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Evening star., 1944-03-17
Legislators Opposed
To Revision Of Curbs
On British Exports
BY the Associated Press.

by lhe ASSoclaIeC freSS.
Lawmakers in both branches
of Congress looked askance to-
day at current diplomatic dis
cusSions pointed toward relaxing
Great Britain'S three-year-old
commitment to refrain from ex-
porting materials similar to
those received under lease lend
from the United States.
Senator McCarran, Democrat, OF
Nevada declared it would be "a
complete violation of the spirit OF
lease-lend" to abrogate the pledge
rendered by Anthony Eden, Britain's
Foreign Minister. Chairman Bloom
of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee said:
Il will not stand for relaxing that
pledge and neither will the Con-
gress."
Negotiations Under Way.
1t became known yesterday that
preliminary negotiations are under
way to modify the agreement in
order to permit Great Britain to re-
sumo limited export of commercial,
goods she heretofore had been un-
able to furnish because of the war
Under the agreement, which is not
part of the lease-lend law, Britain
promised not to export lease-leno
materials received from the United
States and not to substitute lease
lend supplies for British materials
and use the latter for commercial
export purposes.
The question of relaxing the agree
ment arose after this country began
receiving raw materials from Britain
in reverse lease-lend.
Senator McCarran declared Amer
lean goods should have the privilege
of reaching world markets without
passing through British hands,
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon
tana likewise expressed strong oppo-
sition to relaxing the pledge now.
While manufacturers in this
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Destroyer HarryE. Hubbard
To Be Launched Next FRIDAY
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 1.-THE 1900
ton destroyer Harry E. Hubbard
named for a naval hero who played
a part in the bombing attack on
Toxic and later gave his life taking
supplies to marines on Guadalcanal
will be launched here next Friday.
The Navy announced that Miss
Jean Hubbard, Annapolis, Md,
would sponsor the vessel at the
Bethlehem Steel Co.'S Staten Island
yard.
Her father, the late Comdr. Harry
Ensor Hubbard, was master OF the
Meredith, a destroyer that escorted
the carrier Hornet from which the
raiders took off for Japan
The Meredith was sunk October
Is, 1912. while escorting a mine
sweeper attempting to take urgently
needed gasoline to beleaguered ma
rineS,
Evening star., 1944-03-17

friendly" poker games, tn which
the businessman was allowed to win
moderately.
Victim Dealt Good Hand.
After the businessman got to know
Mr. Adams" fairly well, the latter
told him a rich motorcar dealer
from North Carolina who liked to
sit in big game" was coming to
Washington. MIR. Adams" praised
the District businessman's skill at
poker and induced him to sit in at
hotel room session with the supposed
North Carolinian, who was intro
duced as MIR. Moore"
Powers, "Mr. Adams" and "Mr.
Moore" took their victim to a real
Cleaning" police said.
After few small pots had been
won and lost, the businessman drew
a good hand. He had only $3.50 with
him. At "Mr. Adams" suggestion,
1t. Shimon said. the hands were
frozen" while the businessman went
to the bank to draw out $4,000. He
returned to the game; the hands
were played, and the victim lost.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Police Take Liquor
Orders in Case Lots
After Raiding Suite
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Mar. ia luxuri-
ously furnished suite OF offices In
a La Sale street skyscraper, de-
scribed by Police Sergt. Timothy
O'Connell as clearing house for
hijacked and illegal market liquor,
was raided by police yesterday.
Sergt. O'Connell said he sat at a
desk in the Office for six hours and
took "orders" telephoned from sew
eral cities for hundreds of cases of
liquor. One order, he related, was
Tor $50 cases from a man in De-
troit; another was for 100 cases
from New York caller.
The detective said he also ar
ranged meeting at the Office with
a Chicago man who had called in
to order 200 cases. He was prom
ised rs cases Immediately if he
would come to the Office. He ar
rived, accompanied by a companion,
and both were taken into custody.
Later two other men came to the
Office and they also were arrested,
Sergt. O'Connell said. He also an
nounced that two women, one whom
he described as the wife of the man
to whom the telephone calls had
been made, were arrested and, with
the four men, were ordered held.
No charges were placed against the
six Immediately.
The raid followed the disclosure
by police and Federal officials earlier
this week that four men had been
arrested after they admitted deal
ings with an illegal liquor market.
One of the men had been shot in
an attempted hijacking of his truck
load of 81 cases of liquor which, DO
lice said, had been purchased at a
black liquor market.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
|Willkie Will Open
Drive in Wisconsin
By the ASSociated preSs

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 17-Wendell
Wiukie will leave today for Wiscon-
sin to open an active campaign in
that State for a slate of delegates
pledged to him in the April presi-
dental primary.
Accompanied by Mrs. Willkie, he
will deliver what has been described
as a major farm speech at Richland
Center tomorrow, then will tour the
State until March 30.
The Wisconsin primary is one of
three in which the 1910 Republican
presidential nominee is entered. The
others are in Nebraska April ! and
Oregon May 10.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Poker Fraud Charged
To Man Indicted in
Money Machine Case

Connie A. Powers. 48. who has
been at liberty on bond since he was
indicted twice last summer on grand
larceny charges. was under $500 bond
on new charges today in connection
with what was described as a high
powered hotel room poker game in
which District businessman was
cleaned" OF $4,000.
Powers was released on $4,000
bond last July, after he allegedly
defrauded a local service station
operator of $500 on representations
that he could raise denominations
of the bills by placing them in a
"money-making machine" he owned.
In August Powers was indicted on
a second grand larceny charge and
set free on 81 900 bond.
Cases Are Continued.
Powers was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Needham c.
Turnage yesterday in connection
with the poker game, charged with
conspiracy to defraud. Arraigned
with him on the same charge was
one of his two alleged confederates
In the poker game, Charles Hugh
James, SO.
Both men. listed as living in the
1400 block of Chaplin street NV,
were placed under $500 bond and
their cases continued to March 80.
According to 1t. Joseph w. Shi-
mon, special Investigator in the
United States attorneys Office, who
took the men into custody, the al
legged poker game fraud was worked
in this fashion:
Powers struck up an acquaintance
with the businessman and intro
duced him to James, who was called
"Mr. Adams" The trio had a few
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Administration Held
Determined 10 Keen
Little Steel Formula
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
A high Government official
said today the administration
will not break the Little Steer'
formula by executive action, and
If there is any lifting of wage
ceilings, Congress will have to
assume the responsibility.
That determination, reached in
the highest quarters, would preclude
any favorable action by the War
Labor Board on a pending request
by the CIO United Steelworkers for
17-cent hourly wage increase and
would prevent the union from carry
ing its case to President Roosevelt.
The granting of any part of this
increase admittedly would break the
formula.
In line with this decision. WLB
Chairman William H. Davis is ex-
pected to appear before the Senate
Banking Committee next week on
a bill to extend the life of the Sta
blllzation Act and oppose fatty any
change in the wage ceilings.
Wants Authority Continued.
The ADMINISTRATORS attitude was
described as this:
1t wants the authority, under
which Congress directed that wages
and prices be stabilized at Septem-
Der Is, 1912, levels, continued un-
changed.
1t does not want the Little Steel"
formula written into the law, but
is determined to keep that formula
in effect unless Congress sitself takes
the Initiative in raising the wage
ceilings.
1t does not believe that Congress
will yield to union pressure for up-
ward revision of the ceilings, and If
Congress thus refuses to make
changes, the WLB then will have
mandate against permitting any
break in the line. CThe Little Steel
formula permits cost of living waes
adjustments up to Is per cent of
the average wage paid January l.
194D.
Vote on CIO Plan Due Today.
That decision, communicated to
WLB members, undoubtedly inf1u-
enced the board in denying We'd
nesday an AFL motion to hold pub
lie hearings to advise and counsel
Congress on the wage sterilization
program. The WLB is scheduled to
vote late today on CIO proposal
that a six-man panel hear argu-
ments on the l7-cent hourly wage
increase.
Public members of the board were
disposed to receive the arguments
with the explicite understanding in
advance that the board is not going
to make any representations to the
President or Congress for a change
In the wage policy.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Housing
Continued From First Page

paid by private enterprise but not
paid by NCHA would liquidate the
difference between the cost of ac-
quirlng slum properties and the use
value of the land, Mr.. Carr asserted
Private builders have been unable
to clear slums in the past, he said,
because they lacked the power of
condemnation and did not have
long-term, low-interest finance.
Financing Promised.
Builders here already have been
promised satisfactory financing for
the proposed slum-reclamation work
and are asking only for assistance
in the acquisition of slum land, he
added.
Mr.. Carr admitted that private
builders naturally attracted to
propositions offering the best
chance for safety and profit, have
in the past built more expensive
housing
In the past, he said, private build
ers perhaps felt that slum clearance
should be handled by public housing
agencies.
Now, Mr.. Carr said, private build
ers believe the cost of public housing
is exorbitant and want to remove it
permanently" Aside from being a
moral obligation, slum reclamation
is sound business venture for pri-
vate enterprise, he told the commit
tee. He explained that while the
margin of profit would be small on
each unit, numerous houses would
have to be built and it would be "a
sure and good long-term invest
ment."
BY dividing their efforts and de-
voting portion of their time to the
slum reclamation job, private build
erS will not glut the postwar market
with housing for the middle and
high income groups, Mr.. Carr said.
Employment would be spread and
the building market stabilized, he
said.
The hearings will b resumed
Monday at 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Appeals Court Orders
Chaplin Paternity Trial
By the Associated Press,

BY the,ASsociated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 17.-Joan
Berry's paternity suit against
Charles Chaplin must 60 to trial
despite defense objections, the Dis
trict Court of Appeals held yester-
day.
The Appellate Court denied Chap
Inns petition for a writ of man
damus to compel Superior Court
to dismiss the civil suit, brought
by his former protege, who claims
he is the father of her 5-month-
old child, Carol Ann.
Defense attorneys held that Su-
perior Judge Stanley Mosk should
have dismissed the suit in accord
ance with previous stipulation in
which all parties agreed that if
blood tests indicated the actor was
not the child's father, the suit would
be dropped.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Seven Indicted on CHARGE
OF Selling Ration Points
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 17.-The
Federal grand jury returned indict-
ments against seven persons yester-
day on charges of violating OPA
regulations in the sale of 2,000, 900
food ration points.
Charles Veale, assistant United
States attorney, said the indictments
named Arthur Wallace, David Kra-
.ner, Sam Kramer and Sol Kramer,
all associated with the Kramer Meat
Co.; Albert Walters, Robert Amos
Pease, truck driver, and Sidney
Rogen, broker.
Mr.. Veale said the indictments
charged that Wallace applied for ra-
ton points as an institutional user
and that other defendants sold the
points for as much as $40 per 900.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Unusual DEVELOPMENTS,

which were not brought out in
Maryland.
Unusual Developments.
The court regarded these develop
ments as $50 unusual, in fact. that
the court feels its ruling does not
constitute precedent of disregard
OF the full faith and credit clause. +"
Charles Walker, attorney for Mr..
Langan, commended the court on
the full hearing given the case. Mr..
Walker said he was satisfied the
judge had fully considered the best
interests of the child.
Despite today's decision, an order
granting Miss Manners the custody
is still valid in Maryland, and a con-
tempt citation faces Mr.. Langan in
that State because he took the child
from the mother at hte Ambassador
Hotel on February Is. Mr.. Langan
faces arrest if he ever returns to
Maryland, where his present wife is
still maintaining a residence.
FORCED to go to New York yester-
day on business for the once of
Strategic Services, where he is en-
ployed, Mr.. Langan made the round
trip in an airplane to avoid setting
foot on Maryland soil. He and his
attorneys have indicated several
times that the Langans would move
into the District if he were awarded
custody of the child.
During the final hearing yester-
day Miss Manners interrupted pro-
ceedings when she shrieked that
John Manners, who, she claimed,
was the real father of the girl. had
married her some years ago. 1t was
the first time she ever contended
she had married Mr.. Manners
The former actress outburst
came when Mr.. Walker assailed her
as a character assassin" who was
trying to prove her own child was
lllegitimate.
Motherhood does not confer on
Lorna Langan (Miss Manners) the
right to degrade and slur this little
girl" MIR. Walker declared.
Miss Manners counsel described
the spell" cast over little Joan by
Mr.. Langan as being comparable to
the influence of Svengali over Trilby,
referring to the characters in the
novel "Trilby." by the French au-
thor DuMaurier.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
WACS at Army Post
Now Serving as MPs.

BY the Associated Press.
FRESNO, Calif.-WACS at Camp
Pinedale now are serving as MPs
on the Army post.
They check the passes OF soldiers
at the main gate and furnish in
formation to visitors. They are not
armed.
Evening star., 1944-03-17

country are being prevented from
making civilian goods, we should not
permit countries which are receiving
lease-lend goods to take away the
markets of our own people, Senator
Wheeler said.
Senator Brewster. Republican. of
Maine observed it would be difficult
for the American people to under
stand allowing goods made of Amer
lean material to be sold in competi-
ton with merchandise manufactured
in this country.
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee is slated to vote Tuesday on
Legislation extending lease lend au-
thority for another year.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Foreign Affairs Chief
Quits Revolutionary
Regime in Bolivia
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Mar. 17.-Jose
Tamayo resigned yesterday as min
lister of foreign affairs in the VIII
laroel government, stating in a let
ter that he did so because dignity
and honor have always been my in
spiration, both in private and pub
lie life.''
Enrique Baldivieso, 43-year-old
Socialist leader and former foreign
minister, was designated to succeed
him in the revolutionary regime,
which has been recognized only by
Argentina.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Argentina Restricts
Reuters TeIetypes

BUENOS AIRES, Mar. II R.-
The Postoffice Department yester-
day ordered Reuters, British news
agency. to discontinue operation of
leased teletype circuit between
Buenos Aires and Montevideo pend
ing the installation of monitoring
equipment in the governments COM
munication division.
The order placed Reuters on the
same basis as the Associated Press
and United Press, which recently
received similar instructions.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
More Than Borqoined For

PHILADELPHIA (P.-The fellow
who stole John Bottles automobile
stopped 1t quickly and fed when
Bottles 3-year- daughter Mar
jorie, who had been doing un-
noticed in the back seat, awakened
and started to howl.
Evening star., 1944-03-17

The American Red Cross in India
provides recreation kits containing
books, games, candy, cigarettes
which are parachuted from planes
to troops at advanced positions along
the Burma border.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Deot Will Head Labor
And State Ministries
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 1.-THE Vichy
radio said last night that Marcel
Deaf, one-time French Air Minister
and editor of the Paris newspaper
L'Deuvre, had been appointed Min
lister Of Labor and Secretary Of State
in the Vichy government. The
broadcast was recorded by the Asso-
ciated Press.
Deaf, one Of the most pro-Nazi
journalists and politicians in France,
is former philosophy professor and
renegade Socialist. He has recently
criticized Vichy Premier Pierre La
val, his political rival, and has
several times escaped death at the
hands of French patriots.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Curoiinu Alumni to.Meet

Alumni of North Carolina State
College will hold their annual meet
ing at the YMCA at o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1944-03-17
Lunqun

IContlnued From First Page.)
which were not brought out in
Maryland.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-28
BY MIKE LEVIN
tReprinted from Down Beat)

T Asst COLUMN got good and mad about this
~ DEAL and I'm still going on it. Being mad
doesn't usually make good copy; usually only
Peglersms result. But this is one topic where
think musicians should get mad and stay mad
There certainly is enough grief roaming around
che world these days without unnecessarily add
ing problems we have already proven can be
solved.
A lot Of people the world over have spent the
last six years fighting to get a chance TO solve
their deals the Chinese have been at il
for over IL years. II we come back, and allow
the kind of thing we have going on in the AIM
TO continue. we all either ought to give up Or go
back as permanent KPs
The AIMS argument Is that people are essen
fiallY Jim Growers. and as long that is SO. the
union must be Jim Crow.
The union certainly doesn't have a leg to
stand on. In the first place, good union is
sanposed TO lead its membership. Petrillo can
argue for the record strike (Which a great many
union men oppose) and say that he knows what
is best for the union, and in the next breath
say that he can't mess with the Negro situation,
that that is purely a problem which the union
itself must thrash out.
Musicians pride themselves on being charac-
ters on being different, on living just as unharn-
pered lives as possible. They claim that only
by living this way they really teach them
selves their particular horn and learn TO be good
sidemen.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-28
By ROY WILKINS

as has Mr.. Berkeley in his letter to the Rich
mond paper. They simply toss of the Negro
and resent his being resentful- Tensions again.
Mr.. Berkeley says: What has become of our
Negro troops? Our Negro troops either have not
been engaged Tin battle) great injustice has
been done them by failing to give them credit for
their fighting"
Mr. Berkeley should write that letter to Secre-
tary Stimson. Maybe Mr.. Stimson could weed
out one or two people relatively little people,
but in strategic positions) in the Bureau of Pub
lie Relations who do not encourage the sending
OF news Of Negro troops to daily papers, or who
would not print It. but more would do than Ii
now the case.
The quickest way to tell the story Is through
pictures. The bureau Of Public Relations has
hundreds of good pictures Of Negroes in all thea
tres of war, in all branches of the service in
Guiding goodly number of human interest
photos But, through some circumstances, these
pictures are not offered to daily papers. They
are reserved for tn Negro press Somone in some
section of the bureau Of Public Relations has
decided in advance that daily papers would not
be interested" in these photographs.
Part of IN blame for the lack Of information
about Negroes in the war devolves upon the
dailies themselves, for many Of them have ig-
nored news about Negroes; but part is upon the
War Department for failing to furnish news and
pictures. The newsreel. have also been guilty.
but il is encouraging to report that they have
recently carried film of the 92nd division in
Italy.
That any reputable and friendly white man in
large city should inquire at this late date
whether Negroes are fighting in the war is a
serious matter, illustrating the heart breaking
difficulty Negroes have in getting simple justice
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-28
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
By CLARENCE ANDERSON

bills would have TO be introduced again. the
House and Senate Committees would have TO
hold hearings again. etc. This may mean the
death of not only the legislation but of the
present FEPC,
For the present FEPc was not, as you know,
established by Congress, but by Executive Order
OF President Roosevelt 1t has no statutory power
1t cannot like other federal agencies created by
Congress enforce its orders through the courts
and in the way that the present Congressional
bills would empower it to do.
There is another time consideration The
present FEPC, weak as il is. has only until
May l945 to run. At that time when it comes
to Congress for renewal of its appropriation q
point Of order by one member of the House can
kill it-unless II should be put back by the SEN
ate. The FEPC barely escaped that fate last
May. 1t is not likely to escape il again.
This argues for the immediate establishment of
permanent FEPC as authorized in the bills
now pending. For after election, and even
more with the new Congress, there will be
letdown iii interest in FEPC and it may be-
come another political football.
In the present Congress after election, and
in the early months Of the next Congress, we
will be told by its opponents that THE present
FEPC has until June l945 to rum so what's the
rush?"
If this session takes no action and new legs.
laton has to be introduced in the next attempts
to amend 1t so as to strike out the enforcement
powers will be made. (Such attempts would of
course be made in the present SESSION. In this
instance, politicians who only give lip service to
FEPC will say: 1.-THE present FEPC has done
good job as it is so VIII. antagonize the opposi.
ton by giving it enforcement powers?"
This, of course, informed people recognize
as passing the buck. They also know that FEPC
without adequate enforcement powers could not
maintain fairness in the coming lay-offs and re-
hiring in peace time industry.
&c. what can you do about this? One thing
Is to make these facts widely known in your
own organizations. A second is to ascertain
the views of your candidates for the House and
Senate with regard to the enforcement features
OF the FEPC bills and the need Of their early
enactment
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-28
BUH-BOMBS

-. At the hairdresser's yester-
day I asked what had happened
when a buzz-bomb fell nearby and
broke their windows. "Oh, We were
quite all right, Modom- The Lady
in the middle Of the perm had all
the curriers' pop of, and the others
were under the dryers
so their hair didn't get dirty when
the ceiling fell down"
Yesterday / heard about a
that the end Of the world
was coming next week end. ! re-
peated this to r. "a friend with
three children under seven. whose
one maid had just lefD and her
only answer was Good
overheard our Annie talk
ing to the Char next door. The
latter was brushing herself of say
ing. This is the third time I've
'ad to lie down in the gutter dur
ing my shopping" Annie said. "Oh,
I don't pay no 'eed to them; il only
encourages them"
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