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Evening star., 1945-05-22

American writers that he was
Nazi "stooge." The charge had been
made in a pamphlet printed and
circulated by the group. AS late as
1912, however, he was reported in
press dispatches to be acting on Of
fetal errands for his father in law
chief collaborationist in the Vichy
regime.
Early in the war he served as
liaison officer between the French
Army and the British Expeditionary
Force in Flanders. After Dunkerque
he flew to Washington and saw
President Roosevelt, repeatedly to
inform the President on French
military operations.
Spent Honeymoon in U. S.
Count de Chambrun and Marie
Laval were married in 1885 and
spent their wedding trip in this
country. Known as bearer of
goodwill to the United States during
the 1930s, the countess had accom-
panied her father when he came to
see President Hoover in 1881.
The counts father, Gen. Count
Adelbert de Chambrun, great-great-
grandson of Lafayette, had a dis
tinguished military career and once
was French military attache here.
He represented French war veterans
at national American Legion con-
ventions in 1888 and 1899 and also
attended the yorktown Sesquicen-
tennial in 1884 as aide to Marshal
Petain. An uncle, Count Charles de
Chambrun, noted diplomat, was
born at the French Legation here.
The count in 1910 published
book. IT Saw France Fall" His
mother was the author of biog-
raphy of the late Speaker Long
worth.
Suggestion that his MARYLAND
citizenship be revoked was made at
the last meeting of the Prince
Georges Federation by Luis Grana-
dos, delegate, Mr.. Greene said.
Mr.. Greene read the text Of the
statute passed by the Maryland
General Assembly January %, 1785,
under which Gen. Lafayette "and
his male heirs forever" were
granted citizenship without neces-
sity for formal naturalization.
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GudtemaIa-EI Salvador
Federation Plan Reported
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22.-The
CHI onicle today said the new revolu-
tionary governments of Guatemala
and Ell Salvador are ready to an
nounce plans for federation of the
two Central American republics al
most Immediately.
The article said the Presidents of
Guatemala and FL Salvador, Juan
Jose Arvalo and Castenada Castro,
have been meeting In their countries
while the United Nations Confer
ence was in progress.
If the report is confirmed, it will
be the first concrete step in more
than q century Of efforts on the part
Of Central American liberal poll
ticians to achieve q federated state
Of Central America.
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Sugar Supply
Million Tons
Below 1914
/ House Unit Urges
/ Coordination to
! Save Reserves
By the Associated Press.

gSy the Associated Press.
Civilians - manufacturers ant
householders alike-will have {
million tons less sugar this veal
than last.
Reporting this today, the Hous,
rood Investigating Committee
urgently recommended appointment
OF single administrator to CO.
ordinate sugar controls now spreae
through a score of Government
agencies.
otherwise, 1t asserted, reserve
stockpiles which now are vanishing
VIII be gone entirely in 1916.
There were reports, meanwhile
that two men are under consider
alton as possible sugar co-ordina.
tors: Earl Wilson, sugar branch di.
rector of the Commodity Credit
Corp, and Joshua Bernhart, head
OF the War Food Administra tons
Sugar Division.
Truman Talks With Wilson.
Mr.. Wilson. formerly a vice pres
fdent OF the National Sugar Refin-
Ing Co., conferred with President
Truman last week.
Only when the housewife finds
now little sugar is going to be avail
able under the contemplated pro-
gram which provides S pounds per
person for four month period, will
the full impact (of the shortage) be
realized" the House committee said
IN a unanimous report.
we feel that all of the allocations
to liberated countries or neutrals
should be re-examined in the light
OF existing supply and current pro-
duction figures"
Figures given the committee, 1t
said, indicate very substantial re-
duction from the estimates at the
time allocations were made tenta-
lively"
Britain Has More. u. s. Less.
Although the group did not print
figures on the quota ALLEGATIONS
they've been marked confidential by
the Governmental put in its report
general statistics showing that Brit
aims sugar stockpile at the start of
this year was higher than it's pre-
war level, while the United States
reserve is now lower than normal.
Certainly, an official statement
would help to clarity this point" the
report said.
The committee criticized OPA for
rationing nearly 100000 tons of sugar
more than VIA said it should have
last year. 1t said the same over
drawing on sugar stocks is possible
again and declared:
The situation is not yet under
control"
To Coordinate the entire sugar
program-foreign, military and ci-
v1lian-the committee suggested the
designation "of a single person who
might lay down policies on sugar
matters and who might have been
a deputy to the war food admins
traitor in charge of procurement,
transportation and distribution of
sugar with supervision over ration
ing"
Other recommenda ations:
Establishment of a minimum be-
low which civilian sugar should not
go and a tighter rationing program
to control its distribution, review of
all foreign commitments and "ad-
just to safeguard minimum allot-
ments for United States civilian
use," and provide manpower and
machinery to increase sugar pro-
duction here and abroad.
Evening star., 1945-05-22
Treatment Of Dogs
Denounced in Debate
On Rabies Control

Dog owners and students of the
rabies problem engaged in an hours
heated debate before the Health
Subcommittee of the House District
Committee today on the issue of
whether the Commissioners should
be empowered to compel incubation
of dogs against the disease in times
of epidemic.
Most of the witnesses denounced
compulsory inoculation and some
went so far as to declare case his
tories show rabies has been caused
by injecting the anti-rabies serum
in dogs, and that human beings have
been known to die of the Pasteur
treatment.
Some attacked the proposal as a
profit scheme promoted by "quacks'
and stockholders in serum concerns
Representative Mcmillan, Demo-
crat, of South Carolina, who heads
the Health Subcommittee announc-
ed another hearing would be held
at 10 am. Friday, to hear defense
of the rabies control bill by Com
missioner Guy Mason and Health
Officer George C. Rutland and other
municipal officials. The Friday ses-
sion will conclude the hearings, he
said.
Witnesses Differ Widely.
DR.. William P. Claudy, who spoke
for three of the kennel and dog clubs
of Washington and was a member
of committee which investigated
use of the anti-rabies serum, said
that while incubation was not a
100 per cent answer to rabies control
it had proved to be a necessary an6
helpful method of controlling
spread of the disease.
Widely divergent views were voicec
by other witnesses.
Harry B. Bradford of Bethesda
Md, said the answer was in proper
feeding of dogs and a two-week
quarantine when a dog seems i'll
He quoted former Senator j. H. Gal
linger, VINO practiced medicine ir
New Hampshire for 80 years, as hav-
ing declared he had never seen a
case of rabies.
Many veterinarians and health Of
ficials believe the increase in rabies
can be attributed directly to dis.
tribution of rabies vaccines, he said
He reported also that Paul NUM-
who played the role of Louis Pasteul
in the movies, had refused to take
the Pasteur treatment after he hac
been bitten by a dog.
Compulsory vaccination is as bae
as compulsory religion" Mr.. Brad.
ford said.
Denounced as Skin Game.
DR.. Millicent Morden of Brooklyn
put the rabies vaccination business
down as a "medico-poitical Skin
game fostered by mercenaries.
Rabies can be induced in dogs, sh,
said, by merely withholding vitamil
B from the diet.
Mrs. Mason Gray, 2os Varnun
street, said rabies vaccination il
Montgomery County had defeated
its own purpose" because dogs wer,
allowed to run wild. She urgec
strict quarantine when necessary.
w. H. Lowder, of 1888 Rosedal,
street NE. who said he spoke fol
"the laboring man." declared ther,
was no rabies epidemic here nov
and denounced District health off.
cials for not providing enough
wagons for the poundmaster. Dog.
froth at the mouth, he declared, be.
cause they are permitted to eat
filth found in allevs.
Evening star., 1945-05-22
Britons Face Reduction
In Bacon and Fat Rutions
ax the Associated Pres.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 22.-Minister of
Food ]. j. Llewellin said today that
Britons must accept some cuts in
bacon and fat rations. but an
nounced that sugar and cheese ra-
tions would be maintained on ap-
proximately the same level <or the
remainder of the year.
The liberation of Europe, he de-
clared, created demand for food
greater than was anticipated and
the Germans greatly Increased the
difficulties by their insane determ-
ination" to continue the struggle
long after defeat was apparent.
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CongressUrged
To Build Up lis
Own Authority
HoIcombe Sees Need
To Balance Power
With Executive Units

The executive branch of the Gov
ernment, welding increasing au-
thority, is over-balancing the power
OF Congress, the Joint Committee
to Improve Congressional Procedure
was warned today by DR.. Arthur
N. Holcombe. chairman of the Ap-
peals Board of the War Production
Board.
DR.. Holcombe, on leave from the
Harvard faculty and a past presi-
dent of the American Political
Science Association, did not think
the executive department would
give up much of their present au-
thority, even with postwar cutbacks
in the number and size of Federal
agencies. Nor did he feel that it
was altogether feasible or even de-
sirable to cut into this power too
much.
The remedy he suggested to throw
the legislative and executive branch
es back into the balance planned
by the founders of this Government
was for Congress to take more au-
thority.
Constitution Change Unneeded.
THE practical influence of Con-
gress in the conduct of public af-
fairs" said DR.. Holcombe, can be
greatly increased without any con-
stitutional changes"
Much of the increased executive
power he saw as inevitable, owing
to the growth of departments and
special agencies and their increased
responsibilities.
They have more money to spend
and give greater employment than
the legislative branch" he pointed
out. And he referred to the quasi
legislative functions of agencies like
the Federal Communications Com
mission and the Federal Power
Commission.
Members of Congress, DR.. Hol-
combe said, are too busy to exercise
fully the functions for which their
office was created. He added that
he had little sympathy for the
charge in some quarters that the
country's legislators were not equal
to their tasks.
Could Delegate Much Work.
They are, he contended, too much
occupied with business other than
legislative, such as handling matters
before executive departments for
their constituents. They could dele
gate much of this work to others, he
suggested.
Another obstacle which he saw in
the way of full congressional au-
thorlty was the "pernicious effect"
of rivalry between the two Houses
and duplication of their work. This,
he said, prevented Congress from
presenting a united front in dealing
with executive departments. He ad-
vocated wider use of joint congress
sional committees, such as the one
he was addressing.
DR.. Holcombe also attacked the
seniority system of Congress as a
plan which prevented the younger
and often more capable members
from taking the positions of leader
ship to which their ability entitled
them.
DR.. Dewey Anderson. executive
secretary of the Senate Small Busi-
ness Committee, urged wider use of
mixed investigating commissions
such as the Temporary National
Economic Committee. which con-
sisted of representatives from Con-
gress and from executive depart
ments. He credited that committee
with exposing monopolies. some of
which have been ended by the
Supreme Court, and with crystaliz-
ing opinion against trusts and
cartels and with recommending
major proposals in support of free
enterprise.
Evening star., 1945-05-22
Priest to Tell of jap
Rule on Mindunoo

The Rev. j. Edward Haggerty. S. j.,
who spent three years on the island
of Mindanao during the guerrilla
warfare against the japanese, will
speak at pm. tomorrow. The lee
ture Is free and the public is invited.
Father Haggerty was principal of
the high school at Cagayan for some
time,
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To ToIk on Electric Shock

William B. Kouwenhayen of Johns
Hopkins University will address the
Philosophical Society Of Washing
ton at 8:15 pm. Saturday at the
Cosmos Club, Madison place and
H street NV, it was announced to-
day. Mr.. Koukenhaven will talk on
Electric Shock Physiological Man
ifestations and Treatment"
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Veterans Groups to Plan
Memorial Duy Events

A meeting of all veterans organi-
cations and auxiliaries to complete
arrangements for Memorial Day has
been called for pm. tomorrow in
.pe Central High School auditorium
by James G. Yaden, president of
the GAR Memorial Day Corp.
The discussion will include plans
for memorial exercises May 30 in
the amphitheater in Arlington
Cemetery, the placing of wreaths on
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
and decoration OF veterans graves
IN all District cemeteries.
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Boek From the Wars
ID. c. Lieutenant Escapes Nozis
With Aid of 3 German Families

heard there would be an SS search
We moved on that night.
"At the next town we almost ran
into trouble at a farmhouse. There
were lots of kids all around-the
boys were in uniform. 1t seemed it
was a refugee camp for Nuremberg
evacuees. They we're all not Nazis.
The kids called a man who talked
funny. We just turned and walked
off.
I'VE walked on to the next town
Pruppech. A farmer and his daugh-
ter were working in the field and we
walked up to them and told our
Evening star., 1945-05-22
World Income FIGURES

Eighty-one per cent of the earth's
inhabitants have a real income per
breadwinner of less than $40 per
week, and So per cent have an in
come equivalent to less than "a per
OsAlE
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lcfOAC 1 tIlC Cltl
zenship of Count
r e ne Adelbert
de Chambrun,
son = in = law of
Pierre Laval, the
I n t erfederation
Conference W a S
told last night.
D an el M /.
Greene, chair
m an of tn e
Prince Georges
Legislation Com
mittee, said he
would call for
r e pc a. of the
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Move to Revoke De Chumbrun' S
MARYLAND Citizenship Pressed

Prince Georges County Federation
OF Citizens Associations will be
asked at its next meeting to call on
the Maryland General Assembly to
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Miss Leila Peachey Rites
Will Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for Miss Leila
Peachy, 68, retired Treasury De-
partment employe and resident OF
Washington for many years. who
died suddenly Friday at her home
1889 Nineteenth street NV, will be
held at IL am. tomorrow at ST
Johns Episcopal Church. Sixteenth
and H streets NV. Burial will be
in Rock Greek Cemetery.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs
William Daingerfield Peachy. she
was born in the family home, Mount
Airy, at Mount Jackson. Va. and
had lived in Washington since
childhood. A member of ST. Johns
parish for more than so years. Miss
Peachv was treasurer of the Wom-
ans Auxiliary of St. Johns Church
She also was treasurer of the Dunn
barton House Committee of the
National Society of Colonial Danes
of America and was a member of
the Executive Board of the Dupont
Circle Citizens Association.
Since her retirement from the
Treasury Department, Miss Peachy
had lived in Washington during the
winters and had spent her summers
at Mount Airy.
She is survived by her sister
Mrs. H. P. Denton. Miami Fla
her brother, Henry Kyd Douglas
Peachy. Los Angeles; niece. Mrs
S. c.; nephew, Rear Admiral
Frank E. Beatty, U. S. N; great
niece. four great-nephews, a great
great-nepheW and great-great-
great niece
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Col. Henry Leonard,
Noted Attorney and
Horseman, Dies

1t. Col. Henry Leonard, SO, of 3O38
N street NV. Washington lawyer,
Republican national committeeman
from Colorado and widely known
horseman, died of a heart attack
last night at his ranch in FL Paso
County. Colo.
Col. Leonard, a native of WASH
ington, had been a director of the
National Metropolitan Bank of
Washington since 1921 and was a
member Of the trust department S
Investment Committee.
For many years he had spent the
greater part of his time at Elkhorn
Ranch. He maintained a law Office
in the Investment Building and in
former years represented servicemen
and the Government in courts of
inquiry and court-martial proceed
ings. In 1881 he was one of the
attorneys named to defend Maj,
Gen. Smedley D. Butler in court
martial proceedings ordered after
the latter had referred to Premier
Mussolini as a "hit-and-run driver.
The proceedings later were aban-
doned.
Shortly after graduation from the
Columbian University Law School in
1898, Col Leonard entered the Ma
rine Corps and served in the Span
h-American War, Boxer Rebellion
and the World War He lost an arm
in the Boxer Rebellion in China and
held the Order of the Dragon, con-
ferred by the Chinese government.
He was twice promoted for con-
spicuous conduct in battle. Retired
from the corps in 1911. he was re-
called to duty in the Judge Advocate
Generals Office in the World War.
Col. Leonard was member of
the Georgetown Citizens Associa-
ton, the Metropolitan Club and ST.
Johns Episcopal Church. He had
served as chairman of the Executive
Committees OF Washington Horse
Show, Inc, and the American Re-
mount Association.
| Survivors include his widow, the
former Ellen Warder, who is en-
route to Colorado Springs; two step
daughters, Mrs. Even MacVeagh
New York, and Mrs Francis Mac
Veagh, Cambridge, Mass; step
son. Benjamin Thoron, Washington
and one sister. Mrs. Joseph P. B.
Barber. Chevy Chase. Md
| Funeral services will be held here
later. Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery.
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Princess Bibesco, 48, Dies;
Asquith's S Daughter

Fy the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, April 9--Princess
Elizabeth Bibesco, British author
and daughter of England's first Earl
of oxford and Asquith, died while
listening to a war news broadcast
| from London Saturday.
The 48-year-old writer, aunt of
England's present Lord Asquith
married Prince Antoine Bibesco
himself an author, in 1919 and lived
in Washington from 1920 to 1926
when the prince served as Ro-
manian Minister to the United
States.
Among the books written by Prin-
cess Bibesco are II Have Only My
self to Blame Balloons" The Fir
and the Palm" The Painted
Swan" The Whole Story and
There Is No Return"
| Prominent in Washington diplo-
matte and social circles, she for
merly lived at 4445 Massachusetts,
avenue NV.
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Henry Mack Dies at 1903;
CoIored Civil War Veteran
Py the Associated Press

Py the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 9.-Henry
Mack. believed to be the Oldest
Civil War veteran in the United
States. died at the Veterans Hos
pital here yesterday. He would have
been 100 years old July A.
The former slave was vice COM
mander of the Minnesota Depart
ment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. Living at the home of
stepson here, Mr.. Mack was admit
ted to the hospital last December l9
when he suffered a fractured leg. He
had attended eight national GAR
encampments.
Born in Fayette City, Ala, he fed
with his mother to Little Rock. Ark.
at the outbreak of the War Between
the States and served with Company
H, 57th Infantry colored volunteers
from Arkansas He will be buried in
the Fort Smelling National Gene
tpry
Evening star., 1945-04-09
Funeral Services Held
For William H. Harvey

Funeral services for william H
Harvey, 68, who died Saturday al
his home, 213 Webster street NV.
after a long illness. were held at
10 m. today at the Hines funeral
nome. Burial was in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Mr.. Harvey was rate clerk ir
the General Accounting Office fol
the last eight years. Formerly he
held the same position with the
Cotton Belt Railroad at Shreveport
La. He was born near Shreveport
and was Mason.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Sadie G
Harvey, he is survived by two sons
Machinist's Mate (Third Glass
William K. Harvey, on sea duty with
the Navy, and Corpl. Robert H
Harvey, stationed in India; 6
daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Oliphant
Washington; brother, 1t. Col
Quentin c. Harvey, and four sisters
Mrs. James Tarpley, Mrs. F. D
Bridgeman and Mrs. Mary E. Camp
all of Homer, La, and Mrs. Amanda
Perritt, Arcadia, La.
Evening star., 1945-04-09

Executive Com Mrs. Piummer.
mittee of the General Conference
She had Travelled widely in Europe
and North America.
The widow of Frank E. Plummer
Washington broker, who died ir
1918, Mrs. Plummer lived at 12e
Willow avenue, Takoma Park, Md
She was born in Jay County. Ind
and taught high school in Nevada
and Iowa before going into church
work
She is survived by a daughter
Mrs. Dorothy Boggs, Fletcher, N c..
and son, Dom L. Plummer, Ta-
koma Park.
Funeral services will be held al
2:30 pm. tomorrow at the Takoma
Park Seventh day Adventist Church
Burial will be in Rock Creek Gene
terry.
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ciate. Burial will be in North Gran
vile Cemetery.
Opposed Breton PROPOSAL.

Opposed Breton Proposal.
Only two weeks ago Mr.. Fraser
testified before the House Banking
Committee as an expert on world
finance. He described the Breton
Woods monetary proposal as "a
grant in aid to Great Britain"
Recently Mr.. Fraser described
himself as almost professional
internationalist." He had been men,
toned often as one of those likely
to have an important role in solv-
ing the worlds postwar financial
problems
AS president of the First National
Bank of New York, he headed one
of Americas few billion-dollar
banks.
Mr. Fraser started out with
neither wealth nor family influence
His mother, Of French canadian ex-
traction, died at his birth. His
father, who emigrated from Scot
LAM and was travelling shoe sales
man, placed the child in the care OF
friends. The father never was heard
of again.
His foster parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Ronald E. Bonar, lived on farm at
North Granville. 1t was poor
farming family into which he was
adopted. He used to get up at dawn
to do the chores before going to the
country Schoolhouse.
BY hard work. he got to Columbia
University. He f1unked in his senior
year. and that seemed to give him
the shock he needed to impel him
toward success. He stayed at Co.
lumbia, won his B. A. degree in 1910
an M. A. in 1911, a Lit. B. in 1915
and Phi. D. in 1915. His doctors
thesis, on British Opinion of the
American Constitution" was written
at quiet intervals while he worked
the late trick on the New York
World.
When America entered the World
War. he enlisted as private. While
training he heard that Col. Wiley
Howell was being assigned to duty in
the judge advocate generals de-
partment of the AEF Being both
resourceful and bold young man
he went to Col. Howell. Pvt. Fraser
pointed out that he spoke French
f1uently and had been admitted tc
the New York bar and would like
to go along with the colonel as aide
The colonel, at first outraged al
this disregard of military etiquette
hU tho rNrivafp'S r.
suaSive tongue. Within month
Pvt. Fraser was a major in the
JAG's department in France.
He became assistant judge advo-
cate, Services of Supply, AEF. He
was decorated with the Distin-
guished Service Medal and was made
a grand officer of the Legion OF
Honor France, a grand officer OF
the Order of Leopold Belgium, ar
officer of the Order of SITS. Maurizo
and LaZZaro 1taly, and officer OF
the French Academy and a COM
mander of the Order of St. Sava
(Yugoslavial.
In 1919 Mr.. Fraser was appointed
associate counsel and assistant dl-
rector of the Bureau of War Risk
Insurance in Washington. The bu-
reau since has become part of the
Veterans Administration. Two years
later he was promoted to executive
officer and acting director.
Tired of Government service. he
quit in 1922 and returned to Paris
where he entered international law
practice in the firm of Coudert
Brothers