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Evening star., 1944-01-17
Crew Of Famous Bomber
Back From China Front
By the Associated Press.


MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Jan. IT,
Five of the nine members of the
original crew of the Doodle Bug"
B-24 bomber, are being processed
through the Army Air Forces re-
distribution station here after max
ing an excellent combat record in
China.
The Doodle Bug" unescorted on
a bombing mission, got into fight
with a swarm, of japanese Zero
planes one day and crewmen shot
down 10-officially credited-and
claimed 18 probables.
In 80 combat missions, the plane
was not hit by an enemy shell.
Crewmen being processed here
are:
Capt. Bernard N. OHara, a.
Michigan City, Ind, pilot; First 1t
Robert G. Murray, "a, Chicago
flight navigator; First 1t. Donald
R. West, %, Chicago, bombardier
Staff Sergt. Charles e. Edwards, 20
Hammond, Ind, tail gunner, anc
Staff Sergt. John A. Stachonicz, jr.
26, Calumet City. ILL.,. gunner anc
radio operator.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Nelson Taking Boss
Role in Reconversion
Ry the Associated Press,

Chairman Donald M. Nelson of
the War Production Board is begin
ming to make it clear that he is
bossing war industry reconversion
to civilian production, and that re-
sumption of normal manufactures
will be slower than anticipated.
Mr.. Nelson's emergence was sig
nailed in a series of directives he
issued last week which blocked all
plans for Immediate widespread re-
sumption of civilian goods output.
Three Nelson orders, taken to-
gether, constitute partial outline
of his eventual reconversion pro-
gram while turning aside pressure
for extensive reconversion now. The
orders also left no doubt that Mr.
Nelson is going ahead to put his pro-
gram in operation even though the
White House has given no overt sign
that the reconversion job is his.
An order continuing the ban on
construction, another declaration
against relaxing steel use restric-
lions Tor nonessential civilian prod
ucts and a third forbidding the
channeling of permitted civilian
manufactures to labor shortage areas
together constituted Mr.. Nelson's
developing pattern.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Six Of Seven Army Flyers
Die in West Virginia Crash
By the Associated Press

ELKINS, w. Va, Jan. 17.-Six of
q crew of seven were killed when
an Army bomber. lost in a blizzard
over the Allegheny Mountains,
crashed near here, State police said
yesterday.
Residents of the nearby lumber
village of Wymer, 20 miles from
here, reported Saturday night they
had heard the noise of a motor
which sounded like that of plane
in trouble and that shortly after
ward they had heard it crash.
Capt G. H. Skeen, Elkins State
police detective, sent a squad OF
men through a binding snowstorm
and they located the ship after a
20-mile trip over high ridges. The
troopers notified headquarters of
the Army maneuverS area at Elkins,
who took over arrangements to re-
move the bodies More than a foot
OF snow covering mountain roads
hampered the task of bringing the
bodies back.
Police reported the plane hit the
side of mountain.
At Tampa, Fla, MacDill Field
announced these casualties:
First 1t. William r. Sablotny, Ho-
bart, Ind; Second 1t. Nolan E. Gut
terry, New Braunfels, Tex; Second
1t. Kenneth A. Johnson, Chicago;
Second 1t. Melvin M. Feiman, Can
ton. Ohio; Sergt. Joseph P. Mat
thew, jr., Los Angeles, and Sergt.
George H. Gossert, Carmel, Ind.
The injured flyer was Staff Sergt.
Harry G. Smith, Reading, Pa.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Turner Explosion
Victims Honored
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan ia memorial
service paying tribute to the officers
and men who lost their lives on the
destroyer Turner which exploded
and sank in Lower New York Bay
January 3 was held yesterday at the
Navy Receiving Station in Brooklyn.
Among the 400 mourners, including
relatives and friends who had come
from as far away as Colorado and
Texas for the half-hour interdenom-
national service, were 60 OF the 1863
surviving crew members, who at
tended in group.
Ensign John j. Clemens, Houston,
Tex, senior surviving officer, speak
ing of his lost shipmates, told the
assemblage the crew had seen a spec
tacle which, in the memories of the
surviving members, will never lose
its significance"
Il know what my shipmates would
have said were they here. Garry
on. live for the future, achieve VIC
tory and build lasting peace. We
shall live everlasting in the cause
for which we served" Ensign Glenn
ems said.
The number of casualties has not
been announced.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Admiralty DiscIoses
Name Of CIarkts Sub
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. Jan. 1.-THE Admiralty
disclosed last night that the Seraph
was the British submarine which
secretly put 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark
and others ashore on the Algerian
coast and then re-embarked them
after rendezvous with pro-Allied
French leaders to pave the way for
the North African landings in No
vember, 1942
The Seraph now is home for re-
fitting after 13 months of Mediter-
ranean operations during which she
sank more than 1000 tons of enemy
shipping, damaged 10000 more, and
carried out many other secret mis-
sions.
Most of her exploits must remain
secret until the wars end, the
Admiralty said. One. however, was
the rescue of Gen. Henri Giraud
from the French coast when he
escaped to meet Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
The submarine is commanded by
1t. N. L. A. Jewell, who recently was
awarded the Legion of Merit by
President Roosevelt for the role he
played in the Sicilian invasion.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
By the Associated Press.


ESCANABA, Mich, Jan. ia
Coast Guard crew last night rescued
three fishermen adrift for "a hours
on an ice foe in Bay de Noe, an arm
OF Lake Michigan. and recovered the
body of their companion
1t. Comdr Frank Radios, skipper
of the Coast Guard craft Sweet Gum,
said the three were ankle deep in
water on an ice foe no more than 20
feet across. The body of the fourth
man was on a smaller Ice cake.
The dead man was John B. Roche
fort. 56. His brother Henry, 40. was
so exhausted that he was carried to
shore on a stretcher when the rescue
craft docked here, but John Roche
forts sons, Delors. 81, and Edward
80. were able to walk down the gang
plank.
7 The four ventured out on the ice
to fish Saturday morning. They
were an estimated three miles from
shore, Comdr. Rados said survivor
told him. when they first noticed the
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Family Is Awaiting
BergdoI|' Release
From Leavenworth
the fighting in Italy.
BY the Associated Press.


Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the
Nations No. l draft dodger of the
World War and scion of q wealthy
Philadelphia family, will be released
from the Army disciplinary barracks
at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., a War
Department spokesman announced
The exact date on which the So
year-old Bergdoll will be given his
freedom was not disclosed in the an
|nouncement made yesterday.
Bergdoll, who went into hiding in
1917 after he failed to report for
his Army physical examination, was
captured at his home in Philadel-
phia two years later and sentenced
to five years in prison by an Army
court-martial.
Fled to Germany.
Shortly after he began serving the
sentence, he persuaded guards to
take him to Maryland, where he
said he had hidden pot Of gold"
En- route he escaped and eventually
made his way to Germany, via Can
ada.
He married the daughter OF .
German city official in 1925 and re-
turned to America and surrendered
in 1899, after his wife's pleas to the
United States Government to grant
him a pardon failed.
The United States District Court
at Philadelphia cleared the way for
his eventual release when 1t nolle
pressed all criminal indictments
pending against him in October
1941. Some of the indictments had
been on file more than 20 years.
Family Living on Farm.
His wife and six children are now
living on farm at Downingtown,
Pa, short distance from Philadel-
phia. When informed of the War
Department announcement, Mrs.
Bergdon said: I'm glad he's on his
way home at last"
She and their six children, Alfred,
IS; Emma, 13; Nina, IL; Erwin, 9:
Vega, 7; and Berta, 5, have been liv-
ing on a 260-acre farm purchased
in 1910.
Mrs. Bergdoll said she expected
her husband to join her at the farm,
but did not know exactly when.
When asked II he would operate
the farm, she replied: '~re77 -
You'll have to ask him when he
gets here. cannot speak for him. :"
Evening star., 1944-01-17
WB Aid Sought 10 Avert
Coast Foundry Tie-up
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Jan. ia strike of
5000 foundry workers in 70 Pacific
Northwest war plants has been
called for am. tomorrow, and the
regional War Labor Board sought
advice from Washington today as to
how a paralyzing tie-up could be
avoided.
The strike vote was announced
last night by Neil Pardo regional
secretary of the AFL International
Molders and Foundry Workers
Union, who said the men were dis
satisfied with the award issued Sat-
urday by the regional WLB.
The scale ranges from SO cents
to 81 20 an hour The WLB awards
raised lower brackets 7 and cents
an hour and other brackets, except
the top one. varying amounts down
to 2h cents. Journeymen and
molders had asked an increase of
8 cents an hour to $1.28.
The Washington and Oregon
foundry workers voted October %
to enforce their wage demands but
set no date. Yesterdays vote set
the date, which is exempt from the
30-day cooling off period Of the
War Labor Act by virtue of the
October action.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Southern Governors,
Legislators 10 Map :
Freight Rate Action

Southern Governors and congress
sional Representatives today mapped
q joint declaration for freight rate
equality with the industrial East in
a move to open up a new economic
era" for the South.
Gov. Prentice Cooper of Tennes-
see, chairman Of the Southern Gov
ernors' Conference which is seeking
rate parity in cases now before the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
said a united stand would be made
at a dinner conference tonight.
Il think it will be unique for an
entire regions elected representa-
tives, Governors and legislators
alike, to declare themselves as one
on an important national ISSUE"
Gov. Cooper declared. I'VE are tired
in the South Of remaining a colony
Costs Lower in South.
Gov. Cooper told an interviewer
ICC studies had disclosed raiftrans-
portation costs in the South are
lower than in the East and he con-
cluded that there seems to be no
reason any more, other than tradi-
ton, why our freight rates on man.
ufactured goods should average 80
per cent higher"
I'VE are determined" Gov.
Cooper added, that our bondage Of
discriminatory freight rates shall
be removed. We have favorable
rates on our commodities, in order
that we may feed them to Northern
factories, but we want a chance to
establish our own factories and in
crease our regional prosperity"
Preliminary Conference Held.
The Governors held a preliminary
conference at the Mayflower Hotel
this morning. The State executives
and their wives will be entertained
at tea at the White House at 80
o'clock this afternoon. The dinner
for the Governors is to be given at
the Statler Hotel tonight and will be
attended by Senators and members
Of the House from the Southern
States interested in the freight rate
fight.
At the White House function,
President Roosevelt may explore
some of the intraparty strife which
recently led Southern Democrats to
talk OF forming third party.
Joining with Gov. Cooper are
Cows. Holland of Florida, Arnall Of
Georgia, Sparks Of Alabama, Adkins
of Arkansas, Broug ton of North
Carolina, Johnston of South Caro-
lima and Kerr of Oklahoma.
Western Group Meets Friday.
The Southerners' parley will be
followed later in the week by a gath
ering Of Western Democrats on Fri
day, eve of the National Committee
session.
James C. Quigley, national COM
mitteeman from Nebraska, arranged
the Friday meeting that will bring
together leaders from 13 States. The
group IS expected to express its dis
pleasure over some administration
appointments affecting those States.
The National Committee will Sc
lect site-probably Chicago-for
the national convention in midsum-
mer and may name a successor to
chairman Frank C. Walker. Rob-
Iert E. Hannegan St. Louis, recently
named commissioner of internal
revenue, has been mentioned most
prominently.
The weeks party. activities will be
climaxed by the annual fund-rais-
ing jackson Day dinner Saturday
night.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Three Adrift on Ice FIoe Saved,
Body of Fourth Recovered

Ice on which they we're standing had
broken loose from shore.
The breaking up of the foe, the
commander said, tossed Edward
Rochefort and the two older mer
into the waters Of the bay, leaving
Delors Rochefort alone on the ice
He rescued his brother, and together
they pulled the other men to the
comparative safety of the foe.
The ice on which Henry Rochefort
sat, unable to keep moving any
longer, separated from the main f1oe
and the others we're forced to leave
him to die, the commander added.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Colombo Truckers Strike

When Colombia decreed that bus
and truck transportation through
out the country be placed under
government control, bus and truck
operators struck and stayed out until
the decree was Cancelled.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Civilians Get Blankets

To keep the home fronth warm,
South Africa has reduced the de-
livery of blankets to the army to
10 per cent of the output of South
African blanket factories, which are
now making nearly 100000 month
for civilian use, thus averting a
shortage
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Congress in Brief

BY the Associated Press.
Senate:
Continues work on new revenue
bill.
Finance Committee considers con.
tract reneeotiation law.
House: , .. ..,.
Routine session.
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Briton Finds His IS
Bill Is Merely Relic
OF q Former War
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. Jan. l7.-An Eng
ishman dropped into the Fleet
street branch Of Barclays Bank
with a battered American IS
bill to see if he could get Eng
lish money for it.
The bank passed the question
on to an Associated Press corre-
spondent, who advised that the
notes value was chiefly his
torical.
1t bore the heading the Con-
federate States of America"
Evening star., 1944-01-17
Raid Sirens Protected

Air-raid sirens in London are
neing f1tted with thermostatic-
controlled electric heaters to keep
them from freezing.
Evening star., 1944-01-17

Aircraft production is being in
creased in Northern Ireland.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-26

Baby Melvin England is i'll at the local hospital this week.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-26

Sgt. Robert A. Johnson, son of MT. and Mrs. Jacob Johnson, is visiting in Kodiak this week on furlough before returning to San Francisco. Sgt Johnson is a member of the Army Engineers and has been stationed on a sea- going dredge. In 4 months ser wee he has been to Panama, Cuba, and both east and west coast ports.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-26

Washington (R) = President Roosevelt has signed bill a. mending the Alaska Coal Act to permit persons, associations or corporations to ho d more than l coal lease but with the same max mum of 256O acres as con- tained in the present law.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-02-26
"And then you take the excess profits tax

Alec Wilson was admitted to the local hospital this week for medical attention.
Evening star., 1944-07-20
|Dumbarion Oaks SET
JAS Site for Big Four
Par|ey on Security

Dumbarton Oaks, 310l r stree,
NV. has been selected as head
quarters for the Anglo-American-
Russian Chinese postwar security
talks to open here early next month
the State Department announced
last night.
The Georgian style, red brick
building. built in 1901 and long q
Georgetown showplace, was made
available for the conversations by
the trustees Of Harvard University
which now uses the building as q
research library.
The old estate. including 16 acres
Of gardens. for many years was the
property Of Robert Woods Bliss, spe-
cial assistant to Secretary of State
Hull and former American AM
bassador to Argentina. In 1910 Mr.
Bliss gave the property to Harvard
The fact that the old Bliss man.
sion. rather than the State Depart
ment itself, will be the locale of
the conversations indicated the del
egates of the four countries will be
accompanied by large staffs of ad-
visers. Mr.. Hull explained at a
press conference Tuesday that sum
cient rooms for the conference were
not available at the department.
Announcement of the personnel OF
the American delegation Is expected
within . day or two. Other delega-
tions. 1t was said at the State De-
partment, viii be announced In the
respective capitals Of the other pow
ere
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Bishop Dun Praises
Dr.. 5uter, Elected as
Dean Of Washington

The Rev. DR.. John wallace Suter
jr., rector Of the Church Of the
Epiphany In New York City, newly
elected dean Of Washington, was
highly praised today by the Right
Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop Of WASH
ington.
DR.. Suter was elected At a spe-
cial meeting Of the Cathedral
Chapter late yesterday. His name
was understood to have been placed
before the chapter month ago by
Bishop Dun. !s
Il am very happy that the Chap
ter of the Washington Cathedral has
reached . thoroughly harmonious
decision regarding the man who We
greatly hope will accept our invi-
tation to become the next dean,
Bishop Dun said. &<5
Notable in Field Of Worship.
II have known DR.. Suter person.
ally for many years. He would bring
to the Cathedral many gifts which
could be Of great service in this i'm
portant position.
Especially notable are his widel,
recognized capacities in the field OF
worship. The prayer book and the
tradition of worship connected with
1t are very generally used as thu
most distinctive contribution Of the
Episcopal church to our common
Christianity. and DR.. Suter is vel
known for his exceptional knowledge
OF the tradition as well as for hi.
skill In adapting 1t to changing
needs. :
"As secretary Of the standing
Liturgical Commission of the Enis-
Evening star., 1944-07-20

nominee therefor. and everybody
hopes his may be the rod the light
ming strikes. Hardly in the his
tory of national conventions has
there been such procession of coy
candidates. The few that were in
the field last week have become a
legion since the President announced
his readiness to stand, not run, for
reelection and refrained from say
ing that it had to be Wallace or
else.
Cherish the Fond Notion.
Just to give you an idea-and
hoping that any one whose name
, is overlooked will not be offended
here are some Of those who cherish
the fond notion that the convention
may look their way:
Barkley Of Kentucky who deserves
special paragraph since his Is
more than a one-man parade.
Then there's Truman of Mis-
souri,, Pepper of Florida, Douglas Of
Washington, Broughton of North
Carolina. Lucas of Illinois, O'Ma-
honey of wyoming, Rayburn of
Texas, Winant of New Hampshire,
Kerr of Oklahoma.
Chandler Of Kentucky. in case
Barkley-Well. just in case
And McNutt. Schricker, Minton
and Sam Jackson, all of Indiana.
What's it mean. this great turn
cut of Barkises? 1t means the gov
ernors, Senators and such all think
this is Democratic year, that the
reelection of Roosevelt is fore
gone conclusion. Maybe they are
mistaken, but they do think that
way. You never saw such an opti-
mistic group rs that gathered In
Chicago this week. Miles of smiles,
from the Stevens to the stadium,
and round and round the Loop. In
an atmosphere like this 1t is only
natural that every remote possibility
should be giving some serious
thought to his own good points and
hoping the delegates may do the
same. a..
1t is the truth to say that 1t
wasn't like this four weeks ago in
this same city-the optimism WASH t
here-nor the outpouring of vice
presidential potentials. The dispo-
sition was rather to run from the
high honor. Warren of California
for example.
Difference in DemeanOr. ~
A difference Is to be noted, too,
In the demeanor of the men and
women who have places on the
speaking program. The Democratic
orators are so f1lled with the in
spring stun they've put on paper
that they drag you OF into corners
Evening star., 1944-07-20

|copal Church, hs b Ia tuach with
those throughout the church who
are interested In the enrichment
and revision Of the prayer book.
Edited Cslleetisn n Prayers.
The Book Of English Collects, ;
OF which he was the editor, Is q
collection Of prayers of the seven
prayer books Of the Anglican COM
munion. Two thousand copies Of
his recent volume Prayers Of the
Spirit, have already been sold.
"DF. Suter has had varied ex-
perience In the f1eld Of church ad-
ministration His personal character
and religious reality would assuredly
win the confidence and loyalty Of
those who would work with him in
the Cathedral staff.
AS result Of recent changes in
Evening star., 1944-07-20
G1F
On the Other Hand
Race of 'Barkises' for Vice Presidency
Seen as Reflecting Democratic Optimism

and make you listen to choice pas
sages. II you asked one Of the Re-
publican orators hack in June what
he was going to say he'd tell you
that you would hear soon enough.
Gayest of them all this week, in
anticipation Of her big moment
tonight, has been Helen Gahzgan.
She doesn't mind telling you
what shes going to say as long
as you don't tell anybody else, and
she doesn't mind II you do tell
what shes not going to say: shes
not going to say word about Glare
Luce.
Z All in all. it. Is nice to be here.
All are SO happy. Maybe it won't
be picnic IN November. Maybe 1t
will be. funeral. In that case the
Democrats can look back on this
as one Of the merriest wakes they
ever held.
Evening star., 1944-07-20

the BYLAW II ths chapter. the dsan
viii b even more largely responsible
for Cathedral administration than
IN the past, and It would b . great
satisfactton to have In that position
. man in whom could have such
complete confidence"
Dr.. Suter. who Is 81, would sue
coed the late Very Rev. ze Barney
Thorne Phillips, who died May 10
l942.
The newly-elected dean was born
Evening star., 1944-07-20
|Vichy Envoy Presents
Credentials in Tokyo
=, H. W.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 20.-The Tokyo
radio announced today that Henri
Cosme, Vichy Ambassador to Japan
had finally presented his credentials
to Emperor Hirohito. approximately
nine months after he was appointed
to the post. The broadcast wa
recorded by United States Govern
ment monitors.
Cosme was appointed to succeed
Charles Arsene Henry, who died in
Japan last year.