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Evening star., 1945-09-20
John Vincent Named
State Departments S
Far East Affairs Chief

John Carter Vincent, veteran
career diplomat with long ex-|
perience in China, today was
named director Of the State De-
partment's ONCE of Far Eastern
Affairs.
He succeeds Joseph w. Ballantine,
a veteran specialist on Japanese
problems, who will remain in the
State Department until next JAM
uary as a special assistant to the
Secretary OF State.
Mr.. Vincent has been chief of the
Division of Chinese Affairs-one of
the divisions Of the Office of Far
Eastern Af1airs-since January Is.
1914.
The appointment of Mr. Vincent
signalized the emergence into a
dominant position in the direction
of Far Eastern affairs in the State
Department of the so-called China
crowd"
This is a natural development. it
was said, in line with the reorienta-
ton of American policy toward
China as the dominant power in the
Far East-a position long held by
Japan.
In announcing the shift, Acting
Secretary OF State Acheson said Mr..
Ballantine had rendered distin-
guished service" in the Far Eastern
Office. He was closely associated with
former Undersecretary of State Jo-
seph c. Grew and Eugene H. Doo-
man, formerly special assistant in
the ONCE OF Far Eastern Affairs and
counsellor of the American Embassy
during much of Mr.. Crews service
as Ambassador there before Pearl
Harbor in development of the jap
anese surrender and occupation
policy Both Mr.. Grew and Mr..
Dooman have retired recently.
Under Foreign Service regulations
of rotation of duties in Washington
and abroad, Mr.. Ballantine's period
of home service will expire next
January g.
"At Mr.. Ballantine's request" the
State Department announcement
said, consideration of his assign
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Tons Of Food Stored
Near BeIsen, Briton
Says at Kramer Trial
By the Associated Press.

LUENEBURG, Germany, Sept. 20.
A British officer testified today at
the murder trial of Joseph Kramer
and A SIS guards that he found
well-supplied German military food
store less than miles from the Bel
sen concentration camp.
Maj. Adolphus Leonard Berney,
who took charge of the administra-
ton of the horror camp after its
liberation April Is, was the witness.
He said the food store contained 100
tons of canned meat. 30 tons OF
sugar, more than 20 tons of pow
dered milk, wheat stocks and bread,
none of which was issued to the
camp.
Motion pictures showing condi-
tions of starvation at Belsen were
scheduled to be exhibited in the
courtroom
Since the trial of the "Belsen
gang" began Monday a screen has
been in place in the courtroom for
the exhibition. which will set a
precedent in British legal pro-
cedure.
The judges already have made
legal history by relaxing rules OF
evidence and admitting evidence
given by Brig. Gen. Hugh Llewellyn
Glyn Hughes under questioning by
Col. T. M. Backhouse, prosecutor.
The prosecution yesterday pre-
sented a general view of Belsen as
found by the first British officers to
enter the camp after its liberation.
Kramer and all but one of the
guards who served under him lost
their impassivity as the story went
into the record.
Only Irma Grese, 2l-year-old
blond who was Kramer's chief
woman guard, managed to maintain
defiant, contemptuous look.
The prosecution told of a water
supply system consisting of five con-
crete vats full of filth, on one of
which a corpse was found
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Eric Johnston Accept.
Will Hays Film Post
Fy the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-Eric A.
Johnston has been elected to sue
ceed Hill Hays as president OF the
Motion Picture Producers and Dis
tributors of America, Inc.
Mr.. Johnston, 48, president of the
United States Chamber OF Com
merce, took over his new post yes
terday as Mr.. Hays, IS, resigned
after "a years-during which time
he became known as the movie
czar." Mr.. Hayes will continue to
advise the organization.
It was reported that Mr.. Johns
tons hve-year contract called for an
annual salary of s150,000, and that
Mr.. Hayes would receive 100000
annually as consultant.
Mr., Johnston will remain as
Chamber of Commerce president.
He began his business career as a
door -to-ddbr vacuum cleaner sales
man in Spokane, Wash.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Delay in Draft Of Students
Nav Have Little Effect

District selective service officials
said today they expect "very few
youths to be affected by the order
postponing the induction OF stu
dents who entered high school be-
fore they were 13 until they have
been graduated or until they reach
the age of TO-
I'VE will lose some, but there are
not many left. in high school at the
age of 49," the spokesman said.
while the places of those whose
inductions are postponed by the
order will have to be filled by 9TH
ers, there will be no appreciable
pressure on the other groups from
which we can draw"
Because the order had just been
received. 1t was said to be impos-
sible to say just how many youths
would be affected by the postpone
nent
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Pensacola, Hit Six Times,
Lost II Men Off Two Jima

Ey the Associated '-ess.
The Pensacola. the Nays oldest
heavy cruiser, suffered II men killed
and 100 wounded in the battle for
Two Jima, the Navy reported yes
terday.
During the pre-invasion naval
bombardment Of the island, Japanese
shore batteries scored six hits on
the Pensacola and several near
misses.
The vessel made temporary repairs
and participated in the assault
against Okinawa before returning
to Mare Island, Calf, for permanent
repairs.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Compromise Tax Plan
Aims 10 Drop Levy
On Lowest Incomes
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A compromise tax-cutting
plan that would wipe out in
come levies for some 5000, 900
persons began to take form to-
day.
It also would scale down tax bills
for all individuals as well as corpora
tions.
This development came amid
mixed congressional reaction to
proposal by the Committee on POST
war Tax Policy for an ultimate slash
of more than so per cent in present
tax collections.
The Policy Committee, a private
study group, called for immediate
repeal Of the per cent normal"
tax on individual incomes and elm
ination of the wartime excess profits
tax on corporations.
Reported Compromise.
The compromise reported under
discussion within Congress own tax
staff would provide:
l. Retention of the normal" tax,
but with q 1916 exemption of $500
for the taxpayer and each person
dependent on him. The present
$500 fiat exemption gives the tax
payer no credit for dependents. The
new plan would apply the same ex-
emptions for the normal tax as is
now used for the surtax and would
relieve about 100000 low-income
families from further Federal In
come taxes. It would have no ef-
feet on single persons without de-
spendents, but for q married man
with two children who now pays
$45 on a net income Of $1,000, the
plan would reduce that bill to zero.
2. An across the board" reduce
ton in all individual taxes, probably
by 10 per cent. This would give
each person q nat cut-in addition
to the new system Of exemptions for
the normal tax. Congressional tax
experts estimated the change In
normal" exemptions would reduce
taxes by $500. 900 900 and that a 10
per cent across the board" slash
would cut the burdens by another
81 200, ,OO0, 900.
g. Reduction, If not repeal, of the
corporation excess profits taxes.
Magin Heads Policy Group.
The compromise would shoot be-
tween the Policy Committees tran
sition period" proposal and . plan
by Representative Knutson, Repub-
lican of Minnesota to reduce each
individuals taxes by 20 per cent.
Representative Robertson, Democrat,
OF Virginia already has proposed the
major points outlined by the Policy
Committee.
The Tax Policy Committee is
headed by Roswell Magill, former
Undersecretary of the Treasury. It
called its report "a tax program for
a solvent America"
After a transition period placed
from two to three years the COM
mittee proposed further relief to
bring tax yields down from an esti-
mated wartime peak of 81, 900, 900, =
900 to between SIS 600, 900 900 and
$22, 900 ,000, 900.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Thousands QUITTING
Work in Refineries
In Spreading Strikes
BY the Associated Press.

bS tllC hoooSioSCa tSSS.
Disputes along the Nations labor
front, which for more than week
have kept the strike idle around the
10000 mark, spread today, taking
new groups of workers away iron!
their jobs.
New work stoppages during the
last "a hours increased the army Of
idle to about 100000 and threats OF
additional strikes in the oil industry
indicated a new high for the sum-
mer would be on the national total
before the end of the week.
Oil workers, striking for a 80 per
cent wage increase, already have
quit their jobs in refineries and
plants in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio,
West Virginia and in Texas, where
the issue threatened to sweep over
the entire oil-rich Gulf coastal
region.
More than 10000 oil workers were
off their jobs in the Texas plants
while in the Chicago area four
plants, employing 5000, were closed.
Strike Votes Scheduled.
Other oil workers had Joined the
strike movement in plants in the
Detroit area, and in Ohio, Michi-
gan. and West Virginia. Strike
votes were scheduled in several
Texas plants as the idle in the
Port Arthur area jumped to more
than $4,000 as three reflneries, three
rubber plants and two affiliated in
dustries closed or were closing be-
cause of labor disputes.
With the Pure Oil Co.'S Nederland
plant near Port Arthur already
closed, the Texas Co. refinery, en-
ploying 5000, was shutting down
gradually, and the Gulf Oh Re-
finery, which employees an addi-
tional 5000, was stopping produc-
tion today
Other jefferson City plants which
J. D. Ford, president of the two
Port Arthur Oil Workers Interna-
tionaI Union locals (CIO) said
would close today included: The
Goodrich and Firestone synthetic
rubber plants, the Neches ,Butane
Products Co. and the Texas Co. as
phalt roofing refinery.
The closings would stop opera
tions in all ref1neries in the county
except at the Atlantic Oil Co.,
where a strike vote is scheduled
today, and at the Magnolia Pc
troleum Co., where a vote was to
be. held this week.
Walkouts Voted Overwhelmingly.
officials of Local 227 of the OWIU
at Houston said last night that
members of the local, representing
employees of seven Houston oil plants,
voted Overwhelmingly to strike.
Plants involved included the SIN
clair Refining Co., Sinclair Rubber,
Inc; Sinclair bulk plant, Sinclair
Pope Line Co., Crown Central Pc
troleum Corp. and General Ameri-
can Terminal.
New work stoppages during the
last "a hours made $500 idle at the
Nash-Kelvinator plant in Kenosha,
Wis. in strike the company termed
wildcat" while $500 shipbuilding-
ers in the New York metropolitan
area struck over what CIO Marine
and Shipbuilding Workers spokes-
men said was a dispute over holiday
pay and seniority. =
Elsewhere across the Nations
troubled labor front, continuing
strikes and walkouts kept thousands
away from their jobs.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Ry the Associated Press.


RHINEBECK, N. Y, Sept. 90
William B. Seabrook, 50, American
author and explorer, was found dead
in bed today from what DR.. Samuel
e. Appel, Dutchess County medical
examiner, said was an overdose OF
sleeping pills.
He listed the death as q suicide.
His wife, the former Constance
Kuhr, said an autopsy would be per.
formed to determine the cause of
death. She said the author appar-
emily was In good health" when he
retired last night.
Mr.. Seabrook, who often mixed
Investigations of the supernatural
with his tales Of adventure in
strange lands, was born in West-
minister, Md, the son Of 4 Lutheran
minister.
He began his writing career as
q reporter on the Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle and later worked for the
Atlanta Constitution and the New
York Times.
Gathering material for books ana
magazine articles took him to some
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Hungary Reported
Planning Election
- the Associated Press.

By the ASSoclatec Press.
MOSCOW, Sept. 20.-A Tass dis
patch from Budapest yesterday said
Hungary planned to hold general
elections on . date to be announced
by the minister Of internal affairs.
All Hungarians within the coun-
try's borders except group includ-
ing war and political criminals, will
be eligible to vote, 1t added, and al
non-Fascist parties may partici-
pate.
The voting age was reduced to
Is for persons who fought the Ger
mans, the dispatch continued, and
the new election law will have no
property, educational or residential
restrictions.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Airline Judges Divorce
Proceedings Continued
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Sept. 20.-State pro-
ceedings seeking to vacate a divorce
granted to Airline Judge, former film
s.ar, who subsequently married her
fourth husband, were continued yes
terday until November by Superior
Judge John P. McGoorty.
The States petition alleged Miss
Judge was not a legal resident OF
Illinois on May II when she was
granted a divorce from Capt. James
r. Addams, Raj flyer, who was her
third husband.
The actress married Vincent Nor
gan Ryan, Chicago advertising ex-
ecutive in Las Vegas, New, August 3
Evening star., 1945-09-20
RosenbIoom Divorce Asked

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 R.-
"Slapsie Make" Rosenbloom, screen
actor, night club owner and prize
fighter, was sued for divorce yester-
day. Mrs. Muriel Faeder Rosenbloom,
child psychologist, charged cruelty.
They married in 1899 in Las Vegas,
New.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Senate Due to Confirm
Court Nominees Todoy

The Senate today is expected to
confirm President Truman's nomi-
nations to fill vacancies on the Fed
eral bench here.
Reported favorably by Chairman
McCarran for the Senate judiciary
Committee, the nominations are E
Barrett Prettyman, former Senator
Bennett Champ Clark and Wilbur
K. Miller to be associate justices OF
the United States Court Of Appeals
and Alexander Holtzon to be ar
associate Justice Of District Court.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
A Major AirIines Buy
sc Consultations, Plan
|30O-M.P.H. Service

Orders placed by four airlines for
SO Lockheed Constellations-four-
engined, high-altitude aircraft with
a cruising speed of 300 miles per
hour-are expected to bring every
airport in the world within 40 hours
of the East and West coasts.
Pan-American World Always to-
day revealed an order for fleet Of
% CONSULTATIONS. the largest and
fastest land-plane transports now
available. Contracts have BEEN
signed for early delivery Of 20 addi-
tional Consultations to Eastern Air
Lines. American Export Airlines
has ordered 7, while Transcontinen-
tai g. Western Air yesterday said it
had ordered SO.
The Consultations will maintain
such schedules as New York to Bos-
ton, As minutes; New York to WASH
ington, less than an hour; New
York to Havana, 6 hours; Chicago
to Miami less than hours. Europe
will be II to IA hours away and new
schedules will introduce 10-hour
coast-to- coast service.
Uses B-29 Type Engines.
The planes will be powered with
improved 2,500-horsepower Wright
Cyclone engines, later version of
the engines powering the three
B-29s which completed the Hok-
kaido- to- Washington fight yeSter-
day.
The Pan American and Eastern
orders represent approximately $685.
400 900 worth of aircraft, each Con-
stellation costing an average of
$500 ,000 Each plane has a gross
take-of weight of 86,250 tons. Each
plane will carry 48 passengers with
provision for % sleeping berths at
night.
TWA, which pioneered the de-
velopment of the Constellation, said
yesterday it would receive the first
II planes ordered before the other
lines put in bids Their first 300
mile routes will be inaugu-
rated in the next few weeks in the
form of 14-hour New York-to-E
rope service.
According to the TWA announce
ment. Howard Hughes and Jack
Frye, the TWA president, developed
plans and specifications for the
Constellation in 1889. Lockheed was
given the contract that summer but
the war delayed construction.
To Cut Taxes.
Mr.. Frye said the line would use
the superplane to lower trans
Atlantic fares from the present II
cents a mile, q rate which is four
times the rates within the United
States.
Details on schedules and fares will
be announced later, 1t was said.
Twenty-one of Pan Americans
liners are earmarked for trans-At-
lantic service, the Pacific, to Alaska
and on trunk routes to the West In
dies and South America. Pan Amer
ican will receive the first Of the
Consultations in November and the
entire feet by the first of next year.
| Pan American also has an order
with Lockheed for a feet OF multi
engined land transports. designed to
step up international transport
speeds to 400 miles per hour and re-
duce fares to cents a mile for over
ocean travel Commercial manufac-
ture has been going on at Burbank,
Calf. since August.
American Export already has an
/ nounced Inauguration Of landplane
service to Europe on or before Octo-
Der Is. Survey flights to England
are planned for this week.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Gen. Geiqer on Way Here

OAKLAND, Calf, Sept. 20 (P.-
1t. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, commander
of Pacific Fleet Marines who direct
ed the final phases Of the battle
for Okinawa. arrived here yesterday
by naval air transport en- route to
Washington.
Evening star., 1945-09-20

vakia, his wife,
Mrs. Helen r.
Payne of Upper
Marlboro, Nd,
has been in
formed. Sergt.
Payne, while fir
ing at attacking
enemy planes,
W as ia tally
struck by the
enemy's fire,
Mrs. Payne was
told by the pilot
Of her husbands
ship.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Soono Leoves for Eoypt

PARIS, Sept. 20 R.-China' S
Premier T. v. Soong left Paris to-
day by plane for Egypt on the way
back to Chungking after discussions
last night with Gen. de Gaulle on
Indo-China and other problems.
Evening star., 1945-09-20

Sergt. Payne serst. layne.
completed 20 missions over enemy
territory and had been awarded the
Air Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster
He attended Suitland Elementary
and Marlboro Elementary and High
Schools. Besides his widow, he is
survived by q 15-month-old daugh-
ter, Shirley Marie; his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Lloyd Payne, Of Upper
Marlboro; q sister and four brothers,
three of whom are in the armed
forces.
Liberated
1t. Comdr. Samuel Arthur New
man, previously reported a prisoner
of the Japanese, has been liberated,
according to a Navy Department
release today. Stories appeared in
The Star last week about his release
and return home. His wife resides
at 2440 Sixteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Antique Sells for S22,800

A silver-gilt salt shaker made in
the reign of Edward VI was sold for
$50 300 at a recent sale in London.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
On the Roll of Honor

killed in action on August 10, 1914
while flying on 4 combat mission
over CZechoslo.
Evening star., 1945-09-20
Circulation, August. 1945

The Evening Star -208, ,873
The Sunday Star ar---------2l7,217
(e6% In City q. d Trading zons)
Evening star., 1945-11-19
Herbert 5. Hopkins Dies;
es-HeraId News Editor

Herbert S. Hopkins, 50, night news
editor of the Times Herald, died yes
terday after a heart attack at his
home. 2525 Ontario road NV. He
had been on sick leave since last
July. 80
Mr.. Hopkins had been with the
Times-Herald for 10 years. having
come to Washington from Milwau-
kee, where he was managing editor
OF the Wisconsin News. Previously
he had been with the Chicago Amer
lean for many years, He went to
the Chicago paper as night manag-
ing editor when he was only Is, after
five years on papers in New York
and New Jersey
A native of Randallville, N. Y. he
was a graduate of Colgate Univer-
sity.
He was member OF the White
House Correspondents Association
and past master of Theodore Roose-
welt Masonic Lodge of Chicago.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Florence Niver Hopkins.
Funeral services will be held at 3
pm. tomorrow at the S. H. Hines
funeral home, 290l Fourteenth
street NV. The Rev. James H.
Miers of the Fourth Presbyterian
Church will off1ciate. Burial will be
In Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-11-19
One Roosevelt c cabinet Member
Tried to Avert Wa, Kurusu Says

Japan on November 26, had been an
offer to withdraw Japanese troops
from Southern Manchuria. It was
submitted merely to keep the door
open for future negotiations.
Kurusu said he was convinced
that both President Roosevelt and
Mr.. Hull sincerely attempted to
prevent. or at least postpone, war
with Japan, knowing that the
United States was militarily unpre-
pared.
Defends Hull.
" am sorry to read reports that
Hull is being criticized as negligent"
Kurusu said. He certainly wasn't. p"
When asked his opinion OF the
reason the Americans presented the
November 26 memorandum-which
Tokyo officials called an ultimatum
-Kurusu replied:
We'll, perhaps you had to satisfy
public opinion in your own country,
too. I gathered the impression that
Hull didn't like it very much"
Kurusu said the japanese Foreign
Office appointed him special en-
voy to Washington and he met Pre-
mier TOTO only briefly before leav-
ing Japan, where "a great tidal wave
of war sentiment was growing"
He said his major gamble was
that the mission would attempt to
find some formula whereby Japanese
troops could be withdrawn from
China with "the militarists saving
face"
His second game, he said, was
that the resurgent strength of the
Russians might "be deterrent tc
hot-headed Tokyo younger officers
if the Pacific war could be post.
poned"
Kurusu resides in a summer cot
tage in this resort town 80 miles
northwest of Tokyo, with his Amer.
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