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Evening star., 1944-02-05

ny Inc AkSoCltteC Press.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Feb. S.
Representatives Of about $4,000
Pennsylvania anthracite miners
nearly one-third Of the total en-
ployed in the shafts-have voted to
ignore the urgings Of Secretary Of
the Interior 1ckes and their own
national union leaders to work Sum-
days during February to ease a coal
shortage in Eastern States.
Thousands Of miners. principally
in the Luzerne and Lackawanna
Counties region. voted to go into the
mines for seven days, but some local
unions deferred their voting until
tonight or left it to the individuals
whether they would report.
In the Wilkes Barre and Scranton
areas special church services and
transportation facilities were sched-
uled in anticipation Of almost full
Sunday operation.
However, in the lower anthracite
region delegations representing
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Former Chief Favors
Autonomy for REA
1y the Associated Press.

81 the Associated Press.
John M. Carmody, former head
Of the Rural Electrification Admin
istration, told a Senate committee
yesterday that placement Of the
REA within the Agriculture De-
partment Was grave mistake.
The agency. he informed Senate
Agriculture Subcommittee, could op-
crate more effectively as an inde-
pendent unit.
Mr.. Carmody, who resigned as ad-
ministrator when the agency was
reorganized into the Agriculture
Department in 1899, was called be-
fore the committee to reply to
testimony OF Robert B. Craig, for
mer REA administrator and now
an official Of Cooperweld Steel Corp,
that Mr.. Carmody had favored
creation of a national rural electric
cooperative association. f.
Committee counsel recalled that
Mr.. Craig had testified that he
and Mr.. Carmody had believed q
national association necessary to
combat antagonism from private
utilities and to protect the REA
If ever asked anybody to or
ganize an association or authorized
it, I have no recollection of it.
Mr. Carmody said 1T never oc-
Cured to me to ask for outside aid
In fighting REA battles"
The committee is investigating
charges that politics have influ-
enced REA operation.
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Foundation Head Denies
Break With Sister Kenny
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Basil
O'Connor, president of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,
says there has been no break be-
tween his group and Sister Elizab beth
Kenny.
This statement came last night
after the Australian nurse declared
she was not receiving adequate
financial support for her system of
treating poliomyelitis.
Never has the Foundation refused
to support evaluation and teaching
OF the Kenny method" Mr.. O'Con-
nor said. TT is the function of the
Foundation to continue to evaluate
the Kenny method and we will do
that in the hope of finding greater
values in 1t. The Foundation also
will evaluate other methods"
Sister Kenny had declared, with
out elaboration, that the work OF
the Foundation at the University
OF Minnesota was 100 years behind
the times" and that its long-range
program there dealt with study of
after-effects.
That program, she said, had moth
ing to do with the Sister Kenny In
stitute at Minneapolis, which deals
with early diagnosis and treatment.
She said she needed $150OOO an
nually. principally for maintenance
of the institute
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Navy College Program
To Continue, Jacobs SAYS
Ry the Associated prssx

BY the Associated Press.
Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs
chief of naval personnel, declared
today that "the Navy Department
has no plans to discontinue its COL
lege training program.
Admiral Jacobs said his bureau
has recently received a number of
inquiries concerning reports that the
Navy college program may be
stopped" In statement, he added:
THE United States Navy is still ex-
panding. The urgent need for tech
nically trained young officers con-
tinues. and the colleges and uni
versities participating in the VIA
program are doing a splendid job OF
producing such officers. - The
Navy does not contemplate discon-
tinuance Of the program"
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Ex-Convict Questioned
In Two New York HoIdups
BY the Associated Press.

bS tne ASSoclated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-A 44-year-
old ex-convict who said he was en-
ployed in war plant was questioned
by police today in connection with
the $4,000 hold-up yesterday of a
paymaster and his patrolman escort.
Police, who said the suspect de-
MED any connection with the crime
meanwhile continued an investiga-
ton of a second robbery in which
two men escaped with $500. 1t
occurred in the same Greenwich
Village area a short time after the
pay roll theft.
In the first holdup, six masked
men, armed with two sub-machine
guns and a sawed-on shotgun, seized
the West Side Iron Works pay roll
and fled in an automobile after ex-
changing shots with police. The
getaway car collided with another,
but the six escaped. They legt SIG, 800
Of the loot in the automobile.
Eight hours later two men cleaned
out the Bankers Federal Savings &
Loan Associations safe and left the
once manager, Theodore H. Theban,
jr., bound in a back room.
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Legion Holds Army
System Of Discharges
Lacks Uniformity

Terming the present system of dis
charging men from the Army mot
satisfactory" the American Legion's
national rehabilitation conference
was on record today as urging a
more comprehensive program of
vocationai OF occupational rehabili-
tation for q reasonable period before
final discharge of a soldier.
Specifically, the Legion criticized
Tack. Of uniformity in types of dis
charge, and lack of standard de-
termination from medical stand
point as TO necessity for discharge" :"
The result. the Legion contends. has
been the discharge because of
neurosis, fatigue and similar con-
ditions OF men who might have
been successfully rehahilitated be-
fore being released from active
service"
The Legion suggested a review Of
each case "by properly trained per-
sonnel at the respective service COM
mand headquarters before a dis
charge certificate Is issued, thus re-
ducing errors which are occurring" )"
Fred G. Fraser of Washington was
chosen chairman Of newly created
Legion national labor relations COM
mittee at the conclusion OF . two
day conclaye here last night. :"
A commission on postwar America,
headed by Louis johnson Of Clarks-
burg, w. Va, past national COM
mander and former Assistant Sec
retary OF War, conferred with Secre-
tary Of State Hull yesterday. The
commission organized flve subcom-
mittees to draft Legion blueprints
for peacetime reconstruction. Leaders
of these committees are:
Gov. Dwight Griswold of Ne
braska, demobilization and peace
time adjustment; Gov. Prentice
Cooper of Tennessee, labor manage
ment. private enterprise and public
Gen. Leonard P. Ayes,
Cleveland, internal economy and
policies; Gov. Leverett SaltonstalI
Of Massachusetts,, domestic morale
and individual security, and Past
Comdr. Ray Murphy of New
York, world affairs.
Evening star., 1944-02-05
| Poet Masters
| Is III, Victim
| OF Poverty
By the Associated Press.

6S tne Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. Edgar Lee
Masters, "A. one of Americas best
known poets and author of Spoon
River Anthology" is recovering from
an illness induced by impoverish-
ment, his physician reported today.
DR.. Philip Strax said Mr.. Masters
was being cared for at q GONZALES
cent home in the Bronx through
funds furnished by the Authors
League.
The physician said Mr.. Masters,
suffering from malnutrition and
pneumonia, was found at hotel
here by a friend and was taken to
the municipality operated Bellevue
Hospital, where he was placed in a
ward.
DR.. Strax said he reported the sit
uation to member of the Authors
League and that the organizat ton
financed Mr.. Masters removal to
another hospital. The poet remained
there for four weeks, moving to the
convalescent home 4 short time ago.
Almost fully recovered. Mr.. Mas
ters is expected to leave the conva-
lescent home next week, Or. Strax
said -.
ia
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Gov. SaItonsta|I Silent
On Senate Appointment
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Feb. 5.-Gov. Leverett
Saltonstall was back IN New Eng
land today, but he kept secret hi,
plans for filling the Senate seat
made vacant by the resigna ton
yesterday Of Henry Cabot Lodge to
return to active service with the
Army as q major.
The Governor left the Washing
ton express at Providence
for an unannounced destination.
Meanwhile, political observers
speculated on whether he would re-
sign as chief executive of the State
to take Mr.. Lodges place or appoint
some other prominent Republican to
fill the vacancy.
The names Of Gov. Saltonstall
and of Republican National Com
mitteeman Sinclair Weeks were the
most often mentioned for the ap-
pointment.
Evening star., 1944-02-05
$4,000 Spurn Sunday Mining,
Ignore Ickes and Union Pleas

$4,000 workers voted last night
against working seven days even
though Seth Reese Of the Interior
Department asked the men "to
break down criticism unjustly
heaped on miners and work the
four Sundays in February" An earl
Ter meeting, representing 10000
miners, also voted to rest on Sunday
In letters and kilograms from
Washington, officers of the United
Mine Workers of America urged
Thursday that. all men work sew
en- days and assured them tha,
overtime rates of time and a halt
for all over 40 hours and double time
for the seventh consecutive day
would be paid.
Opponents of seven consecutive
workings days contend that a man
laboring so continuously becomes
fatigued and endangers lives and
machinery and that the men would
not receive sufficient tools and dyn-
amite to mine enough coal to make
it worth while.
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Pfc. Herbert AIInut
will Be Buried Todoy
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LAYTONSvILLE, Nd, Feb. S.
Funeral services for Pfc. Herbert F..
Allnutt, IS. who died Tuesday from
injuries received in an accident at
Camp Breckenridge, KY. will be
held today at the funeral home Of
w. Roy Barber here. The Rev.
Jacob H. Snyder. pastor Of the
Methodist Church at Damascus, will
ofaciate, and burial will be in the
cemetery here.
Pfc. Allnutt was a son of Herbert
Allnutt Of Carroll County and Mrs.
Edna M. Perrell, Damascus. Besides
his parents, he is survived by two
sisters, Misses Ellen v. Allnutt,
Reisterstown, and Nancy Lee ALL
mutt, Damascus, and four brothers,
Ernest O., in the Army; william E.,
Sykesville; Harvey c., Boyds, and
Russell w. Allnutt, Damascus.
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Meeting Set to Protect
East if Fuel Is Cut
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Plans to protect the interests of
Eastern drivers and home owners In
any reallocation of gasoline and fuel
oil supplies will be discussed here
Tuesday by the Steering Committee
OF the informal Eastern States Con-
gressional Group.
Representative Hartley, Republi-
can, of New Jersey, chairman of the
group, which embraces members OF
Congress from Maine through Vir-
|ginia. said sacrifices could be ex-
|pected because of statements from
the ONCE Of Price Administration
and the Petroleum Administration
and he had called the meeting to
assure "fair treatment" tor the At
lantic Seaboard
Evening star., 1944-02-05

Approximately 300 900 men and
women released from the armed
services since December 6, 1941, are
believed eligible for mastering -out
payments under provisions of the
bill signed yesterday by President
Roosevelt. Payments to those MUS
tered out hereafter will be auto
matte.
A joint Army-Navy release an
nounced yesterday the national set
up under which honorably dis
charged ex-service men and women
may apply for and receive payments
ranging from 500 to $500 in ac-
cordance with length and condition
Of active service.
Commissioned officers of all serv-
ices will be required to furnish evil
dence OF length and termination of
services. Naval officers must apply
to the Bureau Of Naval Personnel;
Coast Guard officers to Coast Guard
headquarters, marine officers to the
commandant Of the Marine Corps
and Army ofncers must apply to the
finance ofilces Of the Army, listed
by States.
Navy and Coast Guard enlisted
veterans are required to file theil
applications with the field branch
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Cleveland, Ohio. Enlisted marine
veterans apply to the Marine Corp.
commandant.
Veterans who were indicted OF
who enlisted in the Army from tn.
District should file applications with
the finance ONCE at 8ol Channinf
place NE. The finance ONCE fol
Maryland veterans is located at ~:
East Redwood street. Baltimore, anc
in Virginia the address is Thirty.
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Donaldson, Song Writer, ;,
Loses A|imony Fight
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5.-Walter
Donaldson, composer of my Blue
Heaven" testified yesterday that he
lives in motor court, while his wife
the former Walda Mansfield Of the
Aims, occupies a nine-room house.
Mr.. Donaldson also said that al
though his income last year was
around $4,000. he is in debt to vari-
Gus music publishers and owes the
Government $50, 900 for back income
taxes.
Mr.. Donaldson was in court for a
hearing on his wite's petition for
$3.50 week temporary alimony
pending trial of their divorce suit
After Mrs. Donaldson had declared
she needs 5000 month for clothes
and Mr.. Donaldson had disclosed his
financial status. Superior Court
Judge Stanley Mosk ordered him to
pay his wife $3.50 a month.
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Triumph Officials Appeal
Denied by Higher Court
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 5,-The
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
yesterday affirmed the judgment OF
the District Court at Baltimore in
a mail fraud appeal brought by
Gustav H. Kann. former president
Of Triumph Explosives, Inc, Elk
ton, Md.
Kann had been sentenced on
three counts on convictions of vio-
lating the mail fraud statute.
The case was similar to an appeal
brought by Joseph Decker, vice
president Of the same company
which also was denied by the court
last month when it affirmed the
Baltimore courts Judgment.
The charges Of mail fraud in
volved establishment Of the Elk
Mills Loading Corp, which the Gov
ernment charged was set up 50
Triumph officers could profit per-
sonally at the expense OF stock
holders by turning over Triumph
Government contracts to Elk Mills
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Girl, 2, Killed, Father
Hurt, in Freak Shooting

~ the Associated Press.
DENTON, Md, Feb. 5.-A 2-year.
old child was killed and her father
slightly injured in q freak shooting
accident, the Caroline County med
ical examiners ONCE reported yes
terday.
DR.. D. o. George said the child's
l3-year-old brother, Leon Hynson
had been playing with a supposedly
unloaded gun Thursday night when
1t went OF, 4 bullet killing the child
Margaret Carolyn, and striking the
father, Percy Hynson,
Without realizing that the child
had been hit, the father went to q
physician for treatment. He found
the girls body On his return. Dr.
0eoege added.
Evening star., 1944-02-05
bricker Sees Press
Under Three Threats
From Administration
By the Associated Press.


COLUMBUS. Ohio. Feb. s.
Freedom Of the press is being
threatened from three sides, Gov
John w. Bricker says.
In an address to the Ohio News
paper Association last night, he
pictured the situation as chal-
lenge to publishers and editors.
The spirit Of freedom today
cries out for intelligent leadership
from the press" he declared. III
that leadership falters, American
liberty is IN danger"
The Governor, in a major speech
Of his campaign for the Republican
presidential nomination, asserted
press freedom was being jeopardized
by 'insidious propaganda of the
administration In power, - Gov
ernment censorship and "'' con-
centration Of power in the hands
of the executive branch of the
Government"
Gov. Bricker added that. to re-
move the hazards, political propa-
ganda must be destroyed as an in
strumentality Of Government. We
must insist that appropriate sources
Of information be kept open to the
press Of the country. -" News
must be available and free to all
alike as we'll as the right to print
the news.
Gov. Bricker declared the Roose-
velt administration had made a
studied attempt to undermine the
newspapers and radio"
THE New Deal, Is peculiarly re-
sentful of honest criticism" he as
serted. publishers, editors, cor
respondents and sports writer's have
been denounced"
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Alliance Formed 10 Fjoht
Fascism in Film Industry
By the Associated Press,

~
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 5.-Approxi.
mately 200 film writer's, producer.
and directors last night formed the
Motion Picture Alliance for the
Preservation of American Ideals
dedicated. its organizers said, to
combating Communism and Fas-
cism within the industry.
Film Director Sam Wood. elected
president, said some writer's have
been injecting communistic propa-
ganda into their film plays. This
he declared, the alliance will fight
The alliance, in a declaration OF
principles, said:
I'VE find ourselves in sharp re-
volt against rising tide of Com
munism. Fascism and kindred be.
liefs, that seek by subversive means
to undermine and change this way
OF life: groups that have forfeited
their right to exist in this country
because they seek change by means
other than the ballot. ="
Walt Disney. Art Director Cedric
Gibbons and Director Norman Tau
rog were elected vice presidents,
Evening star., 1944-02-05

fourth street and Jefferson avenue,
Newport News, Va.
Payments under the terms of the
act are to be made as follows: 500
to veterans with less than go days
active service; those with so days or
more with no foreign service are
entitled to 5000, payable in two 500
monthly installments, and veterans
with service Of so days or more who
have had foreign service will receive
$500, payable in three monthly in
stallments.
The mustering-out pay is denied
to those eligible to retirement pay,
those discharged to take civilian
jobs, the dishonorably discharged,
those whose total period OF service
has been as student in special
training programs, and those rank
ing above captain.
In the case of any eligible veteran
who died after leaving the service
and before receiving any portion of
mastering payment the pay
ment may be made to a surviving
wife or husband, in equal shares to
his child or children, or to surviving
parents.
II the veteran served in the Army
the application should be sent by
the surviving member OF his family
to the fiscal director, Pentagor
Building. In the cases Of the other
services the same procedure should
be followed as outlined for dis.
charged officers.
Because Of the possibility of los.
in the mails. the armed services sug.
gest that photostatic copies of dis.
charge papers be sent in with the
application form. Original discharge
papers, however. will be returned.
Evening star., 1944-02-05

land and was Pvt. Thomas Earhart.'
trained in North Ireland and Scot
land. He was one of 80 Rangers
to take part in the Dieppe raid,
and also took part in the North
African invasion and the invasions
OF Sicily and Italy He was wounded
in the Sicilian campaign.
Pvt. Earhart was member of the
National Guard at Clarinda, Iowa.
and entered the Army in 1941 with
his unit. He went overseas in
February, 1912.
In letter written his parents
October %, just six days before
his capture. Pvt Earhart said he
had seven months pay due him end
would give every cent of it if he
could be home for one day
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Wallace Says Labor
Has Right 10 Request
air Public Treatment
Ey the Associated Press.

Iy the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5.-Vice
President Wallace told 4 win the
War" rally last night that organized
labor has come Of age and has the
right to ask for fair and honest
treatment from the public"
Labor during the war has en-
joyed cooperating with manage
ment in doing = real production
job" he said, "and we must never
again let such q rich source Of ma
tional wealth 60 untapped." Mr..
Wallace spoke on What America
Wants." and declared:
THE workers of the United States
want assurance that they can have
jobs when the 1000, 900 servicemen
and the 10000, 900 war workers, who,
by their supreme efforts are saving
us during this mighty conflict, find
it necessary to get back into peace
time work." he said.
Farmer Has More Wants."
THE farmer has more wants than
the worker because he himself Is
not only 4 worker but also q mana
ger, . capitalist. . trader and a
debtor. The farmer Is exposed
both to weather and markets beyond
his control. A farmers first desire,
therefore, Is to remove the extraor-
dinary hazards of his business.
The Vice President said some big
businessmen want a type of control
which will produce big profits and
seek q system of free enterprise
which means freedom for free
booters."
FORTUNATELY, not all big business
men ask for these privileges or de-
fine free enterprise in the way I
have just mentioned. Some OF them
are as deeply concerned with the
problem Of full employment as labor
ITSELF"
Opposed to Monopoly Controls.
The small businessman wants free
enterprise, said Mr.. Wallace, OF a
type that will provide opportunity
to compete without fear OF monopoly
controls Of any kind.
LAS citizens Of a great democracy.
the most urgent want is to be ac-
curately and intelligently informed
on all the issues which confront u.s.
he declared. There must cease to
be secrecy in public affairs, except
where military necessity requires"
Evening star., 1944-02-05
WeschIer Again Heads
Engineering Council

Maurice E. Weschler of the Ameri-
can Society of Mechanical Engineers
was reelected chairman of the Dis
trict Council of Engineering and
Architectural Societies last night.
Other officers elected for the year
were: Stuart w. Trainer OF the
American Welding Society, vice
chairman, and Henry Austin. Amer
lean Association OF Engineers, secre-
tary-treasurer. The meeting was
held at the Cosmos Club.
Evening star., 1944-02-05

I a K e n prisoner
by the Germans,
his parents have
been informed
by the War De-
partment. Pvt.
Earhart previ-
ously had been
reported miss
ing in action in
Italy.
Pvt. Earhart
was a member
of one of the
first r a n & er
C o m p a n ! e S
formed in Eng
Evening star., 1944-02-05
Woman Emp|oye Sought
In Stores Loss Of $1,000

Police today were seeking a So
year-old woman whose continued
absence from her employment at s.
Kann Sons department store since
January % comedies with the dis
appearance Of $4,000 in $40 bills
from the cashiers ONCE.
According to Detective Sergt.
David A. Higgins, the woman has
not returned to the address she gave
when hired by the store the day be-
fore she vanished. A description of
the woman tallies with one broad
cast by Boston and Providence (R.
- police of q woman wanted for
questioning In connection with the
disappearance of money under SINH
lar circumstances from stores In
those cities, police said.