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Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-27

10U see a pretty good view Of the world from a small.
town newspaper office. Sometimes you see things that
other folks overlook. For instance, this frank statement
BY the editor of The Dierks (Arkansas) Banner:
Evening star., 1944-09-10
4 Us. correspondent, Just
returned, tells a dramatic
story of the fight against
Nazis in our own back yard

DUsY. busting cosmopolitan Buenos Aires
Id woke one morning not long ago with
mystery on its hands On their way to work
residents of Latin Americas biggest CITY
found a strange number written everywhere.
1t was on the plastered walls of the Casa
Rosada. Argentina pink White House
a big. spraWlng 33 1t was chaked on the
tiled pavements of swank Gale Florida,
South Americas Fifth Avenue }5, IS. 1t
had even been tar brushed on the yates
of the president's residence b, IS. IS.
In the cafes where almost everybody stops
for coal black coffee before work in the
shops the factories the Offices - everywhere
people were talking about the '35" mystery
Their voices were excited huShcd - for its
dangerous to talk much III Argentina these
days Argentina Is IN the hands Ut a clique
OF bullying, strong -armlng Hitler admrlng
colonies who are trying to make over their
country along Nazl lines But they couldn't
stop this talk i. . "Ihlrty-flve thrty-iive
what could 1t mean"
Evening star., 1944-09-10
They Got the Point

| HEN a cattle-buyer, dlallng a friend on the
telephone happened onto the answer He had
spun the disc to 80 the number OF the ex
change he wanted Suddenly he dropped the
phone and shouted, "L,bfrtdd liberty
that S what thrty-hve means: liberty from
the dictatOrs who are making US slaves -
Buenos Aires and the rest of Argentina
- got the point at once. For in Argentina
phone exchanges are known by their numbers
as well as their names and 80 is the dial
number of the Libertad telephone exchange
in Buenos AIRES. That number, Chalked on
walls on street corners and even within the
guarded portals of the military headquarters
itself, dramatIzed vital point - that liberty
exists in Argentina today only on the tele-
phone dial - that it's something that must
be fought for, II democracy is to be restored
and the spread of dictatorship checked.
Saw It Happen
| HE '35' stunt was conceived and carried
out by the Argentine underground - denloc-
racy's sixth column The underground knows
that 80 per cent of the Argentine people are
essentially pro democratic But Argentlnalsln
the hands of an army of occupation today and
resistance against such an army is not easy.
Especially is this true in country where the
people are better fed. better housed and better
clothed than elsewhere in Latin America -
for lethargy is easy with full stomach.
Fascism marched in under a demo-
cratic guisc. | saw it happen.
1t was mild June morning in l943. The
German-trained officers of ArgentinaS goose
stepping. German uniformed army had been
worked on long time by Berlin and Madrid
Once they determined that destiny hao
tapped them, they marched down to the
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Sedition
Continued From First Page.)

Justice Eicher and tried to talk to
him and also called Justice Bailey
did I not tell you to see Mr..
Justice Bailey asked.
Eyes, you did"
Mrs. Deininger explained she had
gone to Mr.. Laughlin's Office to ap-
peal to him to take the case of
poor farm boy, who, she felt, had
been wrongfully adjudged insane
and sent to st. Elizabeths Hospital.
She had completed her jury service
when she made the call, she said.
How did you know the farm boy
was not insane?" Special Prosecu-
tor Joseph W. BURNS demanded. -
Just as I know that you are mot
insane or 7 am not" the witness
retorted.
Smythe Final Witness Of Day.
The final witness yesterday, whose
testimony presumably will be con-
tinued tomorrow. was Edward James
Smythe, the other defendant Mr..
Laughlin represents in the sedition
case.
Smythe, described by the Justice
Department as New York propa-
ganda publisher and lecturer, said
he, like Noble, had wanted to oust
Justice Eicher from the sedition trial
and get another Judge.
Il told you the first time I talked
to you about taking my case"
Smythe recalled, that one of the
first things I wanted done was to
remove Judge Eicher."
What reasons did you give?" Mr.
Laughlin asked.
Political reasons" said Smythe
He was New Dealer, and I didn't
want any part of him."
Pressed to say what he had heard
about Justice Eicher, Smythe said:
"It had come to my attention that
he had been placed in command of
this case to get conviction. Why,
it was common political gossip I
Evening star., 1944-05-07

geles Just after Pearl Harbor," Noble
said. 'and then released by order Of
Attorney General Biddle. who said I
had committed no crime"
Noble said th$t later. after mag
azine article by Mr.. Biddle contain
ing the same information had Ap-
peared, he was rearrested by the
FBI. Apparently the defendant
added. 'Mr Biddle had changed his
mind"
Noble also testified that Mr..
Laughlin was reluctant to bring the
aff1davit of prejudice against Justice
Eicher which the attorney eventu-
ally drew up and Noble signed.
Opportunity to Justify Changes.
Justice Bailey, holding that Mr..
Laughlin's motives and good faith
were issues in the contempt pro-
ceeding, Is allowing the accused
lawyer to attmept to justify the
charges he made against Justice
Eicher and the avalanche of mo-
tions for witnesses, including Henry
Ford and Charles A. Lindbergh,
which he filed while the sedition
trial was in session.
The Government prosecutors, who
petitioned for the contempt citation
which Justice Eicher issued, accused
Mr.. Laughlin of making ''candal-
Gus" and "scurrilous" charges
against the presiding judge. re-
fecting on his honor and integrity
The numerous Laughlin motions
Evening star., 1944-05-07
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Evening star., 1944-05-07
Power RATE Fight
Reopens Wednesday

The controversial Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co. rate case, which was
taken under advisement last Octo-
Der by Justice Jennings Bailey of
District Court is scheduled to come
up for further arguments Wednes-
day.
A request to be heard was made
by Harry r. Booth, attorney repre-
senting OPA in the controversy.
Three Government suits were filed
in District Court seeking a greater
reduction in the Pepco rates than
the $4,000 ordered for the rate year
by the Public Utilities Commission.
Subsequently Pepco filed another
suit against the PUG, claiming there
should have been no reduction.
All of the suits were filed last
July. First to file were the OPA
and the director of Economic
Sterilization, a joint suit and the
Treasury Procurement Division.
The Commissioner of Public
Buildings, Federal Works Agency,
also filed a suit, in the form of a
petition of appeal from the PUG
order The commissioner, however,
filed a notice Friday in District
Court that he was withdrawing it's
appeal.
All four of the cases were con-
solidated for the trial in October.
The rates were fixed under the So
called sliding scale arrangement.
The Supreme Court in Wash
ington Gas Light Co. case recently
upheld the right of the PUG to fix
utility rates without outside inter-
ference.
Evening star., 1944-05-07

heard Walter Winchell say over the
radio something to the effect that
they'd had soft Judge on this case,
but they were getting one who would
be plenty tough"
Says Attorney Was Reluctant.
Smythe said his attorney had been
reluctant to file the affidavit or
prejudice against Justice Eicher.
You came down to talk to me
in the bull pen of this building" the
defendant recalled, land asked me
if wanted you to continue to rep
resent me. told you yes with one
proviso, that you'd do what you
could to get Eicher out OF the case.
You said we'd talk about that later" :"
Previously Noble went into long
detail about his repeated demands
for a motion to disqualify the pre-
siding judge. This witness said he
had told Mr.. Laughlin he had heard
the talk about Justice Eichers ap-
pointment from at least two in
mates in District Jail and one in the
Lewisburg (Pa) Federal Peniten-
tiary. Noble did not name them in
his testimony, nor, he told Justice
Bailey, had he identified them to
Mr.. Laughlin, except in one instance.
Noble mentioned Orman w. Ew-
ing, former Democratic national
committeeman from Utah, convict
ed of criminal assault, as having
mentioned the Eicher judicial ap-
pointment, though not in connec-
ton with the sedition case. Noble
said Ewing told him Justice Eicher
had preferred a post in Iowa, but
had, been persuaded by the Presi-
dent to 60 ON the District Court
bench.
Noble Tells Of Reports.
Noble explained that he began
to believe the reports he had heard
IN prison about Justice Eicher
after the jurist had shut him of
summarily during preliminaries of
the sedition case and refused to
hear his plea that he had been
hampered by District Jail authori-
ties in efforts to obtain counsel.
The defendant and his fellow
organizer in the Friends of Progress,
Ellis O. Jones, also defendant in
the present sedition case, had been
convicted in Los Angeles of violat-
Ing the Federal sedition statute and
were serving time at Lewisburg
when they were brought here for
the trial before Justice Eicher.
I was first arrested in Los An
Evening star., 1944-05-07

reported that war job placements
in this region were % per cent
greater during the first three
months of 1914 than during the
same period of 1943. Regional
VINO Director Henry E. Treide, re-
porting job placements were aver
aging $1,000 month, said they still
would have to be boosted to 10000
q month for the rest of the year
to man war activities in this region.
Increased placements in the face
of dwindling labor supply and with
drawals to the armed forces were
attributed by Mr.. Treide to employ
ment Office operations which allowed
larger number Of recruiters to leave
the offices and go outdoors to con-
tact people in their homes, on the
streets or wherever they happen to
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Reserve Board Index
OF Industry Defended

Frank r. Garfield of the Federal
Reserve Board yesterday defended
the boards index on industrial pro-
duction before a joint regional con-
ference of the American Statistical
Association and the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics at George
Washington University.
Earlier, Geoffrey H. Moore of the
National Bureau of Economic Re-
search, had asserted a study of out
put Of industrial material in the
twoswar periods revealed striking
parallels as to amount and timing
Of expansion.
Mr.. Moore said II adequate data
on total industrial production were
available for the World War, q COM
parison would show very much more
increase in this war.
The rise In total industrial pro-
duction has been approximately 120
per cent since 1899, as opposed to
the IS to 40 per cent increase shown
by Mr.. Moore's index. Mr.. Garfield
said. The increase since the base
period, 1885 to 1899, has been 140
per cent, he added.
The number of man hours worked
In industry has doubled, with the
largest increase in the metal fabri-
eating industry, Mr.. Garfield said
Another contributing factor In in
creased industrial production, he
said, Is the increase In plant utili-
zation and the large amount of new
equipment installed during the war
period.
Scheduled to speak at today's ses-
sion of the conference are Emmett
H, WEIGH. War Manpower Commits
sion; Miss Faith Williams, chief OF
the cost of living division of thu
Bureau Of Labor Statistics, and Lin.
coin Farley of the CIO United Aute
| Workers.
Evening star., 1944-05-07

for witnesses. weeks or parhaps
months in advance Of the defef1se
case, were filed. according to the
Government, only to harass the
court and obstruct justice and not,
in good faith. All these charges
Mr.. Laughlin denied.
When the main trial is resumed,
1t must begin once more at the
starting point, the work of selecting
a jury opening with fresh venire.
The task of choosing jury had
been at least half completed late
In April, but the close OF the court
term nullified this effort and sent
all the prospective jurors home,
their service ended.
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Allies Step Up Drive
Ito Clear Kohima Area
Before Rains Start
By the Associated Press.


SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-
TIERS. Handy, Ceylon, May g.
Pressing a general offensive in the
Kohima area. British and Indian
troops have knocked the Japanese
invaders of Northeast India out of
number of important positions
and are continuing their advance,
Allied headquarters announced to-
day. The japanese are suffering
heavy casualties.
1t was apparent that Allied forces
were going all-out in the Kohima
area in an attempt to secure that
important bulwark guarding the
Bengal-Assam railway, IS miles
away, before the monsoon rains. due
In 10 days, crimp military opera
tions.
Importance Of Battle Stressed.
One front dispatch placing great
importance on the battle for Ko-
hima, 60 miles north of Imphal, said
1t might be the biggest on the
Burma-India front and might de-
eide the success or failure of the
Japanese offensive in Assam.
Allied forces on the offensive
north of the Imphal plain killed a
number of Japanese east of Kangla-
tongbi, while south of the plain and
in the Bishenpur area the pursuit
of enemy inf1ltrators went on.
Stillwell's Men Advance.
The Chinese troops under 1t
Gen, Joseph w. Stilwell kept up
their advance down the Mogaung
Valley south of captured Inkangah-
tawng and overran Japanese de-
fenses near the Lahkraw River.
On the Arakan front, Allied
troops, attacking after strong bonn
bardment, captured new hill posi-
tions and inflicted serious losses"
on the enemy, the communique said.
Seeking to counter the incessant
Allied air activity, the Japanese
made an unsuccessful air attack on
an Allied landing strip in Central
Burma. Four enemy planes were
DESTROYED and IL damaged.
Evening star., 1944-05-07
School Safety Patrol Day
To Be Observed Nav Is

The Commissioners yesterday is
sued proclamation designating
May 13 as School Safety Patrol Day,
when honors will be paid to mem
bers of the children's safety patrols
In the 19 years the patrols have
been functioning, not single school
child has been injured or killed at
street crossings protected by the
patrolmen, it was pointed out.
High praise was expressed by
Commissioners Young, Mason and
Kutz for the work of the $500
Safety School Patrol members in the
District, their teachers. who have
encouraged the movement, and
police officers and others co-operat-
ing with the program.
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Church Plans Reception

A reception for new members of
the Sodality of st. Michael's Cath
olic Church. Silver Spring, will be
held at 8 pm. Wednesday at the
church. Following the reception
election of officers will be held in
the school auditorium and a social
hour will conclude the program
Johnny Hogan of Immaculate Con-
ception parish will give solos and
there will be other entertainment.
Evening star., 1944-05-07
u. ). Airmen Hammer
Japs Along 7OO-MiIe
New Guinea Front
Ey the Associated Press.


ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, NEW GUINEA.
Sunday, May Fifth Army Air
Force fighters and bombers
maintained Furnishing attacks
on japanese troops along 700
miles of the Northern New
Guinea coast, headquarters re-
ported today.
From Hansa Bay TO Sarmi. Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's planes pressed
their assaults Thursday and Friday,
continuing the naturalization of air.
dromes, supply areas and troop
concentrations.
Hansa Bay is $50 miles southeast
of the new American invasion hold
ings at Hollandia and Sarmi is more
than 13O miles to the northwest.
Beyond Sarmi, in the Schouten
Islands off Geelvink Bay, raiding
5th Air Force bomber downed an
enemy fighter.
Other Bases Attacked.
The steadily neutralized enemy
bases of Rabaul, New Britain, Kavi-
eng, New Ireland, and Kahili, Bou-
gainville, also were attacked.
Dutch-f1own Mitchells which re-
Gently began hitting Koepang, Dutch
Timor, attacked that target again.
At a cost of one fighter, planes
from the Solomons dropped % tons
of bombs on Kavieng and the nearby
Borpop air base.
Rabaul was raided with 70 tons
Thursday, making nearly 500 tons
dropped there in the last five days
Craters were caused in the concrete
runway of Vunakanau airdrome.
Runway hits also were scored by
Liberators at Kahili, on Bougain-
ville's south coast.
Australians Advance.
A spokesman said Australian
forces moving up the New Guinea
Coast from Alexishafen now are 10
miles beyond that former enemy air
base without having contacted the
japanese. AleXishafen is approx
mately 400 miles southeast of
Hollandia.
Meanwhile, advices from Gen. |
MacArthur's headquarters indicate
many Japanese in the Hollandia
sector have discarded their earlier
fanatical suicide rather than cap
ture" theory and are voluntarily
surrendering.
Today the Hollandia stockade
holds. 155 prisoners and mopping up
operations are far from complete.
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Ward Firm Lawyers
Question Validity Of
Election Under NLRB
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 6.-Validity of q
National Labor Relations Board
election conducted in a plant being
operated by the Government, as are
Montgomery Ward g. Co.'S Chicago
properties, was questioned today by
the firms attorneys at a conference
before Federal Judge William H.
Holly.
George B. Christensen of Wards
counsel said he had informed the
court that there is question
whether the election would be valid
while the employees are employees Of
the United States Government, as
they are under the sweeping terms
of President Roosevelt's order for
seizure of the properties, because the
National Labor Relations Act speci-
fically excludes United States en-
lployes from its operations.
The attorneys said Judge Holly in
formed them the validity of the elec-
ton was matter for the NLRB to
determine. The election is set for
Tuesday.
Ask Swift Ruling.
Wards counsel asked Judge Holly
to move up from Wednesday to
Monday his decision to either grant
or deny the Governments request
for temporary injunction restrain
ing the company from interfering
with Government operation of the
iplant. The Government took con-
troll April rs and ousted Sewell
Avery, Ward board chairman, after
Mr.. Avery defied War Labor Board
order to extend a CIO union con-
tract pending the election.
Judge Holly rejected rthe move
saying he needed until Wednesday
to complete his study of the volumi-
nous record of the case, and that he
would make his decision then.
Meanwhile, he extended a tenn
porary restraining order which
would have expired tomorrow night.
Judge Holly's decision also will cover
a company motion to dissolve the
reStrainer.
George j. Bott, regional NLRB di-
rector, said the election would pro-
ceed on schedule Tuesday "as far as
I'm concerned" Francis Neisler, at
torney for the involved union. the
CIO United Mail Order, Warehouse
and Retail Employees, said the union
was ready to go through with the
election now, or after the courts de-
cision, or any other time"
Union Appeals to Roosevelt.
Meanwhile in Springfield, $50
union employees of the Hummer
Manufacturing Co., Ward subsidi-
ary, stayed away from their jobs
for the second consecutive day and
telegraphed President Roosevelt
asking him to take immediate
jurisdiction of the disputed issues. u
j. T. Farr, business representative
of the AFL International Associa-
ton of Machinists, said the union
was abiding by its previous declara-
ton not to work until the company
signs a new contract with the
union "or until the Federal Gov
eminent takes over the Hummer
plant"
The telegram to President Roose-
welt asserted the company refuses
to bargain in good faith with their
employees"
Hummer and Ward officials made
no statement.
Evening star., 1944-05-07
USES to Extend Office Hours
AS Aid to Part 7 ine Workers

With cries for help coming from
laundries, restaurants, hospitals and
the transportation industry, among
Iother labor short establishments
here, the United States Employment
Service Office planned to 60 on long
|er hours this week for the conven-
fence of prospective part-time
workers.
Faced with labor crisis similar
to that of last summer, laundries
have notified USES they will need
hundreds of workers to meet the
added work load expected with the
warmer weather.
Restaurants, too. were described as
seriously short Of help. They are
looking for 5000 workers for full or
part time-"experience not neces-
sary."
Transportation Workers Needed.
In the transportation industry, ac-
cording to District USES Director
Charles E. Farmer, full and part
time workers are needed in garages
and wholesale and retail warehouses,
as we'll as to operate buses, street.
cars and trucks. The shortage in
cludes drivers, mechanics and
laborers.
Part-t time workers, including
hostesses and cashiers. cooks, chefs
and bakers, are wanted in hotels
and restaurants while hospitals and
institutions are calling for graduate
nurses and nurses aides for part
time work.
In the commercial field, Mr..
Farmer said, part-time workers are
needed as stenographers, typists,
file clerks, traffic clerks, checkers,
inserters, bookkeepers, telephone
operators, sales people, multigraph
operators and mail sorters.
Mr.. Farmer said most of the part
time job orders now waiting to be
filled were for daytime work while
the majority OF these volunteering
for part-time jobs wanted evening
work. He urged employers to put
in their orders for evening part
time workers.
102 Seek Part Time Work.
Last week, he reported, 102 people
told the USES they would be inter-
ested in part-time work. OF that
group, Ga wanted work between the
hours of s and IL pm. while only
"a wanted part-time work. during
the day A number of those in
terviewed for part time, Mr.. Farmer
said, were mothers willing to work
while their children were at school.
Others wanted work they could take
home with them.
Beginning Tuesday, the USES
Offices at 1922 Fifteenth street NV.
and SOB K street NV. will be open
every week from 6 to 8 pm. on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thurs
| days, Mr.. Farmer announced.
He explained the evening sched-
ule had been adopted for the con-
venience of full-time workers who
couldn't leave their jobs during the
day to register for partatime work
Workers wanting full-time jobs will
also be interviewed in the evening
however, he added.
War Job Placements Increased.
While the District took this STEP
to stimulate recruiting, the regional
War Manpower Commission, cover
ing the District, Maryland, Virginia
West Virginia and North Carolina
Evening star., 1944-05-07
Gulux Democrats Back
Stanley for Governor
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GALAX, Va, May 6.-Thomas B.
Stanley of Stanleytown, speaker of
the Virginia House of Delegates,
was unanimously Endorsed for
Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor Of Virginia at a meeting Of
the Galax Democratic Clup Thurs
day night.
The Endorsement is believed to be
the first to place Mr.. Stanley in
the gubernatorial limelight.
Evening star., 1944-05-07
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Mrs. keiser Installed

Mrs Caroline F. Keiser, junior
past matron of Naomi Chapter, No.
% Order of the Eastern Star, Be
thesda, last week was installed as
grand organiSt at a meeting Of the
Grand Chapter of the organization
in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1944-05-07

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