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Evening star., 1944-06-05
Lecturers Atrocity Stories
False, Army Announces
Nv the Associated prass

BY the Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June S.
Stories related by Stephen o. Whit
man, who lectured here on atrocities
committed by the Japanese while he
supposedly was a prisoner in the
Philippines, were termed "fabrica-
ton" yesterday in an announce
ment from the headquarters of the
Army's Alaskan Department.
Stephen o. Whitman, who re-
Gently appeared at several public
gatherings in Anchorage" the an
nouncement said, represented he
was held prisoner by Japs in the
Philippines and related atrocious
stories about various acts committed
by the japanese on civilians, has
admitted to military intelligence
officers of the Alaskan Department
stationed at Fairbanks that he never
was in the Philippines and that the
entire story of his capture by the
Japs was fabrication"
Whitman, who said he was a
Baptist missionary, carried bona
fide appearing credentials purport-
edly from high places in Washing
ton, addressed the Rotary Club, the
American Legion, the Presbyterian
Church and the Church of the Open
Door here.
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|AIIied Forces Gain
200 More Yards in
|Myitkyina Drive
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Handy, Cey-
Ion, June 5.-Chinese and Amer
lean forces have gained 200 more
yards in their drive in the south
eastern section of Myitkyina in
continuing severe fighting in
that beleaguered japanese base
in North Burma, it was an
nounced today.
"A communique from Admiral Lore
Louis Mountbatten's headquarters
also announced that on the extreme
western end of the North Burma
front the japanese are withdrawing
from the town of Mamsum.
British airborne Chindits were
declared to be continuing their at.
tack from the south on Myitkyins
from the neighboring village o1
Waingmaw, and Allied Levies have
raided Nsopzup. north of the KEY
japanese base.
Allies Closing In.
Forty miles to the west at Kama
ing the japanese garrison lis now
more closely invested" the war bull.
letin said, explaining that Alliec
troops have reached positions Az
miles east and 61a miles southeast
of the town.
Chinese troops thrusting down the
Evening star., 1944-06-05

one pound Of waste cooking fats
makes enough gIycerin to manu.
facture one-third pound gun
powder.
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west side of the Mogaung River
Valley were said to have captured
a village.
Allied troops have proved them
selves more than a match for the
japanese in India and Burma Sin
equipment. training, toughness and
endurance" and those campaigns
can now be regarded with salts
faction though not with compla-
cence," an official headquarters
operational review says.
Little Slackening of Activity.
Noting that arrival of the mon.
soon season had brought little slack.
ening in Allied operations, eithe,
aground or in the air, the review
said with guarded optimism:
TO the japanese, Burma show:
signs, which must appear ominous
OF becoming a dangerous running
sore, draining away men and sup.
plies whose reinforcement and re.
Evening star., 1944-06-05
AAA President Asks
Larger Gas Rations

Thomas P. Henry, president oi
the American Automobile .Associa-
tion, yesterday urged Government
agencies to increase civilian gaso.
line allowance, asserting there /!
more gasoline available for civilian
use than is being used through
legitimately held coupons.
Pointing out that military re-
quirements are met before any sup
plies are set aside for civilian use
Mr.. Henry said any increase for
civilians would come from supple:
now sold to the public at high
prices through black markets"
Robert K. Thompson, District
OPA director, in statement Satur-
day said strict examination of cou-
pons by local OPA officers had cur
tailed the traffic in counterfeit cou-
pons to the extent that last month
at least 52,741 gallons had been
saved for legitimate motorists from
black market activities.
In his statement yesterday issued
to the Office of Price Administra-
ton, the Office of Defense Trans
portation and the Petroleum Ad-
ministration for War, Mr.. Henry
made the following recommends
tions.
/. An indefinite increase i'm the
two-gallon a week allowance to "a"
card holders.
2. Allowance of ATS miles per
month for "B" card holders.
3. Supplemental rations for "B"
card holders whose cars are not
getting Is miles to the gallon.
4. Larger supplies to operators of
light delivery trucks to conserve
gasoline by reducing shopping trips.
S. Increase in the five-gallon ra-
ton allowed service people on fur
loughs.
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japanese are being found on in
land trails; and $50 have been taken
prisoner.
Further deterioration of the JAP
anese position on Bougainville in
the Northern Solomons was indi-
Gated by the seizure of abandoned
Notifications in new cutback land
ing southeast of the American posi-
ton at Empress Augusta Bay.
Admiral Nimitz, in addition to
reporting the Truk raid, told of
three separate air attacks Friday
by American bombers on Shumu-
shu, Paramushiro and Matsuwa in
the bombed Kuriles.
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4 Indicted on CHARGE
OF Defrauding u. 5.
On Subcontracfs
ny the Associated Press.

The Justice Department an
nounced today that Federal grand
jury in Detroit has handed down
an indictment charging four per-
sons, three of them former employees
of the Ford Motor Co., with defraud-
ing the Government in the handling
of subcontracts for machine tools
used in the construction of B-24
bombers at the Ford plants.
The four men are: Clifford C..
Crysler, formerly in charge of the
mechanical designing department at
Ford; Joseph c. Kalman, formerly
assistant to Crysler; Andrew Kali
man, brother of Joseph, one of the
proprietors Of the Affiliated Engi-
neering Co., and Ralph w. Pierce.
formerly a purchasing agent for
the Ford Co.
The indictment charges that
through the influence of Crysler
and Joseph Kalman the Ford Co.
subcontracted with about 20 Detroit
tool shops for the designing and
building of machine tools and spe-
cial machinery. They were aware,
the Indictment charged, that none
of the 20 shops had designing serv-
ice departments.
CrySler and Pierce, according to
the indictment, forced the 20 sub
contractors to sublet the designing
work to the Affiliated Engineering
Co., which made exorbitant profits
through padding payrolls, using fic-
titious time sheets and charging for
the work of nonexistent persons.
The Government charges that all
these extra costs were passed on
eventually, to the Ford Co. and to
the Government.
District Attorney John c. Lehr
said the period covered by the in
dictment extended from May /, 194l,
to December 81, 1912. Government
agents estimated that the Affiliated
Engineering Co. crossed as much as
$4,000, 900 in one year.
The defendants, If convicted, face
maximum penalties of IL years i'm
priSonment and $4,000 fines.
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faith and that the sentence was
harsh or too severe
The sentence has been stayed
pending outcome of the appeal.
Your best buy Is War Bond!
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ours.
lemDprqtul

Record fer Last "a Hours
CFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 66, 2:30 pm. Year aeo, Ql
Lowest, 5S, 4:40 am. Year ago, n.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81, on May 22.
Lowest. II, on January 2.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
prom noon yesterday to noon todayJ
Highest, 81 per cent, at $50 m.
Lowest, 53 per cent, at 2:30 pm.
Tide Tables
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Evening star., 1944-06-05
Eleanor w. Scheib,
Accompunist, Dies
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June 5.-Miss
Eleanor w. Scheib. IS, accompanist
for Ernestine Schumann-H Heink
Alma Gluck and other artists until
her retirement in 1928, died Satur-
day in Lankenau Hospital after a
brief illness.
A native of Chicago, Miss Scheih
made her debut there in 1894 when
she was is. She toured with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and
the Weigel Quartet before becoming
an accompanist. She also studied
voice and on her retirement as an
accompanist she became head OF
the vocal department Of the Hart
ford School of Music.
During the last Is years she had
taught in both Hartford and New
York.
Evening star., 1944-06-05
CASTOR Takes New Step
In Fight on Jail Sentence

Edward Page CASTOR, prohibition
crusader, has announced that his
writ of certiorari was the first
step in Supreme Court appeal
from his Municipal Court sentence
of 80 days in jail and a $3.50 fine
for illegally wearing an Army off,
GERS uniform.
He at one time was reserve
officer in the New York State Ma
tional Guard. His conviction In
Evening star., 1944-06-05
Jap Air Force Risks
10 Planes in Battles
To Stop Allied Gains
BY the Associated Press.

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, June
j5.-Japan flung more of her air
force into sky battles in the
Southwest Pacific - riSking 7O
planes, losing 30-and mounted
fierce mortar fire resistance
against a new American ground
offensive on bloody Biak, reports
disclosed today.
Loss of only one Allied plane was
listed in the accounts of air action
during which seven other japanese
aircraft probably were shot down in
addition to the 80 and several were
destroyed on the ground.
On Biak, main island in the
Schoutens off North Dutch New
Guinea, Gen. Douglas Macarthur
changed his offensive tactics after
his 9th Army units which landed
there May n failed in push along
a coastal road toward three airfields
Treacherous Terrain Encountered.
In the new drive, while one col
|umn moved back from retreat
along that road another bucked
treacherous terrain in an accom-
panying drive along the ridges from
which the japanese previously had
poured down a murderous fire. The
columns smashed ahead slowly
against intense enemy mortar, ma
chine-gun and rifle opposition.
Twenty japanese dive bombers
were sent against the invasion
beachhead. Australian Kittyhawks
shot down eight and ack ack gum
ners got another.
To the southwest on the Dutch
New Guinea mainland, Lightnings
tangled over the enemy base of
Babo with 20 Zeros, downing IL for
certain and probably four others
for loss of one Lightning.
The biggest air battle occurred
over Truk in the Carolines where 80
enemy fighssrs tried vainly to break
up strong daylight raid by Lib
orators. Gunners of the bombers
shot down at least 10, perhaps three
others. during long running fight
in which 10 Liberators were dam
aged, three crewmen killed and four
wounded. But the bombers dropped
their 36 tons of explosives squarely
in the center of Dublon township
and all got back to their Admiralty
bases.
Al Tons Dropped on Truk.
That raid was made Friday. Al
Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester w
Nimitz reported that Liberators
from the Marshalls later dropped Al
tons on Truk, encountering only two
enemy fighters and emerging un-
scathed.
Aground along the New Guinea
coast, growing toll was taken OF
japanese by series of leapfroe
landings. In the Sarmi-Maffin Bay
sector 200 miles southeast of Biak
70 more dead raised enemy losses
there to 1884 On southeast in
the Hollandia- -Aitape area, 269 JAP
anese were killed, increasing the
enemy dead to 3,495; more and
more bodies of starved and diseased
Evening star., 1944-06-05
Britoin's S Fifth Set
Of Quods Doing Well
v the Associated pr.s.

B! the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 5.-Britain's fifth
set OF quadruplets within a year
Linda, David, Carol and Pauline
Robinson-all were reported doing
we'll today.
The children were born SATURDAY.
night at a London hospital to Mrs.
Edith Robinson, wife of an Raj
aircraftman. The hospital gave the
weights OF the quadruplets as:
Linda, 3 pounds, ounces; David.
8 pounds, 13 ounces; Carol, 3
pounds. 10 ounces, and Pauline, 3
pounds, ounces.
Evening star., 1944-06-05

| placement will grow more costly and
difficult as Allied pressure increases" /"
The summary said that "over-
whelming air superiority" and lack
of any enemy challenge in the Bay
of Bengal or the Indian Ocean
have been powerful factors" in
favor of the Allies.
Evening star., 1944-06-05
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Consider-
able cloudiness and continued cool
this afternoon and tonight. Tomor-
row partly cloudy and warmer.
Maryland and Virginia Cloudy
and continued cool in east, fair in
west portion tonight. Tomorrow
warmer, with thundershowers in
mountains
River Report.
Potomac River cloudy, Shenandoah
muddy at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
slightly muddy at Great Falls.
Evening star., 1944-06-05
THE EVENING STAR Washington y {, ~
S.

Municipal Court before Judge
George D. Nelson was upheld by
the Municipal Court of Appeals and
by the Court of Appeals but both
held that he had acted in good
Evening star., 1944-06-05

Observation-Disclosures TRACK-The fireman was killed
and the biggest engines in by the Rail-
this precarious position freight train
split Ohio River bridge yes
Rear section of locomotive broke through the bridge
fireman. F. Bordt died when he eaped from
street. below Two other leaped
locomotive njured-A p Wrephoto
Evening star., 1944-06-05

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Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1944-01-11
Statement Attributed
1oGlenn Frank Quoted
By Sparks in Speech
~ the Associated Press,

CHICAGO, Jan. 1l.-C. Nelson
Sparks, who recently made public a
letter he declared was written by
Harry Hopkins. predicting the Re-
publican nomination of Wendell
Willkie in 1914, last night produced
another statement-one he said was
written by the late Glenn Frank.
Mr.. Sparks, author of the book
"One Man-Wendell Willkie,' a
criticism of the 1910 COP presiden-
tial candidate, quoted the statement
in an address before the Republican
Nationalist Revival Committee.
The former Akron (Ohio) Mayor
said he was proud of the oppor-
tunity to contribute in my humble
way whatever ammunition is avail
able-first, toward the notification
Of a self-appointed, internationally
minded trusteeship of the Republi-
can party; second, to prove that
this trusteeship, conceived and
Matched in the Waldorf Astoria Ho-
tel in New York, in 1886, and the
New Deal party are not only of the
same breed of cats but they prowl
around together. under cover
Dated September IL, 1910.
Then he displayed the statement,
which he said was signed by Mr..
Frank on September IL, l940-four
days before Mr.. Frank was killed in
an automobile accident in Wiscon-
sin-and called attention to its mem
Evening star., 1944-01-11

many to reconstructed Poland.
Suggesting that the "Curzon line
could be the basis of a Russian
Polish border, the broadcast recalled
that this line was accepted in 1918
by the supreme council of the AL
lied powers and noted that it pro-
vided for the inclusion of the West
ern Ukraine and Western White
Russia in the Soviet Union.
This line. proposed in 1919 by
Lord Curzon, the late British For
eign Secretary. in seeking to end
a Russian-Po frontier war, would
run from Grodno in the north, ap-
proXimately $50 miles south to Brest
Litovsk, thence southeastward along
the Bug River This would have
placed the Polish cities Of Lwow
Pinsk, Wilma and Tarnapol in Rus
sia.
An Allied council indorsed the
Curzon proposal. but Poland re-
iected it. After two years Of fight
ing, the treaty of Riga was signed
in 1921, establishing the border as
it was known until the partition
of 1899.
Evening star., 1944-01-11

The right to adequate protection
from the economic fears of old age,
sickness, accident and unemploy-
ment;
The right to good education.
These Rights Spell Security.
All Of these rights spell security
And after this war is won we must
be prepared to move forward, in the
lmplementation of these rights. to
new goals Of human happiness and
well-being.
Americas own rightful place in
the world depends in large part
upon how fully these and similar
rights have been carried into prac-
tice for our citizens. For unless
there is security here at home there
cannot be lasting peace in the
world.
One of the great American in
dustrialists of our day-a man who
has rendered yeoman service to his
country in this crisis-recently en-
phasized the grave dangers of
"rightist reaction" in this Nation
All clear-thinking businessmen
share his concern. Indeed. il such
reaction should develop-if history
were to repeat itself and we were
10 return to the so-called nor
malcy' of the l920s-then it is GER
tain that, even though we shall
have conquered our enemies on the
battlef1elds abroad, we shall have
yielded to the spirit of Fascism here
at home.
ask the Congress to explore the
means for implementing this eco
nomic bill of rights-for it is def
nitely the responsibility of the Con-
gress SO to do. Many of these prob
lens are already before committees
Of the Congress in the form of pro-
posed legislation. I shall from time
to time communicate with the Con-
gress with respect to these and fur
ther proposals In the event that
no adequate program of progress is
evolved, l am certain that the Ma
ton will be conscious of the fact.
Each Has Solemn Obligation.
Our fighting men sbroad-and
their families at home-expect such
a program and have the right to
insist upon it. 1t is to their de-
mands that this Government should
pay heed rather than to the whin-
ing demands OF selfish pressure
groups who seek to feather their
nests while young Americans are
dying.
The foreign policy that we have
been following = the policy that
guided us at Moscow, Cairo and Te-
heran-is based on the common
sense principle which was best ex-
pressed by Benjamin Franklin on
July 4, 1776: I'VE must all hang to-
gether. or assuredly we shall all
hang separately"
I have often said that there are
no two fronts for America in this
war. There is only one front There
is one line of unity which extends
from the hearts of the people at
home to the men of our attacking
forces in our farthest outposts.
When we speak of our total effort.
we speak of the factory and the field
and the mine as we'll as of the bat
tleground-we speak of the soldier
and the civilian, the citizen and his
Government.
Each and every one of us has a
solemn obligation under God to
serve this Nation in its most critical
hour-to keep this Nation great
to make this Nation greater in a bet
ter world
Evening star., 1944-01-11
Fish Says President
Caused Rail Crisis
To Spur Socialism
By the Associatnd Press-

By the Associated Press.
Representative Fish. Republican.
OF New York declared yesterday
that President Roosevelt,s "illad-
vised action in seizing the railroads
was in line with his New Deals So
cialistic polices and tending toward
national socialism"
Attacking in the House state
ments OF high military authorities"
that threatened strikes had given
the Nazis added hope and inspired
them to prolong the war. Mr. Fish
asserted attacks by the New Deal
on labor, particularly the railroad
workers, are nothing more or less
than an attempt to confuse the
public mind, shift the blame and
avoid the consequences of its die.
tatorial actions"
III the high military Official Is
correct in his sensational charges.
the American people are entitled to
all the facts" Mr.. Fish said. fWil.
liam Green. president of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor, has said
Gen. George c. Marshall, Army
Chief OF Staff, was the high OH.
cial.'D
1t Is my opinion that the blame
actually rests not with the railroad
brotherhoods, the railroad workers
and organized labor who have been
eXcoriated by New Deal spokesren.
but upon President Roosevelt. who
IN typical manner has tried to
Diane labor for his own blunders.
the New Yorker added"
There should not have been any
necessity for a railroad strike. Prac-
tically all of the brotherhoods had
agreed to call off the strike. This
synthetic, New Deal-inspired crisis
was merely an excuse to add further
bureaucratic control to the burdens
OF the people and a part of the New
Deal scheme for national social
ism"
IN fairness to the American
people, l call on this high military
ofilclal to make known all the facts
and place the blame where it be.
longs-not on loyal American labor.
put on the President and his New
Deal administration.
The President now emerges as a
political opportunist who does not
hesitate to betrsy those who have
oeen his greatest supporters In the
past and brand them with the most
mated OF all crimes-treason."
Evening star., 1944-01-11

tion of New York meeting in 1886
Mr.. Frank was former presiden
of the University of Wisconsin anC
at that time chairman of the Re.
publican partys Program Commit
tee
Mr.. Sparks quoted the statement
as saying that:
Early in 1886 I responded. a.
much out of curiosity as anything
else, to a peremptory summons to
meet with a group of industrial anc
financial leaders in the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel in New York. -*+
Among the men l faced were
Thomas Lamont, Mr.. Cochrane also
Of the Morgan firm, and Alfred P
Sloan. -"
Il was told abruptly that mas
much as they might decide to make
me the Republican nominee for
President, I was to curtail my
speaking engagements. '"+
They gave me definitely to un-
derstand that if they were unsuc-
cessful in '36 (Which they knew a;
we'll as I did that they would be-
we will pick a candidate from the
industrial East. They did not at.
tempt to conceal the fact that with
the 1886 gesture they were riddint
themselves of an obligation towarc
the corn belt and clearing the wa,
for 1910 blitZ"
Witness Name Deleted
Mr. Sparks said the statement
addressed To whom it may con
cern,' was witnessed by a well
known businessman now living il
the State of North Dakota anc
that the name of the person it wa.
given to would be deleted until thi
document is presented to the Unitee
States Senate Subelections Com
mittee."
Mr.. Sparks told reporters he hae
been subpoenaed to appear Wed.
nesday before a Federal grand jury
in Washington, and that the letter
he attributes to Mr.. Hopkins ad.
wiser to President Roosevelt, has
been subpoenaed too"
Mr.. Hopkins has charged the let.
ter is "a forgery" and DR.. Umphrey
Lee, president of Southern Meth.
odlst University, Dallas, Tex, tc
whom Mr.. Sparks said it was writ.
ten, has denied receiving it.