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Evening star., 1945-08-24
RFC Denies Rail Loans Evatt CHARGES Britain
FiguredinB. 60. Jobs Is Denying Australia
For Former EMPLOYEES Place in Peace Talks
By the Associated rress.

By the Associated rress.
The Reconstruction Finance Corp.
last night denied that former RFC
employees had used influence to OBJ
tain advantageous employment"
with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
The denial was contained in let
ter from RFC Board Chairman
Charles B. Henderson to Chairman
Wheeler of the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee.
Senator Wheeler had asserted in
q letter of July 28 to John w. Sny-
der, then loan administrator, that
he had been informed that five men
who he said had been associated
with the RFC had used RFC loans
to the B. g. o. as means of obtain
ing executive positions with the line.
Senator Wheeler named Roy B.
White, president Of the B. g. O.;
Stewart Mcdonald, Russell l.. Snod-
grass, Cassius M. Clay and F. E.
Saukhages, all B. & o. officials, as
those who, he said he was informed,
had benefited through the B. g. O.
loans.
Mr.. Henderson's letter said Mr..
White "was never associated with
this corporation in any capacity,
and our records indicate that he
was not an official of B. g. o. when
the loans were made"
Mcdonald Never a Director.
Mr.. Mcdonald, the letter said,
was never a director, officer or en-
ploys Of this corporation and never
had anything to do with loans by
this corporation to the B. g. o. or
to any other railroad company"
Mr.. Snodgrass was a member of
the legal division of the RFC for
about 10 years, beginning in 1882,
Mr.. Henderson wrote, and added
that Mr.. Snodgrass' work was de-
voted to matters entirely unrelated
to railroad loans and he never
had anything to do with the making
OF our loans to the B. g. O. and never
passed on any papers evidencing
the same"
Mr.. Clay was a member of the
legal division of the RFC for about
nine years beginning in 1882, in
charge of legal matters pertaining
to railroad loans. Mr.. Henderson
said that Mr.. Clay passed upon
certain legal papers relating to the
loans made by this corporation to
the B. g. O., but at no time was
charged with responsibility of de-
Gliding that the loans should or
should not be made, or deciding the
terms thereof"
Mr.. BaIkhages was a member of
the legal division of the RFC from
1885 to l941 and resigned to accept
a position with the Union Pacific
Railroad Co., where he remained
until 1914 when he joined the B. 60.
AT no time during his EMPLOY
nent by this corporation, said Mr..
Henderson, did Mr.. Baughages
nave anything to do with our loans
TO the Baltimore g. Ohio Rail-
road Co."
Evening star., 1945-08-24
U. S. to Bring Scientists
Over From Germany
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRANKFURT, Aug. 24.-The
United States forces in the Euro
pean theater said yesterday group
of German scientists and techni-
clans would be taken to the United
States to continue military expert
ments and research on which they
were working when Germany sur
rendered
An Official announcement said
they would be hired" and empha-
sized that they would have no ac-
cess to classified American prof.
ects." On completion Of the work,
the group will be returned to Ger
many.
Evening star., 1945-08-24
Chang Formally Signs
Charter Ratification

CHUNGKING, Aug. "a (P)-In a
brief, simple ceremony today, Gen.
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek, using
an ordinary Chinese brush, signed
the document attesting China s
ratification of the United Nations
Charter.
The great jade seal of the republic
previously had been affixed to the
document which Chang signed in
the presence of a few high officers
of state and an assembly of Chinese
and foreign neWsmen.
Evening star., 1945-08-24
Charter Ratification
By Britain Stirs Hope
OF October Session
Ey the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. 24.-Ratificatior
of the United Nations Charter b,
Great Britain raised the possibility
today that the first plenary session
of the World Security League woule
be called by late October.
Members of the Executive Com
mitee of the United Nations Pre-.
paratory Commission, now sitting ir
London to prepare for the birth
OF the new organization, believe
enough nations~WiH have approved
the Charter by that time to permit
the calling of the session.
Britain last night became the
last of the Big Five powers to
ratify. Neither in the House of
Commons nor in the House of Lords
was it necessary to take a vote,
despite blunt statements in Parli-
ment that the Charter was not
strong enough to maintain peace so
long as the atomic bomb remained
a British-American secret.
South American Approval Seen.
There was general feeling here
that virtually all the countries will
have approved the 50-nation pact
by late fall, now that the United
States, Britain, France, Soviet Rus
sia and China have ratified. The
next wave of ratification decisions
is expected from Latin America.
Ratified by 2S Countries.
The preparatory commission has
been striving to set up committees
within the next few days to deal
with problems which must be set
tied before the first plenary session.
The Executive Committee is under
stood to be operating on the as
sumption that the new organization
will come into being in October.
When % countries have ratified,
the committee will call representa-
tives of the so nations into session
as the full preparatory commission.
This group will set up the date for
the opening assembly meeting.
The atom bomb was the focal
point of the debate in Parliament
yesterday. Some members urged
that the secret be shared with Rus
sla to avoid race of research in
superweapons.
Later Replacement Seen.
Lord Strabolgi, supporter of the
Charter, said it might have taken a
different form had the trainers
known that the atoms power would
be harnessed, and added that event.
ually it might have to be replaced
with something more powerful,
more robust and more rogueproof.'
. The brutal fact is, Lord Strabolgi
said, that war as an instrument OF
national policy for one nation to
mf1ict its will on another can now
only be waged by one nation-the
United States of America-because
for a time they have the vast and
intricate plant to make this new
process. Fortunately the American
people are pacifcists in the best
sense of the word, and we are humbly
thankful that this is the case"
Other members said the atom
bomb rendered the Charter in
adequate, and hoped it would be
developed and improved in time.
Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, in
the final speech of the Commons
discussion, said the atom bomb must
remain q, British secret
until the world security organization
is established and I'VE can see clearly
hnu mo tforc ctorIp
Evening star., 1945-08-24
Labor Disputes Make
$4,000 Idle; Victory
Pay Involved in Two
By the Associated Press.


More than $1,000 persons were idle
today in ~ labor disputes, some of
which developed since the Japanese
surrender, others Of long standing.
Victory holiday pay was at issue
in two large stoppages in Pennsyl-
vania. In Nicetown, $500 AFL
workers have been out since Tues
day after the union said the Mid
vale Steel Co. posted notice that
the employees would be paid for only
one of the two holidays last week.
The company refused to comment.
In Eddystone, Pa, 1900 CIO
United Steel Workers remained
away from their jobs at the General
Steel Castings Corp. The union said
the company refused to pay for
two-day holiday and the company
contended it was not obligated to
do so because it was not in war work.
Five Months Strike Still On.
The oldest strike still in progress
was that in the Los Angeles picture
industry, where a jurisdictional dis
pute between the AFL painters
union and the AFL International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage En-
ployes is in its fifth month. Pro-
ducers say 1000 persons are out;
the union says 1000. At issue is the
question of which union shall rep
resent II set decorators. Nine stu
dios are affected
Other disputes involving 1000 or
more workers included:
| 4,500 United Automobile Workers
at the Kelsey Hayes Wheel Co..
Detroit, in protest against War
Labor Board ruling.
$500 at Chrysler's Dodge truck
plant in Detroit as a result of pro-
longed CIO-UAW strike at the De-
troit Steel Products Co. which sup
plies Dodge with springs.
Victory Pay at Issue.
1,10o at General Motors Corp.
Chevrolet division in Bay City,
Mich, where the CIO-UAW pro-
tested "speed-up" practice and con-
tended the management failed to
observe shift preferences of senior
employees
1900 at the Sloss- Sheffield Steel
& Iron Co., Birmingham, Ala. -Four
hundred furnace and by-products
employees, members of the United
Mine Workers, left their jobs August
l8, making $500 others idle. The
union said the company refused to
pay premium rates for Victory holi-
| day work.
4,1oo CIO United Rubber Work.
ers at the United States Rubber Co
plant in Mishawaka, Ind They
have been idle for two weeks in
a dispute over a workers dismissal
and other grievances.
Other Disputes.
l,400 United Steel Workers at the
Oliver Iron & Steel Corp, Pitts
burgh. They have been out since
Wednesday over suspension of shop
steward. The company indefinitely
suspended the union president fol
calling the strike.
1,200 at the Monsanto Iu) Chem
ical Co., idle since August 10 as q
result of jurisdietional dispute be.
tween four AFL unions.
1900 at the Westclox Co., Peru. Ill,
out since Wednesday when the
United Mine Workers, district so
alleged violation of seniority rights
in the company's reconversion pro-
gram
Evening star., 1945-08-24
By the Associated Press.


PARIS, Aug. 24.-The French
Ministry of Information, taking
cognizance of President Truman's
statement that French newspapers
have not given the United States
square deal, said today that some
articles have been "a little severe" +"
The ministry expressed hope that
no news stories would be published
that would be detrimental to Ameri-
can-French relations.
The semiofficial Monde pleaded
innocent to Mr.. Truman's indict-
ment and said that "in general we
do not find that the assertion is
justified" Monde said the square
deal worked both ways, that the
American press attitude toward
France could stand improvement.
The Ministry of Information
pointed out that French editorial
writer's were free to write as they
think, but expressed regret parti-
cularly over some stories mot en-
tirely conforming to the truth
which exaggerate regrettable Incl
dents provoked by the American
Army"
Some Recent References.
Some recent references included: ::
The prominent daily Figaro re-
Gently declared editorially that
the capiatlistic Allies refrained
from bombing the I. G. Farbenin-
dustrie plants in Germany.
One newspaper displayed the
rumor that American troops burned
food and clothing and other sup
plies instead Of leaving these for
the French.
Another Journal carried news
story criticising American officers
for retaining requisitioned build
ings and apartments in Strasbourg,
saying the places were used only
for men passing through en- route
Ito Germany.
Evening star., 1945-08-24
'Grovediqqer' Captured

SALzBURG, Austria, Aug. "a Up
American Military Government au-
thorities last night announced the
capture of August Eigruber, former
Nazi leader of the upper Danube
region. He was known as the grave
digger Of Austria" and reportedly
was one of the few permitted to adj
dress Adolf Hitler by his first name.
Evening star., 1945-08-24

the War Depart
ment has mott
fled his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs.
Lester S. Layser,
1911 H street
Sc.
Sergt. Layser
was epor t e d
missing over the
Bay of Biscay
March 27, 1914,
as he was re-
turning from his
eighth mission
o yer S ou t h
France. He had
Evening star., 1945-08-24

been overseas since December, 1943.
and was with the 9th Air Force in
England. He held the Air Medal.
Before entering the air force, in
October, 1912, Sergt. Layser was
EMPLOYED by Judd & Detweiler
after attending Eastern High School.
In addition to his parents he is
survived by brother, Bobby, Is.
Evening star., 1945-08-24
French Admit Some Papers
Are Severe on United States

Meanwhile, members of Congress
who arrived in France July 81 for a
study of French living conditions
came under ironic criticism from
the English-language evening news
paper, the Paris Post.
Picture of Visitors.
The Post published a picture of
the visitors August IA with the
caption, Nov they know how the
French live" and a description of
their activities since their arrival
such as dinners with American
generals, time out for personal
shopping, a reception by the United
States Ambassador and, as
q grand climax, a visit to the Folies
Bergere." .
The Post said yesterday that "the
Paris Post had an answer to such
facetiousness" from a French news.
paper which offered its services te
pilot the visiting American politi.
clans around France "to help them
realize the actual conditions of life
among the masses of the French
people"
The Paris Post did not identif,
the members of Congress by name
but told the Associated Press it was
a 10-man group headed by Repre-.
sentative Dondero, Republican o1
Michigan.
Other members of Mr.. Dondero'.
group, which left to tour Unitee
States Government agencies in Eu.
rope after the House recessed, in.
cluded: Representatives Weiss
Democrat Of Pennsylvania; Feighan
Democrat of Ohio; Hubert, Demo
crat Of Ohio; Caranahan, Democra
OF Missouri; Chelf, Democrat o
Kentucky; Horan, Republican o
Washington: Morrow, Republican
OF New Hampshire; Ramey, Repub
lican OF Ohio, and Fulton. Republi
can Of Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1945-08-24
DR.. 6. h. Ensminqef Dies

CHICAGO, Aug. "a R,.-Dr.
George H. Ensminger, 81, associate
clinical professor of ophthalmology
at Loyola University and formerly
chief of the eye. ear, nose and
throat section of the Sheboygan
| .(Wis.) clinic, died yesterday.
Evening star., 1945-08-24
Dr.. Alfred SuIter Dies

LONDON, Aug. "a tR.-Dr. Alfred
Salter, ~. physician and Labor
member OF the House Of Commons
for 40 years, died today. He was an
o,ltspoken foe Of alcoholic liquor
and once told Commons he had seen
many members drunk In the House.
Evening star., 1945-08-24
Two District Soldiers
Awarded Silver Stars

T/Sergt. Erwin E. Osgood, 172O H
street NV, recently received the
Silver Star Medal for gallantry in
action last May 3 as member of
Evening star., 1945-08-24
Killed

S/Sergt. Lester w. Layser, 81,
B-24 gunner. has been declared dead
Evening star., 1945-07-01
swimming Classes 10 Open
AT Montgomery YMCA

Two swimming classes have been
arranged by the Montgomery Codn-
ty YMCA for county boys at the
Central YMCA swimming pool.
A Learn-to-Swin class will start
at 1880 pm. tomorrow and meet four
times week for two weeks--on
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Fridays. Most boys will learn to
swim in four lessons, but the County
YMCA has been granted two weeks
on these days.
A general swim, for boys who al
ready know how, will be held
throughout the summer from 2 to
2:30 pm. each Tuesday. Both these
classes are for boys between 8 and
IA years of age. Thomas Donaldson
of the Central Boys Stan will be
lifeguard at all the sessions.
Boys desiring to enter either of
these classes should phone the exec
utive secretary Of the County
YMCA, ]. B. Bunker at Bradley
O232
Evening star., 1945-07-01
corpI. Norford' S Parents
ConsoIed by President

President Truman found time to
send consoling words to a Virginia
family when their son, who once
worked as a clerk for him, was
killed in Germany, their parents
revealed yesterday.
Corpl. Walter j. Norford, 81, the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall A.
Nerford, Mclean, Va, worked for
the Senate War Investigating Com
mittee while President Truman
headed 1t from June, 1912, until
February, 1943 He was killed in an
accident while on duty in Germany
May IA.
Il have heard with deep sense
OF personal sorrow of the sorrow
which has been laid so heavily upon
you" Mrs. Norford quoted the Presi-
dents letter.
Il shall always remember Corpl.
Norford as faithful and efficient
member of my former staff, and one
in whom alyas3 placed implicit
trust. NY hart goes out to you In
deepest sympathy, Very sincerely
yours, Harry S. Truman"
A story was carried in The Star
June Z on Corpl. Norford's death.
Evening star., 1945-07-01
Tox Defnquents
In Arlington to
Face Inquiry

About 1000 Arlington County tax
payers who failed to make their
State and local tax returns before
May l, next week will be summoned
to appear before the examiner of
records or commissioner of revenue
to determine their tax liability under
oath, 1t was announced yesterday by
Harry K. Green, Arlington COM
missioner of revenue.
Failure to answer the summons.
he said. will subject the taxpayer
to q fine of not less than $40 nor
more than 500. The fine. he added
viii not relieve any taxpayer from
making his or her return, the paw
ment on which will be due at the
treasurer's Office by December
Stating his office made every ef-
fort to advise taxpayers that returns
must be filed, Mr.. Green said tax
forms we're mailed, follow-up post
cards were sent and radio announces
ments and telephone calls were
made.
Evening star., 1945-07-01
July 4CycIing Contest
To Benefit Hospital

A high light of the Fourth of July
celebration to be staged for the ben
eft of the proposed Silver Spring
Memorial Hospital by the Silver
Spring Board of Trade win be a
bicycle race for convalescent service
men, James McCann, chairman OF
the affair, announced yesterday.
Mr.. McCann said a number OF
men, recovering from wounds at
Walter Reed Hospital, take daily
exercise on bicycles around the hos
pital grounds. These men will take
part in the race in Silver Spring
prior to the afternoons festivities
at the Indian Spring Country Club
A number of bicycle races also
will be held for boys and girls OF
the community, beginning at 1:3o
pm. They will start at the traffic
light at Georgia avenue and the
Colesville road and finish at the
entrance of the Indian Spring
Country Club grounds, a distance OF
about miles.
First, second and third prizes will
include War Bonds and cash
awards. Maurice Brown is chair
man of the races. Registrants in
the boys and girls classes should
call at the Silver Spring Cycle Shop
to enter.
The afternoons program also will
include a baby parade and num-
Der of contests and games to be
held on the grounds of the club
A dinner at I pm. will be followed
by dancing.
A special golf match, the first
annual Memorial Hospital teurna-
ment, is expected to get under way
at pm.
Evening star., 1945-07-01
Axis Sally Still Held
By Allies in North Italy
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, June 30.-Officials at
Allied headquarters said today that
New York-born Rita yucca, SO,
known to American soldiers as
Axis Sally" for her radio Rropa-
ganda broadcasts, still is Allied
military custody for questioning
pending her disposition to italian
authorities"
Their declaration came after an
attorney in Stamford, Conn, who
said he represented the woman, de-
clared he had information she
would be released. At Milan, United
States officials said they knew Moth
ing of any plans to free the woman.
She had been held since June Z in
Northern Italv.
Evening star., 1945-07-01
Richmond Gambler S
Charge Of Graft by
Police 10 Be Probed
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, June 30.-Safety
Director James a. Anthony said to-
day that he had been instructed by
Mayor william c.. Herbert to make
a thorough investigation of charges
of bribery and graft involving
number of persons in the Richmond
Police Department.
Mr.. Anthony said he had been
trying to get In touch with the pro-
prietor of a gambling house who
made the charges but had not been
able to locate him.
He said, however, that he plans
to talk with the backer of the
gambling club, which has been
closed since it was raided several
weeks ago, and afterwards will
question every accused person.
Mayor Herbert was out of the city
today but 1t was reported that the
man had named names and had
told him he had made no accusa-
ton which he could not prove.
Among the charges made by the
backer of the gambling house were
the following:
That police official told him he
could operate his gambling house
without fear of arrest; that the same
official later told him he could con-
tinue to operate provided he split
his take" with the operator Of
another gambling house; that the
same official had sat in his gambling
house and had watched money
change hands without voicing OBJ
jections.
That there are 80 gambling houses
in Richmond and that 81 of them
operate under the protection of
police; that certain police officer
had demanded hush money at his
gambling house on several occa-
sions and that the money had been
given to him; that certain police
officers gamble in the protected"
houses and that gambling among
police is wide spread.
Evening star., 1945-07-01
Half Of $4,000 Fund
For Hospital Collected

Nearly one-half of the $4,000
fund to provide a two-year working
capital for the Suburban Hospital
of Bethesda has been collected, Maj.
Paul D. Banf1eld, campaign chair
man, reported yesterday.
Mai. Banfleld said 4l1z per cent
of the goal has been pledged. He
said workers will continue an ex-
tensive house-to-house canvass over
the week end in an effort to reach
the final goal.
Maj. Banfield reported that $25
was donated in the campaign by two
small Chevy Chase girls who made
the money disposing Of prizes they
had won at parties
Evening star., 1945-07-01
COP Candidate Urges
Repeal Of Virginia Poll Tax

The Virginia poll tax is IAN art
fully designed restriction "to keep
residents from exercising their
right to participate in their gov
ernment," J. Foster Hagan declared
yesterday in opening his campaign
as Republican candidate for the
House of Delegates.
THE poll tax" he said, "has been
used to establish and maintain dis
tinctions and TO limit suffrage
The result has been to perpetuate
an organization in power whose
primary purpose has been to restrict
the ballot to maintain itself.
"Only once has that .crganiza-
ton relented sufficiently to re-
lease some of those restrictions and
that last spring when the limited
convention permitted soldiers of
the present war to vote without
prepayment of the tax
Mr.. Hagan said that until Vir-
ginians throw of the artificial
shackles imposed upon them by the
organization Virginia will muddle
along at the bottom of the list
instead of near the top where it
belongs"
Evening star., 1945-07-01
Arlington Policemen
To HondIe Juvenile Work

The promotion OF Pvt. John e.
Cullias to plainclot othesman in charge
of Juvenile work was announced yes
terday by Arlington County Police
Chief Harry =. woodward as the AZ
members Of the Arlington csepart-
ment we're sworn In for q gear by
Circuit Court Clerk H. Bruce Green.
on orders from Judge WalIer r.
Mccarthy
Mr.. Culfins has been q member
Of the department for nine years.