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Evening star., 1945-11-10

One day while working on tn,
farm Brig. Gen. Allen Mcbride, VIII,
had been chief of staff of the Phil
ippine Department under Maj. Gen
George Grunert Just before the out
bread of the war. consumed some o
the beans he was picking, and which
he knew the Japs would take To-
themselves. 1t was blazing hot da!
and the raw beans, combined witt
the systematic starvation Gen. Nc
Bride had undergone, made hin
very i'll that evening. He died during
the night. The Japs reported tina
he died of heart failure" but III
had actually been starved to death
Despite the terror and hunger. oul
officers kept up their spirits by buy
ing some secondhand musical in
struments and providing entertain
ment for themselves. Before the!
had assembled a band, the chic
source of entertainment was Brit.
ish officer who could play tunes will
a piece OF tissue and comb. Wash.
tubs, tin pans and tin cans event
ually rounded out the orchestra.
Men were put in solitary confine'
ment at Sirakawa for the most tri'
fling reasons, and many who under.
went that vicious torture of being
made to stand up in their cells every
day from am. until 9 at night
emerged with malaria.
Tells Red Cross Facts.
In June Of 1914, Col. Sasaws
brought an International Red Cros:
representative to Shirakawa ane
near the end of the vigilantly po'
liced meeting one American off1cel
broke loose and reported somt
shocking facts which were not or
the Jap agenda. Col. SaSawa usheret
the Red Cross man of the scene
and shouted that the meeting wa
adjourned.
Sasawa returned two days later
called for 40 senior American ON.
GERS, including all the generals, anc
lined them up.
He then gave them long lecture
on work. He told them how essen.
tial it was to provide additiona
food for the camp. But our mer
still ranked over the way the Jap.
had taken their products from them
and one said that they no longer
would work.
How many officers in this group
do not want to work." Sasawa de.
manded.
All but two raised their hands
Sasawa glared at the rest of tht
generals and colonies and angrily
said, you don't have to work i
you don't want to!"
"Will we be punished If we dom
work?" one of our generals asked
mo, you won't" Sasawa answered
"You will not be punished"
But then he turned to the caml
commander and ordered him to havs
lists made of all those who refused
to work, another list prepared of al
those who volunteered to work ane
third list made of those engaged
in administrative work at the camI
who wished to continue on theil
jobs.
When the lists were compiled 1
was found that the American of
ficers had voted almost solidl,
against work of any kind. Thos,
few who did continue working wer,
granted more food Immediately. Jus
as Immediately the food of the mill
tant rebels was seriously cut.
(TOmorrow: The courageous
stand Of the American officers at
Shirakawa, and their removal
toward Manchuria.)
Copyright, 1915, King Feature
Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction i
| ,ohole or in part strictly prohibited.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
D. {. Diaries Prepare
Milk Ration Program
For Use Next Week

Washington dairies today pre-
pared to reinstate voluntarily ,
modified form of rationing to Gus
toners as the city faced shortag,
of milk.
The program, which will leave ur
to individual deliverymen the ques'
ton of who is to receive less milk, i.
similar to the quota program place.
in effect by the Government durins
the war.
Some dairies expect to begin the
plan over the week end, while others
may be forced to limit their custo.
mers starting next week.
Herman SchulteiS, vice president
of Chestnut Farms Dairy, pointed
out that the city would not be with
out milk and that the shortage
probably Is only temporary. There
is a shortage, but there is no justi-
fication for assuming it is crisis,
he declared.
The dairy official said his com
pany had no definite plans for vol.
untary rationing this week end, al.
though he admitted it might be
necessary next week.
A spokesman for Thompson's
Dairy said its routemen are being
cut from 10 to is per cent of then
normal supply. "We are leaving II
up to the men to convince their
customers to cut down a quart OF
milk every other day or so," he said
Generally, routemen are being in
structed to cut back, deliveries
where the reduction will affect Gus
TONERS the least. Families without
children would be asked first to take
a cut, it was pointed out.
The milk shortage here Is similar
to conditions in other metropolitan
centers in the East and New Eng
land.
Some dairies have halted the
sales of cottage cheese, buttermilk
and whipping cream in order to
partially make up the deficit in
fluid milk.
Bruce B. Derrick, manager of the
Maryland and West Virginia Milk
Producers Association, estimates the
daily deficit here at about 10000
gallons.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
$4,000 From Europe
Dock Today in East;
1860 on West coas|
Ry the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press.
Sixteen transports, carrying more
than $4,000 veterans of the Euro
Ipean war, are scheduled to dock to-
day at three East Coast ports, while
10 more ships are due at three West
Coast ports with more than 1850
troops from the Pacific.
More than IL 800 troops are due
at New York aboard nine vessels,
approximately 1890 at Boston
aboard five ships, and more than
/ 100 at Newport News, Va, aboard
two transports.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York-(Vulcania from lie
Havre) 4,096 troops including fol-
lowing units of 9Th Armored Divi-
sion: 3736th Tank Battalion with
medical attendants, Seth Tank Bat
TALON with medical attendants, 18th
Armored Medical Battalion, 58th
Armored Infantry Battalion, Head
quarters and Headquarters Com
lpany Combat Commands A and b
Excelsior from lie Havre) 2,O4s
troops including the 18th Tank Bat
TALON and miscellaneous high score
personnel.
tRoseville from Antwerp 495
troops including the 302d and 304th
Port Companies.
Miscellaneous troops on the fol-
lowing: Marine Fox from LIE Havre
2,475; Norway Victory, 1861: King
Woolsey from Southampton, SCI
Daniel Heister from LIE Havre, 20;
Atenas from Bremen, 7, and Richard
B. Lyons from Cardiff, %.
A. Boston Robert T. Paine from
Southampton 528 troops, including
36lst Fighter Squadron.
Miscellaneous troops on the fol-
lowing: Grenville Dodge from Italy
582; Thomas johnson from Antwerp
637; Wallace Tyler from Antwerp, 3
and Matthew Maury from LIE Havre
594.
At Newport ws-Miscellaneous
troops on the following: Benjamin
Milan, SIT, and Joseph Leidy, 566.
At Los Angeles-Miscellaneous
troops on the following: Marias
Z; Fond du Lac. 2,200; Pleau Laut
1000, Donald Kaiser, from Iowa
76 soldier-patients, and Ina Cool.
birth, IA casuals.
At San Francisco-Miscellaneous
personnel on the following: Bald
Eagle, H. Electra, 1877: Harvard
Victory, ST; Irwin, 70; John H
Payne, IT; Laredo Victory, Q; Rocks
So; Winged Arrow, 1881, and Car
rier Pigeon, 6.
At Observation-Disclosures person
mel aboard the following: Albert j
Berres, from Hilo, %: Matsonia
from Brisbane, 3,173 Army; 1907
Navy; Prince Georges, from Tokyo
l ,023, and Columbia. from Alaska
1863.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Woshington-Ottowo
Air Service Scheduled

Colonial Airlines, Inc, plans to
institute regular daily faightsbe-
tween Ottawa, Canada. ana wash
ington beginning about the first of
the year, it was announced by
Sigmund Janas, airlines president,
in a statement issued at New York
The company, he said has been
granted certificate to serve these
cities with intermediate stops at
Massena. Watertown, Syracuse,
Binghamton in New York, Scranton
and Reading in Pennsylvania and
Baltimore.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Boy, Is, EIopes Again
With Mother Of Two
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONG BEACH, Calf, Nov. TO-
Search continued today for Els
worth Wisecarver, 16, fish cannery
employe, and Mrs. Eleanor Deveny,
rs, wife Of a soldier now in Japan
and mother of two children, who had
been missing since Wednesday night,
according to Deputy Sheriff w. o.
Reynolds.
Mr.. Reynolds quoted the girls
father, Michael Paster, as saying
his daughter and Wisecarver, former
merchant seaman, left the home of
friend together, remarking that
they were going out for sandwiches,
and that he had not heard from
them since.
The sheriff recalled that a year.
and-a-half ago, Wisecarver, then
IA, had eloped to Yuma, Ariz.. with
Mrs. Elaine Monfredi, %, also the
mother of two children. They were
apprehended in Denver, their mar
riage was annulled and Mrs. Mon
fredi was placed on probation on the
charge of contributing to the delin-
quency of minor, police explained
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Indonesiu
Continued From First Page.)

at Soerabaja, the announcement de-
clared.
The IndoneSians, who made the
first announcement of the full-scale
engagement which is raging at the
Java base. reported that shells be-
gan to fall at am. The shelling
was reported to be increasing in
intensity.
FaGed to Comply with Ultimatum.
Fr.n all indications the Indone-
SLAMS had failed to comply with any
part OF the British ultimatum, which
directed that British hostages be
freed, that all arms be surrendered
at a prescribed place and that lead
ers of the Indonesian youth move
ment, the Soerabaja chief of police
and the director of the clandestine
Soerabaja Nationalist radio station
give themselves up.
Broadcasts from the Nationalist
radio station throughout the night
urged Indonesians not to give ur
their arms but instructed them not
to attack the British unless at
tackled first.
The Indonesian government i'm
mediately telegraphed a report OF
the Soerabaja fighting to President
Soekarno, who left yesterday to at
tend the youth rally at Jogjakarta.
Negotiations Collapse.
Fighting at Soerabaja followed 9
breakdown of peace negotiations
with the British.
Soebardjo announced that hi
sent letter to Gen. Christison yes.
terday urging that the British ulti
matum not be enforced. Later IL
the day he conferred with the Allied
commander.
Later, when he came to the sta
ton to bid Soerkarno farwell, Soc
bardjo told correspondents that tn
British had refused to modify tn
ultimatum and the Indonesians a
Soerabaja were not complying
with 1t.
The foreign minister's letter +
Gen. Christison cited an agreemen
signed by Mai. Gen. D. C. Hawthor,
and Soekarno. which. he said. ma
brought about a situation in whicl
measures can be taken to pacif
Soerabaja.'
Warned OF Clashes.
Soebardjo's letter warned tina
measures for immediate disarma
ment of ''the irresponsible part {
the population would 4envitabl
lead to clashes, bloodshed and sti
greater disorders"
The Indonesian republic woul
endeavor to pacify Soerabaja, Soc
bardjo said, but the task woul
require "time and much tact
1t is not in the interest of til
government that the irresponsibl
part of the population is in posses
sion of arms which, in the Ion
run, may endanger the state itself
Fl beg you to use the method lea
provoking and most appropriate
gain control OF the situation" So.
bardjo's letter concluded.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
AmericoI Division Troops
Leove japan for Home
Rs the Associated press.

TOKYO, Nov. 10.-More than
500 men of the Americal Division
have embarked for home on the
ship Herald of the Morning, includ-
ing the 1st Battalion of the 132d
Infantry, Company B of the l21st
Medical Battalion of the 132d In
fantry, Company B of the 121st
Medical Battalion and the 246th
Field Artillery Battery.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Attorney General to Speak

Attorney General Clark will ad-
dress members of the Washington
Representatives Association at the
18th annual banquet of the group at
o'clock tonight in the Willard
Hotel. Capt. Ellis NJ Zacharias,
United States Navy, also is scheduled
to speak.
Evening star., 1945-11-10

8mDer Z3 Wnen
his B-26 Ma
rauder was de-
stroyed in mid
air during q
raid over Ger
many, now has
b e en- declared
de a d by the
War D p ar t.
ment, his par
e nts disclosed
today.
Co : pilot on
the light bomb
er, 1t. Dorm was
lost on his first
v,o;cciop nf az
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Killed S

I'd 1t. Robert L. Dorm, AAF, son
LOT Mr.. and Mrs. Albert G.. Dorm,
6l04 Forty Fourth place, Riverdale,
who has been missing since last De-
Evening star., 1945-11-10

Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press.
Senate:
In recess until Tuesday.
House:
| In adjournment until Monday.
Evening star., 1945-11-10

planes participating In the raid, his
parents learned recently from his
comrades, less than 20 returned.
A graduate of Hyattsville High
School and the University OF Mary
land. he entered the Army in June,
1912. In addition to his parents, he
is survived by brother, James W.,
10, coxswain, USNR, and sister,
Pfc. Martha Dorm. of the Marines.
stationed at Cherry Point, N. c.
A memorial service is planned at
the First Presbyterian Church Of
Hyattsyille.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
Weather Report

District of Columbia Cloudy.
rather windy and cool with inter-
nlittent light rain today, tonight
and tomorrow. Lowest temperature
tonight near A degrees.
River Report.
(From U. s. Ensineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and clear at Great Falls; Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry. =
Temperature and Humidity.
Evening star., 1945-11-10

her forward guns blazing, and that
Capt. Rocks was buried in either
the Petodjo or the Djati-Petam-
boeran Cemetery in Batavia. I took
down these notes In my diary, with
request that the facts be reported
to the United States Navy in the
event anything happened to me.
Looks After Animals.
When the weather turned good
again, and the sacroiliac trouble
with which I was suffering was
moderately cleared-it had origin
ated several years before in an
accident with my horse--I volun-
tarily went back to the job of look
ing after the animals. We had our
pigs, few chickens and we bought
two milk goats. In the spring our
sows and the goats produced young
to add to our growing animal colony
We did our best to get some milk
from the goats. but one was dry anc
the other gave only two small cups
day, despite the exertions of ar
expert milker-an English soldier
named Ramwell who had been Z
farmer in peacetine.
The Japs regularly took one o.
the two cups of milk and half ol
our eggs. The rest we gave to thoss
most In need of this nourishment.
We were forced to repurchase sucf
meat of ours as we slaughtered ane
were also charged for the milk, egg
and even the vegetables we grew
We tried to reason with the Japs or
this, for it meant that We were buy
ling these products, raising them
land then buying them again. Blu
we never received q satisfactor.
answer and knew enough not t,
press the point too far, 20 grateful
were we for not being beaten.
Evening star., 1945-11-10
record Temperaturss Th

Highest, 90, on July /.
Lowest. IL, on January rs.
Evening star., 1945-11-10

(Readings at WASHINGTON National Airport
Temper tuna !,
Evening star., 1945-10-24
Police and Firemen
ToGivePensionViews

Policemen and firemen of the lower
ranks will be given a chance to tell
the Commissioners what they think
of the proposed retirement bill at a
hearing possibly next month.
The city heads have already, dis
cussed the measure, which would
completely revamp present retire
-ment benefits, with the heads of
the departments affected and were
due to act on it yesterday. They
decided, however, to withhold
formal approval until hearing from
the men in the ranks.
Under the proposed changes, the
annuity base would be half the
average of the highest five years of
pay instead of half the base pay at
which personnel retire. as it now is.
Retired personnel would have to lay
aside from their annuities monthly
half the amount they want their
beneficiaries to receive in the event
of their death. At present widows
receive up to $50 month without
any deduction from the annuity
Other clauses call for raising the
retirement money withheld from
salary from 3la to 5 per cent.
In an effort to keep veterans of
Is years service or more from re.
firing at SIS, a bonus of 4 per cent
year increase in annuity base be-
tween the years of SIS and so is
provided.
Evening star., 1945-10-24
LoureIMon, s., GetsYeorinJ Jail
Instead OF Lash in Wife BEATING
Judge Says Age
Of Defendant Saved
Him From Whip

Albert Nicholson, SO, Laurel Md
carpenter, today began serving a
one-year sentence in the Maryland
House of Correction after he was
convicted yesterday in Prince
Georges County Circuit Court at
Upper Marlboro of assaulting his
estranged wife, Effie, 46.
Judge Charles C. Marbury. who
heard the Nicholson case with Judge
John B. Gray, jr., said only the de-
fendant's age and the fact that he
is estranged from his wife saved him
from the whipping post. The SEN
tence is the maximum for such an
offense.
1t was Judge Marbury who last
week invoked an 1882 statute to
impose a sentence of 10 lashes on
Lloyd o. Busching, 80, Dillon Park
who was convicted of asSaulting his
diminutive 25-year- -old wife, Doro-
thy. The whipping was carried out
last Friday at the county Jail in
Upper Marlboro.
Mrs. Nicholson, one of IA witnesses
who testified in the case, said she
was attacked in the bedroom of hel
home at Laurel the night of April 16
Although she was unable to see
her assailant's face, Mrs. Nicholson
said she was positive it was hel
husband because I knew his crue
hands which had beaten anc
choked me before" AS a result OF
the attack, Mrs. Nicholson said she
spent II days at Leland Memorial
Hospital, Riverdale.
Mrs. Edna Saylor. Baltimore, q
sister of Mrs. Nicholson. said she
Evening star., 1945-10-24
Navy TO Take Chinese
To Manchuria Ports
Ey the Associated Press.

Sy the ASSOClateO fTeSS.
CHUNGKING, Oct. 24.-Russian
and Chinese officials are negotiating
over whether Chinese Nationalist
occupation troops destined for Man
churia may land at Dairen and Port
Arthur, it was learned in authorita-
tive quarters today.
1t was reported the two govern
ments already had agreed Chinese
troops could be landed at the ports
of Antung, Yingkow and Halutao.
Chinas 18th and SD armies will
be transported to Manchuria by
Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid's 7th
Fleet. Canton and Haiphong will
be among the ports of embarkation
Ta Kung Wan Pao, independent
daily published in Chungking, said
Chinese Armies were proceeding to
Manchuria by both land and sea, as
Soviet forces, in accordance with
provisions of a Sino-Soviet pact
withdraw from that territory.
The newspaper said Chinese units
were embarking from Haipong and
Kowloon and would have a short
rest at Shanghai, where they would
be equipped with winter clothing.
Chinese troops under Gen. Ii Wen
| it added, were thrusting meanwhile
toward Manchuria along the Pei
ping -Hankow railroad.
Evening star., 1945-10-24
Academy Issue
Waits Action on
Training Plan
House Group Drops
Plan to Vote Today
On Buying St. Johns
by the. Associated Press.

BY the, Associated Press.
The Navy's plans to double the
size of the Naval Academy at An
napolis will have to wait until Con-
gress approves its general postwar
training program.
The House Naval Affairs Com
mittee had planned to. vote finally
today on the first step1(n this pro-
jected enlargement-acquisition of
st. Johns College adjoining the
academy-but it delayed action.
Committee Chairman Vinson said
no action will be taken on the con-
troversial st. Johns issue until
decision is reached on whether it
will be necessary to expand the
Naval Academy" That will take at
least 10 days, he said.
To Act on Training First.
Not until the committee has given
approval to the Navy's postwar
training program, including naval
ROTC and the education of aviation
cadets, Mr. Vinson said, will it act
on the Navy's request for permis-
sion to acquire the 32-acre ST.
Johns campus.
Department officials have told
both Senate and House Tsaval At
fairs Committees that purchase of
st. Johns, the initial step in a pro-
posed 100000 expansion program
at the academy, is essential even
if no general expansion in training
is approved.
Some opposition to acquiring the
campus of st. Johns, one of the
Nations oldest colleges, has come
from proponents of a second acad-
emy on the West Coast or else
where. Several bills to provide a
second academy have been offered
at this session of Congress.
Want New Dormitory.
Navy spokesmen say the present
academy dormitory, Bancroft Hall
is badly overcrowded with the pres
ent midshipman corps of 5000. They
want the adjacent college campus
for new dormitory and have pro-
posed increasing the schools size
to between 5000 and $500.
st. Johns officials, at several con-
gressional hearings, have contended
that other land is available for the
expansion, and have said they will
relinquish the school voluntarily
only in the face of a formal dec
laration by both committees that
such action is essential to the ma
! tional welfare.
Evening star., 1945-10-24
$50 Women Disappointed
When Ny|on Sale Folds Up

About $50 women waiting in line
to buy nylons today at the Marilyn
Shop, 1874 F street NV, were dis
appointed when the sale suddenly
stopped.
Meyer Revitz, the proprietor, ex-
planned that shipment he expected
had not arrived Last Saturday,
when the sale of 1000 pairs almost
halted sidewalk traffic, he had told
customers there would be more on
sale today.
Faced with crowd of more than
100 women in front of his place at
am, he put on sale some 300 pairs
he had been saving for customers
who mad placed orders month ago
The supply soon ran out.
For a short time this morning the
shop was competing with the Cap
itol Theater, which is in the same
block. As the word "nylons" passed
along the theater queue, many wom-
en- deserted their places in the line
to join the line in front of the store
Evening star., 1945-10-24
Ad Club Speaker Urges
Realistic Postwar View

Warning against Legislative short
cuts to prosperity" Merryle Stanley
Rukeyser, New York economic COM
mentator, told the Advertising Club
at the Statler Hotel yesterday the
way to meet the transition period
was to face realistically the prob
lem of imitation"
He recommended imitation should
be stopped at the source" through
drastic economies in Federal ex-
penditures, the end of deficits at
the earliest practical moment and
a schedule of Federal debt-reduction
within the next year or two"
I'VE can get on with reconver-
sion," Mr.. Rukeyser declared" as
soon as the people make deter
mined effort to face problems of
transition realistically and abandon
the current naive effort to outlaw
business risk through legislative
formulae on the one hand, and
collective bargaining on the other.
/ Postwar progress" he declared,
depends on reliance on the demon
strated superiority of the American
system-which rests on the thrift
and industry of the people, aided by
superior tools and increased guam
titles of mechanical energy,
Evening star., 1945-10-24
Seven Hurt in Collisions
Involving 6 Automobiles

Seven persons were injured, none
seriously, in two collisions involving
six automobiles late yesterday on
Route l, 8 miles south of Laurel
Maryland State police said the
first accident occurred when an
automobile hit the rear car of a
line of three which had stopped
behind school bus near the Oak
crest Inn. A few minutes later, a
northbound car skidded into a
southbound car as the two machines
attempted to pass the wreck. Police
listed the following as injured in
the second collision:
Samuel Lebowitz, 80, of $500 Liv-
ingston road NV; Harry P. En-
gel, "a, of 7l2 Roxboro place NV;
William Corcoran, Is, of 101l Six
teenth street S.W.; John A. Hilmer,
"a; Paul E. Davis, AZ; A. F. Hauser,
50, all of Baltimore, and Kemp
White, 30, of Lansdale.
.All were treated for minor in
juries at Leland Memorial Hospi-
tai at Riverdale.
Evening star., 1945-10-24
{ Street Shoe Shop
Heavily Damaged by Fire.

A two-alarm fire which swept
through second and third floor
storerooms of the building occupied
by the Star Rapid Shoe Repair Co.,
625 E street NV, last night caused
damage estimated by the Fire De-
partment at several thousand dol
lars.
OF undetermined cause, the blaze
started in a stockroom and broke
through the roof Of the structure.
Considerable damage was done to
repaired shoes.in the first floor shop
and to leather, heels and other sup
plies in the store, according to the
Fire Department.
A passerby turned in the first
alarm at 8:16 pm. and second
alarm was sounded on arrival of
firemen.