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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
More Levees Topped
In Mississippi Flood
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Mississippi River continued
It's destructive course today. swirline
over levee after levee and threat
enlng others as a small army of
men and high school students fought
desperately to keep the raging
stream within banks.
Flood waters from the Mississippi
and three receding tributaries-the
Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas
Rivers-have left more than 1.686-
400 acres inundated in 113 counties
OF Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and
Oklahoma, the Red Cross reported.
The Mississippi, gorged by the
overlooking Illinois and Missouri
Rivers, was being battled by well
over 10000 Federal and State troop-
ers, coast guardsmen, prisoners of
war, volunteer workers and high
school students.
The United States District Engi-
neer's office at st. Louis listed the
latest critical areas as Harrisonyille
and Ivy Landing, Ill, below ST.
Louis. Additional troops were dis
patched to those points early today
as well as to Beardstown on the
Illinois.
The Mississippi is expected to crest
at st. Louis late tomorrow, leading
the district engineers Office to pre-
oict more breaks and overlapping
OF leVees early next week down to
Cape Girardeau, Mo.
A crest of 38.9 feet was predicted
Tor st. Louis. This is a fraction
under the 1894 mark of last wear,
highest since 1874.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
South Carolina Negroes
Seek Convention Seats
BY the Associated Press.

N@|SSN'NISN
COLUMBIA, S. c.. April %
John H. McCray, chairman of the
Progressive Democratic (Negro)
party, said yesterday the group
would seek representation in South
Cardinals 18-member delegation to
the Democratic National Conven-
ton.
He said the party, whose organi-
cation recently was announced
would seek representation on a
proportionate basis to the States
Negro population, approximately AZ
per cent.
MIR. McCray, publisher of a weekly
Negro newspaper here, the Light
house and Informer, said Negro
delegates would be instructed tc
support President Roosevelt for a
fourth term or any one Endorsed
by Mr.. Roosevelt.
II the request to the South Caro-
lima Democratic party for Negro
representation among national con.
'ventlon delegates is refused, he said
the Progressive party then will ask
that it be given all the States seats
at the national meeting.
Refusal by the national party
to accept Negro votes would hurt
the Democratic cause in key North.
ern States" Mr.. McCray said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Avery's Federal Court Battles
Covered 7oxes, Rates, Prices

Court refused to review Circuit
Court of Appeals decision permit
ting the inspection.
A National Labor Relations Board
order directing the firm to bargain
with the company's Portland.
(Oreg) employees was upheld in 1943
by the Circuit Court.
In October, 1943, Montgomery
Ward sued in Federal Court in the
District of Columbia to prevent the
enforcement of a WLB order di-
recting the firm to grant mainte-
nance of membership to CLIO unions
in retail stores in Denver, Detroit
and New York.
A 1941 NLRB order directed the
company to reinstate with back pay
five employees in their Kansas City
branch who had been involved in
strikes there in 1887 and 1888.
Named in Trust Case.
Mr.. Avery was named a defend
ant in antitrust proceedings filed
by the Government against six
gypsum companies and eight indi-
viduals in 1910, and against the
Pullman Co. in 1913.
The United States Gypsum Co.,
OF which Mr.. Avery is board chair
man, was denied a request for an
injunction to restrain the Inter-
state Commerce Commission from
inquiring into its trucking rates
The company claimed that dis
closure of rates would benefit COM
petitors, but the court ruled the
ICC had right to the information
for rate-making purposes.
Twice, in 1912 and 1943, a Federal
court issued an injunction enjoining
the company from violating OPA
ceiling prices. In 1912 the firm, in
a Federal Court case, charged the
OPA with 'inexcusable" discrimina-
ton in refusing to act upon the
|companys requests for price ad-
Justment of what it said were under
priced items listed in the mail order
company's catalog.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Smythe Seeks Testimony
OF Byrnes in Sedition Case

Edward James Smythe, one of the
80 defendants in the sedition case,
filed motion in District Court to-
day asking that War Mobilization
Director James F. Byrnes be sum-
moned as witness for him at Gov
eminent expense.
The motion, filed by Smythe'S at
torney, James J. Laughlin, says the
defendant will show by the testi-
mony of Mr. Byrnes that Mr.. Byrnes
visited Germany in the year 1886
and made certain statements COM
plimentary to the Hitler regime and
while in Nurnberg gave the Nazi
salute"
The motion added that ut is es-
sential" that Smythe have the tes-
timony of Mr.. ByFnes to further
support his defense that there is a
lack of good faith on the part of
the Government in bringing this
prosecution"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Ward Inquiry
Continued From First Page.)

over every corner drugstore in the
country"
If the ruling stands, he said, then
If we don't tend our Victory gardens
in manner that pleases the Presi-
dent, the Government could come
in and seize our very back yards"
Majority Leader Barley called
the statement 80 ridiculous that it
falls of its own weight, or lack of
weight"
Senator Byrd said the seizure has
"ominous implications which should
receive a very quickened public
interest" and asked:
Are we coming to a Gestapo in
this country?"
He said the Governments action
against Montgomery Ward has no
legal backing. To-day" he con-
tinued, the American people are
in the hands of centralized and
entrenched bureaucracy such as
America has never before known"
Mcclellan Joins Protest.
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat, of
Arkansas told the Senate, "the peo-
pie have right to know-and they
want to know now-what extreme
rights and powers the Congress has
delegated or what authority is being
abused or usurped in this extraor-
binary conduct of Government.
He entered into the Record a
telegram Of protest signed by more
than three-score Little Rock (Ark)
businessmen.
The subject was aired momentar-
lily on the House floor yesterday
when Representative Hoffman, Re-
publican, Of Michigan told the
chamber that Montgomery Ward "is
fighting your battle and my battle,
the battle to insist on the right to
go on under the Constitution.
Representative Ramspeck, Demo-
GRAFT, of Georgia replied that the
War Labor Board may have made
a mistake" but the company had
recourse to the courts and should not
be permitted Ito defy the Govern
ment"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Five Workers Injured
In Collision of Trucks

Five colored laborers EMPLOYED bv
the Alexandria city government
were injured slightly yesterday
when a trash collection truck COL
ilded with a Marine Corps truck
and overturned on Route l, near the
Potomac Yards.
Police said the driver of the ma.
rlne truck, Corpl. Ernest T. O'Hearn.
70, stationed at the Quantico ma
rlne base, was charged with reck-
less driving and turned over to Ma
rlne Corps authorities. Corpl. Row
A. Richardson, 20. of Quantico, a
guard, was with him.
The injured men were listed "a
Fred Lewis, 26, of 1872 North Fair
fax street; Horace Tilgham, Is, OF
623 North Henry street; Willis
Murphy, Is, of 300 North st. Asaph
street; William D. Crockett, "a of
80 Montgomery street, and Jesse
Dodson, So, of 401 North Fairfax
street. All suffered bruises and
shock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
ODT Order Wastes Milk
Cooperative Charges

Ey the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, April 29.-The Georgia
Milk Producers Confederation, Inc,
has poured out 1000 gallons of milk
each Monday for the last three
weeks, Manager James D. Gay says,
because Of Government regulation
limiting deliveries to six days weekly.
Restrictions on milk deliveries
were ordered by the Office of De-
Tense Transportation last Septem-
Der to conserve gasoline, tires and
equipment. AS a result, Mr.. GAY
said yesterday, his firm has had to
pour its milk receipts for the last
three Sundays-3,0oo gallons-down
the drain.
Mr.. Gay asserted the firm, a CO.
operative agency handling milk for
$50 farmers in 10 counties, lacked
both the storage space and equip
ment to deliver two days receipts in
one day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Australia Delays Cooper's
Speech on Press Freedom
BY the Associated Press.


SYDNEY, April 29.-The National
BroadcaStlng station Cancelled
scheduled broadcast yesterday of a
transcribed address on freedom of
the press by Kent Cooper, executive
director and general manager of the
Associated Press, because of the gov
ernment's legal proceedings against
sydney newspapers on charges of
cesorship violations.
In view of current legal proceed
lngs in Sydney involving the cues
ton of censorship and the press, it
was decided to defer this talk until
a future date" an announcer said
Mr.. Cooper's address, sponsored bv
the Office of War Information, was
transcribed in New York February
ri by the Owl for broadcast in
Australia. The censorship contro-
verSy developed in Sydney in mid
April.
(Mr. Cooper's speech urged inter-
national freedom of the press and
communications as a means of
avoiding future wars through truth
full neWS)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
British Expert Sees
Postwar Plane GIut

VANCOUVER, British Columbia
April 20 Canadian Press The
British aircraft industry today could
turn out enough planes in three
days to last all the worlds com
mercial airlines for five years, Sir
Richard Fairey, director general OF
the British Air Commission at Wash
ington, declared today.
Sir Richard, also head of the
Fairey Aircraft Corp, told a Board
of Trade meeting that the British
aircraft industry last month reached
an all-time high in aircraft pro-
duction.
But after the war" he declared
1T will be trying to sell airplanes to
world knee-deep in planes
Because the British aircraft in
dustry has operated on basis OF
free enterprise and keen competi-
ton, encouraged by government pol
icy, 1t has caught up with Germany
seven-year start in two years time
he said.
The future of the British industry
ne added, depended on continuance
of the free enterprise and keen
competition system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Judge Gives Special
Citizenship Oath
To Mother of Hero
the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j., April %
by the time Mrs. Mary Zullo of
Newark arrived at the Federal
courtroom, Judge Thomas F.
Meaney had finished swearing
a score of new citizens.
YOU'RE too late" a clerk
told Mrs. zullo yesterday. She
handed him telegram.
Judge Meaney read the tele-
gram, then administered the
oath to Mrs. zullo in his
chambers.
The telegram, received by the
1talian-born woman as she was
dressing to go to the court for
the ceremony, was from the
War Department and informed
her of the death in action of
her son, 26-year-old Sergt.
Daniel zullo, an engineer on a
Flying Fortress based in Eng
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
American U. Invites
Churchmen to Campus

Ministers of all the Protestant
churches and rabbis of all the Jew
lsh synagogues in Washington and
vicinity will be entertained at 6 pm.
Tuesday on the campus OF Amer
lean University to celebrate the be-
ginning of commencement month 4"
Guides will conduct tours around
the campus and college officers will
describe the work of the university.
DR.. Paul F. Douglass, president,
will be host.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Appointments Lean
Toward Allied Cause,
Former Envoy Says

Expressing the opinion that the
average Argentine citizen was pro-
Allied in his thinking, Alexander
Weddell. former United States AM
bassador to Argentina, yesterday
said it was an "ironic fact that in a
nation which has two of the worlds
10 great newspapers there is so little
freedom of the press"
Addressing the fifth Inter -Ameri-
can Conference for High Schools,
under auspices of George Washing
ton University, Mr.. Weddell said he
referred to the newspapers La
Prensa and La Nacion. The gov
eminent there recently suspended
publication of the former for FIVE
days.
The speaker recalled that when he
was in Argentina the editors of the
two papers seemed to make a de-
liberate effort to preserve an i'm
partial outlook.
-Four reasons were given by Mr..
Weddell as to why he thought
Argentina had not joined the United
Nations in their war against the
Axis: Uncertainty of an Allied vic
tory early in the war; officers of the
Argentine Army were trained In
Germany by German officers:
Argentine fear of Communism
through association with Russia.
and general prosperity of the coun-
try forestalled changing existing
conditions.
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle of
George Washington University. who
Is on leave as director of the Inter
American Training Center, criticized
the popular conception of Latin
America, and stressed the impor-
lance OF real and serious study Of
Latin American languages and civil
ization.
People in this country. he de-
clared, must hurdle the barriers of
languages, past prejudices, and
different psychology, in order to ap-
preciate and learn from our neigh
bors to the South" The legend OF
cruel Spain" found in Textbooks
here needs REORGANIZATION in thu
light Of historical truth, he declared.
Other speakers at the conference
included Miss Virginia Prewitt.
author and columnist, and Philip l..
Green, foreign expert of the Aeri-
culture Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, April 29.-Sewell l.
Avery, board chairman of Montgom-
cry Ward g. Co., who is the center
of attention in fight the big mail
order house is waging against the
Government seizure of its proper
ties, is not newcomer to litigation
with Federal agencies.
The 69-year-old industrialist
newly reelected to the board chair
manship, in recent years has been
in conflict with Federal agencies in
cases involving antitrust and income
tax laws, rate making, price ceilings
and labor policies.
Among Mr.. Avery's earliest jousts
with the Government was an appeal
for abatement of $39,110 in income
taxes, representing alleged deficien-
cies for 1880, 1881 and 1882 taxes.
He carried the case to the Supreme
Court ana lost.
His first major battle with the
War Labor Board occurred in 1912,
when Montgomery Ward refused to
abide by a WLB order to accept a
new contract with the CLIO United
Retail, Wholesale and Department
Store Employees of America.
The company finally accepted the
new contract on executive order of
President Roosevelt. 1t was unsuc-
cessful in an attempt to insert a
clause that the contract was &C
cepted under duress.
Thus began the conflict which re-
suited in seizure of the Chicago
plant by the Government. =
Sued in Wage Probe.
Montgomery Ward fired the first
shot in their labor battles when in
1899 it refused to allow the Wage
and Hour Administration to inspect
payroll records in its Kansas City
offices. 1t commended the action
would be IAN unconstitutional in
fringement of State rights and
Sn4n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29

deep penetrations by the enemy
give us opportunities also and we
took very successful advantage of
this type of enemy maneuver in
Arakan when japanese forces were
destroyed.
Japs Pinned Down.
allied operations are taking the
form initially of locating and pin
ming down the japanese and of
preventing them from gaining full
use of the roads, thereby making it
difficult for them to bring up heavy
war equipment and motor trans
port.
Later we intend to attack and
destroy the enemy.
Owing to the nature of the ter
rain and the difficulty of definitely
locating japanese forces in such
close country it is unlikely the bat
tie will be brought to successful
conclusion in several weeks. There
already are indications, however,
that the Japanese are finding it
difficult to live off the country.
"It may occur that parties of
japanese may reach lines of COM
munication, but that possibility has
been foreseen.
Meanwhile, Allied forces have
cut japanese communications in the
heart of Burma. Operations of the
forces launched by the late Maj.
Gen. (Orde) Wingate and now I'M
der command of Maj Gen. CIV. D.
Al Lentaigne are still continuing
Flying is a necessary preliminary
phase. One effect of these opera
tons will be to greatly assist our
forces advancing south from Ledo.
Japs Declared Strong.
ut is difficult yet to predict how
the Japanese offensive will react on
future operations in Burma. If as
We confidently expect our counter
offensive leads to liquidation of the
japanese divisions at present in &C
ton our prospects vis-a-vis Burma
will be enhanced. Major operations
are restricted once the monsoon
starts, but the important object of
advancing the Ledo road will be
pursued relentlessly.
"Since the formation of the
Southeast Asia Command, Japanese
strength in this theater has been
increased considerably. The enemy
has strong land forces in Burma
stronger than the general public
probably thinks-and since they
have the advantage of interior lines
of communication we must always
expect some offensive action on
their part on one or the other sec
tors of the front. Hard fighting
lies before us in Burma. The true
picture has not been hidden and
there is every reason to believe that
the outcome of the present Allied
operations will be successful"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Morse Enjoys Brother
Reported Freed by Nazis
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK. April 29.-Prof.
Georg Morgenstierne, brother of
Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne,
Norwegian Ambassador to the
United States, has been released
from AkerShus prison in Norway,
according to an article in the Stock
holm newspaper Svenska Dagbladet
reported last night to the Office of
War Information.
The article, an Oslo dispatch of
the German-operated Scandinavian
Telegraph Bureau, said Prof. Nor
genstierne had been under deten-
ton for the last five weeks for an
unknown reason"
Prof. Morgenstierne, 50, had been
professor of Oriental languages at
the University of Oslo since 1887.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Capitol Police Board Expected to Act Soon
On BIockjocking of PHOTOGRAPHER by Guard
Superiors Order
l0-Doy Suspension
After Heurinq

The Capitol Police Board is ex-
pected to act early next week on
the case of a Capitol policeman
who hit C. Edwin Alley, 30, Harris
& Ewing news photographer, with a
blackjack in the rotunda of the
old House Office Building yesterday.
The policeman, Pvt. j. H. Shelton,
so, was given Today suspension yes
terday after preliminary hearing
before Capt. Roy w. Brown and 1t.
DIN Cavness of the Capitol police.
During the hearing Pvt. Shelton
was quoted as saying he felt justi-
fed in using his gun after the news
photographer called him a name
and struck at him.
The policeman admitted, how
ever, according to 1t. Cavness, that
Mr.. Alley had not struck him. The
news photographer told the police
officials Pvt. Shelton reached for
his gun, momentarily hesitated,
pulled his blackjack and hit him
several times, knocking him to the
ground three times.
The alteration, witnessed by an
other photographer, Miss Madeleine
Osborne, occurred after Pvt. Shell
ton refused to allow the two pho
tographers to make pictures until
he had consulted with his superiors,
1t. Cavness reported.
Part of the blackjacking, accord
ing to the police report to Kenneth
Romney, House sergeant at arms,
was witnessed by a police sergeant
who arrived just as Mr.. Alley and
Shelton were scuff1ing over two film
plates-pictures made by Miss Os-
borne, showing Pvt. Shelton stand
ing over the fallen photographer.
According to Capitol police, Pvt.
Shelton has been on the Capitol
force since December, 1912. Previ-
ously he was on the Treasury De-
S,1.f,, ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Gun in Hands of Boy, 6,
Kills Girl Accidentally
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RANDOLPH, N. Y, April %
Jean Grace Towers, Is, was shot and
killed accidentally last night by a
6-year-old boy as she was pressing
a dress to wear to her high school
Junior class dance.
Cattaraugus County Sheriff M. l.
Sigel said a rifle in the hands of
James Smith, who was visiting at
the Towers home, accidentally dis
charged when the boy, preparing to
join some older boys who were
going hunting, picked it up on the
back porch of the Towers home
The bullet pierced a glass door and
struck the girl in the forehead
Sheriff Sigel said no charge would
be placed against the boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29

Maj. Gualberto Villaroel as act
ing President. has not been rec
ognized by the United States and
most other American republics.
GA general strike April 10
closed Bolivia's tin mines, impor-
tant to the United Nations. Maj.
Villaroel requested the miners to
return to work, but the exact
status of the mines at present is
unknown.
(The government, apparently
in an effort to regularize its po-
sition internationally, has pro-
vided for regular elections next
July 2. Several cabinet members
have stepped out, leaving Maj.
Villaroel as acting President until
a President can be regularly
elected and inaugurated)
1t declared that the incident
would not affect the plans for thu
July elections and that politica
parties could continue campaigning
but political assemblies must hav,
prior consent of the Minister O.
Government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Two Polish Flyers Flee
Reich in Stolen Plane
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, April 29.-Two 3d.
year-old Poles with prewar pilot
training escaped from Germany in
IA Nazi training plane and landed
in Sweden yesterday.
The youths said they dressed in
stolen German uniforms and pre-
sented themselves at the Breslau
flying school, claiming they had
orders to make test flight. The
Germans, they said, fueled the plane
for them and three and half hours
later they landed in Sweden
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Bolivia Reveals Plot,
Sets Up Stage Of Siege
With Elections Near
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 90
The Bolivian government an
nounced last night that a vast
revolutionary plot against the
established regime" had been
put down and that a state of
siege had been proclaimed
throughout the country.
Elements involved in the apor-
tive revolution have been detained
a government communique said
"Details are in the hands of the
police and will be made public at
an opportune time"
Bolivia has been in an I'M
easy situation since a revolution
airy junta overthrow the govern
ment and took control last De-
cember. The new regime, with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
Bon Homme Richard
To Be Launched Today

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 29.-The new
$50 100000 aircraft carrier Bon
Homme Richard, $50 feet long and
designed to carry half a million
pounds of warplanes, will be
launched at Brooklyn Navy Yard
today.
Mrs. John S. Mccain of Wash
mgton, wife Of Vice Admiral Nc
Cain, deputy chief of naval air
operations. was chosen to sponsor
che 27,l00-ton floating airport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-29
British Decorate Clark
For Successes in ItoIv
BY the Associated Press

Ely the Associated Press.
WITH THE 5th ARMY IN
ITALY, April 29-Lt. Gen. Mark
w. Clark was decorated today as an
honorary knight commander of the
Order of the British Empire.
Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, Allied
commander in Italy, spoke OF the
5th Army leaders "resourceful PLAN
ming and initiative in the Salerno
landings and driving the enemy
from Salerno to Casino" Four
other generals were similarly hon.
ored. but censorship barred use of
THAR names.