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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Telephone Company
Studies New Demand
For 81 More Per Day

The Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co. today had under
consideration a second wage de-
mand--a request for a $2-a-day in
crease for members of the Wash
ington Telephone Traffic Union.
The union. which its president,
Mrs. Mary E. Cannon, said repre-
sented clerical, dining service and
restroom attendants as we'll as the
telephone operators, also Is asking
for an immediate return to the 40
hour week and a guaranteed min
imum hourly wage of IS cents. The
present contract expires March 81.
Still In negotiation Is a demand
for a $13 weekly increase for plant,
commercial and accounting en-
ployes, submitted by the District
Federation of Telephone Workers.
Both unions said, meanwhile, they
would honor picket lines which
might be established by Is 900 tele-
phone equipment workers employed
by the Western Electric Co. at
Kearny, N. j., who have threatened
to strike January 3. The New Jersey
workers said they would picket all
telephone operating companies US
ing Western Electric equipment.
Mrs. Cannon said her union ex-
pected a written reply today OF
tomorrow to its demand for the So
a-daV boost which would amount
to $40 week for all telephone com
pany workers covered by the union
The Federation of Telephone
Workers, it was reported, has just
rejected a compromise offer of in.
creases ranging from SO to IS. Tht
union said its s13 wage increase
demand includes Sc boost If
earnings dating back to August II
based on rise in the cost OF
living" and ST increase to offset
the loss in pay resulting from {
return to the 40-hour work week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
UNRRA Workers Injured
In Auto Crash in ItaIy

The Associated Press reported to-
day that Miss Genevieve GaboWer,
2111 Massachusetts, avenue NV,
an UNRRA welfare worker well
known in social work here, was
injured in an automobile accident
in Italy last night. Authorities at
the 34th General Hospital in Rome
said her condition was not serious.
Miss Gabower is on leave of alb
Sence from the Childrens Bureau
of the Labor Department and has
been with UNRRA in Italy since
last April. She formerly was chair
man of the Washington Chapter
of the National Association of So
cial Workers.
The social worker was in a jeep
with Mrs. Edward j. Murray of
Mullan, Idaho, wife of the man.
ager of the United Press bureau of
Rome, when they were struck by
an Army vehicle near Perguia, the
report said. Mrs. Murray suffered
a fractured jaw, a possible skull
fracture and head decorations. Her
condition was said to be critical.
She joined her husband in Italy
last month and was on her way to
Perugia to become regional director
for the UNRRA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Boy Facing Eye Operation
Has Blessing Of Pope
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec 2s.-Gianfranco
Gluliano Cabbia, 8-year -old blind
Italian boy who has been adopted
by the 18th Division, will have the
blessings and prayers of Pope Plus
XII when he undergoes an operation
at Johns Hopkins Hospital to re-
store his sight.
Pfc. Howard w. Gorgas. Mont
pelier, Ohio, who accompanied him
today by train to Baltimore, said
the boy, who lost his sight when he
was kicked by German horse, had
two audiences with the Pope last
year.
Each time" Pvt. Gorgas said
This holiness gave him a special
blessing"
Pvt. Gorgas and the boy are due
in Baltimore this afternoon. They
occupied railroad compartment
provided by an anonymous donor.
The soldier said Gianfranco hae
only $3.50 chance to regain hit
sight. The operation may have Il
be postponed until delicate tissue re-
tquired for it is available, he said.
If that is So" he said, Il will take
Gianfranco to my home, where hi
can stay with my mother and wife ;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Turks independence
Reoffirmed by Premier
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANKARA, Dec. 28.-Premier Sukru
Saracoglu told the National AS
sembly last night that Turkey would
pursue her policy of international
independence unswervingly.
His declaration followed by several
days the unofficial Russian proposal
that Turkey cede 1880 square miles
of Black Sea territory to the Rus
slams, and fell into a pattern OF
growing Turkish hostility toward
territorial demands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
English Girl Awaits
La Guordio's Doll,
Broken in Transit

ST. HELMS, England, Dec.
%. - Seven year. old Alison
Spratt, whose mother wrote to
Mayor La Guardia of New York
a letter telling how the child's
only doll was patched together
with adhesive tape, will have to
wait while longer before re-
ceiving a doll the Mayor sent
her for Christmas.
Mayor La Guardia's gift, re-
splendent in a yellow organdy
dress, arrived two days after
Christmas, but its head was
broken during the 3,000-mile
trip.
Rather than disappoint her
daughter, Mrs. Spratt sent the
doll to be repaired and told
Alison it had not yet arrived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Jops May Appeal
Moving Of Shipyords
By the Associated Press.

1s tAc fsSOSldteu FIeSS,
TOKYO, Dec. 2S.-As a result of
American Preparations Commissioner
Edwin Pauley's statement that 20
major shipyards are earmarked for
removal, the japanese government
has decided to appeal to Allied head
quarters, Kyodo news agency said
today.
The government, it is reported,
will ask retention of sufficient yards
to build at least 100000 tons of
shipping yearly.
The S. S. Seikan Maru ALI, the
first ship launched in Japan since
the end of the war, slid into the
water at Uruaga today with Amer
lean 9th Army officers attending
The 4,000-ton ferry was the first
replacement in the ruined Honshu-
Hokkaido coal train ferry system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
.0'Conor Names Board
On Pardons for Veterans
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. 28.-An
advisory board on veterans has been
named by Gov O'Conor to study the
war achievements of Marylanders
with criminal records with a view to
possible pardons.
The boards study will include
records of 273 men who left penal
institutions with the approval of the
special panel board for Baltimore
City, whose work has been discon-
tinued. the Governor said.
The special panel, appointed in
l943 by the late President Roosevelt
ON the Governors recommendation
considered 1,751 individual cases,
recommending 1853 for induction.
OF the number considered only
232 refused to volunteer, the Gov
ernor disclosed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Sherman Replaces lowers
AS Head Of 5th Fleet
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Vice Admiral Frederick G. Sher-
man, Coronado, Calf, yesterday was
ordered to command of the 5th Fleet
succeeding Admiral John H. Towers.
At the same time, Vice Admiral
Daniel E. Barley, Portland, Greg.
now commander of amphibious
forces of the 7th Fleet, was ordered
to duty as commander of amphibious
forces in the Atlantic.
Admiral Sherman has been COM
mander of the LIST Carrier Task
Force since July, 1945, when he sue
ceeded Vice Admiral Marc A.
Mitscher.
Admiral Towers is due to succeed
Admiral Raymond A. Spruance as
commander OF the Pacific Fleet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Streetcur Operator
Beaten by Passenger

Henry M. Williams, IS. Of 1888
Eighth street NE, streetcar OPP
orator, was admitted to Emergency
Hospital last night for treatment of
face decorations received, he said,
when tall colored man pulled him
Off his streetcar and beat him.
Mr.. williams said he was pulled
from the car at Eighth street and
Florida avenue NE. after he had
asked the man to step to the rear,
The assailant fed after hitting Mr..
Williams several times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
U. 5. Troops in Iran
To Go 10 Iraq Camp
BY the Associated Press.


TEHERAN, Dec. 28.-All Ameri-
can troops in Iran will be moved to
a camp at Basra, Iraq, to fulfill an
agreement with the Iranian gov
eminent for American forces to
quit the country by January l.
The last American troops left
Teheran two weeks ago.
Harold B. Minor, chief of the
American State Departments Near
East section, yesterday said he had
given up" after a Today wait for
Russian permission to visit Aver
baijan, where an autonomous gov
eminent recently was formed.
Mr.. Minor said, II hope my ex-
perience and the experience of
American newsmen in Teheran will
result in demands for a Soviet state
ment of policy on freedom of the
press and distribution of informa-
ton among friendly nations"
Mr.. Minor, former secretary of the
embassy here, said daily inquiries
at the Russian Embassy had met
with polite evasions and sorry,
we've had no answer from the mill
tary commander in Azerbaijan.
Please call tomorrow.
KAZVIN, Iran, Dec. 26 Delayed
P).-"Camp Stalingrad," northern
terminus of the American lease lend
lifeline to Russia in the bitter days
when the Germans were battering
at the Russian capital, was trans
ferred twice in half an hour today.
The Russians, who had occupied
it as their North Iranian headquar-
tiers, quietly turned the camp over
to an American military mission
headed by Col. John B. Stetson, jr
The Americans Immediately trans
ferred title and possession to the
Iranian national police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Stettinius Is Returning
To UNO Duties Abroad

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec, Backward
r. Stettinius, jr., American repre-
sentative to the United Nations
Organization, said yesterday he
would leave this week end for Eng
land aboard the Queen Elizabeth to
resume his duties with the interna-
tional organization.
Mr.. Stettinius arrived at La
Guardia Field by an ATC plane
from Washington. He had been re-
cuperating from an operation for
gallstones here October II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
USO in Silver Spring
will Hold Final Donce

The final dance of the Silver
Spring USO, which closes December
81, and the first dance of the newly
organized Junior Hostesses' Club of
that organization, will be held to-
morrow night in the social hall OF
the Woodside Methodist Church.
The hostesses have formed the
new unit to continue the same activ-
tiles sponsored by the USO. Plans
include dances, games and musical
programs which will be held in the
homes of the various club members
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Jack Gill, ITU Secretary,
Dies in Indianapolis
BY the Associated prcss.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 28.-Jack
Gill, SO, of Cleveland, secretary of
the International Typographical
Union, AFL, died here last night.
Mr.. Gill had been taken to st.
Vincent's Hospital after apparently
suffering heart attack while riding
in an automobile with friends.
He became secretary of the ITU,
which has headquarters here, on
July Is, 1914.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Voice Teacher Dies

NEW YORK, Dec. % (P).-Louis
Bachner, 60, voice teacher whose
pupils included many stars of the
Metropolitan Opera, died Wednes-
Gay. Born in New York, Mr.. Bach
ner spent most of his life abroad.
Among his students were Marjorie
Lawrence, Lily Djanel and Sigrid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Swiss Cheese Ingredients

Milk, rennet Ito make the milk
curdle) and controlled cultures
(Which make the holes are the in
gradients used to make Swiss cheese
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28

CARRIERS HAVE FUN-Here are Just few of
the 2450 Star carrier boys who attended a
Christmas party at Loew's Capitol Theater this
morning as guests Of the newspaper in appre-
citation of their services. It was the largest group
of Star carriers ever assembled at one time.
Star Staff Photo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
s. Women Seek to Adopt
Abandoned Baby Girl
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. %. A
premature baby girl-abandoned in
a hospital lobby one hour after
birth-had SO foster mothers to
choose from today.
Officials at Northern Liberties
Hospital, where the baby was found
in a cardboard box, said SO tele-
phone calls-from as far West as
Jackson, Mich, and as far south as
Kentucky-have come from per-
sons wishing to adopt the infant,
named Mary Christmas" by nurses
because she was born two days be-
fore Christmas.
Every So invested in Series "E"
Victory Bonds will get you 81 at
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-15
PAN AMERICAN MAKES
 ROUND TRIP, SEATTLE

Pan American Airways yesterday flew the following passengers to and from Seattle and Whitehorse.
 To Seattle-Donald Nelson, Mar jorie Holzheimer, Lyle Lufkin, Mary Calnan, Roy Moeller. Gordon John son, Lydia Sturm, Hilja Nieminen, and Ken Ferris.
 From Seattle Veronica Butler, Lawler Seeley, Michael Sherin, Viv- ian Sherin, Claude Denhof. Tosca Jones. Evan Jones, Naomi Krater, Vance Stewart. Charles Goldstein, Ellen Hogan, Michael Hogan. John Weise, William Bland, Elda Bland, William Bland. Marion Davis, Don- aid Mowat, Arthur Vienola, and Car olyn Vienola.
 From Whitehorse--Kim Clark
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-15
BODY IS FOUND

CHELSA, Mass, Dec. 15.-Discov- cry of the body of tiny Ronald Car Ian beneath a chest of drawers in the family home ended a l6-day hunt fer the supposedly kidnapped child and resulted today in the 23-year- old mother being held on a charge of suspicion of murder.
 The infant was found yesterday when a special officer, making what police described as a last search of d combination dining and bedroom detected a piece of blue cloth after he had opened wide the bottom drawer of a dresser The body was bundled in blue bunting suit.
 Police Chief Charles Finn quoted the mother, Mrs James J. Carlan wife of Navy machinist mate, as saying that the six months old baby reported missing Nov 28, actually died Nov. A while she was attend ing a party in her mother-in-law' s flat upstairs.
 The chief said that Mrs. Carlan maintained that she invented the kidnap story because she was afraid people would say I neglected the child
 The kidnap report and subsequent demands for ransom touched off a search that led from the tenement district of Chelsa to several Boston taverns and even to Springfield 90 miles away
 Carlan, 28, who returned from his station on the West Coast tc assist in the hunt for the child he had never seen, embraced his wife and told her he would stick by you" before he left police headquart- CTS in a state of collapse. He was placed in the care of a physician.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-15
WINTER SPREADS
 OVER WIDE AREA
(By The Associated Press)

old Man Winter, overly-active before his official cue a week hense returned to a wide section of the country today, chilled the populace and threatended to finger for few days longer.
 Clustering into the autumn scene the king of the clements dished out a hodge-podge of weather and most of it was bad.
 A blanket of snow covered the northern tier of states to an average depth of from to inches and the sub-zero blasts from Central Canada frightened their grip on the northern plains states.
 From Wyoming and Montana east ward to Illinois and Indiana, tenn peratures of below zero were report ed by federal forecasters in Chicago Custer, Mont, reported the nations low mark today. an icy 30 below, ane in Big Piney, Wyo., the reading was 20 below.
 Generally, below zero temperature were reported throughout Minnesota the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, mos of Wyoming, Colorado and Montana and in some cities in Illinois and In diana.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-15
Man Hunt for Ten Thousand
 On in London

LONDON. Dec. 15.-An army of military and civilion police early today concluded an unprecedented city-wide manhunt in an effort to apprehend 10000 American, British and Canadian army deserters and smash record crime wave.
 Striking suddenly at p. m, 2000 London Policemen aided by military police of three nations, estimated by one newspaper at about 6,000 seal ed metropolitan London in gigan- tic dragnet and combed the city with the precision of military in- vasion.
 The check continued until day break, when police stations were ianned with hundreds of persons unable to satisfy officials as to their identity. Newsmen checking the arrests, reported that from 500 to 800 persons had been brought in during the first five hours of the roundup.
 Seachers blocked principal ar tery streets and bridges, then swoop- ed down on Londons theatres, res taurants, bars, night clubs, hotels, railway stations and other night gathering spots.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-15
ALA5KA VETERAN E0RESEES BRIGHT
 HAYNES FUTURE

A A bright future for the town cf Flames was foreseen today by T. Sgt. Bob Wahl, custodian in charge of Chilkoot Barracks, when asked to comment on recent news from Dele gate Bartlett relative to the main- tenanca of the Haines Road.
 'Haines and the Chilkat Valley should experience very rapid de- velopment next summer" said Wahl. With dock repairs now in progress, the establishment of a U s. Customs Office strong probab- ility, and many veterans planning to settle there, the prosperity of the city seefns assured"
 Wahl was editor of the Sitka Sen- tinel in l940 and secretary of the Sitka Chamber of Commerce before induction into the army in october, l94l. He came to Juneau on Dec. 8 in connection with the disposal Of Chilkoot Barracks to surplus proper ty agencies of the Department of Interior. He expects to return to Haines via Skagway on the Princess Norah Sunday night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-15
SAYS UNCLE SAM
 WONT GET MUCH
 FROM JAP NATION

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15.-Mater- tally, Uncle Sam stands little chance of realizing much from it's war with Japan, thinks Edwin w. Pauley, just back from an aerial survey trip to the Orient.
 He says that against an estimated $1O0 ,0OO 100000 war cost, this coun- try will be lucky to get $l 000, 900, ,000 in Nipponese assets.
 The Chief of the United States re- paration mission to Japan held a press conference before leaving by air for Washington to report to President Truman.
 He believes the best guarantee that Japan never again starts a war of aggression would be early industrial development of other Far Eastern nations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-15
investigation
 0i Campbell
 Death Slowed
Field of Inquiry Reported Narrowed 10 Group
 of Likely Leads

Developments in the murder of Clarence Campbell were most con- spicious by their absence today. All local law authorities City Police, Marshals Office, FBI and Highway Patrol-are devoting almost their en- tire attention to solution of the ghastly crime that was revealed here last Monday, but all today admitted little recent progress.
 It was revealed that more than one likely suspect has been turned up-suspects who have been unable to explain circumstances tending t. connect them with the staying and whose stories have failed to hold water. Repeated questioning has, however, failed to bring grounds for arrest.
 Leads have been referred to FBI headquarters in Washington, D. C.. and to other cities for checking which has somewhat slowed the pace of the investigation here However, authorities were still confident that among their narrowing field of suspects { he knife welding murder CT of Campbell will be found.
 Authorities disclaim knowledge of a current rumor that a local clean- ing establishment has reported traces of bloodstalns in clothing left for cleaning -clothing that had been previously washed, apparently in an attempt to remove tell-tale signs. The marshal's office said the cnly report received there in that connection concerned bloodstained shirts reported by local laundry. Investigation, however, proved that the shirts had been left with the laundry some days previous to the murder date-thus eliminating their owner from any possible implica- ton in the crime.
 Investigation by city police of Thursday evenings S8 holdup has seemingly run into a dead-end At tempts to detect the robber from the meagre description given by the holdup victim, Frank Johnson, have proved futile Both Johnson and officers are on the lookout, however.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-15
SURPRISE

TOPEKA, Kas., Dec. Leaving the front door key fin the same old place" accounted for a surprise breakfast reunion yesterday morning at the Paul Edgar home.
 Returning home from the service, Thomas Richard Edgar didn't want to awaken his parents at a. m. and found the door key in it's old familiar place. He tiptoed through the house, went to bed and appeared at breakfast.
 He was most surprised of all when he found at the table his three brothers, also in the service, who had preceded him home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-15
TOKYO RAIDERS IN PEACE MEETING IN
 FLORIDA SETTING
DooIiitIe and Others Who Survived Great Feat
 Swap Stories

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Dec. Is - Fifty-four men who rocked the Japanese empire on April IS. l942 with the first bombs to explode on that aggressor nation assembled in peace today and swapped stories of glory and death
 Central figure at this first rem dezvous since the takeoff from "Shangri-LaA for Tokyo was It. Gen. James H. Doolittle He led them from the deck of the Carrier Hornet on that Hateful flight.
 We've been renewing old ac- quaintances, said Col Stanford Chester The bunch has a great deal to talk about There's time for fun later on"
 Gen. Jimmy" himself filled in the rest of the bunch on Capt George Barr, one of the raiders rescued from a Jap prison camp three months ago who was being flown here from the Shick Gen. eral Hospital, Clintop, Iowa, to join reunion festivities.
 Doolittle stopped in to see Barr Thursday and as Barr lay on his hospital bed, the general promoted him in rank Not only that, but Doolittle cited him for the Dis tinguished Service Cross, the pres entation to be made during form al dinner here tonight.
 A lot more talking and bit Of sightseeing and swimming were on the program Tonight there will be cocktails. the formal dinner, dig nitaries in attendance-and a mo- ment of silence
 Sunaay the bunch will go deer sea fishing, and then the party break up. But there will be a new feeling among them for together they will have paid homage to two Acomrades who died in crash land- ings in China immediately aftei the raid, three who were put tc death by the Japanese, and others who succumbed from treatment i'll enemy prison camps.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-15
KNIFE SLAYER IN TWO CASES BEING HUNTED

CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-For the sec ond time this week police searched for a knife slayer today after the finding last night of the stabbed and battered body of Lawrence A Lange, 36 year old secretary to a manufacturing executive.
 Capt Thomas Kelly said that he was considering the possibility of a connection between Lange's staying and the brutal stabbing-gun killing of Miss Frances Brown, 33-year-old stenosrapher and former WAVE. He explained, however, that no clues had been uncovered definitely tc link the two murders.
 The ''lipstick killer of Miss Brown attacked her in her hotel room or Monday morning, leaving after writing a message in lipstick that he would strike again.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-15
CHRISTMAS SEAL
 SALE PLAY 10 BE
 PRESERVED ON AIR

An interesting play, produced by the National Tuberculosis Associa- tion, will be given this evening over KINY, starting at 8:15 o'clock on the regular Community Center pro- gram. The play, starring Walter E. Housted, is in promotion of the an- nual Christmas seal sale
 Mrs. Bess Vim, secretary of the Alaska Association, reports that re- turns on the seal sale from all over the Territory are exceptionally fine this year. She states that unusual interest is being taken in the Ketch- ikan sale and that, even at this early date, the Juneau proceeds are far in excess of last years receipts. The local sale has been sponsored this season by the Beta Sigma Phi sorority.