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Evening star., 1946-09-12
u. 5. Will End A|eiers
Broadcasts by Dec. 81
BY the Assoeio,sd Press

The United States has agreed TO
discontinue by December 81 its
broadcasts from Algiers over trans
mitters set up unde q wartime
agreement.
A State Department press officer
told reporters yesterday, however,
that the Government is continuing
negotiations with France over the
possibility OF buying time on the
Algiers radio for relay Of American
programs If an agreement to sell the
American transmitters to the
French can be reached.
II no such agreement is forthcom-
| ing. the United States will dis
mantle its transmitters and move
them to other sites from which ii
hopes to continue foreign-language
broadcasts, he added.
The oficial said the departments
once of International Information
and Cultural Affairs-peace-time
successor to the owl and the Offce
of Inter-American Affairs--is con-
sidering number of alternative
booster" stations for the broad
casts if the Algiers facilities are re-
moved.
He added that the question Of
lRussian-language broadcasts to the
Soviet Union has been under con-
sideration for some time and he be-
lieves it unlikely that project vii
be abandoned.
France asked this country to close
down its broadcasting stations In
Algiers by the end of the year-six
months after the French govern
|ment's war lending proclamation.
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Scattered State Department
Units Hit by House Member

Department and are contemplating
construction Of an up-to-date Navy
Building. In other words, we are
taking care Of our departments Of
war and utterly neglecting the de-
partment which we should depend
upon to keep us out Of war"
Mr.. Morrow said after q tour OF
more than a dozen State Depart
ment branches that they manifest
too plainly the characteristics Of
18th century accommodations and
habits In = 20th century world
They are q national disgrace"
He pointed that the passport di-
vision Is housed in q building used
as a hospital and prison during the
civil war. with flling sections in the
old prison cells, while the visa di-
vision occupies an upper floor Of
gasoline filling station approximate
| ly 10 blocks away.
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Pofcewomon, A,
Shoots Mosher
In Chicago Park
BY the AsSoeiofed Press

CHICAGO, Sept. IL. Robert
Secor, %, ran staggering from Grant
Park into the arms Of two park
policemen late last night, crying
that two robbers had shot him.
At hospital, it was discovered he
had been shot near the heart but his
condition was not serious. The
policemen learned Secor had been
shot by Park Policewoman Alice
Mccarthy after, she said, he threw
her to the ground when she ignored
his fiirtatious advances.
Miss Mccarthy, 46, an expert shot
who has killed purse snatcher and
shot three other offenders in her
22-year police career, said Secor
tripped her when she ignored his
greeting as she patroled the near
loop park.
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Dr.. Myers Plans 10 Retire
After IS Years as Pastor

The Rev. DIR. Norwood P. Myers
pastor of the Clarendon Methodist
Church for the past four years
has announced that he would retire
from the ministry because of i'll
health about october Is.
During his IS years in the min
istry, the Rev. Mr.. Myers has served
churches at Richmond, Norfolk
Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Dan
vile and as secretary of missions
at Nashville, Tenn.
During his ministry at the Claren-
don church, 657 new members have
been admitted, the church now hav-
ing 1,240 on its rolls. The build
ing indebtedness in the last four
years has been reduced from $98, 600
to $45 900.
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Prince Georges Board
To Administer Fund
BY the Assoeioied Press

ANNAPOLIS, Sept. IL. Gov.
O'Conor yesterday appointed a
Prince Georges County Board of
Library Trustees to administer
funds made available under the
State library assistance law.
The boards are appointed when
counties comply with the 1945 act
which requires county levy of not
less than 2 cents on each 500 of
assessed valuation or ALLEGATION Of
an equal sum. The State grants 60
as high as IS 900.
The Prince Georges County Board
will include Mrs. William Brean,
Oxon Hill; j. Howard Hopkins,
Laurel; Mrs. Louis P. Ditman, Ber-
wyn; Howard Brown, Bladensburg;
Mrs. H. B. Mayhem, Hyattsville; !;
Mrs. James E. MacMurtney
Mitchellville, and boswell e. Brooks,
Fairmont Heights.
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Musicians al StatIer
Quit as New York
Strike Is Expanded

The Hotel Statler was without
music today except tor the piped-in
variety as a result Of James G.
Petrillos order expanding the New
York musicians strike to several
chain hotels.
When the last strains died away
last night, George Dudy's dinner
dance band folded its instruments
and left the Embassy room. Statler
ofneials said the walkout probably
would end Tive" music at the hos
telry until Mr.. Petrillo, as president
OF the American Federation of Mu-
sicians. rescinds the strike order.
Following the cut from Duffy's
band, the Evalyn Tyner string trio,
which fills in evening intermissions
for Mr. Duffy in the Embassy room
and plays afternoons in the We
randa cocktail room, alse was stilled.
Making 1t unanimous, the Julian
Altman string quartet, which played
In the Embassy Room between noon
and 2:3O pm, joined the others on
the S1delines. That left only the
piped-in music, which has outlets
everywhere in the hotel, including
the guest rooms.
Paul j, Schwarz, president of Mu-
sicians' Protective Union, Local 161,
said the Statler probably would be
the only hotel affected by Mr.. Pc
trillo's new order. The Roosevelt
Hotel has had no band music since
Labor Day, when the strike hit
New York chain hotels and those
OF the same chains in other cities.
The union has demanded a rs per
cent wage increase and the hotel
arrangements have responded with
an offer of half that much.
Other hotels affected by the new
order were the Hilton chain in Day.
ton. Ohio; Los Angeles, Albuquerque,
N. Mex, and Long Beach, Calf; the |
Statler hotels in Boston, Buffalo, st.
Louis, Cleveland, Detroit and Pitts
burgh, and the Kirkeby in Phila-
delphia.
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Los Angeles Newspaper
Strikebound for 9Th Day
By he Assoeiotsd Press

br NV SssoCto'e0 FFeS1
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12.-The
Herald-Exprcss was strikebound to-
day for the eighth consecutive day
with no progress reported in efforts
to settle the 40 disputed issues be-
tween the CIO-Los Angeles News
paper Guild and management.
Vic Dunsmore, business manager
of the newspaper, charged that the
guild had repeatedly refused" ef-
forts for arbitration, and Bill Brodie
guild administrative ofncer, said
that up to now negotiations have
been dominated by Harvey Kelly
Ia Hearst national spokesman, who
has not attempted actually to bar
gain with the locked-out employees" "
The guild asks 500 weekly for
experienced reporters, photograph
ers and district circulation mana
gers. The Herald-Express has Of
fered 10 per cent increase in all
classifications, or S. week, which,
ever is greater.
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Squotters
Continued From First Page.)

shortage which has resulted in the
squatter influx.
Pollitt said in an interview that
the Labor governments foreign pol
icy was leading to new wars" and
explains the snail-like pace with
which hotels and fats are being
de-requisitioned."
at is this" he said, (which helps
to explain the shortage of labor and
materials, but it might be as we'll to
remember that no government will
get the British workers to fight any
wars against the Soviet Union or
the new democratic states of Eu-
rope
Communist Party Secretary.
Pollitt is general secretary of the
Communist party of Great Britain.
He described as absolutely fan
tastic' Washington speculation that
Communists in Great Britain and
the United States had been ordered
by Moscow to create domestic dis
turbances such as the squatter drive,
which has become the British gov
ernment's most acute problem.
ut will be happy day for Brit
ain," he said, when the Labor gov
ernment stops standing up to the
squatters and the Soviet Union and
does a bit of standing up to Franco,
Royalist Greece and aggressive
American imperialism"
May Invade Hampstead.
Leaders of the five-day -old LUX
ury squatting" movement, which
has installed working class families
in number of apartments normally
renting for about $4,000 a year,
talked of forcing beachheads in the
empty mansions of picturesque
Hampstead.
Fifty men and women, chanting
"give the squatters water" marched
to Marlebonei Town Hall from Abbay
Lodge, one of London's most expen-
sive apartment buildings, which was
seized by squatters yesterday. But
no water was turned, on and police
outside said mo one is going in here
today"
From a window OF the recently
decorated building, a woman shout
ed:
MY baby has caught bronchitis.
We have been sleeping on bare
boards. What are you going to do
about it?"
No one answered.
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Senator StunfiII Protests
Relief for YuqosIuviu
BY tho Assoeiotsd Press

ur Htc Ess0Stofoo FfeSS
LEXINGTON, KY, Sept. 12-Sen-
ator Stanfill, Republican, of Ken
lucky, was on record today in pro-
test against continued shipment
of relief supplies to Yugoslavia.
He made public a telegram to
President Truman last night asking
the Chief Executive to stop all
shipments.
The message said:
Il stand ready with other SEN
ators to pass any necessary legis-
latlon to stop this pouring out
OF money to give Yugoslavia and
Russia sinews of war to be. used
by them in keeping the world in
an uproar and preventing a just
or lasting peace -
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Six YugosIov Guords
Disciplined by Allies
BY The Assoeioted Press

TRIESTE, Sept. 1.-THE Allied
18th Corps announced today that
disciplinary action" had been taken
against six Yugoslav train guards
arrested Monday in connection with
the explosion Of a dynamite bomb
in Trieste.
. The guards, who are not allowed
to carry arms, were picked up three
quarters of a mile from the scene OF
the bombing with five hand grenades
in their possession, Allied author
tiles said. Specific penalties were
mot disclosed,
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Banded Pigeon Tories
In Stur Editorial Room

A tired homing pigeon, late arrival
in a pigeon race which started Sum
day from Charlottesville, Va, to Bal
timore, walked into The Stars City
Room yesterday and proceeded to
catch 80 winks before carrying on.
The bird was identified as a Bal
timore pigeon by band on one leg.
The pigeon, finding no food and
little rest in the newsroom office
departed as quietly as it came.
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Alexandra to Appeal
Award for Property

The Alexandria City Council will
file an appeal to a Circuit Court
award Of $1,000 to Mrs. Sarah
Stalks, colored, 925 Florida avenue
NV, for property taken over by the
city in a 1912 street expansion pro-
gram. -..,
Mrs. Stack originally sought SIS
900 for house and lot at North
Pitt and Second streets taken over
by the city to extend Pitt street.
She was awarded $1,000 by the
Corporation Court.
Evening star., 1946-09-12
Children of Liberty
Elect Alexandria Man
By the Assoeiofsd Press

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 12-May-
nard Robey of Alexandria was
elected National councillor of the
National Council, Sons and Daugh-
ters of Liberty, in their convention
here yesterday.
The members decided 10 meet IN
Atlantic City In 1947.
Evening star., 1946-09-12
VFW to Hold CurnivuI

The Montgomery County Post
2958, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will
hold q carnival on the Rockville
fair grounds beginning Monday and
continuing for two weeks.
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Conference
Continued From First Page.)

in Austria, where four-power agree
ment for restitution was unneces-
Sary, have returned $32, 900 900
worth of Hungarian gold and the
Hungarians have been asked to
submit lists of their property in the
American zones OF Germany and
Austria.
Earlier in the day 1t. Gen. Wal
ter Bedell Smith, American Am
bassador to Moscow, speaking on
the political clauses of the treaty
said the United States sympathized
with Czechoslovak demands for the
forced transfer Of 100000 Hungar-
ians from Czech territory to Hun
gary.
But, he added, "for humanitarian
reasons we could not look with favor
on the incorporation into q treaty
of peace the principle Of forced uni
lateral transfer of populations.
A. v. Alexander of Britain, who
followed Mr.. Thorp. said Britain be-
Evening star., 1946-10-13

dispute his right to the combat
infantrymen's badge which hes was
given on his deathbed.
Gen. Stilwell lost no face with
his own troops or his millions OF
friends In China and elsewhere
when he was Withdrawn at Chiang's s
insistence, given the important
ground forces command, and from
there sent to Okinawa to replace
the slain Gen. Simon Bolivar
Bruckner.
To his Obi troops he was known
universally as "Uncle Joe" or the
"Old Man" He called himself, as
he pronounced it, "Old Tukey
Neck"
He was family man who spent
lonely nights in Burma writing
home by lamplight. Across pack
age of pictures an aide had selected
for him, he wrote: Here's the
latest pictures Of Old Turkey Neck. "
Once he told 1t. Col. Fred Ed
ridge, his biographer, that In the
family he rated just after the dog
Aide Was Chinese.
He was not entirely separated
| from his family in Burma, for Col
Joseph w. Stilwell, jr., also q West
Pointer, was his intelligence oficer
But with characteristic affection foi
the Chinese, the general had as his
aide, Maj. Dick Young, an Hawai-
Iian-born Chinese, who got equal
treatment with Joseph, jr.
The only time he consented to sii
/ in as acting supreme commando:
of Southeast Asia, while Admiral
Mountbatten was in London, he got
notice of his nomination for full
general. An aide walked by his office
and said, General you've beer
nominated for a fourth star"
Nominated, am II" said the gen.
eral. How do you think I'll go In
the election?"
Then they rolled up a four starred
jeep, which the general piloted
around the headquarters, leaving the
supreme commanders limousine te
his cook, STAFF Sergt. Gus Reynaud
of New York, who used it for shop
ping trips.
Evening star., 1946-10-13

sisted of a mud-stained jacket with
no rank insignia, ordinary G. /
pants and leggings.
He used to say that wars were
won mot with weapons. but with
CUTS, push, speed and surprise -
Most troops in modern days carry
too much equipment, he believed,
explaining: They violate one of the
fundamental principles of warfare
simplicity" He recalled how Civil
War soldiers fought all over the
States with only one blanket, one
rifle, some ammunition and a pouch
the latter for personal stuff such
as stolen apples"
General Stilwell was no stickler
for the more rigid military courA
tesies. At a staff conference short
ly after Pearl Harbor, all his Of
ficers jumped to attention when
he walked in the room. "Sit down. .
he ordered, Were fighting war
now and we'll dispense with all this
jumping g-up-and-down business"
Evening star., 1946-10-13

(ChnrLeS A GTun1tcf 1OGS an As
socioted Press tpdr correspondent
for tUo years In the China
Burma India and Southeast Asia
Consnland.)
BY CHARLES A. CRUNCH.
NEW YORK, Oct. 12-"Uncle
Joe" Stilwell stolidly ignored nledi-
cal advice four years ago in order
to fight probably the bitterest war
a trudging old foot soldier ever
waged simultaneously in combat
and Oriental politics.
The stringy old generals friends
lin New York recalled tonight that
he brushed aside efforts to keep
him in bed for a long period in
Chungking back in 1942.
"I am fighting a war;" Gen. Still
well said then, "and can't spare
the time"
The doctors could keep him down
tonly a couple Of days, although
they told him his ailment would
result in severe liver trouble with
in a few years unless he took care
of himself Immediately.
Gen. Stilwell's was a single
minded decision Of devotion to duty
after he had withdrawn all the
forces he could save from the
Burma debacle in 1912.
Unpopular With British.
His fortnight remarks about the
collapse of the British and Ameri-
can forces in Burma ahead of the
Japanese, won him a large measure
of unpopularity with the British
command.
The differences between Gen. Still
Evening star., 1946-10-13

cial attitude that Hungarian min.
critics must leave, that the war
losers should not be given territory
at the expense of the winners and
that In the future Czechosloyakia
will not grant minority privileges
to any group.
The Catholic Party newspaper
Lidova Demokracie said Czecho-
slovakia was caught in the strategic
political moves of the big powers.
The paper said Hungary Is a land
which the west powers still can
penetrate. That Is the one reason
England and the United States op-
pose the population transfer. Soviet
support Of Czechoslovakia made
Russia unpopular In Hungary and
increased its sympathies for the
West powers"
Evening star., 1946-10-13
StHweN Ignored His Illness
Continue jungle Fighting

well and the British were tntenSl-
fed by his iIlsistence, when the re-
turn to North Burma was begun by
his Chinese and American forces in
1884, on hitting out directly on
the line to reopen the land route to
China.
As the foremost field commander
of the eastward offensive against the
japanese. Gen. Stilwell baked
against all British efforts to turn
the tide southwark for reconquest of
Burma.
On his side he had the No. / OBJ
jective of the first Quebec confer
ence which specified that aid to
China must be the prime objective
of the Southeast Asia Command.
Also on his side, he had the Chinese
22nd and 38th Divisions which he
had trained and armed in Northeast
India after the 1912 Burma retreat,
and Merrill's Marauders, who joined
them early in 1914 to run the left
end sweeps for the Chinese.
Differed With Mountbatten.
Gen. Stilwell, who summed rear
echelon headquarters like the
plague and stayed forward with his
troops almost without a break, was
deputy to Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten, supreme commander
of Southeast Asia, and, although
they were personally friendly, they
never saw eye to eye on jungle war
fare or its intentions.
Admiral Mountbatten, trained as
sailor since the age of IA and at
that time the worlds best known
amphibian authority, wanted to
take Burma by assault landings on
the long coasts: Gen. Stilwell
wanted to 60 as directly as possible
to China and felt no concern for
British empire policy.
But 1t was not dispute with the
British that took the general out
of Burma before the Ledo road from
India to China was opened. Rather
it was growing feud with General
issimo Chang Kai-shek and con-
siderable integrated backstabbing
that removed Gen. Stilwell in the
autumn of 1874, when only minor
clean-ups remained before the road
was opened to Running and Chung
king in January, 1945.
Before he was withdrawn, Gen.
Stilwell had many scrapes with
death in Burma, and once, on a
walking mission to the forwardmost
Chinese positions, artillery shells
hit within few yards Of him, but
buried themselves and spent their
force in mud.
None of his forces ever would
Evening star., 1946-10-13
Patterson Says Death
or 5tiIweH Is Loss
To Every Soldier

Every soldier in the Army lost q
faithful friend with the death of
Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell, Secretary
of War Patterson said last night as
top military men joined to eulogize
Vinegar Joe" at his passing.
above all else, he was soldiers
soldier" Secretary Patterson de-
clared, "ready and willing to en-
dure all the risks and hardships
endured by those who served under
him. He never spared himself"
Secretary Patterson cited Gen.
Stilwell's brilliant record in the
China -Burma-India campaign and
at Okinawa. '"They mark him as
one of the ablest military leaders
the Nation has ever had" Mr.. Pat
terson said. "The memory of this
brave soldier will serve as an in
spiration to all ranks in the Army
for all time"
Called Great American.
Gen. Jacob L. Devers, command
ing general Of the Army Ground
Forces and an intimate friend of
Gen. Stilwell for Al years, said:
"The entire world is poorer as 1t
mourns Joseph Warren Stilwell.
my sense Of personal loss at his
passing is extreme, yet it pales in
comparison with the loss of the
United States Army and the United
States itself. We have lost a great,
Q truly great, American"
The commanding general of the
Army Air Forces, Gen. Carl A.
Spaatz. characterized Gen. Stilwell's
death as the removal of veteran
campaigner whom the Army can i'll
afford to lose.
Handy Lauds StilwelI.
Gen. Stilwell was great soldier,
but he was more than that. He
was great American, patriot, q
man who devoted his life to safe
guarding this Nations security" the
Air Forces chief declared. 81 ex-
tend my deep sympathy to his wife,
his sons and his daughters In the
overwhelming loss they have suf-i
fered."
Gen. Thomas F. Handy, acting
chief Of staff, lauded Gen Stilwell's
ability, as a diplomat as well as
his skilfull and determined soldier
ing. MANY of the little known
dialects of the Chinese were as
familiar to him as they were to
people born to the tongue" Gen.
Handy said.
During his years in command of
United States forces in Asia, many
a Chinese was astonished to find
his commanding general understood
him as few Americans ever had.
His popularity with the Chinese
was universal.
Gen. Stilwell will be well re-
membered for many things other
than for the famous road which
he built through the highest noun
tains in the world and which now
bears his name"
Evening star., 1946-10-13
flowers deliver them In the generals
name to patients at any Army or
veterans hospital.

Gen. Stilwells personality I'M
pressed itself upon the American
people. Every one felt that he knew
Vinegar Joe" after reading his quo
tations in the press.
His honesty took the edge off the
disheartening news that Allied
forces had been driven out of Burma
in the spring of 1942-six months
after Pearl Harbor. Burma was
the front on which it was consid-
cred all important to stop the Jap
it opened possibilities of the con-
quest of India, East Africa, the Mid
die East and possible contact with
the Germans.
Allied headquarters had followed
the usual military tactic of issuing
communique putting the best face
on a bad situation. But when Gen.
Stilwell emerged from his i40-mile
trek on foot through the Burma
jungle with his little group of l04
Americans, Britons, Burmese, Chi
nese and Indians, he said:
II claim we got a hell Of beat
ing. We got run out of Burma, and
it is humiliating as hell. I thirSk
we ought to find out what caused
it, go back and retake it. The
Japanese are not supermen. If we
go back properly proportioned and
properly equipped we can throw
them out"
Called japanese Tough.
He said the Japanese were tough
about 10000 or $4,000 combat
troops who didn't care whether they
got killed or not. when you're
fighting such an outfit you need
something more than a piecemeal,
rag-tail bob-tail affair."" he said.
Two years later, when Gen. George
C. Marshall issued his biennial re-
port as chief Of staff, he departed
from his course of not mentioning
individual generals to point out how
Gen. Stilwell had operated on the
thin line" of what was left after
garrisoning Australia, protecting the
Middle East and other commitments.
Gen. Stilwell could be silent when
the occasion called for it. He died
without ever revealing to the public
what was behind the rift with
Chang.
When the row broke over some
West Coast towns refusing to put
the names of Nisei on the rosters
of those who had served, he had
this to say:
you're damn right those Nisei
boys have a place in the American
heart, now and forever. And say
we soldiers ought to form a pickax
club to protect Jap-Americans who
fought the war with us. They
bought an awful hunk of America
with their blood.
Wanted to be Charter Member"
"Any time we see a barfly COM
mando picking on those kids or dis
eliminating against them, we ought
to bang him over the head with a
pickax. I'm willing to be charter
member.
I'VE cannot allow a single in
justice to be done to the Nisei with
out defeating the purposes for
which we fought"
Gen. StiIwell was born at Pa
latka, Fla, March 10, 1883, when
his parents were vacationing from
Westchester County, N. Y. His
father was public utility executive
with enough political influence to
get. (17 years later one of Presi-
dent McKinleys 10 appointments to
West Point for his son.
Joe Stilwell was quarterback on
the Army team of 1903-the team
that defeated Navy, 40 to S.
Don't cheer, boys said Joe. 1.-THE