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Evening star., 1945-07-09
Barrel Rider Says One Trip
In Niagara Rapids Is Enough

the barrel cover was sprung and
water seeped in. I tried several
times to wiggle the hatch into a
more secure position, but couldn't
stop the water"
Hill asserted he got "real shak-
ing up" In the lower rapids "be-
cause the barrel hit a rock and
bounded end over end. My neck
went right down into my shoulders.
1t gave me quite a bang
Mrs. William Hill, ST., who had
watched her husband ride through
the same rapids in barrel In 1910,
1880 and 1881, collapsed after her
son returned.
At one point, witnesses saw the
barrel thrown by the turbulent cur
rents to what appeared to be about
40 feet In the air. At another point
it was caught In whirlpool and
spun around for 25 minutes. Hills
two brothers, watching from shore,
put out in a boat and pulled the
barrel out of the whirlpool. They
towed it to shore and removed about
5 inches of water which had leaked
In. Hill got out, stretched his legs,
then resumed the journey to the
Queenstown docks
Evening star., 1945-07-09

the Armistice, was assigned to the
public relations office of the Ameri-
can Commission to Negotiate Peace.
He retired from active service with
the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Mr.. Glass was chairman of the
committee of the Southern News
paper Publishers Association, which
was instrumental in raising funds
for the revival of the Lee School of
Journalism at Washington and Lee
University.
During this war, almost complete
responsibility of the newspapers fell
upon him and a cousin, Robert Glass
editor of the Lynchburg News. The
father has been i'll for several years
His brother, Carter Glass, jr.. re-
entered the Army to serve with the
American forces in the China
Burma-India area, from which he
returned recently.
Surviving, besides his father and
brother, are his widow, the former
Ann Cleghorn of Summerville, Ca;
his son, Maj. Powell Glass, jr., of the
Marine Corps; a sister, Mrs. Jvhn
G. Boatwright of Danville, and two
young granddaughters, Ann Cleg-
horn Glass and Mariana Rhett
Glass.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Vast AHFreight System Joining,
Transportation Conference T old

Transportation Research. He, too,
stressed the need for lower rates and
two-way loading Of planes.
Capt. r. A. Cooke, New York City,
traffic manager of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association,
told air transport men that If they
can reduce rates and guarantee
service they will obtain a substan-
tial business flying newspapers in
the future.
Sea Food Lines Projected.
DR.. Lewis Radcliffe. Washington,
executive secretary of the Oyster
Growers and Dealers Association,
said plans already are under way
for establishment of a half-dozen
air freight lines to handle sea food
products from coastal cities to in
land points.
Some details of the fabulous OPP
erations of the Air Transport Com
mand were disclosed by Col. James
w. Aston, assistant chief of staff
of the ATC. He said that with
5000 transport planes the COM
mand is transporting 5000 tons
of freight every day, flying 2,400 900
miles daily, is sending a ship across
the Atlantic every 16 minutes and
across the Pacific every 81 minutes.
Accident Record Low.
Col. Aston said mechanical and
weather difficulties have been over
come to the point where the COM
mand's accident record on mechan-
ical failures Is down to .03 per
900 flight hours. He pointed out
that in May the ATC moved more
than $1,000 tons of freight from
India to China over the difficult
and weather hound Himalaya, many
times the amount moved over the
Ledo road.
A prediction that new advance
ments in airplane design will re-
duce passenger and freight costs
to the economic level demanded by
industry representa- tives at the
conference was made by Fred B.
Collins, Seattle, Wash, sales man.
ager of the Boeing Aircraft Co. Mr..
Collins said that new commercial
aircraft Immediately after the war
will operate at costs as low as 8
mills per passenger mile and 4 cents
per freight ton mile.
These figures appeared to meet
the demands of several industry
speakers in order to make air trans
port of their commodities feasible.
Mr.. Collins addressed luncheon
session of the conference.
L. WEIGH Pogue, Washington,
chairman of the Civic Aeronautics
Board, will be principal speaker at
a dinner at 7:30 pm. The confer
ence will continue at the Statler
through tomorrow evening
Evening star., 1945-07-09
W. N. Guthrie Dies;
Retired Banker

William M. Guthrie, 10, of 2101
Connecticut Avenue NV, treasurer
Of the banking firm of D. H. Nc
Knew Co. until he retired in 1912
died yesterday at his summer home
at Bay Head, N. j., after an illness
of year.
A native Of EmmittSburg, Md, Mr.
Guthrie was in the wholesale mer-
camille business in st. Joseph, Mo-,
before coming to Washington in
1925. He was with the Sanitary
Grocery Co. here from 1925 until
1880, leaving the concern that year
to join the McKnew Co. The Nc
Knew Co. is no longer in existence
Mr.. Guthrie was a member of the
Chevy Chase Club and was on the
Advisory Committee and Board OF
Managers of the YMCA for many
years. He was also chairman OF
the YMCA Camp Let's Committee
apd was a member and former ves-
tryman of All Souls Episcopal
Church.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs
Minnie L. Guthrie; daughter, Miss
Catharine Ann Guthrie, both of the
Connecticut avenue address; q
brother, Charles Guthrie of Read
ing, Pa, and a sister, Mrs. Harry
H. Hutchinson of Chicago.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. Wednesday at the home o.
Mrs. Guthrie's sister, Mrs. r. Henry
Jones, 1901 S street NV. Buria
will be private in Rock Creek Gene.
terry.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Philippines Congress
Hears Macarthur Laud
Loyalty During War
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANILA July 9--In a wildly APP
plauded address to joint session
of the Philippines Congress, Gen.
asserted today, mo ma
ton, however powerful, may in the
future with safety rely exclusively
on its own defense potentiality.''
Even the greatest of nations, he
said, must resort to international
defense in concert with other ma
tions."
The general added:
Defense no longer is national
1t has become international.
Paying tribute to the Filipino peo-
pie for their loyalty to the United
States and resistance to the jap
anese, Gen. Macarthur observed
that the national defense obstacle
to Philippines independence had
been removed because of altered
world conditions resulting from the
war"
The generals 20-minute address
was interrupted nearly a dozen
times by applause from the IA Sem
ators, 73 Representatives and sew
eral hundred spectators who
jammed every available corner in
the plain school auditorium which
substitutes for the destroyed legis-
lative buildings
Once Gen. MacArthur's voice fall
tered as he said, Relations between
the American and Filipino people
are sanctified by the blood of both,
nobly and selfiessly shed upon the
Philippines soil. From north TO
south and from east to west, the
stark white crosses dot your land
scape where we laid our mutual
dead to sleep forever"
After cheers at the generals en-
trance with President Sergio Os-
mena, the assemblage broke into
applause again as Brig. Gen. Manuel
Roxas, Senate president and former
aide to Gen. Macarthur on Bataan,
described him as lone of the great
est soldiers of all time whose next
objective is Tokyo"
Gen. Roxas said Gen. Macarthur
is 1.-The symbol of faith and the
source of Philippine strength to re-
sist" who has chained our loyalty
to the United States. We honor him
because he has redeemed his
pledge"
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Tito Charges Greeks
Firing Over Frontier
To Provoke YugosIavs
ny me Associared Press.

%ANHtNeNNNA
LONDON, July 9.-Yugoslav
Premier Marshal Tito said in a
Belgrade broadcast yesterday
that Greek forces were firing
machine guns across the Creek
Yugoslav border In an attempt
ito provoke US" and that thou
sands of Macedonians had fed
Northern Greece to Yugoslayia
to escape a Greek reign of
terror.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Bitolj, Yugoslayia, said that accord
ing to official estimates 10000 Slavs
had fled Northern Greece to escape
terrorism which refugees asserted
included robbery, criminal assault,
and the sacking of entire villages
by armed bands and Greek militia.
Greek government spokesmen
have discounted reports of ter.
rorism and have said that any
outbreaks we're by outlaw bands)
Tass dispatches from Moscow said
the National Front of Federal Ma
cedonia had laid a strong protest
before the Yugoslav government, ac-
cusing Fascist" Greek organiZa-
tions. supported by units of the
Greek Army, of carrying out reign
of terror.
The dispatch said 1t was impos-
sible from that side of the frontier
to learn the Greek explanation Of
the situation, but that it appeared
that Slavs remaining on the Greek
side of the Macedonian frontier
were considered enemies of Greece
in an aftermath of the Bulgarian
occupation of Greek Macedonia.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Oyer 40, 900 See PhotomuroIs
.OfNozi Atrocities at Library
Schedule for Showing
Nazi Atrocity Films

Free public showings of the
War Department Nazi atrocity
film and an indoctrination film
are scheduled up to July rs
Children under 16 are not
admitted.
The films will be shown at 2,
$40, 4;20, $50, $40, 7::50 and
8 pm.
Today, Western High, Thirty
fifth street and Reser-
voir road NV.
Tomorrow, Eastern High, East
Capitol street at Seven
teenth street NE.
July IL, Randall Junior High.
July IL, Anacostia High.
July IS, Coolidge High.
July 16, Garnet Patterson
Junior High.
July II, Mckinley High.
July 18, Jefferson Junior High.
July 10, Browne Junior High.
July 20, Wilson High.
July %, Francis Junior High.
July "a, Stuart Junior High.
July Is, Barry Farms
Community Center.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Three Fatally Injured
In Baltimore Crash
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July s.-Three per-
sons were fatally hurt and five
others injured early today in the
collision of a trackless trolly and
and automobile in Baltimore.
Two of the injured were sailors
stationed at the Navy Yard In
Washington.
All of the persons who died were
In the automobile. They were Ed
ridge Adams, 10, who died at st.
Joseph's Hospital Is minutes after
he was admitted; Samuel Queen, "A,
and Othea E. Rice, all of Baltimore.
Two passengers in the car were
taken to the hospital for treatment
of lacerations and possible head in
turies while two trolly passengers
and the operator, John Wyschulis,
80, also were hurt.
Those injured in the car included
Curtis Hemingway. n, and Garfield
Howell, %, of Baltimore. The two
Washington sailors who were on the
trolley. were Seamen 1/c Joseph
Reusching. 70. and Joseh Cisri, 20.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Powell Glass, Senator'S Son,
Newspaper Executive, Dies
Was Prominent in
Press, Civic Groups;
Rites Arranged Todoy
~ the Associated Prekk.

8y the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG, Va, July o.
Powell Glass, 58-year-old son of
Virginia's senior Senator and gen.
eral manager of the Lynchburg
newspapers, died yesterday in a
Richmond hospital, where he had
been critically i'll for the last sew
eral weeks. Funeral services will
be held at $50 pm. today at his
residence here.
Heart disease was the immediate
cause of his death.
He served as president of the
Virginia Press Association for a
term ending July / and twice had
been elected State chairman of the
Associated Press in Virginia. AS
president of the association, he was
liaison man between Virginia news
papers and the National ONCE of
Censorship.
Active in State affairs, Mr.. Glass
served on a special committee to
make a study of the States pri-
mary highway system in 1934-5 and
as a member of the Committee on
Taxation and Government of the
Virginia State Chamber of Com
merce. He held a prominent role
in civic, social and religious affairs
IN Lynchburg, and was chairman
of the Board Of Directors of the
Glamorgan Pipe & Foundry Co.
His first interest was the Lynch
burg papers, with which the Glass
family has been identified for more
than rs years. He filled many as
signments, advancing from reporter
to the position of associate pub
Usher and general manager.
MIR. Glass was born In Lynch
burg, the son Of Senator Glass and
the late Mrs. Aurelia Med. Caldwell
Glass. He received his bachelor of
arts degree from Washington and
Lee University in 1907 and won
membership in Phi Beta Kappa
honor fraternity.
He served in France as q major
m the World War and at the time OF
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Inquest Set on Man Shot
In Police Liquor Raid

An inquest into the death of Mack
Allen, colored. who died early yes
terday in Freedmen's Hospital
after a fight with two metropolitan
policemen. was scheduled for today
at the District Morgue by Coroner
A. Magruder Macdonald.
Allen, 80, Of 239 Fourteenth street
Sc. was fatally wounded in an
apartment in the 1900 block of S
street NV. Pvts. Bernard Ney-
some, 26. and Charles L. Harde-
man, %, reported they went to the
place and bought a half pint of
whisky from Boyce Carelock, col
ored, As, who directed them to an
other room where James e. Dixon,
coIored, 81, was asleep. Pvt. New
some said he was about to arrest
Dixon when Allen, who had just
entered the place, struck the po-
liceman twice and then threatened
him with a knife. Pvt. Newsome
shot the man twice, police reported.
Carelock, who, according to po-
lice, joined in the fray, is charged
with assaulting policeman. and
Dixon is charged with illegal sale
of LIQUOR.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
BY the Associated rress.

BY the ASsOclhteu fIehs.
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, July
9.-William Red" Hill, jr., slight,
32-year-old souvenir shop operator
rode through the Niagara Rapids
in barrel yesterday to fulfill a
pledge taken at his fathers death
bed three years ago, and today
faced the threat of police action
as result of his exploit. One hum
dred thousand persons watched
the ride.
Hill, who foiled efforts of the
Niagara Parks Commission police
to prevent the trip, contented him.
self meanwhile with the knowledge
that he had set a new record in
making the bouncing, swirling Z
mile ride in two hours.
He nursed bruised left arm
his only injury--and intimated that
it was his last ride in a barrel.
Anyway, he said, the red-painted
750-pound steel barrel, which had
been built for Hills father, was
ruined by frequent collisions with
rocks, sprung beyond repair"
I'm going to stick to life saving
from now on" he said. THE trip
was rough and very wet because
Evening star., 1945-07-09
d. {. Traffic Record
Held Encouraging as
Accidents Decline

District traffic conditions are
encouraging" with accidents on the
decline, Howard Wentworth, direc-
tor OF District traffic public rela-
tions, said today. He also disclosed
that District traffic officials have a
safety driving and walking cam
paign planned, ready to go into
effect whenever gasoline restrictions
are lifted or considerably relaxed.
New traffic lights also will be placed
as soon as equipment is available,
he said.
Traffic deaths this year have num-
bered 46, compared with 40 at this
time last year and the number OF
traffic accidents in June dropped
from $50 in 1914 to 500 this year
Mr.. Wentworth pointed out. He
attributed the decline to fewer
automobiles and stricter enforce
ment of traffic rules.
Women here are safer drivers than
men, Mr.. Wentworth said, citing
accident figures. Twenty-Five per
cent Of the drivers here are women
he declared, yet they account fol-
only about per cent of the acci-
dents. Police records show that in
1914 women drivers were involved
in 1880 accidents and men in 9,89e
and in April, l945, the ratio of wom-
en- to men drivers involved in acci-
dents was 80 to 767, respectively.
Jaywalking accounts for a large
percentage of all accidents involv-
ing pedestrians, Mr.. Wentworth said
IF we we could only impress upon
pedestrians to cross at the cross
walk on the light and not to sud-
denly run out between parked cars
our hospitals wouldn't have nearly
as many persons who wanted to
save a minute by not walking to
the corner" he declared. He added
that one-third of all of last years
pedestrian injuries were caused by
jaywalking.
Drivers who refuse to yield the
right of way were blamed by Mr.
Wentworth for the greatest number
Of accidents between vehicles. AL
most 1000 accidents last year, he
said, occurred because each driver
depended on the other to stop or
give way.
Evening star., 1945-07-09

The flrst sketch maps OF vast
new transport system which will
speed men and commodities through
the air Immediately after the war
were drawn today by speakers at
the Joint Air Transport Users Con-
ference called by the National Aero
nautics Association at the Hotel
Statler.
Experts in a variety of fields pic
tured air transport of fruits, vege-
tables and agricultural products,
Iready-to-wear goods, mail-order
merchandise, newspapers and sea
foods.
The speakers said three main
obstacles must be overcome before
the United States can realize full
economic benefits of commercial air
hauling. The first of these is the
present inadequate number of air
fields. The second, they said, is
provision for equipment which may
be more economically operated than
present planes. And the third Is as
surance of lower rates with adequate
return loads as necessary factor.
Advantage From War.
Glen B. Eastburn, Los Angeles,
vice president for the Air Transport
Division Of the NAA, set the theme
for the conference when he said
that "peacetime industry must take
advantage of one of the greatest de-
velopments of the war-the move
ment of men and materials by air"
George G. Smith, president of the
st. Louis Chamber of Commerce,
said the Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration is planning facilities to
handle 600, ,000, ,000-ton miles of mail,
freight and express in 1850 COM
pared with $4,000, 900 in 1910. He
cited prospects Of his home city as
an example of the traffic anticipated.
st. Louis, he said, will need 40
major and minor airports In 1860
compared with 18 at present, and
some of the present ones must be
greatly expanded.
Stresses Lower Rates.
Joseph Garside, Norwood, Mass,
president of the e. w. Virgins Air
ways, Inc, predicted nonscheduled
or charter air carrier will take a
major place in the postwar air COM
merce development, but called for a
three-point program to effect this.
The first is newspaper and other ad-
vertising of available service; sec
ond, more efficient and economical
equipment, and, third, reduction OF
rates.
A vast development in the trans
port of perishable fruits and vege-
tables from winter garden areas to
industrial area markets generally
within a radius of 750 miles Of Gen.
trail Ohio was predicted by L. H
Brittin, director of Edward S. Evans,
Evening star., 1945-07-09


Headquarters Communications Zone
of the European Theater. These
men passed through a Recovered
Allied Military Personnel camp near
a French port on their way home,
the dispatch said. 1t did not give
their next of kin. The names and
addresses as given in the dispatch
are:
Sergt. Elliott c. Bell, e12 D street
Sc.
1st 1t. Paffaele r. Biondi, washs
ington Hotel.
I'd 1t. James r. Morgan, 40 Girard
street NE.
I'd 1t. Stanley S. schreffier. 1918
Adams Mill road NV.
s/Sergt. Dean p. Kern, 1908 Van
Ness street NV.
SISergt. Pat b. Parks, lit Ham
ilton street NV.
Pvt Despie r. King, $40 Z street
NE.
1st 1t. Kermit r.. Pope, 1880 First
street NV.
I'd 1t. Robert Washington, i400
Falrmont street NV.
Pvt. Walter HI. G. Lehr, 4528 Sew
enth street NV.
Pvt. Lawrence NJ. Robb, 1855 Four
teenth street NV.
S/Sergt. James w. Crawford, ALB
Newcomb street Sc.
! Sergt. Philip G. Metz, 1900 Forty
/ first street NV.
Corpl. Roy b. Englert, care of
American Red Cross.
Pfc. Willis r. Dyar, 1915 Four
teenth street NV.
Pvt. Duiey d. Davis, 1910 Twenty
first street NE.
Pvt. Steve J. Dulacy, care of
American Red Cross.
Pvt. Bernard e. Rauert, 1910 CAL
vert street NV.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
AFL Offers Truman
Program 10 Put Pay
Minimum al 72Cents
By the Associated Press.


An immediate return to collec-
tive bargaining within price CELL
ings" and minimum wage of "a
cents an hour is urged by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor.
AFL President William Green
already has presented this program
to President Truman, the AFLs
Monthly Survey said, adding that
Mr.. Truman expressed grave con-
Germ about the danger of sharp
wage reductions and promised a
thorough investigation of the
problem"
Noting that some War Manpower
Commission controls already have
been relaxed, the AFL publication
said reduction of the work week and
layoffs at war production plants
already have cut deeply into many
workers pay checks.
I'VE must take immediate steps
to build up the consumer market
by raising workers buying power" {"
the AFL said. THAT is why we
must return Immediately to collec-
tive bargaining within price CELL
ings.'' r.
The Little Steel Formula, the
publication continued, prevented
workers from receiving wage in
creases in proportion to their in
creased productivity, with the result
that corporation profits shot up.
Now is the time to restore to
workers their rightful share in this
great increase of wealth produced
by the joint effort of management
and workers." the Survey said.
Declaring reconversion will be
seriously hampered by manpower
shortages in basic industries which
have low wage rates, the publication
said "a minimum wage Of 72 cents,
which could be adopted by collective
bargaining without War Labor
Board approval and made legiti-
mate basis for price adjustments
If necessary, would go far to solve
the manpower problems of indus
tries like these"
Evening star., 1945-07-09

as sequel to these two. 1t might
be called Our Job at Home That
picture would show that we have
yet to defeat Japan and bring this
war to a close.
"And it would show that the
greatest single responsibility of this
and future generations is to learn
how to get along with each other
without fighting wars"
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Mon in Soviet Uniform
.Cuuqht in WAC's Room
,y the Associated Press.

by Inc AsSOClALeu EIeSS.
BERLIN, July "a United States
Military Police officer reported yes
terday that man wearing Russian
Army officers uniform and carrying
pistol had entered the barracks
room of an American WAC Friday
night and attempted to molest her
The officer said the girls screams
attracted American soldiers, who
overpowered and disarmed the in
truder and turned him over to Soviet
authorities. He apparently had been
drinking, the report said. Under So
Wet military law. such an offender
would be liable to f1ve-year prison
term.
The Military Police said they were
preparing a report on the incident
for higher authorities,
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Sleeping Pill Overdose
FotoI to Generals Wife
BY the Associated Press.

6y Lne Associated FreSS.
SANTA ANA, Calf, July 9.-The
body of Mrs. Freda A. Walton, 48,
wife of Brig. Gen. Leo A. Walton,
chief of staff of the 9Th Army Air
Forces now in the Canal Zone, was
found dead in her home yesterday.
An announcement by the AAF
Western Flying Training Command
here, where Gen. Walton was chief
of staff from May, 1912, to Novem-
Der, 1914, said she died from an
overdose of sleeping tablets follow
ing a prolonged illness.
Besides her husband, who is ex-
pected here shortly, Mrs. Walton, a
native of San Diego, Calf, is sur
vived by q son, Second 1t. Edmund
Spencer Walton, stationed at Will
liams Field, AriZ., and a daughter,
Margaret Jean Walton, of this city.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Its Me- Says Burglar,
Challenged in Night
By The Associated presa.

BY the AsSoclated Pres8.
TACOMA, Wash. When John
Wilkes mother-in- law heard some
one walking inside the Wilke house
at 4 am. she called, who's there?"
ITS me-" voice replied,
The mother-in-law went back to
sleep, thinking the voice was that
of Johns sailor brother who was ex-
pected to come home late.
But next morning John found his
car missing, also his 16-A gas stamps
and $3.50 in cash.
Evening star., 1945-07-09
Conodion Repatriation
Begins After Riots
By the Associated Press.

6y the ASSOCIATED PresS.
LONDON, July S.-Twenty-four
hours after group of Canadian
soldiers had smashed store windows
in Aldershot because of bitterness
about delay in shipping them home,
1880 Canadians sailed for the Do
minion aboard the Queen Mary and
the lie de France.
The Queen Mary also carried
about 5000 Americans when she
sailed from Scotland Friday night.
A Canadian Army spokesman said
the movement of the Canadian
troops was routine and not as a re-
suit of the demonstrations at
Aldershot