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Evening star., 1944-08-07
Inspector Says Police
Won Block New Job
For Suspended Aide

The Police Department win put no
obstacle in the way of speeding the
departure of Ernest B. Cordell, A.
year-old special investigator who
was suspended Saturday when he
handed in his resignation, Inspector
Harvey G. Callahan said today.
Inspector Callahan said that as
matter of routine, Mr.. Cordell's
resignation would go to the Dis
trict's Deferment Committee which
will recommend to the Commission
ers whether Mr.. Cordell should be
given a release enabling him to seek
other employment. Inspector CAL
lahan Is a member of the COM
mittee.
The Commissioners, the inspector
pointed out, have the right to delay
his release for 80 days or deprive
him of salary to his credit at the
time of his resignation under
provision that 80 days notice of q
resignation should be given.
Mr.. Cordell, one of the four special
detectives appointed by act of Con-
gress to bolster the Detective Blu.
reau, was accused of leaving his
post at Union Station Thursday.
The detective said he had left to
keep an appointment at the Justice
Department and had found In
spector Robert j. Barrett, Capt.
Clyde N. Strange and Sergt. Richard
McCarty waiting for him when he
returned to the station.
He said Inspector Barrett sug-
gested that he hand in his resig-
nation and promised him he would
get release. On Saturday, he said,
he turned in his resignation and
Inspector Barrett told him he was
suspended.
Inspector Callahan said Mr..
Cordell had told him he would not
be here to answer charges If the
Police Trial Board held a hearing
on the alleged neglect of duty.
Mr.. Cordell charged the Police
Department had made concerted
effort to harass and abuse" the four
special investigators and had failed
to give them the detective work for
which they had been appointed.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Business Groups 10 Fete
A. J. DriscoII Toniqht

A. J. Driscoll, veteran civic leader
who celebrated his 18th birthday
anniversary last week. will be hon.
ored tonight at testimonial dinner
sponsored by the American Business
Association at the Statler Hotel.
Clark Grifnth, president of the
Washington baseball club; Police In
spector Harvey Callahan. Fire Chief
Stephen Porter. Senator Capper, Re-
publican, of Kansas, and former
Senator King of Utah are among
guests who have been invited. The
principal address will be delivered
by District Commissioner John Rus
sell Young.
Theodore S. Grape will preside
as manager of ceremonies over the
program, which will include q we'll
rounded vaudeville show.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Greek Premier Offers
To Quit to Aid Unity
Y the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
CAIRO, Aug. Premier George
Papandreou, in effect, has offered to
resign If that will bring the leftist
EAM into the all-party Greek gov
ernment, it was learned yesterday.
Philip Dragoumis, undersecretary
for foreign affairs, expressed hope
at a press conference that the Fam
would not press its demand that
the Premier retire before it entered
the unity government
Papandreou, who has British
backing, told EAM resistance lead
ers he would not stand in the way
Of their entrance into the coalition
government, despite the refusal of
his cabinet to consider his retire.
ment,
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III
ceived his medical degree In 1911.
He had been q District resident
since 1929, having come here from
st. Joseph, Mo. He was married in
July. 1882, to Miss Ada Virginia
Thompson Of Lexington. Va.
Reduced Alcoholic Deaths.
DR.. Silverman was noted In medi-
cal circles, among other things, for
his work In reducing deaths from
alcoholism. In March of this year
he wrote a paper for the Medical
Annals Of the District of Columbia
claiming that through the injection
of saline solutions into the blood
stream, deaths from alcoholism had
been reduced approximately SO per
cent in three years.
He was a member Of the American
Medical Society, fellow of the
Nervous and Mental Society, the
District Medical Society, a fellow OF
the American Psychiatric Society
and member OF the American Col
lege of Physicians.
ne was the aOthOr OF the "PhySi-
cal Function of the Cerebellum" anc
also many widely read medica
papers.
He had been a member OF the
Gallinger staff since 1929 He wa,
an instructor in psychiatry al
George Washington University from
1929 to 1888 and had taught in the
Georgetown University psychiatrit
clinic since 1888.
Besides his widow, he is survived
by a stepson, 1t. Jack Thompson
woodward, stationed at the Sar
Marcus Air Field, San Marcus, Tex
Funeral arrangements will be ir
charge OF the w. w. Deal funeral
home. 1872 Georgia avenue NV.
and will be announced later.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Henry 5. Thompson Dies;
Boston Investment banke,
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CONCORD, Mass, Aug. Henry
Smith Thompson, u, Boston In
vestment banker and associate OF
Herbert Hoover in raising Belgian
relief funds during the last war,
died last night at his Fairhaven Hill
farm after q short illness.
Born in Senecaville, Ohio, in 1872
he was graduated from Harvard in
1899.
Mr.. Thompson was president of
the Harvard Cooperative Society
and at various times had served as
secretary Of the Harvard Medical
School, treasurer Of the Harvard
Union and graduate treasurer OF
athletics.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Dies Demands bidd|e
Study Clio Actionists
In Light Of Hatch Act
By the Associated Press.


Attorney General Biddle today
was confronted with 4 demand from
Representative p.es, Democrat, of
Texas, for an inquiry to determine
II Government ofncials reputedly
lined up with the ,CIO Political Ac-
ton Committee and the PAC itself
have violated Federal laws.
Mr.. Dies yesterday called on the
Attorney General to act, saying his
Committee on Un-American Activ-
tiles has evidence that the PAC
has interfered" in primary elec-
tions, and has spent large sums
of mony to influence the
outcome"
Specifically he said the Justice
Department should determine II the
ofncials involved have violated the
Hatch Act which restricts political
activity of Federal employees, and
whether the PAC has violated elec-
ton laws.
Wants Action by September 1.
Mr.. Dies said last week that infor-
nation gathered by his committee
would be made available to the At
torney General, and that If the
Justice Department did not act by
September /, congressional action
would be started.
Stressing need for prompt act
ion, Mr.. Dies wrote Mr.. Biddle that
the current political campaigns will
be over in few months" adding
that these unlawful acts are being
committed now and the bills for
these acts are being footed by the
people of the country who pay the
salaries Of the men and women who
are defying the law"
The forces now marshaled under
the banners of Sidney Hillman and
Earl Browder, using at different
times different organization names
to cloak their activities and skirt the
edges Of the law" he continued
have just recently altered their
course by setting up still another
organization known as the National
Citizens Political Action Commit
tee."
Norris Honorary Chairman.
Former Senator Norris Of
Nebraska accepted the honorary
Craftsmanship Of the new group
Saturday,
Mr.. Dies asked that "close scru
tiny" be given the new organization
which, he said, intends to raise tw,
funds of $1,000 900 each" to supper
the Democratic presidential an,
vice presidential nominees in tn
coming election.
Mr.. Hillman, PAC head, said at F.,
New York news conference Satur
day that the Executive Board of tn
NCPAC had set goal of 81 500 90
for contributions to be used in be
half Of President Roosevelt's re
election and for the election of
progressive Congress"
I'm this case" Mr.. Dies added
"Hillman and Browder will have a
their disposal, by the use of TIVE
subsidiary organizations, twice tn,
amount permitted by law to carr,
on a political campaign. /
would be strange, indeed, If thes'
radical disturbers were to enjo,
immunity not permitted the twt
great political parties of the Nation.
Mr.. Dies letter was made publ,
by Robert E. STRIPPING, chief com
mittee investigator who recently re
leased report of telephone conver
sations between Government OH
cials and employees and the New
York headquarters Of the PAC. Mr.
Dies last week named a three-mar
subcommittee, two of whose mem.
bers, Representatives Starnes, Dem.
ocrat, OF Alabama and Costello
Democrat, of California, were de.
feated for denomination in the fact
Of C1O opposition to investigate
the pAC
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Bfaths

WASHINGTON, HARRIET. Departed
1914 HARRIET WASHINGTON of Hume.
ington. She leaves to mourn their loss
a. son, George Thompson: daughter
Margaret Thompson. one brother, Lewis
M. Thompson. and his wife Maria
Thompson: two nieces, Mrs. Mary E.
Cooper of Washington and Mrs. Alice
of other relatives and friends Notice of
funeral later ARRANGEMENTS by w. Ernest
Jarvis.
WILLS. HOWARD T. On Saturday,
loved husband of Beatrice v. Wills and
faser of Theresa Jean and Frances Adele
Wills. Remains resting At Chambers
$40 am. Tuesday, August g. Mass in
St. Joseph's Catholic Church at am.
Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
0Iympian Is Derai|ed
In Minnesota, 26 Hurt
BY the Associated Press.

=! the Associated Press.
LAKE CITY, Mimi, Aug. T.
Twenty-six persons were injured
when the Milwaukees east bound
Olympian was derailed near the
station at about 2 am. today, but
only five still were in the hospital
later this morning.
The train, which does not stop at
Lake City, was moving at about IS
miles an hour. 1t had just passed
the station when the coaches veered
to the right, leaving only the en-
gine and one car on the tracks. The
coaches did not overturn.
Among the passengers were hun
dreds Of soldiers and sailors recently
returned from Attu and Kiska.
Pennsy Freight Derailed.
LATROBE, Pa, Aug. 7 R.-An
four mainline tracks of the Penn
sylvania Railroad were blocked near
here last night when 13 cars of
westbound freight train were de-
rallied. Several hours after the
accident only one track had been
cleared.
E. w. Stoops, division superin-
tendent. said a coupling was pulled
from one car, causing the derail-
ment. Several hundreds yards OF
track were torn up.
Evening star., 1944-08-07

since 1899, died
today at his resi-
d e n ce, 451
r or ty = fourth
street. He h q d
been i'll since
February.
Mr.. Brennan,
a native OF Phil
a d e l phia, at
tended parochial
schools there and
st. .JoSeph's COL
lege. He " a S
widely known In
b u S | n e S S and
financial circles
orJ u,oe . ~n~
Evening star., 1944-08-07

Der of the Washington Real Estate
Board and the Board OF Trade.
A bachelor, Mr.. Brennan is sur
vived by brother, John, connected
with the Union Trust Co.: a niece,
Mrs. Katherine Howardall OF New
York, and nephew. Corpl. william
Blair, stationed in California.
Funeral arrangements. which will
be made later, will be in charge of
Zirkel's funeral home. $40 C street
NE. Burial will be in Philadelphia
Evening star., 1944-08-07

SiEy, uleo yeSCer-
day in George
t o " n Hospital
after a brief ILL
ness. He resided
at 341 Seven
teenth plac e
NE.
Born in CAL
cutta, India, DR..
Silverman re-
ceived his edu-
cation at Haw-
thorn College in
Australia an d
the University Of
M e lib urn ne ,
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Blind Girl Gets Rudio License

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. 7 (R.-
Lucille Sweet, ~, believed to be the
only sightless woman in the country
to pass the radio technical examina-
tions, has won her amateur opsra.
tors license.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Sub Bumper Launched

GROTON. Conn, Aug. 7 R.-The
submarine Bumper was launched at
the Electric Boat Co. yards here to-
day, the 18th undersea craft
launched by the company this year.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Kin of Tyrone Power Dies

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. R.-Mrs.
Adelaide Schuster Reaume, 81,
grandmother of Marine 1t. Tyrone
Power, former film star, died yes
terday. She was born In Cincinnati.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Dr.. Isaac J. SiIverman, /,
Noted Psychiatrist,
Dies After Brief Illness

DR.. Isaac J. Silverman. 5e, assist
ant chief psychiatrist at Gallinger
Hospital and professor OF clinical
psychiatry at Georgetown Univer-
Evening star., 1944-08-07
George A. Brennan,
Building Official, Dies

George A. Brennan, 50. connected
with the American Building Asso-
citation for the past Is years and the
ORGANIZATIONS assistant secretary
Evening star., 1944-08-07
4nurtltttn

STOCK, SONIA. The unyeiling Of the
SONIA STOCK, wife Of BENJAMIN Stock
mother of Mrs; Dorothy Chaplin and
Albert Stock, will take place on Sunday
August 13, 1914, at 2 pm. at the d. c.
Lodge Cemetery. All friends and rela-
tives are invited to attend.
THE FAMILY o.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Uarn nf Uhanka

KAMINSKY, MYER. We wish to ex-
press our sincere thanks to relatives,
friends and societies for their cards of
sympathy and horal tributes in our be-
MRS. KATIE KAMINsKY AND MRS.
CHARLES K. WOLF.
Evening star., 1944-08-07

BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 7 (P.-
Colombia and Venezuela announced
jointly today it would be impos-
sible for them to maintain normal
relations with, the Farrell regime
in Argentina until that country
demonstrates its solidarity with the
other American nations.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Vil!urroeI Tokes Oath
As Bolivion President

BY the Associated Press.
LA PAZ. Bolivia, Aug. Lit. Col
Gualberto Villarroel, who became
president of Bolivia in December
1943. after a revolutionary junta
overthrew the government, was
sworn yesterday as constitutional
president for a four-year term end
ing in 1948.
Evening star., 1944-08-07
Drafhs
LLOYD, RAYMOND Rem,

LLOYD, RAYMOND BENNETT. On Sat-
p5sa 1880 Aaast & st. le4 HI. v a
band of Elizabeth Wallace Lloyd. Also
surviving is one brother, Leo c. Lloyd,
Ives funeral home, 2s46 wilson blvd, Ar
linston. Va, until Tuesday. Ausust 8, at
$3.50 Am; thence to St. Thomas More's
fered at 10 m. for the repose OF his soul.
Interment Columbia Gardens Cemetery.
MATHIS. RICHARD b. On Sunday.
aasns o aeft & ' 1siasnss sAs So slS sn
q nt. Richard Rass. 3; Mathis: ir. sery,ess At
se. on Tuesday. s.a AusUst U g. ol At 80 pm n,
Interment Arlington National Cemetery.
McMURRAY. DELLA. On Saturday,
AUGUST 5, 1874. at Georgetown University
Hospital HosDiula DELLA IA. .MeMuRRAY tnes Nc
loved wife of the late James B. @. NC
Murray and mother OF James H. McMurray,
sr. Funeral from the Timothy Hanlon
AUGUST so.t At s:so am. IN Hsh 81 sesdsn, reaaism
mass at st. Stephens Church at 8 am
Interment Nj olivet Cemetery. Relatives
and friends invited.
MILES. HENRY R.. W. On Sunday,
HENRY R. W. MILES. uncle Of Mrs. John
B. Triplett, Friends are invited to cali at
Gawler's chapel, 1855 Pa: ave. NV, where
services will be held on Monday, August z,
at 730 pm. Interment Orford, N. H.
MOORE. ULYSSES GRANT. On satur-
day, August 5, 1914, at his residence, oO2
18th st. Sc, ULYSSES GRANT MOORE,
beloved husband OF Mabel G. Moore Fu-
neral from the above residence on Tues
day. August 8. At pm; thence to Grace
Baptist Church, 9th st. and South Caro-
lima We Sc, where services will be held
at $50 pm. Relatives and friends in
vited. 1nterment Cedar Hill Cemetery
Evening star., 1944-08-07

ULYSSES G. A special COM
municat ton of Naval LODGE,
No. 4. F. A. A. M. is called at
1:45 pm. Tuesday, August s,
1914, for the purpose of con-
Quoting the funeral OF our late
brother. ULYSSES G. MOORE.
By order of the worshipful
master
Evening star., 1944-07-09

York campaigns. Even at Chicago,
several Republican delegates re-
marked that their sons in the serv-
ice had already announced their in
tention to vote for the Commander
in Chief.
The Republican platform and the
implication of Dewey's remarks in
dicate that the Republican strategy
is based on the assumption that the
present war leadership, particularly
that of Admiral King and Gen
Marshall, will carry the country to
complete victory over Germany and
Japan so soon that the major prob
lens of the incoming administration
will be postwar and not the current
conduct OF the war. This explains
the Republican emphasis on jobs
taxation, decentralization and prom
ises of better administration OF
many New Deal laws. 1t partly an
swers the Democratic slogan OF
Don't change horses in the middle
of the stream"
The next three months may de-
termine the outcome of the Euro
pean war. If so, the personality OF
Dewey and the efficient organization
he is building up is expected to de-
termine the November election. His
sales force promises to be one OF
the most united and enthusiastic ir
recent presidential campaigns. He
Is opposed, however, by a master
salesman who got repeat orders ir
1896 and 1910. The merchandise ir
many respects is similar. Who would
give the better service?
printed by Special Advancement with tn.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch
Evening star., 1944-07-09

Cactus Jacks increasing distaste
for New Deal policies interfered
with the frankness of cabinet dis
cussion and finally led him to dis
continue attendance.
The President may have doubted
the utility of a disaffected Vice
President in the cabinet, but he
has obviously relished his relations
with Henry Wallace. whose ideo-
logical and emotional attachment to
him personally, and to his social
philosophy and public policy has
been complete. Not only has r. D
R. brought the Vice President into
the cabinet consultations, but has
committed to him top level wal
agency controls and significant dip
lomatic missions. The Board OF
Economic Warfare, which Wallace
headed, had tasks of immense i'm
portance to perform. The Vice
Presidents recent journey to China
was of high consequence to the con-
duct of the war.
1t is well to keep in mind the basic
fact about these delegations OF
presidential power. They were not
to Wallace because he was the Vice
President. They were because the
President liked and trusted Henry
Wallace the man. AS Vice Presi-
dent he is still nothing more than
q nth wheel of government. II he
is renominated at Chicago it Will
only be because the President wants
this particular queen bee In reserve
Evening star., 1944-07-09
Five e'C0mmandS' in Pacific
Now Closely Cooperating

surface craft cOnnned within the
East Indies island perimeter.
The main offensive fighting on
land in the SEAC Is under the SUBJ
command OF Gen. Stilwell, who, in
North Burma carries the abiding
hope of reopening the land route to
China by ground and aerial opera
tions just as Macarthur hopes tc
return to the Philippines by sea
and air power
There are some who believe the
Japanese can be engaged more
effectively by reopening a seaport
on the South China Sea than by
Stilwells present plugging to link
up the new Ledo and old Burma
roads. There are some who believe
the reconquest of Java on the Mac
Arthur line of operation would
doom Japan, some who are for
striking the japanese mainland.
StilwelI in Unusual Spot.
Stilwell holds an anamolous posi-
ton which may be reviewed and
clarified at the joint high command
conferences. He Is Cd commander
of the American Army's Obi the
ater-China, Burma, India; 90
chief of staff to Chang, and 80
deputy to Mountbatten in the SEAC
Other than that he is his own SEAC
liaison officer to his own CBI-SEAC-
Chinese 22d and 38th Divisions
battalion commanders fighting in
North Burma, and he walks in to
see them whenever necessary or
the front lines.
On the India side, Gen. Auchin-
leck commands a stable imperial
standing army and maintains train
ing centers to feed troops into the
India -SEAC area east Of Brahma-
putra-troops which are mainly con-
cerned right now with ousting jap
anese from positions they seized
in the Indian state of Manipur and
on the fringe of British Indian As
sam.
Distributed by Associated Pressl
Evening star., 1944-07-09

is our ally and has greatly suffered
In the war which we are fighting
and, anyway, we can't stop her.
Therefore we had best look at the
moral justification. There is plenty
OF it in Europe's history. There is,
indeed, in that history justification
for about anything you could think
of. What is little more trading
around of populations? Nobody
thought that Versailles was for eter-
nifty. anyhow.
And so on. The reviewer has often
remarked that Russia's worst enc
mics in this country were her in
terpreters. Pro or con, they almost
invariably stoop to reach their
American audiences.
Petoin
By Janet Flanner. lSimon g.
Schuster.)
Here, in book form, is the profile"
of Marshal Petain which Janet
Flanner originally wrote for the
New Yorker Among the many re-
cent attempts to analyze the per-
sonality of the Old Man of France
it deserves distinction in that it is
written without perceptible heat or
wish to make political case. 1t is.
of course. no full portrait; a literary
profile is selective piece of writing
But the selections which Miss Flan-
ner has made hang together very
convincingly.
What she shows is the tragedy of
man who had a great moment
and never recovered from it. Petain
in her telling. was. up to Verdun. a
man OF normal mind and a soldier
Of more than ordinary ability. He
organized that great defense which
in the popular estimate, became
virtually a symbol of Frances sal
vation. and, from that time on
thought of himself increasingly as
identified with his country's soul
Had he not had this obsession his
political conservatism would have
been no more than the political
conservatism of any elderly and
cautious officer. But he did have it
and it led him to subordinate mill
tary thinking to politics. He saw his
people as erring in liberalism and
conceived 1t his mission to save
them from the error instead of to
defend them on the field of battle.
Hence, it was possible for him both
to call for an armistice and to de-
clare that he was the incarna ton
of France.
Evening star., 1944-07-09
BY Charles 4. Crunch.

HEADQUARTERS SUPREME E
ALLIED COMMANDER SOUTH
EAST ASIA.-The Allied commands
directing the high strategy for the
defeat of Japan apparently are NOV
ing from the overlapping to the in
terlocking phase of the war effort,
and there are indications of forth
coming conferences among the high
commanders in the Pacific and the
Orient.
Principal commands involved are
those of Admiral Nimitz in the Pa
cific. Gen. Macarthur in the South
west Pacific, Admiral Mountbatten
in Southeast Asia, Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek in China and Gen.
Auchinleck. whose India command
houses a great arsenal and training
ground for land fighting from the
west.
Already they are acting in liaison
and cooperating on attack.
There are indications that the
next step, from liaison to closer AL
lied relationship, may take the form
of unified command. 1t has been
illustrated that Admiral Somerville S
Eastern feet, although based in the
SEAC. is not necessarily tied to any
OF the several Allied commands.
The general plan of campaign
will take definite form only when
European developments permit the
passing of the Allied No. l priorities
from the western theaters to the
Orient.
Up to now the largely watery ex-
panse of the SEAC has served mainly
to contain the japanese. 1t en-
braces India east of the Brahma-
putra, the broad triangular Bay Of
Bengal wide area of the Indian
Ocean, Ceylon headquarters, Bur-
ma, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula,
Sumatra. the Nicobar and Anda-
man groups off Malaga and other
islands. The eastern boundary of
Mountbattens com mand cuts
through the Sunda Strait between
Sumatra and Java and thus for
command purposes separates those
two Dutch colonies.
1t may be said that SEAC rules
the Bay of Bengal waters, poises a
constant threat of combined opera
tions against the Andamans, the
Nicobars and Malaga and, with the
cooperation of the Australia based
Allied navies, has made the Malacca
Strait between Malaga and Sumatra
practically a dead-end for japanese