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Evening star., 1944-10-31
Pacific War May En-,
in Year, Australian
Tells District Pastors

Best-informed quarters In Aus
tralia expect the war In the Pacific
to be over within the next IL months
II the present progress Of the Amer
ican Army and Navy is continued,
the Rev. @. Irving Benson. Aus
tralian Methodist minister touring
the United States, yesterday told a
meeting Of the Washington Minis
terial Union. The session was held
ut st. Margaret's Episcopal Church,
Connecticut avenue and Bancroft
street NV. The Rev. Fred S. Busch-
meyer, president Of the union, was
in charge.
Mr.. Benson declared Australian
ministers are concerned with three
major problems: How to help the
returning veteran adjust himself to
civil life, the winning OF youth to
religion and the prosecution OF evan
gelism.
He said ministers are training
themselves to meet the veteran or
q fellowship basis. The church, he
asserted, is taking the leadership In
youth work as a means Of winning
them to God. Describing evangelism
as essential to the vigorous fife oi
the church, Mr.. Benson stated min
listers are bringing religion to men
on 20th century terms.
Navy Needs 400 Chaplains.
The Navy urgently needs 400 chap
lains between now and the spring
Comdr. Clifford M. Drury, District
chaplain Of the Potomac River Naval
Command, told the meeting. He
was speaking for Chief of Navy
Chaplains Robert D. Workman
Comdr, Drury urged qualified men
to call at the Procurement ONCE at
1920 @ street NV, or to get In
touch with the Navy chaplain Of
ice.
The Rev. DR.. Angus Dun, Bishop
OF Washington, told the union the
great contribution Christ made to
mankind was that of reconciliation
The core Of Christian gospel Is that
God has not allowed us to be shut
of from Him by our wrongness, he
said, adding that He has given us
the concept that reconciliation
means acceptance transcending the
thing to be reconciled."
United States-Jap Center Planned
F. Nelson Schlegel, pastor of the
First Evangelical and Reformed
Church and member of the WASH
ington Committee for Americans of
Japanese Ancestry told the meeting
a hospitality center for Americans
Of Japanese ancestry is to be opened
soon. He called on the pastors to
help these loyal Japanese by max
ing social contacts for them and
finding places for them to live.
Parker Barrett, Walla Walla. Wash.
retired businessman, who will head
the center, was introduced to the
group.
George Yount, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Arlington
Va, and union treasurer, gave the
financial report.
The union discussed ways of help
ing the War Fund campaign.
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Corrupt Practices Ac
Covering Elections
May Be Tightened
BY the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press.
A move developed In the Senat.
Campaign Expenditures Committe,
today to tighten the Federal Cor.
rupt Practices Act on political cam.
paign contributions.
Senator Ball, Republican, of Min.
nesota proposed to make 1t apply
to primaries and conventions, a.
well as general election campaigns
and to clarity the section banning
contributions by corporations OF
labor organizations In connection
with Federal elections.
Senator Balls suggestion came
as the Senate committee arranged
a public hearing this afternoon or
the distribution by CIO unions ir
Ohio of a campaign pamphlet urg.
ing the defeat of Senator Taft
Republican, of Ohio and the cleo.
ton Of his Democratic opponent
William o. Pickrell.
The hearing was called after Sen.
ator Taft charged that the pamphlets
is In effect an illegal contribution
by the CIO to Mr. Pickrell's cam.
paign. The CIO has maintained
that such publications represent ex.
penditures in the interest of it.
membership and are outside the
ban on contributions.
Senator Ball referred to this as
an example of "the legal hair-split-
ting which needs to be eliminated
by an overhauling and clarifica-
ton"
In an interview he suggested also
that Congress failure to include
primaries and political party con-
ventions in the contributions bar
was an oversight. The Minnesotar
said today's hearing is the first di-
rected specifically at a definition oi
the term contribution.
The theory of the law was tha,
officers of corporation should moi
be permitted to spend the money Of
stockholders to support one politica
number of stockholders might favol
another candidate" Senator Bal
said. "The same reasoning applies
to labor organizations" obi
In separate public hearing ttat
Senate committee Is to question M
Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania Re.
publican State Committee chair.
man, and other witnesses concern.
ing the authorship and financing O.
campaign pamphlet attacking
Sidney Hillman of the CIO Politica
Action Committee.
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Dean Hayden Urges
Montgomery Voters
10 Back Charter Plan

Dean James j. Hayden Of the CO.
lumbus University Law School last
night urged Montgomery County
residents to support the proposed
charter in the election next Tuesday
on the grounds that 1t would assure
local government, improve county
administration and would cost tax
payers less money than the present
county commissioner system"
Under the present system, Dean
Hayden said, laws governing the
county ale made at Annapolis under
"horse-trading" arrangement.
whereby delegations from every
county in the State approve pro-
posals for every other county dele
CATION
He said that during the 1943 leg
islatiye session the voters of Mont
gomery County were betrayed five
different ways on legislation involv-
ing the Park and Planning Com
mission, the Suburban Sanitary
Commission and the Liquor Control
Board"
Dean Hayden said the charter will
cost taxpayers less money because
under county manager the county
will receive more per dollar. This
has been the experience of nearly
900 municipalities that have adopted
the charter plan, he said.
Charles P. Taft, member of the
Presidents War Relief Control
Board, in radio address. last night
at Frederick, Md, denied the char
ter will abolish the two-party system
in the county or that 1t would COM
bine too much power in the county
manager.
"A manager can be arbitrary" Mr..
Taft said, but II he Is, ne doesn't
last long. The council will see to
that. II you pick good council, you
will have good manager and he
will operate with common sense and
a feeling of responsibility to the
public and to the council that hires
him and can fire him"
Mr., Taft said nonpartisan cleo
tions are desirable because you
want councilmen elected for their
capacity in local affairs, not their
views on Dumbarton Oaks, the tariff.
the income tax or the War Labor
Board"
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Puerto Rican Cabinet
Members Face Trial
In War Fund Dispute
By the Associated PRESS.

68 tue Associated fte6d.
5AN JOSE. Puerto Rico, oct 3l.--
Six members Of Gov. Rexford Guy
Tugwcll's cabinet face q hearing Mo-
vember 10 before the Puerto Rico
Supreme Court on charges of con-
tempt Of court In a dispute over q
$l6,o00.OO0 War Emergency Council
appropriation.
A United States marshal said late
yesterday all OF the cabinet men,
bers except Education Commissioner
Jose M. Gallardo had been arrested
The Territorial Supreme Court
announced that the cabinet men,
bers would be granted a writ oi
certiorari and that they would be
released on bonds of 81 600 each.
Gov. Tugwell was not included
IN the proceedings brought by Sen
ator Celestino Iriarte, head Of the
united opposition parties.
The contempt order was signed
by District Judge Marcelino Rom.
any, who had enjoined the council
from spending any of the appro-
priation on the ground 1t was moi
approved by the Legislature. Hi.
ruling was upheld by the islanc
Supreme Court and the Boston Cir.
cult Court to which the government
appealed.
Attorney General-Designate En-.
rique Campos de Toro, who appeared
for the defendants, said the coun-
Gil had continued to spend from
the appropriation because 1t had
not been oflcially notified of the
action OF the Boston court las,
week.
Judge Romany denied further an.
peal and then ordered the arrest OF
the cabinet members.
The $16,ooo,000 fund was set ur
Tor the relief Of Puerto Ricans
100000 OF whom. according to Gov.
ernment figures, face starvation
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Franco Envoy Will Go
10 Paris 10 Finish
Recognition Plans
By the Associated press.

6S tne Associated freSS.
LONDON, Oct. 31.-The Commu-
mist Daily Worker today bitterly at
tackled Generalissimo Francisco
Frances government, as Madrid dis
patches disclosed that Spain will
send a special envoy to Paris tomor-
row to complete arrangements for
formal Spanish recognition of Gen.
Charles de Gaulle's French govern
ment.
The Daily Worker asserted Fran
co.'s regime "could not survive with
out constant backing from abroad"
The Madrid dispatch said Jose
Antonio de Sangroniz will go to
France via Lisbon, where he will
talk to British and American off,
cials. After he completes his Paris
mission he will proceed to Rome to
become Spanish Ambassador to
Italy. He was Spain's special envoy
to the De Gaulle regime at Algiers.
The first postliberation Ambas-
sador to France from Spain will be
Miguel Mateuypla, mayor of BARGE
Iona and cousin of the Archbishop
of Toledo, primate of Spain, the
dispatch added
Meanwhile, advices from Lerida,
Spain, said Jose Moscardo. COM
mander of the Catalonian military
region, announced that all Spanish
Republicans who had been operat-
ing in the region had withdrawn
into France The Catalonian region
includes the Aran Valley, which was
reported the scene of deepest pene-
tration by the Spanish Maquis.
Moscardo said the Republican
forces withdrew from Ter Aran VAL
ley. releasing l mountain villages.
There were no new reports of bor-
der uprisings.
Evening star., 1944-10-31

in plans to campaign that day in
New Jersey or Connecticut before
going into New York City for his
final blast at the President from
Madison Square Garden Saturday
night.
Before leaving Albany, Gov. Dewey
yesterday signed the bills rushed
through a special session of the
Legislature to keep the polls in New
York open until instead of p.m.,
and making absentee soldier ballots
acceptable until Monday, November
3. Under the original soldier-vote
law, the ballots had to be back in
the State November 8.
Democrats made an unsuccessful
fight to extend the date for receipt
OF soldier ballots to November 80.
but Republicans argued that would
not be legal or necessary. They
argued servicemen have had two
months in which to return their
ballots. 7
Evening star., 1944-10-31
District Drivers 10 Get
$3.50 Tires Next Month

The November quota of tires fol-
passenger cars. buses and trucks fol
the District totals 6,829, an increase
of TAI over October, the Office OF
Price Administration announced In
increasing the national quota by
250,00
Passenger tires for Washington
motorists amount to 5,513-an in.
crease Of 629 over October-and bus
and truck tires total 1916, an In
crease Of 1872. The new passenger
tire quota for the Nation will be
1850, 900.
The OPA said the quotas should
satisfy replacement needs of eligible
B and G ration holders and enable
loccl boards to work on some oi
the estimated backlog OF $50, ,OOC
approved but untitled applications
A book holders were held out no
hope for new tires, the supply still
being too short.
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Justice Eicher Hears
Third Defendant Lost
Job at FBI Instigation
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.

The affidavit of third defend.
ant in the sedition case to declare
he was fired from a Job during the
trial at the instigation of the FBl
was brought to the attention Of
Chief Justice Edward G. Eicher to-
day by Ira Chase Koehne. attorney
for two other defendants who as
sertedly have been harassed by Gov
ernment investigators while trying
to make living
A motion by Mr.. Koehne asking
the protection of the court Is pend
ing.
The third affidavit was signed by
Garland L. Alderman, 29-year -old
defendant, who Is not represented
by Mr.. Koehne. Harry A. Grant is
counsel for Mr.. Alderman, a former
tool and diemaker in Detroit auto
mobile plants.
Mr.. Alderman said that early in
September he was employed as a
clerk for the Railway Express
Agency. and. although he faith
fully and diligently" performed all
his duties. he was discharged a
month later. His foreman, accord
ing to Mr.. Alderman, explained that
the FBI would not approve his
employment"
Defendants Rights Set Forth.
The defendants constitutional
right of protection and the legal
presumption that he is innocent
until proved guilty were set forth.
Mr.. Koehne previously listed two
of his three clients, Frank w
Clark and Lois de la Fayette Wash
burn, as alleged victims of FB1
surveillance, which was said to have
cost them positions necessary tc
keep them in food and lodging dur
ing the long trial.
The Government. through CHIEF
Prosecutor o. John Rogge, filed ar
answer denying the charges anc
insisting that no Federal agent,
had interfered with the Legitimate
activities of any defendant out or
bond ~.
Justice Eicher, taking up the mo.
ton for protection last week, gave
Mr.. Koehne additional time to fiji
affidavits in support of his charge
i Kempner Still on Stand.
4 "A Government expert witness
DR.. Robert M. w. Kempner, former
criminal court Judge in Berlin, wa.
still under cross s-examination as the
trial continued today.
Maximilian J. st. George, attor.
ney for Joseph E. McWilliams
asked the witness yesterday after.
noon to show by the writings of Hit
ler or any Nazi leaders the public
ly proclaimed" world movement tc
destroy the democracies which the
Government describes as back oi
the conspiracy the % defendants
are accused of forming in this
country.
DR.. Kempner quoted passages
from Hitler's "Mein Kampf," one
of these to the effect that "twe
worlds are struggling with one an.
other"
Mr.. st. George asked if Hitle,
did not refer to the conflict be.
tween the gold standard and the
barter system. The witness did not
admit that.
I DR.. Kempner. refugee in thi
country, said he was questioned ir
Germany for three weeks by Helm.
rich Himmler and the Gestapo.
Evening star., 1944-10-31
COP Fund Compoien
Here Is ProQressina

The Republican State Committee
for the District today reported ex-
cellent progress in It's drive to raise
100000 for the Dewey -Bricker
campaign fund.
The drive has been under the
direction Of E. F. Colladay, finance
chairman of the Dewey -Bricker
Club. and James A. Councillor, presi-
dent OF that organization. Final re-
ports from club members will be
announced at luncheons to be given
November and 8 at the Hotel
Washington.
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Mrs. Luce 10 Concentrate
On Fight for Reelection
BY the Associated Pres.

oS I'VE hSsoClhteQ fTefS-
DARIEN, Conn. Oct. 3l.-Mrs.
Clare Boothe Luce. Representative
from ConnecticutS 4th district, who
has appeared in Several cities as
campaign speaker for the Republi-
can national ticket, announced last
night she would remain in her home
district for the remainder of the
campaign to fight for reelection.
Mrs. Luce is being opposed by Miss
Margaret E. Connors, Democrat, and
Stanley A. Mayhem, Socialist.
She said the Democrats had sched-
uled 'Vics President Wallace, 'Orson
Welles, quentin Reynolds. Rex
Stout. Clifton Fadiman, Franklin P.
Adams, Edna Ferber and Dorothy
Thompson to campaign against her
and she plans to answer each one
of them,
Evening star., 1944-10-31
War Fund
CONTINUED From First PAGE. J

ployes of the Welfare and Recrea-
ton Association, the mattresses and
cooks in Government cafeterias, who
have oversubscribed their quota by
ll9 per cent.
Boiling Field Dance Nets S4,500.
Army Air Forces personnel al
Boiling Field collected about $4,50r
for the Community War Fund last
night when an overflow crowd OF
$500 soldiers, civilians and officers
attended a benefit dance given by
Boiling Field in two bathrooms al
the Shoreham Hotel.
The hotel donated the bathrooms
entertainers donated their services
and music was furnished by the
Army Air Forces orchestras. Pro-
ceeds from the dance we're clear
profit and will be turned over to the
War Fund with an additional $500
contributed by personnel of rhe
field, officials said.
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Yank Artillery Blasts
1000 Japs on leyie

BY the Associated Press. ,s--.S -
WITH THE oath CORPS ON
LEYTE, Oct. 30 Delayed The
mass weight Of the 11th Artillery
Battalion blasted a trapped force
of more than 1000 Japanese soldiers
east of Dagami yesterday. practically
obliterating the group.
Those Japs took an awful beat
ing" Maj. Gen. John r. Hodge. gath
Corps commander, reported. They
tried to run west against the 7th
Division and they tried to run east
against the 96th. If the artillery
didn't get them they were moved
down trying to get away. I esti-
mated we killed about 1000 Japs."
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Lew Ayres Assists
,Wounded FiIipinos
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 30
Working In torn khaki shirt and
soiled dungarees, Lew Ayres, the
former Aim star. is assisting in the
treatment of Filipino victims OF
Japanese bombing raids on Leyte
Island, the Melbourne Herald's cor
respondent reported today.
Ayres, technically chaplain's as
sistant. volunteered for the duty
when casualties began to pile up, he
told the correspondent.
Evening star., 1944-10-31

agreed that both parties and their
candidates profess to have the same
basic objectives. but he said there
are many avenues of escape" In
what he described as the general
promises of foreign policy support
Gov. Dewey has received from "few
prominent Republicans"
Mr. Byrnes pointed out that any
peace program must go through the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee, and, he said. he fears that the
reservations which opponents will
seek to attach there may reserve
the agreement for the wastebasket
and the Nation for another war"
Lists Republicans.
Listing the Republicans in this
committee eeSenators johnson oi
California; Capper, Kansas; La
Toilette, Wisconsin; Vandenberg
Michigan; White. Maine: Ship
stead, Minnesota; Nye, North Da-
kota, and Davis, Pennsylvania-the
speaker recalled that all had voted
against lifting the arms embargo
in 1899, and that all but Senator
White voted against lease lend, the
extension of selective service and
revision Of the Neutrality Act.
Nor did they, nor Gov. Dewey, he
added, give any notable assistance
to the anti-isolationist campaign Of
the late Wendell L. Willkie.
Mr.. Byrnes said the country
knows that partisan politics viii
b subordinated to national unity
and the public welfare = In the 81.
ganization Of the peace Just as il
the prosecution Of the war, IN even,
Of . Democratic victory.
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Dewey
Continued From First Page. J

further evidence that the Repub-
licans are making a strong effort
to win over at least some of this
normally Democratic strip of the
country. Gov. Dewey already has
gone into Oklahoma, Missouri
Kentucky and West Virginia.
President Roosevelt has carried
Maryland in all three of his cam
paigns. Before that the Free State
went Republican three times in
succession-for Hoover, Coolidge and
Harding.
Maryland Statistics.
In 1910, the Presidents majority
over the late Wendell Willkie In
Maryland was 10000, or $4,000 less
than the figure by which he beat
ALI M. Landon in 1885. In the I941
congressional election the Repub.
licans captured two House seats
one in Baltimore and the other In
the Western Maryland district. This
was followed by the election of a
Republican, Theodore r. McKeldin
as Mayor of Baltimore, after a lone
period OF Democratic city admins
tration under Howard jackson.
Republicans are hoping these re-
cent off-year elections indicate q
trend in their direction. On the
other side Of the picture Is the fact
that the area in and around Balti-
more Is center Of war industry,
which means a heavy potential labor
vote.
Gov. Dewey has been making every
effort to convince organized labor
that he viii preserve the gains they
have made in new protective laws,
and improve the administration of
those laws. Whether he has cut into
the Presidents strong labor support
by promising to reorganize the labor
agencies Of Government may be, an
important factor in States like
Maryland and West Virginia, as well
as in larger industrial States of the
East and Midwest, but the answer
will remain matter Of speculation
until next week.
Leaving Albany at 1880 today,
Gov. Dewey will make a short talk
ut the railroad station In Rochester
at Sis this afternoon on his way
to Buffalo.
Uphill Fight in Massachusetts.
From Buffalo Gov. Dewey will
move up into Massachusetts and
spend all of tomorrow in an effort
to wrest that States is votes from
the President. Reports indicate he
faces an uphill tight there. En-
route, to Boston for q major address
tomorrow night. he viii stop at Pitts
Held, Springfield and Worcester.
After the Boston speech, his train
will proceed directly to Baltimore,
arriving Thursday morning. He will
ride through the downtown section
to the theater and leave Immediately
after he speaks.
Travelling by way Of Harrisburg,
the Republican nominee will reach
Wilkes-Barre at 7:30 pm. Thurs
day and speak In Scranton later the
same evening.
Friday II Open Date.
From Scranton Gov. Dewey viii
return to AbRny, but he stin has
Friday As ~ open date, ana may
make another last-minute change
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Navy Needs More Doctors,
But Army Quits Recruiting
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The Army has discontinued re.
cruiting civilian physicians.
Announcing this today, Chairman
Paul v. McNutt of the War Man.
power Commission said the Navy's
recruitment program must be con-
tinued because of an urgent need
for approximately 5000 additional
medical officers. The Public Health
Service and the Veterans Admins
tration also are continuing to re-
cruit doctors
Evening star., 1944-10-31

GU tiic LCkiUll
Of Merit In
North Africa for
m e r it orr Gus
services in Sic
lily. He is the
son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Ever
EFT, 1919 New
Hampshire ave-
nue. NV.
Col. Everett,
former civil en-
gineer for the
Southern Rail-
way s yst e m
here, enlisted as
y,r;1,ofa ~ ~,
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Hurrimun to Broadcast
Friday for Roosevelt
By the Associated Press.

~ xtSsUCIdteU FIcSE,
NEW YORK, Oct. 3l.-Business.
men for Roosevelt, Inc. announced
last night that w. Averell Hartman
Ambassador to Russia, will make hi.
only political speech of the cam.
paign under its auspices over the
NBC network from 10:45 to IL pm
Friday night.
Evening star., 1944-10-31

District National Guard In 1925. He
was promoted to colonel last June
He Is a graduate of Central High
School, George Washington and
National Universities and Washing
ton College of Law.
Col. Everett is now serving as
acting assistant chief of staff, G-1
Headquarters of the North African
Theater of Operations.
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Col. Everett Decorated
For Services in Sicily

Col. Hugh Everett, whose wife and
son live at 5604 Sonoma road,
Bethesda, Md, recently was award
Evening star., 1944-10-31

Lack of publicity, is blamed for
an increase at Domestic Court in
Wallsall, England.
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Nurse
Continued FROM First Page. J

indorse q check for 500 which the
woman cashed. 1t proved to be
worthless.
Struts With Ribbons.
When the Army officer spotted her
in the Statler, ne followed her, the
FBI said, trailing her to the May
flower. There, resplendent in the
uniform with African and Pacific
war theater ribbons, q ribbon sig
Evening star., 1944-10-31
Friday h Open Date.

From Scranton Gov. Dewey VIII
return to AbRny, but he stiIl has
Friday as ~ open date, and may
make another last-minute change
Evening star., 1944-10-31

forecast the likelihood that a Re-
publican President could not enlist
enough support from his own party
to get an effective peace plan
through Congress
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-08-31
Rebekdhs Honor
Miss Harrington
Before Departure

Officers of the Rebekah Lodge
gathered at the residence of Mrs.
Ted Laughlin in the IOOF Apart
ments last evening to bid farewell
to Miss Mary Jane Harrington, a
prominent lodge member, who plans
to leave soon for California.
The honoree was presented with
picture of the Lights of Juneau"
by those present and the party
hours we're spent playing Yardly.
Prizes we're won by Mrs. Gertrude
Jewell and Mrs. Peggy McIvor.
Those attending were Mesdames
Gertrude Jewell, Isabel Jorgenson,
Peggy McIvor, Edna Williams, Sig
rid Dull, Norma Callow, Dorothy
Russell, Irma Geyer, Catherine
Benedict, Ellen Shaffer and Miss
Ethel Loken.