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Evening star., 1945-08-04
B-D Captain Held
In Shooting Of Private
AT Topeka Night Club
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., Aug. Capt.
Donald w. Salisbury of Madison, N.
j., was held for court-martial in con-
nection with the fatal shooting
Thursday at a Topeka night club Of
Pfc. James C. Rockefeller of Mil
waukee, 1t. Col. Maurice C. Horgan,
commanding officer OF the Topeka
Army Air Field, said yesterday.
Capt Salisbury is a B-29 pilot sta
toned temporarily at the Topeka
field. Pfc. Rockefeller was an in
fantryman wounded in Europe and
received at Winter General Hos
pital here May 81.
After completion Of a preliminary
hearing before an Army Board of
Inquiry, Col. Horgan said:
First 1t. Lynn L. Bockes and
Maj. Samuel A. Mitchell were wait
ing in car owned by Capt. Donald
w. Salisbury to be driven to the air.
field. Rockefeller came over to the
car and asked to be driven to town.
The officers explained that the car
belonged to some one else. Rookie
feller asked again and was refused.
Salisbury arrived to take his pas
sengers to the field. He told the
private to leave, but the enlisted
man did not. The captain reached
into the side pocket of his car, TAX
ing out % caliber pistol and fired
1t twice in the air. Rockefeller went
around the car and struck the cap
tain on the nose. In the ensuing
struggle the gun went off, the bullet
hitting Rockefeller in the neck.
Capt. Salisbury entered service in
1910 from Madison, N. j., as a cadet
and is now B-2s pilot. His wife
resides at Battle Creek, Mich. He
is being held by the Army pending
court rtial'
Evening star., 1945-08-04
lac Implies Committee
Wants 0kinawa Retained
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OKINAWA, July "a Delayed by
CENSOR Representative Izac, DEM
ocrat, of California, spokesman for
an eight-man House committee
visiting Pacific bases, implied today
his committee was considering
recommendation that Okinawa be
among captured bases retained for
postwar establishments.
He said, in press conference,
however, he was not at liberty to
disclose details pending a report to
Congress.
Mr.. Izac said the committee felt
there was little need for postwar
American bases in Australia.
1--WE feel Australians are better
prepared to take care Of their bases
than any other Allied nation bor-
dering the Pacific" Mr.. lac added.
Evening star., 1945-08-04
Filipino Church Leader
Cleared of Collaboration

By the Associated Press.
MANILA, Aug. 4.-The first i'm
portant collaboration trial in the
Philippines ended yesterday in the
acquittal by court-martial of Maj.
Enrique Sobrepena, army chaplain
and most prominent Protestant
leader in the islands.
The defense cited pressure brought
by the Japanese, which allegedly
forced Mai. Sobrepena to deliver
pro-Japanese sermons and to be-
come president of the enemy -spon-
sored Federation Of Evangelical
Churches.
Conviction would have removed
the chaplain from service. Both
native and foreign churchmen In
the three-week trial testified that
Mai. Sobrepena had asked the Fill
pinos to cooperate with the Japa-
nose
Evening star., 1945-08-04
Chinese Push Appears
Aimed al Blocking Jap
Retreat From Kwangsi|
By the Associated Press.

CHUNGKING, Aug. 4-Chinese
troops have launched drive ap-
parently aimed at cutting the HUI
nan-Kwangsi railroad in Human
Province and blocking the main
avenue of the Japanese with
drawal from Kwangsi Province
the high command indicated today
The Chinese, after recapturins
the important Japanese stronghold
of Shining, a Human Province
stronghold safeguarding the enc
mys western flank, smashed ahead
in the direction of the important
rail town of Tungan in pursuit OF
the enemy. Tungan, in Human, is
roughly midway between Kweilin
and the Japanese bastion of Heng-
yang, where the Hunan-Kwangsi
railroad meets the Canton Hankow
line.
Without giving distances, the high
command said much progress had
been made In the drive toward Tun-
gan, which is about 80 miles north
east of Kweilin.
Exploiting the Japanese with
drawal, Chinese troops pressed
along the Hunan-Kwangsi line from
liberated Lingchwan, is miles north
east of Kweilin, and gained over 8
miles in the push toward Hingan
which is 80 miles northeast OF
Kweilin.
Enemy troops west of the rail-
road several days ago had mounted
a counterattack against forward
Chinese positions 12l2 to 10 miles
west of Chuanhsien, important jap
anese rail stronghold 81 miles north
east of Kweilin. Fighting was re-
ported still in progress there.
This two-pronged Chinese drive
Is aimed at Lingling in Southern
Human, former Flying Tiger" air
base 370 miles southeast of Chung
king. Chuanhsien, the immediate
objective Of the drive, is 40 miles
from Lingling.
The capture of Shining was ef-
fected Friday morning by Chinese
driving the other prong of the at
tack on Lingling.
In Kiangsi Province, the high
command said, the withdrawal by
an estimated 10000 Japanese was
stalled south of Siakiang, 10 miles
south of Nanchang, goal of the
enemy retreat. The Chinese said
the enemy had suffered 1900 cas-
ualties between July Is and July 30
in fighting around Khan, ITO miles
south of Siakiang.
Evening star., 1945-08-04
Shoes
Continued From First Page)

that rationing might be lifted in
two or three months"
This could be done, the WPB off,
cial added, only II the war should
end quickly.
He said the public has been buy
ing more expensive shoes under
rationing In the hope they would
last longer and this led to dis
continuance Of low-priced lines BY
some manufacturers.
The tendency to spend more money
for shoes, 1t was explained, has
caused stocks Of lower priced foot
wear made some time ago to back
up on dealers shelves. OPAs de.
cision to allow sale Of these without
stamps Is aimed ut thinning out
such inventories before rationing u
ended.
Part Of these stocks probably would
not sell when newer styles are
available, 1t was explained.
Evening star., 1945-08-04
Berlin Told Big Three Decisions;
Losses Accepted as Inevitable

1nquiring among many Germans,
especially those versed in interna-
tional affairs, find the foremost
reaction was one of relief that Ger
many will not be dismembered.
Every German was prepared to
learn that Germany must pay
heavily. Such losses as were specifi-
cally MISUNDERSTANDING, shipping
and aviation-seemed to be accept
ed as inevitable. But there was
obvious disappointment that the
whole reparations question was left
indefinite.
The awards Of territory to Poland
were regarded as the hardest thing
to bear,
Evening star., 1945-08-04
On the Roll of Honor
Todoy's Casualty Lists
Killed

Maj. Carl Baehr, jr., U. S. A., 81, son
of Brig. Gen. Carl A. Baehr, now on
duty in Europe, was killed Decem-
Der IS, when American forces sank
a Japanese transport ship in Subic
Bay, off Luzon, carrying 1900 other
Americans, according to word re-
ceived by his mother who resides at
the Ambassador Apartments. l75O
Sixteenth street NV. His death also
was officially announced today by
the War Department.
Maj. Baehr, captured when Ba-
taan fell, had been on duty at Fort
Stotsenberg.
Born at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.
November 7, 1912, he lived at sew
eral Army posts including Fort
Myer. He attended Fillmore School
while his father was on duty at the
Army War College. He later pre-
pared for West Point at Millard
Preparatory School. He graduated
from West Point in 1896 and had
served at Fort Sheridan and in the
Philippines.
During his term as a prisoner, his
mother said, she received five cards
from him, and he received one Red
Cross package.
Besides his father and mother
Maj. Baehr is survived by two sis
ters, Katherine, a laboratory tech
nician in an Army hospital In Texas
and Betty, who resides with he1
mother here.
1t. Col. Frederick G. Saint, So
husband of Mrs. Jean Crosbie Saint
who resides at Oakwold, near Alex.
andria,. was killed in action las
December Is, when the japanese
transport on which he was a pris.
oner was sunk by an American sub.
marine, 1t was announced today.
Col. Saint had been stationed al
Fort Mckinley in the Philippines
and was in command of the 14tt
Engineers in the battle of Bataan
A graduate of West Point in 1881
he served on river and harbor duty
on the Mississippi River, and latel
was on duty at Fort Belvoir, Va
He was an instructor for four year,
at West Point, from which he wen
to the Philippines.
He is survived by his widow, two
sons, Charles, 13, and Crosbie, 8
his father and mother, Mrs. George
A. Saint, and two sisters, Mrs. Johr
Knaha and Mrs. Oscar Hasather
all of Elmhurst.
Comdr. Thomas H. Hayes. 48
whose widow, Mrs. Marye Hayes
lives at 3l6 S. Pitt street, Alexandria
Va, also was killed when a Japanes,
prison ship was sunk last December
He had been taken prisoner during
the fall of Corregidor, and was in
termed at Bilibid. He had been SEN
to the Philippines in July, 1s41.
He attended Alexandria High
School, and was graduated from
George Washington Medical School
He served in the Army during the
World War, but later transferred tt
the Navy. In addition to his wife, ht
is survived by one son, Thomas lr.
10
Evening star., 1945-08-04
Judge Refuses 10 Restore
Citizenship 10 Bundists
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Federal
Judge Robert A. Inch yesterday
denied the request of three former
German-American Bund leaders for
restoration Of their American citi-
zenship, asserting they treated 1t
"as a mere bauble, something Of
little value, to be thrown away by
them and restored at will"
The Judge said he was convinced
that fear Of returning to their native
Germany motivated their request.
The men, who are being detained
at Ellis Island awaiting deportation,
are Walter Borchers, Bruno Clemens
Knupfer and Otto Fentzke. all Of
New York.
Evening star., 1945-08-04
Truman Convincing
In Belief Anything
Can Be Compromised
By ERNEST B. VACCARO,


WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN
ABOARD U. S. S. AUGUSTA, Aug.
4.-President Truman's oft-expreSsed
view that a solution can be found
for every legitimate controversy
emerged today as one of his major
contributions to the Berlin con-
ference.
Presiding over the sessions with
geniality and good humor, he early
convinced the British and Russian
leaders that no avenue of compro-
mise should be abandoned.
The protocol which emerged early
Thursday was based in large meas
ure on agenda the President brought
with him in writing to the first
meeting.
Basis for Last Discussions.
Prepared in frequent consultations
with Secretary of State Byrnes, the
proposal gave the three delegations
basis for starting immediate con-
situations.
When the proposals were pre-
sented, Winston Churchill added
certain subjects orally. as did Pre-
mier Stain. So the Presidents S
agenda was referred Immediately
to the foreign secretaries, forming
the basis for most of the future
discussion.
The decision to establish a council
OF foreign ministers of the United
States, Russia, Great Britain, China
and France was based on the agenda
Mr.. Truman wanted to provide a
means for continuing preparatory
work for the peace settlements and
to seek solutions of problems on
which the Big Three may not be
able to find themselves in immediate
agreement.
He did much to keep his con-
fereeS in good humor throughout
the nine meetings in which Mr..
Churchill participated and the re-
naming four involving his success
sor, Clement Attlee. He left Pots
dam with the apparent good will of
the Russian and British leadership
Good Humor Affects Others.
Never time waster, he mixed in
formality with quiet pressure for
speedy action, but with a good hui
NOR that infected the others.
At the meeting. Mr.. Attlee sug-
gested technical change in Ian
guage in one part of the protocol
based on the American agenda
Premier Stain apparently thought
the American language was clearer
than the British. Mr.. Truman told
Premier Stain the change was
agreeable to him.
IF the President of the United
States understands it, the Russians
can, too," Premier Stain replied
with grin.
Every effort was made to avoid
any language about which there
might be differences of interpreta-
ton between the Russian and Eng
lish tongues. .
Most of the Big Three meetings
lasted about three hours. The fore
ign secretaries met earlier.
Evening star., 1945-08-04
BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER,
Associated Press War Correspondent

BERLIN, Aug. Berliners.
through their six daily newspapers,
now know what happened at Pots
dam during the Big Three meeting.
Three newspapers used most of
their space today for the full text of
the communique. The rest pub
lished extensive summaries.
No daily paper offered any COM
mentary of it's own, but the Tae-
glische Fundschau, official organ of
the Soviet occupying forces, re-
printed yesterdays Moscow Pravda
editorial.
Evening star., 1945-08-04
Okinuwo Commanders
Honored by Jopon
BY the Associated Press.

BY tho Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. THE
Japanese War and Navy Ministers
awarded posthumous promotions TO-
day to the two commanders on
Okinawa who committed suicide
shortly before the conquest Of the
island, Domei agency said.
As heard by the Federal Com
munications Commission, 1t. Gen.
Mitsuru Ushijima was elevated to
the rank Of full general and Rear
Admiral Minoru Ota was raised to
the rank Of vice admiral for heroic
death In action
Evening star., 1945-08-04
By Engine Output
AT Wright Plant Halls
As 1900 Walk Out
Ry the Aefoc lated Press.


A strike of approximately 4,00C
workers virtually closed the Wright
Aeronautical Corp. at Cincinnati
today, halting production Of en-.
gines for B-29 Super Fortresses.
We're doing nothing" said q
plant spokesman who added that
there are between 1000 and 4,50C
absentees. Representatives of Local
SAT, United Automobile Workers
(CIO), set the figure at 10000.
The plant employees approximate
ly $4,000.
The stoppage yesterday was oc-
casioned, union statement said
by number of grievances" in
cluding the layoff of IA aluminium
foundry workers. This, the union
said, was a contract violation" and
indication that the company had
ceased to bargain in good faith"
1,50O End Strike.
Meanwhile, striking CIO-United
Steelworkers ended their walkout at
the Cleveland division of the Repub-
lie Steel Corp. as the Regional War
Labor Board acted to halt another
steel production stoppage at the
Youngstown (Ohio) Sheet g. Tube
Co.'s Brier Hill plant. Fifteen hun
dred workers we're involved in the
Cleveland strike.
Other strikes involved an esti-
mated 1000 men at II coal mines in
Southwest Virginia who struck yes
terday as a result Of meat and lard
shortage.
The men reported they are hun
gry' and cant work" as result.
The IL mines are operated by the
Blue Diamond Coal Co., the Stonega
Coal and Coke Co. and the Wise
Coal and Coke Co. Two are located
in Lee County-the Bonny Blue and
Monarch. Among those out in Wise
County are seven operated by the
Stonega Co.
The Blue Diamond operators were
comforting with a representative of
the War Labor Board, Harold T.
Dworet Of Washington.
In the stoppage at youngstown
the regional WLB yesterday ordered
strike leaders of the Steelworkers
Union to appear here Tuesday to
show cause why a flve-day walkout
Of 1900 had not ended.
End Week-Long StoppaKe.
In Louisville an AFL Aluminium
Workers Union spokesman said ap-
proximately $500 employees at 10
Reynolds Metals plants would go
back to their jobs Monday, ending
an almost week-long stoppage. The
workers voted to return to work
pending further negotiations with
the company on 1856 contract.
Disputes in the company's plants
in three other cities, New York,
Richmond, Va, and Glendale, N. Y,
have idled 5000 workers.
Nine hundred members Of the CIO
Municipal Carmen's Union in San
Francisco voted late last night to
call of their scheduled Monday
strike, which would have tied up
trolley service In this war-busy Pa
cific Coast port.
Evening star., 1945-08-04

He is now a
member of the
w ar Depart
m mt General
Staff Committee
on N a tt o n a !
Guard and Re-
serve Policies.
Gen. Reckord,
W no formerly
commanded the
29th Division,
former District,
Maryland an d
Virginia Nation
al Guard unit,
commanded the
Evening star., 1945-08-04

Sd Service Command, with head
quarters in Baltimore, before going
overseas. He previously had been
awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster to
the Distinguished Service Medal for
his services in this country.
As provost marshal, the citation
said, his services reflected high
credit on himself and the armed
forces. His effective supervision of
disciplinary training centers, the
citation said, was major factor in
the rehabilitation Of general and
garrison prisoners.
Evening star., 1945-08-04

ices at II am.
tomorrow.
The Rev. Mr..
Schuetze, " h o
S u c eeds the
r e v. Raymond
Vogeley as pas
tor of Christ
L u t h e r a n
Church, served
as pastor Of st.
Johns Lutheran
Church, Pitts
burgh, before &C
cepting the call.
He received his
education at the
Evening star., 1945-08-04
Gen. Milton A. Reckord
Awarded Bronze Star

Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord was
awarded the Bronze Star Medal yes
terday for "meritorious service" as
provost marshal of the European
Evening star., 1945-08-04
New Pastor 10 Preach
First Sermon al Bethesda

The Rev. Otto G. Schuetze will
preach his first sermon as pastor
of Christ Lutheran Church, 80l1 Old
Georgetown road, Bethesda, at serv-
Evening star., 1945-08-04

Dollfuss was killed in July, 1884.
when Austrian Nazis staged q
putsch and seized the chancellery.
Two men were hanged six days later
on charges Of participating IN the
assassination. One OF them was
charged with firing the actual shots
at Dollfuss while he was held pris-
oner In the chancellery.
Evening star., 1945-08-04
Wounded

1t. q. g. Rowan Lester Scar
borough, jr, whose wife and l8-
month-old daughter, Katherine
Elizabeth, live at 1917 X street NV,
was wounded in action on board his
ship during a japanese suicide
plane attack June 81, the Navy an
nounced today.
Mrs Scarborough said he received
a fractured skull and injuries to his
right foot, but was now back in a
hospital in California and recov-
ering, according to letters she has
received from him.
Born in Norfolk, Va, he came
here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs
Rowan Lester Scarborough, who
now reside at TOO Woodside Park
way, Silver Spring, Md. He gradu-
ated from Montgomery Blair High
School at Silver Spring, and from
the University of Maryland in ls4l.
Corpl. william Joseph Cremins,
U. S. M. c. r., veteran of four
Pacific battles, was wounded in the
left hand during the Two Jima bat
tie, the Navy has informed his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Timothy NJ
Cremins, 3l6 Dorset avenue, Chevy
Chase, Md. He had his hand BAN
daged and continued in the fight,
however, according to his mother.
He is now back at another Marine
base somewhere in the Pacific.
Corpl. Cremins participated in the
campaigns at Kwajelein, Saipan,
Tinian and Two. He has sent back
several souvenirs, including a flag
captured on Saipan from a Japanese
strong point by patrol of which ne
was the sole survivor. He has two
brothers in the service, 1t. q. g.
James Cremins, serving on q de-
stroyer, and Seaman 2/c Robert w.
Cremins, now also at sea. Corpl.
Cremins was born in the District,
and is q graduate of Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School. He went
overseas in January, 1943.
Pfc. Andrew John Andrews, U. s.
M. c. r., whose wife, Mrs. Claudia c.
Andrews, lives at 905 South Taylor
street, Arlington, Va, has been
wounded in action, the Navy an
nounced today.
Evening star., 1945-08-04
DoIIfuss Assassin
Seized, by Americans
By the Associalcd Press,

GMUNDEN, Austria, Aug. A.
United States 1lth Armored DiW-
sion headquarters announced today
the arrest Of Victor Won Karolyi, ac-
cused of assassinating Austrian
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in
1894.
Won Karoly also was described
as the right-hand man Of Baldur
Won Schirach. Nazi commandant Of
Vienna.
Evening star., 1945-08-04

William E. Lentz, l9, fire control
man SIC, U. s. N, son of Mrs. Minnie
H. Lentz, 536 Oneida place NV,
who had been reported missing
since May 3 when the destroyer on
which he was serving was sunk by
japanese suicide planes, was OFF,
cially listed as dead today by the
Navy.
Born in Scranton, Pa, he at
tended Paul Junior High School
and Mckinley High School here
before enlisting in July, l943. He
served first in the Atlantic before
joining the destroyer in the Pacific.
Evening star., 1945-08-04

Luther College and at Capital Uni
versity, Columbus, Ohio.
Evening star., 1945-08-04
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
A Killing for Pay?

IF THE cold-blooded assassination of State Sena-
tor Warren &. Hooper was the work of hood
ums hired and paid to obstluct Justice. the people
of this state have been affronted by a crime un-
equalled in its history.
Time and again in the last year the citizens
Of Michigan have been shocked by the evidence of
graft and corruption in lofty places, but the stag
gering boldness of this murder calls for swift and
thorough investigation to determine whether the
assassination was the work of desperate political
conspiratorS.
IF THIS is true the actual killers, guilty and
stained with blood as they are, must indeed be
regarded as small fry compared to the men who
would plot and pay for the brutal death of one
who held high position of public trust.
1t is not likely that the decent citizens of
Michigan will be satisfied until the whole and COM
plete truth of this crime is established and the
murderers brought to justice
No law enforcement agency should rest,
nor any man who respects the law be content,
until this stain is removed from the record
The guilty cannot escape, noreany power of
evil PREVAIL against the peoples determination to
punish such malefactors and destroy for good
their malevolent powers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
Japs Warn Soviet
Against War
Forecast Showdown
on Neutrality Pact

NEW YORK. Jan II GNSl--
japanese propagandiSts. in veiled
warning 10 Russia. declared to-
night that the Russians would
have Everything 10 lose and moth
ing to gain by Joining the war
against Japan
The Japanese Domei news
agency jittery about Russian IN
tentionS in the Far East asserted
that Anglo-American diplomacy
would seek 10 create rift be-
tween Japan and Russia in the
coming weeks
Marshal Stain will be COM
PEELED TO show his hand in respect
TO the Pacific War before April
next" the agency declared. re-
ferring to the imminent April
deadhne for termination Of the
RusSo-JapaneSe neutrality pact
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
73-Year-Old Man Crosses
u. S. to Admit 1905 Murder

cup of coffee when he arrived at
the JAM
He will not be locked up. Van
Glider said. but will be given the
run of the Jail"
Male has admitted that In 1905
he killed Walter o. Smith.
crippled school teacher, in a fight
because Smith punished his 9
year-old son. Cecil, and sent him
home from school with blood
running down the back of his
shoes
Because Smith was a cripple
and Male thought he would not
receive a far trial. Male fled 10
Oregon and became Andrew Jack
son Pritchard.s I.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
Regular Beach Trains
Escape 0DT Ban

DELPHIA. Jan. 13
1NS) Pennsylvania Railroad Of
ftcfais- in Philadelphia said today
that the carrier year-round
schedules 10 beach resorts prob
ably would not be materially af-
fected By the ODT ban on seasonal
train service TO vacation areas.
Only extra trains and sections
added during summer week-endS
will be subject TO the cancellation
order, the spokesman said