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Evening star., 1944-04-05
Truck bangles
3Hours on Bridge
| After Collision

A truck heavily laden with fruit
and vegetables bound for New York
and Baltimore crashed through the
railing of the B. & o. overpass at
Hyattsville early today and teetered
precariously for three hours over
the tracks so feet below.
The injured driver was pinned in
side for about an hour before he was
removed.
The freak accident, which tied up
Washington-bound traffic, occurred
when the truck, operated by Albert
E. Sparks, 38, of the $500 block of
Seventeenth street NE, collided
with one driven by Leonidas r.
Webster, 48, Melbane, N. C.
Mr.. Sparks truck spewed toma-
toes, coconuts and oranges over the
roadway as its sides burst. Mary
land State police arrived at 7:30
am. and hauled the truck back to
solid ground.
He was treated at Cheverly Hos
pital for bruised kidney and shock,
police said, and later was released.
Mr.. Webster was unhurt.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Wood Alcohol Firms
Indicted in Conspiracy
81 individuals Named
In Antitrust Charges
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 5.-An indict-
ment charging 81 corporations, 80
individuals and trade association
with conspiracy to violate the Fed
eral antitrust laws in the production
and sale of wood alcohol was re-
turned by Federal grand jury here
today
The indictment charged the de-
fendants, controlling approximately
95 per cent of the industry, had
conspired since 1888 to regulate the
production and sale of wood alcohol,
thereby fixing prices at unnatural
levels. 1t alleged that substantially
all producers in the United States
pooled their wood alcohol and per-
mitted its sale only through William
S. Gray & Co. of New York.
Prices to be charged, the indict-
ment alleged. were fixed by agree
ment between the Gray Company
and a committee from the Wood
Alcohol Institute, Inc, a trade asso-
citation, under a plan devised by
those two organizations in 1882 The
indictment charged that while three
producers were allowed to sell Ger
tain grades of wood alcohol directly,
these sales were made only at prices
agreed on.
Irving B. Glickfeld, special assist
ant to the Attorney General, esti-
mated 1943 production at ALSO, 900
gallons, valued at S3.19250O.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Spain Will Agree 10 ExpeI
Axis Agents From Tangier
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 5.-The Spanish
government will announce shortly
acceptance of British and American
requests for expulsion of Axis agents
from Tangier, release of l3 Italian
ships interned in Spanish harborS
and protection Of British cargoes
consigned from Spanish ports, a
qualified diplomatic source said to-
day.
Spain, under German pressure,
IresiSted the Allies requests for full
suspension of wolfram tungsten
ore) shipments to Germany, but
now has agreed to a token export
only, consisting of about one-tenth
the usual shipments, it was re-
| ported.
The United States, said to have
been particularly insistent on BAN
ming wolfram shipments throughout
the two months negotiations, was
understood to have agreed to the
arrangement for token exports.
The Ministry of Economic War;
fare said Spain had exported no
wolfram to Germany for the last
two months.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Ghost Bomber
Flies $50 Miles
In Formation

By the Associated Press.
A UNITED STATES LIBERATOR
BASE IN ENGLAND, April Slit
by fax and abandoned by its crew,
Ia Liberator few $50 miles in for
nation back toward its home base
after recent raid on Germany.
The story was told by 1t. Albert
II. Bell of Ogden, Utah, pilot OF
another Liberator.
1t. Bell and his mates saw eight
men parachute from the big bomber
after it was hit. Apparently the
other two members of the crew were
killed because when we circled
her there was no one at the controls
and all the guns were abandoned, "
1t. Bell said.
I'VE followed that plane $50 miles
and she few a straight and level
course to England. She few in per-
feet formation with us. When we
were near England we asked for In
structions and were ordered to shoot
her down.
"Just as we were coming in to
kill the ghost ship she turned on US
as If to bid us farewell. Then, her
gasoline apparently exhausted, she
banked of to the right and fell into
the Channel just offshore. Later we
learned she was just 10 miles from
her home base"
Evening star., 1944-04-05
(See RUSSIA, Page A-2)
Italian Troops Check
Nazis Near Casino
Heavy Gun DueIs Mark
Activity Elsewhere
Ry The Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUAR TER S,
Naples, April 5.--Italian troops on
Mount Marrone, IS miles northeast
Of Casino, have repulsed a German
counterattack, inflicting casualties,
IL was announced today.
The Italians, fighting with the
Allied 5th Army, were reported last
week to have seized the mile-high
peak as well as two others in the
vicinity.
Elsewhere along the front there
were heavy artillery duels and sharp
patrol clashes at many points. Al
lied artillery caused casualties
among the Germans and destroyed
two ammunition dumps.
Considerable enemy movement
was observed just northwest of Cas-
sino, dispatches from the front said
In Casino itself an enemy patrol
was attacked with small arms fire
and six Of its members were killed
Fifth Army patrols on the Garig-
liano front discovered new Ger
man machine gun positions, which
were brought under fire by mortar
batteries.
Meanwhile, Allied artillery was
very active on the Anzio beachhead
front below Rome. There was a
concentration of German fire in the
central sector of the beachhead, but
little enemy activity otherwise.
The weather remained fine on al
italian fronts.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
49 Enemy Planes Downed
In u. S. Raid on Bucharest
BY the Associated Press.

ALLIED HEAD QUAR- TIERS,
Naples, April (P)-Strong forma-
tions of American Flying Fortresses
and Liberators, in their first attack
on Bucharest yesterday, caused con-
siderable damage to the railway
yards through which German sup
plies roll to the Russian front and
left one-t third of the Rumanian CAPT.
tai covered with a heavy cloud of
smoke, headquarters announced to-
day.
First reports indicated the gun
nerS in the heavy bombers shot
down as planes in a battle lasting
more than an hour and that the
pilots of the escorting Thunderbolts
and Lightnings accounted for three
more. Twelve Allied planes were
lost in yesterdays operations in this
theater, which included raids against
supply dumps, bridges, gun positions
and bivouacs in the Italian battle
(Cae pATDC pooe ad1
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Eden S Resignation
From Foreign Office
Expected This Week
Would Lead House
While Being Groomed
To Succeed Churchill
By the Associated precr

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 5.-Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden is ex-
pected to resign this week so he
can devote full time to govern
ment leadership in the House of
Commons, a step in accordance
with the Conservative party's
program to groom him to sue
ceed Prime Minister Churchill.
Reports of the Foreign Ministers
impending exit from one of his
present posts were coupled with
speculation over other possible cab
met changes involving Robert Spear
Hudson, Agricultural Minister, and
Maj. Gwilym Lloyd George, Fuel
Minister. 1t is suggested, however,
that Mr.. Eden would remain in the
war cabinet under some nominal
title.
Lord Cranborne, Dominions Sec
retary. has been mentioned prom
inently to succeed Mr.. Eden, with
Loro beaVerDroOK, LOrd PrlVy Seal,
being given the inside track to take
over the dominions portfolio.
The chief obstacle to Lord Gran
borne's entry to the Foreign Office
appears to be his delicate health,
but If he does get the job he will
be ably assisted by Richard Law
minister of state and parliamentary
undersecretary for foreign affairs
who has come to the forefront in
the last year as one of the govern
ment's most promising younger men
An immediate explanation for Mr.
Eden's probable shift was that the
foreign secretaryship and the House
leadership together were too burden
some. But another reason goes
deeper than that. The Conservatives
have been carefully building up Mr.
Eden as Mr.. Churchill,s heir ap-
parent, but because of his preoccu-
patton with foreign affairs Mr.. Eden
has had little chance to keep &C
quainted fully with home affairs
AS full-time House leader he would
have an excellent opportunity tc
do so.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
BerIiners Reported
Killed in Last Two Raids
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
STOCKHOLM, April 5.-Eleven
thousand Berliners were killed in
the last two raids on the German
capital, the Swedish newspaper
Aftonbladet reported today in a
story attributed to a diplomatic
source with a wide knowledge Of
Berlin damage.
The story said the Bayer medical
concern on Kurfuerstendamm was
destroyed by a blockbuster which
killed 200.
Qn the last big raid on Ber-
lin, the night of March "a, the
RAF dropped $500 tons of bombs.
On March % American heavy
bombers hit Berlin with $500
tonS)
The Aftonbladet informant said
Allied planes-presumably American
daylight fighter escorts-recently
swooped low over the city during
bombing raids and shot at antiair.
craft gun crews. Thirty-th school.
boys at Spandau were said to have
been killed.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Former Washington Man
Elected Mayor Of Tulsa

Olney F.. Flynn, formerly of Wash
lngton, was elected Mayor of Tusla,
Okla, yesterday, the first Republican
to win that office in 16 years, accord
ing to an Associated Press dispatch.
Mr. Flynn, who is in the Oil busi-
ness, ran on a straight anti-New
Deal platform. He defeated the
Democratic incumbent, Mayor C. H.
Veale, who sought reelection for a
third term.
Complete unofficial returns gave
Mr., Flynn 1908 votes to Mayor
Veales 10,378.
Mr.. Flynn went to Oklahoma years
ago with Dudley Morgan, another
Washingtonian, who served with
him in the Navy in the World War.
They formed a partnership there.
Evening star., 1944-04-05

votes. The high man on the Willkie
slate, Vernon Thomson, speaker Of
the Wisconsin Assembly, had only
$4,000, difference of 1000, with
two-thirds of the State returns
counted.
Delegate-at-Large Returns.
Reports from 2,229 of 3,076 pre-
cincts gave for Republican delegate
at large candidates.
Dewey-Secretary of State Fred
r. Zimmerman, 95,773.
Dewey-David I. Hammergren,
|83, ,947.
Dewey-State Senator Edward r.
Hilker, 82,183.
MacArthur-Dr. John P. Koehler,
|53,264.
MacArthur-Brig. Gen. Roy F.
Farrand, 1,039.
MacArthur-Roland E. Kannen-
berg, 1881.
MacArthur-Arnold H. Fraedrich,
46,515.
Stassen-William J. Campbell,
As ,859.
Stassen-Dr. Francis L. Gullick-
son, 42,731.
Stassen-James D. Swan, 41,436.
Stassen-Gilbert F. Doepke, 40,.
079.
Willkie-Vernon w. Thomson, 34,-
1872.
Willkie-William F. Renk, 32,821.
Willkie-George B. Skogmo, 81.
929.
Willkie-W. J. Aberg, 81 1922.
The Democratic party Endorsed
slate of delegate large candidates
seemed assured of a sweep of the six
places.
Representative Howard J. Nc
Murray, who piled up 90,595 votes,
led the slate. Gustave J. Keller and
State Party Chairman Thomas E.
King followed with 1885 and 1921,
respectively. The other three ap-
parent winners were Charles w.
Henney, 76,070; William B. Rubin,
69688, and John D. Kehoe, 68,897.
In the districts the party-in-
dorSed Roosevelt candidates appar-
emily are certain of sending solid
delegation to Chicago in July,
Roosevelt Slate Wins.
Whereas the Republicans have "a
delegates, the Democrats have 26,
the extra having been awarded by
the party's national committee as a
bonus" after its 25,600-vote plur-
Evening star., 1944-04-05
|WiIIkie Routed,
Dewey Backers
Claim Draft
Macarthur, Stossen
Tied on Delegates
In Wisconsin
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Wisconsin's primary elections
yesterday gave great impetus to
the draft Dewey" for President
drive among the Republicans.
The same elections punctured
Wendell L. Wilkes aspirations
for the presidential nomination.
While these were the main results
of the Wisconsin voting, third was
the strength shown by Gen. Douglas
Macarthur. In the contest for dele
gates at large those pledged to Gen.
Macarthur ran second to the Dewey
list and ahead Of those pledged to
1t. Comdr. Harold E. Stassen, former
Governor of Minnesota, and the
Willkie list.
Willkie Apparently Blanked.
The poor showing made by tho
Willkie candidates was surprising.
In Wisconsin Mr.. WILKES opposi-
ton was divided three ways. This
should have been a great advantage
to him. But in spite of it his dele
gate candidates ran fourth in the
contests for delegates at large, and
he apparently has not been able to
elect a single district delegate.
The great discrepancy between
the Dewey and Willkie support was
indicated in the delegate at large
returns. The high man on the
Dewey slate, Fred Zimmerman, sec
retary of State and former Gov
ernor, received approximately $4,000
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Belfast Strikes Raise
Idle Total 10 100000
In United Kingdom
1000 Leave Shipyords,
Aircraft and Munitions
Factories and Docks
BY the Associated Press


LONDON, April 5.-The total
of strikers in the United King
dom reached 100000 today, with
10000 men in Belfast idle in ad-
dition to 10000 in Yorkshire coal
mines.
In the Belfast district, 10000 were
idle in shipyards, 1000 in aircraft
plants, 1000 in munitions works
and several hundred on the docks.
Labor Minister Ernest Bevin met
with the general council of the
Trades Union Congress trying to
halt the wildcat coal strikes.
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard detec-
tives raided the London offices of
the British section of the Fourth
International, a Trotskyite organi-
zation, searching the premises and
se1zlng young woman. No reason
for the raid was announced.
Subversive Influence Suggested.
British newspapers, however, sug-
gested that subversive influences
were behind the recent strike by
Tyneside Shipyard apprentices.
The apprentices strike has been
largely broken, and by last night 60
per cent of some 10000 workers who
walked out had returned.
In Belfast, men at the big Harland
and Wolff shipyards began their
strike last night after the govern
ment rejected their ultimatum de-
manding release of five men SEN
fenced to three months imprison-
ments on charges of striking illegally
The five, all shop stewards, partici-
pated in an aircraft plant strike in
sympathy with Walkout by workers
in other Belfast shipyards.
The coal strikes, which began
weeks ago in South Wales-where
10000 miners were idle at one time
started over provisions of a govern
ment wage award. While the South
Wales fields are for the most part
back in production now, some 10000
miners are striking in Yorkshire
protesting deductions from their pay
for coal used in their homes.
Eden Hopes for Statement.
Mr. Bevin in a heart to heart"
talk with the Trades Union Congress
council stressed the need for tight
ening regulations dealing with the
current stoppages, which were not
sanctioned by the unions, and later
the council adopted a resolution
supporting Mr.. Bevin's stand and
deprecating the walkouts.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
announced in Commons that he
hoped Maj. Gwilym Lloyd George,
Minister of Fuel and Power, would
be able to make statement for the
government at the next sitting of
the House on the situation in the
coal fields, where strikes have seri-
ously cut down production which
has in turn reduced the amount of
power available for war plants.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
" the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 5.-A Blue
Network broadcast from London
today quoted dispatches from
Turkey as saying Premier Anto-
nescu of Rumania will seek an
armistice from Washington, Lon
don and Moscow.
The etWork's correspondent,
Thomas B. Grandin, said such a
course had been urged on the Pre-
mier by an emissary sent to Cairo
to negotiate with the United Ma
tions.
The time is near when the Ger
mans no longer will be able to hold
the Balkans" Grandin said. Moth
ing would be less surprising than
a complete collapse of Rumania."
The Associated Press had no con-
Evening star., 1944-04-05
White House Refuses WFAPIeo
For E Egg-RolIing to Cut Surplus

The War Food AdminiStra-
ton, it was learned today, has
asked the White House to re-
sumo the annual Easter Monday
egg rolling to help ease the cur
rent egg surplus.
The White House, however,
turned down the suggestion with
the blunt reply that any move
to destroy food in wartime is not
going to start there, spokes-
man said.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Maritime Service Told
To Halt EnIistmenfs
OF Men Under Is
Administrative Personnel
And School Instructors
Made Eligible for Draft
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The maritime service has been
ordered to enlist no more men
under 26 for merchant sea duty,
it was learned today, following
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's
statement that selective service
will move in progressively less
strict" manner to higher age
brackets after it takes younger
men for combat duty.
Gen. Hershey said that after all
possible men under 26 have been
inducted, somewhat less strict re-
view Of Industrial and agricultural
deferments in the as to 20 age group
will come next. Draft boards were
told to apply still easier standards
to older men.
A Maritime Commission official
said it had been told not only that
no more men under 26 were to be
enlisted in the merchant marine,
but that the maritime services ad-
ministrative personnel and instruc-
tors in the IL merchant seamen
schools now were liable for draft
into the armed forces. There were
indications some merchant marine
officers might be taken for Army
and Navy training.
Deviation From Policy.
The official said the actions
marked the first deviation from the
former consistent policy of giving
the merchant marine equal treat
ment with the armed forces. He
pointed out that there had been a
far higher percentage of casualties
among the seamen than in any
other branch of service, and mer-
chant ship duty had been regarded
as "the most hazardous" of all the
services.
Maritime officials were to confer
again today with selective service
and the War Manpower Commission
in an effort to obtain a reversal of
the new policy which the official
said was raising ned" with us. The
commissions request for deferment
consideration for men under 26 was
turned down early in the week by
the Inter-agency Deferment Com
mittee which now is pruning the
lists OF deferred young men in in
dustry. The Puryear Committee,
set up to review deferments among
Federal personnel, also has turned
down many of the commissions de-
ferment requests among admins
trative personnel.
Hershey Outlines Policy.
Gen. Hershey, in radio address.
said selective service will laid to
the limit of its ability" efforts to in
duct and put to work AIS who
either won't take war jobs or refuse
to stay in such jobs.
The less fit have a duty to replace
men under rs in industry and agri-
culture, and they constitute the
greatest manpower pool for that
purpose, the draft director said.
Every man under 26 who can pos
sibly be made available will be fur
nished the Army and Navy.
These will not be enough, Gen.
Hershey continued, and draft calls
will be completed from men in the
(See DRAFT page Al
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Wisconsin Results
Ignored by WiHkie
In Nebraska Talk
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WEST POINT, Nebr., April
5.-Wendell Willkie, making no
reference to the Wisconsin pri-
mary election in which it ap-
peared he would win no con-
vention delegates, declared to-
day, II hope America unites be-
hind the next President, who
ever he may be, for his task will
be greater than the first Pres
ident of the United States"
Speaking from the back end
of a farm truck to approximate
ly 500 persons here, Mr.. Willkie
said, @We are about to engage
in q presidential election in this
country, and the fact that we
can have one and publicly dis
cuss the issues In times like
these Is one OF the finest trib-
utes to our system of free gov
ernment."
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Last Of 28S Planes
Massed by laps al
Ho||andia DESTROYED
Largest Bomber Force
In Southwest Pacific
Blasts Three Airdromes
BY the Associated Press.

os tllS ASSOCldteQ FIcSS.
The largest force of bombers
ever assembled to hit the Japa-
nese in the Southwest Pacific
spent l hour and 13 minutes
Sunday over three airdromes at
Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea,
and destroyed the last of a fleet
of 288 bombers and fighters the
japanese had assembled for of
fensive blows against the Allies
pushing up from the south.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur reported
that every plane based on Hollandia
last week when the attack on Palau
in the Western Carolines started,
has been demolished or irreparably
damaged"
26 Interceptors Downed.
Destruction of powerful Japa-
nese fighter and bomber forces
built up over a period of months
at Hollandia," said Murlin Spencer
Associated Press war correspondent
serves notice on the Japanese that
their days in New Guinea are num-
bered."
Some 400 tons of bombs were
dropped by more than 300 planes in
the climaxing raid Sunday, 275,00(
rounds of ammunition were ex-
pended, rs Jap interceptors were
downed and every runway on Hol-
Andia's three fields was left un-
serviceable.
The Americans lost one fighter
plane.
Truk has been raided by Amer
lean planes at least IL times in
days.
Four Liberators Lost.
Spencer Davis, Associated Press
war correspondent, writing from ar
an advanced South Pacific head.
quarters, said the last reported raid
Sunday, was the heaviest and cost
hest land-based strike against the
japanese stronghold. He reported
four Liberators failed to return but
that the crew of one was rescued
by a destroyer. He said between AZ
and so fighters rose to oppose the
Americans and that 7 were shot
down certainly and probably. The
raid was on Dublon Island, and At
tons of demolition and incendiaries
were dropped.
Gen. Macarthur reported five Lib
orators were lost,
Rambuyto, second largest island
In the Admiralty group, has beer
occupied by the Americans.
Over Rabaul, Marine Mitchells
Navy and Army torpedo and light
bombers dropped 12O tons of bombs
on Raluana and Lakunai supply
areas. Many buildings were de-
stroyed.
Evening star., 1944-04-05

The VIA suggested that, in
view Of the current glut in the
egg market, it would be a good
idea to resume the event, which
used to attract thousands of chill
dren and streWed the grounds
around the Executive Mansion
with brightly colored eggs.
The egg rollings have not been
held since the United States
entry into the war.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Rumonion Peace Bids Reported
At Urging of Emissory to Cairo
Radio Correspondent Forecasts Possible
Complete Collapse Of Country

firmation of the report, which came
less than "a hours after American
bombers had smashed at targets in
Bucharest and while Russian troops
were advancing only 200 miles
northeast of the Rumanian capital.
Earlier the Berlin radio said An
tonescu had issued a proclamation
deploring the American attack and
calling on his people to stand firm.
The broadcast, recorded by the
Associated Press, quoted Antonescu
as saying:
Instead of understanding and
justice from those we have never at
tackled and to whom we have felt
thanks for the past, they have
vented on us the terrible revenge of
air bombardment, taking innocent
lives of women and children, making
-
Evening star., 1944-04-05
President Still Remains
In White House Rooms

President Roosevelt continued to
remain in his White House quarters
today, where he has been doing his
work for the last few days while
recovering from an attack of bron-
chitiS.
The President had one scheduled
appointment-With Fred B. Adams.
an old New York friend.
Evening star., 1944-04-05
Jap Envoy to Spain
Reported VISITING Berlin

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 5.-The Toxic
radio, in a broadcast to North
America, recorded by the United
States Foreign Broadcast Intelli-
gence Service, said today that
Yakishiro Suma, japanese Ambas-
sador to Spain, had gone to Berlin.
Later, the German-controlle
Vichy radio said the purpose of
Sumas trip was to attend IAN ex-
traordinary meeting of all Japanese
ENJOYS in all Central European
countries"