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Evening star., 1944-01-15
Mother, 81, Arrested
In Draft Evasion Case
By the Associated Press.

by INe ASSOCldleu FTeSS.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 15.-A 54-
year-old mother arraigned yesterday
on a Federal charge for not report
ing the Christmas visit of her son
sought as draft evader, said she
had done only what any mother
would have done"
Charged with harboring a fugitive,
the mother, Mrs. r. j. Clark, Tren-
ton. Mo-, told United States Com
missioner Charles H. Thompson that
she knew her son was wanted by the
Government when he visited her in
Trenton last Christmas.
Il might as we'll tell the truth.
You can't expect me to tell on my
own boy" she said.
The son, r. j, Clark, has been
charged in New York with failure to
report to his draft board. He has not
been arrested.
Preliminary hearing for Mrs. Clark
was set for today.
MIS-. OldTk explained JfldL neT son
had been turned down by the Navy
for bad eyesight.
When I told him he should re-
port he would say that he could not
pass anyway.
She said she believed the son, a
welder by trade, now was working
in Kansas City. Her husband is
working in California war plant
Commissioner Thompson fixed her
bond at 81 200.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Biggest U. 5. Bomber Plant
Opens School for Labor
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. 15.-Men from
the white collar ranks and women
whose mechanical experience was
confined to washing machines are
learning the exacting art of turn
ing out parts for superbomber air
plane engines at the Chrysler
Corps gigantic Dodge Chicago
plant.
The management announced to-
day that workers to-be were
being trained for the duties they
will perform when the plant starts
production of 18-cylinder engines
'in very large quantities.
The LOB training" system was
put into effect after it was decided
that it would be impossible to OBJ
tain a sufficient number of skilled
hands.
During most of their first day at
the plant, the scholars" watch ex-
perienced operators handle the ma
chimes. Then they operate the de-
vices themselves.
More than $4,000 workers will be
needed when actual operations
begin.
The plant covers approximately
500 acres. The largest of the 10
buildings is bigger than Ford's Will
low Run bomber works at Detroit.
1t has more square feet of floor
space than Chicago's huge Mer-
chandise Mart and is the largest
plant of its type in the world.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Westinghouse 70 Extend
incentive Bonus System
~ the Asscciatsd Press.

& =
Approximately 10000 nonproduc-
ton workers Of the Westinghouse
Electric Co. win receive benefits Of
an incentive bonus plan, previously
applicable only to production work
ers, under q compAny-wide plan
which has been approved by the
War Labor Board.
Under the plan, approved by a
WLB vote Of 8 to 3, retroactive
bonuses to the employees will amount
to approximately $240 each. The
plan is effective as of April 8, 1943
The plan, giving nonproductior
workers an opportunity to share the
benefits Of increased efficiency, was
sponsored jointly by the company
for its 80 plants, and the CIC
United Electrical Workers.
The WLB decision was reached
promptly after a public hearing
yesterday and is expected to have
far-reaching effects in industry
particularly among competitive
firms like General Electric, where
the same union also is bargaining
agent.
The company and the union pre-
sented data to demonstrate that
payment OF the bonus to the nom
production workers constituted q
true incentive plan which was not
in conflict with the WLB's wage
stabilization policy.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Klein to Head Food Unit
OF M. & IA. Association

John Klein was elected general
chairman of the wholesale food divi-
sion of the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association last night at
the annual dinner held at the Wash
ington Hotel.
Other officers elected were: Vice
chairman, Thomas T. Keane; Sec
retary, Sidney Kolker; treasurer,
Francis I. Brooke; hotel supply
houses, Morris Kraft, chairman;
poultry dealers, Isadore Feldman;
seafood dealers, Raymond Claxton;
butter and egg dealers, Henry
Males; manufacturers, Arthur S..
Cudmore; wagon food distributors,
Speros Versis; wholesale meat deal
ers, Ray Lewis; transfer, Charles w.
Poole; brokers, l.. B. Sharp; labor
co-ordtnator, Raymond G. Briggs.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Swedish Pact With Reich
May Allow j. ). Imports
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Swedish
overseas safe-conduct traffic author
lied by the recent German-Swedish
trade agreement will for the first
time include imports from Spain
and "envisages" imports from the
United States and Iceland as we'll as
from South America, the Swedish
radio said yesterday.
Quoting dispatch from Goteborg,
the domestic Swedish broadcast said
that "shiploads of necessary goods
from the United States" would be
permitted to arrive at Swedish ports
under the new concessions, as we'll
as zone shipload from Neland, prin-
cipally blubber, and one shipload of
oranges from Spain"
The broadcast was reported by
the Federal Communications Com
mission.
The overseas safe-conduct traffic
agreement, adopted concurrently
with an agreement on Swedish Ger
man trade, was primarily concerned
with the resumption of Sweden's i'm
port trade from South America, par
ticularly Argentina
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Conviction Affirmed
|0f Sheriff, 7 Officers
In Fatal Beating
By the Associated Press.

6y the AbbOC1tteo fYet9s
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 15.-Ths
conviction Of Sheriff M. Claud
Screws Of Baker County, Ga, and
two other officers on charges Of
violating the civil liberties statutes
In connection with beating to death
colored prisoner, was affirmed
yesterday by the United States Cir
cult Court Of Appeals.
Screws, Frank Edward Jones, q.
former Newton County (Ga) police
man, and Special Deputy Jim Bob
Kelly were convicted in the Middle
Georgia District Court. The victim,
Robert Hall, was alleged to have
stolen an automobile tire in the
Baker County courthouse yard. ,
District Judge Bascom Deavef
sentenced the defendants to three
year prison terms and imposed fines
of $1,000. :
Dissenting opinion was offered
yesterday by Judge Samuel H. Sib-,
ley on the ground that the case was
liable to criminal prosecution under
\1cOTkld law dIlO tAdb A01
statutes are not applicable. The
2-to-1 decision was rendered by
Judges Curtiss L. Waller and Edwin
r. Holmes. ,
The majority opinion upheld the
claim that the colored man was
deprived of his rights without due
process of law and declared I'VE are
of the opinion that the court below
had Jurisdiction, that the evidence
overwhelmingly supports the verdict
of the jury and that the Judgment.
of the lower court should be af-..
firmed"
Trial testimony stated that the.
prisoner was beaten with fists and .
blackjack after he resisted the ON.
GERS and cursed the sheriff.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Congress 10 Be Asked
10 Grant Seamen
Mastering Out Pay
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The CIO Maritime Committee,
representing all CIO af1liated
maritime unions, today promised to
take to Congress its fight for in
clusion of merchant seamen In any
mustering-out pay legislation en-
acted by Congress.
The measure, as approved by the
House Military Affairs Committee
and which will be brought up in the
House next week, applies only to
members of the armed forces.
Bjorne Halling, executive secre-
tary Of the committee, said an effort
would be made to amend the bill
In the House, and If that failed, the
fight would be taken to the Senate.
Mr.. Halling based his demands
for such action on the ground that
merchant Seamen have performed
just as dangerous and important
work as the armed services; that the
unemployment problem for merch-
ant Seamen will be just as serious
as for members of the armed forces,
and that considering benefits re-
ceived by members of the armed
forces which merchant seamen do
not get, their wartime compensa-
ton has not been any greater.
The merchant marine is growing
from normal peacetime compile
ment OF approximately $4,000 sea-
men, he said, to 175,0OO, and many
Of these maritime workers will re-
turn to shore industry "after vic
tory"
Mr.. Halling said the average an
nual remuneration of unlicensed
merchant seamen is $1,677.14, and
the estimated annual income for
those in the highest paid unlicensed
rating was $l,875, including salary,
overtime and bonuses.
BY comparison, he said. Federal
authorities estimate the annual in
come OF the lowest paid private to
be equivalent to $1,70O when con-
sideration is given the value of food
shelter, clothing, equipment, medical,
dental and hospital care, and other
benefits.
Meanwhile, Senator LANCER, Re-
publican, OF North Dakota intro
duced legislation providing for con-
tinuing the pay of members of the
armed forces for IL months after
their discharge from the services.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Indictment Returned
In 1926 Kidnup Case
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BATH, N. Y, Jan. 15.-The Steu-
ben County grand jury yesterday in
dicted Samuel S. Stott, 81, on
charges of kidnapping his second wife,
Esta, and a friend, Frank Murphy,
18 years ago. both Of whom Stott
told State police he killed but whose
bodies never have been located.
Stott, arrested last October in
Kansas City, Kans., was also indict-
ed for second-degree grand larceny
in connection with the theft of an
auto that State Police Inspector Eu-
gene F. Hoyt charged belonged to
Mr.. Murphy.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Vacant Army Camps
10 Be Converted Into
Veterans Hospitals
BY the Associated Press.


A number Of Army camps vacated
by troops sent overseas are going to
be turned over to the Veterans Ad-
ministration for use as hospitals.
That was announced yesterday by
1t. Gen. Brehon b. Somervell, head
|of the Army Service Forces, after
approval of the plan by Brig. Gen
Frank T. Hines, chief of the Vet
erans' Administration, and Mai.
Gen. Norman T. Kirk, Army surgeon
general.
Gen. Somervell said the reason for
the action was to make certain sthat
there will be no interim between the
date q sick or wounded soldier in
discharged from the Army and the
day the Veterans Administration
assumes responsibility"
'The Veterans Administration
has been hampered by lack Of ia
cilities and Of trained staffs," Gen.
Somervell said. Therefore, we Of
fered to turn over as many camps
as Gen. Hines needs to assure un-
interrupted care and comfort for our
men. He accepted our offer and we
now are working out details to-
gether."
Gen. Somervell said no decision
had been made as to which camps
would be transferred.
Meanwhile, Representative Rog-
ers, Republican, of Massachusetts,
introduced bill yesterday to give
the Veterans Administration top
claim, after the Army and Navy
to service personnel and workers
transferred from other Government
departments.
Gen. Hines in testimony Thursday
before the House Veterans Commit
tee said that regardless of the pri-
ority given him in obtaining per-
sonnel it would help little unless he
could tap the pool of draftees
through the selective service system.
So Mrs. Rogers offered her bill
to empower the Secretaries of War
and Navy ito transfer any person.
mel, whether commissioned, enlisted
or inducted, from the Army and
Navy, respectively, to the Veterans
Administration, where necessary for
the Veterans Administration to
carry out its functions"
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Dog Warns Household
of Fire in Basement

The warning barks of a small dog
awoke Mrs. Margaret Tompkins and
members of her household at 4807
Davenport street NV, last night
in time to escape serious fire dam
age.
Firemen said blaze in the base
ment, which did small damage,
poured considerable smoke through
the home. 1t. Lyman P. Clements
of No. 20 Engine Company led Mrs
Tompkins to safety after others
fled to safety in their nightclothes.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
COP IndustriaIist 10 Seek
Van Nuys' Senate Seat
Ey the Associated Press.

Z HSSUCIHCtu FIeSS.
WASHINGTON, Ind, Jan. IS
Homer E. Capehart, who gained
prominence in 1888 by sponsoring
a Republican "cornfield conference"
on his large farm near here, last
night announced his candidacy for
the COP nomination for Senator
from Indiana.
Mr.. Capehart. party chairman in
the Seventh Congressional District,
is head of an indianapolis indus
trial plant.
He Is the first member of either
major party to announce for the
seat now filled by Senator Van
Nuys, Democrat, of Indiana.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Engineer Killed as Trains
Collide in Connecticut
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DARIEN, Conn, Jan. 15.-Engi-
neer John J. Garrity of New Haven
was killed last night in a collision
between two passenger trains at the
Darien railroad station.
A road official said both trains
were eastbound. One was making
regular station stop at Darien and
the other was an extra returning to
New Haven with deadhead passen-
ger equipment.
Dalton Shoemaker also of New
Haven, the fireman on the extra
train, which railroad oficials said
ran into the rear of the standing
train, was uninjured.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Druft
Continued From First Page J

cent had arthritis, cancer or other
diseases; IA per cent had heart
trouble, rs per cent had CASTRO
intestinal disturbances, 81 per cent
had eye, ear. nose or throat dis
orders and others were discharged
for tuberculosis or other respirat tory
diseases, bone fractures or venereal
diseases.
1t. Col. Francis v. Keesling, jr..
selective service legislative represen-
tative who prepared the report, told
Congress that neither the Army nor
Navy reached their planned strength
by the end of this year and had a
total of 10,43l 900 men instead of the
anticipated 10,709, 900.
In order to make up this deficit
he said. the combined monthly calls
for the Army and Navy, instead of
being approximately 10000 men a
month. have been increased beyond
that amount" .s
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Italy
Continued From First Page.)

miles north Of Acquafondata along
the San Pietro Ridge.
During the first two days of their
current campaign in this sector the
French have taken $50 prisoners, it
was announced.
American forces to the south and
west of Casino have plowed into
strong enemy Notifications on
Mount Trocchio, last big physical
barrier on the road to Casino, and
are engaged in hard fighting. The
Germans have covered the slopes of
the mountain with mortars and
machine-gun nests requiring slow
determined effort to root them out
Extensive patrol activity con-
tinued on the 9th Army front and
one scouting detachment plunged
into the enemy lines south of Civil
tella, inland beyond Cassoli, and
became involved in sharp skirm-
iSh.
British Artillery Active.
British artillery was active on
both the 5th and 9th Army fronts
On the latter Allied guns opened
up against several German We
hic1es spotted on a road northwest
of Pennapiedimonte.
(The German communique to-
day admitted a Nazi withdrawal
after heavy battles in the Ger
varo sector. Cervaro, four miles
from Casino, was captured by
the Americans Wednesday,
Allied bombers of many types
swept along the Yugoslav coast te
strike heavy blows at German bases
used in operations against the pa
triots of that country.
Fortresses and Liberators with 6
fighter escort made a concentrated
attack on the airfeld at Mostar
dropping large quantities of higl
explosive and augmentation bombs
while light and fighter bombers at.
tackled shipping in the Adriatic neal
Sibenik.
Four hits were scored on a 5000.
ton merchantmen, which was left il
flames, and three hits severely dam.
aged smaller cargo ships. A motol
vessel was set afire, another dam.
aged and a barge and two harbol
craft were struck, one exploding.
5,000-Ton Freighter Hit.
Photographs of the Kirk Rivel
area in Yugoslavia showed that {
5,000-ton freighter hit there two day.
ago was still burning.
Light bomberS and fighters alst
continued their attacks on enem,
supply dumps and communication
ahead Of the 5th Army.
American Invader dive-bomber
ranged along Italy's west coast t.
strike at jetties, docks and shipping
around Anzio and Terracina, tw,
ports serving Rome.
Raj Beauf1ghters also strafet
rolling stock at Tarquinia, north O
Rome, Thursday night.
A squadron of P-40s destroyed tn,
German tank repair shops at Loreto
near the Adriatic coast, with higl
explosive bombs.
Medium bombers attacked a rail-
way bridge at Pontecorvo in the
Casino area while other planes
blasted gun positions at SAINT Ella
and San Guisppe.
Five Allied planes were reported
missing against four enemy air.
craft destroyed in the days opera
tions.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Troinmon Injured

Harold L. Strickler, 81, Of Silver
Spring, Md, brakeman for the
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad. suf-
fered serious back injuries yesterday
when he fell from boxcar into q
coal car while switching cars at
Fourth and Charming streets NE.
He was taker to Emergency Hospital,
where his condition was said to bs
fair today.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
$500 Missing
After Mystery
Hand Appears
y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES.-Thea Man
ager Larry Sharp stood upstage ex-
planning the keeno game.
Fifteen hundred patrons thought
the hand, reaching through the
backdrop and lifting something
from a stage chair, was part of the
show.
Mr. Sharp turned to the chair for
the 5000 award money.
There was no money, no hand
and no one backstage.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Rooms for Servicemen
Sought by Committee

Winfree johnson, chairman of the
Lodging Subcommittee of the War
Hospitality Committee, today urged
further utilization of available space
In central sections of the city as
lodging space for service personnel.
He reported the United Nations
Service Center, 500 North Capitol
street, now is filled to capacity.
Persons with available rooms may
sall National 1900 and offer them.
Both beds and bedding are available
Tor empty rooms In private homes.
Evening star., 1944-01-15

Place = stamp in that vacant
space in your War Savings Stamp
book. It win help put the Axis on
the spot.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Gronts Air MonopoIy

Chile has passed law permitting
only its national air line to carry
traf1ic between any two Chilean
points
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Mind 'Peos and Queues

Ration-weary housewives in Aus
tralia say they now have to mind
their peas and queues for beans.
Evening star., 1944-01-15

Reassure your soldier at
the front as the bottle
stiffens-Buy more and
more WAR BONDS.
Victory Booth, First Floor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03
BY COUNT BYRON de PRoROK
ArchcolOgist, Explorer and lecturer


THE Germans have pillaged the museums Of
/ Europe of the greatest art treasures of all time.
! The Intrinsic value of the plumber is reckoned
at S2,000000000 or more.
But have some Of the precious works eluded the
international marauders? Have masterpieces such
the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo which
never could be valued in dollars and cents been
spirited beyond the grasp Of the robbers? 1t has
happened before when gangster war lords have
been on the proWl.
There are those who say that Leonardo da
Ninci's famous Mona Lisa, along with the Venus
and the Winged Victory of Samothrace, were SNUG
Tled into hiding and were never discovered by the
Germans 1t may be.
Yet this know. was in Switzerland two years
ago and had the good fortune TO be in the company
Of my friend the Keeper of the Vault of the Banque
Federae Of Lausanne, where much Of the loot of
Europe is deposit to the credit Of Hitler Goerng,
GoebbelS and their gang.
The Keeper of the Vault showed me some of
the spoils sent there for safekeeping. He pulled
open drawer reserved for the stolen wealth Of
Pierre Laval, who sold his brthrght.
ON top lay the Prissi Papyrus 4,000year-old
Egyptian manuscript, which insured by the
Bibiotheque Rationale in Paris for S1,000O00 be-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

of sounding the signal for battle upon her trumpet
is perhaps the best of early Hclcnstic art eXtant
1T WAS found near the ruins Of a large Dorc
temple on the island Of Samothrace in 1868, and
originally was erected about BOG BIC as a grateful
offering for naval victory won by Dcmetrius
PolioIcetes, the King Of ,AlaccdOn over the Egyp
tians at Cyprus The colossal statue Is armless
as well as headlcss and the torso is made up of l29
fragments Tie breast and lett wing are of plaster.
When the Germans took the chateau IN June
1910, they at threw strong guard around IT,
and after while they brought the sculptures back
10 the Louvre where they were still display
when NJ Sterling LETT France ~ November 1912
Why the Germans had not touched the Louvre
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03


also has some revealing information concerning
this battling mystery.
NJ Sterling who left France in 1912, was one
Of the men responsible for the packing and removal
Of the art treasures from the Louvre. AS soon
as the war was between France and Germany
in September 1889, 1900 of the best paintings
among them the Mona Lisa, were taken to the
small museum at Montaubin, town a few miles
north of Toulouse in southern France
There the paintings were stored in three small
rooms. The crowded space a fire hazard and
the damp climate was tar from ideal for storing
such priceless treasure.
When the Germans took all Of France in Novem.
Der 1912, the paintings were removed, NJ. Sterling
says, TO a spacious chateau near by. 1t was done
III great secrecy.
The sculptures OF the Louvre, among them the
Winged Victory and the Venus de Milo, taken
in September 1889 10 the huge Chateau de Cham
bord, in the Loire Valley according 10 NJ Sterling
That the convoy arrived safely was due 10 an
American woman Madame Florence Conrad, who
had been selected by the museum directors TO pilot
the statues to their destination III her recent book
"Camarades de Combat" she has given vivid
account of how she conducted the Victory and the
IG September =. 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

NJ Sterling does not know. II is highly proba
that they have looted some after realizing II
the French could not be talked into fun subn
sion 10 the New Order and especially after
start Of the Allied invasion.
Claude Schclfer, curator Of the French Natioj
Museums recently said in London that III -
Lisa and the Two famous sculptures were 81
out Of the Louvre and that the Germans tried
get Vichy 10 bring them back.
Il feel certain SCheffer stated, that liz,
priceless chefs d'ocuvrcS remain safe, for only
men in the world know where they have be
concealed"
Some reports say that Goerings emssar
were hot on the trail of the art treasures hide
the Nlalshals hiIc'ngs arrived At the hiding pl;
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

tllnB was norman AGAIN anu Il
war was over as far as Frai -
concerned.
What art treasures they did take
those days was done "leCitimately"
by buying them with worthless mari
In addition, the Nichy government, q
ing TO please the conquerors, made Gil
Of paintings 10 Goering and 10 otp
NaZi big Shots -,
But we have ii on good author|
that the Germans have stripped the e
quered lands Of their art. We knl
that the priceless Van Eyck Adoratj
of the Lamb was snatched from 4
Ghcnt Cathedral in Belgium and put
exhibition in Berlin, finally, accord]
10 a London connoiSscur, being {,
patched to Berchtesgaden.
When the Allies marched into 81
euX, France, last June the town "A
been sacked Of its treasures, includi
the famous 18th century BaycuX taEl
try depicting the Norman conquest
England. Underground sources report
that Himmler, Itler's hangman, Z
seized the tapestry.
The Low Countries have suffered {,
most. Both Belgium and The Meth
lands housed some OF the worlds md
valuable works. Such as RcmbranJ
Anatomy Lesson, which hung In 4
ROYAL Gallery al The Hague. and "
mecrS The MHkmaid considered
OF the finest examples q the Dud
schools greatest COlOrIst Where q
they today?
We can only speculate.
What the NaZiS did with tho Loud
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-03

Venus 10 their
new home.
The Victory, on
being unlOa d d,
nearly topplcd
over. This piece
of Z ari.an mar.
bic, which repre-.
sents the goddess
on the prov of a
trireme, in the act