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Evening star., 1946-09-15
Bollston Citizens to Meet

An organization meeting of a
citizens association for the Ballston
community, Arlington, will be held
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the Ballston
Fire House, Gil North Stuart street
George c. Updegraff, ll08 North
Utah street, temporary chairman,
announced.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Two Weather Men Rescued
From Mt. Washington Shack
BY the Assoeioted Press

MOUNT WASHINGTON, N. H.
Feb. 23.-Two weather observers who
spent 48 hours in storm-swept
shack miles from the summit of
Mount Washington with only a can
OF grapefruit as sustenance were
safe at the peak today, feeling "per-
fectly okay"
Vernon D. Humphrey, 26, of Nc
Farland, Calf, and Marshall Smith.
%, of Turner's Falls, Mass, were
rescued by Kenneth Gould, head of
the summit observatory, and Philip
Bettler, another observer. The men
were rescued yesterday on the third
attempt to reach them.
"We were not worried a bit" Mr..
Humphrey said in telephone in
terview shortly before dropping off
to the first real sleep he had since
Tuesday. 1--WE knew this thing
would break sooner or later. We
knew it probably would be a matter
of two or three days before they
could get down to u.s."
The 8X14 shack, 1000 feet down
the elevation, was equipped with a
propane gas-burning stove, but the
men were forced to huddle to keep
warm without blankets.
Temperatures sank to % degrees
below zero and at times the gale,
rising to lis miles an hour, threat
ened to rip the shack from the
mountainside.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Pittsburgh Studies
Power Union Offer
By the Associated Press

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 23.-With
Pittsburgh's second power strike in
two weeks threatened for midnight
Monday, officials of the Duquesne
Light Co., today were studying the
unions reduction of its wage pay
demand from 81 to % per cent.
The unions announcement was
the first hopeful sign in nege iations
now in their sixth day before an
impartial three-man board headed
py Mayor David l.. Lawrence.
Heretofore, the 3,400 member
union had held to its demand for
a 81 per cent increase; the company
had insisted it could pay no more
than 7k per cent.
Mayor Lawrence, commenting or
the new union offer, said There is
now hope that normal collective
bargaining has begun"
Both sides to the dispute said ne
gotiations would continue up until
the time of the strike, providing no
solution is found before that time.
Mayor Lawrence said the % per
cent would raise the company's
basic labor rate from 75h to 961z
cents an hour, an increase of q
cents. This figure, 961a cents, is the
same as the basic labor rate of the
steel industry since it's recent pay
increase of 181a cents an hour.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Yumushitu
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nationals by American paratroopers
and Filipino guerrillas at that camp
had touched off a vengeful display
OF butchery by Japanese soldiers In
the nearby village.
The official execution witnesses
had been alerted of the proceedings
only a short time before. They were
pledged to secrecy. There were no
neWspapermen or photographers
present.
Col. Ohta, praying 'for the Japa-
nese Emperor and Emperor's family
and national prosperity" followed
Yamashita in death by 80 minutes.
Thirty-six minutes later, Higashigi
nervously said, "Good-by forever -
and the trap was sprung.
Appeals Failed.
Yamashita was condemned last
December after a trial at which
he appeared proudly in military
garb. Witness on witness told a
sordid story of how his men pillaged
and burned during their last stand
in Manila in February a year ago:
and how they killed thousands of
both military personnel and civil
ians throughout Luzon and other
islands.
Appeals to the Filipino Supreme
Court, the United States Supreme
Court, to Gen. Macarthur and to
President Truman were unavailing
Gen. Macarthur then ordered the
execution carried out after Yama-
shita had been stripped of all mill
tary appurtenances because the
misdeeds of his men were "a strain
upon civilization and constitute a
memory of shame and dishonor that
can never be forgotten"
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Fair Weather Is Due
To Fill Parks Here
Over Week End

Official Washington slowed to a
walk today as Government workers
made the most of their three-day
holiday.
Even Union Station was quiet af-
ter its holiday siege. Station Off
cials expected the return rush to
start early tomorrow night.
Sunny skies were expected to
draw thousands to the parks. Park
police reported large crowds through
the parks yesterday. Visitor
streamed through the Washington
Monument and were expected in
equally large numbers today.
Shoppers who didn't take care of
all their purchases during the sales
yesterday were making up for it
today. One store reported shoppers
were coming in by all doors and
coming in fast" an hour after the
store opened.
For patriotic organizations, the
holiday brought observances at the
Washington Monument, Mount Ver-
non and Memorial Continental Hall,
where four organizations - the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, Sons of the American Revo-
luton, Children of the American
Revolution and Sons of the Revolu-
tion-held annual exercises yester-
day.
The weather bureau did the best
it could by the holiday-bent crowds.
The temperature will be near so
degrees today, dropping to a low
in the mid-30's tonight and COLI
tinuing mild, though partly. cloudy,
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Virginia Ferry Seizure
Hearing Set for Monday
By the Assoeioied Press

NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 23.-Judge
Clyde H. Jacob of the Norfolk Cir
cult Court, acting on the petition
OF James A. Anderson, State High
way Commissioner, issued an order
last night to the Chesapeake Ferry
Co., to show cause in his court
Monday morning as to why the
strike-bound system should not be
taken over and operated by the
State. The seizure was authorized
by an act signed yesterday by Gov.
Tuck. Its purpose is to relieve hard
ship on users of the company's fer
ries between Newport News and
Pine Beach and between Old Point
and Willoughby Spit.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Gen. Marshall ,SoIutes
Red Army on Birthday

SHANGHAI, Feb. % (P).-Gen.
George c. Marshall, American pres
idential envoy to China, saluted the
Red Army on its 28th anniversary
today in a statement to v. A. Chilli
kin, publisher of the Russian Daily
News.
This year, for the first time since
June of 1941, the Red Army observes
the anniversary of its founding in
peace-a peace to which it made a
mighty contribution" Gen. Mar
shall said. 'It is especially fitting
that the Allied world should take
this opportunity to salute the Red
Army and its leaders for their
heroic achievements in the war to
preserve civilization from German
and japanese aggression"
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Green Warns Labor
Will Fight Case Bill
With All lis Strength

Organized labor will use all of It's
political strength" to defeat the
Case strike control bill passed by
the House, william Green, presi-
dent of the American Federation
of Labor, warned the Senate Labor
Committee today.
Mr.. Green charged that the bill
was put through the House by "the
same influences which caused the
enactment of the Smith Connally
Act" wartime strike control bill,
which he called a mistake He
blamed the Smith -Connally bill on
combination "of those in both
political parties whom we classify
as hostile to labor"
Surely no member of Congress
will now claim that time and ex-
perience have shown that the
Smith -Connally Act has served a
good purpose or has contributed to
the public welfare" Mr.. Green con-
tinued. Instead of it being a strike
prevention measure it has proved.
to be a strike provoking act. Strikes
were encouraged by this act. The
enactment of this bill can now be
classified as a great mistake, an
error committed by Congress for
which the country has paid heavily.
Edward R. Burke, president of the
Southern Coal Producers Associa-
ton, told the committee yesterday
the Case bill would adjust certain
dangerous practices" in the coal
industry.
Mr.. Burke asserted, however, that
the operators and John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers were "on the
friendliest terms" in spite of recent
major disputes.
The former Nebraska Senator said
in the past some elements in the
industry had fought organization
but he expressed the view that the
operators now feel conditions are
better with a strong union" and
that it performs valuable functions.
Evening star., 1946-02-23

Washington's newest war bride, a
pretty 22-year-old Austrian girl
whose little brother died in a con-
centration camp, was thoroughly at
home today in a brand-new house
her husband found for her at 2422
Twenty-f1fth street Sc. She is Mrs.
ELI Addleman, whose veteran hus-
band, Louis Addleman, %, is a for
mer University of Maryland stu
dent.
She and her husband arrived
shortly before midnight after she
had kept lonely vigil with her
2-year-old son Nat on pier "a in
New York, while her husband was
in the city unaware that the ship
bearing his bride had arrived a day
early.
AS she watched three shiploads of
war brides greet their American
husbands, Mrs. Addleman waited
until she was the only one left.
Meanwhile, her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Emanuel V. Shulman, 3405 U street
Sc, had been notified that Mrs.
Addleman's ship, the Zebulon B.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Murray Willing 10 Attempt
To Avert Subway Strike
By the Associated Press y

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Philip
Murray, CIO president, expressed
willingness last night to explore the
possibility of averting a threatened
strike on New York's unified system
of subways, elevated, streetcar and
bus lines.
The CIO chief telephoned Mayor
William O'Dwyer from Pittsburgh.
The CIO Transport Workers Union,
headed by City Councilman Michael
j. Quill, has said it would call the
strike unless the Board of Trans
portation yielded to its demands for
recognition as the sole bargaining
agent for $4,000 transit workers or
indicated its willingness to have the
issue settled by election, arbitration
or mediation.
TWU's demands will be presented
to the board Tuesday.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
u. 5. Security Council
Urged as Substitute
For Military Merger
BY the Associoied Press

A retired general today advocated
creation of national security coun-
ell in place of the proposed unifica-
ton of the armed forces.
Brig. Gen. H. C. Holdridge, West
Point graduate and Army career
man for u years, made the sugges-
ton in a memorandum to Repre-
sentative Holiheld, Democrat, of
California, a member of the House
Military Affairs Committee.
The council, Gen. Holdridge said,
should be composed of represen-
tatives of the House and Senate,
Army, Navy, Air Forces, State De-
partment and leaders in the fields
of science, industry, education,
labor, agriculture and religion.
Hits "Caste" System.
Gen. Holdridge went on record
earlier this week against compulsory
peacetime military training in an
appearance before the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee and used
the occasion to assail what he called
the Army's medieval caste system. "
He followed up this appearance by
submitting, at the committees re-
quest, his own 10-point program for
eliminating the social gap between
officers and enlisted men.
In outlining his proposal for a
national security council, the re-
tired general said it should be set
up as part of new overall phil
osophy of military control, geared
to total war"
''The first essential in such a
policy is to reduce the armed forces
to their primary function of serv-
ing as 'spearhead' of the problem
of national security" he said. Final
control over the total national ef-
fort must be retained in the hands
of representatives of the people"
Dictatorship" Check.
Reorganization of the armed
forces will not automatically solve
the problems of lack of co-opera-
ton and jealousy between the
branches, he said.
The national security council
would place control of the Nation S
military might in the hands of ci-
villains and CHECK the emergence
Of military dictatorship" he said.
Gen. Holdridge, who said he was
retired from the Army last Febru-
ary for a service-connected dis
ability, is legislative chairman for
the Veterans League of America.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
u. S. Raid Into CzechosIovukiu
To Get Nuzi Papers Charged

but one said to be a captain-were
arrested, the news agency reported
but the others escaped toward Ger
many with 30 to 40 boxes of docu-
ments found in the cavern.
American Ambassador Laurence
A. Steinhardt said the Czechoslo-
vakian version of the story had been
forwarded to Washington and that
he presumed the War Department
was investigating.
The news agency said the Amer
leans were accompanied by a man
who appeared to be a German war
prisoner. The party spent the night
of February 10 at Prague hotel
and drove about Is miles the next
day to Stechovice, where members
deployed into the woods.
The cavern was sealed by a wall,
and two days were required to smash
the barrier, the agency said.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
20,000-Ton Increase
In Newsprint Announced
BY the Associofed Press

THOROLD, Ontario, Feb. 23.-Ar-
thur A. Schmon, president of the
Ontario Paper Co., Ltd, announced
yesterday that the North American
newsprint supply would be in
creased by an estimated 10000 tons
annually sometime before July L.
Mr.. Schmon said the increase
would result from an agreement be-
tween his firm and the Beaver
Wood Fibre Co., Ltd, whereby the
latter firm which, since 1912, has
been concentrating its facilities on
wallboard production, would assist
in newsprint manufacture.
The paper company executive said
his firm would continue to channel
its production exclusively to its
publisher owners, the Chicago Tri-
bune and the New York News, in
keeping with its commitments to
the Canadian provincial govern
ment and the Canadian newsprint
industry"
Because of the increased produc-
ton, he said, 'the demand of the
publisher-o owners of the Ontario
Paper Co. on the newsprint market
will be reduced"
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Empress Pays Visit
To Sick, Destitute
AT Tokyo Hospital
Dy the Assceiofed Press

TOKYO, Feb. 23.-The empress
of Japan walked among her nations S
sick and poor yesterday. She saw
unhappy, miserable people.
Saisekai Hospital and clinic for
the destitute evidently had been
prepared for Empress Magako's
visit. But no amount of work could
conceal dirty walls, gloomy corri-
doris, tattered linoleum. No amount
OF preparation could hide the mis-
cry of patients lying on unkempt
straw mattresses covered with
lumpy bedclothes in rooms where
radiators stood unused and cold.
The empress departure from the
moated palace to give personal SOL
ace to the victims of Japan's years
OF war followed by two days EN-
peror Hirohito's unprecedented two
day tour Of the bomb -f1attened To-
kyo area.
Rode From Palace.
She rode directly from the palace
to the hospital in a black Mercedes
Benz limousine, marked with the
imperial golden crysanthemum. She
wore a blue dress with a touch of
white at the throat, a black coat
with fur collar, black oxfords,
and black gloves. Her hair was
coiftured. American style, softly
waved and held in place by bobby
pins and black hairnet.
The royal party included Prince
Takamatsu, second eldest brother
of Hirohito..
Sympathetically, the Empress asked
about hospital conditions-how the
patients were treated, how they were
responding to treatment, if the
babies she saw were getting proper
feeding.
Supt. Takeo Koyama told her there
was not enough milk or medicines
and that patients responded slowly
to treatment because of improper
diet.
Talks With Nurses.
The Empress talked with nurses
whose hands were blue with cold,
with patients respectful but reluct-
ant to withdraw from bedclothing
cocoons from which they derived
scant warmth.
She watched the examination of
an elderly woman twitching with
cold and witnessed the bandaging
Of the arm of 13-year- -old boy.
A mother herself, the Empress
clucked at the infant in an iron
crib, smiled at small boy whose
right ear was bandaged.
Concluding the hospital tour, she
went to the roof. For blocks in
everysdlrection there were evidences
of destruction.
Overhead American airplanes
droned slowly.
Below in the rubble, Japanese
erected metal shacks and small
wooden frame buildings con-
quered. people attempting to renew
their slives.
Evening star., 1946-02-23

Vance, was docking earlier than
expected. She made frantic efforts
to reach Louis to tell him of the
early arrival. After more than a
dozen telephone calls to New York,
she was notified the couple was re-
united and on their way to Wash
ington.
Mrs. Addleman was enthusiastic
about Washington. She speaks per-
feet English, having been a nurse in
Oxford, England, from March, 1899,
until she left 16 days ago to come
here. The Addlemans were married
in April, 1943, while he was a SER
geant with medical unit in Europe.
She sadly told how her little
brother Hans, S, died in a concen-
'tration camp and how her parents
also were confined in one. She had
gone to London when the Germans
seized Austria.
Mr.. Addleman is now studying
refrigeration and r-conditioning
He had left the house early this
morning to shop for what his wife
termed ''an American breakfast"
Evening star., 1946-02-23
McVuy
Continued From First Page J

loban, Leyte, 1t. Comdr. Jules c.
Sancho, was not aware that the In
dianapolis had not arrived as was
scheduled and that she should be
considered as being overdue" de-
clared the report. ut, however, was
his duty in his capacity as acting
port director, to keep himself in
formed of such matters.
"Lt. Stuart B. Gibson, the opera
tions officer under the port director,
was. the officer who was Immediately
concerned with the movements of
the indianapolis. The nonarrival of
that vessel on schedule was known at
once to 1t. Gibson, who not only
failed to investigate the matter, but
made no immediate report to his
superiors.
while not excusing the failure of
1t. Comdr. Sancho and 1t. Gibson to
use the initiative and ordinary good
judgment in this connection which
would have been expected of naval
officers, this dereliction may be re-
lated to the difficulties of an organi-
zation which had been brought on by
the exceedingly rapid expansion of
the Navy to meet its wartime re-
quirements.''
Commodore Gillette, who was in
temporary command of the Philip
pine sea frontier, and Capt. Ora
mum, his operations officer, were
'intensively occupied in diversion
Of shipping in typhoon areas and
operations" at that time.
'"These facts" said the report, "do
not, however, relieve those senior
officers of their responsibility con-
nected with the failure of their
subordinates to take appropriate
action to ascertain the where
abouts of the overdue indianapolis
The junior officers who were direct
ly concerned with this failure were
members of the organization which
was being administered by these
senior officers.
For this demonstrated weakness
in the organization under their
control, brought on largely through
their failure to give personal at
tention to the work of these mex
perienced juniors, Commodore
Gillette and Capt. Granum have
been held responsible"
The 47-year-old Capt. McVay,
veteran of more than a quarter CEN
tury of naval service, was acquitted
by the court on December 10 of an
other charge-that of inef1iciency,
based on an allegation that he failed
to issue timely order to the crew
to abandon ship.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Stain Joins zhukov
In Telling Red Army
10 Strengthen Might
by the Associated pre<x

MOSCOW, Feb. %. Premier
Stain and Marshal Georgi Zhukov
told the Red Army on its 28th birth
day today that it must not rest
on its laurels, but must strengthen
its military might.
Premier Stain, in an order of
the day, said the army should
guard the peaceful creative labor
of the Soviet people make the
boundaries of our country unattain-
able for enemies"
The army newspaper Red Star
devoted two-thirds of a page to an
article by Marshal zhukov in which
he said Red Army experience is
so rich and diverse that for years
it will have an enormous effect on
the development of contemporary
military science"
All newspapers printed Stalin's
order on the front page, along with
a picture of him in new-style
jacket. The radio repeated his or
der many times.
Guns in the capitals of the So
viet's Is republics will fire 20 VOL
leys today at Stalin's order, in honor
of the army.
Gen. A. I. Antonov, chief Of staff
of the Red Army, received a mes
sage of congratulations today from
Gen. Eisenhower, chief of staff of
the United States Army.
Premier Stain in a broadcast to
the Red Army last night was heard
in London to admonish it "to keep
up with the progress of the art of
war" and ito advance it."
Speaking over the Moscow radio,
Premier Stain declared Russia
must still more strengthen" her
military and economic might"
Although the Soviet has entered
peaceful period of development"
the army must guard the nations
borders against enemies, he said.
"At the present time, the Soviet
people is faced with the task of
consolidating the positions won, of
advancing further to a new econ
omic upsurge," Premier Stain said.
I'VE cannot limit ourselves to the
consolidation of these positions, for
that would lead to stagnation.
I'VE must move further forward
so that we may create the condi-
tions for a new, powerful upsurge
of national economy. We must = =
raise the material well-being of the
people, still more strengthen the
military and economic might of the
Soviet state.
I'm the new conditions, the Red
Army must vigilantly guard the
powerful, creative labor of the
Soviet people, reliably safeguard
the state interests of the Soviet
Union and make the borders of our
motherland impregnable against
enemies"
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Gen. Macarthur Is Guest
At Tokyo Celebration

TOKYO, Feb. % (P.-Gen. Mac
Arthur and two of his top COM
manders, in response to an invita-
ton, today spent half an hour at
the Russian Embassy celebration OF
Red Army day.
With Gen. Macarthur were 1t
Gen. Robert l.. Eichelberger, COM
mander of the 9th Army, and 1t
Gen. Ennis c. Whitehead, COM
mander of Air Forces in the Pacific
They were invited by 1t. Gen. Kuz-
ma Nikolaevech Derevyanko, leader
of the Russian colony.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
BY the Associated Press

PRAGUE, Feb b.23.-Foreign Minis
ter Jan Masaryk said today he was
distressed by reports that 13 armed
American officers and men had en-
tered this country two weeks ago
and obtained German documents
from hillside hiding place south
of Prague.
Some folks don't seem to know
that we are an Allied country and
that the war is over" he said in an
interview.
The Czechoslovak official news
agency said the American gang"
chased civilians out of the neigh
borhood and that an American
soldier, serving as sentry while
the excavation took place, shot at
Czech official who approached to
investigate.
Three Americans-al1 unidentified
Evening star., 1946-02-23
TuIk on Teresa Neumunn

1t. Col. Speer Strahan, Army
chaplain, will speak on Teresa Neu-
mann, a Bavarian Stigmatist," at
st. Cecelia's High School, 605 East
Capitol street, at pm. tomorrow.
An Army chaplain, Col. Strahan
served near Teresa Neumans town
during the war.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Club Booms 'Trumon for 49,

TOPEKA, Kans., Feb. % R.-
A Truman for 48" Club, believed
to be the first boom for his election
organized in the country, was
formed by Kansas Democrats at
their annual Washington Day rally
yesterday.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Red Cross Unit to Elect

Election of officers will feature the
annual meeting of the Fairfax
County Red Cross Chapter at 8
pm. Wednesday at the Falls
Church Presbyterian Church. 1t.
Col. James p. S. Devereux, Marine
hero Of Wake Island, viii speak.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Possible Oil Areas INFESTED

The United States contains l.
100000 square miles favorable for
the accumulation of oil, only half of
which has been explored.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
Family Income Low

1t is estimated that before the
war, one-third of the United States
families had incomes under $1,000
a year.
Evening star., 1946-02-23

An estimated 1909 million quarts
Of milk were produced in the United
States In 1945.
Evening star., 1946-02-23
FOUND.

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nr. Pierce Mil. EN-. SAL,