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Evening star., 1946-08-07
Henry Carson. Sells
Batavia Firm on Eve
0fBankruptcyHearine Of
By the Associoted Pres,

CHICAGO, Aug. 7.-Batavia Met
al Products. Inc, part of a Mid
western munitions combine which is
being investigated by a Senate COM
mittee, was sold last night to two
New York industrialists.
Sidney S. Gorhman, an attorney
for the firm. disclosed the sale at
bankruptcy hearing against the
company before Referee Martin
Ward today.
Mr.. Gohrman said Henry Carson
head of the Batavia concern. sold
all Batavia stock last night to James
Stein, president of Metaplast Co.,
Inc, which produces metal and plas-
tic products in New York, and Her
man Staff, head of the Diamond
Production Co., also of New York
which produces industrial diamonds.
Only yesterday the Government
was granted permission to join in a
petition for bankruptcy against the
Batavia concern which originally
was filed by six creditor companies
last Friday. The creditor companies
and the Government, claiming
Batavia and subsidiary, the Chal-
lenge Co., owed them more than
$l,000,000 asked that a receiver be
appointed Immediately.
Federal Judge William J. Campbell
appointed Referee Ward to hear the
case. and at preliminary hearings
Mr.. Ward declared he had not
found sufficient evidence to warrant
that receiver be named.
At today's hearing the Govern
ment claimed that an incomplete
audit showed Batavia received at
least s984,675 in overpayments on
war contracts, and the six creditor
companies claimed they had been
unable to collect debts totaling $l5,-
01996.
Mr.. Gohrman said the purchasers
mad not assumed the debts of the Ba-
taVia company. Joseph H. Schwartz,
another lawyer for Batavia, said
Mr.. Carson had practically given
away his stock so the companies
can operate"
Evening star., 1946-08-07
Small Motions Hide Activity
OF Big Powers, Russion Says

LONDON, Aug. 7 (P).-Yermashev
Moscow radio commentator. today
said the so-called revolt of the
small nations" over voting proceed
ure at the Paris Peace Conference
is nothing but smokescreen" to
hide the activities of "well-known'
large powers.
This is not the first time that
certain interested powers have re-
sorted to this method" he said In
sn English broadcast. "At the San
Francisco Conference certain large
powers, by guiding the representa-
tives OF certain small countries. en-
oeayored to foist their will on the
conference"
Yermashey asid the Soviet Un-
ions insistence on decisions by a
two-thirds rather than a simple
majority vote was aimed at pre-
venting accidental decisions" and
al Saving the conference from IA
tai political consequences"
Evening star., 1946-08-07

with only PIT in April and 212 in
May.
During the first three weeks of
June, according to Capt. Mills, an
all-time low was threatened, but
shortly after the end of the school
year local high-school graduates
began to flood the recruiting Office,
resulting in record week of 1873
accepted applicants the last week in
June, which brought the June
total to 259.
The recruiting increase continued
into July here, contrary to the ma
Itional trend. For the first 19 days
of July 246 men were enlisted, and
had this pace been maintained, July
would have been record month
Of over 400 local volunteers.
However, only SO men enlisted
during the last II days of the month,
roughly corresponding to the time
that the restriction on further gen.
eral enlistment of colored person.
mel went into effect.
Capt. Mills, who same to the To-
cal recruiting Office last Septem-
ber, when the detachment was
commanded by Capt. Israel Gross
berg after having been confined to
recruiting WACS mad aviation ca
diets during the war, said it was
often difficult to explain shifting
trends in recruiting.
Pay Raise Not Yet Felt.
He said the effects of the recent
general pay increase for the Army
had scarcely begun to be felt yet
although while the legislation was
before Congress his Office received
from 25 to so inquiries daily as tc
| its progress.
Several prospective soldiers in the
recruiting Office yesterday said they
had not been familiar with the new
pay scale until after they had ap-
Iplied for enlistment.
Richard Wagner, II, of 3216 Ely
place Sc, a student at Kramer
Junior High School, said the Army
pay was less important to him than
the chance to learn a trade.
Il haven't had too much disci-
pline," he added with a smile, land
think I could use it
Donald Brown. 18, of 325 Emerson
street NV, who just graduated
from GanZaga High, was more in
terested in obtaining an education
after he completes the two years
service for which he signed up.
He plans to attend Georgetown
Medical School, but he said he in
tended to do some heavy thinking
about whether he will go ahead with
Ia medical career during his Army
service.
Navy Yard Machinist.
Ernest Anderson, 30, of the 1000
block of Fendall street Sc, was de-
fered during the war as a Navy
Yard machinest. Now that he is no
longer subject to the draft, accord
ing to current selective service pol
icy, he is still anxious to see what
kind of life the Army offers.
Its as good as any other job" :"
he feels: IF I didn't get in the
Army, I would probably still leave
Washington, just for the change.
get restless
Some of the Washington men who
are volunteering express criticism of
civilian life, dissatisfaction with the
educational and on-the-job training
facilities provided under the CT Bill
of Rights.
Most of them, however, think that
the chance to travel, learn a job,
and draw regular pay with the
various extra allowances afforded in
the Army are the main incentive to
enlistment today.
Evening star., 1946-08-07
u. 5. Press Supports
IByrnes in Clash With
Molotov on Voting
BY the Associoted Press

A great segment of the Nation.
press aligned itself on the side ol
Secretary of State Byrnes in his
clash with Soviet Foreign Minister
Molotov at the Paris Peace Confer.
ence regarding voting procedure.
Mr.. Byrnes yesterday charged Mr.
Molotov with attempting to dictate
to the peace conference, and Mr.
Molotov, labelling Mr.. Byrnes' speech
as violent and perhaps bellicose, ;
denied the charge and declared his
delegation alone was defending the
decisions of the Big Four Council.
Mr.. Molotov later accepted Mr.
Byrnes' challenge to have the Amer
ican views published in the Soviet
press.
Lets give a cheer for Byrnes,'
editorialized the Philadelphia Rec
ord. He dared to get angry, dared
to speak out, dared to champion the
right of the smaller nations to be
heard"
"Strong Word Necessary"
The Providence Journal-Bulletin
declared that "if Mr.. Molotov will
not love him for his spirited answer
he will respect Mr.. Byrnes more
There are times when the strong
word is not only justified, but neces-
sary."
The New York Times observed:
1T would be both charitable and
diplomatic to assume that the clash
is an outgrowth of mutual mis-
understandings. But the record
cited by Mr.. Byrnes is far too clear
for that, and there appears to be
no other way of coping with the
Russian tactics than to show them
up for what they are"
In speaking for freedom of in
formation the Indianapolis Star
said, ''he fByrnes) has spoken for
world understanding and peace
Good for him"
The exchange between the states
men was viewed by the New York
Mirror as valuable in that it indi-
Gates a f1rmer United States policy
toward Soviet-bully-boy diplomacy"
The Detroit Free Press said Mr.,
Byrnes and Mr.. Molotov descend
ed from the high level of har-
mony'" and ARE hurting acrid
fighting words at each other"
Real Issue Held Veto.
THE real issue is whether the
veto power shall continue vested
in any State, and if so, how much
commented the San Francisco
Chronicle. 'Molotov resists every
precedent under which a simple
majority would carry any point
however small. He does this be-
cause his government so fears any
vitiation of veto power that it will
oppose it in whatever form or de-
gree"
The Portland Oregonian said that
"as for the charges by Mr.. Molotoy
and the angry denunciation of him
and his blocking tactics by Mr.
Byrnes, there is no cause for ex-
citement. Each nation will get
what it can and a balance will
be struck"
The New York Herald Tribune
said 80 = Mr.. Molotov give us a
hint that the Kremlin's utter ig-
norance of the west. its parochial-
ism, its fearful sense of insecurity
are greater sources of the
present difficulty than any more
basic clash of national interest or
purpose"
Evening star., 1946-08-07
Enlistments in Army Resume
Down Trend After June Rise
By Thomas 6. Buchonon

| Volunteer enlistments in the
Regular Army, which increased
sharply in the latter part of JUNE
after declining each month since
November, l945, have resumed a
downward trend, according to in
formation released today by the War
Departments military personnel
procurement section.
While national recruiting figures
are dropping, however, the local
Army recruiting station at 403
Tenth street NV. reports an en-
listment of 3o5 men during July, the
highest total here since March.
For the first three weeks of July
only 29,789 men volunteered to join
the Regular Army, the procurement
section reported. Unless an in
crease is reported in the balance of
the month the July total will be less
than the 48,136 volunteers in May
the previous low, it was said.
Several Reasons Given.
Several reasons were advanced
for the July decline. One of these
was the expiration on July of a
War Department regulation per-
mitting ex-servicemen to re-enlist
in their former grade within 80 days
of discharge, the limit being now
reduced to 20 days.
Another factor was the apparent
tendency among recent high school,
graduates to take vacation or seek
civilian employment during the
summer Many of these, the Wal
Department feels. will enlist this
fall.
| A third cause for the drop in en-
listments in July was the order OF
July 16 suspending the induction OF
colored soldiers except in 48 special
ized categories for which specia.
need exists. Negro volunteers
through July 81 were placed at 141,-
374, or 1912 per cent of total enlist
ments. The Negro population of the
United States is approximately 10
per cent of the total population, and
Army policy has been to keep the
numbers OF its white and colored in
the same ratio.
Capt. Edgar F. Mills, assistant
recruiting officer at the Washington
recruiting station, gave similar rea-
sons of the adverse factors affect
ing the recruiting campaign in July.
Motives Here Different.
Figures released by the local Of
flee do not exactly parallel those of
the national campaign, he pointed
out. because large part of the ma
tional total is derived from enlist
ment of overseas personnel. whose
motives in enlisting are often en-
tirely different from those of men in
the Washington area.
The Washington office obtained
only 315 men that month, however,
in spite of the incentive offered by
the provision that any man dis
charged at any time since May IL,
1915, could re-enlist in grade if he
did SO before November 81.
Dropping to 155 in December. local
enlistments scared to 349 in Janu-
ary. The incentive at that time
Capt. Mills related, was to get back
into the service before February /
when re-enlistment in grade within
20 days of discharge was scheduled
to terminate.
From February l to July /, how
ever, this provision was liberalized
to include men who applied with 80
days Of discharge, and as a result
enlistments rose to 387 in February
the local peak.
Drop Began in March.
In March, recruiting figures drop
ped to 374, and in subsequent
months decline became more rapid
Evening star., 1946-08-07
Conference
Continued From First Page J

with the five draft treaties and
other conference business.
The amendment also provided
that single delegation could hold
only one chairmanship.
Mr.. Byrnes' amendment was ac-
cepted unanimously, without any
discussion.
Byrnes Proposes Bid.
The Secretary of State then
moved that delegates of the five
former enemy states-Italv, Fin
land, Bulgaria, Hungary and Ro-
mania-be invited to attend plen-
ary sessions of the peace confer
ence starting Saturday to present
their views.
Mr.. Byrnes said that if the repre-
sentatives of the five states appeared
only before conference commissions,
delegates not represented on the
commissions would not have the
benefit Of the views of these enemy
states"
Mr.. Byrnes' amendment was ap-
proved after an alteration in the
text, suggested by the Russian dele
cation, providing that the repre-
sentatives of the former enemy
states could be invited to appear
before the various commissions as
necessary in addition to appearing
before the plenary session.
Russia Wanted Two-thirds Rule.
Soviet Russia had held out from
the first for a two-thirds majority
rule and strongly opposed the Brit.
ish amendment permitting simple
majority recommendations" The
Netherlands and Australia spear.
headed the fight against the Rus.
sian position.
The compromise on voting pro.
cedure, as well as other rules an.
proved by the committee, must be
ratified by the full conference ir
plenary session, but acceptance /,
assured since all 81 nations votee
In the Rules Committee.
The bitter debate not only was 2
setback for the small powers, which
had fought stubbornlv for a rin-le
majority on all matters, but alsc
was a solid victory for tie Wes.er.
powers over Soviet Russia and The
Eastern European nations
Evening star., 1946-08-07
Woman Hurt in BIust
Of Pressure Cooker

Mrs. Helen Boyd, 35, received
painful burns and cuts about the
face today when a pressure cooker
in which she was preserving peaches
at her home, 208 Taylor street,
Chevy Chase, Md, blew up.
The Chevy Chase Rescue Squad
took her to DR.. Edgar E. Quayle,
1922 Biltmore street NV. where 1t
was reported her condition was not
serious.
Evening star., 1946-08-07
War Profits
Continued From First Page. \

reau's intelligence section, readily
granted his request to assign one
man from Mr.. Woolf's section and
another from the revenue agents
office to assist the committee In
studying income tax returns, Sena-
tor Mead said.
The men, not yet designated, will
be paid by the committee but re-
tain their status in the bureau.
They will work with the committee
perhaps for six months or more to
assist ''in examining returns as they
develop"
Chairman Mead emphasized that
this work will not be limited to the
Carson investigation. But they
will assist us in the Carson case, "
he declared.
| He added that the committee has
not yet received specific tax re-
turns under the authorization re-
Gently given by President Truman
| Senator Mead's conference with
Mr.. McCabe concerned disposal OF
surplus property abroad. He re.
ported that Mr.. McCabe is leaving
for the Philippines to expedite the
turning over of surplus property tt
that country as authorized by Con.
gress. Mr.. McCabe promised to in
vestigate complaints that other sur
plus property needed in the United
States is not being returned with
sufficient promptness and efficiency
from the Pacific.
Sale of surplus property to France
has been negotiated and a similar
sale to Belgium is in process of ne.
gotiation, Mr. McCabe said A thirc
prospective sale, to Italy, has moi
vet reached conclusive proportions,
he informed Senator Mead.
Subcommittee to Be Named.
| A f1rst-hand study of the European
sales will be made my a subcommit-
tee yet to be- selected, Chairman
Mead announced. The group will &c
| to Paris and Rome.
The committee also plans to send
out two other subcommittee within
the next few weeks. One will go
to the West Coast to investigate the
inter American highway project. 1t
probably will hold public hearings in
Los Angeles.
The second will go to Pearl Harbor
in connection with the Wyman- Rohl
case, involving Col Theodore Wy
man, jr., district engineer in the
Hawaiian Department at the time
of the Pearl Harbor attack
Chairman Mead said these groups
probably will be appointed next week
and include not more than five
members each. Although the COM
mittee has not yet formally author
lied these detailed moves, Chairman
Mead said he was confident 1t will
The group scheduled to go to Eu-
rope will hold no hearings. The
group bound for Pearl Harbor may
hold few preliminary hearings
there but will conduct final hearings
in Washington later this year..
That does not end the commit
tees current list" nor does it ex-
haust the number of investigations
requested by Senators and others
Chairman Mead noted.
ANY case that is brought to the
committees attention by Senator
as in the case of Senator Bridges
request for an investigation OF
Henry Kaiser, or Senator Taylor {
request concerning railroad rates
receives expeditions consideration
Senator Mead declared
But we have not been able te
keep up with current cases, many Of
which also were brought to our at
tention by Senators. I have assured
Senator Bridges and the others that
their requests will be considered as
soon as possible"
Evening star., 1946-08-07

canal this morning. I thanked my
lucky stars 1 didn't get killed there
and I hoped out loud that I'd never
have to 60 any place like that again
st always did say we shouldn't have
gone in there to throw the Japs out
We should have made them stay
there for the rest of their lives. That
would have been punishment enough
for them"
Evening star., 1946-08-07
Dulles AssaiIs j. ).
For Reputation Of
Pledges 10 Germany
BY the Assoeio,ed Prs,s


CAMBRIDGE, England, Aug.
John Foster Dulles. vice
chairman Of the newly formed
Church Commission on Interna-
ltional Affairs, today reproached
American occupation authorities
in Germany for what he called
Reputation of pledges made be-
fore the Reich's capitulation.
Recalling that Hitler said defeat
would mean the end OF the German
Ipeople, Mr.. Dulles told the general
conference that he was Inundated by
many things in American occupa-
tion policies.
Without particularizing, he as
serted that questionable conduct OF
some of the occupation troops and
slave labor under terrible condi-
tions" represented the breaking of
promises contained in leaflets invit-
ing Germans to surrender.
Next War Seen Under Way.
He said he had the distinct i'm
preston" that the major powers still
looked on the German people as
great war potential"
Next to the atom bomb" he con-
tinued, "the Germans appear to be
the most valuable war potential that
any great power can lay its hands
on.
The process of getting the Ger
man people in the next war is al
ready under way.
This gives the Germans the ap-
parently attractive possibility OF
playing the great powers off against
each other-but if they do that, it
will really mark the end of the Ger
man people
Germany's future, he said, de
pends less on present debates than
on the German peoples response to
the test-are they in their hearts
through with war. or will they sell
themselves to the highest bidder for
the next WARP"
Stresses Total War Punishment.
DR.. Reinhold Niebuhr of the Union
Theological Seminary, New York,
said the victors' primitive, punitive
approach to the criminality of Ger
many" was that "the foe must be
manned to prevent crime"
He emphasized that destruction
caused by total war was so great a
punishment to people" it is absurd
for the victors to talk about addi-
tional punishment" He declared 'it
is impossible to make Germany and
Japan repent by new punishment if
this destruction has not made them
repent"
| On some questions, DR.. Niebuhr
said, the church's ideas frequently
paralleled those of the rest of the
world, but "the secular always
breaks down on forgiveness-aa
forgiveness is awfully good practical
politics for the health of the world
today"
German Statements Held Up.
1t was understood the German del
egates made restrained statements
concerning the status of religion
and morale in their country but
these were not made public. The
British Home Office had stipulated
that the Germans could attend the
meetings only on the condition they
would not express themselves openly.
DR.. o. Frederick Nolde, dean of
the graduate school of the Lutheran
Theological Seminary in Philadel-
phia and executive secretary of the
Joint Committee on Religious Lib
erty, today accepted co-directorship
of the world commission.
Baron Frederick van Asback of
Leyden University and Kenneth
Grubb, member of the British Coun-
Gil of Churches and president of the
British Church Missionary Society,
were invited to serve as chairman
and director, respectively.
Evening star., 1946-08-07
De Gosperi at Paris PurIey

PARIS, Aug. 7 (P,.-Premier Al
eide De Gasperi of Italy arrived
with a delegation in two planes to-
day to represent his country at the
peace conference. The Italian dele
cation here, including experts, now
| totals 100
Evening star., 1946-08-07
Marriage License
Applications

Under D. c. lnWs, couples must
apply for a marriage license on
one day, t0dit three full days and
recetUe the license on the fifth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
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"Preiskove" voinih profifoiev

v vseh kapita1isticnih drzavah, Xxi so bile zapletene v voino
so Sc vojni proftarji mnozili kot gobe pc dezju. Mixer ma svetu
pa MISC imeli boljSega pasnika kot has v Aneriki. Vojnih prof.
TOW SO bile delezne zlasti velike korporacije, XII SO delale z vlad-
MIN denarjem kot macka z mehom.
Docim je znano, da so nekatere manjSe druzbe re obdolzene
"nelegalnega' kopicenja vojnih profitov, Sc veleprofitarji SINE
jejo V pest, kajti velikim ribam je tezko priti do Mvega z
moSniami denarja 81 lahko kupijo "pravico".
Federalna vlada preiskuje razne "nerednosti' z vojnimi ma
1ocili, V katere je zapletenih tudi nekaj "ljudskih zastopnikov"
kot SO kongresnik May in par drugih. Gre baje "a nekaj tisoca-
kov ali "a par milijonckov, kakor Sc vzane, to je vse. Odkrivanje
korupciie ie pac tezavna stvar, ako so vanjo zapletene 'ugledne"
glave.
Najnovejsa preiskava pred federalno veleporoto je prot
druzbam, XII Jill kontrolira znani sovraznik unijskega delavstva
Andrew J. Higgins. Justicni tajnik Clark je naznanil, da ie ba
preiskava odrejena.
Vlada trdi, da ina dovolj evidencnih dokazov, da so Hig
ginsove druzbe sleparile Waldo pr narocilih.
Higgins kontrolira tri velike druzbe. Ea teh izdeluje letala
druga plasticne izdelke in tretja motorne colne ter druge pro
dukte.
HiggInsove druzbe SO imele velikanska vladna narocla "a
mOtOrne cOlne "a arrndo in mornarico, tako tudi "a letala. Oh
toznica pravi, da SO te druzbe in njihovi direktorji osleparil
Zvezno Waldo "a tezke milijone dolarjev S tenn, da so vladi pred
lozi raCune "a stvari, katerih sploh nikdar dostavili MISC ne
armada ne mornarici.
Veretno je, da ina vada resen namen, da odkrije to sic
prijO in kaznuje krivce, tezko pa je verjetno, da Sc DO to zgodilo
kajti veleprofitarji imajo miijone dolarjev in pa velikanski
vpiv, tako da Sc bodo z Zvitimi advokati lahko otresli te mad
Iezne obdolztve.
Vono proftarstvo V obstojeci druzbi je "logicna' posledica
profitnega sistema. Tudi vOjne same so "logicna" posedica kapI
talstGnega sistema, XII temelji ma i~zkoriscanju delovnih mas IL
ma veikih profitih. Odprava tega sistena DO izlocila tudi vojne
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zuvezniski "nucrt" 20 upruvo Trstn

kraju, kjer je to vecino ostvaril
faSisticni rezim.
DR., Bebler zakljucuje svojo
broSuro z izjavo, da bi utegnila
Jugoslavija ma podlagi takih in
nekaterih drugih demokraticnih
jamstev sprejeti predlog "a svo-
bodno trzaSko ozemlje, Bodoca
jugoslovanska politika je orisa-
ma V zakljucnem odstavku, kjer
pravi pisec, da je "Trst pc svojih
interesih, pc raleigh pameti in
pc svoji zemljepisni legi neraz-
druzljivo povezan z Jugoslavijo,
ter da mora V zadnji analizi
statusa ~osigurati zd~ruzenje TT
sta z Jugoslavijo."
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