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Evening star., 1945-10-16
Arlington Rites Planned
For John B. Baldwin, 81

High requiem mass for John B.
Baldwin, 81, will be sung at St.
Matthew'S Cathedral at 10 am. to-
morrow. Burial with full military
honors will be in Arlington Gene
terry.
Mr.. Baldwin, retired university
professor of Boston and Ste. Adele,
Province of Quebec, Canada, died of
cerebral hemorrhage last Thursday
at Boston.
! He was the brother of Brig. Gen.
G. P. Baldwin, stationed here with
the War Department Manpower
Board.
Prof. Baldwin taught at Dart
mouth and Princeton Universities
and was formerly with the Civil
Service Commission Examining
| Board here. He served as a second
lieutenant inFrance during the
World War and was a member of
the American Legion.
He studied at Columbia Univer-
sity, New York, anG the University
of Bordeaux, France, and was a
member of the Alpha Sigma Phi
Fraternity.
His brother is his only survivor.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Highway, Alley Changes
Approved After Hearinu

The Commissioners yesterday ap-
proved a series of proposed highway
changes and alley closings after a
public hearing.
The District will advertise and
send notices to affected property
owners, who will have 80 days in
which to register an objection, ex-
cept on highway changes.
Among the steps approved were
closing Thirteenth street Sc. from
l. street to the intersection of M
street and West Virginia avenue, and
alleys in the vicinity of Ninth and
Sherman avenue NV. and Austin
and Thirty-sixth street Sc.
They also approved a change in
the highway plan, providing for the
elimination of Third street, between
New Hampshire avenue and Allison
street and also for part of Buchanan
street, west of Third street NV.
Minor changes in street plans
were approved for the area bounded
by the District line, Twenty-second,
Webster and Sixteenth streets NE,
and also an area bounded by East
ern avenue, Thirteenth street. Kali
mia road and Sixteenth street NE.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Supreme Court Rejects
.Isenberg Plea for Writ

Joseph IsenOerg, %, who figured
in two celebrated escapes from the
authorities and is now in Lorton
Va, Reformatory. pondered his
next move today, after losing q
Supreme Court fight to gain his
freedom.
The Supreme Court yesterday de-
MED Isenberg a motion for permis-
sion to file a petition for writ
OF habeas corpus to secure his
liberty. officials said that with total
charges against him. Isenberg faces
1914 years imprisonment.
Isenberg unsuccessfully sought to
compel Supt. E. J. WEIGH Of the re-
formatory, through q direct appeal
to the Supreme Court action, to free
him.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Soviet Areas Compete
For Honor Of VOTING
For Premier 5taIin

by the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Oct. 16.-Hundreds Of
Russian election districts are COM
peting for the honor OF having
Premier Stain run as a district
candidate in the elections to the
Supreme Soviet next February 10.
Campaigning got under way today
after official proclamation OF the
election laws. essentially unchanged
since the last general balloting De-
cember IL. 1887.
Can we get Comrade Stain to
be the delegate from our district"
is a question often repeated.
CThe Kremiin announced last
Wednesday that Premier Stain
had left Moscow for vacation
and a rest. The Paris Presse, an
independent French newspaper,
declared last month that Premier
Stain was likely to retire from
the Soviet government this COM
ing winter because of a liver all
ment and expressed belief that
Marshal Klementi Y. Voroshiloy
would succeed him.
Last Election in 1887.
The agitation is similar to that in
the last election. The Premier
finally accepted the invitation of the
voters of Moscow's Stain District
an industrial section made up largely
of factory workers. Premier Stain
made one speech in the district
There was not blank vote in the
balloting for Premier Stain at that
time.
Casting of a blank ballot is the
only way a person votes against a
candidate, although in the cam
paigning for nominees there are hare
and heavy battles, as rough and
tumble as ward fights in some Amer
ican cities.
Under the system, the only way
to defeat a nominee for an Office
would be fer every one to turn in q
blank ballot.
The nominations equivalent Il
election) are made after long and
sometimes heated debate by small
groups of people in factory com.
mittees, small trade unions, group.
of artists and writers and similar
forums. A nonparty member car
be chosen over a Communist can.
didate, but the greater number o.
all nominees are Communists. Tn,
battles will have been fought out b,
January 10. one month before tht
elections, when the names must bt
pasted up.
Polls Open at 6 AM.
The Soviet government newspaper
Izvestia said the people of the Sovie
Union were guaranteed freedom O.
electioneering for their candidate
and added that the voters of tn.
USSR had the most democratic o
all election statutes.
The polls will be open from 6 a m
to midnight February 10. Electio,
commissioners will begin countin,
the votes at the stroke of midnight
Representatives of the Soviet pres
and public organizations have tn
right to be present.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Promotions Weiqhed
For Navy Lieutenants
On Terminal Leave

A move to promote senior naval
ieutenants now on terminal leave
under terms of a mass promotion
announced October but with sac
rifice of mustering-out pay is under
consideration by the Navy Depart
ment, it was learned today.
These officers, if they spurn the
promotion in favor of retaining their
rights to mastering -out pay, will
find themselves outranked in the
reserve by approximately 1880
lieutenants Junior to them who
were promoted by mass promotion
on October 8 or who will be pro-
NOTED by other mass promotions
between now and January /.
Looking to the other horn of the
dilemma, however, they will, if they
accept promotion, be buying them
selves the most expensive piece of
gold braid on record, costing in most
cases SZU0 TO S3O0.
Act of Congress Rules. ~
This is because the act of Con-
gress authorizing mastering out pay
prescribes that officers above the
rank of captain in the Army and
Marine Corps and lieutenant in the
Navy and Coast Guard may not be
paid any mastering out pay. Lieu
tenants. however, may be paid from
5000 to $500 upon release to inactive
duty.
At present senior lieutenants on
terminal leave, although technically
on active duty, are not eligible for
promotion since they have been
dropped from the active list. The
mass promotion of October 3 speci-
fed that they must be on the active
list to be eligible for promotion.
While at first glance placing these
officers, many of whom have seen
more than four years service and a
number of whom volunteered be-
fore Pearl Harbor, in a dilemma of
the sort contemplated may seem
hard-hearted, the Navy has little
choice in the matter unless it seeks
legislation to permit them to eat
their cake and have it, too.
Several thousand officers finding
themselves in this situation were
passed over" for promotion by a
Selection Board which announced
its findings August /, 1945. These
had to have been on continuous
active duty for 80 months even to
be considered by the board and
the majority considered were. not
selected.
Forrestal Seeks Solution.
These men, are accorded an even
harder lot in the present situation,
it was learned today, since, in addi-
ton to the above dilemma, they are
placed in the position of not having
been good enough for promotion
August l and then of being good
enough two months later at time
when the thousands of other officers
with less extensive service and
seniority become eligible.
1t was reliably learned today that
Secretary Forrestal, who is given
credit for the return to the mass
promotion policy October 8 so that
reservists would return to inactive
status without bad taste in their
mouths" Is fully acquainted with
the inequities brought forth by the
shift and has asked that all possible
solutions to the problem be con-
sidered by his organization
But, it appeared today that unless
the Navy is willing to ask Congress
to amend its legislation authorizing
mastering out pay to allow for cer-
tain exceptions, the bad taste" will
be merely changed to one having a
medium brown tint.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
ev.RaymondS Sorrick,
Silver Spring Lutheran
Pastor, Dies at 81

The Rev. Raymond Clyde Sorrick
D. D.. 81. pastor of st. Luke,s Lu-
theran Church, Silver Spring, and
a former president of the Maryland
Synod of the United Lutheran
Church, died early today at his
home, 425 Greenbrier drive, Silver
Spring.
DR.. Sorrick was pastor of the
Messiah Lutheran Church in Balti-
more for IA years. He came here
two years ago.
Born in Martinsburg, Pa, DR.. Sor-
rick was a graduate of Gettysburg
College and Gettysburg Lutheran
Seminary. He was an overseas vet
eran of the World War.
Church Built Under Leadership.
Following his graduation he was
minister at the Lutheran Church
at Woodboro. Md, for three years,
after which he accepted a call to
the Messiah Lutheran Church.
DR.. Sorrick was the second pastor
to serve at st. Luke's Church in
Silver Spring. He was responsible
for the 100000 church building
now under construction on Coles
vile road.
Besides his presidency Of the
Maryland Synod from 1941 to 1914
DR.. Sorrick was a member of the
Board of Directors of the National
Luthern Council, of the Board of
Education of the United Lutheran
Church and of the Silver Spring
Ministers Association.
He also was member of the
Juniata Masonic Lodge at Holidays
burg, Pa. He resigned as president
OF the Luthern Inner Mission So
ciety OF Washington a few days
ago.
Funeral Planned Thursday,
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Nav
Hoover Sorrick; daughter. Miss
Marjorie Mae Sorrick, who recentlv
returned from Red Cross service
overseas; two sisters, Mrs. Alden
Showalter and Mrs. Wilmer Alison.
and an aunt, Miss Margaret Sorrick,
all of Williamsburg, Pa.
funerai services will be held at
8 pm. Thursday at Woodside Meth
odist Church, Silver Spring. Con-
Quoting the services will be the Rev
William Miller, acting pastor of st.
Luke's Church; DR.. Lloyd Keller of
Baltimore, president of the Mary
land Synod; the Rev. Frank Fife.
secretary OF the Maryland SYNOD
and DR.. Frederick Reissig, executive
secretary of the Washington Fed
GRAFTON of Churches. Ministers of
Silver Spring will act as honorary
pallbearers and members of the
church council will be active pail
bearers.
Burial will take place at pm.
Friday at Martinsburg, preceded by
brief services at the Lutheran
Church there, with DR.. Robert Lang
of the National Lutheran Home in
Washington officiating.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
ICo-operative Planning
Is Urged by President

President Truman yesterday ex-
pressed the conviction that Coop
erative planning by agriculture.
business, labor and Government is
necessary If we are to realize our op-
portunities for steadily improving
the national standard of living"
The Presidents view was con-
tanned in letter to the National
Planning Association, which for
warded to him report in which
were set out the problems that must
be met, if the country is to prosper
The association said its members
ARE convinced that any successful
program to achieve and maintain a
stable, prosperous economy must be
based on joint planning and active
cooperation by agriculture, busi-
ness, labor and Government"
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Give and Take Policy
WithSovietAdyocafed
BY House Members

| "A glve-and-take policy under
which the United States would grant
Russia the same treatment accorded
this country by the Soviet Union
has been proposed by two separate
House committees which have re-
turned from a tour of European
countries.
| Other policies advocated by the
returned Representatives call for an
active participation by the United
States in world affairs and a clari-
fication of American trade relations
with Britain.
An ll-man committee, headed by
Representative Wickersham, Demo-
crat, of Oklahoma which toured 80
countries, submitted a report last
night. At the same time, Repre-
sentatives Mundt, Republican, of
South Dakota and Bolton, Republi-
can, of Ohio, who toured 20 nations
in behalf of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, summarized their
findings at a press conference.
Plain Talk Advised.
The Wickersham group made
three main points as a result of
observations in Europe:
| l. That stress in American-Rus-
sian relations should be placed on
points upon which We all agree, !"
rather than those "on which we
fail to agree"
2. That America should demand
and get-from Russia, freedom of
movement there such as it accords
to Russians visiting this country.
8. That there should be more
plain talk between the United States
and Great Britain over trade pol
icies, particularly aviation develop
ment and the sterling bloc system.
Zhukov Visit Affords Chance.
The committee suggested that the
Forthcoming visit here of Marshal
Georgi zhukov of the Red Army
would provide an occasion for diplo-
matte conversations to clear the
American Russian atmosphere "of
suspicion
Representative Mundt and Bolton
suggested that the United States
accord the Russians "as much as
they accord us and no more" They
added:
I'VE can have peace with Russia
and We can work with that great
country in the common interest of
all humanity, if these two condi-
tons prevail: /. That neither ma
ton adopt an expansionist policy
not authorized by the other. 2. That
neither country treat the other in
manner which would prove un-
acceptable were the same policies
reversed and applied to it."
In other fields of policy, the two
recommended:
! l. Joint Allied control, instead of
one-nation mandates, in trouble
spots.
UNRRA Censured.
/ 2. Central administration for Ger
many and Austria instead of sep
arate zones.
3. Greater dependence on the
State Department staff abroad
rather than on pressure groups
here at home, in determining poll
cies.
4. An adequate substitute" for
the United Nations Relief and Re
habilitation Administration which
is operating "awkwardly cum
| berSome slow"
5. Quick solution of the Palestine
problem which is tense, strained
| and dangerously explosive"
Evening star., 1945-10-16

BRACELET, silver, of Australian coins
one. heart shaped; present, overseas son,
Lost at Allies Inn, or on way through park
Evening star., 1945-10-16
LOST.

BRACELET, Australian coins, lost Monday
bet. and $50, on No Cap bet Fla ave
and p st. Reward. Du. $500
Evening star., 1945-10-16

BRACELET, gold, Identity, that carried
aviator through A missions over Europe
inscribed Laurence" on front; "I6-S-I1'
on back Has only sentimental value Re
ward. Call 1t. TUMPSON. Or. l2h3
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
SOvietS Recognize
LubIin Government

News that Russia had recognized
the Lublin provisional govern
ment of liberated Poland was re-
ceived with disappointment here
as emphasizing the Gle ayaEe
among the major Allies on Euro
pean political affairs.
Both the United States and
Great Britain recognize the Polish
exile government in London and
both have announced they will
withdraw that recognition in
favor of the Soviet-sponsored
Lublin group.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
Trout Cleared
In Gas Quiz

Paul CDzzy Trout, riGhi-hand
pitching acc of the Detroit Tigers.
wa, cNoncratcd by the OPA this
afternoon on charges Of violating
gas rauoning on a deer-hunting
Trip 10 The Upper Peninsula.
Cleared because he asserted
that he had been towed back
from St Ignace by a friend, Trout
admitted 20 newSpapcrmen after
ward that this friend was State
Senator George Higgins. chairman
of the Fcrndalc rauoning board.
\ moment later Trout said.
scratch that name out I
don't want to get a friend in
trouble"
TroutS dismissal was ordered
by Special Hearing Officer Charles
4 Rogers. who decided that
Trout had not exceeded his = RAJ
uoning IN making the trip north
ward
This il one of those twists
of fate" Rogers said "PrONi-
dcnce certainly worked hard in
this case. Trout didn't use any
gas coming back from ST.
Ignace. however. and we can do
nothing about that"
Trout said he had received =
rations for baseball and speaking
assignments.
After killing a deer. Trout said
he went 10 Marquette and spoke
before the Lions Club.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
YankS Bomb
NaZi Targets

LONDON, IAN. ) GNS)--
L. S. Eighth Air Force bombers
attacked targets in Germany by
daylight today, following up twin
night assaults by blockbuster-
laden British Mosquitoes against
Berlin.
Other Raj bomberS during the
morning made two attacks within
90 minutes on German troop con-
centrationS. artillery positions and
strong points at the mouth OF the
Gironde River. in the defended
area of Royan. 30 miles north
west of Bordeaux. France.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
Roosevelt on Radio
tomorrow NiQht

WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 tUP)-
President Roosevelt. preparing an
extraordinary long message for
delivery 10 Congress, said today
he would give the American
people a radio summary of the
S.000-word document from 10 to
1890 Detroit timel, tomorrow
night.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
GENERAL AIMS SAME
THREE NAMES ONLY

Mr. Roosevelt was also non
committal on who might attend
tho conference besides himself,
Churchill and Stain. When asked
if other United Nations leaders
would attend including Gen.
De Gaulle. the President s a j d
blandly that he did not know.
At a new conference Tuesday,
the Chief Executive admitted that
some differences had arisen be-
tween the Allied leaders since
their last meeting. He strongly
implied the forthcoming meeting
would provide an opportunity for
the three leaders 10 discuss these
differences and, If possible settle
them
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
In the Times TO-DAY

LONDON. Jan. s 1NS)-The
Moscow radio announced tonight
that Soviet Russia has recognized
the Polish proVisiinal government
established at Lublin
The broadcast added that am
basSadorS will be exchanged be-
tween the Russian government
and the Polish provisional govern
ment which was assumed by the
Lublin committee last Sunday.
l-ASEnNcTnN In |, LID
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
Stars Condition Fair

SAN DIEGO. Jan 5 fUP)-
Hollywood film star, Susan Peters,
Is holding Der own" after an
emergency operation and blood
traRSfnSion for a bullet wound,
nav physicians said TODAY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
FLANKS EXTENDED

British troops in the Niarche
area advanced southwark 1000
yards 10 a point lust shoLt OF
Rendaux. securing BoiS Nde
Hampton.
Steady hut slow progress was
made by the Allied assault forces
which extended the flankS of the
offensive front and punched south
ward from the Grandmenil area in
a drive aimed at an eventual juno
tion with the American Third
Army pushing northwaTd from
the Bastogne region.
The twin drives threatened 10
cut the NaZi salient at its waist
and trap the Germans, including
panZer forces. remaining IN the
western tip of the bulge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
Steve O'NeiII 10 Tell
Pacific Experiences

- Steve O'Neill. home from a
three-month tour on the Pacific
battle zones, has been added 20
the program for the annual De
troit Times Downtown Quarter
back Club banquet 10 be held
at the Fort Shelby Tuesday
O'Neill, whose Tigers surprised
the baseball world by going 10 the
final day Of the season tied with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

LONDON, Jan. > CINS)-Prime Minister Churchill
returned today from short visit tn France during which
he talked with Gen Eisenhower Field Marshal Sir Ber
nard Law Montgomery Gen DE Gaue and other leading
Allied officials. Churchill accompanied by Field Mar
shall Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the imperial general staff
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
IHIEF SHOT TO DEATH IN ROW WITH POLICEMAN

ALBANY, y. ", Jan. D (UP)-Police Chief William
j. Fitzpatrick shot and killed in his office today
during a quarrel with patrolman identified John
McElveney, officials reported today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
3 MORE WAR PRISONERS RECAPTURED

PHOENIX, Ariz, Jan. > (UP)-The Federal Bureau
of Investigation today reported the capture of three
the % German prisoners of who escaped from the
PapagO Park internment camp here Christmas Eve
leaving only 10 at large.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

the league leading ST. Louis
Browns. will tell some of his war
front experiences lie talked 70
hundreds OF thousands Of soldiers.
sailors and marines during his
entertainment tour.
For full details see sports pages)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
s6l, 68l WAR PRISONERS HELD IN t. 5.

WASHINGTON, Jan. (UP)-Prisoners of war held
in the United States, Jan. j. toaled SCI 631. increase
of 1884 during December the department announced
today These included 3079 Germans, 5l,O1l Italians
and 1929 Japanese.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
INSTANT AGREEMENT

The Allied spokesman said.
when the German penetra-
ton through the Ardennes Gre
ated two fronts. one substan-
italy facing south aud the
other north. by instant agree
ment of all concerned that pOr-
ton of the front facing south
was placed under command of
Field Marshal Montgomery and
that facing north under COM
mand Of. Gen. Bradley.
The forces facing south com
prise the vast bulk of the First
and Ninth Armies.
Still in Bradley'S Twelfth ArmN
group is the hard-hltting L. s
Third Army, commanded by 1t
Gen. Patton.
Headquarters reported it'll &
change on Montgomery's north
ern flank. where American forces
reached a point 1000 yards north
of LierreuX. three and one-hali
miles from Mainfroy, representing
a slight advance.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
MOEHRING, NAZI GENERAL, KILLED

LONDON, Jan. > (INS)-The German DNB agency
reported today that Gen. Kurt Moehrng commander of
a NOlksgrenadier division has been killed in action
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
REP. MAY TO ASK SERVICE LEGISLATION

WASHINGTON, Jan UNS)-Rep. May CD of
Kentucky chairman of the House military committee ap-
nounced today that depending upon President Rooseves
recommendations to Congress tomorrow, he will move for
enactment of either national service act work
fight" law for 4-Fs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
Allies Score
Slight Gains
.AgdiinstBu|ge

PARIS, Jan. s qNS)-Head-
quarters OF Gen. Eisenhower to-
day announced officially that Brit
ish Field Marshal Sir Bernard
Law Montgomery is commanding
American First and Ninth Army
forces on the northern flank oF the
German bulge in Belgium, where
the Allied assault front has been
extended 10 a width Of 20 miles.
As front-line reports told of con-
tinued savage fighting i'm bitter
weather throughout tie German
invaded area, a spokesman con-
firmed that command of these
troops has been taken from 1t.
Gen. Bradley and handed over TO
Montgomery.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

Headquarters said that the as
Sault front was extended at the
result of a series of pitched bat
ties fought in Snowstorns and
rain. The Americans and Allied
forces experienced tough going
because of the severe winter
weather but their progress was
unchecked.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
HYDE, ERE PRESIDENT, NOT TO RUN AGAIN

DUBLIN Jan. UP)-Dr. Douglas Hyde 3d. presi-
dent of Fire. informed Prime Minister cannon DE Valera
today that he had decided not for reelection when
his present term expires.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
CllangeM Made
I'm December

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (INS)-Gen. Marshall, army
chief of staff today revealed that Field Marshal Montgom
cry placed in charge of Allied troops the northern
part of the L. the second night of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
FIGHTING IN ATHENS REPORTED CEASED
NEX YORK. Jam. ) INSl-A RBC corre

NV 1Ukh, JAN D IINNI-A bBI correspondent
in Athens reported today that organized fighting the
Greek capital and Piraeus has ceased. The FEC heard
the broadcast.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

.2d53S13
= 3 MISS DEATH IN ROMULUs BOMBER CRASH

BPS Mitchell medium bomber crashed the takeof in
field adjacent to the Romulus air field army authorities
reported