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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Judge Johnson Due to Testify
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ofC onduct
Will Make Statement
And AnswerQu Questions,
His Lawyer Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Former Federal Judge Albert
w. Johnson of Pennsylvania
middle district appeared today
at a congressional hearing into
his conduct and is expected to
testify later in the day.
In response to an invitation by a
House Judiciary Subcommittee
which Is conducting the hearing,
Judge johnson appeared as the
committee resumed sessions at 10:15
am. He was accompanied by three
Luzerne County lawyers, former
District Attorneys John H. Bigelow
and Thomas M. Lewis and former
Judge Michael F. Mcdonald.
Judge Mcdonald said Judge john
son would make an oral statement
to the subcommittee when called
and would submit to questioning.
Two other witnesses we're sched-
uled ahead of him.
e. J. Maloney, a Scranton public
accountant, testified that in 1885
he made an audit of the Williams.
port (Pa.) Wire Co.'S books fol
which he billed the Bethlehem Stee
Co., for s31,o75 under instruction.
CONTINUED on Page A, Column 1
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12,167 Casualties
For Week Include
7,S46 for Navy
Wur's TotuI to Dote
Rises to l,049, 104,
Patterson Reports
By the Associated Press.

A heavy increase in casualties
reported by the Navy today
raised losses of the armed forces
since the beginning of the war
to 1,049, 104. This was 12,167
more than reported a week ago.
The Navy, listing total casualties
of 1875, 1856, accounted for 1886 of the
weeks increase. The Army total, on
the basis of names received here
through July 7, was 915, 718-a rise
of 1921.
A breakdown on Army casualties
reported and similar figures for the
preceding week:
Killed, 193,508 and 1854;
wounded, SGT STA and 566,117; miss
ing, 1898 and 38,343; prisoners,
117,213 and 1928.
Undersecretary of War Patterson
said 346,171 of the wounded are back
on duty and $4,000 of the prisoners
have been listed as exchanged or re-
turned to military control. The de-
cline in the number of missing in the
last week apparently reflected shifts
to other categories.
The Navy breakdown:
Killed, 1857 and 47,849; wound
ed, SO, 1855 and 62,236; missing, II asa
and 1927; prisoners, ALTO and
4,218.
Mr.. Patterson also reported that
Allied casualties in the Bornec
campaign amounted to 214 killed, AZ
wounded and % missing as of July
Z. On the same date there were
3,031 japanese dead and 274 prison.
erS.
The Secretary also disclosed that
since the first of the year 1900 JAP
anese have been counted dead ir
by-passed sections of New Guinea
Bougainville and New Britain. Ir
addition, 253 prisoners have beer
taken in those areas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Senate Finance Group Contractors Schedule
Approves Bill 10 Ease Conference Today on
Excess Profit Taxation Strike Of Engineers
Union Ready to End
WuIkout if Builders
Agree to Negotiate

The Master Builders ASsocia-
ton scheduled a meeting this
afternoon to determine whether
the members Would agree to a
conference with the AFL union
engineers, whose strike tied up
construction work for the third
day on eight projects, most of
them for the Army and Navy.
Howard Gohrband, president OF
the engineers local, said the union
was prepared to withdraw picket
lines as soon as the master builders
set a meeting date. This action
would send $500 sympathetic union
workmen back to their jobs, he said
Workmen in unions affiliated with
the Washington Building Trades
Council (AFL) for the most part
today refused to pass picket lines for
the third day despite pleas of the
Army and Navy that they resume
work on vital jobs.
Cancellation Move Fails.
The Trades Council and National
Cancellation Service were unSuc-
cessful yesterday in arranging a
meeting between Local %, Inter
national Federation of Technical
Engineers, Architects and Drafts
man and the Master Builders.
The latter group was spokesman
for three constructing firms against
which the engineers struck with the
view of gaining union recognition.
Howard T. Colvin, acting director
of the National Cancellation Service,
pointed out that the case actually
was out of his hands since the con-
tract dispute had been referred to
the Regional War Labor Board.
1--WE were asked by the Navy to
help and will be glad to do So" he
said. 1--WE probably will have one
of our men contact both parties to-
day to see If some settlement can
be reached
Pickets Appear.
Officials of Charles H. Tompkins
Co., contractors against whom the
union threatened to extend the
strike today, said no pickets APP
peared at the George washington
University Hospital project at Wash
ington Circle and work was progress
ing as usual.
Strike Plan Abandoned.
Mr.. Gohrband said the union de-
cided against striking at the Tomp-
kins project because 1t was regarded
as war work and the union had not
filed 30-day strike notice under the
Smith Connally Act.
I'VE also planned to picket a
Tompkins housing project at Second
and e Streets he said. 1--WE called
this off because we wished to strike
against the contractor and not an
individual project"
The union president said Fl tech
nicians were picketing the eight
1See ENGINEERS. Page A-49
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
A.IAlfmeyer Renominaied
To Social Security Board

Arthur j. Altmeyer, chairman Of
the Social Security Board, today was
nominated by President Truman for
another term.
The President also nominated DR..
Paul H. Nystron for reappointment
as member of the Federal Advisory
Board for Vocational Education.
A member of the Social Security
Board since 1885, Mr.. Altmeyer be-
came chairman on February 10, 1887,
succeeding John G. Winant. Before
1885, Mr.. Altmeyer was Second As
sistant Secretary of Labor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
American Lord Huw Huw'
Reported Arrested by Reds
F.W. KoItenbuch Was
Indicted Here Along
With Ezra Pound
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, July 12.-Mrs. Fred
erick w. Kaltenbach said today
her Iowa-born husband, indicted
in Washington in 1943 on treason
charges which accused him of
making broadcasts over the Nazi
radio, was arrested by Soviet
officers June ID and had not been
heard from since.
Kaltenbach's broadcasts earned
him the title of "the American Lord
Haw Haw."
Mrs. Kaltenbach's statement to
1t. Col. John j. Maginnis Of Worces-
ter, Mass, military government
officer of the Schoeneberg Borough
in Berlin, has been transmitted
to American intelligence officers for
possible action.
The thin, 45-year-old woman ex-
pressed the hope that Kaltenbach
would be able to prove he actively
befriended the anti-Nazi religious
elements associated with the Rev.
Martin Niemoeller If the Russians
eventually turned him over to
American authorities to stand trial.
In two-hour interview Mrs
Kaltenbach was unable to present
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
BY the Associated Press.

GUAM, July 12.-Japanese at
temptS to run two troop-laden
conveys of soldiers from Shang-
hal to bolster homeland defenses
against an American invasion
apparently have been broken up
by blockading American aircraft,
Rear Admiral John Dale Price
reported today.
One of the ships in the second
convoy looked like the former Ital-
ian liner Conte di Savoia, 28,O00-ton
prewar luxury ship.
(The Conte di Savoia was re-
ported under German control at
Venice in November, 19430
Admiral Price said none of the
transports was sunk in the combined
attack by Fleet Air Wing I and
straflng Thunderbolt fighters, but
none of them got across the Yellow
Sea to Korea or through the Korean
Straits to the Sea of Japan.
The conveys presumably were
driven into the former German port
of Tsingato.
Heavy antiaircraft fire from the
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any substantiation of her DECLARE
ton that her husband sometimes
bitterly opposed the Nazis during
the last two years of the war, but
she said that she felt he could do
so If given the opportunity.
He talked to me of the idea of
giving himself up to an American
when they entered Berlin just be-
fore a Russian officer and a civil
ian dressed Russian interpreter
lSee KALTENBACH. Page A-4J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Plan Designed to Speed
Corporation Refunds,
Aid i'm Reconyersion
Ry the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
The Senate Finance Commit
tee today approved legislation to
ease the excess profits tax and
speed up tax refunds to corpora
lions.
The measure, passed by the House,
is designed to improve the cash po-
sition of corporations by about S.
500, 000,O 900 to speed reconversion.
Chairman George said that while
the bill in general was approved,
there would have to be a poll of alb
sent members on the question of re-
tanning one provision.
Railroad Plan Outlined.
This would authorize a railroad,
when reorganized as new corpora
ton under receivership proceedings,
to use when figuring its tax any I'M
used profits credits or previous net
losses of its predecessor corporation.
Earlier, Colin F. Stamm, chief of
the Joint Congressional Committee
on Taxation, told the committee
that speed is essential if the meas
ure is to have the desired effect in
facilitating reconverSion.
Businessmen are now planning
for reconversion and readjustment
to peacetime operations" he said
1.-THE immediate enactment of this
bill would facilitate this planning
Excess Profits Increase.
The measure would:
l. Increase the excess profits ex-
emption from $4,000 to $4,000, eff
fective with the 1916 tax year.
2. Allow corporations to currently
take the postwar credit of 10 per
cent of the excess profits tax.
3. Advance to January /, 1916, the
maturity date of outstanding post
war refund bonds.
4. Provide for speedup of refunds
due as result of previous operat-
ing losses or unused excess profits
credits.
Answering question from Chair
man George, Mr.. Stamm estimated
the change in the excess profits tax
would result in a net loss to the
Government of about 10000, 900.
Senator George said committee
members attending the session were
about evenly divided" on retention
of the provision affecting railroads.
Consequently, he added, it was de-
cided to take poll of the full COM
mittee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Temperature Drops TO 81,
Equals Mark Set in 1926

The thermometer dropped to 81
degrees this morning, the coolest
July IL in Washington in 10 years,
while the Weather Bureau reported
unofficial readings at Hyattsville,
Md, of A degrees and at Baileys
Cross Roads, Va, of As degrees.
With the mercury not expected to
rise above 80 degrees today, to-
nights low was predicted at 81.
The weather will remain pleasant
until tomorrow, the forecaster said,
but by tomorrow night local show
ers are probable.
The all-time low for July is So
degrees, which occurred July 4,
1888. The last time a July IL read
ing below go was recorded was in
1925, with 81 degrees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
House Refuses
To Limit FEPC
Fund of s250, 900
To Operate Agency
Appears Assured
BY the Associated Press

ny the Associated Press.
The House refused today to
restrict future activities of the
Fair Employment Practice Com
mittee to those connected with
its liquidation.
1t turned down, by a teller vote of
1873 to lie, a backed move
to prevent the FEPC from using any
of its new funds for normal opera
tons and then moved toward a final
vote on a compromise designed to
break deadlock holding up funds
for 16 war agencies.
The action was subject to later
roll call, but there was little doubt
that FEPC hackers. had the votes to
give that agency s250,000 for its
normal operations for the current
year.
Passage Due Today.
The legislative skids were creased
to shove the big bill through by
nightfall and send it to the White
House tomorrow Not until it is
signed into law will the 16 war agen-
cies have money for operations.
All have been operating ION the
cuff" SO. to speak, since the fiscal
year started July l, and none can
meet a payroll until the measure
becomes law.
1t was the Senate action in vot-
ing S250.000 for FEPC after the
House originally had denied funds
for the agency, that precipitated
one of the longest appropriation
stalemates in recent years.
The compromise allows the FEPC
to use the $250,000 for its normal
activities during the current fiscal
year. Although it calls for liquida-
ton of the agency, no time limit is
set.
Agreement Approved.
FEPC supporters said the agree
ment was all right with them, even
though it called for less than half
of the budget estimates. Their claim
that the liquidation provision was
meaningless was not disputed even
by FEPC foes.
That the Senate would accept the
compromise was predicted by Senate
and House conferees who met late
yesterday to discuss 80 other differ
ences in the bill
On these, tentative agreement has
been reached on most major points.
There was a prospect that efforts
would be made by House Repub-
licans to reject compromise giving
the Office of War Information $685.
0o0,000 The House originally voted
owl si8,000,000 and the Senate
boosted 1t to $50 ,0oo, 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Yonks Block Jap Sea Attempt
To Shift Troops to Homeland
Naval Aircraft Break Up Two Conveys
Moving Defense Units From Shanghai

convoy prevented effective bombing
attacks, but rockets from Thunder
bolt fighters started fires lasting
about 20 minutes on one ship.
Admiral Price, who is from Little
Rock, Ark, is relinquishing COM
mand of Fleet Air Wing to become
commander of the Okinawa operat-
ing base. In this assignment he
will direct the development of Oki-
nawa as an advance naval operating
base. The best potential harbor on
Okinawa Is Buckner Bay, which the
Japanese used as a fleet anchorage
when it was known as Nakagusuku
Wan.
Admiral Price is being succeeded
as Fleet Air Wing / commander by
Rear Admiral John Perry of Green
vile, S. c.
The Arkansas admirais new as
signment was announced simulta-
neouSly with the award to him of
the Navy Cross by Admiral Chester
w. Nimitz for directing the fleet air
wings operations from Okinawa in
which 1859 ships, aggregating las, 900
(See RT,OCKAnE pace A-61
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
The Peoples
Clearing House

The little Want Ads" in The
Star serve as a clearing house
for the wants of the people.
The results are evidently
prompt and satisfactory as
the number of advertisements
has increased 20 per cent and
more from last year.
These little ads" are
printed in the least possible
space at minimum cost to the
advertisers.
All of these, advertisements
are voluntary with no annoy
ance to the general public
from solicitation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Atrocity Picture
Showinqs Listed

The free exhibition of Ger
man atrocity pictures continues
today under joint sponsorship of
The Star and st. Louis-Pos
Dispatch.
War Department motion pic
lures: Today, Anacostia High
School, Sixteenth and r streets
Sc. Tomorrow, Coolidge High
School, Fifth and Tuckerman
streets NV. Films shown at 2,
$40, 400, $50, $40, 7::50 and 8
pm. Children under 16 are not
admitted.
Photomurals, at Library of
Congress, from 8 am. to 10 pm.
Attendance yesterday, 1854.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Eisenhower in Europe;
SHAEF Ends Saturday
BY the Associated Press,

PARIS, July 12.-Supreme Head
quarters Allied Expeditionary Force
will be dissolved at 1901 am. Sat-
urday-Bastille Day-it was an
nounced today soon after Gen.
Eisenhower returned to the con-
tinent.
The American, British and French
forces which served under the SUI
preme commander will then revert
to national controls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
jap Diplomats Detention
In Bedford, Pa, Protested
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md, July IL
Fort Cumberland Post No. IS, Amer
lean Legion, has written President
Truman protesting use of the Bed
ford Springs Hotel, Bedford, Pa, to
house Japanese diplomats captured
in Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Late Bulletin
Big 3 Meet Next Week

ABOARD THE CRUISER
AUGUSTA WITH PRESIDENT
TRUMAN Pl.-The Big Three
meeting of President Truman,
Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stain will begin next
Monday or Tuesday, it was
Learned today, amid indica-
tons it would be a prolonged
one.
Senate Votes Teacher Pay
The Senate today passed
the teacher pay bill with the
several important amend
ments made less than four
hours earlier by the Senate
District Committee. The bill
now goes back to the House
for consideration of the Sem
ate changes.
Earlier Story on Page BID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12
Senate Votes Teacher Poy
Hugerstown Results

FIRST RACE--PrTse. $500; 3-year-oids
and up; 6l2 furlongs
Pilgrim Maid (Palumbo) $40 $40 $50
Blue Beauty (GranD $50 260
General knight tBakhsh) $50
Time, :2245.
Also ran--Rusty Pots, Patience, sun
moor, Paula Grier
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12

One additional man from
the District area has been re-
ported killed in this toar. See
ION the Honor Roll" Page Az.
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tsee JAPAN. Page A-e0
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(See CHARTER, Page A-60
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-12

(See BLOCKADE, Page AS
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-08
job Fight
Is Gdininq
Support
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
to the floor of the House and
Senate.
Already rallies and meetings,
backed by CIO, AFL, Railroad
Brotherhoods, religious, civic
and business groups, are planned
for various cities. In Detroit.
which is already feeling me-
tran most cities the effects 2
cutback employment, a meeting
is scheduled for June %. All
sections of organized labor will
participate.
The Union for Democratic Ac-
ton is assisting in the organiza-
tion of additional meetings in
Baltimore, New Yo. !; and other
cities, according to Paul Sifton,
UDA Washington director.
"If this bill fails of passage"
declared one union leader this
week, "the labor movement will
have itself to blame as much as
anyone else.
"We cannot afford" declared
Rep. Patton last week "a return
to the scandalous and tragic
spectacle of idle machines, idle
land, idle money and idle men,
want in the midst of plenty,
want caused by the very threat
of plenty"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-08

Willard S. Townsend, Presi-
dent of the United Transport
Service Employees of America,
CIO and a member of the CIO
executive board will speak at the
Frederick Douglass Community
Center, 201 Pinewood Ave, Fri
day, June Is, at 800 p. m.
Mr.. Townsend, secretary of
the CIO Committee to Abolish
Racial Discrimination will speak
relative to the full integration
of Negroes in the labor move
ment. He comes to Toledo under
the auspices of the Co-ordinating
Council of Toledo.
AS a member of the CIO Com
mittee to Abolish Racial Dis
elimination Mr.. Townsend has
spoken in many sections of the
country. He was voted as one
of twelve outstanding leaders in
race relations in a poll con-
Quoted by the Schomburg Col
lection of the New York Public
Library and has spread his in
fluence through his union and
outside it.
The public is invited to hear
Mr.. Townsend.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-08
PAC ReshuffIe
Worries
Politicians

WASHlNGION, j u n e b -
Neutrality-suspicious. and ad-
ministration leaders, looking to-
ward the 1946 elections, were
waiting this week for straws in
the wind resulting from the re-
cent reshuffling of the CIO Po-
litical Action Committee.
Chief interest was in the ap-
pointment of Elmer Benson, for
mer Farmer-Labor Party gov
ernor of Minnesota, as chairman
of the Nat. Citizens Political Ac-
ton Committee. Benson, who
achieved national prominence as
one of the most progressive gov
ernors in the nation during the
last 80 years, caught Congress
sional attention when he en-
phasized the NCPAC was in
terested in a democratic Con-
gress with a small d" and that
such Congress can be elected "if
we can have a paid field worker
in every hamlet"
Sidney Hillman, president of
the CIO Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, relinquished his chair
manship of NCPAC to Benson
but will continue as head of the
CIO-PAC.
Strengthen PAC aa d ut2
Strengthening of PAC's or
ganization and development of
its plans to seat a liberal House
of Representatives and Senate in
1916 and 1948 is already worry
ing anti-labor Congressman and
poll-taxers, it was revealed here
this week. One midwestern rep
resentative declared that some of
the traditional Congressional re-
actionaries "are going to do some
considerable thinking" before
they vote against extension of
price controls and against full
employment legislation.
Benson said that the NCPAC
hopes to get out 100000
vote in 1946. "One way to do
tEat," he asserted, would be to
wipe out the poll tax" That
NCPAC will carefully scrutinize
every government action and ad-
ministration appointment was
made Immediately clear when
Benson revealed his opposition
to ANY position in the u. S.
Government" for former Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-06-08
Foreign
Relations
BY Ruth TAYLOR

What are foreign relations?
They are just exactly the same
as domestic relationship atti-
tUde of people toward each
other, our attitude toward our
neighbors and their attitude to-
ward us.
The longer people work to-
gether the more they understand
each other. When we refer to q
man as cosmopolitan-we
mean he has seen and lived in
more than one place, that he is
readily adaptable. A cosmopoli-
tan society is the blending of
many types of people.
1t may seem a difficult task to
establish good foreign relations
between nat ions, between
peoples of different faiths and
speech, but if we reduce it to
the common denominator of the
neighbors on our own street and
in our own town, we will see it
can be accomplished. And it
must be if we are to have peace
in this world.
DEFENSE LINE
In a recent speech before the
American Foreign Policy Asso-
citation, Pierre de L. Boal said:
"Our foreign relations are in
fact our first line of defense.
The bulwarks of this defense are
far beyond our shores in the
minds and hearts of other
people. Its arsenals are in our
own"
Carrying this idea still further,
President Truman said: Amer
lea must assist suffering human
ity back along the path of peace
full progress. This will require
time and tolerance. We shall
need also an abiding faith in the
people, the kind of faith and
courage which Franklin Delano
Roosevelt always had. Today
America has become one of the
most powerful forces for good
on earth. We must ke.o it so."
We as a nation are dedicated
to the ways of economic peace in
the world in order that there
may be freedom from want not
only for ourselves but for all the
peoples of all the earth.
We are dedicated as we'll to
the ways of spiritual peace in
the world in order that all over
the world men of all races, of all
nationalities, of all faiths may be
free. For us, life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness is more
than a national ideal. 1t is the
heart of the human problem. 1t
is the heart of all relations both
domestic and foreign.