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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-29
Hacksaw Blade Found
In Head|ess Body Probe
By the Associated Press


Ell PASO, Tex, June 29.-Sheriff
Allan G.. Falby announced the dis
covery yesterday of blood-stained
hacksaw blade, for which officers had
searched in investigating the death
of an 80-year-old man whose head
less body was found in a desert
grave Monday.
The sheriff said Peace Justice F.
A. Hill found the blade at nearby
Ysleta in a ditch outside the quar-
tiers of William F. Main, %, who is
charged with murder.
Justice Hill also reported finding
S lot where the earth appeared blood
soaked and deputies dug up the soil
for examination, Sheriff Falby said.
Lying critically wounded in a hos
pital, Main was visited yesterday by
his father, William r. Main, men,
Der of the Philadelphia firm Of
Main g. Co., accountants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-29
By THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star War Correspondent.

WITH THE UNITED STATES 18th
ARMY, June 29.-This is the pat
tern of future war-perhaps the
next one
A platform IS suspended in space,
500 miles above the earth. On
this platform are gigantic refectors
coated with metallic sodium to
focus the suns rays on any spot on
the globe
Focused on great city like New
York, these rays would destroy
everything in hellish fire. Focused
on the ocean near a fleet, the rays
would turn the water into steam for
miles around.
This is no wild dream-at least
not in the minds of German scien-
fists who have impressed American
Army technical intelligence investi-
gators with their practical minds,
their dislike of fantastic speculation,
their earthly common sense.
They have actually drawn up
plans for parts of the project, but
there still are several experimental
gaps which the enemy rocket engi-
neers believe will require about half
a century to bridge, especially after
the disruption of their work by the
war and the German defeat.
Some of the Germans plans were
revealed yesterday by Army investi-
gators. The platform idea depends
on the premise-which Army sci
entists substantiate, however fan
tastic--that at $500 miles over the
earth gravity becomes neutral. An
object placed there would stay and
become a satellite of the earth like
the moon, revolving with the earth's
rotation but not falling downward
or upward, the scientists say.
The big problem of the future is
getting a platform into this region
of space. This is said to be a theo-
retlcal possibility, even probability,
if still undeveloped propellants are
used.
These scientists are not blood
thirsty men or fanatic patriots,
and they hope that this goal OF
rocket experimentation never is used
for war, which would enable the
nation first achieving space plat
forms TO conquer the earth in a few
hours
Eager to Come to U. S.
They are most eager to come to the
United States with the stipulation
that they never return to Germany
and devote their lives to developing
their ideas for peaceful uses. One,
however, stipulates that his sweet
heart. Vienna cabaret dancer, must
also come here.
The first goal of the scientists is
to establish such platform as an
astronomical observatory. Later they
would equip it with a series of re-
Electors to supply all the world with
power. They calculate that re-
f1ector less than 2 miles square
would have provided all the power
needed by the German nation before
the war.
Later, they might use these space
platforms for launching space ships
to other planets, but scientists say
this is highly speculative today.
The amazing thing is the impress
sion these scientists have made on
United States Army investigators
who are thoroughly sound men.
Slightly less fantastic develop
ments are even closer. AS the next
step in war, they predict a super
W. rocket with a range of about
/ 300 miles, weighing Is tons and
having a speed of $500 miles pc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-29
Chang Sent Troops
To Halt Jap Drive,
Wedemeyer Reveals
~ the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, June 29.-Lt. Gen.
Albert c. Wedemeyer, commander
of United States forces in China,
has revealed that Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek last fall sent about
10000 troops from Sian to help
halt the japanese drive in South
east China, thus diverting forces
from Athe north, where their posi-
ton vis-a-vis the Chinese Com
munists has caused so much con-
troyersy. 4
This ste% in the reorganization
OF the Chinese Army is reported in
an article in the current issue of
Golfers Magazine.
(When Maj. Gen. Patrick Hur-
ley and Donald M. Nelson ar
rived in Chungking, just before
the replacement of Gen. Joseph
w. Stilwell by Gen. Wedemeyer,
Gen. Hurley and Mr.. Nelson ex-
planned there was much disap-
pointment over the failure of
the central government to come
to an agreement with the Com
munists in the north, so that
both they and the central gov
eminent troops could be brought
against the Japanese.)
Gave Him $4,000 Troops.
Gen. Wedemeyer, taking issue
with criticisms of China, says in the
article:
I'm my position, I cannot, of
course, discuss China's political con-
; dltionS, but I can say that when
the Japanese advance threatened
the vital area between Kweiyang
and Running, requested a release
OF troops from the so-called block
aiding army of the north supposed
to number 10000.
r The generalisSimo, without dis
cussion, authorized me to take as
many as I needed. I decided on
$4,000 men as the number that could
be flown down from Sian. They
were regarded as the pick of Chi
nese fighting men, but medical ex-
animation eliminated some $4,000
of that number.
These men stopped the Japanese
drive toward Chungking and they
reinforced by the United States
trained troops from Burma, have
been responsible for driving the
Japs back toward the South China
coast and severing the Jap-held
, rail line to Indo-China and
Thailand."
Can Count on Chinese.
Gen. Wedemeyer declares that in
the final stages of the war the
Chinese armies can be counted on
. for valuable contributions to the
common effort"
- He denies that China's war lords
: have taken shipments of lease
lend arms and ammunition and
" hidden them away for use in post
. war civil conflicts.
= Il myself know of no such prac-
tees, Gen. Wedemeyer says, land
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek,
white with anger, has repeatedly
told me that the charges were
false"
Gen. Wedemeyer reviews the
progress made in undermining the
Chinese Army and pays particular
tribute to Gen. Chang as leader.
From what have SEEM" he says,
II have no hesitation in saying that
the Chinese have ought, are fight
ing, and will keep on until Japan S
complete defeat"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-29
Whisky Poisons Children

Two children, one 8, the other z
were admitted to Casualty Hospital
late yesterday for alcoholic poison
ing after they had consumed a pint
of whisky at the home of the older
boy in Allentown, Md. The other
boy lives on the $500 block of Grant
road NE. They we're released this
morning after treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-29
Chinese Premier Due
In Moscow Tomorrow
BY the Associated Press.

Ely INC ASoOClateo FreSS.
MOSCOW, June 29.-Chinese Pre-
mier T. v. Soong and his party will
arrive in Moscow from Teheran tc-
morrow If weather permits, the Chi
neSe Embassy said today.
Diplomats here attach considerable
Importance to his projected talks,
the first conference between Chinese
and Russian oflcials In q long time
Although DR.. Soong left Chung
king Wednesday and the news was
broadcast from Moscow and Toxic,
Chinese censorship held it up until
today A dispatch from Chungking
said he headed a delegation of Il,
including a son of Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek and experts on
Sinkiang. During the week between
his return from the San Francisco
Conference and his departure for
Moscow, DR.. Soong had several long
talks with Chang and other Chinese
leaders.
CHUNGKING, June 90 (P.-Chi-
nese Communists wired approval to
Chungking today for seven nom
partisan members of the peoples
political council to visit Yenan to
discuss outstanding differences.
This was considered fresh op-
portunity to reconcile differences
between the Central and Northern
Chinese regimes and unite the re-
public for the war against Japan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-29
10000 Workers End
'WaIkouts as New
Controversies Arise /.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A new crop of disputes broke out
on the Nations labor front and
others were In the budding stage to-
day, spelling an otherwise improved
picture on the troubled labor scene
More than 10000 of the $4,000
workers idle yesterday by strikes
and work stoppages prepared to re-
turn to their jobs today, their con-
Itroyersies settled, at least tempo
rarily.
Overshadowing the brighter side
however, were additional walkouts
boosting the idle up to the 10000
mark, and threats of strikes by
three railroads and at Is Western
Electric Co. plants.
Detroit Strikes Near End.
The biggest improvement in labor
conditions was in Detroit, where
most Of the city's $4,000 idle CIC
United Automobile Workers were
expected back on the job following
settlement of an AFL-CIO jurisdic-
tional dispute.
Another $1,000 strikers in 10 glas.
plants in 10 cities agreed to end
their week-old Walkout, bowling to a
War Labor Board request to resume
work. They included 5000 at the
Libbey- Owens-Ford Co.'S four plants
and 1000 at the Pittsburgh Plate
Glass Co.'S six plants.
A major disturbance doomed In
the East as about 10000 employees OF
Is New Jersey and 3 New York City
plants of the Western Electric Co
voted to strike. OF q 900 eligible to
vote, 1884 balloted In favor of q
strike and 3,039 against. The dis
pute, said a spokesman of the Inde-
pendent Western Electric Employees
Association, involved further pay in
creases for 1000 employees. The
plants produce chiefly electronic and
communications equipment for wal
use.
Chicago Area Threatened.
The threatened railroad strikes
would affect 1000 Erie line service
employees and about 1000 workers
on two electric lines serving thou
sands of Chicago metropolitan area
commuters, the Chicago North
Shore & Milwaukee and the Chicago
Aurora e. Elgin lines. Wage disputes
are involved.
Action on the Erie strike threat
originally set for Saturday, was held
in allegiance for 80 days by inter-
vention of President Truman. He
set up an emergency board to re-
port on the dispute. The strike in
Chicago is scheduled for Monday
morning.
New strikes were added to the
list as others were settled yesterday
After a strike Monday by $500 en-
ployes Of the New Brunswick IN. j.
plant Of Mack Manufacturing Corp.
5000 other workers In three other
plants staged sympathy walkouts
Plants shut down were the Inter-
national-Plainfield Motor Co. in
Plainfield, N. j., 1000 workers; the
Mack Manufacturing Corp. Plain
field plant. 1000 employees, and the
Mack Allentown pa plant, 5000
employees.
A walkout Of about $50 mechanics
partially disrupted bus service in the
Memphis area.
Workers due back at Detroit's
strike-bound plants included %, OOC
at Packard, 1910 at Ford Motor
Co., 1900 at Budd Wheel Co. and
l 100 at Motor Products.
Other walkouts ended at the Con-
tinental Foundry d Machinery Co
in East Chicago. Ind. $500 return
ing to work, and at the Aluminium
Co. of Americas New Kensington
pa plant where 1900 employees
had stopped work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-29

of a 6-year-old daughter when she
married Maj. G. Ralsey Stevens, Sd.
at Alliance. Nebr., on November 8.
1913, has been held in default OF
$50, 1000 bail on a charge Of man
slaughter since the shooting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-29
Library Adopts New Hours

During July and August the Silver
Spring Public Library will close at
l pm. on Saturdays, Mrs. Louise C.
Ferguson, librarian, announced yes
terday. From Monday through Fri
day the hours will remain the same
10 a M. to 8 pm.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05
DIR. DELIO COBO
TO HEAD JAYCEES

The Key West Junior Chamber
of Commerce held its annual
election of officers last night in
the residence of DR.. Delio Cobo.
DR.. Cobo was elected prcsi-
dent; Jack Delaney, vice prcsi-
dent; Wilbert J. Mochrkc, score
tary, and Charles Wardlow.
treasurer.
The board of directors, besides
the above officers, is to consist
of Kermit Levin, Jeff knight,
Ralph Faraldo, and Fred Ed
wards with 1sadore Rodriguez AS
an alternate.
The above will be installed at
the first regular meeting in July
and will serve until July of 1916.
Among the many resolutions
that were adopted was one
changing the complex system of
collecting dues to method that
will be more efficient.
At the dinner meeting that was
held just prior to this election
former Jaycee, Darnel Carey, en-
lightened the boys on many Of
the interesting side lights of the
five invasions that he has been
in.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05
esSentis

sikh pref s and directed
him to form a new cabinet.
!" Comment here was that
the emperor must have been
hard pressed in having to
name Susiki, who is IT years
of age. Hesis a former presi-
dent of the privys council,
and had held other offices
before he was elevated to
that position.
This is the third time in
the last four months that an
nouncements have come out
of Moscow regarding Japan.
First, Premier Stain assert
ed that Japan is IAN ag-
gresor nation, and two
weeks ago, Red Star, semi
official Soviet newspaper,
said that the pact with ia
pan probably would not be
renewed.
What will be Russia's next
step in her relations with ia
pan? That question is Great
ing tense interest here and
in the United States.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05
RUSSIA TODAY RENOWNED ITS PACT
WITH JAPAN; JAP CABIN. RESlCSS
cny a~sasins-s rres.l

LONDON, April 5.-Two
broadcasts today, one from
Moscow and the other from
Tokyo, contained depressing
news for the people of Ja-
pan.
Radio Moscow announced
that the Soviet government
had renounced its neutral
pact with Japan, which was
to have expired on April Is,
and Radio Tokyo stated that
Premier. koiso and his cabi!
net had resigned.
The Tokyo spokesman adj
mitted that the designations
had resulted from the recent
setbacks Japan has suffered
in the war, particularly the
invasion of OkinaWa, only
$50 miles from southern
Japan.
Later, Radio Tokyo an
nounced that Emperor Hiro-
hito had named Admiral Su-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05
STARTING DRIVE
AGAINST DISEASE
AMERICAN SOCIETY OUT
LINES TIE CAMPAIGN
AGAINST CANCER

TAMPA, April 5 (FNS).-Flor-
idians will be asked to turn for a
moment from their interest in
the battles and bridgeheads of
the war front and give serious
and Thoughtful consideration to
an even more grim and terrifying
Danger on the home 'front.' -
Isl The enemy, invisible, but as
crueL and deadly as any Jap or
German, has infiltrated our; ranks
and today strikes down one per-
son in six of our population.
One person out of every six,
loved ones that our boys fight
overseas to protest, are doomed to
die, perhaps before those boys re-
turn, victims of cancer.
So grave is this danger that
the President by authority of an
act of congress will issue an Off
clal proclamation designating
April as Cancer Control Month.
In Florida, a mighty army is
forming now, under the leader
ship of Mrs. Malcolm Smith, state
commander of the Florida divi-
sion field army of the American
Cancer Society.
BridgeheadS have already been
established in a score of counties
and with the help of every man,
woman and child it will sweep
VIGOROUSLY through the state to
reach and save thousands of lives
of those now doomed.
During Cancer Control Month
the nation is asked to raise S.
100000 to carry on the fight
through education, research and
treatment. The states quota is
nominal and Should be quickly
oversubscribed.r-
Public lethargy has allowed
cancer to spread with increasing
speed during recent years until
now it ranks second among all
fatal diseases, yet if understood
and proper, safeguards are. taken
promptly 1t can be overcome.
You can help by joining the
field army in your own commu-
nifty and by contributing as your
means permit toward financing
the tight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05
Fire At Island
Inn During Night

a fire Was discovered laf
night at II ~ O'Clock in uur ui
the front rooms On CO., loose.
floor of the Island Inn blIIdIue
situated at the conner oi taiun
and Duval streets. % Part oi
which Is occupied hs Nj iusn
Williams. Mis-. Williams s put ui
the city, having been called iU
Alabama on account 90 the .,f
iouS illness OF her mother
A mattress and bed. VnIgH
took fire. was quickly thruan
out of the building. with ula.
tlcally no other damage resulting
from the small blaze
The alarm was sounded from
box 81, corner Of DusaI and f.
ton streets.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05
Latin Americans
Also Have Red Tape

BOGOTA. Colombia - A for-
mer tax collector here finally got
his pension (S45 a month"; from
the Colombian government fnf
the leprosy he picked up while
on the job--but II took rs aoru-
ments TO do H. He attached 90 hia
claim:
A certificate he is not noW re-
ceiving a pension: certificate he
doesn't owe any income tax. Ger
tificate he didn't have ltprosV
when he took the Job. certiiicatc
he has lcprosy now, appointment
3s tax collector and transfer o.
LEI rosy district, medical Ccrt4n-
cate II was e lopr",v district.
certificate he had a. deal with
lcpcrs when he waa thyi, auI
certificates piosmg Al
serve, and ..lHt
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05

RUMORS AROUND COURTHOUSE THAT
MAKING VALDEZ MAY BE ASKED TO
RESIGN COMMISSION GUARDIANSHIP

about that check incident, and
also about Mr.. Valdez assuring
Mrs. Belle Fleming he would
support her endorsement to sue
coed herself as probation officer,
and then, at the meeting, passing
his vote on the ground that he
had promised to support some
body else.
That commissioner and the
one first mentioned referred to
the accusal that Chairman Valdez
had introduced to F. H. Solomon.
who was given the contract to
connect the poorhouSe with the
sewer main, j. F. Johnson as the
county engineer"
Both these commissioners also
asserted that the board had not
retained Mr.. johnson to prepare
plans for the proposed court
house annex, but had instead en-
gagged Architect Ralph Russell to
draw them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05

Talk was making the rounds
of the courthouse corridors this
morning that Maxine Valdez,
chairman of the Monroe county
commission, may be requested to
resign his Craftsmanship at a
meeting of the commissioners
scheduled to be held next Tues
day night.
One commissioner said today
that he felt Mr., Valdez was not
the proper man to be chairman,
and one of the things he pointed
out was that the chairman SEEM
ed to think he is all powerful in
county affairs, citing as a specific
case his declaring that he would
not sign two checks, due a county
officer, which had been approved
at meeting of the commits
sioners, until the officer comes
to me-"
Another commissioner spoke
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05
CHARTER issue
Is CLARIFIED
LETTER SENT TO MIAMI
PAPER REGARDING
SUBJECT

Stephen c. Singleton, manager
of the Key West Chamber of
Commerce, has sent a letter to a
Miami paper, which clarifies sew
eral matters pertaining TO the
present city charter and also to
the proposed new charter.
He speaks of a mass meeting
that was held in City Hall, when
the crowd was SO large that
scores of iSeorle were obliged
to remain standing, where the
proposed charter was discussed
and when, at the conclusion of
the discussion, the question of
adopting or rejecting was put to
a vote, and only one man de-
clared against the proposal.
He also cites the many meet
ings held in the courthouse to
discuss the proposed charter, the
appointment of committees to
prepare it and much other pre-
liminary work before the charter
was turned over to Representa-
tive B. c. Papy.
Elf. Singleton has done a great
deal of investigation in connec-
ton with the present city charter,
and he learned that it was
adopted in 1888, and that, during
the lot years of its life, it has
been amended 81 times.
He also refuted the report that
if the new. charter is validated,
/ many faithful city employees will
Hose their jobs, by pointing out
that there is a provision which
says that present employees will
not have to undergo civil service
examinations to retain their posi-
tionS.
Mimeograph copies of the
charter are being prepared and,
as soon as they are finished, will
be distributed among Key West
ers who wish to read the charter
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05
Joe Andrew Newlan
Died Last Evening

Joe Andrew Newlan. age 8
years, died last night at 100
o'clock at the residence of his
parents, 1903 Pine street.
Funeral servicse will be held
tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock
at the Fleming Street Methodist
ChGEeh, Rev. William b. Mandy,
pastor, officiating.
'Fhe body will be placed in the
church at 3 o'clock, and burial
will be in the family plot in the
City Cemetery. Pritcherd Funer-
al Home is in charge of arrange
mentS. !. .-.. 49,.
Survivors are the parents, Mr..
and Mrs, S. w. NeWlan; one sis
ter, Dona Gail; two brothers, Ted
Powell, twin brother of Joe, and
Harold Kenneth, U. S. Army
overseas; paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Florence NeWlan; maternal
grandmother, Mrs. Agnes Pritch-
ard.
Pallbearers will pc selected
from the Division Street School.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05
Senate And House Con-
ferccs Will Soon De-
eide Exact Amount To
BE Expended
tNashtngtOn Correspondent
@f rae tNex West CtGtzenS

WASHINGTON, April S.
Postwar planning will get a
real start in Florida after
July !, when Key West and
other cities up to 10000 or
80 in population will be pro-
vided with funds to help
make plans, it was learned
today.
II is expected that a sum
of about 35,000,00O will be-
come available for postwar
planning by medium-sized
aud smaller cities, counties,
and special districts.
Senate and House confer
ees will soon decide the ex-
act amount to be made
available, The House APP
proved AN appropriation of
only $1,000, 900, but terrific
pressure for more money is
expected to result in final
Senate-House approval of a
sum around $35,000,000, al
ready approved by the Sem
ate. +
The need for postwar planning
was emphasized by the 1914 sur
vey of the Federal Works Agency,
which showed that only IA cities
and l3 counties of Florida had
done anything about planning
Key West was not one of these.
The survey also showed that of
about / billion dollars of author
lied postwar projects, plans for
only one billion dollars worth
have been completed, and that
most of the projects are still in
the idea stage.
The FWA is now considering
rules and regulations for the adj
ministration of postwar planning,
expected to become a SiZeable
government program. Federal
funds will be apportioned among
the states, but most of these funds
will bee allocated among smaller
sized governmental units who do
not have facilities of their own
for detailed postwar planning.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-04-05
Insect Destroyer
Preserves History
(Ry Associated TrenaD

AMHERST, Mass.-DDT, the
hot-shot insecticidc, is not only
making history-it's preserving
it.
Entomologists at Massachusetts
State College got a frantic call
that moths were raising you
know-what in the upholstery of
a deluxe model" colonial stage
coach owned by the Amherst His
torical Society. The scientists
produced a gallon jug of DOT
and the insects we're blitzed IL
short order.