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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
One Killed, Is Escape
As AirIinef PIunges
Into Flushing Bay
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-A woman
passenger was killed and 10 other
passengers and three crew members
escaped serious injury last night
when a Miami-to-New York plane
of Eastern Air Lines overshot the
runway at La Guardia Field and
plunged into Flushing Bay.
The passenger killed was Mrs. j.
M. Scully, 40, of New York. Her
husband said she was known in
business circles at Grace Teichholtz
and was !eturning from holiday
visit with her brother, Robert Will
son, at Richmond, Va.
Representatives Daughter Aboard.
The plane, attempting to land
during rainstorm, plunged into
the water at about the point where
q B-29 went down last spring, kill
ing three persons, including Maj.
Billy Southworth, jr., son of the
manager of the Boston Braves.
All survivors except Cecilia Dur
ham, daughter of Representative
Durham. Democrat, of North Caro-
lima, were treated for submersion.
She was treated for bruises of the
right foot apd shock. Miss Durham
was returning to work here after
a visit to her home. Eastern Air
Lines first reported Representative
Durham was passenger, but later
corrected it to say it was his daugh-
ter.
An airline spokesman said none
Of the survivors was in serious con-
dition. All were removed to shore
In police and Coast Guard launches.
Plunged Off End Of Runway.
John Gibbons, 81, of Buffalo, N.
Y, a passenger, said the plane
bounced twice on touching the run
way and then plunged of the end.
He said all the passengers but Mrs.
Scully got out and some climbed on
top of the plane, but slipped into
the water again as the plane went
down.
The airline said the crash &C.
CURED at OLA pm. &c. S. to and
that all the passengers were brought
out within an hour.
Only a small part of the tail as
sembly remained above water and
the company planned to try to hoist
the plane out of the bay today.
The plane was piloted by Capt.
Sam Cavalier, Garfield. N. j., and
Raymond E. Shirley of New York
was co-pilot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Retiring Churchman
ALSO Has Won Fame
AS Labor Arbitrator
By the Associated Press.


LOUISVILLE, KY. Dec. 31.-Only
che phase of a remarkable career
ends today for DR.. Charles w.
Welch-a career that includes &C
tivities as widely different as rail-
road brakeman, wooden mill worker,
newspaper reporter and columnist,
labor arbitrator, radio speaker and
minister of the gospel.
DR.. WEIGH is retiring after 40
years III the Presbyterian ministry,
% of them in the Fourth Avenue
Presbyterian Church.
His early experiences as a mill
worker and a railroad man in Ten
nessee and Kentucky, plus later
newspaper work in Chicago and
New York, account for the wide
reach of his interests and activities,
DR.. WEIGH believes.
Over the more than a quarter
century that he has directed one
of Louisville's largest churches, DR..
WEIGH has been called on repeatedly
to mediate between labor and capt.
tai.
Knows Language of Employers.
His congregation contains as i'm
portant a group of capitalists as
any in the Middle West, so he talks
the language of employers. His early
years at work with his hands assure
his understanding of labor's aims
He is life member of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen and is
the only man in Louisville who is
both Rotarian and a Kiwanian
Time and again, when disputes
have arisen in plants in Kentucky
or in Southern Indiana, union lead
ers would tell management, Get
DR.. WEIGH to arbitrate this matter;
We'll do anything he says"
At boat works in Jacksonville
Ind, several years ago members oil
union asked removal of foreman
they considered Objectionable. DR.
WEIGH found the foreman's actions
justified. Even before he gave his
decision, the union representatives
said he had made them realize they
had been mistaken and that they
would vote to retain the foreman.
At distillery in Cynthiana, KY.
union had protested the discharge
of a young woman worker. CUES.
tioning friends and associates, DR.
WEIGH learned that she stepped
out" socially practically every night
staying until the wee hours, and SC
was dead on her feet" at work next
day.
Leader in Own Denomination.
DR.. WEIGH asked union official
Don't you ever talk to your mem.
bers about giving an honest day!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Memorial Coins Proposed
To Use Silver Surplus
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the hsSOCldteQ fTeSs.
Several proposals for memorial
coins may be the springboard for
Congressional efforts to cash In on
the Governments silver surplus.
Chairman White Of Idaho, plans
to call the House Coinage Commit
tee together soon after Congress re-
assemblies to take action on "a few
little silver bills" which have &C
cunulated.
Among these are the chairman's
own proposals for coming 10000, 900
silver dollars to commemorate victory
over the Japanese and 10000 900
half dollars as reminder Of the
Pearl Harbor attack.
This Government financed the
Columbian Exposition by sale of
commemorative dollars, and we can
help pay our war debt in the same
way" White said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Stolen VioIins Worth
$4,000 Sold for $3.50
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31.-Violin-
list Hrach Yacoubian wasn't sure he
had bargain in the three violins
three men sold him for $3.50. So
he took them to an appraiser.
Mr.. Yacoubian gasped when he
heard them valued at $4,000. One
was a $4,000 Stradivarius, one a
$1,000 Storioni and the other q
$4,000 Panaramo. Bows and cases
added another 500 to the total.
Police reported they were stolen
December IS from a Hollywood
music shop, and started a search
for the sellers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Two Killed, ; Injured
In Filling Stution Blust

BY the Associated Press.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Dec. 31.-Two
persons were killed and three in
jured last night when an explosion
followed by fire destroyed COM
binaton tavern and filling station
near here
Sheriff Leo J. Martin identified
the dead as Mrs. Jay Dougherty, A,
Farley, Iowa, and Dennis Urban
26, soldier on furlough, of Peosta
Iowa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Moi. Gen. George LuII
Retires From Army

BY the Associated Press.
Mai. Gen. George F. Lull, So, Of
Scranton. Pa, War Department
deputy surgeon general, retired to-
day at his own request after 1914
years in the Regular Army.
He has been appointed assistant
secretary and general manager of
the American Medical Association.
He plans to leave Washington late
this week to take up his new duties
in Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Rev. Nelson Page Dome
Dies in Richmond at 90
By the Associated Press.

6y the Associated PresS.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 31.-The
Rev. Nelson Page Dame, SO, retired
Episcopal minister and a direct de-
scendant of william Byrd, died at
his home here yesterday.
DR.. Dame retired several years
ago after ministry of more than
SO years, including II years as rec
tor at historic Christ Church, Win
chester.
He was rector of the Episcopal
church at Ossining. N. Y, for sew.
eral years, leaving there to return
TO the Diocese of Virginia.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Mary N. Dame; a daughter. Lelis
Dame, New York; four grandchil.
aren. and one great-grandchild.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Fairfax School LEAGUE
Elects John Levendis

John Levendis has been elected
president of the newly organized
Fairfax School and Civic League.
Other officers are w. Lindsay
Carne and Miss liner Worsham,
vice presidents; Mrs. Helen Jones,
recording secretary; Thomas E. Nc
Donough. ST., corresponding secre-
tary, and Bennett w. King, treas
urer.
These officers, with Robert D.
Graham, Mayor of Fairfax; Robert
B. Walker, principal of Fairfax High
School, and Mrs. j. N. HowdershelI,
principal of Fairfax Elementary
School, will constitute the Executive
Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Heat Wave Sets
| New Record for
Los AnqeIes
y the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31.-Beaches
were thronged yesterday, shirt
sleeves were the rule and handker-
chiefs mopped brows as the tenn
perature rose to SO degrees, hottest
December 80 in the SO years OF
Weather Bureau records.
New Year Day, the weathermar
forecast, will be hot, too.
Yesterdays temperature topped
the So established December 80
1897, previous high for the date
but was two degrees short of the
all-time December mark of 81
registered December 8, 1888.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Virginions in England
To Offer UNO Site

BY the Associated Press.
HURN, England, Dec. 31.-Two
Virginians, 1t. Comdr. Raymond B
Bottom and Ashton Dovell, arrived
by plane yesterday to ask the
United Nations Organization to es-
tablish its permanent headquarters
in Williamsburg, Va.
Comdr. Bottom, Newport News
publisher, said: I'VE expect to get a
hearing before the UNO Site Com
mittee tomorrow" Mr.. Dowell Is a
former speaker of the Virginia
House of Delegates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Trade Directory Issued

The Prince Georges County In
dependent Trade Association has
issued its first directory of members
and business classifications. A total
OF 10000 copies has been issued.
Charles T. Hartley is president of
the association. which was organ
lied last February.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Byrnes
Continued From First Page

Assembly January 10. He will seek
to speed action on atomic energy
controls.
Much of his address last night
was devoted to an effort to quiet
fears about premature disclosure of
the atomic bomb secret and the pos
sible hamstringing effect of the new
control machinery for Japan on
American policy-making and Gen.
MacArthur's administration.
He explained how the 11-membe
Far Eastern Commission will form
ulate policy toward Japan, and the
four-member Allied Council will
advise and consult" with Gen
Macarthur in carrying it out.
Ignores Macarthur Statement.
Russia, Britain and China will
share with the United States veto
power on the policy-making COM
mission, and will have representa-
tives on the Tokyo Council, of which
Gen. Macarthur will be chairman
Mr.. Byrnes ignored a Tokyo
statement by Gen. Macarthur, il
which the supreme commander sale
he had disapproved the plan two
months ago and had not been con.
suited during the Moscow talks.
The Secretary declared, however
that the Moscow agreement safe
guards the efficient administration
which has been set up in Japan I'm.
der the supreme Allied commander
Mr.. Byrnes emphasized that un-
der the veto-voting procedure OF
the commission mo basic Allied
policy for : an may be adopted
without our concurrence.
At the same time the United
States is free to send Gen. Mac
Arthur interim directives" on al
urgent matters regarding which
another member might stall COM
mission agreement, except on three
fundamental questions.
These exceptions on which
American action might be blocked
by the veto of another of the Big
Four-are questions dealing with
changes in Cd control of Japan, 81
thu Japanese constitutional struc.
turs, or 90 the Japanese govern.
merit as a whole.
Net Asked About New Weapon.
Mr. Byrnes pointed out that, while
the Allied Council in Tokyo will con.
suit with Gen. Macarthur on carry.
Uag out policy, the supreme com.
mander's decision will be control.
Ing" on all but the three funda.
mental questions excepted from
American authority to act indie.
pendently.
&egarding atomic energy, Mr.
6yrnes said the Soviet government
offered only a few amendments
clarifying Security Council powers
10 the proposal taken to Moscow by
the United States and Britain fol
setting up a United Nations Com
mission.
The four detectives set forth il
the proposed resolution for creating
the commission-listing first the ex
change of basic scientific informa
tion-are mot intended to indicat
the order in which they are to b
considered" Mr.. Byrnes said.
I'm particular" he explained, ii
was intended and is understood tina
the matter of safeguards will appl
to the recommendations of the com
mission in relation to every phase o
the subject and at every stage"
Mr.. Byrnes said he, Mr.. Moloto
and Mr.. Bevin had reached under
standing on all important items o.
their agenda except the Iranial
question, and that all agreement
were covered in the communion
made public Thursday night "apar
from instructions to the representa-
tiyes of the three governments t
facilitate agreements in the field"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
IS Autos Damaged
IBy VonduIs in Nioht

About Is car owners in the 5700
and $500 blocks of Colorado avenue
NV. discovered this morning that
vandals had tempered with their
automobiles during the night.
Most cars had broken windshield
wipers and few had broken aerials
and smashed windshields.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-13
War:SEnd ToMean Exodus
Of7h0usandsF From CAPITAL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 70 {P) -
Where do we go from here?"
This question was on the lips of
thousands of Federal workers to-
day, as they concluded the end of
the war was at hand.
They were not alone with this
question. Servicemen stationed in
and around Washington, service
mems wives marking time until
their husbands return, and thou
sands of others who fall into no
particular category were framing
the same question in their minds.
And for many of them, the an
swer is: I'm going home"
Home for many people In Wash
ington is any city, town Or hamlet
in any far corner of the country
but not Washington.
The war which began almost four
years ago for this country has
drawn thousands into the nation
capital where there was a job to
be done, but in few cases do these
Immigrants consider Washington as
their. permanent home.
Though thousands will be needed
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-13
Eisenhower Sees Sports
Parade From Lenin Tomb

ion, entered Red Square shortly
before the parade began at noon.
As Eisenhower walked in Red
Square, from the old location Of the
Shrine of the 1berian Virgin to
Lenin's tomb, he was applauded
by those who recognized him from
his pictures.
He halted beside the tomb with
the ambassadors, ministers Il d
other heads of missions and within
few minutes Stain led the Polit-
buro members and other outstand-
ing Soviet leaders from the Krem'
lin to the top of the tomb.
Four minutes later Gen. A. A.
Antov, chief OF staff Of the Red
Army, descended from the tomb
and told Eisenhower that Stain had
invited him, Hartman and Deane
to review the parade with him.
Eisenhower was applauded again
as he took his place on the tomb
to the right of the Generalissimo
while Hartman went to the left.
'hanked by the two Americans,
Stain reviewed what many spec
Continued on Page Five; Col. y
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OXFORD RESIDENT
BROWNS AT BEACH

! Phillip Henry Guerrant, of Ok
ford, N. c., and manager of a
Four Oaks flour mill, succeeded
in =, rescuing a woman from the
ocean at Carolina Beach Sunday
afternoon only to perish in the ef-
fort.
The tragedy occurred about $3.50
p. m. while. the largest crowd OF
this season damned the boardwalk
and beach.
The woman, Mrs. Cassie Lee OF
Four Oaks, was revived after she
had been taken from the ocean
but almost two hours of resuscita-
ton efforts on behalf of Guerrant
by Mrs. Hannah Block, Carolina
Beach first aid official, and others
proved futile.
M. Guerrant was swimming
with his daughter, Mamie Guer.
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. -
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FALSE REPORT
STIRS NATION
United Press Flash Saying
Terms Accepted Start.
Celebrations

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1s.-(R-
Japanese silence left the peace
hopeful world in suspense today
waiting to learn whether history's
most terrible war ends quickly
in surrender or later in the blast
of more atom bombs.
The latest official word came
from Charles G.. Ross, White House
press secretary, who told news
conference at 1925 p. m. Eastern
War Time last night:
''Nothing has been received by
the President, the War Depart.
ment, the Navy or the State De-
partment.'
He referred to a Japanese re-
Spouse to the Allied dictum that
the Japanese in surrender may
keep their Emperor-for the time
being-if they want him, but he
must take orders from the COM
mander of Allied occupation forces.
The Japanese had offered to quit
under the Potsdam unconditional
surrender terms with the under
standing" that the Mikado could.
retain his sovereign prerogatives.
1--WE are still waiting" said
Ross. 'That is the situation"
He made his statement at a news
conference called to tell newsmen
there was nothing to- a Flash"
transmitted on United Press wires
and quickly withdrawn, which
reported Japanese acceptance Of
the Allied conditions.
Ross talked to reporters shortly
after the erroneous report had set
off brief celebration in which by
ISLANDERS waiting at the White
House gates for surrender news
had Joined in joyful song. God
Bless America"
That was more than 80 hours
after the Allied dictates on peace
had been placed in Japanese hands
at Bern, Switzerland.
President Truman had gone to
bed just before 10 p. M, though
he still was readable in case Of
developments. However, promptly
at midnight, Ross announced that
the White House was out of bust
ness for the night and there would
be nothing more before a. m.
In an earlier news conference at
$50 p. m. Sunday, Ross had reg
, layed the same information-no
{ news from Tokyo. At that time he
added succintly:
'The war still is in progress"
AS if to underscore those words,
Pacific war front bulletins less than
an hour and half later told Of a
renewal of the bomb attacks by
British and American carrier-based
planes on the Tokyo area.
The Japanese silence built up
S suspense in a peace-hopeful world,
a whose predominant interest was
: the answer to the question: Is the
S end of the war at hand or will
a Japan take more beating before
E she quits?
She was taking a beating not
only from Halsey's f1iers, but from
!, Continued on Page Five; Col. ~
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Congress Facing Stern
Duties After Vacation

WASHINGTON, Aug. r. R -
Key Congressional leaders cut
short their vacation plans today
and headed back to Washington as
the imminence of Japan's collapse
underscored the urgency for prompt
action on reconversion legislation.
Their job is to whip into shape
for full Congressional consideration
next month legislation dealing with
full employment, increased finan-
cial aid to the jobless, reorganiza-
ton of, the governmental structure,
revamping of the surplus property
disposal program, and the fate of
numerous war-born home-front
agencies.
Those subjects were on the
must" program outlined by Sen
ate Democratic Leader Barley of
Kentucky as he left the White
House yesterday after a conference
with President Truman at which it
was decided to call Congress back
into session on or about September
4. Measures covering most of these
pressing issues already have been
introduced. ~
The lawmakers have barely
started what they had hoped would
be their longest wartime vacation.
1t began for the House late last
month and for the Senate early
this month and originally was
scheduled to end for both branches
on October 8.
Continued on Page Five; COL y
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ATTLEE PROMISES
HIS COOPERATION

LONDON, Aug. ~ Up Prime
Minister Attlee tonight pledged
British cooperation with President
Truman's proposal that the secret
of the atomic bomb be guarded
until complete control of the devas-
tating weapon is assured.
The Prime Minister, back at No.
10 Downing Street after spending
Saturday night at his Chequers
country place, issued this state
ment:
"Since I issued the statement on
the day of the release of The first
atomic bomb a week ago, the vast
and terrible effects of this new in
vention have made themselves felt.
1.-The last Ct our nmies has
offred to surrender.
1.-THE eventsc of these tremend-
Gus days reinforce the words in that
thatement to the effect that we
must pray that the discovery which
led to the production of the atomic
bomb will be made to conduce to
peace among the nations, and that
Continued on Page Two, Col. 81
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Barney Baruch Won't Have To Play
Santa Claus To Stranded Stenos
BY EULALIE MCDOWELL
TIni<od Droec Ckoff Corrospondo,,


WASHINGTON, R-uH-Bernard won't have
Claus to stranded
special
girls the railroad ticket
1918 Baruch financier elder statesmen
home hundreds Of hapless
about station without the ticket
high civil service official said tonight that me
specialists has preparing girls
their jobs, and the trip home
conuants have singled out the misfthe
likely blow their last paycheck
longrange planning
for post VI Day excavations.
The official pointed that War Bond campaigns also have
helped Even the difference between strand
ed girl and who will be able to her home, he
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-13
GERMAN CITIZENS
WILL COOPERATE

BERLIN, Aug. u IN -Spokes-
men for Berlin's four political par
ties in their first public United
Front meeting today said the
German people would endeavor
earnestly to fulfill the terms OF
the Potsdam declaration.
Some 500 representatives of the
four parties unanimously support
ed a resolution offered by trade
union representative Ernst Lem
mer which:
Called for a continuation OF the
United Front to achieve Ger
many's regeneration ac'
knowledged Germany's collective
guilt for the Hitler regime;
pledged elimination of militarism,
reactionarism and Nazism; ad-
nonished the. nation that the 60
ing will be hard and pledged an
honest attempt to fulfill the spirit
and letter of the Potsdam decisions
of the Big Three.
Wilhelm Juelz, minister OF the
Interior in the Weimar Republic,
presided and termed the four po-
litical parties "the educators OF the
nation for Democracy. Il
Berlin's mayor, Arthur Werner,
declared that the worst thing the
Nazi regime did to Germany was
destroy the respect of the peoples
of the world for Germany and -Ges'
mans. -----'- ~.
Communist leader wilhelm Pieck
observed that no German would
deny that the Potsdam terms we're
not. exceedingly hard but that. hey
must be loyalty met. Ii
1.-THE, whole; German character
must be remade," he said. =
Otto Grotewohl, speaking for the
Social: Democrats, asserted t n I
Though the German revolution I'm
fortunately failed history will re
cord that it was the b1oodiest in al.
the worlds history"
A Christian Democrat leader
Andreas Hearmes, assured Jews
that "the doors are open again fol
YOU and said the collaboration o.
Protestants and Catholics would
make a Christian nation of Ger
many again.
Waldemar Koch, leader of the
Liberal Democrats. declared the
slogan of every German should be
'Never Again War"
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BY EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW, Aug. 12-R AT the
invitation of Generalissimo Stain,
Gen. Eisenhower mounted a plat
form atop Lenin's tomb in: Red
Square today and reviewed with
the Russian leader a parade and
demonstration by 10000 athletes
from the Soviet Unions 16 repub-
lies.
The American General, was the
first foreigne..:: ever honored with
such. an invitation. =
Nikolai Romanov, the chairman
in charge of physical culture day,
told the thousands in the great
square and by radio o h e S
throughout the Soviet Union:
''There is a new historical as
signment to complete with the Al
lies, the defeat of Japan.
"Stalin is constantly caring for
the development of physical train
ing. Our job is to develop it."
Eisenhower, accompanied by his
son John, U. S. Ambassador W.
Averen Hartman and Maj. Gen.
J. Russell Deane, chief of the U. 5.
military mission to the Soviet I'm