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Evening star., 1945-04-24
Cafe Owners AssaiI
'0PA Regeneration; !;
Discuss Point SAVING

Squeezed between their red point
budget and the meat shortage,
Washington restaurateurs today
pondered series Of suggestions to
save red points and proposal that
they adopt "the tactics Of John L.
Lewis" to rid themselves of ''regi-
mentation."
Meeting last night, members OF
the Washington Restaurant Asso-
citation exchanged ideas on stretch
Ing red points and heard DR.. Julian
w. Pollard, president Of the asso-
ciation, declare, referring to Of1ce
OF Price Administration rules:
We've been taking all this stun
sitting down. We've been very nice
about 1t. But 1t looks as If they're
trying to regiment us out of busi-
ness.
1T seems to me we should use
the tactics of John l.. Lewis and
find out, something. Do you want
to do anything about it, or do you
want to take it sitting DOWN."
Question Unanswered.
DR.. Pollard's talk was loudly ap-
plauded, but his question was left
unanswered.
Earlier, S. Grady Putnam, man
ager of large cafeteria, told IS
restaurant officials in the audito-
rum Of the Washington Gas Light
Co. he wasn't SO sure the public
understood problems faced by food
handlers in wartime.
ANY one running a restaurant
today deserves a medal" he said.
He pointed out that if restaurant
owners served butter it alone could
cost approximately 60 per cent of
the red point allotment.
Menu Suggestions Listed.
Menu suggestions for economizing
on red points included apple and
corn fritters or any other kind that
float or swim," Chinese,
Mexican and Spanish" "grits for
the people from the South" and
sauer kraut for the Pennsylvania
Dutch.
Mrs. Marian Fletcher, q repre-
sentative of the American Theater
Wing. appealed to restaurateurs to
understand returning veteran "since
you probably will be among his first
contacts when he comes back
home"
Other speakers included Mrs. Vir-
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Natural Causes Ruled
In Death Of Woman

DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald, Dis
trict coroner, yesterday afternoon
issued a certificate of death from
natural causes for Nellie Swartzel,
about As years old, whose body was
found earlier in bed in rooming
house at 1417 Rhode Island avenue
NV.
According to Homicide Squad de-
tectives, both of the woman's eyes
were blacked. The rooming house
landlord. Posey g. Bower, told po-
lice she moved into the house about
10 days ago and he knew her as
Mrs. Edward Deakins. He said the
man he knew as her husband had
left the house about 8 am, an hour
before the body was discovered.
In another case, police yesterday
released 36-year-old man who had
been held for questioning in connec-
tion with the death OF Mrs. Harriet
G. Thomas, %, the mother of two
children.
Wife Of sailor, she was found
dead Sunday on bed in the mans
apartment in the 1000 block of Ninth
street NE, police said. There were
no signs of violence and she was
fully clothed, according to officers.
An autopsy was performed on
Mrs. Thomas yesterday but results
were withheld by authorities pending
a chemical analysis of her stomach
contents.
The man said he discovered the
body on returning to his apartment
about $3.50 pm. Sunday. He told
police he knew the woman slightly.
She resided in the $500 block of
Twentieth avenue, Green Meadows,
Md. and her husband was said to
be overseas.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
|MaefarIand School
Maintains Lead in
Wasfepaper Drive

Mcfarland Junior High School
maintained its hold on first place in
The Evening Star-PTA Salvage for
Victory program last week by bring
ing its total weight of wastepaper
collected to 231, ,658 pounds. i
Nineteen of the first 20 schools
are now above the 100000 pound
mark and the twentieth school, Wal
ZACH, with 9S ,526 pounds to its. credit,
undoubtedly will 60 into six figures
this week.
The other 18 in the first 20, with
their total weights, are as follows:
Kingsman, 205, ,88l: Lafayette, $780,
544; Stoddert, 161,946; Buchanan,
156, ,573; Takoma Park, 149 ,204: Shep-
herd. 1854; Murch, 1873 ,732:: Blow,
l30,625; Hearst, 128,1S8; Gordon,
127, ,790; Jefferson, 125, ,494; Benning,
121, ,245; Hardy, 120, ,984; Adams, u.s.
1853; Westbrook, 110,896; West, 1o4, :
991: Deal, 104,911, and Hilton-Pea
body, 100,834.
Yesterday Papertroopers' in the
first district turned In total of
81, $50 pounds to bring the grand
total Of the drive to 13,106,529
pounds. Among the collections of
half ton or more were Buchanan,
5,754; Bryan, 2,776: syphax, 1896;
Randall Junior, 3,099; Kimball,
$500: Davis, 1869; Orr, 5000;
Ketcham, 1925; Randle Highland,
$3.50; Beers, 3,207; Ludlow, 2,455;
Giddings. 1887: Wallach, 2,373; JET
ferson, 5,295: Gordon, $3.50.
Collections tomorrow in the third
district, together with the leaders,
will be as follows:
Honor RolI
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Panic Is Reported
Spreading in Berlin

MOSCOW, April "a R!-Panie
and decentralization are spreading ir
the center of Berlin, with fighting
taking place among the Nazi de.
tenders, eyewitness accounts reach
ing Moscow said today.
tits hell in there" a German
civilian was quoted by the CORE
spondent for Izevestia. Shells are
falling all over the place and there
is fighting among the officers and
men"
The civilian declared a divisional
commander shot his driver when the
latter suggested capitulation.
Red Army and Polish troops have
pushed deep enough and captured
enough streets and avenues to set ur
traffic control system, front advices
said.
Red Army girls, in their customary
role OF traffic directors, were stand
ing at numerous corners in the SUBJ
urbs directing the flow of trucks
some Of American make-moving in
ana OUT OF the city.
The correspondent for Red Stal
told of battling down the avenues
leading to the Wilhelmstrasse, and
Of white flags fluttering from win
dows along the Berlinerstrasse. Or
another nearby street 600 Germans
surrendered, he said.
The Russians seized a big factory
which had been making parachutes
another turning out airplane en-.
gines and a gas works.
Fires were reported raging in ths
Weissensee district, now behind the
Red Army.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's mobile
groups were reported wedging int
the environs Of Potsdam, Berlin.
western suburbs, as Red Army force.
closed two arms Of steel around the
capital.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Ex-Revenue Bureau Aide
Held on Gas Fraud CHARGE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 24-A former
Internal Revenue Bureau employe
Of Washington was charged yesterday
In a Federal criminal information
with making false statements in re-
newal applications for gasoline al
lotments to the Hyattsville Ration
Board.
The information was filed against
James A. Jordan, jr., SO, Of the 1900
block Of Queens Chapel road, Wash
ington, by Assistant United States
Attorney Virgil Van Street.
Mr.. Jordan was accused of having
stated in his application that he
needed gasoline for 1,46S miles of
travel in connection with his work
as special agent in the income tax
fraud section of the Internal Rev.
enue Bureau. whereas his actual
need was for 1853 miles.
A second count of the information
alleged that on February %, 1945,
he made untrue statements by en-
tering the names of George C. Dill
lard and j. H. McCollum, officials
OF the bureau, on his application.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Appropriations
Continued From First Page.)

Alaskan development study, COM
menting that 1t would be OF "little
or no practical value"
1t also rejected a request for $21,.
600 to pay bonuses to employees, say.
ing:
"The payment Of awards for music
In cafeteria during lunch hours and
several similar suggestions for which
awards have been made indicate
the iimpracticability of the program"
In cutting budget estimates for
the grazing service almost 40 per
cent, the committee criticized that
activity as "overgrown, highly i'm.
practical, and unbusinesslike." It
recommended an increase in grazing
fees sufficient to make the grazing
service self-supporting.
It reiterated past demands for
"oyerhauling, reorganizing and
streamlining" the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
The amount recommended for the
Reclamation Bureau exceeded cur
rent year funds by more than
5000 900, although they were some
$14, TOO 900 below estimates.
In 1914, the committee said, crops
produced on reclamation acreage
were valued at approximately $780,
000, 900 and amounted to more than
5000 600 tons of food.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Philippine Credit Agencies
Went Bankrupt Under Japs
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Every domestic Philippine credit
institution which operated during
the Japanese invasion Is bankrupt.
says E. D. Hester, economic adviser
to the Philippine high commissioner
Most Of the larger domestic in
stitutions did operate, Mr.. Hester
said, adding, some probably were
forced to-"
The situation was disclosed during
hearings on the Interior Depart
ment appropriation bill, which
reached the House floor today.
Mr.. Hester blamed the condition
on circulation by the japanese of
what the Filipinos call Mickey
Mouse money" - paper currency
which Is worthless and has no
backing.
Destruction in the Philippines was
enormous, Mr.. Hester said, estimat-
ing total damage claims to be pre-
sented to Congress sooner or later"
at between $500, 900 900 and $500
600, 900.
Evening star., 1945-04-24

ed an Oak Leaf Cluster to his Legion
of Merit for outstanding services
with the 5th Corps of the 1st Army.
He also holds the French Legion of
Honor and the Croix de Guerre.
1t. Col. Donald P. Christensen,
2737 Devonshire place NV, has
been awarded the Legion of Merit.
for outstanding services with the I'd
Infantry Division now in Germany.
1t. Adolf Rudolf, jr, formerly with
the Civil Service Commission here,
was awarded the Croix de Guerre
for gallantry in action when a con-
voy of vehicles under his command
was bombed and strafed in France.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Tubing Buried in Yord
May Be AirpIune Port

A 2-foot length of metal tubing,
found tmbedded 10 inches In the
back yard of Charles D. Meyer. 1347
Ingraham street NV, Sunday, to-
day was being examined by Army
and Navy authorities, who believe
1t fell from an airplane.
The tubing, which is 1-inch in
diameter, was first believed by those
who found 1t to be an incendiary
bomb.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
France Electrified
BY News OF Petoin

PARIS, April "A R.-An France
was electrified today by the news
that Marshal Petain was in Switzer-
land and intended to return to Paris
to stand trial.
A Ministry of Justice official said
the proceedings, newly set to start
May II, probably would be postponed
until it was certain Petain actually
planned to return to France.
Only today the Ministry of Justice
had announced that Petain would be
tried by proxy and the date set for
May II. Andre Mornet was named
prosecutor.
The charge win be high treason.
It is based on probably the largest
Evening star., 1945-04-24

dossier ever compiled against any &C
cused Frenchman. Thousands of
documents, official communications
letters and records of his corre-
spondence with the Germans will
be introduced.
Contacts Before War Charged.
Moreover, it is known that the
prosecution will attempt to prove
that Petain was in communication
with the Germans even before the
war. That part of the dossier is
being kept secret.
After the fall of France 1t was
repeatedly asserted that Petain, who
in 1880 served as Ambassador
Extraordinary to Spain, was an init
mate of former German Ambas-
sador to Madrid.
On this point, especially, the
French are anxious to hear his own
testimony.
The trial by proxy, a legal insti-
tuition in France, was prepared and
scheduled for hearing for three main
reasons:
l. 1t is the crowning effort in a
long and somber process Of "purg-
ing" French collaborators, a ma
jority of whom said they merely
took orders from Petain.
2. It is designed to dispel belief
that Petain was "a confused but
honest old man who made a mis-
take"
3. Decision of the French govern
ment to prove to the world and
especially the United States that
France was betrayed by a small
clique Of which Petain was the
chief-not that the French nation
as such quit in the face of the Ger
man attack.
De Gaulle Might Testify.
Gen. de Gaulle himself might be
called to testify. De Gaulle was
present at the stormy session in
June, 1910, when Petain announced
his intention to ask for an armistice.
De Gaulle and other military lead
ers argued futilely that the French
Army still was capable Of holding a
large section of France, especially
the Brittany coast. But Petain was
adamant.
He has been called "the apostle Of
surrender" and the diary Of Ray
mond Poincare, French President IN
the last war, Is studded with notes
about Petain's pessimism over the
possibility Of the Allies winning that
conflict.
The prosecution said Petain's dos
sier would show with almost COM
plete accuracy the extent to which
the French collaborationists acted
on direct instructions from him.
Posters summoning Petain to ap-
pear for trial May II already have
been printed. Normally they would
be posted in public buildings
throughout France 10 days before
the hearings.
Few Frenchmen ever expected to
see the old man actually appear
in the docket. But they anxiously
awaited the reading of his private
papers. Under a trial by proxy
whatever decree the court might
render would remain valid until his
death or until he appeared and
found means Of clearing himself Of
its charges.
Marshal Petain, who rose to heroic
heights during the World War when
he held 80 of Germany's best d.
visions at bay at Verdun and coined
the slogan, "They shall not pass" F"
lost most of his heroic luster after
the fall of France.
With Pierre Laval, distrusted by
Petain himself, he headed the COL
laborationist Vichy regime.
Opposed Invasion.
In the days preceding the Allied
landings he appealed to Frenchmen
not to support any invasion. When
the invasion came last June he
broadcast another appeal to the
French not to heed outside voices
calling upon you not to listen to our
Evening star., 1945-04-24

III FRANCE WIFI
the 32d Signal
Con S t ru ction
Battalion. The
award was dis
closed In a re-
cent SETTER to his
wife. Maj. Sta
bier was man.
a 6 er of h e
C h e S apeake &
Potomac Tele-
phone Co. at Ell
licott City. Md.
Col. John G..
Hill, 2730 Ord
Way street NV.
has heen award
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Guitry Seeks Divorce

PARIS. April "a R).-Court files
today listed divorce suite of Sacha
Guitry, 67-year-old French actor
against the former Genevieve de
Sereville, Is, whom he married July
4, 1889. It is scheduled for q hear
ing next week. This will be the
fourth divorce for Guitry. His pre-
vious wives were Charlotte Lyses,
Yvonne Printemps and Jacqueline
de Lubac.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Russia
Continued From First Page.)

den Linden, where Hitler's legions
IN the days of German victory often
marched in triumph.
Berlin May Be Encircled.
Berlin may already have been
encircled. The Russians announced
last night that their forces to the
west were only 16 miles apart. The
Luxembourg radio said they had
met.
Marshal Gregory K. zhukov's 1st
White Russian Army, driving into
and sweeping around the city to
the north, captured Oranienburg,
17smiles northeast of the heart of
hescity; took nearby Birkenwerder,
surged across the Havel River and
won Hennisdorf. BY German ac-
caMt, zhukov's troops had swept
on into the northwestern suburb
of ;Heiligensee.
n Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 1st Uk-
fainian Army was closing the south
er11s jaw of the pincers as well as
pln1ging into the city from the
south. Konev's forces captured
Tetlow, Is miles south Of zhukov's
troops at Hennisdorf. Tetlow lies
ondthe southwestern fringe of Ber-
NAHproper.
afIuSAirdrome Reported Taken.
eAf unconfirmed Moscow dispatch
said the great Templehof Airdrome
In the southern part Of Berlin had
been captured.
The German capital was effec-
6vely Isolated from the Nazi ma
tional redoubt in the Bavarian Alps
by ythe. Russian rush to the Elbe at
Nuremberg, northwest of Dresden
The list Ukrainian Army, after adj
vancing 100 miles in week, was
approaching the river on 38-mile
'front.'
In that region American forces
last we're reported on the Nude
River near Wurzen, west of the
EIbe.
Kopev's seyen-day drive over
whelmed II major towns. The cap
tlre Of Pulsnitz carried his troops
within. u miles of Dresden on the
northsast.
Asr the battle for Berlin rose in
suTyro.there was some belief here II
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Gen. Truman Landon,
hBomber Command, !,
|s&arded DSM

Brig. Gen. Truman H. Landon.
whoScommanded the 7th Bomber
Command in the Pacific Ocean
areas from February / to December
TO- 1914, has been awarded the Dis
tirSg1iished Service Medal, the War
DepAftment announced today.
Meth Bomber Command, de-
spite shortages of personnel and
equipment, maintained heavy
schedule Of tactical operations
against the Japanese over a vast
ocean area and overcame "insur-
mountable obstacles" in carrying
out combat assignments. Gen.
Landon is from Los Angeles.
Brig. Gen. Dale v. Gaffney of
Portland, Greg, has been awarded
the Legion Of Merit as commanding
lon1cer of Ladd Field, Alaska, from
september, 1899, to May, l943. He
later commanded the Alaskan
Wing. Air Transport Command,
contributing to the solution of prob
Iems incidental in operating air.
craft in cold weather.
He organized the Cold Weather
Detachment at Ladd Field, operat-
ing in temperatures go to 10 degrees
below zero. Upon the outbreak of
'war he expanded his base to sup
port our air attacks against the
Japanese in the Aleutians and help
move lease-lend aircraft to Russia.
Other Legion of Merit awards:
Col. David r. Stinson, 1852 Thrift
eth street NV. commander of the
Corsican Air Subarea from March
/ to July 3, 1914 He developed
three service groups that were able
to supply number of fighter and
bomber groups during period when
shipping was definitely limited.
Col. Lloyd H. Watnee of 2974
Northampton street NV. was con-
troll officer of the Army Airways
Communications System from
March II, 1912, to April Is, 1943, and
commanded the organizations Sys-
tenn Wing from April 26, 1943, to
November 8, 1943. Col. Watnee ad-
ministered a worldwide communi-
cations system now comprising some
$50 stations in domestic and Is
foreign regions, contributing effec-
lively to air operations.
Maj. Matthias E. Lukens of 422
North Thomas street, Arlington,
Va, during August, 1912, to Decem-
Der, 1914, contributed to the success
full development of the functional
organization of AAF Zone of the
Interior air bases. He conducted
field tests of the plan and indoctri-
mated the commanding generals and
their stats in the principles of the
plan.
Col. Orlando C. Mood, 18th Army
chief of staff, whose home is at
1858 Ontario road NV, has been
awarded the Order of the Legion OF
Honor with the grade of Chevalier,
a decoration which carries with 1t
the Croix de Guerre with palm, by
the French government, according
to an announcement from 18th Army
headquarters.
Presentation was made by Gen.
Louis Koeltz, French General Staff
liaison officer, in the presence of 1t.
Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, commander
of the new 18th Army. The award
was for Col. Moods services in the
liberation of France.
Col. Edmund X. Daley, 3100 Con-
necticut avenue, commander of the
1171st Engineer Combat Group, 5th
Corps, 1st Army, has received the
same award. q, 4
Maj. Sidney S. Stabler, jr., 6s0S
Pine Way, College Heights, Nd, was
awarded the Choix de Guerre by
Gen. Charles de Gaulle for his work
Evening star., 1945-04-24

DEGREES" Support of the invasion
he said, would call down on you
tragic reprisals." Then he fed tc
Germany.
King Leopold has been a German
captive since he ordered the Belgian
Army to lay down its arms on May
%, 1910, near the start of the Ger
man campaign which overran the
Low Countries and France. His
government deposed him the same
da".
A dispatch from Switzerland on
April 16 said that Swiss government
negotiations to free the monarch
had failed. The Nazis previously
were reported toying with the idea
Of. using Leopold and other prom
inent prisoners as hostages in their
Bavarian mountain redoubt.
Prince Charles Is Regent.
Prince Charles of Belgium, brother
Of the King, is serving as Belgian
regent. The King, widower after
the tragic death OF Queen Astrid,
married a commoner while in Gus
tody in a castle outside Brussels. He
was reported to have visited Hitler
in Berchtesgaden few months after
being taken captive.
Laval, 81, twice Premier of France
became the prime advocate Of col
laboration with Germany after the
fall of France and frequently ex-
pressed the hope that the Nazis
would be victorious in World War II
Marshal Petain named Laval his
Vice Premier and successor on June
IL, 1910, less than a month after
Petain took over the French gov
ernment and sued for peace.
Laval made frequent trips to visit
Hitler and sent thousands of French
workers to the Reich. He instituted
many violent anti-Jewish measures
Evening star., 1945-04-24

ginia Conway. Woodrow Marriott,
Dallas II. Smith, Bayard Evans.
John 8. Daniels, Watson Rulon.
vice president of the association,
who presided, and Robert j. Wilson,
executive secretary.
Evening star., 1945-04-24
Petuin
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by automobile in q nine-car convoy.
He was in the first car with his
wife.
The aged marshal did not leave
his automobile during the frontier
deliberations, which required about
an hour.
Dressed in civilian clothes with a
gray topcoat. he seemed tired.
However, he waved to the crowd
as he drove away to st. Gallen,
where he and his party presently
are housed.
One car of German SIS troopers,
presumably escorting the marshal,
turned back at the frontier.
In asking the Swiss Federal Coun-
Gil to permit his transit, Marshal
Petain declared himself willing to
surrender in France and stand trial,
it was announced.
However, he will remain IN
Switzerland temporarily until con-
tact is made with the proper French
authorities.
A daughter and son-in-law of
Petain followed in a second car of
the convoy.
Gen. Marie Eugene Debeney, COM
mander of the French 1st Army in
the World War and a close con-
fldant Of Petain, was among those
in the party. t.s
(The Vichy radio reported on
November 10, 1943, that Debeney
had died of wounds suffered two
months previously when French
guerrillas hid a bomb in his
automobile.)
Return Embarrassing.
st. Margarethen, on the Austrian
frontier, is a village of $500 persons
Petain's party had come from Sig
maringen to find safe entry.
Petain is scheduled to go on trial
in Paris May II. French followers
of Gen. de Gaulle in Switzerland say
they believe Petain will be shot
since otherwise war guilt trials could
not continue against his subordi-
mates.
However, all the French made
clear that Petain's dramatic arriva.
with an offer to surrender was EN-.
barrassing.
The party left Sigmaringen two
days ago. It was forced to trave,
slowly because of disrupted highway
communications, guards, Allied all
raids and the general impossibility
Of getting anywhere quickly In col.
lapsing Germany.
Evening star., 1945-04-24

might fall within two days-the
German radio announced that Hitler
had sent an eleventh-hour message
to his one-time Axis partner, Benito
Mussolini, declaring the struggle
for our very existence has reached
its climax"
The broadcast said the message
was sent to Mussolini in Milan and
declared that "Bolshevism and the
troops of Jewry are stalking all with
the object of combining their de-
structive forces in Germany"
Evening star., 1945-04-24

Look at the casualty list in this
paper-then decide how many War
Bonds you should buy.
Evening star., 1945-04-24

Marshal Petain, who rose to heroic
heights during the World War when
he held 30 of Germany's best di-
visions at bay at Verdun and coined
the slogan, "They shall not pass" F"
lost most of his heroic luster after
the fall of France.
With Pierre Laval, distrusted by
Petain himself, he headed the COL
laborationist Vichy regime.