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Evening star., 1945-09-18
113 Seryicemen Seek
Red Cross Aid on Rides

The District Red Cross Staff As
sistance Corps up to yesterday had
received 113 requests from service
men for rides to their homes.
Seventy-seven motorists have offered
space In their automobiles, and Is
rides, most of them to distant points,
have been arranged, the Red Cross
said
Servicemen wanting rides to other
cities and motorists with space for
one more persons in their cars
are urged to telephone the Staff
Assistant Desk, Republic $500, ex-
tension 94l, from 10 am. to 4 pm.
daily. Both servicemen and motor
lists are asked to give as much notice
as possible because of the difficulties
of planning long distance rides.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Allied Officer Accused
Of Bullying Jops
By the Associated Fress.


LONDON. Sept. 1S.-Admiral
Lord Louis Mountbatten, supreme
commander of the Southeast Asia
Command, has ordered disciplinary
action taken against an Allied off,
Ger accused Of bullying Japanese
prisoners of war in Singapore, the
War Office said last night.
Admiral Mountbatten, the War
ONCE said, issued a special COM
munique after receiving reports
that japanese commanders In
Singapore awaiting trial as war
criminals had been forced publicly
to touch their foreheads to the
ground.
by bullying them in a childish
way we shall. ourselves, only be de-
scending to the level of those very
elements among the japanese which
we have fought war to eliminate, u
the commander said.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Franco Regime Won't Last
Long, Blum Predicts
Ey the Associated Press.


LONDON, Sept. 1s.-Leon Blum,
former Socialist Premier of France
said today he would like to see Spain
rid of the Franco regime and pre-
dicted ''it won't last long"
He asserted restoration of the
monarchy would not solve Spain's
problems, and expressed belief elec-
ton of the Labor government in
Britain made restoration Of the
Spanish monarchy LESS likely"
Asked if he favored placing the
atomic bomb at the disposal Of the
United Nations Security Council,
Blum retorted:
ut is already at the disposal of all
humanity. It shows that war Is i'm
possible. I am in agreement with
British Prime Minister Attlee that
We must now unite or perish"
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Two Newsmen Defend
MacArthur's Policies
After Visit 10 Japan
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT, Sept. 10. - John S.
Knight, publisher of the Detroit
Free Press and other Knight news
papers, yesterday defended the poll
cies Of Gen. Macarthur in the occu-
patton OF Japan.
In an address before the Eco
nomic Club Of Detroit, Mr.. Knight
said he couldn't agree with those
who believe the supreme comman-
der has been too soft"
Mr.. Knight recently returned from
hve-week tour of the Pacific war
theaters, during which time he wit
messed the Japanese surrender.
Even as victors over a brutal
people he said, I'VE cannot very
we'll go around hitting Japs over
the head with rife butts to show
them we won the war.
TT Is true that their attitude is a
bit smirking and not too pleasant.
There are times when one might
feel like doing something of the
Sort
But through the Emperor, Mr..
Knight asserted, Gen. Macarthur
is getting done exactly what he
wants done as contrasted with the
confused situation in Germany"
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1s R.-
w. r. Walton, managing editor Of
the South Bend Und) Tribune, who
arrived yesterday from Japan, where
he witnessed the surrender signing
and the beginning of American oc-
cupation, said the japanese were
not getting of easy under Gen. Mac
Arthur.
1T is not kid glove occupation
at ALL" the editor said.
Mr.. Walton. who spent nearly five
weeks touring American bases in the
Pacific as guest of the Navy, said
he wished all Americans could see
what he had and realize there was
no glamour in war.
The destruction of Manila, Yoke.
hama and Tokyo Is almost unbeliev-
able" he declared. I'm Japan the
cities are almost completely de-
stroyed. I walked through Yoko-
hama and Tokyo and saw only a
few houses standing, but the streets
and trains are crowded with people
Evening star., 1945-09-18
briton Who Recorded
be|sen Horrors Takes
Stand al Kramer Trial
BY the Associated Press.

SS tat AoSoSSAtco 1tCos
LUENEBERG, Germany, Sept.
18.-The soft-spoken British
Army doctor who first told the
world of the ghastly horror Of
Belsen concentration camp was
called today as the initial wit
ness by a British military court
trying Joseph Kramer, "the
beast of Belsen," and A IS CO.
horts with conspiracy to COM
NIT mass murder.
AS the first great trial of Nazi war
criminals entered its second day,
the prosecution summoned Brig.
Glyn Hughes, formerly chief med
ical officer of the British I'd Army.
Brig. Hughes entered Belsen when
it was liberated by British troops
April Is. Two days later in a press
conference he gave the world the
incredible account of Belsen's name
less thousands of dead, of the de-
graded and despairing living, some
of them driven in the torture OF
oGdl SdtlOll w CdilIllUdLSlA.
Court Is in Gymnasium.
The prosecution announced that
Brig. Hughes would be the first of
a parade of witnesses who would
give evidence that Kramer and his
A aides were guilty of inhuman
and unbelievably cruel practices at
Belsen, and that Kramer and II of
the A were guilty of equal If not
greater crimes Of determination at
the concentration camp of Au-
Schwitz.
AS the trial opened yesterday in
the converted gymnasium which
serves as courtroom, the prosecu-
ton capped a two-hour recital of
horrors charged to the As with a
promise to produce a witness who
had seen records OF 1000, 900 deaths
at the Auschwitz camp.
Among those charged with COM
mitting denominations at Auschwitz
is stony-faced Irma Grese, said by
the prosecution to have been the
worst of the SIS women guards.
Kramer was IN charge of the no.
torious Birkenau compound at
Auschwitz, known as the biggest
Nazi mass murder factory. where the
prosecution claims millions we've
exterminated.
Separate Trials Refused.
Defense Counsel Capt. J. r. Philips
entered a plea that trial of the As
before the same court prejudiced
the Belsen defendants who never
were at AuschwitZ. But Mai. Gen.
H. P. M. Berney-Fickin, heading the
five-man court trying the defend
ants on royal warrant on behalf
Of all countries whose nationals suf.
fered, refused TO order separate
trials.
The chief prosecutor, Col. T. M.
Backhouse, told the court yesterday
in clipped, precise tones, of mass
starvation, beatings, filth and disease
In the Belsen camp. Some, he said,
had been driven by starvation to
cutting flesh from bodies and eat
ing 1t during the final stages of
Kramer's rule.
The prosecution will claim the
Belsen gang committed deliberate
acts of willful cruelty and murder.
Col. Backhouse recalled to the court
that parliamentary investigators ar
riVlng at Belsen soon after its cap
ture found $4,000 corpses there
among the $4,000 living men and
$4,000 living women. He recalled
that $4,000 more died In the sue
ceeding six weeks from the effects
of the internment.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Harry Bridges Takes
Oath of Citizenship
Ply the Associated Press.

Ply the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10
Harry Bridges, head of the CIO
Longshoremen's Union on the West
Coast, became citizen Of the
United States yesterday.
The Australian-born union leader,
long attacked on the contention he
was Communist party member,
took the oath Of naturalization in
Superior Court.
He was questioned briefly by the
naturalization examiner. One oues-
ton was. whether Bridges believes
in private ownership. Yes" he re-
piled, but l also believe In regula.
tion of private ownership"
Evening star., 1945-09-18
9TH Armored, 10th Infantry
Preparing for Trip Home

PARIS, Sept. 18 (R.-The 7th Ar
mored and 10th Infantry Divisions
are moving into staging areas,
where the 5th Armored and 106th
Infantry Divisions already are
awaiting movement home.
The Army said $4,000 American
troops cleared LIE Havre and 5000
sailed from Marseille in the first Is
days of September. To speed the
return home the average 60-hour
turnabout time for ships in the
French embarkation ports has been
trimmed to "a hours
Evening star., 1945-09-18
lie de France Soon to Begin
Returning Troops to u. S.

CHERBOURG, Sept. lS R.-The
liner lie de France, which carried
thousands of American tourists to
Europe in prewar years and soon
will begin transporting American
soldiers home, returned to this
French port yesterday for the first
time in five years.
The lie de France, seized by the
British at Singapore after the fall
of France and converted into q
troop transport, will be returned
formally to France tomorrow.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
1,055 Veterans Arrive
BY Plane in ) Hours
By the Associated Press.

~ lue hssoCltIeO FfeSS.
MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 1S.-Arriving
at three-minute intervals, the
Army's big ATC planes brought
home a record-breaking total Of
l,0o5 veterans from Euppes battle
fields in three hours yesterday.
The veterans, eager to set foo,
once more on American soil, had
"sweated 1t out" at airfields in Ber-
muda and Puerto Rico while all
planes were grounded by the great
hurricane on Saturday.
Up to 2:30 pm. go aircraft had
brought In $500 returnees since
neutrality-suspicious. record-but the
greatest influx came in q three hour
period when 81 planes landed LOSS
men and officers.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Occupation
Continued From First Page.)
They are scheduled to move into
Sasebo on Kyushu Saturday.
ShiRenifsu RAnlanAd

Sasebo on kyushu Saturday.
shigemitsu Replaced.
Meanwhile. the japanese shelved
militarist Mamoru Shigemitsu as
foreign minister, replacing him with
Shigeru Yoshida, career diplomat,
who reportedly was jailed for a
month early this year because of
his firm stand for peace. The shift
presumably was made with Gen.
MacArthur's knowledge and ap-
proval. He had conferred with Pre-
mier Higashi-Kuni at Allied head
quarters Saturday.
Well-informed japanese sources
said Yoshida formally was installed
late last night after a hurried trip
to Tokyo from his villa near Yoko-
hama. They said Premier Higashi-
kuni reported the appointment to
the Emperor and that Emperor Hiro-
hito invested the new Foreign Min
lister 40 minutes later.
Suicide-this time. Samurai
sword across the throat-brought
down 1t. Gen. Yoshio Shinotsuka.
classmate of former Premier Hideki
TOTO in Japan's military academy.
Gen. Shinotsuka was not on Gen.
MacArthur's wanted" list.
The Allied 'informa ton dissemi-
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Queen Elizabeth Due
In u, !. Tomorrow
With 14,495 Yanks
Ey the Associated Press.

Gy the ASSoclste0 FreSS.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-The liner
Queen Elizabeth, en- route from
Southampton to New York with
14,495 soldiers, WACS and civilians
will dock at 10 pm. tomorrow il
she is not delayed by the storm
port officials said today.
Debarkation is scheduled for Ills
pm. and is expected to continue
throughout the night. Previously
ships docking at night have waited
until the next day to unload pas
sengers.
Army officials said that thus far
the storm had not delayed any
troopships and that none had been
diverted to other ports.
Port officials said the former Ger
man liner Europa, now a prize Of
war and an American Navy trans
port, would reach here late Sunday
with about 4,500 passengers-mostly
q mixed group of troops scheduled
for reassignment.
The troopship Thomas Barry ar
rived today with 4,441 troops of the
103d Infantry Division, the first of
seven ships carrying more than
1850 troops due today at three
East Coast ports.
Army units and ships arriving:
At New York-(Aboard Leieune)
1888 troops including the 409th In
fantry Regiment of the l03d Di-
vision; 328th Medical Battalion;
803o Ordnance Light Maintenance
Company.
Aboard Thomas Barry the fol-
lowing units of the 103d Division.
411th Infantry Regiment, Headquar-
ters and Headquarters Company
headquarters Special Troops, 803d
Military Police Platoon, 103d Quar-
termaster Company, 103d Counter
Intelligence Corps Detachment and
l03d Signal Company.
(Ahoard Norway Victory 1881
troops including 32sth Engineer Bat
TALON of the 1896 Infantry Division
many troops for separation.
(Aboard Clinton Kelly 20 mis-
cellaneous troops.
aboard the Exchange) 2l99
troops including, 749th Tank Bat
talon; l46th Signal Company; 44th
Armored Infantry Battalion of the
9Th Arsnored Division.
At Boston (aboard Georgetown
Victory)-1,97l troops including
l28th Armored Ordnance Mainte-
nance Battalion with medical staff.
9Th Armored Division; Military Po-
lice Platoon of the 9Th Armored Di-
vision; 86th Cavalry Reconnaissance
Squadron (mechanicaD with medi-
cal staff, 9Th Armored Division:
high score and miscellaneous per-
Sonnel.
At Newport News aboard c. Fid-
ler)-2,62S troops including 43eth
Troop Carrier Headquarters; 9th
Reconnaissance Group Headquar-
tiers; 17th Photo Technical Unit;
656th Ordnance Ammunition Com
pany; 505th Quartermaster Car
Company; 343sth and 3454th Quar-
1CI AioCUSA IL uSh SOlllEdlllCc, fcOOUll,
4369th Quartermaster Baker Com
pany; 57th Chemical Maintenance
Company AA; 369th Ordnance
Maintenance Company AA; 2e4th
Ordnance MN Company; Head
quarters and Headquarters Detach-
ment eth Quartermaster Battalion
M; Quartermaster Salvage Repair
Company: 3141st and 3119th Quar-
termaster Service Company; 1065th
Forestry Company, 70sth Medical
Sanitation Company: 314th, 3l5th
Quartermaster Laundry Detach-
ment; 780th Military Police Bat
talon r; 10sth, 327th Army Postal
Units of Goth Infantry Division
Postal Detachment.
At Seattle, one ship, the Thomp-
son, from Alaska, with SO casual
troops
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Chinese Courses Offered

Courses in the Chinese language
and Chinese culture will be offered,
starting October /, by the Institute
of Chinese Culture, 220o r street
NV, it has been announced. Reg
istration will take place from noon
to Q pm. through September Is.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Pope Sees Gen. 1ruscott

VATICAN CITY. Sept. 1s (P.-
1t. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, ir..
who was commander of the United
States 5th Army, had an audience
with Pope Plus XII TODAY.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Chickens Tour Town

PRINCETON, Mo. tP.-A dozen
chickens belonging to Lloyd Covey,
oil dealer, took q sightseeing tour
Of the town perched on the tank.
All reached home safely.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Wedemeyer Returning to U.S.,

CHUNGK1NG, Sept. 10 LP.-Lt.
Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer, Ameri-
can commander in the China the
ater, left Chungking this morning,
accompanied by members of his
staff, for visit to the United States.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Churchill to Go to Australia

LONDON, Sept. ls (P-The Lon
don Star said today that Winston
Churchill will visit Australia soon.
fulfilling a promise he made while
Prime Minister.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Roll of Honor
Killed
Killed

1t. John Paul Hayward, U. S. N. r.,
reported missing in Pacific action
since July "a, was killed on that
date In the sinking of the destroyer
Evening star., 1945-09-18


the Census Bureau for about IL
years. He was commissioned In the
Navy In l943 and served In the
Caribbean and the Atlantic before
being assigned to the Pacific Fleet
last February. Besides his widow
1t. Hayward is survived by q son
John Kent, 3.
Wounded
Capt. Charles Butler McVay,
U. S. N, ~, skipper Of the cruiser IN
dianapolis, whose wife, Mrs. Louise
c. Nc Jay, resides at 2l26 Connecti-
cut avenuee NV, was wounded on
July 80 when his ship was sunk by
a Jap torpedo, the Navy Department
announced today. A story was car
ried in The Star August Is after his
wife had been notified
The Indianapolis was sunk after
1t had delivered atomic bombs to
OkinaWa,
Evening star., 1945-09-18

cSCOTG " II q e t.
hill off South
ern Luzon, the
Navy has in
formed his wife,
Mrs. Dorothy
Brauner Hay
W ar d, "a
N or tn Nine
teenth street,
Arlington.
1t. Hayward,
who was "a and
a graduate of
George WASH
ington Univer-
sity, was en-
ployed here by
the Census Blu:
years. He was C
Navy In l943
Caribbean and
heinp aSSippad I
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-14

Our senators and representatives
are much too coy on the subject OF
salary increases for themselves?
They have been reduced to shyness
on the general assumption that
while wages are frozen, salaries of
public officials ought not to be in
creased. II would be more logical
to defrost wages and the salaries
OF public officials. II would be more
sensible to let the law Of supply
and demand and the facts of life
take care OF some things as they
have done for centuries.
As | wander about the country
and meet public officials, am more
and more impressed by the fact
that we are not getting the best
that the community can afford.
Too many men hold public Office
who in a competitive world in
which talent receives reward on
a merit basis, find $1,000 to $500
a year, before taxes, price worth
lighting for. Such men could not
hold executive positions in big
business, for instance; yet, they
are called upon to appropriate mil
lions, and in the case OF congress
men. billions OF our money-and,
II state or municipal officers, to ad-
minister complicated and technical
and costly processes Of govern
ment. Measured by any standards,
most OF these men are incapable OF
doing the jobs they undertake to
do. They lack the training, exper-
fence and wisdom, but they possess
the quality of good.fellowship, a
glib tongue. a gift for loyalty to a
political boss.
AS this is so often true in both
parties, the voter can choose only
between a Smiling Dope and an
Oratorial Maron in too many cleo
tions. so he takes the fellow
whose name he knows best, who
belongs to his particular church or
lodge or something like that The
voter has so little choice that It
rarely matters for whom he votes.
For years my own Congressman
was a prince OF men whom ! like
personally but who votes in Con.
gress, from my standpoint, as bad
ly as anyone can. But his oppon-
ents were generally beneath con-
tempt, so vote against my own
opinions and beliefs. but for a
good fellow. Now. my congress-
man is one OF the most famous in
the House. a Democrat who votes
straight New Deal which I oppose
But ! know that I shall vote for
him because I am certain that the
Republicans will oppose him with
a nonentity. Why? Because only
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-14
Police Continue
Staying Probe

New York, June 14-INS-The In
vestigation into the nine-day old
murder OF Albert c. Langford at
the Hotel Marguery Wednesday ex-
tended from the sewers of Manhat-
tan to the gllded pages OF the So
cial directory as police sought to
check every lead in the battling
mystery.
While investigators thumbed
through old blue books for more
information about the past of the
victims widow, Mrs. Marion Grimes
Langford. a search OF the sewers
in the vicinity Of the Marguery was
continued for another day in an
attempt to locate the murder gun.
Langford, SO year old business
executive, was shot TO death the
night Of June 4 as he stood talking
to two unidentified men in the
doorway OF his luxurious suite in
the fashionable Park Avenue hotel.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-14
SideIights on The News

This was the day for fingernail
chewing by a million government
clerks; maybe more. There seemed
to be some argument about how
many clerks there were.
While they ruined their mani.
cures, Congress debated whether
they deserved a pay raise and how
much. Clerks, | hate to say II. but
all was confusion.
Rep. Edward II. Hess OF Kansas
counted 100000 people on the fed
eral payroll. Rep. Henry NJ. Jack
son OF Washington said there were
100000. Rep. Rees said anyway
you added there were 100000 too
many.
Half OF these workers are ship
builders and ammunition makers.
The other half make up the clerks.
who want more money. Rep. Rees
estimated that the bill before the
House would give 'em 1897, 500. 900
extra year: Rep. Jackson said he
begged pardon, but the figure was
| $4,000, 900.
Now We get to specific exam.
pies. Take the $500 a year stem
ographer. who actually collects
s2,l00. Rep. Rees said she'd re-
cieve 1881 under the new law.
No sir, countered Rep. John NJ.
Vorys OF Ohio. the way he added II
she'd get $2,730.
listened all yesterday after
noon to the argument and pretty
soon half a dozen congressman
were shouting different figures at
once Rep. John Rankin OF Missis-
sippi shouted loudest and what he
wanted to know was where was the
missing report?
Seems that the Civil Service
Committees own investigators
brought in a report about clerks
in New Deal agencies being pro-
NOTED too rapidly. The Civil Serv-
fee Commission denied 1t. the com
mittee suppressed the report and
oh boy; Rankin's going to get a
look at 1t, or else.
The trouble seems to be that In
some New Deal agencies too many
OF the head men have been getting
sore and quitting. Or their bosses
have been getting sore and firing
'em. So 1t Is that when the execu-
tive director OF the bottle washing
| division gets the gate, his assistant
takes over with raise in pay. The
second assistant becomes the first
assistant and so on down the line to
the guy who actually washes the
bottles. He gets a helper to do the
washing.
I'm some cases" Rankin said,
these people have had their
wages increased 60 per cent since
the war began"
The bill before the House would
raise the low paid worker 20 per
cent and the big-wig half that
much. 1t would put all hands on
40 hour week. but they would work
As hours and be paid for overtime.
This overtime pay Is on sliding
scale, too.
so that the $500 man actually
gets as per cent boost?" demand
ed Rep. william NJ. Wilmington OF
Mississippi.
That's right" said Rep. Rees. 81
don't think anybody representing
John Q. Public was represented
at the hearings on this bill"
Many congressman on the floor
had out their pencils, doing some
elementary arithmetic. Mostly they
seemed TO come up with different
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-14
Congressional Salaries
TheseDaysSSSsSs1z o jo Z: E0z612E

nonentities will run against this
famous man to advertise their
names and their law Offices. The
business is disgraceful but uni
versal these days.
Members of Congress received
sufficient pay to make that most
important past in the nation-in
my opinion, as important as the
presidency-attractive to the best
talent in the country. What with
taxes and deductions, $4,000 a
year is these days good income. A
United States Senator and a Mem
Der of the House of Representa-
tives should receive that much,
after taxes, plus adequate ex-
penses. | would make that Job so
attractive that the best talent
would compete for it as a career
and a livelihood.
And while we are on the sub
ject Of pay. what about the presi-
dency? Mr.. Hoover was a very
rich man and could afford to lose
about 100000 a year after refusing
to accept his salary. Mr.. Roosevelt
was a rich man. Mr.. Truman is
obviously not a rich man. He will
undoubtedly have an extremely
difficult time of II financially. AL.
though 1t is said that President
Coolidge saved penny or two out
OF his White House income. he did
not have to pay any income tax
and even so, he had to do consid.
cradle manipulation, which should
be unnecessary.
The United States can afford 10
give the President OF this country.
a clear, untaxed 100000 year, plus
such expenses. including the cost
OF White House groceries. as may
be necessary to maintain the pres.
tige OF HIS position and the efici.
ency OF his person. know nothing
about how Mr.. Truman thinks he
can manage his finances on the
present basis but It is ungenerous
and ungraclous OF a very rich PEG.
pie 10 expect man to carry his
burdens and worry about personal
finances. Il is so unnecessary to
do II, so niggardly.