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Evening star., 1945-01-01
Steel Firms Believed
Prepared 10 Battle
For Higher Prices
Bs the Associated Press.

By the ASSocldted FresS.
Steel companies were seen
today as marshaling their forces
for a counterattack in a battle
for higher prices.
Persons close to the indutry said
the companies feel that an offensive
is their only way out of the financial
position in which they find them
selves as the result of an increase in
wages.
Wage boosts estimated to average
between 5 and Z cents an hour for
the 100000 CIO United Steel
Workers in the basic steel industry
have been approved by Economic
Sterilization Director Fred Vinson.
OPA Estimate Differs.
The ONCE Of Price Administration
figures that the wage increases will
cost tn indutry about $50 900, 900 a
year, and the War Labor Board con-
siders them Immediately effective.
The industry cost estimates range
up to $50, 900 600 annually.
No formal statement has been
issued by the companies on Mr.. Vim
sons decision, and industry heads
are not expected to dig into the sit
uation before tomorrow since some
are widely scattered during the
year-end holidays.
Those available, however, have
made it clear that no noncompliance
controversy will be involved. :. That
they have no intention of placing
themselves in a position comparable
to that occupied by Sewell Avery in
the Montgomery Ward case.
Instead, the companies plan TO
carry the fight to lOPA for higher
prices substantially on these argu-
ments:
Present ceiling prices on steel were
established in 1878, and they were
not satisfactory then.
Retroactive Feature Hit.
Even if some price increases are
granted to meet wage hikes, the in
dustry will still be left holding the
sack for retroactive pay.
The wage increases, chiefly a diff
ferential of 4 cents an hour for the
early night shift and 8 cents for
the late trick, are retroactive to the
expiration date of the last basic
steel contract.
This date varies from plant TO
plant, but most OF them ended In
December, 1943.
The industry apparently has a
leg to stand on In fighting for price
increases since OPA advised Mr..
Vinson that increases on some steel
products were overdue and would
have to be made.
BY law price increases must be
granted If the industry profit level
falls under the 1869 average.
Offlcials estimate that the addi-
tional $50, 900, 900 cost will cut the
industry's margin close to the bor-
derline
Evening star., 1945-01-01
13O Captured Americans
Machine -Gunned by Nazis
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Jan. London news
papers today quoted Supreme Allied
Headquarters as saying a prelim-
mary investigation showed two Ger
man tanks poured a hail of ma
chine-gun bullets into 130 defense
less captured Americans after they
had been searched for valuables and
lined up in an open field.
The dispatches said the men, mas
sacred in cold blood on December IT
mostly were from a field artillery
unit captured near Malmedy, Bel
gium. They had left their trucks to
seek shelter when the German tanks
appeared.
Rounded up in a field, the Ger
mans searched them and took their
cigarettes and valuables. A guard
suddenly opened fire which the
tanks joined from 40 yards away.
The shooting continued until all
fell.
The Germans then walked up and
down shooting all the fallen men
showing signs of life, it was stated.
About IS Americans, most of them
wounded. fed but only Is escaped.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Herbert Durond, Botony
Lecturer, Author Dies
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRONXVILLE, N. Y, Jan. L.
Herbert Durand, 86, lecturer and
author of MY Wild Flower Garden"
and other books on botany, died
Saturday.
Born in Malone. N. Y, he spent
the early part of his career as a re-
porter on the Louisville Courier
Journal snd the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. He also was general ad-
vertising manager for the Wabash
Railroad in st. Louis.
Later he devoted himself to lee
turing and writing about flowers
and mad published wild Flowers
and the Fern" How to Know the
Fern" and The Field Book of Com
mon Ferns"
Evening star., 1945-01-01
British Poll of Sturs
Is Headed by Crosby

os lhc hssOSiatco EtCss-
LONDON, Jan. 1.-Bing Crosby
heads the motion picture Herald's
British poll of money making inter-
national film stars.
Others in order are Betty Cradle,
Greer Carson, Deanna Durbin,
Bette Davis, Bob Hope, Humphrey
Bogart. Gary Cooper, Spencer
Tracy and Abbott and Costello.
Roy Rogers is the best-liked West
ern star.
Walt Disney tops the shorts.
The two leading British stars in
films made here are James Mason
and David Niven. Other favorites
include Laurence Olivier, Robert
Donat, Anna Neagle and Eric Port
man.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
War, Fiscal Problems
Top Schedule Facing
Returning Congress

BY the Associated Press.
A new Congress comes to town
Wednesday to worry with the prob
lens of war and its aftermath--and
to wonder a bit wistfully about a
raise in pay.
The salary business isn't imme-
diate anything they do on this
won't be effective for two years
but these other problems are wait
ing on the Capitol doorstep for the
18th Congress:
l. Compulsory military training.
2. Finances for the war and a
foreign policy for its conclusion.
3. Liberalized social security, pro-
v1eins ple' more benefits fT more pso-
4. Wa and postwar tax adjust
ments.
S. Industrial reconversion.
Democrats Stronger.
The new Congress will be more
firmly in Democratic hands than
was its predecessor--due to numer-
ical gains in the 1914 election-but
that doesn't necessarily guarantee
smooth sailing for the administra-
ton. Trouble for President Roose-
welt still turks on the Democratic
side of the aisle in both houses.
The first administration test prob
ably will come early in this session
over demand for years COM
pulsory service for all youth. Pres
ident Roosevelt had said he wants
such legislation this winter.
Although he didn't specify the
type of service, administrationists
on the House Military Affairs Com
mittee are ready to fight for years
military training for all young
men-probably some time between
their 18th and 21st birthdays. The
plan collected some tough opposition
even before 1t made its formal ap-
pearance in Congress.
The new session is predestined to
give much study to a new social
security program, possibly spreading
the present system to take in every
adult American. Both major par
ties advocated more elaborate social
benefits during the 1914 campaign.
Huge Security Program.
Bills already have been prepared
which would unite pensions, unem-
ployment compensation, hospitaliza-
ton, education and many social pro-
grams into one giant plan.
This session NAV cut the taxes
which went to record high levels In
the Seventy-Ninth Congress. Stu
dies have been under way for weeks
preparing for a stabilized postwar
tax program. Chairman George of
the Senate Finance Committee
thinks general 10 per cent tax cut
might be possible with the defeat of
Germany.
+ Government spending is sched-
uled to go down, too. Appropria-
tions, the barometer of Govern
ment costs. began dropping in the
Seventy Eighth Congress and they
are due to be even lower in 1945.
The drop might change to down.
grade plunge If the war ends before
all the money bills are passed.
One of the tough problems for this
new Congress is to find a means Of
easing industry and labor from war
to peace.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
B-25s Stampede Herd
Of jap Supply Elephants
By the Associated Press.

by tHe ASSoClAted PreSS.
CHUNGKING, Jan. American
B-25 bombers have stampeded a
herd of 80 elephants used by the
Japanese for military transport, a
communique reported today.
The action took place in Burma,
where bridges and railroads also
came under attack.
The dove Of peace hovers near
do your part toward Christmas
cheer-buy one extra War Bond.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Three Inmates at lorton
Escape in Stolen Car

Three Lorton Reformatory IN
mates who escaped Saturday night
by climbing through a window In
a heavy fog still are at large, police
reported today.
They were listed as Walter E.
Watson, %, Suitland, Md. and
Joseph Eisenberg. %, Washington,
and Elmer F. Norton, 20, Lexington,
KY. Officials said the men, who
were dressed in blue denims, were
chased by the guards but fled in a
stolen car.
Waston and Eisenberg were serv-
ing terms for housebreaking. Nor
ton was doing time for an auto
theft
Evening star., 1945-01-01
AP Wirephot'

-AP Wireph0to.
Medill Mccormick, 81, was killed
when he fell while mountain climb
ing in New Mexico. He was missing
for nine days before Indians found
his body on cliff. Friends said
Mrs. Simms never recovered fully
from that tragedy.
Born in Cleveland.
Mrs. Simms was born in Cleveland
March 27, 1880, and educated in
private schools in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y,
and Pennington, Conn. After her
introduction into politics by her
father here, she was married to
Medill Mccormick in 1908 and lived
in Chicago, where her husband was
editor of the Chicago Tribune. He
later resigned to enter politics, and
she came back to Washington as q
Senate wife" after actively helping
in her husbands campaigns. They
had three children, Katrina Augusta,
John Medill and Ruth Elizabeth.
Her energy and endurance under
the grind of political campaigning
amazed those with whom she
worked. She made as many as
seven speeches a day in as many
towns during her own campaign for
the Senate.
A political writer who watched
her work in that 1880 quest for
onice wrote in The Star at the
time that "she has an endurance
unsurpassed by any public person.
age In the country" adding that
"she can stay up more hours than
any of her fellow men campaigners
and always be fresher than they"
| She was described as combining, to
degree unique, 'loftiness of pur-
pose with gaiety of temperament, y
her followers admiring her as "a
lofty patriotic heroine and being
amused by her as "a CHEEKY, chatty,
feminine good fellow"
On the political issues of the time
when she was seeking election to
the Senate, Mrs. Simms was vio-
lently opposed to entrance of the
United States into the World Court
and affirmed that personally she
was dry" but would vote for SUBJ
mission of the prohibition repeal
amendment if that was the ma
jority opinion of her constituents.
Her favorite recreations - for
which she had little time at the
peak OF her career-were golf and
bridge. She also was active in well
fare work She worked with nu-
merous women's committees to inn
prove labor conditions aid at one
time was an active member of the
Women's Trade Union League.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
SpreckIes Maintenance
Settled Out of Court

II the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. John D.
Spreckles III, sugar fortune heir
now in the Navy and Mrs. Mary
L4vinia Spreckels, former dancer,
have settled their separate main-
tenance action out Of court, her at
torney announced yesterday.
IS. S. Hahn, the attorney. said Mr..
Spreckels has agreed not to contest
the action. He also viii permit her
to obtain default decree of divorce,
the lawyer added. Other details OF
tie settlement were not disclosed.
in a recent hearing on temporary
support, superior court granted Mrs.
ibreckels $500 monthly and i'm
pounded 100000 of the Spreckels
fortune to insure payment.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Postoffice Club Show
To Be Heard on WINK

"V-Mails of 1945." variety show
Of the Post Office Department Girls
Club. will be broadcast over Radio
Station WINK at 8:15 o'clock to-
night in program dedicated to
veterans and servicemen.
The show was developed by Mrs.
Ada Harris. educational specialist
for the Post Office Department, who
organized the girls club with the CO.
operation of Chief Clerk Frank
Ellis. The show has been presented
at Walter Reed Hospital.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
10 Hurt in Bus Wreck
On Arizona Highway
Ry the Assoc: ated Press.

BY the Assoc. ated Press.
WICKENBURG, Ariz., Jan. IA
heavily-laden Santa Fe railways
bus, bound from Salt Lake City to
Phoenix, AriZ, swerved from the
highway near here yesterday, plowed
10 yards on its side and injured 10
of its 81 passengers before it stopped
on the edge of 20-foot ditch.
State Highway Patrolman Dick
Underwood said the bus driver.
Richard j. Penrose, Phoeeiix, was
charged with reckless driving. Mr..
Underwood said the bus was moving
only about 20 miles an hour when
the accident occurred and it was
believed the driver fell asleep.
PITTSBURGH, Jan. P.-Three
persons were injured, two seriously,
when a Cleveland-bound bus and
milk trailer truck collided in the
rain and fog yesterday between
Wexford and Bradford Woods.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Sergt. Richard {. Byrd
Recommended for Medal
By the Associated Press.

WINCHESTER, Va, Jan. L.
Sergt. Richard E. Byrd, youngest son
of Senator and Mrs. Harry r. Byrd
of Virginia, who has been serving
with an infantry outfit of Gen.
Patton's Sd Army In France and
Germany, has been recommended
by his battalion commander for the
Silver Star for gallantry in action,
according to word reaching friends
here.
He enlisted at Fort George Meade,
Md. shortly after the attack on
Pearl Harbor.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Or. Henry Dreyfus Dies

LONDON. Jan. l {P).-Dr Henry
Dreyfus, 81, director OF the Celanese
Corp. of America, died Saturday In
London. He was chairman and
managing director of British Gel
anese, Ltd. and director Of Ca
madam Celanese, Ltd. -
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Killed

1t. q. g.) James Augustine Muir
ply, jr, U S. N, %, has been killed
in action in the Pacific, the War
Department has notified his wife,
Mrs. Anne Lincoln Murphy, 1913
Prospect avenue NV.
A native of Brooklyn, 1t. Murphy
was graduated from Harvard Uni
versity shortly before entering the
service. After graduation he studied
naval courses at Harvard and in
New York. He was commissioned
June 16, 1943, and was married the
same day.
Besides his widow, he is survived
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. j. A.
Murphy, ST., of Brooklyn. N. Y, ard
four sisters. His wife lives with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Francis F.
Lincoln. Mr.. Lincoln is attached to
the State Department here.
Wounded
Pfc. Edwin p. Knipple, son Of Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd E. Knipple, 861
Fifty-frst street S. E., was wounded
in action November 10 In Germany,
his parents have been notified by
the War Department. Pvt. Knipple
is now hospitalized in France.
A native of Altoona, Pa, he lived
in Washington for two years, work.
ing at the Naval Research Labora-
tory before entering the Army in
August, 1943 His unit won presi-
Dental citation.
Sergt. Richard S. Moulden, 80, of
Rockville, Md, was wounded in
action in Germany December Is,
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Albert
Moulden, have been notified by the
War Department.
Sergt. Moulden, whose wife, Mrs
Marion Moulden, and 4-year-old
daughter, June, live at Rockville, has
been in the Army for more than two
years and has been overseas for the
last four months.
He was graduated from the Rock
vile High School, and prior to enter
ing the Army was employed by
Montgomery County as a surveyor.
Staff Sergt. Louis r. Becker, IS,
of 1751 Lanier place NV, reported
as wounded by the War Department
today, was hit at Aachen by an ex-
ploding shell, his wife, Mrs. Della
Becker, has learned. Sergt. Becker
was returned to England to recover
from spinal injuries but expects to
return to duty shortly.
Sergt. Becker was a private until
the action at Aachen when he was
promoted directly to staff sergeant
and acted as company observer for
all the mortar guns in his company
A native of Washington, Sergt.
Becker is graduate of Mckinley
High School. Dewitt Prep and
Georgetown University School Of
Foreign Service.
Pvt. william D. Blinkhorn, 20,
nephew OF Mr.. and Mrs. Gregory
Bussink, 1116 Oates street NE, listed
as wounded by the War Department
today, is home on 30-day fur
Tough. Pvt. Blinkhorn was hit in
the hip by shrapnel September Is in
France, where he was fighting with
the air-borne artillery.
Pvt. Blinkhorn was born In Wash
ington and attended Mckinley High
School. He was employed by a
local plumbing company when he
entered the service in March, 1913
and saw action in Italy. While in
Italy he saw the Pope and brought
home souvenirs from Vatican City
A brother. Pfc. Joseph A. Blink
horn, is in the European theater.
Pvt. Norbert Kraft, 20, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Luis Kraft, 4474 Reservoir
road NV, has been wounded In
action, the War Department an
nounced today. Pvt. Kraft was
wounded in Germany in October
but has returned to action, his
mother said
Dx,{ Hre ~ ~~ya~ I><&v,, i,a F5orv,a a ,, u
Evening star., 1945-01-01

FIRST DONOR-R M member of the Board
Federal Reserve System and
chairman Committee the first the
the District Blood Donor Center 81 louisiana
avenue Good Navy Medical Corps supervised
the donation fifth. Following him in line Mrs
Beua M Johnson Tunaw road NV for her ninth dona
ton Seymour Myerson SOLO Knge street NV for his
seventh Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Police Horses to Be Sold

WILKES-BARRE lP.-The city
advertised for sale the last four
horses belonging to the police de-
partment, explaining the stable will
be demolished Ito make additional
room for motor and equipment"
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Blood Quote
tFor District. Rentason and

AFOI 0l5tIlCJs fenEa806 ana
Mobile Units.)
District quota per
week = ---- $3.50 pints
Donations last week 2,752 pints
Donations Saturday 285 pints
Today's appoint
ments -------426 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center
in the Acacia Building, 81
Louisiana avenue NV, by CALI
ing District $500 between Q am.
and $50 pm. &
Thus far in this war, 1,04ls
men from the District area
have been reported killed,
Evening star., 1945-01-01
half hour after sunset.
pYeciDifAt tim

Record for Last q Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon todayO
Highest, 55, on January 1.
Lowest, 3S, on January i.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. %. on June 1S.
Lowest 10. on December %.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Rain, ending
this afternoon, followed by clearing
and much colder tonight and to-
morrow; high winds.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear at Harpers Ferry, Potomac
slightly muddy at Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED By United States Coat and
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Operated Girls School.
By the Associated Press.

Making her home in Albuquerque,
she operated the Sandra Girls Pre-
paratory School there from 1882 un-
til 1912, when the Government took
over the building for use as a mill
tary hospital. She then turned to
managing the family's zoo, ,000-acre
Trinchera Ranch, near Fort Gar
land, Colo, as an outlet for that
part of her boundless energy not
consumed In political affairs.
She was co-manager in 1910 with
Russell Sprague Of the Dewey pre-
convention campaign and supported
Wendell L. WILKES campaign when
Gov. Dewey failed to win the presi-
Dental nomination.
In her own unsuccessful CAM
paign for the Senate in 1928. Mrs.
Simms was charged with making
huge expenditures, and reported to
a Senate investigating committee
that she he'd spent more than $780,
900. She took her defeat gamely and
turned her attention to the Wash
ington debut that winter Of her
daughter, Katrina, then II.
A severe shock came to Mrs.
Simms in 1888 when her son, John
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-05

weeks during the summer at re-
serve camp.
At variance with these views was
the American Legion, which recon-
mended a program calling for one
year Of continuous service for all
men.
Both organizations testified Tues
day in favor of some form of post
war training at hearings before. the
house postwar military policy COM
mittec. The hearings on peacetime
conscription began yesterday and
are scheduled to last two weeks.
The legislative representatives of
the VFW and the Legion, Omar B.
Ketchum and John Taylor, pre-
sented the attitude of their groups.
Ketchum suggested that the COM
plants of critics might be answer
ed best by program patterned af-
ter those of the National Guard and
of the Naval and Marine reserves.
Under this proposal" Ketchum
said, compulsory military training
could be given in a boys own COM
munity, leaving him in his home. in
his job, with his family and with the
opportunity to continue his educa-
ton.
"The trainee would have only the
same obligation as the voluntary
member of the reserve-to partici-
pate in drills and training periods
set each week at the local armory
and to take two weeks of training
each summer at reserve camp"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-05
Unidentified Body
Of Man Found

Stripped of all wearing apparel,
the body of an unidentified man
was found on the desert quarter of
a mile from the railway station in
INLAND late Monday.
Deputy County Coroner Orval
Walker said the man had been dead
approximately month. A shirt and
pair of trousers we're found not
far from the body but they contain
ed nothing to assist in identifica-
ton, the officer said. No shoes or
sox were found.
The man is believed to have been
young Mexican approximately
five feet and four inches in height.
Officials Tuesday checked the miss
ing persons file at the county sher-
iff's office to ascertain If he could
be someone for whom search had
been instituted.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-05
Fire Bombs Set
Kobe AbIaze
(Continued from PAGE II

Il
we went through and started good
fires
Combs bombardier, 1t. William
K Wamsley, Middleton, Connecti-
cut, said the incendiaries ripped into
the built-up area from the water
front straight through the middle
of the city.
The raid was the 18th fire at
tack on Japan. In the last IA, the
21st bomber command announced,
nearly go square miles Of Industrial
japan have been destroyed.
The Superfortresses struck Kobe,
only 20 miles west of Osaka, from
medium altitude at TIA a. m. Tokyo
time Tuesday. A japanese COM
munique said the B-29s attacked in
waves of 10 to 80 for about an hour.
CLAIM 56 SHOT DOWN
Fifty-Six Superfortresses were
shot down and IA damaged, Tokyo
claimed.
The enemy communique acknowl-
edged that fires broke out in Kobe
and the adjacent city of Ashiya,
but said they were gradually being
extinguished by civilian squads.
The fire bombs were dropped in
five general areas, including the in
dustrial suburb of Mikage, site of
thousands of home factories and
machine shops.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-05

Valley Fighters
Freed From Nazi
Prisoner Camps

Good news for families of four
Serv1cemen arrived in Ell Centre in
the last "a hours.
Private First Class Tommy Slovak,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Slovak Of
El Centre will be home next month
after having been liberated from the
Germans by the Russians April %.
He was wounded in the right arm
but is able to write. He was cap
tured last December Is.
Lieutenant Milton Damron, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Damron, tele-
phoned his wife from New York
City early Tuesday. He will leave
for Camp Beale Wednesday and
then start for Ell Centre on a 60
day leave. He told his wife he was
shot in the face and that his plane
caught fire and burned him. On q
forced march across Germany one
of his feet froze and it still needs
attention.
Lieutenant Bill Davis also was lib
Grated from the Germans and on
the way home. Lieutenant Damron
saw and talked to Davis at LaHavre
just before starting for the United
States. Davis has been missing for
many months. Lieutenant Davis
grew up in El Centre.
Private Lopez Cruz c., son of
Mrs. Magdalena G. Lopez, has been
liberated from a prison camp in
Germany He had been a prisoner
since October 80, 1914. His last let
ter to his family was dated January
81, 1945. The government informed
his mother that he is to be sent
back to the United States soon.
Private John Ram of the El Cen
tro district is in Paris, recovering
from wounds suffered in action last
April 25. Since then he was held
by the Germans in prison camp in
CZechoSlovakia. An official govern
mental telegram of his release was
followed by letter from Private
Ram He is a brother of Frank Ram,
Seaman First Glass Henry Ram,
Harry Ram, Mrs. Felia Duran, and
Esther Ram, all of the El Centre
district.