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Evening star., 1944-06-02
Plans for Arabian Pipeline
Snogged, President Indicates

Plans of the American Govern
ment to construct a pipe line from
the Persian Gulf to the Eastern
Mediterranean to insure an oil sup
ply for the war and postwar periods
have struck a snag, it was indicated
today by President Roosevelt, who
told his news conference, however,
that the project has not been
abandoned
AS announced by Secretary Ickes
in February, the venture contem-
plated an expenditure of between
S130,000,000 and 100000. Since
then a British oil delegation has
conferred here with American Off
cials. and President Roosevelt said
today that these discussions with
the British are still in progress.
The Presidents discussion was
prompted by question concerning
his conversation yesterday with Sec
retary Ickes. Undersecretary of State
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Hull Seeks Support
OF House for Postwar
Peace Organization
Holds PorIey With Four
Democratic and Three
Republican Leaders
BY the Associated Press.

by tle Associated PreSS.
Secretary of State Hull today
extended to the House his cam
Ipaign for congressional support
of a postwar peace agency, con-
ferring with four Democratic
and three Republican leaders on
his plans for American participa-
ton.
The hour-long meeting at the
State Department was the latest in
series of postwar international
planning developments which yes
terday disclosed Mr.. Hull as ap-
parently determined to reinforce his
aims for security organization with
the ideal of liberty "for aspiring
peoples everywhere" and equality
for all small nations.
The House group was headed by
Speaker Rayburn and included these
other Democratic Representatives:
Chairman Bloom of the Foreign
Affairs Committee, Majority Leader
Mccormack and Majority Whip
Ramspeck. Republicans we're Mi
nority Leader Martin and Repre-
sentatives Eaton of New Jersey and
Arends of Illinois.
Hull Plans Vacation Trip.
Asked whether the seven would
return for later conferences, Mr..
Bloom said: 1--WE will if we're asked. 4"
The next meeting would be delayed
week or 10 days at least for Mr..
Hull has scheduled vacation trip
to Hershey, Pa.
Mr.. Rayburn described the session
fCoa rITTT
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Announcement

The Evening Star is now
sold on the streets and news
stands for S cents per COPY.
There is no change in the sub
scription price for home de-
livery, nor in the present
price of 10 cents for single
copies of The Sunday Star.
The Star regrets that the
rationing of newsprint paper
neceSsitates limiting local ad-
vertisers for the month of
June to 85% of the advertis-
Ing used by them in The Star
during June, 1943.
The Stars allotment of
print paper is less than 80%
OF Its use in 1941, although
its circulation, daily and sun
day, since then has increased
approximately 20%.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
AFL. Aide TO Reorganize
Unions in Italy, Sicily

BY the Associated Press
BOSTON, June 2.-PreSdent vii.
liam Green of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor disclosed today that
an American labor union represent
atIve would leave ''in few days tc
help reorganize the trade unions in
the liberated portions of Italy and
Sicily"
Mr.. Green made the announce
ment during a speech before the
International Ladies Garment Work
erS' Union Convention.
He said he had appointed the
garment workers vice president
Luigi Antonini, head of the Italian
American Labor Council, to carry on
the work
Mr., Green said he received assur-
ance from the State Department
yesterday that Mr.. Antonini would
be granted permission to leave and
his passport would be issued soon.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
LoughIin Indicted on Charge
o.. Of.Impeding Bank Holdup Case
Made False AIibi
For Client. Federal
Jury Says

DEFENSE MOTION for dispositions
by Kimmel and Short rejected in
sedition case. Story on Page A-3.
A Federal grand jury in Balti-
more today indicted James j.
Laughlin, Washington attorney
and a colorful participant in the
current sedition case, on charges
that he tried to influence, OBJ
|struct and impede" justice dur
ing the trial of persons later
convicted of the robbery of the
Prince Georges Bank & Trust
Co. in Hyattsville on September
Is, 1941.
The case was presented to the
grand jury at q special session by
United States Attorney Bernard J.
Flynn.
The indictment alleges that
Laughlin. as attorney for Hilliard
Sanders, known also as George
Thompson, produced and caused to
be sworn in the Federal Court here
an alibi witness for Sanders.
| Laughlin was accused of having
brought into court L. S. Chapman,
| superintendent of the Florida State
Prison, and eliciting from him tes-
timony that Sanders had conversed
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Plus Says Any Attocker of Rome
Would Be Guilty of Motricide
Fears Thot Theory Of
Complete Ruin Might
ProIong Conflict
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June Pope Plus
XII, in a speech to the College
of Cardinals, expressed the hope
today that peace soon would ap-
pear on Rome's hills and over
the whole world, but added that
a demand for total victory might
prolong the war.
In an Italian language broadcast
the pontiff called on the victors
to give hope and faith to the van
quished, and declared that who
ever would dare lift a hand against
Rome would be guilty of matricide. :"
Speaking as contending armies
surged within sight of Rome, Pope
Plus said that any one lifting a
hand against the Eternal City would
have to bear a grave responsibility
toward future generations
The pontiff said many persons
fear the theory of full victory or
complete destruction" and that this
operates with a bad influence as
"a stimulus prolonging the war and
also on those, who following their
internal impulse or for realistic
considerations, would be inclined
to reasonable peace"
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Drastic Control Set Uu
10 Funnel ManpoWer
To Vital War Plants
New System Effective
July ] Under Order
Announced by MeNutt
BY MIRIAM OTTENBERG

Drastic controls over the hir-
ing of all male workers by July
l to prevent an exodus from war
industries to peacetime pursuits
as well as to meet critical labor
shortages were ordered today by
War Manpower Director McNutt.
The new controls provide for the
lchanneling of all male workers
through the United States Employ
ment Service where they will be re-
ferred to war jobs in the order of
/ their Importance, regardless of
where particular plant is located.
The program is voluntary in that
men viii be given some option over
which jobs they will take, but en-
lployers will have to hire only men
referred through the USES or by
arrangement with the USES. En-
ployers, however, will not be forced
to hire any worker they don't want.
Want Strong Male Labor"
In extending to the Nation a pro-
gram already tried in some acute
| labor shortage areas, Mr.. McNutt
declared that "the successful con-
duct of the war now requires the
channeling of all available male
labor in the Nation to jobs of great
est war production urgency, and the
retention of such labor in those
jobs"
Although the program is aimed
primarily at securing strong male
labor" for work in the critically
short foundries and forge shops
rubber and tire factories, ship re-
pair, logging and numbering, it was
understood that some areas, in
cluding Washington, where women
constitute large part of the labor
supply, may extend the controls to
include women workers.
Workers subject to priority re-
terral." or referral first to the Jobs
where they are needed most, Mr..
McNutt said, will be given "the
maximum possible freedom of choice
as to the jobs they accept"
Must Meet Shortages.
$50 long as we have shortage of
workers to fill critical needs in any
area of the country" Mr.. McNutt
declared, I'VE have national man.
power problem which we must solve
on Nation wide basis in order to
meet production quotas.
That means we must mobilize
our men wherever they are avail
able, to see that every area and
every industry which needs labor is
supplied with the help it must
have"
Workers will be referred to other
than essential jobs, he said, only
when they are not needed for any
essential job in the area where they
are now living, or are not able to
accept an essential job outside the
area because of undue hardship,
special emergency circumstances or
other good cause"
Workers still will be referred to
jobs at their highest skills and
previous wage rates. Mr.. McNutt
said. He added, however, that
where labor is very scarce and
critical industries must have more
help to meet production schedules,
"a man may have only a very
limited choice of jobs
Clearance from the USES will be
Gee NHANp0yyEp noaa
Evening star., 1944-06-02
u. 5. Reinforcement,
Landed for Renewal
OF Assault on Biak
Two Pincer Movements
Against Trapped Jops
Also Are Announced
JAP BASES BOMBED on three
Pacific fronts. Page A-4
BY the Associated Press.

/
Pacific fronts. Page Al
BY the Associated Press.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, June
2. Massing of American rein-
forcements for an all-out assault
on Biak Island in the SchoutenS
and pincer moves aimed at
trapped japanese on two other
fronts were announced today.
Under 7th Fleet guns and without
enemy aerial or naval interference,
more Yanks landed Tuesday at Biak,
enemy air base in Dutch New
Guinea's Geelvink Bay, which was
invaded Saturday. AS they moved
up from the Bosnek beachhead, air.
craft and ground fighters hammered
at japanese sniper and mortar posi-
tionS on ridges commanding the
beach for several miles and tile
coastal road leading to the island s
three airdromes.
Landed on BougainvilIe.
The field commander would not
order further advance on Mokmer,
the nearest airfield, until these
enemy nests were eliminated. Amer
ican patrols have been blocked 2
miles from the airfield.
On Bougainville ISLAND, in the
Northern Solomons. Allied units
landed behind japanese lines Tues
day at the mouth of the Tekissi
River, in the southern sweep of En-
press Augusta Bay, on the island s
west coast. Supporting naval gum
boats and attack planes neutralized
opposing shore batteries.
The switch-back move took the
Allies 7 miles southeast of the Toro-
kina River. which the Allies crossed
in extending their original beach,
head. The two forces thereby
clamped between them part of
thousands of japanese still resisting
on Bougainville
Aussie Forces Advance.
A second pincer movement against
entrapped japanese was narrowed
when Australian soldiers, advancing
northwest along the British New
Guinea coast line, occupied Guru
Village and Mulu Harbor without
contracting the enemy.
These Australians now are estab-
liShed 3 miles southeast of Uligan
Harbor and 40 miles southeast of
Japanese-held Hansa Bay. The ad-
vance closed to approximately 200
miles the stretch of by-passed coast
line between this position and other
Allied-held points southeast of
Aitape. Within that wise are several
thousand Japanese.
Adverse weather conditions ham
pered aerial activity in New Guinea.
but planes-ranged over key japanese
points, supporting the Biak landing
and bombing objectives in the
WeWak-Hansa area. Three raiders
were lost to japanese antiaircraft
fire in raid on Kavieng, New Ire
land.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
President Weighs Plan to Offer
Refugees Haven in Army Camp

Possibility of using one of the
Army camps no longer needed for
military purposes to house war
refugees is being studied by this
Government, President Roosevelt
told his news conference today.
The President discussed the war
refugee situation yesterday with
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau and John Pahle of the War
Refugee Board and he said today
that Mr.. Pahle is studying the pos
sibility of such a plan.
The President said some other
countries would also house refugees
until the war ends and that he had
suggested a couple of sites on the
Mediterranean. AS the President
explained it, the idea is to care for
these people at places which can be
Evening star., 1944-06-02

reached most easily. Mr.. Roosevelt
said it was important to move them
because, he pointed out, they con-
stitute problem for the Army on
the fighting front.
The President said that the sites
he had suggested were at Taormima
in Sicily and Cyrenica in North
Africa.
The President emphasized that it
was humanitarian undertaking to
move the refugees and keep life in
those who are starving, although, he
added, there is tendency in some
quarters to scoff at humanitarian
activities.
The President also said he hoped
that this Government will contribute
its share to the United Nations Re-
lief and Rehabilitation Administra-
ton
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Gen. MorshoH's
| Stepson Victim
|OfNozi Sniper
Ey the.Associated Press,

Ey thesAssociated Press.
WITH THE 5TH ARMY SOUTH
OF ROME, June "A sniper who
threw a hand grenade from am
bush fatally wounded 1t. Allen Tup-
per Brown, q, stepson of Gen.
George C. Marshall, Army Chief of
Staff, it was disclosed today.
(The death of 1t. Brown was
announced in Washington Tues
cay. without details.)
1t. Brown was commanding
light tank detachment attacking
with the American infantry against
the German line south of Rome
Monday He was standing up in
the turret of his tank-a necessary
procedure for armored commanders
in rolling, tree-covered terrain
when the grenade was hurled.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Jap Column Driving
Toward ,Chanesha
Halted, Chinese Say
chuneking Acknowledge!
Loss Of Pingkione to
Other Enemy Units
BY the Associated Press.

CHUNGKING, June 2.-The
Chinese command asserted today
that Japanese column advanc-
ling on Changsha along the Cam
tom Hankow Railroad had been
| halted, but that other units OF
the 280, 900 enemy troops massed
lin the offensive have taken Ping
lkiang, SO miles northeast Of the
provincial capital.
The Chinese said they had re-
taken Kweiyi, ~ miles north OF
Changsha, from japanese who had
crossed the Milo River. The town
was said to have changed hands sew
eral times in fighting which cost
both sides heavily.
In Yunnan Province, where 20 0O0(
American-trained Chinese are adj
vancing across the Salween River
and helping 1t. Gen. Joseph Still
well squeeze the North Burma bass
Of Myitkyina, the conmunique sale
the force had advanced despite
heavy rain, mud and mist.
The communique recorded a Jap
anese advance in the Changsha
Theater to point % miles east Of
Changteh.
New Jap Blows Seen.
Maj. Gen. C. c. Tseng, army
spokesman, made the estimate OF
100000 Japanese troops massed ir
the Hankow and Canton area anc
said they expected to seize the en-
tire length of the Canton HankoW
railroad and strike new blows else
where in China.
The forces comprise 10000 in the
HankoW area and 10000 in the Can.
ton area, compared with a force OF
only 10000 hitherto employed, Gen
Tseng said.
Gen. Tseng asserted the Japanese
are carrying out a new strategy Of
being on the defensive everywhere
except in China.
"As the Allies apply greater pres
sure against Japan, Japan will exert
greater pressure against China" he
said
Building New Highway.
The japanese are massing troops
on the Indo China Yunnan border
building a new motor highway be.
tween Hanoi and the frontier towr
of Laokay, 160 airline miles north.
west of Hanoi and constructing 8
big air base near the border, Gen
Tseng said.
Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Claire L
sChennaultis headquarters confirmed
a japanese statement that Ameri.
can planes had attacked Peiping
China's ancient capital.
American Mustangs swept owe
600 miles of the Hankow-P -Peipin,
Railroad Tuesday, destroying O.
damaging % locomotives. The lin,
supplies the Honan offensive.
This was the northernmost pene.
tration ever made by planes of the
l4th Air Force and was nearly 40(
miles above the nearest current
active Chinese battlefront.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
{See LAUGHLIN, Page Ala
House Group Votes
4 Billion for Relief
And Help 10 Allies
Leuse-Lend Program
|. Boosted BY Approval
Of $3,450, $40, 900
az the Associated Press.

The House Appropriations
Committee gave the Lease-Lend
Administration and the new
world relief setup, known as
UNRRA, blanket approval today,
recommending the identical 1945
budget the agencies requested.
The committee reported to the
House legislation providing:
For iease-lend-$3, ,450 SIC, 900.
For UNRRA--$450,0 900 600 for this
Nations participation in the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration with additional au-
Evening star., 1944-06-02
Halt Billion Sought
By Army to Clothe
And Feed Europe
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Army expects to have a
strong enough foothold on the
continent of Europe between
next month and next December
that it will need ,$562, 900 900 to
feed, clothe and maintain the
liberated civilian populations
during that period.
This was revealed in hearings
before the House Appropria-
tions Committee considering
funds for the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Ad-
ministration. They were made
public today.
Evening star., 1944-06-02
German Line Begins to Crumb|e
As 5th Army Takes 2 Key Cries;
Pope Assails Total Victory Stand
VuImontone and
VeIIetri Fall
Below Rome
BULLETIN.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples tR.-The Germans
wall before Rome began to
crumble today as the 5th
Army captured both Velletri
and Valmontone, the two big
gest fortress cities guarding
the Eternal City.
Evening star., 1944-06-02

A fear of the enemy's determina-
ton ito destroy national life down
to the roots suffocates all other
arguments and brings about a
courage of desperation" he said
Those who feel this" the Pope
continued, advance as in a hypnotic
sleep amid unspeakable sacrifices
and compel all others to an extern
(See POPE, Page AL
Evening star., 1944-06-02

with Chapman ut the prison on
September Is. 1941 tthe date Of the
robbery, although Laughlin knew
that Sanders had not visited the
|penitentiary on that date.
The indictment also charges that
Mr.. Chapman had been '.misled and
tSee LAUGHLIN, Page A-14.}
Evening star., 1944-06-02

DEFENSE MOTION for dispositions
by Kimmel and Short rejected in
sedition case. Story on Page A-3.
Evening star., 1944-06-02

tSee POPE. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1944-06-02

(See MANPOWER, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1944-06-02

(See HULL, Page A-4.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25
Live in Car
Couple Found in Auto
drilled by Police

Emerson Barrett, 50, and his
wife. Avis. Is, who solved the
housing shortage by setting up
perambulating housekeeping in an
ancient sedan. were held for ques-
tloning Saturday by skeptical
police.
Mrs Barrett who said she
lived IN Pontiac until marrying
Barrett in Indiana. was arrested
after residents al 81 Antoine and
Piquette had reported a "SuSpi-
cious' woman sleeping in an auto
mobile.
Officers found a com m o
type knife in the car which Mrs
Barrett explained was a bread
knife and proved her point by
hauling a loaf Of bread and other
cdibles from the glove compart-
ment.
n. "a A.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25
Cdptives Shot,
Ndzis Charge
Times Photo

LONDON. June "a GNS)-The
German high command claimed
tonight reports had been received
in Berlin stating that prisoners
taken by the Americans and
clearly recognizable as members
OF the Reich labor service had
been shot.
"Should these reports prove
10 be true" the German high
command threatened. "then 10
American prisoners of war will
he shot for every such murder
committed against German non
combatants."
The announcement was broad.
cast by the Germans in Epglsh
over the Nazi-controlled R,Mem-
bourg. Calais. Bremen and Fries
land radio stations by the German
Overseas News Service.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25
Ship Tieup Hits
Pacific Ports

SAN FRANCISCO, June a
(UPD-The War Shipping Admin.
iStration reported today that the
'much-dreaded and long-antici-
pa,ed shipping tle-up' caused by
a shortage Of merchant Seamcn
has started IN West Coast ports
and is slowly paralyzng the
movement OF war Cargoes over.
seas
Andrew G. Wilson. VISA re-
cTuItment Official. SAID FIVE YES
sells presently are tied up in San
Francisco harbor.
The tie-up already has spread
TO other Pacific Coast ports."
sand Wilson. with Los Angeles
reporting serious ship delays
and Portland and Seattle on the
verge of tie-ups."
~ -. TaAa
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25
NLRB Facing Suit
Charging Contempt

A lawsuit seeking 10 have the
National Labor Relations Board
cited for contempt OF the United
States Supreme Court will be field
in Washington this week by John
b. Mallott. attorney for the
American Breach Employees Pro-
tective Association, said Saturday.
Mallott announced the action
after Federal Judge Tuttle dis
missed an earlier injunction for
bidding the NLRB 10 hold an cleo
ton Al the American Breach and
Machine Co. 1921 r. Grand Boule-
ward. The l.. s. Supreme Court
had ruled in May that an election
az the plant could not be held.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25
Wallace Ends
Visit TO China
He and Chang Issue
Pacific Peace Formula

CHUNGKING. June "a (UP)-
Vice President Henry A. Wallace
IS left here today after a four-day
visit. marked by informal, frank
discussions with Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek. during which
they found themselves in agree
ment on the urgent necessity of
defeating Japan, aid to China. and
establishment of a democratic
peace in the Pacific.
accomplishing points made by
Wallace at recent dinner in his
honor, they said, in a Joint state
ment that the permanent demili-
tarization OF Japan, friendly col
laboration among the United
States. Britain, Russia and China,
and self-government for the ASH
atics were requisite to a perma-
nent Pacific peace.
They stressed that the objec-
tive of victory in the Pacific was
the establishment of peace based
upon political and social stability
deriving from a government de-
voted TO the welfare of the people, ;"
and called for early adoption of
measures in political, economic,
and social fields TO prepare those
dependent people for self-govern-
ment within a specified practical
time limit"
Chang and Wallace said cog
niZance was taken of China'S
cornerstone position in Asia
and her Importance in any Pacific
peace. structure. They acknowl-
edged the importance Of continued
friendly relations among the four
great United Nations.
s-IAsI IhAnre 10 Zee Air NhnM InhnN
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25
Women S Job Plank
Considered by COP

CHICAGO. June % CUP)-
Postwar Job security and equal
pay for women probably will be
endorsed by the Republican plat
form committee Miss Mary r.
Martin. Bangor Me assistant
chairman Of the national commit.
tee. said today.
"Of course. l believe women
now In industry with homes 10
return 10 after the war should
20 back Ia being housewives"
Miss Martin said at a press con-
ference. But there will he
thousands Of women at the epd
Of the war who will have To sup
port their families and they GER
tainly are entitled To job Sc
curity."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-25
Gifts
Toby Bonds
9Th Campaign Aided
by Historical Society

Contributions to the Detroit
Historical SOciety's campaign for
funds 10 erect new historical
and industrial museum after the
war will be invested in war bonds
Frank Cody, chairman of the
fund, announced Saturday.
THE bPard Of trustees has
agreed" said Cody, that every
penny received. except for
small amount for emergencies,
will Immediately be placed in
war bonds TO help the Fifth
War Loan campaign"
Many of the contributions
which totaled S14.66S last week
bringing 10 within S65,000 the
founders fund goal Of $3.50. 900
were in war bonds made out in
the name Of the society, Cody
said.
Checks or war bonds for this
civic project should be made Ia
Detroit Historical Museum Build
ing Fund and sent 10 2208 Penob-
scot Building. a SO gift makes
the donor an honorary member OF
the society for one year.