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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Lord Haw Haw Faces
Trial on June Is
For High Treason
Ey the Associated Press.


LONDON, June Is. William
Joyce. the American-born Lord Haw
daw, who tainted the British over
the German radio, was charged
with high treason today in ancient
Bow Street Court.
The charge was based on the
contention that between Septem-
Der 2, 1889, and May 20, l945. being
a person owing allegiance to His
majesty, the King, he adhered to
the Kings enemies elsewhere than
In the Kings realm-to wit. the
German realm-contrary to the
Treason Act"
Joyce, looking older than his 80
years, showed little emotion as he
heard the magistrate read the
charge and was bound over for
trial beginning June IS
Stands Erect.
Iondoners queued up outside the
Bow Street Court to get a glimpse
OF Hsw Haw, who appeared on the
docket with a half-dozen drnnks'
and prostitutes. He had been
brought here from Brussels by air
Saturday and spent the week end IN.
a Bow Street CELL He still was limp,
ing from a bullet wound inflicted in
his leg by one of the British officers
who captured him near Flensburg.
Joyce stood erect in the dock, his
hands clasped behind him and his
gaze on the ceiling as the charge
was read There was a faint sheer
on his SCARED face as he left after
the arraignment. which LASTED only
Is minutes
He was listed on the charge sheet
as one of no fixed home and no
occupation Asked If he had any
questions. Joyce replied in a firm
voice: No, thank you, sir
The whole proceedings were ham
died in routine manner. The mag
istrate told him he had a week to
prepare his case and asked if he had
any objections.
Il have no objections" replied
Joyce, but I should have to apply
for legal assistance"
Joyce Quoted.
Chief Inspector Frank Bridges OF
Scotland Yard told the court that
when Joyce was turned over to him
by military authorities the prisoner
told him:
Il shall not add anything to the
statement ! have made to military
authorities.
While Army officers are expected
to appear as witnesses at the trial
| it will be entirely in the hands OF
civil authorities. Sir Bertrand Wat
son, chief metropolitan magistrate
presided at the arraignment today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Thundershowers Forecast;
Heat Wave Continues

Ihundershowers late this after,
noon or this evening may bring
temporary relief from the current
heat wave. but Washingtonians will
have to wait until tomorrow for
real drop in the temperature. the
Weather Bureau said today "
The mercury is expected to reach
the low COS again this. afternoon.
Tomorrow, however. the maximum
will be the low sos. with a few show
ers. The weatherman said cool
weather is gradually coming in from
the West and should remain for
few days at least.
Yesterday high Of "a degrees At
PAS pm. set the record for thu
year so far The mercury reached
86 at noon TODAY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Minton Named Head
OF C|emency Board 10
|ReviewCourts-MartiaI

A special clemency board to review
more serious" cases in which SOL
diers have been court martialed has
been established by the War De-
partment, it was announced today.
Judge Sherman Minton Of the Cir
cult Court of Appeals, former In
diana Senator, has been named as It's
chairman.
The new body will aid Undersec-
rotary Of War Patterson in the con-
sideration of appeals cases, it was
Explained. Establishment of the
board, which has been under con-
Isideration for some time, followed
several recent instances in which
members of Congress demanded in--
|yestigation Of courts-martial SEN:
fences, notably in the case Of a SOL
dier who was convicted for striking
German prisoners of war.
Members other than judge Min.
ton, include Austin H. MacCormick,
vice chairman, former commissioner
OF correction for New York City:
Brig. Gen. Rufus S. Ramey. former
commander Of an armored force in
Italy; Col. Hubert D. Hoover, re-
Gently returned from Europe where
he was on the staff of the Judge
advocate general, and 1t. Col. James
P. Hendrick, who has been handling
clemency cases in the War Depart.
ment.
Under Army regulations. clemencv
action reducing sentences of men
sentenced to Army disciplinary bar
racks and Federal prisons must be
reviewed by the Undersecretary OF
War. The new board, said the de-
partment. will recommend policie.
on clemencv during and after the
war, as we'll as examine individual
cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
| Nozi Air Secrets,
Given to Japan,
| Now Held by u. S.
BY the Associated Press,

By the AsSocia ted Press.
OAKLAND, Calf, June ls.-The
United States Army is in position
now to devise counter measures
against German armament secrets
turned over to the japanese, Brig.
Gen. William E. Farthing, COM
manding general of the Pacific
Overseas Air Technical Service, an
nounced yesterday.
In press release. he said that
all the secrets of German aero
nautical developments" are now
available to United States Army
Air Forces and that the Air Tech
nical Service will test German jet
aircraft, radar devices. V-weapons
and other instruments.
To prepare this materiel for test
ing, the former twin engine school
at Freeman Field, Seymour, Ind,
has been designated 4 receiving
center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Firestone Workers
Voting on Joining
GOODYEAR Strikers
BY the Associated Press,

AKRON, Ohio, June l8.-While
pickets patroled the three strike
bound plants of the Goodyear Tire
81 Rubber Co., employees of anoth-
er major Akron rubber producer
prepared today to vote on whether
they too should walk out.
The National Labor Relations
Board was to conduct a strike vote
among the $4,000 employees of the
Firestone Tire d. Rubber Co., just
81 days after the striking Goodyear
workers voted yes by 3-to-l
margin.
In Washington, the Goodyear
strike was IN process of certification
by the United States Cancellation
Service to the War Labor Board for
action today. 1t was expected that
the board would assume jurisdic-
ton before nightfall.
The Goodyear strike, authorized
by the CIO-United Rubber Workers,
followed two weeks of company
union negotiations on 80 disputed
issues, climaxed Saturday, when the
union Executive Committee recon-
mended inconvenience" in the
latest company proposals.
More than 10000 employees are
idle because of the strike. c. ".
Wheeler. president of the Goodyear
local, estimated some 5000 produce
ton workers were involved and COM
pany officials instructed 1000 ONCE
employees not to report to work to-
day
Mr.. Wheeler said the strike began
in the rim plant, where workers
walked out Saturday night. after
demanding an additional man in
| each rim crew. The GOODYEAR
plants are almost 100 per cent in
! war production.
AS the walkout spread. the URW
local took up the action as oficisl,
setting a 4:30 am. Sunday deadline.
| and union committeeman circulated
through the factories telling workers
This Is an authorized strike"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Threatening Clouds Fail to Stop
Music Lovers at Water Gate

The first drops OF a shower were
falling at 8 O'Clock last night, but
the people who love music by the
water at night didn't seem to notice
Thousands of them filled the steps
and chairs by the side of the Po-
tomac. and spilled over on the Lin
coin Memorial, the Memorial Bridge,
and the grass around, to hear the
first of the National Symphony Or
chestra's Water Gate concerts.
BY the time they'd sung the ma
tional anthem, the shower had
blown away, leaving only lightning
to fash behind the orchestra s
barge. and breeze that blew the
river into waves and rocked the
listener filled canoes which floated
nearby.
The concert was the gala opening
of the orchestra's ninth Water Gate
season Hans Kinder, conductor,
dedicated it as a victory concert.
in gratitude for victory in Europe
and in hope of speedy and final vic
tory in Asia" The music repre-
senteC various compositions OF the
United Nations. particularly featur-
ing Beethovens Fifth Symphony
since the theme of this concert has
been the musical symbol OF victory
throughout the war.
DR.. Kinder also had two special
attractions for hts audience.
First was Carl Sandburg, poet and
writer. who was narrator for the
Lincoln Portrait" by Aaron Cop
land The shag gy-haired author of
the most famous of Lincoln's biog-
raphies. stood in his shirtsleeves
facing the brilliantly lighted. Lin
coin Memorial, as he read. with the
music. from the speeches of the Civil
War President:
The dogmas Of the quiet past
are INADEQUATE to the stormy present
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18

The occasion is piled high
with dificulty and we must rise with
the occasion As would not be
A slave. as I would not be a master
This expresses my Idea of
democracy Whatsoever differs
from this. to the extent of the diff
ference, is not democracy"
Second. and as a surprise to his
audience, DR.. Kinder inserted in
the program, his own arrangement
of a l6th-century tune, written in
Holland, his native country 1T was
written" he told the audience,
when Holland was engaged in an
other war for tolerance, for indie
pendence and for freedom"
He dedicated the selection to the
four daughters of DR.. Maxilian
Steenberghe, head of the Eetherla nds
Economic Mission here. The four
girls, who were introduced to the
audience at the close of the tune,
came to this country six weeks ago
In Holland, DR.. Kinder told the
audience. their home had been one
of the centers of the underground
unconventional also had been head
quarters for the Gestapo during the
occupation. The sirls-Flora, %:
Elizabeth, 81. Wilhelmins, 10. and
Leontine, l6-all had worked, deliv.
ering messages, taking down infor.
nation from the radio. Even owning
a radio in Holland was capital
punishment
The tall blond girls bowed ano
smiled at the audience. Later they
said, we like America. We like
your autocars, and your shops so full
OF things and your beautiful clothes
and your kind, friendly people. We
like country where there is time
and peace and a place for people to
sit by the water and listen to the
music of q II countries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Capt.. J. ]. Rinker Elevated
By Pea 10 Chief Pilot

Promotion OF Capt. James T.
Rinker to chief pilot in charge of
flight personnel on the new Pitts.
bursh-New York route was an
nounced today by j. H. Carmichael
vice president of the Pennsylvania
Central Alrlines.
Capt. Rinker, who lives at 2420
Taylor avenue. Alexandra, was sue
ceeded as personnel director by
A. p. Enslert % East Woodbine
street, Chevy Chase, former assist
ant director.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Glider Practicing 10 Save
Trio in Shanghai Valley
BY the Associated Press.


MANILA. June l8.-Three per-
sons who survived the crash of an
Army transport plane in New
Guineas Shansri-La valley are
hiking toward a glider landing strip
built on the floor of the valley and
NAV be cut within week
Col E. T. 1n1parato, San Antonio,
Tex. chief of the 374th Troop Car
rier Group, said he had dispatched
a rescue plane to Hollandia Airfield
to practice shaking a glider off the
ground preparatory to picking up a
similar craft from the floor of
Shangri-La.
Col. 1mparato said the rescue
technique should be perfected by the
time the three, WAC Corpl Mar
garet Tasting. Owego, N. Y; 1t.
John B. McCollom, Trenton, Mo-,
and Sergt. Kenneth Decker, Kelso,
WASH, have completed the descent
down the rugged mountainside.
The group was to have begun the
trip down June Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Rally Scheduled Friday
To Press FEPC Renewal

Rallying support for the dying
Fair Employment Practice Commit
tee, the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People and
the Washington Industrial Union
Council have scheduled a mass
meeting for pm. Friday at the
South Interior Auditorium, Nine
teenth and c streets NV.
Sponsoring groups pointed out
that unless congressional action is
taken the FEPC will pass out OF
existence June &c. The House Com
mittee on Appropriations has de-
clined to earmark funds for the
agency after that date.
Speakers at the meeting will be
Walter White, executive secretary OF
the NAACP; Thomas Richardson
executive vice president. United Fed
eral Workers of America; the Rev
Francis McPeek, chairman, Social
Welfare Council, Washington Fed
Grafton of Churches; the Rev
George =. Higgins, National Cath
Ole Welfare Conference; Marcus
Cohn, Washington representative
American Jewish Committee. and
Canada Lee. stage and radio enter
tsjner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Okinuwu
Continued From First Page,

resumed Kamikaze air attacks on
American shipping in Okinawan
waters. Admiral Nimitz's COM
munique admitted one light unit
was sunk Saturday.
American fighters and torpedo
hombers hit back with three-hour
attack on the Amami Island group,
l20 miles north of Okinawa.
Other warplanes dumped nearly
10 tons of bombs on the japanese
on Okinawa, scared them with
rockets and machine gunned them.
Amphibious tanks, standing off
the western shore, lobbed shells into
the shrinking japanese positions.
In the center of the front, the 96th
Infantry Division cut down with
hand grenades lis japanese who
tried to filter into the American
lines in the dark early yesterday.
Enemy Pockets Reduced.
On the east flank, the 7th Infantry
Division beat down resistance of in
dividual japanese pockets as it
lOu&llt tllC SCdSVdi CSSo1 p
ment.
Admiral Nimitz said 80,459 Japa-
nese had been killed since the Amer
leans invaded the island April /.
Prisoners numbered 1880, but they
were coming in more slowly than
front dispatches indicated a few
days ago.
Last figure given for American
ground force, casualties was 1882
soldiers and Marines killed or miss
ing, and 2l.343 wounded as of May
"a.
japanese casualties do not include
. large number of wounded who I'M
ooubtedly are behind enemy lines
The Jap garrison originally was
estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000
but thousands of Okinawan con-
scripts have augmented this force
accounting for the 5000 to $4,000
remaining.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Bezuriin
Continued From First PAGE

wounds and once was hospitalized
for five months.
Talking with correspondents IN
Berlin last week about his assign
ment as commandment of the Ger
man capital, Gen. Bezarin said:
When they told me that I was
to become the commsndant I really
felt rotten. I knew we would find a
desperate. hungry people.
Il was killing Germans one day
and trying to keep them alive the
next"
Germans told the visiting CORE
spondents that Gen. BeZarin hao
done good Job in trying to reor-
sanize normal life and feed the
bomb-torn city.
Gen. Bezarin, like many another
Red Army commander, was the son
Of working class parents, and was
born in Leningrad. At the time Of
the revolution he threw in his lot
with the Bolsheviks and advanced
rapidly in the newly organized peo.
pies army
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18

in the District has been due to deal
ers being unable to make any profit
in selling at ceiling prices.
Justice Goldsborough, in impos-
ing sentence, said that courts are
instruments through which the will
of the people is carried out. He
stressed the point that courts must
be Just but that in preventing such
things as disastrous imitation they
should also be firm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Socialist Leoder'sW Widow
Dies in Nozi Prison Como

Z, The Associated Press
NEW YORK, June Is. Louisa
Ksutsky, 30, widow OF the German
Socialist leader and theoretician,
Karl Kautsky. died last October in
a Nazi concentration camp at Os-
wiecim, Poland, her son, Dr.. Karl
Kautsky, jr.. has revealed.
A native of Vienna. she was close
~ associated with her husband in
his literary ana scientific labors and
in his editorship of the widely
known magazine. Die Neue Zeit. in
STUTTGART
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Carol Bruce Morries

MINNEAPOLIS, June Is lP,.-
Actress Carol Bruce and Milton
Nathanson, Minneapolis tobacco
company executive, were married
yesterday. They met a week ago
while Miss Bruce was filling an en-
gagement at a Minneapolis hotel.
The actress will return to New
York later this week and her hus-
band will join her there in two
WeekS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18

at Henderson Hall, Arlington, was
wounded while serving aboard a
vessel at Okinawa May l.
Born in Donaldson, Okla. Ensign
Tinker was sent overseas last
August. A brother, Pvt. Hubert
Tinker, is with the Army in France
Sergt. Linker has been stationed
here two years.
Pfc. Leroy G. Lapp, Marine Corps,
whose wife lives at 1927 New
Hampshire avenue NV. has been
wounded, today's official casualty
list reports.
Stories about the following men,
reported wounded on today's cas-
ualty list, previously appeared in
The Star after next Of kin were
notified.
Pvt. John J. Cough, Marine Corps,
son of Mrs Margaret M. Cough,
3713 TWenty-fourth street NE. -.
LIST 1t. Dean Noyes Mcdowell, Ma
rine Corps, son of Mrs. Luther
Sheldon, jr., who formerly lived at
1908 Cleveland avenue NV. and
who now lives in Norfolk. Va,
where her husband, Rear Admiral
Sheldon, is stationed.
Liberated
Capt. william r. A. Kleysteuber,
%, engineers, whose wife, Mrs.
Margaret L. KleySteuber, lives at
Engleside, Route /, Alexandria, was
liberated from a German prison
camp by the Russians April 81. He
mad been a prisoner since February
1913, when he was captured at
.Faid Pass, Tunisia.
Mrs. Kleysteuber recently ac-
|cepted in his behalf a Silver Star
awarded at a ceremony at Fort Bel
voir. Va. Capt. Kleysteuber entered
the Army nearly five years ago. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Bu|dwin's Wife Dies

LONDON, June Is tP.-Countess
Baldwin. wife OF Earl Stanley Bald =.
win, Prime Minister of Britain from
1885 to 1887, died last night In their
home at Ashley Hall. Worcestershire
She was married to Baldwin In 1892.
They had six children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
District Blood Donations
Appointments
Saturday ---- 10 persons

Saturday ----- 10 persons
Appointments broken .;. = .
Saturday $780, l6 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center in
the Acacia Building, 81 Louisi-
ana avenue NV, by calling
District $500 between 9 a. m. and
$50 pm. weekdays, and 8 am.
to noon Saturdays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Todoy's Casualty Lists
Killed

Pfc. Clarence w. Kessler. 80. In
tantry, whose wife, Mrs. Pearl E.
Kessler, and four small children
live at 81 v street NE, was killed
in France January 10. Mrs. Kessler
said she was informed her husband
was killed while attempting to res
cue fellow soldier.
A house had been struck by en-
envy artillery and fired. American
soldiers hiding in the basement
quickly evacuated the flaming dwell
ing Pvt. Kessler returned to help
a wounded soldier escape and while
he was inside the building collapsed
Mrs. Kessler said.
Pvt. Kessler was manager of the
Venetian blind department of .the
New York Decorating Co, Oil Thir-
teenth street NV, before entering
the service in March. 1914. He went
overseas last August.
The surviving children are David,
9; Sally. 7: John, S. and Stephen,
?. A brother, Corpl Edward L.
Kessler. is in the Army at Mitchell
Field, N. Y.
Serst. Robert p. Davis. SIN uf
Einar B Christensen, s4ls Piney
Branch court Silver Spring. was
killed in the Pacific area, today
ofiicial casualty list reported.
Pfc. Ross r. Poole, son of Mrs,
Effle Poole, Route 2, Herndon, Va.
was reported killed in the European
area, according to todays official
casualty list.
Seaman &c John l.. Donaldson
son of Mrs. Myrtle E. Donaldson
1887 Cordell avenue, Bethesda. who
was reported killed on todays off,
cial casualty list, was the subject
of previous story in The Star
when next of kin was notified.
Wounded
Pvt. Walter seman. 81. infantry
whose wife, Mrs. Mary L. Seman
109 Idaho Hall. Arlington Farms
has been Marine Corps employe
here for the last three years, was
wounded ct lie Shima April 10. He
now is in rest camp in the Mari
anas Islands. His wife said he suf.
fered grenade fragment wounds in
the chest.
A resident of Missoula, Mont.
Pvt. Seman entered the service in
October. 1912, and went overseas ir
March, 1914.
Ensign Clifford r. Tinker, "a, g
graduate of the Naval Academy ir
June, last year. whose wife, Marine
SISergt. Marcella E. Tinker, lives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-18
Meat

Continued From First Pase.N
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-04-13

Meharrs' Dream-'fi1is is a sketch
Of the proposed S2oO.0 900 Alumni-.
Student dornlitory to be built on tho
medical schools campus next fall.
Grounabreaking ceremonies will be
q hishlight Of the commencement
exercises on Sunday, September 10.
when alumni from oil over the co,ln-
Try viii be present The honor OF
turning the FIRST dirt will 90 10 q
representative of the class that con-
tributes the largest sum on the
building fund during the drive. Chi
cagos director DIR. S. w. Smith Of
1866 S. State st has formed Cen
fury and SuperCentnry clubs for
contributors Of 500 or more. Three
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-04-13
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