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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13

The teTt OF Secretary OF the
Interior IckeS' letter OF resigna-
ton to President Truman fol-
lo1DS.
My Dear Mr.. President:
I have concluded to resign as
Secretary of the Interior and this
letter is for that purpose. I un-
derstand that hearings on the
proposed Anglo American oil
treaty, which I have nurtured
and raised by bottle from the be-
ginning. will begin on March 4. I
would like to be here for those
hearings.
Moreover, it will be no easy task,
shorthanded as I am in the Sec
retary's office, after such long
tenure, to put the affairs of the
department in order for my sue
ceSsor. For these reasons I pro-
pose that my resignation take
effect at the close of business on
March 81, but if you desire an
earlier date 1 will be glad to COM
ply with any wish that you may
express.
In thus presenting my resig-
nation without recourse, I am
moved by compelling circum-
stances over which I have had
no control. I cannot stay on
when you, in effect, have ex-
pressed a lack of confidence in
me.
No Apologies for Testimony.
I shall go somewhat at length
into my reasons for resigning as
Secretary of the Interior because
I owe a full explanation, not
only to you, but to the country,
in view of the evidence that the
political gnats in Washington
are already swarming. Despite
them, cannot accept the theory
that I should have told to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
Sonic Henie Is Granted
Divorce From Topping
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Feb. 13.-Sonja Henie,
ice skating motion picture star
who testified her husband told hel
to "go your way and I'll 60 mine,
was granted a divorce today from
Dan Topping, wealthy New York
sportsman.
They were married here July 4
1910, and Miss Henie testified they
separated January II, le45. They
had no children.
Miss Henie said a property settle
ment had been arranged and she
waived all other rights, asking res
toration of her maiden name.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13

House, in announcing acceptance at
1890 am. today, said Mr.. Truman
made the resignation effective this
Friday.
The President designated Assist
ant Secretary of the Interior Oscar
L. Chapman, a Coloradan who has
served Is years under Mr.. Ickes, to
take over the duties of the Secre-
tary until appointment of a perma-
nent Secretary.
The resignation of Mr.. Ickes, who
took Office with Franklin D. Roose-
welt in 1888, grew out of the Secre.
tary's outspoken opposition to the
nomination of Edwin w. Pauley
California Gilman and former treas.
urer of the Democratic Nationa
Committee, to be Undersecretary Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
Another Overseas Star
Is Available Today

The latest Overseas Edition
of The Star is available to-
day at both The Star Office
and the Victory Bond booth
in fansburgh's Department
Store.
Copies are free, with en-
velopes for. mailing, but the
edition is strictly limited.
Please do not waste q single
copy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
BY the Associated Press


NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-New
York, which for 10 Hours yester-
day was as quiet as a country
hamlet, roared back to its nor
NAL spirited pace today after
revocation of a fuel-saving edict
that imposed the most drastic
business shutdown in the city's
history.
just as suddenly as it had come,
the order clamping lid on all but
essential activities was lifted last
night by Mayor william ODwyer,
who said the fuel crisis had abated
and that the city now was assured
of sufiicient flow to meet essential
requirements.
The cause of it ala Today strike
Of $500 tugboat workers in New
York Harbor-remained unsettled,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
Regrets Unhappy Situation

OF the nomination after Mr.. Ickes
attack.
Regrets Unhappy Situation.
In his letter, Mr.. Ickes told the
President:
IT cannot accept the theory that
I should have told the Senate Naval
Affairs Committee anything less
than the truth. I have no apologies
for having done so, although I did
regret the unhappy personal posi-
ton in which I have involuntarily
found myself"
Mr.. Ickes had testified before the
committee that Mr.. Pauley had adj
vanced the "rawest proposition ever
made to me" by suggesting that
$500, 900 could be raised in campaign
contributions from California oil
men If the Government would dror
(See ICKES. Page A-5)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
Murphy and Ruiledge
Assailed by Keenan,
For Homma Dissent
"JudieioI Lynehings Viii
Not Occur He Declares;
Opinion Held Offensive

TOKYO, Feb. 13.-Joseph B.
keenan,, chief of the interna-
tional prosecution section. today
termed as offensive, to say the
least" the dissenting opinion
expressed by Supreme Court JUS
tees Frank Murphy and Wiley
B. Rutledge in the Homma war
crimes case.
Commenting on the justices con-
tention that procession of judicial
lynchings without due process of law
may now follow" Mr.. Keenan, said
THE American people can rest as
sured that a procession Of judicial
lynchings will not occur in the prose-
cution of any japanese war GRIM
inals."
Murphy Wrote Dissent,
The Supreme Court in a 6-to-2 de-
cision rejected an appeal of 1t. Gen
MaSaharu Homma for review OF
his death sentence, citing the opin-
ion delivered in the rejected appeal
of Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita. Both
were tried in Manila.
Justices Murphy and Rutledge dis
Sented in both cases. Justice Muir
ply, who wrote the dissenting HON.
ma opinion, said: Either we con-
duct such trial as this in the noble
spirit and atmosphere of our Con-
stitution, or We abandon all pre-
tense of justice, let the ages slip
away and descend to the level OF
|revengeful blood purges. Apparent
ly the die has been cast in favor OF
the latter case"
Text Of keenan, Comment.
The text of Mr.. Keenan's COM
ment:
THE American people can rest
assured that procession of Judi
|cial lynchings' will not occur IN the
prosecution of any japanese war
criminals. The mere suggestion that
Tyrr5vINT 4 Az ~ -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
Meningitis Epidemic
Checked in Yenun
BY The Associoted Press

YENAN, Feb. 13--An epidemic Of
spinal meningitis, fatal to nine Chi
nese, was reported under control to-
day In this Chinese Communist
capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13
New York Returns to Normal
AS Mayor Reyokes Fuel Ban
Tueboot Strike Still Unsettled, However;
Operators Moy Meet With Union Today

PHILADELPHIA AND Pittsburgh
back to normal as transit and
power strikes end. Page Ala
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13

the Navy and Mr.. Truman's supper
of the nomination after Mr.. Ickes
attack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-13

(See KEENAN,, Page Ala
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lSee ICKES, Page A-5.D
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Continued on Page Az, Column
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(See PEARL HARBOR, Page Ala
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on Page Al, Column 2
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See BUENOS AIRES, Page A.
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Temperatures today-High, As. at PM;
low, "a, at 7:08 am. Yesterday-High, Il,
at 10 am; low, IS, at 12:I5 am.
Evening star., 1946-05-11
Takoma Park Driver
Gets 60-Day Term

Howard Bonifant, 33, Takoma
Park, was sentenced yesterday in
Bethesda Police Court to serve so
days in the Montgomery County
Jail at Rockville on charges Of
driving while drunk and operating
a motor vehicle on revoked permit.
He also was fined $40 for failing
to have a registration card in his
possession and SIS for having license
plates on his car which were issued
to another vehicle Trial Magis-
trate James C. Christopher dis
missed charge of reckless driving.
In other cases, two men were
given 60-day suspended sentences in
the county Jail on drunk driving
charges and third man received
a similar sentence on an assault
charge.
Glenn B. Melton, Bethesda, and
Marine Corpl. Norman j. Bailey.
stationed at the Naval Medical Gen.
ter, Bethesda, received the sus-
pended Jail sentences after they
pleaded guilty to charges of driving
while drunk Justice Christopher
ordered the driving permits of both
men suspended pending action of
the State Department of Motor We
hicles.
Eric Finney. Sunnybrook, Md,
was given suspended Jail sentence
following his conviction on a charge
of assaulting B. A. Bowles, Rock
vile, April 26 at Chase and Wiscon-
sin avenues. Finney also was flped
S25 on the assault charge and $40
on a disorderly conduct charge.
Evening star., 1946-05-11
ChiIdren's S Hospital
Fund Drive Leaders
Seek Pastors Aid =

Pastors of churches of all faiths
have been invited to participate in
the drive to raise a 81 800 900 build.
ing fund for Children's Hospital
which opens Monday. Robert B.
Swope, general chairman Of the
campaign, announced today. I.
In a letter to the church leaders,
Mr.. Swope said the enterprise
needed a large base of popular un-
derstanding which can be obtained
only through the churches to be
successful"
Assisting him in making contact
with all faiths will be the Rev. DR..
C. Leslie Glenn, rector of ST. Johns
Episcopal Church, the Right Rev.
John K. Cartright Of the Cathedral
of st. Matthews, and Rabbi Norman
GerStenfeld of Washington Hebrew
Congregation.
In observance of National Hospital
Day and Mothers Day, Children's
Hospital will be open to visitors
from 2 pm. to pm. tomorrow.
Also scheduled for tomorrow is a
special broadcast arranged by Sta
ton VOL in behalf of the drive
The broadcast will originate from
a Pennsylvania Central Airlines
plane which will be flying so Grip
pied children over Washington. The
children who will be in the plane
are part of the number sponsored
by the Kiwanis Club who received
treatment at the hospitals clinic
The program, which will be aireC
from las pm. to 2 pm, will feature
interviews with the children by
Dale Morgan and Bill Brundige.
The opening dinner of the cam
paign will be held at $50 pm
Monday at the Mayflower with AS
sistant Secretary of State Will Clay
ton and Senator O'Mahoney, Demo
crat, Wyoming, as principal speak
ers, Mr.. Swope said.
Others to speak are Charles D.
Drayton, president of the hospitals
board of directors; DR.. Joseph S
Wall, chief of staff at the hospital
and Mr.. Swope. ...
Evening star., 1946-05-11

the mountain so they can carry on.
One of the problems is to arrange
for the parking of large numbers
OF cars; out of sight near the SUNNI.
so they will not be an eyesore.
Isn't that lovely picture on
the wall of this dining room?" he
asked yesterday as he showed the
outdoor luncheon tables of huge
timbers set in big-stone masonry
provided for visiting picnic parties
In the distance of the picture
were the fords of the Potomac where
Lee crossed on his way to Gettys-
burg; to the right the range of the
Catoctins, broken at Point of Rocks
where the Potomac goes through;
beyond them the Blue Ridge Noun
tains. A buzzard was soaring below
Men were at work removing tons
OF rock in extending the road an
other lap to climb the remaining
381 feet to the crest. At their new
highest point. they had erected a
temporary lookout of logs 20 feet
high.
Saw Sugar Loaf in 1899.
"HoW's the view up there?" Mr.
Strong shouted.
Its fine one" shouted back his
superintendent from the platform
I'VE won't have to remove many
trees.
Mr.. Strong first purchased part OF
his Sugar Loaf property in 1913
He first saw Sugar Loaf in 1899
on a bicycle trip. He is the son of
a wealthy Chicago lawyer who re-
tired to Washington late in the last
century and invested in F street
real estate which his son still owns
Evening star., 1946-05-11
Important D. {. Bills
-, 90, sai.35tt3
Listed for Action on
Capitol Hill Next Week

A heavy schedule of activities on
District affairs has been charted
for next week on Capitol Hill as
congressional machinery was speed
ed up in anticipation of the ap-
preaching pre-eleetion adjourn
ment. ,EE 81 81.
The fate of sum redevelopment,
suffrage, hospital center and other
measures may be indicated in COM
mittee or floor actions. About Is
measures are involved in the present
schedule.
Five measures already are sched-
uled to come up in the House Mon
day. Another may be added if the
House District Committee decides
today to report bill for operation
of child-care centers.
Young Confirma ton Expected.
Confirmation of the third-term
appointment of Commissioner John
Russell Young is expected in the
Senate Monday. Debate is expected
to develop the same day in the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee on the
McOarran bill to set up a Fedora
city charter commission to draft 6
home rule" plan and on the Hatch
subcommittee report to pave the
way for District representation ir
the House.
The Alternately Subcommittee OF
the House District Committee also
is to continue consideration Mon
day morning of the location of
television and radio towers.
| The five bills scheduled for House
action Monday deal with the pro-
posed creation of separate depart
ment OF correction under the
Board of Commissioners. dissolu-
ton of the Washington Railway &
Electric Co., provision of utility
services for temporary housing for
veterans, establishment of a volun-
tary system of apprenticeship here
and safeguarding the identities of
illegitimate children adopted by fos-
ter parents.
Hospital Hearing Slated.
Tuesday will bring a resumption
of hearings before the Healy SUBJ
committee of the House District
Committee on proposed adoption OF
commercial rent controls in the Dis
trict.
The McGehee subcommittee OF
the House is scheduled to meet in
executive session at 10 am. Thurs.
day to consider amendments to the
Senate-passed slum bill, and al
1890 am. will hold an open hearing
on hospital center legislation.
The McGehee Subcommittee has
scheduled hearing Friday morning
on a bill to reorganize the Board o1
Trustees of Southeastern University
OF the Young Mems Christian Asso.
citation to pave the way for certifi.
cation of its law school.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee is expected to report out next
week the District supply bill for tn.
next fiscal year.
Evening star., 1946-05-11
81, 900, O,OOOReseorch Institute
Planned by Virginia Scientists

search. New types of institutions
must be brought into being to .be
devoted entirely to the pursuit. OF
scientific knowledge s.-r
Under the committee proposal the
Virginia Research Institute would
be divided into division of basic
science which would be concerned
without respect to their commercial
application,. and a division Of. ap-
Piled science which would invests
gate the commercial application sos
scientific knowledge and the solu-
ton of industrial problems..== -.
The $4,000 900 to be sought by the
spring of 1949 would be expended
for land, buildings and equipment
to the amount of ST 100000 with the
other half going to an endowment
fund.
Mr.. Gwathmey said it was hoped
to obtain State aid for support of
the division of basic science.
At yesterdays session E. Schulk-
cum of Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute told agricultural scientists that
the Dismal Swamp should not be
converted to agricultural purposes.
Evening star., 1946-05-11

departments were briefly analyzed.
"In Alexandria and Arlington
routine home isolation and quaran-
tine are carried out by the nurses
of the department. Arlington has
the advantage of an excellently
equipped county laboratory. The
Maryland counties are somewhat
handicapped by the fact certain
laboratory specimens must be sent
to distant State laboratory.
"Diphtheria immunization has
in general, been carried on effec-
lively except in Alexandria, where
we could learn of no active pro-
gram. Local estimates indicate the
proportion of children under S
years of age who have been i'm
munized to be 65 per cent in Arling-
ton, go per cent in Fairfax, 81 pei
cent in Montgomery, but only 81
per cent in Prince Georges County.
Tick Fever Problem.
The problem of tick fever wa!
said to be of "some moment in thu
rural areas" Fairfax recently hae
four cases Gone fataD and Prince
Georges 10 cases (three fatal. Ac.
tive immunization programs have
been undertaken, particularly in
Fairfax.
The surveyors said of the Distric
Health Departments Bureau O.
Communicable Diseases: "We ar,
impressed with the research spiri
of the top leadership" The Burea,
of Laboratories was characterized a,
well organized" but badly crowded
for space.
Recommendations of a Distric
Medical Society subcommittee OF
child welfare to revise the code OF
communicable disease the surveyor
said, did not all seem to be iii
accord with the best public health
practice" Any alterations in tn,
code should conform, they said, t,
the recommendations of the Amer
lean Public Health Association.
Evening star., 1946-05-11
Food Conservation
Pleas 10 Be Made in
Churches Tomorrow

Protestant and Catholic congrega-
tions throughout the District to-
morrow will hear pleas by their
ministers and priests to aid in saw
ing food for overseas relief by cut
ting down individually on the
amount consumed each day.
DR.. Frederick E. Reissig, executive
secretary of the Washington Fed
Grafton of Churches, said a conser-
vation pledge will be asked of every
Protestant attending services tomor-
row. In addition, individual churches
will carry on their efforts to help
in the drive to provide more food
for needy countries in Europe and
Asia.
A campaign to collect 112,097
items of canned food for relief of
children in Europe and the Far East
will get under way tomorrow under
auspices of the War Relief Services,
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence. The Nationwide goal is 25,-
100000 cans of food.
Campaign director of the Arch
diocese of Baltimore and Washing
ton is the Rev. E. Jerome Winter,
pastor of st. Stephens Church,
Twenty fifth and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV. Father Winter asked that
all Washington contributors bring
their food to the nearest Catholic
church or school.
Jewish congregations last night
were appealed to by their rabbis to
deprive themselves of all unessen-
tial food and to set aside two wheat
less days a week. At the WASH
ington Hebrew Congregation, Rabbi
Noman Gerstenfeld, spiritual lead
er1 OF the congregation, called on
members of his temple to fast one
day, a week as a means of helping
;; In the drive against starvation over
seas.
Rabbi Gerstenfeld, who opened his
talk by reading the proclamation of
the District Commissioners asking
for help in conserving food mate
rials, declared "this is one of the
critical moments in history In which
we have a chance to show now we
have the spiritual strength of which
our lips often speak" He also said
the answer of American Jews an the
question of feeding the Nazis would
be to give them food, saying This
Is from me to you. I am a Jew"
Evening star., 1946-05-11
Sugar Loaf Road Carved Out
For Public to Enjoy Mountain

The man who is giving Sugar Loaf
Mountain to the people has ex-
planned his plans to enable motorists
to reach the GOODNESS of its 1921 foot
summit-an hours drive from
Washington.
Gordon Strong owns Sugar Loaf
a mountain that rises like Gibraltar
from sea of fiat Maryland fields
and dominates the skyline north
west of Washington. At intervals
he has cut away the forest along a
road he is building to the summit
to make outlooks.
Today he will have a first meet
ing of the trustees of Strong
hold, Inc, and acquaint them with
his problems of developing Sugar
Loaf as a sanctuary from summer S
heat.
Given to People.
He and his wife and Donald A.
Mccormack of the Riggs National
Bank, are the trustees in the philan-
thropic arrangement announced two
weeks ago. Today they will
elect James H. Gambrill, jr., and
Holmes D. Baker, both of Frederick
Md, as fellow trustees. Several
Washington trustees will be added
later, Mr.. Strong said, as three
fourths of those who visited Sugar
Loaf before the war came from
Washington. The trust was formed
to carry out provisions Mr.. and Mrs
Strong first made in their wills Is
years ago that the mountain should
continue open for popular enjoy
ment.
Mr.. Strong wants his board OF
trustees familiar with his plans fol
Evening star., 1946-05-11
Four District Veterans
British Brides Due

The English wives of four dis
charged servicemen living in the
District are due to arrive Wednesday
in New York aboard the Barry, the
Associated Press reported today.
They are: Rita Massard, 81, wife
of Frank E. MasSard, 1884 Columbia
road NV; Evy F. Spain, "a, wife
of William Spain, l20 C street NE,
an employe of the Federal Housing
Administration; Eileen C. Gardner,
20, wife of Randall M. Gardner,
1907 Brentwood road NE, employed
in the municipal architects Office;
Olive w. Fitzmaurice, 20, and baby
Carol, the family of Jack v. Fitz-
maurice, 900 Evarts street NE, who
is employed in a leather goods shop.
Evening star., 1946-05-11
BY the Asscejoted Press

RICHMOND, Va, May 11.-Plans
for. proposed Virginia Institute
for Scientific Research to place, the
Old Dominion in a position of
scientific leadership in the world
were under consideration here to-
day by the Virginia Academy OF
Science.
"Details of the ,plan, laid before
tie academy yesterday, call. for a
s1D00,000 institute designedIto be-
come reality blythe spring of 1e49
"A: A:report on the plan was presented
by Allan T. Gwathmey of the Uni
versity Of Virginia school Of chem
istry, a member of the special
Acadamy Committee appointed for
the purpose.
IF Virginia is to take her place
among leaders of the modern world -
Mr.. Gwathmey said, "she must plan
for science on a far greater scale
than she has ever planned before.
The need for research is so great
today that educational institutions
and industrial laboratories, with
their many diverse duties, cannot
carry the full responsibility for re-
Evening star., 1946-05-11

ters. He was picked up on suspicion
and taken to Aachen when couple
Of lock-picking devices were found
on his person.
Full Course of Torture.
The Gestapo had a standard rou-
tine intended to persuade intelli-
gence agents to admit their identity.
Maj. Nicholson was given the full
course, including shock treatment
with an electrode in each ear and
extraction of teeth so filings could
be checked for secret messages. Gen.
eral beatings were administered lib
orally between the more specialized
tortures.
Il didn't break" the slender,
graying officer relates. II don't know
why. I guess you just get stubborn. !"
Prior to his OSS duty, Mai. Mich
olson was with the Army Air Forces
in the Normandy invasion and Sue
ceeding operations, during which he
made several parachute jumps. Be-
fore joining United States forces in
September, 1943, he was in Cana
dian Army intelligence. In the
World War he served in the British
Army as sergeant major with the
5th Seaforth Highlanders.
Intends to Stay Here.
A native of Lynn, Mass, Mai
Nicholson has lived in New Eng
land and Carada, but has found
Washington to his liking and in
tends to continue his art career
here. He is married and lives at
$50 Jackson street, arlington, Va.
He now is at work on a Washing
ton cherry blossom scene, using for
guidance photographs taken with a
German camera he acquired while
working for the OSS.
Il took it from a Nazi SIS officer"
he explains. He gave me an argu-
nent and had Tn Sboot hin,