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Evening star., 1944-03-31
Boy, II, Sets Out
To See World,
Changes Mind

Fred Hoover, II, started north to
make his way in the world last night
but he didn't get far.
He left note on his bed at
home, 7409 Alaska avenue NV, II
am safe. I have my ration book"
His father, William R. Hoover, an
engineer, looked in to see if the
boy was covered at l am. He found
the note and notified police.
About 2:15 am. George Wilt Of
the Silver Spring police saw a little
figure with a big duffle bag slung
over one shoulder trudging out
Georgia avenue. When Mr.. Wilt re-
turned on his patrol the boy was
sitting on the curb in front of a
hamburger stand on the Colesville
pike.
Fred was home again by 8 o'clock
He would not tell where he was
bound or what he intended to do.
He had 81 in his pockets and a
soldiers steel helmet in the bag.
1T was the spring, I guess" his
father said. 1T was an Horatio
Alger stunt. He was going to start
store chain or something"
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Martin Declare, COP
Would Lead World
Back 10 Prosperity
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Mar: 31.-House Minor
ity Leader Martin declared last
night that the Republican party
would lead the world back to
sanity. peace and prosperity" by
keeping faith with the men and
women on the fighting fronts and
protecting at home those sacred
ideals they are so gallantly protect
ing 1" all over the world"
Addressing a meeting of the
Massachusetts, Women's Republican
Club he said:
I'VE must prepare forward
looking postwar program which Will
maintain private enterprise and per-
NIT this country to go forward
'"'. We must maintain the free
dom of labor, freedom of the farmer
and freedom of management"
Asserting that discussions of post
war problems of tremendous magni-
tude have been in progress, Mr..
Martin declared that both Con-
gress and the people have been left
completely in the dark as to the
decisions which are contemplated.
Such practice is as wrong as it
is dangerous. The men and women
who are actually fighting this war,
the people who are paying for the
prosecution of the war through
staggering taxes, the members of
Congress who are the chosen repre-
sentatives of the people, should have
real voice in those far-reaching
decisions.
Congress should be represented
at these international conferences.
And this representation should in
clude delegates of both major
parties
This is not a one-party or a one
clique war" Mr.. Martin asserted.
ut is war of all the American
people"
Evening star., 1944-03-31
ChapIains 10 Conduct
Good Friday Services

Army and Navy chaplains will con-
duct Good Friday services at various
Government and service buildings,
the Three Hours Observance OF
Good Friday organization announced
today.
Army chaplains will hold services
at the Interior Building, Pentagon
Building and Gravelly Point Air
Transport Command Protestant
services will begin at noon with
Catholic meetings at the last two
places scheduled for 12::45 pm. Navy
chaplains will conduct worship at
the Medical Center at Bethesda,
Md; Wave Headquarters %" and
the Receiving Yard, Navy Yard. AL
observances will begin at noon.
Government employees will be ex-
cused from work for the three hours
to attend church services as a result
of recent instructions issued by
President Roosevelt, the Good Friday
group said today. This will enable
them to join many workers in private
industry who will be given time off
by business and professional organ
izations. Among the associations
supporting the program are the
Washington Board of Trade, the
Young Mems Christian Association,
the Merchant and Manufacturers
Association. the Junior Board of
Commerce and the Federation of
Citizens Associations.
Evening star., 1944-03-31
WiIIkie Slate Withdrawn
From Ohio Primaries
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
CLEV ELAND, Mar. 31.-The
group of city councilmen who filed
a pro-Willkie slate of delegates in
two congressional districts for the
Republican National Convention
last night withdrew their nomina-
tlons from the May primary.
The withdrawal followed re-
quest from Republican State Chair
man Ed. D. Schorr. who appealed
to the councilmen to unite behind
Gov. John w. Bricker's candidacy.
Councilman William J. Rogers,
Victor Cohen, Alexander L. De
Maioribus and Ray c. Miller had
filed petitions backing George B.
Harris, former State Bar Associa-
ton president, as a "favorite son"
candidate for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination from the 21st
and 22d congressional districts.
The councilmen unofficially were
backing Wendell L. Willkie for first
choice and Thomas E. Dewey for
second choice for the nominations
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Wi|Ikie Concludes
Wisconsin Campaign
By the Associated Press.

o5 tt1e Associated PreES.
SUPERIOR, Wis, Mar. 31.-Wen-
dell L. Willkie left the fate of his
own candidacy for the Republican
presidential nomination and that of
the party itself in his expressed
opinion to Wisconsin voters yester-
day.
He concluded an intensive 13-
day campaign to win Wisconsin's IS
a delegates. to the Republican Ma
tlonal Convention with a statement
in which he said he came to Wis
consin because II didn't want the
people of Wisconsin to have to buy
a pig in the poke in the presidential
primary next Tuesday"
States of delegates also are en-
tered in support of Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey of New York, 1t. .Comdr.
Harold E. Stassen, former Mime
sofa Governor, and Gen. Douglas
Macarthur, but Mr.. Willkie is the
only one to campaign personally.
Il wanted them (the voters of
Wisconsin, to know the beliefs and
the purposes of at least one candi-
date in the field" his farewell state
ment sale, II ask the people of
Wisconsin to judge my candidacy
on the basis of those beliefs and
those expressions"
The candidate left for Mime
apolis last night on his way to
Nebraska, where he and Comdr.
Strassen are contenders in a presi-
Dental preference primary April IL.
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Landon Urges COP
To Pick Man Able 10
Work With Congress
By the Associated Press.

TOPEKA, Mar. 31-Alf M. Lam
don pleaded today for a Republican
presidential nominee able to work
with Congress and replace President
Roosevelt who, he said, was deter
mined ito establish himself in the
White House for life" .
Mr.. Landon, former Kansas Gov
ernor and the party's 1886 nominee,
said the Republican presidential
choice must "be able to inspire trust
at home and abroad in his ability to
do teamwork with the Congress"
and command overwhelming con-
fldence in his determination and
ability to end promptly the confui
sion OF red tape, bureau-made laws,
bureaucratic control of business,
farming and labor, that are inter-
fering with our war efforts"
In an address before a Republican
State convention, Mr.. Landon said
the party's 1914 platform must be
definite, unequivocal, courageous
and forward looking"
He said minimum requirements
should include assurance that we
will exert every effort toward the
war" and definite plans for recon-
version from war to peace and for
returning soldiers and sailors"
He suggested the platform should
have "a blueprint for free industry
and not a socialistic state" and "in-
clude a simplif1cation of our tax
structure" along with a pledge to
remove domestic and foreign trade
barriers.
I'VE are drifting into imperialism
or isolationism or a vicious combi-
nation Of both, in foreign affairs. 4"
Mr.. Landon declared. THE GUAR
terback' theory of the President is
as destructive in the foreign field
as 1t was in the domestic field. The
sudden shifts for which Candidate
Roosevelt is notorious simply have
been tremendous milestone around
the neck of Uncle Sam, both at
home and abroad"
Evening star., 1944-03-31
3PT Boats Sunk,
Possibly byFIe
Drown Forces
BY the Associated Press

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific, Mar. 31.-A COM
munique today from Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's headquarters told of
the loss of three Allied PIT patrol
boats, possibly to the gunfire of
Allied planes and an American
destroyer.
Statements in the communioue
and by a headquarters spokesman
indicated that II crewmen of the PIT
boats were lost.
Two PIT boats were sunk off New
Britain under circumstances indi-
eating that friendly planes, failing
to recognize identification signals,
may mistakenly have attacked" the
communique said. The spokesman
said seven men were reported lost.
The other PIT boat, operating close
inshore along Bougainville Island in
the Solomons, was reported hit by a
destroyer shell during . lombard
nent. II
Evening star., 1944-03-31
|Stepfdther Is Held
In Hatchet Murder
0fB.Year-0|d Girl
BY the Associated Press.


LANSING, Mich, Mar. 31.-Mar-
garet McUmber, %, died TODAY of
Skull wounds while State police pom
dered the charge to be placed
against her stepfather, James Riley
Gilllhan, 46-year-old Lansing war
worker, who, Sergt. Lawrence M.
Meehan said, had surrendered to
city police last night, announcing,
I have just killed a woman"
Sergt. Meehan said Miss McUm-
ber's skull was crushed by blows
from a hatchet. She was found un-
conscious by officers who went to
the home she shared with Gillihan
ana her mother. She died this
morning In a hospital.
Gill1han had been held on an open
charge OF suspicion of assault with
attempt to kill, pending the outcome
OF Miss McUmber's injuries.
Sergt. Meehan said Gillihan told
bizarre story that he and Miss Nc
TIMBER were sweethearts, but became
estranged several years ago. He said
Glll1han related that at the girls
suggestion he married her mother,
Mrs. Ludma McUmber, Al, and that
since then he and the young woman
had been intimate, but that re-
Gently she had refused to accept his
attentions.
The sergeant said Gilihan ad-
mltted freely that yesterday he pur-
chased hatchet and planned to kill
the girl and then commit suicide,
but that he lost his courage when
ne sought to take his own life.
Gllllhan, an inspector in a war
production plant here, is a former
resident OF Sumner County, Tenn,
where he met his wife and her
daughter.
Evening star., 1944-03-31
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
In preparation for things to
come, the United States must
step up by 10 per cent the con-
struction of invasion craft.
War Production Board Chairman
Donald Nelson set that goal today
as he completed a 90-mile training
trip aboard pitching Lei Qanding
craft, infantry boat and muddy
inspection tour of three big new
amphibious training bases in the
Chesapeake Bay area.
He said an outstanding" job has
been done since November in the
fast-paced program to build 10000
of the craft in a few months. But
he added that invasion plans for
both Europe and Asia call for even
greater efforts and noted that the
Navy is turning out trained crews
faster than the craft are being
built.
Capt. Watt Host to Party.
Capt. Gordon Watt was host to
Mr.. Nelson's party, which included
executives and union officials from
a few of the 10000 companies WORK
ing on the No. l priority program,
as well as newspapermen., as
1--WE have been improving our
amphibious craft continuously, ="
Capt. Watt said. The enemy has
learned many things about them,
but he will learn some more the
hard way"
The procession Of new craft being
delivered down the Mississippi River
system alone has amounted to as
many as 20 day, another naval of
fetal, Capt. Victor c. Barringer, dis
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Dubinsky Quits
American Labor Party
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 31.-David
Dubinsky, president of the Inter-
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, AFL, announced last night
his withdrawal, Officially and pub
ncly," from the American Labor
Party.
He said at a press conference that
he hoped an independent ticket.
pledged to support President Roose-
welt for a fourth term, would be
entered in New York.
Mr.. Dubinsky said his union had
furnished about so per cent of the
ALP income since it was organized
in 1886, fixing its total contribu-
tions at $532,000.
In formal statement, he said ne
regarded "the former American La
Dor Party from now on as a Com
munist Labor Party" -
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Bricker Demands Currency
Be Stabilized After War
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo,
Mar. 31.-As soon as the war is won
and there is Stabilized government
abroad" every American soldier
should be brought back to American
soil, Gov. John w. Bricker of Ohio,
candidate for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination, declared at a
rally here last night.
After the war there must be a
stabilized currency and a restored
faith in it," Gov. Bricker said.
That means we will have to take
away from the President the power
to take away piece of the Amer
ican dollar whenever he chooses.
"And there will have to be a
standard international exchange
with a constant understanding
throughout the world on the rela-
tive values of the currencies, instead
Of . competitive valuation among
the nations"
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Indiana Republicans c Confident
Despite New Voters From South

rest and the feeli 9 of many people
that a change in Government Is
necessary.
The Democrats are counting on
having Gov. Schricker on their
ticket as a candidate for Senator
and Senator jackson appointed to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Senator Van Nuys. Gov. Schricker
won in 1910 by 5000 votes, while Mr..
Roosevelt was losing the State to
Mr. Willkie.
While Gov. Schricker has not yet
announced his candidacy, it is re-
garded as a foregone conclusion he
will run.
The Republicans have still to pick
their slate. For the Senate three
candidates are in the offing: Homer
E. Capehart, head Of the Packard
Manufacturing Co., now engaged in
war production; 1t. James M
Tucker, who has just been released
by the Navy, and Carl Mote, owner
of telephone companies in Northern
Indiana and publisher of a maga-
zine in Indianapolis. Mr.. Tucker
was badly wounded at Salerno. He
was Secretary of State before he
Joined the Navy and is . popular
figure.
There is strong possibility that
none Of these candidates will make
the grade and that the State con-
vention may turn to Representative
Halleck, chairman of the Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee
and a leading figure in the House.
B Ralph H. Gates, who recently re-
signed as Republican State chair
man, has announced his candidacy
for the gubernatorial nomination. It
was under his direction that the
present strong organization has been
constructed by the COP and he ap-
pears to be in good position to win
the nomination. Mayor Tindal of
Indianapolis, Mayor Castle of Con-
norsville and Mayor Baals of Fort
Wayne are also making bids for
this nomination.
The New Deal is not popular in
Indiana. The Democrats admit they
would have no chance of carving
the State If 1t were not for the war
but believe the argument against
changing Presidents during the war
emergency will save the day for the
Democratic ticket.
The Republicans insist that the
swing OF the political pendulum is
all In their favor. In 1912 they car
ried the State over the Democrats
oy 125,OO0 votes. They see no chance
Tor Mr.. Roosevelt to overcome this
figure.
Evening star., 1944-03-31
UNRRA Council Will Meet
AT Montreal June =
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The second session of the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration Council will open
at Montreal June %, it was an
nounced today.
Sir Arthur Salter, acting director
general of UNRRA, said the meet
ing would be brief business session
and that reports of Director Gen
eral Herbert H. Lehman, now in the
Mediterranean area inspecting
UNRRA facilities, would be con-
sidered.
Appointment of Morse Salisbury,
director of information in the Agri-
culture Department for the last six
years, as UNRRA information di-
rector also was announced. He
lives at TIC East Broad street, Falls
Church. Va.
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Institute Planned
Al American u;

Approximately 100 clerey,nen
and religious editors from all Sec
tions of the country are expected
to attend a three-day institute at
american University which will
have as its theme 1.-THE Direction
Our Society Is Moving" The open
ing session is scheduled for April
II.
Jointly sponsored by the Univer-
sity and the General Conference
Commission on Courses of Study
OF the Methodist Church, the
institute will be organized along
lines of an intensive seminar to
give religious leaders a variety of
materials and viewpoints on cur
rent problems confronting both
church and community.
Among those expected to address
the institute are Vice. President
Wallace, Senator Burton, Republi-
can, of Ohio: Nine. Wei Tao Ming,
wife of the Chinese Ambassador.
and Associate Justice Rutledge of
VIC Supreme COurC.
Government officials as we'll as
educational and religious leaders
will participate in the panel dis
cussions of the sessions. These in
clude Commissioner Ellen S. Wood
ward Of the Social Security Board.
Commissioner Arthur S. Flemmine
of the United States Civil Service
Commission, Executive Director
Lawrence Appley of the War Man
power Commission, Harold Moul-
ton, president of the Brookings
Institute; DR.. Amos Taylor, direc-
tor OF the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, and DR..
Howard Piquet, chief economist of
the Tariff Commission.
Evening star., 1944-03-31
BY GOULD LINCOLN,
Star Stan Correspondent.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Repub-
lican and Democratic leaders in IN
diana are hard at work building
their fences for the national and
State elections.
The Republicans express great
confidence. They carried the State
in 1910 for Wendell L. Willkie and
their State ticket with the excep-
ton of Governor. In 1912 they
elected nine of the II members of
the House. They have one Repub-
lican Senator and. are hopeful they
will have second when the Novem-
Der election votes are counted. They
have elected mayors in the States
three largest cities, Indianapolis,
Fort Wayne and Evansville.
The Democrats are counting on
the greatly increased labor vote. In
diana is beehive of war industry
Fred F. Bayes, Democratic State
chairman, quotes the figures, OBJ
tanned by the State unemployment
insurance agency, which show that
288,0 workers have come into the
State since 1910. He estimates this
means at least 100000 new voters.
A large percentage will support
President Roosevelt.
Many have come from Southern
and border States and presumably
are Democrats. For example, $3.50
are from Kentucky, II ,949 from Ten
nessee, 3,528 from Alabama, 1901
from Arkansas, 3,570 from Florida,
$3.50 from Missouri, 3,759 from Okla
homa, 1854 from Texas, 1889 from
Mississippi, 2,100 from Georgia and
l ,106 from North Carolina. Large
numbers came also from Illinois,
Ohio and other States. The Demo-
Gratis contend that wherever the
workers have come from they will
be inclined to support Mr.. Roosevelt.
Practically all of these workers
have been in Indiana long enough to
register and vote. The requirement
is six months residence. So the
Democrats are putting on a strenu-
GUS campaign to get this mass of
immigrant workers to register in
time for the election. They are be-
ing aided by the CIO Political Action
Committee and also by AFL leaders.
Dan Tobin, head of the Teamsters
and Truckers Union, has his head
quarters in Indianapolis and has
strongly Endorsed a fourth term.
The Republicans deny the workers
will all be for Mr.. Roosevelt. They
claim their share of the labor vote.
Furthermore, the Indiana farmers
are strongly Republican. The COP
is counting, too, on the general un-
Evening star., 1944-03-31

closed. About half the production
job is being done on inland waters,
in some cases by firms which never
built ships before.
A ferrying service has been Or
ganized under the Coast Guard to
bring the f1at-bottomed craft down
to New Orleans, where they are
turned over to their newly trained
combat crews. In some cases, up to
eight of the 100-foot tank landing
craft GCT) are lashed together in
RATS for the voyage.
Trip Made in Local Storm.
Mr.. Nelson's return trip across
the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay
from Camp Bradford, Va, to Sol
onions Island, Md, both amphibious
training bases, was made in a local
storm of about the same intensity
as that which hindered the landings
in Sicily, Navy men said.
Capt. Watt joined Mr.. Nelson In
the appeal for faster production,
pointing out that landing craft had
proved themselves the work horses"
of recent invasion beachheads by
supplying food, arms and supplies
long after their original attack mis-
sion was finished.
IF we had twice as many, they
would have been busy continuously"
the officer said. I'VE need quality,
too. The country is sending its best
and toughest young men to these
beachheads. They are the men We
can least afford to lose"
Evening star., 1944-03-31
u. s., Britain Open
Preliminary Talks
On Postwar Aviation
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
United States officials have had
some brief discussions of postwar
aviation with Canada and are begin
ming similar conversations with
Great Britain, but there appears to
be no likelihood of the talks going
beyond the preliminary stage.
One well-informed Government
official said today that no definite
action can be taken until the United
States adopts a policy on interna-
tional aviation or before Russia
China, France and some South
American countries are ready to join
the talks.
Great Britain, Canada, Australia
and New Zealand have stated theil
position - all propose to have q
single flag line in foreign air COM
merce and all favor some kind OF
international authority, with diff.
ferences as to the extent Of its con-
troll.
u. S. Plan Undecided.
The United States has not made
any decisions on those points be-
yond the general agreement that 1t
will continue to urge international
safety regulations. Congress and a
number of Government agencies
have been working on the many
angles involved in deciding post
war policy, however, and open hear
ings may be ordered soon by a
Senate Commerce Subcommittee on
Aviation.
At least one high official of the
Government stopped in Canada f,r
two days recently to talk with off,
cials from Ottawa while en- route to
London for conferences. In Eng
land he will join with Undersecre-
tary of State StettiniuS, who has
been there for some time.
In another aviation development,
Oswald Ryan, member of the Civil
Aeronautics Board, told the Senate
Judiciary Committee yesterday that
commercial aviation insurance must
meet foreign rates if American air.
lines are to get their share of post
war international trade.
Avoids Comment on Bill.
Mr.. Ryan steered clear of COM
ment on pending bill to exempt
insurance companies from regula-
ton under the Federal antitrust
laws during testimony in which he
advocated development of IAN
American insurance market of suffl-
cient proportions to absorb all ordi-
nary aviation insurance risks"
Chairman McCarran commented
at one point that British interests
would utilize every means to domi-
nate postwar commercial aviation"
Great Britain deals friendship
with one hand and business with
the other, always keeping one hand
free" Senator McCarran observed.
Evening star., 1944-03-31
George Middleton Rites
Will Be Held Today

Funeral services for George Mid
dleton, "a, retired War Department
accountant, were to be held at 2
pm. today at the Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV,
with the Rev. DR.. Frederick Harris
OF the Foundry Methodist Church
ofnciating. Burial was to be in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Mr., Middleton, who died Wednes-
day at his home, 3718 S street NV,
was a descendant Of Arthur Middle
ton, one of the signers Of the Dec
laration Of Inde endence.
Evening star., 1944-03-31
Soldier, Bride Held
In Theft Of II Autos

READING, Pa, Mar. 31-A SOL
dier and his bride were under arrest
today charged with the theft of II
new automobiles from garages in
nearby Bally and Kutztown.
Police booked them as Frank Jo-
seph Keleman, Harrisburg, Pa, and
Natalie Adele Keleman, and said
the husband was AWOL from his
station.
A State motor police spokesman
reported they were wanted in New
York State, New Jersey and Mary
land, and had been sought by Miami
(Fla9 police for questioning.