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Evening star., 1946-01-20
36th Division Calls on Congress
To Probe 'Ropido River Fiosco'
Gen. Clark Accused
In Resolution at
Texas Reunion
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BROWNWOOD, Tex, Jan. 10.
With yells of approval, mem
bers of the 36th Division, in
reunion here, adopted a resolu-
ton today calling for a con-
gressional investigation of the
divisions tragic Rapido River
engagement January 20 and 81,
1914.
The resolution declared almost
1900 casualties were suffered by the
unit in two crossings of the treach-
erous Italian stream in the vicinity
of San Angelo.
Only two noes" were heard when
voice vote was called for.
The resolution was read by Car
Phinney, Dallas attorney and for
mer transportation officer of ths
division, and seconded by Maj. Gen
Claude G. Birkhead of San Antonio
who once commanded the division
Gen. Birkhead is now retired.
BE it resolved" the resolution
concluded, sthat the men OF the 36tl
Division Association = petition
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Freezing Rain or SIeet
Forecast Here Toniuhf

Freezing rain or sleet threatens
to make streets and highways dan
gerous to motorists tonight in Wash
ington and vicinity. according to
the Weather Bureau. Cold and
clear weather should resume to-
morrow, the forecaster said.
Today is due to be cloudy with
occasional light snow in the after
noon. A temperature rise to 80 de-
grees is forecast. BY sundown a
storm developing in the Gulf States
may intrude warm air into the cold
air now over the Capital and change
the snow into rain or sleet.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Senate Faces Overtime Sessions
During FiIibuster Against FEPC

tinuous sessions until the filibuster
is broken. He proposes 24-hour in
stead Of seven-hour meetings.
Senator Chavez, Democrat, OF
New Mexico, another pro-FEPC
man, said Senator Morse may have
discovered a filibuster buster.
"Of course, we're older than the
opposition, but I think we have
more staying power" he told re-
porters.
The Southerners claim they have
more than enough votes to block
IA move to shut OF debate, which
would require two-thirds major
ity.
However. they don't have to worry
about that for q while. They
grabbed the ball from their oppo-
nents Friday and began the time
consuming process Of reading and
(See FILIBUSTER, Page A-50
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Son Of Max Gardner
Found Dead in Office
By the Associated Press.
CryrT nv At ~

BY the Associated Press.
SHELBY, N. c., Jan. 19.-J. w
Becker" Gardner, 35. executive
vice president of the Cleveland
Cloth Mills of Shelby, was found
dead in his Office tonight, sho,
through the heart.
Coroner Roscoe Lutz said death
apparently was due to suicide.
- The eldest son of former Gov. O
Max Gardner and Mrs. Gardner OF
Shelby and Washington. he headed
the family's large industrial and
business interests. Mr.. Gardner had
been ill for the last week, but his
condition was not regarded as
serious.
His body was found by friend
who called at the Office. Death re-
suited from a As caliber pistol bull
let. When found, Mr.. Gardner was
Slumped in a chair. Scrubbed notes
on his desk indicated he was in the
act of transferring an insurance
policy, but the transfer was never
completed.
His father is chairman of the Wa,
Mobilization and Reconversion Ad.
visory Board In Washington.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate faces the dreary pros
pect of doing nothing this week, and
staying at it seven hours day.
A Southern filibuster against a
bill to establish a permanent Fair
Employment Practice Commission
has the lawmakers marking time
in legislative dead-end street.
The Republican minority, most of
whom favor the antidiscrimination
bill, decided at meeting yesterday
to insist that the Senate stay In
session every day this week until at
least 6 O'Clock.
A Democratic spokesman said the
majority would move to meet at II
m, instead Of the customary noon
hour. s5.
Senator Morse, Republican, Of
Oregon insists there should be con-
Evening star., 1946-01-20
"I am being kidnaped,"

This scribbled, unsigned note
found on a Maryland highway
turned police in a neN direction last
night in their search for 19-year-old
Ruth Sunderlin, missing since she
left dance at the National Press
Club last Sunday.
The latest clue was disclosed
shortly after her father, Robert
Sunderlin, 46, Meadowlands, MINI
farmer, arrived yesterday to join the
search for the daughter who has
written him three times each week
since she left home. She has been
employed in the Adjutant Generals s
ONCE in the Munitions Building.
The note, found by Mrs. Byron
Darby of Hyattstown, Nd, on Route
240, contained q District automobile
license number. Police said they
were investigating the owner Of the
car. They refused to say whether
they had questioned him personally
and admitted that 1t was "a long
shot,"
They planned to check the hand
writing with letters written by the
girl. The note. in pencil on a piece
of lined paper, appeared to have
been written hurriedly.
Mrs. Darby found the note Thurs
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Attock Helped Secure
Beochheud at Anzio,
Army Declares

b. the Associated Press.
A War Department spokes-
man said yesterday that the
Allied soldiers who fell in the
Battle of the Rapido River
helped make successful the
landing on Italy's Anzio beach
head in January, 1914.
He said one of the purposes OF
the Rapido assault was to keep Ger
man pressure off the initial beach
operations at Anzio.
This diversionary result was OBJ
tanned, the spokesman said, adding
that the men who fell in the three
day battle did not die in vain
About 1000 casualties occurred ir
the operations, he said, with ap-
proximately half of these killed OF
wounded and half taken prisoners.
War Departments Story.
If the German command had no
been forced to deal with the Rapidt
operation, the spokesman said, Il
would have stripped its Rapido line
to skeleton personnel and diverted
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Wedemeyer Fights Bon
On Newsmen in Mukden
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 19.-Lt. Gen.
Albert C. Wedemeyer, American
commander in China. told a press
conference today he would dispatch
a request Immediately to General
issimo Chang Kai-shek to permit
Allied correspondents to enter Muk-
den and other Manchurian cities.
At present, only Chinese Central
News Agency correspondents are
permitted by Chiang to proceed be-
yond 1t. Gen. Tu Li-ming's head
quarters at Chinhsien so long as
Soviet occupation troops remain in
Mukden
Gen. Wedemeyer said he felt the
reoccupation story was legitimate
international news and that he
would radio Chang Immediately
mot only for Americans but all corr
respondents.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Florida Woman Enters
Race for Senate Seat
BY the Associated Press.

TALLAHASSEE. Fla. Jan. 49,
Mrs. Polly Rose Balfe of Fort Lau-
derdale, the first Florida woman
ever to qualify to run for the Senate
today entered the race for the seat
to be vacated by Senator Andrews
when his term expires in 1s47.
Mrs. Balfe, former member of
the Democratic National Committee
will oppose former Gov. s ,essard L.
Holland, who qualified az a candi-
date January 7.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
KimmeI Testifies Knox.
Insisted He Sent War.
Warning December 6.
Neither He Nor Hart
Got Message, However,
Admiral Declares
By J. A. O'LEARY and
CARTER BROOKE ZONES

A warning message which the
late Secretary of the Navy Knox
insisted he sent the naval COM
manders in Hawaii and Manila
the day before Pearl Harbor-
a mystery dispatch which, If it
ever left Washington, apparently
vanished in the Pacif1c-was
described for the first time
yesterday to the congressional
investigating committee.
Senator Brewster, Republican OF
Maine, brought out from Rear
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, that
Secretary Knox said, on his hurried
visit to Hawaii. a few days after
the attack, that he had sent such
warning.
Il told him." said Admiral Kim
mel, that was sure no such dis
patch was ever received, but would
check up"
Warning Not Received.
The former Pacific Fleet chief
said he made a careful check with
his communications officers and
found that the warning was not
received on December 6, 1941, nor
did such dispatch reach the COM
mander Of the Asiatic Fleet in
Manila, Admiral (now SENATOR
Thomas c. Hart.
Admiral Kimmel explained that
dispatches for the Asiatic Fleet were
routed through Pearl Harbor and
copied there if the communications
officer was so instructed.
Admiral Kimmel's recollection was
that Secretary Knox described the
message as warning OF an imme-
date outbreak of war, but had nc
copy of It and did not repeat its
text.
Senator Brewster told a reporter
after the hearing that he had beer
unable to find any record of such
message at the Navy Department
ard If, as Mr.. Knox always insisted
| it had been written, what became
of it remains a mystery. Later wit
nesses will be asked about it, the
Senator indicated.
Knox Was Sure.
Secretary Knox was sure he hac
sent the message" Admiral Kinme
testified. HE was not certain
whether it was addressed to me
with instructions for it to 60 also
to>Admiral Hart or to Admiral Hart
with orders for me to copy it,
Summing up his interrogation o1
the admiral, Senator Brewster
asked: you feel that the people ir
Washington had far less reason te
be surprised at the japanese attack
Pearl Harbor than you had?"
Il think that 1t is a perfectly rea-
sonable assumption" said Admira
Kimn1el, ''in view of the informa
tion they had which I did not have.
Senator Brewster contended, in
the course of his examination, that
the only light which had been shed
on the White House attitude the day
of the attack was an interview with
Mrs. Roosevelt, printed several years
(See PEARL HABOR, Page A-14.)
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Citizens Federation
Opposes Extension
OF White House Wine
Resolution Urges Use
Of State Department
Building Space

The Federation of Citizens
Associations voted unanimously
last night to oppose plans for
extension of the west wing OF
the White House.
Instead, the resolution adopted by
the Federation suggested that "a
much better plan would be to have
the extra Office space desired located
in the Department of State build
ing
Introduced by Walter F. Wasson
first vice president, the resolution
states that the White House was de-
signed for home and not an Office
building and that the President de-
serves as much privacy as possible
The addition of $1,000 square feet
of office space, including an audi
torium to seat 375 persons for press
conferences, radio addresses ano
other functions, would destroy one
of the few historical shrines left ir
Washington, Mr.. Wasson declared
Follows Earlier Action. j,
The Federation's action closely
followed the stand of the Society
of Natives and the Association OF
Oldest Inhabitants, which ex.
expressed opposition to the plan
Individual members of Copurece opf
the District Chapter of the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects also
have expressed disapproval of the
proposed expansion.
The Federation also went on rec.
ord as opposing the commissioners
plan to build 800 temporary hous.
ing units for veterans. Joseph H
Deckman, chairman of the Fedora.
tion's Housing and Rent Contro
Committee, told the group that tht
(See FEDERATION. Page A-70
Evening star., 1946-01-20
10 Of Nazis' Cossacks
xiii Selves 10 Prevent
Forced Return 10 Reds
n Others Who Fought for
Reich Are Injured in
Fleming Dochou Borrocks
By the Associated Press,


BAD TOELZ, Germany, Jan.
19.-Ten Russians who fought
for the Germans on the Eastern
Front committed suicide and 81
others slashed themselves in a
flaming prisoners barracks at
Dachau today when American
soldiers tried to force them to
return to Russia, Sd Army head
quarters announced.
The Russians at first had barri-
caded themselves in the barracks,
set it aflre, stripped off their clothes,
linked arms and invited American
soldiers and Polish guards to shoot
them. Not shot was fired by the
Americans, who tossed tear gas into
the barracks and rushed in, armed
only with billy clubs, headquarters
said.
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, Amer
ican commander in chief in Europe
said the only Russians forced to re-
turn home under the Yalta agree
ment on repatriation were those
proved to have been Soviet Army
deserters, to have served in German
uniforms ,or to have aided enemies
of the Soviet Union.
None is being forcibly repatriated
merely from acts of ordinary en-
ployment in German industry or ag-
|riculture, or simply for preferring
not to return, Gen. McNarney en-
phasized.
The wounded, prevented from kill
ing themselves by the American
guards, were taken to a hospital. All
had slit their throats or inflicted
other wounds, apparently with razor
(See SUICIDES, Page A-14.)
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Observation-Disclosures
Meat Shortage Likely
As Strike Continues
SO, 900 More Workers
Muy Walk Out if
Cancellation Fails
D. C. CAN COUNT ON only 15es
of its meat supply. Page B-1.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A meat shortage exceeding
anything during the wartime
rationing period appeared in
prospect yesterday as efforts to
settle the four-day-old strike of
263,000 packing houseworkers
shifted from Washington to Chi
cago. =.
Public hearings before the fact
finding panel as scheduled to begin
in Chicago Tuesday on demands of
the CIO United Packinghouse Work
ers and the AFL Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Work.
men. The panel has orders, to re-
port to Secretary of Labor Schwel-
lenbach February Is.
Meanwhile, Federal conciliation
efforts continued.
The CIO union asks 171a-cents-
an-hour wage increase and con-
tinued negotiations on an additional
71a cents. The AFL affiliate,s de-
mand is Is cents. The highest
counter proposal from any of the
major packers affected, including
Swift, Armour, Cudahy, Wilson and
Morrell, has been 10 cents.
Meat Stocks Low.
AS retailers throughout the Ma
ton reported increasingly critical
depletion of stocks and stockyard
receipts fell off, an indication that
the situation may grow worse came
when acknowledgement con-
ferences ended without settlement
Friday.
Don Mahon, president of the un-
affiliated National Brotherhood OF
Packinghouse Workers, said his
union, with membership of $4,000
would file a 30-day strike notice, il
Cancellation efforts fail.
The brotherhood Is not on strike
If it should join the walkout, it
would halt operations at many of
the plants whose combined produc-
ton is already inadequate to meet
demands.
In Chicago, policemen yesterday
seized 40 pickets and hustled them
off in patrol wagons to a police
station. Capt. George Barnes OF
the labor detail said they would
be booked for alleged interfering
with and intimidating of workers.
Pickets Issue Passes.
Police Capt. John Ryan, at the
scene, said the pickets were bunch
ing up and preventing packinghouse
office workers from going through
the gate to a Swift g. Co. plant
Striking unions have agreed to per-
init office workers entry and egress
but have set up a system for issuing
passes to such employees.
Stanley Piontek, 35, chairman of
the CIO Swift local, and one of
those seized, told reporters the
pickets were simply checking Office
workers passes.
The fact-finding panel announced
1t will consider the industry's de-
mand for price relief, as well as
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Gen. Arnold Reported
Resting in Lima Club
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
LIMA, Peru, Jan. 19.-Gen. H. H.
Arnold, commander of United States
Army Air Forces, was reported to-
night to be resting comfortably at
a country club after receiving treat
ment at the American clinic for a
heart ailment.
He has been touring the west
coast Of South America.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Rioting EnguIfs
Jerusalem After
Radio Is Blasted
; KILLED, 5 Wounded
As Bombings Mark
Terrorist Outbreak
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JERUSALEM, Jan, 1e.-Riot-
ing, explosions and gunfire
spread throughout Jerusalem
tonight in a bloody outbreak by
terroriSts in which at least three
persons were killed and five
wounded, with casualties among
both police and attackers.
The Palestine radio station went
off the air after attacks on its build.
ing and bombing of an electric
power station nearby in st. Paul's
Road.
The military radio station JCPA
said police opened fire and attackers
fired back after the bombing.
Third Outbreak in Month.
Part of the Jerusalem prison wall
was wrecked in subsequent explo-
sion, in which the military radio
said one British police officer was
killed and another wounded.
A British army officer was killed
later, the broadcast added, and
other casualties included a dead
Jew brought to Haddassah hosp;-
tai on Mount Scopus.
The broadcast said three wounded
Jews. who arrived at the hospital
in a taxi containing a Bren gun
and bombs, were arrested immed-
lately.
The outbreak was the third in
a month in Palestine. Terrorists
rloted twice in late December.
Reports from. Tel Aviv said ex-
plosions and gunfire occurred there
also. Both at Tel Aviv and the
nearby village of Ramatgan leaf
let's, spread by terrorists, pro-
claimed: I'VE will fight to the last
drop of blood"
The explosions in Jerusalem were
spread over at least three hours,
starting about 8 pm. with a blast
near the radio station. Apparently
no one was killed or injured in this
first BLAST nor was there any dam
age to the building.
Steel. helmeted police and soldiers
In armored cars rushed through the
streets as blast followed blast and
sporadic gunfire cracked. Many per-
sons near the scene of the first
attack were herded together and
detained.
Curfew is Extended.
Strong police and military detach-
ments spread throughout the area
and established posts on rooftops
and in the streets, frequently check
ing the identity cards of passersby.
An II pm. curfew, already in effect
in Central Jerusalem, was extended
throughout the city.
A mine which exploded in st
Paul's Road at the height of the
disturbances overturned military
truck, but its soldier occupants
escaped unhurt.
There was no official indication
near midnight whether the situa.
ton was considered under control
Gunf1re was still being heard.
The radio station and the prison
wall appeared to have been the foca
points of the attack, although II
was reported unoficially that at.
tackers created diversions near the
police stations, drawing tommy CUR
fire.
1t was stated officially that prompt
action by police prevented any Sc.
rious damage to Government prop.
erty except that to the prison wall
Evening star., 1946-01-20

Radio Programs, Pe. Clio
Complete Index. Pg. AZ
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Great Steel Strike Under Way,
With 10000 Out Tomorrow;
Plate Glass WaIkout Is Settled
Kaiser Agreement
Only Other Bright
Spot in Picture

WESTERN ELECTRIC REJECTS
union offer to take 17h% raise.
Page A.
Evening star., 1946-01-20

tSee UNO, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1946-01-20

(See SUICIDES. Page A-14.)
Evening star., 1946-01-20

(See STEEL, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1946-01-20

(See MEAT, Page A.
Evening star., 1946-01-20

{See PITTSBURGH, Page A-4.
Evening star., 1946-01-20

(see FEDERATION, Page A-7J
Evening star., 1946-01-20

(See LABOR, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1946-01-20

tsee RAPIDo, Page A-5o
Evening star., 1946-01-20

(see 36th DIVISION, Page A-5)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-10
Terminates Four
Doy Old Scale

Kansas City, Mo.-FP).-Street
car operators entered 1916 with the
prospect of bitter dispute with the
Kansas City Public Service Co.,
over signing of new contract.
The 1916 contract, which was eff
ective as of Jan. l, 1916, was not
signed until Dec. 27 after year
long dispute over provisions and in
terpretations had finally been re-
solved by the regional War Labor
Board.
Even before the contract was
signed the company served notice
on the Amalgamated Assn. of Street
Electric Railway & Motor Coach
Employees (AFL) Dec. terminating
the contract at the end of the year.
The union has asked that the 1915
contract be carried over into 1916
until a new contract is written. An
offer of 7c hourly increase by the
company, bringing the wage scale
to 97c an hour, has not been accept
ed by the union. The company and
union are also in dispute over the
method of arbitrating disputes.
At two meetings held to accom-
modate night and day shifts, union
members authorized their officers to
call special meeting of street car
men early in January to consider
what action is to be taken if the
company persists in its refusal to
carry over the 1916 agreement.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-10
Armed japanese
Aid Marines In
Chino Patrol

Washington-(FP). = Spokesman
for the U. S. State Dept. maintained a
tight-l Tipped silence Dec. 27 when asked
for comment on a story from China
published in the New York Times Dec.
26 saying that American marines are
guarding railroads alongside armed
Japanese troops they were allegedly
sent to disarm.
When reports of joint American-Jap-
anese activity in North China first
appeared, it was stated that the
stories were untrue and the marines
would remain only until they had sup
ervised the surrender and disarming
of the remaining Japanese forces.
The Times story, a special dispatch
from Correspondent Henry R. Leiber-
man, was datelined Chinwangtao,
China, Dec. %. There was no expla-
nation of the four day delay.
Leiberman wrote that marines
"along the 100 miles of railway that
they are helping guard between Tient-
sin and Chinwangtao keep asking cor
respondents to give them the real
low down on the Chinese political sit
uation and why they are in North
China.
"They ask me, too, why we're here,
said marine lieptenant. "As an Off
Ger l am surpassed to tell them, but
YOU can't tell man that he's here
to disarm japanese when he's guard
ing the same railway with Japanese,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-10
Leiberman wrote.

Leiberman wrote.
The Times man said a railway trip
from Tientsen and Chinwangtao and
stopover at Tangshan, where the
Kailan British owned) coal mines are
situated, provided a curious spectacle
of marines, armed japanese, Chinese
National forces, and at least one divi-
sion Of former (Japanese) puppet
troops-all cooperating in protecting
the railway and the Kailan mines.
"How do you like that?" asked q
red-haired private, Joseph Cunning
ham of Pittsburgh as a japanese SEN
try snapped to attention and saluted
"We fight them in Okinawa and now
here they salute all over the place,
but we never return il"
The only word from the State Dept.
was an explanation that "new pol
icy" gives Gen. George C. Marshall,
new ambassador to China, authority
TO issue all statements on American
policy as it relates to China, Marshal
was silent.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-10

Prompt reopening Of the mails to
Germany and Japan was recently urg-
ed on Acting Secretary of State Dean
Acheson by the American Civil Liber-
ties Union 'to remove the last re-
naming barriers to worldwide free
dow of mail service" The mails have
been reopened with all other enemy
countries. Officers Of the union, seek
ing to determine why postal service
has not been resumed to Germany,
were advised by Second Assistant
Postmaster General Gael Sullivan in
charge Of foreign mails, that with
out adequate transportation facilities
and a stabilized postal administration
within the country concerned, mail
service from the United States cam
not be undertaken"
According to the union further in
quiries developed that in the case of
Germany political reasons are more
persuasive than the difficulties of
transportation. The Secretary of State
was urged to make known to the
public its attitude, if political consid-
erations are standing in the way"
The union cited many appeals to
the government to resume postal SER
vice in order that thousands of
Americans may make contact with rel
atives, and through the parcel post
help relieve widespread suffering"