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Evening star., 1944-11-18
Life Of PAC Is Up
To Clio Convention
BY the Associated Press.

80
CHICAGO, Nov. l8.-The CIO
Political Action Committee, which
Chairman Sidney Hfllman said
would be able ito do a much more
affective job" in the 1946 elections.
won a recommendation of full
confidence" yesterday from the CIO
executive board, but it's continued
existence depends on approval by
the national convention next week
The board recommended to the
convention that the PAC be con-
tinued and that the present officers
headed by Mr.. Hillman be kept in
their jobs.
The boards action was announced
at a joint press conference with
Mr.. Hillman and CIO President
Philip Murray. The latter said the
board action constituted a vote of
full confidence" in the PAC's work
Mr.. Hillmans committee, in the
recent national election, had COM
batted isolationism and other re-
dictionary forces tied up with isola-
lationism" and had made "a very
great contribution to that defeat
He said one of the PAC's major
objectives would be to continue to
emphasize registering and voting
as a civic responsibility, and both
Mr.. Hillman and Mr.. Murray as
serted there had been mo manda-
tory assessment" on CIO members
for support of the committee.
PAC funds totaling 1925 900, froz-
en- by election laws during the CAM
paign, are being thawed out, Mr..
Hillman reported, and will be used
for educational activities.
Mr.. Murray told reporters "PAC
Is not a third party, it is a thor
oughly independent movement
which will seek election of candi-
dates for public Offices who are fair
and disposed to be friendly to the
common people regardless of party"
The National Citizens Political
Action Committee, Mr.. Murray said,
would decide for itself, at a meet
ing November Is in Chicago whether
to continue operations. This group,
active in the election, was set UP
independently of the CIO because
the Smith, Connally Act bars direct
contributions from labor organiza-
tions to campaign funds.
Evening star., 1944-11-18
Polish Troops Capture
Town in Drive Toward
Faenza, in North Italy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Nov. 18.--Monte Fortino,
S miles south of Faenza, has been
captured by Polish troops in the
9th Army drive on that impor-
tant communications center on
the Bologna Rimini road, Allied
headquarters announced today.
Allied troops took the town yes
terday In a l,000-yard advance
against the bitterest German resist
ance and then threw back two heavy
counterattacks.
Other" troops pushed to within 4
miles of Faenza, encountering stiff
Opposition.
British infantry and tanks moving
northwest of the village of Villa
grappa were engaged heavily by the
Germans at a road fork 300 yards
southeast of Fugna. The Germans
IN the area were strongly entrenched
and backed up by tanks and con-
siderable artillery.
Troops on the Adriatic sector were
active in patrol operations. Molin-
accio, less than 2 miles west of Ra-
VIENNA Airport, was cleared by tanks
and artillery.
German planes bombed Forli In
the night, but little military damage
was caused.
Evening star., 1944-11-18
PHI. App|eby Resign,
From BUDGET Bureau

Paul H. Appleby, assistant directo,
OF the Budget Bureau. resigned to-
day, effective December /, it was
disclosed at the White House with
release of an exchange of letters be-
tween Mr.. Appleby and President
Roosevelt.
Mr.. Appleby, who has been in the
Government service since 1888. will
become vice president and general
manager of the Queen City Broad
casting Co, Seattle.
Mr.. Appleby told the President
Il shall continue to feel myself 9
part Of your team"
In accepting the resignation with
very great regret" Mr.. Roosevelt
said: You have long been an i'm.
partant part of the Washington seen.
and have demonstrated your versa.
tility through the efficiency with
which you have discharged tn.
duties of one important post aftel
another-latterly those of assistant
director of the Bureau of the Bud.
get. 1t is good to know that yo,
will continue to feel yourself par
, Of the team"
Mr.. Appleby, former newspaper.
man, came to Washington in 1913:
as executive assistant to the Secre.
tary Of Agriculture, and in 1940 wa.
appointed Undersecretary. He wa.
appointed to the Budget Bureau las
February /. He has also been serv.
ing as the American representative
on the Interim Committee on Fooe
and Agriculture appointed after tn,
Hot Springs Food Conference.
Evening star., 1944-11-18
Philippines
Continued From First Page.)

pulsed several suicidal counterat-
tacks. Terrain in this area is ex-
tremely rugged, but artillery brought
to bear on the hilltop positions aided
the painful advance of the infantry
and cavalry.
Another enemy attack was re-
pulsed by the veteran 7th Division
in the area south of Romeo on the
coastal road This fight surged
around the village of Tabgas, IL
miles below Ormoc. The 7th pre-
viously had repulsed two other
|counterattacks, one an amphibious
landing, in it's advance up the high
way.
Even in the air, the japanese made
more desperation moves. About 30
enemy aircraft risked American
antiaircraft and fighter patrols to
swoop over the Dulag area, on the
east coast. Intercepting American
lighters shot down Is, and antiair-
craft gunners destroyed three others.
American planes attacked small
craft OIL the west coast of Leyte
and bombed shore positions south
OF Ormoc, In the sector from which
the counterattacks against the 7th
have been coming.
| Weather continued to hamper both
aerial and land activities. Heavy
rains begged supply roads and inter-
fered with aircraft.
Evening star., 1944-11-18
|Dr. Endicoh Peabody
Rites Planned Monda,
|Af Groion School
BY the Associated Press.

GROTON, Mass, November l8.--
The Rev. DR.. Endicott Peabody, 81,
founder OF exclusive Groton School
and for more than5half a century its
headmaster, died yesterday.
Teacher OF President Roosevelt and
of the Chief Executives sons, DR..
Peabody performed the marriage
ceremony for the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt.
He collapsed while driving his car
He parked the machine by the road
side and apparently fell into sleep
from which he did not awaken.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day afternoon at Groton School.
School authorities said DR.. Pea
body had been in perfect health
despite his advanced age.
Born in Salem, Mass, May 80
1857, DR.. Peabody Joined with the
late Rev. Sherrard Billings and Viii.
liam Amery Gardner in founding
Groton School In 1884 after his
graduation from the Episcopa
Theological School at Cambridge
Mass.
Denied Roosevelt Was Radical"
Rarely quoted on affairs beyond
the confines of his campus, DR.
Peabody nevertheless once said those
who described President Roosevelt,
as radical were foolish"
when a man goes into public
life" he said, "even his friends, a.
well as every one else, are prone ts
distrust him and seem free to criti.
cize him. Franklin Roosevelt /,
interested in the development of the
American race, as was Theodore
Roosevelt before him, who wa.
criticized as a radical even more
bitterly than Franklin"
A lover of the classics, includins
traditional Latin works, he opposed
extremes in education, though hi
was not unfriendly to some OF ths
progressive" tenets.
Spent Year in Banking Offices.
Graduated from Cheltenham Col.
lege, in England, in 1875, he received
his bachelor and master of laws de-
grees at Trinity College, Cambridge
University. After a year in the
banking Offices Of Lee, Higginson &
Co., Of Boston, he entered the Epis.
ycopal Theological School in Cam.
bridge, Mass, where he received hi.
bachelor Of divinity degree.
The year after the founding Of
Groton, DR.. Peabody married Mis-.
Fannie Peabody, a cousin, who wa,
to share her husbands great Interest
in the school. Their children were
the Right Rev. Malcolm Peabody
Misrepresentation Of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Central New
York, and five daughters. Mrs. r
Minturn Sedgwick, Mrs. w. Barclay
Parsons, jr.; Mrs. F. Trubee Dawson
and the Misses Elizabeth and Mar
gerry Peabody.
The Rev. John Crocker succeeded
DR.. Peabody as headmaster O
Groton on his retirement in 1910
Mr., Croker formerly was canor
Of Trinity Chapel, Trenton, N, J,
Evening star., 1944-11-18
Sabotage Blamed on Thousands
Of Germans Hiding in Puris

Most Of the sabotage" he related,
has been confined to electric cables
and pipelines, One band OF Ger
mans armed only with small arms
attempted . raid recently on the
Hispano works outside Of Paris, but
was driven or"
French secret service agents were
reported to have discovered several
German radio transmitters In
France.
The German radio today declared
the automobile accident November
10 In which French Finance Min
lister Aime Lepercq was fatally in
jured was due to sabotage.
The broadcast said two persons
had been attacked on the streets oi
Paris and two others had been sho'
in Thonon
Berlin reported that Paris res
taurants had been ordered to close
at 8 pm. and people were banned
from the streets at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1944-11-18
Postwar View Roster
Now, Mou|ton Says
By the Associated Press.


ST. LOUIS, Nov. 1S.-A postwar
outlook enormously better than
most observers anticipated three
years ago" was envisioned yesterday
by DR.. Harold Glenn Moulton. pres
tdent of the Brookings Institute.
Addressing conference sponsored
by the st. Louis Chamber of Com
merce, the Washington economist
said: TT now appears that none
OF the dire forbodings that the
coming of new world war would
almost certainly seal the fate of
private enterprise, bring a vast in
fation Of prices and result in i'm
poverishment will be realized, ex-
cept in minor degree"
Instead of sealing the fate of
private enterprise" the speaker said
the war period has brought to the
American people as a whole and
I believe to our Government a new
realization of its vital Importance.
This profound change in Gov
eminent attitude is due Sto two
principal factors, the remarkable
achievement of private enterprise
during the war and growing
recognition that employment and
wages depend upon business ex-
pansion, and that we cannot gel
business expansion under a private
enterprise system unless risk as.
sumption is encouraged by ths
chance for reasonable profits" -
DR.. Moulton said the trend-in
favor of encouraging private en-
terprise is reflected in the contract
termination law, principles formu-
lated to govern the disposal of sur.
plus products and the movement
within and outside Congress to
reduce heavy taxes on business.
Evening star., 1944-11-18
pimIico Officials
Probe Death Of Man
Near Track Grounds
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SPECIAL Dlbphtcn 10 Ine 6tAr.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 18.-Pimlico
race track ofiicials today were In
yestigating the circumstances sur
rounding the death yesterday of a
Baltimore electrician, which oc-
Cured just outside the track grounds
after a track physician allegedly
had refused to come to the scene.
Policemen Charles Gebauer ard
August Nellies of the traffic division
reported that man identified as
James E. Sutton, 56-year-old war
plant electrician. fell to the street
outside the track gates Just before
post time for the first race yes
terday.
Mr.. Nellies said that he reported
to DR.. Lee j. Volenick, track physi-
clan, that man had thrown
fit" just outside the gate, and was
told by the physician to call an
ambulance, that his duties require
that I be here at post time"
Mr.. Nellies also reported that a
track ambulance driver also refused
to take the sick man to the hospital,
although the ambulance was
brought outside the gate and stood
beside the sick man until a city
ambulance responded to the call.
DR. Volenick said today that he
considered the case closed. Track
officials, however, were waiting to
question the ambulance driver,
whom they had been unable to
locate earlier.
Evening star., 1944-11-18
| Taxes Yield
Only Third Of
u. S. Revenue
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
During the last five years the
United States has raised only lit
tie more than one third of Its cash
requirements by taxation and the
remainder by borrowing, the Fed
eral. Reserve Board reported today.
Canada has raised more than half
Of its needs by taxation, and Britain
almost half.
In the year ended last July /,
however, tax revenues increased so
much in the. United. States that
taxation accounted for 10 per cent
of the cash needs. the Federal Re-
serve said. ssss ss'. e
On July I, the United States pub
lie debt was almost four and half
Nnes as large as in 1899. Britain's
debt was less than two and. q half
times the prevail level and Canada s
somewhat more than two and half
times.
The ratio Of national debt to
income in this country was de-
ecribed as about equal to that Of
Canada and far below that Of
Britain.
Evening star., 1944-11-18
JAW Urges Message
For Permanent FEPC
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT. Nov. 18-The United
Automobile Workers (CIO), through
President R. j. Thomas, today
urged President Roosevelt to send
q special message to Congress call
ing for action on pending legisla-
tion to set up a permanent Fair
Employment Practices Commission.
A bill now before Congress pro-
poses establishment, of a commits
sion which would have jurisdiction
over complaints of economic racial
discrimination and would be en-
powered to hold hearings, summon
witnesses, make findings, issue cease
and desist orders and apply to the
courts for compliance If necessary.
Mr.. Thomas said that since both
presidential candidates in the re-
cent campaign advocated creation
of such. a commission, there should
not be too great difficulty in OBJ
tanning legislative approval for such
q STEP"
Evening star., 1944-11-18
Constituents Will Send
|Dirksen Around World
Ito Broaden Outlook
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCIATED Press.
PEKIN, Ill, Nov. l8.-The people
OF Pekin aim to enlarge the back
ground OF Representative Dirksen,
Republican OF Illinois, the former
baker boy they sent to Congress u
years ago without dress suit or
much worldly experience.
For that purpose, they have put
up $4,000.
The money was part OF an original
fund of 5000, raised by voluntary
donation, to finance Mr.. Dirksen's
expected campaign for the Repub-
lican vice presidential nomination
this year.
But Mr.. Dirksen decided not to
run for the ONCE and only $l,1OO Of
the fund was spent. F. M. Nc
Naughton, publisher of the Pekin
Times and an advocate Of interna-
tional cooperation, proposed the
money. and more If needed, be used
to finance a Dirksen trip to "all
parts of the world" to make their
Representative world minded" and
W. AAAoAC 4" 6OOA NOAA81 CocklldA UCt-
ter" The individual donors agreed.
Mr.. McNaughton said Mr.. Dirksen
had accepted the proposal and ex-
pected to leave early next year to
visit China. India, Europe, and
other countries in study of world
conditions.
Mr.. Dirksen, elected to his seventh
term and now conceded to be one of
the leading orators in Congress,
broke into print early In his Wash
ington career when he refused to
buy dress suit for state occasion,
saying, I'll rent one instead because
I'll have no use for one of these
things"
The House member, whose father
died when he was boy, had to put
his nose to the grindstone" to help
support his family when he was
years old. He went broke in the
washing machine business, but was
making good in the bakery business
when he went to Congress.
Evening star., 1944-11-18
Sergeant Is Convicted
OF Striking Prisoners
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LINCOLN, Nebr., Nov. l8.-Staff
Sergt. Odus L. West. "a. a former
Hermitage. Mo, deputy, sheriff, was
found guilty by a court-martial last
night of striking and mistreating
American soldier prisoners under
his command.
The court, after celebrating for
III hours, ordered that West be
dishonorably discharged and SEN
fenced him at hard labor"
Maj. Walter j. Kennedy, presi-
dent of the court-martial. ssaid a
recommendation for clemency would
be sent to the commanding general
of the I'd Air Force at Colorado
Springs, Colo, for review. If ap-
proved, it goes to the military JUS
tice division in Washington for
final consideration.
West denied each charge and de-
clared he never had struck pris-
OnerS
Evening star., 1944-11-18
Texas Senators Study
Charges Against Faculty
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
AUSTIN, Tex, Nov. ia State
Senate investigating committee to-
day studied testimony of a Univer-
sity of Texas regent that. University
President Homer P. Rainey was not
diligent in wedding out "a nest OF
homosexuals in the faculty"
The testimony was given by Regent
Orville Burlington as the committee
held a hearing yesterday to investi-
gate the university's administrative
squabble that resulted in the firing
of Mr.. Rainey and the designations
of three board members.
Asserting that since an investiga-
tion Of homosexuality was begun II
faculty members and Is students
have left the school, Mr.. Burlington
said: MY criticism is against letting
that kind of folks get on the faculty
in the first place"
Evening star., 1944-11-18

ii " W ~ " 3 {
Washington University.
He worked for the United States
Geological Survey for seven years
after graduation from college. In
1899 Mr.. Daniel became local man.
ager Of the American Writing Ma
chine Co., leaving in 1903 to Or
ganize and become vice president
Of the real estate firm OF Willige
Gibbs & Daniel. He joined the
Carry Ice Cream Co. in 1919 ane
was associated with the firm at tht
time of his death.
Mr.. Daniel was at one time vic,
president of the Washington Boaro
of Trade. an organizer of the Dis.
trict National Bank and director
of the Continental Trust Co. Dur.
ing the World War he was ap.
pointed director of community mar.
kets under the Federal Food ad.
ministration for the District.
He was a member of the Chambel
of Commerce. Board of Trade, Mer
chants and Manufacturers Associa
IiOli, IeOIdI y SiuU dllu lIitcl iidIiOild
Association of Ice Cream Manufac
turers. He also was a member o
the Washington Centennial Lodg,
of Masons and of Epiphany Episco
pal Church.
Mr.. Daniel is survived by hi
widow, the former Miss Bernie,
Rowe Of Irvington, Va; son, Col
Ernest H. Daniel. jr., U. S. A., nov
stationed In Washington, and /,
daughter, Mrs. Baldwin F. Cook, O.
Washington He also is survived b,
four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held a
st. Margaret's Episcopal Church
Connecticut avenue and Bancroft
place NV, at 2 pm Monday
Burial will be in Memorial Parl
Cemetery, Falls Church. Va.
Evening star., 1944-11-18
Wage Hearing
CONTINUED From First Page.)

ernment service?" Chairman Pepper
inquired.
MIR. Stengle said it is about $500.
Lewis G. Hines, legislative repre-
sentative of the American Fedora
tion of Labor, indorsed the Pepper
resolution, but advocated more
realistic" removal of controls from
monthly incomes of 5000 or less for
family heads. Mr.. Hines said he
was expressing the views of AFL
President William Green.
Under his suggestion, employers
would be permitted to raise salaries
or wages to the 5000 ($15o for un-
married persons) level without ap-
proval Of the War Labor Board. The
general 40-cents-an-hour wage min
imum of the Wage Hour Act would
be retained.
Resolution Is Indorsed.
Indorsing the resolution on behalf
of the Commercial Telegraphers
Union (AFL), Henry G. Steinbren-
ner, deputy international president
testified:
THE Western Union Telegraph
Co. now virtually a monopoly in
the telegraph field, in spite of ex-
cessive overtime, and with total wage
increases of from 20 to 24a per cent
within the past four years is pay
ing an approximate average of 81
cents per hour ($26.80 per week.
to all employees, exclusive of walk
ing and bicycle messengers.
Exclusive of overtime, many of
these employees received around SO
cents per hour"
William H. Davis, chairman OF
the War Labor Board, which has
been using SO cents an hour as a
standard for voluntary agreements
between employers and employers
during the war, Is expected to &c
before the Senators late this after
noon.
At the start Of today's session
Broadus Mitchell, research director
for the Ladies' Garment Workers
(AFL), asserted that the WLB de-
layed submitting a report to the
President on the cost Of living for q
year. and is now freezing wages by
q policy Of procrastination.
He contended that an increase In
wages does not always mean an
increase in labor cost. but In some
cases results in q decrease IN labor
costs. He said he did not think the
lWLB has grasped that.
Evening star., 1944-11-18
Capt. Godfrey, Chief
| |Sth Air Force Ace,
lis Nazi Prisoner
By the Associated Press.

by the hSsOClhLeu FIeeS.
LONDON, Nov. 18.-Capt. John T.
Godfrey, high-scoring fighter pilot
of the 9th Air Force with 36 planes
to his credit, is a prisoner of war
In Germany.
Capt. Godfrey, who is from Woon-
socket, r. l., has been missing in
action since August "a. He formerly
few as wingman to Capt. Don S.
Gentle, the first 9th Air Force pilot
to destroy 80 enemy planes.
Capt. Godfrey was credited with
destroying 18 enemy planes in the
air and 18 on the ground. Disclosure
that he was a prisoner came on the
same day that the retirement of his
group commander, Col. Don J. M.
Blakeslee, was announced Col.
Blakeslee has 1900 hours of combat
fight to his credit-more than any
other American fighter pilot in the
European theater of operations.
Col. Blakeslee, who is from Fair
port Harbor, Ohio, and began with
the RCAF, is not leaving willingly.
How can they do this to me?" he
asked. I've just bought new log
book"
Col. Blakeslee led the Mustangs
which escorted the first American
daylight bombers to Berlin. He led
the fighters which protected the
first England to Russia shuttle
bombing mission. And his group
was the first to destroy 500 German
planes.
Another leading act of Col
Blakeslee's group who is now pris-
oner of war is Maj. Duane w. Bee
son. Boise. Idaho, who had % ferries
to his credit when he was captured
Once when Gen. Eisenhower was
trying to find room on Col Blakes-
lees chest to add a second Distin-
guished Service Cross to his two
Silver Stars, four Air Medals, one
British and seven American Distin-
guished Flying Crosses, Maj. Gen
William E. Kepner remarked:
You know. general, all he j,
afraid Of is that some SO and so i
going to stop him flying"
Evening star., 1944-11-18
Detective Held in $4,000
Bail in Cooper Staying
By the Associated Press.

bs the hSSOIldLsu fTeSS.
RENO, New, Nov. lS.-Holding
that the testimony did not show
murder in the first degree, Justice
of the Peace Harry Dunseath yes
terday set bail at $4,000 for John
c. Ramsey, hotel detective accused
of killing 1t. Wilfred L. Cooper. %,
OF. Washington, and remanded him
to custody of the sheriff.
Thomas E. Garrity, Reno taxi
driver who witnessed the November
10 shooting, testified at the prelim-
mary hearing that he saw Ramsey
pull gun ard shoot 1t. Cooper
twice.
1t. Cooper turned and fed while
Ramsey fired four more shots at his
back, Mr.. Garrity testified. He said
1t. Cooper fell after running about
rs feet from the scene.
Ramsey had said he shot after 1t.
Cooper and Flight Officer James
Powell, 33, of Cheriton, Iowa, had
attacked him in the street after he
had ordered them from a hotel.
Both men were attached to the
Army'S Reno air base.