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Mapping Alaskan Blank" Spots

SEATTLE-Long a mystery" area of vague charts and sketchy information, the rocky shores and underwater formations of the storm-and-fog belt of Alaska now are being accurately mapped by "Shoran," a short range radar sys- tenn. Teams of Army Engineers, the Air Forces and the Signal Corps are doing the job. In the peacetime Regular Army thou sands of newly enlisted volunteers are being trained to handle "Sho- ran" and the many other radar electronic instruments used by the services.
The Nome nugget., 1946-11-06

ton cut down several widely known lawmakers.
 Democrat David I. Walsh Of Massachusetts, sixth from the top in Senate seniority by virtue of service since 1926, fell before a vigorous attack from former col league, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge.
 Swept out with Walsh were such familiar Capitol figures as Senators Guffey D.-Pa), Tunnel D.-DelD and Briggs D.-Mo). Briggs is a close personal friend of President Truman.
 Rep. Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House military af- fairs committee, could not make good his bid for reelection de- spite support from Senate major
The Nome nugget., 1946-11-06

mont Hotel, didn't intend to be funny.
 But Miss Bernsee apparently thought he was. When he handed her a note which read, Give me the money or I'll shoot you" Miss Bernsee broke out in a loud laugh.
 The wouldIbe bandit became disturbed, turned and fled.
The Nome nugget., 1946-11-06

ity leader Barkley and other pow erful Democrats. Among other well-known House members de- feated were Rep. ONeal D.-N.YD a high ranking member of the ap- propriations committee, Rep. Sheridan D.-PaD, Rep. Biemiller D.-Wis.) and new dealer Hugh Delacy of Washington.
 The summer primaries took an earlier toll. Casualties included Senators Lafollette Prog. -WisD, Wheeler D.-Mont0 and Shipstead R.-Minn), along with Representa- tives Tarver D.-GaO and Jed Johnson D.-Okla0.
The Nome nugget., 1946-11-06
JOKE HOLDUP

CHICAGO, R1-The man who walked up to the desk of Miss Helen Bernsee, cashier in the Bel
The Nome nugget., 1946-11-06

at sea 1.200 miles from land.
 Lock Lommond is the largest of Scottish Lakes.
The Nome nugget., 1946-11-06
Clipper fares
 cut again.! another reduction Flying Clipper This

oYes, another reduction in Flying Clipper passenger rates is effective November 7. And please ncte-this reduction is made right when most prices {. and our oper- ating costs |. {. . are risingi It marks another step forward in Pan Americans long-range plan for constantly improved service and for Clipper fares within reach of everyone.
 FRONT STREET
Evening star., 1946-01-27

are the boudered Santa susanna Hills Hollywood The
Sea of Gaee usually picturesque of ocean beach
near Mabu Studio space rented for interiors At least
producers planning build permanent Biblical cities that
they use for settings.
Several hundred religious films have been made the
years. but the boom just beginning Many clergymen be-
eve they will be used generally in churches before
long because 'peope don't forget what they see.''
Mr. Friedrich has of enthusiastic letters from min
day evening attendance average from IS to 7OO and
dozens report increases from 300 900 per cent.
To handle distributions, the Religious Film Association of
New York City already ourshng enterprise operating
four rental Libraries in conjunction with the YMCA.
The Protestant Film Commission gives advice and pro-
duces for churches While this appears be potential
competition both Mr. Bond and MIR Friedrich welcome it.
We're driving for the goalal of u.s. said the movie
parson cheerly Its all the wheel" The End
Evening star., 1946-01-27

"E"VV"E"' TN'SS'' DO''o ''o'Teo o' y 'eS'"'~'e''
After working in Hollywood technical departments he
Florida and made film record of cattle experiments
Gen Brehon Somervell then building Army camps hap
pened his picture and drafted him to make movie
the Army 1t and he made rs for vari
Gus federal agencies.
The day his government work ended young Bond flew to
California and plunged the Bible film project his father
had started Don't ask why, he said with grin, Its
just something feel I've got to do
He Always Plays the Chxistus
ALTHOUGH all Bible film producers work independently,
the the role of Jesus He is Sidney
Christy known professionally Nelson Leigh and has long
been the Christus of Holywoods perennial Pilgrimage Play
Mr. Friedrich generally hires professional actors for other
roles, but MIR. Bond only unknowns from dramatic
schools Il don't think people want to actor playing
gangster Saturday. Apostle Sunday, he explains.
They all use the same locations Favored mountansides
Evening star., 1946-01-27

inheritance producing feature, The Great Commandment,
argument against He delighted when major
studio bought for $l70OOO But he theaer
and thinks sheved Undaunted, he kept making
movies.
Most popular of his pictures have been Who Is My
Neghbor The Prodigal Son. IA Voice in the Wilderness
AWoman to Remember and No Greater Power the story
of Zaccheus the avarcous collector who repened when
he Jesus As experiment. he has just completed
animated cartoon with subtle religious motif He hopes
churches will run it for children on Saturdays
few years ago he launched movie Sunday school in
his home His three youngsters Marlyn, Martha,
four; Jimmy, and a neghbors child the only
pupils They spread the word Now starched and scrubbed
youngsters members The pastor of nearby community
church called MIR Friedrich day and asked How about
loaning your movies?"
''Why?' asked Mr.. Friedrich
You're getting all my ids!'
N1ilhonaiz. Makes Religious Films
ANOTHER producer in the religious motion picture field
Arson Bond, of former clothing millionaire His first
picture the story of Bethlehem called The Birth of
Jesus He has scheduled 100 more, all in full color with
background music by symphony orchestra and chorus
That's the way Dad wanted them to be, he says.
He considers the project memorial to his father the late
Charles Arson Bond onetme mayor of Columbus, Ohio.
After his retirement in the mid 0s the elder Bond lived at
Sandusky With old friend Carey Wyoming Hord, retired
broker he attended the local Presbyterian church They
worried because only a few people attended Sunday
night services, while movies jammed.
why don't we show motion pictures in church? they
asked DR. Alfred Funnel. the pastor
Because can't find the right kind of movies.
Then let's make the right knd! proposed MIR Bond.
The three of them Bond Hord and DR. Funnel - formed
motion picture company wrote 10000 ministers for
gestions decided the demand for straight Bible stories
They the Bible chapter by chapter. The
war struck and within months all three members of the
company died The mantle of their mission fell upon young
Anson Bond
Unwittingly, young Arson only 81 -had been
acquiring apt background He had been newspapeman
and bond salesman but interested only in motion pic
Evening star., 1946-01-31
Vinci Testifies Connors Posed
AS G-Mun Before SIuyinqs Here

Joseph Vinci, alleged accom-
plice and Government witness in
the trial of Raymond Connors
charged with the trailer murders
of Edward Barker and Pany
Casbarian last February, said
today under cross-examination
that he and Connors pulled a
shakedown up in the Bronx" be-
fore the double murder here.
The "shakedown," he testified con-
sisted of obtaining money from a
man guilty of black market dealings
in stamps apparently gasoline
coupons.)
He pulled one of them up in the
Bronx" Vinci said. "This guy
(pointing at Connors). He imper-
sonated an FBI man. He did it SC
good that I don't care who you ask
he wouldn't say he wasn't an FB1
man."
| Later, during cross-examination
of Vinci on his testimony that he
had been at the scene when Con-
nors shot and killed Mr.. Barker and
Mr.. Casbarian last February %, De-
fense Attorney Laughlin asked: DC
you know you can go to the electric
chair for what you did?"
The witness answered: Il know
that. But I'm not, because that's the
man (again pointing at Connors)
who killed them"
A queue of more than 100 persons
hoping to hear vinci testify formed
outside the District courtroom dur.
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ing recess OF the trial this morning.
Few got in, however, as those sitting
inside did not relinquish their seats
for lunch.
In response to Mr.. Laughlin's S
questions, Vinci said he was a ma
chinist; that he had been convicted
of suspicion of burglary tools" and
served in a New York reformatory,
and that the last time he had been
making an honest living was two
and half years ago.
Mr.. Laughlin asked the witness
If he remembered anything that had
happened in recent months, naming
the months. Vinci did not remem-
Der any events in any of the months
What happened in February?'
the witness asked. Mr.. Laughlin had
not named the month in which the
murders occurred.
Mr.. Laughlin found the witness
was able to name only two holidays
in the months asked about. The wit
ness knew that Christmas occurred
in December and that the Fourth of
July comes in July.
/ Vinci resented the questioning.
Pointing a finger at Mr.. Laughlin,
he shot back, ut showed one day
last winter. Can you tell me on
what day it snowed?"
I'm asking the questions" said
Mr. Laughlin.
Don't try to make fool out OF
me-" retorted Vinci.
vinci testified that there are %
(See CONNORS, Page A-4.5
Evening star., 1946-01-31
Ohio Power Plant Workers
Win 15-Cent Hourly Rise
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Lucien F. Rye, Labor Department
conciliator, today announced settle
ment of wage dispute with the
Ohio Power Co., one of three utili-
ties involved in a controversy that
threatened to affect electric service
to third of Ohio's 1000, 900 citizens.
Mr.. Rye told newsmen the COM
pany had agreed to pay a 15-cent
hourly wage increase, S cents less
than that had been demanded of
the three companies by the CIO
utilities workers.
The agreement was the first def
mite break in emergency confer
ences called by Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach.
Conferences will continue with the
two other utilities, the Ohio Edison
and the Dayton Power & Light Co.
The Government also resumed
conferences today in an attempt to
settle wage dispute affecting the
Nations 100000 shipbuilding work
ers. Federal officials were said to
favor a wage boost of 18 cents an
hour, despite strong opposition from
the industry.
Evening star., 1946-01-31
Nozi IndustrioIists May Escape
War Trial, Jackson Tells GIs
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NUREMBERG, Jan. 31.-us-
tice Robert H. Jackson told
American soldiers in a radio in
terview tonight that he feared
German industrialists-"one of
the chief causes of the war;
would never be tried for their
crime.
The chief American prosecutor in
the Nuremberg trial spoke over the
armed forces network in Germany
He recalled how American proposals
to indict not only Gustav and Alfred
Krupp, but number of other in
dustrialists. were rejected by all
three other prosecutors"
Could Handle Larger Number.
"They believed we could not
handle larger number of defend
ants in this trial and suggested a
later trial for the industrialists,' Mr..
jackson continued. "I believe we
could handle larger number, even
If 1t took somewhat longer, and
doubted whether we could 60
Evening star., 1946-01-31
Medley Execution Stayed
Until April 80 by Appeal

The execution of Joseph D. Med
ley. A, who was scheduled to go
to the electric chair on February
for the murder last March of
Mrs, Nancy Boyer in her Sixteenth
street apartment, was postponed
today by Justice Henry A. Schwein-
haut of District Court until April
80, pending action by the Court
of Appeals.
Medley was convicted in District
Court in June, but the appeal still
is pending in the appellate court
Justice Schweinhaut also signed an
order postponing the execution of
William Copeland, 81, colored, from
February IS to May 8, pending an
appeal by Copeland to the Supreme
Court.
Copeland was convicted last May
In District Court of the fatal shoot
ing of Mrs. Dora NJ. johnson, 43
colored, in February, 1914. The
Court of Appeals affirmed the con-
viction last month. .-
Evening star., 1946-01-31
Meat Workers Return
To 25-Cent Demand
Before Fact-Finders
ClO Counsel Declares
Government Obligation
Results From Seizure
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The CIO United Packing
House Workers today returned
to their original demand for IS
cents an hour increases in set
tlement of wage differences with
the meat-packing industry and
told the Fact-finding Board that
the Government, by seizing the
industry, assumed a moral OBJ
legation to see that equity and
justice is done the workers"
p Ralph Helstein, counsel for the
union whose $4,000 members re-
turned to their jobs reluctantly
Monday, told the three-man panel
it could not ignore the fact that the
national wage pattern had been set
by recent wage settlements. and
recommendation in major indus
tries. He added that there is no
possible excuse or justification for
treating our workers any differently
than workers in other industries are
treated"
Mr.. Helstein, saying that you
cannot consider this case in a vac
uum," pointed to settlements of
18 and of 1872 cents an hour made
by Ford and Chrysler, respectively
and Government tions
of about The same amount for the
steel industry and General Motors
Corp.
Report Due in Few Days.
The board, headed by Edwin E
Witte, former War Labor Board
member, resumed hearings here
where it left off in Chicago Satur-
day. Today's session was devoted to
final oral arguments by the union
and companies. The board expects
to complete its report and recon-
mendations within few days.
Nearly a quarter million employees
of meat packing plants walked of
their jobs January %. Besides the
CIO, about $1,000 members of the
AFL meatcutters were involved
The strike closed half of the Ma.
tons meat industry and on Satur.
day the Government seized the
plants. AFL members returned tc
work Immediately, but the CIO held
Evening star., 1946-01-31
ran Issue Past,
.UN0SeeksJ Java,
Greek Accords
Action on Complaints
Against Britain Now
Put Up to Russia
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. 31.-United Ma
tions delegates privately ex-
pressed hope today that the
Security Councils compromise
decision on the Russian Iranian
dispute might point the way to
an amicable settlement of the
Greek and IndoneSian cases
which come before the peace
agency tomorrow.
Whether the latter two cases can
be settled without UNO interven-
ton, however, depends largely on
the Russians, who filed complaints
with the Council charging the
British were endangering the peace
by military actions in Greece and
Indonesia.
The Russians, If they press the
cases. will find themselves in the
unique position of asking the UNO
to act in the absence of complaints
from the countries involved.
Greeks Want British to Stay.
Greek delegates, planning to be
on hand when the questions come
up, were ready to argue that British
troops are necessary in Greece to
maintain order. The Netherlands,
as member of the 11-nation
council, is known TO favor the main
tenance of British troops in Java,
and even the unrecognized Indone-
sian government has expressed the
view that British troops should re-
~ ain there until all japanese troops
have been disarmed and removed.
Soviet delegates have given no in
timation of their position since the
complaints were filed. Moscow ra-
dio, however, accused Britain today
of exerting political pressure" in
Greece.
A Russian c o m m en- tator said
Greece was in the throes of a ma
tional economic disaster" charged
Evening star., 1946-01-31

through a second trial repeating
much of the same evidence against
this new group of defendants.
II feared failure to include them
in this trial would mean they never
would be tried. Time only will tell
which was right"
Gustav Krupp, head of the great
steel and munitions combine, was
indicted but excused from trial be-
cause of senile softening of the
brain.
Mr.. Jackson continued:
"The disagreement among the
prosecutors was difference in
judgment as to procedure, but there
has never been any disagreement
among the prosecutors with the CT
who points to the industrialist as
one of the chief causes of the war" /"
Refused to Be Spectacular.
Sergt. Ted Pierz of Lebanon, N. j.,
reading questions submitted by
Harold Burson, Memphis, Tenn,
Army Forces Network correspondent,
had told Mr.. jackson that American
(See JACKSON, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1946-01-31
High-Poy FoirIington
Tenants WithGIs, Banker Urges
Witness Tells House Group Tens Of Thousands
In Similar Projects Can Pay More Rent

He estimated that the cost of
building home today has risen
from 40 to 60 per cent above pre-
war levels and blamed this trend
on tremendous increases" in labor
costs and very substantial" in
creases in building materials.
Urges Power for Wyatt.
The witness said the Patman bill
may deter rather than stimulate
the building of new homes and, in
addition, the purchaser of an exist
ing house will not be protected "by
the. method of freezing the price
at the next future sale, which
would be at very high price in
this present, inevitable transition
period"
He said that Wilson w. Wyatt,
national housing expediter, should
be given direct control over the
housing functions now in the OPA,
the Civilian Production Admins
tration, the Federal Housing Au-
thority and the Veterans Admins
tratlon. commenting on Mr.. Watt S
appointment as head of the Ma
tional Housing Administration, ef-
fective tomorrow, Mr.. Bodfish de-
clared:
"The administration of the tenn
porary. war-born MIA will COM
plicate and distract the expediter
and involve him in legislative mat
ters, controversy over home owner
ship versus Government, or social
istic housing, and other matters
prevalent to obtaining materials
and men for house building"
The Savings and Loan League, Or
ganized in 1893 to encourage saw
ings and foster home ownership, is
composed of 1858 loan associations
and cooperative banks, Mr.. Bod
fish explained.
Evening star., 1946-01-31
Hawaii Air Chief SAYS
His Only Warnings
Were in Newspapers
Bellineer Asserts Planes
Were on Routine Jobs
When Jops Attacked
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Vice Admiral Patrick N. L.
Bellinger, naval air commander
in Hawaii in 1941, the officer
charged with protecting the fleet
with air surveillance, did not see
any of the war warning mes
sages which the Navy and War
Departments sent out shortly
before the japanese attack, he
told the Pearl Harbor Committee
today.
Admiral Bellinger declared that
during the three months before the
attack his only information concern
ing relations with Japan and the i'm
minence of war came from Honolulu
newspapers.
In startling new testimony, the
admiral, pioneer naval flyer, said
Saw Warnings After Attack.
"In the absence of such informa-
ton, the patrol planes available were
carrying out their regularly assigned
schedules when the japanese struck. .
He explained -
Il had no knowledge of any of the
warning messages emanating from
the Navy and War Departments
during October, November and De-
cember." (The japanese attacked
December 7, l941.)
Il never knew of any warning
dispatches until a few days after
the attack-on the evening of about
December 10. think it was-when
I was told by one of my officers
that he had just heard that there
had been a warning dispatch re-
ceived in the district naval intelli-
gene office and that the local in
telligence officer of the naval air
station knew about it. I imme-
Evening star., 1946-01-31
Valuable Art Objects
Damaged in Blaze at
Mansion
Tition's 'FoIconer' and
'Lovinio' Are BIockened;
One Painting DESTROYED

A three alarm fire swept
Firenze House, the luxurious,
3-story, 35-room stone mansion
of Col. M. Robert Guggenheim,
2800 Albemarle street NV, early
today, causing extensive prop
erty damage and damaging a
number of valuable paintings
and art objects.
Two flremen were injured fighting
the blaze. the origin of which has
not been determined. Police said
the Guggenheims, members of the
millionaire copper family, were en-
route to California and the house
was occupied by seven servants.
Reporters were told by household
employees that the fire probably
started in the frst-f1oor drawing
room of the west wing and swept
upward to the roof. The mansion
was further damaged wien rain
dripped through holes burned ir
the roof.
discovered BY valet.
The fire was discovered by Arthur
Hopkins, the valet, who turned in the
first alarm at 1872 am. and
awakened the other servants. Two
other alarms were turned in before
2 o'clock.
Members of the household staff
moved a quantity of valuable paint
mgs, tapestries, rare glasses and
silverware to the gardeners cottage
after the fire was discovered, but
Daniel Fullerton. Col. Guggenheim' S
secretary, said number of collec-
tors items were damaged.
Titian's The Falconer" and La
vinia' were fire. -blackened A paint
ing by Greuze. an oil painting by
Ambrogio Lorenzetti of Madonna
and the Child" Van Dyck's Earl
of Arundel and Murillo's 'Salvator
Mundi' were not damaged. A paint
ing of Col. Guggenheim's grand
father was damaged by smoke
The Village Feast" by David Teni-
ers the Elder, was dabaged beyond
repair. Servants said collection
of rare Venetian glass in the draw
ing room was unchanged.
Wren Woodwork Burned.
Hand-carved woodwork by Sil
Christopher Wren in the drawing
room and paneling in the library
from Wren's own home in England
were burned and moke-blackened
Old and valuable draperies in the
grand hall were damaged.
The injured firemen are Capt
Nelson Bowman, 81, of 5407 Fourth
street NV, of No. IA Truck Com.
pany, who suffered a lacerated arm
and Pvt. Sidney Bishop, %, of q
North Liberty street, Arlington, wht
suffered a lacerated- hand Botf
men were treated at Emergency Hos.
pital and released.
No estimate of the damage to the
stone mansion was obtained, pend.
ing a thorough inspection of tn,
premises.
Evening star., 1946-01-31
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.

BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
Morton Bodfish, executive vice
president of the United States
Savings g. Loan League, today
proposed to the House Banking
Committee that items of thou
sands" of occupants of Govern
ment owned permanent war
housing, such as darlington in
nearby Virginia, move out to
make way for veterans earning
less than $4,000 a year.
''If you had the salaries of occu-
pants at darlington, you would be
amazed" the Official told the COM
mittee, which is holding hearings
on the Patman bill setting ceilings
on new and used homes.
Tens, if not hundreds, of thou
sands of families with incomes from
$4,000 to $4,000 are living in the
100000 Government-o owned perma-
nent war housing units" he de-
clared. THE families can pay from
$40 to $10O month rent and can
certainly fare better in buying
homes or renting homes than serv-
icemen with ST 900 to $4,000 incomes
Criticizes Government.
IF veterans preference is fair and
practical on new homes and on va
cancieS in Government houses or
apartments, certainly these Govern
ment-owned projects should be used
promptly to accommodate service
men ."
Mr.. Bodfish criticized the Govern
ment for not educating the public
on future prices of homes and add
ed that you can't stick your head
in the sand and believe that prices
will be at 1889 levels"
Evening star., 1946-01-31
BY MARION WADE DOYLE.

Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith,
Board of Education member, to-
day said the public schools
should begin to teach youngsters
at 3 years of age instead of S,
because families don't know
enough to bring up children the
way the schools can"
A delegation of working mothers
appearing before a board commit
tee to ask for continuance through
June of the nursery school centers-
scheduled to close February 28-
agreed with Mrs Smith. They
asked that the board request the
Evening star., 1946-01-31
Seven German POWs Get
Life Term in Staying

By the Associated Press.
CAMP SWIFT, Tex, Jan. 81
Seven German prisoners of war were
sentenced yesterday by an Army
court-martial to life Imprisonment
at hard labor here after they had
been found guilty of Staying a fellow
prisoner.
They were convicted by the nine
officer general court of joint action
with common intent in the fatal
beating December II, 1943, of Hugo
KrauSS. Krauss was a one-time
resident of New York who was taken
into the German army while visiting
his grandparents. His parents live
in New York.