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Evening star., 1945-08-06
Todoy's War Story:
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Stsr Qts6 CorrepondeDf

WITH UNITED STATES 9th IN
PANTRY DIVISION (By MaiD -
Thirty German generals, 20 staff
officers, a miscellaneous assortment
of dukes, princes, princesses and
about 1000 others ranging from
suspected informers to convicted
murderers now are the charges of
Capt. Ralph Manuel of Winches-
ter, Va.
All are behind barbed wire in an
old German prisoner-of-war camp
at Mooseburg near the Danube in
Lower Bavaria-probably the largest
concentration Of suspected war GRIM
inals in American hands. Capt.
Manuel is the executive officer.
Guards are from the 47th Infantry
Regiment.
Among Capt. Manuers more dis
tinguished prisoners is the elderly
Duke of Coberg. closely related to
the British royal family. He for
merly was head of the German Red
Cross. The duke now is in the camp
hospital and has appealed by letter
to his royal relatives to use their
influence to have him transferred
to a civilian hospital where he can
receive treatment by specialists.
Just an ordinary prisoner, not
even a block leader, is the Prince
of Hesse. The Princess Hanau-
German prisoner leaders say they
know of her only as fabulously
rich woman-takes her turn at floor
scrubbing with the rest of the
women prisoners. One of these-not
the princess-was in solitary on
bread and water for 48 hours re-
Gently. She had been caught steal
ing food in the kitchen basement.
The generals are in a block by
themselves, but they do their own
orderly work and get their own
meals. Except for their isolation
they are treated like ordinary pris-
oners.
The prisoners are far from a vi
cious lot. For some of them the
term war criminals" hardly may
be appropriate, There are no Spe-
Evening star., 1945-08-06
Germans in u. ). Zone
Nav Now Form Unions
Ey the Associated Press,

Ed
BERLIN, Aug. 6.-Gen. Eisen-
hover told Germans in the United
States occupation zone today that
they may form local unions and
engage in local political activities
with the aim of helping prepare for
the coming winter. which he pre-
dicted will be hard.
Full freedom to form trade unions
and to engage in democratic polit-
ical activities will be extended rap
idly in those areas in which you
show a readiness for healthy exer-
else of the privileges, Gen. Eisen-
mower said in a proclamation read
over the Berlin radio.
1--WE do not desire to degrade the
German people. We shall assist you
to build your life on democratic
basis"
Justice and education founded
on true liberal principles will be
supported vigorously"
The American member OF the
Allied Control Council declared there
must be no idleness, adding all
signs pointed to food shortages this
winter. He said there would be 70
coal for home heating and the peo-
pie would have to gather wood.
A similar proclamation from Field
Marshal Montgomery was read In
the British zone of occupation.
Evening star., 1945-08-06
On the Roll of Honor

M. c., whose wife, Mrs. Victoria
v. Lawson, lives at 2l09 s. Fern
street. Arlington, Va, was listed as
wounded by the Navy Department
Pfc. Calvin o. ORourke. 20, U. s.
M. c.. who made his home with his
aunt, Mrs. Eva Shepard. in Lor-
ton. Va, was wounded on Okinawa,
by shell fragments, his aunt has
been notified. Pvt. ORourke was
a farmer until he entered the serv-
ice in September. l943. He went
overseas last August. A native of
Fairfax County. he was gradu-
ated from Mount Vernon High
School.
Pvt. Carl z. Billy Blackwell, 10,
son of MFR. and Mrs. G. G. Black
well, 819 e street Sc, was wounded
in Italy on Easter Sunday, and was
hospitalized for eight weeks, his
mother said today. He has now
returned to light duty, she said
Pvt. Blackwell attended Hines
Junior High School and worked for
two years at the Alexandria Naval
Torpedo Plant before entering the
service last September. ~ ~
Pfc. Warren A. Robertson, 28, son
of Mrs Louise Robertson, 1921 r
street NV, was wounded during
the Luzon campaign while fighting
with the 37th Division, his mother
was notified.
Pvt. Robinson entered the service
in 1941 with the National Guard,
and through all the Philippine
campaigns. He attended Western
Evening star., 1945-08-06
Two Sisters Are Found
Hacked 10 Death

Two sisters, colored, were found
hacked to death early today in
their rooms in the 1900 block of
Half street Sc, police reported.
They were identified by police as
Mrs. Pauline Samuels, 33, and Hat
tie Simms, IT, They we're found by
another sister, Clarissa Simms, of
the same address, police said. They
probably had been slain So hours
before they were found, police de-
clared.
Officers said they were seeking a
50-year-old colored man for ques-
tioning in connection with the
deaths. Police said the man did not
report Saturday to the Navy Yard.
where he worked.
Mrs. Samuel's body was found on
the second floor and the body of
her sister was found in doorway
leading from the dining room to the
kitchen, on the first floor, according
to police. A long-handled wood
mans axe, covered with blood, was
found In a closet in the house, the
police said,
Evening star., 1945-08-06
Briton Accused Of Lending
Pistol 10 Killers S Butler
By tie Associated Press.

b tie Associated Press.
MANNHEIM, GERMANY, Aug. 8.
"A British war photographer, Hor-
ace j. Abrahams, was accused yes
terday of lending q pistol to Adolf
Hitler3s butler.
gsAbrAhams was arraigned in an
American Military Government
court and held for trial after he
askedsthat British defense attor-
ney be obtained for him. He entered
no plea 10 the charges against him,
which allege he represented himself
as an American Army captain and
broke house arrest after the pistol
incident.
Prosecution officers said Abrahams
was accused of leaving pistol last
May with the butler. named KAN
nenberg, 10 the butler could protect
himself against intruders until
Abrahams returned.
Ahrahams was accredited 10 the
United States Army.
Evening star., 1945-08-06
Speculation Renewed
On Status Of Grew
When Byrnes Returns

The imminent return of Sec
retary of State Byrnes from
Potsdam with President Truman
stirred speculation anew today
about the fate of Undersecretary
of State Grew and numerous
other key officials in an expected
early reorganization of the State
Department.
If Mr.. Grew is replaced as Under
secretary, he is expected to be as
signed as American political adviser
to the Allied forces preparing the
knockout blow against Japan.
Many diplomats believe, however,
that Mr.. Grew, who already has
served as Acting Secretary for 166
days since appointment as Under
secretary last December 20, will be
retained by Secretary of State
Byrnes as chief assistant.
Mr.. Byrnes is expected to start
reorganizing the department soon
after his return. Just before leaving
for Potsdam, he asked the Budget
Bureau to make a study on which
he indicated he intended to base a
personnel shakeup.
Several assistant secretaries have
been mentioned in speculative re-
ports as likely to be replaced by Mr..
Byrnes. but he himself. has given
no definite indication of what offic-
ials might be involved in the ex-
pected reorganization.
Mr.. Grew, American. Ambassador
to Japan for 10 years before Pearl
Harbor, long has been expected to
return there as top political adviser
to American invasion forces.
In his position as Undersecretary
he has administered the department
as Acting Secretary for long periods
in recent months while former
Secretary of State Stettinius was
away at the Yalta, Mexico City and
San Francisco conferences and dur
ing Mr.. Byrnes' current absence
This has given him an intimate ex-
perience which will make him diff
cult to replace here until Mr.. Byrnes
gets thoroughly acquainted with his
new job as Secretary of State.
Evening star., 1945-08-06
Trumon Nearing u. S.
On Speeding Cruiser
BY ERNEST B. vACCARO,

BY ERNEST b. VACCARO,
Associated Press STAFF Correspondent.
ABOARD U. s. s.. AUGUSTA
WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN. Aug.
6.-President Truman neared the
United States East Coast today.
Maintaining 26-knot speed much
of the time, the Augusta is making
record time in returning the Chief
Executive and his party from the
Potsdam Big Three Conference.
Mr.. Truman attended church
services in the mess hall yesterday
Chaplain Kenneth Perkins of
Savona, N. Y, conducted the general
Protestant services, noting in his
sermon that some of his congre-
CATION had just returned from the
scenes of destruction in Europe. He
cited that as an example of what
comes when people strive for world
domination and what Japan can
expect.
Attending with the President
we're Secretary of State Byrnes,
Capt. James H. Foskett, skipper of
the Augusta; Judge Samuel RoSen-
man, special White House counsel:
Benjamin Cohen, special assistant
to Mr.. Byrnes; Capt. James K.
Vardman and Brig. Gen. Harry H.
Vaughan, naval and military aides:
H. Freeman Matthews, director of
the State Departments Ofice of
European Affairs, and newspaper
men assigned to the ship.
The President joined in the
hymns and prayers.
The Augusta will dock at an East
ern port early in the week and Mr..
Truman will continue to Washing
ton by train. Shortly after his re-
turn he will report to the Nation by
radio on the Berlin discussions with
Prime Minister Attlee and Premier
Stain.
LONDON, Aug. 6 (P.-Premier
Stain and Foreign Commissar v.
M. Molotov returned to the Soviet
capital yesterday from Berlin, the
Moscow radio said last night.
Evening star., 1945-08-06
Todoy's War Story:
1000 in War Criminals Camp
Include Dukes and Princes

cific charges against them up to
now. They have been arrested SIM
ply because they belonged to cer-
tain classes who automatically are
taken into custody, such as men,
bers of the allgemeine SIS, the non
uniformed branch of the organiza-
ton. Another category automatical-
ly taken into custody are members
of the general staff.
Some of the prisoners already
have been tried and convicted.
Capt. Manuel has his death cells
at present occupied by two SIS men
convicted of numbering American
pilots shot down over Germany.
They are in solitary confinement
awaiting execution as soon as their
sentences are approved. They are
ratty little men who appear like
the worst type of American gang
sters.
Among Capt. Manuel's prisoners
are two American citizens. At least
they have papers purporting to
show that they are American citi-
zens although both were German
born.
Capt. Manuel and his men have
little personal association with the
prisoners. The camp is largely self
governing, so far as details of daily
life are concerned, under the direc-
ton of "burgomeister." He is a
former Wehrmacht lieutenant who
served as an army war correspond
ent in Yugoslavia and was hotel
clerk in civilian life. a man who
apparently has little use for the
SIS men in the prison population.
Among the prisoners are men with
amputated legs and arms. One pris-
oner is a physician who is German
specialist on the rehabilitation of
amputees and there are daily classes
in which he instructs them in the
use of artificial limbs and directs
exercises designed to give self-con-
fidence.
One of Germany's foremost eye
specialist, also a prisoner, is work.
ing among his fellows. Schools have
been started, mostly for instruction
in agriculture. There are also en-
tertainment and news broadcaSts.
Evening star., 1945-08-06
Mccullough Charged
With Misrepresenting
Cafe Meat Allotment

The ONCE of Price Administra-
tion's rationing executive has been
accused by the agency's Restaurant
Industry Advisory Committee Of
presenting a distorted picture" Of
the amount of meats allotted to
eating places when compared with
the ration allowance of house,
holders.
George r. lie Savage, Advisory
Committee chairman, In a letter to
Price Administrator Chester Bowles,
requested a retraction of what he
said were "misstatements" by Dep
uty Administrator Max Mccullough
before the Senate Small Business
Committee last Monday.
Mr.. LIE Savage wrote that Mr..
Mccullough, deputy in charge of ra-
tioning, was quoted to the effect
that restaurants get Is per cent
more meat per customer than the
housewife can buy. Mr.. Mccullough
said last night that his statement
concerned only about 80 per cent of
all the eating places; those with the
highest allotments per meal.
The average received by all from
the smallest allotment to the largest
would be considerably less than that
received by the top 80 per cent, the
OPA official explained.
The committee chairman also said
Mr. Mccullough was quoted as rep
resenting that prior to the july |
reduction in restaurant meat and
fat allotments they had been get
ting 81 per cent more red points
than the home consumer. Again.
Mr.. Mccullough said, the figure COW
cred only the top 80 per cent.
Public eating establishments
were serving millions of American
citizens on an average of slightly
more than one-half red point per
meal prior to July / reduction" Mr..
LIE Savage wrote, while to home
consumers two-thirds (of one) red
point per meal was allotted.
This fact was established by
studies made from official OPA fig-
ures. The 20 per cent cut of July
l reduced still further the ratio of
red points allotted to public eating
places to those granted for meals
served in the house"
The statement from Mr.. McCuI-
Tough and the consequent publicity
has been most unjust, presenting a
distorted picture to the public"
Evening star., 1945-08-06
Mrs. Edith Roosevelt
observes 84th Birthday
Ey the Associated Press,

Ey lut ASsOClHEtu PTeSS,
OYSTER BAY. N. Y. Aug. g.
Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, widow
of President Theodore Roosevelt, to-
day observed her 84th birthday with
her family at Sycamore Hill, Cove
Neck, once the summer White
House.
In the group was her only sur
yiving son. 1t. Col. Archibald Roose-
welt, who recently was discharged
from the Army after more than
three years in the Pacific.
Evening star., 1945-08-06
Truman Is Expected
To Throw More Light
On Potsdam Talks

President Truman Is expected
to throw further light on tht
Potsdam declaration when hi
returns from Europe this week
but the extent to which he will
amplify the communique sum-
marizing the results of his meet
ing with Premier Stain and
Prime Minister Attlee is ques-
ton that can be answered only
by his prospective report to the
Nation.
That he will have anything to say
about Russia's intentions in the
Pacific seems doubtful, particularly
since the communique carried no
hint of this.
There are, however. other ques-
tions on which members of Con-
gress and others have suggested
more light should be shed, and dis
patches from the cruiser Augusta,
on which Mr.. Truman is travelling,
show that he is aware to this re-
action.
Boundary Issues Raised.
A number of Senators and Repre-
sentatives are raising questioning
voices, especially on boundary COM
mitments in Eastern Europe.
Mr.. Truman may emphasize as
his chief gain the creation OF
five-power-United States, Russia,
Britain, France and China-council
of foreign ministers to which the
powers can delegate authority for
solving problems that Potsdam left
unsettled.
Among these problems are the
future of Spain and whether the
Big Three intend to do anything
actively about Frances government,
whether Russian domination of
Eastern European countries is to
continue unmodified, political set
Elements in postwar Asia.
Relief Question Left Open.
Other questions left open include
the handling of European relief,
which is expected to be an enor-
NOUS task this winter; the use of
German labor in rebuilding cities
and towns the German Army
wrecked, and numerous problems
arising from the administration of
Germany.
The measures charted at Potsdam
for Fastening the windup of Pacific
fighting appear to be chiefly con-
cerned with the participation of
British and other Allied units al
ready in the conflict. Britain is
being given a Southwest Pacific as
well as Southeast Asia command.
The purpose is to cover those Meth
erlands Indies and nearby areas
which are virtually isolated from
Japan proper but still are held by
large forces of enemy troops. This
evidently is to be a British and
Allied task.
The time and place of Mr. Tru-
mans arrival have not been given
out, but he is expected to reach
the United States shortly, and his
talk to the American public is due
to follow soon.
Evening star., 1945-08-06
Mars
Continued From First Page.

to pour in. Myself and two others
crawled through the rear hatch exit
"It looked to us like the force of
the impact had split open the for
ward part of the ship. the section
from the wings out to the nose
That is what let the water into the
forward section so rapidly.
I'VE checked up on heads bobbing
in the water and found two men
missing. We found them trapped in
the wreckage on the flight deck
Men forgot their own safety to ex-
tricate these men, both of whom we
thought were seriously injured and
suffered from shock.
"All the while there was the ever
present danger from fire. The gaso-
line tanks had collapsed by the force
of the impact and gasoline f1oated
all over the water about us.
"A lot of small boats were in the
vicinity where we crashed, but it
seemed like an eternity before one
got us and picked us up.
The crewmen, except Mr.. Noble,
who was more seriously injured,
were taken to the Martin plant.
Landing Opened Hull.
The Navy's announcement yes
terday said:
The Hawaii Mars was damaged
in a semi-controlled rough landing
off Love Point in Chesapeake Bay
at 3:05 pm. Eastern War Time to-
day. The force of the landing
caused the hull to open and the
craft sank.
''The Martin company is making
preparations to return the plane to
the plant.
only ode member .oEthe .1o,rflan
crew was injured, He is R. S. Noble,
flight test engineer, who suffered
cuts and cantussions and possible
internal in tnies:. He was taken to
South Baltimore Hospital in Navy
ambulance.
pilot during the test flight was
william E. Coney, test pilot. No
cause is ascribed for the accident
and an investigation is being con-
Quoted"
The Martin Co. said other men,
bers of the crew were E. R. Gelvin
co-pilot: G. E. Pitcher and T. c.
Barnhill, flight engineers; w. B
Bergen, H. v. Cooper and H, R, Nc
Conahy, flight test engineers; r
Dreaming, flight observer and B. j
Neuhardt. weight engineer.
Evening star., 1945-08-06
Chinese Troops Enter
|Yeunkong, Securing
More Invasion Coast
By the Associated Press.


CHUNGKING, Aug. 6.-Chinese
troops have broken into the highway
junction center of Yeungkong close
to the South China Sea and are
fighting in the streets of that town
l25 miles southwest of Canton, the
Chinese high command announced
today.
Yeungkong is at the junction of
the Kwangtung coastal highway and
a road running northeast to Can
ton, and by breaking into it
the Chinese secured control Of a
50-mile stretch of invasion coast"
eastward from Tinpak east of the
Luichow Peninsula.
This stretch is now open to
virtually unopposed landing II
Americans should choose it for a
staging point for supplies to Chinese
armies in South China. A stretch
of the coast west of the Luichow
Peninsula as far as Indo- China has
been under Chinese control for some
time, and determined Chinese
push from both sides now might
seal of the Japanese on the penin-
sula and on Hainan Island.
The nce-beautiful city of Kweilin
was sacked by the Japenese with a
thoroughness comparable to the
Roman sacking of Carthage. 1t was
reported today, while at recently lib
Grated Kannsien officials listed
$4,000 of the Chinese population
dead or missing:
Kweihn. once city of 500 900, was
ravaged with a fury reminiscent OF
Lidice, said a dispatch from the
former provisional capital Of
Kwangsi, written by Owl Core
spondent David Chandler.
The Kanhsien report asserted that
1000 Chinese residents of that
Southern Kwangsi Province city
were killed or disappeared during
six months of Japanese occupation.
No details were given.
I,000 Killed in Ichang.
A simultaneous Chinese Central
News dispatch said that up to July's
end more than 1000 civilians had
been killed in the Yangtze port OF
Ichang, western japanese bastion in
Central China. This report said the
Chinese died of poisonous injections
forcibly administered by the jap
anese, who said they were inocula-
tions against meningitis.
At Kweilin, which the Chinese re-
occupied July 81. japanese squads.
for 20 days before they fed, syste-
matically set sections OF the big
city afre. Traitors in the city, Mr..
Chandler wrote, were given $4,000
Chinese for every building they de-
stroyed.
Even the trees lining the main
streets were scorched and dead. The
modern buildings, lavish hotels and
beautiful shops were in ruins.
Buildings Left in Rubble.
The only buildings left standing
in the entire city were those which
the japanese used as headquarters
and had no time to destroy. Every
thing else-every building and every
coolle hut-was a mass OF rubble.
A handful of people who remained
during the enemy occupation were
found huddled wet and hungry
along the river banks and under
half shattered buildings.
A Chinese officer estimated that
two-thirds of the citys population
left when the Japanese approached
last year. Many others. warned by
leaflets dropped from the air, cleared
out otter the Japanese occupied the
city. Only people who were too poor
to travel remained.
Evening star., 1945-08-06
japanese Civilians
On Luzon GiveUp With
Surrender Banner
sy the Associated Press.


WITH 32D DIVISION, North
ern Luzon, Aug. 6.-Japanese
soldiers confiscated a surrender
banner displayed by japanese
civilians then were killed in bat
tie, but the message led to even
tual surrender of the civilians.
The story was related by one of
nine Japanese whose quiet capture
was brought about by the delayed
message. A well-educated business
man, he volunteered that:
Japanese civilians who fed from
Manila believed the American at
tack on that city would be repelled
within month.
Japs Brutal to Civilians.
japanese officers believed, before
the Luzon landing. that the Amer
lean invasion could be beaten off.
All enemy civilians on Luzon now
want to surrender-but the Japa-
nese Army keeps them under tight,
brutal surveillance.
Civilians attempting to break
away toward American lines risk
gunfire from the japanese as we'll
as from Americans. japanese off,
GERS and enlisted men generally are
overbearing and vicious toward their
own civilians, confiscating their
food. forcing them to wash, cook and
do other menial chores for the SOL
diers. and then to forage for their
own food. The army gives civilians
nothing.
Killed BY GuerrilIas.
The prisoner told this story of his
own surrender:
Nine civilians hiding in the noun
tains made large white banner,
sewn with red letters reading want
to surrender" They placed the
banner on a side hill within view of
Americans travelling along a high
way, laid explanatory letters beside
1t, and hid in nearby vantage points
to watch and wait
Instead of Americans, a group of
Japanese soldiers found the banner.
They ripped 1t from its place and
took 1t with them, together with the
letters.
The soldiers later were killed by
Filipino guerrillas, who found the
banner and letters.
An American patrol returned to
the hillside and found the civilians
just as they were about to move on
in discouragement.
Evening star., 1945-08-06
PIone, Lost Last Yeor,
Found in Mountuins s,1
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME. N. Y. Aug. 6.-Search con-
tinued today for a civilian plane,
missing since July 10. after forest
rangers last night reached wrecked
Army transport with three bodies
on Snowy Mountain.
An Army plane disappeared last
fall on routine flight from the
Syracuse Army air base. Army OFF,
cials said. Aboard it were I'd
1t. William r. Barohn, Syracuse,
I'd 1t. c. c. Pate. Pine Bluff,
Ark, and Tech. Sergt. Edward v.
Paska. Hartford, Conn.
A civilian pilot. searching for the
civilian plane which disappeared on
a fight from Lake Placid to Boon
vile, spotted the transport.
Evening star., 1945-08-06
New Spanish Minister
Arrives in Washington

Manuel Aznar, new member of the
Spanish Embassy staff with the
rank of Minister, arrived in Wash
ington yesterday after lodging an
anti-Franco demonstration in Phila-
delphia.
The Associated Press reported that
Mr.. Aznar left the liner Marques de
Commillas at Marcus Hook Satur-
day night incognito, while a group
of more than 100 marchers bearing
anti Franco placards gatherer at the
Philadelphia pier to meet the ship.