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Evening star., 1945-07-06
BY MIRIAM oTTENBERG

An ex-Coast Guardsman who suf-
fered such severe injuries during a
wolf-pack attack on a convoy that
his knees "ache like a sore tooth"
when he stands or walks can't get
enough gasoline from the OPA to-
look for job his leg injuries will
allow him to take, 1t was learned to-
day.
Local OPA officials say they are
''in complete sympathy with his
plight and wish they could do some
thing for him. but point out the reg
ulations simply don't cover his case.
If he wanted enough gas to look
for a job in Norfolk or North Caro-
lima, OPA officials point out, he could
get gas coupons to cover 400 miles,
but here's what he has to do to look
for work In his car here:
The veteran, Jerome De List, 81,
of 5013 Belt road NV, has to go
from his home in Chevy Chase to
the United States Employment Serv-
ice at Fifth and K streets NV. to
get referral card to job. The job
opportunity may be way out North
east, but in order to get the gas he
would have to go to his local ration
ing board at Nineteenth and Calvert
streets NV, show the referral card
and fill out an application for
enough gas to cover the trip.
Would Have to Go. Back.
If the job were unsuitable-and
he has already visited a dozen
places where his physical limitations
made it impossible for him to go to
work-he would have to 60 back to
the USES for another referral card.
This one might be for job in Alex
andria, but in order to get the gas
he would nave to go back to his ra-
ton board uptown before he started
for Alexandria.
The chief clerk at the rationing
board, Henry e. Hill, said If the
man brought in six referral cards
he could have enough gas for six
trips, but the USES gives only one
referral card at a time. The USES
explained this was done because If
a veteran was given six job oppor-
tunities and another veteran with
the same qualifications came in
right behind him, the second vet
eran would lose out.
1t took Mr.. De Lisi two red tape
ridden days to find out that he had
reached an impasse. Here Is the
story as he tells It.;
After four months In the hospital
he was discharged from the Coast
Guard June Is with the warning
that If he ever wanted to get his
legs to the point where he could
walk without a painful limp he
shouldn't do any more standing or
walking than he could help.
Registered for Work.
He knew he couldn't go back to-
his old job as an instructor and op-
orator for the Capital Transit Co.,
where he had been employed 10
years, but he reported anyhow.
While the company was trying to
find something for him to do. he
registered for work with the Vet
Evening star., 1945-07-06
$4,000 Fraud
In Stock Sale
Charged byU. 5.
Two Indicted Men .
Have Offices Here;
Widows Victimized

A stock sale fraud totaling more
than $4,000 against two aged
widows in Atlanta, Ca, Is charged
today in an indictment returned
by a Federal court grand jury al
Richmond, Va, against a Washing
ton area resident and another man
who formerly had Offices here.
The two defendants, for whom
bench warrants have been issued
are Ben r. Ditto, sr., who has Offices
at 2101 K street NV, and lives at
Wellington station, Alexandria, ac-
cording to Securities and Exchange
Commission officials, and Herman
L. Schuh, now of Ashburn, Loudoun
County, Va, who formerly had Of
fees in the Southern Building here.
The transactions charged against
the men took place between 1940
and 1912, according to SEC officials
WHO gathered evidence in the case
The indictment specifically charges
Use of the mails to defraud, in two
counts.
Victims were Mrs. Mary M
Graham, rs, and Mrs. Elizabeth M
Ross, rs. SEC men said that Ditto
and Schulz influenced the women to
give up $4,000 worth of miscellane-
Gus securities, $4,000 in Government
bonds, $1,000 in cash. and $23, ,00C
worth of real estate. In return, the
SEC said, they received worthless
securities in some cases and In
others receivers nothing.
Some of the securities delivered
according to SEC officials, were
those of the "Whippoorwill Gas Co.
of Maryland, of which both Schulz
and Ditto were listed as officers and
directors. That company, the SEC
men said, has no assets.
Schulz recently applied for regis
tration with the SEC as securities
dealer in Washington, but after
hearings we're held, consented to a
denial of the application.
Under an order of Federal Judge
Robert N. Pollard at Richmond, the
case was transferred to the docket
of the Alexandria division of Fed
eral Court for trial at the fall term.
Evening star., 1945-07-06

C1ano wrote.
August 10-"I. talked with II Duce
about the difficulties that have
arisen on the Greek Albanian FROM
tier. / don't wish to dramatic the
situation, but the Greek attitude is
very disloyal II Duce has thought
of fqrceful action because he has
had accounts to settle ever since
1928 when Mussolini sent the
Italian feet to lombard the island
of Corfu and collect $4,000, ,000-lira
indemnity after an Italian repre-
sentative was murdered, allegedly
by the Creeks"
Evening star., 1945-07-06
Duce Outlines Plans
ToStrike at Greece

August I2-'Il Duce outlines the
political and military plans against
Greece. If Leucadia and Corfu
Greek islands in the Ionial Seal
are yielded we shall ask for nothing
more. If there is resistance we will
go the limit. Jacomini and ViScount
Prasca military governor and COM
mander in Albania) believe it pos
sible and easy If the action is under
taken at once.
"A new and violent outburSt by
Mussolini against the middle class
After the war is over l will attack
the cowardly and despicable middle
class. We must destroy it physically
saving perhaps 20 per cent.
August 15-"A Greek vessel has
been sunk by a submarine of un-
identified nationality consider
the intemperance of De Vecchi
italian commander in the Dodec-
anese islands, is at the bottom of
it."
Ribbentrop served notice on the
Italians August II that action in
Greece would not be welcomed in
Berlin, and orders postponing any
move we're given by Mussolini five
days later. But the plans went
ahead, coupled with II Duce's
dreams of smashing the British in
Africa, and with Hitler's insistence
that stability be insured in the
Balkans.
August 26-"Germany wants at
all costs to avoid a Balkan crisis
Cbetween Hungary and Romania
over Transylvania). Won Rib
bentrop is thinking of calling the
two ministers of foreign affairs to
Vienna and giving them friendly
advice of the Axis. All this will
be accompanied, naturally, by a
threat"
August 27-"The meeting at vi
emma is fixed for tomorrow.
From what Won Ribbentrop tele-
phones, the Fuehrer believes the
Romanians should surrender about
I5,400 square miles to Hungary,
which has asked for $4,000. Musso-
lini has no precise ideas on the
subject. . +" The attack ION Egypt
is to begin September g."
August 28-Hitler g" speaks little
of the Magyar -Romanian question.
''' The only concern of his is that
peace be preserved, so Romanian oil
will continue to flow into his tanks !"
Evening star., 1945-07-06
Col. Hasten Nominated
To Be Army Finance Chief

Col. William Henry hasten of the
Army Finance Department was
nominated today to be chief Of
finance, with the rank of major gen.
eral. 4
President Truman also nominated
the following Navy officers for pro-
motion:
Capt. James L. Holloway, ir., to be a
rear admiral; Capt. Penn R. Carroll,
to be a commodore; Capt. George H.
Bowdey. retired, to be commodore
on the retired list, and Capt. Lewis
L. Strauss of the Reserves, to be q
commodore in the Naval Reserve.
Evening star., 1945-07-06
Maggs, Labor Department
Solicitor 7 Years, Resigns

President Truman today announced
the resignation of Douglas B. Maggs,
who has been solicitor of the Labor
Department since June S, 1913.
Mr.. Maggs advised the President
that he was returning to his post as
professor of law at Duke University
and must be back there by Septem-
ber /.
He expressed willingness to remain
at the department for brief period
pending the appointment of sue
cessor. The President asked him to
stay until around July 20.
Evening star., 1945-07-06
Police, Fire Pay Bill
Is Still Awaiting
Trumon's Signature

Confusion over two bills led to
the erroneous statement in The
Star Wednesday that the police
and firemen's pay raise bill had
been signed by President Tru-
man.
The bill, 1t developed today,
has not yet gone to the White
House but still awaits the sig
nature Of Senator McKellar as
President pro tempore of the
Senate. q
A bill which provides $780,
a-year raises to two marine
engineers and three pilots who
serve on the Districts fireboat
was signed by President Tru-
man Wednesday.
Evening star., 1945-07-06
Ickes Names New Head
OF Territories Division
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSoc1ated Press.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes
announced today the appointment
of Edwin G. Arnold, formerly of the
United Nations Relief and Rehabili-
tation Administration as director
of the division of territories and
island possessions.
Mr.. Ickes also announced the ap-
pointment of Jack B. Fahy, former
head of the Puerto Rico section of
the division, as assistant to Mr..
Arnold.
Mr.. Arnold replaces Benjamin w.
Thoron, who resigned, effective
July 2.
Evening star., 1945-07-06
Lieutenant Questioned
In Lost Meade PoyroIIs

An Army lieutenant is being ques-
toned at Fort George G. Meade,
Md, today as Army authorities
launched an investigation of two
company payrolls that have been
missing since Wednesday. The lieu-
tenant was picked up in Baltimore
after a police alarm had been spread
for him.
Evening star., 1945-07-06
No Traffic Deaths
In Arlington in June

No traffic fatalities were recorded
in Arlington in June, 1t was reported
by Police Chief Harry l.. woodward.
There we're As accidents, resulting in
Is injuries, he said.
The report listed $40 arrests. with
205 for traffic offenses and los mis-
cellaneous Parking tickets were
issued to 149 motorists.
Evening star., 1945-07-06
First WhoIer to Sail
Since 1910 Due in u. S.

BY the Associated Press
CAPETOWN, July 6.-The first
whaling vessel to brave the Antarctic
since the war halted operations in
1910 was headed for the United
States today with $4,000 barrels of
whale oil.
The ship, the 1900 ton Norwegian
whaler Sir James Clark Ross, has
been at sea since last October, when
she set out on secret expedition.
Her cargo will be divided between
the United States and Europe.
Evening star., 1945-07-06

a cneck Tor SZ,-
500 with direc-
tions to celebrate
DR.. H olli ster's
Goth anniversary
at the church
next year as pas
tor by a visit to
e u r ope. T h e
party was held
In the assembly
room of h e
church at Chevy
c h ase Cir Gle
NV.
More than 500
members W ere
present at $3.50
Evening star., 1945-07-06
Bradley Nomination Sent
To Senute by Trumun

BY the Associated Press.
President Truman today formally
nominated Gen. Omar N. Bradley
to be veterans administrator and
submitted his name to the Senate
The Chief Executive announced a
month ago that he had chosen Gen.
Bradley to succeed Brig. Gen. Frank
T. Hines as head of the Veterans
Gen. Bradley now
is In Europe, but. he is expected to
return to Washington late in the
summer.
Evening star., 1945-07-06

pm. when DR.. and Mrs. Hollister
unususpectingly opened the door
and walked into a roomful of well
Wishers gathered to celebrate the
couples 10 years at the church. A
committee, headed by Walter Miller,
president of the congregation and
the board of trustees, escorted DR..
and Mrs. Hollister to the platform.
They were welcomed there by Ed
ward Lacey. chairman Of the meet
ing.
Evening star., 1945-07-06

lack of sleep. promiscuity among
men and women, cold. This number
of people with headcolds is in
credible"
October 3-"Briseo, man who
thoroughly understands aviation,
has painted the true picture of our
air forces in North Africa. Our
supply organization is bad and
fighter planes are lacking. The
British are inferior numerically, but
cause us plenty of trouble"
Evening star., 1945-07-06
War Bonds BY the Quurt

REDWOOD FALLS, MINI. (R.-
Mrs. Frank Boushek saved two
quarts of half dollars. She had
$500. enough to buy four 500 bonds.
Evening star., 1945-07-06

Members of the Chevy Chase
Presbyterian Church at a surprise
party last night presented the Rev.
DR.. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hollister with
Evening star., 1945-07-06
Count ciono's Diuy-No. le
|DUCE ATTACKS GREECE
over NAZI OBJECTION
MussoIini Wanted to Let Fuehrer Leurn
OF Axis Blow Through Newspapers
August 10--October 81, 194O
Copyright, 1945, by the Chicago Daily News, Inc.
rights for all including right OF translate

In the autumn 1910 Mussolinrs mood melower
exalted than had been for long, the diary OF Count
Cano his Sop-in-law. reveals.
grandose campaign ordered in Egypt the opposi
ton of all the commanders but gratifying his Mus
decided to strike out his to attack Greece
in objections For the Fuehrer read
about an his morning An empire
in the building
of Romana the spark that touched
off Mussoinis earlier the Axis
ni had been believe solved the Balkan crisis by
awarding and guaranteeing what
left of against attack the Russians Its immediate
Romanan foreign minister tainted when he
saw the arbitrary boundary that the Axis drew.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-31
Dream Cars


Dreams of radical new automo-
biles are just that as far as Cen
eral Motors buyers are concerned,
for at least two years. Speaking
before the annual meeting OF
stockholders of the corporation
yesterday, Alfred p. Sloan Jrp
chairman OF the board, announced
that the postwar car was two
years off.
The $500 car is also something
the public cannot expect, he
added.
Sloan placed GINS production
this year al about $1,000 units,
which viii be made in the last
three months of the year, On this
basis. the corporations quota un-
der the 2,000000-car limit set by
the WPB for the first year of
production will be about $4,000,
Sloan pointed 10 the scarcity of
materials in resuming production
but said there would not be too
much difficulty except for up
holstery and tires. He predicted
that all controls would probably
be removed by the government
after the defeat of Japan.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-31
Parade Called Off

KALAMAZOO, May 30-For
the first time in more than so
years, Kalamazoo today dispensed
with its Memorial Day parade TO
the GAR plot at Riverside Gene
terry and conducted public services
on the county building portico.
ADVFRTISEMFNT
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-24
Mackenzie Likes Attlee
Because He Looks Honest

TOKYO, Dec. 24-(R-Sym-
boil of the revolutionary freedom
gained by Japanese through loss
of q disastrous war is a gray,
four-story building overlooking
the Imperial moat.
It IL the place where every
citizen Is free to Sound off"
without fear Of reprisals, to
voice his discomfort, to make
complaints and report abuses.
Until the Americans came II
was q place Of torture for the
outspoken, Of grim punishment
for critics of the regime. It was
headquarters Of the dread Kem-
petai-the terroristic Thought
police" through which wartime
Premier Hideki TOTO gained alb
solute power over the japanese
people.
It was formally taken over re-
Gently by the American counter
intelligence corps, which prompt
ly installed by . placard headed
japanese Bill Of Rights" and
recounNng the new liberties
brought to the people by the Am
erican occupation.
CIC Chief Brig. Gen. Elliott
r. Thorpe, at the ceremonious
unveiling of the placard, an
nounced that henceforth the
building long dreaded a. q place
of secret torture would be open
to all Japanese with honest COM
plants to make.
To Allied newsmen on q tour
Of the building Thorpe explained
how the ~Kempetai, from this
headquarters, radiated authori-
tative control to every part Of
the swollen wartime empire.
The Kempetai. he said, main
tanned its own telephone circuits
and powerful radio equipment
which kept 1t In touch with
Gendarmerie units throughout
the Far East
Newsmen also were told how
on the day Pearl Harbor was at
tackled various Allied reporters
including Max Hill, then chief
Of the Associated Press Tokyo
BureauLwere herded into the
Kemptai building for question
ing on espionage charges.
Among the others were Otto Toll
ischus Of the New York Times,
Richard Tenelly Of Reuters and
National Broadcosting Co., Wills
Of Columbia Broadcasting sys-
tenn and Ray Romley Of the Wall
Street Journal.
They were shown the fourth.
story window from which James
M. Cox, chief correspondent in
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-24

da have turned back many ho-
tells to their owners. But most
remain empty because there are
only q total Of 100 seats to be
had on the four weekly planes,
and only 90 berths on the one
boat that sails every three weeks
to the island.
But don't be discouraged. As
tourist agents say, there Is a
Christmas" coming up In travel
this spring. After the first of the
year the American Express will
begin running q weekly mass
tour out of Chicago to Mexico.
There'll be trips to many Of the
national parks. Several low cost
package air trips are planned
for next summer to South Amer
lea and Europe. And by July
there should be fleets of new
ships and planes ready to ac-
commodate all those who have
been saving and planning for
that long overdue vacation trip.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-24
Car Thieves
Set Coroner
On His Feet

EAST DETROIT - Midway
between emergency calls on two
Macomb County Tragedies Of the
weekend - the st. Clair Shores
fire deaths and the asphyxiation
Of two high school students -
William D. Clyne, East Detroit
coroner. suddenly found himself
without transportation.
His official car, q 1912 Hud-
son sedan, was stolen from his
garage at 22322 Gratiot avenue,
East Detroit, at 2 q. m.
Called out on the Shores fire
tragedy. Clyns had returned
home shortly before that time.
When aroused at 7:30 q. M, in
connection with the second case,
Clyne found the car missing.
DODGE PURSUIT
Mount Clemens Police, alert
cd by radio by radio broadcast,
observed the car % II passed the
police station on Broadway
without lights and gave chase
to 1t. The high powered lol2
model kept outdistancing the pa
troll car and they lost It In the
vicinity of Selfridge Homes, Joy
boulevard.
A road blockade was then
created on North Gratiot and
during the early morning hiurs
the Clyne car approached Il,
travelling north. Flashing police
signals, officers tagged down"
the stolen auto which slowed up
and almost stopped, giving po-
lice the impression the driver
plansed to surrender. However.
the car spurted forward and
passed the blockade.
Police then and later fired
many shots at the machine but
none took effect. The car was
found abandoned near a Ches-
terfield Township barn.
NAB SUSPECTS
Police chief Lyman Eckhardt
during the week end arrested.
three youths for questioning,
two Of them under II years of
age. These two accompanied
Eckhardt and Clyne to the barn
where they had left the car, and
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-24
Travel Bug Bites Millions in u. S. A.
Tourists Jam All Transport Lines
BY ROSELLEN CALLAHAN
NyEA CA.SH N~v,>.~nmAAmt

NEA Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK Travel-starved
Americans are creating the worst
traffic jam in history. Planes are
pack d. trains are jammed,
buses are Dustin out all over
with people going places.
w Day and the cancellation
of gas rationing was the spur
that started the travel stampede.
One day tourist bureaus were
as deserted as beach cabana in
January. The next morning
thousands Of celebrants phoned
or queued up at ticket windows
to find out where they could
20 and how soon. It's still 60
ing on four months later.
Even though would-be trav-
elers are told that no additional
transportation facilities will be
put into service for months to
come, they still insist that their
names be put on record for the
first available space.
Businessmen are responsible
for SO per cent Of this increased
traffic. They're anxious to re-
sume old contacts. make new
ones and look over their out
of-town and foreign plants. Then
there are at least 1000 business
men who arrive from abroad
each month to study our indus
trial methods and buy material.
The other so per cent Is made
up Of servicemen on their way
home, servicemen's wives and
relatives on their way to visit
their men in separation centers,
and pleasure travellers.
It's the relatives and pleasure
tourists who cause the most con-
doesn't deter them. They'll take
whatever accommodations they
can get, just to be on their way.
That's just the rub. They not
only reserve seats on planes but
on trains as we'll. Airlines are
alarmed at the terrific increase
Of mo shows" - those who ne
glect to concel plane passage
when they decide to 60 by train.
Many Of today's tourists had
never travelled father than the
next county before the war. But
they discovered In their travels
from one war plant to another
that there are a lot Of interest
ing things to be seen. Also, for
the first time, they have been
able to save enough for a vaca-
ton trip.
Others have been hit by
homesickness during these war
years. One elderly man came
into = shipping office after VI
Day and asked to book passage
right away to Greece. He hadn't
seen his country In 20 years.
Like so many others who are
anxious to 60 abroad, he didn't
realize that the acute shortage
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-24

Of food, transportation and hous-
ing in Europe make such trips
impossible.
MEN GET BEST BREAKS
Shipping companies have a
hundred such requests for every
bunk available. And though the
ODT has lifted restrictions on
steamship bookings, 1t hasn't
meant much to Mr.. and Mrs.
Average American. Unless the
government approves of the pro-
posed trip, they won't issu e
passports.
Travel to South America Is
limited too. Few ships have been
added to this run. Most are
small cargo vessels which carry
10 to IL passengers. Men get the
best breaks In bookings. Not
only because they come under
business travel. but because
twice as many men can be
squeezed into a stateroom.
Military authorities in Bermu-
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-24

explained how tAsy hoodwinlbsA
the Mount Clemens Dolioo O -
blockade. They sid TIE polics
were - Close whsn They fired
sbote q tho ear tAot the bogU
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-24

Japan for Reuters, fell to his
death in 1910. d
A story In the Japan Times
and Mail at that time said Cox
killed himself during an "espion-
age grilling". after his arrest in
July of that year with IAN un-
disclosed number Of foreign
nationals"
The Kempetai reported that
its agents had tried to restrain
him from leaping through the
window, but American officials
since then have come to the con-
clusion that he either was
thrown out or driven by torture
into making the jump.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-24
Flames Cause $1,000
DAMAGE 10 Grocery

Fire Of undetermined origin
early today caused $1,000 dam
age to the Ora Goodman Gro
cery at 502 North Gratiot ave-
nue. In Chesterfield township be-
fore New Haven firemen could
extinguish the flames.
Extent of damage to the two
story building was not immedi-
ately estimated. Only the build
ing Is insured, Goodman told
Sheriffs deputies.
Approximately $3.50 men,
an increase of 3473 over the pre-
ceding year, were sent to prison
in England during 1892.
The Grand Coulee dam In
Washington is twice as high as
Niagara Falls.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-24

Trona deposits are being map
ped in the Green River, Wyo..
area by q California concern of
geologists. Trona Is rich in cal
cium and soda when dissolved.