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Evening star., 1945-07-20

indictment, but the lawyer trouble
came up again.
st still haven't heard from my
brother about an attorney" the de-
fendant told Justice David A. Pine.
do you intend to get an attor-
ney?" Justice Pine asked.
My brother said he'd send
somebody down the last time Il
heard from him." Skizechowski said.
Justice Pine then suggested an
other postponement until next Fri.
day, on the basis that a court-ap-
pointed attorney will then be named
to defend Skizechowski unless he
hears from his brother.
Skizechowski said, II sure appre-
ciate that, your honor. Though I
don't like to put you out"
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Star staff Photo.

of the second-class radio operators
license he carries.
Il know what an education means
now," he said. First, I want to
get a job as radio control operator
Then I'm going to some private
school at night to get the rest of
my high school credits. After that
I'll go to the University of Florida
and study radio engineering"
Yet it is difficult to picture this
modest, brown-eyed youth in the
ball turret Of a Bit, his .50-caliber
gun blazing away at enemy fighters.
He was with the 18th Air Force
based at Foggia, Italy.
''Oh, I was scared, all right
scared all the time. Sometimes I
thought of telling the truth about
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Italian Commander
BIunders at Party

Dinner Tor the representatives VI
the Tripartite pact. A heavy atmos-
phere. The only thing of note was
the blunder of Cavallero utalian
commander in chief. Trying tc
charm the japanese Ambassador, he
gave him aewS Of the successes al
Stalingrad. Between their English
it came out that Stalingrad hao
fallen. The rumor spread through
the hall until the Germans, to
Cavallero's embarrassment, took
measures to deny it. A japanese
general was congratulating the as
Sistant German military attache on
the victory. The German, in his
harsh Italian, said Nonsense '"
October 4-"Castellani (prominent
italian physician) sends me a dag
nostic report on II Duce. He has
discovered an amoeba. Personally,
believe he invented it. Although
he feels some pain. Mussolinfs ap-
pearance is good, and his capacity
for work is undiminished."
October 7-'eDr, Kesterer, the man
Himmler calls the magic Buddha,
who cures everything by massage,
has told me that Himmler and Won
Ribbentrop are at daggers-p points,
but that Himmler is powerful and
Ribbentrop will be liquidated be-
cause he is insane and i'll Even
Hitler seldom receives him. ."
October "a long conference with
Gen. Arne, head of the military Sc
cret service. :. All of the informa-
ton suggests that the Anglo-Saxons
are planning to land in force in
Africa, from where they intend to
strike their blows against the Axis.
Italy is geographically and logical
" the first objective. ."
October 10-"In the afternoon, a
meeting to discuss Greece.
Greece can no longer give anything
for the simple reason that it has
nothing If we continue on the pres
ent basis, complete bankruptcy will
result within two months. The mid
die class already is obliged to offer
its jewels, its beds, at times even
its daughters, in order to live.
"Mussolini's health remains un-
changed. We do not know why,
and nothing is said, but he suffers
severe stomach pains"
October Ill receive Himmler
at the station. The memory
of the front is a nightmare, and
he does not hide it. He is no
longer the Himmler who was in
despair at Munich in 1888 because
an agreement had been reached,
and war seemed to be averted. Now
he speaks of the difficulties, of the
sacrifices, of what has been done,
and most of all of what remains to
be done"
October 1.-THE Germans are
demanding a crazy sum Cfrom
Greece which in the space of a
few months will cause the total
collapse of the drachma. Mus
solini goes so far as to say: The
only way to explain such bestial
attitude on the part of the Ger
mans is that the Germans are con-
vinced they are lost and since they
must die, they think of creating
general confusion.
October "MuSsolini was pre-
pairing to go to Palazzo Venezia to
receive Goering when Mackensen
(Nazi ambassador informed us that
the reichsmarshal had suffered an
attack of dysentery so violent that
it did not permit him to leave his
throne even for 10 minutes -"
Such an ailment is not becoming to
tie reichSmarShal'S vanity
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F un DIS 1916
campaign here,
was announced
y e S t e rday by
Ralph A. Van
Orsdel, chair
man of the war
funds Advance
Gift Unit.
Mr.. Evans, who
will be in charge
of soliciting gifts
from national
C corpor a t ions
m a in t a in ing
offices in Wash
ington, is one of
the founders of
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Candy for Children

Chocolates given by Marshal Stain
to Prime Minister Churchill were
distributed among bombed-out chill
dren in a small town in England
by Mrs. Churchill.
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Count ciunos Dory--No 2S
NAZIS WERE SURPRISED
BY LANDINGS IN AFRICA
Expected Blow Directly Behind RommeI
Or New Effort to Relieve MuItu
Count Ciono's Diory--No. 28
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September 26-November 8, 1912.


sleepy heard the first Allied landings in North
Africa Foreign Minister Rbbentrop whose military
experts expected something different when the mighty
convoy from Gibraltar according to the diary
Count Ciano Mussoinis son-in-law.
Disaster followed disaster for the Axis Only three days be-
landings of November Cano
Field Marshal Romme had
collapsed Army drive and later that
Evening star., 1945-07-20
Joshua Evans Named
To War Fund Post

Appointment of Joshua Evans. jr.,
vice president of the Hamilton Ma
tional Bank, as national accounts
chairman for the Community War
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Is D. {. Men Called
For Induction Today

The following group of 25 Wash
ington men have. been ordered to
report for induction into the armed
forces today:
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(Tomorrotu-Ldpdt Sells Out
France Completely.J
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Communication Plan
Approved for Berlin
BY the Associated P-ess.

by tne ASSoclaLSo p-eS2.
BERLIN. Dec. l3.-Allied authori-
ties, still deadlocked on the creation
OF central administrative agencies
in Germany. were agreed today on q
plan which is at least a long step
in the direction of a central COM
municationS system.
The plan, approved yesterday by
the Allied Control Councils Co.
ordinating Committee, calls for or.
ganization of interurban telephone
and telegraph service between the
four occupation zones and provides
that messages pass through cen.
trail telephone and telegraph ex.
changes.
The French, who have opposed
the establishment of any kind oil
central agency, agreed to the plan
and to another measure which would
establish under four-power control
a photographic institute to produce
data for safe navigation of German
waters by ships of all nations.
American authorities, meanwhile
continued to press for unification OF
transportation and for a unified
policy on taxation, foreign exchange
customs and currency regulations.
Other measures approved in yes
terdays meeting included:
Authorization OF an increase in
the food ration of Berlins lowest
civilian category-mostly housewives
and others not employed in outside
work-from 1.248 to l,500 calories
daily. This category includes ap-
proximately 100000 persons.
An interim plan for the restitution
of art cultural objects looted by thu
| Germans.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Inductees
Policeman S Slayer
dies Here Tomorrow

The Districts first execution since
January. 1943, is to take place at
the District Jail at 10 am. tomor-
row when Monroe D. Nicely, 35, COL
ored. is scheduled to go to the elec-
trio chair for the fatal shooting in
May, 1943. of Policeman Charles r
Johnston while the policeman was
attempting to place him under ar
rest.
The last execution was that OF
Jarvis Catoe. who was electrocuted
on January Is, l943, for the Staying
OF Mrs. Rose Abramowitz in her Six
teenth street apartment.
Nicely was convicted in November
l943. Then began a series of ap-
peals. The United States Court OF
Appeals affirmed the District Court
conviction and Supreme Court re-
fused to review the case.
Nicely then sought a sanity hear
ing which District Court refused to
grant after evidence had been pre-
sented indicating he was sane, The
Court of Appeals affirmed this ac-
ton and the Supreme Court refused
to review that ruling. Efforts on the
part of counsel to obtain executive
clemency or communication also proved
futile
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Judge Begins Charge
In Restaurant Staying
OF Naval Officer

Justice Alexander Holtzon shortly
after noon today began to charge
the District Court jury hearing the
second-degree murder case against
Mills Montgomery Edmunds, 80,
manager Of a White Tower restau-
rant at Fourteenth and Irving
streets NV.
Edmunds is charged with the un-
premeditated stabbing of william
Davis Brock, ~, Navy chief petty
officer, in the restaurant at $50 am.
October 81.
Edmunds this morning reiterated
his denial that he had stabbed
Brock during scufIle.
Edmonds, under cross -examins-
ton yesterday, held to the story
he told police when Ne was arrest
ed-that he had a teaspoon and not
knife in his hand during the alter
cation in which Mr.. Brock was
killed.
Answering question as to
whether he had cut the deceased,
the defendant said he had done
SO only If 1t could have been done
with a spoon and that if so, it was
done in Self-defense.
Previous witnesses had recounted
that Mr.. Brock was one of a party
Of two men and two women who had
stopped in the hamburger place
after q night of drinking and that
the alteration occurred when the
men were asked to leave
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Guffey Urges Farm Support
In labors Just Demands
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
ALTOONA, Pa, Dec. Ex-senator
Guffey, Democrat. of Pennsylvania
told State meeting of farmers last
night that one of their most i'm
portant goals for 1916 would be "to
enlist their sympathies in support OF
the effort labor is making to better
its economic status through proper
and just demands"
Addressing a two-day conference
OF farm representatives from Penn
sylvania's ST counties studying next
years production goals, Senator
Guffey declared:
The farmers problem is not one
Of production. = The magnificent
record of war food production
speaks for itself. The farmers real
problem is markets.
IF enough people buy enough OF
the food he raises, his annual cash
income will rise. But they won't
buy if they don't have the money
They are trying to get it, those
customers Of the farmer. They are
trying to get it through unior
organization, through collective bar.
gaining"
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Phone Workers 10 Seek
Raise Despite WLB Action

Despite the fact the War Labor
Board denied a general increase of
IS week for telephone workers, the
Federation of Telephone Employees
of the District will seek a $40 gen.
eral increase from the Chesapeake
& Potomac Telephone Co.
Union officials explained today
that the WLB order was based on
the wage policy in existence before
August 18. They will attempt to
reopen negotiations under President
Truman's new wage policy, which
permits higher prices for wage in
creases up to 33 per cent above pre-
war levels.
WLB's National Telephone Com
mission gave increases ranging from
81 to 81 to 400 of the unions 1000
members. The members voted last
night at a meeting in the National
Press Club to accept the order and
to seek new reconversion increases
The 5000 members of the Wash.
ington Telephone Traffic Union al.
ready have announced they will seek
$40 weekly increases and a return
| to the 40-hOur week.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Board Of Trade Group
To Hear Talks on PARKING

The Districts parking problems
will be discussed by the Traffic Com
mittee of the Board of Trade at its
weekly luncheon at 1890 pm. to-
morrow at the Willard Hotel.
Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III, chair
man Of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission; P. Y. K.
Howst, chairman of the District OF
Columbia Motor Vehicle Parking
Agency; George E. Keneipp. mana
ger of the Keystone Automobile
Club, and Washington I. Cleveland.
manager of the District of Columbia
Motor Club, American Automobile
Association, are scheduled to speak.
Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director
Of highways, and w. A. Van Duzer.
director of vehicles and traffic, also
will join in an open forum. Lee D.
Butler will preside,
Evening star., 1945-12-13
a U. 5. Newsmen 10 Tour
Russian Zone in Reich

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Dec. l3.-The Russians
will open their occupation zone OF
Germany next week to four Amer
lean correspondents in the first OF
a series Of invitational tours on
which complete freedom Of move
ment and observation" has been
promised.
Selected by the Russians from a
list of 20 applicants for the first
trip were Richard Kasischke of the
Associated Press, Charles Arnot Of
the United States, Gladwin Hill o,
the New York Times and Russell
Hill of the New York Herald
Tribune. These correspondents were
invited by the Russians to select
an itinerary and a starting time
and to state how long they wished
to remain.
The tour is the result OF an agree
ment between Gen. Eisenhower and
Marshal Georgi Zhukov that there
should be exchanges of correspond
ents between the Russian and
American zones. Further exchange
are planned, and it was reported
that similar arrangement would
be announced between the Rus
slams and British.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Truman Suggested Test
OF A-Bomb on Warships

President Truman was respon.
sible for the Army-Navy plan tc
test the effectiveness of the atom
bomb on warships, White House
Press Secretary Charles G. Ros.
said today.
Asked If the President had ap.
proved the plan, Mr.. Ross replied
He not only approved the idea, but
suggested it."
Mr.. Ross added that he did no
know what was responsible for the
Presidents recommendation nor
could he say II American craft OF
captured war vessels would be usec
for the test.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Iitiore Than 90 Huri.
In Navy Troop Train
Collision in Chicago
BY the Associated Press.

tHc hsSOCldLeQ CTcSS.
CHICAGO, Dec. 13.-Between sc
and 100 men, most of them colored
sailors aboard an Alton Railroad
troop train, were injured last night
when the train with about $50
Navy personnel was rammed from
the rear by Pere Marquette pas
senger train.
Most seriously hurt were three
members of the train crew. The
majority of the injured were given
first aid at South Side hospitals
and the Navy later removed them
to Wesley Memorial Hospital for
further examination.
The accident occurred about three
miles from Chicago's Loop on the
South Side as the 12-car troop
train, en- route from the naval base
at Bainbridge, Nd, to the naval
depot at Shoemaker, Calf. was
switching from Baltimore g. Ohio
tracks to Alton tracks.
Six Cars Affected.
The Pere Marquette 10-coach
train, pulled by two engines and
headed for Grand Rapids, Mich.
struck it. -Four troop coaches and
sleeper we're derailed and one
sleeper overturned. The Pere Mar
quette train was not damaged.
j. w. Covington, jr., Baltimore
Pullman conductor. kicked out win
dows to enable many sailors to es.
cape, aided the injured and calmed
others, said Capt. B. w. Guthen, ar
Army medical officer of Waukesha
Wis, who was on the train.
Most seriously hurt included Rufus
w. Barton. 60, Bloomington, Ill.
troop train conductor, and John
Weaver and Fred M. Jones, colored
porters. both of Baltimore.
Didn't See Train.
Justin Beach. SO. Grand Rapids
engineer of the Pere Marquette
train, said he did not see the troop
train until he was within 300 feet
OF it. Flagman Charles Lawson
who witnessed the crash, said the
troop train was not moving when
the Pere Marqette train rammed
into 1t from the rear. An investiga-
ton of the accident was started by
the railroads.
Among those injured were: James
Bell, %. Washington, leg and wrist
cuts; George Atwater. 18, Wash
ington, burns; Albert Brooks, l8,
Fairfax, Va, bruised forehead, and
Raymond Colemand, 19, Alexandria,
Va, cuts and possible rib fractures.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
'WLB Studies Wage Plea
I0f Western Union Worker,

A War Labor Board panel at
tempting to forestall a projected
strike of Western Union employees
considered issues of the case today
and announced a decision may be
forthcoming soon.
J. A. Payne, general chairman of
the Western Union division of the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union
(AFD, said he was hoping for a
ruling by Christmas" however.
Thirteen issues are at stake, in
Guiding the unions request for a
Is per cent wage increase or an
average of about Is cents an hour
for $4,000 employees.
Mr.. Payne said a strike, called
by the union, had been held in
allegiance pending ruling from the
WLB.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Mrs. Emma Carr Dies;
Resident for Many Years

Mrs Emma Jane Carr, "a, WASH
ington resident most of her life,
died yesterday at her home, 1924
Buchanan street NV.
A native of Baltimore. she was
a member of Hamline Methodist
Church. She was the widow OF
Phillip Dorsey Carr.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Howard D. Criswell Of Washington; !;
two sisters, Mrs. Rosa Lee Clarvoe
OF Waynesville, N. c., and Mrs. Lii
lie A. Barnes of Martinsburg, w.
Va, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. Saturday at the Hines fu-
neral home, 290l Fourteenth street
NV Burial will be in Glenwood
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
War Trials in Japan
To Be Delayed 10 Aid
Defense Preparation
Ey the Associated Press.


YOKOHAMA, Dec. 49, Eighth
Army legal officers indicated today
that the first war crimes trial in
Japan, scheduled to open Monday
will be delayed long enough to allow
the more than 300 defendants to
prepare defenses. No definite date
was set.
Col. Robert Y. Laughlin, Judge
advocate, announced the first Amer
lean military trial commission in
Japan will meet in closed session
here Monday to adopt rules of pro-
cedure against the japanese. all sus-
pected of mistreating Allied prison.
ers of war.
His assistant, Maj. Gayle H.
Nichols, said the defendants had
not yet been notified of the charges
against them and that they must
be given sufficient time to organize
defense.
The military court will be en-
powered to impose the death penalty
or imprisonment.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Compton Denies Secrecy
DELAYED Atomic Bomb

By the Associated Press.
PULLMAN, Wash, Dec. l3.-Dr.
Arthur H, Compton. who headed the
scientific effort in the development
of the atomic bomb, disagrees with
views expressed in Washington
Monday that unnecessary military
secrecy had delayed production of
the atomic bomb at least Is months.
He told a press conference here
when told of the reports: Il do not
agree. The development Of the
atomic bomb was never seriously
delayed by lack of information. It
was question of the time to build
plants and install equipment"
DR.. Arthur Compton said that
while there were some minor DELAYS
due to secrecy, that condition
existed before the Army had any
thing to do with the project"
Freedom from want is yours fol
the purchase of Victory Loan Bonds
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Mexican Train Wreck
Blamed on Subotooe
The Associated i.ress

bg the ASsoclated t7TesS.
MEXICO CITY. Dec. l3.-Wreck-
ing of a 20-car freight train near
Toluca last night caused growing
concern in the government over the
week-old union dispute which has
crippled rail transportation in mos,
Of Mexico.
The Mexican National Railway
attributed the wreck to sabotage.
Only minority of the trainmen
are idle, but they are chiefly engi-
neers and flremen belonging to
unions in dispute with the main
federation (CTM) union.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Maj. Hawkins Work
lon Russian Arms
Related al Trial

Evidence of efforts by Maj. Will
ford Judson Hawkins, retired Army
officer and ordnance expert, to aid
in expediting manufacture of 81
nm. antitank armor- piercing shells
for the Russian government in l94l
was laid before the jury hearing
the mail fraud case against En-
gineers Group, Inc, in District
Court today.
Justice James M. Proctor fire.
quently urged defense lawyers, who
had Maj. Hawkins under cross-ex-
animation, to get along with the
case" The jurist sought to speed
up the trial, now nearing the end
of its third week, urging the wit
ness to answer briefly.
Calls Efforts Sincere.
Maj. Hawkins said that his efforts
were sincere and that James G
Fuller, defendant, who was execu-
tive vice president of Engineers
Group, and he planned to build up
a force of engineers if the Russian
contract materialized. Under the
plan, the Glenwood Range Co.,
Taunton, Mass, was to be the main
contractor, the witness said. The
Government contends that the
Group never entered into any con-
tract with the Russian government
Cross examined by Defense Coun-
sci William E. Leahy, representing
Representative Curley, Democrat, of
Massachusetts, Maj. Hawkins teSti-
fed that Mr.. Fuller told him that
Assistant Secretary of War Louis A.
johnson had Marshall J. Fitzgerald
now deceased, as an assistant. Mr.
Fitzgerald was allegedly one of
the members of the Group. Fur
ther, Maj. Hawkins said, Mr.
Fuller told him that Mr.. john
son was so enmeshed in the housing
business that to avoid being tied up
with Engineers Group, Inc, he left
Washington Yesterday, Maj. Haw-
kins had identified Mr.. johnson as
Secretary of War"
Looks Through Diary.
The witness also said that he had
never discussed business with Repre-
sentative Curley. The luncheon re-
cess gave Maj. Hawkins an oppor-
tunity to look through his diary for
direct references to Representative
Curley.
Maj. Hawkins testified Yesterday
Mr.. Fuller told him that Represent
atlve Curley. former president of
Engineers Group. was paid s35 for
Is minutes or half an hours work
for the organization.
Subpoenaed by the Government
as witnesses today to follow Mai.
Hawkins, were Miss Ella M. Foster.
Boston court stenographer. Albert
P. Hill, treasurer of the Hibernia
Savings Bank, Boston, and H. T.
Scantlebury, former secretary-treas-
urer of the Toycraft Rubber Co..
Ashland Ohio.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Far East Commission
Will Leave December Is

&" the Associated PreSS.
Members of the donation Fal
Eastern Advisory Commission will
leave Washington by plane Decem-
Der 26 to examine at first hand the
Allied policy in Japan.
Thomas D. Blake, commission
press officer, said the group planned
to fly to Hawaii and proceed from
there by ship to Tokyo.
The principal commission repre-
sentatives of the member nations
will not necessarily make the Japan
trip. Mr.. Blake said. He explained
that several of the commissioners
also were the diplomatic representa-
tives of their respective countries
in Washington and hence might
choose an alternate for the jour-
nnV
Evening star., 1945-12-13
244 in Java Are Nomed
As War Criminals

BATAVIA, Dec. 13 [P,.-The Allied
War Crimes Commission in Java to-
day announced that it had listed
244 persons, most of them Japanese
as war criminals and declared that
43 of those named already were in
custody.
Heading the list is japanese 1t
Gen. Imamura, who is accused OF
responsibility for the deaths of SOC
British officers. Another Japanese
sought is 1t. Col. Anami, charged
with responsibility for the deaths OF
500 British and Australians used
as slave laborers,
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Six Jops Are Found Guilty
|Of Burninq Two FLYERS

MANILA, Dec. Is tPl.-Six of seven
Japanese accused of killing and
burning two American flyers and five
Filipinos at Cebu City last March
were found guilty by a military
commission today.
1t. Col. Isamu Morimoto and Capt.
Kestaro Tsuruyama were sentenced
to death by hanging. Sergt. Takeo
Hawai- also was sentenced to be
hanged, but mercy was recommended
because he turned prosecution wit
ness.
Hawai- testified he had orders to
hack the flyers to death.
A fourth was sentenced to life
imprisonment and two others to 10
years each at hard labor.
Evening star., 1945-12-13
Jap Captain to Be Tried
For Burninq of Town

TOKYO, Dec. 13 (P.-Charged
with burning the town of San Pablo
in Laguna Province of Luzon last
March. Japanese Army Capt. To-
shire Takizawa Is to be tried by an
American military commission in
Manila, Allied headquarters an
nounced today.