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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17

with stf of War Bonds he'll have roof over his
head and square meals day matter what happens!
War Bonds back 81 for every So in 10 years. But
don't hang Bonds for the full years. you don't
get the full face value and you won't have that money
ing in later when need lot than you need
today.
So buy War Bonds and more War Bonds And then
keep them You will find that War Bonds very good things
to have and to hold!
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Il Passengers Hurt
In '0|ympian' Wreck
by the Associated Press

| by the Associated Press.
WADSWORTH, ILL.,, Dec. 11.-Nine
coaches of the second section OF the
Milwaukee railroads Olympian
running as combination mail and
day coach train between Chicago
and Minneapolis, were derailed early
today but each car remained erect
and only IL passengers were re-
ported injured.
The train was travelling about go
miles an hour when a burned-out
journal box caused the derailment,
railroad officials said. Only the en-
gine and the first car of the To-
coach train remained on the tracks,
LULA, Ca, Dec. II (P.-Southern
Railway officials sought today to de-
termine the cause of a locomotive
explosion which killed three train
men near here yesterday.
Eighteen cars of the freight were
| derailed and 10 of them burned, said
Chief Dispatcher j. F. Ayers at
Greenville, S. C. Traffic was di-
verted over Seaboard Airline tracks
while workmen removed the debris.
The train was en- route from Green
vile to Atlanta.
Mr.. Ayers identified the dead as
Engineer j. G.. Elliott, 56, of At
lanta; Fireman J. R. McCombs, 81,
Of Easley, S. c.. and Head Brakeman
F. M. Rocks of Atlanta.
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Lute Bulletins
716 Killed by V-Bombs

LONDON R.-German "
bombs killed 716 persons and
seriously injured 1,511 in the
United Kingdom during No
vember, the Ministry of Home
Security announced tonight.
Reds Reported in Budapest
LONDON P.-Paris and Al
giers brOadcasts tonight said
Red Army vanguards had en-
tered Budapest.
Earlier Story on Page AID
Brotcher Gets -Four Years
Everett nj. (Washie) Bratch-
er, Washington band. leader
convicted of evading the draft
by the use of drugs, was SEN
fenced to four years in Jail
and a $1,000 fine by Judge
Robert N. Pollard in Federal
Court at Alexandria today.
Judge Pollard overruled a mo-
ton for a new trial, but ad-
mitted Bratcher to $4,000 bail
pending an appeal which his
attorney said would be filed
Immediately.
Earlier Story on Page B-1.)
Evening star., 1944-12-11
IS Allied Ships Sunk,
Jap Communique Claims
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Two large transports, cruiser OF
large destroyer and two landing
barges were rammed and sunk by
Japanese airplanes in Surigao Strait
southeast of Leyte Island in the
Philippines. japanese imperial head.
quarters claimed in a communique
today
Destruction of a second cruiser OF
destroyer also was reported in the
communique, recorded by the Fed
Ieral Communications Commission
and without Allied confirmation.
Six planes of the Tanshin Aire
unit Of the special attack corps, the
japanese asserted, did all the dam
|age.
Said the communique:
'Instantaneously sunk: Two big
transports, one cruiser or a big de-
stroyer and two landing barges.
Damaged and set afire: One big
transport, one cruiser or big destroy
er. The cruiser or big destroyer that
had been damaged and set afire was
sunk later by our escorting fighter
planes"
Evening star., 1944-12-11
'5|attery Quits REA;
Makes Heated Attack
On Secretary Wickard
Charges Agriculture Chief
With Illegal Acts by
opposing His Authority

Secretary of Agriculture Wick
ard has been guilty of illegal
acts" in connection with the ad-
ministration of the Rural Elec-
trification Administration, Harry
Slattery, REA administrator since
1889, charged today shortly after
the White House had announced
Mr.. Slattery's resignation.
The White House announcement
said the resignation was effective
as of last Friday. 1t was submitted
to President Roosevelt on Novem-
ber rs, according to Mr.. Slattery.
No successor was named.
In statement issued from his
suite in the Wardman Park Hotel,
Mr. Slattery said the situation in
REA has become indefensible and
increasingly intolerable." He said
he decided to leave the agency "fn
order to carry this fight to the
public" inasmuch as "a presiden-
tial order forbids Federal officials to
engage in public controversies"
"By-passed and Displaced Me-"
Mr.. Slattery accused Mr.. Wickard
of having ''by-passed and displaced
me" as REA administrator by in
vesting most of the administrative
powers in a deputy REA admin
istrator. Mr.. Slattery identified the
deputy as William J. Neal.
These actions are illegal and
contrary to the REA Act" Mr.. Slat-
terry said. They also jeopardize
the repayment of Government loans
and are dangerous to the welfare
and permanent success of REA."
Mr.. Slattery's departure from the
REA ended controversy with the
White House which began more than
a year ago. At one time last spring,
the dispute revolving around Mr..
Slattery caused an open breach be-
tween Congress and the White
House when Jonathan Daniels, ad-
ministrative assistant to President
Roosevelt, refused to testify before
a Senate agriculture subcommittee.
Later, Mr.. Daniels changed his
mind and told the committee that
the President was not satisfied with
the work Mr.. Slattery was doing as
REA head and that in June, 1943,
he had offered the post to the late
Senator Norris, Independent, of Ne
braSka.
Mr.. Daniels denied efforts were
being made at the time to get Mr..
Slattery out of the country by offer
ing him diplomatic post abroad
He also told the subcommittee that
(See SLATTERY- page A-61
Evening star., 1944-12-11
1900 u. ). Bombers
Drop 5000 Tons on
Reich Rail Centers
Co-ordinoted Operation
By ; Air Forces Shukes
Varied German Turoets
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Dec. II. - Sixteen
hundred American heavy bomb
|ers and 800 fghters-the great
est fleet of four-engined craft
ever mounted in aerial warfare
today raided Western Germany's
rail centers with 5000 tons of
explosives.
The Fortress and Liberator fleet
from the Britain-based United
States 9Th Air Force was part of
co-ordinated operation that shook
the Reich with heavy bombers from
all three air forces in the European
theater.
British Lancasters and Mosquitoes
jolted three German cities in the
Ruhr before noon. Rail yards and a
fuel plant at Osterfeld and refineries
at Meiderick and Bruckhausen were
the targets
Berlin radio reported bombers
from the United States 18th Air
Force over Austria and headed
toward southern Germany - the
third raid from Italy in three days.
1900 Men Over Reich.
The size of the British based force
meant that almost 1900 pilots
navigators, bombardiers and gun
ners were in the skies over Ger
many
An 9th Air Force spokesman saio
every main rail line leading from
industrial centers in Central and
Southwestern Germany to German
defenses in the west had been ripped
apart by British and American
bombs in the last week.
Today the 9th Air Force heavies
bombed the main line rail centers
of Frankfurt, nearby Hanau and
Giessen.
One fighter group left the bombers
and dived down to explode eight
locomotives near Kassel.
All the targets were obscured ir
cloud and bombing was by instru-
ment.
Evening star., 1944-12-11
MARINE Held in Berrum Case
Also Indicted in Lagoon Staying
Mcfarland Charged
In Fitzwuter Murder,
Holmes AbsoIved

Marine Pfc. Earl Mcfarland,
already charged with numbering
an 18-year- r-old Government clerk
in East Potomac Park on October
s, was formally accused by the
District grand jury today of the
Pentagon lagoon Staying II days
earlier of Mrs. Margaret Fitz-
water. SO.
In returning the second murder
indictment against Mcfarland, the
grand jury absolved Gardner Pop
Holmes, Sc year old restaurant
worker, who had been charged with
killing Mrs. Fitzwater. Holmes has
been in custody since several days
after September "a, the Sunday the
nude body of the widow was found
floating in the water near his make
shift houseboat.
The 24-year-old marine, who is
scheduled to 60 on trial in District
Court January on the indictment
charging him with murder in the
Staying of Miss Dorothy M. Berrum,
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Fare Case
Will Be Reviewed
By Supreme Court
Jurists Also Will Poss
On District Mann Act
Transportation Issue
By ]. A. FOX.

The Government today won a
point in the fight to obtain lower
bus fares for thousands of Dis
trict residents employed in de-
|partmental buildings in nearby
Virginia when the Supreme Court
agreed to review the decision of
"a three-judge District court en-
joining the Interstate Commerce
Commission from making re-
duced rates effective.
In another local case the Supreme
Court agreed to decide whether
the Mann Act forbids the trans
portation of woman solely within
the District of Columbia for pur-
poses of prostitution. The Court
of Appeals has held that the offense
is punishable under local statutes
and not under the Federal lava
ruling serving to block Mann Act
prosecutions here unless the Su-
preme Court overruleS it.
The next step in the bus fare case
is for it to be set down for argu-
ment before the Supreme Court.
Four Lines Involved.
The lower court held that the
ICC was without authority in or
dering schedule calling for TO-
cent cash fares or 8h-cent COM
mutation fares between the District
and the Pentagon Building area
Lines involved are the Capita.
Transit, Alexandria, Bancroft &
Washington Transit Co.; Arlington
and Fairfax Motor Transportation
Co. and the Washington, Virgins
and Maryland Coach Co., Inc. The
commission order entailed a reduc-
ton of from IL cents to cents q
trip and would relieve Capita
Transit riders of paying an extra
nickel.
In appealing to the Supreme
Court the Justice Department saic
the commission had found the
nearby installations constituted the
nerve center of the war effort in
this country" and that the present
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Moderate Earthquake
In Pacific Recorded Here

The Georgetown University seis-
mograph yesterday recorded ar
earthquake which seismologists said
was moderate" in intensity and
probably occurred in the New Guinea
area. Instruments showed the dis
turbance to be about 10000 miles
away, beginning at 1:31 am, reach
ing a maximum at 2:08 and ending
at about am
The disturbance also was record
ed on the seismograph at Fordham
University in New York, where Of
f1cials reported it was almost GER
tainly' in the Dutch East Indies.
Two additional shocks mot as
strong as the recent japanese one'
also were recorded yesterday morn
ing on the seismograph at the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology al
| Pasadena.
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Operation Necessary
On Beaten Woman

Nelson O. Sipe, IS, of 1902 Fiji
teenth street NV, held in a 81, 900
bond on a charge of assault with
a dangerous weapon on his wife,
Mrs. Mary Lou Sipe, %, an ex-
pectant mother. today was es-
corted to Gallinger Hospital by
United States marshals, where he
gave legal consent for an emergency
operation on his wife, made neces-
sary by the beating he is accused
of administering.
Hospital attaches reported Mrs.
Sipe's condition Is quite serious"
She is suffering from a possible
fracture of the skull, a ruptured
eardrum and internal injuries.
The case against Sipe was con-
tinued in Municipal Court until
January II pending outcome of Mrs.
Sipe's condition. It was during his
arraignment that an officer ap-
peared to advise the court that hos
pital authorities had telephoned to
request his consent for the operation
on his wife.
Police said Mrs. Sipe was found
on the sidewalk in front of her
home last night at 10:30 o'clock.
following an alteration which
Ineighbors said had continued from
6 pm. until 10:30. At the hospital
she told investigating police that
her husband had beaten her with
his fists, a camera, tin cup and
several china plates. Mrs. Sipe was
found by soldier when she stag
|gered from the house and collapsed.
Police said the Sipe apartment
was Uttered with broken dishes and
Overturned furnishings when they
went to arrest him.
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Reds ExpeI Four Members
Of 0SS From Bulgaria
By the associated Press.

BY the associated Press.
ISTANBUL, Dec. 10 Delayed -
The Russians have expelled four
man United States Office of Strate-
gic Services team from Bulgaria for
the second time since Bulgaria's
surrender.
Allowed to return after an earlier
expulsion, the four were told they
must leave on the same grounds
as before-that they were not Of
flcially accredited by the Russians.
On October Cordell Hull, then
Secretary of State, said an Allied
military mission had been elected
from Bulgaria by a Russian COM
mander. but that he believed the
difficulty was Strengthened out and
that the mission would re-enter the
country as a result of arrange
ments by Washington and London
with Moscow.
The mission went to Bulgaria to
handle Anglo-American interests.
Some authorities in Washington said
the Russian military commander
had not been properly advised.
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Raise for u. 5.
Workers Asked
by civil Service
Permanent Overtime
Law Suggested in
Report to Congress

The United States Civil Service
Commission today urged Con-
gress to raise the basic pay rates
of Government employees and
enact a permanent overtime pay
law.
In its annual report, transmitted
to Congress by President Roosevelt,
the Commission also recommended
that:
l. After the war, all Federal en-
lployes required to work on national
holidays should be paid for such
work at 112 times the rate for or
dinary days.
g Salaried Federal workers should
be eligible for pay increases every
II months in the lower -Salaried
groups and every l8 months in the
higher -salaried groups, instead Of
every 18 and 80 months as at present.
Severance Pay Recommended.
3. Federal employees should be
made eligible for unemployment
compensation benefits, or else given
a 90-day dismissal wage.
4. The time limit for a war vet
eran making application for re-em-
lployment should be extended from
40 days to 80 days after his dis
charge from the armed forces, or
from disqualification after discharge
for a period Of not more than one
year.
The commission postponed sub
mission Of review of its work, ira
ditional in any report to Congress
by Federal agency, in order to
give emphasis to its recommended
tions which, it declared, should be
put into effect at once"
Asserting that the Federal Gov
ernment must be the most progress
lsive employer in the Nation" the
report declared that upward revi-
sion of basic pay rates is necessary
to attract and hold personnel whose
qualifications are above question
Rates Not Raised in War.
1t recommended IAN immediate
re-examination of basic rates of pay
for salaried employees in order to de-
termine what adjustments should be
made as a result of the increases
over a period of the past several
years, in the cost of living"
The report pointed out that basic
Ipay rates for most salaried Federal
positions have not been increased
since the war
Conceding that the Government
never can expect to compete on an
equal basis so far as salaries are
concerned with private employees in
attracting high-grade personnel, the
commission said that persons who
: are willing to make monetary sacri-
fees in return for the privilege of
! serving all the people" in Govern
ment work should not "be expected
to stand by and not receive adjust
ments in their basic pay structure in
order to compensate for increases in
the cost of living"
Pointing out that the present
overtime pay law expires next June
80, the Commission urged that be-
fore then permanent legislation be
enacted to:
/. Authorize additional pay at
(See CIVIL SERVICE. Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1944-12-11
f Bond Sales Pass
Hallway Mark as
Final Week Starts
Corporation Purchases
Help District Roise
1879 Pct. Of Quote

Sales of series "E" bonds in
the Districts Sixth War Loan
drive went over the so per cent
mark in today's report. Drive
leaders were somewhat cheered
by the increase, but pointed out
that sales this week still have a
long way to go if the District is
to meet its 'E" bond quota by
Saturday, when the drive Off
cially ends.
The new total in "E" sales is
SIG loo, 900, an increase of 81 300, ,O0O
over the week end, bringing sales to
53.7 per cent of the $4,000, 900 "E'
bond quota.
Overall sales in the local drive
for $94, 600, 900 are now $101 ,400, 900
or 1919 per cent of the quota, while
corporations have now bought halt
again as much as they were sched-
uled to buy-With a total of $72 ,000,-
600, or $50 per cent of their s48,-
100000 quota.
lHOlViOual IOtaI Rises.
Total sales to individuals, includ-
ing "E" bonds and bonds of larger
issue sold to individuals, are up ST.
100 900 to $29 400 900 or $50 per cent
OF their $46,000,0O0 quota.
AS the District entered the final
week OF the drive leaders urged
bond salesmen to concentrate solely
on the untapped supply of small
income buyers who are not meeting
their quota.
The money is in the pockets OF
the people, drive leaders declared
and if the District is to back ur
troops overseas, 1t must be invested
in bonds.
OversubScription of the drive will
help to provide the overwhelming
superiority of equipment over the
enemy that our forces must have il
they are to win victory at the earli-
est possible moment and at the least
cost in lives" Secretary of State
Stettinius reminded the Nation in q
statement today. TT will do some
thing more-it will provide another
demonstration of the unfaltering de-
termination Of the whole American
people to place the winning of the
war and the winning of the peac,
above all else"
"The men on the front lines arr
fighting and dying for us. To kee,
faith with our men is for us at home
(Coa IIYAp pnNnC nanz a <
Evening star., 1944-12-11
|Kweichow Cleared
Of Japs, Chinese Say
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Dec. 1l.-Japanese
forces have been expelled completely
from Kweichow Province and driven
back over the Kwangsi border, the
Chinese high command announced
tonight.
Earlier, the Chinese said, one of
two japanese forces invading Kwei-
chow had been swept back across
the border by Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek's forces, which recaptured
Liuchai, just over the border in
Kwangsi.
This action left only the enemy
column along the Yuyun-I -Ishan trail
to be dealt with
The high command gave no de-
tails of the withdrawal of this
column along the trail east of the
Kweichow-Kwangsi Railroad which
at one time reached a point less
than 10 miles from Kweiyang,
Burma Road capital of the prov
ince. The communique announced
only that enemy remnants around
Lpo, 80 miles southeast of Kweiy-
ang, had been mopped up and
Kweichow was now freed.
Domei, japanese news agency, in
a Tokyo broadcast today, declared
Imperial troops who invaded South
ern China from French Indo-C China
November % had effected a junction
with Japanese forces in Kwangsi
Province and established an over
land link running all the way from
Manchuria to Malaga.
The junction was effected yester-
day in the Kwangsi Province town
of Suilu by japanese who crossed
the do-China border at Langson,
said the broadcast.
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Hunger and Threat of Epidemics
Heighten Turmoil in Athens
ELIAS Concentrations Around City Attacked
By Big British Bombers for First Time

Grande Bretagne Hotel, temporary
seat of the Greek government on
Constitution Square. One 75-milli-
meter shell struck British head
quarters. The British replied with
artillery and mortars.
Heavy rain curtailed action during
the night, but fires started by she'll
fire still were smoking today ON the
northern slopes of the Acropolis.
All unloading of relief ships at
Piraeus, port of Athens, was ut a
standstill and UNRRA attempts tc
organize soup kitchens to relieve
the stricken civilian population 50
far had failed. Large numbers OF
dead were still awaiting burial.
Strong forces of both sides were
massed as efforts to mediate the
crisis appeared to be meeting little
success. The ELIAS, armed militia
of the left-wing Fam political party,
Evening star., 1944-12-11
WPB Will Borrow
Workers 10 Produce
Battlefront Weapon,
Loan Of Monpower
For 90 Days Sought
In industrial Centers
RULING "FREEZES" MEN in their
war plant jobs. Page A-3
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

| Dy JANlES i. NEWlON.
A concerted drive in 100 in
dustrial centers to borrow
manpower for 80 days from COM
mercial establishments and serv-
| ice trades, coupled with tighter
draft regulations on less es-
sential work, were counted on
today by production officials to
supply the 100000 workers
needed to bring munitions out
put up to battlefront require
mentS.
The plan to recruit workers for
war plants on a loan basis from
stores, banks and other civilian es-
tablishments was revealed by a War
Production Board official shortly
after War Mobilization Director
Byrnes instructed Selective Service
to renew induction of men aged &c
through 81 who are not employed in
war essential jobs.
| AAieSllCAfC ool lFSyo Will NC llldOC VI
all civilian employment in the ia
areas where war manpoWer is short
Each employer of size will be re.
quested to loan" specified number
of employees. probably 10 per cent
in most instances, to manpower short
war plants. Period of the loan viii
be 80 days, which is considered the
duration of the currently critica
war production situation.
Women Also to Be Taken.
On conclusion of the production
emergency the borrowed" workers
will return to their old jobs. Women
as we'll as men will be taken, since
many jobs now open in war work
can be performed by female labor
The campaign will be directed by
local Offices of the War Manpowe,
Commission, assisted by WPB field
workers and procurement officers o1
the Army and Navy.
The high WPB official said he be-
lieved there are thousands of men
and women in civilian work who will
be glad to contribute directly to the
war, especially for the short time
they will be needed. He said 9
patriotic appeal will be made tc
employees and employers alike
Newspaper cooperation is counted
on to blast recalcitrant employers
with publicity should they refuse te
go along with the program.
Mr.. Byrnes' instruction to Selec.
tive Service Director Lewis B. Her.
shey, which actually was a warning
to older draft eligibles to seek EN-.
lployment in war industry or face
induction into the armed forces, wa!
counted on to cut down appreciably
the huge labor turnover that ha.
1 (See MANPOWER. Page A-40
Evening star., 1944-12-11
BY the Associated Press


ATHENS, Dec. 11.-Acute food
shortages and the imminent
danger of epidemics threatened
Athens today as British heavy
bombers for the first time in the
week-long civil struggle attacked
ELIAS concentrations around the
city.
Raj Wellingtons and cannon fir
ing Spitfires joined the sanguinary
fighting-already reported to have
cost the leftists 500 killed and $500
wounded-after an ELIAS attack
supported by mortars and artillery
had been repelled yesterday by Brit
ish troops using tanks and field
guns.
Several shells fired from ELIAS
positions fell near British head
quarters on the eastern outskirts of
the city. Sniper bullets struck the
Evening star., 1944-12-11
Snow and Rain Forecast
For D. c. Vicinity Tonight

Washington and vicinity are to be
treated to a mixture of snow and
rain some time tonight, it was pre-
dicted today by the official weather
forecaster. The temperature was ex-
pected to remain around IS degrees
for the next "a hours. Today's
cloudiness will continue and the
slight wind will increase in force, it
was forecast.
In Southwest Virginia STOW fell
early today and in some sections q
blanket of from 8 or inches COW
cred the ground and the highways,
causing State highway officials to
warn motorists to use chains. Trucks
were assigned to spread cinders at
dangerous spots In the highways.