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Evening star., 1944-10-17
.bricker Attacks Idea
OF Giving East Edge
On Reconversion

BY the Associated Press.
SANTA ANA, Calf, Oct. IT
Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio de-.
clared today that the East should
not be allowed to get the Jump" on
the West In reconversion to peace
time production.
you have heard it suggested" :"
the Republican candidate for Vice
President said, "that when that time
defeat Of Germany comes, the in
dustries Of the East can be recon-
verted to peacetime production,
while you (the Vest continue to
produce tools of war to defeat Japan.
Il say to you that the winning OF
the war over Japan is the RESPONSE
bility of all our country. Any other
policy would delay the day of final
victory. And it would also impair
the economic well-being of this en-
tire Nation"
SECS West as Great Asset.
The task of reconversion from
war to peace manufacturing, the
Ohioan asserted, like the task of
winning the war, must be on Ma
tion-wide basis"
Gov. Bricker, who earlier had said
he was amazed at the tremendous
industrial development along the
Pacific Coast, described the West
as ''one of the greatest assets of our
Nation"
Twenty-Five States west of the
Mississippi contain 100000 square
miles" he continued This is an
area greater than all Europe with
the exception of Russia. 1t is very
much greater in natural resources"
Many of these resources, Gov.
Bricker said, have scarcely been
touched because of this sections S
|remoteness from the industrial areas
OF the East and because of "our fail
ure to realize the industrial pos
sibilities of the West"
Furthermore, he asserted. this
area of the country for II years has
been without representation In the
Presidents cabinet and without ade-
quate representation in Federal
agencies.
Vests Problems Ignored.
"As a consequence" Gov. Bricker
declared, your problems and your
needs are either ignored or unknown
or are woefully misunderstood in
Washington"
Gov. Bricker expressed the opin-
ion that as result of the war, the
entire Nation would have a stake
in the economic and industrial de-
velopment of the West.
In a speech last night at San
Bernardino, Gov. Bricker said that
the Federal Government, through its
financial grants, is ''usurping" State
and local authority, which he de-
scribed as trend that could lead
to political domination" of local
governments.
He will speak over the Nation
wide Blue Network from San Diego
at pm. Pacific war time) tonight
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Worcester County Head
Cleared Of Misfeasance
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SNOW HILL. Md, Oct. 17.-Presi-
dent Samuel E. Shockley of the
Worcester County Board of Com
missioners was free of a charge of
misfeasance in Office today as Joseph
E. Brimer began a four-year SEN
tence in the House of Correction.
Chief Judge Claude L. Bailey dis
missed an indictment yesterday
charging Mr.. Shockley with mis-
feasance by failing to collect from
the office of Brimer, former Circuit
Court clerk, the sum of s11,323.46
collected as license fees.
Judge Bailey said one member of
a corporate body could not assume
the responsibility for such a body,
and he called the indictment with
out substance in whole or in part
There are three members of the
commissioners board, and only Mr.
Shockley was indicted
Dismissal of the indictment fol-
lowed the sentencing of Brimer after
he pleaded guilty to being in default
to the county commissioners In the
amount of S11 ,223.46.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Russia
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nth consecutive day-about the
operations of Marshal Rodion Malio-
novsky's I'd Ukrainian Army, sweep
ing into Hungary from the south
east, but by German account an
armored battle was raging SO miles
from Budapest.
Reds Sweep Forward.
Russian and Romanian troops
swept sharply forward in Northern
Pennsylvania, overrunning more
than 100 communities, including
Borsa, II miles from the old Polish
frontier.
The two Russian armies which
captured Riga, Latvian capital
pushed southwest against large Ger
man forces reported caught in a
Red Army wise in that area. The
newest Soviet advance overran at
least l6 communities.
The Berlin radio said this morning
that the Russians had begun a
strong offensive north of Warsa "
with ''the entire weight" of the
Red armies in that region COM
bining in one gigantic attack. An
earlier German broadcast declared
a Soviet autumn offensive was sin
full swing" on the entire eastern
front.
The Germans also said that In
Northern Finland where Russian
troops have occupied the big port
of Petsamo, the bulk of the Ger
mans had withdrawn to the Nor
wegian frontier after frustrating
encirclement attempts by rein
forced Russian armies"
Evening star., 1944-10-17
HOUSING
encourage building in housing short
age areas, MIA believes.
Ruildnrc Sna L IT'LL Hnlu
Continued From First Page

encourage building in housing short
age areas. MIA believes.
Builders See Little Help.
Several Washington builders ex-
pressed doubt that todays move
would assist the industry to any
great extent
Paul T. Stone. president of Paul
T. Stone, Inc, builders, said that
unless the present cost limit is re-
moved, today's action would only
result in a further overbuilding of
cheap houses.
He said most builders would refuse
to undertake construction of homes
under the present price range be;
cause it is impossible to builc
quality" houses under the ceilings
"At the present time" Mr.. Stone
said. we have an overabundance
of cheap construction. 1t takes nc
more so-called critical material tc
build better home than it does q
cheap one"
Waverly Taylor, head of the build
ing firm bearing his name, said
the removal of the restrictions was
but small step in what must be
done to alleviate the housing short
age and declared the price ceiling
on construction must be removed.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Carol Stays on Ship;
Denies Rap al U. ).
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associatsd Press
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. i7.-Former
King Carol Of Romania remained
aboard ship in New Orleans Harbor
today, but as to whether he planned
to come ashore during his expected
stay of several days here, he had
mo comment"
Carol and his red-haired COM
panion, Nine. Elena Lupescu, ar
rived yesterday aboard the Argen-
tine steamer Tunuyan en- route from
Vera Cruz, Mexico, to Brazil.
They stayed on the ship overnight,
although State Department repre-
sentatives in Washington said New
Orleans immigration officials had
authority to permit them ashore.
The former King blamed mis-
Interpretation" for story in the
New Orleans Item yesterday quoting
Carols chancellor, E. Uradarinu, as
saying, King Carol has instructed
me to say that he does not wish to
see America again"
The paper said Uradarinu related
that Carol withdrew to his cabin
after receiving "oficial Federal or
ders" that he would not be per-
mitted ashore.
The former monarch told re-
perters later, The whole thing Is
false, a complete misinterpretation."
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Gardner Jackson May Lose
Eye as Result Of Fiqht

Gardner jackson, ,48, of the Wash
ington bureau of PM, former Agri-
culture Department official, may
lose the sight of one eye as a result
Of a fight in front of Greenwich
Village restaurant in New York
September %, friends said today.
Mr.. Jackson has been confined to
a New York hospital, suffering from
brain concussion and eye injuries,
reports said.
Mr.. Jackson was released as spe-
cial assistant to former Undersecre-
tary of Agriculture Paul Appleby in
January, l943, after an aide of Sec
retary Wickard had charged he was
spreading dissatisfaction in the Ge-
partment. Mr.. Jackson was with
Labor's Nonpartisan League before
the war.
Mr.. Jacksons home is at West
Kirke street, Chevy Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Parcels for Overseas
Estimated at1,05O,O00
As DeadIine Passes

More than million Christmas
parcels were mailed in Washington
to servicemen overseas during the
month ended last midnight, Post
master Vincent c. Burke estimated
today.
Crowds at the main City Post
Once and at Benjamin Franklin
Station, which were open all night,
constituted the biggest ever" Mr..
Burke said. Most of the congestion
took place early in the evening, the
rush tapering off about 11:30 pm.
Although an accurate check has
not yet been completed Mr.. Burke
said rough estimate would place
the number of parcels for the month
at 1.050,0o0.
Mail at Corner Boxes.
Every effort will be made by the
postal service to get the Yuletime
mail to all the servicemen in time
for Christmas, officials said, no mat
ter In what remote corner of the
world they may be stationed.
The packages were mailed at many
street-corner mail boxes, as we'll as
the SO postal stations throughout
the city. Street-corner mailing is
in violation of postal regulations,
Mr.. Burke said, because packages
for parcel post must be brought to
a station for inspection as to size,
weight and postage. Some pack
ages, too big to 60 inside, were left
outside the corner boxes, subject to
theft. Neither the senders nor the
postal authorities will know whether
some were stolen. Some packages
had insufficient postage and will
be held here until the deficiency is
supplied by the senders.
Despite extra help and overtime
service by the postal service some
persons stood in line for three hours.
Delivery of regular packages to
overseas stations probably will be
affected for some time by the back
log Of Christmas packages. Parcels
which reached the hands of the post
Office before last midnight will be
given first handling"
Some Special Consideration.
Special consideration, however,
will be given to men who have been
sent overseas since September 30.
In cases where the family now re-
ceives the official change of ad-
dress notification" from the adjutant
general, the post Office will honor it
in place of the required letter from
the soldier himself requesting a gift.
Upon presentation of this document
at postal counter, Christmas
package may be mailed up to De-
cember TO-
The regulations still require either
a letter from soldier or the ad-
jutant general document before
package may be sent to a man in the
Army. But packages may be mailed
as usual to men in the Navy, Ma
rines or Cosat Guard without any
such document. 1t is expected, how
ever, that delivery of these probably
will be delayed by the Christmas
mail.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
CAR Wins Treasury
Merit Award for
Bond Purchases

In a double ceremony, the Chill
dren of the American Revolution
yesterday received a certificate of
merit In the name of Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau for pur-
chasing $780, 900 in War Bonds, to
be .earmarked for purchasing a
bomber, and presented an ambu-
lance to the War Department
Mrs. Louise Mos6aY Heaton,
Cfarksdale, Miss, national president
OF the CAR, received the certificate,
presented for Secretary Morgenthau
by Mrs. Arthur G. Houghton,
women's division, Tre8sury Depart
ment. The drive for purchasing the
bonds was inaugurated at the Junior
Round Table meeting of the CAR
in New YorA last April, when a goal
OF $3.50, 900 was set. The drive real
lied $1,s16,133. "
Group Presents Ambulance.
The ambulance was presented by
q committee composed Of Mrs. Will
liam H. Pouch Of New York City,
honorary national CAR president;
Mrs. Roy S. Smith, Charlotte, N. c.,
State president of the organization
in North Carolina, and Mrs. John
Myers, Thomasville, N. c., senior
president in her city. 1t. Col. Mason
Ladd, director of the legal division,
Once OF the Surgeon General of the
Army, accepted it for the War De-
partment.
The purchase of the ambulance
was made by the CAR Society of
Thomasville, N. c., in honor of the
4,400 persons in the armed forces
from Davidson County, where the
city Is located. With the co-opera-
ton of residents of the county, over
$4,000 was raised by the IL junior
menSers, who were assisted by civic,
social and religious groups.
Carries Plaque.
A plaque reading Presented by
the Thomasville Society, Children of
the American Revolution, North
Carolina" will be affixed to the
ambulance.
The ceremony followed the quar-
terly meeting in Memorial Conti-
mental Hall Of the National Board
OF Management of the CAR ma
tlonal society. witnessing the pre-
sentations were Mrs Donald Bennett
Adams. national vice president and
national chairman of the War
Projects Committee, CAR, and Vir-
ginia Simmons, junior CAR presi-
dent.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
2,4OO, 900 Registrars Sci
Record IN Cook County, III.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Oct. ia record
total of more than 100000 resi-
dents of Cook County (Chicago) will
be eligible to vote in the November
election, it was estimated yesterday
as officials approached the end OF
the task 81 completing registration
records.
The Chicago Board of Election
Commissioners reported that with
18 Of the 3.804 precincts missing, the
names OF l,962,218 persons were on
the city's registration rolls. That
was a gain Of 1882 over the i94C
registration.
County Clerk Michael j, Flynn
estimated 458.635 citizens are regis
tered in the county outside the city
with 8 Of 563 precincts missing-an
increase of 80, ,184 over the total OF
four years ago.
Thus the present total for the
county as whole would be 2,420, ,853
not counting the missing precincts
or 138, 1865 more than the previous
high record In 1910.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Aerial
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Is lying at the bottom of the canal.
but there is no accurate information
of what happened" the shippers
said, 1T is believed that time bombs
dropped by Allies in the water dur
ing a daylight raid on Kiel blew
up the bridge supports"
Fires Still Burning.
Cologne, about 40 miles inside the
west wall from Aachen, was pounded
by more than 1000 American For
tresses and Liberators over the week
end in the most concentrated raid
ever staged by the 9Th Air Force.
Reconnaissance photographs showed
some of the fires still burning yes
terday.
A squadron of RAF Tempests, the
lightning, fast fighters which gained
fame chasing flying bombs. roamed
into Germany for the first time yes
terday. They found two trains and
set both on fire.
Flying through rainstorm to
answer an Army call for help, Ty-
phoons silenced a battery of Ger
man field guns near Vernay, in Hol-
land, with 56 rockets.
More than 500 American heavy
bombers from Italy attacked seven
rail yards, two aircraft engine fac
tories and other targets yesterday
in Germany, Austria and Czechoslo-
vakia, while escorting fighters de-
stroyed l9 interceptors, it was an
nounced in Rome.
Salisbury Attacked.
Fortresses bombed rail yards and
ammunition dumps in Salisbury, Is
miles northeast of Berchtesgaden.
They also hammered Villach and
Linz rail yards, synthetic oil plant
in the Czechoslovak city of Brux
and the sprawling Skoda armaments
works at Pilsen. in Czechoslovakia.
Liberators attacked the Steyer
Walziagerwerk airplane engine
works and rail yards at Spittal, Trie-
ben, Graz and Klagenfurt, and the
Steyer Daimler Ouch assembly plant
at st. Valentine. They also bombed
the Hermann Goering benzol plant
at Linz and the. Graz, the Neudorf
air engine factory, the st. Veit rail
yards and the Klagenfurt aircraft
factory.
The 10 enemy planes were de-
stroyed near Brux and the German
city of Dresden, where approximate
ly 100 Nazi fighters tried to break
into bomber formations. The Ameri-
cans lost 10 bombers and six other
planes.
The outstanding achievement of
the flights from Italy was the single
handed destruction of five enemy
fighters by 1t. Sheldon K. Ander-
son, %, a Mustang pilot and fight
leader from Kenosha, Wis.
Violent explosions and fires re-
suited from British bombing of
rail- yards at Zagreb, Yugoslav city
which is the capital of Croatia.
South African bombers few 1,50o
miles round trip to drop supplies In
Poland.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Lewis Silent on Truman's S
Appeal for UNIV Support
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
John w. Lewis was silent today
on Senator Truman's assertion that
lit would be very much to the best
interests of his United Mine Work.
ers Union to support the Democratic
party, but a union spokesman, K. Q.
Adams, remarked:
The only way Truman can do
business with Lewis is to send him
another subpoena.
Mr.. Adams remark recalled Mr.
Lewis appearance under subpoena
more than year ago before the
Senate War Investigating Commit
tee which the Democratic vice pres
idential nominee then headed.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Germans Report Coup
Attempted in SIovukiu
By the Associated Press.

BY tne ASs0Clated Press.
LONDON. Oct. 1.-THE Germans
announced today there had been IAN
attempted coup" in the puppet state
Of Slovakia and that former Slo-
yak defense minister and five other
officers had deserted to the anti
German Partisans.
A Bratislava dispatch broadcast
by the official German news agency
said Gen. Ferdinand Catlos, former
defense minister, and the other Of
flcers had been charged with trea-
son and desertion. These officers,
the agency said, took part in prep
arations for coup in Slovakia and
have deserted to the Partisans"
Evening star., 1944-10-17
g. j. Alumni Present
Dr.. Vaughan Portrait
To Medical School

Alumni presented to the George
town University Medical School last
night a portrait of DR.. George Tully
Vaughan, member of the faculty
for Al years and a veteran surgeon
of two past wars, whom they hac
chosen to honor above all Other
medical alumni in or out of the
armed services.
The occasion was unusual, in thai
among those paying personal trib.
utes to the professor emeritus ol
surgery were the surgeons genera
of the three medical services ir
which DR.. Vaughan had served with
distinction in war and peace years.
Now we'll over "threescore anc
ten," this war came too late to allow
him to volunteer a third time
Admiral Ross T. McIntire, Navy
surgeon general, declared.
DR.. William P. Herbst, alumni
president, presided at exercises
which were attended by DR.
Vaughan, to whom was presented q
framed set of resolutions in the form
of a tribute adopted by the alumni
association.
Kirk and Parran Speak.
Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, Army
surgeon general, and DR.. Thomas
Parran, Public Health Service sur
geon general, who was one of DR.
Vaughan's pupils in the 1915 class
at Georgetown, also recalled his
part in those two services.
DR.. Vaughan had joined the Pub
lie Health Service in 1888 and re-
mained in it until 1906. During the
Spanish-American War he was
loaned" to the Army and served as
a brigade surgeon with rank OF
major. Typhoid fever, not sur
gerry, was the scourge of that war
as malaria is of this war;" Surg
Gen. Kirk recalled, "and DR.
Vaughan learned a great deal about
typhoid"
In the World. War he served as
senior surgeon aboard the U. S. S
Leviathan on 20 crossings of the
Atlantic and won commenda-
ton from Secretary of the Navy
Daniels. In his unique career, DR.
Parran said, the Georgetown pro-
fessor exemplified the harmonious
coordination of the three medical
services in the present war, which
is developed, he said, to high
degree.
DR.. Vaughan had joined the
Georgetown faculty in 1897 and
taught surgery until his retirement
in 1888. Since then, said the Very
Rev. Lawrence c. German, S. j..
president of the university, he has
been serving as an administrative
advisor to the medical school.
Tribute by Faculty.
Most of the older doctors present
had attended his classes and from
him came our surgical aspirations, u
explained DR.. Joseph S. Wall on be-
half of the faculty. The Rev. David
V. McCauley, S. j., dean of medi-
cine, paying tribute to DR.
Vaughan's humane qualities, said
that I'VE see in him those qualities
we would like most to see in our
selves"
Some years ago, Georgetown con-
ferred the degree of doctor of laws
on the veteran surgeon, who, with
the late DR.. George M. Kober had
been closely identified longer with
the school than any other physician
Aside from teaching, he was the
author Of standard text book and
many papers dealing with surgery
The portrait, which will be placed
in a conspicuous place in the medi-
cal school, was the work of John
Bjorn Egeli, a Scandinavian artist
of Washington.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Hungary
Continued From First Page.)

WCll DO oCfEld1 ldolCS
to the female staff of his headquar-
tiers, joined the Soviets, taking with
them all the money of the Hun
Igarian 1st Army" The Germans
accused the general of stealing the
army's money for months.
A communique issued in Buda-
pest said Prime Minister Ferenc
Szalasi had appointed 1t. Gen. Dez-
soc Laszlo, formerly deputy chief of
staff of the army. to command the
lst Army. 1t. Gen. Eugen Major
was named new commander of the
I'd Army.
1t was not clear whether the de-
posed commander in chief of the
I'd Army also had gone over to the
Russians"
Formal announcement of Gen.
Dalnok's removal however, was
seen here as at least partial con-
flrmation of Paris radio reports
that the 1st Hung hrian Army of 10
divisions was marching on Buda-
pest to oust Szalasi and the Ger
mans
Puppet Regime Installed.
Installation of a new puppet gov
ernment, dismissal of top-ranking
generals and imposition of a drastic
curfew in Budapest were announced
last night by the Nazi-controlled
Hungarian radio.
The broadcast declared Admiral
Nicholas Horthy had issued a proc
lamation "revoking' the plea for an
armistice he addressed Sunday to
the Allies as Hungarian regent. 1t
added that Count Szalasi had formed
a new government after Horthy's
retirement"
-'tMoscew, meanwhile, employed
events in Budapest in an attempt
to get the people of Austria also
to make contribution to their
own liberation"
GA Moscow broadcast recorded
by the Federal Communicate tions
Commission urged Austrians to
"let events in Hungary be
warning and a signal that the
hour of decision has come for
Austria")
The Germans contended the arm
istice broadcast was delivered
against Horthy's will" and that the
admiral was the victim of trail
torous clique who have now been
eliminated so that similar attempt
cannot happen again"
Horthy's Whereabouts Uncertain.
A suggestion as to how seriously
the Germans regarded the attempt
ed Hungarian desertion was given
in a Germin broadcast saying that
now divisions which have been held
back in Budapest are being brought
to the Debrecen Plain, where Hun
gary's fate is being decided in the
battle with the Russians" some so
miles away.
Horthy's whereabouts remained
uncertain. He has been reported
assassinated, held by the Gestapo
IN Germany and holding out in a
Hungarian castle with 1000 faithful
troops.
Although Berlin declared that
there were mo outstanding demon
strations in Budapest during the
night the so-called free Hungarian
radio reported violent street fighting
between Nazi sympathizers and pa
triots, and that widespread strikes
had been called. The Germans were
said to be patrolling the city with
Tiger tanks.
A Paris broadcast reported with
out confirmation that 10 Hungarian
divisions were marching on Buda-
pest to liberate it from the Nazis.
In taking over the helm of govern
ment, Count Szalasi proclaimed
himself regent and Prime Minister
and named pro-German cabinet.
In broadcast to the Hungarians
his government promised that the
home front would be secured and
ordered mobilization of all military
reServeS
Evening star., 1944-10-17
King George Returns
From Visit to Front
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. l7-Flying in a
CAT transport escorted by Spitfire
fighters, King George vi returned
to London last night after a five-day
tour Of battle areas in Holland and
Belgium-his fifth visit to an active
front since the war began.
. Field Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery greeted him at an air
port In Holland. He then inspected
British and Canadian troops and
presented number of decorations.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Soldier Vote Problem

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Oct. II
P.-Newest election problem for
Missouri is the receipt of about 70
abbreviated Federal war ballots ap-
parently voted by Missouri soldiers,
Secretary Of State Gregory Stock
ard said yesterday. The Federal
ballots are not recognized by Mis-
souri, law and cannot be counted.