West, and drew
Ia parallel with the meeting of
Northern and Southern Union
forces in the American Civil War
when mot long after, the war came
to an end"
Mr.. Stimson described the action
IN New Guinea as a methodical one
carried out by the combined forces
under Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
bringing the Palau Islands within
the range of land-based bombers.
No doubt, Mr.. Stimson said, Tokyo
Is fully aware that the pattern set
in New Guinea in the light of
mounting Allied strength threatens
the japanese Empire and endangers
the home islands.
With the landings in the Hollan-
dia area, he noted, the Allies have
jumped TOO miles up the New Gui-
nea coast since the Buna campaign,
and have advanced some 1,400 miles
from Guadalcanal, mot to speak of
operations in the Central Pacific"
Taking India Offensive.
Secretary Stimson said that in In
dia, British-Indian troops have be-
gun to take the offensive north and
northeast of Imphal, and other
forces have opened the road from
Dimapur to Kohima.
In the continuing air assault on
Germany, he said, 1t has been no
table that numerical losses were less
than in previous penetrations OF
Nazi territory, although the planes
participating have been more nu-
merous. The Nazis still have enough
planes in the air to make each AL
lied attack battle, and probably
are boarding air reserves for an
extreme emergency, but the average
strength of the opposition is de-
|creasing and the Allied percentage
OF losses falling off, while the DAM
age to enemy production and COM
munications continue to mount.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
New Regulations Ease
Shifting Of CAA Pilots
To Army Air Forces

New regulations designed to ease
the shifting Of pilots released by
abandonment Of the Civil Aero
nautics Administrators War Train
ing Service program to the Army
Air Forces. including the Army
Transport Command, have been an
.nounced by the War Department.
Thousands Of pilots who SEEM
ingly faced unemployment at time
when the War Department Is ex-
|panding the Women's Army Service
Pilots program have protested to
Congress and through the press.
Strong political opposition on
Capitol Hill also has been aroused
against a current bill to blanket the
WASPS-now a civilian organiza-
tion-into the Army Air Forces.
Many pilots have written to mem
bers OF Congress that they would be
fully capable, after brief transitional
training, to operate transports and
perform other jobs for which women
are being trained from the be-
ginning.
Most important Of the changes
announced by the Air Forces is the
elimination of previous requirement
that former CAA-WTS men must be
members of the Army Enlisted Re-
serve in order to volunteer for the
Army Transport Corps. However,
the qualifications which these men
must have before entering the train
ling course for transport pilots are
still much higher than the IS hours
flying time required for WASP ap-
plicants.
They must have 1000 flying hours
200 of which must be in aircraft
of 200 horsepower or more. They
also must pass the Army Glass
physical examination and compre-
hensive flight tests in basic-type
Army trainers.
Included in the programs now be-
ing abandoned are 1908 flyers in
various degrees Of training. These
include. 1885 civil instructors in
AAF contract schools, N3046 civil
instructors in CAA-WTS courses
1922 students training to be civil
instructors and 500 CAA instructors
teaching future trainers. Many al
ready have been assigned to AAF
training or to new duties.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
REA Counsel Scored
BY Smith for Talk :
BY the Associated Press.

os thc aoSOSldiCG ItS9ns Z
Senator Smith. Democrat, of
South Carolina today criticized VIM
cent D. Nicholson, Rural Electrified
ton Administration counsel, for
saying ito hell with the law" in a
Chicago speech, a remark which
Mr.. Nicholson testified was Who'll
y facetious-an inept attempt to
be funny"
Senator Smith, chairman of an
agriculture subcommittee ,investi-
eating REA, told Mr.. Nicholson "the
statement is foreign to what decent
people would expect from q legal
representative of a ~Government
agency and is one of the most
shocking things I've ever heard"
MIR. Nicholson said he made the
remark in an lad lib speech" at a
National Rural Electric Co-opera-
tive Association convention in Chi
cago March 20, explaining:
1T was more or less IN keeping
with my introduction at the meet
ing which included some facetious
remarks about me. had been told
there would be no transcript taken
of my remarks and I knew I was
among friends who would take my
remark to mean just the opposite"
Senator Smith announced earle,
that he would introduce legislation
removing the REA from the Agri-
culture Department and making II
an independent agency.
Senator Shipstead, Republican, OF
Minnesota, who requested the REA
investigation, expressed hope that
the agency would be given inde-
pendent status because, after all
that is the main thing we're after
The investigation has been going
on four months and Senator Smith
said the subcommittee is out OF
money.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
New Plastic Paint
Speeds Warships by
Destroying BarnacIes
BY HOWARD w. BLAKEsLEE,
Associated Press Science Editor.

Associated Press Science Editor.
NEW YORK, April 27.-A new
kind of plastic paint for the bot.
toms of warships has reduced the
fuel used by the United States Fleet
by perhaps 10 per cent.
The paint also has given our Navy
direct fighting advantage by max
ing advanced base and continental
drydocks more available for battle
repairs, due to a saving of time for
merly needed to repaint ship bot
toms.
The plastic contains compounds
poisonous to marine growths that
foul ship bottoms. Thus, American
fighting ships now are able to stay
out of drydocks for 18 months, with
only an inconsequential reduction in
speed due to fouling. Fewer tankers
are needed Corrosion of ship hulls
is noticeably lower.
Time and Money Saving,
The new paint may be put on
without all hands on the ship hav-
ing to turn in to do the job as for
merly. And it costs only half as
much as the old, peacetime plastic
paint.
All this problem dealing with
paints in general is strictly war
time development, an example oi
the war speedup of science, done
comparatively by five Navy yards
three universities, the Navy's bio.
logical laboratory, the Nationa,
Paint and Varnish Manufacturers
Association, the American Co-ordi.
mating Committee on Corrosion, the
Bureau of Ships, and National De-
fense Research Committee. The
public is credited with assisting
through suggestions to the National
Inventors Council, a few of these
having been tested.
The story of plastic bottom paint
is told in the Journal of Applied
Physics by Capt. Henry A. Ingram
until recently head of the research
and standards section of the Navy's
Bureau of Ships.
When the Nation wide cooper
ative hunt for better bottoms paint
started, plastics already had been
tired. They were poor in sticking
quality. Sometimes ships have to be
painted in cold weather and the
plastics didn't work we'll in cold. AT
other times the paint is applied
boiling, and here again the plastics
were troublesome.
Difficulties Ironed Out.
Equipment was complicated anc
considerable skill was needed. The
plastics took too much strategic ane
critical materials.
The scientists and the Navy
ironed out every one of the Difficult.
ties. They can put on the plastic
boiling or stone cold and it works
equally well. Sand blast cleans the
hull to bare steel and quick methods
apply the new coating with a mini.
mum of labor and time.
The feat was accomplished by eX.
listing laboratories except for one
new testing station set up in Florida
where conditions were good fol
rapid fouling of bottoms.
Evening star., 1944-04-27

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Evening star., 1944-04-27
Congress in Retreat
For Decade, Dirksen
Tells Woman Voters
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, April 27.-Declarine
legislative powers of Congress have
been in retreat for the last decade,
Representative Dirksen, Republican,
of Illinois said last night that "this
retreat was aided in some measure
by failure of the Congress to exer-
else its full constitutional RESPONSE
bility."
At panel discussion OF the Ma
tional League of Women Voters, Mr..
Dirksen said that sooner or later
Congress must embark on a pro-
gram of self-improvement." He
added he thought the best approach
would be creation of a committee to
study the matter, take testimony
from members, the press and STU
dents of government.
Discussing the role the United
States must play IF peace is to be
maintained" after the war, Repre-
sentative Kefauver, Democrat, of
Tennessee declared:
There must be one foreign policy
mot one for the President and an
other for Congress. In international
relations, we must work in closer
harmony-the ends of PENNSYLVANIA
avenue must be brought closer to-
gether."
The league yesterday sent back to
committee proposed amendments to
the bylaws which virtually would
have wiped out it's present State or
ganizations.
Delegates refused to vote on an
amendment to league purposes, pol
icy and structure which, conven-
tion officials said, planned to give
the members more direct contact
with the national league and more
direct control over program and
action"
Delegates voted to hold conven-
tions annually instead of bienniallr
and to enlarge the board from four
to six directors.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Delay on Veterans Bill
Laid 10 'Simp|ification

Leaders of the House Veterans
Committee today defended their
delay in reporting the Senate
approved &c. I. Bill of Rights" on
the ground it wanted to get bill
that will be workable"
Chairman Rankin and Represent
ative Rogers of Massachusetts, rank
ing Republican member, both de-
MED the committee chairman is
holding up the bill as some members
of Congress have implied.
MI. Rankin, taking cognizance of
criticism by Senator Clark, Demo-
crat, of Missouri. who steered the
bill to unanimous Senate passage
before Easter, said
MY committee will refuse to be
stampeded into reporting bill
without proper consideration. This
is too important a matter to con-
slider hastily. Some people talk in
their sleep"
That last reference, he said, was
to critics of his committees proceed
ure.
MIS. Rogers SAID the committee
now is trying to work out simplifica-
tlons in the bill to cut down the
administration costs.
Major bottleneck to committee
progress, members reported, is
provision for up to So weeks of un-
employment compensation over a q
year period for men and women vet
Grams unable to find work after their
discharge. Mr. Rankin has expressed
fear this might encourage veterans
to remain Idle
Without mentioning names, Sen
tator Clark has said resistance to the
bill was based entirely upon the
hatred of certain Congressman for
the colored portion of our armed
forces" who would share the un-
employment insurance benefits.
Evening star., 1944-04-27

Pallbearers will Enoch J. yann.
be Robert J. Swingle, James w.
Lauderdale, Elwood Meyer, Walter
Collier, Meigs Newkirk and George
Wilcox.
Mr.. Vann, who died Tuesday ut
Garfield Hospital, lived at 1926
Webster street NV. Formerly as.
sociated with the National Bank of
Washington and the old Federal.
American Bank, he had been, with
the GAO for the last five years.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mamie D. w. Vann; two daughters,
Miss Margaret L. Vann and Mrs.
Glenn S. Miller, jr.; a son, Enoch j.
Vann, jr.; his father, Livingston
Vann; brother, Livingston Vann,
jr., all of Washington, and sister,
Mrs. Peter Mays of Atlanta. Ga.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Virginia COP 10 Air Row
Over Delegates Saturday
" the Associated Press.

by the Associated PreSss
RICHMOND. Va, April 27.-The
controversy which has ragged in
Republican ranks since the State
convention in Roanoke over election
of delegates and alternates at large
to the Republican National Conven-
tion will be given an airing at
Lynchburg at 2 pm. Saturday at a
meeting of delegates and alternates
elected on the disputed roll call.
I. r. Dovel of Luray, elected State
chairman at the convention, which
unseated the Virginia party leader
ship headed by National Committee
man Henry A. Wise. of Albemarle,
said the Lynchburg meeting would
have brought to it's attention "all
the facts relative to the alleged
error in reporting the Richmond
City vote for appropriate action"
Mr.. Doyel said one group is con-
tending that Richmond's block of
154 votes--enough to have changed
the result-was added in the wrong
column, while another asserts that
the roll call accepted by the con-
veltion was checked and rechecked
by those who favored the Wise slate.
Help win the war by saving waste
Kitchen fats!
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Fishermen Reject Passage
To Alaska on Liberty Ship
az the Associated Press.


SEATTLE, April Fishermen
assigned to Alaska for the annual
large-scale salmon season yesterday
refused to accept transportation
aboard Liberty ships, C. j. Simpson
northwest manager of the National
Labor Bureau, announced last night
Crackup of Liberty ships during
recent months, with the subsequent
loss of life, was cited by the bureau
which represents the Alaska Fisher
mems Union.
The union also sent protests tc
the War Shipping Administration
the War Labor Board and Secretary
of the Interior Ickes against the use
of Liberty ships for transporting
fishermen to the Far North.
Mr.. Simpson declared there was
little likelihood that anything like
the number of Ren needed IL
Alaska, when the salmon run starts
will travel abroad Liberty ships
which have history OF cracking ur
in Alaskan waters"
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Fire Starts Vacation

RICHMOND, Ind. tP).-The shame
less dream of some youngsters that
the schoolhouse might burn down
has come true for grade school
pupils OF nearby Boston, who were
told to start their summer vacation
prematurely after fire destroyed
their school and gymnasium.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Smiths Transfer Sues
Firm With Similar Nome

Smiths Transfer g. Storage Co.,
Inc, 1913 U street NV, filed suit in
District Court today to enjoin Dill
Ion G. Smith, described as doing
business as Smiths Transfer Co.,
|2219 Fifth street NE, from using
amy name so near a resemblance
to that Of the plaintiff corporation.
The suit was filed by Attorneys
Paul B. Cromelin and H. Stewart
Mcdonald
Evening star., 1944-04-27
Annulment Granted
To Freddie Cochrune
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 81
Frederick j. Freddie) Cochrane
welterweight champion now in the
Navy, yesterday was granted an an
nulment of his marriage to Beatrice
Milano aCochrane.
ut seemed like good idea" Coch-
rane told Judge John Van Nostrand
so We were married"
They met at farewell party his
friends gave him in Elizabeth, N. j.,
in October, 1912, he said.
The boxer charged his wife mar
ried him only because he was a
sports figure.
Evening star., 1944-04-27
British Report Five Ships
In Nazi Convoy Damaged
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 27-Carrier-
Based British aircraft pounced on a
German convoy off the coast of
Northern Norway. yesterday and
damaged four ships and an escort
vessel, the Admiralty announced to-
day.
The attack took place in the vicin-
ity of Bodo, just north of the Arctic
Circle.
A German broadcast yesterday
said Is or 80 British carrier based
planes had attacked a Nazi convoy
OF Norway and admitted hits on
two vessels.