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Evening star., 1944-09-16
transit Bonus Pay
by WLB
BY the Associated Press.

by the AssociAteo Pres6.
The War Labor Board Yesterday
announced bonus pay policy, based
on increased work load, for en-
ployes OF street railways and other
local transit firms. but a spokesman
said the policy will be applied only
when the union and company volun-
tarily agree to such a bonus.
The board has not said" what
! 1t will do In dispute bonus cases, it
was learned, since this plan was
devised to meet voluntary requests
for bonus"
Economic Sterilization Director
Fred M. Vinson has approved the
formula, the board said, contingent
on the understanding that no in
crease in fares will be asked.
The policy, a modification Of the
formula now in effect at the Capital
Transit Co. here, applies to a joint
company-union application for ap-
Iproximately $500 employees of the
Eastern Massachusetts, Street Rail-
way Co., whose bonus for July, 1914,
averages 8 cents an hour.
The bonus Is retroactive to June
II, 1943, under an agreement between
the company and the AFL Amalga-
mated Association of Street, Elec-
trio Railway and Motor Coach EN-
ployes, bargaining agent for operat-
ing, mechanical and shop employees
| involved.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Georgetown u. 10 Graduate
Service Dentists Tomorrow

The 20 ASTP trainees who gradu-
ate from Georgetown University
School of Dentistry tomorrow will
be the last to graduate under the
Army program. All dental trainees
who have not completed their cur
riculum either will be DISCHARGED
from the Army to continue their
study of dentistry on their own re-
sources or else be assigned to an
other branch of the Army.
Seventeen Navy Viz dental
trainees will be graduated at the
same time. The medical school will
graduate IS men of both the Army
and Navy.
Commencement mass will be said
in Dahlgren Chapel at l0:30 am.
tomorrow and the Rev. Alphonse M.
Schwitalla, S. j., will deliver the
sermon. Capt Bartholomew w.
Hogan, U. S. N. commanding ON
GERS of the Naval Hospital at An
napolis, will address the graduates
at the joint commencement exer-
cises which will be held in Castor
Hall at 2:30 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Bradley Confirmed
In Permanent Rank
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
The Senate late yesterday con-
firmed the nomination Of 1t. Gen
Omar Nelson Bradley for the perm
anent rang OF major general. Presi-
dent Roosevelt promoted Gen. Brad
ley IN recognition Of his achieve
ments in commanding the American
attacking forces In Northern France
The Senate also confirmed the
promotions OF Maj. Gen. Thomas +
Handy, chief OF the War Depart
ment's General Operations Stan
Maj. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, jr.
commander of the 9Th Army Corps
In Southern France. and Mai. Gen
Dan I. Sultan, deputy commanding
general Of the American forces n
the Chinese Burma India theater
The three were elevated to the tem-
porary rank Of lieutenant general.
(Gen. Sultan was Engineer
Commissioner OF the District from
1894 to 1882
Other combinations included pro-
motions to the temporary rank OF
major general for Brig. Gen. Frank
D. Merrill, leader Of "Merill's Ma
rauders";; Brig. Gen. Joseph w
Byron, director Of the Army's Spe-
cial Service Division, and the fol-
lowing other brigadier generals:
Edwin d. Patrick, Norman D
Gotta, Eugene w. Fales, Robert w
Douglass, jr.; Francis B. Mallon, Gil
bert K. Cheves, Maurice Rose and
Cyrus r. Smith.
Also confirmed were promotions OF
SO colonies to the temporary rank of
brigadier general,
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Steel Pier Escapes.
LOST.

BAG, large black, containing money and
government checks and 2 pair Of glasses
issued to Elmer j. Carnes. Reward. NO.
BEAGLE HoU ID. black and white, ha.
answers to name of Jack" lost in vicinity
OF gath and Hamlin SITS. ne; liberal
Tawara rI.GS s. Gsll No No; 5slo 3 ,, or Wo 200;
morning. l o'clock, from Union Station
sonteinlns %s T1n W womans n1d clothing. Reward
sHAGk ss2G Ef Is or mas sk 45sS s5ovn
strayed from 614 Lonsfellow st. NV, Mon
day. September IL. Reward. GE. 1864.
BOSTON BULL, male, small, weishlns
small dark brown spot top Of head ano
half white face, studded red collar; an.
swers to name nGremlin'; 6-yr; ;-old bo,
eral reward for return of dog or informa
ton leading to his return, missing from
yaeht BASIN 1899 CO. Maine Name as w late
Hsa atrsyed sE cS from the
Va. side of the Potomac; round face; SUI
iers periodically from Ats left from dis
ward dsac or alive. Mrs. S. L. Christie
CAPE. brown and white. silk: matching
Please cali RUTH 5T LEI LEE, INA NA. s.; ss1o, 0n
EYEGLASSES, bet 18th and K and l 9Th
op Co case Cali SA % 44s6 @ Ext fs N as4 4eun1
EYEGLASSES, bifocals. plastic rims; case
bears name of Mayfow.. Optical Co;
VICINITY of N. Rhoades and Lee hwy.
FRATERN1TY PIN, lost in vicinity of sth
I;.,nie st. ne: BLACK and gold pearls with
FUR SCARF, in taxicab from nth ST. nea
Pa: ave. to 5246 Colorado ave, about 10
O'Clock Friday night Reward Phone
Fur SCARF. mink in the vicinity of ver-
mont ave. and X st. NV. late Friday
GER, GERMAS SesaEa safPHEkD fsos poe large black
snd Balls HiIl I'd reward. fs Elmwood s@S a7S. e.
Old cai cokER sTuRGsoN Rglaas s1s Me- monshs H
T,NbnaSs IF Me- aISssli i.aEs Reward ,nd; .,out "A.
ArIlnsIon Fairfax bus t to Wa Wash, n.0' Finder FL T
keep money; but please return other con-
tents pol North Highland St, Arl
PoCKETBooK, black. containing money
KeatnsEw and pspers; S.. reward G l. v1NER; .o7
return money and Keys Ras to SG i7eo f1sase B st
f4R kfw44RRD 1871 for retu7n RswaFd Of small whit. wire.
brown marklnss; name MitziS; vicinity
SILVER BRAcEhET Es'Sn Army va Air Gieos corps slfa a
sigma; lost between 14th and 18th, o and
SITS. NV. 1market section): inscribed
Bnaier Sans fIem Ho o5oo Ssarlie' ls4a'" Call Mrs
sCsoTTY, black, male, answers to name of
ST MGnk n's. or sayaTs aE Ts,o Call 1902 Farrasut
IOPCOAT. lady's. navy blue: SUNDAY am.
reward. Box 45-Z, Star.
UMBRELLA. collapsible, red plaid; in cab
on TUESDAY evening, going to 5l4 sth
WALLET, black, papers and pay. lost be-
tween downtown and Columbia rd Satur-
day. Call Decatur 013l
WATCH, lady's. Longine, inscribed on
back sentimental value. Reward Tele-
phone Glebe 1860
WRIST WATCH, lady's. Bulova, Sept. Is.
DU. 1919. iSs
WRIST WATCH. on gold bracelet uadys,,
Thursday. vicinity Colorado and Georgia
aves: or Acme store. Reward. ia 7944
WRIST WATCH, gold, diamond and en-
srald Shaw & Brown Co. Reward. Phone
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Ago Khan Colt Wins
British Race Classic
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWMARKET, England. Sept
16.-Thes Aga Khan's Tehran wor
the st. Leger Stakes, fifth and las,
Of Britain's annual racing classics
today. Two other heavily-backed
colts, Borealis and Ocean Swell, ran
second and third before a crowd
smaller than usual.
Tehran's one length victory
brought the Indian sportsman his
fifth st. Leger triumph and a purse
of approximately $4,000. The win
ner paid $1l for 81, while the sec
ond and third horses each returned
about So for 81.
Gordon Richards, perennial cham
pion of British jockeys, scored his
fifth triumph in this traditional test
for 3-year -olds at the odd distance
of mile, 6 furlongs and $50 yards.
The time was 3:O6H.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Defeat Of MihaiIovich
Now Appears Certain
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
BARI, Italy. Sept. 16-The cap
ture or surrender soon of Gen. Drajs
Mihailovich, Marshal Titos rival
Yugoslav leader, appeared likely to-
day.
Sources here say Mihailovich and
his Serbian Chetniks have beer
caught between the Germans and
Tito's PartiSans, who are said tc
have advanced to the Morava River
200 miles south of Belgrade, in the
very heart of the territory controlled
by Mihailovich in three years of Bit
ter civil war with Tito.
Mihailovich. once hailed for his
resistance to the Germans long be-
fore Tito took the Yugoslav spot
light, was dropped some time ago as
War Minister Of the Royal Yugoslay
government.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Laundry Owner Fined SIS
Under Woqe-Hour Law

Chin Chew, owner of the Yee Lee
Laundry. 1859 P street NV, was
fined $25 in Municipal Court yes
terday for violations Of the wage
hour law.
Judge Nathan Margold found
Chew guilty Of several charges, in
Guiding failure to keep employe rec
ords, but suspended sentence on all
but one count after the laundry
owner promised to keep records and
not to employ women more than
eight hours a day.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Delayed UNRRA Meeting
Opens Today in Montreal
BY the Associated Press.


MONTREAL, Sept. 16.-A A.
nation council, with more than 1OO.-
100000 victims of war looking to it
to ease their suffering. sits down
here today, seeking-in the words Of
its members-to prove the United
Nations can work together in help
ing the helpless as we'll as in fight.
ing aggressors on the battlefield.
The opening ceremonies to be held
today are day late due to the de-
layed arrival of special train carry
ing $50 of the 500 delegates and
their assistants. The train was de-
layed by storms in the United
States.
Herbert Lehman, director general
and head of the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Admins
tration, will speak briefly at the
opening session. A nominations
committee will be among the groups
appointed and it is expected to re-
port in the afternoon, when a chair
man and other meeting officials will
be elected.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Mrs. Rogers Thinks War
Could Be Speeded Up
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 16.-Representa-
tive Edith Nourse Rogers, Republi-
can, of Massachusetts,, q member
of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, said today information she
had received in London and Wash
ington led her to believe that the
war against Germany could be
pushed forward much more quickly. y
She said she was starting an in
vestigation of what she termed a
delay ito see If its cause is political. I"
There should be no politics In
war;" she said. Il don't think it
delay is caused by supply prob
lens. But If 1t really is supply,
then there is no excuse for it,"
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Navy Officers Appeal
Stops LIST Strike

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 16.-More
than 1000 striking electricians at
the Dravo Corp. Neville Island ship
yards, where LISTS landing ships
for tanks) are made, returned to
work at noon today.
The men voted to end their strike
after Navy ofi1cer told them:
Each day you remain on strike
is the same as shooting an LIST out
Of the water"
The walkout began yesterday when
the electricians voiced a demand
that an incentive bonus system, ap-
proved by union and company June
II, be put into effect immediately.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Monteo ShipbuiId;ng Co.
LeveIed by Hurricane

ELIZABETH CITY, N. c.. Sept.
16 (P,.-Storm tides reaching IL
inches higher than any in the his
tory of Roanoke Island inundated
Manteo to depth Of feet in
Thursdays storm. while the wind
leveled the plant of the Manteo
Shipbuilding Co.. engaged in war
contracts for the Navy, according
to the first authentic reports reach
ing here from the isolated island.
The fishing village of Wanchese,
at the south end of the island, had
an estimated l0-foot tide, and the
village has been without drinking
water since Thursday.
Direct communication with Man.
teo will be re-established some time
today. Three thousand feet of the
causeway and one bridge linking
Roanoke to the highway along Nags
Head were wiped out by tides.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Shotgun Kills Man, 40;
Family Questioned

Randall Wilson, 40, colored, of 102
Massachusetts, avenue NV, was
killed instantly by a charge from a
sawed-off shotgun shortly after
noon today in his home. Police of
the homicide squad took members of
his family to headquarters for ques-
tioning.
The shooting climaxed a family
quarrel, police said. No charges have
yet been preferred.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Doesn't Explain.

is why I hesitated to say which came
first"
Doesn't Explain.
Mr.. Dewey's statement about Mr.
Ickes and Secretary Perkins was not
surprising, inasmuch as any change
of national administration ordinarily
brings into Office complete new
cabinet. He did not explain whethe,
he meant whether Mr.. Ickes and
Miss Perkins would be asked to va
cate their posts Immediately if the
epublicans win, while other cabinet
members might be retained tempo
rarily.
Noting that the United Mine
Workers had adopted a resolution
condemning the New Deal admins
tration and praising Mr. Dewey, q
correspondent asked the nominee.
DO you welcome the support OF
John l.. LeWis?"
Il didn't know I had It," Mr.
Dewey shot back. LAS 1 read the
dispatch, it said he had not in
dorsed any presidential candidate
That is exactly what the dispatch
said. All I can go by is what he
said, that he is not indorsing any
candidate. I cannot read minds"
Evening star., 1944-09-16

villages of Osjedaletto and Patrig.
nano, miles south of Rimini, anc
a mile apart.
Farther inland the British drove
back. the German 98th Infantry
Division. which has now been re.
duced to few hundred combat
men, an Allied headquarters state.
ment said. The British captured
Montescudo, less than a mile from
the eastern frontier of the tiny state
OF San Marino, in an alf-night at.
tack.
$500 Prisoners Taken.
West of Gemmano the British
took Zollara and Taverna, on 9
lateral road across the Conca River
Prisoners captured in the Adriatit
sector since the start of the present
offensive rose to $500. b.,
Gen. Alexander's headquarters re.
ported that the Germans were usine
Mark Nv and Panther tanks, as vel
as self-propelled guns to compen.
safe for the shortage of infantry.
The British 46th Division, com.
manded by Maj. Gen. (Ginger)
Hawkesworth. scored the prelim
mary breakthrough of the Gothic
Line positions in the Adriatic sec.
tor which paved the way for the
present thrust on Rimini, it was
disclosed. The division captured
Salerno when it first landed ir
Italy as part of the 5th Army as
sa,llt force on September 8, l943.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
| Sailor Hitches
Ride to Base in
| IAdmiroI's Plane
81 the Associated Press.

FARRAGUT, Idaho, Sept. l6.--
Sailor Bob Friedman of Walden
N. Y, took nap in Washington
D. c., and missed his train, but got
back 10 Farragut Naval Training
Center before his liberty was up by
itch-hiking an airplane ride with
an admiral.
Calling the airport, he found the
only plane going. West was that OF
the admiral. He approached the
impressive gold braid with some
misgivings, but was invited to &c
along as far as Spokane, Wash.
which is only a short bus ride from
the center.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Czech Forces Contact
Russians in SIovakia
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Sept. 16.-Czechoslovak
forces fighting In Eastern Slovakia
were reported officially today to
have established contact with ad-
vanced elements of the Red Army
A communique from the COM
mander Of the Czechoslovak forces
said Russian units had crossed the
Slovak border and that for the first
time Czech planes .had participated
in the battle against the German
air forces in Slovakia's skies.
The bulletin, broadcast from Czech
headquarters. said heavy fighting
was continuing in the Mira Valley
where German tank attacks, with
artillery and air support had been
repulsed with heavy enemy losses.
Evening star., 1944-09-16

f1ayed by 95-mile gale, still were
without electric lights.
Connecticut, its multimillion dol
lar tobacco and fruit crops ravaged
for the second time in eight years,
counted six dead. Five deaths were
reported in Massachusetts,, where
the hurricane leveled fruit trees, bat
tered shore properties and cut COM
munications to islands, including
Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard.
An additional death was reported
as the 100-mile wide gale skirted
Maine
New England's total damage ap-
preached $4,000, 900. half of it in
New Bedford. Mass.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
.Mexicons Protesting
Cos Price Increase
By the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, Sept. IA rise
Of two-flfths of cent per quart in
the price Of gasoline, put into ef-
feet by the Mexican Petroleum Ad-
ministration, caused a storm Of pro-
test by large and small customers.
Taxicab drivers through their un-
ion, were the loudest in denouncing
the rise.
Union leaders told the Petroleum
Committee of the Senate yesterday
that II the rise is not Cancelled they
will organize daily traffic jams in
the streets as protest.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Many Killed and Hurt
In Ecuador EARTHQUAKE

QUITO, Ecuador, Sept. 16.-An
earthquake demolished several homes
last night in the small town of
Saquisili, killing an undetermined
number OF persons and injuring
others.
Quito and other communities in
Ecuador felt the tremor, but there
were no reports Of damage or loss
of life,
Evening star., 1944-09-16
FOUND.

BlFOCAL GLASSES, gold rims found OF
car platform at Conn. ave. and s st. n. W
HO. 1884
BRACELET. girls: vicinity 18th and SITS
NV. Sept, 10; owner may have by identi.
fyins. LOHR. Apt. l-B, los Joliet st. s.w
FOX TERRIER, tan and white, female, in
Takoma Park. SH. 374q.
fOCkETBOOk, lady's straw, flower rot
shape containing no money. but papers
Call DE. 9507.
SMALL. long hair. black-and- white bitch
brown head, srizzled snout. wandering vi
einity Goth and q SITS. NV. Call NO. 3O2I
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Volunteers Operate
Lung by Hand to Save
Polio Victim in Storm
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS.
PORT JEFFERSON. N. Y,
Sept. l6.-A 12-year-old girl in
fantile paralysis victim lived
through the Atlantic hurricane
in spite Of an 18-hour inter-
ruption of electric current
which operated her iron lung
respiratod in st. Charles Hos
pital for Children.
Volunteers from a monastery
at Mount Sinai operated the iron
lung by hand until noon yes
terday. Doctors said the girl
could have lived but a few min
utes without the respirator.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
u. 5. Counts 81 Dead
As Waning Hurricane
Lashes Nova Scotia

The death toll in the hurricane
which swept the Atlantic Coast
Thursday, causing approx
mately $4,000, 900 damage, had
mounted to at least 81 today as
the tail OF the gale lashed across
Canadian maritime provinces
causing damage in Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick.
Two more deaths were reported
today when the bodies of man anc
woman were washed up at hard
hit Beach Haven, N. j., to bring
that States death toll to five. The
storm took Is lives in New Eng
land States, where extensive prop
erty damage occurred in coastal Sec
tions. New York's loss of life stood
at II.
Man and Boy Electrocuted.
Virginia reported the death of q
43-year-old man at Hobson, and
Maryland a 9-year- old boy at Pixies
vile, both by electrocution.
Red Cross area headquarters at
Atlanta reported the death of L. s.
Parkerson. owner of the Parkerson
Hotel at Nags Head, N. c. No de-
tails were available.
More than 1000 sick and wounded
soldiers, most of them from Pacific
and European battlefields, were
evacuated yesterday from the
Army's Col Thomas M. England
General Hospital at Atlantic City
where facilities had broken down as
q result of the storm.
The soldiers, including 275 bed
patients, were transported in hos
pital trains to Halloran General
Hospital on New York City's Staten
Island.
Army Orders Evacuation.
Evacuation was decided by the
War Department when it became
known that the hospitals inter-
rupted water, gas and electric sup
ply could not be Immediately re-
established.
Soldiers on duty at the hospital
and rs Coast Guardsmen from the
Atlantic City station carried the
patients down the steps of the IA
story main hospital building to watt
ing ambulances. Elevator service
had been disrupted because of
power failure.
Nova Scotia Crops Damaged.
The Canadian Meteorological
Bureau said the hurricane, starting
week ago in the West Indies, was
blowing itself out in the North
Atlantic after brushing the north
eastern end of Prince Edward
Island. Heaviest damage in the
Maritime area was suffered by fruit
growers of Nova Scotia's Annapolis
Valley, where about 10 per cent of
the 1,75o,000- barrel apple crop was
blown from trees.
New Jersey, where damage to
crops and seashore properties ex-
ceeded s20,000,00O. appealed for Fed
eral aid as rescue workers strove to
reach hard-hit areas of Long Beach
Island.
Gov. Walter E. Edge of New Jer-
seY asked the States United States
Senator'S to use all influence pos
sible' to get Federal funds for re-
storing such facilities as the famed
Atlantic City Boardwalk, which he
said was almost completely de-
molished."
Steel Pier Escapes.
The middle section of Heinz Pier
at Atlantic City was washed out
but the Steel Pier and Million DOL
lar Pier, contrary to early reports,
escaped with little damage.
Seventeen persons died, most of
them by electrocution, in Metro
politan New York and Long Island,
although the city escaped the hurri-
canes full fury. Store windows
were shattered and subways flooded
in Manhattan. Parts of Long Island,
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Member of Movie Colony
Buys GoId-Studded Shoes
By the Associated Press.

BY Cne ASSOclAted PTeS0.
CHICAGO, Sept. 16-An un-
identified member of the motion
picture industry in California
bought pair of gold studded shoes
at a State street store yesterday
The pair of tan calfskin mems
shoes looked much the same as other
footgear but they had gold slugs In
the heels. gold eyelets and gold
tipped laces.
The buyer paid S200-and ration
coupon-for the shoes.
Evening star., 1944-09-16

LOST RATION COUPONS.
"A" AND &C" GAS RATION BOOKS. iS.nea
to Edward @. Marsh, 2504 18th st. n.
Arlington, Va. I6s
RATION BOOKS NOS. L. 2, 3, 4, Bisnch
V. Clark, September 1st Cabin John car
Return BIS New York ave. NV,
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Dewey

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Evening star., 1944-09-16
Italy

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1944-09-16

is why I hesitated to say which came
first"
Evening star., 1944-09-28

EDITORS NOTE:
This editorial Is republished and
paid for by The New Bedford, tNiass.,)
Standard Times, as a patriotic public
service. No outside parties have cor.
trihuted In any way toward theseost nj
publication. Republication permitted.