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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
15-Year Term for Pilot
Who Took Plane Cancelled
BY the Associated Press

The War Department has COM
muted the 15-year sentence of I'd
1t. Martin j. Monti. shot down in
Germany after borrowing" a P-38
for an unofficial combat flight, &C
cording to aides of Representative
Ploeser, Republican, of Missouri.
1t. Month, now in Greenhaven
Disciplinary Barracks, New York,
applied for enlistment in the Army
as private If the remainder of his
sentence was Cancelled and he was
given the opportunity for an honor
able discharge, Mr.. Ploeser's aides
told newsmen.
This procedure is open to Of
flcers convicted under certain cir
cumstanceS, War Department
spokesman said.
He said he understood 1t. Monti
had applied for enlistment; the
War Department accepted the offer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12

1.-THE Netherlands under commercial
purchase arrangements. The other
10 per cent win 60 to the Philippine
Islands and other dependent areas,
they said.
The meat ALLEGATION for the jan
uary March quarter has been an
nounced as follows: UNNRA coun-
tries. 800 ,000, 900 pounds; Belgium,
A, 600 600; France, $4,000 900; the
Netherlands, Is. 000, 600; Netherlands
East Indies, 10000, 900, and United
States Territories and other COM
mercial shipments. $500 900.
Other first-quarter ALLEGATIONS for
overseas shipments include:
Canned milk, about 800 600 ,0OO
pounds for UNNRA countries.
Rice-367 600 bags Of 100 pounds
each for UNNRA countries; LOO, O0O
for the Philippine Islands; 1000
for Cuba; and 100000 for feeding
civilians in military zones.
Fats and vegetable $50 ,0O0, 00C
pounds for the United Kingdom; &c.
100000 for UNNRA countries; a.
100000 for Belgium; $4,000, 600 for
France; 4,400, 5000 for the Neither
lands; 1,200.0 900 for Netherlands East
Indies; 100000 for Norway; $780,
600 for military feeding Of civilians
in occupied zones; and 1.100, 900 for
the Philippines. No butter is in
cluded in these ALLEGATIONS because
Of short supplies in this country.
Meanwhile, last-minute attempt
by the milling industry to head of
the Government program placing
the Nation on dark flour and bread
failed.
Informal industry operated ration
ing Of reduced supply Of white
-four was proposed by the millers at
Government-industry conference
late yesterday, but Secretary of Ag-
riculture Anderson turned their pro-
posal down.
Millers said it was not necessary
to turn to dark bread to cut 25,000,-
600 bushels of wheat from -four con-
sumption in this country during the
first half of 1916. They said the U.s.
000, 900 bushels could be saved by an
ALLEGATION system on white flour I'M
der which domestic consumers would
get about 88 per cent Of the amount
they would be expected to consume
If supplies were plentiful.
ut is the verdict of President Tru-
man and his cabinet" Mr.. Anderson
said, that the dark-flour method be
used to help save wheat for the
starving abroad"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
Crossing
Is Defended by Army
In Report 70 House
BY the Associated Press

The War Department today de-
Tended the judgment of military
leaders in executing the Seth (Texas)
Divisions costly Rapido River cross
ing attack in Italy.
The departments defense was
made in a lengthy report submitted
to the House Military Affairs Com
mittee.
Representative Thomson, Demo-
crat, of Texas, a member of the COM
mittee, said he was mot entirely
satisfied" with the report and
thought that a congressional investi-
cation might yet be necessary to
bring cut all the facts.
Representative Andrews, Repub-
lican, New York, however, declared
that on the basis of the report he
did not consider it a matter for
congressional action" Representa-
tive Kilday, Democrat, of Texas
said he wanted to study the report
carefully. before deciding.
Members of the division at con-
vention in Texas recently demanded
a congressional investigation of the
crossing attack. The House Mill
tary Committee later called on the
War Department for a report.
The War Departments report said
the overall offensive campaign
against Nazi forces in that part of
Italy was planned at a Christmas
Day conference in 1913 in Gen.
Eisenhower's headquarters, with the
then British Prime Minister Church.
i'll participating.
Responsibility for the Rapido at
tack itself, however, was described as
belonging to lower ranking officers,
including Gen. Mark Clark, the tar
get of critics of the operation, which
took 2,128 American casualties.
planning for the operations along
the Rapido River, which concerned
subordinate echelons of command,
was undertaken later by the COM
manders concerned and not by the
Allied commander in chief" the re-
port said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12

a leg injury he had suffered New
Year night which kept him for three
weeks In the Jacobs home. Con-
nors said he had slipped on q sub
way platform injuring the calf OF his
leg. Connors had said doctor was
called, but he could not remember
the doctors name.
did he use tape on it?" the pros
ecutor asked.
NO" said the defendant, "he rec
commended q heat blanket"
1t. Robert v. Murray, the detective
who had charge Of the inyestiga-
ton of the crime, testified earlier
that the tape used to bind MIR. Bar
ker's wrists Nand hold gag Of abb
sorbent cotton in his mouth was
not tape ordinarily sold in drug
stores. 1t. Murray said the Seam
less Rubber Co. had informed him
that the tape was a type usually
used by chiropodists.
Under questioning, Connors ad-
mitted that in November, 1880, he
had been convicted of robbery and
sentenced to Elmira Reformatory.
Defense Attorney James J. Laugh
lin asked Cohnors the circumstances
of the robbery.
Robbed Ticket Office.
Myself and four other boys had
an old Colonial rifle that couldn't be
fired" said Connors, and a toy pis-
toll. We had drunk about gallon Of
Italian wine and it probably made
our spirits very high. We probably
thought we were cowboys. We de-
cided to hold up the ticket Office of
the Yonkers ferry. We held it up
and got $50"
How old were you at that time?"
asked Mr.. Laughlin. The witness
said II.
Connors was clear and confident
yesterday on details of the fights in
Madison Square Garden.
But once away from the Garden
and February %, he pleaded loss of
memory on important points in his
story. He was asked what became
of the diamond he pawned for $500
in New York on March and re-
deemed on May Is. He said he
lost 1t.
when did you first miss t?"
asked Mr.. Murray.
81 can't recall the exact date"
answered Connors. Il had 1t wrap
ped In tissue paper the way got
it back from the pawn shop"
At one point Mr.. Murray switched
the interrogation back to the fights.
who fought in the prelimi-
naries?" he asked.
''McNutt was In one" the defend
ant answered. "He was in one of
the six round bouts. There were
two six round bouts and one eight
round one before the final which
was 10 rounds"
Newspaper accounts of the fight
show that Van McNutt of Harlem
lost decision to Joe Reddick of
Paterson in a six-round bout. There
were two four round, one six round
and one eight-round bout on the
card before the 10-round Anal.
The prosecution may call as re-
buttal witnesses, Miss Jacobs and
her mother. Their Yonkers ad-
dress is the same as that of Nan
Ward, the attractive waitress for
whom Connors bought $477 fur
coat the day after the murders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
Flights Unlimited
In Air Pact Signed
by U. 5. and Britain
~ III. A,soeio,sd Pres,

| HAMILTON, Bermuda, Feb. a.
Commercial aviation in the United
States and Great Britain was linked
today by an agreement authorizing
an unlimited number of flights be.
tween the two countries at eco.
nomic rates" to be fixed by inter.
governmental action.
The agreement, signed here las
night, allows the commercial plane.
of each country to use the airports
OF the other as stepping stones or
global flights.
Each country is given free hane
in determining the number of such
flights to be made by its airlines.
So-called fifth freedom" traffic
Is authorized. This will allow an
airliner en- route between the two
countries to pick up passengers and
traffic bound for a third country,
and will allow economic operation
Of the Longtime services with which
both Britain and the United States
are planning to encircle the world.
A second agreement was reached
opening to commercial traffic many
OF the military air bases built by
the United States Government on
territory leased from the British in
Newfoundland, Bermuda and Carib-
bean areas. American commercial
planes will receive most favored
nation" treatment at these bases.
Leased bases in Bermuda, Antigua,
st. Lucia and British Guiana thus
were opened to airlines, and fields
in~ Trinidad and Jamaica will be
available as alternates in case of bad
weather.
Opening of four bases in New
foundland and acknowledgements
Harmon, Argentia and Goose Bay
are contingent on approval by the
Canadian an Newfoundland gov
ernments.
On the basis Of the negotiations
the United States plans IS global
routes and the British seven.
American cities at which British
planes on worldwide hops would
stop include New York, New Orleans,
Baltimore, Washington, Miami,
Palm Beach, San Francisco and
Chicago,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
Pearl Hurbor
Continued From First Page. }

ships, the Pacific Fleet would have
been safer in Pearl Harbor Deem
Der 7, 1941, than anywhere else"
ct was safer at Pearl Harbor than
at sea-" he said.
But Admiral Ingerson added that
he did not want this statement to be
construed as stating the ships should
have been tied up in the harbor at
the moment the Japanese struck
There were "other factors" which
changed the situation, he pointed
out.
Had Wide Area to Defend.
This line of testimony was brought
out by Senator Ferguson, Repub-
lican, of Michigan.
The war plan in effect at the time
Admiral Ingersoll pointed out, called
for the fleet to defend the Western
Hemisphere. One of its tasks was te
protect the territory of the associated
powers in the event Japan struck
anywhere in the Pacific, he ex-
planned.
The fleet could not have defended
the Western Hemisphere from 9
point on the West Coast of the
United States or at Panama, he said
It would have been more vulnerable
he said.
Admiral Ingersoll injected a new
note into the Tokyo winds code
war warning dispute when he told
the committee late yesterday he
considered it of no Importance.
Admiral Ingersoll, who now COM
mands the Western sea frontier
said he did see a paper that was
supposed to be" the winds exc
cute" Tokyo's secret announcement
of break with the United States
on or about December 4, 1941, three
days before the attack on Hawaii.
He assumed it was a true winds
message. He does not know today
whether it was or not, he explained
but, assuming it was, it told the
Navy Department nothing it did
not know.
What More Warning?
Washington had learned, he testi-
he'd, that Japanese diplomats and
even consular agents had been or
dered to destroy their codes and
secret papers. What more in the
way of war warning could any one
want, he wondered.
The Office of Naval Operations
informed Rear Admiral Husband
E. Kimmel, Pacific Fleet command
er, on December of Tokyo's order
to destroy codes, Admiral Ingersoll
pointed out. 1t had sent him a
strong message, beginning this is
to be considered war warning. .
on November 81, the witness added
81 consider those the two most
important messages we sent Admiral
lKimmel," said Admiral Ingersoll.
THE winds message, assuming it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
|'152 Ex-Yonks Arrive
In Australia to Live

SIDNEY, Feb. Zone hundred
fifty-two former American service
men arrived here today from San
Francisco aboard the liner Monterey
full of enthusiasm for jobs they said
they would seek in Australia-and
with an average of $1,000 in their
pockets to start life in this country,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
Food
Continued From First Page.

NOO1IU1IIuCU TIOIII FIISL FdSE.J
been promised during the first half
of the year.
officials said only tentative allo-
cations of meat and other foods
among recipient countries have been
made, adding that they are subject
to change.
Apportionment of Meat.
They said that almost half the
meat will be turned over to UNNRA
for distribution, and that about 40
per cent will be apportioned among
Great Britain, France, Belgium and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
Mrs. Sanford to Address
Two Church Groups Here

Mrs. Edgar L. Sanford, lecturer
and writer of Moorestown, N. j., who
Is the daughter of missionaries to
China, will speak here next week
before two religious groups on
"Dynamics of Prayer"
She will speak at 8 pm. Monday
in the parish hall of the Church
of st. Stephen and the Incarna-
ton. Sixteenth and Newton streets
NV, and at 1890 pm. Tuesday
before the School of Prayer at the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, 1901 New York avenue NV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
Truman Invited to Speak
AT Inner Circle Dinner
BY the Associated Pres,

President Truman was invited
yesterday to address a dinner OF
1.-The Inner Circle" in New York
City's Aston Hotel, March 80.
THE Inner Circle" is an organi-
cation of New York City and State
political writer's.
: The invitation was extended by
John Crosson of the New York
Daily News and Charles van De-
wander of the New York Past. They
'said the President told them he
would like to attend if his sched
ule permits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
Mon Injured in Fall

Charles J. Doyle, Al, sheetmetal
worker, Is in undetermined condi-
ton in Casualty Hospital with a
possible broken back, suffered, ac-
cording to police, when he fell from
a third-fioor window at 10 H street
NE. early today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
Noted Hotel to Be Rozed

NEW YORK, Feb. IL R.-The
62-year-old Murray Hill Hotel at
Park Avenue and Forty-first street,
social headquarters in the gay COS
and one Of New York's. landmarks,
will be RACED Immediately" to make
way for 30-story Office building, its
owners said last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
Nation Will Be Shocked
By Full Report, Keefe Says
BY the Associated Press

PONTIAC, Mich, Feb. 12.-Repre.
sentative Keefe, Republican, Of
Wisconsin, member of the Pear
Harbor Investigating Committee
told a Lincoln Day audience here
last night that you will be amazed
shocked and disillusioned" when 9
full report of the military disaster
can be made public.
Speaking before the Oakland
County Republican Club, he de.
clared 1t has been impossible up tc
now for the press to report fully the
Pearl Harbor story, but added that
soon "the pieces will be put to-
pethern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12
Weather Report

District Of Columbia Sunny with
temperature rising to the low 40s
this afternoon. Increasing cloudi-
ness with lowest temperature about
70 tonight. Tomorrow cloudy and
mild, followed by occasional light
rain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12

was genuine, simply confirmed
what we already knew, through the
code-burning message, that Japan
was about to go to war. To him,
he emphasized, the code order
meant war;" especially since 1t in
cluded consuls as well as diplomatic
ENJOYS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12

From United States Ensineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and slightly muddy at Great Falls; Shenen-
doah clear at Harpers Ferry.
IempernfIrc and Humidity.
Evening star., 1946-12-07

rounding the ship. . detonator ex-
plodes the torpedo so as to cause
maximum underwater blast effects.
Thus, a miss with this formidable
weapon is as good as direct hit,
under certain circumstances. For
example, a proximity explosion be-
meath the hull OF ship, or close to
the steering or propelling apparatus,
would be more effective than a con-
tact blow In less Vulnerable parts Of
a vessel. Furthermore, the new tor
pedo may be set to travel deep in
the water, where it is hard to detect.
When American submarines are
equipped with the schnorchel, a Ger
mar invention enabling submarines
to breathe" under water, the sub
mersible will be just as hard to spot
as the missile 1t fires. The breathing
pipe is to be Installed on most of our
submarines, so that they will be able
to overtake a quarry or speed away
from danger by using their Diesel
engines while submerged.
Even more terrible are the poten-
tialities of the submarine Of tomor-
row If plans for using 1t as launcher
of atomic rockets and torpedoes
should ever materialize. Yet the
Navy's research into such ghastly
possibilities will 60 on-and should
go on-until such time as the need
for these weapons for self protection
no longer exists
Evening star., 1946-12-07
Younger Admirols

The Navy's high-ranking officers
will be younger as group than they
were when World War II called them
to combat duty. if plans for promo
ton system reforms are approved by
the next Congress. The plans, re-
Gently drawn up by the naval high
command, call for long-overdue
scrapping of an outmoded seniority
system under which young officers
of exceptional ability have grown old
in the Navy before attaining nag
rank, or have reached retirement
age without making" admiral at all.
The deficiencies of this system
quickly became apparent when the
stresses of modern-day warfare fell
upon the Navy's higher-level officers
after Pearl Harbor Admiral Towers,
commander in chief of the Pacific
Fleet, has pointed out that the slam
bang tactics of fast carrier warfare
and the prolonged suggests Of pre-
invasion battleship, cruiser and de-
stroyer operations imposed physical
strains which were too much for
some OF the older officers to endure.
'Not only were they too DID," he
said, "but they did not have expert
ence in aviation and did not know
how to use their weapons. As q
result, they were overcautious."
AS the war progressed, the older
Evening star., 1946-12-07

men-with few notable exceptions
were replaced by more youthful,
vigorous and daring commanders,
who proved beyond doubt that an
officer can qualify as an admiral or
commodore with something more
than age or length OF service to- his
credit. The Navy will seek to take
advantage OF this lesson by giving
youth and ability an opportunity to
advance in time of peace as well
as Of war. Selection boards will be
authorized to reach down on the list
Of eligibles and pick out men who,
regardless OF age, have demonstrated
outstanding ability in command as
signments. Unless Congress increases
the peacetime officer strength OF the
Navy, Of course, the promotions thus
ordered are sure to be relatively few.
The incentive for young officers to
aspire to flag rank, with some ap-
preciable degree OF hope, will be real
and compelling, however. The net
result on the whole service is bound
to be Salutary.
Evening star., 1946-12-07
The Word for 1t
|. Louis Post-Dispatch.

From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
DR.. Benjamin Spock of New York,
N. Y, who says rudeness, lack of cleanli-
ness and slopply dress should not be OBJ
Jected to in youngsters between the ages
of and l3, because they are just being
natural, has fallen into fallacy as
broad as from here to there. He assumes
that there is something desirable about
being just natural, and that, in fact
it ought to be allowed.
If even grown people just acted nat
ural, for goodness sake, they would not
come to work when they did not feel
like it. When people annoyed them,
they would sock them When they were
bored st dinner party they would get
up and walk out as matter-of-fa -factly as
any Russian. 1t is surprising, indeed.
to note how much of good manners con-
sists entirely of not just acting natural
and pretending to like it.
OF all the ages of man at which
natural action would play hob with the
public veal. those mentioned by DR..
Spock surely head the list. They are
the ages at which the growing child.
engaged in the fascinating pursuit Of
being himself, dissects beetles, carries
live tcads in his pockets and pushes
gentle old ladies into lily pools. The
only word properly descriptive of COM
plete naturalness between the ages OF
and Is is ugh-and that goes for DR..
Spock's laissez faire policies. too.
Evening star., 1946-12-07
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

1t won't be long before the Repub-
licans, who won control OF both houses
OF Congress in the last elections, will
take over the responsibility of running
the legislative branch OF the Govern
ment. They have been telling the coun-
try for years they can do the job of
governing the country better than the
Democratic New Dealers who have been
in Office. Here Is their chance to do
something constructive in that branch
Of the Government which the trainers
of the Constitution not only considered
the most important but to which they
gave the most important duties and
place.
1t is one thing to rejoice over major
victory and another to assume the re-
sponsibilities which 90 with public ofice.
The Republicans had their big day Of
rejoicing this week-when the party s
national committee, with members from
every State. met In Washington to talk
things over and to make preliminary
plans for winning the presidency in l948.
They realize that political sentiment in
the United States can shift in q hurry
and while today 1t would be easy to elect
d Republican President it may be diff
ferent story two years hence.
So the leaders are stressing two things.
First. that the Republicans in Congress
carry out the mandate" of the people
which they contend Is against bureau
cracy, strikes and work stoppages, rad
icalism OF the Communist variety, and
for governmental economy, reduction of
taxes and a return Of government to
the people" Second, that the Repub-
licans in Congress cooperate with the
Democratic administration In the White
House to prevent new depression--a
depression which could happen quickly
unless there is q cessation Of gigantic
strikes and halt in the ever increasing
prices Of essentials. \
The Republicans who gathered here
from all parts Of the country for the
committee meeting were full Of ideas
about presidential candidates. They ad-
mitted, however, that sentiment Is any
thing but crystallized In the country.
One thing that stood out In conversa-
tions regarding potential nominees was
the change which has taken place in
the thinking about Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York. From the Middle
West-Kansas and Missouri, for ex-
ample-were Republicans who gave Mr.
Dewey the edge in the race for the
nomination, because Of his tremendous
victory in the November elections.
This represents q very considerable
change of sentiment, for before the elec-
tons it was generally thumbs down on
the idea of renominating defeated
candidate for President This is some
thing the Republicans have never done
although the Democrats have 4 diff