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erals were forced to commission
for political reasons.
Senator Eastland quoted American
generals further as authority for 6
story that French Negro Senegalese
troops locked 5000 German girls ir
a subway at Stuttgart for five days
"kept them there and criminally as.
saulted them"
Defends Negro Soldiers.
Clark Foreman, president of the
Southern Conference for Human
Welfare, in a statement last night
described Senator Eastland's state.
ment that Negro troops are ar
"abysmal failure as "unjustified
accusations.
Mr.. Foreman's statement follows
I'm strange contrast to the &C.
counts of Negroes heroism in today.
press was the attack on Negro sol.
diers by Senator Eastland of Missis.
sippi on the Senate floor, today. The
Senator apparently did not hear the
report which Gen. Eisenhower made
on the bravery of Negro soldiers in
Europe.
Il believe that the great majority
of white Southerners are proud OF
the work of the Negro soldiers. The
only explanation of these unjustified
accusations on the part of Senator
Eastland is that he was elected by
a small minority of the voters OF
his poll-taxed State"
Evening star., 1945-06-30
Atrocities
Continued From First Page

Library of Congress only, the films
will be projected at the auditorium
at 10 am. Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Among the many persons who
visited the exhibit yesterday as it
was being put into place in the
ground floor galleries were retiring
Undersecretary of the Navy Ralph
A. Bard and the new Undersecre-
tary, Artemus L. Gates. They were
deeply impressed.
The atrocities of the Nazis are be-
ing brought forcibly before the pub
lie here under auspices of The Star
and st. Louis Post Dispatch, with
the announced slogan of Lest We
Forget" The huge photomurals
and the motion pictures both de-
pict Photographic evidence of mass
murder and torture-products Of
fascism"
The formal opening program, to be
broadcast by Radio Station WMAL,
will include addresses by Senate
Majority Leader Barley, Senator
George, Democrat, Of Georgia; Rep
resentative Short, Republican, of
Missouri; Luther Evans, Librarian
Of Congress; Raymond P. Brandt
Of the st. Louis Post-Dispatch and
B. M. McKelway. associate editor of
The Star.
The murals will be on exhibit after
the formal opening for about two
weeks, during regular hours of the
Library Of Congress. They are: Sat-
urday, m. to pm; Sunday, II 80
am. to 10 pm: all other week.
days, 9 am. to 10 pm.
Evening star., 1945-06-30
Criminal Operation Trial
Sought at Early Date

Attorney James J. Laughlin yes.
terday asked United States Court OF
Appeals for permission to file . petit
tion for a writ of mandamus against
all of District Court justices re.
questing q speedy trial for a client
The client is Henry F. Dietz, 80
of the 2100 block Of Eighteenth
street NV, a War Department EN-.
ploye, who was indicted on June 4
on a charge Of performing . GRIM
inal operation on a 28-year-old
Maryland woman, who died.
Mr.. Laughlin claims that due to
the summer District Court recess
the defendant probably will not
come to trial before fall unless the
writ is granted. The petition also
declares ",there is no statutory
authority for the judges Of District
Court to take q vacation lasting II
weeks"
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MussoIini Irritoted
With Church Again

March 30.-"Mussolini for the nth
time is rritated with Catholicism
which he blames for having made
italy universal and preventing il
from becoming national. When g
country Is universal it belongs to
eveF-Gne but ITSELF"
March 81. Word reached me
that II DIuce has in mind to dismiss
me from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. f~do not believe it.
Mussolini is indignant with Sumner
Welles because he told Chamberlain
that II Duce appeared tired
and perturbed We learned this
from one of the usual kilograms
= shown us by the British embassy"
April 3-"Violent g. change in favor
of war"
April 5-"Last night I saw the
German film of the attack on Po-
land. It's good film if the
Germans wish merely to portray
brute force, but it is bestial for
purposes of propaganda.
"Dingle identified only as 1e-
gal adviser of the embassy in Lon
DOM brought a useless and gen.
eral message from the Prime Min
lister (Chamberlain), one of those
messages of good will destined to
remain unanswered. But more i'm
portant is his depressed tone, his
nervous search for compromise
his lack of faith in victory"
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Denmark and Norway
Invaded by Germans

April 8-"There is alarm in Buda-
pest. :. On the excuse that Russia
will move soon in Bessarabia, Ger
many intends to occupy the Ro-
manian oilfields and asks free
passage through Hungary. The
price for this permission would be
Trasylvania. Hungarian liberty
would come to an end
April 9-'They did not march on
Romania.
"At 2 o'cleek this morning, a
secretary of the German embassy
arrived with letter from Macken-
sen, asking to be received at Z.
Nothing else. He arrived at $50
pale and tired, and communicated
Hitler's decision to occupy Den
mark and Norway, adding that the
decision was already being executed
"Mussolini said: I approve Hit
ler's action Fundamentally.
This is the way to win wars.
I shall give orders to the press and
to the Italian people to applaud the
German action without reserva-
tion.'"
April 10-"News of the German
action in the north has had q
favorable echo among the italian
people, whom Mussolini describes as
a prostitute that prefers a win.
ner.' Mackensen came to see
me with little baby. His wife had
had a son. covered him with
fluctuations, since there is now
nothing else to do"
April 11--"An urgent message
from Hitler to II Duce Oast night
=. Today he has prepared a warm
answer: Beginning tomorrow, the
Italian 6AAt will be ready, our prep
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DR.. Roy Bryant Hunter,
Retired Scientist, Dies

DR.. Roy Bryant Hunter, So, a
physicist at the Bureau of Stand
ards for number Of years, died last
Sunday in Coral Gables, Fla, where
funeral services were held Tuesday
according to word received here
today.
DR.. Hunter, who moved to Coral
Gables after his retirement about
a year ago, had been Ill for some
time.
Attire serving in France with the
coast artillery in the World War
he joined the staff of the Bureau OF
Standards in 1921. AS a result of q
series of investigations, he became
an authority on the physics of flow
in plumbing systems and published
many papers on the subject.
He also served as technical ad.
wiser to the Subcommittee on
Plumbing of the Building Code
Committee of the Commerce De-
partment and to the Subcommittee
on Plumbing Of the Central Hous-
ing Committee on Research, De.
sign and Construction.
A native Of Guernsey County
Ohio, DR.. Hunter was educated al
Yale and New York Universities and
taught in several colleges and uni
versities before coming here. He
was a resident Of Chevy Chase View
Md, before moving to Florida.
His widow. Mrs. Berta E. Hunter
survives.
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aration on land and in the air il
gaining pace remain skeptical
:. He returned from a conference
with the King Victor), which die
not satisfy him.
HE said: The King would like us
to intervene only to win the broken
pieces. I hope they won't break
them over our heads first. To
make people great it is necessary
to send them to battle, even with a
kick in the seat"
Ciano was i'll until April 20, when
he reports conversation with Prince
Phillip of Hesse, the Kings son-in-
law.
April 20-"He talked about the
imminent offensive, and said Hitler
blames only the bad weather for his
inability to celebrate his birthday
(April 2O) in Paris"
Evening star., 1945-06-30
Further Delays Seen
On Leopold Abdication
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, June 30.-Anti-Leo.
pold newspapers appeared resigned
today to further delays in the an.
nouncement of King Leopold's de.
cision on abdication.
Communist and Socialist source.
had reported earlier that Leopold
might abdicate tomorrow.
Meanwhile, a new quarrel broke
out between the Liberal press ano
extreme Royalist newspapers. Lib.
eral editors were accused of "sabo.
tage of the dynastic function" ir
reporting that Prof. Jacques Pi-
renne, royal adviser, had failed tc
collect new cabinet and that Lib.
eral party leaders told Leopold
bluntly this week that he must
give up the throne.
Paul Van Iceland, former Prime
Minister and present high commits
sioner for repatriation, and Albert
Deveeze, Liberal, former Minister
Of War, planned to leave today TO,
st. Wolfgang, Austria, to confer
with the King. Bad flying weather
prevented their departure yester-
day.
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before entering the Army in No.
vember, 1912.
Flight Officer David G. Lemon,
whose wife, Mrs. Frances G. Lemon,
is listed as living at GIT Quintana
place NV, has been wounded in
action in the Pacific, according to
today's ofhcial casualty list.
Forest Leland Kelley, gunners
mate 2/c, U. S. N. r., son Of Mrs.
Belle K. Alexander, whose address
is given as 1740 Euclid street NV,
is reported wounded in action.
Hunter w. Fling, hospital appren-
tice 1/c, U. s. N. r., who Is re-
ported wounded in today's official
list, was the subject of story in
The Star March II.
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Date for ItoIy's Entry
Into War Changed

April 22-"This morning the date
for Italy's entry into the war was
changed to the spring of 1941 be-
cause Norway had postponed Solu-
ton and moved farther away the
center Of European operations.
Reichsmarshal Goering still was
sulking because Ribbentrop had re-
ceived the ornate Collar of Annun-
ziata, Italy's highest decoration.
April 23-"I speak of it to II Duce
We mustn't make the voluminous
half dictator of the Reich suffer
longer. Mussolini authorizes me to
write letter to the King, relating
the pitiful situation of the tender
Hermann"
April 25.-"Mussolini accepts the
nomination of Alfleri (as ambassa-
dor to Berlin, succeeding Attolico.
who was recalled at German re-
quesD. II Duce gives him in
structions. He repeats his faithful
ness to the pacts, but says he will
enter war only when he has quasi
mathematical certainty of win
ming IL.
April 26.-"The answer to Reynaud
French premier who had suggested
a meeting with MussolinD is ready,
a cold, cutting and contemptuous
letter. .. . II Duce also sent a brief
telephone message to Hitler, ad-
vising him to hold Narvik Gn north
ern Norway at any cost"
April 2S.-"Another letter from
Hitler to II Duce. >. These in gen.
eral, are of small Importance, but
Hitler is a good psychologist and
knows that they reach deep into
Mussolini's soul The Pope ad-
dressed letter to II Duce, In which
he praised efforts for peace and
prays that Italy will stay out of the
conflict. Mussolinis reaction is
skepticaI cold and sarcastic"
Evening star., 1945-06-30
Soldier Divorces Wife
After Letter Admits Affair
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. Kans., June 80
"A soldier who has been oversee!
three years has been granted a di.
virce from his wife because she
wrote him that she had been un.
faithful to him.
The soldier, Corpl. Kenneth B
Hood, 30, introduced through his
attorney letter at the court hear.
ing yesterday, in which his wife
admitted an affair with another
man and told him she had had 9
daughter by this man in 1914.
She declared that "all the things
I have written to you In the las,
year have been a lie," and she said
she would give up all rights to thei,
own daughter, Sandra, S.
"It never was a shady love af.
fair" she wrote. II am really ir
love with him, Bill. But he is mar.
ried, too. He is now in the South
Pacific"
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New British Air Force
10 Fight laps Reported
By the Associated Press.

6y the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 3o.-The maea-
zine Aeroplane reported today that
q new British air force has been
formed for dispatch against the
japanese. The Air Ministry re-
fused comment.
"A new British air force has been
prepared for dispatch to the Far
East" the magazine said. mo de-
tails can yet be given or where It
Is to be based, but it will obviously
include Lincoln aircraft.
This improved type Of AvRO
dancaster) bomber is capable of
carrying to the Japanese mainland
from bases already available the
heaviest type Of bomb yet used by
the Raj"
The magazine added that the De
Haviland Hornet may also exert an
important influence on the Pacific
war. As with the Lincoln, no de-
tails Of its performance has been
disclosed, but 1t Is known to be q
twin-motor fighter capable Of
escorting bombers to great range,
and 1t Is expected to prove superior
to any japanese fighter" the maga-
zine added.
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|Spootz Leaves for U. S.
For New Assignment
BY the Assoeiated Press.

6y INC ASSoClAtcu TIeSS.
PARIS, June 30.-Gen. Carl A
Spaatz, who directed the worlds
mightiest air fleets as commander
Of the United States Army's stra-
tegic bombing forces In Europe,
took OF today en- route to the
United States for q new undis-
closed assignment.
He was accompanied by most Of
his stan, including Brig. Gen. Ed
ward p. Curtis Of Rochester, N. Y.
his chief of staff.
1t. Gen. John K. Cannon, COM
mander of the Allied Air, Forces ir
the Mediterranean, will command
the European occupation air forces
it was authoritatively stated.
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Todoy's Casualty Lists
Killed

NIuS0
Arthur A. Bill" Cooper, aviation
machinist's mate SIC, U. S. N. r.,
26, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper,
1928 Fourteenth street NV was
killed May % while participating
in a raid over Japan. Only a few
days before his mother received
official word of his death she had
been informed that he was missing.
In a latter from Mr.. Cooper's
commanding officer, Mrs. Cooper was
told that her sons plane was one Of
two lost in the mission.
A native of Washington, Mr..
Cooper was graduated from Western
High School and was q sales man
ager with the Holmes Bakery prior
to his induction in July, 1943. He
went overseas in January of this
year.
His brother, 1t. Thomas A. Cooper,
Is, is In Europe with the Quarter
master Corps.
Pfc. Thomas G. Dovell, Il. son of
Mrs. Mabel L. Dovell. 2700 @ street
NV, was killed May Is while
serving with the 96th Infantry Dr.
vision on Okinawa. He had seen
action earlier on Leyte after going
to the South Pacific in July, 1943.
Pvt. Dovell was employed with
the Union Trust Co. here before
entering the Army in March. 1943.
He was q native of Bluefeld. w.
Va, and attended schools In Cul-
peper, Va.
His mother is employed at the
Thrift Shop, 425 Tenth street NV.
Pfc. James L. Mcintosh, jr., 10,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. James L. Nc
Intosh, Leesburg, Va, was killed in
action March 26 while serving with
the Sd Army in Europe, his parents
have been informed. Pvt. Mcintosh
had earlier been reported missing.
A graduate of Leesburg High
School, Pvt. Mcintosh was attending
the University of Virginia when he
entered the service in March, 1914.
He underwent basic training at
Camp Wheeler, Ga, and Camp
Butner, N. c. He went overseas in
January Of this year.
The following men who are re-
ported killed In today's oficial list
have been subjects of stories In
The Star prior to this time:
Pfc. Richard ]. O'Donnell, U. S.
M. c. r., son of Mrs. Nina j. ODon-
nell, $500 Macomb street NV,
May 10.
Brig. Gen. Claudius M. Easley,
U. s. A., whose wife lives at 1901
Connecticut avenue NV, June 20.
EN- 2/c Billie F. Hottie, U. s. N.
r., son Of Rest Hite Hottie, 500
Third street NV, May 26.
Died
S/Sergt. Constantine A. Sgourdas,
20, son Of Mr.. and Mrs Athens
Sgourdas, 200 Massachusetts, avenue
NV, died in Czechoslovakia while
serving with a headquarters COM
nanv Of the 7H2d Tank battalion
Evening star., 1945-06-30
Hitler Talks at Meeting
While MussoIini Listens

The Hitler meeting is cordial on
both sides. The conference is more
a monologue than anything else,
Hitler speaks all the time, with
more calm than usual. He gestures
rarely and speaks in a quiet voice
He is we'll physically. Mussolini
listens with interest and Difference
He speaks little and confirms his
decision to move with Germany
He did not find in Hitler the intran-
sigence Won Ribbentrop had indi-
Gated The meeting has not
changed our positions substantially" !"
March 19-"At heart Mussolini
resented the fact that Hitler did all
the talking. He wanted to tell him
many things but had to remain
quiet most of the time. AS die
tator, or rather the dean of dicta-
tors, he's not in the habit of this" 4"
March 20-"Before leaving Sum-
ner Welles representing President
Roosevelt on a survey OF peace pos
sibilities) spoke clearly to Blasco
d'Ajeta. who is relative OF his.
Even without an offensive, Ger
many will be exhausted within a
year. He considers the war already
won by the French and British,
with the United States prepared to
guarantee this victory with all the
weight of her power
March 25. "Teleki Hungarian
prime minister) has avoided an open
position one way or the other. but
has not concealed his sympathy for
the western powers and fears Ger
man victory like the plague.
The Germans offer us some anti
aircraft batteries Immediately, Mus
solini plans to send for them"
March 27.-"Teleki at dinner asks
me abruptly, DO you know how to
play bridge?'
"'Why?'
"'For the day we shall be together
In Dachau concentration camp"
March 29.-"This report Con living
conditions by an italian who spent a
month in Germany has not modi-
fled II Duce's outlook substantially
bue he has admitted Germany is
enjoying no bed of roses, and that
failure of an offensive or prolonged
war would mean defeat and col
lapse for the German regime.
81 don't understand why Hitler
doesn't realize this, he said. I feel
that Fascism is wearing down, wear
and tear that is not serious but
noticeable, yet he does not feel it in
Germany, where the crisis is assum-
ing rather alarming proportions.
Evening star., 1945-06-30
357,686 TO Be Redep|oyed
From Mediterranean Area
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CASERTA, Italy, June 3d.
United States Mediterranean head
quarters announced last night that
357 ,686 American soldiers in the
Mediterranean theater will be re.
deployed to the Pacific within the
next nine months, 81 per cent OF
them by way of the United States
In New York, Col. Edward M
Lastayo, overall director of Army
transportation in the Mediterranean
area, who arrived yesterday aboard
the S. S. Darien after 81 months
overseas, said that troops now were
moving out of Italian ports at the
rate of 10000 monthly.
He disclosed that staging areas fol-
redeployment Of troops were ready
for use even before We day.
1--WE knew the war was due to end
so We got ready in advance he
said.
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Jones
Continued From First Page }

ments of several doctors to the
committee was based on "a most
unfortunate lack Of knowledge Of
the true situation which exists and
has always existed in the Veterans
Administration"
He told the committee that, based
on his personal knowledge of hos
pitals in general, IT I were unfor-
tunate enough to require hospitali-
zation, even under wartime condi-
tions. would rather be patient in
q veterans hospital than In any
other hospital in the world,
DR.. Charles M. Grifith, medical
director, testified that at least rs
per cent Of the agency,s doctors
were as good as any doctors in civil
ian practice. Some undesirables, he
admitted, had crept into the organ
ization, but these were eliminated
as quickly as possible, he insisted
Evening star., 1945-06-30
|ChapIains' Board To|
OF Army Efforts 10
Speed Discharges

The Army will do it's best to see
that half of the 100000 service
men slated for discharge by mid
1946 are back with their families at
Christmas this year, Maj. Gen
Stephen G. Henry, assistant chief
Of staff for personnel, promised here
yesterday.
He spoke at a luncheon meeting
Of the General Commission of Army
and Navy Chaplains honoring Ad-
miral Robert D. Workman, retiring
chief of Navy chaplains, and Brig.
Gen. Luther D. Miller, new chief OF
Army chaplains.
I'VE are straining every effort to
bring Johnnie home just as fast as
we can," Gen. Henry said. I'VE are
using every bit of captured shipping
as well as shipping of our Allies,
adding that the Army was filling
every chink" of ships crossing the
Atlantic and was flying $4,000 men
home a month.
Gives Rate of Discharge.
Outlining figures he recently gave
Congress on the rate of discharge,
Gen. Henry said that this week more
than 5000 men we're discharged from
the Army in one day. He also dis
closed that the Army started its
demobilization program about As
days earlier than originally planned.
Gen. Henry said the point system
evolved by the Army represented the
fighting mans idea of who should
get preference in leaving the service.
He warned. too, that I'VE are going
to try to hold the line on our sys-
tenn" despite tremendous pressure
for preferential treatment of many
groups and individuals.
The need for more chaplains in
both the Army and Navy as we'll as
for the new Chaplain Corps being
built up by the Veterans Admin
istration was urged by several
speakers.
Reads Testimonial.
The Right Rev. Henry K. Sher-
rill, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
Massachusetts, who presided at the
luncheon, read a testimonial resolu-
tion to Admiral Workman from John
Bailey Kelly, moderator of the
Presbytery of Washington.
when he came to this Office the
chaplains service was considerably
limited in its personnel, but in the
years which anticipated the out
break of war Chaplain Workman
has done yeoman service in building
up the corps and securing the en-
listment of men of high caliber in
the ministry of all denominations, I"
the statement said.
Evening star., 1945-06-30
laps Report Air Raids
On Okinowo Airfieids

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 R.-'
Domei, japanese news agency, re-
ported that Japanese planes at
tackled American airfields on Oki-.
nawa and adjacent Ie Jima today :,
but said the bulk of the empires
air force was being reserved for an
ticipated invasion of the homeland.
The dispatch on the Okinawa at
tack said the Japanese planes
caused "conhagrations at three
places" It added that special at
tack" planes struck at American
shipping OF Okinawa at the same
time.
Domei alibied that the key reason,
for loss of Okinawa was that Japan
had to reserve and withhold from
action large number of special
attack planes for employment
against the enemy's invasion of the
homeland"
The dispatch said other SERIOUS
handicaps," such as an extended
supply line" and transportation of
planes "over long distance to the
front line, involving accidents and
other attrition en- route" contrib
uted to the fall Of the island.
ITO take this Okinawa case" /" the
agency claimed, "as q basis for pre-
dieting the outcome of the battle on
the Japanese mainland, therefore,
Is absolutely erroneous"
Japan's Army defense reoreaniza- =
ton shifted today to Northern
Japan. newest direction from which
Tokyo has been anticipating an
invasion.
Gen. Keisuke Fujie was named
commander Of the Tohoku army
district of Northern Honshu Island,
the Tokyo radio announced shortly
after reporting 10 Super Forts
mined waters bordering the dis
tr1ct. Three new army districts
have bean created this week on
Honshu, JapanS mainland"
Premier Kantaro Susuki's 24-man
Extraordinary war measure COM:
mittee," an advisory body created
under the cabinets newly won die.
tatorial powers. held It's f1rst meet.
ing today ct suzuki's residence.