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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-10-17
Yunks Uncover Jewel Fortunes
Cached by Jap MiIiturists

Rockville Center, N. Y. finance Of
ficer at Gen. MacArthurs head
quarters, said:
Il believe japanese Army and
Navy officials got this gold in China
and elsewhere and did not tell
the proper government agencies
about it."
Discovery of the 5000 carats in
diamonds was made by Special
Agent Wesley P. McNeed. klamath
Falls. Greg, Of the Counter INTEL
ligence Corps. Checking records of
one place where precious metals
were found he came on a reference
to jewels. He asked the Japanese
custodian, who produced a loosely
wrapped package from safe. Dia-
monds rolled in a glittering cascade
onto a table
II asked the Japanese why he
hadn't said anything about the dia-
monds," McNeed said. His only
reply was that no one had asked
him"
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Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press.

Senate:
In recess until tomorrow.
Military Affairs Committee hears
Secretary of War Patterson on
armed forces merger bill and Army
Testimony on rehabilitation.
Finance Committee continues tax
cut bill hearings.
Military Affairs and Commerce
Subcommittee hear atomic bomb
makers.
Foreign Relations Committee con-
siders nomination Of Spruille Bra
den to be Assistant Secretary of
State.
House:
Continues debate on $4,000 900
airport development program.
Military Affairs Committee starts
hearings on repeal Of Labor Dis
putes Act.
Naval Affairs Committee studies
personnel requirements of postwar
Navy.
Appropriations Committee con-
siders multi-billion appropriation
cancellation.
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By the Associated Press.
TOKYO. Oct. II. American
searchers have found fortunes in
diamonds, platinum, gold and silver
which japanese admirals and gen.
erals had cached in secluded areas
but never were able to remove from
the country because the war ended
SO abruptly.
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters
disclosed today that one party dis
covered "a fabulous fortune in dia-
monds" in a chicken coop atop a
mountain $50 miles north of Tokyo.
In another instance, a package re-
sembling a packet of hamburger
yielded 5000 carats of diamonds.
No estimates of the value of the
loot have been made.
Eleven crates of platinum were
discovered beside the chicken coop.
Two Japanese admirals' aides guild
ed Americans to the cache.
1t. Col. Emmanuel Franklin,
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Italian Armisiice Revision
Talked as Peace Sfopqap
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 17.-Ofhcial Brit
ish sources said today that discus
sions were under way to revise and
soften the Italian arrnistice as a
stop-gap arrangement until the
final and formal peace treaty can be
drawn.
The next move toward placing
Europe on a peacetime basis is up
to the Soviet Union, the officials in
dictated, with both British and
Americans waiting to determine
whether Russia will produce a pro-
posal to end the deadlock over
treaties.
The Foreign Ministers Conference
in London ended two weeks ago in
an impasse over treaties for Bull
garia, Romania and Hungary and
whether France and China should
take part.
It was learned that the Foreign
Ministers deputies, who remained
in London to plan treaties, have
been unable to carry on further dis
cussion while the gap in the FIVE
power unity remains.
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viously not eligible for discharge UNI
der point system.
Yecmen and storekeepers-No re-
duction for present.
Seven specialist ratings which
have been classified as essential will
remain frozen" with their per-
sonnet Of 22,650 ineligible for dis
charge under the point formula.
The Navy also reduced from 100
days to 80 days the maximum time
officers may hold personnel after
they become eligible for release UNI
der reasons Of military necessity.
The Navy estimated that with the
cuts, slightly more than 1000 900
enlisted men and more than 100,
600 officers viii have been released
by the end Of the year.
The Navy already is running
ahead Of its announced schedule
for the release of personnel. 1t an
nolpccd yesterday that 283,149 eff,
Gers and men have been demobilizes
since Japan's surrender, 56,4 43 more
than its timetable called for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-10-17

Chairman Cannon of the House APP
preparations Committee and Repre-
sentative Knutson, Republican, Of
Minnesota, ranking minority mem
Der of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, who asked where the money
was to come from.
Proponents cited the Federal aid
road program as proof that such
programs developed new sources of
tax revenue.
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IS Woman Guard, Il
Says She Violated
Orders in Lashings
BY the Associated Press


LUXEMBOURG, Oct. Tin a de-
faint voice, blond 22-year -old Irma
Grese admitted under cross-exam-
nation today that she dashed pris-
oners at the Oswiecim concentra-
ton camp with celephane-braided
whip and dubbed them with a walk
ing stick.
She said she scourged the pris-
oners in spite of camp orders against
such methods of handling them.
The hard-visaged young SIS guard
denied under questioning by Prose-
cutor Col. T. M. Backhouse that she
amused herself by sending women
to work at sand pit outside the
wire, where they would be shot by
guards on the alert for escape at
tempts. Col. Backhouse suggested
she was lying and she snapped:
II took an oath to tell the truth,
and you can think what you like.
But I'm not lying. I never was in
charge of the working party at the
sand pit. never sent women across
the wire"
Extremely nervous under the
sbarbed cross-examination. she con-
stantly locked and unlocked her
fingers, or tugged at the sleeve of
her SIS tunic. She also denied she
had set trained dogs on the pris-
oners.
1 Maj. L. S. w. Cranfleld, defense
counsel, yesterday read a passage
from the book, THE Whip and the
Rod" by Prof. r. G. van Yelyr.
published in Britain in l94l, in an
effort to show that severe treatment
Is accorded prisoners in North Caro-
lima, Ohio and Georgia.
In Raleigh, N. c., Gov. r. Gregg
Cherry said no prisoner had been
logged in years in North Carolina,
although such punishment is per-
mitted by law
In Columbus, Ohio. a State well
fare department spokesman denied
the State used corporal punishment
in its penal system.
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House May Include
ID. T.. in 700 Million
Airport Aid Program
BY DON S. WARREN.

Inclusion OF the District in the
$500 900, 900 10-year Federal aid air.
port development program may be
ordered today by the House.
An amendment specifically bring
ing the District into the scope of the
pending matching money bill, draft
ed by the House Interstate and For-
eign Commerce Committee, will be
offered by Representive Randolph,
Democrat, of West Virginia, an
early advocate of airport develop
ment and chairman of the House
District Committee.
Representative Stefan, Repubn-
can, of Nebraska, announced last
night he would strongly support the
amendment. He is the ranking
minority member of the appropria-
tons subcommittee which writes
the annual District supply bills.
Excluded in Senate Bill.
There is especial point to the i'm
pending District amendment be-
cause the similar Federal aid bill
passed recently by the Senate spe-
officially excluded the District from
participation in the l0-year pro-
gram.
While there are no present plans
for development of a major airport
within the boundaries of the Dis
trict, Mr.. Randolph and Mr.. Stefan,
among others, were quick to point
out that in this air age needs can
develop almost overnight for small
fields or landing strings within such
a metropolis. They cited the pro-
posals for small airport or landing
field near the proposed war me-
mortal stadium in the District.
A protest against failure to men,
ton the District in the House bill
was voiced before the House yester-
day by Mr.. Stefan. 1t brought from
Representative Wolverton, Republic
can, OF New jersey, ranking minor
ity member of the Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committee, the
view that the District might be in
cluded under the terms of the COM
mittee's bill. But If it isn't, Mr..
Wolverton said. he would favor an
amendment making it certain.
Randolph Offers Clause.
Mr. Randolph proposed an amend
ment to include the District in a
definition Of the States. Mr.. Stefan
made the point that the bill now
specifically allocates up to $4,000
900 for Federal aid airports in
Alaska, s15,000,000 in Hawaii and
$4,000. 900 in Puerto Rico, without
mentioning the District.
Belief prevailed the bill would be
passed by the House and sent to
conference between the House and
Senate despite the opposition of
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Discharged
DISCHARGED at Fort Meade.


Sergt. Roland Pickett, 604 East Capitol
street; Ffc. Frank A. Brown, 1419 N street
NV: sergt. Hobson N; cady. s4o1 ,Liy-
Turner, 1920 Sixth street NV: Pfc:
A .ts.. B Tem HIE; 5o5 South Capitol
Lyman 5g place Me- Pfc; Ralph D. Conn,
GRAY ~ Fly h Trs sstee aE Re s SseT'
Horace a. Groves, 1885 4 street Ne;
SIsergt. Floyd Holmes, "a L street s;W.:
s sxse1. John p KSrtz . 9$9 Rhode 1sland
u; Cook, 1850 North Carolina avenue NE.
Street s% r H Th9%rs W. 7 aieI Eued
1915 Eighteenth street NV; Sergt. Daniel
Tow yeihney Ko q AZ street sW ssrst
street NV; serst Harold M Walters,
goo s N N% IA Wasns
Ne: T15 George e. schroebei. 1000 SIX Six.
. t. nth, street NV; TLs Daniel Mccarthy
street NE; TI5 Alexander Paraker, 1a41
Girard street NV; TfSerst. Thomas D.
MacKinlay. 43 Adams street NV; ,Tf5
kiRnsfa eaes rtssfnt P.f ssrsss
1853 s street s.E.; sfserss Charles Evans.
RooB dweh s sT1 Fourth HW Street Etc ShaTe
Clarence N. Ketchel. 5497 Third avenue
Sc. TIA Howard W.; Kelly, 339 Seven
teen sa4 street NE SIseTgs John 1 + Bass
Finotti, 231s Minnesota avenue Sc: TIA
Sc: Pfc. Louis Freed. 627 Quincy street
avenue Sc: TIA Geoddrey H. Posey. 1940
First street NV; TIA Albert Reed, 221
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-10-17
IS Doctor Gets l0-Yeor Term

PRAGUE, Oct. II {P).-Dr. Alois
Elgner, SIS physician formerly at
tached to hospital housing Czech
patients, was sentenced to 10 years
Imprisonment today by the Czecho-
slovak Peoples Court after con-
viction as war criminal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-10-17
News of District Area Men in Armed Forces

Arlington; sergt. Paul C. Horgan, a0O1
RUSSELL road, Alexandria; ssrEt; John i
Hrlinston corp N0T RoDers poaier 5000 5000
corpl. Thomas B. Pinney, Alexandria:
TIsergt. Frederick W. Bersns. ir;, s24
avenue. Hyattsytlle; Malcolm A. Peckham.
$500 North Thirteenth street. Arlington;
Maury V. Bunch, s27 wolfe street. Alex
andria; TiSergt. William L. New. IT.. 142
G Orator street, Chevy Chase; sissrgt
Daniel Krell. Greenbelt; Corpl. Stanley
J. Byrnes, 1889 Old Dominion drive,
Arlington; T/Sergt. Ralph J. Bunty, 5000
District Navy men discharged re-
Gently include:
place NV. Carr William HAIRS a f44s 3
S Wssb,ns NE; Bob Robert Case MscDcnsld
street Sc; Charles D. Finn, 1919 Doug
street NE; Yates Budden, 1927 Four
teenth street NV; Russell Norris Jenkins.
LOS r street NE; Irwin Truett McBee,
Kuykendall. SO Sheridan street NE; Jack
Franklin West, 1923 Twentieth street
NV; William Jenning Buckler, Washing
ton; FRANCISCO Martinez Duclaysn. Il +
w street NV; Elmer Whitney Mccall
9 Yardarm green s.W;; Thomas a
Preston Mcdaniel. no Seventh street
S.W.: John A. Patten, 345 Falkland place
Sc; and Roger William Venable. 1928
Nichols avenue Sc.
Returnees .
Sixteen Washington veterans of
the European war are due to arrive
in New York today aboard the
transport Marine Wolf. They are:
u Tk4 John r. CUMMINGS; Capt. Robert
els A. Mackall, rs Louis Mann. T~5
I InHnf f sat.r r e A5 soqse T dbe. Ps
william l. Gleeton. Pfc. William j. Greg
DRY, Pfc. James ". Marshall, Pfc. james
washington.
Listed among arrivals at Boston
yesterday aboard the transport
Howard Victory are:
corpl John r., jenkins. 2Isl First
1855 rEenty-foar stree. sE. caps ss VII
snq Td r 81 Sshs Ksts s bsSs st Il os ss
+ Ssushtor. Pfs. OTIS a NJ Melton t n0S sRd
Corpl. Harold Z. Williams. all of Wash
ington. and Pfc. Alton l.. Mills. Alexan-
drie.
Four men from this area who
reached Camp Patrick Henry, Va,
Monday are: y@,.
TISergt. Leo J. Walker. POLL Branch
street Sc; Pfc. BENJAMIN ?. Hartis, 29Gl
Eighteenth street NV; TIA Robert II
Duvall, Washington and Pfc. James W.
Hatton, Alexandria.
Arrivals in San Francisco Monday
aboard the transport Storm King included
Col. John H. Rodman of Washington. who
was listed as a returning liberated prisoner
OF japan.
Corpl. Erwin Genther. WASHINGTON, ar
rived in San Francisco yesterday aboard
the TRANSPORT Joseph Dickman.
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USMCR, whose wife is listed as liv-
ing at 1712 Mt. Vernon avenue,
Alexandria, is missing in action, the
Navy announced today.
Liberated
John Donald Richards, 81, avia-
ton radioman sc, was liberated
from a Japanese prison camp near
Tokyo on August 20 and is now at
the Bethesda Naval Hospital re-
cuperating from the effects of his
Imprisonment. His parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. David 7. Richards, 319 Madison
street NV, did not know their son
was prisoner of the Japanese
until news of his liberation came.
They had been informed only that
he was missing in action, when his
carrier-based dive bomber was shot
down last February Is over Tokyo.
Radioman Richards, a native of
Washington, was graduated from
Coolidge High School where he was
captain of the football team in 1913.
He went into the Navy after his
graduation and was sent to the
Pacific in December, 1914. A brother,
1t William Richards is on Luzon.
First Sergt. George wilkins, a
veteran of almost % years Army
service who was captured at the
fall of Corregidor, was released from
Japanese prison camp near Tokyo
on August 20. His father, James
Wilkins, 610 K street NE, said his
son has been returned to this coun-
try and is at Walter Reed Hospital.
Sergt. wilkins was wounded just be-
fore his capture. -
Born in Pennsylvania, Sergt. Will
kins attended schools there before
joining the Army nearly "a years
ago. He went the the Philippines
with a Coast Artillery outfit in
1898.
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Decoration

First 1t. William Berne, 2s-year-
old Signal Corpsman, has been
awarded the Brazilian Distinguished
Service Cross for training Brazilians
in Italy and installing and opcrat-
ing wire communications between
5th Army Headquarters and his
units command post.
1t. Berne Is the son of Mrs. Bertha
Keller, a Federal Housing Admins
tration employe, who lives at 705
Eighteenth street NV
He also wears the Brazilian Cam
paign Medal and the European
theater ribbon. He participated in
the North Apennines and Poe VAL
ley campaigns and also in the
Naples, Foggia and Rome-Arno bat
ties.
1t. Berne was overseas two and a
half years. He is now on terminal
leave. He Is a graduate of Staunton
Military Academy and attended
Catholic University.
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Selectees

The following Is Washington men
have been ordered to report for in
duction into the armed forces to-
day:
Amose Ellis, Chandler Haezlit. George
McBee, Harold PROMPT, George burst, Will
ker. Wesley Decatur, Rudolph Foster.
James Myers. William Nalley, jr; William
Wood, Henry Cronan, James Hulen,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-10-17
Nearby Maryland and Virginia
men discharged at various separa-
ton centers

Capt. Harold H. Chandler. 4s14 North
Third street, Arlington; MiSergt. Marvin
Pfc. Aubray F. Pettitt, Fairfax; Corpl.
Wendell W. Logan, 2605 Seminary road,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-10-17

Important Mems Corner
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Missing

First 1t. Charles William SchIenz,
USMCR, whose wife is listed as liv-
ing at 1712 Mt. Vernon avenue,
Alexandria, is missing in action, the
Navy announced today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-10-17

THE MODE
The union times., 1945-09-08
New Haven Protests On Unemployment
Congress Must
 Change Its Ideas
President Green Says Free Enterprise Will Be Helped If We Look Forward, Not Backward-AF.L. To
 Seek Quick Raise In Wage Rates
Special to The Union Times

CAMDEN, N. J.-Congress, which reconvened Wednesday together with American must be made to under stand that the people of this country be satisfied v return to the gOOd old days" President William Green of the American Federation of Labor told nation this week.
 The ALL, President Green sad will press for inc en acment of its mus' Legislative program which has re- ceved the endorsement of President Truman and all for ward-lOOking national leaders,
 ''WOnt Lift Finger'
 It is only to be expected that Congress may balk at some o the measures in this program Green said We have who believe this the best of all possible and nothing should be done change They profess to be concerned about the of the free system hut On wish to lift finger it.
 1.-The American Federation of LabOrs legislative would not endanger free enterprise but would protect s own shortcomings We hope that American business will measure to their responsibility preserving the free enterprise by looking instead of backward return the good old days will not satisfy the American people, We better days.'
 Legislative Program
 The legislative program of the AF said includes immediate of the KgOre bill for liberalization of unemployment insurance benefits the Employment Bill the Wagner postwar housing bill, the lifting of minimum eve to % cents an hour and adoption of the Wagner bill for broadening the cOverage old age and survivors insurance placing unemployment on uniform national basis and providing health insurance benefits for the great masses of the people.
 'sPrOphets of CIOOm' With thrust at prophets of gloom who nothing but Encouragement and failure ahead Green struck an opt msc note in his address here recalling the the late President Roosevelt in 1882 that have nothing to fear but fear se he called upon and indus try to join with labor in efforts bring an era of prosperity He predicted period of peaceful expansion and development than any in history Referring to the release of atomic energy and its probable application dusrial production, he said:
 we stand the threshold of new industrial revolutions perhaps sweeping effects than the advent of the machine age and electric power.
 Must Raise Living Standards
 Even in day and with existing facilities, can and must raise American standards living by at least 50 cent Let proclaim determination this Labor Day to achieve that immediate gOal'
 The American Federation of Labor, he added does share the fears disseminated by with respect difficulties of recOnversiOn the prospect unempoy men despite he undenabe act that country has not been adequately prepared for the transition from
 Continued Page Two)
The union times., 1945-09-08

''That suit you are wearing-it was made by Americans of Italian and Jewish descent. The cotton was picked by Negro workers. That suit must go. And that shirt. It was made by immigrant workers, mem- bers of minority groups. That shirt must go.
 "And those unnentionab1es you wear underneath. Made by immi- grants. They must go! Without these accoutrements fashioned by despised immigrants, how you do look Not at all like Solon! Hardly dignifed. The Hays office won't like it."
 Bilbo was also taken over the cOals by another ILCWU group. Local p, which has a membership of 25,OOO. A resolution adopted by the local protested the pOlItaxer's persistent slurs and attacks upon American citizens because of their race, religion or national Origin'' and called on the people of Mis- sissippi s'to redeem the good name of their state" by rebuking the senator.
The union times., 1945-09-08
"Nationa|ists" Plan Hate Drive

A new drive to unite all of the ''hate" groups in America under a single banner has been exposed in series of six revealing articles published this month in the Scripps-HOward newspapers. Pre- pared by staff writer, Eugene Se- gal, who documents his writing with numerous photostats of un- disputable evidence, these articles describe the organizations, leaders. methods and programs behind the new ''Nationalists'' party, which, headed by ex-Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, is plotting to influence political power in future elections.
 The NGtiOnaIists are Gnti-NegrO, Gnti-fOreign, anti-IabOr, anti-Semi- tic and Gnti-CGthOIic, Gs the situ0- ton demands, but apparently they sOiU accept any alliance. Their pro- gram IS ShresOdIy cOnceiUed to promise aU things to GIL people. It includes blanket opposition to aII international agreements for peace and economic stability; fauOred q hCCSOOSUCCU POUCO UVGGH OSEHIUUy OTlO tUith Japan; the enactments of Ia,Us to crush labor unions and to free business Of aH regulations and re- strictiOns.
 Circle of Followers
 Around Reynolds and Gerald L. K. Smith, president of the American First Party who shares leadership of the Nationalist Movement, moves a circle of followers, each concentrat ing on different group: Carl Monte, part-owner of two public uti1i- ties, is president of the National Farmers Guild'', Mrs. Lyrl Clark Van Hyning, heads We the Mothers Mo- bilize for America, Inc.," the Rev. Gerald Winrod, popu1arly known as the "Jayhawk Nazi" of Wichita. Kansas, and the Rev. Harvey Sprin. ger, Denver rabble-rouser often called "The cowboy preacher" ap- proach religious and youth groups.
 Carl MOnte's rise to power in the National Farmers Cuild'' is typ- ical of the intrigues of National ists leaders, always alert for op- portunities to muscle into econ-
The union times., 1945-09-08
Legion Plans To Enter Field Of Political
National Commander Says Veterans Organization
 Hamstrung Itself

WASHINGTON LPA)-Ameri- can Legion Commander Edward Scheiberling startled official Washing ton this week when he announced at a Legion press luncheon that the Legion Twill shortly abandon its ban on direct political activity" He said that "the time has come for the American Legion to become more than high class debating society"
 ScheiberIing contended that the veterans organization had ham, strung itself after World War | when it allowed Congress to write a prohibition on political candidates into its charter. He said that it ''de- prived the Legion of the most pow erful political weapon.''
 He told his audience that "univer- sal military service is one thing the Legion will support in its projected political campaign" Though speaking as a Legion official and in the name of the Legion, he conceded that the coming convention would have to make the formal decision on political activity.