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Evening star., 1945-10-20
Clark Is Sworn In
As Appeals Jurist

Bennett Champ Clark. former
Democratic Senator from Missouri
was sworn in today as an associate
justice of the United States Su-
preme Court of Appeals.
The oath was administered by
Chief Justice D. Lawrence Groner
OF the Court of Appeals in the
council room of the court building
Justices e. Barrett Prettyman and
Wilbur X. Miller. who previously
had been sworn in, attended the
ceremony.
With Justice Clark as he took
the oath was his wife, the former
Violet Heming, British-born actress
President Truman was best man
at their recent marriage at Berry
vile, Va.
Among the notables on hand to
congratulate the new associate
justice were Postmaster General
Hannegan, Thomas Corcoran, for
mer advisor to the late President
Roosevelt, and United States At
torney Edward M. Curran.
Justice Clark brings the appellate
court to its full strength of six
members.
Evening star., 1945-10-20
BY JOSEPH YOUNG.

The Civil Service Commission
has started investigation of
charges that some Federal en-
ployes who have permanent
status are being Disseminated
against by agency heads in favor
of war service appointees when
agency staffs are reduced, it was
learned today.
With thousands of Federal en-
ployes being dismissed from their
jobs as the Government returns to
a peacetime basis, complaints have
been made to the Commission and
to Government workers unions that
in some cases permanent status
employees were being dismissed from
their jobs before war service APP
pointees.
In other instances, permanent
status employees have been down.
graded in their position while war
service appointees doing the same
work have kept their civil service
grade, the commission and union
officials have been told.
James B. Burns, president of
the American Federation of Gov
ernment Employees, AFL, said, 'The
replacement or ousting of many
career employees and retention Of
Evening star., 1945-10-20
Meridian Hill Hotel Fire
Drives Girls From Beds

Scores of Government girls in
nightclothes and bathrobes rushed
from their quarters in the Meridian
Hill Hotel, 260l Sixteenth street
NV, about o'clock this morning
when fire in a fourth-floor room,
which watchman believed he had
extinguished earlier, broke out again
Police said that shortly after mid
night the watchman sinelled smoke
and traced it to the room of Miss
Sally Herbert. She was not in at
the time. He entered and threw
water on a mattress which he found
smoldering.
About am. two men walking up
Sixteenth street saw a Pickering
light in the window of the room and
notified the watchman, who sent in
an alarm
Neither the cause of the blaze nor
the amount of damage has been de-
termined
Evening star., 1945-10-20
Civil Service Probes Charge
Of Fuvoritism in Dismissuls

war service appointees In their
place is contrary to the spirit of
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"
Oh1cials of the National Fedora
tion of Federal Employees and the
United Federal Workers of America,
CIO, also have called for fair oper-
alton of the observation-disclosures pro-
gram.
Workers hired during the war
have been designated as war service
appointees. Employees with perma-
nent status are entitled to prefer
ence over the war service appointees
when it comes 10 dismissals from
the Government.
Union officials assert that while
most Government personnel people
are scrupulously fair in handling
reduction -in-force procedures, a mi
nority has played favorites and
used illegel methods to discriminate
against permanent status employees.
Union officials point out that adj
herence to reduction-in-force regu-
lations will also aid war service ap-
pointees, many OF whom will be re-
tanned on the basis of seniority and
the quality of their work. This
will insure that there will be no
discrimination against any employee
in this group and those entitled to
retention will keep their jobs, it
was said.
Evening star., 1945-10-20
Army Neors Halfway Mark
In Bringing Troops Back Home

$4,000, and in the Persian Gulf,
$4,000; q total of 3,607 900 for the
German end of the war.
OF this number 1,718, 900 had been
returned home by last Monday. OF
the 1885, 900 remaining, a large per-
centage of the low-point men are
expected to remain a while. They
will make up most of the $4,000
needed for the Army of Occupation
in Germany, to wind up the Army's
property problems in Europe and to
man such places as Ascension Island.
Thus from Europe about ISIS, 900
remain TO be returned.
On vi day the Pacific strength
was I565, 900 and in the China
Burma-India theater 231 900, a total
Of !, ,796. 900.
OF this number 293, 900 had been
returned by last Monday. This leaves
/ sos 900. Out Of this group will
come q large part Of the 400, 600
needed for occupation and outposts.
lsee TROOP RETURN, Page A-23
Evening star., 1945-10-20

airy, and the nurses. The main
bulk of the last-minute arrivals were
noncombatant.
A majority of the combat troops
who made their way to The Rock
from Bataan were in such terrible
physical condition they were in
capable of even light work. They
were immediately hospitalized, and
doctors who attended them told me
they had never seen men in such
emaciated condition.
Those in ostensibly fair shape were
sent at once to the beaches, though
there was some malaria even among
these, and much dysenterS. Hos
pitaliZed men also were sent to the
beaches as soon as they responded
to rest and food, but many were not
able to rise from the cots on which
they threw themselves the night they
They were among the 1000
to 1,500 wounded men who were
in the Malinta Tunnel hos
pital when The Rock fell.
The American soldiers of the 31st
Infantry were assigned to the beach
positions manned by the 4th Ma
rines. Our 1,500 Marines, COM
manded by Col. Sam Howard, had
CONTINUED on PagesA-10, Column a
Evening star., 1945-10-20
Chinu's S StiIweIl Road
Will Be Abandoned

BY the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, oct. 20.-The his
toric Stilwell road, cut across the
jungles and mountains in a heroic
14-rnonth engineering struggle to
open supply line to blockaded
China. will be abandoned November
I. it was announced today. It is
l,030 miles long.
At the same time, pipeline built
from Calcutta to Running, China,
and telephone line linking Call
cutta and Running will be aban-
doned.
Strategically vital in the war,
when it was the only supply route
into China besides the perilous
aerial route over the hump the
$37 600 900 Stilwell road, named for
Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell. cannot be
maintained economically In peace
time, the announcement said.
Evening star., 1945-10-20
Senate Finance Group Votes
Larger Tax Cut for individuals
SITS, 9,000,0 900 More Relief Allowed
By Further Reduction on Incomes

surtax rates on corporations, to
give more relief to small concerns,
and no reduction to corporations
with net income of $4,000 OF more,
which would continue to pay the 40
per cent combined normal and sur
tax rate.
The Senate bill, however, repeals
as of January l the wartime excess
profits tax, which the House merely
reduced from 855 to go per cent for
1916, with repeal postponed until
l947.
In the treatment of individuals,
both the House and Senate bills
wipe out all tax liability for $4,000,
600 persons in the lower wage brack-
cts by applying the same personal
exemptions to the per cent normal
tax that now apply to surtax pay
ments.
OF the $4,000, 600 remaining indi-
vidual taxpayers, $4,000, 600 do not
= fSee TAXES. Page A-3.}
Evening star., 1945-10-20
|ndonesion Chief Asks Truman
ToHuIt Dutch Use of u. S. Arms
American Uniforms
Declared Worn by
Government Forces
q the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BATAVIA, Java, Oct. 90. R.
Soekarno, president of the un-
recognized IndoneSian govern
ment, appealed to President Tru-
man tonight to prohibit the use
of American equipment by Dutch
forces seeking to quell the inde-
pendence movement.
In a radiogram to Mr.. Truman,
Soekarno charged that some of the
persons fighting in Java were wear
ing American uniforms. The radio
gram said:
Il beg to inform you that repre-
sentatives of the Dutch government,
in an attempt to re-establish Dutch
colonial administration in Indone-
sia, have recruited their own army
from Dutch prisoners of war and
Eurasians wearing American uni
forms and equipped with American
arms, munitions and trucks to ter
rorize the population by:
81. Shooting at innocent pass
ersby.
90. kidnapping and maltreating-
even killing-captives.
SO. Robbing private belongings.
Protests have been made to Al
lied military headquarters without
satisfactory results.
81 appeal to you please to dis
allow infringement of American
neutrality and order the immediate
discontinuance of American disguise
by the Dutch"
100 Japs Reported Massacred.
The Netherlands news agency
Aneta reported that Indonesian
extremists" massacred more than
100 Japanese at Buta prison in
Semarang Monday and that 26
unarmed japanese were slaughtered
in front of the Pavilion Hotel there
before the eyes of European women
and children.
Three Netherlanders were killed
by extremists" in another prison
in Semarang Wednesday, the agency
said.
On the other hand, it quoted eye
witnesses as saying japanese SOL
diers cut down unarmed Indonesians
who were unwilling or unable to re-
veal the whereabouts of leaders of
the extremist youth organization. .
The fate of Europeans in an intern
Evening star., 1945-10-20
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Five months and a week after
We day the job OF getting
American soldiers home from
the war is nearing the half
way mark.
Barring unexpected developments
the War Department expects to
make good on this goal:
All soldiers in Europe home by
next February except those needed
In the Army Of Occupation and for
disposal Of surplus Army property.
All soldiers in the Pacific home by
next June except those needed for
occupation in Japan and Korea, to
man 0utposts such as Guam and the
Philippines, and to dispose Of surplus
property.
War Department figures show that
Uncle Sam had in the European
theater on We day 3.059, 900 men;
in the Mediterranean, 49s, 600: In
North Africa and the Middle East,
Evening star., 1945-10-20
Atlantic CROSSING
| Record Believed
Set by yCorrier
BY the Associated Press.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct.
20.-The new American aircraft car
rier Lake ChaiHplain docked at
Southampton today after what its
captain, Logan C. Ramsey, said was
a record run of four days, II hours
and 26 minutes for the 3,135-mile
trip from Norfolk, Va.
II believe we have established q
transatlantic speed record from
Norfolk" Capt. Ramsey said as the
great fiattop, converted into troop
carrier to speed the return of Ameri-
can troops from Europe. rolled past
Bishops Rock, English Channel
gateway to Southampton harbor
The 27.000-ton Essex class car
rier averaged 29.18 knots on the trip.
The fastest time previously recorded
for a transatlantic journey by ship
was the Queen Mary's record of
three days. 20 hours and a. min
utes from Ambrose Lightship, New
York, to Bishops Rock, a distance
of 1888 miles.
The carrier will sail for New York
tomorrow with 1866 American sol.
diers.
The Lake Champlain was chris.
tened and commissioned June 8 at
Norfolk Navy Yard.
Evening star., 1945-10-20
Police Cars Patrol
Buenos Aires Streets
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
:. BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 20.-Patrol
cars prowled the downtown streets
of uneasy Buenos Aires early today,
and police using megaphones advised
"a populace agitated by the swiftly
shifting political scene to be calm
and remain in their homes.
A short time later some of the
extra police guards who had been
placed over various parts of the city
were recalled, but the police ordered
extreme vigilance over the Radical
(Center) party, where the guard was
strengthened.
Street demonstrations staged by
supporters of Col. Juan Peron, newly
restored to political dominance,
ended. Transportation was restored
yesterday after Thursdays nation
wide strike arranged by Peron's sup
porters.
Presidents of three government
banks have resigned their posts, it
was learned. They are Julian Mar
tinez of the National Mortgage
Bank; Ernesto Herbin, the Argen-
tine Bank for Industrial Credit, and
Luis A. Polledo, acting president of
the Bank of the Nation. No reasons
were given.
Evening star., 1945-10-20
OAR Head Would Bar
immigration for 5 Years
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Oct. 2O.-Restric-
tion of immigration to this country
"for at least five years" as a means
of helping preserve democracy was
suggested last night by Mrs. Julius
Y. Talmadge, Athens, Ga, president
general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Mrs. Talmadge told an Iowa OAR
conference 3,500,000 refugees now
are in the United States.
"Our ancestors were different from
the refugees of the present time IS
she asserted "They came to this
country with the pioneer spirit, but
those who come to this country now
come with the outstretched hand. u
Evening star., 1945-10-20
Mrs. Roosevelt Urges
War Fund Support as
Best Aid 10 Soldiers
Fears Nuzi Doctrine
Moy Toke Root if
Services Fail in Duty

A danger that lonely soldiers
in Germany may absorb Nazi
doctrine instead of spreading
democracy if we forget them and
fail to provide services for them
through the National War Fund
was foreseen today by Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
The wife Of the late President said
that lonely boys are ready to be
told a great many things, and in
stead of our converting the Nazis
some of the Nazi doctrine might
come to U.s."
Il think the best way we can
invest our money is to send our
people from here to them, and
hope We do it generously" she added
in message to the National War
Fund.
Washington's campaign for the
National War Fund and $50 local
agencies stands today at $2,701,-
834.99, or 5436 per cent of the
81 ,970, 900 Community War Fund
goal. Donations of $777 SO were
recorded at the sixth report lunch
con yesterday.
Largest Gift by Star.
Turning in $346, ,180 for the busi-
ness unit. Clarence G. Sheffield, unit
chairman, announced that the larg-
est contribution by any one corpora
ton as well as the largest firm gift
has come from The Evening Star.
Gifts from The Star, it's executives
and employees now total $76 ,382. 40
he said. Besides a $500 company
gift, executives have given $20, 300
and employees, $5,582.49. The unit
chairman praised The Star for its
part in advancing the civic welfare
Mrs. Roosevelt, stressing in her
appeal the threat of the atomic
bomb, said that if this Nation does
not help other people to get back
on their feet I'VE are going to be
the ones who will suffer.
This Is a world in which we either
= (See WAR FIINn pace A.o1
Evening star., 1945-10-20
B 3Farben Plants
lobe Blown Up
By Americans
5 Additional Germun
Factories Available
For Reporotions
Ey the Associated Press .

Ey the Associated Press,
BERLIN, Oct. 20.-The Ameri-
can military government office
announced today that three
munitions plants of the I. G.
Farben industries have been or
dered blown up and five more
German industrial plants have
been declared available for repa-
rations.
All plants involved are in the
American military zone. Industrial
investigators and demolition experts
are preparing to destroy the Fabrik
Kaufbeuren (smokeless POWDER
plant at Kaufbeuren; the Fabrik
Ebenhausen (nitrocellulose) plant
near Ingolstadt, and the Fabrik
Aschau (nitrocellulose) plant at
Muehldorf.
Demolitions Begin Soon.
The demolitions will begin within
10 days. Equipment not specifically
designed for munitions MAXIM will
be removed.
The five industrial establishments
marked for reparations bring to 81
the number of large plants made
available in the American zone. The
new ones include:
Deutsche Schiff und Maschinen-
hau, shipbuilding plant at Bremen
which produced U-boats.
An underground aviation plant
owned by Daimler Benz, located in a
gypsum mine in Baden.
Three Other Factories.
The Hahn -Tessky plant at Es-
slinge, which made automatic screw
machines.
The Norddeutsche Hutte Atkien-
gesellschaft at Bremen, which pro-
duced pig iron, coke, cement, steel
ingots and ferro-vanadium.
The torpedo-making section of the
c. F. Borgeward automobile factory
at Bremen.
Evening star., 1945-10-20
Cancellation Service
Reports Improvement
In Strike Situation
Compromise Possible
On Pay Boost Demonds,
Auto Workers Indicate
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The Nations reconversion pic
ture frightened today as the La
bor Department reported the
general strike situation had
shown definite Improvement
and the CIO United Automobile
Workers indicated willingness to
compromise demands for 80 per
cent higher pay.
The Labor Departments concilia-
ton service announced settlement
of 81 strikes involving 35,375 workers
during the seven-day period ending
October II. With all of the $4,000
miners made idle by the bituminous
strike expected back next week, the
whole industrial situation was ex-
pected to be brighter than at any
time since the Japs surrendered.
"The (strike) situation shows def
mite Improvement" Edgar L. War;
rem, director of the Cancellation
Service, said, land unless current
negotiations are broken of and
strikes occur in heavy industries
over wage issues, the general strike
picture should continue to look
better"
Statistics on Settlements.
Since october /, Mr.. Warren said,
his unit has settled 1873 strikes in
volving 195,773 workers. Depart
ment records show that as of Octo-
ber II there were 185 strikes over
the country involving about 248, 900
workers. This marks a weekly re-
duction of 10 in number of strikes
and reduction of 10000 in number of
workers on strike. The total figure
does not include those indirectly
made idle by stoppages.
CIO auto workers opened negotia-
tions in Detroit yesterday with Gen.
eral Motors Corp. for 80 per cent
more pay. A strike vote will be
conducted next Wednesday at 100
GIN plants, to be followed by SINH
lar polls at Chrysler and Ford.
After the first negotiating session,
Walter P. Reuther, vice president of
the UAW-CIO negotiating session,
Walter P. Reuther, vice president of
the UAW-CIO, indicated that the
unions 80 per cent demands can be
settled for less without strike if the
company can show it is unable to
meet the raise without raising car
prices.
Talks Resume Next Week.
No definite decision on the GIN
wage issue was reached and nego-
tiations are expected to be resumed
next week. Mr.. Reuther said the
corporation would notify him Mon
day whether meetings will be held
Tuesday. He proposed sessions also
on Wednesday and Friday.
Negotiations were delayed for 90
minutes when company officials OBJ
jected to the presence of reporters
Mr.. Reuther had invited to the ses-
sion. Reporters finally left and Mr.
Reuther said in view of the com
lpany's position he would make pub
lie developments after each session
G. M. President C. E. Wilson flew
here yesterday and conferred dur
ing the afternoon with Mr.. Truman
and Mr.. Snyder. Reason for the
conference was not disclosed, but
was believed to concern the wage
Evening star., 1945-10-20
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

The 1946 tax reduction bill
came off the Senate Finance
Committee operating table last
night with it's total raised to
S., ,629, ,00O, 900 y $279, ,00O, 900 more
than the House allowed. These
three important changes were
made at the last minute:
House action reducing excise
taxes July / on furs, jewelry, cos
metics, liquor, variety of other
products and on admission and
travel tickets, was eliminated.
An unexpected additional cut was
made in the surtaxes of individuals,
the effect of which will be to grant
a greater measure of relief to in
dividuals with net incomes, after
personal exemption, of between
$4,000 and $4,000 a year.
A revision of the normal and
Evening star., 1945-10-20
U. S. Offers to Help
Settle Indies and
Indo-Chinu RevoIts
BY thu Associated Press.

NEW YORK, oct. 20. - The
United States today offered to
participate in attempts to settle
peacefully the rebellion of ma
tives in French Indo-C China and
the Netherlands Indies.
John Carter Vincent, director OF
the State Departments ONCE OF
Far Eastern Affairs, made the offer
in a speech before the Foreign Pol
ity Association forum, in which he
also:
l. Asserted that the United States
recognizing Russia's interests in the
Far East, expects the Soviet Union
to understand this country has q
stake there, too.
2. Laid down the policy that the
United States regards China as q
''bridge"-not a "buffer"-in Far
Eastern relations with the U. S
S. r.
3. Found fault with the division
of Korea between Russian and
American occupation troops and
suggested instead an international
trusteeship until Koreans are ready
for independence.
Mr.. Vincent's statement on Indo-
China and the Netherlands Indies
was the first from a State Depart
ment policy-making official since
the native unrest flared.
Sovereignty Not Questioned.
He declared that this Govern
ment does not question French
sovereignty in Ihdo- China or Dutch
sovereignty in the Indies.
"It is not our intention to irsist
or participate in forceful measures
for the imposition of control by the
territorial sovereigns," he said, "bui
we would be prepared to lend oul
assistance, If requested to do so, ir
efforts to reach peaceful agreements
in these disturbed areas"
Mr.. Vincent recalled a policy
declaration by Secretary of State
Hull last year that nations should
help dependent peoples in theil
charge ito prepare themselves fol
the duties and responsibilities ol
self-government and to attain lib.
erty.'
He said the present division Of
Korea between Russian forces ir
the north and United States troop!
in the south is "manifestly unsatis.
factory"
He proposed an international trus.
teeship of the Allies principally in
terested, until Koreans are prepared
to take over the administration o.
their country.
Meanwhile, he said, the American
hope is to work out with Russia Il
liaison and understanding which viii
solve many administrative prob
lems."
The main question with respect Il
China, Mr.. Vincent said, is whethel
it is to be used as buffer or as {
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