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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
Kiger Girl Named
In Lunacy Warrant
Ely the Associated Press.


CONVICTION, KY, April 12-Joan
Kiger, indicted last fall on murder
charges in connection with the
deaths of her father. Vice Mavor
Carr Z Kiger, and 6-year-old
brother, Jerry-and acquitted in De-
cember by jury-Was named in a
lunacy warrant filed by her mother
yesterday.
The l6-year-old girls mother took
the action on the basis of a psvchi-
atric report declaring the girl to be
the victim of homicidal mania.
The arrangement, he report added
resulted in the Staying of her father
and brother and Wounding of Mrs.
Kiger. Mrs. Kiger was shot in the
hip during the blaze of gunfire in
the Kiger home in adjoining Boone
County.
Specialists at the Menninee,
neuropsychiatrict clinic at Topeka
kans., made the study and reported
the girl was victim of spill
personality. Their report was at.
tached to the mothers petition.
Circuit Judge Joseph P. Good
enough said he would conduct s
hearing today and would ask tn,
Kiger family physician to examine
the girl.
Joan claimed at her trial that sh,
was the victim OF a nightmare
and testified she thought she saw
a man standing in the hallway
ready ito kill them all" She testi
fled she fired two guns at the in
Itruder."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma
Piles, April 13.-~Lt. Ernest Childers,
26, started home today to Broken
Arrow, Okla, after his comrades
gave him party celebrating his
winning the Congressional Medal of
Honor.
Additional details of the exploits
of the handsome, three-quarters In
dian fighter came to light, One was
that he used his carbine not only to
kill Germans in rescuing his platoon
but as crutch. His instep was
broken and he could barely walk
as he advanced alone against Ger
man machine gun nests and mortars
in fighting last September % on the
Salerno front.
Another was that he had wound
ed soldiers of his unit moved to a
first-aid station on stretchers after
the engagement. Then he hobbled
there himself, still using his carbine
as a crutch.
Chances are that during the leave
he will marry the girl he left be-
hind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
Britt
Continued From First Paee.)

were shattered; a bullet pierved his
side; his chest, face and hands were
covered with grenade wounds
Despite his wounds, for which he
refused to accept medical attention
until ordered to do so by his Sat
talon commander following the
battle, he personally killed five and
wounded an unknown number of
Germans, wiped out one enemy ma
chine-gun crew, fired five clips of
carbine and an undetermined
amount of MI rife ammunition.
and threw 80 augmentation gre
nades.
His bold, aggressive actions.
utterly disregarding superior enemy
numbers, resulted in capture of four
Germans, two of them wounded,
and enabled several captured Amer
leans to escape
In addition to the Medal of
Honor, Capt. Britt holds the Silver
Star for knocking out a machine
gun nest near Acerno, Italy, and
the Purple Heart with two Oak Leaf
Clusters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
D. {. Navy Man Killed
In Action March IS

Wilbur Kenneth Webb, "a, chief
storekeeper in the Naval Reserve
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert A. Webb
1912 c street NE, was killed in
action March Is, his family has
learned, after participating in the
Tunisian, Sicilian and Italian cam
paigns.
A native of Boston, Mr.. Webb
was the father OF Miss Rosemary
Elizabeth Webb, 361l Benning roac
NE. He had six years of service
in the Asiatic area and re-entereo
the Navy in October, 1912. He wa:
lenployed for time In the dupli.
eating section of the Social Security
Office here.
Mr.. Webb's' father is a former
ensign in the Navy. The son at.
tended school at Annapolis while
his father was on duty at the Nava
| Academy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
Bait Predicts Millions
|0f JobIess After War;
Urges Planning Now
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
William L. Bait said today that
Government, agriculture, business
and labor each have responsibility
for creating a stable postwar eco
nomic structure, and urged that
the transition to peace be worked
out on basis of Sound" tax policy,
temporary continuation of some
price controls and avoidance of a
temptation to freeze wages at
wartime levels.
Vice chairman Of the War Pro-
duction Board, Mr. Bait testified
before the House Postwar Planning
Committee as chairman of the Ma
tional Planning Association, a pri-
vately-financed organization.
Predicts Millions of Jobless.
He foresaW from Is to 20 million
persons seeking jobs when the war
ends, and suggested:
That business prepare plans to
convert plants and equipment, to
make capital and credit available to
oilAoi ClilCl ~ AoCS anu w lCSGl dill
consumer installment credit during
the period of inf1ationary dangers.
That labor study union policies of
apprenticeship and seniority to help
reabsorb . returning soldiers and
avoid, the temptation to freeze war
time wages"
Better Farm Balance Urged.
That agriculture bring about a
better balance in the use of agricul-
ture resources, and conserve soil de-
pleted by war demands.
That Government work on tax
programs that can give incentive
and purchasing power with special
reference to sales taxes which may
diminish consumption, and corpor-
ate taxes which may diminish in
centive."
He said the Nations sense OF
freedom abhors controls that are
maintained merely for the power OF
controlling" but stated that some
continued price controls will be
needed while consumer goods are in
short supply in the immediate post
war period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
Mother, Four Children Die
As Blaze Sweeps Home
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BEAVER FALLS, Pa, April 13.-
Four small children and their moth
er were burned to death today, and
more than score of persons driven
into subfreezing weather when fire
that started in the Franklin Nc
Masters home in the Bradys Run
DISCREET Of nearby Fallston swept
through three frame houses.
The dead, all trapped on the sec
ond floor Of the McMasters home,
are Florence McMasters, "a, the
mother; two daughters, Sally, g.,
and Jane, 8 moths, and two sons,
Jack, 6, and William, 3.
The father was burned on the
face, neck and hands in attempting
to rescue his family. His condition
was reported fair at Beaver Valley
General Hospital.
One son, JACOB, 10, escaped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
Lifting Of Postwar Trade
Controls Urged by Barley
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAMMOND, Ind, April 49,
Senator Barley, Democrat, of Ken
lucky, Senate majority leader, says
the Government must get out of
private business after the war.
Government must turn loose
controls it has established over
business and must aid business back
TO its feet" Senator Barley said
last night in an address at the
annual membership dinner of the
Hammond Chamber of Commerce.
He described small businesses as
unavoidable war casualties" and
said the Government owes them q
special consideration after the war
The disposition of surplus prop
erty produced during the war will
be another important problem con-
fronting the country in the postwar
period, the Kentucky Senator said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
Politics
Continued From First Paee)


days of used-to-be. I haves enjoyed
many a delightful hunting excursion
there and shall always remember
with SO much gratefulness the
whole-hearted hospitality and warm
Icomradeship extended to me on such
occasions. Those days seem singu-
larly carefree and happy compared
to the sinister drama of our present
chaos and confusion"
Miller Cites Sentiment.
In his September letter, Mr.. Miller
wrote Gen. Macarthur that he was
amazed and pleased" at the amount
|of Macarthur for President talk he
heard in the Middle West. He said
that there is tremendous ground
swell in this country against the
New Deal, adding:
The New Deal, including Presi-
dent Roosevelt, is scared to death
of the movement in this country
for you. Roosevelt will probably
not even be a candidate should you
NC iioiliilidICO. Ou, dUOSe all
men so far mentioned, can bring
the greatest defeat to the present
administration"
In his January letter, Mr.. Miller
said Gen. MacArthur's previous re-
ply had made the House member
feel that you were keenly interested
in some of the political, economic
and domestic developments in this
country"
Sees Only Single Term.
The next President probably would
be one-termer, Mr. Miller observed
writing:
1t is going to take an individual
who is fearless and willing to make
political sacrifices in order to cut
out the underbrush and help de-
stroy this monstrosity in the form
OF bureaucracy which is engulfing
the Nation and destroying free
enterprise and every right of the
individual"
publication of the letters came at
a time when there were reports that
some of Gen. MacArthur's support
ers wanted to slow down his cam
palgn because of the growth of a
movement toward Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York.
Some of those who were instru-
mental in putting Gen. MacArthur's
name before the voters, despite the
Southwest Pacific commanders
silence on political matters, are
known to have reached the con-
cIuslon that Wendell L. WILKES
withdrawal from the contest ended
hopes for deadlocked convention.
Whlch would afford the best chance
Tor the generals nomination.
There appeared no likelihood, how
ever, that the Macarthur for-Presi-
dent organization, headed bv Joe
Savage of Chicago, holds any idea of
quitting, particularly in view of the
generals popular vote showing in
the Illinois primary Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
1.-Two Marine Generals
And Two Colonies
Named for Promotion

The President today nominated
two Marine Corps brigadier gen.
erals to be major generals and two
marine colonies to be brigadier gen.
erals.
They are: Brig. Gen. Thomas E
Watson of 1905 Tilden street NV,
Brig. Gen. James L. Underhill of
San Francisco, Col. Samuel G. Cum
mings of Hampton, Va, and Col
Oliver P. Smith.
Gen. Watson is native of Oshka-
loosa, Iowa He was chief of the
Marine Corps War Plans Section
here in 1899. He also has served
as instructor of the student field
officers course at Quantico. Gen
Watson has a son, Thomas E. Wat
son, jr., who is in the infantry
branch OF the Army
Underhill Served in France.
Gen. Underhill, a native of San
Francisco, served in France in COM
mand of the 9Th Separate Battalion
of Marines during the last war. He
also served in the Philippine Islands
and China, and from 1889 to 1912 he
was stationed at the Marine Corps
Headquarters here as executive off,
Ger of the adjutant and inspector
department.
Col Smith, whose home it at GOT
Fontaine street, Alexandria, Va.
was born at Minard, Tex. He was
on duty in the Marine Corps head
quarters here from June, 1912, until
January of this year as officer in
charge of the material section, divi-
sion of plans and policies.
Cummings Born in Japan.
Col. Cummings was born at Kobe
Japan, and graduated from the Vir.
ginia Military Institute. He wen
to France in June. 1917, and servec
throughout the war with the 5tf
Marine Regiment.
Col Cummings was in the often.
sives at Belleau Woods, st. Mihiel
Mont Blanc and Meuse-Arsonne
He also took part in the march tt
the Rhine and was in the Arm,
of Occupation in Germany. He re-
turned to the United States in 1920
but almost Immediately was sen
back to France in command of {
detachment of officers and men tt
map the battlefields.
He was in China with the 9Th
Marines as operations officer ir
March, 1927, serving at Shanghai
and Tientsin. He subsequently wa.
assigned to the Virgin Islands anc
from 1885 to 1887 was chief of the
department of Marine Corps Schools
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
LOST RATION COUPONS.

~B" GAS RATION BOOK, issued to William
Meister, l027 65th ave. Cedar Heights,
BILLFoLD containing penna. drivers IL
cenSe. REGISTRATION card, Al gas ration
book and No. 4 ration book, draft ciassi-
ncstion GARD, fingerprlnt card, other papers
GO, 1896 Reward. ' va w a. 49,"
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70. RATION BOOKS, issued to Mary e.
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Chester H Loop. r.. Drexel Hill. Pa, and
NATION Bo sa2 NO ca ssh f3 % DR. Edith
Weigert, IL oxford ST. Chevy Chase, Md.
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Olive GAYLORD, Falls Church, Va, in hand
bag containing . social security checks and
handbook. Reward. Kensington !2S-M.
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RATION BOOK No. 3, issued to Mary
Shannon Hommann, 265 Lansdon st.
Madison, Wis. Return TO 2007 o st. NV
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!6l9 Baltimore ave, Hyattsville, Md. IA
NATION BOOK NO. 4. issued to Keren j
G3nra6 1904 Conn. ave, Chevy Chase,
WAR RATION BOOKS J., 3 AND 4, issued
TO Lyman Charley and Leona B. Charley
OF Middleton lane, Camp Springs, Md;
special furlough blue coupons and special
sugar coupons, issued to Pvt Stephen G.
Graham Of Drew Field, Tampa, Fla.
WAR RATION BOOK NO. Ca,. . of No.
4; issued to William r and Anna c. Kes-
model. 900 Seward 50. Sc. Apt. 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
Bono
Continued From First Page J

i, lOlfi IL OF IdSC.p
ground assignment. I'D be lost OF
desk job" he says
Maj. Gen. Ennis Whitehead
deputy commander of the United
States Air Force, said Capt. Bong.
record is all the more spectacular
because on most of his flights he
had to cover long distances over
hazardous mountains and seas ano
had little flying time for aerial
combat
On yesterdays record breaking
mission, Capt. Bong had to fly more
than the distance from New York
to Chicago to reach his target.
The ace has never been shot down
but has flown several Lightnings
and has come home on several occa-
sions in badly crippled plane.
| Other pilots say he is a daring
and imaginative pilot.
| Only planes destroyed in aerial
combat are tailed in the Pacific
theater while all planes destroyed
both on the ground and in combat
are credited to 9th Air Force flyers
in Britain. The Navy keeps no Of
fetal counts of individual victories
but 1t. q. g. Ira Kepford of Mus
kegon, Mich, is credited with l6
japanese planes.
The Marine record of 26 planes
downed is held jointly by Mai. Joe
FoSS of Sioux Falls, S. Oak, and
Maj. Gregory Boyington of Okano-
gan, Wash, who is missing in &C
ton.
Nineteen other Army, Navy ano
Marine Corps flyers have DESTROYED
IS or more enemy planes, and
while Mediterranean theater records
list no flyers among the top "a with
Is or more planes to their credit
the two leaders there are Mai
Herschel Green of Mayfield, KY
with ID, and 1t. William J. Sloan OF
Richmond. Va, with IL.
The leading aces are:
European theater: Capt. Don S
Gentle, Piqua, Ohio, 30; Capt. Rob-
ert S. johnson, Lawton, Okla, %;
Capt. Duane w. Beeson, Boise
Idaho, 81 Maj. Walker Mahurin
Fort Wayne, Ind. Cmissing), 81;
Maj. Gerald Johnson, Owenton, KY
Omissing), 10; Maj. Walter Beck
ham, De Funiak Springs. Fla. miss
ing), 18; Maj. Francis S. Gabreski
Oil City, Pa. IT, and 1t. Col. Glenn
E. Duncan, Houston, Tex, Is.
Pacific (Army)-Capt. Richard
Bong, Poplar, Wis, 27; Col. Neel E.
Kearby, San Antonio, Tex. miss
ling), 81; 1t. Col. Thomas j. Lynch
Catasauqua, Pa. dead, 10: Capt
Thomas B. Mcclure, jr.. San An
tonic, Tex, II; Maj Robert West
brook, Hollywood, Calf, Is, and
Maj. George S. WEIGH, Wilmington
Del, Is.
Pacific (marineS)-Maj. Joe Foss
Sioux Falls, S. Oak, 26; Maj. Greg
DRY Boyington, Okanogan, Wash
(missing), 26; 1t. Robert Hanson
Newtonville, Mass. (missing), Is,
Capt. Donald Aldrich. Chicago, 20:
1t. Kenneth Walsh, Brooklyn and
Washington, 20; 1t. Col. John L.
Smith, Lexington, Okla, 10; Mai
M. E. Carl, Hubbard, Greg, II; 1t
William J. Thomas, Ell Dorado
Kans., 16, and Capt. Harold r
Spears, Ironton, Ohio, Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
Hull Throws Support
Behind ST. Lawrence
Waterway Project
By the Associated Press.


Secretary of State Hull was dis
closed today to have thrown his
official support behind a move to
win congressional approval at this
session for the $421 900. 900 st,
Lawrence seaway and hydroelectric
project.
Chairman Bailey of the Senate
Commerce Committee reported Mr.
Hull had written him recommend
ing enactment now of legislation
that would authorize construction
Of the huge development immedi-
ately after the war.
The enactment of this bill now, -
Secretary Hull wrote, would pro-
vide the authorization for under
takings which would make an i'm
portant contribution to the postwar
period in providing for the eXpan-
sion OF water-power development
and for greater efficiency in trans
portation, as we'll as providing en-
ployment on useful and essential
public works during the period inn
mediately following the war"
Bailey Sees Complications.
In making the letter public, SEN
ator Bailey said he personally be-
lleved the project involved a treaty
between the United States and Can
ada, and as such could not legally
be sanctioned by Congress through
passage of pending bill introduced
by Senator Aiken, Republican, of
Vermont.
A treaty requires two-thirds APP
proval of the Senate, and the Sem
ate rejected the st. Lawrence prof.
ect in treaty form in 1884
Senator Bailey said that if he is
supported in this view by subcom-
mittee headed by Senator Overton.
Democrat, of Louisiana, which has
been named to hold hearings on the
Aiken bill, the measure will be
turned over to the Foreign Rela-
tons Committee.
1T appears to me-" Senator Bailey
said, that the administration and
the advocates of the seaway are
trying to put through Congress by
a simple resolution what they
couldn't get through before as a
treaty"
Aiken Disputes View.
Senator Aiken promptly disputed
that view, saying various legal
authorities had held that an agree
ment entered into in 194l by the
United States and Canada for Joint
construction of the project was not
a treaty. Senator Aiken's bill, be-
sides approving that agreement.
would sanction an arrangement
whereby the Federal Government
would grant power facilities to the
State of New York.
Senator Aiken said he had re-
quested Senator Overton to open
hearings on the bill, and planned to
invite Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York as witness in support
OF it, along with Governors of sew
erai Great Lakes States and other
advocates. Gov. Dewey has Endorsed
the project for postwar construction,
as did President Roosevelt recently.
Some railroads and utilities have
been among opponents of the pro-
posal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
SIS Nurses to Receive
Diplomas at GuIIinoer

DR.. Daniel L. 'Seckinger, acting
superintendent of Gallinger Hos
pital, will present diplomas to S.
nurses at 8 pm. tomorrow at grad
uating exercises of the Capitol City
School OF Nursing. The ceremony
will be held at Gallinger Hospital.
DR.. L. E. Burney of the United
State Public Health Service will de-
liver the commencement address,
and DR.. Charles Stanley White
chairman of the School of Nursing
will preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
Admiral King 10 Address
FbI GRADUATING Class

Admiral Ernest =. King. chief of
the United States Fleet, and Lit.
Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, Ma
rine Corps commandant, win address
the graduating class of the FBI Ma
tional Police Academy here at 10
am. Saturday. Thomas j. Watson
of New York. president of the In
ternational Business Machines Corp.
also will speak
Among the SO graduates will be
Sergt. Robert Thompson. ST.. of the
Park Police. Charles N. Thcmsen
officer in charge of the identified
tiontion bureau, Prince Georges
County Police. and Corpl Earle New
conner of the Maryland State Police
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
Senator Clark of Idaho
To Seek Second Term

BY tie Associated Press.
Senator Clark, Democrat, of Idaho
announced today that he will be a
candidate for denomination to a
second term in the States primaries.
Senator Clark, AZ, served two
terms in the House before election
to the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
Connon's Plea to End
War Time Draws
Extensive Response

By the Associated Press.
Nine pages of the only Con-
greSSlonal Record published
while Congress was in recess are
devoted to l65 messages urging
that the Nations clocks be set
back an hour-and the man
who received them said they are
only drop in the bucket"
Representative Cannon, DEM
ocrat, of Missouri termed the
reaction to his proposal for
abolition of daylight saving
time the most amazing dem
onstration in my legislative Ca
reer." He is receiving hundreds
OF approving letters and tele-
grams, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
,0PA Eases Tire Curbs
On New Factory Seconds

BY the Associated Press
The Office of Price Administration
announced today that motorists pre-
viously eligible only for used pas
senger car tires will be able to OBJ
tain new factory seconds as well
beginning next Monday.
In this group are motorists who
are issued B" gasoline rations for
nonpreferred occupational driving.
OPA also announced that new pas
senger tube factory seconds are be-
ing removed from rationing and will
be available without a certificate.
About $4,000 tires of this type were
in manufacturers hands on April
OPA said.
One pound of waste c0Okiny fat,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13
FOUND.

EYEGLASSES, found in front of woodward
u Lothrop's. April IL. Call WI. 1853 ewes,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13


acn in The Star picked out the
service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13

One pound of waste cooking fats
makes enough slycerin to manufac-
ture one third pound gunpowder!
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-02-05
ZiOniteS Attend
Missions Council

CHlCAGO-(ANP) - Attending
and participating in various parts
OF the proceedings Of the Foreign
Missions Council OF North America
meeting in the LaSalle hotel early
last month from the A Me Zion
church were Bishop j. w Martin.
Bishop w Walls. Dr. H. 7 Med
ford, Mrs II Anna Hauser. Mrs
Abbey c. Jackson, Mrs. Ola Martin.
DR.. James w Eichelberger. Mrs
Minnie Hurley, Mrs. Lillian / Brow
der. Mrs Willie Bascom and Mrs
Pauline Lawrence
In order that the AME Zion
Representatives might cover eight
seminars held Friday of the coun-
Gil. DR.. II T Medford, secretary
OF foreign missions. assigned his
constituency TO attend them as fol-
lows: The Church and Color" Mrs
Abbey Jackson; The Church and
World Order" Or J w Eichel-
berger: Literature for the Newly
Literate." Mrs. Willie Bascom. Phi
losophy Of Missions as Related to
Non Christian Religious" Bishop
W Martin; Relief and Reconstruc-
ton Mrs. Minnie D Hurley; "Prac-
teal Problems Facing the Mission
ary Recruit" Mrs Ola NJ. Martin:
Making the Local Church Mission
Conscience, Mrs. NJ Anna Hauser:
What Missions Are Teaching Us in
Ecumenicity." Mrs. Pauline Jack
son Lawrence.