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Evening star., 1945-06-17
Marshall Fitzgerald
Dies Of Heart Attack

Marshall ]. Jerry) Fitzgerald 50.
for many years legislative counsel
here for several Illinois concerns.
died at his home, 1920 Nineteenth
street NV, early yesterday morn
ing after heart attack.
Mr.. Fitzgerald was born In
Holyoke, Mass, but went to Illinois
as a young man and for a time
served as secretary to Chief Justice
Craig of the Illinois Supreme Court.
He later worked with the Democratic
party in Chicago, then came to
Washington as legislative counsel.
He was secretary and director Of
the Engineers Group, Inc, of which
Representative Curley, Democrat. of
Massachusetts was president. Mr..
Curley and Mr.. Fitzgerald and four
others connected with the company
were indicted in January, 1914, on
charges of mail fraud in connection
with Government war contracts.
The case was postponed this spring
because Mr.. Curley was i'll. Last
month it was taken from the call
endar and is not expected to come
up before fall.
Mr.. Fitzgerald is survived by one
daughter, Miss Patricia Ann Fitz-
gerald of New York City. and a sis
ter, Mrs. George Kingsley of Holy
oke. Funeral services will be held
here from the Hysong funeral home
at date to be announced later,
Burial will be in Holvoke.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Eisenhower Bringing Home GIs
With Him on President S Plane

going home with me? Or would you
rather 60 home with another
group"
There was a mutter of denials
The supreme commander then asked
the men where and when they
thought they would first see their
wives and children. When there
was no coherent answer, he asked
do you think there1l be many ribs
cracked?"
Next he asked: Have you men
any kicks you want to put here
right now before the public?"
After chorus OF denials, he
continued: You're glad to be out
Of the Army, but you'll still be
friends OF ours?"
Ready to leave, Gen. Eisenhower
looked around for his son. Not find-
ing him, he turned to the group and
said:
Now, if you want a good broad
cast you interview that son Of mine
and ask him If he doesn't think he's
going to get good second lieuten-
ants calling for being late when
he's going home"
John turned up a few seconds
later amid cries by his friends,
John, you're AWOL."
Gen. Eisenhower's party boarded
the presidential plane and the SOL
diers climbed into the generals
plane.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Petain Admits Signing
Letter Another Wrote
Py the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June l6-Marshal Petain
maintained before the fall of France
that capitulation to the Germans
was necessary to save the country
from famine, the French govern
ment disclosed today.
The government made public a
letter signed by Petain and read
to the French Council of Ministers
just before Frances surrender. The
marshal, in official questioning to-
day in connection with his forth
coming treason trial, conceded that
he signed the letter but said he be-
lieved 1t was written by someone
else. Under further questioning, he
said he though the writer was Pierre
Laval, Vichy leader who faces trial
as a war criminal.
The text Of the letter:
"The gravity each day Of the
military situation convinces me ol
the necessity of bringing an i'm.
mediate end to hostilities. This /.
the only way of saving the country
The advance Of the enemy will leac
to occupation and total destruction
Of our territory. 1t will result ir
the reduction of food stocks and ir
famine"
/ 1t was after hearing the letter
the government asserts, that the
council of ministers decided to &C.
cept armistice terms.
Petain declared that II have
never had any political ambition,
and denied he had wanted to change
the form Of the French government
Petain's case now is expected tc
come before Frances highest court
early in July.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Gen. Collins, Whose
Men Won Cherbourq,
Visits Family Here

Maj. Gen. j. Lawton Collins,
commander of the 7th Corps Of
the 1st Army which captured Cher
bourg shortly after the Normandy
invasion, has returned from France
and is visiting his family at their
home, 1896 Thirty-f first place NV,
while awaiting assignment.
Gen. Collins flew back from
Europe with 1t Gen. Alexander M.
Patch and a group of other officers,
visiting San Antonio. Tex, before
coming on here. He arrived in
Washington Thursday, but his
presence was not generally known
until last night.
The general said that he was
delighted" to be home again, but
was not at liberty to discuss his
future role in the war. His only
immediate plan. he said, was to
spend a vacation with his family.
Landing with his forces on D-Day,
Gen. Collins rapidly advanced UP
the Cotentin peninsula and cap
tured Cherbourg on June 25. 1t
was the first major French port to
fall into Allied hands.
A native of New Orleans, Gen.
Collins was an instructor in the
Army War College here before GO
ing to Europe. He has three chill
dren: Jerry, first classman at
West Point; Gladys, now a student
at Vassar, and Nancy. who at
tended Holton Arms last session
and Is preparing to enter Vassar
in the fall.
Evening star., 1945-06-17

| noes. Since 1t takes a two-thirds
vote in committee to adopt an
amendment, it was lost.
A United States proposal. strongly
supported by Senator Connally
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee, was that the question
Of holding a reviewing conference
should be placed on the agenda of
the 10th annual session OF the
general assembly. There. If the as
sembly wished, it could be ordered
by two-thirds vote, with any
seven members of the 11-member
security council concurring. The
proposal was we'll received by some
Of the committee members, but
others objected that it gave no
real assurance Of reviewing con-
ference.
To this Senator Connally replied
that If there were not sufficient
world sentiment for a review of
the charter at that time, no such
conference should be held. He
pointed out further that If there
were not two-thirds of the assembly
members in favor of a reviewing
conference, there certainly would be
no chance of getting any amend
ment adopted.
In the issues before the trustee
ship committee, compromise is ex-
pected to be worked out on the
language stating the objective for
dependent peoples. Gen. Carlos P
Romulo of the Philippine delegation
has contended that independence
should be a goal set for all such
peoples whether in colonies or trus-
teeship territory. The charter does
include independence as an ulti-
mate goal of peoples under trustee
ship. 1t does not for peoples OF
colonies.
The proposed compromise on
which Gen. Romulo has been work
ing with Commander Stassen of the
United States delegation-who has
taken the lead in drafting the trus-
teeship program-substitutes in
place of Independence" a provision
that the United Nations must take
due account of the political aspira-
tions of the dependent peoples,
with view toward self-govern-
ment and progressive development
towards free political institutions.
|. The British and French have not
only resisted the insertion of "inde-
pendence" as goal for Colonial peo-
pies in this part of the charter, but
they also are opposed to a provision
which would require periodic re-
ports on colonies as we'll as on trus-
teeships.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Hitler Murdered,
Bernadotte Believes
Ey the Associated Press.

ES INC hsSOClhteO freSS.
STOCKHOLM, June l6.-Count
Folke Bernadotte, who acted as an
unofficial emissary in bringing Ges-
tapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's sur
render offer to the Western Allies
wrote In the epilogue to his book
THE End" that Adolf Hitler did
not die hero's death but 'It can
be taken as quite certain that he
was murdered"
The chairman OF the Swedish
Red Cross, in his book, described
his dealings with Himmler and his
colleagues in obtaining the release
of Norwegians and other civilians
from German prison camps during
the last phases of the war.
He pointed to initiated German
quarters" for his view on Hitler's
end. In the last chapter of the
book, SIS Brigade Fuehrer Walter
Schellenberg, one of Hitler's clos
est aides now living near Stockholm
who acted as liaison for Count
Bernadotte, was quoted as saying
that Hitler died about April q as
the result of an injection by an
unknown person.
Earlier Schellenberg said he and
Himmler had discussed Hitlers
health. On the basis of a doctors
report Hitler was said to be suffer-
ing from paralysis agitans." Schel-
lenberg then quoted Himmler as
saying he didn't think they could
continue with Hitler any longer.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Eisenhower's Orderly Starts
On Last Trip With the Boss

when Gen. Eisenhower felt Mickey
was certainly a vital cog in his ma
chine.
But Mickey is married. He and
his wife, the former Pearlie Har-
grave, who as a WAC worked as a
clerk in Gen. Eisenhower's office in
Algiers, London, Normandy and
Versailles, expect baby in Septem-
Der.
And Mickey says his family comes
first now.
Four other enlisted men are also
making their last trip with the gen.
eral, before getting out of the serv-
ice. They are:
Sergt. John Mooney, jr., Eastern
Shore, Md, one of five Negro SOL
diers in the group which stated the
generals quarters, who has been
with the supreme commander since
August. 1912.
MfSergt. Arthur Windham, At
lanta. Ga, engineer for the generals
planes
M/Sergt. Joseph Behrens. Elkhorn,
Nebr.. radio operator for the air crew
T/Sergt. Robert Wood, Louisville
KY. assistant flight engineer.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
BY CYNTHIA LOWRY,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
PARIS, June 16.-Gen. Eisenhow.
er-the principal in a long inter
view yesterday-assumed the role
of interviewer at the airport today
before leaving for the United State.
in President Truman's private C-5!
transport.
He put his questions to six Amer.
lean soldiers with we'll over IS re.
quired points who are homeward
bound in the Eisenhower plane. II
was all done in a recording by the
American forces network in front
of the plane and the tone-includ-
ing iocular dressing-down to his
son, 1t. John Eisenhower-had the
easy informality of professional en-
tertainers.
First. Gen. Eisenhower called on
each soldier to identify himself The
first five we're TiSergt. Marsh H
Smith, Hampton, Nebr.; Sergt. Ger
aid Bowen. Mountain City, Kans.;
TISergt. Eugene L. Cotter. Lincoln
Nebr.; Sergt. Roger Davidson, Turn
ers, Mo, and Corpl. Richard C. Cor
don, Lawrenceville. Ill.
The sixth was Sergt. Walter
Samps of Abilene, Kans.
That's my home town" Gen
Eisenhower said. Now, tell me ii
you men have any objection to
Evening star., 1945-06-17

sector crossed into the Reich a little
before then.
Biggest prize Of the 82nd was the
Nijmegen Bridge over the Rhine.
They captured this intact with the
help OF Dutch underground fighters
carrying the arms of dead or
wounded American soldiers. The
underground fighters, In civilian
clothes. helped to keep the Germans
from blowing up the bridge after
the American airborne troops ar
rived
| Gen. Gavin became a major gen.
eral last fall, after the Nijmegen
operation, 20 years after he had en-
tered the Army as a private. A
year and half after joining the
Army, he was selected to 20 to West
Point. He was graduated in 1929
He is a native New Yorker, but
spent most Of his younger days In
Mount Carmel, Pa. Mrs. Gavin
Is the former 1rma Peggy Baulsir
OF Washington.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
BY the Associated Press.

The destroyer Mahan, named for
Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, who
was internationally known as an
exponent of naval might, was a
tough ship to knock out, as several
Japanese airmen found out.
Under Comdr. Ernest G. Camp
bell, "a. whose wife lives at $500
Connecticut avenue, Chevy Chase,
Md, the Mahan tangled with the
Japanese on the third anniversary
of their infamous attack on Pearl
Harbor.
The enemy pilots finally succeed
ed in damaging the Mahan so badly
she had to be destroyed by sister
ships But they learned that such
attacks could not be made with i'm
punity. ...
The Navy announced the loss Of
the Mahan December 20. but yester-
day for the first time it told about
her last fight.
Nine Japanese aircraft pounced on
her of Leyte, but her gun crews
knocked of four Of them before
three others succeeded in scoring
suicide hits.
Exploding magazines added to the
hazards before the order to abandon
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Jops on Borneo
Face Raids With
Own Bombs
By the Associated Press.

BRUNEI BAY, Borneo, June 16
The japanese on Borneo are go
ing to be ducking their own bombs
soon.
Flight 1t. Harry Belcher, COM
mander of an RAAF bomb disposal
unit, reported the discovery of more
than 1000 enemy bombs during the
week in caves, tunnels and under
buildings on Labuan Island.
They were without fuses, how
ever, and 1t was feared they were
destined for the junk dump. Then
the Australians found a large store
Of fuses in cave which was cleared
of japanese yesterday and 1t. Bel
cher reported there were plenty to
arm all the recovered bombs.
A new Japanese use of bombs
was encountered today on the pc
rimeter of the last remaining en-
emy pocket on Labuan, about 1000
yards west of the airfield. The
enemy suspended the bombs in
trees with ropes and as tanks rum
bled past cut the ropes. The tactic
was ineffective, however, because
the ropes were cut prematurely.
Evening star., 1945-06-17

much going on-too much to do in
too short a time. 1 dressed the
wound myself and reported to a hos
pital when I could get to one four
days later for a new dressing"
After jumping with his troops In
the Naples area in the fall of l943
he was advanced to the rank OF
brigadier general and became one
of the youngest general officers in
the Army.
You've got to be young in this
business" he said.
Bridge Was Biggest Prise.
1t was in Holland that the great.
est distinction came to the hard.
fighting 82nd. The objective wal
to capture bridges, and they dropped
into Holland at three places in No.
vember. 1914. Some Of the mer
actually landed on German soil, and
Gen. Gavin thinks they were the
first to enter Germany. although he
comedies there is some question az
70 whether patrols in the Aachen
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Relief Group to Give
Musical Revue

The Junior Jewish Consumptives
Relief Society will present an orig
inal musical revnue. Where to
Go-What to Do" in the Jewish
Community Center, Sixteenth and
@ streets at BIS pm. next Sunday
Written by Misses Edith Pear and
Sylvia Tobias, who also wrote This
is the Whacks' in l943, the revue
will featufe so singers.
Later this summer and early fall
the show will be presented at mill
tary and naval hospitals in and
around Washington at the request
O fthe JWB-USO,
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Destroyer Mohon Took Down
4 jap Planes With Her at Levte

ship finally was given. Casualties
among the Mahan's approximately
$50 officers and men were light, in
spite of her ordeal. The total was
6 missing and 81 wounded. None
was listed as killed.
In her final action, Comdr.
Campbell reported, the Mahan's en-
tire crew conducted itself bravely
and eficiently. Comdr. Campbell
took command of the Mahan in
December, 1943. He had been as
signed previously to the destroyer
Perkins, which was lost in No.
vember, 1943-three days after he
boarded the ship. He is now in
command of the destroyer Leary,
which recently was commissioned.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Lincoln
Continued From First Page

conference with a completed charte
on Saturday and his transmission o.
the charter, in treaty form, to the
Senate the following Monday. was
in danger from two angles.
/. Interminaple debate. which has
plagued the committee sessions OF
the conference for weeks, showed
little sign of abating. The commit
tees have rules of procedure. but
they have too often been honored
in the breach.
2. The physical work OF getting
the provisions of the charter In
treaty language in final form trans
lated into Russian, French, Spanish
and Chinese. The treaty as writ
ten in five languages must be signed
by the qualified delegates.
Assembly Plans Made.
At meeting Of the Big Five
early today, the document setting
up a preparatory commission" to
make all arrangements for the first
meeting of the general assembly OF
the United Nations - after the
United Nations treaty has beer
Notwithstanding an agenda fol
the assembly, was approved.
A compromise on the newest Rus
sian proposal is being sought, with
John Foster Dulles, advisor to ths
United States delegation, suggesting
that the general assembly discus
sions be limited to matters contained
in the charters statement Of pur'
poses and principles. Russia's at.
titude is that the general assemhl.
should not become an internationa
sounding board for any ideas o.
ideologies which members may car,
to air.
Beyond this, the principal issue.
which remain to be ironed out ir
conference are:
Two items in the trusteeshil
chapter: One, the objective. sought
for all dependent peoples, 1nclud
ing those in colonial possessions, anc
two, the question of reports by ad.
ministering nations on their col.
onies.
Smaller Nations Defeated.
Efforts by the smaller nations
to have written into the char.
ter provision that an international
conference to review the charter fol
amendment be called at some special
date have been defeated. The first
proposal was that such conference
be called not sooner than five years
no later than 10 years after the
charter becomes effective. This wa.
defeated, and the same fate met 8
proposal that the reviewing confer.
ence must be called not later thar
10 years after charter ratification
The votes were close. That on thu
second proposal was % "ayes" to l.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
BY CHARLES KILEY,
Stars and Stripes Correspondent.
written for the Combined American


PARIS, June 16 (P.-Master Sergt
Michael J. Mickey McKeogh, 29-
year-old orderly, chauffeur and
utility man for Gen. Eisenhower
since July, 194l. left here today on
his last trip with The Boss"
Sergt. McKeogh, with lis dis
charge points to his credit, took of
for the United States in Gen. Eisen-
hower's party. When the celebra-
tions and homecomings for the su-
preme commander are over in Wash
ington. New York, West Point, Kan
sas City and Abilene, Kans., Mickey s
job will be finished
The former New York bellhop from
Corona, Long Island, will report then
to Fort Dix, N. j., to be discharged
from the Army.
Gen. Eisenhower had to declare
the curly-haired Irishman "nones-
sential' in order for Sergt. Nc
Keogh to be eligible for discharge
However, there must have been oc-
casions during the last four years
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Berlin Assignment
Given Division Led
By Washingfonian
BY NORMAN A. KAHL.

Ine SZd A1r-DOrne Division
battle hardened veterans of four
campaigns in the European war,
has been selected to occupy the
American zone in Berlin, its
commander, Maj. Gen. James M.
Gavin, revealed at his home here
yesterday.
1t was announced by SHAEF a
few days ago that the I'd Armored
Division would be the first to enter
the German capital. Gen. Gavin
said he has since been informed
that the 82d was being sent instead.
Gen. Gavin, 38-year-old fighting
commander Of the 82d, Is spending
q couple of weeks with his wife and
daughter, Barbara, II, at their home
2006 Columbia road NV, before
returning to his division In Europe
around July l. On Friday he visited
President Truman at the White
House with 1t. Gen. Alexander
Patch and 1t. Gen. Lucian K.
Truscott.
He Is very proud OF the fact that
the 82d has been chosen for the
important job of occupying the bat
tered enemy capital. and he said
all his men were being provided
with spick-and-span-new uniforms
to carry out their assignment in
grand style
Seeks to Guido Russians.
That's the only thing troops are
judged by after a war is over-by
the spit and polish of their uni
forms and equipment" he asid.
The general is determined that
whatever the Russians do in their
zone, his outfit will do as well or
better. He said a fine, prideful
rivalry" exists between Russian and
American troops.
When the 82nd made contact with
the Russians in Mecklenburg, about
40 miles east of the Elbe River, he
discovered they were delightful
people.
They 60 in for a lot of elaborate
maps and charts and pictures which
they hang on the WALL" he said.
Then they 60 around toasting them
with vodka So I got up some maps
to impress the Russians and we
hung them all on the wall together
and toasted them all with vodka.
We had a fine time"
The Russians, Gen. Gavin said,
are trying hard to get along with
and understand the Americans.
Army Surrendered to Him.
WED all get along fine with
them II 1t weren't for the German
propaganda that's still being spread
telling everybody how not to get
along with the Russians" he added.
One Of the most satisfying mo-
ments in the war came to Gen.
Gavin when the 21st German Army
surrendered to him at Ludwigslust
on May 2.
we had squeezed them into a 10
mile zone between us and the Rus
slams along the Elbe, and we Won
dered what they were going to do"
he said. Gen. Won Tippelskirch,
German commander, offered to sur
render to us but not to the Russians
I wouldn't having any of that. So
he finally made the surrender effec-
tive when all his troops were inside
n,,r linae Yho
we had physically taken them"
Gen. Gavin jumped four times
with his troops-in Sicily. at Naples,
in Normandy and finally in Hol-
land.
Dressed Own Wound.
you don't have time to notice
such things" he said. There's too
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Ickes
Continued From First Page

leace his ONCE July l to make way
for Tom c. Clark, will accept a
diplomatic post abroad. In all prob
ability he will become United States
Ambassador to italy, replacing AL
exander c. Kirk, now United States
representative on the Advisory Com
mittee on Italy with the personal
rank OF Ambassador. b.
The change at the top of the
State Department, in all likelihood,
will not be announced until the close
OF the United Nations Organization
Conference in San Francisco in a
week or 10 days and possibly not un-
til conclusion Of the Big Three
meeting abroad sometime in July.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Firms Pay U. S. .$16S,054,
Keep Debt Record Clear

By the Associated Fress.
Finland still is batting /, 900 in the
international finance league, the
Treasury Department disclosed yes
terday.
The United States received $685.
054.74 last Friday, representing, the
Treasury said, the entire amount
due from Finland in loan payments
as of that date.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Engineers PIun Field Trip

A field trip to the Timber Engineer
Co. laboratory. 1912 Minnesota ave-
nue. NE, will replace the monthly
meeting of the District chapter OF
the American Society of Civil En-
gineers Tuesday. The engineers will
see demonstrations in wood, chem
ical and structural technology
About 100 are expected to attend.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
Revival Set at Hoymorket

A revival service will begin today
and end Friday at the Haymarket
(VaD Baptist Church under the d.
rection of the Rev. J. Murray Tay.
lor, pastor. Mr.. Taylor will be as.
sisted by the Rev. Frank L. Snyder
of the Clarendon Baptist Church