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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-19
OPEN WARFARE THREAT IN SHIP STRIKE
Secretary Byrnes Charts U.S Foreign Course
3 JILL 1 N S

WASHINGTON Secretary of State James F. Byrnes is revealed to have received the personal praise of President Truman for his peace report to the nation, but his speech was soon followed by Russian criticism of American for eign policy.
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Evening star., 1946-01-15
Woodbridge Area Rezoning
For Business Proposed

A resolution urging the District
zoning Commission to. permit erec-
ton of apartment houses and stores
in the Woodbridge residential section
was passed last night by the Nation
al Gateway Citizens Association.
Gilbert C. Vincent, president of
the association, declared the
changes in rezoning were necessary
for the attaining of well balanced
community" Other speakers pointed
ouo that residents Of lower Adams
street NE. had been forced to use
septic tanks and other makeshift
devices to cope with improper sew
age facilities They also asserted
that development Of the area would
result in relief to the District hous-
inc shortage and stimulate business.
A motion picture on safety con-
cluded the meeting, which was held
at Avalon Heights Church of Christ,
Twenty eighth and Douglas streets
NE The picture was sponsored by
Capital Transit Co.
Evening star., 1946-01-15

Also discussed were temporary war
buildings in the park system, which
it is proposed to tear down as soon
as the Governments office space re-
|quirements permit.
Before ascending the monument,
the presidential party travelled Sew
enteenth street to independence
avenue, then proceeded east on In
dependence avenue to Fourteenth
street. After leaving the monu-
ment, the President crossed the Po-
tomac on Highway Bridge and re-
crossed via Arlington Memorial
Bridge.
In this way he had an opportunity
to drive over some of the principal
approaches to the crossing: ap-
proaches which advocates for twin
bridges contend are adequate and
which opponents have said are in
adequate.
While at the top of the Monument
it was learned the President also
discussed the administrations post
war public buildings program, which
calls for new State and Navy De-
partment buildings, an Interior De-
partment annex, extension of the
Treasury annex and two new Smith
sonian Institution museums, all
within view Of the top of the shaft
| The President also was understood
to have discussed the temporary
buildings on the Mall, but made
little comment himself. Aides ac-
Ecompanying him expressed the hope
Ihowever, the temporary structures
swould be torn down as soon as pos
lsible.
Evening star., 1946-01-15

President Truman studied at first
hand yesterday the Highway Bridge
crossing of the Potomac River from
the top of the Washington Monu-
ment. He is the first President ever
to ascend the shaft, according to
records of the National Capital
Park Service.
Accompanied by Secretary of the
Interior Ickes and park and plan
ming officials, he made the trip part
ly to decide for himself which would
be better, twin four-lane bridges or
single six-lane span to replace the
Highway Bridge.
Present we're Maj. Gen. u S.
Grant III, chairman of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion; A. E. Demaray, associate di-
rector of the National Park Service
and executive officer of the planning
commission; T. Sutton Jet, chief Of
national and memorial and his
torical sites of the park service,
and Edward j. Kelly. administrative
assistant to the superintendent of
National Capital Parks.
MIR. Ickes. Gen. Grant and Mr..
Demaray have led the fight against
the plan for twin four-lane bridges
proposed by the District and the
Public Roads Administration,
It was reliably understood today
that the President did not commit
himself on the bridge proposal, al
lowing these three officials TO do
most of the talking 1t is under
stood, however, that he spent fully
half hour going over the proposal.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Former D. T.. Fireman, /,
Hit by Bus, Is Years
Second Traffic Fatality

Ernest Vinson Fowler, 40, of $3.50
o street NV, former District fire.
man, died early today in Emergency
Hospital after being struck last night
by a bus at Wisconsin avenue and
Dumbarton street NV.
According to police, Mr. Fowler
was crossing Dumbarton street when
bus driven south on Wisconsin ave-
nue. by George Chase, %, of 175e
Galen street Sc, turned east into
Dumbarton street and struck him
His skull was fractured.
Mr.. Fowler was with the fire de-
partment from April, 1928, to No
vember, 1881, and at the time of his
death was helper on an American
Brewery truck in Georgetown.
Mr.. Fowler's death is recorded as
the second traffic death of the year
as compared to four at the same
time last year.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest H. Fowler of the o street
address; his widow, Ruby, and then
two children, Albert E., Is, an6
Bertha, S, and brother, James H
Fowler. Funeral arrangements have
not been made.
Mr.. Fowler was a native WASH
ingtonian and attended Mckinley
High School.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
AFGE Members 10 Observe
Civil Service Anniversary

The SD anniversary of the sign
ing of the National Civil Service Act
will be observed at 8 pm. tomorrow
by the American Federation of Gov
ernment Employees (AFL) at a meet
ing in the Commerce Building audi
torium.
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
has been invited as principal speak
er. Others expected to attend in
clude Senator Pepper, Democrat, of
Florida; Senator LANCER, Republi-
can, of North Dakota; Chairman
Randolph of the House Civil Service
Committee, Representative Hook,
Democrat, of Michigan; Representa-
tive De Lacy, Democrat, of WASH
ington, and Commissioners Harry
Mitchell and Arthur S. Flemming of
the Civil Service Commission.
The event is being sponsored by
the District of Columbia Depart
ment of the AFGE. The public is
invited.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
AZ Troop Transports
Due in j. ). Today
With 17,105 Yanks

E, the Associated Press.
More than 4,500 American service
men are scheduled to arrive today at
two East Coast ports aboard six
ships and at least 12,6o5 are due at
four Pacific Coast points On SO
vessels.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York-Calvin Coolidge,
from Antwerp. 621 troops, including
part of 1343d Engineer Combat Bat
talon, medical detachment of 4th
Convalescent Hospital, 989th Engi
neer Treadway Company.
George M. Bibb, from Marseille.
AGA prisoners with escort Miscel-
laneous troops on following: Santa
Barbara. from Marseille, 446:
Thomas Beckett, from Antwerp, COG;
Bienville, from Bremen, 1884.
| At Newport News-William Null
holland, 598 troops, including ele-
mentS of 72d Engineer Light Pom
toon Company, 573d Tank Battalion
Detachment B.
At San observation-disclosures on
following: Arctic, 10 Navy; Ism
1853, % Navy: Lei IS, three Coast
Guard: Lei 1923, seven Coast Guard
Lei 1893, three Navy; LCIs IS, 651,
7O8, 1929, 1890, 1910 and LISTS 562
5a3. 584. 631, SOL, 712. 812, 725. nc
passenger information; also LSMs
33, 80, 1856, 178, 237 and 449, nc
passenger information. Bunker Hill
$500 Navy and Marines.
| At San Miscellaneous
on following: Adair, from Shanghai
1900 Navy and Marines; Bor
Homme Richard, from Leyte, 1880
mostly Army; Tuscaloosa. from
Noumea, 610 Army, "a Navy; Robert
Mills, from Manila, 813 Army; Susar
Colby, from Manila, originally due
January 13, 821 Army; Sitko Bay
from Pearl Harbor, 237 Army. l0(
Navy; Oliver Mitchell, 81 Navy
Lawrence Taylor, from Pearl Har.
Dor. ga Navy.
At Portland-Alcoa Polaris, from
Yokohama, 1,138 miscellaneous
troops.
At Los Angeles-Marsh, from Pear
Harbor. Is miscellaneous troops.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
State Department Courier
Listed on MISSING Plane

Homer C. White, assigned to the
diplomatic pouch and carrier sec
ton of the State Department, has
been listed by the War Department
as among II persons on an Army
Transport Command plane missing
since December 9 on a fight be-
tween Dakar and Johannesburg,
South Africa.
The Army said the plane was
last reported at Roberts Field in
Liberia and that a search is con-
tinuing along the planes route. All
but two persons on the plane we're
Army officers.
Mr.. White, former officer in the
Army Courier Service, has been with
the State Department since Janu-
airy IA, l945. He is 40 years old.
Mrs. White and four sons live in
New Albany. Ind, the department
said
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Pope Designates Two
More u. s. Bishops,
Creates New Diocese
By the Associated press.

By the Associated Press.
Pope Plus XII has designated two
additional bishops and created
new diocese in the United States,
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicog-
mani, apostolic delegate, announced
last night.
Bishops designated are Msgr.
Charles p. Greco, pastor of the
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes,
New Orleans, to be Bishop of Alex
andria, La, and Msgr. Thomas L.
Noa, rector of st. Joseph's Semi
nary, Grand Rapids, Mich, to be
Titular Bishop of Salona and coad-
jutor to Bishop Edmond P. Heelan,
Sioux City, Iowa.
The new diocese is that of Madi-
son, Wis.
The Most Rev. William P. O'Con-
nor, now Bishop Of Superior, Wis,
was named its first bishop.
Eleven counties are included in
the new diocese-Marquette, Green
Lake, Columbia, Dane, jefferson,
Green and Lock Counties which now
are part of the Archdiocese of Mil
Waukee, and Sauk, Grant, Iowa and
Lafayette Counties, part of the La
Crosse Diocese.
BiShop-designate Greco is a ma
tive of Rodney, Miss, and has been
both chancellor and vicar general
of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
Bishop designate Noa, a native of
Iron Mountain, Mich, studied at
the North American College in Rome
and was ordained there in 1916. He
has been attached to the faculty of
st. Joseph's Seminary since 1917.
Bishop O'Connor was chaplain Of
the 32d Division in World War I
and was awarded the Croix de Guerre
for bravery in action. He was made
Bishop of Superior in 1912.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
New Tension Grips Hanoi
After Banker Is Killed
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HANOI, Indo-China, Jan. II de-
layeO An air of explosive tension
grips this city of 10000, where 20
600 Frenchmen are forbidden by
Chinese occupation forces to possess
any weapons while fully armed An
namite soldiers of the republic of
Wet Nam circulate freely.
The latest major incident was the
daylight assassination of French
man Jean Baylin, director of the
Hanoi branch of the Bank of Indo-
ChiEa, in a downtown street.
lOa1cial French figures charge IS
Frenchmen have been murdered in
Hanoi since August.
A looming danger of starvation
because of the rice shortage sharp
ems the conflict between the various
factions of the government-the
Wet Mimi (Nationalist) party ir
power and the more conservative
Bong Mimi. Both parties support
the republic, but each flies its owr
flag.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Several Detroit Plants
Wrecked in Three Fires
BY the Associated Press.

6y the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Jan. 15.-Fires broke
out in three Detroit industrial areas
yesterday and early today, wrecking
several manufacturing plants and
stores
Last of The three was a blaze that
caused about $4,000 damage to
buildings owned by the Ajax Manu-
featuring Co. and the Michigan
Chandelier Co.
Only few hours before, fire de-
stroyed machine shop of the Gar
Wood Industries and set off a series
of explosions in the neighborhoed.
Firemen kept the flames from
spreading to an adjacent paint shop
and nearby hydrogen and oil storage
tanks. No estimate of damage was
available.
The H. B. Hamburger Co. was de-
stroyed yesterday afternoon when an
oil vat in the receiving department
exploded and caused damages esti-
mated at S500.O00.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Services for Mrs. Ratio
To Be Held Tomorrow

Requiem mass for Mrs. Ruth M.
Ratio, At, wife of Frank B. Ratio, a
pressman with The Star, who died
Sunday at her home, 829 Third
street NE. will be said at 10 am.
tomorrow at st. Aloysius Church.
Burial will be in Mount Olivet Gem
etery.
Mrs. Ratio was lifelong resident
of the District.
Besides her husband she is sur
vived by six daughters, Mrs. Ruth
Thorne, Miss Jane Thomas, Mrs.
Bessie Mclaughlin, Mrs. Frances
Keesee, Miss Elizabeth Teresa Ratio
and Miss Ann Ratio; two sons, John
and Frank B. Ratio, jr., and four
brothers, William H., Benjamin F.,
Richard S. and George D. Turner,
all of Washington.
Evening star., 1946-01-15

ceny C h a r g e S
filed in Beverly
Hills. Calif- will
waive extradi-
ton, Fort Worth
police said yes
terday.
Beverly Hills
detectives are en-
route here to re-
turn Deverich
to California,
they added.
The charges
were sworn to
by Mrs. Lois
Hendricks, who
a1laooc eba ara
Evening star., 1946-01-15
No Lives Lost in Blast
OF Oxygen at Manila
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANILA. Jan. 15.-Explosion of
liquid oxygen and pyrotechnic
equipment aboard a huge Army
barge threw the crowded Manila
harbor and waterfront area into
brightly-lit confusion last night.
but apparently caused no loss of life
or damage to other vessels.
The cause was not determined.
The crew of four merchant sea-
men and Filipinos leaped overheard
and escaped with minor burns.
The seagoing barge. Bel 1859, of
concrete construction, was lying in
side the breakwater of the inner
harbor hardly more than a mile
from the downtown waterfront dis
trict.
The first flash of flames and ex-
plosion came at GAS pm, followed
in quick succession by others as the
oxygen tanks let go. Witnesses, in
cluding Pfc. Archie D. Geddes,
Salem, Ore, military policeman
aboard another vessel thought at
first a nearby tanker had exploded
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Argentine Chiefs Act
To Assure PopuIace
OF Food in Lockout
BY the Associated Press.


BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 15.-The
government took measures today
to insure an adequate food sup
ply for the populace as a r.
hour lockout proclaimed by Ar
gentine businessmen in protest
against the labor policies of the
military regime moved into it's
second day.
Following a Ministry of Industry
and Commerce announcement that
the government is taking steps nee
essary to assure supply of needed
articles to the people, government
agents began swearing out warrants
against businessmen under a war
time law banning speculation.
None of the warrants were served
Immediately, however, and the only
police action occurred in the provin-
cial capital Of San Luis, where the
president of the Chamber Of Com
merce was arrested few hours after
members refused a police request to
open the stores. He later was re-
leased without being charged.
Deny Violating Law.
Representatives OF the business
men later issued statement declar-
ing the closures did not violate any
law and asserting that the govern
ment would be overstepping its pow
ers If it attempted to take any ac-
ton. They asked the government to
explain extension of the wartime law
which the Ministry Of Industry and
Commerce had said 1t would invoke
Housewives. Of Buenos Aires half
million homes lived on stored food
or walked the streets in search Of q
few small stores which were willing
to open and supply new customers,
Milk deliveries continued, as did
transportation and public services,
but food, department and neighbor-
hood stores were closed.
Antigovernment papers said the
closure was 95 per cent effective, but
pro-government publications de-
clared the lockout a failure. The
fact remained, however, that 1t was
virtually impossible to get meal in
the heart of the capital.
Butchers remained open the first
day of the lockout in order to sell
meat previously purchased. One
large bakery remained open to sup
ply hospitals and prisons, but in the
remainder of the city only stale
bread, or none at all, was available.
Wages for Three Days Promised.
Employers, in order to emphasize
that their action was directed
against the government decree Or
dering year-end bonuses and salary
increases and not against the work.
ers generally, promised to pay wages
for the three days of the closure
The Ministry of Industry and
Commerce said the wartime legis-
lation which was being invoked was
broad enough to make refusal to
sell goods a crime, punishable by
fines or Imprisonment. The Minis
| try said shop owners would be
warned first and that if they then
refused to open the government.
would take possession.
The government slaughter house
remained open and the government
announced that public markets
would remain open all day for vege-
tables and meat. There are few of
these in the capital, however, and
none in most provincial cities, where
the closure also is in force.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Richardson Forbids
GI Group Trip Here
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, Jan. 15.-Lt. Gen
Robert c. Richardson, Mid-Pacif1c
Army commander, yesterday disap-
proved a soldier proposal that a
CT committee travel to Washington
20 present its views on demobiliza-
ton to Congress.
II consider the matter closed, un-
less the War Department directs me
to send committee of enlisted men
TO Washington, Gen. Richardson
said.
The proposal that a committee
make the trip was advanced at a
mass meeting last Saturday.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Colombo Honors Arnold

BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. Is R.-
Colombia's highest decoration, the
Cruz de Boyaca, was awarded by
the government to Gen. H. H. Arnold,
chief of the United States Army
Air Forces, who arrived yesterday
from Panama for a two-day stop
over during tour of the west coast
of South America.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Trumaq's 5 Aid Asked
For Gl Facing Death
For Staying Two laps
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON N. j., Jan. 15.--
Appeals to President Truman were
made yesterday by civic leaders, vet
Grams and neighbors of Pfc. Joseph
E. Hicswa, 20-year-old Wellington
soldier under death sentence in Ja-
pan for the murder of two Japa-
nese.
In his home here, where a gayly-
decorated Christmas tree laden with
gifts for Joe" still stood for the
soldiers expected Homecoming, his
mother sobbed:
1T can't be true 1t can't be true.
Joseph is good boy"
Learn of Verdict on Radio.
The family learned of the Army
court-martial verdict over the radio
earlier yesterday. Within a short
time, mayors of this borough and
adjoining Lodi, where Hicswa was
born and went to school, appealed
to the President to save the youths
life and called protest meetings of
neighborS and veterans.
Similar appeals were made to
Senators Hawkes. and Smith. Repub-
licans, of New Jersey, and to Repre-
sentative Towe, Republican, of this
district.
"a new trial will be asked for
Pvt. Hicswa, Albert w. Levitt,
secretary for Senator Hawkes.,
said in Washington.)
Mayor Joseph Luna of Lodi pre-
sided at a mass meeting in that
borough yesterday, while the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars post of which
Hlcswa's father is a member met
last night at the Wallinston Munich
pal Center.
Was Nearly on Way Home.
The death sentence on Hicswa
was believed to be the first imposed
on an American soldier for a crime
against the Japanese. The slayings
occurred in Nara shortly before
Hicswa was to return home on a
re-enlistment furlough.
Anthony M. Della Penta, princi-
pal OF Lodi High School, where
Hicswa was a student for three
years, recalled the youth as "a fine
boy. His record as a student was
just ordinary, but his department
was excellent. We never had any
trouble with him"
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Oklahoma University
Burs CoIored Girl
" the Associated Press

Sy the Associated Press.
NORMAN, Okla, Jan. 15.-The
University of Oklahoma has denied
Ada Lois Sipuel, 2l-year-old col
ored girl from Chickasha, Okla,
admission to its law school.
Roscoe Dungee, regional president
of the National Association for the
Advancement of the Colored Peo-
pie, said action would be filed in
Federal District Court asking that
the university be required to admit
her.
DR.. George L. Gross, university
president, said the schools decision
was based on Oklahoma statutes
prohibiting colored students from
attending white schools in the
State.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Churchill Arrives
For Six-Week VISIT;
Leaves for Miami
By the Associated press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Winston
Churchill, Britain's wartime Prime
Minister, was en- route by train to-
day to Miami, Fla. where he plans
to spend the greater part of six
week American visit.
He arrived here last night aboard
the liner Queen Elizabeth and in
news conference told reporters NE
was not yet ready to retire from
politics.
II have no intention whatever of
ceasing to lead the Conservative
party until ! am convinced that
they have found some one to take
my place, and hope that will oc-
cur" he said.
(Mr. Churchill's private rail-
road car was parked in a Wash
ington railroad yard for several
hours early today, then was put
on section of the Atlantic Coast
Lines Havana Special, leaving at
$50 am. for Florida.)
Joint Palestine Committee.
Asked whether he believed the
United Nations organization was
making progress toward permanent
peace in the world, Mr.. Churchill
told his New York interviewers: :
LAS to it's (UNO's) chances of
success, you are as good judge as
I am. AS to the need for such an
organization, what else Is there in
the world to hope for?"
Mr. Churchill told newsmen he
was Strongly in favor" of the joint
American-British Inquiry Commit
tee for Palestine, adding that he
thought the problem of a national
Jewish home there was too difficult
to be handled by one single nation"
"As you know" he said, Il am a
Zionist from the very beginning of
this great experiment, but I think
too heavy a weight has been thrown
on Britain with the Arab and Mos
lem populations. You the United
States) ought to come along, and
am sure far greater results can be
obtained through the effort of both
nations. They might bring about a
most happy solution for the whole
world"
Favors UNO in Casablanca.
Mr.. Churchill also declared that
his personal choice for a permanent
home for the UNO was Casablanca,
where he and the late President
Roosevelt met in the early days of
the war. He added that he favors
London as the site for the peace
conference; that he will visit Hyde
Park before he returns to England,
and that he has no doubts that Hit
ler is dead.
The former Prime Minister, &C
companied by his wife. said he
hoped to see President Truman on
March in Fulton, Mo, where Mr..
Churchill will speak at Westminster
College. The visit to Missouri will
be the only State engagement plan
ned during his stay.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Double Funeral Tomorrow

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Jan. Is
P).-Double funeral services will be
held here tomorrow for Mr.. and
Mrs. Hollie H. Turner, Mr.. Turner
died last week following ian accident
while cutting timber. His wife.
Minnie, 81, died suddenly at her
home Sunday. -
Evening star., 1946-01-15
PTA to Meet Tonight

The Garnet-Patterson Junior
High School PTA viii meet at 8
O'Clock tonight in the school audi
torium, Tenth and U streets NV.
The Red Cross War Fund and the
current drive for clothing for dis
tribution by UNRRA will be dis
cuSSed,
Evening star., 1946-01-15

Mrs. Hendricks
l n t e r mittently
for four years.
He had planned
to marry her. he
said. u n-til he
met M a / lyn
G a r ! a n d, 19-
year-old heiress.
Marilyn Is the
6 r a n ddaughter
of the late Will
liam Garland,
millionaire Los
Angeles hnan-
cier and civic
leader. Deyerich
Evening star., 1946-01-15
John Wuyne to Wed

HOLLYWOOD. Jan. Is (P.-John
Wayne, film leading man, will be
married Thursday morning to Es-
peranza Bauer. described by his stu
dio as Spanish French actress and
dancer, spokesman announced yes
terday.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Hospitality Unit to Meet

The monthly dinner meeting CT
the War Hospitality Committee will
be held at O'Clock tonight at
the YWCA, Seventeenth and K
streets NV. Joseph c McGar-
raghy, chairman, will analyze the
committees plans for 1916.
Evening star., 1946-01-15
Deverieh, Actor, Arrested
In Texas on Theft Charqe

BY the Associated Press.
FORT WORTH, Tex. Jan. IS
Albert Deverich, 29-year -old Holly
wood free-lance actor, who was ar
rested here Saturday on grand lar
Evening star., 1946-01-15

vanced between $4,000 and $4,000 to
start flying school.
1T is all a mistake. I never stole
anything in my life." Deverich told
reporters here.
Deverich. a discharged service
man, said he had been going with"