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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
Stockyord Pickets Bor
Spectators From Fire
the Associated Press.

6S tue ASSOCldtcu FfeSS.
CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-Spectators
were barred by pickets from getting
a close view of fire which caused
an estimated 100000 damage to an
unused seven-story building near
the center of the Chicago stock
yards yesterday.
Pickets who have guarded the
yards gates since packinghouse
workers went on strike January Is
let fireflghting equipment through
but then closed their lines against
spectators.
All floors in the building collapsed
before 275 flremen, responding to
extra alarms, were able to extin-
guish the blaze. The damage was
estimated by Fire Marshal A. J.
Mullaney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
Intelligence Officers Didn't Get
Jap Messages, Short Reveals
Secret Army Probe Shows Men Designated
To Estimate Axis Moves Were Kept in Dark

Gen. Sherman Miles, head of Army
intelligence, informed the Panama
Canal Zone on December S. 1941, as
follows:
united States-Jap relations
strained. Will inform you if and
when severance of diplomatic rela-
tons imminent"
Gen. Short reminded the commit
tee this was just two days before
the Pearl Harbor raid and he added
that 1t indicated to him. that Gen.
Miles had not considered a rupture
was imminent even then.
The message caused stir among
members of the committee. Senator
Lucas, Democrat, of Illinois told re-
porters he thought it was lone of
the most important developments
yet"
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
Michigan said it was important in
the inquiry to have messages Wash
ington sent to places other than
Hawaii. He said the message in
question would have been most i'm
(See PEARL, HARROR PAGE "A \
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
British Prefer Food
To Whisky, So Scotch
Will Remain Scarce
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. %. - Scotch
whisky will remain scarce for
at least another year.
DR.. Edith Summerskill, par
liamentary secretary for the
Ministry of Food, told an ap-
plauding House of Commons to-
day that food is more i'm
portant than whisky" and so
distilleries would get only
10000 tons of grain this year,
the same as in l945.
She said that was enough to
produce slightly more than 10
per cent of the prewar volume
of Scotch. g..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
Faet-Finding Bill Faces
Revision Into Broad
Strike-ControI Plan
House Republicans and
Southern Democrats
Seek Amendments
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A strong drive took shape in
the House today to rewrite into
broad new Strike-control legiS-
lation the watered-down version
of President Truman's fact-find-
ing bill.
Leaders of a group composed
largely of Republicans and Southern
Democrats told newsmen they will
try to attach several amendments to
the measure approved yesterday by
the House Labor Committee.
Just how broad these proposals
will be has not yet been agreed on,
and much of the decision may be
fought out on the House floor. The
battle probably will begin next week
after the Rules Committee acts or
the fact-finding bill.
Hope for Early Settlements.
Regardless of the details, the coali.
ton leaders claimed-and their op.
ponents Observation-Disclosures
backing for some type of stringent
legislation aimed at curbing indus.
trial strife.
Foes of such action told reporter.
privately their chief hope lies il
possible settlement of some of thu
major labor disputes before a VOTE
is taken.
I'VE are just making a last-ditcf
stand, otherwise" one of them said
1.-THE House is raring to go. Mos
members believe they have to push
through something to end tn,
strikes"
The first test will come before tn,
Rules Committee, probably Friday.
Wide-Open Amendments.
Those wanting broad legislation
including two key committee mem.
bers, Representatives Smith, Demo
crat, of Virginia and Cox, Democrat
of Georgia announced that they will
try to have the Rules Committee ap.
prove procedure which would ALLOW
wide-open amendments of the bill
on the House floor.
Representative Hook, Democrat, O
Michigan and those opposed to i'm
mediate enactment of anti-strik,
Legislation told reporters they will
try for a ruling that would ALLOW
only amendments dealing with fact
finding.
AS approved by the labor group
the bill gives fact-finding board
(See FACT-FINDING page "A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
Food Seized by Jops
From Tokyo Storage
BY the Associated Press.

TOKYO, Jan. 23.-Food stored in
a former arsenal was seized yester-
day by leaders of approximately
$500 residents in two Tokyo wards
and distributed among the men and
women clustered about the ware
house.
A home ministry official, in con-
1rming the incident, said it followed
two days of negotiations over dis
tribution of the commodities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
By JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The White House announced
today that the Government will
seize strike-bound plants of the
meat-packing industry Saturday
to assure the flow of food to the
armed forces and the Nations
butcher shops.
Charles G. Ross, presidential secre-
tary. said the seizure would be made
by the Agriculture Department with
the help of the Army, IF necessary -
He added that Agriculture would
operate the plants. His brief state
ment, made orally to newsmen
follows:
The Government will seize the
closed meat packing plants on Sat-
urday, January 26.
The necessary orders for seizure
are now being prepared by the Sec
rotary of Labor.
Inc seizure will be made by the
Department of Agriculture, with the
aid of the War Department if neces-
sary. The plants will be operated by
the Department of Agriculture.
That's the whole of it at this
time" ~
Designed to Force Pressure.
The announcement marked the
first time the Government had
showed its hand so far in advance
OF actual seizure, and the move ap-
parently was designed to put pres
sure on the packers and the CLIO
and AFL unions involved in the
week-old strike to reach agreement.
A Labor Department official said
the White House apparently had
hopes that wage differences would
De settled, although he believed there
was little chance of it coming about
Last Wednesday an estimated $685.
900 workers in the meat industry
walked off their jobs in support OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
Macarthur Aide Says
Russians Are Trying
Ito DisereditH Him
Toss Charges on Koreo Are
Part Of Definite Plan,
Spokesman Declares
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOKYO, Jan. ga spokes-
man at Gen. MacArthur's head
quarters said today an assertion
by Tass, official Soviet news
agency, that the American mill
tary command in Southern Ko-
rea was inspiring "reactionary"
protests against Che Moscow
Conference is part of "a definite
program to discredit Gen. Mac
Arthur and force furth e r
changes in the present occupa-
ton policies and command"
While Southern Korea is under
direct command Of 1t. Gen. John
r.. Hodge, it is included In Gen
Macarthur command. The Rus
slams control Korea north of the
38th parallel.
Tass aSsailed the reactionary
press of Southern Korea for al
legedly carrying on an anti-Soviet
propaganda campaign and for at
lacking the decision reached at Mos
cow recently by the United States
Britain and Russia to set up a five
year trusteeship for Korea.
Communists Named.
"It is known that orders have gone
out to all opposition forces, includ.
ing the so-called Communist party
members in Japan, to do their ut.
most to discredit Macarthur" hi;
spokesman said.
ut is a deplorable condition wher
some dissident press of the world
continues to incite and foment in.
ternational mistrust = - Now more
than ever every effort should bt
bent toward understanding ane
agreement.
1T can be expected that con.
tinuing. critical attacks will flow
from the left wing press of tn,
United States as well as from 9th.
ers outside the United States.
Failure to secure popular sup
port in their program following
their assault after the Moscow Con
ference will merely spur these ele
ments to more studied plan of at
i tack.
Says Evidence Is Fabricated.
at can be expected that thes,
attacks will be predicated on re
ports of premeditated failure of tn
japanese to respond to command
or even that through intrigue or sub
Iversive measures the japanese ar
not putting corrective measures in
to effect in the government.
"It is known that some person
are around whose sole purpose is t
gather up any kind of evidence OF
which to base a critical story. Som
have shown that they do not nee
evidence-they manufacture it on
of their Imagination. ="
THE worst possible type of ma
terial propagated Is that which in
cites suspicion in international cir
cles. A good example is the type G
story which had Gen. Macarthur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
Another Overseas Star
Is Available Today

The latest Overseas Edition
of The Star is available to-
day at both The Star Office
and the Victory Bond booth
in Lansburgh's Department
Store.
Copies are free. with en-
velopes for mailing. but the
edition is strictly limited.
Please do not waste a single
copy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
Late News
Bulletins
Randolph Promises Fight
For Bigger u. S. Pay Raise

SS
Chairman Randolph of the
House Civil Service Committee
announced today he will fight
for a Is to 20 per cent pay
raise for Government en-
plOyes. "I'll put up a real
fight for it," he said, making
it clear he considers the IL
per cent pay increase voted
by the Senate inadequate.
House hearings on the Gov
eminent pay raise are tenta-
lively scheduled for Febru-
airy l.
Gouin Reported Elected
NEW YORK (P. - The
French radio and an NBC
broadcast from Paris said
Felix Gouin, Socialist leader,
was elected interim president
of France late today to sue
coed Gen. de Gaulle.
Earlier Story on Page A-2.)
Clio Cuts Wage Demand
The CLIO today sharply re-
duced its wage demands on
the shipbuilding industry and
proposed an increase of 20
cents an hour for the Ma
tons $4,000 shipbuiIding
workers. Previously the CLIO
had asked SO cents.
Earlier Story on Page A-18.)
CIoture Move Forecast
Senate Republicans indi-
Gated today they had agreed
to, seek a limitation of debate
on the Fair Employment
Practice Commission bill on
which Southern Democrats
have filibustered since last
Thursday. Minority Leader
White said ,"it is generally be-
lieved that steps should be
taken before long to obtain
cloture debate limitation) !"
Earlier Story on Page A-5.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
Agriculture Department to Run
P|ants> White House Announces
Move Is Taken
ToAssure Flow
Of Nations Food
BULLETIN.

CHICAGO P.-The striking
AFL Union of Meat Workers
today ordered it's men back
to work in struck plants Sat-
urday, the day set for Govern
ment seizure of strike-bound
properties. Union officials
said that as loyal Americans"
they had ordered their men,
bers in struck plants of Ar
mour, Swift, Cudahy, Wilson,
KinSan and Morrell COM
panies back to work, effective
Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
(See KOREA, Page A-4.)
Trumun to Meet Newsmen

President Truman will hold a
news conference at 1890 am. to-
morrow, Press Secretary Charles G.
Ross announced today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23

(See UNO, Page A-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23

(See RAILROADS, Page A-5D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23

(See STEEL, Page A-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23
Guide for Readers

An Associated Press Newspope
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-23

(See FACT-FINDING, Page
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-15
Medal of Honor Given Ruiz,
LowIy Cotton Field Worker
By George Kennedy

in the rows built for the Mexican
workers.
When the highest honor was
awarded Sergt. Ruiz, the Army had
some difficulty finding him. He was
back in Texas on furlough honey
incoming with his 16-year-old bride,
Eliza.
Orchids for Four.
When he came to Washington
pullman all the way) he brought
his bride and his sister and his
grandmother and his mother and
her three little children by second
marriage.
This reporter caught them in q
room at the Hotel Statler just before
they went to the White House. Capt
Lezelle Gonano of the Military Dis
trict of Washington, who had been
thoroughly enjoying the experience
of showing them the Capital. taking
them to the top of the Washington
Monument and to a night club,
arrived. He had four short florist
boxes containing orchid corsages for
the women. And he had a paper
which he unrolled.
"Sergt. Ruiz" he said, "here is
your invitation to the White House,
signed by President Truman, Sec
rotary Patterson and Gen. Eisen-
hover"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-15
Continuance Of Playground
Operation at Schools Asked

To help combat juvenile delin-
quency. the Southeast Washington
Citizens Association last night
asked District officials to keep the
school Fairgrounds in the Southeast
section open throughout the sum-
mer.
The group also requested a paid
supervisor for each playground.
The association voted. ID commend
Maj. Harvey G. Callahan for "ex-
cellent work" as police supervisor
and Municipal Court Judge Thomas
D. Quinn for recently sentencing a
man to 80 days in Jail for pulling a
fire alarm as joke"
Walter F. Linscott, president of
the Stanton Park Citizens Associa-
ton, appealed to the Southeast
group to support the proposed Fed
Grafton of Citizens Association
newspaper.
THE paper, which will contain
all the news of member bodies, will
add materially in getting better at
tendance at meetings" Mr.. Linscott
said. Action was deferred.
The meeting, the last of the sea-
son, was held in the Bryan School
1900 block of B street Sc. Frank
E. Scrivener presided,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-15
Veterans Of 29th Division
Hold Reunion in Baltimore
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, June 15.-Men who
wore the Blue and Gray shoulder
patch of the 10Th Division during
World Wars I and II gathered here
today for the first post We day re-
union of the division association.
Maj. Gen. Norman D. Outch)
Gotta, who hit Omaha Beach on D
day with elements of the 10Th and
figured prominently in the capture
of st. 10, will be the principal
speaker at the groups banquet to-
night.
He was former assistant COM
mander of the Blue and Gray and
Is credited with being the first gen.
eral officer ashore on D day in Nor
mandy.
A dance in honor of National
Comdr Sam Barrow of Washing
ton will be held following the BAN
quet. Officers will be installed at
ceremonies tomorrow.
The majority of the men attend
ing are from Maryland, but delega-
tons are on hand from Virginia
New Jersey and the District of Co.
lumbia,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-15
Observation-Disclosures
How 10 Raise Prices
On DecontroIIed Items

Nearly 1000 local restaurant own
ers at meeting called by the Wash
ington Restaurant Association heard
last night how prices may be raised
on certain foodstuffs. The explana-
tons were given by national and
local OPA spokesman and Robert j..
Wilson, executive secretary of the
association.
Under present OPA relaxation of
pricing regulations, the restaurant
men were told there are two ways
in which food prices can be raised:
Rehabilitation on decontrolled items
if raw materials increase in price,
and through an adjustment, which
means "a restaurant owner must
show financial hardship on an over
all picture and not loss on certain
items according to Mrs. Jean Put
nam of the local OPA staff.
On decontrolled items. such as
most types of fish, except salmon,
tuna, sardines, pilchards and hall
but; asparagus, lima beans, squash,
broccoli, mushrooms, etc, the price
may be raised Immediately, provid-
ing the restaurateur files the new
price with the price control board
within six days. Prices may be re-
calculated again on the same items
after go days. ...-.,
According to Mr.. Wilson, restora-
ton of many foods cut out during
the war and introduction of new
ones should help to keep prices
down.
No copies of the new regulations
were available, but were promised
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-15
D. G. Women to Petition
For Retention of OPA

Under the sponsorship of the
Women's Auxiliary of the CLIO and
the League of Women Shoppers, a
group of women in the Macarthur
boulevard area of Northwest Wash
ington today were collecting sigma
lures on a petition to be sent to
President Truman urging him to
veto legislation that would weaken
OPA.
Spokesman said that they hoped
to get 500 signatures by nightfall.
The legislation is now in confer
ence between the House and Senate
spokesman, who are attempting to
iron out differences between bills
passed by each branch of Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-15
Tin Mine Operator Denies
SEC Accusation Of Fraud

Marion Allen. president of the
Western Tin Mining Corp. and the
Allen Products Co., Inc, at 602 Fifth
street NV, said today he has re-
ceived formal notice from the Sc
curities and Exchange Commission
accusing him of fraud and misrep-
resentation in selling the tin COM
pany stock.
Denying that he had violated
regulations, he predicted that Fed
eral Court in Norfolk, Va, on July
8 would dismiss the complaint filed
two days ago by the SEC charging
him and the Western Tin Mining
Co. with violating SEC registration
regulations and fraud provisions.
The SEC complaint. according to
Mr.. Allen, accused him of misrep-
resenting the mining property in
Riverside, Calf. He declared re-
cent tests at his expense upheld his
contentious about the mine.
Mr.. Allen said he has been in the
securities business for 40 years
During the past three weeks he has
sold about $4,000 worth of stock
in the tin company, mostly in Wash.
ington, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-15
Couple Planning 10 Wed
Tomorrow Found Slain
BY The kssociofed Press

LOS ANGELES, June 15.-Wed-
ding plans tomorrow for Clayton
Peter Aslon, "a, and Miss Iona r.
Chew, 81. were Cancelled by bullets
last night, Sheriff's Deputies C. r.
Wardlaw and A. B. Grundman re-
ported today.
The deputies said they found the
bodies of the two in Mr.. Aslon's
suburban home and that a pre-
liminary investigation indicated they
were shot by a third person.
A kitchen table was set for two
and the food was uneaten, the
deputies said. Mr.. Aslon's body was
found in hallway and Miss Chew's
in the kitchen.
Miss Chew's mother, Mrs. Fred
Chew, said the couple had planned
a Sunday wedding ceremony.
The sheriff's deputies said they
went to the Aslon home in response
to an anonymous telephone call.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-15
Apartment House Tenants
To Fiqhf Rent Increase

Request from the owner for . rent
increase in the apartments at 2701
Connecticut avenue NV. will be
protested by the tenants at a rent
control hearing at $3.50 am. Thurs
day, it was decided last night at q
meeting in the apartment house
attended by IS residents.
Harry M. Sieber, tenant, said
that the requested increase of rent
for his apartment and others on
his floor was 80 per cent. This, he
said, was in addition to 6 per cent
increase granted last year. The
apartment is owned by Bliss Proper
ties, Inc. The corporation informed
tenants that a $4,000 increase in
operating expenses, $4,000 back pay
to employees under q National Labor
Relations Board order, and . new
roof for the building necessitate the
increase, Mr.. Sieber said.
The protesting tenants decided
last night to retain William P. Nc
Cracker, r.. attorney, to represent
them In the proceedings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-15

When the going got tough, as every
wearer of the Combat Infantryman's
Badge knows, and job opened, you
didn't fill out personnel form to
get it. There were no questions
about who you were, where you came
from and what you knew. The job
went to the CT who went ahead.
Perhaps it's just as well. Alexandra
Ruiz had only been in school to
second grade. He was one of the
despised Mexican cotton pickers of
our Southern border. Born in this,
country and of an ancestry going
as far back on this continent as the
Spaniard and the Indian. he was
considered a foreigner.
Alexandra Ruiz did not speak
English when he was drafted at 10
from his job in the cotton country
that paid him Sill for a 55-hour
week-20 cents an hour. He had to
go to school at Fort Bliss to learn
to read and write as well as to
understand orders.
Medal Rewards Valor.
When the job came along, Alej-
andre Ruiz went ahead. It was
April %. 1915, on Okinawa. Fire
from pillbox had a group Of 9th
Division men pinned down. Ruiz was
firing Browning automatic rifle to
keep the Japs from the ports. But
lit didn't. They were firing at him.
His gun damned. He went back and
got another. He got up to the pill
box, threw in white PHOSPHORUS
grenade and the strongpoint was
| taken. He was unhurt, but two davs
later shell fragment got him in
the back.
Sergt. Ruiz Che was a private
them was one of the five heroes
given the Medal of Honor yesterday
by President Truman. He was late
in getting back, because he re-
enlisted on Okinawa.
The Nation undoubtedly felt a
little guilty last year when pictures
were published of the shack that
was the home of Arkansas share
choppers whose son had been
awarded this highest honor that can
| come to an American in the armed
forces.
But Sergt. Ruiz had no home at
| all. His family. as they moved from
place to place where there was work,
always occupied one of the shanties
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-15
Schwe||enbach Urqes
|Continued Investment
In Savings Bonds

Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
today joined other leaders of the
Nation in urging all people in the
country to fight imitation by buying
United States Savings Bonds.
The present bond drive, which is
aimed at stimulating people to con-
tinue their saving habits acquired
during the war, is headed locally
by Wilmer j. Waller, who spanked
War Bond drives before hostilities
ceased. He stressed that no quotas
had been set and no organized soli-
citation was being undertaken.
In his statement today, Secretary
Schwellenbach said: I'VE, the free
people of America, have secured our
futures against the threat of foreign
tyranny by success in war. One of
our weapons of victory was money
invested in War Bonds"
Also speaking for continued pur-
chase of bonds was Brig. Gen. David
Sarnoff, president of the Radio
Corp. of America.
Purchase of United States Saw
ings Bonds in this period of scarcity
is one of the soundest investments
Americans can make today. We are
still suffering the after effects Of
war-shortage of supplies and low
production" he said.
Herein is the danger of imitation
to point that could be ruinous
to our national economy We
must spend wisely until production
catches up with our needs. II we
save today, we can buy tomorrow
BY investing in Savings Bonds now
we help the Nation, ourselves and
our neighborS."