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Evening star., 1944-05-09
Program at Corcoran
TO Be Given Tonioht

Members of the War Production
Board Musical Society, with F. Van
Lier Lanning. director, will present
a program at 8:l5 o'clock tonight
at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
This will be the fourth in a series
of evening programs for Govern
ment employees, with the gallery
being open from to 10 pm. Ed
ward Rensin, pianist, will be guest
Soloist.
The last of the evening series will
be presented May Is when the Po-
tomac Choral Club, the a cappella
chorus of girls from the Army Air
Forces, the Navy Department, the
War Department and Selective
Service will furnish the music. The
program will be conducted by Miss
Ramona Blunt and one of the num-
bers on the program will be "Vene-
tian Serenade," composed by Miss
Ethel Abbott, member of the Po-
tomac Choral Club, and presented
for the first time in Washington.
Admission will be free. In addi-
ton to the permanent collections.
those attending will be able to see
the special exhibition of water
colors by Life's war artist, Ogden M.
Pleissner, on THE 18th Air Force
IN the Aleutians." The exhibit will
close after May "a.
your War Bond dollars will speed
the march through Toxic and Berlin,
Evening star., 1944-05-09

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. May 9.-Lt. Carl j.
Luksic, Joliet, ILL.,, destroyed five
German planes in the air yesterday
as American fighter pilots con-
tributed So to the days bag of 119
German planes.
1t. Luksic's feat tied the combat
mark for a single day set by Capt.
Robert Woody, Roanoke, Va, April
"a. 1t. Luksic-who also reported
shooting up locomotive and some
oil-tank cars-was a member of a
Mustang group led by Col. Joe
Mason, Columbus, Ohio, which
claimed the destruction of 81 of $50
German planes it engaged in battles.
Another member of Col Mason's
Mustang group-Capt. Clayton Davis,
Brookfield, Vt.-claimed the destruc-
tion of three Nazi aircraft and q
share in fourth.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
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Evening star., 1944-05-09
Southern Senator's
Decide 10 Risk Early
Test on Poll Tax
By the Associated Press.


Streamlined fiilibuster shaped
up in the Senate today. geared
for an early showdown on the
controversial poll tax issue.
Southern Senators disclosed they
would allow an anti-poll tax bill to
be called up with view to setting
a test vote next Monday on petit
tion to invoke the seldom used
cloture rule to limit debate.
. Confident that proponents OF the
House-approyed measure cannot
muster the necessary thirds
vote to break a filibuster, the South
erners decided to risk an early vote
on that issue.
They did so with the understand
ing that anti-poll takers will lay
the bill aside If they lost on the
test vote.
Original plans called for q fill
buster first on the motion to take
up the bill.
Opponents concede a maiority of
the Senate would vote to pass the
bill, but assert that not more than
38 of the 96 members will vote to
invoke the cloture or gag rule. i"
which would limit debate to one
hour per Senator.
The bill outlaws the poll tax as a
qualification for voting in either
general elections or primaries for
United States Senator's, Represen-
tatives and presidential electors.
A similar measure died in the
Senate In 1912 when vote of Al to
81 was rolled up against cloture.
Majority Leader Barkley said he
would file the cloture petition
Thursday. Under the rules, it must
be voted up or down on the second
session following its filing. The
understanding is there will be no
session Saturday, which would put
of the vote until Monday.
Meantime, the Southerners will
confine their "filibuster" to argu-
ments against the constitutionality
of the bill.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Olympic Stor Delights Chinese
With Pole Vault Exhibition

shoes among the Red Cross stores
at the post. He next cleared IL
feet, Q inches, and soon breezed
over IA feet.
His efforts delighted the Chinese
audience and the crowd cheered the
Californian with a salvo Of Ting
Hao."
They also sympathized with Mead
ows when he barely missed IA feet
3 inches on each of his allotted three
tries.
Meadows established the present
Olympic record in his pet event at
the 1895 Berlin games by clearing
IA feet 81 inches. He was second In
the 1912 National AAU indoor meet
in Madison Square Garden at IS feet
8 inches and tied for third at the
1912 outdoor races at IL feet.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Bx the Associa ted PRESS.

By the Associated Press,
HEADQUARTERS 14th AIR
FORCE IN CHINA. May 8 de-
layedJ .-Curly-haired Earle Mead
ows. looking almost as lean and
trim as when he won the 1886
Olympic pole vault event at Ber-
lin. has added a new, II unofficial.
Chinese vault record to his collec-
ton.
Though he had done no vaulting
for Is months, Meadows, now a
first lieutenant and special service
ofiicer at Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chen
nault's headquarters, cleared IA
feet In an exhibition staged in con-
nection with an all Chinese meet
Meadows cleared IL feet inches
on his first jump after having
found pair of brand-new spike
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Ex-Roommate Identifies
District Amnesia Victim

BY tne ASSOCIaLeu PTeSS.
WATERVILLE, Me, May 9.-An
attractive, 20-year-old girl who
sought police aid in establishing her
identity, processing inability to re-
call who she was or how she got
here, was described by former
roommate as Miss Alma Grace Dan
iels of the 1400 block of Clifton
street, Washington.
Mrs. Beverly Moore Passinare of
nearby Skowhegan, who was said to
have roomed and worked with Miss
Daniels in Washington, made the
identification. Mrs. PaSsinare said
the girl had planned to visit her
five weeks ago.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Johnson Tells of Lucky Hit
In Downing His 18th Nuzi

man and I let him have it to scare
him off. 1t was lucky-I hit him
in the engine. He rolled over anc
went down in smoke.
cit. Hartney's father was Capt.
Rickenbacker's commanding off,
Ger quarter of century ago.
1t. Harney, only recently arrived
In the European theater, DAM
aged one plane yesterday. 1t was
his first hit on a Germany
When we got home, Capt. Barn
ham - Eugene Barnham, Albion
N. Y.-said he saw the plane / last
hit spiral out of a cloud and burst
into flames.
I've got lot of respect for the
Thunderbolt. 1t is the worlds best
airplane. It's just like Joe Louis
it can dish 1t out and can take it.
The plane / had today was my
fifth Thunderbolt.. have been shot
up three times but always got back
I've been jumped "a times.
I've been in combat year now
After I finished my regular tour I
volunteered for Is more hours and
Is more after that.
had the last four of that second
Is to go when I started out today.
The trip put me well over.
I'm ready to go home now. My
neck has grown two sizes from
craning to look for German-fighters.
Nothing has been set yet, but I'm
eligible for a trip back. My wife is
back in Lawton. Okla. have kind
of got feeling she will be glad to
see me.
After I've had a rest, I'd like to
go to Burma. I want to see how
those guys fight out there.
But, hell, at that may put in for
another so hours over here.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Pullman President
Studies Appeal Of
Limitation Order
Ey the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, May 8. The
Pullman companies, held to exercise
an illegal monopoly of building and
servicing railway sleeping cars,
were ordered by special three
judge Federal court yesterday to
give up one business or the other.
The group of four companies was
given 80 days to decide which b,lsi-
ness it viii retain Unless an ap-
peal is taken, the final decree
entered In the Governments 4-year-
old antitrust suit will be effective In
60 days.
David A. Crawford, president OF
Pullman, Inc, top company in the
group. said the companies would de-
eide whether to appeal after study
ing the effect of the order, which
he said Ssinvolves limitation of the
fundamental right of a contractor
to make for himself the tools into
which he puts his own money to
perform his job"
The suit named Pullman, Inc, the
Pullman Co., which provides per
sonal service" aboard sleeping cars;
the Putnam Standard Car Manu-
featuring Co., the Pullman Car and
Manufacturing Corp. of Alabama
and 81 officers and directors, includ-
ing Alfred P. Sloan. jr.; Harold s.
Vanderbilt and Richard K. Mellon.
Under the decree officers and di-
rectors of any one Pullman company
are prohibited from holding securi-
ties In any other, and from serving
on the boards of any other.
The eourt-Circuit Judges John
Biggs, jr.; Albert B. Maris and Her
bert F. Goodrich-directed that the
companies file a plan for the sep
aration within a year.
If the plan is not acceptable, the
judges said, the court itself will
make a proposal.
Mr.. Crawford said the court held
against us apparently because
through the development of an ef-
ficient, economical and practical
way of conducting the sleeping car
business, which Injured to the
public interest we became, ia
perfectly natural and inevitable
way, the only sleeping car company
in the United States.
Yet the Congress Of the United
States, moving in precisely the OPP
posite direction to that taken in the
court opinion, recently enacted. in
the public interest legislation
merging the only two remaining
telegraph companies, leaving one
in sole possession of the field"
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Union Leaders Urge
Shipyard Machnists
To End Coast Strike
Py the Associated Press.


SAN FRANCISCO, May s.-Na-
tional union officers are urging
striking San Francisco Bay area
shipyard machinists to resume work
Immediately to comply with labor
no-strike pledge.
Philip Murray, CIO president, and
Harvey w. Brown. president of the
AFL International Association of
Machinists, yesterday complied with
a War Labor Board appeal to use
their influence to halt the work
stoppage and to avert the necessity
for presidential intervention. :.
There are around 6,700 machinists
involved in the dispute, 5000 in San
Francisco and 1,700 in the Oakland
East Bay area.
Threat Of U. s. Seizure Seen.
Mr.. Murray's message to George
Adams. secretary of Local 1904 OF
the East Bay Machinists, United
Steel Workers, said Government
seizure of the shipyards involved was
inevitable" unless work is resumed
He said he would attempt to use
the influence of the international
union" to expedite settlement of the
dispute.
Because of our no-strike pledge
to our country urge your local to
resume work" pending negotiations.
Mr.. Murray said.
Mr.. Brown told officials of Lodge
68 of the San Francisco machinists
to instruct all members who have
ceased work to return Immediately. +"
He said the machinists placed them
selves in "the position of defying
the Government" by their refusal to
complete work on ships in drydock
Hearing Tomorrow.
E. F. Dillon, business agent of
Lodge, 68, and his associate, Harry
Hook, have been subpoenaed to ap-
pear at a WLB hearing in Washing
ton tomorrow on the union order
prohibiting machinists from work.
ing more than 48 hours a week In
l03 San Francisco uptown shops.
The Office of James P. Smith
business agent of Local 1904, said
ne was in Washington to attend the
meeting, at which the machinists'
refusal to accept a 1920 per- hour
new-construction rate, as against a
demanded $1.34 repair rate. also will
be discussed.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
LOST.

AUTO SKIRT, back left fender from green
Pc soto; VICINITY Georgia ave. ana aam-
lac S iessher ste zpps1 Esx1fa sss; sstura,y
WASH. hotei Coffee Shop, cont. ration
Sss: Of Ralph E.. Charles R., olive Nj
WslSn. bInt impt ssss keys etc Please phone
BAR PIN, platinum with small center ola
mond, lost Monday. Gail Wo. s656 or
sfLLfoLD. coshide. Army INSIGNIA ,den,
pPopers; PoIar,s, BET Be- Mayfiower Rest: and W
sosr6S BnIL, toy. male, black and
sSef " sprns Moaea' ma KtsaTa sSaty Fsg ss
BRACELET. an Italian scroll. silver; pre-
Sume Sim on Conn. ave. bus: reward. Can
BRACELET. Mexican silver. lost in vicinity
Dupont CIRCLE % %sentimental value. Phone
BRACELET. gold linked. white canoes on
5rovn background NV. district. Reward,
BULLDOG, female, dark brown. vicinity
SSsxss ss5sSS,r,a Il szss ANSWERS 10
name Of Inky: lost sunday, chevy Chase
area: small bell on collar. Reward. Wo
COCKER SPANIEL male, brown, s yrs
Hanna nl; sc: Reward. CAN AT: sI47,
aSe ca. 0ane ne w Mrs s Fans S. Hp q SeS s4Ss eYs
EnYr Pings; pI; GIG Ext. 22b7. once.
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sth and % NV m Ii o ssso al al day Gssenssss sunds n
FOX TERRIER, smooth. male white. heav-
District tas 3s042: Tan Wager tag 42i4
s07 st; ne. Lu, 4644.
fHATnaNITY tt.naan I. PIN: lost downtown T Sunday
HosoRABEE piscHARGEP PAPER. May 8.
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HOUND; ,i black M and - white Spotted; blue
MALrEsf hGns rooDIE, S, s1D", small. white. Ions
6nd nsird lost IN Rgsk ae Greek Park Sunday
Mans s PURSE. S; confainins TAIN permit. regis.
Iration card gas tickets "A" and C
fe%ard or Keep % money st snd returns @ recon-: eon
tents to address in purse.
PIN. rhinestone bowknot; Friday, May 8;
FURsE. lsdys & lafse ssfp BLACK a cfo1h Fs oSS% On
streetcsr. Pennsyivanis ave. Sc or o. bus
sentsins sensrd 1ssteIs IYsI m'ney drivers eense
PURSE, black, lsdy's, left in Checker cab
Phi. night, containing letters from hus-
BABY and candy. money Keys ts1hS's bsnE BOOK x
ETC., also ration books No. 4, issued tc
Mrs. Olive M. Hall, 1915 18th pl NE,
Apt. 8. Reward. TR. 6734 any time
WALLET, brown. leather; contsinine
money, return wallet. l4s Quincy pi
ne. AD. 3713.
WALLET-Black. about 9 . m Friday, con
tanning social@ecurity card, gas books "A
and &C." S25 in paper. silver dollar, res
istration card, permit. draft card. 422
Elm 81. NV. Thomas r. johnson.
WATCH. mans. pocket. Illinois. between
9TH and Penna. ave. and 2nd and Indiana
We. May 4. p.nn.; reward. Berwyn 1l4-W
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Marine Flyer Killed

NORFOLK, Va, May 8 GP.-Second
1t. Jack w. Rippel. u. S. M. C. r.,
of Chicago was killed Saturday in
the crash of Navy plane in the
Neuse River 100 yards from the Ma
rine Corps Air Station at Cherry
Point, N. c., the 5th Naval District
reported yesterday.
A passenger, whose name was
withheld, suffered minor injuries.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Newspaper Guild Plans
Presidential Poll
BY the Associated Press.

HE IHt ASSOClateu Press.
NEW YORK. May 9.-The Inter-
national Executive Board of the
American Newspaper Guild yester-
day ordered a mail poll of guilds
men on the question: Shall the
August convention of the guild in
Milwaukee indorse any candidate
for President of the United States?"
The guild claims 21,0O0 members
The board said the poll would be
conducted in July to stimulate polit-
ical discussion by the rank and file
members and to obtain policy guild
ance for convention delegates, but
that 1t would not be binding upon
the convention.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Army Bombers Smash
Jap Island Bases Off
Northwest New Guinea
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOclAIeG FTeSS.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, May O.
Escorted 5th Army Air Force bomb
ers struck devastating blows against
japanese bases off northwestern
New Guinea on Saturday, and the
enemy lost the bulk of his intercept
ing fighters, Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thur announced today.
The heavy smashes caused ex-
tensive damage to airdromes, sup
ply areas and troop concentrations
in the Schouten Islands and in the
Wakde Island -Sarmi sector, the
strongest enemy holdings immedi-
ately to the northwest OF captured
Hollandia on New Guinea.
The midday assault on Mokmer
airf1eld on Biak Island in the
Schouten group. 260 miles northwest
of Hollanda. was the third within
"a hours, but for the first time the
Liberator squadrons had the sup
port of fighter cover-further
testimony to the speed with which
the Allies put captured airfields at
Hollandia into operation.
Fighters Meet Opposition.
These fighters met dozen enemy
single-Seaters In the air over Mok-
mer and downed nine without loss
either to themselves or the bombing
force. The previous day Liberators,
flying alone, destroyed one of II
challenging japanese planes.
The heaviest assault of the day in
point of bomb tonnage was made
simultaneously against Wakde Is
land and Sarmi, some 100 miles
northwest of Hollandia. Here, a
force of 100 heavy and medium
bombers dropped 295 tons of ex-
plosives on the Sawar airdrome,
personnel and supplies at Maffin
Bay and the plantation area south
of Sarmi.
When this attack ended the en-
tire triangle was blanketed with
smoke rising 5000 feet.
Bombers also hit the Aroe Islands
and Kaimana at the western END
OF New Guinea, setting a coastal
vessel afire, ranged as far east as
Rabaul on New Britain, which was
given 53-ton bombing, and at.
tackled the Caroline Islands to the
north for the 48th consecutive day.
Three Freighters Are Sunk.
In the Carolines, Liberators sanl
three small freighters out of a five.
ship convoy heading for Truk ane
dropped IS tons of bombs on Wolea
Islands airdrome, wiping out TIVE
parked planes.
| A Macarthur spokesman an.
nounced, meanwhile, that only 2,
Americans have been killed in &C.
ton to date In the Hollandia inva.
sion, as compared with 697 countee
japanese dead. .Ninety-five Ameri.
cans have been wounded or injured
The spokesman announced als<
that the airdrone at Cape Hoskin.
on the north-central coast of New
Britain was occupied by American
marines on Monday Cape Hoskin.
itself was abandoned several weeks
ago. Only BOBBY traps were founc
on the Cape Hoskins airfield ane
there was no sign of the enemy.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Battle on ALLEGATION
OF Road Funds Set
For Revival in House
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
An old controversy between East
ern and Western States about the
best way to allocate Federal funds
for highways is about to be renewed
in Congress.
The House Roads Committee will
meet tomorrow to try to settle the
question of Government aid in a
proposed $4,000, 900 900 postwar road
building program.
There are two main points at
issue. One is regarding how much
the State shall contribute in match
ing funds; the other is whether
the States population or its miles
of Federal-aid roads shall determine
the ratio of Government ALLEGATION.
In a long series of hearings the
sparsely settled Western States gen.
orally have backed committee
sponsored bill, while the thickly
populated Eastern States have urged
measures introdced by Representa-
tives Miller, Republican, of Con-
necticut, and Wene, Democrat, Of
New Jersey.
Pattern for ALLEGATION.
The Miller-Wene proposals would
make population, through a count
OF automobile registrations, the ma
jor element in handing out the
funds and would require matching
on a $3.50 basis, with $4,000, ,000, ,000
each from the Federal Government
and the States.
The committee legislation would
let population be half the determin-
ing factor and Federal-aid highway
mileage in the State the other half.
Also, 1t would allocate money on a
1926 basis, with the Federal Gov
ernment chipping In $4,000, ,000, 900
and the States total of $1,000
OOO, 900.
Committee Chairman Robinson
and other Westerners contend their
plan has been used successfully for
years. Moreover, they say their
constituents are unable to foot as
large a share of the bill as the
Fasteners propose because there
just aren't as many of u.s."
East Charges Unfairness.
The Fasteners complain that the
old system is unfair, with their citi-
zens required to pay nearly all the
cost of building Western roads. The
committee bill was termed full oi
glaring inequities" by Representative
Eaton, Republican, of New Jersey
who said 1t meant that Connecticut
for example, would contribute $88 fol
every $12 given by the Federal Gov.
eminent, while Nevada would chir
in only SIT for every $83 it received
Although he frequently has de.
Tended the committee bill, Repre-.
sentative Robinson said today, I'VE
are not definitely committed to it
We will make our decision
fairly on the basis of the evidences
| before us"
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Guam Gets Second Pounding
By Land Based u. S. Bombers

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Pearl Harbor. May 8 P).-
The second pounding Of Guam by
lar1d-based American bombers and
new air blows at the Kuriles and
Carolines high lighted today the
increasing vulnerability OF Japan's
island outposts the length of the
Pacific.
Navy and Army Liberators blasted
Guam, prewar American base 1000
miles east of Manila, by daylight
Saturday. Admiral Chester w
Nimitz announced late yesterday.
Without loss, the Liberators shot
down approximately half of the
Japanese interceptors, bagglng z,
3 more probably and damaging 2
others.
First Assault Recalled.
The first assault on Guam by
land-based planes was April "a,
when the Japanese failed to uncork
any interceptors. This southern
most island in the Marianas group
was hit first in the war oy carrier
based planes February % as a
powerful American naval force
prowied deeper into enemy waters
after their initial lambasting of
Truk in the Carolines.
Battered Truk, less than four
months ago Japan's most fearsome
Central Pacific bastion, got it again
Saturday night from 7th Army Air
Force Liberators, Admiral Nimitz
said, and threw up only moderate
antiaircraft fire. Mitchell mediums
again attacked Ponape, 44O miles
east of Truk.
To the far north. Paramushiro
key enemy base in the Kuriles. re-
ceived rare daylight bombing Sat-
urday from Navy Ventures. The de-
tenders, often attacked by night,
sent up light antiaircraft.