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Evening star., 1945-08-23
Gallagher and Norm
Head APP Bureaus
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-Two inn
portant executive appointments in
the Associated Press European serv-
Ice were announced today by Kent
Cooper, executive director.
Effective September !, ]. Yves
Gallagher, now head of the Paris
ONCE. where he has been supervising
operations in both France and Ger
many, becomes chief of bureau for
Germany.
Relman NORM, now assigned to
Paris, becomes chief of bureau there,
with supervision over news and
newsphoto services in France.
Mr.. Gallagher had an important
part in coverage Of the European
war almost from the beginning and
in virtually all major theaters. He
witnessed the German occupation of
Denmark, the Balkans, the cam
paign in Greece and the war in
North Africa and headed the A. p.
held stan covering the Allied sweep
across France into Germany.
Mr.. Morin's assignments have
taken him around the world, and
through many of the greatest news
stories of several years. He became
chief Of the Tokyo Bureau in 1887,
and reported earlier phases of the
China-Japan War. He covered the
war in the Obi theater, North
Africa, italy and France. He was
at Saigon, French Indo-C China at
the time of Pearl Harbor, and was
interned there for six months.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
Publishers Oppose
Cut in Paper Plants
By the Associated Press,

NEW YORK, Aug. "a task
force" of newspaper publishers, after
a two-day session here with news
print producers, was prepared to
recommend today that strong action
be taken to halt the switching of
American newsprint plants into 9TH
er lines Of production.
The committee, headed by Robert
Choate of the Boston Herald and
Traveller, will report to the News
paper Industry Advisory Committee
at a joint meeting with War Produce
ton Board oflcials In Washington
on September II and II.
The Choate group was prepared to
continue its investigation up to the
meeting In an effort to improve the
dwindling newsprint supply, it was
learned.
Figures were placed before the
committee TO show that whereas the
annual United States newsprint pro-
duction appropriated 1,700, 600 tons
In 1926 1t had dropped to l,OO0, ,Ol5
tons in l941-now considered base
year. The current production rate
is down to around 730, 900 tons an
nually, and some committee mem.
bers held the opinion that the fiow
might drop to 10000 tons unless
action was taken.
Although the two-day meeting
with newsprint producers was an
executive session. and the commit
tee report will be kept confidential
until the conference with WPB next
month. it was no secret that the
group labeled the situation as ''ex-
|tremelv serious. =
Evening star., 1945-08-23
Joseph Christie, Retired
treasury Emp!oye, Dies

Joseph D. Christie, "a, who retired
from the Treasury Department last
year after Is years with the Gov
ernment, died yesterday in Emer-
gency Hospital of a heart attack.
Mr.. Christie had been grieving
over his son, 1t. Joseph Nolte Chris
tie. Is, radar specialist who was
reported missing by the Navy two
weeks ago. His son was on the de-
stroyer escort Underhill when it was
sunk July "a of the Philippines. In
formation received earlier this week
leads the family to believe 1t.
Christie was killed.
Born in Florida, Mr.. Christie
lived In the District 80 years. His
home was at l448 Girard street NV.
He was educational director OF
the Federal Bureau of Education
at the close of the World War and
opened schools in Richmond, Va,
and Silver Spring, Md, for the
rehabilitation Of veterans.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Maye Nolte Christie, and q daugh-
ter, Mrs. Francis Harris, who lives
at 1461 Girard street NV.
Funeral services will be at 10 am.
Saturday at Chambers funeral
home, 400 Chaplin street NV.
Burial will be in ST. Mary's Gene
terry.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
On the Roll Of Honor
Killed

I'd 1t. Carleton C. Penn, jr. IS,
was killed April 1 when the B-2e
in which he was co-pilot was hit
by enemy ack-ack over Boko To Is
land, near Formosa, and crashed
into the sea. his father, Carleton c.
Penn, ST., 4026 Thirty fifth street,
Mount Rainier. Md, has been noti-
fed. 1t. Penn,s wife. Mrs. Louise j.
Penn, lives in Los Angeles.
1t. Penn was with the 5O0th
Bombardment Squadron (Rough
Raiders, the 345th Bombardment
Group. He enlisted in the Army
shortly before Pearl Harbor and re-
ceiyed his pilots wings at Pecos,
Tex, February 8, 1914.
A native of Washington, 1t. Penn
was graduated from Tech High
School in 1899. He was employed
at the Navy Yard here when he
enlisted.
Besides his wife and father, who
retired six years ago after 80 years
on the Metropolitan Police force,
he leaves a sister, Mrs. Thelma
zeigler of the Mount Rainier ad-
dress, and a brother, Donald E.
Penn of Panama City, Fla.
Seaman 1/c Victory A. Trilling, 2l
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Trilling
1877 Forty-seventh place NV, was
killed aboard the destroyer Borie In
the South Pacific on August 8, his
parents have been notified.
A native of Washington, Seaman
Trilling attended Western High
School and Chamberlain Vocational
School and worked with his father.
a caterer, before he entered the
Navy in February, 1942. He served
in the Pacific 80 months before his
death, stationed during most of that
time on the cruiser Honolulu. He
also served in North Africa and Ice
land.
Besides his parents he is survived
by four brothers, Seaman 1fc Rob-
ert, in the Pacific; TlSergt. Edward,
in Germany; Henry, jr., and Joseph;
and four sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Wise,
Mrs. Mary HARRISON, Miss Polly
Trilling, and Mrs. Margaret Mast, of
Washington.
Pvt. Stanley M. Haley, %, whose
wife, Mrs. Marie Haley. lives at 1921
Fifty-seventh avenue, Hillside, Md,
died February from injuries Suf-
Evening star., 1945-08-23
Czech President Plans
4-Year Recovery Program
By the Associated Press.

6y the AS30clateo Press.
LONDON, Aug. 23.-Czech OH
cials In London disclosed last night
that President Edouard Benes soon
will inaugurate q four-year eco
nomic program aimed at bringing
Czechoslovakia back to peacetime
production ahead Of other European
countries formerly occupied by the
Nazis.
Although details Of the program
were unavailable, it was understood
that Mr.. Benes has worked out
plans to set factories. plants and
mines into speedy production on q
scale that will regain for the ma
ton her former industrial position
by the end Of four years.
Czech officials expressed convic-
tion that 4 normal economic and
industrial scale could be achieved
In three years.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
Sponsors Deny Memorial
To Pyle Will Be Uniting
By the Associated Press.


TERRE HAUT, Ind, Aug. "a
The committee planning a memorial
to Ernie Pyle announced last night
that it has In mind "a memorial
library and grounds of un-
ostentatious dignity" at or near
Dana, Ind. the late war corre-
spondent's birthplace.
Anton Huffman, ira of Terre Haute,
the committee chairman, said the
announcement was being made now,
while plans still were in the forma-
tive stage, to Offset rumors that the
project would not be in strict
keeping with the lifetime aims of
the late newsman."
Mr.. Human added that the COM
mittee never had considered having
Mr.. Pyle's body removed from Ie
Shima, where he was killed by the
japanese. to the memorial site.
He said the Ernie Pyle Memorial,
Inc, has set no goal for its nation
wide subscription campaign, but that
any contributions not needed for
the Dana memorial may be con-
tributed to educational phases that
weuld have met the thought and
ideals OF Ernie PYLE"
Evening star., 1945-08-23
Izvestia Censures
Critics Of Balkans,
Attacks Greek Plans
by the Associated Press. !

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. .23.-The Moscow
newspaper Izvestia termed critics of
the Romanian and Bulgarian gov
ernments reactionaries today and
said the approaching elections in
Greece were being prepared by mon
archists under conditions of open
Fascist terror"
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
told Commons this week that the
governments of Romania, Bulgaria
and Hungary-all in the Russian
sphere-were not truly democratic.
Secretary of State Byrnes in
Washington said virtually the same
thing about Bulgaria and disclosed
that King Michael of Romania had
asked the Big Three to assist in
formation of a new Romanian gov
ernment.
Despite all the rawlings and coun-
ter activity of reaction led by Min
lister of State (JuliU Manu-" Izves-
tia asserted, the Romanian govern
ment of Petru Groza from the time
of its coming to power has gone
squarely in the path of democracy"
A British foreign office commen-
tator expressed surprise at Russia's
protest over Greece because the
United States, Great Britain and
France had agreed to help super
wise the Greek elections, task
in which Russia refused to join.
"It is difficult to see why Allied
supervision should be regarded as
interference, when it was requested
by both the government and the
(opposition) EAM," the commenta-
tor said.
Izvestia was quoted in Moscow
dispatches as asserting that the
coming elections in Bulgaria were
based on the most democratic laws
in history.
Both the United States and Great
Britain informed Bulgaria that ar
rangements for the elections to be
held Sunday were packed in favor
of the incumbent left-wing regime.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
4-Power Agreement
Reached on Tanuier
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. Aug. 23.-The French
Foreign Office announced last night
that q four power agreement had
been reached In the restoration of
the international status Of Tangier
and also reached on the calling of
an international conference within
six months to re-examine the Alee-
ciras convention Of 1905 liking the
position OF France and Spain in
Morocco.
An interim report on the work of
experts representing Britain, the
United States, France and Russia
said the atmosphere Of the meeting
was cordial.
The report did not mention Spain,
which occupied Taneier, the inter-
national zone opposite Gibraltar, on
june Il, 1910 It was known that
the four powers still hed not settled
the question of Spanish participa-
tion IN the future control Of Tangier.
The agreement to call an. interna-
ational conference to re-examine
the Algeciras convention suggested
the possibility that the four powers
had placed the entire Spanish posi-
tion In Morocco under critical
scrutiny.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
Truman and Byrnes
Reaffirm Attitude on
Free Press for World

American insistence on free ac-
cess to news throughout the world
by reporters able to write without
censorship was given new emphasis
yesterday by President Truman and
Secretary of State Byrnes.
Mr.. Truman said it is his policy
that all press representatives-irre-
spective of origin or nationality
shall have equal access to the news
in this country, and that he hoped
the same thing would hold for
American newsmen in other coun-
tries.
Mr.. Byrnes said he regarded the
Potsdam declaration that the Big
Three had no doubt that Allied cor
respondents would be able to move
and report freely throughout East
ern Europe as a definite commit
ment.
He added he would rather have
newsmen, able to report freely, OBJ
serving elections in the Balkans
than have officials there as observ-
ers.
Mr.. Truman's views were express
ed to Paul Miller, assistant general
manager of the Associated Press,
who recalled there had been COM
ment in a London publication that
American officials discriminate in
favor of American correspondents.
Mr.. Miller reported the President
promptly said all newspapermen are
entitled to be treated on an equal
basis here-and are-and that he
had no objection whatever to being
quoted to that effect.
Mr.. Byrnes said he has no doubt
that Russia will live up to the COM
mitments which he said Premier
Stain made at Berlin to allow re-
porters to move freely and write
without censorship throughout So
viet-dominated Eastern Europe.
The same thing does not apply to
radio representatives, Mr.. Byrnes
added, primarily because the British
system of radio control is different
from the American system of radio
freedom. The Secretary said that
since the BIC is a British govern
ment agency, Soviet officials have
the idea that radio representatives
are actually government men.
Therefore, Mr.. Byrnes went on, he
hopes an American radio corre-
spondent will test the Soviet attitude
by going to Europe and proving to
the Russian government he does not
represent the United States Govern
ment, but it an Independent report
er Of apriyate enterprise.
A p,,.-sa. rtsv ~1..l1, ~n.s -
Evening star., 1945-08-23
|AhIee Cabinet Seeks
10 Retain for 5 Years
Some Of War Controls
q, the Associa.ed press,

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 23.-Britain's new
Labor government introduced legis-
lation today seeking broad author
ity to retain for at least five years
many of its wartime emergency con-
trols. including the right to peg
prces and regulate services and sup
plies.
Majority Leader Herbert Morri-
son, Hugh Dalton, chancellor of the
exchequer and Sir Stafford Cripps,
president of the Board of Trade,
presented the measure to Commons.
All are top-ranking officials of Prime
Minister Attlee's cabinet.
The purposes of the measure were
described as:
ITO secure at fair prices a suff-
cheney and equitable distribution of
those Supplies and services) essen
tial to the well being Of the COM
munity.
ITO facilitate the readjustment Of
industry and commerce to the re-
quirements of the community in
time of peace.
ITO assist in the relief of suffer-
ing and the restoration and distri-
button of essential supplies and
services in any part of his majesty's
dominions 'or In foreign countries
that are in grave distress as a re-
suit of the war"
The measure would give the gov
ernment power to make such reg
ulations as appear to be necessary
or expedient for controlling prices"
to be charged for goods or services
of any description.
Parliament would have power to
annul any executive order within 40
days of its PRONUNCIATION.
The new emergency powers bill
would prevent the government from
exercising its wartime authority to
detain persons in the interests of
public safety, or for the defense of
the realm, and would ban the trial
of such persons by special courts.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
British Flyer Accused
OF Aiding Nazis While
Supposedly a Prisoner
By the Associated Press.

UXBRIDGE, England, Aug. 23.-
An RAP warrant ofhcer who was
shot down over Germany August
II, 1943, faced a court-martial here
today on II charges Of giving away
air war secrets and generally aiding
the enemy during the time he sup
posedly was prisoner Of war.
+ One charge was that he worked
as a German radio propagandist. !.
The accused airman Is Raymond
Davis Hughes. volunteer reservist
aerial gunner. He pleaded inno-
cent to all charges on the ground
that he was confined to a prisoner
of war camp until he was liberated
by the Russians on April 2, le45.
The case was the first of its kind
since the war, although two other
Raj men, also former prisoners of
war In Germany, are due to face
trial soon. Under air force regula-
tions. the death penalty could be
imposed.
Hughes was taken into custody by
the Germans soon after he para
chuted from his burning plane near
the Baltic Sea coast. The prosecu-
ton said he told the Germans of
methods used by the British in a
raid, and later advised them on
methods they could adopt for i'm
proving the defense against attacks
on Berlin.
Other accusations were that
Hughes gave aid to persons engaged
in forming an organization known
as the British Free Corps, for the
purpose Of fighting against Russia,
and that he was employed at Ber-
lin radio station for 4 monthly SAL
ary of 800 marks $50 at the military
rate) to broadcast propaganda pro-
grams in Welsh for Welsh troops in
Italy.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
Bulgaria Holds to Plan
For Election on Sunday
v the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
, LONDON, Aug. 23.-The Ankara
radio quoted the Bulgarian foreign
minister as saying yesterday that
the Bulgarian elections would be
held Sunday unless the Allied Con-
troll Commission in the country pro-
tested by midnight Saturday.
!, Britain and the United States
have expressed dissatisfaction with
the Communist Endorsed regime in
Bulgaria and its plans for the elec-
ton.
The broadcast quoted the Foreign
Minister as saying that unless the
commission did protest, the British
and American notes would be con-
sidered as merely expressing the
views of those two countries because
according to the armistice terms
signed in Moscow only the Allied
Control Commission has the power
to address any note to the Bulgarian
government.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
KnowIand, New Senator /,
Arrives in Capital
b the As,ociated pres,.

p the Associated Press.
Maj. william Fife Knowland,
newly appointed Senator from Cali
f0rnia, arrived here last night on
an Air Transport Command plane.
He came from New York where he
landed earlier after flying from
Europe.
Maj. Knowland WAS appointed
Senator recently to succeed the late
Hiram johnson, Republican. On his
arrival. he said he hoped to proceed
to California to visit his family.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
Egyption Premier's
Slayer Dies in Jail

Ds tne Associated Press.
CAIRO. Aug. 23.-Mahmud Issawy,
convicted of assassinating Premier
Ahmed Pasha. died today after q
tWo-week hunger strike.
Inc 26-year-old Cairo lawyer WAS
under sentence to be hanged. The
Premier was shot to death as he
left the Chamber Of Deputies after
announcing Egypt's declaration Of
war against tho Axis last February.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
252 Surplus Plants
Listed by Army for
Disposal by RFC
1t. GEORGE BARR.
BY the Associated Press.

1s Inc AsooCidLcQ TEcob.
The War Department today made
public the names of 252 Govern
ment-owned plants declared surplus
by the Army and soon to be made
available for disposal by the Recon-
struction Finance Corp.
The plants, including 220 serving
the Army Service Forces and 80
producing for the air forces, were
built at an estimated cost of 81 ,484,-
352,337 and cover 49,478, 400 square
feet. They range from aircraft
plants to those producing tanks, ex-
plosives, guns, chemicals, steel, ra-
dio and radar, shipbuilding and am
munition.
Machine tools and production
equipment of the plants. with few
exceptions, also will be declared sur
plus, the department said.
The 10 biggest plants, representing
an estimated cost of $593, AS, ,434,
include two Government-owned
establishments of the Ford Motor
Co.'s River Rouge plant at Dear
born, Mich. One has manufactured
aircraft engines and the other has
produced tanks, engines, armored
cars, steel and malleable castings
and other items.
Eight Others Available.
The other eight are the Des
Moines Ordnance Plant. Des Moines,
Iowa; Gopher Ordnance Works, st.
Paul. Mimi; Illinois Ordnance
Plant, Carbondale. H.; Keystone
Ordnance Works, Geneva, Pa; Milan
Ordnance Center, Milan, Tenn: Ok
lahoma Ordnance Plant, Pryor,
Okla: Plum Brook Ordnance Works,
Sandusky. Ohio, and the Sangamon
Ordnance Plant. Illiopolis, Ill.
plants in this area declared
surplus included the Allegany
Ordnance Plant near Cumber-
land, Md: the Bendix Aviation
Corp. plant at Towson, Md; the
Koppers Co. and the Maryland
Sanitary Manufacturing Co., both
of Baltimore; the New River
Ordnance Plant at Pulaski, Va,
and the Westinghouse & Electric
Aok1aA0SttA1 hk6 w. dL
Lansdown, Md
The department said Govern
ment-owned plants operated for the
Army which are not included among
the $50 have been selected tenta-
lively for retention on a d-by
basis or for storage facilities. Some,
however. will continue limited pro-
duction in the manufacture of re-
search or test items. Some plants
being retained probably will be re-
leased from, time to- time in the
future as conditions permit, the de-
partment said. *eeeyg
Sale to Private Interests.
Plants which are being retained
on standby basis, will, If possible,
be made available for lease to pri-
vate industry for civilian produc-
tion, the department added. If pri-
vate' interests desire to purchase
plants on the retained list, the de-
partment said it would cooperate
as far as possible in releasing the
plants and keeping others which
now are listed for surplus.
The War Department reported
yesterday that in the first week fol-
lowing the japanese surrender the
Army released $500, 900 900 of sur
plus property, chiefly items usable
by civilians.
The department also disclosed
that from the beginning OF the war
through July 81, 5000, ,0O0, 600 of
surplus property was released. Halt
OF the amount was declared surplus
In the three months following We
day
Evening star., 1945-08-23

ply meeting the demand toward the
end Of the year.
4 Metal furniture About 4lO,O00,-
900 worth Of household metal f,1r-
nttlre expected during the last three
months of the year.
Dry-ceil batteries-Approximately
las, ,000. 900 scheduled for production.
Evening star., 1945-08-23
War Department Lists
Names Of 4 DooIitfIe
Flyers Found in China

More than three years Of ago.
nized uncertainty was ended to-
day for the families OF four OF the
men who flew with Gen. Doolittle ir
the first Tokyo raid and fell into
enemy hands.
The War Department has listed
the names of the four men freed
by rescue team which parachuted
into Peiping, China. and founc
them in prison camp.
Among those still unaccounted for
however, was 1t. william G. Far
row, whose mother, Mrs. Jessie s.
Farrow, formerly was employed here
as a secretary in the Board OF Eco
nofnic Warfare and lived at 1901
Biltmore street NV. Mrs. Far
row, according to friends. left here
two years ago to Join her daughter,
Mrs. Margie Wilson, in Lakewood
Ohio.
Names Are Announced.
OF the eight men captured by the
Japs when they were forced down
In enemy territory, the four who
have been rescued are:
First 1t. Chase j. Nielsen, Hyrum
Utah: First 1t. George Barr, for
merly of Queens. N. Y; Sergt. Jacob
D. Deshazer, Madras, Oreg., and
First 1t. Robert l.. Hite, Earth, Tex
The War Department said it had
no details on the rescue Of the men
although 1t reported that 1t. Barr
is hospitalized. The Office OF
Strategic Services in Chungking
which first reported the rescue, said
that one of the men was in serious
condition from beri beri.
Some Of Men Executed.
In addition to 1t. Farrow, the men
still unaccounted for are 1t. Robert
j. Meder, Lakewood, Ohio; 1t. Dean
E. Hallmark, Dallas, Tex, and Sergt.
Harold A. Spatz, Lebo, Kans.
President Roosevelt announced in
April, 1943, that the Japs had exc
cuted some of the eight and COM
muted death sentences for others.
The Japs never said which ones died.
The families Of the rescued men
greeted the news with gasps of Joy
and tears when the Associated Press
told them of the War Department
report last night.
Mother Describes Emotions.
Learning that her son, Sergt
Deshazer was safe, Mrs. Hulda
Andrus, who now lives in Salem
Greg, said she wanted to rush up
and down the streets shouting. .
She said she had been praying that
her son was among those rescued
ever since the first report that
some of the men were safe.
It's wonderful, of course" she
said, but keep thinking how terri
BILE it is for the other mothers
whose sons weren't in the group
Mrs. William Mas, who moved to
Milwaukee, Wis, recently, said her
hope for her only brother, 1t. Barr,
mad been kept alive by the mention
Of his name among a list of prison.
ers on a Jap propaganda broadcast.
Plenty of Rejoicing"
Mrs. Robert p. Hite, who spent
three years and four months on her
[arm on the plains of West Texas
for news from her son, 1t
Hite, said. We're all rejoicing and
theren be plenty more rejoicing
when he gets back"
She said she had entertained the
whole town since the news came.
The population Of 1t Hite's home
town Is $50.
Mrs. Floyd Nielsen, who works at
the ASF depot in Ogden, Utah, said
she stayed home from work yester-
day, so I could be near the phone
because felt the War Department
might be calling us about Chase
1t. Nielsen. The flyers wife, Mrs
rhora Kicks Nielsen. also works at
the ASF depot.