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Evening star., 1944-02-12
Newsprint Situation
Called 'ALit!e Better
By the Associated Press,

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-Canadian
|newsprint production in January
was 1853 tons while shipments
were 209, ,599, the Newsprint Service
Bureau reported yesterday.
Shipments were slightly higher
than the 200, 1000 tons-a month aver
age which Canada agreed to ship
to the United States, the bureau
said, adding that the newsprint pic
ture was a little better" than it
looked last July, but that demand
by American publishers also was
greater.
The organization said United
States output in January was 6O,354
tons and shipments 61,102, while
Newfoundland production was TO-
1863 and shipments 13,437-making
a total North American output of
323,o75 tons and shipments of 284,-
1873. In January, 1943, production
was 3l6,961 and shipments 297 ,026.
Total stocks of newsprint at the
end of January at Canadian, United
States and Newfoundland mills
totaled 1855 ,287 tons, compared with
1850 on December 81 and 188,368
at the end of January, 1943.
During the winter some tonnage
is accumulating at points from
which water shipments will be
made later" the bureau added.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Army, Short Of Quota
Fights Deferment Of
Lumber Workers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Proponents Of legislation to defer
workers In the lumber and logging
industry from military induction
faced strenuous opposition today
from the Army, the Selective Service
System and the War Manpower
Commission.
Representatives Of the three agen-
cies testified against the measure
before a House Military Affairs sub
committee yesterday. The lumber
industry had contended their work.
ers were essential to the war effort
and automatically should be de-
ferred.
Col. Francis Keesling Of the Selec-
tive Service System said the agency
doesn't want its already depleted
pool Of draft-age men lessened.
Undersecretary Of War Patterson
told the subcommittee the Army al
ready is 200, 900 men short of its in
duction quota.
THE more deferments Congress
provides, the harder it will be fol
the military service to fill its needs
Mr.. Patterson said.
A. w. Motley, director Of the VINO
Placement Bureau, argued against
giving preference to any one indus
try, saying such policy would
make the whole manpower problem
more difficult"
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Workers '43 Income
Is S1o0,603,000,000
BY the Associated Press.

~ tAe hepOCldleQ fTeSS
American workers pocketed a rec
ord 500, ,6o3 ,000,0OO in salaries and
wages last year, nearly $21 ,0OO, ,O0O,-
600 more than in 1912 and $4S, ,O00,-
900 900 more than in 1929.
The Commerce Department, In
reporting these figures, yesterday
said income payments to individ-
uals, including investment returns,
in 1943, amounted to $141,717, ,0oo, 900
compared with 15,48O O0O,O 900 a
year earlier and $82, ,578, ,0O0, 900 in
1929.
Piling record on record, such pay
ments in December hit an all-time
peak Of $13, AGO ,O0O, 900, more than
81 900 900 900 above November's pre-
vious high. Most of the December
increase, however, was attributed to
heavy year-end dividend and in
terest payments. These aggregat-
ed $1,56l 600, 600 and brought the
total for the year to $9,940, ,000, 900.
December wages and salaries
amounted to $9,O36 900 900, an in
crease of 5000 900 over Novem-
Der.
The Department said all Decem-
Der payments when adjusted for
seasonal variation were equivalent
to an annual rate of $151 900 ,0O0,- :
600, or more than double the $7O,-
829 900, 900 paid to individuals in
DreWar 1899.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
D. {. Boy, ;, Found;
Missing -Four Days

from Yesterdays Late Editions.)
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Feb.
today found the 3-year-
old son Of 1t. and Mrs. Henry A.
Muslin Of Washington and three
other young children who had been
missing from a West Palm Beach
nursery school since Monday. The
children were unharmed.
The children are Henry C. Muslin
III, whose father, a Naval Reserve
officer, Is on sea duty: George Ap-
plegate, 4; Danny Clark, 8, and
Sheila Clark. 8. They were found in
the home of Mrs Catherine Beattie
on the outskirts OF West Palm
Beach.
The two women who ran the
nursery school were Mrs. Kathryn
Jardine and Mrs. Julia Clark, moth
er of Danny and Sheila.
Mrs. Beattie telephoned police
an explanation today. The two OPP
orators OF the nursery left the chill
dren with her Monday, she said,
agreeing to pay her for caring for
them until next Monday. Mrs. Beat
tie said she was surprised to read a
newspaper story about the missing
children.
Mrs. Muslin said she left her child
at the nursery school Sunday night.
She found the nursery deserted Mon
day morning, but thought Mrs. Clark
and Mrs. Jardine might have taken
the children to the beach. She be-
came alarmed when they did not
return during the day and summoned
police.
The search became State wide,
and Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents were invited in when police
suspected kidnapping. Rear Admiral
George C. Murray, commandant of
the Pensacola Naval Air Training
Station, step-father of 1t. Muslin,
for naval Investigators to
join the search. The children were
found at am. today.
Evening star., 1944-02-12

served overseas since August. The
27-year-old airman joined the Army
Air Forces in May, 1912, and re-
cieved his bombardier training at
Williams Field, Chandler, Ariz., and
his navigator instruction at Hondo,
Tex.
A graduate Of Catholic Univer-
sity here, 1t. Dougherty is a native
Of Bethlehem, Pa, where his mother
lives.
Sergt. Maggia, 81, enlisted in the
Army Air Forces on October II, 1912,
and received his aerial gunner
training in December, 1912, at an
Army air field in Florida. He went
overseas in September, 1913.
He is a graduate Of Mckinley
High School and was employed in
the Post ONCE as a clerk before his
enlistment.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Part Of SaIvaged Rubber
Burned as UnusdhIe
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Some of the scrap rubber con-
tributed by the public since the COL
lection drive of 1912 must be burned
as unusuable, but Rubber Director
Bradley Dewey declared yesterday
that "at least IS per cent" of the
scrap has been found useful.
Mr.. Dewey said the salvaged rub
Der. which totals 10000 tons, is be-
ing used at the average rate of 35,-
900 tons month.
From time to time, of course, un-
reclaimable and unusable items will
be burned or otherwise destroyed to
get rid OF a possible fire hazard" he
said in q statement. mo citizen
should misconstrue this action as an
indication that the scrap stockpile
is not being used or that an over
whelming portion Of the scrap COL
lected has not proved suitable for
reclaiming."
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Stay Sought for lonergan
On Surprise Letter. Basis
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. ia surprise
letter from the Canal Zone purport-
ing to throw light on dissension in
Wayne Lonergan's household, was
disclosed yesterday by counsel for
the Royal Canadian aircrafstmau
accused of battering his wealthy
wife, Patricia. to death last October
On the basis of the message, De-
fense Attorney Edward v. Broderick
filed a notice of a motion for ap-
pointment of a commission to take
a deposition from the letter writer
a serviceman, and for stay OF
trial.
The motion will be argued before
Judge John J. Freschi Tuesday
The trial, already postponed twice
Is scheduled to start February %
Lonergan, 81, is charged with first
degree murder.
Mr.. Broderick said the letter
mailed in Cristobal, was written by
Tach March. onetime "acquaint-
ance and house guest" of Lonergar
and his heiress wife, and that Loner.
gan received it this week in City
Prison.
Excerpts from the letter, filed with
the court, depicted Mrs. Lonergan as
having been out on all-night parties
while Lonergan remained home to
care for their infant son.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Col. Nelson Commended
For Invasion Supervision

1t. Col. Nels H. Nelson, 40, U. SIN.
c. has received a letter Of commenda-
tion from Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger,
commander of the 1st Marine Am
phibious Corps, for his part in di-
recting and supervising the marine
assault on Bougainville last Novem-
ber, according to an Associated
Press dispatch from the South Pa
cif1c.
Before going to the South Pacific
last June, Col. Nelson was on duty
as communications officer at marine
headquarters here. A native of
Irene, S. OAK, he was graduated
from the Naval Academy in 1926.
Col. Nelson's wife, Mrs. Helen Mel
son, and 15-year-old daughter.
Martha, lives at 1924 Thirty ninth
place NV.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Wickard Sees New Record
In Crop Output Next Year

BY the Associated Press.
MART1NSBURG, w. Va, Feb. u.
Of Agriculture Wickard
predicted last night that American
agriculturists would break all pro-
duction records next season "if we
have average weather and If farm
ers plant to their goals"
Speaking at the 51st annual
meeting of the West Virginia Hor-
ticultural. Society, attended by 800
fruit growers and shippers of West
Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and
Eastern Pennsylvania, Mr.. Wickard
said more money was available this
year to help farmers get needed la
Dor, more steel has been allotted for
farm machinery, the fertilizer situ-
alton would be easier this year and
spray materials would be about the
same.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Senator Nye Urges
Silence on Wi||kie
In Tilt With Clark
BY the Associated Press.


Senators Nye, Republican, of
North Dakota, and Clark, Democrat,
of Missouri, who are running for
reelection this year, agreed in the
Senate yesterday that politics
makes for strange bedfellows.
Senator Nye was discoursing at
length on recent speech by Vice
President Wallace when Senator
Clark interrupted to inquire why
mis- Republican colleague didn't dis
cuss reported statement by Wen
dell L. Willkie that the latter would
be the Republican presidential
nominee.
I am not unmindful of Mr.. Will
kie's ambition" replied Senator
Nye, "but I think the more we leave
Mr.. Willkie alone for the moment
the further he will be from becom-
ing candidate for the presidency
on either the Republican or Demo-
cratic tickets"
Senator Clark demanded to know
whether Senator Nye would support
Mr.. Willkie in the event the latter
is nominated. The North Dakotan
said he would if the choice is be-
tween Mr.. Willkie and President
Roosevelt.
"Of course" Senator Clark grinned,
'the Senator would have to swallow
everything he has said heretofore if
he did"
YES" Senator Nye replied with a
wry face, II would have to swallow
and how hard I would have to
swallow. But If I am not mistaken
the Senator from Missouri will have
to do some swallowing himself If
certain things come to pass" He
obviously alluded to the possibility
that Mr.. Roosevelt, whose policies
have been criticized at times by
Senator Clark, might be renomi-
mated.
The Missourian said he was op-
posed to the third term, but when
the issue was drawn between Frank
lin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Will
kie, never had a moments hesita-
ton"
Then the Senator may we'll un-
|derstand my position with respect
to the choice which may have to be
made" Senator Nye replied, adding:
81 might say that we are both in
a whale of q fix"
Evening star., 1944-02-12
House Group 10 Open
New Probe Of Federal
Draft Deferments

Launching a new investigation of
Government draft deferments, a
House Military Affairs Subcommittee
will query District draft board chair
men Monday, particularly ON an al
legged draft bottleneck" created by
the temporary deferments of fathers
in the Federal service.
Members of the subcommittee
headed by Representative Costello.
Democrat, of California, also indi-
Gated they will go into the proposed
point system" whereby fathers in
the Federal service are "rated" for
deferment by the War Manpower
Commissions Review Committee.
One committee spokesman said he
considered the point system dis
criminatory against fathers employed
in private industry who are not given
special consideration because OF
their age or the number of their
children.
District selective service head
quarters, meanwhile, denied that
the entire burden of filling draft
calls has fallen on fathers in pri-
vate industry, pointing out that
Government agencies have not ask
ed temporary deferments for IA
theirs in minor jobs and that draft
boards do not have to grant the
agency requests.
A spokesman admitted that Dis
trict boards have had many requests
for temporary Government defer
ments.
When the Government agencies
were so tough about requesting de-
ferments," he said, fathers in pri-
vate industry were probably getting
better break than those employed
in Government. Now they are
taking the lid off and naturally we
are getting flood of requests at the
beginning"
Approximately 10000 fathers in
Government service are being con-
sidered for longer deferments by the
Review Committee which has to act
on the cases on or before March 81
when the last of the temporary de-
ferments expire. approximately
$4,000 fathers in and outside of Gov
eminent are registered with District
draft boards.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Wallace Proposes
Nonpartisan Council
On Postwar. Jobs .
Ry the Associatea Press.

MILWAUKEE, Feb. u. - The
establishment of a nonpartisan jobs
authority or jobs council, comprised
Of Government, business and labor
leaders, to serve in an advisory
capacity to seek full employment of
resources and skills is proposed by
Vice President Wallace.
Mr.. Wallace outlined his plan to
curb unemployment in the postwar
period in an address last night at a
nonpartisan meeting here. He said
the proposed council would advise
Congress, the President and the
public with regard to several alter
nate types of action which might be
used to prevent unemployment be-
fore it actually occurs.
He asserted that the first concern
OF the proposed council would be
finding jobs for returning service
men and women and "its No. 2 con-
Germ would be the provision of jobs
for those who formerly worked in
war plants.
President Would Appoint.
Its overall concern would be to
make sure that the total business of
the country Is so great that jobs can
be found for those servicemen and
displaced war workers without Gre
ating unemployment for those who
have been engaged in peace time ac-
tivities all the while"
He suggested that the personnel
OF the council be appointed by the
President.
AT a press conference earlier in
the day, Mr.. Wallace said he feared
that Eric Johnston, president of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, had not read very carefully
the Vice Presidents speech at Seattle
mentioning threat of Fascism in
the United States.
Attacks Mccormick.
Mr.. Johnston said that if there is
threat OF Fascism 1T is not to be
found in big business, but in big gov
ernment," and Mr.. Wallace COM
mented:
I'll add this to what I said at
Seattle. The essence of American
Fascism is putting dollars first and
men second. Its method to get con-
troll Is to poison the channels of in
formation. An outstanding example
is Col. Robert r. Mccormick of the
Chicago Tribune"
Asked at Chicago if he had any
comment on Mr.. Wallace's reference
to him, Col. Mccormick, editor and
publisher OF the Tribune, said:
Wallace is deliberate traitor to
his country"
Evening star., 1944-02-12
New Mexico Republicans
Pick Delegates Today
By the Associated Press.


ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, Feb IL
The New Mexico Republican Con-
vention assembled today to name
the Nations first delegates to the
Chicago nominating convention.
Party chieftains almost unanimously
expressed belief the delegation would
go uncommitted.
Reports that the convention would
produce a test between hackers of
Wendell l.. Willkie and Thomas E.
Dewey were discounted by some
leaders, among them National Com
mitteeman Albert K. Mitchell.
Mr.. Mitchell, noting the conven-
ton was the first in the country,
with the Chicago conclave still four
months away, said sentiment in
dicated New Mexico Republicans
were in no mood to commit them
selves while the field for potential
residential candidates still was wide
open.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Land Of Lincoln Ancestor
Given 10 Britain for Shrine

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 12.-Lincoln would
have been the first to recognize the
debt so many owed to so few"
when Britain stood alone against
the Germans in the summer of 1910,
United States Ambassador John G.
Winant said today at an Embassy
ceremony in which the deed to the
homesite of the Emancipator's an
cestor, Richard Lincoln, was turned
over to the national trust.
In many parts of Britain you
have built monuments to honor Lin
coins memory" he said. To-day
you have gone back to his begin
nings to honor and perpetuate his
ancestral home. Your plan in COL
laboration with American friends
to raise funds to establish a Lincoln
memorial on this property is equally
appreciated"
Lincoln's ancestral home is in
Swinton Morely.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Subsidies
Continued From First Page.

or less would have been given food
purchase stamps.
Peppers Plan Defeated.
BY another vote, Sc to IL, the Sen
ate refused to pass an amendment
by Senator Pepper. Democrat, of
Florida which would have directed
the President to raise the wage cell
ing per cent above that provided
by the present Little Steel" for
mula.
The administrations subsidy pro-
gram is designed to compensate
food producers for any differential
between increased production costs
and price ceilings established by the
Office of Price Administration.
Through such payments the Gov
ernment has rolled back" butter
prices 5 cents pound and cut
prices Of some meats from 3 to 4
cents pound. Also beneficiaries of
direct or indirect subsidies are pro-
ducers of coffee, flour and milk.
Currently these subsidies are costing
81 900, 100000 a year.
The administration has main
tanned that such subsidies are nee
essary to ''hold the line" against
imitation.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Cobb Gets SIS Years
For Street Robbery

John T. Cobb, 27 colored, of the
300 block of Eleventh street NV,
today is under sentence Of from
to Is years for robbing a man on
the street of $45 and a watch last
November. The sentence, which is
the maximum for a robbery charge,
was imposed by Justice Matthew
F. MCGUIRE Of District Court.
1t was testified that the mans
victim had been kicked and beaten.
Cobb had a police record.
In another case, Justice Mcclure
sentenced Edgar S. Ramsey, AZ,
colored, to from three to nine years
for manslaughter in the axe Staying
last fall of Roscoe Meeks, AZ, colored.
Both men lived in a shack in the
$500 block of street.
Cobb was prosecuted by Assis-
tant United States ATTORNEY Grace
B. Stiles. Assistant United States
Attorney John P. Burke prosecuted
Ramsey.
Justice David A. Pine yesterday
sentenced Samuel Mayo Jayroe, IS,
10 serve from 2 to 18 months for
failing to notify Selective Service
board Of change in address, in
violation Of the Selective Training
and Service Act.
Justice MCGUIRE yesterday as
serted there should be some organ
ization to aid and guide colored per-
sons, who have committed an offense
for the first time. This view wa.
expressed when he suspended a
sentence of from eight months to
two years against a 20-year old
colored youth, a first offender, who
had been indicted with others on
housebreaking and larceny charges
and placed the youth on probation
Tor two years. The youth had
pleaded guilty to the charges.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
All BeIIigerents Declared
Spying in Argentina
By the Associated Press.

oS Ihe associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 12.-Axis
nations were not the only ones who
used Argentina as a spy center, &C.
cording to Col. Enrique Gonzalez.
presidential secretary, who told a
press conference yesterday that
other countries will receive inter-
esting information about espionage
which they will have to investigate"
Gonzalez said Argentina had been
converted into a world espionage
base, with spies of all the belligerent
nations operating in the country.
Much of the Information gathered,
he explained, had been sent to a
neutral country in Europe" for dis
tribution.
Nationals of both European and
American countries have been op-
Grating as spies" the secretary said.
Other nations will have to bring
to light the activities of their ma
tlonals who violated the confidence
our government placed in them"
Evening star., 1944-02-12
Shoe Merchants Fear
Rations May Impair
Feet Of Children

Shoe rationing's first anniversary
this week finds Washington shoe
merchants at odds over whether it
was ever necessary in the first place,
but they agree, almost unanimously,
on these three points:
Rationing has been disastrous"
to the children's shoe trade and
may permanently impair feet Of
children.
1t has changed the shoe habits Of
women for the better.
1t has benefited the dealer in
higher-priced, better quality shoes
but has harmed the business Of deal
ers In low-priced footwear.
Typical Comments.
On the question of whether ra-
tioning should have been ordered by
the War Production Board and the
Ofice of Price Administration, these
comments were typical:
1T was absolutely necessary to
have rationing. The industry was
heading for fall until the Gov
ernment stepped in"
"Rationing is a failure because
it has, encouraged the manufacturer
to cheaper the grade and cut down
on the wearing quality of shoes. It
never was necessary"
There was also a difference Of
opinion over the postwar Shoe"
with some saying the synthetic
soled shoe had brought on a "revo-
luton" in footwear and would COM
pletely take the place of leather
soled shoes. Others said no, syn
thetic soles will never replace
leather.
Herbert Rich, sr., former vice
president of the National Shoe Re-
tailers Association, pointed out that
production of childrens' shoes had
fallen off despite increased de-
mands. He blamed this on the
WPB order of year ago cutting
back youth shoe production. Finally
WPB lifted the ban but by then
manufacturers had lost much of
their skilled help, he said, adding
that he saw no relief in sight for
the child shoe problem.
Fear for Child's Feet.
Mothers are going from store to
store in futile search of shoes for
their children" Mr.. Rich said.
Children continue to wear shoes
long after they have outgrown
them. I'm afraid this Is going
to impair their feet permanently"
Dealers say there has been a
tremendous increase in so-called
women's sensible shoes, with long,
wearing quality. Price means little
to the customer as the shoe ration
stamp becomes more important than
the price tag.
The OPA considers the leather
situation still critical as armed
service needs continue to increase.
1t expects to have about the same
quantity Of shoes now being ra-
tioned-25 100000 pairs month
for the year. The average Is 2.5
pairs a year per person
The current airplane stamp No. I
and stamp 18 in ration book No. l
continue good for one pair of shoes
each.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
10000 in Defense Units
Responded to Test Here

Reports compiled in the Office of
Capt. H. c. Whitehurst, director of
civilian defense, showed last night
that 10000 persons in various civilian
defense units responded to the
blackout test Sunday night.
OF those reporting to duty, 1882
were in the warden service, 89l aux
iliary police, $50 of duty firemen,
lit auxiliary f1remen and 1850 util-
ity personnel. Ofncials described the
turnout as satisfactory.
Evening star., 1944-02-12
ALI Landon Appeals
For Democratic He|p
By the Associated Press,

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Feb. H.
Calling on "antitotalitarian Demo-
Gratis" to join with Republicans and
prevent President Roosevelt from
being elected to a fourth term, ALI
M. Landon, COP presidential nom
inee in 1886, last night bitterly at
tackled the New Deal and a group he
called the palace guard.
He declared authoritarianism had
shrouded itself in the "hallowed
robes of the honored Democratic
party and Is seeking a stealthy as
sassination of the American system
of free enterprise"
Speaking to Lincoln Day dinner
audience, Mr.. Landon said he real
lied the Importance to Tennesseans
OF remedying "the unjust freight
rates which discriminate against the
South.
But, important as the question is,
what difference will it make what
freight rates are to be, If all of us
are to be regimented into a national
sOcialistic states?"