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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
ChifIey, Labor Party
Official, Australia S
New Prime Minister


CANBERRA, Australia, July IL.
"A former locomotive engineer
and son of a blacksmith became
Prime Minister of Australia to-
day when the Labor party chose
Joseph Benedict Cnifley as its
leader.
Mr.. Chifley, who will be go in Sep
TENDER, has been treasurer of the
Labor government and was the
closest friend and confldant of the
man he succeeds-the late John
Curtin.
He won a commanding lead in
caucus balloting over Deputy Prime
Minister Forde and Norman John
Oswald Maxim, Minister of navy and
munitions. The Labor party chose
Mr. Forde as deputy leader.
The vacancy in the ministry Gre
ated by Mr.. Curtin's death was
filed by election of Herbert Victor
johnson, president of the Australia
Workers Union. 1t was learned au-
thoritatively that present portfolios
are not likely to be changed ex-
cept to give Mr.. johnson post.
Little Known to People.
Mr.. Chifley is little known to the
average Australian. However, he
did impress the rank and file of all
parties as a leader in recent months
when he served as acting prime
minister.
He acted when Mr.. Curtin was Ill
and Deputy Prime Minister Forde
was attending the United Nations
Conference in San Francisco. 1t
was during this period that MIR.
Chifey's popularity grew in labor
circles.
In an exclusive interview with the
Associated Press just before his cleo
ton was established, Chifley spoke
feelingly of his plans for improv-
ing the living standards of the
'little man" of Australia. He also
emphasized that the people of Aus
tralia and America will and must
work side by side"
Sincere Left Wing Leader.
He is a sincere left wing leader
with concrete plans for social re-
form
How far left am ~" Mr.. Chifey
draws. We'll, opponents to the
,jol,t COLL mo HOY1o r1IlT1iSt and on
the extreme left they call me con-
servative. The truth lies somewhere
in between"
Mr.. Chifey works from early
morning to midnight. He once told
critics of the governments wartime
austerity program that he and his
wife lived on So week. AS Prime
Minister his salary will be about
$40 week after taxation.
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Veteran Job-AdWser Troinees
Visit Star in Vocation Tour

Some hubbub!" said the young
man with the brand-new-civilian
look, glancing around The Stars
newsroom at midmorning yesterday.
Star employees, escorting him,
beamed appreciation. The young
man, survivor of 10 seconds in the
same Guadalcanal foxhole with a
japanese HE shell, was an undeni-
able authority on hubbub. Re-
porters within earshot banged
harder than ever at their type
writer keys.
DR.. Paul Douglass, president of
American University, also registered
approval 1t was with the hubbub
in mind that he brought the young
ex-serviceman and 10 of his COM
rades to the city room. They would
find the memory useful later, he
explained when, as veterans rep
resentatives throughout the Nation
they have need of the press to pub
licize poppy campaigns or member
ship drives.
Really Busy People.
II guess you have to have your
stuff in some kind of shape when
you bring it in, if you really want it
printed" said one veteran to an
other. These people are really
busy"
The 20 young men threaded
nimbly among the desks. lodging
copy girls with ease and giving nc
indication that many of them had
lost legs or other limbs in fight
ing overseas and were equipped with
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Col. William WestIuke
Assigned to Germany

Col. William Westlake, for two
years assistant to the director of
the Army Air Forces in the War
Department Bureau of Public Rela-
tons, has left Washington for Ger
many. There he will join the Air
Division of the Allied Group Con-
troll Council. The Air Division is
headed by Maj. Gen. Robert w.
Harper.
AS assistant to Maj. Gen. A. D.
Surles, director of public relations
at the War Department, Col. West
lake was at the same time chief
public relations officer for the AAF
under Gen. H. H. Arnold.
Col. Westlake learned to fly in
the World War and has been an
active pilot ever since. He re-en-
tered the Army in 1941 in the 108th
Observation Squadron. Illinois Ma
tional Guard. of which he was a
charter member. That same year
he went on duty In Washington.
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Knut BjorkIand, Retired
Navy Yard Machinist, Dies

Knut Bjorkland, 70, of 513 Ingra-
ham street NV, retired Navy Yard
machinist, died yesterday after a
brief illness in Garfield Hospital.
A native of Sweden, Mr.. Bjork-
land came to the United States So
years ago. He first settled in Gard
ner, Mass, and later lived at Hart
ford, Conn. He came to Washington
to work in the Navy Yard as ma
chinist in 1905, retiring in 1882.
Mr.. Bjorkland was a member of
Columbia Lodge of the Machinist
Union and of the Loyal Order of
Moose. He also was charter mem
Der of Drott, No. 1853, Order of Vasa,
a Swedish organization. He at
tended the Lutheran Church of the
Reformation.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs.
John w. Grow, with whom he lived,
and Mrs Gundela E. Finch; son,
Harry G. Bjorkland, and three
grandchildren, 1t. Lowell E. Finch
AAF, Esther Grow and Johanne
Grow, all of Washington. 1t. Finch
Is now stationed at Fort Myers, Fla
Funeral services will be held at
pm. Saturday at Chambers funeral
home, 1400 Chaplin street NV
Burial will be in Congressional Gem
etery.
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Cruiser U. 5. s. Juneau's
Christening Set for Sunday

A new light cruiser, the u. S. S.
Juneau, which vii replace the his
toric one on which the five Sullivan
brothers died in Pacific feet action,
will be christened Sunday by Mrs.
E. L. Bartlett, 706 North Tazewell
street, Arlington, the Navy an
nounced today.
Mrs. Bartlett is the wife of the
Congressional Delegate from Alaska
and the new ship is named for the
capital of that territory.
The launching will take place at
the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry
Dock Co., at Kearney, N. j.
The first Juneau saw strenuous
action in the Pacific war in 1912
and finally on Friday, November
10, was torpedoed off Guadalcanal
while intercepting a Japanese task
force. She had been damaged pre-
viously by Jap planes after down.
ing many of them. The cruiser
sank in less than minute, carry
ing with her her skipper, Capt
Lyman K. Swenson, and all but 10
of her crew.
In another launching ceremony
Mrs. Henry A. Schade, 4026 North
Twenty-f1fth street, Arlington, will
christen the U. S. S. Rabaul, an
escort aircraft carrier, at Tacoma
Wash, Saturday. Mrs. Schade is
the wife of Commodore H. A
Schade of the Navy.
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.65 Pet. Of Soldiers
Due for RedepIoymenI
Plan 10 Go 10 School
BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.

More than 65 per cent of Army
men in Europe awaiting redeploy-
ment have chosen to attend educa-
tional courses in preference to con-
tinuing military training, Maj. Gen
Frederick H. Osborne reported here
today.
Recently returned from supervis-
ing the Army's extensive educational
system in Europe and the Mediter-
ranean, Gen. Osborne said more
than 100000 servicemen expect to
enroll in the 1000 unit schools that
will constitute one phase of the pro-
gram. He said the Army has nc
intention of holding men in Europe
for this educational training, but
would send them back as soon as
their turns come.
Florence Center Opened.
Gen. Osborne, director of the in
formation and education division OF
the Army Service Forces, discussed
the program at the weekly press con-
ference of Undersecretary of War
Patterson. Many details already
have been publicized.
The first of four university cen.
tiers, at the University of Florence
Italy, opened Monday with an en-
rollment of 1920 service students
The Army university courses are CO.
educational, with WACS and nurses
attending, Other universities viii,
open at Schrivenham, England, or
July 80: at Biarritz, France, on
August 10, and at Whorton, Eng
land, former airbase of the Raj
about September 3. The Whorton
courses are designed solely for tech
nical training.
Gen. Osborne said the educational
program is voluntary in the sense
that soldiers are given the choice
of attending school or going through
regular military training of hiking
drills and maneuvers. Approx
mately 300 'top-notch' educators
in the United States will implement
the teaching stats at the four uni
verSities, spending about six months
AL Wiz GuA OPVnAi dllo uhcQlOtIIdIlodIl
theaters.
Credits Made Acceptable.
The Army has supplied more than
100000 text books and some in
structors from its own ranks.
Gen. Osborne had high praise for
the cooperation given by educa-
tional institutions in the United
States. 1t has arranged through
the American Council of Education
and the American Association of
School Administrators for the ac-
ceptance of credits earned in the
Army schools. A standardized sys-
tenn of credits for the courses has
been worked out.
BY far the great bulk of service
students will attend the unit schools,
based in stationary Army units. The
second phase of the program in
wolves technical work in service IA
cilities, including vocational train
ing. Servicemen also will be given
opportunity to attend civilian insti-
buttons, such as. oxford and Cam
bridge Universities in England, the
Sorbonne in France and liberal arts
schools.
Agricultural courses, as well as
business courses, will be available
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Truman Party Heads
For Rendezvous With
British Warships
BY ERNEST B. vACCARo;;

fhoctNAGtSA
ABOARD CRUISER AUGUSTA
WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, July
12.-President Truman sped through
chill North Atlantic waters today
toward a rendezvous with British
warships. They will escort him on
the last sea leg of his trip to Berlin
and Big Three meeting.
The British escort will take the
Chief Executives two-cruiser task
force from the British Isles to a
Northern European port. Mr.. Tru-
man then will fly to Berlin for his
talks next week with Prime Min
lister Churchill and Premier Stain.
Reporters accompanying the pres
idential party are not permitted to
disclose the port Of debarkation.
Mr.. Truman, who changed to fall
attire as the Augustus course took
1t into cooler sections of the At
lantic, continued his round of con-
ferences in preparation for the Big
Three meeting.
He spent hours yesterday closeted
In the admiral's cabin with Secre-
tary Of State Byrnes, Admiral
William D. Leahy and other adj
viserS.
Mr.. Truman, incidentally, plans
to proceed to Berlin without a pre-
yious conference with Mr.. Church.
i'll, now mentioning in France near
the Spanish border. This evidently
is intended to assure Premier Stain
that there will be no independent
Anglo agreements before
the Big Three talks.
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prosthetic substitutes. They are a
select group, picked jointly by the
Disabled Veterans Committee and
American University for a 12-Week
training course at the latter institu-
ton. After graduation August IL,
they will take jobs with various
agencies guiding fellow veterans
and their dependents-with claims
to file or other problems.
Led by DR.. Douglass, their in
structor in the courses public re-
lations class, the traipees inspected
the business offices, the presses, the
composing room and the circulation
department as we'll as the news
room. Their interest fastened or
such items as the use of the word
slug" which one of them repeated
happily to himself for several min
utes. 1t held other connotations ir
North Africa.
Represent All Branches.
All branches OF service were rep.
resented. Dee Belveal of Boise
Idaho, the groups press liaison man
who noted the hubbub, had entered
the Navy only to be assigned to thu
Marine Corps and fight in tn,
Guadalcanal jungle. The class presi
dent, Charles N. Girard of Detroit
had lost an arm and the use of {
leg and absorbed rs shell fragment!
serving with the LIST Marine Division
in the Pacific area.
Two Brooklyn boys, David Pogo
loft, glider trooper, and George Fo'
rakis, infantryman, had suffered
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the fracture of one of his right
hand fingers May Is on Okinawa.
This is the second time he has been
wounded, it was made known today
through a Navy casualty release.
On Peleliu last September 26 he
was shot in the right arm.
1t. st. Clair, whose wife, Mrs.
Bonnie Ruth st. Clair, lives at 1854
Ingraham street NV, and is clerk
in the civilian procurement division
of the Army Air Forces, has been
overseas since December, 1913. He
is native of Washington and was
graduated from Gonzaga High
School. When he enlisted in the
Marine Corps in December, 1912, he
was a student at The Citadel in
Charleston, S. c.
Lieut.. st. Glars parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lloyd E. ST. Clair, live at 10
Lincoln avenue, Takoma Park, Md.
His father is an employe of the Air
Transport Command at the National
Airport. Mrs. st. Clair works for the
Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Darcy East, carpenters mate 1/c,
U. S. N. r., former general manager
of the Warren Dyson Co., was
wounded insthe right arm on Ok
inawa, according to the Navy, but
has returned to duty, his wife, Mrs
Gladys B. East, 5000 Hoover street,
Bethesda, Md, said.
Born in Capitol Heights, Md, the
37-year-old Navy man attended
school there and enlisted in the
Navy in October, 1943. He has
been overseas Is months. His
mother, Mrs. Maggie East, 1116 Fifty
ninth avenue, Hillside, Md, and
his wife are both employees of the
Patent ONCE. He has two brothers
in the service, Sergt. Swepson East,
on Two Jima. and Corpl. John w.
East, in Hawaii. Both are military
policemen.
Master Gunnery Sergt. Eugene
Phillip viveiros, u. S. M. c., whose
wife. Seaman 1tc Mary A. Viveiros,
WAVE. is stationed at Barracks K,
Columbia pike, Arlington, was
wounded in action May 16 while
fighting on Okinawa, the Navy De-
partment announced today. He
has now returned to duty, his wife
said.
In the Marine Corps 10 years
Sergt. Viveiros is now overseas for
the second time. He was with the
LIST Marines on Guadalcanal and
was overseas "A months, his wife
said. He went over for the second
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On the Roll Of Honor

time last November and is with the
9th Marines, she said. He is ma
tive of Somerville, Mass.
Maj. Elva Lawrence Erase, U. s. M.
C. r., who was wounded year ago on
Guam and is now stationed at the
Navy Department here, was listed
on today's Navy Department cas-
ualty list. Maj. Erase and his wife,
Mrs. Ruth H. Erase, live at BOAT
South Columbus street, Arlington.
Marine Maj. Paul Howard Doug
las. whose wife, Representative Emily
T. Douglas, Democrat, of Illinois,
lives at the Wardman Park Hotel,
was listed today by the Navy Depart
ment as wounded in action. The
story was previously carried in The
Star in the form Of an Associated
Press dispatch.
Pfc. Michel Ledec Doiron, u. S. M.
C. r., whose wife, Mrs Eleanor j.
Doiron, lives at 1909 Concord ave-
nue. NV, was wounded in action,
information received from the Navy
Department revealed.
Marine 1t. Thomas J. Aiberghini,
rs, whose wife, Mrs. Carolyn N. Al
berghini, lives at 11107 West ave-
nue., Kensington, Md, was wounded
in action in May on Okinawa.
This is the second time that 1t.
Alberghini has been wounded, the
first occurring in July, 1914, on
Guam, the Navy reported.
A native of Peabody, Mass, he
entered the Marine Corps in Janu-
airy, 1913, after graduating from
Holy Cross College, Worcester,
Mass. He went overseas in Sep
TENDER, 1913.
Pfc. Joseph Lechman, U. S. M. C.
r., was also wounded in action. His
wife, Mrs. Ruth K. Lechman, lives
on Route /, Rockville.
Liberated
Maj. Robert A. Wheeler, whose
brother. william A. Wheeler, lives
at 1856 Fortieth street Sc, was
listed by the Army today as a lib
Grated prisoner of Germany. The
story previously appeared in The
Star.
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Foreign Secretary
OF Mexico Resigns
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, July 12.-Ezequiel
Padilla, an outSpoken advocate Of
unity among the nations in the
Western Hemisphere, has resigned
as Mexican Minister of Foreign At
fairs. He indicated that criticism
of his foreign policy had motivated
his decision.
THE international policy whose
responsibility I have had the honor
of sharing with the President of the
republic has been a motive of con-
slant impugnations and calumnies,"
he said in a statement last night
announcing his resignation.
Padilla, who was chairman of the
Inter-American Conference in Mex
leo City early this year and who
headed his country's delegation to
the United Nations Conference in
San Francisco, had been foreign
minister for more. than four and a
half years.
UnderSecretary Manuel Tello will
be acting secretary pending ap-
pointment of a successor. Gen.
Francisco Castillo Najera, Ambas-
sador to the United States, has been
mentioned as possible successor.
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Gov. CarviIIe Of Nevada
Will Get Senate Seat
ny the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
CARSON CITY, New, July H.
Gov. e. P. Carville of Nevada has
announced he is resigning July 81
to accept appointment to the Senate
as successor to the late Senator
James G. Scrugham.
In his statement to the Nevada
electorate, Gov. Carville, Demo-
.crat, said he expected to take the
oath in time to vote for ratification
of the United Nations Charter,
which IT consider the greatest docu-
ment for the welfare of the world
ever drafted"
He has been Governor since No
vember, 1888.
1t. Gov. Vail Pittman, brother of
the late Senator Key Pittman. said
he would appoint Gov. Carville i'm
mediately after assuming the Gov
errors chair.
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Woman Dies Of Polio;
Two Additional Cases
Are Reported Here

One death due to infantile pa
ralysis and two new cases of the dis
ease were reported by the Health
Department today.
The death was that of Mrs Louise
Young, 81, of 1866 Columbia road
NV, an employee of the Agriculture
Department.
The new cases are those of IT.
year-old colored girl living in the
1900 block of Eastern avenue NE.
ana 40-year-old colored man from
the 1900 block of Woodley road NV.
Both patients are in Gallinger
Hospital, the girl having been there
since June 26 and the man since
last Monday.
Stricken Last Sunday.
Mrs. Young died yesterday at Gal
linger Hospital after having been
stricken Sunday. Miss Juanita Batty,
with whom she shared an apartment,
said Mrs. Yotng at first complained
Of dizziness, of cloudy vision, then
felt better. Early Monday morning,
she said, Mrs. Young complained OF
difficulty in breathing. She was re-
moved to Emergency Hospital and
then taken to Gallinger.
Mrs. Young, Miss Batty said, was
the wife of DR.. w. H. Young CT
Vienna, Va, psychiatrist, but they
had been estranged since late last
year. Mrs. Young was the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Pike of
Sterling, Colo. Her mother arrived
in Washington yesterday, and the
body will be sent this afternoon to
Sterling, where funeral services will
be held.
10 Cases Now Listed.
The two new cases of polio re-
ported today brought the total num-
Der of District cases listed by the
Health Department to 10.
DR.. James c. Cumming, head of
the Bureau Of Preventable Diseases,
pointed out the trend of the cases
in number is above the number for
the average year, but he said he
still is convinced there is no cpl
demic.
80 far" he said, ceases have
come from the area where there
was concentration of cases last
year. Last year the lowest Incl
dence of cases was west of Rock
Creek Park. Only one adult case
has been reported in that area this
year. One would expect the disease
to appear more heavily in that
area if We were experiencing an cpl
demic."
Nationally, the Public Health
Service reported a drop of one in
the number of new cases. For the
week ended July the number of
cases reported were 154, for the
preceding week the number was
1855. There we're 28S cases reported
in the first week of July last year.
1,424 Cases This Year.
So far this year, 1,424 cases have
been reported, as against 1890 for
last year, but public health officials
said the difference is being closed
by the fewer cases currently report
ed. This years higher totals are due
to the extension into this year of
last years epidemic.
New cases reported in Texas
dropped from 81 to 81 for the week
ending July 7. There was an in
crease of 6 to 10 in Tennessee, and
also increases In New York, from
l6 to 81; in New Jersey, from 5 to
10, and in California, from u to Is.
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the loss Of an arm and stomach
wounds, respectively, in the Medi-
terranean theater. Men from II
States, with interrupted careers in
Harvard, University of California
at Los Angeles, Cornell, Michigan,
New York University, the University
of Virginia, Virginia Military Insti-
tute and other colleges behind them
and wounds acquired on all the
worlds continents, made UP the
group.
We're learning what we've got
to do" one of them said. Fifteen
of us have spoken from Washington
church pulpits. We know our pub
lie speaking. And now we know
what happens to handouts"
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Humans Old Division
To Supply Honor Guard

BRUSSELS, July II (P).-President
Truman, whose arrival in Europe is
expected shortly, will have an honor
guard from the 35th Infantry Dr.
vision, in which he served as an
artillery officer in the World War.
The 18th Regiment of the 35th
Division arrived In Belgium today
from France to meet the President
when the cruiser Augusta puts in.
probably at Antwerp or Amsterdam.
1t was at the Presidents request
that Doughboys from the 55th were
tapped for the honor guard. The
troops came from Reims.
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Transit Expert Dies
In Fall From Window
Ey the Associated Press.

ES the Associated Frese.
NEW YORK, July 12.-John A.
Beeler, 70, president of the Beeler
Organization, Inc, consulting engi-
neers on transit problems, was killed
yesterday in a 22-story fall from his
ONCE in a midtown building, police
reported.
Detectives quoted his son-in-law.
Samuel W. Long, assistant manager
of the firm, as saying Mr.. Beeler
had complained of dizziness and col
lapsed after going to the window
for air.
Before founding his own COM
pany, he was chief engineer, and
later vice president and manager
of the Denver (Colo0 Tramway Co..
with which he was connected from
1890 to 1915. He was a native of
Towanda, Ill.
Buy bonds regularly where you
xwnrlr fhrnugh ravrolI savfy.va
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WPB Orders Daily News
To Cut Newsprint Use
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Washington Daily News Co
yesterday was ordered to reduce its
newsprint consumption by $50 tons
per quarter during the third and
fourth quarters of 1945 and each
of the four quarters of 1915.
In its order to this effect the
War Production Board explained
that the News itself had reported
to WPB the overconsumption Of
the 35o24 tons during the second
third and fourth quarters of 1943
The newspaper was reported to have
explained that the overusage Of
newspriat resulted from an errol
in calculating its newsprint allo'
cation quota.