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Evening star., 1945-07-18
IWPB Plans 10 Lower
Munitions Program by
80 Pei. This Year
Deep Cut Made in Guns;
Rockets, Jet Planes
Increased Sharply
BY the Associated Press.

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The War Production Board
today gave industry munitions
worksheet calling for 1945 pro-
duction to be gradually tapered
down to $3.4O0.O0o.00 in Decem-
Der, 10 per cent of the March
wartime peak.
Arms output in July still is run
ming about IS per cent of the March
highwater mark, despite cutbacks
WPB said. By the end of August
the level will be 80 per cent.
The schedules are intended, WIPE
said, as IAN aid to manufacturers
by outlining roughly the size of the
job still to be done to achieve final
victory" Deepest cut in the one
front war schedule is in guns and
fire control equipment, in which
December production will amount to
only one-third of the March output
Rocket Program Up.
Tanks and other combat and mo-
tor vehicles will drop so per cent.
Smallest cut is in ammunition,
which has declined IA per cent from
March levels and will be steady the
rest of the year.
Production of some types of am
munition will be cut in half, but
rockets will be increased to two
and one-half times the present pro-
duction rate Similarly, the air
craft program as a whole is declin-
ing, but jet planes face a steeply
rising schedule.
The poSt-V-E day production for
1945 now is estimated at per cent
below the original estimates for
one-front warfare, WPB said. Dol
lar value of production for the en-
tire year has dropped from the $780,
100000 scheduled in March to a
July schedule, $4,000, ,000, 900.
Listed by Glasses.
BY major munitions classes, pro-
duction will show the following
trends for the rest of the year:
Aircraft: July, $1,000y000, 600; De-
cember, $80G, 100000
Ships: July, $700,000,000; Decem-
Ler, 500,000,0o0.
Guns and fire control: July, 5000,
100000; December, 100000.
Ammunition: July, 5000 900, 600;
December, $600,000,000
Combat and motor vehicles: July,
$500, 100000; December. 5000, 0,000, ,000
Communications and electronic
equipment: July, $500, 100000; De-
cember, $500, 1000 900.
Other equipment and supplies
July, 81 ,000, ,000,0 900; December, $780,
O0O,0
Meantime, J. D. Small. acting
WPB chairman, told the Senate
War Investigating Committee the
$50, 600, 100000 annual rate of pro-
duction reached in March will be
reduced by one-third at the current
cutback pace.
The WPB agency handling the re-
conversion phases has dealt with $50
cases involving cuts of more than
S500,000 month, and 1915 dealing
with contracts between 100000 and
$500,000 monthly, Mr.. Small testi-
fed. Almost $500 plants were af-
fected, he said
Mr.. Small said that in only 4G
| (See MUNITIONS, Page A-12)
Evening star., 1945-07-18
First Man Drafted in District
Home With Army Discharge

tary of War StimSon drew his fatetul
number, and yesterday when he left
Fort Meade with a discharge.
Seven battle stars cleaned on his
uniform, together with the Soldier
Medal, the Bronze Star and the
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Clus-
ter. -Four amphibious landings,
struggles through the mountains
and mud of Italy, Salerno, Sicily,
AnZio, Cassino-all these and more
were part of his record.
He was tired, all right, too tired
to talk of days he wished to forget.
Too tired even to talk of the future.
Before long, Mr.. Bell, now 26, will
be going to Palm Beach, Fla, to see
Mrs. Bell and 3-year-old Bobby.
Mr.. Bell and Sally v. Carter of
Hyattsville, had planned to marry
before the draft and they carried
out their plans November 8, 1910,
just three weeks before he was to
report for his year of military train
ing.
Mr.. Bell did not wait for his
induction in regular turn, but volun-
(See DRAFTEE, Page A-5.5
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Flooded Roads Tie Up
Traffic for Hours in
Nearby Sections
D. c. Gets 4.57 Inches
Of Rain Since Saturday.;
More Showers Forecast
/p;cfstrac M, p0oe PTl
Pictures on Page BIZ

Washington area str a m S,
swollen by rains that have been
falling intermittently since Sat-
urday, flooded highways in Vir-
ginia and Maryland early today,
blocking traffic for as long as
six hours.
The Great Mills area of st. Marys
County was experiencing real
flood, with water from normally
tiny stream flooding an area three
quarters of mile wide to depth
of IA feet in some places.
Maryland State police reported
the Washington Baltimore boule-
ward between Beltsville and Muir
kirk, Md, was covered by approx
mately S feet of water by 3 am,
stalling four buses and causing other
traffic to be rerouted via Glen
burnie. Traffic was moving again
by 7:30 am.
Peace Cross Area Flooded.
The Bladensburg area around the
Peace Cross was flooded and Wash
ington- bound traffic on Defense
highway was rerouted through Ed
monston, where some streets also
we're covered.
Members of the Bladensburg Fire
Department reported waters from
the Northwest Branch of the Ana
costa River we're continuing to rise,
with the crest expected tonight
The water had risen / foot at Peace
Gross since z am, firemen said,
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Two Killed 44 Saved
IntoC Creek
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, July ia
heavily-laden Greyhound bus in
bound from Norfolk plunged into
the rain n-swollen waters of Gillies
Greek at the edge of Richmond to-
day when a bridge over the normally
tiny stream gave way. Two of the
IS persons aboard, an infant and a
soldier, were killed.
Police tentatively identified the in
FAINT as 3-month-old Donna Hammel.
Mrs. Evanora Hammel, 90, of Delta,
Pa, had told police the waters sucked
her child out of her arms. The
woman, along with other passengers,
was rushed to a hospital and had
not identified the body.
The soldiers body was recovered
by city firemen about noon. Mill
tary authorities said the name of
the man would be withheld until
notification of relatives.
None of the persons on the bus
we're from the Washington area, so
far as is known.
Chief of Police E. H, Organ said
he was informed that A passengers,
including two infants, and the
driver, were aboard the bus. The
swirling waters of the creek swept
the bus 100 yards downstream from
the bridge and tail light, still
burning, marked its position when
the first police squad arrived about
4 am
Chief Organ said 81 persons, one
holding a child, were on Top of the
all-but-submerged bus when he
arrived, and that the others swan to
safety on the west side of the creek.
Police said the fact that the bus
landed upright and with several
inches of its upper structure above
water, thus providing an air space,
prevented a large loss of life.
Evening star., 1945-07-18

That hoary old slugger of the
United States Fleet, the battle
ship Nevada, played a return en-
gagement with the Japs at Oki-
nawa and still fights on despite
the worst that suicide planes
and shore batteries could do to
her, the Navy Department re-
vealed today.
Badly crippled at Pearl Harbor
and claimed by Jap propagandists 10
have been sunk, this veteran of the
World War arose from "watery
grave" at Hawaii to support the
American invasions of Attu and
France. In her latest brush with
her favorite enemies, the Japs, she
suffered 10 casualties. including 10
killed, but made mincemeat of Oki-
nawa shore batteries and, despite
heavy injuries, fought on with only
time out to bury her dead.
She is commanded by Capt.
Homer l.. Grosskopf, .915 North
Wayne street, Arlington. Va.
Evening star., 1945-07-18

kept it's radio working as it hovered
only 6 miles offshore.
Targets were picked carefully
from Mito, SIS miles northeast OF
Tokyo and 10 miles from the sea-
coast, to Hitachi and Sukegawa
about 80 miles northeast of the
capital. With no opposition, the re-
suits were devastating.
Associated Press Correspondent
James Lindsey, aboard one of the
American battleshipS, reported that
an engineering works, steel plant,
a copper refinery and an arms fac
tory along the coast were destroyed
He said the fleet was within range
of enemy fighter planes for many
hours, but that they failed to appear.
Iowa Among Attackers.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, in
announcing that the British bat
tleship King George v and the As
000-ton U. S. S. Iowa were among
the attackers, had mentioned only
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Coast SheIIed
For Second Day,
Japs Report
Enemy Also Tells of
New Raids by |, 500
Carrier Planes
Hy the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
GUAM, July 18.-The auda-
cious American Sd Fleet and
companion British warships
Stalked the coast of Japan un-
molested today as the Tokyo
radio admitted their big guns
had hit their newest target
huge war plants north of Tokyo
The feet has concealed its course
behind radio silence since it broke
off shelling at 1905 am. today.
(But the japanese radio re-
ported new attacks.
CTokyo quoted a japanese i'm
perial headquarters communique
as saying about 16 warShips had
shelled the east coast of Honshu
Island for about an hour, begin
ming at 11:l5 am. Tokyo time.
No specific targets were men
toned.
CThis broadcast identified the
bombarded area as "the coast of
Kanto," the east-central part of
Honshu, the same general region
plastered by British and Amer
lean warShipS the day before.
CTokyo also said American and
British carriers sent 1,500 planes
back over the Tokyo area, fol-
lowing up yesterdays raid by
$500 carrier aircraft.
AirfieldS and military inStalla-
tions in the capital area and in
the Chiba, Kanagawa, Ibaraki,
Gumm, Tochigi and FukuShima
prefectures were identified as the
targets.
(The enemy admitted Japa-
nese helplesSness by stating that
the Allied feet is liable to at
tack us at any chosen time and
place"
Meanwhile, Japanese mill
tary commentator declared she'll
ingS by the Allies "are primarily
concerned with the mission of
sounding out Japan's striking
power" and do not Immediately
presage" an invasion0
20 Miles of COastline Shelled.
More than 1000 tons of explosives
were showered on targets for 20
miles along the Honshu coast in the
midnight bombardment. The fleet
went about the job leisurely and
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Probe Of Hawaii Trip
By Carmen Beach Is
Ordered by ForrestaI
Vice Case Figure Claims
She Had Priority; Faces
Deportation Threot
RIu,J,ETIN

The Navy public relations
office at San Francisco told
the Associated Press today
the Navy has no record of any
travel priority issued to either
Carmen Beach or Carmen
Beach Martin for a flight to
Hawaii
The Office of Secretary of the
Navy Forrestal today ordered
the 18th Naval District in San
Francisco to make a report to
him on a story told by Carmen
Beach, central figure in two
Washington vice cases, to her
attorney, that she obtained a
plane priority to visit her hus-
band, Chief Petty Officer Charles
L. Martin, in Hawaii.
At the same time Charles E
Frink, attorney in the immigration
and Naturalization Division of the
Justice Department, said deporta-
ton proceedings will be brought
against Mrs. Beach to return her
to Spain as soon as files are COM
pleted on her conviction in 1943
vice case.
Mrs. Beach and Mrs. Margaret
Locke are under charges of op-
Grating a house of aSsignation as
result of a police raid Friday on a
massage parlor" in the 1700 block
of Pennsylvania avenue. They are
free on $4,000 bond each pending
a hearing before United States Com
missioner Needham Turnage on
July 81.
Lacked State, Army Approval.
Navy officers said today that 90
per cent of civilians travelling to
Hawaii do so on certification by the
State Department that their travel
is necessary in the public interest
The other 10 per cent go on Navy
Department certifications, the off,
Ger said. State and War Depart
ment officials, after search of rec
ords, said they could find no in
formation or indication that Mrs
Beach had been given any certif1-
cation
Justice Department records show
Mrs. Beach, a native of Spain
whose maiden name was Canbiero
entered the country on April 80
1896, at Miami, Fla She obtained
admission, the records show, as the
wife of citizen. Wallace Beach.
The two were listed as man ano
wife in the 1941 City Directory
Now, Mrs. Beach claims she is mar
ried to Chief Martin.
Mr.. Frink said Mrs. Beach has
never obtained citizenship and the
fact of her marriage to an American
citizen can have no effect in holding
up a deportation case. She has not
yet been questioned by the Immi-
grafton and Naturalization Division
he said, but probably will be shortly
Under Mann Act Sentence.
She is under sentence of up to
three years in Jail on charges OF
violating the Mann Act by sending
girls to places in the District for
immoral purposes. She was con-
Evening star., 1945-07-18
By ]. A. O'LEARY.


The Senate Banking Commit
tee today unanimously ap-
proved a 00,000,000 increase
in the lending authority of the
Export Import Bank for loans to
Allied and liberated countries
during the next IL months, as
the Senate approached vote
on the long-range Breton Woods
world monetary agreement.
While the Breton Woods plan
contemplates an international bank
with $9,100,000,000 capital and an
$4,000, 100000 currency stabiliZation
fund to bring about orderly world
financing after the war, the Export
Import Bank is expected to meet the
more immediate needs of friendly
nations during the reconversion
period.
The administration, therefore, will
press for passage of both bills before
Congress takes its summer recess.
Vote Likely Today.
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio,
chief opponent of Breton Woods,
agreed with Democratic spokesmen
in predicting the Senate may reach
d final vote today on Breton Woods,
which already has passed the House.
The Ohio Senator has offered no
objections to the direct-type of
loans to be made to Europe by the
Export Import Bank to help get
world trade established, but con-
tends there is no immediate need for
Breton Woods.
Administration sources concede it
will take from year to 18 months
to get the Breton Woods interna-
tional banks established, but they
are anxious to get it approved as
one evidence of the intention of the
| United States to cooperate with the
rest of the world, economically as
well as politically, to preserve peace.
| A variety of amendments must be
! disposed of in the Senate this aft
ernoon before the Breton Woods
plan as a whole is voted on, but
administra ton leaders are confident
it viii pass.
Taft Seeks POstponement.
j.! When the Senate reconvened at
II am. Senator Taft filed a motion
to postpone the bill pending further
study, and the first test vote prob
ably will come on that motion.
/ Chairman Wagner of the Bank
ing Committee estimated about Is
votes would be cast against the plan,
but some of its other supporters
thought the opposition might be as
high as 25.
Senator Taft spent several more
hours yesterday striving to convince
his Senate colleagues that the Amer
ican dollar is the only stable cur
rency, and that the Breton Woods
plan as drawn will not give this coun-
try the protection it expects against
trade barriers and currency deval-
uation, in return for the obligations
| it is aSsuming-financial or moral.
Evening star., 1945-07-18
iouse Amends GI Bill
Paul Reynoud
Tells His Story

Freed from a Nazi prison,
Paul Reynaud, wartime Pre-
mier of France, has returned
to Paris to tell his story.
In his memoirs, publication
of which starts in The Star
tomorrow, he gives his an
swers to such questions as:
Why did Petain shake
hands with the invader?
Why did Mussolini's govern
ment finance a campaign to
put Petain in power four
years before the war?
What contact did Hitler
have with Petain through
France?
Why did the Germans break
through at Sedan?
What was the inside story of
King Leopold's surrender?
Read the series starting to-
morrow in
Chr Enpntitn Star
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Two Minesweepers LOST
off Borneo, Navy Reports
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Navy today announced the
loss of two motor minesweepers in
the Borneo area as result of en-
emy action.
The ships, the YMS so and the
YMS 1865, had a normal compile
ment of about IS each. There were
none killed or missing, the Navy
said, but no information was avail
able on the number of wounded.
No casualty status was reported
for either of the ships shippers. The
YMS 1865 was under command of
1t. q. 60 Fred G. Huff, jr., New
Orleans, La. The YMS so was
commanded by 1t. q. 60 Blake G..
Stern, Logan, Iowa.
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Is From Army Linked
To Communists in
House Investigation
DoshieI Hommett, Losh
And 5 Lincoln Brigade
Veterans Included
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A House Military Affairs Sub
committee made public today
testimony of its chief counsel
listing 16 commissioned and en-
listed Army personnel whose
backgrounds reflect communism
in some form"
The testimony was presented be-
hind closed doors by H. Ralph Bur-
ton to a subcommittee recently ap-
pointed to investigate reports that
Army commissions were being given
to persons Eith Communist connec-
tions. The subcommittee, headed
by Representative Thomson, DEM
ocrat, of Texas, made no comment
on the testimony.
81 have found certain persons
who hold commissions and also
some enlisted personnel in the Army
whose backgrounds reflect commu-
nism in some FORM" Mr. Burton
testified.
Officers, Men Identified.
He then listed and identified these
officers and enlisted men:
Mai. Edward Newhouse, Army
Air Forces, Washington. writer for
the Daily Worker, 1884; the New
Masses, 1886. responded to the call
for Congress of American Revolu-
tionary Writer'S
Capt. Herbert A3theker, 940th
Field Artillery Battalion, 'contribu-
tor to New Masses. Contributor to
Negro Quarterly"
Capt. Henry Clovis Collins, 2116
Base Unit, Napier Field, Ala,
panel member of National Action
Conference for Civil Rights, April
1920. 1910. This conference
was called by the National Fedora
tion for Constitutional Liberties,
which, since its inception in June,
1910, has perhaps been the foremost
Communist-front organization in
the United States"
Civil Affairs Unit Officer.
Capt. Horace Warner Tuesden
7th Civil Affairs Unit, member,
American League for Peace and
Democracy; president, Russian Re-
construction Farms. Inc
Lit. Richard C. Criley, Corps of
Military Police, 7th Civil Affairs
Unit, las Dick Criley, helped handle
California Young Conn mun mis-
League"
1t. Irving Fajans, Office of Stra-
tegic Services, Washington, ION
honor roll of Young Communist
League members fighting in the
Spanish Civil War"
First 1t. Edward w. Finelstein
26th Field Artillery Battalion
chairman, Philadelphia district
International Workers Order,
which Mr.. Burton called "a SUBJ
servient instrument of the Com
munist party of the United States.
Member of Lincoln Brigade.
1t. Irving Goff, Office of Strategic
Services, Washington, speaker
Communist School, New York
City, and a member of THE Abra-
ham Lincoln Brigade in Spain" Mr.
Burton testified that evidence shows
that this organization was Com
muniSh dominated. > ~
1t. Vincent Lossowski, Office o1
Strategic Services, Washington
fought with Abraham Lincoln Bri-
gade in Spanish Civil War"
1t. Jerry Trauber, 978th Field Ar
tillery Battery, editorial board, New
Pioneer tYoung Communist organ
zation)."
1t Milton Wolff, ONCE of Stra-
cegic Services, Washington, ma
tional commander of the Commu-
1See COKFKFTTNTCNE Dee 1-Io1
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Another Overseas Star
Is Available Today

The latest Overseas Edition
of The Star is available today
at both The Star Office and
the Victory Bond booth in
Lansburgh's Department Store.
Copies are free, with en-
velopes for mailing, but the
edition is strictly limited.
Please do not waste a single
copy.
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Australian Papers
Predict Big News
On Japan Soon
Hr the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SYDNEY, Australia, July 18.
Newspapers in Sydney today
published speculative reports
that big news" relating to
Japan would be forthcoming
soon.
One conjecture was that
Japan may be suing for peace,
another that Russia may have
decided to enter the Pacific war.
THE end of the war may
come with dramatic sudden
ness" Sydney Sun commented.
The Morning Herald said
nothing short of the Allies
terms would be acceptable, but
added that Japan is without
military hope and might seek to
escape Germany's fate"
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Viehy Informer Dies
For Part in Nuzi TriuIs

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 18.-Andre Ballet,
"a, director general of information
in the Vichy Ministry of Informa-
ton, was executed at Fort de Cha
tillon today.
He was convicted June 20 of
testifying against Frenchmen in
Nazi courts here during the oc-
cupation.
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Hugerstown Results

FIRST RAcE-Purse, $500: 3-year-olds
and up; claiming; 6la furlongs.
Jollity (Covalli) $40 $50 go
Schley Rhoda (Ballenger) 1880 $40
Royal Marlboro (Morris) 290
Time, 1:29
Also ran-Dr Play Enos K Victory
Flight, Flags, Orgullosa
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Late Bulletins
D. c. Rail Tax Offered

Application of the District
government personal prop
erty tax rate to all railroad
rolling stock used or operated
within the National Capital is
proposed in a bill introduced
today by Chairman Bilbo of
the Senate District Commit
tee at the request of the Com
missioners.
House Amends GI Bill
The House passed this
afternoon by unanimous con-
sent a bill amending the CT
Bill of Rights by making it
easier for veterans to obtain
Government guaranteed
loans and liberalizing the
provisions for postwar voca-
tional training. The bill now
goes to the Senate.
Evening star., 1945-07-18

TUo additional men from
the District area hare been re-
ported killed in this tDdr. See
"On the Honor Roll,' Page A-2.
Evening star., 1945-07-18
Export-lmport
Funds Boosted
.ByConlnnittee
Vote Is Unanimous;
Senate Moy Act on
BRETON Woods Todoy
BULLETIN.

The Senate refused this
afternoon to postpone action
on the Breton Woods world
monetary agreement until
November Is, virtually assur-
ing it's passage late today or
tomorrow. The vote against
postponement was 52-31.
Evening star., 1945-07-18

(See RAIN. Page A-12J
Evening star., 1945-07-18

(See VICE, Page A-129
Evening star., 1945-07-18

(See RUBBER, Page A-12D
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-10-02
NEGRO REPUBLICANS URGE
full EMPLOYMENT BILL ACTION

NEW YORK, Oct. l (ANP)-
Action on the full employment bill
was urged by members of the Re-
publican American committee in
resolution adopted here
Another resolution appealed to
Republican party leaders to include
leadership in its policy-making
councils and to permit Negro party
members to select their own lead
ers. The committee, headed by R. R.
Church of Chicago, included an ap-
peal for immediate passage of civ
il rights bill for the District of Col
umbia, enactment of federal anti
poll tax and anti-lynch bills, and a
permanent FEPC law.
eve urge the Republican Nation
al comittee to set forth again the
party's principles in a concrete bill
of rights and to dispatch that bill
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-10-02

In the college contest, first prize
was won by Mrs. Christine j. Dill
lard, student at Virginia State
college, Petersburg, Pa. For her
essay on "Old Versus New Atti-
tudes in My Community Regarding
tuberculosis" she will be present
ed gold medal and $50 in cash.
Second prize for an essay by
high school student was won by
Marianne L. Brown, John Harris
High School, Harrisburg, Pa, third
prize by Louises McVey, Thomas
jefferson High School, Los Angel
es, and fourth prize by Lillian
Dunn, Orange Country Training
school, Chapel Hill, N. C.
In the college division, second
prize was awarded Marguerite H.
Hartman, billiard university, New
Orleans, and third prize, Olivia
Irene Tucker, Maryland State
Teachers college, Bowie, Md.
In addition to DR.. Johnson, judg-
es in the contests were: Miss. Moll-
lie G.. Faison, educational coordinat-
or, tuberculosis league of Pitts
burgh; Mrs. Ruth Logan Roberts,
chairman, Harlem tuberculosis and
Health committee, New York Pres
ident A. w. Dent, billiard univer-
5ity: Mrs. Bertell Collins Wright,
director, Negro Health work, Es-
sex County tuberculosis 'earue,
Newarw, N j., and Miss Agnes Fe-
hy, associate, public relations serv-
ice, National tuberculosis associa-
ton, New York.