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Evening star., 1945-08-03
AII-Day Camera Stroll
Al MI. Vernon Set Sunday

The National Capital Parks Once
will sponsor an all-day camera stroll
at Mount Vernon Sunday.
In addition, walk in the Glover
Archbold Parkway and horse-drawn
barge trips on the C. & o. Canal also
will be held Sunday under Capital
Parks auspices.
The camera group will leave
Washington on an A., B. & w. bus
from Twelfth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. at 9:15 am, un-
der the direction of Maj. Ralph w.
French.
Horace v. Webster, National Cap
ital Parks pathologist, will conduct
the walk in the parkway and will
meet his group at Forty-fourth
street and Reservoir road NV. at
g pm.
The barge trips will leave Lock No.
3, on Thirtieth street, one block
south of M street in Georgetown, at
8 am and pm. and will return
from Lock No. S, in Brookmont. Md,
at 1890 am. and 4:30 pm.
Evening star., 1945-08-03
France Reported Invited
To Reparations ParIeys
Ly the Associated Press.


PARIS, Aug. "a Foreign Office
spokesman today said France had
been invited to participate in the
big power conferences on repara-
tions which will groN out of the
Potsdam Conference.
He expressed general satisfaction
with decisions of the Big Three, but
said France was somewhat puzzled
over the attitude toward Austria.
If Austria is going to be regarded
as a separate power, he said, her
place in the peace discussions
seemed to need clarif1cation. With
out such Qualification, he added, the
Austrian government might dis
claim all responsibility for the
period in which the Germans were
in control
The spokesman said France would
be represented at least in initial
discussions on peace treaties in the
Balkans. He reiterated French op-
position to establishment of political
parties now in Germany, asserting
such activity would be premature.
Evening star., 1945-08-03
.Morgenthou Avoids
Comparing His Plan
With That of Big ;
Fy the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
The one man who can really
say how close the Big Three
plan for Germany fits the
much discussed Morgenthau
plan for making the Reich an
agricultural state won't talk.
So the argument may 60 on
and on.
Former Secretary OF the
Treasury Morgenthau said. less
than a half hour after the
Postdam communique was pub
lished late yesterday. that he
had read it. Asked how closely
it compared with his own ideas,
however, he would say only:
I'm afraid l can't help you
on that"
Evening star., 1945-08-03
iRives Matthews Sells
His Weekly Paper;
To Return 10 St. Louis
Ry the Associated Press.

PRINCESS ANNE, Md, Aug. g.
Sale of the weekly Somerset News to
TWO Crisfield publisher brothers to-
day ended the seven-year ownership
of Rives Skinker Matthews, crusad-
ing young Princess Anne editor who
became embroiled in numerous
political feuds during his tenure.
Hammond w. McGrath and
Joseph S. McGrath, publishers of
the weekly Crisfeld Post, said they
had bought the paper from Mr
Matthews for an undiscloSed sum
and that Mr.. Matthews had said
he planned to go to st. Louis. Mr.
Matthews father lives in that city.
Mr.. Matthews career in Princess
Anne hit high spot in June, 1943,
when he accused State Controller
j. Millard@ Tawes of using State
automobile on trip to Georgia for
his sons wedding. Mr.. Tawes' "A"
gasoline ration book later was re-
voked for one year and State
government order went out for
strict check on private use of State
owned cars.
Shortly after the story appeared
the then States attorney. Prentiss
Evans. now in the armed forces,
filed criminal libel charge against
Mr.. Matthew'S move which at
tracted national attention and drew
to the support of the editor the
American Newspaper Publishers
Association. The indictment was
nolle pressed in the fall of 1943.
The 2o-year- -old paper was bought
by Mr.. Matthews in 1899. Mr.
Matthews changed the political
afiliation to Republican when he
unsuccessfully sought the Senate
nomination in 1912.
The McGraths said they planned
to conduct the News in accordance
with the policies Of the Democratic
Crisfield Post.
Evening star., 1945-08-03
Greek Worships Aid
In Fighting japan
BY the Associated Press

by inc ASSoCldleu Press.
CHUNGKING, Aug. 3.-Prince
Peter of Greece, visiting in Chung
king, declared today that some units
of the Greek Navy had participated
in Allied naval operations against
the Japanese since Greece declared
war on Japan.
Greece announced July that
she considered herself at war
with Japan as of December 8,
1941.)
The Prince arrived in Chungking
last night to pay respects to Gen.
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek on be-
half of King George of Greece.
Evening star., 1945-08-03
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASsoc!ateu Frcss.
Editorial comment on the Big
Three declaration:
New York Times-The joint state
ment issued from Potsdam marks
the end of the first peace confer
ence and the last meeting of the
Big Three as an exclusive supreme
council From this point on, the
Big Five will continue the
necessary preparatory work for
peace settlement" This is In some
respects the most important news
in the report.
"They (the terms of unconditional
surrender) are hard and restrictive
designed to change the direction OF
the German mind, strip the nation
of its war-making potential ..
AS far as the German people are
concerned, however, the terms are
not hopeless. But the pc
riod of purgation will be long and
painful, and it goes without saying
that the controlled economy and
the zones of influence established in
that period will shape the future
pattern, not of Germany alone, but
OF Europe.
New York Herald Tribune: Always
in the past, wars have ended in a
formal peace, which, however severe
accepted the existence and conti-
nuity of the defeated nation-staIe
organism. Here the organism Is
dissolved. The old Germany is
put into bankruptcy and the new
Germany " will scarcely be a
nation-state at all. 1t will be a quite
novel kind of social organization
This may we'll be an avenue to bet
ter and happier life for the German
men and women than any other
which could today be opened to
them. One can only wait the
answer Of history.
Chicago Daily News: The Big
Three did not mention Japan, but
they said a mouthful about Ger.
many. Germany is going to stay dis
armed and poor. Her economic life is
to be held down to a bare subsistence
This surely entails Though it is not
specified) that all Western Europe
will stay poor. too.
Chicago Sun-The full purport oi
Potsdam will become clearer as time
goes on. Meanwhile, it is evident
that the determination to hold the
wartime alliance together still pre-
walls on all sides. That will to unity
was the keynote of Potsdam and
must remain the keynote of rela-
tionship among the Big Three.
st. Louis Globe e-Democrat-"
Most pleasing was the indication
that treaty with Italy will be the
first order of business 9. This
should have been done long ago, and
had it been done would have con-
tributed to the stabilization of a
time beligerent which is nov
in chaos. The communique did not
Evening star., 1945-08-03
Six Burned in Explosion
In Pennsylvania Mine
Ey the Associated Press.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Aug. g.
An explosion of gas burned six men
two seriously. at a Lehigh Valley
Coal Co. colliery at nearby Plains,
last night.
A preliminary investigation indi-
Gated the explosion probably was
caused by spark from an electric
motor, company official said.
The six men were alone in one
vein of the colliery at the time OF
the explosion.
Evening star., 1945-08-03
Fiske O'Horo, Veteran
Stuqe Tenor, Dies at 81
By the Associated Press.

Ey tht tASSocltltufFrtss.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 3.-Fiske
O'Hara, for 80 years q lyric tenor
on stage, screen and radio, died
here yesterday.
On the stage, where he was best
known, Mr.. O'Hara played a lead
ing part in the light opera, Robin
Hood :"
Evening star., 1945-08-03
Two Germans to Die
In Killing Of Two Flyers
Es the Associated Press.

II NKfC loeUCIdIEU EItoss
MUNICH, Aug. 3. A United
States Army military commission to-
day sentenced two German civilians
70 be hanged for the mob Staying OF
TWO Allied flyers near Frankfurt
on-the-Main August %, 1914.
Sentenced were Nikolaus Each
niger, 40-year-old father of eight
children, who was the police chief
# Gross Gerau, and Heindrich
-lauaus, a resident of the village.
Victims of the attack were not
Identified, but were believed to be
americans.
Evening star., 1945-08-03
Diamond Missing From Store

Police today were investigating
the theft or loss of . woman's plati-
mum ring, valued at 81 1,157, from the
BENJAMIN Michaelson jewelry store
in the 1900 block of g street NV.
Reported missing at closing time
yesterday, the ring was said by .
store omcial to have = perfect IL
blue-Whits diamond
Evening star., 1945-08-03
Ham Easily Located

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (P.-A ST.
year-old blind man committed to
State prison under one-year SEN
tence for stealing a ham, was un-
abashed at questioning on how he'd
done it. "Of course I couldn't see
the ham," he said, but I sure smelled
it,"
Evening star., 1945-08-03
Russian Absorption
OF Three Baltic States
Apparently Approved
gy the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The United States and Britain
appear today to have given tacit
recognition to RusSia'S absorp-
ton of three Baltic states-Lat-
via, Estonia and Lithuania.
While the Potsdam communique
made no direct mention of these
three between-the-wars states, the
Polish boundary agreement seems
to take for granted their inclusion
as Soviet Socialist Republics.
1t has been expected for some
time that this country and Britain,
neither of which ever has severed
relations formally with the indie
pendent Baltic nations, eventually
would accept the Soviet insistance
that they have become Socialist re-
publics by popular vote.
Under the Potsdam agreement
the Polish boundary now starts be-
low Koenigsberg, port about halt
way down the Baltic coast from
Lithuania, and runs to the Lith-
uanian Polish-East Prussian from
tier. This gives Russia the top halt
of East Prussia and-if Russian
acquisition of the Baltic states were
not being recognized-would mean
a Soviet island along this coast.
Poland Gets Danzig.
Poland gets the rest of East Prus-
sia, including the important port OF
Danzig, according to the vague out
lines of the communique, as we'll as
the former German provinces OF
Pomerania, Lower and Upper Silesia
The two latter provinces, especial
ly Upper Silesia in the south, con-
stitute one of Germany's richest in
dustrial areas.
Thus Poland's war-spawning cor.
ridor Is made over into long anc
expansive coast line.
The communique left it uncleal
as to whether the Poles are to gel
Stettin, an important port on thu
west bank of the Oder. The com.
munique listed as recommended
Polish territory a line running
from the Baltic Sea Immediately
west of Swinemunde, and thence
along the Oder River to the con.
f1uence of the Western Neisse Rivel
and along the Western Neisse to tht
Czechoslovak frontier"
Gn London, a British Foreign
Once commentator said today,
however, that Stettin would come
under Polish administration. AL
though the recommended boun-
Diary line would put Stettin in
Germany, the commentator said
it had been decided that the
Poles would administer the city,
Promises Free Election.
The communique noted with
pleasure" Allied agreement on tn,
Warsaw provisional government
after more than two years of un.
mentioned pickering.
Reafiirming the Yalta promise OF
"free and unfettered" elections in
Poland, the statement also pledges
that Representatives of the Allied
press shall enjoy full freedom to
report to the world upon develop
ments in Poland before and during
the elections"
The new western frontier resem-
bles Polish demands as well as the
general idea suggested at Yalta. At
that previous Big Three meeting, it
was said that Poland should be
compensated in the west for moving
her eastern frontier to Russia s
advantage.
Russia gets the long-claimed port
OF Koenigsberg and its environs.
None of the territorial arrange
ments was made definite, however
President Truman, Prime Minister
Attlee and Premier Stain merely
agreed to support them, or some
thing like them. at the forthcoming
peace settlement"
Evening star., 1945-08-03
LOST RATION COUPONS.

WAR RATION BOOKS 8 AND 4, issued
Richard Cherry and Rosa Marie Cherry.
Reward. North $500 after 6 pm. 81
Evening star., 1945-08-03
Comment
Continued From First Page.)

whether Russian troops would be
withdrawn from Poland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-11
Draft Board Says
| Shelton Must
Answer Letters

Jay Paul Shelton, %, Arlington
fugitive from justice who is under
stood to have notified his draft
board of a change of address, will
have another charge against him if
he fails to answer letters, J. Byron
Brooks, chairman of Arlington
County Selective Service Board No.
2, said today.
Mr.. Brooks would neither confirm
nor deny reports that the board had
received a notice from Shelton of a
change of address to a Southern
State.
Shelton has been sought by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
since he escaped from Federal au-
thorities in Richmond, Va, last Oc-
tober. He is wanted on an escape
charge and on a charge of violating
the National Motor Vehicle Theft
Act.
First gaining notoriety when he
was charged last January with the
kidnapping of 14-year -old Grace
Washington, Falls Church, and with
attempting to rob the East Falls
Church Branch of the Falls Church
Bank. Shelton was exonerated of
these two charges. He was then
charged with larceny of an automo-
bile and forgery Of automobile titles.
At the time of his escape he was be-
ing held in default of bond in con-
nection with the auto theft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-11
Alexandra Business Area
To Display Yu|e Lights

For the first time since the start
of the war, Alexandria's business
section will be decorated for the
Christmas season. Decorations on
King street are being arranged by
the Chamber of Commerce with the
support of local merchants.
Stores will start evening hours
Thursday and will remain open until
9 pm. each night until Christmas
eve.
The season will be officially opened
with a parade at 7 pm. Thursday
when 80 trees, placed on light poles
on King street, will be illuminated
as Santa Claus parades from Com
monwealth avenue to Fairfax street.
Headed by a police scort, the
parade will include the George
Washington High School Band and
cadets and the school safety patrol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-11
.Army's Aid Is Sought
On Improvement Of
lynnhaven Bay Area
BY the Associated Press.

The Army Board of Engineers yes
terday was urged to undertake a
thorough survey of proposed i'm
provements to Lynnhaven Inlet and
Bay, near Virginia Beach, Va.
Representative Daughton. Demo-
crat, of Virginia joined delegation
of approximately 20 representatives
of civic and business groups in ad-
vocating that some positive action
be taken to boost shellfish produc-
ton.
James Hogue Tyler, Norfolk at
torney and State Senator, told the
board that navigation benefits would
not justify the proposed dredging
of a channel at the mouth of the
Bay, but that other benefits would
accrue.
He said the District Army En-
gineers' Office had found that bene-
fits to oyster production would total
about $4,000 year; to clam pro-
duction, $4,000, and to crab produc-
ton, $1,000 a year.
This has been problem for the
past rs years." Mr.. Tyler declared
land it will continue to be one until
thorough study is made. I might
give up, but other people will keep
coming back until you do some
thing"
He said local interest have not
agreed on any one plan to stop the
filling in of waters near the mouth
of Lynnhaven area, but that they
have agreed to bear a portion of the
cost if the engineers determine on
a feasible plan.
They would not expect the Fed
eral Government to bear any por-
ton of the cost except that directly
attributable to navigation improve.
ment, Mr.. Tyler said.
Clyde C. Absolom, London Bridge
Va, inspector for the State Fisheries
Commission, said of approximately
1900 acres of leased oyster grounds
in the inlet, only about $50 acres is
polluted. He estimated that produc.
ton Has been halved by filling If
of the channel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-11
Edgemoor Group Hits
Trash-Water Bill Plan

The Edgemoor Citizens Associa-
ton wants the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission to send
separate bills for trash collection
service and foR water to its custom
ers and also to collect for such serv-
ice after it has been given, instead
of in advance.
In resolution sent to the Mont
gomery County Civic Federation
last night and referred to the fed
eration's Public Finance and Budget
Committee, the association said that
under the present system failure to
pay for trash collection may result
in cutting of of the water supply.
The lack of public transportation
between Bethesda and Silver Spring
was cited by the Rock Greek Forest
Citizens Association, which asked
the federation to make every effort
to have such service inaugurated as
soon as possible. The Public Util-
tiles Committee will make a study
Of the request.
The federation declined to take
action on a resolution offered last
month by the East Bethesda Citi-
zens' Association asking that the
organization intercede with the
Bethesda Volunteer Fire Depart
ment to secure its unused firehouse
as garage for the Bethesda Chevy
Chase First-Aid Corps ambulance.
In report to the federation, Henry
H. Smelling, chairman of Public
Safety Committee, said the firehouse
had been sold to an automobile re-
pair business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-11
Higher Salaries Bolster
State Health Bureau
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. 11.-Gov.
O'Conor's approval of new salary
schedules for the State Health De-
partment's bureau and division
chiefs will enable the agency to
maintain its staff and to fill eight
vacancies, State Health Director DR..
Robert H. Riley said yesterday.
In a letter to the Governor, DR..
Riley declared that previous low
salary scales were responsible for
a lack of interest in the vacancies,
all of them in the position of deputy
State health officer.
Gov. O'Conor said that affected
by the revised schedules were the
chiefs of the bureaus of commurd-
cable diseases, bacteriology, chemis-
try and vital statistics; the divi-
sions of industrial health, oral
hygiene, accounts and personnel,
legal administration and public
health nursing.
Also affected, he added, were the
State food and drug commissioner
deputy State health officer No.
and the deputy food and drug COM
missioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-11
447 Bucks Killed in 5 Counties
During Morylond's Deer Season

A total Of So bucks was bagged
in Worcester County on the East
ern Shore. "a IN Washington County
and 10 in Frederick County.
sGame Warden Mink announced
Is arrests in Garrett County for
carrying loaded guns In cars, S for
illegal kills, l for using steel jacket
bullets and 8 for improper licenses.
He reported only minor infractions
in Allegany County.
The regional warden said 80 bucks
from Wisconsin were scheduled to
arrive for distribution in Garrett
County with the purpose of improv-
ing the grade Of antlers Of deer in
that section. He understood the
game commission had paid 500 for
each Of the bucks.
Ralph Mason, jr. Of Newark, Wor-
cester County, was the high school
boy who landed q buck with his
first shot,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-11
Three Owners Seek
MISUNDERSTANDING

No opposition was voiced yester-
day at hearings on three Montgom-
cry County coming petitions before
the Montgomery County Commits
sioners, sitting as a District Council
at Silver Spring. The three petitions
we're taken under consideration by
the Council.
The first two applications sought
coming Redistribution from residen-
tial to commercial of two lots on the
Brookeville -Tenleytown road, at
Linden. Frank B. Proctor, attorney,
appeared in behalf of the owners,
Marshall Lehman and C. Boyd Keys.
The Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission had
previously recommended approval of
the rezoning.
The District Council also consid-
cred a petition of o. L. Murdoch re-
Questing rezoning from residential to
commercial of two small lots at the
northeast corner of St. Paul street
and Forest Glen road, Kensington.
Mr.. Murdoch said he planned to
build a one-story building to be
used as a delicatessen store.
The three Montgomery County
members of planning commission
previously had recommended that
action on the petition be deferred,
pending completion of its study on
appropriate land uses in the town.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-11
Bus, Ambulance Crash
Injuries Two Students
And Six Soldiers

Two pupils and six soldiers were
injured last night when an Army
ambulance and a school bus carry
ing % students of Leonard Hall
Junior Naval Academy, Leonard
town, Md, collided on the Crane
highway near Millersville in snow
storm, Fort George G. Meade pub
lie relations office announced.
Highways in nearby Maryland
and Virginia were open for nor
NAL trafflc today and practically
clear Of snow and ice, police re-
ported. Few other accidents, all
minor, were reported.
All eight victims of the bus-am-
bulance crash were treated at the
Fort Meade Station Hospital. The
extent of the Injuries to the SOL
diers was not disclosed by military
authorities.
The pupils, all from the Balti-
more area, we're en- route from Bal
timore to the school in Leonard
town when the accident occurred.
The injured were identified as
Robert Leach, II, and william Lom-
bardi, IL, both Leonard Hall stu
dents. The soldiers were Pvt. Rich
ard M. Kelly. Philadelphia; Pvt.
Marvin Binstock, Altoona, Pa; Pfc.
Edward w. Sheppard, Galloway,
Va: Maj. Howard Fielder, Ken
bridge, Va; Pfc. Ernest I. Dennis,
Norwich, N. Y, and Pfc. James w.
Sullivan. Ten Yen, N. Y.
The ambulance, driven by Pvt
Sheppard Of Camp Lee, Va, was
transferring two patients, Pvt.
Kelly and Binstock, from Camp
Pickett. Va. to the Valley Forge
tPa) General Hospital. The others
In the ambulance were from med
icaI units at Camp Pickett.
In another accident attributed to
Icy roads the Associated Press re-
ported that Senator Stewart, DEM
ocrat, Of Tennessee, was unable to
reach banquet of the Automotive
Trade Association of Virginia at
Richmond, where he was scheduled
to speak, because his car was in
volved in a collision with a truck
on Route !, about 80 miles south
Of Washington.
Senator Stewart was uninjured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-11
Virginions Reussured
On Intensity Of Flu
an the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOcl6teo freS6.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 11.-State
Health Department officials have
treasured the public that the wave
of influenza in extremely mild form
in Virginia is not necessarily dan
gerous.
Reports had not been received on
additional cases for last week. but
Health Department officials noted
the number of cases Is increasing
rapidly and many mild cases are
not recorded at all.
Department officials said the out
break of influenza, attributed largely
to cold, wet weather, has covered
practically every section Of the
State. There has been no indica-
ton, it was said. of any increase in
the prevalence of pneumonia, the
dreaded aftermath Of severe in
fluenza attacks.