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Evening star., 1946-01-25
AAF Major Is Found
Badly Cut in Car

Maj. Reed w. Rowley, As, AAF
of Merritt, Long Island, N. Y, or
terminal leave, was found in his
car near the White House at 5:3(
am. today with deep slashes on his
wrists and beneath his knees and a
severe cash on his left thigh.
He was admitted to Emergency
Hospital in undetermined condition
suffering from loss of blood. He was
to be transferred to Boiling Field
Hospital later today.
Police said a small penknife and
a larger knife with a inch
blade were found in the car, which
was parked on East Ellipse road
The officer was wearing his blouse
but no trousers.
Police quoted Maj. Rowley as say
ing he slashed himself because "he
just wanted to relax"
The officer was found by Police
man Howard F. Mowry of the third
precinct, who had been told that an
automobile had been parked near
the White House for several hours
with its motor running.
Maj. Rowley told police he had
just come from the AAF separation
center at Greensboro, N. C.
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Contract Prisoners
To Stay Until April
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Truman today ordered
a temporary postponement in the
return to Germany of contract
prisoners of war, in view of a United
States agricultural labor shortage.
"Contract" prisoners are those
who under terms of the Geneva
Convention work for private en-
ployers on specified types of jobs
The employers pay the prevailing
wage, but only 80 cents per day is
given to the prisoner, the remainder
being turned over to the Federal
Government.
The White House acted after pro-
tests had been received against the
announced War Department policy
to withdraw all war prisoner labor
from industry and agriculture by the
end of February.
Mr.. Truman said return to Ger
many of such prisoners will be de-
ferred for go days and that no
.'contract" prisoners will be returned
prior to April l.
Inc announcement said the action
was taken to meet a labor shortage
in the production of sugar beets,
cotton and pulpwood.
The President further announced
that he did not contemplate any
further extension of the period
within which the prisoners would
be returned.
Evening star., 1946-01-25
JapCampCommandeI
Sentenced TO Hama
By the Associated Press

YOKOHAMA, Jan. 25.-Scholarly
kalchl Hirate, government librarian
who became commandant of a pris-
oner OF war camp, was convicted
To-Day and sentenced to be hanged
Tor responsibility in the deaths OF
four British and Dutch soldiers.
Hirate appeared surprised as Col
Oliver E. Trechter, president of the
military commission which convict
ed him, read the verdict. He was
convicted of every charge except
neutrality-suspicious. of Red Cross
supplies.
After sentence was pronounced
the prosecutor, Maj. Joshua J. Evans
OF Vinita, Okla. made public a
radiogram. from the mother of Pfc
Raymond c. Suttle of Haeleigh
England. 1t said in part:
We are so glad the Americans
are trying this brute I
know you will do your best for
tRaymond's) broken-hearted moth
er. They have murdered my lovely.
curly-headed, blue-eyed baby. Will
you please get this message through
for me? It's just this: Ask one of
your men to give him a blow of
some kind before they hang him,
Tor me. Please, I beg of you, to
grant me just this request"
The message was not introduced
at the trial, and Hirate never heard
it,
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Judge Admits Vinei
As u. :. Witness in
Trial Of Connors
Defense Had Protested
Thut Name Wasn't on
Required PretrioI List

Justice David A. Pine of Dis
trict Court today held that Jo-
seph Little Joe" Vinci, alleged
accomplice, can testify in the
trial of Raymond Connors, 80
Iyear-old former automobile
salesman of Yonkers, N. Y,
charged with the trailer mur-
ders of Edward Barker and Pany
Casbarian.
Vinci was challenged as witness
by the defense because his name was
not on list of witnesses served on
the defendant before trial as re-
quired by Federal statute.
Mr.. Barker and Mr.. Casbarian
were shot February %, 1a45, in a
trailer Office on a parking lot at
Fourteenth and N streets NV. Mr..
Barker was an auto dealer and Mr..
Carbarian operated rooming house
next door to the parking lot.
Vinci is in the District Jail. In
dicted with Connors in August. he
was not listed as a possible witness
because he was a fugitive when the
trial started, but he was arrested
four days later.
Justice Pine. in making the Vinci
decision, said the court must give
the law sensible and not absurd con-
struction. Now if there were any
showing that the failure to include
Vinci's name was caused by trickery
or carelessness or unintential omis-
sions or those things which are eu-
phemistically called trial tactics,
I would unhesitatingly forbid the
use of Vinci as witness pursuant
to the statute" Justice Pine said.
No Bad Faith Shown.
But there is no such showing, 5"
he continued, land under those cir
cumstances-and there being no ap-
pearance of bad faith on the part
of the Government-I shall follow
the opinion of the Schneider case,
which seems to me to be directly
in point and I shall construe the
statute to permit the testimony of
Vinci under the circumstances of
this case"
James j. Laughlin, defense coun-
sci, argued that the relatively few
cases in the legal literature on
this point of law over the 150-year
history of the statute was due to
the mandatory nature of the pro-
vision. He advanced that a Judge
could not hold otherwise than to
exclude such a witness even IF it
flies in the face of common sense. !"
Mr.. Laughlin read into the record
an English law requiring notice to
the defendant before trial of wit
nesses to be called, which was
passed in the reign of Queen Anne
1702-1714.
The argument, which took several
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Lubin Gives Up Statistics
And Reparations Posts

Resignation of Isador Lubin as
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
and associate United States rep
resentative on the Allied Repara-
tions Commission, effective January
81, was announced by the White
House today.
President Truman wrote Mr.. Lubir
that he was accepting his resigna-
tion with reluctance" He referred
to Mr.. Lubin's 13 years in Govern
ment service in laudatory terms
declaring that he had built the
Bureau of Labor Statistics into "an
institution that has commanded the
respect of all recognized leaders
The President added that in his
work on the Preparations Commits.
sion he had helped to bring most
vital and complicated undertaking
to successful conclusion"
Mr.. Lubin told the President that
personal obligations were re.
sponsible for his resignation.
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
who disclosed the resignation, was
asked whether Edwin Pauley will be
replaced as head of the American
reparations group in view of his
nomination for Undersecretary ol
the Navy.
Mr.. Ross said he didn't know ane
was not quite certain of the present
status of the Preparations Commits.
sion.
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Radar 10 Moon
0pensNew
ToAstronomerS
Army Contact May
Answer Question of
Life in Outer Space
pictures on Page A-3.)

The Army today claimed the
worlds first. scientific, contact
with the moon in a Jules Verne
feat which Spanned $4,000 miles
OF outer space by radar.
Government astronomers said the
achievement might lead to the an
swer of the age-old question whether
any form of life exists on the moon
Another possibility was that ii
might usher in radio control for
super-range jet or rocket projectiles
which could be kept lowering omi-
nously above the earth in the strato-
sphere.
Peacetime Application Seen.
The War Department reported
that the results of the experiment
promise valuable peacetime as well
as wartime applications. Far
rowing space ships were listed as one
OF the "less likely" applications.
The first radar contact with the
moon was made January 10, it was
disclosed, and has been successfully
repeated several times.
The experiment has been carried
out by Signal Corps scientists, work.
ing at the Evans Signal Laboratory
at Belmar on the New Jersey coast.
line. The Army released the frs
details last night.
212 Seconds for Bounce"
1t took only 21a seconds, the re-
port revealed, for a radar echo tt
bounce back from the moon, normal
ly about 238,857 miles distant from
the earth.
Specially designed equipment usec
in the test shot radar pulses into
space at the speed of light-186 OO(
miles per secondhand other appa.
ratus picked up the returning echo
The War Department frankly
acknowledged that it was impossible
at this stage to forecast what the
success of the experiment woulc
make possible.
I0nOsphere Pierced.
Maj. Gen. Harry c. Ingles, Signal
Corps chief, said the immediate
significance was that scientists know
for the first time with certainty
that very high frequency radio
wave from the earth can penetrate
the electrically charged ionosphere
which envelops both earth and
Evening star., 1946-01-25
So Steel Fabricators
Protest CLOS Refusal
OF Separate Contracts
Insist Union Deal With
Them Independently
Of Bosic Industry
By the Associated presr

By the Associated Press.
An association representing Sc
steel fabricating companies
charged today the "insistent re-
fusal" of CIO President Philip
Murray to consider their indi-
vidual needs was keeping their
$4,000 workers on strike and
threatening continued unem-
ployment for them later.
The charge was voiced in a state
ment by the Tri-State Industrial
Association in Pittsburgh, which
has been demanding wage contracts
separate from the basic steel in
duStry. shut down by the current
strike of 100000 members of the
CIO United Steelworkers.
The association took the position
the small fabricators ARE caught in
the middle of a strike-enforced
wage demand and a Government
promise to raise the price of steel
which they must buy from the basic
steel companies" 1t estimated 700
other companies in the country are
similarly involved.
Quiet in Strike Areas.
Conditions continued quiet in the
mill strike areas the fifth day of
the strike with no hint that either
union or management plans any
move to bridge the 3l2 -cents-an-
hour wage gap which separates
them.
The effects of the strike began to
be felt in the automotive field, but
more coal miners worked today than
yesterday. Some Pennsylvania and
West Virginia mines, serving steel
companies, closed yesterday because
OF a shortage of freight cars. Sew
eral were able to reopen when some
cars were moved in.
About 10000 miners were reported
idle today at the pits, some of which
serve sJeei companies, compared
with 1900 idle yesterday. About
5000 workers on railroads serving
steel mills were still laid off.
No Chance for Negotiation.
The Tri-State Industrial AsSocia-
tion's statement said some of it's
members reported that union rep
rentatives have called on them with
contracts which bind them to pay
1872 cents increase, or whatever
other amount may later be agreed
upon by United States Steel"
1t added:
There is no negotiating about it,
let alone collective bargaining. We
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Unity at Pearl Harbor
Would Not Have Saved
Fleet, Short Says
Never Received Messages
Thot Jops Were Burning
Codes, He Testifies
BY ]. A. OLEARY and
CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Unity of command in Hawaii
in 194l would not have saved the
fleet at Pearl Harbor from the
surprise japanese attack, unless
Washington had changed its at
titude of withholding important
information from that outpost,
Maj. Gen. Walter c. Short told
the Pearl Harbor Committee to-
day.
The man who commanded the
Army in Hawaii at the time ex-
planned that he and Rear Admiral
Husband E. Kimmel, then Pacific
Fleet commander. independently
arrived at the same conclusion"
from the information they had
that Hawaii was not in danger of
attack at the moment. The Army
and Navy commands in Hawaii were
unified shortly after the attack.
Gen. Short made his statement In
reply to a series of questions by
Representative Murphy, Democrat,
of Pennsylvania.
No Conferences After December 8.
Several Navy messages received in
Hawaii few days before the at
tack, informing Admiral Kilnmel
that the japanese we're destroying
their codes in various capitals, were
not passed along to the Army Gen.
Short testified. Nor was he told.
Gen. Short said, of another Navy
message authorizing the American
naval commander at Guam to de-
stroy his codes.
Mr., Murphy also brought out that
Admiral Kimmel and Gen. Short
held no conferences after Decem-
Der 8.
Gen. Short gave the committee
his conclusion, based on some orders
from the War Department which
he read, that the responsible officials
in Washington based their estimates
for radar warning devices in Hawaii
before the attack on only a limited
operation. He has been criticized
for not running the radar "a hours
day.
49, OeiASA WA llC lI1t
war Department planned for the
radar to operate two hours a day,
five days week, at the time.
Long Fight for Station.
He also pointed to the prolonged
negotiations, lasting nearly a year.
which the Hawaiian Army Depart
ment had been compelled to conduct
with the National Park Service be-
fore 1t got permission to build
permanent radar station in a park
on a mountaintop.
Explaining that he had been re-
quested to ask the question, Mr..
Murphy inquired: Did somebody
from the FBI call you the night of
December 6 and ask to see you be-
fore you went to a social affair at
Schofield Barracks?"
mo-" said Gen. Short.
did you tell any one that night,
You are too security -minded?'"
Il did not" the general replied.
(See PEARL, HAPROR pace A-16
Evening star., 1946-01-25
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The Agriculture Department is
set to take over strike-bound
plants of the meat-packing in
dustry at 1901 am. tomorrow
but there still was no assurance
that a majority of the 263,00O
striking workers would return to
their jobs for the Government.
President Truman, who ordered
seizure of 1874 plants of 10 companies,
had the promise of the AFL Meat
Cutters Union that it would send
back to work its 10000 members.
Whether the majority union, the
CIO United Packing House Workers
will follow suit remained to be deter
mined today.
The CIO union scheduled a meet
ing of its National Wage Policy
Committee in Chicago today to make
decision. Rank and file members
were to meet later in the day. Off
cials here said their efforts to re-
sumo operations of the industry
would be crippled unless the $4,000
CIO workers return.
Evening star., 1946-01-25

Secretary of Agriculture Anderson
today telegraphed leaders of botf
unions urging their members tt
return.
Charles G. Ross, White House
press secretary, disclosed Mr.. Tru.
man received lengthy telegram
yesterday from the CIO union out.
lining its attitude on wage terms fol
Federal operation of the plants. Mr.
Ross said the message was turned
over to Secretary Anderson.
Asked if the telegram contained 6
refusal to work for the Government
Mr.. Ross said:
Il don't think there was any such
blunt statement as that" The
message suggested that the Presi-
dent call conference of Federal of.
tlcials with the two unions and pack.
ers involved in the dispute.
Meanwhile. the fact finding board
investigating the wage dispute which
led to the strike 10 days ago was ex-
pected to make its recommendations
within week. The board is EN-.
powered to suggest changes in prices
(See MEAT, Page A-I7D
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Australian Scientist
Claims Contact Was
Made a Years Ago
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.-
w. E. Osborne, former Aus
tralian Army major, told news
men last night that Australian
scientists made radar contact
with the moon four years ago.
working with DR.. j. H. Pid-
dington, a scientist in the radio
physics laboratory at the Uni
versity of Sydney, we contacted
the moon several times in Octo-
ber or November, 1941," said Mr..
Osborne, who is doing secret
research work for the American
Government here.
Using experimental high
powered radar equipment, we
directed it at the moon and
almost Immediately identified
pulses which were checked and
rechecked. The time interval
was "a seconds.
Evening star., 1946-01-25
GIN President Calls
Fact-Finding Plan
Trend 10 Socialism
Wilson Tells Senators
Law Would h1ndicop
Collective Bargaining
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Charles E. Wilson, president
of the strike-boun General Mo-
tors Corp, told Senators today
that fact = finding legislation
would seriously interfere with
collective bargaining" and tends
toward a socialistic state"
And I'd be a Socialist, too. If I
though the American people would
be happier under any other form of
government" the white-haired in
dustrlallst told the Senate Labor
Committee as it resumed hearings
on legislation requested by President
Truman to curb strikes.
Under questioning about wage dis
putes, Mr.. Wilson told the commit
tee CIO leaders have refused to bar
gain on a fair and reasonable
basis"
Similar Demands Cited.
Several Senators asked if the varl-
Gus strikes in motors, steel, meat
and other industries are related.
"All the CIO strikes are related, 81
Mr.. Wilson replied, adding that all
demands are similar, such as a 80
per cent increase, or So hours pay
for 40 hours work.
Chairman Murray and other SEN
ators expressed surprise when Mr.
Wilson, involved for two months in
strike with the CIO United Auto
mobile Workers Union, appeared
without any prepared statement.
I'll be glad to answer any ques-
tions 1 can,'' Mr.. Wilson explained
with a smile.
Senator Smith, Republican, of
New Jersey, promptly wanted to
know what Mr.. Wilson thought is
the cause of the breakdown of ne
gotiations with the CIO."
Senator Ellender, Democrat, of
Louisiana, broke in to protest that
the committee was considering fact
finding legislation and should not
branch off into general questioning
but stay on provisions of the bill.
Chairman Murray ruled that any
questions might be asked.
Conflict in Ideology.
Il think the basic reason we have
been unable to settle is the conflict
in theology or philosophy over what
we are bargaining about" Mr.. Will
son then replied.
He added that "leaders of labor
thought they had been promised a
big increase in wages when the war
was over" and at that point made
his reference to CIO leaders in all
fields now involved in disputes.
Meanwhile, Republican House
members were weighing the advis-
ability of a bold move to seize lead
ership in determining what form of
strike control legislation shall pass
the House.
Minority Leader Martin declared
that if they acted in concert they
could easily take the ball away from
The Democrats. The majority is
sharply divided on the strike con-
troll question.
Some leading Democrats conceded
MIR. Martin was right. They were
skeptlcal, however, whether the Re-
publicans could put up a solid front
either. THE Republicans are just
as weak and vacillating as some
members of our own party" said
representative Cox. Democrat, of
Georgia.
Evening star., 1946-01-25
japanese Ambassador
To Vatican Honored
By the Associated Press,

VATICAN CITY, Jan. 25.-Pope
Plus XII made japanese Ambassa-
dor Ken Harada knight of the
Order of st. Sylvester today in a
farewell audience.
Harada, his staff and their fam
lilies will sail for Japan from Naples
Sunday on the S. S. Plus Ultra. Mrs,
Harada and the embassy staff also
paid their respects to the Pope.
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Compromise Offered
AS FEPC FiIibuster
Enters Second Week
Peocemokers Propose
Thot Act Apply Only to
Employers of Over so
By the Associated Press

oS llIt aSSOCldteu STeSS.
A compromise was offered to-
day on Capitol Hill to end the
FEPC fllibuster, now going into
its second week.
Senate peacemakers hopefully ap-
preached foes and friends of the
legislation with a plan that would
save political face for both warning
camps, if accepted, and let the Sem
ate get on with regular business.
They proposed two basic changes
in the legislation to set up a perma-
|nent Fair Employment Practice
Commission to prevent racial dis
elimination in industry, labor or
Government.
Courts Would Try Charges.
Instead of having the act apply
to employers and unions with more
than six employees or members, the
base would be lifted to so.
To meet protests from some
Southern Senators that FEPC would
function as "a kangaroo court" act.
| ing as prosecutor, judge and jury
the negotiators have suggested that
any discrimination charges be trieo
in Federal District Courts.
Chances for at least the first
amendment looked good Three
hackers of the bill, Senators Ball
Republican, of Minnesota; Smith
Republican, of New Jersey anc
Morse, Republican, of Oregon, have
said they favored base figure of 25
They also would give circuit court;
greater scope in reviewing the facts
as determined by the commission.
The outlook for choking off the
filibuser by noncompromise meth
DDS is not especially encouraging
now.
Nearly 40 Names Claimed.
Senators Chavez, Democrat, Of
New Mexico; Mead, Democrat, OF
New York and others circulating a
petition for cloture-a device to limit
debate-claimed they had amassed
nearly 40 names.
However, cloture requires a two
thirds majority and none of those
seeking it disputed the accuracy of
an administration poll that showed
more than one-third of the entire
membership against imposing the
gag rule Immediately.
Senators Bankhead. Democrat, OF
Alabama, and Mcclellan, Democrat
OF Arkansas, shared the talking
chores for the anti-FEPC forces
yesterday, with occasional help from
Senators Eastland, Democrat, of
Mississippi, and Maryland, Demo-
crat, of South Carolina.
Says 1t Isn't Filibuster.
Senator Bankhead contended that
japanese and German workers could
oust good American citizens from
their jobs if the bill became law.
The veteran Alabama Senator said
there had not been a filibuster vet
because most of the opposing
speeches dealt with the proposed
FEPC.
Majority Leader Barkley gave the
lawmakers verbal spanking as the
Senate met, describing fiIibusters as
"unjustifiable and indefensible.
The majority leader said he woulc
sign petition to limit debate-anc
thus assure vote. He told the
Senate he had received letters
threatening him with political defeat
If he voted for the bill. Senator
Barkley said senders of such threats
might as well save their time anc
money.
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Philippine Phones Restored

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25 R.-
Radiotelephone service between the
United States and the Philippines
will be restored Monday, the Amer
tcan Telephone & Telegraph Co. an
nounced yesterday.
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Lute Bulletins
Shooting Held Justified

Police C0rpl. Jesse Moore.
AZ, who shot and killed T/5
Lee M. LIE Grand, 24-year-old
colored soldier patient from
Walter Reed Hospital in a
running gun battle Wednes-
day night. was Justified" in
firing at the soldier. a cor
oner's jury found today in re-
turning a verdict of justifiable
homicide.
u. S. Loan to France Urqed
PARIS R.-President Felix
Gouin was reported to have
told his Socialist party today
that only a $2,500,000 900 loan
from the United States could
save France from chaos.
Earlier Story on Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Patterson Due Here TONIGHT

FRANKFURT. Jan. Is R.-Sec-
retary of War Patterson left Frank
furt by plane last night for Wash
ington. He is expected to arrive to-
night.
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Wage Policy Group Refuses
To Return Under u. S. Seizure
Workers May Be Lacking to Operate,
Although AFL Will Go Back
BULLETIN.

CHICAGO 1.-Lewis j. Clark, CIO Packing ghouse Work.
ers' Union president unions National Wage
Policy Committee voted Unanimously"
work when the Government packing plants at
1902 am. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1946-01-25

(See UNO, Page A-16.l
Evening star., 1946-01-25
Weather Forecast

Increasing cloudness this afternoon; low to-
night near 80; cloudy much colder tomorrow.
temperatures today-High, 45 at / 80 pm.
low, Is, at $40 am Yesterday-High, 3S,
at ASS pm; low, 1S, at AIS am.
Evening star., 1946-01-25

(See STEEL, Page A-16.)
Evening star., 1946-01-25

(See MOON, Page A-3.
Evening star., 1946-01-25

(See MEAT, Page A-17D
Evening star., 1946-01-25

(See PEARL HARBOR Page