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Evening star., 1945-06-05
0PA Maps Regulation
To Cut Woo|en Prices
To 1943 Averages
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OPA today worked on the last OF
a series of price-cutting regulations
designed to push clothing costs back
two years.
A regulation aimed at clothing
wholesalers will be issued very
soon," Price Administrator Chester
Bowles promised last night, after
announcing new maximum aver
age price, or map" order imposed
on woolen and worsted mills.
The latter will cut costs of wool
woven fabrics Z per cent and wool
knit fabrics per cent, Mr.. Bowles
predicted. 1t Is intended to pave
the way for lower-priced suits, coats,
dresses and other civilian garments
made of wool
The wool map" requires each
mill to reduce its weighted averaged
price for all fabrics to the average
Of 1943, by reducing its output of
higher-priced lines, or increasing
production of lower-priced lines, or
both. The order is effective Satur-
day, and mills will start operating
on new schedules July /.
Low-Priced Goods Missing.
Mr.. Bowles said the order brought
the Government close to the goal
set by OPA and the War Produc-
ton Board early this year-"to
convert larger proportion of the
civilian fabric supply into essen
tial garments, priced to fit the
pocketbooks Of low and middle in
come families"
Such families now are paving
1874 per cent more than they did in
May, l943, when the White House
issued its hold-the-line order, the
price chief said, mainly because
low-priced goods have been dropped
from production in favor of lines
commanding higher price ceilings.
The map" orders are designed
to reverse that price movement,
which Mr.. Bowles termed the
strongest inf1ationary trend we
have in clothing today"
The woolen or worsted manufac-
turer will reckon his maximum av-
erage price by dividing the total
net dollar amount charged for fab
RIGS In each class by the number of
yards which he delivered in 1943,
less returns and allowances.
Cotton Not Included.
This map" ceiling. and a similar
one already issued for rayon mills,
will cut the cost of fabrics sold to
the clothing manufacturers; the lat
ter have been ordered to restore
their own prices to the 1943 price
line averages. Mr.. Bowles said OPA
was working "as rapidly as possible
on the forthcoming wholesalers
regulation so that the reduction
will be passed on to retailers. The
latter must pass it on to the public
because their markup margins re-
Gently were frozen in still another
OPA action.
Cotton mills will not be subjected
to map" treatment because of the
Bankhead amendment to the Price
Control Act, which requires that
ceilings on major groups of cotton
textile items must reflect parity to
growers of raw cotton.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Chinese Retake Siapu
As Japs Flee North
From Fallen Foochow
BY the Associated Press.

by IaS ASSOClACeQ freSe.
CHUNGKING. June 5.-A semi
of1icial Chinese dispatch said today
that Chinese forces had occupied
Siapu, IS miles northeast of Foo
chow, and added that Japanese
forces were fleeing northward along
the highway leading to Wenchow,
220 miles south of Shanghai.
Siapu was originally captured by a
small enemy relief force which the
Japanese landed on the Fukien coast
in support of enemy troops with
drawing northward from the Foo
chow region along the highway to
Wenchow CYungkia).
American Planes Attack.
An oficial Chinese announcement
said Chinese forces in Kwangsi
Province had reached a point 2l
miles southwest of Liuchow, site of
a former American air base which
was captured by the Japanese last
November. This represented a Z
mile advance In "a hours. But the
Japanese were reported standing
firm near Ishan, 43 miles west OF
Liuchow.
An American communique an
nounced that planes of the United
States 14th Air Force continued at
tacks on enemy positions in the
Liuchow area.
Occupation of Siapu by the Chi
nese suggested that the Japanese
were retreating overland to Wen
chow, a small but once thriving
Chekiang port.
Japs Send Relief Force.
The dispatch said that Siapu fell
on Sunday. Foochow fell into Chi
nese hands on May 10.
Chinese quarters believed that the
force which the Japanese recently
sent thrusting southwark from Wen
chow was going to the relief of
withdrawing enemy troops.
The dispatch asserted that Japa-
nese troops at Yuhawan Island of
the Chekiang coast near Welchow
had been liquidated and that some
puppet Chinese troops. previously
disarmed by the japanese, were hid
ing in the hills on the island.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Churchill
Continued From First Page J

of human freedom. He has branded
it for what it is-totalitarianism, the
worst ism of the lot
The Communist Daily Worker
headlined, Churchill Launches the
Red Scare" and in an editorial
labeled "A Tawdry Speech" asked
What has led the great war
Premier to sink to this conscience
less demagogy?"
The independent Daily Mail said
the speech caused surprise in all
parties by its vigorous challenging
tones"
The Liberal News Chronicle said
the noble eloquence of the Prime
Minister'S finest hours was sadly
missing"
The Conservative Daily Tele-
graph said the speech was an ora
torical spitflre" in new battle
for Britain"
Tragedy Seen.
The Laborite Daily Herald COM
mented that 1T Is a human tragedy
that Winston Churchill, honored as
an individual of all parties, should
so readily lend himself to these
cheap electioneering tricks"
The Times saw the speech as
posing an issue of individualism
against socialism ''in good round
terms appropriate to election war
fare"
Mr. Churchill touched only briefly
on foreign affairs and then only to
remind the country of the tremen-
Evening star., 1945-06-05
War Bonds
Continued From First Page }

Ernie Pyle. newspaper columnist
killed while observing front-line
action on Ie Shima.
Meanwhile, Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal bought a bond shortly
after noon today at the Mighty
Seventh" naval ordnance exhibit
at the Department of Commerce.
Secretary Of Commerce Wallace
watched him autograph a 500-pound
bomb, later to be dropped on Tokyo.
The exhibit Of naval weapons is
open to the public. Bond buyers
may autograph the bomb. Naval per-
sonnel will direct any one who wishes
to practice aiming guns set up in the
Commerce auditorium.
Meanwhile, the Navy Department
again is leading War Department
employees, and most of the other
Federal departments, in the pur-
chase of bonds, E. F. Bartlett, chair
man Of the 1nterdepartmental War
Savings Committee, announced yes
terday.
Always a leader in War Bond and
Community War Fund drives, the
Navy employees have bought ITO per
cent Of their $4,000, 900 Mighty Sew
enth" quota. The Army employees
have bought 64.2 per cent of their
$500, 900 quota.
The total sales to Federal en-
ployes and to members of the armed
forces stationed in Washington have
reached SIC, ,492, ,000-56.9 per cent of
the SIS, 1000, 900 Federal quota, Mr..
Bartlett added.
Other leading Government de-
partment records SO far are the
Federal Reserve Board, Ill per cent
OF its employees $72,9 800 quota; Fed
eral Trade Commission, II per cent
OF a $4,000 quota; the Library of
Congress, rs per cent Of the $751;
100 quota, and the National Archives,
81 per cent of the 81 TOO quota.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Supreme Court
Rejects Negro's
Jury Bias Plea
From Yesterdays Last Edition.

ffrom Yesterdays Last Editton.)
The Supreme Court today upheld
the death sentence for a Negro who
attacked his conviction in q Texas
court on the grounds that only a
single member of his race was on the
16-man jury panel which indicted
him on a murder charge.
The defendant, L. c. Atkins of
Dallas County, Tex, contended he
was victim of racial discrimination
in violation of his constitutional
rights. In the 6-3 decision of the
court, Justice Reed said that fair
ness in selection has never been held
to require proportional representa-
ton of races on jury"
Chief Justice Stone and Justices
Black and Murphy dissented. In q
separate opinion, Justice Murphy
declared that racial limitation, no
less than racial exclusion, in the
formation of juries is an evil con-
demned by the equal protection
clause" Of the Constitution.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Gnverging Columns
0fYanks on Mindanao
Push on Trapped Japs
By the Associated Press.

MANILA, June 5. - Converging
columns of the American Oath and
31st Divisions made swift progress
today on Mindanao Island. Two
centers of Japanese resistance have
been broken in the last three days.
A substantial number of Japs
are caught between these forces,
Richard Bergholz, Associated Press
correspondent, reported.
Twenty-fourth Division elements
under Maj. George Willets of Sea-
side Park, N. j., advanced 1000
yards northwest of captured Ula
village without opposition. Ula was
one of a group of villages wrested
from the Japanese Saturday by the
oath and guerrillas after stiff fight
ing just off Davao Gulf.
In nutcracker move, these forces
now are driving a big japanese
Davao garrison westward, while the
3lst is pushing inland garrisons
toward the east.
A vanguard of Maj. Gen. Clarence
Martins 31st Division made a sub
stantial advance along the Kabawe-
Talomo trail. A stubborn Japanese
force southeast of Kabawe at the
Pulangi River was smashed Sunday
after a brief tussle.
The slow advance into the Caga-
yam Valley of North Luzon was con-
tinued by the 37th Infantry Divi-
sion. The 38th Division continued
to fight for hill mass near Central
Llzon's Wawa Dam yesterday.
Aircraft dropped 349 tons of ex-
plosives in effective support.
Formosa took a 265-ton bombing
Sunday while the 18th Air Force, the
7th Fleet Air Wing and the Royal
Australian Air Force smashed hard
at assorted Borneo targets, attack
ing variety of installations around
British North Borneo's Brunei Bay.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Disappearance Of Body
OF Queen Is Mystery

OSLO. June S (P.-Bjorn Bunk
holt, president of the Oslo Journal
lists Association, says the disap-
pearance of the remains of the late
Queen Maud, wife Of King Haakon
and granddaughter of Englands s
Queen Victoria, still is a mystery to
the Norwegian public.
On April 8. 1910, the body of the
Queen was in its resting place a,
Akershus. an area in Oslo near the
harbor. On April 8 the body dis
appeared. Whether the body was
removed on order of King Haakon,
by home front patriots or by the
Germans is not publicly known,
Bunkholt said,
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Kobe
Continued From First Page. }

Mikagemachi and Ashiya. indus
trial towns, respectively 2 and
miles east of Kobe on the rail lines
running along Osaka Bay to the
city Of Osaka, last previous BIS
target.
(The 10th Air Force reported
in Washington that eight Super
Fortresses were missing after the
big raid.
Domei, Japanese news agency,
quoting a joint army navy COM
munique, claimed Sc B-29s were
shot down and IA heavily
damaged.D
Super Forts centered their in
cendiaries on heavily Industrial
lied area of Eastern Kobe, including
the city's two main railway stations,
the extensive Kobe steel works,
shipyards and major docks. Nearly
8 square miles in the center of the
city were burned out in previous
strikes.
Results are sure to be "very good, "
said 1t. r. S. Combs, Miles City,
Mont. commander Of one of the
later planes over the target. Second
1t. w. K. Walmsley. Middletown,
Conn. bombardier Of the same B-29,
said he thought the attack would
prove to be more effective than the
flghter-escorted strike at Yoko-
hama.
The trip to Kobe was made
through ''the roughest weather we've
encountered on 13 missions" said
1t. John Mclaughlin, Valley Stream
Long Island. N. Y. I'VE ran into
thunderheads. snow, a couple Of
weather fronts, but just as we
reached the Japanese coast we
broke out of the weather"
Thirty to 40 twin-engine Japa-
nese fighters were reported by Capt
Joe Carroll, Jacksonville, Fla.
Some came in close to make
passes at U.S." he said, "but they
didn't hurt us. The Japs had plenty
of hak-moderate to intense-and
very accurate. They could have
knocked us down."
While the B-29s were en- route
back from Kobe, Maj. Gen. Curtis
E. Lemay's 21st Bomber Command
headquarters reported that nearly
81 square miles of Osaka was de-
stroyed by the 450-plane incendiary
raid Friday. This increased to liz
square miles, the extent of destruc.
ton in that city.
Reconnaissance photographs
showed II industrial targets heavily
damaged. Those targets included
harbor installations, drug and dye
stuff manufacturing plants, a metal
industry factory, where aircraft
propellers were produced; iron works
and other manufacturing plants.
The attack was concentrated in
an industrial section along Osaka
Harbor south Of the Yodo River.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Killer Dogs Owner Fails
In Appeal for Release
the Associated Press.

MIAMI, Fla, June 5.-Joe Mum
43, owner of the pack OF pit bull
terriers which killed Mrs. Doretta
Zinke here May Is, was denied q
petition in Circuit Court yesterday
for his release or a reduction in his
S., 900 bond.
Munn's lawyers contended at a
habeas corpus hearing that the
prisoner could not be held on a
manslaughter charge when the
Florida law which fixes responsible
ity of the owner for dogs also stipu-
lates that other persons must exer-
else reasonable precaution.
Mum testified he could give no
reason why Mrs. Zinke should have
been walking near his kennel. "She
had a mortal terror of dogs and
couldn't stand dogs around her." he
told the court.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Cruise Passenger Hurt
In Fall on GunqpIunk

Mrs. Mabel E. Moore, 40, of 80
Thurman avenue, Hampshire Knobs,
Md, was injured last night when
she slipped and fell on the gang
plank of the S. S. Mount Vernon
on its return from a cruise on the
Potomac River, according to police.
Mrs. Moore suffered a possible
fracture OF the nose, abrasions to
the left knee and conclusion. She
was admitted to Casualty Hospital
and her condition today was good,
attendants said.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Fronk Stanton Named
|CBS General Manager
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 5.-Frank Stan.
ton, vice president, was named gem
eral manager of the Columbia
Broadcasting System at a meeting
of the Board of Directors yester-
day. He also was elected a mem
ber of the board.
Two others, Joseph H. Ream, vice
president and secretary Of CHS, and
Frank K. White, vice president and
treasurer, were elected to the board.
Paul w. Keston, executive vice
president who has been in charge of
the network in the overseas absence
of Col. William S. Paley, president,
is continuing in that capacity.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Man Held Under Bond
OF $500 in Assault Case!

Eugene r. Shafer, IS, of the 230C
block of First street NV, yesterday
was held for grand jury action on
a charge of criminally assaulting q
20-year r-old girl, and for a Municipal
Court jury trial in the assault of an
other woman.
Judge Aubrey Fennell set bond at
ST. 900 in the criminal assault case
and $500 in the other case. Shafer
pleaded not guilty in both cases.
The victims, according to police
are residents of the roomlng house
where Shafer lives. The criminal as
sault allegedly occurred May 26
Trial in the assault case was set for
June IS.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Navy Plane, Two Officers
Missing on Capital Trip
From Yesterdav,s Last Edition J

(From Yesterdays Last Edition.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, June 4.-The United
States Naval Air Station at Crosse
lie reported today that one of its
planes, with two officers aboard, has
been missing since 1t took of for
Washington, D. c., May 26.
The two are 1t. r. r. Grant Of
ST. Paul, Mimi, the pilot, and 1t.
H. M. Jay of Yonkers, N. Y.
Searching parties, hampered the
first few days by bad weather, have
been unable to find any trace of
the plane since it left Crosse lie
field. The Civil Air Patrol and
State police Of Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and Maryland are contin-
uing the search.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
Warning Given Males

BOISE, Idaho P).-A sign in the
WAC barracks at Gowen Field:
The only males admitted will be
the regulars-air and ""
Evening star., 1945-06-05

Half Of the total resources of the
United States are now being de-
voted to waging war. Since Pearl
Harbor war expenditures have
amounted to about $20S, ,o00, ,0O0, 900,
More War Bond money is needed
Evening star., 1945-06-05
LosT-RATIoN BOOKS

GASOLINE RATION BOOK Al, name Of
LYMAN Williams. Phone Atlantic 4494. :
RATION BOOBS, Nos. 8 and T. Woodley
9423.
WAR RATION BOOK No. 4. issued to Alma
Kendrick, 1719 9th st. NV; lost in Alex
Ardria, Va. DU. 902S.
Evening star., 1945-06-05
FOUND,

CAMEO PIN found on 18th st. ne. June 4.
Owner call Dupont 1928
DOG, young, black and tan, part spaniel,
IN Bethesda. Oliver 337s.
GOLDsWEDDING RING, woman's; parking
Ext. 710SS, 9 to 8. 0o'
The daily monitor leader., 1945-08-02

Lake Township. also with a
$50 mill rate was boosted S233,
1856 in valuation, over Super
visor Adrian A. Lingemanng
a. assessment roll total of Sl2,-
4O3,250.
Highest rate OF any communi-
ty in Macomb County outside
of Warren and Lake was that
accorded Center Line, which
will pay county costs on a rate
Of $50 mills. The valuation Of
50, 566. 900 was boosted to 81
603,6l8.
Mount Clemens, which won
the equalization fight on thc
floor of the Supervisors meet
ing, received rate OF 10 mills
Its assessed valuation of Sic.
002.325, established by Super
visor (and City ASSESSOR Har-
old Lindsey was reduced -
Sl4.847 $50, an advantage Of
Sl,154 965.
1t was the only one Of 90
county governmental units 70
have its assessed value cut, ans
the reduction to Mount Clemens
taxpayers amounts to S6.400.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-08-02
Disease Seen RobbinQ
America Of Livestock

CHICAGO - W.D - Ameri-
cans are losing out on millions
of pounds of potential steaks and
chops - and not because of the
war.
Meat losses in the black mar
ket are minute in comparison
with losses through unnecessary
mortality among our farm ami
mails.
DR.. j. c.. Hardenbergh, execu-
tive secretary of the American
Veterinary Medical Association,
citing these waster dinners. says
drive to pre- ven livestock
losses through disease could save
millions of pounds of meat.
One-third of the nations pigs
die before they reach market
age; 20 per cent of all dairy
calves die before reaching pro-
ductive age, and one-fourth If
all laying house pullets die pre-
maturely, DR.. Hardenbergh says.
In one year more than four
million hogs were lost to the
market through tuberculosis and
ten million pounds of beef was
lost because of cattle grubs.
Carelessness in shipping animals
cost us IS million pounds of
meat a year, he said.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-08-02

Only about 25 per cent. main
ly middle aged business men,
working women, and c.cerly
people. hoped that unity will be
achieved during the confer, nee.
These people feel that ans diff
ference between the Allies would
result in additional difficulties
for Germany.
WANT SECURITY
About Is per cent, mainly
workers, have specific wishes.
Almost all want a certain meas
ure of security. They believe:
The value of German money
should be internationally reg
ulated. Taxes not yet paid should
be cancelled, since those who
owe them aren't making any
money. People who had been
forced into the party without
playing a role there should be
forgiven and not be treated as
Nazis. Some kind of central Ger
man authority should be Great
ed so that some general law basis
will exist. Measures should b.
taken to better the food situa-
ton. The question of German
war prisoners should be cleared
Relatively few among this
group hoped that the conference
would arrange for German cleo
tions, Many, however, toped that
the activities of German Com
municts would be somewha;
curbed. When asked wrat spe-
cific activity they meant, no an
sWers were given.
About five per cent declared
they had no suggestions to make
because they no longer cared TO.
politics.
About Is per cent, made up
almost exclusively. of younger
and middle-aged women, openly
said they hoped that the meet
ing would end in general dis
agreement. with an American
Russian war following. Germany
would not be country worth
living in until the Russians are
definitely be n, they said
Every German worth his salt
would gladly die in order to
help the Americans.
The prospect that Germany
would be the theater of such a
war didn't frighten them. When
told that there wasn't any pros
pect of such a-war and that the
Allies and Russia are the best
of friends despite small disagree
ments. they smile slyly and
knowingly.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-08-02
No Ban on Horse Meat
Reported in Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY - u p) -
Atty. Gen. Randell S. Cobb OF
Oklahoma has advised u. S. Rep.
Victor Wickersham. d., Okla,
that il Is not against the law
here 10 sell horse meat for hu-
man consumption.
WickerSham. in letter TO
Cobb, said one of his constitu-
ents had requested from him an
opinion about setting up a horse
meat market in Oklahoma. The
voter was Albert Keller of Gage.
Okla, who wanted 10 open a
meat market TO sell horse meat,
in view of the present beef and
pork shortage.
Cobb said. in answering Wick
ersham's inquiry, that there's no
law against selling horse meat
for human consumption in Ok
lahoma, but suggested that kel-
Ter get in touch with the OPA
for prices and other require
ments.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-08-02

When we designate nail sizes
as sixpenny. etc, ii comes from
the days when nails were used
for money in Scotland.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-08-02

Elevations in lissouri vary
from 230 feet above sea level on
the st. Francis river. TO about
1900 feet above sea level at
Taun Sauk Mountain.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-08-02

Germans with Allied unity.
These are the people who be-
lieved Truman and Churchill
were actually battling each 9TH
err.
The wide spread rumor that
the Russians had jailed Amer
lean and British soldiers evil
IDENTIFY originated in Potsdam.
It's basis is the fact that the
Russians have placed a heavy
guard around the enclosed area
where the Big Three meetings
are in progress.
About 10 per cent of those
who we're interviewed were OBJ
viously frightened. Spontaneous
ly each exclaimed: II hope that
nothing will happen to any of
the Big Three" They feared
that if any of the Big Three
leaders suffered injury. Berlin
would be made a second Lidice
This attitude is symptomatic of
their belief that the Nazi under
ground is very powerful and
that the Allies were unable to
protect their leaders against the
Nazis.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-08-02
BY CURT RIESS

BERLIN - Defeat has not up
rooted the propaganda so firm
ly implanted in German minds
through years Of Goebbelizing
and isolation from the rest of
the world
This | learned in a painstak-
ing canvass of opinion in Ber-
lin and its suburbs. To assure
impartiality, employed Ger
man civilians to assist me in
taking a popular poll. We in
tervieWed a cross-section Of peo-
pie (over 200) in all walks of
life. Here are some Of the start
ling beliefs held by many Ber-
liners after over three months
of Allied occupation:
|. That President Truman and
Winston Churchill are not on
speaking terms. and are busily
preparing for war against each
other.
2. That stories about the Big
Three conference are typical
propaganda Ga bout 20 per
cent, in fact. did not even know
such a conference was under
way in-Berfin).
3. That the Russians have ta-
ken many British and American
soldiers as prisoners, and are
holding them in Berlin sub
urb under heavy guard.
4. That a war between Russia
and the United States is in
evitable, and will take place on
German soil.
NO INTEREST IN "HISTORY"
Berllncrs seem strangely un-
aware of the historic significance
Of the Big Three parloy. They
don't appear to realize that the
treatment TO be accorded Ger
many is one of the major iSsues
TO be discussed, They are un-
concerned about the fact that
discussions taking place in the
German capital will affect the
future of the world.
The Germans are no longer
interested in history" They are
interested only in what the next
few days will bring TO them
Their chief concerns are food,
employment, and reconstruction
The people who didn't believe
the Big Three would meet in
Berlin had no explanation for
their doubts. They simply didn I
think -mas-truer- -Epen-when
they were convinced such a
meeting would be held, they
showed no spark Of interest.
About 10 per cent OF those in
tervieWed, all of whom I sus-
pcct TO be Nazis, openly de-
clared that they believed the
Big Three conference 10 be prop
aganda devised 10 impress the