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Evening star., 1944-04-11
Knox 10 Seek Ruling
In kiimIneI, , ShortCase.'
BY the Assoc;ated press

BY the Associated Press. -
Secretary Of the Navy Knox said
today he would seek q legal ruling
on the postponement OF the trials
of Maj. Gen. William G. Short and
Vice Admiral Husband T.. Kimmel,
charged with dereliction of duty In
connection with the japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor December Z. 1941.
He pointed out at. a news con-
ference that both men have signed
waivers OF the statute Of linita-
tions and said. that in his opinion
such action made the. effect of
any postponement nil" and that
they could be brought to trial when
ever war conditions would permit.
Secretary Knox added that this
was only his personal view and said
the mater would be discussed with
the Nays Judge Advocate General
and the Attorney General.
Several months. ago the Navy dis
closed that Admiral Thomas Hart
had started taking dispositions from
omcers acquainted with the situa-
ton at Pearl Harbor Immediately
prior to the attack.
Gen. Short was commandant OF
the land forces and defenses of Ha-
wall, and Admiral Kimmel was COM
mander IN chief Of the Pacific Fleet
at the time Of the attack. Both
were relieved Of their duties shortly
afterward.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
az the Associated Presa.

NORTH TONAWANDA, N. Y,
April 11.-First 1t. Charles w. Wal
ters, former Temple University foot
ball end, who with six other Amer
ican airmen trudged through Oc-
cupied Europe to reach England two
months after their bombers crashed
in Southwest Germany, said last
night the escape was lust case of
a lot of work and a lot of luck"
The 28-year-old flyer credits "my
long athletic background for giving
me stamina to get back home. The
trip out OF enemy occupied country
was. sure rugged and most Of it was
made on foot"
1t Walters, now resting at home.
said the Liberator he IVES plotting
burst into flames after q bombing
mission January on Ludwigshayen.
poison gas manufacturing center.
Three OF. my crew-second 1t,
J. M. Buckley, .co-pilot, Of Fort
Worth, Tex. Technical Sergt. Louis
Del Guidice, Aradioman, New Haven.
Conn, and STAFF Serst. Carl .Hite,
engineer, Gary, Ind.--landed near
me. We haven't heard from -.
other five boys" he explained.
The group met three other Amer.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
William J.Lundy Dies;
Pepco Plant Enqineer

William J. Lundy, 81, plant engi-
rleer Of the Potomac Electric Power
Co., Benning station, died yesterday
at his home, 6512 Fortieth avenue
University Park, Md.
Born in Belfast, Ireland, Mr.
Lundy served a marine engineering
apprenticeship there and later spent
several years at sea on British
vessels. He served in the British
Royal Naval Reserve during the
World War and in 1921 made five
trips as executive chief engineer of
the Leviathan.
Entering .Pepco service in 1928 as
assistant chief engineer at Benning,
Mr.. Lundy was promoted to plant
engineer in 1884.
He was a member of the Masonic
Order in Bremond Lodge, No. 241
Newport News, Va. He held the 32d
degree Scottish Rite, Albert Pike
Consistory, and was a member OF
Elks Lodge, No. Is, and Almas
Temple.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Mary E
Lundy, he is survived by a brother
George II. Lundy, Dublin, Tex.
Funeral services will be held at :
pm. tomorrow at the Hines funera
home. Burial will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Draft Deferment Text
Listing Of Types Of Vital War Activities
Which Are Grounds for Deferment

gasoline program and synthetic rub
ber. components, special technical
services essential to production of
crude petroleum.
8. ONCE Of Defense Transports =
ton: (Great Lakes and inland wa
|terways)-(A Only captains and
chief engineers; OBJ other licensed
officers for 1914 navigation season,
airlines, flight personnel, ground
personnel only outside the conti-
mental United States; Tailroads-
personnel engaged in railway and
motor transport service directly re-
lated to the movement of war
freight necessary. to support the i'm
mediate war objectives, the with
drawal Of which would decrease the
safety, speed and volume of move
ment so as to adversely affect such
war objectives); (A) railway per-
sonnel engaged in assembly line,
haul and breakup Of railway freight
trains; CD key personnel Of those
trucking companies whose equip
ment Is more than $4,000 TONS gross
weight OF vehicles 0or- hire trucking
same as definition for railroads)
(see above). ,-
3. War Shipping Administration:
Pharmacist mates, offshore ship
ping (actiye seagoing personnel and
men in training for service in the
merchant marine no more men
under as are being recruited for
training. Is
10. Board Of War Communica-
tions: international radio-tele-
graph. radio telephone and cable
carriers outside the continental
United States.
IL. . War Food Administrator
Special technical services essential
to1wet corn milling. .tsis.
IL. CO. ordinatcr of Fisheries:
Operation of. commercial fishing
vessels Of 20 gross tons or over
"a rYt a ms n11v 4
Evening star., 1944-04-11
|Bricker Hits New Deal
And Hull Speech =.
By the Associated Press.
SPOKANE Wash p


SPOKANE, Wash, April 11.-Gov.
John w. Bricker of Ohio moved on
to Tacoma today to sound q keynote
for Pierce County Republicans after
one-day stay here during which
he dashed out at Secretary of State
Hull and declared the New Deal was
allen to the American system"
Republicans and, old lilas Demo-
crats," said the candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination,
have lot in common-neither has
anything to say about what goes on
in Washington"
Gov. Bricker studied the text Of
Mr.. Hun's Sunday night broadcast
on foreign policy and issued a state
ment declaring the public was fed
up with the New Deals backroom
diplomacy" = =.
He said the Secretary left many
questions unanswered and q feel
ing of uneasiness about our war
aims and foreign policy is evident
throughout the country" He added
he did not share MFR. Hull,s appre-
hension over, the effects OF open
discussion" of such matters.
The Governor spoke at q break
fast, keynoted the Spokane County
Republican convention and ap-
peared at a press conference and =
reception, still finding time in the
afternoon for a jaunt to Occur
d'Alene, Idahos for q talk with
North Idaho party men. =
Assailing the New Deal, Gov.
Bricker asserted he was more in
terested in electing a Republican
Congress and in defeating the cen
tralization of power in Washington
than in being elected President my
SELF. =
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Mrs. Nellie Muench
Is Freed From Prison.
BY the Associated Press.

NJ tAc ASSOClALGu tIeS&.
Mrs. Nellie Muench, st. Louis hat
shop operator, was released today
from the Federal Reformatory fol
Women at Anderson, w. Va, after
serving six years nine months and
30 days of a mail-fraud sentence
The Justice Department said the
fraud charges were filed after Mrs
Muench attempted to convince a
st. Louis doctor that she was the
mother Of his child. The Govern
ment alleged Mrs Muench obtained
an tllegitimate child in another
State and contended the physician
was Its father and she was the
mother.
Convicted In the Federal District
Court at st. Louis, Mrs. Muench
was sentenced to serve 10 years in
prison and pay a $4,000 fine. With
time of for good behavior, she
completed serving the sentence a
month ago then served an extra 3c
days in lieu Of a fine. She left
Anderson for an unannounced desti.
nation.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Pupils Paft, ft,Time Jobs
|WaI Pay $4,000

More than $35 600 will be earned
this semester by District public high
school seniors who get academic
credit for work in department stores
and Government Offices in the after
Moons, DR.. j. Frank Dame, business
education head in divisions l to 3,
announced today.
When the work-stpdy program
was adopted by the Board OF Educa-
ton year ago to cut down the
number of seniors leaving school to
work just before graduation, 81
students participated. The number
rose to 229 during the first semester
this year and now stands at 233.
Another increase is expected next
fall. ,-
School supervisors confer with
employers to decide the rating for
the afternoons. work. Only good
students are allowed to attempt the
eight or nine hour day of classes
and employment. II the rating Is
satkfactory-as it always has been
50 far, Dr.. Dame said-the student
Is granted one semester credit for
Is hours Of work 4 week, and one
and one half credits for 22h hours
|of work q week. Not more than
four hours at work on weekdays
and eight, on Saturday are per-
mitted. Prevailing rates" aver
aging 50 cents an hour, are paid.
About 90 per cent Of the students
50 Tar enrolled under the program
continued to work at the same place
full time after graduation, Or.
Dame said. More than IS per cent
OF the students are rated by the
employers as better workers than
their other employees, he added.
Several OF them were promoted to
positions Of considerable responds
bnity. e. >
Although the work study plan was
put In as 4 wartime measure, Or.
Dame Is hopeful that It will be
carried on. he said, rs an aid to
adjustment Of vocational and bust-
ness students to the working con-
ditions they viii face full time OF,
graduation.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Anheuser Scion Granted
Probation in Draft Case

By the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, April 11.-Presley S
Anheuser, s2,. son Of IA vice president
Of Anheuser Busch, Inc, yesterday
received q suspended sentence In
United States District Court after
his plea of no contest to charges OF
making false statements to his draft
board to obtain agricultural defer
ment from military service. :
; He was placed on probation, sub
ject to induction orders from his
draft board. Judge Richard M.
Duncan said he was following his
usual practice Of allowing men who
are willing to go into the armed
services, to do 50. =
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Smith Named Counsel
BY Senote Oil Probers
By the Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
Richard Joyce Smith, 40, New
York lawyer, yesterday was named
counsel for the Special Senate Com
mittee Investigating Petroleum Re-
sources.
AS such he will help direct q study
OF Americas oil policy, particularly
as 1t involves such international
matters as the trans Arabia oil pipe
line projected by Secretary Ickes in
his capacity as petroleum admin
iStratnr.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Meningitis Patient. 66,
In Critical Condition

! Miss Mary Davis, 66, Of 33l1 SIX
teenth street NV. the latest mem
ingitis patient at Gallin9er Hospi-
tal,' was reported today to be stiIl
in q critical condition. She was
removed from Emergency Hospital.
where she was first taken from her
home.
All the other IL cases Of men,
nights at the hospital were said to
be getting along all right"
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Gotewoy Citizens Ask
More Benches for Park

The National Gateway Citizens
Association last night called on the
National Park Service for more
benches to be placed In the park at
Twenty-eighth street and Bladens-
burg road NE.
The association also discussed
maintaining present standards Of
home ownership In the Northeast
section. The meeting was held at
the Church Of Christ, Twenty.
eighth and Douglas streets NE.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Druft
Continued From First Page.) }

The VITA succeeded in getting de-
ferment recommended only for men
engaged in special technical services
essential to wet corn milling.
In the cases Of the men in the
war activities, as well as the stu
dents, coal miners and internes, it
was provided that the State direc-
tors recommend exceptions to the
general ban on occupational defer
n1ents Of men under 26.
The rush to get the list to State
directors was precipitated by the
orders last week end to draft boards
to concentrate on processing mer
under as for induction. Most OF the
remaining men in that age group
now hold occupational deferments
except for a relatively small num-
Der OF young pre-Pearl Harbor
fathers reclassified out of 3-A and
now awaiting Induction.
Meanwhile, District Selective Serv-
ics Director william e. Leahy esti-
NaAted today that District boards
PROBABLY viii not take more than q
month to process the men under 26
While processing the younger men
the District boards will not order for
induction the men over Is who are
IA essential activities, although they
may not be entitled to draft defer
Hient as necessary men in the wa,
effort" ?
Mr.. Leahy's estimates gives these
men a months stay Of induction but
men over Is who are not in es.
sential activities will be called alona
with the younger men,
For the next few days, all men
over Is will be sent home from the
induction stations, unless they want
to volunteer, while draft boards
meet to decide which are in essential
jobs and which in nonessentiaI work
Then the latter group will start
going up for induction again.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Nelson Invites Group
'0f Civilians 10 Advise
WPB on Reconversion
BY the Associated Press.


Chairman Donald Nelson has in
vited about 10 prominent civilians
to serve on new top advisory COM
mittee within the War Production
Board to advise on the return to
civilian production.
Mr.. Nelson's action was said to
be an answer to the proposal made
by Charles E. Wilson, executive vice
chairman, for establishment within
WPB Of production planning and
adjustment committee" which would
handle reconversion problems with
Mr.. Wilson as chairman. 1t was
not known whether, in view of Mr.
Nelson's move, the Wilson commit
tee, which would have representa-
ton virtually the same as the Pro-
duction Executive Committee, would
be created.
WPB officials said there probably
would be q partial reorganization OF
the agency around the new advisory
group, which will be called the "Ad-
visory Committee on Civilian Pol
Icy" Studies looking to the re-
alignment of some parts of WPB are
going forward.
Mr.. Nelson sent kilograms invit-
ing representatives of labor, man
agement, consumers, banking and
finance, public opinion and agricul-
ture to become members of the per-
manent committee and to attend a
first meeting in Washington Friday
One snag repeatedly has developed
In the failure to date of Robert M
Gaylord, president of the National
Association of Manufacturers, to ac-
cept a bid to sit as one of the man
agement representatives. The rea-
son for Mr.. Gaylord's delay or re-
fusal was not divulged.
Some of the others said to have
been invited are Eric Johnston,
president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce; William
Green and Philip Murray, presi-
dent of the AFL and CLIO, respec-
lively, and Eugene Meyer, publisher
Of the Washington Post.
The committee will be expected,
he said, to guide WPB on the STRAIT
egies and policies to be pursued in
resuming civilian output, as well as
the problems of plant shutdowns
and unemployment resulting from
present and expected curtailments
in some fields of arms production.
The committee will meet at regular
intervals, it was said, with Mr.. Nell
son presiding.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Veteran Actor Dies

VAN NUYs,. Calf. April II (A7.--
Arthur P. West, IS, stage and screen
actor for 30 years. died yesterday
Evening star., 1944-04-11

One pound Of waste cooking fats
makes enough glycerin to manufac-
turs orie-third pound gunpowder!
Evening star., 1944-04-11

Walnut-finish hardwood
frame that is sturdily
built. Upholstered in
serviceable cotton tapes
try.
Evening star., 1944-04-11
Porch
Rocker
$40

Varnish finish hardwood
frame with comfortable
Slat seat and back.
Sturdily constructed for
lasting service.
Evening star., 1944-08-02

turn to work. rive hundred have
been Idle since July a In / juris-
dictional dispute between the AL
group and the CIO glass. ceramic,
sand aIl1 silica workers. lila.
Charging that war production at
the rottstoNn (ra.) plant Of the
Spicer Manufacturing co. Is abeing
sabotaged BY the present MANAGE
ment, onacials Of the C1o United
Automobile Workers appealed to
President Roosevelt and the Ma
tioIia1 War Labor Board today to
seize the plant where approximately
1,S00 employees walked out Monday.
shipyards Face Tis-up. ].
The California shipbuilding Corp.
at Los Angeles yesterday tele-
|graphed the War Labor Beard here
that II labor trouble continues Ct
the Federal-Mogul Corps San
Francisco plant it will soon AFFECT
the yards delivery Of troop ships.
Only II Of Federal Moguls 1856
machinists have been WORKING.
Business Agents Harry Hook and
=. T. Dillon Of the AFL Interna-
tional Machinists' Lodge 90 have
demanded the discharge OF four
lodge members who. they say, have
violated union order against work
ing more than - hours i week.
The company has asked WLB aid,
asserting its war contracts are press
ing.
At least 5000 were idle in other
disputes which remained unad-
justed. ,T 8
Evening star., 1944-08-02

strike Of 1000 employees In five De-
troit plants Of General Motors
Chevrolet gear and axle division
The board designated Melvin
Bishop, a regional director for the
union, as administrator Of Local
235, with which the strikers are
afnliated.
Two Disputes Ended.
Two Detroit area labor disputes
ended with the return to work Of
1000 employed BY the Gtinson divi-
sion Of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft
Corp. and with an agreement to re-
instate group Of Montgomery
Ward b Co. clerks dismissed for
refusing to help with Sunday In
ventory.
A three-day strike involving A,300
at the General Steel Casting Co.,
Granite City. H.. ended yesterday,
but began all ever again almost at
once when 800 colored clippers
walked out, again halting production
work Of the other 1000.
Some 400 Idle since last Friday
at the Trenton and Roebling. N. j.,
plants Of John A. Roebling's Sons d
Co. were under WLB direction to
return to work at once.
In Muncie, Ind. AFL glass bottle
blowers Of Ball Bros. Co. voted last
night to ignore WLB order to re-
Evening star., 1944-08-02

Moscow dispatches yesterday Md
the Germanss After ep63ng 0ernA4n
civilians to safety. .Wo4N applyfa6
the tprchs TO WarsaW. 81
Evening star., 1944-08-02
TrunIs.'it
CONTINUED From First PAGE,

issue Of the employment of Negroes
as drivers.
Earlier today gangs Of armed
Negroes roamed 4 colored rssiden-
tial. district In the northwest,
smashed 500 windows and attacked
and injured eight white persons,
police said.
In Philadelphia James McMena-
min, who described himself Is chair
man of q general emergency COM
mittee OF PIC workers, told the
workers a vote on Negro employment
was being sought.
At pm. there had been no re-
ports of race skirmishes In the city
for more than three hours.
Police arrested more than 800 on
charges varying from malicious
mischief to aggravated assault and
battery and carrying concealed
deadly weapons.
Three thousand city policemen
and 1000 auxiliary policemen were
OAl uutys
Police said most of the gangs
involved in disorders last night and
earlier today were made up Of teen
age boys armed with bricks, bottles
stones, clubs, knives or guns.
Race disorders broke out last night
after . work stoppage stranded
many of the city's l,500,0 900 daily
riders of buses. trolleys and SUBJ
way trains and cut heavily into wal
production.
In some cases the gangs looted
grocery stores. taprooms and drug
stores after smashing in the win
dows.
William Marquard. q newspaper
reporter, and Charles Higgins, q
photographer, covering the trouble
reported they were chased by q
band Of Negroes, given refuge by
Evening star., 1944-08-02
A-16 s*sTHE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. G..
-.sts WEDNESDAY. AUGUST T.
$1,000 Remain Idle
In Work Stoppages
Throughout Nation
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Labor unrest, including the Phila-
delphia transit strike kept more
than 81 ,000 workers from their Jobs
throughout the Nation today.
A new dispute making idle 1000
employees of the Kelsey Hayes Wheel
Co. developed in Detroit. A CO.
United Automobile Workers spokes-
man attributed the stoppage to a
lockout he said resulted after many
employees failed to appear for a sud-
denly advanced starting hour. No
company oficiaT could be reached
for comment.
Meanwhile the JAWS Executive
Board acted in Milwaukee to- end a
Evening star., 1944-08-02
Russiu
.Oontinued From Firs. Pase.,

300; 400 men, there was no onicaal
estimate ~ the number trapped in
Inn area aboat' the size Of South
|Caruaina.
Tho Rtd Army had cut and was
asrlde ahs rAtlrueds and hiehNays
le4dinGs nom tho Baltic status %
East Prsissia. 1rom TOkuns On the
coastal r1iiroad. Gen. Ivan Basra-
mian's Baltic army group famed
d6 rapidly Ia three directions: ~
|DaShing lees than - miles from
Kiva itSeff: s2Ds nefthMard along the
IGuh Or Rig, and ~, toward such
Evening star., 1944-08-02
escape ports as Leipaja, IS miles
AaA. and Ventspils and Maxirbe.

escape ports as Leipaja, IS miles
east, and Ventspils and MaHrbe.
Only the sea, remained as an
-escape. route for Hitler,s trapped
legions,a but the wide-sweeping Rus
sian kir Force menaced this avenue.
Front dispatches indicated it may
be only = matter Of days until the
enemy Is wiped out in Latvia and
Estonia.
Fenr Armies Clssing In,
Four Russian armies now are
closing in On the isolated Germans.
The Soviet midnight connmunique,
announcing the plunge to the coast,
foretold q German catastrophe in 4
single sentence. '...
Thus our troops have cut all
roads leading from the Baltic to
East Prussia"
With Riga isolated and German
survivors there dug In with their
backs to the sea, Gen. Basramian
sent an armored column speeding
after fugitive enemy forces stream
ing toward Leipaja.
Closing of the Baltic trap paved
the way for quick release of the
Soviet northern divisions for direct
invasion Of Germany in concert
with the fast Russian armies
Of the south.
While Marshal Konstantin K.
Rokossovsky battered against War;
saws eastern door Gen. Cher
niakhovsky extended his triple
pronged attack on East Prussia after
his conquest of Kaunas.
"a London broadcast heard this
morning by OBS said that in
Moscow ''the announcement of q
Russian march into East Prussia
is awaited hourly" and that Rus
sian artillery already rs shelhng
enemy positions in German
land.)
10 Miles, FYsm East Prussia.
Gen. ChesniakhovskyS cavalry
and armored units swept within 10
miles OF the East Prussian frontier
fortress Of Eydtkuhnen after the
SSAoOAS Va hAAtA8Ie. AOUAs1OAlAl tulFO
White Russian Army forces occupied
800 populated places yesterday.
Spearheads Of Gen. q. r. Zak-
harov's, ID White Russian Army
punched toward Losnxa, old Polish
communicating center just south Of
East Prdssia, and the left wing
swung due south to add to the pres
sure against Warsaw.
The midnight .communique made
no mention OF the siege Of Warsaw,
but there was evidence that the
Red Army was laying the ground
work for great victory IN that Soc
ter. ~
West Of Siedlce. in the warsaw
direction, the Russians reported the
capture 'of another German general,
Fl. Gen. Franks Of ths 13d Infantry
lntvisian. the 1Jth Nad general cap
tured In the Soviet summer oden-
siSe.
Moscow dispatches yesterday. Md
1.-THE Germanss. After 4eqA3n9 0ornA4n
|etvifians to safety. wefo applyhlS
sthc torch 70 warsaw.
Evening star., 1944-08-02
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