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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14

he always carried around with him
He took out some tobacco, wrapped
it in tissue paper, stuffed it all into
his pipe and lighted it. Then he no.
ticed the general and his staff staring
at him in amazed silence. Colonel
Obolensky felt uncomfortable at first
but he was relieved when the general
smiled and the silence was broken as
the Italian excitedly began firing
questions at him.
1t turned out that the general had
never seen a corn-cob pipe before.
The colonel explained that "corn-cobS"
had first been made in Missouri and
that many Americans, among them
General Macarthur, smoke them.
But, asked the general, why did
Obolensky wrap the tobacco in tissue
paper? The colonel explained that
the paper keeps the tobacco burning
steadily, obviating the lighting OF
matches that would give him away at
night during his commando missions.
The general was so fascinated by
the procedure of filling and lighting
the pipe that he asked Obolensky over
and over again to do the wonderful
trick once more.
The colonel, of course, obliged.
The ice was broken, with the result
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14

order TO take the town Of Eguzon and
prevent the retreating Germans from
destroying the powerful transformers
that relayed electricity TO Paris, some
200 miles TO the southwest.
With the help OF the Maquis, he
and his men-for whom the colonel
never has enough praise succeeded
brilliantly in the mission.
Born 55 years ago. and bred as
Prince Obolensky at TSarskoe Sclo.
the summer residence of the former
TsarS of Russia near St. Petersburg.
the colonel fought in an elite Russian
cavalry regiment during World War /
In 1916, he married Princess Cath
crime AleXandrovna Bariatinska,
morganatic daughter of Tsar Alexan-
der III, whom he divorced in 1923.
A year later he married Alice
Muriel AStor and moved 10 America
where he dropped his princely title
and became a citizen.
In 1882, he was divorced from Alice
with whom he had two children. Ivan
and Sylvia. But he remained on friend.
ly terms with her brother Vincent.
helping him in his real estate and
hotel enterprises
Obolensky joined the New York
State Guard-as a private. Only a
year later he was commissioned a
major in the IT, s. Army and. made
lieutenant colonel was put i'm charge
OF training special paratroop com
mandos TO bolster resistance in enemy
occupied territories
Now again a civilian, Obolensky
reminisces with nostalgia satisfaction
about his daring exploits. sitting ia
his office at the swank Plaza Hotel
in New York - and putting at his
precious Corn-cob pipe
He's back in the hotel business
and Gotham's society columns.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14

The Italian General Was So
Fascinated by the COlOners
American Pipe That He Gave
Up n Whole Island to the Allies
Without a Fight.
Evening star., 1945-11-02
0PA TO Announce Auto
Ceilings If Makers Don't

The Office of Price Administration
is prepared to announce retail cell
ings for all makes of new automo-
miles early next week.
Price Administrator Bowles prom
ised this yesterday after pointing
out that OPA would first give each
manufacturer an opportunity to an
nounce his own ceilings. If the
manufacturers don't make the an
nouncement within a day or so of
receiving the figures, OPA will dis
close them, he said.
The price chief refused comment
on what the new ceilings will be, al
though reports persist that they will
be above 1912 prices. Mr.. Bowles
has insisted that prices will be the
same or close to those of the last
prewar models.
He also refused comment on state
ments made by automobile dealers
that the OPA planned to allow price
increases to manufacturers but ex-
pected dealers to absorb them.
Evening star., 1945-11-02
.225-Pound Detective Falls
Through Roof in Chase

A policeman's lot is not happy
one, and that goes double for De-
tective Sergt. Howard Ogle of the
gambling squad.
Wednesday an unsympathetic chow
dog chased him up a 10-foot fence
during numbers raid.
Yesterday he fell through a
rickety roof while chasing some mer
during raid on an alleged gambling
place in the 600 block of K
street Sc.
When police started to break ir
some 20 men in the place jumped
through an open window onto an
abutting roof and started running
Detective Ogle followed but stepped
on weakened portion of the roof
His 225 pounds plunged through
rotted wood and tar paper up to
his hips.
Other police participating in the
raid arrested John Diggs, 30, colored
of the 500 block of K street Sc. He
was freed under 81 500 bond and will
be arraigned today before United
States Commissioner Needham c.
Turnage on charges of operating a
lottery and possession of numbers
slips.
Evening star., 1945-11-02
Wallace Is Presented
First WiIIkie Award

Secretary of Commerce Wallace
yesterday received the first annual
Wendell Willkie Memorial Award
from the African Academy of Arts
and Research in ceremonies in his
office at the Commerce Building.
The award is made to the person
deemed to have contributed most to
international leadership and inter-
national associations based on prin-
ciples Of equal justice for all.
A delegation from the acade-
my, headed by Kingsley Ozuomba
Mbadiwe. president; Prince Akike
Nybongo of Uganda. East Africa
Asadata Dafora. African dancer;
Mbonu Ojike, executive director of
the academy; Mrs. Mary Mcleod
Bethune, noted Negro leader, and
Judge Louis Goldstein Of Brooklyn,
N. Y, presented the award and the
gift accompanying it. a hand-carved
mahogany table made III Nigeria,
Africa.
Performance of African ceremo-
nial dances by Mr.. Dafora, African
drum beating by Norman Coker and
the playing of Transcribed African
music kept the ceremony from be-
ing the usual thing.
Evening star., 1945-11-02
VictoryLoun
Continued From First Page.)

Store rallied in support of the bond
drive. Mrs. Howard G. Nichols
chairman of the women's division
announced today that the Gen
Lewis A. Armistead Chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy reported sales exceeding $32,-
900, or $4,000 more than their drive
quota. The UDC women staff a
booth in Peoples Drug Store at
25l6 Connecticut avenue NV.
Meanwhile, the War Finance Com
mittee announced the Victory Cara
van trailer has sold more than Sl0,-
900 in three days of operations in
WaShington's downtown sector
Nearly so per cent of all bonds the
caravan has sold have been to serv-
icemen or discharged veterans, ac-
cording to Wilmer j. Waller, chair
man of the District Committee.
Vinson on Network.
Secretary of the Treasury Vinson,
speaking last night on a network
broadcast heard locally over station
VOL, declared:
I'm the present fiscal year-which
began a month and a half before
VI day-the total expenditures of
the Government will be about &c
billion dollars, of which more than
so billion is still for war activities.
We are demobilizing. We must
bring our boys home. This takes a
lot of money.
ut is appropriate that the Victory
Loan should be held during the
month of Thanksgiving. We have
much to be thankful for. Our
troops are no longer dying in COM
bat. Our country has not been
bombed. Our homes and industries
have not been destroyed. The
Victory Loan offers us the opportu-
nifty for double Thanksgiving. The
loan is an opportunity to finish the
job"
80 NAM Outlines Program.
The National Association of
Manufacturers, through its Home
and Industrial Committee, has out
Ineo program Tor women's organ
izations of the country to aid them
in practicing imitation control
through better buying behavior"
The program combines restrained
purchasing Of scarce materials and
continued investment in Victory
Bonds.
The National Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs has set a goal of s75,-
100000 in Victory Bonds, and
Gamma Phi Beta, national women's
sorority, has fixed its quota at
$3,OOO,0OO.
The 19-foot long, armored Mer-
cedes-Benz car which once belonged
to Herman Goering will be on dis
play for buyers of any bond de-
nomination here tomorrow. The
public can inspect the 8-ton monster
from 10 am. to 10 pm. tomorrow at
the Capitol Garage, 1914 New York
avenue NV Four of the soldiers
who captured the car at Laufen,
Germany, make up the crew DEM
onstrating it.
Evening star., 1945-11-02
German Gets 3 Years
In Tax, Price Cases
B. the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Thomas M
German, 43, one-time Broadway
playboy who pleaded guilty to in.
come tax evasion and over-ceilins
liquor sales, received two prisor
sentences of 312 years each yester.
day. The sentences run concur.
rently.
German, former husband of Ma.
talie Guggenheim, copper heiress
appeared before Judge Harold M
Kennedy in Federal Court, Brook.
iyn, and received the first sentence
He also was fined $4,000. 1t wa.
charged he failed to pay $685., 900 ir
income taxes due in 1943..
A account criminal information
when German pleaded guilty to vio-
aation of OPA ceilings on October %
said he collected $500,O00 in over
ceiling price sales between July, 1943
and May, 1914. In that case Federal
Judge Grover Moscowitz in Manhat-
tan gave German the second prison
sentence.
United States Attorney John F. x
McGohey said German pocketed the
s500,000 in illegal profits from the
sale of $2,253 ,054 in whisky.
The United States Attorney said
10 fine was recommended in the
price ceiling case because German
was defendant in an OPA treble
damage action for recovery of
s5,292,372. This case is pending.
He said German, while assistant
eastern division sales manager
Tor Browne Vintner Co., Inc, sold
whisky at excessive prices to dealers
hotels and roadhouses in Nebraska.
Illinois, Missouri and other Midwest
States without the knowledge of the
CORPORATION.
Evening star., 1945-11-02
Two WPB Vice Chairmen
Returning 10 Labor Posts

Two labor relations vice chairmer
of the War Production Board have
resigned and are returning to theil
prewar jobs with labor, Chairman
]. A. Krug announced yesterday.
The designations were those OF
Joseph D. keenan,, vice chairman
for labor production, who returns as
secretary of the Chicago Federation
of Labor (AFL, and Clinton s.
Golden, vice chairman for man
power requirements, who resumes
his work as assistant to Philip Muir
ray, president of the CIO.
Mr.. Krug praised the contribution
of labor in Government during the
war. This participation had proved
its worth in accomplishing the tre-
mendous production that conquered
the Axis" he added.
Evening star., 1945-11-02
Me.rqer
Continued From First Page.)

Merger would "submerge the inter
ests of sea-air power to the Army,
the league declared in urging tn
committee to study the proposals fo
full year before taking action.
Earlier the Senate committe
learned that Admirals Chester w
Nimitz and William F. Halsey VIII,
had favored unification of the serv
ices in testimony before a sub
committee of the joint chiefs o
staff year ago, now have changed
their minds and are opposed to /;
single department of the armec
forces.
Taking cognizance of the Navy.
opposition to merger but approva
of uniflcation of operations in over.
seas theaters, Gen. Kenney said "wt
must be prepared to be the targe
for the first large-scale offensive act
of any nation which may strive Il
emulate the Axis without making it.
mistakes"
Gen. Kenney pointed out the ad.
vantages gained for the Allies BY
giving the air force under Gen. Mac
Arthur co-equal status with that OF
the ground and naval forces.
Gen. Kenney urged that the same
procedure of unified command IS
exercised under Gen. Macarthur be
adopted in the United States so that
I'VE will in peace familiarize anc
train our future commanders anc
their stats with the principles ol
employment of all the arms"
Il do not hold with those who
maintain that interservice rivalry
is responsible or is a necessary pre-.
requisite for excellence in equipment
and training of each," he said. I'll
would be as logical as trying tc
build winning football team BY
fostering rivalry between the backs
and the line. I feel tremendous
economies can be accomplished by
eliminating parallel agencies with q
gain rather than a loss in opera
tional efficiency in war and peace
Navy League Protests.
In his protest, Sheldon Clark, the
Navy Leagues president, declared the
merger controversy is the most seri.
Gus threat to United States naval su-
premacy since the Washington Dis
armament Conference of 1923 and
Tho TopIo,, ropforanne of t0oa !,
which resulted in the loss "of 235
first-line ships, or more than the
total of similar vessels sunk by Ger
many and Japan combined in World
War H."
Mr.. Clark's letter quoted Gen
Macarthur as having declared in
1882, when he was Army chief oil
staff, that amalgams ton of the two
services would, in my opinion, rep
resent one of the greatest debauches
of extravaganza that any nation
has ever known"
In the testimony taken by the
joint chiefs of staff subcommittee
and released yesterday by the
Senate committee, however, Gen
Macarthur was disclosed to have
later changed his stand and now
favors uniflcation even to the
point that the Army and Navy
would wear the same uniform. He
urged elimination of the Army
Navy athletic rivalry because these
games have caused feeling so in
tense that they color a mans whole
life"
The testimony was taken by two
tdmirals and two Army generals
Their report will be made public
Evening star., 1945-11-02

Sunday. Authoritative sources have
reported they voted three to one for
uniflcation of the two services under
a single cabinet secretary. The re-
port includes the testimony of go
other top-f1ight Army and Navy
leaders.
Admiral Nimitz, explaining his
1914 testimony to the subcommittee
in favor of the merger, declared last
night at Pearl Harbor he believed
the theoretical advantage claimed
by the mergers advocates were not
obtainable in practice. The closest
approach to single department, he
said, was the plan employed by Ger
many and "how 1t worked for Ger
many is a matter of history"
Admiral Nimitz pointed out that
America started out with single
Department of National Defense,
but when war threatened with
France the War Department had
Congress establish a Navy Depart
ment in 1898.
I'VE have proof in accomplish
ment-W1nnlng the war under the
present system" Admiral Nimitz
concluded.
Halsey Changes Stand.
Admiral Halsey, whose Sd Fleet
played major part in defeating
the Japanese, declared in 1914 he
favored a single department if it
would not injure Navy standing.
Last night, the Navy issued a
statement made by Admiral Halsey
at his Wilmington, Del, home which
said:
Il find that now, as a combat
commander, I cannot favor it,
The 1914 opinion, he said, was
based on my strong, continuing
knowledge that a unified command
was an imperative factor in success
ful combat operations. His opin-
ion has not changed on that score,
he declared. However. naval supply
and support involves special knowl-
edge, he added
Evening star., 1945-11-02
Writer Says Peron
Threatened Braden 5
Life by Implication
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Colliers
magazine says Col. Juan peron, Ar
gentina's strong man." threatened
the lives of two American news
papermen, and by a slightly veiled
implication. the life of Spruille
Braden last June 13.
Mr.. Braden then United States
Ambassador to Argentina and at
present Assistant Secretary of State
in charge of Latin-A American affairs,
had no comment on the article.
The Golfers story, written by
Joseph Newman, New York Herald
Tribune correspondent in Argentina,
says Peron met Mr.. Braden at
Buenos Aires and delivered some
cold-blooded threats which made
Braden loop up and listen in amaze
ment."
Mr.. Newman continues:
"Peron announced that the lives
OF two American correspondents
those of the New York Times and
the New York Herald Tribune, were
IN danger because of the reports
they were sending to the United
States; that he had received word
that Braden had been talking with
the businessmen who were conduct
ing the campaign against him; that
his people, in their fanatical adora-
ton of him, were capable of murder
ing any one who stood in the col
onels way"
In addition to himself, Mr.. New
man says that Peron's threat was
directed at Arnaldo Cortesi, New
York Times correspondent.
"Braden was impressed by this
unprecedented outburst, but not
intimidated," Mr.. Newman writes.
He said that it did not matter if
he or any other Americans were
murdered; what was important was
that we stand by our Democratic
principles for which we have waged
two world wars and lost many
lives"
Five days later, Mr. Newman says.
Mr.. Braden delivered a stiff protest
from the State Department. Later,
in a meeting with Mr.. Braden. the
Argentine official reluctantly gave
the Ambassador the necessary
guarantee for the security of the
American correspondents" accord
ing to the article
Evening star., 1945-11-02
Canadian Shipments
|0f Newsprinf 10 U. 5.
To Set Record in '46
BY DAVID M. NICHOL,
Foreign Correspondent of The Star and
Chicago Daily News.

Cnlcago DAILY News.
MONTREAL, Nov. 2.-Canada will
send more newsprint to the United
States next year than ever in its
history, The shortage that has
hampered American newspapers
during the war probably will con-
tinue, however.
The answer, according to manu-
facturers here. is that United States
mills more and more are devoting
their available resources to the pro-
duction of expensive magazine and
book papers instead of newsprint.
Twenty eight per cent of the
United States market was supplied
by American sources in September
1889. BY January of this year the
proportion had fallen to % per cent
For the first six months of next
year, on the basis of preliminary
estimates, it will be only a little
more than II per cent.
Canada's share, in the meantime
has risen from 60 to IT'S per cent.
Canadian mills expect to ship l.
100000 tons of newsprint in the
first six months of 1916, or at the
rate of 100000 tons a year. The
figure is more than one-quarter
higher than 1889.
Supplies from American mills. on
the other hand are estimated for
the first six months of the year at
1886 900 tons, only about three
fourths of the 1899 rate. The only
other source of any consequence is
expected to be Newfoundland, with
about 100000 tons.
Wartime timber controls are still
retained in Canada. But increased
shipments depend less on controls
than on the number of workmen
available in the forests at present
and during the coming winter
Campaigns to recruit returning
servicemen for forest work have
met little response.
So far there has been a little
improvement over last year, most
of which has been erased by the
unusually wet October weather,
Copyright, 1945)
Evening star., 1945-11-02
Moscow Writers Surprised
Thot Censor Passed Stories


NEW YORK. Nov. 2 (P).-The
New York Times said in Moscow
dispatch today that nobody was
more surprised than members OF
the Anglo-American Correspond
ents Association when the Soviet
censor passed stories this week con-
cerning their criticism of Russian
censorship.
The association asked Foreign
Commissar Vyacheslav M. Molotov
by letter October 20 for removal OF
censorship on dispatches to Britain
and the United States, saying lit
destroys the value of foreign cor
respondence in a free world and has
created general distrust abroad OF
all news emanating from the Soviet
Union"
All Stories Released.
Molotov wrote the association that
he could not consider the request
because it contained no substantial
reasons.
The correspondents agree d
tamong themselves to submit the
letter and the stories to the censor -
wrote Brooks Atkinson, Moscow cor
respondent of the Times. "All
stories were released for transmits
sion"
He said the correspondents had
not supposed that a letter from
them would alter the Soviet policy,
but wished to put themselves on
record as opposed to censorship and
why.
The letter said Soviet censorship
was "dictatorial and arbitrary and
charged that censors frequently had
distorted the meaning of the mes
sages by altering the wording. It
said some censors were not suffi-
clently familiar with the English
language to understand the material
submitted and often were not in
formed on current events.
Some messages, it said, had been
delayed for Gays until their news
value was destroyed. 1t was charged
also that censors had assumed au-
thority on matters outside their
R'ofA1SS Al SCAioO4l
from non-Soviet sources dealing
with non-Soviet affairs.
Comparisons Take Long Time.
Now that the war is over we re-
spectfully request that you establish
the same conditions for free report
ing that Soviet journalists have in
Great Britain and the United
States" the letter said.
Mr.. Atkinson commented that
censorship was 'the most serious
situation with which foreign CORE
spondents have to contend in the
Soviet Union"
"As a general rule anything pub
lished in the Soviet press will be
passed by a censor after he has
compared the quotations and sum-
maries with the original. In dis
patch that uses material gathered
over a long period it takes censor
a long time to check the references
even when the correspondent SUBJ
mits with the story a list of the
sources"
All censors are personally agree
able and a protesting correspondent
is courteously received for recon-
sideration of deletions, the writer
added, but all this takes time"
Evening star., 1945-11-02
MEADE Soldier, Driving
Without Lights, Held

A 19-year -old Fort Meade soldier
was arrested by 18th precinct police
early today near Eighteenth street
and Columbia road NV. after being
stopped for the second time during
the night for running without
lights.
The car he was driving contained
a set of carpenters tools, suitcase
of clothing, five tires and wheels
and seven fog lights.
Evening star., 1945-11-02
7 British Newspapers
Hit MoIotov Refusal
To Relax Censorship
By the Associated Press.

bS tne Associated Press,
LONDON, Nov. 1.-Two British
newspapers took Soviet Foreign
Commissar " M. Molotov to task
today for rejecting American and
British correspondents pleas for re-
taxation of Russian censorship.
The correspondents had argued
that censorship was retarding the
Developments of understanding of
this U. S. S. r. abroad. Molotov re-
piled that the protest was mot
solid" and that he could not con-
slider it. '
The Daily Herald, Labor party
organ, said: "We sincerely hope
that Mr.. Molotov's snub to =
correspondents in Moscow is not to
be his last word =" =. The (corre-
Spondents0 memorandum is states
manlike in its aim and factual in
Its reasoning .. Molotov's reply
shows serious underestimation of
the part which the press plays =
in assisting formation of British and
American opinion"
The Liberal News Chronicle COM
mented: 1.-THE free flow of news is
essential if countries are to gain in
knowledge and understanding of
each other. Mr.. Molotov does no
service to his country or the world
by refusing any modification of CEN
sorship."
Most London papers prominently
displayed stories of the memoran-
dunn and its rejection.
Evening star., 1945-11-02
Bon on Extro Trousers
To Continue, WPB Says
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Vests for mems double breasted
suits and extra trousers for suits
will be banned from manufacture
for some time to come. the War
Production Board said yesterday.
The wartime manufacturing re-
strictions to conserve fabrics must
continue in the case of worsted
materials which are scarce in rela-
ton to demand. WPB said.
Evening star., 1945-11-02

Funeral services will be held at
the S. H. Hines funeral home, 290l
Fourteenth street NV. at 3 pm
Monday. Burial will follow at Rock
Creek Cemetery.
MIR. Hudson is survived by his
widow, one daughter, Mrs. William
F. Dismer, jr.; a son, 1t. Comdr. r
Minor Hudson, jr., U. S. N. R.; two
sisters. Miss Annie Hudson and Mrs
Edith Morton. and four grand
children.